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By Frank Zeman
Although we often talk about the latest new technology to hit the renewable energy markets, such as thin-film solarx or advanced nuclear technology, sometimes it is worth reexamining an old one. Composting is one of these. Common on the farm, it has been revisited on a larger scale as cities began to look for ways to reduce the amount of material being sent to landfills, the simple logic being that any reduction in the amount sent to a landfill increases its life. This turns out to be much easier than opening a new facility in the face of public opposition. But in addition to the potential for simple waste reduction, there is the potential to harvest energy from this process.
First, let's look at traditional composting. Composting refers to the aerobic decomposition of organic matter through microbial activity. This mass loss is accomplished through two primary routes: the digestion of organic matter and the evaporation of water. The digestion occurs in three distinct phases: psychrophilic, mesophilic, and thermophilic. The three phases occur in succession as the temperature in the pile increases from 12–21°C (55–70°F) to 21–38°C (70–100°F), with the final phase occurring in the 45–70°C (113–160°F) range. These changes manifest themselves as a gradual increase in temperature that reaches its peak after 2 to 3 days, with a gradual decline in temperature over the next week. The pile is allowed to cure (i.e., slowly decompose) until it becomes relatively stable and easy to handle. This profile results in approximately 25% of the organic material being consumed in the first 4 to 5 days, followed by the reduced rate curing period requiring an additional 3 weeks to reach the 50% level. This spike in activity is visible in the profiles of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, oxygen consumption, and heat evolution, which all peak (or trough in the case of oxygen) in the first couple of days. The concentration of the CO2 gases leaving the pile is on the order of 5%, approximately equal to a natural gas power plant. On the whole, composting is generally an outdoor activity occurring over weeks that uses the atmosphere as a source of oxygen and a repository for the CO2, water, and heat produced during the process. This article discusses the recovery of these valuable resources in the context of urban sustainability.
Though the techniques mentioned offer savings in terms of landfill space, there is little in the form of energy or material recovery, leading to the conclusion that the energy value of the waste is not recovered. The question that arises is whether this can be changed. In an age of globalization, one of the few industries that cannot be readily outsourced is waste management. This is unfortunately not the case with electronic waste, which is sent to the developing world for low-tech metal recovery. The organic fraction of municipal solid waste (i.e., food scraps) will always be produced in urban centers, and although it was long ago determined that throwing this material in the streets is unsanitary, there is still room for movement toward sustainability. Perhaps it is time to reimagine the composting process from an urban, rather than a landfill, perspective. This may be even more important should water scarcity continue. Food waste is the wettest waste stream, with a moisture content of 70%, meaning that more than half of its mass is water. This provides a double motive for composting because not only does water occupy volume in a landfill it eventually wants to leave as leachate (effluent requiring treatment). The high water content also explains the low energy content (up to 3,000 Btu/ lb) as water evaporation consumes a large fraction of the energy value. By comparison, natural gas has an energy content of 20,000 Btu/lb. Although this precludes boiler use, the 160 pounds per person per year do add up. For example, a 2,000 square foot home with three occupants requires 500,000 Btu of heat per year, less than the 1.5 million Btu available in their food waste. The challenge is recovering the heat in a safe and pleasant (read odorless) manner. The primary emission of concern is ammonia, which is produced on the order of 4 kilograms per tonne of organic waste.
So the is energy is there, but how do we remove it? At first it seems a simple problem: a hot pile requiring cooling and a simple pipe buried in the pile circulating a heat transfer fluid—either oil or water—would suffice, provided the solids can flow through the system. This could then be connected to a residential hot water heater or thermal mass (e.g., a concrete block) that could be used to store heat for the home. Alternatively, district heating systems could provide the same benefit with greater efficiency (due to scale) and simplified handling. After treatment, the residues would still require transportation to a curing site before application on the land. Even with a paucity of district heating systems in North America, the presence of apartment buildings suggests some opportunities. One advantage of colocating such a system with a boiler would be the ability to use the off gases in the boiler, thereby eliminating pollutants such as ammonia or volatile organics. Technologies such as moving grate systems deployed in waste-to-energy plants could also assist with material handling at larger facilities.
Food waste can be considered a mixture of the inedible fraction of food (e.g., banana peels and spoiled food) or the fraction of edible food wasted. Often, these foods are imported, either from different parts of the country or the world. Given the high fraction of water (not including that lost during irrigation), it is reasonable to consider food a water export. This may be a heightened concern given the preponderance of droughts associated with climate change, especially in arid regions such as the American Southwest or even densely populated regions like the Northeast, where the water system may be at risk due to industrial activity. As a back-of-the-envelope calculation, if the average household contains three people and uses 100,000 gallons of water a year, then about 1% can be supplied from food waste. Although this is a small fraction, it is worth noting that most household water use is sanitary (i.e., for toilets, showers, washing machines, and faucets) and the 1,000 gallons recovered provides the 64 ounces of recommended daily water intake per person. Furthermore, droughts are not annual (yet), so groundwater recharge could also be considered. Recovering the water is more complicated. The heat required for evaporation can be provided in two ways, internally or externally. Internal heat refers to letting the composting process reach a temperature closer to 100°C. To do so, the pile must move beyond the thermophilic region into the hyperphilic region. Here, biological activity is replaced with chemical reactions and the material begins to heat rapidly. The temperature rise is capped by the evaporation of water, which maintains 100°C until all the water is vaporized. The reactions continue in the absence of water, leading to the "spontaneous combustion" seen in hay bales. Though this is a risk, simply blowing cool air through the bed readily mitigates it. Another method could be to boil off the water using solar thermal heat, a ready resource in the Southwest, or waste heat from boilers. Such a system would be unsuitable for subsequent composting, owing to low moisture content, but there would be significant mass reduction with an increase in the energy content to a level suitable for waste-to-energy facilities.
Another potential resource would be the CO2. As it originates from biomass, it would be considered biogenic CO2 and therefore climate neutral. If it could be captured, then it could displace fossil CO2 in the food industry and be used for dry cleaning or other beneficial uses. It could be injected underground as a means of actively removing CO2 from the atmosphere, although the food waste available would make this a very long-term solution. More interestingly, it could be used as a form of hydrogen storage, as methanol or some other higher alcohol. This is currently being practiced in Iceland, where CO2, water, and electricity are cheap but gasoline is expensive. The CO2 capture could be similar to that proposed for the power sector, although again, scale is an economic issue. Alternatively, oxygen could be produced and used as the energy source for the bacteria, as opposed to air. Much research would be needed to verify this route, but in the struggle against climate change, there is no such thing as waste, and biogenic CO2 will be a valuable commodity.
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It's Official: Meditation Reduces Stress!
A recent study looked at the link between yoga and stress reduction and found concrete proof that yoga and meditation help reduce your body's reactions to stress.
Anyone who meditates or does yoga knows that after a session, you feel more relaxed, more at ease, but those experiences are tough to quantify. Sure, you feel calmer, but how is that feeling linked to your overall health? Scientists at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Subjects created a study to do just that!
Related Reading: 4 Meditation Myths: Busted!
The sample size for this study was small, but the results are still hard to ignore. Twenty six people who had never practiced yoga or meditation before went through 8 weeks of meditation training, and the researchers did blood analysis throughout that period. They were looking for chemical indicators in the blood that are part of our natural response to stress, the "fight or flight" response. As the subjects practiced meditation more and more, their bloodwork indicated fewer and fewer of these stress responses.
So, what does it all mean?
Stress is terrible for your body and has been linked to all sorts of health problems, like high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity and diabetes. Basically, this study proved empirically that meditation is not just relaxing but actually changes your body's chemistry to make you better equipped to handle stressful situations. According to one of the study's authors, practicing yoga or meditation for 10-20 minutes twice a day can have long-term benefits to your health.
Need some resources to help you get started with yoga or meditation? Check out some of these:
Do you practice yoga or meditation? What are your favorite resources to help you keep up the habit?
6 Myths About Stress
8 Ways Meditation Can Save Your Life
12 Inexpensive Ways to Relieve Stress

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Donna Cole (left) and Ed Reynolds were female and male medalists in Miniature Golf.
Top female scorers included (from left) Juanita Tucker, Mary Price, Louise Rowell and Linda Brangham.
A father-son medal performance for Jerry Warren (front) and Jimmy Warren
Donna Cole and Ed Reynolds, two newcomers to the Northwest District's Miniature Golf competition, posted the low score in their respective divisions Thursday evening at Party Central in Bossier City.
Reynolds shot six-over par 42 to pace the men's competition, a stroke better than last year's low scorer Harold Harvill, Bob Taylor and Lionel Brangham, who conducted the event. Cole posted 48 to lead the women, two better than Juanita Tucker and three ahead of Mary Price.
It is interesting to see the attention Harvill draws in this event (he has been low scorer 14 times over the years). When Taylor, who beat Harvill for the honor in 2002, rolled in a hole-in-one on the 18th hole, he realized he had tied Harvill at 43. Alas Taylor and Harville were in the same age bracket (70-74) with Reynolds. Under tournament rules, ties are broken by a scorecard playoff in determining the medal standings and Harvill captured the Silver Medal and Taylor settled for bronze behind Reynolds' gold.
Brangham won the Gold Medal in the 65-69 age group. Bill Snow and Jerry Warren also won age group Gold Medals among the men.
Besides Cole, Carol Estrada, Juanita Tucker, Mary Price and Louise Rowell won Gold Medals among the women. On the women's leader board, Tucker 50, Price 51, Rowell 52, Linda Brangham 53 and Sally Vaughan 54 followed Cole. Top men's scores included Steve Pinkley 47. Jerry Warren 47, Jimmy Warren 47 and Bill Snow 47.
Female Ages 60-64: Donna Cole 48 Gold. Linda Johnson 64 Silver. No Bronze awarded. 65-69: Louise Rowell 52 Gold. Linda Brangham 53 Silver. Betty Smith 62 Bronze. 70-74: Carol Estrada 56 Gold. Jeanette Kohlnhofer 56 Silver (tie broken by scorecard playoff). Marilyn Hainey 58 Bronze. 75-79: Juanita Tucker 50 Gold. Sallie Vaughn 54 Silver. Kay Aldrich 57 Bronze. 80-84: Mary Price 51 Gold. Doris Carter 56 Silver. Retta Matthews 64 Bronze.
Males Ages 65-69: Lionel Brangham 43 Gold. Steve Pinkley 47 Silver. Jimmy Warren 47 Bronze (tie broken by scorecard playoff). 70-74: Ed Reynolds 42 Gold. Harold Harvill 43 Silver. Bob Taylor 43 Bronze (tie broken by scorecard playoff). 75-79: Bill Snow 47 Gold. Jim Aldrich 49 Silver. Leon Darden 54 Bronze. 80-89: Jerry Warren 47 Gold. Gary Price 52 Silver. Les Brosset 54 Bronze.


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Total Time: "I always put 10,000 plus. I don't know exactly, but I have a lot."
Favorite Aircraft: "I love all airplanes—if it flies, it's fun."
Aircraft owned: Scottish Aviation Bulldog
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She just didn't get it. After snagging her certificate at age 17 and setting a cross-country record flying in the Powder Puff Derby, Angela Masson's first job was instructor for the Claire Walters Flight Academy in Santa Monica, California, which had a contract to give Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine student pilots their first 40 hours. While her students would go on to fly military jets, Masson was stuck training them as a civilian, logging more than 1,000 hours in single-engine piston airplanes. "Then here comes an ex-student with an A–7," she says. "These guys knew how to fly because of me, and I was really upset that they were going on to fly with the airlines and the astronauts." Women, on the other hand, could fly as civilian instructors or charter pilots so long as the aircraft had a piston engine and civilian markings, or they could be stewardesses. The good jobs, the military flying jobs, were closed. So was the airliner cockpit door.
That led her, at 24, to write her Ph.D. dissertation, "Elements of Organizational Discrimination: The Air Force Response to Women as Military Pilots." After she defended it, the dissertation was presented before Congress during hearings on opening the military academies to women. American Airlines chief Robert Crandall read it, and then things began to happen—at least for Masson.
"I got offered test-pilot school," she says, "but I had just gotten married and I turned it down. A couple months after that I was hired by American Airlines, then NASA called me and, being the little brat at the time, I said if I'm not going to pilot the shuttle I'm going to wait. Maybe I should have done it—they took [mission specialist] Sally Ride."
Masson spent more that 30 years with American, seven as a flight engineer, four as co-pilot, and more than 20 years in the captain's seat. "I was the second woman pilot hired by American Airlines, the second captain, and the first chief pilot," she says. "I looked at every day as challenge. Weather, mechanical, passengers—if you're going to have a problem it'll be one of those."
At 58, Masson retired as the airline's most senior female pilot; then, with 20 other women, formed the International Society of Women Airline Pilots. Elected president, she stepped down last year. She lives in St. Augustine, Florida, and bought an old Baptist church, where she keeps an aviation library, trophies, and her eight world speed records. She paints (her first show was in Italy, at age 18) and invents, and on weekends you can likely find her at the local airport.
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September 2007 4Word - EditorialPosted in Features on July 1, 2007
There are certain nostalgic, automotive-related images that stick with a guy and never fail to bring out strong feelings and emotions. For me, it's the noxious smell of a slightly mistuned carbureted engine (I love it), the interior stink of an old car, the sticky feeling of Gasgacinch on the fingers, the sound of scraping auto metal and trim plastic against a wet and muddy gravel bank, and the thought of the first cheap set of tools I ever bought.
Old SUVs, trucks, and Jeeps - there is no question we have to own them. If we didn't, we wouldn't have a hood to hide our heads under at night. Without them, things could be far worse as we could find ourselves on the couch each night watching girlie drivel like Grey's Anatomy or Survivor.
In some sense, we use these heaps as a refuge and shelter far removed from the daily grind. They also keep some of us out from under foot of those around us, and who couldn't appreciate that? Maybe your better half! Most of you probably hear complaints like "You never spend time with me because of that stupid Jeep!" Of course we never hear the things we want to hear: "Get the heck out of my kitchen and go work on that Jeep of yours!"
Sometimes these hunks of metal and rubber miraculously come to life with a clatter, a bang, a few puffs of smoke, and some fire. When the engine's dramatic jump-start to life ends a few revolutions later, the elation you just felt sticks with you because you know you can get it running again. Sometimes, though, it sinks to a cold feeling of despair - you may have just wrecked a few hundred bucks worth of precious engine parts. What's your better half going to say now? Well, don't despair for long. We recommend you don't tell her and then buy replacements with the little pieces of paycheck you've been squirreling away. What she won't know won't hurt her, right?
There's nothing like settling in at night to read a best-selling shop manual or the latest issue of your favorite magazine. I used to purchase magazines just to find out what new parts were out there. Back then, the ads were like one-page minicatalogs. I would spend hours looking at all the shiny new components in the odd black-and-white ads. My favorite magazines were a couple of the leading Volkswagen titles (and let's not forget Surfer and Surfing). I know what you're thinking so go ahead and laugh, but wrenching on a Bug is a great way to learn as a young kid. I taught myself basic auto mechanics simply by reading magazines and manuals and trying out what I'd read on the VW. As a teenager, I built my first engine on my bedroom floor. I hope some of you are learning from this magazine the way I learned from other titles all those years ago.
Often, we get settled in our ways and it's hard to appreciate new things after having lived with the old things for so long. This is especially true if it's something we're paying for. I know many of you have nostalgic and familiar feelings for 4WD&SU, but it's had the same look and feel for perhaps the last 7 or 8 years. In the coming months, I will be implementing some design and layout changes in the magazine. I'm throwing around ideas to clean up the magazine to make more room for adventure and technical stories as well as larger photos. I think I've come up with some great concepts that I think you'll enjoy. If you have any thoughts, concerns, or suggestions please e-mail me.
And if you're wondering about the old '61 Bug, it ran perfect for years without a single oil leak but was totaled by a drunk driver while parked on the side of the road. And yes, I still have a fondness for VWs.
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Aaaaand we're back to Gundam business even before Christmas is officially over! So for those of you in the know, the GBWC Finals in HK just wrapped and the GRAND WINNER has been announced. This would probably be one of his best Xmas presents EVER for Jeff Ho of Malaysia. Yep folks, Jeff's just been crowned the World Champ for this year's 2011. Congrats to Malaysia! You can see more of his masterpiece, the KShatriya IV here.
Next up is Hongkong in 2nd place, ALSO a Kshatriya, the HADES KSHATRIYA by Kong Yiu Man:
And in 3rd, Japan's WISH by Yamatatu:
Congrats to all the winners, although I have to admit the results were a 'lil unexpected for me. Not to take away any credit to all three winners though. I can only hope to be in their place one day! And of course we cannot leave out all other winners from various countries. You can have a comprehensive list of the winners by country on Bandai's official site. I'm re-posting them here for the record, and my two cents worth:
CHINA: THREE KINGDOMS by Guo Tian You
This one's an eye-catcher even though it didn't place, and it's an SD. Skillful use of one colour with tones here. Love the terrain texture. The whole feel was meant to capture those traditional Chinese calligraphy paintings, if I'm not wrong. Really wished I had more pics. Anyone know where this fella's gallery is at, feel free to point out.
KOREA: ALL HYBRID RX-78 by Sori.Kim
One of my favourites hands-down. You gotta pay close scrutiny to be able tell how impressive his worksmanship is. More pics here.
INDONESIA: KSHATRIYA by Budi Salim
A really finely detailed and cleverly colour-schemed clean build. More pics here.
THE PHILIPPINES: BUSTA IMPULSE by Michael T. Costa
Really like how he worked the colour-combis here, and converted a 1/60 Impulse into a Buster. Can Bandai make a PG Buster like this please! Lol.
ITALY: RX-78-2 - CLOSE COMBAT MOBILE SUIT by Domenico Febbo
This is also a favourite! No insanely souped up mods, just mobile suits in their pure form doing battle. Really one of the most dynamic dios I've came across. Wished I knew how he secured everything together. Clever!
USA: SAZABI'S FINAL MISSION by Gamera Baenrae
The only glossed up entry to make it to the Finals. Full marks for the bling!
TAIWAN: DAYS IN AEUG by Lin Zhi Zih-Ciao
If you think the title sounds quirky, it's 'cos it's a direct translation from Mandarin, where the modeller spoofed on a very popular movie You Are The Apple of My Eye (that's the English name of the film...the Chinese version translates directly into 'Those Years, That Girl We Courted'). (Catch it guys, if a dubbed version is available in your country!) Zih-Ciao's title for his masterpiece in Mandarin plays on the 'Those Years' concept, and translates directly into 'Those Years, I spent in AEUG'. Geddit now? (But I rephrased the translation of course, for my own preference). Clever piece of marketing there dood! Lol.
AUSTRALIA: MG RICKDOM by Mark Carlisle
Really interesting use of the flame camo pattern here. It's the Rickdom from HELL! Don't mess with this fella. Lol.
SINGAPORE: THE SAZABI by ONG POH THEAN
My own country!! Gotta give props here. Look closely and you'll realise just how much detailing and mods went into this baby. More pics here.
And that's about it guys! A big round of applause to all the Finals entries. No....To ALL participants who took part in the GBWC in their various countries. Hopefully Gunpla love spreads across the world and we'll see more countries join the party in years to come. Till then, see you guys next year! ;D


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by Fr. Tommy Lane
Daroca is a place of pilgrimage because of the eucharistic miracle that occurred here in 1239. It is about 50 miles from Viluena where a eucharistic miracle occurred in 1601 and also 50 miles from Zaragoza where a eucharistic miracle occurred in 1427. So this small area of Spain has been blessed by God with three eucharistic miracles. At the end of 1238 and beginning of 1239 a great battle was waged between the Spanish and the Moors. Valencia had already fallen to the Moors. A group from Aragaon joined forces to take back this area. Six commanders had their camp at the outskirts of a village called Luchente and were preparing to capture the castle of Chio in Luchente. Fr. Mateo Martinez from Daroca was with them and as usual at that time celebrated Mass for them before they went into battle. After the consecration they received word that the Moors had launched a sneak attack. The priest wrapped the consecrated hosts in a corporal and hid them under a rock. The Spaniards won and when they came back the priest discovered that the hosts had begun to bleed. After the battle the six commanders, each from different regions in Spain, wanted to take the corporal back to his own area. They put it to a draw and on three different draws Daroca was chosen. But two of the commanders would not accept the result. They decided to take the corporal and put it on the back of a Moorish mule in the area for the first time and let the mule wander as he would until he found a place to stop. The mule set off on February 24th 1239 and finally on March 7th, 12 days later, collapsed in Daroca. A beautiful church was built to house this special gift to the people of Daroca. There are legends, only legends, of miraculous happenings during the mule's journey, e.g. angelic singing, conversion of sinners as the mule passed, the possessed being healed. A contingent from Daroca went to Rome in 1261 to inform Pope Urban IV of the Eucharistic miracle of Daroca. He was the Pope who declared the Eucharistic miracle of Bolsena authentic and a year later instituted the feast of Corpus Christi. It is believed that he took the miracle of Daroca as one more sign from the Lord that the feast of Corpus Christi should be instituted. (Our pilgrimage group venerated the blood-stained corporal in the Iglesia colegial de Santa María de los Sagrados Corporales.)
Viluena is about 50 miles south of Zaragoza. On November 9th 1601 a local man was buried. There was no sacristan and two altar boys helped tidying up the church afterwards. The church was dark and one of the boys made ghostly sounds to the other. He dropped his candle in fright and they both left the church. They forgot about the burning candle. The church caught fire and not long after midnight a guest in the local hotel got up to check his horse which would be unusual at that hour of the morning. He noticed the fire. He ran through the town calling the people. They tried to extinguish the church but a large part of it was already destroyed. The priest tried to get to the sanctuary to rescue the Blessed Sacrament. When brave men got to the tabernacle and opened it, it was empty. There had been a silver chest inside the tabernacle containing a pyx with the Body of Our Lord. The priest couldn't understand it. Just then another man called to him from about 15 or 20 feet away. There was a mound of embers on top of which was the silver chest perfectly intact. Even the veil which covered the chest was not burned. The priest opened the chest and the pyx was inside with the six consecrated small hosts and one large host perfectly intact. There were other miraculous events that night; people who walked on the fire or embers were not burned, neither their feet or clothes, and sick people were healed. They could feel their illnesses leaving them. They contacted the bishop and asked him to come to verify the miracle. He replied that he would come on a pastoral visit. After seven years he eventually came. However the bishop said he thought the hosts were beginning to change and he consumed them. Priest and people were all devastated. But even though the hosts were consumed it does not take from the fact that a miracle took place in Viluena on November 9th, 1601.
Coming on pilgrimage today to venerate the blood-stained corporal in this church is a grace reminding us that Jesus in the Eucharist is to be the center of our lives.
This was delivered when I was Spiritual Director for a pilgrimage while engaged in parish ministry in Ireland before joining the faculty of Mount St. Mary's Seminary, Emmitsburg, Maryland.
Other Homilies on the Eucharist
Faith in the Real Presence of Jesus and Eucharistic Miracles
When we eat this bread and drink this cup...
Jesus Our Healer heals us through the Mass and Sacraments
Eucharist - Let Jesus feast with you
Four Presences of Jesus when we celebrate the Eucharist
Alexandrina lived only on Jesus in the Eucharist for thirteen years
On Pope John Paul II's Letter on the Eucharist, Ecclesia de Eucharistia
The Eucharist: Jesus living in us and we in Jesus - Little Nellie of Holy God
Is Jesus in the Eucharist the center of your life? 2007
The Eucharist and St. John Bosco
The Eucharist and the Priesthood were born during the Last Supper
The Eucharist calls us to love and serve the Lord in others (homily excerpt) 2008
We meet Jesus at Mass like the two disciples on the road to Emmaus 2008
Eucharist prophesied by the prophet Malachi 2010
Passover Expectation of the Messiah and the Eucharist 2010
Simple Explanation of the Mass
my meditation on The Last Supper in Let's Talk to Jesus


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A busy wife, gardener, and naturalist, Magi Nams loves her job of writing about nature and places she has lived or visited. An avid reader and writer since she was a child, Magi earned a Bachelor of Science degree in zoology and a Master of Science degree in plant ecology before turning to writing as a career. She is the author of the travel adventure trilogy Cry of the Kiwi: A Family's New Zealand Adventure and has published dozens of wildlife articles in the children's nature magazine, Ranger Rick.
Magi has also published poetry and biographical profiles and broadcast personal essays on CBC Radio. She is a member of the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia and teaches creative writing workshops as part of the Writers in the Schools program. She belongs to the Romance Writers of Atlantic Canada and is working on a romantic novel with an outdoor twist.
Magi lives with her husband on a rural property in northern Nova Scotia, where she grows organic vegetables and fruits and does her best to identify every bird in sight. She recently returned to Canada after a six-month stay in South Africa, where she saw over 300 kinds of birds and other amazing African animals. Check out her travel and nature adventures on her blog at maginams.ca. She loves hearing from readers!
Scheduled Appearances
Writers in the Schools January 10, January 23, February 8, 2017 at Tatamagouche Elementary School
Past Appearances
Writers in the Schools October 25, 2016, at Cobequid District Elementary School in Noel, Nova Scotia. Magi spoke to all four classes in the small school and spent about an hour with each, discussing steps in the writing process, reading from her Ranger Rick magazine articles and her family travel memoir, Cry of the Kiwi, and leading creative writing exercises.
Indie Authors' Extravaganza August 20, 2016, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Magi read from Once a Land of Birds, the first volume of her travel memoir trilogy, Cry of the Kiwi : A Family's New Zealand Adventure.
V.I.P. Night at Brule Community Centre July 28, 2016, Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia. Explore New Zealand with Magi Nams. Slide show and readings from Magi's travel memoir trilogy, Cry of the Kiwi: A Family's New Zealand Adventure.
V.I.P. Night at Brule Community Centre July 21, 2016, Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia. What Is That Bird Anyway? A birder for 35 years, Magi shared tips for beginner birdwatchers, illustrated with photos.
Book Launch June 20, 2015, in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia. Magi read from her recently released travel adventure trilogy Cry of the Kiwi: A Family's New Zealand Adventure, and was thrilled to chat with fans, answer questions, and sign books.
Hubbards Writers Festival May 3, 2015, in beautiful Hubbards on Nova Scotia's South Shore. Magi read from Once a Land of Birds, the first book of her Cry of the Kiwi trilogy, and enjoyed discussing New Zealand with fans.
Writers in the Schools April 22, 2015, at Maitland School in lovely rural Nova Scotia. Magi shared her experiences as a nature writer with Primary–Grade 3 students and led Grade 4–6 students through creative writing exercises.
Creative Writing Workshop – Writing on Fire April 10, 2015 Magi visited River John Consolidated School, as part of the school's week-long Writing on Fire event. She shared her experiences as a nature writer with Primary – Grade 3 students and conducted creative writing exercises with Grades 4 – 9. "Thank you again, Magi! I've heard rave reviews from teachers and staff about your visit." – Laura Smith, Grade 2/3 teacher, River John
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This program prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to layout, assemble, install, and maintain piping fixtures and piping systems for steam, hot water, heating, cooling, drainage, lubricating, sprinkling, and industrial processing systems. Includes instruction in material selection and use of tools to cut, bend, join, and weld pipes.
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MAS Magazine (Mujeres A Seguir)
To provide visibility and generate content that focuses on the successes of talented women, promoting a new way of speaking to and about women and using an approach unique to that usually found within the press about feminism. These are some of the pillars of Mujeres a Seguir (Women to Follow), a digital magazine of social, professional and cultural content, which also has a quarterly printed edition.
Television ads, radio ads, printed ads, social media
The Professional Publications Group, issuer of MAS, chose Arroba for the development of a creative launch campaign for the magazine's publication and its strategy on social media.
"Bringing women out of the shadows" was the creative concept for the launch campaign, which coincided with the 3rd Edition of the MAS Awards. We developed visuals for both online and off-line media: television and radio advertisements, graphics for printed media, display, etc. Under the creative direction of José Luis Esteo, we collaborated with well-known professionals of the sector, for example Abilio Fernández, for the locution, and Michael Selley, for the realization, photography and postproduction of the radio and tv ads, Produced by Gin Film.


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Tullaroop Reservoir dams the Tullaroop Creek, a tributary of the Loddon River. The storage embankment is situated about 7 km south-east of Carisbrook.
Tullaroop Reservoir was built between 1958 and 1959. The construction involved substantial excavation, including the removal of 300,000 cubic yards of material from the bed of Tullaroop Creek.
Tullaroop Reservoir stores water for supplies to irrigated properties along Tullaroop Creek and the Loddon River.
Supplementation of the western sector of the Goulburn water supply system using Loddon River resources such as that held in Tullaroop Reservoir occurs when water resources are abundant.
The reservoir also provides water for Maryborough.
Picnic and toilet facilities are accessible to the public. Boating, swimming and camping are not permitted at this reservoir.
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Dr Phan's expertise lies in the fields of energy from waste, biofuel processing, biorefinery, process intensification and non-thermal plasma assisted chemical processes, biorefinery and waste treatment. She has a strong record of publications in these areas (27 publications in international journals, h-index of 11).
Dr Phan is a lecturer in Chemical Engineering at Newcastle University. Prior to this position, she worked as a Research Associate at Newcastle. During the period of 2008-2013, she successfully delivered two consecutive EPSRC multi-disciplinary projects: (i) Evolvable Process Design (EP/F016999/1) and (ii) Designer catalysts for high efficiency biodiesel production (EP/F067372/1). Dr Phan completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield in 2007. Her research concerned combustion, gasification and pyrolysis of segregated municipal solid waste (mainly household waste) for energy. She developed a two-stage parallel reaction model coupled with computational fluid dynamics (FLIC code) to simulate solid pyrolysis. She was invited to present work on renewable energy and energy efficiency. Dr Phan is currently the principal supervisor to five PhD students undertaking research on energy and fuel from waste, non-thermal plasma assisted gas-to-liquid processes. She is a regular reviewer for a number of international peer-reviewed journals (fuel, chemical engineering journal, energy and fuels, etc.).
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Southern Vermont has an amazing food culture for lack of a better descriptor. Everyone gardens, farms, raises animals, brews cider, kambucha, pickles, cures, and generally eat like kings.
When I moved here a few years ago, I got involved with making sourdough breads. What could possibly be better than fresh sourdough bread, piping hot from the oven, butter melting and steaming on the crusty crust right before "chomp" and "ahhhh"?
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New Trier Township's mission is to provide leadership, advocacy, and resources to benefit the physical, mental, and social well-being of Township residents.
We seek adult and youth volunteers to serve on our Township committees of Mental Health, Youth, and Health and Human Services, which oversee our funding/allocation process; volunteers for our Disabilities Committee which performs education and advocacy on behalf of persons with disabilities; and our Peer Jury Program which is a juvenile diversion program. For more info, see our website at www.newtriertownship.com
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Hyland's to the Rescue!
This story was shared by Hyland's own Dan Krombach after a run in with a migraine at a wedding. Hyland's to the rescue!
"On the first Sunday in July, my family attended a wedding in West Hills, California (in the San Fernando Valley) for the son of one of our long-time friends. The wedding ceremony was beautiful and the energy at the reception was at a very high level with thumping music and lots of dancing. About 20 minutes after the couple made their gala entrance, the groom came over to me and asked, "You don't happen to have any Hyland's Migraine Tablets on you, do you?" I smiled, thinking he was joking, but a closer look at his face revealed that he was in real pain. He told me that he's been using the product for years, because "it's the only thing that works." Unfortunately, both he and his parents had forgotten to bring a bottle to the wedding hall.
I told him to go sit down next to his new wife and give me five minutes. I pulled out my phone, and immediately realized I had no cell signal in the hall. Out to the parking lot I went and pulled up the store locator on the Hyland's website. The site gave me three stores that normally stock Hyland's Migraine Headache Relief within five miles, so I started calling them one by one. It was already after 9:30pm, and the first store was closed. The second store (Sprouts) was open, and they transferred me to the right department to ask if they had any on the shelf. YES, they had two bottles left, but they were closing in twenty minutes. I said, "I'll be there in ten!"
I updated the father of the groom and grabbed my car keys. A frantic drive through the streets of West Hills, grabbing a box off the shelf, a quick swipe at the register, and the drive back took about 15 minutes. I found the groom back on the dance floor just sort of swaying, looking quite pale, but putting on his best effort. I opened the bottle for him, and he downed a dose. After a few minutes chatting with his parents, I looked over on the dance floor, and he was rocking with the crowd, laughing, having a blast.
I remember thinking how rewarding it was to not only find out that close friends were using a Hyland's product, but also to see how something we make right here at Standard Homeopathic can literally rescue someone in pain. I got a really big hug from the groom at the end of the reception and a very appreciative "Thank you!" from the bride! What a night!"


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Mathias Stjernström necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 329 diseños de 91 diseñadores freelance.
We are looking for a simple/clean symbol that works with our existing logo and adds a tv/streaming/live feeling for a certain product. The logo is going to be used both together with Globalinns logo and also as a standalone.
Globalinn.com is a hosting company with services like any other hosting company.
We are about to package/launch a video streaming platform which we have worked with for over a year.
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We are looking for a symbol to use along with our existing logo but that adds a streaming / tv / live feeling to it.
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I did some "non" school crafting this weekend... all thanks to pinterest! I didn't get to finish one part of crafting, but I will show it to you next Monday.
First, I made my hubby a little something for Father's Day:
Back story: I am slowly... very slowly organizing and going through photographs and finding old bins full of stuff! So I found this old Tupperware container full of tickets- they were all my husband's tickets. I was about to throw them all away... I mean he hasn't looked at them in for.e.ver! I told him I found them and then he was very adamant about keeping them (basically told me to keep my hands off them!)
So, here are the supplies (all from Michael's):
I love the "thickers". I have a ton left... I am already brainstorming how to use them!
So, I thought for one of his gifts this Father's Day I am going to give him the above. I saw it on pinterest:
The other shadow box I made (which is actually a year late), is for my son's t-ball uniform last year.
Turned out pretty cute! I am working on another one for my daughter's first ballet costume! (I hope to have it finished next week!)
Look at this other adorable stuff I grabbed at Michael's... you might need to make a run yourself :)
|50 cent wooden mini clips... You'll see more of these next Monday Made It!
|It is a D... Picture is backwards! Very cute note cards in dollar bin!
|I can't wait to put this notepad on my desk next year. I am always making to-do lists and shoving them in my bag. I will for sure use this one (only $3 and lots of different colors!)
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The MiniEPIC windsurfing wave fins are your choice for QUAD wave boards. These are the exact fins which Morgan Noireuaux used to win the 2014 and 2015 PWA Aloha Classic and are the fin of choice for riders who are serious about their performance and want to have more fun on the water.
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SPEED – the foiling of the MiniEPIC quad set up will help you to generate more speed on the wave which makes every aspect of wave sailing easier and more radical. Catch more waves and rip them harder! Speed and drive is also a huge benefit when blasting through the waves, move speed will give you more height on your jumps.
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Here are a few pictures of Christmas Sweaters. They are not all ugly! I would love this – in fact I WILL have one!
Now this one is ugly!
I would also want a vest like the mom in Christmas with the Kranks – a diy project to add to my list!


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Allergies were far from Christie Littauer's mind when she fed creamed spinach to her son Jack for the first time. The 6-month-old had already eaten peas and green beans. Why not try something more exciting?
"A few bites into it, he started wheezing," says Littauer, of Henderson, Nev. "He got bright red. Something was obviously wrong."
After a scary ambulance ride, Littauer later discovered that her little boy was allergic to dairy in the spinach, making him one of a growing number of people with known food allergies.
Follow-up tests pointed to a bunch of other allergies too, putting Jack in another large category: those who think (or whose parents think) they're allergic or intolerant to foods they can handle just fine.


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Matthew and a Black-Footed Rock Wallaby share a moment.
The mammals of central Australia have suffered a severe paroxysm of extinctions. Fortunately the cute little black-footed rock wallaby (Petrogale lateralis) is still with us. These photos were taken at Heavitree Gap, at the south end of the town of Alice Springs. Here the wallabies are habituated to people and if you are there at dawn or sunset you can hand feed wild wallabies.


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Leeds University is to build a new "world class" library at the cost of £27.5m.
The facility will open its doors in 2015 after the ambitious project was approved by planners.
Work on the four-storey development is set to begin in July, and the university hopes it will complement the iconic Parkinson Building.
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After a week of mishaps such as these, the two little fellows began to learn the ways of the trade — the names of the different papers, and how many of each to get, and what sort of people to offer them to, and where to go and where to stay away from. After this, leaving home at four o'clock in the morning, and running about the streets, first with morning papers and then with evening, they might come home late at night with twenty or thirty cents apiece — possibly as much as forty cents. From this they had to deduct their carfare, since the distance was so great; but after a while they made friends, and learned still more, and then they would save their carfare. They would get on a car when the conductor was not looking, and hide in the crowd; and three times out of four he would not ask for their fares, either not seeing them, or thinking they had already paid; or if he did ask, they would hunt through their pockets, and then begin to cry, and either have their fares paid by some kind old lady, or else try the trick again on a new car. All this was fair play, they felt. Whose fault was it that at the hours when workingmen were going to their work and back, the cars were so crowded that the conductors could not collect all the fares? And besides, the companies were thieves, people said — had stolen all their franchises with the help of scoundrelly politicians!
Now that the winter was by, and there was no more danger of snow, and no more coal to buy, and another room warm enough to put the children into when they cried, and enough money to get along from week to week with, Jurgis was less terrible than he had been. A man can get used to anything in the course of time, and Jurgis had gotten used to lying about the house. Ona saw this, and was very careful not to destroy his peace of mind, by letting him know how very much pain she was suffering. It was now the time of the spring rains, and Ona had often to ride to her work, in spite of the expense; she was getting paler every day, and sometimes, in spite of her good resolutions, it pained her that Jurgis did not notice it. She wondered if he cared for her as much as ever, if all this misery was not wearing out his love. She had to be away from him all the time, and bear her own troubles while he was bearing his; and then, when she came home, she was so worn out; and whenever they talked they had only their worries to talk of — truly it was hard, in such a life, to keep any sentiment alive. The woe of this would flame up in Ona sometimes — at night she would suddenly clasp her big husband in her arms and break into passionate weeping, demanding to know if he really loved her. Poor Jurgis, who had in truth grown more matter-of-fact, under the endless pressure of penury, would not know what to make of these things, and could only try to recollect when he had last been cross; and so Ona would have to forgive him and sob herself to sleep.
The latter part of April Jurgis went to see the doctor, and was given a bandage to lace about his ankle, and told that he might go back to work. It needed more than the permission of the doctor, however, for when he showed up on the killing floor of Brown's, he was told by the foreman that it had not been possible to keep his job for him. Jurgis knew that this meant simply that the foreman had found some one else to do the work as well and did not want to bother to make a change. He stood in the doorway, looking mournfully on, seeing his friends and companions at work, and feeling like an outcast. Then he went out and took his place with the mob of the unemployed.
This time, however, Jurgis did not have the same fine confidence, nor the same reason for it. He was no longer the finest-looking man in the throng, and the bosses no longer made for him; he was thin and haggard, and his clothes were seedy, and he looked miserable. And there were hundreds who looked and felt just like him, and who had been wandering about Packingtown for months begging for work. This was a critical time in Jurgis' life, and if he had been a weaker man he would have gone the way the rest did. Those out-of-work wretches would stand about the packing houses every morning till the police drove them away, and then they would scatter among the saloons. Very few of them had the nerve to face the rebuffs that they would encounter by trying to get into the buildings to interview the bosses; if they did not get a chance in the morning, there would be nothing to do but hang about the saloons the rest of the day and night. Jurgis was saved from all this — partly, to be sure, because it was pleasant weather, and there was no need to be indoors; but mainly because he carried with him always the pitiful little face of his wife. He must get work, he told himself, fighting the battle with despair every hour of the day. He must get work! He must have a place again and some money saved up, before the next winter came.
But there was no work for him. He sought out all the members of his union — Jurgis had stuck to the union through all this — and begged them to speak a word for him. He went to every one he knew, asking for a chance, there or anywhere. He wandered all day through the buildings; and in a week or two, when he had been all over the yards, and into every room to which he had access, and learned that there was not a job anywhere, he persuaded himself that there might have been a change in the places he had first visited, and began the round all over; till finally the watchmen and the "spotters" of the companies came to know him by sight and to order him out with threats. Then there was nothing more for him to do but go with the crowd in the morning, and keep in the front row and look eager, and when he failed, go back home, and play with little Kotrina and the baby.
The peculiar bitterness of all this was that Jurgis saw so plainly the meaning of it. In the beginning he had been fresh and strong, and he had gotten a job the first day; but now he was second-hand, a damaged article, so to speak, and they did not want him. They had got the best of him — they had worn him out, with their speeding-up and their carelessness, and now they had thrown him away! And Jurgis would make the acquaintance of others of these unemployed men and find that they had all had the same experience. There were some, of course, who had wandered in from other places, who had been ground up in other mills; there were others who were out from their own fault — some, for instance, who had not been able to stand the awful grind without drink. The vast majority, however, were simply the worn-out parts of the great merciless packing machine; they had toiled there, and kept up with the pace, some of them for ten or twenty years, until finally the time had come when they could not keep up with it any more. Some had been frankly told that they were too old, that a sprier man was needed; others had given occasion, by some act of carelessness or incompetence; with most, however, the occasion had been the same as with Jurgis. They had been overworked and underfed so long, and finally some disease had laid them on their backs; or they had cut themselves, and had blood poisoning, or met with some other accident. When a man came back after that, he would get his place back only by the courtesy of the boss. To this there was no exception, save when the accident was one for which the firm was liable; in that case they would send a slippery lawyer to see him, first to try to get him to sign away his claims, but if he was too smart for that, to promise him that he and his should always be provided with work. This promise they would keep, strictly and to the letter — for two years. Two years was the "statute of limitations," and after that the victim could not sue.
What happened to a man after any of these things, all depended upon the circumstances. If he were of the highly skilled workers, he would probably have enough saved up to tide him over. The best paid men, the "splitters," made fifty cents an hour, which would be five or six dollars a day in the rush seasons, and one or two in the dullest. A man could live and save on that; but then there were only half a dozen splitters in each place, and one of them that Jurgis knew had a family of twenty-two children, all hoping to grow up to be splitters like their father. For an unskilled man, who made ten dollars a week in the rush seasons and five in the dull, it all depended upon his age and the number he had dependent upon him. An unmarried man could save, if he did not drink, and if he was absolutely selfish — that is, if he paid no heed to the demands of his old parents, or of his little brothers and sisters, or of any other relatives he might have, as well as of the members of his union, and his chums, and the people who might be starving to death next door.
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sundaysup wrote:Maybe someone could direct link the video to here. It's beyond my current capabilities. Thanks. It's amazing to be able to watch an artist like Munk One actually doing his thing.
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The other day I had the opportunity to take part in a fun little
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where artist sketchings are recorded and edited into short videos
and set to music. The current featured video is the first of two
sketches I did off the top of my head while listening to my ipod. I
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Some Common Uncommon Whys- 2
8. WHY do we have sex?
Seriously, sex is not only for pleasure!
A myriad of scientific studies have revealed the psychological, physical and mental boosts due to this fantastic exercise. The enhancement of the immune system which ultimately ensures longevity, warding off cancer, reduction of stress and depression are reported by various empirical studies among others. One vigorous sex episode is calculated to have burnt almost 300 calories thereby losing considerable amount of weight besides improving circulation and lowering cholesterol.
But most importantly of all, humans are classified to be very slow producer. We need a minimum of year to bear the offspring. So abstinence of sex might mean lowering the rate of reproduction and hence jeopardizing on extinction of human species.
9. WHY do men want sex?
The main hormone that induces sexual drive in men is testosterone. This hormone is almost 10-20 times more in men than women, making the sex drive in male so strong. Women prefers more of love than sex because they have higher level of oxytocin – a hormone responsible for the people falling in love. It is revealed that when people fall in love, the level of testosterone decreases and oxytocin increases which enhances the love making process to be faster. Among men, the one who is married and bear the role of a father is reported to have significantly lower amount of testosterone and more of oxytocin than singles – because of their nurturing roles and parental associations.
10. WHY do women talk more and listen more than men?
A study conducted in the University of Maryland concluded that women talk more – almost 20,000 words per day which is 13,000 times more than an average man. They are talkative and chattier because of their brain contains more of Foxp2 protein, popularly known as 'language protein'. Females are reported to have 30% more of Foxp2 protein than boys. This is also one reason why girls learn to speak faster than boys.
11. WHY do we close our eyes when we kiss?
A study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance by psychologists Dalton and Murphy have revealed that closing our eyes while kissing is more natural to appreciate the physical feeling experienced due to kissing. Any visual stimuli caused due to non-closure of eyes might distract our brain to focus in taking the task in hand. So to gather the feelings and intensifying the intimacy between the kissers, we close our eyes while kissing.
12. WHY do we close our eyes when we pray?
The primary logic behind closing our eyes when we pray is to enhance focus (concentration) and limit the distractions. The visual distractions are so strong that it can last in our brain even if we close our eyes for some time. When we close our eyes, not only can we notice any kind of visual distractions, but also can concentrate religiously on our prayers to God.
13. WHY do we wear watch on the left hand?
There isn't any general rule that we have to wear watch on the left hand. A right hander usually wear it on the left while the left hander on the right hand because it is easier for one to see the time and maneuver the work simultaneously with our preferred hands with ease. Wearing watches on the left hand was apparently popular as majority of the watches designed during that time were operated by wind-up clock mechanism. The crown – part of the watch used to wind and located at the right side of the clock, made easier to rotate if worn on the left hand.
14. WHY do people shake hands with the right hand?
Even if one is left handed, we ended up shaking hands with the right hand. Ever asked why?
Many probable theories are put in, to explain this phenomenon that exactly do not have concrete findings as yet. However, considering it as disgraceful, some cultures forbid shaking hands with the left hand – the hand that usually wipes. One doing with it is an affront. Another postulate believes that during an ancient times, weapons were dominantly used with the right hand as majority of the people were supposedly right-handed. So shaking with right hand was a sign to indicate that one is free of weapon.
But in Scouting, the scouts always shake hands with the left-hand as a sign of trust and friendship. A story has it that, when colonel Baden Powell, Founder of the scouts visited Kumasi, the capital city of Ashanti in Africa, he met with one of the great chief. One seeing him, Powell saluted and then offered a hand shake with his right hand as a gesture of friendship. But the chief, after transferring the shield and armors from his left to the right hand offered left hand in return. Traditionally, the left hand was used to hold armors and shield for one's defense and protection. By offering the left hand, it indicated that the person is no more armed and that he trusted the person with whom he shakes the hand.
"Every day learn something new and just as important, relearn something old" – Robert Brault
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Learning is a gift which never ends.ReplyDeleteReplies
Could not agree more EC.Delete
Another great learning experience for me, Dumcho...many thanks!ReplyDelete
I had no idea why we shake hands with out right hands...I just do that automatically, without even thinking about it...and I wasn't sure why we kiss with our eyes closed either...but now I know!
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Thanks Ygraine. I am trying to let my kids in the school explore more for themselves by giving them some insights.Delete
Lots of food for thought here, Dumcho! Thank you so much for sharing.ReplyDelete
Like unraveling the mystery here. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
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Bathroom stallsare a bathroom facility which available for public use. This is an important facility considering that many people will use this facility in a public. Usually, this facilities existed and available like in supermarkets, malls and other big stores. For a store, the customer is the number one priority, because the customer must be served by the best facilities provided by the store as well as possible. Well, bathroom partitions this is one of the facilities that would become the value to a store. If the bathroom partitions which are available seems comfortable and nice, for sure, customers will be happy and will definitely return to the store if they want to buy something in need.
Bathroom stalls have many various kinds, and have many different designs. Although it must be created with the basic form, (which is usually shaped like a box, with a door at the front side) and its use must be the same. In order to make these bathroom partitions look more attractive, it will usually be designed with a unique and beautiful ideas. The material used to make bathroom partitions is also different, some are made of solid plastic, powder coated, stainless steel, and plastic laminate, some are also made of phenolic. The size of bathroom partitions also vary and can be arranged according to the order.
Bathroom stalls might become the thing that usually the store owner does not care about it very much. However, customers will definitely assess what services will be provided by the store. Therefore, bathroom partitions including one of the important points if you want to make a big store that wants to be liked by many customers. Obviously, you should choose a good quality of bathroom stalls with a design that makes the eyes of the customers feel comfortable and feels at ease.


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Chili Veggie Crumbles and Corn Casserole
November 29, 2016
By: Rita P. Smith, MS, RD, CDE, Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital
- Vegetable cooking spray
- 1 lb. frozen veggie soy crumbles
- ¼ cup salsa
- 2 teaspoons chili powder
- 1½ teaspoons ground cumin
- 2 cups frozen corn kernels, thawed
- 1 cup packed chopped collard greens
- ½ cup low-fat sour cream or plain Greek yogurt
- ¼ cup shredded 2% sharp cheddar cheese
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Coat a 12-inch skillet with cooking spray. Add veggie crumbles, salsa, chili powder and cumin. Stir together and heat for 1 minute or until heated through.
- Coat an 8-inch square baking pan with cooking spray. Place corn and collard greens in bottom of pan. Toss to blend.
- Spoon veggie-salsa mixture evenly over the vegetables. Cover tightly with foil. Bake 25 minutes or until greens are tender.
- Top each serving with 2 tablespoons sour cream or Greek yogurt and 1 tablespoon shredded cheese. Makes 4 servings.


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I have a small issue I would like to address. It happened this weekend. My team went to Vegas friday so I thought I would go out this weekend and play a little blackjack on my own. I'm sitting at a $50 table for about 3 hours, not really much happening, hanging around even just waiting for something to run with. Then it happens, I get a monster negative nrs to shuffletrack. Cutting this beauty into play is giving me a true count of 12 for about 2 decks. As I start playing the shoe this young asian kid sits next to me trying to get my attention. I ask him whats up and he tells me he wants to play but he doesn't have enough money to bet the minimum. He tells me if he can put his chips on my bet he'll help me win because he can count cards. I kind of just laugh and tell him if he wants to bet I'll let him but he's got to shut up about the card counting. Needless to say he doesn't and he's bringing unwanted attention my way. Because of the nature of the cards I'm tracking to a straight counter it would appear I'm betting wrong and its freaking this kid out. He keeps trying to tell me how to play, what the count is, and how much to bet, he's driving me crazy. Even worse the dealer is getting annoyed. So I tell the kid thats it play your own spot, we had won enough in 5 hands for him to do so. At this point the cards are falling beautifully and he doesn't understand why so he won't shut up about it. Its so bad that I have to leave before I can fully capitalize on my shuffletrack that I waited 3 hours for, to avoid the heat that was coming. I don't know what happened to that kid after I left, but I sure hope he's not anyone that posts on this forum. My issue here is this, if you're a counter great, than count, play a smart game, and shut up. Do not cause trouble for yourself by bringing attention your way, or even someone else's. You never know who you may be sitting next to.
June 2006
Another great player who somehow can't stake his own game.
June 2006
:confused: Bojack1 I dont understand why would someone playing at your level let a young little s#@t whose ego is bigger than his bank roll get anywhere near you much less PLAY ON YOUR HAND?? Sounds like he was just trying to showoff that he was a newbie counter even being at the table.As you know most people do not know what they are doing when playingBJ. Hope this was a lession learned that you will never repeat in the future.
June 2006
30 years of counting and the thought of approaching a stranger and saying, "Hello! I am a cardcounter and will make you money", has never entered my mind. Surely a small counter (novice) with a big big ego.
You should have blown him off before ever letting him place one chip in your circle. You could have done your thing and felt no added pressure.
June 2006
Unfortunately everyone makes mistakes no matter what level you play at. This particular night with me not playing with my team, I was just playing for fun, something that I rarely do anymore, this kid caught me in an extremely generous mood. My mistake. The fact is when I'm playing for real with the teams bankroll there is never a situation where something like that could even come close to happening. On this night it felt more like being on vacation than real play, but the consequences could have been all too real. I feel foolish for it, but we all make mistakes, and I do consider it a lesson learned.
June 2006
I admire your honesty. Makes everything else you say even more believable.
June 2006
It's cool that you were trying to be nice to the kid.Off the subject:I think you're Semyon Dukash incognito,am I right? Best of luck-
June 2006
Paganguy, no I am not Semyon Dukach but I do try to play very much the same style in which he played.
June 2006
In a somewhat similar incident, I was recently at a large casino that allows "backline betting". During one particular advantage shoe, three Asian ladies swooped down as if out of the sky and began placing three separate backline bets behind each of my two hands. There was a crescendo of Asian chatter behind me. With each payoff, arms were reaching in from all directions, frantically grabbing chips. As the main player, I could've refused to let the backliners play, but wanted to be good natured and go along with the party.
The most confusing part was, this house allows backline bettors to play the hand differently from the main player. At one point, on a round that included a double on one hand, then a split and a double on the other, it became unclear as to whose payoff chips were whose, since some backliners went with the double downs and some didn't. The Asian chatter became deafening.
When I surrendered a 14, the dealer took half my bet and left the cards there because one of the ladies wanted to hit -- so he gave her a third card. When I made an unconventional double on a soft hand, the trio behind me just stood pat. As it turned out we all got paid -- but had I made a stiff while the dealer made a hand, they could've while I lost.
June 2006
"could've won while I lost."
June 2006
is that like woulda', coulda', shoulda'?
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Using Cansolv™ Scrubbing Technologies To Control Emissions At Aberthaw Power Station, Uk
A key step in emissions control for coal-fired power generation is being taken at Aberthaw power station, UK. The operator, RWE Generation SE, has partnered with Shell Cansolv to develop a 3-MW pilot plant for carbon dioxide (CO2) and sulphur dioxide (SO2) capture at the power station. The pilot plant, which started operation in January 2013, is the world's first integrated CO2/SO2 capture facility.
Coal is the world's cheapest and most abundant fossil fuel, but burning it releases CO2 and SO2 into the atmosphere. This has prompted calls for a radical reduction or even the abandonment of coal for applications such as power generation. However, the power-generation industry can now apply effective capture techniques to cut emission levels substantially at coal-fired power plants.
One solution is downstream scrubbing of flue gases to capture CO2. This process, referred to as post-combustion capture, removes the CO2 before the flue gases reach the atmosphere through the power station's stacks. According to climate scientists, this approach could play a significant role in helping to reduce the effects of climate change. Estimates suggest that capturing CO2 at emission points and storing it underground could deliver about 20% of the reductions that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has recommended to avert the worst effects of climate change.
RWE Generation SE and Shell Cansolv are using the combined plant at Aberthaw to test technology for treating flue gases. This work is a vital part of the research programmes on carbon capture. Devin Shaw, Global Sales Manager, Shell Cansolv, says, "The post-combustion plant at Aberthaw captures 50 tonnes of CO2 a day. By using CANSOLV™ scrubbing technologies, this ground-breaking regenerable system can capture 90% of the flue gas CO2 and essentially all of the SO2."
According to Shaw, there are other benefits to consider when using the regenerable system. "This technology means that the plant avoids the landfill disposal issues associated with conventional, non-regenerable scrubbing systems," he says. "Reusing the absorbent by recycling cuts waste and reduces costs by minimising the need to restock. We believe that this makes CANSOLV technology applicable for a broad range of industrial applications."
CO2 and SO2 scrubbing systems are proven technologies that have been used to clean gases in the oil industry for more than 80 years, but this is the world's first application of an integrated CO2–SO2 capture system at a power-generation facility. Applying CO2 capture to the flue gases of a coal-fired power plant is new and the scrubbing technique must be adapted to meet power plant conditions.
For example, the flue gas streams of a coal-based power station contain 3–5% oxygen, whereas most of the gas streams dealt with in the chemical industry contain no oxygen, as they are pre-combustion streams. The Aberthaw project is a useful opportunity to test a new generation of CO2 solvents and SO2 solvent enhancements.
Aberthaw marks a significant point in the commercial application of combined CO2 and SO2 capture techniques. According to Mattias Hartung, Chief Operating Officer at RWE Generation SE: "This pilot plant at our Aberthaw power station is another step on the road to giving us the choice of technologies we need to create a modern, efficient and diverse energy portfolio that is capable of guaranteeing continuity of supply while reducing costs and CO2 emissions."
Shell Cansolv has developed a mini-plant to demonstrate the concept, but this system, which fits on the back of a truck, is too small to give realistic performance figures. The Shell Cansolv and RWE Generation SE pilot plant is large enough to fit into a commercial process environment and will deliver invaluable information on applying the process at a commercial scale.
The Aberthaw unit is designed to be modular and transportable on skids. Shell Cansolv had the unit designed in Canada and sourced all the necessary materials in North America and Europe before sending them to China for construction of the plant. Shell Cansolv employees went to China to supervise the construction and to ensure that the unit met the standards RWE Generation SE had defined. Once fabrication was complete, the system was sent to the UK for erection.
There were some technical and logistical challenges to be overcome. "One of the key issues was getting the two units, which operate in series, to work together as intended," Shaw explains. This is obviously a crucial aspect of the work that we are doing at Aberthaw, and we are delighted to have achieved an effective solution.
There were also some challenges in securing a licence to operate the system in the UK. This reflected the facts that the proposed system was the first of its kind, which required a complete examination of the technology by the regulatory authorities, and that it had been developed through a multinational design and fabrication process, which complicated the statutory process of checking component quality and standards."
The initial feedback on the performance of the combined capture system at Aberthaw has been good. The units are performing as expected and a CO2 removal rate of 90% has been achieved, along with well over 99% removal of SO2. The pilot plant will also be run at various levels of CO2 capture to help optimise the combined capture process with a view to applying it in larger units.
Shaw is looking forward to applying the combined capture process at full size in a commercial plant. "Using our system to manage all the flue gas emissions at a 150-MW plant will pose significant challenges in chemistry, engineering and operations. In terms of chemistry, the main challenge will be scaling up the capacity for CO2 capture.
The engineering and operational challenges will focus on minimising the energy use of the capture units. CO2 scrubbing currently has higher energy requirements than we would like for deployment in power stations. The experience we gain in the Aberthaw pilot project will help us deliver improved scrubbing solutions that require less energy for CO2 capture," he concludes.
For more details on Shell Global Solutions' gas processing technologies.
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Located in the heart of Chicago's Gold Coast, Cadella is a boutique, full-service medical spa and wellness center. Founded by Eliza Parker, MD, a board certified physician and spa owner, and staffed by a team of highly qualified and experienced beauty and wellness practitioners, Cadella offers its patients an exclusive patient-centered approach.
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Harry Bosch, the LAPD detective who insists, "I don't want to be famous. I just want to work cases," gets his wish times two.
Assigned to the Open-Unsolved Squad, Bosch catches a cold case with an impossible twist. Now that the lab can analyze DNA evidence from the 1989 rape and murder of Ohio student Lily Price, it's linked conclusively to Clayton Pell, a known predator whose long history of sex crimes has already landed him in prison. Pell would be perfect as the killer if only he hadn't been eight when the victim was slain. Before Bosch can start looking beyond the physical evidence for an explanation, he's pulled out of past crimes and into the present by an old enemy. City Councilman Irvin Irving, the ex–deputy chief whom Bosch played a supporting role in bouncing from the LAPD years ago, demands that Bosch take charge of the investigation into his son George's fatal plunge from his seventh-story room at the Chateau Marmont. It looks like suicide, but the Councilman claims it's murder, and he doesn't want it swept under the rug, even if it takes the hated Bosch to ferret out the truth. Hamstrung between two utterly unrelated cases, Bosch tries to work them both, with predictably unhappy results: scheduling conflicts, treacherous leaks to the media, trouble with his bosses and even his old partner, Lt. Kizmin Rider. Even so, it's not long before he's worked out pretty convincing explanations for both crimes and can begin the slow, patient process of winding them up before a pair of nasty surprises gives both of them a bitter edge.
Not by a long shot Bosch's finest hour, but a welcome return to form after the helter-skelter 9 Dragons (2009).


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Eryn Dace Trudell is a dance artist: producer, presenter, choreographer, performer and teacher, originally from Ontario and now living in Montreal. Her versatile career of 18 years includes commissions from theatre, dance and opera companies and remarkable, self-produced shows and collaborations. Her current projects include PIE and Mama dances.
Eryn performs and teaches with PIE (Performance Improvisation Exchange) which specializes in the promotion, performance and education of Contact Improvisation. PIE's research includes the merging of the values of Contact Improvisation and professional dance performance and hosts an annual summer dance festival.
Trudell holds a BFA in Dance from Juilliard (91) and is a certified specialist in Skinner Releasing Technique™. She has studied and/or performed Contact Improvisation with Andrew de L. Harwood, Nancy Stark Smith, Chris Aiken, Ray Chung, Peter Bingham. and Karen and Allen Kaeja.