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In CONSIGNOR you can import contact lists from excel sheets - saved in .xls format.
Go to Contact List in CONSIGNOR, right click in the pane Contact List, either create a new list or choose Import Contact List..
If you want to create a new list, you will be asked for the name if the list and if it is stored Global on Location or on the specified Actor.
Choose the excel file.
To be able to import a contact list, CONSIGNOR needs to know what values are in each column, this is set in the ConsignorField column as shown in the picture below.
These fields are originally empty, click on them and you can either browse trough the drop down menu or type in the value.
When all the fields needed are mapped, you can press the button Start Import - when the progress bar is done, you need to refresh the window in CONSIGNOR to see your new list. Simply go out of Contact List and go back in.
Now you can create shipments by adding contacts in production on the button Browse or My contacts.
You can also activate the search bar if you want to search by customer number or name.
Right click on My Contacts or in the area "Start Production" and choose Search properties,
Check off the boxes Contact Number and Contact name.
Tip: choose "Search for: Contact containing searchkey" - this can expand your search if you don't know the exact name / customer number of your contact.


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Monday, 12 June, 2000, 17:58 GMT 18:58 UK
Most US death sentences 'flawed'
A major study of capital punishment in the United States says more than two-thirds of convictions are so flawed that they are overturned on appeal.
The Columbia University report describes America's capital punishment system as fraught with errors.
And it says the fault lies in part with the prosecutors who refuse to share vital evidence with defence lawyers and juries.
Texas governor and presidential candidate George W Bush, who claims that no one has been wrongly executed during his period as Texas governor, risks his campaign being undermined by the report and growing criticism of the death penalty.
The study of 4,578 appeals between 1973 and 1995 showed that most cases "are so seriously flawed that they have to be done over again".
Report author Professor James Liebman said: "It's not one case, it's thousands of cases. It's not one state, it's almost all of the states.
"You're creating a very high risk that some errors are going to get through the process."
Prof Liebman says the biggest problem is lazy and incompetent defence lawyers.
In one controversial case, death row inmate Calvin Burdine is fighting to overturn his 1983 conviction on the grounds that his court-appointed lawyer slept through much of his two-day trial.
Executions suspended
Supporters of the death penalty say the study only goes to show how difficult it is to execute an innocent person, given how many appeals against execution are upheld.
Opponents say the large number of successful appeals shows how flawed capital trials are throughout the country.
The report comes at a time when America's use of the death penalty is more controversial than ever.
Illinois recently suspended all executions because of doubts about the guilt of those on death row.
Mr Bush earlier this month granted his first 30-day reprieve in a death penalty case, but continued to claim confidence in his state's capital punishment system.
He said: "I know there are some in the country who don't care for the death penalty, but ... we've adequately answered innocence or guilt.
"They've had full access to the courts. They've had full access to a fair trial."
Since reinstating the death penalty in 1976, Texas has executed 218 people - more than any other state and about a third of the country's total.
With new medical technology reshaping the debate over capital punishment - the recent reprieve by Mr Bush was over DNA tests - a group of public health physicians hopes the American Medical Association will seek a national moratorium on executions.
"The possibility exists that in several states innocent individuals may be executed because medical technology will not be made available in time to prevent their death," said the American Association of Public Health Physicians, the nation's largest doctors group.
But public support for capital punishment remains high.
A Gallup poll in February showed 66% back the use of death sentences, down somewhat from Gallup polls during the 1990s that showed support ranging from 71% to 80%.
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Avalon is the only registered drop-off location for donations for Pets of the Homeless in Broken Arrow. We accept pet food or donations (via check) written directly to Pets of the Homeless. The donations are distributed to local churches, shelters, and soup kitchens in the area.
Broken Arrow Chamber of Commerce
The Broken Arrow Chamber of Commerce has been invaluable to both Avalon and the Broken Arrow community. Avalon is an active member of the chamber, and we are proud to be part of an organization that promotes local businesses! Regularly, you can find members of Avalon's care team volunteering at Chamber events to give back to the community which supports us so much!
There are quite a few options for training when a family adopts a new pup. Avalon stand strongly behind K9 Manners, whose owner is also on the board of the SPCA. Their fear-free training techniques and focus on agility is tantamount to Avalon's beliefs on training and obedience. We could not ask for a better neighbor! (They are located right down the street from our clinic.)
Lynn Lane Boarding has been a part of the Broken Arrow community for over 35 years! They offer the highest quality of care and safety for dogs and cats while their families are away. Both short-term and long-term boarding are available, and there is always someone on site to care for all of the animals. Check out the birds and other animals they have rescued while you're there!
The Broken Arrow animal shelter is well-vested in the local community. Day or night, they do their best to keep homeless animals off the streets and find them forever homes. The BA shelter can be found regularly at local community and animal-related events. We are very happy to support their cause!


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Show Me the Way
The first stand-alone novel in A.L. Jackson's brand-new Fight for Me series…
Man can AL Jackson tell a story. Let me tell you. This story grabs your from page one and sinks it's claws so deep into you that you can't help but read it until the end. Her story is gripping, harrowing, and shows how irony can be a real cruel monster.
Rynna is hiding a big secret that she think she can run from when she returns back to Georgia. But as we all know, secrets have a way of kicking us in the backside when we least expect it. And boy does her past kick her in the behind. Jackson did a phenomenal job at keeping the big twist a secret until she was ready to reveal it because when I finally figured it out, it was already happening.
Rex, boy does this man have it rough. I know that if he didn't have Frankie he would have given up. He's been through some stuff that's hard to go through once, but he did it twice. Yeah he's a jerk at times but when you find out the ghosts haunting him you are like 'how have you not given up on love?'. The way he is with Rynna is awe-inspiring and beautiful and shows that love can happen when you least expect it.
There is a HEA, thank God. But it's a messy road for Rynna and Rex to get there. But it's one of those beautiful rainbows that come after a rain storm kind of endings. It is the first book of a new series that will have each book covering another couple. There are some unanswered questions in this one but I feel like they will be answered in the next two books (or at least that is what I am hoping).
Rating: A
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HARTFORD, Conn. — The new superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy says its students are smart, energetic, enthusiastic — and in some ways very different from cadets of his generation.
Rear Adm. James Rendon, who became the academy's 41st superintendent at a ceremony this week, said in an interview that cadets today are much more engaging.
"When I was a cadet, if I saw a senior officer heading my way, I would salute smartly, and if asked a question, I would say 'Yes, sir,' or 'No, sir' or 'Yes, Ma'am' or 'No, Ma'am,'" said Rendon, a 1983 graduate of the academy in New London.
"Now if a cadet is coming my way and if they see me, they'll give me a salute and say 'Good morning, sir' and I'll say 'Good morning, how you doing?' And they'll stop and tell me for the next number of minutes just how they're doing and what they're doing. And they're full of questions."
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Rendon is a native of San Antonio who followed an older brother to the academy on the Thames River. He served as assistant superintendent from 2010 to 2012 and his Coast Guard career took him most recently to Hawaii, where he led a task force charged with running counter-drug strategy in the Pacific.
The academy has roughly 900 students in its four-year program. Cadets receive full scholarships and, upon graduation, they are commissioned as junior officers with an obligation to serve five years in the Coast Guard.
Rendon said he was spending his first week immersed in briefs on issues facing the academy, including the challenge of recruiting and retaining a diverse corps of cadets. This year's graduating class was celebrated as the most diverse ever, with 33 percent representing minorities. But the academy has struggled to attract African-Americans, who made up less than 3 percent of the latest class.
"At the end of the day we want to reflect America as best we can," Rendon said. "It's always a challenge to get that diverse incoming class and then to retain that diverse incoming class on through, four years later, graduation. There's the attracting and then there's retaining, and we work hard on both fronts."
One way the academy helps the service, he said, is by leveraging the intellectual power of the cadets and faculty to contribute to the priorities of the Coast Guard commandant. He cited the academy's new Center for Arctic Strategy and Policy as an initiative with potential to help the service.


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Easy Banana Cake Recipe -easy one bowl banana cake, perfect for using up ripe bananas, with the perfect simple fluffy vanilla icing.
My mother-law uses this recipe to make an easy banana bread…because that's what good, using up the left over bananas, responsible people do. But people who want life to be a party, they want to turn banana bread into CAKE! They want cake, covered in icing. They want Easy Banana Cake!
So, let's make banana cake covered in sweet, fluffy vanilla icing, 'cause that's how we roll around here. And, it just happens to be super easy, like make this baby in the middle of the week kind of easy.
Easy Banana Cake
- 3 large ripe bananas
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup melted butter
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. baking soda
For the Icing
- 1/4 cup of softened butter
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 3 tbsp. milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix the bananas, sugar, egg and butter until well combined.
- Add the flour, salt and baking soda, and stir until well combined, but being careful not to over-mix.
- Bake in a greased 8 x 8 baking dish at 350, for around 40 min, until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- After the cake is cool, combine the icing ingredients in a mixer and stir slowly until well combined, and then at higher speed until light and fluffy. Top cooled cake with icing, and enjoy.
With a simple little Easy Banana Cake Recipe like this on a regular old Tuesday, life really is a party! Enjoy.
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Greetings fellow anglers. I thought I would start a discussion on angler preferences.
A fairly frequent theme I often observe is oppositional viewpoints regarding high minimum length limits for gamefish. They are often times mistakenly viewed as as being prescribed to a lake to solely provide a trophy angling opportunity; when in actuality the high minimum length limit may be applied to provide an action/C&R opportunity.
Balancing angling opportunities with science, social and economic objectives can be a challenge. What's your preference? Catch & Release, Harvest or Both? Why & where?


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Adam Levine and his bandmates are coming to town on May 18.
One of the coaches on NBC's No. 1 hit series "The Voice," Levine and Maroon 5 will be the first concert ever at Revel, Atlantic City's $2.4 billion beachfront casino and resort. The concert will be at Ovation Hall, Revel's main performance space
Tickets will go on sale Saturday, April 7 at 10 a.m. EDT at all Ticketmaster locations, online at Ticketmaster.com and by calling 800-745-3000.


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – With back-to-back complete games from Ashley Ludlow and Veronika Gulvin, UCSB (19-17) clinched the series win over rival Cal Poly (16-13), as they held the Mustangs to only one run in Saturday's doubleheader.
Ludlow led the Gauchos to a 2-1 victory in game one, while Gulvin shutout Cal Poly 3-0 in the second contest.
UCSB will be vying for the sweep tomorrow at Campus Diamond starting at 1 p.m. Tickets for the game will be available at the main entrance and can also be purchased online.
The Gauchos opened their weekend series and conference play with a 2-1 victory over Cal Poly on Saturday. Senior Ashley Ludlow (6-7) pitched her team-high eighth complete game of the year, picking up her sixth win and striking out six batters with only one walk and one run.
Cal Poly struck first by scoring their only run in the top of the first inning. Lead off batter Stephanie Heyward was hit by a pitch, stole second, and would come around to score after a single and fielder's choice. Cal Poly threatened to score more with two outs and bases loaded, but Ludlow forced a fly out to center field to end the threat.
UCSB defense retired the next six Mustang batters over the second and third innings with two strikeouts, a ground out, and three outs in the air.
The Gauchos scored two and collected four of their five hits during the fourth inning.
With two outs, senior Arianna Palomares singled into left field and was followed by a single into centerfield by Emily Brucleas. With runners on second and third Sierra Altmeyer singled down the left field line to score Palomares. Brucelas came around to score next on a Melanie Menor single into left field.
UCSB relied on the heart of its lineup to produce its offense, as each batter from Jessica Johnston in the three spot to Melanie Menor in the seventh spot recorded one hit. Altmeyer and Menor came up with the two RBIs with their back-to-back left field singles.
UCSB completed the twin bill sweep with a 3-0 shutout victory in the second game. Veronika Gulvin (6-8) gave the team its second complete game of the day, as she allowed just four hits and walk with a strikeout.
Jessica Johnston and Melanie Menor co-led the Gauchos with two hits each, as Johnston came up with the game's biggest hit with a triple roped down the right field line. The two also provided UCSB with both if its RBIs.
Gulvin mowed her way through just 27 Mustang batters and saw just one batter reach third base, as she held Cal Poly to just four singles. Following back-to-back three up, three down innings, the Mustangs set up their best scoring opportunity in the fourth inning after their two lead off batters reached base.
Both runners were bunted over into scoring position with one out, but neither would reach home plate as Gulvin got out of the jam after forcing Ashley Tornio into a foul out to third base.
With Cal Poly's offense kept in the check, the Gauchos slowly tacked on their runs throughout the game. UCSB scored its first run in the bottom of the first thanks to a wild pitch from pitcher Stephanie Heyward (0-2). After Jacqueline Hinojosa got on with a walk, she moved over to third with the help of Johnston's first single of the game.
Now just 60 feet away from scoring, Hinojosa bolted to the plate after Heyward sent her pitch sailing over her catcher and into the backstop. A double play ended the team's chances to tallying more runs in the first, but they would strike again later in the third.
Two groundouts opened the inning, but Hinojosa kept the Gauchos going with an infield single. This set the stage for Johnston's stand up triple, which easily sent Hinojosa in for the team's second run.
UCSB added an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth with Menor's RBI single to left field. With the help of two infield throwing errors from Cal Poly, Johnston reached third base by UCSB's third at bat of the inning. This made it easier for her to head home after Menor sprayed a single into shallow left field.
Down to their final inning, the Mustangs saw a lead off single from Betsy Colburn to keep their hopes alive. However, after Torino followed her up with a single to right field, Johnston picked up a big first out after throwing at Colburn at second base.
To complete the shutout, the Gauchos provided an exclamation point of a play with a 463 twin killing.


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Halodrol is a black market prohormone clone of h-drol that was designed to add muscle mass and strength to the human body. Gaspari halodrol was originally brought to the market. Gaspari Nutrition and has been discontinued due to problems from the FDA this is a methylated designer steroid that has been cloned by many labs because of its great benefits and muscle building capabilities. Several companies are currently producing this legal supplement 4-Chloro-17a-Methyl-Androst-1,4-Diene-3-17b-Diol with very pure compounds. Two of our favorite labs for this compound are Xcel Sports Nutrition and Hard Rock Labs.
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Jennifer has never been to Calvert Trust Kielder and before she decided to book a full weeks stay came to visit us, and give us a test run.
Jennifer brought two carers with her, and decided to fill her day with the King Swing and Swimming pool.
Jennifer has Cerebral Palsy and is deaf. She is disabled with limited movement, but that didn't stop her from daring to tackle our 3G King
Whilst waiting for the swing, Jennifer was able to watch Emily, a regular at Calvert Trust Kielder be hoisted up to the swing before flying from a height of 30 ft.
Jennifer was given a private space to have the harness fitted before coming down to the King Swing, from here the specially adapted harness was raised to the Swing and secured on.
Jennifer, was then joined by one of her carers as they went up half way, for their first swing. Jennifer's beaming smile after this first adventure, lead to both being pulled to the top of the swing for their second go! Another great smile and a third go requested.
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Media Ignores 'Trayvon Revenge Killing' of Young Man
Daniel G. J.
The absurd bias of the American media is on display in regards to a slew of recent murders that have received virtually zero coverage compared to the Trayvon Martin case. One such outrageous murder occurred in Memphis, Tenn., on Aug. 12, 2013, when a young man named David Santucci was killed in what is being pinned as a potential Trayvon Martin revenge killing.
Like Trayvon Martin, Santucci's death was related to being in the wrong neighborhood at the wrong time, and Santucci was not found to initiate any dispute when killed in downtown Memphis. The difference is that Santucci was white and Martin was black, so Santucci's killing was ignored by the media. As Anthony Gucciardi has highlighted while predicting verbatim the outcome of the Chris Lane murder, where three teenagers murdered the budding athlete for gang initiation purposes, Oprah and Obama are not drawing attention to these disturbing cases as they did Trayvon Martin.
Police have arrested three suspects: Mario Patterson, Dondre Johnson and Jerrica Norfleet. Police claim that the motive of the killing was robbery, but Santucci's brother Miguel De Diago told The Blaze website he thinks the killing was a hate crime. All three of the suspects are African American. He also thinks that local authorities in Memphis are trying to cover up the truth about the killing because it occurred near Beale Street, a popular local tourist attraction.
The Santucci killing doesn't sound like a robbery when considering he was killed with one 9 mm bullet to the head. That actually sounds like a professional hit, rather than a hate crime or a robbery. De Diago believes the killing might have been a revenge killing for the Martin killing. It occurred on the same day that Trayvon's killer, George Zimmerman was acquitted.
Obviously we don't know enough about Mr. Santucci and the three suspects to know if there was racial bias involved or not outside of these statements. Yet we should know, and the media should investigate this story to see what's there. They should also investigate Mr. Santucci and see if he was really innocent or if there was some reason professional criminals wanted him dead. But they're not.
The real problem here is that you probably never heard about the David Santucci tragedy until you read this. Since Santucci is white, his killing is not worthy of media attention. Had Trayvon been white, Asian or Hispanic his death, as tragic as it was, would have been ignored. Mr. Lane's killing is only being covered because he's an Aussie, and if the Australian press wasn't investigating and calling American newsrooms with questions his killing would be ignored too.
In today's America it seems senseless killings only matter if they involve a case that can be spun by the media (outside the inner city) or foreigners. If average Americans get gunned down on the street, nobody seems to care.


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Guidance from a San Francisco ACL Specialist
If you've recently had knee surgery for a torn ACL, your orthopedic surgeon should explain the difference between activities that are safe and ones that could cause knee damage. Immediately after surgery, you need to get plenty of rest and relaxation. Reduce pain by elevating your leg, icing the knee, and using crutches to get around.


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A typical health insurance plan will have gaps that you never even expect, until you are facing having to shell out your own money. Supplemental insurance can help cover these gaps and decrease your own out of pocket expenses. Understanding what you need and what is available is essential to getting the most out of your basic plan and your supplemental plans.
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At CrossFit Pequannock, our mission is to help our members develop a healthy, happy lifestyle through functional fitness. What is CrossFit?
Each class is led by a CrossFit Level 1 Trainer, who is knowledgeable in the technique and application of each movement in order to provide the best possible training environment. A normal class consists of a trainer led general warm-up, skill practice and/or strength training relevant to the day's "Workout of the Day" (WOD), the "WOD" itself, and finally cool-down and stretching. Class times are approximately 45-60 minutes long. Our coaches are very passionate about helping our members become healthier individuals and it shows in the results our members are achieving!
CrossFit workouts are scalable – making it an option for EVERYONE. Whether you are a conditioned athlete, recovering from an injury or have not worked out for a while, every workout can be adjusted to YOUR fitness level. As you become stronger, faster and generally more capable, the workouts are scaled accordingly to keep them challenging.
Our members at CrossFit Pequannock range in age, gender, shape, size and form. However, they all have one thing in common; RESULTS.
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A record breaking forest fire – one of the biggest in modern times – has broken out in central Sweden.
The blaze which covers between 5,000 and 10,000 hectares has been declared a national emergency.
It has been burning for five days
Helicopters are being used to pluck people trapped by the flames to safety. The 4,500 residents in the town of Norberg may have to be evacuated.
Emergency services say hard winds have been hampering efforts to control the blaze. The fire was described as "out of control" by firefighters.


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This year started off well, with another trip to the USA, on a business trip to Mountain View. One of the things that I missed last time I was in San Francisco was Alcatraz. When I arrived there I realized that you need to buy tickets several weeks in advance, so it was too late by that time. So, this time, after I bought the plane tickets to San Francisco, I bought my ticket to Alcatraz :)))
One of my favourite movies when I was a kid was "The Rock", with Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage, which takes place in Alcatraz. Ever since then I wanted …continue.


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Credit Monitoring Service: The Pros And Cons
Any credit monitoring service can be a facility which helps folks effectively handle, whilst tabs on their credit background, to determine if they are practical for availing any form of financing. With so many credit overseeing agencies in operation today, most of these are reputable, while some companies aren't anything but pure frauds, who usually cost excessive fees. The credit monitoring service often informs their clients associated with a changes to a persons credit file, whether it comes as due to late payments, change of address, new employers, new queries or bankruptcies and other public records. If youre still undecided regarding that credit monitoring service to sign-up with, here are a few pros and cons of signing-up with credit monitoring providers.
Pros OF Credit Overseeing Services
– Any credit monitoring service makes a person life so much easier. As opposed to personally filing for the credit report in the agencys workplace, you simply need to go online to quickly pull them up. A credit statement is generally presented in an easy-to-understand format, which wont need you to hire the services of a specialist financial analyst to sort through the clutter.
– Credit monitoring solutions quickly notify you of any activity within your account. Youll also be able to instantly notice if ever there are any inconsistencies, inaccuracies or flaws within your report. By immediately finding out any mathematical or typographical errors, this enables you to quickly file conflicts to correct any discrepancies. Aside from alerting an individual of any fraudulent activity or inconsistencies, the credit monitoring service will also help you effectively handle your credit.
The Downsides of A Credit Monitoring Service
– According to credit professionals, its quite impossible for each and every company to efficiently monitor each of their clients credit directory an hourly basis. Because some creditors dont report certain accounts immediately, the person will not be advised once the activity happens. Credit monitoring services also cannot fully discover any fraudulent action, because there are a number of information in your account which credit agencies are often not necessarily alerted, or notified about.
– The problem with some credit monitoring agencies is that they charge fees which are unethically exorbitant. Right now there also have been a few occasions where individuals cannot easily opt out of their credit monitoring support, even if they desired to. While an unhappy credit monitoring agency consumer may wish to stop getting, or reading credit reviews, he or she will still be billed the monthly rate. And while some credit monitoring organizations brag about their every day monitoring, the truth is that its much less real-time as advertised, because so many creditors often tend to be late, or incur delays, when confirming new data for the credit bureaus.
There are other choices to credit monitoring services although. The choices include identity-monitoring providers, which cost less, and give you a fair amount of credit report monitoring for free. Would a credit monitoring service be worth the $100 or perhaps $150 annual fee? Your choice will depend largely in your specific circumstances, along with whether you have a $ 100 or more to extra for to pay them.


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Take your network administration skills to the next level on Linux
About This Video
Move beyond the basics of how a Linux machine works and gain a better understanding of Linux networks and their configuration
Set up and configure your Linux server and its various network elements like a pro
This is a hands-on video on building, maintaining, and securing a network using Linux
In Detail
LiTo begin, you'll find out how to use Samba 4 to create an Active Directory compatible directory service for your network, then you'll see how to set up file storage. In this section you will learn how several options to explore in order to host your own file storage, including Samba, NFS, and WebDAV.
Moving on, you'll learn how to set up an e-mail server, and we'll look at how e-mail works as a service. You'll also set up SMTP and IMAP mail services, and enable spam filtering. Then we'll configure our own XMPP-based IM service, configure it to communicate with other XMPP services, and configure Pidgin as a client to utilize the service.
After that, you'll see how to start monitoring services on your network using Nagios. Then, you'll map out the network so you can discover what is actually there. Finally, you'll discover how to watch over your network through centralized logging and manage an intrusion detection system using Snort.


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|"State" funeral in May 2014, honoring the remains of the human bomb
that attacked Jerusalem's Sbarro pizzeria 13 years earlier [Source]
It's a strategy calculated to keep the attacks coming. They do keep coming and, as we noted earlier today, the violence is likely to get worse. That's because Fatah/PA have "no choice" and Hamas, who have a choice, want it to be worse - much worse. (In reality, they are closely aligned in their views.)
Ma'an News Agency, which has unrealized pretensions to being a serious journalism channel, has been fanning the flames of support for more terror via the steady drumbeat of disingenuous reporting of non-existent doubts about the intentions of the attackers stopped by Israeli security.
Today, under the heading "Israel to hand over bodies of 23 slain Palestinians, 17 from Hebron", Ma'an publish this piece of despicable, agenda-driven "reporting". It's a story about Israel delivering the bodies of 17 dead Palestinian Arabs today, all of them eliminated in the course of attacking Israelis in the past few months.
The Palestinian liaison said the bodies were expected to be delivered Friday afternoon... During a Knesset meeting on Nov. 5, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said that "holding onto bodies is in itself not a deterrent to potential terrorists," announcing that bodies would be returned on a "case-by-case basis." Bodies have since been handed over conditionally, with Israeli authorities demanding the bodies be buried immediately following their handover and that funerals be limited in attendance... The Palestinian Ministry of Justice has reportedly adopted a resolution to perform autopsies on the bodies of all Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in effort to document "Israeli crimes." Sabir al-Alou, a coronor responsible for performing autopsies on a number of slain Palestinian and head of Al-Quds University's Institute for Forensic Medicine, told Ma'an Thursday that Israel has returned the bodies full frozen, making immediate autopsies before burial impossible.(Dead bodies, and the things that can be done with them, play a significant role in Palestinian Arab society. The funeral of the human bomb whose exploding guitar case destroyed so many lives - including our child's - in the attack on a Jerusalem pizzeria received the full Pal Arab death-cult treatment 18 months ago. Our posts: "4-May-14: Who cares about justice? About the victims? About truth?"; "6-May-14: In search of appalled, sickened Palestinian Arabs"; "11-May-14: Still searching for outraged moderate Palestinian Arab voices".)
Portraying themselves as victims has enabled Palestinian Arabs at large, and their society, to ignore the daily reality of the death-cult values they have permitted to engulf them. By completely failing to acknowledge how children, girls, mothers young and old, as well as young males with most of their lives still ahead have bought into the message of martyrdom and murder beamed from the highest rungs of their society's ladder, they ensure it keeps happening.
Dark, unspeakable "crimes" done to dead Arabs are a small, fiendish refinement on the self-destruction going on across Israel's Palestinian Arab border. Their best-known foreign-language news outlet might have been expected to keep out of that swamp, but the attractions of burying themselves in that muck were evidently too compelling to resist.


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Lynch, John C , .
Seeking parents of and any information on
John C. Lynch of Monroe Co., VA b.ca 1796
Married twice in the same Co., first to Ann Wiley,
second to Amelia Neil. (Our line is from this second marriage.)
The family later moved to Mercer Co., WV.
The Neil family connection would be of interest as well.
Other later families of this particular line envolve:
Tiller, Stewart, Conner. all of VA and WVA and
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Bev's Family Connections @MyFamily.com
This site has family stories, recipes, assorted family pictures and other researchers that can be and want to be contacted.
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Thankfully, the election is almost here, with its candidates and ballot questions. Finally … you may say.
What about after Nov. 6? Do we just wait for the next election? Certainly not, because regardless of which candidates win, and which party controls the House and Senate in Washington, there is a fundamental issue that this election will only begin to resolve, partly because little attention has been paid to it in debates or news coverage.
An explanation for this inattention is that it's not controversial. I'm speaking of a ballot question facing voters in the Newburyport area and in many other Massachusetts communities. You won't find information about this issue in the excellent guide distributed by the secretary of state, because that mailing covers only statewide questions.
Is there way too much money being heaped onto our campaigns, often anonymously and sometimes with foreign entanglements? That's the essence.
The text of the question is:
Shall the state representative from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a resolution calling upon Congress to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution affirming that (1) corporations are not entitled to the constitutional rights of human beings, and (2) both Congress and the States may place limits on political contributions and political spending?
You can believe what you've read in this case, because it is not controversial – that's the point. Hardly anyone likes all this type and volume of spending on our elections, regardless of political party affiliation; hardly anyone, if we're talking about natural persons - you and me.
However, if instead of using your common sense, you go by what five Supreme Court justices fantasized in their 2010 decision known as Citizens United, then corporations and unions are people, too. They don't want to go back to being creations of natural persons as the founders clearly intended. They don't want to go back to being businesses that provide jobs or unions that represent workers, and leave the voting to voters, rather than using their union millions and corporate billions as speech.
It's the mountains of money in elections and bogus corporate personhood that's on the Nov. 6 ballot, a chance in the first place for us to tell our state representatives and senators that they did the right thing when they voted this summer to make Massachusetts the seventh state to seek a 28th constitutional amendment, which will lay the foundation for cleaning up the mess the Supreme Court has dumped us into.
Nine states have asked for a Democracy Amendment; two-thirds is what the Constitution requires to force action. But even when three-quarters of the states vote to make it a part of the Constitution, that will be just the end of phase one. If all that hasn't stirred up a hornets nest in Washington, DC - with so many lobbyists' livings and usurpation of people's rights on the line – the campaign finance laws that Congress must then reinstate and/or enact and the president sign will certainly make inside the Beltway look like a hurricane fighting a tornado.
You probably have questions about this issue and want to know how you can get them answered. Newburyport area voters will have that opportunity on Friday, Nov. 2, when a ballot question information night is scheduled, 7-9, at the firefighters hall behind the Newbury Town Hall.
The main speakers will the candidates in the 1st Essex state representative race, Lenny Mirra, Republican, and Barry Fogel, Democrat, who are both concerned about excessive campaign spending, emphasizing the non-partisan nature of this issue.
The moderators will be Kathy Lique, founder of Move To Amend North Shore, one of the sponsors, and myself. The other sponsor is the Social Action Committee, First Religious Society, Unitarian Universalist, Newburyport.
See you at your polling place on Nov. 6.
John Harwood of Newbury is a retired community journalist and a patriot.


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Year 5 Breaking News!
Emotional Intelligence information
Attached to this post is an introduction to emotional intelligence learning supplied by the teacher who runs the sessions, My Taylor-Edwards. It does have an American background but the principles behind it are relevant to all children today.
Roald Dahl
Next Wednesday (13th September) we will be celebrating Roald Dahl day. Come dressed as your favourite Roald Dahl character and bring wellies or some other shoes that you don't mind getting dirty.
Enterprise Project Winner Announcement - Galaxy of Toys
We were visited by "The Dragon's" who came to judge our enterprise project. They were highly complimentary of the pupils in year 5, which made judging the children's achievements a very difficult task. However in the end they chose Galaxy of Toys as the winners.
This group will now go forward to compete against other pupils from each of the Nantwich schools in the New Year. Congratulations to Isabel, Ethan, Rose, Henry and Tal and their fantastic sock puppets and accessories.
May I thank all of the pupils and parents for their enthusiasm and financial contributions. All profits will go to St Luke's Hospice.
Yr 5 Enterprise Project
Yr 5 have been busy making their own products to sell. They held their first sale at lunch today. They will be holding three more sales next week. Every group is already running at a profit. Alan Sugar should be looking here for his next apprentice as we are clearly a talented bunch of young people.
Homework - due in October 17th - Moon phases due in October 24th
This week's homework is linked to our Science theme of Space. There is no cold write. The children have a comprehension to complete about the moon. I am also asking them to record the phases of the moon for the next two weeks - they just need to draw the shape of the moon , once it is dark, every day for 2 weeks. Spag homework is grammar learning the rules for its and it's and our maths homework is converting measures.
Year 5 Assembly Good Queen Bess
Thank you to all of the parents who attended the first celebration assembly of the year. I am sure that many of you will have been singing our song over the week-end. Thank you to all of the children for performing with such confidence and for sharing their knowledge of Queen Elizabeth I.
Welcome to Year 5
Keep an eye out for changes to our webpage; I will keep you all up to date with our latest news.
In year 5 the children will receive 3 pieces of homework each week. English, SPAG and Maths. Homework is set every Wednesday and is to be returned each Monday.
Homework 17/03/16
I am expecting the children to have their newspaper articles in next week. We have been looking at adding and subtracting fractions and the children have chosen an activity sheet to do on this.
Homework 25/02/2016
This week for homework the children have been set a newspaper and a maths sheet on Roman Numerals. We have been learning the Roman Numerals all week in class.
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Dow Secures Section 18 for Oklahoma and Eight Other States for Transform Use in Sorghum Against Sugarcane AphidWed, 11 May 2016 04:50:48 CDT
Dow AgroSciences announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted Section 18 emergency use exemptions in nine more states for the application of Transform® WG insecticide for control of sugarcane aphids in sorghum. Texas recently received a Section 18 approval, and now Section 18 approvals have been issued in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Tennessee for 2016.
Sugarcane aphids continue to be a problem and sorghum growers in affected states need an effective control option like Transform to combat this devastating pest, says Todd Pilcher, product manager, Dow AgroSciences.
Sugarcane aphids first appeared in sorghum in 2013, mostly in Texas and Louisiana, but the last two years have spread across 14 states. Sugarcane aphids feed on plant sap, causing the foliage to turn purple and yellow, thereby reducing yield. The pest also produces a sticky honeydew that collects on leaves and stalks, creating reduced harvest efficiency and clogged combines.
Sugarcane aphids multiply quickly so we need to scout early and often. Early applications of an insecticide with a unique mode of action will help keep those populations in check, says Dr. Robert Bowling, AgriLife Extension entomology specialist at Texas A&M. Not only does Transform insecticide provide control of sugarcane aphids, but its unique chemistry gives growers an effective resistance management tool as well.
Recognizing the pressing needs of growers, Dow AgroSciences is working diligently to support re-established EPA Section 3 registrations of products containing sulfoxaflor in all previously labeled crops. Refer to individual state Section 18 labels for complete application guidelines and limitations.Sorghum growers who would like to learn more about options for controlling this pest can watch the informational video Gaining the Upper Hand Against Sugarcane Aphids currently available at www.TransformMySorghum.com.
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U.S. Trials Bring F-35 and Queen Elizabeth Carrier TogetherOct 10, 2018
Britain has begun its long-awaited carrier trials, which will see the new 65,000-ton Queen Elizabeth-class ship operating with the Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II aircraft for the first time. The carrier is currently performing the trials off the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S. with aircraft from U.S. Naval Air Systems Command and flown by test pilots from the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps and industry partner BAE Systems. More than 500 takeoffs and landings are planned over ...
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If I add a thread to the 4th heddle, I now get this:
This is closer, but still not spot on. I want this:
But I can get it two ways. I can get it by adding one to either side. I'm not sure which is better, or if I can add one to each color, or do I need to add two threads to just one color??? This is the other way I can get the same design, but it will make the other side two threads bigger. So can I add one thread color to each side and get the same thing??
I think the answer is no:
The pattern color needs to change at the point of the design change:
Now the question is, where do I add it to the doubleweave pattern? So far, I have added one to heddle 4, and it is working, but not quite there. If I continue down in the same order, that means I have to add one to heddle 3 of the same color and have it be 2 colors bigger. I can also get the same pattern I'm looking for by taking out one thread from the other color after adding that extra heddle on 4. I decided to go with the second option of adding one and taking one out.
And it works!!!
If I were to actually write the pattern to what it would look like on the loom, this is what it would be:
Notice there are 3 threads in a row of the same color. We added one to heddle 4 and took out one from heddle 6 of the other layer's color. Here is the weird center-fold spot up close:
At this point, I can't really explain the WHY's, except that it breaks the pattern like it's supposed to be broken. I think it's because the pattern is already folding behind it, which is kind of making it opposite anyway, and then having the pattern be opposite again on top of that opposite, it kind of cancels it out. I think this was an issue on my other blankets as well, so I don't think it's the new threading or tie-up that is making the problem. At least it works!! I guess just make note of it for next time!


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'Gabrielle Chanel' was a 'French' fashion designer and founder of the 'Chanel' brand. Her design aesthetic redefined the fashionable woman for the post 'WWI' era. She is the only fashion designer listed on 'Time magazine' list of the 100 most influential people of the '20th century'.
'Chanel' was credited with liberating women from the constraints of the "corseted silhouette" and popularizing the acceptance of a sportive, casual chic as the feminine standard. 'Chanel' influence extended beyond couture clothing. Her design aesthetic was realized in jewelry, handbags, and fragrance.
'Chanel' philosophy was to emphasize understated elegance through her clothing. Her signature scent, 'Chanel No. 5', has become an iconic product. 'Chanel' trademark was a look of youthful ease, a liberated physicality, and unencumbered sportive confidence.
'Harper Bazaar' raved over 'Chanel' designs: "The woman who hasn't at least one 'Chanel' is hopelessly out of fashion … This season the name 'Chanel' is on the lips of every buyer."
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Shooters World Excursion
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April 26, 2017
The Shooters World excursion for 37 Villages Straight Shooters Club members will be a fun exciting day trip.
For those less experienced shooters, the club is providing an NRA Certified Instructor to assist you on the Firing Line and assist in gun purchase decisions.
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Glass and Aluminium Pool Fencing For Springfield Lakes
… Because Your Backyard's Best Feature Isn't Complete Without One
A glass or aluminium pool fence will make your backyard the place to be this summer! Choose from our stylish range of powder-coated aluminium and frameless or semi-frameless glass fencing. Each installation can be customised to your exact taste… which will undoubtedly leave a lasting impression on your friends and family.
Aluminium Pool Fencing
An aluminium pool fence is the perfect addition to your backyard pool or garden. Available in many traditional and contemporary styles – they instantly add character to your home.
You'll be amazed how easy it is to customise your aluminium pool fencing in Springfield Lakes. The process is very simple and gives you the freedom to express your personal tastes.
All you need to do is:
- Choose your desired level of protection for your Salt Water or Non-Salt Water environment
- Select your height and landscape design (Level, Stepped or Sloped)
- Choose your style of fence
- Choose a stylish Spear Head or Post Cap design
- Choose from our single, double and bi-folding or sliding gates
- Select your colour
In a matter of weeks, your aluminium fence will be ready to install and use!
Frameless and Semi Frameless Glass Fencing
Discover the transparent beauty of a frameless or semi frameless glass fence.
The bevelled edges and seamless corners keep your children safe from harm. Each panel is made from 12mm toughened safety glass – four times stronger than traditional glass.
The panels are secured by stainless steel spigots. The spigots can be installed onto any surface via base plates, or bolted in-ground with holes filled with concrete.
A semi frameless glass fence has panels separated by powder-coated aluminium posts. The posts come in many stylish colours and designs to match your property.
- Available in frameless and semi frameless
- Protects your children and pets from unwanted access to the pool
- Made from 12mm toughened glass
- Made with powder-coated spigots and aluminium posts
- Easy to maintain
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Your budget can very quickly be blown to bits without a strategic plan for community outreach.
A solid plan includes performance metrics and monitoring to measure the success of your social media and communication efforts.
First we need to evaluate where you are in your outreach efforts, what you want to achieve to fuel your growth and the constraints and opportunities provided by your existing team and budget.
In so many cases opportunities exist right in our immediate sphere of influence, including customers who would be willing to act as client advocates and business partners who would welcome affiliate marketing efforts.
The opportunity you have with Identity3 is to use us as an extension of your team and/or personal efforts. With us on your side you can identify more clearly the groups within your community, on and off line, and reach out to them through programs that build your business successfully.
Community Marketing Example: Former Redlands, CA mayor and current councilman, Jon Harrison, went solar with HelioPower. Here he is espousing the solar installation, the place it serves in his energy efficiency strategy and the impact of solar savings on his upcoming retirement plans.
More information about our Identity3 video production services as part of your marketing strategy can be found here.


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The Planning Committee is chaired by Councillor Terry Hazard and there are currently 5 members: Cllrs Hazard, P & C Blandamer, Fife & Greenfield.
The Committee meets every month to receive correspondence and consider any items relating to Planning issues.
In particular, the Committee will discuss, monitor progress and make recommendations to the Parish Council on the following areas:
- Any proposals for development within or outside of the Parish which affect the growth, prosperity and wellbeing of the Parish and to consult on any action considered necessary
- Any other business which falls within the remit of this Committee
The Planning Committee has the Council's delegated power to:
- Make comment on any non-contentious proposals and/or applications received
- Respond to consultative documents received by the Council and falling within the remit of the Committee
Members of the public are welcome to attend the meetings and copies of minutes are available to download here or at request to the Parish Clerk


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Seems that after the success of LSCC, London Super Comic Convention, others have taken the hint. London Film and Comic Con have ramped up their guests for their show in July. Guests as follows so far.
Andy Lanning
Si Spurrier
Mike Ploog
David Lloyd
Jack LawrencE
Roger Langridge
David Hine
Kev Hopgood
Gabriel Hernandez Walta
Paul Grist
Simon Furman
Gary Erskine
Ian Boothby
Milo Manara
Alan DavIS
Doug Braithwaite
Mike Collins
Laurence Campbell
Last years event was busy, but that was for the actors and actresses, the comic section was pretty much empty, not sure this year wll be the same.


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Megan Lipinczyk is a 4th-grade teacher, Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert and Skype Master Teacher from Tampa, Florida. She also recently graduated with her master's degree in Educational Leadership. As an educator, she knows it's tough to compete with what engages her students outside of the classroom. Megan fills her classroom with guest speakers, Mystery Skype adventures, and virtual field trips to encourage student engagement and enhance her lessons.
We recently spoke with Megan about how Skype in the Classroom created a whole new world of learning for her students by bringing them meaningful, real-world experiences.
How did your Skype in the Classroom journey begin?
My Skype in the Classroom journey began by inviting a senior software engineer at Pixar Animation Studios to share the steps it took pursue a career specializing in visual effects in movies with my students via Skype.
As a teacher, it was exciting and rewarding to see how interested and engaged my students were about all the different aspects of an amazing and relatable career. I believe that first experience with such an exceptional guest speaker truly sparked their interest. With my students' newfound love for seeing guest speakers in our classroom, I knew we were going to have an exciting year of experiences with Skype in the Classroom.
Can you tell us about one of the most impactful speakers you've had?
One of the great things about bringing in speakers via Skype is the ability to connect with people wherever they are located. Anthony Salcito, vice president of Microsoft Education, took the time to Skype with my students while he was in between flights to Budapest. Mr. Salcito shared his story of how technology impacted his life and how technology can take learning to the next level—his words have stayed with me to this day. Our 21st-century learners need experiences like guest speakers to make real-world connections—even when those speakers are between flights!
How has Skype engaged your 21st-century learners?
In addition to guest speakers, I provide many opportunities for my students to participate in Mystery Skype sessions with classrooms across the globe. This allows my students to practice important geography skills and ask students questions to help them learn about their culture.
During our Mystery Skype sessions, students use maps loaded within their OneNote Class Notebook and use digital inking to narrow down where the mystery class may be located. My classes have virtually traveled to many places, including all over the United States, Germany, and Canada.
In our classroom, we also use Skype to participate in Skype-a-Thon and World Read Aloud Day, and to communicate with our Virtual Valentines!
Skype in the Classroom opened the door to a whole new world of learning for my students. After virtual visits from our guest speakers and numerous Mystery Skype sessions across the globe, my students and I remain hooked. I know I must continue this innovative way of learning for my students. The possibilities are endless with the power of technology—especially for the 21st-century learners of today. If you have not exposed your students to Skype in the Classroom, what are you waiting for?
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One of the most misunderstood of all Veterans Affairs programs is the veteran's benefit for a non-service connected disability. There is a "pension program" available for individuals who are disabled due to the complexities of old age, and need assistance with activities of daily living. Basic activities of daily living (ADL's) include: bathing, dressing, grooming, incontinence care, transfer, ambulation, etc. Instrumental ADL's are items such as transportation, laundry, housekeeping and meal preparation. This VA benefit is also defined as an Aid and Attendance benefit, because an individual requires the regular aid (help) and attendance (presence) of another person in order to avoid the dangers and hazards incident to their daily living environment.
This Aid and Attendance benefit is available to a veteran or a widow or widower of a veteran. A married veteran can receive up to a maximum of $1,950 per month in benefits, a single veteran $1,644, and a widow or widower can receive up to $1,057 per month for the year 2010.
The program has limitations related to income and assets, however, unreimbursed medical expenses may be used to reduce the applicant's income. The cost of an assisted living facility is an allowable medical deduction which will reduce income to a much lower net income, allowing an applicant to qualify for this benefit. Examples of other medical expenses include: dentures, eyeglasses, hearing aids, hospital expenses, insulin treatment, wheelchair, prescription drugs, etc.
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- Must be at least age 65.
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- Income & Asset limitations, which allows for the deduction of "unreimbursed medical expenses" (mentioned above).
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Top 5 Solo Board Games
Top 5 Solo Board Games
Indietabletop has made it to another year of its solo board game post. While you may see a couple that travelled over to this post I am proud to say I was introduced to a lot of fantastic new solo board games that I felt were fantastic and well-balanced. Below is a list of five games that I feel dictate a nice strategy along with difficulty and fun. They are all great to look at, are unique in their own ways, and can offer a longevity of replay value. My top 5 solo board games.
FlipSide– An awesome solo word building card game that is great for heavy skill and high-score setting. One letter at a time, build the best words you can. With a pyramid build set-up each time you grab a new letter, the letters above to cascade down, creating the randomness of the draw as well as developing the strategy in gameplay. It is suggested this could be played cooperatively!
Hero's Journey Home– A grand dungeon crawling experience with amazing sketch art. The journey begins after the final boss and expands on your journey back home. Fight monsters, avoid ambushes, visit shops, and hire more hero's as you make your way back to safety. I thoroughly enjoy the single player experience in this title and love how well the randomness of the shuffled deck elaborates a fully functional dungeon crawling experience.
Friday- A very difficult yet very exciting solo survival board game. Your job as Friday (Freitag) is to help Robinson Crusoe survive his experience on the island. Though, as the game progresses you will find Robinson is not the brightest and unfortunately, as the in-game times goes on, only worsens with age. On your turn, you will be defeating hazards through a deck building experience. hoping to trash the bad cards and relying on the luck of the draw to secure the better of the cards.
Slowquest Quest 1– The first of the collection of zines printed out from Bodie Hartley. It's a choose your own adventure experience through the Goblin Guard. with 30 pages, run through a couple scenarios and hope to receive the best outcome as you make decisions and flip pages. I felt this was a nice experience for $5 and am excited to watch my zine collection fill. Not to mention the sketch art is fantastic.
Flip City– While not built for a solo-only experience. The solo variant is one of my favorites and elicits a great deal of strategy as your draw deck slowly begins to disintegrate (be removed from play) as you are building your deck and trying to win the game. Winning is simple: collect 8 victory points in one turn before the supply runs out (unless you win through the convenience store). It's quick to learn, easy to play, and a lot of fun.


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Today I have a great guest post from a gentleman who contacted me through my blog. He wanted to share an article with my readers.
I feel that this article is especially of relevance now as we all begin our vacation/travel season for the summer. I always try to stay active when I go on vacation. When I travel I pack my strength band and plan on bodyweight workouts. You may remember last summer I even got to practice yoga on the beach. I also rent a bike if that is offered anywhere and pack some really good sneakers for long walks.
Staying Active Away From Home – Mike Manning
Staying active while traveling can be difficult, but the benefits of exercise while traveling are numerous. Exercise can lower anxiety and stress that are brought on by travel, it helps you sleep better, and last but certainly not least it will enable you to go back home without worrying about your clothes fitting too tightly! With a little bit of effort before leaving on your trip, you'll be reaping the benefits of exercise while bypassing the frustrations of working out in an unfamiliar place.
When booking a hotel, it is easy to glance at list of amenities offered, note that a gym is present and plan to use this for fitness. However, many times upon arrival the gym turns out to be nothing more than a treadmill and stationary bicycle thrown into a room with a television to accompany you while you sweat. This is why some due diligence is extremely important for the fitness aficionado going on a trip. On a recent trip to San Francisco I was able to book a great hotel for my fitness and personal needs because I used a travel reviews site beforehand. I was given a list of the best hotels in San Francisco and was able to parse through that list by seeing what amenities were offered and reviews on those amenities. This truly made my experience so much better. Due to increased demand, many hotels are willing and able to assist in finding suitable workout options for their guests should the hotel not provide any. A phone call to the front desk before booking a hotel room should help you determine all of your fitness options while away from home.
Another great option for staying fit while traveling is preplanning workouts that can be done anywhere. Crossfit, a current fitness phenomenon, has gyms all over the US and if you're already a member of a Crossfit gym it's possible to find one ahead of time where you'll be traveling so that you can stay up to day with the Workout of the Day (WOD). Find a Crossfit gym here and call ahead of time to ask about drop ins.
In order to make sure that you've got all your bases covered, don't forget your workout equipment. Yoga mat, headphones, iPod or music device, tennis shoes, jump rope, resistance bands, exercise friendly clothing, a plan of action and whatever else you might need to keep the fitness going. Knowing what you plan to do before you get to your hotel makes it less likely that you'll make excuses to not exercise while you are away from home.
Michael Manning is a Fitness and healthy living enthusiast who tries to see the best in all situations. He loves to hike, run, weight lift, travel, camp, cook, and be outside. Traveling the world and seeing nature's beauty is his hobby and staying healthy through that is essential to him.
Mike has his own blog, Manning's Musings: Read his blog here: http://mikemanningmusings.blogspot.com/


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One of my favorite books of all time is "Willpower – Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength". This book is full of studies, and practical information relating to focus, productivity, motivation, and the science behind them, with very clear solutions for avoiding all the usually-simple pit falls that get in our way and prevent the satisfaction of being more effective, successful, and productive.
I expect to delve very deep into all of the great gems within it until every last person I know has read the book twice, but for now I'd just touch on one of the many great examples in daily life that it breaks down. That moment, where you think about something you've been meaning to do, perhaps an item on a written todo list, and then the moment after where you pass it off for something else, or just get distracted and move on without completing that thought.
Roy F. Baumeister breaks down from a psychological perspective what's happening in that moment, and backs it up with studies. Essentially, when that moment happens, and we pass off the action required to pursue and execute the said todo task, it's most likely because there is an unclear amount of sub-steps between the desired action and the current state we are in.
For example, perhaps a door in the house is squeaking, you know it needs something to make the squeaking go away, probably some general lubricant oil. Or perhaps even this basic solution isn't known. Either way we can all agree on the desire to make it go away. Every time the door swings open, it squeaks and for that split second, the thought occurs "I want to fix that". Just like looking in the mirror and thinking "I want to go workout today". So what happens the next moment after that? Why does that motivation die?
Usually, Baumeister explains, there is another thought following the "I want to do X" thought, in which the very first sub-step to achieve and finish the over arching goal is identified, or attempted to be identified. And usually that sub-step actually has a subsequent step, in fact there probably several. Like, "to fix the squeak, I'll have to find the oil" and then "I don't know where the oil is", or even "I know I don't have oil, so I'll go to the store". That's where the problem really lays. Because, this chain of mysterious steps, leads to even more steps, like "what kind of oil do I need?" and "is this the best price for the oil?". It can go on an on, and usually the time, effort, and costs involved with each of these steps is much less minimal than my given example. It's exhausting to think about, and as you probably already can relate, is too much to just do on the fly.
It's these sub-steps that trip us up, unless we begin at the first sub-step, and focus on what comes after, we get lost in that moment, thinking about fixing the squeak, thinking about other things it requires, which make this tiny task seem like too much to deal with right now.
The solution to this problem, as outlined in Willpower, is to stop at that moment when you are focused on the issue, break down all the sub-steps, and write them down. This way, you outline a clear path to solving the problem. With this simple method, instead of thinking "I need to fix that squeak" each time you hear it, you will remember the list of steps to fixing the squeak, and if you haven't already executed each one from #1 to completion, you'll make a point to take the next sub-step – instead of getting lost in the indecision and fatigue that comes from having too many unknown variables packed into a tiny action. In most cases, just committing to doing the next sub-step, is an easy thing to do, and getting it done creates a feeling of satisfaction, now, there is just the next simple step, and then it's finished, more feeling of accomplishment, and less things to think about doing. It works, try it.
Now – to make this oh so more relatable for everyone, let's transfer this to working out. Unless you're a personal trainer, someone who already loves exercising and has broken down all those sub-steps to make exercise a part of your life, or you're one of the genetic-jackpot few who can eat anything and remain slim, and whose body becomes jacked after climbing a set of stairs; more likely you are one of the 75% of all humans (with an ectomorph or endomorph body type) who see's their body in the mirror and thinks, I need to stay in shape or "man I have really let myself go these last weeks".
I should mention that a new wave of lifestyle is on the rise where everything you do is essentially a work out, i.e. "movement", but that is a topic for another time. And way too big of a leap for most people if they are even still following along with me in this post.
For now, let's say, you consider a couple hours of playing some sports as your exercise, or going for a run with a friend. Maybe in your mind going to the gym is how to best get into shape for your preference. Are you doing this regularly? Maybe you realize it's not enough, or something's changed, you moved and you don't know the nearest gym. Perhaps, your friends who you play sports with have all been too busy to play recently. Your work schedule could have changed and the time that you used to workout is gone, early morning is all you have and that is painful – trust me I've been there. I have a lot of friends who prefer to work out with a partner, and I hear frequently about said workout partner being unavailable, and this becomes an interruption for both peoples' schedule. In any case, it's easy to understand that once a routine is broken, making a new one doesn't just happen while we sleep, and once again the door is squeaking…
Suddenly, the sub-steps to your workout are gone; you're starting from square one. My biggest pet-peeve sub-step is needing to go to the gym. Most of the time, the hours in my day required to get to the gym, check in, change, use equipment that is shared with other gym members, then shower, and go home – is a huge whopping put down, it seems like a massive hassle for what may amount to be 30-60 minutes of exercise total. I just can't deal with that much time wasted, at least in the past when free time was short, it was too much time to give up to be an acceptable option.
To make working out easier I started running. Running is great, for me the sub-steps are: free time, and running shoes. What changed in my life that made it hard was first A) having a full time job where suddenly I had to get used to running at the end of the day instead of lunch time, as I used to do when I worked from home, and then B) having a serious running related knee injury. My condition made it painful to even walk until I got through physical therapy and rehabilitated my knee back to a point where any kind of exercise, let alone walking, was possible without a shooting pain in my meniscus. Once again, I was back to square one. How could I exercise without injuring my knee again? I was terrified for years to even go for more than a short sprint, the pain from my knee injury, even after it was gone, had me convinced I may never run again (I know that sounds dramatic, but it's true) I just couldn't imagine a life where I had to go through that again.
Initially, I was living in a building with a gym, so I started lifting weights, learned workout routines, and the use of machines which didn't have impact on my knees (elliptical, stationary bikes, etc), but after I moved out of that building, for the next 16 months, I had no weights or machines, or nearby gyms to use. To make matters more complicated I was working at a new startup where as co-founder, exercising was not a planned part of my typically 12-14 hour days. Now I was sitting at a desk, for long periods of time, usually eating lunch at my desk, the only exercise was my walk to work in the morning, and back again at night. I gained a lot of weight.
Eventually I came to my senses and realized all those hours at work were no good if I felt like shit. Without energy, though I might have been very excited about the company we were building, over time the effects of my crappy physical lifestyle would catchup and take a toll on my ability to be effective at work too. Sleep, diet, mind, body, work. They are all connected, you cannot just deep dive into work and have a crappy diet, little sleep, and still expect your mind or body to keep up. Even in a start up, where things move super fast, you need to have a marathon mind. Sleep under your desk all you want, the best ideas come to those who have had a good nights sleep, I promise.
So, I'm 15 pounds over my "good weight", still need to work from 10am – 9pm or 10pm daily, what was I to do? Weekend Warrior might come to mind, the type that just hits the gym hard on the weekends. But I've read enough fitness studies to know this is a fast road to sports injury, that was off the list. Going to the gym or running were not an option, didn't want the injury, didn't want a gym membership. That's when I got creative, I found that for the price of one months gym membership, I could have a full set of weights to work out with at home. A bar bell, two dumbbells, a little creativity in use of my home space, and suddenly there were dozens of different ways to build muscle. It wasn't cardiovascular, but it was something. And now the sub-steps to working out were make time to work out, go to livingroom, assemble weights, workout.
I ordered the weights, they came within a week. I started waking up 2.5 hours before I had to be at work, which gave me enough time to assemble the weights, work out for 30-40 minutes, then make breakfast, then shower and walk to work. It wasn't totally ideal, but actually the results came fast. I started building muscle. Building muscle actually helps your body burn fat instead of storing it, so my waistline started to shrink and there was even a hint of muscles in my torso, which had been gone for a long time. I started feeling stronger and better about myself. I've always slept well so I can't say this improved, though I'm sure my sleep cycles had a net improvement. I started getting into the habit of waking up early which seems impossible to many, I know, unless you've had children (or so I'm told) getting up early unless you have to be somewhere, is not fun, or seemingly unachievable. I started to be motivated to do other physical things that improved my condition including eating healthier, where before it seemed pointless to have some sort of a fitness oriented diet, seeing signs of improvement in my condition, helped edge me further to apply that healthy mindset to other parts of my life. The absolute most important thing though was I had lots more energy, my mood was improved, and I woke up with a positive feeling, which typically didn't emerge out of my usual grumpy self until 10 or 11. Now it took a few minutes to open my eyes, decide to get up, start lifting weights and already I wanted to take on the world.
I've read Willpower nearly three times, I love to dive back in and reference things in it. That being said, the act of breaking down the arduous problem of being out of shape didn't happen with pen and paper, but in my head, as I identified the problem and had too many mornings of looking in the mirror and seeing how unhealthy my body looked, I finally did what seemed ridiculous.
I never thought of myself as a weightlifter. I don't want to have a huge neck, or big arms. But I knew there were health, work, and life benefits to come from being in shape, not to mention being happy about how I looked in the mirror. So I thought deeper into the over-arching goal of being in shape, and realized my sub steps. Here they are as I believe they came together:
- Step 1: I'm out of shape, I have to have a way to work out at home.
- Step 2: I have to identify something that allows me to work out at home.
- Step 3: I can buy a set of weights, and workout at home with those.
- Step 4: I should shop online for a affordable weights set that I could fit in my closet or somewhere that its presence isn't a nuisance.
- Step 5: Wait for the weights to arrive, and assemble them.
- Step 6: Create a routine for using the weights, ideally 2 groups of muscles to workout, alternating 2 days a week.
- Step 7: Search on Youtube for some weight lifting routines I can do.
- Step 8: Look up the workouts I'm going to do and make sure I can do them without hurting myself. (Seriously consider meeting with a personal trainer before doing these things on your own folks)
- Step 9: Wake up an hour earlier twice a week, and work out.
- Step 10: Repeat step 9.
So, that's it, as you can see, the thought "I need to work out" can easily break down into many smaller steps, and usually it's step 2 or 3 where we get lost, distracted, and allow something else in our lives to become the new focus of the moment. But this is how you break the cycle of incomplete todos. It works. If you don't believe me, read Willpower and start on the chapter about this phenomenon, the studies should be proof enough.
In summary, I want to go on and talk about all the other great things that came to my life. As a direct or indirect result of finding a new way to stay in shape (so many seriously wonderful things), most obvious of all though not least important, is that the muscles I built lifting weights at home, re-enabled me to go running again within a few months! The most important and only take away from this post I hope you have if it's just one, is the extremely effective art of avoiding your own self destructive habits, and decision fatigue, by separating out the many unexpected steps within that one todo item on your list which keeps getting put off. It will change your life I promise. People who can get things done stand out from the others, since so many suffer from the problems associated with not getting things done. If you show of this simple skill at work, with friends, and other settings, you will be recognized and rewarded. It's just too valuable to not to be.


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Family Ducks, Geese, Swans (Anatidae)
Least Concern
Snow Goose (Anser caerulescens)
French: Oie des neiges German: Schneegans Spanish: Ánsar nival
Other common names: Greater Snow Goose (atlanticus), Lesser Snow Goose, Blue Goose (caerulescens)
Anas caerulescens
Linnaeus, 1758,
Hudson Bay.
Subspecies and Distribution
A. c. caerulescens
(Linnaeus, 1758) – Wrangel I (off NE Russia); N Alaska and N Canada E to SW Baffin I. Winters in W & SC USA and N Mexico.
A. c. atlanticus
(Kennard, 1927) – NW Greenland and islands in N Baffin Bay, Canada. Winters in CE USA.
Descriptive notes
66–84 cm; male c. 2700–3800 g, female 3065 g (atlanticus), male 1600–2300 g, female 2280 g (nominate); wingspan 132–165 cm. Only possible... read more
Most frequent is hard cackling, rather nasal and high-pitched, "la-luk", likened to barking by... read more
Low, grassy tundra, generally in close association with water (ponds, shallow lakes or river deltas... read more
Food and feeding
Essentially vegetarian; roots, tubers, leaves, grasses, stems and seed heads of various aquatic plants and sedges; in winter also grain and... read more
Starts Jun, typically as soon as areas become free of snow and usually within 7–10 (exceptionally c. 17) days of arrival on nesting... read more
Migratory, departs breeding grounds to winter along Atlantic and Gulf coasts of USA, and in SW... read more
Status and conservation
Not globally threatened (Least Concern). Numerous, with increase of nominate race in C North America, from 424,600 in 1969 to 1,358,000 in 1988 and now speculated to number... read more
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