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COLLER'S GLOBAL PRIVATE EQUITY BAROMETER SHOWS THAT LPs ARE OPTIMISTIC. Among the findings of this highly regarded survey of limited partners: "86 percent of limited partners anticipate annual returns of 11 percent-plus over the next 3 to 5 years; on balance, LPs expect the rate of general partners' capital calls and distributions to accelerate over the next 12 to 18 months; a quarter of global LPs plan increased exposure to African PE; just over half of LPs have co-invested with GPs in the last two years; and most investors are comfortable with the current level of dividend recaps." Arguably, the survey's least surprising finding: "the majority of North American and European LPs believe the financing of futuristic technology ventures – such as asteroid mining – by billionaires are largely 'rich men's vanity projects'."
FIRST TIME VCs HAVE HAD MORE FUNDRAISING SUCCESS IN RECENT YEARS, notes this story from Thomson Reuters' Venture Capital Journal. Unlike buyout funds, where the number of successful new fund launches has been in decline, "demand for new venture funds has been strong for the past four years. The average number of new [VC funds] raised annually from 2003 to 2009 was about 28, but since that time it has been 42," writes VCJ. "As of late November, 38 new funds had been raised in 2013." The VCJ story also has advice from successful first-time VC managers for those thinking about striking out on their own. Perhaps the best tip: "It is no longer enough to be an experienced manager with a decent track record. You need to convince potential LPs that you have some sort of special sauce."
NON-U.S. TECH VENTURE CAPITAL CENTERS ARE THRIVING, as a trio of stories from the New York Times DealBook, The Wall Street Journal and The Economist explain. In a piece documenting Britain's growing startup culture, the New York Times DealBook writes that over the past three years Shoreditch has been transformed into "the center of London's technology community," as "rundown cafes have morphed into high-priced pubs, and multilingual 20-somethings fill trendy coffee house." Meanwhile, the WSJ observes that Beijing's Zhongguancun district, "China's answer to Silicon Valley," is "a crowded mass of electronic malls, fast-food joints and office buildings" housing "a growing class of tech entrepreneurs and VCs." Moving back to Europe, The Economist says "a new group of European VC firms is emerging," based in cities like Helsinki and Berlin. Citing the success of Criteo, a French advertising company, that went public on NASDAQ, the magazine notes "it certainly seems a good time to start investing in European startups."
"PRIVATE EQUITY INTEREST IN JAPAN PICKS UP," declares The Wall Street Journal in a report on the country's most recently closed PE deal, PAG Capital's $250 million investment in theme park operator Universal Studios Japan. In its first Japanese investment, PAG joins existing Universal Studios Japan investors and private equity peers Goldman Sachs and MBK Partners. But the Financial Times reports that despite growing private equity enthusiasm for the country, there have only been "10 deals in Japan this year. Only one of them, KKR's $1.7 billion buyout of Panasonic Healthcare, was valued above $500 million." The difficulty of private equity investment in Japan is underlined by a Reuters story detailing the rejection of Lone Star's $755 million bid to buy Osaka Prefectural Urban Development Company, a train and warehouse operator. Despite a bid "16 percent higher than the target price set by the local government, and outbidding its closest rivals," Lone Star's takeover was blocked by an Osaka municipal government vote. "In Japan PE is treated like a second class citizen," observes Yasushi Ando, CEO of Japanese PE group New Horizon Capital.
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CAN OTHER NATIONS OFFER THE SAME STELLAR SHALE RETURNS AS THE U.S? In this Real Deals column, Epi-V energy fund partner Glynn Williams "walks investors through the ins and outs" of the international "shale gas opportunity." Private equity investors, according to Williams, should prioritize places like Argentina, which has "vast supply," Lithuania, which aims "to curb" energy dependence on Russia, and the United Kingdom, where foreign direct investment in shale gas exploration and production has been welcomed. "Given the global shale industry's growth potential, investors would be wise not to ignore it," Williams concludes.
IN 2013, THREE PE FIRMS ARE AMONG THE 25 BEST PLACES TO WORK in finance, according to an annual Pensions & Investments survey of industry employees and employers. In the Alternatives Managers category, Blackstone captured the top spot followed by second place Hamilton Lane and third place Abbott Capital Management. Opportunities for career advancement and effective work-life balance are major pluses cited by PE employees. "My firm has supported me and afforded me work-life balance that allows me to pursue my career and continue to advance within the company, while also building a meaningful, full life outside the office," a Hamilton Lane employee says. And a Blackstone employee notes, "I feel I have opportunities to advance as far as I'd want, as long as I don't stop improving upon my skills and knowledge. This is my final place of employment." In a video linked to P&I's story, Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman explains how formal processes encouraging "feedback, education and career advancement" helped the firm win this year's honor.


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The last formal event of the Women's Sportbike Rally West 2 presented by Sena is always the Saturday evening gathering. We tried something a little different and opened with a sharing session answering the question:
"What's the dumbest thing someone has ever said to you as a female rider?"
Some of the stories were just incredible, but sadly not surprising since we've all experienced something to answer that question. What made it great was sharing it in a room with so many people who understand – women who ride.
To end the evening we gave a massive thank you to all our incredible sponsors for #wsrWest2 at Big Bear Lake, California June 3-5, 2016. They made sure that everyone went home with some pretty great products from companies that support #sportbikegirls.
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We feel very fortunate to have Maxim Dondyuk a straightforward, brave, utterly dedicated and emotionally in touch Ukrainian documentary photographer on board +PS this week. Maxim was one of our 70K YAY! competition winners.. But it wasn't just him that won – we did too! It's been a total pleasure having this opportunity to get to know Maxim a little more, and on top, to be able to share with you all these intense images – 100% thought and feeling provoking!
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Who is Maxim Dondyuk?
Maxim Dondyuk is a documentary photographer and photo journalist.
How did you find out about Preset Shop?
About Preset Shop I found out in a very accidental way. I saw an announcement about a Preset Shop contest on a photo site. More information about the presets I found on your site and after I submitted my application also, as I wanted to try them but at that time I didn't have enough money to buy them.. And to my big surprise I was one of the winners, and won a complete pack of your presets!
What is the best advice you have received so far about photography?
I got a lot of advice. Some helped me, others just screwed me over.
How would you describe your style?
Classical documentary photography. I'm not interested in conceptual modern photography at all.
What does fashion mean to you?
As you look through the viewfinder, what is the most critical moment in the capture of your image?
I'm sure that it's very important for a photographer to be interested in art, literature, music and cinema. All of these broaden our mind and the not so evident become evident. The photographer who looks not for a form but for associations and emotions with his inner world reacts in a special manner to all that's happening during the shooting.
What photographers from the past or present have influenced you the most?
Mostly I'm influenced not by photographers but by writers. In photography I prefer the classical school and such photographers as Eugene Smith and Sebastião Salgado. Of the photographers who shoot colour photos I'm interested in Alex Webb and Gueorgui Pinkhassov. At the beginning of my professional journey I was a great fan of James Nachtwey.
What's the most important thing you want potential clients to know about you?
I'm not thinking about clients at all. Photography is a philosophy for me.. It's a possibility to know an outside and inner world.
What is your favorite computer/editing accessory, other than your computer?!
I prefer MacBook Pro 15'', Lightroom for processing photos and FinalCut Pro X for making videos.
How important is Photoshop in your final images?
I don't like digital photos in their pure form.. That's why processing RAW files is very important for me, but more often it's just colour correction.. I don't use classical photoshop tricks and haven't for many years. Actually, I think I wouldn't remember how to use it.
Cos we just have to ask…!! 😉 What is your favorite +PS tool? And how has it improved workflow time?
I like +PS Retrograde.
Do you maintain a studio or do you rent one when needed?
I never work in a studio.
Three photography pet hates and why?
I don't want to concretize the situation. I can just say that I don't understand modern photography, I don't like it and sometimes it's even disgusting. And I also don't understand modern documentary photography as it has nothing except an idea. For me the most important elements are the visual and emotional. I'm against photos that don't show emotions. If the photographer thinks only about himself, makes conceptual decisions and doesn't think about the suddenness, visualization and emotions it's ununderstandable for me.
Where would you wish to wake up tomorrow?
I would like to live in New York for one year, and then Paris.
What five words would your friends use to describe you?
I think it's better you ask them 🙂
Do you play music whilst shooting? If so, what are you digging right now?
I don't listen to music during shooting.. For me it's very important to have natural sounds, and also I talk a lot with the people when I'm photographing.
What lies ahead for you?
I think it's better not to plan.
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Sneak Preview of London's Bike Rental Scheme
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Finally London is getting a bike rental scheme, along with Paris, Montreal, Barcelona and many others. It will be up and ready next summer, but new details of the programme are being announced and bike docking stations are already being installed throughout central London.
The users will pay an access fee to join, on a daily, weekly or yearly basis. The first half hour will be free and up to an hour will be a pound ($1.62 US), with charges rising for longer periods. It will be £4 for an hour and a half and £15 for three hours. As the Mayor, an infamous cyclist himself, said "It is amazing how far your bike can take you in 30 minutes if you put in a bit of pedal power."
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The pricing increases with the length of rental. There will also be a late-return charge of £150 if a bike is kept longer than the access period, or for more than 24 hours. This encourages short journeys and quick returns so that someone else can use it.
There will be 6,000 bikes and 400 docking stations. The black and silver bicycles are variations of the Canadian Bixi, already in use in Montreal. They are made of light aluminium and have an elasticised bag carrier in the front. They are three-speed, with lights that come on automatically and puncture-resistant tires. The seats are adjustable. No helmets are provided.
Image from London Evening Standard: Docking Station in Progress
It has not been smooth sailing. Some shops and area municipalities are fighting against having docking stations in their vicinity. There have been some high-profile refusals - the Corporation of London objects to a stand near St Paul's Cathedral. It claims that the docking station could endanger workers and tourists. Islington has opposed a stand in the street where Mayor Johnson lives.
But so far planning permission for more than three-quarters of the 400 docking stations has been received and a summer start up is envisioned.
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Ain't No Shootin' Here
a short by Avan Judd Stallard
When gold-miner Merk headed into town to get back what had been stolen from him, he didn't expect to be ambushed by the town Sheriff. Now his horse is crippled and a gunfight is raging, yet neither man can shoot worth a damn. When the bullets run out and both are still standing, Merk sees his opportunity. The fight isn't over. It's only just begun.
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Merk could hear the bullets slicing the air. The close ones, the ones he knew were just a few inches above his head. The sound reminded him of his brother, back when, blowing hard through a gap in his teeth till the rush of air pitched just shy of a whistle.
Two shots in quick succession thudded into the meat of Merk's horse. The mare whinnied and kicked her legs; her neck arched so that she was looking at the sky, then her head slammed back onto brown dirt. Blood trickled from her nose and froth started to collect where the steel bit lodged at the back of her mouth.
"You hit my horse again, you son a bitch!" yelled Merk.
He shook his head and flared his nose and mashed his lips till he looked as animal as his own dying horse. He'd sooner kill a man than a good ride. He might yet. But first things first. He wriggled towards the head of his mare.
"I'm sorry ol' girl."
The first bullet had taken her in the shoulder, catching both off-guard. Now she had three pieces of fractured lead lodged in meat and bone. Merk reached his hand up and petted his mare along the forehead. It brought the beast no comfort.
Merk positioned the barrel of his 32-20 Winchester rifle under the horse's chin and rested his finger on the trigger.
"God-damn it."
A bigger caliber slug would have no problem finding its way to the horse's brain—end her suffering—but the 32-20 was no horse-killer. Merk used it to shoot varmints. If he pulled that trigger, likely as not the lead would ricochet from bone and smash through jaw, face, eye or neck. She'd still be alive, only worse. Merk couldn't get into a position to rest the barrel right on her skull, end her suffering, not while the Sherriff kept blasting away with his cannon.
The plain sound of impact, intimate and modest compared to the thunder of the weapon, was a deceptive accompaniment to the violence wrought. A flap of skin on the horse's shoulder poked up where lead had filleted skin from flesh. A thin stream of blood drained onto Merk's shirt as he pushed up against her. His ear was next to her chest. He listened to her labor at the work of breathing. She sucked long but shallow, fighting the sensation of choking as her own blood filled a lung and spilled into her throat.
"You stop shootin' and let me kill my god-damn horse!"
The bullets stopped. Merk waited a tick. He poked his head above the saddle. It was an ugly head, even uglier than normal with the clotted gash separating his left brow and the blue-black swelling where his right check should have formed a ridge. The Sheriff unleashed a volley.
"Hey! Hey!" Merk hollered as he ducked down.
Two more bullets ripped into the mare's flesh. Merk didn't see the surge of fury coming. It took him like it owned him. He jumped to his feet. Stood tall. Aimed. Fired. Stepped over his mare—kept on. Bullets zipped by close enough for him to hear their breathy whistle, but he charged the Sheriff anyway, one step at a time, varmint-shooter blazing.
Sixteen bullets, spent five, got eleven reckoned Merk as he strode forward, angry, but with a mind to stay alive.
Minus one. Fifteen.
Minus one. Fourteen.
Minus one and already he'd lost count, but he kept on firing as fast as he could sling the lever. The Sheriff kept at it, too. Stood in his door with a six-shooter held as far in front of him as he could push it, the way old men read a book. Merk fired and the Sheriff fired and Merk fired and the Sheriff fired, neither hitting anything that deserved a bullet. Merk was twenty yards away when he pulled the lever on his Winchester and yanked down on the trigger, only to hear a dread absence of sound as a tiny lead pin punched air.
The Sheriff was still shooting and Merk was in the open, the cover of his dying horse behind him. He dropped his rifle and sprinted, screaming a war cry like the Injuns in the pulp novels his brother read him. It wasn't the cry of a man lost of sense, gone berserk, though it must have sounded that way to the Sheriff. It was the cry of a man with an empty rifle, intent on scaring the shit right out a man's asshole.
The Sheriff backed away as he worked the hammer on his six-shooter till he was pounding on hollow casings. He looked at the man coming to kill him then looked at his gun, measuring the two. The Sheriff stumbled backwards and slammed the door of the building. He lunged for his desk where he had an open box of slugs. His fat fingers pulled the pin that released the cylinder. He bashed the empty shells out then picked up the box and slapped it upside down. Shiny brass cartridges spilled across his desk. He fumbled.
Merk's boot pounded the door. The iron latch ripped through its wood casing. Splinters scattered the floor, then there he was, filling the empty frame where the door had been.
The Sheriff only had time to poke a single cartridge into the chamber. He slapped the six-shooter together and raised it. He pointed it right at Merk and fired. Booth stood there. Both expected Merk to fall down dead.
After a few moments of silence and still, Merk dropped his head and looked at his body. He knew that sometimes a man didn't feel it till later. But there were no pieces missing. No blood. He wasn't dead and wasn't hurt. Merk looked at the Sheriff.
The Sheriff span on his heel. His right arm reached out and swept up a handful of cartridges from his desk. He kept on and into the open cell. As he went, he grabbed the iron grill, slamming it shut and locking himself inside, but the cost of his retreat was to spill the only rounds in his clutch. They made a tinking sound as they bounced on the floor. The Sheriff took a step back, automatic, out of danger's reach.
Merk stopped, looked at the cartridges spilled across the desk, on the floor, then lifted his gaze to the Sheriff. The Sheriff lurched forward onto his knees. His arm reached between the bars and his fingers grabbed at the brass pills.
Merk skipped, his body lifting high in the air like a lithe girl jumping rope. All his force was directed into the heel of his right boot—and down it came, plum in the center of the Sheriff's hand.
The Sheriff wailed, yanked his hand inside the bars, scampered backwards on all fours till out of reach. Locked in his own cell.
Merk walked forward. He grabbed the iron bars and tested them. Good and locked.
The Sheriff got to his feet. He went to the back of the cell and sat down on the bare trundle that passed for a bed. He nursed his throbbing hand.
"I think you broke it, you bastard piece of shit. You'll hang."
Merk grunted his understanding of the situation. He picked up one of the cartridges from the Sheriff's desk and held it close to his eyes.
"Say, Sheriff. What caliber?"
"44. Dumb son of a bitch. 'Bout twice as much as your pea-shooter can handle."
"Figured some'n like 'at."
From outside Merk heard the gargled whinny of his mare, slowly drowning to death in her own blood.
"Sheriff, you and I, we got business, but ain't involve my horse. She's a good ol' girl. Hate to see her suffer like that. Give you my word, you lend me that piece, I'll put her outa misery. Give it straight back to you. Got my word."
The Sheriff sat up. He leaned against the stone wall. With his good hand he stroked the manicured goatee covering his mouth.
"They said you was a queer son of a bitch, but that… shit, son, middle of a gunfight you ask another man for his weapon? You just about the dumbest ass-crack of a man I ever set eyes on."
" 'Atta no, then?"
The Sheriff stood up and lurched forward.
"That's a fuck you, you fuck'n cocksucker!"
Without losing his calm façade, Merk snapped forward, his right arm shooting through the bars, his big hand grabbing for the fleshy throat of the Sheriff. The old man jerked his head back and Merk snatched air.
Merk drew his arm back; breathed a heavy, long breath. He walked over to the desk and opened its drawers, rifling, looking.
The Sheriff laughed. He picked up the keys attached to a lanyard on his belt and shook them.
"Looking for these?"
Merk smiled.
"Here we be 'n, Sheriff. Don't know 'bout you, but I'm sure surprised I'm alive. I get you any?"
The Sheriff sat down. His only reply was a scowl.
"Nah, didn't think so. Lil' brother says need 'em spectacles on account a seein' fuzzy when I look a ways. I say, 'Why a gold miner need see so far?' Every wakin' hour got a pan six inches from my nose. Maybe you, though, Sheriff. God-damn, you is a mighty bad shot."
"I shoot fine."
"Oh, come now, Sheriff. Don't reckon neither us 'd hit a turd in a hole. Though you sure managed to find my ol' mare, plenty. What you got agin horses?"
"I was aiming for your gut."
"See? You are a bad shot. Anyways, you shouldn't shot my horse. All I come for is get what's mine."
"Self-defense. Any judge 'll see it that way."
"Agin a horse?"
"Against you, you simpleton fuck."
"Hell, you take 'em things I say serious? Only words, Sheriff."
" 'Next I see you I'm gonna shoot you, gut you, and me and my horse are gonna take a hot shit on your chest.' I believe they were your exact words."
"I may a spoken outa sorts—on account my passions bein' inflamed. That's what they say, ain't it? Inflamed? Like a fire."
Merk grunted disinterest for his own question. Thought a second. Then: "But you do have what's mine."
"Horseshit. I got what the government's owed. Unpaid tax. According to law."
"Yessir, owed forty dollars in tax and fees. Guilty as charged. You gone took it all, though. Musta been nearly three hundred in gold. Now, mistakes happen, so you take Uncle Sam's cut, gimme back what's mine, I be on my way."
"Fuck yourself."
Merk nodded.
"Mm-hmm. Thought you'd say that."
Merk reached into his pocket, pulled out a few coins. He held them close to his face.
"Reckon I got… nearly dollar twenty. Now, I'm gonna tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take my dollar twenty next door, o'er Mr Harper's store, buy me two bullets. One a them bullets for my horse. The other's for you, Mr Sheriff."
Merk gathered up the cartridges spilled across desk and floor, careful to make sure he had every last one.
"Don't you go anywhere, now," said Merk, knowing that if the Sheriff made a run for it he was too slow to get far.
"Fuck you."
Merk walked out of the building. The Sheriff could hear the footsteps on his porch, then along the porch of the building next door. He couldn't hear whatever conversation was taking place, but Merk was only gone a few moments before he strode back inside.
"Darndest thing," said Merk, kicking one heel out and resting his thumbs in his pockets. "Mr Harper wouldn't sell me no bullets. Seems a have some notion a me wanting to kill you, on account all the shootin'. Friend o' yours?"
"That he is."
"Figures. I sees you didn't try 'n run. Wouldn't done no good. You too fat and old to get far."
"You're just all talk now, boy. Get the fuck outa my jail. Fuck outa my town!"
"Mighty confused, seems to me, Sheriff. I ain't in your jail. You in your jail. You all trapped, like one them rabbits in my snares. Yessir, you trapped, old man. And I'll god-damned starve you out, need be."
"Go ahead. But my deputy's due back in a few hours. And I assure you, he's got plenty a bullets. More than enough for your sorry carcass."
"That so?"
Merk paced the floor.
"Appreciate that info'mation. Seems we need speed this up."
Merk looked around the building. No key. No weapons. There was a length of rope hanging from a hook. Merk grabbed it and tied a knot at one end, forming a lasso.
"Oh, oh, that's real good, dummy," said the Sheriff. "You think you're gonna rope me like a steer? Well come on."
Merk walked across to the bars. He sized up the Sheriff.
"Nah, I ain't gon' rope you, Sheriff. Not yet. Move too much, even if you are slow. And got them hands that a steer ain't got. Nah, I ain't gon' rope you. Yet."
"You ain't gonna rope me never! But you'll be getting acquainted with that rope, boy, real soon. Oh, it's gonna be a good hanging. Reckon I know just the tree."
Merk said nothing. He walked back to the Sheriff's desk and threw the rope down. He picked up a thin pulp novel, tattered and yellowed. The cover showed a cowboy wielding two revolvers, blazing away at a group of Indians on horseback.
"You like these, too? Lil' brother likes these. Can't read 'em meself. Never did learn. Some men ashamed a that fact." Nnn-nnn, hummed Merk, "I ain't ashamed. We all got dif'nt skills. Me? Good with my hands. Good at makin' stuff. All kinda stuff."
"Keep talking, asshole. Deputy Monroe's getting closer by the word."
"Injuns," said Merk, holding the pulp novel close to his face. "Ain't know any meself, but bet they plenty good at makin' stuff, too. Gone give me an idea, Sheriff."
Merk pulled the bowie knife from his belt. The Sheriff stood tall, backing away to a corner. Merk laughed.
"Don't be scared now, Sheriff, not a this. Hell, you think I'd throw this ol' thing? Look."
Merk closed the door to the building then backed up. He grabbed the knife by the blade, sharp side up, and hurled it at the door. The knife twisted through the air. It hit the wood and fell to the floor.
"See? I ain't no Davey Crockett."
"What the fuck you gonna do, then, boy? Hmm? Time's a ticking. And I ain't getting any younger."
Merk raised an eyebrow and smiled. He strode outside and round back of the Sheriff's building where Merk knew a stand of green saplings grew. He hacked into the base of the saplings with his bowie knife, felling four that were small and thin, and one larger, though not so large as to have lost its suppleness. He quickly shaved along the lengths of the cuttings, stripping leaves and twigs, then chopped the ends off. He grabbed up the bundle, walked around the building and threw them inside. He continued on to the General Store where Mr Harper, with no more than a vague glower, agreed to sell him some twine.
On the way back, Merk stopped, looking out at his horse. He could still see her tail slapping at the dirt, still see her chest moving, still hear her drowning.
"Hey. Hey! Can som'un shoot my god-damned horse? Hey! Ain't no shootin' out here now. Som'un shoot my god-damned horse. Gene. Gene! I see your head stickin' outa there. Gene, I swear to God… All I'm askin' is you put that mare outa her misery. Ain't no shootin' here, promise."
The door to a little cabin on the other side of the street closed. When it opened an older man had a rifle in his hand. Merk nodded his thanks and walked back into the Sheriff's building. A few moments later, Merk heard a gunshot.
Merk got straight to work with his cuttings. He whittled a groove in the largest sapling right the way round its girth, about an inch from its end. It married with another groove he carved longways across its nub. He did the same at the other end.
"What the sweet Jesus you doin', boy? You think you gonna burn me out with them twigs?" said the Sheriff, shaking his head. "You just plain dumb, ain't ya? Came out your Mummy's filth dumb."
Merk kept working, moving on to the smaller cuttings. He sharpened one end of the thinner saplings, and notched a groove in the other.
"If you so smart," said Merk, without looking up, "why is it you ain't know what I'm doin'?"
"Cause you ain't doin' shit!" roared the Sheriff.
Merk kept at it. When he was done he put the sharpened saplings in a pile then sat down on the Sheriff's desk. He looked over at the Sheriff inside his cell, reclined against the stone wall. His swollen right hand was upturned, rested on his lap.
"Just so's yer know, Sheriff, wasn't my intention to kill yer, if it so comes to pass. But, hell, this is my first time playin' Injun. Could be I get you just so, how's I like. Could be I don't even scratch yer mangy hide. Could be I kill you. S'pose it don't much matter now, not after you shot my pretty little horse and stole everythin' I worked for, and tellin' me I'll hang for my troubles."
"You got delusions, boy. Jesus Christ, I seen some idiots, but you… What you gonna do, poke me? Poke me like half the town poked your sister?"
"You shut yo' mouth!" yelled Merk, jumping to his feet. He wanted to say more, but the anger that filled him with resolve drained him of words.
Merk snatched the big sapling from the desk and the length of twine. He wrapped the twine three times round where he'd notched a groove, then tied it off. He ran the twine over the notch in the end of the cutting, then down along the sapling's length and over the opposite groove.
He flipped the cutting, so the tied end was on the ground, and jammed it up against his boot. He lent down on the sapling with his weight so that it bowed into an even curve. Merk pushed down a little more, then let off some. He liked what he saw.
He angled the twine down into the intersecting groove across the girth of the sapling. He looped it three times and tied a knot. Merk eased off. The twine pulled taught. He held up his creation and examined it, plucking it like a string instrument. At the dull twang, Merk smiled.
He picked up one of the other cuttings and walked across to the iron bars of the Sheriff's cell.
"What the sweet Jesus?" said the Sheriff, at once filled with disbelief and understanding.
Merk held his makeshift bow in one hand and threaded his makeshift arrow with the other. The little groove he'd notched in the cutting's end helped hold it in place. He pulled his arrow back as far as he could; stuck the point through the bars.
"You nothin' but a bully and a bad man, Sheriff."
Merk aimed, held steady, released. The arrow sped its way, shaking its tail. It smashed into the stone wall just next to the Sheriff's face. The Sheriff jumped in the opposite direction to the ricocheting arrow.
"You fuck'n crazy! What sorta backwoods coon huntin' bullshit?" hollered the Sheriff.
"Works better 'n 'spected. Who woulda thunk it?"
Merk got another arrow from the desk.
"Last chance now, Sheriff. Don't 'spect I'll miss again."
"I'm gonna fucking kill you for this you dumb prick," said the Sheriff through gritted teeth and scowl.
Merk fitted the arrow, pulled it back till the string wouldn't pull any further. The Sheriff started jigging from one side of his cell to the other. Merk's aim followed the moving target. Just as the Sheriff stopped and changed direction, Merk fired, trying for his gut, but the arrow's tip dipped down and it didn't recover. It met its mark midway along the Sheriff's upper left leg, tearing through pants and burying a good inch into his thigh. The Sheriff dropped to the ground and screamed.
Merk skipped back to the desk and grabbed his rope. He dangled it through the bars and let out the lasso so it was a gaping noose. He gave himself some throwing slack.
"Fuck you, Merk, you're dead! Dead!" screamed the Sheriff.
Merk used his wrist to get up a swing. He chucked the lasso. The Sheriff was still sitting on the floor, pressing down around the arrow with his good hand. The lasso landed on top of the Sheriff's outstretched leg. Merk pulled quick, jagging the Sheriff's boot, but the old man kicked at the last moment and the lasso jerked free.
The Sheriff grabbed the arrow and yanked it out of his body. His pants were wet with blood, though it was hard to see the red on the brown fabric.
Merk dropped his rope. He retrieved the bow. Got another arrow. The Sheriff pushed himself up so that he was standing, leaning heavily on one side.
"Listen now," said the Sheriff. "You ain't thinking straight. Killing a lawman 'll get you killed. Stop this madness now. You git on your way. Stop this business, no grudges."
Merk paused.
"Sheriff, reckon I'm thinkin' 'bout straight as I'm shootin'. Seems it's you who ain't got his head on. Gimme that gold back, I be on my way."
"Help!" hollered the Sheriff. "Help! He's tryin' to kill me! Help! Harp! Harp!"
"Heck, Sheriff, no one's comin' a help. You got yo'self in it, you git yo'self outa it. You know how to end it."
"I don't have your fucking gold. It's gone. Gone."
"Mmhmm. But then you confess to takin' what wasn't yours?"
"I had to ride out to the asshole of nowhere, out through fucking scrub and them prickles in them hills, looking for you and your brother for two god-damn days. I earned it. It's mine. Fuck you!"
"So you confess."
"Confess? Hell I do. All I confess is sticking my cock up your sister's—"
In a single movement Merk raised the bow and fired before the Sheriff could finish spitting his bile. The arrow—just a cutting from a kinked sapling—twirled in a funny way, but shot true, hitting the Sheriff in the chest, lodging at a crooked angle.
The Sheriff slumped back and dropped to the trundle. His head slouched so that he was looking at the arrow sticking out of his chest. He grabbed it with his good hand and tried to pull it free, one quick jerk. It didn't move.
Merk picked up his lasso, measured the weight and cast. The lasso dropped round the Sheriff's neck; Merk yanked down and it tightened under his jaw. Merk quickly hauled back and the Sheriff sprawled forward. The Sheriff kicked with his feet and scraped with his hands, but Merk already had momentum. In a few hauls the Sheriff was pulled up hard against the bars of his cell.
Merk threw a fist through the bars, landing blows on the side of the Sheriff's head. Then Merk tied the rope off on another bar.
The Sheriff wheezed, the rope choking him of air. Merk reached into the cell and plunged his hand into the Sheriff's pocket. He came out with a handkerchief. He threw it away and moved to the Sheriff's other side. He found his pocket and straight away felt something. He pulled it out. A little leather pouch tied shut.
Merk recognized it. Teddy's pouch. Teddy and Merk's gold inside.
The Sheriff gasped and spluttered, trying to wedge a finger between the noose and his throat. Merk stood up. He untied the pouch and looked inside. He saw a rich pile of fine golden flakes. He held the pouch over the Sheriff's head and tipped it up a little, enough for a shower of gold dust and flakes to rain down on the spluttering man. They settled on his balding head and ruddy face and flecked his bloody shirt.
"Reckon that be 'bout what we owe, give o' take. Now, all's I need do so we settled…"
Merk tied the pouch and put it in his pocket. He crouched down and reached an arm through the bars. He gripped hold of the arrow. The Sheriff's eyes bulged; his good hand shot out and held on to its middle.
Merk let go. He balled a fist and punched the Sheriff in the face, swung back and punched him in the face, punched him in the face, punched him in the face, then the Sheriff dropped his hand. Merk grabbed the arrow and pushed. It didn't budge. Merk figured it was caught on bone, maybe cartilage, so he put some pressure on to change the angle, then pushed. It jagged past whatever was stopping it and started tearing deeper into the Sheriff's body. The old man screamed an empty scream. He didn't have breath for sound.
Merk felt neither pity nor remorse. He was just doing what needed doing. He kept pushing the arrow, threading it with patience and care, like he might thread a fat needle through hessian. Merk felt the arrow punch through into lesser resistance. When he stopped, the arrow must have been near four inches deep in the Sheriff's chest. Merk was satisfied. He stood up.
"Breathe, Sheriff," said Merk, untying the rope from the bar. "Breathe just like my mare."
The Sheriff gulped down big breaths that didn't sound so bad going in, but sounded like a man gargling water going out. Merk bent down, took his bow, slung it round his shoulder. He walked across to the Sheriff's desk and picked up the novel he'd looked at earlier. He folded it long-ways and shoved it in his back pocket. He reached into his side pocket and felt out a coin. He dropped it on the desk.
Merk found his rifle in the dirt just beyond the porch. He picked it up, dusted it off. He walked across to his dead horse, paused long enough to shake his head, kept walking.
He wasn't far gone when he noticed the burn in his knuckles. He held his fist up close to his face. In the afternoon sun he could see flecks of gold pressed into his skin. Flecks punched clean off the Sheriff's face.
"Hmph," grunted Merk. "Reckon just made me fifty cents."
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Jennifer Ribar ׀Todd Capistrant ׀ Marjorie Kasten ׀ Byron Perkins ׀ Candy Clawson ׀ Jose Figueroa ׀ Mary Joy ׀ Gene Lenard ׀ Angela Lim ׀ Ann Shea ׀ Holly Macriss
Jennifer Ribar, D.O.
Jennifer Ribar, D.O., is originally from Fairbanks, Alaska. She is a graduate of Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine in Yakima, Washington, where she was introduced to the model in her first year. She currently lives in East Lansing, Michigan and works as a resident in the Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine (ONMM) residency program at Michigan State University. She uses the FDM on many of her patients at MSU, and really enjoys teaching rotating students, and really anyone who wants to listen, about the model. The FDM is an integral part of her practice, and she believes that many of her patients' successes are due to this valuable tool. She is hoping to incorporate FDM research into her time at MSU. She has particular interests using the FDM in athletes and for pelvic pain. As a new member of the AFDMA board she hopes to bring a fresh perspective and energy to the rapidly expanding organization.
Todd Capistrant, D.O.
Past President
Todd Capistrant, D.O., originally hails from Minnesota. He is a graduate of Des Moines University and U of MN Bethesda Family Practice Residency. After residency he joined a busy practice in western Wisconsin. He moved his family to Alaska to pursue his passion for dog sled racing and the beauty of Alaska. He and his family have competed in and completed the famous Iditarod Sled Dog Race and they still have a team of sled dogs. His daughters have taken over the role of racing the dogs. Now that Todd is spending less time racing dogs he has embraced teaching and spreading the FDM. He works as a member of department of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, Tanana Valley Clinic/ Banner Health in Fairbanks, Alaska. His practice has grown rapidly over the past years in large part due to the power of incorporating the FDM in to his Osteopathic practice. He feels the FDM provides a valuable perspective through which all of Osteopathic Medicine can be explained. He is particularly excited about the freshness that the FDM brings to his practice of medicine, enabling him to treat injuries that had previously not been possible. In the spring of 2011 he was honored with the "Rising Star" award by the Northwest Osteopathic Medical Foundation. Dr. Capistrant is a certified FDM instructor and is very interested in teaching the FDM to change the way musculoskeletal injuries are treated in modern medicine.
Marjorie Kasten, P.T.
Marjorie Kasten, P.T. has been working to advance the FDM from behind the scenes since early 1997 when she started asking Stephen Typaldos "What can I do to help you?" That help included editing his books, taking photographs and videos to be used in his seminars, webmaster, bookkeeper, and assisting in any way possible to bring Dr. Typaldos' vision forward. She started the AFDMA in motion in 2007 and has served as the Executive Director. She developed FDM Inversion Therapy based on Typaldos' model and has taught inversion in Japan, the US, Austria and Germany. She has also been a table trainer at numerous FDM courses in the US. She enjoys teaching and looks forward to more opportunities because "The FDM has truly changed my life." Her private practice physical therapy office offers only FDM treatments. In 2010 she wrote two books: An Introduction to the Fascial Distortion Model and Which Way is Up When You're Upside Down? (FDM Inversion Therapy Explained). Pictured here with her husband John, she is looking forward to writing more books about the Fascial Distortion Model.
Byron Perkins, D.O.
Byron Perkins, D.O., from Anchorage, Alaska, is a founding member and a Past-President of the AFDMA. He is a certified FDM instructor and he uses the FDM daily in his family practice at Cornerstone Clinic in Anchorage. Dr. Perkins enjoys teaching medical students and actively promotes the FDM to every medical student, intern, or resident who comes through his office. He brought the FDM to Burkina Faso, West Africa and Mongolia in 2009 and he returns to assist in the FDM Seminars in Burkina Faso held yearly by the EFDMA. Growing up in Japan, he speaks Japanese and has a heart connection with Japan. After the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, he joined with some of our FDM practitioners in Japan and they provided free clinics in some of the devastated areas, correcting as many injuries as they could in a few days.
Candy Clawson, D.O.
Director at Large
Bio coming soon.
Jose Figueroa, D.O.
Director at Large
Bio coming soon.
Mary Joy, D.O.
Director at Large
Bio coming soon
Angela Lim, D.O.
Director at Large
Angela Lim D.O. hails from Southeast Michigan. A graduate of Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, she is AOBFP and AOBNMM board certified, and completed her combined Family Medicine/Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine residency in Grand Rapids, Michigan. After residency, Angela accepted a position with a small Northern California community health system as a family medicine physician. About a year went by and Angela decided that OMM is truly her calling and passion, so she worked with NorthBay to establish a full time OMM practice, which has been quite successful. In 2016, Angela was exposed to FDM during a pre-Convo course and it changed the trajectory of her practice. During the course, she experienced firsthand what a remarkable difference FDM techniques made for her chronic problems. Bringing FDM back to her practice, she noticed rapid, significant improvements in patient outcomes. Since that first module, Angela has been spreading FDM to anyone willing to listen. Third year students from Touro California who rotate with Angela have expressed how grateful they are being taught FDM and how to incorporate it in their basic OMM foundation. Fellow physicians, DOs and MDs alike, are highly interested in FDM as well as the physical therapists working with Angela at NorthBay. Angela hopes to continue working on her FDM knowledge and skills as well as to help spread the knowledge through teaching and publications.
Gene Lenard, D.O.
Director at Large
Gene Lenard, D.O., from the San Diego area, is a Past President of AFDMA and another enthusiastic advocate for the FDM. He was introduced to the FDM by Dr. Ray Andreassen at an AKOMA conference and credits Stephen Typaldos and the FDM with giving him his wife back. He has hosted an FDM Module 1 Seminar in San Diego in 2009 and is planning on another one in 2012. Dr. Lenard is our newest certified FDM instructor and he really enjoys instructing both medical students and physicians in the FDM. He looks forward to leading the AFDMA as we expand the number of courses we offer and begin developing research projects in the FDM. It is an exciting time to lead this vibrant young organization.
Ann Shea, S.O., Au.D.
Honorary Board Member
Ann Shea was introduced to the FDM through her relationship with Stephen Typaldos and is a strong advocate for the FDM. She is a Doctor of Audiology, and brings many talents and ideas with her. Dr. Shea has attended International FDM Symposiums in Hawaii, Japan, and Austria, and sat in on numerous FDM seminars. In this photo she is sitting outside Keisuke Tanaka's office in Fukuoka, Japan. She has a strong background in the model, and commitment to Stephen Typaldos' vision.
Holly Macriss
Executive Director
With over 20 year of association management experience, Holly has valuable experience within the Osteopathic medicine and FDM. She was the Executive Director of the Alaska Osteopathic Medical Association (AKOMA) when Stephen Typaldos, D.O. went in Alaska for the first time in 2004 to teach FDM. Holly witnessed the enthusiasm of the doctors attending the seminars and became a great promoter and proponent for Dr. Typaldos and FDM training. She was instrumental in bringing the FDM to Hawaii, where AFDMA held the first US FDM seminar and international meeting following Dr. Typaldos' passing. We welcome Holly and are thankful for the experience and enthusiasm that she brings to our board.


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A white clay kitty with the same decoration as the large on that I thought may be Parkinson (but it's not). This little chap has minor damage to his right ear. Height approx 65mm. Not seen one of these before. He is marked.
If you look closely he has a splash of deep blue glaze on his right ride (our left) so I'm thinking he, the penguin and the big at were probably made at a similar time – that blue glaze is the same as used on the poison range.
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It's beginning to make perfect sense.
The power of the individual, the importance of personal brand and the ability for an individual to control what they do and how they do it has never been clearer and easier. All this, even though thanks to the internet, the personal brand has more facets to control, manipulate and keep track of.
The internet has improved connectedness, improved communication, broken down barriers and enabled anyone to talk to anyone. There is more opportunity for an individual to customise their lives and personal image now than there ever has been. Seth Godin is living proof of the way in which people can drive their lives around their passion. His passion for marketing has led to a successful blog, several books and other ventures and enterprises which have sprouted from this.
In one of his many blog posts he very nicely sums up how the recession will always come and go, but in order to get out of it people need to become empowered and find their own way. You can't expect the factory to give you a job anymore.
"When everyone has a laptop and connection to the world, then everyone owns a factory. Instead of coming together physically, we have the ability to come together virtually, to earn attention, to connect labor and resources, to deliver value."
At a London Web event last summer (you know, the real summer when it rains and isn't sunny!), Thomas Power guided an audience of attentive web geeks into the subject of personal branding. Most members of the audience were expecting a talk on the Gamification of Websites, but Thomas Power explained his take on the real game. The personal brand game.
He is a walking example of playing the game. He started a social networking site, has maxxed out friend and connection requests on many social networking websites, talks about social networking, branding and many other things. Thomas Power has also chosen his own route through life with great success, using his knowledge of the game to discuss the game some more.
Starting an online presence is easy – Facebook, LinkedIn, WordPress, Flickr and Tumblr are all starting points for expressing who you are, what you want to do and what you can offer the world. Maintaining a personal brand which maintains a high level of engagement and high standards, is difficult.
Whilst it's something which is observed every day, until this point I hadn't understood the importance of the personal brand and personal self connection. Everyone has an opportunity to create their own brand online and offline, and to utilise that as they desire. I do think that it's still important to understand how best to use a brand, and how to put across a certain message.


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Seminar Series
The Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute organizes a formal weekly seminar series to provide students exposure to areas of neuroscience beyond their immediate research interests. The series frequently features off campus and international speakers.Seminars continually rank very highly among students.
NMHI graduate students must attend lectures as part of their program requirements.


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By Carla Helené Ezell
"A gift opens doors; it gives access to the great." Proverbs 18:16
I grew up reading this scripture all the time. It has always been one of my favorites. To me, this scripture means that a person can do anything they set your mind to do. Their gifts, talents, callings... they will open doors and make room for someone and beyond honing those gifts and practicing so they are ready to proceed when the right doors open, all a person has to do is have fun moving forward into their destiny. That's it!
But on a deeper level, this passage meant that the playing field was level. A person's connections (or lack thereof) didn't matter as much as the abilities that God placed inside of them because when it came down to it, those abilities would be all that really mattered. One's background, no matter how enriched or how disadvantaged it may be, couldn't stop a person who was blessed with the ability to do something they were meant to do. This text meant, we are all special in an individually unique way and nothing and no one could stand in the way if someone was supposed to do something. Destiny.
How refreshing. How empowering! How naive.
What I did not take into account in my youthful gullibility was that despite one's talents, things would not always be as easy as just doing the best one could and walking the path. Sometimes, there would be challenges along the way that threatened to relieve a person of their predestined path. There would be events and people along the way that try to actively stop them from succeeding. What a twist of fate, huh?
But no matter, we were designed to overcome obstacles such as these.
to do through me because it challenged them or made them uncomfortable for some reason. They had other ideas of what they thought should happen in my life or in their churches despite God's will He had so graciously revealed to me AND them. For various reasons, whether it was because they wanted someone else to take a position over me because I didn't know them as well as the other candidate did or they didn't care for my style so they tried to usurp my calling and play chess with my anointing... Man, I got stories for days...
But honestly, none of that really mattered. When the rubber met the road, those blocks did not stop what God wanted to do for me... through me... in me. All they did was create plot twists in my story that made for a much more compelling read. What those setbacks did do was strengthen my faith. They forced me to remain humble and dig deeper into my relationship with God so I didn't miss what was in store. Character building experiences... that's what they became - moments in which I had to choose to become more than I had been before.
I'm not saying it was easy by any means. It wasn't easy. It was really difficult. At times it felt downright impossible.
The point is this: do not let anything make you doubt what God said would happen. When you KNOW that you KNOW that you KNOW you are doing what you are supposed to be doing, do not stop doing it! Sometimes the manifestation looks different than you originally imagined it. So what! Sometimes the promise takes a little longer to arrive than expected. But trust me, it WILL arrive. And when it does, you have to be ready for it. So while you're waiting, while you're struggling to keep your faith strong, remember you are in a season of preparation. And when God says, "now", you better be ready for immediate action.
2 Timothy 4:2 says to be ready at all times. Be ready while you wait.
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InvoTech is positioned to be a leading business incubator in KwaZulu-Natal to convert innovations and new technologies into sustainable and commercially viable businesses.
InvoTech's mission is to support small business entities upon start-up, by providing them with equipment, financial, legal, advisory and information services. It was set up in order to manifest support in creating and developing small businesses in the innovation sphere in the KwaZulu-Natal Province.
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Valentine's Day is coming up and everywhere you look the world is selling us love. This week I chose to focus on self love and my love for nature and the environment. I sorta feel like these are the things I really cherish at the moment and want to celebrate.
This brand called Ruby got in touch with me about a lingerie campaign they created focusing on exactly that; self love and love of nature. So their "Count Fracula" lingerie campaign highlights how the South African government recently gave oil corporations the go-ahead to explore for shale gas in the pristine Karoo region of their country. They chose to highlight this issue through a unique lingerie campaign.
They are giving away 5 of their lingerie sets! My favorite is the pastel tie-dye one. I'd probably wear it with high waist jean shorts and some sheer/lace long sleeve top over it :)
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Sometimes you need to accommodate extra guests, other times you need less room at the table. A table leaf allows you to conveniently adjust the size of your table to fit your needs.
Crafted of hand-sawn solid woods and made in the USA, the Achord counter height dining table highlights quality construction and materials. Tall splayed legs bring transitional appeal to the piece, which is perfectly sized for your kitchen dining area or casual dining room. The table is customizable with your choice of a wide variety of finish options, and four wood options, including red oak, cherry, quartersawn white oak, two tone, and red leaf maple. Perfect for everyday dining and larger dining affairs, the table includes two leaves so that you can create extra space for guests and food.
The Casual Dining Achord Counter Height Table with 2 12" Leaves by Oakwood Industries at Crowley Furniture & Mattress in the Kansas City Area: Liberty and Lee's Summit, MO & Overland Park, KS area. Product availability may vary. Contact us for the most current availability on this product.
Create a lasting impression in your home with the casual dining collection. Using the finest of oaks, cherries and maples as well as durable finishes, the natural allure of the woods radiate with a handsome shine while the quarter-sewn process provides a more stable establishment. Expertly crafted in the USA using traditional techniques and close attention to detail, the tables, chairs and china hutches range from traditional, mission and transitional styles. Better still, each of those designs blend effortlessly into almost any decor. Customization is also available with fabric, leather and wood chair seat options; oak, cherry, quarter-sewn, two tone and maple wood selection and a wide variety of stain finishes and hardware choices.With beauty, quality and durability to spare, the casual dining collection is sure to enrich your home for years to come.
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SAN MARCOS — The Leadership North County, or LNC, program recently announced that applications are now being accepted for the class of 2011. This program is offered through the Cal State University San Marcos Extended Learning with the goal of informing and inspiring leaders in North County.
LNC is a 10‐month comprehensive leadership program that fosters the growth of community leaders. With the hope that they will serve as catalysts in building a stronger region, LNC orients program participants to how the North County community functions and works to increase awareness of the issues affecting the area.
"I've found the entire LNC experience rich, dense, stimulating, exhausting, and totally worthwhile," said Beckie Garrett, governing board vice president for San Marcos Unified School District and participant in Leadership North County's class of 2010 program. å"LNC provides a look at the workings of our North County that I wouldn't otherwise have had the opportunity to see. The course offers a big picture view of how our region functions independently, as well as how it interacts with the rest of the county and state."
LNC launches a new program cohort each year in September, and the group meets one day a month through June. Each month, through seminars, tours and exercises, new regional issues or topics are explored including government, energy and water, economic drivers, land use, education, public safety, and health care.
Applications will be accepted through June 4. To download an application or to learn more about the LNC program, visit www.csusm.edu/LNC or call (760) 750‐4020.
The Coast News has been delivering high-quality news, community voice and storytelling since its inception in 1987. Since then, the news organization has grown into a successful newsgroup covering a majority of San Diego's populous North County region.


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Julien the "lazy" one, explains, "cooking is too much of a hassle. Not that I don't like cooking, but selecting an interesting recipe, going to the grocery store and choosing good products and the right ingredients is just too much."
Laurent is a food enthusiast: "I started cooking as a toddler with my grandparents and continued with my mom and my brother... I've always loved cooking and sharing tips and new recipes with friends and loved-ones."
And Vincent likes food, but his main concern is to stay in shape: "I don't particularly cook but I find cooking very important to stay healthy because you take the time to pick and to know exactly what you're eating--better things than in the supermarket. You are more prone to eat well if you cook.
We soon realized that together we could design a joyful cooking experience. No hassles, just simple pleasure. We wanted our members to discover or reconquer the amazing space that their kitchen could be.
As we launch our company we are well aware that there are health and ethical issues related to food between those who have too much and those who don't have enough. So we decided to do our part to fight excess weight by proposing only fresh and natural products, as well as combat hunger with our "Cook 1 Feed 1" program.


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Pranab admits food inflation dangerous
"Food inflation is still going high. It is dangerously above double-digit figure," Mukherjee told reporters here. The Finance Minister, however, said the recent spike in prices of food items was due to increased demand during the ongoing festive season.
"The high food inflation is the effect of festive season demand. November onwards, the trend for remaining four months (of the fiscal) would be available," he said. Mukherjee also termed the price situation as a matter of "grave concern" as food inflation has been in double digits for three consecutive weeks.
According to the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the surge in food prices has been mainly due to expensive vegetables, pulses, fruits and milk, putting more burden on the common man. It was 11.43 per cent in the week ending October 15.
While food prices are going up, there has been some decline in non-food primary articles, Mukherjee said. Inflation in non-food articles, including fibres, oil seeds and minerals, was at 6.43 per cent in the reporting week as against 7.67 per cent a week earlier. On a weekly basis, inflation in the overall primary articles category stood at 12.08 per cent, compared to 11.75 per cent in the previous week.


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When you major in one of our recreation programs, you follow in the footsteps of a long line of leaders in the field.
Our faculty are highly respected teachers and scholars who will give you the personal attention you need to succeed. You'll have the opportunity to do internships and fieldwork in parks, hospitals, recreation departments and other settings in the U.S. and abroad.
Our definition of "classroom" is extremely broad — you can get academic credit for kayaking, backpacking, rock climbing and other outdoor adventures.
Cortland has the longest-running and most comprehensive recreation program in New York. The core curriculum of all four degrees, as well as the therapeutic recreation program, are accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Parks, Recreation, Tourism and Related Professions (COAPRT).
Our alumni network of accomplished professionals, combined with your Cortland degree, will put you on the path to a rewarding career.
We are proud to launch three new social media accounts for the Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department. Stay up-to-date on department events by following and liking us on:
If you belong to a SUNY Cortland student group, tag us in your posts so we can share your information too!
Located in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains, SUNY Cortland's educational facilities on Raquette Lake include the Antlers lodge, Kirby Camp and Huntington Memorial Camp, the only National Historic Landmark in the SUNY system. This unique learning environment is great for research activities, teacher workshops and high school classes. Learn More. Get Directions.
Check out the Inclusive Recreation Resource Center headquartered at SUNY Cortland, and watch this short video about the IRRC.
Housed at SUNY Cortland, the Coalition for Education in the Outdoors is a national leaders in outdoor education.
The 69th Annual Cortland Recreation Conference is November 7-8, 2019 (Thursday and Friday). Visit the website to learn about more about the longest run student conference in the nation.
Visit the Cortland Bike Project site to learn more about the SUNY Cortland Bike Project.
The Therapeutic Recreation Online Graduate Certificate Program and the online M.S. are now accepting applications for Fall 2019. Learn more about the online certificate and how to apply.
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SEACON Exhibiting at Defence Technology Asia 2014
SEACON will be exhibiting at Defence Technology Asia (DTA) from the 21st – 22nd May at the Raffles Hotel, Singapore.
Defence Technology Asia features Air Defence Technology, Homeland Defence and Maritime Security, Helicopter Technology, Naval Surface Ships, Naval Technology, Renewable Energy, Satellite Technology and Submarine and ASW Conferences to form one of the technology events of the year.
Visit us on Sea and Land Technologies booth #7P22.


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Advances in technology within an evolving aviation industry are driving airline service providers to constantly upgrade conventional systems and deliver more innovative solutions. Besides increasing top line growth and improving operations efficiency, airlines today also need to satisfy the demands of the digitally empowered consumer, so they can stay ahead in the game. Partnering with the right IT solution provider can give airlines that competitive edge.
At IBS, we believe in engaging with our customers early in the process to identify business problems and design transformational IT solutions backed by our domain and technology expertise.
For our airline customers, we provide a broad portfolio of software products and services that address a wide range of mission critical and key business operations.
Our software products help airlines optimally manage a range of essential operations, including
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Our product portfolio is suitable for carriers of all sizes and business models – full service, low cost, hybrid, and charter carriers, as well as capable of supporting business model changes – for instance, if an airline decides to transform from a low-cost carrier to a hybrid or a full-service carrier, our personnel and solutions are capable of managing the transition with ease.
We also provide industry specific technology services to passenger airlines enabling them to enhance their revenue opportunities and improve operational efficiency. Some of these end-to-end information technology services include:
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This page lists a number of useful online resources provided by the City of Seattle.Seattle.gov is the City of Seattle's public website, a 24-hour City Hall for the citizens of Seattle. The Mayor's Office, the City Council, and most city departments, offices, agencies and boards are represented on the Seattle.gov website.
Seattle.gov is also a web portal. Our website allows you to find City information and services by different methods – a search engine, a city services index, a department directory, or by topic. The topical pages also include links outside of the City of Seattle – to the region, state, country and world.
KingCounty.gov is the King County public website, a 24-hour Information Kiosk for the citizens of King County, WA. The County Executive, the County Council, and most County departments, offices, agencies and boards are represented on the KingCounty.gov website.
KingCounty.gov is also a web portal. Our website allows you to Plan a bus trip, Get a job at King County, Report a compliment, question or issue, eFile Superior Court documents, Look up property values and much much more.
The purpose of Access Washington / WA.gov is to promote public service to citizens and businesses by:
- Expanding business and citizen access to government services and government information;
- Offering an easy and convenient process to conduct online transactions with State government;
- Accelerating the delivery of quality online government services;
- Improving the level of customer service from State government; and
- Extending online government services to all citizens in Washington State.


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Summer Vacation Activities in National Bal Bhavan, Delhi
See detail program, registration process, fees and other information of summer vacation activities for children at National Bal Bhavan, Delhi.
National Bal Bhavan organizes a list of activities on large scale for school going children each year in summer session(1st May to 30th June).Children between 5-16years of age are invited for the same this year.
Activities and program at Summer camp at National Bal Bhavan, Delhi
Creative Arts - Handicrafts,Painting & Batik,Needle craft,Weaving,etc.
Literary Activities - Creative Writing,Seminars & Debates,Quizzes,etc.
Photography - Coloured Photography/Black & White and allied jobs.
Performing Arts - Dance,Classical & Folk Music,Instrumental Music etc.
Science Activities - Radio & Electronics,Physical & Natural Sciences etc.
Integrated Activities - Toy making,Traditional art & craft,Paper machie etc.
Physical Education - Judo,Gymnastics,Yoga etc
Home Management - Flower Arrangement,Cooking,Food Preservation etc.
Publication related Activities-Book Illustrations,Making Cartoons & production
of Children Magazines etc.
Museum Techniques - Moulding & Casting,Exhibition Designing etc.
How to register for Summer vacation camp at National Bal Bhavan, Delhi
Open from 1st April,2011 on Tuesdays to Saturdays in between 9am to 4pm.
For registration,two passport size photographs & attested copy of age proof certificate by school will be needed.(Age as on 1st April will be considered)
Fees for Summer vacation camp at National Bal Bhavan, Delhi
Children between 5 to 12years - Rs50
Children between 12+ to 16years - Rs100
This is the membership fees for the whole year from 1st April,2011 to 31st March,2012.
Transport facility is available during the summer session for girls(upto 16years) & boys(upto 12years).
For details,contact National Bal Bhavan,Kotla Road,New Delhi
Reference: www.nationalbalbhavan.nic.in


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Below are some of the stocks making notable moves in the U.S. stock market on Monday.
Acura Pharmaceuticals ACUR, +22.86% shares rose 16.3% to $4.50 after the company said early Monday that the Food and Drug Administration had approved a pain treatment owned by Acura and Pfizer Inc. PFE, -0.25%
Biogen Idec Inc. BIIB, -0.22% shares gained nearly 4% after analysts at ISI Group upgraded their rating of the stock to buy from hold, citing the company's promising multiple sclerosis drug BG-12.Read more on Biogen in Biotech Stocks.
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Harbin Electric HRBN shares rose 59% to $13.35 after the company agreed to be bought for $24 a share. A group led by Harbin's chief executive is doing the buying. The company said it expects the deal to close in the fourth quarter.
Office Depot Inc. ODP, +4.86% shares rose 6.5% and OfficeMax OMXS30, +0.75% shares gained 7% after Oppenheimer analyst Brian Nagel said that Office Depot's CEO told him the company may be open to a potential deal with rival OfficeMax. The challenging economic environment and weak white collar jobs growth have hurt office products sales growth, Nagel said.
Carpenter Technology Corp. CRS, -2.15% shares jumped 8.4% after the company announced a definitive merger agreement with Latrobe Specialty Metals Inc. Carpenter will pay $558 million for Latrobe. Carpenter President and CEO William Wulfsohn said in a note he expects the acquisition to add to earnings in one year.
MolyCorp MCP, +2.32% shares added 7.2%. Last week, the company, which says it is the only producer of rare earth oxides in the Western hemisphere, said it had raised enough capital to complete an expansion.
Shares of Nabors Industries Ltd NBR, -1.69% fell almost 2% after the company said Monday that it expects second-quarter operating profit to be in the range of $165 million to $170 million, due to lower-than-expected results from its pressure pumping, U.S. offshore and international divisions.


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I recently finished Ritualistic Human Sacrifice by C. V. Hunt, published by Grindhouse Press, and have written a short review of the book at here at The Bold Mom. Don't worry, it's a work of fiction, not an instruction manual.
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Powered by a double-double from Karly Beyers and a career-high 24 points from Grace Rosa, the Allan Hancock College women's basketball team defeated Las Positas 61-48 to earn third place at Cuesta College's 34th annual Phillips 66 Invitational on Saturday. The Bulldogs went 2-1 during the three-day tournament to improve to 4-3. The Hawks fell to 1-8 overall.
Hancock led from start to finish. The Bulldogs led 14-8 after the first quarter and 32-25 at halftime. Las Positas climbed to within four points with about three minutes to go when Hancock responded with a run of its run. Taylor Lee-Hammer buried a three-point bucket as the shot clock expired. The sophomore guard followed it up with a steal and fed Beyers for a bucket to push the lead back up to nine.
Beyers finished with 15 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists for her second double-double of the season. Beyers went 6-for-12 from the field, and 3-for-7 from 3-point range. The Pioneer Valley High School graduate earned a spot on the All-Tournament Team.
Rosa made 11 of her 15 shots and both of her free throws to finish with a career-best 24 points. The sophomore center pulled down seven rebounds, two on the offensive end of the court.
Lee-Hammer finished with seven points, four rebounds and five assists. Anamarie Fruge chipped in four assists, two steals and four points. Freshman Brianna Rubalcaba came off the bench to add six points, three rebounds and two steals.
Overall, Hancock shot 52 percent from the field by sinking 26 of its 50 shots. The Bulldogs went 5-for-13 from 3-point range, and sank all four of their free throws.
Hancock will host its own tournament next week. The 20th annual Lady Bulldog Classic runs from Thursday, Dec. 7, through Saturday, Dec. 9. Hancock opens at 3 p.m. against the Vandenberg Air Force Base All-Stars. The Bulldogs teamed up with Toys for Tots, so fans who bring an unwrapped toy worth $10 or more will receive free admission to the tournament. The toys will be distributed to about 500 families in the Santa Maria area this holiday season. Hancock will host Cuesta, L.A. Harbor, College of the Siskiyous, College of the Sequoias and Santa Barbara City College.


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Hard drive and hard drive clone
A hard drive or said hard disk is one of the main storage mediums in the computer that made of aluminium or vitreous discs. According to the working principle, hard drive can be divided into HDD (Hard Disk Drive), SSD (Solid State Drive), HHD (Hybrid Hard Disk). Among them, SSD is commonly used for system and HDD is commonly used for data nowadays.
To clone a hard drive in Windows 7 means to copy all data completely from one hard disk to another through software or hardware. Generally, if you use software, it will write the contents of the whole hard drive into a backup file in case of the restoration next time.
Windows 7 hard drive clone usages
Some people don't know why to clone Windows 7 hard drive. Thus, some reasons are listed below:
- Reactivation and Restoration: hard drive clone can be used in the process of system recovery. It will clear original contents and restore system with the image file. At the same time, it may eliminate the computer virus which remain in the hard disk.
- Prepare for the installations on a new computer: you can install a software and use it immediately on a new computer. Besides, if you want to upgrade the hard drive, after buying a new one, you can avoid installing again by cloning.
- Full backup: You can do a full back up of OS and installed software in your computer. It may save a lot of time in system recovery in the future.
Clone hard drive in Windows 7 with free AOMEI Partition Assistant
Here's an easy way to clone hard drive with freeware - AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition. It supports Windows 10, Windows 8.1/8, Windows 7, Vista and XP.
Install and launch it. (Please make sure that there's an unallocated space on the destination hard disk or SSD. And it should be equal to or larger than the source disk or the used space on the source disk.)
Step1: Right click the hard disk (here is Disk 1) you want to clone and select "Copy Disk".
Step2: Please read the difference between two methods in the pop-up window. Here we choose the default one.
Step3: Select the destination disk. You can tick "Optimize the performance of SSD" to improve the reading and writing speed of SSD. (If there are partitions on the destination disk, they will be deleted. You can make a backup of data with free AOMEI Backupper if they are important.)
Step4: It allows you to adjust the partition size on the destination disk if you choose "Copy Disk Quickly". Choose the one you need. (here we don't make any change.)
Step5: After disk edit, click "Apply" to start cloning hard drive.
- If the hard drive which you want to clone contains system boot partition, the operation will be completed under PreOS Mode.
- Lost files can only be copied through "Sector-by-Sector Copy".