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ColloPack Solutions is a Napa, California based company serving the American Wine and Beverage industries. We were founded by an experienced group of industry professionals with the goal of becoming the supplier of choice to customers demanding the finest available equipment and supplies, backed by unmatched after-sales service and technical support.
ColloPack Solutions' comprehensive processing and packaging equipment product lines offer top quality state-of-the-art equipment for virtually every major step in the winemaking processes.
Our sales and technical staff, with literally hundreds of years of cumulative experience, can help you select the equipment best suited to your unique requirements and provide the after sales service and support so essential to product quality and process efficiency.
Destemmers and Crushers, 2 to 150 tons per hour: DIEMME
Presses (pneumatic presses, vertical basket presses): 500 to 75,000 liter capacity: DIEMME
Continuous presses up to 1,200mm diameter: DIEMME
Grape sorting and reception lines:DIEMME
Pumps(must): DIEMME, FRANCESCA
Pumps (juice, wine and barrel work): FRANCESCA
Tanks: ALBRIGI
From one item to a fully integrated turn key line:
BERTOLASO rinsers, fillers, corkers, cappers, conveyor
ROBINO & GALANDRINO capsule dispensers and applicators, wirehooders
CAVAGNINO & GATTI wet glue and pressure sensitive labelers
CAMES cork orientation
CHAMPAGEL and PERRIER sparkling wine equipment
Sparkling wine cork: OLLER
In California, no resource is more important than water, which is why water management has been a top priority in the wine community for years. For the award-winning Napa winery, Shadybrook Estates, water saving is even more imperative because its facility operates as a 'hold and haul' production facility, meaning that all their wastewater needs to be collected and then trucked to a treatment plant in the East Bay.
"We've got water savings on our radar for a couple of reasons, first and foremost for planet Earth; we try to use as little as possible and be as sustainable as possible, but the less we use and haul away is also beneficial for our bottom line," says Rudy Zuidema, Winemaker at Shadybrook Estate.
One of Shadybrook's largest water savings come from their sanitation practices. "We have some pretty unique devices that create a foam out of our sanitation chemicals, so we're not using hundreds of gallons of water to mix up large batches of chemicals to clean out tanks," says Zuidema.
The foam uses a very small amount of chemicals to cover the inside and outside of the tanks like a shaving cream. The foam lingers on the equipment, it sterilizes it, and then only needs a quick little rinse off afterward using only a minimal amount of water.
The foam cleaning is facilitated by the unique bright annealed (BA) finished stainless steel interior of the Albrigi tanks. It is superior to the more common 2B stainless steel finish and has a significantly lower roughness range.
"The stainless steel is so finely polished that there are virtually no little fissures where tartrates and other solid particles can lie, everything just flies off the tank, it's such a perfect surface," says Michael Andrews, Associate Winemaker at Shadybrook.
"When you have a tank with a rougher surface, you need stronger chemicals that would not be facilitated by the foam, so you'd have to mix that up in a minimum of fifty gallons of water," explains Andrews. "The chemicals would have to be dissolved in hot water. Then you'd have to circulate that chemical through the tanks for twenty minutes. Then you'd have to rinse that tank, and then you'd have to neutralize that chemical with citric acid, again circulating it for another ten to twenty minutes using another fifty gallons of water for the neutralizing chemical, and all the water and chemical would end up going down the drain into the septic system."
In addition to the immense water savings come time savings in getting tanks ready quickly, which can be crucial with large harvests like this year. Shadybrooks vineyard yields have been exceptionally high, and temperatures in the 70s and low 80s and cool nights have setup true maturity and ultimate ripeness, but with a 20% larger than normal harvest the winery has been extraordinarily busy.
Andrews appreciates the time savings that efficient sanitation practices affords him. "It's a significant difference. It would take roughly two to two and a half hours to process a regular tank to sanitary. I can have the Albrigi tanks in this winery cleaned sanitized and ready to go in less than twenty minutes," he says.
All the equipment in the winery was supplied by ColloPack, who also do all the service and maintenance on the equipment. "Their techs have been fantastic, their service has been very very good. It's all state-of-the-art equipment and keeping it up and maintaining it is very very important to us," says Andrews.
Shadybrook boasts 18 Albrigi tanks ranging in size from 2 ton fermentors up to 12 ton fermenters. ColloPack also supplied them two different styles of wine presses, a tank press and a basket press made by Diemme.
"They are very different, and both very efficient," says Andrews," but the basket press is so simple to use and is such a great twist on old world and old school winemaking where it is just direct pressure without any tumbling, without any flipping up the material, but just a long slow gentle increase of pressure, and the quality of wine that comes out of this press is absolutely fantastic. The yield is slightly less than from the tank press, but the quality is absolutely fantastic."
In addition to Albrigi tanks and Diemme presses, ColloPack Solutions' comprehensive processing and packaging equipment product lines offer top quality state-of-the-art equipment for virtually every major step in the winemaking processes.
For more information visit ColloPack Solutions at the North Coast Wine Industry Expo booth 117 & 119 on Dec. 6, 2018 in Santa Rosa, call 707-258-3940, or email email@example.com.
Winemaker Daniel Daou and his brother built the magnificent DAOU winery on top of DAOU Mountain in the western hills of Paso Robles, not for the sheer beauty of the place, but for its potential to achieve their vision of making world class Bordeaux style wines. "The terroir here is unique; it may be the only place on the planet you'll find the calcareous clay soil of Bordeaux and the climate of Napa all in one place," says Daou.
"We take a very different approach to winemaking here, we tend to be minimalist and try to present as much as we can a pure expression of terroir, so we shy away from tartaric additions, tannin additions, and sugar additions. Part of that process is to make sure we have a gentle pump that will allow us to move the grapes, move the must, and move the juice without damaging the wine."
Ten years ago, DAOU tried out several different pumps to find one that could handle the many long hours of harvest and be gentle enough to not damage the grapes. They only found one that would do the job, the Francesca® pump.
"California is hot, so you're often forced to harvest before you have 100% brown seeds. The last thing you want to do is crack these seeds open because it can release bitterness into the wine, and it can really affect the quality," explains Daou. "Same when it comes to bruising the skin. I don't mind cracking the skin open, but you don't want them smashed. The Francesca is kind of amazing, when we process the grapes, we can put the whole grapes into one end, and they come out whole in the other. It's a very, very gentle pump."
The fruit from DAOU Mountain is hand-picked, then sorted both by human eye and cutting-edge optical technology to ensure the highest quality fruit. They use only 100-percent free run juice and initiate fermentation with native yeasts cultivated from the estate. Careful treatment of the grapes is essential to achieve the natural balance and texture Daou strives for. He says, "If you're ending up with mush then you have a hard time finishing the fermentation, the yeast doesn't digest the sugar, you get all kinds of problems. I've seen pumps do that, I've seen pumps that just shred everything."
The gentle movement of fruit, wine, and juice was the main reason for selecting the Francesca, but other features like the barrel filling mode, pressure sensors, pressure transducers, run-dry timer, and pump-over mode play an important role in making the winemaking run smoothly and efficiently.
"The pump-over mode is very helpful," says Daou, "my guys don't have to use their watch, they just set the timer on the pump, and when the time is up, it stops."
DAOU sometimes processes grapes for twelve to fourteen hours per day, non-stop, and they rely on the pumps to keep going. Daou was impressed by the reliability of the pump. "When I first got these pumps I started thinking, surely they'll start failing left and right if we beat them up fourteen hours a day for two months, but they didn't, they just work. These pumps are rock solid."
Having equipment that allows for smooth and effective operation is important for the quality of the wine, but when something does fail, Daou values having a supplier that is always ready to help. "I love working with ColloPack! They understood our vision from day one. Craig, the president, has been very helpful. In the last ten years, I probably called him twenty times on a Sunday or Saturday night, and every time he picks up the phone and says 'how can I help you?'"
Daou believes any business needs to focus on two of three facets to be successful: price, product, or service. "For our winery, we pride ourselves on great product and great service; we're one of the most expensive wines in the region, so clearly we're not going to compete on price. I feel ColloPack is the same, they have a great product – actually, they come close to having all three – but I'm not after price, I'm after great service and great product."
DAOU has continued to add to their line of Francesca pumps over the last ten years and are now up to 27, more than any other winery in the world, and they also have three DIEMME presses from ColloPack Solutions.
"Growing up in Europe, maybe I think a little differently, we're not transaction oriented, we're relationship oriented. If we work with somebody, and we have a good relationship, we don't go somewhere else just so we can get something for a dollar less because we've invested in the relationship," says Daou.
"Because we focus on making the highest quality wine, we want great service, and we want a great product."
In addition to Francesca pumps, ColloPack Solutions' comprehensive processing and packaging equipment product lines offer top quality state-of-the-art equipment for virtually every major step in the winemaking processes. For more information, contact ColloPack Solutions, call 707-258-3940, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
ColloPack Solutions is pleased to announce the appointment of Craig Richardson as the company's new President. Craig will manage day to day operations including leading the development and execution of ColloPack's marketing and sales strategy and customer satisfaction goals.
"Craig's demonstrated technical sales and people skills along with his successful management experience make him the ideal person to lead the ColloPack team,'' said Greg Fulford, Chairman of ColloPack.
Craig, previously ColloPack's VP of Technical Sales, has been with the company for 10 years in sales and product management positions. Before joining the company, he served in pharmaceutical production management positions including Director-Transdermal Manufacturing Group for ALZA Corporation. He is a graduate of California State University in Chico with a BS in Industrial Technology.
ColloPack Solutions is the factory-authorized dealer for your equipment, so your factory warranty is never jeopardized by non-authorized repairs. Our team of service technicians are highly trained, certified, and know your equipment inside out. The parts we use are factory-authorized and we maintain a comprehensive and continually updated spare parts inventory.
ColloPack's Maintenance Solutions will help you reduce equipment downtime, improve production efficiencies, prolong equipment life, lower replacement parts and maintenance costs over the life of the machine, minimize emergency service calls and provide a safer working environment for your employees.
Because every winery's specific maintenance needs are different, we don't offer a "one-size fits all" program. Instead, we offer a customized program tailored to your winery equipment, personnel, production requirements, and budget. We will meet with you, review your equipment, listen to your needs and put together a program that works for you.
ALBRIGI has been a leading European supplier for over 30 years producing premier quality tanks for the wine, beverage, food and pharmaceutical industries. Multiple unique features set ALBRIGI products apart from other manufacturer's' providing distinct advantages in cleaning and sanitation as well as umatched esthetic appearance. In addition to traditional fermentation and storage tanks, Albrigi produces a wide range of specialized tanks including multiple types with unique cap management systems.
- Albrigi uses only the highest quality "BA" finished stainless steel sourced exclusively from Thyssen Krup of Germany. "BA" finish (bright annealed) is superior to the more common "2B" finish in its significantly lower roughness range.
- Albrigi tanks are fabricated with an automated TIG welding process under a double inert gas atmosphere (argon plus nitrogen). A copper bar supports the area being welded serving as a heat sink to quickly cool it. These procedures produce a "white" weld with virtually no oxidation.
- Vertical panel welds and top and bottom horizontal welds are cold rolled flat and then polished to a mirror finish, seams are nearly invisible.
- Welds are pickled and the tank interiors are passivated as standard proceedure.
- Final water test and glycol system pressure test insures that Albrigi tanks are both statically and mechanically sound.
- Albrigi's use of "BA" finished stainless steel in conjunction with their exclusive welding protocol, mirror polished welds and final passivation step results in a surface which can easily and effectively be cleaned and sanitized without detergents.
- The visual aspect of Albrigi tanks is unmatched in the industry.
- Albrigi tanks carry a 25 year warranty against defects in materials and workmanship.
ColloPack's reference lists include many notable small ultra premium wineries as well as a number of the world's largest. Our winery customers process from forty tons per season up to 10,000 plus tons per day; ColloPack's bottling line customers run between forty and 500 bottles per hour. All of our customers, small to large, benefit from the quality, technology and value of ColloPack equipment as well as the after sales service and support behind every sale.
We would be pleased to provide a list of satisfied references pertinent to your specific equipment needs.
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The Benefits of Proactive Maintenance
ColloPack's Maintenance Solutions will help you reduce equipment downtime, improve production efficiencies, prolong equipment life, lower replacement parts and maintenance costs over the life of the machine, minimize emergency service calls and provide a safer working environment for your employees.
Don't Trust Just Anyone with Maintaining Your Critical Equipment
ColloPack Solutions is the factory-authorized dealer for your equipment, so your factory warranty is never jeopardized by non-authorized repairs. Our team of service technicians are highly trained, certified, and know your equipment inside out. The parts we use are factory-authorized and we maintain a comprehensive and continually updated spare parts inventory.
A Customized Approach
Because every winery's specific maintenance needs are different, we don't offer a "one-size fits all" program. Instead, we offer a customized program tailored to your winery equipment, personnel, production requirements, and budget. We will meet with you, review your equipment, listen to your needs and put together a program that works for you.


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In his first mission he ended up over an icy planet three AUs from an M class star. He scanned and found a concentration of Heechee metal 70 feet under methane ice which he broke using the chemical rockets on his ship and blasted a crater. Ht discovered the remains of a Heechee supply dump. Gateway Corporation gave him $1 million for his find.
In his second mission he did not find a Heechee discovery but filmed a rare astronomical event of a planet with a moon being ripped apart by gravitational stress and turned into a ring. The Corporation scientists went crazy and the Board gave him $500000 as a science bonus. Shortly after, he married Adriana Lafore, the daughter of the Corporation's VP.
By the time he was 35, he'd flown every kind of ship and mission imaginable and became filthy rich. Within six months the marriage was in trouble because Adriana announced she was bored with Rolf. A year after the marriage, around 2087, Becker left for his last mission and never returned being stranded on Nemira 3. After that Adriana underwent through a change and missed him. She offered $1 million for any information or action leading to his safe return.
Meanwhile Becker spent the next 15 years on the planet (which he named 'Adriana 1') having the animals as company and studying its fauna and flora and skies. He built a hut and a garden of edible plants since he decided not to kill any of the animals of his area. He resided near a Heechee Shield Generator and had Mr. Pookie for company, an alien species which he named 'gopheria robustus'.
In order to convince Becker to return, the player must:
- Greet him when they first meet
- Not kill the gyranthymus
- Not hurt Mr. Pookie
- get the lens without harming the winnerpeller
- disassembly his ship's actuator instead of exhuming the animal's body
- give him to read the Interesting People magazine
- help him get his cane
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The Conference Board of Canada, in a report issued Monday prepared for the Canadian Electricity Association, said that investments to repair, upgrade and expand the nation's power grids will boost the economy and create a "steady stream of high-paying jobs."
The board looked at growth and asset replacement plans by utilities across Canada including BC Hydro, Hydro-Québec, and Ontario Power Generation. It added up all the numbers, and determined that by 2030, the utilities will collectively spend $347 billion - more than a third of a trillion dollars - on power generation and trans-mission projects.
That will require an annual workforce of 156,000 encompassing jobs tied directly to infrastructure construction, such as electrical trades and heavy equipment operators, as well as employment for everything from judges and priests to cooks and sales clerks.
"The average contribution to real GDP - including direct, indirect and induced impacts - will be $10.9 billion per year," The report said.
However, the report notes that the biggest wave of construction began in 2011 with an average annual GDP contribution of $22.7 billion.
The report said BC Hydro's biggest outlay will be for investments to expand largescale hydroelectric power generation - on Monday, Premier Christy Clark announced that the province has taken another step toward development of the Site C hydro mega-project on the Peace River.
Alberta's principal focus is on new natural gas generation. Ontario is following the same path, replacing aging coal-fired generation stations with natural gas-fired stations.
Quebec and Manitoba, like B.C., will focus on new hydro projects.
Pedro Antunes, director of national and provincial forecast for the conference board, said the biggest challenges will be avail-ability of skilled workers to carry projects through, and the ability of governments and utilities to minimize impacts upon taxpayers who are also facing cost for other necessary upgrades to infrastructure including roads, bridges and municipal utilities including drinking water and waste water treatment.
"We're worried, not so much about whether industry will be able to meet demand [for electricity], but in terms of the supply of workers - in the construction industry in particular," Antunes said.
"There is going to be a lot of demand for construction workers not only for this but also for the [oil] sector, the mining sec-tor. We are seeing more pressure around the labour market issue. There is this issue I think governments are struggling with, which is how to fund infrastructure, how to balance their budgets and keep the infrastructure spending going because I think there is an understanding that there's a need to keep it up."
Jim Burpee, president and CEO of the Canadian Electricity Association, said the $347 billion estimate reflects the need to undertake both new projects and replacement of old assets.
"It's not just load growth like it was during, I guess I'd call it the industrial age of the '60s and '70s - factories were growing, the country was growing rapidly, and there was a lot of generation and transmission built to supply that," Burpee said.
"That infrastructure is aging now and a lot of items have relatively finite lives where the reliability suffers, their economics suffer and they need to be replaced.
"I think one of our issues from a public perspective is people's expectation of price and service. They think they can always get the same high level of service. If you look at the North American system it's extremely reliable. But you can't always expect the price to remain flat or go down. We're not like Walmart where we can roll back prices."


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Full time, Seattle-based, includes relocation. Learn more about this and other jobs at https://glowforge.com/jobs.
Why we need you
One of Glowforge's key innovations is our dual-camera system. One camera provides a wide-angle view of the entire cutting surface and one provides an up-close, detailed view of the material near the head. Our cloud-based software processes the images from these cameras and is the key to making Glowforge amazing. We use the cameras for a huge variety of features: our drag-and-drop UI for design placement on material, the ability to cut and engrave a user's hand-drawn sketch, aligning material that's been moved, and even more clever tricks we haven't shared publicly yet.
Our team is composed of software generalists and we know that you're one too, but we particularly want your passion and thoughtfulness around computer vision. While you'll do lots of things here, you'll be asked to take on some of our most challenging image processing capabilities, and will spread your knowledge and experience through an organization that is eager to learn. We've just scratched the surface on the types of functionality this system can offer; we need you to push the software powering this technology further than anyone thought possible.
Here's what you'll be doing
Our whole software team (and frankly whole company) pitches in on anything that needs to be done, but you're going to bring some welcome expertise to the table in computer vision and image recognition. That means you'll be a part of a larger team building the software for Glowforge 1.0 and beyond, and it means you'll be able to jump right in, streamlining code we've got already and building out new features soon. All in all, you'll do this:
- Architecting and coding fascinating new machine vision capabilities.
- Teaching your expertise to your peers and learning from them in turn.
- Participating in planning sessions with the whole product team and helping to build the user stories and specifications that will drive development.
- Stretching your coding skills in new directions and pitching in when your colleagues need help.
- Most importantly, anything and everything needed to delight our customers.
You need these qualifications
- You write copious amounts of thoughtful, high-quality, well tested code.
- You have a clear understanding of computer vision, and an ability to implement CV algorithms using both toolkits and original code.
- You're excited about being personally responsible for making Glowforge successful, and by the uncertainty and wonder that comes with building a product customers love.
- You're thoughtful about software development, design patterns, and algorithms.
- You have a four year degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience, and have done practical computer vision work.
- You have a deep desire to create a magnificent, iconic product… and still know that you sometimes have to make some tradeoffs to ship quickly.
It would be nice if…
- You have practical experience with OpenCV, Python, and/or C++.
- You are comfortable down to the hardware level, so you can participate in discussions about camera selection, lens design, and interior lighting.
- You know all the capture-time tricks, like averaging multiple images to get subpixel resolution.
- You've been responsible for shipping a product that people love.
- You're used to writing web services and designing for the *ilities (testability, maintainability, extensibility, scalability, and security-ility).
Please send us your resume, plus something so we can get a sense of your work. For example, we'd love to see your Github account or links to projects you've worked on.
One more, very important thing: we are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We're strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and all applicants for employment. For us, this is the only acceptable way to do business.


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Lately, the xx have been welcoming some special guests to the stage during their Day + Night residency in Brixton. In the past few days, they've performed with Robyn, Cat Power, and Savages Jehnny Beth. At their most recent show, they tried something different. Way back in 2009, Jamie xx memorably remixed Florence & The Machine's cover of Candi Staton's "You Got The Love." Since then, both the xx and Florence have grown to become festival headliners. And now, as Pitchfork points out, they've come back together to do a rare live version of that 2009 remix. Watch a fan-made video below, via Pitchfork.
The "live remix" seems like such an awful idea, but that ruled.


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As a reminder, Santa EXPOSED is free on Amazon right now. If this first chapter makes you at all curious, why not snag a copy and read the rest for free? While you're at it, leave some cookies and milk for yourself as a reward.
Chapter One
I suppose I should start three days before Christmas.
That's as close as I can pinpoint a beginning. Though really, the story starts a year before that, the day after Christmas, when I was 10 about to turn 11, rather than 11 about to turn 12.
But three days before Christmas when I was still 11 was when I started searching for the truth alongside Hollis Dawson. And well, that pushed things in ways I wasn't expecting to get pushed. Don't get me wrong, I was after the truth. But the truth is like a present: layers live over what is inside.
There are people who will tell you — swear up, down, inside out and in brightly colored circles — that the stuff that happens in a story, say in a fairytale, is the stuff that can't happen in reality. Then there are others who know — will swear — that the opposite is true. Then there are people like you, who are right at the age of believing or not. This isn't just true for young people, it's true for all of us. Even me right now. Some people live at this edge forever, and it's wonderful, to never stop believing, always knowing there's something on the other side of reality even though you can't prove it.
You wanted to know the truth, so here it is. As it happened to me. I can't tell you what to believe, but I can tell you what I believe, and why. I can tell you that the people who say that the stuff in fairytales can't happen, or that magic doesn't exist either don't know what they are talking about, or worse, they've been ruined by a life that's not nearly as pleasant as yours. Something awful happened at one time or another to make them forget that cold, hard logic can only move them from one corner to the next. Imagination can take them anywhere.
You could skip to the end and find out the truth right now, but I hope you won't. It would ruin a lot of magic you can never have back. The truth is never just one thing, it's all the smaller things along the way. Truths are buckets of water, filled by billions of drops.
Three days before Christmas I was at Mayfair Park, four blocks from my house. I cut through the park each day on my way to and from school. It's a large park, with three playgrounds, a sprawling community center, one and a half pools (there's a tiny one for toddlers), and each Christmas a large gazebo with the neighborhood's favorite Santa. It's also the place where Jimmy Gray swears on his PS3 and every game of his brother's that he saw the real Santa there four years before. A year after that it was Eddie Jensen. April Gosling after that. Then Sandy Ames and Isabelle Joffrey. Then last year, nothing.
Last year, no one saw a thing, including me. I begged Mom to let me stay out. A few kids said they were staying the night, though it turned out no one's mom really let them, and it seemed that earlier reported sightings may have been witness exaggerations, from those who may or may not have ever left their house.
I snuck out anyway. I couldn't help it.
My Avengers clock said 2 a.m. when I snuck back in the house. Our stockings were hung by the chimney with care when I left. When I came home they were stuffed like every Christmas morning before. I crept through the house, slipped into bed, and wondered if I'd staked the wrong place. Maybe I should have been watching my parents.
I don't remember falling asleep. It happened so fast. I woke what felt like five minutes later to the sound of Sarah squealing.
"He came, Josh! He came! Come downstairs and see!"
I was exhausted. I wanted to be excited, but felt defeated. My bones hurt from a horrible night's sleep and too much cold (though it wasn't really that cold at all). I was mad at Jeffrey Little for asking, "So, when did you stop believing in Santa?" a month before and changing the way I thought about everything, planting doubt in my mind where there were no seeds before.
I went downstairs and sure enough, just as Sarah said, he had been there. Or someone had.
As I'd seen when I crept back inside the night before, stockings were stuffed heavy and dripping down from the mantle, fat from chocolates, games, and tiny decks of cards. Socks, underwear, and three gift cards each, $5 to all our favorite places. Mine were for Shell (because I always wanted something when my parents gassed up and they always said no because gas station convenience stores were too expensive), iTunes (music, apps, and movies!) and Target, not that $5 was a lot at Target, but I liked to save them up.
They were the same gift cards (more or less) as the ones I got every year, yet as I shuffled them in my hand, looking down as I did, I saw something that I'd never seen, even though it was obvious: none of those places was anywhere near the North Pole, and I highly doubted that Santa had any sort of deals with local retailers. My present from Santa was an iPod Touch, exactly what I had asked for. But after I unwrapped it, and felt that warm flush of relief from knowing that Santa had come through again, I wondered why the iPod said it was made in China, rather than the North Pole.
I asked Mom and Dad if Santa really made things in the North Pole, or if he had special deals with factories all over the world (surely he couldn't buy all of those gadgets and toys himself), but they gave me an answer that meant nothing and quickly changed the subject. They could have simply said "magic" like they always had before. Instead, they saw doubt in my eye and said senseless things, hoping my questions would go away. But they didn't. Doubt nested instead, and sat in my mind like a splinter for a year.
I was obsessed, and read everything I could find, both online and off, searching for the truth about Santa. Nothing led me to a straight answer. I had found a great global conspiracy, where grown-ups all agreed to keep kids from the truth.
It was awful. Even online I found no answers. I Googled, "Is Santa Claus real?" and got nothing but lies. I learned plenty, just not what I wanted to know. I discovered that Santa was originally known as Saint Nicholas, and that he was a part of the Catholic Church. That version of Santa shared little with the fat man in the red suit who had been popularized (much to my surprise) barely a century before. Someone (I couldn't read a straight enough answer to know who, or even when) changed Saint Nicholas' name to Father Christmas.
Father Christmas (see also San Niklaw, Papa Noël, Baba Chaghaloo and like a hundred-million others) was common folklore, a jolly and generous man who came bearing gifts to children on Christmas Eve. I reconstructed Santa's origin as best I could by going back to when Europe absorbed various elements of Yule, the god Odin, and the Dutch figure of Sinterklaas, blending the mess together with the bishop gift-giver Saint Nicholas whom I'd read about earlier.
You would think that finding out Santa was birthed as a folktale would have convinced me he was a fiction straightaway. Instead, it did the opposite. Folktales come from somewhere, and while I couldn't trace the modern version of Santa any further back than the 1820s, it didn't stop there. Folktales came from myths, whispers, and things that were sort of true before they became something else.
The more I searched the sadder I grew. I tried to peer through the fog to find just one clear answer, but saw only contradictions.
According to the truth/lies/rumors, Santa lives at the North Pole. But I don't know that that's even possible. From what I understood after a year of research, no one lives at the North Pole. Like Antarctica, teams of scientists visit to study things, but there isn't a single working address. The North Pole isn't even land, really, it's like floating sheets of ice that grow in winter and shrink in summer.
There is a semi-official Santa's workshop near the North Pole, in the Finnish town of Rovaniemi. But it seemed kind of like an amusement park, with no real elves.
Over and over, the elves seemed to be my biggest sticking point. Even if Santa was real, they couldn't be. I found an angry man who ranted for page after page (I had to keep clicking), saying that Santa had all the same words in his name as Satan, that they were both red with devilish laughs. He claimed that Santa was real, as were his elves, but he also swore they were demons. If Santa was real, he certainly wasn't evil, and the elves definitely weren't demons. They had to be made up. Like the reindeer.
Both the elves and the reindeer seemed like proof to me that the whole thing was fiction, a folktale that had grown wildly out of control as one lie stacked on another.
There were originally eight reindeer until some guy named Robert May made him up — get this — for a department store in 1939. Rudolph never existed until someone wanted to put him in a coloring book for Montgomery Ward's annual Christmas promotion.
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was invented to sell more holiday socks and underwear. The jolly old man's legend was noticeably tweaked a few years before Rudolph with the song Santa Claus is Coming to Town. Before then, Santa had no list, at least that I could find. Since then he had supposedly been splitting the world's children into naughty and nice, and apparently would for the rest of forever.
I'd spent a long year searching, and at the end felt more lied to than ever. I found site after site dedicated to perpetuating the lie, telling parents how to let their kids down easy, or if they preferred, giving them various ways to keep fanning their dishonest flames. I also found an equal number of sites full of people who did believe — kids with no reason not to, and grown-ups who had never stopped. And that was the oddest thing of all! There were grown-ups who had never stopped believing, claimed to still get presents, even if they lived by themselves (with or without a chimney).
I found countless versions of this same message:
Of course, he's real! But only if you believe. Santa will disappear forever the moment you don't. If you doubt, Santa knows, and tells your parents. He won't leave presents anymore after that. Your parents will have to buy your presents forever. Kids stop believing in Santa because they want to be cool. But once you stop believing, you can never go back to who you were.
I guess that was what kept me believing, a fear that I could never go back if I stopped. I wanted to believe, but I wanted to believe without feeling like a fool.
I crossed the final block to Mayfair Park, nose twitching like it always did when Hollis Dawson was around.
He looked up at me as I approached the fountain where he stood surrounded by Maya Pierce, who went to our school, and a couple of other kids I didn't know.
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"Can't I eat my cinnamon rolls, workout a bit extra, and still lose weight?" My mom once asked me.
Potentially. But it most likely won't leave you looking or feeling good.
There are people who play professional sports and burn up to 8,000 calories a day. They can eat as many cinnamon rolls as they want and still be lean and trim. However, they probably won't make that choice, but we'll get there. . .
Most of us do not spend the majority of our time running around a basketball court or training in the gym. If we are lucky, we get three good workouts in a week. That's maybe three hours (depending on the length of your workout) versus another 165 hours spent sitting at a desk, driving, watching TV, checking our phones, eating, and sleeping.
Notice that most of those activities take place in a seated or supine position.
Getting to the gym three times a week is great! If that is all you want or can do, good for you and keep at it! Many people thrive with this amount of time devoted to the gym.
But we must realize how these three hours relate to the rest of our lives, and make adjustments if necessary. If we have no regard to our nutrition or fitness for the other 165 hours, the scale can tip away from our health goals (depending on what those are).
Now let's go back to the professional athletes that burn 8,000 calories a day. Can they eat a ton of cinnamon rolls and stay lean? Probably.
But do they? Most likely not.
I recently heard John Salley interviewed on the Rich Roll Podcast. Salley won four NBA championships with three different teams in three different decades. So he's no joke.
He told a story on the podcast that I found very interesting. Towards the beginning of his career, he went out to eat before a game with another teammate. His teammate ate a healthy meal of vegetables, proteins, and complex grains. Salley got a burger and fries.
Fast forward a couple hours and Salley is struggling on the court. The coach takes him out and he sits on the bench next to the same teammate that he ate with earlier.
The teammate asks Salley how his burger and fries are feeling now, explaining that his body is working overtime trying to digest all the crap he just put it in. It's leaving no energy for the basketball game!
Salley is now an avid vegan and fuels himself with the best nutrition possible. One of my favorite quotes from the podcast is the following:
"If you're a professional athlete, and after the game you're eating at the same place that somebody in the audience is eating at? You're making a mistake."
-John Salley
So professional athletes can certainly eat cinnamon rolls or fried junk before a big game, but I would venture to say that the star players are not doing so.
My points are the following:
- We must be realistic about our work to nutrition ratio and how it relates to our goals. An hour in the gym does not equate to thousands of extra calories to be consumed if our goal is to lose weight.
- If we want our bodies to look and function the best, we must fuel it with the best food.
Everything is optional, and you can and should enjoy cinnamon rolls (or another tasty-treat) once in a while. But we must be aware of our actions and create a balance with our fitness and nutrition.
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Tonight at 6PM join us at the 21A with Javier Lopez for a silent auction of autographed SF Giants' baseball bats benefiting Hops for Heroes.
Also enjoy a Hometown IPA, an ale brewed for this event made with oranges and aged on donated unvarnished bats from Louisville Slugger™.
All proceeds from the sale of the Hometown IPA, a project of Hops for Heros, are donated to Operation Homefront, an organization that provides emergency financial and other assistance to the families of our service members and wounded warriors. A great cause.
See you tonight good beer people.
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First up today, we have three releases from a little known label named Cult. There's virtually no information I could find on the records themselves or on the internet, but my guess would be that this is a Germany based label and that the records were released somewhere between 1993 and 1995. I make that guess based on having found the record in German shops, one of the sellers of which claimed to have had the record in stock since it was released. Also based on the style: there's a mixture of breakbeat hardcore, happy hardcore, jungle, dnb, gabber/industrial hardcore, and a style which, frankly, I don't know how to classify. They also seem a bit faster than most of the hardcore/jungle that was coming out of the United Kingdom at the time, and considering that industrial music had a larger influence in Europe in those days, I'm led to believe the conjecture might be correct. There were three releases that I know of, each with the same design on the label, although a different color, and each beginning with catalogue number MZN. There may be other releases. I couldn't tell you.
The colors and catalogue numbers are as follows. I can only guess that they were released in order of increasing numerical order, but considering the catalogue numbers are so odd, again I can't be sure.
Black - MZN 3547/3548
Red - MZN 3841/3842
Green - 4049/4050
I can tell you however that I still remember the first time I heard the Red one, my introduction to the label. I was having a conversation on soulseek with Jahba and had to stop just so I could relisten and pay closer attention to what I'd heard. I enjoy both atmospheric and ragga jungle, but it's rare that I find them combined in such a way that they don't seem out of place. This was done perfectly and used a sample I was already familiar with, "Cool down the dancehall" from Andy C's tune. (This is not meant to insinuate that the sample was taken from Andy C's tune but merely to state that the sample is one and the same.)
There seems to have been a problem with some of pressings in that two of mine skip/jump horribly, so I've only recorded one side of the Green release, which does jump, but I liked the tune well enough to listen to it even with the faults. For this reason I include a copy of the Red record that I didn't personally rip as my copy jumps on one side. I imagine a wide variety of people will find tunes they both like and don't like in here, so hopefully at least one of them appeals to you.


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One of the biggest mistake car shoppers make is heading out to shop without understanding the car buying lingo Autel MaxiSys MS906TS. Knowing what the terms mean before you step onto the lot of NJ VW dealers can save you money, time, and even some embarrassment. Though you are unlikely to ever learn everything there is to car salesmen speak, you can learn the basics. This way you will be prepared when you head to the VW dealers NJ to shop for a vehicle. Begin with the terms directly associated with buying a car. Note that there is a whole other collection of terms in regard to leasing, so if you plan to lease, brush up on those. The Asking Price is the cost of the car listed on the sticker autel maxisys ms906. Sometimes the asking price is a little lower than the sticker due to a sale. In most cases, the asking price is just the jumping off point.
A Customer Incentive might be your main reason for visiting the dealership in the first place. This is a sale, rebate, special, or discount offered to a customer purchasing a new vehicle. Customer Incentives are often very lucrative and can save you a lot of money. The option package refers to the optional items you can pay to have added to your vehicle. This differs between different makes and models. It might include automatic locks, CD players, leather seating, heated seats, or special wheels. The more of these automatically included with your car, the better the deal you are getting.


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How do style caps?
Pardon all my candid face. Apparently when you're posing with a drink, you're ain't suppose to really drink it. Otherwise, the results you'll get are seen as above. Bad decision.
It was a hot Sunday afternoon, I think the outfit justified all. Comfort is top priority when the weather is 34~35 degrees celsius hot. As much as layering would be hipster enough, I shall pass. Recently I have been wearing caps a lot, because 1) they can shield me from the cruel sun; 2) they are easiest accessories to perk up the outfit; 3)
mostly because I need them to hide my unwashed second day hair. It is really the least effort accessory ever for any outfit, just find one to your liking, probably one with a cute logo or an instant catchline, boom, you're set to go.
Doesn't my cap says it all, I really need to remind myself the next time when I'm posing with food.


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The mighty Lord who owns the blade,
And acquaintance of old,
Will war long with the Lord self-made,
Where sun turns sea to gold.
The warrior maid with golden fur,
Will come and help them fight.
And even when strife is no more,
Lingers sorrow black as night.
Whoever hears and heeds this cry,
To march off into war,
The question is; Who will die?
Whose blood will stain this shore?
This is the first book in a trilogy called The Unsung Heroes
Book 1: The Warrior's Beginning (completed, rewritten version of Martin the Warrior (book)
Book 2: Four Warriors Cometh (in progress, rewritten version of Mossflower)
Book 3: The Prophesy Fulfilled (not started, rewritten version of The Legend of Luke)
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Let's all live to be 900, even if we die!
Ian was telling a bunch of people that he was on "Number Nine," so I asked him what was up. He told me: "I'm on Number Nine! See?" I saw a "Section 3" on his page, so asked him to point out where the NINE was - turns out he meant PAGE Nine in his Awana Skipper handbook, haha. Kids are hilarious! (he'll be seven in July) Here's an amusing exchange between Ian and Justin Au:
Justin: She (Hilary) is seven and a half, but I'm taller than her!
Ian: How old are you?
Justin: I'm seven! I am taller!
Ian: Do you want to be 900?
Justin: *thinks* No, I'd die by then! Do YOU want to be 900?
Ian: ... no. I don't want to die - I'll live forever!
After Awana, Sean cried because he felt his dad didn't give him a proper goodbye. Eventually, John said Sean could go with him since he had room in the car, although he was taking people home too! I'd given him half a Japanese cracker earlier - YUMMY MSG! (one little girl told me that she liked them, haha) In the car, Ian kept going on about healthy food and wishing he could buy Japanese crackers - he likes watermelon (my sister once ate a WHOLE ONE), grapes, and a bunch of other stuff. "I wish we could buy these crackers - maybe when we have little food at home!" Hahaha, of course Ada told him that she'd think about it!
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- TEDx Web Development: I do web for TEDxPurdueU and so far, that has meant maintenance work. I need to get in front of it, come up with an alternate look, and go from there, so we can toss the old and embrace the new. So, specifically, I want to have a front page that demonstrates my desired look. Plus, clear out backlog, and know to what extent we can run dynamic pages on the server.
- Food For The Heart: This is the "Do that work" mentioned in the previous. I have taken the visual plan from whiteboard to static HTML prototype. I need to look up and use an icon set, sprite or font, set it up for Bootstrap, and add some features.
- Main Work: I am convinced that my API design is stupid and needs redesign. I have moved the application code for APR into libraries, so I can change config in the main page and easily move between test and production. I need to move all the output from several pages to one, where the caller object says "operator_list" to the API core to get data rather than looking to ajax_operator_list.cgi
If you see me, feel free to ask me how I'm doing on my Big Three.


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Dambulla's Amazing Cave Temples
Many holy places have impressive locations, and the Buddhist Cave Temples of Dambulla, Sri Lanka are, without a doubt, uniquely located. Continue reading
The Day the Monks Hit the Lotto
Many people can count the amount of gold they own, well, on one finger. Add in earrings, necklaces, and a few bracelets, then maybe you're up to a couple of ounces. But imagine that you're doing a bit of reorganizing around the house and discover 5 tons of gold sitting in your storage room. Continue reading
Angkor's Ta Prohm: Made by Man, Unmade by Nature
A hot breeze rustles the jungle foliage, and birds flit about noiselessly. The jungle silence envelopes the ancient stonework, and even the normally chattering tour groups have lowered their voices. Continue reading
Angkor Thom: Cambodia's Last Khmer Capital
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Angkor Wat: The Crown Jewel of Cambodia's Ancient Capital
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Outlook / Exchange displaying multiple copies of sent messages
When using Microsoft's Outlook.com and Exchange platforms in conjunction with Close.io you may see multiple copies of the same message displayed in your Sent Items folder.
It's important to note that messages are not sent to recipients multiple times, they only appear in your Sent Items folder several times.
You can prevent multiple copies from appearing in your Sent Items folder by disabling email tracking (Settings -> Email Settings -> Disable Email Tracking).
This problem is caused by the inability to IMAP search for RFC822 Message-ID. It is also not possible to IMAP search for any custom headers, for instance the X-CLOSEIO-EMAIL-ID, written to each message. Outlook.com also rewrites all Message-IDs created by the client when sending the message.


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Naming your tool
Tool names should start with a verb
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Try not to use the verb "scrape". "Import", "search" and even plain old "get" are far clearer.
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QuickCode tools currently store data in SQLite databases.
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Button loading state
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11pp., 8vo. Unbound as issued: on three bifoliums attached at one corner with string. In good condition, lightly aged. Inscribed by Carey above the drophead title: 'Mrs. H. Tonkinson with grateful thanks for her work in connection with the Corps | B. S. Carey'. (See p.10: 'I cannot leave the subject without paying a tribute to Mrs. Tonkinson for her untiring and successful efforts as Honorary Secretary of the Committee.
1p., 8vo. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Robertson's name in capitals in blue pencil at head. In response to the invitation he writes: 'I should be grateful if you would convey to the Council my thanks for the honour which they have done me in extending this invitation. It gives me great pleasure to accept, and I enclose herewith the application form which you were kind enough to forward.' Note in pencil in another hand at bottom right.
1p., 8vo. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper. With printed text, headed 'PENSIONS', completed in manuscript. Recording payment to him of £8 6s 8d. Signature at foot of witness 'A Dickie'. Signed within months of Cochrane's death, and a little shaky.
On 4 x 9.5cm piece of paper. In fair condition, aged, and with rust staining from staple to left of signature.
The thirteen items bound in a modern grey buckram binding with shelfmark and label of the Board of Education Reference Library. The pamphlets in good condition, on aged paper, in worn binding, with last item disbound. Each pamphlet numbered in red ink at head of title-page, the first with a shelfmark. ONE: [John W. Noble; William T. Harris.] 'In the Senate of the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting A report of the Commissioner of Education upon the conditions of the public schools in the District of Columbia.' 15pp., 8vo.
The twelve items bound in a modern grey buckram binding. In good condition, on aged paper, in worn binding, with stamps, shelfmark s and labels of the Board of Education Reference Library, London. ONE: Presented by Wm. T. Harris. 'Report of the Committee on Pedagogics. The Educational Value of Manual Training.' A paper read before the National Council of Education, at Nashville, Tenn., July, 1889. 14pp., 8vo. TWO: W. T. Harris, Chairman; E. C. Hewett; John W. Cook; E. Oram Lyte; N. A. Calkins.
The bulk of Ross's papers is deposited in the Rhodes House Library at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The present collection derives from Ross's sister, Mrs Paterson.
2pp., 4to. On the rectos of the two leaves of a bifolium. Signed in type at end 'GRAHAM BOWER.' On laid paper with 'SOUTHERN CROSS | FINE QUALITY' watermark, suggesting, with the typographic style, that it was written during the period of that he served as Imperial Secretary. Very good, on lightly aged and creased paper.
3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. An important letter, in which the serving Chancellor of the Exchequer puts his position concerning slavery (a subject of extreme importance to the British Treasury), siding with a prominent apologist for the practice, James Walker, one of the commissioners managing the Crown Estates at Berbice.
Folio, 88 pp. Large fold-out coloured map at rear. Stitched. In original printed wraps. Text clear and complete. Internally good. Map in excellent condition. Wraps worn and chipped. Title-page carrying shelf-mark and stamp of the Bibliotheque du Palais de la Paix. No copy listed on COPAC or WorldCat.
Photographs: All black and white prints. The first (21 x 15 cm) a portrait of Waller (reproduced in Baxendale, p. 26, below). The second (23 x 17 cm) a family photograph of six Edwardian individuals, three younger ones (including a woman and with Waller at centre) standing, and three older men seated. The other six (all 14 x 8.5 cm and taken at the same time) showing Waller and family outdoors: one of him rowing, and one with a smiling woman (presumably his wife). Overall condition of the photographs is fair. They are lightly-aged, with a little creasing here and there.
12mo, 3 pp. Thirty-three lines. Text clear and complete. Fair, on lightly-aged paper, with traces of mount on reverse of second leaf, which is docketed 'C. Fane to G. Joy | 19 Augt. 1844'. A significant and interesting letter, on a topic later tackled by Dickens in 'Bleak House', by a judge who was an active member of the Law Amendment Society, and whose decisions, according to his entry in the Oxford DNB, 'were frequently the subject of comment', although 'very few of his judgments were reversed on appeal'.
On a piece of laid paper, roughly 14 x 9 cm. Good, on lightly aged and spotted paper. Reads 'Steph: Waller | (Eng. 21)'. Docketed in ink on lower part of same page: 'Flyleaf of Book from Library o Stephen Waller - 2nd. Son of Edmund Waller, the poet, and one of t Commisisoners appointed by Quee Anne on the Union between Scotland and England -'.
South African author and journalist (1898-1950), Public Relations Officer at the South African High Commission. One page, octavo. Very good if somewhat grubby. Docketed and stamped. 'Herewith the translation by a colleague, as asked for in your letter dated September 9. I hope "Here are South Africans" does not bore you too much!'
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Managed to get a boxed set of the BBC Wainwright Walks series for £20 this week, which includes the two Wainwright Walks series and the Coast to Coast and Railway Walks series. I wasnt as taken by the latter as I was the other three as the scenery wasnt as captivating but its a great boxed set.
The production of all of the series are fantastic and they are great to watch this time of year as plans are being made for the coming year. I even have them on my iphone to enable me to watch them on the train en route to the lakes.


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Cheesed off Chille Burger
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"This is a great burger that will be a hit at a BBQ or at a family meal. You must like hot food and if you don't like hot food you do not know what you are missing."
READY IN:30mins
YIELD:5 Burgers
Ingredients Nutrition
- 500 g ground beef
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon pepper
- 6 slices cheddar cheese
- 1⁄4 cup onion, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1⁄4 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon red pepper sauce
- 1 green chili pepper, chopped
- 1⁄4 teaspoon red cayenne pepper
- Mix all the ingredients together except the cheese slices and chiles.
- Shape the mixture into 10 thin patties, each about 10cm in diameter.
- Place 1 cheese slice and 1 tsp of the chiles on each of 5 patties.
- Then place the remaining 5 patties on top of the cheese and peppers sealing the edges of the patty's firmly so that the cheese and peppers are the filling of the burgers.
- Grill the patties on high heat, turning once, until they are cooked as desired.


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Does Telstra/Sensis just not get it or are they cunning? Musings on a phone bookPosted by Sabrina | Marketing, News | No Comments
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- stopping viewers from right-clicking and downloading an image. Well, yes, you can do that, but people can still click on Print Screen and grab an albeit low res copy of your image. However as I'm using WordPress, that little bit of javascript isn't compatible with my system
- using Digimarc digital watermarking. Again, there's the Print Screen option. And the truly devious out there know how to get around Digimarc should they download a Digimarc image
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I'm a voracious reader; anyone who knows me knows that. But sitting gathering dust in our garage are books we don't even unwrap any more until it's time to throw them away - our telephone directories the White Pages and Yellow Pages. We never read them; never need them. We moved them to the garage a few years back as they were cluttering up our miniscule living room, and there they have remained. At first we consulted them, but once they had a pile of gardening stuff on top of them it was easier to just go online than unpack the phone books. So these days if I want to find a specific person or business, I search online through the White Pages. I don't ring Telstra's 1234 service as it's too expensive. However, people, 1223 is a free directory assistance number from residential landlines on the Telstra network. Remember that and use it. Telstra doesn't promote this free service as they'd rather make money from you. If I'm searching for a non-specific business in a particular industry, I'll use Google. If I want a local handyman I'll firstly ask the neighbours who they used and were they happy with the result, or try the local newspapers. Re the newspapers, I'll then research the handyman on the internet to see what people are saying about him, if anything, or if he has a website I'll read it. If all else fails I'll use the Yellow Pages online. The one thing I don't do any more is read the print versions of the telephone directories. In an effort to win me back to these wonderful tomes that do duty in countless houses holding up broken bookshelves and other pieces of furniture, Telstra has issued our house with a mini Yellow Pages aimed at our section of Sydney. "Glovebox-sized," it markets itself hopefully. Poor thing, it gets no trips in our cars. My husband's glovebox is full of CDs and my old Golf doesn't even have one. Just some door pockets filled with rural maps and umbrellas. I did carry a "Glovebox-sized" Yellow Pages in the back of my car for while, and threw it out when:
- I discovered it was three years out of date
- I'd never used it
- It was covered in oil as my spare oil bottle had leaked
- If you're a business, do you spend your advertising budget on the Yellow Pages?
- Online and/or print?
- If so, do you believe you're getting value for money and the number of customers you want from that ad spend?
- Would you buy, at enormous expense, a large display ad if you're not one of the major players in your industry? (ie if you're competing against Canon Australia, or Harvey Norman, do you match their ad size?)
- Or do you use only Google adwords or a split between Adwords and the Yellow Pages?
- Perhaps you're promoting your business using a targetted Facebook ad campaign?
- Is the Yellow Pages actually relevant to your business?
equine thoughts, I grinned at James Jeffrey's Strewth column in yesterday's Australian suggesting that Labor go out in NSW with a bang and bring a horse into the upper house a la Caligula. If nothing else, it would raise the IQ in there. That's all.
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Francesca Capaldi is used to working with animals as the youngest cast member of Disney Channel's Dog with a Blog, a show about a canine who's the most tech-savvy member of the family.
In The Peanuts Movie, in theaters, the 11-year-old actress got to interact with another dog with personality — and an old-school typewriter — the one and only Snoopy. Francesca voices The Little Red-Haired Girl, the object of Charlie Brown's affection in Charles Schulz's comic-strip classic brought to the big screen.
"I wish Snoopy were real!" Francesca said last week from the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Miami. "I love him and how he dresses up."
Director Steve Martino (Horton Hears a Who!) does not concur.
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"If Snoopy would have been in our recording sessions we'd still be working on the movie," he said of the famed daydreaming beagle, laughing. "We would never have gotten anything done."
The fact that Francesca is also a little red-haired girl was pure coincidence.
"It was just happenstance," swore Martino. "I cast her purely on her voice. Then when she walked into the studio, I said 'Omigosh! She is perfect.'"
Francesca, who played a young Alyson Hannigan in How I Met Your Mother, found voice-over work a nice change from acting in the flesh.
"It was so much fun to be able to go in and record and not really worry about what you look like or what you're wearing!"
Being part of The Peanuts Movie, which follows the old gang including Peppermint Patty, Lucy, Linus, Pig Pen and Woodstock, was an education.
"I didn't know the previous history," Francesca said of the 65-year-old characters. "I know my parents loved it, but I didn't realize how popular it was. Now I know why. The characters are so lovable, and I love how Charlie Brown is not perfect."
Fifty-something Martino (Ice Age: Continental Drift) grew up with the comic strip and the TV specials but knew turning Peanuts into a full-scale production would require a special effort.
"That's what motivated all of us — the artists, the animators —we felt this was our opportunity to stay true to the legacy and show our kids, as well as a new generation, a film to see the characters we grew up with."
Especially Charlie Brown. After all, the lovable loser is the unlikely star.
"The wonderful thing about him is that he kind of represents the human condition," says Martino. "He's that voice for those feelings and thoughts we have inside but don't share, wondering, 'Will people like me? Will I succeed?' He puts it all out there in a funny way. That's timeless."


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Drawing, "Deeds of Jupiter, for a Ceiling", 1812
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Infant Jupiter cared for by nymphs Adrastea and Ida, in Cretan woods. One quiets an eagle, other raises hind part of goat, Amalthea. Bucolic characters assist nymphs while Bacchic characters in rear. Caption written in graphite above: nas [c]ita di Giove. Bottom: Leda leaves stream, looking at swan who flies away. Dragon lies in right middle plane, inscription: Leda. Pen sketch for forepart of goat. Top, in opposite direction: Jupiter, as Satyr, uncovers sleeping Antiope; inscription: Antiope. At left: Europa carried away by bull, accompanied by eagle. Bull and woman kiss each other; inscription: Europa. Beside are pen sketches. At left, head of the bull, at right, forepart of bull. At right: Danae seated upon bed receives the gold rain. Eagle shown at left; inscription: Danae.
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International Women's Day 2018 social media & office campaign, we've dedicated our screens & instagram to some of the wonderful women here at R/GA. Each of these incredible people have been nominated as having been an inspiration to one or many of their fellow colleagues.
Woman Up exists to champion female knowledge and wisdom. Launched in 2016 by R/GA London, the collective hosts talks and events, acts as a change-maker within the company and questions unconscious bias in every aspect of working life. Last year Woman Up won a big diversity and inclusion award from IPG for the positive impact they've had on the culture at R/GA London. In 2018 Woman Up has gone on to launch across the global R/GA network.
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Healthy Meal Prep FOR FIT BODIES: Pork Tenderloin
Try the lean protein with a tangy apple sauce, a hearty bean salad, and more.
Nutrition is half the battle for high-performers, and meal prep is a key strategy for achieving success. Takeout is often loaded with extra oils and high in sodium. And studies show that people who spend more time on home food preparation have a higher-quality diet. That's why we introduced our healthy meal prep series. The plans to follow support Equinox's nutritional pillars that functional food should be full of nutrients and free of added sugars to make you feel and perform at your best.
One easy way to meal prep is with a high-tech kitchen appliance that will do most of the work for you, which is why sous vide is ideal.
"Pork tenderloin is a very lean cut of meat, which makes it an awesome alternative to chicken breasts when you want something flavorful yet healthy," says Seattle-based chef Dana Tough of ChefSteps. "And it's a great choice for sous vide, since the machine lets you cook the protein at the exact temperature required so the tenderloin never gets dry or loses flavor."
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Prepare the sous vide pork tenderloins.
"With fattier meat, like steak or pork shoulder, it's best to sear it quickly in a hot pan after it cooks to develop a crispy crust. But with leaner cuts, like the tenderloin, I recommend searing for 20 to 30 seconds on each side before you cook it," says Tough. "This gives the pork more flavor as it cooks. Just heat a pan until it's very hot, then add the tenderloin and sear for 20 to 30 seconds on each side. Pop it in the sandwich bag to cook, and that's it."
Assemble all of the lunches and store in microwave-safe containers in the fridge. We recommend keeping each pork tenderloin in whole pieces until just before you assemble the meal at work to keep it as juicy as possible. START PACKING


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Pros and cons of dating coworkers
Still others require a signed contract or agreement, which stipulates workplace protocol to avoid conflicts of interest.
If not, could you transfer to another department or location?
Would you feel the need to find a new job elsewhere? Even with the risks, it's not uncommon for singles to form happy, lasting romantic relationships with a co-worker.
But is dating someone at work a fortunate turn of events or a disaster waiting to happen?
Office crushes sure make the workday more interesting—and give you the inspiration to dress a little sharper for that Monday morning meeting, too.
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The Seton Hall women's basketball team was ice cold from the opening tip on Saturday night.
The Pirates were never able to find their range and Creighton was able to take full advantage, as the Bluejays cruised to a 61-44 victory.
Both teams struggled shooting the ball to start, with the Pirates starting 1-8 from the field and 0-2 from deep. Creighton wasn't much better, going 2-8 and 1-3 from beyond the arc.
The difference in this one was Creighton's ability to snap out of its shooting slump, while Seton Hall stayed in its funk for the duration of the game.
Junior guard Sydney Lamberty had five points to close out the first quarter to help Creighton get going and the Bluejays took a 10-6 lead into the second quarter. Lamberty led all scorers with 23 points.
Seton Hall was able to hang around for a bit, as Creighton was still struggling from the field in the second quarter, but the Pirates trailed 24-14 going into halftime. In the first half, Seton Hall shot just 22 percent from the field.
Not all hope was lost coming out of the locker room, as the Pirates got off to a hot start and trimmed Creighton's lead to 26-19. From that point on, however, it was Creighton's game, as the team went on a 10-0 run to build a 36-19 lead while the Pirates still continued to struggle shooting the ball.
The Bluejays took a 45-26 lead into the fourth quarter, which was their largest lead of the night at the time. Seton Hall showed some signs of life early in the quarter, cutting Creighton's lead to 15, but the Bluejays responded quickly and took a 55-35 lead.
From that point on, Seton Hall didn't spark any runs, as Creighton maintained its 20-point lead throughout most of the fourth and emptied its bench with three and a half minutes left in regulation. The Bluejays' bench gave up some points in the closing minutes, but it was not enough for Seton Hall.
LaTecia Smith was almost able to notch a double-double for the Pirates but came up just short. She finished the night with eight points and 10 rebounds. Kaela Hilaire finished with eight points herself, but only shot 2-13 on the night.
Next up on the slate for the Pirates is a trip to Providence for a game on Sunday afternoon, where they will try to snap a five-game losing streak.
Tyler Calvaruso can be reached at email@example.com or on Twitter @tyler_calvaruso.


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By Luann Culbreth, M Ed, MBA, RT(R)(MR)(QM), CRA, FSMRT, FAHRA
September 2011–September is one of my favorite months of the year. Perhaps for a few reasons – it's still warm during the day, but cool at night and in the early morning, kids are back in school, hockey season will soon start again, good TV returns, and it's my birth month so I feel compelled to celebrate all month! I've heard others say they only acknowledge birthdays that have either a 0 or 5 in them, but I like them all. A sense of prerogative I guess. And since this year there's a 5 and an 0 I'm celebrating in wild style – a safari, that is. If you've been on one before, please send me some travel tips!
September is also a time the AHRA Board of Directors is focuses on the year ahead. The annual meeting in Texas last month was great, with a lot of education, energy, connections, fun, and networking. Now your newly elected board harnesses those dynamics and works toward synergizing the resources and needs of the organization. We had our first meeting together the day after the conference. Even after much line dancing the night before, everyone was at the table by 8:00 AM ready to work. You should know that you have a very engaged team representing the membership. We spent the morning reflecting on why AHRA is so valuable to each individual member. We focused on the role of the board and our responsibility to the membership as a whole. We talked about why AHRA matters and our big audacious goal to be the indispensable source of professional support, information, and shared knowledge for medical imaging leaders. We know there are challenges ahead, but we also know we're stronger together and commit to stay servant leaders of and for AHRA.
A question of significant strategic importance is: "What can be done to encourage greater member engagement and commitment in an environment where members may not support us because their organizations don't support them?"
One simple way to be connected is to make sure you have full awareness of and access to each board member. I'm not into governmental politics, believe me! But the AHRA board is investing your money into your future. Whatever the reason you belong to AHRA, it's an investment in your future. This year I'll use Link to highlight areas of our strategic plan and spotlight a board director each month. I encourage you to ask them what they're working on and how that matters to your future. Here's the basic structure of the board of directors:
- The AHRA board has 13 members: president (Luann), past president (Roland), president-elect (Carlos), finance director (Kevin), and nine directors-at-large (David, Ed, Cathy, Ernie, Terry, Janice, Jason, Russ, Peggy).
- The Executive Committee is comprised of the president, president-elect, finance director, two directors elected by the board, and the CEO (Luann, Carlos, Kevin, David, Terry, and Ed Cronin).
- The Finance Committee is comprised of the finance director, president, president-elect, and three appointed directors (Kevin, Luann, Carlos, Terry, David, Ed Yoder).
- The AHRA Education Foundation board has seven members: chair (Ernie Cerdena), vice-chair (Maureen Firth), finance director (Kevin), and four directors (Roland, Luann, Carlos, and Ed Morgan).
We're all listed in the member directory at www.ahraonline.org so please contact any of us at any time.
September also has very personal significance to me – it's National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. My sister, Karen, was diagnosed with Stage III ovarian cancer in July and had surgery nine days later at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. On the last day of the annual meeting in Texas Karen finally got home to Chattanooga, TN for six days. There are no words to describe the generous love and support from the AHRA family during this painful time. Your thoughts, prayers, hugs, words of encouragement, offerings of companionship, and shared tears mean so much to me. Karen is now back in Rochester, receiving chemotherapy and in a clinical trial at Mayo for the next eight months. Karen knows about you and as I sit here with her she wants you to know how grateful she is for your prayers and positive energy. They are making a difference. Her prayers for you are to be valued for your knowledge and expertise and be critical to the efficient and effective delivery of healthcare. A vivid description of best care for AHRA.
May you all have a great September to remember.
Luann Culbreth, M Ed, MBA, RT(R)(MR)(QM), CRA, FSMRT, FAHRA is president of the 2011-2012 AHRA Board of Directors. She is executive director of cardiology, medical imaging, radiation oncology at Saint Thomas Health in Nashville, TN and can be reached at email@example.com.


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The Schleich TWH model is a sweet, genuine model. I painted her a simple dark bay colour but also gave her a little snip. She is for sale, priced to sell at £16 plus £3.30 UK postage.
This warmblood I also finished. She is a gorgeous honey-like chestnut colour which I am really pleased with. She is priced at £18 plus £3.3 UK postage for those interested.
Last of all is this Shetland, almost like a one-trick pony, as he is balancing on his hind legs! He is really cute and his skewbald colour just makes him pop. He is for sale at £15, plus the £3.30 UK postage costs.


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Neil Tyson Tweets About Flat Earth saying it is Fine to Believe So Long as You Don't 'Ascend to the Head of NASA'.
Guess what, the Flat Earth debate is still hot underway! Just yesterday, Astro-Actor Neil Tyson tweets again, this time to no-one and everyone in-particular, basically that it's cool to think the earth is flat so long as you don't work for NASA. Honestly Neil, do you think Flat Earthers are seeking gainful employment with NASA? Even for a smart guy like you, that's a bit far-fetched.
Neil's tweet was followed up by a bit of coverage in the Huffington Post. Meanwhile, Bill Nye, was all the talk on NPR today as the poster boy for a "Science March" which is apparently needed in light of the current ideational climate. NPR also put an article on their website yesterday subheaded with the caption "In a New Anti-Science Era, Bill Nye Saves The World'. It seems the Socio-Political Scientism Engineering Mechanism is well under way. Nye, like Tyson, is actively campaigning specifically against Flat Earthers, such as in this article published just three days ago in which he flippantly "debunks" Flat Earth.
Tyson and Nye have become a one-two punch, a sort of Globe-Propaganda Duo.
The point to underscore here isn't necessarily whether the earth is actually flat or not, the point is to track this huge spike in socio-political bandwidth designated to debunk a relatively easily debunkable claim. If the earth is a globe, could NASA find some way to reallocate a small portion of their recently well-funded Mars expedition, to provide us lowly earthlings with some high resolution photos of various cities of the Southern hemisphere positioned upside down, or side-wise, as the case may be?
This would shut up a vastly growing trend of "anti-intellectualism" which mostly has received its fuel from those whom dove headfirst into debunking it.
*= Neil Tyson attributes the degree of pear-shapeness of the Southern Hemisphere in relation to the Northern Hemisphere as "greater than the distance from the top of Mt. Everest above sea level (29,000 ft ~ 5 Mi.), or in other words, greater than five miles. See how he left his answer open so as to be able to adjust for greater pear-shapedness? This is to allow for an update of the model as Due East-West Circumnavigational Distances at greater and greater Degrees of Southern Latitude become known.
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Homemade Seafood paste for dinner ...yummy yummy
(Seafood ball) - by Vonne VI
- 150g fish meat (debone)
- 80g prawns (without shell ,head and tail)
- 100g squids
- 60g onions
- 1 egg white
- 1 tsp + a pinch of salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1/2 tbsp oil
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 1/4 cup plain flour
- 1/4 cup potato starch
- Some onions spring
- Clean all the fresh meat. In a food processor add all the ingredients and blend untill become smooth and paste.
- Try the taste ~ by cook a spoon of the paste in a small pot with water and taste.
- You may add any of the seasoning above as your taste preferences .
- Keep the paste in the fridge for few hours before forms it to your desire shape and size using a teaspoon .
** you may cook it in soup or by frying as your preference**