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Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 11:42 am
Post subject: Experience with JP Explorer?
Has anyone here tried one? Seems like it might be a great option for someone like me who is looking for something to progress on, but I haven't been able to find much online about them.
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Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 8:32 am
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Tried it? No, but it sure looks like a good idea. So good it's been done before. Google and/or ask around about the Fanatic Viper. Here's a start:
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Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 9:50 am
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Thanks Dennis! That does appear to be very similar, but with higher volume options. I'll take a look for more info on the Viper as well.
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Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 10:25 am
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Thanks Dennis! That does appear to be very similar, but with higher volume options. I'll take a look for more info on the Viper as well.
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Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 10:36 am
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You could start a new thread as well. The Viper has been around for several years, I believe; somebody should have some experience with it.
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Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 12:42 pm
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I haven't tried that board but seriously considered the Viper before buying my board a few years ago.
I had decided that I wanted a board that would be interesting to sail off the plane too, not only a progressive board used as a stepping stone to shortboarding.
With this in mind, and various board trials, I realized I wanted something less than 80 cm wide to enhance the glide. I also realized that the longer the better for the glide, same thing with volume. Raceboard could fit the bill but learned that they can be tricky to use on the plane, in the straps, if you are not experienced.
I settled for a Kona One and I'm very happy with my choice. I think it's the best all-purpose board on the market. I also learned to use the harness, plane, footsteer, use the straps and waterstart with it. I'm now working on the carve jibes with it.
If you don't like the flowers, the Exocet WindSUP or RRD Longrider and a newer Starboard WindSUP could be good choices too. If the lenght is a problem for storage or transportation, the JP or Fanatic are probably great too. They just won't have the same glide when off-the-plane.
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Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 9:41 pm
Post subject: Re: Experience with JP Explorer?
Thurston wrote:
Has anyone here tried one? Seems like it might be a great option for someone like me who is looking for something to progress on, but I haven't been able to find much online about them.
unfortunately boards like the Explorer get very little attention because they are not considered sexy, which is a major problem with this sport imho. To me, nothing is more silly or stupid than someone on gear that is beyond their ability.
I'd rather be on a big ass board and sail well then struggle and be flailing on something too small. What fun is that?
In looking at the board it appears JP has made it narrower and longer than the Funster. The trade off would be not as forgiving and stable but more upside potential for a progressing rider. The conditions you sail in and of course your size and ability all come into play as well.
If you're a bigger guy, say 200 lbs or over and sail in chop or swell it probably wouldn't be a great choice. If you are lighter, like in the 160-180 range and sail in flatwater
then it would probably be a great choice. Of course these are very broad generalizations. I do like the fact that it has nice length for gliding and fore-aft stability.
The Viper and SB Rios are nice boards too.
I also agree with a longboard as a possibility too.
The Kona and Exocet windsup are really versatile boards that you could keep for a long time.
I also love how they have a professional 120-130lb
female riding it in the video, it just looks so easy doesn't it?
Good luck.
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Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 9:55 am
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My kids sailed the JP Funsters quite a bit over the years in Cabarete. I sailed them too - mostly when I had to get the boards back upwind to Vela.
The Explorer seems to be narrower and a bit longer than the Funster, so maybe not quite as stable, but they will probably track better.
The main problem I had with the Funster was that they were very heavy - I never saw one plane, although I'm sure it's possible.
Hopefully, the Explorer is lighter. I think to go beyond being a beginner-only board, it would have to be substantially lighter.
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Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 8:10 am
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Excellent article from 2009 about beginner/transitional boards. Fanatic has increased the Viper range from 3 to 4 sizes since then. JP's "new concept" looks very much like the two smaller Vipers.
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Hunterpod necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 266 diseños de 74 diseñadores freelance.
Hunter Podiatry Services
We are a Podiatry clinic servicing the Hunter Valley in New South Wales, Australia. We are passionate about feet and our patient's health and well being. We have been established in the Hunter Valley region for 28 years and are in the final stages of launching a new look, refurbished, state of the art clinic with the latest technology and equipment in the diagnosis and management of lower limb conditions and complaints. We are a team of 5 vibrant enthusiastic podiatrists who combine a professional attitude with friendly and personal care. You could describe the image we are trying to convey as professional, modern and sleek. We aim for the highest standards and excellence in patient care. We work in conjunction with a range of other health professionals such as physiotherapists, chiropractors, surgeons and general practitioners to provide the best clinical outcomes.
Our clientele includes children, athletes and seniors. We have an existing clientele of well over 15000 patients. We want to target our marketing directions to new younger patients (30-50) with families who are health conscious and members of private health funds.
Doctors and other health professionals who have patients that may benefit from our expertise.
The aim is to have a branding that is easily recognized and immediately associated with our clinic (modern, state of the art) and feet.
The design needs to be PROFESSIONAL, no cartoons or anything that is associated with "cheap and nasty". I want a contemporary, sleek image that is not too busy. Think clean lines and easy to read.
Colour scheme is open please limit to 4 colours.
3 letter acronym can be used ie HPS but I would also like Hunter Podiatry Services in the logo somewhere.
Logo will be used in all print (websites, stationary,business cards and promotional advertising.)
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This past Sunday, if you lived in parts of the Midwest (I know IN & IL were on the list, but I don't remember who all else) and have Crapcast Comcast as your ISP, you might have had problems surfing the tubes, because they were having trouble with their DNS servers again. News of this spread through Twitter (at least that's how I heard about it since I wasn't affected directly), in a bizarre twist of news-spreading similar to people sending email at work letting people know that the mail server is down… Obviously with smartphones & such this is still a good way to spread such information, but it still strikes me as a bit funny 😉
(I'm not going to go into what DNS is here. I assume most people reading this are already going to know what it is, what it's for, and why it's important, so I'm going to skip this whole part.)
The main way to take care of this is to set your machine to use other DNS servers. The usual suspects recommended during times like this are Google's two public servers, aptly named google-public-dns-a and google-public-dns-b.google.com (-c resolves to a server, but its IP isn't as easy to just remember (more on that in a sec). Or, it's a Google honeypot for smarty pants 😀 ). There's also OpenDNS servers, which apparently do a bunch of other stuff like redirecting you to the right place when you misspell something. I don't really know how well this actually works or anything; this is just what their Wikipedia page says.
Google's own page explaining how to set these up is a good reference for what to do if you don't know. They're pretty good instructions, so knock yourself out there. These servers' IPs are 184.108.40.206 and 22.214.171.124, which are fairly easy to remember (and type), making it easy to set up on machines on-the-fly, which is important if you're looking to set this up while DNS is down and you can't get to google.com…
Here's what I prefer to do
Google's instructions are fine to set up a machine or two, but what if you've got half a dozen boxes in your house and/or you want a bit of a more robust solution? Glad you asked!
Most likely, the machines on your home network are serviced by your router's built-in DHCP server. At the same time it provides the machines with IP addresses to use, it also provides them with one or two DNS servers. It should be getting these addresses from your ISP in basically the same way—it's a DHCP client instead of a server on its external-facing port.
Obviously, under normal circumstances, your ISP is going to be providing their own DNS servers for this use, as it allows them to load custom search pages and stuff if they want to. (Did Comcast ever go through with doing that?) If your router supports it, however, you can override these settings, and that is where the more robust solution to this DNS problem comes in.
Somewhere in your router's settings is probably a section called "Basic Setup", "Basic Settings", or something similar. This section will include things like the router's name, authentication settings in case your ISP requires that, and possibly more advanced things like MAC address spoofing. What you're looking for here is a section that refers to "Static" or "Manual" DNS servers like these:
These are a couple of the routers that I have available to look at. The first one is an old Linksys WRT54G (if you aren't actively using one of these at home…well…you have my sympathy) and the second one is our travel router, some random Netgear thing. These are the general settings areas that you're looking for.
The main idea here is to put Google's DNS servers' IPs into those manual configuration boxes. You could forego your ISP servers altogether and just put in both of Google's server and call it a day. However, for some reason, this strikes me as something that isn't the best idea. I don't have a real good reason for it, it's just one of those things that doesn't feel right. What I would do is to get one of your ISP's DNS servers and put that in as your primary, then one of Google's servers as the secondary (or tertiary, if you have an option for 3). That strikes me as a safer option, but there is one thing to keep in mind: If your ISP ever changes their DNS servers, since your settings are manually configured, that change won't be made automatically like it otherwise would. Obviously if you've got one of Google's servers in there, things will still work, but name resolution may be a bit slower if your machine picks the now-broken IP first and you have to wait for that to time out before it hits the second machine. This is just something to weigh; I don't know that there's a good reason to not just put Google's DNS servers in there and go on with life, other than it's almost definitely an "unsupported" configuration in your ISP's eyes.
The reason I advocate this method of setup is simple: When you do this, these addresses will be passed on to your workstations when they get IPs to use from the router. This will happen for every machine that connects to your network, so you only need to set this up once to use these other servers.
While you're in here messing around, it is important to leave the router set to get its external IP via DHCP or whatever else your ISP has told you it needs to be set to. If you do this, then things will work OK for now, but at some time in the near future, it's probable that things will stop working altogether. If you can't manually set your DNS servers without leaving the IP address on Automatic/DHCP, then you won't be able to set DNS up this way, and you'll need to use Google's instructions to set each of your machines individually.
Nutjob solution
Or, forget all this, run your own DNS server, point it at the Root Hint servers, and thumb your nose at Comcast's inability to do simple things like keep some DNS servers happy.
I have no idea who would do such crazy things, though <.< >.>


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WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is going after his critics on an incendiary tour that is doing his one-time congregant, Barack Obama, little good.
After weeks of staying out of the public eye while critics lambasted his sermons, Wright made three public appearances in four days to defend himself. The former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago has been combative, providing colorful commentary and feeding the story Obama had hoped was dying down.
"This is not an attack on Jeremiah Wright," Wright told the Washington press corps Monday. "It has nothing to do with Senator Obama. It is an attack on the black church launched by people who know nothing about the African-American religious tradition."
Wright's tour couldn't come at a much worse time for Obama, who is campaigning for white working class voters in Indiana and North Carolina. Many of Wright's most controversial comments are angry condemnations of the United States for its treatments of blacks � thoughts that were applauded by the black church leaders in his audience Monday but risk offending white voters.
An Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Monday suggests the Wright controversy may be hurting Obama among whites. His Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton is doing better than Obama among whites in head-to-head matchups with John McCain. Among white respondents, Clinton gets 43 percent to McCain's 48 percent. Obama gets 38 percent to McCain's 51 percent.
Obama said on "Fox News Sunday" over the weekend that Wright had not consulted with him about his decision to take his case to the public. He conceded that Wright's comments were causing him political problems.
"I think that people were legitimately offended by some of the comments that he had made in the past," Obama said. "The fact that he's my former pastor I think makes it a legitimate political issue."
But Wright showed no concern for how he might be affecting the presidential race. He suggested Obama was distancing himself only because of political motivations while he, the former pastor, was trying to do what was right in the eyes of the Lord.
"If Sen. Obama did not say what he said, he would never get elected. Politicians say what they say and do what they do based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls," Wright said. "Preachers say what they say because they're pastors, they have a different person to whom they're accountable. Whether he gets elected or not, I'm still going to have to be answerable to God November 5th."
Although many of the clips of Wright that have been dogging Obama's campaign were from sermons that were several years old, the pastor repeated some of the same ideas for television cameras Monday.
He criticized the U.S. government as imperialist and stood by his suggestion that the United States invented the HIV virus as a means of genocide against minorities. "Based on this Tuskegee experiment and based on what has happened to Africans in this country, I believe our government is capable of doing anything," he said Monday.
Asked whether he owed the American people an apology, some in the supportive crowd shouted, "No!" Wright argued that his fiery nature was appropriate since the United States has never apologized for slavery or racism.
The North Carolina Republican Party is airing an ad that shows Wright with Obama and says the candidate is "too extreme for North Carolina." All three presidential candidates are talking about that ad to criticize one another.
Obama's campaign says McCain isn't doing enough to get it off the air. McCain himself responded that he's told the state officials to take it down and there's nothing more he can do.
"I am not going to be a referee," McCain told reporters at a news conference in Miami Monday. "I have made my position very clear on this issue. And I do not believe that Sen. Obama shares Reverend Wright's extreme statements or views, whichever they be."
Clinton used the issue to make a double swipe � saying she thinks McCain could do more to stop the ads, while reminding voters that she would never have a pastor like Wright.
"I would not have stayed in that church under those circumstances, but I regret the efforts by Republicans to politicize this matter," she told reporters while campaigning in North Carolina.
As Obama has grappled with how to respond to Wright's most controversial statements, he has described him as akin to an uncle who sometimes says things you don't agree with. He seemed reluctant to disavow his longtime pastor, although Wright didn't extend the same courtesy to Obama.
"I said to Barack Obama last year, 'If you get elected, November the fifth, I'm coming after you because you'll be representing a government whose policies grind under people,'" Wright said.
EDITOR'S NOTE � Nedra Pickler covers the Democratic presidential campaign for The Associated Press.
Analysis: Wright does Obama little good
WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is going after his critics on an incendiary tour that is doing his one-time congregant, Barack Obama, little good.


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Next Generation Collaboration (#SWChat)
Collaboration is nothing new. People have been collaborating since the stone ages to hunt for food. But how has collaboration evolved in the last few years, what has been the business impact and what makes a good collaborator?
This event took a deep dive into collaboration from the social tools to people's behaviours.
Event Questions
Q1) Companies today must build an infrastructure for it's employees to work remotely. Agree/disagree?
Q2) Is a flattened hierarchy, openness, and shared ideas the new work culture of today?
Q3) Should companies encourage more social networking / relationship building of it's own employees?
Q4) Is reward and recognition essential in today's collaborative culture to encourage better contribution?
Q5) Does the role of a manager change in a company with a collaborative culture at it's core?
Related Articles
- Prepare For The Next Generation Of Enterprise Collaboration [VIDEO] - via Chris Albrecht (Gigaom)
- The Next Generation Collaborative Enterprise - via Padmasree Warrior (Cisco)
- Crowdsourcing And Next Generation Collaboration - via David Bratvoid (Daily Crowdsource)
- Next Generation Collaboration - via Iain Miller (Fourth Source)
- Next Generation Collaborative Leaders [PDF] - via Angel Mendez (Cisco)
- Gen Y And The Collaborative Workplace - via Bill Patterson (MicrosoftDynamics)
- The Role Of The Collaboration Advisor - via Jane Hart (C4LPT)
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Hello everyone, as you can see this is my first post and I need some expert help.
I recently acquired this watch (three photographs attached), which I really like a lot and have been trying to establish as much information about it, as I can . The watch was sold to me as being "all original except for the replaced crystal". From my research and the numbers on the watch, this is what would appear to me, to be the situation.
Case back: stamped on the outside is 007084 but I do not know how to interpret this. Absence of a letter would indicate it is stainless steel, confirmed by the stamping on the inside of "Acier Inoxydable". It is a 'screw down' type and not a 'snap off'.
Case: diameter is approx. 34mm.would appear to be stainless steel as the caseback. Is this an E159 (waterproof) case but missing a waterproof "O" ring.
Movement: is gilded and stamped with the number 366600, calibre P478, but again I do not know how to interpret this.
Dial: looks original to me, although has some spots and discolouration.
Hands: look original to me, but with some corrosion, however I have seen other cal 478's with a 'sword' style seconds hand as opposed to the 'stick' style on mine, therefore I am not sure if authentic.
Crown: looks original to me, but is it correct for this model.
It is possible to date this watch and confirm if the numbers line up, plus, any comments or views on the statement, it is "all original except for the replaced crystal"?
Any information, help or advice would be gratefully received. I do have more photographs and at higher resolution if required.
Bob Sutton.


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Just wanted to post a quick teaser for you all….I have been chatting with a nice woman from Accent Furniture about reviewing & giving away some great cookware/bakeware from their website. I am so excited about this, I can't even begin to tell you. I can't tell you what the item(s) are yet, you will just have to wait & see!
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Comes bagged in full color art box and with his own real Gigo Lopez Business card! :P
Gigo Lopez is an old school ladies man from Tepito, Mexico. He knows what the ladies want and he's always READY to please and give some love to all of them.
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I like how they handle, but after 15,000 miles they are half worn out. One tire had a whole in the side wall, so now I need new tires at 15,000 miles, They can not use for resale as they are all too worn out!
Continental requires rotations every 3,500-5,000 miles in order to stay under their warranty. I rotated every 10K miles and my tires were at the wear bars at 30K miles. Continental is not giving me a discount for replacing the tires.
I made the move to Continental from Michelin Primacy tires. I've had 5 Primacy tires and 3 of them have failed less than halfway through their treadlife warranty. Maybe just bad luck, but my dealer recommended these. I don't know if it's because they are new, different, just plain better or a combination of all but between the price, 1 year road hazard and 70k mile warranty, Continental wins, hands down. They feel great and there is no compromise in grip for the high-mile warranty as with some tires. I haven't driven them in snow, but if they keep with their habit of peak performance, I know they will do just fine. Thanks for the great advice!
Great tire for the money in rain and snow.
Great all round tire. Best I have found so far for my car with the sport package.
While looking and comparing tires online, I came across these Continental PureContact DWS Tires (the DWS stands for Dry-Wet-Snow, and are created in the outer tread of tire-visible-and wear off to let you know what condition tire is still good for). I researched many tires while looking for replacements. I wanted a good, name brand tire with an exceptional warranty. I narrowed my comparison to Michelin Defender Series tires and the Continental PureContact DWS all-season touring series. I even watched YouTube.com videos of people driving with both tires! When all was said and done, I bought these Continental tires....and here is why:
(1) 6-year/70,000 mile treadwear warranty is almost unheard of in an all-season tire.
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(3) Car and Driver rated these tires as good if not better than others in online comparison video and explained why.
(4) I live in Oregon, and with great sipping, these tire perform flawlessly in the rain and wet weather.
(5) I wanted a good all-season that could handle rain, but I wanted a slightly stiffer tire sidewall than others but with the lowest road noise (these are more quiet than the Goodyear Assurance Touring All-seasons that I previously had on the car)! I haven't yet tested these tires in snow or hydroplaning, but I'm sure they will perform excellent. I am extremely happy with these tires!!! My wife has the same car as me, but hers is a 1999, and after driving my car with these tires, she wants me to replace the Bridgestones (factory OEM) on hers with these Continental PureContact DWS's;!!!
These are amazing tires; quiet-riding and great performance.
Good price
So far, very pleased. Handling is excellent and road noise is almost nonexistent.
The tires provide one of the worst rides I have ever had on a car. The tires will not stay balanced. Good performance in wet conditions. Will not buy these tires again.
Tires are fine for dry and wet weather, fairly quiet, decent mileage but but pretty bad in snow and on ice. Won't be putting another set of these on.
What a difference. These replaced the factory tires and the difference was immediate. Snow traction is excellent and the drive and feel are outstanding. I feel safe in my car again as I was white knuckling every time it snowed with the OE tires.
I've had these on my Acura RDX for three months. They have performed very well in the snow and rain. So far, I really like these tires.
The wait time is never too long, always receive excellent service.
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Smaller groups that gather together twice a month to collectively pursue lives of prayer, mission, and community in their corner of North Brooklyn. These groups meet up during the first and third weeks of every month. Contact Robert if you'd like more information about the group in your neighborhood.
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Some Fans Think 'Glee' Star Kevin McHale Just Came Out on Instagram
Did Kevin McHale, best known for his role on the beloved Fox musical-comedy "Glee," just come out as gay? Some fans think so.
The 29-year-old actor, who played Artie Abrams on the series, took to Instagram Monday and shared a black-and-white photo of his hand on top of another person's hand. He didn't provide a caption but added an emoji of a hand that is the meaning for "I love you in" in American Sign Language. The pic has major interest among his 917,000 followers, earning nearly 40,000 likes.
In another black-and-white photo posted early Tuesday, McHale is seen reading while a shirtless man is seen in the background with his back facing the camera. The caption for this snap reads: "My favorite way to be anti social."
Some fans are speculating the hand in the first photo belongs to Austin McKenzie, best known for his role in Deaf West's Broadway revival of "Spring Awakening." The two actors have appeared in each other's Instagrams and both appeared in Dustin Lance Black's LGBTQ-rights miniseries "When We Rise" last year.
One commenter said of the two men: "[T]hey've been spending a lot of time together lately. They look close and are often featured on each other's social media. It's not a huge stretch to think it's Austin's hand."
"My guess is it's @austineyes seeing as they're signing in this picture and austin is known for his asl," another commenter wrote.
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User:OpenScientist/Open grant writing/Encyclopaedia of original research
|There should be only one repository of art in the world, to which the artist would donate his works in order to take what he would need
This page is part of the Getting your CC project funded course at Peer 2 Peer University. It is managed by the team of @Kubke and @EvoMRI. We want to draft, in the open, a strong grant proposal that is CC-licensed and intended to be reused. The topic: An encyclopaedia of (or GitHub for) original research. Of course, any interested party is invited to join in.
- 1 Overview
- 2 Current status
- 3 Drafting the proposal on GitHub
- 4 How to get involved
- 5 What next?
- 6 Feedback
- 7 See also
All dates are 2011. The blogging platform went down in 2012.
- Blog post 1: Introduction (April 26)
- A basic outline of the course and of our project within it
- Blog post 2: The project ideas (May 3)
- Idea 1: An encyclopaedia of original research - a collaboratively editable database of interlinked and semantically enhanced openly licensed scholarly articles, be they from OA journals, open notebooks, blogs or the legacy literature that has entered the public domain (this follows up on an earlier proposal along these lines).
- Idea 2: Delivery of scientific and health-related information to remote areas. Based on Idea 1.
- Idea 3: Exploring the potential of databases as museums of the future. Could be based on Idea 1 or not.
- Idea 4: Testing the efficiency of open vs. traditional science. Broadened in scope with respect to Idea 1.
- Blog post 3: Digging deeper (May 7)
- A more detailed characterization of Idea 1 in a standardized format suitable for funding requests.
- Briefly introduces the plan of drafting the TeX documents via a dedicated GitHub repository, invites comments on how to find suitable funders
- See also the dedicated section below
- On ideas 4 and 3 and illustrations, with a suggestion for a crowd-sourced environmental sensing project on the basis of OLPC
- Blog post 7: How would you fund research (November 11)
- Provides an Open Research perspective on the SciFund Challenge and lays out some of the rationale behind our proposal, which participated in the challenge (detailed comments: Creative Commons New Zealand/ Aotearoa, Rory Macneil, Mary Canady, Jarrett Byrnes, Mike Linksvayer)
Current status[edit]
The project has received some crowdfunding in 2011, but this was by far not enough to get things going, so that money remains parked at the University of Auckland until an opportunity comes up to put it to use in the context of something that would fit under the umbrella of an Encyclopaedia of original research or a GitHub for research.
Drafting the proposal on GitHub[edit]
We have decided to use GitHub for drafting our actual proposal (for some earlier brainstorming, see here). The git repository is at https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/Open-Research-Proposals (see also Ohloh listing), and the latest PDF version can be downloaded by clicking on the "view raw" link here.
How to get involved[edit]
Getting involved with the proposal drafting[edit]
- For each of the individual project ideas (outlined in post 2; details added in post 3), you could provide:
- Feedback on the subject
- Feedback on related projects that have already been drafted or even funded or finished, or are in the planning stages
- Feedback on potential partners (individuals, institutions, organizations)
- Feedback on budget
- Feedback on potential funders (see also the dedicated section in the draft)
- For the whole series, you could
- Spread the word (some inspiration); see also Feedback
- Provide feedback on online platforms suitable for collaborative writing of this kind
- Help in drafting or illustrating (the proposal itself, or the blog posts about it)
- Donate ideas, money, or infrastructure
- Propose other improvements
- Chime in on specific requests for help, as listed in the next section
Coding issues[edit]
The issues listed here are essential for the project, once funded, but nice-to-haves during the drafting phase. The more of them we have solved, the stronger our proposal will be, as we can present them as preliminary data or proof of principle. Neither of us are programmers, so if you think either of these issues are easy to solve, we would be glad to hear how.
- How to parse Google search results to get the PMCID of the listed articles? (some more background)
- I don't think going through Google is required, since you could use the PubMedCentral OAI-PMH endpoint that was cited in the WiredScience article to basically fetch all the records (using the ListRecords OAI verb, limiting to records in the pmc-open set), and then filter based on the <license> element right? For example this will get you the first response, and you would need to follow the resumption tokens to get the entire set. I could help pull this content if you need any assistance. Edsu 10:26, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
- Good to know that there is a more direct way than going through Google - I wasn't aware of that. I suspect, though, that the <license> tag is not used consistently across (and may be even within) publishers, so if you could check that somehow, this would be an important initial step already. If it is - or at least for certain publishers - then that paves the way for a tool based on that information. In the end, we need a list of PMCIDs (as at http://www.science3point0.com/coaspedia/index.php/Technical:XML_for_test_purposes) on the basis of which to do the xml2wiki conversion. Any move forward in this direction would be of help. Thanks! --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 22:30, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
- It looks like <license> isn't used in all the PMC metadata records but it is the NLM DTD article XML, so it may cut across publishers. I put together a quick python script for walking through all the records, and printing out the identifier and license URL (if found). Edsu 01:48, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
- Good to know that there is a more direct way than going through Google - I wasn't aware of that. I suspect, though, that the <license> tag is not used consistently across (and may be even within) publishers, so if you could check that somehow, this would be an important initial step already. If it is - or at least for certain publishers - then that paves the way for a tool based on that information. In the end, we need a list of PMCIDs (as at http://www.science3point0.com/coaspedia/index.php/Technical:XML_for_test_purposes) on the basis of which to do the xml2wiki conversion. Any move forward in this direction would be of help. Thanks! --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 22:30, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
- How to convert PubMed Central's XML into MediaWiki XML (at least for the Open Subset)? See also some basics about XSLT.
- Probably best to start with the JATS Preview Stylesheets. Klortho 12:36, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, that looks good. Thanks! --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 01:03, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
- We are currently exploring possibilities to import into GitHub rather than MediaWiki. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 07:31, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
Moved to dedicated subpage at User:OpenScientist/Open grant writing - Encyclopaedia of original research/Illustrations.
Getting involved with the Encyclopaedia of original research[edit]
We currently do not yet have the Encyclopaedia of original research running as such, but prototypes exist:
- Wikiversity Journal, with its only member so far being the biomedicine-focused Wikiversity Journal of Medicine - a peer reviewed journal playing a role in attracting medical content that can be used across Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia.
- A MediaWiki installation: COASPedia - configured in a topic-centric rather than medium-centric way. If you have openly licensed scholarly articles and want to convert them into Mediawiki format, COASPedia would be the place to put the results for the time being. If the articles are about the taxonomic description of biological species, you could also go to Species ID.
- A GitHub repository: Gitizendium. The conversion of a small set of a MediaWiki-based site (Citizendium) into a GitHub repository.
- A Git-backed wiki: https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/Encyclopaedia-of-original-research/wiki. If you have openly licensed scholarly articles and want to convert them into the format of Git-backed wikis, this would be the place to put the results for the time being.
Ideally, we would like the encyclopaedia to exist in the most malleable format currently available for larger cohorts of scholarly articles (XML), and to combine this with an XML viewer that allows for public version history and easy forkability.
What next?[edit]
Independent of whether this current proposal ends up being funded or not[edit]
The blog posts produced in the framework of this project, as well as the text of the grant proposal itself, are put under a CC0 license, so as to maximize the potential for reuse.
We foresee several reuse scenarios:
- Research: our projects 1 and 4 are likely to advance science, irrespective of whether we get funded to implement them or someone else
- Education: newcomers to grant writing might find it helpful to have the whole process of writing a grant documented in public; funders might use it as an example for pointing out aspects of a strong or weak proposal
- Outreach: all four projects, but especially projects 2 and 3, will help to intensify the exchange between researchers and the public
- Science policy: data about open science is scarce, so our project shall serve as one of the pieces of evidence submitted to the Royal Society who are taking a look at "Science as a Public Enterprise" (comments invited "as soon as possible, and before the 5 August 2011")
If the proposal gets funded[edit]
We will then work on implementing it, e.g. on building an environment that hosts open scholarly content, makes it editable, proveds a public version history and is easily forkable.
If the proposal does not get funded[edit]
We will probably work on the implementation nonetheless, but at considerably lower speed. Plus, we would probably try other avenues for getting the project funded, and others are invited to try and get it funded themselves, with or without us.
So far, we received little feedback, but what we got was encouraging. Some examples are listed below:
See also[edit]
- WikiJournal
- Crowdfunding campaign for this project as part of the SciFund Challenge at RocketHub
- We need a GitHub for Science
- Open science: a future shaped by shared experience
- What do open access and open science actually mean in practical terms?
- Funding proposals at Wikieducator
- Criteria for the Journal of the future
- The Curious Case of the Changing Citation
- Why publish science in peer-reviewed journals?
- Academic publishing: why isn't psychology like physics?
- "Imagine a Google Maps of scholarship"
- "a very large compendium of papers that have been vetted for scientific quality, but which will not be confined in terms of their likely importance."
- A proposal for a free, open and decentralized publishing and review process of scientific papers - torrent-based
- The Decoupled Journal - a journal decomposed into the service components it delivers, so that authors can choose which of these they actually need
- Animated museum
- Towards interactive (journal) articles
- Action Explorer - a tool for rapid (and automated) understanding of scientific literature
- Planetary
- Possibility of a git-based fully distributed Wikipedia
- Getting a group of people together to do open science, overtaking the secret ones in their field?
- Wiki Journal (from 2004)
- SciGit
- PyPedia (WebCite; Reddit)
- Towards a Commons-Driven Research Platform
- An efficient journal: Journal of Machine Learning Research
- IPython HTML notebook
- What Is Peer Review For?
- GitHub for education
- Curation of collaboration - Center for the Future of Museums
- "What we need is a stumbleupon for science."
- Being a scientist in the age of Wikipedia
- Synapse – a GitHub for medical research


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Submit to this year's CARAs/sing
Eligibility: Any track that is produced after October 1, 2017
Deadline: October 28, 2018 at 11:59 pm Pacific.
CASA Members can download the album for free.
sing is an all-vocal compilation album founded in the spirit of unifying collegiate and professional a cappella groups. The series began in 2003 when Dave Sperandio, founder of the Alliance for A Cappella Initiatives (AACI), created it as one of the organization's primary initiatives. Once smaller in its scope, the sing series has quickly developed into a yearly collection of some of the world's finest and most diverse vocal music. In addition to collegiate and professional groups from the United States, the albums now feature talent from high schools across the country and internationally acclaimed professional a cappella troupes.
sing was created to showcase a slice of the best of contemporary a cappella to both the existing vocal music establishment and the a cappella virgin masses. The purpose of the compilation is to give talented groups and individuals an opportunity to be heard on a worldwide stage by placing their music alongside some of the biggest names in the a cappella universe. As the compilation has grown, the series has begun to thrive on choosing groups and tracks that stretch the limits of the genre, including groundbreaking original music from some of the hottest new stars. In listening to any sing album, our hope is that each listener will appreciate the growing creativity of the a cappella art form and will be challenged and even inspired to bring this ingenuity into their own local spheres of vocal performance.
Now an eagerly anticipated annual phenomenon, the sing series boasts multiple installments, each album filled with innovative, exceptional tracks that display the versatile power of the human voice. The compilation's most recent volume, sing 14: CONTINUUM, features 22 songs on the album.
Tracks for the sing compilation are chosen annually during the fall by an international panel of committee members.
Check out the tracklists from all installments of the sing series here.
As a service to you, your music can also be submitted to the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards. It is one of the highest honors in a cappella and vocal music.
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sing 11: One Louder
sing 10: neon
sing 9: Supernovem
sing 8: Too Cubed
sing 7: Lucky
sing 6: sunny side up
sing 5: Groovus
sing 4: Good Medicine
sing 3: Mélange à Trois
sing 2: Eclectic Boogaloo
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OAR advocates trap/neuter/return (TNR) as the most humane and effective way to address cat overpopulation, and we loan humane live traps to the public to TNR your colonies. With TNR, feral and stray cats are trapped humanely, spayed/neutered and returned to the location where they were living.
OAR runs a small shelter for cats in Madisonville full of wonderful, fully-vetted, adoptable cats. Open adoption hours are 6-8 pm Mon and Thur, 1-4 pm Sat and Sun at OAR, 5619 Orlando Pl, 45227 and 1-4 pm Sat and Sun at Oakley PetSmart, 3401 Alamo Dr, 45209.


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Ugh...Steel Kitty wrote:...What did upset me about the MASSIVE RV camps was the copious dumping of black water on the playa just before driving off. It might have been a full tank of grey, but there was more than a little brown matter floating in all that gunk as the two big dually wheels churned it up a bit.
And, just like life.... I couldn't do a damn thing about it.
The BLM can issue citations for things like that if you can get a LEO to the scene quickly. Hopefully the RV will get stuck in its own muck.


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Jim Perry necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 146 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
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Bridal Sands, Inc. is a company that will offer bridal consultations and photography services and products specifically catered to destination wedding clients. Our clients travel predominantly from the United States and other locations worldwide to Puerto Rico (an island in the Caribbean) to celebrate their wedding in a luscious, romantic beach-front setting.
Bridal Sands, Inc. is a completely new and unusual concept in the wedding photography business. Our company will differentiate itself from our competition by focusing on our clients' wedding experience instead of merely offering expected photographic products and services. We will use photography to promote destination weddings in Puerto Rico, we will offer exclusive and exceptional products, and will partner with other companies that will complement our services to ultimately provide a personalized and memorable wedding experience. The company's photography is based on the credentials and experience of international award-winning photographer James Perez-Marcano, who is supported by a professional staff of production assistants, album design specialists, and associate photographers.
Bridal Sands, Inc. will focus on the entry-level high end market. This market is comprised of young adults with college degrees, successful professionals or entrepreneurs, between the ages of 25 and 40, who appreciate art, understand the value of good things in life and are willing to invest in them. Our clients understand technology; they use the internet on a daily basis, and seek to have exceptional and personalized experiences. Although my end clients are the couple, my marketing is strongly targeted toward the bride (women).
We wish our brand to project cleverness and innovation with a strong sense of feminine sophistication. The name of our company was meticulously chosen to evoke a sense of the romantic beach-front settings that our clients specifically seek and is ultimately what attracts them to Puerto Rico. Thus, I wish that the iconic component of the logo serve to somehow strengthen the romantic notion of a beach-front wedding in a clever way. If literal symbols are to be used (such as a palm tree or a sea shell) they must be implemented in a clever non-literal way.
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Rocking up at Heathrow Airport in jandals, shorts, singlet and a decent tan, Tom Taylor was an unlikely looking All Black prospect for a run at Twickenham on Sunday.
There is no record of the chat between the immigration officer and Taylor about his reasons for being in Britain but a 'yeah right' remark might have accompanied the officer's passport stamp.
Taylor remains an outside chance for Sunday's test as the medical staff run checks on the fitness of injured five eighths Daniel Carter and Beauden Barrett.
But Taylor's appearance as a utility cover for the All Blacks after two seasons with Canterbury and one with the Crusaders indicates his future prospects.
He has the pedigree as the son of former All Blacks second five eighths Warwick and beside his ability to play first, second and fullback, he is a very accurate goalkicker.
Taylor was on the last day of a fortnight holiday in Phuket, thinking about heading home for Crusaders' training after a month's break since the ITM Cup final.
Meanwhile a few people were trying to locate him in an area of mixed cellphone coverage to tell him to alter his flight to London.
"Then it ended up my girlfriend's dad was knocking on the door about seven o'clock in the morning and I opened the door but had been fast asleep," he recalled.
Instructions to pack his bags and head for London did not sink in at first. But three days later after a cluster of flights and some sleep, Taylor was introduced as the latest member of the All Black squad.
Calls home have his mouthguard, boots and kicking tee on their way to London. Give him two days and he reckons he will be ready to play if needed.
"I will do everything I can to prepare really."
Taylor was ready because he had been keeping up his fitness and had been told earlier he was on standby. He was used to these sorts of shocks in rugby and was ready.
In the past he had not always dealt well with the surprises but he felt ready for this challenge. Even in Phuket, he had kept up a fitness regime, mixing running with swimming and surfing.
"I think as long as you are ready mentally then you can do anything," Taylor said.
His callup shows the growing riches of talented backs in New Zealand who can work as five eighths and cover other positions in the backline.
Some with those multi-skills are Tim Bateman, Lima Sopoaga and Andrew Horrell with not so long ago All Black Colin Slade also due to return to Super rugby next season after a horror injury stretch.
Meanwhile the All Blacks legal advisors are preparing their case for Andrew Hore's appearance before the IRB's independent judiciary.
The hooker has been cited for striking after a second minute incident in last weekend's test when Welsh lock Bradley Davies was injured.
With that issue and Keven Mealamu's troublesome calf injury, Dane Coles is the only available hooker so NZ Maori hooker Hika Elliot has also been drafted into the squad.


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2 are charged with kidnapping in abduction of Amish girls
(CNN) — Police have arrested a couple and charged them with kidnapping in the apparent abduction of two Amish girls in upstate New York this week, authorities said late Friday.
Stephen M. Howells II, 39, and his girlfriend Nicole F. Vaisey, 25, are being held without bond, according to the St. Lawrence County Sheriff's Office. Federal charges are also a possibility.
On Wednesday, an Amber Alert was issued after 6-year-old Delila Miller and her 12-year-old sister, Fannie, disappeared from a vegetable stand near their family farm in Oswegatchie, located about 50 miles from the Canadian border.
A witness told police the girls were tending to a customer who drove up in a white 4-door sedan and then disappeared when the vehicle pulled away, according to the Amber Alert.
The Amber Alert was canceled Thursday night after Delila and Fannie were apparently abandoned along a road in Richville, about 40 miles away.
"The children walked up to a home, knocked on the door of a stranger," St. Lawrence County District Attorney Mary Rain told CNN affiliate WWNY. "The stranger brought them home to their house and police were waiting."
She said the girls were "a little wet and cold," but otherwise healthy.
The investigation moved quickly on Friday, as "good police work" and tips from the girls led authorities to the suspects, said St. Lawrence County Sheriff Kevin Wells.
"We have two strong young girls," Wells said. "The reason we're able to make an arrest tonight is because of just how strong they are and things they're able to remember."
Two cars — one white, one red — were towed from the scene by authorities, affiliate WSYR reported. The house where Howells and Vaisey live is being processed for evidence, according to Wells.
The sheriff's office has scheduled a news conference for 8 a.m. Saturday.


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Bookbinding blog by book artist Katie Gonzalez, of Nashville, showing handmade books in the Coptic binding, Italian Long stitch, Japanese stab binding, Secret Belgian Binding, and French Link Stitch.
Handmade books and bookbinding classes by Nashville artist Katie Gonzalez. This website for linenlaid&felt handmade books showcases her handbound journals, sketchbooks, photo albums, wedding guest books, and baby books. Katie Gonzalez studied book arts in Cortona, Italy, teaches book binding in Nashville, and sells her work through Etsy online, at Parnassus Books in Nashville, and at regional art shows such as Porter Flea and Handmade and Bound in Nashville, Tennessee.
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These kiddies belts are the perfect option to tighten pants without having to sew, send away or ask your mother-in-law! Simply attach to the existing belt attachment with ease and you can set it for as tight as you want… This way your child's pants will not fall down and you can switch them from pants to shorts with ease. They are far easier than belts or suspenders for kids, especially during potty training.
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Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Guest: Carter Vaughn Findley, Humanities Distinguished Professor in History, The Ohio State University
Over the past two thousands years, the Turkic peoples have migrated and expanded from a small group of pastoral nomads in what is now western China to form Islam's longest lasting empire, six modern nation-states that bear their names, and large minorities across Eurasia. But … who are the Turks? Do they even form a coherent social category? Where did they come from? And what makes them "Turk"ish?
Guest Carter Vaughn Findley has spent a career working on the Turkic peoples and their history, and helps us trace their long migration from the Gobi to the Bosphorus, adapting, absorbing, and transforming themselves and the societies they interact with along the way.
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OCEAN CITY – Just few days removed from the Maryland General Assembly's special session called to begin tackling the state's projected $1.7 billion deficit, everything appears to be on the table including an effort to lump property management services into a larger group of services not previously subject to state sales tax, the passage of which could have a huge impact on the resort area.
State lawmakers will gather in Annapolis on Monday to begin debating Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposed solution to the state's growing deficit problem. The governor's plan includes a wide range of proposed tax increases and other revenue-generating mechanisms including slots. Hidden among the many proposals on the table is an effort to include property management services in with a larger group of services previously immune to state sales tax, such as cable television, auto repairs, beauty and barber shops and many others.
The plan is two-fold in that it not only makes property management services subject to the state sales tax, but it would also raise the current sales tax in Maryland from five to six cents on the dollar. On the surface, the one-cent increase in the sales tax does not appear to be too onerous, but it represents an increase of 20 percent which will have to borne by the purchasers of all goods and services including property management services.
The measure has been strongly criticized in the local area, which has a proliferation of property management companies handling the countless condominium and homeowner associations in the resort area. The fear is that the trickle-down effect will be passed along to local renters and property owners already struggling with high rents, mortgages and homeowner association fees.
Coastal Association of Realtors President Cassie Mead said this week the proposed inclusion of property management services under the umbrella of the state sales tax could have a profound effect in Ocean City and Worcester County.
"The governor's proposal to tax property management services could have a devastating effect on Ocean City and the surrounding areas," she said. "It's not good for housing and it's certainly not good for the rental market. That means renters in apartments that use property management services will pay that tax through higher rents."
While much of the opposition has focused on what the impact of the measure could be on renters, Mead warned similar impacts could be felt by homeowners and condo owners. Many homeowner associations and condominium boards run by property management companies would have to pay a 6-percent tax on top of their existing management fees.
"The main focus has been on Maryland renters paying more due to the property management tax, however, homeowners and condo owners should take note too," said Mead. "This tax is bad enough when considering its impact on renters, but it will hit homeowners too."
State Comptroller Peter Franchot said this week in a prepared statement about the special session applying sales tax to property management services is just part of the larger equation for the state. Franchot said he has heard a lot of opposition to the proposal.
"Although the details on this particular provision are unclear, concerns about its impact on the State's affordable housing stock have already been raised," he said "In meeting with citizens and business leaders throughout Maryland, I have heard numerous complaints that the costs of this tax will simply be 'passed through' to renters, many of whom are families with low and moderate incomes who cannot afford further strain on their fixed budgets."
On the home front, Delegate James Mathias (D-38B) said he too has heard a dearth of opposition to the proposal. While he hasn't decided how he will vote if and when the time comes, Mathias said the amount of opposition would likely put an end to the proposal.
"I understand the adverse impact of this, but I haven't made a definitive decision," he said. "If I was forecasting today, I would say it probably won't pass. I'm leaning toward not voting for it."
Mathias said the property management tax is just one issue out of many his constituents are passionate about as the General Assembly prepares for the special session. He has received countless emails, phone calls and letters from local residents about all of the issues and not all of them have been pleasant.
"They understand what is at stake here," he said. "This is a situation that is going to affect all of us, regardless of how it turns out. There is a tremendous amount of emotion out there and I understand that. I just have to separate the emotion from the facts."
Mathias said he is entering the special session with an open mind and will make decisions based on the best information available. He said he is driven by what is best for the state, but not at the expense of the constituents in his district.
"I'm going to have to make decisions on all of these things and those decisions will be based primarily on what is best for our district," he said. "There will be tough choices and they won't always be popular, but I don't want to trade the cow for the beans."


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Total coliforms
Coliforms are bacteria that are naturally present in the environment and used as an indicator that other, potentially harmful, bacteria may be present. Coliforms found in more samples than allowed is a warning of potential problems.
Fecal coliform and Escherichia coli (E. coli)
Fecal coliform and E. coli are bacteria whose presence indicates that water may be contaminanted by human or animal wastes. Microbes in these wastes can cause short term effects, such as diarrhea, cramps, nausea, headaches, or other symptoms. They may pose a special health risk for infants, young children, and people with severely compromised immune systems.
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Fecal indicators are microbes whose presence indicates that the water may be contaminated with human or animal wastes. Coliphage are viruses that infect the bacterium E. coli. Enterococci are bacterial indicators of fecal contamination. Microbes in these wastes can cause short-term health effects, such as diarrhea, cramps, nausea, headaches, or other symptoms. They may pose a special health risk for infants, young children, some of the elderly, and people with severely compromised immune systems.
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Wine.Dine.Great Design
Lifestylist® Suzanne Felber has built the Lifestylist Brands around three core areas that she is passionate about: great wines, great food, and above all, great design. For over 30 years she has been defining what the trademarked term Lifestylist is all about and continues to take the roads less traveled to keep learning and sharing what it means to be a Lifestylist.
In 2016 we added two new projects that compliment what we have always done: The Lifestylist Look that features carefully curated fashion and beauty products, and our Vintage Home shop at Lula B's in Oak Cliff, Texas. You can now shop for a lot of the cool products that we have been sharing with you here!
The Lifestylist® Brands specialize in helping companies deliver creative solutions to consumer targeted projects. Combining creativity with practicality allows us to deliver results that enable consumers to participate not just speculate. By actually designing and working on our homes and products from coast to coast we get to meet and listen to your wants and needs.
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Presentation is everything, especially in new home sales. Often, a consumer's decision to purchase is based solely on the model homes they're shown. Working from your budget, The Lifestylist Brands will identify your target market, establish a buyer profile and create engaging and original interiors for projects as small as a room remodel to an entire model home or clubhouse.
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