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Every baseball player has hidden potential within them that's waiting to be discovered and put to use.
Have you ever wished that you could just press a button and become a better ball player?! I know I have……..!
Well, I don't have a button you can press but I do have 3 ways that you can dramatically improve your performance on the field so that you can begin to play better baseball, and stand out on the field like the way every player truly desires.
Look in the mirror and affirm your goals
A huge part of realizing your dreams as a baseball player begins with BELIEVING. We may think that we have confidence in our own abilities. But do we this same confidence at the subconscious level?
Is there even a small part of us that doubts we will have the ability to
- hit 90+ mph fast-balls and make it look easy
- earn a baseball scholarship
- get drafted
- come back from an injury in time
- become the best hitter in the league
Having faith in our abilities is a process though. One that comes only when we put in the time and effort.
Hours of practice will convince us that we have trained well, and the abilities that we are striving for will come in time.
So how do we convince ourselves that our goals will be achieved when no matter how hard we try, it still feels like we won't be good enough?
Affirm them to ourselves in the mirror until we have convinced our subconscious mind!
When we have beliefs that are created on that level, no obstacle, person, or setback can convince you otherwise.
Here is a great affirmation that you can use while looking at yourself in the mirror.
Write your dreams down
The first step to eventually making the adjustments needed to become a better ballplayer begins with getting CLEAR with what it is you truly want to accomplish.
Why write them down? Because it allows you to become objective with what it will take to play at the highest level and dominate.
Also writing it down will help you to reinforce what you're goals are so that you don't get distracted by the many obstacles that baseball provides.
You wan't to hit for more power? Write it down!
You wan't to run a faster 60 yard dash? Write it down!
You wan't to hit over .400 this year? Write it down!
You wan't to get drafted or earn a baseball scholarship?……..Get the job done in the class room……and then right it down;)
Write your goals down and post it on your wall, so that it becomes a daily reminder!
Don't forget to enjoy the game
Have you ever noticed that baseball just seems so much easier when you're having fun?
You have better hand-eye coordination, enhanced accuracy, and it just seems that you get all the right hops, and good breaks on the field.
All is well when you're having fun!
So why don't we have fun more often?!!!!
Why do we let, failures, and adversity take away our natural ability to play this game like it's a gift!!!??
Why are we focusing on things we can't control? ( bad umpires, bad weather, bad coaches).
Why not smile, and focus on the ONE thing we can control?!!!
Did you know that when you smile, your body releases specific endorphins that have a huge impacted on your physiology?!
Next time you get a bad break, smile and know that things will fall in your favor next time. That is what baseball is all about. Continuing on after failure after failure.
It's your turn
Are you going to tap into your hidden potential?
Will you finally become the player that you truly want to be?
What are some things you're doing right now to make sure you're getting better?
Leave a comment below and say hi!
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Hydro74, AKA Joshua M Smith has the coolest business cards ever, largely because I wouldn't want to throw it away if he gave it to me, it's far too cool, might be slightly costly to produce but it certainly provides a more memorable card than anyone elses i've ever seen.
Saturday, 14 May 2011
Friday, 6 May 2011
YouYou.co.uk site redesign
Over the past few weeks I have begun doing a redesign for a web recruitment company YouYou, it was quite an interesting challenge reworking my previous branding for it to change it and give it a new feel but still keep the core feel of the brand. Below are some of the new pages:
Sunday, 1 May 2011
Al Gray, old skool illustration style
I've always been a fan of the old japanese style of painting so these illustrations are a really nice modern take on it.
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VFL Osnabrück 4 Alemannia Aachen 0 (18th May 2013)
I've never been that wild about bratwursts, but the ones at Osnabrück were gorgeous, and not purely because I was absolutely starving. I was starving because the trip to the game from my much-further-away-than-I-realised base of Düsseldorf didn't quite go to plan.
(this intro is ridiculously long, by the way. I don't even get to the ground until paragraph 13, so those with less patience might wish to just skip to there)
I'd thought my trip to Osnabrück would be effectively free if I stuck to regional trains, as my hotel offered a weekend ticket free travel within the whole VRR region, and my Osnabrück match ticket should have taken me the remainder of the way. Around 10-15 minutes before catching my train though I was struck with doubt, as I had no idea just how far the VRR network stretched. I asked a guy at the DB information kiosk in the station about my hotel "ticket". He looked at it with disdain, as if it was a coupon free with a packet of bubble gum, and sniffily said that it was only for use within the city of Düsseldorf itself.
Wandering off to look for a machine to buy a ticket, I saw another info booth. Deciding the the first guy I'd asked seemed to be a bit of an arse, I asked the young woman if she knew if the ticket would get me to Münster, where I thought the VRR network ended. She was a nice girl, very friendly, but her answer of "maybe, I don't really know" was about at much use as a hatstand is to a jellyfish.
The official station travel centre was a last option, but alas it has a take-a-ticket-and-wait-forever system in place. I swear people go in there to ask about youth rail discounts, and no longer qualify by the time the get to the counter.
Besides, I'd wasted so much time that I had no time to buy a ticket now anyway, as I dashed to the platform knowing departure was imminent. Very imminent in fact, as I reached the platform the train doors were already emitting their "we're about the shut" warning beep. I dived on, to great relief. That relief lasted about two seconds, when I realised I was on the wrong train. As the doors slammed shut, I could see via the info board that I was on my way to Dortmund.
It actually turned out OK. The ticket guard suddenly appeared, like the shopkeeper in a Mr Benn cartoon, and told me the Dortmund was about as far as I could go on the VRR network anyway, and there were direct trains to Osnabrück from there. It wasn't the quickest journey, mind. En route this train called in at so many Wuppertal stations, for example, that I begin to think I'd been mislead, and Wuppertal was actually a small Central European province.
I rolled into Dortmund a full hour and twenty minutes later, only to find a train to Osnabrück on the next platform. It was showing as being delayed "approximately 90 minutes" and had been due to leave 93 minutes earlier. I hopped on this one, which promptly pulled away, and relaxed knowing I'd be in Osnabrück with plenty of time to spare.
Or so I thought. Upon arrival in Münster, the train announcer starting talking about which platform to go to for the next train to Osnabrück, which seems a little odd considering this was supposed to be going to Osnabrück. So I jumped off the train, found a DB guy on the platform, and he assured me the train was going to Osnabrück, even if it didn't show on the boards. Relieved I jumped back on.
One nice touch they have on German inter city trains is electronic screens showing all the stops the train will make. Nice, except this one insisted the next stop is Bremen. Bremen is a full 80 miles past Osnabrück. If Bremen was indeed to the next stop, then despite leaving my hotel a full five and a half hours before kick off, I'd almost certainly miss some of the game.
Now, the fact that this write-up isn't suffixed "(2nd half only)" or similar, gives away the fact that I got there, and indeed it did stop in Osnabrück, the last leg of the trip was fine, if a bit stressful. OK, some young woman did, I think, take a sneaky picture of me that made me feel somewhat self-conscious, but so pleased was I to arrive in Osnabrück that I could have kissed the ground as I got off the train, but I didn't as people might have thought me a bit odd, or at least a trainee Pope.
I was still there later than I'd originally planned, but it still allowed me an hour to briskly walk to the old town to see what it had to offer. It took a bit of perseverance, as the walk to the old town took in parts of the centre that were so ugly that it looked like they'd specially drafted in English town planners to do a proper expert job in ruining their city. It was worth the trudge though, as Osnabrück has a small but characterful Aldstadt, full of old and attractive buildings. Not quite the full chocolate box, but still handsome, even on this grey afternoon. A Market added to the charm. Rather than a British market, which these days are usually little more than al fresco pound shops, this sold a range of tasty looking food and drink, and looked a nice place to browse.
I had no time to browse though. After a hectic morning, my game awaited, and I wanted to get there early and relax for a bit. Yes, I know that rushing somewhere so you can relax sounds a bit daft, but it made sense at the time.
Osnabrück's Osnatel Arena is located, as were three of the four grounds I visited on this trip were, about 1km NE of the railway station. Having lost my bearings slightly, I followed a purple-clad couple clearly off to the match. Unfortunately they were clearly a new couple, often lost in each other's romantic gaze, as they meandered slowly towards their destination. Not wishing to be considered a gooseberry nor a stalker, I had to hang back about 30 yards while they intertwined in the direction of the stadium, but to be frank I could probably have strolled past with a flashing siren on my head, and they wouldn't have noticed.
You don't really see the stadium until you are virtually there, with it seemingly tucked away down a couple of side alleys, surrounded by houses. The feeling of being a bit cramped isn't helped by the fence surrounding the ground, forcing all access around via a strip a few metres wide. It's not that narrow, but you wouldn't want to try and get round the stadium in a rush.
Partly due to the novelty of it, the first thing you really notice about the place is the colour purple. Even a children's play area next to the ground is decked out in it. The modern exteriors of the two side sides have enough signage – purple obviously – along with dark grey bricks to the facade of the lower floors to avoid the cheap retail park look, and give the place the feel of a club that's small, but going places.
I opted for the relative luxury of the new(ish) North Stand. At €32 for a third tier game don't buy into the myth that football is always cheap in Germany, but it did offer the best view, being the back row of a 21 row modern (purple, obviously) seated stand. Although I say the back row, there was actually another row behind, as wide as a gangway, containing a series of "desks" with two or three seats behind each. It was as if these were intended for the press, but seemed to be used by normal fans.
Opposite was the smaller south stand. Another single tier of seats, amazingly not all of them purple. This was, until the completion of the North Stand a few years ago, the only seated part of the ground, but is now the smallest part of the ground.
To my left was a covered terrace known as the east curve (despite being completely straight – traditions die hard in Germany, clearly). Had it not been already almost completely full by the time I walked in, I could have seen how terracing has been painted purple, which is a lot more fetching than it sounds, adding another little bit of identity to the ground.
Less welcome, sadly, are fences at the front of the terrace, and ground to ceiling netting which spanned almost the whole width of the end. The club had even chosen to have a large advert picked out in the mesh, although how much of a difference that makes to those who have to watch through it, only they could say.
Opposite is a near identical end, split in two to house away fans in one half. A tunnel behind the goal, plus a seemingly over-zealous amount of fencing to form a sterile area between the fans rather spoils this end. German fans are no doubt used to it, but to those from England who can remember similar conditions from the past, it always comes as something of a surprise to remember just how dreadful away ends used to be in the "good old days" before Taylor Report renovation.
In that away enclosure were about 300-400 fans of Alemannia Aachen. When I visited their old Tivoli ground in the winter of 2008, in its last season, the new ground was meant to help the club take that next step from being perennial promotion challengers to being a Bundesliga top tier club. Instead, it's been a complete disaster for them. Crowds didn't rise as hoped, and the cost of the stadium crippled the club. They were relegated in 2012, and were also rock bottom and bankrupt on this final day of the 2012/2013 season, unsure of not only which division they'd kick off in next season, but also in which country. There had been suggestions they'd have to rent a ground across the border in Holland, so unviable is the New Tivoli. Returning to the old Tivoli, since bulldozed, is sadly not an option.
As much as I loved my trip to their old place, and I hope them all the best for the future, on this day I wanted an Osnabrück victory. When I'd booked my ticket, way back at the start of February, it did look possible that this game would be a promotion-clincher. Since then Osnabrück had been struck with a touch of the promotion jitters, and had looked at one stage likely to miss out completely. However, the ship had been steadied a bit, and they now went into this final day needing to better the result of Heidenheim, who come up on the inside rail almost unnoticed and nicked third spot – the spot giving the right for a two-leg play-off with the 16th place 2 Bundesliga club – with one game to play.
I'd pictured this end-of-season game taking place in brilliant sunshine, not the drizzle that dropped from the grey skies, but the atmosphere built regardless. A singalong to "You'll Never Walk Alone", scarves raised in unison, as the teams emerged (rather more footballish than the theme from"The A-Team" that had been played earlier) was impressive. It was also a reminder of when that song (YNWA, not the A-Team theme) would be sung regularly at most English grounds, and fans didn't regard scarves and wearing colours as somehow "uncool". To me, it adds to the spectacle. I can get that a season ticket holder at Old Trafford wants to disassociate himself from the once-in-a-lifetime fan who turns up in freshly purchased clobber from the club shop, still with the price tags on, but when a fan at Walsall or Lincoln doesn't want people to think he's a day-tripper, it's a bit stupid.
Putting my sympathies to Alemannia Aachen aside, from an Osnabrück perspective they were ideal opponents, as the home side set about fulfilling their half of the deal as quickly as they could. Aachen weren't terrible by any means, showing considerable competence in patches, but there were certainly deficiencies. At times their defence couldn't have been more statuesque if the players had been made of copper and stuck on a granite plinth, and it was no surprise that Osnabrück had built a up 3-0 half-time lead.
All three goals were more or less identical. A through ball past unreactive defenders picked out an attacker just inside the left hand side of the penalty area. He'd cut the ball back across the six yard box, where an Osnabrück player would sticking out an outstretched leg to prod the ball home. Much celebration for each, followed by scarves twirled overhead to the strains of what sounded like the "Laaaaa la la la la la la laaaa"s from Crocodile Rock, but might have been something similar. The only two questions by half time were "how many?" for this game, and would Heidenheim get the win they now need to deny Osnabrück?
It should have been much easier for Osnabrück early in the second half as Aachen's keeper had a rush of blood to his head and came storming out of his area to take out an attacker who was still a long way from it. Instead it just seemed to make both teams settle for what they'd got, and it took until the 86th minute to add a 4th. A shot from the left of the box seemed to surprise everyone, before crashing in off the inside of the far post.
More cheers, more scarf twirling and more Elton (possibly), but it was really all about events in Heidenheim now. There was still plenty of singing, with all parts of the crowd joining in with "V! F! L!" at regular intervals, but attention was on the large corner scoreboards and their regular score updates. Repeated latest scores of 0-0 from Heidenheim were drawing cheers almost as load as the goals.
The final whistle went to nervous excitement. The players wandered round not knowing what to do. The strain told in their reactions, as well as those in the stands, as the scoreboard showed their were two minutes to play in Heidenheim.
This changed to one minute, and fingers, and anything else possible was crossed. People whistled as if the ref in Heidenheim would hear their call the end the game. With nerves shredding, suddenly the scoreboard changed to the single word "Schluss!!!" and the place erupted. The Osnabrück players ran to the east curve and dived towards them, then the gates from the end were flung open and the fans poured on. Even with my limited smattering of German, it was easy to recognise the PA guy asking people to stay off the pitch, knowing that asking them to defy gravity had about as much chance of happening. OK, they weren't actually up, but it put them one two-legged tie away from it, and the fans could enjoy their day in the sun – or lightening but still overcast skies, as the case my be.


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This week, the U.S. Treasury announced the face on the $20 bill would change from Andrew Jackson to perhaps his ultimate human opposite, slavery abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Tubman was an escaped slave who became a conductor on the Underground Railroad, leading slaves to freedom outside what would become the Confederate states, at risk to her own life. Jackson, who owned slaves, rose to the presidency as a civil war hero and became known for policies which led to the deaths of Native Americans. Actually, they will share a space on a new $20 bill, with Tubman getting top billing.
Tubman is the first woman in more than a century and the first African American to have a face on a paper note. Jackson moves to the back alongside an image of the White House.
Perhaps because of the smash Broadway play bearing his name, which this week won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Alexander Hamilton, who was targeted for replacement on the $10 bill by a woman, gets a reprieve.
Heated debate has banked up the airwaves and social media about changes to our currency notes. Federal Reserve Chairman Bernake even put his money where his mouth is, saying Tubman is an "excellent and deserving choice" and that because he was a founder of the Federal Reserve, Hamilton's claim was stronger than any to stay on a bill.
We will have to wait until 2020 to see the final concept designs of new $5, $10 and $20 bills. Coincidentally, 2020 will also mark the centennial of the passage of the 19th amendment, the one that gave women the right to vote. On the day of the New York primary election, women, presumably, stuck their "I voted" stickers to the grave of Susan B. Anthony, one face on the U.S. Dollar coin, as a tribute to her work for women's suffrage. Anthony, along with fellow suffragettes Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, Sojourner Truth and Lucretia Mott, will grace the back of the new $10 bill.
The $5 bill will keep Abraham Lincoln on the front and include mid-twentieth century civil rights icons, including Eleanor Roosevelt, opera singer Marian Anderson, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's a long process for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to work as quickly as possible while making sure to meet security requirements and applying the latest security technology to the new bills to avoid counterfeiting.
Treasury secretary Jacob J. Lew said including more images of historical Americans will allow the currency to tell more of the great American stories of the individuals who shaped the United States.


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With just the one Round of footy to go before Finals, I was curious to see who everyone is leaning towards in regards to the Premiership. Has Adelaide got it all wrapped up? Will the Giants wilt under the weight of expectation? Can Sydney pull off a miracle after their 0-6 start? Who takes your fancy´?
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So, Tuesday evening I finally bottled that wine from back last Summer. This year, I went and put it in actual wine bottles instead of swing top beer bottles Continue reading
Wild Booze II: Wine and Brandy
Half the reason I pick so very many berries is that I love blackberry wine. I don't even bother with preserves- I can get excellent preserves at the Dane County Farmer's Market with far less muss and fuss. What's infinitely more difficult to find is blackberry wine. However, the recipe I used last year is no more. So, I did some searching, and found another. This one intrigued me with the additional recipe for blackberry whisky. So I made both, although I blended last year's technique with this recipe's amounts. I was worried how the boiling water would affect the flavor of the berries.
The brandy will sit for up to a year, if I can wait that long. It's on top of the fridge, so I hopefully forget about it, like everything else up there. The wine pulp will sit for a week or two before I strain it off into a carboy for secondary fermentation. It's nowhere near as hot this year as it was last summer- we're actually supposed to drop from our current high of 82 (as I write on Sunday) to the 70s all week. I assume that will affect fermentation quite a bit.
Home made wine and duck decoys.
I have off Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Given how much I've been working this summer, I planned to get a ton of things done during this downtime. Duck season starts Saturday, and deer is ongoing. If I don't do it now, it will never get done.
So. I spent my Wednesday chipping away at my (still growing) to-do list. I picked up around the back yard- dog poo, lawn furniture, sticks, dog toys, dying flowers, the works. I mowed, front and back. I treated the lawn for bugs and fleas, bathed the dogs, scrubbed the bath tub and bathroom. Plus, doing laundry, washing dishes, and making a short run to the grocery store. I have more to get done Thursday (organizing the hunting room, cleaning under the bed, going through my closet/dresser, running to Goodwill, cleaning Matt's truck). By the time I was hungry, it was about 6pm. I was going to make myself a nice dinner, and enjoy a glass of wine.
Yeah, that's my homebrew. It's good. This particular bottle didn't really carbonate. There's the tiniest suggestion of fizz to it, which isn't all that bad, really. It reminds me of a nice pinot noir. I'm no sommelier, though, to be going on about tannins and floral notes, though. So, I made a pretty tame dinner of acorn squash and chicken, and had a very healthily poured glass of wine.
Matt came home in the middle of it, and decided to start getting his decoys set up for the duck opener. So, my livingroom, my nice clean livingroom (albeit in need of a few passes of the vacuum), is populated with a flock of artificial waterfowl.
At least they're all nicely rigged now, and won't tangle horribly like last year. I have to work Saturday and Sunday morning, but Matt's plan is to take a couple of the other recruiters with him, to get out in the field for a day, shooting. They do spend entirely too much time cooped up in the office.
Wild Booze: Carbonating
I'd been checking on my homebrew off and on for the last couple weeks. It had been stubbornly bubbling along, until sometime around Tuesday. I checked in on it again, and there were finally no bubbles. I decided to give it a few days, to make absolutely certain fermentation had stopped, but also until I had a day off.
So, sanitize everything you plan to use, etc, etc. Since I'm carbonating this stuff, I opted to use eight 16 ounce swing top bottles. Had I just carbonated it in another gallon jug, I was concerned it would go flat, because I definitely can't drink that much wine that fast. So. once they had been sanitized, I added the priming sugar tablets.
With that done, it was time to siphon. I got yet another healthy tasting of my wine doing this, and it's good. On the strong side, too. I also stained my leg and the lower kitchen cabinets. And two towels.
So, once they were filled, I wiped down the mouth of the bottle and clamped the swing top shut. I swished each bottle a little bit to get the sugar tablets dissolved a bit more easily.
It should take two to three weeks for them to carbonate properly. And each bottle should be roughly 2 glasses of wine. Once I get a chance to drink it, I can report back on its potency, since I wasn't able to get specific gravity measures before I fermented it. That taste I got tonight was a pretty strong one, though.
See the earlier parts of this process here:
Starting the ferment on the pulp
Wild Wine: First Racking
Racking when brewing refers to the process of siphoning partially-fermented fluid off of the sediment left behind by yeast as they complete their life cycle. This sediment is usually pretty bitter and smelly- not things you want in your wine (or whatever). So, I did that today, ten days after straining it. Fermentation had slowed considerably, and I had a mostly fully inflated balloon. So, more sanitizing and set up, then I was good to go.
So, getting that siphon going proved to be a challenge. But the good news is that even for being quite unfinished, my wine tastes pretty damn good. Pretty strong too! The rest of the process was simple- after the siphon was done, add some syrup and seal back up.I was right- there wasn't room for a pint of syrup in there. I filled it back to the neck, though.
So, now it will sit until fermentation is done. Since I wasn't able to add the entire pint of syrup, that may be shorter than planned. But- I'll keep an eye on it, and then rack it a final time, then add conditioning tablets to carbonate it.
Midweek Catch-all
After figuring out what to do with the hide last weekend, we didn't have much to do. A cold front had moved through, so we went from the mid-90s early in the week to the 80s, and the high Saturday was in the 60s. Overnight it dropped into the 40s. Totally out of place for mid July in this part of the country. Also why all our pictures from the weekend show us wearing sweatshirts.
Saturday evening, we went fishing, after attending a short work-related function for Matt. We didn't catch a thing, and when we tried to bowfish after that, the water was too murky to see more than a few inches. We got spoiled with the water clarity last year- it was hot and dry, and though the levels were feet below normal, they were undisturbed and clear to the bottom. I did nearly catch a baby gar with my bare hand, though.
Sunday evening I had to work, but on the way to the work function Saturday, we saw a yard sale with some pretty awesome stuff. They said they'd have more out the next morning. Sure enough, they did. Hand-forged antique sturgeon spears (we put in for our permits last night), antique fishing poles, a 150 pound cast iron cauldron, old tobacco pipes, axes, hatchets, antique woodworking tools, wooden longbows. Basically, it was a small estate sale for an outdoors enthusiast. Do I even need to say we took some home with us?
I hope my estate sale is half as intereting as this fellow's was. That wrapped up our weekend.
I went shore fishing on my own yesterday, but didn't catch a damn thing. A kid next to me on the breakwater caught the biggest bluegill I'd ever seen. In the two hours I was out, I watched a fishing tournament get going, a scuba club head out, and four families with children let their kids chuck rocks into the water by my lines. I was less than thrilled.
On the docket today is a run to one of the smaller Madison farmer's markets (Saturday's one on the Square is too early for me) and racking that wine. Last night, we put in for some permits. Applications for Fall turkey and Winter sturgeon spearing on Lake Winnebago were due by the 31st. Matt also put in an application for wolf harvest, and discovered he has only 3 preference points for black bear. His home area requires a minimum of 9 points. The area just south of there requires 5, and just south of that requires three. Bear populations get correspondingly smaller the farther south one comes from Lake Superior. And even still, the area with any bear is two hours north of us here in Madison.
Today's my last day off before a new month starts, and I work all through the weekend. Since my boss was ignoring my un-availability on the weekends this past month and a half, my weekend availability for August goes from 8am-2pm Saturday and Sunday, so I can still do something with my life, rather than working 11 hour shifts and crashing. This weekend, however, has one of those 11 hour beasts of a shift, and I'm not too sure how much I'll have to write about come Monday. At least some interesting seasons are getting closer, as is our replacement vacation. I am refusing to do any planning until I'm sure this one won't be cancelled on us.
Blackberry Wine: Straining
I had originally intended to get this done yesterday, but two weeks of poor sleep during that heat wave caught up to me. Anyhow. It's been just under a week since I started that wine. It was pretty damn hot for most of the time, so I cut the ferment on the pulp short. I've been checking the smell, and it definitely smells winey. Before that it was yeasty, which was good cause I'd worried I'd killed my yeast with Campden tabs. When the temp dropped yesterday, the smell stopped being as strong.
When I got home from work this afternoon, I began to sanitize.
I cleaned out another bucket, in much the same state as the first, and re-sanitized a ladle, a spoon, a gallon jug, and my hands, since they would be doing the pressing. The recipe I'm following has me adding more syrup at this stage, and I had it cooling in a salted ice water bath. With everything clean, I was ready to strain out the pulp.
I ladled the mash into the muslin bag, and dumped the dregs in. I let it drip and drain under its own weight for a bit.
Then I got in there and started squeezing and pressing by hand. My palms are still tinged slightly purple. Once I got as much juice out of the pulp as I could, I added the cooled syrup and sloshed the mix around a bit. Then I positioned the jug and funnel under the spigot on this new bucket.
And I let 'er go.
It's quite full, more so than I expected from the recipe's photos. It calls for one more syrup addition, but I won't have room for that, and more syrup wouldn't give it enough volume to fill two gallon jugs. But, I fit the bottle with a rubber stopper meant for the airlock, and put a balloon over that.
Now it will sit for ten days. If I didn't murder the yeast, that balloon should slowly inflate with carbon dioxide as they consume the sugar and turn it into ethanol. It will be racked two more times to rid it of sediment. And sediment it will have- I know I squeezed plenty of seeds back into it. Since I can't add more sugar syrup to it (unless racking it really reduces the volume), I'll rack it once (after ten days) back into a clean jug, and then that third racking (once fermentation stops entirely, approximately a week or two later) will be the final one, and I'll add the conditioning sugar to carbonate it before I cork it.
Wild Booze, Er, Food: Starting Blackberry Wine.
Between the two of us, Matt and I have been homebrewing off and on for several years. He started with his college roommates before they moved to Madison, and I started with a former boyfriend and some mutual friends before I moved to Madison. I'm fairly certain they stuck to beer. I had observed one batch of beer being made, and had made hard cider and mead from scratch. Not without mishaps- the hard cider was a bit watered down due to our flawed pressing method, and the mead exploded. We carbonated it before it was finished fermenting the first time. Whoops. Matt and I together had made one batch of a Kölsch beer, and one batch of hard cider. The beer was good, but the hard cider was too strong- I'm still hoping to turn it into apple cider vinegar.
Anyhow. Today was my first time at Madison Brew N Grow's new location. It's smaller and over on Willy Street, which is pretty fitting, honestly. I picked up the essentials there.
The only thing I forgot was pectic enzyme, but there's still time. Anyhow. Our last batch of beer was probably two years ago, and it showed.
The sanitizer I bought works in cold water, so I did the whole deal out on the shaded front porch (seriously, it's frickin hot, even more so in the sun) with the hose, after I washed the dirt and dead flies out with water and a tiny dab of dish soap. I made sure to rinse out the soap thoroughly. I'm no expert, but if you're new to homebrewing, seriously, sanitize the everloving crap out of everything with actual sanitizer. It will save you much heartache. This isn't like cooking where cleanliness can be half-assed because the heat will take care of it for you. This stuff will basically sit at room temp in a not-always-airtight container for weeks. Wild yeast, bacteria, or mold could all cause it to go off.
My bucket water is brownish, because the sani was iodine based. It smelled like hospital. Once that was over, I started following this recipe, one of the very few I was able to track down online. I found a couple in some old books at my local Half Price Books today, but went with this instead. I won't hash out all the measurements or whatever, because I followed it very closely.
Per that recipe, it will begin fermentation on the pulp. It will sit like this, lightly covered, for a week. I'll be keeping a close eye on it, and conducting frequent sniff tests. With how warm it is today, and the heat forecast for the rest of the week, I would not be at all surprised if it was good to go a bit early. No sense in letting the yeast eat themselves to death before I even strain it. So, next week, I'll strain it through those muslin bags, and put the liquid in the glass carboy(s). I discovered I am also short one airlock, so to monitor fermentation, I'll use a trusty balloon on the mouth of the jug. After that I hope to carbonate it, because I love fizz and fizzy blackberry wine sounds real, real good. Poured over ice. To top it all off, I was left with a little over a pound of blackberries! That means pie and cobbler once it drops back below 90 and I can bear to have the oven on.
Where did I get all those berries? Glad you asked! Look over here.
Props also go to this site, which seems to have sadly fallen out of use.


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- Waikato remains on track to meet new Government guidelines
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Waikato Regional Council remains on track to meet new Government water quality-related requirements despite a tightened up timeframe for achieving them.
This comment, from council chairperson Paula Southgate, follows a report to the strategy and policy committee on the Government's newly released National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management (NPS-FM) 2014. This brought forward the date by which councils had to implement the NPS-FM requirements from 2030 to 2025.
"Under our current programme, we and our iwi partners are making good progress towards implementing the NPS-FM by 2023, so we are moving ahead on meeting the new requirements well within even the new deadline," said Ms Southgate.
"There are many challenges to be addressed as we move ahead but I am happy with the strong co-operation occurring between ourselves, iwi, the farming sector and other stakeholders on improving water quality in our region."
Under the NPS-FM, a national objective framework outlines how councils are to go about setting objectives, policies and rules for fresh water in their regional plans by 2025. This includes goal-setting and communities making decisions about the timeframes for meeting goals. Councils are required to maintain or improve water quality and cannot set an objective below a national bottom line. In Waikato's case, the Crown-iwi Vision and Strategy for the Waikato and Waipa rivers, which sets an even higher water quality standard, must be given effect to.
Commenting on the new 2025 deadline, the report said the council would implement the NPS-FM by setting limits and targets for water quality in a phased series of regional plan changes. The first will involve the Waikato and Waipa river catchments under the Healthy Rivers: Plan for Change/Wai Ora: He Rautaki Whakapaipai project. This will be followed by work on rivers in Coromandel and Hauraki, and then the West Coast.
The report noted the particular challenge of how more than half of the Waikato River catchment's lowland lakes had water quality that did not meet NPS-FM national bottom lines in at least one respect. Many of these lakes are within the scope of the Healthy Rivers/Wai Ora project and communities would need to decide how the lakes would be managed to bring them up to the minimum standard over time.
The report also said sampling protocols for measuring dissolved oxygen levels, essential for fish health, in waterways would require "substantial additional monitoring effort". An analysis of the likely extra costs involved would be carried out.


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Microsoft's internal use of SCDPM 2010
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A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft released a case study about System Center Data Protection Manager 2010. The customer in this case study is Microsoft's own internal IT. This is a very interesting case study as Microsoft is a very large organizations, with divisions worldwide, many datacenter and lot's of data to protect (3.5 petabytes!!!!). But as with any other case study, it is an interesting read but it doesn't give you any technical details or information on how they did the work.
Another SCDPM MVP and good friend of my Yegor mentioned on his blog last week that Microsoft has released two more documents around the case-study. I downloaded those and found out that they are actually containing great information for everybody that is tasked with a new setup of SCDPM or a migration from 2007 to 2010.
A must read:
Protecting Server Data with System Center Data Protection Manager 2010: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26659
Managing Data Back Up at Microsoft with Data Protection Manager 2010: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=5898


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Microsoft Malaysia is having 2 events fro GEW Malaysia. It is called Get Your Startups Fired Up and it will be about sharing to the entrepreneurs what is the Biz Spark program is all about.
It will be held in Kuala Lumpur on the 19th November at 7atenite and Penang on the 29th Nov.
Details and registration of the events can be found here.
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Glass Adds Style to Home
Glass works so well precisely because it's so minimal. There's just something irresistible about being able to see through a space. Glass allows natural light to travel, so it's definitely high on the list of materials for small spaces, and spaces that have limited access to natural lighting.
Glass comes in a variety of thicknesses, which means it can be used for more than just windows. Glass walls, staircases, floors and countertops can all find a place in the modern home.
If you want to go glass on a staircase, you'll need to consult with architects, fabricators and contractors that have specific experience with creating glass staircases. While they seem light and airy, there's a bevy of local code requirements for staircases (made from any material), and you'll need to plan accordingly for railings and other required safety measures.
Glass countertops are all the rage, and can be made in a number of ways. Thick glass can be used as a counter surface. The advantage of going with straight glass is that you can light it and paint it to your liking. Glass can also be bound with epoxy or cement to make a composite countertop. Composites are strong and can add a delightful visual component to your counters.
You can also use glass as a backsplash or wall covering. Glass and glass tiles are extremely popular right now, and can give your kitchen or bathroom a unique appearance. When used as a wall covering, glass is relatively easy to work with, and can be decorated easily.
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Thursday August 9, 2018
Ethiopian army has taken over the security of the volatile eastern Somali region after heavy fighting over the weekend left an unknown number of civilians dead and thousands displaced.The region's president Abdi Mohamoud Omar, commonly known as Abdi Illey, was forced to resign on Monday and replaced by his finance minister Mr Ahmed Abdi Mohammed.According to state-owned ESTV website, Mr Abdi was arrested and flown to the capital Addis Ababa on Tuesday."Officials from the Somali region in Ethiopia have confirmed to us reports of the arrest of Abdi Mohamoud Omar," ESTV reported.Mr Abdi was seen arriving at the Bole International Airport aboard a yellow military helicopter. He was not handcuffed.


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From Pierre Auger Observatory: "Reconstruction of the muon production depth in the atmosphere with the surface detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory"
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Cosmic rays are energetic particles, mostly atomic nuclei, raining down upon the Earth from the depths of the cosmos. Understanding their detailed nature and origins remains a primary goal in modern-day astroparticle physics.
When cosmic rays enter the Earth's atmosphere they produce a shower of billions of particles. These particles travel nearly at the speed of light and a large part of them will reach the ground and can be detected by the water-Cherenkov stations of the Pierre Auger Observatory. The most energetic cosmic rays are able to produce particle showers which have a footprint at the ground of a few km2. Among the produced particles there are muons, elementary particles similar to electrons but with a much greater mass. The paper shows a novel technique to estimate where in the atmosphere the muons that we measure at Earth are produced. As the muon signal is a measure for the nature of the primary cosmic ray, this technique may help solve one of the most persisting questions surrounding ultra-high energy cosmic rays: What are they?
Identifying the muons using the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory is not an easy task. However, each type of particle (muon, electron, photon) produces a signal with a characteristic amplitude and time structure. Muonic signals are spiky and have a narrow time distribution (tens to hundreds of nanoseconds) while signals produced by electrons and photons are small, smoother-looking and characterised by a wide time distribution (microseconds). This is especially true for stations far from the impact point of the shower at the ground.
By applying a "low-pass" filter to the signal repeatedly, it is possible to gradually separate the low-frequency smooth electromagnetic signal from the high-frequency component which is primarily due to muons. The technique is effective over a large range of arrival directions (i.e. for zenith angles between 45° and 65°), and for energies greater than 1.5 x 1019 eV. Once the muon signal is estimated station by station, together with its time structure, the atmospheric depth at which muons had been produced is obtained by applying a model of their arrival time at the ground.
The geometry used to reconstruct the muon production point is depicted in the figure on the left. The model is based on the fact that muons are produced close to the shower axis and that they travel to the ground following straight lines. For each muon sampled at the ground, its atmospheric production depth is estimated: the set of these forms the Muon Production Depth (MPD) distribution, as shown in the figure on the right.
Left: Schematic view of the geometry used to obtained the muon production point. Muons are produced at the position z along the shower axis and, after traveling a distance l, they reach the ground and may hit a station of the surface detector. Right: The reconstructed MPD distribution for a imulated shower induced by a proton with θ=48° and E = 6.3 x 1019 eV.
The maximum of the distribution, which is called Xμmax , is the point at which the maximum number of muons is produced, which is a function of the mass of the cosmic ray. Heavy primaries induce showers which reach maximum production higher in the atmosphere compared to light primaries.This method can thus be exploited to study the mass composition of the most energetic cosmic rays detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory.
In addition, Xμmax depends sensitively on the properties of the hadronic particle interactions taking place in the atmosphere. Its measure is a nearly optimal tool to test hadronic interaction models at energies well above those attainable with accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.
This novel technique is described in detail in the paper below. Auger results on the mass composition of the highest energy cosmic rays will follow in future publications.
Related paper: Measurement of the Muon Production Depths at the Pierre Auger Observatory,
Laura Collica for the Pierre Auger Collaboration: Eur. Phys. J. Plus (2016) 131: 301,
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The Pierre Auger Observatory is an international cosmic ray observatory in Argentina designed to detect ultra-high-energy cosmic rays: sub-atomic particles traveling nearly at the speed of light and each with energies beyond 1018 eV. In Earth's atmosphere such particles interact with air nuclei and produce various other particles. These effect particles (called an "air shower") can be detected and measured. But since these high energy particles have an estimated arrival rate of just 1 per km2 per century, the Auger Observatory has created a detection area of 3,000 km2 (1,200 sq mi) — the size of Rhode Island, or Luxembourg — in order to record a large number of these events. It is located in the western Mendoza Province, Argentina, near the Andes.
Construction began in 2000,[1] the observatory has been taking production-grade data since 2005 and was officially completed in 2008.
The observatory was named after the French physicist Pierre Victor Auger. The project was proposed by Jim Cronin and Alan Watson in 1992. Today, more than 500 physicists from nearly 100 institutions around the world[2] are collaborating to maintain and upgrade the site in Argentina and collect and analyse the measured data. The 15 participating countries shared the $50 million construction budget, each providing a small portion of the total cost.


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She responded in simple obedience to God's Call.
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Mary is one of the most revered women in history, but she was an ordinary woman striving to please God in the same way that women still do today. Readers are sure to gain a new appreciation of the familiar story through Francine's signature style. A study on the biblical text is included for personal or group study.
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Community recap: Greed consumes Dean Pelton and Annie sells out Greendale
Tonight is the episode in which we understand last week's Welcome, Archie banner with name-brand glitter. (Annie held it up while the gang was working on the sign for the MacGuffin foundation). Crack job reordering those episodes, NBC. (Unless they planted it there last week so we'd be like, "Huh?" and then we'd see this episode and go, "Ohhhh," and it would be like a reverse inside joke (or something.). In which case, crack job understanding Community's sense of humor, Carla! But really, I think it's the first thing.)
So Archie's this burnout kid the dean is desperate to recruit because he's a rich dumb-dumb. Naturally it's left to the gang to convince Archie the whale that he wants to beach himself at Greendale. (Reaching.) The incentives? Money for a body farm and a new fetal pig, natch. But wrench, because their other whale, nay, albatross, Pierce, can't know about Archie (he's a jealous old coot), so they're going to have to woo new whale on a day when old whale isn't on campus, and that means Jeff gets a whole day without Pierce bugging him to hang out and…I don't know. This is also reaching. Let's give them a break: It's been quite the week.
School board guys in the hizzy. Oh, these guys. They're here to rain on the dean's parade: Archie is never going to choose Greendale from a library tour and performance by Magnitude. (And why not exactly? I chose my college because it was in a city and I didn't spontaneously have a panic attack when I toured the campus, which is a thing that happened a lot back then. I was a nervous kid. So there are worse reasons, is what I'm saying.) Archie needs hookers. And blow. And hookers. And the Delta Cubes. (Oops, Abed short-circuits. He's a pledge.) (Also, the alcoholic school-board buffoons are a TV and movie trope, but I've never met anyone like them. They seem fun. How do I meet guys like this? And does the fact that I just asked that explain why I'm single? Ruminating.)
Over in the gymnasium, Shirley and Troy are taking their PE credits. Oh wait, no, they're taking their PEE credits. Pedagogy! This rules. Former fat-kid loser will excel here; jock Troy will flail. Let's watch.
Welcome, Archie! Oops, there's Pierce. (Of course—Pierce has no life. The fact that he has no classes today does not mean he won't be on campus. The gang should have predicted that. But oh, right—narrative imperative or whatever. IGNORING!) Now Winger has to spend the day with Pierce for distraction. Bye, guys! Archie's got a Vespa, which means I want to have sex with him. (What? I didn't say anything.) He's gonna be a harder sell than the dean thought. Halfpipes and Hashpipes 101 it is. (I'd take that.)
Britta's the only one with any sense, and she doesn't want to slip up and let the silly stoner set foot on their slippery slopey soil. Or something. I don't know. She's the voice of wisdom (and kind of has been all season), but everybody's deaf: The dean and a drug-seeking Annie (just for Archie, but seriously, Annie, BE CAREFUL—you've been to rehab!) only see dollar signs. They're eager to sell out for the love of Archie. I'm disappointed in them.
Meanwhile, Troy's having a hard time with his balls. But Shirley—Shirley!—she's an expert ball handler. (Hi, Fat Neill!) Oh no, Troy is picked last. Poor Troy. He finally knows what it's like to be a loser.
Meanwhile, over at the barbershop, Winger's doing time with Pierce. Meanwhile, back at Greendale (sorry, things got really meanwhiley for a while.), Archie's a brat. He wants the bling of a very familiar-looking guy I can't place. And Abed's dealing with rushees. (Is that what they're call? Those who rush? I always just called them dickheads, so I'm not sure of the correct terminology.) Codeine! Archie's kicks are wet. Britta out. YOU GO, GIRL.
Uh-oh, Jeff's getting dangerously relaxed during his gentleman's shave. My guess is that shaving cream is to Winger as alcohol is to Carla—that is, both substances make their recipients mighty chatty. I fear for Jeff—he's going to out himself—but let's wait and see.
Mockeroom! (Hi, Vicki! Hi, Garrett!) D-bag party! Uch. The dean has imported strippers and a terrible DJ and a vat of foam and so so much terribleness all for the love of Archie. And Annie, usually a woman of clarity and a strong moral code, is going right along with him. (Side note: When I went to Cancun for spring break my sophomore year, they had nightly foam parties in our hotel. This is an actual thing. Can you think of anything rapier than a room filled with foam in Cancun during spring break? Then again, my friend and I were the only two girls at the hotel in one-piece bathing suits, so perhaps Cancun was not for us. #nerds)
Over at the barbershop Pierce is proud of Jeff. They're getting all sorts of gay-married. Aww, buddies.
Oh, now we're back in the mockeroom. We're jumping around too much!
Back to the barbershop! (Dizzy.) Turns out it's Annie who spills the whale beans (heeheehee, whale beans) with her dumb, predictable texting, but Pierce is still mad at Jeff: They were buds. His feelings are hurt.
It's official: Archie wants to be a Human Being. Pop pop! Wait, Archie wants pop pop. And the dean gives it to him. This is awful. I hate Archie. And now Annie does, too. (YOU SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO BRITTA, ANNIE!)
Regret all around: Annie for selling out her beloved school for a douchey kid and Jeff for being cruel to Pierce for the 435th time. (Does Jeff not hear his own Wingerlogues when he's giving them? Be kinder, Jeffrey! And take off that terrible leather jacket! It's for a lady!)
Oh, poor Magnitude. He's lost without his catchphrase. Sneep indeed, Magnitude. Sneep indeed. Poor thing.
Poor Troy, too. Except not really. He's been on top his whole life. It's hard to muster much sympathy for him, even though he is a love. Ugh, Kevin. Go away. Oh, no wait, come back—Shirley's going to teach Troy how to teach you. Okay, this is funny. I don't mind Chang when he's not talking.
Back in the caf, the dean has grown back his lady balls and it's out with Archie! Yeah! Somebody write that on a sign with brand-name glitter! Greendale is a place of Magnitude, not Douchetude (not my best work, you guys), so it's time for the whale to swim away. Archie likes being treated like a normal guy, turns out (something that I think only happens on TV), so hey, he's in. Welcome to Greendale, Archie. Pop pop for real!
Operation Slack Attack! Heeheehee. All is right in the world.
Tonight was fun! It was just about time for some zany low-stakes Greendale high- jinksyness, don't you think? I enjoyed it. Until next week, friends. For now I'm off to go enjoy some delicious Let's® potato chips. (Get your damn hands off them!) Check out the full episode below.
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Take notes here.. fanny packs are back and here to stay, extravagance design brands like Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and Alexander Wang, and weve seen the coolest kids around the block having them around their belts.
Fanny packs began streaming into fashion around Fall 2016 men's shows, when we initially spotted them as a road style incline. Incomparable was the brand of decision, so when Louis Vuitton teamed up with the streetwear pioneer for its Fall 2017 men's wear appear, the embellishment at last got the high-design treatment.


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A couple of pellets are hued to speak to your parrot, even though distinct pellets are characteristic hues, fundamentally tans. The eggs are incubated by the female for 30 days until they hatch, and the male will bring her meals. It is not adequate to show your really like for your parrot by giving it nutritious food and an ample cage. There are a selection of dry pelleted" parrot foods accessible at your pet retailer or on the web.
In order to make certain that the parrot is receiving its needed vitamins (specifically Vitamin A), carbohydrates and other nutrients a wide variety of fruit and vegetables is desirable. If your parrot is not a Lorikeet or Lory, the preferable diet regime is 40% fortified pellets, 30% grains, 25% fruits and vegetables and five% seeds and nuts. I want to ask you that i have two green parrot who offered 3 eggs last year but they break his eggs please inform me the solution.
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The automotive industry has been experiencing a rather bumpy ride lately. The Takata airbag debacle, you know—where shards of hot, metal shrapnel come flying out into the passenger compartment of an accident vehicle, the Volkswagen gas mileage manipulation and the deadly Chevrolet Cobalt, which, by all rights, should probably have just been marketed as the "Chevrolet Coffin."
It's enough to make one take public transportation and, while doing so, ask just what the hell is going on here? There hasn't been this much negative publicity for car manufacturers since the "explosive" Ford Pinto of the 1970s. Are these isolated cases of established brands resting on their laurels, deliberate negligence, high-level corporate conspiracies, cost-cutting at the expense of human life or a case of no one of any competence minding the shop?
The truth is, we may never know exactly what is behind this recent spate of seemingly contagious automotive unraveling, but, whatever the contributing factors may be, one thing is painfully clear: public confidence in the affected brands: principally Honda and Toyota, VW/Audi, and GM (has anyone actually had confidence in GM since it stopped producing the Bel Air anyway?) has eroded to a significant degree.


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1981 Professor SPROTTE began with the development of a new therapy method of the algesioligy. SPROTTE replaces the systematic sympathicus blockades through a local opioid analgesy. An adequate Opioid proved to be Buprenorphin in the dosing of 0,025mg. SPROTTE named this therapy Ganglionic Local Opioid Analgesy (GLOA).
GLOA provides a lot of advantages for the pain therapy. The subjective adverse reaction and the acute risk potential of the sympathetic nervous system do most of the times not occur. GLOA can be operated at both sides in one session, because neither mutual recurrence- or phrenicusparesis nor negative cardiac effects are to fear.
In the experiment to impact the idiopathic facial pain syndromes with this method, it turned out, that the analgesic effect of GLOA was just achievable at the ganglion cervical superius. In cooperation with PAJUNK®, SPROTTE developed therefore a special technique with the required equipment.
GLOA completes the therapeutical spectrum, mainly if a fast analgesia should be achieved, or if incompatibility of Carbamazepin or Phenytoin or relative contra- indications for lesionell or operative intervention exists. The atraumatic SPROTTE® cannula facilitates a daily puncture at one place, without appearance of irritation due to the repeated trauma.


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Fire in My Heart: The Story of Hannah Senesh
of an Exhibition
by Debi Linton
Published on March 27, 2011, Modified on March 28, 2011
Museum: Museum of Jewish History
Visit Date: February, 2011
Website(s): http://mjhnyc.org/hannah/
Fire in my Heart opened at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York on October 13, 2010, and is running to August 7, 2011. With a mission statement to "educate people of all ages and backgrounds about the broad tapestry of Jewish life in the 20th and 21st centuries—before, during, and after the Holocaust" the museum endeavours to portray a very human face to Jewish culture and to history, and the temporary exhibition Fire in my Heart is a very good example of this: telling the story of one specific Jewish woman who lost her life working to free Hungarian Jews from deportation to Auschwitz.
The intended audience, according to the Museum's mission statement, claims to be people of 'all ages and backgrounds', although I'm inclined to believe that the exhibition was implicitly designed with an audience in mind composed of Jewish people, or at least people who are familiar with the name and the works of Hannah Senesh; not an invalid assumption given the Museum's overarching focus. There is very little introduction to how Hannah became a well known Israeli hero; although her poems are frequently quoted throughout the exhibition, the more well known ones are provided out of context on their own. The hymn Eli Eli, for instance, is included in the final video with the implied assumption the audience will be familiar with it. Similarly with Blessed is the Match, presented with an entire wall dedicated to it near the end of the third section of the exhibit.
The exhibition is arranged in a simple chronology, from Hannah's childhood through her life in Agricultural School in Palestine, the Kibbutz Sidot Yam and her enlistment, to her capture and execution and her legacy. With this decision, the Museum is able to tell Hannah's story in a way that makes her human and relatable. Starting with her fairly typical childhood, the visitor follows her short life through the decisions she makes and the world changing around her, and we are shown how someone we could see ourselves in, could come to be executed as a traitor.
Fitting an exhibition about a writer, the primary material on display are Hannah's words, reprinted in various sizes and formats across the walls of the exhibition in a format that remains consistent, while the flooring and the colours of the walls vary. Each section is introduced with an especially large quotation, serving as gallery markers. The words dominate the exhibit and are displayed in a visual/spatial dynamic that make them just as interesting as the objects, and the physical space with the words on the walls mean that colour and spatial design play into each other to create an experience, that simply reading a biography would not recreate.
In the first "childhood" section, the floor is carpeted and the walls painted a warm yellow. This section is where the idea of her ordinary childhood is rooted, an idea that then resonates throughout the exhibition. Trappings of her childhood on display include a chess set, the newspaper produced by herself and her brother, sketches of a dress, and her very first diary. The most pervasive element of this section, though, is an audio visual display of excerpts from her teenage diary, read aloud by a female voice while the words are displayed on screen – in the same font and format as the quotations on the walls – along with associated pictures.
On the quiet Sunday afternoon I revisited the exhibition, the voice recording over played everything – even in the area marking her time in Hungarian prison before her execution, there could be heard the young woman's voice:
When I think of an above average person, I don't necessarily think of a famous person, but of a great soul, and I would like to be a great soul.
This was not the only aural element to the exhibition: there was music playing in the childhood section and in the agricultural section, where a sound dome focused the sound on a specific location, handheld devices in the "prison" section gave a very personal, intimate experience, and a video at the end played to a specific small group of benches, However, it was the teenager's diary; her hopes, dreams and reflections that, by not being contained within any structural boundaries, resonated throughout the exhibition, constantly reminding the visitor of the girl Hannah has once been.
Hannah's continued humanity is supported by the selection of quotes that support her sense of humour, attachments to her family, and interests in romance and art. In the "Palestine" section, dealing with her life at agricultural college, the selected quotations provide at entertaining glimpse into her life, including an extended saga about her struggles to obtain boots from her mother, and her relationship with the cattle. Also on display in the "Palestine" section is her camera, illustrating her love of photography, and her record covers, recalling the love of music that was introduced in the previous section. Hannah's teenage diaries reveal her thoughts on romance and boys, and we are given an insight into her brief romance before enlisting in the army.
Along with the excerpts from Hannah's writing, are displayed captions in marked green boxes with white text, giving brief facts about the events of the world at the time, juxtaposed with excerpts which we are encouraged to believe are Hannah's responses to these events. The start of the war, for example, is presented on the same wall as a quote saying "The war we feared has begun." Hannah's interest in politics is thus displayed not in an isolated section, but as an ongoing thread throughout the exhibition, explaining her motives but never dominating her entirely. Her Zionism, for example, is introduced almost casually with the line "I don't know if I have mentioned this, but I have become a Zionist." It is important, but never the only thing happening in her life. Her only romance is displayed just before the section on military service and "Prison," showing that even before going into the army, she had other things on her mind.
The fourth section in the exhibition is dedicated to Hannah's "Legacy", and ties into a thread that runs throughout the core exhibition as well; that tragedy is not the end and that people endure. After Hannah's execution, the carpet on the exhibition floor, that disappeared when she went to Palestine, reappears, and the walls become a light blue. These light blue walls also include the barred window looking back into the section devoted to Hannah's time in prison, effectively representing the 'outside' of that dark time. Shelves of books devoted to Hannah's life, and a video talking about the lasting impression that she left on the people she knew, pull out an important thread in the story of a hero: that their stories do not end with death. The legacy section is introduced by a reproduction of Hannah's poem Blessed is the Flame, and ends with the following quotation from a letter to her mother:
There are stars whose radiance is visible on earth long after they themselves are gone. There are people whose glorious memory continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way.
I am not Jewish, and I had not heard of Hannah Senesh (or Eli, Eli) before visiting the exhibition, but I found much to provide relevance to me in the exhibition, particularly aided by the portrayal of Hannah as a relatable, relatively ordinary young woman with very human attachments and worry. Rooting the entire exhibition in her childhood and her family, and telling the story of her life in her own words made Hannah seem more real to me, as someone who shared those same childhood dreams and fears, watching how her circumstances led her to make her decisions bridged the gaps between us.
This was, I think, a large part of the exhibition design, and a very effective one – to allow the visitor to get to know Hannah and to feel that they understand her as a person, and not as a writer or a parachutist.


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Peterboroughs' downtown is packed with activities January 2012. If you don't know what's on, you've been sleeping! Wake up, stop hibernating and climb out of your cave. Open your eyes, look at the beautifully designed posters, listening to the radio, watching the telly, go on facebook, tweet, blog. For goodness sake, get involved in what's happening!
Do I need to say more? OK, just because you're obviously just waking up I will spell it out.
ReFrame Peterborough International Film Festival starts January 27th and continues until January 29th. Great films, wonderful entertainment and guaranteed a film for everyone's liking. Grab a festival catalogue this Friday January 13th at the Art Gallery of Peterborough during the official catalogue launch and the opening of a new exhibition or pick a catalogue up at one of the ticket agents - listed on the website - www.reframefilmfestival.ca
Because there are very few folks in this world who can watch films non-stop for three days. the DBIA has come up with a solution. It's called, Winterlicious and it is happening for the first time in downtown Peterborugh during ReFrame Peterborough International Film Festival.
Here's a plan. Watch a few films, visit one of the Still ReFrame Art Exhibitions, eat a bit of food, shop, take in another film or two and repeat for three days... What a weekend!


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Africa ahead of Europe in civilization?
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Seashells with holes and a smudge
A handful of small seashells with holes and a smudge of red have muddied the waters of human history yet again. Previously, researchers found some seashell beads very much like these in South Africa, beads obviously used for adornment and made about 75,000 years ago. The latest find, shells of the mollusk Nassarius gibbosulus, date back even further, to about 82,000 years ago, making them among the oldest examples of human civilization.
Much to the chagrin of experts who have argued that such artistic endeavors arose in Europe and the Middle East around 40,000 years ago, these beads—clear evidence of what the news media are calling the earliest "bling"—were found in Morocco, in northern Africa. Their strong similarity to the shell beads from South Africa suggest a free exchange of culture and symbolism. In fact, there are only two kinds of shell from this period that have been found in Africa and the Near East, although the people living in these areas had many more choices. This selection of such similar shells also signals a universally understood symbolism involving these beads.
A record competition
The truly oldest beads found so far were from Israel. They were two little beads dating back as far as 100,000 years, although the dating on these is iffy because they were found in the 1930s. Today's dating methods are much more precise; in fact, the researchers who discovered the 13 Moroccan beads applied four different approaches to dating them, all of which agreed on their age.
The beads were found in the strangely named Cave of Pigeons (Grotte des Pigeons) in Taforalt, Morocco. Around the beads, the researchers also found stone tools and the remains of animals. They concluded that the tools, which were sharp, pointed rocks, were probably spearheads used for hunting. The animal bones, primarily from wild horses and rabbits, had simply been the remains of dinner.
Humans, artistic humans
Each of the small shells, no bigger than a thumbnail, had been perforated deliberately. Some showed signs of wear, as though they had been strung or beaded onto clothing or as a bracelet or necklace for regular use. And the shells bore the traces of red ocher, a pigment that also features in the beads identified in South Africa.
The researchers who found the beads weren't actually looking for an earth-shattering archaeological find. Their true goal in investigating the limestone cave was to glean information about how climate change might have affected ancient humans. Instead, they found these shells, obviously transported to this inland cave, which at the time the beads were made was about 25 miles from the sea. The people who made them had the self-awareness necessary to desire adornment, and they also had an understanding of objects as symbols, rather than simply as the objects they actually are. In this case, the shells could have symbolized beauty or fashion, or even some form of currency.
Africa moves ahead of Europe
These finds are a blow to those who maintain that humans didn't achieve any form of cultural modernity until they were in Europe around 35,000 years ago. No one has found items of such ancient origin in European sites. Thus, it seems that humans in Europe, rather than being ahead of their African peers, were actually lagging behind. The north and south Africans were apparently exchanging bead fashion tips tens of thousands of years before the shells were anything but, well, shells to humans in Europe.
The researchers couldn't just find the beads and date them and then call it done. They had to prove that the snail shells had gotten to the site by human interference. To demonstrate this, the scientists had to rule out the presence of these animals in the walls of the cave, or that the shells were transported by a predator.


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one thing about the cli� ux50 that i am not that happy with is the speaker output volume. my ipaq 2215 also doesn't satisfy me, with its external speaker being on the back. i have slept through both devices' alarms and missed my vanpool a couple of times. i then tried connecting my desktop computer's small desktop speakers to get better sound output for alarms, music, and watching movies. compu2go has posted a review of an interesting speaker called the olympia soundbug that would probably work better than these speakers since the desktop speakers are not that portable. the device is powered by three aa batteries, and mounts to surfaces with a suction cup. the soundbug uses an element in the suction cup to transmit the sound to the surface. it appears to be a unique solution for portable audio. have any readers tried out this speaker before?
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|it's on sale and can see comments (10:47am est mon nov 17 2003)
at firebox.com i believe…
at least it was last time i checked…
if not try boysstuff.co.uk – by ken
|yawwwn (11:14am est mon nov 17 2003)
ahh, this speaker has been out for years. – by get with the flow
|zzz (12:01pm est mon nov 17 2003)
agreed. it's been out forever. i've heard mixed things. i've heard it's not very practical and is more for technophiles. – by zzz
|hey (1:55pm est mon nov 17 2003)
just attach the soundbug to your wrist, and stick your thumb in your ear. . .wait, damn, someone already thought of that. – by topher
|i have one (2:47pm est mon nov 17 2003)
as far as geek-factor is concerned, the non-directional sound it can produce when stuck to a desk or window is pretty cool. as far as volume and fidelity are concerned, it's pretty disappointing. if you had an ordinary small 3 aaa powered speaker, it would be louder and clearer than the soundbug. – by cd
|as do i (3:49pm est mon nov 17 2003)
i agree with cd. it can give reasonableish sound on the right surface. it's bloody fun to play with as well. mirrors work like a charm. and i have scared the hell out of people on parked buses with it. – by iwik
|what cd said (10:48pm est mon nov 17 2003)
the geek factor is really cool, but the sound is extremely tinny. i used mine a couple times and now it sits in my desk drawer. – by evilcaptainkirk
|homebrew case/speaker (1:17pm est tue nov 18 2003)
why can't we have a cool case that has a built-in speaker. that can't be too difficult right? who knows how to make a small aaa-powered amp and simple speaker? – by clicclic
|efwwetger (1:36am est mon feb 09 2004)
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Throw: Black and White collectionMaison de Vacances
Maison de Vacances revisit classic houndstooth pattern on thick wool broadcloth and mottled tweed for these unique and luxurious throws. This Black and White collection will for sure make a statement in your home.
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Material: wool broadcloth and Mottled Tweed
Dimensions: 135 x 250 cm
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The Details: Nestled in the Wasatch Mountains 25 miles east of Salt Lake City, Big Cottonwood Canyon offers a winter escape for exploring runners. Thick fir trees surround the access roads that cut through the 15-mile-long canyon, making for, as runner Quinn Kyler says, "a totally different running experience. It's just you and nature."
To get there, take I-215 to the 6200 South "Canyons" exit. Continue east on U-152 and follow signs for Solitude and Brighton.
Average Temp: Winter: Highs in the 50s and lows in the 20s; Summer: Highs in the 90s and lows in the 60s
Nearest Airport: Salt Lake City International Airport
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