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Today, threats to your organization and the way you do business can come from all angles. In this post, my Kotter International colleague Dennis Goin offers tips for leaders on how to engage your organization to help you recognize disruptive shifts before they occur — and to help you turn those threats into opportunities.
With the high rate of change in all industries today, leadership is tasked with being up-to-speed with and ready to react to crucial industry changes as they occur.
Have you experienced having a competitor shift ahead of you seemingly overnight? Has your entire industry been transformed in the blink of an eye when a tiny, fast-moving company suddenly gains velocity? Has your company been threatened when a behemoth that wasn't even on your radar entered your market? If you have experienced any of these situations, you were most likely scrambling. If you haven't experienced anything like this yet, you most likely will in the near future.
What are the key practices that leaders use to stay aware of what's going on outside the organization? Here are five easy ways to stay ahead:
- Look for clues. Before they gain velocity, market shifts give clues that reveal themselves as pain-points arising in your organization. One Kotter International client noticed that their corporate growth had slightly stunted. When they brought in consultants to analyze their business, the analysis revealed that their competitors had begun to leap ahead in the customer supply-chain, capturing customers before our client had time to reach them. The small pain-point of slowed growth revealed the need to re-structure their entire go-to-market strategy in order to be competitive again.
- Find the opportunity in the market shift. As a leader, you need to help your people flip their perspective — help them be open to seeing these new challenges as opportunities. If your organization has been trained that these pain points create chaos and frustration, they will be less likely to raise a red flag until the pain-point has become a threat to the business. I worked with a global organization that traditionally provided services to an industry. When the market shifted, creating an opportunity for them to develop their own serviceable product, they originally perceived it as a threat. I worked with them to see this market shfit as their opportunity to expand, rather than as a pain point.
- Engage all levels of the organization. Managers are great at maintaining the status quo, but that does not make them the best sentinels for recognizing clues to market change. Get these managers to energize their teams with the idea of the opportunity. Show them the change is an opportunity they have the power to move toward, rather than a pain-point they want to run away from. They'll begin to voice their ideas on how to make beneficial changes.
- Solicit ideas. Challenge the entire organization to not only recognize changes, but to come up with solutions. Instead of demanding that your teams redirect a few people to work on this, demonstrate to them that you perceive them as valuable contributors. Suggest that the entire division might be able to come up with a way to get it done. If you begin recognizing and rewarding these people stepping forward, your organization will become acutely aware and ready to recognize and suggest a solution for the next corporate challenge.
- Formalize the process.Make sure anyone at any level can raise their hand. Give your people a clear path — a formalized, streamlined process — for contributing and channeling these ideas into action. In the current structure, by the time permission comes down the reporting chain, these challenges might just turn into disruptors. Recognize leaders within your organization at all levels, and they will inspire others to step forward, creating a circular system that accelerates the recognition of challenges and the action taken toward them, organically and immediately, without having to go up the chain for permission. When your people see a way they can affect immediate change for the better, you'll be amazed at the effort they are willing to make toward that change.
Creating within your organization a system and process for recognizing change and accelerating action is the best defense against being caught by surprise. Your people will become sentinels looking for opportunities to improve business and stay ahead of the market.
Keep an eye out for my new article, "Accelerate," due out in the November issue of Harvard Business Review, in which I explain how organizations can develop the agility required to succeed in today's rapidly changing world.
Dennis Goin is Executive Vice President for Engagements at Kotter International. John Kotter is the chief innovation officer at Kotter International (www.kotterinternational.com), a firm that helps leaders accelerate strategy implementation in their organizations, and is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership Emeritus at Harvard Business School.
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Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 is very popular in market, though its new version that is Galaxy Ace Plus is widely available in market. Below shown is the Android 2.3.6 gingerbread based Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 XWKTM firmware upgraded followed by pre requisites:
Here are listed few steps which you need to follow before you start with the upgrade procedure:-
- This update is exclusively for the users who have smartphone of Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 and not any other version of it, say Galaxy Ace S5830i or any other. So please do check your model version under "about phone" under settings option.
- Make sure that the rooting once done might be removed from the phone, so you need to root it again.
- You also need to have a backup of all the important data, as you may loss them while the firmware upgrade.
- Also make sure about the life of your battery, it must be more than 60%.
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You must have USB Debugging already installed in your phone. You have to follow the path "Settings -> Applications -> Development-> USB Debugging" and tick USB Debugging.
This upgrade is custom ROM and you are proceeding on your own risk.
Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 XWKTM Firmware Upgrade-
Follow the steps below to upgrade your Android 2.3.6 Galaxy Ace S5830–
- First of all, download Odin tool and XWKTM 2.3.6 firmware on your PC. After that, extract the same to PC and access the files that follow. Then, unzip your Odin tool and do install it on your PC. Now, keep it open.
- Power off Galaxy Ace S5830 to make it to restart in download mode. You can easily do it by holding the three buttons of Volume down keys, power button and OK button all together.
- If you are in download mode, connect your Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 to your PC by making use of USB cable. As you connect them, a confirmation message is displayed and you can see your ID: COM port turning yellow, that means the installation of drivers have been successfully done.
- Now follow OPS -> Cooper_v1.0.ops -> one package -> S5830XWKTM_S5830OXXKT3_S5830XWKT7_HOME.tar.md5.
- Do confirm the same selection of files is correctly done or not, then click "start" to continue with the procedure of upgrade. It will hardly take 5minutes. The phone will automatically restart now.
- Now under Odin tool, a "pass" message will be displayed. Then, disconnect your phone with your PC.
- Now enter under recovery mode by pressing power button, volume up button and OK button simultaneously for some time. As you get in recovery mode go to "Wipe data/factory reset -> Wipe Cache Partition -> Reboot System Now". Your phone will automatically restart now in recovery mode.
Your Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 is now upgraded with XWKTM Firmware. you may check it in Settings -> About Phone.


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On behalf of my clients I create mail chimp campaigns, business facebook posts, LinkedIn updates, twitter feeds and instagram posts.
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I'm proficient in MicroSoft Office, Word, Excel, Power Point, MS Project, QuickBooks and Survey Monkey.
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After twenty years in the corporate world carrying out the role of a Customer Project Manager I know all there is to know about planning, tracking issues and delivering on time and within budget. I have a Prince 2 methodology accreditation.
Event Management
I have co-ordinated events for my clients which has included workshops, team away days and seminars.
I provide my clients with e-mail management and have provided support with the generation of reports, proposals and tenders. I've developed filing structures and have streamlined office process and procedures.
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I've set up and maintained databases for my clients and have assisted with diary management.
I have co-ordinated events for my clients which has involved...
- Sourcing the venue
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During these events I have been the central point of contact ensuring that the event runs smoothly.
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Over the past twenty years I've worked as a Project Manager in the corporate world however after a career move set up Deborah PA.
I'm highly skilled in the management and co-ordination of activities both within an office and home environment.
I hope that I can be of service to you and look forward to meeting you soon".
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text: Sleep scientists are tinkering with our circadian clocksTim Barribeau6/18/11 4:00pmFiled to: mad scienceCircadian RhythmSleepScienceTop331EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkOur circadian clock is the part of our brain the regulates our body's cycle, making sure that we sleep, eat and act in concordance with the twenty-four-hour day.AdvertisementEven though we know it's there and what it does, picking apart the mechanisms of its action has been a long and laborious process for scientists. New research has unlocked one more part of this biohorological puzzle.There's an ongoing negative feedback loop occurring in our body which the circadian rhythm relies on. The group of proteins known as PER complex inhibit the activity of a transcription factor, called CLOCK-BMAL1. Once inhibited, this represses the expression of the PER proteins, and the cycle sways again.AdvertisementWhat this research team has shown is the method by which the PER proteins manage to inhibit CLOCK-BMAL1. There's a specific protein known as PSF which is part of the PER complex, which recruits another protein, SIN3-histone deacetylase complex, which is what inhibits CLOCK-BMAL1 activity. They think this mechanism is shared in common with all life that has a circadian rhythm, including mammals, insects, plants and fungi, and comes our eukaryotic predecessors.Why do these crazy acronyms matter? By removing the PSF or SIN3-histone deacetylase complex, the researchers have found the can dramatically shorten the circadian cycle — how else are we going to adapt to the 14-hour days of another planet?[Via Science]Reply33 repliesLeave a reply


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5 high school seniors receive K-State scholarship
Five high school seniors are receiving the Kassebaum Scholarship from Kansas State University.
Named in honor of former Kansas Sen. Nancy Kassebaum-Baker, the $5,000 Kassebaum Scholarship recognizes students whose academic and extracurricular achievements reflect the potential for and desire to make a difference through energetic leadership in the public service arena.
The scholarship competition was Jan. 22. The university received 147 applications, and a selection committee chose 10 student finalists to interview for the Kassebaum Scholarship. Of those interviewed, five students were chosen to receive the scholarship, with the other five finalists receiving a four-year renewable scholarship.
The Kassebaum Scholarship has been awarded to 82 students since its inception in 2001. Kansas State University leads all public universities in the number of Truman, Rhodes, Goldwater and Udall scholars, and many of the university's recipients of these prestigious scholarships came from the Kassebaum Scholarship program.
"K-State is honored to recognize students who have a passion for public service and want to pursue a career in this area. I am confident these students will have a lasting impact here at K-State and do great things for our university," said Kirk Schulz, university president.
Kassebaum Scholarship recipients include Sarah Watkins, Derby, senior at Derby High School; Faith Johnson, Paola, senior at Paola High School; Amy Hein, Shawnee, senior at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School; and Cody Christensen, Topeka, senior at Washburn Rural High School. From out of state: Mandy Marchesini, Loudonville, N.Y., senior at Colonie Central High School.
Kassebaum Scholarship finalists include:
Audrey Schmitz, Axtell, senior at Axtell High School; Kaitlyn Connor, Lenexa, senior at Olathe Northwest High School; Patrick Kenney, Manhattan, senior at Manhattan High School; Jordan Reinhardt, Overland Park, senior at Blue Valley Northwest High School; and Tyler O'Briant, Tonganoxie, senior at Tonganoxie High School.


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Getting Started: Planning and Preparing for the Community Health Improvement Process
Tools to Assist You with Internal and External Readiness
Tools to Assist You in Developing a Community Health Improvement Vision
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October 2013, TruckingInfo.com - Feature
by Jim Park, Equipment Editor - Also by this author
There's no shortage of fuel-saving technologies on the market. Choosing the right device for your application is never easy. Is the ROI reasonable? Will it be maintenance neutral? Is it reliable? Will it get in the way? Will the supplier be there in five years to honor the warranty?
Since 2007, a group based in Pointe Claire, Quebec, has been helping its fleet members answer some of those questions.
Performance Innovation Transport Group is an offshoot of FPInnovations Inc., one the world's largest private, not-for-profit forestry research centers.
With expertise developed over 35 year through one of FPInnovations' divisions, the Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada, a group of Canadian carriers formed PIT to test various fuel-saving products and technologies.
PIT recently released the results of a fuel economy test campaign of four brands of trailer side skirts (Freight Wing, Laydon Composites, Ridge Corporation and Transtex Composite), and three brands of undercarriage air deflectors (AirFlow Deflector, Airman and SmartTruck).
The test results show that trailers with side skirts consumed an average of 6.69% less fuel than similar vehicles without skirts. Trailers with undercarriage aerodynamic devices consumed 1.43% less fuel on average than similar units without the deflectors. Fuel savings with the side-skirt devices ranged across the brands from 5.2% to 7.45% compared to similar vehicles without skirts. Fuel savings with the undercarriage devices ranged across the brands from 0% to 2.2%.
"The goal of these trials was to identify the real value of each technology so fleet operators can focus their implementation efforts where they get the best value and can more easily justify their capital investment," said Yves Provencher, director of PIT. "Our controlled test-track fuel efficiency studies accelerate technology implementation and provide the commercial vehicle industry with the information it needs to make sound technology choices."
In the past, PIT, through its Energotest program, has tested low-rolling resistance tires, various tractor and trailer aerodynamic fitments, add-on fuel saving technologies, manual versus automated transmission, hybrid vehicles and more. PIT has also compared results of the various generations of EPA emissions requirements.
Testing last summer of 6x2 vs. 6x4 tractors found that 6x2 tractors used 2.6% to 3.5% less fuel than similar 6x4 tractors. PIT traction performance evaluations showed that 6x2 tractors' traction was also reduced compared to 6x4 models.
PIT operates a testing consortium with about 50 fleet members. Fleet members range from the largest and most innovative fleets in Canada to one small Quebec-based fleet of 25 trucks.
There are just two American fleets in the group, but PIT has openings for more.
Fleets pay a membership fee based on fleet size that vary from $35 to $50 per truck per year. The minimum fee is $5,200.
Member fleets that are approached by vendors with a product are referred to PIT to have the product tested before the fleets will even look at it. It's like the "Gold Seal" of approval, Provencher says.
Fleet members can also request specific product tests and within certain constraints can help define the testing protocol.
There's more information about PIT at www.pit.fpinnovations.ca.
What's keeping fleets on the sidelines?
A new fleet survey and research conducted by The North American Council for Freight Efficiency has identified what stands between fleets and better fuel economy. NACFE, in partnership with Cascade Sierra Solutions, dug deep into why there hasn't been wider adoption of several commonly available technologies that could deliver thousands of dollars in fuel savings.
NACFE identified five key bottlenecks to nationwide implementation of available technologies. In order as reported in the survey:
"Our survey and report clearly shows the gap between perceptions and reality of the adoption of technologies," says Mike Roeth, executive director of NACFE. "Still, fleets have to wade through a lot of information, decide what's credible and what is just marketing, and then make a decision on what can be a substantial investment."
The NACFE Barriers study used telephone interviews, focus groups and online survey methods to interviewed nearly 1,900 owner-operators as well as large and small fleets that operate over 50,000 trucks and 100,000 trailers about their decision-making processes for adopting new fuel efficiency technology.
The full report is available online at www.truckinginfo.com/barriers.
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MOLINE, Ill. (AP)- A private jet carrying rock bands Ratt and Dokken had to make an emergency landing in Moline after smoke was detected in the cabin.
Chuck Brennan, a friend of the bands who chartered the flight, told The Associated Press that the plane took off from the Moline airport early Saturday afternoon but pilots had to turn it around when smoke appeared at 7,000 feet.
The plane landed safely, and there were no injuries reported by the pilot or the 13 passengers.
Brennan says the bands took ground transportation to Saturday's concert in the Chicago suburb of Wauconda.
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Well, technically their birthday was yesterday... I've never been great with deadlines.
Two people claimed to be finished, but didn't get me their parts... should be added tomorrow assuming they send me their FLAs. Better late than never, right?
Anyways, (yesterday) was the day of birth of the Milburn brothers, Nathaniel and Bryce. Nathaniel has a nice little website called Camp North, go to http://campnorth.tv and check it out!
Just about all the coauthors are missing.. hopefully they will wake up in the morning and accept. Thanks a lot to everyone who helped this last minute idea come to life! Oh yeah, and Buzzwerd drew the menu.
And of course, happy birthday to those Milburn boyz ;3
[edit] some new parts added late late.
Rated 4 / 5 stars
Nice birthday collab. The menu is nice, good graphics. Some of the parts were really good, like Matt's, BlueHippo's and Nogfish, and some weren't that good. But hey, it's a very good birthday collab ^^
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
A fantastic collab for sure. Each of the parts were super funny! Bluehippo's was pretty weird. And Anigen's made no sense. Oh well great collab and happy birthday to the milburn brothers!
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars
Not much really but still a good collab
This really is what started the whole birthday collab fad.
Most of the parts were good.
I really didn't like tom fulp's though.
NogFishes was really good.
This was a pretty random collab.
And some parts didn't even have to do with the milburns.
Still a pretty nice collab.
It's at least worth a watch.
Rated 5 / 5 stars
I loved it!
This made no sense really, but I laughed my butt off! Good job. Please do one like this in September again. This is going on my favorites!
Rated 4 / 5 stars
Just 'cause I like collabs
But I must say I don't really understand...
I'm sure the Milburn brothers love it nonetheless.


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Short story collection Banner by me. Tres Sorores translates to 'Three Sisters' in Latin. This is a story about the three Black sisters; Bellatrix, Narcissa and Andromeda. There will be three parts - one for each sister. Genres: Drama, General Era: Marauders Characters: Andromeda, Bellatrix, Narcissa Pairings: Lucius/Narcissa, Other Pairing Advisory: No Warnings Published: 2011.07.17 Latest Chapter: 2011.11.03 Updated: 2011.11.03 Status: WIP (2825 words) |
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Novella Thank you love_jillmarie at TDA for the amazing banner! Ginny and Hermione have been mulling over the prospect of going on a joint family holiday for a while. After all, the kids are older and therefore more managable, especially now that Hugo is out of nappies. Join Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and the kids in a camping trip in the northern regions of England. What could possibly go wrong? Genres: General, Humor, Action/Adventure Era: Next Generation Characters: Albus, Ginny, Harry, Hermione, Hugo, James (II), Lily (II), Ron, Rose Pairings: Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione Advisory: Mild Language, Scenes of a Mild Sexual Nature Published: 2010.03.11 Latest Chapter: 2010.10.13 Updated: 2010.10.13 Status: Abandoned (22335 words) |
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If the holidays are the time for extravagant gifts, there are plenty to choose from this year. At the top of the list are two boxed sets that would thrill any serious aficionado of photography: August Sander's seven-volume People of the 20th Century (Abrams, $195) and Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set (Abrams, $150), a two-volume edition that reproduces all 1642 photos donated to the National Gallery of Art by Stieglitz's widow and frequent subject, Georgia O'Keeffe. Sander's project619 portraits of German farmers, artists, businessmen, and laborers made between the first and second world warsis one of the most influential undertakings in the history of photography. Published here for the first time in the format that Sander envisioned, with people separated into volumes by profession or type ("The Skilled Tradesman," "The City," "The Woman"), People of the 20th Century epitomizes the matter-of-fact detachment of German New Objectivity. But it also contains the seeds of a more soulful sort of sociology, and it's impossible to imagine Arbus and Penn, much less Ruff and Struth, without the precedent set by Sander. Stieglitz's accomplishment, while harder to quantify in contemporary terms, is just as significant historically. An early innovator of photographic modernism, he was also among its first American promoters and entrepreneurs, founding the quarterly Camera Work and establishing the Fifth Avenue art and photo gallery known as 291. The Key Set gathers work from throughout his long career, including streetscapes, landscapes, still lifes, and portraits, as well as his daringly intimate investigations of the nude O'Keeffe and countless variations on his famous "Equivalents," studies of clouds that he intended as abstract mirrors of his "most profound experience of life."
For extravagance in another vein, there's Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue (Edition 7L, $120), an appropriately lavish celebration of the career of model-turned-creative director Grace Coddington, who worked first at British Vogue and is now at its American counterpart. Coddington's talent is her ability to imagine a particular designer garment out in the world and to translate that fantasy into something startling, amusing, or seductiveideally, all of the above. She can't do this without the close collaboration of a number of trusted photographers, and, if all goes right, her work is virtually indistinguishable from theirs. Grace devotes most of its 400 supersized pages to the fruits of these collaborations, with individual portfolios by Annie Leibovitz, Norman Parkinson, Guy Bourdin, Helmut Newton, Ellen Von Unwerth, Mario Testino, Bruce Weber, and 23 others, each accompanied by a few brief paragraphs from Coddington that substitute anecdote for insight. No matterwhat the book lacks in pithiness is more than made up for by its wealth of great images and its insider's view of the history of contemporary fashion photography. Worth the price of admission all by itself: Leibovitz's deftly orchestrated standoff between Sean Combs and Kate Moss at the Paris haute couture collections.
For an even headier dose of fashion history, there's the reissue of Diane Vreeland's Allure (Bulfinch, $75), originally published in 1980 after the former editor at Harper's Bazaar and Vogue had moved on to the position of curator at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Legendarily opinionated and passionately over-the-top, Vreeland had a taste for the grand gesture, for beauty at its most rarefied, but she knew how to make extravagance entertaining, and she could talk up a storm. Allure, bound in her signature lipstick red, is a scrapbook (she called it a "potpourri") of pictures by Beaton, Horst, Avedon, Penn, Man Ray, Baron de Meyer, and other primarily fashion photographers that evoked her sensibility and provoked her comment (faithfully transcribed and edited by Christopher Hemphill). The photos, all in black-and-white, suggest a world swinging manically between cool elegance and overheated exuberancea place where Anna Magnani, Nijinsky, Eva Perón, Fred Astaire, and Penelope Tree are the gods and goddesses, and mere mortals can only swoon. Vreeland inhabits this world so fully you've got to submit to her considerable will, and her pronouncements are Allure's real meat or, more accurately, fizzy champagne. She knows she's parodying herself when she declares that blue jeans are "the most beautiful things since the gondola," but she's not joking when she says, "I loathe narcissism but I approve of vanity."
Vreeland would approve of the inimitable style displayed by the African women and men in Jackie Nickerson's Farm (Jonathan Cape, $55). Although her book of portraits and landscapes from the farmlands of Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, and South Africa has a documentary underpinning, Nickerson is not particularly interested in the conditions under which these tomato pickers or tea pluckers work. Instead, she's interested (like Leni Riefenstahl with the Nuba) in their physical beauty and the way they wear their clothes. And no wonder: On the evidence she presents, African farmworkers are not only uncommonly dignified, they're among the planet's most inventive dressers. The radical deconstructionists of Paris and Brussels have nothing on the Zimbabwean woman whose eyelet skirt is wrapped in a wide panel of wrinkled silver fabric or the man in Malawi whose pants are a loosely stitched collage of cloth and plastic patches. It may be heedlessly reductive to turn barefoot laborers into exemplars of DIY style, but their originality and flair are too astonishing to ignore. With these handsome, understated pictures, taken in the fields where they work, Nickerson gives her subjects much respect and pays their inspired improvisation the attention it deserves.
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At $35, Richard Avedon's Portraits (Abrams), which accompanies his current show at the Metropolitan Museum, is the season's most affordable extravagance. Designed as a slip-cased, accordion-fold screen that can stand on its own, the book contains 50 of Avedon's most arresting portraits (from Samuel Beckett, June Leaf, and James Galanos to the Warhol Factory crew) on one side and accessible, insightful texts by the photographer and his Met curators, Maria Morris Hambourg and Mia Fineman, on the reverse. If you're really feeling generous, combine Portraits with Kerry William Purcell's new book on Alexey Brodovitch (Phaidon, $75), the genius art director who was Avedon's mentor at Bazaar. Like Vreeland, Brodovitch was another one of the fashion world's larger-than-life legends, and Purcell's book makes it clear why he still matters. Not only does it include a slew of layouts and covers from his years at Bazaar (1934 to 1958), it reproduces every page of his extraordinary first book of photographs, Ballet, of his designs for Andre Kertesz's Day of Paris and Bill Manville's Saloon Society, and of the three issues of the short-lived graphic arts quarterly, Portfolio, that he art directed and edited in 1950 and '51. There's enough inspiration here to fuel countless other design projectseven if they never get further than your bedroom.
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BARGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan – Soldiers assigned to 2nd Platoon, 514th Support Maintenance Company, 419th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 10th Sustainment Brigade, provide fabrication and metal work here to meet the needs and enhance the safety of the Soldiers who put their lives on the line every time they roll out on a mission.
No matter what the temperature is outside, the allied trade specialist work with extremely hot plasma cutters, bench grinders, welders and torches to ensure their mission to support the warfighter is accomplished.
Sgt. Nate Mast, shop noncommissioned officer in charge, a Grand Rapids, Michigan native assigned to 2nd Platoon, said their mission is to support any needs that may come up from those here on BAF. He receives approximately five to 10 work orders a week.
Soldiers in the shop have worked on an array of work orders from fabricating bumpers for the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles to demilitarizing arms secured from enemy weapons caches.
With their experience and knowledge, allied trade specialists may be seen as problem solvers.
"Recently, a unit was having issues with their ammo getting stuck in the ammo can so we made some modifications to allow the ammo to feed into the weapon system freely," said Sgt. Robert Fair, the shop foreman, a Montgomery, Alabama native assigned to 2nd Platoon.
The shop has supported military units and civilian companies throughout BAF, sometimes just by providing metal to the units who may not have access to it.
"We also help with container repair and support for any of the containers that have to go back to the states," said Mast. "We patch the holes and repair or replace the seals."
The Soldiers understand their responsibility of mission support and strive to improve themselves each day.
"Back in the states we really don't get to do our job because there isn't a big demand for it," said Pfc. Toney Chambers, an allied trade specialist, an Atlanta native assigned to 2nd Platoon. "But here we are constantly busy doing our job. I like that."
Receiving work orders requesting a second weapon system mount in the turret or repairs to a trucks Q-Net, a lightweight armor solution capable of protecting a wide range of tactical and lightly armored vehicles against rocket propelled grenades, is not uncommon.
"We have a very productive atmosphere in the shop," said Mast. "I let them know what needs to be done and they do it their way to accomplish the mission."
The shop does a lot of custom jobs as well, which may help increase morale.
"There are a lot of commemorative awards for units getting ready to leave," said Mast. "Commands request things like guidon stands or ornaments for someone's desk and we make it happen."
Soldiers of the shop embrace their duties as allied trade specialist.
"Anything you can think of we can probably do it," said Chambers. "Not even probably, we will do it."
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Hyundai said Monday that, in the event of breakdown of the Sonata Hybrid's lithium polymer battery, the company will replace the battery free of charge and pay for its recycling costs. Hyundai, which co-developed the lithium polymer battery with LG Chem, says the Sonata Hybrid's drivetrain can hold up under more than 300,000 miles of driving with "minimal degradation."
Hyundai continues to pitch its cars' reliability and fuel efficiency as a way to boost U.S. sales. For the model year 2010, the most recent year the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency tracked fleetwide fuel efficiency, Hyundai achieved a fleetwide fuel-economy level of 25.9 miles per gallon, best among the 14 largest automakers. Hyundai boosted U.S. sales by 20 percent last year to a record 645,691 vehicles, with the Sonata as its best-selling line. The company doesn't break out sales numbers specifically for the Sonata Hybrid, which is rated by the EPA to get 37 miles per gallon combined.
Hyundai has been offering a 10-year, 100,000-mile warranty on all of its vehicles since 1999.
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COSTA MESA, Calif., Jan. 9, 2012 – Hyundai today added to its Sonata Hybrid coverage a Lifetime Battery Replacement Guarantee to expand the benefits of Hyundai Assurance, the industry's most comprehensive warranty program. The coverage applies to all 2012 model year Sonata Hybrid models over the life expectancy of the vehicle and thousands of miles beyond the average duration of new-car ownership. The first-of-its-kind protection ensures that if the Sonata Hybrid lithium polymer battery technology failes, Hyundai will replace the battery and cover recycling costs for the old powerplant free of charge to the owner.
Hyundai tested Sonata Hybrid and its Blue Drive hybrid drivetrain for more than 300,000 miles with minimal degradation of its output or duration of operation, providing Sonata Hybrid owners with confidence that their investment will continue to pay dividends well into the future.
"The Hyundai brand was built on outstanding quality backed by the industry's best protection program which we call Hyundai Assurance," said Michael O'Brien, vice president, Corporate and Product Planning. "Expanding Hyundai Assurance to include Lifetime Battery Replacement Guarantee was another opportunity for us to demonstrate our confidence in the durability of our product, and pass that peace-of-mind on to our owners."
The heart of Hyundai's breakthrough Hybrid Blue Drive technology is its remarkable lithium polymer batter pack. Hyundai is the first automaker in the world to incorporate this remarkably efficient battery technology into production vehicles. Automotive duty cycles, with temperature ranges from -40 to 120+ degrees Fahrenheit, and 10-year-and-beyond longevity requirements render the lithium ion batteries used in consumer devices unsuitable. Lithium polymer is the next generation of lithium ion technology and is ideally suited to automotive applications thanks to a robust and reliable chemistry.
The lithium polymers cells, developed with our partner LG Chem, use a manganese spinel chemistry that provides an excellent balance between power delivery, energy density and thermal stability. Thermal stability is critical to ensuring durability eliminating the need to replace the battery pack during the normal lifespan of the vehicle. The electrodes in older lithium ion chemistries expand and contract with the heating and cooling that occurs during charging and discharging. This thermal expansion causes cracks in the electrodes which ultimately reduces the cell's ability to hold a charge. Manganese spinel lithium polymer cells have much lower expansion rates and are thus able to go through tens of thousands of charge cycles even without having to use a heavier, liquid cooling system.
Hyundai Motor America, headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif., is a subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Co. of Korea. Hyundai vehicles are distributed throughout the United States by Hyundai Motor America and are sold and serviced through more than 800 dealerships nationwide. All Hyundai vehicles sold in the U.S. are covered by the Hyundai Assurance program, which includes the 5-year/60,000-mile fully transferable new vehicle warranty, Hyundai's 10-year/100,000-mile powertrain warranty, and five years of complimentary Roadside Assistance.
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This course will investigate important questions about health and health care through an interdisciplinary perspective. Special emphasis will be placed on how cultural differences and structural inequalities (such as gender, race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, and geographic location) can affect the quality and accessibility of health care. Students will examine a variety of sources related to the experience and treatment of disease that may range from works of art and literature to documentary film to readings in cross-cultural psychology and medical anthropology. They will reflect on some of the ethical issues raised by forms of health-care delivery, medical research and end-of-life decision making, and develop some of the skills (observation, analysis, empathy, self-reflection) essential for humane medical care.


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Talk by Sant Rajinder SinghWhenever we swim or sail in the ocean, the beautiful blue waters of the sea surround us on all sides. Just as while swimming we are surrounded by the ocean, every second of our lives we are also surrounded by the ocean of divine love. The ocean of God's love surrounds us. It is not only around us, but within. It is to the right of us, the left of us, above us, below us, and in us. If we could only have the eyes to see, we would find we are perpetually swimming in the ocean of God's love. In this connection, there is a story of a man who had been meditating many years yet was frustrated because he had not seen God. He had given up many worldly pleasures to meditate and spent long hours meditating in silence. He was devoted and did whatever he could to find God. Every grain of sand in the desert is a mirror; The verse is explaining how God is everywhere. God is in every grain of sand in the desert. God is in every particle of creation. God is in the fish. God is in the reptiles. God is in the animals. God is in every human being. When we can see God everywhere, we are lost in the love of God at every moment. God is love. When we recognize God everywhere, we are recognizing the power of love and are lost in the madness of that love. Avoid Clutching in MeditationClutching is another form of expectation in which we are trying to see one thing or another in meditation. We feel unsatisfied no matter what we see unless it is what we planned to see. Clutching interferes with us enjoying what we do receive because we are too focused on what we want to receive instead. Thus, clutching takes our attention away from the stillness needed in meditation. People complained that some of the natural trails were not wide enough for people to walk along together, side by side, holding hands. Some complained that they did not like some of the trails that went up the side of the mountains because it made them have to walk uphill! Some complained that the hiking trails meant for hiking should have chair lifts so the people did not have to hike. Some said that the animals made too much noise at night and kept them awake when they camped out and the people wanted the park department to get rid of all the animals. Someone else said that a deer came into his campsite and stole a jar of pickles and the person wanted the park department to reimburse him for the stolen jar. Another said they wanted escalators put on the mountains so they did not have to climb. Another wanted a fast food restaurant put into the forest so they did not have to cook out. Someone even said there were too many rocks on the mountain. Avoid Thinking of the Past and Future during MeditationAnother problem we have that keeps us from experiencing the love of God all around us is thinking of the past and future. While in satsang or in meditation, we are not imbibing the spiritual radiation because we are thinking of what happened to us in the past, or planning or worrying about what will happen in the future. Focus on God's Love Surrounding YouWhat does life look like when we experience God's love all around us? |


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What attitude should Christians have to a culture in which there is little organized social support for their values? Evangelical theologian Richard Mouw has a helpful essay on this subject over at Beliefnet. Earlier this year I wrote a positive review (it appeared in the print version of NR) of David Limbaugh's detailed and comprehensive book Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity , which I recommend as an introduction to the numerous ways Christians are currently treated unfairly in public life. Beliefnet presents Reverend Mouw's essay as a sort of counterpoint to Limbaugh's view (they have posted an interview with Limbaugh), but Mouw actually concedes much of what Limbaugh has to say. His difference with Limbaugh is not chiefly on policy, but on our overall theological understanding of the confrontation with secularism: We should, Mouw says, "recognize that in our increasingly pluralistic culture we are called to make our way in—to borrow [a] wonderful phrase from the Mennonites—'the time of God's patience.' God is not calling us to win the cultural wars. What is required is that we remain faithful to our deepest convictions while also showing, as the Apostle puts it, 'gentleness and respect' toward those who challenge us to make a case for what we believe (I Peter 3: 15). Obviously, when it comes to matters of public policy we must also ask others to respect our convictions as well—especially our right to raise our children in the fear of the Lord without having the deck stacked against us by educators and the shapers of popular culture." This is deep wisdom, echoing T. S. Eliot in the "Four Quartets": "For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." As I understand Mouw's point, he is saying that the Christian facing secularism is not called to be an Atlas bearing the sins of the world, but to be a simple, faithful witness. God doesn't demand that we "win"; in fact, in the idea of the triumph of the Cross He has broken the limits of our very concept of what "winning" means. All He asks is our trust; and if we have this our hearts will be cheerful indeed—-in the face of opposition, and even of persecution.
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Brian Pankey performed 13 diabolo pirouettes under an eight foot ceiling in 30 seconds.
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- Time starts when the diabolo leaves the string.
- Time stops when the last diabolo 360 is caught back on the string in the the 30 second time limit.
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Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, Volumes 1-2Shakespeare's genius is marked by his rare ability to appeal to theatergoers of all types and all levels of education. But for most modern folks, the Greek and Roman mythology and history, let alone the history of England and the geography of sixteenth-century Europe that his works are laden with, are hardly within our grasp. Isaac Asimov comes to making obscure issues clear to the layperson, selects key passages from 38 of the great bard's plays plus two of his narrative poems and, with the help of beautifully rendered maps an figures, illuminates us about their historical and mythological background. |
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Everyone's favorite frozen treat got a little bit more love last week when residents of Fishtown and East Kensington voted unanimously in support of Little Baby's Ice Cream, which presented a plan for a Frankford Avenue shop during a Jan. 17 meeting.
The session represented a combined zoning meeting of the Fishtown Neighbors Association and the East Kensington Neighbors Association.
To open their shop, tentatively set for May at 2311 Frankford Ave., Little Baby's co-owners Pete Angevine and Martin Brown (along with co-owner Jeffrey Ziga, who was not in attendance that evening) must apply for a zoning variance.
Because of a zoning overlay, called the North Delaware Avenue Special District Controls, which impacts Frankford Avenue where the shop would do business, the owners need community support of the variance. The overlay doesn't permit takeout food, such as handmade ice cream, in that area of Frankford Avenue.
The wners are having the building refurbished by the same South Philly architect who helped bring life back to South Street, Joel Spivak.
"South Street needed a lot of improvements, it was all abandoned, just like Frankford Avenue is now," Spivak said. "It's really great that this is happening."
Spivak, of course, thinks the ice-cream business will be a boost to the neighborhood's revival. "This will be a great business in the middle of a dead block … it's amazing what's going on," he said.
The building will be handicapped-accessible as part of the work to restore its splendor. During last week's meeting, residents shared no major issues, other than some concern whether production equipment would create noise audible outside the store.
The owners promised that noise would not be a problem.
Angevine and Brown, who said they were pleasantly surprised to earn the unanimous support of their venture, became partners after discovering that they were making ice cream from their homes.
ldquo;We started trying to come up with the crazy flavors that work — we wanted to see what was feasible," Brown said.
"We like surprises," Angevine added.
The pair officially launched their business last May at the Trenton Avenue Arts Festival. Angevine touts their product as "small-batch, handmade super-premium ice cream."
Fishtown resident Nicki Monzo voted for approval of the ice cream parlor; she also made it known that her favorite ice cream treat consists of mint chocolate chip and a pretzel cone.
Little Baby's exotic flavors go beyond somewhat traditional flavors like mint chocolate chip. Just the same, Monzo likes what she has heard about the business plan, suggesting it can mean only good things for the neighborhood.
ldquo;I think it's a good idea. It's not like ice cream will bring in the wrong crowd or anything," said Monzo.
At the moment, she added, there aren't many places in Fishtown to get ice cream.
With plans for flavors like Birch Beer Vanilla Bean, Spiced Chocolate, Coffee Toffee and Eggnog, the shop owners hope to use dairy products from Chambersburg. Their specialty treat currently is being sold at select markets and at some music concerts. But Angevine and Brown are expecting big things in the future.
Little Baby's Ice Cream also will offer milkshakes, soda floats and ice cream sandwiches on cookies freshly baked in the store. They'll be opening next to a new pizza shop; Angevine and Brown know the owners, they said, and the hope is that the two businesses will feed off each other and grow.
"We're separate companies with a lot of synergy. We have a similar spirit," Angevine said. ••


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Labour market regulation not a deterrent for hiring in Africa
Results from EY's new survey, Talent trends and practices in Sub-Saharan Africa (pdf, 3.2mb), reveals that while regulation in the labour market is increasing, this is not seen to be a deterrent to hiring new employees.
In the survey of 224 multinational and African organisations doing business in Sub-Saharan Africa across 23 countries, 58% of respondents indicated that labour market regulation had increased recently, and 64% indicated that they expected to experience more regulation in future years.
Notably however 74% of respondents indicated that this increase in regulation would not deter them from hiring new employees. These results may partly be explained by the fact that most respondents indicated that they are compliant employers - 96% indicated that they either met or exceeded minimum standards set by legislation.
Faith in labour market institutions is less convincing: only 52% of respondents indicated that they viewed these institutions as effective. Given that almost two thirds of respondents anticipated an increase in unionisation and collective action in the future, this tepid view of labour market institutions could be cause for some concern for those employers who would rely on these institutions to assist in the resolution of labour disputes. Multinationals, however, appear to have more sophisticated dispute resolution processes in place and may therefore be less reliant on statutory structures to assist them.
David Storey, EY's EMEIA People and Change Leader responsible for the survey, said that to some extent the survey debunks the myth that labour market regulation stifles employer hiring practices. "While the survey highlights challenges regarding the credibility of labour market institutions, it demonstrates that employers are able to manage an increasingly regulated labour market."
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Lincoln's Plan For Reconstruction
June 1955 | Volume 6, Issue 4
On September 5, 1864, the people of Louisiana voted to ratify the constitution (6,836-1,566); members of Congress were then chosen by popular election, after which the legislature set up under the new constitution chose two senators. If and when these men should be admitted by Congress—a big "if"—reconstruction for Louisiana, so far as essential political structure was concerned, would be complete. In the matter of preliminary steps—shaping up the situation so that Congress could act—the work of the executive branch for this pivotal state was done.
Fourth Phase: Trouble in Congress . Much water was to pass over the mill before one could know what Congress would do as to admitting Louisiana according to Lincoln's plan. The Radical clique in Louisiana had opposed the measures taken in 1864 looking toward a new state government. This element made a break with the Lincoln Administration, denounced the new constitution as null and void, and proceeded to make their influence felt in Congress. The Radical element in Congress was working strongly against Lincoln's program in any case, and it was no surprise that the decision of the solons at Washington concerning Louisiana reorganization was negative. A long period of Federal occupation and troublous abnormality was to ensue. There were a number of uneasy years after Lincoln's death before the state was, one should not say restored, but outfitted with a carpetbag government. After that there was to be further delay—nearly a decade—before that unworkable carpetbag regime collapsed.
As in Louisiana, so in other regions of the Confederate South, Lincoln did his best to promote reorganization measures so that state governments could supersede Federal military rule, but wartime conditions made for obstruction and progress was slow. In Tennessee, where secession had been strongly resisted and where Union victories came in February and April of 1862, it might have seemed that a choice opportunity was offered for early restoration of civil government under unionist auspices. The pro-Confederate regime in Tennessee was brief; it extended only from May 7, 1861 (legislative ratification of the military league with the Confederacy) to March 3, 1862, when Lincoln appointed Andrew Johnson military governor of the state, a period of ten months.
Johnson's attitude had been demonstrated by "violent opposition to slavery and secession" and by retention of his seat in the United States Senate. His unionism was unassailable, but he could only perform the functions of civil government on an emergency basis and Lincoln's hopes for instituting a more permanent and regular regime were repeatedly deferred. There was heavy fighting in 1862 and 1863. Guerrilla warfare, raids by Forrest, agitation among discordant pro-Union elements, puzzlement as to what was "regular" by the old code of the state (nothing could be strictly regular in those war times), lack of popular interest when elections were held, complications as to soldier voting and military influence, divided leadership as between Nashville and Washington—these were among the factors that caused continual delay.
Not until February, 1865, was an election held in Tennessee which had importance in terms of popular voting for fundamental state reorganization. After that there loomed, as always, the serious obstacle of congressional opposition. Tennessee was not to be admitted to the Union until 1866. Yet as early as September 11, 1863, Lincoln had written to Governor Johnson: "All Tennessee is now clear of armed insurrectionists." Insisting that "Not a moment should be lost" in "reinaugurating a loyal State government," the President insisted, as in Louisiana, that prudent steps be taken without delay. Discretion was left with Johnson and "co-operating friends" as to ways and means, with the presidential injunction that the reinauguration should not be allowed to slip into the hands of enemies of the Union, "driving its friends . . . into political exile." "It must not be so," wrote Lincoln. "You must have it otherwise."
In September, 1863, Andrew Johnson said to his people: "Here lies your State; a sick man in his bed, emaciated and exhausted . . . unable to walk alone. The physician comes. Don't quarrel about antecedents, but administer to his wants . . . as quickly as possible. . . . This is no . . . metaphysical question. It is a plain, common sense matter, and there is nothing in the way but obstinacy." Johnson's simile of the sick man and his suggestion as to the ineptness of those administering to him could have covered a great deal more territory than Tennessee.
II Events of 1863 and early 1864 in Arkansas proceeded with little difficulty so far as that commonwealth itself was concerned. It was a sparsely settled state, with 435,000 inhabitants in 1860, of whom 111,115 were slaves. Illinois, of comparable area, had nearly four times the population. It was chiefly in the southeastern part, in the plantation area near the Mississippi River, that slaveholding was concentrated. Throughout most of the state there were few slaves, in the northern portion hardly any. People of the Ozark mountain region had little in common with the few cotton-growing magnates. To the vast majority of the people the abolition of slavery would produce no serious reordering of their lives and economy.


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This is a sweet, bittersweet comedy, well-executed if perhaps a little heavy on anecdotage. You know who might have made it in the old days? I kept thinking of Woody Allen. You don't know what you want. Woody knows what you want.
An old-fashioned Mediterranean coming-of-age story set in the young heart of the Levant, The Matchmaker combines the tender tone of a film like "Cinema Paradiso" with a clear-eyed, street-level vantage on Israel's summer of the Six-Day War.
This look back at late-'60s Haifa makes for strong, accessible, character-driven drama.
It sounds like a throwback to an earlier, more traditional style of Israeli filmmaking but it instead provides a view of that country that's as satisfyingly eccentric and unexpected as anything we've seen.
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what does everyone supplement with? I'm just curious on what everyone here supplements with. It seems like we have a lot of fans of strategy here, and I have heard some other names, too. I am working on getting a good mix together for Bali, because he'll be fed three way hay at his new barn, which is great, but he needs some supplementation to that. Anyways, what all do you feed your horsies? especially interested in supplements! :) |
I just started on Dynamite free choice minerals and their vitamin product with a squirt of Dynapro (a pro biotic). he had some swelling in his sheath, but it's looking like the pro biotic is working and he's excreting the toxins in his body. The stuff is supposed to be as natural as you can get (supposedly). I'm not going to say yes or no on this product because we just started it last week, but I hear excellent things about the company and several barns in my area sell it. |
I stick with hay and a ration balancer rather than a grain-based feed for my horses during the winter. This helps to provide a balanced diet and appropriate amounts of protein, vitamins and minerals without all the non-structural carbs and/or grains that can lead to health issues. The only horse that gets something different is my 33 year old pony and he gets 12 lbs of Equine Senior per day plus 1 cup of vegetable oil and a glucosamine/chondroitin supplement. |
My easy keeper who gets no grain and only grass hay gets Smart Pak Easy Keeper Grass, Smart Tendon, Smart Shine and a probiotic. I love Smart Pak. They are wonderful to deal with. My other horse gets no supplements. |
I give half-pound beet pulp (mostly) pellets twice a day (buckey's safe'n easy). I supplement it with Purina 12 (min/vit mix), flax and boss. |
Our hay is a grass/alfalfa(30%) mix. On top of this our horses eat 3 pounds of Hoffman's Horse Ration (soybean hull based) a day. My horse also gets about a quarter pound of oats a day, I find he gets quite hot on oats (which I like) but I don't like to feed a lot. Because their feed is balanced with all the "right" stuff in it we don't have to feed anything extra for coats or hooves, etc. Then for joint care - we don't do oral supplements - they are injected with PSGAG and HA once a month. |
Maddy: 3 quarts of Strategy, Smart Tendon Smartpak, Flax Seed and Easykeeper Smartpak Brodie: 3 quarts of Strategy, Flax Seed and Select 2 (in the summer he gets Bug Check Smartpak) I am going to be moving them both over to: Strategy, Flax Seep and Cosequin (i am thinking about doing LMF Showtime or Gentle Balance instead of the Strategy but haven't decided) |
I do not feed any grain or horse feeds that contain grain products. They make my mare fat and my gelding hyper and skinny. I feed free choice quality mixed grass hay, alfalfa pellets, and a custom blended supplement from horsetech.com. I have them add all the major vitamins and minerals, extra magnesium (we're really low in it here and my mare is IR), extra biotin, a HIGH levels of Amino Acids (for good muscle and hooves). The supplement costs me $0.87 a day to feed, which is cheap considering what all it has in it. If I were feeding seperate supplements, I'd be in the $2-3 a day range. I also give my gelding a joint supplement as he has an old injury. I use Equinyl Combo. I find my horses hold the weight better, have better condition, grow better hooves & hair, and have better attitudes on a NO-grain diet with proper vitamins. I won't ever feed a commercial horse feed or grain product again, if I can help it ;-). |
Only what a horse may need to correct anything missing in the hay or grain. Over supplementing can cause health issues. |
Interesting. Everyone feeds so differently! haha Anyone know much about 3-way hay? I guess it's pretty regional, from what I have read. My horse was on alfalfa back home, which made him really hot, so I am hoping the three way will calm him down some. He has a lot of anxiety issues from past experiences. I am trying to also figure out if he needs anything additional to the feed, I know both the other horses in his pasture are supplemented. (sorry to change direction of my thread a little) |
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