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PowerMax Extension Cable for Repeater Inside Antenna(cable length not to scale)
PowerMax Extension Cable for Repeater Inside Antenna (Mini-UHF Male, Mini-UHF Female)
Model # 240-10FM, 340-20FM and 340-25FM
Easily extend the placement of your PowerMax DA4000SBR, DA4000PR or DA4000MR repeater's inside antenna. For the SBR and MR repeaters, this cable attaches between the repeater's inside antenna (135-RD) and the repeater unit. For the PR, this cable attaches between the repeater unit and the included 15' cable. Available in 10', 20' and 25' lengths; the 20' and 25' lengths are made with DA340 cable to minimize signal loss.
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I love this sentiment and I have a friend that I have had for 28 years and we have been through thick and thin together!!!
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
I'm as lucky as can be....
I love this sentiment and I have a friend that I have had for 28 years and we have been through thick and thin together!!!
14 comments:
- Margreet said...
Lovely card for your friend...great coloring!
xxx Margreet
- February 27, 2018 at 7:19 AM
- Ivana Mihalić Ivy said...
Dear Lisa, I just found out your blog and I really love it, so I am your new follower now.
You're doing a great job. It's wonderful!
You can visit me at: What's up, Ivy? I would be happy to stay in touch with you.
Kisses from Croatia!
- February 27, 2018 at 10:01 AM
- Chrissy said...
Oh, he is just adorable Lisa..what a sweetie and it always good to have a best friend..
Luv CHRISSYxx
- February 27, 2018 at 11:26 AM
- Silvis Kreativstube said...
Hallo liebe Lisa Lynn,
die Karte ist so süß. Ein ganz entzückendes Motiv. Hugs Silvi
- February 27, 2018 at 12:14 PM
- Lisa said...
This is so sweet!! He's absolutely adorable!! I love the shamrocks and the sentiment!! Beautiful card!! Have a great day!! Big hugs :)
A Mermaid's Crafts
- February 27, 2018 at 12:33 PM
- crafty-stamper said...
Beautiful card and love the sentiment
Carol x
- February 27, 2018 at 4:46 PM
- aussie aNNie said...
Brilliant. That sentiment is great too.💖 [aNNie' blog]
- February 28, 2018 at 12:24 AM
- Hazel said...
A lovely card and that sentiment is perfect for your beautiful friend. Thanks for joining us at IAAS. Hazel x
- February 28, 2018 at 4:14 AM
- Daffodil Cards said...
AW! she'll love it.
- February 28, 2018 at 6:48 AM
- Brenda's Card Corner said...
Adorable card Lisa! Fabulous coloring and paper! Love the sentiment...perfect for your friend!
- February 28, 2018 at 4:40 PM
- Fikreta said...
beautiful card
- March 1, 2018 at 3:41 PM
- Julie Odil said...
Lisa Lynn, this is the cutest St. Patty's day image EVER! I love this! I might have to cruise to Bugaboo to take a look at this one. I love Bugaboo, just don't find time for "extras". But....
Thanks for joining us this week at QKR Stampede Challenge Blog. Julie, DT member
(and hey, there are some signs of spring this week up north by me! It's been a wonderful week!)
- March 1, 2018 at 5:52 PM
- Creative world said...
Fantastic card with awesome image and gorgeous design..thank you for joining us at Polkadoodles challenge this week,hope to see you again
Željka DT xx
- March 2, 2018 at 5:49 AM
- Carol Lutz said...
What a great card. Thanks for joining our Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - Anything Goes , hugs, Carol DT
- March 3, 2018 at 8:30 AM

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It's an intensely luxurious thing to wake up each morning and realize that the day is yours to shape in whatever way you like. Each morning is a new beginning, and each sunrise brings with it an opportunity for renewal and rejuvenation. Instead of waking up to stress and rushing, consider how the rest of your day could go if you started it by doing something just for yourself. A spiritually refreshing morning ritual can help set you up for a day full of positivity.
Here are a few simple tips on how to create a mindful morning routine that will nourish your soul.
1 Wake Up Just A Little Bit Earlier
Centering yourself in the morning takes time. Give yourself a chance to establish a good morning ritual by going to sleep earlier and waking up earlier. Pope Francis is a big fan of getting up at the crack of dawn — his mornings begin at 4:30 a.m., which gives him plenty of time to pray and muse over his first sermon of the day. The Dalai Lama wakes up even earlier, at 3 a.m., to take a morning shower and meditate. If you're a big fan of the snooze button… try waking up just one minute earlier every day. "You'll take longer to reach your goal, but taking a few months to build the habit is better than never building it at all!
2 Awaken With A Prayer On Your Lips
Many religious traditions have morning prayers that believers say to give thanks for a new day. Muslims have a beautiful set of prescribed rituals and prayers. Right after awakening, some Jews say the "Modeh Ani" prayer:"I offer thanks to You,living and eternal King,for You have mercifully restored my soul within me;Your faithfulness is great."An awakening prayer can be just as meaningful for people who don't identify with a specific religious tradition.
3 Spend A Few Moments At Your Home Altar Or Meditation Space
Oprah Winfrey has a designated space within her house that she uses for meditation. "If it's for 1 minute, 20 seconds, or 10 minutes, I at least stop in that space in my house every morning," Winfrey said in a video about her routine.Your home altar or meditation space doesn't have to be elaborate. Winfrey's space has just three candles and a few spiritual readings. You can add a devotional statue, photos of loved ones or fresh flowers.While you are at your altar, spend some time speaking out loud to yourself — whether it's a prayer, a personal mantra or an expression of gratitude. There's something powerful about actually vocalizing your thoughts, instead of meditating on them silently. Pay attention as the prayer arises in your mind, forms on your tongue and resounds in your ears.
4 Move Your Body
Whether it's running outside or taking the dog for a walk, take some time to move your body in the morning. Our hearts and souls are connected to our bodies and they love to be stretched, cherished, nourished and loved. If you don't have any time do a quick child's pose to surrender yourself to the day, or a mountain pose to let the day know you are ready to take it on, or take a little longer walk to the bus to give you time to reflect.
5 Savor Nature
You get up, jump in the car or subway and scramble into your office. By the time your workday is over — especially during the winter months — the last of the sun's rays have disappeared from the sky. How many days do we let go by without enjoying the great gift of nature? There are simple ways to incorporate nature into your early morning ritual. Enjoy your coffee sitting on the porch. Watching a minute or two of the sun coming up is an instant uplift to your energy and sets the tone for a positive start to the day. Our everyday routines can be transformed into holy moments!
6 Listen To Music
If you have trouble getting up early or finding time meditate, music is an easy way to center yourself. Choose a song that brings out the emotions you want to take throughout your day—like peace, happiness, or empowerment. (I currently use "Redbone" by childish Gambino) Listen to the song once with your eyes closed and really concentrate on the feelings the music creates. Then listen to the song a second time while visualizing yourself tackling the tasks of your day and achieving your goals.
7 Tune In To The World
the writer Pico Iyer, a longtime friend of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist leader makes it a point to listen to the news every morning — even during meditation. The Dalai Lama's favorite programs are reportedly Voice of America, the BBC East Asian broadcast and the BBC World Service. It may seem that this practice isn't spiritually nourishing — the news is often filled with messages of suffering, war and injustice. But the key is in how you listen. Iyer said that the Dalai Lama's desire to learn about what is happening in the world reminds him of how the Buddha is often depicted with his right hand touching the earth. The gesture is a powerful message that all life on earth is inextricably linked. It's a reminder to let go of the idea that your neighbor's welfare is somehow disconnected from your own. So spend time in the morning listening to the news that is affecting the world and make a pledge to do your part in spreading kindness.


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What Drives Me
It's time for me to be transparent with you guys, lest you should mistakenly think that food and I have always been the best of pals.
Quite the contrary, there have been some dark days in my life when it comes to my relationship with food.
I started college as a happy 18-year-old and blissfully set about making new friends, spreading my wings, and oh yeah, gaining the fabled "freshman fifteen" like so many before me. I had already formed some bad eating habits in high school (like my regular practice of downing 4 bowls of Raisin Bran Crunch after an evening shift working at the Belgian Waffle & Pancake House… where, by the way, we were allowed to have as much free toast and as many free soft drinks as we wanted. You can imagine how great that was for my waistline!) Anyway, me and my complete lack of self-control thought the Harding cafeteria, with its unlimited supply of Count Chocula and Chocolate Milk, was pretty much the equivalent of Disneyland.
I developed a nice little moon face any 2-year-old would be proud of and went on my merry way. It wasn't til the end of that school year that I started to feel a little uncomfortable, realizing that many of my favorite outfits didn't fit me so well anymore. Sure, I'd noticed the progression and made minuscule efforts to correct the problem. But you can't stop a freight train with a fly swatter. The real wake-up call came when Facebook hit the big-time (my freshman year!) and pictures of me started popping up more often than I was used to seeing them. I was officially NOT HAPPY with the girl looking back at me from those photos.
So the following year I got serious and decided to lose the weight, and BOY did I! I won't go into the details of the rituals and rules I created for myself, but I'll tell you that as I grew thinner and thinner, the lies in my head grew louder and stronger. Attention from others (especially about my physical appearance) began to mean more to me than it had in the past. Questions from concerned friends became a twisted sort of reward to my warped brain. My relationships with friends (and with the Lord) slowly dwindled into non-existence, since it was impossible to invest in them when I had so much meal-planning, calorie-counting, and exercising to do. (Besides, more often than not, they were getting together to eat and I didn't want all the questions about why I wasn't joining in! I was very secretive about the way I was restricting myself, wanting others to believe my trim figure came effortlessly. Oh, vanity is such a destroyer!)
You can imagine that very quickly my life began to feel like a prison. I had created a cage of rules and restrictions and forced myself to live within them. My desperate response to the caged feeling was to completely rebel against my diet rules and go in the opposite direction. I tried to keep this tendency in check ("just cheat once a month" or "on holidays" etc) but I was out of control. Addicted to the feeling of being thin and the perceived superiority it gave me, yet addicted to the "forbidden fruit" that was all food.
It was a combination of factors that led to the healing of my mind, and eventually the changes in my behavior. Seeing a counselor at my school, marrying my husband, and lots of unconditional love and earnest prayers from those dear to me. And though each of these things had remarkable effects on my damaged thought processes, it seemed the same food demons would rear their ugly heads every time life threw me a curve ball over the next few years. The struggle became especially intense again when I started teaching high school Spanish. I loved my students dearly, but felt an enormous amount of anxiety being up in front of a classroom every day. Along came food to be my comfort once again, though the ensuing guilt from over-doing it was ever present. This was not freedom. Yet. But thankfully, the truth had taken root in my heart. And it was slowly edging out the lies. And even on days where my behavior didn't line up with my new convictions, I knew enough not to give up.
Why am I telling you all this? Because I feel like it explains why this little food blog has become such a passion of mine!
I stand here, in September of 2013, on the other side of that ferocious food battle. And I stand here, victorious. I stand here, free!
I've come to a point where I can joyfully say that food is no longer a source of struggle for me. No longer a source of anxiety. No longer a threat. No longer a security blanket. No longer a compulsion. No longer a cage.
Food today is a source of joy. A symbol of celebration. A gift I can give others. A reason for fellowship. An outlet for creativity. A blessing!
And what drives me to write this blog, to make appetizing photos, to share my recipes, and to reach new people… is the realization that after all those dark days, there is a place of delicious freedom. I truly believe you CAN "have it all" when it comes to food! You can make pretty food without it tasting bad. You can eat tasty food without it being expensive. You can eat sweets and not get fat. And I'm on a mission to share that AWESOME news with the world!
I'm certain I'm not the only one who has experienced this struggle. And I hope that if you are reading this post today from a place of hurt, frustration, or failure… you will use these words as gentle encouragement directed right at you. Where you are right now is not where you will be forever. Overcoming a difficult demon is never without its share of work, time, and toil… but you are well-equipped by the One who made you to live this life and live it abundantly.
I'd love to hear from you if you have a comment or a similar experience to share! Uplifting words for the battle-weary who might be reading are also welcome in the comments section. Join my mission and help me take food back out of the camp of the Enemy, and return it to the way God intended it. As a gift for celebration, creativity, and fellowship.
Lots of Love,
Shawna permalinkSeptember 20, 2013 12:36 am
I so needed to read this today! ❤
Carolyn permalinkSeptember 20, 2013 10:18 am
Wow, Carissa! You have your dad's gift for writing! Some wonderful, profound truths there! I never realized the struggles you were having – so glad you have claimed the victory through our Lord and Savior!
emily cheatham permalinkSeptember 20, 2013 1:40 pm
Wow, this is a VERY powerful blog post. I had to make myself slow down reading so I could take in every single word you were saying! My relationship with food is not identical to yours, but so many of the words you wrote are my words too. I think you should come back to this subject frequently in your writings. It really adds a new dimension to every single other blog post!
Kelli B permalinkSeptember 29, 2013 8:56 pm
Amen girly! So proud of you, and love you dearly!


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FARGO -- We never really know what someone's going through, do we? The clerk at the grocery store who stands on her feet all day and then goes home to take care of an ailing parent. The teacher who pours lessons of kindness and sharing into beautiful little hearts and then realizes she's been sharing her husband with another woman. The teen who spews anger and disrespect throughout the hallways of his school because his self-talk tells him he's too stupid to learn.
I'm a sucker for a Hallmark movie. Love is in the air when the owner of a small-town bakery falls for the big-city developer who intends to shut her down, but then has a change of heart and sweeps in to save the building from demolition. Somebody hand me a bucket of popcorn and a hot cocoa. In real life, love is a bit more complicated, but as Laurel Baxter shares, it's still magical and memorable when it's filled with kindness.
There is a wedding dress out there that's just missing its bride. Could it be you or someone you know? I got this letter from Gail Richardson, who is keeping the gown until the perfect bride steps forward.
People often ask me about maintaining their safety while pursuing a brave and kind life. How do we know if we're supposed to give a homeless person money, or stop to help the car on the side of the road? My answer might sound flippant, but I mean it sincerely: follow your heart. If your heart says "stop," then stop. If your heart says, "Not this time," then take that as a cue to keep moving. A husband and wife were on the same page as far as hearts go when they recently came across a person who needed someone to see him.
Have you ever heard anyone say, "Oh yay! I get to go to the hospital!" Other than the occasional pregnant lady, I doubt it. I imagine, like me, you're glad you have access to quality medical care, but hope you don't have to use it very often. However, many times we find the greatest kindness when we are physically or emotionally wounded and can finally get the help we need.
Are you on the treadmill? Do you wake up each day knowing there are more things to be done than could actually be accomplished? Does it feel like everyone needs a piece of you? When I begin to feel that way, I know it's time to close my eyes.
Have you ever had kindness show up just when you needed it? If your answer if yes, when you've finished your morning coffee, please send me your story. That's what this column is all about. We share stories of the kindness you've given and how it made you feel, or the times a kind act happened when you needed it the most. Kindness has the power to change the way we see people. It has the ability to break through our hard shells, because we want to help another human the way someone else has helped us. Kindness becomes contagious when it connects with gratitude.
FARGO — Can you remember what you got for your seventh birthday? How about your eighth? Ninth? Maybe there's one special present that stands out, but for me, it's all pretty fuzzy. It's not the big celebrations or occasions that I remember from my childhood. My brain chooses to hold onto things that are much more random. For instance, I remember when I was about 9 or 10, my mom would drive me to the "big city" to run errands. We lived in the little town of Reedsburg, Wis., and Madison was about an hour away.
FARGO — Did you have a good summer? People ask each other that question all the time, but this time, I hope you'll take a moment to think about it. What moments of your summer mattered? My guess is they were the ones that were filled with kindness. When we show up in people's lives and notice them and love on them, we take an otherwise ordinary day and make it extraordinary.
FARGO — Life is often made in the margins. Those are the little segments of time on our calendars we don't have planned. They are the 15 minutes before we need to be out the door to our kid's soccer practice, the 30 minutes before our next meeting or, in the case of the woman who sent in the following story, the hour before we pick up a friend. If we use those gaps of time well, the life we create can be filled with joy we could never map out. "Hello Nicole,


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The Rebounds(Best) & Blocks(Worst) of the NBA is back for Week 7 of the 2014-2015 NBA season, lets take a look below at the action from this week, thanks to ESPN.com for help in this article:
- Kobe Bryant passes Michael Jordan on the NBA All time Scoring List: Kobe Bryant surpassed Michael Jordan on the NBA's all-time scoring list Sunday and moved into third place behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Karl Malone. The Los Angeles Lakers star, now in his 19th season, passed the Chicago Bulls legend (32,292 points) and the player to whom he has long been compared with a free throw in the second quarter against the Minnesota Timberwolves at the Target Center."I'm just honored to be here, man, to still be playing," Bryant said. "I appreciate being able to play this long. Careers normally don't last this long. I really appreciate the opportunity to still be out there playing and performing and doing what I do."
- Return of Durant & Westbrook: The Oklahoma City Thunder, with Westbrook and Durant back after missing most or all of the first part of the season due to injury, has won eight of their last nine games and is 11-13. Russell Westbrook had 28 points, eight assists and eight rebounds, Kevin Durant added 23 points and eight rebounds and the Oklahoma City Thunder won its sixth straight game, beating the Phoenix Suns 112-88 on Sunday night.
- Golden State Warriors continue to win– As Stephen Curry watched his second 3-pointer in overtime go down from 26 feet out, he shrugged his shoulders then pounded his chest.It's as if Curry just can't help himself when the chance to hit a devastating shot arises, and the Golden State Warriors can't help but win — even when it looks like they shouldn't. Curry scored eight of his 34 points in overtime, and the Warriors won their 16th straight, 128-122 over the New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday night.
"It was just a tough game to win. (The Pelicans) were playing well and hitting shots," Curry said. "Obviously we had enough in the tank at the end to finish it up." Klay Thompson added 29 points for the Warriors, whose franchise-long winning streak includes a club-record 10 straight road victories.
- Sacramento Kings Coach Mike Malone fired– The Sacramento Kings have fired coach Mike Malone, sources told ESPN.com Sunday night.The Kings got off to a surprising 5-1 start to the season but have lost eight of their past 10 — a swoon that has coincided with star DeMarcus Cousins' bout with viral meningitis — and have fallen to 11-13.
With Cousins off to an impressive start and the team electing to sign Rudy Gay to a three-year extension, the Kings appeared to be headed in the right direction.
But the Kings "expected more," and there was "no incident" that led to Malone's ouster, one source told ESPN.com's Ramona Shelburne.
Yahoo! Sports earlier reported news of Malone's dismissal. Assistant coach Tyrone Corbin will serve as the team's interim head coach, sources told ESPN.com's Marc Stein. Corbin went 112-146 in three-plus seasons as coach of the Utah Jazz and was not offered a contract after last season. Corbin will be the team's seventh head coach since the franchise most recently made the postseason in the 2005-06 season.
- Indiana Pacers Losing Streak– The Pacers have dropped 8 straight including their recent loss Saturday Night 95-85 @ home vs. the Trail Blazers, the Pacers are 29th in the NBA is points per game at 93.2 points & 28th in assists per game at 19.5. Roy Hibbert has played more like the struggling center from the second half of last season than a two-time All-Star. While his own injury and those to teammates have posed obstacles, Indiana needs more from its big man. Hibbert entered Saturday averaging 11.6 points and 7.2 rebounds. Against Portland, he was 4 of 11 from the field with 10 points and 10 rebounds.


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The lovely Jennifer in Singapore Botanic Gardens. Photography by Sze Lee.
Cozycot 100 Most Loved Beauty Professionals
After the last CozyCot event, I am surprised to be nominated yet again, this time as one of the 100 most loved beauty professionals in Singapore. I feel very touched and wish to extend my heartfelt gratitude to all my clients, friends and families for their support to me all this while. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
ROM – Joanne
I had a great time being the makeup artist for the beautiful and cheerful Joanne on her solemnization day in Shangri-La Hotel. I was at ease surrounded by the warmth of her family members and friends during the entire preparation process. Later I realized that there were three Jo's in this joyous occasion, the bride Joanne, the groom Joshua and the … Read More


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If you are a leukemia patient or a stem cell transplant patient, you know that your immune system is compromised and one of your biggest threats is the flu virus. This flu season is more virulent than any in recent memory. It seems that every time I walk into the waiting room at MD Anderson Cancer Center, half the patients and caregivers are coughing and look miserable.
My doctor advised me to act as though every surface, door knob, and light switch I touch is covered in flu droplets. If you put your hands up to your face, eyes, nose, or mouth, the likelihood is that you have infected yourself.
The only tool in our arsenal to stay healthy is to stay away from crowds of sick people, especially children and the elderly, and to wash our hands frequently and use hand sanitizer as often as possible.
I have been taking high-dose prednisone these past six weeks while battling ITP. Steroids can be a wonder drug but they are designed to suppress the immune system. My timing could not be better. Let's see. How about suppressing your immune system just as one of the worst flu seasons in history is getting started. Brilliant!
Mary Pat and I have isolated ourselves in our little temporary apartment. We go out only for long walks around the Rice Village area of Houston. (When she pushes me to walk longer distances, I aggravate her by humming the Colonel Bogey March from the movie Bridge on the River Kwai).
We have stopped eating out at restaurants because so many of the restaurant workers are showing signs of the flu. Unfortunately, many of them can't afford to stay home for weeks to get over their symptoms. If we order take out food, we nuke it in the microwave to make sure it is safe. As much as we could use some human contact and laughs, we have politely turned down invitations from friends to go to their houses for dinner.
I may be acting paranoid but so far our little survival plan has worked. We are both still healthy and I don't have any signs of the flu or any upper-respiratory infection despite my compromised immune system.
There was an article in the New York Times yesterday that described how you can survive the flu if you are one of the many unfortunates. The best advice is to stay hydrated and to avoid lying flat for long periods of time.
I learned that lesson while undergoing chemotherapy and my stem cell transplant at MD Anderson. One nurse explained to me that when you are lying flat in the bed, your lungs tend to collapse and fluid builds up. Bacteria love to grow in a wet environment so pneumonia often develops in those who stay in bed all day. If you get up and walk around, your lungs expand and you naturally work the fluids up out of your lungs leaving few pockets of fluid to incubate the bacteria.
I saw the wisdom in that advice immediately after my transplant. The patients on my floor who got up and walked around the halls dragging their IV poles behind them got released early and were healthier looking. The patients who remained in their beds looked awful and by the end of my stay, it looked to me like a high number of them were not going to make it.
I hope all of you survive this flu season. Remember, it's better to act paranoid than to end up on a ventilator!
On a lighter note, my dose of steroids has decreased from 100 mg per day to about 40 mg per day. My latest platelet count was 52k so it is at least stabilizing. Our hope is that I can maintain my platelet levels with the help of the eltrombopag (Promacta) as I come down off the steroids. If so, Doctor C will probably release me and we can get back home again.
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Alessia Mandini (PUC, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil) Symmetries and reduction in symplectic geometry
In these lectures I will describe how symmetries in a symplectic space can be used to reduce the complexity of the system via symplectic reduction. I will treat in detail the regular and the singular cases, giving examples to illustrate the phenomena. In particular we will discuss moduli spaces of polygons and other examples.
Antonio Ponno (University of Padova, Italy) Introduction to Hamiltonian PDEs: an overview of models and methods
Hamiltonian Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) are introduced starting from a single class of models that includes most of the PDEs of interest to physics, ranging from gas dynamics to quantum mechanics.
The main topics of the Hamiltonian formalism, such as (canonical and noncanonical) transformations, symmetries, first integrals, and perturbation theory are presented and discussed through explicit examples.
The theory of Lax-integrable systems is also shortly discussed.
Olivier Cots (IRIT, Toulose, France) Introduction to geometric and numerical methods in optimal control with application in medical imaging
An optimal control problem (OCP) is an infinite dimensional optimization problem with algebraic and differential constraints. A simple example of OCP in Lagrange form is the following. Find a command law which steers a dynamical control system from an initial configuration to a target point while minimizing an objective function representing the cost of the trajectory followed by the system during the transfer. The optimal solution can be found as an extremal, solution of the Maximum Principle and analyzed with the techniques of geometric control. As an example, the contrast and saturation problems in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) are considered. These two control problems are modeled as Mayer problems in optimal control, with a single input affine control system, with respectively a state in dimension two (four) for the saturation (contrast) problem. An analysis with the techniques of geometric control is used first to obtain an optimal synthesis in the case of the saturation problem while for the contrast problem (of higher dimension), this analysis is used first to reduce the set of candidates as minimizers and then to construct the numerical methods. This leads to a numerical investigation combining direct, indirect (multiple shooting) and homotopy methods.


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There is an assumption that it's cheaper after the first kid – the investment is in the first, and you just reuse everything right?
Well…. Not exactly. The second kid is a little cheaper. How much cheaper is questionable.
I had great plans to reuse everything for the second kid (and third and on – while pregnant with the first I hadn't ruled out having more). Reality was a little different……
I purposefully registered everything gender neutral for my son. As soon as people found out we were having a boy everything was blue.
Which was actually good thing. I really liked everything and the nursery (grey elephants) was still pretty neutral. So I saved all those boy clothes and figured it would still be useful. And there were enough whites, yellows and greens that it wouldn't be too bad.
The problem I hadn't thought through was that we moved. And the seasons (or lack there of in Texas) in the two places were completely different. The climate was completely different.
I would have run into this I suppose even if they had been the same gender – a summer baby can't easily wear a winter baby's clothes.
See babies grow fast that first year. Around two they slow down a bit and clothes become easier – but two is also about when they start being really hard on clothes. So to get all those paint/dirt whatever stains out, they go through the laundry a lot. So you'll still need to buy some clothes so kid two has a few okay outfits at least.
Another thing is furniture. Babies need a place to sleep. Which meant we needed to evict kid number one from the crib. Maybe.
The crib was now a toddler bed, and he could likely use it until five. Since our house has small bedrooms I didn't want to give up the floor space needed for a twin bed. I wanted to wait for a loft bed. The problem is – it's not safe for toddlers.
And with twin beds you need more sheets, mattresses, comforters etc.
So we bought a toddler bed. Except we still needed another mattress and more sheets.
Oh and touch up paint to cover all the teeth marks kid number one left all over the crib.
So cheaper, yes – but not significantly so is the point. The big purchases are out of the way, but you will be putting down money for the older kid and still paying for maintenance on the younger one (Clothes, soap, diapers, babyfood, etc.)
And some stuff simply can't be reused. My son destroyed his baby play gym. He would roll it around him like a taco and roll around the floor, laughing hysterically. While that was entertaining, it also meant the cheap quality gym didn't last. Oh well.
The take away from this is just be prepared- cheaper does not mean anywhere close to "free." There is a pervasive idea that kids get cheaper the more you have – while that is true – it also needs to be talked about that you may be able to reuse less than you would think at first. And somethings can't be reused at all.
I've been told – I don't have a third child – that three is when the expenses really start to go up. You need a new car because most don't fit three carseats across the backseat. If kid one didn't destroy something, kid two probably will – simply by nature of wear and tear on things, not because they are reckless. Car seats expire, plastics start to crack, strings start to unravel.
None of which is unworkable, but for all the parents out there considering more kids, they do cost. Not as much, but there is a cost. But let's put myths like "cheaper by the dozen" to rest.


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Local Immigration Policy is Based on Individual Safety
- Written by David B. Clark
Living in Trump's America was proceeded with a largely hyperbolic promise of the building of a massive wall stretching across the US/Mexico border. Many thought this was a laughable solution to a problem that is layered in the bedrock of the American Dream, freedom, and happiness. Now what seemed farfetched is gaining momentum. Immigration is a very complex issue that cannot be solved or stopped by erecting a backstop between us and our neighbor to the south. The rise that some U.S. citizens feel when the number of just how many of their good, red-white-and-blue blooded American dollars stack to help fund someone that does not have legal authority to be on U.S. soil is justified. Justification insofar as only their personal experience. The safety and security of any person remains paramount regardless of their immigration status.
Bothell's Chief of Police, Carol Cummings, stated, "All people in Bothell need to be free to report crimes without fear of having to disclose their immigration status," she continued, "The City of Bothell should be a place where anyone is safe to report a crime, to report being a victim of a crime, to be able to be a good witness and report what they have seen. We want to reduce the risk of criminals specifically targeting people due to their immigration status by ensuring that everybody knows they are safe when they call the police for help." Chief of Police Cummings shared Bothell Police Department's policy 714 on immigration which details her above ethics and sentiments. Among many of the subpoints in this policy is, "No person shall be physically arrested and/or booked by a Bothell Police officer for the sole purpose of determining their legal status in the country."
On Monday, January 8, word spread that the Trump Administration will terminate Temporary Protected status for more than 200,000 people from El Salvador which will nullify their work permits and subject them to deportation. "Men and women who came to the U.S. fleeing Central America's Northern Triangle—Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala—often got sent back to face the very harms they'd sought to escape," writes Sarah Stillman for The New Yorker. She and a team of over 12 graduate students from Columbia University's Journalism school began the task of creating a database of deaths by deportation. Additionally, the team spoke with men, women, and children that had faced other issues due to deportation: torture, sexual assault, and kidnapping, among others.
It is important to understand the distinction between the Bothell Police Department's definition of a refugee, "…anybody who is incapable or reluctant to go back to his or her country of nationality due to fear of persecution because of race, religion, nationality, membership in a unique social group, or political views," and others that are seeking asylum. While refugees from Syria are facing persecution for their beliefs, individuals from Mexico or Central America could be facing the litany of death threats, potentials of gang violence, and the promise of the return to the tortured world they briefly escaped. Nevertheless, the distinction is only important for a broader understanding of a personal plight. Being illegal is illegal; as silly as that sounds.
Understanding that life, liberty, and happiness are widespread and not the mandate of official United States paperwork is growing. Bothell's Police Department takes priority in serving and protecting their citizens by offering the kind of information that they have. We here at The Woodinville Weekly are very thankful for Police Chief Carol Cummings.
The dichotomy of our borders and our unity with one another will continue. Progress tied with policy is an effective way to handle these ever-present concerns. The final four lines in James Galvin's poem, Cartography, seem to frame this, "When the map is complete the page will be completely / Obscured by detail, then a third howl. / Three things about the border are known: / It's real, it doesn't exist, it's on all the black maps."


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Favorite movies
- Themes: tackling nothing less than the essence and fate of humanity; sending messages to oneself from the future; saving one's family versus saving humanity; love's ability to transcend all of spacetime; distortion of spacetime (relativity); lying to people about their hopeless state to motivate them to save all of humanity; the future of humanity
- Director Christopher Nolan: "The film is continually trying to contrast the individual and the particular with the cosmic"
- Composer Hans Zimmer: "The basis of our human spirit, our sense of adventure, our sense of science; our sense of the impossible: it captures it in such an emotional way. It's a spiritual connection"
- Actress Jessica Chastain: "I have a curious mind, and I'm never comfortable just sitting back and going 'Ah, it's alright, I'm just happy here.' I want to learn. And I hope this movie instills a curiosity in other people"
- Producer Emma Thomas "I would love for kids to watch this film and get excited about the possibilities of space travel and exploration. I think that what's fantastic about the science behind the film is that there are so many possibilities, and there's so much more to explore"
- Nolan: "I think we have a generation who's absorbed the idea of technological process as entirely earthbound, and to do with making our everyday lives more easy, or whatever, as opposed to the specialness, and the extraordinary nature of a few select individuals pushing the boundaries of where the human race, the human species, has ever been or can possibly go to. I think it would be really thrilling if people got some sense from this film that these ideas were worth thinking about beyond just the scope of watching Interstellar"
- Style: homages to 2001 (color balance, metal industrial materials, interaction and fascination with the unknown, haunting and pensive reflection on the nature of humanity)
- Production: an analog, tactile approach; film and miniatures for a realistic and timeless look; use of the tesseract to represent time as a spacial dimension - visually communicating about dimensionality, gravity, spacetime, and infinity
- Nolan: "With science fiction, the danger is that the human element gets lost. And so, I think incorporating an organic, people-based approach methodology to every aspect of the film, whether it was the recording of the music, or the miniatures or costumes, all of these things, like really trying to always retain a human element, I think grounds the film. We want it to feel relatable; we want it to feel tactile, because ultimately the film is about human beings—what binds us together, what divides us, these kinds of things. But that setting of deep, deep space in between the stars, between galaxies, it give you a very, very fresh approach to be able to look at those issues"
- Soundtrack: grand, operatic, pensive, booming, deep, and timeless; supernatural; crescendos at climaxes; sudden silences for dramatic effect; performed by a real human being on a real organ; the acoustics of cathedrals
- Zimmer on the organ: "There's something very human about it, because it can only make a sound with air, and it needs to breathe. On each note you hear the breath. You hear the exhale"
- Nolan: "You feel a human presence in every sound"
- Zimmer on the setting of the performances: "These architects weren't fools when they built these cathedrals. I mean, the acoustics inside these places is staggering, because it is supposed to impress. It is supposed to take you to other worlds"
- Home video: Thoughtful and deeply moving special features
2001: A Space Odyssey
- Cinematography: Cool color balance and industrial materials that reflect the cold, neutral nature of space
- A great review
- Production: blurring the lines between art and reality; movie time mimics real time; we see the development of a human life alongside the development of their character


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Presenting as part of the session: City Dep(ART)ment - Friday, November 5 at 3:30 pm
Jody Baltessen has been City Archivist/Records Manager for the City of Winnipeg since October, 2007. Before that, she spent five years as Senior Archivist for the City of Winnipeg Archives and twelve years with the Archives of Manitoba. Through 2004-2005, she served as Chair of the Board of the Association for Manitoba Archives and has worked on several Association for Canadian Archives' initiatives. Ms. Baltessen is a graduate of the University of Winnipeg (Geography/Urban Studies, 1986), the University of Western Ontario (Master of Library and Information Science, 1987), and the University of Manitoba, Continuing Education Division (Certificate in Applied Management, 2000).
Description of Paula Kelly and Jody Baltessen's talk:
In September, 2007, in cooperation with the Public Art Program of the Winnipeg Arts Council, the City of Winnipeg Archives hosted filmmaker Paula Kelly as artist-in-residence for six months. During her time at the Archives, Ms Kelly produced three short documentary films using textual, photographic, audio and visual records held by the City, as well as created a number of new records that capture the stories of current and retired City employees and residents of the City of Winnipeg. Collectively titled Souvenirs, these films reveal three dominant themes in Winnipeg history: Sand and Stone – the City under construction; Watermarks – the City in its environment; and Waiting for the Parade – the City imagining itself. Since it was premiered in September, 2008, Souvenirs has been screened at a number of local venues, can be purchased on DVD through the Winnipeg Film Group, and is featured on the Archives' website.
Join filmmaker Paula Kelly and City Archivist Jody Baltessen to hear about the process of conceptualizing and creating a film from the City's rich but relatively unknown archival collection.


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By David Stillman Meyer | December 29, 2017 | Culture
This year Wagner cycles down; Warhol eats his first crount; and the Facebook Art Foundation debuts on red mountain, sort of...
It was an Aspen Music Festival-first inside the Benedict-Bezos Music Tent when Wagner's Ring Cycle was performed last July. They did have to trim the performance length from three days to one, due to waning Generation Z attention spans, but it was a triumph nonetheless.
The waitlist to visit the state-of-the-art Virtual Reality Annex at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass is now approaching two years. The Holodeck-like rooms combine the latest in virtual reality, robotics and holographic technology to create fully realized, immersive landscapes, which often engage all five senses. Current artists have created experiences for visitors that range from enjoying a cronut and a selfie with Andy Warhol, to a Murakami ski experience, to graffitiing the "Mona Lisa" with your choice of spray paint.
The Facebook Art Foundation finally opened after several years of delays. Zuckerberg enlisted MacArthur fellow Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro to reimagine its 2002 Blur Building at the summit of Red Mountain. Covered in a perpetual white mist, the amorphous facade uses a hyperefficient irrigation system that consumes the equivalent of one toilet flush of water per day. While there is no access via motorized vehicle, visitors may hike or skin to the site. Inside, one may be surprised to not find a single painting, but instead an omni-theater auditorium—the globe-shaped screen wraps completely around the theater and plays three films on loop: War Games (1983), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and The Matrix (1999). Entrance is free of charge courtesy of the Travis Kalanick Foundation.
With vintage Harry Potter posters hanging in the vitrine at the Hyman Avenue gallery, gray-haired millennials are feeling their age. "Everything was just so much cooler and original back then," a 12-year-old girl commented while looking fondly at a Prisoner of Azkaban lithograph. The recently rebooted Potter franchise has received universal eye rolls from critics and audiences alike. "Everything is just a rehash of something that came before," the girl sighed.
Of course, the question on everyone's mind is who will be the new president of the Aspen Institute when Michelle Obama steps down after her lauded 19-year tenure. On the short list is Colorado Governor (and former Aspen Skiing Company CEO) Mike Kaplan and space pilot and entrepreneur Elon Musk.


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Raising a Healthy Hoof
We've all heard the old adage, 'No hoof, no horse', and few would argue with it. Yet many of us are all too familiar with what it's like to battle bad feet, a problem that is widespread in the stock horse world. Quarter cracks, thin and brittle walls, white line disease and navicular syndrome are just some of the problems that can at very least put a crimp in your training, and at worst lead to a treasured horse's early demise. When trying to figure out why this is happening, some people are quick to blame breeders, while others point the finger at the whims of the show world, which at one time favored big horses with tiny feet – a look which is thankfully falling out of fashion. However, an in-depth examination of the problem of bad feet reveals that there are a number of factors that can contribute to the formation of poor quality hooves. Therefore, if we want our horses to have good, strong, healthy feet, we need to look at all of these factors in order to maximize their hoof health throughout their lives.
NATURE vs. NURTURE?
When we look at certain breeds of horses such as Morgans and Arabians, we see that most individuals in these breeds have strong, solid feet. Conversely, when we look at Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses, we see large numbers of individuals with problem feet. This would seem to indicate that genetics is an extremely important factor in the creation of good hooves. However, current research and a wealth of anecdotal evidence suggest that in most cases, what happens to a horse's hooves after it is born has far more influence than any genetic contribution. In fact, it may be mostly the management and training practices commonly used with horses of a given breed that lead to the differences we see among breeds. Still, there is undoubtedly genetic variability in hoof size, conformation and quality, and it only makes sense to give horses the best start possible by breeding for good feet.
Conscientious breeders like Tom Sword, owner of the AQHA stallion Smart and Lucky Lena, take hoof quality into serious consideration when making breeding decisions. "I won't breed horses just for bloodlines to cross if they have real foot problems," says Sword. "I'm not going to tell people what they can and can't breed, but as far as mine goes, I won't own a horse that has real bad feet, and if the mare throws babies with real bad feet, I won't keep breeding her. We're very particular about the feet of our own stock, but I've seen people breeding horses with things like club feet, and you end up with every third or fourth baby having a club foot. If you breed any of the inferiorities into them, you just make our Quarter Horses worse, not better."
Sword, who also owned the now deceased halter champion Western Cabernet, would particularly like to see the halter horse industry pay more attention to the feet of the horses they are breeding. As he explains, "I have a little problem with the halter industry because, just being straight now, those horses should be able to be ridden and used. But if you had to take a halter horse out and ride him, and he's got those little tiny feet, you're not going to be able to do it. If you go back into the legends, the older horses, those horses won halter classes and then went out and won performance classes. As far as I'm concerned, that's what we should be shooting for with our horses -- and they can't do it if they don't have good feet."
Mark Scott, DVM, MVSc, Dipl. ACVS, of Moore & Company Veterinary Services in Calgary, would also like to see breeders place more emphasis on hoof health and durability when selecting breeding stock. He states, "I believe that breeding is of paramount importance in relation to horses having healthy hooves. There are specific, well recognized patterns of foot related lameness that I see every day that are a direct result of the horse's genetics." Scott believes that a big part of the problem is that we are not necessarily looking at the right factors when making breeding decisions. "We select which horses to breed to based on paper," he says, "—paper pedigree, advertising, and money won in competition. The selection criteria that we tend to use do not emphasize durability, and in some cases may select for horses with small, weak feet."
Hoof care professionals, like Christina Cline of Sumas, WA, also generally place at least some of the responsibility for the quality of a horse's feet on the breeder. Says Cline, "Common sense should tell us that breeding horses with weak feet is unwise, and it should be pretty obvious by now that breeding horses with unusually small feet for their size is just an all around bad idea. I also see things like mares that have long, sloping pastern conformation that causes a tendency towards underrun heels and long toes, and you'll see that same tendency in their babies." Cline believes that good feet should be a big criteria for any breeding program and points out that breeders who ignore this crucial aspect of horse health are doing both their breed and their own reputation a disservice. "If the horses are constantly plagued with foot problems and break down at a young age, that is going to reflect back on the breeder in the long run."
Cline, however, also points out that there is usually more going on than just poor genetics when a horse has bad feet. As she explains, "Genetics do play a part, but the whole genetics issue gets a bit muddled, too, because in many cases, the people who are breeding without paying attention to hoof quality may also have management strategies that do not promote optimum hoof development. Take Thoroughbreds, for example, which are known for having weak feet. People are certainly breeding them without paying attention to hoof quality at all, but at the same time, they coop them up, load them with grain and shoe them at an early age, all of which can seriously compromise even a very healthy hoof. So, sometimes it's rather fuzzy as to what is actually due to genetics vs. what is due to the environment that the horse was raised in.
The work of Michigan State University researcher Robert Bowker, one of the world's foremost experts on hoof development and biomechanics, has shown us that a healthy hoof has certain characteristics that allow it to function properly over a lifetime of hard use. These include thick, tough walls and soles; strong, well-developed lateral cartilages; dense, fibrous digital cushions; broad, strong frogs that makes contact with the ground; short toes; and heels that are wide and low but not underrun. Whether or not a horse's feet develops these characteristics will depend to a very large extent on how the horse is raised.
How it works is as follows: When a horse is born, the internal and external structures of the hoof are relatively soft and unformed – perfect to support the weight of a newborn foal, but only the weight of a newborn foal. In a free-roaming environment, the foal is up and moving within hours, often over hard, harsh terrain, so its feet immediately start working and adapting to this work load. Every step the young horse takes helps transform its feet, stimulating the soft, fatty digital cushions to become thick and fibrous to protect the coffin bone, helping the tube-shaped baby hoof to spread into a stronger conical shape, strengthening the lateral cartilages and toughening the other structures of the hoof. As the horse grows and becomes heavier, its feet adapt to be able to support the increased stress put on them by a heavier body. As long as the horse is allowed to move in a natural manner on firm terrain, the feet will continue to develop in size and strength well into the fifth or sixth year of life. This is probably the single most important factor in the development of healthy hooves.
It follows, therefore, that management practices that restrict a young horse's movement will retard hoof development, especially if the horse is kept on soft footing. Explains Dr. Scott, "Exercise is imperative for normal musculoskeletal development and maintenance. While the horse is growing, the development of its skeleton and soft tissues (both of which are present in the hooves) is influenced by the stresses placed upon them. If the tissues are not stressed appropriately, they will not develop appropriately. If this development does not occur optimally in the young growing horse, permanent impairment of musculoskeletal development is possible. It has been shown that as little as three weeks of stall confinement in a young horse can have measurable negative effects on skeletal development."
Dr. Bowker also believes that movement is key to healthy hoof development. "The environment is the major determinant of a healthy foot rather than genetics," he says. He also points out that we may see bad feet in some of our best horses because the more expensive horses often have more confinement early in their lives. "In fact," he says, "there seems to be an inverse relationship between expense and movement!" Bowker emphasizes that a horse deprived of appropriate movement is going to be far more likely to suffer from lameness issues down the line, regardless of breed or breeding.
Some people try to compensate for a lack of turnout by longing a young horse, especially if they are trying to condition the horse for show. Unfortunately, this is far more likely to do harm than good. Says Scott, "Attempting to exercise the young horse through methods such as longing risk injury, as they involve repetitive movements which may overload developing tissues. In order for tissues (bone, muscle, tendon, ligament, or hoof) to develop strength, they need to be stressed by exercise and then have time to heal and strengthen in response to that stress. It has been shown that bone can have an adaptive modeling response to specific stress with as little as 30 cycles of a given stress – this means that as little as 30 strides of galloping exercise will stimulate a young horse bone to adapt specifically to galloping. If the young horse was galloped 300 strides every day, however, this would overload the musculoskeletal system and allow insufficient time for tissue recovery, which is likely to result in injury. Rather than longing, the type of exercise that is needed is that which is typical of young horses at play – short bursts of galloping, romping around, running up and down hills, etc. It is difficult to mimic the varied influences of play exercise with a training program."
Cline also believes that natural exercise is best for young horses, adding, "I know of one vet who says that longing a young horse should be a crime, and I must say I agree. I would also like to see people wait longer to start riding these horses, as this is a huge factor in the early breakdowns we see so often these days. A big part of my job is rehabilitating horses that have broken down, and when you see horses that are three, four and five years old with all these problems, you can't help but wish people would just give them more time to grow up before subjecting them to activities that we know are damaging to growing joints. Call me crazy, but I just don't like seeing three year olds with radiographically confirmed arthritis.
Asked what we can and should do to make sure our young horses get enough of the right kind of exercise, Cline says, "The more space they can be turned out in, the better. If you can avoid keeping them in stalls completely, that is definitely a plus. 24-7 turnout with lots of room to run and play, and in as firm of an environment as possible, as opposed to soft, spongy, muddy terrain, will really go a long way towards building healthy feet . Ideally, they should be turned out with other youngsters, because they stimulate so much play and movement amongst themselves that they'll get more exercise than if they're just standing around alone or with their mom. Ponying a foal off the mare from a young age is a great thing to do. Not exercising them to death, but starting to pony them for 15 minutes here, 20 minutes there, then gradually increasing the time as they get older is a great way to exercise a youngster if you don't have a lot of space, plus it gives mom the exercise she needs. However, if you don't have an appropriate amount of space or the right kind of footing to let young horses really move and develop optimally, you might want to consider boarding the horse somewhere that has that kind of environment while the horse is still growing. This is not only in the best interest of the horse, but also in the best interest of the rider/owner in the long run, as you are far more likely to end up with a strong, healthy horse overall."
According to the work of Dr. Bowker and others, it is also in the best interest of the horse and owner to delay shoeing a young horse as long as possible, and to only keep shoes on for brief periods, if they are used at all. Bowker has conducted detailed post-mortem studies on thousands of horse feet and discovered that the internal structures of horses shod for a majority of their lifetime often look more like those of immature horses. The digital cushion, for example, will lack the dense growth of fibrous tissue that allows it to properly support the weight of an adult horse. This lack of development of the key support structures in the back part of the foot often leads to tenderness in that area, which in turn leads to the all too common toe-first landing now thought to be a major factor in the development of navicular disease.
What this all boils down to is that if you start shoeing a horse when it's two and don't give the feet a good part of the year out of shoes, you can essentially "freeze" the internal development of that horse's feet – and you may also affect the ultimate size and strength of the entire foot. Says Cline, "It would be extremely beneficial to horses if people would delay shoeing until the feet achieved full maturity, at age five or six. That said, a lot of people are going to shoe earlier and keep the horse shod, which may prevent the hoof from achieving its maximum size. This can lead to problems, because when you have a smaller foot, you have a smaller surface area and less mass to absorb the stress. Every farrier textbook will tell you that shoeing year round is not recommended. Therefore, if people feel they need to shoe for shows or training, take the shoes off and give the horses a break from shoes for as much of the year as possible, at least until the hoof is fully grown."
Another problem that can result from early shoeing – or any shoeing that does not allow for all the support structures of the hoof to work together – is poor wall quality. As Bowker states, "Peripheral loading of the foot usually causes thinner walls." What this means is that shoeing or trimming a horse so that the walls bear most of the weight without support from the sole, frog and bars not only inhibits the development of the internal structures, but may contribute to the epidemic of thin, brittle walls we are seeing in our horses. Though conventional shoeing methods are based on peripheral loading, the latest research indicates that all of the structures of the hoof are designed to work together to cope with the tremendous forces placed upon them, and that "hanging the hoof by the walls" interferes with the synergistic relationship of these structures. Fortunately, there are now farriers like Gene Ovnicek (www.hopeforsoundness.com) and barefoot trimmers like Pete Ramey (www.hoofrehabl.com) who are coming up with viable solutions to this problem, based on what Bowker calls the "physiologic trim" (see http://cvm.msu.edu/news/press/phytrim.htm for details).
Because shoeing can be detrimental in these various ways, Tom Sword believes that young horses are best left unshod as much as possible. "It's true that horses don't quit growing until they're five years old or so -- their whole body keeps growing, so it makes sense that the feet are still growing, too. I see people shoeing and working these young horses -- some seventeen months or even younger -- and by the time those horses are seven years old, they often have joint problems or hoof problems. The more they shoe them, the worse the frog gets and so on. There are all kinds of problems that develop from continual shoeing on them. I definitely believe you should pull the shoes and let them be without them as much as possible. Don't shoe them too much, and don't work them too much or too hard when they're young if you want that horse to last you."
It may be desirable to leave the shoes off a young horse, but that doesn't mean their feet don't need attention. Early trimming, in fact, can help ensure that the horse's feet develop optimally. As Dr. Scott explains, "It is appropriate and in some cases necessary to begin trimming the horse's feet early in life. The hoof is a very plastic structure, with the ability to change shape depending on how it is stressed. If the foal starts to develop some asymmetry or imbalance in its foot, careful observation and early foot maintenance may limit or reverse this problem." It is therefore wise to have a foal's feet and legs assessed soon after birth to determine if corrective trimming is indicated. However, as Scott points out, "If young horses are allowed to live in a 'wild' state where they can move over a large area with rough hard footing, they may not need their feet trimmed at all. In my opinion, this is the ideal situation for developing a strong healthy foot."
Many youngsters will likely fall somewhere in between, requiring some maintenance from a hoofcare professional. With a foal, the farrier will mainly be looking at two things: a) that they're wearing their feet enough so they don't have excess growth, and b) that they're wearing their feet in a balanced manner. "It's very common, basically normal to some degree, for a foal to wear their feet a little unbalanced," Says Cline. "This is because they've got narrow chests and they tend to stand base wide, so they'll wear down the insides faster than the outsides. The farrier will help keep the feet in a balanced state." Like Dr. Scott, Cline also likes to see foals assessed very early to detect any problems that could be helped through corrective trimming. "If a foal is born with any hoof or limb deformities," she says, "getting it trimmed by the first or second week is pretty imperative -- even the first or second day. A lot of deformities such as carpal valgus (knock kneed), carpal varus (bow legged), wind-swept legs, and rotational limb deformities can be corrected or at least improved by good hoof care early on. Club footed horses also need to get care really early on, as well."
Another component of helping a young horse develop healthy hooves involves diet – and in this case, less is often more. While it may make us feel good to put our horses out on lush pasture, top them up with grain and buy expensive supplements designed to improve hoof quality, all of these things can actually be detrimental to our horses' hooves and overall health. What we really need to be looking at, in many cases, is how to keep things out of the horse's diet that weaken the hoof walls – specifically, too many "quick" carbohydrates. There is a mounting body of evidence that sugars and starches that convert quickly into glucose in the body cause damage to the laminae – the strong but sensitive structures that attach the outer hoof wall to the foot. Weakening the attachment of the hoof wall can cause flaring, stretched whitelines, laminitis, and the opportunistic fungal and bacterial infections that often go along with these problems. Obvious sources of quick carbohydrates are grains and anything sugary or coated with molasses. Less obvious sources are hays high in NSCs (non-structural carbohydrates), and grasses with elevated levels of sugar due to stresses such as overgrazing, frost or drought. Non-native or "improved" grasses – varieties of grass that have mostly been designed to put weight on cattle – can also be problematic.
This doesn't mean that you should cut grain and grass from your young horse's diet altogether, but it does mean that you should be careful with such feeds and make sure that your youngster is not getting overweight – a very common problem in the horse world today and one that should be of serious concern. The feet of a horse that is overweight are subject to both metabolic and mechanical stresses, making them much more prone to problems. Specifically, a recent study by researchers at Virginia Tech stated that overweight horses are vulnerable to chronic inflammation, oxidative stress, insulin/glucose imbalances, heat stress, reduced performance levels, and increased bone, tendon and joint injuries. They concluded that obesity is a "major health concern" in horses that has been widely under-reported.
Unfortunately, many of us have horses that are overweight and we don't even know it, due to widespread misconceptions as to what constitutes a healthy weight. Today's leading equine nutritionists say that you should be able to see a hint of ribs on a horse until it is two or so, and after that, you want to be able to easily feel, but not see their ribs. Once again, the preferences of the show ring may be coaxing us up a dangerous path, but ultimately, it is each owner's responsibility to decide what is best for their horses.
A good diet for a young horse will consist mainly of grass and/or hay that is moderate in simple sugars and protein, with a balanced vitamin/mineral supplement if needed, access to salt (loose is preferable to blocks), and little if any grain. As Dr. Scott says, "The main cause of nutritionally related problems tends to be overfeeding rather than deficiency. I have seen many cases of laminitis and horses that simply outgrew their feet from being overfed."
When we look at the number of horses with problem feet in the stock horse world today, it is not hard to understand why Tom Sword calls this a "shameful state". In the end, if we want to see fewer problems in the feet of our horses, we are going to have to work as individuals and as an industry to promote practices that will give our horses a good start and help them maximize their potential. As we have seen here, it takes a multi-pronged approach to raise a healthy hoof, starting with our breeding practices and requiring careful evaluation of our management strategies. This may mean that we might have to make some changes to the way we do things, but as another old cowboy once said, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it – but if it is broke, well heck, you might want to do something about it." The fate of our horses feet – and ultimately our horses themselves – is in our hands.
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FAIR USE, a play by Sands Hall, explores the controversy surrounding the unattributed use Wallace Stegner made of the life and writings of Mary Hallock Foote in creating his novel, Angle of Repose. (Mary and her husband Arthur lived in the North Star house for 30 years of their amazing lives.) This is a fundraiser for the North Star House, as well as memorial to the dearly loved Peggy Levine, who worked so hard and successfully to restore the house and whose vision helped create the community center it has become. This staged reading features Kim Culbertson, Lois Ewing, Les Solomon, Tom Taylor, Sharon Winegar, and T.E. Wolfe.
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The answer to the eternal mystery of what makes up a Filet-O-Fish sandwich turns out to involve an ugly creature from the sunless depths of the Pacific, whose bounty, it seems, is not limitless.
The world's insatiable appetite for fish, with its disastrous effects on populations of favorites like red snapper, monkfish and tuna, has driven commercial fleets to deeper waters in search of creatures unlikely to star on the Food Network.
One of the most popular is the hoki, or whiptail, a bug-eyed specimen found far down in the waters around New Zealand and transformed into a major export. McDonald's alone at one time used roughly 15 million pounds of it each year.
The hoki may be exceedingly unattractive, but when its flesh reaches the consumer it's just fish — cut into filets and sticks or rolled into sushi — moist, slightly sweet and very tasty. Better yet, the hoki fishery was thought to be sustainable, providing New Zealand with a reliable major export for years to come.
But arguments over managing this resource are flaring not only between commercial interests and conservationists, but also among the environmental agencies most directly involved in monitoring and regulating the catch.
A lot of money is at stake, as well as questions about the effectiveness of global guidelines meant to limit the effects of industrial fishing.
Without formally acknowledging that hoki are being overfished, New Zealand has slashed the allowable catch in steps, from about 275,000 tons in 2000 and 2001 to about 100,000 tons in 2007 and 2008 — a decline of nearly two-thirds.
The scientific jury is still out, but critics warn that the hoki fishery is losing its image as a showpiece of oceanic sustainability.
"We have major concerns," said Peter Trott, the fisheries program manager in Australia for the World Wildlife Fund, which closely monitors the New Zealand fishery.
The problems, he said, include population declines, ecosystem damage and the accidental killing of skates and sharks. He added that New Zealand hoki managers let industry "get as much as it can from the resource without alarm bells ringing."
The hoki lives in inky darkness about a half-mile down and grows to more than four feet long, its body ending in a sinuous tail of great length. Large eyes give the fish a startled look.
Scientists say its fate represents a cautionary tale much like that of its heavily harvested forerunner, orange roughy. That deepwater fish reproduces slowly and lives more than 100 years. Around New Zealand, catches fell steeply in the early 1990s under the pressures of industrial fishing, in which factory trawlers work around the clock hauling in huge nets with big winches.
Hoki rose commercially as orange roughy fell. Its shorter life span (up to 25 years) and quicker pace of reproduction seemed to promise sustainable harvests. And its dense spawning aggregations, from June to September, made colossal hauls relatively easy.
As a result, the New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries set very high quotas — roughly 275,000 tons a year from 1996 to 2001. Dozens of factory trawlers plied the deep waters, and dealers shipped frozen blocks and fillets of the fish around the globe...
"Most Americans have no clue that hoki is often what they're eating in fried-fish sandwiches," SeaFood Business, an industry magazine, reported in April 2001. It said chain restaurants using hoki included McDonald's, Denny's and Long John Silver's.
Ominous signs of overfishing — mainly drops in hoki spawns — came soon thereafter. Criticism from ecological groups soared. The stewardship council promotes hoki as sustainable "in spite of falling fish stocks and the annual killing of hundreds of protected seals, albatross and petrels," the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand said in May 2004...
Gary Johnson, McDonald's senior director of global purchasing, said hoki use was down recently to about 11 million pounds annually from roughly 15 million pounds — a drop of about 25 percent. "It could go up if the quota goes up," he said in an interview. He noted that McDonald's also used other whitefish for its Filet-O-Fish sandwiches...
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Pacific University invites the public to the Forest Grove Campus on Wednesday, April 19 to participate in a pair of interactive civic events beginning in the late afternoon.
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum will share her observations and plans in light of the political climate following last fall's general election with a talk titled "Oregon's Place Post 2016 Election" at 5 p.m. in McGill Auditorium, located on the east side of campus adjacent to Cedar Street.
A reception will kick off the gathering at 4:30 p.m., and Tom McCall Center for Policy Innovation director Jim Moore will moderate a audience question-and-answer session following the attorney general's remarks.
At 6:30 p.m., the university will host a Forest Grove School Board Candidate Forum in the Multipurpose Room on the lower level of the University Center. Presented by Pacific's McCall Center, Forest Grove News-Times and the Forest Grove/Cornelius Chamber of Commerce, the forum will feature a panelist of News-Times journalists asking questions of incumbents John Hayes, Lonnie Winkler and Charless Waterman, and challengers Brad Bafaro, Mark Everett, Fallon Harris and Valyrie Ingram. The forum will also allow attendees to submit questions for the candidates.
Rosenblum's appearance is co-sponsored by the university's College Democrats chapter, centers for Gender Equity and Peace & Spirituality and the McCall Center.