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Discussion in 'Training of the Horse and Rider' started by gemsy, Jun 4, 2009.
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good question.....id like to know that too....and also if you can do it part time/evenings?
check out the BHS website, they have all the info there, takes a while to be fully qualified so make sure it is something you want to do
do you have to do it through the BHS?
there is no official qualifications NEEDED but alot of people prefer the BHS standards on the RI's
someone do correct me if i am wrong.
You have to take you BHS stages, then move on to road safety course...i'm doing mine this year at Moulton College.
As for part time it depends on the college but i'm doing mine part time.
on the BHS you do stage 1 care + riding, then riding and road safety then stage 2 care + riding then your PTT then stage 3 care + riding, then BHSAI, then stage 4 care + riding, then BHSII. and you can go further but that is about the highest most people go to generally.
this page explains it pretty well. http://www.bhs.org.uk/content/Ods-More.asp?id=1799&pg=Education&spg=Information&area=2
You can also do a course with the ABRS http://www.abrs-info.org/exams/qualifications.htm
A few people have said they've found the ABRS one to be a bit more "user friendly" than the BHS but i guess thats down to personal choice
You can go through the BHS stages (1, 2 & 3) then take your PTT + teaching hours to get to AI. OR you can go through the ABRS, or do NVQ's. I'm not sure if it is the case now, but you used to be able to work through the pony club tests (D up to A) which you could then transfer to BHS so you only needed to take the PTT + hours.
Im sure i did mine through my riding club... The BHS tests, but the Riding Club sorted it all out and sent a group of us to do it. It was a long time ago, but i cant remember doing it myself lol
I hated teaching with a passion and only did it for a couple of months... But good luck lol
depends first off which organization you wish to be qualified through.
both the BHS and ABRS are the big ones. NVQ students go through on or the other if they want teaching under their belt as there is not a straight nvq programme that offers teaching.
BHS is more widely known, but the ABRS being that its soley riding school and training oreitated has more of a focus.
if you really want that piece of paper the abrs is cheaper, and more hands on then the bhs. but if you want to move about easier generally the bhs is where you want to head (you can always pull out your guidelines and show exactally what you have been taught if all else fails. )
also there is nothing wrong with having both sets under your belt
i am abrs biased. but have been trained both. i prefer the abrs system as its alot more hands on to me then the bhs system
If you are interested in a more classical approach there is also the Heather Moffett EE training, but not sure how that stands in the whole run of things - and never had a lesson from one so can't say anything about that. Just thought I'd mention it as it is another option...x
thank you everyone for replies. i am just thinking of a few different career options, not as a riding school instructor but as an independant instructor as i guess its possible to make a good living this way. or am i wrong??
how long does would it take to become qualified and cost? what does each modual involve? any info would be great.x
I think you would find it difficult. You would really need to have your BHSAI and insurance to be freelance. The plus side of riding clubs and schools is that they can offer work all year round. Freelance instructors charge more but often have no work especially in the winter. A couple of our pony clubs and Riding clubs use freelance instructors but they have different ones every month so work can be intermittant, also to be really sucessful you need to have made your name in the equine world people like to have someone teach them who has acheived something themselves
What do you mean by "good living"? Not being funny, it is just I couldn't live off it and have a horse. Most RI's I know teach as a sideline, they can't live off it and keep horses unless they have family help, an OH with more money or a second income stream.
Too right! I gave it up full time when realised that most instructors working on yards full time past the age of 30 are broke and disillusioned! And the free lancers struggle to make ends meet as people think nothing of cancelling an hour before hand
I now have a full time 'proper' job and teach a few hours at a riding school and do the odd bit of freelance stuff
if your serious about teaching get enough experience under you then apply for college positions as instructors and lecturers.


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Kim Jong Il formulated the three principles of national reunification, the ten-point programme of the great unity of the whole nation and the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo, set forth by Kim Il Sung, as the three charters for national reunification. It was a manifestation of his unbounded loyalty and firm patriotic will to carry out the behest of Kim Il Sung without fail.
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The two group matches against Zambia and Burkina Faso earned each player $5000 (sh13m).
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Belgian coach Paul Put took over in March last year and assembled a team that's now admired as one of the most attractive to watch.
"I told the players before the tournament that we can reach the semi-finals. We analyzed our opponents and knew that if we had the right approach, we would achieve our goal," Put stated.
The Stallions 'goal' now is the title but they will have to achieve that without their star player Jonathan Pitroipa, who has controversially sent off against the Ghana side.


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FIRST the bad news. Soaring levels of CO
Allergies have increased from between 2 and 5 per cent of the world's population in the 1950s to almost 40 per cent now. And every year the number of deaths from asthma continues to rise.
The good news is that with a little extra effort, we could improve things a lot. Starting, appropriately enough, in the greenhouse, here's how it works. When plants in a packed greenhouse use most of the available CO
Modern greenhouses, equipped with automatic gas regulators, monitor levels of CO
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Anatomy of a Deep Wreck
Thursday, March 20, 2014
The wreck of Monterrey A was discovered as a blip on a sonar map in 2011, and was first visited by an ROV in 2012. The 2013 expedition produced this photomosaic of the wreck site. Using the sophisticated, but sometimes unwieldy, ROV Hercules, archaeologists and engineers mapped the site in detail and retrieved many items, including a bottle that contains what appears to be preserved ginger, several muskets (which can help with dating and identification of the vessel), and samples of the copper sheathing from its hull.
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I feel like US fiscal policy is trapped on some kind of treadmill. Democrats offer some level of budget cuts for the current fiscal year, Republicans reject anything less than what they've proposed, and then they put together a short-term stopgap with all of the Democrats' cuts. The Democrats wind up agreeing, and the whole negotiation starts over again, with Democrats moving closer to the Republican position by offering yet more cuts.
Now we have the third offer from the Democrats, with $10 billion in cuts already enacted. They plan to offer $20 billion more.
The White House and Democratic lawmakers, with less than two weeks left to avoid a government shutdown, are assembling a proposal for roughly $20 billion in additional spending cuts that could soon be offered to Republicans, according to people close to the budget talks.
That would come on top of $10 billion in cuts that Congress has already enacted and would represent a deeper reduction than the Obama administration and Senate Democrats had offered previously in negotiations. But it isn't clear that would be enough to satisfy Republicans, who initially sought $61 billion in spending cuts and face pressure from tea-party activists not to compromise.
You could make a case that the first $10 billion didn't have a huge impact, as they went to programs already scheduled to be cut (I don't totally subscribe to that). But the low-hanging fruit is gone. This $20 billion will hurt.
Michael Ettlinger and Michael Linden take note of what this means. Democrats are now ready to cut $30 billion below 2010 levels for the 2011 budget. That was the Republican leadership's initial offer, basically a pro-rated version of their $100 billion in cuts from the Obama 2011 budget request. They went further to the right after losing the tea party conservatives and then sought $100 billion overall from that budget request, or in real dollars a $61 billion reduction. So here come the Democrats, offering the $30 billion in cuts that the Republican leadership wanted in the first place. [cont'd.]
There's no question that Republicans played the "Bad Cop, Insane Cop" game very expertly. But it was apparent from the moment that Democrats allowed the 2011 budget to be decided on the watch of the new Republican House that there would be a massive reduction like this. They failed to finish a 2011 budget resolution as part of the deal for extending the Bush tax cuts for two years. They failed to incorporate an increase in the debt limit into that as well. As a result, they forced themselves to negotiate with a bad hand. And they're not the best negotiators in the first place.
The result is a series of immediate cuts when the recovery remains fragile. Furthermore all of those cuts will hit the relatively shallow non-discretionary non-security slice of the budget, magnifying the impact on Americans who receive services from that.
Nobody should be feigning surprise that the baseline, best-case scenario is the level of cuts the Republican leadership asked for in the first place. It was baked into the cake when the budget was left out of the tax cut deal. Indeed I always called the 2011 budget negotiations the second half of the tax cut deal. And now that deal, trading tax cuts for millionaires for tax-driven stimulus that is getting cancelled out by budget reductions, looks pretty pathetic indeed.


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Continuation of the study of database software. Students will create, update and retrieve information using applications based on the database programming language or Structured Query Language (SQL) and will learn how to create efficient, customized applications.
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Xavier Gill — who apparently met Woody Allen sometime recently as evidenced by his profile picture on Vimeo — brings us this epic timelapse video from one of our favorite cities in the world, Barcelona.
If nothing else, watch for the shot at 1:11 when the full moon rises above the Mediterranean and fully illuminates La Sagrada Familia below — simply amazing.
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Young Mr. Lincoln: The Criterion Collection DVD
Price: $39.95
- Technical Specs
- Format: DVD
- Rating: Not Rated
- Number of Discs: 2
- Run Time: 100 Minutes
- Region: 1
- Aspect Ratio: Fullscreen
- Studio: Criterion
- DVD Release Date: February 14, 2006
- Subtitles: English
- Audio: ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono
- Color: Black & White
A profile of John Ford's early career and a talk show episode featuring Henry Fonda, both from the BBC.
Archival audio interviews with Ford and Fonda, conducted by the filmmaker's grandson Dan Ford.
Academy Award Theater radio dramatization of Young Mr. Lincoln, downloadable as an MP3 file.
Gallery of Production Documents
28 page booklet featuring critic Geoffrey O'Brien and an homage to Ford by Sergei Eisenstein.
The script, by Lamar Trotti, introduces Lincoln as a frontier storekeeper and drolly inadequate politician. In an early scene, we see Abe receiving his first books of law in a casual transaction with a pioneer family on their way to make a new home in the wilderness. But was it Trotti or the director who decided that this same family should circle back into Abe's life years later for the dramatic heart of the film, a murder trial in which his wit, ingenuity, and bedrock decency shape Lincoln's first public triumph--and that neither Lincoln nor the family recognize they have met before? That's typical of the movie, in which what is most important, most definitive, most valuable, is always outside the frame, out of reach, beyond naming. Even triumph is imbued with a heartbreaking sense of loss.
This transcendently beautiful film was a modest production, without the Pulitzer Prize cachet of Abe Lincoln in Illinois (not a Ford picture) the following year. Fonda, in his first of six collaborations with Ford, is the only marquee name in the cast, though Alice Brady is radiant as the pioneer matriarch (her final performance), and Ford stalwart Ward Bond has a key role. Sergei Eisenstein, no less, wrote a lucid and impassioned appreciation of the film, hailing it as "a movie I would like to have made"--and proved it by stealing a few visual tropes for his own Ivan the Terrible! This is a great, great motion picture, eminently deserving of the Criterion treatment on DVD.
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10 iPhone accessories that will put your old case to shame
From speakers to camera attachments, these neat iPhone companion pieces are ideal for stuffing in stockings or wrapping as gifts.
Apple Inc. introduced the iPhone to the public in 2007, and since then it has become the giant of smartphones. The newest model, the iPhone 4S, debuted in late 2011 and is the fifth generation of the iPhone family.
The iPhone features a built-in camera and video options, as well as a web browsing capabilities and a mobile version of iTunes, which allows users to import and listen to mp3s. With the introduction of iOS 5 came Siri, and intelligent personal assistant. Siri was initially launched as an app in 2010, but is now integral to iOS. All of the options are featured on a multi-touch screen. Over 500,000 third part and Apple application software are currently available on the phone's App Store, which launched in 2008.
From speakers to camera attachments, these neat iPhone companion pieces are ideal for stuffing in stockings or wrapping as gifts.
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CFCC's Burgaw Open House spotlights Pender County classes
An open house at Cape Fear Community College's Burgaw Center on Wednesday, December 4, created an opportunity for collaboration between the college and the community.
Many administrators from the college, Â including CFCC President Dr. Ted Spring, attended the open house.
The goal of the event was two-fold according to Cindy Ramsey, Continuing Education Director for Pender County, who organized the open house.
"The venue created an opportunity for Pender County citizens to visit their community college campus, learn what courses are being offered, and to give input on courses they would like to see in the future,†Ramsey said.
"The open house also offered a specific opportunity for our colleagues from the downtown campus and North Campus to visit the Burgaw Center and mingle with Pender County citizens. For many, it was their first visit to Burgaw.â€
The Burgaw Center is also home to Pender Early College High School. Both the college and the high school are experiencing growth, so space for classes is always a challenge. But the two administrations work closely together to serve all students.
"The partnership between Pender Early College High School and Cape Fear Community College is a win-win for everyone,†said Dr. Edith Skipper, principal of PECHS. "The blending of our institutions assists us in realizing our common goals – an educated citizenry and productive workforce.â€
Pender Early College High School and administration from Pender County Schools were well represented at the Open House. The event created an excellent opportunity for parents to visit and gain information needed to assess whether or not the early college high school environment would be a good fit for their children.
Families interested in learning more about the opportunities provided by the blended environment at Pender Early College High School on the CFCC Burgaw Campus are encouraged to stop by the campus or call 910-362-7925.
Open House displays included information on courses offered in Burgaw but also at the downtown campus, like Boat Building and Occupational Therapy Assistant. Representatives from admissions and financial aid were also on hand to answer questions.
New courses at the Burgaw Center were highlighted, including a new series of introductory agricultural classes. These include Backyard Chickens, Organic Gardening, and Container Gardening.
The auto body program was well represented with displays and a simulator. New instructor Ed Hernandez was on hand to answer questions. This program exists in New Hanover and Pender counties. Plans for expansion in Pender County are in the early stages.
New health occupations courses have been added to the line-up at the Burgaw Center, and information on registration was available at the Open House. Registration for Nurse Aide programs will be held at the Burgaw Center on December 19.
Other new courses at the Burgaw Center include three levels of Cake Decorating taught by Julie Zingone, owner of Julie and Sons Cakes. A Digital Photography class for serious photographers will be taught by Fred Norris, professional photographer for the television and movie industries.
An increased number of courses are also being offered in Surf City beginning in January. For a complete listing of all upcoming classes, visit http://cfcc.edu/ce/.
For more information on courses and how to register, please call 910-259-4966 or 910-362-7900.


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There is one show that I need to watch more of. Well there are a sad few. Touch is one that I found and enjoyed recently as is Sherlock. The show that I mean is Farscape. It is a thoroughly enjoyable show and while I have watched the first 1.5 seasons of so, I need to find and watch the remaining episodes. This isn't the first time that I have made Farscape cards. I was involved in another swap in the past. This one was as fun as ever.
Taking over for Crais as ths bad guy chasing Moya and crew, Scorpius is not the sort that I would want to be caught by.
Aeryn Sun
This Peacekeeper hottie is a real badass on the show and at least at the point where I am, the love interest of main character Crichton.
Chiana really irritated me when she first joined the show, but after five or so episodes you begin to know more about her character and I started to like her still she isn't my favorite character like the one portrayed on my final card.
Dominar Rygel XVI
Easily my favorite character on the show is Dominar Rygel XVI, the pompus little muppet always out to find the best deal for himself.


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Preach it Brother!! Halleluah!
In Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain makes a stinging observation on the overtly religious. Faith is when you believe something you know aint true. This is a perfect description of the religious asylum that is now the Republican Party and the tortured gospel they are spreading all over the country. Virtually the entire barnyard of their presidential candidates are preaching a mix of born again religious revivalism and brutal 19th century industrial capitalism, that they know aint even remotely true.
By and large these are not genetically stupid people. But the political trash talking they feel obligated to serve up to the Tea Party Gods--Rush Limbaugh and the inquisitors at Fox--has degenerated into a competition of who can do the best impression of an absolute lunatic. Rick Perry is preaching virtual secession from the union, while holding prayer vigils for God to solve our problems. By what twisted logic does contempt for the federal government and even secession equate to patriotism? Someone please show me where the founding fathers advocated prayer as the vehicle for solving a national debt crisis?
Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty have flip flopped on virtually every position they ever espoused so that their insanity titers can match Michelle Bachmann's. Ive met with Jon Huntsman on more than one occasion regarding environmental issues in Utah. He was a reasonable moderate Republican as my states governor and appeared on TV ads three years ago exhorting the entire country to act on the climate crisis. He did that because he respected the warnings of our climate scientists. Now he says we can't deal with global warming in a depressed economy. He knows perfectly well that those same scientists are warning that if we dont act on it right now, we condemn our children to a brutal, dangerous and likely unlivable world. Newt Gingrich? He appeared on national TV ads with Nancy Pelosi saying that he agreed on the urgency to deal with the climate crisis. Now he looks like a Keystone Cop, tripping over his own feet in full speed reverse.
Sarah Palin? Oh, never mind. Rick Santorum? According to him the worlds scientists are all in on a conspiracy with Al Gore. Really Rick? That conspiracy would have to have started in 1824 when the greenhouse gas phenomenon was first described by the French scientist Joseph Fourier. It would have to have involved scores of scientists in the 1800s like John Tyndall of the Royal Institute of Great Britain, George Marsh, the founder of the Smithsonian Institute, and hundreds of scientists in the 1900s like 1903 Nobel Prize winner Svante Arrhenius. The conspiracy would now have to involve virtually the entire worlds scientific community. That makes sense to you, Rick? Really?
Almost as irritating is the chorus sung over and over by Eric Cantor, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan and 99% of Republican Congressmen proudly declaring their Huckleberry Finn type faith that an unfettered free market is the only way to create to millions of new jobs. Stop choking businesses with excessive regulations! they chant. All businesses, all regulations. Really, Mitch? Never mind that it was precisely the elimination of, inadequacy of, or lack of enforcement of federal regulation that allowed Wall St. to drag the economy to the edge of the apocalypse and the very reason why there are no jobs. Never mind that it was poor regulation and free market cost cutting that brought us the Deep Water Horizon, Kalamazoo River, and now Yellowstone River oil spills. 1,800 oil spills have occurred in this country in the last five years totaling 16 million gallons of oil contaminating our land and water. And Mitt, you want regulators to get off the backs of the oil companies? Really?
Never mind that it was inadequate federal oversight and greedy, unfettered capitalism on steroids that allowed Massey Energy to commit manslaughter on 29 coal miners last year. Hey, Eric just what jobs are created by paring down our already bare bones federal food inspection? Will even more outbreaks of e-coli and salmonella in peanut butter, spinach, eggs, cantaloupe, sprouts and hamburger be counted as just collateral blessings from unleashing the free market? We certainly dont want to pay for inspection of imported sea food from Japan because a little radioactivity in your tuna fish and scallops would probably just make it taste a little more crunchy.
Hey Newt, what jobs will be created by eviscerating the EPA and their enforcement of the Clean Air Act besides morticians and health care providers? Michelle, so youre comfortable with eliminating money for bridge inspectors from the National Transportation Safety Board because the one that collapsed in your home state in 2007 only killed 13 people, and thats a small price to pay for that warm, orgasmic tingle only the free market can give?
Lets certainly get regulators off the backs of the pharmaceutical industry because other than the millions of people who have been killed or injured by Phen-Fen, Vioxx, Avandia, Bextra, Cylert, Baycol, Palladone, Trasylol, Tylenol, Darvocet, Heparin and all the drugs now made with ingredients from China without any real standards or controls--i.e. most of them--there's no reason to think an unregulated free market wont work out just fine. Really, Sarah? So if defective and tainted drugs weed out the weak among us, thats just the beauty of the Ayn Rand/Milton Friedman world view?
The entire middle class is struggling with unemployment, under employment, mounting debt, lost pensions, mortgages foreclosed or underwater, and you want to undo even the pathetic protections of the 2010 Consumer Protection Act and put Elizabeth Warrens head on a platter? Really, Speaker Boehner? Thats the job elixir the middle class so desperately need?
As with most religions the Church of Unfettered Capitalism doesnt have to make sense in order to thrive. But it does need preachers at the pulpit exhorting us to believe in things that we know aint true and the Republican Party can't get enough of them. Huckleberry Finn would be so proud.
Your brain is a doughnut, your spirit's a dry cup
This place has the poison to fill them all right upShe's the poor man's gold, she's the anarchist crucible
Flying in the face of the despot cannibal
Preach it Brother!! Halleluah!
Once more let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt- it may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.- Tommy Douglas
We pay government employee regulators to oversee a lot of those things. And those Federal employees fail to keep us safe over and over again as you have just demonstrated.
BTW, you think you could find a more biased leftwing article from a more biased site than the one you linked to ... I doubt it
Karl Marx's five stages of development: 1. Primitive communal society 2. Feudalism 3. Capitalism then ... 4. Socialism and finally ... 5. Communism
Then reality ..
Stage 6: socialist dictatorship
Samuel Clemens was a brilliant man...and practical...and a bit too honest for some.
"When truth becomes unpatriotic, patriotism becomes worthless."
Originally Posted by Big Dog
And every thing you post is so unbiased.
Your brain is a doughnut, your spirit's a dry cup
This place has the poison to fill them all right upShe's the poor man's gold, she's the anarchist crucible
Flying in the face of the despot cannibal


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You've no doubt heard about blood diamonds by now and are vaguely familiar with this concept. What you may or may not be aware of is that several other products have blood on them as well.
The term "conflict resources" refers to natural resources that are exploited and traded through conflict situations or whose exploitation helps finance human rights abuses or other such violations. In some cases, companies obtain licenses to extract metals, minerals or other raw materials from a country at war or in conflict from militias or warlords who have no legal claim to that resource; or they may have helped those militias with logistics to fight other armies or militias; or paid them for unregulated materials that may have been mined or worked by essentially slave labour; or used militias to slaughter or displace the rightful owners to the resource making it available for exploitation; or other such abuses.
There are many resources that we may use each and every day that have this type of blood on them, including metals, timber, coffee, oranges, chocolate, uranium, and gems, among other things. Several organizations are doing a great deal to bring awareness to "blood phones", and the particular problem of coltan extraction in the DR Congo, where the problem of conflict resources is perhaps the most extreme. What most aren't bringing to light is that many other products are produced in much the same way and that this is not only happening in the DR Congo, but is also common in diverse places around the globe including (but not limited to) Peru, Guatemala, Zimbabwe and China.
These awareness campaigns have put pressure on several governments and companies to take action for change, but unfortunately, most of what has been so far suggested will likely not make large positive changes on the ground. Canada tried unsuccessfully to pass the weak Respecting Corporate Accountability for the Activities of Mining, Oil or Gas in Developing Countries Act, which as a private members bill would have been unlikely to receive the proper financial resources it needed to be adequately functional. It also only targeted companies who were supported by Export Development Canada or the Canada Pension Plan, excluding many of the companies alleged to have committed abuses in the DR Congo. This type of action would also not bring any real form of justice for the crimes committed, but rather is more like a "slap on the wrist" that could give the companies a chance to continue crimes in the future as they only lose specific government funding.
Several American groups have recently come up with the Conflict Mineral Trade Act of 2009 and the Congo Conflict Minerals Act of 2009 that would push American companies to report on any minerals used in the manufacture of their products coming from specific conflict areas and to describe the steps they took to ensure the minerals did not support arms groups. The latter essentially amounts to a boycott and the criminalization of mineral extraction in the DRC. This type of legislation is problematic as it may push the problem even deeper underground making it harder to regulate or result in severe economic disparity for the majority of the intended populations who rely on legitimate mining in the region to survive.
Others still are pushing for the resuscitation of pillaging laws, still on the books in many countries and in the international justice system to help deter companies from obtaining conflict resources (see James G. Stewart's report published by the Open Society Foundations entitled "Corporate War Crimes: Prosecuting the Pillage of Natural Resources"). Pillage, the theft of resources during conflict, is considered a war crime in all modern international criminal courts and a large number of domestic criminal systems. If companies fear being charged with war crimes, they will likely take more adequate steps to ensure the source of their materials, though there is fear this could end up amounting to a boycott of certain regions as well.
While eliminating this problem is not something that can be solved overnight, we as consumers, should be aware of the effect we might be having on distant conflicts and do the most we can to educate ourselves about it. People are commonly outraged to learn when sweat-shop labour is being used, but are often unaware of the negative effects that exist during the entire process of manufacture, from the extraction of raw materials to the point when they reach the shelves in our stores and even the way we dispose of them after we no longer find them useful. If we don't work to change the way we consume, our products will only help to fuel environmental degradation, conflict, war and even genocide for many years to come.
For those who would like to learn more, Rebecca Sargent posts stories and reports about conflict resources on Twitter @miningconflict.


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Hosting a shared MySQL instance for your internal or external clients ("multi-tenant") was always a challenge. Multi-tenants approach or a "schema-per-customer" approach is pretty common nowadays to host multiple clients on the same MySQL sever. One of issues of this approach, however, is the lack of visibility: it is hard to tell how many resources (queries, disk, […]
Row-based replication, MySQL 5.6 upgrades and temporal data types
Whither your rollback plan? MySQL 5.6 upgrades are in full swing these days and knowing how to safely upgrade from MySQL 5.5 to 5.6 is important. When upgrading a replication environment, it's important that you can build a migration plan that safely allows for your upgrade with minimal risk — rollback is often a very […]
Analyzing Slow Query Table in MySQL 5.6
Next week I'm teaching an online Percona Training class, called Analyzing SQL Queries with Percona Toolkit. This is a guided tour of best practices for pt-query-digest, the best tool for evaluating where your database response time is being spent. This month we saw the GA release of MySQL 5.6, and I wanted to check if any […]
Side load may massively impact your MySQL Performance
When we're looking at benchmarks we typically run some stable workload and we run it in isolation – nothing else is happening on the system. This is not however how things happen in real world when we have significant variance in the load and many things can be happening concurrently. It is very typical to […]
Ultimate MySQL variable and status reference list
I am constantly referring to the amazing MySQL manual, especially the option and variable reference table. But just as frequently, I want to look up blog posts on variables, or look for content in the Percona documentation or forums. So I present to you what is now my newest Firefox toolbar bookmark: an option and […]
Finding out largest tables on MySQL Server
Finding largest tables on MySQL instance is no brainier in MySQL 5.0+ thanks to Information Schema but I still wanted to post little query I use for the purpose so I can easily find it later, plus it is quite handy in a way it presents information:
Be careful when joining on CONCAT
The other day I had a case with an awful performance of a rather simple join. It was a join on tb1.vid = CONCAT('prefix-', tb2.id) with tb1.vid – indexed varchar(100) and tb2.id – int(11) column. No matter what I did – forced it to use key, forced a different join order, it did not want […]
Recovery after DROP & CREATE
In a very popular data loss scenario a table is dropped and empty one is created with the same name. This is because mysqldump in many cases generates the "DROP TABLE" instruction before the "CREATE TABLE":
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `actor`;
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/*!40101 SET character_set_client = utf8 */;
CREATE TABLE `actor` (
`actor_id` smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`first_name` varchar(45) NOT NULL,
`last_name` varchar(45) NOT NULL,
`last_update` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
PRIMARY KEY (`actor_id`),
KEY `idx_actor_last_name` (`last_name`)
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/*!40101 SET character_set_client = @saved_cs_client */;
If there were no subsequent CREATE TABLE the recovery would be trivial. Index_id of the PRIMARY index of […]
Find unused indexes
I wrote one week ago about how to find duplicate indexes. This time we'll learn how to find unused indexes to continue improving our schema and the overall performance. There are different possibilites and we'll explore the two most common here. User Statistics from Percona Server and pt-index-usage. User Statistics User Statistics is an improvement […]


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Will Forum be coming out with a new model of the Contract board this year????
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Here's a reliable member of the Best Western chain, perhaps not what you came to Costa Rica to see, but we recommend this place as a decent backup. Like most hotels within the franchise, this one has sterile, generic rooms and almost every type of service and facility under the sun. Two large buildings face each other, with the noisy pool and lawn area in between. None of the rooms has a direct ocean view, though corner rooms 314, 414, and 415 look out to quiet gardens. Rooms in one building have private balconies. Daily activities (posted in the open-air reception) and an all-inclusive package can easily trap you here for days. The beach area has a lifeguard, plenty of chairs, and a bar nearby.
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Zanu-PF is committed to the empowerment of general populace through its indigenisation and empowerment policies, the party's Masvingo provincial secretary for economic affairs Cde Joosbi Omar has said.
Cde Omar said this at a function to unveil a primary school he built in Granary Park recently.
The school which is called J.S Omar Primary School would help to uplift the lives of ordinary people in Harare.
"There is no better way of empowering people than giving them education. This school is opening this year and we are giving some of the pupils here scholarships.
"We are working hard to fulfill the aspirations of our great visionary leader President Mugabe that we should be masters of our own destiny."
The school which is valued at US$3 million will start by enrolling 600 pupils this year.
Apart from building the school, Cde Omar issued out commercial stands to more than 35 of his employees.
He said people should not continue working for others, but graduate to become employers.
"Employment, yes, it's good, but people should not only think of being employed all the time.
"After working for some time, one should graduate to become an employer and help others to realise their dreams.
"I am working with several young business people in Masvingo who are now employers in their own right and that is what Zanu-PF is advocating for," he said.
Cde Omar said Zanu-PF would win this year's elections because the MDC formations had nothing to offer to the electorate.
He said most people had realised benefits of the land reform programme.
"Zanu-PF works for the people and all of its policies are designed at benefiting Zimbabweans.
"We have sound policies that benefited people such as the land reform and people are now reaping benefits of such policies," he said.


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IT'S a dirty job, but someone's got to do it: for innovation to thrive on the internet, we must break up the very social networks that the web has made possible.
Previous research has shown that certain patterns of social interaction make radical innovation more likely. Bold ideas are typically incompletely formed when first conceived and easily shot down by criticism. Hence, they emerge more readily in communities in which individuals work mostly in small and relatively isolated groups, giving their ideas time and space to mature.
The problem, says social scientist Viktor Mayer-Schönberger of the National University of Singapore, is that today's software developers work in social networks in which everyone is closely linked to everyone else. "The over-abundance of connections through which information travels reduces diversity and keeps radical ideas from taking hold," he suggests.
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- Willamette
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Willamette Students Take an Unusual Break
Mountains, bare except for a light dusting of snow, cradle the sagebrush valley. The sounds are singular: the caw of a crow; a dog barking; the occasional car on Highway 95; the ever-present wind. In this isolated corner of northeast Nevada, the Quinn River, its path outlined by rushes pregnant with the pinks, yellows and greens of spring, switchbacks through 34,000 acres of the Fort McDermitt Shoshone-Paiute Indian Reservation. Rusting hulks of cars, sometimes three or four deep, huddle next to tiny houses with sagging porches or singlewide trailers with peeling paint and tires on the roof. Rib-thin packs of dogs meander the hills. Trash from the hilltop landfill blows across the landscape. Two white vans loaded with 20 Willamette University students, three adult advisors, sleeping bags and a dozen bags of food bump across the valley. They've come hoping to make a difference.
The group is part of Take a Break (TaB), an alternative spring break program where students from Willamette University in Salem, OR, volunteer their services during spring break to help others. It's Willamette University's second year in the unconventional program. Last year, 19 students and adults participated; this year 57. Their trip is one of three sponsored by the University. Other groups went to communities in Chicago, Il, and Jonestown, MS. The students come to this out-of-the way Indian reservation to paint, to repair, to clean up and to help out in anyway they can.
Why a group of young people would choose to spend seven days doing community service instead of partying with friends on the beaches of Florida or Cancun? Mary Toledo, a senior majoring in Japanese at Willamette and one of the group's student leaders, says she volunteered to "get out of the Willamette bubble." It's easy to go from class to class and not really meet people in the community," she says. "My goal is to make connections with people outside the Willamette community."
Emily Metrock, a junior from Ojai, CA, majoring in English, says she came "to have my perspective altered. I thought I'd come out here and do something completely different," she explains. "I've never been on an Indian reservation and I expect to have my views about the people who live here changed."
The group comes equipped with not only 23 willing workers, but also with tools and supplies. The $3,000 they raised, as well as support from the Lilly Project at Willamette, pays for everything from gas for the vans to food and supplies, including several gallons of paint, Spackle, paint brushes and scrapers. Their first job is to repaint two ramskackle houses belonging to tribe members.
Felicia Smart, a tribe member and administrative secretary for the Tribal Office, says that because the income of most members of her community is well below the poverty level, help from groups like Willamette's TaB is welcome. "Housing for the tribe is a problem here," she explains. "People don't have money to spend on repairing their homes, so programs like this are really good."
One of the first houses the group tackles belongs to Rose Curtis, a single mother who was raised at Fort McDermitt. Recently released from six-months in jail, she is unemployed. In the summer, she says she hopes to get hired on a fire fighting crew. For now, she receives $154 a month in general assistance from federal welfare.
The students scrape peeling paint off the weathered exterior of Curtis' house and carefully apply white latex. Stiff wind blows tiny specks of paint everywhere. Before long, the hands, arms, faces and hair of the Willamette volunteers are covered with a fine spray of paint. Perhaps inspired by the students, homeowner Rose Curtis rakes piles of debris off the threadbare lawn. Late in the afternoon, a good-natured paint fight breaks out between two girls, one wielding a paintbrush one a long-handled roller. Both students end up with long streaks of white paint on their clothing.
Just across the valley, a second group of students paint Annette Smart's house light blue with turquoise trim. Smart, 71, a lifelong resident of Fort McDermitt, has arthritis and walks with a cane. "These kids are pretty good help," she says as she sips tea in her tiny kitchen. A woodstove overheats the room and a large screen television blares out war news from halfway across the world. "These kids are working hard out there in the cold. I appreciate it."
Much of the weathered trim paint was scraped off the day before so the trim painting goes fairly quickly. Neither the homeowner nor the students have a long enough ladder, so one of the advisors hops up on the roof and hangs off the edge to scrape paint from the roof peak.
Mrs. Smart's three young grandchildren are fascinated by the students. At first, they hang shyly on the edges of the group. Before long, they are right in the middle of the action. The granddaughter helps with scraping and repainting a dresser. Michael Le Chevallier, a religious studies student from Lake Oswego and a self-proclaimed "kid person," chases the boys through the yard, making monster noises and swinging the youngsters over his head. The children's squeals of delight fill the yard.
"The little kids are really accepting," says Katie Myers, a sophomore majoring in history and French. "They want to know all about us. They ask lots of questions and they want to help."
Next to the old woman's house is a two-room shack occupied by one of Mrs. Smart's grown sons. Mrs. Smart walks through the shack and shakes her head. The air inside smells faintly of urine and mildew. "I haven't been out here in a long time," she says, poking the holes with her cane. "It's a mess."
The students strip off water-damaged wallpaper and repair basketball-sized holes in the walls of the tiny home with Spackle and newspaper before painting the walls white. They paint strips of wood blue and tack the new trim boards around the windows and doors. They haul an old dresser outside and strip off the chipped paint, replacing it with an eye-popping glossy bright blue.
At night, the students bunk in sleeping bags on the concrete floor of the Tribal Youth Center. Next door, there is a small kitchen where they mix up boxes of macaroni and cheese, canned green beans and fruit cocktail. Afterward, they gather for "reflection time," small group discussions of their impressions of the day. Then, late into the evenings, they play Trivial Pursuit, listen to music, braid each other's hair, write in their journals and snack on Rice Krispy treats and chips.
One evening, the students invite tribal members to share a potluck. Ten tribal members show up, including several young people. They bring mashed potatoes, macaroni salad and macaroni soup, fry bread with margarine and honey and pineapple upside down cake to go with the Sloppy Joes the students made.
After dinner, Dennis, a tribal elder, brings out his dance regalia -- leather pants and moccasins, an elaborate Bald Eagle feather headdress, two feather fans, ankle bells, beaded belts. His mother made the outfit, including the intricate beadwork, which he wears when he dances at Pow Wows.
Much of the tribe's cultural heritage has fallen away. They no longer do hand games, get together for community sings or hold Pow Wows. Few of the young people speak Paiute. Dennis is one of the last.
The Willamette students sit in a large circle on the gymnasium floor and Dennis tells a story. "Badger struggles carrying a big bag," he says, gesturing with his arms. He wears his gray-streaked hair in two long braids. "Wolf says, `I'm bigger and stronger. I can help you.' So Badger gives Wolf the bag and Wolf hurries to the top of the hill. But Badger is still far behind. Curious about the sounds coming from the bag, Wolf opens it up and a big wind comes out. The wind pushes the Wolf all the way to the Atlantic. To this day, that is why the east coast has the strong wind of tornadoes and the west coast does not."
By the end of the week, the Willamette students and their advisors have repainted and repaired four houses, washed windows and cleaned out a huge pile of wood debris from the community building area. On Friday night, the tribe holds a feast to thank the students for their hard work. They serve Indian tacos -- flaky fry bread wrapped around ground meat, cheese and lettuce.
As she fills her fry bread with ground beef, Mary Toledo sums up the importance of their Take a Break experience. "I feel so lucky to have been part of this," she says. "Especially in times of war, it's important that we care for each other. We could solve a lot of our problems if we cared for each other just a little bit more."


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Cookie Monster: Iced Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Pie
Because there is something awesome about a giant iced oatmeal raisin cookie shaped like a pie. More
Because there is something awesome about a giant iced oatmeal raisin cookie shaped like a pie. More
Apricots are halved and topped with a brown sugar, oat, and almond streusel then baked in the oven until juicy. Serve them warm alongside yogurt for an easy breakfast. More
Looking to establish a new favorite comfort food? This Apple Butter Pie, with a cookie-like oatmeal pecan crust, may be just be the answer. More
Wanna know the secret to seriously chewy oatmeal bars? Marshmallow. More
I toss cherries with a little sugar—just enough to highlight their deep, red fruit flavor—then cover them with an extra oat-y, unsweetened crumble topping. I tell myself the crumble is reminiscent of oatmeal with fruit, but the truth is it's ten times better. More
These are best described as a streusel-crumble-muffin hybrid. My favorite part? They hide a layer of fruit preserves. More
This week's pie is a tribute to Do-Si-Dos, the Girl Scout cookie made by sandwiching peanut butter cream between two crumbly, oat-y cookies. More
It's been an undeniably fun holiday season, but I think it's time. Time to slow my roll down the highway to Fat City. So instead of baking scones or muffins or a breakfast cake that's filled with cookies, this week I'm baking oatmeal bars. The base is a mixture of oats, dried apricots, coconut flakes, and walnuts. After they're baked, the bars become golden, chewy, and mildly sweet. More
Kim Ima, the mobile dessert visionary behind The Treats Truck Baking Book, calls the base for these Oatmeal Jammys "plain jane." They are oatmeal cookies in their purist form, all gooey and chewy with loads of brown sugar and no raisins or chocolate chips to distract from their oatmeal-y goodness. And honestly, they're pretty great on their own. More
Even people who say they don't like raisins, oats, or cookies (eh, maybe the last category doesn't really exist) will like Salty Oats. It's really hard to go back to unsalted oatmeal cookies after one (or five!) of these. More
This recipe is just incredibly simple—perfect when you want something delicious but don't want to spend too much time in the kitchen. Store these oat crisps in an airtight container if you're keeping them overnight so they don't get soggy. (They also make a great ice cream sandwich cookie.) More


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YIELD: Makes 8 servings
Divide cheese and walnuts equally among 8 bread squares. Top each with 2 watercress sprigs. Sprinkle with pepper and top with remaining bread squares, making 8 sandwiches total. Press together gently to adhere. (Can be made 4 hours ahead. Cover and chill.)
Melt 3 tablespoons butter in large nonstick griddle or skillet over medium heat. Cook 4 sandwiches on griddle until golden brown and cheese melts, about 3 minutes per side. Transfer to cutting board. Repeat with remaining 3 tablespoons butter and 4 sandwiches.
Cut sandwiches diagonally in half. Transfer to plates and serve.