text:
What is the world becoming to?I have been putting off blogging about this for weeks now because I wanted to write it well but didn't have the time to do so.This blog of mine is not just about what I do in my life or about fluff such as my wishlist.I am more than that.There are times when I touch on an important issue that manage to garner my attention enough to write about it here.There has been two news that have captured my attention over the last few weeks.The first,being the news about the monster of a fatherJosef Fritzl.Although recent updates of the news,he states that he is not a monster,the horrible and utterly revolting act that he did,justifies that he is a monster in my eye!
Since the whole world is getting riled up over the news,here are a few links pertaining the new so that you guys can read them.
My opinion about it?The neighbourhood and the society living there should be blame partly because come on,of course they know something was amiss with the family!!!He kept his daughter for 24 years in the basement & she even got pregnant and bore him 7 children!And he has another 7 children from his marriage with his wife who lives in the house while he has another family below the house?How fucking twisted..and if he's not a monster then his akin to a devil living on earth!
The 2nd news,is the one that I have typed below....
TYLER(Texas):A jury again needed just 4mins on Thursday to convict an organiser of an East Texas swinger's club where prosecutors say young children were forced to perform sexual acts for an audience.
Shauntel Mayo,29,was then sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty on charges that she forced 3 siblings,ages 7 through 10,to have sex with each other or perform sexual acts for club members who paid to watch.
(How despicable is this????Imagine how this will affect the kids as they grow older?Victims of sexual abuse usually don't grow up well because they will end up being traumatized over the experience that they had gone through in the past.)
In March,Mayo's 36 year-old boyfriend,Jamie Pittman,was also found guilty in four minutes.He was sentenced to life in prison after jurors deliberated for just 2 mins.
Some jurors cried during testimony in Mayo's 3-day trial,the Tyler Morning-Telegraph reported.
Mayo was convicted of engaging in organised criminal activity and 2 counts of sexual performance of a child.Jurors deliberated six minutes in the punishment phase,and state District Judge Jack Skeen Jr ordered that Mayo serve a minimum of 25 years before becoming eligible for parole.
During the trial,the children testified how Mayo and other defendants began teching them at age 5(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) how to dance and perform sex acts.They were also given drugs which the adults called "silly pills" to help them perform (can someone please just kill these people for me????)
4 other defendants in the case are awaiting trial.(I hope all of them burn in hell!)
On a greater note,here's a news that restored my faith in humanity....
Taken from State Side by Foo Yee Ping
IT WAS July 28, 2004, and the baby photo being downloaded was coming in at a snail's pace.
"We were still using dial-up Internet access then. What appeared was the top of a little bald head," recalled Jennifer Maslowski, an art appraiser.
Eventually, Maslowski and her husband saw the full referral photo of the baby sent by the adoption agency. "She looked like a little Buddha!"
Delighted, the couple travelled to China six weeks later, their first step towards parenthood.
"I was excited. My husband was more emotional. He cried the whole time!" she said, laughing at the memory.The decision to adopt came somewhat naturally to them. "It's just something that we wanted to do."
It isn't a road less travelled (think Meg Ryan, for a Hollywood example). According to the US State Department, China topped the list of countries issued orphan visas.Last year, 5,453 visas were given out. There has been a gradual drop since 2005, when almost 8,000 visas were issued.
For Maslowski, 36, skin colour is irrelevant. "A baby is a baby. It is so easy to fall in love with kids. And I'm from New York City, certainly not a place where everybody looks like me."
In fact, the couple would have opted for Haiti if the Chinese adoption had not gone through.
The adoption process was tedious.
"There were lots of paperwork, medical records, pictures of your home, financial and police background check, child abuse check, social workers' visits ... and you're finger-printed as well," she said.
The cost ranges from US$15,000 to US$25,000 (RM48,000 to RM80,000).
It took 54 weeks for her to become a mother. Unlike her husband Bill Schmidt, Maslowski admitted that she did not bond immediately with the 10-month-old girl they saw at the orphanage in Guangzhou.
"I was happy and comfortable taking care of her. But I wasn't like throwing myself in front of the bus for her."
But two weeks later, it all sank in and her tears flowed.
Today, the baby who was once full of scabies and heat rash ("her skin was a mess") has grown into a happy five-year-old girl who often amazes her adoptive parents.
"She's very tall for her age," the proud mama said. With a long name, too: Their little Buddha is now Alida Frances Shan Schmidt.
Maslowski herself is involved with Families with Children from China, an organisation which provides support for parents and prospective ones. She is their Manhattan coordinator.
The child from Middle Kingdom has opened a new world for the Schmidts.
"We celebrate Chinese New Year! This Beijing Olympics, we are rooting for China. And Alida has a collection of cheongsam which she wears to cultural events or playgroup outings. All her dolls are Chinese."Alida loves going for her Mandarin classes. "My husband and I attended classes as well but had a hard time."
The couple would take another shot at the lessons in September.
"She has been such a gift. She's everybody's pet ... her grandparents and aunts. A little spoilt, I must say," Maslowski said, laughing.
There have been no regrets whatsoever although Maslowski acknowledged that people would always know that Alida is adopted whenever they looked at the family.
"She is always going to have to deal with it," Maslowski said.
Things, however, are easier in New York where everybody is from somewhere else.
"Alida knows she came out from somebody else's tummy. She would look at the photo album of our trip to China to get her."
The family has not faced any nasty encounters although it had happened to a friend of Maslowski's who also adopted a foreign-born child.
A stranger had remarked to her: "Next time, buy American."
Finances permitting, the family would visit China next year.
"Some day, we would want to search for her real parents," she said, for the sake of Alida, originally from Dongguan in central Guangzhou, who might wonder about her past in future.
Her advice for prospective adoptive parents?
"Enjoy it. It is going to be okay," she said, repeating similar words of comfort that someone gave her while she was waiting for the adoption to come through.
"I was told that sometimes, people are going to say something bad. But no matter what, it is going to be okay."


text:
Palestine Map Earrings in Handcut Brass
One of our all time favorite earrings; carved from brass, these awesome earrings are the outline of Palestine little map of Palestine!
The women artisans are from a small village just outside Jerusalem. They use small tools to hand cut sheets of brass to create their pieces; by women of the Beit Doqo Society outside of Jerusalem. Designed by a Haifa based jewelry designer, Amir Salameh.
When you purchase this item, you are supporting atisans in Palestine from whom we buy fair trade. And your purchase allows us to plant trees! Did you know that 100% of the profits from this item are used at Mashjar Juthour in Palestine to protect Palestine's endangered environment?
We are traveling as of October 16th 2019 until November 6th 2019. Hence there will be a slight delay in shipping out orders. We will do our best to ship out orders once a week.
Shipping from the U.S
We are back to shipping from the States. Shipping rates are automatically calculated at checkout based on shipping weight. We ship via USPS. Shipping is available to most countries, let us know if your country is not included and we will add it :)
Meanwhile, we still offer shipping options from Palestine to the U.S, Canada, Europe* and Australia in case you are interested in a handicrafts that aren't available in our online collection.
Shipping options from Palestine:
Registered Post takes from 10-20 days. Price will be calculated at check out based on weight. Registered post can only be tracked until it leaves the post facility in Occupied Palestine.
Eco-Post takes up to 10 days. Price will be calculated at check out based on weight. This option allows for tracking package until arrival at destination.
EMS (for any orders greater than 2 kilos) takes from up to 10 days. Price will be calculated at check out based on weight.
We ship from Palestine on Sundays and Wednesdays. So orders placed by Saturday or Tuesday are sent out the next day.
Please know that there are other costs before we get to shipping. When you receive your package, you'll notice that the shipping cost on the box is not the same as what you paid. We have to get items from the cooperatives all over Palestine and then ship to you. Thank you for your order, your patience, and your support!
Once orders ship, we'll email you a confirmation with tracking number.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
The "Strategic Asset Management Planning eBook is available now and ready for your reading and downloading. It's a compilation of the blog posts we've created from out of Ross Waugh's lecture at the University of Auckland. Below are the topics included in the infrastructure asset management eBook: Why Infrastructure Asset Management is a Flourishing Career What Is Strategic Asset … [Read more...]
Strategic Asset Management Planning (Video)
Watch and listen to this lecture video on Strategic Asset Management that Ross Waugh delivered at the University of Auckland. In this video, Ross talks about the following: World Infrastructure Needs What is Strategic Asset Management Planning Where does Strategic Asset Management fit in the ISO 55000 framework What is Strategy What are the Key Issues Scrutiny and Challenge of … [Read more...]


text:
Serves 2
Preparation time: 20 mins
Cooking time: 10 mins
Difficulty: easy
Soignon's spreadable goat cheese 2 oz (60 g)
Cod fillet 11 oz (300 g)
Mild chili sauce 1 teaspoon
Lime juice Jus de citron vert 1 teaspoon
Crackers 3
Chopped fresh mint 1 pinch
5 berries mix 1 pinch
Pimento 1 pinch
Salt 1 pinch
- Mix the spreadable goat cheese with all the seasoning ingredients.
- Then open the cod fillet in half and garnish with a part of this preparation.
- Close the fillet and spread the remaining mixture on them.
- Sprinkle cracker crumbs to make a thin crust.
- Bake for 10 minutes at 325 ° F.
- You can remplace crackers by dried bread.
750g Spreadable plain goat cheese


text:
THE FxE1 LAUNCHES A NEW ERA OF OUTDOOR MOTOR SPORTS. IN- AND OUTDOOR.
With only 32 to 36 kg, depending on motor choice,
it can easily be liftet by a single person and transported in e.g. a VW Golf.
We developed a sinusoidal motor controller which connects to a mobile app via Bluetooth. It allows a bunch of settings for recuperation, acceleration curves and various others. Due to the sinusoidal operation mode the bike is very silent
The bike comes with either 8 kW, 11 kW or 1 kW of electrical power. Even with the smallest engine it reaches 85 km/h in flat and 60 km/h at 22 % upward slope.
With a 210 mm upside down front and a 230 mm progressive linkage rear suspension, the bike is ready for either motocross, trial, urban or enduro riding. The bike's geometry can be adapted by one single screw. As the sprocket is in line with the swing arm pivot point, it supports forward and backward riding. The FxE1 also allows for very tight turning on the smallest tracks as a result of a special frame design, which does not limit the steering angle like most downhill bikes.
The hybrid carbon-fiber / 7075 aluminum frame is extremely robust. All bearings are professional grade, waterproof and oversized.
The bike comes with a 2-bulb 2600 Lumen headlamp for night and urban rides. It supports up to 5" wide back tires and up to 4" for snow rides. All electrical units incl motor are designed waterproof. One batt. charge lasts for approx. 45-60 min of fun riding. A spare battery weighs 6 kg and can be easily transported in a backpack.


text:
Georgetown Business Improvement District announced that 11 "Best of" awards were given to Georgetown businesses from "Best of D.C. 2011" in Washington City Paper. Georgetown won the "Best Neighborhood for Shopping" a second year in a row. Six Reader Picks and four Staff Picks sums the total awards given to Georgetown businesses.
Best of D.C. Reader's Poll 2011
Best Burger: Five Guys Burgers & Fries (http://www.fiveguys.com/)
Best Cupcake: Baked and Wired (http://bakedandwired.com/)
Best Hair Stylist: Luigi Parasmo at Toka Salon (http://www.tokasalon.com/)
Best Jazz/Blues Venue: Blues Alley (http://www.bluesalley.com/)
Best Local College of University: Georgetown University (www.georgetown.edu/)
Best Place to Buy Fur Handcuffs: Pleasure Place (www.pleasureplace.com/)
Best Salad: Sweetgarden (www.thesweetgarden.com/)
Best Vintage Clothing Store: Tari
Best of D.C. Staff Picks 2011
Best Burger: Bourbon Steak (www.bourbonsteakdc.com)
Best Eatery to Attract Lemmings: Georgetown Cupcake (www.georgetowncupcake.com/)
Best Place to Buy a Bridesmaid's Dress: Hitched (http://www.hitchedsalon.com/findus.html)
Best Way-Far-Off-The-Beaten-Path Museum: National Pinball Museum (www.nationalpinballmuseum.org/
"Best of D.C. Readers' Poll" awards were voted on by readers of the Washington City Paper from Feb. 16 to March 15 online. "Staff Picks" were selected by individual writers of the Washington City Paper, and include wackier categories such as "Best Local Take on Click and Clack" or "Best Use of a Whole Pig."
Check out a full list of 2011 winners at Washington's City Paper's website:


text:
Go Back
Go To Articles Directory Home Page
To get the current article, - See Below (at the bottom of the page) -.
For top news titles, see below.
Web sites and videos listed in this page are frequently updated.
If you find that this page is useful (quality of web sites, images and videos, ...), you can add it to your favorites.
Bookmark Page !
Making Your Home Office Workable.
The idea of working from home is rapidly gaining popularity among many people who are finding the daily trudge to and from the office harder and harder to bear. For those who have decided to set up an office in their home as a permanent place of work, whether located in an attic, a bedroom or a garden shed, careful planning is important.
About the Author: John Sheridan is a professional proofreader of hard copy items and website copy. He also writes web copy and occasionally accepts small copy-editing assignments. He can be contacted via: www.textcorrect.co.uk


text:
Property Management Blog
Lots of people have financial goals tied to income from rental property. It's often viewed as an easy way to create wealth and cash flow but the truth is it can be hard work.
Whether you currently hold income generating properties in your real estate portfolio or you've been thinking about becoming a landlord, we can help you make sure you've got your management skills and financial goals under control
Start with these six rules to help eliminate beginner's mistakes:
Make a plan. Remember your rental homes are a business. This is not the time to "wing" it. You need to be able to pay the taxes, insurance, mortgage, maintenance, and manage potential cash lag between tenants. Jumping in without a plan could damage your credit and financial status in the long run.
Shop judiciously. You don't have to love the rental property, you just have to identify it as a good investment. Establish a budget and a list of criteria for what you're looking for and stick to it. Look for marketability when purchasing (location to shopping, schools, freeways, grocery stores, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, garage, central air and heat, age of the building) and add curb appeal after the fact.
Make sure you've got cushion in your cash flow. Create a cash reserve that's specifically for your rental properties. Don't let cash flow keep you from making needed repairs. You must be able to maintain your properties if you intend to attract tenants that pay on time. This is true whether you manage your own properties or you've contracted with a property management company.
Don't try to do it "all." Rehabbers like to think they can get it all done by themselves. However, creating a strong team of contractors and vendors that can provide you with timely turnarounds and reasonable pricing can help you get things done faster. The faster it happens, the sooner you'll see a return.
Understand local housing codes, landlord laws, and federal fair housing requirements. If you don't know what is required of you, you could get into serious trouble with local authorities. Most cities have housing and municipal codes that impact landlords, and the information is easy to find online. Federal housing information is also online.
Be ready to communicate with your tenants. If you don't want to deal with calls in the middle of the night, collecting rent, or screening potential tenants, then hiring a knowledgeable property manager is the way to go.
Buying a property that needs some fixing up is a great way to get started, but you don't want to overspend for the neighborhood or general area. Do your research in person. Each state and city responds differently to economic changes. Find out what's happening in the areas you're interested in. Talk to renters, other investors, and property managers about the best places for renters.
Thanks to Svilen Milev for the image.
- Best Property Management in Albuquerque
- property management
- best property management in Albuquerque
- Residential property management
- rental market trends
- investment property
- Real Estate Investing, Buying Real Estate, Selling Real Estate, Albuquerque Income Properties
- Property Maintenance Tips
- Applying For A Home
- Just for Tenants
- Tenants
- Property Management
- Real Estate, Albuquerque
- rental home preparation
- real estate investing, buying real estate, selling real estate, Albuquerque income properties
- Home Sales
- Property Repairs, Tenancy
- Albuquerque
- Albuquerque; Real Estate Albuquerque; Property Management Secrets
- Easy Home Cleaning Tips
- Architecture
- Rental Market Secrets
- Property Repairs
- Landlord Issues and Property Management
- Tenancy
- Business Tips
- property management skills
- For the Kids
- New Mexico jobs
- Top Neighborhoods for Residential Investment Properties in Albuquerque
- When Do I Replace Exterior Items on an Albuquerque Rental Home?
- What Do I Do with My Parent's Single-Family Home in Rio Rancho?
- Best Months to Put a Home on the Rental Market in Albuquerque
- Making Your Investment Last: Replace Items Inside Your Rio Rancho Rental Home


text:
This week, Log Lines is pleased to feature a guest post by USS Constitution Museum Development Associate Brian Miskell.
This past Saturday the nation stopped to remember the great loss of life sustained and the great feats of heroism and valor performed by members of the armed forces stationed at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked on the morning of December 7, 1941. When looking at the roster of ships moored in Pearl Harbor or on patrol just outside the harbor on that "date which will live in infamy," one finds many familiar names of former officers of "Old Ironsides," including Hull and Preble. As you look deeper, you find other ships that made significant contributions to repel the attack named after men with connections to Constitution that are less obvious. USS Ward is one of these.
|USS Ward as built, photographed in 1918 or 1919. US Navy photo # NH 95201
USS Ward's role in the Pearl Harbor attack is well documented, but the connection of her namesake to Constitution may not be. Ward, under the command of Lieutenant Commander William W. Outerbridge, was part of the Inshore Patrol outside Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7. At 3:42 AM, the minesweeper USS Condor spotted what appeared to be the periscope of a submerged submarine in an area outside the harbor entrance where submarines were prohibited from operating submerged and notified Ward. For the next hour and half the destroyer searched for the contact without success. The contact was spotted again at 6:37 AM, this time following the repair ship USS Antares, steering for Pearl Harbor with two target barges in tow. Ward was again notified and a patrol plane dropped two smoke pots nearby after spotting the contact. This time, the Ward's crew saw the submarine and opened fire at 6:45. According to Outerbridge's after action report,
The shot from No. 1 gun missed…The shot from No. 3 gun fired at a range of 560 yards or less struck the submarine at the waterline which was the junction of the hull and coning tower. Damage was seen by several members of he crew. This was a square positive hit …The projectile was not seen to explode outside the hull of the submarine. There was no splash of any size that might results from an explosion or ricochet… Immediately after being hit the submarine appeared to slow and sink. She ran into our depth charge barrage and appeared to be directly over an exploding charge.[1]
|A Ward gun crew, after the Pearl Harbor attack. US Navy photo # NH 97446
Between 6:45 and 6:53, a report of the attack was sent to the 14th Naval District stating "We have attacked, fired upon, and dropped depth charges on a submarine operating in defensive sea areas."[2] This report, more than an hour before the waves of Japanese carrier planes appeared over Oahu, reached Admiral Bloch's staff by 7:15 AM. Admiral Bloch later testified that "in view of numerous previous reports of submarine contacts…[his] reaction was that the Ward had probably been mistaken."[3] In the opinion of the Joint Congressional Committee that investigated the attack in 1946,
The reported sighting of a submarine periscope…in close proximity to Pearl Harbor, even though not verified, should have put the entire Navy command on the qui vive and when at 6:40 a.m. the presence of a submarine was definitely established, the entire Navy command should have been on a full alert…The evidence does not reflect that the sighting and sinking of a submarine, particularly in close proximity to Pearl Harbor, was of such frequent occurrence as to justify the failure to attach significance to the events of the morning of December 7.[4]
In his after action report to the Commandant of the 14th Naval District, the Commander of Destroyer Division 80, Outerbridge's Commanding Officer, stated that "the quick decision and prompt effective action of the Commanding Officer and crew of the Ward are considered highly commendable" and he "strongly recommended [Outerbridge] for the award of the Navy Cross," the second highest award that can be presented to a member of the United States Navy.[5]
USS Ward (DD-139) was named in honor of Commander James Harmon Ward, the first US Navy officer to be killed during the Civil War. Ward was born in 1806 in Hartford, Connecticut and graduated from the American Literary Scientific and Military Academy in Norwich, Vermont in 1823. That same year he was appointed a midshipman and joined Constitution's crew on October 17, 1824 for a four year Mediterranean cruise under the command of Captain Daniel Todd Patterson.[6] A watch and quarter bill from 1825 shows Ward quartered with three other midshipmen in the 1st Division on the Gun Deck under the command of LT Thomas Wyman.[7] When mooring and unmooring, Ward was in command of a group of seamen taking the nippers off the cable and, when reefing and hoisting sail, he was "to see clear Main Topsail clewlines, buntlines, reef tackles, & Main Top Gallant sheets."[8] After being detached from "Old Ironsides" on July 31, 1828, Ward took a one year leave of absence to pursue scientific studies. When he returned to the service in 1829, he served in the Mediterranean Squadron again "and then saw service off the coast of Africa…and in the West Indies."[9]
|James H. Ward, in an engraving of about 1861.
|The brass nameplate from a leather chest given to J.H. Ward by Constitution Gunner John Lord between 1824 and 1829. USS Constitution Museum Collection.
"One of the most scholarly officers of the Navy of his day," Ward "taught courses in ordinance and gunnery at the Naval School in Philadelphia." After 1845, he served as the Executive Officer of the Naval Academy, in addition to teaching gunnery and steam engineering.[10] He also authored a number of important professional books and treatises, including An Elementary Course of Instruction in Ordinance and Gunnery, A Manual of Naval Tactics (1859), and Steam for the Millions (1860). Following his service at the Academy, Ward held a number command positions, including USS Cumberland, USS Vixen, and USS Jamestown. After the Civil War broke out, Ward commanded "a ' flying squadron' [later known as the Potomac Flotilla]… in the Chesapeake Bay for use against Confederate naval and land forces threatening that area south of the Union capital."[11] During an action on June 27, 1861, a bullet struck Ward in the abdomen while his ship, USS Thomas Freeborn, was providing gunfire support to Union forces ashore, and he "fell to the deck, mortally wounded."[12]
USS Ward, a Wickes-class destroyer sponsored by Miss Dorothy Hall Ward, was launched on June 1, 1918 and commissioned on July 24, 1918 under the command of CDR Milton S. Davis. Over the next three years, Ward served in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, participating in annual fleet training maneuvers, making port visits, and serving as a navigational aid and providing lifeguard services for transatlantic flights. She was decommissioned on July 21, 1921 and placed in reserve on "Red Lead Row" in San Diego until rising tensions with the Axis Powers required her return to service on January 15, 1941. After refitting, Ward was dispatched to Pearl Harbor to join Destroyer Division (DesDiv) 80, part of the 14th Naval District headquartered at Pearl Harbor, to provide anti-submarine patrol off the harbor's entrance channel. In the wake of a November 27 war warning from Washington, D.C., Ward and the other ships of the Inshore Patrol were ordered "to depth-charge suspicious submarine contacts" operating in the defensive sea areas. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, she continued service as part of the Inshore Patrol until ordered to Bremerton, Washington in 1942 "for conversion to a high-speed transport at the Puget Sound Navy Yard."[13] Now designated APD-16, Ward set sail for Espiritu Santo and the war in the Pacific in February 1943 to join the Seventh Fleet. Over the next year and a half, the ship transported Marines, soldiers, and Seabees to various islands, escorted larger transports in convoy, and provided anti-submarine and anti-aircraft patrol in support of operations off New Guinea and in the Philippines. On the morning of December 7, 1944, Ward was on patrol off Leyte Island in the Philippines in company with USS Mahan (DD-364) when a flock of nine Japanese planes attacked the two ships. One of the Japanese planes struck by Ward's anti-aircraft fire crashed into the ship causing uncontrollable fires below decks. The plane penetrated the hull, entering one of her boiler rooms and a lower troop space, before one of the plane's engines exited through the starboard side. Ward received aid from several nearby ships, including USS O'Brien (DD-725), under the command of LCDR William W. Outerbridge, the same officer who commanded Ward off Pearl Harbor. Despite their best efforts to fight the blaze, the fires were too fierce and the crew abandoned ship. The Task Group commander ordered Outerbridge to sink Ward with gunfire and at 11:30 AM on December 7, 1944, three years after her valiant defense of the approaches to Pearl Harbor, Ward sank in Ormoc Bay off Leyte.[14]
[1]Naval History and Heritage Command, "USS Ward, Report of Pearl Harbor Attack." Accessed December 13, 2012. http://www.history.navy.mil/docs/wwii/pearl/ph97.htm.
[3]U.S. Congress. Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack. Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack: Report of the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack.79th Cong. Laguna Hills, CA: Aegean Park Press, 1994 (Orig. pub. 1946), 139.
[5]"Commander Destroyer Division EIGHTY, Report for Pearl Harbor Attack." Naval History and Heritage Command. Accessed March 3, 2013. http://www.history.navy.mil/docs/wwii/pearl/ph9.htm. Outerbridge did receive the Navy Cross for his actions that morning.
[6]It should also be noted that USS Patterson, named in Captain Patteron's honor, was also in Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941. Patterson's Commanding Officer claims in his after action report to Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, Commander in Chief, US Fleet, that Patterson's number 2 gun shot down one Japanese plane during the attack "based on the absence of any burst nearby at this instant and the belief that the sudden and complete disintegration of this plane could not have been cause by a hit from any small caliber gun. Patterson got underway at 9:00 am. Naval History and Heritage Command. "Patterson." Dictionary of Naval Fighting Ships. Accessed January 29, 2013. http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p3/patterson-ii.htm.
[7]USS Constitution Watch and Quarter Bill, 1825, Daniel Todd Patterson Papers, Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress.
[9]Naval History and Heritage Command. "Ward." Dictionary of Naval Fighting Ships. Accessed December 13, 2012. http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/w3/ward.htm.
[10]The rank of Executive Officer for the Naval Academy was renamed Commandant of Midshipmen. Ibid.
The Author(s)
USS Constitution Museum


text:
Busy but Blessed Week AheadOctober 7th, 2013 at 08:17 am
I have a very busy but blessed week ahead. My youngest daughter spent the night last night. Instead of sitting closed up in the office, I sat next to her on the couch. She played a game on her laptop while I did Pinterest (I don't work on Sundays), but we both were glued to the television when Cedar Cove came on.
I can say that we bonded more then than in the office. Since the children were foster children (biological nieces and nephew), they were adopted out, then came back to family when they turned eighteen. The baby girl is nineteen, but to me, she is younger.
She was always closer to Mother than me. I am enjoying bonding with her. She asked if I could bake her butterscotch cookies, so I whipped up a batch of butterscotch shortbread. YUM!!
I brushed her hair and blow-dried it, and she was wondering why I was so excited to do it. Well, when I was foster momma, I was going back to college and working a ton of hours as a deli manager at a very busy convenient store, so I would sometimes have the girls wash their own hair (they were able to do it, but liked for me to do it.)
I never forgot that and have been riddled with guilt, waiting to see them again when they turned eighteen. I know, I wasn't a bad momma for having them do things they were capable to do, but after they were adopted out, all I wanted to do was to be able to wash their hair and get them ready for school another day.
It's hard being a foster mother because they could get adopted out at any time. When Judge Rhorer gave me custody, it was joint custody with Mother. When she couldn't look after the children anymore, they were adopted out. It devastated me, but God knew best. The children are back now, and I know I hover over them too much now.
I almost cried when I told Ashlee why I would gladly brush her hair and blow dry it anytime, no matter how much pain I was in (I did have shoulder pain, but didn't tell her.)
She will be spending Sunday-Tuesday nights with me after she gets off work, and my oldest son, who usually camps out at my place after he gets off work at his security job, will go home those nights (he lives with Mother.)
My middle daughter is expecting her first son, Jordon, in about a week. We are very happy. Please pray for my youngest son because he still has an addiction to overcome. I love him so much, but am not too embarrassed to ask for prayers. He is a hard worker, has served his country in the military, and is very smart. He just needs to overcome alcohol. He competes in rodeos, so alcohol is all around him.
Although I don't post often, I am "lurking" on here to see what everyone else is up to.
I plan to be on here more, mainly, because I feel like there is great strength in numbers, and I need motivation to stay on track.
I hope to do better on the grocery budget when I get my royalties on the 31st. I have $158 coming from Kobo on the 15th. I am going to start menu-planning again.


text:
For a limited time we are only charging 100 ForumCoin or $1 via PayPal to add your link for two months or 200 ForumCoin / $2 to add your link for six months.
To reserve a slot, please send me a PM or an email to fergalposts [at] gmail [dot] com, with the link URL and text (max 65 characters including spaces) you would like to add!
Thanks for your interest.
- Links to content related to alcohol, drugs, pharmaceuticals, tobacco / smoking / vapour products, adult material, anything illegal or other content deemed inappropriate will not be accepted.
- If the content the link points to is removed or changed to content that does not comply with our terms, we reserve the right to remove the link without offering a refund.
- Once submitted, links cannot be edited. This service really is excellent value and if something changes you are welcome to request that your link is removed and / or to purchase a new link.


text:
Our Mission
To CONNECT with the Creator by creating an atmosphere that INSPIRES and ENCOURAGES others to be worshippers that worship in SPIRIT and in TRUTH.
Our Purpose
Worship Ministries is allowing the Lord to minister through us by OFFERING up our Praise and Worship to Him; to LEAD the congregation in heart felt and passionate worship that honors God; to STRIVE for excellence in our talents; to operate in a spirit of UNITY; and to EXPAND and ENHANCE the worship experience of the congregation.
As a team, we believe worship is about ENCOUNTERING God. Through worship we come to God with HONESTY, and AUTHENTICITY, desiring to ENGAGE our hearts, minds andWHOLE selves with Him.
Find your FIT on this GROWING team!
For more information contact the main office at 360-452-8909 or
email firstname.lastname@example.com.


text:
You are not logged in.
Pages: 1
Lost the ability to resize the sidebar window.
The message window needs to have the ability to resize smaller as 3 lines in tiny fonts leaves space that can be used for the main window
also there is separator on sidebar and message that I don't think serve much purpose and would add a bit more real estate to main window
Last edited by hydraa (2015-12-27 09:47:48)
The limitations on re-sizing the sidebar and message window are made necessary by how QT handles widgets. Currently they can only be re-sized by closing and opening the program.
I had to remove the scrollbars on the sidebar because, when the vertical scrollbar appears, the monster health bars think the sidebar widget got larger and they expand when re-drawn. Then the sidebar widget expands to fit the larger monster health bars. This cycle repeats indefinitely every time the sidebar is re-drawn. After a couple turns the monster health bars are larger than the whole computer screen.
The message window cannot be shrunk so small that lines text can't be seen (except by making the font larger after opening up the game). There could be an option to have the player specify the screen show "x" number of lines.
I did find a bug where the message window for the top of the main screen was loading the font of the large message window. This is fixed.
QT automatically draws those separators. They technically are different widgets than the main screen, just like all of the extra windows the player can open. The only difference is the sidebar and message window are "docked" to the main window, and the others are independent
In the current pre-beta 4 build, the message subwindow is resizable (up and down). The sidebar used to be, because I usually would have to adjust it a few times at the start of a game as bars where drawn and removed.
And QT does had a scroll bar to the sidebar when I resize the message to be very large or use a extra large font (This is probably built in functionality.
The current message sub window fits font Tahoma 12. If smaller then the space is 'wasted' I try to run it at 7 point font and would like to be able to shrink the existing window to that size.
Adding a option for x lines might be useful. sometimes when there are several creatures or a highly energetic creature, there are more then 3 lines of text generated, but it is pretty easy to look at the full list when needed and that is only a small % of the time of use
There are some things that can easily be programmed:
The message box at the top could be deleted, for example, if the player has the extra message window open.
Both the sidebar and the message window can be taken out of their docs and moved to wherever the player wants. It might be good to have the sidebar taken out and placed next to the main window, so the sidebar can use the entire height available to it.
The sidebar and message window can also be moved from left to right, and top to bottom respectively.
But in order to enable those features, each of those windows would have to have a title bar, which takes up a little bit of space, even when they are docked.
Pages: 1


text:
By: My Georgia Plumber | In: Plumbing News | Comments: 0 | On: 11/14/2016 17:44:49
There have been no comments made on this article. Why not be the first and add your own comment using the form below.
Commenting is restricted to registered users only. Please register or login now to submit a comment.


text: Theresa May, the Conservative home secretary, has pledged her personal support for gay marriage, becoming the most senior politician yet to take part in a cross-party video campaign supporting a change in the law. The Out4Marriage campaign records YouTube videos with politicians, celebrities, religious leaders and members of the public explaining why they support changing the law. The campaign says it has so far secured the support of 10 Conservatives


text:
I was so honoured to meet talented artist, Philip Cote, at the unveiling of his new mural, "The History of the Land" at Dupont & Spadina on Saturday!
This public art not only beatifies our community, but it provokes important questions for us about the First Peoples of Toronto. The conversations we have as a result of these displays are another important step on the path of reconciliation.
Thank you to Philip, as well as to the Dupont by the Castle BIA and StreetART for making this mural possible! You can learn more about its meaning here: www.dupontbythecastle.ca/…/background—dupont-by-the-castl…
Photo credit: Tania Cannarella Photography


text:
Study of High Dosage CIFN Plus RBV for HCV Genotype 1 Infected Patients Who Are Nonresponders to Prior Therapy
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00266318
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : December 16, 2005
Last Update Posted : April 17, 2008
- Study Details
- Tabular View
- No Results Posted
- Disclaimer
- How to Read a Study Record
The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of combination therapy of daily interferon alfacon-1 (Infergen, CIFN) at high dosage (24 mcg) with ribavirin (based on body weight) for 48 weeks in HCV genotype 1 infected subjects, who are non-responders to previous pegylated interferon alfa plus ribavirin therapy.
This is an open-label, multicenter study. All subjects will receive Infergen 24 mcg administered by injection daily plus ribavirin 800-1400 mg (based on body weight) administered by mouth daily for 48 weeks
* If any 5 of the first 10 subjects can not tolerate the 24 mcg daily dosage of Infergen by week 4, as determined by the principal investigator, then the dosage of Infergen will be changed to 15 mcg administered by injection daily plus ribavirin 800-1400 mg (based on body weight) administered by mouth daily for 48 weeks
|Condition or disease
|Hepatitis C
|Drug: Interferon Alfacon-1 and Ribavirin
|Phase 4
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Enrollment :
|40 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Phase 4 Open-Label Pilot Study of the Safety and Tolerability of High Dosage of CIFN Plus RBV Administered Daily for 48 Weeks in HCV Genotype 1 Infected Patients Who Are Nonresponders to Prior Pegylated Interferon Alfa Plus RBV Therapy
|Study Start Date :
|December 2005
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|May 2007
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|May 2007
- *Assessment of safety and tolerability of high dosage Infergen plus ribavirin including adverse events;study medication dose reduction, interruptions, and discontinuations; and BDI-II scores
- *Sustained viral response defined as the absence of detectable HCV RNA at week 72
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 70 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Must have documented failure to respond to past treatment with a Pegylated IFN + RBV. Failure to respond to past treatment is defined as positive HCV RNA at 12 weeks and less than a 2 log drop from baseline; OR positive HCV RNA and greater than 2 log drop from baseline at week 12 and must have received 24 weeks of therapy and still have a positive HCV RNA
- Must have tolerated previous hepatitis C therapy
- Must be off hepatitis C therapy for 3 months prior to study participation
- Must have had a liver biopsy within the past 5 years
Exclusion Criteria:
- Decompensated liver disease
- Laboratory abnormalities as per protocol
- Autoimmune disease
- Unstable or deteriorating cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease
- History of seizures in past 5 years
- Alcohol or drug abuse in past year
- Pregnant or lactating women
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00266318
|United States, New York
|Beth Israel Medical Center
|New York, New York, United States, 10003
|Principal Investigator:
|Henry C. Bodenheimer, M.D.
|Beth Israel Medical Center
Publications of Results:
Other Publications:
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00266318 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|December 16, 2005 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|April 17, 2008
|Last Verified:
|April 2008
Hepatitis C Nonresponder
Genotype 1
Interferon Alfacon-1
Consensus Interferon
Hepatitis C
Liver Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Hepatitis, Viral, Human
Virus Diseases
RNA Virus Infections
Flaviviridae Infections
Interferon alfacon-1
Antineoplastic Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action


text:
In theory, Deutsche Bank is an amazing payer. When you look at average compensation per head in its corporate and investment bank, it appears to pay considerably more than anywhere else.
Hence, in 2011 average pay per head at Deutsche CIB was €333k ($439k). Average pay per head at Goldman (which continues to defy gravity on compensation), was $367k last year. At JPMorgan it was only $342k.
And yet, as we've pointed out before, Deutsche doesn't really pay unusually well. Its compensation figures are flattered simply because it doesn't count all its infrastructure and operations staff as employees of its corporate and investment bank. If they were all added in, average pay per head would probably fall substantially.
Today, we have proof of Deutsche's lack of exceptionalism when it comes to pay.
The bank has issued its 2011 remuneration report. This reveals that it paid each of its 1,250 'risk taking' corporate and investment banking staff (the equivalent of FSA code staff in European terms) an average of €1.3m (£1.1m) in 2011.
Strangely, this was identical to UBS.
The average risk taker at Deutsche is getting a salary of €312k and a bonus of €988k. 84% of the bonus will be deferred and 42% of it will comprise deferred equity.
Notably, 92% of the average 'risk taking' bonus at Deutsche will be subject to clawback. And clawbacks will be imposed if either the bank as a whole makes negative net income before tax, or if a risk taker's respective division does.
Deutsche points out that these clawbacks are more punitive than they used to be: in the event of a divisional or company-wide loss, 100% of all the bonuses due to vest in a particular year will be removed.
However, whilst this punitive clawback may seem good for Deutsche's shareholders, it could be bad for the bank's culture. Fearing the removal of that year's deferred bonuses in the event of a loss, each individual Deutsche risk taker is now incentivised to ensure non-productive employees are dispensed with in the interest of protecting his/her bonus.
This is interesting in the wake of the letter written by former Goldman partner Jacki Zehner last Friday. Zehner noted that in the Goldman of the past it wasn't just top producers who were promoted, it was, "amazing positive culture carriers," who were, "less strong commercially." This helped create Goldman's wondrous culture, she claimed: too much emphasis on commercial alone is bad.
At Deutsche, emphasis on commercial has now been codified at the grassroots. This could prove counterproductive in the long term.


text:
Big news this year in Portonovo!
Do you want Clandestino? Can't wait to come back in the spring to enjoy Moreno's susci, the nature of the Conero and the sunset is reflected on the white stones ??
You don't have to wait too long ..
We look forward to realize your ideas, be it 2 or 50 people. The important thing is that the Clandestine will YOUR FOR A DAY!


text:
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Pictures at an Exhibition
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Imagination Takes Flight
The Plague Doctor is In
While the H1N1 pandemic rages and our lawmakers debate the merits of national healthcare, my exhibit Outbreak: Plagues That Changed History, has a new home for the next three months: the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, DC. The 30 paintings and 7 maps are from my book Outbreak, published by Crown in 2005. As you may recall from previous posts, Outbreak focuses on six diseases: bubonic plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, yellow fever and influenza, with sidebars on toxoplasma, malaria and AIDS. As the title suggests, this is not just a recounting of epidemics, but a social history of public health through the lens of disease.
Armistice Day, San Francisco, 1918
The NMHM started out in 1862 as the Army Medical Museum, a division of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. It is on the campus of the Walter Reed Army hospital. To complement the paintings, the staff selected a few items from the Museum's collection of 24 artifacts. Visitors are greeted by a life-size costumed model of a beak-masked plague doctor. The Museum also installed four exhibit cases with artifacts and specimens related to the diseases in the book—a wax model of the face of a 15-year-old boy with lesions resulting from small pox, a tuberculosis-prevention brick engraved with the words, "Don't spit on sidewalk ," a lung that shows signs of bronchopneumonia resulting from the 1918 influenza pandemic, and the microscope of Walter Reed himself, the man who led the team that determined the etiology of yellow fever.
Memento Mori
The show opened on Halloween (it runs through January 22). For the opening, children made and wore medieval plague masks stuffed with dried rosemary, and created macaroni skeletons engaged in the "Dance of Death."
I'll be speaking at the Museum on December 5.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Imagine Cascadia
Swine Flu High
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Six Days in the Hole
Sunday, February 8, 2009
What I did on Superbowl Sunday
After reading the story, Barnard sat to paint an image from the book. He described his layering technique using acrylic and oil paints while intermittently narrating a sneak peak at his forthcoming book for fall 2010, of which he is both writer and illustrator, The Genius of Islam: How Muslims Made the Modern World, from Knopf Publishing. The new book will describe the magnificent innovations Muslims have made throughout history, from crank-shafts to sandpaper.


text:
By Alissa Wolf
According to industry trends analyses and prognostications, the pet business will continue to boom unabated in the future.
Here are some areas in which business growth is expected to really accelerate.
Natural Pet Products
Natural products in general are gaining wide-spread popularity because people have become more conscious about improving and sustaining the health of the planet, and are increasingly leery of the potential toxicity of synthetic chemicals and other harmful materials.
In addition to a desire to decrease their pets' carbon paw prints, pet parents are increasingly opting to purchase natural products in an effort to maintain and/or improve the health and well-being of their beloved companion animals.
The current top-selling natural pet products are:
- Holistic cat and dog food
- Cat litter
- Natural flea and tick repellents
- Holistic grooming products such as the blueberry facial for dogs
- Products for older pets, specifically dogs
- Toys
Specialty Pet Services Propel Pet Business Growth
The American Pet Products Association (APPA) predicts that spending in this arena will increase from $510 billion for 2013 to $750 billion by 2015. The demand for high end pet grooming services is expected to continue to be particularly brisk.
Other pet services that are increasing in popularity are:
- Dog training
- Upscale and holistic spa services, such as "paw-ticures," reiki and pet massage
- Pet behavioral consulting
- Pet portrait photography
- Pet sitting
Another pet enterprise that is gaining a lot of popularity is the self-serve dog wash.
In addition to offering ease and convenience for pet owners, this concept offers many unique retail opportunities.
To a lesser degree, unique niche services such as yoga for dogs and pet psychic communicators are in-demand industry trends.
In and of themselves, these services are not huge. But they do offer great potential as promotional services to increase a pet business's visibility and ability to attract more store traffic.
Other really hot pet industry trends are:
Mobile pet grooming. This service involves the use of specially equipped vehicles that travel to pet owners' homes; the groomers perform a full range of services right outside the customer's door.
This is a very in-demand service because it's convenient for the customer, it reduces potential stress on the pets and it's a godsend for home-bound older people, whose numbers are increasing due to the dense baby boomer population.
On the downside, initial start-up costs for such an enterprise are hefty. But those in a position to make an investment in this are virtually guaranteed high business growth dividends.
Pet-friendly travel: This is another high business growth concept that's being adopted by an increasing number of those in the vacation and hospitality industries.
As more and more people regard their pets as beloved family members, they are opting to take them along on vacations. Moreover, people are more mobile, and may have to travel long distances to relocate for jobs, retirement or other purposes.
Back in 2003, I made a 700-mile move to take a job in North Carolina. As I was traveling with my two cats, Daisy and Amanda, I was obliged to spend nights in pet-friendly accommodations along the way.
Takeyourpet.com, an information resource and directory for those who travel with companion animals, was a godsend. At that time, it was also one of only a few such resources. But there are now tons of these types of enterprises.
An increasing number of diverse hotels, motels and inns, including New York's posh Carlton Hotel and the Showboat Casino in Atlantic City now welcome pets.
That's a very smart move for those who wish to facilitate business growth, and it's sure to remain a red-hot industry trend for a long time to come.
Pet health insurance: Although available in the country for a good 30 years, sales of pet policies have only begun to accelerate in recent times.
This popular industry trend is expected to proliferate dramatically and subsequently offer enhanced potential for pet business growth due to a number of factors.
For one, as previously mentioned, people increasingly regard their pets as beloved family members; pets (like people) are living longer, requiring more complex and extended medical care; and advances in veterinary technology have resulted in more costly pet medical care.
This industry trend presents such a huge potential for business growth that corporate behemoth Nestle Purina even got on the bandwagon by launching a pet insurance subsidiary in 2008.
Indeed, pet parents spent $13 billion on vet bills in 2010, which the APPA predicts will increase to more than $14 billion in 2011.
Although this is an extremely complex business, getting on this bandwagon is a very smart business move for those who have the inclination.
Pet Industry Trends of the Future
These are just some examples of products, services and concepts that offer great potential for business growth.
Considering that American pet parents are expected to spend more than $53.33 billion on their companion animals in 2012, and is expected to climb to $55.53 billion for 2013, the sky's the limit for those who have a good head for business, and genuine love of critters.
For more pet industry statistical data, please see article APPA Releases U.S. Pet Owners Survey for 2013-2014.
Be sure to add ComfortGroom's Facebook!


text:
Early Childhood Development at Marillac St. Vincent
Gaps in development between low-income children and the general population can be seen in children as young as 18 months, and almost half of US children enter Kindergarten without the skills they need to learn. Our early childhood program provides the high quality instruction needed to close the achievement gap by developing essential skills during this critical period of child development. We have been accredited through the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) for 15 years, and are rated at the Gold level through the ExceleRate Illinois rating system. Our highly educated staff, low teacher-child ratios, and focus on best practices have allowed us to promote over 87% of our children to Kindergarten meeting or exceeding developmental and cognitive benchmarks. Together with wrap-around services that engage parents in their child's learning, provide resources for household stability, interventions for children with special needs, and high-quality youth programs for school-aged children, our child development programs strengthen and care for the whole family to build brighter futures in our communities.
Curriculum/Philosophy Description:
We believe firmly that children learn through play and we use the research-based, award-winning Creative Curriculum to develop important skills and knowledge through play and hands-on experiences. Creative Curriculum is structured around 38 research-based objectives aligned with state standards that have been shown to predict later school success. The objectives include not only traditionally academic subjects such as skills in math, science, social studies, language and literacy, but also social & emotional well-being, and physical development.
To truly teach through play, we draw from children's interests to create activities, investigations or studies that help children explore a topic. Through that topic and high quality interactions we weave in important concepts and push children's ability to think, while keeping them engaged and inspired by the world around them. This approach translates from our youngest at 3 months all the way up until our 5 year olds. Walk into an infant classroom and you might see a teacher cutting up pieces of paper to allow a child who is fascinated by light to see how the sun moves and changes as they wave different objects around. Walk into a toddler room and they're doing authentic art, letting the children express their emotions while experimenting and observing how different objects affect paint, paper, and the mixing of colors and textures. In the first three years almost 90% of neuron connections are created in the brain, so creating these moments to prompt basic skills like observation, investigation, and estimation are essential to early development.
In older groups a study or investigation might take the form of a unit over several weeks diving into a topic. For example, a Preschool classroom might take time to look at the idea of buildings, creating a lesson plan that involves field trips to different kinds of structures, books like the Three Little Pigs, and building materials in different areas of the classroom. Math and science would be integrated through conversations, observations, and predications about size, shape, stability and structure, conversations about how different animals build structures, and daily experiments and questions that push children's understanding. Language and literacy are involved in all studies by asking children to describe their ideas and engaging with them in conversation, probing their thinking, introducing vocabulary, and helping them make connections to past experiences and real-world topics. And through it all children are active participants in their learning, engaging with peers, staying physically active in the world around them and developing social and emotional confidence.
How do we measure our program?
Along with a high quality curriculum, you need continuous assessment to ensure that your program is meeting the benchmarks for success. One of the main ways we do this is through Creative Curriculum's system called Teaching Strategies Gold, which provides a measurement tool for every objective. Each objective has a scale showing what the child should be able to do at each age, making assessing a child's developmental level more structured and accurate. Online tools that collect and analyze the data inputted by teachers each week allow both teachers and administrators to see overall areas that a classroom may be excelling or, or struggling with. This regular data provides teachers and administrators with the ability to continually customize and fine tune teaching to what's needed most.
In addition to our daily entries about each child's individual development, we conduct annual assessments that use a variety of tools including the Environmental Rating Scale tools (ITERS, ECERS, and PAS), CLASS assessments, and self-studies for NAEYC or ExceleRate. In 2015 all of our Preschool classrooms at our St. Vincent de Paul Center scored above the state and national average in every category and we hope to push that higher in the next year to apply for the ExceleRate Award of Excellence.
What does it look like to "teach" a play-based curriculum?
Teaching has never been more challenging than it is today, and the children in our programs are benefiting from significant research in our field about what high quality interactions between a teacher and child look like. First and foremost our teachers must be experts in their children – their developmental level, culture, home life, and likes/dislikes. Teachers must then craft each conversation with that child to reinforce that positive relationship while weaving in real-world examples that are relevant to the child, questions that prompt thinking but are at the child's level, positive reinforcement, redirection of distractions or behaviors, and language modeling with repetition and extension of the child's speech, just to name a few. The best teachers are facilitating learning with a complex web of technical tools, rather than instructing children through repetition and memorization. In other words, we must teach them how to think, not what to think.
To measure these interactions we use the award-winning CLASS tool, which uses a scoring framework to rate the interactions within a classroom in three domains: emotional supports, classroom organization, and instructional supports. Specific examples include measuring the teacher's positive climate, sensitivity, behavior management, productivity, concept development, feedback to children, and language modeling. In 2015 all of our Preschool classrooms at our St. Vincent de Paul Center scored above the state and national average in every category and we hope to push that higher in the next year to apply for the ExceleRate Award of Excellence.


text:
No products in the cart.
Terms and Conditions
1. Orders can be placed through our website, by email, fax, post or telephone. In order to avoid
communication errors we strongly recommend that orders be placed in writing via our website,
email or fax. We guarantee the accuracy of written orders, however, we accept no responsibility for
errors as a result of verbal miscommunication.
2. We pride ourselves on our efficient service. We endeavour to process orders on the same day
they are received. We cannot guarantee dispatch times in situations affected by circumstances
beyond our control. Once the order has been processed, any changes will be treated as a new
3. International orders will need to be confirmed before the order is processed, payment is
charged, and dispatch is made. The order will be held until the customer advises the final
4. Whilst we do not impose minimum order quantities, if items are ordered in larger quantities, we
may be able to offer a discount on some items, please phone one of our stores to discuss your
5. If any item is short delivered and has been charged for, we will be more than happy to cover the
cost of freight in resending the goods as soon as possible. Please note items are not backordered
and need to be re-ordered at the time they become available.
6. Depending on the product ordered we can offer same day Pick Ups except on prescription
items. Please provide a few hours notice before the time of collection so that your order can be
invoiced, picked, packed and ready for pick up at the time of your arrival. Pick Up hours are
between 12.00am & 4.00pm


text:
Main wintering area for greater flamingos, endemic birds in coastal dune scrubs; migrant and wintering water-birds, shorebirds and songbirds, Celestun is famous for its wide variety of birds.
Over 300 bird species can be found in Celestún's Special Biosphere Reserve: cardinals, orioles, motmots, woodpeckers, hummingbirds, flycatchers, kingfishers, cormorants, magnificent frigate birds, herons, egrets, white ibises, wood storks, ospreys, hawks, vultures, sandpipers, roadrunners, owls, pelicans, etc. There are some endemic birds such as the Yucatan wren, the black-throated bobwhite and the Mexican sheartail hummingbird. Read the descriptions of the rare and endemic birds found in the region of Celestún.
Celestun is considered the fourth largest wintering ground for ducks in the Gulf region. In winter you're likely to observe over 13 migrant duck species. But surely the most popular bird and the most sought after is the pink flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber ruber).
The flamingo is one of the most graceful and spectacular birds, but also one that depends on a fragile ecosystem – hyper-saline lagoons - for survival. The Northern Hemisphere's only mainland flamingo population lives along the North and West Coast of the Yucatan Peninsula.
The flamingo feeds and nests in flocks of several thousand birds huddled together in knee-deep water or wading along muddy salt flats. It feeds on small organisms that it filters from the water through a complex mechanism in its large, specially adapted bill.
List of birds sighted in the surroundings of Eco Paraíso, click here
Hotel Eco Paraíso, Celestún, Yucatán México
Phone Office in Mexico City: (+52-55) 55 68 82 46. Phone Hotel reception (+52-988) 916 21 00
E-mail: [email protected]
Contact us | Client testimonials
All the contents and images on this Website are property of Eco Paraiso S.A., de C.V.


text:
NG Vanguard Enterprises consults customers on a range of business & technology areas. Its customers range from Fortune 100 companies down to fledgling startups. NG Vanguard also operates as an incubator for initiatives conceived internally, until they are ready to be spun-out as independent companies, or sold to existing organizations.
Contact us:


text:
Police officers responding to a "domestic incident" in South Yorkshire, UK, met with a man wielding an axe on Wednesday night.
The first officers on scene attempted to arrest the man but were met with significant resistance. A neighbor who witnessed the incident stated that the suspect was "chopping at her with the axe," in describing how the suspect attacked a female police officer.
An additional four officers would be injured in their attempts to arrest the man. He would eventually be taken into custody with the use of tasers and charged with attempted murder.
The female officer was injured the most seriously. According to reports, she suffered injuries to her ankle, hand, and head and is in a local hospital being treated.
Help support the men and women who protect and serve by donating or joining now! Americans in Support of Law Enforcement is a nonprofit organization and your donations help keep us up and running.


text:
yuula.ru does not claim ownership over any of the videos posted on this website. All videos were either submitted or taken from other sources on the internet. If you have any concern,please eMail Us. No Illegal porn, All models on the video least 18 years of age. No Child porn/Child Pornography.
Attentive to the need of parents to protect their children from content not suitable for minors, is that yuula.ru has been tagged with RTA, element that serves for the following sites to identify us as a page for adults.


text: Crossmatch helps organizations solve their identity management challenges through biometrics. Our enrollment and multi-factor authentication solutions are trusted to create, validate and manage identities for a wide range of government, law enforcement, financial institution, retail and commercial applications. We offer an experienced professional services team to assist customers with individual challenges.


text:
The use of UVC technology for sterilization and disinfection has been in mainstream use since the 1950s in medical sanitization and large-scale water sterilization application. These applications use mercury lamps to generate light with a wavelength of 253.7nm. This has a germicidal effect that disrupts the DNA of bacteria, effectively killing them by stopping them reproducing. UVC provides an effective, safe, and chemical-free method of sterilization….
Read the full article on Medical Design Technology


text:
Walk into the gym on any given day and you might see the same six or seven ladies over on the treadmills. Some are sweaty and exhausted, counting down the minutes until the torturous task before them is completed. These ladies are workhorses that crack the whip on themselves day in and day out, fearful that if they don't work vigorously they will never reach their goals. Then there are the ones walking at a staggering 2.5 MPH whilst furiously typing on their phones, sporting perfect makeup with not a even a dribble of perspiration daring to emerge from their brow. They are content to go to the gym to say that they went to the gym.
Which one are you? The truth is we all fall somewhere along the wide spectrum of cardio doers (and don't-ers). And, no, it's not fair to group anyone into just one of two categories, if at all. Those above are just extreme examples of the Cardio Bunny. There are plenty of people for whom cardio is like medicine. Cardio can cause euphoria, help calm the nerves, and even help fight depression. Let's face it, dopamine is one helluva drug. Obviously there are those that engage in cardio exercise for its countless health benefits–but I'm not talking about them.
Am I advocating no cardio? Of course not. What I am advocating is finding a better balance. Whether weight training, doing pilates, or even yoga, it is important to incorporate some sort of resistance training into your workouts. Just like cardio, there are many ways you can benefit from gaining lean muscle mass. Retention of bone mass, increased muscle strength, and increased calorie-burning potential are just a few examples. Add in the fact that resistance training while dieting can help you retain hard-earned muscle mass, and you've got yourself a keeper.
I'm, unfortunately, guilty of being on the "cardio don't-ers" spectrum at the moment. I know, hypocrite much? But as one of my New Year's resolutions, I am aiming to remedy that. I'm starting with 30 minutes of cardio two times a week and will up it to 4 times a week as I progress. I know it's something I should do for general health, but it's not something I enjoy. There's no denying the pros of cardio, so while I encourage myself to drift over to the cardio section a bit more often, I hope that those in the cardio section will drift over to the weights section a little more often.
To those ladies cracking the proverbial whip, and to those hitting the gym to say they've done their good deed for the day, content to stay the same, that's fine. But if you want to try something different, then kill the Cardio Bunny. (Or at the very least, let her out of her cage now and then.)


text:
MCN 2016 - November 1-4, 2016, New Orleans, LA
Workshops and tours: Tuesday, November 1
Conference sessions & events: Wednesday-Friday November 2-4
Although originally founded in 1967, MCN's first annual conference started in 1972. That makes 2016, MCN's 44th Annual Conference!
MCN 2016 will take place in New Orleans' charming French Quarter at the JW Marriott and the Sheraton New Orleans. Unfortunately, due to the overwhelming response to the conference, both hotels are sold out for the entire week of the conference. Tours and evening events will provide opportunities to explore the city and local museums.
The Human-Centered Museum
Every year, MCN explores topics of relevance to museum practitioners working with, or affected by, digital media and technology. This year, MCN will focus on how museums can use technology to emphasize inclusion, accessibility, and agency, from a diverse range of perspectives. We are interested in how technology changes the nature of museum work, including its business models, staffing, and strategic plans.
Broadening our range of approaches and stakeholders has the benefit of making our institutions more robust, adaptable, and future-proof. Join new leaders here to highlight, unpack, and celebrate the institutional benefits of diversity.
Submissions on any topic are welcome, but some specific topics we'd like to address this year include:
- collaboration, community
- diversity (in all its forms), inclusion, accessibility, agency
- change, innovation, experimentation
- new business models, leadership, strategy
Use #MCN2016 to follow the conversation
Reasons to Join Us in New Orleans:
- Get inspired. Join an energetic and generous community eager to share and hear ideas.
Make connections. Join the face-to-face conversations that can't be replicated anywhere else!
Build something new. Many global initiatives started at MCN: the #MuseWomen mentorship program, the International Museum Social Media Managers' group, and more. What next great thing will you create at #MCN2016?
- Expand your thinking. Return to your organization armed with the latest trends, innovations, and best practices in museum technology.
- Experience New Orleans. Explore the unique food, music, and culture of one of the world's most beloved cities. With over 45 museums to choose from, it's easy to immerse yourself in the city's history, culture, and arts.
MCN2016 Conference Registration Fees
| Early Bird
(June 29-July 31)
| Standard
(August 1-Oct. 31)
| Onsite
(November 1-4)
|Small museum**
|Daily Pass
|Guest Pass***
*Student discount is subject to prior approval by MCN upon presentation of a valid and current student ID and may not be combined with Small Museum or Daily Pass.
**MCN defines "Small Museum" as an institution with an annual operating budget of less than US $350,000.00 or with a paid staff equivalent of no more than three (3) full-time positions. Small Museum discount is subject to prior approval by MCN so we can verify your eligibility by having you email us a copy of your organization's recent IRS Form 990 (Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax). Note: this discount may not be combined with Student or Daily Pass.
***Attendees may bring a guest (spouse/partner) for a Guest Pass of $120.00. A Guest Pass ONLY gives access to the Sponsor Hall, Ignite and other evening Receptions. A Guest Pass does NOT give access to the conference general sessions nor to Tours or Workshops, which must be purchased separately.
Note: All speakers will be issued a $50 discount on their conference registration fee.
For general questions about MCN 2016, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call (888) 211-1477 (x802)
For Program Committee questions, email firstname.lastname@example.com
For sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities or inquiries, email email@example.com


text:
Bogaert- Chase David Bogaert age of 19 years of Sombra passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday December 31, 2013. Chase will be lovingly remembered by Danielle Selman of Courtright. Dear son of Shawn Bogaert of Sombra. Loving brother of Holly Micks of Lasalle and Haley Bogaert of Toronto. Much loved grandson of Catherine Bogaert (Art Villeneuve) of Port Lambton, Madeline Millward of Petrolia and Sidney Millward of Ridgetown. Treasured nephew of Jamie Bogaert (Ann), Frank Bogaert (Lori), Mick Bogaert (Lisa) and Jan Bogaert (Cecile) all of Sombra and Michele Millward of Morpeth and Tim Millward of Arizona. Chase was predeceased by his mother Sandra (2013) and by his grandfather Cleo Bogaert (2004). Friends will be received at the Knight Funeral Home 588 St. Clair Parkway, Corunna on Friday January 3, 2014 from 2-4 & 7-9 p.m. where the funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday with Deacon Lyle Lalonge officiating. Cremation will follow. As expressions of sympathy friends who wish may send memorial donations to the St. Clair River Trail or to the charity of one's choice. Messages and condolences may be left online @ www.knightfuneralhome.ca Knight 519-862-2845.
Bogaert, Chase David of Sombra
Share this Obituary:


text:
The science of ultimate human performance has a bad name–literally. "Flow" is the term used by researchers for optimal states of consciousness, those peak moments of total absorption where self vanishes, time flies, and all aspects of performance go through the roof.
Unfortunately, even though research in this area holds considerable promise, unless you're studying toilet bowl dynamics or lubrication theory, "flow" doesn't sound like a sober scientific topic. And who hasn't used the term colloquially, thinking that "going with the flow" was more hippie holdover than a technical description of actual experience.
Yet, it was University of Chicago psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi who selected this term, and he did so for a reason. In the 1970s, Csikszentmihalyi embarked upon what would soon become one of the largest psychological surveys ever, running around the world asking people about the times in their life when they felt their best and performed their…
View original post 1,001 more words


text: The Hotchkis X-Tend rear suspension package moves the axle back on your vehicle allowing for better looks and more wheel tire options. Drive shaft modifications are not necessary and installation is a direct remove and replace of factory components. Our upper and lower trailing arms work together to positively locate and control the rear axle. Launches are quicker, smoother and more consistent by eliminating wheel hop. Cornering and overall stability are dramatically improved through increased roll stiffness and sway bar effectiveness. The fabricated trailing arms are constructed from high quality, TIG welded, .120" wall steel tubing. They feature adjustable upper trailing arms, shock spacers and are fitted with special fluted polyurethane bushings. Grade 8 Hardware is included with suspension packages.


text:
After you check out Leone, view out the other Weekly musicians, top MP3 downloads and our list of local bands.
|Leone's Role in the Band
|About the Band
|Guitar, Vocals
Babilos is a progressive/metal/rock band. Formed in 2005, they won over the hearts of many metal believers and have since become one of hottest bands in the City of Sin. ......more.


text:
There are no items in your basket.
Fire Refuge Signs
Refuge signs identify safe areas around your premises for disabled or injured occupants to go in the event of an emergency. These are areas within the building where it will be easiest for fire service teams to evacuate disabled persons in the event of an emergency. Fire Refuge signs identify these areas by using an image of a wheelchair with a directional arrow pointing towards the refuge area and the wors "Safe Area" or "Fire Exit".
Also included in this range are refuge action signs, stating the procedures to follow should anyone need to seek refuge in the event of an emergency on your premises. All of the fire refuge signs available in this range are fundamental in ensuring the safety of disabled or injured people in your building and so to ensure information is accurate and relevant all fire refuge signs in this range conform to current UKEC regulations.


text:
One of the central aims of my time at McMurdo has been to visit the three renowned historic huts on Ross Island. Scott's Discovery Hut on Hut Point just a few hundred yards from McMurdo Station, Scott's Terra Nova Hut at Cape Evans and Shackleton's Nimrod expedition hut at Cape Royd's.
A key interest is to see how the technology, methodology and discoveries of science in Antarctica have changed over the last 100 years. The huts are reliquaries of a time when science was done very much by hand. Almost the last gasp of the Enlightenment approach to science when direct personal observation was paramount. This required the early explorer/scientists to deploy their fairly simple analog instruments in the field and then attend them like clockwork - to go out at regular intervals irrespective of how horrible the conditions and reset thermometers, nurse electrical connections, and take readings and make observations in notebooks by (frostbitten) hand. Contemporary scientists can access data remotely (1/2 a world away) or go out to their instruments once every few months to access a data logger that's been uploading records constantly to a flash drive. My instruments and the way I plan to handle them are more in keeping with earlier approaches.
I arrived too late in the season to access Cape Royds, and almost too late to access Cape Evans as I was getting there by skidoo on the sea ice, which this late in the season is starting to melt and get slushy. I managed to get to Cape Evans with the team from McMurdo who were pulling up the red and green flags marking the safe route on the ice, just a few days before the ice was closed to all traffic for the summer.
The Terra Nova hut is the largest and perhaps the most poignant of the Ross Island as it is the base from which Scott left on his fateful expedition to the Pole. I won't recount the history of the hut here - I would just be paraphrasing history researched by others. But I will recommend a wonderful photo documentary of the huts featuring the extraordinary images of Jane Ussher - Still Life: Inside the Antarctic Huts of Scott and Shackleton.
I was delighted to have the opportunity to savor the hut in person.
The first things you notice, surprisingly in the cold dry air, is the smell. Not exactly unpleasant but definitely pungent, like old leather mixed with sweat and creosote. The musty, lingering odor of the old explorers perhaps?
The next thing you notice is the darkness compared to the blinding summer sunlight reflected off the perennial snow and ice outside. There is no internal lighting and the fact that your eyes take a good while to adjust seems appropriate. It's as if your own senses have to come up to speed to fully appreciate the textures, memories and emotions of the place.
Each of the Ross Island huts have been visited and photo documented by hundreds (thousands?) of visitors, but an Antarctic blog wouldn't be complete without my own set of images from the huts. I was interested in how much the scientific focus of these missions was apparent in the objects left behind - the impressive sets of chemicals and apparatus, the remaining collections of penguin bodies and eggs, the space dedicated to Ponting's darkroom and the radio bench. There are even some sheets of recording paper from a Campbell-Stokes Heliograph! I didn't know that Scott had one with him - I'll talk about this instrument more when I deploy my own version of it at the Pole.
What struck me the most was the clothing still left in the hut. Hard worn, often repaired and now carefully folded. The clothes give the impression that the explorers have just stepped out for a minute. They embody the care, frugality and stark conditions in which these men operated for months and months. The hut seems stark, cold and vulnerable but it was still "home" for the explorers. And there are countless small homey touches everywhere you look.
Perhaps the strangest part of the preserved hut is the porch where stores were kept and the ponies stabled. One very large component of the distinctive scent of the hut comes from a huge pile of seal blubber carefully laid up in the passageway. With no small critters to nosh on it and the deep freeze conditions outside, the blubber pile is relatively 'fresh'.
The strangest (and to me most disturbing) remnant is the largely decomposed carcass of a husky at the end of the stables.
I've been trying to discover the identity of the poor pooch. The dog was one of the sled dogs bought south for Shackleton's 1914-17 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition - better known in popular imagination as the Endurance expedition. The heroic tale of the survival of all the men on this expedition is well known, with Shackleton credited as a great and faithful leader as he didn't lose a single man.
The equally heroic B-side of the story of the men who were deployed to Cape Evans on the Aurora to stock depots for Shackleton and his men as they crossed from the other side of the continent didn't go so well. Ten men were marooned at Cape Evans when the Aurora, containing most of their supplies and equipment, broke anchor and was unable to return (it was also locked in ice for 9 months but survived and limped back to New Zealand). The Ross Island party managed to complete their mission nevertheless (chalking up the longest sledging journey taken at that time - 198 days), raiding the remaining supplies at Point Hut (near McMurdo) and finally losing three men to drowning and scurvy before managing to return to Cape Evans. The dogs they bought with them did heroic duty under the care of Ernest Joyce to bring the survivors home. Finally, Shackleton was able to steam to the stranded men's rescue. Of the four remaining dogs (of the original 18 on the Aurora), Con was killed by the others in a fight before the rescue. The other three returned to New Zealand and were kept in the Wellington Zoo. Oscar the last survivor lived to a purported age of 25! So presumably the skeleton belongs to poor old Con.
The hut is an incredible artifact. Carefully catalogued, restored and preserved but still in its original location. All of its objects carry the tarnish of hard use and the slow decay of a century of polar exposure, but still feel useable. Humble things cared for and then abandoned by hard working men and yet powerfully evocative of human struggle and aspiration.


text:
Embracing Differences
This project is focusing on celebrating the cultural diversity we live in today through fashion using mixed media collage combined with graffiti. The idea behind my project is to rejoice and recognize the national diversity we live in today, especially as there is so much anger and pain in the world. Graffiti and cultural individuality have both been stereotyped negatively in the past,for me this body of work is about defeating stereotypes and presenting people with an alternate view of culture, tradition and graffiti.
Includes posters.


text:
New York Debt continues to be a four-letter word for the restaurant industry.
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services lowered the corporate credit ratings of Uno Restaurant Holdings Corp. and Sbarro Inc. on Tuesday, saying both companies could soon breach debt covenants.
At Uno, the operator or franchisor of more than 200 Uno Chicago Grill restaurants, the decision to hold off on a twice-yearly interest payment due Friday triggered the ratings cut.


text: Artifact Details Title Timmer, Jan Catalog Number 102700752 Type Still image Date 1992 ca. Publisher Philips Description President of Philips Electronics 1990-1996. Photograph was originally in a frame. Category Portrait photograph Collection Title Don Liddie papers on Signetics Series Title Audiovisual and oversized Credit Gift of Donald F. Liddie Signetics Collection Lot Number X4609.2008


text:
So you have decided to do our own wedding flowers but have never even put flowers in a vase in your whole life. That's okay, Diana, here to the rescue! I have over about 6 months accumulated a library of videos to teach you step by step how to make your dream arrangements. The flowers of your dreams can be made BY YOU with flowers as close to the wholesale price as you can get. The big point here is, all the resources you need to learn about your wedding arrangements are available to you. We also realize your busy as well! That's why the videos are short and to the point! You can become a pro in less than 30 minutes by just watching a few of our short videos! If you have any questions after watching the video you can always get help from me by commenting on the videos or visiting Blooms.
When you purchase wholesale flowers they will come packaged like a florist would receive them. You need to remove thorns, cut the stems, and place the flowers in water before arranging. When receiving flowers other than roses you do not need to remove thorns you just need to remove bottom leaves, cut them, and hydrate them to prepare for arranging. It is a short and simple process that can save you the big bucks!


text:
Review: Warwick Sklar Bass I Signature
When Warwick decided to build a signature model for Leland Sklar, the company knew it would have to live up to the reputation of the man. Sklar's work has influenced multiple generations of bassists to play with taste, impeccable groove, and melody, while Sklar himself is a style icon for his prodigious beard and love of work coveralls—so Warwick knew the bass would have to sound amazing and also look cool. Since Sklar has been a Warwick artist for many years, favoring the semi-hollow Star Bass, he had plenty of time to develop a wish list that turned this already-stellar instrument into a highly personalized axe.
As you would expect of a German-made Warwick Custom Shop axe, it ain't cheap. In fact, with a street price of $8,000, it's beyond the reach of most players. But Warwick's philosophy on signature models is to give the artist what they truly want regardless of cost, with less concern about how many they may sell each year. For most of us, this bass falls into the "after-I-hit-the-Lotto" category, but those with enough scratch to bring one home will have the pleasure of playing a unique instrument that satisfies one of the most influential bassists on the planet.
The most noticeable aspect of the Sklar Bass is the atypical arm cut on the top. Players of semi-hollow basses are all too familiar with the crease you get in your forearm as you reach over the body binding. Built for comfort as well as speed, the Sklar Bass top angles back at the critical point, preventing the loss of blood flow to the hand. It also looks pretty cool. The body has been offset to allow better access to the higher frets, because one thing Lee Sklar has shown us: If you put the music first, there is in fact money to be made up there. Two punchy active MEC single-coil pickups sit in '60s J-Bass position, and are completely devoid of the typical single-coil hum that plagues this configuration. While the Star Bass is passive in standard configuration, the Sklar Bass has an active bass-and-treble circuit that can be bypassed via the push/pull volume pot. Unlike the Star's separate volume and tone controls, the Sklar has master volume, blend, bass, and treble knobs. Then there's the true secret behind Lee's Grammy Award-winning tone: the Producer Switch, a 3-way toggle. It allows you to effortlessly make drastic changes to your tone, at least one of which will create a hit record. The secret? The switch is a dummy, totally useless and unconnected to anything. The Producer Switch (which Lee had installed on his Star) earned its name from the many times producers have asked him for "a little something different," or to "make it darker, but with sheen," or to play "more purple." With some of the best hands in the business, Sklar simply approaches the string differently to change his tone, but the switch is a way to convince the producer he actually did something. Here is instruction from Master Sklar himself: "It's very simple. When you flip the switch, the only factor is timing. That is critical. It must be observed to function properly."
The chambered body has an AAA flame-maple top with flame-maple arm support, with mahogany sides and back. Warwick Product Specialist Jon Giroux explains the unique construction method: "The body itself starts out as two solid blocks of mahogany. We then rout out the inside of the blocks to give it the semi-hollow chambering. The 'chambers' are glued together, and then the neck is glued in. Last, they add the maple top and back. Although it's extremely difficult and time consuming to do this, the result is a real solid-wood instrument. It does not have laminated back, sides, or top. For the arm bevel, we glue a chunk of wood into that section and then rout it out."
The Sklar Bass is outfitted with Warwick's well-engineered hardware: a brass Just-A-Nut III, two-piece brass bridge, angled closed-gear tuners with sexy wooden paddles, and Warwick locking strap buttons. The 20" tiger-stripe ebony fingerboard is the resting place for 21 relatively flat (1mm tall) and narrow (2mm wide) nickel–silver frets, instead of the typical bell-brass frets found on most Warwick builds. Sometimes referred to as "mandolin frets," they make sliding around the fingerboard easy, and offer the potential for more precise intonation. The Warwick-supplied toolkit is always a blast to play with, and the super-deluxe leather gig bag (included) is sturdy and heavy.
The Sklar's design eliminates two complaints I have with semi-hollow basses in general: The armrest allows for right-hand comfort, and by attaching the strap button at the top of the bass-side horn instead of the neck heel, the instrument hangs with less neck-dive. Atypical of its breed, the sustain and clarity rivals any high-end solid-body, but the Sklar retains a woolly character that lets you know the internal chambers are involved in the tone as well. In passive mode, the pickups have that non-GMO tone that sits in a track like a true classic. I found rolling the blend knob toward the neck pickup gave an increasingly wide/open sound, but it never lost focus. In the middle position, you could compare it to a passive J-Bass, but with a little more depth—"darker, but with sheen," perhaps. The bridge pickup gives a tight, articulate tone that still represents a full frequency spectrum. Pushing the Sklar into active mode transforms the bass into a different animal. You can reggae-blast the lows for earth-moving bottom, or balance the two controls for a sparkling, modern fingerstyle tone. While I don't typically think of this instrument genre as useful for funk or slap, the Sklar is actually quite slap-friendly.
At a reasonable weight of just under nine pounds, the Sklar felt comfortable on the end of a strap, and it played like the champion it is. While not in everyone's price range, the Sklar Bass is a top-notch bit of work from Warwick's renowned Custom Shop. With its unique and well-conceived alterations to the Star Bass platform, the Sklar distinguishes itself as its own instrument, suiting Leland Sklar himself for the majority of his workload.
Sklar Bass I Signature
Street $8,000
Pros Superb quality, versatile
Cons Costly
Bottom Line A versatile, attractive update to the semi-hollow world.
Construction Set neck
Body Chambered
Neck Flame-maple
Fingerboard Tiger-stripe ebony
Fingerboard radius 20"
Frets 21 small, flat nickel–silver w/Invisible Fretwork Technology
Nut Just-A-Nut III Brass
Scale length 34"
Neck width at nut 1.5"
Pickups 2 MEC active single-coil
Tuners Warwick machine heads w/wooden knobs
Bridge Warwick two-piece brass
Weight 8.8 lbs
Made in Germany
Contact warwick.de


text:
State-of-the-Art Forwarders from Cat®
New Equipment
Sorry, there aren't currently any listings for this family.
Caterpillar forwarders load and remove heavy loads from the forest quickly with ample hydraulic flow, state-of-the-art controls, and high traveling speeds.
Caterpillar has a range of forwarders with rated load capacities from 10 to 20 tonnes. All forwarders use proven over-sized components including heavy-duty axles and transmissions. The Cabs are designed for maximum visibility to the work area, and cab interiors are spacious and comfortable. Varying lengths of load decks are available to meet individual applications. High strength loaders allow for quick and efficient loading and unloading.


text:
The AURORA Collection breaths the fresh air of Scandinavian nature and the astonishing views of the sky. This light weighing watch is made of European Olive Wood, accompanied by a stainless-steel sky-black dial and starry rose-gold details. The Hickory Band is made of genuine leather and a metal buckle clasp and is naturally dyed with a dark brown hue.
Our packages sent are CO2 neutral and for every watch sold we plant a tree.
The packing is sustainable, yet elegant and perfectly suitable to gift. Knowing that your product will arrive in style is our priority.
Every piece is created from natural wood, handcrafted to a unique piece especially for you.
Share your moment with #mywoodwatch and make a chance to see your picture here!
The AURORA Collection breaths the fresh air of Scandinavian nature and the astonishing views of the sky. An Astonishing Sight.
Check out similar designs or take a look at our most popular ones.
*For most orders, please allow 2-3 business days for delivery. Some areas can take up to 5 business days for delivery. The extra delivery time for an engraved watch is 3 business days.
Text inspiration
Text editing


text:
In the 1920s, women raised their hemlines, bobbed their hair and wore cloche hats. This direction in fashion reflected American prosperity and changing attitudes towards women.
As women began to gain new social freedoms, their outfits became less conservative. While women of older generations continued to wear old-fashioned dresses, young women developed a taste for sportswear. The previous decade saw the tubular dress rise to prominence. In the 1920s, this silhouette was given slits, pleats and gathers. This gave young women a greater range of motion and allowed them to join in dance crazes like the Charleston. One of the most prominent fashion designers of the time was Jean Patou. He specialized in morning dresses, sports suits and luxurious sportswear.
In the 1920s, the standard uniform for young women included the cloche, the drop-waist dress and the bob. Short hair was seen as a radical fashion choice at the beginning of the 1920s, but by the end of the decade, it was an accepted style.
The changes in fashion during the 1920s were instigated by the shifting social climate. The stock market was booming, Prohibition was ignored, new music gave way to new dances and women were finally allowed to vote. Women took advantage of the increasingly liberal social atmosphere and wore clothing to suit the time.


text:
Blogger's Choice Award in the category of Science and Technology. I mentioned this on Facebook a little while ago, but I realize that I haven't actually acknowledged it on the blog. The voting took place in October, but the winners weren't announced until January. Thanks to everyone for voting!
Why not visit the Blogger's Choice page and check out some of the other winners?
Photo Credit: Blogger's Choice Badge, NL Blogroll.