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A new TransUnion survey reveals that nearly three-fourths (72 percent) of credit union executives who attended a recent industry meeting identified loan growth as the most significant issue facing the credit union industry in 2014, with nearly half of respondents (49 percent) citing loan growth as the singular most critical issue. The survey was completed by 64 executives at the CUNA Governmental Affairs Conference in Washington, D.C. in late February.
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This project added a much needed Student Centre to Kings College. The building is constructed adjacent to the library constructed in the 1980's.The space includes a 500 seat Auditorium with provisions for a 250 seat mezzanine addition at a future date. The project also includes a Gathering area, study/cafeteria area, work out room and general offices.
St. Michael Catholic High School in Niagara Falls was constructed to replace the existing facility, and opened to students in March 2004. The building features 2 gymnasiums, a cafeteria/auditorium, library and a large open atrium at the front entrance to incorporate a "Town Hall" fee to the student gathering space. The structure was designed to accommodate a future 3rd storey addition.
This project involves the addition to the UWO Spencer Engineering
Building. This building is targeted to be certified LEED silver with a projected
point value of 45 at this time. This project is the first building on
the UWO campus to be designed and certified LEED.
The addition to Huron University College was completed in the summer of 2003 and doubled the floor area of the existing library.
This facility was approximately $22 million dollars total budget. The structure houses laboratories and testing facility experimenting on plants, animals and insects. There are provisions in the basement of this facility for soils testing either in a frozen and non-frozen state.
This two-storey secondary school building was designed to accommodate 1200 students and is located on Sunningdale Drive in north-east London. The 170,000 ft2 facility contains 29 classrooms, 7 seminar rooms, 5 computer labs, 6 science labs, a music room, a theatre arts room, 3 gymnasiums, a full service cafeteria and cafetorium, a library and a chapel.
This 3-storey building located east of the H-building and connected by a 2- storey link structure. The building was created to house Communication Arts programs including Radio and Television Broadcasting, and features a large open broadcast facility on the main floor.
This two storey structure is a total of 27,000 ft2 and was constructed in the town of St. Mary's as an addition to the existing St. Mary's Memorial Hospital. The design includes a fitness centre, physician suites and a medical centre. All of these functions are organizedmaround a two storey rotunda gathering hall. The design also incorporates an elevated connecting link to the main hospital.
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The Material Sciences building construction value was approximately $17.5 million dollars. The facility provided private laboratory space to the Scientist to run experimentation.
The project involved the construction of a 90 seat classroom and a 50 seat classroom addition at the south end of Brescia College. The addition was approximately 5,900 square feet in area.
This two-storey secondary school building was designed to accommodate 400 students and is located in the North-West area of Niagara Falls.


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Lo Bosworth's 5-Minute Recipe That'll Impress All Your Friends This Fourth Of July
If you're heading to a friend's house for a party or BBQ this holiday weekend and don't know what to bring, don't fret! 'Laguna Beach' alum Lo Bosowrth has an amazing dish that's bound to impress — and it only takes five minutes to make!
Holiday weekends are all about having fun with friends and entertaining — and Lo Bosworth, 29, definitely knows a thing or two about throwing a great party! We chatted with the hostess, who was quick to offer up tips for making your party a total success. Not entertaining? Well, you can't show up empty-handed — and you won't have to stress about what to make: simply follow Lo's fool-proof recipe.
Looking for a quick and easy recipe to whip up that's bound to impress your guests? Lo shared a very impresive-sounding dish — and we can't wait to try it out. The best part? It takes only five minutes to prepare! "Grilling watermelon is my go-to! People love it. To make it, you take a round slice of watermelon and put it on the grill — imagine that you're making a watermelon pizza. Next, you put a little feta cheese on it. Let it get hot in the grill for a minute or two until the cheese heats up. Top it with pickled red onion and drizzle some balsamic vinigarette on it. Add arugula and you have an amazing appetizer that took five minutes!
While we love lavish tips, the truth is sometimes entertainment occurs in small spaces — but Lo's number one tip is perfect for virtually any party! "For any party or get together, I love to have a signature cocktail and I like to leave it by the front door with a pitcher and glasses so they can help themselves to a drink. As the host, it's a real nice way to say hello without having to be at the front door to officially greet guests, so you can be in the kitchen or backyard," she said. "It makes people feel at home when they enter your home and they'll already have a cocktail in hand."
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So, how can you ensure you'll find time to mingle with guests? "I have really gotten into smart technology in the kitchen lately," Lo said — and she knows a whole lot about new technology in the kitchen, as she's the brand advocate of the luxury built-in kitchen appliance brand, Signature Kitchen Suite. "With the Signature Kitchen Suite all products are wifi enabled, so you can control them with an app on your phone. If you're in your backyard, you can literally turn the oven on with just a button so you don't have to get up and leave the party or your guests. I love being able to control the kitchen from any room in my house and any host who throws parties knows that it is such a lifesaver. The host often finds themselves in the kitchen the whole time cooking while everyone is enjoying the party without them! Whether it is the stove, cooktop or fridge, it allows you to be more hands-on at the party and hands-off in the kitchen."
She also offered up tips for how you can infuse your personal style in your kitchen. "When it comes to your kitchen, the more personal style you can infuse into your space the better! Now I live in a place and I have a kitchen I love thanks to SKS so I love cooking up new dishes, but if you can't afford new appliances or you're renting and you have a small space, you can still make the kitchen your own. Fill it with pieces that inspire you. For example, taking a beautiful vase and filling it with fresh flowers or filling a bowl with fresh fruit or veggies can totally transform your space," she said. "I recommend investing in one or two knives that are going to last you a lifetime — it makes it so much easier to get the job done and combines form and functionality — that's what it's all about. Pick things that are functional but also asthetically pleasing and you'll be good to go."
While Lo has always felt comfortable in the kitchen, she understands that it can be intimidating if you don't know where to start. "Roasting veggies and cooking things in the oven compared to the stovetop is where you can start. The stovetop can be trickier if you're new to cooking, because you might not know when the pan gets hot or about carryover heat. You might not know how to get the sear you're looking for. If you're starting off, stick to over recipes like a casserole that you can control in the oven," she said. "I actually host mini-cooking classes at my apartment for my friends!"


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The Order originally held an hospital in Jerusalem. After the conquest of the Holy City by the Crusaders in 1098, knights of holy orders who suffered from leperosy and other terminal diseases where sent to St Lazarus. Because in most patients the disease progressed very slowly and because the hospitals required protection against the infidels as well as brigands and marauders, it was inevitable that the warrior patients of Saint Lazarus should convert the Order into a knightly militia as well as a brotherhood.
Centuries of presence in the Middle East caring for pilgrims had taught the order's physicians quite a few tricks. Some had even studied alchemy and sorcery under muslims scholars. They were capable of delaying the effects of most diseases almost indefinitely through drugs and rituals. Leprous knights who hardly felt pain and knew no fear soon became a common sight in the Kingdom of Jerusalem and wherever they could fight the infidels.
Trouble is you don't walk around with so many diseases without the viruses trying to do something. After several bizarre mutations, the plague known as vampiris broke out. It destroys the bodily fluids and leaves you craving for more blood. Most of the knights could handle it with their magic, but some turned into ravenous creatures and infected other people. The disease spread to Europe, probably through knights of the Teutonic Order who moved to Transylvania (where local legends about Nosferatu took over). The order did what it could to stop the phenomenon and established hospitals and commanderies in Europe and England to monitor the cases and fight the vampires.
Today the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem still exists and is controlled by 'cured' vampires. They do humanitarian and charity work, but their main purpose is to prevent the plague from spreading again. For now, almost every rogue vampire has been found and either cured or destroyed, so they spend more and more time to hunt other supernatural creatures and phenomena. They have broadened their oath from defending the christian faith and people to protect humanity from things they don't understand. They have known Inquisition and seen what a scared population can do to 'sorcerers' and 'demons' and won't allow this to happen again. When they find people like this, they decide whether there is risk to mundane people and act to remove the threat. Of course this is a judgment call and they have been wrong more than once, but the end justifies the means.
Vampiris is a kind of virus that lives in your blood cells and feeds off them. It penetrates the central nervous system and compels you to find more blood when yours becomes insufficient. It strengthens your muscle and bone tissue, making you stronger and faster, but it also destroys melanin, turning you into an albino. You become very sensible to light, prefering to live at night. Contagion can happen when a healthy individual drinks a vampire's blood and, rarely, when a vampire bites someone. The virus is very resilient, and can maintain your bodily functions even after clinical death. Dead vampires become mindless, bloodthirsty beasts. The more blood they get, the more the virus strenghtens the body in an attempt to counterbalance the natural decay. These horrific creatures can do enormous damage if they are not stopped at the earliest stages of the transformation.
The knights control their lust for blood with a kind of arcane serum that keeps the virus in a dormant state and feeds it just what it needs to survive. They have superior physical capacities and can endure sunlight for a few hours. When injured, the virus can regenerate their cells to some extent, even if they don't consume fresh blood. Their aging process is slowed as well and they can live about two hundred years. They mate and have vampire children and, with the centuries, they have bred a race of superior beings living in the shadow of society.
This doesn't mean that they have totally given up the killing of human beings for their blood. New blood gives strength to the virus and to the vampire as well, especially blood from a spiritually powerful person (i.e. with high chi). Occasionally, a worthy knight is allowed to drink the blood of such a person -usually an evil sorcerer or kung fu master- to reinforce his vampiris with the convict's chi. It gives him a longer lifespan, as much as some mystic power. The vampires have discovered that just as when you burn a site of power, you harvest its chi, when you ritually drink a person's blood, you can gain a part of his power -technically experience points equal to the person's Chi stat.
The Hong Kong chapter has its official headquarters at the Excelsior Hotel near Gloucester Bay, Wanchai. The Grand Prior of Hong Kong owns the hotel through a dummy company. Regular meetings of the Order take place in the beautiful lounges of the hotel, but no one speaks about vampires in there. The real monastery is located in a cave in Hong Kong Below, the underground city. To reach it, one has to follow a very specific path : pass the Pillars of Fiery Fog (two big steam conducts), cross the Bridge of Thunder (a makeshift ropebridge above an underground railroad) and answer to the Sphinx of Numbers who guards the Living Portal (a digital lock on an automatic door). The place looks like a mediaeval fortified abbey, except for its modern furniture and electric lights. There is a library with a lot of computer equipment, a vast training room, and modest living quarters for twenty people. A few knights are there at every time of the day and night, but the others live normal lives in Hong Kong. They try to keep current about matters of supernatural and have infiltrated the police, the media and some reality cops organizations.
"An arrangement can be reached, gentlemen, only if you let us deal with that hellish creature."
Attributes: Bod 7, Chi 2 (Magic 7), Mnd 7, Ref 5 (Spd 7)
Skills: Sorcery 14, Martial Arts 12, Creature Powers 9, Info/History 12, Info/Supernatural 10
Creature Schticks: Inhuman Leap/Leap 4x times Movement stat.
Beast Within/ See Below
Blindspot/People do not see you, if they are looking for you they must roll their Perception with your Creature powers as Difficulty. If you attack, they notice you.
Sorcery Schticks: Summoning, Create Magical Artifact
Weapons: Rapier hidden in a walking stick (10)
Unlike most of the knights, this 160 years old englishman was not born a vampire. He used to be an exorcist priest in the 1860's, and was sent to central Europe to investigate vampire apparitions. Unknown to him, this mission was a recruitment test for the Holy Inquisition -that had sent him there without warning about what he really risked. He didn't really believe in vampires and was caught off guard when he encountered them. His life was barely saved by a mighty knight of St Lazarus. When he realized that Corbett had been infected, the knight offered him to join the order. This hasn't improved the tense relations between the Inquisition and the order, and Corbett still holds a grudge against them. He has been Grand Prior for more than thirty years now, and knows the area and its legends fairly well. He has chosen Hong Kong to stay as far from Rome as possible. The years have made him wise, but not less willing to destroy the creatures that prey upon humanity. He knows that Hong Kong is packed with supernatural activity, and he will make sure that the people involved don't harm innocents in any way. He looks about sixty years old, a very thin man who cuts the rare hair he has left very short and wears chestnut contacts. He dresses simply, just like a priest. He's very polite in a cold sort of way.
"I shall show you what a true swordsman can do"
Attributes: Bod 8, Chi 0 (Magic 5), Mnd 6, Ref 7 (Spd 9)
Skills: Martial Arts 15, Creature Powers 8, Info/History 8, Info/Supernatural 9, Detective 10
Creature Schticks: Inhuman Leap/Leap 4x times Movement stat.
Beast Within/ See Below
Blindspot/People do not see you, if they are looking for you they must roll their Perception with your Creature powers as Difficulty. If you attack, they notice you.
Weapon Schticks: Quick Draw x2/+2 to Initiative, first action of every Sequence must be a melee weapons attack.
Invisible Sheath/See below
Razor Edge Senses/+2 to Perception Checks, if successful, you may add the Outcome of the roll to your Martial Arts attack.
Shield of Steel/See below
Weapons: Big medieval sword (12)
This well dressed, exquisite British gentleman was born a vampire in 1900 in Beijing. His parents were knights sent to watch European occultists searching for ancient chinese secrets. He is the best hunter of the Hong Kong chapter, in charge of the 'cleansings'. He's a true aristocrat who feels superior to most people, especially normal humans. Fair of skin, tall with blue contacts and dark red dyed hair, he wears elegant grey suits and expensive trenchcoats.
Lady Sarah Gunwick, Knight Physician
"Stay faced against the wall while I analyze your blood sample"
Attributes: Bod 7, Chi 0 (Magic 3), Mnd 7, Ref 6 (Spd 8)
Skills: Sorcery 10, Martial Arts 12, Creature Powers 7, Info/Biology 14, Info/Supernatural 8, Medicine 12
Creature Schticks: Inhuman Leap/Leap 4x times Movement stat.
Beast Within/ See Below
Blindspot/People do not see you, if they are looking for you they must roll their Perception with your Creature powers as Difficulty. If you attack, they notice you.
Sorcery Schticks: Heal
Weapons: Dagger (9)
This young German woman studied immunology at the Order's headquarters in Boigny, France. She is one of the scientists knights, who work continuously to improve the cure for Vampiris. She is only twenty four, with long blond hair and green contacts. As a young vampire, she tries to keep an open mind when confronted to supernatural phenomena -and she frequently opposes to the violent elements in the order.
"Repent, sinner !"
Attributes: Bod 8, Chi 0 (Magic 4), Mnd 5, Ref 6 (Spd 8)
Skills: Martial Arts 13, Creature Powers 6, Info/History 7, Leadership 8
Creature Schticks: Inhuman Leap/Leap 4x times Movement stat.
Beast Within/ See Below
Blindspot/People do not see you, if they are looking for you they must roll their Perception with your Creature powers as Difficulty. If you attack, they notice you.
Fu Schticks: Path of the Passive Wings: Crane Stance (1/1)/If opponent has a Perception rating lower than your agility, Dodge increases by 5
Path of the Sharpened Scales: Bite of the Dragon (2/3)/Martial Arts attack with +2 Damage
Weapons: Long Toledo sword (12), Punch (9)
A small chinese man with a mustache and a nervous demeanor, Shoi-ming is typical of the asian members of the order. They embrace the principles of the Knights with an almost fanatical devotion.
Knights of St Lazarus, ordinary vampires
"Taste my steel, demon!"
Attributes: Bod 7, Chi 0 (Magic 4), Mnd 5, Ref 5 (Spd 7)
Skills: Martial Arts 9, Guns 8, Creature Powers 5, Info/Histoire 7
Creature Schticks: Inhuman Leap/Leap 4x times Movement stat.
Beast Within/ See Below
Blindspot/People do not see you, if they are looking for you they must roll their Perception with your Creature powers as Difficulty. If you attack, they notice you.
Weapons: Swords (11), H&K MP5K (10/3/30)
Upper class types, mostly european. They usually wear longcoats to conceal their blades.
Works as Regeneration x2, but the vampire can never take Death Resistance or Inevitable Comeback. When he dies, he becomes a dreadful beast with only one goal : blood. His stats are modified as follows : Bod +2, Chi -3, Mnd -3, Ref +2, he loses all skills except for Creature Powers, Intrusion and Martial Arts (which are recalculated). Should this happen to a vampire PC, he would become a GMC.
You can move your sword so quickly and smoothly that it looks like an impenetrable wall of steel that protects you even if the attacks manage to pass through it. Everytime you actively dodge, you gain +2 Toughness per schtick you bought in Shield of Steel (maximum 4).
For every level of Invisible Sheath you buy, you can hide a weapon without anyone noticing. You must wear enough clothes to reasonably -even if not realistically- conceal it. See the series 'Highlander' for examples.
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Today is National Coffee Day – and you can score a free cup of joe at Dunkin Donuts, McDonald's, and Krispie Kreme. You can also save $25 off $100 purchases at Starbucks.com with coupon code RMN25SEPT through Tuesday.
But really, isn't every day National Coffee Day? Especially Mondays! Monday mornings are rough, yo. After my phone alarm and my whining dog work together to jolt me awake, I head into the kids' rooms to be abused by four little crabapples who are decidedly NOT morning people. I've learned that it's much harder to wake kids up after you let them get loft beds. If they aren't feeling that morning wakeup call, they just roll away, out of your reach! Then I head downstairs and stand bleary-eyed in my kitchen, counting out Capri Suns and baggies of fruit into a row of open lunchboxes. About the time I've got sandwiches in baggies, my coffee is done. BLISS. On Monday morning, that first sip of coffee is absolute heaven. It's like a little cup of magic, filling me up with warmth and light just like the sunlight peeking up over the rooftops. I don't know if it's a physical addiction or a psychological one, but I sure do love me some coffee.
I didn't start drinking coffee until I was 33 years old. It wasn't until after I gave birth to my SECOND set of twins that I realized I needed something to keep me going, and Diet Coke wasn't cutting it. And then I discovered Starbucks skinny vanilla lattes, and that was it for me. I don't have four babies in the house anymore, but I still love my coffee!
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This is the illogical world we live in: Parents say their children's schools are underfunded and worry about program cuts. But they don't want to pay higher taxes to avoid deeper cutting.
They think someone else — the wealthiest Californians — should fork out more to stabilize their kids' schools.
Actually, guess that's logical after all. As the late Louisiana Sen. Russell Long used to say: "Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that feller behind the tree."
"People are usually very supportive of higher taxes as long as they're on someone else — drinkers, smokers, gamblers, oil companies, rich people," says Dan Schnur, director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at USC and a former Republican strategist.
"I'm surprised there hasn't been a ballot measure to tax lefthanders."
"People don't want to pay more taxes themselves," notes Darry Sragow, a Democratic strategist, "but sometimes they like the idea of government getting more revenue from somebody else. Like, somebody puts a bunch of money on a skyhook and drops it down to Earth."


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Sky Fall
The friendly skies were never the same after the 1970s. Radicals began hijacking planes as political retribution and even more common, unhinged assailants held passengers and crew hostage for ransom money – including some daring escapes by parachute at lethal speeds and altitude. A terrific excerpt from Brendan I. Koerner's book about hijackers tells the story on Longreads.
In Other News
Photo Finish
A bartender became a viral hit when he shoveled the Boston Marathon finish line during this week's storm – Runner's World
Why Weight
Pumping iron is key to making sure you don't regain lost weight – The New York Times
Gold Rush
A wily treasure hunter was captured in Florida after two years on the lam – The San Francisco Chronicle
How the plunging Canadian dollar could take the NHL with it – The Globe and Mail
Cut Away
A man explains his insatiable craving for amputation – New York Magazine
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MULTAN, July 13 (APP)::Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Friday urged upon the masses to secure and safeguard future of the country with power of their votes.
Addressing a public meeting held at Fort Qasim Bagh, he claimed the MMA was a name of an ideology and it was working for maintaining real identity of the country.
Maulana Fazlur Rehman alleged that country's internal resources were never utilized and the country always remained dependent on others resources. He claimed that the MMA would focus on internal resources and resolve all problems faced by the people.
"India is making dams with an intention to harm Pakistan and our leadership could not present its viewpoint in an effective manner at international level, he claimed.
About relations with neighbourly countries, Maulana Fazlur Rehman stated that Pakistan should develop good relations with neighbouring countries. Pakistan was located at an important geographical position and it should reap maximum benefits from its position, he added.
Maulana Fazlur Rehman strongly condemned attacks on Haroon Bilour, Siraj Raisani and Akram Khan Durrani and stated that miscreants would not succeed in keeping political workers away from democratic process.


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Poetry gets results
When a new employee joins Yahoo!, they get to choose whether they want a PC laptop or a MacBook Pro. Unfortunately, if you choose a PC and then later decide you want to switch to a MacBook, there's a huge waiting list (unsurprisingly, there's no wait to switch from a MacBook to a PC).
Way back in November, my coworker Brett filed an IT request to switch to a MacBook. About a week later I filed one as well. We each got responses letting us know that we'd been added to the queue, that we could expect our MacBooks in Q1 '08, and that we'd get a status update in January.
When January rolled around and no status update appeared, I added a comment to my ticket requesting an update, but never got a response. In early February, I again requested an update. Still no response. Yesterday I decided to pull out the big guns. I resolved to post a poem to the ticket once a week until IT responded.
At 11am on Thursday, I posted the following limerick:
I filed an IT request
A response was promised with zest
When layoffs occurred
And Microsoft merged,
My ticket was lost in the mess.
By 11:13 the ticket had been assigned, and this morning I had a shiny new MacBook Pro.
Needless to say, Brett wasn't too happy, since he'd filed his ticket before mine and should have been earlier in the queue. Luckily I had already written a haiku (having anticipated that the limerick would be ignored), so I suggested he post it to his ticket:
A MacBook request
filed in winter, long ago;
spring is drawing near
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Whit Walker – A Doll's House (2012)
Psych gutter blues tunes reminiscent of nuggets tracks, tom waits and crooked fingers that blurs the line between overindulgent drivel and inspired stream of conscience rambling.
Cahalen Morrison & Eli West – Our Lady of the Tall Trees (2012)
When Morrison and West released their debut The Holy Coming of The Storm in early 2011 it received almost universal acclaim and ended up in many a top ten album list at the end of the year. Their unique blend of studied antiquity with their songwriting skills and superb picking and singing struck a chord with listeners and they topped it off with a triumphant Celtic Connections appearance.18 months later and we have the follow up, Our Lady of the Tall Trees, an album that continues in much the same vein as its predecessor which is tantamount to saying that it's essential listening. Morrison continues to write the bulk of the material here with one traditional song offered up. However this time around there are three contemporary cover versions included, the very familiar Townes Van Zandt's Loretta, Norman Blake's Church St. Blues and closing the album Garry Harrison's Red prairie Dawn, a nice touch as it serves to pay tribute to Harrison, an Illinois fiddler and lover of old time music who sadly died earlier this year.
Midnight Oil – Essential Oils [2CD] (2012)
ESSENTIAL OILS is available now with 36 tracks on 2CD's it is the most extensive Midnight Oil collection ever and spans their legendary career.
As Jim Moginie puts it; "For this collection, we put our most definitive songs in chronological timeline, so listening feels like a turbo boosted journey at light speed through 25 years of being in Midnight Oil".


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Coming up SOON!!!
Dates: April 27 to May 4, 2019
TOCSAW "Kick-Off" Kickball Game
When: Monday, April 30th
Where: Engineering Softball Field
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Come play some kickball with TOCSL on the Appreciation Week kick-off!
Cap-Decorating for Graduating Seniors
When: Tuesday, May 1st
Where: TerpZone Activities Room, STAMP
Time: 5 - 7 pm
Invite your graduating senior friends, and bring your graduation caps to this TOCSAW event! We will have decorating supplies at the TerpZone Activities Room from 5pm to 7pm on May 1, Tuesday!!
This is part of the Transfer & Off-Campus Student Appreciation Week (TOCSAW) event. This specific event is cosponsored by TOCSL, UndocuTerp, Graduate Student Life (GSL), and Multicultural Involvement & Community Advocacy (MICA).
Good Morning Commuters
When: Wednesday, May 2nd
Where: Stamp Atrium
Time: 7:30 am - 10: 30 am
Enjoy an extra special session of Good Morning Commuters with our usual spread of bagels, muffins, juice, and coffee with some additional SURPRISE items. There will also be NEW giveaways.
TOCSL Zen Den
When: Thursday, May 3rd
Where: Juan Jimenez Room, STAMP
Time: 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
We will have crafts (build your own tea bags), yoga, and meditation sessions for this TOCSL Zen Den event.
Art Attack
When: Friday, May 4th
Where: X-finity Center
Time: 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
SEE presents Art Attack XXXV featuring Vince Staples & Lil Yachty!! TOCSL will be giving away FREE tickets during each appreciation week event. The more events you attend, the better your chances are to win a free ticket to Art Attack.
TOCSL Passport to DC
When: Saturday, May 5th
Where: meets in STAMP and go to DC
Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
For this event, we'll take a group of students to DC for the embassy open house events. Please RSVP here!
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Kaizen – An Umbrella Concept
In Japanese, Kaizen means continual improvement that involves everyone - both managers and workers and entails relatively little expense. The Kaizen philosophy assumes that our way of Life - be it working life, our social life or our homelife – should focus on constant improvement efforts. Kaizen has contributed greatly to Japan's competitive success.
Innovation is dramatic, a real attention getter. Kaizen on the other hand, is often undramatic and subtle. But innovation is one-shot, huge amount is spent and it's results are often problematic, while Kaizen process, based on commonsense and low cost approaches, assures incremental progress that pays off in the long run.
Masaaki Imai is known as the developer of Kaizen. It is AN UMBRELLA CONCEPT. There are different tools/techniques like Five-S, JIT, TPM, MISER. Poka Yoke, Takt time, 5 Why, 5 W 1H and many more under this Kaizen umbrella.
Kaizen starts with recognizing the problem. Once aware, we are already halfway to success. For reaching to the root cause or real problem 5 Why technique is useful.
- Suppose, you find a worker throwing sawdust on the floor in the corridor between machines.
1st question : "Why are you throwing sawdust on the floor."
Answer : "Because the floor is slippery and unsafe."
2nd question : "Why is it slippery and unsafe?"
Answer : "Because there is oil on it."
3rd question : "Why there is oil on it?"
Answer : "Because the machine is dripping."
4th question : "Why is it dripping?"
Answer : "Because the oil is leaking from oil coupling."
5th Question : "Why is it leaking?"
Answer : "Because the rubber lining inside the coupling is worn out."
Very often by asking "Why?" five times we can identify the root cause and take a counter measure, such as replacing the rubber lining with a metal lining to stop oil leakage once and for all.
- Another technique, five S's may be called a philosophy, a way of life in our daily work. The essence of 5 S is to follow that has been agreed upon. It begins with discarding what we don't need in *gemba (Seiri in Japanese) and then arranging all the necessary items in gemba in an orderly manner (seiton). This is also called as PEEP: Place for Everything and Everything in Place. Then a clean environment must be sustained so that we can readily identify abnormalities (Seiso) and the above three steps must be maintained on a continuous basis (Seiketsu). Last that is the 5th S is Self Discipline and training (Shitsuke) means following all 4 S's mentioned above.
- JIT (Just-in-time) : A system designed to achieve the best possible quality, cost and delivery products and services by eliminating all kinds of muda (avoiding all types of waste) in a company's internal processes and deliver products just-in-time to meet customer's requirements. Originally developed by Toyota Motor Company.
- MISER : Merge, Improvise, Simplify, Eliminate, Reduce - Reuse - Recycle
- Takt time : The theoretical time it takes to produce a piece of product ordered by the customer : as determined by dividing the total production time by the number of units to be produced.
- Poka Yoke : means error proofing of production and/or administration process. It helps in making the operations error free and thereby zero-defect.
These are few examples.
Peter Teufel, managing partner of the Kaizen Institute reports that one of his clients was about to buy additional machines to handle an increase in business. When Teufel found that the utilization ratio of existing equipment was 38 percent, he recommended the management to increase the ratio by implementing KAIZEN instead of buying new machines. The company saved 15 million deutsche marks without compromising quality or delivery.
We often fail to implement any imported system because we tend to copy first, then struggle and give it up rather than adapt it by studying the principles and the process underlying it.
No one can dispute value of the improvement. The Kaizen philosophy is based on the fact that our life - be it working life, social life or home-life needs to be constantly improved. This means whether you are in a manufacturing industry or service industry, you must enlighten yourself on Kaizen and apply in all walks of life.
Toyota has gained one of the leading positions in the Global automotive industry by living and breathing Kaizen principles.
While undergoing Self Expression and Leadership program under Landmark curriculum, I got an opportunity to take up a community project on Kaizen. I am grateful that I got to experience the wonderful world of Kaizen and could apply it in my personal & business life.
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The PS4 Has A Pretty Major Save Error Making The Rounds
Although there's no one really has an idea how it started, the PS4 is currently experiencing a pretty major bug, which is causing some players to have their progress from various games wiped. In some extreme cases, PS4 consoles are even being rendered completely useless.
Users experiencing the problem have identified as Error CE-34878-0, and it seems to be indiscriminate of what games it affects. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, Call of Duty: Ghosts, hell any game in the PS4 library really. Users have complained about losing up to 30 hours of gameplay in some cases. Other have gone so far as to call their consoles useless after the bug prevented them from opening any apps, including games.
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Right now Sony has yet to comment on the entire thing, and since there's no word on how the bug came into circulation there really is no way of telling how to avoid it. Some users suggested deleting files from apps that were affected, although this seems to have had limited success.
Thankfully this sounds like something that could be easily repaired with a software update. For now, you'll just have to wait.


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Banana Nut Bread Paleo Ice Cream
The longer I eat Paleo, the more happy I am with my ice cream maker. It's nice to be able to whip up something sweet, but diet friendly, whenever I want. Also Cincinnati has been having near 90 degree weather, so anything cold is a god send.
This recipe is sweetened mostly by the fruit in it, and is super tasty. It definitely tastes like it's carb loaded counter part, but is way healthier (even for ice cream). I recommend you have a strong blender to combine and the ingredients, it'll help keep everything creamy! Brian got me this blender last Christmas, and it is AMAZING.
You'll Need:
- 2 ripe bananas
- 3 cups unsweetened plain almond milk
- 1/3 cup raw almond butter (the stuff you can make in whole foods bulk section is my favorite)
- 1/2 a square of unsweetened Baker's chocolate
- 1/3 cup raisins
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- honey to taste (I used just barely 2 tablespoons)
- Throw every ingredient except the honey and raisins in the blender, whirl away until everything is combined. You want to make extra sure the unsweetened chocolate is just tiny flecks. It might help if you chopped it before hand, but my blender did a fine job. The chocolate is just there to deepen the flavor a bit, there's not enough for you to say "Oh that's chocolaty!". More like, "What a rich flavor profile...". I mean no one says that but you catch my drift!
- Taste it, does it need honey? Depending on your personal tastes, and how ripe your bananas are, you might not! Don't forget were adding raisins too, and that will add a bit of sweetness as well. Add a bit, blend and taste again until you achieve your desired taste.
- Put all ingredients into your ice cream maker, including your raisins. Process according to your ice cream maker's instructions. I usually let the finished ice cream sit in the freezer for a few minutes so it's more scoop-able than soft serve.
- Enjoy!


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A New Start
This blog started out as Blather From Brooklyn.
A couple of years ago I moved all the content to a different version of Blather From Brooklyn on WordPress and this little blog has been idle.
Now it is time to give this blog a new title, a new purpose and a new life. Here's to new starts!


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Whether you are a mom or want to show appreciation to your own mommy, it can be a challenge to think of a Mother's Day activity that the whole, but especially mom, will enjoy. Mom's give so much that it seems impossible to take them to the perfect place or give them the perfect gift on Mother's Day.
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After helping more than 10,000 students navigate the college admissions process, our counselors have an informed sense of what works and what doesn't work when helping students get where they want to go. And we've noticed that some families spend a disproportionate amount of time focusing on strategies that almost never work. Here are five of the most common.
1. Over-strategizing.
I define "over-strategizing" as spending too much time and energy looking for a way in than actually doing the work it takes to get in. Seeking the one major to apply under that will turn a dream college into a sure thing, relentlessly emailing admissions officers or faculty in the hopes that it will prove you're interested, submitting lots of additional materials the college didn't request with your application—all of these actions deflect your efforts away from the very things colleges actually care about. And those are almost always spelled out in the "Admissions" sections of colleges' websites.
2. Angling to leverage connections.
This is a more specific version of #1, but is so rampant that it deserves its own mention. These families claim that they know someone who ostensibly "has a lot of pull" or is "on the board" (we've never seen this mythical board or just exactly who sits on it). But those purported connections often turn out to be an alumnus who is nowhere near influential enough to make a difference. For a connection to be an advantage usually requires that the school's vital interests would be at stake were the student to be denied admission. If your parents just funded the new film school on campus or your dad just coached the football team to a national championship, your chances of getting in will probably increase substantially. But the fact that your parent's coworker once went to school there and has offered to write you a letter of recommendation? We've never seen a connection like that make an admissions difference.
3. Focusing too much on other students.
The student you complain didn't deserve to be let into the AP class you were shut out of? The catcher on the softball team you swear gets to start because her family knows the coach? The activity you don't enjoy but joined because all the other high achievers seem to be doing it? Those are all examples of spending way too much time worrying about what other students are doing. You can't control what they do, you can only control what you do. And one of my core tenets of college admissions planning is to relentlessly focus on the parts of the process you can control. I know that curved grades, class ranking, tryouts, and auditions all impose a metric that compares you to other students. But driving all your personal decisions in the same manner is a lousy way to direct your high school life, and an ineffective strategy for getting into college.
4. Considering too much information and advice from uninformed sources.
Lots of people who know little or nothing about how to get into college seem to have no problem doling out advice and purported insider information about how to do just that. If you repeatedly indulge those people, if you take their unsolicited information as admissions gospel, you'll end up with a lot of conflicting recommendations, most or all of which will do nothing to help you get where you want to go. Admissions officers, high school counselors, and qualified private counselors are reliable, informed college admissions sources. Your friends and neighbors usually are not (unless they also fall into one of those aforementioned groups). It's hard to ignore the often enticing tidbits, but you've got better—and more effective—things to do than base your college planning decisions on sources who aren't actually sharing responsibility for the outcome.
5. Exclusively aiming to please one dream school.
There's a fine line between aligning your college planning with your goals and obsessing over how to please one school. It's smart planning to visit the websites of the schools that interest you so you can learn about their course planning recommendations, testing requirements, and elements of a complete application. But if you start asking questions like, "Would Princeton rather that I keep playing the clarinet, or join the volleyball team?" you've moved from smart college planning to obsessive efforts to please. There is no one, prescribed, correct path of admission to most colleges. In fact, all but the most specialized schools come right out and tell you that they are looking for a freshman class comprised of a variety of backgrounds, interests, and experiences. So don't search for that one way into your dream school. Planning without a singular obsession on one school won't just give you even more college options—it will likely improve your chances of admission at the school you resisted the urge to obsess over.


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It happens all the time. A little bit of fun turns into a serious situation, maybe not for those involved directly, but everyone around them. That very well may be what happened when 15 British soldiers were kidnapped by Iran last week. We know what you're thinking, "How could there be any mistake?" Put it this way, kidnapping isn't always a bad thing. We'll explain.
Slantmouth's annual "Feed the Homeless Day" did not go quite as planned. True, they almost never do, but this year's experience was terrible enough that Slantmouth Industries may have to retire one of our most cherished philanthropic events. It certainly ranks somewhere in the top ten, sandwiched between "Sponge Bathe the Elderly Day" and our "Communist Clubbing Clambake."
Slantmouth always seeks to promote the welfare of others. Company events are a way for our legion of unpaid interns to take a break from scrubbing toilets with toothbrushes and become involved in the community, something we encourage everyone to do. But something terrible happened this past weekend and it involved pet food.
Yesterday, for the first time ever, daylight-savings time went into effect in March rather than its usual date in April. Not only will the nation be setting the clocks forward a full 3 weeks earlier, it will also be falling back 3 weeks later, thus giving us 6 weeks of glorious, golden extra sunshine. This move, one which promises to make people unreasonably early for work today, is intended to cut carbon emissions in the United States by a significant margin, since we're entirely too lazy to turn off lights or not blast the air conditioning.
Like most things that happen in America, there was a bit of a controversy over the shift, as it affects a wide swath of the economy. For certain industries, the change will have definite benefits. For instance, candy makers expect to see brisker sales at Halloween, although analysts here at Slantmouth say that such expectations are, in fact, retarded. Other advocates include backyard barbecue enthusiasts, law enforcement officials, softball teams, environmentalists, and of course, reverse vampires.
Squalid living conditions for outpatients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center have caused a massive uproar. The hospital has been primarily caring for troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. Army officials figured that if a soldier can survive gunshots and shrapnel, they are more than equipped to deal with rats and mold spores. Besides, according to multiple viewings of First Blood, rats are an excellent source of protein.
Despite believing that the world's finest soldiers could overcome the simplistic political and social circumstances of the Walter Reed rats, army officials were shocked when many Americans found the conditions to be horribly disrespectful to the injured veterans. On top of the deplorable conditions, many veterans have found it nearly impossible to schedule follow up appointments for their injuries due to bureaucratic tape. While tape generally can fix many problems, missing limbs is not one of them. Taped on severed limbs cause more harm than good.
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As some of you may have noticed, we have a free AV scanner up on the Android Market. I'm curious if anyone has had a chance to download it and if so, what has your impression been?
Direct market link if you'd like to try it out: http://m.bitdefender.com/ or https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bitdefender.security
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I am so feeling the love right now. I'll try to get some sample sites that you can mess with on the protection! What do you guys think on the feature side?
Great to hear! Anything specific you wish it had?
Just installed on an HTC Inspire running Droid 2.3.3. Installed quick, scanned very fast (including SD card), and did not find any viruses.
I like the list of features, including the remote wipe and tracking capability. My wife lost her iPhone, we did not have these features enabled via 3rd party software, and AT&T will not brick the phone because that could be a potential customer (albeit a thief). We no longer host evil iDevices in our house.
Being able to see what security exceptions are required per app is pretty cool.
I think I'll install this on my Nook Color running CyanogenMod. They came out with a new release candidate running 2.3.4 which I still need to download.
Thanks for access to the Beta!
Great to hear! Anything specific you wish it had?
Nothing comes to mind. The two things I'd want are the ability to run a scan when I choose; done. I'd also want the software to scan files as they show up on the system; done.
I think the listing of apps and what security they require is pretty cool. I like how if you click on the app it takes you right to the application info screen so you can uninstall or reconfigure on the spot.
On the Asus, the web security screen looks a bit silly. There's just a ton of dead space with a single on/off switch. Hardly an issue, but since I'm writing stuff down.
One real issue. I logged into BitDefender and it offered to let me log in with my Google account. I did. Now, I don't have a password that lets me attach the Mobile Security to my account. That's an issue. They both should log in the same way.
That's all I've got at the moment. Thanks!
Logged in and activated the locator service. My initial thought was, "How in the #$)) did my phone get to Kansas?!" On a hunch that I was dealing with a default location, I clicked the "Locate my device" button. In a matter of seconds, the screen slewed to my current location, and zoomed down to the closest level (without activating street view). Very nice.
I'm a bit hesitant to move the mouse anywhere near the "Wipe my device" button. Sitting a bit close to the "Locate" button maybe. I'm sure there is a verification step, but you never know when a sudden earthquake (or rambunctious child) causes an accident click just a bit off target.
Still need to check this on my Nook, and I have access to a Thunderbolt, too.
Okay, some questions about security.
While logged in on the phone, I can click on "Locate my device" and the phone is located in a matter of a few seconds. If I log off Bitdefender on the device, "Locate my device" is stuck in "Acquiring location".
While logged in on the phone, I can turn on and off Geolocation and the remote wipe feature. Logged off, the features appear at what ever I last set them at, but grayed out so they cannot be changed. This seems appropriate, as I would not want someone to pick up my phone, go to Bitdefender, and disable the security features. Sort of defeats the purpose, no?
I would recommend either allowing the features to function once logged off at the device, or requiring a pin/password to log off and/or change the security features. Preference would be the need to log on to make any changes to the security settings. Perhaps put a login button just beneath the status display when Bitdefender is first opened. This way all settings are protected against tampering.
I just installed the app on my Droid X. Install was flawless, again. Scan was slower than on the Asus, but it went right through. No issues.
I logged out of my.bitdefender.com and started the lost password recovery process. That allowed me to set a password and now I have the devices logged in. It's all working.
I'd fix that login issue, but other than that, this is pretty cool.
@Grant.Fritchey - did you register with the same email on both phones?
I replaced Lookout with BitDefender when I first saw your product announcement. It installed flawlessly and is working great. It scans any app that I update or install from the MarketPlace. Small memory footprint. I already have RemoteWipe setup through Google Enterprise so I didn't tryout that feature. I also haven't tried the GeoLocator yet as I am not sure I want to be found. :-)
Installed and scanned on my EVO perfectly. The anti theft found my device with no problem. Will go home and install on my Nook!
Thanks! I was running Lookout before. This is so much more.
I agree with @Mark about requiring a pin so we can be logged in but require a pin to change settings.
If I log off, I can't locate the phone and geolocation and wipe turn off.
Just added an HTC Thunderbolt to my account. I now see both the Inspire and the Thunderbolt on the web site as separate tabs...very cool. Got stuck on "Acquiring location" on the Thunderbolt though. I think the locator services are turned off on the device. I'll have to check that tonight.


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Jaguar Guardian Blog – May 2015
June 6, 2015
Dear Friends,
This month we had one of the few experiences we hope to never have again while we work on the Northern Jaguar Reserve. We began our trip checking the motion-triggered cameras that are close to the road, and we decided to travel to El Carricito ranch. Each time we go to Carricito, we notice increased deterioration of the road. There are some places where it is very narrow because the rains have caused erosion, and there are big trenches at the edge. This section of road is likely the steepest on the entire reserve, with loose rock and a sheer cliff that drops hundreds of feet on one side. While we were heading downhill, the truck suddenly stopped working! The engine seemed to have little strength and just stopped. Meanwhile, the truck had enough momentum to continue down, and Saúl could not stop it. Anyone who has had this happen knows that once a vehicle fails while you are driving, it is very difficult to maneuver. The steering wheel had tightened up, and even though we pushed down on the brakes, they did not respond the same as a vehicle that is operating normally. Little by little, as we envisioned the worst possible outcome, Saúl's efforts to stop the truck were successful. We felt relieved, but we could not relax until we arrived at our destination.
After this incident, we had more trouble with the truck in an area that was flat and not as dangerous. Still, we decided to forego some of our stops on the reserve and Viviendo con Felinos ranches and have the truck serviced as soon as possible. This was the most perilous experience we have ever had on the reserve, and we hope something like this never happens again.
Once we finished our work at Carricito, we left for Dubaral. While en route, we saw a coati climbing a palm tree, which is known locally as "babiso." The coati was probably going to eat some dates, but when he saw us, he quickly came down and ran toward a small hill where we lost sight of him. We later saw one of the most beautiful birds we have on the reserve, an elegant trogon. It flew from branch to branch as we approached. This time of year, we hear trogons beginning their mating calls. One afternoon, we were listening to a wild turkey calling. The turkey sang for quite a while, and it was almost dark when we stopped hearing it. A bird that we almost always hear at La Tinaja ranch is the Mexican jay, and this time we saw a great horned owl flying among the oak trees. There was also what appeared to be a Cooper's hawk chasing a raven. The raptor was soaring up high for quite some time, then swooped down to catch the raven… yet was not successful.
One night while I was sleeping, I heard the sound of water splashing. I woke up thinking that maybe a coyote or fox had come to drink water from a pail we had left outside. The following morning, Saúl found a dead rat inside the water bucket, and I realized that the sound I heard was the rat trying to keep from drowning. The rat had a parasite on the bottom of its neck, a larva that had grown inside of it. Saúl thought that it could have been a botfly, found on larger mammals (including humans) from Mexico south to Chile and Argentina. Fortunately, we have not had any experiences with this parasite or any others, and we hope that will never happen.
We have noticed that deer are beginning to form groups as they have done during past summers. It is common to see deer in the shade underneath the mesquite trees at Mesa de Cureda. Saúl found a small javelina skull next to one of the cameras at El Aguajito at Las Cuevas. He said that there was only part of the javelina and that it was young, possibly only one month old.
We hope you will continue to check our blogs to see what we experience when we are out at the reserve. We will keep you updated on our happenings trip by trip so that you can work with us to preserve this land that is so abundant with wildlife.
Until next time friends,
Javier Valenzuela Amarillas has worked on the Northern Jaguar Reserve and Viviendo con Felinos ranches since 2012. As a jaguar guardian, he helps maintain an extensive network of motion-triggered cameras, inventory the ecological health of the land and water, and work with ranchers to support local wildlife.


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Blues boss Simon Garner believes his players have rediscovered their mojo at an ideal time in their pursuit of the Evo-Stik First Division North play-offs.
Three victories in succession, including 13 goals scored in fixtures against Ossett Town, New Mills and Scarborough Athletic, has boosted Clitheroe's hopes of a top five finish considerably.
"Long may it continue," said the Shawbridge chief. "It was another really good result for us at the weekend and I can't complain about our last few performances at all.
"They were games that we should be winning against teams below us, but the lads have gone about it in the right way in tough conditions. They've put all three teams to the sword.
"Hopefully the penny has dropped now. I still think there's more to come, so we'll try to keep this run going for as long as we can."
The Blues entertain third place Glossop North End on Saturday, kick off 3 p.m., where a win would move them to within three points of the Hillmen, who have played a game more.
"It's a massive game for us," said Garner. "If we beat them and win our game in hand, then we can move level on points with them. They walloped us at their place earlier in the season at a time when they were on fire. They are a good side."
It's certainly going to be an interesting climax to the season for Clitheroe, who have yet to play rivals Witton Albion, Brighouse Town and Burscough twice, as well as Farsley and Ossett Albion. All harbour realistic aspirations of qualifying for the play-offs.
"Everyone else is hitting form at the same time as us," Garner said. "They are all doing it at the top end. It's madness. Looking at the table, it's in our hands because we're playing a lot of teams who are vying for the same thing as us.
"It's going to be tough, but I think there'll be a lot of teams in the same scenario. We've got to approach games in the same way as the last few weeks.
"It's going to be a slog, but hopefully we can stay among that group and give ourselves something to play for."
Garner is fortunate enough to have the numbers to cater for the hectic schedule on the horizon.
Such competition for places has seen skipper David Lynch and Scott Bakkor, who are both under contract, named on the bench for recent outings.
"We've got a settled side which helps," said Garner. "We've started the same team in the last few games, which very rarely happens. The forthcoming run in will be a test of everyone's squads.
"We've got some strength in depth, and that shows with the two contracted players on the bench. That's unheard of at Clitheroe, and it's been hard keeping them out.
"They've taken it well though, and nobody has pulled their face. All the lads are pulling in the same direction. The squad will be utilised massively in the games ahead."


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Pat's latest gang of monstrosities marks one of the first times that all of our in-house accessories have been available outside of the Onell site, and the new "Deconstructor" Unit shown in Pat's artwork above really delivers something exciting, imaginative and just super fun. Make sure you check out Pat's continuing story arc as well (a familiar entity may be meddling with the Deconstructor code).
This one sports an extra power packed punch, Pat! Love these themed waves!
Bio-Masters: Wave 5
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An engaging revamp of one of the most popular travel websites in Cyprus.
Top Kinisis Travel, one of the most prominent tourism organizations in Cyprus, approached us to help them with the re-design of their popular travel booking website TaxidiaMprosta.com.
Trusting our reputation of providing quality well-thought web design and user experiences, their request was not only to come up with a simple custom visual refresh of the website but help them with the complete user journey and user experience via a simple and easy-to-follow user interface design that will help visitors to easily find and book flights, hotels and travel packages online. The designs also needed to work very well for users on mobile devices, in contrast to the previous one, as part of their strategy to future-proof their new website. The complete redesign additionally involved us taking over the front-end development of all design templates for them to implement on their back-end booking system. An exciting and very challenging project, our team worked very closely with the great team from Top Kinisis for an extensive period to come up with a very well-received look & feel and series of template designs for their new website.
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
Cute Pouches
Here is a pic of their square gusset bottoms:
I did some Little Red Riding Hood on pink:
Little Red goes with these Wolves I put on blue fabric. Wolf is very interested in that picnic basket full of treats:
My felt appliques are all hand cut and hand stitched. I do use some fabric glue in places like the wolf eyes and nose.
Here I did some more simple sock monkey pouches. I love these fabrics. The Monkey medallion is hand appliqued with embroidery floss:
In order to list these at Etsy, I have to set up all my photo stuff and try to get perfect pictures at perfect angles with perfect lighting... Hopefully I'll get to that this weekend. I hope the sun comes out again here. I switched from hot weather to the mid-50s really fast. Usually some snow flies here by Halloween so I guess it's time!
7 comments:
- Nan and B.A.G.S. the pug said...
I gave my RED Pouch to my mom and she Loves it!
Which felt have you used? 100% wool? Thanks!
- October 3, 2008 at 11:13 AM
- IamSusie said...
Nan- This is my wool/rayon blended felt from my collection. I have a bit of 100% wool felt, but it is a natural white color and it was kind of pricey so I can't get up the courage to cut into it. I hope to dye it someday.
- October 3, 2008 at 1:43 PM
- Glenda said...
Adorable!! Please post a blurb here when you get them in your shop.
- October 3, 2008 at 10:29 PM
- jennyleigh said...
Very cute bags, and lovely work (as usual). Is Little Red a Mary Blair inspired pattern? I had unknowingly seen her stuff for years but never realized who she was until a recent swap when someone mentioned they liked her work. Now I notice it all the time. Keep up the craftiness!
- October 4, 2008 at 6:21 AM
- IamSusie said...
Thanks you guys! I'm glad you like them.
Jennyleigh- I had to look up Mary Blair and her work is simply wonderful. Little Red is a very simple shape from one of my Japanese books as is the pouch pattern although I choose my own fabric combinations.
I drew the wolf based on some photographs of wolves. I had a few other prototypes with big teeth that just didn't work.
I really should do a tutorial on sewing up the pouches. It's really cool because you do the lining and the outside with just one seam
- October 4, 2008 at 10:55 AM
- Lotta said...
I love that little red riding hood!
- October 8, 2008 at 11:47 PM
- Cris said...
- October 17, 2008 at 3:42 AM


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5 more countries to end use of child soldiers: UN
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5 more countries to end use of child soldiers: UN
5 December 2012
Two children enrolled with Sierra Leonean troops are seen in 2000.
AFP - Five more countries -- Bolivia, Comoros, Guinea Bissau, Kuwait and Yemen -- have signed up to an international declaration promising to end the use of child soldiers, officials said Wednesday.
Some 105 countries have now signed up to the so-called "Paris Commitments" agreed in 2007 in France to end the recruitment of child warriors. But the UN says tens of thousands of children are still involved in conflicts around the world. Leila Zerrougui, the UN special representative on children and armed conflict, particularly highlighted an accord reached with Yemen where rival militias are notorious users of under-age soldiers.
The new endorsements "demonstrate the international community's resolve to abolish the inhuman practice of child recruitment," said Francois Zimeray, France's human rights ambassador. Nepal and Sri Lanka were this year taken off a UN blacklist of countries that use child soldiers.
Source: France24.


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While I was busy, I was also making a program projecting azimuthal maps.
I made a previous version a few years ago, but it was not good because it took SEVERAL MINUTES to project a map.
In the last month, I hit upon a good idea to make it fast and gathered related necessary techniques.
The new program takes only 100 milliseconds! (but I think that this implementation actually owes to Marshal class of .Net rather than my idea...)
I will upload my program and explain the calculation in my web site.
The world (azimuthal equidistant projection)
Around Japan (azimuthal equidistant projection)
The pacific ocean (azimuthal equidistant projection)
The world (azimuthal equal-area projection)


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We're really enjoying learning about ancient Egypt using the Story of the World Ancients book and activity guide. Although we hadn't officially arrived at the chapter about mummies yet (it's in chapter 4 and we're still back in chapter 2), our Lift the Lid on the Mummies book and mummy making kit came in the mail. Red couldn't wait to do it so we did the project during Tom Thumb's nap yesterday.
We decided on the kit because one of Story of the World activities for chapter four is making a mummy out of a raw chicken. While this probably would have been really cool, there are a few reasons the chicken mummy wasn't going to work for us:
1. I'm a vegetarian right now (I know saying "right now" seems funny, but I've only been eating this way for three months and don't know if I'll be able to sustain it for the long haul).
2. We have two cats that are constantly trying to eat everything edible (or sometimes inedible) in sight.
3. The idea of having a raw chicken lying around the house for six weeks grosses me out.
In the end, this kit was a great alternative to the raw chicken mummy project, especially since the book included in the kit is designed to be read as you do the project . Here's how the mummy making went for us. You need to allow at least two hours to complete this project. When you open the box, this is what it looks like inside.
Red was super excited to open up the mummy and check out his little plastic organs, although she was bummed out that there was no brain for her to pull out of his nose with a hook! I think she may be reading too many Egypt books right now. :-)
Red named her mummy Happy because she said it looked like he was smiling. What do you think?
Next, we had to make the canopic jars to store Happy's organs. The description on Amazon says this kit is for 9-12 year olds, and I think the process to make the jars is the reason. They are made of a heavy glossy paper. Each jar is made of a rectangular piece and a circular piece of paper that must be cut out and glued together. This was definitely a team effort. I did all the cutting and gluing and Red held the bottom of the jar (the circle piece) on to the cylindrical part of the jar (the rectangle piece) while they dried. Once all the jars were glued together it was time to put Happy's organs in them for storage.
Each jar came with a resin lid that represented the god that was supposed to protect that particular organ. Here's Red putting Happy's intestines in their jar. We had some issues with Imset's head (the liver god) falling off his jar. We kept yelling "Put the lid on that liver!"
After our canopic jars were complete, it was time to wrap our mummy.
One thing I have to say about this kit is that they should have included some more gauze. We had to re-wrap Happy a couple of times in order to get full coverage. If you buy this kit, plan on having some extra gauze on hand to make the wrapping part easier. The kit included a sticker sheet with amulet stickers for you to stick on your mummy as you wrapped him up for protection.
Here's Red posing with Happy after he was all wrapped up.
Next, it was time to put him inside his sarcophagus.
The punch out mask was included to put on Happy after he was wrapped. When you're done you're supposed to seal the tomb with this sticker and then bury it.
Red decided against the sealing (why would you seal it? Then you can't play with it anymore) and decided she wanted to decorate it like a real sarcophagus instead. Since we didn't have any gold or jewels, she settled for tin foil, glitter glue, and beads. I covered the lid for Red with tin foil and then she decorated it.
Here's the final product.
Happy even looks happy on the outside of his tomb!
Overall, this was an excellent project. Even though it required quite a bit of parental participation, it was great fun! I would highly recommend this kit as a vegetarian alternative to the chicken mummy.
On a separate Egyptian note, Red just attended vacation Bible school with her friends and the theme was Joseph and Egypt. What a perfect tie in to our studies! I have great admiration for the coordinators of this vacation Bible school. Check out the pyramid and the girls' costumes. They got to wear those everyday that week. We'll definitely be going again next year. They had a grand time!
The kids and I are off to Chicago on Monday to visit my cousin's family so I may be on hiatus for a few days again. Ah---gotta love summer!


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Phone:+1 843-686-7343
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Sales:+1 800-465-4213
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Bar-B-Q and/or picnic area
Car Rental
Concierge desk
Housekeeping service daily
Laundry on-site
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Offering casual poolside dining in Hilton Head, SC. The Dolphin Grille serves mouth-watering burgers, hot dogs, specialty sandwiches, salads, wraps and other seasonal fare.
Open for lunch Dress code: Casual
Delectable frozen drinks and cocktails at this pool bar in Hilton Head are made with real fresh fruits in an intimate oceanfront setting. Open March to November, this seasonal bar and lounge lets you enjoy a refreshing drink while soaking up the sun.
Dress code: Casual
As a unique, villa-style resort, we pride ourselves on making our guests' vacation experiences unforgettable getaways. Join us for weekly dinner events and socialize with other guests during your stay.
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Biking trail (0.2 km)
Horseback riding (4.8 km)
Jet-skiing (6.4 km)
Kayaking (6.4 km)
Miniature golf (1.6 km)
Sailing (6.4 km)
Lighted Outdoor
Table tennis
Fitness Center
Heated Indoor Lap Pool
Heated Outdoor Lap Pool
North Pool - Outdoor Pool
South Pool - Outdoor Pool
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Children's Pools - 3
Shipyard Golf Club (3.2 km)
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Oyster Reef Golf Club (16.1 km)
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Hilton Head National Golf Club (20.9 km)
Hilton Head National Course
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One North Forest Beach Drive
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Savannah, GA
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Charleston, SC
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1414 Fording Island Road
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14 Shelter Cove Lane
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900 William Hilton Parkway
1.6 km W from hotel
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232 S. Sea Pines Drive
7.2 km SW from hotel
1414 Fording Island Road
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Airport Phone: +1 843-689-5400
Hotel direction: 14.5 km E
This hotel does not provide shuttle service.
Take Airport road to highway 278. Turn East. Follow 278 approximately 9 miles to the Sea Pines Traffic Circle. Follow the traffic circle to Pope Avenue. Follow Pope Avenue until it ends at Coligny Circle. Take first right onto to South Forrest Beach Drive. Take South Forrest Beach Drive 3/4 of a mile and Grande Ocean will be on the left hand side.
Airport Phone: +1 912-964-0514
Hotel direction: 72.4 km NE
This hotel does not provide shuttle service.
Follow signs exiting airport to I-95 North. From I-95, I-95 take exit 8, continue on highway 278 (approx. 40mins). Once over the HHI bridge, go approx. 4 miles to the Cross Island Expressway ($1.25 toll road). Follow expressway onto Palmetto Bay Road. Enter Sea Pines traffic circle from the left lane & follow circle to Pope Avenue (2nd right). Take Pope Avenue to Coligny Circle. Exit onto so forest beach Drive (1st right). Drive 3/4 mi. Hotel on left.
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song Summary and Reflection: The son start off with a radio piece from september 11,2001. The guy on the radio is talking about terrorism and that the government will hunt down the people who are responsible for the attack. Than there is another guy describing what just happened to one of the towers and it is a life changing event.than the music begins with just piano. The tone of the song is a slow,deep,sad feeling.The first few lyrics are about switching through channel and seeing a burning city. There are smoke and fire and that it was a plane that hit the towers. The attached is believed to be faith inspired.No one knew that this was going to happen.it was a complete surprise. The question is who will be coming home?did anyone survive?who died?everyone is looking at the sky and the towers are falling and heroes are dying. The question is now,who will do such thing? Praise the people who scarified themself to save lives. I am not a big fan of the music genre ,which is metal,I like the way they describes what happened on september 11.I liked that they added a piece of radio about the attack in th3 beginning of the song. It gives the listener a summary of what is about to happen. Not only does the music describes what happened but it also ask some question such as who is responsible and why would they do it.The song brought back some of the important detail like he reason they attack the tower. The song made me remember that it is believed did it in they name of their God. There is also believe that it was payback for all the lives the US took from their people. Something that I did not like about the song is that there was a super long break. It was only the instruments play for about a good 3 minutes or more. I wanted to hear more about the attack on 9/11 not the instruments. Overall I believe that the group did an amazing job writing and composing a song about an event that is still very recent.I like the song because it's about something that shall not be forgotten. MLA Citation: "Sacrificed Sons." YouTube, YouTube, 8 Apr. 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJinRZkANVs.
poem Summary and Reflection: On the 11 of september. A plane crashed the world trade center. Than a few minutes later the second building was hit. At first the people thought it was an accident but when the second plane hit the crash is no longer an accident.This attack is the worst so far out of all the attacks it has faced. Lot of people were in fear.No one has an idea of what just happened or what will happen. Will the US go to war. President Bush said that the issue will be resolved. The peoples prayed for their friends,relative,father and mothers. The poem is a masterpiece in my opinion. There were multiple poem but I chose the first one because it did an amazing job rhyming the words and explaining what happened. Something I liked about the poem was that it mention president Bush and what he said about the attack. The only thing I didn't like was that it is kinda short but if it were longer it might have been harder to rhyme some of the words. Something new that I learn from the poem was that it took 18 minutes for the second tower to be hit. A question that the author had that I like was,what will come next, war?There was no big war like count vs country but there was the war on terror. "9-11 September 11." Scrapbook.com, www.scrapbook.com/poems/doc/18049.html.
documentary Summary: The documentary is about the passenger of flight 93 and the love ones they spoke too. It start of with the people do what they normally do. It start with the husband of a flight attendant describing his wife as a loving,carry,wonderful mother and a wonderful wife. She was the organizer.The flight is expected to leave 08.01 but is delayed.The next person that had connection to a passenger of the plane was Deena Burnett;wife of Tom Burnett. She describes her husband as a a intelligent spersonand a wonderful conversationalist,handsome,athletic,great faith in God and overall a perfect husband. There was Phil Bradshaw;husband of Sandy Bradshaw.they had a disagreement about going to work . once they are in the air around 09.27 the hijack begins in the first class cabin. later three men get up and take out red bandas and tie them over their head. They kill a passenger with a knife and head to the cockpit of the plane. The tower have already hit one of the towers. The people begin to call their love ones and tell them what is going on and that they love them. They eventually all come to an agreement to take control of the plane. They take control of the plane and then were never heard of again. I found the documentary very interesting and helpful. Although the documentary was a recreation of what happened, it feel real. I like that different people shared their personal story. Seeing the people get on the plane without knowing what will so happen made me feel sorry for them. There was a story about these couple debating whether one should work or not and In my head I was telling her not to go because of what will so happen. Watching the documentary made me feel sad. Multiple times when the were talking with their love one I wanted to cry. This was a real story not a movie. The way the people got together to take control of the plane was heartwarming. Different people who did not know each other working together to accomplish one goal. They are the definition of heros. I am not sure what I would have done if I was in that plane. The soucumetary did leave me whis some questions such as how did they know the time the hijacker took over the plane. MLA Citation: "The Story Of Flight 93 (9/11 Documentary) - Real Stories." YouTube, YouTube, 30 Aug. 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBbVCfJfQQY.
Huffpost capture the first responders in action saving and helping people. Most of the images are of firemen's covered in dust. The police men and firefighter are caring civilian to safety. There is also a image of a secret service agent carrying a injured women to safety. There is alo a image showing a firemen helping another fire who was inside the tower when it collapsed. The images were also taken by police officer who than later went in the tower and never came out. There is a picture of a firefighter sitting in the destruction covering his face. There is a image of a dog sleeping and bear him is a box of well earn treats for his hard work searching for trapped people. Opinion: the images are amazing. They capture the the terror that happened on september 11 2001. I like that they added a caption for each photo. I believe that the caption helps the image explain more of what is going on. They capture images of not just firefighter and policeman but other who went to help. There are images of a secret service man helping out. There is a image of a firefighter helping other firefighter. There was an image that capture my eyes. It was about a dog who was sleeping after a long day searching for peoples. This image was very powerful to me because it shows how loyal and dedicated this dog is. This is why I like dog and not cats. I think that they could have capture more images of the inside of the towers. McDonald, Andy. "These Photos Of 9/11 First Responders Break Our Hearts, But They Also Make Us Damn Proud." The Huffington Post, TheHuffingtonPost.com, 11 Sept. 2013,
(Opinion Article): September 11 was a historic turning point The opinion article is on the 9/11 attack and how it was a turning point for the US.the article gives some examples of events that happened but were not big events to be called a historic turning point. Examples such as the berlin wall. The fall of the berlin wall was more of a historic event for europe than the U.S. There is also the end of the cold war and World War II. NATO was created to keep peace but it was useless. No peace agreement could be made between the Israelis and Palestinians. There was also the attack on Pearl harbor but that only made Americans more unsettled. When twin tower were hit the US head off a global recession. The reason 9/11 was a historic turning point was because it affect a lot of people not just America but also Europe and japan.Although the US market did not collapse at that moment. The attack force America to take out and spend more money. The attack was not on the military it was an attack on the economy.Obama withdrew some soldier in Afghanistan and completely pulled them out of Iraq. No matter what was done the debt got even greater. In my opinion I don't think that 9/11 was the historic turning point. I believe that when the US won its independence was the historic turning point. Not just for america but for the entire world. I do agree that 9/11 was a turning point. It did make americans more alert that events attacks su as that of 9/11 are possible and that no matter how power your countries military is there are those who will challenge it. The reason I believe that the declaration of independence was the historic turning point is because it showed England and the world that anything is possible. Once the US won it inspired other to fight for their independence. There were some changes that were the result of the attack. Changes such as stricter airports. I heard that there are now agent aboard planes in case there is another hijacking. The US is more alert and how protocols incase another event like 9/11 happened. I still found the article interesting but I think it could have used more examples of why it was the historic turning point. (www.dw.com), Deutsche Welle. "Opinion: September 11 was a historic turning point | Opinion | DW | 11.09.2016." DW.COM, www.dw.com/en/opinion-september-11-was-a-historic-turning-point/a-19542466.
Summary The article is describes the tragic event that happened on september 11 2001 when the two world trade centers were hit by two planes. The floor trembled,windows cracked and a hole filled with fire and than the same thing happened with the second tower. There were people jumping of the building covered in flames. Than the tower became nothing. The towers crumbled to the ground and a big cloud of dust followed. There were multiple sounds of alarm all over the place. The people did not to go so they went in every direction.There were some warnings that something was not right. There were some warning about the attack su as the plane flying to low to the ground but no one knew at the moment why. At the moment of the attack the people did not know if the plane was a friendly or a enemy. A dark cloud cover the sky People began to jump out of the building. Many people had no idea what was going on. Everyone ran in all direction to escape the darkness . Reflection. The article did a wonderful job explaining what happened on 9/11. The article did not have any images but the way it described the event such as the dust was amazing. You could picture how it was when tower collapsed and cover the city in smoke. The article left out some pieces of information that I thought was but then again the article was published the day after the attack. Pieces such as who is responsible and why did they do it. What was their objective? The stories about what the peoples were doing before and during painted a better picture in my head and it made the article more powerful. There was this story about Anne Prosser and how she was a story below the place where the plane hit.Seeing what the people were doing before the disaster gave the article more suspence and more encouraging to read. The article did a great job telling the reader what happened. At the moment there was not know about the attack but the article explained what happened like they knew everything. MLA Citation: Kleinfield, N. R. "HIJACKED JETS DESTROY TWIN TOWERS AND HIT PENTAGON IN DAY OF TERROR." The New York Times, The New York Times, 11 Sept. 2001,


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Easy Fudge Pie Recipe
Easy Fudge Pie from Lindy Sellers on Vimeo.
One 8 inch pie crust, 1 cup sugar, 1/4 cup all purpose flour, 6 tablespoons cocoa, half cup melted butter, two eggs, 1 teaspoon Vanilla.
Preheat oven to 400. In large mixing bowl combine sugar,flour, cocoa, melted butter, eggs and vanilla.
Stir the mixture well. Spoon batter into prepared pie crust and bake for 20 minutes exactly. Cool on a wire rack at room temperature slice and serve with whipped cream or ice cream.


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The excellent grape of Muscat, the favorable local climate, the appropriate quality of soil, the harvest and the production techniques make Asti Spumante DOCG a unique sweet sparkling wine! So, no wonder why it is so popular and appreciated all over the world, and why it was declared a human world heritage by UNESCO in 2004!
The best way to taste it
Thanks to its moderate content of alcohol and its sweet and aromatic flavor, this sparkling wine is best served at the end of a meal, accompanying fruit and desserts. Of course, if you want to make a toast during some special parties, Asti Spumante DOCG is undoubtedly the perfect wine for it!
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Muscat vineyard near Asti (pic n°1); Asti Spumante DOCG bottles (pic n°2); Muscat grape (pic n°3);
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Tour: Asti Spumante, the worldwide famous sweet sparkling wine
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