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There seems to be a divide on painted brick, people either seem to love it or they hate it. I personally love it! One of the worries that I hear often from clients, is that they're not sure how it will look once it's all painted, and I always tell them it will look great! It gives a little bit of texture and interest while allowing you to change your house color to something else without being dictated by the color of the brick. Some brick is definitely beautiful, but other's not so much, and as a cheaper alternative to replacing the brick, painting has become very popular. Here are some great examples of homes with painted brick, in case you're still on the fence or you're looking for inspiration.
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Have you ever found these types of equations online that immediately make you think you are getting tricked? Sometimes you see the reasoning in the question and sometimes you are completely unaware of why there would be any option at all, something like the question below. Care to play along?
Answer the following:
6 + 7 x 8 =?
- 62
- 104
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Molinari Oswald is not a firm that is in business so that you pay no tax. We are in business so that you pay no more in tax than is legally necessary. In mathematics, number problems could never equal zero that don't really equal zero. Things are what they are, but we need to know the rules that govern them.
Many people would look at the above equation and say the sum is 104. But if we apply the rule of the order of operations, performing division and multiplication before subtraction and addition, we would come to the sum of 62, which is correct.
The truth of the matter is that if you have a straight W-2, you may very well complete your taxes correctly. But with the tax laws as they are, if you have business income, business expenses, deductions, savings, and tax deferred earnings, etc., etc., that neat tidy simple problem becomes so convoluted you have no idea where to start!
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We are a small group of CPA's and accountants in the Lehigh Valley that love numbers. We know, we are a rare breed, but we are here so you don't have to pretend to love the numbers. With many years of practice and a wide array of business experience, we are confident in our abilities to serve the public accurately and professionally. Please give us a call at 610-871-6700 or complete the contact form available at the top right of the page and let us know how we can help you.
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Ethan woke me up with a declaration that he lost his first baby tooth! My usually cooperative Ethan was feeling a bit goofy when I tried to take the traditional "My baby tooth is a goner, now where's that tooth fairy" photo.
Friday, September 26, 2008
First Baby Tooth ... Gone!
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Hurray for rights of passage. First baby tooth gone. Next he'll be asking to borrow the car.
- September 26, 2008 at 7:23 AM
cute picture idea, cute pictures, and a cute toofless boy!
- September 26, 2008 at 4:15 PM
- Grandma J said...
Yeah Ethan! That's the coolest smile ever!
- September 26, 2008 at 4:52 PM
- Jason said...
He looks SOOO proud!
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In Brief: Other Political Ideologies Barack Obama Must Follow:
Since the McCain/Palin campaign has decided that because Barack Obama wants to tax people making over $250,000 in taxable income (which means a hell of a lot more than $250,000 in take-home pay) at a slightly higher rate than now, they can call it "socialism." Or, well, they can say that others say it's socialism and that, as McCain called the idea of "spread the wealth," Obama follows "one of the basic tenets of socialism." In doing this, McCain's campaign is focusing in on idiots as their base, the people who don't actually understand what socialism is (and being ably enabled by idiots in the conservative media).
So if all one needs to be a socialist is to believe that those with money should pay a bit more in taxes, if the bar is set so low, what other outre' political philosophies must Barack Obama be following?
1. Barack Obama must be an anarcho-syndicalist because he believes in the power of unions.
2. Barack Obama must be a Whig because he believes in the government's role in building infrastructure and education.
3. Barack Obama must be a Gaullist because he believes in regulating banks.
4. Barack Obama must be a neo-Aristotelianist because he was a community organizer.
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Speaking and Arguing: The Rhetoric of Peace and War
It is admittedly difficult to stand in front of an audience, and even the most accomplished speakers will admit to nervousness before a speech. In study after study, researchers have found that the fear of public speaking outranks the fear of dying for most. There is no effective way to erase completely this anxiety, but mild anxiety is probably indispensable to a good speech. Anxiety will stimulate adequate preparation and provide the surge of energy necessary for a powerful delivery.
What every speaker needs to avoid is a level of anxiety that leads to behavior that diverts the audience's attention. Audiences will rarely find a quavering voice persuasive. Nor do they find hand-wringing or fidgeting to be signs of a commited speaker. A speaker should remember that the audience has access only to these outward signs of anxiety. Even a highly anxious speaker can be quite effective as long as he or she suppresses these external manifestations of nervousness.
There are three common ways to diminish the negative effects of anxiety: Depersonalization, Behavior Modification, and Practice.
Depersonalization. This technique requires a speaker to define speech-making in very narrow and deliberative terms. Typically, some degree of anxiety flows out of personal concerns: "Will the audience think that my argument is silly?" "What if I offend somebody?" "Do I look all right?" These concerns are normal, but can be debilitating to a speaker because they revolve around the speaker as a person and not around the integrity of the argument. Depersonalization is nothing more than a mental device in which the speaker defines himself or herself as nothing more than the deliverer of a message. In effect, the speaker becomes the argument's instrument.
In many respects the strategy of depersonalization sounds like cosmic mumbo-jumbo, but it is an accurate way to think about what a speech actually is. The audience is not present to see the speaker as a person; if they were, there would be many other ways to accomplish that purpose. Of course, there will be some in the audience who are there for other reasons (to be seen by others, to see others, to justify a night out, etc.), but a speaker should ignore those motives since they are irrelevant. The audience is there because most people in the audience wish to hear a substantive argument.
Moreover, there are good reasons to think about the argument as something that exists independently of the speaker. If one has prepared the argument well, the logic of the argument, not the personality of the speaker, determines what is said and when it is said. The logic of the argument also determines what evidence should be cited. The speaker has control over the manner in which an argument is articulated, but even in this arena, the speaker lacks total control. The audience will have a strong influence on how it ought to be delivered: an effective speaker will pay attention to the audience's signals and modify the presentation to meet the audience's needs. In reality, the speaker's only active role in a speech is to assure that the ideas connect with the audience. The speaker is literally nothing more than a conduit for the argument.
An effective speaker keeps the centrality of the argument in the forefront of his or her mind while delivering a speech, and does not allow a speech to become an opportunity for the audience to assess moral worth. Perhaps the most effective speakers are ones who are so committed to an idea that their own selves become submerged in the argument. We rarely find ourselves in similar situations, but the logic is analogous: suppress your ego while giving a speech.
One of the oldest pieces of advice given to speakers is to imagine that everyone in the audience is naked. The suggestion presumably reduces the feeling of vulnerability of the speaker, and, as such, is consistent with the advice of depersonalizing the speech. The advice, however, is flawed. One needs to respect the audience totally and imagining people naked is hardly an attitude of respect. A better way to reduce one's own feeling of vulnerability is to imagine the argument taking control of your mind and body for the short period of time you will be speaking.
This recommendation does not suggest that the speaker become an automaton. Indeed, the speaker should let his or her enthusiasm and commitment to the argument, not to personal concerns, be as obvious as possible--the audience will be looking for these oral and visual cues of sincerity. But, again, the focus is on the argument, not on making an impression on the audience. A speaker who suggests that the argument should be believed because he or she is a nice person is wasting everyone's time.
In practical terms, one should always spend a few seconds at the podium before one begins to allow a transformation to occur. The transformation is one from a normal human being with fears and insecurities to being a speaker, the vessel chosen for a particular situation to transmit a powerful and important idea.
Behavior Modification
Trying to be completely relaxed during a speech is both undesirable and impossible. Audiences expect a speaker to be intense about the subject matter. But intensity is not the same thing as anxiousness, and a speaker should focus all of his or her energies on suppressing manifestations of anxiety. There is no cure for speech anxiety, but eliminating the symptoms of anxiety is clearly possible.
Some of the more common manifestations of anxiety are trembling, fidgeting, a weak or quivering voice, and losing one's concentration, all of which are correctable. These symptoms are usually most acute at the beginning of a speech and generally dissipate as the speaker moves into the heart of the argument. Indeed, by the end of most speeches, there are usually no signs of anxiety for even the most nervous speakers.
Thus, an anxious speaker should assure that the beginning of the speech is the most personally comfortable part of the speech. The first priority is to breathe properly. Nervousness will cause one to take shallow, quick breaths that often translate into a reedy, panicked voice. Before one steps up to the podium, one should consciously take long, deep breaths. Not only will such breathing patterns contribute to a stronger voice, they will also relax.
Second, the opening of the speech should be completely familiar to the speaker. A speaker should know exactly what the first two sentences of the speech will be, perhaps even commiting them to memory. Often speakers will open with a story or a joke; the purpose of this strategy is to divest the speaker of needing to think about what he or she is going to say. Even thanking the audience for coming is a good way of making sure that the speech begins easily.
Third, a speaker should take an inventory of nervous behavior during practice sessions. Unfortunately, most nervous behavior is not self-obvious. Watching a video-tape of oneself or having others critique one's delivery are good ways of identifying nervous traits. Common behavior patterns include:
Fidgeting with an object. Never bring a pen or papers with a paper clip to the podium; inevitably these items will end up in one's hands and become a center of the audience's attention. A speaker should avoid touching his or her hair, or playing with coins in a pocket, buttons, or pins. Never scratch any part of your body. Never put your hands behind your back. Never sway back and forth. Never dance at the podium.
Trembling. Trembling hands are a common symptom of nervousness. The best place for one's hands is at one's side, but grasping the podium lightly is a good cure for trembling. A speaker should not hold note cards or papers if trembling is a problem: the trembling will be made more obvious by larger objects in the hand. Gestures are also an effective way to minimize the obviousness of trembling, but gestures should be used sparingly.
Quivering Voice. A strong voice is necessary to convey commitment and sincerity, and anxiety weakens a voice to a great extent. There are ways to address this issue, but one must be careful not to create other problems with some of these solutions. Speaking more loudly and deeply is a good technique to soften out a quivering voice as long as the following caveats are observed. A speaker should not speak too loudly, or the ability to vary volume will be lost. A speaker's voice should be as natural as possible and artificially deepening one's voice too much can make one sound silly.
Forgetting What One Wants to Say. This symptom of nervousness can be horrific, but only if one allows it to disrupt the flow of the speech. Some speakers try to overcome this problem by writing out their speech. This tactic is flawed; losing one's place in the speech can be just as disruptive as forgetting the next point, and losing eye contact is a heavy price to pay for security. A better strategy is to rely upon notes which can be quickly scanned in order to refresh one's memory. Taking a sip of water while scanning is a good way to avoid looking embarrassed or flustered. Openly admitting that one has lost his or her train of thought can release some tension and elicit support from the audience, but this tactic can only be used once during a speech.
Practice. The only really effective way to minimize obvious anxiety is to be comfortable with the act of speaking. One can attain this level of comfort only by practicing. Speakers should take every opporunity to speak aloud and use each experience to learn more about one's effective speech patterns.


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Patriot Place to "Rock the Plaza" with EV
Patriot Place, with the help of Warwick, R.I.-based Ambient Sound Inc., recently specified a new Electro-Voice sound system for "Rock the Plaza" events at the 1.3 million square-foot shopping, dining, and event destination adjacent to Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., home of the New England Patriots. The new system has provided a significant upgrade to the popular outdoor concert series, a weekly showcase for local musicians that runs from April to October each year on Patriot Place Plaza. Mario Pregoni Live Sound Production Manager for Ambient Sound, comments:
"Rock the Plaza" showcases upwards of four bands each weekend. Prior to this year, Patriot Place supplied the stage and bands had to bring their own PA equipment. The problem was that the equipment that the bands were bringing in wasn't always adequate and the audio quality of these concerts started to suffer. This is a big area too, so we had sound bouncing off various surfaces; we knew we had to make a change."
"I use EV for everything I do ‑ football, soccer, concerts, and corporate events ‑ so it was an obvious choice to use Tour X for Rock the Plaza."
Pregoni has been working since 1998 at Foxboro Stadium and Gillette Stadium as a sound engineer, working on game day audio and also providing technical support, equipment and system maintenance. Says Pregoni, "Robyn Glaser from The Kraft Group, who manages all of the Rock the Plaza shows, came to me for help with "Rock the Plaza". She said the event needed a complete, dedicated, in-house sound system at Patriot Place. So I did a walk-through of the venue to help figure out logistics. The venue is directly outside of Gillette Stadium, at the north endzone entrance. The main stage area is set up in front of The Hall at Patriot Place presented by Raytheon, which is part of Patriot Place. They have restaurants, shops, clubs, a movie theater, and a hotel. It's a great venue but its all concrete, so it's very reflective."
Pregoni needed an easy-to-use, self-contained system for Patriot Place, and working with Rob Howitt of regional EV reps AudioPros, he found the perfect fit with Electro-Voice Tour X loudspeakers.
"It's a plug-and-play system that doesn't need a genius to set up and operate," says Pregoni. "These boxes sound great with minimal, if any, tweaking. The whole PA can be up and running within 20 minutes and taken down just as fast, which is perfect, because between the amount of foot traffic in that Plaza and the unpredictable weather, they don't want a system that would take up too much room and take forever to put away. No one wants to have to break down a system in inclement weather.
"I use EV for everything I do - football, soccer, concerts, and corporate events - so it was an obvious choice to use Tour X for "Rock the Plaza". Tour X really fit the theme and structure of the event very nicely. It delivers everything these concerts need. These boxes bring all of EV's high-end touring technology and put it at a price point that's much more accessible, which makes it a perfect match for smaller venues with smaller budgets and big ambitions. I also went with the CP Series amps, which I love. They've proven themselves driving our main rig and that speaks for itself; they work under the harshest conditions without fail. I spec'd DC-One and Klark Teknik gear for the same reason."
The new system is a four-main, four monitor's design that comprises two TX2152's, two TX2181's, and four TX1122FM stage monitors all powered by CP series amps. Pregoni also prescribed a compliment of EV N/DYM series microphones for input and included both a Klark Teknik Square One Dynamic processor and two Square One Graphic equalizers.
"The first time we used the rig, everyone was blown away," says Pregoni. "Patriot Place is developing a reputation for great sound, and bands are telling each other to play here. The bands get so excited when they can actually hear themselves through the mix on stage. And, on top of it all, Ambient Sound can use this rig as a showcase for Tour X. We've never received so many complimentary e-mails about a system; people constantly tell us how great the equipment made them or their friends sound. This is more than just another mid-level PA box; it's got that EV concert-quality sound at an incredible price point. Tour X is really in its element here, and it has exceeded everyone's expectations.Equipment List
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BC Beer Awards: Cream rises to the top
B.C.'s top brewers were honoured over the weekend at the BC Beer Awards. So here's a big congratulations to the winners, in particular Steamworks for their Best in Show winner Steamworks Pilsner.
Top honours will no doubt spur sales and help pay off Steamworks' newly installed bottling equipment.
This year I dedicated an entire day to judging the 200+ entries in the 2012 BC Beer Awards, along with about a dozen qualified experts. I do it all for you, Dear Reader.
I was paired up with a pair of certified judges from much of the day to assess 44 beers in the Specialty and Porter/ Brown categories. Late in the day I also took a turn judging some of the three dozen entries in the India Pale Ale category, as some of the other judges were starting flag after sampling a couple of dozen IPA samples.
It's harder than it sounds people. There are complicated forms to fill out with more than 100 tickable boxes to tick on each and every beer. That's a lot of boxes. Once I hit sample 40 my glasses were no longer helping me parse the paperwork.
What is most astonishing to me as a first-time judge was how easily judges agreed on the best brews to come across the table. We were taking sips blind, in unmarked glasses identified only by an alpha-numeric code.
Despite that, scores between the judges were usually within a few points of eachother. Some of the experienced judges were able to guess exactly what they were drinking despite the all the precautions. Even I guessed a couple correctly. (We were cautioned not to say when we recognized a beer to avoid influencing the judging process.)
Also astounding is that the same brewers rise to the top of the rankings year after year, or even in competitions half a continent away. Good is good and beer drinkers know.
The names that finished top three in each of the categories were usually familiar ones, with only a handful of exceptions. Victoria's Driftwood, Surrey's Central City, Vancouver Island Brewing, Phillips, Squamish's Howe Sound Brewing and Kelowna's Tree Brewing all had multiple top-three finishes in categories that mostly had anywhere from 15 to 36 entries.
New to the top tier this year is Townsite Brewing, a Sunshine Coast startup, with two first places finishes, one for Porter/Brown and another for Fruit beers. A stunning result for a newcomer.
Here is the full list of winners:
Lager/Pilsner – 22 Beers
1.) Steamworks Pilsner – Steamworks Brewing Company- Best of Show
2.) Beach Blonde Lager – Tree Brewing Company
3.) Kelowna Pilsner – Tree Brewing Company
Special Lager – 8 Beers
1.) Brewmaster's Black – Okanagan Spring Brewery
2.) Hermann's Dark Lager – Vancouver Island Brewery
3.) Iron Plow Harvest Marzen – Vancouver Island Brewery
Session – 17 Beers
1.) High Country Kolsch – Mt. Begbie Brewing Company
2.) Seadog Amber Ale – Vancouver Island Brewery
3.) Begbie Cream Ale – Mt. Begbie Brewing Company
Wheat/Rye – 22 Beers
1.) Belgian White – Lighthouse Brewing Company
2.) King Heffy Imperial Hefeweizen – Howe Sound Brewing Company
3.) White Bark Ale – Driftwood Brewing Company
Pale – 41 Beers
1.) Red Racer Classic Pale Ale- Central City Brewing Company
2.) Salt Spring ESB – Gulf Island Brewing
3.) River Rock Bitter – Canoe Brewpub
Porter/Brown – 24 Beers
1.) Pow Town – Townsite Brewing Inc
2.) Dark Chocolate Porter – Lighthouse Brewing Company
3.) Longboat Chocolate Porter – Phillips Brewing Company
Scottish/Irish – 3 Beers
1.) Big Caboose Red Ale – Fernie Brewing Company
Fruit – 15 Beers
1.) Blackberry Festivale – Townsite Brewing Inc
2.) 4 Way Fruit Ale – Howe Sound Brewing Company
3.) Seedspitter Watermelon Wit – Parallel 49 Brewing Company
Stout – 14 Beers
1.) Keepers Stout – Lighthouse Brewing Company
2.) Pothole Filler Imperial Stout – Howe Sound Brewing Company
3.) Singularity- Driftwood Brewing Company
1.) 5 Rings IPA – High Mountian Brewing Company
2.) Central City Imperial IPA – Central City Brewing Company
3.) Red Racer IPA – Central City Brewing Company
Sour/Brett – 4 Beers
1.) Oud Bruin – Yaletown Brewing Company
2.) Bird Of Prey Flanders Red – Driftwood Brewing Company
3.) Imperial Flanders – Storm Brewing Ltd
Specialty – 20 Beers
1.) Smoke & Mirrors Imperial Smoked Ale – Coal Harbour Brewing
2.) Serendipity #5 – Tree Brewing Company
3.) Schadenfreude Pumpkin Oktoberfest – Parallel 49 Brewing Company
Strong – 7 Beers
1.) Hermannator Ice Bock – Vancouver Island Brewery
2.) Old Cellar Dweller 2012 – Driftwood Brewing Company
3.) Bourbon Barrel Aged Thor's Hammer – Central City Brewing Company
Cascadian Dark Ale
1.) Skookum Cascadian Brown Ale – Phillips Brewing Company
2.) Gathering Storm Cascadian Dark Ale – Howe Sound Brewing Company
3.) Cascadia Dark Ale – Spinnakers Brewpub and GuestHouses


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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
2014 Contenders: Words with Wings, by Nikki Grimes
Gabby's parents have recently divorced, and she's about to start at a new school as Words with Wings opens. She's unhappy about both of those things, but finds solace in her daydreams, which generally take single words as their jumping-off place. But how can Gabby succeed at her new school when she always has her head in the clouds?
It's not a bad premise necessarily, but I have to confess that it's one that feels uncomfortably familiar. From Anne of Green Gables (1908), to Captain David, by Miriam Klugman (1991), to last year's What Came from the Stars, children's literature is littered with books featuring characters whose daydreaming and inattentiveness get them into trouble. Words with Wings slots a bit too neatly into this list, without bringing a particularly fresh perspective to a timeworn topic. Yes, the eventual response of Gabby's teacher, Mr. Spicer, is useful -- even inspiring -- but it's not necessarily enough to support an entire book.
Part of the difficulty, I think, is the format of the book. Words with Wings clocks in under 100 pages, and the fact that it's a verse novel means that a huge portion of that page count is white space. Gabby comes across reasonably clearly, but her parents, her new friend David, and even Mr. Spicer are all essentially ciphers. A book that treads such familiar territory lives and dies by the degree to which the story can present itself as individual, and I don't think Words with Wings really manages to escape the archetypal.
Now, Nikki Grimes is a skilled author (she won the 2003 Coretta Scott King for Bronx Masquerade, and has a mind-boggling four CSK Honors to her name), and so it's not as if Words with Wings is a difficult or tedious read. Some of the lines, indeed, are genuinely beautiful. I don't think it would be a particularly hard sell to a child reader who enjoys contemporary fiction and/or poetry. But I don't think Words with Wings rises to the level of "distinguished," and I don't expect to see it featured in the Newbery list.
Publication in September through WordSong / Highlights
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I'm looking forward to this as I'm a fan ( largely on the strength of BRONX MASQUERADE. Joyce Sidman has a longer poetry collection ou in the fall, WHAT THE HEART KNOWS. Looking forward to that one, too.ReplyDeleteReplies
The Sidman title has me really excited. I feel like it's already been a nice year for poetry with FOLLOW, FOLLOW and STARDINES, and Sidman rarely fails to deliver.Delete
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Lynne Bernabei and Kristen Sinisi recently presented on "Tweeting & Snapping: What You Need to Know about Preserving, Discovering, and Using Social Media" at the NELA 2017 Annual Convention in San Antonio, Texas.
Their written presentation discussed how social media can be discovered and used in employment litigation, including the duty to preserve evidence, spoliation issues, and the substantive use of social media discovery. The oral presentation (with two other panelists) discussed these interesting issues which are becoming of greater concern given the never-ending rise in the use of social media for workplace interactions.


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The best desktop developments of 2010: Really cheap storage
Storage is getting cheaper, but how low can it go? See what else made our list of the best and worst enterprise desktop developments of 2010.
The best of 2010: Really cheap storage
|Storage is getting cheaper, but how low can it go? Your average laptop now has more disk space than some mainframes, and prices continue to drop. A 64 GB USB drive costs around $150 (just don't lose the thing without password-protecting or encrypting it, please). The same amount of money will buy you at least a couple of 2 TB hard drives. Remember when a single-gigabyte SCSI drive cost $1,000? Of course, back then, DOS programs occupied only a few kilobytes before we needed to store our entire CD and DVD collections and take them with us.
David Strom is a freelance writer and professional speaker based in St. Louis. He is former editor in chief of TomsHardware.com, Network Computing magazine and DigitalLanding.com. Read more from Strom at Strominator.com.


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1. Greatest challenge youth face after going through youth in agriculture capacity building is finding a place to anchor their interventions. This goes beyond mentorship and access to capital as they need to have their interventions feed to and be fed from stable enterprises in a business context. This is a gap Greenfarm Agribusiness Incubation Network (GAIN) is working on with a equal measure of success and challenges (that are being converted to opportunities for accelerated growth).
2. Examples of post-capacity development initiatives include;
a) Greenfarm International contracts to buy Brachiaria fodder in Kenya at Ksh 250 (about USD2.5) per bale from farmers. Youth were empowered by Greenfarm International (a start-up member of GAIN) to develop contract farming to collect the fodder and sell it to Greenfarm International with a margin of Ksh 25 for each bale. Greenfarm International finances all purchases, transport and storage. This is an example of a success story as well working in Bungoma and Trans-Nzoia Counties of Kenya.
3. Post capacity support youth need is in 3 areas;
a) Refining the business model based on an anchor framework as defined in (1) above
b) Support in mapping business opportunities
c) Provision of business infrastructure so that one only directs money to the real business. GAIN has set up furnished work stations with internet, finance and HR services where a start-up pays Ksh 10,000 (USD 100) monthly and works with no other costs for power, internet, licenses etc. There are also sites for animal rearing such as pig pens and poultry units hence a youth can just buy stock and lease the units. When he/she is not interested in the business, they will not have funds sunk in buildings that they do not need at the time. This also addresses the issue of access to land that has been a challenge to youth, but with this arrangement, it is no longer a significant challenge.
4. Enabling environment to ensure sustainability of youth in agriculture is an incubation ecosystem that allows them access to research and staffing (through internships) without paying for directly. Research is expensive (in-affordable) by start-ups yet market research is indispensable at all times.
5. Absolutely, technology has a great role. Many youth do not want to get to rural areas hence use of CCTV attached to their mobile phones enables them to manage farm based enterprises from the comfort of their urban centres. The capital outlay is high, but the benefits by far outweigh the costs.


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Steve Jobs seems to have heard the message from iPhone and iPod Touch users that they want access to third party applications. He must have also heard from developers who want access to Apple's newest mobile devices, so they can offer applications for them. Earlier this week, we reported that a 13-year old had developed a hack to allow the installation of third party applications on the iPod Touch (see our previous coverage). Jobs apparently wants to offer users and developers a more standardized solution.
Steve Jobs said via a post on the Apple website that Apple plans to offer a software development kit (SDK) by February. This SDK will allow developers to design applications for not only the iPhone, but also the iPod Touch. Jobs explained why the SDK was going to take until February.
Jobs said it was going to take until February to release an SDK, because it needed to accomplish "two diametrically opposed things at once." Those two things are offering an advanced and open platform for development, while also protecting the iPhone and iPod Touch from viruses, malware, and privacy attacks. Jobs attempted to demonstrate that Apple was not the only company to limit third party applications on its mobile devices. He pointed to Nokia, for which the newest phones require applications to be traced back to a known developer.
Read more from the Apple website.
Brian's Opinion
This is probably one of the easiest decisions Steve Jobs has had to make as Apple's CEO. He basically had two choices. His company could continue to allow unauthorized applications, such as the one designed by a 13-year old, to hack the iPhone or iPod Touch to allow third party applications, or offer a solution for third party applications of its own. I'm sure it was never a consideration to allow third party installs to continue to be handled by an application designed by a 13-year old.
Everyone wants to complain to Apple about its platform being closed, but you have to look at things from Apple's perspective. Apple wants to provide a reliable product, which is able to receive updates with no negative impact on users. It's hard for Apple to do that if the company allows anyone to write an application for its devices. Also, if anyone can write an application for the iPhone or iPod Touch, keep in mind that includes "bad people" too. Trust me, "bad people" would love to write a virus that circulates among iPhones and the iPod Touch. Why? They are big targets.
There is always a debate about the security of Windows compared to Linux or the Mac OS. People say if you look at the news over the last few years it is clear Windows has remained a bigger security risk. The question I always ask is, "Is it because Windows is a greater security risk or because Windows is a better target, considering the amount of users?" I have to believe it's the latter. If I am a hacker, then I want the greatest impact for my time. I also want the publicity. Creating malware or a virus for the iPhone would accomplish both goals. Considering the risks, I think users of both devices can wait until February. If not, they do so at their own risk.


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America needs to seriously examine our military spending, and soon
This is an article I wrote for last week's issue of the The Northern Light, but it got axed due to repeats of topics and space-crunches.
It is not a very popular message right now – that America may just have to scale back on our military efforts around the world. It is part of a growing reality that Americans have to face – that our economy is in trouble and it needs work.
At a general assembly meeting of the United Nations, held on the September 21st, President Obama spoke. He had a simple thought about how peace among nations is done.
"Ultimately, peace depends on compromise, among people who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied."
Unlike his economic policies, here he makes a very valid point. Peace between nations, and inside of nations is something that people have to come together to figure out. It is poetic that he brings up this notion, because right now, America needs to scale back what we are doing.
Following the events of September 11, 2001, the people all clamored for what we called "justice" to be brought to the leaders of Al Qaeda. It has always been a point of interest how some Americans seem to believe that killing another person is justice. This country went to war, led by a President who was very open to the concept. This was a mistake.
Obama came into office with two wars we were involved in. Now, this country is involved in five. For a nation that was in a severe recession, and is heading in the direction of a double-dip recession, this is not a good thing.
It cannot be argued that America's economy is in a really bad place. The August reports showed no job growth at all. America's credit rating has gone down. The Stock Market is going down. The big question becomes, how do we fix this? How do we make it so that this nation doesn't suffer an economic collapse? The answer may not make people happy.
Military spending in this country is one of the biggest holes that money keeps getting thrown into. According to the National Priorities Project, over $1.2 trillion have been spent in total in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Alaska has paid over $2 billion in this war effort, and the numbers are growing every day.
America has the largest military force on Earth. It is larger than the top ten nations that come behind us combined. What makes this problematic is that not only does our nation have the largest military on Earth, but it is over-burdened and over-extended.
"We have tens of thousands of troops in Korea and Japan. We have over 50,000 troops in Germany. Hitler, ladies and gentlemen, I think we got him," said Bill Maher on his stand-up special But I'm Not Wrong.
That's a good perspective to have. Not even examining the major wars that we are involved in, how much money is being spent in places that we serve no purpose? What's more, how we use the military is a waste of time.
To go after those who destroyed the World Trade Center, we should have done so with a scalpel, not a sledgehammer. Richard Dreyfuss was asked if 9/11 was a civics lesson, and if we learned the right lessons from it during an interview on CNN.
"We've learned the wrong lessons from it. We are learning the wrong lessons from it, because we're lying about it."
The fact is that Bush made the decision to call it the war on terror, instead of calling it the war on extremist Islam, of even just the war on Al Qaeda. That would have opened the door for the other groups to distance themselves, and even aid America. Instead, that door has been closed, and when the moderate Muslim community has tried to play nice with American efforts, a lot of the time, our country ignores it.
Take the instance of the "Underwear Bomber." The father of that man had met with a member of the CIA and told them that his son was going to bomb us, and they ignored him. So our efforts are misplaced on all fronts.
The cold reality is that this country can literally not afford these wars anymore. America is heading into another recession, and it is time to scale back, and slash the military budget into ribbons. That is a part of the answer to what is plaguing this country.
And what's more, the people need to get on board. For a long time, the mentality of this country has been, if you are not for the wars, you are a bad person. Dissent and discussion needs to come back to this country, and more than anything else, that is what should also be considered when discussing our social and economic future.
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Week 3 is complete!
I'm complaining less, although I still have yet to feel the "runner's high" people talk about.
It was probably a mistake, but I looked ahead to the schedule for next week. The running time is almost doubled again. Right now, it sounds awful. But hey, I'm going to enjoy the weekend and deal with that on Monday morning.


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Hey there bookworms!
I saw this tag on Booktube so I decided to do this one on my blog 😉
- If you could invite one author and one of their fictional characters for tea who would you invite and what would you serve?
- It's going to be Rick Riordan, my favorite author everrrrr and of course I'm also going to invite Percy Jackson 😉 we will be having blue pancakes and some dam fries with ambrosia we actually don't drink tea.
2. What would you love a prequel for and what would be the main storyline?
- Let's see, how about the Marauders? It will be a great prequel! We'll get to know more about them and how they've met and all that good stuff. I miss reading The Harry Potter series.
3. Which two characters not from the same book would make a great book couple?
- Oh! I can't think of any, hmm maybe Noah Shaw and me LOL! or Etienne and me
4. If you ran into your favorite author on the subway and could only say one sentence to them, what would you say?
- If I ever saw J.K. Rowling on the subway, I would totally freak out but I'll absolutely say this to her, "You are my childhood."
5. What book made you a reader and why?
- I started reading books that were locally published here in our country, some of my favorite Filipino authors are Bob Ong, Mina Esguerra, Ines Yao and Marla Miniano. The book that made me reader was One Crazy summer by Ines B. Yao, it's cute and fluffy summer read with a little bit of romance, it made me want to read more Chic Lits back when I was in high school.
6. If your bookshelf was caught on fire which book would you save?
- I can't answer this question!!!! If there's a book like how to move-on when your bookshelf was caught on fire I would definitely save that book, but I guess I'll save a copy of my bible.
7. Which dystopian world would you want to live in?
- I do not intend to live in any dystopian world I still love my life…
8. What is your most epic read of all time?
- The Harry Potter series! I can't pick just one because all of the books in the series has a special place in my heart.
I tag you, you and you! 😉
- Jasmine @ Jasmine Pearl Reads
- Josiah @ The Bookish Fanboy
- JM @ Book Freak Revelations
- Nikka @ Paper and Trees
- Chelsea @ Between The Pages
- Jam @ Heartscent Reads
- Imo @ Amidst The Pagess
- Alicia @ A Kernel of Non Sense
If you want to do this tag even if I didn't tag you, feel free and comment below the link of your blog post so I could check it out! 🙂


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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
My First Kayak Trip
I went on my first kayak trip.
Over the years me buying a kayak has sort of become and inside joke and way to tease me. Like I said before I dont think many people thought I was serious about doing it or would be into it. But now I own one and I have officially went on one more kayak trip than most of the people reading this blog post.
As you can see by clicking on the map on the left, I took a trip down the Miami-Erie Canal in my hometown of St. Marys. I used the My Tracks app on my Droid to record this trip. Unfortunately I only recorded the one way, so just double the map's distance and path. I took off from the red point, went to the green and back to the red.
It was a very nice and relaxing time. I saw a lot of interesting things on the canal including wood peckers, some wild rocket lilies (well semi-wild) and a couple of small fish jumping out of the very shallow water.
The canal water was about 1.5 feet deep with a very thick mud at the bottom that is unlike most mud you would encounter. It's thick and black and wont let you go if you get into it. So I definitely took it easy in the kayak and did my best to not tip it over.
I'm using a Pelican Break (80) that I bought from a nice lady south of here thru Craigslist. The kayak seemed to track well and was very stable even has I bobbed it from side-to-side in some more interesting moments.
The interesting thing about this tunnel is that it's very similar to a pedestrian tunnel that is on the towpath along the left side of the canal. A tunnel that I've ridden thru on my bike or walked thru several times in the past. So I thought, "What the heck? I can fit and I can see the other end, so let's try it."
The bow of the kayak is in, it's an 8 foot kayak so this isnt going to be very dramatic. A few more light paddle strokes and I'm in. It's dark, the noise is strange from the traffic above. The light reflections bouncing around on the sides are interesting and my paddles make a weird ding off the metal sides when I accidentally bump them.
Then I hit my first spider web. Face first. No big deal. I'm not afraid of a little spider ... or a medium sized spider. Heck even large spiders dont bother me, so I press on. Oh look, there's one of my spider friends right now hanging from the next cobweb. I'm about 12 feet in, roughly under the first lane of traffic, and am now face-to-face with...
My mind races with what could be worse and pleased that my own personal Shelob had let me pass safely. And then I looked up. In the corrugated bends of the steel pipe I am in hangs the reason that I left the tunnel. Well the several reasons.
I present, to the uninitiated, the Orb Spider. This guy doesnt pack the potential problems as the Brown Recluse that I passed earlier, but they are much nastier looking. The abdomen was at least the size of the end of my thumb. Oh and notice how I am using plural pronouns? Yep, you guessed it, there were a LOT of them. I counted at least 15 directly above my head as I spun my kayak around ... there's 3 more ... weird splashing noises start echoing thru here as I hustle myself out of this womb of web weavers.
So I turned around and began heading home. Back the way I came. The canal had one last surprise in store for me though. A good sized snapping turtle leaped from the water, glanced off my back, hit the kayak's stern and slid into the water. Yeah, I think I was attacked by a turtle.
So all-in-all, a nice little trip. No rapids, a casual paddle down calm waters and a few close calls with some local Ohio wildlife. It was fun. I'm hoping to go out tomorrow to another section of the canal south of town. This part goes under State Route 66, a railroad another road and out to the feeder from the lake. I'm hoping this one will have less spiders.
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Haha Holy crap Cory - who would have thought you would have such a perilous experience around here! Thanks for sharing, was an interesting read. I only wish I could have seen it in person. *shivers* I am not afraid of spiders so much, but the thought of being in a friggin tunnel full of them creeps me out.ReplyDelete
I am the same way. Spiders dont bother me, but this was way way too many. lolReplyDelete
It was a total Indian Jones type moment.
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Bonsai Workshop
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Demonstration of techniques by members, 11.7.2016
Mike started by showing us very small rooted Satsuki azalea cuttings he took last summer, which are now ready to be potted into larger modules. He lifts them out of the modules with two knives to avoid root disturbance and uses potting compost with a little Akadama. He then took more tiny cuttings from two different Satsuki azaleas, removed lower leaves, dipped into rooting hormone and planted in modules containing pure sphagnum moss.
Alun bought this group of Chamaecyparis lawsonia 'Wissellii' from a garden centre and planted them at the bottom of a large pot. He then layered them by cutting a ring of bark from around each trunk, applying rooting hormone and staking them at an angle and filling the pot up to the top with compost. He uses kebab sticks to angle the branches. These trees are pretty big!
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Listen to I Dont Like (Freestyle), the latest track from XV, featuring Sez Batters & Freddy High. The cut dropped on Thursday, October 18th, 2012. XV's future brightens with every new release, and I Dont Like (Freestyle) certainly isn't an exception. It's a fitting addition to a solid catalogue that XV has been developing since stepping foot in the game. We're excited to hear more.
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"Love, life, loyalty that's what I said right?
And living like legends until we dead right?
Bitches hoping they can catch me at a red light
Hopping out of something you ain't see before like dead might
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I thought about it once, I thought about it twice
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A Dimondale man accused of setting a car on fire in Potterville is a firefighter.
The Eaton County undersheriff confirms to FOX 47 that Kyle Demars served as a volunteer firefighter with the Potterville Fire Department.
Deputies say he set a fire underneath a vehicle in the parking lot of the Masonic Temple in Potterville on Monday.
Demars is charged with fourth-degree arson.
We reached out to the Potterville Fire Department to see if Demars is still a volunteer there but we haven't heard back from them as of Friday evening.
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Paul Coro and Bob Young discuss LeBron James opting out of his contract and the chances of James landing with Phoenix Suns.
Back in February, LeBron James and the Miami Heat made their annual appearance at US Airways Center in Phoenix.
It turned out to be a busy couple of days for James.
The day before the Suns game, on Feb. 10, James put on a post-practice dunk-fest, an event captured on both video cameras and cell phones:
Feb. 10, 2014: Miami Heat star LeBron James shows off after practice the day before a game against the Suns in Phoenix, and his teammates captured it on their phones.
The next night, a season-best crowd of 17,927 turned out for the game. Among the fans was a Glendale Deer Valley High School special-needs student Jose Meraz.
Meraz made headlines in January when a youtube video of his three-pointer in a game.
That led to a pre-game meeting between Meraz and James.
The game itself was a good one, with the Suns keeping things interesting till late in the fourth quarter, when Miami pulled away. James scored 37 points, 25 in the second half, leading Miami to a 103-97 victory.


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Nokia D1C is the upcoming Android smartphone of Nokia. The specifications of the phone have been leaked several times, but this time, information about the pricing of the Nokia D1C leaked online.
According to our sources, Nokia D1C smartphone will come in two RAM variants – 2GB and 3GB – and there price will be Rs. 10,000 and Rs. 13,000 respectively.
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According to our sources, Nokia D1C will be powered by 1.4 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 processor along with Adreno 505 GPU, and will come in 2GB and 3GB RAM variants. And, it will run on Android 7.0 Nougat and come in 5-inch and 5.5-inch full-HD display options.
Both the variants will come with 16GB inbuilt storage, it will be expandable. On the camera front, the Nokia D1C variants are said to be available in 13-megapixel and 16-megapixel rear camera varaints. Both the variants are expected to sport 8-megapixel camera at the front.
Nokia is preparing for a comeback in partnership with HMD Global. The latter has signed a 10-year brand licensing agreement with Nokia for mobile phones and tablets, and a slew of devices are planned for 2017.