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Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) said Wednesday that President Obama's 2014 budget proposal got one thing right.
"The president's budget got one thing right: a clear and renewed commitment for improved national security by protecting plant and animal health," Roberts said. "I have been fighting, demanding and pleading with the administration, as have my congressional colleagues, to fulfill the pledge to build a much needed state-of-the-art National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF). Kansas State University will house the facility, building on the research that is already being done there.
"The $714 million included in the budget Wednesday helps achieve this vital national security mandate that everyone from the Department of Homeland Security to the Department of Agriculture believes we must have to ensure we are protected from a threat to the nation's plant or animal health.
"The real work to complete NBAF begins as we continue to fight to ensure this $714 million in funding is appropriated to advance construction of the NBAF in Manhattan and achieve this critical national security goal.
Beyond this commitment to finish work on NBAF, the president's budget was more of the same.
"I am very disappointed that the budget once again includes a misguided proposal to increase taxes on the business aviation industry. Especially since elsewhere in the same document, the president calls for investment in high-tech and innovative manufacturing. Business aviation perfectly fits the profile of a manufacturing sector we, and the president, should take every effort to encourage – creating good paying, high technology jobs.
"This budget repeats the attacks on the oil and gas industry, calling for targeted tax hikes on an industry that provides thousands of jobs in Kansas. Singling out this industry, which is crucial to economic growth, and a source of reliable income for many Kansas families, is particularly short-sighted.
"His budget raises over a trillion dollars in taxes and contributes a mere $119 billion in deficit reduction over 10 years. This is not the right formula to grow jobs and create stability in the economy."


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Assistant Professor in Social / Organisational Psychology
The role
The Department of Psychology at Durham University is seeking to appoint two exceptional scholars at Assistant Professor level in the field of Social / Organisational Psychology. The posts offer an exciting opportunity to join an outstanding research and teaching environment, and the successful candidates will play a significant role in establishing Durham as a world-leading centre for Quantitative Social Science. Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to, group decision-making, leadership, negotiation, co-operation, social dilemmas, team-working, creativity and innovation, workplace diversity, and intercultural communication.
Founded in 1952, the Department of Psychology is consistently ranked as one of the very best in the UK with an outstanding reputation for excellence in teaching, research and employability of our students. We are currently ranked 5th in the Complete University Guide, 7th in the Guardian University League Table, and in the top 100 of Psychology Departments world-wide according to the QS World Rankings. The department is extremely well-equipped for research, including facilities for fMRI, TMS, tDCS, EEG/ERP, VR, eye movement tracking, and biophysiological recording. The department also has a motion capture lab for analysis of visuomotor action and experiments in immersive VR, as well as setups for psychophysics including an echo-attenuated chamber. The department benefits from full IT and mechanical research support from departmental technicians.
Durham University is one of the world's top universities with strengths across the Arts and Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences. The University sits in a beautiful historic city where it shares ownership of a UNESCO World Heritage Site with Durham Cathedral. A collegiate University, Durham recruits outstanding students from across the world and offers an unmatched wider student experience. Less than 3 hours north of London, and an hour and a half south of Edinburgh, County Durham is a region steeped in history and natural beauty. The Durham Dales, including the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, is home to breath-taking scenery and attractions.
Vacancy Reference: PSYC19-58
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The watery mazes of mangrove forests provide habitat for tarpon and manatee alike. NPS image by Matt Johnson
The mangrove forests of Biscayne National Park are mysterious places that remind one of the jungles seen in old movies. From the water, unbroken lines of trees are visible with their beautiful, emerald leaves reaching over the water. The forest provides a seemingly impenetrable tangle of roots, arching from tree trunks in many directions. The park contains one of the longest continuous stretches of mangroves left on the Florida's East coast.
The word mangrove is used to describe several trees, not closely related to one another, that flourish in salty environments. Some are able to block salt from their roots while others secrete excess salt through their leaves, allowing them to thrive where other trees would die.
These mangroves, with their impenetrable root systems, help to keep park waters clean and clear. They slow water flow from the land into the bay and allow sediment to settle. Mangrove roots provide shelter for a host of marine organisms, especially the young and small. Tree branches provide breeding and nesting areas for birds including brown pelicans.
Leaves fall from mangrove branches year round. The leaves break down to become food for tiny marine organisms which, in turn, become food for larger organisms including commercially important species of fish, shrimp and lobster. Without healthy mangrove forests, Florida's vital recreational and commercial fisheries would drastically decline.
Three types of mangroves live along park shorelines and the fringes of islands. Starting from the water and working inland, red, black and then white mangroves are found.


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In 2013, Keenan Allen balled out as a rookie. He set a Charger rookie receiving yardage record and he continued to get better each and every game as the season progressed. He was voted as the "Offensive rookie of the year" by the Pro Football Writers of America; an organization that I have been a part of for the last 8 months. You know I voted for him.
Allen was suffering from a groin injury that slowed him down. His ability to cut in and out of his breaks was affected. Prior to the week 4 contest against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Keenan had yet to have a statistically strong performance. That was set to change this past Sunday.
Through the first 3 weeks of this season, Allen's numbers looked like this: 12 receptions for 109 yards. After a 10 catch 135 yard performance, Keenan is turning up the heat and proving that he's the number one target for quarterback Philip Rivers. This was evidenced by his work against the Jags.
His 10 receptions set a career-high for the second-year wideout from Cal. San Diego was in desperate need for a number one receiver and they found just that in Allen. Even though this is just his sophomore season in the league, he is already one of the best route runners out there. He worked on adding size and speed during the offseason and his hard work is going to continue to pay off.
Keenan has a permanent chip on his shoulder after falling to the third round of the 2013 NFL draft. Once fully healed, you'll see his explosiveness return to his game. Allen's ability to create separation and high-point the ball make him an option on every passing play. The further removed he becomes from his groin ailment, the more you'll see Keenan make his mark as one of the better wide receivers in the National Football League.
His next challenge will be against the New York Jet defense and a banged up secondary. The Jet defensive line is one of the best in football, but look for Allen to be targeted early and often on quick timing routes that will set him up to gain yards after the catch. He may not finish the game with 10 catches, but he will rack up yards and most likely surpass 100 on the day.
Thanks a lot for reading.
Booga Peters
One Response to Keenan Allen rebounds from groin injury
I'm not worried….Allen at 60% is better than meachum at 100%. Rivers has played behind worse O-lines under more pressure, with less talent an still threw for 4,000 yards. Vick? Smith? It won't make a difference… they're still the jets.


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Year of release: 1993
Genre: Techno-Thrash
Country: Switzerland
Country: Switzerland
01. Dream Path
02. The Lethargic Age
03. Internal Conflicts
04. Caveat (To The Coming)
05. Serpent Moves
06. Status: Still Thinking
07. Theme For Silence
08. Paralized, Mesmerized
09. Grin (Nails Hurt)
10. Host
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Switzerland is well known for two things: chocolates and wristwatches. However, when it comes to metal, similarly, two bands first comes to my mind. The first one is Celtic Frost, which help a lot Coroner on their first steps (Tom Warrior had sung on their first album "R.I.P."). The second band is (obviously) Coroner, a thrash mainly band, which end up its career at 1995, leaving behind 5 excellent studio albums. In the presented album (their last studio album), the band evolves its own characteristic techno-thrash sound, with industrial influences resulting in a dark, industrialized masterpiece. Credits go to the rhythmic riffs of Tommy Vetterli (guitarist), who after the band''s break-up become member of Kreator (1996 - 2001)."Internal Conflicts", " Serpent Moves" and "Grin (Nails Hurt)"
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Conversion of sorghum grass to ethanol has increased with the interest in renewable fuel sources. Researchers at Iowa State University examined 12 varieties of sorghum grass grown in single and double cropping systems. The experiment was designed to test the efficiency of double cropping sorghum grass to increase its yield for biofuel production.
The author of the report, Ben Goff, found that using sorghum from a single-cropping system was more effective for the production of ethanol. Since most of the ethanol currently produced in the United States is derived from corn, Goff suggests that corn may not be able to meet the energy needs of the country. According to the study, only 15 percent to 25 percent of the energy requirements would be fulfilled using corn or starch-based ethanol; however, ethanol produced from cellulose could be more effective than previous biofuels.
Goff states that from a production standpoint, growing sorghum as a sole crop is more efficient for ethanol production, however, it remains to be seen whether the favorable long-term environmental benefits, such as reduced erosion potential, of the double-cropping systems merits the reduced total biomass production.
Although certain genotypes of sorghum from the double-cropping system yielded total biomass equal to those in the single-cropping study, all of the sorghum varieties in the single-cropping system had consistently higher ethanol yields. The author theorizes that these altered chemical compositions could be attributed to the different cropping systems.
Goff recommends that further research on double-cropping systems for ethanol production should focus on efforts to maximize production of sorghum, such as incorporating a winter crop that matures earlier in the season. This would allow planting of the sorghum closer to its optimal date and capitalize on its ability to produce greater and higher-quality biomass over a greater portion of the growing season.
This study was funded by the Iowa Energy Center and published in the November/December 2010 issue of Agronomy Journal (https://www.agronomy.org/publications/aj) from the American Society of Agronomy.
View the articles's abstract at https://www.agronomy.org/publications/aj/abstracts/102/6/1586.
A peer-reviewed international journal of agriculture and natural resource sciences, Agronomy Journal is published six times a year by the American Society of Agronomy, with articles relating to original research in soil science, crop science, agroclimatology and agronomic modeling, production agriculture, and software. For more information visit: www.agronomy.org/publications/aj.


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Sometimes I get nervous that you lovely readers will kill me for posting baby stuff all the time but then I have to tell myself "It's ok! I am having a baby!"
So I hope you see these posts as things to make note of for yourself later or maybe you already know a bunch of baby/kid stuff and should be sharing it with me! I would love to learn from you too.
Today I love this bag.
It is not a diaper bag but can't any bag be a bag for whatever you need it to be? How cool would a daddy be with strapped across one shoulder and a baby wrapped around the other? I am digging it. from Fossil.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
He's got baggage but I like it
3 comments:
- Ivonne Fernandez said...
I like! (thumbs up)
- September 27, 2011 at 1:27 PM
- The Sentimental Suitcase said...
oh yes! It's lovely Khali!
- September 28, 2011 at 5:13 AM
- mw said...
seriously. why does the lady always have to haul around the diaper bag? (the dude usually ends up with it by the end of the day, so i say, why not just start him off with the diaper bag from the get go.)
- September 28, 2011 at 8:47 AM
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From Library of Congress Name Authority File
Roosevelt, Kermit, 1889-1943
Instance Of
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Collection Membership(s)
Additional Information
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- found: OCLC 466713: His The long trail, 1921(hdg.: Roosevelt, Kermit, 1889-1943; usage: Kermit Roosevelt)
- found: Webster's biog. dict.(Roosevelt, Kermit, 1889-1943; son of Pres. Theodore Roosevelt)
- found: NUCMC data from LC Manuscript Division for Papers of Kermit and Belle Roosevelt, 1885-1975(Roosevelt, Kermit; author, businessman, explorer, and soldier)
Change Notes
- 1988-03-18: new
- 1995-12-28: revised
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We came up with the idea of using ants to conduct behavioral experiments at Liverpool Life Sciences UTC. We chose a species called Messor barbarus which is a species that eats seeds and farms aphids. These ants need to be kept at around 25OC, with good ventilation and little disturbance, conditions found in the model organism room in the innovation labs.
On April 12th the ants arrived and we placed them into their new home, it was at this point that we had found that the queen had laid a large amount of eggs whilst she was in transit from Spain to the UK, this created a very strong foundation for a new colony. At first no ants left the tube that they had arrived in but over the coming days they soon ventured out into the pipette tip box that we are using to contain them (so that when they are big enough they can move into the formicarium). The hive exploded with newly hatched ants some were just minor worker ants, some were major and some were the soldier ants. The main way to tell the difference is the size, this can be measured using image analysis software such as Image J.
The pipette tip box in the bottom right contains the ants, so far only the minor workers have ventured outside and into the formicarium. We use a red light to observe the ants without disturbing them, this is because the ants vision is shifted away from the red end of the spectrum towards the UV wavelengths.
A few days ago the queen became very inactive and the ants swarmed her, they covered her, we believed that she was dying due to the fact that there was no activity at all, in retrospect we probably should have noticed how much sugar solution was being used up in just one day. Usually the ants only need to have a new eppendorf of sugar solution once every 3 days but at this moment in time they were using up one every day. As turns out the queen had been lay large amounts of eggs at least 10 in her three days of inactivity, from that we guessed that the queen was being fed and looked after by the other ants.
By Jack McKenzie (Ant Man), Erin Ruddock and Mazuba Maambo


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The Hiroshima Report undertakes the important effort to work out a balance of compliance by different groups of parties with their undertakings of the NPT as specified by Review Conferences. While it does not aspire to presenting a strictly comparable record for the NPT's "pillars" and for the compliance of different groups of parties, it offers an opportunity to readers to draw such a balance for themselves. In addition, it presumes that "balancing" matters. And this is the important point.
A convincing balance means, eventually, that the weighing between the three pillars is satisfactory to the parties, and that the compliance balance between the parties arrives at scores that parties themselves feel are appropriate, because the balance is fair. Recurring on fairness as a standard for judging politics in the security sector may strike readers as odd, at first glance. However, this consideration is in line with a key finding of half a dozen academic disciplines over the last twenty years, including some hard sciences: brain research, evolutionary biology, anthropology, social and child psychology, sociology and experimental economics, all of which converge on one finding:
Justice matters in human affairs!
Mainstream economists, International Relations "realists", and friends of "Realpoltiik" believe that international politics is all about maximizing utility (wealth, power etc.). They are wrong. Justice concerns awake emotions: Fulfillment of our claims for justice makes us happy; denial makes us angry and aggressive. For that reason, justice concerns can foster security cooperation (if the rules and norms of cooperation are seen by parties as fair and just) and can impede or even destroy it (when they are seen by parties as unjust and unfair).
To inquire this point for the NPT, my institute has conducted a major project, looking for factors that have fostered and factors that have impeded the normative development of the non-proliferation regime (for the results, cf. Norm Dynamics in Multilateral Arms Control). This regime has not stood still since the NPT entered into force. Progressive changes to strengthen the regime happened both within the NPT context and outside of it to complement the Treaty where it could not be reformed itself.
Within the NPT; parties revamped the verification system after the findings in Iraq following the 1991 war. They strengthened IAEA measures to prevent nuclear terrorism after 9/11. NPT Review Conferences managed to specify Article VI obligations through the "Principles and Objectives" of 1995, the "Thirteen Steps" of 2000, and the "Action Plan" of 2010 and, in that context, established a duty of accountability for the Nuclear Weapon States. Likewise, the depositaries took on the duty to work towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in the Middle East. On the other side, it is remarkable that during the last ten years, attempts to further strengthen the non-proliferation toolbox failed.
The normative framework of the non-proliferation regime experienced growth outside of the NPT process as well: additional nuclear weapons free zones in the South Pacific, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia were established while only the one in Latin America had existed when the NPT was negotiated. The Nuclear Supplier Group (NSG) took the lead from the NPT-related Zangger Committee in establishing and improving export control standards to prevent the transfer of sensitive knowledge, material, equipment and technology that could be used for making nuclear weapons, and to eliminate the risk of a "race to the bottom" among exporters. UN Security Council resolution 1540 transformed NSG rules into universal law. Multilateral fuel arrangements were explored in the IAEA, and some of these proposals were realized on a voluntary basis. Finally, nuclear security and counter-terrorism emerged as a new field, featuring a panoply of initiatives (e.g. The Nuclear Security Summits, the Global Threat Reduction Initiative, the G-8 Global Partnership Initiative).
Have justice concerns influenced these developments? All WMD regimes harbor a conflict over distributive justice, i.e. the right of developing countries to receive assistance and cooperation in the peaceful uses of the respective technology. This conflict has four dimensions: it concerns (1) the appropriate size of such cooperation, (2) the weight of this norm in comparison with the non-proliferation norm, (3) whether the justice principle of need or of (market-related) equity should prevail, (4) procedural justice, i.e. developing countries' exclusion from "exporter clubs" which make the rules of trade.
In the NPT, the conflict is exacerbated by the inequality between nuclear weapon states (NWS) and non-nuclear weapon states (NNWS) and ensuing complaints about insufficient compliance with the disarmament undertaking, and by perceived unequal standards applied to NNWS parties compared to nuclear weapons owners outside of the NPT.
The intra-Western dispute on distributive justice concerning the peaceful uses, triggered by unilateral US export control measures and pressures on non-NNWS to accept stricter verification measures was productively transformed into the NSG and the Additional Protocol. In contrast, the same dispute between the West and the NAM has caused a virtual blockage of attempts to sharpen the "toolbox" (e.g. response to withdrawal, Additional Protocol obligatory, legitimacy of export controls) – the North-South "justice gap" was much wider than that inside the West.
Incremental specification of the meaning of Article VI mitigated, but did by no means eliminate, the conflict about inequality. To the contrary, inequality and increasing misgivings over insufficient compliance by the NWS with the disarmament norm destroys solidarity among parties and thereby creates disunity when unanimity is most needed, namely in compliance crises. As a consequence, instability threatens the regime.
The inequality problem can only be solved through a robust and credible disarmament process, reciprocated by improving measures for non-proliferation. Without satisfactory offers of civilian assistance and cooperation, the non-proliferation toolbox will remain incomplete due to NAM resentment. Cooperation might come as capacity building that strengthens non-proliferation, security against non-state threats, and the development of civilian industry in countries receiving such assistance.
Misgivings about "clubs" (e.g. NSG) taking decisions which impact on all can only partially mitigated by outreach and selective co-optation. With increasing spread of technical capabilities, the negotiation of legal, global rules of transfer will become inevitable. The earlier this is recognized, the smoother life in the regime might become.
It has become obvious that progress in this field requires the formation of groups cutting across the North/South cleavage. Groups such as NAC, NPDI, and states promoting the humanitarian aspect of disarmament have their roles to play.
Professor Harald Müller is the Executive Director of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt.


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April 2017
British Schools Championships
We had two club members qualify for this tough national event, but unfortunately Will Rolfe was unable attend on the day due to illness. That left Annalise Carew as our only fighter taking part.
Annalise fought really well, just losing her opening contest by the narrowest of scores. With that set back behind her she stormed through the rmaining contests, even winning one with a huge Uchi Mata for Ippon.
Annalise came second in her preliminary pool and moved to the medal play-offs. She then went and won her next contest and the way the draw was organised that eventually placed her into the finals against the girl she had lost her opening contest to in the pools. Annalise came out really focussed for their return match and the fight was even closer this time round. However, the other girl took the contest after a tough three minutes and Annalise took a well deserved and hard fought for Silver and this top event.
Kent Closed Championships
We genrally have a good turn out of club members to the county championships, and this year was no exception with 13 junior and senior members taking to the mat.
Our seniors fought hard in the morning with Emily Wood striking Gold, Christos Panagiotopolos and Lee Cahalane Silver and Scott Riley Bronze. Then in the afternoon our 9 juniors took to the mat and earned 5 medals between them. Ethan Cullen, Wiktoria Gmiterek, Ruby Wilson and Sam Bennett all fought really well against some strong judoka and came away without a medal on this occasion. However, Dominik Gmiterek, Sid Bartlett, Archie Rogers and Daniel Stringer all had a fantastic day and came away with Bronze medals, with Phoebe cullen coming out with the top prize of a Gold in the Girls -48 category. Well done to everyone.
March 2017
French Weekend Training Camp
Twenty nine of us travelled across to Lille in March on our annual visit to judo Club Monsois and it was once again an excellent weekend of fun, judo and just a few wrong turnings.
We were treated to some excellent judo, an interesting ju-jitsu lesson and we all played the traditional French game of Petanque as the Saturday evening entertainment. There were a lot of laughs along the way and everyone enjoyed the trip a great deal. These trips are great value and open to all club members regardless of age, ability or levels of experience, so keep an eye out for any of our future trips and come along if you can.
January 2017
Kent Kyu Cup, Dartford
Three senior members took part in the annual Kent kyu Cup at the end of January and all had some tough fights but came away with medals. Well done to Emily Wood who took Bronze in her first ever tournament, Christos Panagiotopolos who earned a Silver and a special well done to Tazmyn Burgess who took her first senior Gold after some excellent judo.
British Schools Championships - Southern Area Selections
Six club members attended the Southern Area Selections for the Briish Schools Championships at Medway Park in January, with three taking medals and two gainging selection to compete in the British finals in Sheffield in April.
Our medallists were Thomas Ledger Bronze, Will Rolfe Gold and Annalise Carew Gold. Our remaining members all fought really hard and did themselves proud in a tough event. Well done to Sid Bartlett, Rebecca Ledger and Daniel Stringer who did not medal on this occasion.
Annalise and Will now go through to the British finals in April.
BJA Technical Grading Course, Gravesend
A number of senior club members attended the Technical Dan Grading Course with Sam Dunkley and Dave Horton-Jones in January and all passed their assessment for promtion to a higher Grade. Congratulations to the following club members who obtained the new grades listed.
Eddie Orgee 5th Dan, Steve Morris 4th Dan, Chris Riley and Leanne Eplett 3rd Dan, Steve Stacy and Scott Riley 2nd Dan, Sam Riley and Caz Rawlings 1st Dan.


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Sandra Johnson, designed a new PowerPoint holiday customize greeting card. Sandra provides instructions in the Notes section on how to edit the holiday greeting and the sender's name on the card. You can even change the colors of the text if you want.
To play the card in PowerPoint after you download and customize it, on the Slide Show tab, in the Start Slide Show group, click From Beginning.


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Most of you by now will know I love glass. I collect interesting bits and pieces of glass.
I have a collection of glass paper weights, a small but steadily growing collection of sea glass found on my local beaches and of course, beads that I love made by master glass artists (as well as the glass beads that I make myself).
Last month, I spent some time with friends at McCrae, a beachside locale on the Mornington Penninsula, near Melbourne.
While we were there we had a day trip to nearby Flinders and it was here that I came across these little beauties.
They are Japanese glass fishing floats. They were once used by fishermen in many parts of the world to keep their nets afloat.
I wish I could say I found them washed up on a beach, but alas, I bought them in an art gallery!
After doing a bit of further research about these fishing floats, I came up with the following information....
- they were traditionally handmade by a glassblower using recycled glass... often sake bottles. After being blown, a 'button' of glass sealed the hole. Sometimes a Kanji symbol was put on or near the sealing button to identify the float for trademark (sadly I have none on my floats).
- Glass floats have now been (mostly) replaced by aluminium, plastic or styrofoam.
- There are glass floats, which were once attached to nets, still drifting in the ocean today. They are often stuck in a circular pattern of ocean currents in the North Pacific. Currents beginning off the east coast of Taiwan flow past Japan, travel east across the Pacific before slowing down in the Gulf of Alaska. The currents then head south, and then are pushed northward to continue their circular pattern.
Although glass float numbers are decreasing, any that are washed up are likely to be on beaches that are close to these areas of ocean currents.... mostly the beaches of Alaska, Washington, or Oregon in the United States, Taiwan or Canada.
- It is estimated that floats that wash-up on Alaskan beaches are at least 10 years old.
- they do come in other colours - amber, amethyst and blue and the more rare and collectible red or cranberry hue. Other brilliant tones such as emerald green, cobalt, blue, purple and yellow were primarily made in the 1920's.
I find it amazing that these little glass floats are still just bobbing around out there.
I also came across this very interesting blog, The Glass Float Junkie, whilst researching the history of Japanese fishing floats.
You MUST check it out.. fascinating! You will be amazed when you see some of the photos, including bear tracks next to glass floats on an Alaskan beach! Scary!
The Glass Float Junkie also has this etsy shop if you are interested...
Well, that's your lot for today,
Hope you have a good one,


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Despite their advantages, Applicant Tracking Systems screen out many well-qualified candidates. Most candidates submit resumes that are not optimized for ATS, with incorrect headings, formatting, characters, and wording. If a resume is not formatted correctly, solid skills and achievements in the resume may be ignored. In addition, a resume that is good for one ATS may not be good for another.
7 myths about ATS
Myth 1: An applicant who networks can avoid ATS.
Reality: In 2012, 60% to 70% of all companies, big and small, used ATS according to Preptel. Today that number is closer to 90%. ATS use is increasing. Recruiters scan paper resumes and place emailed resumes into ATS.
Myth 2: A candidate who uses ATS can avoid networking.
Reality: Hiring managers like to hire people they know or are recommended. A survey byHR Daily Advisor (2012) revealed that referrals are still the #1 recruiting source. Networking allows the hiring manager to select the candidate once the resume passes the ATS. In addition, if a hiring manager wants a particular candidate for a job, the hiring manager can change the job requirements and/or keywords to match the candidate's background.
Myth 3: ATS can read all files, formats, and characters.
Reality: Some ATS can read only text or Word 2003 files. Many ATS cannot read tables or graphics. Some ATS cannot scan italic or underlined words. Many ATS cannot read special characters (such as accent marks, curly quotes, and ampersands) and will replace them with meaningless characters.
Myth 4: ATS can figure out where to organize all the data on the resume and can use all the information.
Reality: Many ATS need guidance, using headings, to determine where to put data. So good information gets misfiled and ignored. Many ATS use only information that matches their formatting rules.
Myth 5: Passing the ATS alone will get you the job.
Reality: A human being will read the resume before selecting a candidate. Unless already known by the hiring manager, a candidate will need to be interviewed – probably several times – to get the job.
Myth 6: Companies are using ATS because they do not care about people.
Reality: Companies are overwhelmed, and the ATS is both effective and efficient in weeding out inappropriate candidates. In addition, if the ATS wrongly eliminates several good candidates for the job, companies are not worried as long as one good candidate remains.
Myth 7: ATS are unfair.
Reality: ATS deal the same way with all applicants. But with Rezi to help you, you have a better chance to stand out!


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Stephen Hawking: People Who Boast About Their IQ are Losers
Stephen Hawking is reputed for his contributions in general relativity, cosmology and even black holes. He is a very famous British physicist who proved that even conditions like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis will never be a hindrance to one's intelligence. In fact, he just recently completed a zero gravity flight. And this allowed him to float weightless. But amidst all his achievements, he did not claim to be the most intelligent person in the world.
"Those who brag on their mental abilities are losers", Stephen stated.
This only shows that it takes more than just taking the best supplements for brain power to be like Stephen Hawking. You need to have the proper attitude to be one.
But despite Hawking's confidence, there is one thing that he is worried about. " I fear that I may not be welcomed in the United States now that Donald Trump was elected as the president", Hawking expressed. "His leadership is more of an authoritarian approach", he added.
One thing that Hawking was concerned about is the Scott Pruitt's appointment as the Environmental Protection Agency head. "He (referring to Scott) is even a nonbeliever of carbon dioxide causing climate change", Hawking commented. "Though climate change poses a great danger to our environment, this is one thing that can also be prevented", he added.
"Pruitt's appointment, the border wall and the sanctioning of 2 oil pipelines are all meant to gratify Trump's electorate, which we know are not well informed", Hawking said. However, he expressed that he still have many colleagues and friends in U.S. and that he admire this country in a lot of ways. However, he still fears that he will never be welcome here. Before Trump becomes a Republican nominee, Hawking called him a "demagogue", stating that he petitions to the lowest common denominator.
Stephen Hawking's reaction to Trump's nomination is something is not surprising. According to the author of Emotional Intelligence; Travis Bradberry, intelligent people can argue with anyone convincingly and articulately from every angle. And it's how they argue that sets them apart from the others. In fact, they are very gifted when it comes to this matter. And they do so no matter how other people judge the situation. This is because they have brains that are quicker than their mouth. They know how to think first before they speak, making them always one step ahead from than the others.


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Hey Southern Ridge Trading Company fans, Katelyn here and I'm on the blog today sharing with you a Thank you card using some of the new products that we've just pre-released in our store. You'll want to make sure to head over and check them all out, you can find them all here. Stay tuned this weekend as we will be showing off the new CHA releases on Facebook. Today's Thank You card will be sure to inspire you to recreate it at home. Read below and learn how I transformed my chipboard pieces to create my Thank You card.
Adhere two shorter berry branches on the right hand side of the frame. Once the berry branches have been adhered, adhere the wild flower bouquet slightly overtop of the berry branches.
To start, you'll need the Victorian Circle Square Frame. Apply a coat of Ranger Ink: Emboss It Dabber to the entire piece. Once the ink has been applied, sprinkle Dusk Stone Violet embossing powder over the entire surface. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Set the frame aside to allow the powder to cool. If there isn't enough embossing powder on the frame, reapply the Emboss It Ink to the frame and sprinkle Dusk Stone Violet embossing powder over the entire surface. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Set the piece aside to cool.
Next you'll need the Berry Branch Set. Cut two berry branches to fit at the bottom right hand side of the frame and cut one berry branch to fit at the bottom of the frame. Once the pieces have been cut, apply two coats of Victorian Velvet Distress Paint to each piece. Set the berry branches aside to dry.
With the Victorian Velvet Distress Paint still out, paint three floral banners. You'll want to apply another coat of paint, once the first coat has dried. Set the banners aside to dry.
With the banners painted, take the Wild Flower Bouquet and trim to fit as desired in the bottom right hand corner. Once the bouquet has been trimmed, apply one coat of Dusty Concord Distress Paint to the bouquet. With the first coat of Dusty Concord paint applied, lightly paint a coat of white gesso over top. While the white gesso is still wet, apply a coat of Dusty Concord Distress Paint to the bouquet. Once the paint has dried, ink the edges of the bouquet with Dusty Concord Distress Ink.
Cut the Thank You Flourish to fit in the middle of the frame. Once it's cut apply Abandoned Coral Distress Ink to the "Thank You" sentiment.
With the chipboard pieces being covered, now it's time to move onto cutting your patterned paper. Cut a piece of patterned paper that measures 5 3/4" x 5 3/4". Make sure to distress the edges of the papers and then ink the edges using Dusty Concord Distress Ink.
The last piece of patterned paper that you need to cut, will measure 5 7/8" x 5 7/8". Make sure to distress the edges of the papers and then ink the edges using Dusty Concord Distress Ink.
Adhere the floral patterned paper to the wood patterned paper.
Adhere the frame to the middle of the floral paper.
Adhere the "Thank You" sentiment to the middle of the frame.
String the three banners onto a piece of white ribbon. Once the banners have been strung, adhere the banners to the top left hand side of the frame.
Next, you'll want to wrap a piece of white ribbon along the bottom of the card, making sure to tie a bow on the right hand side, covering the bottoms of the berry branches and bouquet.
You'll want to add a variety of pink, and purple roses in the bottom right hand corner by the bow. Add as many or as little flowers as you want.
Add two pink roses and one purple rose to the banner.
The last finishing touch to add to the card is adding the longer of the three berry branches at the bottom of the frame. Once the branch has been added, adhere the card front to the card a 6" x 6" cardbase.
Here are some close up shots of my card.
Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:
- Floral Banners
- 10mm pink and purple roses
- 15mm pink and purple roses
Other Supplies Used:
- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Dusk Stone Violet Embossing Powder
- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Abandoned Coral and Dusty Concord, Distress Paint - Victorian Velvet and Dusty Concord
- Ranger Ink: Emboss It Ink - Clear (dabber)
- Prima Marketing: Heavy White Gesso
- 49 and Market: Heirloom Botanicals - Conservatory and Sanctuary
- Bo Bunny Vintage Double Dot: Coffee
- Ribbon: White
- Misc: Heat Tool
Remember to play along in the monthly challenge over on the Southern Ridge Trading Company blog. Each month enter for your chance to win 4 designs from the online store - chipboard.ca -$20 (before tax) retail value of YOUR OWN CHOOSING!
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Title: What's a Public Servant?
Another week is slowly coming to an end, and we hope your weekend is bright and full of fun.
The major issue in Trinidad remains "Roamgate."
Tourism Minister Shamfa Cudjoe has come under fire for her 50 thousand dollar phone bill.
Enough fire for Acting Prime Minister to declare "war" on Bahamas for their fees.
In fact, a number of the PNM Cabinet have stepped up in support of Shamfa as she remains under fire.
It remains one of the most, if you can use this word in politics at all, admirable traits of this particular party.
Despite their internal issues, we are not aware of it and they all pull together.
The direction, of course, is what should concern the average joe and josephine.
At some point, Ministers forgot they were public servants.
A discrepancy, perceived or otherwise, MUST be answered properly.
Not deflect to TSTT, to Caricom, to the Bahamas.
Calls have been made for Shamfa to foot the bill.
And if the PNM wants to have a future in this country, especially with this new breed of their politician, they need to change their ways.
Because if Laventille, their stronghold can riot, what's stopping other disenfranchised members of the population from doing the same?


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Power Solves New Downforce Rule; Wins TMS Pole
By John Sturbin | Senior Writer
FORT WORTH, Texas – Will Power qualified on-pole for the Firestone 600 Friday afternoon at Texas Motor Speedway and almost immediately began channeling his inner Helio.
That would be Castroneves, Power's Team Penske teammate and defending event champion of what is billed as "America's Original Nighttime IndyCar Race."
Power posted a cumulative two-lap time of 48.0935-seconds at 217.826 mph around TMS' high-banked, 1.5-mile quadoval to bag his second Verizon P1 Award of 2014 and second in a row here. The pole was the 34th of Power's career, allowing him to pass retired/four-time series champion Dario Franchitti for sole possession of sixth on the all-time list.
With track temperatures reading 125 degrees at mid-afternoon, Power managed to work the added 300 pounds of downforce allowed by sanctioning body INDYCAR to his advantage during a run that knocked Josef Newgarden off the provisional pole he had earned 30 minutes earlier.
"I could see people were dropping-off a lot on the second lap," said Power, driver of the No. 12 Verizon Dallara/Chevrolet and the series point-leader. "I was able to pretty much stay flat (on the throttle) for the two laps. I was actually surprised at the speed of the first lap (219.550 mph) and thought, 'I have to do it again.' Great start to the weekend. I'm very focused on the race. Last year Helio was very strong, so I'm trying to get a car that good for the race if I can."
Castroneves, who trails Power by 19 points (326-307) after six events, dominated last June by leading a race-high 132 of 228 laps – all of it during the second half of the event. Castroneves took the lead from Marco Andretti of Andretti Autosport on Lap 97 and checked-out of Cowtown en route to a 4.6919-second margin of victory over Andretti's Ryan Hunter-Reay.
Despite being pipped for pole, Newgarden posted the best qualifying effort of his three-year IndyCar Series career. Newgarden, of Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing, previously had qualified fourth on the Streets of Long Beach and at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Ala.
"I was happily surprised," said Newgarden, driver of the No. 67 Strike/SFHR Dallara/Honda. "We worked mainly on race stuff this morning (during the lone, 75-minute practice). We literally did not trim (for qualifying) whatsoever. You saw us in full race-trim.
"You don't really know what you have for qualifying but our theory was we made the race car as good as possible over the lifespan of the Firestone tires. The name of the game is how to reduce tire degradation during the course of a run, so that's what we focused on. We didn't go super-conservative for qualifying but we didn't go to the edge. The car was really fast. It's almost like at Christmas getting what you want."
INDYCAR worked out the current aero package with driver input and in collaboration with Firestone Racing during a mid-April test here. The added downforce is an attempt by the sanctioning body to at least close the gap on the single-file racing seen here last June while avoiding "pack racing" and giving the drivers a chance to manage the inevitable degradation of their Firestone tires.
But Power said he doesn't see the latter as an issue. "They seem to drop and then plateau and you'll just run a consistent pace," said Power, who won this event as a Twin 275-miler in 2011. "It seems with extra downforce you can maintain maybe the 205 range, starting your runs at 210s, maybe a 5-miles-an-hour drop-off. I'm not sure that looking after your tires will actually help. It's hard to say.
"The cooler track temps (Saturday night) should help the car, should give it more grip, should help the tires. As the night goes on in the actual race things will get cooler and there may be a bigger drop."
While there is mixed opinion if the added downforce will allow for closer racing via a second, higher groove, Power said he is sure of one thing. "It's absolutely in the driver's hands now," Power said. "The races we had here in the past were taken out of the driver's hands. It was like highway racing, just wide-open. And you just sit for a whole stint side-by-side; you're kind of totally taking the driver out of the equation. Apart from that it's bloody dangerous.
"Right now, we're creeping back to trying to close it up a bit. For the drivers, it's great because you really have to drive the car. And when you're driving the car at 210 mph it's not easy when it's sliding in an open-wheel car. Not sure if the crowd appreciates that, like how hard we're working now. It might look easy, but it's real tough."
Row 2 in a 22-car field features 2013 Indianapolis 500 champion Tony Kanaan in the third spot after a cumulative total of 217.826 mph in the No. 10 Suave for Men Dallara/Chevrolet fielded by Target Chip Ganassi Racing. He will start the 248-lap/372-mile event alongside Juan Pablo Montoya at 217.724 mph in the No. 2 Verizon Team Penske Dallara/Chevrolet.
Owner/driver Ed Carpenter, Indy 500 pole-sitter the last two years, qualified fifth at 217.677 mph in the No. 20 Fuzzy's Vodka/ECR Dallara/Chevrolet and was not pleased. "There was just no grip," said Carpenter, who fell from 218.326 mph on his first lap to 217.031 mph on his second. "I'm not sure this aero package is right. Texas Motor Speedway is the toughest oval track we run now. (But) I think everyone's worried about something that's a non-issue. To me, if you look back historically at this race, even 2006-07, it wasn't pack racing. Everyone's worried about pack racing from Vegas in 2011. It's been single-file (at TMS) since 2007 but everyone still thinks we race in packs here. That's just not the case."
Simon Pagenaud, winner of the inaugural Grand Prix of Indianapolis on the combined road and oval layout at Indianapolis Motor Speedway last month, will start sixth after posting a speed of 217.222 mph in the No. 77 Schmidt Peterson Hamilton Dallara/Honda.
Scott Dixon, the three-time/reigning IndyCar Series champion, qualified seventh at 217.128 mph in the No. 9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing Dallara/Chevrolet. "This morning there seemed like there was two usable lanes," Dixon said of the practice. "How it plays out for the race, it should get better just because of the sheer fact it will be at night, a little cooler and a little more grip as the track rubbers-in. The second lane for the Indy cars is really quite rough, so it'll be hard to see until we actually get out there and run it."
Dixie will start alongside Justin Wilson, winner of the Firestone 550 in 2012, after lapping at 217.007 mph in the No. 19 Boy Scouts of America Dallara/Honda fielded by Dale Coyne Racing.
Meanwhile, reigning Indy 500 champion Ryan Hunter-Reay will start 12th after lapping at 216.823 mph in the No. 28 DHL Dallara/Honda fielded by Andretti Autosport.
"We had a bit of an imbalance," said Hunter-Reay, who posted disappointing finishes of 16th and 19th during last weekend's double-header at The Raceway at Belle Isle Park in Detroit. "We weren't really 'in the racetrack' as we like to call it. But the car was on top of the racetrack, moving around a lot when you get in the corner and just scrubbing too much speed because of it.
"We need to go back and work on our mechanical grip setup so we can have a bit more grip out there. The DHL crew had a great run here last year (finished second after leading 35 laps), and I think we should have a good night tomorrow. It's going to be difficult with the downforce and the current (tire) compound we're running."
Castroneves wound up a puzzling 14th on the grid after lapping at 216.591 mph in the No. 3 AAA Insurance Dallara/Chevrolet.
"Very weird, because in practice it was so good," said Castroneves, who was fifth on the practice sheet at 217.529 mph after 55 laps. "Very strange because most of us (at Team Penske) are running a very similar setup. Just not understanding why there was so much understeer than the other guys. We'll calculate all these little details, but we're sure going to find out. I couldn't go flat, that's why I'm a little bit surprised. So, something to learn.
"That's my engineer's job to figure that out what happened. But if you've got to have a little hiccup here, this is the place to be because it's an oval. And the way the car is, we can pass on the oval. We just got to be patient and go to the front."
Despite the added downforce, Wilson described his two-lap run as "a handful," an adjective used by many drivers after last year's event.
Asked to explain how the sanctioning body added that downforce, Wilson said, "We still don't have the full (sidepod) tunnels back. What they did is they gave us more wing angle. The most downforce you could run was minus-five degrees on the rear main plate. This year we can go all the way to zero. Adding rear downforce five degrees is what they've done. Also , you can put a wicker on the rear wing.
"And I'm glad Josef's car is balanced and he's having fun, because I'm definitely sliding around. I've come to expect that at this place. You get loose in the middle (of the 24-degree banked turns). I think the race is going to be the same. You have to manage the Firestones. We just abuse them around here. We're sliding the entire time. I'm expecting it to be quite interesting."
Target Chip Ganassi Racing teammates Scott Dixon and Tony Kanaan topped the speed chart during the final half-hour IndyCar Series practice late Friday afternoon. With the track temperature holding steady at 125 degrees at 6:45 p.m., Dixon led the way with a lap in 24.5667-seconds at 213.215 mph and Kanaan following at 213.187 mph.
Third-fast was Ryan Briscoe, driver of the No. 8 NTT Data Chip Ganassi Racing Dallara/Chevrolet, at 212.909 mph. Will Power, pole-sitter for Saturday night's Firestone 600, was fourth at 212.800 mph with owner/driver Ed Carpenter fifth at 212.598 mph.
Saturday's race will be televised by NBC Sports Network beginning at 7 p.m. (CDT) with the green flag to wave at 7:50 p.m. The race also will be carried via the IMS Radio Network as well as XM Channel 209/Sirius Channel 213.
Single-file restarts will be implemented at all remaining Verizon IndyCar Series events this season, beginning with Saturday night's Firestone 600 at TMS.
INDYCAR announced the modification its restart procedures late Friday afternoon. The series previously employed double-file restarts on all oval tracks, except the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and single-file restarts on all road and street-course events.
"This year we've made improvements in our ability to monitor and police restarts that has resulted in great single-file restarts at all of our events, including the Indianapolis 500," Derrick Walker, INDYCAR president of competitions and operations, said in a statement. "We also felt it was important to place our competitors in the exact running order as they were prior to the caution and not provide an advantage to some drivers because of the lane they were in during a double-file restart."
Eleven events remain on the 2014 schedule, including double-headers at Reliant Park in Houston June 28-29 and The Streets of Toronto July 19-20. Five ovals remain to be run, including the season-ender at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., on Aug. 30.
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THUNDER BAY, Ont. – The Superior International Junior Hockey League would like to extend its heartiest congratulations to Bryan Coulson of the English River Miners for being named the recipient of the 2017-18 Dr. Tom Pashby Hockey Development Centre of Ontario Trainer of the Year Award.
This annual award signifies outstanding achievement in the area of safety and risk management and contribution to the HDCO' Hockey Trainers' Certification Program.
To be eligible for the honour, nominees must possess the following criteria:
* Must have attained Level 3 of the HTCP or equivalent training in the opinion of the HDCO member association.
* Must be a member of an Ontario Hockey Canada Branch/Division.
* May either be in a volunteer or professional capacity.
Coulson was earlier recognized by the SIJHL after earning league CCM Hockey First All-Star Team accolades at the Trainer/Equipment Manager position.
A selfless and dedicated volunteer, Coulson has wholeheartedly committed his efforts in serving the Miners in their trainer and equipment manager capacities.
"The SIJHL would like to congratulate Bryan on this well-deserved honour and recognition," stated league commissioner Bryan Graham.
"The long hours he puts in every season is just a symbol of all the efforts the entire English River Miners organization provides every year, both on and off the ice," added Graham.


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The Swiss Startup Factory is a company in Switzerland that is dedicated to helping businesses excel amongst competitors. It has been found that most entrepreneurs that go into business go in without a clear plan for action. They just go out and think everything will be just fine. They learned soon after opening that you can't go into business without a plan and be successful. Within the first two years of business, 80% of companies fail. After reaching the ten-year mark about 96% of businesses fail. Mike Baur realized this pattern and came up with a plan to help companies succeed.
Mike Baur grew up in Freiburg, Switzerland. He received his degrees in business from the University of Berne. He began working as a bank at Union Bank of Switzerland when he was 16. He became an apprentice at the Union Bank of Switzerland in 1991. He was valued by his employers and customers. They offered him a plan that showed him every position he would receive while he worked for the Union Bank of Switzerland up until it was time for him to retire. Baur left the Union Bank of Switzerland and became an employee at Clariden Leu.
Banking became stressful for Baur, so he decided to give up his job working at Clairden to become an entrepreneur. Mike Baur teamed up with Oliver Walzer and Max Meister. They started the Swiss Startup Factory. The mission of the Swiss Startup is to increase the knowledge and success of entrepreneurs starting new businesses and to help businesses that are looking to expand their brand. They created a program that gives entrepreneurs the opportunity to be mentored by them for three months. During the three months, they learn strategies for success and a plan to maintain their success.
Mike Baur has had much success with the Swiss Startup Factory. He created a firm called think Reloaded to give financial advice to his clients. He is also CTI's Invest Deputy Managing Director. The Swiss Startup Factory has developed a profitable relationship with CTI thanks to Mike Baur's work. The experience that Mike Baur accumulated at the Union Bank of Switzerland and Clariden Leu has afforded him the opportunity to help people accurately manage their money. Mike Baur's best decision was to give up what he was good at to pursue what he loved and was good at doing.


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Wednesday, November 5, 2014
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He is part of their new release and I love each and every new stamp!
I colored him with copics and added some Ranger stickles for the snow and snowflakes.
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LINCOLN – The linchpin in the debate over what is allowable free speech on the campus of the University of Nebraska has northeast Nebraska ties.
About 300 people rallied on campus Thursday in protest of white nationalist views. The uproar began over a Norfolk native, Daniel Kleve, a bio-chemistry major at UNL who participated in the white nationalist rallies in Charlottesville and has posted numerous videos online railing against multiculturalism and advocating violence.
Madison County court records show that Kleve changed his name from Daniel Carstens in 2015. As Daniel Carstens, he was arrested in Norfolk in 2012 and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of possession of marijuana, for which he was fined $300. He also had numerous juvenile court cases.
Kleve's online postings have caused an uproar on UNL's campus, with some calling for his expulsion. Kleve responded in an official statement on Wednesday, saying his words have been twisted, and that he is not actually a proponent of violence.


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"How The GOP Can Keep Its Pledge" and the President's "Being There" Budget
My Washington Examiner column points to the choice the GOP House freshmen have to make this week.
I am in D.C. for a couple of days and hope to get some of the freshmen on the program tonight to ask if they will honor the Pledge or go along with the appropriators' ruse.
The president's budget is a joke, of course, a not-even-remotely-serious political document that, surprise, sees a $1.6 trillion dollar deficit for FY 11, proposes a $1.1 trillion deficit for FY '12, and saves big cuts for after the president's election.
The debates underway over the Continuing Resolution and the debt ceiling are rounds one and two in the struggle to control an Administration indifferent to the threat to the currency and savings posed by these massive, runaway deficits. If the president and the Senate see the House GOP folding its chairs before the negotiations even begin, then the Pledge will never be kept and the spending will continue to soar.
The fear of the "shutdown" word reflects a GOP leadership still fighting the battles of 1994-1995. That was a long time ago, before new media evened the political playing field and before panics and enormous deficits shook the world's financial stability. Soon some GOP leader will look some MSMer in the eye and ask if he or she wants a return to the near-collapse of the fall of 2008, because a failure to control spending is asking for just such a replay. "Would you rather have a shutdown or a panic" is the choice facing the country, and the president's budget is another of his Chance the gardener moments where, as with Egypt and with Iran's Green Revolution, he appears, says nothing of consequence and moves on.


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Happy Thursday my lovely readers ...
on today's post i love to share my simply card for Kid.
the time when we are a child .. really unique moment :)
we have many dreams and that a precious moment that can't forget ..
and here is my card :
thank you for stopping by and have a nice day!
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Love sharing little gems of knowledge – this is a good one for anyone using Entity Framework 5 and the new'ish enumerations (emums) inclusion in EF5.
So working on a MVC5 Code First application for a project of my own – and had the following Model.
namespace GeoBucketlist.Model { public enum TagType { Location, Bucketlist, Member } public class Tag : Base.Model { public long Id { get; set; } [Required] [StringLength(25, ErrorMessageResourceType = typeof(ResourceMessages), ErrorMessageResourceName = "LengthMax25")] public string Name { get; set; } public string Description { get; set; } public TagType TagType { get; set; } } }
When you auto-create the View templates for editing / adding that model in MVC through T4 templates – the html is as follows follows…

 @Html.LabelFor(model => model.TagType, new { @class = "control-label col-md-2" })
 @Html.EditorFor(model => model.TagType) @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.TagType)

Which then shows up in your pages as a plain textbox – not a good solution for choosing an enumeration value… :(
So simple but elegant solution is to change that line to the following… (Note, would be lovely if this was the default behavior for the @Html.EditorFor – but alas that is a blog article (and more work) for another day – but if anyone else has that complete, always loved to see great code!)

 @Html.LabelFor(model => model.TagType, new { @class = "control-label col-md-2" })
 @Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.TagType, new SelectList(Enum.GetValues(typeof(GeoBucketlist.Model.TagType)))) @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.TagType)

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This one was simple. An all black and white look with a touch of any color of your choice!
I chose orange for today, definitely not a color I wear often but a little change is always needed
Happy Wednesday dolls!
Blazer- Tj Maxx
Blouse- Forever 21
Leggings- Charlotte Russe
Purse- Forever 21


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There are a lot of different soil types, climates, latitudes, rainfall levels, histories of usages. It pays to investigate your own situation.
There are some basic principles that apply to everyone who wants to grow nutrient-dense food
Be curious! As you understand more about your own place, you become more a part of it.
Dig a hole as deep as you can, just to see what is down there. Is the soil the same all the way down? Are there rocks? Is the soil on top imported (this happens frequently in suburban housing developments)? Do you run into an impermeable layer of clay or rock?
It is a good idea to know your soil type. Instructions for determining soil type are in this document:
There are some very handy resources on line to help you understand your soil and its classification. In the United States the USDA maintains a database of information on most soils that includes both its suitability for building on and its potential as agricultural land.
When we investigated our soil we found it was best suited for grazing due to the low fertility and slope. But it was also worn out from overgrazing, with an erosion gully passing through the garden. We took several soil tests over the years, and applied amendments and compost. That helped, but it always seemed like it could do better.
Then we heard about balancing the mineral content of the soil. We got the soil test and applied the recommended minerals. The results were nothing short of amazing. Our veggies tasted great! Bugs were less of a problem. Our health improved and even our hair grew.
After the first rains of the autumn, grass grows only under the oak tree, not in the open or under nearby pines
A unique growing situation in the western Sierra Mountains near Courtright Reservoir, California
The plants growing under the hoops enjoy warmer nights, cooler days and less afternoon wind.
This old road sprouts goldfields flowers while the surrounding area is mainly grassy. Compaction has created poor soil conditions for grass and good conditions for wildflowers.
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Serious question: does drunken cyber sex with a stranger on omegle count as cheating???
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Depends. If you had cyber sex with a Cyberman, I think you need a Doctor.
Would you do it in front of yer SO?
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Out for a run with a girlfriend who's a longtime bookseller, she shared the sobering news that her independent bookstore might not make it past the summer. Okay, folks, I'm still mourning All for Kids Books in Seattle and cannot grieve for yet another neighborhood institution to shutter.
So! After ignoring my umpteenth invitation from Facebook and Blogger friends to divulge 25 Random Things About Me, I thought I'd rather share some Random Ideas for Indie Bookstores to keep them going in this economy. (Note: I'm no expert on retail, but as an avid reader and stalwart book buyer, these are simply ideas that would make me eager to patronize my local bookstore...and to bring my friends.)
With layoffs a reality and unemployment high, why not create a Career Seminar Series? Invite a local Life Coach to share his / her expertise on figuring out life's purpose and positioning ourselves to find, interview, and secure a new job in these economic conditions. THEN have the Life Coach book talk 10 awesome books about this very topic.
These career self-help books are the ones that people ought to BUY and use as a workbook, marking them up, scribbling notes, etc. They are INVESTMENTS, well worth the cost of the books.
Consider this: one of my acquaintances is a Life Coach. She had 20 clients in January, now she has 4. I would bet she would be motivated to conduct such a seminar for FREE.
Potentially partner with your closest library so you can work together to spread the word about the series to their patrons and your customers. Then, let local alumni groups (who maintain fairly large email lists) and organizers of local job fairs know about the seminar to generate more word-of-mouth.
Notify the press. This is hugely topical and relevant. I would be surprised if this didn't get you a feature story in the local section of your paper.
Today I am thankful for tenacious booksellers who enrich our communities.
Monday, March 02, 2009
Indie Bookstore Love: Random Idea #1
Posted by Justina Chen at 5:42 AM
Labels: booksellers, bookstores, Indie Bound
3 comments:
- tanita s. davis said...
FABULOUS idea.
- KB said...
One day I will own a bookstore. I will do this. I will then tweet a shout out to you for the idea. I wrote this down in my future bookstore idea folders. I also have:
discounts that are kept track of on computers
movie/game night?
scavenger hunt?
author readings!!!
- Lorie Ann Grover said...
Awesome generosity to share your ideas, Justina! Wonderful thoughts that will be so appreciated.
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The Boat Factory by Dan Gordon
A play about the life and times of the men at the famous Harland & Wollf Shipyard in Belfast
As sent to me and now endorsed by the Leithshipyards website
As someone who keenly preserves our shipbuilding heritage, I thought you might be interested in hearing about a play that we are bringing from Belfast to Hill Street Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August which celebrates the people, history and achievements of Belfast's Harland & Wolff shipyard - our tribute to a proud maritime heritage which I know is shared by Scotland. The play was written by Dan Gordon whose grandfather was a labourer who came from the shipyards on the Clyde to the shipyards of Belfast. Dan spent years researching the subject matter, talking to many shipyard workers and their families. He gathered material from interviews, anecdotal evidence, and historical research to recreate the background against which 1700 ships were built by Harland and Wolff Shipyards. He also drew extensively on his own close personal knowledge of the subject matter through his own family history. His father served his time as an apprentice Joiner in the Belfast Shipyard in the early 1950s, alongside his five brothers and the husbands of his two sisters, and worked on the last great liner they ever built - The Canberra. Set in 1947, the play follows the life of a young apprentice and is a poignant and humorous tale of friendship, pride, skill, nobility and, above all, heart.
As Dan says on writing the play: "I've lived in the shadow of those big yellow cranes all my life and I wanted to tell their story because they are so much a part of me and our collective heritage. Harland & Wolff built Titanic, the greatest ship in history, but there is a great deal more to the achievements of the thousands of Yardmen. They built over 1700 ships with pride and skill unmatched anywhere else in the world, and we need to celebrate that. Every house in the East had a poker for the fire or a fire screen made in the Shipyard – every house had someone or a relative who worked there – by the age of four, I'd seen 5 ships launched – all across the East we could hear the morning Siren when it was time to change shift. My Father's tales of the men he worked with and the ships they built were legendary – from craftsmen to wee crafty men he knew and worked alongside them – their nicknames – their personalities – their disagreements and their triumphs – I want to tell their stories as he told them to me."
Dan performs in the play with fellow actor Michael Condron. Together they chart the history of the men who worked in the yard, conjuring up a host of colourful characters from the glory days of the shipbuilding era when, at the height of production, nearly 35,000 men worked on the 300 acre site complete with power station, docks, machine shops, engine works and saw mills. The Boat Factory has steadily grown in stature from its humble beginnings in the Westbourne Community Presbyterian Church (the shipyard church in east Belfast), travelling right across Northern Ireland to the very heart of our community, playing in prisons, orange halls, parish halls, schools, and Belfast City Hall. It went on to play to packed houses in the Barnett Room of the Belfast Harbour Office during the 2011 Belfast Festival at Queen's and it was the headline production in the opening of Titanic Belfast, Northern Ireland's newest visitor attraction.
We have been particulary delighted and moved by the response of former shipyard workers - these are just some of the many comments we have received:
"Saw `The Boat Factory` at Titanic Belfast last night. Just wonderful! Two men and a bit of scaffolding - had me completely entranced for two hours. What a fabulous bit of writing and performing. They made an inventory of the contents of a toolbox sound like a Shakespearean sonnet. I think you can take it that I really enjoyed it! Congratulations to Dan Gordon and Michael Condron"
"A skilfully crafted production, wholly befitting of the Belfast Men it celebrates. I marvelled, laughed out loud and cried sore - it quare took it out of me! The show left with me a new sense of pride about being born in Belfast and having grown up in the shadow of The Yard. Well done to all. Good on ye!"
"I was privileged to be at Westbourne Presbyterian to see the opening performance of The Boat Factory. It drew me in like a child listening to an incredible bed time story. Thank you Dan for opening up your heart and your talent to other people's memories and for allowing me, for a brief moment in time, to work along side the east Belfast men and boys in the boat factory."
"For an evening's entertainment "The Boat Factory" would be hard to beat. It was beautifully executed, fast, clever, funny and thought provoking- what more could you ask for? Brilliant!"
"A very moving and fitting tribute to all who have worked or been associated with H & W shipyard. We need to preserve this rich heritage and folk memory and I feel that last night's performance will go a long way to achieving that aim."
"I don't normally write appreciation letters when I attend a play I just wanted you to know how much I enjoyed it. It was very moving and a fitting tribute to all who have worked or been associated with H & W shipyard. My grandfather was a labourer and my father an Electric Welder until he became a foreman. My grandmother scraped the money together to pay for his apprenticeship. Last night's play has given me some insight into the sacrifice he made for me."


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It's nice to have retro versions of your music.
Vinyl is a big fad again, this time as an underground revelry around the pops, scratches, clicks, needle skips, hifi analog sound reproduction, and artifactual surface noise that only vinyl can deliver.
Cassette tapes are another incredibly flawed and old fashioned mode of music distribution. Wow and flutter, oxide particle hiss, mold, motor drag, head demagnetizing, strand entanglements, and drop outs are common problems.
I hate how you have to rewind and fast forward intuitively guessing where songs might be buried in the magnetic mess. But I'll soon be releasing some Str8 Sounds music on Cassette Tape Only, the good old cassalbums of yesteryear.
Do you have cassette tape editions of your band's music? Why not? Some people have tape decks in their older cars, and they might love to jam away on your tunes. It might shock some friends, they might say "I thought you only had a tape deck in your car!" and you say, "I do. This is a cassette you're hearing now. A cassalbum by Rubber 0 Cement" or whatever.
Regression is fun. Put out wire recordings, Edison cylinders, 78 rpm ceramics, DATs, 8 track cartridges, vinyl singles, and cassalbums of your band now!
Click here to visit Str8 Sounds on Rhizome.
Now my pals at Rhizome at the New Museum (NYC) have an interesting article on cassettes: "101 Cassette Labels".
In the 1980s, cassette labels played a vital role in the distribution of underground music, most notably in the noise, industrial, and punk scenes of the time. Easy and relatively inexpensive to produce, cassettes became a common format for the circulation of music lacking popular appeal. Although the majors produced cassettes as well, many of the producers of these underground labels saw their DIY business model as a stance against the greed of the mainstream music industry. Connections made through distribution and information sharing among the artists and musicians in these circles helped to establish a network for those involved.
In the age of GarageBand, Myspace, and file sharing, it may come as a surprise to some that cassette labels are still very much in operation.
Tapes now function as a basic form of patronage between musicians and their audience; since a physical format is no longer necessary to send or receive music, these objects become a gesture of support.
Tapes act to make tangible the connection between a creator and their listeners, and the attentive and often handmade packaging speaks to this exchange.
One instance of this relationship is revealed in the description provided for the Gilgongo Records "Singular Set" series, a run of cassette releases recorded directly onto the tape by the musician in an edition of one.
Gilgongo's James Fella explains that for the project, "…the emphasis is on reaching out and sharing something specific with one other person, that an unrepeated portion of time and creation was individually cut and passed on to one other person to hold onto as their own."
Cassettes also yield a grainy, degraded sound quality, an aspect that has its own appeal. The draw to this sound can be read as a type of nostalgia,
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Homestead Florida: On the morning of September 5 professional birding guide Larry Manfredi spotted a rare Cuban Pewee near the Long Pine Key Picnic Area in Everglades National Park. As soon as photographs and recordings of the bird's song are reviewed by the Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee, this should be the third confirmed sighting of the Cuban Pewee in the United States, and the first for Everglades National Park.
The bird is creating quite a stir among bird watchers, who have flocked to the park from as far away as West Virginia, Indiana, and California to see it. The bird has been seen repeatedly for several days since the initial sighting, and Manfredi is hopeful that it will remain in the area indefinitely.
The Cuban Pewee, native to Cuba and the Bahamas, is a small member of the flycatcher family. It is recognized by a white crescent behind its eye and its distinctive call, described as "dee-dee-dee-dee…"
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A brief comparative study of the lives, works and attitudes of two great 20th-century authors.
Hardly an original work, Lebedoff (The Uncivil War: How a New Elite is Destroying Our Democracy, 2004, etc.) offers a series of linked analyses and speculations based on information readily available in standard biographies and related works about the worlds in which both men lived and did battle. This book's premise and purpose, however, are distinctive, in that Lebedoff surveys his subjects' histories as illustrative of their essential similarity, even oneness (hence his title), despite obvious differences in personality, social standing and worldviews. Waugh was a ferociously devout Catholic, Orwell an equally impassioned anti-communist and socialist "concerned entirely with this world…[while Waugh was preoccupied] with the next." Lebedoff thus compares and contrasts Waugh's celebrity-obsessed school experiences, abortive teaching career and disastrous first marriage with the stoicism exhibited by Eric Blair (before he adopted the famous nom de plume), who renounced any possibility of rising socially, joining the British civil service as a policeman stationed in Burma. Subsequently, there are juxtaposed considerations of each man's literary trials and triumphs; Waugh's misadventures in Croatia as a scandalously unconventional officer and gentleman; the increasingly tubercular Orwell's days as a Home Guard during the London Blitz; both men as husbands and fathers. Pages are filled by such risible expedients as a potted biography of the Mitford sisters, a needless summary of the overfamiliar plot of Brideshead Revisited and a labored analysis of this "masterpiece" and Orwell's 1984 as each author's grave Final Statement. Fortunately, both Orwell and Waugh are such engagingly stubborn and heroic figures that there's no resisting such deservedly well-known anecdotes as Captain Waugh's maliciously merry rumor-mongering insistence that Yugoslavia's Marshall Tito was a woman.
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Monday, 2 January 2012
New Year competition: win £20 of seeds
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Hi, was it Detroit 2 Beetroot ?ReplyDelete
You had a great harvest from Detroit 2 last year.ReplyDelete
I have tweeted a link to this great competition. @01592_katieReplyDelete
I have shared on FacebookReplyDelete
- MissMootastic2 January 2012 at 21:25
The answer is 'Detroit 2' - I will retweet the competition also and probably take a look at Seed Parade also! Thanks!ReplyDelete
Is the answer 'Detroit 2'
- Anonymous2 January 2012 at 21:36
I believe it is Detroit 2 Beetroot.ReplyDelete
I have retweeted the link to this comp. @jess_lamReplyDelete
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It's Detroit 2 beetroot.
Have RT'd
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Hi Ryan. The answer is 'Detroit 2'.ReplyDelete
The answer is Detroit 2 Beetroot.ReplyDelete
I'll give you a retweet too :-)
Happy New Year
Happy New Year to you Ryan!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3 January 2012 at 19:25
Detroit 2! I wish mine had grown as well as yours did...Will share on Boat book, All the best ,xPReplyDelete
- Tracey Jones3 January 2012 at 20:53
I've shared on my Facebook page. I don't know the answer yet but I'll have a read and get back. I don't want to just copy the above answers, lol.ReplyDelete
- Tracey Jones3 January 2012 at 20:54
I've liked and shared on Facebook. I don't know the answer yet. I'll read and get back to you. I don't want to just copy the answers above, lol.ReplyDelete
Hi Ryan,ReplyDelete
Detroit2. Slugs got most of mine last year- tiny ones not like yr friend the leopard slug. Happy New Year June
- Romana Richards4 January 2012 at 18:29
Detroit 2. ( I have grown Detroit before but was disappointed with Boltardy this year so back to Detroit for next)ReplyDelete
Detroit 2, will try this next year as they sound great from all the comments!!!ReplyDelete
- Haydee Bell7 January 2012 at 00:57
If only I had just scrolled down - I just searched and searched for the answer - Detroit 2, that is my answer :)ReplyDelete
Tweeted your comp too (Aprilbell29)
Detroit 2ReplyDelete
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I have retweeted the competition - @BoostieBooReplyDelete
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- Nicola7 January 2012 at 14:48
Detroit 2 and I'm just about to share on my Facebook page! Thank you!ReplyDelete
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Good luck everyone ;)
Cheers, David.
Detroit 2ReplyDelete
I have also shared on facebook and tweeted :)
- Anonymous7 January 2012 at 22:45
Detroit 2 beetrootReplyDelete
have shared a link on FB and retweeted although in no way certain I have done either correctly :)
Detroit 2 and shared on FB ( Maybe next time Google+ would be allowed )ReplyDelete
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Detroit 2 ...Have RT'd.ReplyDelete
Assume prize is transferable? New community garden in Pixham Dorking would get mine if I win :-)
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- Anonymous17 January 2012 at 07:09
Detroit 2 re tweeted @eugenecallighanReplyDelete
- Anonymous21 January 2012 at 16:22
Detroit 2 - just a guess :-)ReplyDelete
Hi Ryan, you grew Detroit 2ReplyDelete
twweted as @Jaz246t
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Following on Twitter and Tweeted as @helixoo
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I think the answer is 'Detroit' and have also given you a RT and #FF on Twitter - @sowitgrowit
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detroit 2 (and so did I)!ReplyDelete
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Detroit 2 Beetroot - I love beetroot:) @kikicompReplyDelete
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- Anonymous31 January 2012 at 21:05
Detroit 2 - Also RT your tweet. Good luck to all,ReplyDelete
- Anonymous31 January 2012 at 21:06
Detroit 2 - Also RTweeted your tweet.ReplyDelete
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