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Greens Aboriginal Affairs & Reconciliation spokesperson Tammy Franks MLC is calling on Premier Weatherill to sack Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ian Hunter.
Greens Aboriginal Affairs & Reconciliation spokesperson Tammy Franks MLC is calling on Premier Weatherill to sack Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ian Hunter.
Ms Franks' call follows this morning's calls from Anangu for the Minister to be sacked.
"Minister Hunter has made a total mess of the Aboriginal Affairs portfolio, leading non-Government members to declare we have no confidence in the Minister in December," Ms Franks said.
"On two occasions in his short time on the front Bench, this Parliament has declared no confidence in Minister Hunter. Do we really need a third before Premier Weatherill acts?
"Last year we discovered that Minister Hunter hadn't even visited the lands in 14 months. However, this total lack of proper consultation gave him no pause in ramming through legislation in the last sitting week of the year that potentially strips the APY Board of its powers for any reason the Minister sees fit.
"Minister Hunter has since failed to act on the very issues he himself said were so urgent that he needed to ram legislation through without due process.
"In the last fortnight he finally set foot on the lands to attend an APY Executive meeting, staying only for that meeting and a reported photo opportunity.
"Meanwhile the Government is $1.3 million behind in its payments to the APY Executive, effectively starving them into submission.
"He has shown arrogance, indifference and a total lack of respect for his constituents through his carriage of this portfolio. He's stumbled from debacle to disaster and his attitude shows that this won't change.
"He infamously stated over the Clovelly Park debacle that it was time to 'co-design a new engagement paradigm'. Well, Premier Weatherill needs to step up and co-design a new Cabinet without Ian Hunter on the front bench."
Ms Franks will be available for comment in the Parliament House courtyard at 1.15pm today.


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Contrary to the name you don't have to be sports man or women to benefit from sports massage.
Sports massage is also good for people with injuries, chronic pain or restricted range of motion.
Sports massage or deep tissue massage emphasizes prevention and healing of injuries to the muscles and tendons.
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Patron: Jasmine's favorite tequila.
Jasmine would have been 26 years old today. Customary, we (my cousins and I ) had to take a shot of Patron in Jasmine's name. (see here for previous birthday).
With the babies fussing about, we weren't really "turned up" we were more like "turned down". We were exhausted from the 2 minutes of reggae we did manage to dance, and from all the explosive diapers that needed changing. Maybe we're just getting old. Since Sasha, my cousin is still settling in her new place, and I found no shot glasses in sight, I found some cute little mini coffee cups that would do just fine. Even though the girls were laughing at me for it.
It was a comfy night in, I got to spend time with my beautiful cousins, their babies and their men, and Raymond hahaha, don't think I forgot you. ♥
Check out my Outfit of the day illustration below.
Happy Birthday Jasmine, I love you!


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Con Slobodchikoff and I approached the mountain meadow slowly, obliquely, softening our footfalls and conversing in whispers. It didn't make much difference. Once we were within 50 feet of the clearing's edge, the alarm sounded: short, shrill notes in rapid sequence, like rounds of sonic bullets.
We had just trespassed on a prairie-dog colony. A North American analogue to Africa's meerkat, the prairie dog is trepidation incarnate. It lives in subterranean societies of neighboring burrows, surfacing to forage during the day and rarely venturing more than a few hundred feet from the center of town. The moment it detects a hawk, coyote, human or any other threat, it cries out to alert the cohort and takes appropriate evasive action. A prairie dog's voice has about as much acoustic appeal as a chew toy. French explorers called the rodents petits chiens because they thought they sounded like incessantly yippy versions of their pets back home.
On this searing summer morning, Slobodchikoff had taken us to a tract of well-trodden wilderness on the grounds of the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff. Distressed squeaks flew from the grass, but the vegetation itself remained still; most of the prairie dogs had retreated underground. We continued along a dirt path bisecting the meadow, startling a prairie dog that was peering out of a burrow to our immediate right. It chirped at us a few times, then stared silently.
"Hello," Slobodchikoff said, stooping a bit. A stout bald man with a scraggly white beard and wine-dark lips, Slobodchikoff speaks with a gentler and more lilting voice than you might expect. "Hi, guy. What do you think? Are we worth calling about? Hmm?"
Slobodchikoff, an emeritus professor of biology at Northern Arizona University, has been analyzing the sounds of prairie dogs for more than 30 years. Not long after he started, he learned that prairie dogs had distinct alarm calls for different predators. Around the same time, separate researchers found that a few other species had similar vocabularies of danger. What Slobodchikoff claimed to discover in the following decades, however, was extraordinary: Beyond identifying the type of predator, prairie-dog calls also specified its size, shape, color and speed; the animals could even combine the structural elements of their calls in novel ways to describe something they had never seen before. No scientist had ever put forward such a thorough guide to the native tongue of a wild species or discovered one so intricate. Prairie-dog communication is so complex, Slobodchikoff says — so expressive and rich in information — that it constitutes nothing less than language.
That would be an audacious claim to make about even the most overtly intelligent species — say, a chimpanzee or a dolphin — let alone some kind of dirt hamster with a brain that barely weighs more than a grape. The majority of linguists and animal-communication experts maintain that language is restricted to a single species: ourselves. Perhaps because it is so ostensibly entwined with thought, with consciousness and our sense of self, language is the last bastion encircling human exceptionalism. To concede that we share language with other species is to finally and fully admit that we are different from other animals only in degrees not in kind. In many people's minds, language is the "cardinal distinction between man and animal, a sheerly dividing line as abrupt and immovable as a cliff," as Tom Wolfe argues in his book "The Kingdom of Speech," published last year.
Slobodchikoff thinks that dividing line is an illusion. To him, the idea that a human might have a two-way conversation with another species, even a humble prairie dog, is not a pretense; it's an inevitability. And the notion that animals of all kinds routinely engage in sophisticated discourse with one another — that the world's ecosystems reverberate with elaborate animal idioms just waiting to be translated — is not Doctor Dolittle-inspired nonsense; it is fact.
Like "life" and "consciousness," "language" is one of those words whose frequent and casual use papers over an epistemological chasm: No one really knows what language is or how it originated. At the center of this conundrum is a much-pondered question about the relationship between language and cognition more generally. Namely, did the mind create language or did language create the mind? Throughout history, philosophers, linguists and scientists have argued eloquently for each possibility. Some have contended that thought and conscious experience necessarily predate language and that language evolved later, as a way to share thoughts. Others have declared that language is the very marrow of consciousness, that the latter requires the former as a foundation.
In lieu of a precise definition for language, many experts and textbooks fall back on the work of the American linguist Charles Hockett, who in the 1950s and '60s proposed a set of more than a dozen "design features" that characterize language, like semanticity — distinct sounds and symbols with specific meanings — and displacement, the ability to speak of things outside your immediate environment. He acknowledged that numerous animal-communication systems had at least some of these features but maintained that only human language boasted them all. For those who think that language is a prerequisite for consciousness, the unavoidable conclusion is that animals possess neither.
To many biologists and neuroscientists, however, this notion smacks of anthropocentrism. There is now a consensus that numerous species, including birds and mammals, as well as octopuses and honeybees, have some degree of consciousness, that is, a subjective experience of the world — they feel, think, remember, plan and in some cases possess a sense of self. In parallel, although few scientists are as ready as Slobodchikoff to proclaim the existence of nonhuman language, the idea that many species have language-like abilities, that animal communication is vastly more sophisticated than Hockett and his peers realized, is gaining credence. "It's increasingly obvious just how much information is encoded in animal calls," says Holly Root-Gutteridge, a bioacoustician at the University of Sussex. "There's now a preponderance of evidence."
In the 1990s, inspired in part by Slobodchikoff's studies, the primatologist Klaus Zuberbühler began investigating monkey vocalizations in the dense and cacophonous forests of the Ivory Coast in Africa. Over the years, he and his colleagues discovered that adult male Campbell's monkeys change the meaning of their screeches by combining distinct calls in specific sequences, adding or omitting an "oo" suffix. Krak exclusively warns of a leopard, but krak-oo is a generalized alarm call; isolated pairs of booms are a "Come this way!" command, but booms preceding krak-oos denote falling tree branches. Studies of songbirds have also uncovered similar complexity in their communication. Japanese great tits, for example, tell one another to scan for danger using one string of chirps and a different set of notes to encourage others to move closer to the caller. When researchers played the warning followed by the invitation, the birds combined the commands, approaching the speaker only after cautiously surveying the area. In the South Pacific, biologists have shown that humpback-whale songs are neither random nor innate: rather, migrating pods of humpback whales learn one another's songs, which evolve over time and spread through the ocean in waves of "cultural revolution." And baby bottlenose dolphins develop "signature whistles" that serve as their names in a kind of roll call among kin.
With the help of human tutors, some captive animals have developed especially impressive linguistic prowess. Dolphins have learned to mimic computer-generated whistles and use them as labels for objects like hoops and balls. A bonobo known as Kanzi communicates with a touch-screen displaying hundreds of lexigrams, occasionally combining the symbols with hand gestures to form simple phrases. And over the course of a 30-year research project, an African gray parrot named Alex learned to identify seven colors, five shapes, quantities up to eight and more than 50 objects; he could correctly pick out the number of, for instance, green wooden blocks on a tray with more than a dozen objects; he routinely said "no," "come here" and "wanna go X" to get what he desired; and on occasion he spontaneously combined words from his growing vocabulary into descriptive phrases, like "yummy bread" for cake.
Slobodchikoff's studies on prairie dogs have long hovered on the periphery of this burgeoning field. Unknown to Slobodchikoff, around the same time that he began recording prairie-dog alarm calls in Flagstaff, Peter Marler, the renowned animal-communication expert and one of Slobodchikoff's former professors, was working on a similar study, one that would eventually redefine the field. In the spring of 1977, Marler sent Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney — a young husband-and-wife duo of primate scientists — to Amboseli, Kenya, to study the alarm calls of small silver-haired monkeys known as vervets. Earlier research had hinted that vervet monkeys produced different vocal warnings for different predators: a kind of bark to warn of a leopard; a low-pitched staccato rraup for a martial eagle; and a high-pitched chutter for a python. Seyfarth and Cheney decided to further investigate these findings in a controlled field experiment.
The two scientists hid a loudspeaker in the bushes near different groups of vervets and played recordings of their alarm calls, documenting the monkeys' responses. Even in the absence of actual predators, the recordings evoked the appropriate escape strategies. Leopard-alarm calls sent monkeys scampering into the trees. When they heard eagle-alarm calls, they looked up and took cover in the bushes. In response to the warning for snakes, the primates reared up on their hind legs and scanned the ground. Contrary to the consensus of the time, the researchers argued that the sounds animals made were not always involuntary expressions of physiological states, like pain, hunger or excitement. Instead, some animals systematically used sounds as symbols. In both academia and the popular press, vervet monkeys became celebrated mascots for the language-like abilities of animals.
While the vervet research won acclaim, Slobodchikoff's remained frustratingly sidelined. Marler, Seyfarth and Cheney worked for the well-staffed and moneyed Rockefeller University in New York; Slobodchikoff conducted his studies on a shoestring budget, compiling funds from the university's biology department, very occasional grants and his own bank account. Slobodchikoff did not collect enough data to formally present his research at a conference until 1986. And it was not until 2006 that he published a study with the same kind of playback techniques that Cheney and Seyfarth used in Kenya, which are essential to demonstrating that an animal comprehends and exploits the variation in its calls. Although many scientists attended Slobodchikoff's talks at conferences and spoke with him about his research in private, they rarely referenced his studies when publishing their own. And despite a few news stories and nature documentaries, prairie dogs have not secured a seat in public consciousness as a cognitively interesting species.
It did not take long for Slobodchikoff to master the basic vocabulary of Flagstaff's native prairie dogs. Prairie-dog alarm calls are the vocal equivalent of wartime telegrams: concise, abrupt, stripped to essentials. On a typical research day, Slobodchikoff and three or four graduate students or local volunteers visited one of six prairie-dog colonies they had selected for observation in and around Flagstaff. They usually arrived in the predawn hours, before the creatures emerged from their slumber, and climbed into one of the observation towers they had constructed on the colonies: stilted plywood platforms 10 feet high, covered by tarps or burlap sacks with small openings for microphones and cameras. By waiting, watching and recording, Slobodchikoff soon learned to discriminate between "Hawk!" "Human!" and so on — a talent that he says anyone can develop with practice. And when he mapped out his recordings as sonograms, he could see clear distinctions in wavelength and amplitude among the different calls.
He also discovered consistent variations in how prairie dogs use their alarm calls to evade predators. When a human appeared, the first prairie dog to spot the intruder gave a sequence of barks, which sent a majority of clan members scurrying underground. When a hawk swooped into view, one or a few prairies dogs each gave a single bark and any animal in the flight path raced back to the burrow. (Slobodchikoff suspects that, because of a hawk's speed, there's little time for a more complex call.) The presence of a coyote inspired a chorus of alarm calls throughout the colony as prairie dogs ran to the lips of their burrows and waited to see what the canine would do next. When confronted with a domestic dog, however, prairie dogs stood upright wherever they were, squeaking and watching, presumably because tame, leashed dogs were generally, though not always, harmless.
Something in Slobodchikoff's data troubled him, however. There was too much variation in the acoustic structure of alarm calls, much more than would be expected if their only purpose was to distinguish between types of predator. Slobodchikoff arranged for various dogs — a husky, a golden retriever, a Dalmatian and a cocker spaniel — to wander through a prairie-dog colony one at a time. The recorded alarm calls were still highly variable, even though the intruders all belonged to the same predator class. "That led me to think, What if they are actually describing physical features?" Slobodchikoff remembers. What if, instead of barking out nouns, prairie dogs were forming something closer to descriptive phrases?
To find out, he became a participant in his own experiment. Slobodchikoff and three colleagues paraded through two prairie-dog colonies dressed in either jeans and white lab coats, or jeans and variously colored shirts: blue, gray, orange, green. The prairie dogs produced highly similar alarm calls for each person in the lab coat, except for one especially short researcher. But they chirped in very different ways for most of the different colored shirts. In a related experiment, three slender women differing in height by just a bit meandered through a prairie-dog habitat dressed identically except for the color of their T-shirts. Again the animals varied their calls. And in another study, prairie dogs changed the rate of their chirping to reflect the speed of an approaching human.
If prairie dogs had sounds for color and speed, Slobodchikoff wondered, what else could they articulate? This time, he and his colleagues designed a more elaborate test. First they built plywood silhouettes of a coyote and a skunk, as well as a plywood oval (to confront the prairie dogs with something foreign), and painted the three shapes black. Then they strung a nylon cord between a tree and an observation tower, attached the plywood figures to slotted wheels on the cord and pulled them across the colony like pieces of laundry. Despite their lack of familiarity with these props, the prairie dogs did not respond to the cutouts with a single generalized "unknown threat" call. Rather, their warnings differed depending on the attributes of the object. They unanimously produced one alarm call for the coyote silhouette; a distinct warning for the skunk; and a third, entirely novel call for the oval. And in a follow-up study, prairie dogs consistently barked in distinct ways at small and large cardboard squares strung above the colony. Instead of relying on a fixed repertory of alarm calls, they were modifying their exclamations in the moment to create something new — a hallmark of language Hockett called "productivity."
By the late 1990s, Slobodchikoff had transitioned from studying paper sonograms to generating computer-based statistical analyses of the frequency, duration and harmonic structure of prairie-dog vocalizations. Based on such analyses, he said that the most crucial distinctions between prairie dogs' calls are not in length or the number of discrete chirps but rather in the amplitudes of overlapping sound waves in each call — the composite of which is essentially their tone. Slobodchikoff makes an analogy to Mandarin: The word ma can mean "horse," "mother" or "to scold," depending on its intonation. Whereas the tone of human speech is typically determined by a fundamental frequency and just three or four overtones layered on top, prairie dogs can have six or seven audible overtones mingling in a single call. Slobodchikoff thinks that by modifying these harmonics and combining them in different ways, prairie dogs form original descriptive phrases: dog big yellow fast; human small blue slow.
Why would a prairie dog need such specific information? "My guess is that these descriptions evolved to recognize and remember predators with different appearances and hunting strategies," Slobodchikoff says. Coyotes, for example, have varying proportions of black, gray, white, red and yellow in their fur. "One coyote might walk into a colony relatively nonchalant," Slobodchikoff explains. "Some will charge a prairie dog. Others lie down at a burrow, waiting for up to an hour to pounce." Indeed, some of Slobodchikoff's studies support the idea that prairie dogs remember individuals. In one experiment, black-tailed prairie dogs — one of the five prairie-dog species in North America — distinguished human trespassers by height and T-shirt color and further produced a signature call for a person who repeatedly fired a 12-gauge shotgun into the ground.
All this evidence, Slobodchikoff insists, elevates prairie-dog alarm calls from the level of mere "communication" into the realm of language. "Calling it communication sets up that us-versus-them divide," he says. "I don't think there is a gap. I think it all integrates in there. You can go to Barnes & Noble and pick up book after book that says humans are the only ones with language. That cheats our understanding of animal abilities and inhibits the breadth of our investigation. I would like to see people give animals more credence, and I think it's happening now, slowly. But I would like to push it along a little faster."
Slobodchikoff's research is one of the longest and most comprehensive studies of highly complex animal communication in the wild, without training or inducement of any kind. Yet his peers disagree about the merits of his work, in part because they disagree more generally about methodology. Some scientists worry that Slobodchikoff's studies, especially the early ones, are too small and depend too much on unreliable techniques. "The statistical approach he uses can be treacherous," says Julia Fischer of the German Primate Center in Göttingen. "It tends to pick up patterns that might not be there. If you redo his analysis with modern techniques, I'm not sure how strong it would be." Fischer belongs to one of two unrelated research groups that recently cast doubt on some aspects of the 1980 vervet-monkey studies: Based on a reanalysis of the original data and fresh experimentation, the two groups argue that the vervet calls are not as clear-cut as they have been viewed and that the monkeys ignore playbacks just as often as they respond to them appropriately.
Other researchers counter that Slobodchikoff's techniques are sound and widely used and that reluctance to embrace his research owes more to prejudice than empiricism. "It seems to me that some people don't trust Con because what he has found is outside what they are willing to accept," says James Hare, a biologist at the University of Manitoba who studies ground squirrels. "But when you look at it all scientifically, I can't really pick apart his methods. He presents compelling evidence of fine-grained communication about color, shape and size. I think language is a perfectly reasonable thing to call it."
The Yale University linguist Stephen Anderson says the idea that prairie dogs have language is ludicrous. The essence of language, he argues, is not a set of symbols or phrases but rather syntax: the ability to systematically combine symbols into an infinite array of sentences. I asked him what an animal would have to do to meet the minimum requirements for language. He replied that if you showed a parrot a fruit that it had never seen before, a pineapple, for example, and it said, "My, that looks spiky, so I don't think I want to eat it," that might be sufficient.
Because the fundamental nature of language is so intangible, because there is no agreed-upon way to determine its existence, it is easy to continually dismiss new evidence of ostensible animal language as inadequate — intriguing, but not quite good enough. Contrast that with the firm scientific consensus that tool use is far more prevalent in the animal kingdom than previously realized: Chimpanzees fashion twigs into dipping sticks for termites and honey; sea otters store rocks in "armpit pouches," using them to crack open seashells; and octopuses tote coconut shells to use as shields. No other animal makes Black & Decker power drills, yet we do not deny the legitimacy of their crafts. Why should language be so different?
Setting such disputes aside, Slobodchikoff's ongoing study is lacking in one critical aspect: It is unfinished. "I have great respect for the prairie-dog work, but so far there is no evidence that the most nuanced information is meaningful to this species," says Zuberbühler, the researcher who studied Campbell's monkeys. Slobodchikoff's playback experiments demonstrate that different predator-alarm calls trigger distinct escape responses, but so far he has not been able to link the acoustic variations that ostensibly encode color, shape and so on to any observable behavioral differences. Without such evidence, he cannot rule out the possibility that some of the discrepancies in the alarm calls are an inadvertent byproduct of prairie-dog physiology — an increased sensitivity to a certain color or shape invoking a more forceful rush of air through the vocal tract, for instance — and that the animals do not recognize such differences or use them to their advantage. Perhaps part of what Slobodchikoff deems prairie-dog language is just useless prattle. This is the gaping pitfall of his field: Can we ever know, definitively, that another species is saying what we think it's saying?
In Flagstaff, Slobodchikoff and I spent some time searching for his former study sites. One had been converted into a baseball diamond, another into a cow pasture and others into parking lots and landscaped highway shoulders. At one point we drove to an alpine meadow strewn with the white discs of morning glory and bordered by ponderosa pines. Just about a month earlier, Slobodchikoff saw prairie dogs here. Now the grass was still and silent. Dozens of brown mounds rose from the ground, covered in vegetation, like village ruins reclaimed by a jungle.
When Slobodchikoff started studying prairie dogs in the late 1970s, there were about 50 healthy colonies within a 30-mile radius of his university. It was easy to repeatedly study the same colonies over long periods of time. There are just a few hamlets left in and around Flagstaff. "Something is happening to prairie dogs," Slobodchikoff says. "They're disappearing all over."
Before 1800, as many as five billion prairie dogs lived throughout the Great Plains in colonies that collectively spanned more than 100 million acres. Today, by some estimates, the five prairie-dog species inhabit as little as one to two million acres total. Much like the bison, prairie dogs have declined in part because of sanctioned mass slaughter — not for their meat or fur but simply to eliminate what many people consider a pest. Ranchers have long held that cattle cannot thrive alongside prairie dogs because the two creatures compete for pasture. Studies suggest that such competition is generally negligible; it takes hundreds of prairie dogs to eat as much grass as a single cow. There is also a persistent notion that horses and cattle break their legs by tripping in prairie-dog burrows, though evidence is scant.
Around 1900, another major threat to prairie dogs arrived on the West Coast. Trade ships from Asia brought rats infested with Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague. Using fleas as an initial vector, Y. pestis didn't just trigger an epidemic of plague in San Francisco; it escaped into the wild, eventually establishing itself in more than 76 mammal species. Prairie dogs are one of the most susceptible. Plague can wipe out an entire colony in a week, in part because they are so intimate and close-quartered.
Shortly before I visited, plague was detected in the alpine meadow surrounding us. Slobodchikoff explained that despite the efforts of conservation groups, such as the Prairie Dog Coalition and Habitat Harmony, very few colonies are vaccinated or shielded from hunting and mass poisoning. Prairie dogs have hardly any federal or state protections. "People see them as vermin that spread disease," Slobodchikoff said. (In truth, prairie dogs die far too quickly from plague to be a major vector.) "Most people would be more than happy if we got rid of every single one."
There are certain animals that we love, defend and even revere precisely because of their sentience, because they seem to possess minds similar to our own. After Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey brought the intelligence and kinship of chimpanzees and gorillas into the limelight, increasing resources were channeled into saving the great apes from habitat destruction and poaching. Following John Lilly's research and writing on dolphin communication in the 1960s, the cetaceans gained an almost cultlike following. Most recently there has been increasing backlash against the captivity of elephants and orcas, highly communal and empathic species.
Nothing of the sort has happened for prairie dogs. If Slobodchikoff is right about their language — to say nothing of all the other undeciphered clucks, yawps and bellows on Earth — then we will have been the cause of, and the indifferent witness to, the annihilation of a species that helped transform our understanding of animal minds. To recognize that we are not alone, that we share our world with other conscious, thinking, speaking beings, requires us to sacrifice a great deal of ego. At the same time, it folds us, palpably and inextricably, into the fabric of a much grander universe. As it stands, our greatest chance of achieving such a breakthrough may not require radio telescopes or interstellar travel but rather a new appreciation for a raucous rodent in our vast grassy backyard. Assuming, that is, that we don't lose — or invent — anything in translation.
Just as we were leaving the barren colony in Flagstaff, Slobodchikoff spotted a lone prairie dog in the distance, standing upright in the classic sentinel fashion. We fumbled for our binoculars and peered through the passenger window.
"Can you see him?" Slobodchikoff said. I said, "Show me again where you pointed." He did. At first, I thought it must have run off. Then I found it: Just the right shape and color but eerily angular and statuesque.
"I'm not sure that's a prairie dog," I told Slobodchikoff. He craned his neck to re-examine the scene. "You're right," he said, lowering his binoculars. "It's a rock."


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One of the signs of congestive heart failure is an irregular heartbeat. For instance, your heart might beat a lot faster than it should. Some of the common symptoms that are experienced include the legs and feet becoming swollen. The swelling stems from an excessive amount of fluid in the body. You might begin feeling the urge to urinate a lot during the nighttime hours, which could interfere with your ability to sleep. A lack of concentration is one of the other symptoms that are associated with congestive heart failure.
What Kinds of Treatment Options Are Available?
Before coming up with the best method of treatment, the specialist will have to make a diagnosis. He or she will ask about your medical history, as well as examine your body to determine if you are suffering from any conditions that increase your risk for the disease. You will be treated based on how severe your case of congestive heart failure is, as well as other underlying conditions that you have. Taking medication or undergoing surgery to repair a heart valve are common methods of treatment.
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I returned later with Jim P to the same spot and in the space of 1/2 -3/4 of an hour we had Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Blackbird, Fieldfare & Redwing all in the playing fields at the same time as well as the Green Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, and a small flock of finches containing Gold, Green, Siskin & Redpoll? We also had close fly by views of Red Kite and Buzzard . All in all a very pleasant and fruitful visit.
Happy New Year everyone, good birding to all in 2017.


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As usual, it's all about the if. Allow me to explain what this is about:
In the first Arctic Sea Ice update of the 2013 melting season that was posted a couple of days ago, I announced that a cyclone was forecasted to move over the Arctic Basin and stay there for a while. It's been there for a couple of days now as can be seen on this animation of Danish Meteorological Institute SLP images:
It's not particularly strong (especially not compared to GAC-2012), but it stays in the same spot for quite a while and so is bound to have some effect on the ice below. Now, according to the Naval Research Laboratory's ACNFS forecast model, this effect is quite pronounced. And to show you just how pronounced, here's their sea ice concentration animation from May 22nd, with a forecast up to June 6th:


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CRASH celebrates Half Marathon runners
Published: 20 October, 2015
CRASH hosted its Windsor Half Marathon Awards Ceremony at the Saint-Gobain Innovation Centre in London on 19 October.
Supported by Saint-Gobain and British Gypsum, the event was a chance for CRASH to say thank you to its Patrons for their continued support of the event and to present awards to some of the runners.
The Half Marathon, which took place in the grounds of Windsor Castle on 27 September, 2015, raised more than £25,000 for homelessness across the UK. More than 90 runners took part in the event.
The awards winners were as follows:
- Top Fundraising Team - British Gypsum
- Top Individual Fundraiser - Clare Hartley-Marjoram from Sir Robert McAlpine
- Fastest CRASH Male Runner - Justin Reid-Simms from Saint Gobain Weber, who finished in an impressive personal best time of 1:25:55Fastest CRASH Female Runner - Kirstie Meeten from Saint Gobain Weber
- Top Construction Industry Male Team - William Rogers-Tizard, Thomas Fennell, Jack Vanzwieten and Michael Brown from Price & Myers
- Top Construction Industry Female Team - Sarah Pellereau, Premma Makanji, Lucy Newport and Eleanor Ball from Price & Myers
- CRASH Challenge winners - William Rogers-Tizard, Thomas Fennell, Jack Vanzwieten, Michael Brown, Timothy Pattinson, Paul Toplis, Sarah Pellereau and David Lockett from Price & Myers.
Speaking at the event, CRASH's Jenny Vaidya thanked Patron companies Imtech and AECOM, who sponsored the marquee and refreshments on the day. She also thanked Carillion, 8Build, Hewden, Areen Design, and Dickies Store for their generous donations towards the runners' bags, and Builders' Merchants News for their invaluable support as media partner.
Next year's 34th Windsor Half Marathon will take place on 25 September, with a new start time of 10am. Registration will open in November this year. Anyone who is interested in participating, please contact Ms Vaidya on firstname.lastname@example.com.
The full list of results can be found here http://www.runwindsor.com/the-event/previous-events/2015-windsor-half-marathon.


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Unforgotten Realms: Episode 30: Now You're Thinking with Silver Keys
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Lmao Love the scene with Schmoopy in the Background just looting random old crap that I'm sure half of the fans forgot about (Tint and Flinder, Tent, Axe/Key etc)
"Sweet, my beard! Wait... I can loot a beard?"
And same here Shadowsin, I had to rewatch the scene with Mike and Gavin because I was listening to Schmoopy be epic XD
I'm gonna go threw withdrawal without UR, I hope you decide to cut your break short. And I wanna see Petey do a hyper beam in season 3!
What an awesome ending!
I can't wait untill the next episode.
great episode
Hahahaha, awesome episode Rob
"I can loot a beard?"
SWEET episode! didn't the judge die though? oh well.
Please tell me escapist signed for a season 3...~!!!!
Great work. I almost spit up my pasta when I saw Roamin talking about the show not making sense and Garry suddenly reappearing. Way to have a sense of humor about the inane ramblings of fanboys like myself
Season 3 on the way and the rumored season 1 dvd aimed for this Christmas, this show has so much ahead of it. I can't wait and I'm glad you are letting the viewers along for the ride
that episode has to be the best in the series hands down!
I think the episode will start in the original's graphics. They went back in time through the intro. *nod*
Also, since ROAMIN, MIGHT be a Shaman, he may just Self-rez. ;P
My thoughts.
season two already? aww
AWESOME!.....lmao at the judge getting insult and the second floor guy can't wait for next weeks......btw.....I CAST FLARE!
p.s. didnt schmoopy forget to loot his DW shields?
Now onto Season 3.
"Suck My Presidential balls Bitch" LMAO Anyone Think honest abe may be schmoopy's future self and how did he loot a beard from a body that never had one I mean I suppose he may have shaved off some of the wolf's fur and stuck it into a beard shape but he didn't really have the time and didn't the well key go when he blew up his original body to rekill the beggar OK I know Im overanalyzing but still thats just the kind of nitpicky Individual I am Im sorry
"Plan c the window?"
"Oh man, my silver key ax"
I love classic references.
I thought Schmoopy was level 2 in the wolf body..oh wellz. I stopped caring about what Gavin was talking about after about the third item that Schmoopy pulled out...might have to re-watch that part.
HATE AGAINST THE FRENCH...or magical axes.....
Abe Lincoln is the greatest evar!
Ah, I think I see where this going now. The stone head hasn't been forgotten like we thought. Abe had Schmoopy's curse and Schmoopy's beard. Perhaps he was Schmoopy, but sent back in time by our puzzle-giving friend. That would also explain why he's a sorcerer.
i cracked up at the fight scene...it looked like a headbutting match
What the crap.
That is all.
Guys I dont think Roamin multiclassed shaman. In dungeons and dragons barbarians can go into a rage or fury, basically they become a hell of alot stronger and angrier for a short amount of time.
The only problem with my theory however is that barbarians cant be lawful ailinment wise.
10/10 Rob good work.
Paladins do not have to be exclusively Lawful or even Good anymore (or at least for a while they didn't need to be) if you make use of certain rulebooks... plus I doubt any D&D rules really matter to this awesome creation. All of the assassin stuff is more like Assassin's Creed than anything really in D&D as far as I know.
...That episode made no sense at all.
Then again, neither did the entire season.
Well at least Gaary doesnt have to worry about getting punched in the chicken salad sandwitch anymore
also i was half-expecting the flare to fly thru the intro
You do realize that line was specifically designed to make fun of comments like yours, right?
Noooo! Roamin! Don't leave us! Anyway, great episode
Not really that funny, but moves along the plot nicely...
That was freaking awesome Rob, Except for the fact that I now officially have no clue whatsoever as to what is going on. Abe calling the judge was awesome though.
Woot, Cant wait for series 3! Man, who here remembers when rob was just some guy on youtube who made Warcraft Videos? I sure as hell remember...Pepitoz And Jimmy Shall live on in our hearts! Then Unforgotten realms came and Wowed EVERYTHANG AND EVERYBAHDY....
Lol suk my presidential bawlls bitch. :O lol win sauce on the awesome pasta, great season!
great work but dont kill Roamin please
Wow just wow Rob. This was totally epic. Awesome work! Keep on going like this, and your series will make it into TV(seriously it wont, but maybe there is a tiny chance)! Greetings from Germany as always and...let's see....one-hundred-fifth!!!
where can I download that awesome fight music?
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Published February 11, 2014
It's sleek. It's fast. It's energy-efficient.
Behold the next-generation subway car: the Tubester, a tubular, plexiglass pod that hangs from an elevated steel track. The carriage seats 32, and the people inside pedal — as if on a bicycle — to move the whole contraption forward. Solar panels provide a backup energy supply so commuters with disabilities can also ride.
Think this setup sounds crazy?
It's actually not far from reality, says a group of 16 Buffalo eighth-graders who dreamed up the Tubester for the annual Future City Competition, which asks children across the country to plan a futuristic metropolis. Single-person, pedal-driven Tubesters already exist in prototype-form in New Zealand, where they're called the Shweeb, according to the students' research.
The team, representing Futures Academy, a Buffalo public school, placed in the top 5 at regionals on Jan. 25.
The win is a point of pride not just for the kids, but also for UB, which facilitated the children's participation through the Center for Urban Studies in the School of Architecture and Planning.
"We've been involved in the Future City Competition for almost 10 years, and this year was very special because we broke into that top 5 category, competing against some of the top schools in Western New York," says Henry Louis Taylor Jr., the center's director.
"The thing that we're most proud of is that we just pick kids who have an interest in the project," Taylor adds. "We don't cherry pick, and to us that's important because it shows the tremendous potential in all the kids we work with."
The top 5 showing earned Futures Academy $500. The students also took home two additional cash prizes:
Before designing the Tubester, the eighth-graders scrutinized transportation systems around the world. The team weighed such factors as pollution, safety and the health of commuters.
An essay submitted to judges captures the complexity of the students' thinking, outlining the Tubester's benefits, including:
"The infrastructure to build the Tubester does exist today in 2013, but it will be improved in the future when the Tubester is actually built," the students wrote.
"It's pretty cool," says Gavin Luter, a UB PhD candidate in educational leadership and policy studies who mentored the young city planners. "Why can't we design our cities that way?"
Besides Luter, students from the schools of Architecture and Planning and Engineering and Applied Sciences also assisted the Futures Academy team. Contributors included Matt Austin (MUP candidate), Caryn Blair (MUP candidate) and Reza Tashakori (MArch candidate). UB students Dominique Hickson and Darnell Dodard also served as mentors, working through the National Society of Black Engineers.
The partnership with Futures Academy is part of the Center for Urban Studies' Community as Classroom initiative, which uses hands-on projects to show students how they can use their education and skills to improve their communities.


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Napton Village Stores, Post Office and Cafe is owned and run by a local family, acquired in January 2014. Offering a friendly welcome to local regulars and visitors to the village alike, we pride ourselves on local produce, service and choice.
The store itself has had a complete refresh and the 'Napton Kitchen' has been introduced – a home from home place to enjoy a drink and lite bite.
As well as every day conveniences, we value everything local and fresh – an increased range of daily baked breads, cakes and pastries and we are constantly looking to source from more local suppliers. Lucky to already have 3 village based meat farms, a bee keeper and free range eggs from within 2 miles.
This is a Topside Dexter Beef joint from The Lost Farm Grandborough – available to order anytime for the perfect Sunday roast
As well as the local focus, we have a wide range of wines from the everyday to something special, chilled white and roses ready to crack open!
The Post Office has been re launched as a local service – which means that you can access all the facilities every shop trading hour – much more convenient for modern life.
Come and visit and you will find everything a local store should offer under one roof and if not please tell us!


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Connor Stedman is a naturalist, wilderness educator, and permaculture designer based in the Connecticut and Champlain valleys of western New England. He co-organized the 2012 Carbon Farming Course – carbonfarmingcourse.com – in Chestnut Ridge, NY. Connor is also completing an M.S. in Natural Resources and Ecological Planning at the University of Vermont and writing a manual on agroforestry systems for the northeast US.
This is the first part of a two part series. Part one focuses on an introduction carbon farming, some numbers on the potential quantities of carbon that can be stored, and the role of trees and perennial plants. The follow up interview with Connor, planned for October, 2012, will pick up on some details from this episode and then delve fully into the use of soil for carbon farming.
After listening to this episode you have questions for Connor to answer in the second half of this series, call the voicemail line: 717.827.6266 or send me an email: show (at) thepermaculturepodcast (dot) com.
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said in a TV interview Monday that he no longer supports a path to citizenship in an immigration reform bill, a reversal that puts him to the right of the current bipartisan immigration proposal forming in the Senate.
"If we want to create an immigration policy that's going to work, we can't continue to make illegal immigration an easier path than legal immigration," Bush said on NBC's "Today" show. "I think it's important that there's a natural friction between our immigrant heritage and the rule of law. This is the right place, I think, to be in that sense."
Bush, a Republican, supported immigration reform even when many in his party shifted to a harder line stance in the 2012 primary. As recently as last June, he said in interviews that he thought most of the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants should be put on a gradual path to citizenship if they meet certain conditions.
But in the interview, Bush said that many of the immigrants who were legalized in the last immigration reform effort in 1986 did not apply for citizenship when they became eligible, suggesting it was not a key concern for them. "Half the people in '86 that could have gotten amnesty didn't apply. Many people don't want to be citizens of our country," he said. "They want to come here, they want to work hard, they want to provide for their families. Some of them want to come home; not necessarily all of them want to stay as citizens."
Immigrant rights leaders and many Democrats in Congress say any law that legalizes immigrants without giving them the option of earning their citizenship will create a second-class group of people in the country. Frank Sharry of the America's Voice advocacy group slammed Bush's "flip flop" on the issue in a statement Monday.
The bipartisan Gang of Eight in the Senate, which includes Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, includes a gradual path to citizenship in their proposal. In their plan, immigrants would not be able to get green cards—which lead to citizenship—until a panel of experts has declared the U.S.-Mexico border to be secure. Some prominent House Republicans have said they will not support a bill that includes citizenship, raising questions about whether the Senate proposal could pass there.
It's unclear whether Bush's change of heart on citizenship will have any effect on reform negotiations.
Bush's book "Immigration Wars," which includes his immigration reform proposal, comes out on Tuesday. According to ABC News, Bush writes in the book that he would make an exception for young illegal immigrants who were brought to the country as children. They could become citizens if they graduate high school or join the military.


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I used this delightful girl from World of Wonder set for my first card. Don't you love her bright smile? =)
She is stamped on Papertrey Ink's Stamper's Select White cardstock, colored with Copic markers then trimmed to the size of the card.
The patterned paper strips are from Farm Girl 8x8 Paper Pad by October Afternoon and the sentiment is from the World of Wonder set.
I used the sweet Anne of Green Gables for my second card. She is one of my all time favorite literature characters! =)
She is stamped on PTI's Stamper's Select White cardstock as well, colored with Copic markers then cut and embossed using a Petite Ovals Small die using the out of frame die cutting technique.
The patterned paper is from What's Up 6x6 Paper Pad by BasicGrey. I stamped some flourishes on the aqua piece for a little interest. The sentiment comes with this image.
for "World of Wonder" card:
cardstock: (white, kraft) Papertrey Ink
rubber stamp: Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps
patterned paper: October Afternoon
dye ink: (Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko
fiber: (white crochet thread) DMC
accents: (yellow, red buttons) Papertrey Ink
stickers: (red/blue/green/yellow pattern Japanese washi tape) Kamoi Kakoshi
other: (foam tape) 3M
Copics used:
skin: E13, E11, E01, E00, E000, R24, R22, R20
hair: E29, E27, E25, E23, E21
shorts, backpack: BG78, BG75, BG72
top: R29, R27, R24, R22, Y19, Y15, Y08, YG09, YG07, B01, B000
sneakers: R29, R27, R24, R22, Y19, Y15, Y08, BV29, BV25, BV23
birds: Y19, Y15, Y08, BG13, BG11, BG10, R24, R22, R21, YR16
ground: E59, E37, E35, E33, E31, E30, E0000, 0
card size: 4" x 5 1/2"
for "Annie of Green Gables" card:
cardstock: (white, kraft) Papertrey Ink
rubber stamp: Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps
clear stamp: (flourishes) Papertrey Ink
patterned paper: BasicGrey
dye inks: (Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko, (Aqua Mist) Papertrey Ink
accent: (gems) Recollections
die: (oval) Spellbinders
tool: (die-cut machine) Provo Craft, (sewing machine)
other: (foam squares) Recollections
Copics used:
skin: E13, E11, E01, E00, E000, R20
hair: E59, E09, E08, R08
dress: BG15, BG13, BG11, BG10
top: YR02, YR00, YR000
boots: E59, E37, E35, E33
hat: E23, E21, E01, E00, BG13, E11, E10
luggages: E39, E37, E35, E33, E31, E43, E42, E41, Y26, Y21, E79, E77, E74, E71, E29, E27, E25, E23
card size: 4" x 5 1/2"


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Avalanche Will Raise #52 To The Rafters
by Paul on 04/12/13 at 03:43 PM ET
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DENVER – The Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club announced today that the organization will retire the number 52 in honor of former Avalanche defenseman Adam Foote. The Avalanche will raise Foote's No. 52 to the rafters at Pepsi Center during the 2013-14 season, game and date to be announced this summer.
Foote's No. 52 will be the fifth sweater number retired in the 18-year history of the Colorado Avalanche, joining Joe Sakic (19), Peter Forsberg (21), Patrick Roy (33) and Ray Bourque (77).
Foote will be the ninth player in franchise history to have his sweater number retired, as the Quebec Nordiques retired the jerseys of Peter Stastny (26), Michel Goulet (16), Marc Tardif (8) and J.C. Tremblay (3).
Foote, 41, played 19 seasons in the NHL, 17 of those with the Avalanche/Nordiques franchise. He was a member of Colorado's 1996 and 2001 Stanley Cup championship teams and helped the franchise capture an NHL-record nine consecutive division titles from 1995 to 2003. Originally selected by Quebec in the second round (22nd overall) of the 1989 Entry Draft, Foote appeared in more regular season (967) and playoff games (170) than any other defenseman in franchise history.
Foote spent two seasons as Colorado's team captain (2009-11), becoming just the second captain in Avalanche history at the time. Foote also captained the Columbus Blue Jackets from 2005-08.
Overall, Foote amassed 308 points (66g/242a) and 1,534 penalty minutes in 1,154 career games with Quebec/Colorado and Columbus. The blueliner was a combined +99 throughout his career. Foote also appeared in 170 career playoff games, second to only Sakic (172) in franchise history.
Foote is still the second-highest scoring defenseman in Avalanche/Nordiques history with 259 points (56g/203a) in 967 games. He is a combined +129 in an Avs sweater, the second-highest plus/minus number in franchise annals behind Forsberg (+210).
The Toronto native represented Canada in three Olympics: 1998, 2002 and 2006. He helped Canada win the gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. Foote won a gold medal and was named to the All-Tournament Team at the 2004 World Cup of Hockey. He also played for Canada at the 1996 World Cup of Hockey.
Prior to turning pro, Foote spent three seasons with Sault Ste. Marie, where he was named to the Ontario Hockey League's First All-Star Team in 1990-91. He helped the Greyhounds reach the Memorial Cup in 1991.
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Can I have my number from my Peewee, Bantam and Midget days hung in the Can, too?
Posted by mrfluffy from A wide spot on I-90 in Montana on 04/12/13 at 04:19 PM ET
Posted by mrfluffy from Long Beach on 04/12/13 at 05:19 PM ET
I hope you didn't wear 77
Posted by Chris in Hockey Hell from Ann Arbor, MI but LIVING in Columbia, TN on 04/12/13 at 04:28 PM ET
Who next? Fraud Lepuke?
Posted by SYF from impossible and oddly communally possessive sluts on 04/12/13 at 06:43 PM ET
Well isn't that cute
Posted by Vladimir16 from Grand River Valley on 04/12/13 at 07:11 PM ET
Always figured Rob Blake was next up after his lengthy tenure on the Avs blueline.
Posted by mc keeper on 04/12/13 at 07:26 PM ET
Foote's No. 52 will be the fifth sweater number retired in the 18-year history of the Colorado Avalanche, joining .... Ray Bourque (77).
This is the gift that keeps on giving. It's like randomly remembering a Mitch Hedberg joke at a random time of day- instant, never-fails amusement.
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Your pursuit of dispassionate perfection gives you unmatched insight into the condition of others.
Prerequisite(s): Alertness, Perception 5 ranks.
Benefit(s): You can perform the read aura occult skill unlock even if you can't use psychic magic. If you can cast psychic spells or have the Psychic Sensitivity feat, you can use read aura one additional time per day.
Once per day, you can perform an aura reading as a full-round action. If you successfully use detect thoughts or a similar mind-reading divination on a creature, you can use the read aura skill unlock on that creature as a full-round action as long as it is in your line of sight and within 30 feet. If you fail the check, you can't attempt to read that same creature's aura for 24 hours.
Special: If you have a ki pool, you can expend 1 point from your ki pool as a swift action to gain one additional daily use of the read aura occult skill unlock.
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Friday, January 28, 2011
I have felt like I have been cooking in the oven this week with temperatures in Canberra soaring into the high thirties for most of the week. When we have it that hot it is also extremely dry and that really tires you, although I have heard that people who have had brain surgery are often more severely affected by extreme hot or cold temperatures and I believe this to be true. I find that both the scars the one where the tumour was removed and the one where the build up of fluid was drained became extremely painful even to touch gently and I feel this is caused by the extremely hot weather conditions.
This week I have visited my doctor to get a form to have a blood test prior to going to Sydney next Tuesday, whilst I was there I told him that I had been experiencing a painful right ear for a few days, he checked my ear and said it was not inflamed and then he found that I was getting some new teeth, my twelve year old molars and that had been causing my ear to ache.
All week I have been working with determination whilst sweating on all my physiotherapy exercises, I want to be at my strongest before I go back to school on 9th February because I know that school will zap my energy levels as being in Year 8 this year the work will be much more demanding.
I went to the orthopaedic surgeon with Nalani for her review, he was exceedingly impressed with her progress especially in the degrees she was able to bend it without assistance, however, her quad muscle is still slightly weak so he wants her to wear the brace for a little while longer for weight bearing so that it will heal and be stronger. She goes back to see him again on 7th March but in the meantime she is working hard on all her physiotherapy exercises. He also told her that when she goes back to see him in March that he will begin a program for her for resuming sport.
Tinkerbelle had her annual vet check up this week, she is in excellent condition, with the vet commenting on what a beautiful and healthy looking coat of fur she has, I had washed her the day before her vet visit and her fur glistened and felt as soft as fluffy white clouds. Mum's cat Paris also went to the vet with Tinkerbelle, Paris will be twelve in April, she is also in good health. She had to had what looked like a blood blister on one of her back paws pricked, a sample put on a slide and then investigated under the microscope. The vet confirmed it was a blood blister and thinks that because Paris is old that her blood is pooling in this one particular area and she will have to have it popped if it comes up again, she also mentioned that if it is still coming up regularly in three months that she has to go back to the vet to have it investigated a little further to eliminate a tumour.
My blood test was a breeze, I am able to sit calmly and it makes it so much easier for the blood nurse to take. I had to have an FBC which is a full blood count, I also had to have my calcium, phosphate and Vitamin D levels done, that meant they had to take two vials of blood.
Wednesday was an extremely proud day, because we celebrated Australia Day, we are so fortunate to live in such a free and splendiferous Country that has some of the most beautiful landscape in the world and such a diverse multicultural population. I eagerly went onto Christine's website of Australian Quotes and found so many inspiring quotes, the site again is http://www.australianinspiration.com.au/ it is marvellous just to look through it but is also a valuable resource for school projects, essays or speeches.
I am so proud of myself because on Sunday when Jarrett had running training at the AIS (Australian Institute of Sport) I took my rollator and with the spirit of determination in my heart, I walked one lap of the entire track which is four hundred metres, it was perhaps at a tortoise pace compared to what Jarrett was doing but I achieved a goal I had set myself.
Today was my haircut, I was so excited yet a little nervous at the same time, I has been almost two years since I have had a haircut! When the hairdresser began to cut my hair it felt wonderful, it made me feel gorgeous, which after all I've been through you don't often feel that way.
I have not received my final MRI results as yet, the preliminary results have shown that the remaining tumour has increased slightly in diametre but remains stable, there appears to be increased enhancement in my spinal region which may need further investigating hopefully I will know something on Monday before I have to go to Sydney on Tuesday to see my oncologist and have my lumber puncture. After my nightmare visit to Sydney at the end of last year I am a little fearful about this one but I will have the whole family there to support me.
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Hi Dear Dainere, What a nice long newsy blog tonight , I should employ you to write some of my stuff at work. well we have spoken about the heat before and its impact , and you know what Dainere , I forgot to tell you , my head perspires so much since my brain surgery, I hate it so much , . so i feel for you so much with the heat .
Role on Autumn i think .
Congratulations on your new teeth , thats fantastic.
For Nalani, she will be so much stronger when March comes , I know its a bit of a wait but , it will come.
So glad to hear that Tinkerbelle is in fine form , and also that Paris , is in good shape for her age.
Good luck with the FBC , lets hope is spot on for what they expect.
So glad you had a nice Aussie day , so much to do and see , for us Dainere we watched the cricket and the tennis , lazy i know but we just wanted a rest . BUt I am so glad that Jesica Watson was awarded Young Australian of the year , She like you is such an inspiration to our younger Aussies , its people like you and her that makes this country waht it is , cos when you get older you will carry it on to your adulthood, , she is one of my heroes , as you are young lady .
I knew youd feel a million dollars after having your hair done, fantastic my friend.
well ok the tumour may have increased slightly Dainere , but it is stable, that is what happened to me , MY saurgeon explained that my tumour had increased in size because it had been able to find itself a new blood source.
yes we hope for you all that you may know more on Monday .
we hope and pray that Tuesday will work out ok for my my precious friend
Lots of love , hugs and kisses stuart and meryl xxxxx
- January 28, 2011 at 7:41 PM
- Dianne said...
Dear Dainere,
Again such a full week of activity for you. It has been hot and saps energy, tonight and Sat will be cooler.
I think you have stopped us all in our tracks with awe when reading what you get up to. 400m is great, will you be walking again this Sunday? I hope to see you doing it if Lachie can peel himself of the bed :) I think there has been too much late night tennis watching while waiting for the air temp to go down.
Congratulations to Nalani for working so well to get her leg better, I hope to see her running again soon.
Take care and see you Sunday
Lv Dianne xxxx
- January 28, 2011 at 10:32 PM
Congratulations Daniere on making the 400m. What a champ! We have had extremely high temperatures here as well. I agree, bring on Autumn.
All the best for your trip to Sydney. I pray for you each day.
Haven't had a look at the Inspirational Quotes site yet, but will this weekend.
- January 29, 2011 at 12:07 PM
Hi Dainere
All the best for Sydney, hope all goes well, I will be thinking of you!
Luv Sandra xoxox :)
- January 31, 2011 at 8:34 PM


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Monkey's Paw Turkey Sandwich
Homer: I'll make a wish that can't backfire. I wish for a turkey sandwich, on rye bread, with lettuce and mustard, and, AND I don't want any zombie turkeys, I don't want to turn into a turkey myself, and I don't want any other weird surprises. You got it?
[Turkey sandwich appears]
Homer: Hey! Not bad. Nice, hot mustard. Good bread. The turkey's a little dry. The turkey's a little dry! Oh, foul accursed thing! What demon from the depths of hell created thee!
– Treehouse of Horror II
The Simpsons | Season 3 - Episode 7
Besides not asking for dry turkey, there is another ingredient added to the Monkey's Paw Turkey Sandwich and that is tomato. I know that Homer didn't specifically ask for it, but the addition of the tomato would be a nice balance to dry turkey…
I like to think that the Monkey's Paw knew what it was doing when it made the turkey a little dry, because perhaps zombie turkey would have been a better choice? I'm not sure if zombie turkey meat is inherently more or less dry than regular non-zombie turkey meat though. But if anyone knows the answers to these sorts of things it's a somewhat sentient monkey paw that messes with people's wishes.
- Dry Turkey Meat
- Rye Bread
- Lettuce
- Mustard
- Tomato
Place bread on plate and assemble in the following order: bread, turkey, tomato, lettuce, mustard, bread.
My biggest issue with this sandwich was the rye bread. I have never really liked it because I find it a bit dense and bitter. In order to achieve dry turkey, I left the turkey cold cuts it to sit out for a few hours, which is questionable from a food safety standard but I suffer for my art. I didn't get sick but I think that is more a result of all the preservatives in the turkey than anything else. Overall, Homer was right to curse the Monkey Paw and the sandwich it created. Next time, it's zombie turkey all the way.
Cromulence: 5 Bonerlands out of 10
Monkey's Paw Turkey Sandwich Recipe From: Treehouse of Horror II (The Simpsons Season 3 – Episode 7)


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On October 1st, 2014, nationally recognized child advocate Richard Propes kicks off the 25th Anniversary of the Tenderness Tour in Gary, Indiana and begins his 13-day journey along the hiking and biking trails of Indiana on his way back to his hometown of Indianapolis. Since 1989, Propes has traveled over 4,000 miles in his wheelchair while helping children's organizations worldwide raise hundreds of thousands of dollars. A paraplegic/double amputee born with spina bifida, Propes began the Tenderness Tour in 1989 with a 41-day, 1086 mile wheelchair tour around the border of Indiana as a healing journey from his own childhood abuse. When he returned home that year, he knew he'd discovered hope and a lifelong mission along the way. Since that first Tenderness Tour, Propes has wheeled to Chicago three times, Cincinnati, Lexington, and offered regional Tenderness Tours throughout the country. He's received numerous awards for his efforts including the Sagamore of the Wabash from the State of Indiana, the Order of Kentucky Colonels from the State of Kentucky, the Donna J. Stone Award (Prevent Child Abuse America's highest honor), and others. While Richard has always considered himself more of an activist than a fundraiser, he enjoys coming up with fun and creative ways to do both ranging from his goofy 15th Anniversary Tenderness Tour where he donated $15.00 to a children's organization in every country of the world to what was likely his most powerful Tenderness Tour to date last year when he traveled to the Southern Illinois hometown of Jessica Evans, a 17-year-old who'd been murdered along with her boyfriend while out camping, and he wheeled from the town where she'd been killed to her home.
Richard Propes is the author of the autobiographical "The Hallelujah Life" and through the Tenderness Tour has started multiple projects including Indianapolis's Race Away From Domestic Violence, the film website "The Independent Critic," the online memorial site dedicated to child victims of violence called "One Million Acres," Heart n' Sole Publishing, Heart n' Sole Records, and Jessi's Corner Bookstore, a bookstore located in Metamora, Indiana that donates 100% of its proceeds to fund arts and music education for children and adults.
The Goal?
1,000 Donors giving at least $25 to the organization of their choosing!
1,000 Walkers/Rollers committing to go at least one mile with me to celebrate the 1,000 miles of the 1st Tenderness Tour
1,000 volunteers contributing at least 10 hours of volunteer service in October! Get it? "Ten"derness?
All participants will be listed on the Tenderness Tour website. All organizations/businesses participating will receive not only a listing but a link to their website.
Each day in September, Richard will randomly pick one entrant from all entries for that day to receive either a free copy of "The Hallelujah Life" or a free copy of the Tenderness Tour benefit CD "Give a Girl a Chance."
All you have to do is sign up here at Crowdrise for the event "The 25th Anniversary Tenderness Tour." You can pick one of the pre-selected teams from a few of the non-profits that have most touched Richard's life OR you can start your own team and raise money for a non-profit you choose. To ensure that you select the exact non-profit of your choice, I highly recommend you visit Guidestar.org and look up the organization's EIN#. Please note that we do reserve the right to reject a team if it conflicts with the mission of the 25th Anniversary Tenderness Tour or violates Crowdrise's Terms of Service. So, please be sure to focus on children's organizations or organizations working to break the cycle of abuse/violence.
The Team: $65 TOTAL RAISED SO FAR
Donor Comments
Rich and Melissa Troyer
5 years ago
The Zappia Family
5 years ago


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I'm always a big fan of Sephora adventures, although I try to limit them since they result in my wallet being a little skinnier. Besides my wallet being a little thinner, I also acquired a couple products that I think I'll be very happy about! One in particular, that I apparently wasn't supposed to be able to purchase, but it does come with a good story.
Since the Hourglass Ambient Blushes launched online, I expected them to be in store soon after. Yesterday, I walk into Sephora and I see what I think to be a Sephora employee opening the Hourglass drawers, so I asked her if the Ambient Blushes have come out in store yet. She then told me she was the Hourglass rep and even though they weren't yet on display she had the testers and the products. So she tried two on me, the Luminous one and the Dim Infusion blush. Originally I had asked to buy the Luminous blush, a very bright pop of pink, to which she also gave me a 5ml sample of the Veil primer - a generous sample to boot! I ended up adding the Boscia Cleansing Sponge with Bamboo Charcoal to my purchase and happily trotted out the door.
As I was out walking and shopping in the boutiques in Montreal, I ended up really liking the Dim Infusion blush so much more on my skin-tone. (She had put one on each cheek!) Later that evening, I went back to Sephora to exchange the blush - it was untouched, unopened and only purchase a couple hours before - where I learned that the Hourglass rep wasn't supposed to sell me one at all. The in-store Ambient Blush launch is supposed to be next week! Oops!
So I guess I got it a little earlier in-store than I was allowed to, but I'm absolutely okay with that!
The packaging is a gorgeous gold mirror-esque plastic with the Hourglass label stamped on top
Swatches from Top to Bottom: Chanel Joues Contraste in Reflex, Hourglass Ambient Blush in Dim Infusion
I'm wearing the Hourglass Ambient Blush in Dim Infusion today and I absolutely love it, a review and more swatches to come soon! Although at first glance, it's much lighter than my Chanel Reflex but definitely build-able and I love the sheen it gives my face.
I also tried the Boscia Cleansing Sponge with Bamboo Charcoal with the Kiehl's Face Cleanser and it did remove the majority of my makeup, was gentle enough for the eye area and most of the oil and dirt. My face felt excellent afterwards, not tight but not a trace of oil to be found. I will definitely be using this as part of my night routine and will be posting a review in the coming weeks. It comes with a small sample of the Boscia Detoxifying Black Cleanser and the sponge itself is sealed with plastic and quite hard. As you wet it with warm water, it softens right up and is very gentle on the skin. It's targeted towards combination and oily skin types.
What do you ladies think of my little haul and adventure? I'm so excited by both products and by the generous veil primer sample!
Let me know if you've tried any of the products and your thoughts on them!
À Bientôt Mes Amours,
Kisti Belle


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Glasya Inglorion
My brothers and sisters. Today, I would like to speak to you about the true state of society, how you are all enslaved to a system that controls every aspect of your existence.
There are some that have been speaking to me recently about the evils of wars and dictatorship, and I will address that.
Some have also said that my posts are too lengthy, but I would like you to consider this as a political speech, as if you were sitting in a hall somewhere, listening to my rhetoric.
For the last century and a half, humanity has been enslaved to what I might term the Zero Surplus Society, but before I get into what that is and how it operates, I should first describe who the slavers are.
We should call them the World Financial Order. They are some twenty or so elite families, such as the Rothschilds, Lehmans, Kuhns, Goldman Sachs, Israel Moses Seif, and others.
Although the primary families which I name are all Jewish in ethnicity, it is by no means a financial cabal of just Jews.
Amongst them also are the Rockefellers and the descendants of JP Morgan, with a number of others.
Around 150 years ago, this group of families, changed the banking system. Instead of money being a token system of storing the value between transactions, whether wages, purchases or savings, it became actually non-existent almost overnight. From that point, money was simply a system of IOUs to a centralized banking structure, The Federal Reserve, The Bank of England, Bank National, etc.
While these banks were nominally under the control of the governments of nations, they all were subject to the economic suzerainty of a World Banking System owned by this Financial Cabal.
The Cabal have direct control of the levers of every World economy, the relative value of every currency against each other, credit rating of nations and therefore base interest rates.
So that is who our slavers are, but why do I say we are slaves to them?
Each nation generates a certain amount of income each year from the labour of every working individual, each nation produces a number of goods and services. Economists would call this Gross Domestic Product or GDP.
However, the World Financial System does not leave that GDP within the nation, for the government to spend on its people. Were it to do so, life would be very different indeed.
Instead, it takes huge amounts from each nation and transfers that value to its own coffers. It is estimated that 80% of the aggregate wealth of the World belongs to, or is directly controlled by this cabal.
You could Google "The Four Horsemen of Banking" and "The Four Horsemen of Oil", to get an insight into the relationship between these families, World Banking and Global Corporatism.
So, how does this cabal take this money out of the National Economies?
There are several methods. Firstly, Interest payments on National Debt, a concept where the World Banks lend non-existent money to a nation and takes real money in return. By adjusting the relative values of currencies to modify the worth of the IOUs in your pocket. And by paying share dividends to extra-national entities.
But the cabal always seeks to refine its scheme, to take the maximum. It seeks to create a zero surplus society.
Surplus, or wealth, is the amount between what an individual earns and what they spend. If this amount can be reduced to zero, the maximum utility of profit for the cabal can be gained.
Now, the political systems of the World generally fall into two camps, Marxist (of some type) or Free Market Capitalism.
Marxism explicitly states that no individual should have any surplus. Ever. It is one of the core principles, demonstrated time and time again.
So we see, from the perspective of the cabal, the best society is a Marxist society.
But not all nations want Marxism. In countries such as The United States and Europe, the Free Market is the norm.
But for those who live in those nations, consider this. I would suggest that most peoples expenditures broadly matched their incomes. This is because mortgages, rent, cost of living, etc are all pitched at an amount which individuals can just support.
Again, we approach zero surpluses.
So, we have arrived at a point where most individuals in the World work and consume, and by doing so feed the monstrous beast of The World Financial Order and, having fed it, very little remains.
This is the absolute truth of our existence. We work every day of our lives and the result of that labor goes on mortgage interest, rents, loan payments, credit card interest. The cost of our utilities, the fuel in our car, is all carefully calculated to strip the maximum from our budget, leaving us wondering if we can afford a holiday this year, or how much we will have to borrow to afford Christmas.
There are those fortunate for whom these pressures are not so intense, but I know that these words will ring true for too many.
The World Financial Order is like some gross, external, parasite, constantly feeding on our money, always striving so that we have no surplus, it is all transferred to them.
But you might think, our Government works for us, we elect them, they are our choice, surely they wouldn't allow us to be continually ripped off like that.
Sadly, no matter whom you elect, once in the Halls of Power, they become complicit in this monstrous scam.
Conservatives, Socialists, whomever, on day one they begin to grovel and begin the most obsequious manner to the World Financial Order.
For if they show defiance, set budgets contrary to the plans of this cabal, they soon find their economy in turmoil, recession looms, redundancies, repossessions.
All governments borrow non-existent money from the World banks to meet their budget requirements. Their economy is like a fragile House of Cards which will fall easily.
They are so indebted to the World Order that they must follow the set path, keep the wealth flowing out of their nation.
So, with the mainstream political parties, it doesn't matter who you elect. They are all just pawns in a great economic game.
Now, I promised I would speak of Wars.
The World Elite like wars. They thin the herd, make nations weaker and more reliant upon them. They provide a path to place nations in huge amounts of debt because wars are costly. Our soldiers come back from wars in flag-draped caskets or mutilated, while their profits triple.
But specifically, I want to speak of the two great wars of the last century.
I have sometimes said that I hold a certain admiration for Hitler. Not for the excesses of an authoritarian regime or for a wave of military conquest, but because, just that one time, someone was prepared to say No to the World Order. Say: You will not pillage my nation any further.
World War One began because the monarch of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was assassinated by a Serbian Anarchist.
To be clear: The Austro-Hungarian Empire began WW1 by attacking Serbia. Because the monarchs of Europe were linked by political alliances other nations were obliged to join in as two opposing military blocs, The Triple Entente and The Central Powers.
Germany did not instigate the war, joined only because of the political alliance with the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
We all know what happened next, years of military stalemate, yet consider this: No enemy formation ever reached Germany, the German troops were well supplied and had good morale. It was in fact, the Western Allies that were struggling to maintain the war effort.
Yet the World Financial Order, having issued eye-watering loans to the Western Powers to fund prosecution of the war, could not permit them to be defeated.
Germany capitulated due to political and economic manipulation by the World Order.
I say Germany because that was the real prize the World Order desired. A resource-rich, heavily industrialized, nation.
You should read the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles for the full context, but in practical terms, Germany was stripped of all the most economically productive areas with an impossibly large sum of reparations to pay.
This led to hyperinflation, mass unemployment, starvation and homelessness on an unprecedented scale, all supervised by the lackeys of the World Order in the banks and civil service.
From that state of ruin came the Nazis. Now ignore the more strident racial doctrine and just look at the economic situation.
What they said was effectively this: You aren't getting another Mark, we are taking back the territory you stole from us and your lackeys in the banks and civil service, who are overseeing and coordinating this pillaging are expelled.
The result of sealing the border against capital transfer was this: within two years the nation had been transformed into a prosperous one, with nearly full employment. It was a Golden Age, albeit a short-lived one.
Because the World Order would not let that stand. Other nations might also repudiate them.
So a Second War started, on the pretext that Germany reassimilating its own territory was an invasion. The truth was Hitler was greeted with cheering crowds throwing flowers, not defiance and resistance.
Only in Poland was their trouble. Germany wanted Danzig back, which was stripped at Versailles. The World Order wanted a flashpoint so it ordered the Western Powers to guarantee Poland's borders and ordered Poland to not even entertain talk of Danzig.
Now when Germany entered and seized Western Poland, the Soviet Union entered and seized Eastern Poland.
If the Western Powers were guaranteeing Polish borders then, yes, they had a pretext for war against Germany. But ask, why did they not also declare war on The Soviet Union for its annexation of Eastern Poland.
Obviously, Polish borders were not the real issue, but war with Germany at the command of the World Order was.
So, the World Order will resist any attempt to throw off their yoke with war and destruction.
Yet we must throw off their yoke, or be their abject slaves for all time.
The current drive for Globalism is the final nail in the coffin of freedom. Without any distinction of nation, race, ethnicity, we are just sheep, easily controlled. For people cannot go to war themselves. Without nations, there can be no borders. The World Order will have won and will control us forever.
I want you all to think about this. Think who really runs your world. Your ignorance is their strength. Consider carefully.


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Clematis are the royalty of climbing plants. With their lush flowers, long season of bloom, and attractive seedheads, they are eagerly sought by almost every gardener in the temperate world. The Plant Lover's Guide to Clematis by clematis expert Linda Beutler includes information on using the plants in the garden, designing with them, and growing and maintenance tips. A plant directory highlights 196 of the best cultivars and species. Full of suggested companion plants and hundreds of gorgeous color photographs, this book covers everything a home gardener needs to introduce these delightful plants into their garden.With their sumptuous colors and generous display of flowers, clematis are unrivaled among climbing (and sometimes shrubby) plants. Whether you favor the spectacular large-flowered hybrids or the elegant small-flowered hybrids and species, you'll learn the best plants for your garden along with expert advice on design, propagation, and maintenance—including clear instructions on the often confusing subject of pruning. Linda Beutler has been the curator of the Rogerson Clematis Collection since 2007 and in 2013 was elected the first American president of the International Clematis Society.
The Plant Lover's Guide books offer a rich source of information on both new and classic garden plants. Written by enthusiastic experts, they recommend the best varieties for different situations, inspire ideas for new plant combinations, and are packed with resources for the home gardener. These gorgeous guides celebrate the beauty of each plant and form a comprehensive library that every plant lover will want to own.
Author: Linda Beutler,
Publisher: Timber Press, 2016-03-23
Publisher: Timber Press, 2016-03-23


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Washington DC neighborhoods are seeing healthy increases in home values
Most Washington DC neighborhoods are seeing healthy inclines in average home values, but five trending Washington DC neighborhoods really stand above the rest. Evaluated as having some of the lowest average days on the market, highest average price per square feet, and highest bids received above asking prices, these five Washington DC trending neighborhoods are on the fast-track for future growth potential.
These 5 Neighborhoods Stand Out Above the Rest
Wakefield –A triangular section of town between Albemarle Street NW, Nebraska Avenue NW, and Connecticut Avenue, Wakefield offers beautiful facades and comfortable living spaces. While Wakefield saw the highest appreciation and least time on the market for 2015, prices are still affordable in comparison to downtown. With a recent emphasis on real estate development and close proximity to public schools and commerce, Wakefield appeals to the entire spectrum of buyer.
Kalorama – Offering many picturesque views of the Virginia skyline, Kalorama's extraordinary combination of sunny interiors and traditional exteriors make it one of the most sought after neighborhoods in Washington DC. Just off DuPont Circle in the Northwest quadrant of Washington DC, Kalorama is highly accessible by public transit. According to the Washington Post, Kalorama's average sale price has grown just under 42% from 2014 to 2015.
Congress Heights – As more and more families move away from the city center, neighborhoods like Congress Heights benefit. Featuring a robust market of affordable single family dwellings and condos, Congress Heights is conveniently located by St. Elizabeth's Hospital and is served by the Congress Heights metro station. The neighborhood's public school have recently been rebuilt and offer great flexibility for commuting dual-income households.
Fort Lincoln – Framed by Bladensburg Road NE to the northwest and New York Ave NE to the south, Fort Lincoln is conveniently located by major retailers and interstate roadways. Considered by many as "chic city living" Fort Lincoln is an example of 1960's and 1970's "New Town" development with contemporary remodeling. Floor plans are spacious offering outdoor living spaces such as decks, patios, and balconies.
Anacostia – At the intersection of Good Hope Road and Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue you will find the historical Anacostia district. An up-and-coming neighborhood filled with future growth potential, Anacostia offers beautifully renovated homes at excellent price points. Focused on social events like the Martin Luther King Birthday Parade and summer jazz concerts, Anacostia has benefited greatly from non-profit enterprises and outreach. Offering a mix of townhomes, apartments, and condos, Anacostia is packed with traditional charm and renovated open floor plans.
Demand for Properties East of the River is Evolving and Growing
An overall demand for properties east of the river is evolving and taking focus away from the usual central neighborhoods and upscale neighborhoods in the northwest. Washington DC's real estate market is known for bubbles created by bidding wars, but recent data shows and overall move toward exterior neighborhoods supported by competitive prices and a thriving Washington DC real estate market.
Contact Gene Mock, Associate Broker, Premier Team, Keller Williams Realty 703-342-8100
for all your real estate needs in Northern Virginia, Metro Maryland & Washington, DC


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Managing Organizational Change: Designing Interventions
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You have completed the planning sessions. As a combined unit (representing both the external and internal consulting teams), you will discuss guidelines for how you will work together.
1. List the things the consulting team needs to address so they will operate effectively.
2. What process or technique would you suggest be used to address these issues?
3. List what you should look for during the community-building meeting to identify resistance to change.
4. Be sure to identify any potential problems that might arise during the meeting, and give suggestions on how they might be handled.
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1. The team needs to address communications issues. The team needs to discuss the encouragement the team members will receive. The team should ensure that competition among members is reduced, the problems and issues should be shared and solved jointly, and negativity should be eliminated. Furthermore, the team should develop techniques for improvement like role plays and discussion skills. The methods of motivating team members should be discussed and what is expected of team member should be clarified. The team should be focused on what to do and avoiding unnecessary criticism when there is failure.
2. The processes and techniques that I would suggest to address these issues are to develop a document that ...


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Search Envelopes by User
Handy new feature from the Development Team which will help all customers that have lots of Users on their account.
You can now search documents sent by each User.
To do this, head to your Library, you can still use the Filters such as Completed, In Progress, under the search field you will now see the Default of All Users, hit the arrow and you can now select the User , this will then allow a view of any parameters set but just for the one user.


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This Lynx 6 Drawer Chest White is Modern style chest of drawers with a high gloss finish and complimentary silver handles and is made of MDP. It comes in 1 boxes and the net weight of this Lynx 6 Drawer Chest White is 35.34 KG.
Delivery details
Dispatch time: 24-48 hours after order (Success rate: 98%)
Estimated Delivery time: 24-72 business working hours after dispatch. (Mon-Fri)
Delivery notification: Automated Emails and SMS will be sent.
Mainland UK: Free Delivery
Northern Ireland delivery fees: £30
Highlands, Channel/Offshore Islands delivery fees: £40
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- Good solid wood quality Review by Mr Khan