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How true love conquers all
Broadcaster, author and psychoanalyst Michael Murphy was beaten by his father, has battled cancer and lost his brother, but he remains positive, gentle and smiley, says Barry Egan, and he maintains that the most important thing in life is love.
Michael Murphy's life is utterly changed after fighting cancer and he realised what really matters in life.
'YOU must be calm before you can utter oracles," wrote the 19th-Century American poet Thoreau. Michael Murphy, the utterer of oracles on RTE for more than 30 years, has such a soft, calming presence about him that you could sit with him for hours. It is not just that voice – a beautiful sound that we have been hearing on the national station for so long, and I was lucky enough to hear in the Shelbourne hotel last Monday – Michael also never stops smiling in that gentle, almost innocent way of his. This made the revelation of how viciously his strict father beat him up when he was a young child all the more shocking, all the more repulsive.
He can remember being on a tricycle as a four-year-old at home. There were bottles of oil in a crate between the two petrol pumps near where he lived in Castlebar, Co Mayo. Young Michael accidentally clipped them with the back of his bike and they overturned.
When his father, a pharmacist, came home from work that evening, Michael got "an appalling beating – there were several such beatings but this seems to be the archetypal one I remembered. I thought I was going to die. I actually thought I was going to die," he says.
"My mother watched it and at a certain point she said: 'That's enough now.' Then she intervened. Sometimes it happens early in a marriage; the father I think resents the child being landed like a Scud missile into the centre of the partnership."
Is that how he has subsequently rationalised his father's vicious assault on him as a four-year-old child?
"Yes. I think there was a bit of that," Michael says, adding that he only came to this realisation after he had been working at psychoanalysis for a number of years. "I don't think you can forgive something like that. He was showing who was boss. But after that, I went upstairs, I got my pyjamas and I went next door to my grandmother's."
For how long?
"I never went home again," he says. "That was my father's mother. She lived next door. I can't remember anything being said about it but I stayed there from then on until she died. I knew instinctively that she would welcome me. My grandmother gave me unconditional love."
You felt your father didn't love you?
"Yes. I am only thinking this now. I hadn't actually thought it before."
I ask Michael – who is almost as well known as a psychoanalyst as he is a broadcaster and author – did his mother ever talk to him about the violence. "Yes, she said he was mostly drunk when those things happened. That was her explanation years later of what my father did," Michael says of his father who died 20 years ago. Michael's mother, now in her 90s, is in a nursing home; he is going to visit her this weekend with his partner of 28 years, Terry O'Sullivan. Terry is the love of Michael's life and the inspiration for most of his new book of poetry, The Republic Of Love.
Terry, Michael's muse, also unconditionally supported his partner when he was diagnosed with cancer in 2008. "The pain was dreadful, but I found out that if the pain was bad, it is only bad for 20 minutes. It was like a knife in your guts, like a sword in your stomach. You just lie there and hope it will go. Terry was always with me."
I ask Michael, did cancer in some perverse way strengthen his relationship with Terry? "Yes. Terry was there with an unconditional support. Whatever I had to say at any moment of the day or night was accepted by him gratefully. That action is discrete, in that you can never go back on it. It sets the foundation for a new life."
Michael Murphy is perhaps the most philosophical man you could ever meet. Yet you can't help wondering, how did he get through it all emotionally when he was told he had cancer? Did he spend his whole time consumed with the anger of 'why him'?
"It has to happen to somebody," he says with a gentle smile. "My brother Kieran died. He was only 42. That was the lowest point in my life, the worst to lose someone you are so close to. I was lucky. I was spared. That was five years ago. It can come back at any stage. Every new day is a blessing. You have to believe that. Or you couldn't get up in the morning, you'd stay in bed. I think that's what depression is." He quotes from two lines from the first poem in the book, The Poppy: 'Because there is no point to anything anyway?/It is necessary to be defiant and protesting.'
Michael adds that after experiencing death knocking on your door following the diagnosis of cancer, the joy of each new day that "I am above ground" is, he says, "embraced wholly because of the realisation that time is limited. Each day takes on a new urgency, and I tend to pack as much as possible into the day."
I ask him was there a Pre-Cancer Michael and a Post-Cancer Michael? In the sense, did cancer change him in some way emotionally? "Life changes utterly after cancer. You begin to concentrate on what really matters, which is love, and the relationships which nourish you, and the shedding of relationships which don't. Life is too short for compromises.
"I thought I was going to die. That's what triggered the final phase of the writing, which is why I wrote the first book. Ten days after the operation, I asked for a laptop. I just wanted to leave something behind. And something truthful."
Michael wrote an extraordinary memoir about battling the disease, At Five in the Afternoon: My Battle with Male Cancer, with a foreword by Mary Robinson. "I am delighted to have the opportunity to introduce a new Irish voice to the world," the former President of Ireland announced. The voice is there as powerful as ever in the 25 poems in The Republic Of Love, which he wrote over the past five years.
Although Michael knew he was gay since he was a kid – "I had girlfriends and they were often puzzled" – it was not until he was 30 that he entered the republic of love. It was then, "quite late", as he says, that he first acted on his romantic feelings for the same sex.
"I met someone, the opportunity arose and I had sex one evening. It was joyous, absolutely joyous. It was an utter emotional release. Mind you, I went home and stood under the shower for about 90 minutes afterwards. I had been abused as a kid. Again, this is with hindsight ... I tried to figure out what was the connection: it was washing clean. It didn't fit with my partner, but it did fit with way back there along the timeline" – he says, referring to the abuse of his childhood – "when you did feel dirty and want to wash. They'd all be dead now. Horrible."
There is a line in The Republic Of Love about fear being his "default setting".
"All human beings have a default setting, when the visitations arrive at three in the morning to haunt us," he says. "Anxiety is the most common one, at its core the fear of not being able to survive – through the threat of disease or illness, or in various settings that take us out of our comfort zone. Paradoxically, it's never an absence – the lack or loss of this or that – but a suffocating presence, too much of something, in this instance, too much truth."
Michael Murphy knew from a very early age where to find truth in his life. He moved from his granny's to boarding school in Newbridge, where his interest in art and culture and playing the organ was nourished by Father Flanagan. "He taught me art on my own and introduced me to classical music. He stirred something in me."
It never dawned on him to study pharmacy, like his father. In his Leaving Cert year, Michael knew the three things he wanted to do in his life. He knew he wanted to do psychoanalysis (because he had always been interested in human nature and he had read an awful lot of Freud and Jung). He also knew he wanted to go into broadcasting because: "I had a good voice, at that stage. I was in the operas and I had done some broadcasting at home in Castlebar in the local radio station."
He also knew he wanted to write. He was writing poetry from his early teens. The first poem he wrote had the opening line: 'Prokofiev and blue sky ... ' It was inspired after listening to a Sergei Prokofiev piano concerto when he was 14. "There were a group of us in Castlebar and we were all writing poetry and showing it to each other."
Michael will turn 66 in October. I ask him what would the 14-year-old Michael think of him now? He smiles and says he thinks he would be happy with the journey he went on. "I think the level of hope and idealism has been fulfilled."
His foundation is undoubtedly Terry O'Sullivan, whom he married in a civil partnership ceremony on a midsummer's day in Dublin in June 2011. Asked what is the greatest wisdom he has learned, Michael says emphatically: "That the most important thing is love. That's all that matters. Not the banks, not whatever. What is really important is love between yourself and somebody else. That's it."
There is a poignant line in the book: "When I grow old and have no voice, no children there to care or to remember me ... " I wonder why he and Terry never adopted children. You would have been a great father, I say to Michael.
"It's kind of you to say so. When Terry and I met almost 30 years ago, Ireland was a very different place to the country we have now. For a start, we were illegal beings, and there would have been no possibility of adopting children. At this stage, in the autumn of our lives, it would be unfair to be essentially grandparents to children who deserve the best of our youth and strength ... "
Love's not so young dream met nearly three decades ago. "I was producer/director in RTE and we went up to do a programme at the Rutland Centre and Terry was one of those who founded the Rutland Centre. They couldn't do a programme about the inmates so they did role play," Michael smiles now. "Terry was in charge of that, I was watching him on screen. At the end of the shoot, on Thursday, we went off for a meal and I made sure I was sitting beside him."
He asked him what he was doing for the weekend. Terry said he was going to Donegal. "We have been together ever since," Michael smiles.
What's the secret of your love? "I admire the guy. I'm a bit in awe of him really. Terry has his own troubles. He suffers from polio. It comes back in later life. He is tremendously brave. I admire him. I admire him and love him. He's a good guy."
Four days later, I meet Michael and Terry for tea in the Herbert Park Hotel in Ballsbridge. I ask Terry, who is in a wheelchair, what he loves about the fella sitting opposite. "His kindness, modesty, intellectual rigour, a love for a poor injured country. His quest for truth and concern for others. His roller-coaster humour keeps me on my toes even in the wheelchair. I love him," says Terry.
I can tell by the smile on Michael's face that this truly is the republic of love.
'The Republic of Love' (€12.99) is published by Liberties Press and is available through www.libertiespress.com and bookshops
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Burlington House helps spur development market
ACTIVITY in the development land market has moved up a gear with the purchase of a Dublin 4 office building for redevelopment. Heretofore the market had been dominated, with only a few exceptions, by acquisitions of small sites with residential potential.
As recently as a few months ago office rents had been considered to be approaching levels that might justify development on cleared brownfield sites in docklands or refurbishment of existing offices in Dublin's Central Business District.
Now however a few developers appear to be willing to pay strong prices for the opportunity to, not alone develop new offices, but even take on demolition costs as well.
It is for this reason that the sale of Burlington House is now being seen as a hugely important deal for the development market. The property, which was recently sold for some €40.5m has set a new bar for the market. The 1980's office building in Dublin 4, takes the office development land market to a higher gear. Paddy McKillen and Colony Capital are reported to have come together with Johnny Ronan and Dev Sec for this redevelopment.
Surprisingly, they beat US private equity giant Blackstone which was seen as the hot favourite for to take on the building which backs onto the former Burlington Hotel which the US firm already own.
The sale price is well above the €25m quoted by CBRE and partly reflects how receiver Paul McCann of Grant Thornton, secured planning permission to double the amount of the floor space on the site from its existing 7,021sq m.
While the building is in the heart of "prime" office space in Dublin 4, and so would have been attractive regardless, the additional planning permission undoubtedly made it much easier for potential buyers to assess the property and take a favourable view on future earnings that could be possible from the property. The price also suggests that there are under bidders who are interested in re-development opportunities in Dublin's Central Business District.
The volume of development land deals in the last six months is higher than in the entire 12 months of 2013 according to the latest CBRE bi monthly report. It says that 54 development sites totalling more than €203m having traded in the first six months of 2014 compared with 39 transactions totalling almost €111m in the same period last year.
"Much of what is being traded continues to comprise relatively small lot sizes which are being released on an ad-hoc basis," says CBRE director Marie Hunt.
Indeed the only other office development site to sell during the recent quarter was a one acre site at Windmill Lane in Dublin 2 which Hibernia REIT acquired for €7.5m. Hibernia's acquisition can be considered part of a strategy to enhance other adjoining office and commercial properties that it also acquired.
Earlier in the year two other office deals also had a development angle. The former Irish Nationwide offices came with a large site at Grand Parade, Dublin 6 which sold for more than €13m and Davy's bought an office building on Mespil Road, Dublin 4 for more than €16m. But these were considered to be medium or longer term plays as the office buildings are leased.
One site that has caught the eye is NAMA's plans to sell the leasehold on a large area of the north docklands. The property is being sold by a tender process, and no agent has been retained. NAMA is retaining the freehold of the site.
"Now that prime office rents have gone above €34 per sq ft, it has begun to make sense again for developers to build new offices," says Lisney's Cathal Daughton.
Residential site sales also show signs of price increases for well-located sites and CBRE attributes these rises to "bidders factoring in expected rental and capital appreciation into their bid prices."
Ms Hunt also points out that the outturn for 2014 as a whole could be significantly boosted if some larger tracts of land such as some in Cherrywood in south Dublin and other plots come to the market.
Cherrywood's SDZ status will allow developers to avail of the fast track planning permission without delays or costs from dealing with objectors. Those sections of Cherrywood which are earmarked for lower density housing are likely to be the most sought after in the near term. Other areas within the SDZ with commercial and high density development targets may not be as attractive for developers with short-term requirements.
Possible purchasers of Cherrywood lands may compare values with the €12.5m which developer Michael O'Flynn paid for a 12.8 acre on the Bray Road in Cabinteely. Backed by funding from Goodbody stockbrokers, He plans to build 150 new homes on it.
At that price of around €976,000 per acre it works out at the equivalent of €83,300 per house site.
Clearly, having planning permission on a site is becoming even more important than it has been historically. With the lack of suitable office space in Dublin at the moment, and with prices increasing rapidly, developers are looking to build quickly, and get their new buildings sold or rented out while the market is still buoyant.
Given the lead in time a new build can take, even without having to go through the planning process, there is a huge incentive for sellers to have some form of planning permission secured for a site before they bring it to market.
Nearby to Cherrywood, smaller plots with planning permission are going for much higher prices per house site. For instance earlier in quarter two a 0.23 acre plot at The Croft, Park na Silla, Loughlinstown, near the N11 was auctioned by Savills for €720,000. With planning permission for four semi-detached houses, this works out at €180,000 per house site.
Demand and prices have also improved for residential sites in north Kildare commuter towns. For instance a 3.4 acre site at Hazelhatch Road, Celbridge, was auctioned by Knight Frank for €2.8m or more than €823,500 per acre. A major plus was its planning permission for 25 houses and 30 apartments.
Also in north Kildare a five acre site at Dunboyne Road, Maynooth, sold for €2.62m or €524,000 per acre in May. Its planning permission for a high density development of 83 apartments, 11 maisonettes and a crèche had expired. With strong demand for houses in the university town, it is expected that the site may accommodate 55 houses which would work out at about €47,636 per house site.
Joint agents Savills and REA Coonan had been guiding €900,000 prior to auction.
Knight Frank with JP & M Doyle sold a 13.55 acre site in Blessington, Co. Wicklow, for €2.1m. It includes 2.55 acres which are zoned town centre and have planning permission for a nursing home.
The remaining 11 acres are zoned residential and have permission for 49 houses and six apartments.
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Our friends over at HardOCP have scored big with the first exclusive pictures of the upcoming GeForce 9800 GX2, and it's one big card. You can't really see much from the pictures, as the entire card is encased in plastic and it has a large rear-mounted fan.
It's a dual slot card and only has two DVI connectors, which are located at the middle of each of the two blanking plates on the card, which looks quite odd. It relies on a two PCB design, which makes sense in terms of the location of the DVI connectors, but you can't really see anything as such clearly in the pictures.
According to HardOCP, the 9800 GX2 is using a pair of 65nm G92 GPUs, the same that you can find in the new 8800 GT/GTS. The card has 1GB of memory and a total of 256 Stream processors. which indicates that this is a dual G92-based 8800 GTS.
Their source claims that the card will be at least 30 percent faster than the 8800 Ultra, although this will, of course, depend on how well the game supports SLI. It will also be possible to connect two of these cards together for some Quad SLI action. This new card is expected to launch sometime in February or March.
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Bedford has been named the most generous town in the UK based on donations given through charity site JustGiving.
Big-hearted residents in the Bedfordshire county town have been recognised with the title for their outstanding charitable contributions.
A total of 41,631 people with a Bedford postcode donated £1,145,970 to charitable causes on the JustGiving site in the year to May 2014.
The analysis ranked towns and cities according to donations for number of givers compared to the local population.
Bedford's donations equated to 52 per cent of the town's overall population, according to JustGiving.
Charlie Wells, chief marketing officer at the online donation site, praised Bedford residents for their generosity.
"Looking at this data has been a real insight into how the nation donates, with some towns and cities emerging as giving hot spots," he said.
"Online giving is transforming the way people give, helping causes to reach more people, raise more money and inspire more giving."
Stephen Sutton raised more than £4 million through his JustGiving page
The data only reflects donations through JustGiving, the UK's largest charity fundraising website, and not through other methods.
Richard Fuller, the MP for Bedford & Kempston, told the BBC he was "thrilled" by the findings.
UK's most generous places based on the number of givers v population
1. Bedford (52 per cent of population)
2. Cambridge (38 per cent of population)
3. Reading (36 per cent of population)
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7. Norwich (28 per cent of population)
8. Woking (28 per cent of population)
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Did you agree with the judges choices in last night's Bafta TV awards?
Victoria Wood was one of the night's big winners, carrying off the best actress and best single drama awards for her ITV1 show Housewive 49. To add to an RTS single drama award earlier this year - it's not that often that the two organisations are so much in agreement.
In the best comedy performance category, Bafta was more true to form, going for Ricky Gervais, where the RTS gave the equivalent gong to his Extras co-star, Stephen Merchant. But should the award have gone to Liz Smith for her turn in The Royle Family: Queen of Sheba?
Perhaps the biggest surprise of the night was two awards for Sky One: Ross Kemp on Gangs with best factual series, and Hogfather - an undoubted critical and ratings success - for the best interactivity.
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And regional show Granada Reports' Morecambe Bay coverage, which won the news category ahead of network bulletins from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4.
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March 13th is known as K9 Veterans Day
More and more in the news, we hear of canine veterans doing amazing things in the field. To spread the word on how active canines are and how necessary they are to keep people safe, March 13th is known is K9 Veterans Day.
A retired military working dog trainer named Joseph Wright first came up with the idea for K9 Veterans Day. He believed that canines deserved recognition for all their hard work and dedication, so he chose March 13th, since it is also the official birthday of the US Army K9 Corps. K9 Veterans Day is not only meant to recognize canine soldiers, but police dogs, customs dogs, border patrol dogs, and other working dogs who have been trained to do important jobs. Since passing away in 2009, Wright's widow, Sally Wright, has continued his work to have K9 Veterans Day be celebrated nationwide.
Up until 2003 when President Bill Clinton signed a bill, dogs who worked in the military and other law enforcement were regarded as army surplus. Increasingly, states and cities are taking steps to make sure the lives of dogs who serve and have served our country are given their due. Jacksonville FL, and San Diego, CA, have mandates proclaiming March 13th as K9 Veterans Day. Following in Jacksonville's footsteps, the states of Florida and New Jersey also made March 13th a day to honor veteran dogs. To put into perspective how many dogs have worked in the military in the past few decades, Kentucky's State Resolution 232 states, "Over 30,000 dogs have served in the military since March 13, 1942, with over 1,500 and 4,000 dogs deployed during the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, respectively. As of 2012, approximately 2,800 active duty dogs have been deployed around the world, including over 600 in Iraq and Afghanistan."
With the increase in social media, stories of canine police partners have been circulated online about dogs who have lost their lives to violence who are given a hero's funeral procession. Videos and photos are taken of older canine veterans who are given a police salute as they are carried into a vets office to pass away peacefully. Websites including change.org encourage people to sign a petition to spread awareness of the importance of March 13th as well as other petitions to keep canines safe in the field. And just a few weeks ago, the internet rallied to help a police officer who was heartbroken when he found out he couldn't take his police dog with him when he retired. Whether Matt Hickey can keep the police dog, named Ajax, with him remains to be seen but the full article can be read at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/police-dog-ajax_us_56b0ec00e4b0a1b96203d58d.
While the dedication of working canine veterans continues to spread, there is still much work to do to make sure that past, present and future canine veterans are shown respect, so we all must contribute.


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Ornate butterflyfish
The Ornate butterflyfish, Chaetodon ornatissimus, is a butterflyfish of the family Chaetodontidae found in the Indo-Pacific oceans from Sri Lanka to the Hawaiian, Marquesan and Ducie islands, north to southern Japan, south to Lord Howe and Rapa islands, and throughout Micronesia, at depths down to 118.11 ft (36 m). Its length is up to 7.87 in (20 cm).
The Ornate butterflyfish is white with orange to orange-brown oblique bands on the sides. Two broad yellow-edged black bars are on the head, one running across the eye and another on the snout.
It occurs in clear waters and coral-rich areas of lagoon and seaward reefs; however it is only common in seaward reefs. Juveniles are solitary, living among branching corals, while adults are almost always in pairs and are home-ranging. They feed exclusively on coral tissue.
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For whatever reason, you probably have a favorite computing and/or mobile platform. Maybe you're not fanatical about it, but there are definitely people who take up the cause of their favorite platform with fervor comparable to that most commonly exhibited by frenzied televangelists and wide-eyed lunatics who yell at parked cars outside the liquor store.
If your favorite platform doesn't match their favorite platform, you're the heretic in their eyes. Which is really just a shame because… doesn't the world have enough discord without inventing new and arbitrary ways to sow even more? We should be using technology to get us out of the ruts that our humanity has wrought and improve the situation for all. Instead, some choose to use it as a divider rather than a uniter. Have you ever had someone attempt to belittle you because you used (or didn't use) Windows, Linux, OS X, iOS, Android, Chrome OS, DOS, UNIX, AmigaOS, or… whatever? Did you have the good sense to tell them to stuff it? Good for you!
If you've still maintained your sanity in spite of being someone else's idea of a blasphemer, then I salute you! It can be a rough road to travel. Being open minded about platforms means that you're poised to enjoy the rewards of other platforms if the time ever comes for you to switch. And really, if you weren't open to dabbling in other platforms, how would you even know what you're missing by sticking to just one? It's like Mom always used to say: "how do you know you don't like [insert weird food here] if you've never even tried it?"
But even if you're open to the idea of switching platforms, it's possible (and quite natural) that you're a little overwhelmed by the prospect — especially if you've only really made use of one over the long haul. So how do you know when it's time to switch platforms? Having done so more than once in my life, I've got a few ideas…
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Canada iPhone 4 Launch Delayed? Other International Delays to Follow?
Update : O2 UK Confirms only selling to existing customers. Stock VERY limited in UK.
9TO5Mac have noticed that the Canadian Apple Store has changed the status of it's iPhone 4 availability date from "Coming in July" to "Coming Soon".
We are also hearing stories of seriously constrained supplies for the iPhone 4 in the UK and Europe. I know this personally as I am trying to source an iPhone myself from the UK, as a backup to one possibly coming for me from the US.
It seems that Apple is facing the same kind of supply problems that plagued it with the iPad, and that we may yet see a delayed, or staged, International roll out for the iPhone 4 yet.
We'll keep you posted.
Have you got a confirmed order for your iPhone in Canada or elsewhere? Let us know in the comments[9to5mac]


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Jason Wingrove
This is 2nd teaser for a documentary in production on the Australian ocean pool culture in Sydney. Early morning at North Narrabeen, a public pool in Sydney's northern beaches. Getting there at 6am there were already swimmers in the winter water.
part one is here: vimeo.com/12158872
Jason Wingrove
Freelance TVC /Film Director,DP
Gear: 5DMkII, 50mm f/1.2L, 70-200mm f2.8L. Always wide open with Vari NDII filter to keep it there. Just a tripod, but no other rig, Follow focus, viewfinder or monitor. Flat custom picture style.


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Hi guys! Remember that nasty frozen shoulder that's preventing me from lifting? Well, screw that – I'm racing instead!
I've been using the Couch to 10K app from Zen Labs. I was on Week 1 when I blogged about my frozen shoulder. This is week 5, except I'm not following it this week…I've been breaking in my new Mizuno Wave Legend running shoes instead!
Normally I wear Mizuno Wave Riders, but these were on clearance. It's not always a good idea to wear running shoes that you haven't been fitted for, but reviews said the difference between Wave Legend and Wave Rider are minimal, so I went for it. And I'm glad I did! They're a little bit stiffer in the sole, which is absolutely perfect for me. I can't stand soft-soled shoes. None of that minimalist shoe business for me.
I've run 5 miles a day for 3 days in a row with my new shoes. I'm a bit slower than I'd like to be, but I've got time to improve. Right now, I'm just
catching up on my soap getting back into the swing of running.
I've got three races scheduled so far:
- 10K on July 23
- Half Marathon on August 27
- 10K on October 1
I might look for some more 10ks…I forgot how exciting it is to train for a race!
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The Writing Successful Grants KnowledgeBase is an online resource aiding education professionals in their pursuit of public and private grants to support local programs. Its five elements contain information and resources that assist the grant seeker with developing their project, writing the grant proposal and managing the grant upon its award.
Purpose: Writing a successful grant application begins with understanding the reason for seeking grant funding from a governmental agency or private foundation. If the grant seeker is a school, the organizational assessment undertaken for improvement planning may provide useful reasons for the desired funding.
The grant seekers organizational assessment must address the subject area the funding organization has an interest in supporting. In regards to a governmental grant proposal, the assessment must address the request for proposal's focus.
Element 1 outlines the tasks involved in creating an organizational assessment.
Purpose: Prior to writing the grant application, the project lead should pre-plan how the application will be developed, a timeline for completing it, and an internal review process for the application. Element 3 outlines the steps in creating a road map for the application process.
Guideline: Evaluation addresses whether the program has accomplished what it set out to do in the way it was intended. Evaluation provides the grantee an opportunity to make mid course adjustments in their execution. The evaluation also supports requests for continued funding. For the funding source, evaluation offers a way to assess how well its resources are being utilized. The project plan should include describe the evaluation process design.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook includes a list of five questions the foundation suggests are critical for all evaluation plans to consider over the life cycle of a project.
Possible Project-Level Evaluation Activities
This worksheet from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook lists possible evaluation activities for each project stage from planning to policy.
Suggested Components of an Evaluation Plan
This checklist contains a list of elements that might be contained in the evaluation plan.
This worksheet from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook is intended to help project planners develop a budget for project evaluation.
Alternate format: PDF
Program Evaluation Planning Worksheets
These worksheets takes the grant seeker through a process of thinking through how to conduct a project or program evaluation.
Data Collection Considerations
This resource from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Evaluation Handbook provides a list of things to consider when deciding upon data collection methods and instruments.
This link is to program evaluation standards published by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation.
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
FERPA is a federal law designed to protect the privacy of student education records. The law applies to all schools receiving funds under any applicable U.S. Department of Education program. School districts should ensure all staff members and outside contractors, such as counselors and interpreters, are familiar with the applicable policies on the privacy of student records.
Protection of Human Subjects in Research
A research activity involves human subjects if the activity is research, as defined in the U.S. Department of Education's regulations, and the research activity will involve use of human subjects, as defined in the regulations. Such activities must follow the Regulations for the Protection of Human Subjects. When developing a program evaluation, it is important to keep these restrictions in mind.
This document contains tips for evaluators from designing the evaluation to reporting findings.
The Program Manager's Guide to Evaluation
This guide reviews the basic elements of the evaluation process. Though written to fulfill program goals of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, it may be useful as a basic primer on evaluation.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook
This handbook provides a model for program evaluation developed by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.
Purpose: The grant proposal brings life to the project idea. It is the vehicle the grant seeker uses to sell their idea to the prospective funding sources. Element 4 outlines the steps to develop and submit a successful grant application. Once the application has been submitted, follow-up with the funder is essential.


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Rural communities in Arizona are wonderful places to live and work, which is why 900,000 people (16 percent of the population) call them home. These small towns, farming communities and frontier areas are places where neighbors know each other, listen to each other, respect each other and work together to benefit the greater good.
Rural communities provide the rest of the country with a wealth of services and commodities, and they are the economic engine that has helped the United State become the world economic power it is today.
National Rural Health Day is Nov. 15, and the Center for Rural Health, or CRH, at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, is celebrating all week long.
Gov. Jan Brewer proclaimed the week of Nov. 12-16 as Rural Health Week to recognize Arizona's growing rural population and to honor the work that is being done to assist these communities.
"National Rural Health Day gives us a chance to bring to light the unique health care challenges of people living in rural Arizona," said Neil MacKinnon, director of the Center for Rural Health. "We want to use this day to showcase the efforts of rural health-care providers, the Arizona State Office of Rural Health and other rural stakeholders to address those challenges."
On Nov. 13, Don Hughes, policy advisor for health care and executive director for the Arizona Health Insurance Exchange for the Office of the Governor Janice K. Brewer, spoke to employees at the CRH and Arizona Health Sciences Center about the major health care policy issues facing Arizona.
Hughes said, "I'm excited to present at the Center for Rural Health and to inform the public about the current healthcare policy issues and the impact they are making on our state." Watch this video to view his presentation.
Rural communities have unique health-care needs, and the RHC is working to address these problems. Today more than ever, Arizona's rural communities must address accessibility issues, a lack of health-care providers, the needs of an aging population suffering from a greater number of chronic conditions, and larger percentages of un- and underinsured citizens.
In addition, rural hospitals – the primary providers of care – struggle daily as declining reimbursement rates and disproportionate funding levels make it challenging to serve their residents.
For more than 25 years, the CRH has served Arizona through its mission to promote the health of rural and medically underserved individuals, families and communities through service, education and research. As the designated home of the State Office of Rural Health, the CRH has a mandate to improve health care for all residents of rural Arizona.


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Sunday, July 22, 2007
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Firefighters from Gun Barrel City, Payne Springs, Mabank and Enchanted Oaks battle a fire that damaged a single-wide mobile home at 150 Ben Lacy in Siesta Shores in Gun Barrel City early Tuesday. One person was home when the 10:30 a.m. blaze began. No injuries were reported.
Mabank volunteer firefighters are reflected in the window of a fire engine, after gaining control of the fire. Firefighters didn't clear the scene until 1:30 p.m., according to Gun Barrel City firefighter Dustin Conner.
Gun Barrel City code enforcement officer Jacqui Calloway pours water on the head of a sweltering firefighter taking a break during the one-hour battle.


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Last Saturday, we hosted an amazing group of young women for a "Come-and-See" Day. "It is really a big step to help move forward in one's life," shared one attendee.
A Come and See Day is a great opportunity for young women to learn more about consecrated religious life, the Dominican Order and in particular about cloistered Dominican life. Attendees follow our daily horarium, beginning with the daily Mass and the Divine Office. Talks given by our nuns, priests, and friars fill the work/study periods in our schedule. Topics range from how to know your vocation, what is consecrated life in general and cloistered life specifically (its dignity and its place in the Church), different aspects of consecrated life, such as the virtue of chastity, and what makes cloistered Dominican life different from other Orders and its place in the Order of Preachers.
Father David Schunk, S.T.L., vocation director for the Archdiocese of San Francisco gave our candidates guidance and many helpful tools for their discernment
Brother Michael James Rivera, O.P. gave a talk on the Virtue of Chasity
During our afternoon recreation, the community is available to visit in the parlor, sharing vocation stories and answering all kinds of questions about our life. All this is taken to silent prayer in the chapel before our Eucharistic Lord and the day ends with Vespers and Benediction.
If you, or someone you know, missed the last "Come and See" Day, our next one is scheduled for October 21st. For more information and to register, contact our vocations directress, Sister Joseph Marie, O.P. You have nothing to lose, so what are you waiting for?
We also want to send out a big "thank you" to everyone who has been praying for these days and for the young women who attend them. Keep praying – your prayers are and will continue to bear fruit!


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What is SEO?
According to Wikipedia, SEO is "the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine's unpaid results".
SEO is the process of optimizing your online content, so that a search engine likes to show it as a top result for searches of a certain keyword.
Niel Patel breaks it down even further in his post, "SEO Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide".
Research: Find the Right Keywords
You want to uncover keywords that:
- Have a high search volume (people are looking for the keywords)
- Have low competition (smaller amount of results will mean your chances of ranking higher improve)
- Are supported by your content (the keywords are relevant to your site)
The Long Tail
Popularized by Chris Anderson, the Long Tail describes a phenomenon where lots of low traffic keywords can collectively send you more visitors than a few high-traffic keywords.
For example, although Amazon may get thousands of visits from the keyword "DVD," they get millions of visits from all of the individual DVD titles (i.e., Dark Knight, Toy Story, etc.). Individually, none of those titles get anywhere close to the traffic of a term like, "DVD," but collectively, their volume is a lot larger than any one keyword.
How does the long tail apply to you?
When you combine them all, your long tail (unpopular) keywords should make up roughly 80% of your traffic. So, when you're researching keywords, don't just focus on the ones getting massive amounts of traffic. Take note of some of the less popular ones too, and then incorporate them into your overall strategy.
Read the book: The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
Create Great Content
After you pick the right keywords, it's important to start creating your content.
Search engines have bots that automatically crawl your website, "reading" it to find out what it's about and then deciding which keywords each of your pages should rank for. You can influence their "decisions" by strategically optimizing your content for certain keywords.
Pay attention to:
- Titles – Create eye-catching titles that raise the reader's interest. You only have one chance to make a great first impression.
- Keywords – Pick keywords that will help bring people to your site and are relevant. Doing your keyword research up front is a crucial part of great content.
- Links – Link to quality sites that compliment what your website is about. It'll encourage sites in your niche to link to you as well.
- Quality – [Important] Try to publish unique and quality content. This prompts users to come to your site because they cannot easily find the content elsewhere.
- Freshness – If you are publishing content that does not age or become outdated, that's great, but you also need to add new content on a regular basis. If you don't have the time to add content to your website, consider adding a question and answer section or a blog to your website. (Hubspot has done a benchmark in 2015 that showed that posting more frequently improves Google rankings.)
And most importantly, do not publish someone else's content on your site. This creates duplicate content, and search engines can penalize you for it.
Make Use of HTML Tags
Search engine bots don't just read your website's text. They also read your website's code. So making sure your code is clean and readable is an important part of SEO.
Your WordPress theme should help with most of this. However, I highly recommend a plugin called Yoast SEO. The Yoast SEO plugin provides you with on page/post editing tools that help guide you through the following details.
- Title Tags – Title tags encase the title of your site. To demonstrate, this is the code from eventespresso.com: Event Espresso > WordPress Event Registration Calendar Ticketing Manager PluginHere, Event Espresso puts the emphasis on his name and the name of the site. If you wanted to find it in the search engines, you would probably search for, "Event Espresso" or "WordPress Event Registration" or "WordPress Event Ticketing".Tip: The Yoast SEO plugin has a built-in tool for titles
- Meta Tags – The main meta tag you should be concerned with is called the, "meta description tag." It doesn't have much of an impact on your search engine ranking, but it tells visitors what your site is about, so it can have a big impact on whether they decide to click through or not.When creating meta tag descriptions, make sure your keywords are in your description, using full sentences. Don't make the description too long, though, or it might get cut off. If possible, also try to make each page have a unique meta description.Tip: The Yoast SEO plugin has a built-in tool that adds customizable meta tags.
- Headings – These are very similar to headings in a book, but these come in a specific order. H1, H2, H3, H4, and so on, with H1 starting the page as the main heading. The remaining heading codes descend to lower level headings on the site.For example:

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Note the pattern. The more specific your content becomes, the higher the number of the heading.
Generally, there should only be one H1 tag on each page, and you can have as many h2s, h3s, and h4s as needed. Also, make sure your headings contain keywords and are relevant to the content on your website.
- Site Maps – Sitemaps are like a roadmap for search engines. They give bots directions to all of the different pages on your website, making sure they find everything.There are two types of sitemaps you can create: HTML sitemaps and XML sitemaps. The main difference is XML sitemaps are coded specifically for search engines to read, while HTML sitemaps are easy for people to read too. You can link to them, giving the visitor an overview of everywhere they go.If you have less than a few hundred pages, you should place a link to each page in your HTML sitemap. If your web site has a few thousand pages or more, just link to the most important pages.XML sitemaps, on the other hand, contain every page of your web site, even if your web site has a million pages. You can use tools like the XML Sitemap Creator to automatically create a sitemap for you. Once your XML sitemap is created, you then want to submit it to Google Webmaster Central and Bing so that the major search engines can crawl and index your web site.
Tip: Yoast SEO has a built-it site map generator.
- Domain Name – Domain names that contain keywords within them rank a lot higher than domains without keywords. Exact match domain names rank even higher.But there's a cost: exact match domains aren't very unique. The reason why you see many companies use made-up words for their domain name is you can build a brand around it, instead of fighting the existing meaning.Which is better? It depends. If your traffic comes purely from search engines, then using an exact match domain name may be a smart decision for you. For example Diamonds.com and Hotels.com will always rank well for "diamonds" and "hotels" because their domain name is keyword rich.If SEO is only a small part of your strategy, however, go with something more unique. A decade ago, no one was searching for "Google," but now it's a huge brand. The same goes for sites like Zappos and Zillow.
- URL Structure – URLs are another important but often overlooked part of SEO.If your URLs are messy, search engines will have a hard time crawling them, and if search engines have a hard time crawling them, they will not be able to index your site, which means you will not rank in the search engines.Keep these factors in mind to make your URLs more search engine friendly:
- URLs should not contain extraneous characters ( $ @ ! * % = ? )
- Shorter URLS typically rank better than longer ones
- Numbers and letters should only be used in URLs.
- Do not use underscores. Search engines prefer dashes.
- Sub-domains can rank better than sub directories.
- Site Structure – The way you link web pages together will make a big impact on your rankings. Here are some tips when cross-linking your web site:
- Links within your content tend to carry more weight than links within a sidebar or footer.
- Try to keep the number of links on each page under 100.
- No-follow outgoing links that are not relevant (do not have quality content). For example, links to a Feedburner page.
Other SEOs also talk about no-following internal links, such as to their terms of service, but pagerank sculpting does not work anymore. If you want to block pages such as your terms of service, the best way to do this is to exclude it in your robots.txt file.
- Alt Tags on Images – For search engine bots to properly index images, alt tags need to be added to each image, adding a brief description. For example, if there was an image of a "blue widget", I would tell the search engine that the image is a blue widget by using an alt tag. It would look something like this:
In addition, make sure your image names are relevant to the image. The picture of the blue widget would be called bluewidget.jpg instead of image3.jpg.
Links are maybe the most important part of SEO. The more web sites that link to your web site, the higher your web pages will rank.
The reason links have a high value in SEO is that it is easy for anyone to do research, modify their content, or create content, but is hard to convince hundreds or thousands of web sites to link to you. In the eyes of a search engine, the more trustworthy, non-spammy sites are linking to you, the more authority you must have on the topic.
Here are some things you need to know. In general:
- Links within content are more effective than links in a sidebar or footer
- Links from related sites are better than links from non-relevant sites
- Anchor text plays the most important role in link building. If you want to rank for "blue widget" then you want the anchor text of the link to be "blue widget".
Here are some things to avoid:
- Links from spammy or irrelevant sites.
- Site wide links can hurt more than they may help.
- If all of your links are rich in anchor text, it can hurt you.
- Reciprocal links (I link to you and you link to me) are not too effective.
- If you buy text links and get caught, you can get banned from a search engine.
Here are a few ways you can increase your link count:
- Social media – getting on sites like Digg or StumbleUpon don't just drive a ton of traffic. The increase in visibility also improves your chances of getting linked to.
- Directories – There are many directories on the web. Take the time to submit your web site to the ones that compliment your content.
- The top 100 – If you want to rank for a specific keyword, the best links you can get are from sites that already rank in the top 100 search results for that keyword. Granted, some of the sites that rank for the term you are trying to rank for are your competitors, so they will not link to you, but some will not be your competition and you can always shoot them a nice email asking them to link to you.
- Forums – Many forums allow you to create signatures, in which you can link back to your web site. As long as those links are not no-followed, they will help with your rankings.
- Competition – The easiest way to get links is to see who links to your competition and write them an email telling them the benefits of your web site compared to your competition. Roughly, 5% of the web sites you email will also add your link.
- Dead links – There are billions of links on the web, so expect a good portion of those links to die over time. Web sites go down and many of the links pointing to that web site are still active. If you email those web sites informing them of the dead link, and that your content is similar, there is a good chance they will replace the dead link to one going to your website.
Be patient.
It takes time for search engines to update their records, as they have to crawl billions of websites.
Also, note that it will take time to figure out what works for your site. What works for site A might not work for site B. There aren't any shortcuts. If you do anything shady to speed things up, eventually you will get caught and punished. It's never worth it.
A better approach?
- Figure out what people are looking for
- Create a site that gives it to them
- 3. Optimize for search engines, so they help people find you
It's not just smart SEO. It's what search engines want you to do.
Ultimately, their goal is to have the best websites for every given topic show up at the top. So if you work hard to create the best website, and then promote it effectively, eventually they will catch up.
Just keep the above points in mind to help guide you. It takes time, and it's a lot of hard work, but if you stick with it, it does pay off.
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A combination of an audio, web and video conference, hybrid meetings make your business more efficient with consequent money saving in the long term. For this reason, they are a growing trend in the conferencing industry. In this article, we will outline briefly the main features of this new way of hosting conferences.
How do you usually host your meetings? Maybe you have your preferred way; or, more probably, you choose among a web, audio or video conference according to each individual situation. What you should do is to use hybrid meetings instead. But what are hybrid meetings?
A hybrid meeting is simply a combination of an audio, web, and video conference at one time. They give managers the opportunity to hold meetings with a face-to-face component as well as a virtual component. In this way it becomes possible to change a meeting from a one-way dictation to something similar to a conversation among several people. Participants may exchange messages with each other in background, for example by Twitter, and see them shown on a screen in real time. This is crucial especially for the new generation of millennials, who are used to take an active role during a conference.
The main benefits of hybrid meetings are an increased flexibility and participation against decreased costs. Let's see why.
- An increased flexibility is a natural consequence of the fact that the participants have more ways to join your meeting, being they able to choose the most convenient among personal attendance, phone call or web chat through pc.
- An increased participation is not only the immediate consequence of an increased flexibility, but also an indirect effect of the augmented interactivity among speakers and participants. The conference becomes similar to a group discussion, where not only every participant can actively contribute, but he is also naturally led to be more attentive.
- Cost savings come from the opportunity to avoid paying per minute conference costs through the utilization of the computer audio.
Another important effect of hybrid meetings is the team productivity improvement, being staff members more involved and subsequently more motivated.
However, hybrid meetings are still an emerging media that is far from having disclosed all its potentialities. As meeting professionals continue to experiment with this new media, new opportunities will be found.
If you would like to learn more about how hybrid meetings can benefit your business, please visit R-HUB website http://www.rhubcom.com, where you are going to find more resources.


text: In a 12 team league I have been offered Markov for Pouliot. Stats we use are G,A,+/-,PIM,PPP,SHP,SOG and Hits. We start 4 D. Currently on my roster are Timmonen, Gudas, Trouba, Wisniewski and Zidlicky. In minors I have Ryan Murphy, Pouliot, Koekkoek, Connor Murphy, Despres and Oleksiak. Finished 11 out of 12 last year and am trying to be a bit more competitive while I wait for the youngsters. I imagine Timo will retire. Do I have enough depth to make this trade and is the value there? Thoughts appreciated.


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I soaked he grapevine in the tub overnight. The next day rapped them in tight coils, tied them with twine to hold the shape and let it dry for another night. That stuff is a mess. It leaves wood droppings everywhere and the wood sometimes snaps when you are trying to wrap tight coils.
The next day, I cut the twine holding the coil and it basically held its shape. When I stacked the coils on top of each other, I could CLEARLY see that this wasn't gonna work. It looked like a stack of coiled branches. I needed something to hold it up like a stick, so I looked outside and saw some bamboo stakes in the ground that held up my tomatoes in the summer. I ran outside and ripped that sucker out of the ground (boy was that frozen in there). The stick wouldn't stand up by itself so I decided I needed a base.
Lucky I do so many projects that I have stuff left over from something I did years ago. I had cement and class tiles, so I mixed the cement, poured it on a paper plate and put on the glass tiles for a decorative effect.
After I hot glued my stick onto my base, and tried to figure out how to hot glue the grapevine to the base. I realized, unfortunately, this STILL wasn't gonna work. I needed more grapevine, and honestly, I've already spent 2 days on this project, and there was no guarantee that it would look right anyway, so I put this in the "Abandoned" craft pile at my house.
At least my elf now has a stripper pole.
Grade: F
Skill Level: High
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Frustration Level: High (took too long to make)
Cost: $
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Frustration Level: High (took too long to make)
Cost: $
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Okay, So there's a shirt I saw online to purchase, but I really want to make it.
Pics there---> http://imgur.com/a/ZbB4f
I tried to include lots of pictures to show the angles and how the shirt hangs and the pockets.
Does anybody know what type of materials this is made of?
It looks like the front and back are two different materials, but I'm not sure.
I'm pretty new at sewing, so please be as descriptive as possible with tips hints or ideas.
Thanks in advance ^^


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Film director Hurst awarded blue plaque
Legendary filmmaker Brian Desmond Hurst was honoured with a blue plaque at Queen's Film Theatre last week.
The Directors Guild of Great Britain plaque was unveiled at the Queen's Film Theatre on April 13, in a ceremony which included a screening of two of his films and an introduction by biographer Allan Esler Smith.
Born in east Belfast in 1895 as Hans Hurst, Brian Desmond Hurst lost his parents at a young age and was left to fend for himself. He worked in a linen factory on Bloomfield Street, before enlisting in the 6th Royal Irish Rifles in 1914. A year later he survived the battalion's cruel slaughter on the slopes of Gallipoli.
After the war, he trained as an artist in Canada and Paris and later moved to Hollywood. He returned to the UK in the early 1930s as a film director.
With over 30 films to his credit, Hurst is Northern Ireland's greatest film director of the 20th Century.
His movies were not always free of controversy — in fact Ourselves Alone (1936) was banned in Northern Ireland and Tell Tale Heart (1934) was too horrible to show in many cinemas.
Scrooge, Hurst's 1951 version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, is perhaps his most lastingly popular film.
One of the films made in 1943 and shown on Thursday was A Letter From Ulster, a story on relations between the locals and the American troops based in Northern Ireland at the time.
Hurst made this film with fellow Ulsterman William MacQuitty, who was also honoured this week with a blue plaque in Bangor.
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WASHINGTON — All four of Mississippi's U.S. House members voted for a farm bill yesterday, saying it's not perfect but it's a good compromise to keep agriculture and nutrition programs running for the next five years. The bill passed the House with bipartisan support and moves to the Senate, where Mississippi's Thad Cochran was one of the lead negotiators. President ...Read More »
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Professor: Catfish production plummeted over last decade
GREENVILLE — An agriculture professor says Mississippi's catfish industry has been devastated by Asian imports. Jimmy Avery says that in 2002, the state had 111,500 acres devoted to the catfish industry. By 2012, that was down to 51,200 acres. Avery is a Mississippi State University Extension Service professor and director of the Southern Regional Aquaculture Center. The Delta Democrat Times ...Read More »
Cochran welcomes Commerce antidumping decision, but wants more
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) is supporting the U.S. Department of Commerce antidumping decision that he feels will give farm-raised catfish producers in Mississippi and the nation some relief from unfair, low-priced foreign imports. Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade Francisco Sánchez last week informed Cochran that the U.S. Department of Commerce had completed its latest antidumping duty ...Read More »
Researchers look at improving catfish farmers' profitability
STONEVILLE — Mississippi State University scientists looking to help catfish producers keep costs low and quality high have found catfish can thrive for the first six weeks after hatching by feeding on naturally occurring zooplankton. Several aquaculture researchers at MSU's Thad Cochran National Warmwater Aquaculture Center compared the growth and survival of two groups of recently hatched catfish, called fry. ...Read More »
Undersecretary: 'I understand the frustration' over catfish inspections
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) has received word that the U.S. Department of Agriculture could complete a final rule for implementing a catfish inspection program by this October, Cochran reports in a release. Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, USDA undersecretary for food safety, today told Cochran the USDA Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) is committed to issuing a final rule ...Read More »
Catfish farmers challenged by markets lost to imports
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Catfish farmers continue to address production challenges as the industry works to reclaim markets lost to imported fish. Jeremy Robbins, vice president of The Catfish Institute based in Jackson, said farmers have struggled in recent years with high feed prices, their No. 1 expense, while dealing with increased competition from imports. "There is no denying the quality ...Read More »
Senator presses ag secretary again on fish inspections
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) has once again pressed the U.S. secretary of agriculture to explain why a catfish inspection program authorized five years ago has not been implemented. Cochran, who has been fighting to ensure a fair and level playing field for U.S. catfish producers, raised the issue again with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack at a ...Read More »
Wanna noodle? Season starts today
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — It's called grabbling, hand-grabbing or noodling. Whatever it's called, catching catfish by hand begins today in Mississippi. The season ends July 15. State wildlife officials say hand-grabbers can catch channel, blue and flathead catfish. John Skains is a biologist with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. Skains says a valid sport fishing license is required ...Read More »
Senator 'encourages' FDA administrator to start catfish inspections
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) has encouraged the head of the Food and Drug Administration to work with her federal counterparts to implement a catfish inspection program that ensures foreign imports are safe for consumers. Cochran addressed the catfish inspection issue, as well as impending menu nutrition labeling regulations, during a Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee hearing to ...Read More »
Catfish group 'stunned' by report from GAO, White House
INDIANOLA — Catfish Farmers of America (CFA) are disputing a recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Obama Administration that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) catfish inspections are a "duplicative program" and should be eliminated. "Catfish Farmers of America is stunned by the misinformation recently distributed by the GAO and White House regarding USDA catfish inspections," said ...Read More »


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Pollster Scott Rasmussen just dropped some eye-opening survey results:
57% Fear Government Will Use NSA Data to Harass Political Opponents
There is little public support for the sweeping and unaccountable nature of the NSA surveillance program along with concerns about how the data will be used.
- Fifty-seven percent (57%) of voters nationwide believe it is likely the NSA data will be used by other government agencies to harass political opponents. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 30% consider it unlikely and 14% are not sure.
- 33% approve of the NSA program to fight terrorism while 50% are opposed.
- 26% now believe it is necessary to collect data on millions of ordinary Americans to fight terrorism. Sixty-four percent (64%) believe it would be better to narrow the program so that it monitors only those with ties to terrorists or suspected terrorists.
- Seventy-four percent (74%) believe the government should be required to show a judge the need for monitoring the calls of specific Americans.
What this tells us is that the American people have grown very cynical about their government. And it's hard to blame them.


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Sometimes the right people land on your front door at just the right time. That's what happened when I was thinking about a book trailer and two fabulous HelpX volunteers came to stay with us: Emilie and Jeremie.
I didn't realize right away just how kind the universe was being.
Emilie and Jeremie are two of the nicest, smartest, most passionate people CJ and I have ever met. They're a young French couple, and we loved having them at our house. Not only did they work incredibly hard around the property, but we thoroughly enjoyed their company. To top it all off, they took turns cooking us some amazing meals.
As we got to know them, we learned that while Jeremie is a physics technician, he's passionate about photography, especially landscapes and nature. He showed us his photography, and it's really good. Emilie has a kind, gentle spirit with a beautiful smile, and she's a talented professional video editor and a bit of a director as well. They're both visual storytellers.
They told us how they were filming a training video for a local abattoir, and it suddenly dawned on me.
"Have you guys ever made a book trailer?"
Together they made me a beautiful book trailer, and I'm really pleased with it. As far as I'm concerned, they're a pair of geniuses.
Check out the clip below. What do you think?
Thanks Emilie and Jeremie! Big thanks also to Random House New Zealand for supporting this crazy idea.
Director and editor: Emilie Giglio
Videographer: Jeremie Freiburger
Music: Feel Good Acoustic Ukulele from Akashic Records via Jamendo


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RINCON - Effingham Sheriff's deputies arrested a former Rincon police officer Wednesday on child support charges.
Jack Beaty, 38, was taken into custody after deputies served a warrant at City Hall, 302 S. Columbia Ave., according to law enforcement reports.
Beaty claimed at an October council meeting he was forced to resign from the Rincon department by former chief Michael Berry April 16. Beaty also claimed the city ignored on-the-job injuries.
The council agreed to file an insurance claim for Beaty's injuries.
Police say Beaty was taken to Effingham County Jail, where he remains. Bond was set at $1,251, according to police reports.


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Seriously, though, try saying tea tree oil 3 times as fast as you can. Betcha can't do it without messing up on either "tea" or "tree". Okay so it may be a little tongue twister, but oh the great things tea tree oil for acne can do to improve your skin.
There are almost 100 different chemical compounds have been found in tea tree oil. The most important one being an antibacterial component called terpinen-4-ol. This little fighter makes up a whopping 40% of the oil.
Tea tree oil has been shown to treat mild to moderate acne just as effectively as benzoyl peroxide. You just need to be patient and give this natural oil a little more time as it works a bit more slowly. But, hey at least you know you are using a pure oil that has been used for centuries treating skin conditions.
For the history lovers out there (I happen to be one of them )…..
In 1770 Captain James Cook set out on a great adventure and while exploring the coast of New South Wales he stumbled upon a group of Aborigines who welcomed him with a warm spicy tea from a strange tree or bush; hence the name "tea tree."
The healing powers of this plant date back even before written records. It began its journey to popularity when in the 1920s and 30s an Australian chemist names Arthur Penfold published a study on tea tree oil's antimicrobial properties.
Tea tree oil can be used for insect bites, bee stings, minor cuts, and pimples. It's an amazing antibacterial natural oil that makes a wonderful addition for anyone that suffers with mild to moderate acne or gets the occasional blemish.


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Hi Jason!
Would it be possible to have a modified altitude hold mode, but with the capability of changing altitude?
Bear with me ;)
Lets say the copter is on the ground and the throttle is at 0%. We select alt_hold2.
Increase the throttle to 50%. The copter starts up but doesnt take off.
We increase the throttle to say 70%. The copter takes off slowly then starts to climb.
We reduce throttle to 50%. It then holds the alttitude its at.
We reduce the throttle to 30% and it decends.
We again go back to 50% and it holds that altitude.
I tried to explain it as simply as I could to avoid confusion. Mainly my own ;)
I guess the summary would be an altitude hold mode that we can change manually change the altitude using the throttle.
0-40% throttle - copter decends
40-60% throttle - copter maintains altitude
60-100% throttle - copter climbs.
Settings for the mode could be the ability to change the above figures and the rate at which the copter climbs or descends.
What do you think?
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I have an issue with transitions from one mode to another, especially from Loiter to Stabilize, if the throttle is at bottom the motors shuts done, and the copter falls out of the sky, wouldn't it be better to have a smooth transition from existing throttle needed to maintain altitude to the desired throttle indicated by the stick, so that you avoid such abrupt changes. I am sure this might be a problem for other mode-transitions too,
We had that at one time. It caused nothing but trouble! We had a bunch of people complaining they couldn't shut their motors down fast enough if something went wrong. It's also very messy and hard to maintain in the code. after going through that experience, I've decided Manual is manual. They is not grey area in between.
Hi Jason,
Was your post in reply to my original post or Geir Engebakken post???
My original post doesnt involve mixing of modes, it would be a totally seperate mode.
Kinda like the ability to nudge the copter while in loiter...
It would be pretty much the same except it would be doing it with altitude instead of location and each time you brought the stick back to centre it would save and maintain that altitude.
Thanks :)
I thought that you could adjust altitude in Alt_Hold. At least, that's what the wiki says:
In altitude hold and neutral position while the throttle is around 50% using stablilize mode. When switching to altitude hold it is the same or should be close. The null point before gaining altitude or lowering are determined by calibration and soft design. It shoud be close to half throttle.
In normal altitude hold mode, the altitude cannot be changed using the throttle...
I run 2.0.49 and I can adjust height in alt.hold mode using throttle stick. The only problem is that I have to give 100% throttle to activate this, and it's very violent behaviour. There is no in between, just full power upwards.
Altitude Hold has been largely reworked for next version and should be smoother.
I tried changing the altitude by pushing the throttle to max and min. It worked! Thanks :)


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Pronunciation: kotch'i-nel'
Definition: The dried female insects, Coccus cacti, enclosing the young larvae, or the dried female insect, Dactylopius coccus, containing eggs and larvae, from which coccinellin is obtained; used as a red coloring agent and a stain.
See: carmine
Synonym(s): coccinella, coccus2
[O.Sp. cochinilla, wood louse, fr. G. kokkinos, berry]
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The path of a celestial body or an artificial satellite as it revolves around another body.
- n. One complete revolution of such a body.
- n. The path of a body in a field of force surrounding another body; for example, the movement of an atomic electron in relation to a nucleus.
- n. A range of activity, experience, or knowledge.
- n. A range of control or influence: "What magnetism drew these quaking ruined creatures into his orbit?" ( Malcolm Lowry). See Synonyms at range.
- n. Either of two bony cavities in the skull containing an eye and its external structures; an eye socket.
- transitive v. To put into an orbit: orbit a satellite.
- transitive v. To revolve around (a center of attraction): The moon orbits Earth.
- intransitive v. To move in an orbit.
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- n. A circular or elliptical path of one object around another object.
- n. A sphere of influence; an area of control.
- n. The course of one's usual progression, or the extent of one's typical range.
- n. The bony cavity containing the eyeball; the eye socket.
- n. The path an electron takes around an atom's nucleus.
- n. A collection of points related by the evolution function of a dynamical system.
- v. To circle or revolve around another object.
- v. To move around the general vicinity of something.
- v. To place an object into an orbit around a planet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body.
- n. An orb or ball.
- n. The cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated.
- n. The skin which surrounds the eye of a bird.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Track; course; path, especially a path, as that in a circle or an ellipse, which returns into itself; specifically, in astronomy, the path of a planet or comet; the curve-line which a planet describes in its periodical revolution round its central body or center of revolution: as, the orbit of Jupiter or Mercury.
- n. A small orb, globe, or ball.
- n. In anatomy and zoology, the bony cavity of the skull which contains the eye; the eye-socket.
- n. In ornithology, the orbita, or circumorbital region of a bird's head; the skin of the eyelids and adjoining parts.
- n. In entomology, the border surrounding the compound eye of an insect, especially when it forms a raised ring, or differs in color or texture from the rest of the head.
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- v. move in an orbit
- n. a particular environment or walk of life
- n. the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another
- n. the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball
- n. an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
- n. the path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom
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They speak of the sun's motion, and of the sun's orbit, _but they do not say that the earth is the center of that orbit_.
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
(lower orbit) * period: from mid-March 2009 to late April* operation: 50 km circular orbit* mission: acquisition of the magnetic field of lunar surface using magnetometer and plasma observation system.
Putting an object in orbit is an accomplishment only a few national governments have been able to accomplish.
Another Launch Success for SpaceX and Falcon 1 (video) - NASA Watch
This idea, of a gas station in orbit, is the most cost effective and quickest means of reaching the moon.
Reader's Consensus: Develop a new launch vehicle - NASA Watch
The likelihood of a crew being stranded in orbit is thus reduced.
ISS About to Have a Crew of Six With Soyuz-TMA 15 Launch - NASA Watch
I do strongly think that Martian colonies will exist, enabled by spaceships built in orbit from the resources gleaned from the Moon.
The use of liquids, and an engine which can restart in orbit, is * very* impressive.
Yet even with its on-board controls, Canadarm's mass in orbit is less than two per cent of what it can manipulate.
INSKEEP: A group of Australian brewers is trying to deal with this problem, creating a beer that tastes great in orbit, which is a challenge because there's no carbonation in a zero-gravity environment, which means that the beer has to taste good even though it will be flat.
I think cost to orbit is too high for either of these programs to pan out but I wish them well.


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An educated opinion on Japan's nuclear problem
It is probably not common knowledge that I used to work at a nuclear power plant. This fact is probably scary enough as it is, but trust me when I tell you that the situation in Japan is worse than you think it is.
Any time you hear the words "spent fuel rods" and "uncovered" in the same sentence, as I saw earlier today in a CNN article, then you are dealing with the potential to depopulate LARGE portions of the nearby geography. Dumping sea water onto a nuclear reactor is an act of EXTREME desperation. I am very concerned about this. Not for my OWN safety, but because a lot of people are very close to wishing they had died in the earthquake/tsunami.
ALSO, and this is speculation on my part… it seems to me that the Japanese government is understating the problem. The word "meltdown" had been thrown about entirely to freely without much explanation of what it means. I see scientists on CNN almost 24/7 explaining how earthquakes and tidal waves work… but there is a noticeable lack of folks describing in detail just how screwed the people working in/around those reactors really are. The phrase "walking dead" comes to mind. Let's hope they get a handle on this thing.


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I have had a heavy, gnarly cold all week. Today I know that I've turned a corner as I found myself creating a new collage. Here it is, the latest in my Stepping Stone collage series. (Click on the image to enlarge)
A reclined buddha dreams of a desert journey. "Like a question mark in the dust, the world's oldest desert asks more than it reveals. Abandon pride, and perhaps shoes, and you may get a few answers. The first lesson Namibia's arid enigma teaches - by way of roiling, broiling, immense oceans of sand - is that you're small. Really small. To soar by plane over the cracked clay pan of Sossuvlei is to embrace both the enormity of southern Africa's sand sea and the certainty that this 55-million-year-old ecosystem will guard its secrets for ages to come. On foot, the scale and silence of this sandscape seem like a sun-stoked fever dream." ~ National Geographic's Traveler Magazine.
As we move across the collage, we come to flamingos taking flight. (source: National Geographic)
A Laurel Burch sun is capped by a couple of architectural illustrations creating an unlikely landscape.
Of all the images that I assembled for this collage, the one that caught my attention is the Angolian giraffe. A search about the symbolic meaning of giraffes led me HERE where I learned to "call upon the giraffe when you are in need of a higher position with which to analyze the foggy terrain of your life. Also call upon the gentle nature of the giraffe to help you with gracefulness in action, patience, and sturdy footing in life's potentially rocky terrain."
My process for collage making is purely intuitive. As I sat down, the word "space" was rolling about. What I desired was to create space for the sake of creating. As I flipped through a pile of magazine clippings I decided to honor my instincts and grab what grabbed my attention.
The finished piece shows clearly how drawn I was to the brown, sandy, desert palette. I started with the central image and from there everything flowed from it. After researching the meanings of the desert and giraffe I can draw some meaning for myself:
What I'm sensing is that the winds have changed, shifting the sands and the ground that I've stood upon for so many years. With this shift my perspective has changed - what I thought I wanted in a career, my blogging and online presence, how I spend my time each day - it is all shifting. With the ground shifting from underneath me, I have felt really small just as the Namibia desert suggests. It is interesting to interpret my collage, to allow the images from my intuitive play to help me find the words to what I've been discerning. It may be time for me to be like the giraffe and to stretch out my neck. My husband has a new schedule this spring. Our hours off together will be few and far between which will create some new space for me to discern. I plan on filling this new found time with meditation, journal keeping, and collage making.
Shortly after finishing my collage I noticed a calendar that my friend had made. Much to my delight (and surprise) a cute giraffe was staring back at me. What do you think she is asking?
All of this talk of giraffes reminds me of my own close encounter with this beautiful species in 2007 when I took my son to San Diego.
That fresh little one was born only a couple of hours prior to taking this shot.
Amazing, isn't it? I can't imagine standing and walking only an hour or two from entering into this world.
I'll close with a look at my Stepping Stone collage series to date. This is a fun journey for me as I have no idea where it will take me. (Click image to enlarge)
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you find some time for creative play.
{soul hugs}
Kathryn Costa, Collage Diva


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" The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.
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