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We inspected eight different lodges in the Mindo area in 2007. Details of each follow.
The Mindo area is the best travel destination in Ecuador for birdwatching. Just two hours north west of Quito, Mindo is a small but pleasant town with a scattering of rainforest lodges amongst the surrounding cloudforest. The biodiversity in the area is exceptionally high in part due to the Andes' steep slopes and rapidly changing altitude. Those who come on birdwatching tours will discover that the biodiversity is so great that it is worth visiting two or even three birdwatching lodges as the birdlife will be different at each.
In addition to birdwatching, other things to do in Mindo include rainforest tours, hikes to waterfalls, visiting the butterfly farm and tubing (similar to rafting, but in large inflatable rubber rings / tyres).
El Monte Lodge - El Monte is the best overall lodge in Mindo in our opinion. The setting is beautiful and peaceful, the birdlife abundant and the cabin-rooms are simple but stylish, clean and very spacious. Each guest has their own individual thatched cabin. The staff are very friendly and communal areas such as the restaurant are excellent. The lodges only drawback is that it only serves vegetarian organic food (no meat).
Maquipucuna Cloud Forest Lodge - this is a great lodge for those who are slightly more adventurous. Maquipucuna is more off the beaten track than the other lodges in Mindo, but one is rewarded with some of the best wildlife viewing opportunities. Rooms are basic but clean and characterful, and the remote setting is very beautiful. This is the only lodge in Mindo that can genuinely claim to be an "ecolodge" as it practices various ecotourism practices. There are ongoing conservation and local community development projects associated with the ecolodge, which is clearly run with conservation in mind. There are also various volunteering opportunities available at Maquipucuna Lodge. Practice responsible tourism in Ecuador and visit this lodge - it's great.
Sachatamia Lodge - Sachatamia is probably the most comfortable of the lodges inspected. Rooms are spacious and clean, but the place has a feel of a hotel rather than a rainforest lodge. The location next to the main road leading into Mindo town means that there is no feeling of remoteness at the lodge. Sachatamia is the only lodge in Mindo that has a zipline through the forest canopy. The 200 hectares of grounds are home to 29 species of hummingbirds, and hikes through the nearby cloudforest can be made. There is also an indoor swimming pool. Overall, the lodge is a good option for those who seek a taster of Mindo cloudforest but are not particularly adventurous.
Bellavista Cloudforest Lodge: Bellavista is probably the best lodge in Mindo for those who are avid birdwatchers. The lodge has some of the best birdwatching guides in Ecuador and is an excellent location for birding tours. If you are not a birdwatcher, Bellavista provides with an excellent array of trails into the unique cloudforest, which great for hikers and nature and adventure lovers.
Septimo Paraiso - Septimo Paraiso hotel's decor is antique-like style and characterful. The lodge is very comfortable - almost on a par with Sachatamia. Communal areas are particularly attractive. There is also a pool and jacuzzi, but most visitors come for the birding and nearby primary cloudforest.
Mindo Gardens - the location near Mindo town means that Mindo Gardens would suit those that might want to eat out in the evenings and don't want to be too far away from civilisation. The communal areas are very pleasant, though the rooms were not particularly clean when we inspected.
Tandayapa Lodge - clean and comfortable rooms, but the hotel has few endearing features and somehow feels like a hospital.
Arasha Resort - we couldn't get over quite how tacky Arasha Lodge is. Having inspected many wonderful, small, characterful other lodges in the Mindo area, Arasha's tackiness really hit home. Arasha is not a lodge - it's a large resort built in the rainforest. It would suit families who normally go on package style holidays, and no-one else. There's a swimming pool, karoake room, cinema (who goes to the rainforest to watch TV?) and host of organised activities. All tours are done as a group, and many of the guides speak no English. Arasha is clearly aimed at Ecuadorean tourists, not savvy travellers.
Other lodges that were not inspected but might be of interest to travellers include Shishink Ecological Lodge and El Carmelo de Mindo (more of a resort style hotel).
Tinalandia - while I didn't inspect this ecolodge, it does look good, and is found in a slightly different location. Rather than being in Mindo itself, this birdwatching ecolodge is in the cloudforest near Santo Domingo - so if you're travelling from either Guayaquil or Ecuador's coast up to Quito, it makes an ideal stop off point.
There's plenty of scope for wildlife viewing and rainforest tours elsewhere in Ecuador. The Amazon region is popular, as is Piedra Blanca.
Piedra Blanca Ecotourism Project - Piedra Blanca is a pioneering community run ecotourism project in Bolivar Province. The region is spectacularly beautiful but rarely visited by tourists. Piedra Blanca, located near San Luis de Pambil, provides a great opportunity to get off the beaten track in Ecuador. In addition to rainforest tours and nature hikes, there are various other trekking routes into the Andes that can be arranged. Horseback riding tours and visits to small village communities and markets are with local guides. Farmstays are also offered in the surrounding region. Rafting in ancient design (Kon Tiki style) rafts can even take tourists as far as Guayaquil.


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It stands for "Recursive Program Interface" and corresponds to the "recursive calls" statistic.
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> I found a couple of references to the statistic "User Calls" in
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> "Oracle allocates resources to keep track of relevant user call data
> structures every time you log in, parse, or execute. When determining
> activity, the ratio of user calls to RPI calls indicates how much
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> I cannot find a description of RPI.
> Does anyone know what it refernces?
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There are many websites that are dedicated to dehydrated and backpacking style foods. The design of these foods is have food items that will last for long periods of time and most of the time be able to be stored without refrigeration. As a result of these features, backpacking foods also double as ideal survival foods. Many of the previously mentioned websites will provide expertise and recipes that will allow you to make your own survival foods. But wait, there is more! If you read this article right now, I will provide a few links to valuable resources that will allow you to create your own survival foods should you choose to. OK, so it is obvious that you will not be required to read everything now to take advantage of the links provided but it did add a little infomercial excitement!
One of the primary needs to complete many of these creations is a dehydrator or means of dehydration. This can be achieved through purchasing a dehydrator at one of your local big box stores, buying a higher end dehydrator, or even through solar dehydration. The local chain retailer will likely offer you an affordable dehydrator that will work fairly well and can be acquired for around $50 in most cases. There are also many high end dehydrators that are designed to withstand heavy use for longer periods of time. Which option is better for you is really what it comes down to.
Solar dehydrating is a popular choice as a method for food preservation in underprivileged countries and as a result of this fact, there are several well researched articles that come from humanitarian and charitable organizations around the world. Many of these article go into great detail on the specifics of how to properly dehydrate foods using the sun. For those that are interested in dehydrating foods but might be interested in building their own, plans can be found online for this route as well. The advantage of making your own dehydrator is that you are able to make it almost any size that you want. When I was a kid, my family used to dehydrate fruit by what seemed to be the wheelbarrow full in the dehydrator that my dad built.
If a dehydrator is not part of your present equipment inventory and will not be a part of your life in the near future, do not be discouraged! There are still plenty of survival foods that can be made without the ability to dehydrate. The following are some great resources that I have found for creating your own survival foods at a fraction of the retail cost:
Quiet Journey – A website dedicated to camping and paddlesports, there is also a large collection of recipes that would make ideal foods for survival as well as your outdoor adventures. Some of the more interesting recipes that I saw were big boy burritos, cinnamon buns, and best camp spaghetti.
Dehydrate 2 Store – This is a literal wealth of dehydrating knowledge. Not only does this site include many recipes that can be used to create your survival rations, there are also many tips to help you. Make sure you check out their videos! Some of the recipes that intrigued me included the baked potato, pork fried rice, and instant oatmeal packets.
Backpacking Chef – Some of you may remember an earlier post about the 'Practically Free Survival Stove' which came from the BackpackingChef. Well not only is this a great resource on how to make a survival stove, but also an invaluable place to find information on dehydrated foods, how to make backpacking meals, food packaging, and even how to plan your meals for your time on the trail. Make sure to use Chef Glenn's recipes to create your own survival foods. Don't leave without checking out how to make "bark" which can be used for stand alone foods as well as for soup, stew, and sauce bases. There are definitely some foods here that could be used to create some gourmet inspired survival foods.
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Wyoming remembers 10-year anniversary of tragedy
September 18, 2011
LARAMIE, WYO. — For the families and friends of these eight running men, 10 years feels like both yesterday and forever ago.
But they recently came together as they always do at this time of year — more than 225 people, the largest turnout in years, gathered at Undine Park in town, one of the most beautiful days for the "Always a Cowboy" run in recent memory.
"This is the 10th anniversary of the loss of our boys," the race starter called over a megaphone before a moment of silence. "And when I say our boys, I believe the Laramie community has adopted these young men. We hold them in a special place in our hearts."
Just north of mile marker 417 on U.S. 287, 17 miles south of Laramie at Tie Siding, a small outpost a few miles north of the Colorado border with a general store that doubles as a post office, the two-lane road divides into a four-lane highway before snaking upward and vanishing over a hill.
There is no sign that 10 years ago today this was the scene of one of Wyoming's most horrific crashes, one that claimed the lives of eight University of Wyoming cross-country runners — Cody Brown, 21, of Hudson; Kyle Johnson, 20, of Riverton, Wyo.; Joshua Jones, 22, of Salem, Ore.; Justin Lambert-Belanger, 20, of Timmins, Ontario; Morgan McLeland, 21, of Gillette, Wyo.; Kevin Salverson, 19, of Cheyenne; Nicholas Schabron, 20, of Laramie; and Shane Shatto, 19, of Douglas, Wyo.
Around 1:30 a.m. Sept. 16, 2001, the man responsible, Clinton Haskins, of Maybell, then a Wyoming student on the school's rodeo team, was barreling down what was then a two-lane highway driving drunk in his pickup truck headed south to Fort Collins.
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He crossed the dividing line at the curve and slammed into the 1990 Jeep Wagoneer filled with the eight young men, who were returning to Laramie from a night of team bonding in Fort Collins. All but one — the driver, Schabron, who had no drugs or alcohol in his system — was ejected from the car. They died instantly.
The crash wiped out two-thirds of the team, leaving all but three runners and a handful of freshman track athletes who, without being asked by then-coach Jim Sanchez, signed up to help the team finish the season. Former teammates of the runners — Christopher Jons, Ragan Driver, Jason Delaney, Jennifer Titus — recently toed the starting line, then led the way outside of town, alongside Wyoming's current men's and women's teams. A decade later, they lead the lives the eight never could — as doctors and engineers and teachers, married, and, in some cases, with children. Many carry small tattoos as a reminder of their bond.
"You see some of his other friends who are married and having babies and you just wonder what Shane would have been doing right now," said Shatto's mother, Margo.
The Sept. 11 terrorist attack anniversary is a yearly reminder that their sons might still be here if they had been in Denver for their scheduled race, canceled by the school after the events of that day.
"For me … every year is the same," said Kerry Shatto, Shane's father. "It's just another day to remember that he's not here."
Wyoming's legal limit for blood-alcohol level has since been dropped from 0.1 to .08, and police, as of July, have a right with a search warrant to withdraw blood from motorists they suspect are intoxicated but refuse to provide a sample. Construction of widening U.S. 287 from mile marker 405 to Laramie began several years ago, but while the stretch near the crash was completed last year, the rest of the project has stalled.
"There's just no sense of urgency … and the next phase isn't supposed to start until 2014," said John Schabron, Nicholas' father, who has worked tirelessly to widen U.S. 287, one of the most treacherous highways in the nation.
Haskins, now 31, is expected to be released sometime in mid-February on parole, short of the eight concurrent 14-to 20-year sentences he received after pleading guilty to eight counts of vehicular homicide. He declined an interview request and is living in a minimum-security adult community corrections facility in Gillette, Wyo.
"I didn't think I'd ever be able to forgive, and I haven't come out and said, 'I forgive Haskins for what he did,' " said Loni Johnson, wearing a race T-shirt with her son Kevin Salverson's beaming face. "But I've asked God to guide Haskins in the direction God wants him to be in. Somebody told me that was forgiveness."
In the months and years after the crash, Johnson poured her sadness, frustration and anger into letters addressed to Haskins. She then burned all but one, which she dug out a month ago.
"I was angry," she said, lightly touching her wedding ring. "I hope I do (forgive Haskins) one day before I die, and not just for killing my son but for hurting so many people. I want him to forgive himself for what he did someday, but I hope he touches a lot of peoples' lives and makes them understand, 'You're not invincible.' "
Haskins has worked with an unlikely partner, Debbie McLeland, the mother of Morgan, to speak of the consequences of drinking and driving.
"When we talk, he adds a perspective to the program and a voice that's different from mine," McLeland said. "It's not about me just being a victim. To just stay stuck in hate, that doesn't help me or help him or help others make better choices."
After the recent race finished, it was former coach Sanchez who stayed until the last parents departed. The man, who on that fateful day grieved over eight dead sons, lost his wife this May after her long struggle with illness.
"I think the smartest thing I've done is surround myself with a lot of wonderful people," Sanchez said, tears streaming down his face, "What keeps me going? Faith in God, faith in yourself, and faith in everybody else around you."
Sanchez now assists at a Casper high school working with one of his former athletes.
He was inducted into the Wyoming Sports Hall of Fame this summer, along with the eight runners and the surviving teammates of that 2001 team.
"In a cross-country race, there are no timeouts," Sanchez said. "You adjust as you go. That's what we're doing (with life) right now. We're not stopping, we're just going and following our cross country philosophy. You finish the race.
"There are times in the race when you're falling apart, but you keep going, and maybe that's why we've made it through."
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I'm in the process of planning my invitations. I'm thinking about doing a boarding pass DIY project. What should be included in them? what are the must haves?
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Posted 02 November 2011 - 08:25 PM
Hello Ladies,
I'm in the process of planning my invitations. I'm thinking about doing a boarding pass DIY project. What should be included in them? what are the must haves?
Posted 03 November 2011 - 05:45 AM
I think you could do any info that works for your situation. I just finished mine and am about to post about them, but I did six passes.
1. formal invite
2. ports of call
3. wedding events - cocktail parties, bachelor/ette parties, girls luncheon
4. booking and TA info
5. RSVP info
6. AHR info
Posted 03 November 2011 - 03:52 PM
If you are custom making your invites, you can include pretty much anything that you want. I would do a search and look at a few different ones and see how you feel about them. I think there is one thread that used to contain them all, so I'll look for it and post back...
Posted 03 November 2011 - 04:04 PM
Here is the thread I was talking about - http://www.bestdesti...pass-std-thread. It hasn't been updated in a long time b/c Anny doesn't come around much anymore, but it's still got some great info and links to a ton of boarding pass threads.
Posted 03 November 2011 - 08:07 PM
Thanks Acireta and Carly, I appreciate your help. I was asking about cruising invite specifically but I will do some more searching. Thanks again.
Posted 04 November 2011 - 03:37 AM
ours is a cruise wedding too, so I'm definitely including some info about ports of call. What interests you most about the cruise/wedding? Include that info on your invites because I would think your guests would want that info too! :-)
Posted 21 December 2011 - 05:40 PM
I also plan on doing DIY invitations for our cruise wedding. Great ideas!
Posted 28 December 2011 - 06:38 PM
DIY Boarding Passes- There is a Etsy seller that will do the boarding pass invitation,RSVP and STD Postcards in any color with your wording then send it to you in PDF so you can print them yourself for about $20.
My Boarding Pass will include:
pg 1- Save the Date/Invitation
pg 2- Cruise details: ship name, travel dates, transportation information to include shuttle cost (airport to port) and general stateroom cost.
pg 3- RSVP card (still debating)
I would like to have my guest wear white to dinner the second day of cruise (our Freeport stop) but am unsure when or how to relay that information. Thought about website but with my older family with no computers may not get this information.
Posted 05 January 2012 - 04:57 PM
Some brides send out a brochure to give people more detailed information with days and times. For Carnival they don't give your actual wedding time until 2 weeks before the cruise so that might be an option.
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An article in the Journal "Museums of Ukraine" appeared February 9th this year bringing into question the legality of a Moscow auction featuring rare Kyivan Rus' sribnyk coins and hryvnia bars. Coins were minted in Rus from the first half of the 11th century on into the 1st quarter of the next century. During the reign of Grand Prince Volodymyr the Great (Old East Slavic: Володимѣръ Свѧтославичь, Old Norse: Valdamarr Sveinaldsson) gold and silver coins were minted, modeled on contemporary Byzantine currency of that time.
East European Antique House (http://domantik.ru) based in Moscow is a fairly new auction house having been in business for only a few months. Their first auction was held February 9th, 2013 which included 7 lots of Rus coins and bars.
- "Volodymyr sribnyk" type I (X cent.). The first coin minted in Rus' according to experts. This coin was hammered from the same pair of dies as some coins found in 1876. Starting price $15,800
- Volodymyr sribnyk" type IV (X - XI.). The reverse depicts the trident. According to experts, this coin was hammered from the same pair of dies as some coins from the "Nijinsky treasure" found in 1852. Only 25 coins with tridents are known. Starting price $5,300
- Detail of gold torque (XI - mid XV.) - Ingot, which was tender during the so-called "bezmonetnoho period."Dimensions - 16 x 7 x 5 mm, weight - 7.07g. Starting price $3,700
- Gold Hryvnia "Novhorod type" (end of XI - mid XV century.). Dimensions - 205 x 13 x 12 mm.Actively circulated as money.In the beginning - mainly in the north-eastern, from the 13th century.Starting price $4,750Hexagonal silver hryvnia "Kyiv" type (XI - XIII cc.).These Ukrainian Hryvnia regularly show up on auctions and are sold at a price of $ 800 – 1500. Starting price $3,000
- Ancient silver hryvnia, which belongs to the so-called"Chernihiv" type.Starting price $3,500
- Silver bullion "Lodiy", which dates back to the mid fourteenth century.Starting price $ 4,750
As a result of the article, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Culture and Spirituality, Vyacheslav Kirilenko, officially called on the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Head of Security, the Minister of Interior, Minister of Income and Charges and the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine to immediately investigate the provenance of the unique coins and whether they were illegally exported from Ukraine, in particular stolen from museum collections. If the strong suspicions were proven, the Ukrainian government was to do everything possible to return the priceless treasure and bring the perpetrators to justice.
The founder of the auction house expressed surprise about the accusations considering similar coins can be found and purchased quite easily. Although coins minted during Volodymyr's reign are very rare, they are now appearing with more frequency. In the past 2 years, 19 such coins have appeared in auctions, collectors forums, including Kyiv antique shops.
How can this be possible? In recent years there has been an explosion in the illegal use of metal detectors in Ukraine. The hysteria spun by the Journal "Museums of Ukraine" did not raise much of an alarm. There has been a growing trend in illicit trafficking of archaeological sites and the Ukrainian government is doing nothing about it. In European countries, laws control and limit the use of metal detectors. In Ukraine a recent bill, attempting to streamline the use of metal detectors, did not get very far in Parliament. The Institute of Archeology has 4 detectors under tight government control compared to 90,000 in use by so called black archeologists. Artifacts from the Rus period are frequently found such as crosses, jewelry, coins, weapons and the architectural record of where they were found and the stories they tell are irreparably lost. There lies the true scandal.
In 1988 the Hermitage published a catalogue recording 300 Rus coins in their collections. No doubt by now the number has risen considerably. Ukraine is being slowly stripped of its cultural and historical record – a true tragedy. By the way, what did happen with the auction you may wonder. Lot 9 sold for $5,000 and lot 14 for $4,800. The auction house owner said that in the name of friendship between Russia and Ukraine, the remaining unsold coins may be returned to Ukraine. We shall see.


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There have been calls from both sides of the industry to bring letting agents under some sort of legislation but it appears that landlords will become more reliant on good cheap landlord insurance quote than ever before. Tenants will feel even more vulnerable as it is they that usually have to part with money before they even set foot in their new rented home.
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Published 7:00 pm, Sunday, July 20, 2008
The first time local building contractor Scott Snipes attended a Relay for Life, he thought he was going for a good time.
"My wife, Karen, was working for HealthSouth then and was a team member for HealthSouth. We went just because we were told we'd have fun," he says, adding that they did have fun, but that Relay was more than that.
"I wasn't expecting to be so struck by what I saw that night. To see the cancer survivors make the lap with their families, friends and care providers - the walk nearly filled the whole track - it was moving."
That night made such an impression on Snipes that he has been involved, somewhat reluctantly at first, in the fight against cancer through Relay for Life ever since. His caring support earned him the 2008 Cancer Cares Award given by the Hale County Unit of the American Cancer Society.
The Cancer Care recipient is recognized for his "caring" for cancer patients. He has worked with Relay for Life since 1998, the second year it was held in Plainview.
Snipes continues telling about the impact that night made on him, "Then, to go through the luminaria ceremony, with the entire stadium pitch black and so silent you could hear your own breathing, was something so profound that you have to experience it for yourself."
Snipes says his involvement in the fund-raiser for cancer research was prophetic in that the next year his mother-in-law was diagnosed with cancer in one of her kidneys.
"Karen's mother, Joyce Churchwell, had one of her kidneys removed. We were all scared and knew that, at the very best, she would have to live the rest of her life with only one kidney - and with no room for error. With a lot of prayer and support, Joyce came out clean. We were so grateful."
While the Snipes family was going through their cancer trials that year, Karen was working at HealthSouth.
"Her boss, Michelle Edwards, and Michelle's husband, Toby, were Relay for Life co-chairs that year, so Michelle and Karen got together and decided that I would be their logistics chair. Of course, I could have said, 'No,' " Scott laughs. "I felt railroaded and bullied, but if you know either of these women, you'd have said, 'Yes,' too."
Still, Snipes wasn't convinced that this volunteer work was something he wanted to do.
"I went to the first chair meeting and immediately decided I'd made a big mistake. I'd never done anything like this before and everyone else at the meeting was very excited, organized and driven."
Snipes explains that the responsibilities of the logistics chair, as described by the American Cancer Society manual, were more than he thought he could successfully "pull off."
"I was worried, so I called for help from some of the other building contractors in town. Together, we built the stage and then, the night of the event, I just did what I was told by the co-chairs. We had a very successful night . . . but . . . I was done."
Snipes laughs at his thoughts nine years ago, thinking that his work for that one Relay was the last he would see. But when he got the call to help the next year, he agreed.
"When I got that call, before I could think, the words, 'Oh yea, let's go,' got away from me."
He admits, "I'm so glad."
To Snipes, Relay has come to mean so much more than building a stage and setting tents for the actual event.
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Relay for Life is a family affair for the Snipeses and their daughters, Channing, 14, and Colby, 11. They have volunteered for Relay for the past 10 years and have participated with his parents, Weyland and Patti Snipes of Hale Center, and Karen's mother, Joyce. Karen, who works at Edgemere Elementary, is a member of that school's Relay team.
"Looking back, I'm honored to have been a part of something so worthwhile and important," Snipes says. "I know that if we continue to work hard together with the Cotton Barons' event, we will make strides in the fight to find a cure for cancer."


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What does Turner mean?
Definitions for Turnerˈtɜr nər, ˈtʊər-
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Princeton's WordNet
Turner, Nat Turner(noun)
United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia; he was captured and executed (1800-1831)
Turner, Henry Hubert Turner(noun)
United States endocrinologist (1892-1970)
Turner, Joseph Mallord William Turner(noun)
English landscape painter whose treatment of light and color influenced the French impressionists (1775-1851)
Turner, Frederick Jackson Turner(noun)
United States historian who stressed the role of the western frontier in American history (1861-1951)
a tumbler who is a member of a turnverein
a lathe operator
one of two persons who swing ropes for jumpers to skip over in the game of jump rope
turner, food turner(noun)
cooking utensil having a flat flexible part and a long handle; used for turning or serving food
A person who turns and shapes wood etc. on a lathe
A kitchen utensil used for turning food.
A variety of pigeon; a tumbler.
a very dry pitch on which the ball will turn with ease
A person who practices athletic or gymnastic exercises.
Origin: An occupational surname for a turner or tumbler.
Webster Dictionary
one who turns; especially, one whose occupation is to form articles with a lathe
a variety of pigeon; a tumbler
a person who practices athletic or gymnastic exercises
Turner is a town in Androscoggin County, Maine, United States. The population was 5,734 at the 2010 census. Turner includes the villages of Turner Center and North Turner. The town is part of the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine Metropolitan New England City and Town Area.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
tur′nėr, n. a Scotch copper coin worth 2d., issued by James VI. [Prob. turney.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Turner in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
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The numerical value of Turner in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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Turner is effectively making this a partisan election and trying to take advantage of the 2-1 ratio of Democrats to Republicans in the city of Houston.
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One in three UAE residents could have diabetes or prediabetes by the end of the decade, according to a new analysis from international health and well-being company UnitedHealth Group released on Tuesday at the World Health Care Congress Middle East meeting in Abu Dhabi.
"As an innovative and technologically advanced country, the UAE is well positioned to make diabetes prevention a top priority and serve as an example to other countries in the region, and around the world."
The report, "Diabetes in the United Arab Emirates: Crisis or Opportunity?," estimated that 32 per cent of the country's adult population, including both UAE nationals and expatriates, may have diabetes or prediabetes by 2020 at a cost of $8.52 billion (Dh31.27 billion) over the next decade if current trends continue.
"These new estimates highlight the urgent need for further action to stem the oncoming tidal wave of diabetes-related illness and related costs in the UAE," said Simon Stevens, executive vice president, UnitedHealth Group, and president of its Global Health division. "The good news is that curbing this epidemic is possible, since type 2 diabetes is largely preventable. The way forward begins with building on some of the innovative ideas now being tested in the UAE and bringing them to scale, informed by interventions and programs that have been shown to work in other countries facing similar challenges."
Currently in the UAE, it is estimated that the vast majority of cases of prediabetes and about 35 per cent of cases of diabetes remain undiagnosed, representing lost opportunities to avoid the costs and complications of a largely preventable disease. If left uncontrolled, type 2 diabetes can lead to severe complications, such as heart and kidney disease, nerve damage, blindness and limb amputation. Medical costs due to diabetes and prediabetes in the UAE may rise to an annual $1.04 billion (Dh5.14 billion) by 2020, representing a 58 per cent increase from an estimated $657 million (Dh2.41 billion) in 2010, according to the report.
Worldwide, the prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes has increased dramatically over the past two decades on a parallel track with the global increase in obesity. More than 285 million people around the globe have diabetes. Without intervention that figure is expected to climb to 438 million people within 20 years.
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According to some estimates, the UAE's type 2 diabetes rate is among the top five countries in the world. In the UAE, about 13 per cent of the population between 20 and 79 years of age has diabetes – more than double the global average of 6.4 per cent.
Being overweight or obese is one of the primary risk factors for type 2 diabetes. According to the World Health Organization, about 73 per cent of adult women and 66 per cent of men in the UAE weigh more than recommended by physicians, placing the country in the top five worldwide in terms of what clinicians consider "obesity."
"The epidemic of type 2 diabetes and its warning sign, prediabetes, are sweeping across the globe imposing severe health consequences and straining the financial resources of health care systems everywhere," said Mr. Stevens. "As an innovative and technologically advanced country, the UAE is well positioned to make diabetes prevention a top priority and serve as an example to other countries in the region, and around the world."
Controlling diabetes
- Screening and Diagnosis: There is an opportunity to reduce the number of people who would develop prediabetes or diabetes by offering straightforward screening tests to people with known risk factors (overweight, inactivity, hypertension, abnormal blood lipid levels, cardiovascular disease, family history and belonging to a high-risk ethnic population). This is an important first step toward health, building on the important initiatives now taking place in some emirates.
- Intervention and Prevention: Enabling and encouraging people to make better lifestyle decisions about diet and exercise directly address the principal risk factors of obesity and inactivity. Intervention studies of people with prediabetes in China, Finland, India, Sweden and the United States have uniformly shown reductions in the progression to type 2 diabetes.
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Yes, you can go too far in pursuit of verisimilitude. You'll learn that if nothing else from the New York Musical Theatre Festival production of Caligula: An Ancient Glam Epic. This is a show that, from the ground up, was obviously conceived in adherence to that ancient dictum: Nothing Succeeds Like Excess.
And if you thought that might be a sure-fire way of telling the story of a young man who became emperor of Rome when he was 25, went insane, and was killed by a conspiracy led by the captain of his own guard before he was 30, well, think again. Any hope of author Eric Svejcar telling the story in an effective, exciting manner vanishes in the first 20 minutes, while well over two hours of show still remain.
This is not to say that Svejcar hasn't turned in some decent writing. Examining the life of Caligula as filtered through early 1970s glam rock isn't a bad idea, and Svejcar has a solid handle on the period's musical stylings. He turns in a number of memorable musical themes over the course of the evening, and the large band (under David Andrews Rogers's musical direction) rocks hard and loud. (The sound designer, clearly from the "louder is better" school, is Shannon Slaton.)
It's a good thing that so many of Svejcar's tunes are so good, because that makes their repetitive nature slightly more tolerable than it might otherwise be. It seems as if each of the major songs piles on multiple verses, while adding precious little in the way of new dramatic, thematic, or musical ideas. The experience is like seeing a tribute show to your favorite songwriter assembled with every line of every song he or she ever wrote, with no regard for appropriateness or how tiring it might all become.
This reaches its nadir at the end of the second of the show's three parts, a song called "Fall Down On Your Knees," in which Caligula (Euan Morton, who recently made a splash playing Boy George in Taboo) declares himself a God on Earth. After his countless proclamations, each of three different main characters - Caligula's wife Caesonia (Denise Summerford), the captain of the guard Chaerea (Alan H. Green), and the show's narrator (Gilles Chiasson) - sing their own thoughts and feelings. This all culminates in a "One Day More"-style ensemble piece that thrills your ears but numbs your other senses.
If Caligula resembles Jesus Christ Superstar stylistically, it lacks that work's solid commitment, specificity, and lean resolve. Here, though many characters have been eliminated from the story, there are still more than you can shake a stick at, and keeping track of the various conspirators, victims (innocent and otherwise), and ensemble members will be your primary activity while watching the show. Rest assured, though, that they will all sing huge amounts of material about every detail of their opinions about everything, and you will learn nothing from it.
Director Michael Unger isn't directly to blame for this - he actually manages to maintain a firm grip on the show, keeping the pacing up, and impressively manages the considerable traffic on the Theatre at St. Clement's stage. (He would, however, do well to tame his predilection for lining up the ensemble members downstage and having them sing to the audience; that grows old very quickly.) Scenic consultant Jamie Fagant needs to adjust the wheeled platform that creaks over the over-amplified multitudes, but Janine McCabe's costumes and Joel E. Silver's lights do their jobs nicely.
So do the actors. Morton is a disarming presence in the title role, singing well and making a strong and steady transition into insanity. Also excellent is Brooke Sunny Moriber as his sister (and lover) Drusilla, though her role is small enough to relegate her to the chorus for most of her time onstage. Chiasson is likewise very good, though his role is a study in excrescence. Summerford, Green, Sebastian Arcelus and Shorey Walker as Caligula's parents, and Michael Hayward-Jones as emperor Tiberius all make strong impressions as well.
Far more pressing is the inability of Svejcar and Unger to determine what information is necessary and what isn't. Removing unnecessary material from the songs (and excising huge chunks of the interminable book scenes) could easily get the running time down to about two hours or so, but just taking the scissors to the script and score isn't likely to make Caligula bearable. May I suggest a machete?
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It seems a hot, new Hollywood couple comes out of the woodwork daily. While this one, like the so many others, probably won't last, we should know by now that not much of what celebrities do is by chance. Coincidences are rare; hooking up is not. Ain't love grand?
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Date: Tue Sep 8 08:17:15 EDT 2009
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Carl Eastlund<carl.eastlund at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Jacob Matthews<jacobm at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Robby >> Findler<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: >>> Right. That wouldn't be parametric. >> >> I think it's the contracts-don't-change-programs condition, not the >> parametricity condition, that would be violated here. >> >> -jacob > > Don't these contracts already change the program? I thought, since > Robby indicated that "stacks" cannot be used as lists, these contracts > would be wrapping the values in opaque structs for outside observers. > Adding or removing the contracts changes how a list-implemented stack > responds to list?. Or have I misunderstood the behavior of #:exists > contracts? You have understood. list? is a problem. It should blow up on these contracts and, if you use the scheme/exists language (as mentioned in the docs I pointed to) it would blow up. Robby
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Researchers at the University of California performed an observational study of 1,388 healthy people, looking at their caffeine consumption (including coffee, tea, and chocolate) over the course of a year. Sixty-one percent of participants drank more than one caffeinated beverage a day.'
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IT's just been announced that Shane Filan has had to cancel his Inverness date.
The concert was due to be the final show on Shane's 20-date tour spanning the length and breadth of the UK and Ireland.
But following changes to Shanes' schedule at the end of the tour, his team say, the concert which was due to take place on March 30 at Inverness Leisure Centre has had to be cancelled.
"I am deeply disappointed that we're unable to visit the people of Inverness on March 30," said Shane. "I was really looking forward to celebrating the end of the tour up in Inverness and would like to thank all those who have already purchased tickets to come and see me."
All ticket purchasers for Inverness will automatically be given a refund via Ticketmaster. They will also be contacted by Ticketmaster and given the opportunity to purchase tickets at a 40% discount for Shane's only other show in Scotland on March 29 at the Glasgow Clyde Auditorium.
A representative of promoter LHG Live commented "We're disappointed that Shane is unable to play Inverness, we've promoted and produced great shows in the area and Inverness knows how to party! Full refunds will be given and as a gesture we would like to offer anyone who has purchased an Inverness ticket the opportunity to go to the Glasgow show at a significant discounted price."


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Washington Governor Jay Inslee urged a group of regional business leaders today to urge state legislators to support the Columbia River Crossing —the proposed new I-5 bridge over between Portland and Vancouver.
Now that the Oregon House has come up with a $450,000,000 package of local funding, Inslee says Washington will lose jobs if the legislature doesn't produce a similar sum, to qualify for federal bridge funding.
Jay Inslee "And I'll tell you what: I do not want to be standing here in ten years without progress on this bridge, with our money that we sent in taxes to Washington DC going to Alabama or going to California."
Inslee said negotiations continue with river users whose business will suffer if the bridge is built at its projected height. Inslee wouldn't say how much mitigation cash has been discussed.
State Senator Don Benton, a vocal critic of the bridge project, said after the Governor's press conference he doubts Inslee will get what he wants. He noted the Washington Senate Transportation committee is co-chaired by a Republican lawmaker with deep concerns about the project.


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Following Samsung's announcement yesterday that the Galaxy S 4 will be available on seven U.S. carriers, multiple operators came forward to share some details on their launch plans for the new device. Now another carrier has shed a bit of light on its Galaxy S 4 availability. Verizon just sent out a tweet from its official @VZWnews Twitter account saying that its version of the Galaxy S 4 will be arriving in May, going on to tease that more information will be revealed "soon."
Obviously Verizon's tweet isn't the most detailed announcement that we've ever seen, but it does confirm that Big Red's version of the Galaxy S 4 won't be hitting shelves for at least another couple of weeks. A recently-leaked Staples document pegged the Verizon Galaxy S 4 with a tentative launch date of May 30, which is the final Thursday of that month. Since Verizon is known for being a fan of Thursday device launches, May 30 could very well be the date that Verizon's S 4 arrives, but for now Verizon subscribers may want to use a pencil to circle that date on their calendars. Stay tuned and we'll let you know when you can pull out that Sharpie.
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Why Bother With A PSRU?
NOTE: All our Products, Designs and Services are ORGANIC, GLUTEN-FREE, CONTAIN NO GMO's, and will not upset anyone's precious FEELINGS or delicate SENSIBILITIES.
Perhaps the most important point to be taken from this presentation is that PSRU's, propellers, aircraft engines and aircraft engine mounts are very complex devices which, although they look simple, have mostly evolved to current reliability on the back of many disasters. Uncertified PSRU's are the incarnation of EXPERIMENTAL. You should keep in mind that there is no significant body of accumulated experience behind most of them.
It should be clear to anyone contemplating the use of an engine conversion which uses a PSRU that the PSRU is one of THE most critical components, upon which their ultimate safety depends. PSRU's appear to be quite simple, but they actually involve several complex subjects, some of which seem to have been overlooked in certain PSRU products.
This presentation will describe several of the critical concepts involved in PSRU design, with special emphasis placed on the methodology which EPI used to solve those problems. The EPI implementations are not necessarily the only solutions, but the problems are common to all. The intent is to provide the potential buyer of a PSRU with enough understanding to ask the right questions, detect the wrong answers, and to make a wise (SAFE) selection.
Before beginning on this presentation, it will be helpful if you fully understand the relationship between TORQUE and HORSEPOWER. We suggest that you visit the EXPLANATION of POWER and TORQUE page which gives a brief clarification of those often misunderstood terms.
The simple answer is: to mate an engine whose crankshaft runs at a high speed to the slower speed required by most propellers.
But why must the propeller turn slower than the crankshaft? There are really two questions there: (1) Why run the crankshaft faster? And (2) Why limit the propeller speed?
Let's examine question 1 first. The second-most important property of an aircraft engine is specific power, the number of horsepower per pound of engine weight. (The most important property is clearly reliability.)
Generally speaking, it takes lots of cubic inches of engine displacement to produce the torque necessary for high power at low crankshaft speed. (Remember that POWER is "work done per unit time", and HORSEPOWER is TORQUE times RPM divided by 5252, as shown in EXPLANATION OF POWER and TORQUE). And (generally speaking) adding displacement adds weight.
So the obvious answer to the problem of extracting more power from each cubic inch of engine displacement (assuming roughly equivalent limits to BMEP) is to change the design of the engine so it produces its peak torque at a higher RPM, thus moving the maximum output range to a higher RPM and increasing the power output for the same torque.
For example, a normally-aspirated Continental IO-520 (520 cubic inches) produces a max of about 285 HP at 2700 RPM. Turbocharged, the same engine reaches it's heat-rejection and internal stress limits at about 325 HP at 2700 RPM (although certain versions are rated at 350HP). But the specific power (HP per pound) remains about the same.
However, by increasing the crankshaft speed to 3300 RPM with roughly the same torque output, Continental increased the power output of the GTSIO-520 to a max of 435 HP. That required the addition of a gearbox to reduce the prop RPM to 2200, and the added weight actually decreased the specific power (and increased the heat rejection load on an already strained design).
Taking it one step further, the EPI Gen-1 liquid-cooled V8 aircraft engine produces 500 HP at 4600 RPM (both turbocharged and normally aspirated). That powerplant includes a PSRU, and weighs considerably less than a GTSIO-520. (see AIRCRAFT ENGINE DEVELOPMENT).
All turboprop engines have PSRU's, because the turbine sections turn at very high RPM. For example, the Garrett TPE-331 engines produce from 500 to well over 750 HP from a turbine section which turns at 41,000 RPM while the prop turns at 1591 RPM.
But why can't the props just run faster? The propeller limitations arise from a variety of factors including blade and hub stress levels and blade efficiency (SEE PROPELLER TECHNOLOGY for more information). In fact, the 2700 RPM limit familiar to most general aviation pilots is really a compromise worked out to accommodate engines which have the propeller attached directly to the crankshaft. That compromise allows reasonably high engine speeds in order to achieve better specific power (HP per pound), while producing reasonable efficiency numbers at the relatively low airspeeds achieved by most aircraft using those engines.
The peak efficiency for contemporary subsonic blades usually occurs at a tip velocity of approximately mach 0.85 - 0.87. Note that tip velocity is not just the rotation speed. It is the helical velocity of the prop, which is the vector sum of rotational and translational velocities.
As the altitude of a propeller-driven aircraft increases, the propeller RPM for max efficiency decreases, and can become quite a bit lower than it was for sea-level takeoff.
There are two reasons for that. First, the speed of sound (Mach 1.0) decreases with temperature, and air temperature (usually) decreases as altitude increases. So for a constant tip velocity, a lower temperature produces a higher tip Mach number.
Second, as density-altitude increases, airframe drag decreases and true airspeed increases. If propeller RPM is held constant, the velocity of the prop tip increases as TAS increases. The effect is more noticeable with engines which can maintain a constant power output with increasing altitude, but is also a factor in normally-aspirated engines.
The problem of prop speed gets a bit worse as we begin to move in the direction of higher power engines. The prop diameter is one parameter which often increases with the power rating of the propeller. Larger diameter propellers must turn at relatively lower RPM to observe tip-speed limits.
Given that quick background, it is clear that if the engine power section is designed to run faster than the prop can efficiently turn, a reduction unit is necessary to turn the prop within it's range of good efficiency.
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Outcast 2 development held up
Appeal announced today via their official Outcast 2 Web site that it has temporarily suspended development for Outcast 2: The Lost Paradise. The reason for this decision was stated that Appeal wished to pursue other development opportunities at this time. Outcast 2 is the sequel to the PC game, Outcast, which proved to be a highly rated adventure title. The game places players in the role of Cutter Slade, who must save the planet from an evil conspiracy. No word has been given when Appeal plans to pick up development for Outcast 2, however, we will keep you posted on any new information.
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Name: Trevor Johnson
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School level: FR
Trevor Johnson is a tall, skinny, left handed pitcher who is coming out of a two-year school called College of the Desert. He's just off his freshman year and is currently pitching for the Anchorage Bucs in Alaska this summer. He sounds like a typical fastball/curveball/changeup lefty. He's a starter.
Baseball America didn't have anything on him and there really isn't a whole lot on him at all. There might be a lack of information about him because he only played one year of varsity baseball in high school.
I did find this from MLB.com:
Only a freshman, Johnson went 4-2 with a 2.69 ERA for the Roadrunners. Perhaps his most impressive statistic, though, is that he completed five of his nine starts on the season.
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Kiley had one of our Playtime sessions last year. We did her senior pictures over the summer with one of her classmates from Sioux Falls. Today we did a family session with her mom and two sisters.
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These are books by friends, colleagues and other leading authors that have informed and contributed to World Café thought leadership:
Appreciative Inquiry, by David Cooperrider and Diana Whitney
Written by the founders of AI, this short, practical guide offers an approach to organizational change based on the possibility of a more positive future.
The Art of Convening, by Craig & Patricia Neal, with Cindy Wold
Details a powerful set of principles and practices for making any gathering productive, meaningful, and transformative.
The Art of Possibility, by Benjamin Zander and Rosamund Stone Zander
Presenting twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity into all human endeavors.
Artful Leadership, by Michael Jones
Aims to empower leadership development and innovation by connecting the world of the performing arts and the business world.
Authentic Conversations, by Jamie Showkier and Maren Showkier
Authentic Conversations takes a radical new look at the potentially transformational role of workplace conversations.
The Back of the Napkin, by Dan Roam
Explains how to use visual-thinking tools to solve business problems and convey ideas with little more than a scrap of paper.
Calling the Circle, by Christina Baldwin
Christina Baldwin offers this powerful new tool to everyone who longs for a community based on honesty, equality, and spiritual integrity.
The Change Handbook, Eds Peggy Holman, Steven Cady, and Tom Devane
This definitive resource invites people and systems to gather around issues that they care about, unleashing the energy and wisdom to move their dreams into action.
Community: The Structure of Belonging, by Peter Block
Offers a way of thinking about our places that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of us can do to make that happen.
Dialogue: The Art of Thinking Together, by William Isaacs
Provides practical guidelines for one of the essential elements of true partnership–learning how to talk together in honest and effective ways.
Digital Habitats, by Nancy White, Etienne Wenger and John Smith
This book develops a new social literacy and language to describe the practice of stewarding technology for communities.
Engaging Emergence, by Peggy Holman
Shows how to spot the emergence of a new level of order from the seemingly chaotic change and offers practices and principles that will help you align yourself and your organization with the new order.
The Facilitative Way, by Priscilla Wilson
The Facilitative Way includes five approaches to working together more effectively.
The Fifth Discipline, by Peter Senge
Senge explains why the "learning organization" matters, provides an unvarnished summary of his management principles and offers some basic tools for practicing it.
Finding Our Way, Meg Wheatley
A comprehensive summing up of the thought of one of the most original and creative organizational thinkers of our time.
Gracious Space, by Patricia Hughes
Gracious Space is a simple yet powerful approach to working better together. Gracious Space can move organizations and communities forward, together, with deeper understanding and problem solving.
Informal Learning, by Jay Cross
This book offers advice on how to support, nurture, and leverage informal learning and helps trainers to go beyond their typical classes and programs.
The Complete Guide to Knowledge Management, by Edna Pasher and Tuvya Ronen
A straightforward guide to leveraging your company's intellectual capital by creating a knowledge management culture.
Linked, by Albert-László Barabási
The nation's foremost expert in the new science of networks, takes us on an intellectual adventure to prove that social networks, corporations, and living organisms are more similar than previously thought.
Making Questions Work, by Dorothy Strachan
This book offers over 1700 rich questions that you can borrow or adapt to improve your inquiry skills, and provides clear frameworks that point to when, where, and why particular questions are most useful.
Mapping Inner Space, by Nancy Margulies
This introduction to visual note taking illustrates how relationships among various concepts are highlighted and more information can be recorded visually on a page.
Nature and the Human Soul, by Bill Plotkin
Plotkin presents a model for a human life span rooted in the patterns and rhythms of wild nature, a template for individual development that ultimately yields a strategy for cultural transformation.
On Dialogue, by David Bohm
This edition serves both as a practical working manual for those interested in engaging in Bohm's conception of "dialogue" and a deeper exploration of Bohm's dialogical world view.
Power and Love, by Adam Kahane
A new approach, proven in the field, for making progress on our most important and difficult collective challenges.
The Power of Collective Wisdom and the Trap of Collective Folly, by Alan Briskin, Sheryl Ericson, John Ott, and Tom Callanan
An inspired and practical approach to developing the innate power of groups to make wise, compassionate, and creative decisions.
Presence, by Betty Sue Flowers, Otto Scharmer, Jpseph Jaworski. and Peter Senge
This year-long series of conversations reveals the human capacity to "presence"—to pre-sense, to become present to an emerging future.
The Starfish and the Spider, by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom
A pair of Stanford M.B.A.s offer a breezy and entertaining look at how decentralization is changing many organizations.
Theory U, by Otto Scharmer
By moving through the "U" process we learn to connect to our essential Self in the realm of "presencing".
The Thin Book of Naming Elephants, by Sue Annis Hammond & Andrea Mayfield
This book shows how great companies create an environment that encourages and listens to input from all levels of the organization.
Visual Meetings, by David Sibbet (see also Visual Teams and Visual Leaders)
Visual Meetings explains how anyone can implement powerful visual tools, and how these tools are being used to facilitate both face-to-face and virtual group work.
Walk Out Walk On, by Meg Wheatley and Debbie Frieze
Provides an intimate experience of how seven healthy and resilient communities took on intractable problems by working together in new and different ways.


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Justin Timberlake is such a kidder.
On Wednesday night, January 9, Justin Timberlake posted the following on Twitter.
Thursday, January 10th, 2013 at 9:01 am PST…
— Justin Timberlake(@jtimberlake) January 10, 2013
This led his Twitter followers on a cat and mouse chase for the next twelve hours, waiting to see what would be there for them when they woke up. The rumor was that Timberlake was back in the studio and would have a new single out. It was almost true.
Instead, the next morning, Timberlake linked to a countdown page. It showed us a YouTube video of him that wasn't new music, so I didn't pay much attention to it. When the video was over, you were shown a countdown which was to end Sunday night, which is where we are now.
On Sunday evening, Timberlake broke his own countdown and put it out a little early because as he said, he was too stoked.
– Timberlake has been quietly working on music since June.
– He was just "playing around with some sounds and songs" and was having the time of his life.
– The album is to be called "The 20/20 Experience" and it will drop sometime this year.
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Following Christmas and fighting to teach my kids the spirit of the season, which is actually… giving! I came across a quote that befits a father reflecting on the empty pockets of Christmas.
"There are three stages of a man's life: He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn't believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus." — Author Unknown
Happy Holidays from DaddysCool! May God bless us, everyone. #DadsRule


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Congratulations to the Occult Community – Condolences to the Christian Community
The Lord gave me this word on June 1, 2016
Jon Watkins Online Ministries
You have successfully cast a spell over the Christian community and they are now asleep! They no longer have any discernment. You have successfully achieved the goal of bringing back Baal worship and have cleverly concealed it, even in the eyes who are the watchmen. Rejoice and celebrate while you can, as the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah awaits you.
God's people have once again turned their back and have gone after false gods just as the days of old. They have managed once again to put fear into the minds of the prophets and watchmen. You have effectively muzzled them. The groves have grown up, and the altars have been rebuilt. The calf has been remolded.
The knife of Baal has been laid to the flesh of the watchmen. They are gelded, they are castrated, they are no longer men of God. They are like frightened women and children hiding under a bed. The fire has gone from their hearts and will not be relit. Only greed and perversion fills them now.
They will no longer stand and proclaim truth to the wicked without fear of the repercussions. They will no longer stand and proclaim "THUS SAITH THE LORD". They have ran and hidden from Jezebel just as Elijah did. They are afraid, they do not want to go to Nineveh. They do not know what they do, they are confused and caught up in the world. They sit at the table of Baal and do not realize they are the menu. They have strong delusion. They can not see they are now almost consumed. They will soon be completely in the belly of the beast.
Nations of the world, America has gone the way of Cain. Do not look to her for guidance. Reject what the prophets of Baal are teaching you. Evil has gone to seed and has spread rapidly mixed with good seed. The good seed has been choked out. Seek the truth, call to me, do not follow man. There are a few crying out but their voice is but a whisper in the wind. The walls have grown stronger the arrows have hit their mark. The marchers have been scattered and no longer shout. Forget the loud voices and listen for the whispers. There are still voices crying in the wilderness.