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Today's post is for anybody who has ever looked at their Google search results and wondered, "Now why does that guy have his picture beside his content and I don't?"
The answer is, that guy has successfully set up Google Authorship for the content he shares online. In a nutshell, Google Authorship is a way for people searching for content to immediately see who wrote an article, identifying them by their name a photo.
If you have a blog and are consistently creating posts as part of your content marketing strategy, you have a huge opportunity to do something relatively simple that can have big benefits for you and your small business. What kind of benefits, you ask?
– Google Authorship is good for your business
One of the best ways to grow you your small business is by increasing the traffic to your website. There are lots of SEO (search engine optimization) strategies out there for doing this, and among them is a great blog. We've talked a lot lately about content marketing, which drives traffic to your site by way of blog articles your audience finds when searching the web. One way to maximize the benefit of these pieces of content for your website is by adding your Google+ author information.
As CIO points out, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said:
"Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification, which will result in most users naturally clicking on the top (verified) results."
Because the content you're providing is relevant and engaging, they're probably going to stay awhile once they click instead of 'bouncing' right away, which will signal to Google that your page is a good one to rank more highly since people find what they're looking for.
– Google Authorship is good for your personal brand
If you blog regularly, you have the potential to create a name for yourself within the industry you write about. If you have Google Authorship set up properly, people who regularly perform searches around a certain topic will start to recognize you, and will (hopefully) start clicking on your content instead of someone else's because they already know they trust your advice. Names can be hard to remember, so even if you've actually read several articles by the same person, you might not even know it without their photo beside the name. On an even more basic level, posts with a photo just plain stand out more and are more likely to get clicks:
The more authority you gain, the more people will click your content and link back to your blog – which lives on your website. They'll begin to associate you with authority and relevance, and those associations will be transferred to your brand and your business.
Google Authorship might sound a little technical on first pass, but it's actually pretty easy to set up. You just need to take the following steps:
1. Set up a polished and robust Google+ profile for your personal self (not your business – although you should have that too)
2. Get a professional-looking headshot of yourself that you don't mind having plastered all over Google
3. Met sure your blog is currently set up such that each entry displays a byline with your name on it (and that that name is the same as your Google+ profile)
4. Make sure your byline name matches the name on your Google+ profile.
5. Verify that you have an email address on the same domain as your content. I.e., if you blog at mybiz.com, you have an email address like [email protected] (If you don't have this, you can still do authorship. It just requires these additional steps.) There's a verification tool on this page, in addition to other helpful info.
6. On your Google+ profile, ensure that you're linking to your blog(s) from the Links section. List whatever you consider yourself a Contributor To.
It will take a few days of posting and Google crawling for everything to take effect, but be patient – it's worth the wait!
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More than 300 national business leaders signed an open letter in support of greater federal investment in preschool that was sent to Congress and the White House this week and presented Thursday to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
The letter reflects a growing campaign to reframe preschool not just as an education issue but as a matter of workforce training and economic development.
Many policymakers and business leaders now talk about early childhood education in economic terms, as offering a good return on investment.
"Currently, more than 90 percent of our education dollars are spent after age 5, yet 85 percent of a child's core brain structure is developed before age 5. This should have nothing to do with politics and everything to do with good business decisions," said James M. Zimmerman, retired CEO of Macy's Inc., in a news statement. Zimmerman is one of eight current or former executives who met with Duncan and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius on Thursday.
The executives and organizations that signed the letter, including the retired chairmen and chief executives of PepsiCo and Proctor & Gamble, agreed on several priorities for preschool expansion, many of which resonate with what President Obama highlighted in his own proposal this February.
They said new policies should start with prenatal care and extend through kindergarten; prioritize children from low- and moderate-income families; give parents options in the public and private sectors; encourage higher quality standards; and closely track the outcomes of different programs.
There is less agreement about how preschool should be paid for, said Sara Watson, the director of ReadyNation, which is organizing the business community to advocate for early childhood education investments. "There is no magic financing solution that is going to make everyone happy," she said.
The leaders who signed the letter said that a broad expansion will need to include some new funding as well as a reallocation of existing tax dollars.
"Ultimately, we need to put more resources into quality, evidence-based early childhood programs," Zimmerman said in a statement


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We're ending the week with an elegant Jamaica destination wedding from fine art, film studio, Andrew Mark Photography. The intimate celebration unfolded at the Iberostar Rose Hall Suites in Montego Bay and was dressed in a cheerful palette of soft blues mixed with vibrant pops of yellow and gold accents. JM Floral Design & Services provided the gorgeous, classic roses. These details and images are absolutely gorgeo
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Principals Cite Job Satisfaction
Even though their hours are getting longer, their duties are growing more complex, and their pay levels have been stuck in neutral for a decade, most high-school principals are happy with their jobs, according to a new survey.
More than 70 percent of the 1,215 principals and assistant principals surveyed by the National Association of Secondary School Principals reported being confident that they had made the right career choice.
Only 3 percent, by contrast, said they definitely would pursue some other career path if they had a chance to do it all over again.
The high rate of job satisfaction exists in spite of the fact that principals' salaries have scarcely grown since 1977, once inflation has been taken into account. That was the last time nassp conducted a similar survey.
At the same time, the work has gotten more demanding. Eighty-six percent of principals reported their average work week exceeds 50 hours. In 1977, 83 percent worked that many hours.
Leonard O. Pellicer, who headed the research team that designed the survey, said he was "very, very surprised" to find that so many principals were satisfied with their careers.
"One thing it tells us is that money and job satisfaction aren't necessarily related," said Mr. Pellicer, a professor of educational leadership and policies at the University of South Carolina.
Principal Priorities
Principals believe that alcohol- and drug-abuse-prevention programs should be a high priority for schools, the survey found.
Other highly-ranked concerns included programs for the gifted, teacher-evaluation criteria, computer instruction, and programs for handicapped, minority, and non-English-speaking students.
Many of these concerns are relatively new, said Mr. Pellicer, noting that six of the top 10 issues ranked in the new poll were not included in the 1977 survey.
The principals also said that youth-gang activity, increased enrollment, child abuse, and the education-reform movement probably would affect their schools during the next several years.
More than 8 out of 10 principals responding to the survey also said that teachers should share in decisionmaking on important issues. But most of the principals said that parents should have little say in many school decisions.
The survey also found that:
Principals in 1987 cited the same top three educational priorities as they did in 1977: teaching the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic; helping students develop a positive self-image; and developing students' problem-solving abilities.
The average principal is a white male, age 35 to 55. Twelve percent of principals and 18 percent of assistant principals are female; 6 percent of the principals who responded to the survey are black or Hispanic.
Copies of the report, "High School Leaders and Their Schools," can be obtained for $9.00 each from nassp Publications Sales, 1904 Association Dr., Reston, Va. 22091.--ef
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São Paulo-based Studio mk27 has built the amazingly sophisticated and serene Mororo House just 180 km outside of bustling São Paulo. Although the nature-loving owners originally wanted to build on top of a rugged hilltop, the final design nestled the home into a beautiful pine forest, creating an optimal integration with the surrounding landscape.
The mountainous region is known for its low temperatures in the winter, so the architects wanted to ensure that the home was properly insulated year round, but would maintain its strong connection with the outdoors. Accordingly, the elongated structure was built with a two-fold design strategy: a large opaque block on one side of the home holds the living area and bedrooms, while the transparent side houses the enclosed bathhouse with a heated pool and sauna.
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The interior is the perfect open concept layout, with high ceilings, cozy sitting spaces, and long hallways offering a continual living space throughout the home. The rustic chalet feel is further achieved with metal structures and steelframe walls. However, its the home's large floor-to-ceiling windows, external wooden deck and solarium that really fuse the interior space with the home's beautiful natural setting.
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Helen Donohoe is a Londoner of Irish-Scottish parentage who studied politics and government at Manchester University and the LSE. She recently completed the MA in Creative Writing (Novels) at City University, London, winning the PFD Novel Writing Prize with Birdy Flynn. She was mentored by Sarah Waters.
She has twenty years experience of representing the powerless and invisible as a campaigner, lobbyist, volunteer and writer. In her last role as Director of Public Policy at Action for Children she led the successful campaign to establish emotional child neglect in criminal law. She is a highly experienced public speaker and media spokesperson with frequent appearances on BBC News, SKY News, ITN and BBC Radio including Women's Hour. Her written work has ranged from peer-reviewed papers through to blogs for The Huffington Post and New Statesman. She is also the author of the young person's book World Issues Today: Terrorism.
She is an Arsenal season ticket holder and has previously played football for West Ham United. She lives in north London.
Birdy Flynn is published by Oneworld Publications.
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There is the secret of Birdy's dead grandmother's cat. How the boys tortured it and Birdy Flynn had to drown her in the river to stop her suffering. There's the secret of Mrs. Cope, the popular teacher, who touched Birdy in the cupboard. The secret of the gypsy girl at school who Birdy likes, but she can't tell anyone. Because Birdy's other secret is that while she plays and fights as good at the boys, she is a girl, and she doesn't always feel like a girl is supposed to.
Her beloved Irish mother has her own troubles, as does the rest of her rowdy family. So Birdy decides to do what she feels she has to – hold onto her secrets and try and become what others want, even if it means suffering, and the risk of losing herself.
In this luminescent, sad and funny portrayal of a girl growing up amid an imperfect family, Helen Donohoe has created a beautifully nuanced and deeply felt novel. Whatever their own story, every reader will recognize in Birdy their own struggle to find their place in the world.


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These last two amazing sunrise images sent to me from my sister were taken on December 31,2012. in Washington State.
Saying goodbye to 2012 and welcoming 2013
'Tis Grace that brought me safe thus far, and Grace will
lead me home.
The Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.—DEUT.1:31.
I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto Myself.
In His love and in His pity He redeemed them; and He bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the Lord alone did lead him.
Even to your old age I AM He; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
This God is our God for ever and ever: He will be our guide even unto death.
Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee.
Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.
Exodus 19:4 – Isaiah.63:9 – Deuteronomy 32:11-12
Isaiah 46:4 – Psalms 48:14 – Psalms 55:22 – Matthew 6:25,32 – I Samuel 7:12.
To me this version of Amazing Grace is especially touching because the performance is done in a Roman Coliseum. How many Christians were martyred there for their faith in Christ? The sweet irony is that so many centuries later Amazing Grace was sung where Amazing Grace was enacted in the lives of those saints who gave their ultimate devotion to a Savior they loved with all their hearts; their very own lives.
The same Lord that was Faithful in 2012 will be Faithful in 2013. There will be new challenges, new mountains to climb and new vistas to explore. So much more that we can do for the Lord.
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Is the Earmark System Really Being Reformed by Democrats?
Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine:
Earmark Reform
Despite promises to reform the earmark system — in which lawmakers request funds for specific projects back home — House Democrats have come up with a way to make the process more secretive than it is now.
Instead of putting earmarks in bills during the committee process when they can be discussed, Appropriations Chairman David Obey has ordered that the requests not be added until bills are in House-Senate Conference — an eleventh hour, often closed door process that will keep the earmarks from being debated.
When asked about the inevitable criticism the move will receive from Republicans and others — Obey told The Washington Post — "I don't give a damn if people criticize me or not."
Iraq Connection?
Pennsylvania Democrat John Murtha is blaming the U.S. involvement in Iraq for the recently-announced terror plot against JFK airport, for which three suspects from Guyana have been arrested and another from Trinidad is being sought.
Murtha told ABC's George Stephanopoulos — "This is the kind of thing that's happening because of our troops in Iraq... Our presence in Iraq, our occupation of Iraq gives these people the inspiration... We didn't have this kind of problem before... Our presence in Iraq is inspiring them to recruit people all over the world."
However the indictment says the mastermind of the plot first conceived his plan more than a decade ago — when he worked at the airport.
Radicals Infiltrate
A British government study says radical Muslims have infiltrated colleges and universities, and are using Islamic studies departments to recruit students for jihad.
The London Telegraph reports as many as 25 schools have been affected — with some recruits going to Iraq and Afghanistan to fight.
The report was expected to criticize courses for failing to present Islam as a faith than can peacefully coexist with other religions.
It suggests the creation of a network of Muslim advisers to give impressionable youngsters guidance away from radical influence.
Scientific Consensus?
A former adviser to President Carter's global environment task force and one of Canada's leading environmentalists is disputing the claim that there is a scientific consensus about the human origins of global warming.
Lawrence Solomon writes in the Financial Post that a majority of astrophysicists and other solar scientists may in fact disagree with the conventional wisdom. He points out that almost 18,000 scientists signed a petition in opposition to the Kyoto Protocol.
And he says a survey of the National Registry of Environmental Professionals found that only 59 percent believed human activities were largely responsible for global warming.
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Oxford University students warned 'no pyjamas in hall'
Oxford University students have been warned to end the "slovenly practice" of eating breakfast in pyjamas in their dining hall.
The reprimand was set out in laminated notices entitled "Hall Manners" around Brasenose College.
"This practice evinces a failure to distinguish between public and private spaces in college", it stated...
The notice reads: "There is a clear distinction between night wear (private) and day wear (public).
"I trust that this slovenly practice will cease forthwith."
It also reminded students not to be late for dining times and that "formal gowns" should be worn at dinner.
This is apparently the top story in Oxfordshire today. Not only is 'university mildly enforces rules' hardly a story at all, but this is my college, and these notices actually went up almost exactly a year ago. Breaking news, indeed.
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Self-cultivation, Secularization, and Neoliberalism
Part of how we are produced as who we are is through the ways we are shaped by socially-enforced patterns of practice and attention. We are, as Michel Foucault showed many years ago, produced as docile and as beings with certain capacities that are useful to powerful institutions through the judicious application of disciplinary power -- we are produced as good workers, good soldiers, good consumers, and so on. On the other hand, one of the ways in which we can intervene in our own self-formation, in ways potentially much more lasting than a simple one-time, New-Years-resolution-style act of will, is through self-disciplinary practices of repeated focus, attention, reflection, and action. This does not allow us to escape our circumstances or to jump automatically to some different path, but it allows us to act on self in ways that, with time and patience and persistence, will likely take our journey in different (if never exactly predictable) directions than otherwise.
Perhaps the example that springs most readily to mind of a practice with potential for such self-cultivation is that of meditation. I mean, I am skeptical of some approaches and of some claimed benefits to meditation, but I think that generally it is such a practice. Another such practice can be writing, if approached in the right way -- I am currently reading a book by Natalie Goldberg, who has been a Zen practitioner for decades and a well-respected writing teacher for almost as long, and one of her key insights (and one emphasized in the book I'm reading at the moment) is the way that writing, too, can be a practice of this sort. I have never done more than dabble in meditation, but writing is certainly this sort of practice for me.
Another such practice that has been integral in shaping me is reading. Not everyone reads this way, of course, but some people do. In the standard narratives of the emergence of the discipline of literary studies, an important element was the way in which a small number of English gentlemen of a particular class produced themselves as new sorts of subjects through a sort of literary self-cultivation, a kind of discipline of engagement with text. Given the role of that class of English gentlemen in empire and other sorts of nastiness, I'm certainly not eager to claim any sort of kinship, but there's no denying that one part of my emergence as who I am today is related to a series of encounters of a particular self-changing sort with texts.
Another way to think about such self-cultivation, based on Ladelle McWhorter's reading of Foucault, is disciplines organized around pleasure. These disciplines can be things like gardening and dancing (examples from her life), or sadomasochistic sexual practices, hallucinogenic drugs, and the writing of philosophy (examples from Foucault's life). I haven't set out to deliberately engage in disciplines of pleasure, but in retrospect I think I have -- writing is one example, for me, but there are others.
Then there is the example of prayer in a Christian context. Prayer is more often treated in lay discourse as a sort of obeisance or a kind of communication of a wishlist, and certainly I have known Christians who would be aghast at the idea that their practices have anything in common with the meditation that the "heathens" engage in (which opens them up to the devil, dontchaknow). Nonetheless, some approaches to prayer are very much meditative, and certainly they meet the definition of focused, repeated attention, and often include a sort of engaged reflection on self.
And, finally, I would argue that lots of other ritualized practices that are often slotted as "religious" or "traditional" meet the definition of practices which produce selves. Christian church services can be like this, as I think can the services of many religions, the ritual and ceremony of many indigenous cultures, and so on. I'll talk more about this below, with particular reference to the secularizing Christian/post-Christian context of Canada today.
I have written before about my own relationship to religion, which is complicated and ambivalent. Part of that relationship has to do with me coming from a mainline Protestant background, and still being shaped at a fairly deep level by a sort of non-religious cultural Presbyterianism. That said, Christianity at an explicit level was never particularly central to my experience even in my childhood, it is not an active part of my current life, and it is not something I miss or feel a lack because of. Moreover, though I have enough background to have at least a reasonable lay understanding of the system of symbols and language and idea that comprise the diverse strands of Christianity, it is not a system of symbols that resonates with me (at least at an explicit level) and, while I do feel flashes of affinity with traditions like the social gospel and liberation theology, the Christian symbolic universe is much more likely to be off-putting to me. All of which is to say that the observation to which this post is leading is not about identifying as Christian (I don't) or about yearning for some missing source of meaning (I'm not).
Given all of that, I don't have many occasions in my current life to be a part of Christian ritual. This past weekend, I did have such an occasion, and it was not just any Christian ritual, but conservative evangelical Christian ritual. As you might expect, my responses to being in such a context were complicated, and I'm not going to go through every detail. One aspect that I want to note is that, given that the purpose was remembering the life of a man who thought very differently than me about many things but for whom I felt a definite respect and affection, I was thankful to be able to be a part of it. And another aspect that can't be denied is that it pushed me to process a number of kinds of things not so much about the man at the centre of the ceremony but the ceremony itself, including a refreshing of the already-named alienation from the language and symbols from which the ceremony was constructed and a definite lack of desire to reconnect to such social contexts.
But. Another thing that I thought about as the event was happening was the last point I made above, about religious ceremony being a sort of practice. Going to church is a sort of focused, repeated, collective attention that calls into question who we are and how we move through the world. It is, indeed, a practice of collective self-cultivation. And in particular I was wondering what it means that this form of collective self-cultivation -- the only form that many, many people are likely to encounter -- has become significantly less common in Canadian society over the last forty years.
Now for some caveats for those readers who rush to a sort of unnuanced, uncritical, evangelical secularism: I am not claiming that these shifts are unilaterally bad, I'm simply claiming that they are complicated and that we might have lost something along with whatever we might (or might not) have gained. I am not for a second denying that young queers sitting in those same pews I was sitting in last weekend might well be driven to hate themselves by the words they hear there over the course of years. I'm not denying the messed up views of gender that are no doubt being drummed into the parishioners (though I'd counter that there are just as many secular sources of such views). I'm not denying that the interesting (imperfect but substantive) evangelical renunciation of the anti-semitism and anti-Black racism that tainted earlier decades is made much less heartening by the fervent embrace of Islamophobia (but, again, the most evangelical secularists tend to be virulent Islamophobes too). I am not denying the One True Way mindset that has been part of Christianity perhaps from its founding but certainly since its 'entanglement with empire' (a paraphrase of a Christian feminist theologian) at some point during its first millenium, and that is so integral to the conquest that has been such a major part of the global legacy of the West in the last five hundred years (though the One True Way mindset is no less present in Christian-derived secular contexts, and one could argue that it was operationalized for modern empire quite directly via secularism). I am not denying that in many (but not all!) such spaces the focus is on locating problems within individuals who are then encouraged to feel bad about themselves and to fit into oppressive social relations, rather than on transforming social relations such that we might all be able to survive and thrive. I am not denying that whatever self-cultivation goes on in many (but not all!) such spaces is at best a big dollop of top-down imposition along with the sort of active engagement by ordinary people that has a chance of overflowing the boundaries set by authority figures. It's not simple and it's mixed with a lot of messed up stuff. I recognize this.
Nonetheless, church is one of the only regular, systematic venues that most people in Canada today whose heritage, in their own lives or those of parents or grandparents or great-grandparents, includes Christianity have for reflecting on what life means and how we should live it. It is repeated, focused attention to our conduct in the world. Moreover, it is based on mining a rich and complicated symbolic system that is complex enough that even when a singular, oppressive message is being preached, there is scope for inventiveness, for compassion and justice to seep through the cracks, for dynamic responsiveness to the circumstances of real lives.
What have we lost with the loss of that space in so many lives?
I don't actually know the answer to that. I don't want to feed into the ridiculous narrative espoused by some right-wing Christians that attributes all manner of social ill to fewer people going to church. I remember Christians I went to highschool with making that argument, and it made me (privately) roll my eyes even then. And of course there are the prominent right-wing evangelicals who blame everything from extreme weather to terrorist attacks on lesbians and liberals and lack of prayer in schools. All of that is extremely silly and can only be plausible if you refuse to commit even minimal sociology (to paraphrase Stephen Harper). However we understand changes in religious practice in Canada over the last four decades, it has to be in the context of all of the other complex social changes in that time as well.
And yet, I still wonder. I still wonder how this loss of collective reflection, practice, and self-cultivation has an impact on us as selves being cultivated and as a social whole. I cannot help but see a correlation with the neoliberalization of capitalism over the same period, a major component of which is the material and cultural relegation of things previously seen as social into the private sphere. What earlier movements (often in interesting resonance with politically very different ways of seeing society that lingered from earlier times) had cast as social problems that could be solved socially, neoliberalism has taught more and more of us to see as private. It has taught many of us that the capitalist market is the only social force worthy of deference, even as access to many forms of comfort and safety and resources is reserved for fewer and fewer people.
Is the change in distribution of practices of self-cultivation not similar? For increasing numbers of people, it is no longer an imperfect but collective endeavour. Instead, opportunities for deliberate self-cultivating practices are individualized, which means fewer and fewer people can access them at all, and even among those who can they tend to happen in ways that are more likely to tune out the ethical and political call that the social makes (or should make) upon us. I certainly recognize that all of the practices of self-cultivation that I engage in are quite individualized (or are quasi-collective in a much different sense), and it would be much harder for me to relate to, say, writing and reading the way I do if I didn't have access to privilege in the way that I do. And I want to emphasize that it's not that people who don't or can't access the individualized versions, or for that matter the collective versions based in religion, are "bad" or "lesser" in any way. Such people are no less likely to be ethically good, interesting, talented, or worth knowing than anyone else. Rather, I see it more as a denial of opportunity for people to intervene in their own lives. And beyond that, it is also perhaps a loss of scope for collective intervention into our social world. After all, there have been important moments in Canadian history where collective self-production that happened in part through Christian contexts was important in mobilization to challenge inequality, injustice, and war -- it was always complicated and often had politically dubious aspects too, but it nonetheless accomplished important things. What does it mean that such space has eroded in the same period of time as neoliberalism has ascended?
So I have no conclusion. I wouldn't wish things backwards even if I could, for all the reasons already given. But I still wonder what we have lost, and what that means for our political practices in the present.
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As the dust settles on Macarthur Rams' disappointing post-season, the embattled club must work its way through an identity crisis.
There will be plenty of text messages, well wishes and commiserations for one of the better clubs in Sydney, Macarthur Rams, whose crushing back-to-back losses against Sydney FC and Western Sydney Wanderers must be as much a shock to the players as it was the fans.
First things first, congratulations to the Rams for the way they handled themselves when they conceded. Losses against A-League opponents are as rare as hen's teeth these days, so to have gone down in the manner they did would certainly have rattled the administration.
The club stated 'these are just A-League pre-season games, who cares?', but this only underlies the identity crisis which has now taken hold at the western suburbs outfit. The losses the club has experienced over the past week are symptomatic of a deep-rooted conflict of attitude and direction, one which must be addressed before the club can hope to move forward.
With fans claiming Sydney FC is still suffering from identity issues after it's heavy 4-0 defeat to Newcastle United, it's only fair that Macarthur Rams' losses be thrown under the same umbrella.
So, where to for the Rams? How can they fix the issues afflicting the club and regularly challenge rusty A-League sides?
Local Macarthur district player Blake Moretti says the ingrained nepotism within the region is a major stumbling block to the type of reform the Rams need to become competitive again.
@joey_c26 The same guy runs the bunnings in Campbelltown along with one of MacArthur clubs. #bunningsception
— Blake Moretti (@BlakeMoretti) July 23, 2014
Others, like Sydney FC socialite Simon Overall, believe Macarthur's attempts at securing additional revenue streams has put the club's core business – playing football – in jeopardy.
"Macarthur is clearly spreading itself too thin – between its mortgage-brokering industry and the football club, it's clearly cracking under the stress," Simon told FMF.
It's clear there is no single answer, but one thing is certain – this crisis of identity must be fixed quickly, or Macarthur Rams will be subjected to hundreds of repetitive articles from every corner of the football world.
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I'm having some side affects and would like to have some discussion regarding what I am experiencing vs others.
Currently; here are my issues with this medication:
1. Shakes - After my 2nd dose of the day I get progressively worse shakes.
2. Cannot sleep - An issue because I need my meds for REM Sleep
Disorder to work and I am more tired and exhausted all day.
3. Stomach Cramps w/ibs symptoms
4. BP and pulse all over the place - heart racing, pulse low???
5. Leg Cramps w/cold, tingling toes
6. Distended Stomach (?? any relation to the breast enlargement issue)
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Welcome Towel
La Maison Bahira, in Marrakech
A classic welcome towel.
Hand-woven! Hand-embroidered detail. Stunningly simple weave out of perfectly soft threads; 100% cotton. Woven in Fez, Morocco.
Available in Black (shown), Absinthe Green (shown), Coral, and Sable.
One size.
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Nothing has happened recently that has allayed the concerns many of us have had for several years about the future of copyright.
The outlook overall remains very precarious for rightsholders of all kinds and I see no signs of that changing any time soon. Whether it's a new government review of copyright, new legislation, or a hostile judicial decision, there's no shortage of worrying signals...
...pivoting to focus on innovation. Still blogging about copyright and occasionally on digitization.
Monday, March 27, 2017
Article: Michael Healy's 2017 Copyright Outlook: 'Precarious for Rightsholders'
Michael Healy, executive director for international relations with Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), gave an interview recently where he discussed his 2017 outlook for copyright around the world. There is much in the interview to note and digest, and you can read it here. For example, Healy noted:
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Leslie Helpert internationally facilitates individual, in-person and Skype vocal coaching, multi-formatted voice workshops and master classes.
Find out more at her TEACHING SITE: www.DynamicVoiceTraining.com
Helpert's Teaching Statement:
My main teaching focus is vocal work, available to all levels; for singers, public speakers, those seeking vocal coaching, wellness coaching or voice and sound therapy, as well as guitar-based private lessons. Through the study of voice I find the most direct way to share the power of music, as a form of therapy and embodied expression. The method I teach has been long-developed from experiencing the voice as a the original resonant instrument. Classes combine vocal physics and voice-instrument anatomy with whole-body techniques, engaging students in a truly fun exploration of whatever subjects are relevant to their agenda. Whether facilitating a yoga-voice workshop, an improvisation ensemble or delivering a talk on vocal power, we'll cover subjects of delectable phrasing, effortless projection, ear training and listening, as well as breath cultivating and and an unlimited amount of therapeutic and performance-oriented vocal tools. I teach a full-house "one-stop shop" type of voice work, and with me students can become more masterful in body-space centering, in crafting authentic sound, in possessing improvisational confidence, as well as compositional strength, comfortable voice tone, physical stamina and unblocked expressive power. I respond to exactly where a student is and bring them to their own edge of development; I teach students how to be musically present by being present with them. The work I teach is effective for all types/genres/levels of music study. I don't separate "style"--I teach Powerful Singing, for any direction of sonic expression. The feedback I get from students post-session is that they often feel as though they receive not only a plethora of vocal learning tools, but profoundly nurturing therapy, effectually relaxing as well as reinvigorating. To me, music is all- encompassing and that is what I passionately share. I prefer to work with serious, practicing students, and teach people all around the world from Peru to Italy via SKYPE or at my home studio(s) in Barcelona and New York.
"Leslie Helpert not only altered my perception of what is possible in the virtual realm but she also expanded my relationship with my voice altogether. Her grounded methodology & keen intuition broke through the barriers of the computer screen and provided an intimate space for deep-rooted growth.
Her knowledge and experience are profound and it shows in her balance of patience and pressure. Leslie has a keen ability to tap into your vocal needs and provide you with a toolbox to build on them. i've taken vocal lessons with a diverse range of teachers and have never had such a powerful experience like i did with her. Leslie is deeply in tune with her instrument and it shows in her teaching. Leslie reminds us that our whole entire body is our instrument. she teaches us how to trust it and hone our vocal home."
-Kata, Oakland, CA.
"I've had the sincere pleasure of taking voice lessons from Leslie for the past year and a half. After every lesson, I feel more energized and open, and I often experience some kind of mini life breakthrough along the way too! Leslie is truly one of the most gifted teachers, singers and humans I know, don't miss an opportunity to work with her!"
Flora, Portland, Oregon
"Leslie is a great teacher, she makes the class fun, she is an enthusiast, she can identify your strong points and motivate/encourage you and also spot your weak aspects to make you improve faster and in a personalized way according to your needs as a singer. She is a very outside-the-box teacher/thinker with her own method from a lifetime experience that will make you enjoy learning because the class won´t be taught in a traditional manner, but a very unique one, you´ll be inspired."
-Olga, Lisbon, Portugal.
"The freedom to open up to any possible sound and the source of inspiration that comes from letting feelings guide are two of the bests gifts I got from Leslie."
-Leo, Barcelona, Spain.
"Music may be her primary field of expertise but Leslie also has an impressive theoretical and
practical knowledge of nutrition, biology, chemistry, art, literature and history which is easily apparent when in conversation with Leslie. Helpert is an artful pioneer that any student, stage or society would be fortunate to work with."
-Lindsey, Paget, Bermuda
From Berlin to Bermuda, Barcelona to Berkeley, Leslie Helpert has had the pleasure to teach an exhilarating and profound modality of voice work, respondent to students' needs. Her method is equally anatomically technical and musically theoretical; her training applies to singers, actors, writers, dancers, painters, public speakers, people who are in constant use of their voice professionally, voiceover actors, therapists, healing art practitioners and anyone at any level who pursues "coming to voice". Helpert's clientele is full-spectrum, from professional touring musicians to global speakers, as well as those seeking healing for significant, physiological conditions.


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Pregnant women have been using birth balls for years to help them during pregnancy. They are proven to help expectant moms get their body ready for that "all important day" when baby signals – I'm on the way!
Here are some of the benefits of using the birth ball:
- Works to loosen the pelvic joints and muscles in preparation for delivery
- Helps with the proper positioning of the baby
- Provides comfortable positioning during childbirth
- Increases blood flow to the uterus, placenta and baby is increased
- Spinal pressure is relieved
- Sitting on the ball works with gravity encouraging decent of baby
- Allows mom to rest her legs and still be exercising
- May increase the pelvic outlet by up to 30%
- Can be used in prenatal and postpartum fitness programs


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Black + Gold Power Suit PartyTuesday, September 06, 2016
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This suit is hot! I think jamewar is perfect but I find you need to line jamewar, otherwise all the little threads get itchy. Did you line your suit? If you did, what did you line it with, silk or cotton?ReplyDelete
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Thanks so much for your comment! Yes, the inside of jamewar is unfinished and scratchy. I definitely had to line the suit, and chose a silk lining because I wanted to give it a luxurious feel. Cotton would have been great too, and probably would have given the suit a stiffer look.


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25 dead in IS bombing in Baghdad
Islamic State claim responsibility for a suicide car bombing that kills at least 25 at a checkpoint in Baghdad. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
A suicide car bombing on Tuesday (October 14) killed a parliament member and 24 others in a Shi'ite neighborhood in Baghdad, according to police and medical officials, as Islamic State attacked towns in western Anbar province. The third straight day of bombings in Shi'ite parts of Baghdad and an offensive in Anbar province that saw strategic towns threatened by Islamic State pointed to the dire security situation in Iraq. The blast in Baghdad, claimed by Islamic State, occurred late afternoon as cars lined up to enter the affluent neighbourhood, home to one of the holiest shrines in Shi'ite Islam, Imam Kadhim. Police and medics said Ahmed al-Khafaji, a member of the Shi'ite Badr political party and a former deputy interior minister, counted among the dead. Five police officers were also killed, police and medical officials said. In a second attack, a roadside bomb killed three passersby on a busy street in the communally mixed district of al-Qahira in northern Baghdad, police and medical officials said. The attack in Kadhimiya marked the third straight day of bombings there and other mostly Shi'ite neighbourhoods in the Iraqi capital and its outskirts. The blasts have killed at least 77 people since Sunday. Islamic State, ultra-radical Sunni Muslim insurgents who have seized wide areas of northern and western Iraq, described the bombing as targeting Khafaji, according to the Site monitoring group.


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Fortnite is a battle royale game for Android that allows up to 100 players fighting for supremacy on a map that gets increasingly smaller.
The developers from Epic have not stripped the Android version of Fortnite, which means that users will get the full array of features available on all other platforms, including PC and consoles. Players will get to parachute onto an island and try to survive as long as possible.
Of course, it's possible to collect resources from all over the map in order to build fortifications, while trying to stay alive. An incoming storm reduces the size of the playable map, which means that players are forced to take on other players. Hiding is not an option.
The winner the last player or the last team standing. There are virtually no rules, and pretty much everything is permitted. Users need to keep in mind that Fortnite for Android will not run with USB debugging enabled.For more information on downloading Fortnite - Battle Royale to your phone, check out our guide: how to install APK files.
- Fight for supremacy on a massive island
- Build fortifications for stay alive
- Gather resources
- Join teams and cooperate
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Both James McBride, the author of The Color of Water, and Nathan McCall, the author of Makes Me Wanna Holler, are black men who grew up during the sixties and seventies where the average black male had few choices for a good future. Even though these two authors had their skin color in common, they both lead very different lives.
In the first chapter of Makes Me Wanna Holler, "Get Back", the author Nathan McCall describes a beating that he and his friends inflicted on a white teenage male who stumbled into the wrong part of the neighborhood. After the beating he describes how he and his friends all competed for bragging rights about who did the most damage. In the chapter it says that it made him feel good inside. Beating up the white boys, " made me feel like we were beating all white people on behalf of all the black," McCall writes.
By just reading this first chapter you can tell that he is a very angry person who doesn't mind taking it out on other people, especially white males.
The second chapter, "Cavalier Manor", starts off with McCall and his family moving into a new home in a development called Cavalier Manor. A working class neighborhood where active and retired military personnel lived. Since his step-father served in the Navy, they were always moving around and into what McCall described as drab apartments,this was his families first real home. McCall's family consisted of his mother Lenora, his stepfather Bonnie, two older brothers Dwight and Billy. Shortly after moving in to their new home his mother gave birth to his half brother Brian. His maternal grandmother Bampoose and stepbrother Junnie both ended up living with them too. Even though the house that they moved into...


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Eleonora Carisi is a fashion blogger and fashion icon followed closely in all fashion weeks she attends to. The italian girl has her own collection «What's Inside You» and is already considered an It Girl. She's the star here in Fashion Passion...OMG! in the WE LOVE category of April.
Eleonora, a ícone, com um look mais formal usando um vestido fit&flare e acessórios metalizados
Eleonora, the icon, with a formal look wearing a fit&flare dress and metallized accessories
A blogger em Estocolmo durante o desfile de Dolce and Gabbana, usando óculos de sol de Gold by Super Sunglasses, body e saia da sua coleção What's Inside You
The blogger in Stockholm during the Dolce and Gabbana fashion show, wearing sunglasses Gold by Super Sunglasses, body and skirt from her collection What's Inside You
Eleonora Carisi na Semana de Moda de Milão com um look floral e sapatos color-block
Eleonoroa Carisi in Milan Fashion Week with a floral look and color-block shoes
Outro Street Style de Eleonora na Semana de Moda de Milão
Another Street Style of Eleonora in Milan Fashion Week
A ícone na Semana de Moda de Milão durante os desfiles de Primavera Verão 2013 usando saia e casaco de SGN, sapatos Next & Co, óculos de sol de Dolce & Gabbana e mala de Paula C
The icon in Milan Fashion Week during the Spring Summer 2013 fashion shows wearing SGN skirt and jacket, Next & Co shoes, Dolce & Gabbana sunglasses and bag by Paula C


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Landscapes can be divided into two categories: hardscapes and softscapes. Hardscapes include decks and patios, light fixtures, pathways, and water features, while softscapes are the organic parts to your yard, like grass cover, trees, gardens, and flowers. In order to make all of these possibilities come together and complement each other, you'll want a top-of-the-line landscape designer and architect. Luckily, you've come to the right place. Just scroll below to find the Best Pick™ landscapers in Houston, or keep reading to find out more about landscaping.
Before calling a Best Pick™ Houston landscaping company, look around your neighborhood for inspiration. What are your neighbors' lawns like? What do you like about them and what would you do differently? A little research can help you decide not only what you want your landscape to look like, but it can help you know if what you want is appropriate for your neighborhood. Whatever ideas you have, talk them over with your landscape architect. They'll be more than happy to collaborate with you and do all they can to make your landscape dreams come true.


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I've moved to a new blog! Head over to The Farmer's Daughter for the recipe and full post.
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Hello, my name is Mary and I live in Brazil. I was looking for a recipe for apple pie and found yours. Could you pass me more details about it? I could not understand some things, as the measure of lard (in Brazil have adopted measures grams or pounds), their measurement is in pounds? Thank you for your attention. Hugs.ReplyDelete
I know it can be tough to convert things sometimes! Usually you can just easily google a converter, and it does the work for you :) For the lard, you'll need about 435 grams. Hope that helps!Delete
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Associates in Women's Health Care, LLC
Comprehensive Obstetric/Gynecological Care in Chesterfield, MO
We offer our patients quality, comprehensive Obstetric and Gynecological care in a friendly, comfortable atmosphere. We recommend scheduling regular examinations to protect your health. With early detection, most diseases are treatable and curable. Let us know if you are taking medications and any pertinent information related to them. This will help our physicians in determining your best course of treatment. If you have a question or problem, please let us know and we will do our best to obtain an answer or solution as quickly as possible.
We Are Available When You Need Us
The medical issues women may experience are widely varied, which may make it difficult to answer all of your questions over the telephone. This is why we recommend making an appointment if you are experiencing any specific problems. We want to accommodate your needs and will make every reasonable effort to make an appointment convenient to your schedule.
Make Your Appointment an Easy Experience
Our office is open Monday through Thursday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm and Friday from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm. Each doctor maintains his/her own schedule of hours and strives to adhere to their schedule. Please arrive 15 minutes prior to your appointment to complete the check-in process so that you may be seen at your scheduled appointment time.
Please bring a list of your medications, insurance card and co-payment. If you cannot come in for an appointment, but require treatment or wish to discuss your care at length over the telephone, a consultation fee will be assessed. Appointments can be scheduled by calling our office at (314) 878-7333 during normal business hours.
Every attempt is made to adhere to the appointment schedule as closely as possible. Unfortunately, deliveries or emergencies do not occur on schedule and operations may also take longer than anticipated. When these situations arise, your patience is greatly appreciated. We will try to keep you informed of any delays, and if necessary, will reschedule your visit.
If you are unable to keep a scheduled appointment, please notify us 24 hours in advance. This allows us to make your time available to another patient as well as reschedule your appointment. If you do not cancel your appointment 24 hours in advance, a cancellation fee will be assessed. For their safety, children are not allowed in the exam room, and we also ask you to refrain from cell phone usage in the office. This allows you uninterrupted time to discuss your concerns with your physician.
If you have an urgent problem, call our office. To reach your physician after office hours, on weekends or holidays, simply call our office at (314) 878-7333. If the office is closed please listen to the message and follow the prompts. Your message will be automatically forwarded to the physician on call. If you have an emergency, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room. Please have the emergency room notify us. Appointments, prescription refills or test results are handled during normal business hours and will not be completed after the office is closed.
We are now processing prescriptions electronically. Please provide information for your current local and mail-order pharmacy. For prescription renewals, call your pharmacy and request a refill. The pharmacy will contact our office for approval. Sometimes refill requests appear simple, but may require doctor approval, an examination or new instructions. In these cases, we may request an appointment for you before we refill the prescription. This will help you receive your medication in a timely manner and reduce telephone calls to our office.
Non-emergency prescriptions such as oral contraceptives, hormone replacement or pain medications may not be refilled after office hours or on weekends. For safety and privacy reasons, written prescriptions must be picked up at the office. A nominal fee is assessed if you need a medication refilled due to a lost prescription, lost medication or failure to take your medication with you when you are away from home.
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We accept assignments for Medicare and contract with most major insurance companies. However, some insurance carriers require you to be responsible for obtaining referral forms from your primary care physician. Without proper authorization from your primary care physician, or the absence of your insurance card at the time of your visit, we will not be able to properly file a claim with your insurance company. In this instance, payment is required at the time of your visit or you may be asked to reschedule your appointment.
You will be asked to verify your address, telephone number and insurance coverage at every visit. Please remember to bring your insurance card and personal identification with you to every visit. Our insurance department will file your claims and assist you in obtaining reimbursement.
Regardless of your insurance coverage, responsibility for payment remains your obligation.
Insurance co-payments are due at the time of your visit and if you have not met your deductible, that amount will be due as well. Payments can be made in cash, check, MasterCard, Visa or Discover. If you do not have your co-pay at the time of your visit, you may be asked to reschedule.
For any questions regarding insurance and billing, please call our business office at (314) 872-1434 Monday through Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., or Friday 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
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Our office makes every effort to comply with the HIPPA Privacy Act. You will be asked to sign a form stating how we can contact you and with whom we may speak with in regard to your care. We will not share your private information unless we have your written consent to do so. FMLA or disability paperwork will be filled out upon your request and a fee will be charged for each form required. While we never wish to see a patient leave our practice, we understand that situations may occur. Upon your written request a copy of your medical records can be mailed to the physician of your choice and a nominal copying fee will apply in compliance with state regulation.
We Share Your Concern
As you know, the entire healthcare industry is undergoing unprecedented changes which affect us all. Because of the changes, our medical practice must now charge for some services which are not reimbursed by usual insurance coverage. These fees are only charged when the service is used and we certainly appreciate your understanding. Educating our patients is an important part of our approach to your care. That means explaining your treatment in detail, providing information on your illness or treatment and generally making sure that you understand your healthcare.
Please feel free to ask questions. We'll be happy to give the answers you need. We care about you and strive to provide the highest level of medical care. We want to work closely with you to keep you healthy and resolve your health concerns. You can help us by being aware of your needs and by following the treatment plans we agree upon.
Once again, welcome to our practice.
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I haven't done much sewing lately and I am fairly hopeless at following sewing patterns but Lizzy at Lizziemade posted this tutorial for making a sock rabbit last week and the idea has been floating around in my head ever since.
Mayhem has been on my case about a crochet dog he's been wanting & I'm just not up for the time investment right now. A sock dog though could be managed.
Challenge #1 – Finding socks
I failed to notice where Lizzie said she used a baby sock and instead went to 3 different stores in search of women's socks that would make a neat looking dog. Apparently women only want ankle length socks these days. Socks with cuffs, that don't say "HANES" on the bottom, and are not all shamrocked are hard to come by. Which I already knew sort of because I like socks with cuffs that are not white and don't have shamrocks (or Xmas trees or whatever cutesie seasonal decor) on them and you just can't find them, except as the near hosiery style trouser socks. Plain cotton cuffed socks in something other than white. How hard can it be?
Impossible actually, in this area anyway.
I did end up finding black/grey striped knee highs in Target and some blue spotted knee highs also, so I bought them and used the stripes for the dog and am working on a spotted blue brachiosaurus now.
Challenge #2 – Turning this stuff into a sock with out injury to myself
I know what you are thinking. it's just glue. How can you hurt yourself with glue?
I am someone who super glued my pants to my leg back in June.
Also, not pictured, scissors (the bane of my existence), pins, a needle and an iron.
Yes, AN IRON! Disaster looms!
Yet despite the dull scissors, the black thread on a black background of unraveling fabric, the pins holding it in place and the hot iron pressing a thin seam I did manage to make a fairly credible sock dog.
And I didn't glue anything to myself.
I'm working on the dinosaur now. I didn't take a photo because it's rather obscene shaped at the moment


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"Say nowt to him," answered Matthew. "He's fair daft to-neet."
The evening was far advanced when the dalesmen rose to go.
"Our work's cut out for us in the morning, men." said John Jackson. "Let's off to our beds."
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away.
It was not at first that Ralph was a prey to sentiments of horror. His physical energy dominated all emotion, and left no room for terrible imaginings—no room for a full realization of what had occurred. That which appeared to paralyze the others—that which by its ghastly reality appeared to fix them to the earth with the rigidity of stone—endowed him with a power that seemed all but superhuman, and inspired him with an impulse that leapt to its fulfilment.
Mounted on the young horse, he galloped after the mare along the long range of the pikes, in and out of their deep cavernous alcoves, up and down their hillocks and hollows, over bowlders, over streams, across ghylls, through sinking sloughs and with a drizzling rain overhead. At one moment he caught sight of the mare and her burden as they passed swiftly over a protruding headland which was capped from his point of view by nothing but the mist and the sky. Then he followed on the harder; but faster than his horse could gallop over the pathless mountains galloped the horse of which he was in pursuit. He could see the mare no more. Yet he rode on and on.
When he reached the extremity of the dark range and stood at that point where Great Howe fringes downward to the plain, he turned about and rode back on the opposite side of the pikes. Once more he rode in and out of cavernous alcoves, up and down hillocks and hollows, over bowlders, over streams, across rivers, through sinking sloughs, and still with a drizzling rain overhead. The mare was nowhere to be seen.
Then he rode on to where the three ranges of mountains meet at Angle Tarn and taking first the range nearest the pikes he rode under the Bow Fell, past the Crinkle Crags to the Three-Shire Stones at the foot of Greyfriars, where the mountains slope downward to the Duddon valley. Still the mare was nowhere to be seen.
Returning then to the Angle Tarn, he followed the only remaining range past the Pike of Stickle until he looked into the black depths of the Dungeon Ghyll. And still the mare was nowhere to be seen. Fear was behind her, and only by fear could she be overtaken. It was at about two o'clock in the afternoon that the disaster had occurred. It was now fully three hours later, and the horse Ralph rode, fatigued and wellnigh spent, was slipping its feet in the gathering darkness. He turned its head towards Wythburn, and rode down to the city by Harrop Tarn.
At the first house—it was Luke Cockrigg's, and it stood on the bank above the burn—he left the horse, and borrowed a lantern. The family would have dissuaded him from an attempt to return to the fells, but he was resolved. There was no reasoning against the resolution pictured on his rigid and cadaverous countenance.


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Emission inventories of Short Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCP), and especially of Black Carbon (BC), are uncertain and not always comparable. Comparable and reliable emission inventories are essential when aiming for efficient strategies and policies for reduced emissions. This report presents the Nordic emissions and emission inventories of SLCP, the important emission sources and their development over time. It also discusses knowledge gaps, factors contributing to the uncertainties, and possibilities for improved emission estimates. The overall objective of the three-year project is to improve the Nordic emission inventories of Short Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCP), with a focus on Black Carbon (BC). This report presents the results from the first phase of the project, an analysis of the present status of knowledge, with focus on BC and particulate matter (PM2.5) emissions from residential biomass combustion, on-road and non-road diesel vehicles, and shipping. The next phase will draw on the results from this background analysis in designing and implementing an emission measurement program, where the objective is to expand the knowledge and develop well documented and reliable emission factors, primarily for BC, for use in future national emission inventories.
In order to investigate how climate efforts and competitiveness are connected in the Nordic region, CEO's and top management of some of the leading companies in the five countries have been interviewed. According to the interviews, the Nordic region can contribute to reaching the Paris Agreement. Climate change is top of mind of CEOs, chairs and top-level management in Nordic companies, and contributing to reaching global climate goals is not only altruistic. Almost all companies say that climate efforts can boost competitiveness. There is strong support for the Nordic region to be front runners in global climate efforts and acting together to push the EU to adapt more ambitious climate policies. The interviewed companies have approximately 540 000 employees. The aggregated revenue of the companies is around 200 billion EUR, corresponding to 17 percent of the GDP of the Nordic region.
The Nordic countries are often seen as green both in terms of a good environment and being capable of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This report is concerned with the development in GHG emissions over time and with the policies that have been effective in the reduction path. The purpose of the description is both to highlight effective climate policies and to tell the comprehensive story of climate policy in the Nordic countries. The project is developed in partnership with the Open Climate Network, an international network lead by the World Resources Institute.
The Nordic Partnership Initiative on Up-Scaled Mitigation Action (NPI) has been established in December 2011 to support climate change mitigation efforts in developing countries. The NPI is funded by Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and implemented in co-operation with Peru and Vietnam.
At their summer meeting in Finland in 2007, the five Nordic Prime Ministers decided to strengthen efforts related to Nordic research and innovation. They asked the Nordic Council of Ministers to draw up a proposal that would promote Nordic top-level research in close cooperation with trade and industry. The Nordic Prime Ministers met again in April 2008 at the Riksgränsen ski resort in Sweden, where they drew up the Riksgränsen Declaration which laid the foundation for the largest joint Nordic effort to promote research and innovation ever undertaken, focusing on climate, energy and the environment.
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Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The World Food Programme (WFP) which has collaborated with the government of Cote d'Ivoire in its school feeding activities since 1989, said a planned complete hand-over of the scheme to the government in 2003 has been revised due to the political crisis in the country.
WFP has school feeding programmes in 69 countries around the world and in 2003, it fed 152 millions pupils world-wide.
And the school feeding programme in Cote d'Ivoire has long been recognised as one of the strongest and most sustainable programmes, due to the high level of government and community support.
Throughout the crisis in Cote d'Ivoire, WFP has continued to work in close collaboration with the 'Direction nationale des cantines (DNC)' for schools in the south to ensure continuity in school feeding.
In the north, WFP worked as a link between the NGO 'Ecole pour tous' and DNC in the south to preserve structure and capacity.
With the redeployment of ministry of Education officials to the North in February 2004, WFP is once again collaborating with the government nation-wide.
However, WFP continues to provide logistical support for food deliveries in the North.
One of the most serious consequences of the crisis in Cote d'Ivoire has been the interruption of public education for over a million students for more than a year.
Although WFP continued to support schools that were open during the crisis in the North, many of them closed in September 2002, and only reopened in February 2004.
school canteens play a key role in the normalisation of traumatised communities by contributing to a supportive environment for children and their families in conflict-affected areas.
The canteens also serve as an incentive to reopen more schools.
In addition, providing a school meal to children alleviates household expenses, especially in this context of unfavourable socio-economic conditions where families are faced with limited financial resources.
School canteens also serve as a catalyst for community cohesion through participation, particularly by women, parent-teacher associations (PTAs) and COGES (comité de gestion), which include active women's associations, involving women from all ethnic groups in the villages.
These associations, which existed in villages several years prior to the crisis, do manage and supply the school canteens with local foods items.
In its relief and recovery efforts, WFP has been building upon and supporting these groups as a paramount implementing partner in conflict mitigation throughout the country.
WFP has been working close collaboration with DNC to strengthen their capacity in commodity tracking, monitoring and evaluation.
Hence, the UN food agency has provided DNC with 12 computers to use for data collection and evaluation.
Training in food security and targeting techniques will be initiated in late 2004 and will continue in 2005, according to a jointly agreed plan between WFP and the DNC.


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Our Southern Indian Summer SEEMS to be coming to an end and boy, am I ever glad! The weather changing has me in such a sweet fall mood! Recently, Mr and I have been planning for our move into our little love shack and I think the thing I am most excited about is building a faux fireplace so I can have a mantel to decorate! Here are my five favorite Fall garlands... courtesy of blog land, of course!
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Sequel to an earlier article-
This present article was not written by Dipo Olasope Esq.
This article was written normally by us,based on our knowledge of the Cane Corso Breed and our knowledge of Dipo Olasope Esq-temperament and all.
We have before now written that the Cane Corso is a most intriguing breed of dog.
It had in times past been used for various duties including fighting and baiting.
A regal dog breed that is the pride of Italy.
The Cane Corso is a giant dog breed.
However it is more of a giant breed by mannerism and carriage than sheer size alone because by virtue of size alone it is not heavier than a large size rottweiler.
It stands anywhere from 24.5 inches to 27 inches for the Males.Weighs anywhere from 45kg to 50kg.
A 24.5 inch Male dog is not gigantic by any means.
However the Cane Corso has a way of looking bigger than it actually is.
It's spread,it's carriage accounts for this.
In this article,the required temperament of a Cane Corso owner/handler interests us.
The Cane Corso like other dog breeds is prone to all the emotions that attend dogs- Fear,anger,worry,anxiety,pain.
It is how these emotions are handled by the Cane Corso owner/handler in training that will determine what sort of adult Cane Corso we get.
A conscientious,consistent,owner or handler will bring out the best in this breed.
An erratic owner will create an erratic Cane Corso and this is very dangerous.
We mentioned in our article on Bandogges that ideally the Cane Coros,Dogo Argentina,American Bull dog and APBT are the breeds preferred for this nefarious activity of tying dogs up with no form of socialization with humans till they become totally vicious,lethal animals.So the Cane Corso is very capable of becoming a lethal animal.
However we also wrote that an owner/handler of the desired traits can bring out the best in any dog breed and that a socialized dog can still do it's duties properly.
This must be the case for the Cane Corso in this article because the owner from experience of our team of over 30 years starting about 1984 is a most conscientious and consistent fellow!


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Where germs live and how to stop them in their tracks
Let's face it, germs are everywhere. While many microorganisms are harmless or even helpful, there are a vast array of others that can make us very sick. To help you identify where these little guys live and help you prevent their ill effects, we've prepared this handy infographic full of germs. Full of germ info, that is.
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I had a piece of salmon that had to used up in the fridge and was craving comfort food, so looked to see what else i had laying around and came up with this recipe.
It is along the same lines of the Chicken Hash, but with a few different flavours.
It is syn free on extra easy.
Preheat oven 200c, 400f, gas mark 5
4 large potatoes peeled and diced
1 lb salmon fillet
8 oz cremini mushrooms thickly sliced
1 red pepper diced
1 cup jalapenos
1 onion diced
1 tbsp cajun seasoning, devided into 3
1 tbsp worcester sauce
salt and pepper to season
2 duck eggs
Spray a baking sheet with frylight and lay out the diced potatoes spray the potatoes, sprinkle over ⅓ of the cajun seasoning and season, bake in the oven for 30 minutes, turning and spraying again half way through.
Spray an ovenproof dish with frylight, put the salmon in the dish and spray with frylight and sprinkle over ⅓ of the cajun seasoning and season, bake for 8 minutes.
Spray a large frying pan with frylight, fry the onions till they start to soften, add the mushrooms and pepper and fry till golden, sprinkle over the remaining cajun seasoning, worcester sauce and season, add the jalapenos and fry for 2 minutes, stir in the cooked potatoes and serve up, flake over the salmon and top with a fried egg.


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That's the theme of the latest issue of Momentum, our customer magazine. Here's just a taste of the project stories you'll find between the covers:
- Age of the machines: How can we make use of overwhelming data streams from digital infrastructure, and where does the human workforce fit into a mechanised future?
- Rising to city challenges: We used our ingenuity to design a station extension in central Leeds that accommodates Victorian masonry, structural limitations, working in water and live rail lines.
- The Peruvian project that overcame European uncertainty: It took 11 months of negotiation to secure finance for a hydropower scheme against the backdrop of the Eurozone crisis.
- An affordable, sustainable future for the Olympics: The International Olympic Committee's new vision for 2020 is unleashing better approaches to venue and event delivery.
- Six-star sustainability: South African government wanted a departmental office that would achieve a sustainability rating of four stars. Our design earned six!
There's much more in this issue, including a new Chinese sports park that's resilient to changing weather conditions; a new approach to sprayed concrete lining that we're pioneering on London's Crossrail project; and the unique challenges of building over rail stations.


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Pictures: Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, Palm Coast
A distant relative of George Washington once owned this beautiful state park, which lies between the Atlantic Ocean and the Matanzas River, before it was donated to the state. Formal gardens serve as the centerpiece of the park and 20 acres oak hammocks provide visitors with plenty of shade.
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Love Loch Lomond AGM 2017
The Love Loch Lomond AGM was celebrated on Tuesday 5 December 2017 at Cameron House Loch Lomond.
Destination Manager Karen Donnelly presented the 2017 Activity Report to members and the Love Loch Lomond board, offering a review of the year's activity and an opportunity for members to comment and ask questions.
Karen also provided an overview and updates regarding the current Collaborating for Success project, funded by Scottish Enterprise, including the new website Business Loch Lomond and ongoing collaborative projects between Love Loch Lomond, Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park and Friends of Loch Lomond Trossachs.
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Lee Dunham, who on March 23, 1973, opened the first McDonald's on the island of Manhattan, at 215 West 125th Street, says he's incredulous I've managed to live more than five decades on the planet without ever eating a Big Mac. Fries, shakes, fish fillets, even cheeseburgers, yes, but Big Macs, no.
"That's un-American, isn't it?" remarks the now 72-year-old Dunham, with wry suspicion. Dunham, who still works "those twelve-hour days" as the owner-operator of a dozen Mickey D's in the tri-state area, retains "a soft spot" for his first venture, which he sold in 1991 and refers to as "a piece of New York history." A former beat cop in Harlem's 28th Precinct, Dunham had always wanted to open his own restaurant, preferably "a classy tablecloth place." But after finding "not too many banks willing to lend a lot of money to a black guy in 1971," Dunham began thinking of a franchise business. He tried several, including the then-popular Chicken Delight, without success before striking a deal with McDonald's.
"I'm not sure why they were willing to open the first one in Harlem. I guess the rents downtown were too high," says Dunham, reminiscing about when burgers cost 23 cents, fries went for 15 cents, and "there wasn't even such a thing as a Quarter Pounder." Despite two personal exhortatory visitations from Ray Kroc himself, a McD franchise wasn't a sure thing back then, Dunham says. Harlem was on the edge. Junkies were hanging out all day "putting twenty sugars in their hot chocolate," and Dunham had to hire moonlighting-cop buddies to keep rampaging gangs like the Savage Skulls and Brooklyn's Bedford Avenue Stompers out of the joint.
But there was no stopping the McD's Zeitgeist, which was to blow away New York burger chains like Wetson's and consign White Castle's funky square patties to the fast-food margins. "When I saw those limousines pulling up in front of the place with white kids from downtown, I knew I was in," Dunham recalls. Being down the street from the Apollo Theater didn't hurt. "I used to serve 2,200 customers a day . . . When James Brown was in town, it went to 3,200. James sold me a lot of hamburgers. They were round the block, rhinestones for days."
The ultimate freeway experience has become a bona fide New York public space.
Now it is difficult to imagine a New York devoid of Golden Arches. In the wake of Dunham's triumph, there are more McDonald's franchises here than in any other city in the country, more than 250 of the suckers in the five boroughs, with 74 locations in Manhattan alone. Like some grease-surfing Cheever character, you can't go three midtown blocks without half-drowning in a pool of McFlurries, and that's just the top of it. Thanks in part to a Giuliani rezoning scheme that rescinded limits on chain stores, streets previously home to iconic New York small businesses now resemble exurban strip malls. At the intersection of Linden Boulevard and Pennsylvania Avenue in Brooklyn, for instance, the inner-city traveler encounters McD's, Burger King, Wendy's, Dunkin' Donuts, and Popeye's, a veritable cornucopia of corporate Frankenfood.
You might as well be Anywhere, USA. Except we are not anywhere, we are in New York, which is not supposed to be anywhere. What was wrong with just having a pizza parlor on every single block, a snarly, T-shirted dough-flinger hulking behind fingerprint-mottled counters—wasn't that fast food enough? The notion of New York's being home to more Ronald McDonald per square inch than anywhere else ranks as a grievous assault on cosmopolitan civic esteem.
This artery-hardening, reflux-inducing complaint is boldfaced in the current McD–bashing, Sundance award-winning film Super Size Me, in which New York–based writer–director–star–guinea pig Morgan Spurlock spends 30 straight days eating nothing but McDonald's, from Big Macs to Egg McMuffins to yogurt parfaits and back again. Aimed at linking McD's mad-scientist cuisine with expanding obesity rates (plenty of low-angle shots of huge, Wal-Mart-clad bottoms), the results of Spurlock's experiment, from the filmmaker's first parking-lot chunder to the microphotography of jellied protoplasm during a stomach-stapling operation, do not paint a pretty picture.
McDonald's, a monolith as unblinking as the Bush White House, has not been amused. A statement from Hamburger U. extended "two thumbs down" to Super Size Me, saying Spurlock's "is not about McDonald's" but rather a personal decision to "act irresponsibly" as he "elected to eat 5,000 calories a day and deliberately limit his exercise as a gimmick." The fast-food giant defends its concern for the national health by listing a number of new products in its "Real Life Choices" menu, including "an Adult Happy Meal with pedometer."


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If you are like most folks these days you are probably very money conscious. And, you are always looking to buy your wardrobe and other items on clearance or at discount stores whether in your locale or even online. Well, a great tip is even though you may have a suit or dress on that you got on sale, a fabulous way to draw people away from your outfit is by wearing a really eye catching piece of jewelry.
Whether it be a diamond necklace or even maybe a Presidential Rolex watch, or lets just say a really nice, sharp watch that catches a persons eye. Your inexpensive suit our dress you picked up at the local Goodwill will be overlooked due to the fact that the person or persons will be captivated by the fine jewelry product you're wearing.
Conversely, the items mentioned above are actually quite expensive and contradict the opening statement in our article. Some of the costume jewelry made now-a-days is quite amazing and really in all honesty quite hard to distinguish between the real McCoy. In example, Cubic Zirconia has truly come a long way. Without a jewelers loop and a keen eye it really takes a true expert to catch a fake diamond these days.
So my point of emphasis here is look for high quality inexpensive costume jewelry or other fashion items that look really good. And buy doing so that deeply discounted price tag will look really good to your pocketbook or wallet!
Check out the video below to see what real jewelry looks like! The stuff in the video is amazing!
The video hopefully will give you an idea of what some of the really fine stuff cost. Please keep a mental picture of this video in the back of your mind. And next time you are out discount shopping you will have a good idea of some of the quality looking costume and more inexpensive jewelry looks like!