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Wow, the last few days were filled to the brim with activities, costumes, birthday parties, with a giant side order of my sinuses fighting against me. This year has been one of the worst for me allergy wise and it sucks… big time! Some days are filled with migraines and sneezing while other days are congested and a big box of kleenex next to me. It's really put me behind on a few of my major goals for the season (work wise and personal wise as well) which is slightly, okay, super annoying, but it's life and I am rolling with it.
Last week, rocked in terms of birthday party madness! Both were art parties (totally my favorite) and has me so excited for X's party in a few weeks. I am in the process of designing the invites today now that I picked out a time (his first flag football game is the same day of his party so I have been in limbo with trying to nail down a time for the party, so it's game on now!). The to-do list for his party is growing by the minute which means lots of fun things for me to make, bake, and create. 🙂
Yesterday, was also the our annual Halloween card photo shoot! This year was probably the best shoot to date. The kids were both really into it (really that hardly ever happens), in fact when I said "I think we got it" the response was "NO! We have so more ideas!!!" How could I say no to that… so a few hundred photos later, I think we captured this year's Halloween costume's in perfect form. Now to edit and pare the images down for the cards along with a few that I am going to print to hang in the house with our Halloween decor.
Work wise the newsletter is going out later this week (sign up over in the side bar if you aren't already) peeks of new patterns along with a sneak peak of the Holiday series that will be going live in November. This week is going to be filled with sample sewing and instruction writing and hopefully, fingers crossed, at least one pattern heading out to pattern testers early next week.
It looks like it is going to be a very busy first full week of October and I wouldn't have it any other way!


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Qreative in a Qube
Damn, it's a bad sign when she starts in with that Q-stuff. I can just hear your minds churning that one around…
It's a fairly warm day here for the end of March: almost 60, with comfortable breezes blowing. It was a good day to run a few miles and let the winds blow some clarity into my mind again. The winter has been too long and severe.
First an update on The Book to Nowhere (like the road to nowhere, the bridge to nowhere, etc.). I write on it as much as my butt and my fingers can manage around the full-time job and the restlessness of my body (I've always struggled with calming my creative "monkey mind," and it seems to be tamed by releasing some energy from my now 50-year-old body). I really enjoy writing, and I think it's a better creative outlet for me than my painting (and maybe drawing). I'm not that good at painting, though I enjoy trying. I'm a hell of a lot better with walls than I am with canvases. The writing bit might surprise you with the nearly unedited brain farts you encounter here. Still, in my wildest fantasies I think, "I could enjoy doing this for a living!" So I write. We'll see in a few years if my work leads anywhere. I think the storyline is good, but it takes a long time to feel like any part is complete! Then I regularly go back and revise, and when the whole thing is done, I'm sure I'll start the revisions again. The story is sort of a skeleton with osteoporosis right now, with flesh maybe up to the knees (I'm working from the bottom up). Can't wait to get to the eyes. That would be the title.
In the meantime, my days and my monkey mind are in the Qube. THERE IT IS AGAIN! It's been interesting. My job can be a haven and rather peaceful, and the company I work for is good, though it's the creative Qreative in me that has been struggling for years to find a home there. It's still just a difficult spot for someone with ideas that need to get out, who has to sit there for hours and incubate those ideas (whether words or visuals). I try yoga in the AM–especially some balance work that forces me to focus or topple. I put on the headphones and listen to music sometimes at work, which seems to grab a part of my mind and tether me to one spot. Good thing. I do manage to get quite a bit of work done, and the analytical part of me forces order on the subjective nature of the work. A system for the Qube work allows the rest of my mind to fly free. And last of all, taking notes (or sending home cryptic e-mails) is helpful in saving my ideas for later. I guess this is the compromise that creative types have to make in a corporation.
There have been a few changes. A ways back I wrote about a co-worker, under whom I worked on a project, who had angered me by tattling on and blowing up over a step in a process that someone had pointed out was probably not kosher with company policy. This was a process that, months earlier, I had laid out in print per his request, he approved, and he sent a thank you note for the detailed document. Months later, he nailed me to the cross for what he'd approved…? Enough review. The man, with no apparent health problems, died of a heart attack a month ago. As you might expect, we were shocked. He tended to bustle around the department, baffling us with words with didn't understand, yet he lent some very positive vibes to the place as well: being very supportive of the workers who report to us, and often cutting through the bullshit at meetings to say exactly what needed to be said. We'd had "issues" in the past, so our work relationship was distant at first, but it became a healthy enough work relationship. I, however (in a feminine way, I bet), wanted to clear things up in words: "Are we all right? Have we moved on beyond the past now?" When I spoke with him for the last time before his death, we talked about Mexico (and why he's never going there) and dogs (and why he wasn't the dog-hater people might take him to be). It was a good conversation, and when I left his Qube, I swear I turned around five different times, ready to go back and ask him the questions I so wanted to ask. But I chose not to, because he didn't seem like the type of guy who would be comfortable with this, and I thought it would just embarrass him. So I went off to Mexico on vacation, and a few days after my return, I learned that he was never to return.
I spoke at his memorial. I sang his good points (he truly was a big presence in the department), and I mentioned (through sobs, dammit) the conflict inside me about wanting to make it all right (by the way, most people at the memorial admitted how difficult the man was to get along with, personally and professionally). That was one of the hardest things I'd ever done, admitting my failures with his family right there. However, his closest friend said that if he was laughing and joking with me, all was well. And the man would have HATED it if I'd have tried to patch things up in words. My gut was spot-on.
Turns out the man was also strongly devoted to his family. His entire paycheck went to send his kids to college, and he lived to write poetry. His poetry was excellent. Now I wonder how his mind had bounced around in his Qube all day…
And then there is my boss, about whom I've also written. She had a reputation for persecuting workers, and I found this to be true when it was my turn. Things slowly turned around (I can be an easy victim, but I rarely lose a fight afterward). Our relationship improved a lot, especially after she apologized to me for "the meanest thing (I've) ever done." (You know, there are so many awful ways in which "the truth will set you free" that it's worth tuning into the idea pretty often; run your daily experiences through that filter for a while and see what you fish out). It's strange that our relationship did improve, but it did…to the point that she is somewhat of a friend now. And lately I feel really sorry for her. I know she's longing for retirement, and that there is still at least one (professional) thing that she wants to accomplish at work. However, work is like a huge cyclone right now. Start with the vacuum created with the death of my co-worker, and add in an important new investor followed closely by the sale of the company. She (we) are now dealing with the world of lean agile scrumming in sprints with scrum masters, which is being forced like the square peg in the round hole of our work. It's hard to match that method up with content, compliance, and editing. We'll see what it goes. Anyway, bosswise, I'd be surprised if she didn't go home every day with a massive headache. Most of us go home with little Tylenol-worthy headaches on a daily basis now.
Soooo…I miss you guys and the world of blogging. I will write more ridiculous bullshit as time allows, and we'll see what happens when Le Book is complete.

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Were you wondering why hundreds of men were struttin' their stuff in high heels through the streets of downtown Sacramento? On Saturday, May 6, WEAVE hosted their annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event to raise awareness about the causes and effects of sexual assault. Walk a Mile in Her Shoes is a playful opportunity for men and women to bring attention to the issue of sexual assault in Sacramento and raise money in support of WEAVE, the primary provider of crisis intervention services for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in Sacramento County. Through a multi-disciplinary effort with Sacramento County, law enforcement, the Commercially Sexually Exploited Children Court, Child Protective Services, and the District Attorney's Office, WEAVE also provides 24/7 response, outreach, and services for victims of sex trafficking.
RSE staff wore some fabulous heels during the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event! Continuing with RSE's costume tradition, staff dressed up as superheroes for this year's walk, sporting superhero capes and face masks! Check out this video of RSE in action.


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Upcoming Events: Camara Edwards Presents The Summertime Unity Jam
Tomorrow, Thursday July 31st Camara Edwards Presents The Summertime Unity Jam 2014 @ The Waiting Room 66 E. Cherry st. Rahway Nj Doors open 6pm to 12am Music By DJ Shy. The Summertime Unity Jam Live Performances include Gabriel Marie, Flight Interrupted, Beats Bang Fame!, BilllzEgypt, Matt Koziol, The Phenom Cartel, and NJ Rebels. Come out and support 7$ for Guys and 5$ for Ladies.
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One of the biggest challenges in Enterprise SEO is getting organizational buy in. Without organizational buy-in, even the best SEO strategy can fail.
What is organizational buy-in?
Organizational buy in for enterprise SEO is getting the access, approval, resources, and prioritization to implement SEO changes in a timely manner.
Why does organizational buy in matter?
Without organizational buy in, SEO tasks will not be completed in a timely manner. Since SEO typically takes 3-12 months to start working, a lack of buy-in can push this timeline beyond 12 months.
For both consultants and an in-house SEOs, a 12 month timeline is usually not acceptable for most organiztions. Very few companies are willing to dedicate in-house resources and spend on SEO for 12 months before seeing results.
Without sufficient buy-in, the campaign will likely lack progress and result in the termination of the campaign.
Where to establish Organizational Buy-In
Organizational buy-in must be established from the C-Suite all the way through Engineering, Design, and Product.
Buy in starts with the C-Suite approving your SEO program, budget, and ability to exist in the organization. Afterwards buy-in must be established across all departments or individuals that are involved in the process of implementing SEO changes.
In some cases this can also include:
- Communications Manager
- Legal
- Project Manager
- Webmaster
- Content Manager
- Translation/Localization Manager
Each company operates differently so buy-in will be different in each scenario.
Buy-In can Sometimes Require Several People from the Same Team
In addition to needing buy-in across the main departments that are involved in website changes, you may also need to get buy in from multiple team members from the same department.
For example, the head of IT might approve SEO changes before you start, the engineering manager might assign the task to a junior developer, the engineering QA team approves the changes on staging, then another developer pushes the changes live. So in this case you need buy-in from 4 people from the IT instead of 1, and 5 people from IT are involved.
Imagine you need to get your SEO changes approved by product team, design, content, and engineering. Then you need several people to approve the work from each department. In this situation an SEO task that might take 2-5 days at a startup can take weeks to months in a large company.
This is why organizational buy-in is needed to be successful in Enterprise SEO. In enterprise SEO more time is usually spent on project management than on actual SEO tasks.
How to Establish Organizational Buy-In
A) Start from the C-Suite and Measure the SEO Opportunity
The best place to start is at the top of the chain of command. The best way to get strong buy-in for SEO is to make projections on revenue, traffic, or conversion from SEO. The bigger the SEO opportunity is for the company the easier it will be to get buy-in. It's important to make accurate projections. If these projections are inflated, it may help to get buy-in but this will backfire when the results fall short of projections.
B) Identify all departments involved with implementing SEO changes
The second step in establishing buy-in is to identify all the departments and individuals you will need to work with in order to get SEO changes implemented.In most cases the fewer the better.
While sometimes it may seem like best practice to coordinate with social media, email marketing, and other personnel, the reality is that depending on more people will almost always result in a longer turnaround time for SEO changes and a delay in campaign performance.
C) Bring all key personnel together to coordinate the process for SEO changes
Once all required personell have been identified, round everyone up for a meeting and go over the top SEO tasks that need to be done. Then develop the mot efficient process to get the changes implemented.
It's best to come to the meeting prepared with a rough draft of what you beleive the process will look like.
In the meeting, be clear about what needs to be done, and get firm time-frames for each step of the process. If you can estimate the number of days it will take at each step of the process then you'll have a clear timeline for the entire task.
D) [EXPERT TIP] Suggest adjustments to process and personnel
There will always be organizational inefficiencies that hinder delivery times for SEO changes. Sometimes there are too many people involved or too many changes of hands. Sometimes you may be working with remote employees, or a junior team member instead of senior or mid level team member.
Measure the Process, then aim to reduce it's basic components
Some methods to measure the efficiency of a process include the following:
- Turnaround time (in working days)
- Number of total steps
- Number of changing of hands
- Total number of people involved
Measuring these four metrics for each tasks will give you a baseline to measure efficiency. Then optimize the process for each tasks by reducing these metrics.
Do you have questions, comments, or tips on organizational buy-in? I'd love to hear your thoughts!


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Everyone has an ancestor who presents a challenge, a mystery waiting to be solved. One such ancestor for me is Charles Hawley, my great granduncle. In the summer of 1910, Charles seemed to drop off the face of the planet.
Today, I am going to share his story in hopes someone out there will be able to help me find him.
- John William Hawley born April 26th, 1887 in West Branch, Ogemaw, Michigan
- Charles Alvin Hawley born June 29th, 1889 in West Branch, Ogemaw, Michigan
- James Edward Hawley born February 3rd, 1892 in Ogemaw County, Michigan
- Joseph D. Hawley born January 10th, 1894 in Churchill, Ogemaw, Michigan
- Elsie R. Hawley born November of 1895
- Amanda M. Hawley born January 1898
- Sero Hawley born January 1st, 1900 in Cumming, Ogemaw, Michigan
- George Russell Hawley born July 29th, 1902 in Cumming, Ogemaw, Michigan
This is where I lose track of Charles. The only indication I have of his death is the obituary of his older brother Frank Hawley.
Frank's obituary states that he has two surviving siblings: Lavina (Hawley) Burt and William Hawley. The obituary does not make any mention of his younger brother Charles. This leads me to believe either the family has lost touch with Charles or he passes away before July 23rd, 1942.


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Lord how Can I Give Them Up
Lord How Can I Give Them Up?
Lord, can I give them up? They're part of my heart.
Lord,can I give them up to follow Satan's wicked way?
God reminds me they are making their own choice,
As an adult that I ,as a parent ,no longer have a say.
If you take them,don't send them ,to God's House ,
And you teach them of God's Love and His word.,
Then they know of His wonderful Love and Mercy
You have no blame ,they have seen and heard
Why do they reject God? Why do they turn away?
The force of Satan holds like a powerful band.
If we give him a chance to get to our loved ones,
He will try to steal them right out of our hand.
God's Power is greater ,no evil can harm them
When we' re holding them up to God in prayer.
With God's Love surrounding ,Satan finds defeat.
Pull them from God's Hands, Satan wouldn't dare.!
With all of the evil in this world now how many
parents the world over are crying over their
children now? many tears have been shed ,
many prayers have been sent up to Heaven,
and many sleepless nights have been spent.
We know that God gave man free will and there
will be some who are lost and will never come
back to God. When you are the parent and it
is your children who are lost it would be so
hard to even think about losing them forever.
Only prayer can bring them to repent.We
all need to pray !!
My Friend,
You never know how many hearts you touch in your Poetry. When God touches your pen, He knows when and
whom needs what! Just leave it in God's hands and keep on writing good Poetry. You have touched my heart many times. Your Friend Always, Tessie
I shall go check it out Thank you !
Give Thanks Clara. Thanks you also .
Lets hope that one of the good grand would somehow get it right and surprise you for the holidays .
The idea is to stand firm in the truth, in doing so, you have done your path.
Thanks so much Clara . You are so correct the way you put it yes they are quite hard to handle and that's why we are to be better and handling our ouw selves so that they won't be allowed to change us . But instead , they will harden their hearts and come to regret later , mostly all of the God fearing children have gone on the graduate and live the most beautiful lives ,It our duty to simply so them and don't l3t them change you. That will be two filled with excuses . Bless
"Good luck with your computer" they can be a pain.
Beautiful words , and Nicely put , we can never give on on prayers .I join with ann. train them that way always.
Train up a child in the way of the Lord, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Like the saying always goes Clara, "if you can just reach one". Keep shining your light Clara.
This is very timely. I have two at risk (one more so), and they both know better. The tide of our culture is strong. I almost went under myself. I always keep that in mind. Also,"Even when we are unfaithful, God remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself."
You are on fire. In the Lord, you never retire. Now you have me doing it.
Another great hub. I preached to a father today, a stranger I never before met. Do not be afraid, brothers and sisters, to preach where you feel the Holy Spirit move you.
Hub Pages, YouTube, blogging, the mall, the grocery market... anywhere and everywhere, the Holy Spirit knows what to do and has a desire for hearts to turn to God.


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Hollow Core Serves as Thermal Battery at South Carolina Schools
Oxford, NC
For the first time in the U.S., schools in Myrtle Beach, S.C., are adapting hollow-core planks for use as solid state thermal storage during construction of five new schools
Gate Precast's Oxford, NC, facility is producing 400,000 square feet of adapted hollow-core planks to function as "smart" floors for five schools in Myrtle Beach, S.C., while adapting them to serve as "thermal batteries" to support the facilities' HVAC system.
This is the first use of the innovative Canadian system in the U.S., and relies upon the planks' mass to store the thermal energy of the heated or cooled air. Designed by SFLA Architects of Raleigh, NC, the schools include Carolina Forest Middle School, Myrtle Beach Middle School, St. James Middle School, Sayebrook Middle School and Socastee Elementary School.
During the process, Gate is fabricating 10-inch hollow-core planks and utilizing the center three cores (of five) as ducting for the HVAC. The adaptation will allow the schools to use the planks as "thermal batteries," reducing the typical daily fluctuations in energy consumption. Subsequently, the schools will purchase more of their energy at off-peak times in order to "charge" the planks.
The intelligent energy management system balances the supply of energy while relying upon significantly smaller HVAC equipment. "They will pump the conditioned air into the cores and then circulate the air back and forth," said Gate Hollow Core Sales Manager Robert Kralowetz. "They are basically storing their heat or their cooled air in the planks. That cuts down on the mechanical equipment and the tonnage required to heat and cool the schools."
Gate wasinstrumental in providing design-assist as early as 1.5 years prior to project bidding. In preparation for the project's stringent design criteria and aggressive schedule, Gate installed three new 378-foot-steel form hollow core beds and purchased a new Ultra-Span Hollow-Core Power Plant and 10" Cassette providing the finest quality hollow-core plank finishes in the market while maintaining production levels to service the aggressive construction schedules. Gate is making critical in-plant modifications to the planks to accommodate the innovative system.
"The typical middle schools (Carolina Forest MS, Myrtle Beach MS, and St. James MS) have approximately 750 planks for a total of 85,000 square feet," Kralowetz added. "The modified middle school (Sayebrook MS) has approximately 650 planks and 73,000 square feet, and Socastee Elementary School has approximately 500 planks at 64,000 square feet."


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Vaccination Cup
Vaccination Cup
Vaccination Cup
Image by Sara Varon and Cup designed by Ayumi Horie
Porcelain 11 fl oz
For the longevity of your decal, please avoid the dishwasher.
Please note that cups are made to order. Your cup will ship within 3-4 weeks.
Pictured is the front and back of one cup.
Ayumi Horie
I conceived of this vaccination cup (drawn by Sara Varon) as a way for people to talk about science and what responsibility each of us has within society. My parents were born before many modern vaccines existed and began practicing medicine in the late 1950's/early 60's at a time when the vaccines for polio, measles, tetanus, and pertussis were coming into commercial use. Around the dinner table, I heard stories about a time when being free from these diseases weren't taken for granted and they treated patients which had diseases that are nearly eradicated now (but are on the comeback) I think my Japanese heritage drilled into me the notion of how personal responsibility contributes to the health of the whole community. I get the flu shot every year, not so much to mitigate the effects of the flu, but more importantly, so I don't pass anything on to the most vulnerable members of our community with compromised or developing immune systems.


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The 31st Annual Memphis Music and Heritage Festival isn't the only way to celebrate the soul of Memphis. On the first day of September, more than 150 arts organizations and businesses will gather in AutoZone Park for a different kind of party. Memphis loves its area code so much a new holiday is emerging — 9/01. To mark the occasion, New Memphis Institute is bringing back a free event called Exposure on 901-Day.
New Memphis wants to attract talent to Memphis and keep it here. They also serve people who are new to the Bluff City as a kind of engagement-oriented welcome wagon, helping new arrivals adjust and discover all the good stuff Memphis has to offer. Exposure on 901-Day is an opportunity for newbies — and everybody else who's ever wondered how they might engage with their community — to get involved with everything from performing arts to animal rescue.
"We believe in making Memphis magnetic — for newcomers and longtime Memphians alike by creating connections," New Memphis communications specialist Anna Traverse explains. "That's why we make it possible for people to connect with the city in a multitude of ways at Exposure."
The event kicks off at 6 p.m. with entertainment by the Beale Street Flippers, the Grizz Drumline, and more. The main event is a Memphis celebrity kickball game. Engagement is the name of the game, and the overarching goal of 901-Day exposure is matching people with the kinds of places, things, charitable causes, and social opportunities they love. Organizations in attendance range from ArtsMemphis and Opera Memphis, to Project Green Fork, Explore Bike Share, Stax, WEVL, the YMCA, and the NAACP.
"We found, to our delight, that lots of longtime Memphians were eager to get involved in and enjoy Memphis life," Traverse says.
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The hidden venues of Piran, The town "made of salt" & Sečovlje salt pans
Upon arriving, explanations will be given about the organic development of the town tissue; framed by no less than three subsequent and larger town walls, among which the last two are well visible. We are going to see the church of Saint Rock and learn more about the epidemics of plague in the Middle Ages. Hear the story about the virtuoso violinist player Giuseppe Tartini and his devilish dream.
Enter the municipal building to see the original canvas of Tintoretto, representing the Town Fathers, and see the former measure system (measure sticks and quantity measures stone). Uncover the narrow passage that leads to the Jewish square. Notice the old olive press. Follow us to the convent of the Franciscans with an outstanding white Istrian stone courtyard from the early 17th century.
Excursus: In the friar's library stands out a rare incunabula, a text book of astronomy "Tractatus de Sphaera" by Giovanni Sacrobosco (John Hollywood).
On the pavement of the church there is the tomb of the noble Tartini family. In two chapels in the north aisle you can see decorative "grotesque" carvings on the architectural frames and quality old Italian paintings. Enjoy the view from the terrace above the town in front of the church of Saint George.
Excursus: Inside the baptistery, closed most of the times unfortunately, a very remarkable stone block, part of a roman funeral monument – maybe from ancient Tergeste – with the rare image of an Eros riding a dolphin is kept; the chiseled out monolith was turned into the baptismal font.
Imagine the times when the Adriatic Sea was the highway and the magnificent theatrical scenery of the early baroque church façade, placed on a high arched pedestal was inviting the travelers to come into the proud and once glorious maritime republic of Piran.
Excursus: Tartini was also a writer of a musical treaty: the theoretical foundations of his work was the platonic theory of mathematic harmony, mediated by the music theorist Gioseffo Zarlino .
Sečovlje salt pans: the loving union of the sun and the sea gives birth to the flower of salt
We are going to visit the salt museum in the Sečovlje (Sicciole) salt pans and find out about the intricate procedure of salt making with the aid of the summer heat. Black organic mud (petola) brought by the Venetians from the island of Pag in the 14th century is (nowadays as in the past) the secret of pure white salt. Before this technology was implemented the extracted salt was rather turbid.
If we emphasize the poetic aspect of natural philosophy, the mud and the sea water are the all present prime matter needed to start the process. The heat of the sun enables the sublimation of the sea water and its coagulation: the water gets thicker and salinity increases. The final product is the precious white salt; the best quality of it is called the flower of salt because it floats on water.
Isn't it a "cosmic agriculture" that we are describing in which the earth, the sea and the sky all collaborate to generate the pure "child", the artificial gold? And indeed salt was a very precious luxury (roman soldiers were given a "salary" in salt) and smuggling it a means of livelihood for many. The agricultural metaphoric was used also by the "salineri" – the salt makers, when they would say that the product was ready to be "harvested", and so they confirmed the unity of natural principles on the earth and on the sea. We continue the tour with the visit of the typical farm house "Tonina hiša" in Sveti Peter (some say the house is 400 years old) with an olive press in the basement.
Excurse: In alchemy the salt (you see it's simbol on the left) was one of the three base elements, symbolizing the body; the other two were Mercury – the spirit and Sulfur – the soul).
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- Tartini Square
- Tintoretto painting with Town Fathers
- Jewish square
- Franciscan Monastery with the tomb of the Tartini family.
- Church of sait George
- Fontanige, disused area of Sečovlje salt pans with the museum of Salt-making
- Centuries old farm house "Tonina hiša" in the village of Sveti Peter
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Krkavče stone monolith with the carved image of a figure with a halo of rays, probably an image of the Roman god Sol Invictus (Unconquered Sun)


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f.a.q.'s > All Questions > Some concierge practices also include multiple tests such as screening blood tests, electrocardiograms, stress tests, chest x-rays and breathing tests as part of the annual fee. Why don't you do that?
Some of these tests are not on the list of recommended screening tests put out by various organizations, and others that are indicated certainly don't need to be done annually. As noted above, I choose to instead follow published guidelines for preventive medical care and therefore only recommend screening tests that are medically-indicated according to these guidelines.
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Table of Contents
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Statement of the research problems
1.3 Aim and objectives
1.4 Scope of study
1.5 Significance of the study
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Water resources of Nigeria
2.3 Water management practices and policy in Nigeria
2.4 Household water demand
2.4.1 Water price
2.4.2 Cost of water collection
2.5 Water Supply Scenarios
2.6 Household use of domestic water
2.7 Average water consumed by household
2.8 Time of collecting water
2.9 Water scarcity and its associate problems
2.9.1 Problems associated with water scarcity
2.9.2 Water crisis and causes
3.1 Study Area
3.1.1 Location of the study area
3.1.2 Relief and drainage
3.1.3 Climate
3.1.4 Soil
3.1.5 Vegetation
3.1.6 Occupation and people
3.2 Methodology
3.2.1 Reconnaissance survey
3.2.2 Type of Data
3.2.3 Sources of Data
184.108.40.206 Primary Sources of Data
126.96.36.199Secondary Source of Data
3.2.4 Sample Size and Sampling Techniques
3.2.5 Methods of Data Analysis
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Socioeconomic characteristic of respondents
4.3 The analysis of water demand by household
4.3.1 Source of water supply for domestic use in Ilorin Central
4.3.2 Distance to Water Sources for domestic uses in Ilorin Central
4.3.4 Water collection responsibility among household members in Ilorin central
4.3.5 Mode of Payment for household water services among Respondent in Ilorin Central
4.3.6 Amount Paid for Water services Among households in Ilorin central
4.3.7 Time taken to get water services by households in Ilorin Central
4.3.8 Water storage by households in Ilorin central
4.3.9 Method of Storage of water among respondents in Ilorin central
4.4 Analysis of water supply by water board
4.5 Factors affecting water demand and supply
4.6 Relationship between water demand and supply
5.1 Summary of findings
5.2 Conclusion
5.3 Recommendations
Water is one of the basic human need and imperative for sustaining quality of life on earth. However, its unbalance and unmanaged used make it scarce. This study analyzes the Domestic Water Demand and Supply in Ilorin metropolis, Kwara State. Focuses on the analysis of the sources of water resource in Ilorin, assessing factors affecting water demand and supply and their relationship. The methodology involve the use of questionnaires and interview method to gather necessary information from the state water Board and result gathered from the study area. The study was carried out through the use of structured questionnaire which was administered. Two hundred and fifty (250) questionnaires were filled correctly. On the part of water Board questionnaire were correctly filled and returned. Random sampling was employed. The questionnaires were used to solicit information from a sample of respondents. The analytic techniques involve both the descriptive and inferential statistics such as frequency distribution, sample percentage and correlation analysis. Therefore it was deduced from the analysis that consumption and supply are 124.0 liters and 190.2 liters respectively per person per day. The conclusion from the result of correlation coefficient (1.9996) that there exists very high positive linear relationship between the household water demand and water supplied by the kwara State Water Board. The women and children are particularly vulnerable when water is short supply. Bursting of pipe, poor management, topography of an area, water wastage coupled with bias in water supply have been some of the factors influencing water supply. The study recommends that there should be concerted effort by both water users 9demand) and supplier to control water wastage so as to achieve the goal.
Water is essential to life and its supply, consumption and spatial distribution are closely
associated with economic growth and the development of society. Apart from air, water is indispensable to life it is a foundation for human prosperity because adequate and high quality water supplies provide a basis for the growth and development of human social, economic and culture of people (Ward, 1975, Young, 2006). The importance of water to man cannot be overemphasized, it holds the most important benefit to man"s sustenance beside shelter, food and clothing (Ajadi, 1996)
According to Amin and Mahmud, (2011) it is recognized all over the world that water is a vital resource to human existence and that is a major factor in commanding the progress of civilization.
Water is essential in sustaining quality of life on earth, the sustainability of socially sensitive goods such as water depends on effective and efficient use of available water resources. Amin and Mahmud, (2011) also reported that the extensive use of water has increased globally and the efficacy of supply side measure is questionable owing to drastic increase in population, technological advancement and economic growth; the demand for water supplies is continuously increasing, numerous researchers have emphasized on water demand management rather than the supply side management. The water demand study in relation to water supply enables us to estimate how much the increase in demand for water supplies.
Water demand is the quantity that the treatment plant produce in order to meet all water needs in the community. Water demand includes water delivered to the system to meet the need of consumers, water supply for fire fighting and system flushing. On the other hand water supply refers to system for the collection, transmission, treatment, storage and distribution of water Admassu M. (1996).
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Rohingyas are facing a genocide in Myanmar (Burma) where they live in the south west state of Rakhine (along the sea coast and bordering Bangladesh to the west) constituting an overwhelming majority of the inhabitants in the northern part of the state and a majority of the people in the state if those who are forced to flee are taken into account. Myanmar Army and Buddhist gangs patronized by the Army are killing people, raping women and burning whole villages. Myanmar Army is even shooting dead the people who are crossing the border with Bangladesh and has mined the border crossings. The unprecedented scale of violence against Rohingyas has forced nearly one million of them out of Myanmar, nearly 370,000 since August 25, 2017 when the current round of violence against them was unleashed by the Army. The scale of military action against Rohingyas clearly proves that this is aimed at ethnic cleansing.… Read More


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30,000 Australian Muslims Pray To End "Worst Drought In Living Memory"
About 30,000 Australian Muslims gathered in Sydney on Wednesday to pray for an end to what has been called the "worst drought in living memory".
Worshippers from 16 mosques came together "in a show of solidarity and unity" with farmers and others affected by the drought, reports the BBC.
The event took place to mark Eid al-Adha, also known as the Festival of Sacrifice.
A fundraising campaign is also being held for affected farmers.
The event was organised by the Lebanese Muslim Association (LMA) at the Lakemba Mosque in western Sydney.
"As one Australian family, we all need to do our part and stand in solidarity with those who are in need," said Samier Dandan, the president of LMA.
LMA director Ahmad Malas told the BBC that the atmosphere at the event was "very positive".
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Salute Your Shorts is an American comedy television series that aired on Nickelodeon from 1991–1992 and in reruns until early 1999. It was based on the 1986 book, Salute Your Shorts: Life at Summer Camp by Steve Slavkin.
The series, filmed at Franklin Canyon Park and the Griffith Park Boys Camp within Griffith Park in Los Angeles, was set at the summer camp Camp Anawanna. It focuses on teenage campers, their strict and bossy counselor, and the various capers and jocularities they engage in.
The title comes from a common prank campers play on each other: a group of kids steals a boy's boxer shorts and raise them up a flagpole. Hence, when people see them waving like a flag, other kids would salute them as part of the prank.
- Kirk Baily — Kevin "Ug" Lee
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- Michael Bower — Eddie "Donkeylips" C. Gelfen
- Venus DeMilo — Telly Radford
- Tim Eyster — Sponge Harris
- Heidi Lucas — Dina Alexander
- Erik MacArthur — Michael Stein (Season 1)
- Blake Soper — Ronald "Ronnie" Foster Pinsky (Season 2)
- Danny Cooksey — Robert "Bobby" Budnick
- Steve Slavkin — Dr. Kahn
- Christine Cavanaugh — Mona Tibbs
Salute Your Shorts was a relatively unique show for Nickelodeon at the time, as most of its scenes were shot on location. As Camp Anawanna was purely fictional, producers filmed the show at several locations around the Los Angeles area. Scenes involving camp activities, such as baseball and basketball, were shot on location at the Griffith Park Boys Camp within Griffith Park. The lake that was frequently seen on the show was located at the William O. Douglas Outdoor Classroom in Franklin Canyon Park. Interiors were shot on sets.
Main article: List of Salute Your Shorts episodes
Season 1: 1991Edit
After the pilot episode was picked up for a full season, all of the actors had to reaudition for their roles.
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- The Treasure of Sarah Madre
- The Environmental Party
Season 2: 1992Edit
- Telly and the Tennis Match
- Goodbye Michael, Hello Pinsky
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- The Cursed Skull
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- Budnick Loves Dina - Part 2
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In March 2010, six episodes from season two became available for purchase on iTunes, Amazon.com, and Zune marketplace. In August 2010, six episodes from season one became available for purchase on each place. Six episodes are also available on Media Go.
It aired on October 7, October 28, November 4, and during Thanksgiving week of 2011, also aired on January 1, 2012 and on March 23-March 25, 2012, as part of TeenNick's new "The '90s Are All That" program block, which features Nick shows from the 1990s.
- 1993 — Best Young Actor Co-starring in a Cable Series — Young Artist Awards (Michael Bower)
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"For this reason I say to you, do not worry about your life, as to what you will eat; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them; how much more valuable you are than the birds!And which of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life's span? If then you cannot do even a very little thing, why do you worry about other matters?Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.But if God so clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you?"
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Suzu Ueshige is a second year at Himematsu High. She previously played the vice captain role but switched to playing vanguard. When she fails the goals set by Kyouko Suehara, she has her forehead written on as punishment.
Suzu has dark hair tied into pigtails with two red ties and dark blue eyes. She wears a standard Himematsu uniform. Her most distinguishing characteristic is her bare forehead and is sometimes written on by Kyouko Suehara.
She worries a lot about her opponents moves and actions during her play, however, she soon sheds this carefulness and becomes confident in her abilities once they activate. In her freshman year people tended to bully her. It is hinted that she is close with Kyouko.
Playing Style / Abilities
While playing with Himematsu's rules, Suzu is considered a weak player and is always in last place. However, according to Suehara, if the match is simple and only counts incoming points, she is very skilled, even coming in first. Also according to Suehara, she plays and wins explosively, and has the ability to win "explosive" hands, especially when she is playing against stronger opponents. However, the opponents she can explode against are very vague; against clear-cut powerful opponents, she will explode, such as against Satoha and Sera, yet did not explode against Shiromi or Yuuki who are also both powerful players. Yuuki was warned to be careful when Suzu starts winning with 7-8-9 tiles.
Unfortunately for Himematsu, the national's qualifying and quarterfinal matches were misfires, as Suzu did not win "explosively." However, in the semifinal's vanguard match, she won with a baiman, taking Himematsu into second place. Afterwards, it is revealed that when "her fuse has been lit" her hands lean towards terminal and honour tiles, (with Yuuki being warned about Suzu's 7-8-9 calls). It is speculated by Hiroe that Suzu's draws became better in the South round because Satoha was about to go on the offensive, backing up Suehara's claims that Suzu gets stronger as her opponents do.
When her fuse is lit, she goes on a winning streak comprising of relatively high paying hands (often leaning towards chanta and junchan tiles), eventually reaching expensive hands comparable to that of Yuuki's closed-riichi hands in the East rounds, being iishanten for a yakuman on the first discard. However, she has been advised to taking the cheaper win in order to win if it comes along before her expensive hand; and does so especially when she takes into account that she'll get crushed by Satoha if she gives Rinkai's ace that chance against herself. If someone else wins during Suzu's renchan, her fuse is stopped, but this only delays the explosion, according to Suzu.
In the Zenkoku-Hen video game, and in the Match for 5th, her explosion included 6-7-8-9 tiles, greatly widening and adding versatility to her, allowing her to go for tan'yao or junchan hands.
National Tournament Arc
Suzu is first seen along with the rest of Himematsu watching Kiyosumi's match on the waiting room television, with her exclaiming that " the braided one has stupid luck".
A few days later her team advances to the second round against Kiyosumi. At the start of her match she begins to remember the briefing she got from Suehara. She must first pay attention to Yuuki Kataoka then the others, but it doesn't help as Yuuki quicky wins. With Yuuki continuing to take points, she laments the goal Suehara set for her ( to stay within 30,000pts or be punished). When Yuuki declares that she will make sure the second round doesn't happen, Suzu is surprised and doubts her, saying that she would be the strongest monster if she could do it. She then gets won off of by Yuuki twice in a row, then when Miyamori's Shiromi Kosegawa makes a move, Suzu remembers the briefing on her. After this Komaki Jindai announces that she has been asleep and will play to her best, much to Suzu's shock. When the situation seemed grim, Jindai plays into Suzu's hand and gives her her first win to her delight. We then see a flashback were it was Suehara that recommended her for the regular team but doesn't want anyone to know. At the end of her match, she was in last place and missed her goal by 600pts.
When everyone leaves,we see Suzu trying to sneak into the waiting room but is caught by Suehara. She then apologizes for losing so many points.It then looked like she was going to get a lesser punishment when Suehara forgot her perminant marker. But Akasaka Ikuno gives her one to complete the promised punishment. She is later shown before the start of the vice-captain match. When Kinue Atago kicks etopen, Hiroe Atago says she use to be a goal keeper in middle school. Suzu then says that even still she shouldn't just kick something. After Kyouko managed to place second, Suzu and the rest are shown welcoming her back. After Yoshiko Kainou is introduced, she and Yuuko Mase get excited and ask her about the legends surrounding her mahjong career.
Final Eight Arc
On the day of the semi-finals, Suzu comes prepared to face Yuuki's closed expensive hands, however, she is surprised when Yuuki begins opening her hand, focussing more on speed than point totals. When Rinkai's ace and vanguard, Satoha Tsujigaito joins in the offensive play, Suzu becomes even more wary, and they go through several exhaustive hands before Yuuki declares riichi yet again, however, when Suzu and Usuzan's Naruka Motouchi play safe, they end up playing into Satoha's hand, ending Yuuki's renchan.
However, undeterred, Yuuki begins calling tiles again, taking control of the game through speed, blazing through the East round right into the South round. In the very first South Round, Suzu's ability activates for the first time in the National tournament, and she wins with a baiman, taking Himematsu to second place, above Rinkai.
It is revealed that once her ability activates, Suzu will go on a renchan of her own, waiting for another explosion to happen; when this occurs, her hand will tend to consist of 7-8-9 and honour tiles. She does go on a brief renchan, overtaking Kiyosumi for first, but it is ruined as she is about to win with a potential yakuman when Satoha purposefully calls tiles to give more draws to Naruka and take tiles away from Suzu, causing her to play straight into Naruka's non-riichi haneman.With the end of Suzu's renchan, Satoha's east turn appears, and everyone at the table is wary of Rinkai's ace, who proceeds to go on a renchan knocking Himematsu into third, and taking Rinkai to first place. In the third bonus hand of Satoha's renchan, Suzu remembers that Yuuki Kataoka gave up her big hands to win quickly and recalls that Kyouko and Hiroe told her to do the same before. With this in mind, Suzu then gets off another explosion, taking them to second place. The rest of the vanguard match is unseen, however, it can be assumed to have turned into a violent match between Rinkai and Himematsu.
Back in the waiting room, Suzu was getting praised until Ikuno reminded everyone that they had gambled that she would stay withing 30,000 pts of the leader. She then closes her eyes not wanting to see what happens next. However she notices that it was lipstick used on her forehead and opens her eyes. When looking at the drawing she mistakes a victory flower for a crab cake.
During the Lieutenant's match, Suzu and the others discuss how Hiroe is planning on winning some points, either blocking Hisa's way to second or making Usuzan bust.
National Championship Arc
After all the participants gather in the arena and greet each other, Suzu and the other vanguards sit at the table as the match begins. In the first hand Usuzan's Naruka Motouchi calls a daburii during Suzu's dealership. and Suzu says if she plays into it, it'll just be chance - and she does play into the baiman. Unknowingly to her, Senriyama's Toki Onjouji allowed her to play into it by not calling an exhaustive draw. Suzu calls tiles in the next round, in an attempt to get back some points when Toki declares riichi, knowing she has one of the highest ippatsu rates in the country, Suzu calls again to cancel it; despite this, Toki still wins with a haneman. In the next round, Toki declares riichi, and Suzu wants to call to drop the ippatsu but cannot call any tiles allowing Toki to win with a dealer haneman, everyone thinks that if Toki continues, there will be no stopping her, and Suzu's fuse lights.
In the next hand, Suzu achieves tenpai but decides not to declare riichi, given her wait and yaku are poor. However, Toki quickly wraps up the hand before Suzu can change her wait and declare riichi. She quickly wins the next hand with a haneman tsumo and then remembers Suehara's advice against Toki. If she's in iishanten and declares riichi the same turn she reaches tenpai, it's much easier for Toki to shift the draws because she will see Suzu declare riichi with her future sight and prevent Suzu's tenpai. Conversely, by waiting a turn after achieving tenpai to declare riichi, she can throw off Toki as after achieving tenpai, she can call riichi at anytime, and it may be beneficial to have Toki ruin her hand at an attempt to prevent Suzu's win. Suehara also advises Suzu to consider chiitoi much more heavily, and in the next hand, she wins a direct haneman off of Naruka, with a 2-pin chiitoi wait allowing her to jump to second place over Usuzan.
Things go awry for Suzu during her dealership, Kirame and Toki begin collaborating together, with Toki purposefully giving Kirame tiles to call on and skip Suzu's turns, give Kirame a 2000/3900 tsumo, increasing the distance between Himematsu and Senriyama due to the dealer penalty. Kirame's win also ends Suzu's last dealership.
After the match she apologizes to her team.
- Suzu is probably a reference to the main character of the manga/anime Jarinko Chie. Chie lives in Southern Osaka and has a similar hairstyle (including the red tie). The character tables in the 14th volume reveal that Suzu's father owns an Okonomiyaki shop. Chie's father owns a Horumon shop where Chie works, serving also Bakudanshu/Poktanju - literally "explosive sake". An Okonomiyaki shop is featured prominently in Jarinko Chie as well.


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I am trying to write a custom management command in django like below-
class Command(BaseCommand):
def add_arguments(self, parser):
parser.add_argument('delay', type=int)
def handle(self, *args, **options):
delay = options.get('delay', None)
print delay
Now when I am running
python manage.py mycommand 12 it is printing 12 on console. Which is fine.
Now if I try to run
python manage.py mycommand then I want that, the command prints 21 on console by default. But it is giving me something like this-
usage: manage.py mycommand [-h] [--version]
[-v {0,1,2,3}]
[--settings SETTINGS]
[--pythonpath PYTHONPATH]
So now, how should I make the command argument "not required" and take a default value if value is not given?
One of the recipes from the documentation suggests:
For positional arguments with nargs equal to
*, the
defaultvalue is used when no command-line argument was present.
So following should do the trick (it will return value if provided or default value otherwise):
parser.add_argument('delay', type=int, nargs='?', default=21)
$ ./manage.py mycommand
$ ./manage.py mycommand 4


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Thousand of homes have been left without water for days due to problems caused by extreme weather. Can affected customers claim compensation from their water supplier?
Around 20,000 homes supplied by Thames Water were left with no running water, and a host of other water companies across England and Wales have reported problems.
Thames Water, South East Water, Southern Water, Affinity Water and Staffordshire Water have all urged customers to limit water use to essentials.
Yes. Water companies abide by rules regarding service and compensation set by Ofwat, the regulator in England and Wales.
It is possible to claim compensation for a number of problems including extended periods of time spent without water, multiple periods of low water pressure, complaints not being dealt with in a certain time frame and appointments not being kept.
Water companies must give 48 hours notice for planned outages of more than four hours.
However, when there are emergency interruptions as is happening now due to burst pipes or other factors, different rules apply.
If a burst water main causes the outage, the supply must be restored within 12 hours of the company becoming aware of the problem. If its a strategic main pipe that has burst, it must restore the supply within 48 hours.
According to Citizens Advice, the water company must also take reasonable steps to let you know where to get an alternative supply and when it plans to restore the supply. It must also provide a phone number where you can get more information.


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Spring is here. I do not have any news .. like air, The sun is sparkling. Before I left the house, I was thinking whether I should wear boots or shoes. I wore my shoes. I was very surprised to see those wearing sandals. Is it summer? Spring mean, energy, movemen, Spore , Healthy nutrition, diet. Less internet, more clothes, more travel.
Today post miniature.
Miniature is a very separate art branch. I admire your artists. Mine is just a temporary request. I made a few little tiny witches. How is it?
I can tell you how to use yarns to correct the edges of my fabric. I used it to make bird nest. I use it to make superges of my little witches How do you use it,
I used the remaining ribbons that I used in wrapping gifts to make my hair witch. There is a thread on the edge of the ribbon that allows easy thread. I found that thread and pulled it out..
This is the hair from the ribbon.
Bird nest ribbon ripped thread. Colorful hair from colorful ribbons. How does it sound good? You have ways to make curly.
My witches, the pins of old clothes hanger.
I am very glad to see the wood objects used on the internet instead of the pins of the hangers. Except for wood nativity. I could not remember their names. Prices were cheap. These woods by name are very useful. I've used some of it to make thread here before
Clothes and hats easy. A hat, a circle and a triangle. Two rectangular pieces for clothes.
No need to tell me how successful I am in terms of facial eyebrows. The next post on simple lace sewing a blouse.


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"... all the effort without the results is meaningless"
This was said in a way as to belittle the contribution of the team member and also indicate a that they were churning with no outcome.
When someone drops a quote into a conversation, most of the time, often people will pause, look either wisely at the person and agree, or look quizzical and not make a comment, or very rarely do they say "what a load of tosh" - or words to that effect.
For me, I think that there has to be context to what the person quoted - either in their perception of the issue / challenge or approach being taken. Most often times the quote is used as a metaphor to try to convey subtly that they disagree.
I kind of remembered the quote, but not where it came from. A quick Google search and the result was "Toyota Production System: An Integrated Approach to Just-In-Time, 4th Edition By Yasuhiro Monden" [its amazing what you can use your mobile phone for when in a meeting!].
The full quote from the book is:
In today's real-world economic society, people are evaluated on their results, and effort without results is often considered meaningless, but if we avoid making someone who has tried their best feel as if they have failed, they are much more likely to try their hardest on the next challenge.
In effect the quote was completely taken out of the context to which it had been originally written in, and was 180 degrees opposite to the the issue it was trying to highlight.
I challenged the context in which the team member was being referred to, indicating that they were doing the best that they could as a person and potentially it was a lack of guidance and support to help them succeed which is what we should be focusing on.
Mindfulness asks that you think of life in the present moment and it got me thinking of the times when we all, as individuals do things that do not appear to have results and to others can appear meaningless.
Take for instance the simple task of making a bed. You go to bed at night and cover yourself in the bed covers as you go to sleep. You spend - depending on your sleep routine, anything between 6 and 12 hours asleep. You get up in the morning and might or might not throw the bed covers back when you get out of bed, possibly to air the bed. You might, later on, then make the bed so that the covers are tidy, the cushions puffed up and arranged neatly and the bed is "made" as the expression goes.
Now ask yourself this, why are you doing that task and who are you doing it for? Is it to please your partner? Your family? Or yourself? Why would you worry about making a bed? Isn't the outcome meaningless as the result is continuously having to be remade every day, day in, day out until you change the sheets to be washed, when you start all over again?
Just a thought........
Please feel free to comment or share what you might consider meaningless or mindfull?


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Now I think I have an explanation for how what we perceive as ghosts could exist. Ghosts are present when 2 or more different strings of reality become inter-twined and connected in ways that each string would experience the other as ghosts. The points of connection can be random or fixed auditory, visual or physical moments of shared experience. For a split second you might hear a voice from another reality or the other reality might, for a second, perceive you as a dark shadow moving across the room. Maybe for a just a brief moment that chair your sitting in exists in more then one of those realities at the same time and someone else sees you rockin'.
[THC] The Human Condition. [THC] is not a series of musing about the experiences of life but about the human condition of wonderment. That place in the human mind that set us apart from the other creatures of Earth. The ability to dream and contemplate random thoughts, ideas and questions about the world around us.


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The Top Quark: The Top Quark Cecilia E. Gerber UIC Feb 20, 2002 What is the World Made of?: What is the World Made of? Anaximenes of Miletus (6BC) ELEMENTARY CONSTITUENTS Water Fire Earth Air INTERACTIONS "All forms of Matter are obtained from rarifying Air" Simple: few constituents and interactions. Wrong: No experimental confirmation. What is the World Made of?: What is the World Made of? Standard Model (~1970 AC) ELEMENTARY CONSTITUENTS INTERACTIONS Electromagnetic 10-2 Strong 1 Weak 10-6 H Higgs Gravity 10-40 Worldwide discoveries that led to the Standard Model: Worldwide discoveries that led to the Standard Model up/down 1968 SLAC 1990 Nobel Prize strange 1964 BNL 1980 Nobel Prize charm 1974 SLAC/BNL 1976 Nobel Prize bottom 1977 Fermilab Top 1995 D0/CDF Photon 1905 Planck/Einstein 1918/1921 Nobel Prizes Gluon 1979 DESY W/Z 1983 CERN 1984 Nobel Prize QUARKS Force Carriers Worldwide discoveries that led to the Standard Model (cont.): Worldwide discoveries that led to the Standard Model (cont.) The Fermilab Tevatron Accelerator: The Fermilab Tevatron Accelerator 1992-96 Run 1: 100pb-1, 1.8TeV 2001-2007(?) Run 2: ~15fb-1, 1.96TeV Next in line: CERN LHC ~2007 (pp) 14TeV p anti-p collider: How do we produce particles?: How do we produce particles? Accelerate and collide (anti)protons: the collision takes place between the constituents: Proton-anti Proton Collision: Proton-anti Proton Collision Small x, products boosted along beam direction Large x, can create massive objects that decay to secondaries with large momentum component transverse to the beam For every proton there is a the probability that a single quark (or gluon) carries a fraction "x" of the proton momentum Good way of telling that a hard collision occurred. A generic HEP detector: A generic HEP detector The D0 and CDF detectors at Fermilab: The D0 and CDF detectors at Fermilab Slide12: D0 Detector Top physics at the Tevatron collider: Top physics at the Tevatron collider Top spin polarization Cross section Production kinematics Top-antitop resonance states Top mass Physics beyond SM? Top quarks are not yet well understood: Top quarks are not yet well understood Discovered in 1995 by D0 and CDF at Fermilab Run 1 (1992-1996) Integrated Luminosity ~120pb-1 <100 t-tbar events per experiment Everything we know about the top comes from these events! Cross Section = 5.9+-1.7 pb (D0, PRL79,1203,1997) Mass = 174.3+-5.1 GeV (D0/CDF, Fermilab-TM-2084) Run 2 started March 1, 2001. Expect to double the Run 1 data set by the end of the year. Top quark production at hadron colliders: Top quark production at hadron colliders Top anti-Top pair production (via strong interaction) Run1(1.8TeV) Run2(2TeV) LHC(14TeV) 90% 85% 5% 10% 15% 95% 5 7 800 x-sec(pb) Top quark production at hadron colliders: Top quark production at hadron colliders (Drell-Yan) (W-gluon fusion) Single Top production (not observed yet) Run1(1.8TeV) Run2(2TEV) LHC(14TeV) 0.7 0.9 10 1.7 2.4 250 x-sec(pb) Importance of studying the Top quark: Importance of studying the Top quark Measurement of (tt) test of QCD predictions any discrepancy indicates possible new physics Measurement of top mass fundamental parameter of the SM (SM predicts all top properties given its mass) Affects predictions of the SM via radiative corrections (measuring top and W mass constrains the mass of the Higgs Boson) Constraining the Higgs Mass: Constraining the Higgs Mass Top quark events are rare!: Top quark events are rare! Top production is a rare process, in Run 1 one collision in every 3109 produced a top-anti top quark pair. Small cross sections require high luminosity, and the ability to detect and filter out t t-bar events from a large number of other processes (backgrounds) Event Selection: Event Selection ~100% of the time, a top quark decays into a bottom quark and a W boson. A W boson can decay into two quarks or into a charged lepton and a neutrino. So, an event in which top quarks are produced should have either: 6 quarks 4 quarks, a charged lepton and a neutrino 2 quarks, 2 charged leptons and 2 neutrinos In all cases, 2 of the jets originate from b-quarks Top-quark decay: Top-quark decay Standard Model: For m t>mW+m b Expect tWb to dominate The quarks of the fist two generations (u,d,s,c) appear as a shower of particles called a JET, and cannot be separated from each other. Identifying electrons: Identifying electrons Identifying electrons: Identifying electrons Identifying Muons: Identifying Muons Identifying Muons: Identifying Muons Identifying Neutrinos: Identifying Neutrinos Neutrinos do not interact with the detector We infer the presence of a neutrino from the imbalance in the transverse momentum Identifying Neutrinos: Identifying Neutrinos Identifying Quarks: Identifying Quarks Quarks (and Gluons) do not exist as free particles. q q-bar pairs are pulled from the vacuum to produce stable particles : mesons, baryons Quarks ``hadronize'' single quark appears as a ``jet'' (spray) of hadrons in the detector Identifying Quarks: Identifying Quarks Identifying b-quarks: Identifying b-quarks Semileptonic decays of the b-quark example: B(b + X) 20% detect muons in jets 1 Identifying b-quarks: Identifying b-quarks precise tracking close to primary collision point silicon microstrip detectors life time 1.5 ps c 0.5 mm (short, but not too short) 2 Slide33: Identifying b-jets Top challenges : Top challenges Different processes can create top-like collisions. We call these "background" processes. We work hard on identifying the unique features of top which will separate it from background. Our detector and event selection are not perfect. We need to estimate how many Top events do not make it into our samples We optimize event selection for high signal efficiency. Need to solve ambiguities – Statistically sophisticated methods Neutrinos show up as missing energy. If there are 2 in one event, they cannot be disentangled. We do not know which jet comes from which quark Quarks emit gluons, which give rise to extra jets in the events. t t-bar Cross Section – Run 1: t t-bar Cross Section – Run 1 Dilepton (ee, em, mm ) + 2 Jets + Met Lepton (e, m ) + 3 or 4 Jets + Met All Jets (5 or 6 Jets, b-tag, NN) Cross Sections: Cross Sections D: PRL 79 1203 (1997); CDF: PRL 80 2773 (1998)(+updates) Top Quark Mass: Top Quark Mass lepton+jets channel: 1 unknown (pzn) 3 constraints m(ln) = m(qq) = mW m(lnb) = m(qqb) 2-constraint kinematic fit compare to MC to measure mt Gluon radiation can add extra jets up to 24-fold combinatoric ambiguity there are 12 possible assignments of the 4 jets to the 4 quarks (bbqq) - only 6 if one of the jets is b-tagged - only 2 for events with double b-tagged jets The Basic Procedure: The Basic Procedure In a sample of t t-bar candidates, for each event make a measurement of X = f(mt), where X is a suitably selected estimator for the top mass, e.g. result of the kinematic fit From MC determine shape of X as a function of mt. Determine shape of X for background (MC & data). Add these together and compare with data Top Quark Mass: Top Quark Mass Run 1Top Mass Summary: Run 1Top Mass Summary Run 2A Prospects: number of events: Run 2A Prospects: number of events Run 2A (2001-2004) Integrated Luminosity ~ 2fb-1 Run 2B (2004-2007?) Integrated Luminosity ~ 15fb-1 Run 2A Prospects: Cross Section: Run 2A Prospects: Cross Section Precision on top cross section ~8% Statistical Error : 4% Systematic errors assumed to scale with statistics errors from backgrounds: decrease with increased statistics of control samples (2%) jet energy scale (2%) Radiation : Initial state (2%), Final state (1%) Limiting Factors ? error on geometric and kinematic acceptances depend on differences between generators (Pythia, Herwig, Isajet) (4%) luminosity error (4%) Run2A Prospects: Mass: Run2A Prospects: Mass Total uncertainty 2-3 GeV (per experiment) W mass uncertainty 40 MeV constrain Higgs mass to 80% Accelerator Performance Run2A: Accelerator Performance Run2A Accelerator: long list of problems to improve luminosity Run 2a (~2fb-1) will take through 2004. Future Top physics and beyond: Future Top physics and beyond We have gone a long way, but many questions still have to be addressed: do we understand the properties of top? its mass ? is there a Higgs particle? is this a good theory to explain all fundamental particles masses? 2 Strategies: Look Harder Precision Get a Bigger Hammer Energy The Tevatron is well suited to both of these strategies. The next 5 years will hopefully lead to findings which may change the course of particle physics…. For More Information: For More Information http://www.fnal.gov/pub/inquiring/index.html http://particleadventure.org Fermilab inquiring minds page LBL page on Particle Physics


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Espen: One of my favourite Pat pages. What I like about it, you ask? Well, I got to draw James Joyce, Lynchian curtains and singing leprechauns. What's not to like? What really clinches it for me, though, is Joyce's accusatory and needlessly hostile tone at the end.
Oh, and it's also my first attempt at dabbling with "night colours".
Steinar: A favorite of mine too, mostly because the colours are superb and fit the scenario perfectly. I don't know exactly where I stole any of this from. I probably lifted bits from the things I was into at the time; The Pogues, James Joyce, Twin Peaks and … leprechauns. «Pogue mahone» is Irish slang for «kiss my arse» by the way. And Joyce actually was to become a tenor at one point. Why Old Aloysius is so angry there at the end is an enigma which will «keep the professors busy for centuries», as he would say.


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Gould, Chester.
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company, 1938. 32mo - over 4" - 5" Tall. 424 pp. Wear to edges, crease down center of front cover, tears to joints, spine lightly sunned, corners bumped, page 11/12 detached. Illustrated Big Little Book. Good Boards (Item ID: 100414)
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Zygomycetes are a class of saprophytic fungi, which can grow on different waste materials. We are working on this class since 1999, and have several publications. They can grow in harsch conditions and produce several metabolites such as ethanol and lactic acid, or different enzymes. However, their cell mass has about 20% cell wall, which compose mainly of chitosan. Our PhD student Akram Zamani worked for several years on these fungi, in order to characterize their cell wall and produce superabsorbents from them. She defend her thesis soon. Let's wish her a good success during the defense and afterward in her life!
(The cover of her thesis, which shows the steps from fungi to superabsorbents)
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Bar Build 020: The First Beer!Posted: May 1, 2009 Filed under: Bar Build | Tags: FIRST BEER! 2 Comments
So while Laurie was in Texas I was home with Madaghan. Well not exactly home with Madaghan….I dropped her off at daycare at 7am and then had the rest of the day to myself. So what did I do? I worked on the bartop of course. I put the bartop on and trimmed out the drink rail:
After that was completed, I turned my attention to the tap and setting up the keg. I called Casey's Beer Distributor on RT 52 in Pine Bush and ordered a keg of Blue Moon. I also filled my CO2 tank at Haighter Firefighter Supply Store in Newburgh, NY. Bought the filled tank home along with the keg to set up the tap. I had to drill through the bartop down into the hole in the kegerator. I did that by going up through the bottom to ensure the holes are aligned. Everything went well. Here is a picture of the first beer in a nice tall pilsner glass provided by Keith and Caroline!:
Now, as I work on the rest of the bar, I have nice refreshing cold draft beer at the ready. Perfect for power tools.
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Mmmmm Beeer