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About Wagner
May 21, 2013
broken hearts, all of us at The Laura And Wagner Foundation and
Abled.com announce the passing of Laura's beloved guide dog Wagner.
But everyone who loved him knew him simply as 'Waggie'.
It is a sad irony that Waggie's passing comes on the same day Texas A&M University published the story seen in our previous post about his role in a great research program being conducted by the university in partnership with the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.
His T-Cell infusions at Texas A&M dramatically reduced his tumor load, putting him, essentially, into remission. However, Waggie was recently diagnosed with erlichia (tick disease), likely picked up in Texas despite wearing a tick collar and being up to date on his frontline injections.
That overloaded his immune system which had already been weakened by a double dose of chemotherapy prior to the T-Cell infusions.
Waggie's condition rapidly deteriorated over the past week, and Laura had to feed and water him by hand. He started to have very labored breathing, and difficulty walking.
After fighting the bravest fight possible against the lymphoma for two years and 7 months, it was for the heartbreaking decision to end his suffering.
With the help of Dr. Carreen Loriaux from the Dierenkliniek Ijburglaan in Amsterdam, Waggie was put to sleep earlier today.
It's a devastating loss for Laura, and an absence that will always be felt. But she takes comfort in hoping that the knowledge gained from Waggie's T-Cell treatment's will soon help to save other dogs and human cancer patients as the T-Cell therapies are refined.
We'll be writing more in the days ahead about Waggie's treatments and the generous people who helped to make them possible.
For now, we are all just simply hurting, and mourning the loss of a dear, sweet dog who was the best ambassador a Foundation could ask for.
Rest in Peace Dear Waggie.
My dear Waggie,
You were my first wonderful guide dog. You were a real character, sometimes full of mischief, but you were always a trustworthy and loyal gentleman.
You helped me in very hard times, and saved my life on two occasions.
I tried to help you as best as I could in fighting the cancer from 2010 onwards. But because you contracted tick fever in Texas, it became too much for your immune system over the past few weeks.
It is so very hard to say goodbye, but it was even harder to feel you getting so weak, despite what a brave, brave fight you were putting up.
Your legacy will live on in all the lives of everyone you've touched in Curaçao, the Netherlands, the United States and around the world and through the research knowledge that will be gained from your T-Cell treatments.
I want to thank everyone who contributed to our indiegogo campaign to be able to take Waggie to Texas, because your contribution continues to help build towards finding non-toxic cancer treatments for dogs and people with lymphoma and other cancers, especially children, because canine blood is so similar to children's blood composition.
The best I can close with for now, because the tears won't stop, is a favourite quote of mine from Linden: "Those with the brightest spirits are sometimes handed the darkest challenges to light the way for the rest of us".
I love you Waggie. I know your spirit will continue to guide me from heaven and you will live in my heart forever.
How We Remember Waggie
Wagner was born on New Year's eve 2004 at the breeding station on the campus of the Seeing Eye in Morristown, New Jersey, and is a male golden retriever. He is happiest when he's "working", and when he's got his harness and halter on, he shouldn't be petted or distracted. But he's such a lovable guy that everyone wants to pet him and feel how soft his ears are.
He also loves walking and running, and swimming in the ocean. There's a small beach along the seaside walking path by the desalinization plant in Curaçao where he runs at full gallop into the sea and swishes around in the water barking, as though he's calling out to the dolphins to come and play. It's a safe place (a blind or visually impaired person needs someone who is sighted to evaluate whether an area is safe for the dog to run loose) where he can take a short break from his duties.
Sometimes he'll encounter other dogs whose owners don't realize that when another dog is loose, they should drop the lead if their own dog is leashed, and allow the dogs to naturally socialize. If you keep them leashed, they are also "working" , protecting the owner, and a fight could ensue.
Wagner is making lots of friends on the island, but it's a challenge because of the cultural dynamics. A lot of people here are only accustomed to seeing stray street dogs or guard dogs and are naturally afraid of an animal the size of Waggie. But if he's not in working mode and they get a chance to pet him, he wins them over very quickly.
You can read about how Laura was introduced to Wagner here.
And below you'll find more information about the Seeing Eye's Breeding
and Puppy Raising Programs.
Also, click on the link About Guide | Assistance Dogs in the index to the left to learn more about service animals and the invaluable role they play in bringing more independence to the lives of disabled people.
The Seeing EyeAt the new 'Morris Frank Park' near the Green in Morristown, New Jersey is the sculpture:
'The Way of Independence'It is:
The sculpture was dedicated on April 29, 2005 - the 75th anniversary of the founding of The Seeing Eye by Morris Frank who obtained his guide dog buddy from dog trainer Dorothy Eustis in Switzerland. She had been teaching blinded war veterans how to regain their independence with guide dogs. Morris promised to pass on the knowledge, and began training 17 students in 1929.
The Seeing Eye,® Inc., is the oldest existing dog guide school in the world. Twelve times a year, as many as 24 students at a time visit the Morristown, N.J., campus to discover the exhilarating experience of traveling with a Seeing Eye dog.
Genetics & Breeding
Before conception even occurs, throughout training, and until the
end of its working career, a Seeing Eye dog has been directed to its
special destiny with the benefit of science. Today, The Seeing Eye
leads the way in its research in canine genetics, breeding, disease
control, and behavior.
Much of our research is driven by the fact there is no "perfect Seeing Eye dog." Variations in temperament, size, strength, stride, and energy are characteristics that must be closely matched to create a successful partnership. From developing a computer information system that calculates the suitability of every dog in the colony to become a breeder, to funding cutting edge research in DNA sequencing, The Seeing Eye is the leader in building, if not the "perfect dog," then certainly the most healthy, productive, predictable, and reliable dog guides possible.
The Seeing Eye breeds German shepherds, Labrador retrievers, golden retrievers, and Lab/golden crosses. Our breeding station, dedicated in 2002, consists of interconnected geometric pavilions, designed so that dogs can see each other and see people enter the kennel, so barking –not to mention stress – are greatly reduced. The goal was to provide a facility most conducive to a positive early childhood experience for the puppies and to providing a healthy, active lifestyle for the adult dogs.
The Seeing Eye breeds its own dogs for the program: German shepherds,
Labrador retrievers and golden retrievers. Female dogs produce four
litters and male dogs sire up to 15 litters before they are matched
with a student or are adopted by a loving family.
Apply for a Puppy
When Seeing Eye puppies reach the age of 7 or 8 weeks, they are delivered to the homes of volunteer "foster families" who nurture and care for their charges until they are about 16 to 18 months old. Families in New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, and parts of Maryland and New York, give the dogs abundant affection, teach them basic obedience, and expose them to a variety of social situations they will later encounter as working dogs. Many of these volunteer families have children, while a number of retired adults also volunteer their time for our puppies.
For more
information about becoming a puppy raiser, consult the list below and
call The Seeing Eye Area Coordinator for your county. You will be
invited to a puppy club meeting in your county where you can learn more
about the program first-hand. For more information, e-mail the Puppy
Placement department at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Instruction & Training
Twelve times each year, a group of up to 24 students arrives in Morristown from all over the United States and Canada to begin their instruction with Seeing Eye dogs. Every dog is specifically matched to meet the individual needs of each student. Matches are made based on handler/dog compatibility in strength, pace, temperament, and home environment.
Students arrive on campus on Saturday and receive their dogs two days later. If receiving their first dog guides, they stay to train with the dogs for 27 days; for subsequent dogs, the instruction lasts about 20 days. Each student is assigned to work with one instructor, who has no more than four or five students in a class.
Daily instructional routines may include traveling throughout the heavily trafficked streets of downtown Morristown, the quiet residential areas, country roads, shopping malls, train stations, bus routes, hotels, and even the nearby streets of New York City. When the newly formed teams leave The Seeing Eye, they have mastered the techniques they will need to navigate safely through daily life in their hometowns.
Guide Dog AccessibilityFrom Wikipedia
Despite regulations or rules that deny access to animals in restaurants and other public places, in many countries, guide dogs and other types of assistance dogs are protected by law, and therefore may accompany their handlers most places that are open to the public. Laws and regulations vary worldwide:
- In the United States, the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits any business, government agency, or other organization that provides access to the general public from barring guide dogs. However, religious organizations are not required to provide such access. The Fair Housing Act requires that landlords allow tenants to have guide dogs in residences that normally have a No Pets policy and no extra fees may be charged for such tenants. Whether guide dogs in training have the same rights or not usually falls on each individual state government.
- In most South American countries and Mexico, guide dog access depends solely upon the goodwill of the owner or manager. In more tourist-heavy areas, guide dogs are generally welcomed without problems. In Brazil, however, a 2006 federal decree [2] requires allowance of guide dogs in all public and open to public places. The Brasília Metro has developed a program which trains guide dogs to ride it.
- In Europe, the situation varies. Some countries have laws that govern the entire country and sometimes the decision is left up to the respective regions.
- In Australia, the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 protects guide dog handlers. Each state and territory has its own laws, which may differ slightly.
- In Canada, guide dogs are allowed anywhere that the general public is allowed.
- Because Islam considers dogs in general to be unclean, many Muslim taxi drivers and store owners have refused to accommodate customers who have guide dogs. In 2003, the Sharia Council, based in the United Kingdom, ruled that the ban on dogs does not apply to those used for guide work,[3] but many Muslims continue to refuse access, and see the pressure to allow the dogs as a restraint on religious liberty.[4] Sheikh Ibrahim Mogra of the Muslim Council of Britain has argued strongly that Sharia does not preclude working with guide dogs, and it is actually a duty under Sharia for a Muslim to help the visually impaired.
- In South Korea, it is illegal to deny access to guide dogs in any areas that are open to the public. Violators are fined for no more than 2 million South Korean won. [5]
Commonly Asked Questions About Service Animals in Places of Business. U.S. Department of Justice (1996). Retrieved on 2006-02-09.
See also
- Assistance dog
- Blindness
- Guide horse
- White cane
- Leader Dogs for the Blind
- The Seeing Eye
- Guide Dogs for the Blind
- List of Guide Dog Schools
- Morris Frank one of the first blind people in America to have a guide dog.[6]
External links
- International Federation of Guide Dog Schools
- Assistance Dog International's directory of membership organizations
- Legal information about service animals in the United States
- 2008 is the year of the guide dog
Service Animal Law and Discrimination Facts
Service animals are those animals that have been specially trained to help people with disabilities. They are also called "support animals" or "assistance animals". Besides assisting people with disabilities, service animals may be utilized for Search and Rescue (SAR) operations and the law enforcement agencies. Although dogs are most commonly used as service animals, other animals such as horses and capuchin monkeys are used for individual assistance as well.
Here is a list of websites that provide information on service animals and service animal laws:
FAQs about Service Animals
- Service Animals in Places of Business: Commonly asked questions about service animals in places of business.
- Service Animal FAQ: Frequently asked questions about service animals.
- Questions about Service Animals: A list of questions that are related to service animals.
- FAQ on Service Dogs: Some of the common questions that are asked about service dogs.
- More FAQ on Service Animals: A set of questions that help people understand more about service animals.
- Americans with Disabilities Act: The laws pertaining to service animals.
- Policies, Regulations, and Rules on Service Animals: Law and regulations regarding the use of service animals.
- Distinguishing a Service Animal: Article that explains how a person can tell the difference between a service animal and a normal pet.
Information about Service Animals
- Service Animals: General information about service animals.
- What are Service Animals: Information and resources on service animals.
- Users of Service Animals: An overview of service animals, including tips for owners and emergencies.
- Tips for Owners of Service Animals: Helpful tips for people who own service animals and pets.
- Traveling with Service Animals: Find out how to get service animals to a foreign country.
- Seizure Alert Service Animals: Getting the right companion for seizure alert.
What Do These Animals Do?
- Service Animals for Deaf People: Service dogs to assist people with hearing disability.
- Information on Assistance Animals: An introduction to assistance animals, with information about the tasks they perform.
- Assistance Dog Tasks: Useful tasks performed by assistance dogs to help the disabled.
- Tasks of Psychiatric Service Dogs: An article that describes the various tasks of psychiatric service dogs.
How are Service Animals Trained?
- Training Service Animals: Service animal training and organizations.
- Dogs for the Blind: Training dogs to assist blind people.
- Service Dog Trainers: Finding the right service dog trainer in the US.
- National Service Animal Registry: Information about how to certify a service animal.
Additional Resources
- Service Dog Etiquette: Outlines the 3 main rules of coming in contact with a service dog.
- People Search: Site featuring the ability to perform people searches as well as background and criminal checks.
- Service and Therapy Dog Accessories: Site where service dog vests, patches and other work related accessories can be purchased


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Name: Angela St-Amour
Job title: Communications Manager
Company you work for: Avigilon
Career background: The original plan was to enter politics. After completing my political science degree in Ottawa, working on Federal campaigns and an internship in the Senate I realized that this wasn't my path. I decided to sharpen my pencils and go back to school. After obtaining my post-graduate certificate in public relations from Humber College I was lucky enough to get an internship with High Road Communications' Vancouver office. There I got the chance to build my PR muscles working with dynamic startups and amazing technology brands, including Microsoft, HP and LG.
After a few years I went to PMC and tried internal and change communications. After having fun with acquisitions, a new CEO and meeting a lot of great people in Vancouver and Silicon Valley, I joined Avigilon as the communications manager. I'm very fortunate to oversee the external, internal and community relations programs at such a dynamic company.
Greatest career challenge: Early morning meetings. I'm not what you would call a morning person.
Greatest career success: Loving what I do. While not every day is perfect or even enjoyable, on the whole I really enjoy the career I've chosen and I think that's hard to find.
Biggest career mistake or regret: Not figuring out my career sooner.
Favourite PR/communications campaign: Bodyform's 'apology' video response to a rant on their Facebook wall. I love when risks pay off for brands.
PR role model: I have a few, Monika Rola, Jo-Anne Stayner, Kellie Mullen, Luca Penati, and I could go on. My role models are all people that have taught me about the PR professional I aspire to be. They are smart people; they command a room, have brilliant ideas, measure, get incredible results and are well regarded by their peers. I'm lucky to have worked with so many people that are smarter than I am.
Best career advice: The best advice I received in PR was to trust my instincts. Another piece of advice I love to share came from a high school teacher: you have two ears and one mouth for a reason. Use them in proportion.
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Favourite journalist to pitch to: Security press are some of the nicest folks out there. They are always willing to chat, listen and help. Any time I get to call them with a story idea or news I look forward to it.
Favourite social media site: While I love Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube, Pinterest has my heart.
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South Ayrshire Council is asking residents and communities across South Ayrshire to make their views known on how the Council should prioritise its spending next year as part of its Big Budget Challenge.
[Councillors Robin Reid (left) and Bill McIntosh check out the Big Budget Challenge advert, which is appearing on buses across South Ayrshire to encourage as many people as possible to get involved.]
The Council currently spends more than a quarter of a billion pounds each year to deliver a wide range of services to some 110,000 people across South Ayrshire. However, with the public sector in Scotland facing major cuts, the Council has to determine how it will fund and deliver these services with less money.
Services include education for young people, care for older people, pavements, roads and street lights, golf courses, swimming pools and community facilities to name but a few.
Like all local authorities, South Ayrshire Council expects significant reductions in the amount of money it has to spend in the coming years – how to manage this and deliver services is the Big Budget Challenge.
Councillor Robin Reid, Portfolio Holder for Resource and Performance, said: "The funding for our budget of around £267 million comes from a combination of grant funding from the Scottish Government, non-domestic rates (paid by businesses) and from council tax.
"While we won't know exactly how much we'll have to spend until late November/early December, we anticipate an overall reduction in funding of around 12% in the next two years.
"This could mean up to £30 million less for us to deliver services to the people of South Ayrshire, which will have a real impact on how we can deliver our services."
To ensure local residents have an opportunity to have their say on this, the Council is undertaking a Big Budget Challenge across South Ayrshire and wants as many people as possible to take part.
Councillor Bill McIntosh, Leader of South Ayrshire Council, said: "The Big Budget Challenge is about working to identify where we can make savings and spend less money and prioritising what we do with the budget we do have in the years ahead.
"While a lot of work has already been progressed within the Council on this, we want to hear from local communities and get their views and comments on what services matter to them.
"We're making it as easy as possible to get involved with thousands of leaflets and questionnaires going out to Council offices and facilities across South Ayrshire and every school pupil receiving a copy to take home. The questionnaire can then be returned using the freepost reply card or by dropping it into one of our many collection boxes, which will be available across the area. It can also be completed on our website, where you will find the latest information on our budget process.
"A key way to get involved is to come along to one of our Big Budget Challenge Discussions, which take place during November and December. A Big Budget Challenge Discussion will be held in every ward, giving local communities the chance to hear directly from us on our budget position, ask questions and – most importantly – let us know what they think."
Each Big Budget Challenge Discussion will last from 7pm until 9pm and the schedule of events is as follows:
Walker Hall, Troon: Thursday 4 November
Belmont Academy: Thursday 11 November
Prestwick Academy: Thursday 18 November
Girvan Academy: Tuesday 23 November
Ayr Academy: Wednesday 24 November
Monkton Primary School: Tuesday 30 November
John Pollock Centre: Thursday 2 December
Maybole Town Hall: Wednesday 8 December
Councillor McIntosh concluded: "This is your Council and your services we are talking about – that's why it's so important you get involved. This really is your chance to have your say, so please make sure you take part in the Big Budget Challenge."
For further information on the Big Budget Challenge, visit www.south-ayrshire.gov.uk/budget or call 0300 123 0900.
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Plains Pocket Gopher Geomys bursarius
Description: The Plains Pocket Gopher is a small to medium sized gopher of the family Geomyidae. This gopher is heavy-set, with light brown to black coloring. It has small eyes and ears, a short snout, and two long orange incisor teeth. The Plains Pocket Gopher has large fur-lined cheek pouches for carrying food and long claws on their front feet for digging. In general these gophers range from 14-36 cm long and weigh 6-11 ounces (170-305 g) with males larger than females.
Life History: The plains pocket gopher feeds on roots and underground stems of grasses and forbs. This gopher eats while it burrows and may graze on vegetation within its tunnel at night. Pocket gophers breed for 3-4 months, beginning in early spring. Males and females reach sexual maturity at 90 days and have one litter a year, or two in quick succession. The gestation period is 51 days. Young are helpless at birth and cared for until almost adult size, then ejected from the burrow. The plains pocket gopher is preyed on by other digging species, such as badgers and weasels, but it is most vulnerable at the surface where it is hunted by coyotes, skunks, cats, hawks, owls and snakes. Mortality may also be caused by hunting or poisoning by humans due to their affinity for alfalfa. These gophers live 1-2 years due to the relative protection of living in a burrow.
Habitat: The plains pocket gopher prefers open or sparsely wooded areas. These gophers live in tunnels consisting of one main tunnel hidden deep below the surface and many smaller, shallow, lateral tunnels. Because it spends its life burrowing, the gopher prefers friable sandy loam soils at least 10 cm deep. The dispersion of this species across a landscape is closely matched by its soil type preference.
Distribution: Geomys bursarius is found throughout the Great Plains, from the Missisippi River west to the Rocky Mountains and from Texas north to the US border with Canada. This species is abundant throughout the South Central Semi-Arid Prairies ecoregion.
Status: These gophers are common throughout their range. They help to aerate soils, improving drainage and incorporating plant material. However, these rodents can be damaging to agricultural crops and lawns, especially if there is a high density of gophers in the area.
University of Michigan, Animal Diversity Web
Texas Tech University, Natural Science Research Laboratory
Mammals of Kansas
South Central Semi-arid Prairies Level 3 Ecoregion Map [Figure: Houston Advanced Research Center]
The South-Central Semi-Arid Prairies ecoregion covers the eastern half of Colorado and New Mexico, nearly all of Oklahoma west of the Ozarks, and most of north and central Texas south to the Edwards Plateau. Because of the size of this ecoregion, there is considerable variation within its borders and it is easiest to describe this region in terms of six different sub-regions: Plains and Tablelands, Cross Timbers, Central Great Plains, Blackland Prairies, Edwards Plateau, and the Flint Hills.
Common wildlife found in this region are: jackrabbit, prairie vole, bobwhite, white-tailed deer, armadillo, mourning dove, magpie, Mediterranean gecko, and vulture.
Common industries are agriculture (arable crops and rangeland), hunting, and petrochemical exploration. This ecoregion has largely been impacted by conversion of prairie and woodlands to arable crops and rangeland; and more recently, for urban and industrial development.
Read more about the South Central Semi-arid Prairies by maximizing the "Ecological Subregions" box below.
Oak wilt fungal mat on oak tree in Texas [Photo: Texas Forest Service]
Oak Wilt Ceratocystis fagacearum
Description: Oak wilt is a disease caused by the fungus Ceratocystis fagacearum, which affects all species of oak trees in the United States, with some species more susceptible than others. Oak wilt can be identified by fungal mats under the bark and diseased oak leaves. The fungal mats are identified by narrow cracks in the bark of dying trees (exposed by pulling away loose bark), and an associated smell of fermentation. The diseased leaves caused by oak wilt appear to have brown or yellowish discoloration associated with the veins of the leaves, referred to as "veinal necrosis."
Life History: The fungus invades the water-conducting system of oak trees. It can be transported through the roots of trees via continuous underground networks of oak roots. The fungus is also spread by insects which carry the fungus from infected trees to healthy tree by penetrating an existing wound on the healthy tree.
Habitat: Oak wilt can exist in any oak species; however, red oaks are the most susceptible and suffer high mortality from this disease. Spanish oak, Shumard oak, and blackjack oak are also more susceptible to Oak wilt than other groups of oaks. The oak wilt fungus can spread through groups of oak trees via root grafts; in sandy soils, this mechanism has been shown to spread the disease over long distances. Oak wilt can kill red oaks within a few weeks of infection. White oaks are less susceptible to mortality from this disease, but do act as a carrier of the fungus.
Distribution: Oak wilt was identified in the 1940s and since then has spread from Massachusetts to South Carolina in the east; and as far west as Minnesota down to Central Texas.
Status: Oak wilt is one of the most aggressive and deadly tree diseases in the United States and has invaded forests of the Central Southwest, mostly in Northern Arkansas and Central Texas. Red oaks, including Spanish oak, Shumard oak and blackjack oak, are the most susceptible to this disease. The oak wilt fungus can kill red oaks within a few weeks of infection. White oak are less susceptible to mortality, but do spread the disease. Oak wilt can spread from one species of oak to another in some cases.
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Lesser Prairie-Chicken Tympanuchus pallidicinctus
Description: The lesser prairie-chicken is a medium-sized bird, about the size of a domestic chicken, approximately 13 inches (33 cm) long and 1.5 pounds (0.68 kg). It has tan colored feathers overlaid with dark brown horizontal barring, and a short, rounded tail. Adult males have a yellowish-orange comb over their eye and a circular pink air sac that is displayed during courtship rituals.
Life History: The lesser prairie chicken is polygamous with males undergoing extensive mating displays to attract females. The hens nest in spring, producing 8-14 eggs which hatch in 24-26 days. The diet of the lesser prairie chicken consists of grasshoppers, beetles, and other insects in the spring and summer, and seeds, leaves, catkins, and grains from native and cultivated crops in the winter.
Habitat: In general, the lesser prairie chicken requires short to mid-grass prairies consisting of diverse native prairie grasses, forbs, and shrubs. During nesting and brooding, the lesser prairie chicken requires tall dense grassland cover; however, short open grasslands are preferred for breeding grounds (leks). In the South-Central Semi-arid Prairies ecoregion, the lesser prairie chicken prefers sand-sagebrush and shinnery oak/bluestem communities. The home range of the Lesser Prairie Chickens is large, with up to 1267 acres required for males and 577 acres for females.
Distribution: The range ofTympanuchus pallidicinctus extends from southeast Colorado and southwest Kansas, down through the Oklahoma and Texas panhandle and over to eastern New Mexico.
Status: There are approximately 50,000 breeding lesser prairie chickens remaining in the US. The lesser prairie chicken is listed as a species of greatest conservation need in Oklahoma, Colorado and New Mexico, but is still listed as a game bird in Texas and Kansas. It has been a candidate for listing to the Federal Threatened and Endangered Species List since 1997. Conversion of habitat to croplands and over-grazing of rangelands are the primary cause for the species decline.
Bureau of Land Management
Colorado Wildlife Profile
National Audubon Society
Natural Resources Conservation Service


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Much like the carpentry maxim of "measure twice and cut once", comprehensive planning of your cloud migration will save you considerable headaches, and reduce the chance that any aspect of the process failing will cost your organization critical time or budget. As an Azure Expert MSP and VMware Showcase Partner, Navisite has the knowledge to make sure you're ready to make the jump to the cloud.
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To young ladies and girls, girly games are extremely absorbing, eye-catching and cute; Barbie And Her Friends Hidden Letters is a typical example. Don't mind hitting the Ready button to explore its lovely gameplay now!
Actually, the game is originally a Hidden Object type in which each player is required to search out letters hidden behind the colored and adorable picture. Take a gaze into the interface's top! A lot of letters need to be discovered. Therefore, to win the game requires the players' sharp observable skill. Move the supplied magnifier over the interface so as to find out all what's suggested. The image of beautiful Barbie and her beloved with the Christmas background is the impressive point here. I bet that everyone finds it very hard to take their eyes off this game.
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Kirbyjon Caldwell, the Houston pastor who presided over Jenna Bush's wedding, has made it clear his love of Republicans doesn't extend to presumptive GOP nominee John McCain.
Speaking to reporters yesterday, Caldwell let it rip, breaking out the hate just because McCain attended a biker rally in South Dakota and suggested his wife should enter the annual topless contest held there.
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Well, I don't know a lot about John McCain's family history, I do know, however, that as recently as last week I think it was, the Senator made a comment in South Dakota regarding his wife entering some Buffalo Chips contest which is this topless deal and if she were to enter she would probably win it and my personal opinion and based on my understanding of the Christian faith, that's not not, N-O-T, not the type of expression that a presidential candidate, or anyone for that matter who is a follower of the Christian faith, ought to make. I don't know if that is a perfect case in point, but it surely does help to juxtapose the DNA of Senator Obama, if you would, versus the DNA of Senator McCain.
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By Julius N. Uma
June 6, 2012 (JUBA) - The Kenyan Commercial Bank (KCB) on Wednesday unveiled a SSP 200,000 ($40,000) cheque in support of the dilapidated Juba military hospital, as part of the institution's corporate social responsibility to the community.
- SPLA Gen. Pieng Deng Majok (R) holding a cheque with Kenya Central Bank (KCB) staff at the ceremony in Juba, Central Equatoria State, South Sudan 6 June 2012 (Julius N. Uma/ST)
The event, held at the military hospital premises in Juba, the South Sudan capital, kicked off with a tour of the visibly under-funded health facility, which was run jointly by Khartoum and Juba during the interim period of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement until South Sudan seceded in July last year.
While speaking at the occasion, John Kimanthi, KCB Sudan managing director lauded the relationship between East Africa's largest commercial bank and South Sudan, which he said commenced before signing of Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005.
The CPA ended over two decades of a bloody civil war fought between southern rebels and Sudanese government and gave South Sudan greater autonomy for a six-year period, followed by the right to independence through a referendum, which took place last year.
Kimanthi said that his bank began full operations in South Sudan in May 2006, when Southern Sudan was a semi-autonomous region of Sudan, after obtaining official license from the Central Bank in Khartoum. The fist two branches were in Juba and Rumbek, the provincial capital of Lakes State.
Currently, KCB has 19 branches spread all over the 10 states of the world's newest nation, employing over nearly 330 staff, and 80% of which are South Sudanese nationals.
"It has not been an easy walk," Kimanthi told Sudan Tribune, while applauding the "strong commitment and persistence" from KCB staff at all levels.
"Our future plan and vision is geared towards becoming the preferred financial solutions provider in Africa, with a global reach," he added.
- John Kimanthi, Kenyan Central Bank (KCB) Sudan Limited Managing Director during an interview with Sudan Tribune, June 6, 2012 (Julius N. Uma/ST)
Susan Omanga, the chairperson KCB Foundation underscored the fundamental roles played by a fund initiative, especially in supporting communities in the areas such as education, health, humanitarian need response, and environment as well enterprise development.
In the education sector, for instance, KCB has supported South Sudanese students through scholarships, constructed schools and provided school facilities, including reading materials.
"As a bank, we strongly believe that an educated society is an empowered society," she said amidst applause.
On the environment, KCB has reportedly planted 31,000 trees throughout South Sudan, while the donation to the hospital is meant to support the health ministry in its efforts to improve service delivery in the country.
Peter Muthoka, the outgoing KCB board chairman emphasised the importance of strong partnership with countries where the bank currently operates. To-date, he said KCB boasts of 223 branches spread throughout Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and South Sudan.
He pledged the banks continued commitment towards supporting South Sudanese, saying the country will make an immense contribution to the East African Community (EAC) once it becomes a member.
"KCB is here to stay with the people of South Sudan," noted Muthoka, adding KCB is committed to helping South Sudan, where it reportedly controls 42% of the banking industry, achieve its economic independence.
Meanwhile, Gen. Pieng Deng Majok, the deputy chief of general staff in-charge of administration thanked KCB for its generous contribution to the health facility, pledging continued cooperation between the army and the financial institution.


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At the entry level we have CompositeLab and EffectsLab (and their Lites Counterparts) which as their names imply, cover compositing and effects. At $149.00 each ($109.00 for the lites versions) these programs offer easy compositing, the ability to use greenscreen effects, muzzle flashes, light swords and all manner of optical effects without having to get a degree in special effects first. The third offering is VisionLab Studio ($374.99) which combines both the Effectslab and CompositeLab along with a full commercial use license, advanced digital color grading and many enhanced filters and an excellent particle engine.
Another nice feature is that their website (http://www.fxhome.com) has free video tutorials that you can use to get yourself up to speed (we all know that absolutely NO ONE reads the manual right?) the tutorials can be downloaded so that you can review them at your convenience.
There have been many programs out there over the years that claimed to deliver professional grade effects and compositing tools. Most of them have fallen short in one way or another. After bashing the Fxhome programs for several months, I can tell you that these will be here for a long time. The programs are well crafted, easy to understand, simple to use and capable of the most sophisticated work you could imagine. All without having to mortgage your home to own them.
Some of you may remember the company's first product, a program called ALAM DV an affordable rotoscoping utility which was the brainchild of a couple of young fellows from the University of East Anglia who created possible the best muzzle flash creator around. That program developed somewhat of a cult following, especially with the Indy Filmmaking crowd. Eventually, they were noticed by Apple Computer who invited them to become one of the initial developers of iMovie Plug-ins. Well, they didn't rest on their laurels, they instead, plowed ahead and refined the program, added features, tweaked settings and developed an exceptional interface that matured into these programs we're discussing today.
In regard to Plug-ins, you have to go to their support site to see how well their community works. Users of the product themselves develop and then post plug-ins that work with the packages. You can choose from literally hundreds of different looks, particle effects, optics, grading and more and download them directly into your project. While some of the plug-ins are elementary (remember, users themselves upload them so there will be varying levels of sophistication) if you take some time to work through the offerings, you will find some extremely high quality plug-ins that aren't available anywhere else. All of the plug-ins (what the Fxhome folks call Fxpresets) are compatible with all versions of the software so you can almost immediately, increase your capabilities with even the least expensive package. A word of warning here; be judicious in choosing your presets. If you download all of them, it will take a bit of time to open the program (yes, I downloaded every single one of them!)
I initially had some questions about different functionalities and found that my questions were answered very quickly. (Remember, NO one reads the manual right?) I was also impressed with the way that they continue to improve the product making upgrades and updates available via their website. They may be a small company, but they offer big customer service. When you start the program it looks to see if there is a newer version available. If so, it allows you the option of downloading that version and updating.
Figure A. On startup, the program looks for newer versions.
You can work with any of the following formats, D1/DV PAL, D1/DV NTSC in standard and widescreen as well as HDV format so your projects will match precisely with the footage that you're dealing with.
Once you get up and running, you're presented with an exceptionally nice workspace. The layout is intuitive and easy to navigate. All the presets and adjustments are available on the left side of the screen and once you have applied a preset to the comp, you can adjust many different parameters to suit your vision. If you need a preset that isn't currently in your arsenal, you can simply click on the preset button and be taken directly to the FXhome website where you can scan for that preset that you want. The entire interface is well thought out and cleverly implemented. I was very impressed with the amount of thought and effort that went into creating the program.
Figure C. The workspace is well laid out and easy to navigate. The Timeline and Keyframes are easy to work with and easy to understand.
Nicest of all is the affordability of each of the packages. If you do any compositing work at all, you can get into this package for a minimal amount of money. Certainly far less than some of the "mainstream" compositing / particle packages charge for similar functionality. Refer to the chart below to see exactly which package suits you and your workflow the best and then drop in on them at www.fxhome.com.
With everyone clamoring for that "Film Look" just the Grading presets alone would justify investing in this program. Every effect is infinitely adjustable so that you can either use them "as is" or tailor them to your own style or taste. You can save a custom preset for recall at a later date. The particle engine can also be tailored to your specific needs.
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You can easily see that even the least expensive package still provides a great deal of features and usability. I'm giving the whole group a 4 1/2 Cows because I know that they are continually improving the package. Add an extra 1/2 Cow if customer service means anything to you!
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An Evening with John Flanner MBE Inspires Over 120 Guests
'An Evening with John Flanner MBE' Inspires Over 120 Guests.
Over 120 guests were recently inspired at 'An Evening with John Flanner MBE', after John encouraged them to begin to celebrate life, enjoy work, and try to create a more positive atmosphere and environment in the workplace.
The evening was organised to celebrate the launch of John's latest book, 'Bitzaro to Buckingham', and an up-dated version of 'Fear, Fun and Faith', as well as celebrating his award of an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2014.
One of the guests who attended the event, Anne Lowe, said:
"It's a real honour and privilege to know John. He's such an inspiration, so motivational, an amazing man. Such a great example of how we can overcome adversity and difficult trials and situations. He's such an overcomer when he could easily have been overcome by what he's gone through. But he is amazing and it's a real honour to just know him and his wife Sylvia…The great impact he is having is really inspiring people and encouraging people to follow their dreams and to reach their goals. John you are fantastic."
Mariann McKay, another guest, said:
"Coming here tonight was absolutely inspirational. You've really made me realise you can achieve anything that you put your mind to. I go away tonight feeling all inspired like you said and I've learned a lot…I hope to hear more about you soon."
Guest Christine Seaton added:
"We've thoroughly enjoyed your motivational talk yet again…But what I really want to say to you is motivation and encouragement is who you are."
Commenting on the reason behind setting up his motivational speaking business, John Flanner MBE said:
"I started my business as a motivational speaker because I want to see people in the workplace beginning to enjoy their life and enjoy their work. I've discovered over the years that many people in the UK are actually living what somebody said is a Monday to Friday death, and I find that quite a horrifying thought.
"We spend so much of our time away from our families and with our work colleagues and so it strikes me that the best thing we can do is actually enjoy the time we are there. I realise that's not always possible with targets and other pressures, but actually I think we should strive to be more cheerful, smile, to be positive, to be encouraging with our teams, to be generous with our words, to try and create a more positive atmosphere and environment in the workplace - so that is my passion.
"What excites me about setting up my business is that it gives me an opportunity to go out and make a difference in other peoples' lives. I can do that by bringing some of my story into the workplace, letting people know that I have been able to overcome setbacks as a person who is disabled and totally blind, and also having a hearing impairment. It's still possible to enjoy life, to smile, and to be really positive so I want to impart some of that to the audience and help people to begin to celebrate life, enjoy work, enjoy family, and enjoy everyday that they live on this planet.
"Encouragement is very powerful and I think the word encouragement should actually be spelled with an 'in' instead of an 'en' at the beginning, because when we take time to encourage people we actually given them courage. We put courage into them to give them the necessary get up and go to begin to step out and fulfil their dreams. That's what I've done in becoming an author well into my 60s, and now becoming an inspirational speaker at a time when most people are retiring and putting their feet up. I'm not retiring but I'm re-firing!"
Summing up 'An Evening with John Flanner MBE', guest David Seaton said:
"It's been a wonderful night. You are very inspirational. You've had many barriers in your life but it's made you stronger…When you're down and feeling blue, a dose of John Flanner is good for you!"


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Eskom applies for R66-billion revenue claw-back
Eskom on Monday made representations to the National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) in its application to get back R66.6-billion in revenue for the past three financial years.
Eskom applied to Nersa for a regulatory clearing account (RCA) to recover the money it had spent above the multi-year price determination estimates made by Nersa.
The RCA mechanism is a balancing mechanism between what was awarded by Nersa on the basis of a forecast and what actually materialised. The under or over-recovery is then catered for through electricity tariffs in subsequent years.
Nersa began its public hearings into Eskom's application in terms of the RCA balance for 2014/2015' 2015/2016 and the 2016/2017 period of the third multi-year price determination' totalling R66.6 billion.
The hearings will take place across the country until May 11 2018. The power utility said lower electricity sales contributed R44-billion of the three regulatory clearing accounts submitted.
Eskom also said the three RCAs were not a response to a price increase of 5.23% awarded to Eskom by Nersa for the 2018/2019 financial year.
Eskom's acting chief financial officer Calib Cassim said the RCAs under review aimed to recover efficient and prudent costs incurred from previous financial years.


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Congratulations go out to THE DECEMBERISTS
Just finished reading about THE DECEMBERISTS signing to Capitol Records! If you've been on FUTURE SOUNDS for awhile, you know how much I love this band. Kill Rock Stars has done an amazing job with this band. Nice work Dawn!
If you don't already have their music, I strongly suggest you pick up their discs.
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2002 Castaways and Cutouts
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I'm so excited to be back here in the Saturday Spankings blog hop and I'm sharing a few sentences from my new release Daddy Takes Command!
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This particular except is part of a spanking with all three girls at once - Bianca, Jen and Sarah.
The spanker is Cody Lewis, with Nick (the sexy cowboy on the cover) looking on.
How bad was this going to be, exactly? Surely it wouldn't be any harsher than anything Nick had already dished out to her? As slowly as she dared, Sarah slid her jeans and underwear down to mid-thigh.
Crack! The loud splat of flesh on flesh as Cody slapped Bianca's ass made Sarah jump. Beside her, Bianca yelped. Before she had a chance to process what was happening, Cody's palm landed across the fullest part of her bottom, imparting a fiery sting. She bit her lip to keep from crying out.
She now understood Jen and Bianca's trepidation: Cody spanked hard. Very hard. Just that one smack was testament to the hard, paddle-like texture of his hand, and the amount of strength he was able to put behind it, seemingly without any effort at all. This was going to be bad.


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Year of the Snake
My goodness it's been awhile. I've been so busy writing for others that as per usual I've neglected my own personal blog…and…I'm also fairly certain this preamble has graced the opening lines of pretty much every post I've ever written, but what can I say? I'm commitment-phobic.
So, as some of you may or may not know…I'm a bit of an astrology nerd. I won't say I'm super-knowledgeable about it because I'm totally too lazy for that and it can get rather complicated what with trines and conjuncts and all that other stuff BUT I do know this is the Year of the Snake according to Chinese lore and my, can I tell you, it's been spitting plenty of venom thus far! Even still, viper up-chuck and all, I've learned plenty about how I handle conflict and, as one of my film profs pointed out, when faced with conflict true character gets a chance to shine. Or, in my case…explode.
I feel like everything that had to happen up 'til now in my life has and for a good reason, as cliché and "un-proveable" as it is. My journey's never been easy, I don't think anyone's is, but even when things seem bleaker than black and you feel like you're just the WORST person alive…you've got to keep believing in something. Believing that you feel that way in order to identify patterns that have led you there and neutralize them, so that in the future, the path you walk down is a lot less jagged. And also believing in the good you're doing for others, though neither of you may see it that way at the time. Granted, if I'm honest I must admit others' feelings were the least of my worries during times of conflict (the whole self-preservation thing, I guess), but in retrospect, I'm sure every single interaction, exchange, glance even…just…rippled. And who knows how many different windows and doors were slammed open by all that. As my friend Anna told me, "The problem isn't that there are problems in life…the problem is thinking there shouldn't be any." Once you stop expecting life to owe you some modicum of "the ideal," you can instead focus on building it within your own life from the dust and rubble of past mis-steps (or what you perceive to be mis-steps, anyway).
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Raising Strong and Confident Daughters1.06.2016
|i am so in love with these beautiful pics by luminosity photos!
|oh how i love this mini me of mine!
as a mom, i always feel a huge responsibility when it comes to raising my children. especially my daughter, emi. i'm not quite sure why, but i think it has a lot to do with the fact that we are both girls and that, like me, she has the potential to one day become a mom. and since kids learn by example, i know emi will be watching my every move. constantly taking mental note of all the things i do/don't do and say/don't say. storing it all up for a personal guideline that she can use as she continues to grow.
the thought of all this seriously freaks me out because i know there are countless ways for me to screw everything up when it comes to raising strong and confident daughters. but i also know there are countless ways for me do it right. so i always try to focus on that side of the spectrum instead for the sake of my own sanity. haha!
|these liv and hope shirts went perfectly with what we each wanted to share.
|snuggling on this blue salvage blanket with our girls was my favorite part of the photo session!
lucky for me, i'm not the only mom out there who constantly thinks about this particular topic. so i decided to team up with Amy Twitty of Liv and Hope, Sarah Tyau of Our Life is Beautiful, and Sandy Chang of Sandy a la Mode and collectively share how we are all raising strong and confident daughters. so once you are done here, make sure you stop by these incredible women's websites also because we will each be sharing something different!
so let's get down to it shall we? haha!
when it comes to how i want to go about
raising strong and confident daughters
|emi couldn't look any cuter in this darling hum stitchery dress!
if you follow me in instagram, then you already know that this is something i've been talking about quite a bit. but only because it is so important to me.
in today's world, there are millions of ways for us girls to loose focus on what's most important in life. i can't tell you how many times i have got sucked into thinking things like...
"if i were prettier, i could be __________."
"if had more money, i could do ____________."
"if i were more popular, people would think ____________."
silly, i know. but it's so true! something that i think is still the norm for so many girls out there!
so for emi, instead of her learning to focus only on her outer beauty, wealth, and fame status i want to her learn the importance of focusing on her inner beauty, work ethic, and ability to love others for who they are. because, when you focus on the things that really count in life, you become beautiful inside and out, rich beyond belief in matters of the heart, and loved in a way that others only ever dream of.
and as a mom, that is all i could ever want for my beautiful daughter.
in case you missed it...
photos: luminosity photos
shirts-liv and hope
dresses- hum stitchery
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Arab Spring ??? this world didn't change at all !!!!
it makes me feel soooooooooooo sad and revolted !!!!
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BackgroundAlinta Energy began using PDM in July 2015, as a way of improving and standardising their sales cycles. Alinta Energy specialise in delivering energy solutions to a range of large industries, including manufacturing, mining, government and commercial buildings. They also have small to medium clients that are bars, bank branches, small manufacturing and government (schools, public lighting and offices).
Alinta Energy's various C&I sales team use unique and varied pricing models to quote, and therefore required a flexible and robust platform to calculate complex algorithms that relied on their business process and systems.
These algorithms include a multitude of pricing variations, historical and forward calculations, workflow design, contract formats and pricing reporting to help their sales team effectively manage their sales processes.
Goals and ChallengesThe following goals and challenges were presented by Alinta Energy's various C&I teams. They needed PDM to:
- Adapt to Alinta Energy's approach to various C&I markets
- Implement pricing that was easy to use for sales staff as dictated by pricing personnel
- Distinct pricing methodology focusing less on base rate and more on complex calculations for additional premiums relevant to the specific market
- Replicate existing documentation, such as offers and contracts, in an automated manner
- Dual handling of SME business sales and C&I markets
- Handle procedural workflows for seamless automation
- Complex interactive price page detailing breakdown of costs
- Add Gas to PDM for WC
- Allow multiple output formats
SolutionAlinta Energy have a distinct advantage in the marketplace via a dedicated online platform that seamlessly manages the sales process from the prospect stage, through to completed acquisition for the various teams and respective markets.
Enabling energy retailers and brokers to manage the full sales cycle of Commercial and Industrial customers.


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The Evil Bug is a small bug that was created from Timmy's wish to get rid of Vicky the Babysitter's evil personality.
This creature was first introduced in "Vicky Loses Her Icky" after Timmy Turner wished that Vicky would be nicer. After the wish, her evil left her body as a bug that lived on her butt.
Its appearance is a black beetle with red eyes, large pincers and a white skull on its abdomen. Using its pinches, it can attach itself to the buttocks of any person it chooses, causing them to become evil. If the bug is removed from the current host it is in, it will search for a new host.
After Timmy wished for Vicky to be a nice person, her evil left her body in the form of a bug (possibly a tick or a beetle) that had crawled up her butt. The bug sought out other hosts as it needs to find a new host to reside in. The bug sought out Mr. Turner, Principal Waxelplax, and finally, The President of the United States as hosts; but was stopped when Vicky lept in front of the President and the bug went back up her skirt and onto her butt.
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Inspiring gifts for true heroes
Give credit where credit is due: to celebrate the fathers of this world, Victorinox has put together the perfect gift list, especially for Father's Day 2019. Because we know how to captivate and delight fathers. Whether he's an adventurer, urban nomad, globetrotter or gourmet – they all love unique gifts that combine exclusive design and maximum functionality. No matter who you are giving the gift of happiness to, we have suggestions for every character. How will I ever find a gift? Relax – our Father's Day gift suggestions will provide the inspiration you need!
Items with mass appeal are not his thing, his style is sporty and progressive, and he has a soft spot for exclusive design with smart details. Our ideas for Father's Day check all the boxes: The I.N.O.X. Titanium Professional Diver, a diving watch with an extremely lightweight hypoallergenic case, a hand-woven paracord strap, and water resistance to 200 meters, as well as the Fisherman pocket knife with 17 functions, including scissors, a fish scaler, and a hook disgorger – both ensure that this man is perfectly equipped for survival in the urban jungle.
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He loves the simple and the straightforward, minimalism is his motto, and his possessions all feature maximum utility and a long shelf-life. Our recommendations for Father's Day: a Victorinox Barbecue Fork with an extendable stainless steel fork and a wooden handle, or the Swiss Tomato and Table Knife with an ergonomic polypropylene handle and an ultra-sharp wavy-edge blade that cuts fruit and vegetables with maximum precision. Both have a character fully in tune with the life plan of modern urban dwellers: simplicity.
The world is his oyster, his life resonates with sophisticated understatement, and his mantra is intelligent design with a meticulous focus on the details. Our Father's Day suggestions, with a clear focus on the details: the Altmont Active Lightweight Backpack with compression-molded back padding, an air circulation system, and adjustable chest and shoulder straps; the Altius Edge Appolonios Wallet with RFID protective lining and mini, micro, and standard SD card slots; and the Alliance men's watch featuring an elegant stainless steel bracelet and a quality movement for absolute precision. All represent a timeless and beautiful expression of the globetrotter's aspirations.
He is a quintessential connoisseur, the kitchen is his studio, and his passion comes to life through his tools. Our surprise Father's Day gifts are pleasing to the eye and feel good too: the elegantly shaped Allrounder Cutting Board, which is exclusively made by Epicurean using sustainable, blade-friendly wood fiber, and the Victorinox Wine Master, featuring olive wood scales, an extra-long corkscrew, a foil cutter, and a bottle opener, are a perfect fit for this creative kitchen artist.
The gentlemen of this world have Sonora Louise Smart Dodd to thank for that, an American who first celebrated this day back in 1910 to give thanks to her dearly beloved dad. The custom has since become widespread and is now celebrated in a variety of countries with very different rituals. In Switzerland, Father's Day falls on the first Sunday in June every year. In 2019 it will be on Sunday, June 2. The purpose of Father's Day is essentially to create an equivalent to Mother's Day and to honor fathers and celebrate fatherhood. So in this spirit – here's to happy fathers everywhere and to a successful Father's Day with Victorinox!
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Step 1In a medium bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise, garlic, mustard, lemon juice, cider vinegar and oil. Season with salt and pepper to taste. This makes a generous 11/2 cups dressing, which will keep, covered and refrigerated, up to 5 days.
Step 1In a large bowl, combine the kale, carrots, cabbage and fennel. Add 1 cup dressing, tossing to coat; add additional dressing, a little at a time, to coat the salad as desired. Taste and season with one-eighth teaspoon salt and pepper, or as desired. Toss with the walnuts before serving.


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Einsiedeln Abbey, Switzerland
A square within the square
Architecture: Romero & Schaefle
Partner title: Traffic planning
Partner: TEAMverkehr
Period: 2009 – 2011
Surface area: 3 800m2
Being the second biggest and important sacral square in Europe right after Saint Peter's Square in Rome, the space in front of famous Einsiedeln Abbey has been and is still a meeting point for pilgrims from the entire world. Since its construction 270 years ago it has gone through many changes, which have taken away much of its former spatial quality and atmosphere. The planned redesign does not only refer to the square itself. It is expected to find consistent, sustainable design solutions also for the adjacent free spaces: Weisswingarden, the abbey courtyard and the traffic- and parking areas.
The concept refers to the existing typologies, square, courtyard and park, and the high quality of the original baroque design. On this basis the concept develops spaces differing in their atmosphere depending on their meaning and functionality and defines their boundaries anew.
The redesign emphasizes the importance of the square in front of the abbey as a representative, central meeting point with a simple but effective intervention:
A step underneath the Lady Fountain optically completes the oval which is implied by the Arcades in front of the abbey. This way the step and the arcades create a "square within the square". Like an inlay it is set into the major paving of the entire space connecting the abbey with the town of Einsiedeln.
Being situated between the abbey on its elevated plain, the town underneath it and the adjacent cultivated landscape, the "square within the square" has an interesting topography. By adding a second flight of steps to the existing stairs the gradient of the square is reduced. The pavement pattern defines and accentuates the shape of the terrain.
The repositioning of the street and the parking lots supports the square's generous and quiet atmosphere. The opening of Weisswindgarden provides views into the surrounding landscape. Placed between park and Square, the architectural elements define the spaces and emphasize the characteristic atmosphere of the different elements within the perimeter.


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Chris, thank you so much for that. The last big paragraph should be engraved in stone.
Next time you "don't read" something, that blog entry is a prime candidate.
Just sayin'.
By the way, a friend of mine has a GPS device that his older brother sent him for xmas a few years ago, and now he wants a newer one. Then again, he wants an iPod Nano thingie, too. Which would be the better gift for this season? _________________"If you allow yourself to be offended, then you're a bit of [a] nitwit."
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i ordered one....it got lost in the mail._________________~ TCB ~
wow man, you are on a blog tear. I can't keep up.
I haven't read the Tin Man one because I haven't watched Tin Man yet, and and I'm wondering if I should. Should I?
And I laughed every time you imitated people getting on you for not writing your book. This is what I predict .... Your book will get done.
Finally, I accidentally walked into a Muslim neighborhood in London in 2003. ONE of THE scariest mistakes I've made. I was the only woman on the streets. and I was LO-OST! Sadly, GPS's only confuse me more.
I now have Frankie Goes To Hollywood stuck in my head. Gonna hit me (hit me) Hit me with those laser beams ... now now now ... Relax, don't do it._________________My Book
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It puts your books in the shade._________________Your religion, you miserable man, begins in your stomach and ends in a lavatory - Nodar Dumbadze
Oh darn, if only that Star Wars program actually worked... /sarcasm
You are on a roll, Chris! Mmm... dinner rolls._________________"Quack, damn you." - Mythbusters
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Slowly returning from the hell pit that is college. I hope. D:
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One method of hair analysis is a trichogram. This is a semi-intrusive procedure that involves removing approximately 50 hairs by their roots and analysing them under a microscope. This enables hair specialists to determine the approximate percentage of hair that is in the various lifecycle stages. Roughly ten percent should be in the resting phase, a higher percentage may indicate a hair loss problem.
In some instances, the specialist may perform a unit area trichogram. During this analysis, hairs are typically plucked from a defined area of the scalp, rather than from random areas. The purpose is to determine scalp coverage or hair density, in addition to the rate of hair loss. Hair strands may also be measured for thickness. However, before the exact health of the hair can be determined, a trichogram must be repeated several times to gain a clear picture of the pattern of hair thinning or hair loss.
If you are going to get a trichogram, it's important not to wash your hair for at least three to four days prior to the analysis. This is because washing can remove telogen hairs from your scalp and thus provide an inaccurate indication of hair health. Also, cosmetic hair treatments should be avoided for at least eight weeks prior to the analysis. Straightening hair, curling hair, or using hair dyes can cause damage and result in breakage that will interfere with the test.


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when i reviewed the dell executive bluetooth keyboard there were only drivers for windows mobile devices and a beta for symbian series 60 devices. think outside (maker of the dell-branded keyboard) has now released palm drivers for these keyboards. visit the think outside support site and select your device model to find the driver to download. there are drivers for the palmone treo 650, tungsten t2, tungsten t3, and tungsten t5. i haven't tested it with a zodiac or sony cli� with integrated bluetooth, so i don't know if it will work on these devices. it does work quite well on my tungsten t3, but i haven't yet gotten all the fn keys working and will have to check out the full pdf manual for more details on these settings. thanks to brighthand for the news.
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|yeaaaaayyyyyy (7:07pm est mon jan 17 2005)
i had asked for a dell axim for christmas but my non tech saavy parents got me a palm t5 instead. i ended up liking it and keeping it but was bummed about not being able to use a bluetooth keyboard. now i'm set. – by grendel
|hp bluetooth keyboard and treo 650 (4:41pm est wed feb 16 2005)
does anybody know if there is a palm driver for treo 650 for using the hp bluetooth keyboard?
thanks – by nagesh


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Time to Change
Time to Change is led by the charities Mind and Rethink Mental Illness, and is England's biggest campaign to end the discrimination and stigma of mental illness. It's co-funded by Comic Relief, the Department of Health and the Big Lottery Fund.
Comic Relief has also supported partner campaigns in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Since it began, the campaign has led more than 3.4 million people, across the UK, having improved attitudes towards mental health. It has also helped people to talk more openly about their mental health problems and seek help.


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Story with a Gallinule's Wing in It
by Seth Clabough Read author interview March 6, 2017
for Margriet
The sea was also in the story, just beyond dark playa trees like ironworks, the umbels of a wild carrot. This was December, near the village of Santa Teresa.
There was a girl, too, not a character but an actual person, who really did say, "I want to be lost in the heat stink of jungle and surf, to raise the sea as my child, to have it break my heart."
She had a good shot. This was the Pacific after all, which everyone knows is far more beautiful and soulless than the Atlantic, especially on the remote Peninsula de Nicoya with its lush, wet, fragrances, its pondering of stray dogs, sunbathers and double overhead barrels.
In the hills above Mal Pais, the drug dealers and thieves, dusty offshoots steep and climbing, and a thin dark figure squatting shoeless with a cigarette, two hens on his tin roof ragged in molt. I saw it when I lived there, when I drank Guaro and took ecstasy behind the toilets with a Russian folksinger, when I went deaf from surfer's ear and sniffed out the dailiness of the place with its dealers, Imperials, casados, bandits on the road to Liberia, the thin man with his sad-state chickens.
I saw the girl, too, watched her point the nose of her board away from everything, sweep out over the ugliness and beauty, the foreign tongues, lean bodies and Mayan calendars, paddle through stray dogs, old lovers, a cratered, dust-choked road.
I can't write a story with surfing in it, so I'll offer up the rosettes in the palms of Costa Rican children, how the amnesia of far away makes old expectations gridless, and how the girl catches, if not a wave, then the swell of the whole coast—the dealers and bathers, but also the rattle of an old washing machine, a sick dog yelping from the ditch, the soft cluck of a hen, the rainy season still five months away.
I suppose the crest lifts her—above a baseline, a deep cut—that she drops in at the shoulder, staying in the pocket, shredding a remote place as it all settles open and heavy, an iron weight sinking like a sun into water, into a sea which may or may not be the color of a Gallinule's wing.
This would be the place to end except that on the beach, under almendros, the locals refuse to leave. They lean on their rusted quads, pass joints with fingers scented of cocaine and mangos, and anyway I'm thinking of the two gunman from Nicaragua who shot the old expat. How one was fourteen, the other missing his hand, how the old man died under his bed with a photo of his granddaughters and a shoebox full of maps, charts, legends, pathways to home or riches or god, though god is a problem of astrophysics.
We write what we write, see what we see in swirls of tabletop dust. Because roadside tarps keep hanging regardless, moving gently as howler monkeys move through the ceibo tops, iguanas forage the compost heaps, as a phone rings, as Aldo, drunk again, heads out on his quad for the fish taco stand.
And anyway it might be true that foreigners will walk the public access of comedy and grief, that miles and years away strangers approach or will set out from slate-colored cities, but so what?
It's far less interesting than the actual girl at Pranamar who fell in love with the sea when it was but a murky puddle. She really did end up raising it. She took it in, gave it clothes, taught it to speak four languages and sent it off to school with a new backpack and a ham sandwich.
It grew. Obviously.
It swelled until its clothes burst and it spilled from the windows of the school, until it rolled away from her in all directions, until it lived against many continents at once and no longer remembered the girl at all. But she came to touch it anyway. She put her whole body in it. She floated and rode her board so that she might know it by its waves.
All of this is true, more or less—the folksinger and drugs, the howler monkeys and bandits. And there really was a girl who cried because the sea didn't know her. I think she loved it more because of that.
About the Author:
Seth Clabough is the author of the novel All Things Await, and his work appears in places like Blackbird, Litro Magazine, New Writing, Barely South, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Women's Studies, Aesthetica Magazine and numerous other publications. His writing has been selected for Ploughshares' "Best Short Story of the Week" column and been nominated for the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction, Best of the Net, the Luminaire Award for Best Prose, the Million Writer Award and the Queen's Ferry Press Award. He teaches at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia.
About the Artist:
Margriet Zwart is a surfer, painter, and world traveler who makes her home--along with her daughter, Zaia--on Costa Rica's Nicoyan Peninsula. She owns the popular Zwart Cafe and Art Studio in the village of Santa Teresa, and, when not out surfing, can often be found there chatting with visitors and creating her art. Margriet speaks four languages, has a degree in fine arts from institutions in Toronto and Vancouver, and has had her work featured in shows in the United States, Central America, Europe and elsewhere.
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Marcel Broodthaers' films mostly deal with relations between images and words, which is unsurprising given that he was a poet first who turned to film because he came to understand the medium as an extension of language. In their combination, he sought harmony between poetry, visual art and cinema. It is this lineage of artistic activity inaugurated by Broodthaers in the postwar period that the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, seeks to trace to its postmodern flowering in the 1990s through to the present.
An example of Broodthaers' conflating medium of cinematic poems can be found in "A Film Made by Charles Baudelaire" (1970), which depicts a fictitious cinematic sea voyage that is somehow authored by the 19th-century French poet. Baudelaire is being sent on the trip by his parents, who hope it will cure him of his deviant lifestyle.
Composed of stills and without sound, maps indicate Baudelaire's itinerary, while time captions run chronologically from Jan. 3 to Dec. 17, 1850, after which the screen turns black, and time halts before it begins reversing. Sinister textual suggestions are also displayed — "famine," "mystery," "knife," "cook." Such diverse details are inimical to clear understanding, though the visual and verbal playfulness consummates Broodthaers' concern for a multilayered structure of words, images and meanings.
A dozen younger artists follow suit in "Reading Cinema, Finding Words: Art after Marcel Broodthaers," including Cindy Sherman, Ana Torfs, Anri Sala and Dayanita Singh, who takes exquisite photographs of record-keeping bureaus inundated with written materials that threaten to overflow.
Among the best works is Akram Zaatari's "Tomorrow Everything Will be Alright" (2010). The film concerns a conversation between two former male lovers who have been separated 10 years. They want to reacquaint, and so their twitter, Facebook and Skype dialog anachronistically appears on a page set in a 1980s typewriter. The conversation takes place in seeming real time, often in short, direct sentences with contemporary quirks such as smiley face emoticons. Curt displays of lust ensue: "Do you have a hard-on?" Textual cues also intersperse the dialog — when "telephone rings" is typed on the paper, the telephone indeed rings. The whole piece is structured like a scripted online chat. Given the narrative must be read, Zaatari's film returns the centrality of the written script to cinema, giving it the same importance that it once had for theater.
Where things take a turn for the worse is in the video work of the local contingent, of which there are two. Miwa Yanagi's "Gloria and Leon" (2004) has girls dressed in school uniforms acting out scenes from Luc Besson's film "Leon: The Professional" and John Cassavetes' "Gloria" in minimally reduced stage sets. The films impressed Yanagi in her youth and Gloria, Yanagi says, is "tough, cool and kind." Her penchant for female leads was triggered by her interest in Japan's Takarazuka Revue, an all-female musical theater troupe, though Yanagi's actors are amateur, their dialog and actions often awkward and oddly un-dramatic. Attempting to artfully theatricalize drama and action films, only to capture the results on film anyway has not ended up particularly compelling, and it reminds that Yanagi's best work to date remains her earlier photography.
Koki Tanaka was this year's representative at the Venice Biennale, though his oeuvre to date is decidedly uneven. "Take an Orange and Throw it Away Without Thinking Too Much" (2006) has the artist and his friends do exactly that and no more. "Showing Objects to a Dog" (2010) has Tanaka making small structures from boxes, polystyrene cups, string and wood. The dog mostly wags its tail and finds the constructions uninteresting, though it pulls a few of them around a lawn. These works are dull and intellectually go nowhere.
Tanaka's work, however, can sometimes almost appear intriguing. His "A Poem Written by 5 Poets at Once (first attempt)" (2013) has the poets sitting around a table, each writing individual impressions of the theme "sharing an event." The poetry is occasionally weak, and in minimal quotation gives cause to cringe — "like a kid crying over a tomato that peels in hot water," "chocolate never lies" and other descriptions of vacuity. The five writers are try to get along and there is almost no disagreement among them, though one might expect that the younger (three of them) generally defer to the older.
Poetry is conceived as a collective responsibility, and the individual authorial voice is subsumed within the harmonizing of the generations as well as the authority of the group. No individual stands up for the authority of his or her own personal voice.
Collectivity requires compromise and mutual respect, and while the poetic process is ostensibly "constructive," the final results can almost seem akin to an artistic form of a governmental "white paper," with the individual authors diminished within a group in which no one person can be entirely responsible for the final version. Could this really be a model for art practice?
"Reading Cinema, Finding Words: Art after Marcel Broodthaers" at The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, runs till Oct 27; 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. (Fri. till 8 p.m.); ¥850. Closed Mon. www.momak.go.jp


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Canadian electronic musician Caribou had a banner year in 2014. Sure his 2007 album Andorra won the 2008 Polaris Music Prize, but his latest record Our Love is already getting even bigger buzz. We have to say that it really was one of our favourite albums from last year.
While others slot him under EDM, he does not, making it a complicated relationship. When he came though Much, we had to get to the bottom of what he called the "EDM Barf-plosion".
"For me the fascinating thing about the whole EDM thing in America in the past few years is not so much the music which sounds just to me like a more amped up version of kind of trance music or trap music or whatever or some hybrid of those things," he said. "The way that big money, corporate money piled into this thing that they perceived as a kind of get rich quick opportunity. It was that that really turned me off."
Although he does use electronic instruments to make his music, he doesn't think of his music in terms of EDM at all.
"For me it doesn't really fit in with… EDM has a very strict template of what the music sounds like," he said. "I'm always interested in people that haven't heard my music before hearing it and if it is a way that introduces people to a different kind of electronic music and provides a way for them to get into something a little different from what the mainstream EDM phenomenon is then that's fine with me."
Check out more from the interview including his memories from being on the road with Radiohead and what it was like to make his album on his own terms.
Caribou's tour continues this year with dates in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton and Calgary. Listen to his single, "Our Love" below.
For more celeb interviews and the newest videos, check out the Much Countdown Saturdays at 6E/3P.


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Yesterday started out as a really nice day. I was up early felt great and spent the day at my sisters. Unfortunately I forgot to have my just potty trained two year old go to the bathroom before our hour drive home. I'm sure you know what is coming next. It went from her peeing in the car seat to peeing on the bathroom floor and then while I was cleaning up the mess I put her in her crib. What did she do? She peed in her crib!
It just went downhill from there. My five year old's fish died and she was so upset because she got it at her 4th Birthday party almost 2 years ago. Then my dog ran into the gate as I opened it and caught my food underneath. Leaving me with a sore foot and a nice little bruise. Oh yeah, It gets worse. My 2 pound puppy somehow got one of her back claws caught in between the metal ring hanging from her collar. It took me about 1o minutes to get it out. She was in horrible pain and I just wanted to cry.
I then had about 10 minutes to feed my kids spaghetti for dinner before going to a friends house and watching her kids. My girls of course didn't like it and wouldn't touch it. I gave them peanut butter sandwiches and made them eat in the car on the way.
At this point I was ready to have a nervous breakdown. How can all of these things happen in less then 2 hours? I'm not made to handle this type of stress and my hormones are going crazy. I seriously just wanted to lay on the floor and cry and have a nice little pity party.
What did I do instead? I grabbed a container of Carmel waffle cone ice cream out of the freezer and finished it off. I think it was half full when I started. Did it make me feel better? Of course not. I don't know why I thought binging was the answer.
Even 50 pounds lighter I still have my emotional breakdowns where I go to food. It definitely happens less often but I can't say that it is gone completely. I hate that I still do this and I always feel so horrible once I am done.
I can tell you one thing that has helped me stop "Stress Binging", as often, is to not have the unhealthy food in the house. Usually, my house does not have any junk food in it. The worst thing I can binge on normally is Pirate's Booty or Sugar Free Chocolate Pudding w/ Peanut butter. When I feel that need to "stress eat" I normally grab my pudding and peanut butter and enjoy. If I really need to I will eat two of them. It really works for me.
The only time this fails is when I have something more fattening in the house. My husband buys me whatever I ask for when he goes to the grocery store for me. Last week I asked him for ice cream. Not the healthy kind. I told him I wanted something with nuts and marshmallow and all the good stuff. He came home with Breyer's Reese's peanut butter cup, chocolate chip cookie dough, Carmel waffle cone and Oreo. They were on sale. How do I resist that. The worst part is that the Oreo one is still in my freezer just calling my name. I need to stop asking him to get me stuff like that when I am stressed. It's not his fault. He is just being sweet.
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Dr. Wooddell and Dr. Passaro practice dentistry as a team, providing patients with comprehensive, consultative care that is based on a thorough evaluation of all aspects of your oral health. We use a unique diagnostic and treatment protocol that was developed and is now taught by Drs. Wooddell and Passaro. The Systematic Treatment Evaluation Protocol (STEP™) seeks to address the four main factors affecting the health of your smile: Esthetics, Function, Structure and Biology.
Our team is one of the most highly trained and experienced in the area, often treating patients who are experiencing a dental health relapse or deteriorating dental health as a result of ineffective dental work or a lack of dental care. We offer personalized dentistry that identifies underlying dental problems that can impact the outcome and integrity of your dentistry if left untreated.
First Visit: What To Expect
When you visit with us for the first time, our goal is to obtain an in depth understanding of the condition of your oral health, your personal concerns and any possible aesthetic goals you may have. We want to be able to provide treatment that will support all of these needs and withstand the test of time.
Using the STEP protocol, our team will evaluate the health and function of your teeth, gums and jaw joints using a variety of tools, including digital diagnostics and imagery. Plan to spend about 90 minutes in our Davidsonville dental office for the initial visit with us.
At the next visit, called a diagnosis, we will discuss our findings with you and recommend any necessary treatment(s). In most cases, a professional dental cleaning will be scheduled for the next visit. If additional dental care is needed to bring your teeth and/or gums back to a healthy state, we will coordinate your care and schedule appointments as necessary.
Drs. Wooddell and Passaro believe in the value of a collaborative doctor-patient relationship, based upon patient education, individualized care, and communication. We build lifelong relationships with our patients for the enjoyment of long-term oral health.


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