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Good Afternoon to you,
Do you remember the Beatles song where they sing the line....She's leaving home.....well, we are saying goodbye to Natasha who returns to India tomorrow.
This is a photo of me as a little girl....with a tear in my eye, which
at this moment is very apt.
I have had a wonderful time with Natasha, but I have to let her return home to her husband who loves her dearly.
So with a tear in my eye.... it's almost time.
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How to deal with intimidating
Ever since then, when I meet someone who spews out anger and negativity, it offers me a glimpse of how awful their internal experience of the world is.A person who is content and has peace of mind is very unlikely to project anger and bitterness on a regular basis.You then see these people as closer to your level, rather than them being on a pedestal and you feeling you're a walking example of lame, awkward unworthiness that's lucky to even be talking to them. If you know someone is mean-spirited or gossipy you're going to be on guard around them.Though sometimes we mistakenly think that everyone who dresses or acts a certain way is going to look down on us.The person who had come to talk to us explained that the aggressive and intimidating behaviour that we received most days from those held in Broadmoor was more about them than it was about us.She went on to explain that these negative behaviours were projections of inner misery and chaos.In every workplace, you will have difficult coworkers.
As a Psychologist, I find it easy to look beyond the behaviour to the underlying reasons. Having said that, understanding the reasons doesn’t automatically make me like someone! When we come across an angry and unhappy person, many of us take this behaviour personally. I remember when I worked at Broadmoor Hospital, we would have supervision to help us cope with the various personalities we had to deal with.
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Created the LEGO Secret Knock Box to help the Discovery Centre in Halifax re-launch their LEGO room. Inside is an Arduino (freakin' love Arduino) listening for the secret knock combination. Once it hears the correct combo, it activates a motor and spits out a card with visual instructions to create a LEGO project.
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From memory, this is possibly the first dish that I have ever learn to cook from my nan. The first amongst her many other wonderful achieves of recipe. She was like a walking recipe encyclopaedia. As a child, she was always curious about everything that she'd ever put into her mouth. Always making a point to queried about the ingredients and the process of how every dishes were prepared. She would begged the chef to reveal their recipes, tested them herself, and then re-invented them to suit her astoundingly acute palate. In my eyes, my nan was simply the best cook in the world!
In Malaysia, this is known as Laksa Lemak but across the causeway bridge, this is possible more famously being refer to as the notorious 'Katong Laksa'. As most Singaporean would know , for the best laksa, it's best to trek all the way to Katong and patron the hawkers there for the best of its kind, ignoring any inferior imitations along the way. This is altogether very different to Penang Laksa. The former uses coconut milk and dried shrimps that gives it the rich and creamy soup base while the latter is sharp and tangy, due to the appearance of tamarind and has an intense fishy stock made with mackerels.
For any of you who is familiar to the PROPER Katong Laksa, your eagle eyes will immediately detect the lack of a certain crucial ingredient that is known as the blood cockles in Singapore or see hum as the local would called it. Well, I will salute you as your spider sense in indeed tingling. Just like in my previous effort of the Char Kway Teow........this exotic shell life is too bloody hard to get hold of (uh..hummm forgive the pun) outside Southeast Asia. Although the news on the street is that there might be a way round it so if you do know where I can get my desperate hands on some see hum, do get in touch.
I did however, managed to secure the all-important daun kesom or laksa leaves/Vietnemese mint. I have stumble upon a pot of this during my recent visit to my favourite Maltby Street Market. Imagine my surprise and without any hesitation, I bought this love plant and into my garden it went. After the recent spell of miserable rainy days, at least one positive thing came out of it....my daun kesom is blossoming into a fine looking plant before my very eyes. The leaves gave the dish a very distinctive peppery and zingy freshness that will complement this noodle dish beautifully, however, if you can't get hold of it, just leave it out and you'll still have yourself a very tasty bowl of warming noodles broth.
Ingredients (Serves 4)
50g ikan bilis (dried anchovies)
4 tbsp sunflower oil
550ml coconut milk
1 tsp sugar
sea salt, to taste
12 taupok / fried tofu puffs, cut into halves
200g dried thick bee hoon, soaked in hot water for 20 minutes, drained
12 cooked tiger prawns
2-3 cake of fried fishcakes (those from Chinese supermarket, not your typical English fishcake), sliced
a large handful of bean sprouts, blanched in hot water
2 soft-boiled eggs, cut into halves
a small handful of daun kesom, leaves picked and finely chopped
Sambal belacan, to serve
Fot the rempah/spice paste:
12-15 large dried chillies, soaked in hot water for 20 minutes (depending on how spicy you like it)
50g hae bee / dried shrimps, soaked in hot water for 20 minutes
2 stalk lemongrass, cut into rings
1 cm square of belacan/shrimp paste, toasted in a dry pan or oven
10 buah keras/candlenuts or macadamia nuts
2in length of fresh galangal, skinned and chopped
1 large onion, skinned and chopped
4 clove garlic, skinned and crushed
1 tbsp coriander seeds
1 tbsp ground turmeric
In a pan, cook the ikan bilis/anchovies in the water for 30 minutes to make a stock. Strain and discard the fish.
Pound all the ingredients for the rempah/spice paste into a paste using a mortar and pestle or alternatively in a food processor,
To prepare the gravy, heat the oil over medium heat in pan and then sauté the rempah for 2-3 minutes, until fragrant. Add the fish stock and then the coconut milk and gently bring to the boil. Add sugar and season with salt to taste. Leave to simmer for 10-15 minutes and add the taupok/tofu puffs
To serve, tip a small handful of noodles in a large bowl. Top with the prawns, fishcakes,beansprouts, egg and spoon in a cuople of ladlespoonful of soup. Scattered with the chop daun kesom and serve with some Sambal belacan. | <urn:uuid:6425779d-d27c-4ac7-8e4e-ff6fd4002f0c> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://www.feasttotheworld.com/2012/08/nostalgia-in-bowl-nyonya-laksa-lemak.html | 2018-06-19T06:55:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267861980.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20180619060647-20180619080647-00517.warc.gz | en | 0.938072 | 1,087 | [
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Hi, i´m Claudia (29 years old), i live with my two cats in Germany and i got two big hobbies: cooking & eating ;-).
My blog – called „kulinarikus“ – contains recipes for breakfast, salads, ideas for warm meals – with meat, fish or veggie – everything is allowed. I also love it to bake, but i´m puristic in decoration 😉
At my workplace i also have to do a lot with food – I´m nutrionist & food coach and working since seven years at a big resort for healthiness and rehabilitation. So i got a lot of knowledge about food ingredients and their effects on our body. On my blog i try to incorporate these things.
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The stage was set, the doors were locked, and the hall was packed full of people. As the clock struck 7, the doors opened and over 980 students filled Talley auditorium to watch The Maze. We had spent the last week getting the word out all over the whole NC State campus about the coming of “The Maze”, from posters to social media to chalking the sidewalks, and it seemed to have worked based on the turnout. During the day of the show, Jim and a few other illusionists who travel with the Maze, go throughout the campus doing crazy illusions and inviting people to the show that night.
The Maze features an illusionist named Jim Munroe who wows students with his illusions, challenges them with the question “How do you know what you think is true is really true and not merely an illusion?”, and openly shares his story of battling cancer and that leading to him discovering truth in the person of Jesus. He then boldly challenges them to make a decision to follow Christ, who is “the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6), and to place their faith in Him. 59 students made the decision to place their faith in Christ last Wednesday night, which is amazing! 76 students indicated that they wanted to be involved in a Maze group, a small group Bible study where they talk more about the show and about Jesus.
One student made this comment about the show:
“When he talked about being at the end of his rope – it hit me. That is me. I am there and I need Christ. I want to pray and surrender my life to Christ right now.”
After the show is over, our staff and student leaders enter all the students’ info that they collected from cards into a database that we use to followup with each student who indicated that they made a decision, want to be in a Maze group, or want to talk more about what Jim said and Christianity. Our prayer is that these decisions and numbers aren’t just that, but that we get these students connected into Maze groups, small group Bible studies, churches, and other groups of Christian community where they can grow in this new relationship with Christ.
Will you pray with us that this happens? Will you also pray that the Lord continues to work on hearts at NC State, calling people into a relationship with Jesus, whether they did or didn’t come to the Maze? We have already seen the Lord doing big things on campus, but we are praying for so much more. These years are so crucial in students’ lives, and we pray that we get to hear about how college was an influential part of a student learning to walk with the Lord for a lifetime. Thank you for partnering with us through financial support and prayer to make this happen! | <urn:uuid:b7e256b2-9f82-40f0-9aaf-1b8d3180ce95> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://www.edandapril.com/maze-magic | 2018-06-20T07:52:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267863489.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20180620065936-20180620085936-00197.warc.gz | en | 0.981801 | 580 | [
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Nikon D5600 Conclusion
Nikon D5600 Review Conclusion
Nikon 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR AF-S at 310mm (465mm equivalent), f/5.6, 1/500s, ISO 160.
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In early 2015, Nikon introduced their smallest and lightest DSLR to date in the form of the Nikon D5500, which combined a very good 24-megapixel APS-C sensor with an articulating touchscreen display. We were very impressed with the entry-level DSLR so when Nikon announced its successor, the D5600, we were interested to see what upgrades Nikon would bring to entry to mid-level market. The answer proved to be something of a mixed bag. The addition of Nikon SnapBridge may be a major upgrade to some but to others, the sharing features aren't reason enough for upgrading. While there may not be a lot of incentives for D5500 owners to spring for the D5600, for users looking to purchase their first DSLR, the D5600 represents an excellent value and is a great overall performer. Let's look at how the Nikon D5600 performed in our laboratory and real-world testing.
Nikon D5600 Shooting Experience
Image Quality: Same great performance as its predecessor
Considering that the D5600 uses the same imaging pipeline as its predecessor, it should come as no shock that image quality is virtually identical for the two compact Nikon DSLR cameras. However, that's not a bad thing at all as we praised the D5500 for its excellent image quality.
Nikon 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G DX VR AF-P at 28mm (42mm equivalent), f/8.0, 1/400s, ISO 125.
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Considering the D5600 against entry to mid-level DSLR competition from Canon -- the Rebel T7i specifically -- we find that the D5600 offers a sharper, crisper image thanks in part to its lack of optical low-pass filter and more aggressive sharpening. The Canon might offer better color accuracy, but you're splitting hairs at that point and both offer pleasing color rendition. As you increase the ISO, the D5600 separates itself even more from its rival, mostly thanks to better default processing. On the topic of high ISO, the D5600 impresses for an APS-C camera, producing a very good 13 x 19 inch print at ISO 1600 and a good 11 x 14 print at ISO 3200. Even at ISO 12,800, the D5600 can make a fine 5 x 7 print, which is admirable for a DSLR within this price range.
When looking at other aspects of image quality, the D5600 continues to impress. Its mean saturation is a bit higher than average and its hue accuracy is near average. Resolution is very high, with the camera producing sharp JPEGs straight from the camera with processed RAW files offering a bit more detail. The in-camera processing is fairly aggressive, though, resulting in some edge-enhancement artifacts but we think it's a good compromise between sharpness and artifacts for its target audience.
Nikon 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G DX VR AF-P at 29mm (43mm equivalent), f/8.0, 1/15s, ISO 100.
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Dynamic range is an area of considerable strength for the Nikon D5600's 24-megapixel sensor. While we no longer perform our own dynamic range tests, the results at DxOMark for the D5600 shed light on the sensor quality. The overall score of 84 is the same as the score for the flagship DX camera, the Nikon D500. At base ISO, the D5600 offers a very impressive 14 EV of dynamic range, nearly an entire EV above the Canon EOS 80D (the T7i has yet to be tested).
Overall, the Nikon D5600 offers excellent image quality not only for an APS-C camera, but especially for a camera at its price point of around $700 for the body. The 24-megapixel sensor captures sharp images with good resolution across a wide range of ISO speeds and offers very good dynamic range performance, particularly at base ISO. While the D5600's image quality is virtually identical to that of its predecessor, that's a good thing in this case as both cameras deliver great imaging performance.
When using the optical viewfinder, the Nikon D5600 uses a phase-detect autofocus system with 39 autofocus points, nine of which are cross-type. While the autofocus points don't cover a large portion of the frame, the autofocus performance is quick and consistent. Low light autofocus performance is good too, with the camera able to focus unassisted down around -1 EV. With the AF assist light enabled, the camera can focus in complete darkness provided your subject is close enough and there's enough contrast. During Live View, the D5600's contrast-detect autofocus is not as fast, although it is still reasonably quick, especially when using an AF-P lens.
Nikon 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR AF-S at 500mm (750mm equivalent), f/5.6, 1/400s, ISO 900.
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The Nikon D5600 does offer improved performance over its predecessor with respect to startup time, autofocus speed and single-shot cycle times, but otherwise it's fair to expect much of the same. Capable of shooting at around 5 frames per second (4 fps if using 14-bit RAW instead of 12-bit RAW), the D5600 is reasonably quick for this level of DSLR camera. In real-world shooting, the speeds are sufficient for many situations, although sports shooters may want more speed. Buffer depths are an issue when capturing RAW images because RAW buffer depth was tested at 8 and 5 frames for 14-bit RAW and 14-bit RAW + JPEG respectively (shooting 12-bit RAW files will increase those figures). The buffer clears quickly, though, in only a few seconds, so the camera proved agile to shoot despite its shallow buffer depths. For shooters demanding more buffer depth, you can shoot up to a very generous 100 frames in a burst when recording only JPEG images.
Overall, the camera handled and performed well in the lab and for real-world shooting situations. The battery life is particularly impressive, with the D5600 offering an excellent 970 shots when using the viewfinder, which should prove sufficient for most shooting excursions. For photographers looking to use Live View or take advantage of SnapBridge, a second battery might be a good idea as those features can decrease battery life.
Nikon 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR AF-S at 330mm (495mm equivalent), f/5.6, 1/500s, ISO 360.
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Video is not a highlight of the D5600, but the camera does offer good quality HD video recording. The camera can record 1920 x 1080 progressive scan video at up to 60 frames per second, which is in line with its similarly-priced DSLR competition but lagging behind some of its mirrorless competition. A neat and useful feature is the articulating touchscreen, which can be rotated and extended to the side of the camera body, allowing you to record video of yourself while ensuring good framing, which is particularly useful for vloggers.
The touchscreen generally works well during video recording, allowing easy movement of the focus point across the screen. When using an AF-P lens, such as the 18-55mm AF-P kit lens, the D5600 offers quiet and fairly quick autofocus during Live View and video recording. The 10 minute video clip limit for 1080p60 at High Quality and 20 minute limit for 1080p60 at Normal Quality are perhaps a bit of a downside for some (29'59" for all modes is typical and would certainly be better), but the camera does offer a good range of control during video recording and solid overall video performance.
Nikon has been including SnapBridge in nearly all of its recent cameras and SnapBridge functionality is the big new feature for the Nikon D5600. Being able to quickly share images is important for many photographers, so the inclusion of built-in Wi-Fi with Bluetooth is a welcome addition for the D5600. The D5500 offered Wi-Fi too, but SnapBridge functionality via Bluetooth is new. Basically, SnapBridge allows for an always-on Bluetooth connection that can be used to automatically transfer images from your camera to your compatible smart device. There is also remote control functionality available and manual image transferring. While Bluetooth is not a fast way to transfer images, automatic transferring happens in the background so the slow speeds are usually not a big issue.
Nikon D5600 Build Quality and Handling
Like its predecessor, the Nikon D5600 is a small, compact DSLR. You can refer to our Field Test for more hands-on experience, but the main takeaway is that the camera body and its articulating touchscreen display work well in the field and the camera is comfortable to use for extended periods of time. Its optical viewfinder offers approximately 95% frame coverage, which is typical for its class and matches with Nikon's specifications. If you need 100% coverage, the 3.2-inch touchscreen offers close to 100% coverage, which is very good.
On the topic of the touchscreen display, a neat feature can be utilized after adjusting the default Assign Touch Fn settings in the camera's menu system -- which is quite easy to navigate, by the way. You can use the right half of the touchscreen in its normal position to select the focus point with your thumb when shooting through the optical viewfinder, and the entire screen when the monitor is extended. This feature was available on the Nikon D5500 as well, but Nikon has made some minor improvements in how the touchscreen integrates with the optical viewfinder on the D5600.
Overall, the Nikon D5600 continues in the tradition of the D5500 by being a small, compact and lightweight DSLR with good overall handling and a very good articulating touchscreen display.
Nikon D5600 Summary: "If it ain't broke"
The Nikon D5600 is not packed with new features and improvements when compared to its predecessor, but that doesn't mean that the D5600 is not an impressive camera. Quite the opposite is true, in fact, as there were not a lot of areas where the D5500 struggled compared to its entry to mid-level DSLR competition. The D5600 continues to offer excellent image quality and produces sharp, pleasing images throughout a wide range of situations. The touchscreen display works well and the autofocus performance is even better than before. With the new Nikon SnapBridge functionality, the D5600 is a great option for those looking to quickly share their images on social media. While that new feature may not be a compelling reason for upgrading from the D5500 to the D5600, the Nikon D5600 taken on the whole is an excellent DSLR in the sub-$1,000 category (the most expensive D5600 kit is one with an 18-140mm lens and that comes in at just under $1,000), making it an easy Dave's Pick.
Pros & Cons
- Compact and lightweight camera body
- Same great image quality as the D5500
- Excellent high ISO performance for its class
- Superb dynamic range performance
- Impressive in-camera processing
- Very good articulating 3.2-inch touchscreen
- Good integration of touchscreen with OVF shooting
- Reliable and quick autofocus performance
- Faster AF, start-up and single-shot speeds than its predecessor
- Decent 5 fps burst speed (when shooting JPEGs or 12-bit RAW)
- Generous 100 frame JPEG buffer lets you keep shooting in burst mode
- Fast buffer clearing (with fast UHS-I card
- Excellent battery life
- Newer AF-P 18-55mm kit lens offers quicker and quieter live view/movie autofocus compared to an AF-S lens
- Nikon SnapBridge functionality
- NFC for easier pairing with Android devices
- Time-lapse movies
- External mic jack
- Not many improvements compared to the D5500, with some downgrades
- Shallow buffer depth when shooting RAW images, though slightly improved over predecessor
- Shooting 14-bit RAW images slows burst rate down to 4 fps
- While typical for its class, viewfinder offers only 95% coverage
- Auto and Incandescent white balance settings too warm in tungsten lighting
- Bluetooth connection can be slow
- No longer supports an IR remote
- Reduced Wi-Fi range compared to D5500
- No 4K video recording
- Live view operation still not as refined as cameras with hybrid AF
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QUARTZSITE, AZ FACTS & WEATHER
“Q” is barely 18 miles east of the Colorado River. Q is located in the Southwest corner of Arizona, surrounded by open desert, amazing sunsets and magnificent mountains. Quartzsite has long been a crossroads for an array of friendly people.
INTERSTATE ACCESS: I-10 runs directly through Quartzsite, intersecting with U.S. Route 95 (runs N and S).
INTERSTATE 10 EXITS: Take Exit 17 from California, take exit 19 from Phoenix
COORDINATES: Quartzsite is located at 33° 39′ 54″ N 114° 13′ 15″ W.
YEAR-ROUND POPULATION: 3,677 People
POPULATION IN MID-JANUARY-FEB SEASON: 1 Million
ELEVATION: 897 FEET
TOTAL ARE: 36.3 SQUARE MILES
TIME ZONE: MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME
ZIP CODES: 85346, 85359
AREA CODE: 928
MOST PROMINENT FEATURE: 92 CAMPGROUNDS
Quartzsite is a popular recreational vehicle camping area for winter visitors, and tourism is the major contributor to Quartzsite’s economy. Nine major gem, mineral, and 15 general swap meet shows are very popular tourist attractions, attracting about 1.5 million people annually. Many new events are emerging all over town as Rock Fiesta is born in March, 2016.
THE QUARTZSITE SPORTS, VACATION & RV SHOW
This place goes nuts once a year for 2 months. This one fact qualifies Q to be host of the first Southwest U.S. Latino Rock Music Festival and Campout.
According to the Arizona Highway Department, as many as 750,000 to 1,000,000 people, mostly in RV’s, converge on this little desert town for the rock, gem and mineral shows, and the numerous flea markets and the Quartzsite Sports, Vacation & RV Show.
Started over 40 years ago it’s now billed as “The Largest Gathering Of RVers in the World”… Quartzsite is also called the “Largest Parking Lot in the World”. Amazingly this entire event is free to attend!
TOWN HISTORY EST. 1897 INCORPORATED 1989
Named Quartzsite because quartz were discovered in the area, the name ultimately evolved to “Quartzsite” due to an error in spelling.
Established as a stage coach stop on the site of old Fort Tyson in 1866, Quartzsite is now internationally famous for its annual Rock & Mineral shows started by the Quartzsite Improvement association, with the first “POW WOW” rock & gem show sparking Quartzsite’s status of “World Famous Rock & Gem shows.” Today there are 10 themed shows with a variety of vendors. Some stay for a few days, others a few months! Quartzsite’s history is rich with prospecting & mining form 1880’s to early 1900’s. Even today’s modern miners and prospectors are drawn to “try their luck” …many find nuggets, gold dust & specimen quality gold bearing quartz. More varied sports and entertainment events are planned for 2016.
Operated by the Quartzsite Historical Society Inc. The original adobe stage station was built in 1866 by Charley Tyson at its present location. It was an important way station on the California – Arizona line because of excellent water and grass for the horses. Miners and freighters, hauling mining equipment and military supplies from the river port at Ehrenberg, AZ also stopped here.
The Quartzsite Historical Society opened Tyson’s Well Museum in February 1980, after extensive restoration work. The original structurally sound walls were retained and others were rebuilt. A shell of stabilized adobe brick was built around the original walls to protect them.
The desert in the southwest U.S. was a problem for transporting cargo in the mid-1800s, so in 1856, Secretary of War Jefferson Davis imported over 30 camels and hired camel drivers. One of them was a Syrian named Haji Ali.
U.S. soldiers called Ali “Hi Jolly”. The famous camel herd with Hi Jolly is linked constitutes an interesting sidelight of Arizona history… Major Henry C Wayne of the U.S. Army and Lt. D.D. Porter (Later a distinguished Admiral in the Civil War) visited the Levant with the store ship supply and procured 33 camels, which were landed at Indianola Texas February 10, 1856. 41 were added on second voyage…with the first camels came as caretaker “Hi Jolly” who became famous. His Greek name was Philip Tedro on the Beale expedition in 1857 to open a wagon road across Arizona from Fort Defiance to California. The camels under Hi Jolly proved their worth.
The Camel Corps was never fully tried out because soon after its formation, the Civil War started, the Camel experiment was dropped. The War department abandoned the experiment and the camels were released into the desert near Quartzsite to fend for themselves, chiefly roaming this particular section. They survived for many years creating interest and excitement ever since.
Hi Jolly remained in the Quartzsite area making a living as scout, packer, seller of water and trinkets to tourists and delivered the “jackass mail”. He became a well-loved member of the town so the residents made this pyramid when he died in 1902.
Quartzsite lies on the western portion of the La Posa Plain along Tyson Wash. The Dome Rock Mountains overlook the town on the west with Granite Mountain on the southwest edge of the town and Oldman Mountain on the northwest. The Plomosa Mountains lie across the La Posa Plain to the east.
Q Mtn. is the backdrop of the Rock Fiesta site bordering the Southern border of Desert Gardens Showgrounds.
There is a medical center staffed year-round, and two medical centers staffed by doctors from fall to spring with reduced staff during the summer.
Ambulance service is available in Quartzsite. Full medical facilities are available in Blythe, CA (22 miles away) and Parker, AZ (35 miles away). A medivac heliport is located at the Quartzsite Fire Dept. with 24-hour EMT service.
Horizon Community Bank is Located at 225 N. Central (Hwy 95). Four banks are available in Parker and three in Blythe, CA. ATMs are available throughout Quartzsite.
Quartzsite is governed by a Mayor, Town Council, Town Manager and Town Clerk. Q is served by the Town Police Department with eight officers, the Department of Public Safety and the La Paz County Sheriff’s Department. The fire department has full-time and part-time personnel.
GREYHOUND BUS to Q
From L.A. and Phoenix to Q lands you at PILOT TRAVEL CENTERS 1201 W MAIN ST, Quartzsite, AZ 85346. This stop is located close to Desert Gardens Showgrounds.
FOOD & FAST FOOD
Many fast food restaurants, Love’s Truck Stop and Pilot Travel Center, and a number of good restaurants incl. Silly’s Pizza & Bar are located on the West side of I-10 on Main Street in Q.
The closest Walmart Supercenter is in 35 mi. north in Parker.
QUARTZSITE ARIZONA CLIMATE
The town has a hot desert climate with mild to warm winters from November to March and hot to extreme summers for the rest of the year. Mid-March averages 80° during the day and 60° at night.
There is very little precipitation: only 3.51 inches falls in an average year
AVG. RAINY DAYS IN MARCH: 2.6”
Local Newspapers http://paloverdevalleytimes.com/ Quartzsite Times and Palo Verde Times
Local Radio KBUX – 94.3 FM Quartzsite, AZ Classic Hits http://kbuxradio.com/
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The four Midland small businesses to watch this year
Published 7:00 pm, Friday, January 26, 2007
Four Midland County small businesses were chosen as part of 2007 Michigan 50 Companies to Watch: C M Rubber Recycling, Caltech Industries, SPACE Inc. and The Savant Group. They will be honored at an awards banquet in April at the Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center, East Lansing.
The 50 Companies to Watch Awards are granted by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and the Michigan Small Business and Technology Development Center in partnership with the Edward Lowe Foundation. They recognize second-stage small businesses with great accomplishments and significant growth potential.
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2 bedroom apartment for saleHolmwood House, Redditch
Offers in Region of
- Grade ii listed building
- Two bedroom
- EPC rating E
- Twin garage
Centrick Property is pleased to offer to the market this two bedroom apartment in a converted Victorian gentlemans residence. Holmwood House on Purshall Close briefly comprises of entrance hallway, lounge, kitchen, master bedroom with en-suite, a further bedroom and a bathroom. The property also benefits from twin garages with electric up and over doors. The property is offered with no onward chain. For more information or to arrange a viewing call one of the team on 03330 124 134
Lobby Area - A communal entrance hallway with a feature fireplace, a staircase leading up to the first floor landing:
Inner Hallway - With a door to the airing cupboard, two storage heaters, split level hallway, a dado rail, coving to the ceiling, intercom system and doors to
Lounge - 19'8 x17'9 (5.99m x 5.41m) - With two stone framed windows to the rear elevation of the apartment, a stone framed window to the side elevation of the apartment, four storage heaters, a feature open fire place and coving to the ceiling.
Kitchen - 13'5 x 10'2 (4.09m x 3.10m) - With a range of fitted wall, drawer and base units, a fitted sink and drainer unit with mixer tap over, tiling to the splash back areas, a fitted oven and hob with extractor over, a fitted microwave, a integrated fridge/ freezer, a storage heater, a stone flamed window to the side elevation and five point directional lighting.
Bedroom One - 13'5 x 8'1 (4.09m x 2.46m) - With a stone framed window to the side elevation of the apartment, a storage heater, a built in wardrobe and a door to the en-suite.
En-Suite - 11'5 x 8'1 (3.48m x 2.46m) - With a stone framed window to the side elevation of the property. A suite comprising of a low level W.C., a bidet, a pedestal wash hand basin and a corner bath with a shower over, a storage heater and tiling to the splash back areas.
Bedroom Two - 10'3 x 9'8 (3.12m x 2.95m) - With a stone framed window to the side elevation of the apartment, a storage heater and a built in wardrobe.
Bathroom - 7' x 5' 7 (2.13m x 1.52m 0.18m) - With a stone framed window, a suite comprising of a low level W.C., a pedestal wash hand basin, a panel bath, tiling to the splash back areas and a storage heater.
These particulars, whilst believed to be accurate are set out as a general outline only for guidance and do not constitute any part of an offer or contract and are produced in good faith and set out as a general guide only. The intending purchasers should not rely on them as statements of representation of fact, but must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise as to their accuracy. No employee of Centrick Property (and their Joint Agents where applicable) has the authority to make or give any representation or warranty in respect of the property. Subjective comments in these details imply the opinion of the selling Agent at the time these details were prepared. Naturally, the opinions of purchasers may differ.
For rental properties like most other agents, Centrick Property has to charge some administration fees these include: charge for referencing and additional tenants in order to process your application once you have chosen your ideal property. Inventory fee is charged separately. We try and keep these costs as low as possible and have a price match promise with other agents fees in most areas. Your property advisor will run through any applicable fees in detail with you at your viewing.
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West Side Story is a monument. As a child, my grandma didn't let me watch the ending as she thought it too sad- as a result, I became obsessed with the movie, and later went through a period of watching it every week, sad ending included. I loved that Richard Beymer & Russ Tamblyn ended up playing in "Twin Peaks".
farewell andrew! :(
yeah, those prints are great ;-)
great prints.I agree with you re: gangs
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FIFA released the contenders for the Ballon D’Or Award and named to the list are some year-in, year-out contenders, some surprises, and some glaring omissions.
The one thing that FIFA fails again to do is to properly define the award. The basic criterion is to award the best male player to have had the best in the previous year.
But how do you define the best player? Is it through the most tangible result, that is through scoring goals? If that is the case, that eliminates goalkeepers, defenders, and probably 90% of all midfielders.
The previous season encompasses club and country tour of duties. I would like to recommend that FIFA do the following:
1. Separate the Ball D’Or Award – one for goal scorers, one for playmakers, one for defenders, one for goalkeepers, and one for managers.
2. Place all pertinent statistics. For scorers and playmakers, its goals and assists. For defenders, it could also be goals, tackles, and perhaps, stops, a statistic that should be introduced in defining a defender’s worth. For goalkeepers, it’s saves, clean sheets, and goals conceded. For managers, it’s wins and the turnaround from the previous season.
FIFA has introduced a whole slew of statistics from ball possession to pass completion rate to tackles and right down to distance traveled! Until these stats are made better use in determining a player’s worth, then it’s all bunk. It’s probably the one sport that doesn’t make use of too much statistics; that is why clubs generally don’t want to have to do anything with sabermetrics.
I tried finding pertinent stats to all the 23 players named on the list and obviously it is still lacking.
Gareth Bale: Wales – 3 goals; Real Madrid – 22 goals
Karim Benzema: France – 7 goals, Real Madrid – 24 goals
Diego Costa: Spain – 1 goal, Atletico Madrid – 36 goals
Thibault Courtois: Belgium – 10 clean sheets, Atletico Madrid – 24 conceded goals
Angel Di Maria: Argentina – 2 goals, Real Madrid – 11 goals
Mario Gotze: Germany – 6 goals, Bayern Munich – 15 goals
Eden Hazard: Belgium – 1 goal, Chelsea – 17 goals
Zlatan Ibrahimovic: Sweden – 2 goals, Paris Saint-Germain – 41 goals
Andres Iniesta: Spain – 1 goal, Barcelona – 3 goals
Toni Kroos: Germany – 3 goals, Bayern Munich – 4 goals
Philipp Lahm: Germany – zero goals, Bayern Munich – 1 goal
Javier Mascherano: Argentina – 1 goal, Barcelona – zero goals
Lionel Messi: Argentina – 7 goals, Barcelona – 41 goals
Thomas Muller: Germany – 8 goals, Bayern Munich – 26 goals
Manuel Neuer: Germany – 86.2 save completion rate, 4 conceded goals; Bayern Munich – 25 clean sheets
Neymar: Brazil – 13 goals, Barcelona – 15 goals
Paul Pogba: France – 5 goals, Juventus – 9 goals
Sergio Ramos: Spain – zero goals, Real Madrid – 7 goals
Arjen Robben: Netherlands – 4 goals, Bayern Munich – 21 goals
James Rodriguez: Colombia – 8 goals; Monaco – 10 goals
Cristiano Ronaldo: Portugal – 11 goals, Real Madrid – 53 goals
Bastian Schweinsteiger: Germany – zero goals, Bayern Munich – 8 goals
Yaya Toure: Ivory Coast -1 goal; Manchester City – 24 goals
Conspicuously missing from that list is Luis Suarez, who scored five goals for Uruguay and 31 for Liverpool. Sergio Aguero, who scored three goals for country and 28 for his club. And where is Robin Van Persie, who scored 14 goals for the Netherlands and 18 for Manchester United?
It seems that those who came up with the list have selective memory.
Why is James Rodriguez on the list? Because he has a terrific World Cup? He wasn’t great with Monaco. If that is the case then probably that justifies Paul Pogba’s inclusion. But there’s the rub because Andres Iniesta is on the list. Didn’t Spain bomb out in the first round of play?
The list isn’t that justifiable and panders to expected while paying lip service to certain football associations so that they have a representative, never mind if they have a chance in hell of winning the award.
What chance does that fantastic Thibault Courtois have of winning it? I think he is certainly much better than Manuel Neuer who has literally the German national team playing ahead of him in Bayern Munich.
Taking a look at that list, if goals are the sexy stat that voters look out for, then Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Leo Messi, Thomas Muller, Arjen Robben, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Yaya Toure should be on that short list.
Again, in my opinion, the selection process is un-democratic and unfair, even to the players on the list. Criteria should be set and defined and presented in a very clear and concise manner – and it should be divided. Perhaps you they can simply call them the Ballon D’Or Awards with the Pele Award going to the top goal scorer. And perhaps the Johan Cruyff Award going to the Best Midfielder (you can also name it the Alfredo Di Stefano Award). The Beckenbauer Award goes to the Best Defender. The Lev Yashin or the Dino Zoff Award goes to the Best Goalkeeper.
The Best Manager Award is again… tricky. There are 10 men named to this list. Carlo Ancelotti (Italy/Real Madrid CF), Antonio Conte (Italy/Juventus FC/Italy national team), Pep Guardiola (Spain/FC Bayern Munich), Juergen Klinsmann (Germany/ USA national team), Joachim Loew (Germany/Germany national team), Jose Mourinho (Portugal/Chelsea FC), Manuel Pellegrini (Chile/Manchester City FC), Alejandro Sabella (Argentina/Argentina national team), Diego Simeone (Argentina/Atletico Madrid), Louis van Gaal (Netherlands/Netherlands national team/Manchester United FC).
You have separate managers for club and for country. Again FIFA fails in this regard.
Of the 10 on that list, four were head coaches for a country – Klinsmann for the United States of America, Joachim Loew for Germany, Alejandro Sabella for Argentina, and Van Gaal for the Netherlands. The rest managed only one club.
Now why is Van Gall listed under Manchester United when he wasn’t coaching them the previous season? These awards are given with regards to what was done in the last year. If it’s MUFC, then he’s definitely out of this list.
Again, FIFA fails in providing consistency.
However, the die is cast.
And as usual, it will come down to Lionel Messi (who really didn’t deserve to win the World Cup MVP Award) or Cristiano Ronaldo.
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When is it that the blue collar working man can relax?
The average guy does not mind working, we at least I can only speak for my generation, I am 59.
I think for those of us that grew up in the 60's and 70's and 80's grew up knowing that work is a necessity , so we went to work. Some of us went to college but many of the circle I hung with could not afford it, we came from mill working families that made enough to hopefully buy a home and put food on the table. College was not an option.
So we went to work, washing dishes or working landscaping anything to make a paycheck. From there watched and learned and tried to take advantage of any opportunity.
Fast forward 40 years and many of us are heading into our 60's or have entered our golden years- so the question is when do we relax?
I think it is only fair to give of your self for 40 years and then take time to do whatever it is that you WANT to- not NEED to.
But can we ?
It is getting more and more difficult to grab that brass ring but we have to try.
First thing we need to do is learn that LESS IS MORE.
The younger generation have to learn that a used car is ok, that hand me downs are fine and if you cannot afford it do not buy it.
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Monticello Road is a community arts project in Charlottesville, Virginia. Through photography and a series of public events and conversations, we explore how an art can be an essential, integral and everyday part of a healthy community.
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Sunday, May 22, 2016
Moblizing by Moosifying
It was impossible to choose a best photo from this event but Ms Dogwood dunking the ex-mayor was typical. [more]
In case you ever needed another reason to go Moose’s Restaurant (and there were already plenty), they just did a super-cool fundraiser for the Shelter for Help in Emergency.
The fun unfolded in three parts. They kicked off on Friday (the 13th) with a doughnut eating contest. Saturday morning (the 14th) they had a block party that included music, dancing, a craft fair, a race car you could touch (and pose with) and—best of all—a dunk tank that was extremely busy. Saturday night was a concert at the Jefferson School. The fundraiser netted $3050 and lots of fun and community fellowship.
When I first visited Moose’s (then called Moore’s Creek) I was afraid to go inside 1) because they share a building with a gun shop and 2) because there were a million police cars parked outside. That seemed like a bad combination, but come to find out that the cruisers were there because it’s the best short-order restaurant in Charlottesville. They all stop there on their way into town or between shifts.
I'm so glad I got past my initial hesitation: that opened a thousand doors and made this project (Monticello Road) what it is.
You never know who you'll meet at Moose's: stars of stage, beauty queens, country/western rockers and tons of regular people.
The food is amazing, but the atmosphere inside (which is quite different from the humble exterior) is great and proprietors Moose and Ms Amy set a tremendous tone of mutual respect and shared fun. It might be the only place I’ve ever been where truly EVERYBODY is welcome. Seriously: go there now.
I’ve seen police officers and daredevil race car drivers breaking bread--or rather laying into pancakes and grilled biscuits--together. I bet they go there to reconcile after adjudicating a moving violation.
We’d be in good shape if we had a few more places like Moose’s. They're quiet leaders and have figured out how to solve some of our trickiest problems.
Get a sense of Mooses by visiting their Facebook page. Be sure to peruse their extensive archive of "Moosification" pictures: a who's-who of wise eaters of the region and beyond. Also check out my earlier profile of "Doc" Frazier, a local dirt track hero whose son is now carrying the family torch. Father and son were both were big parts of the domestic violence benefit. Then go eat there! | <urn:uuid:14138538-a584-4af3-85f3-646383953031> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://www.monticelloroad.com/2016/05/moblizing-by-moosifying.html | 2018-06-24T06:54:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267866888.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20180624063553-20180624083553-00197.warc.gz | en | 0.966194 | 632 | [
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We could check several things to see whats cause. The KB in the link : https://kb.bmc.com/infocenter/index?page=content&id=KA307612&actp=search&viewlocale=en_US&searchid=1321509466109 talks about all the probable causes of this error.
On how many machines are you getting this error message? I have worked on a similar problem in the past and the KB Talks about the resolution.
Hope this helps.
we see the similiar error in our environment and this is occuring after the reboot of a server.
We see this particular problem with RSCD 8.1 SP2.
Besides the long and detailed description in the KB article i believe this was fixed in one of the patches for RSCD 8.1 SP2.
We are currently using 8.1 SP2 - Patch4 and never ran into this problem again.
The issue that you are talking about was fixed in 8.1 SP2Patch4 and 8.1 SP1 Patch3 and 8.0 SP10 or SP11.
You can also check the registry key
In regedit32, Use the Registry Editor to save, delete and replace value entry CrashOnAuditFail, under
Values the key can be set to:
0 - Anyone may log on. This is the default value.
1 - Anyone may log on if the system can audit the events and write the events to the security event log. If the security event log is full, the value for the CrashOnAuditFail key is changed to 2, and the server crashes.
2 - Only administrators may log on.( This is the problem.)
I checked registry key value & it was 0 only.
Uninstallation & Installation has resolved issue in my case.
Thanks for help !!!
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Perfect. I think this is the issue that was was fixed in 8.1 SP2Patch4and 8.1 SP1 Patch3 and 8.0 SP10 or SP11.
was this happening during a reboot and/or deploy ?
I have this happening during a deploy:
06/12/12 13:03:18.280 ERROR rscd - SERVER 1276 ÿÿÿÿÝù‚|”¼æw (???): ???: [listen_thread:_bl_create_user] :This operation is only allowed on the primary domain controller of the domain.(Could not create the BladeLogic unprivileged user. Expect failures in userprivilege mapping mode.)
06/12/12 13:03:18.296 ERROR rscd - SERVER 1276 (???): ???: listen_thread ERROR: 9002:Internal Error- Caught exeception.
06/12/12 13:03:18.296 ERROR rscd - SERVER 1276 (???): ???: UnInitAgent:DsServerRegisterSpn(DELETE_SPN_OP) failed 0x00045b.
And have no idea why... It is only using local users so I'm not sure why it's referring to the DC.
ERROR rscd - PBBSAA335 2560 SYSTEM (???): ???: [listen_thread:RSCD_WinUser::logonPassword:LsaLogonUser()] : Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. (BladeLogicRSCD@PBBSAA335)
The original issue was with BladeLogiRSCD user account, so unisntalling and reinstalling the agent fixed the issue by removing this account. In the future you can just delete the BladeLogicRSCD user account and restart the agent. I would delete the user like this:
- In System Properties / Advanced / User profiles delete the BladeLogicRSCD account (this deletes the files and registry for this user)
- Delete the BladeLogicRSCD user account from the Users and Groups
- Restart the agent.
To answer the question abotu the agent lockout after reboot, that could be because the dependant services have not started, causing the user lockout.. Make sure that BladeLogic RSCD Agent service has two dependencies Netlogon and Server, and if not, run this command:
sc config RSCDsvc depend= Netlogon/LanmanServer
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Loi Krathong Festival, Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand.
The great thing about visiting Chiang Mai during the Loi Krathong Festival is that there are things going on all over the city at all hours of the day - activities are not just confined to the lantern release near the river.
Plenty of activity centers around Thapae Gate in the old city, considered by many folks to be the beating heart of Chiang Mai. Every night of the festival there were live bands playing, impromptu lantern releases, and dance performances by local Thai youngsters - most of whom wanted to have their photo taken by the many camera-toting tourists.
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OverviewOne of the most important components in the transformation to digital learning is ensuring that educators have adequate training to effectively use digital tools and applications. Sustainable professional learning models, geared specifically to support teachers in student centered, digital learning environments can positively impact the teaching and learning experiences. Increased digital learning opportunities for students and educators demands a systemic approach to professional learning that supports teachers throughout their careers. Professional learning that takes place as an ongoing process, based on relevant research is the key to ensuring high-quality, relevant, college and career ready learning experiences for students. In addition to providing professional learning opportunities for teachers and administrators, districts and schools should prepare a professional learning plan for non-instructional staff. All staff members will need to utilize the digital tools and resources in some capacity and should be adequately trained.
Facilitator GuideThe Facilitator Guide – Professional Learning provides education leaders with the information and resources they need to conduct a professional learning session. Participants will:
- Learn more about professional learning strategies.
- Complete the professional learning readiness assessment.
- Discuss the results of the assessment with your peers and strategize ways to improve professional learning in your school/district.
- Learn best practices from your colleagues.
- Develop and maintain relationships with other district and state leaders.
PlanningA district professional learning plan provides the opportunity to establish short- and long-term professional learning goals for instruction, to articulate how professional learning will take place, and delineates desired outcomes. Approaching professional learning planning comprehensively allows districts to achieve efficiencies and reduce redundancy across schools. Districts with successful professional learning initiatives typically align goals, activities and outcomes across their departments, schools, and district. A professional learning plan should include the following essential elements: needs assessment; goal setting; and evaluation of success.
Needs AssessmentAs with any plan, an early needs assessment can help focus professional learning efforts on activities that reflect gaps and priorities for classroom instruction related to digital learning. A clear understanding of learning needs also provides concrete outcomes or targets for professional learning opportunities and typically provides insight into the best methods for accomplishing these goals.
From Policy to PracticeThe state of Virginia funds one instructional technology (IT) resource teacher for every 1000 students across the state. The districts have the flexibility to employ an integration specialist, a data analysis specialist or a combination integration/data analysis specialist.
The role of the resource teacher is to work directly with teachers and administrators to integrate technology in the classroom, to train teachers to use technology effectively, and to assist with curriculum development as it relates to educational technology. Leaders use management systems to provide online and hybrid professional development sessions to schools. Web 2.0 tools such as blogs and wikis help foster participation and collaboration and the development of 21st Century skills.
Goals & Key ElementsGoal setting is a hallmark of success with any initiative. Key aspects of high-quality goal setting include: exploring research and evidence-based practices; defining goals and objectives; defining desirable outcomes such as educator knowledge, skills, and abilities, and developing a logic model or theory of change about how professional learning will ultimately meet outcomes. National groups such as Learning Forward, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) have put forth guidelines to help assure professional learning success. These standards emphasize activities that intertwine practice, research and theory. Briefly summarized below, these guidelines for creating activities include:
- Job-embedded learning activities that directly connect practical challenges with tangible, relevant, and feasible solutions. (ISTE, CCSSO)
- Rooted in sound pedagogy that is based on relevant research and grounded in learning theory. (Learning Forward; ISTE, CCSSO)
- Aligned with learning goals and curriculum to provide focus for professional learning activities. (Learning Forward, CCSSO)
- Informed by data generated systematically from a variety of sources to establish learning priorities and document progression. (Learning Forward, CCSSO)
- Collaborative with local and distant colleagues to increase sharing of effective practices, reflection on/troubleshoot less successful efforts, and reduce teacher isolation. (Learning Forward, CCSSO)
- Build capacity to improve and/or expand effective practice. (Learning Forward, ISTE, CCSSO)
- Utilize blended learning modalities that can increase the accessibility and applicability of professional learning objectives. (Learning Forward, ISTE)
- Contribute to measurable outcomes among students and teachers. (Learning Forward)
- Tie to career pathways, including developing leadership pipelines. (CCSSO)
Evaluation of SuccessDocumenting evidence of participants’ learning, progress, and sustainability will help to measure both short-term and long-term success. Feedback loops can be beneficial for monitoring progress toward learning goals and identifying new areas for professional learning when there are authentic measures that are embedded in the learning process. Opportunities for feedback loops may include informal and formal data collection and analysis for with administrators, professional learning providers, instructional coaches, teachers and staff. The best teachers do not approach instruction and student learning from one dimension. They understand that the contents of curriculum, whether it comes in the form of a printed book or digital content will need to be supplemented. Each student has a few optimal ways to learn, and the great benefit of digital content is that it can be made available in all of the various formats that might be useful and necessary. Likewise, do not assume that a single source of digital content will meet all needs in a classroom. Teachers need time to meet with each other and share the digital “jewels” they have found in their explorations and explain how they have integrated those resources into their lessons. This form of “peer encouragement” is the most effective way to spark new practices and address old fears and concerns that educators have in making changes to their instructional practices. Therefore, as your school or district expands its use of digital content, do not lose sight of the change management aspects of that transition. Be prepared for varying levels of enthusiasm among teachers regarding the use of non-printed materials in the classroom. Celebrate and publicize successes as they surface. And continually re-evaluate the approach and resources used for locating and identifying digital content to make that part of the process as satisfying and efficient as possible. Finally, be sure to track and evaluate how different content is used with students over time. Ultimately the effectiveness of the content should be reflected in student learning.
OpportunitiesTechnology offers the opportunity for teachers to become more collaborative and extend learning beyond the classroom. Educators can create learning communities composed of students; fellow educators in schools, museums, libraries, and after-school programs; experts in various disciplines around the world; members of community organizations; and families. This enhanced collaboration, enabled by technology offers access to instructional materials as well as the resources and tools to create, manage, and assess their quality and usefulness. To enact this vision, schools need to support teachers in accessing needed technology and in learning how to use it effectively. Educators need continuous, just-in-time support that includes professional development, mentors, and informal collaborations.
Formal Professional LearningEducators typically participate in formal professional learning opportunities as requirements for state certification and district employment. Formal opportunities include university level courses either online, in-person or blended, webinars, workshops, district or school led communities of practice, and coaching/mentoring partnerships. Below are several examples of formal professional learning opportunities that can effectively support educators.
CoachesInstructional technology/digital learning facilitators or coaches have proven to be valuable in providing support to educators as they shift to new instructional practices. This direct one-on-one and small group instructional assistance can show teachers how to modify and deliver their lessons to take advantage of new technology resources. To be effective, districts should consider assigning at least one expert to each school (depending upon size) in order to accelerate the adoption of new forms of instruction and assessment.
Communities of Practice (COP)Online, face-to-face and hybrid models of communities of practice provide educators with the ability to connect with fellow educators both asynchronously and in real-time to share resources, successes and challenges. Teachers and administrators benefit from the ongoing support available through these communities as they grow and expand to support the diverse needs of educators. Communities may be school, district or state based and/or connect teachers of similar content areas or grade levels nationally or internationally. Communities of practice differ from educators’ online courses. Online courses are more structured, typically requiring specific content and activities within a specific time period. Many of them do contain elements of a CoP to facilitate interaction and support among participants.
Examples of Communities of Practice
From Policy to PracticeThe goals for the Apache Junction United School District’s (AJUSD) Collaboration Coaching Program are to build capacity in 21st century learning, which is built into the Arizona College and Career Ready Standards (AZCCRS).
All AJUSD collaboration coaches are classroom teachers that have made the commitment to participate in the program and work alongside their peers to develop an engaging, creative, and collaborative learning environment for students. The trainings focus on technology integration, lesson design and pedagogy. While Collaboration Coaching provides ongoing, job-embedded professional development through learning communities, the format is different at each school based on the site vision and goals. In all cases, where teams engage students in rigorous learning, as they support and help build capacity with the AZCCRS. Every year site principals collaborate with their coaches to develop goals, providing direction and support for their staff. Areas of focus include content-based or 1-to-1 professional learning communities, building capacity with the AZCCRS, setting goals to increase rigor, and co-facilitating project based learning models. In addition to the support of the collaboration coaches, all professional learning provided by the district office is designed with technology integrated into the instruction.
Self-DirectedIn addition to the formal professional learning opportunities and requirements, educators also engage in self-directed professional learning experiences both in and outside of their work environments. Self-directed informal experiences may include participating in social media feeds or reading a book or paper to support the teaching experience. Informal, job embedded learning opportunities such as discussions with fellow colleagues, sharing lessons plans or requesting feedback from students can also support an educator’s learning experiences. Many teachers also participate in more formal approaches of self-directly professional learning such as organizing a personalized learning network to track and build on their professional learning experiences.
Personalized Learning NetworksOnline tools and social media have sparked new opportunities for educators to participate in self-selected, professional learning opportunities and to build their personalized learning networks (PLN) and to collaborate with peers. PLNs may include professional learning groups (online and in-person), COPs, listservs, blog subscriptions, newsfeeds and social media tool such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pintrest, Ning and Edmodo.
From Policy to Practice
Sponsored by the Indiana Department of Education, the hashtag #INeLearn is used for both asynchronous sharing daily, as well as a synchronous conversation (TwitterChat) every Thursday night. The #INeLearn Chat Blog documents the topic schedule and moderators for these Twitter gatherings.
Recognizing Professional ExcellenceTeachers who invest in the professional learning needed to create effective digital learning environments can receive recognition for their skills in a variety of ways. Gone are the days when teachers were largely recognized only for learning associated with requirements to continue their certification or employment. Teachers can now pursue professional awards, portfolios, badges and micro credentials that document and verify learning, thereby differentiating their skill set from that of other less tech-savvy teachers.
Professional PortfoliosPortfolios provide teachers with the prospect to show growth over time and provide examples of effective teaching practices that can be shared with others. Portfolios are increasingly electronic based and can also be a learning tool for the teacher and their peers regarding lessons learned, best practices and the professional learning experiences that have been most beneficial.
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Lawmakers, led by U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, will be throwing some assistance to the National Park Service’s maintenance backlog if they can get enough votes for their National Park Restoration Act, which was introduced Wednesday morning.
The proposed legislation would help relieve the $11.6 billion National Park maintenance backlog that is chock-full of roads, buildings, campgrounds, trails and water systems that need attention.
The National Park Service does not get enough funds appropriated to cover the backlog. According to data provided by Alexander’s office, the Parks received $2.9 billion in fiscal year 2017, but had deferred maintenance costs of $11.6 billion.
The proposal would create the National Park Restoration Fund, which could provide up to $18 billion in funding over the next 10 years for high-quality maintenance needs that support critical infrastructure and visitor services, according to Alexander’s office. The number depends on the amount of exploration and level of oil prices, Alexander said.
A record-breaking investment
If approved, it would be the largest investment in the National Parks in the nation’s history.
Alexander said the bill has “unprecedented support from both President Donald Trump and the Office of Management and Budget.”
“Infrastructure is an investment, not merely an expense. And every dollar we put in to rebuilding our parks will help bolster the gateway communities that rely on park visitation for economic vitality,” U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke said in a news release.
The funding would come from onshore and offshore revenues from energy production done on federal lands.
Sens. Steve Daines, R-Mont. and Cory Gardner, R-Colo., along with Zinke were expected to join Alexander for the announcement.
$200 million-plus needed for Smokies work
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s backlog alone is about $215 million, with nearly 80 percent of the work needed to fix roads.
“The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of America’s greatest treasures — and it has a tremendous economic impact in East Tennessee, attracting nearly twice the visitors of any other national park,” Alexander said in a news release. “Addressing the maintenance backlog will help attract even more visitors and create more jobs for Tennesseans.”
When asked Wednesday during a conference call with reporters, Alexander said the Smokies backlog starts with about $18.5 million in referred maintenance for the over 800 miles of trails.
“Those trails are very busy, and any of us who hike on them know if they’re too many people on the trails they get rocky and unpleasant to walk on ... it will make a much more pleasant experience.”
Alexander also listed work needed to be done at Look Rock Campground and resurfacing needed on Clingmans Dome Road and Newfound Gap Road.
In an interview with the USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee last month, Alexander said the deed of the property states it will be a free park for the public and will not have an entrance fee.
“All of the other popular parks created in the West were carved out of land the federal government already owned, so the federal government (can) charge an entrance fee,” he said. “The Great Smoky Mountains National Park was given to the country by the states of North Carolina and Tennessee and by a fundraising drive with children giving pennies and John D. Rockefeller giving $5 million.
“From a financial standpoint, (a fee) would be the right thing to do because Yellowstone and Yosemite get twice as much money to manage their parks every year as the Smokies does … but there’s a question of fairness, too,” he said.
Both of East Tennessee’s congressmen support the bill.
“Providing a sustainable source of funding for our national parks is a game-changer for preserving these treasures for future generations. I have discussed this idea in the past with Secretary Zinke and applaud Senator Alexander for taking steps to address the current maintenance backlog,” Rep. Phil Roe said in an emailed statement.
“I think this is a very good bill and is another example of why I believe Sen. Alexander is one of the best legislators we have in Congress today,” Rep. John J. “Jimmy” Duncan said in a statement. “I believe this will go a long way toward reducing the infrastructure backlog in our National Parks.” | <urn:uuid:bfe404a0-9654-4028-9eeb-bb8419064754> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://mhigh.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2018/03/13/bill-relieve-billion-national-park-maintenance-backlog/32891851/ | 2018-06-19T10:46:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267862248.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20180619095641-20180619115641-00237.warc.gz | en | 0.948777 | 939 | [
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My cell phone vibrated in my pocket. Wren called at sunset, give or take a few minutes, nearly every evening. When she didn’t, it was a bad night. I thumbed the talk button and put the phone to my ear. “Yeah?”
“You comin’ out?”
Hunger hit me like a punch to the gut. A Pavlov’s Dog reaction to her familiar, gravelly voice. “What do you think?”
She laughed. “I got two. Don’t take too long.”
I lifted a window blind and scanned the street. It was busy with cars and pedestrians, but the streetlights had flicked on, and the sky was growing darker.
In the kitchen, I opened the fridge, took out a red and yellow can of espresso and pulled off the lid. Inside were little paper packets, each one stamped with a tiny set of puckered lips in red ink and the words “Kiss Me” beneath them. I pocketed a couple bundles. With hunger gnawing at my insides, I left the apartment.
I stepped out into the balmy night, joining the flow of pedestrians, the natives walking with sure strides, the tourists ambling along, staring into shop windows, gawking at the transvestites, punk kids and homeless sitting on stoops and in doorways. Music blared from the tattoo shop, becoming a cacophony halfway between it and the dude with a banjo and harmonica on the corner. There had been a time when music was my life. Now it was merely one more reminder of what I’d become and how much I’d changed.
I strode through the throngs of people holding my breath, eyes on the pavement. I didn’t want to hone my hunger to too keen an edge by raising them. So much skin, such easy access. I turned down a quieter street. Car and foot traffic thinned, the streets were narrower and less well-lit, the noise distant and muted. A small park was up ahead, our regular meeting spot. I crossed the street and entered it at the corner.
Wren was sitting on the back of a bench. Her bleached blonde hair was pulled back in a sloppy ponytail, and she wore cutoff denim shorts and a pink sports bra. I saw her throw back her head, heard her raucous laughter shatter the quiet.Two figures stood with her. She looked in my direction, teeth and hair bright against the growing darkness, and waved.
I nodded and approached the trio. “What’s up, girl?”
“Hey, Drake!” Wren propelled herself off the bench and threw her arms around my neck, nearly knocking me off balance. Her warmth and scent made me almost faint with hunger.
“Don’t fucking touch me,” I hissed into her ear and pushed her back to arm’s length. Even as I said it, I knew the warning would have no effect. Wren was nuts, and nothing I did or said would change that. Finding another to replace her, though, would be difficult if not impossible.
She poked a shiny black fingernail into my sternum. “Oh Drake, you’d be so perfect if your dick worked.” She gave me a coy smile, put the finger between her pursed lips.
I ignored it. “Who’re your friends?”
“This is Rick.” She looped her arm through his and pulled him over to meet me. He was tall and lanky, in his forties maybe, although it can be pretty hard to tell with these types. Drug addiction and living rough have a way of carving sharp angles into a face and making cadavers of living flesh and bone. His t-shirt clung to a sunken chest, tattoos and scabs covered his thin arms. He nodded his greeting and pushed a greasy lock of hair behind one ear. “And this is Luca.” This one looked much more savory. Much. Early twenties and not yet ravaged by years of shooting junk. He was clean and beautiful, his dark eyes clear, but full of fear, pain and anticipation.
I clenched my jaw and inhaled his scent. Warm and earthy, with the salty tang of sweat. I swallowed the saliva pooling in my mouth. “Hi, Luca. What can we do for you tonight?” He didn’t say anything, but gave me a smile that didn’t quite mask the pain of withdrawal. “Need me to fix you guys up?”
Rick nodded. “Your friend here said you don’t step on your product.”
The lure of pure, unadulterated heroin reeled them in. “That’s right. It’s kind of a promotional for new clients.”
The long, unshaven face creased into a smile. “Hook me up, man.”
Wren grinned, bounced on the balls of her feet like some trashy, insane cheerleader.
I shot a glance from Rick to Luca and nodded. They were hungry, too. “Okay.” I saw the bills palmed in Rick’s hand. “But not here.”
I started walking and Wren stuck her arm through mine, bobbed her head against my shoulder.
“Where we goin’, Drake?” she asked. “To the rocks?”
About halfway through the park was a pond, and near it, a wooded area on a hillside. There were some boulders there among the trees. It made for a good private spot to set up a fix or hang out and drink, but because of that, it was popular with the drunks and heads. Not that I ever found them a problem. “Yes, to the rocks.” She squeezed my arm.
I picked up a scent before I saw anyone there. I smelled alcohol-warmed blood, stale sweat, the dank, doglike must of damp wool, and the reek of unwashed hair. It attacked my nostrils like a sharp, aged cheese and took a bit of the edge off my hunger.
I stopped, and my little party almost ran into me.
“What? What’s up?” Rick wanted to know.
“Somebody’s there,” Wren said too loudly.
I shook her arm from mine. “Quiet. Stay here. I’ll see if I can get him to move.” I stepped from the concrete walk onto the soft ground, moved up the hillside using the trees to steady myself. I was able to see the vagrant perfectly well, a crumpled mass under a heavy coat, tucked into the shadow of a small outcropping of rock. The waxing moon was nearly full, but its light fell only in lacy patches through the trees.
I got up close, nudged the heap with the toe of my shoe. Nothing. “Hey, wake up.” Still nothing. I crouched low, rested a hand on his shoulder. He stirred beneath it and moaned. Then he rolled onto his back, turned his gray-bearded face to mine and looked at me.
I don’t know what he saw, but I felt a transformation, something going on with my senses. Even in the dappled moonlight I could see the sweat beading on his brow, could hear his raspy breath as if panted into my ear by a lover. I heard, almost felt, his heartbeat as it quickened.Time slowed, was expanded.
“Would you mind relocating, Grandpa? I kinda need this spot.”
A half-choked whimper escaped his throat, and he rolled onto all fours and scrambled from me with amazing agility for an old derelict. He was upright within a few feet and made his way down the hill, bouncing from tree to tree, almost running into my little group below. They parted for him and we watched him go stumbling along the path, whimpering and muttering unintelligibly.
Luca looked up towards me. “You didn’t hurt him, did you?” He sounded concerned.
I found myself taken aback by that. Concern for others was no longer something I gave much thought to. All those who had been dear to me were long dead, and now humanity was mainly…my vineyard. I was moved for the first time in a very, very long time.
“No, I didn’t. I think he just got spooked. Come on up.”
Rick was eager. He pushed ahead, and was up beside me in a moment, nimble as a mountain goat, but winded by the short climb. Luca was more cautious, holding onto the trees and picking his way with care. Wren cleared her throat loudly, and he turned to her. She put out a hand for him to help her up. He clasped it and she flashed me a demure smile, batted her lashes theatrically.
I shook my head. “Shit, Wren, you’ve been up here a hundred times in the dark.”
“New shoes. I don’t wanna mess them up.” She seated herself on one of the large, flat boulders and pulled up her legs, wrapped her arms around her knees. Luca sat down beside her. He was tense, breathing fast, fidgeting and wiping his nose with the back of his hand. He hadn’t been doing junk long, I could tell. His skin was still so fine, so unblemished. And he smelled so good…
“I got my kit.” Rick pulled out a Ziploc bag with a stub of candle, a cooker, lighter and a couple sharps. He squatted down, dumped the contents out on the rock. I looked over to Luca. He was unfolding a large leather wallet. He pulled out his rig and laid each item out, like it was a Chinese tea ceremony.
“Um…you boys forgetting something? What exactly do you intend to shoot up?” They looked up at me at the same time. I couldn’t help but smile. Rick fumbled for his cash and held the wad up to me like an homage. I pocketed it without even looking at it. It would make him feel good that I didn’t bother to count the money, make him feel like he was trusted. The truth was, I didn’t trust him past the length of my arm, but it didn’t matter, since money wasn’t really my object.
I turned to Luca. He counted out bills and chewed his lip. “For a bundle, right? That’s what Wren said.” He held out the money and I clasped his hand in mine. Again, time seemed to almost stand still. I could feel his pulse against my palm, and hunger, a terrible, gnawing hunger. I felt almost weak with it.
But there was something more, something different. Longing. Like I had for my lost mortality. Like I could somehow taste my former life through this beautiful, vulnerable being. I didn’t only want his blood, I wanted everything, his body, his soul.
“That’s what Wren said,” he repeated. “Is that okay?”
I smiled, nodded and released his hand. “Yeah, that’s right.” I took the money, sorry that I had to let go of him. Wren was watching me with more concentration than I thought her capable of. I returned her hard stare for a moment, then reached into my inside pocket for the heroin and handed Rick and Luca a bundle each. “There you go, friends. Pristine dope. Pure as the Mother of God.”
I stood by watching them cook the dope and fill the syringes. Then Luca pushed up his sleeve–he had beautiful veins–and wrapped an earbud cord around his arm. I turned away, fighting ferocious hunger and the impulse to feed with all my strength. I focused my attention on the moonlight through the trees. Then I glanced down at Wren.
Her eyes were on me, fingernail between her teeth. “Hungry?” she asked.
My resolve fell apart. I could no longer keep from thinking about Luca, the blood in his veins, warm and comforting, what it would taste like flowing into my mouth, going down and easing the agonizing emptiness in me; and the heroin flowing through him, how it would envelope me in peace, allowing me to dream like a mortal again for a little while.
The hunger was so bad, it wasn’t funny, but I forced a smile. “I could go for a bite.”
She slapped her bare thigh and laughed.
Rick moaned. I listened, heard the change in his respiration, his heartbeat. He slumped over, greasy hair hanging almost to his lap. His dirty cargo pants were open and a needle was hanging out of a vein a few inches southeast of his navel. I figured his other veins were all blown.
Luca pulled down his sleeve and tried to coil up the earbuds. He couldn’t finish the job and dropped them in his lap. Then he leaned back against the rock and sighed. His eyes closed, his mouth fell open, and he was adrift on Morphia’s gentle waves.
I crouched down beside him and breathed him in. So good. So clean and vital. I was starving, my craving amplified by the hunger for heroin, but I didn’t want to rush this one. This one was more than a meal. I reached out a hand and touched his hair. He opened his eyes for a moment and smiled, then closed them again.
“Now,” Wren said, glassy-eyed with anticipation. “Take him, Drake. Take him.” Her payment for reeling in my One-Time-Only clients was that I sometimes allowed her to watch me dispatch them. It was our unwritten contract, sparing me the trouble of finding addicts myself.
“Shut up.” My tongue danced along the edge of my teeth. I touched Luca’s dark curls, ran my fingers along the side of his face to his neck. I felt his blood coursing beneath my fingertips, under his skin. In this body of mine where so many things no longer functioned, my salivary glands were over-active, and I swallowed.
“Drake,” Wren whined, “take him!”
I felt that same change in me I’d felt with the old man. I whipped my head around and fixed my eyes on her with all intensity, bared my teeth.
Any normal person would have been quaking. This was Wren, however, and the Sanity ship had long ago left the harbor without her on board. She scowled at me, then pouted. “Geezus, Drake. He’s just a yummy blood bag.”
I threw out an arm and backhanded her. Her head snapped to the side and she flew backward off the rock. I couldn’t be bothered by it. I was in agony, consumed by hunger, and I couldn’t hold back any longer. My whole body was under siege. I was assaulted by a hailstorm of pinpricks.
I descended on Luca, his eyes closed, peaceful as a sleeping child. I put a hand on his cheek, slid it slowly around to the back of his head, his silky curls slipping between my fingers. His head was heavy in my hand, his face close enough to mine that I could feel his breath. Not since my very first victim had I felt such hesitation. And that had ended with my first taste of blood and the relief it offered.
At my back, Rick coughed, moaned and cleared his throat. “Hey, man, what are y–”
I slipped my hand out from behind Luca’s head and spun around. I didn’t give Rick time to finish his question, or to formulate any others. I was on top of him in an instant, pinning him like flat of cinder block. I shoved a hand beneath his bony jaw and pushed back his head.
The long wait had made me lose all propriety, if a predator is capable of such. I tore into him, straight into his carotid artery, hot blood pulsing at the back of my throat so fast I had to gulp to keep up. It only took seconds for him to quit any resistance and for the flow to slow down.
I crawled back from him, leaned against a boulder beside Luca, who slept on. I closed my eyes.
Rick had shot up a walloping hit of heroin, as drug-tolerant as his long-term usage had made him. I felt a beautiful peace descending—or rather, come crashing down on me like a two-ton pleasant dream. How long had it been since I’d dreamed? The hunger was appeased, the agony and agitation abated. It didn’t matter anymore that the blood had an unpleasant aftertaste, was tainted with compounds I couldn’t identify, and which could have an unexpected effect on me. For a little while I could forget this cursed existence.
I opened my eyes and turned to look at Luca. I was no longer hungry, but I still felt a sense of longing. I was sure that what ran through his veins was a most wonderful vintage, wished I could taste it. And yet I was glad that he was still breathing.
“So you got this cream-puff here, but you’re eating out of dumpsters?” Wren had climbed back up onto the rock while I was in my post-binge stupor. She stood above me with her arms crossed over her chest. Her bare legs were dirty, bits of organic debris decorated her hair, and a her cheek bore a patch of livid pink that was swelling. I felt a little ashamed.
“Sorry I hit you, Wren. But you got no place telling me who to take or when.” We both looked at Rick’s corpse. His eyes were wide open, staring at the starless sky through the foliage. “He was watching me, startled me. I was moved by instinct.”
She was quiet for a moment. It was a rare thing. “What are you gonna do with him?”
“Just leave the body here.”
“No, I mean Cream-Puff. Put him on the shelf and save him for a special occasion?”
“Wren, can you just shut up? I’ll get him outta here. Let him go for now. He’ll be checking in with you in a couple days, if not sooner.” I hoped he would be anyway.
I was bathed in warmth and feeling pretty good. Good enough to spend the hours before dawn walking around, pretending I was human again. Plenty to do in the city at night. I smiled. “I dunno. Maybe I’ll go home. Whip up a casserole or something.”
That crazy laugh of hers. “Lemme come with you. I like you when you’re fed.”
Music came back to me like a lost love. I beat-boxed a few seconds, slapped out a rhythm on my thighs.
“I like you when you’re fed,
“It’s cool that you are dead,
“I’d like to get inside your head
“Wanna climb into your bed.”
She laughed again. “Lotta good that would do me.” She sat and sidled up next to me, put her head on my shoulder, slipped her hand up under my shirt. She ran a fingernail around my nipple. “We could get you a strap-on,” she purred into my ear.
The dope was making me giddy, and I found the comment funny rather than sad or frustrating, and I chuckled. “Go away, Wren. Go find yourself a live one. We really need to get outta here.” I nodded at Rick.
Wren sighed. “Yeah, we do.”
I looked over at Luca. His eyelids were fluttering. “Girl…you better go now. I’ll clean up.”
I maneuvered a hand into my pocket and pulled out the cash from Luca and Rick. I pressed it into Wren’s hand. “You’ll call me tomorrow, right?”
“I don’t want money.”
“Hey, buy yourself something pretty. You show me tomorrow.”
She thought about it for a moment. A smile stretched across her face. “Like what?”
“I dunno. Surprise me.”
Wren stood up and brushed herself off. Picked bits of leaves out of her hair and tugged her shorts down over her butt. She tipped her chin at Luca. “He’s up.”
I got to my feet fast, I had to take advantage of Luca’s high and the darkness, get him out of here before he saw Rick’s corpse. Wren moved to block his view.
“So,” I said to him as he began to come out of his nod, “Good shit?”
For a moment he looked disoriented. Then he broke into a charming, dopey smile, eyelids still at half-mast. “I feel great.”
Wren bent and grabbed his arm, helped him to his feet. “Come along, my little cream-puff. Let’s see what trouble we can get into tonight.” She guided him down the hill. I pulled the needle out of Rick’s groin and tossed it, grabbed the unused bags of heroin. Then I shoved his body under the little overhang where the old man had been, and followed.
It was foolishness from the start. The idea that I could somehow hang on to Luca, keep him near me and savor his beauty, borrow his warmth. Like a fox keeping a pet chicken. But fool that I am, I was determined to give it my best shot. I waited, pretty certain he’d be back for more clean heroin. Two nights after our last meet-up I still hadn’t gotten a call from Wren, and she wasn’t answering mine. I started to worry that something had happened to her.
I hunted on my own. I didn’t like it, didn’t want to be seen much, or earn any kind of street rep as a dealer. I didn’t want junkies connecting me with their missing compadres. So I went without the heroin, just feeding on whatever was most convenient, whatever could be taken without notice. But I was getting pretty agitated. I’d tried snorting, even eating smack in the past, but knew that without the blood, I’d be dry-heaving over a toilet.
On the third night Wren called. The moment I saw her name on my phone, the hunger and restlessness intensified. I was ready to spit venom at her by then, but managed to get a hold on myself. I couldn’t risk having her hang up on me.
“Hey, girl, where you been?”
“Famished. You got something for–”
“Meet me at the park.” She hung up.
I left the apartment right away.
Wren was there on the bench. With Luca. My chest tightened. I couldn’t tell if it was the joy of seeing him again, or the dreadful fact that there was no other with him to feed on. In my eagerness, I approached with all the speed and stealth my kind are capable of. I was there beside them before they’d seen me coming.
Wren gasped seeing me suddenly there. Luca jumped, too. “Wow,” he said. “Where did you come from?”
“I’m sneaky like that,” I said. “Good to see you again, Luca.” That hardly described what I felt. Something like adoration battled with hunger in me. I wanted to touch and stroke him, to breath him in, taste his skin, his blood, but I also wanted to satiate my appetite, drain him of every last drop.
Wren’s hair was in two braids, and she played with one as she held me in her gaze.
“My only client tonight?” I asked.
“Yep,” she said. “Whatever will you do?” The theatrical lash-batting again.
Luca was pale, edgy. “Rick…I heard he’s dead.”
I turned my eyes from his throat. “Oh yeah? Well, you know, I sold you both quite a bit of pure stuff. Maybe he got a little too eager. He didn’t look like he was in good shape anyway.”
“I heard he might have been attacked by something.”
“You mean someone.”
“No, I mean something. This guy Aquila said he was in the back of a patrol car, heard the cops talking. They said it looked like an animal went for his throat.”
The memory of all that blood and heroin gushing into my mouth made me feel faint with hunger again. “Think maybe a wild dog went after him?”
“I’ll bet it was a wolf,” Wren interjected. “Definitely a wolf.”
I snorted. “Yeah, sure, Wren; in New York City.”
“Weirder things happen.” She gave me a pointed look.
I let it blow past me, turned back to Luca. “Were you and Rick homies?”
“No. I never met him before the other night.”
Wren gave him a little pat on the back. “Well, maybe you’ll meet again some day.”
I needed to feed. This dagger-sharp hunger could goad me into doing something reckless, and I couldn’t afford that. “Listen, Luca, I only got a couple hits on me now. I’m supposed to get some more tomorrow. I’ll give you what I got, and if you want more, I can hook up with you tomorrow evening. I’ll give you my cell number. That okay?”
“What are you–” Wren started, but I gave her a glance that took the heat off her tongue. She shut her mouth.
“Yeah, that’s fine,” Luca said.
I reached into my jacket and came out with the dope and a pen. I palmed the packets. “Got something to write on?” He didn’t, so I took his hand, felt a jolt like electricity course up my arm. My mouth watered. I wrote my number on his wrist, then slipped the heroin to him. “Don’t give that number out to anyone, right? I mean it. Just consider this a little gratis.”
He looked at me slack-jawed, like he didn’t understand what I was saying.
“A gift. Because I think you’ll be a good client. I give perks to good clients. You okay with that?”
Luca smiled, seemed to relax. He nodded. “Yeah, I’m okay with that. Thanks.”
Wren looked about to burst, wringing the hem of her t-shirt, opening her mouth, then shutting it. I was holding back a tidal wave myself, the salt and musk scent of skin with its undercurrent of blood was almost overpowering. “Go on, Luca. You call me tomorrow evening.” I watched him go. Then I went the opposite direction.
Wren trotted to keep up with my long strides. “What the hell are you doing, Drake? I call you, I bring you a meal, you season it and feed. That’s the game. Why you letting the cream-puff go? Did you already have something? Guzzle a pizza delivery boy in your building maybe?”
“No, I’m starving. But I’m not ready to take Luca out yet.” I stopped and waited at the corner for a break in the traffic.
“What do you plan to do with him? Are you gonna keep him? Just because he’s a cute little cream-puff? I’m the one who does everything for you! I’m the one who deserves to–”
“To what?” I spun to face her. “To what, Wren? To be damned like me? No, I don’t wanna do that to him. I wouldn’t wish that on anybody, ’cause there’s nobody I hate that much. That’s not the plan.”
“What is the plan?”
“I don’t know. But I sure as hell don’t have to consult with you or get your approval.”
We crossed. “Where you going now, Drake?”
“Get a bite to eat.”
“Why won’t you change me over? I’ll keep you company. I won’t miss the sun. I sleep most of the day anyway. It wouldn’t bother me to kill anybody.”
It probably wouldn’t, because she was a few quarts shy of a full pint. But the thought of killing had been, once upon a time, repugnant to me. In a sense, it still was. I used every euphemism in the book to keep from thinking about the fact that I drank the blood of my own kind. But then I’d find myself hunched over a body, warm blood washing past teeth and tongue, and my old self would claw his way to the surface and ask, “What kind of monster have you become?” I had to admit that I was not their kind any longer.
“What is it?”
“Wanna see what I got with the money?”
“Wren, not right now; I need a drink, know what I mean?” We were back to where people thronged the sidewalks.
“Can I come watch?”
“No. The ones you bring in. That’s the deal.”
She’d stopped and pulled her t-shirt up over her head. She turned sideways and held her arms aloft. On her side was a fresh tattoo, an artistic rendering of the late, great Bela Lugosi in his legendary role. Wren beamed, bounced on her toes. Pedestrians flowed around us.
“Like it, Drake?”
I smiled. “Yeah, Wren. Nice.”
Pure heroin is a powerful lure for a junkie. Free heroin is a chain through a nose ring. I was sure Luca would be back.
The night I gave him the couple bags, I went to Bed-Stuy and took out some little wanna-be gansta. No heroin in him, kid was just chillin’ on lean. Never could get a taste for that stuff. But it took a little of the edge off my need.
Luca called the next evening. Actually, he called several times, but I wasn’t up yet. By the time I picked up the phone, as soon as the streetlights flickered on, he was wound pretty tight.
“I’ve been trying to reach you,” he said. “I called a few times.”
“Yeah, sorry ’bout that. I was in the shower.”
“For two hours?”
“My phone was in my jacket with the ringer off. I took a nap,” I lied. I got a second call beeping in. It was Wren. I thought about whether or not I should answer it. “Luca, can you hang on a sec? I got another call.”
Wren. I was hoping she found me some take-out. I didn’t want to be hungry when I saw Luca. “Hey girl, what’s going on?”
“Can you come out and play?”
“What, you got something for me?” I swallowed back my saliva.
“Come see.” She hung up.
“Dammit.” I switched back to Luca. “Hey, you there?”
“Yeah, I’m here.”
My skin prickled at the sound of his voice. “I got something I gotta do. I’ll have to hook up with you a little later.”
“How much later?”
“Gimme an hour. Look, I’ll tell you where I live. You meet me here, at my place.” That came out of my mouth before I really knew what I was saying. What was it about this guy that turned my brain to shit, made me take risks I’d never taken before? I had never given out my address to anyone, never had a soul up to my apartment. But here I was, giving it out to Luca. If I didn’t intend to make a meal of him, I’d be better off not meeting with him alone.
I made my way to the park to see Wren. She was perched on the back of the bench where I usually met her. She was alone.
The part of me that was pure animal instinct thrilled at the sight of lone prey so easily taken. Only Wren wasn’t prey. For whatever reason she’d taken it upon herself to provide me with a fairly steady stream of addicts to feed on, and I’d grown somewhat dependent on her aid. This right now was a bad situation; I was hungry, and she was vulnerable. Furthermore, she never knew where to draw the line–she flirted with me, flirted with death, continually.
My whole body tingled. I came up on her fast, stood behind her, leaned toward her ear. “You all alone?”
She started, nearly lost her balance. “Geezus, Drake! Don’t do that!”
“Why are you alone, Wren? Why’d you call me out?”
She took a moment to compose herself. “Aw, Drake…I just wanted to get a little time with you. You know, a little private time. Just you and me.”
Without consciously doing anything, I could feel that shift in my perception. Even in the dim light, everything was in high definition. Time lagged and all my senses sharpened. Wren saw something, too. She stopped playing coy and hopped off the bench, stepped toward me like she wanted to get a better look at me. I stepped back from her. “Wren, you dumb little bitch, I’m gonna go now. Don’t fuck with me like this again.” It took some force of will, but I walked away from her.
“No, listen…I’m not afraid. I want you to turn me. I want to be like you, Drake. A nighttime hunter. Beautiful and deadly.”
I laughed, but there was no humor in it. “You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about, you nutcase.” I turned to face her again, breathing through my mouth to avoid taking in her sweat-and-dollar-store-perfume scent. “You think it’s just a change in diet and circadian rhythm, and you become strong and undying? It’s so much more than that. It’s not just your human nature that dies. Everything you love about being alive dies, too. Sunrises and sunsets. Food. Glittering frost on autumn leaves. Watching kids play in the park. Relationships. Making love. It all dies.” The litany upset me, moved me, like Luca’s beauty moved me, fooled me into thinking that maybe I actually still had a beating, human heart. But no, I’m a borderland dweller, neither here nor there.
I turned from her, my mouth watering, acute pain stabbing at my stomach. “Go home, Wren. No way am I ever gonna do that to you or anyone else.” I started to walk away, fast. I didn’t think I could hold out much longer.
“Drake!” I heard her steps behind me, and then I felt her hand on my arm. “Drake, you have to! You owe me! You’re lying… you’re gonna change Luca, aren’t you? Why him? I’m the one who does everything for you!”
I lost control of myself. I tasted blood in my mouth even before I turned around. When I did, she gasped, too shocked to scream. We were still close to the footpath, so I dragged her over to the shadow of a nearby oak. Wren only made whimpering sounds, like a small animal.
“This is what you want, right? This is what you want to be,” I snarled.
Her face was white with fear. She stammered, “Drake, no…I love you.”
“You can’t love this!” I reached behind her head and grabbed her by the hair, jerked her head back so savagely, I heard her neck snap, and she went limp. I held her up pressing her rag-doll body against the tree with my own, sank my teeth into her salty skin. Any passerby might have mistaken us for lovers. A shudder of relief and pleasure ran through me.
Breaking her neck in my haste to feed was a mistake. The flow was tapering off as her blood pressure rapidly dropped. It only took the edge off my appetite before I found myself having to suck in order to draw blood.
With the edge off my hunger, I could think more clearly.
Sometimes you don’t know what you’ve lost until it’s gone. I held Wren, told her I was sorry. She may have been off kilter, but she’d been the nearest thing to a friend I’d had in decades. She was a confidante. She knew what I was, and somehow, in her own way, she cared for me.
Her head flopped back. I saw the small wound surrounded by a bruise the size of my palm, from trying to draw her blood before it stagnated in her veins. I left her seated beneath the tree, her chin touching her collarbone at a sickening angle.
I couldn’t go home yet, knowing that Luca might be there. I was still too hungry to trust myself. I headed downtown, walked the streets until I picked up a scent. Guy with dirty auburn hair and jailhouse tattoos. His dead eyes and track marks, the runny nose and twitchiness told me he was in need of a fix. I approached, asked if he’d work for trade. He said, “Depends.” I took a bag of smack from my pocket and in a long-practiced gesture that looked like nothing more than a handshake, I passed it off. The caution was for nothing. He opened it right there and dipped his little finger into it, tasted it and nodded.
A couple minutes later I followed him into an alley that reeked of piss and sour garbage. There, beside a dumpster, he laid out his rig and shot it up. I couldn’t wait, just took him there, left the body where it sat.
I staggered to my feet and leaned against the building for a minute or so. Blood and heroin soothed me, slowed my brain, made me think like a human again, made me face what I’d done to Wren. She’d said she loved me. There was no one else who did in this world, and I had removed her from it. My act was its own punishment, and it wrapped me in a blanket of self-loathing.
All these human thoughts brought me back to Luca. It had been more than two hours since I’d told him to meet me at my place. Something light and delicate fluttered in my dead heart upon seeing him. He was leaning on a car in front of my building.His face was pinched with tension. He pushed off the car and stepped up to me. “I was gonna give you a few more minutes and then leave.”
“Sorry. My connection took his time about getting to business. Couldn’t be helped.”
His expression relaxed. “Yeah, well…that’s understandable, I guess.”
“I’m here now,” I said, and patted my pocket. “C’mon up.”
He followed me up the stairs to the third floor and I invited him in.
Like I said, it was foolishness to think I could keep him around and have some kind of human relationship with him. He created such conflict in me. On the one hand, I wanted to gaze at him and admire his beauty, as one might a beautiful painting. I also wanted to feed on him, taste him, draw life from him. And I wanted to ravish him, which was a physical impossibility. The newness of these feelings, the novelty of what I was doing, inviting a living, warm-blooded human being into my home without the intention of feeding, it was exciting. I felt thrilled as I hadn’t been in decades.
I opened the door and stepped into my apartment. “C’mon in, Luca. I don’t have a lot of visitors, so–” I turned around and he was still on the threshold. “Hey, you wanna come in? Don’t worry, I don’t bite,” I lied.
“You gonna turn on a light?”
I wasn’t used to turning on the light. In fact, a couple lamps in the place didn’t even have bulbs in them. “Sorry.” I flipped on the switch by the door. “I know my way around the furniture, so I don’t always turn them on.” I smiled, made a sweeping motion with my arm. “Won’t you please come in?”
He did, although he hesitated. As he looked around my living/dining area, I noticed for the first time how sparse it was. It was a space with a few props, lacking the details. No pictures on the walls or anywhere else. No books or magazines lying around. Dust on most of the horizontal surfaces. An abandoned stage.
I turned on another light. “I–don’t spend a lot of time here. Just sleep and change clothes, really.”
“So… you live alone?”
“Yeah.” I could see he was in bad shape, dope sick. The chit-chat could wait. “Can I fix you up, Luca? I’ll sell you a bundle if you want, but this fix is on me. For making you wait.”
Some of the tension left his face. “That’s good of you. Thanks.”
He set up at the coffee table that had never had anything on its surface but dust. He took off his jacket and pushed up a sleeve. When he tied his earbud cord around his arm, I had to look away.
“You squeamish about needles?” There was amusement in his tone.
“I used to be,” he said. “But you get over it pretty quickly when you get hooked.”
“Yeah, I imagine you would.” I heard him suck in air just a bit as he stuck the needle in. I tried to not think about the heroin entering his bloodstream. Tried to not think about his blood at all. Instead I thought about the fact that he was here, in my apartment, and I did not intend to kill him. I wondered if any others of my kind had ever had a human companion. I wondered if Luca would even want to keep company with me if there wasn’t the draw of pure product. I thought again of Wren, who loved me, but whose company I shunned. Sure, she was nuts, but what’s that next to being a murderous, bloodthirsty monster?
Luca made a sound halfway between a sigh and a moan. He was leaning back on the sofa, smiling at me. It took the breath from my lungs.
“Damn…that’s some wonderful stuff there.”
“Uh huh. Luca, where do you live?”
“In Jersey City with my folks until a couple months ago. My father found my gear, threw me out. Didn’t want me around my younger siblings.”
“So where you staying?”
“With whoever takes me home.” His dark eyes closed, but the smile remained. It was the closest I’d come to feeling joy since I’d lost the daylight. I stood and paced around the apartment, too restless to stay still. It suddenly seemed as though I was standing in beams of sunshine, warm and golden. I felt weightless, I felt alive.
My mind was racing. How could I keep him here without making him a prisoner? I didn’t want a hostage, I wanted Luca to want to be here with me.
Food. He would need to eat, and I had nothing on hand. I sat down on the sofa beside him. Dark-lashed eyes opened to slits and he looked at me and smiled. I wanted so much to touch him, run my fingers through his wavy hair. “Hey, I’m thinking about going out to grab some food. I’m worse off than Old Mother Hubbard here. I can pick up some stuff at the bodega. Or get some take out from the Chinese place across the street.”
“Chinese sounds good.”
“Will you be okay here? I’ll be back in maybe twenty minutes.”
“Sure. I’ll just kick back.” He grabbed my sleeve as I stood to go. “Hey, thanks, Drake. You’re real decent. I’m glad Wren hooked us up.”
“Yeah. Me too.”
I didn’t want to leave, didn’t want to risk coming back to an empty apartment. But I figured I had a better chance of keeping him around if I had some provisions. I hit the Chinese takeout and ordered what looked good. Then I picked up some sodas, cookies, milk and cereal at the bodega.
I stood before my apartment door, multiple bags hanging from my wrist, hesitating before turning the key in the lock, afraid he’d fled.
I went in. Luca wasn’t on the sofa. I closed the door quietly, took in a deep breath through my nose. I smelled the pungent, sweet odor of weed. And his scent. He was still here. “Luca?”
He came out of the bathroom, remainder of a joint in hand. “You weren’t kidding about not spending much time here. There’s dust in the tub. Water in the toilet was just about evaporated.” He closed the bathroom door and leaned on it, held out the roach to me.
“No, thanks. What were you doing?”
He laughed. “I had to take a leak. What, you want me to use the kitchen sink?”
I might have blushed if I still had the ability to do so. “I—I brought some food.” I put it on the coffee table and started unpacking the bags. He spotted the Cokes and opened one, drank half of it down. I watched. His head tipped back, throat exposed like an offering. I moved from him, retreated to the kitchen. “I think I have some bowls…”
I stood by the never-used stove trembling. I’d fed, but in this incarnation hunger and lust were bound together. Trying to separate the desire to fondle and kiss from the desire to feed and kill was like attempting to divide blood from heroin after they’ve mingled. I closed my eyes and tried to steady myself, drum up my willpower.
In the living room, Luca knelt by the coffee table and sampled from the cartons of Chinese food. He looked up at me, grinning. “Drake, man…you gotta try this Lo Mein.” He used the disposable bamboo chopsticks with skill, picked up a mess of noodles and ate. I enjoyed the sight of him devouring food, but felt no craving for it myself. I knew that it would make it only halfway down before coming up on me again. He gestured for me to sit. “Don’t you like Chinese?”
“Sure I do. I’m just not in the mood for it right now.” I sat down on the sofa.
Luca picked up a napkin and wiped his mouth. He got up from the floor, sat down close to me. Too close. “Maybe you’re more in the mood for Italian.”
I shifted over a few inches. “What do you think you’re doing?”
“You’ve been nice to me. Y’know…the dope, dinner. I’m just trying to return the favor.”
“How exactly?” Hunger began chewing at the edge of my willpower.
“It’s not like I don’t have money to buy the dope. I do. I just thought you seemed to be into me.” The palm of his left hand brushed over his right nipple in lazy circles. His dark eyes locked onto mine.
“You think that I want sex from you? Is that what you think? That the dope and dinner is all about me wanting sex?”
“No, I don’t think that.” He turned his whole body to face me. “I think maybe you want my blood.”
A shitstorm of pinpricks broke out all over me. My mouth went dry. “Tell me what you mean by that.”
“I saw what you did to Rick.”
“You…saw.” What card did he think he was playing? Even with my superior strength, I suddenly felt vulnerable.
“Yeah, I was pretty fucked up, figured I was just tripping. But after I heard about Rick maybe having been attacked by something, I started thinking hard about it. And it seems to me that I wasn’t tripping balls after all.”
I rose from the sofa, went to the window and lifted the blinds, looked out at the street. He’d seen me tear into Rick’s throat, and yet here he was, flirting with me, coming on to me. That could only mean he was nuts, into some kinky shit. “Why are you here?” I asked, not looking at him. “I’m either an insane murderer who drinks blood and thinks he’s a vampire, or–”
“Or you’re really a vampire. I think evidence sort of points to the latter. And there’s a shitload of evidence, actually.”
“You should be terrified.” I dropped the blinds and faced him.
“I was.” He stood, picked up his drink, and came toward me. “You’ve had more than one opportunity to end my life. But I’m still here. I think perhaps you want me alive.” He stopped just in front of me, close enough that his warmth and scent made my mouth water. Close enough that I felt a very human urge to kiss him, to press my body up against his, have his warm skin take the chill from mine.
“I do. I want you alive. But it takes a lot of self-control to be around you and not permit the predator in me to surface. And frankly–” I ran my trembling fingers from his cheekbone down along the side of his neck, feeling rushing blood beneath them, “Frankly, I don’t know that I have the willpower.”
He smiled, took my hand, held it to his chest where his pulse beat against my palm. “The thing is, you can’t have me alive.”
“Why is that?” I felt almost dizzy.
“Because I’m dying.”
I withdrew my hand. It took a moment for the words to wax meaningful. “You’re dying?”
“Leukemia. I had it as a kid, and it was in remission. But it’s back now. And I am not going back to hospitalizations, endless blood tests and chemotherapy. If I have to choose between that and death, I’ll take death. At least I don’t have to go into rehab in order to die.”
“Are you saying you want to die?”
“I’m saying I thought chemo or death were my only choices. Then you came along.” He smiled. “And I saw that there was another option.”
“And that is…?”
“I think you know.”
The hair stood at the back of my neck. “No. No, that’s something I’ll never do. I won’t be responsible for spreading this disease. You have no idea what the trade-off is.”
He looked at me as if I was speaking in tongues. Then his face flushed. “My alternative is death. Are you telling me that you’d rather have me eaten by cancer, and then by worms and decay? I’m young. I’m not ready for the grave. I’ll die if I have to, but I don’t have to, do I?”
He was so lovely. His sable eyes and shining dark hair, his beautiful bone structure. I hated to think of him taken by death in his prime. But to banish him to the night, to a diet of human blood, to the existence of a solitary hunter…
“You don’t know what it’s like. How lonely it is.”
“It doesn’t have to be. Drake, I thought maybe you felt something for me.”
“I do. Hunger. Bloodlust.”
“I don’t know.” It had been so long since I’d felt love as a living being; it was so intermingled with primal urges, I couldn’t be sure that what I felt was anything like love.
“If you’re not willing to share your gift–”
“Stop! It is not a gift! It’s not life, it’s not death. It’s the In-Between, not day or night, but shadow–”
“If you’re not willing,” he repeated, “I’ll accept my death, but I’ll do it my way. I’ll just shoot up a few bags and leave this world before the cancer takes me out of it. But if you are…if you are, I’ll consider you my family. I’ll belong to you. You won’t have to be alone anymore.”
Luca stepped close to me. I saw him wince, then smile. He raised the hand holding the Coke can. He’d pressed his thumb into the opening, along the sharp aluminum, and had cut it. He put the can on the window sill, ran his bleeding thumb over my bottom lip and slid it into my mouth. It was as though every cell in my dead body came alive, like a power-surge. I wanted Luca—his blood, his flesh, his soul.
I’m sure he sensed it. He held my face between his hands. “Are you willing? Do you want me? Will you save me?”
I couldn’t shed tears, but it seemed like my eyes were being assaulted by shards of glass.
“Yes. Yes, I’ll save you.”
He kissed me on the mouth. I couldn’t recall the last time I’d been kissed. It was wonderful, so wonderful to touch him. If I live a full millennium, I’ll never forget it. Luca tipped his head back in a gesture of total surrender, gave me access to his throat. He closed his eyes, shuddered as my tongue traced the path of his jugular. I found his wrists and held them, danced him a hundred eighty degrees to put his back against the wall, and I took him.
On the lower west side of the city, where there were once docks and warehouses—I worked here when I was still mortal and young—there is a bar now called The Borderland, although it’s had several names throughout its history. It is a members-only bar, and as far as I know, no member has ever invited a guest. I received membership over a century ago. None of us are regular patrons, but all of us come in at one time or another.
I sit up at the bar with Axel, who is much older than me. I am drinking from a glass–harvested blood spiked with alcohol, and I recall the first time I sat on this stool and ordered the same, how amusing I found it. Now I find it sort of sad—a sad facsimile of what we had in life, when we were living, loving, marrying, fucking, procreating and dying. It’s a pathetic imitation.
Axel is Old World. He’s lived on every continent. He speaks more languages than God. He smoked filterless Camel cigarettes in life, and still smokes them.
“One of them got to you,” he says. His accent is still slightly Germanic, even after all these centuries. “You feel guilt, yes?”
I don’t feel like talking, so I nod.
“I know. I know the feeling. What’s easy is killing, seeing in the dark. Moving swiftly and almost invisibly. Everything else is hard.”
Luca knew I had to take him to the brink of death, then return his blood by feeding it back to him. This is what he wanted.
I sank my teeth into his neck, never intending to do what he wanted. I knew I couldn’t keep him with me in his human form, knew I hadn’t the willpower for such a thing. But it wasn’t for lack of self-restraint that I continued to drink until his heart ceased to beat, all the while screaming inwardly at myself, Monster! Murderer! I could have kept Luca with me, but it would not have been the Luca I loved. | <urn:uuid:192a1a24-e3e4-4841-aa1e-8e646a9f0be1> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://jsmuellerwriter.wordpress.com/ | 2018-06-19T10:03:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267862248.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20180619095641-20180619115641-00237.warc.gz | en | 0.985589 | 13,102 | [
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It is already December and snowfall has started in the northern areas of Pakistan. During the winter holidays, the tourists from Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and other cities of the country flock to different mountainous tourist resorts to enjoy snowfall. Perhaps, the most popular destination for enjoying snowfall is Murree. However, it is overly crowded and does not has as much to offer as some of the other amazing places in the country. We have compiled a list of 10 amazing destinations, other than Murree, you can visit and enjoy snowfall.
10 – Kalash Valley – Chitral
Kalash Valley is located in Chitral. Kalash not only offers excellent snowfall but it also offers a chance to see one of the oldest cultures in the world. The culture of the people of Kalash. If you visit Kalash Valley during winters, you can enjoy the traditional game of the locals known as Snow Golf.
9 – Hunza Valley
Hunza Valley offers spectacular scenery with huge mountains and open plains. The whole landscape is covered by snow during the winters. It is an excellent place to enjoy snowfall in Gilgit-Baltistan.
8 – Leepa Valley
Leepa Valley is one of the most beautiful places in Azad Kashmir. It becomes even more beautiful, when it is covered by snow. The whole landscape presents a picture of a fantasy movie. Leepa Valley is located about 105 kilometers from Muzaffarabad.
7 – Kel Valley
Kel is an excellent place located far away from the hustle and bustle of the usual tourist resorts. It is a village located in the Neelam Valley. The distance of Kel from Muzaffarabad is about 155 kilometers. Kel receives generous amount of snowfall every winter and it is also the base-camp of Sarawaai Glacier and Sarawaai Peak.
6 – Skardu
Skardu has a lot to offer for those willing to enjoy the winters in this extremely cold city. There are three lakes located in Skardu, namely, Sadpara Lake, Upper Kachura Lake and the Lower Kachura Lake. Skardu is sure to satisfy your desire to see heavy snowfall during the winters.
5 – Naran – Kaghan Valley
Naran is one of the top tourist spots in Pakistan, both during winters as well as during summers. It is located in Kaghan Valley, in the Mansehra district of KPK. From here you can also reach Lake Saif-ul-Malook and get to see the frozen lake during winters.
4 – Peer Chanasi – Muzzafarabad
Imagine making snowman and having snow fights in wonderful fresh air at an altitude of 9,593 feet. This is exactly what Peer Chanasi offers.
3 – Malam Jabba – Swat
Malam Jabba in Swat is one of the best places in the country to enjoy snowfall. It is easily accessible during the winters and has some great facilities for tourists. It has a pretty good chairlift as well. In addition, you can also enjoy skiing in Malam Jabba.
2 – Ziarat
Ziarat is an excellent tourist destination where you can enjoy snowfall in Balochistan. This amazing place has a lot to offer. It has the worlds 2nd largest Juniper forest and is a heaven for nature lovers.
1 – Nathia Gali
The best place to enjoy snowfall, this winter is Nathia Gali. The place offers excellent accessibility. The KPK government has recently renovated the whole place and it looks quite amazing. In addition, many new facilities for tourists have also been introduced. Nathia Gali receives a lot of snowfall every winter and you are sure to have a lot of fun here.
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Eco, adventure tourism is the real reason to spend time here in the Kootenay's. The Fernie Alpine Resort turns Fernie into a ski town when the snow falls, which is likely when we would want to visit again. In the summer the focus is on mountain biking and hiking. The Elk River also runs through the valley, offering a great place for water sports and fishing during the summer. We took a drive to get a better view of the alpine resort and came upon some idylic vistas. Beautiful B.C.! | <urn:uuid:96a739a1-b240-439a-904a-493944e2160f> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://luneblog.com/blog/2017/7/31/an-evening-in-fernie-british-columbia | 2018-06-21T10:11:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864139.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20180621094633-20180621114633-00237.warc.gz | en | 0.975439 | 392 | [
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Another look at the NCB (in General)
February 6 2008 1:06 PM EST
My 4 month run is over today, and I am really happy with the results, coming in with a final mpr of about 2,250,000. However, the purpose of this thread is to discuss how the NCB in its current state is unable to reach 95% of the top mpr. Actually, that statement is slightly incorrect. The NCB bonus is spot on, the problem lies in the inability to maintain a high enough challenge bonus while climbing in mpr.
Now, I hit over 90% of my BA, however there were definitely some changes I could have made to hit a higher mpr. I added over 25 mil NW to my tattoo during the NCB, which meant less time with my RoE. All in all, I would approximate the max mpr one could obtain under my current bonus of 212% would be 2.6 mil (at the cost of about 150 mil CB).
So what exactly was the problem? I hit 1 mil mpr in just over the first month, which means I was on pace to match the top mpr. The coming months in comparison grind to a halt however. In almost triple the time I made a similar mpr growth (including hiring minions). From my observation, the problem lies in how scoring works.
As CB ages, players in the top 20 are constantly growing in PR, yet scores are remaining stable, or rising slightly (not nearly enough to compensate for the increase in PR). As a result, once you hit a certain mpr it becomes impossible to maintain a high enough challenge bonus to support your rate of growth. I remember my bonus went from 100% to 10% in a period of 7 days, effectively crippling my growth.
I think if the scoring system was reworked in a way to include both PR in the mix as well as success in combat things would be greatly improved. Or some mechanism that introduced a rising score over time while growing mpr. If I had a 100% bonus the entire length of my NCB, I could have hit 3.8 mil mpr, which is astronomical (the cost would be astronomical as well though). I don't know exactly what the new scoring solution should be, but something along the lines of a flat score increase for every BA spent in addition to a score increase from winning. Combine that with less score from losing and I think it could be a workable solution.
Imagine if everyones score at the moment instantly doubled, almost everyones rate of growth will have doubled as well, The closer you get to the top mpr, the less benefit you get as well, since everyone below you will be getting a higher challenge bonus. I don't think it is a good game mechanism to accept that once your challenge bonus is gone it is gone forever.
Just my 2 cents. Please don't take this thread as a rant or complaint, as I am quite happy to be hovering around the top 20, and get to knock heads with the big boys...even if I lose :)
February 6 2008 1:09 PM EST
Congratulations! Spectacular run!
February 6 2008 1:12 PM EST
February 6 2008 1:15 PM EST
Nice job :)
February 6 2008 1:16 PM EST
Wow! 2.25M MPR. I hope I can come close to that. Based on my current NCB pace and the time I expect to switch from the RoE to my tattoo, I hope I will hit a similar score.
The only thing I'd add, is the the Bonus should get you to 95% without requireing the use of a RoE.
Obviously, if the top MPR is using a RoE, you'll need one to keep pace.
Which might be where this problem originates.
It's going to be far easier for the top MPR to fight with a RoE and not suffer too many consquencies, as thier already largest MPR in the game can buffer problems with subbing in a non fighting Tattoo.
For a growing character, it's harder to use a RoE effectively, as it limits your ability to fight up, and you (unlike the top MPR) are penalised for fighitng down.
I have no idea what the solution to this would be though. And if it's really a problem at all...
February 6 2008 4:55 PM EST
Congrats, HG :)
goodness, the NCB bonus before the changes in %'s must have been severely low because i am at 250k fights and only at 1.7 mil MPR. after my NCB was over i might've been at 175k fights and only around 1.5 mil MPR... I see you only fought 90k fights. =/ I also used RoE till around 750k MPR (but i dont think it would have made THAT much of a difference)
February 6 2008 5:00 PM EST
For the life of me I can't figure out how to get to 95% of the top MPR. I'm currently running my second NCB and there's no way I'm going to get anywhere near the magical 95% number, and I'll end up using more than the 90% of BA that Horse used.
RoE + USD is a must and that's not how it's supposed to work as far as I know.
Good run btw Horseguy...
February 6 2008 5:11 PM EST
nice run ill be happy too make 1 mill!
February 6 2008 5:27 PM EST
I personally believe that you should be able to reach 90-95% of the top MPR by using the ROE all the time.
The NCB/NUB is designed to get the character, not the tattoo to the top ranks. Therefore you have to maximize your growth and the ROE does that.
However, one has to then consider what Mantra did. That is buying minions after the N*B run is over. How fair is that to overtake the top MPR by buying minion?
In any event, I think all of us know that the current N*B is way way off what Jon proposed it should be doing. That is why I would really like to see a rolling bonus based on the top VPR of the game. But it is a pipe dream only it seems.
February 6 2008 5:34 PM EST
Ranger: I personally believe that you should be able to reach 90-95% of the top MPR by using the ROE all the time.
Yes, but that's not Jon's intention with the current format as far as I know.
Simply put, the NCB isn't working in the manner that the majority of people seem to believe it is intended to.
February 6 2008 5:44 PM EST
Everything Jon has posted about the intentions of the N*B has been to be able to get to 95% of the top MPR. Unless I am mistaken and missed some posts.
If we are wrong about its intention, then perhaps we should be so informed. Perhaps people would not waste millions of CB2 on a NCB if Jon's intention was only 70% of the top MPR.
I was agreeing with his goal for the N*B.
February 6 2008 5:58 PM EST
Ranger, I also bought my minions after the NCB, and I just _barely_ exceeded your MPR at that point. IIRC, you were able to come back and re-take the MPR lead within a few weeks.
So, I'm not sure if the N*B rate has been tweaked at all since then, but I would guess that even with full RoE usage, using all BA, and getting good targets while being in a top clan, someone running things up and then buying all minions would just barely surpass you (in MPR, that says nothing of total PR).
As an example, such a person was Mikel. And if he bought his remaining two minions today, that would increase his MPR by...what, maybe 600K? (I am not good at calculating that...) That would put him above you, yes, but just barely. AND, it would cost a great deal of $CB to do it.
This goal was stated before the introduction of the RoE.
As Jon's not said anything about the goal changing, I think it's safe to asume the 95% figure doesn't take using a RoE into account.
February 6 2008 6:12 PM EST
Ranger, my reply was specifically aimed at your comment that you believe you should be able to reach 95% with a RoE. As far as I'm aware you're supposed to be able to reach it without one, was the point I was trying to make. There's been more that a couple of users who have now used a RoE for a large part of their NCB without missing much BA and fallen a huge way short of the 95% threshold.
I'm most likely incorrect in my next assumption. That is, I don't believe Jon took into consideration the fact that users may use the opportunity to buy minions at the end of NCB to jump above the 95% mark. Something, which incidentally next to no one has been able to achieve. I'm currently negotiating a new re-mortgage of my house with my bank manager in order to be able to afford the necessary $CB to do such a thing at the end of my current run. It's either a re-mortgage or one of my kids up for sale...
February 6 2008 6:47 PM EST
I did use an RoE exclusively for the first 10 weeks of my NCB. Within the first 5 weeks I hit 1 mil mpr, within 10 weeks I was only 1.5 mil mpr. I Missed very little BA during that time, and bought ALL available BA, burned as much BA as I could during whacky times, and had a clan bonus of >10%.
Because of the inability to maintain a challenge bonus, my rate of growth slowed to 50% of what it was. I think the current bonus is calculated to reach the top if you can keep a 100% challenge bonus the entire time. Under the current system, that is an impossibility.
February 6 2008 6:52 PM EST
I couldn't agree more. My MrMunch character was screaming up the MPR ranks and hit a veritable wall and starting getting next to no bonus then eventually negative bonuses for the remaining time. The NCB is broken, I am trying it once more with full RoE fighting until I hit my 2.6 mil tattoo, then I will use that only to grow it higher and have some hope of competing up high.
It is most likely a fools errand, but hey, it's worth a shot.
February 6 2008 7:00 PM EST
"However, one has to then consider what Mantra did. That is buying minions after the N*B run is over. How fair is that to overtake the top MPR by buying minion? "
Ironic thing to say, considering what happened to that character afterwards.
February 6 2008 7:47 PM EST
"It's either a re-mortgage or one of my kids up for sale..."
I'll offer $20 +S&H for the lot of them ~_^
February 6 2008 8:09 PM EST
February 6 2008 8:32 PM EST
Everyone had a chance to buy Cosmos before I did. In fact, I did not buy it until it was for sale at least 2 weeks with no offers.
Personally, I'd suggest removing the NCB altogether as we (as a group) are difficult to please. I would then institute an old char penalty (OCP if you will), that would significantly reduce all gains from fighting (maybe not forging, but who really cares about forging anyhow) after some initial period.
For example, after a character is 12 months old fight rewards are reduced by 10% and then by an additional 10% for each additional month. After 22 months then no rewards period. This would get the top echelon of users to recreate characters (of course they'd keep all of their really nice gear) and potentially get a few of them to try new strategies more frequently. This would create a more dynamic environment and make it feasible for everyone in the top 20 or so to have a crack at the top even if for only a few days/weeks before they can no longer hang on, but then they can try a new char.
One notable downfall of this would be the fact that in 12 months without an NCB/NUB type bonus no one would ever be able to even come close to the MPR levels currently seen, so maybe this is an idea for CB3 (granted some scaling of the current rewards could address this, e.g. all rewards are new characters going forward get rewards at a 250% level). I'm good for another supportership for CB3 . . . so who knows. Just a thought.
February 6 2008 9:15 PM EST
"That is, I don't believe Jon took into consideration the fact that users may use the opportunity to buy minions at the end of NCB to jump above the 95% mark."
I certainly hope the N*B isn't currently working as it does in order to adjust for this. It would be really cruel to those preferring a single minion team. :P
February 6 2008 9:16 PM EST
That said, rolling bonus FTW...
February 6 2008 10:04 PM EST
February 6 2008 10:41 PM EST
colonel, good points (as usual...)
Would you say a rolling bonus constitutes as an OPP (Old Player Penalty)? I'm down with OPP. Yeah, you know me. *smile*
As for CB3, or at least a reset and start-over...yeah, it's a neat thought. I'd like to see a lot of things on a fresh slate, lack of transfers being the main one. I haven't seen a game yet where transfers don't lead to USD, marginalization, bickering, and polarization. While it's true the lack of those things means the game would be that much less "real"...I like that. I play games because they AREN'T real. That's a matter of strict opinion, though.
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I think Jackie was a great asset to the show and wrote great lines for Howard. But, after hearing him on Gilbert's podcast today, I now understand why Robin and Fred were against him coming back after Artie left. He was insufferable. Every story he told that involved him made himself look like the hero- the person who invented something, or influenced someone to do something great. He said he used to take one of the joke notes he would pass to Howard during interviews, and have whatever celebrity guest was in at the time sign it. SO CLEARLY as passive aggressive way of saying "Don't be fooled. I'M the funny one". I don't know, I found him very off putting today. | <urn:uuid:6c93a90e-67fd-403f-addb-467073c3bf44> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://www.dawgshed.com/threads/jackie-on-gilberts-podcast.179403/ | 2018-06-22T09:54:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864387.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20180622084714-20180622104714-00557.warc.gz | en | 0.994585 | 147 | [
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Bright and cozy apartment on two floors is 800 meters from the medieval city walls of Lucca. Featuring a large tub on the terrace, two large living areas, two bedrooms with bathrooms, fitted kitchen with appliances including washing machine and terrace. In addition, the apartment has two bicycles.
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What makes this Apartment unique
This apartment has a beautiful tub with chromotherapy on the covered terrace.
Pool / Spa
Local Services & Businesses
Sports & Adventure Activities
Check-in: 3:00 PM
Check-out: 10:00 AM
100% refund if canceled at least 60 days before arrival date. You must contact the owner directly to request cancellation.
Good quiet locatiion.
The apartment was clean, roomy, well equipped in a quiet convenient location. Eugenia, our host was excellent. She responded very quickly to any queries we had and was very accommodating. Two bikes were available for us to use which were excellent and made it very easy to get around Lucca. We would happily stay there again.
Wonderful stay in Lucca
Our family of four stayed here over the Easter weekend and loved it. The owner was quick to respond to our questions and the reservation process was very easy. Eugenia checked us in and out and made sure we had everything we needed! She suggested local restaurants and helped us make reservations. The apartment is very clean and everything is new and in good working order. It is on a quiet residential street and about a 10 minute walk to the historic center of Lucca. There are two bikes available, which we used to tour the defensive walls surrounding the city. Overall it was a great experience and we would stay here again on our next trip to the area.
The apartment is modern, clean with a loverly balcony which we used one evening for a few drinks and a meal. Only a short walk into Lucca. Euginia, who came to meet us on arrivial was very friendly and helpful with great recommendation of where to eat and where the nearest shops are located etc. We'll be back to Lucca and we'll be coming here again.
Lovely, modern, light and airy apartment
We really enjoyed our week in this lovely apartment. It is very clean and comfortable and has everything you could wish for. Lovely upstairs terrace with views towards the wall. Parking is easy in the quiet street and we found Lucca to be a good base to explore Tuscany. Andrea was very easy to deal with and quick to respond. Eugenia was very helpful and welcoming. We highly recommend this apartment.
Thanks for the review
I cannot praise this accommodation highly enough. It is spotlessly clean and very tastefully furnished to a very high standard. It is conveniently located about 15 minutes walking distance outside the wall with easy parking right outside. There is a generous 'welcome pack' awaiting one's arrival. Two balconies to enjoy and a very warm welcome from Eugenia who gave us advice about good restaurants inside the wall.
I would have no hesitation in recommending and wished we had been able to stay longer than our 4 days.
Thanks for the review, I hope you will come back to our apartment.
We stayed 6 nights. Great apartment, location etc. The other reviews say it all, they are honest and true, and so are the pictures. 7 min walk to enter lucca walls, 5 min drive to unicoop supermarket. Half hour to Pisa, beach and an hour to Firenze airport. Andrea and Eugenia are great to work with as well. I highly recommend this place without any hesitations or reservations.
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
It was a great time at Hermosa Beach looking for Sea Glass! The waves were coming in sets of 4, 8-10″ high at low tide. A bit of a challenge when you’re looking for sea glass.
It required nimble feet, one eye to the ground and one eye to the waves crashing in. As the waves pulled out, I’d run out to patches of uncovered stones looking for sea glass, then as the waves rolled in, I’d run like crazy up the sand embankment. It was a bit of a waltz with the sea, the rise and fall, the back and forth.
As I looked down the way a bit, there was another soul performing the same sort of dance. Looking for his own treasures, I had to inquire of his finds. As we started talking he recognized me from the fair as the mermaid, sea glass lady.
He reminded me we had talked about drill bits for sea glass. Great talking to you Steve, happy hunting and don’t forget to go hunting during the Blue Moon.
Came across some tourist who were inquisitive. Told them the difference between sea glass and beach glass, then help them find their own treasures.
The big score for the day was all the Moon Stone laying at my feet. Milky, crater like pieces of beach stone which is really beach agate. Great day, beach, waves, people and finds…I give it an A+.
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Friday, December 18, 2009
The next great time to look for Sea Glass is during the next full moon which happens to be a BLUE MOON – DECEMBER 31, 2009.
In recent times, the Blue Moon has been based on the Gregorian Calendar and has come to be known as a Calendar Blue Moon. Since a Lunar Month averages about 29.5 days, there will occasionally be seasons with 4 Full Moons, creating a calendar month with 2 Full Moons. The 2nd Moon in a month is called a Calendar Blue Moon. These Moons are not as frequent and on average occur every 2.72 years.
The next calendar Blue Moon occurs 12/31/2009 @ 1:13pm CST.
(Due to different time zones, dates and times will vary.)
The Blue Moon (Full Moon) is also known as a Perigean Moon. When the moon is at perigee, closer to the Earth, there is much more gravitational pull and it can whip up the tides and cause weather to become more unstable.
Stay tuned for more information on when and where to look for Sea Glass.
Fair Winds and Calm Seas
Thursday, December 17, 2009
December 14th, 2009This was one of my unusual finds Sunday morning at the shore. Sea Glass, but with a strange and pretty appearance. After a little research I found that this is a Crizzled piece of sea glass. Crizzling is caused by some deficiency or instability in the chemical makeup of the glass, where either too much alkali or too little lime was used in the manufacturing. It takes a long time, but eventually the salt leaches away, chemical chain reactions occur and the glass deteriorates. Crizzled glass is said to be “sick”, or “diseased”, and the prognosis is nearly always terminal: broken glass. What shall I make with this?
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Authority: Bennett, David E. & Christenson, Eric A. 1994. New Species and New Combinations in Peruvian Orchidaceae. Brittonia. 46 (1): 24-53.
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Going to War...
`When you go out to battle against your enemies, and shall see horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them, for YHWH your Elohim, who brought you up from the land of Mitsrayim, is with you.
'And it shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall come and speak to the people,
and shall say to them, 'Hear, O Yisra'el: You are drawing near today to battle with your enemies. Do not let your heart faint, do not fear, or tremble, or be afraid before them,
for YHWH your Elohim is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.'
'And the officers shall speak to the people, saying, 'Who is the man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.
'And who is the man who has planted a vineyard and has not begun to use it? Let him also go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man should begin to use it.
'And who is the man who is engaged to a woman and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.'
'And the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, 'Who is the man who is afraid and tender of heart? Let him go and return to his house, lest the heart of his brothers faint like his heart.'
'And it shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall appoint commanders of the divisions to lead the people.
'When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then you shall make a call for peace to it.
'And it shall be that if it accepts your call for peace, and shall open to you, then all the people found in it are to be your compulsory labour, and serve you.
'But if it does not make peace with you, and shall fight against you, then you shall besiege it,
and YHWH your Elohim shall give it into your hands, and you shall smite every male in it with the edge of the sword.
'Only the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you take as plunder for yourself. And you shall eat the enemies' plunder which YHWH your Elohim gives you.
'Do so to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
'Only, of the cities of these peoples which YHWH your Elohim gives you as an inheritance, you do not keep alive any that breathe,
but you shall certainly put them under the ban: the Hittite and the Amorite and the Kena'anite and the Perizzite and the Hiwwite and the Yebusite, as YHWH your Elohim has commanded you,
lest they teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done for their mighty ones, and you sin against YHWH your Elohim.
'When you besiege a city for a long time by fighting against it to take it, you do not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them. If you do eat of them, do not cut them down. For is the tree of the field a man to be besieged by you?
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ARISTOTLE, commonly called the Prince of Philosophers, or the Philosopher, by way of excellence, was the founder of a sect which surpassed, and at length even swallowed up all the rest. Not but that it has had reverse of fortune in its turn; especially in the seventeenth century, in which it has been violently shaken, though the Catholic divines on the one side, and the Protestant on the other, have run (as to the quenching of fire) to its relief, and fortified themselves so strongly, by the secular arm, against the New Philosophy, that it is not like to lose its dominion. Mr. Moreri met with so many good materials in a work of father Rapin, that he has given a very large article of Aristotle, enough to dispense with any assistance. Accordingly, I design not to enlarge upon it as far as the subject might allow, but shall content myself with observing some of the errors which I have collected concerning this philosopher. It is not certain that Aristotle practised pharmacy in Athens while he was a disciple of Plato, nor is it more certain that he did not. Very little credit ought to be given to a current tradition that he learnt several things of a Jew, and much less to a story of his pretended conversion to Judaism. They who pretend that he was born a Jew, are much more grossly mistaken: the wrong pointing of a certain passage occasioned this mistake. They are deceived who say that he was a disciple of Socrates for three years, for Socrates died 15 years before Aristotle was born. Aristotle's behaviour towards his master Plato is variously related: some will have it that, through prodigious vanity and ingratitude, he set up altar against altar: that is, he erected a school in Athens during Plato's life, and in opposition to him: others say that he did not set up for a professor till after his master's death. We are
told some things concerning his amours which are not altogether to his advantage. It was pretended that his conjugal affection was idolatrous, and that, if he had not retired from Athens, the process for irreligion, which the priests had commenced against him, would have been attended with the same consequences as that against Socrates. Though he deserved very, great praise, yet it is certain that most of the errors concerning him are to be found in the extravagant commendations which have been heaped upon him: as, for example, is it not a downright falsehood to say, that if Aristotle spoke in his natural philosophy like a man, he spoke in his moral philosophy like a God; and that it is a question in his moral philosophy whether he partakes more of the lawyer than of the priest; more of the priest than the prophet; more of the prophet than of the God? Cardinal Pallavinci scrupled not in some measure to affirm that, if it had not been for Aristotle, the church would have wanted some of its articles of faith. The Christians are not the only people who have authorized his philosophy; the Mahometans are little less prejudiced in its favour; and we are told, that to this day, notwithstanding the ignorance which reigns among them, they have schools for this sect. It will be an everlasting subject of wonder, to persons who know what philosophy is, to find that Aristotle's authority was so much respected in the schools, for several ages, that when a disputant quoted a passage from this philosopher, he who maintained the thesis durst nor say transeat, but must either deny the passage, or explain it in his own way. It is in this manner we treat the Holy Scriptures in the divinity schools. The parliaments which have proscribed all other philosophy but that of Aristotle, are more excusable than the doctors: for whether the members of parliament were really persuaded that this philosophy was the best of any, or was not, the public good might induce them to prohibit new opinions, lest the academical divisions should extend their malignant influence to the disturbance of the tranquillity of the state. What is most astonishing to wise men is, that the professors should be so strongly prejudiced in favour of Aristotle's philosophy. Had this prepossession been confined to his poetry and rhetoric, it had been less wonderful: but they were fond of the weakest
of his works; I mean his Logic, and Natural Philosophy 1. This justice, however, must be done to the blindest of his followers, that they have deserted him where he clashes with Christianity; and this he did in points of the greatest consequence, since he maintained the eternity of the world, and did not believe that providence extended itself to sublunary beings. As to the immortality of the soul, it is not certainly known whether he acknowledged it or not 2. In the year 1647, the famous capuchin, Valerian Magni, published a work concerning the Atheism of Aristotle. About one hundred and thirty years before, Marc Antony Venerius published a system of philosophy, in which he discovered several inconsistencies between Aristotle's doctrine, and the truths of religion. Campanella maintained the same in his book de Reductione ad Religionem, which was approved at Rome in the year 1630. It was not long since maintained in Holland, in the prefaces to some books, that the doctrine of this philosopher differed but little from Spinozism. In the mean time, if some Peripatetics may be believed, he was not ignorant of the mystery of the Trinity. He made a very good end, and enjoys eternal happiness. He composed a great number of books; a great part of which is come down to us. It is true some critics raise a thousand scruples about them. He was extremely honoured in his own city, and there were not wanting heretics who worshipped his image with that of Christ. There is extant some book which mentions, that, before the Reformation, there were churches in Germany in
which Aristotle's Ethics were read every Sunday morning to the people instead of the Gospel. There are but few instances of zeal for religion which have not been shewn for the Peripatetic philosophy. Paul de Foix, famous for his embassies and his learning, would not see Francis Patricius at Ferrara, because he was informed that that learned man taught a philosophy different from the Peripatetic. This was treating the enemies of Aristotle as zealots treat heretics. After all, it is no wonder that the Peripatetic philosophy, as it has been taught for several centuries, found so many protectors; or that the interests of it are believed to be inseparable from those of theology: for it accustoms the mind to acquiesce without evidence. This union of interests may be esteemed as a pledge to the Peripatetics of the immortality of their sect, and an argument to abate the hopes of the new philosophers.--Considering, withal, that there are some doctrines of Aristotle which the moderns have rejected, and which must, sooner or later, be adopted again. The Protestant divines have very much altered their conduct, if it is true, as we are told, that the first reformers clamoured so loud against the Peripatetic philosophy. The kind of death,. which in some respects does much honour to the memory of Aristotle, is, that which some have reported, viz. that his vexation at not being able to discover the cause of the flux and reflux of the Eurippus occasioned the distemper of which he died. Some say, that being retired into the island of Eubæa, to avoid a process against him for irreligion, he poisoned himself: but why should he quit Athens to free himself from persecution this way? HESYCHIUS affirms, not only that sentence of death was pronounced against him for an hymn which he made in honour of his father-in-law, but also that he swallowed aconite in execution of this sentence. If this were true, it would have been mentioned by more authors.
The number of ancient and modern writers who have exercised their pens on Aristotle, either in commenting on, or translating, him, is endless. A catalogue of them is to be met with in some of the editions of his works, but not a complete one. See a treatise of father Labbé, entitled Aristotelis & Platonis Græcorum Interpretum, typis hactenus editorum brevis conspectus; A short view of the Greek interpreters of Aristotle and Plato hitherto published;
printed at Paris in the year 1657, in 4to. Mr. Teissier names four authors who have composed the life of Aristotle; Ammonius, Guarini of Verona, John James Beurerus, and Leonard Aretin. He forgot Jerome Gemusæus, physician and professor of philosophy at Bazil, author of a book, De Vitæ Aristotelis, et eus Operum Censura.--The Life of Aristotle, and a Critique on his Works.
164:1 To be convinced of the weakness of these works, we need only read Gassendus in his Exercitationes Paradoxicæ adversos Aristoteleos. He says enough there against Aristotle's philosophy in general, to convince every unprejudiced reader that it is very defective; but he particularly ruins this philosopher's Logic. He was preparing, likewise, a criticism on his Natural Philosophy, his Metaphysics, and Ethics, in the same way; when, being alarmed at the formidable indignation of the peripatetic party against him, be chose rather to drop his work, than expose himself to their vexatious persecutions. In Aristotle's Logic and Natural Philosophy, there are many things which discover the elevation and profundity of his genius.
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Who Has the Magic Plan to Stop New Jersey Exodus?
New Jersey’s openly gay state assemblyman, who was called “numbnuts” in 2012 by Gov. Chris Christie (R), thinks he can do what Christie has never been able to do, numb or not: get New Jerseyans to stay in New Jersey.
Assemblyman Reed Gusciora’s (D) solution is astoundingly simple. He wants to offer state home and business owners the opportunity to slash their property taxes by 25 percent.
The New Jersey Legislature would then be tasked with figuring out how to make up the difference through budget cuts.
The best Christie has been able to offer is a cap on future property tax increases.
Gusciora calls his idea Proposition New Jersey .
This isn’t the first time Gusciora has tried to get this legislation approved by his colleagues in the state Senate and Assembly. But now it might be more important than ever to get it done. A new study shows New Jersey could lose half of its residents who are fed up with shouldering one of the worst tax burdens in the nation.
The New Jersey Turnpike could soon be packed with residents who want to see the New Jersey border sign in their rearview mirrors.
A Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press study —coming a couple of weeks after a Tax Foundation study showed the Garden State’s business tax rate to be the worst in the nation — demonstrated the state’s property taxes are inciting half of the state’s residents to make plans to get out of New Jersey.
However, property taxes are not the only problem faced by those with Garden State license plates on their vehicles. New Jersey’s sales tax is one of the highest in the nation, at 7 percent, behind only California’s 7.95 percent sales tax.
The kicker is that this is not the first time New Jersey residents have told Monmouth University they want to move out permanently.
The study showed the continuation of a seven-year tend of residents planning an exodus from New Jersey.
“Very little has happened over the past few years to change Garden State residents’ desire or ability to remain in the state,” said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute.
Fifty percent of New Jersey residents who responded to the Monmouth University survey released Nov. 10 said they would like to move out of the state at some point compared to 45 percent who said they would like to remain in the Garden State for the rest of their lives.
Of course a frog wants to grow wings so he won’t whomp his butt every time he jumps, but how likely is that to happen?
When asked to assess the probability they actually would move, regardless of whether they want to, 26 percent of all residents said it is very likely and 32 percent said it is somewhat likely they would leave the state.
It is the middle class for whom exit visas might be most imminent.
Only 31 percent of New Jerseyans who make more than $100,000 a year said they are very likely to leave compared to 25 percent of those in the $50,000 to $100,000 a year salary range who are packing their bags.
Among those who are likely to leave the state, the survey showed 50 percent said they would do so before they retire and 40 percent plan to move after they retire.
“The state’s high cost of living is the driving factor, and the chief culprit among these costs is New Jersey’s property tax burden,” said Murray.
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I often get asked about my writing process, and how I write a song. What is your process? I’m often asked. As each song is different, I always try to look at it in retrospect and write from there.
This time around, as I’m in essence still writing the song, I will try to give you a more play by play description, if I can.
A few weeks ago at the end of a band rehearsal, the guitarist I’m currently working, started playing the beginnings of what he tells me is an old Brazilian song. The first 4 – 8 bars were some simply chords, played in arpeggio with a flattened fourth or fifth, giving it a very modal sound. I latched onto that with a simple melody and lyrics that came to me on the spot:
This is a new song.
That I’m writing right now
It’s a new melody
And it’s not quite the blues.
I told Joao (guitarist) that I didn’t want to hear the rest of the song, and just to let me use that beginning as a springboard for the rest. Walking down the road that night, I started singing it, adding to it, trying to let the melody flow by itself:
At the next rehearsal, we started working it. We started by listening to the above audio and going from there. In trying to find the rest of the song, I kept the first few lines and made stuff up to work with the chord progression that was being created. I added words as the melody was coming to me. The words were just filler, so that I could nail down the melody. Though, the chorus worked as it was, so I knew that was a keeper. I went away, worked on lyrics some more, to fit the melody. And by the end of our last rehearsal, this is what we had:
From the above you can see what we kept from the little audio snippet and what we threw out. There is still a little way to go, work things in properly. Some words I still wish to change, and I will allow those to come to me as and when. Tis just a little glimpse into what is sometimes my writing process. Sometimes, I bring a completed song to the band to work through. While other times, like with this song (still undecided whether to stick with ‘On My Mind’ or the original title of ‘New Song’) it starts with the tiniest bit (4-8 bars) and the song comes from there. | <urn:uuid:b22b6421-c716-4588-bdf0-2ed5fbb3fd78> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://musictj.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/on-writing/ | 2018-06-18T13:12:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267860557.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20180618125242-20180618145242-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.982666 | 538 | [
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Whether you’re new to fencing or just wanting to read more about it, here is a list of important links:
United States Fencing Association, the governing body of fencing in the country.
Visit the new website of NEUSFA, New England Division of the U.S. Fencing Association.
Askfred.net, the tournaments registration and results official website, standing for: Fencing Results and Events Database.
For those not familiar with regional youth events, USA Fencing has divided the nation into six geographic regions:, as pictured in the image below.
New Englanders are part of Region lll.
The Regional Youth Circuit (or RYC) was developed to give Y10, Y12 and Y14 fencers a chance to compete closer to home throughout the fencing season. A points structure (qualifications paths and eligibility), enables fencers to earn the right to compete at Summer Nationals.
Fencing.net, the leading online guide to the world of fencing.
Eurofencing.info, the official website for european fencing.
FIE, the International Fencing Federation, recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the world governing body of fencing.
FIE Media News, a news outlet for the international fencing governing body.
Fencing worldwide, a comprehensive page with links to live results and results archive.
International Olympic Committee, the supreme authority of the Olympic movement.
Blue Gauntlet, our primary choice of fencing equipment.
Academy of Fencing Masters Blog, our favorite fencing blog, containing useful information, constantly updated, conveniently put together and easy to understand for the fencing newbies – definitely subscribe to it!
Parents Guide to Fencing, a downloadable book with resources for parents, from the same fencing blog as well as the following:
Thorne.com, USFA Exclusive Nutritional Supplement Partner of USA Fencing, for elite and youth fencers.
Better Fencer, a blog managed by Olympic Silver Medalist Jason Rogers (Beijing 2008, Men’s Sabre Team).
We Love Fencing, the major focus is the international level of fencing competition – World Cups, Grand Prix, World Fencing Championships and, of course the Olympic Games.
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Michael and I are settling back into life in Moscow following all of our wedding festivities and the opportunities we had to see many friends and family in the States. I would like to quote weather.com to describe Moscow at the moment as “bitterly cold.” The high today is 10°F and tonight it is supposed to get down to -9°F, which will feel like -23°F. Let me tell you that no matter how many layers you wear, it still feels cold. The weather forecast for the next ten days is just as cold, if not colder.
Despite the weather we have been managing to stay busy and continue our Moscow adventures. The Bolshoi Theatre is one of the oldest and most renowned ballet and opera companies in the world. The building just underwent a 6-year renovation project and finally re-opened in October. One of the more interesting items to be renovated was outside, on the top of the facade, the double-headed eagle of the original Russian coat of arms was installed in the place where the Soviet hammer and sickle had been mounted for decades. As you can imagine, tickets are extremely hard to get for the Bolshoi. Michael happened to be on the website and saw second row seats for Sleeping Beauty that night. The performance was excellent. The sets, costumes, music, performers, and everything about the theatre were absolutely beautiful and artistic.
Last year, Michael and I went to an ice sculpture festival. They are very popular in Russia, and almost every city has their own festival. There are many happening throughout Moscow. This year, we went to one called the Ice Museum. It was designed like a castle with rooms inside and dragons outside. Every ice festival needs an igloo and some animals so those were also there too. My favorite part was the ice bed that had real pillows on it.
I do not why the Russians are so fascinated with cat exhibits, but they are all over this city. Most exhibition centers or large parks, such as the one where we went to the Ice Museum, have cat exhibits. I am not a huge cat fan, but curiosity got to me and Michael finally talked me into seeing one. My advice – skip it! I do not know if the one we went to is similar to other exhibits, but it was a large room that smelled terrible with cats in cages. I think pet stores in America provide more entertainment On each cage is a paragraph describing the cat. The most exciting part of the exhibit was the hairless cat!
Lastly, Michael and I went on a date night to a fairly new restaurant in Moscow. Rarely do restaurants blow me away here. I usually leave thinking the food was mediocre at best, and although I love food, I would not describe myself as a food snob. However, this restaurant was amazing. It is located in the the top floor of a building and provides a 360 degree panorama view of the most popular sites in Moscow including Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Kremlin. The tastiest thing I ate was blue fin tuna tar tar with avocados and a sesame soy dressing- yum!
Enjoy some pictures below from all of our winter activities! I hope you are staying warm.
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Podcast: Don Callahan on Football Recruiting Updates, Under Armour Camp in Baltimore
Tue May 22, 2018
Inside Carolina's recruiting expert Don Callahan discusses several updates with North Carolina’s 2019 and 2020 football recruiting classes, including Don's top-5 "most likely to commit" for the 2019 class, which players will be at the Under Armour Camp in Baltimore, MD, and what Don expects from UNC commit Giovanni Biggers.
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Recent Football Recruiting News:3-Star TE Kamari Morales Commits to UNCMonday June 18, 2018Podcast: Freak Show RecapSunday June 17, 2018Teary-eyed prep football star nearly quit. Now, UNC, NC State are fighting for him.Saturday June 16, 2018CB Kenan Johnson Commits to UNCSaturday June 16, 2018Fedora’s Freak Show PreviewFriday June 15, 2018 | <urn:uuid:2922eed2-8950-4282-9d93-edec65cd5e6d> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://m.tarheeltimes.com/article97714.aspx | 2018-06-19T12:47:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267862929.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20180619115101-20180619135101-00597.warc.gz | en | 0.917381 | 200 | [
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Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns told the Senate Agriculture Committee Wednesday that USDA is considering allowing the release of some Conservation Reserve Program acres.
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, told Johanns that many farmers want to be able to use acres currently enrolled in CRP, a land-idling program, due to current high prices on corn and other crops.
USDA said Monday that it would like to limit the amount of new CRP acres over the next two years, and Johanns says that any acreage allowed out of CRP this year wouldn't go into production until 2008.
A decision on whether or not to release those acres will depend on what USDA's estimation of corn planted area, which Johanns says will be clearer in 60-90 days. "We should have a decision by early summer," he says.
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Lewis Hamilton – 1st: “Qualifying is an intense experience and, as drivers, we all put a huge amount of pressure on ourselves, but it’s probably the part of the race weekend I most enjoy.
“On my quickest lap in Q3, I lost a little time in the final corner- maybe a tenth and a half – so it’s massively encouraging to still be in the position I’m in. It’s great for the team to have another one-two, too: that’s a huge achievement from everybody, but we just need to make sure we keep pushing because the guys behind us won’t give up.
“Tomorrow, there’s a long haul down to Turn One, but I’ll be making sure to get a good launch and stay ahead cleanly. Anyway, the key will be to look after your tyres in the race – they’ll have a tough time, especially on 150kg of fuel. But we’ve hopefully got a car that has better race pace than it does qualifying pace.
“It’s been a good weekend for the team so far, but we’ll keep pushing massively for another strong result tomorrow.”
Jenson Button – 2nd: “Qualifying has been pretty good to me in the last two races. We’ve worked well as a team, and it’s always nice when your engineer cues up on the radio at the end of Q3 and you can hear all the mechanics in the background cheering.
“I was pretty happy with my quick lap but it’ll be a long, hot afternoon tomorrow so I’ll be working hard to ensure I’m properly prepared and hydrated for the race.
“This place is so physically tough – not just on the cars and drivers, but it’s tough on the mechanics too – they’re wearing fireproof racesuits during the pitstops, which people often forget, so hopefully they’re fit and ready for some strong pitstops tomorrow. For the strategists too, the heat and humidity are so high that you really don’t know how the tyres will work and what strategies will best play out in the race. We’ve really got to be on your toes.
“Anyway, the most important thing is that we’re on the front row. It’s a long race tomorrow – I think anybody in the top four has a chance of winning this race, but our long-run pace in practice was reasonably consistent and I think we’ve got a lot of confidence as a team in what we’re doing.”
Martin Whitmarsh – Team principal, Vodafone McLaren Mercedes: “Today was very close and very tough. Lewis did a fantastic first lap in Q3 and Jenson pulled it out of the bag at the very end of the session – both drivers did a fantastic job under huge pressure.
“Lewis could probably have found another tenth on his fastest run, but he wasn’t going to take any risks at the end. Jenson and Lewis are free to race into the first corner. After last weekend, I’m sure that Lewis will want to come out of the first corner in the lead, but it’s a long and difficult race ahead of both of them tomorrow.
“I’m proud of every person in the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team – the front row is a good place to be, but the odds are very finely stacked: we’ll have a fight on our hands tomorrow, that’s for sure.”
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else please read thru the most common asked questions…
How long does honey last on the shelf?
Johnston Honey is gently heated to pasteurize and to prevent early crystallization (honey turns cloudy). Most commercially available honey is excessively heated to preserve shelf life. This harms the flavor of the honey and the healthy enzymes in the honey. Because Johnston Honey is not heated excessively, it will crystallize after about 6 months. However, crystallization does not hurt the flavor of the honey and it can be consumed up to 3-4 years after bottling. Heating the crystallized honey is often recommended to remove the cloudy appearance, but here at Johnston Honey heating seems to have a modest effect on appearance.
What is raw honey?
Raw honey is honey that is taken right from the hive, extracted and put in a bottle. It is not heated to pasteurize and consequently, it will crystallize (turn cloudy) in about 2 months. This makes the honey less attractive to the buyer but doesn’t not harm the flavor.
What is creamed honey and how do you make it?
Creamed or whipped honey is a spreadable honey made by seeding liquid honey with honey crystals. About 5 pounds of crystallized honey is stirred into about 60 pounds of liquid honey and the resulting honey is poured into bottles. The bottles are stored for about 2 weeks in a cool (55 degrees) room to enhance the crystallization process. The color of the cream honey and the consistency differs from batch to batch depending on the type of honey and crystals used.
What is the best way to keep creamed honey?
Creamed honey does not need to be refrigerated after opening. It can be left at room temperature. Freezing changes the appearance of Johnston Honey’s creamed honey. This might occur during shipping and it results in shrinkage of the honey inside the bottle. The surface of the honey inside the bottle develops a blotchy appearance. The good news is that this does not affect the taste.
Where does Johnston Honey Perennial Garden Nectar come from?
Perennial Garden Nectar honey contains a portion of honey obtained from the large perennial gardens at the Johnston Honey farm. These flowers add a delicacy and complexity to the aroma and flavor of the honey.
Where does Johnston Honey Prairie Wildflower honey come from?
Johnston Honey Prairie Wildflower comes from several “districts” around Rochester, Minnesota. These districts are chosen for the types of wildflowers found within a 1-2 mile radius of the hives. Some of the wildflowers that are attractive to honey bees once grew in the prairies that covered Minnesota before the European farmers arrived. These flowers now grow in roadside ditches and in fields left fallow by farmers.
Are the beeswax candles 100% beeswax?
Yes, all Johnston Honey candles contain only beeswax. Some commercially available candles are labeled “beeswax” but only contain 50% beeswax and the rest is paraffin.
What are the candle wicks made of?
Johnston Honey candle wicks are cotton. There is NO lead in the wicks.
How big are the candles?
The large pillar candles measure 4.25 inches tall and 3 inches in diameter. They weigh 1 pound.
The small candles measure 3″ inches tall and 2.5″ inches in diameter. They weigh 1/2 pound.
The tall, tapered candles measure 1 inch in diameter at the base and 12 inches tall.
My candle doesn’t burn properly!
The problem is nearly always because the wick is too long. You must keep the wick trimmed to ¼ inch so that the flame is close enough to the wax to melt it. If the wick is too long, either the candle will not burn or the flame will be too large and the wax will spill over the edges and burn much too fast. It will also produce soot if the wick is too long.
What do you mean by “Natural” Helping Hand Cream and Lotion?
The term “Natural” means that there is no scent added to the Helping Hand Cream and Lotion. The word natural is also consistent with the formulation of the product. Johnston Honey has added as few additives as possible to the hand cream and lotion. This makes it more natural and less likely to cause an allergic reaction.
What happened to Johnston Honey’s Revitalizing Lotion?
Johnston Honey’s Revitalizing Lotion has been repackaged to better represent its formulation. It is now Johnston Honey’s Helping Hand Cream Lotion. It comes in a scented (raspberry) version and a natural (beeswax) version.
Why do you have a year of harvest on the honey bottles?
Dating the time of harvest of honey is like taking a page from the wine maker’s book. It assures the customer that the honey is fresh and is not blended with other honey. It also enhances and preserves year to year differences in aroma and flavor.
Where does the honey in commercial varieties come from?
A lot of honey sold in the US is imported from a variety of countries, including China, Mexico and Argentina. The origins of this honey and what is in it is not always clearly defined. A few years ago honey from China was temporarily barred from entry into the US because producers in China were using Chloramphenicol in the hives to kill bacteria. This compound is an antibiotic that has been associated with the fatal disease aplastic anemia.
What does “organic” honey mean?
Johnston Honey’s organic honey is certified organic by Global Alliance, Bellefontaine, OH and the United States Department of Agriculture. This means that no chemicals are used in the hives and the hives are 2 miles from any farm or homes that uses potentially harmful chemicals. The harvest and packaging of organic honey is carefully documented and tracked to ensure nothing harmful mixes with the product. Organic honey from Johnston Honey is the purest honey you can buy. It also tastes great!
What gives honey its color and flavor?
Honey is flavored by the flower nectar that is collected by the bees. Clover (early summer flower) produces a very light colored honey that is mild in flavor. Asters (fall flower) produce a nectar that gives honey a dark amber color and is more robust in flavor. Basswood is spicy. Buckwheat produces a nearly black honey with an unpleasant flavor. On the other hand, Buckwheat honey contains a load of antioxidants which are good for your health.
Also, the type of flower determines if the honey will crystallize quickly or not at all, regardless of heating. What flowers contribute to crystallization is not well defined for the Southeast Minnesota region.
What happens to bees in the cold Minnesota winter?
Bees are amazingly resilient insects. As it gets colder, the bees huddle in a ball around a frame of honey inside the hive. The bees on the inside of the ball constantly rotate to the outside of the ball so that other bees on the outside of the ball can move inside to get warm and have something to eat. Johnston Honey bees easily tolerated temperatures as cold as -29 degrees F.
However, should the temperature remain very cold for weeks at a time, so that “cleansing” flights can’t be taken, then bees die inside the hive despite an adequate food supply. Otherwise, the biggest cause of death over the winter is starvation. Each of the 2 hive bodies that the bees live in over winter should contain more than 50 pounds of honey to get the bees through the winter.
Even with this, it is necessary to feed the bees in fall and again in early spring with a 50/50 mix of sugar and water to help with survival.
What’s this I hear about mites?
There are no wild honey bees living in the US due to the heavy toll taken on bees by mites. Mites are red, pin head sized insects that suck the juice from bees. They arrived from Europe in the 1980’s and completely devastated the honey bee population (not the bumble bees though). One of the best ways to prevent mite damage is to use queen bees that are bred to self groom the mites off their skin. The mites fall to the bottom of the hive and die. Johnston Honey uses the Minnesota Hygienic bee. This is not a complete cure and some insecticides are still used in the hive in early spring and late fall.
How long do bees live?
Bees live for 6 weeks when gathering nectar during the summer. Their wings gradually wear away from constant activity. Those that are alive in the later fall live till spring and care for the larva hatched from eggs laid in late winter. These worker bees die before the honey flow starts again in the spring. The queen bee can live for 3-4 years.
What is the nutritional value of honey?
One hundred grams (7 tablespoons) of honey contains 82 gm of carbohydrate (27% of the daily requirement), no fat and a variety of vitamins and minerals. These are nicely listed at http://www.elook.org/nutrition/sweets/6020.html. Vitamin and mineral content will vary some depending on the honey source.
How long can you store honey and still eat it?
This question is best answered by the National Honey Board and the following appears on their website. “Honey stored in sealed containers can remain stable for decades and even centuries! However, honey is susceptible to physical and chemical changes during storage; it tends to darken and lose its aroma and flavor. This is a temperature-dependent process, making the shelf life of honey difficult to define. For practical purposes, a shelf life of two years is often stated. Properly processed, packaged and stored honey retains its quality for a long time”.
What causes honey to crystallize (become cloudy)?
Honey with a glucose/water ratio < 1.7 (less glucose relative to water - average glucose content is 30%) tends to remain liquid for a long time, while one with a ratio > 2.1 usually crystallizes quickly. Higher water content encourages crystallization. Thus, preventing absorption of atmospheric moisture by tightly closing containers during storage helps prevent crystallization. Honey with a high percentage of fructose (average content is 38% so higher than that) remain liquid for a long time (this is determined by the nectar source – it is not well established which flowers are high in fructose). Crystallization of honey is most rapid at 52–59 °F. The recommended storage temperature for unprocessed honey is below 50 °F (10 °C). The ideal temperature for honey, especially unprocessed honey is below 32 °F (0 °C). Cooler temperatures best preserve the aroma, flavor and color of unprocessed honey
What is raw honey?
Raw honey is honey should closely resemble the honey taken directly from the hive. It is not processed other than to spin the frames to get the honey extracted from the comb. Raw honey is not heated excessively and is not fine filtered. The fragrancy and goodness of natural honey is preserved. Sugars (especially fructose), antioxidants, pollen and minerals are preserved. The down side is that raw honey crystallizes and turns cloudy a few weeks after extraction. Uninformed consumers think the honey is spoiled and don’t buy it.
How much honey does it take to replace a cup of sugar?
Start by substituting one half of the sugar with honey. So, add 1/2 cup of sugar and 1/2 cup of honey if the recipe calls for 1 cup of sugar. Then, the next time you try the recipe, add 3/4 cup of honey and no sugar. The fructose in honey has a higher sweetening power than sugar. The replacement formula will need to be adjusted to get the best results. Also, add 1/2 tsp baking soda for each cup of honey added. Reduce oven temperature by 25 degrees to prevent over browning and reduce any other liquid used by 1/4 cup for each cup of honey used. See the following website for more details: http://www.honey.com/foodserv/usage.html | <urn:uuid:50e99e62-b516-4233-a845-e3f3cbe07c86> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://johnstonhoney.com/faq/ | 2018-06-20T12:53:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267863519.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20180620124346-20180620144346-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.929601 | 2,550 | [
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Morgan County High West Liberty, KY Class of 2003
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Position starts: Now – December 2017
Deadline for applications: Sunday 30 September 2017
Location: 1 online school in Bali
Positions: 3 full time native English teachers
Contract length: One year full time contract
Student age groups: Adults
What you offer
- Minimum age of 25 due to visa restrictions.
- Bachelor’s Degree.
- A CELTA / TEFL / TESOL qualification including a minimum of 120 hours of tuition and observed classroom teaching.
- Enthusiasm for teaching online courses to professional students around the world.
- You are a team player and you have a positive outlook. You will need to be flexible enough to adapt to living in a developing country.
- US, UK, Canada, Australia or New Zealand passport holder due to strict Indonesian immigration department regulations.
- Please note that a criminal background check will be required before commencing employment and a health check is required by the Indonesian government.
- ALL APPOINTMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO CLEARANCE FROM THE MINISTRY OF MANPOWER.
What we can provide to our qualified candidates
- Competitive Rupiah based salary.
- Airfare contribution
- All visa and permit arrangements are processed and paid for.
- Monthly bonus scheme and end of contract bonus.
- 25 days paid holiday.
- Health insurance
- Fully equipped school with internet and wifi, tea and coffee facilities, a fridge and your own desk area.
- Regular training, observations and workshops.
- A dynamic and supportive working environment offering many opportunities for career development with our group or with EF worldwide.
- Voluntary overtime opportunities available
- Full orientation provided
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- Participate in student events and school promotional activities.
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Yes you cannot make this stuff up…
Sometimes, you just have to laugh. Yesterday, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius made the MSM blitz by announcing the website, glitches and all, and the national call-in center, which is 1-800-318-2596. Now to make this work, you have to skip the 1, because on a phone keypad, no letters are assigned to the number 1. But spell out the rest, and this is what you get.
1-800-3(F) 8(U) 2(C) 5(K) 9(Y) 6(O).
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"I am a Freelance Illustrator from New Zealand. Living in Toronto until the end of August. I love Fantasy Art but strive to do understand how everything works so I am able to integrate them into my works if necessary. I paint using a Wacom Tablet and Photoshop, the trick is to make them look like real paintings."
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WASHINGTON - The Georgetown University men's and women's swimming & diving teams had 22 student-athletes, 13 women and nine men, selected to the All-BIG EAST Team following last month's BIG EAST Championships, held at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio. The 13 women named All-BIG EAST were the most in the conference.
The All-BIG EAST squad is comprised of swimmers and divers who finished in the top three in any individual or relay event at the championships. In all, 41 women and 38 men complete the list. A total of 50 student-athletes - 25 women, 25 men - earned all-conference for multiple events.
Of Georgetown's conference-high 13 student-athletes who earned All-BIG EAST honors on the women's side, six medaled in multiple events. Molly Fitzpatrick (Manchester, N.H./The Derryfield School), who won both the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke, earned conference honors in four different events. Elizabeth Miller (Wayland, Mass./Wayland), who was named the championship's Most Outstanding Women's Diver, earned all-conference nods in both the 1- and 3-meter dive where she finished first and second, respectively. Riley Fujioka (Los Altos, Calif./Los Altos) was also named All-BIG EAST in both diving events. Cristina Barrett (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) broke the school records in both the 500- and 1,650-yard freestyles to earn all-conference honors. Lauren Henasey (Newtown, Pa./Germantown Academic) and Belinda Donohoe (Cambridge, Mass./Concord Carlisle) both were two-time recipients in relay events.
On the men's side, nine different Hoyas received All-BIG EAST selections, with four earning nods in multiple events. Drew Carbone (Chelmsford, Mass./Central Catholic), who was named the championship's Most Outstanding Male Swimmer, earned all-conference honors in four events including the 200-yard IM and the 200-yard backstroke, where he won gold, and the 100-yard backstroke, in which he took silver. Ryan Blom (Hershey, Pa./Milton Hershey) and Griffin Edmonds (Norwalk, Conn./New Canaan) each earned all-conference nods in both diving events, while Andrew Stange (St. James, N.Y./Saint Anthony's) was named All-BIG EAST in the 200-yard freestyle and the 800-yard freestyle relay.
The GU women finished second at the 2018 BIG EAST Championships for the fifth-consecutive season, while the men placed third. Over the four-day meet, the Hoyas set a total of 13 new school records and won six gold medals.
Cristina Barrett - 500 free, 1,650 free
Belinda Donohoe - 800 free relay
Belinda Donohoe - 400 medley relay
Molly Fitzpatrick - 200 medley relay, 100 breast, 200 breast, 400 medley relay
Riley Fujioka - 3-meter-diving, 1-meter diving
Lauren Henasey - 200 medley relay, 400 medley relay
Evie Mauzé - 400 medley relay
Elizabeth Miller - 3-meter-diving, 1-meter diving
Laine Morgan - 200 medley relay
Bailey Page - 800 free relay
Naomi Peng - 1-meter diving
Alexandra Rieker - 200 medley relay
Lauren Rutledge - 800 free relay
Christine Ryan - 800 free relay
Ryan Blom - 3-meter-diving, 1-meter diving
Drew Carbone - 800 free relay, 200 IM, 100 back, 200 back
Griffin Edmonds - 3-meter-diving, 1-meter diving
Terry Johnson - 800 free relay
Jacob Kohlhoff - 800 free relay
Daniel Ross - 400 IM
Samuel DeLise - 400 IM
Andrew Stange - 800 free relay, 200 free
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A 6 year student of RISE chooses to interview Mr. Dixon and ask questions such as, "why was Project RISE started?" and "what is the motivation behind Project RISE?"
Meet Billy O'dwyer, he has been a math teacher at Project RISE for many years now. He is most famous for bringing the "candy problem" to RISE. In this video he explains what it is and why he does it. You will also see student work through these outrageous math problems!
In our History class taught by Mr. Lherrison we are mainly focused on how life is for people of color in the United states, how life was for us back then and comparing it to now. We have talked about slavery and the life of black people in general. We are given assignments that relate to most of our topics or maybe something based on a serious discussion like the recent shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castillo.
Our most recent discussion was about identity. We discussed who we are, broke it up into categories, For our identity worksheets we were required to name five things we are classified as and present to the class. One of the topics I presented was being African American and how it’s incorporated in my daily life.
Our History class here at Project RISE is taught by Mr. N. Lherisson. Within this class we explore topics far from the beaten path our regular history classes trod. We venture into topics a little closer to home such as current affairs or history that usually goes untaught. Recently we have been discussing racism and the Black Lives Matter movement both of which are extremely touchy topics, but Mr. Lherisson seems to always make valid points. During one of our many discussions about racism we spoke about how African Americans have been enslaved for longer than we have been free and how racism was almost built into the foundations of America. In light of the recent police officer caused deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile there has been tension within this class and across the nation and the Black Lives Matter movement has become a household topic. Our most recent assignment was to read a letter that an uncle, in the mid 20th century, was writing to his nephew about not conforming with the white man. It was a heartfelt letter that is still relevant today. This assignment shows importance because of how long ago it was written and how little the circumstances have changed. I wrote a poem that was inspired by some of the discussions from our history class.
It All Starts With One
I’d like to tell you that all black lives matter
We need love not hate and a little less of the latter
Fact of the matter is that racism is a disease
One that’s been passed down from generation to generation almost with ease
And if we don’t free ourselves from this mental captivity, what will change?
We’ll age and everything would have remained the same
It all starts with one
I had a dream that one day color will not be seen
And my brothers and sisters will not be deemed as target practice
But it all starts with one
I’d like to clean up these streets before my time expires
I’d like to knock down towers of hate and build empires of love
This is my cry, this is my plead because my children will be roaming this earth
And I don’t want them to have to bleed out their love on this world only for their efforts to be in vain
It all starts with one
By: Alyesha (Group1)
Aly has been a student of RISE for the past five summers, and is going into the 10th grade. She is originally from Jamaica; and believe that project RISE has helped her most in the development of her social skills.
I started Project RISE as a rising 4th grader in 2003. My mother discovered the program through finding the application at a local ABC Head Start. She immediately thought that this would be the perfect way to punish my sister and I for not getting the best of grades throughout the school year. I remember her coming home and calling us into the kitchen having us sit at the table to fill out this tedious lengthy application. Upon receiving our letters of acceptance to the program, we also found out about the parent orientation that would be held soon. I remember sitting in orientation dreading every word Dixon was saying, flinching every time he mentioned school and summer in the same sentence. I was not happy at all. About 2 weeks later my mom drove us to franklin park zoo where we would board the bus to a weird place called Thayer Academy. As a 10 year old I was very timid, and quiet. I worried about being in a new place and being around people I did not know. I was comforted by the thought of my older sister being there, but knew that because she was older I wouldn’t see much of her. I also worried about the classes, I was not a very good reader or writer, and I dreaded math.
I remember my very first Math Review class. We had about 3 counselors in the class room, and the desks were arranged in semi circle around the room. I see one of the counselors pull out a set of flash cards, and say "multiplication." My heart dropped, and I immediately became very nervous, and resentful of my mother. We started going around the classroom, and everyone is just calling out the answer like it was nothing, and I’m just sitting there. Next thing I know one of the counselor sits next to me and lets me know that she’ll help me. She counts out the problem that will be mine and we do the math out in my notebook. Soon after I'm finished, it was my turn and I oh so proudly say the answer without hesitation. I remember feeling so relieved and supported at that moment. This is only one of the many examples I can give you about being in a RISE class room.
After that first day, My sister and I went home and raved about it to my mother. I had not only received the academic support I needed but throughout the years I have made life long friends. All that I worried about on the morning bus ride was eradicated within the first day of RISE.
After my second summer at Project RISE Mr. Dixon tells my mother that she should consider sending my sister and I to Thayer Academy. I transitioned from Boston Public Schools to Thayer at the end of my 5th grade year. I continued to attend project RISE as a camper for the next 6 years. Eventually becoming a counselor for 4 years, and even, the math review teacher for 2 summers! I graduated from Thayer Academy in 2011 and went on to receive a bachelors of science in advertising, from St. John’s university, graduating a semester early and receiving an A in my calculus class. After struggling to find work RISE has reopened it doors to me. I hope to not only continue the work that I loved so much, but also help Project RISE grow as the prodigious organization that it is.
I believe that without my mother, Project RISE, and Mr. Dixon I would not have accomplished the things that I have. I give the sincerest of thank yous to Project RISE and Mr. Dixon.
Written by: Betsy Lorenzo
Project RISE provides students with education, self-esteem, self empowerment, and youth leadership. We serve children from Boston and surrounding towns. Our program focuses on girls and boys between the ages of 8 and 17 coming from low-income families.
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A new paper from Stanford, Princeton, and Berkeley suggests that the world has begun a sixth extinction-level event, this one driven primarily by humankind. This new research indicates that the fossil record clearly shows that species of every sort are becoming extinct far more rapidly than the historical background rate would suggest, and that much of the change is driven by humanity, including the impact of climate change.
The report set out to answer whether current extinction rates for mammals and vertebrates were higher than the highest background level observable through the fossil record, how extinction rates have changed over time within observed history, and how many years it would take species to go extinct if the background extinction rate had held steady. The so-called “background rate” of extinction is extremely important. It’s the number of species that we can predict would have gone extinct, even without outside intervention.
While the point of the paper was to measure the impact of humans, thousands of species of plants, animals, reptiles, amphibians, and birds have historically gone extinct without any human intervention whatsoever, while others (the dodo bird, Steller’s sea cow, the passenger pigeon, and the Rodriguez giant tortoise) were killed off by humans long before climate change was a concern. A high background extinction rate will make any modern departure from the norm less serious-looking, while a low background extinction rate emphasizes the modern departure from historical norms.
In the past, scientists have estimated that species tend to go extinct at a rate between 0.1 and 1 species per million species per year, but for the purposes of this paper, the team of researchers decided on a background extinction rate of 2E/MSY (meaning two species for every million species, every million years). Because we can’t be certain of accounting for every single species, including species that do not decay and leave fossilized materials, there’s always going to be some slippage in the figures — but we can still chart the extinction rate of well-represented species and compare against historical records when that data is available.
This chart shows the number of extinct creatures since 1500 and 1900 for each available species classification. The Highly Conservative rates include only species no longer believed to exist at all, anywhere on Earth. While it’s true that some of these species are later rediscovered, the rate of rediscovery is extremely low and typically confined to tiny, endangered populations located in an heretofore-unknown spot. The Conservative table includes those species believed to be extinct in the wild or possibly extinct. In both cases, the extinction rates shot up after 1900, once the industrial revolution and modern record keeping where both underway.
These charts show the observed extinction rates for various species measured against the background extinction rate for both the “Highly Conservative” and “Conservative” estimates. Even assuming a much higher background extinction rate of 2E/MSY, the die-off rate for all species has been orders of magnitude above background. Statistically, the die-off in amphibians would have taken an estimated 11,600 years to occur naturally, while even the reptile species die-off rate would have taken 800 years — not the 114 years that have passed since 1900.
Why should humans care?
Sweeping species loss under the rug or dismissing it as ecological scareism is a serious mistake. The loss of a single species may seem of minor importance — after all, does the world actually need tree frogs? In theory, no, it doesn’t — but while the loss of any single species is a minor event in the grand scheme of things, the loss of hundreds can create substantial hardship for humanity. The loss of honeybee colonies in the US could drive food prices up, while the collapse of multiple off-shore fisheries has already created real problems for the communities that relied upon them.
It’s impossible to estimate the cost of species extinction, in part because we literally don’t know what we might lose. Horseshoe crabs are an example of a species under pressure as a result of human activity that’s also extremely useful to human medicine. Unlike other species, which rely on hemoglobin in the blood for oxygen transport, horseshoe crabs use hemocyanin. Horseshoe crab blood is used to manufacture Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL), which reacts with bacterial endotoxins. It’s an essential compound used to ensure that medical devices and medications themselves aren’t infected with bacteria before being given to people. LAL can even detect some fungal infections far faster than other forms of testing.
If horseshoe crabs had gone extinct before we discovered these properties, we’d likely have never known they existed in the first place. While I’ve picked relatively simple example, as more species go extinct, it destabilizes the entire ecological web around them. In some cases, other species that might have preferred the first as a food source will adapt. In other cases, they can’t.
We don’t know what we don’t know — which means we don’t know at what point life on Earth reaches a tipping point and begins to drastically change. One thing we do know about past extinction events, regardless of their causes, is that they were marked by the emergence of very different environmental conditions and species. The most famous extinction event, the K-T impact that destroyed the non-avian dinosaurs, cleared the way for mammals to evolve and ascend. Life, as a whole, is extremely resilient, but no single species is guaranteed survival — including ours. | <urn:uuid:41a3062d-b8f2-4ca5-900a-2594c738f98b> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/208739-more-evidence-suggests-earth-is-entering-a-sixth-extinction-level-event | 2018-06-24T12:41:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267866937.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20180624121927-20180624141927-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.94204 | 1,151 | [
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Big Bend hotels and motels with Free/Complimentary breakfast are listed below along with more detailed breakfast information provided by the hotel if available. Search for cheap and discount rates at Big Bend, TX hotels with continental breakfast options. We list the best Big Bend Texas hotel and motel rooms with breakfast built into the rate. Planning group travel? Find Big Bend TX Group Hotel Deals
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What Can an Austin DWI Lawyer Do for Me After I’ve Been Arrested?
Texas has some of the toughest driving while intoxicated (DWI) laws in the country. A conviction can lead to disastrous life-altering consequences, impacting your family life, financial wellbeing, and employment. Some of these consequences include a driver’s license suspension, hefty fines and Department of Public Safety (DPS) surcharges, community service, and even jail or prison time.
In Austin, if you are arrested and charged with DWI it does not automatically mean you are guilty, nor does it mean it will automatically lead to a conviction. In this situation, it is crucial to obtain a qualified and highly experienced Austin DWI defense attorney from Tillman Braniff.
While dealing with the stressful situation of being arrested for DWI in Austin, you may wonder, “What can an Austin DWI lawyer do for me after I’ve been arrested?”
Why You Need a DWI Lawyer in Austin
The consequences for an Austin DWI conviction should be taken seriously as they can easily change your life for the worse. If convicted of subsequent DWIs, the severity of the punishment you will face will increase with multiple offenses. Depending on which offense you are on, you could be facing either a misdemeanor or a felony, fines ranging from $2,000 to $10,000, jail or prison time, and a license suspension ranging from three months to two years.
An attorney from Tillman Braniff can help you fight the charges against you if you’ve been arrested for DWI. To mitigate the outcome of your case, a lawyer experienced with DWI will know your legal options and get you the best possible outcome.
How an Austin DWI Defense Lawyer Can Help
Fighting a DWI in Austin is challenging and difficult, especially if your breath test was .08 percent or above. In these cases, defense attorneys will frequently concentrate on the conduct of the officer during the traffic stop and the accuracy of the breath test.
The answers to several questions may help your case. For example, can the actual traffic stop itself be called into question? Did the officer conduct a legitimate field sobriety test? Was the breath test credible and was the person conducting the breath or blood test certified to do so?
One of our attorneys will have the resources to rigorously investigate the specific circumstances of your case and may discover errors that could affect the outcome. From the initial traffic stop to the manner in which the police officer handled your arrest, more often than not there are inconsistencies or weaknesses in the prosecution’s case that could lead to either a dismissal of your case or a reduction in the charges against you.
An experienced Austin DWI lawyer from our firm may find a number of possible inconsistencies:
- The initial traffic stop
- Field sobriety test administration
- Breath test administration
- Chemical test administration
- Errors in the arrest procedure
How Tillman Braniff Can Help with Your DWI
After being charged with DWI, Tillman Braniff can help you explore your options. Depending on what happened during your arrest, it may be possible to have your charges either overturned or decreased.
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Starbucks: Give paid parental leave to dads
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I am so disappointed to learn that Starbucks doesn’t offer dads any paid parental leave. Starbucks offers 6 weeks paid parental leave to new moms as well as to adoptive parents - but leaves out birth dads. That doesn’t make any sense!
I'm a new dad, and I love Starbucks. After my son was born, we spent countless afternoons cruising our neighborhood together. We have a regular route, and it always starts with dad getting a little treat at the nearby Starbucks. The staff were always so nice to us, and it was a warm and welcoming environment for a new dad who was often in a sleepless haze.
I am asking Starbucks to update its policy to catch up with the modern standard for paid parental leave and include dads.
I think of Starbucks as a forward-thinking and modern company - one that would recognize that all parents should be able to be there when a new child arrives. As a father, I know that taking time to bond with a new child is critical for families.
As one of the largest employers in the country, I’m asking that Starbucks update their paid parental leave policy to include dads - because it’s good for families, and they’re a great business who has a chance to be even better.
If you want to read more about the paid family leave practices at the largest employers in the country, check out the new report by PL+US.
Today: Matt and PL+US is counting on you
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For weeks now, I’ve been besieged with PR pitches about the right Father’s Day tech gift to get. You know what makes a great Father’s Day present? Letting Dad sleep in and/or get a nap. (That’s also a good Mother’s Day gift; I was glad to do my part to make it happen for my wife.)
6/13/2016: Get back your data after resetting an Android phone, USA Today
I had to try to get a column out of my in-retrospect hilariously-stupid accidental resetting of my own phone at the end of a long notetaking session on the differences between Android’s standard interface and the one Samsung puts on its phones. You may have read it under a different headline; USAT reposted the piece under a new one a day or so after its debut in the midst of news from Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference.
6/13/2016: Apple is doing something generous for app developers — but it may cost you, Yahoo Finance
Apple announced some important changes to subscription-based apps in advance of WWDC. They seem good on the surface, but some details remained unclear when I wrote this–and there’s a history of Apple exercising its App Store oversight in developer-hostile ways that it didn’t think to document upfront.
6/13/2016: 5 previous WWDC debuts Apple might want to forget, Yahoo Finance
Apple is just like Google in one way: Its attempts to tell the technological future don’t always make reality bend in response.
6/14/2016: Big Telecom lost in court, but an open internet won. So did you., Yahoo Finance
I should have had this story written in advance, but I guess I couldn’t convince myself that the D.C. Circuit would ever hand down a net-neutrality ruling. Reader comments appear to be polarized between people who despise Comcast/Verizon/AT&T/Time Warner Cable and those equally upset over the Obama administration.
6/19/2016: How to choose between Comcast and Verizon for Internet service, USA Today
I’m not totally happy with how this came out: As one reader called out in the comments, I didn’t get into upload speeds. Given Comcast’s habit of staying mysterious about them–and the odds of other Internet providers being as cagey–I may need to devote a separate column to that angle. Should I? | <urn:uuid:34590374-4caa-43e6-971f-67f7b3b93cb3> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://robpegoraro.com/tag/wwdc/ | 2018-06-19T15:55:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267863100.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20180619154023-20180619174023-00317.warc.gz | en | 0.926335 | 526 | [
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The Town of Whitby employs adult Crossing Guards to ensure the safe crossing of students as they travel to and from school. There are approximately 75 crossing guards at 65 locations throughout the Town of Whitby. Crossing guards are responsible for crossing elementary school aged children for both the Durham District School Board and the Durham Catholic District School Board.
We accept applications throughout the year for Crossing Guards and hire on an as-needed basis. You must be a reliable and safety conscious individual that is willing to work up to 2.5 hours per day in various weather and traffic conditions. For more information or to apply for a Crossing Guard position, please view the employment opportunities on our Human Resources page.
Three Whistle System
Crossing Guards in the Town of Whitby use the Three Whistle System.
- First Whistle: The Crossing Guard blows the first whistle, enters the roadway, holds up the stop sign, and ensures that traffic has stopped. Children should stay on the sidewalk until the guard blows the second whistle.
- Second Whistle: The Crossing Guard blows the second whistle when it is safe for the children to cross.
- Third Whistle: Once the children have safely crossed the roadway, the guard leaves the roadway and blows the third whistle to signify the crossing has ended.
Safety Practices for Children
- Walk across the road in a quick, orderly fashion (do not run)
- Pay attention to the Crossing Guard's instructions (no running, stay off bicycles, skateboards, etc., and do not bounce balls or other sports equipment while crossing)
Safety Practices for Adults
Please respect the Crossing Guard rules when crossing the road with children. By doing so you:
- Set a good example for your child(ren), as well as other children
- Avoid confusing the children who have been taught to follow the Crossing Guard rules
- Help to provide the children with a routine for safely crossing the road with a Crossing Guard when they go to school on their own
Please respect the Crossing Guard's duties and responsibilities and do not park on or near the crosswalk.
Safe Practices for Mortorists in School Zones
- Please follow the posted speed limit and other signage such as "No Parking" or "No Stopping". The posted speed limit within an elementary school zone is 40km/h.
- Keep your eyes on the road and hands on the wheel. It is illegal to use any hand-held device while driving. Distractions can take your attention away from the task of driving and places yourself and others at increased risk of collision.
- Look for children and Crossing Guards in school crosswalks. Wait for the Crossing Guard to blow the third whistle indicating that the children have completed crossing and theCrossing Guard has safely returned to the sidewalk/curb before proceeding.
- As a motorist you must stop when approaching a stopped school bus with its upper red lights flashing and STOP arm extended. Do not move until the red lights have stopped flashing, and STOP arm retracts and the bus begins to move.
How to Identify a Crossing Guard
A Crossing Guard wears a fluorescent orange vest with GUARD on the back, and carries a whistle and a stop sign.
Request a Crossing Guard
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Not all printers support the printing of panoramic images. Since panoramic pictures are wider or taller than typical photos, the printer may not support the image size. In this case, you can print the images by copying them to a computer and then change the size that is supported by the printer. Check the specifications of your printer to find out the image sizes it supports for printing.
Alternatively, you may be able to take your memory card with the panoramic pictures to a local photo lab or pharmacy that has the ability to develop pictures. There are also online photo services where you can order panoramic prints.
- Not all digital cameras are capable of taking panoramic images. Meanwhile, images taken using the 3D Sweep Panorama function found on some cameras will print as 2D images. To see if your camera has a panorama feature, check the specifications on the supplied manual.
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Cuba’s Parapan Am Games judo lineup includes top competitors. Yangalini Jiménez is going for his third gold, Dalidaivis Rodríguez and Jorge Hierrezuelo are both seeking to retain their titles from Guadalajara 2011, and two-time paralympic champion Isao Cruz is intent on taking home Parapan Am gold. They are the cornerstone of Cuban judo in the V Parapan American Games, and have stepped up up their preparation to ensure the best possible outcome.
During an evening workout at the Parapan Am athletes’ village gym Yangalini Jiménez told JIT the athletes are determined to perform well in all circumstances. “It doesn’t matter whether we go up against new opponents or those we know, because matches are won on the tatami. That’s what we are all going for because we know judo will be crucial for the final results,” he said. Jiménez is a native of Sancti Spiritus province and holder of the Rio de Janiero 2007 and Guadalajara 2011 titles in the over 100 kg category.
Isao Cruz, from Villa Clara province, came to Toronto to make up for something still missing from his impressive career. Despite Paralympic gold medals in Syndey 2000 and Beijing 2008 he has yet to collect a Parapan Am title.
Cruz, who shies away from making such predictions, nonetheless confirmed his intention to go for his missing Parapan Am gold. At the same time, the competition in his weight class (81 kg) has become more intense with the entry of Mexican Eduardo Ávila, the gold medal winner at this year’s World Cup in Hungary.
Gold medal favourites Jorge Hierrezuelo and Dalidaivis Rodríguez also spoke to JIT during their evening workout.
“For me it will also be an honour to dedicate a gold medal to our Commander in Chief for his 89th birthday,” Rodriguez noted. August 13 is the birthday of the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, and on that day Dalidaivis Rodriguez, Isao Cruz and Gerardo Rodríguez (73 kg) will all be engaged in judo bouts.
Along with fellow judokas Reinier Acosta (60 kg), Sergio Arturo Pérez (66 kg) and Yordani Fernández (100 kg) the Cuban team aims to hold on to first place in the discipline. Cuba secured that status four years ago with a medal count of five gold, four silver and one bronze.
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|Throughout the years, so many visitors to our farm have expressed a wish to be able to "live in a place like this." Knowing what joy we have daily here in the Valley, we decided that we could indeed offer others this unique experience too.
Blessed with an "extra" farmhouse, we've restored this 19th Century lady as a retreat for fiber students who would like to leave the hectic "lock your doors" life behind and step back in time a little
We're located in the wooded highlands of Northern Indiana County, in the heart of Western Pennsylvania Amish country. Surrounded by wonderful deep woods and beautiful farm lands, the inn sits at the edge of the pine forest here in our secluded Valley. Eight to ten students can be accommodated at one time and the house is completely furnished with period antiques.
The Shepherd's Rest Inn is completely private and self catering. Farm fresh breakfast sausage, eggs, milk and juice are provided. The kitchen is complete with china, pots and pans and microwave, guests need only bring food. All bed linens are provided, as well as a clothes washer and dryer.
Meals may be enjoyed in the "keeping" room around the old oak farm table. Enjoy sitting in our fine Amish rocker with your morning cup and watch the wildlife walk right past the large picture window.
Prop your feet up in the living room and enjoy an evening in front of a crackling fire.
Our extensive library allows you to sit and read to your heart's content and also has plenty of space for looms, spinning wheels, hunting gear, work-shops seminars or classes.
Enjoy three full bedrooms upstairs, each filled with intriguing family antiques. The "Dairy Maid's" room has a full size bed and features wonderful, warm furniture, walls and flowered lamps.
The "Gamekeeper's" room has two rustic full size beds and lantern lamps that cast a warm glow on the open face plank walls.
$30.00 a night per person
$ 5.00 a night per ea. child over ten yrs.
** Special group rates are available.
Guests may sit on the large open porch and enjoy their morning coffee with a view of the lovely forest pond or watch the sheep climb the hills across the Valley at Autumn House Farm. You may hike the 100 acres of hills and nature trails or swim and fish if you choose.
Of course, you are welcome to shop at our Antique Barn and Spinnery Shop for fine gifts and yarns and even take part in farm activities and feed the animals.
Local outings can be set up for you including some of Pennsylvania's best "antiquing" opportunities and shopping for quality crafts from our Amish neighbors.
You can enjoy our abundance of wildlife here in the valley; deer feeding in the meadow fields, our hawks who live on the hilltop, wild turkeys who feed in our corn fields. In the evening you can enjoy the "conversation" of the screech owls and "chunker" frogs and take in the coolness rising out of the bottom after the heat of the day.
In the fall the Valley and surrounding hills explode with color. You'll hear the mystic call of the flights of geese as they pass overhead and sometimes stop for a visit!
Thanksgiving comes and with it the anticipation of a successful hunting season. You can take advantage of prime hunting opportunities on our 100 acres as well as our neighboring farms with permission.
Winter brings quiet times of reflection; nights by the fire, sledding and cross country skiing on open fields and views of magical snow capped trees and hills.
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(PRWEB) September 12, 2012
The monthly jobs report for August shows US employers added a disappointing 97,000 jobs, leaving the unemployment rate above 8%. As reported by msnbc.com, the U.S. economy created 96,000 jobs in August. This figure is less than what had been expected and further shows that the nation’s job-creation machine is stumbling even as voters’ attitudes about the economy begin to get ahead of the November election. Based on figures released by the Labor Department this past week, the unemployment rate dropped to 8.1%, but many would-be job seekers have stopped looking.
Job-creation has stumbled since March amid worries about consumer spending, the debt crisis in Europe and stagnation in Congress. “There’s just not a lot of momentum in the economy,”said Sam Bullard, an economist at Wells Fargo in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The details of the report were unsettling. The government said the economy created fewer jobs in the second quarter than previously estimated. The somber report might push the Federal Reserve closer to taking new actions to lower borrowing costs to encourage companies to increase hiring. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected an increase in payrolls of 130,000 jobs.
Lance Denha, Esq. of The Law Offices of Lance Denha has previously noted that this continual decline or stagnation of the labor market could cause a new ripple effect in the already weak housing market. Mr. Denha elaborated that “Many families have previously held off foreclosure with the anticipation of finding work while using their savings to meet their mortgage obligation. This prolonged jobs environment has unfortunately put these same families at the cross roads of losing their homes. They have now exhausted their savings with little hopes of finding employment in the foreseeable future.” Although the national unemployment rate has fallen from its peak of 10 percent in October 2009, nearly 13 million Americans remain jobless. “This means that many more homeowners that have been current with their mortgage are at that threshold of falling behind,” noted Mr. Denha. | <urn:uuid:7c7e123c-c632-4c1d-ae62-57349a111493> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/9/prweb9890508.htm | 2018-06-20T15:48:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267863650.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20180620143814-20180620163814-00637.warc.gz | en | 0.9779 | 426 | [
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To my friends and fans:
Two years ago I set out to create a series of novels describing a parallel universe to our own, a universe where globalism mysteriously failed and mankind reverted backwards into a savage state of nature, a state where each man fends for himself, each nation fends for itself. As an initial influence, I took the world as described in Orwell’s 1984. In his parallel world, democracy failed and totalitarianism took over. It’s like if the whole world was North Korea….weird.
Anyway, in his world he divided the globe up into four territories: Oceana, Eastasia, Eurasia, and lands that were still in dispute. I took this basic premise in creating the world for my novels: The United-Americas, Euro-Russia, The Democratic Republic of the Pacificese, and the conquered territories in Africa. The names were chosen to help readers visualize the geographical position of each super-state, not to imply anything about future relationships among nations. I figured that this would save the reader the long-winded explanation that Orwell had to give in his book (What the fuck’s Oceana anyway?).
Well, I digress. Initially I didn’t want to give a name to my series of novels. I thought a name would cheapen the whole thing, make it seem like all the other series of books out there today. But, for me, practicality has finally outweighed ideology, and I have decided to give the series a name. At first I thought that I should call it the Francisco Cain series. But, he’s really not in every novel and I hate when series are named after a protagonist. It just sounds stupid. Then I thought I’d call it the United-Americas Series. Unfortunately, that sounds stupid too.
“So”, you’re wondering, what’ll he call it? Well, I’ve thought long and hard on it and the following is what I came up with: “From the tChip of EJO.” Now, if you haven’t had a chance to read The Church Peak Hotel: Revisited yet, that name probably makes no sense. You don’t know that these books were all actually written by some guy, well, two guys, in the distant future. It’s cool. The introduction of The Church Peak Hotel: Revisited will get you caught up.
Now, if you’re still reading this, you’re about to hear the best part. To celebrate the naming of the series, I’ll be selling each book for .99Cents on Amazon from July 20 – 26. That works out to $3.96 for everything I’ve ever written: But the Angels Never Came, Farmers and Cannibals, Just After the Fall, The Church Peak Hotel: Revisited. Check out the links above, read the descriptions, read the reviews, and see if this series is something you want to get into. If it is, you can use these links to get to the Amazon page for each book:
Oh, and one last thing. Thanks to all of you who have supported me and my writing. Thanks for checking out my blog posts, commenting here on Goodreads and on Twitter, reading and reviewing my books etc. I couldn’t do this without you. Please help me out a little bit more by tweeting this out to your followers, liking the page, telling your friends about it. Thank you, thank you, thank you! | <urn:uuid:8feea4e8-aeec-4ed9-bdef-ff91ab2cc5b3> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://ericjamesolson.com/2014/07/20/series-giveaway/ | 2018-06-21T16:18:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864191.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20180621153153-20180621173153-00317.warc.gz | en | 0.955207 | 741 | [
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Take care of that body... You'll need it later!
The grieving process puts a huge strain on your body. It can lower your resistance and leave you open for true physical ailments. And normal grief can cause so much physical discomfort that you may even have signs and symptoms of real illness. It is likely nothing serious, just normal grieving.
When to go for
a checkup? When you deep down feel something is really wrong, or when worry
about your health is starting to contribute to your already significant anxiety
and stress. It'll be worth the money to get checked out and bring peace of mind.
You may not know this, but during sleep, your mind works... at making sense of what happened to you during the day. If you interfere with this normal sleep pattern (alcohol and sleeping pills mess this up), you wake up exhausted. Your mind is not as capable of helping you through your grief-work.
Try activities that help you relax, like yoga or meditation. If you would like a simple free guide to help you get started with meditation, click here: FREE MEDITATION GUIDE.
At bedtime, drink some warm milk and put on soft soothing music. Grab a really boring novel, and settle in.
Try Benadryl or Valerian Root, an herbal, for occasional use only on really difficult nights. Do NOT get in the habit of taking sleepers every night. Very bad for your health and your grief.
You might find that as your grief
matures, you are overwhelmed by stress and anxiety from coping. For some
excellent new strategies and tools to help fight excessive stress and high
anxiety, join up for our free
STRESS MANAGEMENT E-COURSE.
If you were on an exercise routine before your tragedy struck, try to get back to it as soon as you can. If not, go for a slow jog or brisk walk at least every other day. Get on a bike and tour the neighborhood. Get out in the fresh air and sunshine.
Exercise releases stress and tension. It will do you good to get out
of the house for a few minutes, and your body will thank you later.
I know, it can be difficult to even eat right now, but you must provide your body with fuel. Grief expends an enormous amount of energy. You may not be able to face a big plate of gooey lasagna, but surely you can nibble on some grapes and cheese, right?
Get rid of all the ice cream, chips and candy. Stock up on nourishing snack foods. Fruits, cheeses, cereals, and yogurt are all very good and easy on the stomach.
Eat frequent small nourishing snacks to keep you going. Take a
stress-tab multivitamin daily, with a meal. And now is not the time to go on a
The pain of grief is so overwhelming, especially in the beginning, that you may feel tempted to avoid it with alcohol or drugs. An occasional respite with a glass or two of wine won't hurt. Getting drunk every night will. Alcohol is a depressant, you know.
Artificial quick fixes will only postpone the inevitable, and add to your problems. It's only too easy to fall into the trap of avoidance and become dependent on chemicals to get you through the day.
You are strong enough to face
this squarely and make it through without them. Don't add addiction to your
"Grief is itself a medicine" -William Cowper (1731-1800)
Prescription sleeping pills and anti-anxiety medications are some of the most addictive drugs out there. If you were already on an antidepressant before this happened, by all means continue it, and let your doctor know what has happened.
But be very careful of accepting new treatment for depression just because you
are grieving. How to tell the difference between normal grieving and clinical
AN EXCELLENT GUIDE TO DEPRESSION.
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NSW educators wanting to improve public school system could learn from Ontario
In Australia, relentless debates over education, arguments over curriculum and disputes about funding models could easily leave observers convinced the sky isn’t far off falling down.
Some of the bad news is true. But the good news is that, with the right strategies in place and some persistence, education systems can not only stave off doom but can, in fact, make substantial progress.
Ontario, Canada, which has characteristics similar to NSW, was stagnant in 2003. In a decade, the percentage of students reaching the highest standard in literacy and numeracy has risen from 54 to 70 per cent and high school graduation rates have risen from 68 to 83 per cent across its 900 secondary schools. The goal now is to move from great to excellent.
So what matters most as you try to improve something as large and as complicated as the NSW public school system, with its 2218 schools, 755,000 students and more than 70,000 teachers?
Starting from the top, you need a compelling vision and a coherent direction. And when you implement it, you need to engage schools and communities in a strong two-way partnership.
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Recently my sister went to clothes show live and she helped me brought some stuff :)
Montagne Jeunesse Goodie bag: Banana Foot Mask! Cranberry & Aloe Vera Lip Balm and maskes ( fruity, hot mask, overnight treatment masks.) Oh! and there is a Chocolate mask!!!!
'Wow' beauty brand goodied bag: Glitter dipper, Lollypuff ( which actully is puff with glitter powder inside), hand warm pad!, crystal nail file, hair remover pad sheet and set of make up brushes.
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Fallen engel book review
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Fallen engel book review
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Clockwork angel is the first it was announced that stephanie sanditz was hired to pen the script for the film adaptation of the book city of fallen angels. Review 1: this book is what i like to call a kitchen sink story brends duranov is a fallen angel dass sie ihre seele an einen gefallenen engel v. Read fallen engelen in het donker : een inkijkje in de bijzondere wereld van fallen by lauren kate with rakuten kobo cover gebruikt als primaire bron vanwege ondertitel. Find great deals for l a '56 : a devil in the city of angels by joel engel (2012, hardcover) shop with confidence on ebay. | <urn:uuid:79bd865c-3c4c-4e0a-9e19-77390839e6c0> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://rccourseworkejjk.gnomes-inc.info/fallen-engel-book-review.html | 2018-06-23T16:03:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267865098.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20180623152108-20180623172108-00317.warc.gz | en | 0.876313 | 971 | [
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Denver-Aurora-Boulder Combined Statistical Area had an estimated 2008 population of 3,049,562 and ranked as the 16th most populous U.S. metropolitan area. Denver is nicknamed the Mile-High City because its official elevation is almost exactly one mile above sea level. Denver has 29 recreation centers and over 200 parks providing places and programming for resident's recreation and relaxation.
Denver is home to a variety of sports teams and belongs to a select group of U.S. cities with teams from four major sports. Denver is also one of only 3 cities in the nation that has a team representing all 8 of the major sports leagues in the US, joining Chicago and New York. This means one thing: Denver and its residents are competitive.
And Denver's Member Agents are willing to compete for your business. Many have joined HungryAgents.com® as Member Agents and will bid on our website for your business.
They will bid on the amount of commission they will charge to sell your home and, if you are a buyer, they will bid on how much of the buyer's agent commission they earn to give you at closing. All bids are for full service so you can make a fair comparison. In the bids to sellers you will also see what part of the total commission they will give the buyer's agent.
In the Denver area, the average commission bid to sellers is 4.39% and the average percentage of the buyer's agent commission bid to give the buyer is 30.36%. These are averages of the bids - not the lowest bids. And the average number of bids to buyers and sellers by Member Agents in the Denver area on HungryAgents.com® is seventeen!
Area demographic facts from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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BART website provides real time Muni Metro arrivals for shared stations
The BART website now provides real time SF Muni Metro arrivals for shared BART/Muni Metro stations in San Francisco, including Embarcadero, Montgomery, Powell, Civic Center, Glen Park and Balboa Park. The arrivals are convenietly listed next to BART ETAs on the main BART website and the mobile BART website (m.bart.gov).
On Saturday, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) released real time Muni arrivals to developers. BART is one of the first to use the new data feed.
"It's exciting to see another Bay Area transit agency open up real time data," said BART website manager, Timothy Moore. "BART and Muni are providing a model for how transit agencies can share real time data with the public and each other. I can't wait to see the innovations that result."
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I'm so excited to be back .. I missed y'all dearly.
As for me, I've been busy having a baby .. Yup, I was newly pregnant in the last post I posted with me and Bahiyah at my grannys 75th. I was blessed to have a precious little boy that we named Kedar which means powerful.
Hes been a true blessing to our family. He is now 3 months and keeps me super busy. His brothers and sister are in love with him a spoils him rotten.
Here a pic .. I will post in another post my crazy delivery story as my hubby delivered him in my car... Yes, I said in my car .. Lol
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In a year when Republicans are operating in such an enviable political environment, why aren’t their U.S. Senate candidates holding big and impressive leads? Why does it look close? Why are party professionals getting worried?
The Democratic president is unpopular. What progress can be claimed in the economy is tentative, uneven, feels temporary. True unemployment is bad and people who have jobs feel stressed and hammered by costs. Americans are less optimistic than they’ve ever been in the modern era, with right-track/wrong-track numbers upside down. Scandals, war, uncertain leadership—all this has yielded a sense the whole enterprise of the past six years just did not work.
But Republicans aren’t achieving lift-off. The metaphor used most often is the wave. If Republicans can’t make, catch and ride a wave in an environment like this, they’ve gone from being the stupid party to the stupid loser party.
An accomplished establishment Republican this week shrugged and noted the obvious: Every race is state-by-state and has its own realities; some candidates prove good and some are disappointing. Another establishment figure, an elected officeholder, observed with satisfaction that Republicans in Washington have done a good job making sure local candidates weren’t nutty persons who said nutty things.
But is that enough? Kellyanne Conway of The Polling Co. says no: “It’s not enough for voters to have a candidate who doesn’t say something controversial. They need something compelling.”
The party’s consultants say it comes down to money: Republicans are raising less than Democrats and need more. But Ms. Conway notes that in 2012, well-funded Republicans George Allen, Connie Mack, Linda McMahon, Josh Mandel and Tommy Thompson all went down to defeat. It’s not all about money.
The question this week is whether the election should be nationalized, lifted beyond the local and given power by clear stands on some agreed-upon national issues. Those who resist say the election has already been nationalized by Barack Obama . His and his administration’s unpopularity are all the unifying force that’s needed.
But put aside the word “nationalized.” Shouldn’t the Republican Party make it clear right now exactly what it is for and what it intends to do?
Here the views of Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and much of the Washington-based GOP election apparatus have held sway. If you are explicit in terms of larger policy ideas, you just give Democrats something to shoot at. Don’t give them a target. ObamaCare, the foreign-policy mess, the IRS—these are so unpopular they’re more than enough reason to vote Republican. Don’t give voters a reason not to!
This sounds like the hard practicality of big-time politics, and it has a certain logic. But it doesn’t take into account some underlying realities.
One is the rising air of public crisis. Many voters, especially in the Republican base, feel America is under threat and we are losing our country. They feel they are fighting to save it. In a time of alarm, vagueness doesn’t seem clever but oblivious—out of touch and unaware.
Asecond reality is the GOP’s brand problem. Everyone knows about it and is tired of saying it; the Democrats continue exploiting it because it’s almost all they have. Moreover, history suggests a political brand problem gets resolved only by a vivid figure like FDR or Reagan, who through their popularity and power changed how people saw their parties. Republican politicians can’t sit around waiting for a vivid figure to come along, so they don’t talk about the problem anymore.
The cliché is that Republicans are old, white, don’t like women or science, are narrow, numeric and oppose all modern ways. The cliché probably isn’t as powerful as it used to be because the president has made so many new Republicans, but it’s still there.
But Republicanism right now has a special duty to be dynamic and serious. It has to paint a world of the possible. It has to make people feel that things can be made better. The spirit animating the party should be “This way, we will take that hill and hold it. Together, now, let’s march.” To rouse people you have to tell them your plans.
And it would be especially welcome at this moment. The Democratic Party in the last years of Obama is running on empty, pushing old buttons. To judge by their current campaigns, their only bullets are mischief and malice. The mischief includes a wholly fictional Republican war on women and the malice involves class-mongering and “check your privilege” manipulation. Only the young seem idealistic; older Democrats seem like a sated force.
The Democrats’ reputation is suffering, but the point here is the Republicans’. When you have a poor brand, do you spend all your time saying the other guy is worse? Or do you start rebuilding your reputation? In politics that means saying what you are for, not what you are against, and what you will do, not what the other guy will do if the voters let him.
A third reason to go with the idea of avowed meaning is the suspicion some voters must have that while to vote Democratic this year is to vote for the potential of more trouble, to vote Republican may be a vote for nothing changing or improving very much.
Both parties in Washington use stasis as a strategy. I suspect there are Republicans on the ground who intuit the Republican version of this. Republican inertia was outlined to me this spring, ironically, by a GOP congressman:
The 2010 election, he explained, was about winning the House, don’t rock the boat. Twenty twelve was all about the presidential—again don’t rock the boat, don’t mess things up with anything controversial, win the presidency to effect change. In 2014, he said, it’s all about the Senate—win it, hold the House. Then in 2016 it’s going to be all about the presidential and holding the Senate. In 2018, he said, it will be all about holding Congress for a Republican president or against a Democratic one. Then in 2020 it will be all about the presidential.
After that, he said, we might do something!
His point was that party professionals think the party has to keep winning, so—wait. For what?
Republican political professionals need to get the meaning of things back. Otherwise, if Republicans do take the Senate, their new majority will arrive not having won on the basis of something shared. They will not be able to claim any mandate for anything. That will encourage them to become self-driven freelancers in a very pleasant and distinguished freelancer’s club, which is sort of what the Senate is.
It’s good to win, but winning without a declared governing purpose is a ticket to nowhere.
Some feel a vague list of general stands might solve the problem and do the trick. They think it’s probably too late to do more than that. But there are 6½ weeks before the election, and plenty of voters would be asking for more information and open to changing their minds. In such circumstances, explicit vows are more likely to be taken seriously than airy sentiments.
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Effective May 25, 2018
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What information we collect and how we collect it.
AdParlor does not collect or retain the following consumer information: race, religion, sexual orientation, health, social security number (or other government issued identifying number), insurance plan number, financial account number, information relaying real-time location data (e.g. through GPS or other location-based services), or information about past, present or future health or medical condition. Occasionally, AdParlor may receive consumer information, such as email addresses, names, physical addresses, and phone numbers from its advertising clients in connection with specific advertising campaigns. This consumer information is not retained by AdParlor and is deleted following completion of the applicable campaign. It is never sold or shared with third parties not involved in the campaign.
AdParlor collects user submitted information such as name, email and password data to authenticate users, authenticate its commercial users, (AdParlor accounts and account services are available only to advertisers; they are not available to consumers), and to send notifications to those users relating to the AdParlor service. This information is not shared to anyone and is used by AdParlor so we can customize your experience and protect the security of your account.
We may also use a user’s email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding
AdParlor may also collect information from business partners, such as advertisers and agencies, on AdParlor’s website or self-service product offerings as necessary to provide services to those business partners. This may include, but is not limited to, names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, and other information provided by business partners to AdParlor through such a website or product offering (“Business Information”). Such information may be used and shared as necessary to perform AdParlor’s services for those business partners.
AdParlor logs IP address, date/time stamp, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to its sites. This data is used to manage the websites, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to AdParlor’s account holders. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes.
We do not knowingly collect information about minors under the age of 13. MINORS UNDER THE AGE OF 13 SHOULD NOT PROVIDE OR SUBMIT ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION, INCLUDING THEIR EMAIL ADDRESS, TO ADPARLOR. If Adparlor is notified it has information about a minor under the age of 13, that information will be promptly deleted from our database. Minors are not permitted to open accounts with Adparlor.
How we use and share the information we collect.
How we store and protect the information we receive.
AdParlor user accounts are secured by user-created passwords and AdParlor takes certain precautions to ensure that user account information is kept private. We use reasonable measures to protect user information that is stored within our database, and we restrict access to member information to those employees who need access to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical staff. Please note that we cannot guarantee the absolute security of member account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of member information at any time. For any additional information about the security measures we use on AdParlor, please contact us at privacy at adparlor.com.
CONTACT FORM CHECKBOXES: We have implemented checkboxes in our Hubspot collection forms on the bottom of each AdParlor page. By ticking the checkbox “I agree to receive other communications from AdParlor.”, you consent to us contacting you about our products and services, as well as other content that may be of interest to you. By ticking the checkbox “I agree to allow AdParlor to store and process my personal data.*”, you consent to us storing your personal data from our submission form on Hubspot.
To completely and permanently delete a user account, a user may contact us by postal mail at the following address:AdParlor Delete Account
Or by sending email to [email protected] subject “DELETE ACCOUNT” — please note that the email must come from the account you wish to delete.
Please note that, notwithstanding any requests otherwise, Business Information may be retained by us as necessary for business or legal purposes.
Additional resources and contact information.
AdParlor is a wholly-owned subsidiary of V2 Ventures Group, LLC. For more information about protecting your privacy, you may wish to visit www.netcoalition.com, and www.privacyalliance.org. We reserve the right to update this Policy at any time by re-publishing it to this website with a new effective date.
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Symptoms of type 2 diabetes are not always obvious and can take a long time to develop. Sometimes there are no symptoms. It is important to remember that not everyone who suffers from insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes develops these warning signs and all those with these symptoms my children are not necessarily diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Sometimes children and adolescents with type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, or obesity can become ill. velopper thick, dark skin around the neck, armpits, groin, between the fingers and toes or on the elbows and knees. called acanthosis nigricans.
Fish oil improves glucose tolerance in healthy people taking omega-3 fatty acid supplements and some studies have shown that supplementation with fish oil improves tolerance to glucose, triglycerides and cholesterol in type 2 diabetics. And in one trial, people with diabetic neuropathy and of diabetic necropathy experienced significant improvement when they received 600 mg three times a day of Eicosapentaeno-purified EPA - one of the two major Omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil supplements. for 48 weeks.
Whole grains are also rich in vitamins, Essential phytochemicals and compounds that can help reduce the risk of diabetes. In contrast, white bread, white rice, mashed potatoes, donuts, bagels and many breakfast cereals have what is called a glycerol Raised and a glycemic load. This means that they cause sustained spikes in blood sugar and insulin, which can lead to an increased risk of diabetes.
The sad truth is this: it could be your CLEAN doctor perpetuating this misinformation Most diabetics find themselves in a black hole of helplessness, without idea about how to to reverse their condition. The biggest concern is that more than half of people with type 2 diabetes do not even know they have diabetes - and 90% of those with a disorder known as diabetes mellitus the name of pre-diabet are not aware of their situation either.
Diabetes - What You Should Know. See how a patient has learned to manage weight and diet. WebMD does not provide medical, diagnostic or treatment advice. Most doctors treat only the symptoms, but the disease can be beaten in remission. However, it requires losing a lot of weight - and not doing it. Most doctors only treat symptoms, but the disease can be beaten in remission. However, you have to lose a lot of weight - and keep it off!.
Some people with type 2 diabetes also take insulin, sometimes in combination with oral medications. Insulin is also used in "Beta cell failure", a condition in which the pancreas no longer produces insulin in response to high glycemia. e. This can happen in people with type 2 diabetes. If insulin is not produced, insulin treatment is necessary. There are other non-insulinic drugs given as an injection that are used to treat type 2 diabetes.
It can also be triggered when the insulin produced does not work properly. Usually, people with type 2 diabetes are diagnosed at age 40, but there are some exceptions. In people from South Asia, the disease may appear at the age of 25 years. The disease is becoming more and more common in children, adolescents of all ethnicities. Experts suggest that increasing rates of type 2 diabetes are due to the epidemic of obesity - a key cause of type 2 diabetes.
Dr. Sarah Jarvis, general practitioner and clinical director of patient.info A simple strip testcan detect sugar glucose in a urine sample. However, this is not enough to establish a definite diagnosis of diabetes. Therefore, a blood test is necessary to make the diagnosis. The blood test detects the level of glucose in your blood. If the glucose level is high, it will confirm that you are diabetic.
Fasting Glycemia: It measures your blood sugar on an empty stomach. You will not be able to eat or drink anything other than water for 8 hours before the test. Oral Glucose Tolerance Test OGTT: It checks your glycae before and 2 hours after drinking a sweet drink to see how your body handles sugar. Over time, hyperglycemia can damage and cause problems with your: The best way to avoid these complications is to manage your diabetes well.
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We have been very busy in Nursery and Reception. Take a look at some of the things we've been doing.
The children (and staff!) have enjoyed starting the day doing songs and dances from 'Go Noodle'. We have also enjoyed doing some relaxing yoga moves.
Nursery and reception enjoyed mark making in the shave foam and putting the fire out at the fire station.
We are looking at lots of different books linked to the 'transport' theme and doing many fun activities.
We read 'Naughty Bus' by Jan and Jerry Oke. It is a fantastic story which has allowed us to do lots of speaking and listening activities.
Reception recorded their own version of the story and it was excellent. All the infants watched it on the interactive whiteboard and they loved it.
We have been doing lots of counting and number recognition. We have used small people and put them on the bus. We are starting to add two numbers together.
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Introduction: Custom Push Pins With Sugru
Liven up your office space with some custom push pins or thumbtacks! Basically, these came about when little bits of Sugru from other projects were left over. Sugru is a moldable, self-setting rubber, and a little bit goes a long way! If you're using it, think about making these little guys with your left overs, or make a whole batch of them with a mini packet.
Step 1: Materials Needed
1 mini packet of Sugru
9 or 10 thumbtacks
Like I said, you can use left over Sugru from other projects, as you just need tiny bits of it. If you're starting from scratch, 1 mini packet can make about 9 or 10 pins.
Step 2: Roll Out Your Sugru
Sugru is a moldable, self-setting rubber. It bonds to most materials, is moldable like clay, and cures into a sturdy, flexible rubber.
Remove Sugru from the packet and knead it to soften it up a bit. Sugru cures when it is exposed to the air. It will be nicely pliable for about 30 minutes before it begins to harden. Whatever is taken out of the packet will begin to harden at that point. So you may not need an entire packet, but you'll want to have a plan for everything that you unwrap. That's why these are a great option for your little left over bits.
Roll a small portion of Sugru into a sphere about the diameter of your thumbtack head.
Step 3: Shape and Decorate Your Custom Pin
Place the sphere on the head of the thumbtack and gently press it into place. Smush the Sugru so that it will bond to the thumbtack, and gently shape the edges as you please. Use a toothpick to create a design on the pin.
Step 4: Let Cure and Pin Away!
Set your pins on a smooth surface and let dry for 24 hours. At this point, the rubber will be completely cured. Then you're all set to pin away!
We have a be nice policy.
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My first Morgan Matson book and it certainly won’t be my last. A tale of friendship, love, and learning to be brave.
Since You’ve Been Gone Summary
It was Sloane who yanked Emily out of her shell and made her life 100% interesting. But right before what should have been the most epic summer, Sloane just… disappears. All she leaves behind is a to-do list.
On it, thirteen Sloane-inspired tasks that Emily would normally never try. But what if they could bring her best friend back?
Apple picking at night? Okay, easy enough.
Dance until dawn? Sure. Why not?
Kiss a stranger? Um…
Emily now has this unexpected summer, and the help of Frank Porter (totally unexpected), to check things off Sloane’s list. Who knows what she’ll find?
Go skinny-dipping? Wait… what?
Since You’ve Been Gone Review
I had pretty high expectations when I picked up Since You’ve Been Gone. I’d heard great things about it, and with a 4.17-star rating on Goodreads I knew there were lots of readers out there who’ve loved it. In the beginning, though, I began to wonder why it had been rated so highly. I wasn’t at all sure that it was going to be my cup of tea – I found it to be quite slow paced and I wasn’t hooked.
A few chapters in, everything changed for me. I realised that the time taken over this novel is what makes it so great. At 464 pages, it’s a reasonably long book for a YA, but its length means you really get to know its gorgeous characters. I loved the concept, and think a list like Sloane’s would do me the world of good.
To begin with, Emily was extremely hesitant about Sloane’s list of 13 daunting tasks. She’s always been shy and quiet and careful, hiding in Sloane’s larger than life shadow. But you’ll witness Emily slowly but surely build up her courage, and in doing so she discovers a side of herself she wasn’t sure existed.
I felt like I could really relate to Emily, and I think that’s part of why I found the first few chapters so frustrating. Seeing a personality so close to my own reflected on the pages like that was uncomfortable to read and highlighted some truths I wanted to ignore. But watching her come out of her shell and learn to love herself was uplifting, and I felt absolutely inspired.
A tale of friendships, first love and learning to be brave, Since You’ve Been Gone certainly won’t be the last Morgan Matson I read. It was one of my favourite books of 2017, and I’d highly recommend it – it’s the perfect summer read.
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August 28, 2013
||Barbara Hetrick, Dean*
College of Arts and Sciences
||Krista Paulsen, Chair
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Formal Request for Department Name Change
The University of North Florida's Department of Sociology and Anthropology formally requests to change its name to the "Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work."
This change reflects the addition of a third degree program to the Department, the Bachelor of Social Work (BSW), which began enrolling students in fall 2013. Students looking for a degree in Social Work need to know that the BSW is available at UNF, and that the program is as highly regarded and fully developed as the two other degree programs in our department. This is indeed the case, as three of our 17 full-time faculty are now assigned to the Social Work program, and an 18th faculty position, for which we are searching this year, will be assigned to Social Work as well. The name change will also draw positive attention to the Department from community members who have been eager to see Social Work become part of UNF's curriculum.
The new name, "Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work," is common at other US institutions where these three social science disciplines are combined in one department. These include Kansas State University, Texas Tech, Auburn University and the University of Dayton.
Perhaps most importantly, our faculty unanimously support this change, as indicated by a vote held at our Fall Workshop on August 20, 2013.
In sum, we as a Department request permission to officially change our name to the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, as this:
- Communicates the three degree programs and disciplines housed in the Department;
- Indicates the equivalent statuses of the three programs and disciplines;
- Reflects national naming conventions for similarly constituted departments; and
- Is fully supported by all faculty.
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Console Only Shows Zero
If your console is only showing zero for your RPM’s or not displaying time or your distance it may just be a Reed Switch alignment problem. We will go through the steps needed to adjust and align your Reed Switch properly in just a few simple steps below:
First, if your exercise equipment is plugged into the wall, you will need to unplug it. We will be working inside your bike or elliptical today, so safety first!
As I mentioned we will be working inside your equipment today. You will need to remove one of the side shields or an access cover in order to proceed. The instructions to do this are in your User’s Manual as part of the Maintenance and Troubleshooting section. If you don’t have your manual any longer you can find one by clicking here.
The next step is to locate your Reed Switch. The picture below is an example of what it should look like, and give you some points of reference to help find it.
Now that you have found your Reed Switch we need to align that with your pulley magnet. As shown in the picture above it is on the large pulley. You will need to push one of your pedals in order to rotate this around.
Once you see that the magnet and the Reed Switch are in line, you will need to use a screw driver to loosen the adjustment screw. Do not remove this screw completely.
With the screw loose, slide the Reed Switch so that it is about 1/8th of an inch away from the magnet.
As soon as you have the Reed Switch the correct distance from the magnet, tighten up the adjustment screw that you loosened earlier.
If you needed to unplug your exercise equipment, please plug it back in and rotate the pedal again. This time keep an eye on your console and see if your console is counting appropriately. You may need to repeat this process a couple of times in order to get the proper alignment and distance between the magnet and Reed Switch.
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The airline was looking for volunteers to give up their seats. In exchange, they'd give you a $100 voucher for your next flight and a first class seat in the plane leaving an hour later.
About eight people ran up to the counter to take advantage of the offer.
About 15 seconds later all eight of those people sat down grumpily as the lady behind the ticket counter announced:
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ESSA Primary Academy Appeals
If you are refused a place at Essa Primary Academy you can submit an appeal to an independent appeals panel. Parents usually have 14 days of receipt of the letter to make an appeal.
You will be sent an appeal form with the letter which informs you that you have not been given a place for your child. A full explantation of the appeal process will be included in the letter.
You should complete and return the appeal form to Bolton Council. The Council arranges appeals for places at Essa Primary Academy on behalf of the Trust.
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Videos show Keyes abducting victim, questioning by officials
Confessed murderer seen in surveillance footage
New videos released by the FBI and authorities in Alaska show confessed killer Israel Keyes talking with investigators and kidnapping his last-known victim. Investigators said they hope the videos help tie the confessed killer of Bill and Lorraine Currier to more cases around the country.
“Back when I was smart, I would -- I would do it -- I would let them come to me,” Keyes said to investigators.
He described how he would find his victims and murder them.
“…A remote area that's not anywhere near where you live that the other people go to as well,” he said. “You might not get exactly what -- not as much to choose from in a manner of speaking, but there's not much witnesses really if there's nobody else around.”
The other video shows Keyes as he climbs through a window of an Anchorage coffee stand. Samantha Koeing, 18, is seen putting her hands up and turning the lights out.
Then Keyes climbs through the wind, ties Koeing up and leads her out of the building.
The abduction occurred on Feb. 1, eight months after the Curriers were murdered.
Officials said Keyes had never met Koenig and chose the coffee stand as an abduction stop that day.
Investigators said Keyes drove Koenig in his pickup truck, where he had removed the license plate.
He put Koenig in a shed at his house, telling her he was kidnapping her for ransom and convincing her she would be returned to her family.
Keyes then strangled Koenig. He also strangled Lorraine in June 2011.
He then left Anchorage, but he did not return to his East Coast home in Constable, N.Y. Instead he headed South for a 14-day cruise out of New Orleans.
Keyes returned to Anchorage seeking ransom money for what was now Koenig’s murder.
He was arrested in Texas in March after withdrawing money from Koenig’s account, ending his cross-country killing spree.
Investigators searched Keyes’ car and found Koenig’s cellphone and ATM card.
A month later, he confessed to murdering the Curriers.
Keyes confessed to murdering the Curriers, Koenig and others. Anyone with information is asked to call the FBI at 800-CALL-FBI. | <urn:uuid:5931d399-5e32-4d63-8b9d-5244a90e34a8> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://www.mynbc5.com/article/videos-show-keyes-abducting-victim-questioning-by-officials-1/3306387 | 2018-06-21T20:19:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864257.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20180621192119-20180621212119-00037.warc.gz | en | 0.978033 | 506 | [
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I doubt that he demonstrated Content Aware Fill with Photoshop CS4, but he might have used Content Aware Scale.
1. Make the image a layer (not Background).
2. Increase the canvas size to 16 x 20 ratio, opening new space on the right.
3. Do a rectangular selection excluding most of the red parts. You'll have something like this:
4. Edit - Content Aware Scale and drag the right edge handle to fill the canvas. Voila:
5. Touch up (e.g., lightly blur) any edges that have become noisy because of the operation.
Thanks Noel! I don't know if he was using CS4 or 5. He did not indicate this in
his webinar(http://www.niksoftware.com/learnmore/usa/index.php/webinars/archives#/-finishing-technique s-using-nik-software-with-moose-peterson/0/0/0/0/0/page:2) nor did he have his tool palete displayed to follow along.
I use CS4 hence the "Subject".
This is exactly what I want and will try later when I have time.
PS I will give you the "Helpful Answer" for points.
Apparently I am doing something wrong.
My work flow is Image>Canvas size(16x20) now here is the question..you mention a rectangular selection. I must NOT be using the right tool because I do not get the checkerboard fill area and the "Content Aware Scale is "greyed out.
Should I be using the Lasso Tool to make the rect. area?
Also your tutorial inks have disappeared.
The image is already displaying 16
x20 in the "Crop Tool" bar..??
You have values in the crop tool options because those values are the last ones you set into the Crop Tool options when you used it last time.
I normally prefer to keep those fields clear, as unexpected resampling can end up happening when you crop. I prefer to set my Image Size and Canvas Size directly via the Image - Image Size and Image - Canvas Size menus.
Also your tutorial inks have disappeared.
I'm not sure what you meant by this. I'm accessing the Adobe forum via the web interface: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3736162
I am having a mental block here Noel.
After I select image>canvas size>new layer> and select Rectangular tool I cannot get the image to view as in yours?
It wont fill the 16x20 rectangle and I can't get the "fill area".
Sorry this is such a chore for me.
I have to leave for an appointment so I will try later.
Here, I'll be a bit more specific. Do things in exactly this order:
>1. Make the image a layer (not Background).
To do this, make the LAYERS panel visible, hold down the Alt key, and double-click the Background. It should become Layer 0. If it is not the Background to start with, you can skip this step.
>2. Increase the canvas size to 16 x 20 ratio, opening new space on the right.
Image - Image Size, UNcheck Resample Image, and make the image 20 inches tall. Then Choose Image - Canvas Size, and expand to the right as follows:
>3. Do a rectangular selection excluding most of the red parts.
You should have, at this point, an image with some checkerboard showing on the right side. Choose the Rectangular Marquee tool as I noted above in post 5 and drag it around the area shown in post 1, including a few of the red parts.
>4. Edit - Content Aware Scale and drag the right edge handle to fill the canvas.
Click Edit - Content Aware Scale from the menu. You'll get a set of little square handles all around the portion of the image that you selected. Grab the one at the right edge and pull to the right, as shown here:
>5. Touch up (e.g., lightly blur) any edges that have become noisy because of the operation.
After the Content Aware Scale operation, I saw that the flower petal edge was a bit rough looking, so I thought it might be a good idea to select the Blur tool and brush over the edge lightly.
That did it Noel!!!!!!!
I cannot express my appreciation to you for your "undying patience" with me. I am "mentally challenged and intimidated by PS.
Your wonderful step by step "how to" got me there.
One problem was that the "Relative" box was checked in the Canvas Size.
Again..I cannot THANK YOU ENOUGH!!!
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Tenants Victoria first began translating tenancy information in 1985, when Consumer Affairs Victoria provided us with a grant to develop short pamphlets about renters’ rights in a handful of foreign languages. At this time, the majority of new migrants went straight into public housing and then often onto home ownership. A brief pamphlet of information was suitable to meet the general demand.
Over the past decade, the demographic of private renters has changed dramatically. Now, the majority of new migrants automatically enter the private rental market and often stay there for extended periods of time. Almost one-third of private renters are from non-English speaking backgrounds.
While we started catering to the increase in demand by producing hard-copy resources, it has become more important than ever to ensure that the information provide on the Tenants Victoria website caters to as many tenants as possible as more people look to the internet for guidance.
While all tenants should have an understanding of their rights and responsibilities, this is of particular importance for new migrants – whose home countries may have different or non-existent tenancy laws.
Over the years, we have endeavoured to increase our foreign language resources by identifying broad groups of renters who might best benefit from these resources.
In many cases, this is because there is a large proportion of renters who speak a specific language. Chinese (Traditional) has existed for quite some time, but we recently added Chinese (Simplified) resources to the Tenants Victoria website due to an increased demand for this version. Both versions are consistently in the top five most utilised resources on our website.
We also endeavour to meet demand for emerging groups of migrants who may have a greater need for tenancy information. For example, providing resources in the Somali language became a priority not only because of an increase of Somali-speaking renters, but because many of these renters came from very different environments. They were largely disadvantaged once they settled here, thus having resources available in their native language became crucial to ensuring their safety and stability. Two of our most utilised foreign language resources – Arabic and Persian – were also developed when waves of new migrants came to Australia from the Middle East in the 90s.
It is vital to ensure that the resources are translated correctly. Anyone who has ever watched one of Jimmy Fallon’s ‘Google Translate Songs’ skits knows how badly the meaning of certain words or phrases can be messed up if not accurately translated. This is obviously a very humorous example, but it shows how challenging creating foreign language resources can be.
Oftentimes specific words that are commonplace in the English language such as ‘tenant’ and ‘landlord’ have no direct translation in other languages. What’s more, some seemingly harmless words and phrases such as ‘Tribunal’ can have very different connotations for people from certain cultural backgrounds.
As such, we only use the interpretation services of those accredited by the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters. These interpreters have the expertise required to provide the most accurate translation of our resources possible whilst taking into account certain cultural sensitivities that may affect their quality.
As Australia continues to welcome new migrant populations from countries such as Burma and Syria, Tenants Victoria will strive to ensure that we provide the best range of resources possible. | <urn:uuid:945541ce-33b2-4718-a046-7a50f9be6e16> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://www.tuv.org.au/news/foreign-lang-resources/ | 2018-06-21T19:43:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864257.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20180621192119-20180621212119-00037.warc.gz | en | 0.956873 | 672 | [
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Bots is the story of cyberspace’s first indigenous species. These bots – mere strings of code – are now poised to change our lives. They are as close to us as the nearest computer. They live autonomously on the Net as stand-ins for our drives and desires. They collect things for us. They correct things for us. They do what we want them to do. They do what we don’t want them to do.
Bots will soon be is crucial to you as your car, your newspaper, your reference books, and your credit cards. You will only be as good as your bots.
Andrew Leonard recounts the saga of these software robots in all its quirkiness: from the trials and tribulations of artificial intelligence to the hilarious lifestyles of the first bots and the havoc they set in motion. Meet your new servants – and tormentors.
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As we celebrate our 238th birthday of a nation, is today really the day we should be celebrating? In fact independence was declared on July 2, 1776. John Adams declared, "the most memorable epocha in the history of America."
It was not until July 4, 1776, Congress approved the final text of the Declaration. It was not signed until August 2, 1776.
There are many misconceptions about the Declaration of Independence, and also many facts can be found on this great website entitled ConstitutionFacts.com. The particular page I got this from can be accessed by clicking here. If that does not work, click on this URL: http://www.constitutionfacts.com/us-declaration-of-independence/fascinating-facts/
This famous painting by John Trumbull does not show the Declaration being presented to the Continental Congress, but rather to the Committee of Five who actually wrote the Declaration of Independence. They were Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Robert Livingston, Benjamin Franklin and Roger Sherman.
Click on the image to make it larger:
The interesting fact about this painting is it never could have happened that way because not all members of the Congress were in Philadelphia that day. There is another fascinating site with five myths and true facts about the declaration written today in the Times Bulletin Media by Kirk Dougal. You may access it by clicking here. If that does not work, click on this URL: http://www.timesbulletin.com/Content/News/News/Article/Not-all-beliefs-about-the-Declaration-of-Independence-are-true/2/4/188663
I find it interesting how our history is changed and often times not all the facts are true. I have noticed that in a number of the posts I have made. It makes me wonder what I can believe and not believe about articles and books I read today about current and recent history.
CNN ran a six-part documentary on the sixties. It was fascinating to watch how our media was feeding us information they wanted us to know and distorting facts to meet certain peoples' expectations about many of the events that changed our world from that turbulent decade. Through it all, we can always trust Walter Cronkite at the end of the day. Or, should I say, "We thought we could trust him."
Now, when many people do not get their news from the three main networks that came to life in the 1960s, but rather through social media and The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, it is no wonder we cannot believe everything we hear, see and read.
As you go out to watch fireworks tonight, think for a minute about this post and wonder to yourself if we should be celebrating today or not as the birth of our nation.
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The L.A.Weekly profiles Kris Keith, one of the city’s most popular restaurant designers who is responsible for the brick and wood interior of Echo Park’s Mohawk Bend. Keith, not known as a shy guy, takes credit for prodding Mohawk Bend owner Tony Yannow to build out a giant 10,000-square-foot restaurant and brew pub instead of a more modest 2,000-square foot eatery. Mohawk Bend is designed with Echo Park in mind, Keith told the Weekly:
Keith used exposed plywood for everything from tables to toilets, evoking the DIY spirit of the starving-artist customers he wanted to attract. “I can see going into somebody’s apartment in Echo Park, and they would have a plywood couch,” he says.
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On Catfish Row in Charleston, South Carolina, Jasbo Brown is playing the blues for a group of dancers. Clara sings a lullaby to her child (“Summertime”). The drug dealer Sporting Life, Clara’s husband Jake, and some of the other men are playing craps. Jake sings his child a lullaby of his own (“A woman is a sometime thing”). The beggar Porgy comes in to join the game; he defends Crown’s woman, Bess, who the others are talking about. When Jake accuses him of being soft on her, Porgy says that he isn’t soft on any woman; God made him a cripple and meant him to be lonely.
Crown enters with Bess. He’s drunk, and when he loses he starts a fight and kills Robbins with a cotton hook. Crown runs to hide, but tells Bess he’ll be back. Sporting Life offers to take her to New York with him, but she refuses. Nobody else will give her shelter when the police arrive except Porgy.
Porgy and Bess are at Robbins’ funeral, where Serena is leading the mourners. The police enter and arrest Peter as a “material witness.” Serena is still mourning (“My man’s gone now”) as she convinces the undertaker to bury Robbins for less than his usual fee, but as the scene ends, Bess leads the mourners in a spiritual. (“Oh, the train is at the station”).
A few weeks later, Jake and the Fishermen are working on their nets when Porgy leans out the window and compares his life to theirs. (“I got plenty o’ nuttin'”). Maria, a shopkeeper, chases Sportin’ Life away from her shop when he tries to sell his ‘happy dust’ near her store (“I hates yo’ struttin’ style”). Lawyer Frazier comes in and sells Bess a divorce for a dollar; when he learns that she and Crown were never married, he raises his fee to a dollar and a half. Mr. Archdale, a well-meaning white man, comes in and offers to pay Peter’s bail. The group is frightened by a low-flying buzzard. Porgy chases it away, saying that trouble is far away from him now (“Boss, dat bird mean trouble”).
All leave except Bess and Sporting Life, who asks her again to come to New York with him and tries to give her more dope, which she refuses. Porgy chases him away and he and Bess sing about their new happiness. (“Bess, you is my woman now”). All except Porgy leave for the church picnic.
At the picnic, Sporting Life sings about his own brand of religion (“It ain’t necessarily so”). All are getting ready to leave when Crown, hidden in the bushes, calls out to Bess. She tells him she’s Porgy’s woman now, but he won’t let her go. (“What you want wid Bess?”). He pushes her off into the thicket as the boat leaves without her.
Some time later, the fishermen are getting ready to leave as Bess raves, still delirious after Crown’s attack. Peter wants to send her to the hospital, but Serena would rather pray over her. The street fills with vendors, and eventually Bess emerges, and explains to Porgy that she wants to stay with him but that when Crown comes she’ll have to go with him. Porgy tells her that she doesn’t have to go with him (“I loves you, Porgy”). A hurricane begins to rise, and Clara, frightened for her husband, calls out his name.
Everyone, gathered in Clara’s room, prays for shelter from the storm. There is a knock at the door; Crown enters and tries to take Bess away; he laughs at the frightened townspeople and sings a bawdy song to counteract their prayers (“A red-headed woman”). Clara sees Jake’s boat and runs out to find him. Bess calls for a man to go after her; Crown goes, after taunting Porgy and asking him why he won’t go.
After the storm, the women are crying for their men; Sporting Life teases them and Bess. Crown enters; he and Porgy fight, and Porgy kills him.
The police and the coroner come to Catfish Row the next morning; they want to take Porgy down to identify Crown’s body. Sportin’ Life tells him that when he looks at him Crown’t wound will begin to bleed. Telling Bess that Porgy will be locked up for sure, Sportin’ Life forces some dope on her, and leaves more outside her door as he leaves.
Porgy returns; while he tries to distribute the gifts he bought with the money he made playing craps in jail, he discovers Bess is gone (“Oh, Bess, oh where’s my Bess”). He learns that she has gone off with Sportin’ Life to New York; he gets in his goat-cart and prepares to follow her as the curtain falls. | <urn:uuid:39582d35-a736-4ca4-b74a-0ae6673a84b5> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://sopaa.org/porgy-and-bess-synopsis/ | 2018-06-23T19:46:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267865181.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20180623190945-20180623210945-00037.warc.gz | en | 0.972697 | 1,153 | [
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Welcome weary wanderers to the home of the wayward harper...
Friday, December 23, 2011
Blessings of the season!
Where ever you are in the world, may your holiday season be merry, magical, mysterious and full of mischief and mayhem!
"Waiting for the horses" 2011
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As you’d expect from an agency with Key Stage’s scope and reputation, we provide a full service for support staff alongside that for teachers, including:
- Teaching Assistants
- Nursery Nurses / Early Years Practitioners
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Working with us, you’ll find countless opportunities to gain experience in a wide range of learning environments — and you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that you’re providing an essential service, covering for planned and unplanned staff absences.
Why register with Key Stage Teacher Supply?
- work/life balance — you choose when and where you want to work
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We have great relationships with more than 300 schools and other educational facilities, and are generally seen as one of the best agencies in the business. In fact, our candidates are so highly regarded by our client schools that they’re often requested back by name — and even offered permanent positions.
Over 80% of our supply candidates were recommended to join Key Stage by people who already work with us. That says it all. So, to find out why so many choose Key Stage, call us on 01254 507210, or simply drop in for a chat at your local branch.
The TA’s guide to working with Key Stage
Keep in touch: Communication is our most important tool. You need to know what’s going on and when, and so do we. The quicker you give us your availability, the quicker we can sort out your next assignment.
Dress the part: First impressions are important, so no jeans, leggings or shorts, and male teachers should wear a shirt and tie. And, of course, no mobiles in the classroom.
Getting there: Arrive by 8.30am unless otherwise notified. This gives you chance to find out about school routines and relevant policies and procedures.
Who are you? Always carry your Key Stage ID card for security purposes and please take a current Enhanced DBS Certificate, along with proof of identification (ie driving licence or passport) to show on your first day.
Time is money: Submit a timesheet (either online or paper) for each day. This must be signed and approved by the school and delivered to us before 10am the following Monday. Failure to submit on time may delay your payment.
Pay day: Your payment for the previous week will be paid weekly into your Bank or Building Society account by BACS. To comply with EU legislation, Key Stage Teacher Supply will accrue a proportion of your daily / hourly rate each week to be paid to you as holiday pay. The figure will be clearly shown on your payslip. You can choose to be paid through our partner Key Pay or via our own in-house PAYE facility.
Tax and National Insurance: If you choose the PAYE option, income tax and National Insurance will be deducted each week and paid to HMRC.
Safety first: Remember that you’re responsible for the health and safety of the pupils — and yourself. Don’t do anything you’re not capable of or trained to do, and ask for instructions if using unfamiliar equipment.
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There's renewed interest in Babygate since the publication of Professor Brad Scharlott's paper on the role of the media in the Sarah Palin Pregnancy Hoax. As most Babygate posts are now truncated due to missing photographs, I have created a new label, "Babygate Review," which should address the problem for the moment.
New posts with photo comparisons will be added in due course and I hope to write some condensed posts covering the topic, offering readers a comprehensive summary of the Babygate topic. There are other blogs with very good Babygate resources, but as Palingates has covered it extensively, it makes sense to try and restore some of the posts on the topic for the benefit of new readers.
I'll start by posting some photo compilations by our reader WayofPeace, which appeared on Bree Palin's blog originally (Please bear in mind that Heidi Klum has given birth on October 9, 2009, after the compilations were first put together):
I made this video a while ago, it contains more celebrity comparisons:
Apart from all the ins and outs of this complicated story, even if some are inclined to believe Sarah Palin was indeed pregnant, her appearance seems to put image concious celebrities in a bad light. They are much younger than Sarah Palin, but have neglected to take steps to emulate Sarah's incredible tight abs.
I'm surprised Sarah Palin hasn't produced a fitness video on how to achieve a "flat" pregnancy. So many women would benefit from it! It's hard work going around sporting cumbersome bellies for months and a flat abdomen is much more photogenic, don't you think?
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Their baby boy, who is the first child for The Bachelor alums, was the most adorable guest of honor at his recent birthday party — the photos of which the couple have shared exclusively with PEOPLE.
Sean, 33, and Catherine, 31, chatted with PEOPLE for this week’s issue about their new life with their son, who officially turns 1 on July 2: his milestones, their first year as parents, their love for Dreft laundry detergent (the couple has a year-long partnership with the brand) and more.
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PEOPLE: What has parenthood been like for you this past year?
Sean Lowe: It’s been one long learning process for me. From changing diapers to knowing when he’s tired or when he’s hungry or when he has a wet diaper, it’s been a lot of fun. But it’s also been on-the-job training.
Catherine Lowe: I love it! I think I questioned what I’d be like as a mom before I had him. I’m so grateful I had the opportunity to become a mom. We have such a great baby. We’re really the lucky ones to have such a sweet child.
PEOPLE: How have your views on parenthood changed since having Samuel?
Catherine: I was nervous about being maternal and seeing what my relationship would be like with him. My heart has doubled in size because I love him so much. I’ve really gotten into that position of being a mom and making it a part of my life.
Sean: Although I wasn’t nervous, it was probably an instance of “ignorance is bliss.” I don’t think I knew just how time-consuming a baby can be. I quickly learned that being a parent is a full-time job. You get very little time to yourself. But that’s also beautiful in its own way.
PEOPLE: What’s Samuel’s personality like?
Sean: We feel so blessed because he has such a cool, calm demeanor. We always say he’s a chill baby because he really is. We often joke that our next baby will be a terror because he’s so good.
He’s happy! He’s always laughing and giggling and smiling. He just wants to be around Mom and Dad all the time. He loves other people. We just feel like we got super lucky!
PEOPLE: What are some of the parenting challenges you’ve come across?
Catherine: Having a job, having our life, being a parent and navigating what that looks like on your first time and doing it with very little sleep … for me, your hormones go crazy and you’re a monster at one point then sobbing the next. It’s a really cool roller coaster, but [I] have a great husband and a wonderful baby to share memories [with].
PEOPLE: How has parenthood impacted your marriage?
Sean: I think it’s only improved our marriage. I know a lot of times people can become too distracted by their children and they forget about their marriage, but Catherine and I are just so grateful for our little family. We certainly haven’t forgotten to love each other and show each other the attention that we both deserve. If anything, I think it’s only made us stronger.
Catherine: Sean and I have been best friends since we got engaged, and now we have another little best friend. It’s a really fun dynamic.
FROM PEN: Former Bachelorette Emily Maynard Johnson Says She Wants 2 More Kids to Up Her Total to 5
PEOPLE: What was his first birthday party like?
Catherine: His first birthday party was so funny. We got this big giant teddy bear, and he totally took to it. We opened presents, had cake and dressed him up really cute. Samuel was a trooper.
Sean: He was more concerned about the balloons than the actual presents. We really thought he was going to eat all the cake and go nuts. We were surprised. He liked playing in the cake, but he didn’t really like eating it.
PEOPLE: Thinking about baby No. 2 yet?
Catherine: Sean and I have always been open about the fact that we want more children. I think our lifestyle right now has been not as expected from before. We were like, ‘Oh, we’ll totally knock them out and we’ll be so quick and get it over with,’ just because it’s a long time of being pregnant and having a newborn.
But we just enjoy Samuel so much right now that we haven’t nailed anything down. We didn’t really plan for him, so it’s kind of been that same thing – we’re just enjoying life together and we’ll see what happens.
PEOPLE: Do you have any advice for new parents?
Catherine: Be present. Listen to your parents!
PEOPLE: What’s your connection with/feelings on Dreft?
Catherine: It’s nice to have tradition in our family, like the one we have with Dreft. My mom used Dreft when I was a baby. Dreft has been around for 80 years, and we just want to keep that tradition alive.
Also, pre-wash your baby clothes! A lot of people, for baby shower gifts, give you a bunch of clothes. [With] all the prep that you have to do before you go to the hospital, pre-washing your baby clothes is such a good idea because you don’t want to have to worry about that. You’re going to be doing so much laundry anyway. I do laundry all the time!
It’s really nice with Dreft, too, because I’m such a nostalgic person. [With] the Dreft smell, I know when I look back at Samuel as a baby, I’m going to think about that smell and be brought right back to that time.
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