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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Fabric yo-yos ~ Recycling furniture store fabric samples
Recycling Furniture Store Fabric Samples
Scrappy Yo-Yo Placemat (Instructions)
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- Katmom said...
hey Kristina, I know this post is from 2010, yaya, I am a wee bit slow! lol!.. any ways, I too luv YOYO's and as easy as they are to make,,, it dose take quite awhile to amass enough yoyos for a project.. but, they are so cute.
I was fortunate to find & buy a yoyo quilt (twin size) at a Thrift for $9.00,, Talk about a Score!
- March 5, 2015 at 9:32 AM
- Kristina said...
Katmom, I am still trying to make them for my Christmas tree garland. You got a great price. I once saw one for sale at an antique store, but the tag was missing and they could not get ahold of the seller.
- March 5, 2015 at 10:22 AM
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You may have noticed that the dining table has been moved from the kitchen to the lounge, there was always too much unused space in the lounge. And now the hutch dresser that was in the kitchen is also in the lounge, although it has been given a facelift!
So I've given it some new drawer fronts and covered them with wallpaper. And there's a basket of toys where the cupboard was. I figure that as the children's rooms are all in the attic Mrs Nylon won't want to be trekking up and downstairs with toys all day...'cos let's face it, it's not like the kids will ever put them away!
The stripy wallpaper is the exact same colour as the gingham wallpaper in the lounge.


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A new inquiry will examine the cost of caring for an aging population.
The National Assembly's Finance Committee will study patterns in demand for social care services for those of pension age and the related costs of delivery of residential and non-residential care, taking account of the role of informal carers who provide unpaid services to those requiring care.
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This snap, taken at the London Film and Comic Con last week, is just...well, it's just the best.
The whole show sounds like it was the best, actually. For a convention that's not the San Diego Comic Con, that's one hell of a lineup.
For further proof of how awesome Tyrion's actor Peter Dinklage is, check out the Reddit thread below for tales of Joffrey cosplayers.
[Self] as Ezio, stabbing Peter Dinklage in the throat [Reddit, via Fashionably Geek]


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Here's my mug that features the Painted Ladies houses in San Francisco's Alamo Square, my tea ticket, my Kindle hiding behind the cup. I'm ready to start the day but this will be a heck of a day for my manuscript -- have to pull it apart big time to reassemble it just the way it should be. Thank God I have the greatest editor in the whole wide world. I need your help big time today Erik!
I'm thinking of my friends in San Francisco who host us when we visit the area. They have vacation rentals that are a great deal -- houses in North Beach near Coit Tower and their house at Alamo Square.
Here's their site for more info. They filmed the TV show Full House near here, so their place is often rented for film shoots these days, making it hard to book as an overnight stay location, but their other houses are great too and you can do long stays there since they have full kitchens, multiple bedrooms.
The golden retriever puppies were born in December, three fluffy little balls of crazy energy. I had no idea they get so big so fast.
I'm keeping a trip to San Francisco in the front of my mind as an incentive to get this book done asap. I hope we can all get out there for a visit after it's done. We try to see our friends there at least once a year.
Here's a picture of the parents with their baby on the front steps! If you get a chance, go to my FB page, check out the pix and link to Hakan and Ebba, the parent dogs' FB page. They are the greatest.


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We spent part of our honeymoon with some friends in the wilds of Wisconsin. They had a big, old farm home with an outhouse - not out in back, but in front and a little south of the driveway. The outhouse, itself, was a shock to the city girl I was then, as I had never used one. The embarrassment of having to cross the driveway and go past the machine shed where someone was usually working was bad enough. Total humiliation came when a large, waddling duck, quacking loudly to her three chicks bobbing along in a row behind her, followed me to the outhouse every time I got up the courage to make the trip. I felt as though I was leading a noisy parade! The worst time was yet to come! One morning the ducks and I made our procession to the outhouse in the usual manner. While I was in the outhouse I heard a truck drive up and park about 30 feet away from it. I just couldn't make myself walk out of that place while several strange men were standing there talking to our friend. I waited, hoped, and prayed that they would go away. Finally, they all went into the machine shed. I peeked out and saw that they were busy way back in the shed so thought I could sneak out quietly with no one noticing me. I opened the door quietly and started to run for the house when that darn duck and her little ones set up the most awful clatter. I could hear the men laughing all the way to the house, and when I got in the house my new husband and the women were roaring with laughter. I thought for a second what a silly sight the ducks and I had made, scuttling into the house, and began to giggle myself. Believe me, it was a joke our friends never let me forget.
Catherine Chapman
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Back in 1955 a call went out from the editors of the then Capper's Weekly asking for readers to send in articles on true pioneers. Hundreds of letters came pouring in from early settlers and their children, many now in their 80s and 90s, and from grandchildren of settlers, all with tales to tell. So many articles were received that a decision was made to create a book, and in 1956, the first My Folks title – My Folks Came in a Covered Wagon – hit the shelves. Nine other books have since been published in the My Folks series, all filled to the brim with true tales from Capper's readers, and we are proud to make those stories available to our growing online community.


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July 14
I could have used an escalator today, not to mention a better map. I am on my way back to the American Discovery Trail, where I can blame bad directions and poor routing on others. Unfortunately there was one more chance to screw things up on Saturday's hike and I took advantage of the opportunity presented me.
The fiasco all started when I looked at a Delorme's Colorado Atlas and found a country road which seemed to provide a nice shortcut off of the busier Highway 65. I would be safer, could cover the ground more quickly, and would come out back on 65 right where it veered off onto 123, my next turn. What could go wrong?
I came out smelling of roses in the early running. I was headed in the right direction and visible above was 65, which I expected to run into at the end. My success was smashed when I turned a corner and came upon a sign signaling the road now ran onto private property and trespassing was expressly forbidden. Any ideas I had of taking my chances with being caught were foiled by a herd of cows sitting like mafia dons (this is not to be taken as an ethnic slur directed at Italians, who are not surrounded by flies and do not chew their cud), forbidding further encroachment.
I retreated a few hundred yards and found what looked like a trail, which also seemed to travel toward the promised land of 65. Renewed hope only lasted a few minutes, when I came upon a high barbwire fence and thick brush beyond, which dashed my dreams of bush-wacking my way out of the predicament.
I had no choice but to tuck tail and return to the starting point. I had wasted two hours and walked six miles with no advancement. I might as well have been exercising on a treadmill. Did I mention virtually every step had been uphill? On the way down there was a lengthy monologue of self castigation involving a string of curse words, some of which are so foul I didn't even know they existed in my subconscious.
Anger fueled me as I made it back to GO and began the long climb up the mesa yet again. I managed four hard uphill miles in only an hour, powered by the steam leaking leaking from my ears. When I finally arrived at 123 I was out of water and exhausted by over-exertion. The road refused to give quarter, continuing to rise as I scraped to gain a foothold atop the plateau. Not one to miss a chance to kick a guy in the crotch, the sky began to piss all over my parade.
The tough and frustrating trek was soon forgotten, however, when I reached my host for the night, the Cobb family. Lynne is the State Coordinator for the ADT in Utah. She and her husband have recently retired from their jobs in psychology and medicine and purchased a summer home in Grand Mesa. Their son-in-law Todd, a builder, is currently helping with renovations on the cabin, which sits aside Eggleston Lake. Lynne's brother Eric Seaborg and his wife Ellen were two of the main scouts responsible for determining the route of the ADT.
Lynne knew exactly what to do to heal my ailing body and psyche. A shower, hot food, and a couple of beers later everything was again right with the world. She also promised to accompany me on tomorrow's hike and help me get a preview of the following bits of trail. Its funny how the effort of tackling a mountain never seems worth it until you get to the top.
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-1963 First issue of anti-establishment Oz magazine released on April Fool's Day
-1964 Oz magazine prosecuted for obscenity for the second time and Sharp included in the charges. Conviction overturned on appeal
-1966 Sharp moves to London; creates poster of Bob Dylan, Mr Tambourine Man
-1967 Jenny Kee introduces Sharp to Eric Clapton in the Speakeasy Club in London with Richard Neville
-1968 Sharp designs album covers for Cream: Disraeli gears and wheels of Fire 1969 Wheels of fire awarded the New York Art Director's Prize for Best Album Design
First man on the moon
-1970 Sharp returns to Sydney and opens the Yellow House in Sydney, an alternative gallery space and tribute to Vincent Van Gogh's original concept of an artists' community in southern France(this one of his very well known achievements, a specialty for the artist of Sydney , Australia and the world )
-1973 Sharp begins designing posters and sets for Sydney's Nimrod Theatre
-1977 Sharp commissioned to design the poster for the first Sydney Festival1979 The World Nonstop Singing Record at Luna Park. On January 12, Tiny Tim sings with his band non-stop for 2 hours and 22 minutes t
o set the professional record and celebrate the centenary.
As graphic artist and satirist for the Sydney and London Oz magazines, Sharp was
As graphic artist and satirist for the Sydney and London Oz magazines, Sharp was
one of the voices of the younger generation. The magazine was satirical and anti-authoritarian, making fun of institutions and expressing the thoughts and mood of a youth culture. Sharp, adept at satirical commentary, was already providing satirical cartoons for The Bulletin and The Sydney Morning Herald in his student years. In its time, Oz magazine attacked the many hypocrisies of society, including the monarchy, the constabulary and the civic developers who were destroying some of the city's buildings.
He designed record covers for the albums Disraeli gears and Wheels of fire by Eric Clapton's band Cream and wrote the lyrics of 'Tales of brave Ulysses' for the Disraeli gears LP, as well as designing psychedelic posters for Bob Dylan, Donovan and Jimi Hendrix, posters for the 'Big O poster' company, and the cover for Timothy Leary's book Politics of ecstasy. His designs and use of text in illustrations rejected the functional, minimal style of the 1950s and his style had similarities to the works of Alphonse Mucha, Aubrey Beardsley, art nouveau and the Symbolists. In 1969, he was awarded the New York Art Director's Prize for best album design for the cover of Cream's LP Wheels of fire.


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An appreciation letter to Joan Burge, CEO and Founder, Office Dynamics International. We receive letters from executives and assistants about the impact of our work. In fact, we have hundreds of letters stored away here that we've never shared with you before. Why not take a few moments during our blog-a-thon for the administrative profession to highlight YOUR stories and why we're here? Read on for Silvia's personal message of triumph and her affirming statement that she is not just an admin.
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Thank you for writing Underneath It All. I've read it twice, slowly; I've done most of the exercises and have applied your advice. I feel like you're speaking directly to me in my current role. I'm also currently going through the Star Achievement Series, Level II program and participate in a virtual assistant group at Cisco where we share challenges and best practices of supporting our executives remotely.
I look forward to attending your (23rd Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence), The Revolutionary Assistant, again this October and reunite with my administrative professional friends I met last year. It's a great conference to network in an intimate setting and get to know each other. I attend your free webinars, receive the Monday Motivator emails and I have most of your books in my library!
Thankfully I have been blessed with a great partnership with my executive that recently wrote this about my 5th year anniversary working with him: "THANK YOU Silvia for your 5 fantastic years of partnership with me and our team. Thank you for your great focus, energy, attitude, collaboration and fantastic support. You brighten our days and make us more productive. Our world got better when you joined our team and we are so appreciative to have you as our colleague and partner. We look forward to many more years of friendship and partnership."
I have to say, it was only since I started the Star Achievement Series and attended your conference (webinars, books, and so much more) that I started growing into and beyond my executive assistant professional role. I now know that I'm NOT just an admin.
Thank you sincerely for all that you have done for our role in the workplace!
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Monday, January 2, 2017
Salt Hill
I was walking along the street the other side of City Hall, and I found this vacant lot.
Where someone made this little version of Mt. Fuji. I'm told the white part is salt, and that maybe a construction company put the salt hill here to purify the land before construction starts.
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Archive for January 2012
South Sudan stops oil production over dispute with Sudan
Read my @Storify story: "South Sudan stops oil production over dispute with Sudan"
East Africa Today
For the next few months, I will be covering the news from countries in East Africa. I've chosen to focus on stories developing in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan. The challenge in the coming weeks is to report events as they unfold in a world from which we are so far removed yet whose humanity tugs at the very core of our being. As a citizen of the world and as an emerging journalist, it is my responsibility to learn about the plight of fellow human beings and bring to light their triumphs, their pain, their struggles. Through my writing, I hope to spark an interest and continued vigilance on the issues that plague the region of East Africa.
The most recent stories coming out of this area cover the effects of widespread drought and famine, poverty, political unrest caused by warring ethnic groups and government factions, violence against foreign nationals and locals by way of kidnapping, rape and murder, graft and corruption and updates on International Criminal Tribunal for Rwandaand International Criminal Court (Kenya).
I will be following Jeffrey Gettleman (@gettleman), East Africa bureau chief of The New York Times; Tom Rhodes (@africamedia_cpj), East Africa consultant for the Committee to Protect Journalists; David Smith (@SmithInAfrica), Africa correspondent for The Guardian; and Jina Moore (@itsjina), print and multimedia correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor.
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They seem to have struck a rare balance of beauty, charm, and wit, so thankfully all of the Americas Got Talent judges are coming back next season.
Earlier today, NBC announced that Heidi Klum, Howard Stern, Melanie Brown and Howie Mandel have all signed contract for another round of craziness, and auditions are already underway.
Furthermore, host Nick Cannon will also reprise his hosting role on the show, hailed as the networks top-rated competition series.
Last summer, AGTs 8th season averaged a 3.3 rating, with 12.0 million viewers overall (up 6% from the previous seasons 11.4 million viewers).


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Okay, here's one especially for the retro-girls out there…and the more open-minded retro-boys. Do you all remember the Barbie Townhouse? I don't mean the Dream House — which I got to play with at my friend Ana's house, but never got to own myself — I mean the Townhouse. The 3-story, 3-feet high swanky pad with stylish '70s interior (plastered on the back wall) was one of my favorite toys of all time.
I'm working on a in-depth retrospective on the Townhouse, for release later this month, but I thought I should alert everyone to the 25th anniversary update of the 1974 Barbie Townhouse that comes out on July 1st. As with the original, the new version includes 3-stories and the awesomely fabulous elevator, which I assume is still pull-string operated.
Unlike the 1974 edition, the new Townhouse includes lights and sounds on every level. As Barbie enters her home through the front door, she's greeted by the warm and inviting light-up chandelier, dining area, and fully stocked kitchen. Ken will be wowed by the roaring fireplace (complete with crackling sound effects) and pop-up flat screen TV in the 2nd floor living room. After relaxing in the outdoor hot tub, complete with mood-setting tiki lights, perhaps Ken will get to see Barbie's demure canopy bed…you see, the outdoor hot tub area connects directly to the 3rd floor bedroom suite, or should I say sweeeeet.
In my day the elevator was the best feature — and probably still is — but kids today, who require more active stimulation, will be entertained for hours with all of the bells and whistles of the new Barbie Townhouse. Actually, I can't wait to play with it myself! My only complaint: Too much pink.
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Expanding on Justin Simien's controversial and hilarious film, Netflix gives this difficult debate more episodes to expand on characters and shows various sides of several issues with race. Samantha White (Logan Browning) begins a radio show that airs her grievances at predominantly white Winchester college. When a humor magazine attempts to throw a blackface party, Samantha pushes out the invitations to show the hidden racism bubbling underneath. Lionel Higgins (DeRon Horton) works as a writer for an independent student newspaper and when he witnesses the attire of these white students, calls on his fellow black students to shut it down. Troy Fairbanks (Brandon P. Bell) is the golden boy and son of the Dean who brings the police to the party before anything gets out of hand.
Samantha wants to lead the movement but feels conflicted about her position as she has a white boyfriend Gabe Mitchell (John Patrick Amedori). She also has the affection of another man in the movement Reggie Green (Marque Richardson) who she also begins to fall for. Lionel tries to bring publicity to the controversy as the white students try to sweep it under the rug as not a big deal. Troy campaigns for president and sets up an ideal relationship with Colandrea "CoCo" Conners (Antoinette Robertson) while having an affair with a lesbian professor.
The show does a good job giving an episode or two to each character, sometimes even showing the same scene from different perspectives. The controversy comes to a head when Reggie fights with another student about derogatory language and its use in music when the police show up and point a gun at Reggie. Samantha comforts him and it goes too far, splitting her relationship with Gave, who called the cops. Troy proposes a town hall to address the issues but Sam believes a more drastic protest will get her and her friends' voices heard.
Through Coco, it is revealed the wealthy donor will pull donations if there appears to be any social justice or affirmative action. Troy tries to live up to his father's expectations but feels the burden weighing on him, smoking weed and using friend's pee to pass a drug test. Sam decides that she loves Gabe but Gabe can't deal with the difficulty. The protest is drowned out by other protests over silly issues like binge-drinking. Lionel exposes the poor behavior of the donors and expresses his romantic interest towards his editor. The show looks to continue to explore this issue through the setting of a college campus.
Dear White People was a clever idea and doesn't hurt too much from the expansion from movie to television as there are plenty of interesting characters and college drama to fuel the 30-minute episodes. The issues of race and discrimination need more shows and films beyond this setting and action beyond just entertainment, but this sadly remains a unique thing with a predominantly black cast, introducing new faces and voices in the industry. The reviews around this show seem primarily immature and ignorant not taking account the nuances, though there are some valid flaws with the execution and acting. I enjoyed the show, finding the characters enjoyable and the plot interesting.


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this is a compilation of little Emacs tips and tricks I use for my daily development. To keep it short I only mention thing related to Ruby.
If you use rvm you should definitly install rvm.el.
This is a little package, that I wrote 3 years ago, integrates Emacs
with your rvm setup. It configures Emacs to find the right Ruby
executables, so that other modes like
inf-ruby are set up the way
you want it. It reads
.rvmrc files and you can switch the current
ruby on the fly.
The most important feature though is to open the source of any rubygem
in your current gemset. When you call
rvm-open-gem you can
immedietly jump to any gem and read through the source. This is a huge
time saver.
You can find more information about rvm.el in the Emacs Reboot 14 from Avdi Grimm and there is also a blog post on the emacsrookie blog.
Open the spec file for any given class
This is little function requires rspec-mode. It defined a new function to open the spec file for any class in your project. If you only have one window open, it splits your screen and opens the spec file in the other window. It also works the other way around and lets you open the implementation when you got a spec file open.
I've bound it to
C-c , , but of course you can modify the binding.
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string interpolation
This function patches your # key to automatically expand to #{} when typed inside a double quoted string.
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fixed syntax highlighting for cucumber step definitions
I'm not sure if this one has been fixed in a later release of ruby-mode. With the version of ruby-mode that I use, Emacs gets confused with the regular expressions inside step definition files and your syntax highlighting will be broken for the rest of the buffer. I wrote this patch to get it working as expected:
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flymake to check your syntax
I use flymake to instantly see types in my code. This configuration will highlight every syntax error in your current buffer.
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third-party libraries
When I use Emacs for Ruby and Rails development I use the following libraries:
- rspec-mode (RSpec support)
- inf-ruby (this is an interactive ruby shell inside Emacs, it is diststributed with ruby-mode)
- yari (browse RI documentation inside Emacs)
- cucumber.el (support for *.feature files)
What do you use?
These were a few helpers I use to make Emacs awesome for Ruby development. Have a look at cabbage to see what configuration I use. I'm constantly improving my workflow. If you got awesome Emacs tidbits for Ruby please leave a comment.


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WILSON, N.C. – The Lees-McRae College men's soccer team was shut out by the Barton Bulldogs by the final score of 2-0 Saturday afternoon. The Bobcats' record now stands at 3-11 overall and 3-5 in league play.
After a scoreless first half, the Bulldogs opened the scoring in the 46th minute with a goal from Alex David. Following the goal by David, the two teams played nearly 40 minutes of scoreless soccer until Austin Tausch's goal in the last minute of regulation rounded out the scoring.
The Bulldogs held the slight edge in terms of shots on goal, 13-11. Lees-McRae, however, held the advantage in corner kicks with six compared to Barton's three.
LMC will look to snap its four-game losing skid Wednesday when it returns to Tate Field for a Conference Carolinas contest against King (Tenn.) The game is scheduled to get underway around 7:30 p.m.


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The Saturday dawned wet and windy, but I set off gamely for a bit of a wander around the centre prior to meeting Razvan Stoenescu, author of the Vin2 blog and organiser of Monday evening's #winelover hangout. Razvan had offered to take me on a tour of a couple of wine bars in the evening. Always glad to have the insight and knowledge of a local, I had quickly agreed.
After a few hours of sightseeing in the blustery rain, discovering the historic town centre and the 'ostentatious' avenues and People's Palace (now housing the Parliament and various other governmental bodies) built by Communist dictator Nicolae Ceacescu, and taking a look around the fascinating Bucharest Historical Museum, I headed back to the hotel to try to make contact with Razvan.
This had proved quite difficult, as my phone had decided not to register itself automatically on the local network as is usually the case when crossing into another European country. Anyway, finally I manage to speak to Razvan via the hotel reception and half an hour later we were heading off into the northern part of Bucharest on the quest for Romanian wine.
Our first port of call was Vinoteca Mea, a specialist wine shop and wine bar, where I was surprised to see the range of non-Romanian wines they had on offer, including some quite good Hungarian ones, including from Somló. I am sure this situation is not reflected in Hungary, where you rarely see Romanian wines on the shelves. Here we tried several wines.
First up, a Fetească Regala 2013 (Királyleanyka in Hungary) from the Crama Ratesti winery. A fresh elegant wine with exotic fruit and some floral notes. Flavours of ripe apple, stone fruits, some stoniness, and a slightly bitter finish.
Our next wine was a Crămposie Selecţionată 2013 from the Crama Cepari winery in south Romania. A nutty, oaky wine with high acidity, with flavours of pear, mandarine and ripe apple. Warming alcohol.
Moving on to Ethic Wine, a wine shop just round the corner, we tried a further Feteasca Regala 2013, this time from Via Sandu. A complex, full-bodied wine with floral, with mineral notes which linger on the finish.
We also tried a Fetească Negrea (Fekete Leanyka), but by then we were standing outside with the other patrons of the wine shop, and I'm afraid to say, I didn't take any notes or even a picture in this case. However, I remember that it was rich and mouth-filling with velvety black fruits. I'm starting to become a big fan of this grape variety.
Next day, lunch at the Crama Domnească Restaurant saw us tasting an example of the grape variety dubbed the Romanian Furmint, Grasa de Cotnari – Colocviu at Moscow 2014. A fresh, elegant wine with flavours of hazelnut, green apple and citrus, perhaps a little less bitter on the finish than a Furmint.
After lunch, we set off to do a bit more wine-tasting at Corks, situated in the historic centre and the only wine bar that appeared to be open that Sunday afternoon, where we tasted our way through a good range of native varieties, a Cabernet from Dragașani and a blend from Moldova.
Here I discovered the deliciously different rosé, Busuioaca de Bohotun, made from grapes that are pink-skinned rather than black.
We tasted a Via Sandu Crămposie and another Crămposie from Prince Stirbey, a Mustoasa de Măderan from Balla Géza, La Petite Sophie (a blend of Fetească Neagra, Chardonnay and Riesling) from the Moldovan Gitana winery, a Novac, a Furmint and the highlight, in terms of being unusual, the highlight was discovering the abovementioned Busuioaca de Bohotun, here in a blend with Tomaioasa Romaneasca, deliciously, fruity, fragrant and floral.
And the main reason for my visit to Bucharest was still to come, the next day's #winelover hangout, organised by Razvan, when I was looking forward to continuing my Romanian wine odyssey.


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Olivia featured in a 2 page story in the current issue of Australian New Idea Magazine
The story is about Olivia recording "Gotta Be Right Here With You" with Delta Goodrem at Byron Bay earlier this month.
The song is to be released to coincide with their Great Wall walk in April.
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I'm back on the bike! After a really rough holiday season followed by a week in Sin City, I thought I was doomed. But you know… I'm not. I'm really not. I'm feeling better than I have in months, I got back on the bike earlier tonight for the first time since… November maybe? and my outlook hasn't been this good in a long time.
This episode is all about new beginnings. It's a new year. First quarter, 2012. Let's keep it going!
While at Affiliate Summit West 2012, I won a fantastic prize from Buy.at – a Polar wrist computer. What? It is a wrist computer! Okay, it's a heart rate monitor, but it's a very sophisticated monitor. I ran out of time before my ride to get it set up properly, so I'll wear it on my next outing, but glancing at the manual it looks easy to use and packed with useful data. Thanks, Buy.at. You guys rock.
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InterMoor do Brasil Serviços Offshore de Instalaçao Ltda (InterMoor), an Acteon company, has been awarded a construction license to build facilities at the new Industrial Complex of Açu Superport located in São João da Barra in northern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Construction of the Service Base will commence in April 2013.
The facility will be built on a 52,300 square-meter plot at the right bank of the terminal's inland channel (TX2). InterMoor will provide a select range of services to meet specific needs of leading oil and gas clients and contractors operating in Brazil. InterMoor intends to keep the high HSEQ standards it is known for and that are demanded by the industry.
"This license is an important milestone for InterMoor and Acteon as we expand operations and in Brazil," said InterMoor do Brasil Managing Director John Riggs. "A connection to the establishment of one of the world's largest ports says much about our dedication to quality work and our ability to provide excellent service to projects of all magnitudes. InterMoor's participation also adds to Acteon's larger plan of expanding global subsea service offerings."
The Açu Superport venture is designed to handle up to 350 million tons of cargo yearly establishing it among the world's largest ports and as the largest multimodal industrial port venture in Latin America. The superport has an offshore terminal (TX1) along with the TX2 onshore terminal that jointly offers up to 47 berths with a minimum of 10 meters of water depth and a 17-kilometer pier.
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Alessandra Sanguinetti's On the Sixth Day exhibition and lecture
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Thursday, March 25, 5 pm - 7 pm.
Alessandra Sanguinetti will be discussing her work On the Sixth Day, a series of animals on a farm in Argentina, exploring the relationship between man and beast. The documentary style photographs were taken in a province of Buenos Aires by roadsides, fields and woods as she observes the rituals and traditions of local farmers and animals - rabbits, horses, pigs, lambs, cows, chickens - caught in the cycle of life and death.
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Last week, I wrote about Carol Snell, a Silicon Valley boardroom veteran who last month joined the board of Push Technology, a UK-based application development services provider. That post focused on what, in Snell's view, has and hasn't changed over the years for women in technology. As enlightening as that was, it was only a portion of the value that Snell is adding to the discussion of gender-related issues in technology.
I asked Snell if there are areas within the technology sector in which women are likely to be more successful than in others. She said we've entered an interesting era in that regard:
It's all about this creative piece that's going on—the way we're moving in social media is a whole different technology spectrum than what you and I grew up in, with classical enterprise software. Women have this great creative flair, and there's lot of marketing talent and creativity that's needed for the success of these social media companies. Look what Apple did—they hired the CEO of Burberry to take care of their retail operation. That's an interesting dynamic, and an interesting move. It's because her background was years and years of being creative and selling to the public, and having figured that out. That's a great example to me of how women are often better suited in some of these jobs that are more consumer-oriented, than being back down at the operating system level. I think it takes a special kind of woman who wants to work at that operating system level, and a lot do, by the way. A lot of women work in QA in technology, because it's a patient, calm, tedious kind of a job, and they're good at it, and they don't mind. But I think in these senior creative positions, a lot of women are going to be better at that than some men might be. It's an up-and-coming space, where we're going to see more and more women have a huge impact.
I asked Snell if she could give one piece of advice to a young woman who aspires to have a career in technology, what it would be. She said it would be to make sure she builds a mentor network:
Mentors are the greatest thing. Without them, I look back on my life, and I think how I would never have done as well if I hadn't had somebody to bounce ideas off of. And I've mentored a lot of young women over the last 10 or 15 years, as well. I just think building a network of great mentors is very, very smart.
So does it matter whether a mentor for a woman is male or female? Snell said she's "a little biased" in that regard:
I've been a mentor to a lot of men, and they all loved it and preferred it. Most women, at least that I have been in contact with, want a woman mentor. But let me tell you, I had two men who I thought were just so instrumental in my career. Maybe that was because there weren't that many women role models in what I was doing, that I could actually get the help from. But early in my career, these two men were invaluable resources to me, in helping me grow. Today, the way I see it is that men prefer women, and women prefer women. I say that with the caveat that that's my biased view from Silicon Valley.
Snell had a final piece of advice to share—don't be a complainer:
I've never been one of these people who sit back and beat up the nature of the beast, and said, "We're never going to get ahead, we're never going to do this or that." I absolutely never in my career have whined or complained. I've never felt like I was not paid equally compared to my male counterparts. I feel like I've been given huge opportunities—I was on a great, fast-track career path. Sometimes I want to say, "Oh, hush and stop whining. Do your work, and there will be a good outcome here." It's an individual thing. If you want to do it, you can do it. People get on me, because I may be too much of a Pollyanna about that, because they say women aren't paid the same. Well, I was. I was a full-time CEO last year, and I was paid exactly what anybody else would have been paid with my kind of experience.
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Healthy Lung Month: Breathe Easier With These Simple Tips
We often treat our health a lot like a cat-and-mouse game: it's not until something is wrong that we chase after it. In honor of Healthy Lung Month, and in the interest of taking a more proactive, preventative role in our health, we're putting the spotlight on an oft-forgotten organ: the lungs.
As a function of the Autonomic Nervous System, breathing happens largely below the level of consciousness. Like with most automatic, reflexive things, it's easy for us to take our breaths for granted, barely thinking about them at all. But the work our lungs do is essential to our quality of life — they get oxygen into our bloodstream where it's then brought to the rest of the cells, tissues, and organs in our body, keeping us alive and well.
While the process of breathing itself is performed by the diaphragm, the critical exchange of oxygen happens within the alveoli, tiny sacs connected to the bronchioles.
While this process is self-sufficient, is there anything we can actively do to keep our lungs healthy and prevent disease?
Love Your Lungs
The delicate nature of the lungs makes them vulnerable to a number of illnesses. The lungs are also the only internal organ in constant contact with the environment outside the body, breathing in approximately 2,100 to 2,400 gallons of air every day in order to oxygenate the blood. The following tips will help you reduce your risk of developing lung-related diseases.
Reduce Exposure to Toxins
Thus, it's vital that you become more aware of the air you breathe. Germs, secondhand smoke, air pollution, chemicals like radon, and other harmful substances like asbestos can cause severe damage to the respiratory system and lead to disease when breathed in. Asbestos in particular, which can be found in older buildings and a variety of other materials, is the only proven cause of pleural mesothelioma — an aggressive cancer affecting the lining of the lungs.
Be mindful of air quality in places you spend the most of your time, such as your home, car, and workplace.
Included in this category is making the conscious decision not to smoke, or to work on a plan to quit. Smoking cigarettes — which constricts the size of the air passages, causes chronic inflammation of the lungs, kills lung tissue, and causes abnormal cell growth — is the primary cause of COPD and lung cancer, along with conditions like bronchitis and emphysema. To quit smoking, visit the American Lung Association's (ALA) help center.
Aside from challenging your lungs with the daily exercise you should be getting regardless, there are ways you can "work out" your lungs to their full capacity. Diaphragmatic breathing and simple deep breathing are a couple examples. Exercises like this can help reduce the energy breathing requires, decrease oxygen demand, and strengthen the diaphragm.
Be Proactive
We also often take for granted how series a common cold or respiratory infection can become. Here are a few reminders from the ALA on how to be proactive in protecting yourself:
- Wash your hands with soap and water multiple times a day.
- Avoid large groups of people during cold and flu season.
- Maintain good oral hygiene.
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Today's HAWMC topic is writer's choice and I had planned to write about being happy in spite of being chronically ill. But over lunch I read a wonderful article on ovarian cancer survivor Susan Gubar that inspired me to write about the "dark side" of having lupus instead.
"Motivated by a desire to tackle a writing problem that Virginia Woolf believed the literary women of her generation had failed to solve—telling the truth about the experiences of the female body—I sought to record precisely what I could not or would not speak to most of my family and friends." Susan Gubar
Like Susan, I often find that I censor what I tell my friends and family about what it is like to live with lupus. I've had lupus for decades and have faced a mountain of indignities caused by systemic lupus erythematosus (and her first cousin fibromyalgia). I don't share for many reasons. The most important one is TMI (To Much Information). Even though I blog about lupus, I am a pretty private person and don't want everyone who sees me on a day-to-day basis to be preoccupied with my symptoms and wondering "Is she ok?" So most of the time when people ask me how I am, I say I am alright (or fair-to-middling), even if I feel terrible.
So I decided to devote today's blog to "speaking-truth" about the experience of having lupus:
Anyone who reads the lupus symptom list can tell that it is no picnic, but the list still doesn't adequately capture the suckiness of the disease.
Disclaimer: Before reading my Lupus Sucks List, please remember that Lupus is very individualized and symptoms (and severity of symptoms) vary across patients. Just because these awful things happened to me as a teen, doesn't mean they will happen to you if you have lupus. See What are the Symptoms of Lupus for general information and contact a medical professional if you have any questions about your health.
10 Ways Lupus Sucks : The High School Edition
- Lupus Can Kill: The first person I ever met with lupus, a middle-school student of my mother's, died within a week of my lupus diagnosis.
- Lupus Can Affect Any Part Of The Body: Before I was diagnosed with lupus as a teen, I would lose my vision every single morning when I got out of bed. It would come back, but having tunnel vision and then going blind, even for a few seconds, is pretty scary.
- Lupus Can Be Exhausting: I would be so tired during the school day that I had a hall pass to go to the health room at any time to take a nap.
- Lupus Can Cause Brain Fog: If I did not take a nap during lunch, I often could not remember what we discussed in class—at all—I would have no memory, whatsoever, of my afternoon classes and no notes.
- Lupus Can Make It Hard To Have A Social Life: I had great friends who were very supportive. But spending time with them after school was tough because I was always so tired. "I can't come because I am sick" was my frequent response to my friends' invitations to hang out. Having to say no all the time was awful (or worse, saying yes, then cancelling, see #10).
- Lupus Rashes Can be Worse than Acne:I am still a bit traumatized by having a rash across my face throughout my entire middle and high school career.
- Lupus Can Limit Your Outdoor Activities: Being "allergic" to the sun made it hard for me to do sports or even sit outside for long periods of time. It's a good thing I was a nerd.
- Lupus Can Be Super-Painful: The pain would come and go, but I often had killer headaches, monster stomach cramps, and swollen achy joints. I even had to quit playing the piano because I couldn't bend my pinky finger (sigh).
- Lupus Can Make You Physically Weak: I had to request two sets of books, one to keep at school and one to keep at home because they were too heavy to carry (Ok, that wasn't all bad. One of my male friends would carry my books to class for me and that was kind of cool).
- Lupus Symptoms Can Strike At Any Time: I could be perfectly fine, get dressed to go out with friends, and then be so exhausted by putting on my clothes that I couldn't actually go out (see #5 above).
I asked fellow Lupus sufferers on Twitter to tweet me the ways in which lupus sucks in their own lives. Please feel free to join the #lupussucks conversation on Twitter or add comments to this post. I know that lupus sucks in so, so many ways . . . .
So Far From the Twitterverse:
- Lupus sucks, because it forces you to change plans more often than you make them.
- so much pain and tiredness.
- lots of canker sores for no reason
Take Care and Don't Let that Sucky Lupus Get You Down,


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PARIS — There were plenty of pre-birth jitters and confusion Wednesday under the controversial new glass pyramid at the Louvre Museum.
As repair crews and cleaners made last-minute patrols through the acres of gleaming underground marble topped by the jutting 70-foot glass peak, distinguished American architect Ieoh Ming Pei was seen appealing to a museum guard to let him into a roped-off area of the new building.
"But I am the architect," argued Pei, fumbling with his wallet in search of identification.
Pei was eventually rescued by a blushing museum official. But he remained as nervous as an expectant father until his friend and admirer, French President Francois Mitterrand, formally inaugurated the impressive $300-million new addition to the museum Wednesday afternoon in a simple and elegant ceremony.
After the ribbon-cutting, an enthusiastic crowd of tourists and onlookers were allowed to stream in, lending a spontaneous, populist feel to the grand opening of the structure that has been the focus of a lively French aesthetic and political debate for more than five years.


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Solution: Plastic foil pallet labeling
Hard/Software: CL608e
The customer
The customer is a manufacturer of a wide selection of quality jams, confectionary products, as well as fruit preparations for the dairy and baking products industry.
The company employs about 1,300 staff members at their headquarters in Aachen, and it had a turnover of around 600 million Euros in 2005. With a fruit processing capacity of several hundred tons daily output volume, it is one of Europe's largest fruit processing companies.
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The customer has already been using SATO printers in their fruit processing facilities for several years, such as for instance a CL408e for the marking of product containers with a tracking label containing important product data.
The company maintains a cold store with a storage capacity of up to 18.000 pallets of fruit containers.
After the production of prepared fruits, which are used in dairy products, such as yogurts, every container is labeled with a foil label for process control. This label contains the information on the ingredients based on each new customer order.
So far, the company had been using laser printers to print these foil labels. However, this method often caused problems, as the printers overheated after printing just a few labels. Through the so-called "bleeding" of the labels, where glue comes out over the label edges, the printable foil kept getting stuck in the transport unit of the printer.
As the foil label for labeling the pallets needed to have rather larger size to ensure good readability, SATO recommended the use of their CL608e.
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Salt and Pepper in the Breakaways Reserve
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Salt and Pepper in the Breakaways Reserve
The Breakaways Reserve, north of Coober Pedy in South Australia, is an area of dramatic outback desert scenery. So much so that it has been used for the setting of a number of movies including Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and Priscilla Queen of the Desert. It is a collection of flat-topped mesas in a range of colours on a flat gibber desert plain. Salt and Pepper are two distinctively coloured mesa.
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RENACA (Reuters) - Chile's $2 billion tourism industry has had a bumper summer season thanks in part to the global economic crisis as Argentines flood in, shunning more expensive locations, and more Chileans holiday at home.
While the economy is slowing, hitting industries from mining to retail and construction, tourist arrivals have risen this summer as Argentina visitors skip long-distance air fares and cash in on Chile's weak peso.
"We came by car, so our only cost was petrol," said Argentine vineyard manager Angelica Ramos, sprawled in the sand at the upscale resort of Renaca 80 miles west of the capital Santiago, sipping at a gourd of Argentine herbal tea.
Ramos and her husband drove from neighboring Argentina's San Juan province across the Andes, which is closer to Chile's beaches than Argentina's or Uruguay's. In Renaca and nearby resorts, Argentine number plates pepper the roadside.
"Aside from the airplane ticket to go elsewhere, like Brazil for example, it is also more expensive there," she said. Chile's peso fell 22 percent against the dollar last year, making prices more competitive, although it has recently strengthened again.
Revenue from foreign tourists rose 9 percent in the peak month of January from a year earlier, with arrivals from Argentina up 22 percent. Domestic tourism revenues were up 8 percent.
But as in neighboring Argentina, the number of long-distance visitors fell off sharply as the global crisis took a hold, with arrivals from Germany, Australia and the United States down nearly 20 percent in January.
Argentina's foreign tourism revenue, which totaled $3.3 billion in 2008, fell 8.5 percent in December.
Oscar Santelices, the director of Chile's national tourism service, expects tourist arrivals for the year to rise around 5-6 percent from the 2.65 million seen in 2008. But Argentines and Chileans are replacing many higher-spending tourists from further afield.
And fewer tourists traveling from Europe, the United States and Brazil could mean trouble for the Easter period and the Southern Hemisphere ski season, which kicks off in June and depends heavily on foreign tourists.
Santelices hopes revenues will remain stable this year at 2008 levels of $2 billion, and is also hoping to see investment in tourism projects hold at around $800 million this year.
"On the negative side, we saw a 20 percent drop in long-distance tourist arrivals in January alone," he said. "But we are managing to compensate for that with an increase in Argentine visitors ... We have also gained more Chilean tourists, who are rediscovering Chile and are also spending."
Santelices says high-end tourism is suffering most.
Fernando Barrera, who offers well-heeled clients dinner on a platform suspended 45 meters (150 feet) above the beach on a crane in the nearby resort of Vina del Mar at $80 a head has had to rethink his format and slash prices.
"The crisis is hitting everywhere," Barrera said, standing by the empty platform. "We have had to make adjustments... We are now offering shorter, different services that cost $30 a head," he added. "The public is reticent."
But business has been booming for Cecilia Negrete, manager of Renaca's mid-range Piero's Hotel.
"From November through January we were at full throttle," Negrete said. "It was much better than we had budgeted for with the crisis coming."
"It was like going back to before the Argentine crisis of 2001," she said, referring to Argentina's economic implosion, record debt default and sharp currency devaluation.
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Pursuant to paragraph 13 of Practice Direction: Committal for Contempt of Court – Open Court
In relation to Case Number B00WJ370
On 30 October 2015 in the County Court at Walsall I, His Honour Judge Gregory, sentenced Nicola Gill to a custodial term of 28 days suspended on condition that she abide by an undertaking previously given for contempt of court.
The basis of the sentence was:
- On 22 April 2015 Walsall County Court made an interim injunction against Nicola Gill restraining her from engaging in or permitting various forms of anti-social behaviour centred upon her home at 24 Little London House, West Bromwich Street, Caldmore, Walsall.
- On the return date of that Order, that is 26 May 2015, the Court accepted an undertaking from Nicola Gill in like terms to the interim order. At paragraph 6 of the undertaking Nicola Gill undertook not to permit James Gill to return to Little London House after he had vacated that property on 26 August 2015.
- The consequences of breach were clearly explained to her.
- Between James Gill leaving Little London House on 26 August 2015 and 30 September 2015 Nicola Gill repeatedly breached her undertaking by encouraging and permitting him to return thereto on at least 20 occasions.
- At the hearing on 30 October 2015 Nicola Gill admitted breaching her undertaking on the above basis.


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I am OBSESSED!
I have always loved tartan (I think its something to do with growing up close to the Scottish border, or and being and 8th Scottish) its so wintery and cosy. I also love the fact that tartan comes in a range of fabrics now, not just the heavy, dense, wool of old but in warm but movable flannel and many other light weight fabrics.
At last count I have 7 tartan skirts, although one is a pencil skirt and two are box pleats that are currently sitting in my for ebay stash, but that still leaves 4. One of these skirts is true vintage and I found it in a charity shop (yes!) and I will show you that one later in the winter. But the other three are vintage reproduction from Vivien of Holloway and cost £45 (although I must warn you they are sold out in many of the larger sizes i.e. 16+).
I am showcasing two today as I bought the third one with m christmas money and am still waiting for it to arrive so I can take pictures, but it is very similar to these two only it is blue and green (swoon!).
Here is the first one, it is mostly blue with a red and white tartan stripe. Blue and red are my favourite colours so this skirt was an instant winner for me.
The second one is a red tartan which is a more traditional and stereotypical colouring. I actually don't have any red skirts so that was the driving force in my decision to get this skirt.


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Trinity Parents' Association donate £10k to charity at end-of-year Proms.
A record 1,500 members of the Trinity School community celebrated the end of another school year at the Trinity Proms during which a large cheque was presented to the Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Foundation alongside donations to the Trinity Malawi Project and School bursary fund.
On Saturday 9th July governors, parents, staff, pupils, friends and neighbours gathered on the School field and picnicked whilst listening to live music provided by talented current and former students including a cappella group All The King's Men, Trinity's Big Band and Trinity Boys Choir.
In a moving presentation, the fabulous sum of £10,000 raised in 2015-16 by the Trinity Parents' Association (TPA) was donated to Fiona and Tim Spargo-Mabbs to support the DSM Foundation which they set up after the tragic death of their son Daniel from taking an ecstasy tablet at an illegal rave party.
Fiona Spargo-Mabbs said: "We are very grateful to Trinity's Parent Association for their generous support. We will use these funds to pay for the play we commissioned about Dan's life to be adapted and prepared to tour around schools with educational workshops, and look forward to bringing it to Trinity next year."
The event was also an opportunity to thank retiring Headmaster Mark Bishop for his ten years of inspiring leadership of the school. Dulwich College Deputy Head, Alasdair Kennedy takes over the role in September.
Mark Bishop thanked the School community for their support saying: "It has been a privilege to lead Trinity. I would like to thank parents for their support and partnership, and in particular to the TPA for the incredible work they do. I wish my successor Alasdair Kennedy all the very best in the role."
One Trinity student summed up the feelings of many in the following words: "The Proms were very special this year as we said goodbye to our Headmaster. There was such an amazing atmosphere!"
The Trinity Proms fireworks at the end of the evening brought to a close an amazing year of celebrations to mark 50 years since Trinity's move to Shirley Park.
For further information on Trinity School, visit their webpage.


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New Rules for Home Inspectors in Alberta Will Go Along Way to Protect Home Buyers
New rules passed by the provincial government will require resale home inspectors to be fully licensed by the province. The Home Inspection Business Regulation also requires licensed inspectors to carry $1 million in errors and omissions insurance and post a $10,000 security to cover consumer losses if they fail to do their jobs. The new rules also ban contracts that limit liability, establishes minimum qualifications and allows for prosecution under the Fair Trading Act, with a maximum fine of $100,000.
Previously, the home inspection industry was totally unregulated in Alberta, leaving consumers vulnerable to minimally trained, under insured home inspectors and little to no protection should an error be made in the home inspection. Although many of Alberta's inspectors already adhere to the regulations set out by the province, the new rules will standardize training, licensing and the services offered by these professionals.
Read a detailed article that appeared in Friday's Edmonton Journal here.
Although the inspection is not usually a required step for the mortgage financing process, we always recommend a full home inspection prior to finalizing the purchase contract. I can't tell you how many clients have had to back away from the purchase of a home they thought was perfect due to unseen water or fire damage or electrical and plumbing issues.
Had these home buyers not chosen to have a home inspection, they may have been saddled with property headaches that were beyond their financial capability.
However, inspections can be expensive and that's a big reason why many home buyers shy away from them. These new rules and the changes to the inspection industry that will follow should at least ensure that the outlay of cash for this very important step in the home buying process is worth it.
Need a referral for a trusted home inspector? Contact one of our licensed mortgage brokerd for more information.
As the company's first employee, Jennifer has been a Licensed Mortgage Associate since 2004, but her current role is not focused on mortgages. She is the resident blog writer and…


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The data science interdisciplinary minor is open to students from all academic divisions who wish to develop skills in using and analyzing data. Such data skills can complement and enhance liberal arts study across a broad range of subject matters and interests.
Whatever your major, a data science minor provides transferable skills that prepare you for further work in data science after Davidson, whether in a masters or Ph.D. program or future employment. Those skills include the following.
The data science minor consists of six courses: one course in statistics, one course in programming, and four of the approved electives.
Additional information about the data science interdisciplinary minor requirements is available in the College Catalog.
If you wish to declare a data science minor you must first complete the application. You should do this in discussion with one of our coordinators, Prof. Laurie Heyer (Mathematics and Computer Science) or Prof. Pat Sellers (Political Science) as early as possible, and no later than the fall semester of senior year.


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Swimming Pool Lighting Ideas
Pool lights have a multitude of uses. For one thing, they increase safety around swimming pools at night, which is important when you host get-togethers around your pool. And adding lights makes it possible to swim well into the evening, which is great for people who work during the day and want to enjoy a swim when they get home. These pool lighting also adds decorative appeal to the surrounding area, and can create a number of special effects. There are some pool lighting ideas that great for your pool. These pool lighting ideas are practical, functional and playful. With these ideas, you can extending your swimming hours and making your pool into a decorative oasis after dark.
Awesome Pool Lighting Ideas
Some Great Swimming Pool Lighting Ideas
The number one pool lighting ideas for your pool is using halogen light. Incandescent or halogen light bulbs may be placed in the pool, under the water, in an in-ground pool. This is a convenient way for swimmers to see under the water when in the pool at night. The only drawback to this option is a glare off of the water. The lights may be turned off if the pool is not in use. If the lights remain on, the light may reflect into the house if others are not swimming.
Floating Pool Lighting Ideas
Solar pool lights are another pool lighting ideas, and they don't require electricity or batteries, just sunshine. The floating lights have solar collectors that gather solar energy during the day and automatically come on at night – no batteries or electricity required. Each has a rotating color wheel alternating blue, pink, and yellow, to light up your pool or spa with soft colors at night. Another type of solar pool light is the floating globe light with color changing LEDs in green, blue, and red. The base has an on-off switch. The bottom of each globe is weighted to keep the light upright, and there is also a small loop at the top in case you want to anchor or hang them up. Floating lights can add to the ambiance and feel of your outdoor space.
String Pool Lighting Ideas
Hangers and fiber optics are two types of pool lighting that utilize the top ledge of above ground pools for installation. By removing a section of the top railing, a suspended hanger for lights is then installed. Known as a J-hook, this hanger is hidden once the top ledge is put back into place. The lights hang below the surface of the water while the electric cable and transformer reside outside of the pool. Fiber optics are installed similarly to a J-hook as the cables themselves are placed underneath the top railing of above ground pools. Well, these were some pool lighting ideas for you. For consideration, installing floating or above-ground pool lighting is a fairly easy undertaking. Read and follow all of the instructions and safety warnings included with your pool lighting products. However, if you are interested in installing in-ground pool lights in an existing swimming pool, it is best to leave that task to professionals. Check with your local pool store to find out if they offer this service. If they do not, ask for recommendations for companies who handle wiring in-ground pools with supplemental lighting.


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An audit of Liberty National Life Insurance Company's life insurance applications by the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (FLOIR) has revealed the insurer may have discriminated against those applicants of Haitian or Colombian descent by denying their applications for life insurance. For example, over 50% of Haitian applicants were denied life insurance compared to only 18% of other foreign born applicants.
Over the course of the 5 month investigation and over 7,000 applications reviewed by FOIR, nearly 1,149 violations were noted.
FOIR has given Liberty National 21 days to provide evidence that it did not violate any anti discriminatory state laws.


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Monday, December 29, 2014
Book Review: Under a Painted Sky
The Stats: Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee, released March 17, 2015 from Putnam Juvenile
The Synopsis: Samantha and her father are the only Chinese family in St. Joseph, Missouri. She's long wanted to return to New York City, where she grew up, but her father has his sights set on California--it is the era of the gold rush, after all. After a series of terrible events, Sam finds herself on the run with an escaped slave, Annamae. Together, these two bright, strong, complicated girls make their way along the Oregon Trail, aiming to conceal their identities as they cross the dangerous countryside and head for the freedom and resolution they both crave.
The Review: Under a Painted Sky is a darn good story. It's filled with well-drawn, memorable characters who encounter their fair share of anxiety-inducing drama, but Lee is so deft a storyteller that it all works quite well and doesn't feel contrived. If this title and 2013's One Came Home are the harbingers of a great new surge of westerns with sassy lady leads, readers are in for a serious treat. My library has a specific section for junior high fiction, and this title will be a perfect fit for that collection.
Why I can't wait: It's diverse without the diversity ever feeling forced or tokenistic. It's feminist without ever smacking readers upside the head with it. It's a western set on the Oregon Trail, and it's a story about a group of teens juggling dreams, secrets, and survival. Is there anything not to love in that premise? I'm hand-selling this one 'til the cows come home.
Digital review copy provided by the publisher.
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This totally yummy necklace is made from upcycling plastic carrier bags! I am so thrilled with it. The only problem I see is that coloured bags aren't that easy to come by and surly it contradicts the whole idea of recycling if you buy a product purly to get the bag! All the same I shall appriciate this one and make the most out of the bags I have! (no one would really want an upcycled tesco carrier bag draped round their neck!!! lol I think I must do some intensive research in order to find a way to make some carrier bags more attractive!)
I have also done yet another bottle braclet! this one in grey and black is great, something which will go with anything!!!


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Double no-till and permanent raised beds in maize–wheat rotation of north-western Indo-Gangetic plains of India: Effects on crop yields, water productivity, profitability and soil physical properties
TypeJournal Article
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Jat ML, Gathala MK, Saharawat YS, Tetarwal JP, Gupta R, Yadvinder-Singh. 2013. Double no-till and permanent raised beds in maize–wheat rotation of north-western Indo-Gangetic plains of India: Effects on crop yields, water productivity, profitability and soil physical properties. Field Crops Research 149: 291-299.
Permanent link to cite or share this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/52094
Excessive pumping of groundwater over the years to meet the high water requirement of flooded rice crop and intensive tillage have threatened the sustainability of irrigated rice–wheat system (RWS) in the Indo-Gangetic plains (IGP) of South Asia. Replacement of rice with less water requiring crops such as maize in the RWS and identification of effective strategies for alternate tillage systems will promote sustainable cropping systems in the IGP. To this effect a 3-year field experiment was established with annual maize–wheat rotation in the north-western IGP of India to evaluate the effect of 3 tillage systems (conventional flat, CTF; no-till flat, NTF; permanent raised beds, NTB) on crop production, water use efficiency, economic profitability and soil physical quality. Grain yield of maize was highest (8.2–73.4%) under NTB followed by NTF and CTF across the years. Wheat yield was significantly higher under NTF during the 1st year while tillage practices had non-significant effect in the succeeding two years. On average, maize planted on NTB recorded about 11% lower water use and 16% higher water use efficiency compared to CT. The NTB and NTF required 24.7% and 10.8% less irrigation water than CTF system, respectively with 11.5% higher system productivity and demonstrated higher water productivity. The NTB and NTF systems provided similar net returns (averaged over 3 years) in maize–wheat system (MWS), which were US$ 281 ha−1 higher compared to CTF system. The CTF system had higher bulk density and penetration resistance in 10–15 and 15–20 cm soil layers due to compaction caused by the repeated tillage. The steady-state infiltration rate and soil aggregation (>0.25 mm) were higher under NTB and NTF and lower in the CTF system. Similarly, mean weight diameter (MWD) of aggregates was higher under NTF and NTB compared to CTF. The study reveals that NTB and NTF systems could be more viable options for MWS in order to save input costs and enhance profitability; however, the long-term effects of these alternative technologies need to be studied under varying agro-ecologies.
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SubjectsCLIMATE-SMART TECHNOLOGIES AND PRACTICES;
RegionsASIA; SOUTH ASIA
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