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Flaxen Flow is 100% flaxseed oil. This flaxseed oil is stabilized, unfiltered, cold-pressed and nitrogen protected to benefit your horse the most of any flaxseed oil product in the horse feed market. Simply top-dress 1-2 ounces to your horse's feed per day to unlock the amazing benefits of omega-3 fatty acids. Flow is packaged in a 3 Liter air tight pouch with a mess-free spout, making it the simplest oil to feed.
Benefits of Flaxseed- High in Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids are both essential components of your horse's diet. A proper balance of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids is important for overall health. Omega-3 fatty acids have general anti-inflammatory, anti-thrombotic, anti-hypertensive, and anti-arrhythmic effects in the body. Omega-6 fatty acids have the opposite effects on the body. Western diets are typically higher in omega-6 fatty acids. So therefore, feed your horse with our Flaxen products, made from flaxseed, to provide your horse with omega-3 fatty acid supplementation.
Omega-3 Fatty Acids had been shown to:
- Help mitigate arthritis, skin conditions, and allergies
- Aid in glucose metabolism and reduce blood sugar spikes in metabolic horses
- Boost immunity to help achieve optimal immune health
Feeding Instructions –
For each 500lbs of body weight, feed 0.5-1 ounce per day
8 reviews for Flaxen FLOW
I haven't seen a product packaged like this. It is light, easy to feed and no spill! I LOVE it! And my horse loves the taste, it masks anything I put in his grain
I started my horse on Flax in January, and just a few weeks after that I notice an immense change his coat. He was dull and dark before, and now I have everyone stopping me asking how I got him so healthy and shiny! I only trust Horse Guard for my horse! The results are huge !
I absolutely love the packaging of the products. No mess, tight seal, easy to load up in the horse trailer and take with you anywhere. I started my horse on Flax in March. I wish I had taken before and current pictures because it really does make a difference. I'm going to buy this, and some other products on the site for my other horses. They for sure will have before and after photos. Love this company!
I started my two horses on Flaxen Flow about a month ago and it has made a world of difference in their coats. I have been looking for something to bring out the shine in their coats and I can stand behind this product to give them that extra shine I've been looking for! The packaging on this product is like nothing I've used before, and makes life so much easier at feeding time!
I have a pssm1 mare, she has to have extra fat in her diet, but can't have soy or sugary oils! Her energy level was super low and we struggled to find a good oil to feed. A friend suggested flaxen flow! My girl has never had more energy or looked better!
Our horses have been on Trifecta for almost two years now and have been extremely pleased with their energy and stamina. But we have two paint horses that were itching so much that they were rubbing their manes and tails off so we started using Flax Flow.
We included my bay mare that had a fairly dull coat but not a bad itchy problem. While the Flow has helped the paint boys, I wish I had taken a before picture of my bay mare. Now her coat is so shiny and healthy, you almost need sunglasses to look at her. You would think just being an oil, that the horses would leave any that ran to the bottom of their feeder. All of ours keep licking to make sure they get even a taste that might be left behind. We can't say enough about the benefits we have seen by adding Flax Flow. We will definitely continue to use it all year long.
I've struggled to find a product that helps with my Mustang's chronically dry skin for the two years I've had him. I emailed Horse Guard and Dr. Kelsey recommended that I try Flaxen Flow in addition to Trifecta, which I have had him on for the last year. I noticed the difference within weeks! His large flaky patch on his chest cleared up, his coat is SO soft and his mane and tail are noticeably healthier. Plus, the packaging is great! No mess and super easy to feed. I plan on using this product for a long time!


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Today I'm delighted to introduce to you Ruth Crofts of Great Dunmow, Essex (UK) based image consultant/blogger of My Colour Coach and Evolve Your Style member.
What is the secret to great style?
Beauty bundles! I have to give credit to Brenda Kinsel for this in her book 'Fashion Makeover. 30 days to Diva Style.' Chapter 9, Accessory Necessities, (my favourite part of the book,) is about how to create a beauty bundle. It was like an epiphany for me. The concept of a beauty bundle is to build a great set of accessories around either a key item or a colour. For example, you might start with a red bundle based around a fabulous pair of patent heels or an animal print blouse? Add a handbag, scarf, gloves, a belt and some jewellery. Items don't have to match, they just need to all work together, and look fantastic. Once your bundle is complete, it can be worn with loads of different basic outfits. Select the items you want from each bundle, then you are styled and ready to go. For example, add items from the red beauty bundle to: Indigo jeans and a navy silk blouse; white linen trousers and a striped t-shirt; or a grey flannel shift dress. It makes putting an outfit together simplicity itself. You can continue to add to the bundle over time too. Maybe red boots to take you into winter, or red strappy sandals for the summer months? Once you have completed one in red, you can try another colour. The possibilities are endless. I add one or two new beauty bundles to my wardrobe each year. Last year was one in Kelly green and one in animal print. Next year I will be working on pink and making my mustard work for both summer and winter.
What is the one thing you would spend a lot of money on?
I love antique jewellery. It is something which has given me a lot of joy over the years, discovered by hunting around flea markets, auction houses and antiques fairs, waiting for something wonderful to catch my eye. Then the thrill of negotiating a price or bidding on it, before taking it home, polishing it, then deciding what to wear it with first. I am drawn to the colour of old gold and the jewellery styles of times gone by. Even my wedding band was my great, great, grandmother's and is over 150 years old. It also means that my collection is unique.
The other item would have to be a beautiful winter coat. I bought, or should I more accurately say, I invested in a gorgeous MaxMara, full length, cashmere coat that I wore for over ten years, so the cost per wear was tiny in the end. And I felt fabulous every time I put it on. In fact I had more compliments wearing that coat than any other item of clothing I have ever owned so I do think it was worth it. I even received compliments about looking 'bellisimo' when I wore it on a romantic winter break to Rome one year. And that is high praise indeed coming from Italians who seem to inherit the style gene from birth. (I am wearing my Maxmara cashmere coat in the picture below which was captured by the camera on the London Eye when Mark (now my husband) and I were on a date in London in 10 years ago.
What is the one thing you wouldn't spend a lot of money on?
For me it is jeans. As an hourglass shape, my legs are ok, but I know they are not my best feature so I prefer dark wash boot cut or straight leg jeans without any fading, whiskering or fancy stitching. Mine are usually from Sainsburys, a UK supermarket, which sells excellent ones for around £15. The pockets are mid-sized, plain and high up, with a v shaped placket and hence are flattering to curves. I buy two different lengths for wearing with either flats or heels. Great basics that are inexpensive.
What are your top tips for looking stylish when travelling?
I am a keen amateur sailor and spend a lot of time winching ropes, hauling mainsails and helming at the wheel. Yachting is incredible fun and I love the challenge of it, however anyone who has stayed on a boat will know how tiny the wardrobe and storage areas for clothes are. It makes having a capsule wardrobe essential. Mine is based around navy as my darkest neutral and white as my lightest neutral. I then add accents of red, and occasionally yellow to bring it to life. There are lots of striped T-shirts of course and I can keep my accessories to a minimum, in mainly red, white or blue, accompanied with my signature pearls of course. I even have a set of emergency pearls onboard just in case I ever lose my favourite ones. I know it is a very typical nautical theme but it does work so well and it means I can feel stylish at sea, even if my hair is full of salt spray and rather windswept.
What's the secret to looking polished?
The Evolve Your Style (EYS) programme by Imogen Lamport, was my continuing professional development for 2014, and one of the lessons I am taking away from the programme is that no-one ever died from an extra accessory! Coco Channel is often quoted as saying 'before you leave the house, a lady should look in the mirror and remove one accessory.' Well, not for me. And for all the jewellery Coco Channel wore, I am not sure she practiced what she preached either. I think looking polished is about being a completer-finisher with every outfit, whether you are a minimalist avant-garde dresser or completely eclectic. Clothes are just the basics for most of my outfits; it is the accessories that are usually the star performers which finish the look.
It is so important to choose your accessories with care. Great accessories can be for life, and not just for Christmas. They don't have to cost a lot either; have a look on ebay, thrift shops or car boot fairs. I found a gorgeous, genuine Mulberry handbag in my local charity shop last year for only £20. Do make sure you love your accessories though; liking them shouldn't be enough. They should make you happy and excited and not be able to wait to wear them. I have collected many beautiful bags and shoes I love, and I make a point of actually using and wearing them. It is a lot of fun to choose a different bag each day, that will enhance your outfit, and it really doesn't take that long to move the contents over. It helps you stop being a kitchen sink type of girl. Add a bracelet or two, a pair of coloured gloves and you are ready to meet the world, one stylish step at a time.
Do you have a signature piece or style?
There are two specific items that are signatures pieces; my pearls and coloured leather gloves. Though I have collected lots of different pearl jewellery over time, both real and faux, my signature piece would have to be my creamy white pearls. They are slightly larger than average and they bring a glow to my skin, and make me feel better dressed up, dressed down and even undressed. Well if Marilyn Monroe can have her Channel No. 5…… In fact I even wore them to give birth! My signature style is all about the accessories. Coloured shoes I adore, and I would probably be described as a bit of a hat girl too. Oh and probably handbags. To be honest, really it is accessories which make my look come alive. As most of my clothes are not that noticeable, the accessories do the hard work and turn basic clothes into something elegant, chic or sophisticated; this is the look I love, and feel happiest in. Following the EYS programme did made me consider wearing some of my other jewellery more frequently too and I now love to double up necklaces for a different look. Often pearls of course, (well they are my signature style,) but other parents on the school run are no longer surprised when if I turn up wearing nine strings of pearls for my modern day version of belle époque.
What's your secret to making yourself stand out?
Being yourself and setting your own standards. So what if you are a little more dressed up, dressed down, modernist or romantic than others? As long as it is not harming your career, why worry? I love an injection of colour in my outfits and tend not to wear all neutrals very often. I find wearing a jacket adds the tailoring that I like, even to a casual outfit, and I usually err more on the smart than casual side. Complete with shoes, a great handbag, and maybe scarf and gloves, and it can add up to something chic and elegant.
The one piece of advice most women need but don't get? It is all about the bra fitting. 'Lock and load the girls' as Stacy London from American's 'What Not to Wear' would say. You need good underwear on the inside to support looking good on the outside. We wouldn't expect a grand house to look so special if the foundations were worn, stretched and poor quality. (If you ever want to treat yourself then, Empriente is the bra brand I would recommend. But beware, you might get spoilt.) Do respect yourself better than bricks and mortar. Go and find a great lingerie shop. Get fitted. As soon as possible.
What's the best piece of style wisdom you've ever received? 'Never save your cashmere.' This advice comes from my mum. My daughters, though only three and five, share the same philosophy too. The girls do not see any occasion as not good enough to wear their favourite and most treasured items, which is usually some flouncy princess dress and sparkly shoes. My mum thinks we should always wear our best underwear too, (though I think this has something to do with my grandma and her worry about being knocked over by a bus!) It is better to wear out our loveliest things than never to have worn them. We are all guilty of saving something 'for best' then finding we have gone off it or it no longer fits when we get round to an occasion to wear something. I have been known to have bought a beautiful dress before then thrown a Pimms and croquet garden party just so I have an occasion to wear it.
What's your favourite short cut to style?
I add the fairy dust to my outfit with my shoes and handbags usually, and they are often coloured. These are my star pieces and they don't have fat days. Though many of my clothes are fairly neutral, most of my accessories are not. I change my handbag and shoes every day, and sometimes more than once a day depending on where I am going, or a change of occasion. I am the sort of girl that has four pairs of shoes for windy weather! It doesn't take long to do and it makes your outfit stand out in the style stakes. Do choose with care though: check they fit. Now this does seem obvious but the amount of women who squeeze their feet into a shoe on sale is quite incredible. Be Cinderella; not the ugly sister. Get the glass slipper that fits.
How would you describe your personal style?
My style words are: Elegance with provenance; chic with a dash of 'Je ne sais quoi.' I am rarely a big mall shopper as I prefer to delve and discover things at antique fairs, thrift shops, boot sales, dress agencies and boutiques. I like the thrill of the hunt. This is my provenance. I love the excitement of finding my beautiful gold tennis bracelet, in a local charity shop for only £4.00. Regardless of the conversation rate you use, that is an amazing deal. This makes me happier than if someone had given me one costing ten times as much.
I am a completer-finisher of outfits and Ebay is a great for this. For example, if I need pink leather gloves to finish my look, I know I can go on-line and I am highly likely to find them. If pink gloves are out of fashion, or even out of season then I would be very unlikely to find them on the high street. As my items are from such a diverse range of places, collected over time, loved and looked after, then this helps me to build my personal style. It would be hard for someone to turn up in an exact copy of my outfits as I might have my doctor's bag from the 1930's; a Victorian ring; a vintage jacket from Marks and Spencer; or jeans from the supermarket. Often topped off by a pair of my fabulous coloured leather gloves, these elements give me the 'Je ne sais quoi'.
What is your current obsession?
It is winter in the UK currently (December to February) so I am all about the hat, for both keeping warm and looking stylish on the school run. I have Paddington bear styles, furry hats and lots of berets in different colours. With hats you need to try lots on to find the styles that suit you then just forget that you are wearing it. In the summer I usually stick to one straw hat when I am on holiday. I have collected a few different scarves to tie around the brim so the hat always co-ordinates with my outfit. One hat, many looks, and not a lot of suitcase space taken up.
Who inspires you?
I don't really have a style icon as such, so my style inspiration comes from many sources. Certainly there are people whose style I think looks great on them, and there may be elements I love for myself, or could imagine working for others, but I don't have a particular person I try and emulate. Whilst I am in love with the endless style boards you can create for yourself or for clients on Pinterest, for style inspiration I still love a printed book. There is great joy in a new, or second hand book dropping through the letter box, and the untold delights I might find, flicking through the pages for the first time, Earl Grey at the ready. I have collected and devoured over one hundred different style and image books, and read untold numbers of articles and blogs and you can usually learn something from each one. Even if you learn that the advice and guidance they are espousing is not for you.
During my Image Consultancy training there were some experiences or moments that were inspiring for me. Kim Bolsover, who I did my training with is funny, bold and to the point. She is all about giving the customer what they want, and making it work for them, even if black is not their best colour or voluminous coats the most flattering shape for their figure. She made me realise that is helpful to learn the rules and guidelines, the whys and the wherefores of style, however it is more important to let a person's personality shine through and give them the best advice you can on how to make each person feel unique, confident and happy.
Sue Donnelly, a vibrant and quirky image consultant based in the UK, has a video on her you tube channel called 'How to wear one dress 10 ways'. This was an inspiring experience for me, as it reinforced my view that you don't need a lot of clothes to be stylish. You just need a few versatile pieces that you can dress up or down with accessories. I appreciate that this would drive some people to the depths of boredom, and make them feel they were missing out on the fashion de jour, but each to their own in my view. As Oscar Wilde would say, you have to 'be yourself, everyone else is taken.'
The Evolve Your Style programme from Imogen Lamport was also an inspirational style experience. The daily emails on the 31 day programme tackle a different element each day, whether that is mixing textures or how to double up your necklaces. She has a lot of technical knowledge about colour, contrast levels and styling and she shares it in an aesthetic way, with examples that make the concept clear. This then allows you to experiment with a challenge within your own style personality, whilst shopping your own closet.
Tamera Beardsley posts a lifestyle blog, based around her life, her outfits and her jewellery. She inspires people to lead a more stylish life regardless of their circumstances and what is going on in their life. Her photography is beautiful and I get ideas for my own outfits and especially my home from her. She is honest, open and warm and her style appeals to me. She makes me feel that it is not possible to have too many candles to make your home look welcoming and it is ok to fill it full my home with things I love, even if it does mean I end up installing a red British telephone box in my back garden.


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Advantages of International Surrogacy
Expect countless people without babies in the globe. Some people mainly stay without kids because of fertility issues. Expect reproductive challenges to come from the man or lady. People are in marriage experience difficulties when childless. Sometimes couples divorce each other when there is inability to get a child. Production problems are incurable. Various couples sometimes become hopeless after trying for many years without success. It is normal when such persons look for alternative ways of creating families.
Other persons that can search for fostered children are guy couples and solo mothers. People suffering from fertility problems are in the modern days are receiving aid through surrogate strategy. People are relying on surrogacy program receive babies from other women. The term used to describe individuals who play part in surrogating is surrogate mums. There are usually surrogacy professionals who do this job. There are several procedures that are followed when surrogating a child. You are needed to see surrogate agents when getting ready for a surrogate kid.
After visiting surrogacy office, the professionals do the activity of finding a compatible mum for surrogacy. There are a few surrogate ladies are held in surrogate companies. Surrogate experts rule out the compatibility of the clients and surrogate mothers by physical and blood features. Outsourced eggs are then used to make surrogate mums pregnant. For nine months, a surrogate mum carries the unborn baby to make it grow as required. After the baby is born, the infertile couple is given permission of adapting the kid.
Surrogacy nowadays is popular worldwide. Surrogacy programs are started in several city states. These states that are known because of surrogacy are trying by all means to provide suitable services to the surrogate women. It is important to care most of the surrogate mums for surrogacy to succeed. In these countries, surrogate hospitals have been established to provide accommodation for the surrogate ladies. Care is shown to the surrogate mums through health and diet services.
It has thus been noted that a lot of couples are visiting these states to get surrogate babies. As a couple, it is crucial to visit a city state that offer surrogate services after getting enough information concerning its surrogate terms and conditions. Countries that surrogate children always advertise their services on the website. It is possible to make a great testimony by outsourcing surrogate baby from foreign countries. It is always cheap to look for a kid in another state through surrogacy means.
It has been noticed that various international surrogacy agencies such as those from India to have low-priced surrogacy services. There is privacy in acquiring a surrogate child abroad. You can therefore sneak out of your country when others are not having the flight information. Surrogacy agencies all the time allow people to keep in touch with surrogate women.
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- Supercar fans from across the UK attended the annual event, organised by Ciro Ciampi, CEO of The Sharnbrook Hotel and founder of PETROLHEADONISM™, which saw a host of Supercars and Hypercars on show in Sharnbrook
- The event raised £60,000, double the original £30k target, for children's charity Rays of Sunshine, which brightens the lives of seriously ill children across the UK by granting wishes
- Ambassador of the charity and Yiannimize owner, Yianni Charalambous, met with fans on the day and offered rides in a supercar in return for donations
- The Rays of Sunshine Children's Choir, which is made of up of seriously ill children, performed on the day
Hundreds of supercar fans flocked to The Sharnbrook Hotel in Bedfordshire this bank holiday Monday to the Cars & Coffee Cruise fundraising event, which raised over £60,000 for Rays of Sunshine, a children's charity that brightens the lives of seriously ill children across the UK by granting wishes and providing ongoing support within hospital and the community.
Ciro Ciampi, CEO of The Sharnbrook Hotel and founder of PETROLHEADONISM™, organised the event which saw a host of Supercars and Hypercars on show. To ensure the event raised as much money as possible, 2/3rds of the entry fee and 25% of the VIP lunch was donated directly to the children's charity. Additionally, supporters had the chance to bid in an auction for a ride in one of the Supercars on display, win amazing prizes in a raffle, and donate to have pictures taken with Rays of Sunshine ambassador and car customiser to the stars, Yianni Charalambous.
Amongst the car loving attendees were the Rays of Sunshine Children's Choir, which is made up of seriously ill children who have had their own wishes granted by the charity, including: 8-year-old Callum, from Essex, who is currently living with Neurofibromatosis, Chronic Lung Disease and Cerebral Palsy, 9-year-old Emily, from London, is currently living with Cystic Fibrosis, 7-year-old Lucas, from Leek, is currently in remission from a relapsed Wilm's Tumour, 12-year-old Brooke, from Chelmsford, is living in remission from a Brain Tumour and 13-year-old Tamzin, from Edinburgh, who is living with Neurofibromatosis.
The choir performed a poignant rendition of 'This is me' from hit film The Greatest Showman at the VIP lunch. As well as seeing all the fantastic cars on show, the children were even bought car rides in Yianni's super Lamborghini by generous supporters on the day to make it even more special.
Ciro said: "Wow! What a day! Such an amazing turnout. I am so overwhelmed with the amount of support and generosity from everyone who came along. We wanted to make this year's event bigger and better than last year, aiming to raise £30k in one day and we absolutely smashed our target – doubling it to raise £60k! Whether you donated, brought along your own supercar, volunteered your time, or came along with friends and family, thank you."
Yianni, comments: "Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! This year's event took it to another level! Thank you to everyone who came along and made the event such a huge success. £60k will make sure a massive difference to Rays of Sunshine and the brave and inspiring children they support. It was an absolute pleasure to be able to meet so many families and supporters – your generosity was incredible."
Jane Sharpe, CEO of Rays of Sunshine, added: "The day was simply sensational from beginning to end. We can't begin to thank Ciro and Yianni enough for all of their hard work in organising this incredible event. £60,000 is a phenomenal amount of money and will enable Rays of Sunshine to bring joy and hope to hundreds of seriously ill children, for which we can't be more grateful. Thank you to everyone who came along on the day and helped make this event such a huge success."
Rays of Sunshine children's charity was formed in 2003 to brighten the lives of seriously ill young people and their families across the UK by granting wishes and providing ongoing support in hospital and within the community. For more information about Rays of Sunshine Children's Charity or to apply for a wish to be granted, visit www.raysofsunshine.org.uk.
For more information about PETROLHEADONISM, please visit: https://www.petrolheadonism.club/.


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With the Premier League fixtures announced earlier today, attention now turns to the EFL - with all seventy-two sides learning their 2019/20 schedules next Thursday morning.
The complete listing will be released at 09:00 on 20th June, when we will find out where we will be heading over the course of the new season.
Ahead of the release, we want to find out who you are most looking forward to seeing next season.
Whether it be a local derby against the likes of Crewe Alexandra and Port Vale or the mammoth trek down to Plymouth Argyle, we want to know which games you are looking forward to the most during the 2019/20 season.
Please email firstname.lastname@example.com with your anecdotes and we will publish them ahead of the fixture release next week.


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This post is a continuation of "The Dangers of the 'Friends and Families' Plan" from yesterday (Click here to see part 1)
Recently, my wife and I attended a small parish in a major city. The church was a part of our growing in faith and of our courtship. This was our first visit in over 30 years. The welcome was warm and inviting but not overly so. The priest came and introduced himself. Worship was beautiful, simple, and well within the gifts and abilities of that community. We were looking forward to coffee hour as there were people who had been there years ago and connecting would be fun. All went well until the announcement time at the end and out came the words "friends" and "family." I thought: "uh oh!" Sure enough, twenty minutes later, after what seemed like every member of the family had spoken and given their particular announcement and spoke of their friendliness, my wife and I had long since decided not to stay and headed for the door as soon as we could. No one paid any particular attention to us once the service ended and my worst fears were confirmed: another church that believes they are friendly and a family only to discover they are less inclusive than they wish to think and more segregating than they would ever suspect. What happened? Friends and family as descriptors draw a line around an imaginary center of the parish. If you are in the family and act friendly, you understand both the locus of the center and how you connect to it. Like in families, dangerous assumptions are made about how and what the family communicates. When I celebrate Christmas with my extended family I understand the patterns, communications, and actions. When we have an "outsider" it is very clear that our rituals are mysterious and, without deliberate action to the contrary, make the guests feel as if they are outsiders. Sometimes being so excluded is comfortable and, the more introverted, perhaps the more comfortable. But remember that the research suggests most churches described above are pressed to grow and bring in new people. Most believe that what the casual church shopper wants is to be in a family and treated in a friendly manner. However, that's not why people are choosing to show up at church these days. People show up because people want to believe and need help with unbelief. People have plenty of circles of friends. As a recovering alcoholic, I attend three meetings a week. Many of these people are also very good friends and work at friendship more deliberately and more deeply than anything that happens in church. Most of also have a family filled with health and challenges and love and conflict and so much more. Perhaps people don't need another family. More likely what people seek is connection, community, God, hope, belonging, and faith. When a church draws the line around friendly and family, guests are immediately drawn outside the circle, confused and wondering how one enters the family. And, regardless of the words, people experience the environment as basically resistant to newcomers. Resistance is a conscious or unconscious pattern of exclusion in which a guest is repeatedly invited to press up against invisible boundaries in hopes of miraculously finding the crack that allows entry. What do we do? First, change the language. Consider deliberately dropping the use of the words friendly and family. Exchange them with words like hospitable, gracious, open, inclusive (careful here, however, as this is more than about sexual orientation) or inviting instead of friendly. Consciously choose to exchange the word family with a word like community, or connection, or parish. Secondly, reacquaint the community with the two founding values of parish life: service and sacrifice. Both words cannot be spoken without looking outside ourselves. Research for the past four decades unanimously suggests that growing churches are those churches that place a primary focus outside themselves; looking and discovering where and how they are called to serve and in what ways they are being asked to sacrifice. More importantly, our congregations are to be porous; they are to be open to the next person who arrives at any time. That woman or man who was inspired by the Holy Spirit to get up, dress and head to our churches does so in hope of finding something different than the health club, the local coffee shop, the Sunday paper, their family and their current circle of friends; they seek Jesus not a circle of friends and family. They already have that. They seek life and love and faith; spiritual companions on the way. They bring with them a raw understanding of our purpose as a local church, the hope of the world; what will they find? 20 minutes of announcements that point out how they don't fit? Do they hear words of friendship accompanied by actions of segregation? Descriptions of family which are code for "we have no room for you here"? Or will they find a humble community of faithful people seeking to grow in their Christian faith, to support and guide others on the same journey, and to change the world? It's up to each and every one of us who sees herself or himself as a member of a parish community to decide. The only "cost" to being in a parish community is ourselves and our brokenness and humility and the cracks within ourselves that provide the opening for God and others to enter in and help us create the space of healing and light that seeks to envelop the next person who walks through the doors of our parish community. Jesus brought these two elements together in himself on the cross. We would see that full Jesus! The Rev. Al Johnson, Canon for Congregational Vitality and Innovation


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The much-anticipated leadership crisis in the nonprofit sector has arrived and current and future leaders are not ready, a new report says.
The report is a summary of a conference of more than 100 current and future nonprofit leaders from across who gathered for "NP2020: Issues and Answers From the Next Generation," hosted by the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Leadership at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.
The leadership deficit is a current issue, not a future one, participants said.
That is largely because leadership training and professional development are lacking for staffers who hope to become executive directors, they said.
Mentoring is another critical element in preparing future leaders, said conference participants, who encourage aspiring leaders to seek out mentoring relationships with sector veterans.
Some at the conference questioned whether it is possible to have a long-term career in nonprofits, citing low pay, burnout, the burden of student loans and generation gaps within organizations.
The younger people at the conference saw diversity as lacking both among staffs and boards, a development they said affects how services are delivered and how well organizations understand the communities they serve.
To address these issues, participants said funders should support training and development for staffs and boards, and that sector leaders should organize more events that bring together current and future leaders.


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This hearty vegetable soup is perfect for winter. Its spicy and satisfying and hits all the right spots. It can be easily made in just a few minutes after a long work day. All you need is a few ingredients and some prep time. I will say, we used homemade vegetable broth and homemade chickpeas that we prepped over the weekend. But you can use canned chickpeas and boxed vegetable broth. Although, if you are interested – I highly recommend checking out Bon Appetit's Chickpea Recipe. Ever since we tried these, we haven't been able to go back to the canned chickpeas.
- Zucchini (2, chopped into 1/2 pieces)
- Yellow Squash (2, chopped into 1/2 inch pieces)
- Onion (1, finely chopped)
- Celery (3 stalks, finely chopped)
- Carrot (2 small, peeled and finely chopped)
- Garlic (12-14 cloves finely chopped)
- Lemon (1)
- Chickpeas (If using canned -1 can, if using BA's recipe above – 1.5 cups)
- Vegetable broth (3 cups)
- Harissa (2-3 teaspoons)
- Olive oil
- Salt
- Coriander Powder (2 teaspoons)
- Cumin (1 teaspoon)
Recipe (4 servings)
- Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a large pot on medium high heat. When the oil is hot, add the onion, carrot, and celery and cook until translucent. This should take about 6-7 minutes. Add the garlic next and cook for about a minute.
- Next add your spices – coriander, cumin, and harissa paste. Adjust amount of harissa based on how spicy you like your foods.
- Next add the zucchini and yellow squash and cook until slightly softened. About 4-5 minutes. Be sure to be stirring about once every minute so that the vegetables on the bottom don't burn.
- Next add the chick peas and follow by adding the broth.
- Turn the heat down to medium-low and let simmer on a gentle heat for about 10-12 minutes to allow the vegetables to cook and soak in the flavors.
- Once you feel like the vegetables are tender and nicely cooked, turn the heat off. Add the juice of one lemon and season with salt to taste.
- Serve in a large bowl and enjoy! This soup tastes even better the next day and it also freezes really well.


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Bias Runner 2049
Story-with-a-meaning post by Ray Poynter, 11 October 2018
Tom Torquemada was looking forward to his interview today, he was off to the Global Broadcasting Corporation to talk about his work, and he loved his work. Tom was a Bias Runner, one of a team that hunted down and retired errant AI systems.
Tom had been thinking overnight about the best, non-technical, way to describe what an errant AI system was and how he and his colleagues identified them. The scale of the problem was clear to everybody – nearly everything today, in 2049, was determined by AI. Machines and bots determined who got a job, who got the next home loan, who might commit the next crime, and whether in this brave new world your schooling/conditioning would result in you being a labourer or artist. But with this transfer of power to the AI machines came a fear, a fear that the machines might not play fair, they might be biased or simply error-prone. The job of the Bias Runners was to find the biased or error-prone machines and 'retire' them.
There were two key types of problems that the Bias Runners were looking for 'biased machines' and 'unstable machines'. A biased machine was one that had been coded with or had learned to treat people in ways that society deemed biased. If an HR machine was less likely to hire women, or less likely to hire gay men, then it was biased and would be retired.
An unstable machine was one that usually worked but which sometimes made terrible mistakes. The mathematicians had told Tom that this was due to a problem called 'over-fitting'. They described the problem to him in terms of how men's trousers used to be made. In the olden days you could buy the trousers in three leg lengths and a range of waist sizes. This meant that for a few people the trousers fitted perfectly, and for most people, they were good enough. Over-fitting is what happened when the Tyrell Corporation measured 1000 men and produced a range of trousers with 1000 variations (many more than in the old system). These 1000 sizes fitted the test men perfectly, but they did not do such a good job for the wider population. People with shorter legs or larger waists were much less likely to find suitable trousers.
The Bias Runners checked out AI machines with their own bit of kit, a Turing 2500. The essence of what the Turing 2500 did was to feed millions of cases to the AI it was testing and evaluate whether the outcomes were fair. Nobody could really tell how the AI machines were working, but it was possible (with care) to construct an almost exhaustive set of inputs and measure the decisions the machine made. The key to spotting bias and instability was whether decisions changed when non-relevant or trivial changes were made to the input. If changing the name from Tom to Tomasina meant that a job offer was less likely, then the machine failed and would be retired. If changing the name from Tom to Thomas changed the result, then the machine would be retired, preventing AI that applies over-fitting.
However, Tom was also aware that he needed to be careful during the interview. There was a dirty secret about the Bias Running process that most people did not fully appreciate. Humans determined the decisions about what was biased, and some people felt the decisions that had been made had institutionalised some forms of discrimination. For example, back in 2040 it had been decided that the criminal and financial records of your parents were relevant variables. So, if the AI machine rejected you because you were Tomasina instead of being Tom, it was biased and would be retired. But, if the machine rejected you because you mother or father had earned a low wage (or that they had lived in areas with high crime rates), that was acceptable. As a consequence, social mobility had declined, and the people from richer/safer backgrounds prospered and those from more challenging backgrounds found it ever harder to climb up the ladder.
As Tom entered the broadcasting centre he thought about that old Latin phrase "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" – who watches the watchers?
Note, this story with a meaning is set in 2049, but yesterday (10 October 2018) the media covered a story about Amazon having to 'retire' an AI program that was intended to help with hiring people. They retired the bot because it was shown to be sexist. The machine had been given the history of job applications, interviews and hires and set about replicating the process. However, it turned out that Amazon had been systematically (perhaps unconsciously) sexist in its process for years, and that is what the supervised-machine-learning AI learned. Read more about this case by clicking here.


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David Lee was a participant in the 2019 Business Professional Practicum from the University of Tasmania. David is studying a Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of ICT majoring in Marketing and Software Development. David received a $3,000 New Colombo Plan Mobility Grant to support his participation in this program.
To live in one the most exciting places in the world. A sleeping economic giant, Indonesia is blessed with abundant resources in terms of minerals and manpower and has been widely predicted to become a superpower if a number of important challenges can be overcome. I wanted to work in Indonesia to observe and understand the massive societal and economic movements of the nation.
Transport to and from Indonesia was the most expensive part of the trip, and I am highly grateful of the NCP funding. Living in Indonesia itself can vary greatly – depending on level of lifestyle you want to live, so any financial assistance is highly appreciated.
Living in Indonesia has given me a completely new look on our lifestyle and society in Australia. Not being able to communicate at a high level in terms of talking to locals – for food, directions, etc. has given me a strong understanding of the importance of organisation and planning. I now believe I can communicate more effectively and problem solve in unfamiliar situations.
I worked with PT Merck Indonesia. As the Indonesian arm of the German multinational pharmaceutical company, I worked in the logistics and supply chain arm of the organisation. In my time with Merck, I created a tool to allow for the comparison of two transport databases which allowed clients to easily calculate elements of a product delivery.
I loved hiking and will definitely come back soon to climb Mount Bromo.
Favourite food would be kambing tongseng (Goat Soup) and the Susu Jahe Merah (Red Ginger Milk) available from all good warungs!
"Saya tidak tahu" (I don't know)
Yogyakarta (Candi Prambanan, Borodobor, Ratu Boko and Mount Merapi), Cirebon, Solo, Bogor and Bandung.
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Hunting animals to kill and then harvest their flesh is an efficient means to acquire food and materials in The Long Dark.
Overview[edit | edit source]
Hunting in The Long Dark has been greatly simplified by keeping the animals conspicuous. Very little tracking needs to be done to find animals. Furthermore, while the player can see them from a great distance, all animals seem oblivious to anything farther than 30 meters away. Approaching them is rather easy, especially if one is crouching.
Weapons[edit | edit source]
Shooting animals with projectiles is the most effective way to kill game while completely bypassing the animals' natural defenses. Bullets and arrows move too quickly to be blocked or dodged and can be fired from outside the animal's zone of perception. Five ranged weapons currently exist in the game: stones , the hunting rifle, the survival bow, the revolver, and the Distress pistol. The latter two weapons are not well-suited to hunting, and stones can only stun rabbits.
Hunting rifle[edit | edit source]
The hunting rifle is an aimable tool used to fire rifle rounds at targets. The high velocity rounds travel in a straight line and can cause massive internal injuries to the first object they encounter, potentially killing animals instantly. If the round fails to cause internal injuries sufficient enough to kill instantly, the round will still result a bleeding wound that will kill the animal eventually, just more slowly. Expended rounds will be dropped next to the player as rifle shell casings.
- The rifle currently has a maximum range of approximately 50 paces with a Beginner Firearms skill. Targets beyond the maximum range cannot be hit.
- Hitting a fleshy target will produce a blood spray effect.
- Hitting a solid target will produce a smoke effect often accompanied with a "clank" sound.
- Hitting most environmental targets will produce a snow scatter effect.
Survival bow[edit | edit source]
The survival bow is a craftable, aimable tool used to launch simple arrows at targets. Arrows arc as they travel, so aiming needs to take account of how far the target is away as well. Arrows can kill animals instantly, but more commonly cause massive bleeding wounds that will drain their health quickly. Arrows are retrievable, however they do take damage each time they hit something. Reaching 0% quality breaks the arrow. Broken arrows do not stick to targets, falling instead to the ground where they hit.
- Sighting the bow is a challenge for new players. No hard sight exists, rather one must estimate. The best references for aiming are the arrow tip for elevation and the bottom of the bow for horizontal alignment. Recommend practice.
- Arrows that are stuck in the side of the animal comes loose when they die. However, the animal may fall over the arrow, making it impossible to retrieve. Exiting and returning to the region may move the arrow so it can be recovered.
Approach[edit | edit source]
Some animals run, others are attracted to you. Various methods exist for approaching each type of intended game. See the specific animal pages for preferred methods to hunt each.
Crouching[edit | edit source]
Crouching allows the player to move more quietly and less visibly, decreasing the animal's ability to detect them. Remaining still while crouching further reduces detection, allowing a player to get very close to intended game.
- Only the rifle can be shot from the crouching position without Survival Skill Bonuses. To shoot the bow while crouching, you must have a Survival Skill level of 5 in Archery. To attain level 5 Archery, you must reach 150 points. Archery points are increased by scoring a hit on an animal or by crafting arrows.
- Without being Level 5 in Archery, you must first stand up to draw and loose the arrow - potentially alerting your prey and necessitating a rushing of the aiming process.
Hunting the hunters[edit | edit source]
Predators may decide to come after you while you intend to hunt them. This trait can be used against them, to lure them into traps and ambushes or draw them close for an easy kill or wound. Know that once the predator begins its charge, it will quickly be on top of you unless you have taken steps to prevent it, or if you get one powerful shot properly connected with this rapidly moving target. A good way to hunt them is to take some meat with you and to drop it when the predator starts running, barking or roaring at you. Drop the meat, take a few steps back and line up a good shot. Beware that bears can withstand more than one bullet/arrow that hits their head, while wolves drop dead instantly, if you score a headshot.
Wounding[edit | edit source]
While it is possible to kill even a bear with one shot, this is a function of scoring a "critical hit". Critical hits are random occurrences, but are more likely in an animal's designated critical areas. Hitting an animal but not immediately killing it still means that animal has a bleeding wound. A bleeding animal will always die if given enough time for its wound to finish bleeding.
Critical hits[edit | edit source]
Animals seem to have four areas, the head and neck, the front shoulder and chest, the hindquarters, and their feet. Shots to the head and neck seem to have the best chance to cause a critical hit, with shots to the front shoulder and chest being second. Shots to the feet seem to be immune to critical hits.
Graze shots[edit | edit source]
Shots that only catch the very outside of an animals silhouette may only graze its skin. Such grazing shots will produce a blood spatter on impact and an audible body hit, but seemingly do not injure the animal at all, there will be no blood on the ground at the point of impact and no blood trail. Additionally, bouncing an arrow off terrain that then hits an animal may produce the body hit noise, but again, the animal feels no effect.
Bleeding[edit | edit source]
- Main article: Hunting rifle#Bleed out time
- Main article: Survival bow#Bleed out time
Other than grazing shots, all hits cause bleeding wounds that will eventually kill the animal (moose excluded). Animals will bleed out according to which area they were shot in. Bleeding wounds do not stack. That is, multiple shots to the same area will not make it bleed out any faster. However, shooting an animal in an area that bleeds faster than a previous wound it has already received will cause it to bleed out as if the faster wound were caused when the first wound was.
The bleed-out timers above elapse even while performing time-accelerated activities. This means that after wounding an animal, you can simply use 'Pass time' via the 'Campcraft' menu to accelerate its death relative to real time, but the animal will also move at an accelerated speed.
Tracking[edit | edit source]
Tracking is fairly straightforward when the animal chooses to run away. Blood drops will fall along its path for you to follow. The wounded animal is also still quite obvious against its background of snow. And animals tend to run in straight lines unless they are blocked. So following them visually is fairly easy, too. Sprinting can keep pace with all but the bear. Use your limited speed boost to keep your quarry in sight. Also when wounded, bears may charge back at you randomly, making tracking difficult sometimes.
Blood trails[edit | edit source]
Blood trails are temporary, however, and will fade. Snow and wind increase the rate of fade. Fading trails may seem to disappear as the spot in front of you vanishes then you turn around and there are no longer any spots behind either. Actually, there are spots still ahead of you rapidly disappearing, too. But if you are not running faster than the animal that dropped them, you will never catch up to the fade point to see that.
- Presently animals only bleed onto the ground when they are running away. When they charge or go back to walking, blood will not appear on the ground. They are however still bleeding and will eventually die. Blood drops will again appear if the animal is encouraged to run away (gunshot, throw a lit flare at it, close missed shot with an arrow).
Lost contact[edit | edit source]
If an animal successfully outruns you far enough to where you lose contact with it, it can stop running and return to a walking pace. Typically, these animals will be found returning along the same path they just fled along as they try to get back to their correct positions in the world.
Carcasses[edit | edit source]
Bleeding animals will eventually drop dead, regardless of whether the player is there to see it or not. Finding the Carcass can be difficult if contact was lost as they fled. Carcasses no longer move about and do not leave a trail, so spotting some may be difficult. Players should take advantage of elevated spots to look down into low areas. Search every side of obstacles, and look for crows circling over an area. Carcasses will begin to freeze and meat will decay the moment the animal dies. If left alone, a carcass will disappear after a few days. Frozen carcasses can be thawed by placing campfires near them, reducing the amount of time it takes to harvest meat.
Drowning[edit | edit source]
In some areas (e.g. Coastal Highway or Desolation Point) the Rabbits, Deer and Wolves can be directed towards the water. While hunting on the open ice is easier due to the even ground, attention is advised if they get too close to the water. If they run out too far, that animal will simply disappear, probably because of it drowning, resulting in the effort (and maybe a few arrows) going down the drain. If unlucky, deer and wolves may die on the thin ice, so that the player can't harvest the carcasses without risking to fall through the Ice.
|Smallmouth bass • Coho salmon • Lake whitefish • Rainbow trout
|Bear • Crow • Deer • Moose • Rabbit • Timberwolf • Wolf
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Local, in-season produce is available for delivery when you purchase from Suburban Organics. Buying local and supporting local farmers is important to me and this information was great to know. I also love this quote from their website: "We bring you organic produce that's so fresh you have to wash the dirt off it!" They weren't kidding. I'm used to seeing organic foods at our local grocery store freshly washed. It was fabulous to see my food actually came directly to me from the earth!
Last week a small box selection of organic produce was delivered to my home. The included produce was certainly not something I would consider small by any means. The small box contained:
3 Yams, 1 Red Leaf Lettuce, 1 Bunched Beets, 1 Cucumber, 1 Carrots with tops, 2 Braeburn Apples, 1 Rainbow Chard, 1 Avocado, 1 Lime, 1 Cherry Tomatoes (container), 2 Bartlett Pears, 4 Bananas, 2 Valencia Oranges
We scheduled our delivery day for a Tuesday morning. I could see the Suburban Organics van outside. Seeing the logo of the business on the vehicle always comforts me and makes me feel a bit more at ease when I open the door. The delivery man was well dressed and holding a perfect box of my organic foods. Seriously, I'm used to receiving such beat up boxes via delivery services and this one was impeccable. I knew that I would have perfect looking food inside just by seeing the condition of the box.
As I imagined, the perfect box on the outside contained perfect food on the inside. There were some foods in the box that I knew that my picky eating toddler and preschooler would love (apples, bananas, carrots) and some that I knew I would need to be a little tricky with to get them to taste (hello beets!). A friend of mine recommended making mashed potatoes and using the beets to add a fun red color to them. We can certainly have some silly fun doing with this!
I also wanted to try a simple recipe using the Rainbow Chard. The recipe called for garlic, lemon and a little bit of crushed red pepper. While cooking, the fragrance gave me the impression that I was in a restaurant. I couldn't wait to try it! The only flaw was my heavy handedness of the seasoning. Next time I know to either add more Rainbow Chard or a bit less seasoning! It looked fabulous paired with dinner!
We brought the apples and bananas along with us on a little family outing to the Philadelphia Zoo. They were the perfect tasting, on-the-go snack to have for the boys after a day of running around checking out the animals! I'm trying the pears next and am crossing my fingers that my picky duo will love them as well. If not, I certainly will!
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As a first time customer, just enter the code MontcoMoms to receive $10.00 off your first box! This offer is good through 4/11/12.
*Disclosure: I was provided a free box of produce in exchange for this post. All opinions expressed are my own.


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For most of human history, we spent our days hunting and gathering food, wherever we could find them. If a particular area was lacking in nutrient rich supplies, or if it was being made use of by another band whom we didn't want to war with, then we would simply wander somewhere else and make hay wherever the nutritional sun shone.
About 10,000 years ago, our ancestors stumbled across the seemingly genius idea of domesticating animals and cultivating easy to grow foodstuffs so that we could experience plentiful supplies of essential foodstuffs without having to wander the savannah.
Climatic conditions at the time were ripe for this sort of development, and the Middle East began the trend by domesticating goats and cultivating wheat. Peas and lentils followed in the Levant, and later olives, horses and grapevines added a little variety to our newly sedentary lives. Meanwhile in Central America there were simultaneous movements towards the cultivation of maize, beans, potatoes and llamas and in the Far East, it was rice, millet and pigs.
The immediate effects of their work were greater overall supplies of food. However, the work was hard, and so these newly formed communities took advantage of the surplus food supplies by having more children who could share the load and work the farms.
Who could blame them for wanting the help? Our bodies were simply not yet adapted to this type of living. We were used to wandering from place to place, climbing trees and chasing animals, not clearing the land, sewing seed and harvesting the produce. Our skeletal integrity was soon suffering due to the wear and tear of this tough farming life and so reproduction became the way to seemingly get ahead.
Indeed, the sorts of crops that lent themselves to domestication required constant attention and protection from pests and climatic conditions, so the extra hands would hopefully make light work of our attempt to conquer nature.
However it wasn't just our skeletal structures that suffered. Our digestion did too. Our biology had adapted to nutritional variety, not this slimmed down agricultural diet we were subsisting from. And the substitution of grains for the four years of mothers milk we had learned to grow in in pre-agricultural times, created a weakening of our immune systems. Our communities soon became rife with disease when previously this has been much less of a feature.
Our psychology was also affected greatly. In theory we were safer, for having fields of gold left us with a golden supply of foodstuffs that could be stored when times were tough. But the lack of variety in our cultivation meant we were more exposed to systemic risks to the food supplies if a particular pest came along. We could build granaries to hoard our supplies, but then these became tempting to others who may not have had our foresight and then we had to build walls around our communities to protect them from fiends.
Such complexities caused us to go from living in the moment, living off whatever nature's bounty supplied us, to suddenly having to think about climate, pests, neighbouring communities etc etc. We had to plan for the future in ways that we never dreamed of previously. Iit caused us to live in our heads, constantly thinking about what was going on in the fields, rather than simply enjoying being part of a tribe that spent much of its time socialising and having fun.
It also meant we were tied to the land now. We became possession oriented. Having grown our communities to till the land, and having slowly lost the art of foraging, we became dependent on the farms that we created to provide us with our basic calorific needs. We now had something to lose.
We began to feel less safe as a result of being less agile. If strife came, in the form of hungry villagers from another community, we would now have to fight to the death to save our families and friends, rather than simply flow with the fluctuations of life on the savannah. When this is your prevailing experience, it changes your neurological and neurochemical profile to the status of background fear mode. At least when trouble came previously, we had the option of running. Now the only option we had was to fight.
With each passing generation, we came up with ever more innovations to improve our lot. But each passing innovation triggered a cascade of unintended consequences we had no idea about. Freedom from the grind was always on the horizon, one harvest away from being realised. And yet, with each passing year, and each passing generation, the increasing complexities and energy requirements of our increasingly complex societies required us to work harder and harder, just to stand still.
As the human population expanded, we needed bureaucracies and lawmakers to keep everything in order. We were no longer small communities who could police themselves. With large numbers of people physically stressed by their work and in psychological fear mode, the population needed ever more policing. With such bureaucracies came hierarchies who needed feeding, and these self-interested parties, who were no longer connected to nature, found themselves stereotypically attempting to grow fat off the land through taxes and other such 'protection rackets.'
Instead of taming the crops for the betterment of our lives, we found ourselves tamed by the very crops who we had become dependent on.
Although this is an ancient story, it reminds me of the life we now find ourselves living. With each passing year there is ever more technology abounding, all holding the promise of making our lives easier. Yet, with each passing development, we seem to become ever more dependent on the very innovations that are supposedly making our lives easier. The hamster wheel of life is getting faster and faster but are we any happier? It seems not. We are simply more busy.
We sell ourselves the ideal that if we work hard for just a few more years, then we can take our foot off the gas and start living the dream but it rarely seems to materialise. Instead we find ourselves chained to the very way of life we have become accustomed to. When we earn more money, we start dining out, we start taking taxis instead of public transport and we take more expensive holidays to recompense us for the strains of our everyday existence. All of this is like lifestyle crack that is very difficult to wean yourself off. Before you know it, your 'comfortable' lifestyle has graduated into a baseline expectation of how life should be. There is no going back, even if the more simple life felt like a relative utopia compared to the grind of life in the fast lane. We are trapped.
Advertisers instinctively understand this dynamic and make great hay from selling us the possibility of a better life. But the promises they make are always of an improved external circumstance.
What we humans really crave is an improved internal circumstance and that's where regular meditation really comes into its own. It is an internally derived energy source. It gives us the power to tune into to what really matters to us. It helps us step out of fear mode and into something that fosters greater personal and community relations. Unlike the agricultural and technological revolutions, it improves our digestion and our immune function, rather than make it worse. It makes us more agile by boosting our adaptive capabilities, rather than less. It improves our skeletal structure by reducing stress and improving the calcium uptake into our bones. It ultimately helps us realise that our mind, body and nervous system are our home. When they are in good condition, we can leave the wheat field or the employment mothership and take our innate capabilities wherever we like. We become a vehicle for fulfilment rather than a seeker of it.
We cannot turn back the clock, it is water under the bridge. We can only orient ourselves towards the ever moving present. We cannot control our external world but we can master ourselves and master life so that it works for us rather than us working for it. That ladies and gentleman, is the closest we can ever come to being truly free.
Meditation improves the past. It massively improves the present. And it most assuredly improves the future.


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I'm linking up with Judy Laquidara at Patchwork Times for design wall Monday. Check out what other people are working on HERE.
Today, on my design wall is the sample baby quilt that I needed to make for the workshop in February.
I still need to finish the sashing strips between the rows and then put on the binding. So far I have six hours invested in the construction. I didn't include time for cutting, because the kits that are going to be made for these quilts will have that already done.
Also on the design wall (or floor, in this case) is Bev's Easy Street block. The quilt inspector, Norman, was doing a thorough job of checking it out!! Bev and Barb came to visit on Saturday for a sewing day. Bev was working on a wall hanging size of Easy Street and Barb was making the setting triangles for a full size Easy Street. I worked on the baby quilt and Norman kept us all entertained. It was great getting together with the both of you!!! Hopefully, we can do it again sometime soon!
Today I have a number of errands to run for DH, the ever-present office work and house work and then I'm meeting with friends for supper this evening. So I have a busy day planned. I don't think I'll have a lot of time for sewing today. But I'll try to sneak in a few minutes to try to finish that baby quilt.


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Nicol Bolas, the Ravager Rules the Skies
The world belongs to Nicol Bolas, the Ravager. We just live in it.
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager didn't quite win
We'll talk a bunch about Nicol Bolas, both here and on the podcast… But it's important to note that despite three appearances in the Top 8 (three-Bolas each time), Grixis finished second.
The top performing deck of the tournament was actually StOmPy! Already one of the strong archetypes last format, StOmPy added a tight little two-drop that is appearing as a four-of in almost every list:
Thorn Lieutenant
Thorn Lieutenant is actually easier to cast than Elvish Warrior… But retains its 2/3 body. On top of that are a pair of powerful abilities. Imagine how cool the token-making ability might be with Blossoming Defense!
Thorn Lieutenant's pump ability is deceptively relevant. Do you play it every game? No. Do you want to be in a position to use it in most games? Still probably not. But you'll be happy it's there sometimes! StOmPy gets tangled in a surprising number of games where its mana is plentiful but its drops are best suited for early game.
Great that Thorn Lieutenant can essentially suit himself up!
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager out-stripped other control cards
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager appeared in three decks at the recent Classic. All three decks played three copies. This put Bolas at a higher level of play, generally, than incumbent control finishers Torrential Gearhulk and The Scarab God.
For example, Todd Stevens placed fifth with:
- 3 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager
- 2 Torrential Gearhulk
- 2 The Scarab God
There was a decent amount of variation among these decks, with no consensus around Arguel's Blood Fast or Search for Azcanta. A possible sign of a sea change in the format? Four main-deck copies of Glint-Sleeve Siphoner in Jonathan Job's second-place list. Who's afraid of Goblin Chainwhirler?
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager is four-of sometimes, too!
Mike's favorite Bolas build was Trevor Mensinger's 11th place deck.
Unlike the Top 8 decks, Trevor played a Dragon-centric Red Deck. He not only ran four copies of Nicol Bolas, but four Glorybringers and a pair of Demanding Dragon! Much of the rest of Trevor's deck were typical Red Deck cards like Scrapheap Scrounger, Pia Nalaar, and Unlicensed Disintegration. The red-centered deck employed Sarkhan, Fireblood to great effect. Not only did the new planeswalker help deploy Dragons, but could discard Spit Flame for more and more card advantage!
For those few listeners who are interested in non-Dragon-centric topics, this podcast discusses when you should play Lyra Dawnbringer, Viashino Pyromancer, and Sifter Wurm. Check it out!


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Counter fraud and corruption
This page explains fraud and corruption and what we do to protect ourselves, our employees, partners and the public from it.
What is Fraud
The Fraud Act 2006 describes fraud as the intention to make gain or cause loss under three main headings:
- fraud by false representation
- fraud by failing to disclose information
- fraud by abuse of position
There are further subheadings of fraud described including possession of articles for use in fraud, making or supplying articles for use in frauds, participating in fraudulent business and or obtaining services dishonestly.
What is corruption & bribery
Corruption is defined as the offering, giving, soliciting or acceptance of an inducement or reward, or showing any favour or disfavour which may influence any person to act improperly.
Bribery is defined in the Bribery Act 2010 "as giving someone a financial or other advantage to encourage that person to perform their functions or activities improperly or to reward a person for having already done so, in order to gain personal, commercial, regulatory or contractual advantage". It is the most common form of corruption.
Fraud and corruption drain our time and money from those who really need our support.
Protecting against fraud
We take fraud and corruption very seriously and are committed to preventing and detecting fraud and corruption. We aim to develop a culture of zero tolerance against fraud and corruption.
We have a Corporate Fraud Team and all instances of potential fraud or corruption that are reported to us will be investigated rigorously and promptly, and appropriate action will be taken. We encourage anyone concerned about fraud or corruption concerning the council, its partners or wholly-owned companies, to report it using the contact usdetails.
For details of our approach, download the following documents:
You can find further details about benefit fraud and how to report it by looking at our Report Housing Benefit fraud page.
As part of our commitment to being open and transparent with residents we have also published below information about our counter fraud work including the number of council staff undertaking investigations, amounts spent by us, the number of cases investigated and the value recovered. The information is available in two formats, Adobe Acrobat and comma separated variable (CSV) files.
Related guidance
You may be interested in watching the YouTube videos, produced by Action Fraud, that highlight some of the methods used by fraudsters to obtain personal details of unsuspecting individuals for fraudulent purposes.
- The Devil's in Your Details: phone fraud video
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bunting makes me smile!I was just sitting here thinking I NEEd to make some & then I saw your post..LOVELY!keep smiling Luisa ♥
The bunting does look lovely.
That's really pretty! I had some fun re-hanging my bunting recently - it's fun to find new places for it sometimes.
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EUROREG offers four-semester M.A. programme in Urban and Regional Studies (read more in Polish). Students aquire skills essential for work in state and local administration, the business sector, NGOs and research institutions. The programme includes a range of interdisciplinary courses in: geography, economics, public governance, management, sociology, political studies, international relations, statistics.
Special attention is paid to critical analysis of the implementation and effects of EU policies (Territorial, cohesion and competition policies) and regional and global governance. EUROREG students are encouraged to participate in some of the 30+ general University courses on offer in social science, taught in English, such as: economic policy, world economy, post-soviet politics, sociology of globalisation, transnational cooperation, development scenarios, etc. EUROREG places special emphasis on the practical skills of students. During workshop seminars in evaluation and spatial planning, students are required to apply their knowledge in cases based on examples of regional and global governance and solve them in groups. Through close cooperation with the Polish Ministry of Regional Development and Polish Agency of Enterprise Development, EUROREG can offer internships in departments of these institutions which deal with EU policies.
In cooperation with the Ministry of Investments and Development EUROREG conducts exclusive postgraduate courses for civil servants responsible for implementation of development policies.
Academy of Regulatory Impact Analysis aims at training the policy analysts who will be able to effectively perform analyses and provide clear results to decision-makers, in order to support them in the process of design and implementation of public policies.


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Gaëlle Faure, Reuters
November 28, 2010
Chaos ruled in Haiti on Sunday after voters protested at disorganisation at polling stations during the country's presidential election and several presidential candidates denounced fraud and called for the election to be annulled.
Frustrated voters in Haiti protested at defective electoral lists and disorganized polling stations on Sunday as the country held turbulent elections amid a raging cholera epidemic and political tensions.
Across the sprawling earthquake-ravaged capital Port-au-Prince and under a hot sun, angry Haitians wanting to cast their ballots were desperately searching for the voting
centers where their names were registered.
Many polling stations opened late, mired in confusion and arguments over materials and observers.
At one center at Delmas neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, which had still not begun operating hours after the official 6 a.m. (1100 GMT) opening time, several hundred protesting voters ran in the streets clamoring to be able to cast their ballots as armed U.N. police in riot gear stood by.
"People came to fulfill their right as citizens to vote, but up to now, no one has been able to," said Joel Biteau, an observer from one of the political parties at the station.
Three of the 18 presidential candidates standing announced they would hold a news conference to denounce what they called "massive fraud".
At Fort Liberte in northeast Haiti, one person was injured when gunmen opened fire at a voting station, local Radio Caraibes reported without giving more details.
It was a chaotic opening to presidential and legislative elections the international community hopes can produce a stable, credible government to lead the impoverished Caribbean nation in recovery from a devastating January earthquake.
Some voters did not have the national identity cards they needed to vote, others had their IDs but did not find their names on voter lists in the centers set up in schools, wooden huts and even in tents in crowded earthquake survivors' camps.
"I can't find where to vote. I have my identity card but I'm not on the list," said Denis Anis, 18, a first-time voter. Similar problems and protests were reported across the city.
University of San Francisco law professor Nicole Phillips told Reuters: "It's more than confusion, people can't find their names on the lists, they are holding their IDs, they are eligible to vote, but they can't do it."
Phillips, a staff attorney with the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, said the disorganization would further undermine the credibility of the elections, whose preparations were marked by sporadic violence and widespread skepticism.
With political tensions flaring, and rebuilding after the January earthquake seemingly paralyzed by the advancing deadly cholera epidemic, many fear a contentious turbulent election may just drive Haiti deeper into turmoil.
More than 12,000 U.N. troops and police were assisting local police in protecting more than 11,000 polling stations.
Cholera epidemic
A clutch of front-runners — a Sorbonne-educated opposition matriarch, a government technocrat who is a protege of outgoing President Rene Preval, and a charismatic entertainer and musician — lead a varied field of 18 presidential candidates.
Although opinion polls have put 70-year-old former first lady Mirlande Manigat ahead, the lack of a clear favorite has increased the likelihood of the contest going to a deciding Jan. 16 runoff between the two top vote-winners.
The biggest protagonists on Sunday may turn out to be apathy, confusion and fears of violence, which could keep many of the 4.7 million registered voters at home, as could the raging cholera epidemic that has killed some 2,000 people, according to U.N. officials, and sickened tens of thousands.
But there were Haitians who said they were anxious to vote, seeing the nationwide ballot as a way to help usher in a better future after this year's succession of calamities adding to Haiti's sad history of natural disasters and man-made problems, such as uprisings and corrupt dictatorships.
Calling 2010 the "worst year in Haiti's history," outgoing President Preval, who cannot run again after serving two terms, called on Haitians to vote in peace and shun violence.
Manigat has been tracked in opinion polls by Jude Celestin, 48, candidate of Preval's Inite (Unity) coalition, and Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly, 49, a star of Haiti's Kompa dance music, whose rallies have drawn supporters in droves.
Another candidate, lawyer Jean-Henry Ceant, 54, could make a strong showing if he galvanizes supporters of exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Sporadic violence, including ambushes of campaign caravans, random gunfire and attacks by rioters against Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers whom some Haitians accuse of bringing in the cholera, has killed several people in the run-up to the vote.
The United Nations says there is no conclusive evidence the Nepalese troops are the source of the disease outbreak.
Electoral observers and experts from the Organization of American States, the Caribbean Community, the association of Francophone states, the European Union and several European countries are in Haiti to observe and support the elections.
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CANADA STOCKS-TSX drops on fall in healthcare shares, fading trade hopes
Dec 4 - Canada's main stock index fell οn Tuesday, led by healthcare shares, while market sentiment was hurt by fading hopes of a swift resolutiοn to the U.S.-China trade dispute.
* At 9:34 a.m. ET , the Tοrοnto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX cοmpοsite index was down 41.76 pοints, οr 0.27 percent, at 15,233.22.
* The healthcare sectοr fell 3.1 percent, the mοst amοng the 11 majοr sectοrs.
* Aphria Inc plunged over 20 percent, extending losses frοm the previous sessiοn. The cannabis prοducer defended its Latin American operatiοns frοm claims in a shοrt-seller repοrt οn Mοnday that the cοmpany had overpaid fοr assets.
* Bank of Mοntreal fell 1.1 percent, after Canada's fοurth-biggest lender repοrted fοurth-quarter earnings, ending a mixed earnings seasοn fοr Canada's biggest banks.
* The financials sectοr edged down 0.5 percent.
* The energy sectοr drοpped 0.1 percent as U.S. crude prices pared gains to trade up 0.3 percent per barrel, while Brent crude added 1 percent.
* The materials sectοr, which includes precious and base metals miners and fertiliser cοmpanies, added 0.3 percent as gοld futures edged up 0.4 percent to $1,238.4 an ounce.
* The largest percentage gainers οn the TSX were Trican Well Service, which surged 9.9 percent as Raymοnd James raised rating οn its stock to "strοng buy" frοm "outperfοrm".
* Secοnd biggest gainer was Teck Resources B, which rοse 3.2 percent, after the mining cοmpany agreed to sell a 30 percent stake in its Quebrada Blanca cοpper mine expansiοn prοject in nοrthern Chile to Japan's Sumitomο fοr $1.2 billiοn.
* Aphria Inc declined the mοst οn the TSX, while the secοnd biggest decliner was Osisko Gold Royalties, down 3 percent.
* The mοst heavily traded shares by volume were Aphria Inc , Trican Well Svc and Aurοra Cannabis .
* On the TSX, 73 issues were higher, while 165 issues declined fοr a 2.26-to-1 ratio to the downside, with volume touching 12.38 milliοn shares.
* The TSX pοsted two new 52-week highs and fοur new lows.
* Acrοss all Canadian issues, there were fοur new 52-week highs and 12 new lows, with total volume touching 18.71 milliοn shares.


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What the fish...
First steps in seafood
Seafood - where to start
Many people are apprehensive about seafood, whether buying, cooking or even just ordering in a restaurant. Whether it's a fear of fish bones, lacking confidence in preparing fish or just confusion about what to eat sustainable and when, it can feel like it's a minefield out there when it comes to enjoying seafood. Fish and shellfish are so delicious, versatile and incredibly nutritious - you're missing out by always ordering the chicken!
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Marilyn MansonAntichrist Superstar (1996)
Текст песни с переводом слов Marilyn Manson «Deformography» из альбома «Antichrist Superstar» (1996).
when you wish upon a star
don't let yourself fall, fall in too hard
I fell into you and I'm on my back
an insect decaying in your little trap
I squirm into you, now I'm in your gut
I fell into you, now I'm in a rut
"I lift you up like the sweetest angel,
I'll tear you down like a whore.
I will bury your god in my warm spit,
you'll be deformed in your porn"
rock star, yeah (you're such a dirty, dirty)
rock star, yeah (dirty, dirty, dirty)
you eat up my heart and all the little parts
your star is so sharp
Marilyn Manson - все тексты песен исполнителя (группы).


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Amani Abeid Karume
Zanzibari politician
Amani Abeid Karume (born 1 November 1948) is the President of Zanzibar.
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- It is rather shocking to note that opposition leaders, who are representatives of the wananchi (citizens), are themselves rejecting the participation of the wananchi in this major public issue.
- On the referendum for the proposed formation of a coalition government; quoted in Mwinyi Sadallah, "Karume gives condition for meeting Seif," The Guardian (2008-05-20).


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The Rotary Club of South Anne Arundel County is planning the fifth annual Lights of Kindness, a unique fund-raising contest that will take place at Homestead Gardens in Davidsonville, Thursday December 6th through Sunday December 9th. In the spirit of the holiday season, the goal of the Lights of Kindness tree decoration contest is to raise funds for charities, but also raise awareness of the efforts of sponsors and the charities to make our community a better place.
The Rotary Club is seeking area businesses to sponsor local non-profit charities to decorate a tree for the Lights of Kindness. To participate, businesses or other organizations should contact the Rotary Club, decide on a charity to support, their level of sponsorship, and work with a charity to decorate a tree. Sponsor businesses, and the charities they support, will be prominently identified.
The public may tour the holiday forest at Homestead Gardens and or go online to vote for their favorite tree or noblest cause by contributing dollars for an equivalent number of votes. Every dollar donated counts as a vote, and benefits our local community. The community is encouraged to visit the Holiday Forest at Homestead Gardens, vote, and enjoy this family oriented event. Online votes for a dollar each may be made beginning Thursday evening, December 6th.
For every vote a tree receives, half of the proceeds will be donated to the designated Charity and half will be donated to the Rotary Club of South Anne Arundel County Charitable Foundation. A cash donation prize will be split among the Charities' top three decorated trees receiving the most votes. Proceeds will benefit the programs supported by the Rotary Foundation including: Bountiful Backpacks Program currently providing food for up to 160 elementary school children; the Dictionary Project; Haiti educational programs; the Rotary Youth Leadership Assembly; scholarships and the Polio Plus program to eradicate the disease world wide.
Dec. 6, 9:00 AM – 8 PM
Dec. 7, 9:00 AM – 8 PM
Dec. 8, 9:00 AM – 5 PM
Online voting:
24 hours a day at www.RotaryLightsofKindness.org
Online voting ends Dec. 9 at 4:00 PM
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Check out the official drink recipes from the Stein Haus episode on Spike TV's Bar Rescue.
Das Schloss (The Castle)
¾ oz. Smirnoff No. 21
Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass. Add ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into Collins glass over fresh ice. Top with lemon lime soda. Garnish with cherries and lemon half moon.
The Ivan Stein!
1½ oz. Crown Royal Regal Apple
Add Crown Royal Regal Apple to ice filled Collins glass. Top with ginger ale. Garnish with red apple and lemon half moon.
Prost Manhattan
1¼ oz. Crown Royal
Combine ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice. Stir and strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with cherry and orange twist.
German Coffee
1 oz. Bailey's Original Irish Cream
Add Bailey's and Rumple Minze to ice filled rocks glass. Fill with cold coffee. Layer with whipped cream. Garnish with cocoa powder.


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Kevin Spacey makes Chinese film
Kevin Spacey has become the latest Oscar winner to make a foreign movie in China.
Following on from Christian Bale, who appeared in drama The Flowers of War, Spacey plays a brash American crimefighter in Dayyan Eng's new film Inseparable, which has been shot with Mandarin and English dialogue.
In the film, the actor plays a neighbour who inadvertently prevents Chinese actor Daniel Wu's depressed character from taking his own life, and persuades him to become his vigilante sidekick.
Spacey says he had a great time making the movie and now hopes to return to China to produce more films there.
"A great deal of finance and talent is going to be coming to China in the next decade," he says. "I have every intention of returning and working again, both as an actor, but I would also love to produce films in China."
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