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CALGARY—Athabasca Oil Sands Corp. has decided to sell its remaining 40 per cent stake in the MacKay River oilsands project to joint-venture partner PetroChina, giving a Chinese oil giant full control of an oilsands asset for the first time.
Calgary-based Athabasca said Tuesday it would exercise a put option — an exit strategy, of sorts — that was included in a 2009 deal to sell 60 per cent of the MacKay River and Dover oilsands projects to PetroChina for $1.9 billion.
Chinese companies have been snapping up resource assets around the world to secure future supplies of energy, minerals and other raw materials for the country's rapidly growing economy.
In Canada so far, Chinese state-owned outfits PetroChina, Sinopec, and China National Offshore Oil Co. have preferred to take non-operating stakes in energy projects, relying on their Canadian partners' technical expertise to develop the resource.
Taking partial ownership is also seen as a way for the Chinese companies to make their investments more politically palatable.
"I think they're coming to some sort of maturity in terms of engagement in the Canadian market," said Wenran Jiang, a political science professor at the University of Alberta.
"They have gained more experience through partial ownerships and joint-ventures and I think they feel it's time they could take on a much bigger role."
The MacKay River project would be the first in the oilsands to be fully owned by a Chinese firm, though there have been some significant deals in the past year.
Sinopec bought conventional oil and gas-focused Daylight Energy Ltd. in its entirety last year. CNOOC closed its takeover of struggling oilsands junior Opti Canada last fall, through which it garnered a minority interest in the Long Lake project, operated by Nexen Inc.
Athabasca CEO Sveinung Svarte said the partnership with PetroChina was working well, and that he's sad to see it end. But Athabasca would rather focus on developing projects it wholly owns, like the nearby Hangingstone oilsands project and light oil assets in Alberta's deep basin.
"I would characterize this as a perfect divorce," Svarte said in an interview.
Since the PetroChina deal, which closed in 2010, Athabasca has grown its resource base from seven to 10 billion barrels.
"So for us to sell a few barrels is actually a very easy thing to decide," Svarte said.
The $680 million in proceeds Athabasca will get from the sale will help it save about $190 million in capital spending this year.
Ottawa's approval of the PetroChina-Athabasca deal in 2009 included the possibility of PetroChina eventually taking full control of the MacKay and Dover projects, so Svarte said he doesn't see any significant regulatory challenges for Tuesday's deal.
The sale does, however, require Competition Bureau approval, which Svarte doesn't consider a major hurdle, since it wouldn't give PetroChina a dominant position in the oilsands.
On Dec. 23, the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board and Alberta Environment and Water approved the MacKay River project, triggering a 30-day period for PetroChina to possibly buy Athabasca's stake in the project.
The Dover project is expected to obtain regulatory approval about a year from now, and once it does, there will be an identical divestiture option.
The first phase of the MacKay River project is expected to produce 35,000 barrels per day, eventually expanding to 150,000 barrels.
Construction of the project will begin next month with startup targeted for 2014.

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Scientia Agricola
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Sci. agric. (Piracicaba, Braz.) vol.67 no.3 Piracicaba May/June 2010
Priming of pioneer tree Guazuma ulmifolia (Malvaceae) seeds evaluated by an automated computer image analysis
Condicionamento fisiológico de sementes da árvore pioneira Guazuma ulmifolia (Malvaceae) avaliado por análise computadorizada de imagens
Pedro Henrique Santin BrancalionI; David TayIII; Ana Dionisia da Luz Coelho NovembreII,*; Ricardo Ribeiro RodriguesIV; Júlio Marcos FilhoII
IUSP/ESALQ Programa de Pós-Graduação em Fitotecnia
IIUSP/ESALQ Depto. de Produção Vegetal, C.P. 09 13418-900, Piracicaba, SP Brasil
IIIInternational Potato Center, Apartado 1558 La Molina, Peru
IVUSP/ESALQ Depto. de Ciências Biológicas, C.P. 09 13418-900, Piracicaba, SP Brasil
Direct seeding is one of the most promising methods in restoration ecology, but low field seedling emergence from pioneer tree seeds still reduces its large scale applicability. The aim of this research was to evaluate seed priming for the pioneer tree species Guazuma ulmifolia. Priming treatments were selected based on seed hydration curves in water and in PEG 8000 solution. Seeds were primed in water for 16 h and in Polyethylene glycol - PEG 8000 (-0.8 MPa for 56 and 88 h) at 20ºC to reach approximately 30% water content. Half of the seed sample of each treatment was dried back to the initial moisture content (7.2%); both dried and non-dried primed seeds as well as the unprimed seeds (control) were tested for germination (percentage and rate) and vigor (electrical conductivity of seed leachates). Seedling emergence percentage and rate were evaluated under greenhouse conditions, while seedling length and uniformity of seedling development were estimated using the automated image analysis software SVIS®. Primed seeds showed the highest physiological potential, which was mainly demonstrated by image analysis. Fresh or dried primed seeds in water for 16 h and in PEG (-0.8 MPa) for 56 h, and fresh primed seeds in PEG for 88 h, improved G. ulmifolia germination performance. It is suggested that these treatments were promising to enhance efficiency of stand establishment of this species by direct seeding in restoration ecology programs.
Key words: SVIS®, forest seeds, seed vigor, restoration ecology, direct seeding
A semeadura direta é um dos métodos mais promissores para a restauração ecológica, mas a baixa emergência de plântulas em campo a partir de sementes de árvores pioneiras ainda limita sua aplicabilidade em larga escala. Avaliou-se a resposta de sementes da espécie florestal pioneira Guazuma ulmifolia ao condicionamento fisiológico. Os tratamentos foram selecionados com base em curvas de hidratação em água e em solução osmótica de Polietilenoglicol - PEG 8000. As sementes foram condicionadas em água por 16 h e em PEG 8000 (-0,8 MPa por 56 e 88 h) a 20ºC, atingindo teor de água de, aproximadamente, 30%. Metade das amostras de cada tratamento foi secada até atingir teor de água próximo ao inicial (7,2%); em seguida, avaliou-se o desempenho das sementes condicionadas submetidas ao não à secagem, além de sementes não condicionadas (testemunha), quanto à germinação (porcentagem e velocidade) e o vigor (condutividade elétrica dos exudatos das sementes). A porcentagem e a velocidade de emergência de plântulas foram avaliadas em condições de casa de vegetação, enquanto que o comprimento de plântulas e a uniformidade de desenvolvimento das plântulas foram estimados usando o software de análise computadorizada de imagens de plântulas SVIS®. As sementes condicionadas fisiologicamente apresentaram potencial fisiológico superior, demonstrado principalmente pelos resultados da análise de imagens. Assim, as sementes condicionadas em água durante 16 h ou em PEG durante 88 h, ambas não submetidas à secagem subsequente, e as condicionadas em PEG durante 56 h e submetidas a secagem, beneficiaram o desempenho germinativo de G. ulmifolia. Sugere-se que esses tratamentos são promissores para aumentar a eficiência de estabelecimento de estande dessa espécie via semeadura direta em programas de restauração ecológica.
Palavras-chave: SVIS®, sementes florestais, vigor de sementes, restauração ecológica, semeadura direta
Proliferation of invasive grasses is one of the primary problems faced during tropical forest restoration in degraded areas (Brancalion et al., 2009). Rapid soil shading by tree canopies must occur to reduce weeds and enhance the early growth of shade-tolerant trees. Pioneer trees have been traditionally used as fast-growing species to create a forest structure in a short period (2-3 years), reducing maintenance costs and increasing restoration effectiveness (Rodrigues et al., 2009).
Lamb et al. (2005), Doust et al. (2006) and Ferreira et al. (2007) have supported the use of direct seeding as a promising procedure for forest restoration, stimulating research to improve this technique. Despite the successful use of pioneer species seedling in forest restoration efforts, direct seeding of such species may be affected by defective seed germination and seedling emergence.
Most pioneer species have dormant seeds, and priming could be an additional procedure to improve germination uniformity as already described for other Brazilian tree species (Brancalion et al., 2008; Perez and Jardim, 2005; Silva et al., 2005). Priming is a treatment of controlled seed hydration, in which the metabolic activity is enhanced, but suspended before primary root protrusion (Bradford, 1986; Heydecker et al., 1975). Upon priming condition removal, seed germination is usually faster and more uniform.
Priming efficiency was traditionally evaluated based on the intensity and rate of seed germination and seedling emergence. As automated computer image analysis systems were already successfully used as seed vigor test in several crop species (Hoffmaster et al., 2003; Marcos-Filho et al., 2009; Sako et al., 2001), these techniques were adopted in testing the potential of tree seeds' priming (Brancalion et al., 2008).
The aim of this research is to evaluate priming effectiveness in enhancing Guazuma ulmifolia Lam. (Malvaceae) germination performance, which may lead to an increase in direct seeding applicability as an ecological restoration tool.
Material and Methods
Species and seed harvesting: Guazuma ulmifolia Lam. (Malvaceae) is a pioneer tree species that grows in Central America (Janzen, 1982) and all of Latin America (Barbosa and Macedo, 1993), including the Semideciduous Seasonal Forests in Brazil, where it can be used for timber, cosmetical, medicinal, ornamental and edible purposes (Almeida et al., 1998). Moreover, this fast-growing species has been used in the ecological restoration of riverine forests (Lorenzi, 2002; Souza and Batista, 2004). As result of G. ulmifolia wide geographical and ecological distribution, this species is one of the most used in riverine forest restoration initiatives along tropical American forests. G. ulmifolia seeds were harvested in Piracicaba, state of São Paulo, Brazil (UTM 23k 0230003 7486288) from 16 wild mother trees, and used in the experiments three months after harvest. Seeds were kept under controlled storage conditions during these three months (paper bags, 15ºC and 40% of air relative humidity).
Overcoming dormancy: Preliminary germination tests performed with fresh harvested seeds indicated 92% dormancy. Overcoming of seed hardness was accomplished before installing all experiments by immersing seeds in concentrated sulfuric acid for 50 min (Araújo Neto and Aguiar, 2000); seeds were then washed in water (120 s) after acid treatment until the complete removal of acid residues.
Seed hydration curves to select priming treatments: To define the duration of priming treatments, seed hydration curves were previously determined under different water potentials. Initial seed moisture content was determined by the oven method (Brasil, 1992), with air circulation at 105°C for 24 h. Seed moisture content was expressed on wet weight basis. Seed hydration curves were determined under the osmotic potentials of 0.0, -0.4, -0.8 and -1.2 MPa at 20°C, with four replicates of 100 seeds for each potential. Deionized water was used for 0.0 MPa and PEG 8000 solutions, prepared according to Michel and Kaufmann (1973), for the other osmotic potentials. Seeds were placed on top of three round blotters (7 cm diameter) soaked with 15 mL of water or PEG solutions in Petri dishes that were incubated in a chamber at 20ºC under constant light. Seed hydration was evaluated every four hours during the first 24 h, and every 12 h during the subsequent phase of seed hydration. Moisture content was monitored according to Cromarty et al. (1985). Seeds were dried on paper towels to remove free water from seed coat surface before weighting. The estimated final seed moisture content was compared to the oven method results to confirm the accuracy of procedures adopted for seed hydration.
Priming treatments: Seeds were primed at 20°C in water (0.0 MPa) for 16 h or in PEG 8000 (-0.8 MPa) for 56 h and 88 h. To study the effects of drying back after priming, half of the primed seed samples was submitted to fast drying at 30ºC with constant air flow, until the initial 7.2% seed moisture content was reached. In this way, seed drying was completed in three hours. Seven seed samples were tested: non-primed seeds; seeds primed in water for 16 h, submitted or not to drying; seeds primed in PEG solution for 56 and 88 h, submitted or not to drying.
Germination test: Seeds were sown between two moistened blue blotters (20.0 × 13.0 cm), with one wax paper sheet between the blotters, which were placed in plastic boxes (15 × 23 × 4 cm, Model 600-C, Pioneer Packaging, Dixon, KY) and placed in a germination chamber at 25ºC, which is the best temperature for seed germination for this species (Araújo Neto et al., 2002). The boxes were kept in a near vertical orientation (80° to 85°) to allow geotropic seedling growth. Seeds and seedlings remained in darkness as they were kept between blotters. Germination was scored daily to calculate germination percentage (Brasil, 1992) and germination rate index (Maguire, 1962).
Automated computer image analysis: Image acquisition was accomplished using the blotters and seedlings obtained from the germination test four days after planting by a custom scanning box computer system (Hoffmaster et al., 2003). The images were automatically processed by the Seedling Vigor Image System (SVIS®) according to methodology described by Sako et al. (2001). This software automatically measures all seedlings but, as it was specifically developed for lettuce, G. ulmifolia seedlings were not always properly recognized and marked. In such situations, seedlings were manually corrected by appropriate software tools and automatically measured. Following individual seedling processing and automatic-manual measurements, the results of each replicate were combined to obtain seedling length and an index of uniformity of seedling development (Hoffmaster et al., 2003; Marcos-Filho et al., 2006; Marcos-Filho et al., 2009). Seedling length represents the total number of pixels per seedling, so it is essentially a length measurement of each seedling. Uniformity of seedling development included the penalty term in the uniformity algorithm to avoid the undesirable influence of dead seeds on the precision of the results. Results were expressed as mean values of seedling length (pixels) and uniformity of seedling development indices ranged from a minimum value of zero to a maximum of 1000 for each treatment.
Electrical conductivity of seed leachates: Seeds were weighted and immersed in beakers with 20 ml of deionized water and kept in a chamber at 20ºC for 24 h. Measurements were carried out with the conductivimeter YSI 3100 (YSI Incorporated), and data were expressed in µS cm1g1.
Seedling emergence: Seeds were individually planted in multicell polystyrene trays (200 cells/tray), containing an artificial growing mixture. The trays were placed in greenhouse and subjected to intermittent spraying for irrigation. Seedling emergence was recorded daily to calculate emergence percentage and rate index (Maguire, 1962).
Statistical analysis: Four replicates of 25 seeds each were used in a completely randomized design in the germination test (percentage and rate index), automated image analysis (seedling length and uniformity of seedling length) and electrical conductivity of seed leachates. Eight replicates of 25 seeds each were used in a randomized blocks design for seedling emergence evaluation (emergence percentage and emergence rate index). Percentage data was transformed to arc sin and the multiple means comparison was performed using the Tukey's test (α = 0.05).
Results and Discussion
Seed hygroscopic equilibrium occurred at lower seed moisture content in the more negative osmotic potentials (Figure 1). This reduction was enough to avoid primary root protrusion and keep seeds in phase II of water uptake (Bewley and Black, 1982). The lower water potential prevents the normal preparatory metabolism for complete germination, stabilizing hydration below the critical moisture content for primary root protrusion. This is a desirable situation for the definition of priming treatment conditions as seeds can be kept at the same moisture content for a longer period, enhancing cellular membrane repair and physiological processes that affect protein (González-Zertuche et al., 2001), enzyme (Nascimento et al., 2001), DNA (Ashraf and Bray, 1993) and RNA (Clarke and James, 2006) synthesis and activity.
Priming in water for 16 h and in PEG for 56 and 88 h enhanced G. ulmifolia seed performance (Table 1). Seed germination was higher in primed seeds, which also contributed to improve seed vigor as observed by higher values of germination rate index, seedling growth and uniformity of seedling growth, emergence percentage and emergence rate index, and lower values of electrical conductivity of seed leachates. Testing direct seeding of pioneer native species, Santos Júnior et al. (2004) obtained the lowest percentages of seedling emergence for Guazuma ulmifolia Lam. seeds due to seed hardness and lack of germination uniformity. This might be associated to the natural behavior of this species in forests, since seeds may remain in a seed bank waiting for gaps (Motta et al., 2006). Thus, priming and seed scarification could be an effective G. ulmifolia pretreatment to achieve higher seedling emergence uniformity after direct seeding.
The evaluation of germination physiological parameters supplies important experimental evidences to indicate priming and seed scarification as important tools to enhance direct seeding effectiveness and also to improve seedling production for restoration ecology, as demonstrated for greenhouse experiments. Despite seed priming for 88 h in PEG solution has been one of the best treatments, SVIS® analysis demonstrated that seed enhancement was reduced after seed drying. As a result, G. ulmifolia priming for 88 h is effective only if seeds are sowed immediately after priming and during periods when soil water availability does not limit germination.
Benefits obtained by priming may be partially or entirely reverted after seed drying (Carpenter, 1989; Parera and Cantilife, 1992), possibly due to reduced oligosaccharide concentration in cells, which diminishes cytoplasm viscosity and increases seed susceptibility to deterioration processes (Buitink et al., 2000). These findings were confirmed by other authors that showed increased drying sensitivity of seeds primed for longer periods that were submitted to accelerated aging (Chojnowski et al., 1997). However, the conditions used to dry back seeds after priming has a remarkable importance to avoid physiological deterioration (Butler et al., 2009), as demonstrated in primed and dried seeds which can retain priming benefits (Barbedo et al., 1997; Kikuti and Marcos-Filho, 2008).
Uniformity of seedling development showed a wide range of variation among priming treatments, suggesting that the sensitivity of this parameter is related to seed treatment and is related to the assessment by the image analysis technique. Although the accuracy of automated image processing had already been shown for lettuce (Sako et al., 2001), soybean (Hoffmaster et al., 2003) and melon (Marcos-Filho et al., 2006), this system has just recently been used to analyze tree seeds (Brancalion et al., 2008). Based on the results obtained here, this technique has high potential to be used with other native species, giving a new perspective for seed analysis of this type of seeds. However, uniformity of seedling growth values ranged widely, resulting in a high coefficient of variation (58.3%). High coefficients of variation were also found in other studies on native tree species (Brancalion et al., 2009), which suggested that natural genetic heterogeneity has to be considered when planning experimental designs to work with tree species.
Uniformity of seedling development was more affected by treatments than the germination rate index, which can be considered as a germination uniformity parameter by priming treatments. This suggested that seedling development after primary root protrusion may also be an additional factor of heterogeneity, despite irregular germination, to increase the non-uniformity of seedling development. Uniformity of seedling length is a useful and reliable measure of seed vigor, allowing the comparison of different seed lots treated by priming, and its evaluation by SVIS® may have also and additional value in seed performance analysis. As priming has traditionally been considered an effective treatment to enhance cellular membrane repair mechanisms in seeds, electrical conductivity of seed leachates is an important evaluation of priming treatment effectiveness. Electrical conductivity of seed leachates was reduced in primed seeds, especially in those not submitted to drying. Lower values of electrical conductivity indicated that cellular membranes were correctly reorganized during hydration. If repair mechanisms of seed membranes work properly, seed leachates are reduced and the electrical conductivity readings become lower (Copeland and McDonald, 2001).
Priming may also reduce the level of imbibition injuries during rapid water absorption by seeds, since the process is slower under low water osmotic potentials. However, Copeland and McDonald (2001) suggested that part of seed solutes is washed off during priming, thus reducing the amount of solutes that interfered with the electrical conductivity analysis. As a result, electrical conductivity of seed leachates seemed to be more related to the washing off of seed solutes during priming than to the increase of seed vigor. Electrical conductivity of seed leachates from PEG primed seeds submitted to drying was higher when compared with fresh primed seeds. This could be due to the occurrence of mechanical damage during seed drying, as previously reported for Pinus sylvestris and Larix gmelinii seeds (Huang and Zou, 1989), and for soybean seeds (Armstrong and McDonald, 1992), or to the expected disorganization of cellular membranes following drying.
Results from this study indicated priming effectiveness to enhance seed performance in pioneer trees and could also be promising for other native tree species. Moreover, priming may be even more efficient in native species which do not have hardseededness, although priming may also improve germination in hard-seeded species (Tonini et al., 2005). As seed moisture content and subsequent deterioration may increase during the storage of non-dormant seeds if environmental conditions are not ideal (as present in most companies of tree seed production) the range of physiological potential differences among seed lots may be reduced by priming, allowing a higher seedling emergence uniformity after direct seeding.
In conclusion, treatments in water for 16 h and in PEG (-0.8 MPa) for 56 h with or without drying or in PEG for 88 h without drying improve G. ulmifolia seed germination performance and may be considered as a promising procedure to enhance the efficiency of stand establishment by direct seeding of this species in restoration ecology programs.
To Dr. Mark Bennett for helpful suggestions to improve English style and scientific content, and also to the three anonymous reviewers for useful comments to the manuscript. CNPq is acknowledged for financial support.
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Accepted January 05, 2010
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Iba is centrally located at the western coast of the Province, at the coordinates of 119 degrees – 58 minutes east longitude and 15 degrees – 19 minutes north latitude.
It is bounded on the north by the Municipality of Palauig, on the west by the South China Sea, on the east by Tarlac Province and on the south, by the Municipality of Botolan. Its coastline has a total span of 12.00 km. from its northern boundary of Bagsit River down to its southern limit of Bancal River.
The town of Iba is a third class municipality, comprising fourteen (14) barangays, six (6) of which are in Poblacion, the rest are in rural areas.These are as follows;
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The Municipality of Iba is characterized by a coastal plain and a mountain range on the eastern region. The mountainous region is composed of ultramatic rock overlain by marine sedimentary deposits. In the lowland, recent alluvial deposits take place.
The litho-stratigraphy of the town corresponds to three different formations ranging from; Pre-tertiary rock, Santa Cruz shale to recent alluvial deposits.
The pre-tertiary rocks consist of a complex of intrusive ultramatic rock which form the basement complex. Gabro, dunite and saxonite are the main constituents of these rocks.
The Santa Cruz shale formation consists of sandstone and conglomeratic shale of Upper Miocene Age overlying the lower most slopes of the basement rocks. Its thickness may reach 200 meters below the alluvial deposits. This formation, according to the experts, have negligible water bearing characteristics.
The recent alluvial deposits mainly composed of sands and other alluvial sediments which cover the alluvial plain and coastal areas. These sand deposits have a thickness that ranges from 10 meters to 30 meters.
These alluvial deposits may be divided into two types; Swampy silty-clayey muds extending roughly north east of the town and the recent sand and gravel deposits taking place southwestward.


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Investigators looking for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane struggled on Sunday to locate several pieces of potential debris spotted separately by an aircraft and three satellites, as bad weather continued to hinder the vast international search mission.
New images produced by a French satellite showed "potential objects" related to flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean, the Malaysian transport ministry said in a statement. "Malaysia immediately relayed these images to the Australian rescue co-ordination centre," it added.
The new satellite image lead came after the crew of a civilian search aircraft reported seeing a wooden pallet and strapping belts during a fly-over, and Chinese officials on Saturday unveiled the second potential satellite sighting after an Australian announcement late last week.
The Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, said on Sunday that while the findings were "credible leads" for those searching the so-called southern corridor identified by authorities as the plane's likeliest destination, they offered "no more than hope" at this stage.
"It is still too early to be definite, but obviously we have now had a number of very credible leads, and there is increasing hope, no more than hope … that we might be on the road to discovering what did happen to the aircraft," Abbott said, at a press conference in Papua New Guinea.
Poor weather conditions, in some of the most inhospitable seas on Earth, have further complicated the search mission and will make the job of observers on the search vessels more difficult.
Sunday's search was frustrating because "there was cloud down to the surface and at times we were completely enclosed by cloud", Flight Lieutenant Russell Adams of the Royal Australian Air Force told the Associated Press at the base in Perth for planes working for the search mission.
Commander William Marks of the US Navy's Seventh Fleet, which is leading the American side of the search party, also stressed that the region of the ocean being searched remained vast.
"I can tell you that we are looking in something like the area between New York and California," he told ABC News, "and we just don't know where we should look."
A Malaysian official involved in the search mission was reported to have told the Associated Press that the objects spotted by the French satellite were about 930km (575 miles) north of those previously detected by China and Australia.
As the search continues, the families of the 239 people who were on board the plane when it went missing more than two weeks ago have expressed growing frustration at the progress of the search and the contradictory information released by the Malaysian government. In Beijing on Saturday, relatives were prevented by police from confronting Malaysian officials after a heated exchange at a daily news briefing.
A US congressman on Sunday became the most senior American public figure to criticise the Malaysian government's handling of the crisis, urging authorities there to be more transparent with what they know and to share information more promptly.
"I wish it was better," Patrick Meehan, a Pennsylvania Republican who chairs the counter-terrorism and intelligence subcommittee of the House of Representatives homeland security committee, told CNN on Sunday, following reports of Chinese discontent about Malaysian co-operation.
"The reports that I'm getting are of frustration. We're invited in only a little bit. We have legats [legal attaches] there from the FBI and State Department, very small to the extent that we are asked. And there is concern.
Meehan went on: "I think across the board people are looking for more in the way of openness from the Malaysian government in terms of sharing the information they have in a timely manner."
The Malaysian transport ministry also said in its statement that the plane was still on course to Beijing when the last data was sent from its Acars (Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System) at 1.07am. US officials last week briefed The New York Times that the route was reprogrammed before the Acars was shut down – further raising suspicions about the pilot and first officer.
On Saturday images taken on 18 March by a Chinese satellite were released, appearing to show an object measuring 22 metres by 13 metres about 1,550km south-west of Perth. This coincided with an update from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (Amsa) that a number of small objects had been visually identified by one of the search planes.
"During Saturday's search activities the crew of a civil aircraft sent out by Amsa reported sighting a number of small objects with the naked eye, including a wooden pallet, within a radius of five kilometres," the statement said. The crew were unable to photograph the object.
In a briefing on Sunday, Mike Barton, Amsa's rescue coordination centre chief, said: "The use of wooden pallets is quite common in the industry … They're usually packed into another container, which is loaded in the belly of the aircraft."
Barton also said that the possible debris seen by the search aircraft also included "strapping belts of different lengths". Barton said a "methodical search" of the area was under way but that it "continues to change as the water movements change."
Abbott announced on Thursday that a first "credible" sighting had been made in the Indian Ocean, about 2,500km south-west of Perth, based on satellite imagery of two large objects.
The series of announcements has seen a major concentration of effort to scour the southern Indian Ocean for the missing Boeing 777-200, which went missing after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing.
Malaysian authorities have said that they believe the plane was deliberately rerouted. Electronic signals sent from its engines are said to have indicated that it continued flying for more than six hours after it lost contact with the ground when two communications systems were shut down, about 40 minutes into the journey.
Eight aircraft have been tasked by Amsa to undertake the search and vessels from the US, New Zealand, China and Japan are also aiding in the operation.
A senior aide to President Barack Obama stressed on Sunday that the US government had no extra information about the fate of the plane that it was holding back from the public.
"We do not know yet what happened to the plane, and why it happened," Tony Blinken, Obama's deputy national security adviser, told CNN. "Publicly or privately, we don't know."
Satellite and meteorology experts have expressed doubts about the prospect of finding the objects in the Indian Ocean believed to be linked to the missing flight, flagging the possibility that the debris could have drifted hundreds of miles since it was first detected, due to strong currents.
The search area for Sunday has been split into two areas, to account for the possible drifts.


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Patriots, Can anyone get in contact with Patriot Riders, any group that can get to Omaha, Nebraska and stand in the gap for this family who have lost a son and America has lost a warrior??? Pass this…Continue
Started by Eilana Caswell - Nat. Secretary. Last reply by Pastor Levi Webb Aug 15, 2011.
if anyone is ready to get the ball rolling......please post a date/location that may work......we can shoot for end of june??
Started by SonsOfLibertyRiders.com. Last reply by Bob Hagen Jun 5, 2010.
1st of all this is NOT an April Fools joke!
Sarah Root was kill by a drunk illegal immigrant back in January. The judge released him on a $5000.00 bond.(Officially $50000.00 however in NE they bond on the 10% and don't have bondsman that secures the rest). Now he has fled! Also he has a record of not showing up in court!
Her father Scott is holding a signature drive/complaint against the judge. Saturday April 2nd at 78th and Dodge at 11 am. This is not rally but an event to collect signatures to hold the judge accountable for neglect.
I am unofficially extending an invitation for all the can spare a few minutes tomorrow and stop and sign the complaint.
Scott is also a biker like many of us and he extended the invite to biker buddies. If you are a biker or not, take time and stop and support Scott!
Also you don't need to be from NE. All are welcome to sign. I intend on adding mine.
If you are not familiar with the case I will add here several links and the invited interview with Chris Baker on KFAB.
Thanks for your time!
PGR Statewide Nebraska. Wreaths across America Statehouse Ceremony. Lincoln, NE, 8 DEC 14
Nebraska PGR supports the Wreaths Across America (WAA) Statehouse Ceremony in Lincoln, as we gather to honor our American Heroes
Remember - Honor - and Teach
Remember the fallen;
Honor those who serve;
Teach our children the value of freedom.
The Wreaths Across America story began over 19 years ago when Worcester Wreath company began a tradition of placing wreaths on the headstones of our Nation's fallen heroes at Arlington National Cemetery during the holidays.
Each year since 2007, more and more communities have been participating in wreath-laying Statehouse ceremonies conducted on the Monday before the official Wreaths Across America™ day of 13 Dec 2014. This year's Nebraska Statehouse ceremony will be held on 8 Dec 14, as a prelude to the national Wreaths Across America day. The Statehouse ceremony promotes a week-long celebration of America's veterans and their service to our Country, with a particular focus on family during the holidays. At locations nationwide, Civil Air Patrol, veterans groups, funeral service practitioners and others who embrace the Wreaths Across America™ mission to, "Remember the Fallen; Honor Those Who Serve, And Teach The Children The Cost of Freedom," will, in fact remember and honor our veterans during the holiday season, the traditional time of family get-togethers and gratitude.
Riders are invited to gather and support the Nebraska WAA Statehouse Ceremony this year as outlined below. The Nebraska Wreath Laying Ceremony will be synchronized to mirror all ceremonies taking place at 12:00 Noon EST. Dignitaries are planned to speak in honor of our veterans and active military. The wreath-laying ceremony is apolitical and all groups are invited to attend.
STATEHOUSE CEREMONY: Nebraska State Capitol Bldg. - K St. & Centennial Mall Stage
Stage Date: Monday, December 8, 2014
Stage Location: Outside North Entrance – State Capitol
Stage Time: 10:05 AM
Riders Meeting: 10:20 AM
Flag Line: 10:30 AM -flags will be provided
Ceremony: 11:00 AM
Lead Organization: Nebraska Patriot Guard Riders
Lead Person/Ride Captain: Ralph Bierman (402) 470-3406 firstname.lastname@example.com
Flag Captain/Ride Captain: Mike Bestwick (402) 306-7020 email@example.com
All Riders are encouraged to participate in this nationwide event. Safety being paramount, please use your best judgment when deciding to ride or drive. Please share this information with your community. Everyone is invited to participate. You do not need to be a PGR member or even own a motorcycle.
NOTE: MARK YOUR CALENDAR – There are eleven simultaneous wreath laying ceremonies in Nebraska scheduled on Saturday, December 13, 2014. Those ceremony specifics will be in a follow on PGR announcement containing relevant details. Generic ceremony details are available at the following website: http://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org
Vietnam Veterans
Perpetual Living Memorial
WR Love, President, and the Members of Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc Chapter # 397, Fremont, Nebraska, along with VFW Post 854, American Legion Post 20, DAV Chapter 18, have invited the Patriot Guard Riders to participate in the ceremony observing the 24th anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans Perpetual Living Memorial for KIA's (Vietnam) of Dodge County.
The ceremony begins at 12:00 Noon on Saturday, April 26, 2014, at Clemmons Park, 16th and Luther Road, Fremont, Nebraska. The Patriot Guard Riders will stand a Flag line in Honor and humble respect of those who had fallen as well as those who survived. Our Vietnam Veterans. True American Heroes.
STAGE DATE: Saturday, April 26th, 2014
STAGE LOCATION: Dillon Harley –Omaha, 174th &W Maple Road
ETA: Fremont 11:15AM Clemmons Park, 16th & Luther Road
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CEREMONY: 12 Noon
Riders coming from other locations can stage at 11:30am at Clemmons Park.
RIDE CAPTAIN: Dave Valenta firstname.lastname@example.com 402-214-6469
FLAG CAPTAIN: NEEDED! Please contact RC Dave Valenta if you can help.
Safety being paramount – ride only if conditions permit.The Nebraska Patriot Guard Riders have been recognized by the National Safety Council and the Nebraska Office of Highway Safety for adhering to and promoting motorcycle safety. Ride Alert – Ride Safe.
I would like to get it going also. I have not been feeling well since surgery but getting better. surgery cost $230,000.00 and one would think it would have done me some good, however; I did better before surgery. The surgery was to reduce pain in my lower body due to a young man running me over and then backing over me. He then left the scene leaving me for dead. this happened in Fremont back in 2006. My back and legs have had 14 surgeries since. This being the most expensive and painful. I am thankful to be alive I had been a Power-Lifter of 25 years and I contribute my strength to my survival. I am willing to do my part to get things moving here in NE
Having trouble trying to find coordinators or fellow riders in my area, have been trying to obtain patches, could someone please contact me email@example.com Thank you..Jesse Paul Snyder
I am sorry but I have been sick since having my back surgery. I am open to meeting you, as for your last e-mails you sent to me. My PC went down and I had a new hard drive and power pack placed in it. They uninstall windows XP and installed Windows 7. I should have my PC back either tonight or tomorrow and I hope then we can communicate better.
thank you for the phone call I was working in my shop and missed it , however hope to return it in the am.
I am interested in holding office.
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}Ira worked at Marshal, Clearwater, and Bell for a month…
{No, he was an unpaid intern at the law firm.
}Excuse me, I'm telling this story.
{Well, I'm here to make sure you narrate it correctly.
}After a month of interning at MCB, Ira had made no friends or more to the point no connections for his future profession. No one at the firm even knew his name.
{Correction, the lunch lady knew his name. He ordered the same exact meal everyday he was there. And the recruiter knew his name.
}But technically, the recruiter doesn't work at the office. So, yes the lunch lady knew his name, but no one that could have helped him with his career.
Everyday he'd make copies for this person; retrieve records for that person; almost always for the assistant of a lawyer, once or twice for an actual lawyer, and never for any of the partners.
{To make matters worse, Ira just moved to New York from Ohio. So, not only did he have no friends at 'work', he had no social life at all.
He would go back to his apartment every night thinking about quitting and returning home, but he didn't want to give his father the satisfaction of being right.
}I think he was more scarred of being proven wrong. He put everything he had in law school, and spent more money than he had on his apartment. Failing at this, felt like an admission that he failed in life.
He didn't make any of the sports teams in high school…
{And trust us he tried for all of them.
}…and his only girlfriend was in college and she left him for a professor. He had nothing left going for him. He forced himself to make it.
Speaking of females, he was quite smitten with Lynn from the office. Unfortunately for him, her last name's Clearwater. She's the daughter of one of the partners and on the path to be one of the top persecutors in the city. Unbeknownst to Ira, or anyone in the firm, Lynn is in a serious relationship with a lawyer from a different firm.
{Not that he'd have had a shot if she were single. I know I'm supposed to be defending the guy, but he really was a loser.
}That may be true, but he was also a good person. It may not be our place to say but he deserved a better lot in life.
He even baked Lynn a cake for her birthday, but he was asked to do a copy job that kept him away from the entire celebration. Lynn's secretary by the name of Sheila even took credit for the cake
On his final day, it was all falling apart for Ira. Not only did he miss his opportunity to impress Lynn, he discovered the lie of the cake in the most demeaning of ways. He took a walk during his lunch, once again contemplating quitting the internship he found Lynn sitting on a park bench eating the cake he made. Then he watched as she fed the cake to her boyfriend from her own tongue.
He overheard Lynn's boyfriend say that the cake was good, and Lynn responding that her secretary made it. Having taken more than he thought he ever could, Ira stormed over to the couple to expose the lie.
However, he was stopped with a pleasant surprise. Lynn recognized him from the office. About to express his joy over her knowing who he was, Lynn once again stopped him, she threatened to have him fired and beaten if he told anyone what he saw.
{That was enough for him, he ran away crying, not knowing what he saw that warranted a threat like that
}Sadly, that was the last straw. After, the deception of the cake, and the threatening by Lynn, he took his life.
{We've been doing this for a while now, and we just did not see this coming. He kept threatening to quit, never to actually kill himself.
}And after checking, no one thing done could be considered severe enough…
{Except maybe for the cake thing.
}…and they weren't done maliciously…
{Except for the threatening.
}…He was just viewed and treated like a loser for so long, that he finally believed what he was hearing.
{He had no outs, so he created one for himself.
}It's our opinion this was going to happen eventually, no avoiding it. Just so happens, this job was the catalyst.
{Even worse, it was an unpaid internship.
I wasn't too thrilled with the topic from the get go, and everything I was thinking of for it was all cliché. So I decided my challenge for this story would be to do something new, I wrote it with two narrators and no dialogue. I don't think it's ever been done, and admittedly, I'm not too sure how well it works.
In my head the narrators were actually Ira's guardian angels explaining to God why they failed. I didn't want it reading like a religious story, so I didn't play to that too much if at all. It was just for my amusement.


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The healthcare industry by definition exists to care for the health of each individual. But how well does it take care of its own?
Nurses, the caretakers on the front line, often work shifts of 12 hours and more, and may work up to 50 or even 60 hours per week. Fatigue threatens the health of those nurses, as well as the quality of the care they can provide. In a January 30th article in The Courier Journal, a 2014 American Journal of Critical Care study was cited as finding that nurses who were fatigued, had lost sleep, or couldn't recover between shifts were much more likely to regret a medical decision they had made.
The ANA is pushing for new standards limiting consecutive night shifts and shifts longer than 12 hours (see ANA press release). But what can you, the nurse manager, do to take care of yourself and your staff today, to improve the work environment and the energy they bring to it?
Try this advice from Essential Skills for Nurse Managers, the most recent book I've had the pleasure of working on. In Chapter 19, Personal Balance and Self-Renewal, co-author Sharon Cox shares techniques for managing physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual energy, based on the research of Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz. It may take time for the ANA recommendations to become standard practice, so in the meanwhile, here are ways to take care of ourselves:
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Atlantic salmon numbers rebound, report says
The number of salmon returning to New Brunswick rivers and the jobs associated with the industry are steadily increasing, according to a new report from the Atlantic Salmon Federation.
The federation commissioned an economic impact study from Gardner Pinfold Consulting that examined how many wild Atlantic salmon are returning to rivers in the region.
The New Brunswick numbers pointed to strong returns in several river systems.
The report indicated 34,090 large salmon returned in 2011 compared to 17,970 in 2010 in the Miramichi River.
In the Southwest Miramichi River, the number of fish required to sustain the species was 220 per cent of the number required and in the Northwest Miramichi River it was 108 per cent.
Salmon returns to the Little Main Restigouche River were also double the number of any of the previous five years.
Geoff Giffin, the program director for the Atlantic Salmon Federation, said the numbers show an important trend.
"The last few years we've been quite encouraged by the numbers. Last year, I think we had a great combination of good returns, as indicated by the numbers, but we also had a lot of happy anglers because the angling conditions were excellent," Giffin said.
"We had good water levels, cool temperatures throughout the season and it made for great fishing conditions."
More anglers
The increased salmon numbers are also leading to a stronger industry, according to the report.
The Gardner Pinfold report said that improved salmon runs in the past two seasons have doubled the numbers of anglers and jobs compared to five years ago.
"Miramichi, as everyone knows, brings anglers in from all over the world and not just within the province," Giffin said.
"There was over $20 million worth of spending by the recreational fishery and there were over 630-odd full-time job equivalents that were supported by that."
The federation's report also said its numbers show that the recreational salmon fishery is worth $40 million a year to New Brunswick.
The federation said it could be worth a lot more if the federal government would invest more than the $12 million it currently spends on the industry.
"Unlike other industries, such as forestry, mining, and aquaculture, that negatively impact the environment, the recreational fishery is a green industry that requires a pristine environment," according to the federation.


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How to Clean the Outside of a Desktop PC
The dust and pet hair that clings to the exterior of your PC are easy to locate and clean up. Even the keyboard and monitor can be cleaned with relative ease, using things that are probably already in your home.
Clean the surfaces
Generally speaking, you can wipe down the outside of the console, mouse, printer, monitor, and keyboard using nothing more than a dry cloth. For some items, but not the monitor screen, you can wet a paper towel with household cleaner, such as Formula 409, and then do some rubbing to remove any buildup.
When using liquids to clean the outside of a computer, avoid spilling liquid inside the computer. Wring out that sponge!
Do not spray cleaner on the computer case; instead, first spray it on a paper towel and then clean the case.
Clean the console vents
The most important things to clean on any computer are the air vents on the console. Air must circulate inside the box or the computer's components get too hot. That's when problems start. In fact, cleaning the air vents on your PC is probably the best way to prevent computer woes.
The computer has two sets of air vents found on the front and back. Clean both. You might be able to clean them out by hand, but a vacuum cleaner is probably a better option. An air can works, but don't blow the gunk into the console.
The console is the main PC box. Some folks call it the CPU, though that term is incorrect. Nope, it's the console, the main box into which all computer goodies plug.
Clean the keyboard
Use a vacuum cleaner to de-crud the keyboard. The vacuum more adequately removes the debris from between the keys than a can of air does, which merely blows the stuff around. For intermediate crud, use tweezers.
Sometimes, it helps to turn over the keyboard and give it a good shake. Be prepared for gross stuff to come out.
The best way to avoid a dirty keyboard is to not eat while you use the computer.
You can clean keycaps by using a pencil eraser. Keep in mind that the more you use a computer keyboard, the more likely it is that certain key cap labels wear off. If you use a pencil eraser to clean key caps, take a vacuum to the keyboard immediately afterward to rid the keyboard's guts of eraser stubble.
Clean the monitor screen
The traditional glass or CRT monitor is easy to clean. Spray some standard glass cleaner on a paper towel and then rub the monitor's screen. Just don't get any of the cleaner inside the monitor. As long as you spray a conservative amount of cleaner on the paper towel, you'll meet that goal.
Cleaning an LCD monitor is trickier because not only should you not spray anything on the monitor, you also need to avoid using alcohol or ammonia to clean the thing. The best way to clean an LCD monitor is to use an LCD monitor-cleaning kit. For general cleaning, a lint-free or microfiber cloth works fine. In fact, your monitor may have come with this type of cloth.
Clean a monitor when it's turned off. That way, you can best see the screen.
Watch Video 342 to see a cleaning of a LCD monitor. Video 642 shows cleaning of a CRT monitor:


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OMG! i havent been visiting starbucks like ages. i should go there and grab a cup of coffee, look at the plastic cups, they're so adorable :3
starbucks nya hmm...udah lama gak ke sana deh.
:) ini juga dikarenakan ada meeting jadi ke starbucks.. :)
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Consider a service such as Netflix... if on the server side netflix used code with a GPL license attached, do they have to make their server side code available under the terms of the GPL?
Obviously netflix being only an example, the company I worked for mostly provides 'services', we don't sell software that anyone can download to their computers, more like, computers over a network talk to our computers and stuff gets done.
Can I consider using GPL code in this environment without making all my code 'open source'?


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Black And White Damask Bath Ck bath set - In making bathrooms useful and appealing toilet accessories also play significant parts. The accessories that are most often used are candle holders, towels, fixtures, soap dispensers, several types of holders for candles, towels, toiletries, make-up etc, towel racks, curtain rods and bath baskets for showers, carpets etc.
Showers and bathrooms will be the most favorite spaces of your house as much as a tired person can be involved. In olden times, bathrooms were looked upon as just a necessary evil, but soon, they've got much value which can be fit with that of a kitchen, bedroom or living room. While all other elements of your home are constructed for our physical well being, bathrooms help in rejuvenating both the body and the mind.
This new found importance of bathrooms has resulted in them becoming glamorous rooms plus a real friend of those living in the house. Bathroom accessories are invariably small but thoughtfully additional things that make your bathroom practical as well as more appealing.
But there is a need to choose your toilet accessories. There is no point in cluttering up your bathroom space that is small with a myriad of frills. Mend the accessories at just the appropriate spaces and give a thought concerning the color scheme also. It is a fact these fixtures generally eat up nearly twenty five percent of the total toilet building price.
Colours and patterns of toilet towels like bath towels and hand towels should invariably complement that of the background wall tiles. In reality, picking the correct accessories and towels demands an artistic bend of mind. Due to this, you'll be able to request guidance from other members of the family or a professional designer in your endeavor to give your own bathroom a lucid look and feel.
While fixtures and racks are completely practical appendages some toilet accessories like flower vases are of only ornamental value. Some pieces like towels and toiletries are both cosmetic and useful at the same time. Bathroom vanities have become absolute necessities for the well-treated due to the improved ambience these can provide to the bathroom.
Another popular craze, notably in designing children's bathrooms, would be to use temporary fixtures, backgrounds, accessories etc because their living surroundings are fast outgrown by kids. The materials used should be safe, light, appealing and lasting.


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I've finally got round to doing my first Q&A so thank you for all your questions! Here goes, hope you enjoy...
What's your favourite shop at the moment?
I feel Topshop will forever be my favourite, I could buy everything from there, not that my bank balance would let me.
Are you planning to go to university? If so, where and what are you going to study?
I am yes. Come September, I'll be at Northumbria university in Newcastle studying fashion communication. You can read all about my applying to university process here.
If you could only eat one meal for the rest of your life?
My favourite meal is probably a roast dinner, it doesn't feel like a Sunday without one. But if we're talking one item of food then definitely Krispy Kreme doughnuts, no shame.
What is your goal for your blog? What do you hope to achieve from it?
My main goal is to create more and better content, being a student means I have to juggle both and for now, college work is more important but I love blogging and have been overwhelmed by a number of people that read it. However, I would still create all of this content even if the only person who read my blog was my mum haha. I would also like to try some different kinds of blog posts and maybe start a series of posts, watch this space.
What's your favourite thing about blogging?
The ability to be able to write and photograph absolutely anything and everything I want. It's just somewhere to dump a load of ideas, write them down, get them out of your head and if other people end up taking something from it then that's just a bonus.
Where is the next place aboard you would like to visit? and your favourite place so far?
I would love to visit Barcelona and it's definitely next on my list but the favourite place I have travelled to so far is South Africa.
Why did you start blogging? What was the motivation back then and how has it changed?
By the time I finally got round to starting a blog I had been thinking of doing it for a while but was worried what people would think. I was seeing lots of other people taking these amazing photos and creating content and I knew I wanted to do that. I love photography and like the idea of having all this stuff to look back on and to see how I've improved. My motivation now is to just keep making bigger and better content as well as improving my photography and writing skills, it's all just one big learning curve and I'm learning all the time.
Where, who, what do you draw your inspiration from?
I do draw a certain amount of inspiration from other bloggers. Sometimes I see a blog post and it sparks an idea in my head for something to write about. I also draw inspiration what surrounds me on a daily basis. If I've been loving a product or baking a certain thing then I like to write about that in a blog post for other people to read. I have a list of ideas that gets added too everytime I think of something I could blog about.
What camera do you use to take your photos?
The camera I use is the Canon EOS 700D/T5 however, I flick between lenses. For close ups and flat lays I use the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 lens because the depth of field on this lens is amazing but sometimes if I need the distance, I'll use the 18mm -55mm kit lens that came with the camera. I do also have the bigger 75mm - 300mm lens but I don't use this lens that often for my blog or Instagram photos.
Favourite outfit to wear?
My favourite item to wear is probably my Topshop striped trousers because they're so easy to pair with anything to create an outfit. I have also been loving dungarees recently!
What's your favourite makeup product?
I'm gonna have to pick my Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick highlighter. My sister brought me this for Christmas a couple of years back and I use it nearly every day (whenever I put make-up on) and there is still loads left.
How do you get over bloggers block? Do you any rituals when you sit down to write your blog?
I've touched on this in an up and coming blog post but I never force a blog post. If I don't know what to write then I just leave it and come back to it another time. I don't really have a 'routine' for blogging. I blog when I can between college work and work but I am trying to get into a routine of having a post up every Monday.
Thank you if you sent me any questions via my Instagram post or via DM's. I'm sure I'll be doing another Q&A soon!


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Masamoto knives have been historically used as the Highest-Integrity Professional Chef Knife Brand in Japan (refer to the bottom of this page).
Masamoto "KH" Damascus Hon-Kasumi Gyokusei-ko series are crafted out of a multi-layer Damascus-patterned beautiful blades with a core of Blue Paper (Aoko or Aogami) No.2 Yasugi Steel, known as prime high carbon steel, specifically developed for tools and knives.
This one has highest wear resistance and toughness. Very good steel, and very popular choice for high end Japanese kitchen knives, but requires special care to avoid rusting and chipping.
Speaking to the handle, the beautiful two Vermilion-wood Ring and the Buffalo Tsuba equipped to the Magnolia Wood handle represent high-quality and excellent durability, that means made for professional originally.
The handle shape of Japanese-Style Octagonal figure fits better comfortably to your hand.
(Please be noted that the buffalo tsuba (bolster) is a natural product that may possibly be different from the image in color.)
It is highly recommended for Gift as well as for your better cooking experience.
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One of the hardest parts of determining which card to get, is the burden of figuring out 'which card gives you the most bang for your buck?' specifically when 'paying' with points. This matter is further complicated because each Hotel Line has 1-5 different types of Hotels, and 1-9 different 'Point Redemption Levels.' Its hard to do a 'tit for tat' comparison unless you have a specific city you want to visit – and even then, they would have to be within the same square mile to be accurate.
As an example, lets use the Hyatt vs Hilton vs IHG for New Orleans. This search was done 5 months out, for a Monday in October. The goal was to get close to the French Quarter without spending a fortune.
The Hilton has a reputation of being a classy hotel, with many locations in all major cities. However, their Room Redemptions are among the highest- with nothing under 50,000 in this case.
Comparatively, IHG had a Holiday Inn for $227 a night or 35,000 with Points, or the Crown Plaza for a staggering $412 a night(!) or … a mere 5,000 more 40K in Points. Their Staybridge Suites also in the French Quarter was only $161 a night, but still 30,000 Points. Not terrible, but not a good value in my opinion.
Now, check out Hyatt:
You'll notice that the price for each hotel is only 15,000… and yet yet the 'per night' room rate is a difference of $83.
One more Trick: SOMETIMES the Chase UltimateRewards Portal can be a huge Value, due to their unique & mysterious pricing algorithm. I was able to get the lesser of the two Hyatts for only 7,299 PER NIGHT! (Equiv to $72) This was ONLY through the Chase UR Portal of course, and a week later the price for this same hotel was 18,510.
So the very same Hyatt Hotel on 601 Loyola could be had for: $187 in cash, 15,000 Hyatt Points, or 7,299 Chase UR Points (fluke)?
Conclusion: Do some research before booking your hotels! There are usually a few different options available, EVEN if you're paying with Points. The flexibility of the Chase Sapphire Card makes it a must have in situations like this.
If you have a Chase INK or Sapphire Card, always be sure to check the UltimateRewards.com Portal BEFORE Transferring your points to any given hotel. Once in a while it might actually be cheaper to purchase directly through UR.


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Michael France (I) (1962–2013)
Movies made from Michael France's screenplays have earned well over one billion dollars in worldwide theatrical admissions, and at least another billion dollars in home video revenues. Michael France was born in 1962. He graduated from the University of Florida and attended Columbia University's School Of The Arts. His breakthrough screenplay was ... See full bio »
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