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There may some mistakes as we get started - please be patient with us..
Aberdeen Elementary is joining the School District's new Safe Arrival System starting, Monday, November 7th. Parents will no longer be leaving a message on our school answering machine/Safe Arrival line. The new system will handle the majority of parent contact (including phone calls) when a student absence is unexpected. The new system also allows parents to interact directly with the system in the following ways:
o by phone when the system calls you, or when you want to initiate a call to notify that your child
o will be absent
o by internet through a login controlled web page interface
o by a Smartphone app (iOS and Android version; both available for free).
Starting Monday, all parents are asked to please report student absences before 8:30 am on the day of the absence (you can also report absences in advance, if they are known). To report an absence you may choose to:
o call the toll-free # 1-844-350-2647 or
o access the following website: http://ktsd.schoolconnects.com/ or
o download the Synervoice Technologies Inc app by searching for Safe Arrival School Connects.
Please choose the reason for your child's absence from school: sick, appointment, family vacation, etc. Don't forget to wait for confirmation # to ensure your child's absence has been recorded. A registration email will be sent to parents in advance. These emails are not spam and will contain specific parent login information for the system, as well as, instructions on how to log in as a parent to report your child's absences.
If you do not connect with the system by 8:30 on the day of your child's absence from school, and when the teacher has completed attendance for his/her class, then a report will be dispatched for all students absent without a reason. The system will then proceed to call home and cell phone numbers until you are reached. Each number will be called up to 5 times. It is important that your home and cell phone numbers, along with email addresses are kept current.
Yours truly,
Mrs. S. Zryd,


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Source: http://www.noplacecalledhome.com
Current level pack furniture is mind blowing for effortlessness of import and transport, engaging makers and retailers to limit costs. Regardless, this also suggests clients frequently need to fabricate furniture themselves, an endeavor that many are not used to. Here are several hints to take you through the path toward building a children's bed deliberately. Check your packs when they arrive. In case they are hurt in any way, sign the transport note as hurt or box 1 hurt et cetera. Ceaselessly tell the transport driver you are doing in that capacity. In case for no good reason you can't check the bundles, sign the transport note as unchecked. This spreads you and the retailer against hurts by the transport association, and promises you can get any new parts rapidly.
In the event that the groups are clearly so hurt that the bed will be unusable, you are perfectly inside your rights to deny transport. It saves time and decreases the likelihood of bashing finger and thumbs. Annoyingly anyway I don't know here to get hold of one; I got one free in some furniture once and it has served me well starting now and into the foreseeable future, yet I've never watched one accessible to be bought. A multi-headed screwdriver with an extent of heads is the best. Endeavor to get hold of some Allen key heads and also run of the mill level and cross screwdriver heads.
This can be used as a piece of screwdriver mode to quicken the incorporation of screws and latches. It is best to have one with variable torque so you can set it to stop turning when it meets a particular level of resistance. This guarantees you don't over fix shocks and risk hurting your bed. When you at first open your plastic sacks overflowing with screws, clasp and dowels they are generally speaking in a scramble – if you quickly segregate them into autonomous plastic boxes you can without a lot of an extend count them and find the ones you are hunting down whenever.
It's tempting to just make a dive, find the essential board or leg of the white cots with stairs, and start pushing in dowels and screws. Regardless, you are in a perfect circumstance taking as much time as is required and checking two or three things before you start. Take mind when opening packaging. I would recommend endeavoring to hurt the boxes as pitiful as possible in case you need to repackage the furniture for no good reason. Moreover take personality not to hurt the furniture parts while using a sharp edge.

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RWE AG (OTCMKTS:RWEOY) Receives a Downgrade
RBC Capital Mkts has given RWE AG (OTCMKTS:RWEOY) shares a new Underperform rating in an analyst note disseminated on Thursday morning. This was a ratings downgrade from the past Sector Perform rating.
From a total of 1 analysts covering RWE AG (OTCMKTS:RWEOY) stock, 0 rate it a "Buy", 0 a "Sell", and 1 a "Hold". This means that 0% of the ratings are positive. The highest target price is $14.31 while the lowest target price is $14.31. The mean of all analyst targets is $14.31 with a 2.46% above today's ($12.2) stock price. RWE AG was the topic of 10 analyst reports since August 18, 2015 according to the firm StockzIntelligence Inc. Jefferies initiated shares on December 3 with "Hold" rating. Societe Generale downgraded RWEOY stock in a recent report from November 17 to "Hold" rating. Finally, RBC Capital Markets upgraded the stock to "Sector Perform" rating in a report issued on an October 1.
The stock increased 4.50% or $0.52 on December 16, striking $12.2. Approximately 110,513 shares of stock traded hands or 17.65% up from the average. RWE AG (ADR) (OTCMKTS:RWEOY) has declined 52.25% since May 14, 2015 and is downtrending. It has underperformed by 49.99% the S&P500.
RWE AG is an electricity and gas company. The company has a market cap of $7.42 billion. The Firm engages in lignite production; electricity generation from gas, coal, nuclear and renewables, and in energy trading, as well as electricity and gas distribution and supply. It has 6.92 P/E ratio. The Company's markets include Germany, the Benelux region, the United Kingdom, and Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe.
According to Zacks Investment Research, "RWE AG is among Europe's five largest utilities. RWE is active in the generation and transmission as well as the sale and trading of electricity and gas. RWE is also active in the water business in Continental Europe. This integrated business model gives them a good position from which to take advantage of the rising demand for energy. RWE is the biggest power producer in Germany and No. 2 in the UK. RWE continues to expand its position in Central and South-Eastern Europe. Their comprehensive power plant portfolio and investment programme for the modernization and construction of new generation capacity are the basis for growing earnings in the future. RWE's gas and oil production business is displaying above-average growth. In light of ever-higher global demand, RWE will steadily increase the share of gas it produces in-house."


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Thursday, April 10, 2008
A Georgia Springtime Classic
Yep, its that time of year again. The time of year when Georgia looks as though it suffered a nuclear attack and bright yellow-green radioactive fallout is covering everything. You can't open your windows or it will be covering everything in your house. Its pointless to wash your car and whenever you have to go outside for anything you come back in feeling like you've got a gritty film covering you.
It will be nice to get some good soaking rains to wash away this mess.
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This project is no longer listed in the FindAPhD
database and may not be available.
Applications are invited from self-funded students.
The project will be co-supervised by Dr Pavel Gershkovich and Professor Peter Fischer in the University of Nottingham, UK. In addition, the project will benefit from collaborative support of Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. The prospective student will have an opportunity to travel between the UK and Canadian sites.
For informal inquiries please contact Dr Pavel Gershkovich ([email protected]).
FTE Category A staff submitted: 44.10
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There are various emergency procedures implemented at BELCO when a hurricane or tropical storm becomes a threat to Bermuda. At the start of hurricane season in June, we ensure that our internal emergency procedures are up to date with key personnel identified and tasks assigned. All departments within the company are involved and each has a vital role to play in restoring power to the Island. During the year, there are a number of precautionary measures BELCO takes:
- Because trees hitting power lines is the number-one cause of outages in Bermuda, BELCO makes a commitment year-round to cut back trees that affect our main line circuits and larger branch lines. A particular emphasis is placed on this commitment immediately before the start of hurricane season in June, using both BELCO employees and contracted landscaping firms.
- BELCO is not responsible for cutting trees back in residential areas. That is the responsibility of individual home owners. If a tree limb on your property is dangerously close to a power line, however, call BELCO and we will arrange a time to turn your power off while you or your tree-trimming service cut the trees back safely. Planning ahead rather than waiting until the last minute is important, because making arrangements for tree trimming in the hours leading up to a hurricane can be difficult.
When a Storm is Imminent
- Our fleet of trucks is fully fuelled and stocked with the necessary tools, including chainsaws and equipment necessary for restoring power.
- Our line crews are mobilised with various personnel being designated to strategic locations throughout the Island. None of our line crews work during the height of a storm.
During a Storm
- At BELCO's head offices, a team of key personnel co-ordinates our restoration planning. This involves close liaison among our Energy Delivery, Energy Supply, Corporate Services, Human Resources and External Relations & Corporate Communications groups.
After a Storm
- Our priority is to restore power to all customers as quickly as possible.
- The order of our restoration effort is as follows: main circuits, branch lines and individual customers.
- We also have a list of priority customers, including essential services, such as fire, police, the hospitals and customers on life-support systems. This list helps determine which circuits and/or branch lines are worked on first.
- Our priority is also to keep all of Bermuda informed on our progress throughout the restoration process. We do this with the help of the local news media.


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Severus woke before his roommates the next morning and hurriedly dressed himself in his new Gryffindor robes. He shook his head in disbelief as he caught a glimpse of himself in the full length mirror by the door.
"Very dashing, dear." the mirror said.
"When I want your opinion I shall ask for it." Severus whispered back, his lip curling, and he quietly swept out of the room.
The common room was empty as he made his way to the portrait hole, Potter was nowhere to be seen. Not that he was bothered, he told himself, last night had simply been part of his latest act of subterfuge. He was definitely not experiencing feelings of sympathy for James Potter's offspring. He cursed his actions last night and resolved to keep more of a distance in future. He couldn't allow himself to get dragged in to Potter's problems, he had more than enough of his own to deal with right now. Striding purposefully down the stairs he headed for the Headmistress's Office, determined to have McGonagall overrule his sorting and move him to Slytherin.
"Evan!" called a voice, as he reached the entrance hall.
He turned to see a pale looking Draco rushing towards him from the dungeon stairs. He looked like he had barely slept and faint shadows ringed his eyes.
"Whatever you wanted to discuss wait until we are in the Headmistress's Office." he warned, looking over his shoulder. "Too easy to be overheard otherwise."
"Are you certain you want her to hear this?" Draco murmured, falling into step beside him as they made their way through the corridors.
"What are you blithering about?" Severus snapped.
"You were getting pretty cosy with Potter at the feast last night." Draco hissed with venom. "Holding hands and everything."
"Have you lost your mind?" Severus snarled, stopping in his tracks and grabbing Draco by the front of his robes. "She put her hand on mine! I can't be responsible for her every foolish action. I have to play my role here as I have always done. I'm not interested in Harriet Potter, I'm old enough to be her father, in fact I was at school with her rotten father."
"I saw..."
"You saw nothing but what your jealous mind invented, Draco." Snape turned on his heel and stalked down the corridor to McGonagall's office, leaving a shocked Draco to stare after him.
Upon reaching the gargoyle guarding the office Snape realised he didn't know the password. He vented his feelings by kicking the wall, causing him to be hopping around holding his throbbing foot when McGonagall rounded the corner. He noticed that she hid a smile as she approached.
"To what do I owe this pleasure Mr Asphodel?" she asked as the gargoyle leapt aside and she led Snape up the spiral staircase. "I have already spent the last hour calming down Mr Filch after Peeves decided to lock him in his cleaning cupboard. I do hope this is for something more pleasant."
They entered the office and many of the portraits on the wall nodded their greetings to McGonagall and stared with ill disguised curiosity at Snape. Directly behind the Headmistress's desk hung the portrait of Albus Dumbledore. He gave Severus a little wave, his eyes twinkling knowingly.
"Minerva," Severus began urgently, as McGonagall took a seat behind the desk,"this whole situation is farcical! I don't belong in Gryffindor. I must insist you move me to Slytherin immediately."
"The hat sorted you into Gryffindor Severus." McGonagall said, with maddening calm, "I cannot change the decision once made, nor would I want to, and I urge you to make the best of it and try to make yourself at home."
"I can't possibly stay there," he protested, "I'm not like them."
"My dear Severus," she said with a sad and knowing smile, "As a former head of Gryffindor, I can quite honestly say that I have never met a man with more courage. If ever a man belonged in Gryffindor it is you."
"So you won't move me?" he asked, knowing already her response.
"I'm afraid not." she said, drawing some paperwork towards her and nodding towards the exit.
Severus understood that the matter was closed and he was dismissed. He hung his head and slipped from the roomroom feeling dejected.
The door clicked shut behind him and McGonagall looked up from her desk with a sigh.
"I always thought we sorted too soon." smiled the portrait of the Dumbledore.
By the time Severus entered the Great Hall it was beginning to fill up with students eating breakfast. He found a space at the Gryffindor table and sat down, helping himself to toast. He chewed morosely, mulling over what McGonagall had said. He didn't believe her or the blasted hat. He knew he was a Slytherin really. A hand tapped tentatively on his shoulder and he looked up into green eyes.
"Can you just pretend last night didn't happen?" Harriet whispered, pleadingly as she sank onto the bench next to him. "It was just being back here, it brought back..." she lapsed into awkward silence.
"I'm sure I have no idea what you are referring to." Snape murmured, avoiding her eyes.
"Thank you." she said and reached for a pitcher of pumpkin juice.
Just then Ron and Hermione dropped into the seats opposite holding a whispered argument. Hermione cuffed Ron around the head before giving Snape a strained smile.
"Sleep well Evan?" she asked warmly.
"As well as can be expected in a new place." he said, sensing Harriet stiffen slightly beside him.
"I'm sorry about yesterday." Ron blurted out to Harriet. "I was being an insensitive prat." he looked at Hermione who nodded. "I'll stop going on about Snape, I really didn't mean to upset you."
"I know," Harriet sighed, "I'll be fine once I get back into the swing of things. Sorry I shouted at you."
Snape watched as Harriet forced a smile onto her face and joined in with the joking and laughing around the table. She may have convinced her fellow Gryffindor's, but Snape noticed that the smile never reached her eyes. Maybe he was more adept at spotting fake emotions than someone who had not spent half their life as a double agent, but it was clear that things with Miss Potter were not all they seemed.
After receiving their new timetables from their new Head of House and Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Bill Weasley, the Gryffindor's headed off to their first lesson. Apart from Longbottom they were all heading for potions in the dungeons.
The classroom door was open when they arrived and Slughorn was already inside with other class members. He welcomed Harriet, Ron and Hermione with enthusiasm and regarded Severus with a calculating stare.
"This must be our newest student Evan," Slughorn boomed, clapping his hands. "An unknown quantity as of yet. Tell me young man, how are you at potions?"
"I enjoy it immensely sir." Snape said politely, "I shall let you judge my competance, however, seeing that you are the teacher."
Slughorn laughed, throwing back his head, his expansive stomach wobbling.
"I reserve my judgement for now then young sir." he chuckled, "why don't you pair up with my star student, Harriet here and show me what you are capable of."
Harriet glanced at Snape and shrugged as she placed her equipment on the workbench. He began to unpack his cauldron and ingredients as Slughorn busied himself with arranging the other students into pairs. Draco caught his eye across the classroom and nodded, he appeared to have calmed down. He would try to find him later to sort things out between them. Before he could dwell too much Slughorn was calling for the class's attention and explaining the method required for today's potion. It was a complex healing potion Severus had made numerous times. He smiled to himself as he gathered the ingredients from the storeroom and arranged them on the workstation, where Potter was setting up the cauldron. He swept his shoulder length, reddish hair back into a ponytail and tied it with a black strip of ribbon.
Soon the vapours in the dungeon made it appear misty and Severus was able to lose himself in the comforting familiarity of chopping and stirring. He reached out and grasped Harriet's wrist as she went to add the next ingredient.
"Not yet!" he told her, reducing the height of the flame beneath the cauldron and stirring clockwise once. "If you add the willow bark without reducing the heat it will scorch and make the potion less effective." He watched as the liquid began to turn cloudy, then nodded for Harriet to add the bark.
As soon as the bark hit the potion it began to froth. Snape waited until the froth had subsided and then counted ten stirs anti-clockwise.
"The book says-" Harriet began.
"Trust me." Snape assured her, stirring twice clockwise and then extinguishing the heat, he left the potion to settle. As they watched the liquid turned steadily paler until it was completely clear.
"Outstanding!" exclaimed Slughorn, drawing level with their workstation and spotting their potion. "As expected a perfect performance from Harriet again."
"Actually sir, it was mostly down to Evan." Harriet admitted, "I was about to scorch the willow bark when he stopped me."
"Well done indeed Evan!" Slughorn beamed, "I can see we have another instinctive potions maker in our midst. What a treat to have two in the same class. Why I don't think I have been lucky enough to instruct such genius since..." he trailed off with a sad look at Harriet, "Never mind," he said, "five points each for Gryffindor for producing such a good quality healing potion and working as such an effective team."
Harriet flushed and ducked down to pack away their equipment while Severus bottled their potion to be graded. As he took the full vial up to Slughorn's desk he noticed Draco glaring at him again.


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When I was a child I loved to read and there was one book that was always my favourite.
It was a big and heavy book with lots of pages. But I wouldn't read it all. Instead I'd go straight to the pages near the end and spend literally hours looking at the pictures and reading the words.
I'd only be interested in reading it for a few months, usually between the months of October and December.
No, this wasn't a book by children's favourite Roald Dahl or one that I'd picked up from the local library. This one was actually picked up from a store in Portsmouth city centre and is better known to you and me as the Argos catalogue.
Yes, in the run-up to Christmas I'd use this to help me write my present list to Father Christmas.
Now history is repeating itself except my daughters have more choice. Argos catalogue, Smyths Toys catalogue, Toys R Us catalogue... they have been circling what toys they'd like. Either they'll be very disappointed or I'll be much poorer come Christmas Day.


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Finding this review on Amazon.com for my novel All That the Heart Desires made me put my phone away in disbelief. After several minutes I held it in my hands again and pushed the reload button once more to be completely and 100 percent sure that the review I saw and read before was really there.
To read among other things:
"Simply unputdownable!"
'Definitely worth more than 5*.'
made me feel... how to put this - this has made me feel as high as a kite... (oops)...
It's another 5
review and I you can believe me - I've been smiling ever since.
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Fresh-faced, 6-year-old Etan Patz vanished from a SoHo street 20 years ago today, launching one of the city's greatest unsolved mysteries and galvanizing public awareness of missing kids.
Although no one has been charged in Etan's disappearance and apparent death, a former federal prosecutor who spent eight years investigating the case believes the prime suspect is Jose Ramos, 54, who is serving 20 years in a Pennsylvania prison for sexually abusing a young boy.
Tragically, Etan disappeared on the first day he convinced his parents he was big enough to walk alone to the bus.
"I believe Etan is no longer with us and that the man responsible for that, Jose Ramos, is behind bars," said Stuart GraBois, the former Manhattan federal prosecutor who pursued leads as far away as San Diego and Israel.
At the time of Etan's disappearance, Ramos was:
*A drifter and former mental patient who lived on the Lower East Side and who had a history of trying to lure young boys when he traveled the country.
*An acquaintance of a West Side woman who worked for the Patzes escorting Etan to school during a short-lived school-bus strike in 1979.
*An admitted child molester who later claimed he was with a child resembling Etan on the day the boy vanished.
Despite strong circumstantial evidence against him, Ramos has never been charged in the Patz case. He is eligible for parole in Pennsylvania next year.
Etan's disappearance and the search by his parents, Stanley, a commercial photographer, and Julie, a school aide, created an outpouring of public concern for missing children.
It led to such highly publicized campaigns as the placement of photos of missing children on the sides of milk cartons.
"It is a legacy to Etan that Ramos is behind bars not harming anyone else, and that innumerable young people have been saved thanks to the awareness his case has generated," GraBois said.


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The Boy (having a conversation with some random grown-up): Dinosaurs, dinosaurs...blah blah...Xenotarsosaurus is my favorite dinosaur, but I wouldn't want to meet one because it's a carnosaur...blah, blah...dinosaurs...
Grown-up (slightly condescending): Are you going to be a dinosaur scientist when you grow up?
The Boy (slightly condescending): I'm going to be a paleontologist, yes.
Later, in the car to me...
The Boy: After I retire from being a paleontologist, I think I'll go work for Pixar.
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I have pictures! None of these are of me, unfortunately. I didn't plan ahead and I got home about 15 minutes before trick or treating commenced. The boy was a t-rex. The husband was Pennywise, which made for much hilarity. It turns out that children, even those too young to have seen the movie, are scared of Pennywise.
The boy danced at the end of the driveway.
Mermolade (Merlin) and the girl came for a visit.
And Bleu was sad that we left him inside.
Happy Halloween! I'm off to watch some Stranger Things, season 2.


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Angela Clemens
She's a great teacher, really cool, nice shoes too
Angela Clemens is a teacher who is dedicated to teaching her students and making sure that they understand all the concepts in her chosen subject. Angela brings a fun attitude to class and is prepared to spend extra time wit
Nice to students that take her classes but no-one else!
For the time I had her, she was a really great teacher. Great ways of teaching
Shes really good teacher (: shes been my teacher for 2 years now.
This teacher changed my life. Inspired me to pursue further education.
she is a bit harsh on the uniform thing but she thinks its her job.. other than that sorts deen stuff out well
shes ok she is a very nice teacher but i dont like having things confiscated and then getting lost
Hard to approach and not really interested in talking rationally
The best teacher I have. She actually cares about her students and has interesting teaching methods.
Her ways of teaching are unique and definately helpful. I find myself thinking of the odd yet somehow rememberable activities we did in class,those which has helped me alot in exams.
Ms. Clemens was the best teacher I ever had! Really friendly and helpful. Helped me succeed in this subject.
She was the best teacher i had, i know people hated her for her uniform strictness, but who cares, She was the coolest ever.
shes a good teacher but shes like way too strict on the uniform policy....y cant she be as laid back as the others?
She is a nice teacher, but should try to relax a bit more and not be so uptight about the school uniform policy and such.
Angela Clemens is the kind of teacher that always has a smile and hello for you.


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Jordan: It's good, although not conducive to napping. If I nap, it's from 5-8PM after class, then I gotta wake up, eat my ramen noodle with an egg, study, gotta watch my SportsCenter... (Brian and Matt comment on the egg) Yeah, the egg exponentially increases the nutritional value of the gourmet noodle.
Matt: I just sleep in on my days off. Napping is a sun-dependent thing.
Jordan: Yeah, days off area awesome. I go to the 8-10 class, go to the gym- you can just say that I read study guides on the elliptical... well that's a lie.
And about clinic- yes, I'm not going to be doing fillings as an orthodontist, but I appreciate that fact, that I won't be doing these things.
Jordan: I like to move'em teeth. I had braces twice, first because of my Class III and second time in dental school. I like that no one's scared of going to the orthodontist.
Jay: What about when people get them tightened? Doesn't that hurt?
Here Jordan brought out his future ortho hat and explained that either the change in wire material or the change in thickness causes increased tension on the brackets, making the patient feel like the wires had been "tightened up".
Matt: So did you take ortho class seriously?I need to comment here that Jordan and I were discussing the Tetralogy of Fallot later and Jordan could name- off the top of his head- the first two conditions of the four characteristics. I was just glad I remembered how to say "Fallot".
J: Yeah, and I've been paying attention to ortho over the years.
Although he's so darn humble, I'm sure he'll have a reason to celebrate come next year's ortho residency match day. THANK YOU to Jordan (and Matt and Brian and Jay) for talking with me and making sure I'm up to date on my blogging.


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In my own honest opinion, dating your friend's ex girlfriend is one of the biggest mistakes that you could ever do in life. I've been there, done that and nothing good has happened. Regrets are always in the end. So before you proceed to something mutual, maybe you'd like to consider some things first.
Friendship always comes first
"There's a guy who doesn't feel awkward hanging out with his friend and ex-girlfriend although he knows that the two are dating."
Wait, what? Well, it works for some cases but not all the time. Obviously, getting involved with your friend's ex can create a gap between you and your friend. Let me ask you, how would you feel if you see your friend dating the woman you used to love? Is that okay with you? Are you sure that you won't feel uneasy? I don't think so. The bottom line is, this could be a friendship ender for both sides. Come on dude. There are so many fishes in the sea. Believe me, you can always find a girlfriend anytime or maybe sometime soon, but not everyday you can find a true friend that'll be there in good times and in bad. So don't lose the friendship that you've cherished for so long just because of a girl.
You won't just lose one, but maybe more
Most of the time, cases like this has a negative impression to one's circle of friends. If you date your friend's ex, your friend will be on the downside of the situation. Especially if he's still single. Chances are, he might only get the sympathy of others. How do you think your other friends would react knowing that you're hooking up with his ex? I'm quite sure that they won't be too happy about it. There comes the risk of losing more of your friends. At that point you should ask yourself:
"Is it worth it?"
"Is this woman worth losing my friends and causing pain to a close friend?"
The new relationship could be hard for you
Okay let's say that you really like the girl. At first, it will be so good and feel so right. But eventually, everything will be boring. There's no twist anymore because you already knew each other. Your friend must've shared almost anything about them to you when they were still together. Including private things. You won't get too excited sharing the same stuff which you know her ex has already done for her before. And the worst part, time may come that she'll even compare him to you.
Gathering with her friends is weird. For sure, they already knew you and they were even close friends of her ex (your friend). There's a possibility that they also know the story behind the two of you. Not only them, but maybe her parents and relatives as well. And that's embarrassing. So in short, entering this kind of relationship will make your world a lot smaller. Unless you don't care about what other people say. In the end, you'd realize the consequences of your actions. It just depends on how you'll face them. Good luck.


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1. "What All Is By My Side Gets Wrong About Hendrix." Glenn Kenny on what the film asks us to take in faith.
"Am I doing some musicological nit-picking here? I sure am. But that's because without that, one is likely to come up with an unappealing caricature of Hendrix, and that's what Jimi: All Is By My Side finally amounts to. The movie, which does not credit [Charles] Cross's biography as a source, uses (and changes, or arguably distorts) many of the anecdotes therein, including one in which an enraged Hendrix physically attacks Etchingham with a telephone receiver. In Cross's book, the event is depicted as highly uncharacteristic. While an accomplished traveler in psychedelics, Hendrix simply couldn't handle liquor. 'Any aggression he displayed was usually linked to excessive drinking…his quick temper…seemed in such contrast to his normally polite manner.' Hendrix's traumatic childhood (into which Cross' biography digs deep), combined with the permissive mien of his time and environment, not to mention his vocation, led to not-unpredictable problems with intimacy and personal commitment. But as depicted in Jimi: All Is By My Side, all of these considerations are compressed so as to create a bald and distasteful picture of a Violent Black Man With Woman Problems. In another scene, Etchingham whinges about wanting to go out and have fun while Hendrix, the windows of his apartment papered over to enhance his desired isolation, stares vegetatively at a television. This is supposed to be someone whose command of his instrument extended forwards, backwards, upside-down and sideways over every millimeter of the fretboard and beyond, who is always depicted by friends and colleagues as never not having a guitar within arm's reach."
2. "This Endanger'd Isle." For the Los Angeles Review of Books, Amy Wilentz on Ian McEwan's The Children Act.
"Well, you can't start a book with the one-word sentence 'London.' and not have it be about London (which means England). That's what Dickens was writing about and that's what McEwan is writing about. In part, McEwan opens with the echo to show how much the England of Dickens has changed. Fiona Maye, McEwan's protagonist, is a family division judge who decides matters of custody as well as child welfare. She's an authoritative woman, a figure who does not exist in the judicial world of the Dickens novel. Things are rather cut and dried now in the Inns of Court, McEwan shows us. There are no mad women ranting in the courtrooms, no rag and bottle dealers across the way. And no fan of gin goes up in flames caused by spontaneous combustion. No, in this new world, eccentricity has been rubbed flat, and the law shows a regard for numbers and an adherence to a kind of strict, dry, but efficient code that it did not in Jarndyce v Jarndyce, the infamous, corrupt, multigenerational inheritance case that, in Bleak House, strews misery and death in its wake. As McEwan writes of his judge: 'She believed she brought reasonableness to hopeless situations.' In Bleak House, the legal community brings hopelessness to reasonable situations."
3. "Land of La La." Jeff Reichert on David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars.
"Let us assume for an instant that perhaps Cronenberg is fully aware his satire is stale, that his critique of contemporary Hollywood lacks trenchancy. So what, then is Maps to the Stars up to? Is it an honest portrait of a family laid low by Hollywood's dream machine? As we learn more about the Weiss clan, a core incestuous relationship that has defined the family's present is revealed. As well, when Benjie and Agatha are finally reunited, there's a queasily palpable erotic tension between the pair—before their separation, they once played a game where they pretended to wed, and Agatha seems insistent on picking things up where they left off. Is Maps, then, a modern-day stab at Sophoclean tragedy? Paul Elard's poem 'Liberté' (once airdropped by the thousands over occupied WWII Paris) is read by various characters throughout—is the film, then, an anguished cry against a system that totalizes and destroys lives in the process of creating entertainment for others? Is Cronenberg telegraphing an allegiance to Billy Wilder that his body of work thus far has never suggested?"
4. "Steven Soderbergh Is Doing Some Next-Level Work on The Knick." Matt Zoller Seitz takes a moment to appreciate what we're watching when we watch The Knick.
"When we see shots of African-Americans being battered by a white mob, the camera tracks the action laterally through a chain-link fence in the foreground. The fence creates a kind of 'scrim' effect: You see the gist of the horror, but not every detail. The fence bit consists of three acts of violence that last about 12 seconds total, but they're so ugly that 12 seconds is all Soderbergh needs to get the point across. Even the most prolonged moments of savagery, such as a fight in a hospital hallway and a scene of a prone man being kicked, are shot so as to obscure the bloody details. I wouldn't call this approach 'tasteful,' exactly. There's a touch of the documentary to it; it's journalistic, perhaps cold. It's unflinching, but not exploitive. It feels right."
5. "Camille Paglia: The Modern Campus Cannot Comprehend Evil." Young women today do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.
"There is a ritualistic symbolism at work in sex crime that most women do not grasp and therefore cannot arm themselves against. It is well-established that the visual faculties play a bigger role in male sexuality, which accounts for the greater male interest in pornography. The sexual stalker, who is often an alienated loser consumed with his own failures, is motivated by an atavistic hunting reflex. He is called a predator precisely because he turns his victims into prey. Sex crime springs from fantasy, hallucination, delusion, and obsession. A random young woman becomes the scapegoat for a regressive rage against female sexual power: 'You made me do this.' Academic clichés about the 'commodification' of women under capitalism make little sense here: It is women's superior biological status as magical life-creator that is profaned and annihilated by the barbarism of sex crime."
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Monday, May 16, 2011
f is for fractions
Since I have younger kids most people would think I stay far away from fractions for school time, but in all honesty with 2 boys there is really plenty of opportunity to work on fractions during and outside of school time.
The first lessons in fractions really started even before we began our homeschool sharing... Simple tasks like sharing became "you get half and your brother gets half" or "since there is 4 of us we would each get 1/4 of ......." those lead into money is fractions, etc... Bringing basic fractions into our school day and week even has been fairly easy too. We homeschool 4 days a week so Cameron learned that he could divide his Math unit into 4 parts and do 1/4 of it each day and to make it a little more exciting I only have him would on his phonics 3 days a week so we quickly learned 1/3 of the unit...
We won't get to fractions in our actual daily math for another year but we are learning to incorporate fractions into living math.
Nathan loves working in the shop with his Daddy where tools are either metric or standard measure. He soon learned that 5/8 is larger than 1/2 and 9/16 is larger than 5/8... He may not fully understand what they stand for (5/8 of an inch, etc...) but he understands that fractions can seem like one thing but really be something different.
We try to bring life learning into all subjects but Math always seems to make its way into the boys lives and for that I am grateful.
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You're doing a great job of incorporating fractions into daily life!ReplyDelete
Thanks for joining in Math Monday!
Cariann, thanks for the post. I agree with you that fractions should be a natural part of young children's lives, een if they haven't yet appeared in their level of the school curriculum. I feel that for some reason fractions are left too late in contemporary curriculum documents.ReplyDelete
What an awesome introduction to fractions. Your sons will find fractions in their math curriculum so much easier, since they actually understand how they work in real life.ReplyDelete
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ARMOUR supports Dr Anthony Turton's Call to action
(published below in case you missed it) Anthony Turton, August 10, 2013
Interview with Dr Anthony Turton : SABC 2 FOKUS
In 2002 South Africa officially became a water constrained economy, when the National Water Resource Strategy reported that we had allocated 98% of our total water resource. Subsequent high confidence studies have shown that we over-estimated the water available at the time, so in short, we have allocated all the water that we have. This means that we are simply unable to grow our economy to employ the vast numbers of unemployed. The logical outcome is therefore a revolution that will not only sweep the current regime from power, but also result in widespread misery as looting, fire and hatred consume all before it. We already see the anarchy unfolding as the flames of hatred are stoked by fascist elements.
Our fundamental problem, at least from a water resource management perspective, is that we failed in 2002 to recognize that our economy is water constrained. Had we done so then, we would have shifted focus onto a recycling and recovery basis in which we create New Water from waste and the sea. We have failed to do that so it's no use crying over spilled milk.
However, the water we have in our national rivers and dams – the resource on which our entire national economy is based – is now polluted by sewage, acid mine drainage, uranium, partially metabolized Estrogen and a cocktail of drugs including antibiotics, antiretrovirals, antidepressants and an exotic concoction of recreational drugs like cocaine and Tik. The sewage crisis is all pervasive. In Welkom the sewage runs raw into rivers and the ground is soggy underfoot. In Johannesburg raw sewage flows from manholes through the Zoo. In Vereeniging entire sewage works discharge 120 million litres of raw sewage a day into the Vaal River system. The Johannesburg North waste water works has been discharging millions of litres a day into the Juksei River without any fear of regulatory intervention. In Pretoria the Rooiwal waste water works have been discharging raw sludge into a wetland in such vast quantities that the ground has become jelly and boreholes are contaminated. Produce farmers between Krugersdorp and Magaliesberg now have to treat borehole water for sewage contamination of the lettuces supplied to the produce market. In many townships residents have to pick their way across a landscape of islands amongst raw untreated sewage. Hartebeestpoort Dam is the most sewage contaminated dam in Africa, if not the world, and best efforts to rectify it are undermined by a failure of the state.
This is systemic failure. It is not about race, politics or religion – its about a crisis of monumental proportions that is likely to see the outbreak of epidemics and the emergence of drug resistant pathogens that are harmful to us all. I am not being a doomsday prophet when I say that we are sitting on a ticking timebomb. The Department of Water and Sanitation puts out lies about fish kills at the Barrage, selectively citing old scientific reports that fish death is "normal" because of "naturally" changing conditions. Our rivers are now polluted with cyanobacteria, toxic single-celled organisms that are amongst the most primitive of all life forms. Neither plant nor animal, they multiply rapidly in the presence of sewage and they release a potent molecule into the water when they are distressed. That single molecule is so small that it cannot be removed by any of the current filtration or water processing technologies used by bulk water suppliers like Rand Water, Umgeni Water and others. The name of that molecule is Microcystin LR and it contains a toxin called ß Methylamino – L – Alanine (BMAA). High confidence scientific studies conducted outside of South Africa show us what BMAA can do when it enters the mammalian food chain and crosses the placenta from mother to unborn child. Space precludes me from elaborating further, but I will after this Call to Action has taken root and become unstoppable. Simply Google these words and become savvy citizens on your own. Learn as you empower yourselves with knowledge.
At the heart of this unfolding disaster are two key elements that I believe we now need to focus on as a society of outraged citizens. These are:
1) A culture of impunity underpinning a system so flawed, that unless we challenge it, we are assured of the collapse of democracy in our troubled land. That culture of impunity manifests as protection by the Ruling Party of any Cadre engaged in corrupt practices or maladministration. One example of many is the plunder of our financial resources by the Zuma / Gupta criminal syndicate, that was aided and protected by Parliament, thereby rendering that organ of oversight dysfunctional. Nomvula Mokonyane plundered the resources of DWS and is simply redeployed to a different ministry without any consequence, while her replacement Gugile Nkwinti makes a public statement that he will not be prosecuting those known to have been involved in maladministration and corruption. The SASSA debacle tells us an identical story as Bathabile Dlamini acts with disregard for the law of the land. The plight of all SOE's tells the same sad story. This culture of impunity has to end if we are to safeguard the health and wellbeing of our society.
2) At the very heart of this crisis is the interpretation of Chapter 3 of our Constitution – Cooperative Governance. This clause stipulates that different spheres and tiers of government may not encroach on each other. More importantly it states that one organ of state may not resort to the court until all efforts have been made to resolve differences internally. This clause has been (incorrectly) interpreted to mean that the DWS may not intervene in the functions of any municipality, and cannot therefore sanction a dysfunctional sewage works by anything other than a simple letter without any teeth. This means that DWS is toothless as a regulator, so our crisis of Induced Scarcity is driven at the most fundamental level by a constitutional crisis. This cannot continue.
Therefore, I believe that we are now at a moment in time when ALL citizens are impacted, irrespective of their financial status, political affiliation or religious persuasion. This is a UNIVERSAL THREAT to our very stability as a society. We must therefore rise as one, and speak with a single voice to achieve two specific outcomes:
1) We must find a case that can be prosecuted in the criminal court, and then resource a highly competent legal team to do what needs to be done to place a high-ranking Cadre in prison. We must choose this case carefully because it is vital that we secure a conviction. We must not rely on emotion to drive our decisions. We must not allow a pro-bono legal team to do the work, for if it comes at no cost, it also has no value. We must appoint the best, a real Rottweiler, mandate them and then pay them to seek the remedy that we, the citizens, demand. That Rottweiler works for us, not the Ruling Party or the State (one and the same thing).
2) We must approach the Constitutional Court to get clarity on the interpretation of Chapter 3 – Cooperative Governance, for the current interpretation renders all regulatory oversight by central government ineffective. How can any department mandated to exercise oversight, achieve its stated objective without intervening in the activities of other tiers and/or spheres of state?
Now we get to the tough part of my Call to Action. We have no credible leadership left in this country, so we are all floundering. Leadership is a responsibility and a burden, but also a necessary ingredient for success. Therefore, I am willing to step into that leadership position, at least in the initial phases, BUT only if certain conditions are met. If I am to lead this initiative (and I never want to lead it alone so any other leadership is welcome), I will become a target for retribution as we break open rat nests of corruption, so my personal investment into a successful outcome has to be high. A leader needs followers, so this is where you come in. If I am to lead this initiative, at least to the point where it has critical mass and can pass through both the Constitutional and Criminal Courts on its own momentum, then I need you to also commit. What I need you to commit to is two clearly defined things:
(a) I need from you a clear mandate that society feels so strongly about this issue, that they will rally to this one cause. I will measure that commitment by a minimum of 1,000 shares underpinned by a majority of comments in support of this action. Some will always oppose, and professional trolls will deliberately seek to undermine, so we will be vigilant of this. A minimum of 1,000 shares tells me that I have enough support to put myself into the firing line. If we get 10,000 shares that tells us something else. If we get 100,000 shares, it tells us that we have an unstoppable Movement for Positive Change. So, this is my first condition. Less than 1,000 shares and I am not prepared to take this matter any further.
(b) I need each person that commits, to also become financially invested into the outcome. To say to me I must go ahead and enter the battlefield to fight on your behalf is one thing, because if/when I become a casualty then you will not feel the pain. But if each person is to also make a pledge to give some cash, not necessarily more than R10.00 per person, channelled through a crowd funding platform that is fullyMM audited, credible and accountable, then we have a war chest that will enable us to pay for the very best legal team in the country. 100,000 people each giving R10 means that we have R1 million to pay the legal team. Once we have R1 m, I will approach a philanthropist and them to double that to R2 m. Broad based commitment will trigger wider commitment as we raise funds through a range of means that also spreads the message of hope even as we educate people about the personal risks to their health. It will mean that we, the people, will direct that team to serve our collective interest, rather than the interest of a single donor.
In conclusion, my pledge to you is that I am prepared to take a leadership role in building a collaborative broad-based movement for positive change, that has as a defined objective clarification from the Constitutional Court of the Cooperative Governance Chapter; and a criminal prosecution of a Minister, a DG, a Premier or any other Cadre known to be blatantly in violation of the law of this land. No single entity will be at the front, for there are many NGO's, and each has their own skills to offer our cause. Once the coalition has been formed I will step back and let them carry on. In short, collectively we will draw a line in the sand and claim back our democracy in dignity and in law. The minimum threshold I need is 1,000 shares and a general pledge to support a legitimate and credible crowd funding platform purposely created for this one objective. My own work will be pro bono, so I do not want one red penny of anyone's money. That money will be used to brief the best legal team that we can muster, and to mandate them to fight OUR cases in the courts of this country.
If you support this, please share and be prepared to become part of an unstoppable Movement for Positive Change through the application of the noble laws of this troubled country. If you are an NGO that is willing to get involved, please make this pledge and take up the cause. If you are a corporation with a social responsibility agenda, please consider adopting this cause for your own marketing initiative.
Today we end the era of impunity and we reinstate the principle of accountability central to any functional democracy.
There's so much more to the plastic pollution crisis than plastic bags
Water Research Commission, June 19 2018
The Water Research Commission recently demonstrated the presence of substantial amounts of micro to nano-sized plastic particles in selected surface, tap and ground water sources in South Africa.
Microplastics in water sources could originate from industrial pellets, microbeads used in personal care products, micro/nanofibres used in clothing items, as well as abrasives from synthetic sand-blasting.
These minute plastic particles end up in our rivers because wastewater treatment plants are not designed to remove them. Secondary microplastic fragments are those that are derived from the degradation of larger plastic pieces.
Stop polluting, Minister Visits Hartebeespoort
SA News, June 15 2018
Water and Sanitation Minister Gugile Nkwinti has warned that as long as the conditions in the communities around the water sources do not change, there will continue to be difficulties that go on forever. "Upstream must be properly identified as to where the pollution emanates from. The technical team must inform the politicians accordingly," Minister Nkwinti said.
The Minister was addressing principals during a site visit at the Northern Operations Office of the department situated at the Hartbeespoort Dam. The Minister paid a first visit to the Hartbeespoort Dam on Friday morning to receive an on-site briefing on operations around the dam, one of the department's critical infrastructures within the North West Province.
The Hartbeespoort Dam is strategic as it receives the inflow from both the City of Johannesburg and City of Tshwane. It also forms part of the Mokolo-Crocodile Project that is still under conceptualization, and it is a source for the Brits Water Treatment Works that is crucial for Madibeng Local Municipality.
Source of discontent
The briefing centred mainly around issues of water quality and land matters, which have become a source of discontent within the community and affecting tourism which is critical for the economic activity within the area. In his remarks, Nkwinti said the issue of the state of the dam is raised mainly at the Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation, as well as through the media.
"As a member of the Presidential Infrastructure Co-coordinating Commission (PICC) I also receive lots of reports on old infrastructure and particularly dams; Harties being one of those that are mainly referred to, especially the pollution in the water. This visit is meant to listen to the officials working with and on the dam, and also see the conditions for myself," he said.
The presentation on Friday detailed the life of the dam from inception and all matters that affect the dam, including population growth, old and ageing infrastructure, complex socio-economic conditions in township settlements, such as failing infrastructure, as well as land matters. The presentation also highlighted a need for the infrastructure in municipalities upstream of the dam that need to be ensured that they comply with licence conditions.
Change attitude
Nkwinti said department officials need to change their attitude and 'release themselves'.
"Officials of the department underestimate themselves. This is something that I am discovering as I go around the country and engaging with officials.
"We must also get rid of the silo mentality as dictated by red tape. This is a systemic challenge that can only be changed by officials themselves. As a Minister I need to be informed by the technical training that officials have undergone," he said.
Economic Development, Tourism and Agriculture Member of Mayoral Committee, DS Maimane welcomed the Minister's visit, saying that it will enhance the cooperation between the department and the municipality.
"The issue of access to the dam also has racial undertones that cannot be afforded. There is also some information that the municipality received about the possibility of a land claim that might impact on the dam and its use. We would like to see you more Minister so that we can move together," Maimane told Nkwinti. – SAnews.gov.za
First 100 days: Gugile Nkwinti tackles water and sanitation in SA
Daily Maverick, June 7 2018
Engagement and building consensus has been the hallmark of Minister Gugile Nkwinti's style of leadership, especially in his first 100 days of office in the Department of Water and Sanitation.
When, more than three months ago, the newly sworn-in President, Cyril Ramaphosa, told then-Rural Development and Land Reform Minister, Gugile Nkwinti, that he was to be moved from his post to becoming the political head of one of the most important departments in the country, the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), the veteran Eastern Cape politician was not fazed.
"Thuma Mina", the new minister said, despite the many challenges that faced the department – including the ongoing drought in the Western Cape, the staggering financial and technical challenges facing the water sector and the massive work needed to improve the country's water infrastructure.
However, while the minister expected it to be tough; he did not expect that he would be locked out of his Pretoria office at his first visit. The National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) had barricaded entry as the union was on strike. Minister Nkwinti then set up a meeting where he engaged the union leadership; set up a joint task team to look at the issues; and, "three or four days thereafter we met to receive the report and agreed on the way forward".
This method of engagement and building consensus has been the hallmark of Minister Nkwinti's style of leadership at the DWS, especially in his first 100 days of office. Minister Nkwinti has now reached the 100 days mark at the department – and many have begun feeling the impact of his work.
The results of the engagements with water boards and others, Nkwinti told lawmakers, was the development of a Five Pillar Turnaround Strategy. Key to the Strategy is the creation of a National Water Resources and Services Authority: RSA; a National Water Resources and Services Regulator: RSA; a Water Resources and Services Value Chain; a Water Resources and Services Master Plan and Institutional Rationalisation and Organisational Alignment. The department streamlined its organogram and a new accounting officer is at the helm.
Further, Minister Nkwinti said the Department had decided to reduce construction costs by prioritising an internal Construction Unit. This state-controlled construction company will have a share equity regime where the State owns 51%, historically disadvantaged individuals with own 30% with direct investment totalling 19%.
While busy transforming the way the Department works, Minister Nkwinti also made it his business to visit the department's key project to get a sense of what is happening on the ground.
Deborah Mochotlhi is the newly appointed Acting Director-General of the Department of Water and Sanitation.
Jukskei River flows yellow
The Jukskei River below the N14 regularly flows yellow. Efforts have been made to find the source. The Google maps picture in the link below clearly shows the source - Lion Park Quarries, downstream from Northern Works. The picture was sent to DWS with a request to investigate.
Plea to save the Hennops
A response from the Department of Water and Sanitation to Willem Snyman's queries and "Plea to save the Hennops" (15 May) has been received:
The sad case of the Hennops, once the cleanest river in Gauteng
Another foaming, raw-sewage filled day for the Hennops River, and I am trying to fathom the catastrophe: the sad case of the Hennops, once the cleanest river in Gauteng, deteriorating into the most polluted. Ancient ecosystems collapsing in less than a decade, billions of freshwater creatures now gone, their habitat turned into a highly polluted wasteland.
To try and understand how this tragedy was possible I went on a tour of Sunderland Ridge Waste Water Treatment Works, currently operating at around 60% efficiency. The treatment process is a relatively simple one of settling and agitation that is repeated in the same modules, using much electricity to turn large machines. It appears regular cable theft is the Achilles Heel bringing this system to its knees. Cable theft now even takes place in broad daylight, with thieves breaking through a wall. Security is still under the control of the Metro Police. Additional security should be provided by the Works but this costs money.
The funding could be provided from an unexpected source. Joburg Water sends some sewage to be treated here, but it seems because of clerical problems JW's payment never reaches the Plant where it is needed. The last I could ascertain was that Joburg Water is waiting for invoices from Tshwane Municipality before they can pay, but nobody at Sunderland knows where to read the flow volume to do this. There appears to be payment due, going back a decade, which could help the Plant to function properly and protect itself against constant cable theft. Joburg Water should take some of the responsibility, as some of its waste ends up in the Hennops. And Tshwane should allocate these funds to where it is desperately needed..
Once the water is free of pollution the long road to rehabilitation can start to restore one of the greatest assets of Tshwane and Gauteng. The headwater sources are still pure and this ancient fountain-river and life-source that nourished our first ancestors must be brought back to life again - to help heal our toxic world and give life to us once again.
Standfontein desalination plant starts delivering water into supply system in Cape Town
The City of Cape Town announced on Monday, 21 May, that the temporary desalination plant in Strandfontein is now delivering treated desalinated water into the supply system.
According to executive deputy mayor Ian Neilson, the plant is currently injecting 4.7-million litres per day into the reticulation system. It is expected that the plant will reach full production of 7-million litres during June 2018.
"Our reverse osmosis desalination plant in the Waterfront area is close to producing 2-million litres of drinking water per day while progress on the desalination plant at Monwabisi is also progressing well, with first water expected to be delivered by June and full production to be reached by July, if all goes according to plan. This plant is also set to produce 7-million litres per day," said Neilson.
He went on to emphasise that these projects provide only a small contribution of the city's daily requirements, and that consumers should continue to reduce water usage. "We have done well so far, and we must keep up our savings efforts during winter and in preparation for Summer 2018/19. We must continue to stretch our existing water supplies as we simply do not know what the actual winter rainfall will be."
Mogale's Silent Assassin
Borehole water test results confirm sewage leaks contaminate underground water around Pinehaven in Mogale. Resident Jan Brandt is fighting against official apathy as the disaster spreads.
"Following concerns raised by Mogale residents as to the quality of the water from their boreholes in the area close to the Pinehaven raw sewage pump stations where numerous spillages occurred, the DA claimed that this type of contamination is impossible. The DA went further and said that they will be testing water and take action if more residents come forward with complaints. https://krugersdorpnews.co.za/340326 - November 16, 2017. Despite the area being within Ward 39, a long time DA ward, the DA took no further action.
Three samples showing contaminated water were taken close to the Pinehaven pump station and close to the wetlands downstream from Pinehaven and the Steynsvlei dam.
The E coli and coliform levels in these samples were dangerously far outside the National Water specification limits, in fact the most probable number of coliforms for one sample is of the same order as those of the surface waters. If there were underground sources of contamination in the area, then SPL 1 and SPL 3 would have indicated it.
Secondly, it is unlikely that boreholes will be contaminated by one isolated spillage from the pump stations, except if the spilled raw sewage is allowed to flow into the boreholes. Seeing that as long ago as 2005 judgment was given against Mogale City Local Municipality (Case 2005/2412 -WLD) and a number of references on record where Mogale City reflected on the serious problems in the Muldersdrift area resulting from the lack of infrastructure, nobody in his right mind would buy the explanations offered by the DA.
As to the seven sample results on the surface water, without exception, these results speak for themselves. As we are dealing with an invisible entity, residents do not necessarily connect their ailments to water contamination, especially as they are conditioned to thinking around treated drinking water from sources such as Rand Water. What is not taken into account, is the contact with contaminated surface water, be it from drinking (also by animals), swimming, washing, laundering or irrigating crops with it.
For the DA and indeed Mogale City Local Municipality, in the north-west quadrant of the Witwatersrand, specifically the bigger Pinehaven node inclusive of Steynsvlei, Northvale and Heuningklip, kicking the can down the road, did not work and we have now run out of road.
Neither known nor appreciated, malfeasance, dysfunctionality, incompetence or some combination thereof, created the presence of a silent assassin. This invisible, but potentially deadly entity, in the form of life-threatening bacteria and pathogens, could well have and be generating huge costs for the community through infections, hospital and medical bills, immediate and long-term health problems and the diminution of property values.
In this process, the values enshrined in the South African Constitution have been ignored and nullified, including the right of community engagement and the right to a remedy. It is so sad that despite numerous studies and reports which adequately identified potential issues in the region and professionally recommended action, the problem was allowed to escalate to the life-threatening consequences now being faced."
A Re Sebetseng - Mayor's Clean Up Campaign
ARMOUR commends and supports the campaign by Johannesburg Mayor to clean up the city !!
Litter is the blight of Gauteng's rivers. Litter deposited in the streets of the city accumulates during the dry season and then with the first rain and floods gets washed into the river systems. River clean up campaigns such as Spruitday have found computer and electronic equipment, clothing, mattresses, cables and cable casing from electricity and telecomms companies and of course millions of plastic bags.
A Re Sebetseng creates an opportunity to clean up rubbish before it enters the river systems. ARMOUR met Mayor Herman Mashaba at the latest clean-up and presented him with the ARMOUR brochure while updating him on our mission and objectives. The mayor expressed his support for the work being done by ARMOUR
We also strongly commend Kenya for banning plastic bags entirely.
The "Last Straw" campaign aims to eliminate the use of plastic straws.
Plastics take between 500 to 1,000 years to break down, also enter the human food chain through fish and other animals. Many bags drift into the ocean, strangling turtles, suffocating seabirds and filling the stomachs of dolphins and whales with waste until they die of starvation.
Mayor Receives ARMOUR brochure from John duP
A Day's catch from the river banks
Braamfonteinspruit after flood
Klein Jukskei after flood
Update on Jukskei (Alexandra) Rehabilitation project
John du Plessis, Issued 25 September 2017
The City of Joburg (CoJ) has commenced with planned upgrades on the Upper Jukskei River, with the latest CoJ budget making R5 million available for this project, for the establishment of a greenbelt park in Alexandra. Area rehabilitation experts Plantwise were appointed to construct the park, which started with the stabilisation of the river banks, planting indigenous trees and installing playground equipment, as well as building a 5-a-side indoor football court, an outdoor (tennis?) court and a cycle path. The results are truly excellent!
Plantwise Site Manager - Riaan
Bank stabilisation using gabions
Indoor 5 a side soccer
Park and cycle path
Unfortunately, the Jukskei River itself and the river bank opposite the development is in a sorry state. The banks are eroded, illegal dumping threatens previous stabilisation and the river is littered and foul with sewerage.
Mr Pule Makena of City Parks hopes that the residents will use and take ownership of the new park facilities and that in turn, this will encourage a sense of pride that leads to a clean-up of this section of the Jukskei.
Further upgrades are planned for other sites on the Jukskei River, but are constrained by the available budgets. This is an opportunity for private companies and individuals to come together and assist in addressing the problems.
Come on Joburg let's work together to fix the Jukskei and make it a living resource !
50 000 litres of sewage flow into SA's rivers every second
M&G article: Sipho Kings, 21 Jul 2017
South Africa's municipal sewage system has largely collapsed. Of the 824 treatment plants, maybe only 60 release clean water.
Raw or partially treated sewage flows into rivers throughout the country, turning dams green and killing people who drink the polluted water. From big metros such as Johannesburg to towns like Villiers in the Free State, what is flushed down the toilet either escapes out of broken pipes or from the plants meant to treat it back to safe quality.
Mogale City: Erge Besoedelings- en Gesondheidsprobleme
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The Crocodile River tumbles down a beautiful waterfall into the Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens, visited and enjoyed by thousands of people every year. Several sewage leaks into the upper reaches of the river have been reported. As the river ignores municipal boundaries and runs through both Joburg and Mogale municipalities, it complicated matters as to who is responsible for maintenance. ARMOUR contacted the Sewer Network Manager of Joburg Water, who provided a contact in Mogale's Wastewater Network department, as well as tasking his own officials with fixing the Joburg leaks.
With the involvement of the Roodepoort Neighbourhood Watch and local Councillors several leaks have been fixed on both the Mogale and the Joburg side. A check will be done on the more inaccessible areas of the kloof above the waterfall and Joburg Water has promised to follow up.
Further, raw sewage has been flowing for months around Pinehaven, the Pinehaven Hospital and not far from Cradlestone Mall and the Silverstar Casino,into the Crocodile/ Limpopo water catchment area through Steynsvlei on its way to Hartebeespoort dam. ARMOUR is currently investigating.
Environmental Authorisation: Jukskei (Alexandra) Rehabilitation project
Maragela Consulting Engineers, Issued 30 March 2017
GDARD has granted COJ environmental authorisation for the Jukskei River Rehabilitation Project. In summary the remediation measures proposed at 14 sites across the Jukskei from Atholl to Waterval on the Modderspruit and Jukskei include :
The Masterplan for the Jukskei, although not fully incorporated in the work at hand, provides a long term objectives and vision.


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Nail care is an integral part of our fashion sense and personality. It reflects just how much we pay close attention to our personal hygiene and of people's perception about us. I am sure you get shy when people see your nail that's unkempt and dirty. Visiting the salon and obtaining the nail work you desire is the most important step to caring for your nails.
Let us be straightforward, a beautiful set of long and pretty-looking nails truly reveal a lot about your personal fashion style and personality. Nails are the most noticeable and visible part of your body that reflects you exactly you are as a person.
Yet for some people, because they are too busy to keep their nails looking good and beautiful, they leave it looking bad and unattractive. A quick trip to the salon can do your nails more good, plus you get a comprehensive nail care that you have always wanted. The beauty and fashion world is making you feel better about yourself by helping you look your best starting with the best nail care today. Heading to a nail care salon is all about enhancing the overall look of your hands and feet. If you wish to have long and lovely nails, visit the salon for a quick fix and a beautiful set of acrylic nails. These acrylic nails are basically glued to your original nails and they are durable as well as last a long time until your nail starts to grow.
Most women feel confident when they are at their best. Beautiful and long nails in women are very visible and they tend to be very expressive and attractive especially when touching our faces or hair. On the other hand, when your nails are all brittle, ugly, and dirty, they will be a total turn off and shows ones dirty ways or bad hygiene habits. Nail care is vital as it reflects how you pay close attention to your hygiene and yourself.
You can find several nail care salons that will suit your budget; they can start from the cheapest to the most expensive ones. So, check which ones best suit your budget and nail care needs today. You will find specialty salons that offer special services for various nail care needs. Salons specializing on nails may stick with typical services like manicure, pedicure, acrylic nails, nail polish changes, nail art, and more.


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Noise Induced Hearing Loss
The Alarming Increase in Noise-Induced Hearing LossWhile it may be true that the pair of facial appendages known as ears are not necessarily the most attractive of everyone's features, a journey along the auditory canal reveals a structure of delicate beauty and precision beyond the tympanic membrane, in the middle chambers of the auditory system. Known as ossicles, the triad of tiny bones, consisting of the descriptively-named maleus, incus and stapes, or hammer anvil and stirrup, is responsible for conducting soundwaves to the inner ear. It is the latter chamber, however, that holds the secret of how these soundwaves are converted into the nerve impulses that are then relayed to the brain for interpretation. Within the snail shell-shaped, fluid-filled cochlea, specialised cells, with delicate hair-like protrusions, generate these impulses when disturbed by vibrations in the cochlear fluid. Consistent and prolonged exposure to excessively loud sounds, however, can cause irreversible damage to these hair cells, resulting in noise-induced hearing loss. At one time, the number of those who would have been at greatest risk of this condition would have been relatively limited. High-risk individuals would have mainly consisted of those workers required to operate heavy machinery, such as jackhammers and heavy-duty drilling equipment, as well as armed forces personnel constantly subjected to the sound of gunfire and explosions in combat zones. Over the years, however, our environment has become a lot noisier with the introduction of jet aircrafts, the steady growth in road traffic, and the apparently insatiable need to play music at volumes sufficient to damage concrete. To describe the hair cells that line the cochlea as delicate is no exaggeration. A normal conversation will result in a sound level of around 60 decibels, while a whisper generates only about half of that figure. Sustained exposure to sound levels of just 85 decibels is sufficient to permanently damage those cells. Given that the average hairdryer operates at around 100dB and a petrol-driven lawnmower, slightly higher, most of us are actually at risk of developing noise-induced hearing loss. The effect is a cumulative one in which each additional exposure serves to compound the existing damage. If such exposures are allowed to continue, the result can be profound sensorineural deafness for which, in many cases, a conventional hearing aid will offer no significant correction. In such circumstances, a cochlear implant may be the only viable option to help manage the condition. That this type of auditory impairment is clearly on the increase, and has now begun to affect children of primary school age in many countries, is not only worrying because it is irreversible, but also because it is a condition that can be avoided with a few simple precautions. While almost everyone living in South Africa's busy urban areas is at risk to some degree, their exposure tends to be intermittent. In practice, it is those employed to work for eight hours a day in the noisy environment of some factory production line or underground on our mines that continue to experience the greatest risk of noise-induced hearing loss. For them, a suitable pair of earplugs and a little self-discipline could mean the difference between retiring on a workplace pension, and seeking compensation for an industrial injury that could result in a life of silence. Forget about popping around to the local Dis-Chem or Clicks pharmacy for a few pairs of disposables. They may help muffle your partner's snoring, but won't cut it on the factory floor. The type of protection necessary will not only require a product individually tailored to fit the contours of both left and right ears precisely, but must also permit the wearer to conduct a conversation without compromising his or her safety. Comfort is also important, as an ill-fitting, uncomfortable plug may prompt the wearer to remove it, which further underlines the need for a tailored unit made from soft and pliable material. Along with its advanced Noise-Ban range of earplugs designed to tick all of the above boxes, H.A.S.S. Industrial offers a specialised hearing protection programme. Beginning with a needs assessment, the programme proceeds to take impressions of the ear canals of employees, and to manufacture the custom-made plugs. Next, they are fitted, checked for comfort and leaks, and the built-in attenuator adjusted to strike the balance between protection and ease of communication. Awareness education and user training, data recording and annual monitoring complete this comprehensive and effective programme of protection against noise-induced hearing loss.
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The major story floating around the blogosphere, and now in the real world, is the Immigration and Naturalization Service's major screwup. Six months (to the day !) after 9/11, they formally notified a Florida flight school that two aliens, who just happened to be a couple of 9/11 hijackers, had been approved for student visas.
The primary focus of the coverage has been how bad the INS' security has to be that nobody noticed the names on the applications -- it's not as if "Mohamed Atta" is obscure anymore. And that's certainly a valid point. But ignore all that, pretend that these were two legitimate applicants, and this is still a debacle.
The INS notified the school of the visa approvals nineteen months after the visa applications were filed. A year and a half. What the hell good does that do? It's useless for the students, right? Well, not exactly. The INS solves the problem of not processing paperwork promptly, by not actually using the paperwork:
The schools are not required to deny instruction to foreign nationals while the visa applicants wait for an INS decision, officials said.So, in other words, if the visas were denied, it wouldn't matter because the students would already be done. And how does that nineteen months break down? A year to process the paperwork. A year. And then another seven months after the approvals were granted to actually send the paperwork to the school. I can buy a book from Amazon and get it in two days. I can apply for a mortgage and get approved over the phone. But the INS takes a year to figure out which filing cabinet the forms belong in, and then seven months after that to find stamps?
You could defend the INS by blaming the delay on their outside contractor, except that:
A spokeswoman for ACS Inc., the contractor that runs the London, Ky., processing center that mailed the paperwork to Huffman, said that INS rules allow the company to wait six months before sending approved student visa applications to flight schools. "There was no delay," said Lesley Pool. "We perform our services according to their dictates."Ah. So it's no longer six months. It's thirty days. Thirty days? That's supposed to impress us? How about reducing the deadline to a week? Or how about next day service? Remember, we're not talking about deciding whether to approve the application -- we're talking about mailing it.
INS and Justice officials said last night that the company's latest contract, announced last fall, reduces the deadline to 30 days, officials said.
What a system. Aren't you glad the government has taken the responsibility for airport security away from the evil private sector? Don't you feel reassured?


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OISIN Murphy timed it to perfection as Lightning Spear recorded back-to-back wins in Goodwood's Celebration Mile.
Having hinted his turn was not far away when finishing third in the Sussex Stakes, the six-year-old duly delivered to become just the second horse to claim successive victories in the Group Two.
David Simcock's horse hit the front on the line to deny 2016 runner-up Zonderland in the 50th – and most exciting – renewal of the Grade Two.
An exuberant Murphy, 21, punched the air in delight when the photo-finish result was announced.
He said: "I just about got it right. I made no secret about how tactical the race was going to be. It was impossible to know what was going to happen, but you have to have confidence you have chosen to do the right thing and thankfully I just about got it right.
"I've lived, breathed and dreamed horse racing since I was a child. Lads say they can leave it behind when they go in the door, but I can't so it's important when it goes right."
The Group One Prix de la Foret at Chantilly is a target.
Top jumps trainer Colin Tizzard has denied reports that 2016 Gold Cup-winning rider Bryan Cooper – demoted by Michael O'Leary's Gigginstown operation – is to become his new stable jockey. He said he had not spoken to Cooper since the Grand National.


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It's almost time for Easter again! I love making these Pysanky eggs from time to time, and Easter is always the best excuse to hunker down and dye some fabulously colorful eggs. In case you dont know what Pysanky eggs are, they are a Ukrainian tradition that uses a wax batik technique decorate the eggs. Stay tuned for Monday's post at The Alison Show for a DIY on how to make these lovely guys! Until then, you can purchase some of these eggs in my Etsy shop. There's only a limited number of them for sale, so get them while you can!
I had my friend, Jeffry Konczal, help me photo shoot these eggs yesterday. He's really talented and did an awesome job! Being relatively new to this industry, I'm learning so much about how important of a role photography plays. I attended a webinar on the Alt Channel last night (it's a great way to learn about the blogging sphere and to meet peeps!) with House of Brinson that talked about photography and image copyrights. It was so interesting to hear just how much work and people goes into production of an image. Mad respect for photographers!
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"The benefits of building more homes are much greater than previously thought," said Peter Hogg, a regeneration spokesperson for Arcadis.
Building a single house helps to generate £316,000 for the UK economy
£196,000 in job creation and profit. Historically, the construction industry employs 1.5 full-time equivalent workers for a year to build a typical house.
£32,000 spent in the local area on furnishing and decorating.
£31,000 reduction in government's housing benefit bill. This is based on the idea that housing each of the 4.6 million claimants would become cheaper.
£12,000 generated through local council and property taxes.
This is a fascinating article that further highlights the need to deliver on housing targets.
The report stresses the importance of investing in national businesses, particularly in the housing sector, given the economic uncertainty caused by looming Brexit negotiations. Without adequate housing and inward investment, it warns, wealth and job creation will suffer.


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Life is so amazing here, I just can't. I haven't bought my plane tickets home yet, I just don't want to make it real that I'm actually leaving. Although I already have meetings planned back at home, my visa expires in 2 weeks and I have to move out from my place in a week. I usually don't stress about stuff, everything goes the way it has to go. And I haven't stressed.. until today. Maybe it's good though, I push myself harder to figure out what I'm going to do.
To travel the world and focus on social media or go back to school and study a career that I'll never ever practice? After what I have experienced within this one year, what I know I can do, I just now that I will never have an office job. I will never work for anyone. I'll do my own thing and I know I will be successful, because I believe myself. I'm amazing, I'm capable of everything I put my mind to. I always get what I want because I work my ass off to get it. I'm 21 and I have bought my own company, by the time I'm 23 I'll have three companies. I know that. I have so many ideas, so much drive in me. Should I throw it all away to sit in a classroom? Just to say "I've studied law" and to make my family proud? But if I do my own thing, they would be proud anyway, right? Studying is easy, everyone can do that. But creating something yourself isn't. Not everyone does that.
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Spiritual poems to touch the heart and reach your soul. Spiritual poems about love relationships and saving the animals by raising consciousness through poetry. A collection of short spiritual poems for the whole family. May the Awen live in all our souls.
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My husband and I go to the beach for T'sgiving and we order side dishes from an amazing catering shop for dinner. The problem is the main dish. I don't want a whole turkey for us, it will be wasted. Because the side dishes are really rich (oyster dressing, sweet potato casserole) I'd like to find a meat dish that won't be too heavy. Any suggestions out there? (Anything other than ham-can't stand it). Also, since it is a beach condo, it has a full kitchen, but no grill.
Does it have to be meat? How about a baked salmon fillet for T'sgiving. You can make salmon cakes (just follow a recipe for crab cakes and substitute with salmon) with any leftovers the next day.
I forgot to mention my husband isn't a fish eater. Does anyone have an easy recipe for a boneless turkey breast, perhaps?
you could always just cook a turkey breast, or roast a chicken.
Apple Cider Cornish Game Hens, perhaps?
How about one of those jenni-o turkey breasts? I don't liketurkey all that much so I'd probably think pork or something!
I would just do a turkey breast. If you get a boneless one, I would either use an oven bag or a crock pot, because otherwise they tend to dry out. I prefer the type with the bone and skin though, as they tend to retain more moisture. Plus, there's nothing better than a little crisp turkey skin! What I usually do is put the whole thing in the crock pot with some sliced onions, carrots and celery lightly salt and pepper, and cook on low all day. Then transfer the turkey breast, skin side up, to a roasting pan and put in the oven under a low broiler to crisp up the skin. You might want to baste it with a little melted butter or vegetable oil first. Watch it closely so it doesn't burn- make sure it's a few inches from the broiler. Let it rest about 5 minutes before slicing. You can use the drippings from the crock pot to make gravy.
Try this recipe from my cookbook, Hands-Off Cooking (Wiley, 2007). It came out last March!Quick Cranberry Turkey Hands on: 15 minutes Hands off: 20 minutes If you really like the leftovers from Thanksgiving best, then this is the recipe for you! You make a quick cranberry sauce and turkey cutlets without having to roast a whole bird. I'm indebted to Rick Rogers' book Thanksgiving 101 for inspiring the sauce. You may be surprised at the amount of sugar, but keep in mind that cranberries are very sour on their own. You end up with a sweet and sour sauce, like a chutney. Serve this with green beans, Irish Soda Bread (page xx), and Better Than Mom's Apple Pie (page xx) for the complete holiday experience. Serves 4 1 tablespoon olive oil Eight 1/2-inch turkey cutlets (about 20 oz. total) One 8-ounce bag frozen cranberries 1 cup sugar 1/3 cup chopped crystallized ginger 1/4 cup minced onion 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper 1 lemon, zested and juiced
A vote for just a turkey breast or the cornish game hens.
Thank you all for the suggestions! I think we'll try the turkey breast!
We do turkey breasts; they are not difficult at all; in fact, much easier than the whole bird. Cornish game hens make nice presentation.
We just put the breast in the over with a meat thermometer in it; as someone else said, be sure to get one withg skin, or else it dries out too much. And you can't trust those little pop-up things that often come already in the breast.
I have done goose at Christmas, for something different. But it is just slightly more complicated to cook; be aware that you do not get nearly as much meat as you might think, given the size of the bird.
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Have you ever hit random on your CD player, iPod or MP3 player and what came out was just the perfect mix or blend of tunes to fit your particular mood?
That's sort of happened to me today and has been running pretty consistent since I left the house this afternoon to the tune of John Mayer's 'Why, Georgia'. I take my iPod with me to work to zone out on my coffee breaks and lunch hour, or occasionally just to avoid talking to some people when I'd rather just be reading, and every time I turned it on it was not only a perfectly timed track but also one that I wouldn't have thought of on my own.
Normally this would seem a pretty trivial thing, but I was feeling kind of down today and it helped create a nice sort of balance for methat helped get me through an otherwise difficult 9 hours.
That said, I'm gonna head back to watch some more Galactica commentary.