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Prem 1: Turnford 75 Team Bath 63
EDITORS NOTE: More often than not I try to headline these posts with some witty or clever words. But as I thought about this week's Prem 1 match up against Team Bath I realised there was no need for it. This match was all about working for the team. Every single player battled from end to end. They lived our ethos (W.I.N – Work Hard with Intensity and Never give up) and it paid off. With a number of Turnford Juniors in the crowd this team showed what role models they are.
Match Report
Turnford hosted Team Bath in their recent Prem League fixture, with much was at stake. Team Bath are fighting the relegation zone where a win would help make them safe and Turnford knew if they were to win this fixture they would be secure for another season in Prem 1, with 3 games to go. Turnford, missing Joseph through Superleague, had the opportunity to include youngsters Satwick and Hatley in the squad.
Having lost in their last meeting (a very poor first quarter left a mountain too big to climb, despite an amazing second half come back) Turnford were keen to right this wrong. However, a slow start out of the blocks saw Turnford trailing 2-5 within the first few minutes. As the squad began to wake, so did the score line and fantastic defensive pressure in the back third by Skinsley, Everitt and Davis enabled Turnford to win ball and claw back to 8-8. Turnford began to show more diligence in the attack and goal machine Fisher pushed on the score taking it to 14-12. The quarter then went goal for goal in what was set for a fierce game with both shooters exceling for their teams. Quarter score 17-16.
Some quarter time changes saw the introduction of Gulvin and her injection of pace in the attacking third saw an easier delivery of ball to the shooters. Again though, some connection errors saw Team Bath creep back onto the scoreboard. Applied pressure from the Turnford defensive unit – Skinsley, Everitt, Davies and Titmuss – forced errors in Team Bath's attacking combination, allowing us to win turnover ball. A mid quarter change of Dwyer and Fisher saw Turnford score the next 5 goals with some excellent long range feeding from Dwyer who was sending precision passes to Fisher. Quarter score 17-14
Turnford began to find their stride in the third quarter. Good defensive pressure on the centre pass from Titmuss, Gulvin and Everitt saw Team Bath struggle to get first phase out as Turnford punished them for their errors working the ball fluidly to the shooters. Sims, Gulvin and Dwyer had eagle-eyed vision for Fisher and would send her the ball from anywhere, Fisher displayed great strength in the circle plucking the ball from the air and gifting Turnford with more goals. Turnford had several runs of 3 and 4 goals, which saw them extend their lead winning the quarter 19-14.
As the teams entered the last quarter it was Team Bath who started quicker, taking the score line to within 4. A rattled Turnford began to take more care of the ball, patiently working the ball to Fisher. Turnford regained their composure and a flutter of goals saw them push on their lead. An unsettled Team Bath began to make errors and Turnford, having improved from last week recognised the time to push on, scoring 7 goals in succession. This was a high scoring quarter with both attacking units doing their best for their teams. An exceptionally high quarter score still saw Turnford out on top 22-19.
Final Score 75-63
Coach Dannii Titmuss said: "We are delighted with another win. Scoring 75 goals in a game is incredibly impressive, and shows the class of Fisher who scored 74 of them. Credit to Team Bath shooter Chelsea Lewis, who was also outstanding in her accuracy – if you'd scored 63 in a game you would expect to win. I thought our young defensive pairing of Skinsley and Everitt played beyond their years and did an outstanding job to limit the opportunities Lewis could get."
Titmuss Continued: "It's fantastic to see this Turnford squad build on their performance each week. Although I would like us to be quicker to settle into quarters and build an earlier lead, the team is blending together well and we were happy to win every quarter. I was particularly impressed this week how we were able to push on when we gained our lead, as this has been a focus of ours. We have three games left and although we are now safe, we are hungry for more and want to continue our roll of good netball. We travel to Oaksway next week and are excited for the fixture, where we will once again be working for the 5 points."
Player of the Match: Bea Skinsley & Zara Everitt
Turnford Squad: Ann-Marie Dwyer, George Fisher, Holly Sims, Emily Gulvin, Georgia Satwick, Kat Titmuss, Sarah Davis, Aimee Hatley, Zara Everitt, Bea Skinsley.
Coaches: Dannii Titmuss & Ann-Marie Dwyer

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Xiaomi mobile launched two full metal products today: Redmi Note 3 and Xiaomi Mipad 2 today. Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 is the first fingerprint sensor mobile phone of Xiaomi.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 is updated from Redmi Note 2 which uses full metal fuselage, adds fingerprint identification and upgrade to a 4000mah large capacity battery at the same time.
Like most metal body cell phones, in order to avoid all metal body impact signal, Redmi Note 3 uses the three-step design. Besides, it offers white, grey and gold three colors. The fingerprint sensor is on the back shell below the camera.
As to other specifications, Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 remains the same as Redmi Note 2: MT6795 octa core processor, 2GB / 3GB RAM, 16GB / 32GB ROM, 5.5 inch FHD screen, Android 5.0 OS and 5.0MP + 13MP dual cameras.
When comes to the price, the 2GB/16GB Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 costs 140 USD, while the 3GB/32GB version is 171USD.


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"The wealth of the Orthodox Calendar, with its inspiring commemorations, is so great that on any day one can begin the holy task which St. Herman gave to us as a testament to Orthodoxy on this continent—'From this day, from this hour, from this minute let us strive to love God above all.' May every day be for us such a beginning!"
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The Orthodox Faith, which St. Herman brought from Holy Russia to the American continent, is one that cannot simply be taken for granted. It must be lived and kept ever fresh by drawing continually from the living sources of Orthodoxy. The Church's Calendar, as the record of these sources, indicates the daily commemorations and Scripture readings which nourish the genuine Christian life.
Every day there are commemorations of the God-pleasers who have preceded us—prophets, apostles, martyrs—so that their name and example will give us courage and fervency in our Orthodox confession and life. Readings are appointed from Holy Scripture to prepare one daily with instruction from God's word. Likewise, the regular cycles of feast and fast are presented so that the individual Christian can integrate his life with the whole plan which the Church sets before us.
Each annual issue of THE ST. HERMAN CALENDAR features a unique theme of sanctity offered as an inspiration to Christians struggling in the modern world. Themes in the past have included: Saints of America—Bicentennial of Orthodoxy in America, Newly Canonized Romanian Saints, Orthodox Women Writers, and The Acquisition of the Holy Spirit. Each feature includes brief biographies, rare photographs and inspiring iconography.
THE ST. HERMAN CALENDAR features dates according to the Orthodox (Julian or "Old") Calendar, with corresponding civil dates. It is a complete Calendar of Orthodox saints, Scripture readings, and fasting guidelines for every day of the year, together with a listing of uncanonized righteous ones of recent centuries.
The Orthodox (Julian, or "Old") Calendar, with corresponding civil dates. A complete Calendar of Orthodox saints, Scripture readings, and fasting guidelines for every day of the year, together with a listing of uncanonized righteous ones of recent centuries.
The 2019 St. Herman Calendar is dedicated to the history of the Orthodox Church of Sinai, the smallest of the autonomous Orthodox Churches, based in the Monastery of St. Catherine in the southern part of the Sinai Peninsula. Home to Orthodox Christians for over 1500 years, Sinai has had a connection to the history of man's salvation extending back to God's appearance to the Prophet Moses in the Burning Bush. The still-functioning St. Catherine Monastery survived the early Muslim conquests as well as the events of the politically unstable recent past, and houses many treasures, including rare icons and manuscripts.
Also included in this year's Calendar are brief biographies and icons of some of the saints whose lives were connected with Mount Sinai or with the St. Catherine Monastery.
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Shine in the love of God's grace, every day.
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September 15, 2019
Sermon: Pray for Wonder
Scripture: Psalm 19
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Just as Jesus taught in the Beatitudes, our mission is not just to love one another but to spread the love of the Gospels, rejoice and be glad in the mission and ministry.
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Category Archives: Landscape
Places where I would like to be – Yosemite and the Canadian Rockies!
Some friends' recent holiday to the Canadian Rockies and our trip a few years ago to Yosemite have inspired me to try to paint a few mountain scenes.
Using their, and my own photos, from these trips here are just 3 watercolours of those places.
Our trip to Yosemite was amazing, such scale and grandeur is hard to beat. and our friends photos of their Canadian trip reminds me that the West of Canada is still on our "bucket list"
I hope you enjoy this short post , I found producing these paintings a lot of fun, and maybe a visit one day? Lets hope so.
Happy travelling
A visit to Rye
We ar going to Rye this week to visit some good friends so I thought a quick post of two recent Rye watercolours would be a good idea.
Rye in East Sussex is a great little town, once a smugglers haunt and one of the most picturesque places of the south coast of England
Here are the watercolours
10 days on the Cote d'Azur
This summer in the UK is proving to be hot and sunny which is great, but before this latest heat wave we were lucky enough to spend 10 days once again in the South of France on the Cote d'Azur.
There the weather too was hot and sunny and the food and wine up to all the usual great standards.
It gave me a chance for quite a lot of watercolour paintings of the area, almost one per day, some from my photos and some from memory too.
I was just trying to capture the light and the summer warmth in that wonderful part of France.
I hope you will enjoy them and of course if you can spend time there do try too one day, you won't be disappointed.
In the hills not to far away from us is the unspoilt town of Seillans. These two sketches are of the little streets in this very hilly town.
Seillans in Provence . Watercolour 9 by 7
In the summer the Coast is beautiful and the view from the Esterel Coast road across the Iles de Lerin always fascinates me. Here is that view. This road is one of the finest scenic coastal drives in the world!
Occasionally you come across a bay with some fishing boats, an all too rare sight these days so here are a couple of interpretations of those scenes.
Sunsets can be amazing, here is quick watercolour of one.
When you drive around Provence the umbrella pine trees seem to pop up everywhere. This is a painting from memory of some not too far from the Coast.
Happy travelling
Happy New Year! – A week in Provence and the Cote d'Azur
Happy New Year everybody.
This year we spent New Year and the week around it at Mandelieu on the Cote d'Azur.
Although cold at night the days were warm in the sun and the delight at being to eat lunch outside, or even at restaurants on the beach in January is great.
I had set a goal of painting a watercolour every day but didn't quite manage that but here are the five that I did complete in the week.
We didn't visit all these places and some scenes are from photos, the web and our previous travels but some are the scenes just as they were last week.
Firstly two paintings of lavender fields in Provence.
One of the most striking things about the area around Mandelieu and Tanneron are the hillsides that are covered in early spring by Mimosa trees in bloom. The fantastic bright yellow flowers are such a great sight so early in the year. Last week around Tanneron especially there were many trees in bloom.
This painting with lots of artistic licence tries to depict a village in the hills with the Mimosa trees in flower.
The road from Cannes to St Raphael is one of the great coastal routes of the World. Do drive along it if you get the chance. With such nice lunchtime weather eating our lunch outside at Agay and Theoule was great fun. At Theoule we sat right by the waters edge at the Marco Polo Restaurant enjoying fresh Turbot in the sunshine.
This was the view of the Ice de St Honorat, (albeit a little bit enlarged!)
Quite nearby is the town of Vence, often famous for its sister town St Paul de Vence. However over the past few years much work has been done to the centre of the Old Town of Vence and it is now a lovely place for a stroll. There is a fine , but small Cathedral and quite a few restaurants and cafes to enjoy too.
This painting is of the a square in the Old Town which I hope you will enjoy.
It was a great week in the area and so nice to enjoy some winter sunshine, excellent restaurant food, great wines and good company.
All the best for 2017
Happy travelling
PS. Some of these watercolours will be soon be for sale on http://www.Artfinder.com. (search for brianswatercolours)
Scotney Castle, a beautiful spot in Kent
Hi Everybody
Last week we had the pleasure of a visit from some very good friends from the USA. It was an opportunity to explore some places in the South East of England that they hadn't visited before.
One of these was Scotney Castle, today a National Trust property quite near to us in the heart of Kent.
It has a fine Victorian house which itself it well worth visiting as it was lived in by the former owner until 2006 and has all the furnishings and items as it was at that time, a time capsule of two hundred years worth of the family's history.
However the other jewel of Scotney Castle is the ruined castle situated on a small island in the middle of the lake at the heart of the estate. In spring the walk to the Castle and the surrounding area is bursting with Azaleas and Rhododendron bushes of all colours and fine perennial plants and trees.
It is painter's paradise and has been the subject of my watercolours before.
This visit revealed some new aspects to me and so this watercolour shows both the Castle by the lake and the Victorian House on the hill above.
The second painting from last year shows another aspect of the Castle in spring time.
If you are in Kent do visit Scotney, it is a truly beautiful place.
I hope you enjoy this short post.
Happy Travelling!
More Painting in The South of France
Hi Everybody
Painting in the South of France is such a delight!
We had been in Normandy recently but last week we were back in Provence staying on the Cote d'Azur.
The weather was spectacular, hot as the middle of summer, the skies blue, and the sea a shimmering Azur.
So time for some painting!
I wanted to finish a sketch of Honfleur I had started in Normandy but with a Regatta theme.
Painting watercolours in the lovely heat of Provence means working very quickly as the watercolours dry so quickly!
If you are on the Cote d'Azur then lunch on the Quai at Villefranche is a great way to start a holiday.
Sitting in the sun at one of the restaurants by the quay is such a lovely experience. We really like "TRASTEVERE", where the staff are great and the food excellent.
This painting, from a photo taken that day serves as reminder of that lunch! By the Quai is the little Church decorated inside by Jean Cocteau, do spend some time there as it is a quite remarkable.
In quiet moments I can sit and paint from reference photos and memories of other visits. This time was no exception and these three paintings come under that category.
The little farm houses and the hills and fields of Provence are a constant inspiration in the bright and clear light of the landscape.
Here are two paintings of the Lavender and Vines of Haut Provence and one of the Iles d'Or, a tiny island with castle tower between Agay and St Raphael on the Esterel peninsula.
This week we had some friends staying with us and so we all took the ferry from St Maxime to St Tropez. The bustle of the main port and the huge yachts and boats is so contrasted by the calm as you walk round the corner to Porte de Peche and the view from the Tour Portalet, which is just at the Harbour.
There are some good places to eat at "Le Ponche", just 100 yards from the main harbour and the little port is delightful. Try the omelettes at "Le PeS Quiere", really good!
I love to paint this scene, so as well as the view from Tour Portalet I have included a previous painting of The Porte de Peche too. I hope you enjoy them and visit this quieter part of St. Tropez.
Breakfast in the Sun!
Hi Everbody
Readers of this blog will know how much we like to spend time in Mandelieu, near Cannes on the Cote d'Azur
The past couple of weeks there have, as always, been great and warm enough to sit outside on our terrace and eat our breakfasts and lunches. How nice to do this in April!
Visits there always give me some time for painting watercolours, either on the spot,or from new photos from our daily jaunts or from reference photos from the past few years.
This holiday was no exception and so here are the paintings that I managed to do on this trip.
Nearby to us is the hill top town of Cagnes and close by is the former home of Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Renoir lived and worked there in the 19th and 20th centuries until his death in 1919. It is lovely place to visit and there is real sense of his love of the house and it's gardens and views. There are number of his paintings and sculptures on display and many photos too.
This painting is the view from the bedroom of Alice Renoir, his wife, looking across to Cagnes.
This watercolour is 14″ by 10″ on Arches rough paper. All these paintings are this size as I use an Arches glued edge pad when travelling mostly.
As we travel into the hills and mountains of Provence there are many rural scenes that I love to paint. Usually they are a mixture of reality and composites of several photos and these two watercolours fall into that category.
Really nearby us is the seaside town of Mandelieu – La Napoule. It has large marina with many yachts and boats moored there of all sizes. From the marina there is a good view of The Castle, which today is an art gallery and a nice place to visit.
From nearby Theoule there are fine views across to Cannes and the Iles de Lerin. The second of these, St Honorat is seen in this painting , painted from a zoomed photo of the island, taken from Theoule.
Further East of Cannes is Antibes. I love to paint at Antibes and this particular painting is of the large Fortress which guards the harbour, Fort Carré, with some of the many moored yachts in the harbour.
Its seems that we often take the ferry from St Maxime to St Tropez for lunch, and a wander round the old part of the town. I love to paint the small unspoilt harbour at le Ponche, Port de Pêche, and our recent trip was no exception to this. So here is another view of Port de Pêche, just a few minutes walk from the bustling and glitzy harbour on the main front at St Tropez.
I hope you enjoy these paintings from the land of warm sun and beautiful scenery, it is such a nice place to be!
Happy travelling and Painting!
March in the Peloppones : Golf, Painting, Food and Friends!
Hi Everybody,
Each year we are fortunate to travel overseas for a great golfing week with some wonderful friends.
Over the years we have golfed in South Africa, San Diego, Mauritius, France, New Zeeland and Portugal, and every time we have great fun.
This year was no exception and our golfing group met at the Costa Navarino Resort in the Peloponnese region of Messenia in Greece.
Ian Goldleman who runs Pro Golfing Tours ( www.progolfingtours.com ) creates our trips which include excellent tuition and lots of golf.
The weather this year was a little mixed but we all had great time. Many thanks to Ian for organising everything and Bruce Framer who came along to help us with our golf tuition. Sadly Lynnette Brooky could not be along this year but we look forward to seeing her another time.
I won't bore you all with the golf outcomes as this is a travel and painting blog after all, however the resort was very nice in a lovely area of Greece. Located near Pylos in the south western end of the Peloppones, it is about 4 hours drive from Athens, and about an hour from Kalamata.
We managed some sightseeing and visits to some ancient monuments in the area too, principally Olympia, Methoni and Messene. Olympia was very atmospheric and really enhanced by the lovely wild spring flowers.
There are also some very good restaurants around the area and two were really outstanding. In Pylos there is the Taverna O'Koukos, and in Gialova, La Cucina Italiana. Two quite different restaurants but both really very good!
O'Koukos was absolutely splendid and the food prepared and organised by Kosta and his mother Maria was delicious, and served by the terrific Roland! If you are ever in this area do go along there as it is such a treat!
Like all our holidays I took the opportunity to take along the watercolours and managed to complete some pictures, which I am delighted to say our group have now taken home with them!
However I always keep a photo record so here are some of my weeks watercolours.
Nearby to Navarino Bay is the extraordinary beach at Voidokilia, here painted from an aerial photo and below from photos taken by me on the beach itself. It is an amazing sight and the clear waters are popular in the summer. No swimming in March though!
South of Pylos there is the quet little town of Methoni. Once an important Venetian port and the scene of many battles. Methoni Castle is vast and at the seaward end has small castle on an island, which can easily be visited. From there the view across to the island of Sapientza gave me a nice back drop for the painting.
Navaroni Bay is protected by the Island of Sphacteria and a string of smaller islands. They can be seen from all over the area but the view from Pylos castle is the one I have used here for this painting. In the summer I believe there are boat trips from the harbour to the islands which I am sure would be great.
Pylos is a very nice little town with a bustling central square and many restaurants. However do not miss going to O'Koukos restaurant at the northern approach to the centre of the town.
Of course our main aim of being at Navarino Bay was to play golf. The Bay Golf Course has many great views of the area and below is just one . Again the islands and Pylos are in the painting but this time from the fairway of the 2nd hole on the Bay Course.
I have come back with so many more photos that I hope to paint of this lovely and interesting area of Greece but they will have to be for another post.
I hope you enjoy this one and if you have been or plan to be in this area maybe they will serve as reminder of the lovely area and it's very friendly people.
Happy travelling, (and golfing!)
Kent, the "Garden of England"
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Hi everybody
Regular readers of this blog will know how much we love the south of France, and I seem to post about that area quite a bit.
But this week driving around our native Kent I was reminded how beautiful the countryside is right here , just on our doorstep.
We are lucky to live in this lovely part of the UK with it's green fields, Oast houses, Castles and Gardens.
With the weather being cold I have been painting some local scenes from photos and looking back at some paintings from the past year or two and so I thought it was about time I shared a little bit of Kent with you all.
Quite nearby we have several fine National Trust properties. Two in particular, Sissinghurst Castle and gardens, and Scotney Castle have exceptional gardens. Each has unique features but they fit in so well to the lovely countryside around them.
Kent has been known as the Garden of England since Tudor times I believe, and it remains a County that produces a lot of soft fruit, apples, pears, cherries and vegetables. The Spring blossom is spectacular but that is for another day.
These watercolours try to capture a little of the beauty of the area. Scotney with its collections of Azaleas, and Sissinghust famous for it's gardens and colour.
I hope you like these watercolours and enjoy this quick "visit" to Kent.
Happy travelling and painting!
New Year on the Cote d'Azur
Hi Everybody,
We were very fortunate this year to spend New Year in Mandelieu, on the Cote d'Azur. As you all know we really enjoy this lovely part of France.
The weather was really lovely, sunny enough to eat lunch on the terrace and play golf and paint in the sun.
Especially nice too, as our Grandaughter, aged 2, and her parents were with us which inspired one of the paintings. A quick dig on a lovely sandy beach is something for any time on the year!
We didn't actually visit Haut Provence this time but I managed to paint a couple of watercolours from older reference photos.
I hope you enjoy these new paintings and that if you know this part of the world it will remind you of it's beauty ,or if you haven't yet visited this lovely coast and mountain region get it on your list!
Happy painting, and travelling to you all and may 2015 be a good year!
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The July Fourth Parade Committee is hosting the
Second Annual "One Road to $5000″ shindig at the Post. Squantumites were on the edge of their seats last year waiting to see who would win the $5000 jackpot!
Who will it be this year? Could be you! Mark your calendars and get your tickets now, only 150 tickets will be sold.
One Road Leads to $5,000
A fundraiser for the July Fourth Parade
Saturday, March 28, 2015, 7p.m.
Nickerson Post, 20 Moon Island Road, Squantum, MA
$100, includes two guests, two drink tickets, buffet, DJ & prizes
(buyer does not have to be present to win)
Only 150 tickets will be sold
Last number called wins $5,000!
To purchase tickets, call:
- Brad Douglas 617-360-1976
- Doreen Douglas: 617-360-1975
- Carolyn Freeman 617-347-0410
- Sue Gillespie 617-750-2660
- Paula Glynn 617-834-9996
Tickets are also available at the Nickerson Post prior to event.
About the July Fourth Parade Committee
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The city department that ferrets out unpaid fines for such provincial offences as speeding, illegal parking and public drunkenness had such an "exceptional year" in 2016 that local municipalities shared $2 million.
Ramped-up fine collecting nets local municipalities $2 million
The city department that ferrets out unpaid fines for such provincial offences as speeding, illegal parking and public drunkenness had such an "exceptional year" in 2016 that local municipalities shared $2 million.
That's $400,000 more in net profit for the Provincial Offences division than the previous year. Manager Andrew Daher attributes the 25 per cent increase to ramped up efforts by staff to aggressively pursue people with thousands of dollars worth of delinquent fines, and new legislation that expands the kinds of outstanding fines that trigger people being refused driver's licences and plates until they pay up.
"We just had a fantastic year," said Daher, whose 2016 annual report will be headed to city council June 19. The net profit — after expenses — is shared among Windsor and Essex County towns based on the total assessed value of properties in each municipality. That means Windsor received more than $1 million, or 52 per cent of the total.
"The more we collect, the less of a burden it is on the Windsor taxpayer because this goes towards the operating budget," Daher explained. He said there is currently $42 million in unpaid fines owed by people in Windsor and Essex County, and $1.6 billion across the province.
Much of that $42 million is tough to find. The majority of unpaid fines have been outstanding for a decade or more. Some are owed by corporations that are no longer in business, individuals who can't be found, individuals who have died, or people living out of the country. Even when you find them, some people may be unemployed and unable to pay, said Daher, adding that payment plans can be arranged.
To collect unpaid fines, the division can garnishee wages, add fines to property taxes or place a writ of seizure on the person's property. It can also use collection agencies, which provide the division with 100 per cent of what's owed plus charge the debtor a percentage on top. The majority of fines are for Highway Traffic Act infractions like speeding, distracted driving and having no insurance. But they can also come from charges laid by such provincial ministries as labour, transportation and environment.
"It's a multitude of fines," Daher said.
The Provincial Offences Division, part of the city's legal department, became a city operation when the provincial government downloaded it in 2001. In addition to collecting fines, the department also runs three provincial offences courts where justices of the peace hear non-criminal cases in the Westcourt Building at 251 Goyeau St. Last year, there were a total of 28,856 provincial offences charges laid locally.
Before expenses, the division took in $6.3 million in revenue last year, including provincial fines paid on time.
"There is room (to collect even more) because there's $42 million out there," Daher said. "I don't think this year we're going to increase it $400,000 again, but we're going in the right direction."


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We woke to nice temperatures again this morning. We have been sleeping with the windows open and the a/c off. It's nice to listen to the nighttime sounds-except for the train horns!
We were supposed to have helped with opening the covers over the weevil ponds that are behind our parking area but instead it was decided that we needed to add more water to the holding tanks that water the weevils. These weevils eat the Giant Salvinia plants in the lake but the treatment is still under study, so there is a new graduate of LSU that lives here and monitors the weevils. It took much of the morning to get a fire truck loaded with water due to mechanical difficulties but we finally were able to get it done.
We went into Marshall and got some propane tanks refilled. I knew that the refuge would pay for our tanks to be refilled but last week when we ran out of propane, there was no one here with a credit card, so I had to pay for our refills. The propane up here is cheaper than we've been paying, so it was still worth it to have them filled at our expense because we were completely out of propane and we were out of gas, so no heat and no using the oven or stove to cook.
We also went to the Lowe store and bought some supplies for other projects and went to another building supply center to get prices on some lumber for a project that Todd and I will work on next week.
We went to lunch with several of the refuge employees at the China Buffet. The food wasn't bad, but it wasn't the best we've had either. The food didn't have a lot of taste and we won't go back there. We were all very full when we got back and I think everyone went home and napped for the afternoon. I know Stella and I did!
So long.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
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The Problem With Heartache, the third book in my Crazy in Love series, is—you guessed it—about the healing of a broken heart. In the first book in the series, The Problem With Crazy, eighteen-year-old Kate loses someone she loves dearly, and that loss has stayed with her for the past six months. Her life has turned from colour to grey scale; she's not living, not feeling, simply floating, eating, breathing and running. Running so hard and so fast, just so she can get some sleep.
It's hard to write about loss, and I couldn't imagine doing so if I hadn't lost someone myself. When I was eighteen, my father passed away, and while this didn't happen to Kate in The Problem With Crazy, I used that experience as a direct comparison, and I think it helps. Let's be honest: there's not a person reading this who hasn't lost someone in their lives, and that common grief, that shared ache that is a physical pain, not just a mental one, it can change who we are. For better or for worse.
How you deal with grief and move forward can shape you as a person for the rest of your life, and while Kate, my lead character, didn't deal quite so well at first, she soon rises to the challenge. She fights, and she fights hard, because she realises that she wants to feel again. And sometimes that numbness has to be released.
The Problem With Heartache is about love, loss and learning that moving forward doesn't have to mean letting go.
About Lauren McKellar
Lauren K. McKellar is an author and editor. Her debut novel, Finding Home, was released through Escape Publishing on October 1, 2013, and her second release, NA Contemporary Romance The Problem With Crazy, is self-published, and is available now. She loves books that evoke emotion, and hope hers make you feel.
Lauren lives by the beach in Australia with her husband and their two dogs. Most of the time, all three of them are well behaved.
You can connect with Lauren via: Website | Facebook | Twitter
About The Problem With Heartache
The problem with heartache is that there's no one-size-fits-all relief package. You can go to classes; you can try to embrace change. But when you wake up at two in the morning, a smile on your face because you've dreamt about the could have—the should have—nothing will console you.
Because seconds later, you remember.
And remembering can rip you apart.
Kate will do anything for her family. It's why she took the job with Lee. It's why she's attempting to forget her pain. But it's hard to forget, when you're desperate to hold on. Even if Lee Collins is the perfect package.
Lee will do anything for the ones he cares about. It's why he hired Kate.
It's why he keeps his secrets; and it's why he cannot, will not fall in love. Not with Kate—not with anyone.
The one thing he can't forgive.
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'KALEIDOSCOPE: A moment Of Grace' is Modern Art Oxford's series of evolving exhibitions to celebrate their 50th anniversary. Part if this exhibition is a sound installation, containing approximately 4000 cassette tapes from family, friends, record stores and the Internet. Ranging from commercially sold audiobooks, popular music, independent labels, mixtapes, and home recordings, they have been cut and spliced together to create 52 reels, holding approximately 40 hours of sound and music each. These reels exist as mixes, combinations of various sounds by a number of authors that play constantly during the museum's opening hours, corresponding to a cycle of human consistency. The work hinges on the presence of a listener yet the exhibition itself represents only a partial span of its length with the same sound never played twice.
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Ethnography and Care-full Description (Fall 2015 - Winter 2016)
Traditionally, sociocultural anthropology as an academic field has relied on ethnographic methods to understand, translate and explain the customs, practices and infrastructures of different cultures. These methods include participant observation, structured and semi-structured interviews, "thick" description and the production of a canonical text that links the experience of fieldwork with theories of social interaction, subjectivity, political and economic systems, and historical narrative.
In order to use this methodology, social scientists need to learn how to listen to and observe the complexities and contradictions of social life. Whether it is listening to the words others share with us during interviews and conversations (and to the questions they pose us), or observing the practices people engage in, or participating in rituals, ethnographic methods allow us to gather data that can lead to a careful description.
ANT 298 | Alternating Wednesdays 2:00-5:00 p.m. | SSH 273 | Flyer
Fall 2015 (CRN 42211): October 7, 21 / November 4, 18 / December 2 | Syllabus
Winter 2016 (CRN 12315): January 13, 27 / February 10, 24 / March 9 | Syllabus
Winter 2016 Blog
1. Traces and Clues as Ethnographic Sites with Cristiana Giordano
January 13, 2016
To begin the Ethnography and Care-full Description pro-seminar for winter quarter we engaged with the idea of clues and traces as sites of ethnographic inquiry. In this workshop, we focused on interrogating how clues and traces - or maybe more succinctly we must call them "leads into something"- can be and are at the same time a technology of ethnography and an object of research of ethnography. In this way, the concepts of clues and traces lured us into a reflection on ethnography as a method and a theory, and more particularly into recognition of what we may suggest is an ethnographic mode of attention. The main purpose of the workshop was to have students challenge their own researches through these concepts, and to explore the openness that it entailed. How can we use the idea of clues and traces as tools to approach our research? Where can think about clues and traces lead us to?
During the workshop, we firstly explored the physical space of our classroom by carefully extending our awareness of the material clues and traces there. While walking around the room, each one of us probed the different physical properties of the classroom--tactile, visual, and auditory--calling out our discoveries as we made them. Then, standing in a circle, we employed our bodies to demonstrate the physical properties of the different objects we had found in the room to the other members of the class by miming the process of carrying these objects across the circle. After this, we broke into pairs where we introduced ourselves and our research to a partner, who then introduced us, and their own versions of our research, to the entire group.
Finally, we broke into different sets of pairs and each of us presented a written piece on significant material clues and traces we have discovered in our fieldwork to our partner. After these clues and traces were related to the class by the partner, we then engaged in a class discussion and workshopping on our particular experiences trying to use these ideas on our own research.
2. The Pragmatics of Listening (as a Methodology) with Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas
January 27, 2016
Exercise: Consume various forms of mediated voice and sound – looking for new points of entry or ways of rethinking our own listening practices. We collectively heard a Tom Waits track "What's he building in there?", discussing aurality as a particular sensing mode haunted by a specter of not knowing. We later watched a scene from The Big Lebowski, listening for modes of address and subject-positioning through intonation and indications word choice and cadence.
This week explored the study of language grounded to cultural contexts, learning to take time to recognize coded positionalities and patterns past the immediate surface of what is said by ethnographic interlocutors. Via Marsilli-Vargas, we discussed the discerning of affect in social relations, nonverbal social acknowledgements, listening as a cognitive mode of attention, and recognizing constraints. We also dwelled in a discussion of semiotics, tying our discussion of sounds and speech to referents, signs, signifiers, etc – noting the physics in the near universal drive in humans to "assign meaning" in some shape or form.
We concluded this workshop by presenting some of our own transcripts/audio clips to Marsilli-Vargas – using the tools and methods discussed to analyze ethnographic work already undertaken. The relationship between performing different modes of listening, and enacting different genres of presence (anthropological listening versus psychoanalytic listening, for example) were brought to bear in the styles of our own modes of inquiry. The class was left with a query to think through our own research/data moving forward – how can we cultivate productive and variously attentive modes of listening for our subjects?
3. Affects as Method with Jiwon Chung
February 10, 2016
For our workshop on Affects as Method, we worked closely with Jiwon Chung, a professional actor, directory, and key theorist of the Theatre of the Oppressed. Jiwon led us through a number of exercises that explored issues of partnership and trust as well as power and domination and our own personal affective responses that resulted from these exercises.
To begin, we each walked in our own paths around the classroom, and when Jiwon told us to freeze we would try to reach out and touch as may fellow workshop members as possible—2, 3, 4, or even more. In the next step, we modified this activity by reaching out to touch a person who fit a certain category—e.g. most likely to be able to fix a car, or most scary when angry—based on our affective impressions of the other members of the workshop.
After these initial warm-ups, we began engaging in partner exercises, exercises which it quickly became clear elicited strong affective responses in us as participants. In each exercise there was a "leader" and a "follower," with the roles alternating between partners. In the first, the leader held her palm about 6 inches in front of the follower's face, while the follower was instructed to follow this palm no matter where it might go. As leaders discovered that they could lead their follower just about anywhere in the classroom, followers found themselves often engaged in strenuous activity just to follow their partner's hand.
Afterwards we each struck a pose and a single word that reflected our affective response to the exercise, and the range of reactions was remarkable. While many leaders chose poses and words that emphasized power, freedom, and fun, some followers adopted poses that suggested affects of domination, subjection, or "being led around like a dog." Continuing to reverse follower/leader roles in every activity, we explored a number of similar exercises—several of which relied explicitly on trust of one's partner. In one exercise, followers closed their eyes and walked around the room guided by nothing but the sound of their partner calling their names—all the while trusting their partners to prevent them walking into any obstacles or other participants. In another, followers "danced" with their eyes closed to the different vocal sounds their partner made for them. As with the first exercise, we found that each of these elicited extremely powerful affective responses in many of the workshop members.
Finally, we ended the session by sitting in a circle and having participants come to the center and tell a story to the rest of the group. After completing their story, the person in the center would listen as everyone around the circle repeated words and phrases that they had found particularly striking in the story—all the while highlighting the affective features of the story.
4. Choice[MAKING]: Distilling [LIFE] into Performance with Krista DeNio
February 24, 2016
This workshop explored how theatrical devising techniques could be used by ethnographers when working with field-notes collected during research. Before the workshop, participants were asked to choose three passages from our field-notes that captured our attention, and "free-write" for five minutes on each. These would form the basis of our explorations in class.
During the workshop itself, Krista DeNio, a theatre director, choreographer and performer, led participants through a series of exercises. We warmed up by exploring the space and the objects around us. We were encouraged to play and experiment with what we found, and create scenes out of how we positioned objects and our bodies. This was to become the basis for devising "moments" – short scenes where a stage is created for a theatrical event. These moments forced us to decentre our usual preoccupations with text. Instead we had to create narratives through something as apparently simple as the positioning of objects.
After some time experimenting in this way, we began to add our field-notes and writing into the process. We discussed in pairs the writing that we had brought to class and were asked to pick out significant images, sounds and movements. From these components we began to make moments, reassembling and re-enacting our fieldwork. To finish the workshop we collectively reflected on these moments and were able to generate many novel connections through this process, allowing us to engage our field-notes in creative new ways.
5. Curational Work with Tarek Elhaik
March 9, 2016
For this workshop, we prepared by reading a conversation between Tarek Elhaik and George Marcus on the poetics and politics of ethnography, along with some of Elhaik's new book The Incurable-Image: Curating Post-Mexican Film and Media Arts. During the workshop, Elhaik showed us a series of clips from films using the icon of the maguey plant in Mexico. The juxtaposition of these images demonstrated Elhaik's method of curational practice and opened the discussion about montage, juxtaposition, curation, and ethnography. Regarding curation as practice, Elhaik asked, "Is curatorial work a translation of ethnographic encounters? Or something else?"
Elhaik talked about how iteration produces certain kinds of differences and his inspiration from Deleuze's distinction between diversity and difference. Diversity is in relation to extensions of things which have already been constituted and can be identified (representation). Difference, however, escapes repetition of the same. Elhaik then talked about how the practice of curation in fieldwork can help accomplish this. We discussed how the opposition of juxtaposition shows a form that endures (as in the incurable image), and show a sequences in which difference may or may not be produced. The "incurable" is one side of the image, while the "future," which may generate other ways of life, is the other side. In the cases where difference is produced, the practice of montage releases something that is the order of the future, like Deleuze's "non-symptomatic repetition."
We also discussed second order observations, as in curating curators' curating, and how such practices might play a part in our own projects through "affinity" with those we learn from in the field ("to speak nearby (adjacent), not to speak about"). Cristiana Giordano brought up the point that such affinity is not radical alterity, but that there can be moments of rupture in affinity, where it can turn harmful (and we talked about ruptures which can destroy relations with others at our fieldsites). Elhaik had us go around the room and explain our projects, and then we workshopped some of them, with Elhaik asking questions about how such curational inquiry could be useful in our work. We discussed that in many cases, fieldwork is possible because something has broken down and is in need of repair (or curation). He helped analyze our fieldsites for that breakdown which needs to be addressed by the creation of new concepts.
In relation to other students' projects, we talked about assemblages and how the mode that the elements have in a particular assemblage is different from how they act by themselves; assemblages can already be there when we enter the field, or we can create them. Elhaik offered some advice for how to place pieces of our work next to each other, like panels, which can create a resonance and a dissonance (not a comparison). We left the class with the task of continuing to consider the relation between ethnography, with its methods, and curational work, as a type of inquiry that is not "method," and how to engage in this practice in our work.
Fall 2015 Blog
How do we claim to understand the practices and infrastructures of the worlds around us? Are there ways to listen to and observe these worlds that reveal—rather than obscure—their complexities and contradictions?
Through readings, workshops, and guest lectures, the proseminar has explored different ethnographic methods, modes of paying attention, and the relation between methods and objects of inquiry. This fall, the proseminar focused on listening, sound, art, institutions, and the body as different kinds of methods (see below for descriptions of the first three topics and the questions these topics covered). The proseminar will continue in the winter with further emphasis on the body, language, traces, listening, and affect.
1. Listening: "What escapes it?"
Introductory exercise: Ask as many different people as you can how they are doing today. Ask it genuinely, and try to listen as attentively as possible. As you listen, pay attention to what it feels like. Is it easy to focus on their answer? What kind of answer do they give? What kind of answer do you hear? Who didn't you ask?
Our first workshop explored the ways in which our listening shapes what it is that we hear, and what it is that we tune out. Students raised their concerns that they sometimes don't "listen well" in the field, and wondered how tiredness, frustration, anxiety, and grief affect how one listens. One of the main foci of the workshop was to think about whether there are other ways to think about listening and being there beyond just "well." What happens when you think about your tiredness or sadness as a method of attention? What kinds of knowledge comes into view when you share your interlocutors' anxieties?
In particular, we focused on the ways in which listening and comprehension always take place through the bodies of both the listener and the speaker. Because bodies facilitate particular sets of relations, they also, in turn, facilitate particular genres of listening. Italo Calvino's short story A King Listens offers a poignant example of how relations—in this case, relations of power between a ruler and their subjects—simultaneously constrain and make possible certain kinds of listening. Calvino explores the ways in which categories of identity take on their own kinds of social lives. If we want to hear more than a ruler when we speak to a ruler, in other words, the category of "ruler" nevertheless continues to act on our relation with the ruler as social scientists.
The workshop concluded with students sharing their thoughts on the simultaneous productiveness and limitations of social categories. Rather than bemoan our inability to listen outside of categories, what would it look like to listen both inside and outside these categories? Can we listen without fixing them? Can we be co-thinkers with those we are listening too, even if they are rulers? Can we approach different genres of listening as opportunities to learn different kinds of things, and not just limitations?
In order to further explore the questions with which we ended our first meeting, the second workshop turned to the question of sound and the ways in which we as social scientists can pay better attention to the sounds that escape our listening.
2. Sound: "Is there supposed to be sound?"
Introductory exercise: Reflect on a sound that reminds you of Davis, or a sound that you recorded during your fieldwork. Attempt to locate, listen to, and absorb this particular sound or soundscape. Experiment with different forms of attention (and inattention). What sounds do you perceive when you are busy or distracted—typing, reading, or looking at your phone? What differences do you perceive when you look at your environment? If you are around people, how do their gestures influence your perception of their voices or the conversation? Listen to volume, rhythm, and cadence. Attempt to focus on different elements—foregrounding and backgrounding different sounds. Close your eyes and listen for a couple minutes.
Reflect on how different modes of attention influence your listening, perception, and experience.
These were the questions explored by Alexandra Lippman in her workshop on sound on October 21st. Currently a postdoctoral scholar at UC Davis' Science and Technology Studies program, Dr. Lippman's research explores how globalizing alternative intellectual property practices and technological changes impact creativity, access to knowledge, media, and music. Dr. Lippman's workshop shed light on what thinking through and with sound as an ethnographic method could contribute to social science research.
In particular, we focused on the ways in which sound—as a category—can be mobilized politically and epistemologically. In other words, how does what we hear, or what we don't hear, open up another way to think about space and politics? A key question for the seminar was how noise is different categorically than sound, or music, and how we—as social science researchers—both make and respond to the categories that differentiate noise from sound. At stake here for social science research is the fact that only some things are allowed to become recognizable or identifiable as something to pay attention to. Most things disappear into the background of noise. What would it take to foreground both noise and sound, as well as the categories we leverage to make sense of them, as a site of research, and not just the background to our research?
Dr. Lippman ended the workshop by training the participants how to use the Audacity application, an audio recorder and editor that allows users to upload, mix, and edit sounds. Students practiced using Audacity by weaving the sound recordings they had collected from around Davis and in their sites of research together and trying to produce a "Soundscape of Davis." Playing with sound and producing a soundscape in many ways mirrored what we do when we write an essay. Instead of words and texts, however, we thought with sound. Thinking with sound, we discovered, opens up new ways to think about and with a place. Sounds—noises, musical notes, rustles, car horns, creaks, etc.—reach our ears and act on us in unrecognizable ways. Though all sounds shape our experiences of different places, our bodies categorize them before we recognize how they shape us. We don't just listen with our ears, in other words, we also listen with our skin, our skeletons, our brains. Which sounds are worth paying attention to? Which are worth listening to? And which are worth trying to understand?
By intentionally tuning into the noises that so often slip through our attention, we were reminded of how little we actually pay attention to. Dr. Lippman's workshop helped us gain a little bit of that attention back. How, we concluded the workshop asking, can we tune into a situation/world/relation/encounter and listen to it through different senses?
For more details about how social scientists can engage with sound, please check out the Sound Ethnography Project, a project Dr. Lippman founded. An online collaboration where different social scientists experiment with engaging sound to produce novel ethnographic methods and forms, the project includes a list of sound ethnographies and a list of "sound elsewhere" of fantastic sound-based projects.
3. Art and Performance
Exercise: Imagine you had to present your work in an art gallery, or in a performance space. What would you choose to present on? What kinds of materials would you present with?
This was the question addressed by Fiamma Montezemolo's workshop on November 4th. Currently an associate professor of cinema and digital media at UC Davis' cinema and digital media program, Dr. Montezemolo is both an artist and cultural anthropologist. As an artist, she situates herself within the ethnographic turn in contemporary art which seeks to explore the ways in which art and art practices can be exceptionally ethnographic. As an ethnographer, she situates herself within the post- "Writing Culture" turn in contemporary anthropology, which seeks to question the extent to which the knowing anthropologist-subject can ever truly objectively know the ethnographic material-object.
In this workshop, we approached art as a way to pose these questions:
(1) How can art as an ethnographic method produce knowledge about a place, people, or thing in a way that can both speak to and exceed more traditional social science methodologies?
(2) How can art as a mode of knowledge production and relation to a world answer some of the questions about representation and objectivity that social scientists have been grappling with for decades?
Dr. Montezemolo began the seminar with an outline of her work, explaining that ethnographic research was complicated for her when her "fieldwork became life." Weaving information published in books like Tijuana Dreaming: Life and Art at the Global Border (2012) together with art produced both collaboratively and individually, Dr. Montezemolo illustrated for us the ways in which approaching art as research and research as art could open up opportunities for thinking differently. We did so by workshopping our projects through photos, installations, sound presentations, maps assemblages, and poetry; and experimenting with giving form to ethnographic materials. We asked ourselves about the kind of information we can present about our research using pictures, or drawings, or poems (as opposed to an essay, journal, or presentation)? How is this kind of information different?
5. Embodied Ethnography
How do our movements and gestures capture and contain a multitude of stories and worlds? How can we be attentive to and observant of this multitude? What questions can we ask as we observe, act, participate, and witness ourselves and each other? And what is it like to be observed deeply, even as we are also observing deeply?
These are the questions we explored during the fall quarter's final workshop. Facilitated by Jiwon Chung, a key theorist of Theater of the Oppressed and adjunct professor at Starr King School at the Graduate Theological Union, the workshop included a number of exercises and games typically used in Theater of the Oppressed, a collection of techniques that use the dynamized human body as a laboratory for exploring power and transforming oppression. For our purposes, Theater of the Oppressed helped us to explore methods of attention and observation—both of ourselves and of those around us.
By cultivating certain modes of attention, the workshop helped us to understand the depth and beauty that lie behind ordinary, everyday movements and gestures. Recognizing these takes not only training but also a kind of care. Comprehending the stories behind gestures and movements requires us to look with more than just our eyes. Rather than accuracy or objectivity, it requires intimacy and trust—methods that we can necessarily deploy at will. Rather, they are techniques of being that we must cultivate in our research.


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Because your patients and your hospitals need creative problem-solvers.
The health care system is broken. Burnout among clinicians is high, patients are frustrated, and health care costs are skyrocketing. It's easy to feel cynical when faced with problems that seem impossible to change. But having a designer's mindset can help you to see and create opportunities for innovation in health care. Our broken system needs a new generation of fixers who can apply creativity and human-centered design to improve health outcomes, reduce inefficiencies and improve the experiences for patients.
By learning from our expert group of designers and clinicians, you will gain an understanding of how to apply design thinking to solve problems in healthcare. You will learn about empathy, problem definition, ideation, rapid prototyping, and testing/iteration. After this two-day workshop, you will know the tips and tricks necessary to tackle problems using the mindset of a designer.
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Diving in Malta
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Learn to scuba dive in Malta, and experience crystal clear waters filled with reefs, caves and shipwrecks! Dive in safety with very few tides and little currents. Divers can expect to come across a wide variety of fauna and flora as well as stingrays, eels, octopi and many other sea creatures.
What makes diving in Malta so different is the opportunity to uncover historical submerged wrecks. For example The Imperial Eagle or Blenheim Bomber are within easy reach for divers.


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Office Hours :
Fridays 1:30 - 3:00 pm
Assistant Professor Yang Wei received his Ph.D. in Chinese History from Harvard University, and in 2014 was appointed as the Donahue Chair of East Asian History at UCCS. Dr. Wei will be teaching courses in East Asian History, including Early China, Modern China, Contemporary China, U.S.-East Asian Relations Since 1850 ,and Classical Chinese Thought.
Areas of Interest
Classical thought in early China to political history of the People's Republic of China with a focus on the late imperial period (the Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1911). My current research projects are situated at the intersection of intellectual history and social history, and I am intrigued by how ideas and social contexts inform one another.


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Our SC-23 workouts are super-effective HIIT sessions combining strength and cardio exercises in quick succession to really test and build your power. There are four stations to conquer; each station involves a high-speed cardio exercise with a powerful strength exercise. The workout sets you a real challenge to keep up with both the pace and power requirements - and each round just gets tougher, pushing you to your limits! And of course, you'll sweat, earn GritPoints and feel great afterward! Format: 4 stations x 3 rounds
Vivian's main goal is to help others push themselves to their limit and see how they make progress. To Vivian, fitness has an extensive impact on many aspects of everyone's lives and she finds it fulfilling to be a supportive aspect of one's personal development.
Our workout takes place outdoors right next to B-Part Am Gleisdreieck – a laboratory dedicated to the designing the urban neighbourhood of the future & coworking space, which is located right next to the Tram-station Gleisdreieck. Just go to the big S-Bahn bridge and watch out for an orange bike and lots of sports equipment.
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The UC San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and the Rady School of Management jointly invite applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor rank. We seek candidates who have training in computer science or related disciplines with experience in industry-facing applications and who apply algorithmic, data intensive, and analytic technologies to improve business decisions, socially innovative product architectures, or transform business models. Candidates with expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, algorithmic game theory, business models, multi-sided markets/platforms, computational finance, or predictive analytics are preferred, although we will give serious consideration to all candidates. Candidates who have experience or are willing to engage in activities that contribute to diversity and inclusion are also preferred.
We seek applicants with outstanding research credentials to hold a joint appointment with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Rady School of Management. Candidates are expected to be active in both units and contribute to cross-disciplinary research and education with a vigorous research program and educational offerings. The successful candidate is expected to teach University students at the undergraduate and graduate level.
A Ph.D. or advancement to candidacy in Computer Science & Engineering or Management Sciences or related disciplines is required at the time of application. Salary and rank will be commensurate with qualifications in conformance with University of California policies.
The CSE Department and the Rady School of Management are committed to building an excellent, diverse, and inclusive faculty, staff and student body. In addition to the highest standards of scholarship, teaching, and professional activity, the preferred candidates for any position will have potential or demonstrated contributions to a climate that supports equity, inclusion, and diversity.
CSE is home to over 50 faculty and 500 graduate students who span a range of research areas in computer science, computer engineering and bioinformatics. In addition, the department works closely with the Center for Networked Systems (CNS), the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIT2), the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), and the Center for Wireless Communications (CWC), which provide unique opportunities and resources. More information can be found at http://www.cse.ucsd.edu.
The Rady of School of Management is home to over 30 faculty who focus on various topics of managerial decision-making, innovation and entrepreneurship, business analytics, enterprise growth and social welfare maximization. The School is home to the California Institute for Innovation and Development (CIID) and Rady Center for Business Analytics.
Depending on area of specialization, selected candidates will also have the opportunity to work closely with, or even hold an appointment with, the cross-campus Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, whose mission is to contribute to the scientific foundations for data science and benefit all existing units on campus.
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1. Begin with yourself
The first step is to write down the date and place of your birth. Do the same for your parents and grandparents. Include marriage and death dates where applicable. These core clues are the start of your research and you can now work back generation-by-generation growing those branches of your family tree as you gather more ancestors.


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The Business of Being A Seminar Speaker
I often advise my clients that the best way to obtain more clients and sell more services is to get involved in the business of being a seminar speaker. That is exactly what I do to sell my information marketing products and services.
Speaking from a stage or to a smaller group at a conference table gives you tremendous advantages. If you have been hired or invited to speak, you are getting paid a speaker's fee or you have an invitation to promote your own products and services during your presentation. Sometimes I am paid a fee and I also sell products as well. That situation represents the best of both worlds for me, and I am suggesting you consider it as well.
Speaking at continuing education seminars if you are a licensed professional, or industry associations if you are in business puts you in a position to gain credibility faster than any other method. Your personal interactions are building your credibility over time, of course, but public speaking speeds up the process immeasurably. Getting in front of a group of people with whom you have common knowledge and experience gives you a boost when you are prepared to use the opportunity to your advantage. That takes planning in three specific ways.
First, you must create the products you plan to offer and put together the service packages that are easy to explain and price. Secondly, you must have a professional resume or bio kit in order to get the speaking engagements. And finally, you must have a great presentation that informs, inspires and motivates people to want to buy what you are selling, as well as book appointments with you.


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— Steve Felker, Jr., Past Client
Sean and Tracey you both have been huge helps in Briana and I's search for our first home. It was great that Sean and Brie knew each other which steered us the way of Sean and I'm glad it did. Sean; you were great man. Thank you so much for everything. You made the process as smooth as buying a house can be and made Brie and I feel comfortable with what we were getting and that it was not only right for us, but quality as well! If I know anybody looking, I'll surely refer you!
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ENGL Driver Manager 5.0.1 is now available to download. Hurray for ENGL, Hip, Hip, Hurray!! [Ed: Enough of that!]
System Center Configuration Manager 1511 support
As part of our commitment to support new versions of SCCM, we're pleased to bring you support for SCCM 1511. Due to some API changes between SCCM 2012 and 1511, we needed to modify our integration methods which is why SCCM 1511 is only available for Driver Manager 5.0.1.
Driver download and analysis improvements
In-line with the changes we introduced to ENGL Imaging Toolkit's driver management capabilities, Driver Manager 5.0.1 includes a new driver download engine that increases reliability.
Bug fixes
In Driver Manager 5.0.1 we've splattered an annoying bug which caused required disk space to be incorrectly calculated during integration.
For a complete list of changes in Driver Manager 5.0.1 please visit the change log. For the latest list of MDT and SCCM supported versions please visit the Driver Manager compatibility page.


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"The Patriot Guard Riders is a 100% Volunteer, Federally registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization which ensures dignity and respect at memorial services honoring Fallen Military Heroes, First Responders and honorably discharged Veterans."
They will come and show their support only upon a loved one request. Many don't know that this service is available to them.
"Our main mission is to attend the funeral services of fallen American heroes as invited guests of the family. Each mission we undertake has two basic objectives:
1. Show our sincere respect for our fallen heroes, their families, and their communities.
2. Shield the mourning family and their friends from interruptions created by any protester or group of protesters.
We accomplish the latter through strictly legal and non-violent means"
Please visit their website for additional information http://patriotguard.org once on the page look along the leftside top area for "Request a Mission" and left click "Funeral Request".


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Whistle pig, woodchuck, marmota monax, ground hog, Punxsutawney Phil, whatever you want to call the cute little booger, according to him spring is right around the corner! Wahoo!
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Just a few facts on this ridiculous tradition...
Groundhog day as we know it started on February 2, 1887 and was really the creation of apparently super bored editor of the Punxawtawney Spirt, Clymer Freas, who was intrigued by local groundhog hunters. Clymer gave the hunters a hard time calling them members of the Punxawtawney Groundhog club. Clymer got pretty into groundhog folklore and decided to write about Punxawtawney's own weather predicting groundhog, over time word spread, other bored and gullible editors reported the story and now we have groundhog day! I know, I sound cynical, its just funny to me to that 30,000 people stand out in the freezing cold to see Phil in all of his infinite wisdom. This is how desperate we are for spring and I am!
And so is this guy, Phil is like, woe man! Chill out, I said spring is coming, it's still 20 degrees out! Go shave that stache before PETA gets here and really gives you something to be excited about.
Anyway, this weather predicting tradition has been around for centuries in one form or another but always done on February 1 or 2. You can read about it on the official website; www.punxsutawneyphil.com
Oh, and apparently Phil's prediction is really only accurate about 39% of the time, but I mean who is at that hour? And what could they possibly expect, waking a guy up out of hibernation?


text: Rotational Speed Sensor for Traction Motors of 6000 HP Three Phase Drive Locomotives of Indian Railways was developed and supplied as a replacement to the existing passive Wiegand Type Sensor, which continues to have reliability problems. This is an active sensor with strong pulses having two output channels each with direction encoded signal making it 100% compatible to the Wiegand fed locomotive Electronics needing no modifications while retrofitting. The mechanical size and interface is identical to the existing Wiegand sensor and is powered directly by locomotive battery at 110V DC and can handle a variation of 77V to 138V. The sensor complies with IEC-60571 and IEC-61373 test standards.


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Heidi Pollard | Albuquerque, NM
Heidi Pollard has exhibited her work in New York City at PS 122, McKenzie Fine Arts, Janet Kurnetowski Gallery and Horse Trader Projects; other venues nationally include a 2011 solo show at Warschaw Gallery, Los Angeles. She has attended numerous residencies including the Headlands, CA and the CUE Art Foundation, NY. She is a recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Her work has been reviewed in Art NewEngland, and featured in New American Paintings, as well as on Newsweek Online, in Peter Plagens' essay and slideshow, Kandinsky's Heirs.
Roswell Museum and Art Center
Rair exhibition • Heidi Pollard "Good Night" • July 29 - September 11, 2011
What If an Hourglass Swallowed an Orchid?
What if an hourglass swallowed an orchid? Heidi Pollard's paintings offer no such direct imagery, and yet this is the kind of question the viewer will ask when confronted with the intense vulnerability of "Heart". As if we know that loss is impending, as if we know joy is presumptuous, and beauty temporal. Pollard, who acknowledges that her recent work has been "infected" by the vitality of Phillip Guston's late and almost comic work, doesn't create anything overwhelmingly representational. Yet, the movement of color and form nothetheless challenges the subconscious mind of the viewer to spar with story. One to two word titles may give us a toehold, but it is line and hue that tether us to memory. One glance and the game is afoot. Call it cribbage with duality ["Score"]. Call it embracing a checkered past ["Game"]. Narrative is both encouraged and thwarted by the strata of paint, the interplay of form and color, texture and tone. Rival emothions vie for our attention. And our minds wrap small illogical narratives around simple guidelines: a child's pacifier is topped with a severed head ["Buffet"]; teatime is inverted and a plate thrown to the ceiling ["Awful Pudding"]; a backyard fort harbors a jellyfish under the green lawn ["Fort"]; three fingers grow from a pharmaceutical pill ["Finger Ship"]; pears top the travesty ["Double Crossing"]; a car battery is teething ["House"]; a pulsating glob under wire mesh resembles the Virgin - or Buddha - with stethoscope ["EKG"]; fingerprints of a possessed poet remain long after the typing is completed ["Bitter Lake Ghosts"]. A spirit of play imbues all looking, as literal understanding may be moot; interpretations will certainly be as varied as viewers. Nonetheless, meaning is derived. Each intuited narrative begs us to feel what we feel. And what we feel is not easy to define. Pollard's art achieves something akin to negative capability, the phrase used by the poet John Keats to describe the ability to exist "...in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason[.]" While the work stands confident, we stand in front of it and cling to wire mesh. We cling to grids. To oblongs, swirl, and arc. To points of intersection otherwise known as crosses. We cling to the way paint is forever seeking its level. And then we let go: we laugh; we ache; we hear color. Forms recur and shape-shift and we are altered as our bodies enter the converstaion of perception. For the viewer, resolution takes time. And time is merited. Time hones the ability to abide a variety of forces and impulses at once. This is better than reconciliation; Pollard's art proposes a deep integration of often opposing states of consciousness. You might say that Pollard offers a divine toggle switch.The mind of the viewer oscillates between the paint scraped away and the paint remaining in "Goodnight", and between what is obscured and what is doing the obscuring in "Imperial Numerals." Then somewhere between past and present, comedy and despair, hidden and revealed, we reach a fever pitch of vibration where either and or merge, and we achieve a comprehension that transcends language. We achieve recognitionAnd this is where we learn about ourselves, about life, about allowing the world to be beautiful and awkward, devastating and playful, fully complex. The invitation spoken by Heidi Pollard's art is simple: be engaged. And how can you not? How can you not caterwaul with green bean and its shadow ["Head"]?
Lisa Gill, poet
May 11, 2011
Albuquerque, New Mexico


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10 Things I Love Sunday
1. Ow, my eyes.
2. Pretty Hands
3. Wishes & Dreams
These pictures gave me a great idea. I'm going to get two pretty jars or bottles and label them "Wishes" and "Dreams". Whenever I come up with a dream for my life, I'll write it down, roll it up and tie it with a bow. Whenever I have a wish, I'll take a star, make my wish and put it in the wish jar. I think it will look super cute and be a nice thing to do.
4. Cupcakes Owning Muffins
5. Disco Pills
6. Tiger Dog
7. Sleep
I need some more.
8. Remember Me
A really sweet love story. Love Robert Pattinson's character. Love the ending.
9. So Cute
10. Embracing What Makes You Special
P.S. If you like the images I use for these posts, then you might want to check out my weheartit.com page. You can see all the images that I find and 'heart', including pretty pictures and fashion looks.


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About WDAFT
We are We Didn't Ask for This (WDAFT).
We're a podcast about life. The good shit, and the tough shit.
We're a couple of definitely human creatures, just trying our best to survive our own lives.
We're here to be honest, because honesty is how we connect with each other.
We're here to talk because it helps us deal with your lives.
And, we're here to share experiences. Because when we do, we help each other feel less alone.