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On July 6, 2011 the US Fish & Wildlife Service, under pressure from environmentalists and animal rights activists, proposed eliminating a rule exemption that may well endanger 3 species of animal that are endangered in their natural habitat.
The scimitar horned oryx, addax and dama gazelle are all antelope species that are native to the deserts of North Africa. Native populations of addax and the dama gazelle have been in severe decline and are seriously endangered, as a result of regional conflict, uncontrolled killing in famine-stricken regions of Africa and loss of natural habitat. The scimitar horned oryx is believed to be extinct in North Africa because none have been sighted since the 1980's. The only place in the world where these species are thriving in large numbers is here in the US, on private game ranches – mostly in Texas.
Private exotic game ranches, with the assistance of groups like the Exotic Wildlife Association, have created breeding programs that have caused these three species (along with other exotic animal species) to grow and flourish on these privately owned, privately operated and privately funded properties. None of these ranches have received financial assistance from the government or from well-known groups like the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) or the Sierra Club! In fact, while groups like the WWF have raised hundreds of millions of dollars from well-meaning individuals to "save" endangered species, the scimitar horned oryx has likely gone extinct (in its natural habitat) and the addax and dama gazelle have continued to decline. If it had not been for the efforts of these exotic ranchers, there would not be a healthy population of these animals that can, hopefully, be used to re-introduce these beautiful animals to their native environment – once conditions in Africa improve to the point where this makes sense. In fact, the Exotic Wildlife Association has, "established a partnership with the renowned Sahara Conservation Fund and the two groups are working to reintroduce the species back into their native countries." Unfortunately, as a result of a lawsuit filed by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the US Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) is considering removing the very exemption that has permitted these private exotic ranches to be so successful!
In 2005 the USFWS exempted these species, that are listed as "endangered species," from some of the regulations normally associated with endangered species – so that private ranches could breed, sell, buy, transport and harvest these animals in the US without special permitting. As a result, US populations of these animals have exploded and have helped to fuel a $1.3 billion exotic animal industry and created thousands of rural jobs. It has been the most prolific expansion of endangered species populations ever and it's all been done by private individuals, as a result of deregulation. Prior to the 2005 exemption, very few ranchers were able and willing to raise these animals on their properties because of the difficulties and complexities of the old regulations, the permitting process and the restrictions that had existed. The removal of these obstacles, in 2005, provided these ranchers with a free market financial incentive and made it easy for them to justify introducing these animals to their properties and to instituting breeding programs.
When the exemption was put in place, ranchers were suddenly able to freely and easily buy these animals from the limited number of breeders that existed (at the time) and release them on to their properties, to reproduce. Once a sustainable population was established, the property owners were able to offer hunters the opportunity to hunt some of their mature animals which did two things: First, it allowed the property owners to control the population and prevent it from getting larger than the land could sustain and to prevent the population from interfering with the native species (i.e. deer) on their land. Secondly, the money they charged to hunt these animals offset the cost of feeding these animals and provided an income stream that enhanced property owners to choose raising these animals over cattle, goats and other livestock. The opportunity to hunt these animals and the willingness of hunters to pay large sums of money fueled a population explosion that simply could not have been done by groups like the WWF or by the federal government.
If you ever doubted that hunters are truly conservationists dedicated to the continuation of all game animal species, and that hunting plays a vital role in creating and managing a healthy population of wild game, this should dispel that doubt! In fact, had it not been for hunters, the numbers of oryx, addax and dama gazelle (not to mention numerous other exotic species that are thriving on US ranches) would be far less than they are today.
If the exemption is removed, these ranchers would have to apply for permission to buy, sell, trade, move or kill each and every oryx, addax or gama gazelle on their property. This presents a number of problems. If a landowner has to apply to the government for permission every time they need to do something with one of their animals, the process becomes so tedious, complicated and expensive that many of these landowners will simply opt to raise other, less complicated species or return the land to livestock which is, then, simpler and cheaper. Also, since the winds and the mood of the federal government are constantly shifting (especially under pressure from special interest groups like the WWF, Sierra Club and HSUS), they can't be guaranteed that they will even be permitted to do what the animals need. Imagine what would happen if a landowner could not get permission to control the numbers of these animals on their property – after a few years of unchecked breeding, they would overpopulate and become unhealthy and they would begin overwhelming the food supply on the property which has been known to cause destruction to native species, like whitetail deer. We are already seeing this on a massive scale with the exotic Axis deer from Asia. This large deer species has become so prolific in Texas, that they are causing whitetail deer populations to decline in areas where axis numbers are exploding. The whitetail deer simply can't compete with the axis deer for resources. The typical oryx weighs 3 times a typical whitetail deer. In addition, the complexities of the permitting system the USFWS is contemplating returning to will, even if ranchers utilize it, will increase the price of hunting these animals to a level that most hunters can not afford; which will decrease demand and, thus, eliminate the very incentive that landowners had to stock and breed this endangered species.
The very threat of having to go back to the permitting system has already caused many landowners, that have these species on their properties, to begin drastically reducing their populations. Since the July 6, 2011 announcement by the USFWS many ranchers have been offering hunters the opportunity to hunt them at drastically reduced prices to reduce their herds; and many have said that, should the old system be re-instituted, they will simply kill every one of these animals on their property, rather than take a chance with the permitting system. This would be devastating to the population of oryx, addax and gama gazelle that currently exist. Who can blame them, though? The same system that the USFWS is threatening to re-impose on these animals currently exists for barasingha deer and is so complicated, difficult and fickle that most exotic ranch don't stock them. As a result, the population of barasingha has not proliferated as successfully as the oryx, addax and gama gazelle which has been under an exemption. The landowners and ranchers that have been breeding these animals a working people that utilize the land to feed their families and their philanthropy has limits – if it becomes too difficult and expensive to raise these animals they will be forced to switch back to other livestock that is simpler and and more economic. Then, who will perpetuate the species? The US government, animal rights groups and conservation groups have done NOTHING to increase the numbers of these animals. They will simply decry the loss of the species and blame mankind when they will have been the final straw that eliminated the species'.
The USFWS has tried this before (prior to the 2005 exemption) and, when the permitting system was in place, the numbers of these animals and the numbers of property owners raising them were far less than they have been since the exemption was put into place. So, why reinstitute a system that was NOT as successful as the one that has been operating for the past 6 years? The answer is, pressure from so-called animal rights and conservation groups. These groups are very open in their opposition to hunting and are dedicated to trying to eliminate hunting as a sport. What's so funny is that they seem to be more interested in opposing hunting than supporting the very animals they are supposedly dedicated to saving! These groups are so blinded by their opposition to hunting that they are unable to to see that this move, in particular, will be devastating to the numbers of oryx, addax and gama gazelle that exist in the US. They should be supporting the status quo and the incredible growth in these animal populations that have resulted from it. Instead, they keep fund raising from good-meaning people who care about animals and using their money to fund a war on hunting instead of actually looking at the situation and supporting the methods that have produced the most success.
The US Fish & Wildlife Service knows better and yet they are bowing to political pressure rather than doing what is best for the animals at issue. This is inexcusable. Unfortunately the time for public comment has passed but pressure can still be exerted on them by congress. If you are interested in supporting the continuation of the scimitar horned oryx, the addax and the dama gazelle, you can contact your representatives in congress and ask them to pressure the USFWS to maintain the current exemption; and even to expand that exemption to include other endangered species' like the barasingha deer. If you are a supporter of groups like the Humane Society of the US, the WWF and the Sierra Club, COMPLAIN! Ask them to stop this craziness and to urge the USFWS to maintain and expand the current exemptions!
If the current rule exemption that applies to the oryx, addax and gama gazelle are removed, the blood of these species' and their loss for future generations will fall squarely on the heads of the USFWS and HSUS, WWF, Sierra Club and other anti-hunting groups!


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Beginning in 1957-58, Johnson embarked on a solid career in the WHL with the Vancouver Canucks. He also suited up for the Victoria Cougars, Winnipeg Warriors and Spokane Comets before returning east. After two seasons in the Eastern Hockey League with the Charlotte Checkers and New York Rovers, Johnson retired in 1965. Twelve years later his son, Trevor, was a first round draft pick of the Toronto Maple Leafs and went on to play nearly 300 NHL games.
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Description: April 20, 2016. The NZ Deaf Blacks team are off to Argentina where they will meet the Argentina Deaf Rugby Team in 3 test series match to be in Cordoba on Sunday 24th April and in Jujuy on Wednesday 27th and on Saturday 30th April 2016. "We are really excited to be able to get to Argentina...it's the first time that we've had an international tour since that Whales trip and the first time against Argentina as well," said President of Deaf Rugby New Zealand Tony Kuklinski. The team also needs help to achieve their goal for the Deaf Blacks team and being able to attend future tournaments and world cups, as well as encouraging youth to learn and get their sport experiences. "We want young deaf children to grow up dreaming of becoming a part of the Deaf Blacks like hearing kids might dream being part of the All Blacks team, there is no reasons why they can't do that," Tony said. You can donate online at http://givealittle.co.nz/cause/deafblacksteam. (NZN VIDEO/Geraldine Clermont)


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The goal of my website is to encourage Lutherans to write, but all the long acknowledgements in the front of your favorite books testify that it often takes more than one person to produce a book. Sometimes you need the resources of a publisher or professional freelance writer support.
If you are looking for help, particularly in a professional capacity, here is a list of Lutheran professionals who provide freelance Lutheran writing support: proofreaders, editors, illustrators, indexers, graphic designers, and writing coaches. (Obviously, you can use non-Lutheran ones, too, but we may as well highlight Lutheran professionals in a Lutheran market.)
NB: These are professionals, not volunteers!
Am I missing something or someone? Please do drop me a note. Meanwhile, I hope you can join me in helping people connect with those they need in whatever way you can!
You know what else you can do? Spread the idea of Lutheran novelists, poets, hymnists, proofreaders, editors and more. Embrace the clear expressions of vocation in Lutheranism and throw in a love for reading and writing along with it! Give some of their books as gifts. Consider donating books to your local library and, even better, write something yourself!
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- Kris Brown
- Kristina Rutledge Phillips
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- Rebekah Curtis (Email available upon request)
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Proofreaders, freelance editors
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- Kris Brown
- Kristin Kolb Rathje
- Ziggy Rein, after being in printing most of his life, spent ten years proofreading for an international financial printing company. Contact me for his email address.
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- Sarah St. Onge: Prolife advocacy and abortion law pertaining to birth defects, fatal fetal anomalies, and late term abortion for medical reasons
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Our agents told us about a family, the father out of work, as was the two teenaged children, and the wife is disabled with breathing difficulties. Our agents helped them to sign on for Job Seekers as they have been unable to get any agency work for the past few weeks. One of the sons was working a zero hour contract in a high street store, but after falling unwell and offering a fit (sick) note, he was sacked leaving him without employment. When the father tried to sign on for Job Seekers he was told this would not be possible as his wife is disabled and not fit for work. Our agents are trying to get this resolved and for him to be able to sign on to JSA. In the meantime, they need some food so we agreed to send across £150 to tide them over until the New Year.


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Creating an Amazon EBS Snapshot
A point-in-time snapshot of an EBS volume, can be used as a baseline for new volumes or for data backup. If you make periodic snapshots of a volume, the snapshots are incremental—only the blocks on the device that have changed after your last snapshot are saved in the new snapshot. Even though snapshots are saved incrementally, the snapshot deletion process is designed so that you need to retain only the most recent snapshot in order to restore the entire volume.
Snapshots occur asynchronously; the point-in-time snapshot is created immediately,
but the
status of the snapshot is
pending until the snapshot is complete (when all of the
modified blocks have been transferred to Amazon S3), which can take several hours
for large initial
snapshots or subsequent snapshots where many blocks have changed. While it is completing,
in-progress snapshot is not affected by ongoing reads and writes to the volume.
Although you can take a snapshot of a volume while a previous snapshot of that volume
in the
pending status, having multiple
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If you receive a
ConcurrentSnapshotLimitExceeded error while trying to create
multiple concurrent snapshots of the same volume, wait for one or more of the
pending snapshots to complete before creating another snapshot of that
Snapshots that are taken from encrypted volumes are automatically encrypted. Volumes that are created from encrypted snapshots are also automatically encrypted. The data in your encrypted volumes and any associated snapshots is protected both at rest and in motion. For more information, see Amazon EBS Encryption.
By default, only you can create volumes from snapshots that you own. However, you can share your unencrypted snapshots with specific AWS accounts, or you can share them with the entire AWS community by making them public. For more information, see Sharing an Amazon EBS Snapshot.
You can share an encrypted snapshot only with specific AWS accounts. For others to use your shared, encrypted snapshot, you must also share the CMK key that was used to encrypt it. Users with access to your encrypted snapshot must create their own personal copy of it and then use that copy to restore the volume. Your copy of a shared, encrypted snapshot can also be re-encrypted with a different key. For more information, see Sharing an Amazon EBS Snapshot.
If you copy a snapshot and encrypt it to a new CMK, a complete (non-incremental) copy is always created, resulting in additional delay and storage costs.
When a snapshot is created from a volume with an AWS Marketplace product code, the product code is propagated to the snapshot.
You can take a snapshot of an attached volume that is in use. However, snapshots only
capture data that has been written to your Amazon EBS volume at the time the snapshot
command is
issued. This might exclude any data that has been cached by any applications or the
system. If you can pause any file writes to the volume long enough to take a snapshot,
snapshot should be complete. However, if you can't pause all file writes to the volume,
should unmount the volume from within the instance, issue the snapshot command, and
remount the volume to ensure a consistent and complete snapshot. You can remount and
use your
volume while the snapshot status is
To create a snapshot for an Amazon EBS volume that serves as a root device, you should stop the instance before taking the snapshot.
To unmount the volume in Linux, use the following command, where
device_name is the device name (for example,
umount -d device_name
To make snapshot management easier, you can tag your snapshots during creation or add tags afterward. For example, you can apply tags describing the original volume from which the snapshot was created, or the device name that was used to attach the original volume to an instance. For more information, see Tagging Your Amazon EC2 Resources.
To create a snapshot using the console
Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.
Choose Snapshots in the navigation pane.
Choose Create Snapshot.
On the Create Snapshot page, select the volume to create a snapshot for.
(Optional) Choose Add tags to your snapshot. For each tag, provide a tag key and a tag value.
Choose Create Snapshot.
To create a snapshot using the command line
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As national attention focuses around the disproportionate use of police stop-and-frisks against minorities in New York City, nearby Newark, New Jersey has announced a policy to voluntarily release a raft of data about stops by the state's largest police department.
According to an order approved by the City Council Tuesday, the police department will release data every month that includes not just statistics about the nature of stops and frisks, but also information about internal complaints filed, and the results of those complaints. Newarks' internal complaints process has weathered particular criticism, with a 2011 ACLU review showing that out of 261 complaints filed over the course of two years on excessive force or improper policing, only one was sustained. A federal investigation of the procedure is ongoing, but new statistics posted on a website will allow the public to better monitor policing. Monthly statistics will document every stop, the reason for the stop, whether there was a subsequent frisk, and whether force was used. The reports will also include information on the race, sex, age, and language proficiency of the subjects, as well as whether the individual stopped was a student.
Wayne Fisher, a professor at the Rutgers Police Institute, told the Newark Star-Ledger that no other police department publishes information this detailed this often.
The New York Police Department, whose controversial and rampant stop-and-frisk practices are now under review in a major class action lawsuit, was forced to release 10 years of data about stop-and-frisks in 2008. It now publishes a database with police logs of stops in paper release quarterly, and on its website annually. Statistics about the NYPD program showed that officers stopped more young black men in 2011 than there are young black men in the city, and the program continues to disproportionately target blacks and Latinos, even though stops of whites are more than twice as likely to yield a weapon, and the overwhelming majority of stops result in no charges at all.


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How to record piano
This is the index page for my articles on how to record digital piano, electronic keyboard and acoustic piano on the computer.
How to record digital piano and keyboard
These articles explain how to record directly from the audio outputs of your digital piano or electronic keyboard. This is the easiest way to make an MP3 or WAV file of your playing, but also the least flexible.
Part 1: Connecting to the computer
Part 2: Recording with Audacity
How to record MIDI
Using MIDI you don't record the audio output from your digital piano or electronic keyboard, but only a description of the notes that you played. Afterwards, you can convert this MIDI recording to MP3 or WAV.
The advantage of using MIDI is the small size of the files and the flexibility: you can tweak small mistakes before you commit the recording to audio.
Part 2: Connecting to the computer
Part 3: Recording with Red Dot Forever
Part 4: Playing your MIDI recordings
How to record acoustic piano
There is really only one way to capture the sound of an acoustic piano and that is to use microphones.


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Sumlin task? Keep A&M's heads level
COLLEGE STATION — When fabled G. Rollie White Coliseum, Texas A&M's basketball home for more than four decades, was meeting its demolition last week, one Internet wisecracker watching it on a "construction cam" appeared pleased as maroon punch to see the walls crumble.
"Football field looks great," the poster said of the new vista the annihilation afforded of neighboring Kyle Field. "(G. Rollie was) obstructing the view."
The view for Texas A&M fans is quite lofty at the avowed football school entering this fall. The Aggies return a Heisman Trophy winner for the first time in history in sophomore quarterback Johnny Manziel and start with a top-10 ranking for only the third time in the last 15 seasons.
"With this being my senior year," A&M safety Toney Hurd Jr. said, "I'd love to go out with a national championship."
The Aggies have done that only once in the history of the Associated Press rankings, and many of those upperclassmen then went to fight in World War II. The 1939 squad stands alone as A&M's national champion since the AP began declaring a titlist in 1936, but now a handful of pundits are picking the Aggies to finally add to their collection (of one).
"A team from the SEC West will win the national championship, but it won't be Alabama," CBSSports.com senior college football columnist Dennis Dodd wrote this summer, adding that Kevin Sumlin also will be the SEC's coach of the year.
In the past two decades, however, A&M's promising preseasons have turned into familiar cries of, "Wait till next year!" In 1995, A&M started the season ranked third but finished 15th (9-3). Four years later and on the heels of their lone Big 12 title, the '99 Aggies started seventh but finished 23rd (8-4).
Two years ago behind senior quarterback Ryan Tannehill, A&M began eighth but wound up unranked after a 7-6 finish — and coach Mike Sherman was out of a job with A&M bound for the SEC.
The 2012 Aggies, who began the season unranked, wrapped up a remarkable 11-2 season ranked fifth nationally — their first top-five finish since 1956, when coach Paul "Bear" Bryant roamed the Kyle Field sidelines. Sumlin, in his first year after leaving the Houston Cougars, had managed what A&M coaching legends Jackie Sherrill and R.C. Slocum never did.
A year ago, Sumlin was simply encouraging his players that they could, indeed, compete in the rugged SEC. Now, he's making sure their heads can still fit inside their helmets entering the most talked-about season in A&M history.
"Fans should be excited, and that's nothing we want to discourage," Sumlin said. "We want to keep our fans' excitement level high. But if we would've had the attitude some (fans and media) had last year, we probably wouldn't have been any good at all.
"As a staff and as a team, we have to maintain our own standards, no matter what anyone else thinks."
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Following last week's SNW news feed, I should probably use this week's column to discuss the implications of EMC purchasing Avamar. Well, I won't -- because it wasn't much of a surprise. Deduplication is the only major storage technology that EMC had not yet bought or brewed in-house. Moreover, it's just too early to tell how the Avamar blossom will flourish in the new landscape.
Let's talk instead about new products, of which there is never want in the storage world. NetApp -- equally relentless as its Hopkinton, Mass., rival when it comes filling the market with new products -- has announced yet another appliance this week, the FAS3070.
NetApp positions the new appliance as a midtier device with an easy migration path to the storage big leagues. You may remember that high-end storage is a relatively recent offering , with which NetApp hopes to lure succulent purchase orders away from its competitors.
With a total max capacity of 252TB and simultaneous connectivity to 4Gbps Fibre Channel and iSCSI networks (10Gbps Ethernet is a possible future update), the FAS3070 fills the gap between its two closest siblings, the FAS3050 on the lower end and the FAS6030 with its higher capacity and performance.
Judging from its name, you might think that the new appliance is closer to the 3050 than to the others; quite the opposite is true. As do its big brothers, the FAS3070 sports a 64-bit architecture and PCIe controllers, which should make for easy, seamless updates, according to Joel Reich, general manager and senior director of the SAN/iSAN business unit at NetApp.
The FAS3070 is NetApp's response to competing solutions such as EMC's Clariion CX3-80. In fact, according to Reich, the new appliance not only offers a better update path than its rival but also better performance and usability.
To prove that point, NetApp commissioned a performance comparison study by VeriTest. I've posted the report on my blog where both readers and vendors will have a chance to post comments.
Storage performance was also at the center of another interesting briefing I had with Panasas Vice President of Marketing Larry Jones, which shouldn't be a surprise. With its ActiveStor 3000 system, the company is one of the leading providers of clustered storage solutions for HPC (high-performance computing).
Panasas storage clusters are based on 4U shelves interconnected via redundant iSCSI ports, each mounting one Director blade and 10 StorageBlades, giving you a capacity of as much as 100TB in a single rack. Panasas' scalable file system, PanFS, runs on that platform, offering independent, parallel access to multiple hosts via NFS or CIFS protocols.
Customers were achieving impressive performance numbers in the gigabytes-per-second range but had to dedicate separate copies of very large repositories to accommodate for both batch and interactive processing, Jones explains. To fix that, Panasas this week announced the ActiveStor 5000, a first attempt to offer a single storage solution for simultaneous use by both interactive and batch applications.
A new StorageBlade XC adds a significant amount of cache memory to the ActiveStor 5000, as much as 20GB of cache for each shelf, which results in fast interactive response times -- as much as five times faster than typical NFS servers -- while maintaining fast access for batch applications, Jones says.
The ActiveStor 5000 also adds ActiveGuard, a watchful eye to predict failures and provide fail-over, and an ActiveImage capable of taking as many as 32,000 snapshots per system.
One of the recurring critiques of HPC systems is that they are unable to provide a good platform for interactive users. If the ActiveStor 5000 delivers on its promise, Panasas may have opened a whole new chapter in storage.


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Market Observations
Today was option expiration and as usual it was a tight range day. I will cover market strategy closer to next week. Markets are closed on Monday for Presidents Day.
I made a rookie dumb mistake today with my position in AREX. Last week the stock touched over $38 and promptly pulled back. From the chart and the buy volume I expected to get another shot over $38 and that would be my target area and result in a 10% gain. The stock ramped up at the open today and was well over $38. I had meetings scheduled for almost the entire day and I figured I could grab the sale later on in the day when I could watch the tape a little. Never even came close again. An ugly session leaves AREX at $36.66 (CREEPY!) and not only did I miss my sale but that was a nasty reversal day. I could have set a stop at $38 and went off to meetings, but I did not. It was sloppy and poorly done. If I get something out of this trade it will be in spite of my trading it, not because of it.
Friday Night Entertainment
No Emmy nomination yet, but I think one will be coming soon.....
Alone in the Shadow of Robot Dominion Over Man, My Voice Still Cries Out
I get the feeling that my coverage of robots and the chance (90% and rising) that said robots will turn on the human race is a running gag here to many readers. It's NOT! I am serious, and don't call me Shirley!
Well hot off the presses via Extreme Tech is the announcement of a new military program modeled after the "Avatar" line of thought! Here you go:
DARPA reveals Avatar program, robot soldiers incoming
A snippet:
In the words of DARPA itself, the Avatar program will work on "interfaces and algorithms to enable a soldier to effectively partner with a semi-autonomous bipedal machine and allow it to act as the soldier's surrogate." In other words, DARPA wants to develop the walking equivalent of an unarmed aerial vehicle; a bipedal robot drone where the controlling soldier is hundreds or thousands of miles away from war front.Unarmed, LOL too funny.
Here is Boston Dynamics "PETMAN", we are doomed:
But keep laughing.
Image Candy
Some fun stuff to gander at.
Napoleon might have won at Waterloo with this as his trusted steed:
see more Historic LOL
Wait, bears don't do their thing in the woods?:
see more Very Demotivational
Film Clips
Some films for consideration.
Maybe one of my all time favorite scenes is from "Matrix: Revolutions" when Trinity (not @TXSSwingtrader Julie!) and the crew battle to get Neo back.
"Your really ready to die for this man?"
"If she has to she will kill every one of us".
Not a movie, but the last best chance for TV was "The Highlander" series. Skip to the 40:35 mark in this clip of "Homeland" and watch to end. If you are not impressed, I don't know what to say:
Rock Blogging
Songs for the soul to set you free.
Need a ripper to get started, so a little Lenny Kravitz and "Are You Gonna Go My Way" is in order. Excellent!:
My man on Twitter and 12631, @PjDempsey, was looking for some live Pearl Jam and this is a nice video of "Black":
I thought The Interloper might have been messing with me but after hearing Uncle Tupelo and the song "Moonshiner" I am glad I heard it:
Harmonica always gets me. Thanks.
Via Twitter and @CapCube here is The Clash and "I fought the Law":
Two songs left!
I need some Rage Against the Machine and "Renegades of Funk" will do nicely. Turn this up:
Last call!
My friend, formerly Trader Mark, has a new gig over at Market Montage and he did a AWESOME 80's tune play set of 80's rock last night. My counter is the great band Cinderella and "Somebody Save Me" and live is the only way:
Have a good night.


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Journalists warned to leave homes after gangland threats
Two Independent News & Media reporters covering the gangland attacks in Dublin have been told to leave their homes
Two journalists who were involved in the coverage of recent gangland violence in Dublin have been told to leave their homes by gardaí following warnings that they may be at risk from armed criminals.
The two reporters work for the Independent News & Media (INM) group and have been part of a team of journalists covering the deaths of David Byrne and Eddie Hutch.
Its been almost 20 years since Sunday Independent journalist Veronica Guerin was shot after similar threats. She was shot dead on the Naas Road on the Lucan dual carriage way in Dublin in 1996.
Garda sources said that living in 'undisclosed locations' would be best at the present time. It is understood that both journalists have acted on this suggestion.
INM said it had decided to make the threats public after consulting the journalists and confirming the Garda had formally notified the reporters of a possible risk to their safety.
The group's editor-in-chief, Stephen Rae, said the threats were outrageous, adding that they were already working with the Garda to strengthen security around the reporters.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said he "deplored and condemned" any threat to journalism, describing freedom of the press as "one of the pillars of a functioning democracy".
The National Union of Journalists' Irish secretary, Seamus Dooley, said the threats were "shocking".
Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald said that the Garda was working closely with INM to "do everything possible to ensure the safety of their journalists".


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Posted On 27 March 2014
A US start-up company is offering technology to use carbon-reinforced engineering polymers in 3D printing.
Posted On 21 March 2014
The government has announced details of its plan to boost the number of apprentices being hired by SME's across the UK.
Posted On 20 March 2014
George Osborne's Budget received a positive response from the British Plastics Federation (BPF), with the organisation's director-general, Peter Davis, calling it "good for manufacturing".


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Tom Emanski
Tom Emanski (born 26 February 1948 in Ridgewood, New Jersey) is a baseball coach and the man behind Tom Emanski Instructional Videos, a set of nine video tapes which lay out the fundamental techniques of baseball. The videos, sometimes referred to as "The Nine Commandments," have taught millions of youths worldwide how to play the sport of baseball and the commercial for this video has been running for nearly 18 years. Many viewers have memorized Emanski's commercial by heart, albeit unintentionally. Emanski is a former major league baseball associate scout and youth coach.
The Emanski videos are best known for their frequent and long-running commercials on ESPN and during Major League Baseball games. Featured in the commercials is former Major League Baseball star Fred McGriff. Fred McGriff met Emanski at age 18 when he was still in the minor leagues playing Winter Ball in Puerto Rico. Emanski videotaped McGriff's swing and offered to slow it down and analyze it.
In 1991, Emanski prepared to release his first videos and filmed a short endorsement clip in Chicago with McGriff, who was then with the San Diego Padres.[1] The commercial advertising Emanski's nine videos has been aired continually and relatively unchanged despite McGriff's multiple team-changes. Because of their frequent showings, Emanski's name has become synonymous with the fundamentals of baseball.
Emanski developed a "building block" approach to improve the fundamentals of hitting, running, and fielding. He tested his techniques on students at Baseball World, a youth baseball school in Fern Park, Florida. His teams found success winning back-to-back-to-back Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) national youth championships in three divisions: 12 and under (1990), 13 and under/under '90 (1991), and 11 and under (1992).[2] Emanski also coached the 1996 Junior Pan American team to two wins against Cuba and the gold medal.[3]
The frequent commercial airings have made the Emanski Videos widely known in the sports viewing world, and the instructional tapes have become fodder for sports analysts who wish to reference a lack of fundamental play in professional baseball players. During ESPN SportsCenter broadcasts, anchor Kenny Mayne would frequently comment during replays of a player error that "Perhaps he should watch Tom Emanski's Defensive Fundamentals tape. They're endorsed by MLB superstar Fred "The Crime Dog" McGriff." Jayson Stark also commented on St. Louis Cardinals' defensive lapses in the 2002 National League Championship Series[4] and a 2005 New York Times article suggested that New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez spend $29.95 and "buy the eminent baseball instructor Tom Emanski's DVD, 'Teaching the Mechanics of the Major League Swing II.'" [5]
In 2006, satirical news publication The Onion published an article about the hapless Kansas City Royals of MLB hiring Emanski to teach the team the fundamentals of baseball.[6] Emanski's staff of Garry Ridge, Teddy Craig, Scott Howat, and Jim Horvath are widely recognized across the country as one of the best baseball staffs.
List of Emanski Videos/DVDs[edit]
- Dynamic Practice Organization
- Defensive Drills
- Mechanics of the Major League Pitcher
- Baseball Strength & Conditioning
- Professional Bunting
- Mechanics of the Major League Swing II
- ^ Caple, Jim and Darren Rovell. "Ironman of Commercials". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
- ^ "Past AAU Baseball Champions". AAU Baseball. Archived from the original on 2007-04-05. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
- ^ "USA Beats Cuba". Tom Emanski Baseball Videos. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
- ^ Stark, Jayson (2002-10-12). "Cards win, but Tom Emanski covers his eyes". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2009-03-05.
- ^ Richard Sandomir (2005-10-12). "TV SPORTS; Thanks to Fox Analysts, A-Rod Takes His Lumps". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-03-29.
- ^ http://www.theonion.com/articles/royals-hire-tom-emanski-to-teach-them-fundamentals,1974/


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Now that they've cleared the proper channels to facilitate the Brietling Emergency II's functions, the luxury watch brand has begun selling the world's first wristwatch with a dual-frequency locator beacon in the Philippines
In the age of the #liveauthentic hashtag, more and more people seem to be investing in experiences by visiting exotic lands, climbing the steepest mountains, and diving into the ocean as far as their lungs (and a tank of oxygen) can take them. True, adventure is out there – but so is danger. The allure of exploring the wilderness on your own for a little soul-searching comes with a hefty price: the possibility of getting lost, stranded, or even killed. How can you ensure that you'll be "living authentic" instead of dying all alone on your first day out?
Luxury watch brand Breitling has an answer to that: the Breitling Emergency II, the world's first wristwatch with a dual-frequency locator beacon. Through the company's partnership with institutions like the Cospas-Sarsat international satellite alert system, the Emergency II's built-in personal locator beacon has helped save a couple of its wearers from various distress situations, including an entire family trapped by a fire.
The original Emergency series was developed in 1995 and focused greatly on aviation. The watches became a staple for many pilots around the globe and around 40,000 units were sold. The Emergency II, however, is meant to handle all kinds of distress situations – whether they be on land, at sea, or in air.
The Emergency II's rescue operations are comprised of three steps: alert, homing, and rescue. Once the watch's search-and-rescue functions are employed, it sends out a signal on two separate frequencies (406 MHz and 121.5 MHz) over a 24-hour period through its extendable antenna. As soon as the signal reaches Cospas-Sarsat, a verification process ensues and then authorities in the area of the distress signal are alerted.
With a sturdy, stylish, and light body, it would be an understatement to call this watch handy.


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We have Austrians. Handsome and blonde Austrians! And they sing! Goodnight Mommy begins in such a fashion, a large family (noticeably without father) singing Brahms' Lullaby, the lovely children in black velvet dresses and lederhosen. At the conclusion of this doctored bit of graininess, a television show that probably never was, the mother bids us a tender, "Gute nacht." At the conclusion of Goodnight Mommy, the film's main characters, a woman and her twin boys serenade us, arm in arm, with the German hymm, "Weisst Du wieviel Sternlein stehen." Before you consider Goodnight Mommy for your next holiday film sing-along, know that there's actually very little song between those Austrian idylls that open and close the film. And what transpires between is much closer in spirit to the Brothers Grimm than the family Von Trapp.
In counterpoint to the fair-haired wholesomeness on display in Goodnight Mommy, there is quickly established an air of dread. The twin boys, Elias and Lukas, disport around the countryside in their matching little sleeveless undershirts. They play tag through a corn field, first seen from ground level. When the perspective changes to overhead, the stalks look irate at their displacement and snap back into place as if intent on swallowing the children. The brothers step across the alien, shifting clots of a bog as the browned earth moans and burps in response. First one of the lads, then the other steps into an unlit tunnel. One of them glides almost magically across the dark glass of a lake. Significantly, as we await some awful occurrence in all of these situations where misfortune would seem to await the boys, the only name we hear called out is "Lukas."
What's also evident through these first scenes of Goodnight Mommy is how effectively co-directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala capture and precisely utilize sound to enhance the building tension of their story.
To our surprise, Elias and Lukas do return home unscathed. Like the nearly unpeopled village into which they will later roam, their house seems to have been plopped down from another place, right on the verge of farm fields and forest. It also looks like something out of an Austrian version of Dwell. As we come to see the decidedly mod furnishings of this rural retreat, including clear acrylic hanging bubble chairs and artfully out-of-focus pictures bedecking the cold walls, it also looks like the sort of joint with which the people at Unhappy Hipsters could have a field day.
Hipster or not, the woman presiding amidst this cool elegance is clearly not very happy herself. When the boys arrive at her bedroom, somewhat dirtier for their endeavors, they find their mother standing in shadow so consistent with the first half or so of Goodnight Mommy, a semi-permanent twilight of drawn blinds. When the robed figure turns to face them, the chilling image of a head wrapped in bandages atop that body emerges from the darkness and walks toward her sons with arms extended. Not surprisingly, Elias and Lukas do not leap for the embrace of this forbidding figure, their yeux sans visage. Instead, they regard her - not with fear, but with an almost malevolent skepticism. "That's a fine hello," says their mother before admonishing them to get out of their dirty clothes.
What ensues in Goodnight Mommy is what co-director Veronika Franz has referred to in interview as "power games within families." It is a power game or struggle in which the stern, slightly mummified mother would seem to hold the advantage, to be the heavy.
Given that the mother's face is wrapped through the early portion of Goodnight Mommy, obvious comparisons have been made to Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face. Numerous comparisons to countryman Michael Haneke, particularly the director's Funny Games, have also been made. Veronika Franz and her co-director Severin Fiala, don't cite any specific influence in the making of Goodnight Mommy. They don't really see the connection to Haneke at all. In its power struggle between an apparently single mother dealing with a fractious young son and its ultimate ambiguity as to whom is the most destructive member of the relationship, Goodnight Mommy actually has much in common with Jennifer Kent's The Babadook (2014).
What ensues in Goodnight Mommy is what co-director Veronika Franz has referred to in interview as "power games within families." It is a power game or struggle in which the stern, slightly mummified mother would seem to hold the advantage, to be the heavy.
Given that the mother's face is wrapped through the early portion of Goodnight Mommy, obvious comparisons have been made to Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face. Numerous comparisons to countryman Michael Haneke, particularly the director's Funny Games, have also been made. Veronika Franz and her co-director Severin Fiala, don't cite any specific influence in the making of Goodnight Mommy. They don't really see the connection to Haneke at all. In its power struggle between an apparently single mother dealing with a fractious young son and its ultimate ambiguity as to whom is the most destructive member of the relationship, Goodnight Mommy actually has much in common with Jennifer Kent's The Babadook (2014).
There has been no more encouraging evidence in the past two years for the artistic viability of horror films - not to mention evidence that horror films can actually still be scary - than The Babadook and Goodnight Mommy. It's no accident that both films have come from abroad, outside the conservative machine that is Hollywood. And given that both films till the dark loam in which lies the more morbid aspects parenthood, it makes sense that each has been partially, if not totally informed by women. Who, after all, has to deal with the obvious burden of child-bearing? Who, more often than not, has to cope with most of the challenges to sleep and sanity those early years? The sometime isolation and challenges to identity? Even in youth or well into adulthood of the demanding offspring, the blame for frustrated expectations? Sorry, mom.
Both The Babadook and Goodnight Mommy visit that fevered part of the psyche where parenthood can seem like a life and death struggle, where everyday reversals can be distorted to the realm of dark opera. In the The Babadook, it looks as though young Samuel Vanek (Noah Wiseman) is the problem, haunted by a monster (Mr. Babadook) and generally ruining his mother's life. With Goodnight Mommy, the mother (Susanne Wuest) both looks and acts the part of villain, apparently cold and stern, her bearing and clothing (not to mention her headdress) as lacking in warmth as her manner. In each case, the directors build and impressively maintain a sense of ambiguity through their films as to whom the real threat, the real monster is. The Babadook and Goodnight Mommy just happen to see their young male characters wielding self-adapted weapons - a crossbow here, a kiddie rocket launcher there - as they mount their defense against foes supernatural or domestic. What's unclear well into the proceedings of both films is who should be protected against whom.
|Could you come back and freak out later, honey?
Mommy needs some sleep. Essie Davis in The Babadook.
The ambiguity present in Goodnight Mommy involves a major twist that will fool most on first viewing. To watch the film a second or third time is to appreciate how precisely Ms. Franz and Mr. Fiala have constructed their story. The films plays a good deal and quite skillfully with matters if identity and absence.
Elias and Lucas simply don't believe the woman behind the bandages is their mother. For some reason, the mother will hardly acknowledge Lukas at all. We don't know how the family has arrived at this particular state. We don't know if the father is absent, divorced from the mother, or no longer living. It is revealed late in the going that there was an accident at some point (another bit of common ground with The Babadook). This, perhaps, why the mother is recovering from what would appear to have been plastic surgery. Of course, we also discover she's something of a television presenter in Austria, so perhaps the surgery is part of the ubiquitous industry pressure to stay young, whatever the means.
The mother's occupation is divulged during a moment of relative detente with the boys, as they all play a game of "I Spy." This explains the German title of the film, which early flashes on the screen: "Ich Seh Ich Seh." The game's first line apparently, "Ich seh, ich seh, was du siehst nicht" - "I see, I see, what you don't see." A sticky note is affixed to one's forehead with an identity that is to be guessed by clues given by those who can see it. The boys put the mother's own identity on her forehead, but even as they give more specific clues, she struggles to guess it is her. Yet more damning evidence it would seem that the woman is not really the mother of Elias and Lucas.
The truth lurks in Goodnight Mommy. Unlike the would-be scary films regularly produced by Hollywood, it doesn't come springing out of some dark closet accompanied by a thundering sound effect in Dolby Surround, creating a fright that evaporates about as quickly as one's launched ass returns to the comfort of the theater seat. It lurks. This is a matter of patience, discipline and skill. It's a crucial quality that was also demonstrated by another encouraging horror film of the past couple of years, David Robert Mitchell's It Follows.
The darkness, the truth, lurks close by Lukas and Elias, lost in their seemingly innocent games: a very boyish burp-off in those bubble chairs; holding their breath underwater; bouncing on a trampoline. It's something decidedly unholy lurking behind all the trappings and representatives of piety. We see many such tokens in Goodnight Mommy: the boys praying at an outdoor cross; a crucifix swinging from the rear-view mirror of the priest who returns them home after they have run away; votive candles standing a kind of sentry for the sleeping boys and later surrounding the mother at the film's climax. The truth lurks beneath the bond of the mother and son, a bond that becomes unforgettably literal as it festers through Goodnight Mommy. All of this like a lullaby much more likely to induce a nightmare than peaceful slumber.
We see some vivid nightmares in Goodnight Mommy. Franz and Fiala deal very effectively in images that have seemingly little to do with plot, but everything to do with mood, waking and sleeping. As the relationship between the mother and sons grow more openly hostile, Elias dreams of walking into her room, cutting open her stomach and seeing large, ghastly beetles emerge. We had earlier seen the twins place one of the bugs on her face while she slept, the insect eventually slipping into the sleeping woman's mouth. The boys collect beetles, keeping them pullulating in an aquarium. In a strong bit of foreshadowing, Elias burns one of the insects on a cement porch with a magnifying glass.
Images of fire recur and the distinction between reality and nightmare blurs. When the boys run away, we seem them in a field undergoing a controlled burn. They step dangerously close to the section aflame while the man doing the work gestures furiously for them to get away. Elias and Lukas step literally from another field right into an apparently nearby village whose streets are abandoned, save for a lone accordion player wailing like an infernal Tom Waits. The line between the real and the imagined is typically diaphanous when the boys watch their frustrated mother leave the house one evening and stalk into the nearby forest. Over the verdant bed, among the black trunks she winds, ultimately stripping. When the camera comes round for a frontal view , we see the face whipping horribly fast, a screaming blur.
The apparent nightmares, the fanciful images, help to further the sense of dread in Goodnight Mommy. Ultimately, the film finds its horror in very real things. Elemental expressions predominate, start to finish. There is fire, there is water. The latter in the boys sport, floating and submerging to hold their breath. They later remove the beetles from the aquarium, fill it with water and leave a dead cat submerged in the tank. This a message to their mother, whom they believed killed the cat they earlier found in some sort of ossuary (the traipse across the piled bones yet another opportunity for Franz and Fiala to exploit sound in the crunch of those bones under foot). When the boys won't come out and face her, the mother dumps a jar of the beloved beetles into the water to drown. Did that accident that is mentioned in the film's closing moments involve drowning? Did it involve fire? Perhaps. Does a horrible, elemental expression occur at the climax of Goodnight Mommy? Well, yes.
Franz and Fiala maintain the sense of ambiguity because we ultimately see the bad behavior of the boys and their mother from the other's perspective. Like any power struggle, any war, the combatants are sometimes at their worst, regardless of who might ultimately be the greater victim.
When the bandages finally come off, both the mother's dress and manner are transformed. Gone is the almost masculine togs that had accompanied the facial bandages. She appears in a blue dress, hair done up, makeup applied. "Are we friends again," she asks, smiling.
Franz and Fiala maintain the sense of ambiguity because we ultimately see the bad behavior of the boys and their mother from the other's perspective. Like any power struggle, any war, the combatants are sometimes at their worst, regardless of who might ultimately be the greater victim.
When the bandages finally come off, both the mother's dress and manner are transformed. Gone is the almost masculine togs that had accompanied the facial bandages. She appears in a blue dress, hair done up, makeup applied. "Are we friends again," she asks, smiling.
Sorry, mom. By the time the mother emerges from her bandages and personal darkness, she has lost her sons. None of the evidence seems to jibe. The face isn't quite the same as before. When the boys consult a photo album, they see the picture of their mother's friend who looks more like the woman claiming to be their mother than the one they've always known. Elias and Lukas play a recording of their mother singing "Weisst Du wieviel Sternlein stehen." as they go to sleep one night. But when they ask their mother at a crucial juncture what is Lukas favorite song, she can't come up with the right one. "We want our mom back," they demand. "You're not our mom....Show us your birthmark." Bad news indeed when the birthmark is found to be impermanent.
Like lesser-known versions of the folklore gathered and told by the Brothers Grimm, the simple story of Goodnight Mommy does not shy from dark themes and darker action when the time comes. There is more bad behavior. There is blood. And there is worse. Without revealing too much of the mayhem, suffice it to say that super glue is found to have even greater utility than previously imagined. Ah, the ties that bind. And bind.
|So maybe having kids wasn't such a good idea after all. Elias
and Lukas Schwarz in Goodnight Mommy.
But not to worry. The principles gather in a field at film's end, the boys having emerged from the corn a last time. The moon is full. They sing. The mother knows which song to sing this time. All are smiling. Even as silence prevails at hymn's end, the ideal Austrian family smiles into the camera.
There's a great upward whoosh of sparks, a last breath of fire, when the frame finally darkens. A Lynchian coda if there ever was one. As David Lynch has done with such chilling effectiveness in several of his films, peeling back a sense American wholesomeness like a concealing skin, first time directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala do with their own cultural heritage, which includes, by their own reckoning, an unwillingness to face difficult truths, political or personal. Let the diseased family stand for any larger metaphors in Goodnight Mommy. Let the fire burn. So long, farewell....to you and you and you!


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Servings: 4
4 skinless chicken breast halves (1-1/2 pounds)
2-1/2 tablespoons Dijon-style mustard, divided
1 cup fresh whole wheat bread crumbs (2 slices bread)
1/2 teaspoon dried marjoram leaves
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon dried sage leaves
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
Nonstick cooking spray
1 small red bell pepper, sliced
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 cups broccoli flowerettes, cooked crisp-tender
1 to 2 tablespoons lemon juice
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Brush tops of chicken breasts with 2
tablespoons mustard. Combine bread crumbs, remaining 1/2 tablespoon mustard,
marjoram, thyme, salt, sage and black pepper in small bowl. Pat mixture
evenly over mustard. Arrange chicken, breast side up, in single layer
in 13x9-inch baking pan.
2. Bake, uncovered, about 40 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink
in center and juices run clear.
3. Spray medium nonstick skillet with cooking spray; heat over medium
heat until hot. Add bell pepper and garlic; cook and stir about 5 minutes
or until tender. Add broccoli and lemon juice; cook and stir 2 to 3 minutes
or until heated through.
4. Arrange chicken and broccoli mixture on serving plates.
Nutritional Information Per Serving:
Calories: 196; Fat: 4 grams; Carbohydrates: 11 grams; Protein: 29 grams;
Sodium: 412 mg; Cholesterol: 69 mg
Exchanges: 1/2 Starch/Bread; 2-1/2 Lean Meat; 1 Vegetable
THE DIABETIC NEWSLETTER by
The Diabetic Gourmet Magazine


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Doleham still busy
Yesterday, before the rain started (again), there was plenty going on in the Upper Brede Valley, with around 500 wildfowl of 10 species present. The deeper floodwater has attracted more Tufted Ducks than previously and with them a new species for the reserve – a male Pochard.
Read more in RXbirdwalks.


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The inclusion of the Qbic Soap dispenser in any specification allows complete continuity between design and hand over to the facilities manager as the dispenser can be retrospectively adapted by changing pumps or reservoir for cartridge.
This is a robust and heavy duty dispenser appropriate even for high traffic washrooms.
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Hello again Dear Friends,
On this fine Wednesday evening I find myself sitting on my big and cozy chair that I found at a garage sale a few weeks ago for…and you won't believe this but I found it for the total of $38! Well, actually it was FIRST priced at the hefty but still a steal of a deal amount of $50. But upon the mentioning of knowing his wife(who was not there at the time of course because like every other lover of all things good-looking was out perusing the other neighborly garage sales that were happening) he said that this was not at all a firm price but most definitely up for some good ol' negotiating. Well! You better bet your hard-earned dollar that I pulled out that slighty dusty and timid negotiating skill of mine (Dad, you would have been proud!) and offered the respectable amount (I was hoping!) of $38. Unfortunately it came with a fire truck red corduroy slipcover but as you will soon find out about moi is that I can spot potential a mile-maybe even a half- away so when everyone else is thinking what in the world is SHE thinking, I am envisioning it in a slightly off-white new slipcover imported from its homeland nestled all nice and cozy like in my reading/sitting room with the pillow that was destined to sit atop it just waiting to host one of its owners or guests with a nice book or laptop (in my current case). So here I am, sitting in my sitting room(where else of course?) here at the Eastleigh Inn, listening for the first time to Barbara Streisand's "Song Bird" record (which I now decided I like the record title more than I like the record) on my record player that my dad purchased for me in my 12th year of High School. More stories of my skilled-bargain finder Dad to come, I promise!
So anyways, assuming you are wondering why this post is titled what it is when I haven't even mentioned eggs yet, I will get to my original point. I thought to myself today "I would really like an egg salad sandwich. Not only would I like a sandwich but I would also really like to know how to make a perfect soft-boiled egg". Mikaela Ruth once posted this music video on her site that I instantly fell in love with and ever since I have thought of how lovely it would be if I knew how to make a yummy soft-boiled egg breakfast like the one in the video.
My solution? I called up my Mom. Moms always know more than you give them credit for.
So not only will the residents of Eastleigh Inn now enjoy egg salad sandwiches for lunch tomorrow, but we will be throwing a soft-boiled egg into our regular Thursday Morning Breakfast mix.
Oh and in case YOU don't know AND your Mom doesn't know, here is how you boil eggs. 🙂
Soft Boiled Eggs
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Behind the Illinois Bigfoot Flap
Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 15th, 2006
Am I surprised to hear there is news of Bigfoot reports coming out of Illinois? Of course not. Illinois was my stomping grounds from 1947-1975, and the area has a long history of encounters. What is surprising is who has shown up to use a relatively recent sighting to get more media attention. Tom Biscardi is back.
The notorious 1970s Bigfoot trickster and Ivan Marx associate, who attempted to pull off the "send in your money and see the Bigfoot I've captured" trickery on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, may be in a neighborhood near you. Beware.
Rapidly having departed Happy Valley, California, and disassociated from past associates in Las Vegas, Tom Biscardi has taken his show on the road. Now comes spotty news releases that there has been a "Bigfoot encounter in Illinois" where Biscardi supposedly is hot on the trail to investigate.
Don't be bothered by the details that the "encounter" took place not exactly recently, or that Biscardi has traveled all the way from California with "equipment" to track the creature. No, Biscardi is there and truth and justice may be the result of this investigation, we are told. Will we soon be hearing again about his website, for pay-per-views?
Intriguingly, media accounts actually said this Illinois Bigfoot encounter took place anywhere from "last fall," according to the Bloomington Pantagragh to "a year ago," as noted by a news report on WHOI, in Illinois.
This is all beginning to sound so familiar. Biscardi is quoted as saying that the area near Funks Grove, Illinois can "support two of the creatures" he says "would weigh around 350 pounds each."
Yes, a serious sighting may have happened in Illinois, but unfortunately, an innocent eyewitness has been swept up in Biscardi's messing around in the Midwest. As the Peoria Journal-Star notes:
The Bigfoot search team was drawn to the area this week by a phone call last summer from Bloomington resident Chris Vielhak. Vielhak said he saw a large black creature he thought at first was a bear run behind his 1990 Mustang as he drove slowly down State Route 66. After he felt a slap to the side of his car, Vielhak said he was startled and sped away to discover five large claw marks on the trunk. Vielhak called Biscardi after doing some research on the Internet.
"It kept bugging me and fascinated me about what hit my car, and it ticked me off because paint jobs cost money," Vielhak, 31, told another reporter.
Former International Society of Cryptozoology board member and zoologist at Illinois State University Angelo Capparella said the eyewitness heard strange noises and claimed they were able to get the creature to interact with them in some way. Capparella found this unusual behavior for what is assumed to be shy Bigfoot, and he told the media this raised some questoins about the sighting.
The bottomline seems to be that this is merely developing into another publicity opportunity for Biscardi. If you aren't convinced that Biscardi is trying to remake himself into some version of a melodramatic tragic American Bigfoot Hunter Superhero, just listen to the words he's feeding to the media.
Here's Biscardi talking to ABC News in Illinois: "I've been ridiculed, but the proof is in the pudding, Jack, and that's the reason why myself and my team are out here now investigating across this great United States of America."
Or read what Biscardi had to say to the Peoria Journal-Star: "Nobody in the field is doing this like us. They're not in the firing trenches, not braving the temperatures."
You be the judge.
Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world's leading cryptozoologists, some say "the" leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson's Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman's daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.


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It's my duty to bring you the latest trends in full figured fashion and I have a design that will warm every women's heart who has ever worn heels. Now you can protect them and keep them looking fresh out the box!
I LOVE these high heel condoms…not necessarily the name but the idea is fantastic.
These condom like covers let you play dress up with your shoes and them unscathed and beautiful . Heel condoms have many styles and perks so that you can mix and match your shoes with different outfits or they make your shoes a conversation starter. They also work great for travel and easy to slip-on. Another great thing that they are reusable and durable. A look that is FUN, FIERCE & FABULOUS!
The cost is super reasonable anywhere from $25-$51.00…WOW! Simply slip them up your heels and either place the elastic band under your foot to keep in place or tie the two straps around your ankle.
*When placing condom on heel please be careful, used shoe caps can break the condom*
Spikes or buttons or gold ribbons and lace and many more looks for all your high heel shoes needs.
Which GLAMORSIZED High Heel Condom will you choose?


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The Lincoln-Lancaster County Genealogical Society (LLCGS) in the capital city of Lincoln, Nebraska, is an active group who provide education and guidance in genealogical research. They also promote the collection and preservation of records of historical and genealogical value.
The society holds monthly membership meetings that are open to the public. In addition to their regular meetings, they also have educational programs or discussion groups. By clicking on Events on the home page, you will find information about the programs. Meetings are open to the public.
Ella Johnson Crandall Memorial Library at Union College in Lincoln. It is open to the public. Their collection is not limited to Nebraska resources. The college is located at 3800 South 48th Street in Lincoln. Union College is a Seventh-Day Adventist college and closed on Saturdays. The library hours are:
Sunday 1 pm - 10:30 pm
Monday-Thursday 8:30 am - 10:30 pm (closed during school year on Tuesdays 10:20 to 11:30 am)
Friday 8:30 am to 1 pm
If you are in the area of Lincoln, Nebraska, try to attend one of their meetings or educational programs. It will be worth your while to also spend time at the library.


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Originally scored for brass choir, composer John Stevens brings us this marvelous version for full band featuring flowing melodies and counterlines in a rich chorale-like setting.
The solo part at the beginning and end is scored for euphonium, but is cued for clarinet, trumpet or trombone. Great for teaching a lyric style of playing, and also as an effective performance piece. Dur: 3:30


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Mass Flow Meter Features an Advanced U Tube Flow Sensor Design
With an advanced "U" tube flow sensor design, the Model CMU Coriolis Mass Flow Meter from Fluid Components International now delivers more than twice the industry standard flow rate than previously available to set a new benchmark when compared to other coriolis devices in its class. FCI's Model CMU flow meter combines large line size service, high flow rate capability and measurement accuracy.
Designed for line sizes from 0.25 to 12 inches (DN 8 to DN 300), the CMU measures flow rates from 2.2 to 80,800 lb/hr (60 to 2,200,00 kg/hr). The CMU provides true mass flow measurement with superior accuracy, while at the same time measuring fluid temperature, density and volumetric flow. The CMU's "U" tube flow sensor design features a lightweight tube, minimal welding and vibration dampening technology.
This design achieves higher long-term mechanical reliability and lower installation costs when compared to the typical heavy die-cast elements found in ordinary Coriolis devices. It also eliminates the bulky and costly extra structural supports often required to mount and secure other metering devices. The CMU's accuracy range is 0.1 to 0.15 percent in liquids (depending on line size) and 0.5 percent in gases (+ reading).
In applications where density measurement and/or with variable fluid densities, the CMU is available with special optional density calibrations. Selections include a three-point, or for greater accuracy, a five-point density calibration. A ruggedized full-featured transmitter, the Model CT is available to support the CMU flow meter.
Available as a blind transmitter or with an integral two-line LCD digital display, the transmitter is the electronics interface to the sensor and an array of analog and/or digital outputs. Standard outputs include dual 4-20mA, one standard with HART, a frequency/pulse output of total flow, and a binary output of instrument status. Output options include Profibus-PA and a tamper-proof, custody transfer configuration that is sealed/certified, and prevents resetting of the internal totalizer. The CT can be mounted integral with the sensor or remote mounted up to 1000 feet (300 m) away.
With Model CMU, FCI expands Coriolis flow meter technology to serve a much broader range of applications in chemical, petrochemical, oil/gas, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, engine test stands, pilot plants and many more.
Many challenging process applications that could be improved or achieve cost savings with high accuracy Coriolis flow measurement have been long ignored because of line sizes, and flow rate limitations. Typical Coriolis Flow Meters have been limited to service in line sizes six inches or smaller and for use with benign fluids compatible with stainless steel or Hastelloy C. FCI's new Coriolis flow meter product line overcomes these obstacles to expand the applications envelope for this technology.


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Installing the Sandbox on VMware Player or VMware Fusion
Download the MapR Sandbox for Hadoop file to a directory on your machine.
- Navigate to http://package.mapr.com/releases/, and select the directory for the latest MapR release.
sandbox > vmware > MapR-Sandbox-For-Hadoop-<release_version>-vmware.ovaFor example:
Open the virtual machine player, and select the Open a Virtual
Machine option.
Tip for VMware Fusion: If you are running VMware Fusion, select Import.
Navigate to the directory where you downloaded the MapR Sandbox for Hadoop
file, and select
MapR-Sandbox-For-Hadoop-<version>-vmware.ova. The Import Virtual Machine dialog appears.
Click Import. The virtual machine player imports the
MapR-Sandbox-For-Hadoop-<version>-vmware, and click Play virtual machine. It takes a few minutes for the MapR services to start. After the MapR services start and installation completes, the following instructional message appears:
MapR-Sandbox-For-Hadoop installation finished successfully. Please go to http://192.168.16.128:8443 to begin your experience. Open a browser on your host machine and enter the URL in the browser's address field. You can access the host via SSH by ssh email@example.com The following credentials should be used for the MCS and HUE: mapr/mapr Log in to this virtual machine: Linux/Windows <Alt+F2>, Mac OS X <Options+F5>
Verify that a DNS entry was created on the host machine for the virtual
machine. If not, create the entry.
- For Linux and Mac, create the entry in
- For Windows, create the entry in the
127.0.1.1 <vm_hostname>
- For Linux and Mac, create the entry in
You can navigate to the URL provided in the message to experience Hue and the
MapR Control System, or you can log into the sandbox through the command line.
- To navigate to the MapR Sandbox for Hadoop, enter the provided URL in your browser's address bar.
- To log into the virtual machine and access the command line, enter
Alt+F2on Windows or
Option+F5on Mac. When prompted, enter
mapras the login and password.


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The BMW X6 has a lot to answer for – if you'd told us 20yrs ago that a massive SUV with a coupe-like roofline giving worse practicality a rear visibility would be incredibly popular we'd have laughed in your face. But the X6 has done just that, so Mercedes wants in on the action. Step forward the GLE Coupe – taking the well-loved GLE model and adding a coupe like roofline, along with rear lights just like those on the C- and S-Class Coupe models gives a distinctive look and with this being the new GLE43 AMG Coupe you also get a lot of performance. The 3.0 litre twin turbo V6 puts out 362bhp which means this behemoth does the 0-62mph sprint in just 5.7 seconds. If it wasn't limited to 155mph it'd top out at almost 180mph too…
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For teachers, parents, schools and coaches, May is a time of bittersweet goodbyes.
When I taught, I started getting reflective and emotional in March—thinking about how far my students had come in a year. But by the time May arrived, I was too exhausted to express my thoughts and feelings well.
Hugs and kisses were often the best I could do to wrap up the tremendous journeys I took with children and their families.
I don't have a classroom anymore. Instead I have you, an amazing village of Boss Parents. Rather than working with kids directly, I try to help parents make beneficial changes in their families.
I spend a lot of time and virtual ink telling you what to do—how to address behaviors, prep for transitions, when to be tough, when to be soft, etc., etc.
But I also worry that you're too hard on yourselves, Bosses. It's human nature to focus on what needs improvement, but just the fact that you're gathering behavior advice means you're in an elite group of parenting superstars. If you could see through my teacher eyes, you would know it.
So today I'm here to cheer for you, as we push towards the finish line of another school year. I'm here to tell you all the things I see you doing so well. All the things that are going to make your children strong and successful in life.
I See More than Just Child Behavior
I get so focused on explaining how to fix and tweak child behaviors that I forget to praise all the superhuman feats of parenting I see every day.
You may be too close to see it, but the steady (and sometimes rapid) developmental progress of your children over a school year is largely due to the stable, loving environments you provide day in, and day out.
Here are some of the beautiful things I see in you Boss Parents:
- I see you respecting your kids for who they are, not who you wish they were.
- I see you talking to your kids like they're people and trying so hard to not over-negotiate with them.
- I see you exposing children to amazing experiences, like hiking, dance, trapeze, robotics, and music—and trying so hard not to over-schedule them.
- I see you hating homework and trying to find win-win compromises so your kids learn they can't shirk school responsibility.
- I see you working hard to manage yourself and keep your temper.
- I see you drawing hard lines where safety is concerned.
- I see you not wasting time on denial and getting your kids the services they need when a teacher raises concern.
- I see you seeking compliance rather than obedience.
- I see you caring more about your kids demonstrating empathy than demonstrating proficiency on standardized testing.
- I see you limit screen time for so many reasons.
- I see you getting those veggies in there.
Most of all, what I see time and time again in Boss Parents is the willingness to change when something isn't working. As a teacher and consultant, I'm so grateful when I get to partner with conscientious, mindful parents like you.
Your kids have challenges. (Most children do.) But because you're so boss, they also have an emotional stability that allows them to keep moving forward.
Your children feel safe. That's the foundation to making the social, emotional, and behavioral progress we're asking of them. They feel safe, because of you.
I see you. You are amazing Boss Parents.
I hope you'll share this with all the Boss Parents you know!
About the Author
Lisa King is the co-founder of Boss Parent. She also provides parents with in-person and remote child behavior consulting.


text: While thinking to post a new article on this blog I suddenly decided to give the MS Word a try. Registering a new blog account was not a problem at all. It was really easy. Word dashboard is as usual comfortable. Writing anything on MS Word and then posting the same directly to the blog is definitely more convenient. It being the first time, I will have to look in to the finer details and outputs.


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May 2018 | 208pp
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7. Research data services
8. Staffing a research data service
9. Requirements gathering for a research data service
10. Institutional policy and the business case for research data services
11. Support and advice for RDM
12. Practical data management
13. Data management planning
14. Advocacy for data management and sharing
15. Training researchers and data literacy
16. Infrastructure for research data storage and preservation
17. Evaluation of RDS
18. Ethics and research data services
19. A day in the life working in an RDS
20. Conclusion: the skills and mindset to succeed in RDM
'...they have produced a complete course of instruction in research data management, and one that is especially and unreservedly recommended for librarian in-service training curriculums, as well as college and university Library Science collections in general, and Data Management supplemental studies reading lists in particular.'
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Mother of Herbs, Mother of All Herbs,Queen of Herbs, Five in One Herb, Five Seasons Herb, Allherb, Country Borage, Indian Borage, Five Spice Herb, Chinese Three in One, Broad Leafed Thyme, Spanish Thyme, Spanish Sage, Puerto Rican Oregano, Plectranthus amboinicus.
One of the all time easiest herbs to grow, this perennial climber from sub tropical Asia, has made itself quite at home throughout Australia.
We have not found anywhere yet that it will not grow, and as it such a useful herb, it is welcome everywhere.
As a culinery herb it does replace practically all of the dried herbs in your spice rack.
It can be added to stews, roasts and stir frys with just a little chopping.
As a tea, in the evening, especially when suffering with a head cold, it is pleasant and soothing tea, ensuring a calm nights' sleep.


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text: "Civilian is an album by British Progressive Rock band Gentle Giant which was released in 1980. At this point a near total change of style was in evidence with only a trace of the original verve present. The band lasted only a short time after this outing. This album also marks the return to Columbia Records (the first album on this famous label since the 1973 release Octopus) in the U.S. and Canada. It was cut in the L.A. suburb of Van Nuys in 1979 with former Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick." - Wikipedia