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Goldman Sachs Stock Could Soar on Bitcoin-Like Patent
There are few certainties in this world, though one of them is that The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS) will always be one step forward of a pack. That is an steadfast law that will keep GS batch atop a financial pyramid, generally now that a association is patenting a possess chronicle of Bitcoin.
Goldman Sachs filed a obvious focus for a possess cryptocurrency allotment system, definition it intends to plea Bitcoin for digital dominance. I've been famous to be a small desperate about Bitcoin (because it will never work) and cryptocurrencies in general; however, this is a small different.
If any one entity could drive tellurian payments toward a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, it would be Goldman Sachs. The association has huge change in both financial and domestic spheres, that would lend credit to a currency.
Goldman's chronicle of Bitcoin is called "SETLcoin." It is formed on a same blockchain complement that provides an immediate send of supports between electronic accounts. From my vantage, this could spell huge earnings for Goldman Sachs stock. (Source: "Goldman Sachs files obvious for practical allotment currency," The Financial
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text: This picture was taken the day of Jerry's and Mona's wedding in 1984. I wonder what Mona was thinking when it was taken. If I'd been there, if I know Mona, she'd probably have shared her feelings with me. One thing is for sure... she isn't hesitant about saying what she thinks. We can always count on her common sense and upfront way of dealing with the issue of the day. I've always admired her honesty and forthrightness and appreciated her non-judgemental support. She's a good listener and one from whom one can expect a tactful, honest response. Some of my favorite memories of Mona are our first real conversation, several of our phone conversations in the last few years, one on the beach last summer and one, which wasn't exactly a conversation, on Nov. 22 of last year, and all of the last year. In the first, we were at the beach (Virginia Beach), the summer of 1984 and I was in awe of and curious about the fact that she'd come to the U.S. only a few years before, lived with Jimmy and Marilyn as their nanny for Katie and Caroline , married Jerry, (after meeting Jim on an airplane in Europe, but don't get me started on that story. Talk about weird. It's one of the select stories I tell to my friends about my family. How many people do you know whose Norwegian sister-in-law met one brother on a plane in Europe when she was twenty or so, came to live with him and his wife as a nanny, then married another brother? I mean, seriously, that's unusual.) and I was asking her how she felt about leaving her country to spend her adult life in another country. That's amazing to me and I've always been impressed with her strength and loyalty to the cause (whatever that cause may be.) Shoot, I've only moved to Texas and I feel the pull of my homeland pretty much all the time. Plus, that day, she told me, when asked what one of the main differences between the two worlds was, that they eat more fish in Norway which stuck in my mind because I don't particularly like fish. Over the years, she wrote the occasional letter and the much-anticipated Christmas newsletter, we talked over the phone now and then and visited occasionally in person (including the time that they came to Texas, in the 80's, in their new Volvo with heated seats and a laptop, one of the first I'd ever seen, when she broke out in hives because she was allergic to dogs and horses. No one told me in advance. We had a dog and, also, took them to a dusty, dirty rodeo -they're full of horses, you know. She hasn't been back since.) We've had some phone conversations, in the last few years, dominated by my obsessive-compulsive rambling, that she handled perfectly and helped me a lot. Last summer, we had great conversation, again, at the beach. That was one of those heart-to-heart, meaning of life conversations - my favorite kind. In fact, any other kind is almost a waste of time, in my mind - I love sharing deep feelings! The night Mom died, Mona welcomed us all into her home, served a delicious Thanksgiving dinner and left me with a warm memory of her kindness and hospitality. She took that hospitality and kindness much further by hosting Billy for the vast majority of the last year, for which we're all grateful. Mona's only fault, as I see it, is that she's tall and thin and young. I can forgive her for that since she's pretty great otherwise. Happy Birthday, Mona. I love you and hope to get to see you soon.


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The beltway GOP are letting No Budget Barack off the hook. No fight in these folks at all. I knew the fix was in again when they started declaring victory a few days ago. They had done nothing except cut the military and wanted to have a party about a great "victory". Unbelievable.
obama and his thugs must be laughing like mad at how stupid the beltway republicans act.
Quick Paul is doingthis , get the stupid idiots out to dinner, thus makin it look like I;m reaching out, use this as a headline and split the GOP again.
After the dinner bozo must say to his side kicks" how stupid are they, they fall for it yet again"
These sell out fools are like battered women, get beaten down and once in while they see a nice gesture so they think they;re making headway in their relationship


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Bengaluru, Feb 4: Brijesh Meena was India's one of the most promising boxers. In 2009 he got the award of best boxer in Cuba in the junior international championship, playing alongside Olympian boxer Akhil Kumar, Jitendra Singh, Devendra Singh.
But despite having performed in the national level championships and in other junior championships, Meena was not getting the chance in the Indian squad.
On Friday, February 3, speaking from Agra where he currently lives, Brijesh said: "I was from Rajasthan and most of the boxers, who were often called in the national preparatory camp as well as in the national team, were from Haryana.
"Naturally, I became frustrated and even began to think about quitting the game. Amidst the situation, I got an offer to turn professional boxer and I joined in 2013."
The 25-year old boxer who fights in the 76kg category is registered under the World Boxing Council (WBC) and he has been unbeaten in five bouts so far in last four years, starting with his debut fight in the Philippines.
Brijesh who will take part in his sixth professional bout against Tanzania's Seid Mbwea on 11th February in Kolkata expressed his desire to fight against Vijender Singh.
Brijesh whose mother had relentlessly backed him after his father died in 2009, added: "Vijender and myself are in the same category.
"Vijender is registered under World Boxing Organization (WBO) and after having won consecutive eight bouts he is slightly ahead in ranking.
"But if I can win two more bouts and reach near his score or ranking then I will have right to challenge him.
"I am getting mentally prepared for that and my dream is to win against Vijender Singh to reach his stature in the Indian professional boxing."
Interestingly, Brijesh mother wanted him to make an engineer. But the boxer was repeatedly instigated by his school teacher to continue with boxing.
Brijesh further said: "The most beautiful thing is that my school teacher, Hari Om Sabita still comes to meet me or comes to watch my training at the Agra Railway Boxing Academy that how I am progressing.
"Now also, if I make any mistake while training, he scolds me in a similar way he used to do 10 years ago."
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DUI Suspect Crashes After Leading Houlton Police On High-Speed Chase
A Houlton man was arrested Thursday after allegedly leading police on a high-speed chase that ended in a collision between the suspect's vehicle and a police cruiser.
A Houlton man was arrested Thursday after allegedly leading police on a high-speed chase that ended in a collision between the suspect's vehicle and a police cruiser.
Carly Pearce wouldn't have bet on "Every Little Thing" being her breakout hit. In fact she tried to stop it from happening.
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Levi Johnston finally comes clean about his involvement in the Weinstein scandal and details a disgusting incident that required a green screen.
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Journal-Gazette Living Section Saturday--WOW
I have seen the future of the Journal-Gazette, and I am impressed.
Opened up the newspaper this morning, and first hit the front page. Decided to go to Expresso Gallery, and bundled up the paper to take with.
Sat down to read it and ... wow. Pulled out the Living section section and wondered, what the heck! for a moment.
Then realized I was seeing a sample of The Paper of the Future. New trim size, new design, and golly gee, the colors were actually registered!
Did see any explanation or hint anywhere of the sampling, interesting--often newspaper warn the bejesus out of you that a change is coming.
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Nine Skills Worth Teaching Your Children to Build Personal and Financial Independence
Two days ago, I posted an article entitled Nine Skills Worth Learning for Any Career – and How to Learn Them. The goal of the
Two days ago, I posted an article entitled Nine Skills Worth Learning for Any Career – and How to Learn Them. The goal of the
Let's start this off with a disclaimer: I'm not the world's most religious woman. I believe in God – the idea that we have a
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I have this little voice in my head that likes to slam me for the missteps I make. If I eat too much at supper,
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The first few hours of each of my days are set in stone. I wake up at 6 AM on the dot. (Some mornings, I
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Skip to comments.Changes in Human Skin Studied [Vitamin D myth]
Posted on 07/04/2014 5:37:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
It had been thought that Northern Europeans developed light skin in order to absorb more UV light to process more vitamin D, necessary for healthy bones and immune function. But a new study conducted by a team led by professor of dermatology Peter Elias from the University of California, San Francisco, shows that the changes in skins function as a barrier to water loss is more likely. The skin-barrier protein filaggrin is broken down into a molecule called urocanic acid, which Elias says is the most potent absorber of UVB light in the skin. Its certainly more important than melanin in lightly-pigmented skin, he explained. Elias and his team found that up to ten percent of normal Northern Europeans carry mutations in the filaggrin gene, compared to much lower mutation rates in southern European, Asian, and African populations. Higher filaggrin mutation rates result in a loss of urocanic acid, correlated with higher vitamin D levels in the blood. Latitude-dependent variations in melanin genes are not similarly associated with vitamin D levels. This evidence suggests that changes in the skin barrier played a role in Northern Europeans evolutionary adaptation to Northern latitudes, the study concluded. Pigmented skin would have offered ancestral humans living in sub-Saharan Africa protection against dehydration and infections. Once human populations migrated northward, away from the tropical onslaught of UVB, pigment was gradually lost in service of metabolic conservation. The body will not waste precious energy and proteins to make proteins that in no longer needs.
(Excerpt) Read more at archaeology.org ...
Better call this study racist, just to be safe.
:') Looks like I missed some festivities in #4 and #5.
The Neandertal Enigma"Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]
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Interesting. I read that chimpanzees have white skin as do great apes, so I wonder why humans started off the other way
The apes are hirsute.
Blood type (non-human)
A remarkable study and hypothesis.
But it drives me nuts when a scientist makes a statement related to evolutionary changes that makes it sound as if an individual organism just switches off a particular characteristic:
Once human populations migrated northward, away from the tropical onslaught of UVB, pigment was gradually lost in service of metabolic conservation. The body will not waste precious energy and proteins to make proteins that in no longer needs.
I wholeheartedly agree.
I also feel left out when I come upon those "comment removed."
I miss the good old days, when the deleted comments could still be viewed *after* they'd been removed from the thread. That doesn't work any longer, I was hugely disappointed when it vanished.
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Projections of climate-driven changes in tuna vertical habitat based on species-specific differences in blood oxygen affinity
"Oxygen concentrations are hypothesized to decrease in many areas of the ocean as a result of anthropogenically driven climate change, resulting in habitat compression for pelagic animals. The oxygen partial pressure, pO2, at which blood is 50% saturated (P50) is a measure of blood oxygen affinity and a gauge of the tolerance of animals for low ambient oxygen. Tuna species display a wide range of blood oxygen affinities (i.e., P50 values) and therefore may be differentially impacted by habitat compression as they make extensive vertical movements to forage on subdaily time scales. [...]"
Source: Global Change Biology
Authors: K. A. S. Mislan et al.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13799
Intense oceanic uptake of oxygen during 2014–2015 winter convection in the Labrador Sea
"Measurements of near-surface oxygen (O2) concentrations and mixed layer depth from the K1 mooring in the central Labrador Sea are used to calculate the change in column-integrated (0–1700 m) O2 content over the deep convection winter 2014/2015. During the mixed layer deepening period, November 2014 to April 2015, the oxygen content increased by 24.3 ± 3.4 mol m−2, 40% higher than previous results from winters with weaker convection. By estimating the contribution of respiration and lateral transport on the oxygen budget, the cumulative air-sea gas exchange is derived. [...]"
Source: Geophysical Research Letters
Authors: Jannes Koelling, Douglas W. R. Wallace, Uwe Send, Johannes Karstensen
Taking a deep breath? Scientists measure unusually high oxygen uptake in the Labrador Sea
"The Labrador Sea in the North Atlantic is one of the few areas in the world ocean where cold, saline seawater sinks to large depths and forms deep water. This convection process also transports oxygen into the deep sea. A team of scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography (San Diego, California), Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) and GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel have now published the analysis of data obtained from the mooring K1 in the international scientific journal Geophysical Research Letters. [...]"
Source: phys.org
Constraining the rate of oceanic deoxygenation leading up to a Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE-2: ~94 Ma)
"The rates of marine deoxygenation leading to Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events are poorly recognized and constrained. If increases in primary productivity are the primary driver of these episodes, progressive oxygen loss from global waters should predate enhanced carbon burial in underlying sediments—the diagnostic Oceanic Anoxic Event relic. Thallium isotope analysis of organic-rich black shales from Demerara Rise across Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 reveals evidence of expanded sediment-water interface deoxygenation ~43 ± 11 thousand years before the globally recognized carbon cycle perturbation. [...]"
Source: Science Advances
Authors: Chadlin M. Ostrander, Jeremy D. Owens and Sune G. Nielsen
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1701020
Study estimates oxygen loss in ancient global ocean
A loss of oxygen in global ocean seawater 94 million years ago led to a mass extinction of marine life that lasted for roughly half a million years.
Scientists have found several potential explanations for how the loss of oxygen happened. These could include enhanced volcanic activity, increased nutrients reaching the ocean, rising sea levels, and warming sea and surface temperatures. But to point a finger at any one cause (or several of them) requires knowing how fast the oxygen loss happened.
A new technique, developed by Arizona State University graduate student Chad Ostrander with colleagues at Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Florida State University (FSU), has put a timetable on the oxygen loss associated with this major ocean extinction event, which is known to science as Oceanic Anoxic Event 2.
Source: phys.org
Climate change and ocean deoxygenation within intensified surface-driven upwelling circulations
"Ocean deoxygenation often takes place in proximity to zones of intense upwelling. Associated concerns about amplified ocean deoxygenation arise from an arguable likelihood that coastal upwelling systems in the world's oceans may further intensify as anthropogenic climate change proceeds. Comparative examples discussed include the uniquely intense seasonal Somali Current upwelling, the massive upwelling that occurs quasi-continuously off Namibia and the recently appearing and now annually recurring 'dead zone' off the US State of Oregon. [...]"
Source: The Royal Society
Author: Andrew Bakun
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0327
Ocean ventilation and deoxygenation in a warming world: introduction and overview
"Changes of ocean ventilation rates and deoxygenation are two of the less obvious but important indirect impacts expected as a result of climate change on the oceans. They are expected to occur because of (i) the effects of increased stratification on ocean circulation and hence its ventilation, due to reduced upwelling, deep-water formation and turbulent mixing, (ii) reduced oxygenation through decreased oxygen solubility at higher surface temperature, and (iii) the effects of warming on biological production, respiration and remineralization. The potential socio-economic consequences of reduced oxygen levels on fisheries and ecosystems may be far-reaching and significant. [...]"
Source: The Royal Society
Authors: John G. Shepherd, Peter G. Brewer, Andreas Oschlies, Andrew J. Watson
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2017.0240
A model study of warming-induced phosphorus–oxygen feedbacks in open-ocean oxygen minimum zones on millennial timescales
"Observations indicate an expansion of oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) over the past 50 years, likely related to ongoing deoxygenation caused by reduced oxygen solubility, changes in stratification and circulation, and a potential acceleration of organic matter turnover in a warming climate. The overall area of ocean sediments that are in direct contact with low-oxygen bottom waters also increases with expanding OMZs. This leads to a release of phosphorus from ocean sediments. If anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions continue unabated, higher temperatures will cause enhanced weathering on land, which, in turn, will increase the phosphorus and alkalinity fluxes into the ocean and therefore raise the ocean's phosphorus inventory even further. [...]"
Source: Earth System Dynamics
Authors: Daniela Niemeyer, Tronje P. Kemena, Katrin J. Meissner, and Andreas Oschlies
DOI: 10.5194/esd-8-357-2017
Ecological Energetic Perspectives on Responses of Nitrogen-Transforming Chemolithoautotrophic Microbiota to Changes in the Marine Environment
"Transformation and mobilization of bioessential elements in the biosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere constitute the Earth's biogeochemical cycles, which are driven mainly by microorganisms through their energy and material metabolic processes. Without microbial energy harvesting from sources of light and inorganic chemical bonds for autotrophic fixation of inorganic carbon, there would not be sustainable ecosystems in the vast ocean. Although ecological energetics (eco-energetics) has been emphasized as a core aspect of ecosystem analyses and microorganisms largely control the flow of matter and energy in marine ecosystems, marine microbial communities are rarely studied from the eco-energetic perspective. [...]"
Source: Frontiers in Microbiology
Authors: Hongyue Dang and Chen-Tung A. Chen
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01246
Full article
As CO2 Goes Up, Ocean Health Goes Down
"June 8th is World Oceans Day, a day to raise awareness of the ocean's importance to the planet. 93 percent of the excess heat absorbed by the climate system goes into our oceans, creating major consequences. While more extreme storms and rising sea levels are some of the impacts of warmer oceans, rising CO2 levels and the resulting warmer oceans are impacting ocean health itself. The most wellknown effects are coral bleaching and ocean acidification, but an emerging issue is the decreasing oxygen levels in the warming waters. [...]"
Source: Climate Central
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Variety of antique/vintage cutlery
Antique/Vintage variety of cutlery. Material varies from Silver to EPNS, Silverplate, Nickel Silver, Stainless Nickel etc. There are 121 pieces in this lot. Most, if not all. manufactured in England. Would be ideal in an eclectic coffee shop.
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I'd love the input of any Dreamstime contributors. Oh, and Laorach has published one of the all time best examples of the Santa Fe creative spirit. Check out the top left image in my blog.
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The British military does not normally take kindly to comments from American counterparts about the state UK forces. Any such intervention is usually met, as it has been the case since at least the second world war, with a dismissive comment about American military prowess.
But British military chiefs will welcome the intervention at the weekend of the US army chief of staff, General Raymond Odierno, who told the Telegraph he was worried about a scaled-down British army.
With the Ministry of Defence almost certain to face deep cuts after the election, regardless of which party wins, Odierno said: "I would be lying to you if I did not say that I am very concerned about the GDP investment in the UK."
Odierno's comments are in line with what British military chiefs have been saying for months, both publicly and privately. Although there is an election still to be fought, the next chancellor, whether Labour or Conservative, will be looking for deep budget cuts. Defence, in contrast with protected budgets for health and overseas development, is among the most vulnerable for further reductions.
The British army, already coming to terms with a round of cuts reducing the army from 100,000 to just over 80,000, faces the prospect of being scaled down even further, to estimates of around 60,000.
Such cuts would mean the army would not be able to contribute to a US coalition as it did in Iraq and Afghanistan, which is what Odierno is concerned about. But this is part of a bigger debate to be had.
Should Britain start behaving like the small island state it is rather than maintaining the pretensions of being a significant world player? It is a reasonable debate for voters in May to decide they would rather see Britain play a smaller role in the world and shift more money from defence to welfare.
Britain at present is the fifth biggest spender on defence in the world. US spending is mammoth, then China, Saudi Arabia, Russia and the UK. France is not too far behind the UK, but then there is a big gap to Japan in seventh place, India, Germany, South Korea, Brazil and Italy, which spends about a third of the UK on defence.
In spite of such spending levels by the UK, its has become less visible on the international stage over the last few years, in part because of public hostility towards military intervention post-Iraq.
The contributions, at least in terms of ground troops, to recent confrontations, has been minimal: a symbolic 75 troops this year for the Ukraine-Russia war and a small force to Kurdistan and a handful to Baghdad for the fight against Islamic State.
David Cameron, in response to Odierno, said on Monday that Britain is still "a very strong partner for the US". But that is a long way short of saying he will commit to maintaining defence spending at 2% of GDP and his Conservative colleagues such as former foreign secretary, William Hague, and former defence secretary, Liam Fox, know this, opening up another faultline in the Tory party.
"Odierno's comments should not be read as criticism," said Lukasz Kulesa, research director at the thinktank European Leadership Network. He saw it as a positive move that the US should seek to influence the debate on UK defence spending, pressing for it to be maintained at 2% of GDP.
Last week, the ELN published a report comparing defence spending round Europe since Nato members pledged at a summit in Wales last September to meet the goal of 2% of GDP spending. It found that only six of the 14 states they looked at would increase military spending: Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland (all four worried about Russia), the Netherlands and Romania, but will still not meet the target this year. Six countries will in fact cut defence budgets and France will flatline.
As for the UK, although the British government lectured others at the Nato summit about failing to meet the target as it had done, the report noted that the UK will struggle to meet all its commitments. "On current planning assumptions, there appear to be insufficient funds allocated to the government's defence procurement budget to cover all planned conventional and nuclear related equipment purchases," it says.
Choices will have to be made. Two expensive aircraft carriers are on the way but will there be enough money to pay for enough planes to put on both of them? Will the UK government go ahead with the renewal of Trident in 2016 or delay a decision? Should money for conventional forces go for more tanks and artillery – though few in MoD seriously think there is much chance of conflict with Russia – or be diverted to unconventional ones such as special forces or psychological operations, better able to tackle threats such as Islamic State?
It is to answer questions like this that there will be another defence review, due to be published in 2016. The MoD, partly to ward off more defence cuts being imposed this year, is arguing that budget considerations this year should wait until after the spending review. It is not likely to happen.
The next chancellor can expect on taking office in Downing Street to be presented with a bleak set of Treasury figures, and defence will look like an attractive option for cuts. And to complicate already difficult decisions there could be arguments with coalition partners, say the Conservatives with the Democratic Unionists who have maintenance of 2% as a red line or Labour and the Scottish National Party, whose red line will be that Trident is not renewed.


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At "Little House by the Ferry" you can relax in hammocks and hear the ferry boats tooting their horns coming and going out of the harbor. Located near Silver Lake Harbor where all the restaurants and shops are located, you will find it easy to stroll or bike from this convenient location.
This charming 3 Bedroom (plus bonus bunk room) 1 Bath cottage has undergone a complete renovation and addition during the Spring of 2009. You will love the professionally decorated cottage decor. There are 2 hammocks for relaxing, a fenced-in dog yard, dishwasher and washer and dryer. While there is only one full bath, there is an exceptional outdoor shower with a star-filled sky above. You will never want to shower indoors again.
The large screened-in porch has vaulted ceilings and big views of open space which makes for a very private setting.
We have bikes, sand chairs, beach umbrellas and boogie boards you are welcome to use.
Most of Ocracoke Island is owned by the National Park Service and there are no cottages located at the beach front. Little House by the Ferry is located in the village about a mile and a half from the beach. If you have a four wheel drive you can drive out on the beach. You can also drive or ride bikes to the life guarded beach and walk over the dunes to the beach.
Our cottage is now on city water which provides great water pressure and makes the our shower absolute heaven!
Maximum of 6 people.
Maximum of 3 parking spaces.
Maximum of 1 pet with $100 Pet Fee. (well behaved please)
We will accept reservations of less than 7 nights during the off-season periods.
IMPORTANT: If you wish to book a reservation for less than 7 nights, please send us an INQUIRY instead of making a RESERVATION REQUEST.
We rent Sunday to Sunday. Check-in time is 3:00 PM and Check-out time is 11:00 AM.
We hope you love "Little House by the Ferry" as much as we do.
Lynn & Marsh Pierce
Raleigh, North Carolina
PS. Please don't forget to bring sheets, pillow cases and towels. Comforters and blankets are provided.
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We have been visiting Ocracoke for 20 years and just love it. It is so relaxing and the people are so friendly. Finally we were able to find the perfect property in a great location near all the shops and restaurants.
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We loved every detail of this beautiful house! It was so nice to not only be in Ocracoke but to stay somewhere that truly felt like your own "retreat". Such a cute house, comfy beds, great screened porch for crab feasts and morning coffee, great backyard area that is fenced (great with a dog), really nice outdoor shower - and two hammocks! The owner Marsh is so nice and responds quickly. We loved being so close to everything, we just rented a gof cart and each morning was a quick ride to get espresso at the Slushy Stand (and mint choc chip ice cream for our son - vacation perk!). When the sun sets you are a quick walk or ride to the water and it is just gorgeous. The local seafood market is amazing and very reasonable - we loved bringing fish home and grilling in the backyard. We are already planning to come back next year. Everything is so convenient and charming in Ocracoke, everyone is very nice and there is a lot of great history. This was such a great experience for our family and we can't wait to go back. Thank you to the Pierce family for creating such a great escape in Little House By the Ferry.
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Our family thoroughly enjoyed our time at the little cottage by the ferry. The charming cottage provided comfortable sleeping spaces and a large common area for our family to enjoy hanging out together. We really appreciated having the bikes available to us to explore the island, as well as all the beach equipment to enjoy time at the beach. This was the ideal setting for a relaxing summer vacation!!
My wife and I along with our 8 and 4 year olds spent six nights in the Little House mid June. Marsh was great to work with and very responsive during the booking and travel process. The house is so comfortable. Just what we wanted with an 'island cottage'. It's a quick walk into town but feels private and secluded. The screened porch is great for bug-free coffee in the mornings and happy hour in the evenings. The outdoor shower is a necessity for afterbeach with kids but awesome anytime. I can't comment on the indoor shower because I never used it. The beach accessories were great as well. Chairs, umbrella that stood up well to the Ocracoke breezes and boogie boards that kept the kids busy. We'll stay here again on our next trip to the island.
Love the porches and hammocks!! Everything we needed for an Ocracoke retreat!! Thanks for sharing with us
Wonderful cottage. Quiet and private. We throughly enjoyed our stay on Ocracoke and hope to return soon.
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If you get a chance, head over to the Dad Revolution website and check out a guest post that I wrote entitled Doing the Right Thing. Dad Revolution is one of my favorite group blogs, and it was recently selected as one of Babble's Top Ten Group Dad Blogs. I submitted another guest post there a few weeks ago that I was really proud of entitled Greater than the Sum of our Parts. If you make the trip over to the website, please take the time to read that post as well.
I won't be doing any more guest posts for the site, but it's for a good reason. I have been asked to become one of the regular contributors to the site. This is a huge honor and something that I'm incredibly grateful for. Dad Revolution complements my blog very well because it takes a more serious look at fatherhood, while I try to keep it (at least somewhat) light on Military Dad. It will give me two incredibly relevant forums to express my thoughts on what it means to be a father.
I've already started writing my introductory post in my head, and I'll have it up on the site within the next few days. Even though Dad Revolution is strictly a fatherhood blog, I will still be writing from the point of view of a servicemember, because to be honest, it's the only point of view that I know. I couldn't write about my family without being influenced by the military anymore than I could write about the military without mentioning my family. The two are so entwined at this point, that they can't be separated. In short, they are me, and that's what I write about.
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This program is currently seeking funding approval. Gii Way Quin Daki-Menan: Coming Home to Our Land (CHOL) is a Wilderness Healing Centre for Indigenous peoples to be established in Georgian Bay, Ontario, at the mouth of Key River. This place of majestic natural beauty has been home to generations of Indigenous peoples and provides the perfect venue to support the CHOL vision.
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CHOL program graduates will be encouraged to create product offshoots with more distinctive contemporary Indigenous design features. It is intended that each hand made production will be officially certified to reflect it as an original Indigenous piece. All wood products are made only from local Ontario wood that has been salvaged from forests or reclaimed from building demolition, with trees never cut solely for production.
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CHOL will play an active role in evolving a strong procurement, supply-chain, Indigenous branding/certification and marketing infrastructure for its graduates at both the individual and community levels.
Nation Imagination's Authentically Aboriginal (www.imaginationgroup.ca ) will be granting Indigenous authenticity certification to artistic works produced by Indigenous participants in related carving, live-edge and potentially other works.
Together with Native Child and Family Services of Toronto /Native Learning Centre (East), we are planning a similar wood skills training program and wood carving program in the Kingston-Galloway community of Scarborough--one of, if not the, largest urban Indigenous communities in Canada. Both the northern and urban programs are endorsed by the David Suzuki Foundation (www.davidsuzuki.org ) which will provide guidelines and oversight to assure sustainably sourced woods.


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June 9, 2015
Intel Security today released its McAfee Labs Threats Report: May 2015, which includes revelations on the rapid proliferation of new ransomware, HDD and SSD firmware attacks by the Equation Group computer espionage group, and a major increase in malware targeting Adobe Flash multimedia software.
In the first quarter of 2015, McAfee Labs said it registered a 165% increase in new ransomware driven largely by the new, hard-to-detect CTB-Locker ransomware family, a new ransomware family called Teslacrypt, and the emergence of new versions of CryptoWall, TorrentLocker, and BandarChor.
McAfee Labs attributes CTB-Locker's success to clever techniques for evading security software, higher-quality phishing emails, and an "affiliate" program that offers accomplices a percentage of ransom payments in return for flooding cyberspace with CTB-Locker phishing messages.
It recommended that "organizations and individuals make it a priority to learn how to recognize phishing emails.
The first quarter also saw new Adobe Flash malware samples increase by 317%. Researchers attribute the rise to several factors: the popularity of Adobe Flash as a technology; user delay in applying available Adobe Flash patches; new methods to exploit product vulnerabilities; a steep increase in the number of mobile devices that can play Adobe Flash files (.swf); and the difficulty of detecting some Adobe Flash exploits. Researchers are seeing a continued shift in focus among exploit kit developers, from Java archive and Microsoft Silverlight vulnerabilities to Adobe Flash vulnerabilities.
"With the popularity of a product like Flash, there comes a tremendous responsibility to proactively identify and mitigate security issues potentially threatening millions of users," said Vincent Weafer, senior vice president of McAfee Labs.
The report also identified a number of other developments including:
An interview with Chris Young, head of Intel Security, who spoke at an event in Toronto today, will appear in the next issue of Connections+.


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This is an act of accusation and responsibility, but not against someone in particular, against us, we as human kind, as human beings who inhabit this planet.
It is a reflection that everyone should do if he does not have his eyes closed because it is enough to look around and reality reveals what we are wrong and at the same time what we can do to remedy and improve.
Man as a physical and spiritual entity has a great strength that is to learn and process and also a great power that can be creative or destructive depending on whether he or she uses the brain or heart or how it would be better, both joined together.
If we look around in our cities we see so many people who look blind. They seem to be in a hurry to move to their habits without realizing that life is over or over, or it's over for a long time since they are not the ones to choose what to do, think, want etc etc but simply follow the habits, conditioning, "what I have to do because they do it all" without realizing it's all a dream, a rip off.
There is little compassion and empathy in human relations, especially in the city and above all in the great relationships between the states, the nations, these entities invented by the ego to say "I am better than you and you are worse and this makes me stand good". In international relations, laws are ratified where the strongest, the richest is increasingly richer and more powerful, while on the contrary the mass must only work and consume incessantly what they say without being able to give their opinion on these mechanisms.
But the wealthiest of what is rich? Of money? Golden? About what? Do you think they are happy counting their billions? Do you think that they are satisfied with the yet purchase of a 1 million penthouse or Ferrari's latest model? Or is it just like buying coffee for us? How much happiness do you come from, drinking coffee if not for a maximum of 1 minute?
So what is the mission, the purpose of these people who rule the world by accumulating power and wealth without being able to love, share, create, and develop projects?
Their wealth is really nothing. The love and interest that exists between every little particle of the universe is all.
People in cities behave as if common goods were someone else's: they throw the garbage on the ground thinking that it is just that someone else cleans or does not bother at all about the damage they are doing.
You know how much plastic exists at this time on the ground and that it is polluting the seas to such an extent that probably not doing in a few years the marine species will disappear and the food chain will do the rest of the job by killing other species that feed on fish.
Some studies argue that now plastic has also infiltrated the water we drink in the aqueducts, the aquifers, the springs and so we are all plastic (petroleum and carcinogenic) for a long time.
Despite this everywhere we turn it all is plastic: every food container, even the most "organic" contains something plastic and so this process is continually fed and doubled with time.
Some cities are cleaner, more dirty and there are places in the world where there is no waste because they are totally handled with recycling but the percentage of these virtuoso is so low that it looks like a small puddle to the sea.
It is not defective and only to see the negative: they are made and is the first thing to do to make the first step towards a positive rebirth: you need to become conscious, to use your own deep awareness and the deep love that each of us has in our hearts and in our minds and project everything that comes out in projects for a better future, for the change that brings to a new society.
The society I see with this awareness and this love in the heart is this:
there are no more states, nations or borders because they do not serve, we are all citizens of the states of the world. The state organization is aimed at people's well-being and not economic growth. Those who decide is not an elite but all citizens connected with a network of easy access and decisions are always unique: there is no majority and minority but there is always an agreement where all parties are protected and satisfied because they do not exist more differentiation between rich, poor, intelligent and no, races, social classes, religions ... only human beings who share a happy life made of few hours of work a day and a lot of time for creativity, love, care of the environment , art and everything that can give happiness and well-being without harm to anyone.
Birth should be established by a world-wide shared plan so that there is no overpopulation with obvious consumption problems of non-existent resources and not the reverse but a harmonious flow of generations that leave it behind a better planet: with more resources, more beauty and less work to be done thanks to the development of technology and science: the real ones.
At present, technology is monopolized by the multinationals of money-making, or even worse by the military, representing only the destruction of all that I have described above.
Using the immense resources available to commercial and military lobbyists, the planet would exponentially advance on technology until probably in the future of robots carrying out all the toughest and most dangerous jobs.
They are not mad outsiders who have seen too much science fiction films because, as you well know in Giulio Verne's books, it seemed absurd to be able to get on the moon and man in 1969 succeeded and who could think up to 20 years ago to talk to own phone and that he would respond by giving us the information? ... and I could do other examples but I think I explained.
Let's open our eyes and wake up from this nightmare, are we men or slaves?
In the small things of everyday we do not think only of our bieco interest but also of the consequences that every our thought or action will give birth to this reality!
Those few who at this time govern the world can not be more powerful than all others if they are all aware of that, even if they are rich and powerful and can even guide the puppet governments present in the states, they can never stop such a multitude of NO COLLABORATION. If each and every one of us or at least most of them begin by not violence, DO NOT buy their products, DO NOT follow their laws, DO NOT listen to their influences, and then use the media and not be used by them ... it would want a revolution not violent where everyone gets traversed and manifests permanently until governments have to give up power and the governors themselves as they no longer have to rule!
Growth, immigration, deficit, public debt, labor, wars, and all the other fandonies invented by puppet governments and their rulers have no consistency in the light of what genuinely mankind could create by organizing himself as a structure devoted to the development of well-being, knowledge, temper and compassion. The development would be so incredibly fast that in a few hundred years it could even reset the eco system of this planet almost irremediably compromised.
And this planet is our home! Or not? Growth must always be sustainable, otherwise we will only talk about mass destruction.
Do you believe that your soul will be born again or will you be in some kind of paradise because they have made you believe this forever?
I'm sorry but paradise is here, it's this life, and only by treating it at its maximum we can have the fruits of paradise and it's done here and now.
Let's start working then for this humanity.
Hugs to all
Alessandro Orlandi


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How to use the Internet browser
You can use your mobile phone's browser to access the Internet. If you can't use the Internet browser as soon as you've inserted your SIM, you need to set up your mobile phone for Internet.
1. Find "Safari"
2. Enter a web address
3. Add the current website to your bookmarks
Key in the name of the bookmark.


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Student Censorship by University of Kentucky
August 31, 2011
As reported by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A reporter with the student newspaper at the University of Kentucky was barred from a news media event with basketball players. DeWayne Peevy, an associate athletics director, told The Lexington Herald-Leader that the newspaper's basketball writer, Aaron Smith, broke an unwritten policy barring reporters from interviewing student-athletes without first going through media relations.
Oh sure – those students journalists… student athletes can't speak with student journalists but the rest of the media can? And there is logic in this decision? It looks like University censorship. Plain, simple and regrettable.
Good News? Good Grief. Get a Grip!
October 10, 2010
I have just about had my fill of complaints about contemporary news coverage… what "the media" isn't covering, should cover, how it slants and skews politics, and its multitude of sins – real and imagined – by everyone who wants to be critical – and none of whom is willing to do much more than complain bitterly, loudly, and usually without specifics to back up their argument or assertion.
"If you want good news look in the sports pages!" That's an old saw uttered by news men and women defending their craft against an audience whose justification for not reading, listening or watching coverage of the events of their era is their claim that news is so depressing.
Depressing? Tough. Sorry… but tough. I'd say – honest. I'd say realistic.
I'd suggest news is the first draft of history; that these are troubling times, news should portray the times we live in and not a Varnish or Pollyanna view like a rotogravure.
News is based on the currency that you need to know, understand and ingest significant events, thoughtful evaluations and interpretations in opinion columns, and have a contextual, deep understanding of news makers in a complex world in order to make intelligent decisions and navigate the shoals of life.
News isn't supposed to be happy, or filled with feel-good-isms. News isn't an alternative for a list of firsts compiled by Guinness Book of Records on the bar. It isn't about bromides or pontificating politicians; it shouldn't be point-counterpoint reduced to platitudes and silliness as if an argument over the Bickerson's breakfast table.
These are serious times demanding serious and sober coverage that reflects the spectrum of argument and focusing on decision points. News should be presented in many voices and through a prism reflecting and refracting the many points of light representing all angles, sharp points and all colors.
Witness the emergence and growth of good news. It is pervasive. On television news shows happy stories which were once relegated to the close of the program and were called kickers, aimed at leaving the audience with a smile on their face, now vie for more prominent placement in the middle of nightly shows. The producers have been urged by consultants to fill the programs with features and enterprises that are not so serious, that will not be so depressing that audiences will change the dial in order to find more entertaining fare elsewhere.
There is a parody of good news for a version of The New York Times. There is even an amusing video showing audience reaction. Alternative news sites featuring only good news can be found at the Good News Network as well as Good News Daily.
Is this attributable to the growth of McPress? The USATodays and other entertainment shows which seem to hold such audience sway? Is it about the loss of editors as Gene Weingarten recently wrote in the Washington Press and I commented about here?
People will tell surveys that they long for serious news and would read or watch that if it was available. I think that's how they want to be heard by the pollster but is not reflected in their reality. The graduate students I teach barely scratch the surface of the new papers they see, sites they scan, or programs they tune to. I recently asked a large group of professional communicators who work for a public consortium in California how many papers they read — 3 hands went up. How many read more than a single news site – 2 more hands. The CEO later confided that the lack of news knowledge and savvy among the organization was more than a little troubling.
Is this the result of years of neglect for issues such as civics, or history? Is finding news via search a balm for actually reading more thoroughly – is what we think we need to know sufficient for what we really ought to know?
News isn't supposed to be easy. It can, should and does celebrate accomplishment and personal bests. But it must also include the dark underside of the world we live in – for only when that is exposed can there be any real hope for change. For those who find it sufficient not to read or watch, or to seek out saccharin sites with only good things they are living like ostriches.
As if we needed another reason to feel older…
August 17, 2010
The annual survey on incoming freshmen at Beloit College has been released, and as if I wasn't already feeling older this summer Tuesday morning, this provides ample evidence that the times they are a'changing, again.
The incoming freshmen and women of the class of 2014 have always lived with and been surrounded by technology; they consume games and have been weened on education programs. They use technology even if they don't understand how it works. Enhanced user interfaces have made even the simplest tasks automated. Emails and cell phones have been constants in their lives. They are surrounded by information yet they appear to actually consumer very little and perhaps understand even less. They are satisfied by easy searches and are unaccustomed to challenging the veracity of what they find. They are schooled in utilizing tools and speak of too kits; they can create sophisticated media, but I am not sure they appreciate its power to do more than entertain.
It seems worthy of longer discussion about how these"kids" are truly different, partly because of technology, partly because of upbringing and education. Suffice it to say, what they find interesting, important and meaningful as well as how they rely on technology, sometimes in lieu of real experience, will continue to send shock waves throughout the media world.
Excerpts from a story filed by Dinesh Ramde, Associated Press Writer
"MILWAUKEE – For students entering college this fall, e-mail is too slow, phones have never had cords and the computers they played with as kids are now in museums.
The Class of 2014 thinks of Clint Eastwood more as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry urging punks to "go ahead, make my day." Few incoming freshmen know how to write in cursive or have ever worn a wristwatch.
These are among the 75 items on this year's Beloit College Mindset List. The compilation, released Tuesday, is assembled each year by two officials at this private school of about 1,400 students in Beloit, Wis.
…Remember when Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Dan Quayle or Rodney King were in the news? These kids don't.
Ever worry about a Russian missile strike on the U.S.? During these students' lives, Russians and Americans have always been living together in outer space.
… Another Mindset List item reflects a possible shift in Hollywood attitudes. Item No. 12 notes: "Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry."
A number of incoming freshmen said they partially agreed with the item, noting they were familiar with Eastwood's work as an actor even if they hadn't seen his films.
…Jessica Peck, a 17-year-old from Portland, Ore., disagreed with two items on the list — one that says few students know how to write in cursive, and another that suggests this generation seldom if ever uses snail mail.
"Snail mail's kind of fun. When I have time I like writing letters to friends and family," she said. "It's just a bit more personal. And yes, I write in cursive."
Peck did agree with the item pointing out that most teens have never used telephones with cords.
"Yes, I've used them but only at my grandparents' house," she said."
And once we thought getting a telephone call was a big deal…
Preventing access as a form of censorship is a dangerous point on the slippery slope toward despotism and government gone wrong. The latest slip and slide in this direction was written last week at the Regents of the University of California meeting in San Francisco when a journalist with a camera was barred from their public event. The Regent's defensive argument was he didn't have a press credential; the weakness to their argument is the press credential per se wasn't required. Credentialed or not any one is entitled to make pictures at a public meeting under Bagley-Keene, a California law since 1967.
To make matters worse UC police instructed that no one was allowed to make pictures of them doing their job, in this case acting as gatekeepers to enforce a decision which was against the law. This is a chilling thought, one I wrote about on June 9th "Use a Camera, Go to Jail" as it seems many jurisdictions are increasingly less interested in public scrutiny of their work than ever before.
From Saturday's San Francisco Chronicle, UC Regents baring of filmmaker draws protest "State law is clear – any member of the public has a right to film and record public meetings of state bodies," Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, wrote to UC President Mark Yudof.
Yee, who chairs the Senate's committee on Public Records and Open Meeting Laws, asked Yudof to explain not only why filmmaker Ric Chavez was barred from taking his video camera into the meeting, but why UC policy – which makes no provision for the public's right to film public meetings – "is in complete contradiction to state law."
This isn't the first time I've heard of the UC system being difficult toward news coverage. A Santa Barbara based cameraman has written to me about the UC campus there requiring fees for news coverage and offering limited access. This is a public school open to the world which needs to be reminded that coverage of news stories doesn't come at the point of a pen writing a check.
What happens when something really serious happens… will institutions first ask who's there to cover it, what their intentions are, their motives? Perhaps they'd like to see examples of prior work? How much will be required and how far back would they like to review? Should a network include coverage of the student massacre at Kent State? How about carnage at Virginia Tech? Neither of those stories is likely to sway an administration's decision toward openness? UC Regents would be hard pressed to review the free speech movement at Sproul Hall at UCBerkeley – ah the halcyon days of tear gas in the plaza and riot-helmeted cops in the hallways when the sound of clicking handcuffs rivaled that of chalk on blackboards.
Organizations – public institutions – nor their officials should not be allowed to use access as a guarantee against positive or negative coverage, scrutiny or assessment by the citizenry of the quality of their work and the decisions they make. It just isn't a model which protects our right to know, the right to cover, and the rights of all of us to measure and monitor the government we pay for.
Who should decide – at an institutional level – what deserves coverage and what could be potentially embarrassing or liable? Maybe in spite of the open meeting law Regents and others can impound cameras, take away note books and recorders. Hey, why not just go into hiding entirely, star chambers and executive session.
But this is happening… more and more often. This is distressing. This is dangerous
Public places – San Francisco's Ferry Terminal, the passenger piers at San Francisco International airport – both operated with public funds – use both real and rental-cops to move crews off property demanding that they have prior knowledge and approval from management. This is the same management which uses public funds to operate these public facilities… places where any one public with or without cameras is invited… so why not news coverage?
This decision to close ranks and circle the wagons is mirrored too at the corporate level. As an example, BP is reportedly making it most difficult to video or film their work in the gulf. Reportedly many local operations, paid for with BP funds, are off-limits to media. It seems curious that BP – already a premium member of the pillory club for the crime itself as well as the initial cover up is now making strides to become more secretive, closed, and manipulative of the media, as far as it can be based on the money it is investing to that end.
More and more often corporations are risk-adverse to speaking on camera or allowing crews in to make pictures of their operations.
We're seeing the first draft of censorship and limits on freedom of the press. Sadly the mainstream press has become so emaciated by cuts that there is no one left standing it seems to fight the good fight. As a public we may not realize what we're losing until we have lost it.


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Joburgers who have developed a passionate love for netball will be disappointed to know that they will not be able to see various provincial teams in brutal, flashy action in this year's season of the Brutal Fruit Netball Premier League.
Although the league kicked off last weekend in Durban, it will move around other centres of the country to enable the sport and games to be as widely representative as possible.
This year's league will be played in Durban, Cape Town and Bloemfontein.
The league is the sport's flagship competition in South Africa and underlines the phenomenal growth of the sport in recent years, and most importantly, the fourth edition of the tournament indicates another step towards the goal of a fully-professional netball league.
For the first time since its inception, this year's champions will get to travel to New Zealand to compete in the Super Club Championships.
This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity will afford players the experience to play at international level and further enhance their skills. The runners-up will walk away with a cash prize of R150 000.
As sponsors of the country's first semi-professional netball league, Brutal Fruit, a brand of the South African Breweries (SAB), in partnership with Netball South Africa (NSA) has announced the introduction of the Brutal Fruit Study Programme, aimed at affording players within the league an opportunity to further their studies.
"This programme will ensure that empowerment of the players remains our priority and that we are constantly working towards ensuring that the players showcase their skills thus ensuring we develop fully integrated players," said Kudzi Mathabire, marketing manager for Redds & Brutal Fruit at SAB.
In addition to this, 10 coaches selected from all the provinces will be invited to participate in the NSA Level 2 coaching course which will be held later this year.
The competition once again pits 10 provincial-based teams against each other over eight weeks of intense competition. Cape Town is next to host the tournament with Bloemfontein to host the last three weeks.
Edited by Stacey Woensdregt
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Good condition with some dirt on the back.
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This is 1 postcard with a cute print from SWIMMER. Was most likely ripped out of a book of postcards.
☆ Suggested occasions for use
The postcard can be used as room decorations or for scrap booking. It could also be used as cards for presents or for writing cute postcards for loved ones.


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Orange Brush Fire
At 9:35 PM Friday night, the Orange Fire Department and surrounding agencies responded to reports of a brush fire near the Orange Hill Restaurant in the 6400 block of East Chapman Avenue. Crews arriving on scene found an approximately 1/2 acre brush fire to the rear of the restaurant with a rapid rate of spread. Firefighters established structure defense and had the blaze controlled within 30 minutes. The Orange Police Department assisted with traffic control. The cause of the fire is currently unknown.