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If you haven't heard the news, let's see if I can get you up to speed!
Last year we purchased the land to build a shop for So Suzy Stamps!
Then on my birthday last month, we pulled the trigger and I purchased the building. It was perfect timing and the best part is it will be completely finished in time for our Christmas in July Retreat this year. Oh ya, baby!
I wish the entire process was as easy as Step One and Step Two, but then where would the fun be, right?
My little family worked in the freezing temperatures and nasty New Mexico wind to get the shop area cleared out, leveled and marked.
It was so funny. Patrick and Stephan actually were doing synchronized shoveling and didn't even realize it! I have a whole series of them shoveling and leveling in sync...but I figured I didn't want to bore you to tears!
Now that the land is all set, we are just waiting for the building to be all finished up.
|All laid out - It even has a porch!
|It's the doorway!
When it is all finished up, I will have them paint it a nice dark gray with white trim, which is going to look SPLENDID with my Turquoise door!!!!
Seriously? How could I NOT have a turquoise door? Say good bye to the white door, because it will be getting a face lift!
For the inside of the new shop, I decided to check out IKEA for some fun inspiration and holy cow! Did I ever find it!
I have decided to leave the vaulted ceilings and sweep polka dot sheer material across the length of the interior complete with twinkle lights. I love the soft look of the sheers while keeping the shop cozy but with the exposed vaulted ceiling it will give it a spacious feeling as well. Besides who doesn't love twinkle lights???
Needless to say, IKEA was brimming with ideas and my cart was definitely full when I left. Then we made a final stop at Hobby Lobby for some fun color inspiration for the patio and check out what I found!!!!
How stinking cute is this???? Plus it spins around and says we are closed. Needless to say, it came home with me as well! I am still on the hunt for a red British mailbox for the porch and I think my husband is dying to find a red vintage Coke machine as well. The pop of red will be FABULOUS with the gray building and turquoise door and can you believe it will even go with my logo? Hmmmmm I wonder how THAT happened? he he he
As of today, we are looking at a delivery date of next Thursday or Friday for the shop building. Then we will need to do the finish work on the inside. If all goes well, we are hoping to have a soft opening in May and then do a big Grand Opening in June.
All I have to say is, I am truly grateful for my incredible design team for keeping things rolling with all of the fabulous cards they have been making while I have been doing all of this "business stuff".
Along with this month's Watercolor Challenge, we also have Justine doing a Wedding Featurette AND on our Flaunt It if You Made It Facebook Group, we are having a Snarkfest Contest from March 14th through March 31st along with some fun snarky prizes. So be sure and check it out!
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I had a few events happen to me today, that is directly connected to my topic here tonight.
First after going over and taking a gander at the place in southern Twin Falls County Idaho, I was feeling really good, since I now have at least housing wize a place I can afford and still retain the studios in both Buhl and Gooding for HazzardAyre Radio.
So I get online and find some gal that was a bit put off by the leggy gals I use in my art work for our publications. If that is all it would have been, I wouldn't have gotten so tense, but then she started barking about my Hazzard County credibablility. To which I will tell her and ANYONE that wants to know. The TV show that OUR Hazzard County is built on, is as dear to me as life itself. There are few if any of the cast, crew or production company of all things Dukes, that doesn't know me or the other way around. I was there when Paul Picard who was the exec producer of the show passed away, along with being there when Uncle Jessie, Boss Hogg and Waylon passed away. I talk all the time about John, Tom and all the cast including Roscoe and Enos. Scott Romaine knows me all too well, infact if truth be known, the torch of Hazzard County was being carried by the Knytes/WolfPack long before there was a Cooter's Place. Don't get me wrong, both Ben, Alma, and all their families are as close to me as kin folks. So that lady from Oregon, that was trying to get into my Hazzard County credentials, your treeing the wrong critter.
Then, got this gal whom I applied for a on air slot here at HazzardAyre Radio. Guess what? I spent 3 hours ratchetjawing with her, when her husband shows up , has a fit and she backs out. Okay one more that bites the sand except as it is, unless its someone prescreened by the Knytes, and is a family member of the Knytes, we ain't hiring no body. Especially no more dang women. When it gets to women it is a real pain in my butt any more. The thing is, I have balls and years ago I let them drop. I'm not some diaper rashed, drug induced city/town raised carpetbaggin, untrustworthy person. I'm an Alpha Male and that can be a bit too much male for most of these people.
I stand for truth, justice, and the Confederate American way, no more and not less.
Big day Friday the move begins followed by the studio move. HazzardAyre Radio and all its parts will be back on air come December 1st. The reason its delayed is that after I got hoodwinked by a few here in Wendell Idaho, and the water bill thing, I finally decided with great pain to relocate the entire operation. Back to where AyreWolfFM/SAMCRO Radio first fired in 2009. Get this even the bandwidth and Internet speed is faster there. Add to that much less expensive, so we get to command both sides of the Snake River with Southern bred/Hazzard County raised gearhead style radio.
That's all, if you want to dig into our news, find it at www.knytewolfradio.wordpress.com
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I am very interested in learning Arabic. The language is eloquent and the words have beautiful sounds (at least that's what I think!). Would it be possible to integrate this into the Duolingo program?
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i'm a bilingual and i sent a request to help building the arabic course but got no answer yet :(
Hi HouYadda, just got into this discussion and I was wondering if there has been any update on the Arabic for English speakers since a year ago? Have you started working on the course already? Thx
I am Arab (from Lebanon) and let me tell you something: Arabic is a beautiful language,but it's a tough one too! it is really hard for native English speakers because it has some hard pronounciations, and the grammar is very detailed and needs a lot of concentration... however, I think they should integrate Arabic into the Duolingo program, but they should be really careful with the grammar, as well as they should figure out how they can teach the learners the pronounciations, especially the hard ones!
I'm Arab too( from Yemen), and you're right in everything you said. However, if someone really wants to learn anything, no matter how hard it is, they can learn it!
I've been to Lebanon and it's a very beautiful country! (I'm 50% Lebanese) I would love to learn Arabic and finally be able to communicate with my family.
Do you have a tip where to learn your writing? Honestly, I know nothing about the structure of Arabic language, so Im just asking. Is it just same letter and different writing system like e.g. azbuka, or is it more complex like e.g. chinese? Im sorry if it sounds dumb.
Arab here too. It's true that it's a tough language, but nothing is impossible. I agree with you on the grammar part. Also the spelling could be really hard to learn.
However, in everyday spoken arabic the grammar is not that hard. But that's another thing to keep in mind - every arab country has its own accent. We still understand each other, but some words aren't the same and it does sound pretty different. No one actually speaks the written type of arabic on a daily basis, only when you're required to be formal or if you're writing/reading. That's another thing that might be frustrating when learning arabic.
I completely agree with you about some of the pronunciations (personally I struggle with ط ظ ض د ذ). But through practice of pronunciation that can easily be helped. The most difficult part about learning Arabic as a native English speaker is having to learn grammar of another language when many of the same aspects aren't even taught in the States. I have always excelled in writing and grammar, but it was through blissful ignorance. I was taken aback when my ustatha said that even in English, we utilize the same tenses/concepts (simple present, perfect, imperfect, etc). So I basically had to relearn English grammar and the correct terms for everything in order to hope to understand the Arabic tenses, moods, and case markings. But there is hope! I've found Arabic grammar to be fairly similar to English in some regards, and other aspects are similar to Spanish or are easy to grasp (idafa in particular).
hey! if i have the option on a different website (until duolingo starts teaching Arabic), and i want to communicate with my best friend's family (they are Lebanese and Palestinian), which dialect should i learn? please and thanks! (options available: Chadian, Jordanian, Mauritanian, Moroccan, or Tunisian)
I would LOVE to learn arabic. I think it is VITAL for promoting peace and world change!! We must break the barriers of stereotypes and hate by using language :)
YES WE CAN! I am so frustrated that there is no possibility for English speakers to learn Arabic in Dulingo
Arabic is sadly ignored last years and I find it unfair, since learning arabic contributes to a peacful world.
Arabic seems to pose many unique challenges to learners in this format. First and foremost, the Arabic language is a Semitic language not related to Persian/Farsi/Dari, Urdu, or Kurdish even though they all - to some extent - share an alphabet and some vocabulary. The morphosyntactic structure of Arabic is the primary challenge, as it doesn't lend itself easily to being understood in terms of affixes or unique endings as in many Indo-European languages. It is a root-and-pattern based language where the underlying semantic bases undergo systematic internal transformation to arrive at a particular meaning.
Secondly, the situation of diglossia between Modern Standard Arabic and the many dialects. MSA, or الفصحى is not spoken by anyone as a conversational first language, and by very few as a conversational second language. A Duolingo course generally focuses on communicative competence, something that MSA is not really going to provide in a situation trying to communicate with native speakers.
As well, the concepts of case and tense are fairly transparent in Arabic, but the (numerous!) derived noun forms and verbal patterns are fairly complex and I wouldn't think they would be easy to pick up through Duolingo's format of learning by example rather than explicit grammatical instruction.
The dialects are widely spoken, but also widely varying in syntax, vocabulary and idiom. In the U.S. at least, Egyptian and Levantine are the most popular to study, but unlike MSA, no standard exists for representing the sounds except perhaps "chat room" or "text message" Arabic which seems fairly universal. Several published texts have attempted to represent dialect in the Arabic alphabet, but this only approximates actual pronunciation as the six vowels (three short, three long) aren't sufficient to describe the phonology of the language as it is actually spoken.
To construct a tree aimed at general communicative competence, one would have to either choose a dialect and adhere to it throughout, or perhaps include several sections like "idiomatic expressions" that were particular to certain regions. It would probably also be of benefit to highlight the root-pattern structure throughout (maybe with pop-ups?) just so the learner gets used to seeing it. I forsee the need for a number of creative solutions to these challenges, but it seems possible. As a linguist and a student of Arabic, I would love to see Arabic come to Duolingo.
Some good points made here. If an Arabic course comes to Duolingo, I can only see it being MSA. I wasn't entirely sure but I believe your post confirms that there is no standard written form for any of the dialects. I don't like the idea of doing a course where you have to write in chat forum Arabic with all the 3s and stuff.
I think the Egyptian Dialect would be great because most people understand that dialect, there are lots of tv shows in that dialect you can use to practice and I feel that once you've got one dialect down, it's easy to pick up the others, plus it's their flag being used anyway lmao.


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OPINION: Can AI be innovative?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and innovation
Today, we'll jump straight in with a question.
Here it is: will artificial intelligence really reach a point where a machine can out-think us?
Realistically, yes. The Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University predicts that in half a century, there is a 50% chance that AI will outperform humans at just about everything (others suggest longer, upwards of 125 years).
From the survey, which included 352 leading academic and industry experts in artificial intelligence, a timeline was determined that predicts when AI will be completing human-like tasks.
While in the immediate future we'll see AI master Angry Birds, LEGO assembly and writing High School quality essays, a bit further down the track they'll be writing New York Times Best-Selling novels, doing surgery and conducting complex maths research.
As impressive as these (presently) hypotheticals are, there are a couple of things they don't involve: innovation or creative thinking. All these tasks can be completed by learning from previous creations.
Sure, it would be impressive to read a best-selling novel written by AI, but in reality, all aspects of it (structure, content, style, language etc.) would be driven by data collected from previous best-sellers. The same goes for surgery; the techniques used aren't new and by the time AI is doing them they will have been perfected; all AI needs is a program to guide it.
At this point, two big questions arise. What exactly is innovation? And would it ever be possible for AI to innovate these formulaic, repetitive tasks?
Firstly, according to the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, innovation is the "changing [of] processes or creating more effective processes, products and ideas." And this is generally done by challenging traditional notions of tasks, drawing inspiration from other industries or geographic regions.
Conversely, AI learns from data; it doesn't have an innately human ability to look forward without looking backwards. While innovation happens when lessons from the past are illuminated, its bigger focus is looking forward and this is something AI simply cannot do.
While AI can help us determine a better, more efficient solution for our current problems, it lacks the capacity to look forward. This isn't necessarily a negative though…
Role of humans and AI in innovation
To Stephan Hawking, AI will go one of two ways. It will either work with us or it'll work against us, and it's up to us to determine which way it goes.
"When it [AI equalling the intellectual level of humans] eventually does occur, it's likely to be either the best or worst thing ever to happen to humanity, so there's huge value in getting it right." – Stephan Hawking, 2015.
While observations and experiences are important for innovative thinking, so is understanding data and context. That is AI's greatest value; the ability to mass-read and mass-analyse data.
An example of this is AlphaGo; the first computer program to defeat a world champion at the ancient Chinese game of Go. AlphaGo was trained to mimic human play by attempting to match the moves of expert players from recorded historical games, using a database of around 30 million moves.
An observation completely built from data provides a richer and deeper understanding of a problem but leaves little to no room for future innovations to fix it, simply because it draws from the past.
Another recent example of using mass-data but in a way that illuminates its darker potential is the Cambridge Analytica scandal. With the information of just 50 million individuals (around 0.008% of the earth's population), it was possible to predict and ultimately influence the behaviour of just about anyone, online and offline.
These two examples represent two very different uses of mass-data execution. While AI used the database of moves to defeat the world's leading player in Go was seen as a 'positive', imagine if an AI machine had access to 50 million people's personal information?
That's the importance of humans' involvement in AI; without ethics, cognitive thought or foresight, what could the ultimate outcome have been?
Bringing it all together
Given Stephan Hawking's belief that AI will either be the best or the worst thing to happen to humanity, there is an enormous opportunity to move towards the former. Using AI to understand the data-driven aspect of information it gives us insights and a deeper understanding of the data at hand.
So, when it comes to innovation, humans need to provide direction and purpose for AI. Though it can't think on its own, we can use its data-driven analysis to drive our own innovative thoughts and practices.
In this way, we can ensure that in the future, AI will be the best thing to happen to humanity.
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Next Flea Market
Sunday 9th February
Flea Market
At Barton Village Hall (891 Garstang Road,
Barton Nr Preston PR3 5AA) 9 am until 3 pm.
Which is on the main A6, Preston to Garstang road, near the Barton Grange Hotel.
This will be our first Market (of seven) in 2020 and we will have lots of interesting items for sale.
Entry is only 50p, accompanied children free!
Have a go on the Tombola, win a prize, it could be your lucky day!
Delicious homemade food will be available from 09:00 – 14:30.
Our Tombola prizes will be many and varied with lots of lovely prizes.
There will be lots of interesting items for sale. We would love you to help us make it a success in one of the following ways:
- Hire a table and sell your unwanted (but excellent quality) items. It costs £10:00 for a single or £18:00 for a double stall. Click Here to see all the dates for 2020.
- Come along and buy some stuff.
- Have a go on the Tombola, it might be your lucky day.
- Come along to help us, either on the stalls or in the kitchen.
- Donate appropriate things for us to sell, such as unwanted Christmas presents, CD's, DVD's, good as new items, tombola prizes, jewellery, etc.
If you have any items to donate then please ring Christine on 01772 750263, or Sylvia on 01772 716837.
If you would like to help, wish to hire a stall or for more information please ring Christine on 01772 750263.


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Ngoh hiang is synonymous with Lunar New Year in my household. As far as I know it, my grandmother made it each new year. My mum didn't make it but someone in the extended family who did would pass some over to us. Now that the older folks have either retired from the kitchen or have gone on to enjoy everlasting life in a much glorious kingdom, I decided I shall attempt to make this perennial favourite this year, from scratch.
I was pretty nervous about it at first. No doubt I knew the steps and main ingredients that are used, but I was wrought with trepidation that it wouldn't turn out as I remember it. I hate it when I don't get the taste at least 90% right on the first attempt.
During the few weeks leading to this festive season, each night I would imagine the taste of the ngoh hiang that I know and attempted to "sniff" out the"winning combination" and running through the sequence in my head. Well, guess what, I nailed the recipe on the head on my maiden attempt. Very very pleased with myself. Hubby commented that it tastes like those sold outside 😊.
As a side, whilst making those rolls, I was telling myself, what was I thinking when I decided to make this? It is a lot of work – peal, hchop, marinade, cut, wrap, steam, cool, pack, freeze till ready to eat, thaw and then pan fry before I can slice and savour it!!!!
For this recipe, I used minced lean pork, diced water chestnuts, chopped spring onions, 5 spice powder, corn flour, eggs, salt and bean curd skin for wrapping.
One batch that has been steamed, cooled, packed and ready for freezing.
End product after pan frying. Yumz.


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Ship to Shore PhonoCo. is proud to present the original soundtrack to Hal P. Warren's Manos: The Hands of Fate. Utilizing sparse, jazzy arrangements, Robert Smith, Jr. and Russ Huddleston's score evokes the same bizarre, yet oddly compelling, feelings that fans of the film know and love.
This album also includes some dialog interspersed with the music, as the best source available was a 35mm magnetic soundtrack.
1. Family Vacation
2. Love Inside This Magic Circle
3. Baby, Do a Thing With Me
4. Adrift in a Sea of Madness
5. Caretaker
6. Decision
7. Portrait of Evil
8. Dog of Death
9. Perversion, Ignorance, Apathy
10. Tomb of Darkness
11. Torgo's Lament
12. The Search Continues
13. Prayer to the God of Primal Darkness
14. A Strange Gait
1. Uncontrollable Passion
2. A House Divided
3. Manos, Thy Will Is Done
4. Chaos
5. An Unfulfilled Desire
6. The Servant Fails the Master
7. Sacrifice
8. The Futility of Fighting Fate
9. Manos Has You Now
10. The Circle of Fate
11. Forgetting You (Love Theme from Manos: The Hands of Fate)
Featuring liner notes from Videoscope columnist Tim Ferrante and artwork from Garrett T. McDonald, this is a score that fans will not want to miss!
A Note from Ship to Shore:
In early 2015, the original 35mm soundtrack negative to MANOS: The Hands of Fate was discovered, giving fans a better look into the bizarre world of the film. After a restoration by Steve Addabbo at Shelter Island Sound in New York City, sonic imperfections still apply, but definite audio improvements have been made, including a drastic decrease in hiss and distortion. Ship to Shore PhonoCo. believes that this is the definitive audio edition of MANOS: The Hands of Fate.


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Less than 72 hours after a chartered aircraft crashed in Lagos killing more than 13 people, another plane crash was averted as a Saudi Arabia bound Kabo Air plane made an emergency landing at the Sir Abubakar III International Airport in Sokoto. The plane which took off from Kano on Friday was carrying 400 passengers going for the holy pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
The plane's tyres exploded shortly after it took off, forcing the Boeing 747 jet to divert to Sokoto. The passengers were thereafter evacuated.
An Associated Airline plane carrying the remains of Dr Segun Agagu, a former Governor of Ondo State crashed on Thursday, killing 13 and wounding several others. The plane nosedived shortly after it took off from the Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos.
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When Should You Toss & When Should You Reupholster?
When you first bought your outdoor patio furniture, It was an investment that should last a lifetime. But damage from sun, wind and rain can quickly make outdoor furniture look weathered beyond its years. Is it worth it to get reupholstery services for outdoor furniture? Here's a guide to when you should toss and when you should reupholster.
Reupholster if the initial cost of the piece was a substantial. It's better to spend a little more to keep a valuable piece of outdoor furniture in service.
Toss if the piece has significant damage beyond the upholstery, such as mechanical issues in a recliner, etc.
Reupholster if it's a favorite piece of a beloved family member. It's nice to upkeep your parent's favorite chair so they're comfortable outdoors when they visit.
Toss if the item has become so aged that it's dangerous to sit on. It's not worth the risk of injury to friends or family.
Reupholster if the item looks dated compared to the rest of your outdoor furnishings. In this day and age of elegant outdoor living areas, you don't want to detract from the rest of your outdoor décor.
Toss if there are signs of insect infestation or irreparable damage from animals. This is sometimes the case with wooden outdoor furniture, where the strength of the wood has been compromised.
Reupholster if it's a piece that you can't get anymore, such as a vintage item.
Toss if the piece is physically too large for your outdoor space, which is something a reupholster job can't change.
Do you have outdoor furniture that needs a makeover? Ace Outdoor to find out how easy it is to breathe new life into your outdoor furniture with a couple simple changes!


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"The Republican platform and the speaker lineup for the Republican National Convention demonstrate a fundamental disregard for women and women's health."
Spoken by the president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, we can safely assume that the speaker is most interested in reproductive health policy. I argue that too often we conflate attention to and improvements in women's health with liberal policies on birth control and abortion. Actually, the Republican health care platform is problematic for women in more ways than this.
Although we point to the poor and the ill as the benefactors of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), women have much to gain from the reform's success– and the most to lose if the bill is overturned with a change in the White House. Among the many voices competing for space and authority in the health care debate, the group with the most to lose from the weakening of health care reform must take a stance this November. We've heard a lot already about access to abortion, but what's missing is the discussion of parity in payments and coverage for women.
Although medically needy women will most tangibly experience the reverberations of the reform outcome, the payment for and delivery of women's health care should be on every taxpayer's mind. Women's health care drives 60% of overall health care spending nationally, women are the largest users of the government money spent on health care, and make up 75% of Medicaid beneficiaries. Addressing women's health care needs will disproportionately reduce health care spending.
Although rates of insurance coverage are roughly equal between men and women, women absorb much more of their health care costs out-of-pocket. Reproductive age women spend 68% more out-of-pocket than men. Women are more likely to work for small companies or in low-wage jobs where coverage is low in quality or incomplete. This pay gap is rarely spoken about in terms of benefits, but the gap in coverage is just as significant as that in salary. The out-of-pocket expenses that women absorb are even larger when we think about the role women play as caregivers in their families and their communities. Because there are more single mothers than single fathers, it is also women who absorb the costs for children that the children's health insurance program (CHIP) fails to cover.
The personal financial burden of care makes both insured and uninsured women more likely to delay preventive care measures. This ultimately drives up our system's costs in the form of increased acute care treatments. 14% of women with private insurance report that they have delayed treatment due to the cost of care.The pattern of delaying preventive care is particularly problematic for non-communicable diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular disease, which become more common after the onset of menopause. Late stage diagnoses and treatment generate the highest spend and also exhibit the largest inconsistencies in quality of care.
Several elements of PPACA would begin to address the issues of the disproportionate financial burden on women and the correspondingly lower rates of preventive care, which ultimately burden all taxpayers. Given that nineteen million women are uninsured today, relaxing eligibility requirements for Medicaid will be a start. Broader and more comprehensive insurance coverage for everyone is also likely to decrease the burden felt by women, who often coordinate the care for their families. PPACA will also begin to assist women often referred to as the "under-insured", who receive inadequate benefits. The bill's ban on coverage limits and refusals based on preexisting conditions, as well as the requirement for essential health benefits (including maternity care) will benefit both women and men. Rating insurance premiums based on gender, now allowed in 42 states, will also become a figment of the past. A right- wing president would weaken many of these provisions and would threaten the benefits women are positioned to gain.
The bill would unlock huge benefits for women, even in its weakened state after the Supreme Court ruling, which supported the transfer of authority to the states to take or leave what the government can provide to assist in the expansion of Medicaid programming. The 18 states that have expressed intent to decline the program expansions have some of the highest rates of uninsured women in the nation. Compared to the national average of 18% for women aged 19 to 64, Texas and Florida would leave 26% and 24% of women uncovered, respectively. PPACA can still make huge strides, though women's voices will need to be heard at the state level as well as the national to realize the bill's full potential.
Women are hit harder than men by the shortcomings in our system of healthcare payment and delivery. Although maternal and reproductive care is central to a woman's health over her lifetime, the disadvantage women face in the current system is more complex than access to birth control and prevention. Reform policy should be on the agenda of every woman, and the female voice should ring at both the federal and the state level to fight for parity in healthcare payments.


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Fresh Pico de gallo
Create a Recipe Makeover
Nutritional Info
- Servings Per Recipe: 10
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 13.6
- Total Fat: 0.2 g
- Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
- Sodium: 120.0 mg
- Total Carbs: 3.1 g
- Dietary Fiber: 0.7 g
- Protein: 0.5 g
View full nutritional breakdown of Fresh Pico de gallo calories by ingredient
Submitted by: TEMPLEOFHEALTH
IntroductionAdd zip to eggs, meats or veggies Add zip to eggs, meats or veggies
Number of Servings: 10
2 cups diced roma tomatoes
1/4 cup chopped green onions
4 (more or less to taste) fresh diced jalapenos
4 T chopped fresh cilantro
juice of 1 small lime and 1/2 t. of grated zest
3 finely diced cloves of garlic
1/2 t. oregano leaves, crushed
1/2 t. seasoned salt
Mix together all ingredients. Store in the refrigerator for use on eggs, meats, veggies and side dishes to add spicy zip to your meals. This is a staple in our kitchen.
Number of Servings: 10
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user TEMPLEOFHEALTH.
Number of Servings: 10
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user TEMPLEOFHEALTH.


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So my scheduler says altitude has remove this channel… More misleading crap from dish network. I feel like I was conned into signing a contract with the thought the altitude network would be a part of the contract. Now they're telling me oh no you have to honor the contract even though they don't honor keeping altitude. I have been a long time dish customer used to have great service now they are the worst can't wait to get rid of them.
I do not believe your corporate script altitude claims that you are the ones that are the problem.
Fair agreements? As a customer I have to pay for all kinds of crap that I never win watch on my last dying day. One of the few channels I enjoy is altitude. More BS corporate Script I find you people lie.
I concur dish does not want to pay a fair price for regional sports networks I want out of my contract.
I know having a channel taken down due to dispute is definitely pretty frustrating! We are not the only provider this is happening to. Altitude Sports is also gone dark on DIRECTV and Comcast. We would be more than happy to see is there is anyway that we can help. Can you send us a Private Message please? If you're not sure how to do that, we have a guide right here: https://communities.dish.com/t5/Communities-101/How-To-Send-a-Private-Message/td-p/15039
I will cancel my Dish. It's the only way they learn
@CalebS wrote:
Hello tgrycel. I completely understand where you're coming from, and I would definitely be pretty frustrated if a channel I enjoyed was taken down due to a dispute too.We continue to work with Altitude Sports to find a fair agreement for the return of their channels, which they removed. As Altitude Sports blocks DISH customers, they have also removed their channel from DIRECTV and Comcast.
It's almost tiem to end my dish network subscription. DO NOT BLOCK MY AVS


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Clean-burning, efficient, and versatile, the Manchester presents Hearthstone performance in cast iron style. Using a convection air system with an integrated cast iron heat exchanger, the Manchester provides extraordinary heating efficiency for your home. A soapstone-lined firebox captures and stores heat, so you enjoy a longer HeatLife.
Heat Output: 75,000 BTUs or up to 2,100 sq. ft!
Right or left side door:flexible installation
Oven-style side door: helps keep ashes in firebox
Convection air channel with heat exchanger: encourages airflow, moves heat throughout home
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Top or rear flue exit:flexible installation
Single lever stove control:easy operation, consistent performance
Non-catalytic combustion system:clean burning, efficient, reduces creosote build-up
Removable ash tray:easy to clean, easily accessible


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This is my second layout using this month's kit from Ann at The Scrapbook Garden. I had great fun cutting up the chevron patterned paper and piecing it back together before adding loads of doodled stitches. The Bazzill papers are gorgeous - I can't believe I haven't used them before!
I added lots of the stickers around the edge of the photo, and even cut some of the overprint from the backing sheet to create little frames that I tucked under the photo as well. There's also a bit of the text print from the backing sheet on there too - waste not want not!The photo is of a farmhouse that we rented recently with some friends, in Blakeney, Gloucestershire. If you ever need a house that sleeps 8, in a sleepy little village, just a couple of minutes walk from a Michelin starred restaurant, and on the edge of the Forest of Dean I'd be happy to pass on the details! I don't know the owners, and I certainly won't get commission for passing people their way, I just thought it was a fabulous place :D


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I don't know what it is but I swear the weather gets a touch cold and my body starts CRAVING butternut squash. It's like my body is a human butternut squash thermometer. I don't even know what that means…but it sounds practical.
This soup contains no dairy or even coconut milk but takes on the creamiest texture from the pureed cauliflower. Creamy-sweet butternut squash soup? Sign me up.
Also, there's a hefty dose of turmeric in here for those anti-inflammatory benefits that fight against ageing, help your digestion and help your body prevent and treat inflammatory conditions like arthritis.
I feel like I had way more to say about this soup but now that I'm typing I'm totally blanking…
OH YEAH! This is a dish that just keeps on giving – if you have extra left over, add some nutritional yeast and boom you've got yourself some vegan cheese sauce. Pour over chickpea-lentil pasta for a REAL TREAT
- 1 medium to large butternut squash, peeled, de-seeded & cubed.
- 1 head cauliflower, broken into florets
- 1 shallot
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 tablespoon olive oil + 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 2 tsp. ground turmeric
- 1/2 tsp cayenne
- 1 litre unsalted vegetable broth (or chicken broth)
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- Pink himalayan sea salt
- cracked black pepper
- Begin by prepping the butternut squash (I'm sorry in advance – this part is annoying). Next, break the cauliflower into florets and chop up the shallot and roughly chop the garlic.
- In a large soup pot, heat 1 tbsp olive oil over medium heat. Add the shallot and cook for a few minutes. Add the turmeric, cayenne, and paprika and cook together with the shallot for 1 minute. Add the garlic, cauliflower, butternut squash and vegetable broth.
- Bring the vegetable broth to a simmer. Cover and let everything cook for 15-20 minutes or until vegetables are fork-tender. Transfer soup to a high speed blender and blitz until smooth and creamy. You can do this in batches if needed.
- Transfer pureed soup back to pot over low heat. Stir in the remaining 2 tbsp of olive oil, the dried oregano and season with pink himalayan salt and black pepper to taste. I used roughly 1 teaspoon of salt.
- Once the seasoning is to your liking, remove from heat, serve & enjoy!


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Trimble Positions Desktop 10.4.0.1 Released and MGIS Compatibility List
What's New in this release:
- Enhanced TerraSync support
- New workflow option allowing you to create a project from a Data Dictionary File or from a Trimble SSF file
- The inclusion of Pathfinder Office Utilities including
- Data Dictionary Editor and Data Transfer
- Limited support included for generic features
- Long SSF handling option
- Additional Post-Processing options
- Allows you to Post-Process Real Time data and choose between:
- the best solution
- the last solution
- or restore your data back to the original
- Allows you to Post-Process Real Time data and choose between:
- Enhanced TerraFlex support to match the TerraFlex v3.5 standalone plugin including:
- Auto fields, standalone table support, etc
- Improved database management
- SQLite supported as an alternative to a Jet MDB
- Default to DSN-less connections
- Copy projects and settings between databases
- Additional device and correction support
- R2, Nomad 1050, FieldPoint RTX and RTX RAM
- Additional platform compatibility
- ArcMap 10.3.1 and 10.4
- ArcPad 10.2.3
See the Trimble Positions Release Notes for Trimble Positions Desktop, ArcPad extension and ArcGIS Mobile extension.
Trimble MGIS Compatibility List – Refer to this to determine if your GPS hardware and your ArcGIS software are compatibale with current releases.
Trimble Positions Downloads – is where you can find current and previous releases.
Contact Seiler Mapping Support: [email protected] and or your local Trimble dealer for information about your software maintenance.


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Dust Networks – Profile
HQ: Berkeley, CA
Founded: 2002
Management: Joy Weiss is CEO. She has start-up experience and was President and GM of Nortel's Network Management division. Founder is Kris Pister, who is currently on leave as a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley.
Investors: $7M in one round from Foundation Capital, Institutional Venture Partners, and In-Q-Tel.
Business Model: Creates remote wireless sensors. Primary product – the SmartMesh networking system – allows users to collect information from locations where cost makes wired sensors impractical or impossible. Products are aimed at real-time monitoring situations like building automation, industrial monitoring and security services. For example, a machine stops working on your assembly line – the Dust sensor lets you know – you don't lose money to equipment downtime. Sensors run off AA batteries.
Competitors: Millennial Net, Ember, Crossbow Technologies.
Dirt: The Dust technology seems promising to us – and we like the bleeding edge element of what the company does. For example, if a sensor goes on the blink, the other sensors in the mesh network will automatically reroute data. Dust calls this a "self-healing" network. Founder Kris Pister is the brains behind the whole notion of mesh networks, but there's lots of competition coming into the space. We'll now see if he's surrounded himself with the right group of business minds. The recent hiring of a VP of Sales points in the right direction.
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In proton collisions at the LHC, vector boson fusion (VBF) happens when quarks from each one of the two colliding protons radiate W or Z bosons that subsequently interact or "fuse" as in the Feynman diagram shown where two W bosons fuse to produce a Z boson. Each quark radiating a weak boson exchanges four-momentum, Q2, of around m2Z, m2W in the t-channel. In this way, the two quarks scatter away from the beamline, typically inside the acceptance of the detector where they can be detected as hadronic jets. The distinctive signature of VBF is therefore the presence of two energetic hadronic jets (tagging jets), predominantly in the forward and backward directions with respect to the proton beamline.
The study of VBF production of the Z boson is an important benchmark in establishing the presence of these processes in general and to cross-check measurements of Higgs VBF, where the radiated bosons fuse to form a Higgs boson. However, the VBF production of Z bosons has some intriguing differences with respect to that of Higgs bosons. In VBF Z-boson production, a large number of other purely electroweak non-VBF processes can lead to an identical final state and play an important role: they yield large negative interferences with the VBF production, which are related to the very foundations of the Standard Model. This situation makes VBF production of Z bosons more complicated but also more interesting.
An additional and peculiar feature of VBF and all other purely electroweak processes is that no QCD colour is exchanged in the processes. This leads to the expectation of a "rapidity gap", or suppressed hadronic activity between the two tagging jets, which can also be identified in these events.
The CMS collaboration has searched for the pure electroweak production of a Z boson in association with two jets in the 7 TeV proton–proton collision data from 2011. They have analysed both dielectron and dimuon Z decays. The leptons are required to have transverse momenta pT > 20 GeV/c and pseudorapidity |η| < 2.4; in addition, the dilepton invariant-mass is required to be consistent with that of the Z boson. The two associated tagging jets are reconstructed with two alternative algorithms ("particle flow" and "jet-plus-track") and are required to be within |η| < 3.6 and have pT > 65 GeV/c (for the leading jet) and 40 GeV/c (subleading jet).
Selected events are passed to a multivariate boosted decision tree (BDT) that is trained to separate signal events from the large background stemming from the Z bosons produced via the Drell-Yan process and associated with two jets from additional QCD radiation. The BDT makes use of the full kinematic information of the three-body (Z+2jets) final state and of internal composition properties of the jet, which can discriminate if the jet originates from a gluon or a light quark. Figure 2a shows output distributions of the BDT for data and different simulated background components, as well as the simulated signal (purple) for selected dimuon Z decays. A fit to the BDT output distribution was used to measure the signal cross-section, σ(EWK Z+2jets) = 154 ± 24 (stat.) ± 46 (exp. syst.) ± 27 (th. syst.) ± 3 (lum.) fb. This is in good agreement with the theoretical expectation of 166 fb calculated at next-to-leading order precision.
The hadronic activity in the rapidity interval between the two tagging jets and the radiation patterns of the selected Z boson events with two forward jets have also been measured and are in good agreement with the expectations.


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Earlier today, Wizards of the Coast made an announcement on the company's message board confirming what has been rumored for a while now: when the Star Wars license comes up for renewal this May, Wizards will not seek to renew it. In the announcement, Greg Yahn, WotC's Director of Marketing, states "We had a long and fantastic run, but with the economic downturn, we have made the tough decision to discontinue our Star Wars lines." WotC products for the Star Wars Miniatures Game and Star Wars Roleplaying Game will be available through August, with multiple new releases scheduled through April. Wizards had first taken over the Star Wars license from Decipher back in 2002, starting with WotC's version of the Star Wars CCG.
Archive for January, 2010
Days of Wonder Uses Orient Express as One-Two PunchMonday, January 25th, 2010
Days of Wonder once again has trains on the brain. As we've noted here previously, Days of Wonder is holding a Ticket to Ride championship series where the World Champion will win a ticket for two on the Orient Express.
As its second powerful blow, Days of Wonder has announced Mystery Express, a train-themed game that doesn't bear the Ticket to Ride brand. In this whodunit deducation game players take on the roles of would-be passenger-detectives on the Orient Express, investigating a murder that's just occurred in transit. The project has some solid names attached to it, namely Antoine Bauza (Ghost Stories) and Serge Laget (Shadows over Camelot, Mystery of the Abbey, Ad Astra). The price is expected to be $50/€45. Look for a release in late March or early April.
If you haven't done so already, check out our review of Ticket to Ride: Europa 1912.
Gamers Help Haiti at DriveThruRPGFriday, January 22nd, 2010
Gamers have shown again and again how they can rally to the aid of those in need, and right now there's no one in greater need than the earthquake-stricken citizens of Haiti. DriveThruRPG is running one of the most successful gaming charities in a while, Gamers Help Haiti. The DriveThruRPG vendor community has banded together to contribute a staggeringly long list of donated product downloads to the fundraiser – valued at over $1,400 – which can all be yours for a small $20 donation benefitting Doctors Without Borders. Those who can only afford a $5 or $10 donation will be gratified to hear that DriveThruRPG has pledged to match their contributions. However, those who can afford twenty bucks and chip in during January will receive the gigantic list of downloadable products within a few days. As this is being posted, Gamers Help Haiti has already raised $82,650 since launching Wednesday. Convenient and rewarding in more ways than one, this is how to rack up big charity drive numbers – have you helped out yet?
[EDIT: The results are in. Click through for the details.]
OgreCave review – Summoner WarsTuesday, January 5th, 2010
Lee has provided us with another review to add to the Cave's stockpile today. This time, we hear all about Summoner Wars, a card-based wargame from Plaid Hat Games. How does it compare to other wargame choices you've tried over the years? You won't know until you read it.


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Tiger Woods won his second Players Championship Sunday at the ever-challenging TPC Sawgrass Players Stadium Course. It took him a dozen years to do so, but only four golfers in history won it twice. 2001 was the last time the #1 player won the Players. It was Tiger Woods then. It was Tiger Woods again. Woods has had 10 wins in a season before, but this was the earliest time to get to four wins in a season. And it's the 12thtime he has won at least 4 tournaments. For most mortal professionals, 1 such win is a successful season. Tiger is four wins short of Sam Snead for the most wins ever. Tiger has now reached 78 wins. He's done it by age 37. Snead was in his 40s when he reached that point. As for consistency, Tiger has made the cut 279 times, well beyond anyone else in history.
Woods is also the best closer in the game. With the lead, he has won 92.6 percent of the time. The great Jack Nicholas was at 61.5 %. Recently, Woods has won 7 of his last 22 PGA starts. Over his career he has won26% of his career starts, and finished in the top 25 80% of the time. A Golf Channel commentator called that last statistic "unfathomable".
That is a longer view of history. As for contemporary times, there is also no objective doubt about Tiger's status. He's the number one golfer in the world. He's the number one putter on the PGA Tour. He's the best from 15 feet in around the greens. At least through the first 5 holes on Sunday, he was hitting a remarkable 80% of the greens in regulation.
Woods also transformed his game since falling from grace in 2010. Younger players now drive at his level and beyond, since he had to retool his swing for longevity. Now he appears to be the ultimate technician and competition, not merely the player with the most athleticism. In this tournament he was 46th this week in driving distance. 45 players outdrove him with precision. He left his driver in the bag more than most. But Tiger won in just about every other way, physically and mentally.
And like no one else on tour he makes the ball do things. More technically, he shapes the ball to draw or fade to match the design of the particular hole. Of course it helps when you can hit a 7 iron with accuracy from over 200 yards away, as Tiger did on the 8th hole on Sunday.
And now averaging $98,000 per round over his entire career, Tiger is doing pretty well financially as well.
That said, this Players Championship is a bigger win for golf. That is because it had all the drama elements and skillfulness of sports lore or entertainment's Academy Award or Oscar. Drama is what makes sports and entertainment the drug of choice for millions each year like no other activity after sleep. Drama occurs when several players are tied or within a shot of the lead with a few holes to go. Anyone could win, and anyone could fall out of contention with a water ball or a shot in the woods.
Every great drama has its heroes and villains. No movie could have scripted it better. With Woods and Sergio Garcia, some can see either one of them fitting one of those roles. They already had some history of being less than huggable toward each other. Then on the 2ndhole on Saturday, Tiger pulled out a club causing some crowd noise during the Sergio swing. Garcia's ball went off kilter. Sergio said he was the victim. And the drama between them no longer simmered. And what a better script than to have them tied with Sergio heading to the 17th hole – the most challenging hole of all. In the end, Tiger was winning. Sergio was swimming, at least Sergio's ball did, not once but twice on the unforgiving 17th hole that is surrounded by water. Some in the gallery cheered that disaster for their villain.
Every great event has its Cinderella. For this event, his name was David Lingmerth. You cannot be more of one than Lingmerth, all 5' 7", 175 pounds of him. Moving from Sweden to Arkansas to Jacksonville Beach, Lingmerth is living his dream. No rookie has ever won the Players. And this rookie was only entering his 13th PGA event. Worse yet, he missed the cut the last 5 attempts. Yet on the very last hole of the four day tournament, he was one putt away from a tie with the great Mr. Woods. Midnight had yet to strike, and he had but one more careful strike with his putter to force a playoff. Alas, the slipper did not fit. He missed the last putt long. But the drama was even longer and better for the players and the game. It was the Players' best finish ever by a rookie.
If you preferred a veteran, you had Jeff Maggert. If he had won he would have been the oldest every to do so, at age 49. He was ranked 429th going into the tournament. Yet Maggert was tied with Woods going down the stretch on the back nine. He too was bitten by the 17th hole.
And like every great drama, the plot takes you up and down unpredictably. Woods had a three shot lead going into the 14th. History says in 10 of the last 14 Players Championships, the leader going into the back nine has won. With 5 holes to play, he was on the verge of diluting the drama. But he got wet on 14 for a double bogey. Now an army of sharpshooters were tied with him and the 870 million homes viewing the event were pulled back into the well-crafted drama.
And now even a particular hole is immortal. The 17th hole, with a green sitting on its own island is where Garcia hit two in the unforgiving water. Some will call it the site of the most famous meltdown or choke shot – Garcia's link with it. Most will just call it the drama hole of golf. Even before Garcia got there, the TV network cruelly showed the wincing reactions of many other players who traversed the 17th throughout the week. 43 times someone's ball went wet.
And this tournament reinforced the principle that it is a gentleman's game. Despite the colossal disappointment of Sergio Garcia on the 17th hole, he still told the aforementioned Cinderella who just leapfrogged him, "good shot". In basketball, that would be like LeBron James hugging a Bulls player who just tried to paralyze him.
Fittingly, it's called the Players because the event is by the PGA Tour players. It is a reminder that golf at this level is really all about the players, not the rules committees, not the TV commercials, which this event was noticeably and intentionally short on. Perhaps ominous and chilling to some, Tiger matter-of-factly said, ""I'm getting better". Well at this point, so is the game itself.
Roger M. Groves is a Professor of Law and Director of the Business Law Program at Florida Coastal School of Law and director of The Center for Sports and Social Entrepreneurship. Visit Roger at http://center4players.com/ and follow him at Twitter@rgroveslaw.


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If you are a senior official in your office and need to keep tabs on your own employees, but you don't desire to walk down floors or several aisles to get to their computer, do not worry! Windows has a solution for this: Remote Desktop Connection. With Remote Desktop Connection, it is possible to remotely get your worker's computer (i.e., the host computer) from your PC (i.e., the client computer). Simply configure several network settings, and you're ready to go!1 Access Remote Desktop Connection. Open the Start menu and click on "All Programs". Find the Accessories folder in the record of choices shown, then click on "Remote Desktop Connection." A dialog box will appear.
2 Type the name of the computer you want to connect to in the textbox. In case you don't understand the name of the computer, you can pick the computer among the list of accessible ones in the network by clicking on the drop-down menu.
3 Click the "Options" button located at the bottom left corner of the dialog box. A new dialog box will open with a record of tabs at the very top. Click on the "Display" tab to modify how big is the remote desktop. This is done by dragging the pointer under the title "Display Configurations" to increase or decrease the size of the remote desktop.
4 Click the "Local Resources" tab close to the "Display" tab. Underneath the name "Local devices and resources", check the boxes next to "Printers" and "Clipboard." Here, you are able to get the printers and clipboard of your client system while working in the remote desktop (i.e., the host system).
5 Choose the client system to be accessed in by the drives that are local. Click the "More" button present to the left side of the two checkboxes to choose the local devices (drives) you'll access in the client system while using the remotely managed host system.
Assess the appropriate checkboxes under the "Drives" that you need to utilize then click "OK." The previous screen under "Local devices and resources" will appear. 6 Click the "Experience" tab. Change the connection speed between your client system and the host computer by simply clicking on the drop-down menu and choosing the appropriate connection. Check the checkbox in the bottom left corner of the display to reconnect automatically if connection is interrupted.
7 Click the "Connect" button situated in the bottom right corner of the dialog box. A message will come up asking for a confirmation to connect. Click the "Connect" button located in the bottom right edge of the message, and a Windows Security dialog box will appear asking for your own username and password. 8 Input password and the username that is registered in the host computer. Click the "OK" button in the bottom right corner of the screen to continue. (make sure that the host computer is password protected on unique username you need to log in to. it is difficult to attach to non-password username)
It can take as much as a number of minutes to get connected to the host system.
The host system must have the remote desktop connection empowered in it. Only then can the client system get it. That is not just impossible in the event the systems are Professional, Greatest, or Windows Vista. Remote desktop connection is not accessible in Windows Home Premium users.
The screen of the host system gets locked in its remote place once you remotely connect to the host system. Thus, ensure that no one is working on the host system before remotely accessing it.


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The IOBSA believes that at the core of its membership is the belonging to and being part of an organisation, where members can gain value and obtain benefits professionally and individually. The Institute of Bankers in South Africa provides members with professional designations,networking, educational, training and information opportunities.
The Institute ensures it delivers a service to its members that is relevant to today's professional arena. The IOBSA aims to support members in achieving their professional goals and to provide an avenue for members to be connected, informed and qualified.
Why be a member?
- Membership to the Banking and related Financial Service Sector's specialist Professional Body, for bankers and financial services specialists.
- Membership demonstrates that you meet professional standards of excellence respected all over the world.
- It confers Professional status through registered designations from NQF level 5 to NQF level 8.
- You can attend a wide selection of seminars, conferences and other events at a discounted members' rate. The events help you increase your business and financial services knowledge, offer networking opportunities and add to your Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
- Continuing Professional Development: taking part in the IOBSA CPD scheme will demonstrates that you are managing your ongoing professional development.
- Our website will offer members' only areas to assist with (CPD) compliance which at the same time will be informative and value add.
- Exposure and promotion of members to the broader Banking and related Financial Service Sector's through the IOBSA owned media vehicles.
Why members need to stay informed?
- The environment in which financial organisations operate is constantly changing.
- Continual regulation changes make strenuous demands on time and resources.
- Highly astute customers demand better service and increase competition.
- New distribution channels are changing the way services and products are disseminated.
- New entrants into the market – both on and offshore – are challenging market share.
- Niche market opportunities are emerging.
- To understand changes in technology.
- To better service existing customers in order to retain and understand their business.
- To retain intellectual property.
- To enable improvement of skills.
Membership and Designation Categories
The Institute has six (6) membership categories and five (5) registered professional designations in its capacity as Professional Body.
The membership categories are aligned to designations with the one exception to a membership status:
- Member without a designation "Non-desginated"
- Licentiate of the Institute of Bankers in South Africa (LIBSA)
- Certified Associate of the Institute of Bankers in South Africa (CAIB(SA))
- Associate of the Institute of Bankers in South Africa (AIBSA)
- Professional Banker of the Institute of Bankers in South Africa (PBSA)
- Fellow of the Institute of Bankers in South Africa (FIBSA)
Membership Requirements and Fees:
- Application form A for membership 2019
- Application form B for designation 2019
- Membership Update Form C 2019
- Declaration 2019
- Code of Professional Conduct
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Farm Updates, Producer spotlight, Employee spotlight, Marketing partner, List
Farm Updates:
Spring CSA: we've scheduled 33 CSA pick-ups throughout the 2011 season. Last week was our first pick-up of the year as well as our first ever in Cambridge, Mass. The first eight pick-ups of the year are "Locavore shares", meaning that we source bread and cheese from our friends and augment the share with our own eggs and veggies. There are seven more pick-ups available and plenty of room for more members. Our check-out wizard will automatically pro-rate your share if you decide to join.
Last week we visited our friends at Does' Leap Farm. We're huge fans, to say the least. Check out their web site by clicking here. We've added as an option to the summer share, Does' Leap Cheese. This is twenty weeks of cheese (5 varities) for $140. The cheese will be delivered along with your summer share.
Our on-line store is up and going. We had a slight hiccup our first week of using it. The program is suppose to shut down the store 48 hrs. before each delivery in order to allow us time to process orders. Unfortunately, it shut down on Saturday and never re-opened because we did not program the hours specific to each delivery day. Easy problem to fix which we have done. If you are not yet a member you can preview our store by clicking here.
We're going solar!! We will be taking advantage of All Earth Renewables innovative lease to own program coupled with incentives from the state. This will allow us to install two All Sun Trackers, and cover 2/3 of the farm's electric needs using solar power, pretty cool.
We've been farming for sixteen seasons now. A lot can go wrong in farming, and we've suffered some wicked set backs in those years. Having our farm's Facebook page disappear without a trace doesn't even register in the top 100. We're left with no choice but to start over from scratch. We've set-up a new farm page (Rockville Market Farm) as well as a page dedicated to eggs called "Poultry in Motion" . You can lend your moral support and "like" them.
Employee spotlight: Ralph Cota
We bought our farm from the Vermont Land Trust, but it was part of the Cota Farm. The little road we live on is called Cemetery Road, and we're the only non-Cota household on the road. Ralph has been with us every step of this adventure. You simply couldn't ask for a better neighbor. Retired dairy farmers can't sit still for long, and Ralph's always willing to help out. As an added bonus he has selective amnesia when it comes to keeping track of his hours.
Producer spotlight: It's Arthur's Fault
We're really excited to bring a wide range of products to our members via our on-line store. Vermont is blessed with some special talents when it comes to food. It's Arthur's Fault offers a full range of condiments to spice up your meal. Our favorites are the Peanut Sate Sauce and Ginger Carmel Sauce (we put it on apples). Every Saturday Arthur and his daughter set up across the park from us at the Burlington Farmer's Market. Arthur's a big guy, hard to miss in a crowd. We instantly liked him, and look forward to a long partnership.
Marketing partner: American Flatbread/Burlington
A lot of restaurants say they support local agriculture. A handful are taking the concept to another level. American Flatbread in Burlington is a dream account for our farm. They buy our pork belly, to make house cured pancetta. They pay a very good price to use our sausage on their pizza, and even front us some money to cover the processing fee. Lastly, they use our chicken to make Buffalo Chicken Pizza, as a special. Good people, great pizza and unbelievable beer, we're in love!
10 Great Pork Books:
-Pork and Sons
-Pig Perfect
-Primal Cuts
-Meat (River Cottage)
-Momofuko Cookbook
-Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery
-The Whole Beast (Ferguson)
-Living with Pigs
-Beyond Nose to Tail
-Complete Book of Pork


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Employment Opportunities
Follow the path that leads to your success!
Find your perfect career at Advanced Home Care.
Patient and employee satisfaction accompanied with a caring spirit are the building blocks of Advanced Home Care. Your clinical expertise is essential in assisting our patients to reach their highest level of independence in daily living, allowing them to live life to its fullest.
By educating our patients and their family members, we strive to produce outcomes that promote independence and healthy living. We want our employees to be just as delighted as our patients so we offer flexible working hours that will allow you to balance your career and family.
Advanced Home Care is a hospital affiliated company that offers extraordinary full-service healthcare. With over 30 branches in 4 states, Advanced Home Care offers unlimited professional opportunities. Some of the positions you will find at Advanced Home Care include:
- Registered & Licensed Practical Nurses
- Patient Service Technicians (drivers)
- Patient Account Representatives
- Physical/Speech/Occupational Therapists
- Pharmacists/Techs
- Respiratory Therapists/Techs
- Clinical Managers
- Sales Representatives
We offer competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits packages, and great company perks to include:
- Total rewards of working at Advanced Home Care at a glance.
- Sign On Bonus (available to specific clinical staff)
- Employee bonus programs
- Employee Medical Plan Options
- Retirement Plan Options
- Employee Referral Program
- 25 days off per year
- Mileage Reimbursement (Clinical Staff)
- Company Laptops (Clinical Staff)
- Cell Phone Reimbursement (Clinical Staff)


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New Year
New Year
Pattern for Your Best Year Yet
Save when you register early: Discount applies to program balance and not deposit:*
- Save $200—120 days in advance
- Save $100—90 days in advance
*Program exclusions may apply. Discounts are limited to certain Virginia campus programs.
Note: You have the option to pay in full or pay a $500.00 deposit, please select which payment you prefer below.
Join us for our New Year program, a 4-day/5-night journey of deep reflection and reconnection. Relax as you are guided into expanded states of consciousness far beyond your physical body. You will approach yourself, your life, and the future from a heartfelt perspective.
During this powerful experience, you will have the opportunity to journey within and get in touch with your total Self. Hemi-Sync® and Spatial Angle Modulation™ (SAM) audio guidance technologies will support you on your journey.
Journey to Your Inner Space. Discover More of Your Total Self.
Consciously accept and release the past. Shift into empowered states for manifesting your desires.
During your New Year program, you will look at your life on physical, emotional, and spiritual levels, preparing for whatever the future brings.
While in these deep meditative states, learn how to accept and release the past, achieve a Different Overview, and create your vision for the coming year.
Explore . . .
- Entering into levels of expanded awareness
- Achieving states of deep relaxation
- Shifting into empowered states for manifesting your desires
- Setting clear intentions for your future
Consciously Release the Past. Create Your Vision for the New Year.
Your Teacher/Guide for this Exploration: Penny Holmes
Penny Holmes developed the Heartline Program in 1995 and has been leading this transformational course for over 20 years. As the stepdaughter of founder Robert Monroe, she has been deeply involved in TMI's efforts to support thousands of visitors to explore consciousness and uplift humanity. She is a graduate of the Energy Mastery School in Europe and the Whitewinds Institute of Energy Medicine. In addition, she has completed in-depth studies into Shamanism, Rosicrucian, Earth Energy, Sacred Geometry and Biogeometry.
Your Co-Teacher/Guide for this Exploration: Patty Avalon
Patty Ray Avalon is the creator and lead trainer of The EnergyBody Program. She is a highly talented artist, healer, energy worker, and teacher of consciousness enhancing techniques. Patty is a graduate and former faculty member of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and has been a Residential Trainer at The Monroe Institute for over fourteen years. She created over 35 Hemi-Sync exercises through Monroe Products and continues to facilitate programs every year.
Your Facility for this Exploration: The Monroe Institute
TMI is the premier experiential residential education center for exploring expanded states of consciousness. For the past 40 years, tens of thousands of people just like you have attended our residential programs. People from all walks of life including doctors, engineers, healers, therapists, clergy, homemakers, artists and many more have journeyed to our facilities looking to expand their consciousness and discovering many of the answers to life's mysteries along the way.
Relax and revitalize this holiday season. Join other like-minded people on this special celebratory journey at The Monroe Institute. You will sound the bell to ring out the old and bring in the new!
The gift of this experience will carry throughout the following year and help you:
- Transform your outlook on life
- Feel renewed, clearer, and more joyful
- Uncover hidden aspects of yourself
- Gain inner wisdom
- Rejuvenate your mind, body, and spirit
- Appreciate your life on a deeper level
Clarify your vision for the coming year. Transform your outlook on life. Feel renewed and joyful.
Don't take our word for it. Here's how others have described their New Year's experience at The Monroe Institute:
"I never imagined the level of knowledge and support that I would find here. I was able to accept aspects of myself which I had previously been unable to know how to process." - Cricket H.
"Based on years of experience attending many TMI programs, I must admit that the New Year Program really stands out as a beautiful jewel in the crown. It is a very special offering that is designed to leave a lasting, positive impression – like we all want the start of every new year to feel. First and foremost the program is an enormous amount of fun! The feeling of very beneficial change, super-charged by high energy is palpable throughout your time there. I can think of no better place to be at this important yearly turn than with like-minded enthusiastic and compassionate folks.
A host of best-in-class exercises taken from across the different TMI programs are utilized to help you examine your inner states with enormous depth and wisdom. A clearing out process sets the perfect stage for later work. With clarity of vision, you set goals and program deep within the profundity of your being for great success and happiness. TMI makes the process so meaningful and the camaraderie felt in taking on such important work in a joyful way leaves you with much satisfaction. You will never look at the New Year quite the same way again after attending TMI's NYP. I look back at the groundwork that I carefully set down when I attended and am astounded by seemingly impossible and improbable accomplishments and changes in my life. Nothing is out of reach when you are honest with yourself and put your very soul into it with loving kindness. The program is indeed quite a life-changer. You leave a TMI NYP a better, more whole person with a fire in your heart." ~ Dean C.
"Being at The Monroe Institute for the New Year's Program is certainly one of the best ways I have ever said "Good-bye" to one year and welcomed the next. The varied audio exercises and the range of meaningful activities enabled me to reflect on, better understand, and energetically bring satisfying closure to the old year. Envisioning, accessing guidance, patterning, and being energized in the company of other participants created for me a truly auspicious entry into the New Year. Many thanks!" ~ E.J.W.
"I got more out of the New Year program than any other program I've taken. It helped me realize why I am on this earth." ~ T.M.
"Every one of the thirteen or more programs that I have taken at The Monroe Institute over the past five years has benefited me immensely. The New Year's Program is no exception. It provided me with the opportunity, tools, and support to really take a good look at my life, assess where I have been and where I would like to go. I can think of no better way to close out one year and launch a successful new year. Our trainer was superb, and the program participants added greatly to the overall experience. I would highly recommend this program to anyone who is interested in their own multi-dimensional growth. The fact that the program is held in such a beautiful natural setting in full view of the Blue Ridge Mountains is a huge added bonus." ~ T.W.
"What a wonderful way to bring in the New Year! The program has directed my vision for the future, and as a result, I feel peaceful about where I am headed in my life's direction." ~ A.S.
Our Powerful 4-day/5-night All-inclusive New Year Program Offers:
- Daily consciousness exploration facilitated by our skilled trainers
- Semi-private accommodations
- 3 delicious home-style meals a day
- Daily yoga classes
- Transportation to and from the airport (see details)
- Complimentary WiFi
- Massage therapy upon request (additional fee)
Save when you register early: Discount applies to program balance and not deposit:*
- Save $400—180 days in advance
- Save $300—120 days in advance
- Save $100—90 days in advance
*Discounts apply to VA campus programs only and do not apply to OBE Intensive, My Big TOE, Starlines Reunion, Remote Viewing II, Discovery, Superconscious Mind, and Weekend Programs. Maximum discount $500 per program.
Transform your outlook on life. Feel renewed and joyful.
Usher in the New Year Knowing it will be Different from any Year You Have Previously Experienced or Imagined.
Create Your Vision for What Will Be. Join us at The Monroe Institute this New Year's!
"Go experience for yourself." ~ Robert Monroe
Please Note: The New Year program is unique to the individual. No one experience is like any other. Each participant will experience the New Year program in ways consistent with their needs and beliefs.
|New Years Event Date
|12/28/2019 to 01/02/2020
12/28/2020 to 01/02/2021
|Virginia Campus
|State in USA
|Country Location
|United States
|Deposit Information
|A $500 deposit is required to register for a program. Please select either the downpayment option or the full payment option.