text: Nikki Livermore Report post Posted November 20, 2012 I thought I'd post this here because it pertains to our long-eared friends and I'm guessing it might be a good FYI sort of thing. Dr. Juliet Getty wrote this article on "fat" for our health section and this was a question posed to her after publishing it... I didn't know about Hyperlipemia and I think our donkey has it for sure. Question: I have a question about a comment made that Mules, Ponies, Mini's and Donkeys should not receive a high fat diet. Could you tell me why it would be bad for them and does this mean that they should not get something like the Nutra Flax either? Is fat also bad for IR/PPID horses/mules/etc?Answer: If you have my book, Feed Your Horse Like A Horse, take a look at pages 226-227 for a discussion on Hyperlipemia. This disorder can affect minis, ponies, mules, and donkeys because they are genetically predisposed toward developing insulin resistance (metabolic syndrome). PPID (Cushing's) also results in insulin resistance, secondarily. Adding fat to the diet can make them become overweight, which increases insulin resistance. And insulin resistance makes it difficult for the tissues to get the glucose they need, and will therefore pump more triglycerides into the bloodstream, leading to this dangerous disorder known as hyperlipemia. In addition, their genetics favor a low fat diet. This doesn't mean that you can't add any fat, such as a small amount of Nutra Flax (flaxseed meal). Some omega 3s are beneficial in lowering circulating insulin levels, but be very conservative in feeding it, depending on the weight status of your animal. Find out about Dr. Getty and read more here >> http://horsecity.com...re-health/16120 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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By Erick Lappin
When you go to an event and the door guy takes a Sharpie and draws a happy face on your hand because they ran out of wristbands, then you know fun is on its way. And it's likely helped along by the free drink that comes with your parking ticket.
That's how things unfolded Saturday at tattoo, boutique, and bar Kreepy Tiki in Fort Lauderdale. It was the fourth edition of the Revenge of the Tiki festival, a full-day affair that stretched from noon to 3 a.m.
After a three-year gap, Monterey Club promoter Rob Stannard and Kreepy Tiki owner Jackson Valiente combined an exhibition of classic cars from the '40s, '50s, and '60s with live music and sexy pinup and burlesque shows -- in two different spots, both inside and outside at the big parking lot in rear.
"When we started the first time, my partner and I did everything ourselves," said Stannard. "Now, we have a full-scale stage. Besides growth, we have more vendors this year."
See also: Revenge of the Tiki IV at Kreepy Tiki in Fort Lauderdale (NSFW Photos)
Eye-popping automobiles were parked in the store's driveway on South Federal Highway, welcoming people as they entered the shop. Some acts performed inside, a very kind and literally warm move for those Floridians not built for the chilly winds that blew Saturday night.
In there, you could also have tattoo masters put fresh ink in your skin or buy some stuff from their pinup parlor. Kreeky Tiki is a hub for pinup culture in the Fort Lauderdale area. It's actually putting the vintage scene in the map with its rockabilly-inspired products and the Revenge festival. "We realize there was nothing like this in this area," explains Stannard of its popularity.
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The ladies made their way to the main stage about 8 p.m. for a sexy contest, so that's when the party really heated up. These beautiful gals not only dressed like they were teleported from America's Golden Age but they actually spoke and gestured in old-timey fashions. Single mother Veronica Blackshire won the contest. "I grew up listening to music from the '50s and '60s," she said. "Then I turned 40, and I wanted to do something totally different from what I usually do." As far as her beginnings as a pinup girl, she said, "a lot of people seem to enjoy it, but a lot of people don't have the guts to do it."
All day in the rear parking area, people made stops at the kiosks for food, rockabilly dresses and accessories, and artisanal, esoteric, and vintage items. Back there, people rocked their bodies to the beats of bands onstage flanked by classic cars.
Revenge of the Tiki IV had about 23 acts that spanned genres, from country, punk, and metal to everything in between. The sonic menu included Black Cat Attack, a horror-punk band from Ottawa, Canada. Rockabilly bands Cuban Pete and the Hialeah Hooligans and Lara and the Ark Tones hailed from Hialeah (naturally) and New York, respectively. Well-known country singer and songwriter Wayne "The Train" Hancock even performed late at night.
Second time playing the Revenge of the Tiki stage, El Bastardo, singer and acoustic guitarist for Los Magnificos Bastardos, said, "This is awesome. I'll be here every year!" He ended their song "Samael" with a cappella vocals. The crowd responded with glee and a loud ovation, offering one of the coolest moments of the evening.
In fact, the audience was the most impressive component of the affair. Some may associate old cars and vintage culture with older people, but this was a multigenerational event. It had it all: VW wagons, cowboy boots and hats, bouffants decorated with tropical flowers, choppers, curly mustaches, hipsters, and even an acid punk trio called Fate Punx made up of very young musicians whose fingers plucked the strings with the speed of light. And of course, there was a lot of grease.
I take notes of my observations on my iPhone and must admit I felt like a weirdo using it. Literally nobody was talking on the phone or texting (including younger people). It made me realize this event had a different vibe.
Some in the audience traveled far and wide to be there. That was the case of Nadeem Khan, a classic car aficionado who traveled from Orlando to be there. "I don't do this for a living. I love cars, man," he said, "I'm hanging out with my brothers and sisters having a great time." And on the type of automobiles the tiki followers build, he commented: "There is no period range. It could be from the '30s, '40s, '50s, or '60s, but it has to be authentic. It's all about purity. Modern parts and old parts don't mix. We don't like modern shit, and others think we're assholes for that."
Kreepy Tiki's owner Valiente concluded of the fourth installment of the Revenge of the Tiki: "This is a way for us to celebrate with a big-ass party our lifestyle and bring everybody together from far away." And it surely did.
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Join me as I catch up with Owen and learn more about his life, why he came to Scotland, and how he's forged a career as a storyteller, woodcarver, and Forest Schools facilitator.
The programme gets under way on Sunday 5th July at 12noon BST (UK/Ireland) on Blues and Roots Radio. Click on the preceding link and go to their website at the appropriate time and voilá, you'll be listening.
For times in the Eastern time zone in Canada and US, you'll wanting to be tuning in at 7am. And if you live in Australia, tune in at 9pm.
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Artist Talk: Thursday, May 18 - 6:00pm
The paintings which comprise "Oblivion" developed out of a previous form, entitled "If You See Something…" They were, and are, a meditation on witnessed experience, subjectivity, and interpersonal relationships (how they form us as subjects, individually and collectively). The figures represented within them are an embodiment-- a visual manifestation of an abusive relationship where the abuse wasn't seen-- as well as an attempt to relate to the experience of abuse, thereby forming my own subjective understanding of it.
It is a group of paintings to which I knew I would return after time had grown between the aforementioned experience, the creation of the work, and the present. This exhibition is the form of that return-- a moment of reflection after time has begun its own process of curation-- where what is forgotten and what is remembered inform what is present.
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October 28, 2009
"No Accountability: Why are bad prosecutors so rarely punished?"The title of this post is the headline of this important column by Radley Balko at Reason. Here are just some of the potent parts of Balko's effective commentary:
As DNA exonerations continue to accumulate across the country, we're left with some tough questions about accountability for the public officials who put innocent people in prison. Certainly in some cases honest mistakes can be forgiven. But what about cases, like that of John Purvis, where a prosecutor illegally withholds evidence of a suspect's innocence? What about prosecutors who participated in multiple wrongful convctions? Is it fair to hold them accountable years or decades later? What of those who went on to become judges, and now preside over murder cases? ...
Something is wrong here. It may well be true that the prosecutors noted above represent a tiny minority of those who serve or have served in the position. But whatever the number of "bad apples," our criminal justice and political systems seem unconcerned about weeding them out. Instead, they're often rewarded and promoted, despite long records of incompetence and misconduct. In fact, in the sense that misconduct can help win convictions, such prosecutors are often rewarded because of it. The Innocence Project estimates that prosecutorial misconduct factored into about a fourth of the wrongful convictions handled by the organization. Yet in none of those cases did a prosecutor face any serious sanction.
Be it through state bar association actions, judicial investigations and discipline, or legislation creating some other means of oversight, bad and incompetent prosecutors need to be held to account. When a prosecutor perpetrates misconduct or demonstrates incompetence that sends an innocent person to jail, it's a regrettable but understandable product of the fact that that any large system is going to have bad actors. But when that prosecutor remains free to go on prosecuting other cases, with no repercussions, the very legitimacy of the criminal justice system is called into question.
Following up on Balko's points, I would be especially interested in reader opinions as to whether "bar association actions, judicial investigations and discipline, or legislation creating some other means of oversight" seems like the best way to try to start tackling this real problem.
My first instinct is to wonder if some kind of "citizens' review board of prosecutorial actions," akin to review boards that are sometimes created to review police actions, might be useful. Of course, grand juries are supposed to serve this role at the outset of criminal prosecutions, but their efficacy in discovering and dealing with bad and incompetent prosecutors is limited by a number of practical and institutional factors. A back-end review board, which is only tasked with discovering and dealing with bad and incompetent prosecutors could perhaps achieve a lot of good. But that's just my first thought and I'd like to hear a lot more from others.
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Nice to see conservatives express concern about the abuse of power rather than bowing to it. In answer to your question about whether bar association actions serve to "police" law enforcement, consider this opinion about a county judge in Nebraska:
"The complaint alleged that actions taken by Krepela before he became a judge constitute conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice which brings the judicial office into disrepute in violation of Neb. Rev. Stat. § 24-722(6) (Reissue 1995). The complaint alleges that in 1984, while serving as the county attorney for Madison County, Krepela altered a copy of a police report in a criminal case, provided the altered report to defense counsel, and asked the officer who made the report to either alter his original report or alter his testimony to conform to the changes made by Krepela. The complaint further alleges that Krepela did not disclose his actions to officials or entities and that he violated criminal statutes.
A special master concluded that in light of Krepela's otherwise good record, his actions did not constitute conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice which brings the judicial office into disrepute. The Commission found by clear and convincing evidence that Krepela altered the police report and asked the officer who wrote the report to alter the original. The Commission determined that Krepela's actions did constitute conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice that brings the judicial office into disrepute and recommended that Krepela be removed from office. We enter a judgment of suspension for 6 months without pay."
Altering a copy of a police report to remove the invocation of the right to counsel does "not constitute conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice" because of the judge's "otherwise good record."
Doesn't that answer your question?
Posted by: David | Oct 28, 2009 10:10:06 AM
I like the idea of citizen review boards, yet it's usually the powers that be, which typically includes the local prosecuting office, who appoints them.
I've often wondered why there is no apparent followup or sanction against prosecuting attorneys who exclude black jurors after a Batson objection is sustained. If anything, the offending prosecutor seems to be promoted: in one memorable case, where the prosecutor told the trial judge he struck two jurors because they were black women -- an admission that brought no relief until the direct appeal, see State v Holman, 759 S.W.2d 902 (Mo. App. 1988) -- the prosecutor went from the county prosecutor's office to the U.S. Attorneys. Even in this decade, AUSAs found by district court judges to have excluded black jurors based on race have suffered no apparent impediment to their advancement nor any other sanction which seems to contradict the supposed emphasis on public confidence the Batson decision championed.
Posted by: SEH | Oct 28, 2009 10:37:27 AM
One might ask the same question about the lack of discipline for defense lawyers found to have been ineffective. That is ever rarer than proceedings against prosecutors.
I suspect that courts would be more reluctant to find ineffective assistance or prosecutor misconduct if they knew the finding would likely ruin someone's career.
"Of course, grand juries are supposed to serve this role at the outset of criminal prosecutions, but their efficacy in discovering and dealing with bad and incompetent prosecutors is limited by a number of practical and institutional factors."
I hereby nominate this sentence for Understatement of the Year.
Posted by: Kent Scheidegger | Oct 28, 2009 11:24:33 AM
I cover these issues in my just-published article, Prosecutorial Regulation Versus Prosecutorial Accountability, in the U Penn Law Review. Briefly, judges and bar authorities seem to have bigger fish to fry (such as private counsel who embezzle funds or sleep with clients), and prosecutors are politically popular so legislatures rarely want to interfere. Don't get me wrong--I think it couldn't hurt to try citizens' review boards. But the more promising long-term strategy is to make prosecutors' offices more transparent and accountable, by giving voters better information about performance statistics and misdeeds so that they will check DAs. Then DAs need to use more lessons from management literature to supervise, train, and rein in line prosecutors. Right now, there's just not enough of a public or internal check to make DAs learn about and reward good behavior and weed out bad apples. I also like Adam Gershowitz's idea of prosecutorial shaming, publicizing intentional prosecutorial misconduct to impose its own reputational harms on bad apples.
Posted by: Stephanos Bibas | Oct 28, 2009 11:27:03 AM
I fear that prosecutors have insulated themselves enough that there is no viable fix. I would like to see prosecutors face qualified rather than absolute immunity but I don't see that happening. It won't surprise me if SCOTUS rules for the prosecutors in the upcoming case of evidence creation.
Posted by: Soronel Haetir | Oct 28, 2009 12:18:58 PM
In my 35 years of practicing law, I have found that teh great majority of prosecuotrs are honorable men and women who understand their duty to do justice. As for the others, we should not hesitate to report them to the bar. The disciplinary actions vary from the mild to the severe, but can still ruin a political career. See e.g., Disciplinary Counsel v. Wrenn, 99 Ohio St.3d 222, 790 N.E.2d 1195 (2003) (six-month stayed suspension imposed for assistant county prosecutor's concealment of exculpatory evidence in a criminal case); Disciplinary Counsel v. Jones (1993), 66 Ohio St.3d 369, 613 N.E.2d 178 (six-month actual suspension imposed for assistant county prosecutor's failure to advise court in criminal prosecution that he had found previously misplaced evidence that was potentially exculpatory or mitigating); In re Jordan 913 So.2d 775, 2004-2397 (La.,2005) (prosecutor who knowingly withheld Brady evidence from defendant would be suspended for three months, but in light of mitigating factors, this suspension would be deferred in its entirety); Committee on Professional Ethics v. Ramey, 512 N.W.2d 569, 572 (Iowa 1994)(indefinitely suspending prosecutor for failing to disclose police reports to the defense by arguing that the reports were not material and making a material misrepresentation to the court concerning evidence); Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Jones, No. 92-32, slip op. at 4-6 (Ohio Misc. Dec. 4, 1992), 66 Ohio St.3d 369, 613 N.E.2d 178, 178 (1993)(suspending the prosecutor for six months for knowingly failing to disclose during the course of a trial the existence of evidence that tended to negate guilt, mitigate the degree of the offense or reduce the punishment); in the Matter of Zapf, 126 Wis.2d 123, 375 N.W.2d 654, 655 (1985)(publicly reprimanding district attorney for failing to disclose discoverable material in the course of a criminal trial);
Posted by: Michael R. Levine | Oct 28, 2009 1:39:19 PM
I honestly fail to see how suspension or ruination of a political career are great enough punishment for these types of offenses. Prosecutors should be monetarily liable to defendants they wrong.
I also see a great deal of difference between an ineffective defense lawyer and a prosecutor who commits misconduct. The former would not even be involved were it not for the actions of the latter. The defense attorney wrongs one client at a time, the prosecutor wrong society as a whole with every act of misconduct.
Posted by: Soronel Haetir | Oct 28, 2009 1:55:11 PM
Now I'm going to sound like SC but I think the biggest problem is self-dealt immunities. I think the proper course of action is the political process by the political process is hamstrung by self-dealt immunities. The main self-dealt immunity in this case is the requirement (at least here in NM) is that one must be a lawyer to be a prosecutor. In my rural county the prosecutor is incompetent and everyone knows it. But there might be ten lawyers in the whole county and it's a buddy system. They rotate the job. Competition has been artificially limited.
I do understand the goal of bringing professionalism to the system and the idea of being an officer of the court. Such ideas work very well in big city environments where there is a large enough base of competent people to draw upon. But it has been devastating to rural communities who already suffer from a small pool of people to begin with, and then it is narrowed down to what really is an oligarchy of lawyers.
I believe in the long run the political process will work. But I'm afraid to say that this is one area where SC theories are spot on.
Posted by: Daniel | Oct 28, 2009 3:43:38 PM
I honestly don't believe it works a whole lot better in cities, it's just hidden better.
Posted by: Soronel Haetir | Oct 28, 2009 4:10:04 PM
In California prosecutors who engage in misconduct become judges. See People v. Morris and the then DA (now judge) Art Jean.
Posted by: bk | Oct 28, 2009 7:39:37 PM
Prof. Berman: When you were in Philadelphia, I wanted you to speak to local prosecutors, to find out if they were at will employees. From the website, it sounds as if they are, "in accordance with the interest of the prosecutor's office."
If they are at will employees, that means they may be severely punished, lose pension vestments, etc., all at the snap of a finger. I have spoken to some elsewhere, and they live in fear, not of accountability to the public, but of crossing the politicians holding elected DA positions.
Posted by: Supremacy Claus | Oct 28, 2009 7:49:12 PM
There you go again. Not a fact in sight with your allegation that defense attorneys who are found to be ineffective face less trouble than prosecutors. In many jurisdictions, such as Texas being found to be ineffective means a bar referral. Then there are malpractice insurance fees which I suspect you have never paid that can wipe profitability out for many small firms and solos. Then again there is the fact that being found to have rendered ineffective assistance of counsel isn't exactly good for advertising.
Posted by: .. | Oct 28, 2009 8:59:48 PM
An Assistant United States Attorney in Dallas withheld Brady evidence (the amount of drugs involved) for which Section 2255 relief was granted, sentence vacated, and defendant resengtenced to time served. 871 F.2d 1257 (5th Cir. 1989). A disciplinary action was commenced against the AUSA before the Texas Bar and no action was taken nor was the prosecutor asked to show cause for his unprofessional, unethical conduct; nor did the Court take any action to ensure "accountability."
Posted by: benson weintraub | Oct 29, 2009 8:19:54 AM
Double period, are you a different person from single period or are we watching cell division in progress?
The rarity of bar discipline for crim. defense IAC is my impression from reading my state bar rag for many years. In addition, the frequency with which capital case trial counsel fall on their swords rather than defend their defense suggests that they don't see much downside to an IAC finding. While criticizing the lack of facts in my comment (which is, after all, a comment and not a brief or law review article), you offer essentially none of your own. Bar referral means practically nothing if the bar regularly files them in the trash. If you have facts that they don't, let's hear them.
Posted by: Kent Scheidegger | Oct 30, 2009 12:38:08 PM
SEH said: "I suspect that courts would be more reluctant to find ineffective assistance or prosecutor misconduct if they knew the finding would likely ruin someone's career."
I suspect attorneys would be reluctant to provide ineffective assistance and prosecutors would be reluctant to perform misconduct, if they knew their actions would likely ruin someone's LIFE! Then again, maybe they wouldn't.
Posted by: Emma | Nov 3, 2009 2:48:42 PM
Isn't really serious prosecutorial misconduct, such as fabricating evidence, the crime of obstruction of justice, or worse? In some cases I think special prosecutors from other counties should be appointed to pursue such misconduct criminally. Politically, that may be a non-starter. Creating personal tort liability for bad prosecutors and the counties that tolerate them would probably be more efficacious.
Posted by: Michael O'Reilly | Nov 5, 2009 3:15:03 AM
"I suspect that courts would be more reluctant to find ineffective assistance or prosecutor misconduct if they knew the finding would likely ruin someone's career."
Valid concern in theory, though in my jurisdiction, I'm not sure courts could *get* more reluctant to do either of these things, especially the latter.
Posted by: anon | Nov 5, 2009 9:52:52 AM
My brother is being falsely accused of child molestation. His lawyer says the evidence is so weak that it should not be going to trial. Trial starts this week. Defense lawyer has told my brother that the olny reason it is going to trial is because the assistant prosecutor(s) is facing layoff due lack of work. Do you think we need some sort of citizens review board to watch over the case load?
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Derrick has loved dancing since he was young but didn't start swing dancing until 2011 after moving to San Diego and looking for a way to meet more people. He quickly found himself out 4-5 nights a week either at classes, social dances or working with performance teams. Derrick believes the most important thing about dancing is to have fun. Derrick's dancing voice is expressive and unique and he hopes to help his students find their own creativity as they progress.
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Sarah started swing dancing in 2006 in her hometown of Los Angeles. She has competed and placed at events as an individual, partnered, and team competitor. In her teaching as well as her dancing, she hopes to bring a sense of joy, creativity, and connection. She works to foster a learning environment in which students can develop not only their technique and movement vocabulary, but also trust and curiosity in exploring their dancing. Her favorite thing about dancing in LA is the opportunity to dance to live music almost every night of the week-something she'd love to help grow in the San Diego swing community!
Jenn fell in love with lindy hop nearly 20 years ago and has been dancing, teaching and performing in San Diego ever since. Jenn's favorite thing about teaching is sharing the joy of social dancing with my students. For her, each dance is a new and creative experience – whether dancing with someone she's known a long time, or with a person she just met. In her classes, she likes to focus on technique and connection while making sure everyone is smiling. Jenn doesn't bite, but she does kick!
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Want to be a seamstress? Where do you begin?
A well-known song from The Sound of Music says…. start at the very beginning, a very good place to start!
- When you read you begin with ABC,
- When you sing you begin with DohRayMe,
- When you sew you begin with Sewing Projects for Beginners…..
Sewing Projects for Beginners
Sewing and the enjoyment you get from learning a few simple techniques will be rewarding. A new hobby and making gifts for friends or some soft furnishings for your home will always bring a sense of pride and joy.
Who knows this could be that start of a new business – your own homegrown approach to what began as a beginner's steps to success.
Further reading: Starting a sewing business, How to succeed at craft fairs
When you are starting to learn to sew, you want quick, easy sewing projects that don't use a lot of fabric. Here I have put together a list of sewing projects for beginners perfect for getting you started. Best of all these are all FREE patterns!
Want More?
Did you know I have a YouTube channel with free sewing projects and sewing tips? You can learn new sewing skills as you go along and don't forget to search my sewing blog if there is a new technique that you are not sure about.
Here is one of my favourite videos for beginners.
What you will Need
At a minimum, you will need your sewing machine, some pins, a ruler, scissors and of course fabric.
Sewing machines don't need to be fancy. Some of the old-fashioned machines that only do a straight stitch, sew beautifully. And if your machine does a zig-zag stitch, then bonus – you can sew some stretch fabric items.
Further Reading: Best Sewing Machine for your Budget, Beginner Sewing Kit, Marking Tools, Best Scissors
Before you Start
If you are not yet confident to start sewing, then have a read of my article SEWING 101 for a refresher on all the basics.
Popular topics for beginners include Cutting, Marking, Gathering, Stitching Seams
Sewing Projects for Beginners
I have broken these down into sections to make it easier for you. What do you feel like sewing?
Home Decor Sewing Projects for Beginners
The best thing about sewing home decor is that there are no sizing issues to worry about. If you have never sewn anything before, then start with the 10-minute envelope cushion cover. It might take you a little longer but it is one of the easiest things you can make. Imagine transforming your house with things you have made. You will be so proud!
Hair Accessory Sewing Projects for Beginners
Hair accessories take only a scrap of fabric so are great for learning to sew. If you make a mistake, just grab another scrap.
Free Kids Patterns for Beginners
The best thing about sewing for kids (besides being the envy of the other parents at school pick-ups) is that they don't need much fabric. My daughter always proudly tells people "My Mummy made this".
Bows for Clothing and Hair
Bows can be added to hair clips or attached to clothing for added flair.
Doll Sewing Projects for Beginners
The first thing I ever sewed when I was seven, was a doll skirt. Doll clothing and projects are great for teaching kids to sew too.
Sewing Projects for Gifts and Yourself.
Make yourself something fun or sew these beginner sewing projects for a gift. Imagine how proud you will be to pull out a cardholder that you have made yourself. Or get some much needed extra sleep after you have sewed your first sleep mask.
Christmas Crafts
Sewing Christmas projects makes me happy and is a great way to involve the whole family.
Start at the beginning and see where the journey takes you! One small step for Neil Armstrong took him to the moon, who knows where you could go with taking the first steps with a needle and a thread!
Further Reading
Now that you know how to sew you might be thinking about making a little money from it 🙂


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Arnold, Unrein Named DAC Players of the Week, Vikes Move Up
Apr 5th, 2006 @ 9:29 am | Author: Vikings Sports News
A pair of Vikings first basemen have been named the DAC Players of the Week.
Vikings baseball first baseman Reid Arnold, and Vikings softball first baseman Kelli Unrein received DAC honors for their performances over the last week.
Arnold, a sophomore from Fargo, was 11 of 19 for a .579 average as the Vikings went 3-2 during the week. For the week, he had one home run, six RBIs, three runs scored, one stolen base, two doubles and three walks.
Unrein, a junior from Baker, Mont., Unrein went 14 of 26 at the plate for a .538 batting average in helping the Vikings to a 7-1 record for the week. In eight games she had five home runs, 12 RBI, five runs scored and one walk.
The Vikings softball team also moved up to sixth place in the NAIA Region III poll.
The following is the 2006 NAIA Region III softball rating for the week of April 3rd. Region III consists of teams from the Dakota Athletic Conference (DAC), Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC), and Northland College, WI (Independent).
1) Dickinson State University, ND, (16-2) (DAC)
2) Dana College, NE, (17-4) (GPAC)
3) Morningside College, IA, (17-5) (GPAC)
4) Northwestern College, IA, (18-6) (GPAC)
5) Jamestown College, ND, (12-6) (DAC)
6) Valley City State University, ND, (11-2) (DAC)
7) Midland Lutheran College, NE, (13-11) (GPAC)
8) Minot State University, ND, (9-7) (DAC)
9) Dakota State University, SD, (15-7) (DAC)
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Employment Opportunity: ACORN Outreach & Communications Coordinator
Duration: 15-month maternity leave
Location: Sackville, New Brunswick
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Since 2000, the Atlantic Canadian Organic Regional Network (ACORN) has been the key organization for information on organic agriculture, eating organics, and connecting all the parts together. From seed to farmer to consumer, ACORN serves as a network and a resource for all Atlantic Canadians interested in organic food and agriculture.
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This role provides the opportunity to lead ACORN's consumer education programming through the creation of marketing materials developed with and for organic producers and the delivery of direct-to-consumer training. ACORN's Outreach & Communications Coordinator is also charged with managing all ACORN's communications, relaying not only the "local and organic better together" message, but also keeping ACORN's membership and broader network informed and engaged with ACORN events, resources and relevant news.
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This is a full-time, 15-month maternity leave position starting July 16, 2018 that may have some possibility for extension (up to 18 months). The selected candidate will work out of ACORN's office in Sackville, New Brunswick. Compensation includes participation in ACORN's Benefits program.
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19 When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, "Peace be to you."
20 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord. 21 Jesus therefore said to them again, "Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you." 22 When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit! 23 Whoever's sins you forgive, they are forgiven them. Whoever's sins you retain, they have been retained."
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Feb. 10, 2016
THE FLATS – The Georgia Tech softball team is set to play in eight games that will air online via ESPN3 in 2016. Tech has potential to play additional TV games as the quarterfinals and semifinals of the ACC Championship May 12-13 will be broadcast on the ACC Regional Sports Networks and the championship game May 14 will air on ESPN.
The Yellow Jackets' ESPN3 broadcast schedule includes:
Feb.19 – Ohio State at Georgia Tech
March 25 – Virginia Tech at Georgia Tech
March 26 – Virginia Tech at Georgia Tech (DH)
April 13 – Georgia at Georgia Tech
April 30 – Georgia Tech at NC State
May 8 – North Carolina at Georgia Tech (DH)
All ESPN3 games are also available on smartphones, tablets, Xbox and Apple TV via the WatchESPN app.
Fans can follow all home games that are not scheduled to be televised via live All-Access ($) links on the softball schedule page at www.RamblinWreck.com.
Admission is free for all home Georgia Tech softball games, and the Jackets kick off the 2016 home slate Feb. 19-21 when Tech hosts Ohio State and Purdue in the inaugural softball ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
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I recently got 2 new eyeshadows - Benefit Silky Powder Eyeshadow in Low Profile and ELF Matte Eyeshadow in Chestnut.
I am a nude eyeshadow-aholic!! I always use a nude eyeshadow as a base no matter what look I am going for, this is not a comparison of the two eyeshadows as I love them equally!!
I find nude eyeshadows really hard to swatch and photograph so I have applied each shade to my eye and hopefully it will give you an idea of what they are like.
Benefit Silky Powder Eyeshadow 3.5g - RRP £13.00.
Benefit have discontinued the Silk Powder Eyeshadow range and seemed to have replaced it with Velvet Eyeshadows, but you can still pick the Silk Powders up online from different stores. The name 'Silk Powder' is a perfect description of this product, to the touch it is almost creamy, so soft and...silky! Once applied it's flawless, giving your skin a matte creasless base - can you tell I am impressed!!
I have never owned a single Benefit eyeshadow, the ones I have had have always been in a set/kit. It is a genorous size and will last me quite some time. I have to say I do prefer the packaging of the new Velvet Eyeshadows to this one but the quality is amazing.....
If you want a cheaper (yet smaller) alternative you should definitly try the ELF Studio Matte Eyeshadow 1.5g RRP £3.50 Chestnut.....
Because this is a loose eyeshadow it can get slightly messy but it's brilliant. It looks bitty in it's conatiner and clumps together but when applying it it glides on smoothly and is the best matte eyeshadow I have used to date, I want more shades!! Well done ELF.
(excuse my unruley brow!!!)
On the ELF website Chestnut looks brown but when applied I would say it has pink undertones and is really light yet warm.
I think both of these shadows are great everyday shadows or bases.
What's your got-to everday shadow?
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I also have that Benefit eyeshadow, I love to use it as an all over base or a brow highlight if I want something matte. I think it's a good dupe for MAC Brûlée and you get more for your money :)ReplyDeleteReplies
These look great! I haven't tried anything from Elf before, starting to think I'm missing out ;) You have a lovely blog here :)ReplyDelete
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Former Cardinals kicker Phil Dawson retires LISTEN: Sam Bradford, Cardinals QB Your browser does not support the audio element. Although Sam Bradford has dealt with injuries for much of his career, the new Cardinals quarterback has gained some positives through all the negative.So when he was asked about his knee problems during his introductory press conference on Friday, he didn't shy away from the answers."Each time, it's a little bit tougher mentally," he said. "As you get older, you just realize how precious each game is and how few of these opportunities that you are given and so I think each time that it's taken away from you it's a little bit harder because you realize what your missing out on and I think that's what really gets you to put all the work in in the offseason and to not be able to be out there with your guys and to not be able to compete on Sundays, that's the tough part about it." Grace expects Greinke trade to have emotional impact "Obviously there's some wear and tear on the knee, I've been through a lot with it but all I can tell you is how I feel right now and really kind of where it's gone since I had the procedure in November," he said. "It's done nothing but get better and I feel good at the moment and that's really all I can tell you about it right now."Now with a healthy knee and a new team, the next question is how long can he stay healthy in Arizona."Obviously it's the million dollar question," he told 98.7 FM Arizona's Sports Station's Bickley & Marotta after the press conference. "Right now, I've got a group of people that I surrounded myself with that have put together a program for me that I feel like gives me the best opportunity to stay healthy and to play 16 games and hopefully more at the end of the season."I know that what I'm going to do and what I've done to this point. I will put myself in the best position to succeed, to be healthy and that's really all I can control and all I can do." 4 Comments Share In eight NFL seasons, he's played 16 games just twice, missing the entire 2014 season. He missed all but two games in 2017 and played in just seven in 2013. But while injuries have sidelined the former No. 1 overall draft pick on numerous occasions, there is some silver lining to his despair."You fight those battles mentally, but every time you go through that process and every time you turn that corner and your able to get yourself back on the field. I feel like I've come back mentally tougher and mentally stronger than I was the time before," he said.Related LinksSam Bradford: Cardinals' roster was a motivator to come to ArizonaVideo: Cardinals' Michael Bidwill welcomes Sam Bradford to ArizonaArizona Cardinals officially sign quarterback Sam BradfordAfter an injury cut his 2015 season short and a trade shipped him to Minnesota, Bradford came back on a tear, completing a league-leading and NFL record 71.6 percent of his passes for 3,877 yards, 20 touchdowns and five interceptions in 2016.But the quarterback couldn't replicate his stellar numbers in 2017 as he was hit with yet another injury, putting a damper on the Vikings' Super Bowl aspirations.That's not stopping Bradford, though, as he makes his return back to the field."I'm motivated to go out there and to play the way that I know I can play," he said. "I feel like there's times where I've played good and then get hurt and not be able to continue to do it and so I want to go out there and just prove to myself for 16 games that I can go out there and play to the level I'm capable of. Derrick Hall satisfied with D-backs' buying and selling Top Stories The 5: Takeaways from the Coyotes' introduction of Alex Meruelo Arizona Cardinals new quarterback Sam Bradford speaks at an NFL football news conference Friday, March 16, 2018, at the teams' facility in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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The Right To Play
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Last Saturday Tekera Primary School kicked off the first Sports Day of 2011. The school was divided into four teams and competed in a variety of Track and Field events from sprinting, to distance running, shot-put and javelin. As a refreshing break from School, the kids got to burn off some energy and clear their minds from the looming government exams and never-ending chores of farm life. By providing sports facilities and the opportunity to play, Tekera Resource Centre firmly believes in the right to play and encourages athletics for all ages. Below, ICEF staff Jess Casey as the acting Headmaster of Tekera Primary School hands out the trophy to the winning team.


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How often do temperature inversions occur in west Tennessee? Recent research funded by the United Soybean Board designed to study low level inversions has had some interesting results.
We set up two weather stations that measure temperature at 18, 66 and 120 inches above the soil. One of these stations was placed on the crest of a hill, and the other was set up about a mile away in a creek bottom between a field of corn and a field of soybeans on the UT Martin farm. The weather station in the bottom was 40 feet less in elevation than the one located on the hill.
In the month of June, there were 18 temperature inversions measured on the hill and 22 inversions documented in the creek bottom. The temperature inversions for both locations typically, though not always, started between 5:00 to 6:00 in the evening. What was interesting is that the temperature inversion measured on the hill often dissipated early in the morning (4:00 to 6:00 am), while the inversions in the bottom would often linger until 8:00 am or later.
UT Martin meteorologist Dr. Mark Simpson, who is consulting on this project, thought that topography would have an impact on low level inversions. Indeed, this research would suggest that topography can effect both the frequency and intensity of low level inversions.
I know when it comes to temperature inversions, most producers have moved from being happily ignorant they even exist to really trying to watch for them. Indeed, many of the applicators I have visited with this spring have, on more than one occasion, made the comment that they would wait for the wind to start to pick up to spray. Based on this data, a good field to start with in the morning would be one that has some elevation, and then move to the bottoms later to utilize time the most efficiently.
Finally a question I have from looking at his data is "Are the apps that predict inversions taking into account topography?" I do not know the answer to that. But based on this data. topography needs to be a variable when predicting temperature inversions.


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By Wes McCurtis
CYPRESS, CA – Sophomore forward Austin Payne has accepted a full ride scholarship to play at Rocky Mountain College next season. Rocky Mountain College is a member of the NAIA located in Billings, Montana. With the signing, all five starters from the 2015-16 Cypress College men's basketball team have moved on to play at the next level. "It feels good. Coach Drew can say that he had five guys on one team move on to the next level. Even though I'm the last one, I'm a patient person so I always thought it would happen. I just had to wait for the right opportunity," said Payne.
The All-OEC Second Team selection helped lead the Chargers to a 22-7 overall record and 2nd place finish in the OEC last season. Payne was a key contributor during the Chargers' historic run, averaging 11points, 4.5 rebounds, and a team-leading 1block per game. His defensive intensity and remarkable athleticism made him an essential piece to rebuilding the program under 3rd year Head Coach Andrew Alhadeff.
Payne will begin at Rocky Mountain College as a redshirt this spring and plans to be an active member of the team come the 2017-18 season. "For right now when I get out there I'm just going to work on my game and focus on school while I get accustomed to the program and the area. I'll have myself prepared for next year."
Payne will major in health and human performance and look to pursue a career in nursing.
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Nature's Temples
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"Maloof eloquently urges us to cherish the wildness of what little old-growth woodlands we have left. . . . Not only are they home to the richest diversity of creatures, but they work hard for humans too." —New York Times Book Review
An old-growth forest is one that has formed naturally over a long period of time with little or no disturbance from humankind. They are increasingly rare and largely misunderstood. In Nature's Temples, Joan Maloof, the director of the Old-Growth Forest Network, makes a heartfelt and passionate case for their importance. This evocative and accessible narrative defines old-growth and provides a brief history of forests. It offers a rare view into how the life-forms in an ancient, undisturbed forest—including not only its majestic trees but also its insects, plant life, fungi, and mammals—differ from the life-forms in a forest manipulated by humans. What emerges is a portrait of a beautiful, intricate, and fragile ecosystem that now exists only in scattered fragments. Black-and-white illustrations by Andrew Joslin help clarify scientific concepts and capture the beauty of ancient trees.


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The Relic Run is a vehicle-assisted overland expedition organized as a throwback to the older days of motorized backcountry travel. Participants in the Relic Run are required to operate in the spirit of 4x4 exploration in the 1970's and 1980's. Only 1980's and older vehicles, only 1980's and older camping gear, and only 1980's and older route finding.
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What does it take to make it on the Relic Run expedition?
Relic Run is a unique experience in offroad recreation. The expedition combines the thrill of exploration, the challenges of overland travel, and the added element of staying true to the 1970's/1980's theme of the event. You must have a 1989 or older vehicle, and we select participants who will execute the spirit of what Relic Run is all about. Check out the route and the list of requirements to find out if you are up to the challenge of Relic Run 2017.
How can I join the 2017 expedition?
If you have a 1989 or older street legal 4x4 vehicle AND you've read and understand the Relic Run requirements, submit your registration request here once registration is open for the 2017 event.
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No. Each participant should be self-sufficient and capable of traveling at least 200 miles without refueling and prepared to camp for 3-4 nights with all food and necessary gear on board their vehicle.
I need to come later or leave earlier than the scheduled dates, can I still join Relic Run 2017?
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Bizzwords: Business lingo describes the state and style of the information age
Isn't it amazing how the business lingo of the times reflects the technologies, anxieties and energies of a period? My local NPR station, WBUR, featured a terrific episode of On Point this past June, hosted by one Tom Ashbrook, that was all precisely this topic, discussing and poking gentle fun at business lingo. You can listen to it on Odeo or head over to the New Business Lingo at OnPointRadio.org.
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There are some wonderful "bizzwords" in the show, along with some historical perspective. As the show description notes:
Every walk of life has its lingo. Its buzzwords and catchphrases. American business has its own colorful menagerie of slang, and always has — from bulls and bears, to bootstraps, and 800-pound gorillas, and fish in a barrel.
But buzzwords and catchphrases change. They turn over and make way for newcomers.
And when they do, in American business, they may tell us something about where we and our economy are headed.
If you lived through the business world of the 80s, you no doubt encountered a consultant or executive who talked about "re-engineering business processes" or finding "synergies" between different products.
Cube farmers could be depended upon to be seen "prairie dogging" when something happened around the office. Networking at cocktail parties was hot. Blamestormers might be Dilberted. Seagull managers might fly in to observe their microserfs, make a lot of noise, poop over everything and then leave.
If you worked in technology, you probably had a PC. As a hacker, you might have laughed about clueless users needed treeware. Everyone worried about career-limiting moves (CLMs) that might result from a bad click or command, propagating in an ohnosecond.
And of course, like, ya know, everything was, like, totally rad, dude.
In the 90s, couch potatoes turned to mouse potatoes as office workers all jumped on the Information Superhighway. Wired happily documented it all in its Jargon Watch column. By the end of the decade, i-everything and e-anything created one of the great tech bubbles.
Everyone wanted to go IPO. A few years later so one of the great crashes. Dotcommers became dotgoners and dotbombers. The 80/20 rule defined actionable moments after careful cost-benefit analyses. If something could be outsourced, it was. Viral marketing zipped off into email distribution lists, moving through word of mouse.
In the late '00s (naughts), the Web 2.0 bubble has replaced the Internet bubble, as social networkers expand their social graphs, exposed to infotisements and advertorials as they blog, edit wikis and surf the blogosphere with RSS readers on iPhones. Online marketers are accountable for the ROI of every campaign. We've crowdsourced many actions and processes, whereever feasible, bending to the wisdom of the crowd and selling to the long tail.
Google is both a verb and a noun, along with nearly every conceivable form in between. Despite the company's best efforts, google has even escaped proper noun status in many communities. The President calls it "the Google." The senior senator from Arizona talks about "a google." The junior senator from Illinois (and his search committee) Googled potential vice-presidential candidates. As billions of revenue from search adverstising each quarter streaming in to the Internet giant, it's clear we're a culture of Googlers googling each other, egosurfing away.
We're also frazzing, dangerously close to overload by switching from email to cell phone to IM to text messages to meetings to Twitter and the Web.
Steeped in media from satellite and cable news networks, DVRs, DVD-players, on-demand programming and Web video, there's even a danger of what sociologist Emile Durkheim might have identified as a kind of digital anomie, colorfully described as "Dorito Syndrome" — a persistent feeling of dissatisfaction and emptiness, regardless of consumption.
No matter how much screensucking you do, there's always more. Lisa Belkin wrote about a number of these in the New York Times in 2006 in Overly Wired.
Widgets are everywhere now, of course, and may be anything from a small gadget to an embeddable module in an iGoogle page to a downloadable desktop application or even (gasp) an esoteric mechanical device. (Guinness drinkers have their own version, of course.)
The green computing wave spurred by skyrocketing energy costs from power-hungry data centers has spawned many biologically-themed terms.
Greenwashing, astroturfing and blacksurfing have all entered the lexicon. Every product seems to live in its own ecosystem.
Freemium business models now may promote coopetition between fierce competitors, perhaps using telepresence rooms that are far too expensive for standard percussive maintenance.
Under such conditions, "matadors" (people skilled at dodging assignments or responsibility) have little chance of scraping by, as the presence technologies, pervasive computing and "status message culture" adopted by the millenials puts "slacking" firmly into the lexicon of decades-past.
And, of course, we're all increasingly computing in the cloud now.
As we near the end of this decade, the buzzwords of the '10s have yet to be coined and collectively sampled, savored and entered into the lexicons maintained by Merriam-Webster, the Oxford Englsh Dictionary and, of course, the best online IT encyclopedia online. (Shameless plug).
Some will end up as sniglets, humorous oddities of cultures past. Other words will always remind the culture at large of a certain time and place.
Here's hoping we can improve on vlog, blook and webinar.
If you have an idea of what lingo might define the next decade of business, let me know at firstname.lastname@example.com or leave a comment.


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Today's run was supposed to be a v-e-r-y s-l-o-w 5k. Well, actually, it's supposed to be tomorrow, but then I was supposed to do a 10k the day after. I'm not sure I can do that, so I budged the 5k up to today, plus it was a nice morning, so off I went. I wasn't sure where to go so ambled off along the top road which is gently uphill and then turns to go down into town via The Beast. That takes about 2k. I was pottering gently downhill, wondering where to go next, when the idea hit me.
Could I?
Last time (22 days ago, apparently), I didn't make it all the way up it. So even if I didn't this time, it didn't matter. This was supposed to be a slow run, so I would take it nice and gently.
I did it! All the way up, no stopping I had the biggest grin on my face at the top. I pottered gently back home again and then had to do mini-circles round the pavements to get the last quarter-k on the Garmin, but woohoo!
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I am not a great one for New Year's Resolutions, but this year I had decided that I need to make better use of my poor, neglected, Etsy Shop.
Doing a Craft Fair every Saturday certainly keeps me busy with selling and making my jewellery and as a result, very little finds its way on to Etsy due to time constraints. After all, there are only so many beads I can make in a week - let alone make them all up into something special in the way of jewellery.
Thinking about this over the Christmas Holidays, I decided that my Etsy Shop would be better put to use as a place to sell solely beads.
So after much thought, I came to the conclusion that I could easily make 5 more beads each time I make enough for a necklace/bracelet/earrings etc for my Craft Fair and put these extras onto Etsy and hopefully people will love them as much as I do.
So here are my first two offerings.
The first are the Bronze Flower Capped beads, pictured above. As soon as I posted them on Etsy, they sold! Yay!! So I made another set and relisted them. They seem to have struck a cord with people and the photo on Flickr even made it onto Explore - I was just a bit excited!!!!
The second are Petal Capped Beads in a lovely shade of Aubergine with Ecru and palest green/yellow. I love these!!
So if you are looking for some unique and individual beads for your next project, please check them out!
I would love to hear what you think of them and if you would like to these these in any other colour ways.
Happy New Year to you all and Happy Creating!


text: Henrik Lundqvist quickly became a New York fan favorite after completing his rookie campaign as goalie for the Rangers in 2005. The Swede's strong and consistent play propelled the Rangers to their first playoff berth in eight years and earned him a Vezina Trophy nomination, which is awarded annually to the league's best goaltender. Lundqvist also backstopped Team Sweden to their gold medal in the 2006 Olympics, and has been nicknamed "King Henrik" by many New York faithful. In 2012, he won his first Vezina Trophy surplanting his place as the best goalie in the league. Henrik Lundqvist has personally hand-signed this authentic game model goalie stick. It includes a Steiner Sports Certificate of Authenticity.


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Quick Takes: Oracle announces database, app server records on Linux
Oracle 10g database and application servers achieved record benchmarks on Linux, leading off this edition of Quick Takes. Also included are items from the Open Source Development Lab, Central Command, Candle Corp., GoldenGate Software, IBM and MandrakeSoft.
Oracle announces record database, app server benchmarks on Linux
Oracle Corp. announced a record four-processor TPC-C single-system benchmark for an Oracle database 10g on a Hewlett-Packard Integrity rx5670 Itanium 2 64-bit server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 3.0. The database server achieved 136,110.98 tpmC with a price-performance ratio of $4.09/tpmC, marking the fastest ever TPC-C single-system result on Linux and the best price performance for any 4-processor 64-bit server, Oracle said.
Also, Oracle announces that its Oracle Application Server 10g on Linux set performance records for the SPECjAppServer 2002 MultipleNode benchmark. The app server was loaded onto a Hewlett-Packard ProLiant server. Oracle Application Server 10g also had the top SPECjAppServer 2002 DualNode benchmark results for both performance and price/performance, using half the number of processors than the nearest competitor. The multiple-node server managed 1,165.05 total operations per second with a price-performance ratio of $150.67. The dual-node server did 431.26 TOPS with a price-performance ration of $160.62.
Turbolinux, analyst join OSDL
The Open Source Development Lab announced this month that Asian Linux vendor Turbolinux has joined its ranks. In addition, former Forrester Research Inc. analyst Stacey Quandt has also joined the lab. Turbolinux is credited with developing double-byte character support and being an advocate of Linux in the enterprise and government. One of the OSDL's stated missions is to promote Linux use in the enterprise. Meanwhile, Quandt has joined the lab as a principal analyst. She will be responsible for monitoring market trends important to IT vendors and enterprise users. She will also represent the lab at conferences and tradeshows and will develop market research, technical publications and opinion pieces.
Central Command Linux antivirus available for Samba, Netatalk, NFS
Antivirus vendor Central Command recently announced the availability of Vexira Antivirus for Linux servers, offering antivirus protection for Samba, Netatalk and NFS network shares. Features include automatic updates, a command-line scanner, heuristic detection of new viruses, virus scan archives and more. Pricing starts at $349.95.
For a free 30-day trial version
Candle extends Linux management to WebSphere MQ
Enterprise management vendor Candle Corp. recently announced support for Linux on the IBM WebSphere MQ management platform. It also announced 64-bit support across its Linux management portfolio. Candle also debuted Omegamon XE for Linux, software that tests, tunes and manages the performance and availability of Linux on IBM eServer zSeries mainframes. PathWAI Monitor for WebSphere MQ for Linux and Omegamon for Linux 64-bit support will be available this month. It supports SuSE and Red Hat distributions for zSeries and S/390 systems. The solution also supports additional flavors of Linux at the 2.4.X kernel level. Pricing for PathWAI Monitor for WebSphere MQ for Linux begins at $20,000, which includes installation and training. Omegamon XE for Linux pricing starts at $750 for distributed systems and $7,500 for S/390 systems.
GoldenGate extends its Linux support
GoldenGate Software announced it has extended its support for Linux and became the first to offer data synchronization for Oracle RAC on Linux. GoldenGate supports more than 50 different database and hardware operating system configurations.
Ohio State graduates to IBM and Linux
Ohio State University announced this week that it has signed a three-year, $75 million contract with IBM Corp., where IBM will provide its eServer xSeries systems to OSU's server infrastructure. The servers will run Linux and Windows and will service the university's schools admissions information, library records and many other student life activities. Also, OSU purchased eServer ThinkCentre desktops and laptops for students and faculty.
Shuttle appliances bundled with Mandrake Linux
Mainboard supplier Shuttle Inc., announced that MandrakeSoft Linux will be bundled with Shuttle's barebone Network Appliance XPC product line. The XPC line targets enterprise workstations and entry-level servers.
To have your announcement included in Quick Takes, contact Michael S. Mimoso, News Editor.


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Owner motivated. Stylishly updated 3 Bedrooms, 2 .5 Bath townhome with a 1 car garage! This lovely home is an end unit nestled in the quiet and desirable, Village of Boca Barwood. There are beautiful wood floors throughout, a bright, updated kitchen with stainless steel appliances and granite counter, and all three bathrooms have been updated. The spacious master bedroom has a walk-in closet, skylight and ensuite bath. Relax on the screened porch or BBQ on the outdoor fenced patio with added garden green space. This unit is right by the Clubhouse so the pool, playground and tennis, and basketball courts are just yards away! HOA fees include basic cable, lawn and grounds care, sewer, trash, and exterior maintenance. Pets to 35 lbs.
Cable, Public Sewer, Public Water, 3-Phase Electric
Built-in Shelves, Walk-in Closet, Sky Light(s), Entry Lvl Lvng Area
Auto Garage Open, Dishwasher, Disposal, Dryer, Microwave, Range - Electric, Refrigerator, Smoke Detector, Washer, Water Heater - Elec
All listings featuring the BMLS logo are provided by Beaches MLS Inc. Copyright 2019 Beaches MLS. This information is not verified for authenticity or accuracy and is not guaranteed.
© 2019 Beaches Multiple Listing Service, Inc. All rights reserved.
Listing information last updated on December 15th, 2019 at 4:15am EST.


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♦ Inks
- A Crucial Part of the Printing Process
Ink is a crucial part of the printing process. Using inks that work together faultlessly with the print head and media in production to give you optimum performance and output quality is an area Mutoh invest heavily in. We are constantly testing the inks and print head technologies in our own chemical labs, to ensure that you are provided with inks that perfectly match your Mutoh system and supplies.
By conducting stringent quality control, we are able to guarantee batch-to-batch consistency, a perfect match between ink and print head and unequivocal warranties for durability and quality.
Ink Types
Depending on your application, we supply the right ink for our printers.
Mutoh Eco Ultra inks are Mutoh's most popular inks for outdoor sign applications on a wide range of uncoated and coated substrates. The inks are based on non-aggressive solvents and do not spread any harmful VOCs in the working environment. Available in easy-to-use cassettes & 1 litre ink bags, Eco Ultra inks are Mutoh's third generation of eco inks featuring improved ink fixation, better drying, higher print speeds and improved scratch resistance. Prints made with Eco Ultra inks are UV and water resistant for up to three years outdoors*.
* : For heavy-duty applications where mechanical stress is involved (floor & vehicle graphics), lamination is required. Stabilisation is required prior to lamination.
Mutoh's Universal Mild Solvent inks (UMS) are Mutoh's fourth generation mild solvent inks. The UMS inks have been specifically developed for volume-oriented users. The UMS inks feature best-in-class ingredients for optimum speed and quality performance. UMS CMYK inks are available in cassettes as well as litre bottles and litre packs for uninterrupted ink supply.
The inks are based on a new generation of milder & non-aggressive solvents and do not spread any harmful VOCs in the working environment. They are virtually odour-free and do not require any forced ventilation. The Mutoh UMS CMYK ink set covers 83 % of the Pantone C® colour chart.
The unique mix of nano size, high durability pigments & resins will individually encapsulate each colour pigment, enables optimum adhesion of the pigments to the substrate and creates a uniform, smooth - gloss preserving - ink layer. Prints made with UMS inks are water resistant and offer an outdoor UV-resistance of up to three years*.
* : For heavy-duty applications where mechanical stress is involved (floor & vehicle graphics), lamination is required. Stabilisation is required prior to lamination.
Produce Safe & Certified Digital Prints
Mutoh + 3M™ Universal Mild Solvent Inks
Mutoh MS Ultra inks are Mutoh's third-generation of mild solvent inks, offering the highest level of image quality and printer reliability yet. MS Ultra inks offer a superb stability ensuring uninterrupted printing for extended periods and low maintenance requirements, with no need for daily cleaning or daily printing. MS Ultra inks are based on a cyclohexanone and NMP-free ink formulation. The inks are fixed and dried at regular heating temperatures. MS Ultra inks are available in safe and easy- to-handle 440 ml cassettes and 1 liter bottles. Outdoor durability goes up to 3 years without lamination*.
* : For heavy-duty applications where mechanical stress is involved (floor & vehicle graphics), lamination is required. Stabilisation is required prior to lamination.
Mutoh's CMYK LED UV inks have been specifically developed for Mutoh's specialty / industrial UV printers. The inks are also available in white and varnish colours. The white ink will produce excellent results onto coloured or transparent media. The varnish ink will allow you to create a luxurious or specialty finish.
Available in cassettes & bulk ink packs, the Mutoh LED UV inks feature best-in-class ingredients for ultra-sharp, high quality outputs. They are moreover completely VOC-free and do not contain any hazardous air pollutants (non-HAP).
Mutoh LED UV inks allow printing on both roll and rigid substrates and on a wide variety of products and their prototypes, even 3D objects. Our LED UV printers integrate an energy-efficient long-life LED lamp which will instantly cure the LED UV inks and deliver safe & ready to use prints. No heat is released in the process, which means even printing onto heat-sensitive materials is possible.
Mutoh's water-based CMYK DS2 Universal Transfer and Direct Sublimation inks are 100 % VOC free and do not require any risk labelling. The inks offer excellent nozzle stability for high speed and high volume printing and will produce perfect image sharpness and definition. Transfer is possible onto polyester fabrics, mixed fibre fabrics (min. 80 % polyester) or onto polyester coated objects.
Mutoh Disperse Dye Sublimation & Direct Disperse Inks are 100 % VOC free and do not contain any hazardous components. These water-based inks have excellent nozzle stability for high speed and high volume printing. They offer a large colour gamut for rich and vibrant colours and deliver top scores in light fastness, wash fastness, rubbing and perspiration.
Mutoh dye sublimation inks deliver perfect transfer to different materials (textiles and rigids). The direct disperse inks are suited for direct to textile printing onto polyester fabrics.
Mutoh Dye & Pigmented CMYK water-based VOC free inks offer a wide colour gamut, superior line output and sharp edges, ideal for high quality poster printing. Whereas the Mutoh dye based inks are suited for interior prints, Mutoh pigmented inks are ideal for long-term indoor graphics as well as for short term outdoor applications.
Mutoh MP11 Multi-Purpose CMYK + White inks for the ValueJet VJ-1617H model are suited for both roll and rigid media. The inks will deliver high quality prints on a wide range of uncoated environmentally friendly low-cost substrates. Compatible media types are ABS, aluminium sandwich board, cardboard, non-pvc self-adhesive media, PE, PET, PMMA, PP, PVC foam board, recyclable fibre-based paper, uncoated polyester, uncoated Tyvek, etc. The inks come in convenient ink packs - CMYK (950 ml) + White (500 ml). The key carrier of the MP11 inks is a renewable resource solvent, derived from corn. The inks are fixed and dried at regular heating temperatures and offer an extensive colour gamut. UV durability outdoors goes up to three years.
Testing the durability of an output is a very complex matter. Acritical part is the evaluation of ink durability. Mutoh has an in-house test program to evaluate inks.
The in-house test program to evaluate inks is being performed by Mutoh's chemical engineering department.
Three different tests are done on every ink type:
These tests will provide you a good indication of the durability of an ink. Still, we want to point out that in 'reallife' other factors will also be responsible for the degradation of the colours of your printed images. Please refer to the part "Factors responsible for degradation of a print' in the document 'Mutoh Ink Durability Test Program".
For further information, please refer to the document "Mutoh Ink Durability Test Program" and "Ink Comparison Sheet".
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|"This is not the bikini clad surfer Stormtrooper you are looking for"
So I had a crazy realization last night. I finally crawled into bed a little before 1:00a, exhausted and sore, with my head still pounding from the dozens of plates I'd spent all day spinning. I had hoped to make it an early day at work...maybe punch out soon after lunch so I'd have time to pack and plan for the trip. But, you know how these things work out.
After a 14-hour day, spent talking to people in four different countries about half a dozen different cases (and in at least one case actually using the word "thusly" in a letter), I was able to feel comfortable shutting down for the next week. I took a quick ride to the store to get a few last minute items and got it just before closing. It was pretty late before I even started packing.
So, not the way I drew it up, but as I said, but 1:00a, I was tucked happily, if exhausted, into bed ready for a long day of traveling. And that's when it hit me.
"Wait a minute," I said aloud. "I think...yeah, I think I am officially on vacation!"
I'd been waiting for that moment for so long, that I almost missed it when it finally happened. I did a happy little fist pump, and then starting giving myself permission to let every one of my normal day-to-day worries and concerns go, one by one. By morning, my head was filled solely with thoughts of beautiful, beautiful comic-con.
As I write this now, I am sitting in Logan waiting on my first flight...in a Code Monkey t-shirt. Because that's just how Comic-Con Jason roles, people. Get used to it. I am meeting my pals, similarly attired (I can only assume), out there tonight, and then it's on to four solid days of obsessing over fictional people in fictional worlds with awesome, dark fictional problems...without having to explain why to anyone. It's going to be awesome!
So, as usual, I will go into "live blog" mode for this trip. Maybe I should call it "actually updating" mode, since trips like this, sadly, seem to be the only time I update anything on here. But I have a feeling that is going to turn around after this trip. Anyway, the usually disclaimers for hastily written, squishy posts for the next few days. Stay tuned, and come along for the ride!


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Life coaching is coaching specifically tailored to the individual and focuses on the entire life's success and progress. Life coaching is motivational, inspiring, exciting and guide to action. It helps an individual to look at where he is now and where he'd like it to be, and helps to overcome the gap. By raising awareness and encouraging individuals to take responsibility for their own life, life coaching helps the individual to awaken personal challenges and reach further than he ever could have imagined.
The following statements are some of the topics that can be processed in life coaching:
● "I'm surrounded by the challenges for some time, but I haven't started to deal with them."
● "I need to solve an urgent task but do not know where to start."
● "All is OK, but could be better."
● "It seems to me that my life is going in a constant effort to catch up with something."
● "My life is all about work, without a bit of fun."
● "I think that everything would be just great if I had a new job." (Or if I could lose weight, sell my house, etc.).
● "I would like to share my ideas with someone who would provide me support to make them happen."
● "I feel isolated in my work, but I find it hard to talk to colleagues because it might be interpreted as a sign of weakness."
● "I'm hiding relationship problems, and I can't share them with friends and family, because it would seem disloyal to my partner."
● "I'm tired of my daily routine and I feel I have the strength to get out of it."
● "I'm lost and I don't know where to go."
If the individual feels negative and lacking in motivation, coach will help him cope with the assumptions and beliefs that do not allow him to go on and prosper. Life coaching provides space and time for analysis of the challenges and options in order to make the best choices.
Coach can help in testing ideas, such as a business plan, what to put in your presentation, how to conduct a successful job interview, how to find a new hobby, how to quickly implement a new fitness regime … the list is endless. If an individual has a feeling that he have "lost his compass," coach will help him to focus by setting very effective exercises for him, designed to assist in the identification of what an individual would like to have, to be or to do.
If there is a constant suspicion of what person works, or some things do not go as expected, and reasons are not clear, perhaps this is due to the deviation of the own values, the things that are most important to the individual, such as for example achievement, success, caring for others, mental calmness and so on. Coach helps in identifying the true value of the individual and provides support in planning of their implementation.
Coach will offer suggestions only if it is something that individual would welcome. Coaching provides an opportunity to talk about the challenges with someone who will not offer an opinion based on own experience.
For any further information please contact us by phone at +381 060/029 00 28, or via e-mail email@example.com.
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● What is Coaching?
● The Art and Science of Coaching
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We all have our favorite places to shop online or locally or wherever we can, for beautiful fabrics. Gorgeousfarbrics.com is an online retailer that has totally revamped their website so you can get garment fabrics to your door in order to make one-of-a-kind garments and projects.
If you go to their blog at gorgeousfabrics.com they will walk you through their new website. And, I gotta say that I love it. My favorite page, second to the fabrics is the Strut Your Stuff page, which is where customers get to show off their creations.
On the Home Page you get a big view of upcoming specials or just-arrived fabric with a large rotating banner. And below that are large thumbnails of various fabrics.
I'm not a big fan of grey fonts but this seems to work, it is easier on the eyes, and you don't feel like you're going blind.
And, what I absolutely love is the clear and clean way in which they present the fabrics. They show multiple angles of the fabric, plus care and what pattern would work with the displayed fabric. You can click on the pattern link to view or purchase. Plus, video tips and rotating info on the banner page are nice. It's all easy to find, which is what we want in a website.
Thanks goes to Gorgeous Fabrics (and Gazungle who made the site) for making it easier for all of us to get more of what we crave: Fabric!


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Wireless Broadband enables you to get reliable high speed broadband internet access to the home via our last mile Wireless Link. With aggressive pricing, short install times it's the perfect product while you wait for Fibre to reach your area.
Fibre Broadband Internet enables you to get reliable and high speed internet access to the home via multiple fibre providers. With aggressive pricing, short install times it's the perfect solution for streaming.
VoIP allows you to replace your telephone lines at a fraction of the cost as well as save you money on Local, Mobile and International calls. VoIP is the perfect add on service for our Fibre or Wireless offerings.
October 12th, 2017|
ISPAfrika is now providing Wireless Internet to the Home and Business in the Johannesburg Area. In addition to providing Wireless, ISPAfrika also provides Fibre and VoIP Services. If you are looking for an affordable internet […]
July 29th, 2016|
From the 1st August 2016 till the end of March 2017 all ISPAfrika Fibre to the Home installations ordered on Openserve / Telkom FTTH will be for free. That means a massive R2299 saving on […]
April 12th, 2016|
As we grow our footprint we will continue updating our coverage map so that you can see when the service will be getting to you. We now have coverage in Camps Bay, Brackenfell, Durbanville, Kraaifontein, […]