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Well, three months of this new year have gone by. Can you even believe how quickly time passes? It seems like it moves so slowly when you're a kid, and the older you get the faster is starts to fly by. I've done so-so on the resolutions so far. Admittedly I think I might have to rethink a few things. Some of my priorities have definitely shifted since I've made the decision I want to go to school. But for now let's see what I've been able to get done.
.Read 20 books- I've read one book complete, listened to one audiobook complete, and have half-read 4 books, ha. Not a lot of progress, but progress nonetheless I suppose.
.Exercise at least twice a week- Now that the weather is warmer I'm really making progress here, although it's most just walking. Walking however is my favorite form of exercise and I'm taking 3 to 4 walks a week now. And our bicycles were delivered today!
.Improve my eating habits- Sadly not doing a whole lot better here. But I've been putting a lot of thought lately into what changes I can make here.
.Be a better listener- Think I'm not doing well at this one at all, unfortunately.
.Learn to drive- I drove around the neighborhood a month or so ago, and last week I drove myself to work with Josh's help. This was in other people's cars though, since I can't yet manage the standard VW. I've got a defensive driving DVD that I've watched some of, and we think we've found a good parking lot where I can try to learn to use our car's stick shift.
.Get a full physical/gyno/bloodwork- I've had my full physical and gyno exam. My bloodwork came back great, we've been able to identify some of my quirky little problems, and I have to decide what I want to do about my endometriosis. I also got my eyes checked and I have to take a glaucoma test at the end of April.
.Learn some tactics for handling stress- I'm trying to push through the urge to stress eat and panic when I get stressed. I'll probably be finding a therapist through my insurance agency that can hopefully help me with this resolution.
.Start a vegetable garden in back yard and container herb garden in side yard- Now that we've likely had our last freeze I'm hoping to get these plans underway
.Learn how to develop my own black & white film- I've made no progress on this whatsoever, but I got one of the chemicals I need to develop for my birthday so part of the puzzle is there. I just have to get the other pieces.
.Have clothes hemmed- nada
.Finish family photos for the hallway- pathetic
.Get my Beatles tattoo- Well, I ended up getting my Conan tattoo first, but still plan on getting this one.
.Be more like Diane Keaton, Jane Birkin, Linda McCartney, Katharine Hepburn, and Audrey Hepburn- Pretty pathetically not managed to be as awesome as these ladies yet.
.Rent a cabin- We haven't had an opportunity with as busy as we've been. Josh and I are looking at our calendar though because we could definitely use a break. Might end up going camping before we rent a cabin, but there's still 9 months left, right?
.Finish organizing my office- More or less done. Could be better, but it's looking pretty good.
.Cross 2 things off my Life List- nada.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
2010 Resolutions: 1st Quarter
Well, three months of this new year have gone by. Can you even believe how quickly time passes? It seems like it moves so slowly when you're a kid, and the older you get the faster is starts to fly by. I've done so-so on the resolutions so far. Admittedly I think I might have to rethink a few things. Some of my priorities have definitely shifted since I've made the decision I want to go to school. But for now let's see what I've been able to get done.
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Weekend Roundup
I took yesterday off instead of my typical Friday so that I could be home when Josh got in and so I could finish up some of my spring cleaning; that's why the weekend roundup is appearing a day later than usual.
-Say goodbye to Josh
-Work, blech
-Order bikes
-Pick up transcript from high school
-Pick up Chipotle
-Put food up and change clothes
-Eat dinner while watching What Not To Wear
-Start on organizing the DVDs while watching Pride & Prejudice part 1
-Sleep in
-Coffee while I put together my playlist
-Empty and clean vacuum
-Work on fixing the back door- prying, sanding, hammering
-Start laundry
-Clean outside windows and sweep cobwebs off eaves
-Lunch while watching first half of The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
-Inside windows
-Clean bathrooms, bedroom, dust headboard and ceiling fan
-Clean living room, dust bookcase, move chair and couch and sweep under
-Sweep cobwebs off porch
-Sweep and dust office, dust ceiling fan
-Finish laundry
-Make bed with spring sheets and duvet
-Order veggie pizza
-Eat and watch 2001 SNL hosted by Conan
-Hit the hay
-Rise and shine
-Coffee and breakfast in bed while reading some of The Happiness Project with Coltrane and Bechet playing and the windows open, aka heaven
-Get ready
-Target, IKEA, and Central Market with Holly, more or less strike out on my shopping
-Leftover pizza and Broadcast News
-Remember how much I love Albert Brooks and watch Mother in bed
-Late night texting with Josh so he could tell me he met Billy Corgan at the WWE show
-Sleep in
-More laundry
-Finish organizing DVDs
-Dishes, clean counters, sweep
-Make menu and grocery list
-Read a little Happiness Project while waiting for Josh
-Josh is home, yay, fills me in on trip stories
-Chadra's for dinner, mmmm falafel
-Grocery shopping
-Put up groceries, make salads, get ready for bed
-Watch some Simpsons
-Finally fall asleep
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Friday, March 26, 2010
Friday ConeZone #9
It's finally Friday! Has this week dragged on for anyone else? Clearly from my last post I've been having a rough one. But I'm feeling a bit better and ready to have a good weekend filled with spring cleaning and a trip to IKEA. Part of the reason I'm feeling better is I made some progress on my college preparations. We ordered our bikes this morning and I picked up my transcript from my old high school this afternoon. That's two things I can check off my to-do list. And with the purchase of our bikes in mind I thought a good choice for today's ConeZone would be Conan's adventure as a New York City bike messenger. I try to keep it topical to what I've got going on, when I can. I don't know if anybody cares, but it helps me whittle down the clip options, ha. Enjoy and happy Friday!
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
What is "Good Enough"?
I am having a busy week at work and at home. I've been paying bills, moving money around for retirement, and to pay for Conan tickets and our taxes. The other office person has been out sick, so that means more work for me. I'm trying to keep forging ahead on re-learning math skills before I take a college placement test. Our eating habits have been not so great lately, so I've been working a lot on that. I'm gearing up for spring cleaning this weekend, since Josh will be on the road. I haven't been doing anything with photography lately. I'm not keeping up with my Newsweek subscription very well. I've become a total slacker when it comes to Small Time Cooks. I've got several partly read books on my bedside table. I've made very little progress on my resolutions. There are a lot of unfinished projects around the house. My insomnia is totally getting the better of me. And I'm slowly realizing that I can't do everything, especially when I'll be adding school to my plate.
Lately the phrase "The perfect is the enemy of the good" has been popping up around me. I've read it on other blogs, in some of those half-finished bedside books, and I keep coming back to it. It makes sense to me, but I can't even begin to figure out how to actually apply it. I don't know how you figure out what is "good enough". Everytime I think of my long list of to-do's they all seem necessary. I was talking about stuff with a friend over coffee this weekend and she was somewhat amazed at my ability to connect whether or not I peel and chop my own carrots to whether or not I'm succeeding or failing in life. I have to prepare good food for us because it's important for my health and Josh's. I have to make sure I'm eating the right things to help keep my health problems in check. So how do I measure "good enough" when it comes to feeding us?
Keeping a clean house is very important to me, especially because I'm actually the messy one of the two of us. I've been teased that I could rent my house out to build micro-chips in. Let me just tell you that isn't the case because dusting is one cleaning duty that I am actually very lax on. I'm lax on a lot of them, but if I don't clean house often enough I feel like I'm failing. Sometimes Josh will do some cleaning and I will feel awful about it. I feel differently when he offers to help, but when I can hear him from the other room cleaning, unprompted, I feel guilty, like I've let him down. I have a shelf of books about cleaning and housekeeping in my office. I cleaned house last weekend in anticipation of spring cleaning this weekend. Cleaning your house so you can be ready to clean your house? Seems a bit much. But how can I hope to be at peace if my house is in chaos?
I hate that I don't always get to ironing Josh's shirts and that he will wear them anyways. I feel like his wrinkled clothes are a public display of my laziness. Everytime we buy prepared things at the store I say to myself "I should be making this." I should be making the bread. I should be making the salad dressing. I should be making the graham crackers. Do you know how time consuming it is to make graham crackers? Rolling, scoring, baking in batches. And do you also know how inexpensive graham crackers are? And yet it bothers me. Josh came back from staying with friends in Austin this weekend and told me how the wife made migas and bacon for everyone, and I apologized for not doing that too. His response was "You're always making good breakfasts." I almost NEVER make breakfast on the weekends. If he doesn't seem to even notice, why do I still feel the need to apologize?
I have this quote taped to my work monitor: "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."- H. Jackson Brown. I think I'm going to take it down though because every time I look at it I say to myself "Yeah, but they didn't have to do the laundry and clean the toilets."
How do I figure out what's "good enough"?
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Weekend Roundup
-Sleep in
-Say bye to Josh, off to SXSW
-Appointment with Dr. Evans
-Labcorp for blood work
-Grab lunch
-Work for half day
-Stop by Central Market for dinner fixings
-Watch a couple of What Not To Wears with big salad for dinner
-Best coconut cupcake ever!
-A little computer time while watching Andy Barker P.I.
-Bed time
-Sleep in
-Coffee, cereal, banana, and BIG fruit smoothie
-Clean house
-Josh gets home from SXSW
-Tidy and organize my office
-A little math work
-Dinner of cheese, crackers, pepperoni and olives with popcorn and Monty Python and the Holy Grail
-Hit the hay
-Sleep in, wake up to a hilarious tweet from Conan
-Menu planning and grocery listing
-Start laundry
-Grocery shopping
-Melanie comes by to talk school and life in general over coffee and pumpkin bread
-Clean and prep veggies for the week
-Big, yummy salad for dinner
-Finish laundry
-Read some of The Happiness Project
-A bit of insomnia, finally fall asleep
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Friday, March 19, 2010
New Dress
I was finally able to order this dress I'd been pining for from Anthropologie. I showed it here once before. I ordered it Monday night and it arrived yesterday! Wrapped in adorable tissue paper and my invoice had it's own little linen bag. This was, sadly, the first item I've purchased from Anthropologie and they have wooed me well, as you can tell. Not to mention the dress itself is fabulous; just what I was hoping it would be. It is the perfect shade of green and fits wonderfully. Think this is what I'm going to wear when we go to MEET CONAN O'BRIEN. Sorry, I really am still that excited about it. I gotta get some shoes, maybe a belt and, maybemaybe a necklace. But I love the dress as is and can't wait to wear it.
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
She & Him, Volume Two
Just in case you don't already know, you can hear the new She & Him Album Volume Two in it's entirety here, thanks to NPR. I've already taken full advantage.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
ConeZone #8*: Special St. Patrick's Day Edition
Well folks, it's St. Patrick's Day. As some of you may know I am indeed Irish. Feel free to blow a couple kisses my way for good luck. And as all of you should know, a certain someone is also Irish. Far more Irish than me, too. That would be one Conan Christopher O'Brien. So in honor of this son of Ireland we're entering the ConeZone a bit early this week. I've got my green on and my fridge is stocked with Guinness and Harp. How 'bout you? For this special edition of the weekly ConeZone we'll take a look at Conan's visit to the old country. Happy St. Patrick's Day to you all! Erin Go Braugh!
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Monday, March 15, 2010
Weekend Roundup
-Rise and shine
-Shower, get ready, and coffee
-Ob/Gyn appointment, likely diagnosis of endometriosis
-Work, blech
-Home, watch some What Not To Wear while waiting for Josh
-Grab some Chipotle
-Start and finish a chapter in algebra workbook
-Hit the hay
-Sleep in
-Run to post office to pick up new purse
-Empty the dishwasher
-Late breakfast on the deck followed by lots of reading on the lounger
-Hide out inside watching an American Experience on Dolley Madison while Josh mows the yard
-Return to my deck lounger for more reading with a glass of lemonade
-Shower and slowly get ready
-Girls night out with Steph and Tricia (and Rodney) for a little bit
-Cheese fries and free drinks at Snookie's
-Meet Vicki and Holly for Descender and Dove Hunter at Lola's
-Homemade karaoke back at the house until the early hours of the morning
-Crash into bed
-Sleep way in
-Coffee, menu planning, grocery listing
-Get ready
-Fate Lions at The Grotto for anti-human trafficking benefit
-Grocery shopping
-Late lunch
-Start laundry
-Empty rain barrel
-Clean and prep salad veggies
-Finish up laundry and late night chips & salsa while watching As Time Goes By
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Friday, March 12, 2010
Friday ConeZone #7
This is a VERY special Friday ConeZone people. Yesterday Conan announced his 30 city tour of North America. I promptly went straight to the Ticketmaster website and refreshed the page until tickets went on sale. And then I lost my mind. I bit the bullet. Spent the big bucks. And....I'M GOING TO MEET CONAN O'BRIEN! I raided one of our many savings funds, one which actually had a rather ambiguous purpose and was just sitting there, so I could buy the ridiculously expensive Meet & Greet package. I have been on cloud nine pretty much since I clicked "Purchase". May 13th he'll be at McFarlin Auditorium in Dallas and I'll be there to see him and his hair up close and in person. We have what must be the greatest seats in the house, front row, dead center. This show is said to be a mix of comedy sketches, music, and lots of fun. So today's ConeZone clip has all of that in it. Enjoy ConeZone #7- Conan singing "He's Gone" for LaBamba.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
What Makes Life Worth Living?
I was thinking about cinematographer Gordon Willis this morning, which sent me to youtube in search of any interesting interviews with him. And after listening to him talk about working with Woody Allen, I of course had the inclination to search for him. Which lead me to a clip from my favorite Allen movie Manhattan. This clip comes at the end of the movie and Woody's character Isaac is laying on his couch working on writing ideas. He starts to list some of the things that make life worth living for him. That made me think about what might be on my list. Here is my list, in no particular order, and definitely incomplete. What would be on your list?
.Sarah Vaughan singing Gershwin
.holding Josh's hand
.black and white photography
.pepperoni pizza
.Bonjour Tristesse by Francois Sagan
.a cold beer
.Keith Jarrett's version of I Loves You Porgy
.green zinnias
.The Beatles
.cheese fries
.Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks
.making people laugh
.walking in Central Park
.Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
.good cup of coffee
.John Coltrane's My Favorite Things
.a really nice breeze on a sunny day
.Woody Allen
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Monday, March 8, 2010
Weekend Roundup
I'm alone in the office, it's pouring rain outside, and I have a headache so gonna make this short and sweet.
-Make chili that turned out awful
-Grab Chick-fil-a for dinner
-Play Beatles Rockband
-Chris comes by and hangs out
-Few episodes of Andy Barker
-Sleep in
-Shower, coffee, and get ready
-Eye exam
-To mall for glasses, lenses have to be ordered
-Post office
-Schlotzsky's for lunch
-Eat and watch Simpsons
-Lay out on the deck for some reading time
-Freshen up and head to Ashley & Matt's
-Wine and popcorn with Ashley while guys play
-Brow wax
-Hit Whataburger up on the way home
-Eat and watch more Simpsons
-Hit the hay
-Sleep in
-Menu planning and grocery list
-Get ready
-Grocery shopping
-Gumbo for lunch
-Clean house and start laundry
-Watch the Oscars with popcorn while finishing laundry
-Make the bed
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Friday, March 5, 2010
Friday ConeZone #6
Welcome to another Friday ConeZone! With all the thoughts about and discussion of transportation I've had this week I thought today we'd take a look at a great remote that Conan did during a New York transit strike in 2005. I can only imagine what fun it must have been to get to go along for the ride as one of Conan's passengers. Also, word is that some news will be dropping on the live tour that has been mentioned to be in the works, after a few leaks have sprung today mentioning possible shows in San Diego, Phoenix, and Las Vegas. Keeping my fingers crossed he comes this way, and my eyes and ears peeled for any more leaks! Enjoy this week's ConeZone.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
In my last post I mentioned the difficulties of coming up with a way to get to school without buying a second car yet. After doing some research with Google Maps and a tracking program, I've established that the bike path that runs right by my office building along the river can take me directly to the school and it's only a distance of about 3 miles. That is pretty darn convenient, right? There are two bus lines that run either directly by or near my office as well. Their schedules don't mesh really well for transfers, but it's workable. So I think my current plan is to get a bike and ride to class that way. It will depend on the class schedule I'll have to work with, but I know my boss would generally be happy to let me adjust my work schedule to help me go to school. As long as it isn't a drastic overhaul. Which, with online and weekend courses, it hopefully won't be. From our house to the school is about 8 miles. I'm not sure if that's too much for me, as I'll be a beginner cyclist, or not. But I can ride my bike to the best bus stop to get to school too, so I wouldn't necessarily have to bike the whole way there from home. And my friend LeAnn has offered to let me use her work bus pass; I could use the bus in inclement weather, or when the distance is too great, for free. I think this is going to be a really fun adventure! I also think it's a great time to invest in a bicycle because our City Council recently approved a massive plan to upgrade and expand the city's biking infrastructure. I'll get to pretend I'm like all those stylish gals that pop up on Sartorialist and other places in the blogosphere! Here's the bike I'm currently digging and a couple of cute biker chics to inspire me.
*1st pic from Sartorialist
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
School Daze
After lots of thinking and discussion I have decided that I want to go to college. I have never seriously considered this before, because there was never anything in particular that I wanted to do. I've spent a good chunk of the past few years trying to figure out a purpose for myself. It's generally been an exercise in futility until I recently had a very minor epiphany. After some conversations with Josh, and talking to a few friends, I've settled on the idea of getting a bachelor's degree in Radio, Film and Television. I haven't decided what area within that category I would really like to focus on yet. I'm leaning towards production, but also like the idea of cinematography or screenwriting.
Trying to figure out how to go to school for the first time at the age of 29 is very overwhelming for me. I'll be starting off at the community college, and then hopefully moving on to a public university. There are so many obstacles to work my way around to be able to start going; the first one is transportation. We are a one car household since I currently don't drive. I'm working on learning, but even once I have my license we can't just go out and buy a car. The city bus doesn't seem to have any routes that really work well for getting me to the school either. There are some options, but nothing that seems to be anything less than inconvenient. Some combination of bus, bike, and something else that has yet to occur to me may be in order. Then by the time I'm ready to go to university we should have enough in the car fund for a new car.
In addition to the transportation problem is the job/money problem. We probably make too much for me to get financial aid for my community college tuition. I'm still going to apply, it just isn't likely I'll get any. And even with any possible financial aid for university tuition we will still need to take out some student loans, so my community college years need to be paid for without resorting to debt. Which means I can't reduce my work hours by much. I have yet to figure out how this is going to work. Our community college offers weekend courses at several campuses and the option of some online courses, so this should help. More thinking to be done.
Then there's the actual classes and learning. I'll have to take the THEA test before I can register and I know that I'm not going to pass the math part. (Really, I know. I took a practice version and missed almost half the math questions.) Which means despite there being only one math requirement in the degree plan, I'll have to take some remedial classes before I can get it out of the way. More time, more money, and for the love of God, more math. I hate math.
Sorry for the grumpy rambling, but this is all the junk that I'm busy thinking about these days. Needed to vent it somewhere, and that's what blogs are for, right? On the plus side my old doctor's are now on my insurance plan, so I'm going to both the ob/gyn and my internist this month for full physical. And I'm going for an eye exam on Saturday. If I'm going to be driving and in a classroom I definitely need to update my woefully old eyeglasses. That's a big check mark on the resolutions list.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Weekend Roundup
-Work, yuck
-Home to do some thinking, research, Simpsons watching
-Josh gets home from errands with Chick-fil-a for dinner
-More TV and hanging out with Josh
-Sleep in
-See Josh off to Houston to play at BBQ Championships
-Long walk around the neighborhood
-Breakfast and a little reading out on the deck
-Talk to Ann
-Shower and get ready
-More Simpsons while thinking over budget
-Shopping with Holly
-Sonic for dinner
-Watch Andy Barker, P.I.
-Run to store for cheap booze and ice cream
-Watch Extract
-See Holly off
-Hit the hay
-Sleep in
-Tidy bedroom and bathroom
-Clean kitchen
-Clean out fridge and pantry
-Take out trash and recycling
-Sit out on the deck for a bit
-Josh gets home
-Make meal plan and grocery list
-Grocery shopping
-Put groceries up and start laundry
-Chipotle for dinner
-Clean and prep salad veggies for week
-Finish laundry
-More research while watching Pride & Prejudice part 2
-Try to sleep
-Bad insomnia, wander house, lay on couch, back to bed finally
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Attending a Nike event is always a special experience as one feels as if they are uplifted into the future — embraced with new technology, innovation and vision. Each time is quite different and unique with our recent invitation to preview the brand's new collection for Fall and Winter 2013 with a special, designed enphiseis on cold weather performance.
After our group geared up in the latest looks, we began to walk through the dark, jet black environment at the Moynihan on 33rd Street in New York City. (This is where we first to started to feel like the furture was in front of us!) And then we were kindly guided to a lovely introduction from the brand's representatives from the event. We saw five different innovations from Nike — Free Flyknit, the new Aeroloft Vest, Dri FIT Wool, Hyperwarm Combat Dri FIT Max, and the Nike Vapor Flash Jacket. The latter four with an emphasis, of course, on cold weather performance — on days when one doesn't have ambitions to fight the bitter weather, yet can still be inspired to work out because they know they'll stay warm with breathability.
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text: Until the last decade, robots were mostly comprised of chunks of metal moving on wheels or multiple legs. A couple of showcases held last week, however, showed recent technologies have enabled South Korea to take huge strides in the development of humanoid robots, whose overall appearance is based on the human body.Among the items at the recent technology exhibition at the Korea Institute of Science & Technology (KIST) were Buddy, a robot designed to display various facial expressions, and Mahru III, a two-legged humanoid robot jointly developed by KIST and local conglomerate Samsung Group. Continue reading


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17 August - Arnsberg Way. Slow progress
Arnsberg Way Mayplace Road junction is slowly taking shape. A local resident
took an interest in my photography and said I was very lucky to see anyone
working. He may have been a little unfair, there were four yellow jacketed men
working at just after 2 p.m. last Thursday and another on his mobile. The
resident was a man of strong opinions. "I've lived in lots of places and I've
only been here two years but Bexley council is the most corrupt by far." I
recommended he Googled Bexley is Bonkers.
The third photograph was taken by a reader about an hour earlier and it would appear that some sort of site inspection is underway. The one lady shown looks suspiciously like councillor Katie Perrior.


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Ducks are here, duck season is here, and duck hunts are here. And the hunts sure can take some odd twists. My story reflects that.
Opening duck season east zone 2013, my son John had a deer hunt to coordinate on Tensas River NWR so he couldn't make it. I hunted with Jason Kirkland on his ponds in East Carroll Parish with my Boykin Spaniels. His friend from high school, Roman Vyvial, also h unted with his young yellow lab on a separate pond.
The pre-hunt scanning of the weather called for a blustery day. And it sure was — cold, windy, and raining. Not fun to be in, but it sure can yield some good hunts. Wary ducks are not enjoying the up-and-down, check out the decoys behavior that bluebird days bring. They want to get down.
Dawn came late, no red sky in the morning. There were plenty of ducks, and we had a very good hunt. I believe Jason always shoots well, or I've never seen otherwise. I had some connects with my misses, and I'm OK with that. With all the ducks and shooting, the dogs were losing their steadiness. But they are 10 and 8 years old, and still have a lot of drive and I really like that. We saw flocks of buzzing teal, small groups of gadwalls, some shovelers and an occasional mallard. We shot our limit, and I don't think we lost a cripple. I'm always pleased with that. Also, being wet didn't seem so wet when ducks were flying.
We rode the 4-wheeler back to Jason's house. The dogs were happy to hitch a ride. They earned it. It was still raining, and I was setting up for a Kodak moment. Roman had tied his lab in the barn. HRCH Silvestre Acadiana (Cadi), my A-team duck dog followed him there — and Roman noticed her chomping on rat poison. We did not know how much she had eaten. Canines seem particularly attracted to the bait with warfarin, an anticoagulant that kills from internal hemorrhaging.
But I quickly put my poison plan into action. I got the hydrogen peroxide bottle that I carry from my truck, got Cadi up on the 4-wheeler rack where I could reach her, Pried open her mouth and poured gulp after gulp of hydrogen peroxide down her. After several minutes, her gastrointestinal track purge began. She vomited up last night's supper, and several balls of rat poison, then later, more poison. I think it worked. Then we did the Kodak moment. Who would have predicted that barfing was the best part of our hunt?
I don't know if we dodged a bullet or not, but I was not willing to take that chance. And Cadi is fine, eagerly awaiting her next hunt.
I'm so impressed with accomplished hunting dogs. They are real hunters, with drive. They do their job with passion, and they trust you completely. So you feel so responsible for them. You do everything you can to take care of them.
Be alert for poisons of different forms, and carry a bottle of hydrogen peroxide in your truck in case you have a rat poison alert. It can work if a veterinarian is not close, and it's administered soon after ingestion.
According to Dr. Brent White (DVM), vitamin K is an effective antidote. Hydrogen peroxide is not appropriate for all poisons, and no more than a 3 percent solution should be used. Nothing more concentrated. There also sometimes can be adverse side effects. The best solution is to not let them get into poison.
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Ebrahim Rahimpour, Deputy Foreign Minister for Asia-Pacific Affairs, made the remark in a Friday meeting with Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi in Jakarta on Friday. During the meeting which took place on the sidelines of the sixth consultative-political committee's meeting in the Indonesian capital, the two sides conferred on various venues for expansion of cooperation.
Rahimour thanked Indonesia as an ASEAN member state for its support for Iran's accession to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia (TAC) and highlighted Tehran's firm resolve for expanding cooperation with the ASEAN countries.
Iran's request to accede to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia (TAC) has been approved by the ASEAN in the 49th Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Vientiane, Laos, 24 July.
Rahimpour noted that Iran deems Indonesia as one of its priorities in foreign policies, and described the future visit of Indonesian President Joko Widodo to Tehran as highly significant for expediting the implementation of agreements and cementing bilateral relations.
He went on to stress Iran's mutual support for Indonesia in regional and international circles, highlighting the Islamic Republic's keen interest on improving ties with ECO and ASEAN.
The Indonesian foreign minister, for her part, deemed Iran a close friend to Indonesia, and warmly welcomed Iran's accession to TAC and closer cooperation with the ASEAN.
"Indonesia is ready to advance its relations with Iran on bilateral, regional and international levels," she said.
The two sides further called for expansion of banking relations in a bid to facilitate trade transactions between Tehran and Jakarta.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook on Monday agreed to acquire Onavo in a bid to bulk up its intelligence around mobile data.
Tel Aviv, Israel-based Onavo is a startup focused on measuring mobile engagement data and offering utility apps. The startup's tools are aimed to help developers design better mobile services.
"When the transaction closes, we plan to continue running the Onavo mobile utility apps as a standalone brand," company co-founders CEO Guy Rosen and CTO Roi Tiger said in a blog post.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The social-networking giant has been building up its holdings that help app developers tie into its network. Facebook in April acquired Parse to give developers tools to help build mobile apps that integrate with its platform.
Facebook plans to keep Onavo's Tel Aviv office open as its new Israel digs.


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|A Reaper Drone
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As technology progresses, humans find more and more ways to use such technology to satisfy their agenda - which usually means someone has to die.
And, sadly, that is the case now, as the public has recently found out about a secret government program, that was apparently so top-secret that former White House Press Secretary Gibbs was ordered to deny its existence.
This alone is obviously VERY alarming. Any program the government tries so hard to keep a secret obviously spells bad news.What is so bad that they're afraid of their own citizens knowing of its existence?
Well, that program is the 'Drone' program. It is a billion-dollar program to create and pilot unmanned, armed drones to use as scouts and, when needed, the middleman who carries out the sentence for the executioner. Someone in Florida could press a button and and blow up a wedding in the middle-east, all in real time.
The main aggressors in this are the United States, but also the UK, and the technology has even found its way to China, which already spells disaster. Sadly, there has been no end to the atrocities. Just one example among a sea of them, in the wedding I mentioned earlier, a total of 47 civilians were killed, after they were hit THREE TIMES. The first one hit a group of children travelling ahead of the group. The second strike hit the main party. The third was to make sure there were no survivors. Let's make something clear: the victims were not armed at all. The majority of them were women and children, escorting a bride to her wedding. Perhaps what's even worse is that although the bride-to-be survived the second bomb, which hit the main group, she was killed by the third bomb when trying to flee the area. Imagine how that must feel, about to get married, surrounded by your family and friends, and then, all of a sudden - BOOM! No more wedding, no more friends, no more anything.
And you remember that 16-year-old I mentioned earlier? It's not something I just made up. September 30th, 2011, 16-year-old Abdulrahman al-Aulaqi had a bomb dropped on his head. He was a United States citizen, studying to be an engineer. He was killed by a United States Reaper drone! Does this mean the government now has the right to execute their own citizens without judicial process? But, to be fair, his father was known to be an active recruiter for terrorist organizations. So he MUST be guilty by association, right?
The sad part of this is that I've barely scratched the surface of it all. There are countless violations of international laws and humans rights I could write here. For instance: did you know that the White house refuses to publish the memos that has the legal justification to killed US citizen without trial? Only this last February has the White House agreed to share this memo with congress. With CONGRESS. Not the public.
And while I could rant on and on about these horrible violations of basic human rights and international laws, I'll leave you with this.
Congrats ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to planet Earth. This is how things are done here. Any questions?


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by Salty Caramel
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Columbia – Martin Bell attended Berkeley in the 1960′s, is a proud card-carrying member of SCETV and flies to San Francisco every year to attend the Gay Pride Parade wearing a Speedo, chaps and not much else.
But Bell — who asked that his real name not be used for fear of ostracization by his friends and associates — has a dirty secret: He voted for Tom DeLay during the first week of Dancing with the Stars.
The vote for the former conservative House Majority Leader from Texas came despite DeLay standing on the opposite side of every social and public policy issue that Bell holds dear.
"My head said 'no' but my heart said 'you sexy devil,'" Bell admitted shamefacedly, of watching DeLay's cha cha cha. "I was smitten from the moment he started playing the air guitar and I lost it when he started lip crooning 'Wild Thing.' And that slide on the floor? Magic."
A professor at a local university and a faculty adviser for the College Democrats, Bell watched the first week's episode of Dancing with the Stars with some of his young political proteges. They took turns booing and throwing darts at a DeLay headshot whenever he appeared on the television.
Bell said that he also took part in the booing and he recoiled at DeLay's comment that "I got to get prissy." But DeLay's dancing was so captivating that he snuck away during the commercial break to text his vote for DeLay and professional partner Cheryl Burke, despite fingers that trembled so badly he could barely type the numbers. He also spent all night voting for the couple online, then spent an hour figuring out how to delete his browsing history so that the Dancing with the Stars website would not pop up and alert his partner to his ideological infidelity.
Keeping his support for the notoriously divisive Republican a secret is important so as not to disillusion his young charges, Bell said. "It's a responsibility I take quite seriously. There are all these nascent liberal minds and I don't want them to think that it's okay to vote for a man who doesn't believe in evolution; who tried to pack K street with his Republican cronies; and who worked to impeach Clinton."
He also worries about disappointing his parents. "My dad was on the Hollywood blacklist and Silent Spring was my mom's Bible," Bell said. "I don't even want to think about how horrified they would be."
Bell has agonized over how to break his infatuation with DeLay. He told the student group that he was busy in the upcoming week and wouldn't be able to attend the viewing, but says that he has a sinking feeling that he won't be able to help himself from watching the show at home. And he's afraid to talk to his conservative colleagues whose politics align with DeLay for fear of being outed as a hypocrite.
One possibility is to seek counseling from a centrist Democratic friend who expressed mild admiration for DeLay's lack of inhibition on the dance floor in an offhanded remark. This friend has a wayward tendency towards the center, even pondering a vote for Republican John McCain in the 2000 election after disgust over the South Carolina primary. "My friend flirted with the devil, but he came back," Bell said. "I'm hopeful that someday I will overcome this perverted obsession too."
Salty Caramel can also be found at his own blog at http://saltycaramel.blogspot.com/.


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"Occupation" means the things we all do during our day that occupy our time. This will be different for every person and could be play for a young child, getting dressed or doing school work for a student or work for an adult.
What is Occupational Therapy?
Occupational therapists (OTs) can provide therapy and advice to support a child or young person's developments so they can do the everyday things they want, need or are expected to do as easily and as independently as possible. Occupational Therapy is all about supporting participation.
Novita OTs work closely together with the child/ young person, their family or other carers to work out what are the most important things they want to work on and then how to go about it.
Therapy can include one or more of the following:
- individual and/or group therapy sessions to learn new skills
- Intensive therapy such as specific goal directed training or following medical interventions, eg 'botox' or surgery
- Information and training to other people important in a child's life, including other family members, teachers and child care staff, so as to empower them to enable the child to discover their abilities and develop their potential every day
- Home and school programs and resource ideas
- Adaptation of activities and materials eg learning to do up shoelaces using one hand
- Assessment and prescription of equipment and technology eg using a laptop, tablet or specialist software when writing is difficult or slow
- Assessment of the environment (home and education setting) and recommendations for modifications.
How long does it go for and who will their child see?
As every person has their own needs and priorities, therapy can look different for each individual. Occupational therapy at Novita is always tailored to each client's specific needs. It can range from regular therapy (weekly or fortnightly) to a block of sessions with some time in between to consolidate new skills or just a few sessions to deal with a specific need.
It is recommended that occupational therapy be provided with greater frequency when a child:
- is in a critical period of skill development
- is experiencing, or has had, a recent period of growth or rapid body changes
- has had a recent medical intervention, such as 'botox' injections or orthopaedic surgery, to their arms or hands
- will soon be transitioning to child care, kindergarten, or school.
What are the different types of Occupational Therapy?
Novita OTs have expertise in a wide range of areas. Children, teenagers and young adults who face challenges in one or more of the following areas can benefit from occupational therapy:
- arm and hand use(upper limb management) including skill development, splinting and casting as well as pre and post botox or surgery therapy
- play and leisure such as indoor and outdoor play as well as participation in community activities like sport
- personal care to support independence with dressing, bathing, toileting, mealtimes, transfers
- sleep looking at sleep routines, sleep environment and specialist sleep systems if needed
- vision – vision difficulties such as cortical visual impairments or visual processing difficulties
- sensory issues such as sensory sensitivities and challenges with emotional regulation
- transition to child care, preschool, school and post school options
- participation at preschool or school
- technology including assessment, prescription, trial and training of assistive technology
- independent living skills eg shopping, handling money, leisure and transport.
Who would benefit from this therapy service?
People with a wide range of delays or disabilities can benefit from Occupational Therapy. This can include:
- Developmental delay,
- Intellectual disability,
- Physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, spina bifida
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Genetic or chromosome disorders that result in functional participation issues
As children grow and develop, the focus for Occupational Therapy may evolve over time
- Babies and toddlers: therapy will be mostly play based with a focus on supporting parents to help their child. Watch our 'Play as Therapy' videos to see how play can be used to achieve therapy goals
- Preschool and primary school: therapy will focus on the skills children need to get ready for preschool or school as well as supporting their participation in the education setting eg using the playground, playing in the sandpit, using the bathroom or turning on the taps. Therapy can also include training for education staff
- High school: Therapy is likely to focus on more specific needs, participation and independence rather than general development. Personal independence, independent living skills and transition to post school options will become more important as teenagers move through high school.
- Adults: therapy can support participation in post school options of developing skills needed for employment eg using public transport, managing money or using technology
In addition to this, for children with physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy, a focus on physical management will be important on an ongoing basis. Regardless of age Occupational therapy at Novita continues to be tailored to address all areas of each individual client's specific needs across all settings.
Why visit Novita for Occupational Therapy?
- Novita employs a large group of highly skilled OTs, who are supported to continually learn and stay up to date with best practice through supervision and regular training events.
- A number of Novita OTs are recognized experts in their field including Physical Management and Rehabilitation, Acquired Brain Injury Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology. These clinicians manage clients with highly complex needs, support other OTs as needed and are involved in research in their respective fields.
- Novita occupational therapists work together with the family and other members of the client's therapy team to provide a holistic approach to meeting individual needs.
- Novita OTs have the flexibility to provide Therapy in whatever setting suits best inlcuding home, childcare, preschool, school or in the community.
- Novita OTs and families have access to one of the largest toy and resource library in the state with a wide range of toys, books, DVDs etc.
Do you need a referral?
No referral needed, just call us on 1300 668 482 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
Cost, funding and your NDIS plan
The cost of a session is the standard NDIS rate. Our services are also offered as 'fee for service' or Medicare.
Preparing for an Occupational Therapy visit
Your Novita OT will talk with you about the sessions, where they will happen, what they can look like and what your child needs to make this a positive time. Some clients might need a quiet space or need a bit more time to get to know new people. Therapy might not always be just about one on one time with your child but can also include some time to talk to you, problem solve together or give you information, so you feel confident to practice things at home when a therapist is not there.
Getting the most out of your visit
If you feel happy about it, we appreciate it if you can give us copies of any old reports or programs. This will help us to understand your child's needs quicker and will avoid you having to tell your story all over again.
Your OT is likely to give you some ideas of things to practice at home in between visits.
It is great to share how things are going for you and your child, both what is working well, as well as the things that aren't going so well or you are worried about.
Related services
Novita OTs can also provide training and consultancy services to other people who might be working with your child. This could include child care workers, SSOs, teachers and support workers
Novita OTs also run a number of groups both during term time and during school holidays that you might like your child to attend. These include:
Check out our groups page for more information.


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Main Shelter: 4400 Raytown Rd. Kansas City, MO
Zona Rosa: 8721 N. Stoddard Ave. Kansas City, MO
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KC Pet Project is a 501c3, nonprofit charitable organization operating the Kansas City, Missouri Animal Shelter. We care for over 10,000 animals a year and work collaboratively with Animal Control and other animal welfare organizations to increase the number of homeless pets adopted, and focus on lifesaving programs promoting pet retention, identification, lost pet reunions, and pet ownership education throughout the community.
To end the killing of healthy and treatable pets in Kansas City, Missouri by using the most progressive and lifesaving programs and promoting effective animal control policies.
The purpose of the Kansas City Pet Project is to facilitate the placement of homeless pets into suitable homes; to establish and maintain an animal shelter for Kansas City, MO; to maintain associated procedures which promote: the health and welfare of pets in our care, prevention of unplanned litters, pet retention and reunification of lost pets to their owners; to increase public safety by addressing issues related to irresponsible pet owners and dangerous animals. We are keenly focused on optimal lifesaving and creating a No Kill Community in the Kansas City Metro.
KC Pet Project's Lifesaving Programs
An active volunteer program with more than 3,000 individuals across the community.
Canine and feline foster care programs with over 2,300 pets in foster homes in 2017.
KC Pet Project works with licensed animal rescue groups and other shelters across the country to transfer out pets.
Full-time, dedicated staff who works to match lost pets with owners.
Daily playgroups where all adoptable dogs get to go out and play with other shelter dogs.
A program for placing feral and semi-social cats entering the shelter.
Provides over 50,000 meals a year to pets and their owners who can't afford or do not have access to proper food for their animals.
Foster team who helps care for neonatal kittens who come to the shelter until they reach adoptable age.
This program provides pets with toys and treats to help them while in a shelter setting.
Canine Life and Social Skills: Teaches dogs in our shelter valuable skills that new adopters are looking for in a pet and helps harder-to-place dogs find homes more quickly.
Stop by our Pet Adoption & Retail Center in the Zona Rosa shopping center today! We have a variety of cats and dogs available for adoption every day, along with a pet retail store. Our Pet Adoption Center recently expanded into the space next door. We now have 4000 square feet of adoption and retail space including a free-roaming cat room and two meet n' greet rooms. Retail items that are sold at this location include:
Would you like to volunteer at this location? Please check our Events page for orientation dates.
Our Pet Adoption Center in Zona Rosa is made possible by generous grants from the ASPCA and private donors.
Stop by our Pet Adoption Center inside the Petco store at the corner of 95th & Quivera in Overland Park, KS today! We have a variety of cats and dogs, including small breeds, puppies and kittens, available for adoption every day. Retail items that will be sold include:
Would you like to volunteer at this location? Please check our Events page for orientation dates.
Donations may be dropped off at this location during normal business hours.
Our Pet Adoption Center in Petco is made by possible by Petco Stores and the Petco Foundation.
We now partner with seven metro Petco stores to adopt out cats. See our Petco Cat Adoption Program page for all locations.
Prior to KC Pet Project assuming operation of this shelter, it was known as the city's "dog pound" operated by Kansas City animal control employees. Euthanasia rates of 60% – 70% for the overall animal population and 98% euthanasia rates for cats were the norm. As recently as 2008, only 38% of those pets made it out alive. Our shelter is nearly 50 years old and was built as a "catch and kill" dog pound on an old landfill in a wooded area not easily seen by most passersby. Something had to be done, and when the newly formed Kansas City Pet Project was selected by city officials in the fall of 2011 to take over running the shelter, we knew we had to end the killing of healthy and treatable pets by using progressive ideas and best practice lifesaving programs. Within just a few months, KC Pet Project was formed as an entirely new nonprofit organization, took over sheltering operations on January 1, 2012 with almost no resources, including only a handful of donors, staff, and volunteers, and no established programs. What we DID have was a dedicated, hardworking and resourceful team of employees and board members and a motto of "Solutions, Not Excuses."
KC Pet Project assumed operation of the shelter on January 1, 2012 and within just a few months we were saving more than 90% of all of the animals entering the shelter. We have consistently maintained a live release rate above 90% each month since that time and have improved our lifesaving efforts year after year. No animal is euthanized for time or space; euthanasia is only warranted for animals that are too sick or injured to have a good prognosis for quality life and dogs that are too aggressive and posed a risk to the community.
KC Pet Project made history in Kansas City by officially achieving "No-Kill" status – becoming the 3rd largest open admission, No-Kill animal shelter in the United States, and creating the largest (and only open admission) No-Kill animal shelter in the Kansas City metropolitan area. This was achieved within just 6 months of taking over operations of the Kansas City, Missouri municipal animal shelter! And we do it all on a small budget and in an old 14,000 square ft. building built in 1972 that is 1/4 the size it should be for our city's homeless animals. In just 7 years, we've gone from operating just the animal control facility for Kansas City to now having 13 different successful adoption centers across the city caring for over 10,000 pets a year.


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PEMBROKE, N.C. – Downed in part by a nine-run inning, the Georgia College Baseball team (13-12, 7-7 PBC) fell to UNC Pembroke (15-12, 5-8 PBC) 20-5 on the road Friday night.
UNCP scored nine runs in a terror of a third inning, tallying six hits, a walk and a hit batsman while also taking advantage of a Bobcat error.
The Bobcats didn't have an answer, but showed some life in a three-run seventh on a bases-clearing double from designated hitter Will Hudgins (Dunwoody, Georgia).
Hudgins finished 2-for-4 with the three RBIs. Centerfielder Cam Hill (Marietta, Georgia) had three hits and a double. Rightfielder Wesley Wommack (Monroe, Georgia) added two hits, while reserve outfielder Shane Connahan (Beaver Springs, Pennsylvania) came off the bench to go 2-for-2 with a run.
Senior righty Bradly Cammack (Soperton, Georgia) took the loss in three innings of work. The Bobcats threw five total arms at UNCP, the most successful being sophomore righty Tristen Thompson (Bishop, Georgia) who threw the eighth, surrendering a run with two strikeouts.
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The Amazon – Manu National Park
Everywhere I look it is green and incredibly lush. Vines, orchids and bromeliads line the mossy tree branches. In the early morning light you can see fine water droplets in the air, for we are in the clouds of the cloud forest. The air is so pristine it is almost sweet. You feel as thoughRead more
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I am totally blissed out. As I stand with my head back like a kid, mouth gapping open, totally in awe as a streak of brilliant red then one of cerulean flashes above my head. I don't know where to look next, scared of missing a moment of this avian bliss. I thought the toucanRead more
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The first rays of sunlight illuminate the scene, and the ruins reveal themselves through the mist. The thick dark green vegetation that surrounds the site, acts as a natural frame to a tableau, which could not be more perfect. From my rocky perch on Huayna Picchu I look down on one of the most celebrated vistas in the world, theRead more
The Sacred Valley beyond Machu Picchu
There is no question about it, Machu Picchu is the glittering gem in the coronet that is Peru's Sacred Valley. The Peruvians know it and guard it fiercely and have built a very slick tourism operation around it. And as a tourist I can only say it lives up to every expectation I held andRead more
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Enlightenment today is a very famous concept. More and more people in the world are becoming interested in that concept and want to find out what enlightenment entails. When my interest in spirituality started to grow I didn't really reflect on that word, or had any real interest to "become enlightened". It was just another popular word that was used. After a while I began to take that word more seriously, reflecting on it and trying to find out what it really is, if such thing even exists.
That was when I decided that I will start applying spiritual teachings, after I finished a course that was written by mystic teacher Belzebuub. The course was called "Gnostic Wisdom" and it was about what enlightenment is, what one needs to do to achieve it, as well as about life, death, karma and some other things pertaining to existence. It was then when I got first concrete information on what enlightenment is. I was glad that the explanation about it was coming from someone who claimed that he actually achieved a concrete stage of enlightenment, rather then reading it in a book by someone who just wrote what he/she heard about it.
In that "Gnostic Wisdom" course, it was explained that enlightenment is a long process and requires a lot of hard work and complete dedication to that purpose. It is not a moment of realization that makes you enlightened, as it is commonly believed. According to him, one reaches enlightenment by practicing the 3 fundamental keys – elimination of negative inner states, alchemy and helping others spiritually.
By practicing those keys, one starts to walk along the spiritual path that is created and set by higher beings. It is a path of tests, hardships and spiritual rewards. It is an ancient path, known in many different cultures and religions. The Path is divided in three main stages known as mountains, and the first degree of enlightenment is attained when first mountain is finished. However the "ultimate" enlightenment, in the full meaning of the word is reached when the entire Path is completed.
Belzebuub has walked that path for years, and has explained it to others who wished to walk along it. So the things I learned in that "Gnostic Wisdom" course serve as a map. A map set by someone who has gone through it.
Having also read other spiritual texts I realized that information about enlightenment is the same in every sacred texts. Buddha, Krishna, Jesus, Moses, Rumi, Kabir, Gurdjieff etc. etc., all those individuals who are known for being spiritually developed, have explained what enlightenment is in the same way. All of them have said that enlightenment is about achieving permanent peace, love, bliss and reaching to the Highest, to the Ultimate reality – by inner purification and transformation.
So there is a universal meaning of that very popular concept. It is something very specific and concrete, and those who have reached it have told us and are still telling us that it is a potential that human beings can realize.


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Ultraclean carbon nanotubes form quantum dots of well-defined atomic structure at low temperatures. Transport spectroscopy of ground and excited states as a function of electron numbers in a parallel magnetic field results in detailed information about the band structures, in particular on spin-orbit and KK'-mixing effects. This information is exploited in the analysis of the SU(4) Kondo effect [1] occurring at larger electron numbers, where the devices become more transmissive. The slightly broken fourfold degeneracy in our device gives rise to satellites of the Kondo peak that shift in a characteristic way in perpendicular and parallel magnetic field. Our observations can be understood in terms of the discrete symmetries of the carbon nanotubes, and are well reproduced by state of the art theoretical modeling [2].
[1] P. Jarillo-Herrero et al., Nature 434, 484 (2005).
[2] S. Smirnov and M. Grifoni, Phys. Rev. B 87, 121302 (2013).


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We are HUGE fans of the Stickman story here, and I've been keen to head over to Delamere to do the Stickman trail for some time now.
We headed over on Tuesday morning, it is half term here so we left earlyish as I didn't want it to be too busy. We got there around 10am and both the children had napped on the way there. They were a little subdued, due to being drowsy and the fact it was pretty cold!
We wrapped up warm and headed off to the trail. It's not a long walk at all, but the children enjoyed it. Once they'd seen the mini stickman at the start they soon got excited and by the second sign Miss E was keen to get out of the pushchair and charge after Mr D.
There are signs along the way (10 I think) illustrated with pictures from the books and they give you ideas of things to do outdoors, for example building nests with the sticks, talking about winter animals etc.
The children had great fun telling my dad and I the part of the story the pictures came from and pointing out the things they could see (snails!!). We stopped and looked at all the signs and chatted about them which stretched the walk out a little for us.
We then had a stomp in the wooded area and the children and my Dad collected some sticks with which to make up some stickmen. We also found pinecones and talked about the noises we could hear (mostly the sounds of the leaves crunching under our feet).
We headed back to the car park area and had a bite to eat. Miss E was getting fed up by now, probably cold! So we headed back to the car and home.
When we got back we had some more lunch and watched Stickman and read the book, talking about our walk.
We had a lovely hour or so, and had it not been so cold we might have headed off in search of the Gruffalo again as that trail is still there.


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As one of the founders of Microsoft, Bill Gates was able to build his net worth from $0 to $100 million while he was in his 20s and 30s. That is part of his brilliance that is difficult to replicate. But since then, his net worth has grown from $100 million to $85 billion over the past three decades, almost exclusively through investment in the publicly traded stock market. I want to share with you four of the lessons I learned when studying how Bill Gates grew his fortune, with a particular emphasis on the structures and philosophies he followed later in life.
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| Texas
|Denton Municipal Electric - GreenSense Solar Rebate Program
|Incentive Type
|Utility Rebate Program
|Applicable Sector
|Residential, Construction, Multi-Family Residential
|Eligible Technologies
|Solar Water Heat, Photovoltaics
|Active Incentive
|Implementing Sector
|Energy Category
|Renewable Energy Incentive Programs
| PV: 1.50 per AC watt (based on the calculated expected performance of the system)
Solar Water Heater: 50% of invoice
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| PV: all equipment must be new when purchased with 5-year warranty and meet all applicable national, local, and manufacturers' codes and specifications
Solar Water Heaters must preheat water for a permanently installed electric water heater
|Start Date
| 2009-01-01
|Installation Requirements
| Installers and contractors must be registered with DME
|Maximum Incentive
| PV: 30,000 (not to exceed 50% of invoice cost)
Solar Water Heater: 300 per unit
|Ownership of Renewable Energy Credits
| Not specified
|Program Administrator
|Denton Municipal Electric
| http://www.cityofdenton.com/departments-services/departments-a-f/denton-municipal-electric/customer-programs/greensense-rebates
|DSIREDatabase of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency[1]
Denton Municipal Electric (DME) offers rebates to its electric customers for the installation of solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar water heating systems. The solar rebates are designed for residential and small commercial customers and are available for both existing buildings and new construction. Applicants must be a home or rental property owner.
The following requirements apply to the PV rebate:
- Applicant must contact Program Manager to receive Interconnection Agreement, Application for Interconnection Packet, and GreenSense PV Rebate Agreement.
- All applications are processed on a case by case basis.
- Structures will only qualify for this rebate once.
- Documents must be completed and approved PRIOR to installation of the photovoltaic system. Post inspections by DME and the City of Denton Building Inspections Department are required on all installations before issuance of the rebate.
The following requirements apply to the solar water heater rebate:
- Solar water heater must be sized to accommodate a family of four, at minimum.
- Solar water heater must preheat water for an electric water heater that is permanently installed at the structure.
- Solar water heater must have permanently installed electric backup.
- Structures will only qualify for this rebate once per 12-month period.
- Applications must be completed and approved PRIOR to installation of the solar water heating system. Post-inspections by DME and the City of Denton Building Inspections Department are required on all installations before issuance of the rebate.
Failure to follow these or other requirements of the City of Denton Building Inspections Division may render the system ineligible for the incentive and the system will not be allowed to interconnect with the DME electrical grid. Requests for payment must be received by DME within 30 days of installation. Credits will be made to the electric utility accounts of electric utility retail customers that purchase the qualified equipment. Participating builders that install qualified systems will receive a cash payment. All installations must be for accounts served by DME and must meet all applicable national, local, and manufacturers' codes and specifications.
The DME Application for Interconnection and the DME interconnection Agreement detail specific requirements for this rebate.
Incentive Contact
|Contact Name
|DME GreenSense Program
|Denton Municipal Electric
|1659 Spencer Road
|Denton, Texas
|Zip/Postal Code
| (940) 349-7137
- Incentive and policy data are reviewed and approved by the N.C. Solar Center's DSIRE project staff.[1]
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RealManage (a property management company that specializes in common-interest developments, a.k.a. homeowner associations or HOAs) became the manager of Berkeley Town House, a senior housing cooperative in Berkeley, California, in July 2010. I live there. In my opinion, RealManage has shown itself to be a bundle of strengths and weaknesses.
Good things about RealManage:
(1) When a resident reports something out of order, RealManage sometimes dispatches a contractor to examine the problem as soon as the next day, then within a couple of weeks gets the repair made competently.
(2) RealManage has a Resident Portal, a website where we can see records, such as minutes of board meetings. RealManage digitizes records and posts them there. This is much more efficient than responding to individual record requests.
(3) RealManage permits payment of monthly assessments via ACH.
(4) Some RealManage personnel (particularly Aletha) show genuine concern about doing a good job for customers.
(5) RealManage has a round-the-clock emergency response service.
(6) RealManage often replies to emails fast and informatively.
(7) RealManage sometimes fixes bugs in its information system reported by users.
Bad things about RealManage:
(1) RealManage has a buggy information system that it has sometimes failed to fix even months after being told about its bugs.
(2) RealManage has no issue-tracking system visible to customers. If you report a problem, you get a blank issue ID number (see example below). There's no place to look up the status of an issue. If you've noticed something that needs repair, you can't see whether others have reported it yet.
(3) RealManage emptied our office of its files, taking them to its offices. Months later RealManage reported that several of our association's most important documents, such as major improvement contracts, had vanished. When asked for details, RealManage did not respond.
(4) RealManage has left some problems unattanded for half a year or longer. In July a dozen residents complained that the elevator emergency signal and telephone were inoperative and there were no instructions on how to use them. For half a year RealManage didn't attend to this, and people got trapped in the elevators more than once, unable to summon help.
(5) RealManage has skimped on the records it makes available to residents. The board president asked RealManage to post everything possible on the Resident Portal, but for months thereafter there was no documentation on income and expenses. Finally, some recently appeared (for the last two months), but it discloses only gross categories of expenses, such as $6006 for maintenance and repairs. How can we owners be expected to evaluate the quality of our board and manager with that level of (non-)information about how they're spending our money?
(6) RealManage's standard contract states that the management fee does not include the service of giving shareholders access to corporate records. The law requires the corporation to let shareholders see records, but if they ask for that right then RealManage turns on the clock and charges the corporation $75 per hour for whatever time it takes to extract the records from its files. In summary: You pay RealManage a monthly fee so that you can pay RealManage an hourly fee to let you see your own records.
(7) RealManage allocates inadequate time and attention to its job. Its personnel are well-meaning, but they don't have the time, and possibly don't sufficiently care, to learn the basics of the customer's bylaws, rules, building, regulatory environment, etc. The main manager of our community also manages 8 other communities, so how could he have time to manage any of them thoroughly?
(8) RealManage's contracting for "maintenance" is quite dysfunctional. It offers to perform a range of services that existing janitorial and other contractors are already performing. Its personnel assigned to the building then (according to a recent report by one of our members) denies that RealManage is responsible for the tasks listed in the contract, and spends some of his time on-site in recreational activities instead of work.
(9) RealManage began running board meetings with minimal shareholder participation, limited to a pre-meeting "Homeowner Forum", with any comments prohibited after the official board meeting was called to order. Later RealManage claimed this was merely a recommendation to the board. Even if so, it reflects a goal of restricting shareholder participation, when a much healthier orientation would be to encourage more shareholder participation.
(10) RealManage has made serious accounting errors, resulting in overcharges, refunded after they were discovered by us, but they weren't discovered by RealManage's own quality-control system.
(11) RealManage helps the board of directors comply with its legal obligations, but unfortunately also helps the board break the law and infringe on shareholder rights. It participates in secret board meetings, which violate the Open Meetings Act. It has refused requests for some records, violating the bylaws. It has insisted on conducting board meetings without the required 4-day notice of the topics to be discussed. When a shareholder objected, RealManage said "The law wasn't intended to regulate unimportant matters like appointing a new member to the board of directors, and, even if it's illegal, there's no punishment, so go ahead and sue us if you want." RealManage has also assented to the hiring of an unlicensed contractor to do major maintenance work, and has recommended an uncertified contractor to remove asbestos-containing material from the building, which would be illegal.
RealManage could be great. Its idea of an automated Web platform to track information about a housing community and make it instantly available is superb. But that concept is part-real, part-vaporware. And RealManage's view of the rights of shareholders ranges from grudging acceptance to outright denial. RealManage's potential is far from fully realized.
Are there great alternatives to RealManage? Our community didn't find any when it conducted its management search. If you peruse the information published by the Center for California Homeowner Association Law, you'll get the impression that the industry is basically pro-board, anti-shareholder. Caveat emptor.
PostScript, July 2011
I was elected as a director in May 2011, and entitled to training as a new director under the RealManage contract. RealManage failed to provide (or to offer) any training to me.


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(SAN ANTONIO) — An undocumented immigrant who survived a trip across the U.S.-Mexico border in a tractor-trailer packed with people said he knew the trip would be dangerous, but he made the journey anyway because he needed to find work.
A total of 39 people, including children, were found inside the tractor-trailer parked outside a San Antonio, Texas, Walmart this weekend, officials said. Ten people, all adult men, died in the alleged smuggling attempt, and 29 people were being treated at hospitals, according to officials.
Temperatures inside the vehicle climbed to over 100 degrees, officials said.
The truck was discovered early Sunday morning by San Antonio firefighters and police after a Walmart employee called late Saturday for a welfare check when someone asked the employee for water, officials said.
The responding authorities "discovered an alien-smuggling venture gone horribly wrong," U.S. Attorney Richard Durbin Jr. of the Western District of Texas said in a statement.
"All were victims of ruthless human smugglers indifferent to the well-being of their fragile cargo," he said. "The South Texas heat is punishing this time of year. These people were helpless in the hands of their transporters. Imagine their suffering, trapped in a stifling trailer in 100-plus-degree heat."
A criminal complaint alleges that when a San Antonio police officer responded to the scene, the driver, James Mathew Bradley Jr., 60, exited the tractor-trailer and told the officer that the trailer he was hauling had been sold, and he was taking it from Iowa to Brownsville, Texas. Bradley told the officer he was unaware of the contents, the criminal complaint said.
The criminal complaint alleges Bradley did "knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that aliens had come to, entered or remained in the United States in violation of law, transport and move and attempt to transport and move such aliens for the purpose of commercial advantage of private financial gain … and approximately 36 others within the United States by means of transportation and otherwise, in furtherance of such violation of law resulting in the death of approximately 10 of the aliens so transported."
Bradley told the officer he was unaware of the contents, the criminal complaint said.
Bradley also told the officer "after he parked his tractor trailer he exited the vehicle to urinate when he heard movement in the trailer. Bradley said he then went to the rear of the trailer and opened the door. Bradley stated he tried to administer aid to the occupants," according to the document.
Bradley, of Clearwater, Florida, made his first appearance in federal court Monday; he did not make any statements beyond saying "yes" to the judge as she explained the charges and that he would also need a death penalty attorney. Bradley has a court-appointed attorney, who declined to comment.
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If you haven't got stuck into the functionality of the new form logic that came with 19A yet, it's well worth it!
Just finished up a small development for a client where I wanted to back out my custom plugin development and make full use of it, and it's worked flawlessly. The technicians are now able to draw, sketch, comment and generally enhance the data volume and quality of site data they capture without hardware or connectivity limitations.
I re-purposed the signature capture as a 'sketch' pad for back-of-the-cigarette-packet drawing, and I love the new draw on photo feature, modelled by Toy Story 4 and my awe-struck daughter! With a small ICS integration, I was able to poll the subscription and move the valuable data into OSvC for > 90 day retention, and with a DBaaS replication to OAC we can even do sentiment and clustering analysis on the measurable data captured. Oracle Cloud has never felt more connected.
Hopefully, we'll get some feature detection ML in OAC in the future and then who knows what we could do with all of those images!
Attached some shots of it in action
We have multiple tabs in a form and some of the tabs our technicians will be filling and some of them will be left as blank. Is there any way to highlight the tabs which get filled?
How can i restrict my field technician to not modify its user details, calendar info and work skills etc?
we apply a filter with "pending_activity order" < 2, and the technician has visible the activity started and the next pending activity. The goal is that the technician can only see the next pending activity until the current activity ends.
I'm attempting to identify how to set a default value for "time slot" for activities created using the add activity screen in mobility.
Some of our workforce use an in-house developed app to manage their jobs, and this app has a mandatory requirement for a service window value in the activity. Failure for this to be set causes issues with the app.
To prevent this a default value for "time slot" appears to be a simple solution, but I cannot get this to populate in OFSC.
Does anyone have experience of what is the correct format this default value? The time slot I want to use is called 08:00-16:00
Hi OFSC brains!
I've been doing a proof of concept in one of our offices and the one area where we seem to be tripping up is the ordering of appointments - we are adding quite a lot manually still as workers need to be add sessions that aren't booked programatically and as we have clients coming to our buildings we are using small 5 minute service windows to signify the start.
This works fine in most cases - the problem we are having is with the "Position in Route" where some sessions seem to be automatically placed at the start or end of the day. This seems to be when the day is otherwise empty so there is no option of before or after another activity.
I have tried removing the drop down altogether on the recommendation of support and scoured he documentation all to no avail. Any top tips to action what should essentially be an OOTB config gratefully received.
Any way of auto setting the end of the Service Window based upon a single time entry would also be a win!
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We cannot search activities in the past. Is it not supported or is it something not configured properly from our part? We are using OFSC application screens for the Dispatcher role. I cannot find any mention of this on the documentation https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/field-service/19a/faaca/dispatcher-activities.html#t_searchforactivity
Using Calendars from the new application screens (from mobility) https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/field-service/19a/faaca/dispatcher-activities.html#c_managingresourcecalendars
1. is it no longer possible to have more complicated recurrence with calendars entries? for example repeat for every weekday with the repeat weekly option that we had before (screenshot).
2. cant we delete a calendar entry? I only see option to edit