text:
Message Area
lblHidCurrentSponsorAdIndex =
EDITORS NOTE: While we certainly give our author kudos for assembling a book which now gives us a very informative history of Missouri, his writing style could turn away modern readers unless they are forewarned. Our author gloats and is repetitive in his book, commissioned by the State of Missouri for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The reader will get though the bragging and find very interesting discoveries about what crops we farmed and where we farmed them.
Corn is the world's greatest cereal. No other-crop Is to be compared with it in the quantity and quality of feed that may be grown per acre. In cheapness of production and convenience in handling it surpasses all other crops to even a greater extent. A State well adapted to corn will always have a prosperous and progressive agriculture.
Such a State becomes a great feed yard and from it is drawn the world's supply of high class horses, mules, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, butter, cheese, milk, etc. These are the highest types of farming and attract the most intelligent classes of people.
Missouri grew last year 314 million bushels of corn on 7.7 million acres. This crop was worth on the farm approximately $100 million. This was practically one-eighth of all the corn produced in the United States and more than one-tenth of the corn produced in the whole world.
The rivalry between the States of Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa for permanent supremacy in corn growing will ultimately result in Missouri's favor on account of the large area of new land that is being rapidly brought into cultivation.
In no other country can corn be grown more cheaply than on the undulating prairies and the level and extensive river bottoms of Missouri. In portions of the Slate one man with six horses does the work required in planting and cultivating 160 acres of corn.
One man with a two-row lister will plow and plant 20 acres per day. By means of a double-row cultivator the same area may be tilled each day. This reduces the cost of growing corn to a point never before attempted, and marks a new epoch in the application of machinery to modern agricultural practice.
Another advantage in favor of Missouri is the fact that corn is ordinarily mature enough to store in large quantities by the middle of October in southern Missouri and by the first to the tenth of November in the northern part of the State. This gives the farmer the crisp, pleasant Indian Summer months in which to harvest and store his crop, and obviates the necessity of hiring help to garner what he has been able to grow.
As an Illustration of the possibilities in this direction on the deep, rich, loamy soil of Missouri, three boys, aged 9, 16 and 18 years respectively, prepared the ground, planted and cultivated 540 acres in corn in 1902, from which they sold 34,621 bushels of shelled corn.
Under the contract with the owner of the land, they were to receive 12 cents per bushel for their crop and the crop brought $4,154.52. This return for one season's work was enough to give to each of these boys a University education. This crop at 35 cents per bushel would have brought $12,057.35 or an average of $4,019.11 for each boy.
The largest corn farm in the world is in Missouri. Here an estate covering over forty square miles and containing nearly 30,000 acres is owned and operated by David Rankin, of Atchison county, whose start in life was a yoke of oxen and a rudely-shaped plow. Missouri corn and cattle have made him a millionaire.
On this farm this year more than a million and a half bushels of corn were grown. This equals the combined corn crop of the states of Utah, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Rhode Island, Wyoming and Nevada. This crop is annually augmented by the purchase of from one-half to three-fourths of a million bushels, all of which is fed to live stock on this farm.
Twenty-five hundred bushels are required for seed to plant this great corn field. Here oftentimes more than $100 worth of corn is fed to stock every hour. Four thousand bushels are fed daily to 6,000 cattle and 20,000 hogs. Often ten to fifteen thousand cattle are purchased at a time and made in a single shipment to this farm on which the freight alone amounts to as much as $25,000.
To plant and cultivate this crop requires an investment of nearly $50,000 in machinery. In every operation each man cares for two rows at a time. The lister tinder the operation of one man plows and plants two rows and covers 20 acres per day. The cultivators till two rows at a time and average from 16 to 20 acres daily per man.
On this farm 1,000 acres of land are often plowed and planted to corn in a single day. During the cultivating season from 1,000 to 1,200 acres are cultivated daily. Each man does the work connected with the planting and cultivating of from 160 to 180 acres, even including the shelling of the seed corn.
Here corn is grown cheaper than it can be harvested even with the most modern harvesting machinery. So called "Kings of the corn pit" are made and unmade in a single day, but a modest Missouri farmer is the real Corn King, whether the "Bulls or Bears" are in the ascendency, producing more corn than any other farmer in the world and feeding the largest number of cattle and hogs of any individual.
Henry Senden, of St. Charles, grew last year 132 bushels of shelled corn per acre on 12 acres of land. One third of this crop, the annual rental paid, amounted to $18.24 per acre. This year the same land produced 90 bushels per acre, yielding a rental of $12 per acre to the owner.
Land similar to this and convenient to trunk lines of railways may be purchased at from $40 to $75 per acre in central and northern, and in southeastern Missouri at from $10 to $50 per acre.
R. B. Wright, of Mt. Leonard, Saline county, has made an average of 75 bushels of corn per acre for the last ten years on his entire crop, which ranged from 75 to 200 acres per year.
Frank Stafford, of Tarkio, Atchison county, reports an average of 118 bushels per acre on 50 acres and 142.5 bushels from one acre. This land has been in cultivation for 20 years and no artificial fertilization of any sort was used.
U. M. Randolph, of Eminence, Shannon county, reports a yield of 81 bushels per acre.
Missouri's wheat crop last year was 61 million bushels, grown on 3.1 million acres—an average of 20 bushels per acre.
Every county in the State grows wheat of high quality and in sufficient quantities to require the use of the modern labor-saving machinery. Missouri's wheat crop last year exceeded the combined product of the following twenty-two States and Territories: Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Virginia. Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada.
The above States expend annually for commercial fertilizers with which to grow their crops, according to the United States census, the sum of $44.5 million. In other words, it required practically all the wheat grown by farmers of these States to pay this fertilizer bill.
Missouri's soil is rich enough to grow as much wheat, and practically as much corn, as all of these States without the use of artificial fertilizer. The land In Missouri is plowed for wheat during the leisure of mid-summer and early fall and the seeding is done before the rush of corn harvesting.
By reason of the friableness of the soil, the work of preparing the land is reduced to minimum.
Another special advantage not offered by the sections farther north is the very satisfactory result from sowing wheat after corn without plowing. This effects a saving of from $2 to $3 per acre, or from eight to twelve cents per bushel. The tillage given the corn provides an ideal seed-bed and the soil is rich enough to grow a maximum crop of wheat even immediately following so exhaustive a crop as corn.
Another advantage over the eastern method of handling wheat is the practice of threshing directly from the shock, thus saving the expense and waste of stacking the wheat. The threshed grain is left in the field in sacks until ready to be delivered to the elevator or railway station, thus avoiding the necessity of expensive granaries and double handling.
In most sections wheat grows rank enough on the rich Missouri soil to furnish valuable pasturage during the fall, winter and early spring without affecting adversely the yield of grain. This pasturage is often worth enough to defray the cost of preparing the land and seeding.
A further advantage which none of the wheat growers north of Missouri enjoy is the opportunity of growing a valuable hay and renovating crop, such as cowpeas. After a crop of wheat has been harvested, the land is plowed and sown to cowpeas. This crop matures in time to permit the land to be again sown to wheat the same season, without plowing. In short, to grow two valuable crops on the land the same season—one of which restores, in a large measure, the fertility removed by the other.
To illustrate the possibilities in this direction, the Missouri Agricultural college, at Columbia, has grown wheat and cowpeas continually in the same field for the past four years, and reports the following yield of wheat:
In 1900, 26.9 bushels; 1901, 40.2 bushels; 1902, 45.3 bushels, and 1903, 30.7 bushels. This makes a total yield per acre of wheat in four years. 143.1 bushels, or an average yield of 35.6 bushels per acre. After each crop of wheat a crop of cowpea hay, varying from one and a half to two and a half tons per acre was grown.
No manure or fertilizer of any sort was used on this land.
Here, two valuable crops were grown each year with but one plowing and at practically the same cost as is ordinarily required for one crop excepting the actual expense of seeding and harvesting the additional crop.
In south Missouri this practice is very common and exceedingly profitable. One man grew this year 1,300 acres In cowpeas after wheat.
B. F. Marshall, of Blodgett, reports from eighty acres of wheat and cowpeas the following financial result: Twenty-four bushels of wheat per acre at 70 cents, $1,344; 725 bushels of cowpeas at $1.50, $1087; 102 tons cowpea hay at $7, $714; average per acre, $39.20; total, $3,136.
W. H. Hagerdorn. of Rhineland, Montgomery county, presents an authenticated report of a yield of 604 bushels of wheat from eight acres, or an average or 75.5 bushels per acre. This wheat, when standing, was so heavy that the binder could cut a swath of only two feet in width and the shocks stood so thick on the ground that a wagon could not be driven through the field without opening a road.
James L. Hammett, of Huntsville, Randolph county, reports an average yield of 49 bushels per acre on 30 acres.
* * *
Practically every valuable grass known to the world grows well in Missouri. The acreage of blue grass patures in Missouri, on a conservative estimate, is placed at 7.5 million acres; the largest of any State in the Union.
In the amount of hay produced from domestic grasses, Missouri is exceeded by only two States. During the last decade, Missouri's production of hay increased 13.9 per cent, while there was a decline in the hay production of New York of 5.3 per cent, Illinois 19.6 per cent, Iowa 9.1 per cent, Pennsylvania 13 per cent and Ohio 8.8 per cent.
The following grasses, clovers and forage plants are grown successfully in this State:
- Timothy
- Kentucky blue grass
- Canadian (Virginia) blue grass
- blue stem
- orchard grass
- English blue grass
- tall fescue
- brome grass
- tall oat grass
- bermuda grass
- red clover
- white clover
- alfalfa
- alsike clover
- Japan clover
- cowpeas
- soy beans
- winter and spring vetches
- sorghum
- kafir
- corn
- millet
- hungarian
- milo maize
- teosinte
- rape
Blue grass is the peer of all pasture grasses, and is the domestic grass of Missouri. It may be grown successfully in every county, but it reaches its highest development in the northern two-thirds of the State. The moment the land is cleared or grazed closely, the wild grasses yield to blue grass without artificial seeding, without cost, and without effort on the part of the farmer.
Blue grass furnishes the most valuable and nutritious pasturage from the middle of April until the first of January, and may be depended upon to yield a valuable return every year without reseeding and without care or cost. It will support a steer to two acres and produce in the grazing season of six months, three hundred pounds of gain in weight.
When brought to its highest development a steer per acre is possible. In addition to the value of this crop as a feed, in many sections of the State the seed is harvested and yields from 10 to 40 bushels per acre, worth from 60 cents to 75 cents a bushel at home. The only cost involved is that of stripping and curing, for which a return of from $6 to $25 Per acre in addition to the pasturage is secured.
Timothy is the leading hay grass of America and reaches its highest development in Missouri, and grows successfully in every portion of the State. A crop, from one and a half to three tons of hay per acre is cut in July and the aftermath will almost sustain a steer per acre for three months as pasture.
Timothy is in many places harvested for seed, yielding from 6 to 10 bushels per acre, worth from $1.50 to $2.50 per bushel. In addition to this the hay crop is almost as large as if the seed had not been harvested separately. Little or no difficulty is experienced in securing a stand which lasts almost indefinitely under ordinary care.
Red clover is, all things considered, one of the most valuable crops grown in the country and succeeds well in all parts of Missouri, and on all classes of soil. Missouri is excelled at the present time in clover production by only two States and at the present rate of increase will soon rank first. Missouri produced as much clover hay in 1900, according to the censis, as all of the New England States, Iowa, New York and Minnesota, combined.
A soil that grows clover profitably may be kept in a high state of productiveness indefinitely. A soil that will not grow clover or some similar renovating crop will require, in a short time, the purchase of costly commercial fertilizers. No one thing so clearly indicates the intelligence of the farmers or reflects so creditably upon their system of farming as the area devoted to this crop.
The productive value of the corn as a feed, is enhanced fully twenty per cent by combining with it clover, cowpeas, or alfalfa. The State, therefore, that is pre-eminately adapted to both corn and clover is particularly fortunate, indeed, in the distribution of its resources.
The yield in this State varies from two to four tons of hay per acre, and in the ordinary season from three to six bushels of seed worth from $12 to $24 per acre is obtained as a second crop the same season at the cost of cutting and threshing. In portions of the State where clover has been grown the longest, the soil has become so filled with seed that a good stand may be secured without the expense of seeding, in many cases.
Second in importance, as a forage plant, only to clover, is alfalfa. it has already been proven that it succeeds on all the loess soils of the State, and practically all of the alluvial soils, and may be made to thrive, under proper care and management, on the rolling timbered area of the State.
From four to six cuttings off alfalfa are made each year, aggregating from three to six tons of hay.
- In 1901, J. P. Davls, Fortesque, Holt county, sold $80 worth of hay and seed per acre from twelve acres of alfalfa.
- Charles L. Cunningham of Caruthersville, who has more than three hundred acres in alfalfa, reports an average yield of six tons per acre in 1902, for which he received $18 per ton on board cars at the local shipping station: an average of $104 per acre.
- In 1903 S. P. Reynolds, of Caruthersville, paid $100 per acre for a farm seeded to alfalfa and sold from it within six months after its purchase, $50 worth of hay per acre.
- G. H. Sly, of Rockport, reports a yield of five tons of alfalfa hay per acre on nineteen acres from four cuttings.
The rich alluvial soils of southeast Missouri grow alfalfa with greater certainty and with less risk and difficulty in securing the stand than perhaps any other section of the United States. The seeding there is usually done In March or April on growing wheat and after the wheat crop Is removed, a fair crop of hay is cut the same season.
In this district are fields of alfalfa twelve years old that are producing as large yields as ever and show no signs of deterioration. Land that will produce five to six tons of this hay per acre without the usual risks and difficulties of securing a stand, may be purchased at from $20 to $50 per acre.
Owing to its geographical location, this section is peculiarly adapted to profitable hay production inasmuch as it has both river and rail transportation and is at the very southern edge of extensive hay growing and has the benefit of the best hay market in the world, the cotton growing States of the South.
Here the farmer secures St. Louts, Kansas City or Chicago prices, plus freight and commission, whereas the farmers of the northern and western states are obliged to accept these prices with the freight and commission deducted. This makes a difference of from $2 to $5 per ton, and when it is considered that a larger yield may be obtained on land that is less costly than that of the north and west, the advantages of this country for this purpose are apparent.
On the gravelly soils of the Ozark border, particularly in Benton county, alfalfa has shown Itself to be particularly well adapted. There is no reason why it may not be grown with equal success over the whole of this Ozark border, and perhaps on a majority of the Ozark plateau. In this event, land that may be purchased now at from $3 to $7 an acre may be made as productive and valuable as land that in other States is selling at from $50 to $100.
The possibilities of alfalfa-growing in Missouri are just beginning to be appreciated, and there is perhaps greater opportunity for profitable investment in Missouri lands that are adapted to this crop than in any other direction.
In most countries where alfalfa succeeds, corn is not a success, and either the alfalfa must be shipped to the corn or the corn brought to the alfalfa. In Missouri both of these crops are grown on the same farm. If to these be added rich blue grass pastures, the ideal conditions for successful stock raising are realized.
Fortunate indeed is the State that is able to grow on all classes of soil at least two such renovating crops as clover and cowpeas. This insures an abundant supply of material to properly balance and supplement the corn and corn fodder crop; at the same time that the soil is kept in a high state of fertility and in the best possible mechanical condition for the growing of other crops.
The Missouri season is long enough to mature cowpea profitably. From the latitude of Kansas City south, a crop of hay can be grown after wheat harvest or after a crop of early potatoes, or after a crop of timothy hay has been cut.
The pea hay may be removed and the land sown to wheat, timothy, or any other fall crop without further cultivation. The yield is from two to four tons per acre, and in feeding value the hay is about the same as alfalfa or clover. In the southern third of the State, in addition to this hay crop, from 8 to 15 bushels of seed per acre, worth from $1 to $1.50, or from $8 to $22.50 per acre, are harvested.
For pasture purposes in connection with blue grass, white clover is one of the most valuable plants in the State. It Is perennial and does not require to be seeded and grows most luxuriantly on all classes of our soils.
Fortunately its maximum growth occurs the latter part of June and early July, at the time when the blue grass is usually dormant. It is particularly adapted to the gravelly and flinty soils of the Ozark region although it thrives everywhere and on all classes of Missouri soils.
Japan clover is one of the most nutritious of the clovers, and has now spread over practically the whole of the Ozark region. It thrives well in the timber as well as in open land, and furnishes valuable grazing through the latter half of the summer and early winter.
Bermuda grass is rapidly spreading over southeast Missouri, covering all waste places and open fields that are grazed. When it is well established it will live indefinitely, and in value closely rivals blue grass, and in the portions of the State that are adapted to it, will solve satisfactorily the pasture problem. There is no reason why it may not be made to cover the Ozark plateau and convert this region into a rich pasture.
In capacity to produce large yields of valuable forage at a minimum expense, sorghum and kafir corn are second only to corn, and thrive well in every county in the State. The only reason they are not grown more extensively, is that our soils and climate are so well adapted to corn, that it is a more profitable crop.
* * *
Tobacco may be grown successfully in every county in the State. St. Louis is the leading tobacco market in the United States, and there is no reason why this industry should not be developed until Missouri is the leading tobacco producing state in the Union.
The cost of producing an acre of tobacco in Missouri, including rent of land, cultivation, cutting, curing, stripping and delivering to market, is about $32 per acre. The yield varies from 750 to 1,500 pounds per acre. In Platte and Schuyler counties, the farmers often sell their tobacco crop for more than $100 per acre.
Missouri leads all other States in the Union, according to the last census, in the yield of cotton per acre. Twenty-seven counties report cotton as a crop with 67,000 acres and an aggregate yield of 24 million pounds worth at the gin, $1.8 million. The bulk of this cotton is grown in Dunklin, Pemiscot, New Madrid, and Ozark counties. Dunklin county produced last year 13.8 million pounds, worth $1.4 million.
Unimproved land in southeast Missouri that will produce a bale of cotton per acre, and other crops in proportion, may be bought for from $9 to $15 per acre. Improved cotton lands that are commanding an annual cash rental of from $3.50 to $5 per acre, may be bought in this region, convenient to gins and trunk lines of railway at from $25 to $45 per acre.
On account of the ravages of insects in the southern cotton States, it is probable that the cotton industry will be rapidly enlarged in this State.
The leading watermelon county In the United States, according to the last census, is Scott county, Missouri. The second most Important watermelon county is Dunklin county, Missouri. These two counties alone produce more than one-fourth as many watermelons as the entire State of Georgia, and more than either Illinois, Iowa, Kansas. Indiana, Florida, or Arkansas, and as many as are grown by New Jersey and California combined. Scott county reports 7,000 acres devoted to watermelons, from which are shipped over three thousand cars, and 550 acres of cantaloupes, yielding 13,000 baskets.
It is estimated that southeast Missouri ships to the markets of the United States and Canada each year, approximately 10 million melons, representing an aggregate weight of 250 million pounds. This is practically one melon to the head of every family in the United States. Allowing 40 feet to a car, this would make a solid melon train fifty-five miles long.
The melons from southeast Missouri come into market about the middle of July—the season at which they are in the greatest demand—after the Georgia and Texas crops are exhausted, and before the crops of any other section of the country are ready.
The cost of growing melons in southeast Missouri up to the time of harvest is about the same as corn, and the average return per acre is between $25 to $40. Albert Stocks, of Kennett, made a net profit on 100 acres of melons of $2,800, or an average of $28 per acre, after deducting $4 per acre for rental, and all expense of labor, seed, freight and commissions.
This melon crop required his attention from March to July only.
B. F. Marshall, of Blodgett, reports nineteen cars of melons which brought, on track at local shipping point, $1,745 on 38 cars, or $46 per acre.
* * *
To buy Missouri farm lands or engage in farming in this State is in no sense an experiment. The large outlay for drainage, irrigation or artificial fertilizers required in other regions is unnecessary here. The conditions are all favorable for a bountiful harvest and rich returns.
In the older States, the best lands, with good improvements, in the best communities, with good markets, good transportation facilities, good roads, churches and schools, sell for from $125 to $200 per acre.
In Missouri these conditions may be exactly duplicated and land equally productive may be purchased at from $40 to $75 per acre.
Farm lands have advanced more than a third in Missouri during the last three years. In many portions of the State they have doubled in value. Compared with prices in other States, Missouri lands are still too low and are certain to advance.
The Missouri farmer has no lean years. Feast does not alternate with famine.
Hon. James Wilson, United States Secretary of Agriculture, said in a recent address "In my judgment the best investment in the country is Missouri farm land."


text:
Cateye Strada Slim Wireless Computer with Universal Sensor Black
SAVE: 32% or £16.04
Now £33.95
Cateye Strada Slim Wireless Cycle Computer
The Strada Slim computer is a 'slimmed down' version of the original Strada Wireless computer. Newly designed circuitry and increased efficiency allows for a smaller battery, so the computer can be thinner and lighter. The smaller package still boasts the same great cycling features and functions with a larger screen and the ability to customize your display by showing only the functions you select.
Designed for road bikes, the Strada Slim comes with the Slim Sensor that can be placed inside the front fork so it is virtually out of sight, giving your road bike a sleek, aerodynamic look. For all other bikes, the Strada Wireless comes standard with the 'slim' computer head unit plus the standard speed sensor designed to fit all bikes.
- Current speed: 0.0(4.0)~105.9km/h.
- Total distance: 0.0~9999.9/10000-99999km.
- Trip distance 1: 0.00~999.99km.
- Trip distance 2: 0.00~999.99/1000.0~9999.9km.
- Elapsed time: 0:00'00"~9:59'59".
- Average speed: 0.0~105.9km/h.
- Maximum speed: 0.0(4.0)~105.9km/h.
- Wireless transmission: Speed.
- Clock: 0:00'~23:59' [1:00'~12:59'].
- Pace arrow: Yes.
- Auto power saving: Yes.
- Auto mode: Yes.
- Dual tire size: Yes.
- Tire size: 100mm~3999mm (default: A 2096mm / B 2096mm).
- Battery:
- Computer: CR1616 x1.
- Sensor: CR2032 x1.
- Battery life:
- Computer: approx 1 year (1hr use per day).
- Sensor: approx 10,000km [6,250miles] in total distance.
- Dimension: 47.0 x 32.0 x 12.5mm.
- Weight: 12 grams.
* Design and specifications are subject to change without notice.
All goods are in stock and delivered within 2 working days of cleared payment. Smaller items are sent by Royal mail 1st Class and do not require a signature, larger items are delivered Monday to Friday between 9am and 6pm by our couriers, a signature is required upon receipt of goods.
When your order is despatched our system will automatically send you an email. We only use premium next day delivery services, so you can expect your order the following day.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
B10-25 Chargers Carved Wood $5 each
Hand-painted an antiqued white, this carved wood charger is reminiscent of a by-gone era.
Make your wedding head table a WOW! Use it to add vintage style , romance, and charm to your head table setting. Head table packages available.
They add depth, interest look amazing with vintage china collection. Use alone or pair with our vintage china and pressed glass collection! It's all about the details and using chargers makes your head table and place settings attract attention.
Chargers add interest and depth to your head table and can make even the simplest china choice look great.


text:
By Arnold H. Bellows in Catskill Examiner
Catskill Mountain News, 11 April 1947, Margaretville, NY
For more than a century and a quarter many residents of the Catskills have been interested without success in the solution of the mystery of a lead mine or secret depository or lead ore in the Catskills, the knowledge of which died with Teunis, the last Indian to live in the Catskills.
More factual than legendary is the story of his life, which is interwoven with the early history of the village of Margaretville, a thriving village in Delaware county, located several miles below the Greene county line. Between that village and Arkville, two miles farther up the Delaware is the site of a very large Indian village named Pakatakan from whose many wigwams the curling smoke ascended during the first half of the eighteenth century and possible before that time. A mountain named after the Indian village rises like a giant fortress from the peaceful valley at its base where once the Indians held their councils and doubtlessly discussed the momentous issues of peace or war when danger threatened.
Pakatakan means in Indian language "he makes it clear" or "the meeting of the three rivers," as it was located at the confluence of three streams. It was first discovered in 1762 by white hunters from the settlement of Shandaken, but had been deserted by its Indian occupants. It was probably a Mohican encampment as that tribe was still numerous in Delaware county in the 17th century, though after 1712 a considerable number of Tuscarora Indians located in parts of Delaware county. Many very valuable and interesting relics of Indian usuage have been discovered on the site of the ancient village.
First White Settlers
When Pakatakan was discovered, a few miles below the deserted lodges, on the banks of the Platte Kill stream stood the wigwam of Teunis, a brave and resourceful Mohican brave.. As the first white settlers in that region were of Dutch extraction and as the Indian name of Teunis was difficult to pronounce, the name Teunis, evidently of Dutch origin was applied to him. Margaretville was settled just before the Revolutionary war, and Teunis, not wishing to leave his old hunting ground, remained in the vicinity of the deserted village and became very friendly with the white settlers, invited them to his wigwam, and doubtlessly entertained them with much Indian lore.
During the Revolution he warned the white settlers of an impending danger of Indian massacres by a tribe who was aiding the British and so saved many lives Fearing vengeance from other Indians because of this act of kindness, he retired to a secluded spot in the Catskills by a little lake that bears his name today.
The old Indian was often observed to possess quantities of lead, but refused to tell where he obtained the precious ore. Finally a resident of Andes, named Bassett who had saved his Indian friend from serious injury or death at the hands of a drunken white man, was promised by Teunis that he would be shown the place from whence came the leaden riches upon condition that he would consent to be blindfolded and led to the place and then blindfolded again before being conducted away.
Mr. Bassett consented and was led along winding paths into this secret retreat in a cave in a ledge of rocks where he saw considerable quantities of lead. Teunis promised to reveal its hiding place before he died, but he passed away suddenly and with him the mystery which has caused many to carefully search in vain for the lead deposits. It is said that the entire region around Teunis lake was carefully examined.
Years afterwards some miles from the lake a cave was discovered but contained no signs of any lead deposits. Some have supposed the lead was furnished by the British, but this seems unlikely in view of all the other known facts. Teunis lived a considerable time after the Revolutionary war and was the last native Indian to live in Delaware county.
A short distance from this site of Pakatakan back of Arkville village is a cave which was explored a few years ago and very valuable relics dating back at least five hundred years ago were unearthed. The work was under the direction of Attorney R. S. Ives of Roxbury. Near Union Grove, several miles below the site of Pakatakan, are the remains of earth works of Indian origin. In a few years these remains of the long ago will be inundated by the waters of the big reservoir that will be constructed at Downsville to help supply water for New York city.


text:
The Most (and Least) Expensive Airports to Fly From
Flyers, beware: If you're buying plane tickets to certain cities, you'd better shop around for airfare or risk paying far too much for your tickets. MarketWatch's Catey Hill reports on Lunch Break with Lee Hawkins. Photo: Getty
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... the winner if you're buying plane tickets to certain cities You better shop around for airfare for risk they bought too much for your ticket ... MarketWatch's Katie Hill is here to tell us about some of the seas were you making doubts on airfare and how to avoid it ay ay ay him are pretty good I really like this one on the west of the airports that we should put on a reader sale Washington DC is number one there is a high enough price variability here so it averages more than twenty percent price variability ... with coach seats ... that means you sit next to somebody ... the new often sell you to do it that that ... be a blessing NBCU on Chicago's nonetheless Los Angeles Oakland Myrtle Beach those round out the top five ... films and cities with a price variability is a huge Nenad average is typically more than twenty percent as ... did the remember that the average decide that it's can it be a lot more pricey than the ... names of so you say one way to keep the air peer down this is to be flexible so tell us about ... that in other ways that we can avoid being Dow yet looking different city is writes in his email flying in TTC when there's a ton of press variability check up Baltimore is about an hour drive ... to look at those kind of next door neighbor but you know the airport several close but not that close he could see that ... also I'm searching Cotney Dokic and severe and as the search for an effing what's three fifty ... and a new search again an hour later than I know it's three sixty the second cut me that sometimes you can avoid ... any price hikes may know you're interested me airfares and Amazon Basin up ... OIC okay ... um so what are some of the report said you think we should be nice too worried about cities airports for the price variability is very lol aam whole ITA of budget Cochlear force and why when the NL West Palm Beach Indianapolis of those where those are where the prices don't tend to carry a lot ... these tend to be yet leisure markets where is the one thing there's a lot of things variability or business markets ... that's even business travelers tend to be alert develops aware that cost more likely a half to go to this place on a certain day and they're willing to pay more with major market people are like ... ten seconds ago they're not can ago there and so there's less at the hands of the prices are a more stable than it's worth ... the state to where they they started with ... okay so I've always heard that Tuesday was the best in a private plane ticket isn't the case and is a very very is a lot of cleaning that tend to see them as they tend to be the best that you can make us cry generalizations ... everyone likes to have a simple answer to everything but ... there's not a new site relatively new called Hopper dot com ... you to put in where you're going Nielsen reports here's the best time to puppy should slide now so I see it like that if you're in a if you're thinking about taking a trip ... the line and say you know when violated New York it'll give you a report that says hey this is the best and good looking to get this is the best time to go so ... that the simple way to do this as it has always thing to say when they might takeout price ... alright will think you very much the only


text:
LabActive, currently in pre-launch, is a direct sales company whose product line will include energy drinks, shakes, and other premium products to fuel an active lifestyle.
LabActive's efusjon energy drinks are made with natural ingredients and contain no preservatives or additives. The product line currently includes Raw, a non-caffeinated, carbonated acai berry drink, Edge, a caffeinated version of Raw, Breeze, a caffeinated, carbonated mangosteen and passion fruit drink, and Dawn, a caffeinated citrus drink formulated to boost endurance and fight fatigue.efusjon energy drinks
XB-Fit Energy, Inc. is a Florida-based company founded in 2009 which markets nutritional supplements and energy drinks. Its flagship product is XB-Fit Energy Drink, which is advertised as an "all-natural nutritional energy drink." Other products offered by XB-Fit are XB-Fit Nutritional Supplement and XB-Fit Xtreme Lean System.Company Goals
XB-Fit's corporate mission statement is as follows: "Providing quality products at a fair price is our mandate at XB-FIT. We believe that "state of the art" tools combined with a generous compensation plan, will allow distributors the opportunity to reach their potential and enjoy financial freedom. The cornerstones of our company are built upon promoting better health, providing inner peace and security, displaying honesty and integrity and facing challenges with a positive attitude. We are proud of our representatives and our relationships within the community."XB-Fit Energy Drink, XB-Fit Energy Shots
Rain Nutrition is a new company offering two primary products, "Soul" and "Rush", new entries into the energy drink market. According to marketing materials, the products have been developed in partnership with Dr. Arnold S. Leonard with the goal of creating a world class line of nutritional products that will continue to expand with the demands of an ever expanding marketplace.Soul Nitro Energy Booster, Rush Energy Drink
Vemma is a family-run company from the creators of New Vision. Vemma operates from a 26,000 square foot home office in Scottsdale, Arizona with a 25,000 square-foot distribution center. With over $1 billion in retail sales, the Vemma Nutrition Company has donated over $2.5 million dollars to charities such as Habitat for Humanity, The United Way, and the Rainforest Foundation.
Vemma and their energy drink Verve are involved with several sports endorsements and sponsorships.
You can try a Vemma Free Sample Here.Mangosteen Plus, Vemma Nutrition Program liquid antioxidant
M2CGLOBAL formulates, develops, manufactures, and markets energy supplements.A.C.T. Energy Products
KillerBuzz Energy Drink
Killer Buzz taps into the multibillion dollar energy drink market (Red Bull, Amp, Rockstar) by allowing reps to purchase product directly from the company for resale or personal consumption. Killer Buzz officially launched March, 2005.
About Us | Site Map | Privacy Policy | Contact Us | ©1999-2018 Npros.com


text:
This past Saturday night at The Players Club, there was a memorial for my friend Meir Ribalow, who died in August. I had the honor to be the final speaker of the evening. Here's the speech I gave.
Hi, I'm Matthew Wells.
In a few minutes, I'm going to read you a sonnet I wrote the morning after Meir died. But before I do, I want to tell you a couple of stories. Well, actually, Meir wanted me to tell you a couple of stories.
The first story starts in the wild and empty desert. To the tune of whistled notes as liquid as a flute, a lone rider appears--a man whose calm and steady self-possession only needs a spark of fire to blaze up into irresistible action--a man whose two companions are a wolf called Black Bart, and a horse named Satan that no other man can tame.
Hi, I'm Matthew Wells.
In a few minutes, I'm going to read you a sonnet I wrote the morning after Meir died. But before I do, I want to tell you a couple of stories. Well, actually, Meir wanted me to tell you a couple of stories.
The first story starts in the wild and empty desert. To the tune of whistled notes as liquid as a flute, a lone rider appears--a man whose calm and steady self-possession only needs a spark of fire to blaze up into irresistible action--a man whose two companions are a wolf called Black Bart, and a horse named Satan that no other man can tame.
The name of this cowboy is Whistling Dan Barry, and he's the hero of three Max Brand novels which Meir read as a kid, and returned to when he was an adult. As he put it, "I wanted to see if they were as good as I remembered them being." And because, for him, they were still that good, those books were one of the first things he told me about when we started to get to know each other. I think he told everybody about them; and if he didn't tell you, please don't feel slighted--it just means he didn't get around to it yet.
Why did Meir love the Dan Barry books? Because they are literate, adventurous, courtly, earthy, entertaining and instructive. Y'know--like Meir. That's answer number one. Answer number two is a lot simpler: because they are good westerns. Meir loved westerns. We are, after all, celebrating a man who would have fought tooth and nail to wear that Stetson of his to a nudist colony.
A man who loved not just Dan Barry, but Ethan Edwards, Tom Doniphon, Cole Thornton, JP Harrah; Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea in RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY, Gregory Peck in THE GUNFIGHTER; and Gary Cooper in just about anything.
Meir told a lot of Gary Cooper stories. Here's one you haven't heard yet.
On the last Sunday in July, there was an article in the Arts section of the New York Times about LONELY ARE THE BRAVE (1962, directed by David Miller, starring Kirk Douglas and Walter Matthau). According to the article, Miller's only direction to Douglas was, "Try and play this the way Gary Cooper would." Which prompted Douglas to write Cooper a letter admitting that he was in essence playing the quintessential Gary Cooper part, and confessing his fear of failure by saying: "I know now that at best I will come remotely close. But more important--I do know also that just trying to be you will make a better me." A statement made even more poignant by the fact that Cooper died nine days after Douglas wrote that letter.
When I visited Meir on that Monday, the day after this article appeared, the first thing he did was swing his computer screen around to display the online version. "Did you see this?" he said. And when I told him, "Yes, and I thought of you when I read it," Meir said: "And I thought of Maria Janis. (Gary Cooper's daughter, with whom Meir was good friends.) I don't know if she knows this." And he reached for the phone across his day bed, and he looked at me over his glasses and he said: "She has to know this. Don't you agree?"
Now, I knew Meir well enough to know that the phrase "Don't you agree" was not a question. It was his way of saying, "If you don't agree, meet me on Main Street at high noon; bring a gun." And those first five words? "She has to know this?" In various forms, those five words echo through the lives of everyone he ever met. "You have to read this," he would say. "You have to see this." "You have to write this." "You have to hear this." "You have to know this." Seriously--raise your hand if the only reason you know about a movie or a book is because Meir told you about it. [BEAT] The rest of you have forgotten.
How do you explain someone like that? By saying that sharing was a reflex with him? By saying that it was the teacher in him? Maybe by saying it was the eager and eternal student in him, which is why he was such a great teacher? Each one is true, in its own way; but in the end, explanations are like labels, and people are more than labels. Meir did what he did because he was Meir. Because his friends echoed in him. And if you were Meir's friend, and he understood you, then you were all right.
Which happens to be a quote from another one of Meir's favorite westerns, a movie called RAMROD. 1947. Directed by Andre DeToth. Joel McCrea; Veronica Lake. RAMROD puts a film noir femme fatale in the middle of a cattle ranch war--a woman who gets away with murder because the men around her all treat her with respect--a woman who can slap the bad guy and know that he won't hit her back, because that's just not done; he'll only smile and say, "You know, Connie--that's the first time you've ever touched me."
Which is my favorite line from the movie--not Meir's. His favorite line gets said later, when Connie, played by Veronica Lake, has endangered Joel McCrea's life--because that's what the femme fatale does--and McCrea's best friend Bill is going to sacrifice himself to buy McCrea time to escape. "And he'll need that time," Bill says to Connie. "Thanks to you."
Now a normal human being would probably feel remorse at this point, but Connie is not a normal human being, it's all about her, which is why she says: "You haven't much use for me, have you, Bill." And Bill takes a moment to size her up and then he tells her exactly how small she is by saying: "You're like a horse or a dog or a man or any other woman. Once I understand you, you're all right." And he turns and rides off, to what he knows will be his death.
His certain death.
At the end of THE UNTAMED, the first Dan Barry book, winter is coming, and Whistling Dan sees the wild geese flying south; and because he is a wild child himself, a force of nature in buckskins, he feels the urge to ride off after them. But following them would mean leaving Kate Cumberland, the woman he loves, the woman who knows him well enough to understand exactly who he is, which is why she tells him that he has to go; he has to follow the wild geese south; he has to leave her. She says this in the hopeful knowledge that, when the wild geese fly north in the spring, Dan Barry will follow them back to her.
That's the kind of close that feels right at the end of a good western--a close that remains open. Our hero riding off into the sunset, and with him rides the possibility of a sunrise when he may someday ride back.
One of the most famous instances of this is at the end of SHANE. Meir's favorite western; his mother's favorite movie. 1952. Directed by George Stevens. Jean Arthur; Alan Ladd; and Brandon deWilde. If you haven't seen it, you should. And I don't think I'm spoiling anything by saying that, in the end, the wounded hero who has just killed the bad guy rides off into the mountains, because he is what he is--he's a gunfighter--and all good gunfighters are like Moses--they can get you through the desert, but they are not permitted to cross that river into the Promised Land. Like a good teacher, their job is to get you to where they are not needed anymore. Because it's the gunfighter's job to make sure that there are no more guns in the valley.
So Shane rides away, wounded. That ride is open-ended--we're never told what happens to him--so what we think happens next is not just a window into his story, but ours. In other words, if you choose to look at the end of this movie as a touchstone--and I know Meir did--then there are only two kinds of people in the world. The ones who think Shane dies at the end, and the ones who are dead certain that he lives.
Meir was unapologetically part of that second group. He had no use for despair, no time for cynicism, and no patience for people who thought that moaning was a form of music. I keep thinking of the line that gets repeated over and over again in John Ford's RIO GRANDE: "Get it done." "Get it done, Johnny Reb." "Get it done." That's what Meir did. He got it done. He was a man for whom the work was its own reward. The care and pride he took in casting the absolutely perfect actor for a play or a story reading was like a jeweler's pride in matching a diamond with the perfect setting.
No surprise there. As Meir once said about his father, he loved writers and he loved talent, and he lived for what he loved. As Meir once said about his father, he did not want to be emulated; he wanted to inspire. And as Meir once said about his father: now, we must live in a world where his absence is a constantly illuminating presence. Where what happens next is not just a window into his story, but ours.
Life is a coincidence of travelers. A bond can be created from a glance. Chance meetings can turn into lifelong friendships. Far too often, you go through your day, and in the back of your mind is a voice which asks, "Am I really the only one who thinks this? Am I really the only one who feels this? Am I really the only one who likes this?"
And then somebody rides into your life like Meir--a man who gives you permission to be yourself--a man who answers all those inner questions not by saying you aren't alone anymore, but by saying you never were. Which is why, for me, meeting Meir Ribalow was the equivalent of Robinson Crusoe finding Friday's footprint in the sand. It was the day my desert island became a community. Of which he was the one and only mayor.
He was an amazing friend to me. When my brother died two years ago, Meir called me constantly; and if he didn't hear from me for more than three days, I'd get out of work and there'd be a message from him on my phone. "Just calling to see how you're doing," he'd say, or, "Give me a call when you get a chance; I want to run something by you." And then we'd talk for the next thirty hours. Quite a gift, when you remember that this is a man who had more than a few issues of his own to deal with on a daily basis.
That's the Meir I'll never forget. The man who was the western hero of his own life--especially at the close. I hope he thought I was as good a friend. He was--he was and is--my non-blood brother. I loved the man this side idolatry. I still do. And in that, too, I am not alone. Because like Shane, Meir didn't just ride off into the sunset. He rode off into us.
So all that, and more, is why, on the morning after Meir followed the wild geese south, I sat down with my notebook in the Dunkin' Donuts at the corner of 20th Street and 3rd Avenue, and I wrote the following sonnet. I changed a couple of words on the ride over to the burial service, and when the time came to say my farewells, I read it over his grave.
It's time to say farewell again, so here it is. It's called Ride Away.
Ride Away
I saw his Stetson first, as he rode up.
He grinned at me as if he'd found the Grail.
When we made camp, he offered me a cup,
And, for a while, we shared a common trail.
He had a hunger only hard work fed.
He'd ramrod someone's ranch, get it to thrive,
Then quit and move on--like he always said,
"It's not about the cattle--it's the drive."
A river to his people, he would fight
For others with a passion uncontrolled.
And when he rode west, hunched against the night
Like Shane before the final credits rolled,
He called out, as he crossed that river wide:
"I'll see you, Pilgrim, on the other side."


text:
Friday, March 7, 2014
A Beautiful New Bed
This fabulous bed I bought from Eileen who makes them and sells on Etsy at My Life in Miniature.
This is going to be short and sweet as it's late and I made a resolation this year to go to bed earlier. So far I've done well and been in bed before 1am most nights!
Sleep well!
14 comments:
What a pretty bed! I am glad to see you are starting another house! Sleep well!ReplyDelete
The bed is really lovely! I have considered ordering from this vendor too! Have you already received your bed or are you still waiting for it to come?ReplyDelete
Great to see a post from you again, I have missed seeing something from your hand.ReplyDelete
Your bedspread is so adorable sweet.
Hi Gill!ReplyDelete
that bed is cute! very romantic!
Es una preciosidad!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous bed, I like the blanket very much too.ReplyDelete
A very romantic bed. I like your cover.ReplyDelete
What a wonderful bed, Gill, it looks so romantic and shabby chic!ReplyDelete
I love your crochet bedspread, it is so beautifully done.
I wish you good nights full of dreams ;)!
Hugs, Ilona
Really beautiful bed!ReplyDelete
Wonderful bed very romantic. I love your bed cover.ReplyDelete
Hugs Maria
Me encanta, es preciosa. Y la colcha es muy bonita.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous bed Gill, can't wait to see the house as you decorate it! Are you working in 1:12 scale? Absolutely love the crocheted cover! Beautiful work as always xoxox ChristelReplyDelete


text:
You came into this world fast and furious, yet with a stubborn punctuality waiting until your exact due date and I can already tell what a fun little handful we've got. :)
I love love love being your mama and pray time will slow down just a smidge so I can keep enjoying these precious moments we get with you.
Happy Birthday Greyleigh Mae. We love you so big.
And now for party pictures. We had fun. We ate cake. We got messy. We're tired.
As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be....
Happy Birthday Dear Greyleigh, Happy Birthday to you.


text:
Smarter Click are conversion technology specialists helping online retailers make the most out of their website visitors.
Google Analytics Display Advertising Retargeting Pixel.
DoubleClick Advertisers.
Google Adwords Advertisers.
DoubleClick is a provider of digital marketing technology and services. Companies come to DoubleClick for expertise in ad serving, media, video, search and affiliate marketing to help them make the most of the digital medium.
Google Analytics is a service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about a website's traffic and traffic sources and measures conversions and sales. Google Analytics can track visitors from all referrers, including search engines and social networks, direct visits and referring sites. It also displays advertisin...
Anti-bot CAPTCHA widget that helps digitize books by providing snippets of books for people to enter the text for. Owned by Google.
Website using Instagram integrations or links.
Website with links to Instagram profiles or pictures
This site uses the viewport meta tag which means the content may be optimized for mobile content.
The Apache HTTP Server is an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS/X and Netware. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services observing the current HTTP standards. Apache has been the most popular web server ...
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library.
Websites with FAQ page
The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.
Allows a website to define how a page is rendered in Internet Explorer 8, allowing a website to decide to use IE7 style rendering over IE8 rendering.
Websites using https protocol.
Chrome for Android, since version 39 supports the "theme-color" meta tag to allow websites control the background color of the tab's UI header.
Meta Keywords are a specific type of meta tag that appear in the HTML code of a Web page and help tell search engines what the topic of the page is.
Meta descriptions are HTML attributes that provide concise explanations of the contents of web pages. Meta descriptions are commonly used on search engine result pages (SERPs) to display preview snippets for a given page.
The http-equiv attribute provides an HTTP header for the information/value of the content attribute. The http-equiv attribute can be used to simulate an HTTP response header.
Wesites using favicon rel tag
Google's hosted library for web fonts. Allows websites to choose and use fonts from a free, wide variety of fonts.
UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.


text:
Great Balance
"I found Danny struck a great balance between presenting all of our options and important points to consider while maintaining an environment where I felt comfortable making my own decisions."
We will not be starting new mediations for an undetermined time.
© 2019 Resolution Point LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Nothing on this web site should be considered legal advice nor create even the appearance of an attorney/client relationship. Please consult an attorney for legal advice as it relates to your situation.


text:
"These pants are not fucking real! There is no fucking way!"
I'm screaming at my work pants, laying on the ironing board in front me in my bedroom. My wife is attempting to sleep in on her day off and our three-year-old daughter has snuck into our bed to watch Dora The Explorer while I battle the evil fabric from the Netherworlds.
"Daddy, why are you yelling?"
"Because these pants are evil, baby. I have been ironing them for five minutes on the highest heat and the wrinkles…they stay! This defies reality! They are evil, you hear me little girl? These pants are evil. I hate you, pants!"
My daughter giggles and crawls across the bed toward the ironing board. "Can I see the evil pants?"
"NO, don't touch them. Who knows where they came from." I look at the wrinkled khaki slacks before me. "What are you? Why do you defy me?! What do you want from us!?"
My wife rolls over. "I'm seriously going to go live with my mother for a while. You are fucking insane."
Yes, I talk to inanimate objects. Some may consider this no different from talking to yourself (which is also perfectly acceptable in many cases and another behavior I regularly partake in) but I don't think it's exactly the same. When I talk to an object that is, by standard scientific standards, not alive or self-aware, I am still talking to that object. I don't really care if it can hear me or has any biological or even metaphysical ability to receive my voice and process it in any way. I don't fucking care. I'm talking (or yelling at it) on principle…and we all fuckin' do it.
It is key to our personal psychological health, in my extremely educated opinion, to express our displeasure at any person or thing that fucks with us. It's a must for stress relief and it constantly reinforces our sense of pride and personal principle. Plus it makes you look kinda' crazy and NOBODY messes with the crazy guy.
See, conversation is not necessarily a two-way street. We all know they can be very one-sided. We even find ourselves often entering into a one-sided conversation intentionally…because we just have something to fucking say and we are going to say it.
We do it with people…and we do it the inanimate objects. That rock you just tripped on?
"Oh fuck you, rock! The fuck good are you! You literally couldn't amount to anything geologically important so you just sit there on the sidewalk, tripping people like an asshole? Great life choice, rock! Way to give back."
That needed to be said. It did. That screw you were trying to put back in that slips out of your fingers and down into the heating vent forever?
"So that's it, huh? That's where you wanna go? Down in a fucking heating vent for eternity? Not man enough to screw back into this shelf and support the frame the way you were meant to…huh?! Just couldn't hack it so you'd rather lay in a dusty heating vent and accomplish nothing! Rust away into the ether. Fine, you coward! Stay down there. You're a disgrace. And you're replaceable! Remember that!"
And because we all think it, yes even you, dear reader….maybe, just maybe, those things CAN hear us in some way. I am a believer in science and laugh at the supernatural…but maybe some of those crazy religions are right. The ones that say everything has a spirit or whatever the fuck. If that is in anyway the case, then we have a duty-however small that possibility. What if you found out some day that every thing DOES have a spirit of some kind? How haunted would you be knowing how you let all those stupid asshole objects throughout your life get away with such bullshit? It's too late to go yell at that dumpster that came out goddamn NOWHERE when you were seventeen and hit the back of your car while you were backing up. That dumpster is gone now and totally got away with fucking up your summer scott-free. Somewhere, that dumpster could be laughing its green, rusty ass off at you. I will never have that problem.
Back to the pants.
These new but very cheap khakis I had bought on clearance at Target were apparently made of some material unknown to modern science. No amount of heat, steam, and pressure would force that fabric to lay flat without wrinkles. So I had to turn to my words.
"It's like they are defying known physics! Where do you come from!? What do you want from me?!"
My daughter is laughing hysterically. My wife is rolling over in bed moaning.
"Seriously, these things are like from a Lovecraft story. Do you worship Cthulhu!? Stand back, these pants are not of this world!"
My wife finally jumps out of bed. "For fuck sake…just go downstairs and get her some breakfast. I'll iron your stupid pants!"
I grab my giggling daughter and we make our way down the stairs. "Quickly, my munchkin. We must leave your mother to her fate!"
"Daddy, you're crazy."
Perhaps. Perhaps not. I leave nothing to chance. Though I could then hear my wife cursing under her breath from the bedroom: "What are these things made of? Freaking kevlar? You fucking suck, pants…ruin my goddamn day off…"
Uh Huh.


text:
Spatial correlates of land-use changes in the Maasai-Steppe of Tanzania: Implications for conservation and environmental planning
TypeJournal Article
AccessibilityOpen Access
MetadataShow full item record
Msoffe, F.U., Said, M.Y., Ogutu, J.O., Kifugo, S.C., Leeuw, J. de, Gardingen, P. van and Reid, R.S. 2011. Spatial correlates of land-use changes in the Maasai-Steppe of Tanzania: Implications for conservation and environmental planning. International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation 3(7): 280-290
Permanent link to cite or share this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/5492
External link to download this item: http://www.academicjournals.org/ijbc/abstracts/abstracts/abstracts2011/July/Msoffe%20et%20al.htm
Spatially explicit models are becoming increasingly important tools for simulating land-use change. In this study, we formulated and tested models that incorporated spatial correlates of agricultural expansion and used them to predict local- and landscape-scale patterns of agricultural land-use change and its implications in the Maasai-Steppe of Northern Tanzania. We evaluated the relationship between agricultural land-use and its spatial correlates using Multiple Logistic Regression on data derived from satellite imageries for the year 2000. We then examined the implications of the agricultural land-use change on the range and migratory corridors of key migratory wildlife species within the context of wildlife conservation and land-use planning. Our results showed that, biophysical variables provide the primary conditions for land-cover conversions to agriculture. There was a strong overlap between lands suitable for agriculture, wildlife migratory corridors and the wet season dispersal areas. Expanding cultivation towards protected areas severely restricted wildlife movements to dispersal areas outside parks by blocking their migratory corridors. Further, the global model used for the prediction of probability of land-conversions to agriculture suggested future expansions will be constrained by values of the biophysical variables analysed here. The rapidity of rangeland conversions to farming in the study area presents a major threat to wildlife conservation and disrupts the ecosystems viability in supporting its rich biodiversity and the agro-pastoral livelihood. There is urgency for pursuing land-use strategies and plans, which are both profitable and sustainable for the agro-pastoral communities and the wildlife. The plans should address the different land-use options by considering current and future trends, implications and the ease for their cohabitation as analysed in this study.
AGROVOC Keywords
SubjectsBIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; NRM; PASTORALISM; WILDLIFE; RANGELANDS;
RegionsAFRICA; EAST AFRICA
- ILRI articles in journals [5077]


text:
Your wedding is a special time and Hawk is the perfect place to help you celebrate! This page is full of images of past celebrations. Please feel free to browse our images below. Select each for a close-up version.
We look forward to hearing from you soon!
Meetings and Retreats
Family Reunions
Back to Weddings Page
For more information, or to book your wedding at Hawk, please email Natalie Rosa, or call us at (802) 672-2101. Or click here for more general contact information.
Back to top


text:
The Incredible Journey. Here comes Christmas, and with it an annual problem: what to do with the kids when the holidays start to drag. But don't worry. Good old Walt Disney has saved the day again, this time with a really charming little picture about pets.
Golly they're cute. Bodger, for instance, is an amiably rheumy old bull terrier who can hardly stand up to a fireplug. Tao, Bodger's best friend, is a maniacally active Siamese cat who seems to think he's a dog. Luath is a big, dumb, blond, delightfully floppy Labrador retriever who pals around with the other two.
All three...
To continue reading: or Log-In


text:
Home / Treatment of Trimethylaminuria
Ayurvedic Method to Treat Fish Odour Syndrome (Trimethylaminuria)
August 7, 2018 · by Dr. Vikram Chauhan · in MISCELLANEOUS
Introduction Trimethylaminuria or commonly known as Fish Syndrome is a metabolic disorder which is inherited and it creates a nasty, offensive body odor which resembles a rotting fish. This happens when a protein called trimethylamine (TMA) in our urine, sweat and breath gets excreted in excess. It is also known as fish malodor syndrome. This happens due to the lack…


text:
My Puppies & Iron-Rich Foods
I'm having a great day.
I went shopping for iron-rich foods today and have eaten iron-rich today. Including eating beef for the first time in 28 years (minus 4 months). Now I have gas that is scaring the dogs, but hey, I can feel those blood cells growing, right? Small price to pay.
Reading through all the things to - and not to - do, I realized I should not be drinking iced tea. And I am/was an iced tea drinking FOOL since starting the Topamax and stopping the Diet Coke. I quit iced tea today. I cried a lot over having it give it up. Isn't that silly? I cried more about giving up the iced tea than about having to eat beef! I thought that was pretty amusing.
I'm feeling especially wonderful as I write this because I am watching the culmination of Crazy Sexy Cancer - an amazing, beautiful movie on TLC that I hope everyone will take the time to watch. As opposed to the negative, poor, poor pitiful me crap so many shows turn out to be, this entire piece is so positive and so... midwifery-like (crunchy, alternative, women-supportive, etc.)... it was just so wonderful.
I remember when I was so sick with the Cocci- when I had spinal meningitis and a DVT with ankle to groin blood clot and was still attending births. I remember how at the time it didn't seem odd to drag my leg behind me like Quasimoto and keep it elevated with heating pads on it when I wasn't actually moving. I think now how frightfully incredible it sounds that I did something so bizarre! And I also know, in retrospect, it was attending births, that kept me alive.
I tell people I'm a whiner. I am much more of a whiner than my Sarah or more than most people I know, but I'm also a LOT better than I was before I ever had kids. Egads, I was awful before Tristan was born. Once I had a homebirth, I felt I could accomplish anything and really felt like I quit whining altogether. I thought it was weird when people (lovers) told me I was still a whiner. Ha! Little did they know!
So, watching this movie was just that kind of affirmation I needed today as I embarked on my Big Blood Cell Regimen (I don't want to call it an anti-anemia whatever... too negative).
The other thing with today. After two nagging visits with my Endocrinologist, he refused to test my Free T3's and while he finds my TSH and my T3 within normal limits, I find them far too close to the edge of abnormal. So, when I found that lab slip last week with no date on it, I wrote every test on it I could possibly think I might want or need in the next 6 months - the Free T3 included.
I see the Endo tomorrow. I am rectified!
So, my dear friend Maureen turned me onto Armour Thyroid and I've spent eons tonight studying it (before the movie) and will mash the doctor up against the wall and force his hand to type the prescription on the computer so I can get it at the pharmacy. I even went on-line and made sure my insurance company (a humongous national HMO) carried Armour as an option med and it does, so he has zero excuse not to prescribe it for me. I need it. They carry it. My deductible is paid. I have no more co-pay. I WANT IT.
(I'm really not that mean to docs. I just pretent to sound like that. I will be strong, but not a bitch.)
One last thing - I went to see The Business of Being Born (Ricki Lake's movie) in Los Angeles a few nights ago with my apprentice Donna and my (hopefully) new apprentice Lexi (and their babies). I will write a Review and a Critique, but really do look forward to you all seeing it, owning it and showing it to everyone in the world you know.
And now, here are my puppy dogs. Just 'cuz they're so flippin' cute!
This is my Digit dog. She is an 8-year old Lab. We love her! She has so much self-control. She never jumps up on the couch, always sits, goes down, stays when commanded... she's such a gentle soul. I can push past her when she's eating and she doesn't even bat an eye. I love my Digit. She's such a good girl.
This is my baby doggy, Cash. Cash will be 2 on January 3 and is the canine love of my life. He's a long-haired daschund who is the cutest thing in the whole world. He follows me like I am the Goddess of the Food Trinkets. Oh, that's right. I am! Cash makes me smile when nothing else can and listens to all my secrets without telling anyone else or without it seeming like it is a burden for him at all. He just twirls around the dining room table, running from Digit, playing, playing... and I laugh and smile and thank the gods and goddesses I am still alive and laughing.


text:
The big project I am working on lately (and which is keeping from doing much else)
looks like this:
I am participating in the Chocol'Art - At the Movies art event
which takes place in Dubai on 30 March 2012.
The theme is Chocolates and Movies and includes fashion, jewelry, street art, performance art, graffiti and lots more. It promises to be a great event. Al the art work will be auctioned off in aid of Make a Wish Foundation and Gulf for Good.
I am making a quilt, depicting the face of Marilyn Monroe (as originally painted by Andy Warhol). It is mainly made up of fabric but some of the hair and the eye make-up is made from chocolate wrappers.
I have just finished the top layer of the quilt. It measures 2m x 2m. This week I have to layer it and do the actual quilt stitching. I am quilting by hand...
The back of the quilt layer. See how the chocolate papers are backed with iron-on interfacing to make it a bit stronger.
So far so good...
If you live in Dubai and are interested in buying tickets for the event, please contact me.


text:
When selecting the best couch set for your house, you will want to consider the design as well as color for your couch set. A great guideline of thumb to always do before you go couch buying is to take measurements of the area where you will be putting your couch.
Before you get started in making your personalized couch, you will initially should gauge the room of the area where you will place the couch. This is crucial since you need to ensure that the couch you will make cannot inhabit virtually fifty percent of the area especially if you will certainly put the sofa in a certain location in your house where you are amusing your guests. Next, you will certainly need to settle on the upholstery that you wished to have for your sectional couches. Furniture can be natural leather, velour, or simply a basic premium quality towel with colors that could greatly mix to the interior decorations of the areas where you will put it.
The material chesterfield sofas also, have numerous advantages. You can add to the style with these couches no question. These days, nonetheless, the chesterfield couches have actually undertaken some considerable changes. And much more importantly the property owners have actually recognized that these couches are not just meant for the blue blood. As an outcome, you can see these sofas in the normal homes.


text:
Birthday Bash for the Bard
Come celebrate William Shakespeare's 450th birthday with a night of delicious food and superb entertainment. EclecticPond has invited artists from all over the city to share their interpretations of the Bard through song, dance, and performance, in one cabaret-style evening!
While Willy official turns 450 on April 23rd, we'll be having our belated bash on Saturday, April 26th, at 5:30 pm.
Dinner Buffet provided by The Legend Classic Irvington Cafe
Drinks & assorted desserts available to celebrate Shakespeare's birthday.


text:
Proposed charter applications will be reviewed at a regularly scheduled State Board of Education meeting twice per year, January and June or the next meeting with a quorum.
Persons or entities eligible to submit an application to establish a public charter school include:
(a) A nonprofit organization including, but not limited to, a college, university, museum, service club, or similar entity
(b) A group of 2 or more NH certified teachers
(c) A group of 10 or more parents
There are two forms of charter school authorization in New Hampshire:
1. Local Authorization
2. State Board Authorization
Local Authorization (an existing school district that directly supports the establishment of the charter school):
Locally authorized charter schools receive approval to open from the local legislative body (voters or city council)
State Board Authorization:
STEP 1 - Process for Charter School Authorization
Requirements for Submitting an Application
Charter School Application Review for State Board Approval - Ed 318.08 (k) and Ed 318.09
Public Charter Schools Authorized by the State Board of Education 2010-2017
State Board of Education meeting dates, agendas and minutes can be found on the State Board of Education web page along with a video for each meeting provided by Exquisite Productions of Newport.
PACE Career Academy Charter School - SAU # 53 Pembroke School District. Approved December 8, 2010
The Pembroke School District submitted an application for a Charter Alternative High School. The SAU #53 Alternative High School Task Force has consulted with stakeholders, researched options and collaborated with colleagues. We feel that our proposal will provide struggling high school students with an alternative pathway to completing their high school diploma while providing a bridge to their adult lives. On March 5, 2011 the Pembroke School District approved the creation of a district-sponsored charter school, PACE Career Academy, intended as an alternative program to help improve the graduation rate.
PACE Career Academy Charter School and SAU # 53 agreement as a locally authorized charter school
Mill Falls Charter School - Bringing Montessori Public - Manchester. Approved March 9, 2011
Mill Falls Charter School is New Hampshire's first Public Montessori School. It launches in September 2012 beginning with grades K-3, and by year four, plans to offer a full elementary program for children grades K-6. Located in Manchester, Mill Falls brings together children of all backgrounds and learning styles in mixed-age classrooms that merge the Common Core Curriculum with the individualized and academically integrated Montessori approach. Students' emotional and social growth is cultivated along-side their academic achievement in an inclusive and diverse public school setting.
Making Community Connections Charter School (MC2) - Manchester. Approved March 9, 2011
Built on the footprint of the original MC2 (Monadnock Community Connections School in southwest New Hampshire), Making Community Connections Charter School incorporates the successes of the original model, as well as the lessons learned through that eight-year development and pilot cycle.The Making Community Connections Charter School mission is to establish a sustainable network of multiple preschool through graduate school pathways for high quality learning that are student centered, mastery based, and community oriented. On March 9, 2011 the State Board of Education voted unanimously to accept MC2's application and granted them charter school status.
TEAMS Charter School - Penacook. Approved June 8, 2011 - SCHOOL CLOSED ON JUNE 5, 2017
Grade level to be serviced 9-12. The mission of this charter school is to expand opportunities for all students especially those who face the perception of bleak prospects because of where they live. TEAMS (Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Science) will offer a sound college prep program with a career focus and emphasis on technology, mathematics, science and engineering.
Polaris Charter School - Manchester area. Approved October 12, 2011
Polaris Charter School will serve elementary-aged students five to eleven years old at the time of entry. The mission of Polaris Charter School is to create a joyful and exciting learning community for intellectually curious elementary-aged children. Through an engaging, inquiry-based curriculum, our students will develop the ability to communicate effectively, work collaboratively, think critically, and excel academically. Our program fosters creativity and the development of social and emotional skills, instilling a positive attitude about future studies and ensuring students are well-prepared for the challenges of an ever-changing world.
Robert Frost Charter School - Conway area. Approved October 12, 2011
Robert Frost Charter School creates life-long learners by providing an intellectually rich and challenging experience delivered through the combination of the Montessori tradition and Project-Based Learning. In a safe and peaceful setting, dedicated educators foster students' individuality, creativity and critical-thinking skills to fully prepare them for future scholastic, civic and personal success. The first phase of the School will begin with an elementary classroom of mixed ages (grades 1- 3), and gradually add additional lower elementary classrooms as well as upper elementary and junior high classrooms (grades 4-6 and 7-8). We will also add kindergarten in the second year after the School is established.
The Birches Academy of Academics & Arts: A Public Charter School - Salem. Approved January 18, 2012
The mission of The Birches Academy is to provide a learning community that supports excellence in core academics and the arts while cultivating the individual qualities and strengths of each child. The Birches Academy will open with 4 multi aged classrooms in grades 1-8. Expansion into kindergarten and additional classrooms will be added in future years.
Next Charter School - Derry. Approved June 20, 2012
Next Charter School will meet the needs of students not fully served within a traditional high school educational program and to employ a system of instructional and assessment practices that values competency, inquiry, flexibility, and the social nature of learning so that all students will graduate and initiate post-secondary learning options. Grades 9-12.
The Founders Academy Chartered Public School - Londonderry area. Approved July 18, 2013
The Founders Academy will develop leaders who understand and apply the lessons of the past, demonstrate exceptional character and lead by example. The Academy recognizes the importance of balance in the development of the whole person and respects each student's journey. (appendices not included)
Gate City Charter School for the Arts - Nashua. Approved July 18, 2013
Gate City Charter School for the Arts will use an arts-integrated curriculum to educate all interested students in grades K-8, to produce graduates who excel in both academics and the Arts and have the knowledge, creativity and inquisitive nature that foster a life-long love of learning. (appendices not included)
Mountain Village Charter School - Plymouth. Approved July 18, 2013
Mountain Village Charter School will foster an engaging educational community with a nature-based Montessori approach, inspire abstract thinking, creative thought and critical reasoning, and emphasize equally rigorous academics, artistic expression, social development and community engagement.
Granite State Arts Academy: A Public Chartered High School - Derry. Approved August 19, 2013
Granite State Arts Academy will nurture creative thinkers, active citizens and independent learners with a curriculum that integrates the arts and academics. Grades 9-12
MicroSociety Academy Charter School (MACS) - Nashua. Approved August 14, 2014
MACS will actively engage K-8 students in a diverse, challenging learning environment that will prepare them for college, the workforce and citizenship in a 21st Century global society. First year of students: K-5 in the fall 2015.
Compass Classical Academy: A Public Charter School - Lakes region. Approved October 9, 2014
Compass Classical Academy will provide students a rigorous classical, liberal arts education that includes a strong emphasis on civics and good character to equip students to understand and uphold America's founding principles. First year of students: K-5 in the fall 2015.
STEM in the Middle Charter School - Merrimack. Approved November 17, 2014
STEM in the Middle will provide excellence in STEM education to middle school learners and to adults who support them in their project-based learning environment that encourages inquiry, discovery and demonstration of learning. School open date: Fall 2016 to students in grades 5-8.
New Hampshire Institute of Science & Technology (NHIST) - Southern region of New Hampshire. Denied charter authorization July 15, 2015.
The LEAF Charter School - E. Alstead. Approved January 7, 2016
The LEAF Charter School will provide expanded educational opportunities for all students, through an intellectually rigorous STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) curriculum and strong partnerships with creative professionals. The LEAF Charter School students will graduate prepared for 21st century careers and communities. The school name embodies the major tenets of the charter: Learning for Local Leaders, Experiential Education, Arts Integration and Academic Achievement, Freedom and Flexibility. Proposed school open date: Fall 2016 or fall 2017 serving students in grades 9-12.
Kreiva Academy Public Charter School - Manchester. Approved September 12, 2017. Grades 6-12
Vision: Kreiva Academy Public Charter School inspires students with a personalized education that fosters self-awareness, adaptability, and the courage to reach beyond their perceived limits. The knowledge, abilities, and global understanding students acquire prepares them to be successful in their ever changing future.
Mission: Kreiva Academy Public Charter School uses an experiential, topic-based curriculum and a community culture shaped by the Growth Mindset to engage middle and high school students who are seeking a rigorous education in a non-traditional setting, which allows them to customize their paths toward mastery.
The Windham Academy Public Charter School - Windham. Denied charter authorization March 24, 2016. Reapplied for charter authorization in 2017. Approved December 14, 2017.
The Windham Academy Public Charter School will focus on STEM Prep education incorporating reading and art to provide a well-rounded STREAM educational experience for its learners within a culture that incorporates the excitement of project-based learning, the satisfaction of subject mastery in areas of literacy, numeracy and social studies, and lasting values through civic understanding and personal character.
Capital City Public Charter School - Approved February 8, 2018, Grades 6-12 (intends to open with grades 6-8)
Capital City Public Charter School plans to provide an integration of service using a research-based teaching method of guided classroom learning to create an alternative choice for grades 6-8 beginning in the first year with a goal of serving grades 9-12 by the fifth year. The vision of Captial City Public Charter School is to provide curriculum that enables each student to become empowered with the knowledge and skills to use his/her voice effectively with integrity in co-creating our global public world.
Acrobat Reader format. You can download a free reader from Adobe


text:
Public Art
By Janice Zimolzak
When "art for art's sake" is placed in a public setting, it must fulfill two objectives: first, be highly visible, and then blend with, while enhancing, the existing features of the area in which it is placed. Two sculptures, "Toro," positioned in front of Bellas Artes, and "Rearing Horse," in the gardens of El Charco del Ingenio, both powerful works of the late David Kestenbaum, have certainly succeeded in attaining these goals.
Toro was installed in July 2014 in conjunction with "Light and Shadows," the retrospective exhibition of Kestenbaum's lifework. As usual, there was a bit of controversy surrounding the installation of such a massive sculpture, but the curators of the exhibit were quite certain that Toro belonged at the front of Bellas Artes. They did have one concern, though. They knew that the head of the bull should face the grand entrance of the building, but that would have turned the tail toward the bust of Doña Carmen Massip. Unthinkable!
Even while the Kestenbaum retrospective remained in the galleries of Bellas Artes, Mai Onno, David's mother and executor of his estate, agreed to donate "Toro" to the city and allow it to remain in its present location. Through example, the municipality had realized that the public display of fine art added great value to the city's image and reputation as an art colony. Shortly thereafter, César Arias, whose name is synonymous with El Charco, contacted Mai and revealed his desire that one day David's work would be installed in the botanical gardens. She knew it was the perfect setting for "Rearing Horse" and donated it, also, to the people of San Miguel.
It is quite fitting that these two gifts of fine art, the work of the progeny of San Miguel's "first family of art," be prominently displayed. The late Lothar Kestenbaum and Mai Onno began teaching and creating art in San Miguel in the middle part of the 20th century. Lothar went on to create and develop the sculpture department at Belles Artes.
While both of his parents were a strong influence, even as a young child David had a natural affinity for sculpting. He studied other mediums, but upon earning a degree in art history at the University of Texas, he returned to San Miguel to establish his own studio and foundry. Like his mother, he garnered the fine art prize from the State of Guanajuato (FONCA) in 1997-98, which he used to research casting in bronze. David created a substantial body of work in wood and various metals, always conveying the innate ability to transpose the nature of each element intelligently and with great clarity. Who has not seen "Toro?" If you have not had the pleasure of suddenly discovering "Rearing Horse" while walking along a serene path in the Botanical Gardens, please do… It is well worth the effort. Mai Onno will present her 30th exhibition at Bellas Artes, Cento Cultural el Nigromante on July 30.


text:
« Ways to Monetize Your Insurance Policy Useful Tips On Truth About Basic Bookkeeping For New Business Start Ups »
Why Gold For IRA Investments Are A Good Hedge Against Inflation
Posted in Investing
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Gold has been a recent favorite among investors for many reasons. Sometimes investing in precious metals is a good change over more traditional commodities on the stock market. The facts are plenty at just why, but the main reason would be the huge jump in price per ounce over the last few years. Despite the economy being absolutely terrible, gold for IRA investments are a good hedge against inflation.
With the recent economies downturn, this precious metal has been all over the news, commercials, and a topic of conversation. It seems that even though investing in it has been something that has lasted through the ages. However, despite this particular metal being known as a symbol of wealth, and sometimes used as money, it may not be practical to hold onto yourself.
Storing any significant amount of actual metal may be dangerous, and companies have established themselves in maintaining warehouses, and trading on a commodities exchange. However, people have come to believe no matter where they are doing their investing they are going to be safe with it, and they are probably right.
With people being able to invest themselves easier today, it seems that precious metals may be just a wise choice for a Gold IRA, or possibly 401K investment. Being hesitant of other hedge funds, it would be a wise choice for someone just starting out in the market and who is looking for a solid investment over the long term.
Of course these trends and prices can still change. Based upon the stability in the commodities market, it will still be a wise choice. Throughout history the metal has retained a large value and been a symbol of the high wealth.
It is kind of a challenge to attack anything the market does to effect its price, as it would be with a company. What is being said is in a few short words, investing in it is here to stay. Gold for IRA investments are a good hedge against inflation because of its longevity of holding value.
Platinum Gold Coins specializes in setting up Gold IRA accounts. Contact a Gold IRA Specialist today, toll free at 1-855-655-GOLD
No comments yet.
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.


text:
Pest bird activity, if left unchecked, can cause damage to structural components of structures and at the same time can present a serious health threat to those who may become exposed to bird excrement and other related debris. Our commitment to understanding bird biology and ways in which they can be safely removed is taken very seriously by all team members on our staff of professional wildlife control specialists.
So stop waiting until wildlife issues become a serious health & safety risk to anyone who might accidentally find themselves having to live or work around the mess pest animals always leave behind. Property owners should be aware of the extra long term costs they may face as a result of deferring bird & wildlife control measures.
Clear the air. One should be able to look up and not have to worry about what may drop down on you.
Birds can be a serious problem if their numbers get out of control. Fortunately, not many species of birds are responsible for causing damage to property or are a source of health related hazardous. The few that are however, can certainly be a problem if their numbers grow as a result of human activity as well as the design of the structures where we live and work.
On this web site a number of images will be presented that depict the real world issues we have documented over the years. Searching the web you will find a number of companies that market a number of devices that are supposedly designed to help control birds. Unfortunately many fail due to poor design or faulty installations. And that's where we come in. We use only the highest quality bird control products and offer our clients a FULL guarantee that our control efforts will be 100% effective and durable over the long term.


text:
John Lovitt and I conducted a series of workshops back in the 2000-2002 time frame when we were at Rational Software Corporation. One of our objectives was to help our management team understand the various dimensions of building a great company.
Posts Tagged 'employee morale'
Building a great company-Part 3: Great careersWednesday, August 3rd, 2011
What does it take to build a great company?Monday, August 1st, 2011
In my career, I have been lucky enough to work at 3 companies who cared deeply about being a great company and acting like a great company. TRW, Rational Software Corporation and IBM.


text:
This holiday, the perfect gift is in the bag! Sash Bag, the cross-body, sash-inspired bag with a cult-like following designed to provide a chic solution for women who want to be organized and hands-free while on-the-go, gives the gift of effortless style – at price points from $59 to $179.
Sash Bag makes perfect holiday gifts for:
- Busy moms: freeing hands to hold the kids' hands, push a stroller, carry groceries, and more, eliminating the purse struggle and end-of-the-day shoulder pain);
- Women on-the-go: no more searching for keys, cash or sunglasses at the bottom of your bag
Career women: making phone calls and taking notes easier, without the hassle of a bag weighing down the arm);
- Pet lovers: lightening the load of the daily walk;
- Social butterflies: dancing the night away without asking someone else to hold your purse;
- Concert, festival and sports event fans: keeping belongings close to your body in crowded areas;
- College students: making daily organization and packing the backpack a breeze.
Sash Bag is also ideal for the busy holiday travel season, and is fashioned to easily fit passports and other essentials, while being streamlined and sleek enough to be worn over or under coats. In addition, Sash Bag completes the look for any holiday party, allowing the wearer to enjoy the festivities without the worry.
We are giving away a Gray Fringe Leather Sash Bag to one (1) lucky reader (Value: $149)!
One easy way to enter:
a Rafflecopter giveaway
This contest ends Wednesday (Nov. 15) at 12:00 am EST. This giveaway is open to Canada & U.S. residents only. Good luck!
Congratulations to the winners of our Maria Shireen giveaway: Christine, Andrea & Azeem!


text:
Even more answers!
Q: SCFTBL1 said:
I know I'm being a pest about Swim With Mike but…practice is scheduled for 10:30. Will I be able to each my $15 lunch on the artificial turf and watch the end of practice?
A: I am going to need to look into this and answer tomorrow. It is a good question.
Q: Sam Gilbert said:
Could you explain what the team means by defensive players taking positions called things like the "Sam," "Mike," "Will" and "elephant" and how those names came about? Thanks.
A: I'm not sure where these terms originated. It is just football slang, to be honest. Sam is strongside linebacker. Mike is middle linebacker. Will is weakside linebacker. The elephant is generally a rush linebacker in a 3-4 defense who moves to the line in a 4-3 defense. He usually rushes the quarterback but is also capable of dropping back in pass coverage.


text:
Peru bike rides raises #8000 for charity works
A charity bike riding pair has returned in South Tyneside after raising # 8000 by just cycling three hundred kilometers through Peru.
David Ridley and David Sinclair have just come back from South America after securing funds for Openwork Foundation Cares 4 Kids Appeal.
The duo were joined by twenty three others from throughout the United Kingdom, as they jointly raised around # 100000 for the organization that backs voluntary charities throughout the United Kingdom that serve socially, physically or mentally disadvantaged children.
Starting on 1st November, the duo cycled through Peru, visiting places like Machu Picchu ruins, the ruins of Ollantaytambo, the Amazon rainforest and the Sacred Valley of the Incas. Mr Sinclair is happy to be back after he and his partner Mr Ridley, from South Shields, protected themselves against savage wild dogs packs and they were eaten alive by mosquitoes.
But he told that the whole experience was just amazing. The sixty four year old from Hebburn, who has earlier cycled throughout Jordanian desert as well as India with his friend, told that without a doubt this trek was the most difficult. The heat was a killer and at times there was just no air to breath, so they were suffering from altitude sickness. He added that even walking a few steps was leaving people panting but they were having to cycle. It was hard but it was worth.


text:
Nollywood actor Mofe Duncan is todays man crush and here are reasons why were crushing on him.
1. A seasoned media practitioner
Asides acting Duncan is a Radio and TV presenter. Well grounded in the art of broadcasting, he also is a film maker.
2. Always celebrating his wife on social media
Who doesn't like a love story? Mofe Duncan is all about his wife and marriage on social media. Not a day passes by when he doesn't give the love of his life, Jessica Kakkad, a shout out on social media.
3. Fine bwoy
Let's not forget he's also a fine boy. Just look at those abs.
4. Great actor
Still think he can't act? Just watch Duncan in the movie, "".
5. Connects with fans on social media
Unlike other celebrities, Mofe Duncan actually interacts with his fans on social media. He replies messages sent to him by fans and actually engages them in the comment sections.