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What Makes Decatur Great
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The Decatur city limits and the Decatur mailing address are two different things.
There are marked differences between the two, including taxes, school districts and more!
- If you want to search for homes for sale in Decatur Ga and only within the actual city limits of Decatur use the links to the left. This would be helpful if you are trying to stay in the City of Decatur School System.
- If you want to see the homes that have a Decatur mailing address, but are in Unincorporated DeKalb County and the DeKalb County Schools, look at the DeKalb County Homes page. The zip code 30033 is north of Decatur, and 30032 is south of Decatur.
Decatur is a old Southern City east of Atlanta yet inside the 285 perimeter highway. It is located about 5 miles east of downtown Atlanta. It is also the county seat for Dekalb County. There is a traditional town Square with the Courthouse in the center. It's a great small southern city at the intersection of Ponce deLeon and Clairmont Rd. There is a Marta Rail stop right on the square in Decatur (on the east west line). The area around the square in Decatur has numerous good restaurants to choose from, coffee houses, nightclubs, specialty shops and galleries. They are all within a short stroll and the mature trees and historic architecture make it a great place for a day trip.
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A wedding is not only special for the new couple, it's also important for the families. Without the family love and support, you can't be happy at the wedding. You finally made decision on your wedding dress, now it's the right time to find the dress for your mother-mother of the bride dresses.
Firstly, you should talk with your mom before shopping. Ask what style she wants to wear or what her dislike is. Although it's your wedding day, but you should respect every wedding guest ideas including the bridesmaid, not mention your mother.
You should choose the dress based on your mother's taste and personality. If she is modern and open mind, you can choose chic mother of the bride dresses for her. But if she is traditional, you should choose a mother of the bride dress with a jacket.
Make sure the styles of mother gowns are matching your wedding theme. This is not means you should choose the mother of the bride dresses in same uniform with bridesmaid. If your wedding theme is vintage feeling, then you can't choose a mother dress with modern design such as sparkles.
It's better to shop the mother of groom dress together. Cause your mother and groom mother are same members to the wedding party. If mother of the bride dress in knee length with jacket, then mother of the groom dress should follow similar.
There's not too much requirements for mother gown colors, you should choose the color they loved. As long as their dresses color not same or similar with your wedding dress color is fine. Make sure the color flatter skin tone.
No matter what decision you will make, let your mother and groom's mother know. They will be happy with it because you made them feel special also at the wedding.


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CAPS Ambassador Program
Recruitment for Fall 2019 Ambassadors has started. Contact Cindy Manzano, DSW, LCSW to receive application details. Deadline to apply: Sept 1, 2019.
UTA CAPS Ambassadors serve to promote emotional well-being and mental health outreach through education and awareness initiatives throughout campus. They also provide feedback on mental health-related issues and policies from a student perspective and attend special events throughout the school year to promote mental health awareness.
Mission, Principles, and Goals:
The mission of the CAPS Ambassador Program is to provide an opportunity for UTA students to develop leadership, community outreach, and human services skills while also serving as change agents in promoting health, wellness, and mental health awareness in the UTA community. Through this program, CAPS aims to train student leaders in providing mental health outreach programming to their peers and to the UTA community as a whole.
CAPS Ambassadors receive training and mentorship in serving as outreach assistants for CAPS, with the aim of decreasing myths about seeking help, empowering and motivating other students to make healthy life changes, and providing information on counseling and CAPS services to raise awareness and decrease mental health stigma on campus.
Ambassadors will also provide input to the director and clinicians on issues concerning student mental health, such as accessibility, on-call hours, range of services, sensitivity to issues of culture, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity, student fees, quality and general satisfaction.
They will have opportunities to make suggestions and engage in discussions with clinicians and staff for enhancements to services and new program initiatives based on student input (which may include surveys or focus groups) regarding their wants and needs.
Commitment and Requirements:
- CAPS Ambassadors are selected based on their community service experience, energy, drive to succeed, commitment to being a change agent in the UTA community, motivation to reach their personal/academic/professional goals, and overall leadership potential.
- Ambassadors must be in good academic, maintaining a GPA of 2.75 or above each semester they serve as ambassadors.
- Students must be in good judicial standing and adhere to UTA standards of conduct.
- Adherence to professional behavior is required as you will have a leadership role on campus and serve as a role model to other UTA students.
- Students are required to attend all scheduled trainings and meetings and are required to participate in outreach events as scheduled/committed to throughout the semester


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Welcome to the Mijn Park project website. You can browse this website for more information on our research and you can see some preliminary results.
The research about the Rembrandtpark is finished and I am busy with data analysis – hopefully I can show the definitive results soon!! You can also follow developments on the news page. I am also busy with the follow-up research – so stay tuned!
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[Review] National Transformation through Transformational Leadership
Building the Nigeria of our dreams can only be possible through transformational leadership. This is the key message of the new groundbreaking book authored by Uzo Enelamah, a public speaker, personal transformation coach and author of repute. The book, which
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Daily Brisk Walking Benefits
You do not have to go to the gym every day to reap the benefits of exercise. Daily brisk walking benefits are immeasurable. According to research, brisk walking helps bring certain rhythm to your life that no other form of exercise can. Therefore, it is not all about parks and sports shoes. All you need is to walk out and brisk walk for some distance. Your level of fitness will determine the number of steps and the rate per 100m hence the more you get used to it the more fit you become.
A lot of research has been conducted on the aspect of brisk walking and its effects on human health. Walking has been known to reduce someone's weight but the speed is what matters the most. Brisk walking is, therefore, more beneficial than just normal walking. Research conducted by the University of Virginia Researchers indicates that a sample of women involved in three separate fast-paced walks were able to lose more than 5 times of their belly weight compared to those that strolled for a whole week for about 5 times. Fast paces have also been associated with the loss of visceral fat that is on the surface of organs like the kidney and liver mostly associated with diabetes and heart attack. These are just but a few benefits of brisk walking. In this article, we will evaluate the benefits of brisk walking and how we can effectively reap those benefits.
Reduces Chances of Suffering from Cardiovascular Problems
Harvard Medical School conducted research that indicates that the risk of getting heart attack can be reduced with up to 30% if a person walks for just 21 minutes every day. If that's so, think about how the same can be reduced if one brisk walks for the same time. Cardiovascular problems tend to be reduced by more than 31% by just taking a few minutes every day to brisk walk. It also reduces the risk of early deaths by more than 32%. If you make brisk walking every day's habit, then the chances of experiencing a cardiovascular problem in life will be very limited.
Battles Obesity
People always say that the simplest form of exercise is walking. However, this is not true because if you want to get any benefits from walking, you are supposed to be making fairly fast rather than just strolling. With increased speed, it will be easier for you to cat the extra weight in your body. Research conducted in 2014 by the University of Utah indicates that brisk walking every day in women can cut their chances of being obese by 5%. Another research conducted by Harvard School of Public Health indicates that the genes can be promoted by a half hence reducing the chances of suffering from obesity.
Reduction in Pressure
It has usually been said that brisk walking every day reduces blood pressure. To be more specific, brisk walking for at least 10 minutes every day is one of the ways that one can reduce blood pressure according to research conducted by Arizona State University.
Curb Diabetes
It has been discovered that brisk walking is very essential in curbing diabetes according to research conducted by the American Diabetes Association. If you are diabetic, you should not begin with fast paces. A slow walk of 3 to 5 minutes that can then be extended to brisk walking of 5 to 10 minutes is the best way. As you brisk walking, keep the chin up and the spine straight. You can alternate the days with short walks and brisk walking to increase the effectiveness of the exercise.
Cancer Prevention
Brisk walking for between one and three hours has also been seen to reduce the risk of deaths associated with uterine and breast cancer by up to 19%. Moreover, walking for three to five hours every day reduces the risk of death from breast and uterine cancer by up to 54%. These findings were published in 2012 after research on women's health was conducted by Harvard University.
Sitting idle and walking sluggishly is not of any benefit to your health. Moreover strolling and assuming that you are reaping the benefits of walking is not beneficial either. You have got to be a little more aggressive. Every day, spare some few minutes to brisk walk and most definitely, your efforts will reduce the chances of you getting breast or uterine cancer. It also curbs diabetes, drops your blood pressure, battles obesity and reduces the chances of suffering from cardiovascular problems like stroke.


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Do you need to complete any requirements before filling the Cracker Barrel Survey?
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- Establish an internet connection on a laptop, desktop or any mobile device
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- Must be of 18 years of age or above
What is the Procedure for filling the Cracker Barrel Survey?
Follow the step by step guidelines given below to fill the Cracker Barrel Survey,:
- Open the following web address in your web browser www.crackerbarrel-survey.com.
- This will take you to the official Cracker Barrel Survey page.
- Select your language of preference between the options of English and Spanish
- Enter the access code number
- You can find this code at the bottom of your Cracker Barrel purchase receipt
- Then click the "forward arrow" to move on to the survey.
- Begin the survey by answering all the questions regarding Cracker Barrel service, food and environment.
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- You can even win a free meal at Cracker Barrel for four or win daily cash prizes.
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Cracker Barrel is a chain of American Incorporation of old country store. They work with a special combination of gift stores with restaurants based on a Southern Country theme. The corporation was established back in 1969 by Dan Evis. They made their first store in Lebanon hence the place is known to be Cracker Barrel's headquarters.
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By Michael David Lawrience B. A., B. Com
What if, when we fully felt our feelings, they would turn into joy?
Sri Bhagavan of the Oneness University in India teaches any feeling or sensation experienced fully in the present moment will eventually transform into joy. This includes the most challenging situations or intense emotions.
Robert Tennyson Stevens' Conscious Language also says that any emotion fully felt will turn into its strength, grief into joy, fear into confidence, and pain into love.
When we stop resisting pain and surrender, Divine Grace can enter our bodies. Contraction ends and a flow of energy opens, allowing change. I have experienced this on occasion.
To allow this transformation involves a mastery of staying in the center of a feeling. It means neither going out of body nor drowning in the feeling.
We can understand the above experience better by seeing a surfer in the curve of a big wave, perfectly balanced on his board. He neither gets tossed up into the air nor does he get submerged under tons of water.
It is impossible to stop fear or pain in our lives. When, however, we learn to experience our emotions fully, we take charge of them.
When we practice staying present with whatever emotion or pain arises in our bodies and master this, we experience something different, inner stillness. We still have thoughts. Now, however, we accept them without resistance.
Sri Bhagavan calls this experience of inner stillness, bliss, calm, peace. I have felt this peace, for brief minutes, sitting with a group of people going about their activities.
According to Bhagavan with stillness no energy gets lost. Thus, we feel this stillness as calm. We have accepted the reality of our feelings. On the other hand, Bhagavan says when we resist our inner thoughts or feelings this fight uses a lot of energy and we experience pain, suffering, and conflict.
Would you like more joy in your life? Practice this meditation daily or at least when intense feelings come up.
The only way out is through, said the poet Robert Frost. The best way to handle our fears or any emotion is by:
1. Become aware of them. When we push them away they become stronger.
2. Accept your thoughts or feelings.
3. Focus on the sensations in your body, however vague.
4. Pick one sensation and stay focused on it.
5. Resist any desire to change what you feel. Allow it to be.
6. Sit and feel the sensations without doing anything to change them.
7. If you start to think about the past or future, come back to feeling the sensations in your body.
8. Stay with the sensation until it transforms on its own without you doing anything. This may take for example, 30 minutes, 3 days, 3 weeks, or 3 months. As you have time keep coming back to the sensation, feeling, or issue until it transforms.
Michael David Lawrience is the author of Emotional Health: The Secret for Freedom from Drama, Trauma, & Pain coming to Amazon as a softcover in mid-June 2011. Michael is a certified Residential Coach III with over 13 years' experience teaching teen's self-awareness, self-esteem, and self-reliance. He has over 35 years' experience as a holistic health practitioner with a B.A in Sacred Healing and has been a certified Bowenwork Practitioner since 2005. His niche is emotional health with extensive personal experience related to codependency recovery, strengthening self-esteem, healing the inner child, stress management, and meditation which he has practiced for over 40 years.
I hope you enjoyed this article with Michael and that you'll check out his softcover book when it is ready at Amazon mid-June. You can 0rder other versions here now at www.emotionalhealthtips.com and read FREE the 1st 50-pages of the book The Secret for Freedom from Drama, Trauma, & Pain.
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- Working With and Healing Your Inner Child & Inner Adolescent – The happier your childhood, the less of a problem you'll now have with your inner child. Conversely, the more pain you went through then, the more problems you're likely to have now. These meditations can be the first step in going back and healing that childhood, and that adolescence. You get two complete visualization meditations. The first one guides you to meet and interact with your inner child. The second one guides you to similarly work with your inner adolescent.
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Cloud Computing Elements
A hybrid computing model enables an organization to leverage both public and private computing services to create a more flexible and cost-effective computing utility:
The public cloud is a set of hardware, networking, storage, service, and interfaces owned and operated by a third party for use by other companies or individuals.
A private cloud is a set of hardware, networking, storage, service, and interfaces owned and operated by an organization for the use of its employees, partners, and customers.
In a hybrid cloud environment, an organization combines services and data from a variety of models to create a unified, automated, and well-managed computing environment.
Whether your cloud is public, private, or hybrid, you'll need a cloud provider that provides elasticity, scalability, provisioning, standardization, and billed usage. Elasticity is important because it means that you are able to use a service for a long or short period of time based on need. You can add more services from a self-service portal rather than wait for IT to do the heavy lifting for you. Increasingly, as companies begin to understand that they will use a combination of different platforms to meet different business needs, the hybrid cloud will become the foundation for computing. The advent of the hybrid cloud will also help redefine the purpose and use of the traditional data center as well.
One of the fundamental differences between cloud computing and traditional computing is the way a cloud is designed to manage resources. Whereas the data center is designed to manage applications, the cloud is intended to manage a pool of resources. A pool of resources is precisely what it sounds like — a set of shared, configured services that are independent of physical location.
For example, suppose you are a cloud provider. You do not want customers to have to select one server or one storage system; rather, the customer is abstracted from that idea. Instead, the customer simply says I need some more storage, and those storage resources are pooled together from various physical systems to create a set of resources. Customers never know which storage system they are accessing. To make resource pooling work, it's important that each element that is pooled be written with service-oriented constructs in mind. This means that each resource is written as an independent service without dependencies and with well-defined interfaces.


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It happened again. That moment when I was overwhelmed with some unexpected news, and my first thought was , I gotta call Mom — followed by that sinking feeling, that you are no longer here.
I think I'm too old to be considered an orphan, but there's something completely unnerving about not having parents here on earth anymore. And each day there's just so much left to share.
However, there are a few things I want you to know.
I have finally gotten it.
As the years creep up on me, pushing me into my ownunchartered waters of aging, I find myself thinking more and more about you and how so many things make perfect sense now– that I was too young and too busy to understand at the time.
For starters, I am recalling our one-sided conversations about various ailments– aches and pains—that you were dealing with. And guess what? I blew it off.
Sure I listened, nodded with some sense of sympathy, but then I fully expected you to get up, cook, clean, and promptly return to Mom-mode.
After all, you were the Mom—always on the move, always serving, never tired, putting your kids first before your own needs. Mom's never stop being Mom's, do they? Surely they don't get sick or have aches and pains. I now get it.
I have aches and pains and I am wishing I could call you and get some remedy, insight, or even just a little bit of sympathy. I now see that same blank stare in my own grown up children's eyes.
You know what else Mom? I finally have free time! Now that the kids are gone, I can just hang out, go shopping, eat out, or just sit around and gab with you. But you're not here anymore.
And those conversations that annoyed me when you would express worry over my siblings and I would sigh with a blank stare. At the time , and in the midst of raising my own little people, I thought get over it, their adults. Was I really that naïve to think that heartstrings can be loosened or worse yet cut off just because a child is now an adult?
My prayers have never been more fervent than for my adult kids.
I get it now Mom.
I also get your excitement when one of your children dropped by–even if was just for a little while. Isee now what busy schedules, kids, and jobs look like in my own children. I have reluctantly resolved that all of this is the inevitable cycle of life
I get it now.
I understand there will always be a subtle need to be a parent. Helping our children (no matter how grown) brings a gratification like none other. You were always willing to drop everything if I needed something –even though I rarely asked what it was that you might need.
So until we meet again (and thankfully because of our mutual love for Christ—we will!), please know that I miss you and long to have one more conversation to tell you 'I get it.'
I finally get it Mom.
"Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep In death, so that you do not grieve like others who have no hope." I Thessalonians 4:13


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Movie Review: 'Miracle at St. Anna'
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Miracle at St. Anna: Drama. Starring Derek Luke, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller, Michael Ealy, Valentina Cervi and Matteo Sciabordi. Directed by Spike Lee. (Rated R. 160 minutes. At Bay Area theaters. For complete listings and movie times, and to buy tickets for select theaters, go to sfgate.com/movies.)
The impulse here is to say something about the nobility of this movie's intent or to note that Spike Lee is one of our best filmmakers. But the first and most honest thing to say about "Miracle at St. Anna" is that it's an awful mess.
This takes awhile to realize, thanks to the family resemblance that "Miracle" bears to Lee's other, better work. Lee has a gift for making even minor characters specific and for shading scenes in ways that lift out in special ways. In "Miracle at St. Anna," Lee's hand is evident in all the details, but he loses control of the overall structure. The movie caves in by the middle under the weight of multiple intents and conflicting impulses.
"Miracle at St. Anna" is based on James McBride's novel of the same name. McBride also wrote the screenplay, which is probably the biggest mistake Lee made. Perhaps it all hung together in the novel, but the movie - about four GIs from a black soldiers' unit in World War II - is told in episodic bursts, without much narrative drive to sustain it from sequence to sequence. Lee tries to compensate by making the scenes and the characters vivid, but all his flair and panache can't distract the audience from realizing that nothing much is happening - for 160 minutes.
After a brief opening set in 1983, the movie flashes back to 1944, with the four soldiers stuck behind enemy lines in a small Tuscan village. Though the war is never far away, the men have time (lots of it) to grow and have personal insights over the course of a few days. On the more fanciful side, a mountainous private named Train (Omar Benson Miller) develops a fatherly bond with a beautiful little Italian boy (Matteo Sciabordi), who seems to have mystical powers. Meanwhile, a staff sergeant (Derek Luke) and a sergeant (Michael Ealy) have their relationship damaged when they become attracted to the same beautiful woman (Valentina Cervi).
Lee's problem is not merely that there are two movies here, but that these two strains are in conflict and undermine each other. On the one hand, the film pulls in the direction of fable as seen through the eyes of the little boy, promising a mix of horror, magic and miracles, similar to "Pan's Labyrinth." On the other, Lee does his best to make a realistic epic about the experience of black soldiers, a kind of African American "Saving Private Ryan."
Either approach might have been worthy. The scenes between the boy and the private (whom the boy calls, in Italian, his "Chocolate Giant") have a beauty and mystery to them. Likewise, when the staff sergeant observes that he feels more at home and accepted in Italy than in his own country, Lee begins to make a case for a realistic movie about the black GIs' experience.
But taken together, the mix is disastrous. The straight drama keeps the fable element earthbound, and the fable element keeps the drama crawling when it should be running. Even worse, the film retains the extreme violence of a fable, without the distance or accompanying wisdom a fable might use to soften the violence or put it into context. The unexpected result is that "Miracle at St. Anna" lands in a place Lee could never have wanted - in utter nihilism, thinly covered by false sentiment.
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Piramal Healthcare acquires i-pill brand from Cipla
Piramal Healthcare and Cipla signed a definitive agreement for purchase of all intellectual property rights in India related to i-pill brand of Cipla. The deal was sealed for an aggregate consideration of Rs 95 crore. i-pill brand features in the top-300 pharmaceutical products and had sales of Rs 30.92 crore as per ORG IMS for the last twelve months.


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NCAA March Madness continues into April, at least in Atlanta, Georgia. The city is hosting the Men's Final Four for the first time in the tournament's 75-year history with Louisville and Michigan vying for the national title inside the Georgia Dome.
But the collegiate athletes aren't the only ones on the
road. Fanfare escalated the first week of April, as students, fans and alumni
poured into Atlanta's
airport alongside notable celebrities including TBS'
primetime comedian, Conan O'Brien. He left New York and hit the road to
host a series of shows from Atlanta's famed entertainment venue, the Tabernacle. Since then Georgia residents have begun celebrity
spotting. Tweets and Facebook posts have placed notables throughout
Atlanta's dining scene including Hugh
Acheson's Midtown restaurant,
Empire State South in midtown
and the west side's the Optimist.
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The festivities are not reserved for media darlings; this weekend has been all about the fans. Outside the Georgia Dome, the reverberating sounds of thousands of dribbling basketballs was reminiscent of heavy raindrops hitting a tin roof. The source—thousands of kids and families. Outfitted with face paint and wearing Powerade-logoed Final Four t-shirts, kids and their families dribbled basketballs through the heart of "the Madness" for a one-mile stretch of Andrew Young International Boulevard.
The event wouldn't be complete without an NCAA and NBA player, and that was none other than the great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Captivating a crowd of tiny onlookers and their parents, three-time NCAA Champion and six-time NBA Champion Kareem Abdul-Jabbar encouraged the participants to "power through" adversity, make physical activity a priority and to exercise their minds as much as their bodies. Abdul-Jabbar also led the Final Four Dribble fueled by Powerade as the official grand marshal. Afterward, all participants were then able to gain free access to Bracket Town refreshed by Coke Zero.
While many fans' brackets were busted a long time ago,
Bracket Town is going strong. Located just down the street from
Tourney Time Block Party
Of course it wouldn't be an event without a soundtrack. Just east of the Georgia Dome, DJs sounded off with music, karaoke, acoustic jam sessions and a conglomeration of food trucks set up to feed hungry fans. Centennial Olympic Park also made the transformation to an outdoor amphitheater Friday, Saturday and Sunday leading up to the championship game. On Saturday, the Coke Zero Countdown Concert entertained thousands with live musical sensations scheduled throughout the day.
The final game tips off tonight between Louisville and Michigan with more celebratory Madness expected through the wee hours.


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In fact, the corporate world has tried to patent many systems that are merely raised beds.
So expand your design considerations today by thinking of green roofs and living walls, not as a mysterious, high-tech approach to growing plants. Think of your next design project where you need plants (be they flowers, food, natives or landscape specimens) as a raised bed.
|Green Roof projects are like Raised Beds!
Questions to ask yourself include;
- What will your soil media be comprised of?
- Should be lightweight, well-drained not made from exotic synthetics heated in ovens to thousands of degrees for expansion or molding. I like simple things, like sharp sand.
- What are your raised bed (or living roof/wall) side walls made of?
- Stay away from materials that are flammable, UV degradable or contain toxins.
- What plants do you want to use?
- What is the root architecture of your chosen plants similar to?
- Do you have deep roots? Shallow root requirement?
- Root architecture will direct your soil media depth design.
- Try and stick with plants that provide food or are pollinator attractors.
- I like native wildflowers but many designers stick with the tried and true succulents or sedum.
- Food plants are also wonderful for rooftops and walls if protected from winds.
- Where will the irrigation water come from?
- I hate adding water to a roof. They all eventually leak....but if water is already there, like AC condensate - use it!
- Views
- Plantings are mostly always pretty - make sure they can be seen.
- Access
- Can you get to the raised bed/rooftop or wall garden?
- Dont put a raised bed on top of a septic tank and neither install a rooftop garden on a weak rafter system.
- Common sense
- and more...
The point here is - think of a rooftop design as a great raised bed in the sky. Don't wait for the right 'system' to come along. Go for it, design and install!


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Our comprehensive services are designed to support utilities, regulators, municipalities, schools and private enterprises and their residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial facilities.
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Children's Events
The Maine Fishermen's Forum is dedicated to the seafood industry – and their families! We offer a number of opportunities for children and teens to swim, play games, watch movies, and participate in group events like arts and crafts and Scavenger Hunts.
There are also two evening dinners planned for kids – offering a combination of good food and great fun! Pre-registration for these dinners at the Forum Registration Desk as soon as possible is strongly recommended because there is limited seating which sells out quickly.
Friday and Saturday we offer a Kids Fun Lounge and Game Room, swimming at the pool and evening movies. The kids may also participate in supervised crafts such as Super Foam Kooky Creatures, Tie Dye T-shirts, Lobster Buoy Painting, Face Painting, Sand Castle Lighthouse Craft and Slime Making.
Also, when available, the DMR Maine State Aquarium in Boothbay Harbor provides a supervised educational touch tank for kids.


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Lisa Gill is the founder of Reimaginaire and works with organisations to facilitate new, more collaborative ways of working through workshops, consultancy and coaching.
Her speciality and passion is self-managing teams and she is also a consultant with Swedish training company Tuff Leadership Training. Lisa is a writer, regularly contributing to publications like Glassdoor UK and Enlivening Edge, on the subjects of the future of work and reinventing management.
This year she will publish a book, co-authored with self-management expert Karin Tenelius, on coaching leadership and transforming companies through extreme involvement.
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The amnesty market turned out a lot better for the Lakers than the free-agent market.
They successfully submitted a bid Thursday for power forward Carlos Boozer, waived by Chicago two days earlier via the amnesty provision.
The Lakers' put in their offer of $3.25 million directly to the NBA office, outbidding an unspecified number of teams.
Boozer, 32, averaged 13.7 points and 8.3 rebounds last season for Chicago. He lost playing time to up-and-coming power forward Taj Gibson late in the season and his days were numbered after the Bulls signed Pau Gasol to a free-agent contract this week.
He seemed confident, though, despite averaging only 9.6 points and 7.8 rebounds as the Bulls lost to Washington in the first round of the playoffs.
"I know I can play at a high level," the 6-foot-9 Boozer told the Chicago Tribune last month. "My body feels great. I still have 30-35 minutes a night in me and can average a double-double or close to it."
The money the Lakers bid for Boozer becomes his salary next season and is given to the Bulls to help offset the $16.8 million they owe him.
As per terms of the amnesty process, the Lakers cannot trade Boozer next season. He becomes a free agent next July.
The Lakers now have five big men on their roster: Boozer, Jordan Hill, Robert Sacre, rookie Julius Randle and Ed Davis, who accepted a two-year, $2-million contract Wednesday.
They also hope to add Ryan Kelly to complete their big-man rotation.
The bid for Boozer is a relative bargain compared to some past players via amnesty, which allows teams a one-time chance to cut a player without having to pay luxury taxes on his salary.
Luis Scola was claimed by Phoenix for $13.5 million in 2012, Travis Outlaw was claimed by Sacramento for $12 million in 2011 and Brendan Haywood was claimed by Charlotte for $6.2 million in 2012.
The Lakers used the amnesty provision on Metta World Peace last year. Nobody claimed him and he became a free agent, eventually signing with New York.
Under league rules, bids may be submitted for an amnestied player only by teams under the salary cap. The Lakers were one of nine that could have bid, including Utah, where Boozer spent six years of his career. He has averaged 16.6 points and 9.8 rebounds over 11 NBA seasons.
The successful claim marked a rare victory for the Lakers this off-season.
They failed in their attempt to woo free agent Carmelo Anthony, who stayed with New York amid better contract terms — five years and $129.1 million instead of four years and $95.9 million with the Lakers, the most they could have offered.
Then they lost Gasol, who agreed to a three-year, $22-million deal with Chicago after declining more money from the Lakers, who offered three years and $29 million.
Boozer could easily become a Lakers starter and could also play center if necessary, though he would be undersized for the position.
The Lakers now have effectively 11 players on their roster: Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Nick Young, Jeremy Lin, the five post players mentioned above and two players without guaranteed contracts — Kendall Marshall and second-round draft pick Jordan Clarkson.
The main spending tool they still own is the "room" exception, which allows teams that fall below the cap to offer a player $2.7 million next season. Other than that, the Lakers can offer only minimum-level contracts such as the one Davis accepted Wednesday.


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6 Bizzare Chinese Dishes
- Beggar's Chicken -
The source story of the beggar's chicken says a beggar once landed at a town of Changshu Prefecture, Hangzhou. He had a chicken and needed to cook it. In any case, he had nothing however a blade and a flame. He comprehended his trouble by butchering and gutting the chicken, wrapping the chicken with yellow mud, and broiling the potato-like chicken. When he stripped off the dry mud, the chicken's plumes were likewise taken off. It is a run of the mill dish eaten in East China's Zhejiang Province like Hangzhou, with flavorful fragrance and delicate chicken meat. The chicken is then served on a lotus leaf wherein it tastes a whole lot fresher and less oily. The dish is as yet made the manner in which it was established however in a cleaner way.
- Bamboo Rice -
Bamboo rice is cooked continuously with rice and pork, which is prepared in an area of fresh green bamboo until the bamboo is singed. This sustenance is tasty with the new aroma of bamboo.
- Preserved Egg -
Glossy dim or dark with a snowflake design, this one of a kind egg item was made by Chinese people in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Other than its distinctive taste, it is said that the preserved egg is helpful for on restoring raspiness and dissipating the impacts of liquor. It must be noted that it is not good to eat too many preserved eggs, particularly youngsters, since they may contain a little lead. There are lead-free eggs that are accessible in the market, in case you're that huge a fan!
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Stinky tofu, or solid smelling preserved tofu, is extremely rank, with a "monstrous" appearance. In any case, when you have attempted it, you ought to make the most of its taste. This dish in Changsha is the most renowned sort, with firm skin and a new and fiery flavor.
- Seared Bee Pupae -
Honey bee pupae are wealthy in nourishment (with high protein and low fat), and are utilized as an element for cooking dishes in Zhangjiajie, Fenghuang Ancient Town, Southeast Guizhou, and Yunnan Provinces. The most popular approach to eat honey bee pupae is to sear them brilliantly. There are numerous different methods for eating honey bee pupae, for example, steamed honey bee pupa, pan-seared honey bee pupa, fresh honey bee pupa cake, and cold broiled honey bee pupa in a sauce.
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Contrasted and seared honey bee pupae, the accompanying appear to be a lot crazier. Creepy crawly, dark scarab, centipede, scorpion and grasshopper are fricasseed and eaten in China, however not standard. You may run over them in locales possessed by ethnic gatherings, and nibble roads of some well-known traveler urban communities, (for example, Donghuamen Night Snack Market in Beijing)....


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Date : 25 August 2009
Venue : Putra LRT
Anyway I rushed all the way back to office and showed one of my colleague. Apparently, she experienced the exact same thing just a few weeks back. I washed then applied sanitizer and then medicated oil to both my thighs and the itch slowly subsided but the tiny bumps had swelled and joined together to form one huge bump on my right thigh. The left thigh was not bitten so badly so I had one small bump there. They itch less as the days goes by and the bumps also became smaller. I counted and there were 13 bites on my right thigh alone.
Till today I don't know what happenned but after relating the incidents to friends, I'm surprised to find out that many girls in skirts had experienced the exact same thing at one time or another. This is how 'clean' our LRT is. An article came out in The Sun newspaper right after my unfortunate encounter and the girl related the same experience as well. Read it here or see the pictures here from her blog.
My first thought is "Is this a hoax or a scam?" or a person so desperate to have someone to call his own for Valentine's Day. As a value my privacy, my full profile is only limited to friends so I am not sure where this guy claimed to have seen my pictures from other than the small thumbnail of my profile picture. Also, if he's seen my pictures, he would have realized that I am a happily married woman. Curious as I am, I dared not reply as replying would open up my full profile to his view.
Supposing for a second this is a genuine proposal, I still cannot fathom the sensibility of someone proposing to a complete and utter stranger through the internet. Sorry but I don't subscribe to the whole love at first sight idea. Moreover, falling for a picture measuring no more than 2cm x 2cm? Sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction.
I'm glad my beloved grandmother is now staying with me so that I can take care of her.
I'm glad for my loving family and good friends.
I'm glad I'm finally recovering from the slipped disc I somehow got myself.
I'm glad I've been to the one place I've dreamt of going since I was child.
I'm glad that I got that long-awaited promotion.
I'm glad that I now have my own cozy home to go back to everyday.
And the list goes on…
So, why is it that I sometimes feel so jaded, even out-of-place? Ever since I went to Egypt and back, I have lost most interest in catching up on daily news. I cannot bear to watch the news or turn the pages to read about yet another death or suffering or petty issues. I used to find the current political changes in Malaysia riveting but now it's just getting really old. Sickening even. I'd rather spend my time reading movie reviews. (The Star has some really funny reviewers by the way and they crack me up every time. Kudos to them.)
Anyhow, it is not just limited to the news. I find that I sometimes drift away when in conversation with certain people. There so many things I don't give two hoots about or are just plain old boring to me. I find so many topics to be irrelevant somehow so much so it is getting really sickening if I had to endure yet another conversation about it. I just tune myself out to avoid from rolling my eyes or sniggering. Mostly I just stifle the yawns.
I was updating my address book the other day and I realized that I had accumulated a lot of contacts over the years. About 5% of whom I do not even remember anymore so I just delete them off. I think it's the same with life. Over time, some things will stop being a great deal or like a pearl, they lost their luster. I find myself getting bored with things that used to be fun and I do not know why. Have I changed or has they stopped being fun? I have no idea.
As we were having this conversation, a man came and started laying his hands to pull out a chair opposite of the one Grandma was pulling out. I looked straight at him and he looked away. Thinking that he would understand, as civilized people normally do, that we were at the table first and were about to sit down, I turn to leave my Grandma to place the order. Imagine my surprise then when I saw him waving his entire family over, about 10 of them and one by one they started sitting down their fat asses! At least, some people have the courtesy to ask if they were not sure.
At this point, my hubby just got into the food court after parking our car and he asked me why Grandma and I were standing around without a seat when they are so many empty tables around. I replied in a loud voice while glaring at the idiot, 'Oh, actually we were supposed to sit here but SOMEONE took our seat!'. Either the imbecile didn't hear me or he pretended not to hear me but boy, was I pissed.
I stomped my family off to the next table across the aisle and took the photo below as a reminder that there are still many Malaysians out there who deserves to have my foot up their ass!
I was watching the event from one floor up and at first, I was surprised when the MC refused to accept answers to his questions from this 'Uncle'. Then only I realized that this uncle had already answered a few questions before and was carrying a plastic bag of free packet drinks he got earlier. The greedy fella wanted more!
I hang around for a bit and was amused when uncle raised his hands to answer EVERY single question. Goodness, give other people some chance. The MC was annoyed and he kept uncle waiting at the sidelines with repeated retorts such as the below:
"Mei tou leh ar, uncle" (Not your turn yet, uncle)
"Lei mm hor yee seng yat kei hai tou geh" (You can't just stand here all the time)
I mean, this uncle had no shame. I was cringing in embarrassment on his behalf even though I was watching from one floor away. I would have been red like a tomato in the face if I was him. He would raise his hands to answer a question and sheepishly cup his face at the side when the MC rejected him but in another 30 seconds or so his hand would be up in the air again waving in the MC's face.
This went on for a good 10 minutes or so. I didn't know how long he actually tried his luck in securing more free packet drinks as my movie was about to start and I reluctantly went away to the cinema to watch Ip Man. A terrific movie by the way and when this comes from one who hardly watches any Cantonese movie, it means the movie is real good.
Anyhow, back to the uncle, embarrassing and cringe-worthy as he was, I actually salute him for his persistence!


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Learning is an integral part of the culture at Arena Animation Ajmer. Here we believe that learning is best achieved by observation, experimentation and reflection. We follow the 70:20:10 rule of learning: 70% of learning happens on the job, 20% of learning happens through observation and interactions with our colleagues, 10% of learning happens in classrooms with instruction-led interventions. Hence all our learning initiatives incorporate all these elements of learning.
At Arena Animation Ajmer we thrive to advocate a performance oriented culture in the organization. An individual learns tremendously from a highly competent set of professional peers and grows in the organization. An unbiased Performance Focused Management System ensures that one is appropriately recognized and rewarded for his/her consistent performance, result orientation and contribution.
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We constantly look for the right questions. What a problem is and what it is not. Details! Applying group intelligence to a variety of problems. Constantly seeking to understand and identify the key issues. At Arena Animation Ajmer, we encourage you to grow by learning on the job. And thats how an individual's contribution flows.What do you think?
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Visitors are most welcome at Javea Golf Club.
Interested in becoming a Member? Why not call in person at
our offices or telephone 96 579 2584. You will need to
purchase a share first of all which can be sold when membership
ceases. The current value of shares is between €2.000 and
€3.000. In addition you will have to pay a joining fee which
is at present €1.000. Thereafter, the annual
subscription to play golf is currently €908p.a.
We would ask all visitors arriving by car to park in the
designated car park which is situated at the far end of the car
Entrance to the car park is by means of an automatic
We would also ask all visitors to adhere to our strict Dress
Code details of which are below:
Dress Code - Club de Golf de
On the Golf Course
No T-shirts, football shirts nor shirts with advertising
No sleeveless nor collarless shirts
No halter tops nor bare midriffs
No beach wear, tennis wear nor track suits
No street shoes, canvas, trainers nor sandals
In the Clubhouse
No bare tops or singlets
No swimming / beachwear
Driving Range and Tennis Court
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Clever Charlotte Chickadee Skirt & Raven Hoodie
Emma is one of my favorite little sewing muses. This little just-turned seven year old is as charming and beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside. It is always fun to sew for Emma!
|Emma in some of the many outfits I have made for her.
This little shirt was purchased on sale and cost less than $6. I embellished it with a pretty floral that reminds me of Monet's watercolors (only brighter). The inspiration for the heart design is from this Pin on one of my boards on my Pinterest account. I chose this particular print to go with a Clever Charlotte 'Raven' Hoodie that I made Emma last October as I wanted her to have more opportunities to wear the hoodie. It was made using a gray feather-wale corduroy and an orange swirl print for the lining. (I will post that outfit closer to October 2015 as it is an autumn outfit.)
I really loved the short sleeved style of the hoodie and the fact that it is completely lined. My only issue with the pattern is the way the sleeve edges are sewn...and I am working on another way to sew them. Otherwise, the Raven Hoodie was a dream to sew. When I made it last October, I paired it with a Clever Charlotte 'Chickadee' skirt. Another great pattern with a completely finished (lined) interior and a perfect fit with a clever adjustable back waist. Emma loved them so I made another Chickadee skirt in the orange/red/yellow floral lined in the same orange swirl print as the hoodie. Emma is tall but very slender. I made the skirt and hoodie in a size 5 with a length of a 6.
I have only the one picture of the new skirt as I deleted the folder the photos were in! (Goodness! I can't believe that I did that!) You can see that I used the same vintage button on the skirt (not functional) as I put on the lace top I bought for Emma to wear with the gray outfit last October.
|The very clever top-stitching on the Chickadee skirt completely encloses the last opening left when sewing the lining to the fashion fabric.
|Clever Charlotte Rave Hoodie
|I hope it is hard to see where I snipped!
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Have you heard the latest tune by Ol' Dirty Bastard lately? What about the "Illegal Business" track from Noreaga a.k.a. Melvin
Flynt Da Hustla? Notice anything different? That's right, the voice you hear in the background is that of Kelis (pronounced Kay-
Lease). Upon first sight, I thought she was a model. After speaking with her I realized she was a cross between around-the-way &
Uptown girl. In fact she was all that and then some. The two things that came to mind initially were does she sing or Rap? And
does she look as PRETTY IN PINK?
KRON: What's crackin'? My Man Royce over there tells me I should holla at you `cause you
got an album droppin' in a minute. Whaddup?
KELIS: I'm chillin'. And I do.
KRON: Well I ain't seen no ads or snipes or nothin'! What the deal? You're one helluva looker!!
KELIS: (She laughs) I don't need to be made anymore nervous! You know what? They were
tryin' to get shit right, really. My single should hopefully, Lord willing, be out by the time you go to press. But I'm on that "I
Got Cha Money" single with Ol' D.B.
KRON: Yea, I noticed they're burnin' that out here right now, Huh?
KELIS: Yea, we just did the video too. You'll have to check for that. It's different!
KRON: Are you from out here?
KELIS: Yes I am. Born and raised Harlem girl.
KRON: So then, how did you come to this point where you're recording music, and you got
these great producers doing tracks for you?
KELIS: Neptunes did my album. We met about a year and half ago. We just vibed and really
clicked. I was workin' with some other people before that, but nothing really seemed right. I got up with them and ever since then
shit has been really Dope. We've just been workin'-workin', poppin' music out.
KRON: Do you sing? Do you Rap?
KELIS: I'm a Singer. It's kinda like Pop/R&B. Everyone has a different name for it. But
it's like Pop/R&B, a little Alternative, a lil' Funk.
KRON: Today your hair is pink. What color was it last month?
KELIS: (She laughs) It's been pink for a good six months. But before that it was blonde.
KRON: Is this a gimmick?
KELIS: No.
KRON: Can you really sing?
KELIS: Hell Yea!! (She starts to laugh as if she knows the next question)
KRON: Or are you just another fine Sistah that's gonna be sellin' that sex appeal? I mean,
it doesn't hurt, but I have to ask.
KELIS: Well I hope I sell that fuckin' sex appeal, Yea!! But that's not what it's about.
KRON: I feel you. So now because of the pink hair I have to ask you if you're down with
Joi? Freaky Joi?
KELIS: Freaky Joi?
KRON: You know, Big Gipp from Goodie M.O.B.'s lady? The Soul/Funk Mistress of the `90's?
KELIS: OK, lemme guess. Is she pink too?
KRON: No, but she's just like, "out there". And you give me that "out there" vibe with the
pink hair.
KELIS: No. I'm just chillin'. I'm really chillin'. I do what I like. I really do. And the
whole pink shit has caught on, but I've had the pink hair for a long time. All of a sudden now it's this "cool thing" to do. But I've
been rockin' pink hair for a bit. (She laughs again)
KRON: So tell me now; I just got this CD called Ultimate Divas. It's got some of the top
female Singers of this Century. Who were some of your inspirations growing up as a youngin'?
KELIS: Growin' up as a youngin', I was a Jazz girl all the way. I grew up listening to Jazz
because that's what my Daddy does. He's a Jazz musician. So I know of Betty Carter and Nancy Wilson. The oldies like Ella and Billie.
KRON: Are you gonna be bringing some of that flavor back or do you have the new & improved
for 2000 type of steeze?
KELIS: Well my whole shit is based on that because that's what I know. So it's got that
flair, it's got that feel `cause that's where my Soul is at. But it's some new shit for you to Bop to and something you can feel.
KRON: Whoa, that was heavy! I wasn't expecting that one. "New shit for us to Bop to!" So
what's the Single called coming out?
KELIS: "Caught Out There"
KRON: And what's the flavor?
KELIS: A lotta people call it Alternative. I don't think it's really Alternative. I just
think it's some new shit. It's got some R&B, but
everything has got a Hip Hop flavor to it because this is where I'm from. I'm from New York; I'm from Harlem. The Neptunes are Hip
Hop producers. That's what they do. So I hate to use Billie Holiday for lack of a better term, because everybody uses her as a term
of reference for Jazz. But just so everyone knows who I'm talking about; it's like Billie Holiday meets some off-the-wall Martian shit.
It's got some digital kinda futuristic sounds to it, but I can't help what I know as far as singing.
KRON: Well, why did you let the Neptunes produce the whole thing?
KELIS: Because the whole time I was trying to get the project off the ground, you meet a
lot of people that spark your interest. But you very rarely meet someone who every time you're thinking something, they're thinking
the same thing. Or vice-versa. We really understood each other off the bat. To make music like that is a beatiful thing that's hard to
find. Making music is like making a baby; you can't just make a baby with anybody. And if you do, sometimes it's a mistake.


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Oman Oil Co eyes enhanced upstream presence
FOCUSED STRATEGY: We would like to pay more attention to local investment on the upstream front, says CEO –
Conrad Prabhu –
Oman Oil Company (OOC), the Omani government's energy investment arm, is moving aggressively to grow its presence in the upstream segment of the Sultanate's oil & gas industry, complementing its already formidable footprint in the midstream and downstream sectors.
On Tuesday, a pair of joint ventures set up by OOC's upstream subsidiary — Oil Company Exploration & Production LLC (OOCEP) — secured licenses from the Ministry of Oil & Gas for the development of two key concessions.
While the JV of Occidental of Oman and OOCEP scooped the licence for Block 30 onshore Oman, the JV of Italian energy firm Eni and OOCEP was awarded Block 52, a massive concession offshore the Sultanate's southeastern and southern seaboard. Qatari national energy firm Qatar Petroleum has also signed an option for a 30 per cent interest in Block 52.
Commenting on the strategy behind the latest acquisitions, Eng Isam Saud al Zadjali (pictured), CEO — Oman Oil Company, said: "We have always stated that we would like to pay more attention to local investment on the upstream front.
Going forward, you will see more of this trend in Oman — where we take a minority share in upstream projects and partner with international operators." With the latest acquisitions, OOCEP is by far the largest investor in the nation's upstream energy sector — after majority state-owned Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), which accounts for much of the nation's crude output, as almost all of its gas production.
OOCEP currently operates three blocks in Oman (60, 42, and 48) and is a participant in a number of joint ventures, some of which are large-scale projects in the upstream sector, notably the Khazzan tight gas project operated by BP, the Mukhaizna field and Block 9, both of which are operated by Occidental. OOCEP also has a 20 per cent interest in Block 62 — also known as the Habiba Block — operated by Occidental.
Speaking to journalists soon after signing Exploration & Production Sharing Agreements (EPSA) for Blocks 30 and 52, Al Zadjali said OOCEP would seek to leverage the considerable experience and expertise of its two partners — Occidental and Eni — in unlocking the hydrocarbon potential of these concessions.
"These two particular blocks present an opportunity and fulfil our long-term strategy," said Al Zadjali. "So far we have not been successful offshore of Oman, so we are very pleased that a giant like Eni is coming to Oman to explore in our territorial waters. We would like to be with them every step of the way in this campaign, and we want to participate and become a partner from the beginning,"
Earlier, welcoming Eni's maiden foray into the Sultanate's energy sector, Oman Oil's CEO said: "Eni is known worldwide for its successful offshore exploration in places like Mozambique, Egypt and so on. They are a world-class operator, and we are honoured to be associated with them."
The JV plans to shoot new high-end 3D seismic in the block in hopes to gaining a "different perspective" about the largely unexplored acreage, with one well planned for drilling as part of its EPSA commitments, he said.
Block 30, the second of the two blocks acquired on Tuesday, further reinforces Oman Oil's growing partnership with Occidental, said Al Zadjali. In particular, Block 30 along with Block 62 — operated by Oxy and in which Oman Oil has a 20 per cent interest — together offer synergies for exploitation from the standpoint of their gas potential, he noted.
"Gas presents an opportunity in the northern part of Oman, and since we are going to be a partner in Block 62, we thought it is an opportunity to combine the further development of Block 62 with (the future) development of Block 30.
Thus, from a strategic and operational point of view, we thought we should (join hands) with Oxy in Block 30. We are pleased to see that Oxy is still hungry to invest in Oman."
Significantly, OOCEP is also eyeing acreage offered as part of the newly launched 2017 Bid Round. "We are certainly looking at it and trying to select partners who will bid together. The strategy for Omani Oil is to go upstream with reputable partners," he added.


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Get Carter
Time Out says
"What would Jesus say?" demands the tapestry mounted over the shabby rooming house bed which, as Jack Carter (Caine) surmises upon his return home from London, has 'seen some action in its time'. The question goes unanswered. Christ has forsaken the grimy muteness of Newcastle, 1971, just as surely as he was airlifted out of Rome in La Dolce Vita a decade earlier - and though they share initials, Carter certainly won't be filling his shoes. A dapper, domineering angel of vengeance, he stands a head above his fellow hoods, but not apart from them. This is movie modernism British-style. The occasional stylistic flourishes suggest the imported influence of the New Wave, the brief bursts of sex, violence and soundtrack funk offer a trendsetting '70s take on the gangster movie. But its prime virtue now, in 2004, looks like its depiction of a nation slowly made to face its own moral and physical dilapidation, hope and glory gone way down and out. Like the train journey opening the film, Mike Hodges' debut offers a tunnel vision of this landscape. He shoots it cold, sparse and ambivalent, the terse, gnomic plotting and dialogue doubtless contributing to the allure of what might otherwise be a relatively plain genre movie. Refusing ever to dwell, it cuts sharp rather than deep, but sharp enough.
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Britt Ekland
John Osborne
Ian Hendry
Bryan Mosley
Geraldine Moffatt
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On days when you don't feel quite so sparkly and you feel like your skies are gloomy and grey, open up Pinterest and scroll through ALL the glittery pins whilst listening to S Club 7 (eg. Reach, S Club party) and B*witched (C'est la vie). You will not be disappointed. In fact you will feel like opening up the craft box and smothering your cheeks and hair with the glittery stuff and dancing on your bed swishing your hair with your arms in the air. All without a damn care in the world.
This is what I did this afternoon. A different kind of self-care BUT it works! A BIG shout out to MrTTDER for telling me to turn the not-so-cheery music off and reminding me how GOOD S Club makes me feel (seriously, have you listened to their lyrics!?! They have it SPOT.ON!).
For super sparkly glittery pins, I have a whole board dedicated to it, here.


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Jim has been with IBC since 1996, joining us through our internship program after a long relationship with Ohio University, where he earned his B.A. in Political Science.


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from physicsworld.com: "Electrons' magnetic interactions isolated at long last"
Jun 19, 2014
Tushna Commissariat
A measurement of the extremely weak magnetic interaction between two single electrons has been carried out by an international team of physicists. Using experimental techniques first developed for quantum-information and ion-trapping technologies, the team made its measurement despite the presence of magnetic noise, which is a million times stronger than the signal it was seeking. Apart from measuring magnetism at the shortest length scale thus far, the researchers say that their technique could be applied to other measurement scenarios where noise is a dominant factor, such as for quantum-error corrections.
Since the 1920s, researchers have known that the electron possesses an intrinsic angular momentum and an associated magnetic moment – known as its spin magnetic moment. Essentially, each electron acts like a tiny, indivisible magnetic dipole that is affected by magnetic fields. Although researchers have accurately measured the magnetic field of an individual electron, the magnetic interactions between two electrons have proved much more difficult to observe. When two electrons are separated by a very small distance (atomic-scale separations), the magnetic interactions are at their strongest and should be easy to measure. However, in this scenario Pauli's exclusion principle and Coulomb electrical repulsion dominate the interactions between the electrons, drowning out the magnetic interaction. While these two effects weaken as the electrons move further apart, so does the magnetic interaction, which is then almost completely obscured by ambient magnetic noise.
Isolated interactions
One way of coping with this noise is to completely isolate the electrons from the environment – a technique that is often employed in quantum-information processing. This is the concept that Shlomi Kotler, from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and colleagues adopted to make their exquisite measurements. Indeed, Kotler says that the team's measurement was performed at a scale "which is quite exotic – two microns. It is the size of an E. coli bacteria", meaning that "the most dominant process is not of force between the electrons but of noise". He further explains that the main tool used by the team to make its measurement was that of "decoherence-free subspaces" – a quantum-computing technique where a system is completely decoupled from its environment to protect information.
Kotler likens the difficulty of this measurement to trying to measure the size of a pea floating in the ocean, with huge waves of noise moving it erratically, across a distance of kilometres. While it would initially seem impossible to make the measurement (thanks to the pea's constant movement), the trick would be to float alongside the pea. In that case, a wave would have the same effect on the pea and the observer, so that the effect of the waves would be inconsequential. In the researchers' experiment, one electron is trying to sense the magnetic field of the other. "But that field is riding on top of magnetic noise in the lab, which is a million times bigger," says Kolter. "The only way to make this measurement possible is to place the two electrons on an equal footing with respect to the ambient magnetic noise. This way, magnetic noise becomes irrelevant."
Photograph of the experimental set-up, including the trap Ions inside: the experimental set-up. No image credit.
To do so, the team uses two strontium (88Sr+ ) ions, in a vacuum chamber at a fixed distance of 2 μm from one another, held using a Paul ion trap. Each ion has a single ground-state, spin-1/2 valence electron and no nuclear spin. Using lasers tuned to the atomic transition of the ions, the team manipulated the electrons and prepared them in an initial state where the north pole of one electron is facing the north pole of the other. Like a regular bar magnet, the like poles repel each other and would rotate, thereby interacting. But as the magnets in this case are electrons, quantum effects come into play and the electrons become entangled in what Kolter describes as "both a north–north and south–south facing state".
Elongated entanglement
Even more surprising is that this naturally created entanglement lasts for 15 s – a surprisingly long time for a system to remain in a coherent, quantum state. After that time, the researchers use laser pulses to detect "whether their north poles are facing or anti-facing each other". By varying the separation between the two ions, they were able to measure the strength of the magnetic interaction as a function of distance – confirming the expected inverse-cubic (1/d3) dependence of the interaction.
Kolter told physicsworld.com that while the result itself was not surprising – current theories say that magnetism behaves similarly at all scales – it was how long the electrons were entangled for that was unexpected. "Our main surprise was the coherence – the fact that the electrons behaved quantum-mechanically for a 'human-scale duration' (15 s and more) and that the tiny forces of magnetism are still strong enough to entangle the two particles over this time. In many respects this is unprecedented." Conventionally, quantum mechanics is thought to work for tiny systems at short time scales. The team's system was rather large – 2 µm and so, almost macroscopic – and it still preserved the quantum-mechanical property of entanglement for an extremely long time.
Kolter points out that, nearly 20 years ago, quantum-computation experiments adapted advanced spectroscopic tools to generate entanglement between massive particles, and spectroscopy has been a driving force in experimental quantum computing ever since. Now, Kolter's research has turned this around by using quantum-computing tools to "do a very sensitive spectroscopy experiment. We believe that this trend will continue to be fruitful in the near future", he says. Beyond validating the behaviour of the magnetic force at the micron scale, the team's system could be used to set a bound on "anomalous spin forces" that might come into play beyond Standard Model physics. But it could also be generalized and applied to other scenarios, such as for quantum-error correction protocols.
The research was published in Nature.
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*The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (R)
Kimball's Peak Three
Like the first sparks of an affair, it'd be difficult to replicate the thrill viewers got when introduced to Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the introductory chapter of a trilogy that's come to be known as late author Stieg Larsson's Millennium series. The second installment, The Girl Who Played With Fire, stripped much of the Lisbeth-ness from Lisbeth, including her goth look, pissy attitude and hacker skills. (Well, the ones not involving an axe, anyway.)
Now the close of the series, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, offers a mixed bag: Sometimes the girl we love is there, and other times the film chases bad guys who are, admittedly, mired in Lisbeth's deep, deep shit, but also might as well be bogeymen for all we care. Does "rogue security services group" inspire fear in you?
Daniel Alfredson, who directed Fire, returns to tell Larsson's story with chilly, rain-soaked Swedish efficiency. The film opens with Lisbeth (sure Oscar contender Noomi Rapace) and her evil father (Georgi Staykov) in the hospital after their nearly-to-the-death scuffle at the end of the last film. So right from the start, Lisbeth's dormant.
As she fights to get her strength and her mind back, her good-guy doctor fights off the hounds: Suspected of a triple homicide and soon to be under arrest for the attempted murder of her father, she's the target of lots of legals as well as a psychiatrist, Peter Teleborian (Anders Ahlbom), who (mis)treated her while she was committed to an asylum as a child. (After her first try at killing Dad.)
Meanwhile, father dearest, who was involved in setting up Lisbeth in the triple murder, still wants his daughter dead, and calls a handful of elderly ne'er-do-wells to get to it. Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), the investigative journo Lisbeth teamed up with in the first film to solve a missing-person case, works on a special issue of his magazine that's devoted to "providing justice for Lisbeth Salander." Soon, his staff is in danger, too, receiving anonymous threats and suffering break-ins as Lisbeth's trial nears. Mikael's cooperation with a special police unit working the case also doesn't help.
Most of Hornet's Nest, therefore, plays out as a procedural, one that's interesting enough to hold your attention throughout the film's two and a half hours but not so compelling that the new developments thrill. The "blond tank" (Mikael Spreitz) from the previous film doesn't do much but murder randomly, adding one too many plot threads.
Really, it's all glue to hold together the film's real draw: Lisbeth and Mikael, no longer K-I-S-S-I-N-G but connected strongly enough that he's risking his life to fight for her and she knows it. Even though Lisbeth spends most of the movie in a hospital bed, she's furtively tapping on her forbidden cell and scheming; exercising the damaged side of her body so she doesn't need anyone's help for anything, thank you. (Though she reluctantly accepts the counsel of Mikael's attorney sister.)
As with Fire, Hornet's Nest features just enough flashbacks and exposition to help it stand alone, though it's likely more satisfying as part of a whole.
Lisbeth fans will be happy to see her gothness and smug vengeance return in a most delightful way, which ultimately elevates this third installment a few notches above the disappointing second.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Luftslottet som sprangdes) is not showing in any theaters in the area.


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Hi everyone:
Since this is my first post I thought I'd take this opportunity to tell you a little about myself and why I'm excited to be a part of this ministry. I am a biological and adoptive mom, as well as a wife, daughter, sister, grandmother and most recently a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. My experience with infertility and adoption changed my life dramatically. So much so that it inspired me to go back to school at age 47 to get my master's degree in Clinical Psychology and become a therapist in order to help others who might be going through infertility and adoption as well. I chose that population for the topic of my research, and learned so much that I'd like to share with you over the course of my next few posts.
"He predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ" Ephesians 1:5
In the course of my psychology program I also learned a lot of things that I didn't expect. About myself, about the world, and even about the Bible and God. I had expected to find opposing viewpoints everywhere I looked, but instead I became reassured again and again of the wisdom and truth of the Bible and God's Word. For example, what psychology calls the "multigenerational transmission process" the Bible calls "The parents eat sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge' Ezekiel 18:2……and while the world considers adoption an "alternate or deviant family form" the Bible says he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ" Eph. 1:5.
In the world the idea of "family" is largely defined by blood or biological bonds. But in church we consider each other brothers and sisters in Christ, not by our own or our parent's blood, but by the blood through which we were all saved. "To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood." Rev. 1:5 What the church has known for so many years, as in so many things, our society is slow to acknowledge.
The idea of "family" is largely defined by blood or biological bonds
Next time I will share more of my research findings about infertility and adoption, and why we struggle to feel accepted by the world when we choose an "alternate" definition of family. For today, I'd like to leave you with this good word: We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. Rom. 8:22-24
– Jan


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Paving The Way For Free & Democratic Schools
I went to a normal school and didn't dislike it. Actually, I quite liked it since I had great teachers and I liked studying most of the subjects that were taught. The only thing I could have done without were the art classes, as I never liked them nor was I able to draw.
But not everybody likes maths or history. Still, they have to learn them. Even though they will just end up forgetting everything when they finish school if they are not interested in the subject, or don't need it for their job. I am Italian and I can tell you for sure that, in Italy, not many adults can really say what the French Revolution was about, or are able to solve an equation, even if they attended high school. Yet they spent so much time learning this stuff; maybe they could have used this time to learn something completely different?
Of course, it is very important that children have the time and opportunity to learn and have experiences in order to be able to manage their lives after school. What is under discussion here is what and how they learn, and I am not just talking about subjects.
School is not just about being fed information; in reality, at school, we also learn how to behave, as we are told what to do all the time. For instance, we have to sit down for hours on end, we have to eat at certain times, we have to ask permission to go to the toilet, and only under particular circumstances can we talk about what we want to. We have to respect rules, roles and hierarchies we haven't chosen and can't change.
So why is it that right after school we have to become "adults", confident enough to rely on our own judgment, able to make decisions about our lives, and become an active part of the democratic process?
This is the question Sudbury Schools considered. Named after the Sudbury Valley School, founded in 1968 in Massachusetts by Daniel Greenberg, their answer is another model of school that, in their opinion, better fits the concept of democracy.
First of all, the children have the right to be free and have the opportunity to participate in the decision-making process which creates the rules they have to respect. This might sound chaotic, and some of you are probably already imagining children destroying schools or beating each other up all the time while learning nothing, but here's the surprise. There are lots of Sudbury Schools in the world and this is not the experience they've had.
In a Sudbury School, everybody takes part in every decision. Hiring staff, firing staff and making rules are processes in which children take part as well as adults. Children have the right to talk in assemblies and the power to make decisions, just as adults have. And if something bad happens, or there is some conflict, there are justice committees, where again adults and children carry the same weight.
Secondly, children can spend their time in school doing whatever they like - reading, playing, talking, listening to music - they really have the right to be free, and the time to discover their unique interests and abilities. The children at Sudbury Schools learn to read and write at different ages and in very different ways: being read to, through game instructions, or whatever. But learn they do, and normally the staff can't really guess when or how it happens.
I went to Ting Schule, a Sudbury School right here in Berlin, and I talked to a staff member and to a young student, who told me about her own experience. She said that she was so bored during the first year she spent in a normal school as she could already read and write. However, she had to follow the programme and do what the other students did, even if she already knew it.
She felt like she was wasting her time and she didn't want to go to school anymore until she finally ended up going to Ting Schule. She is fourteen and speaks fluent English, even if she hasn't learned it by attending courses, but by surfing the internet. She told me how she normally spends her days - going to the library, playing, and learning science and languages. But she also explained that as there are 55 students at the school, there would probably be 55 different answers as everyone has their own interests and preferences.
And in the end, why should we be so frightened of freedom? Of children's freedom? Of course they lack experience and they are therefore not alone in the school - there is adult staff - but still, why do we cling to the idea that without adults children would not learn anything? They taught themselves to walk and talk, without anybody telling them when or how. They simply learn from their environment because they are curious. Most of the time, normal schools don't promote curiosity, forcing kids into standard programmes, often with tight times and therefore not much room for discussion, so that students feel like containers that have to be filled.
As we all know we will soon forget most of the information we studied, why is it so important to get that quota of information? Shouldn't schools prepare us for life? Well, if they should, as we live in a democratic society, school could be an area where democracy is exercised. People should feel free and responsible for their acts, rather than just obeying rules without questioning them - and be able to find their own way in life.
It's hard to believe that Sudbury Schools work, and it was for me too; but I was really surprised by what I read about them (you can find a list of books on Sudbury Schools and Summerhill – a similar project started in 1921 with similar ideas – on the related Wiki pages) and learning of the experiences which take place in these schools, and how it can actually turn out to be really appropriate for children to have the chance to follow their own inclinations.
It is obviously difficult to just throw away the model of school you grew up with, which is perhaps the only idea of school you could ever imagine. But my advice is, give it a chance. Children can be happy, free and responsible. Just as adults should be.
By Diana Calvino