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BENTFORMS was asked to help create the interior of Jennk Boutique, a cool clothing and accessories shop in Huntington Valley, PA.
BENTFORMS' creative force, Mat Citrenbaum, worked closely with the boutique's owner, Jennifer Kaleck, to bring her vision to life. "Jennifer wanted to pull the design from the history of the building so I used wood pieces and other items from the architecture. This led to a lot of custom made shelves and other fixtures", explains Mat. Mat was also responsible for the design and construction of displays and other decor.
Building on the existing rustic wood floors and furniture the overall design brought the space a modern, inviting vibe - the perfect balance of style and function. Careful consideration was given to the size of the room to accomodate lots of display space and allow for the floor traffic of customers. Other highlights include a unique curved counter as the centerpiece of the room and triangular shelving. The overall experience is unique and artistic, a compliment to the clothing and accessories this boutique carries.


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Are Your Etsy Prices too Low?
Are you interested in finding out how to price your Etsy store products? Do you think that your Etsy prices are too low? Check this article and discover the importance of pricing your Etsy products right!
The Importance of Pricing Your Products on Etsy Right
Pricing your Etsy products is of a huge importance because it can attract new customers or make your current customers leave your shop and never come back.
Do you wonder if your prices are too high or too low? It is normal to ask yourself these questions as the price can make or break your success on Etsy. If your price your Etsy products too high, your customers will probably think that you are trying to make a profit and not care about their needs at all, if your price your Etsy products too low, your customers won't take you and your shop seriously and will probably think that your quality is low as well. So, what should you do, how should you price your products!
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Usually, the Etsy sellers price their products low. This is because they want to attract new customers and offer them prices that they cannot ignore. Crafters, especially women crafters have a habit of undervaluing their work and underpricing their handmade creations.
Then we have another example, the new Etsy seller starts selling by adding prices that are high enough to cover their expenses for supplies and the time they lost for creating a certain handmade craft. These sellers don't make a huge profit usually.
Under-valuating your work is wrong. We are not saying that you need to price your Etsy products high and be known as a seller with expensive prices, but to price your products right. You first need to value your work and the time you spent creating the handmade pieces if you want someone else to value your products as well.
According to Etsy experts, the rule is – if you want to sell more than you need to raise your prices. Even though this rule may surprise you, we can ensure you that it actually works. Start researching and check the prices other Etsy sellers are offering and calculate the difference.
If your products are good quality, if you've added great photographs of your products, if you products are described well (with information and details such as size, material, texture, color, and etc. included) then you have a green light to raise the price and set up real and affordable prices.
That is actually the key to pricing your products right- the prices should be real and affordable for most of your customers. If your prices are affordable it gives the customer an impression that you are thinking about its needs and want to offer a high-quality product at an affordable price. We van ensure you that your customers will appreciate this gesture.
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When pricing your Etsy products you need to set the prices high enough to cover your hourly wage, your supplies, and materials. This is the formula that will get you profit and happy customers at the same time.
This pricing strategy can really make wonders and it is used by features and successful Etsy sellers only. Your Etsy shop is not just a place where you sell your handmade creations, it is a business and businesses are made with one thing in mind – profit.
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"The garden is amazing! We have vegetables and beautiful flowers growing. The students do the work – everything from weeding, to watering, to working at our farm stand," said YL Director Racheal Ahearn. "Last year, we donated over 600 pounds of produce to the local soup kitchen and food pantry. Community members also get involved helping tend portions of the garden and stopping by our farm stand to purchase fresh, locally grown foods."
Now in its third season, the Youthlinks Grassroots Garden has become a valuable learning experience for the students. Students receive hands-on experience growing foods, plus, increasing awareness of nutrition and healthy living. Practical business experience comes from operating the student farm stand next to the Youthlinks building.
In September, the garden will be harvested and closed for the winter. Then, after-school programs begin that are held Monday through Friday from 2:30 pm to 5 pm at the Youthlinks center located at 420 Broadway, Rockland, Maine. Youthlinks is funded through a combination of state grants and the generous donations of local individuals, businesses, and foundations.
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text: Located in the heart of the city, boulevard Taschereau extends over nearly 6.5 km. More than 400 businesses are located there and thousands of motorists travel it daily. Often criticized for its design characteristics, building architecture, the overabundance of signage and its unfriendliness for all users other than motorists, it is now subject to new urban development regulations. Visit the Regulations section for more information on the new urban planning by-laws. Taschereau Boulevard revitalization Initiative The City continues its efforts to promote the beautification and development of this boulevard with an eye to sustainable development. The revitalization could extend from rue Auguste up to the La Prairie city limits. Watch the video on our vision of boulevard Taschereau In its approach to revitalization, the City is considering the following aspects: traffic congestion and road safety; public transit and active mobility (pedestrians, cyclists, etc.); universal accessibility; cohabitation between various uses (mitigation of impacts and nuisances); the social dimension (public spaces and parks, housing for all, etc.); the environment (reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, mitigation of heat islands, greening, etc.); beautification (architecture and location of buildings, landscaping, signage, facilities, etc.); economic development (optimization of usages, redevelopment of certain areas for residential purposes, etc.). Comments, Suggestions and Questions Do you have a comment, a suggestion or a question about this project? Email us at email@example.com.


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Revolabs, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation, has announced the debut of its YVC-300 portable USB and Bluetooth conference phone from Yamaha, bringing high-quality audio to new applications. Designed for small groups and powered by USB, the YVC…
Revolabs, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation, has announced the debut of its YVC-300 portable USB and Bluetooth conference phone from Yamaha, bringing high-quality audio to new applications. Designed for small groups and powered by USB, the YVC-300 is a versatile conference phone delivering ample, clear sound to ad hoc meeting areas such as open collaboration and touchdown spaces.
"As huddle rooms and other small meeting space environments continue to proliferate, organizations need collaboration solutions that fit how these rooms are used," said Rob Claus, director of global channel sales at Revolabs. "The YVC-300 is designed to provide these spaces with an affordable, flexible, and high-quality audio conferencing solution optimized for portability. With simple connection to any conferencing client, the YVC-300 ensures an amazing audio experience anywhere it's deployed."
Designed for groups of four to six people and with portability in mind, the YVC-300 is a perfect choice for organizations that want to offer high-quality group communication solutions without the cost of dedicated equipment for every conference room or open collaboration space. Users can simply borrow a device from an available supply, connect it to their PC-based audio, video and web conferencing client via USB connection and return it at the end of the meeting.
The YVC-300 also turns smartphones and tablets into conference phones by acting as the microphone and speaker when connected by Bluetooth, including fast-pairing for NFC-enabled devices. Analog audio input and output terminals allow the phone to connect easily to videoconferencing systems. Calls placed simultaneously over any of the connection interfaces are bridged into a single call. Equipped with Yamaha's leading sound processing technologies -- including adaptive echo cancellation, background noise reduction, and human voice activity detection -- the YVC-300 ensures clear, stress-free audio for every meeting.
More information on Revolabs' solutions is available at www.revolabs.com.
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197 Normanby Crescent, West Vancouver Listing #: R2360384
Once in a lifetime opportunity exists to own a palatial European masterpiece situated on a half-acre lot in West Vancouver's prestigious BP's. This 9,870+ sqft mansion was exquisitely designed by renowned architect David Christopher and built by leading luxury developer Future Living. This masterful achievement sits on a half-acre lot with breathtaking panoramic views. The Property features 2 double stacked garages capable of holding 8 cars, a 30 ft foyer, 6 bedrooms with 2 Masters. Dolby theatre room with velvet clad walls, Herringbone oak floors, marble flooring, 16 foot backlit onyx countertops in the kitchen, custom doors throughout, walnut clad windows, Schonbek Chandeliers, gold-leaf designer ceiling, walnut cabinets/paneling.
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It is Good Shepherd Sunday. The fourth Sunday of Easter is known as "Good Shepherd Sunday." The image of the Good Shepherd is one of my favorite images of the Bible. You find it in many Christian homes and in many churches. The image of the Good Shepherd was the most popular scriptural metaphor to be translated into images by the early Church. It is good to know that in the ancient world, the Good Shepherd was invoked not only by the Jews, but it was also found in pagan funeral monuments bringing his promise of comfort. The figure of the shepherd was a staple of pagan decoration which filled Roman town houses with idyllic vignettes of rural life. This shepherd was no different: he is young and beardless, dressed in the short tunic of a Roman farm laborer with wallet or baskets slung around his body, and he carries a sheep across his shoulders while two stand at his sides. Later on, the image of the Good Shepherd who lays down his life for his sheep appears over and over on the catacombs reassuring those who waited with the sleeping dead for the new life of God. One of the most beautiful representations is in the Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome, dated 250 AD, where a woman buried in a small chamber is portrayed raising arms in prayer to a Good Shepherd on the ceiling vault.
The figure of the Good Shepherd is undoubtedly meant to represent Christ. Even though in biblical text and in art from the earliest times Christ is not only the shepherd but also the sheep. The early Christians understood that the followers of Christ are like the trusting sheep, whom the Good Shepherd, Christ, knows and they know him. He has retrieved the lost sheep and is bringing them back to the fold, as he will carry home the souls of the faithful.
This is a beautiful image to use in prayers in this season of Easter as we reflect on our Salvation through the saving passion and the resurrection of our Savior Jesus Christ. It assures us of Jesus' care for all of us. I know that I am one of Jesus' flock, that he protects me from the wild beasts, theft and inclement weather. Jesus defends you and me as his own flock and He died for us (Jn 10:15). He still leads us, his sheep, to water and comforts us. He keeps his flock together and goes out to search for the sheep that have gone astray.
The parable of the Good Shepherd (Jn 10:1-6, 10-16) also emphasizes not only the unity of one flock under one shepherd but also the apostolic mission of the Church. Pope Saint John Paul II, in his post-synodal apostolic exhortation, Pastores Dabo Vobis, called us to pray for vocations, keeping in our hearts the promises of God to his people that He will give them shepherds from his heart (Jer 3:15) and the promises of Jesus, the Good Shepherd (Jn 10:11), who entrusted to the apostles and their successors the ministry of shepherding God's flock (Jn 21:15).
As we contemplate the Risen Lord as the Good Shepherd, we pray for our shepherds in the Church. We pray for them to always recognize that Jesus is the gate for all the sheep and to have a good relationship with Jesus as they follow the example of Jesus, the Good Shepherd, in leading the sheep He entrusted to them. Also, let us keep in our prayers the Seminarians of our Archdiocese of Cincinnati who will be ordained deacons on Saturday April 28 and the deacons who will be ordained priests on May 19.


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60 kVA | 3 Phase | Diesel Generator
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|60 kVA Standby
|60 Hz
|Perkins 1104D-44TG1
|Mecc Alte ECP-32-2M/4 | 12 Wire Reconnectable
|DynaGen TG410
|Steel welded base - Vibration Isolators
|Circuit Protection
|Exhaust System
|Silenced Muffler
Perkins Engine - 1104D-44TG1
Perkins is one of the world's leading suppliers of diesel engines and is a Caterpillar owned company. Perkins has produced over 20 million motors in the last 80 years. Each engine is designed to deliver very high reliability and efficient power. They can operate in the harshest of environments and under the most challenging conditions.
Perkins warranty is comprehensive and covers all parts and labour plus miscellaneous items such as the travel costs of engineers to repair the engine
State of the Art Design The 1104D utilizes the latest diesel mechanical controlled fuel system technology. This allows the 1104D-44TG1 to deliver high power density and excellent fuel economy with low exhaust emissions and minimum heat rejection.
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|Perkins 1104D-44TG1
|Standby Power Rating
|55 kWe | 63 kWm | 1800 RPM
|4.41 litres
|4 stroke
|Compression Ratio
|Combustion System
|Direct Injection
|Governor Type
|Fuel System
|Bore and Stroke
|105mm x 127 mm
|Cooling System
|Water Cooled
|Coolant Capacity
|13.2 litres
|Oil Capacity
|8.4 litres
|12 Volts
|Oil and Filter Changes
|500 Hours depending on load factor.
|Battery Alternator
|65 Amps
|Cooling System
|Radiator with belt-driven pusher fan and guards
|Starting Aid
|Glow Plugs
|Dimensions L x W x H
|1238 mm x 967 mm x 637 mm
|675 lbs
|SAE J620 Size 10/11
|Air Inlet
|Mounted Air filter and turbocharger
|Fuel Consumption
|18.7 l/hr
|Prime Power
|16.6 l/hr
|75% Prime Power
|12.8 l/hr
|50% Prime Power
|9.0 l/hr
|25% Prime Power
|5.2 l/hr
|Perkins Engine Warranty
|2 Year 3000 Hour - 5 Year Optional
Mecc Alte ECP32-3L Alternator
55 kW | Single Phase | 120/240 Volts | ECP32B | 4 Poll
The ECP32 range has many product features designed into the alternator. Self-regulation is obtained through a digital electronic regulator that is fed by an auxiliary winding. We guarantee an almost constant supply from the generator – under any possible operating condition. A rotating inductor is fitted with a damper cage. The windings have a 2/3 pitch in order to reduce the harmonic content of voltage. The entire series is manufactured according to, and complies with, the most common specifications such as CEI 2-3, IEC 34-1, EN 60034-1, VDE 0530, BS 4999-5000, CAN/ CSA-C22.2 No14-95- No100-95.
Alternators are designed and produced within an ISO 9001 environment. The entire series is manufactured according to, and complies with, the most common specifications such as CEI 2-3, IEC 34-1, EN 60034-1, VDE 0530, BS 4999-5000, NF 51.111, CAN/CSA-C22.2 No14-95-No100-95, NEMA MG 1-2011, ISO 8528-3. Other standards such as UL1446, UL 1004/4 and /B are available on request.
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The TOUGH Series® controllers are designed to provide complete control, protection, and engine instrumentation for both standard and electronic CAN Bus engines as well as metering for generator applications.
This TG410 is a step up from the TG350 model. I has the ability to monitor and display current with optional current transformers. It also has electronic engine support for standard J1939
All modules in this series are easily configured as either engine controllers or as generator controllers using either the front panel buttons or our PC configurator software.
TOUGH Series® controllers are ideally suited for severe duty applications where reliability is critical such as mobile or stationary engine equipment and generators.
- Oil Pressure
- Engine Temperature
- Fuel Level
- Oil Level
- Hour Meter
- Real time clock with time/date
- Battery Voltage
- J1939 DTC codes with custom text
- DPF and DEF status icons
- Two customer defined parameters (temperature, pressure, voltage, levels)
- 3-Phase AC Volts & Hz (for generators)
- Current and Load Balance
Features and Functions:
- SAE J1939 CAN Bus Protocol
- RPM via J1939, Magnetic pick-up, or Generator
- Speed control offset adjustment for electronic engines
- Auto start on Low Battery and other sensors
- Trim feature for sensors and AC voltage inputs
- Maintenance counter
- Exerciser Clock
- 150 Event Log
- Conformally coated for protection against moisture and contaminants
- Gasket for water ingress protection
- Free PC Configurator Software
- Fast and rugged installation clips
- Passcode protected
- Automatic shutdowns and warnings
- Load balance alarms and warnings
- Manual and remote start
- Momentary start/stop inputs
- Pre-heat and many configurable timers
- Accepts common senders (VDO, Datcon, Murphy, and more)
- Custom senders configurable with PC software
- 5-Year Warranty
Optional RelayPak is socketed to accept four industry standard cube relays. When installed, the RelayPak (RP-100*) eliminates the need to mount and wire external slave relays for Fuel, Crank, and up to two other loads.
RP-100 includes mounting pack and 3X40 A (resistive) UL pilot duty rated relays
User Configurable
The TOUGH series can be programmed manually via front panel buttons or with our easy-to-use PC configurator software that provides customization of screen messages, sender selections, control settings, and much more. The PC configurator uses a standard USB cable with no special programmer required.
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No computer programming experience is needed thanks to the easy-to-use software interface. Clearly annotated drop down boxes and menu systems guide users through virtually any programming configuration.
The RapidCore® software is compatible with the entire DynaGen TOUGH Series® controller line: TG350, TG350AMF, and TG410.
- Adjust safety set-points and calibrations
- Create your own input and output logic combinations
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- Setup your own sensor tables
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- Use only a standard and inexpensive USB cable to your computer
- Simultaneously store configurations into multiple controllers in one click
- Download the Event Log from the controller for up to 150 events
- Create your own text names for engine diagnostic trouble codes
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|Reverse Battery Protected
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- Display Screen Viewing: -20 to +70˚C
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|Delta 3 and 4-wire
|Wye 2, 3 and 4-wire
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true RMS, +/- 1% of full scale
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|0-7500Ω Senders, 4-20ma, 0-5V or switch**
0-750Ω Senders
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|- programmable text
- Auto detect close to +Battery or Ground
|Electronic Engine Support
|Standard J1939 Engines (Tier II, III & IV)
|Output (Includes fuel & crank)
|Switched Outputs - 1 AMP Max UL pilot duty
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Short circuit & overload protected
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Vanderbilt Baseball: Twelfth Week Behind, Week Ahead
It was somewhat of a boring week for the Commodores. There was no midweek game, finals were finished and the team had the lazy bus ride up to Lexington to face off against the Wildcats of Kentucky. While the games weren't without some drama, the lack of big crowds up North kept the games somewhat mild.
One thing that truly separates great teams is the ability to pound opponents with top flight starters Friday through Sunday. The game where the rubber meets the road is Saturday.
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Friday gets you off on a good or bad start, so you need your Ace to be an Ace. Saturday is either the put away game or the savior game. If you're up 1-0, the Saturday guy is out there to shut the door on the series win. If you're down, that Saturday guy has to pick you back up. Sunday is all gravy if you've got an outstanding third starter. He gets to go for the sweep, stave off the sweep or win the rubber game.
Vanderbilt knows they have as good a Friday guy as any in the nation in Sonny Gray and that Taylor Hill was going to be as good a Sunday guy as most any team in the nation had. What we didn't know coming into this season was whether or not Grayson Garvin would be among the top Saturday guys in the nation. Last summer he excelled, winning the Cape League Pitcher of the Year Award fresh off a stupendous pair of performances in the NCAA tournament, but could he be that good during the long grind of SEC conference play.
The answer is, quite simply, that he has. Garvin is 10-1 with a 2.15 earned run average in 12 starts and 79.2 innings. He's permitted just a .209 batting average against and surrendered only 12 walks against 69 strikeouts. In SEC play, he's been even better at 8-0 (in eight starts) with a 1.49 ERA and .199 batting average against.
Vanderbilt has not lost a Saturday game all year (Garvin's one loss of the season was against Stanford on a Sunday) and one wonders if they will. Grayson has been spectacularly consistent and, along with South Carolina's Michael Roth, has the inside track on SEC Pitcher of the Year honors.
The Week Behind
I'm going to cop out a bit on covering the games this past weekend, as I didn't actually get a chance to view but the last few innings on Sunday. So I'll put in some quick thoughts and just link to the Vanderbilt recaps.
Friday: Kentucky 2, Vanderbilt 0
I can't say I wasn't worried about this. Last week I noted that Friday was going to be the game to worry about. You knew Sonny Gray would bring it with effort and talent, but Alex Meyer is one of the few pitchers in America that can go toe-to-toe with Gray on pure stuff. He did that from the opening pitch, striking out the side in the first. In the end, he permitted just five hits (three from Tony Kemp) and one walk against five strikeouts in a 111-pitch, complete game performance.
Gray was only slightly more pockmarked, permitting four hits and no walks in an eight-inning complete game performance that saw him strike out nine on just 86 pitches. But Gray surrendered a solo home run in the second and permitted a second run to score on a wild pitch in the seventh, sealing Vanderbilt's loss and Gray's third on the year.
Saturday: Vanderbilt 10, Kentucky 3
Once again, Garvin simply dominated. In his eight innings, he allowed just six hits and one earned run, while striking out two and walking none. He moved to 10-1 on the year, which victory was heartily enhanced by being granted a six-run cushion before he even hit the mound.
Vanderbilt hopped all over Corey Littrell in the first, with the big blow being Conrad Gregor's first career grand slam. Littrell actually would calm down and pitch relatively well over the next three innings, but the damage was done. The Commodore offense scored ten runs on 15 hits and three walks, with Tony Kemp going 4-5 with a pair of runs and RBI. Gregor went 3-4 with the grand slam and two runs scored. Jason Esposito also had a pair of hits, extending his batting streak to 26 games.
Sunday: Vanderbilt 6, Kentucky 3
Vanderbilt hopped up early again on Sunday with a majestic two-run blast by Aaron Westlake in the first inning, but the Commodore bats went cold through the seventh, thereafter. Despite having five hits and six walks through the eighth inning, the Dores wouldn't put any more runs up as Kentucky staked their pitchers to a 3-2 lead, courtesy of a two-run home run from Michael Williams in the fourth, potentially spoiling a nice start from Taylor Hill (6 IP, 4 H, 3 ER, 1 BB, 6 K).
But Vanderbilt would strike back. They first tied the game on some heady running by Tony Kemp as a relay throw got away, allowing Kemp to score from second on a deep fly ball. In the ninth, with two out, Vanderbilt exploded with consecutive singles by Anthony Gomez, Westlake, Esposito, Mike Yastremski and
Gregor Curt Casali. Esposito's single plated the go-ahead run and extended his batting streak to 27 games. With a three spot on the board and a comfortable lead, the Commodore pen closed it out. It did get interesting as closer Navery Moore allowed the tying run to come to the plate, but Corey Williams was called in and closed the door on the Cats. Moore got the win and moved to 4-1 on the season, while Williams earned his second save.
Apologies, Corrections and Indignation
I'm writing this on Mother's Day and, as my mom says I'm perfect, I have nothing to apologize for this week.
As for a correction, I wanted to note that this isn't the best place to catch and find out information on Vanderbilt baseball. That honor belongs to the home of a great journalist who I'm proud to call a friend (and who I will be calling on when I come down to Nashville for the regional), Chris Lee's VandySports.com. While Mike Rapp normally gets the glory on here for allowing me to use his stunning photos from the Hawk, Chris is the founder of and lead baseball writer for VandySports and he really knows how to cover this team. His weekly baseball notebooks (with Mike sometimes pinch hitting) are always spot on and his recent interview of Tyler Beede is a must read for Vanderbilt fans. Check the reading list below for that one.
As for indignation, I want to note that this season has seen two great absences. For an entire season, we've not seen Frank the Dancing Dog. Yes, a man in a suit wiggled the wiener earlier in the year (and did not get arrested for it, thank you very much), but it wasn't Brandon Barca and, hence, was not Frank. I'm still hopeful that we'll see Brandon (who switched from VUCommodores.com to a job with Vanderbilt's Peabody College) during the Florida series or the Regionals.
The second thing missing this year has been Eric Jones' YouTube pieces. While we were able to enjoy Eric's in-game coverage prior to Joe Fisher's rejoining of the team at the end of Basketball season, Eric has always thrived in the environment of the off-day and pre-game setting, getting some of the Commodores' personality on film. He peeked up out of the ticket office this week for what is hopefully the first in a multi-segmented series of Dorealect. It harkens back to the days of Travis the Intern silliness, while maintaining a bit more of a serious perspective.
In any respect, EJ's videos have always been fun. I mean, have the fans ever seen Yastrzemski as proud of himself as when he got to tell Drew Fann to save it?
Weekly Honors
For more weekly honors, check out AnchorOfGold's Rookie of the Year-themed awards.
Best Offensive Player
This week's honors could have gone to Jason Esposito for some big plays and extending his hitting streak to 27 games, but Tony Kemp really ran away with it in the end. Playing with a dislocated finger on Sunday, he scored the key game-tying run to cap a 2-5 day and a 9-14 that saw him score three runs and knock in two. He had a double on Sunday and added a stolen base on Sunday. Kemp is now hitting .337 on the season.
Kentucky third baseman Thomas McCarthy earns opposing honors after picking up a hit each day, including the second inning home run off of Sonny Gray that would prove to be the game winner on Friday.
Sonny Gray of the Week
No surprise here. Grayson Garvin earns the nod for carving up the opposition once again. He didn't rack up the strikeout numbers, and he really probably wasn't as good as Gray was on Friday, but his effort was stellar and he moves into prime position for SEC pitcher of the year status, leading the league in total and SEC wins.
For the opposition, it also isn't a mystery. Alex Meyer was, apparently, brilliant. Between he and Gray, the batters didn't stand a chance on Friday in a game that lasted less than two hours.
Rankings and Metrics
Baseball America: 3rd (Virginia, Oregon State) (LW: 4th)
ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll: 2nd (Virginia) (LW: 2nd)
NCBWA: 1st (LW: 1st)
Collegiate Baseball: 2nd (Virginia) (LW: 3rd)
Perfect Game: 3rd (Virginia, South Carolina) (LW: 3rd)
Warren Nolan Metrics
Simulated RPI: 4th
Nolan Power Index: 2nd
Strength of Schedule: 42nd
Boyd's World Metrics
Simulated RPI: 5th
Iterative Strength Rating: 2nd
Strength of Schedule: 55th
SEC Standings
Rankings per the Coaches Poll.
|SEC East
|#2 Vanderbilt
|#3 South Carolina
|#4 Florida
|SEC West
|#18 Arkansas
|Mississippi State
|Ole Miss
|Louisiana State
The Week Ahead
Midweek games make a potentially final cameo appearance this week in advance of the big regular season home finales in the Florida series. It's been several weeks since the Commodores have played a midweek game, thanks to the severe rain that cancelled a trip to Western Kentucky. As has been explained by Joe Fisher, fitting in a follow-up game hasn't been easy. Scheduling a potential road game at Georgia Tech or a home game versus Murray State has each been tried and failed. So today's game may be the last tune up for the Dores heading into the home stretch and the post-season.
The Cardinals are not what they've been in recent years. At just 25-23 (15-11 Big East), Louisville has disappointed in a big way, despite a stellar 4-0 record against the RPI top 50. Playing just the 89th best schedule in the low-octane Big East, they have a Warren Nolan RPI and NPI of 108 and 135, respectively. Their Boyd's ISR is no better at 120 against the 119th best schedule. The lack of success can be attributed to mediocrity on both sides of the ball. They average 4.4 runs per game and allow 3.9 for a respectable, but not highly efficient +0.5 scoring margin. That isn't going to cut it in a major conference and not for a team that spent the early part of the year ranked in most polls.
The Cardinals offense was decimated by the 2010 Major League Draft with ten players drafted and nine signing professional contracts. The two top bats are Juniors in outfielder Ryan Wright (.328, 9 HR, 39 RBI) and shortstop Stewart Ijames (.271, 10, 39), familiar faces for Vanderbilt fans who's seen Louisville in the last two NCAA Regionals. Beyond those two, there's not a whole lot more going for the UL offense. In fact, no other player has an OPS in excess of .720. As a team, they hit .250 with a .334 on base percentage and .357 slugging percentage.
On the mound, they have fared better with solid performances from all starting pitchers (all of whom have an ERA under 4.00) and a stellar bullpen led by preseason All-American Tony Zych (0-2, 3.00 ERA, 11 saves in 21 innings). It seems same to assume weekend starters Derek Self and Justin Amlung won't make appearances, and it's doubtful that Sunday pitchers Matt Koch (4-5, 3.75, 10 starts, 60.1 innings) and Andy Flett (1-0, 3.06, 1 start, 17.2 innings) would be brought back after admittedly short appearances in the finale of a three game sweep loss to Seton Hall. That makes midweek starter Mike Nastold (3-6, 3.98, 40.2 innings, 27 BBs, .285 BAA) the likely candidate. Vanderbilt would likely also see Chad Green (1-2, 1.26, 35.2 innings), Jeff Thompson (1-1, 3.41, 31.2) and Travis Tingle (2-0, 3.20, 25.1) out of the pen, as Nastold has averaged under four innings per start.
As a staff, the Cardinals have a fine 2.87 ERA and respectable .245 batting average against. What doesn't show up in that are 50 unearned runs in 48 games, the result of a poor .965 fielding percentage. Catchers JJ Ethel (12-32) and Kyle Gibson (2-11) have been just OK in throwing out batters, so Vanderbilt may look to run. I would expect to see a true staff day and not a full start from TJ Pecoraro (6-0, 1.57, 28.2). A roster note to keep an eye on is whether or not Tony Kemp starts in left. He dislocated a finger scoring the tying run on Sunday against Kentucky and has suffered from swelling and soreness, though it does not sound too bad.
After the Tuesday jaunt we get into the big series that every college baseball fan in the South had circled from Day 1. The Florida Gators come to town in a matchup of what many might argue are the deepest and most talented teams in the country. When you look at the statistics, it's not hard to see why.
|Road Record
|vs RPI Top 50
|vs RPI Top 100
|4 / 43
|1 / 3
|Boyd ISR / SOS
|2 / 55
|Scoring Offense
|Scoring Defense
|Team Batting
|Team OPS
|Team ERA
|Opponent OPS
|Stolen Bases
|Opp St Bases
|Fielding Pct
While Florida clearly has played the more difficult schedule — particularly with the out-of-conference four game series with Florida State that accounted for four of their losses — the numbers slightly favor the Commodores pretty much throughout. But those favorable ratings are so slight as to even out as a draw.
It will come down to match ups and, on Friday, it is two top notch pitchers against lineups that don't match up terribly well against what the other tries to do. Florida likes to rake with 142 extra base hits on the year, but will face a pitcher in Sonny Gray that has permitted just 7 in 83.1 innings this year. Meanwhile, Florida trots out right-hander Hudson Randall (8-2, 2.05 ERA, 79 IP, .223 BAA), the premiere control pitcher in all of America. He has walked only four batters all year, a stat not likely to be enjoyed by a Vanderbilt lineup averaging four walks per game.
Saturday doesn't get easier for either team as Vanderbilt ace 1B Grayson Garvin will take his perfect run of eight straight SEC wins against pre-season All-American and two-way star Brian Johnson (7-2, 2.53, 67.2, .225). Like Randall, Johnson features solid control, exemplified by a 59:13 strikeout to walk ratio. He also is a southpaw, which Vanderbilt has struggled slightly against this year (which is all relative when you have only six losses on the year).
Sunday should also be interesting with the experienced senior Taylor Hill taking on freshman phenom Karsten Whitson (6-0, 2.26, 63.2, .228). Whitson has started from day one on one of the deepest staffs in America, which is a testament to his talent. It was a miracle he escaped the 2010 Major League draft and it should be exciting to see him take on Hill.
The bullpens are just about as evenly matched as you could expect, though Florida has no clear closer. Their best draft prospect on the year is lefty reliever Nick Maronde (0-0, 2.10, 25.2, .196), though Greg Larson (1-1, 1.84, 29.1, .239), Steven Rodriguez (2-1, 1.54, 23.1, .230), Tommy Toledo (2-3, 3.24, 25, .250), Tony DeSciafani (4-2, 4.08, 28.2, .227) and two way star Austin Maddox (2-0, 0.95, 19, .171) all provide big support.
On the offensive front, the Gators mirror the Commodores with an unrelenting lineup. It's headed by two big power bats in likely All-American at catcher Mike Zunino (.384, 10 HR, 46 RBI) and right fielder Preston Tucker (.332, 10, 44). Filling in the gaps are senior second baseman Josh Adams (.359, 4, 33), left fielder Daniel Pigott (.331, 2, 30), designated hitter Brian Johnson (.315, 3, 19) and Nolan Fontana (.302, 2, 31). Fontana may have a just pretty good .956 fielding percentage this year, but he is the best fielding shortstop East of the Mississippi. You'll note that I've gotten this far without mentioning the bat of first baseman Austin Maddox (.286, 2, 26), who is a sleeping giant waiting to arise, to which Corey Williams' knee can attest.
Quite simply, these are, in my opinion, the two best teams in America. If I'm playing on paper and in a neutral location, I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't give the Gators serious consideration for a 2-1 series win; however, this is in Nashville and with Vanderbilt streaking a whole lot more than the Gators. I'll take Vanderbilt 2-1 this weekend, with three thrilling match ups. Pack the Hawk this weekend because this is what college baseball is all about.
Reading List
VandySports.com – Interview with Tyler Beede
Baseball America – Top 25 Tracker Page (updates when posted by BA)
VandySports.com – Baseball Page (multiple stories and previews, including great Mike Rapp photo sets)
Vandy BlogoSphere – Anchor of Gold and VandySportsLine
Vandy Message Boards – VandySports and VandyMania
College Baseball Daily – Vanderbilt Tag (including Drew Fann's weekly blog)
Let me know what you think, as I always appreciate feedback (even if just to note a typo). You can comment below, share this article on Twitter or Facebook. And remember to follow me on Twitter (my baseball tweeting account or this website's feed).
And a special thanks to Mike Rapp at VandySports.com. He is the best photographer of Vanderbilt sports and an even better person. Without him, this site wouldn't have most of its sports art.


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To the imaginative eye, an iPad sort of already looks like a high-tech Etch A Sketch. Now, a Mountain View, Calif.-based team is trying to complete the illusion with Etcher, a Kickstarter project that's seeking to recast the modern device as the classic Ohio Art Company toy.
While the idea has been tried before, Etcher isn't just another Etch A Sketch app: It's an immersive nostalgic experience that takes full advantage of the iPad's functionality.
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There's a bright red slip-on cover with two knobs that control the app's cursor, and it's strategically slotted to allow use of the iPad's cameras, sleep and home buttons, volume controls and audio jack.
Not only does Etcher emulate the look and functionality of a real Etch A Sketch, it also lets users save and share their art on social networks and create time-lapse videos of drawings.
And of course, when you're done, you can shake things up and start all over again.
The team behind the Etcher, which is led by Ari Krupnik, got an official license to the Etch A Sketch trademark from Ohio Art, the makers of the original toy, so everything is on the up and up. In fact, according to the project's Kickstarter page, Ohio Art "is very enthusiastic about an iPad implementation" and "[sees] it as a way to keep the brand exciting and relevant."
The team also worked with professional Etch A Sketch artist Pauline Graziano to ensure the product "faithfully reproduces the Etch A Sketch experience, even in details that only expert users notice."
According to the Etcher Kickstarter page, the team will also release an open-source software design kit allowing advanced users to design their own games using Etcher.
Pledges for the Etcher start at $45, which will secure contributors their very own Etcher, "ahead of everyone else, and at a special price."
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So this is a little past the fact, but the last show at Brutopia (Thursday April 26th…yes, a little past date) was crazy. Three sets.. First set got warmed up and started to understand the packed house. Second set was slamming. Vegas…Born To Be Happy…Smolder Me…all were really good. Got off from second set and the house half emptied (past 1 am), then right before the third set, people poured in.
And this set was crazy. I opened it up, slammed some Ramble On, Van Morrison, and when I launched into American Pie, this dude strolls up, pulls out a trumpet, and starts blasting away some serious lines. It was incredible! The whole place roared as we ripped through American Pie..then Hey Jude, and the whole house was singing along with the lights on and what a night. Everybody there left saying that…:what a night".
And we filmed it all…I'll be throwing some of that footage up soon on different sites and will let the world know when I do definitely.
I'm out…gotta go lay some stone for dough.


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I just read here (a blog that makes me laugh out loud on a regular basis) that today, April 25, is World Malaria Day. And through the Bite Back campaign, people can give a one-time donation of $10 and provide a mosquito net for a child - or a family, if they're all sleeping in the same place - who otherwise would have no protection from this completely preventable disease. That $10 will also provide education and treatment for people who are already sick with malaria.
What an easy, inexpensive, and great way to make a small dent in a worldwide problem yet a significant impact in the life and future of one family.
Click here to donate $10 that will provide a mosquito net for a child (you can donate more than that if you feel led). Each net lasts three years, so for $3.33 a year - less than a penny a day - you can save a child's life.
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Becoming a CEF Volunteer is much more than volunteering your time during the week. It's about sharing the gospel with city children and their families, and exemplifying the love God shows us in our actions and words.
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These are just a few of the roles of helpers and volunteers. Join in and
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We thoroughly suggest that everyone comes to see us at regular intervals, normally every six months. However, people with certain health conditions may benefit from more regular checkups.
As well as dental checkups, we can also offer you dietary advice. The importance of a good diet is often overlooked when considering oral health but it can make a world of difference to your teeth and gums. If your diet is generally quite healthy, it's often pretty easy just to make a few simple changes to make it even more tooth friendly. Our dental team can also offer you advice and treatment for beautifully fresh breath.
One of the things we are particularly concerned about is gum health, as without healthy gums you will lose teeth. Gum disease or periodontal disease is a worldwide problem, but with the correct preventative dentistry it is often avoidable.
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Jenny, Criss, and I had first talked about doing a sibling tattoo back in July, intending to try to get it done while we were all in Austin at that time, but couldn't get it together with a design and schedule. So we kept talking about it the past few months, settled on something we all liked and set about researching tattoo artists. We settled on Darryl Hanna from Golden Age Tattoo, who had an awesome portfolio and got back to us right away, excited about our idea and working with us. We all planned to be in Austin again for Christmas and New year's, so we scheduled our appointment for Dec 27th.
Early last month I told our mom about our plans. I was a little worried about what her reaction would be-- she's never liked tattoos. But she was genuinely touched by us wanting to do this as our tribute to JC, and said she would love to come along with us to see it happen.
As it turned out, Darryl got food poisoning on the 27th so had to cancel, but he was awesome about making sure he still fit us in since he knew we had a deadline, and was able to reschedule for the 31st. We spent a good 2 hours hashing out the final design, then got to work. Mom was there, and admitted that she had been considering joining us in getting a tattoo as well, but had apprehensions about our placement and the size. Darryl was amazing through this whole process-- both working with us to settle the original design, asking questions to help us clarify what we wanted, advising us on what would work and what wouldn't, and being patient as we went back and forth. Then he talked with Mom while he was tattooing us to help her decide what she wanted to do, and how to alter the design to work for her (placing it higher up on her arm, and slightly smaller size). And then she went for it, rock-star Mom that she is.
Brave Jen, going first.
The "after" shot (taken the next day).
So, the design: we drew inspiration from a few of JC's favorite things... the death star is for him, the smaller stars remind me of the ones on the Harry Potter pages and represent us three sisters, and the quote by Carl Sagan just ties it all together really nicely. Fun fact: that is my handwriting.


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The EA Sports Challenge Series ends with it's grand finals on 9th February 2013 at the Palazzo Hotel in Las Vegas, USA. The circuit has been run by Virgin Gaming and offers $1million prize money over three games including FIFA13, NHL and Madden Football.
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The live stream will be available via Gamespot and Danny O'Dwyer will be alongside Paul in the commentary booth. You can tune in here.


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Cat who catches bat mid-flight is the coolest effing thing you'll ever see
This Cat deserves his own Netflix TV series.
This Cat deserves his own Netflix TV series.
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Shannon Landis Hansen is the artist who created the unique Katrina monument in City Park. Some might call the towering artwork-- visible from City Park Avenue-- a mosaic, but Shannon considers it a mosaic assemblage. The sculpture evokes the shape of an old New Orleans doorway mounted on disintegrating steps. Some of the elements came from altars people created on the steps of their devastated homes after Hurricane Katrina.
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I have been enjoying the following video representing one of the projects I have been working on this year. This is from Health Tech Today, hosted by Dr. Bill Crounse from Microsoft. I had the privilege of interacting with Dr. Crounse this year on several occasions, resulting in the creation of this video describing the Littmann 3200 Bluetooth Stethoscope from 3M. This turned out great, I thought.
My team has been working on this technology this year, and we are really excited to get this exposure. Enjoy!


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LPC Support Seminar- Negotiation Skills 2013
Monday, 7 October, 2013 10am to 4pm
Other dates available - see below
Wednesday 2nd October in Leeds & Monday 7th October in London.
The ability to negotiate on behalf of pharmacy contractors is a skill for every LPC member and officer. In the new NHS and commissioning environment, negotiation skills are vital to position effectively the LPC and community pharmacy. Discussions with groups of GPs, local authorities, and other new commissioning bodies all need to call on negotiating skills to make sure the value of pharmacy is recognised and community pharmacy services can flourish in a competitive commissioning environment.
A precursor for many negotiations is the need to sell in a proposal: the other party isn't going to want to negotiate detail if the LPC hasn't sold in the need for a service and its delivery through community pharmacy.
As part of good governance LPCs must ensure that its officers and members have necessary training and this LPC Support seminar from PSNC is designed to equip delegates with an introduction to selling, and the key skills for successful negotiations.
Who should attend?
Negotiating skills is a regular feature of PSNCs training programme and is aimed at new LPC members and officers; it's also ideal for longer standing members who haven't received negotiating skills training or are looking to refresh and sharpen up skills or get some new ideas and approaches. It's also a great opportunity to network with other LPC colleagues.
What the day will cover
This one day seminar is designed for the needs of LPC and the negotiating situations they will experience:
- Selling skills and techniques
- Invisible selling- how to sell without the other party knowing it!
- What's in it for them- selling benefits
- Moving from selling to negotiating
- Negotiating from a position of strength
- Win win negotiations
- Preparation for negotiation
- Negotiating styles
- Dealing with NO!
- Closing and summarising
- Tips and techniques
- Everything is negotiable!
Seminar leader
The workshop is led by Phil Parry, a trainer who will be familiar to delegates who have attended PSNC training on Chairing and Meeting skills and Presentation skills. Phil also led previous PSNC Negotiation skills training and consistently achieves top feedback from LPC delegates and has a good understanding of the needs of LPCs and the environment in which they operate.
As a specialist in communication and interpersonal skills Phil also provides negotiation skills training for senior managers in blue chip companies both nationally and internationally.
For information on event registration and to book your place on this event, please visit the following page: www.psnc.org.uk/lpcs/lpc-members-area/lpc-events/


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KABUL — Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in his Eid al-Adha message has reached out to neighbour Pakistan offering "comprehensive negotiations" to bring peace to their troubled relationship.
Like most Muslim countries, Afghanistan celebrates the Islamic holiday on Friday while in Pakistan the holiday is celebrated on Saturday. It commemorates Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son.
"Peace with Pakistan is our national agenda," said Ghani while also urging insurgents to lay down their weapons.
Afghanistan routinely accuses Pakistan of harbouring Taliban insurgents, while Islamabad says its enemies have found sanctuaries in Afghanistan.
The two countries also squabble relentlessly over the border that separates their two countries. Known as the Durand Line, Afghanistan refuses to accept it as the international border. Firefights between the armies have broken out as Pakistan seeks to fence it.


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In recent months, we have seen evidence of increased activity on the part of a national labor union, and its locals, affecting the geospatial community generally and survey crews in particular.
The International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) is attempting to influence survey firms/survey crews or labor policy affecting surveying and survey crews. Earlier this year, the IUOE convinced the U.S. Department of Labor to reverse 50+ years of federal policy and define members of survey crews as "laborers and mechanics", subjecting them to the "prevailing wage" provisions of the controversial Davis-Bacon Act. Soon thereafter, the Department of Labor began to create a union-sponsored "apprenticeship" program occupation of rodman/chainman. The Operating Engineers then succeeded in getting a state department of transportation (DoT) to impose a statewide prevailing wage mandate for survey crews on all its projects. Finally, there has been an attempt to impose "project labor agreements" (PLA) on firms employing survey crews on state transportation projects.
A Spatially Speaking Blog post earlier this year explained the issue. MAPPS filed a letter with Congress for a hearing on Davis-Bacon, opposing the Labor Department ruling.
We have been asked by the Committee on Education and Workforce of the U.S. House of Representatives to compile other instances of union activities in our field. This will be helpful to the committee's oversight and investigation of these activities.
Davis-Bacon and union organization of surveying and mapping firms is unnecessary. As NSPS Executive Director Curtis W. Sumner, LS, said in his testimony before Congress, employees in the surveying and mapping field are well compensated and in high demand. The administrative burden and recordkeeping that will be imposed on small businesses in the field will be exorbitant. There is no evidence that workers in the geospatial workforce need union representation.
If you have had any recent experience with the IUOE or any other union making an inquiry, initiating an activity, or otherwise increasing its presence in the surveying, mapping and geospatial field, please provide details to John "JB" Byrd, MAPPS Government Affairs Manager or leave your experience below in our comments section.
Thank you in advance for your input.
In an economy where you are counting every dollar, it is good to know you can count on MAPPS.


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YOU, Sir and YOU, Ma'am will have to acknowledge that your narcissism has destroyed every chance for a meaningful relationship, that the people you rejected were good people, that your fears created excuses used to justify not taking the relationship to the next level, and finally that you are alone with the same problem the first human experienced—no companionship.
There are many complicating factors that contribute to the inability to sustain healthy relationships. I am by no means offering a cookie-cutter suggestion. On the contrary, the 10 suggestions listed below are a beginning point for individuals currently involved in a relationship or individuals desirous of pursuing a meaningful relationship.
Due to the required levels of self-disclosure, selflessness, deference and service to the other, these suggestions are strongly recommended for individuals in marital or long-term relationships. Casual relationships where individuals seemingly lack "staying power" or ask "what do I get out of this" can find the suggestions too restrictive or demanding.
Check it out for yourself and see if you're ready to commit to what it takes to build a strong relationship over time. I'm sure your special friend will be ecstatic if you began with an apology for being such a nit-wit (male or female) and without fanfare begin to consistently display one of the traits outlined below:
1. Steer clear of pettiness. Be kind to one another. Ephesians 4:32
2. Avoid folly. Listen to understand, NOT to respond. Proverbs 18:13
3. Keep an open heart during conflict. Extend unconditional love, forgiveness, and acceptance. Matthew 18:15-22; 1 Corinthians 13:5b
4. Be brave. Tell the truth regardless of the circumstance. Proverbs 10:9
5. Acknowledge the need you have to be touched in a right way. Hug each other often for no reason. Romans 16:16; 2 Corinthians 13:12
6. Calm yourself. Rid yourself of the "ill grill." Smile when you are stressed out. Proverbs 15:1-2
7. Extend yourself. Ask The Lord to help you be "the friend" your friend needs. 1 Corinthians 13:5a
8. Treat your friend the way they want to be treated; not the way you think they should be treated. Romans 12:9
9. Be generous. Give without manipulation. Luke 6:35
10. Develop a realistic perspective about yourself. Be willing to laugh at yourself. Romans 12:3


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When you are preparing to cook a meal, you must keep several bits of information from sushi Oslo restaurant clearly in mind. As you formulate your recipe, add your ingredients, select cook times, and handle all the other demands of a busy kitchen, these strategies and tactics can help you turn bland meals into sizzling cuisine.
Indenting the center of a hamburger patty by up to one half inch will prevent bulging during cooking. Just a poke in the middle prior to cooking will allow a more even distribution of heat and will stop your burger from swelling on the top, something most of us are all too familiar with.
Make sure you are storing your herbs and spices in a cool, dark space. Many factors can cause herbs and spices to lose their flavor. Light, humidity, and heat can all cause them to lose some of their flare. To avoid this, make sure you are storing your herbs somewhere like a cool cabinet.
How to pit and peel an avocado. Peeling and pitting an avocado can be quite messy, but there is a simple way. Use a sharp knife and cut around the whole avocado lengthwise. Grip each half of the avocado and twist it apart. Using your knife, carefully but firmly hit the top of the pit and twist it. The pit will slide out, still attached to the knife. To remove the peel, simply take a large spoon and run it between the peel and the flesh. Enjoy!
When cooking any recipe, use the best ingredients that you can afford. Splurge a little on imported cheeses or better quality meats when you can, so that you can experience a asiatisk restaurant Oslo, quality-tasting meal at home. To enhance the experience even further, try to creatively plate up the meal with a little thought, for something different every now and then.
For stir fry with an authentic Chinese touch, try using their velveting technique! Prepare a mixture of corn starch, egg whites, seasonings and sherry and set your pork, chicken or shrimp in it for about half an hour. Then, blanch it in hot oil or boiling water for shiny, tender and delicious sushi restaurant Oslo quality stir fry.
For fluffier pancakes, allow the batter to sit for about five minutes before you start pouring it into the pan. This will allow the flour to absorb more of the moisture in the mix, making for much lighter pancakes that will rise more when you cook them and give them that great sushi take away Oslo flavor!
If you envy the straightness of asiatisk restaurant Oslo bacon, here's an easy tip that will help you get the same effect. Simply dip each slice of bacon into cold water before you place it in the frying pan. This keeps the bacon strips from becoming curly and gives a straighter edge.
The difference between a good chef and a bad cook boils down to effective education. By adding these tips to your existing cooking routine, you are sure to gain an edge over other chefs, impress your family and delight your own taste-buds with a medley of delicious meals. This information can take your dishes from dull to dazzling.


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Scrapbook Texture Plates From FiskarsReviewing: Fiskars Texture Plates Assortment Pack | Rating:
I have just started back to scrap booking and while looking for new products at my local Michaels store, I found the Fiskars Texture Plates Assortment Pack.
This pack of 12 plastic texture plates includes Blossoms, Honeycomb, Braids, Basket weave, Carpet, Rug, Music Notes, Lace, Critters, Leather, Paws & Prints. The texture area of these plates is 5 ½" x 5 ½".
Blossoms, Honeycomb, Basket weave, Music Notes, Lace & Leather are self-explanatory. Braids will give you a modern curved line look that does look like a braid. Carpet has a rough squiggly pattern and rug has curved lines that would also resemble grass. Critters has a pattern of frogs, lizards, dragonflies & snakes. The paws texture has a small & large animal paw print and the prints texture are hand & foot patterns.
In order to use the texture plates you will need a Dual-tip stylus that provides detailed sharp edges or a Texturing tool to cover a larger area quicker. These are both sold separately, but you can also use a pen with a cap or a Popsicle stick. Turn over the paper to the back side and either trace the outline of the shape using either end of the stylus (the smaller end will give more detail), or rub across the entire surface, holding the texture tool straight up while applying pressure, make circular strokes until the area is covered. Wax paper will help make the texture tool glide along the surface easier.
Not only can I use this for texturing my papers & foils in scrap booking or card making, but it can also be used to make patterns in clay projects.
This is a great tool that I will get a lot of use from and will last forever! A great buy for less than $10.


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Dr. Sharadini Rath has a Ph.D. in plasma physics from the Institute for Plasma Research, India and went on to do post doctoral fellowships at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Jet Propulsion Laboratory in USA and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. After several years of research in the field, she shifted to field based research in economics. Her active interests include the connections between household level productivity and food intake, along with labour organisation and poverty in rural India. She has done extensive work in the study of governance with special focus on local institutions in urban and rural contexts, to create usable and intuitive data analysis to foster logical decision making. She has led research and outreach projects funded by Ford Foundation, Google.org, Results for Development and The Asia Foundation.
Dr. Sharadini Rath is the President of Thanal Trust.


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Religion and Education as Keys to Family and Community Living
By THE REV. JOHN LaFARGE, S.J., Executive Editor, America
Delivered at the New England Conference on Tomorrow's Children, Harvard University, July 10, 1942
Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. VIII, pp. 694-696.
RATHER annoyingly, the other evening as an old friend of mine and a few others of us were gathered together at his home to discuss what we thought were serious problems, his little daughter rushed in and flung a bunch of keys down upon the table. They were the keys to the family car, and her gesture was intended to convey despair or heroism, you could take your choice. "There are the keys, Papa," she exclaimed, "and much good they will do us now. If the family hasn't any car, it just means the family doesn't do any more living."
"Well," said Joe, with a sigh, "it just means also that we shall have to look for the keys to some other kind of living than that supplied by gas and rubber. Perhaps it will bring a whole lot more life, in the long run, to the home and to the neighborhood."
"You know," he continued, being in a philosophical mood, "it is remarkable the change that has already occurred. We surely do miss the car. But it is quite a new thing to have the neighbors visit you; I mean neighbors in the literal sense. Our friends come regularly now, of an evening, who are within walking distance. We have to think of something to do, something to talk about. This means first, we are starting to talk to one another, and know one another. It means we are really starting to do a little thinking. And I believe that in the end it will be making us do something new for our own good, for the good of the community. It is beginning to show us that each family has a part to play in the community; and to teach us right here at home that each person has a part to play in the home itself.
"So, though I miss the car as much as anybody, and hope that Saint Butadiene or some one else will give us soon our synthetic rubber, I am not all gloom about the present situation. I think, too, that this little person is beginning to adapt herself to it."
The moral of the incident is simply this, that war-time restrictions, by cutting us off from some of the distracting recreations that tended to disrupt or disintegrate family and community life, have somewhat turned our attention to the problem of restoring family and community living from within.
The war situation is one more reminder of that need to which we have grown more and more conscious in recent years: the need of a definite education for family and community living.
The need for such an education may perhaps be most clearly seen if we compare the condition of the family today with its condition in the times when the family was an important economic unit.
In our average urban life, we are so used, today, to economic independence on the part of the different members of a family, we are so little familiar with the idea of a family economic cooperation, that it is difficult for us to visualize a closed family economy. Such an economy is growing rarer and rarer in our times, even in the rural districts, where it would naturally enjoy the longest lease of life.
In the days when the family was held together by a strong economic bond, its members were educated by the nature of things to take their distinctive parts in the family life. Family living was determined by their struggle for their daily bread. Since they were physically dependent upon one another, they learned to be morally and spiritually dependent as well. The tasks assigned to the children in the family enterprise required cooperation, mutual forbearance, practice of patience, industry, perseverance, and other domestic virtues, if they were not to find themselves dispossessed, as tenants, or in the hands of the sheriff, if they owned their own home.
Home ownership, indeed, was closely connected with the economic unity of the family. This thought has often come to me as I have watched the gradual passing of the beautiful old homes or manor houses in the Tidewater region of Maryland, where I worked for many years, out of the hands of the descendants of the original settlers.
Inability of the old families of the Tidewater country to retain their ancestral properties reflected, in its own particular way, the process that has affected the family in every part of our country and all over the world: the loss of the family as a natural economic unit.
The economic unity of the patriarchal family was seen in every characteristic of these old residences. Most of them had no well defined architectural limits. They spread out from an imposing center, dropping off by degrees into a variety of appendages, utilities, and outbuildings. It was a picture of the self-contained economic family, which was spread out from a central core of blood-relationship over a multitude of relatives, dependents, servants, and (in earlier days) slaves. With all its offices and appurtenances, the old manor house was a picture, too, of the family's intricate and seasonal economic life; it was the theatre of variegated production, in field, water-course, barnyard, home workshop, storeroom, kitchen, and domestic workroom.
No longer, in our days, are families held together as of yore by a common economic purpose. With the passing of this type of bond, there passed the natural link between the Tidewater family and the Tidewater home. With new interests and new characteristics, the country families of the latter days are better housed in modern surroundings. The merely accidental features of the old manor homes—their picturesque elements of structure or location—meet a very real need of a different type of family or of individual; and so the change in ownership, though regrettable from many a wider reason, is natural enough from the standpoint of purely family economy.
What, then, can hold together the families themselves when they are no longer united by the bond of a common economic purpose and activity?
Education is obliged to play the part that was reserved for family economics in earlier times.
In the case of the patriarchal families, the unfortunate circumstances was that their education, as a rule, was not equal to the burden placed upon it of becoming the guardianof the family hearth. Or it was the type of education that had little relevance to family unity and family needs, but tended rather to educate the individual away from the family. The patriarchal family could stand the strain, but the economically disorganized family could not endure it, and the result was that the families themselves, in great measure, disintegrated or became so culturally impaired as to lose their value for the local and the wider community. From the standpoint of family integrity, a heavy burden is placed upon education today.
Education is now called upon to supply the unity of purpose, the community of interest that once kept the family united. Community living, too, is no longer united, as a rule, by a common economic bond. Even our rural communities, for the most part, are incredibly individualistic; their cooperative endeavors are obliged to struggle against the perpetual inroads of the individualist, on the one hand, or run the risk of being engulfed by the state Socialism, on the other.
It is evident, therefore, that a heavy burden is placed upon education if it is going to shoulder the difficult task of supplying, for the family and for the community that stimulus, that cohesion, which was offered in former times by the pressure of common economic necessity. People, as a rule, are not united in a domestic family or a local civic family as a measure of self-protection against starvation. Their bonds are today of another character. Is this to be lamented? Or has the present dispensation its compensations? Whatever our answer may be to that question, there is no use spending time in lamentation, but it is time to get busy and discover what higher and more widely human factors there are in our lives that will serve, through education, as a firm bond to families and communities.
Religion, therefore, has here its essential part to play. The problem is not that of mere family or community existence; but that of living. Into the concept of living go two essential elements: that of a vital principle, which in the case of a social group is the person, in all the fullness of that concept, as distinguished from the mere individual, and organism, which in the social group means an organic relation to common good.
If we ask, therefore, how religion furnishes the key to family and community living, I think the answer can be found in the fact that religion, at least in the Christian concept of religion, is the means whereby the self-centered, socially sterile individual is transformed into the person—a source and center of human activity in the fullest and adequately spiritual sense; and the mere group or aggregation is transformed into the living social organism, that body of persons who are united by a common interest, a mutual esteem, an organized and representative authority.
With this idea in mind, therefore, it seems to me that religion and education can go hand in hand at the present time in working out a program which would take into view more precisely in the future than has been done in the past the need of some educational measures aimed directly at the development of family living as such, and of community living as a natural consequence of that family living. Lest we lose ourselves in generalities, let me explain in a few instances what I have in mind. It may be summed up as urging that our education, beginning with the education of very small children, should be always careful to take into consideration the need of educating the young to their responsibility and their opportunities as persons, as well as to their relation to that immediate, tangible organism, that grows, by its very nature, out of a community of persons.
Or: to put the matter still more succinctly: let the parents, who are the primary educators, learn with the assistance of the Church and the school, to supply that education in socialpersonality that was offered of old by the natural economic unity of the family and local community.
The idea of educating children to social responsibility is not new. But how can we educate to our responsibility toward others until and unless we have first educated the young to their responsibility to themselves? And how can we educate them to responsibility to themselves, unless we have shown them their responsibility to the Creator, who gave them their own selves, who is the center of their inmost and highest self-hood?
Why is it not possible to educate children even from the beginning to family living as a whole, complete in all its aspects? I am not referring in this particular instance to so-called sex education; but the education of children to the rounded and perfect concept of the family, as a work of God, as belonging to their own fullest selves?
Why cannot the whole circle of truths be touched by the child's mind even from beginning, proceeding from year to year by a concentric development? It is just this wholeness, this rounded and adequate and balanced concept, which our Christian Faith offers to the world; and since Christianity draws no veil of an arcana over its teachings at any stage in its educational process, why cannot even the child mind reach out and touch the main outlines of that picture which the years and experience will fill in?
Some of these main outlines might be thus described:
The child can learn his dependence on God for his own personality, as well as for his mere existence; and how precious a thing that personality is.
He can learn, likewise, the part that the family plays in his living that personality: what the family means to him, and what he means to the family.
He can form an idea of the beauty and perfection of the family, quite naturally, for, under normal circumstances, it is naturally interesting and acceptable to children. Problem cases will demand problem treatment.
He can learn of the technique and secrets of family living; for instance, that where something of the old-time family economic unit can be restored, so much the better for the family and for the community; pride in production and self-sustenance, pride in taking part therein.
He can learn the value of family tradition, not in a narrow, exclusive sense, but as a matter of principle; the value of forming new traditions in the home, quite as much as of inheriting them from the past. They can learn to look upon family worship, at Church and at home, as the highest expression of what their family really is. They can see how such worship brings out the best in themselves and in their neighbors, how it purifies and ennobles the whole community, and links in a common destiny, the young girl and the young boy who can begin, even at an early age, to think of the creative side of the family; the joy of creating their own home, of working out their own life, of foreseeing their own descendants. Creating a better home now, is a prelude to creating a living home in the future.
They can learn the dignity and interest of taking part in the family's cultural and intellectual interests.
They can come to see how God is working out His plan in the world not only through themselves individually, but through themselves as members of a family present and future; and through the cooperation of that family with other families in the community. In that way, there can be built up a community spirit characterized by mutual esteem and a genuine spirit of cooperation.
It would be easy to prolong this enumeration; for most of which my hearers are better qualified than myself. Mention of these matters arouses a thousand memories, and there is not one who cannot add a helpful suggestion, an enlightening vista taken from personal experience. There are thepeculiar and precious traditions of a special type of family: professional, artistic, business, military, etc. All that I wish to dwell upon in this brief sketch is the possibility and the need of such emphasis in our educational process at the present time, an emphasis by parents, first of all; by religious teachers and by the schools. It is not a question of new and formal courses in the overladen scholastic curricula; but of an atmosphere, a reference, imparted naturally as a matter of course in countless instances over the whole period of education from the kindergarten to the university. The notion of the human person, with all its implications, andof the relation of that person to an organic whole, actuated by devotion to the common good, are not ideas that can be left to germinate automatically as they were so left of yore. They must be patiently, purposefully, and intelligently taught, over the years and in constant relation to the ever new problems of growing youth.
If by such a program the positive and spiritually motivated concept of family and community living were built up in the coming generation, a vast amount of the worry now spent over sex problems and over broken homes would be, I think, lifted from our shoulders.


text: Press release | 2010-04-13 | 16:50 PM Vattenfall optimises Hamburg's energy use Vattenfall has formed a new development company, Vattenfall Europe Innovation GmbH, in Hamburg. It is the fourth of its kind that Vattenfall has set up in Hamburg in recent years, and its activities will include e-mobility, hydrogen vehicles and intelligent systems for electricity distribution. "Our energy supply systems face enormous challenges: reduction of CO2 emissions, increased use of renewable energy sources, decentralised electricity production and more efficient use of energy. We see this reorientation as an opportunity for ourselves and our customers. The new company will follow new trends and develop appropriate products and supporting techniques", says Oliver Weinmann, CEO of Vattenfall Europe Innovation GmbH. During the second half of the year, Vattenfall will begin, in conjunction with DB Energie and Hamburg Energie, to set up some hundred charging posts for electric cars which will supply current from renewable energy sources. Before the end of the year, there will be fifty electric cars of the Smart type in Hamburg. There are also plans for the acquisition of vehicles from other manufacturers. "Electric cars are an example of how renewable energy can be integrated optimally in our electricity supply system in future. The car's batteries will be charged mainly at times when the supply of wind power is good while the demand for electricity is low. It's the same basic idea as in Vattenfall's trial with mini electric cars in Berlin", says Oliver Weinmann. In the next step, electric cars will be used as accumulators to feed electricity back into the grid at times when demand is at a maximum. The newly formed company will also be involved in building Europe's largest hydrogen tanking station in Hamburg's port area at the beginning of May. It will already be possible to tank buses and private cars powered by fuel cells with hydrogen in 2011. Hydrogen is an effective means of storing energy, and it can be produced at times when electricity use is otherwise low. The efficient use of energy and the development of intelligent systems designed to control the supply and demand from the electricity grid is also part of the company's core activity. The other companies that Vattenfall has set up in Hamburg in recent years are Vattenfall Europe New Energy, Vattenfall Europe Windkraft and Vattenfall Europe New Metering. For more information, contact: Stefan Kleimeier, Vattenfall Europe AG, Communication and Public Affairs Hamburg Tel. (0 40) 63 96 - 27 32 Fax (0 40) 63 96 - 27 70 E-mail: email@example.com Visit Newsroom


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Practice the virtues with your kids this summer, one each week. This week, focus on honesty, or what the Church calls courage.
What is courage?
The Modern Catholic Dictionary defines courage this way: "The virtue of bravery in facing difficulties, especially in overcoming the fear of consequences in doing good. As moral courage, it enables a person to pursue a course deemed right, through which one may incur contempt, disapproval, or opprobrium."
The Catechism of the Catholic Church calls courage fortitude, and defines it this way: "Fortitude is the moral virtue that ensures firmness in difficulties and constancy in the pursuit of the good. It strengthens the resolve to resist temptations and to overcome obstacles in the moral life. The virtue of fortitude enables one to conquer fear, even fear of death, and to face trials and persecutions. It disposes one even to renounce and sacrifice his life in defense of a just cause" (#1808).
Let's break that down for younger kids this way: "Courage is being brave enough to do what is right, even when it is difficult."
Break it down
- Spend some time brainstorming with your older kids and teens what it means to have courage or fortitude. What are some historical examples of people who had courage?
- The stories of the saints are full of examples of courage. Read some of the stories of the martyrs to your older kids.
- What are some examples of when people in your family have to have courage? Where does courage come from? How can someone become more courageous if they are afraid? (Christians develop courage by deepening their relationship with God; the deeper and stronger their trust in God, the less they fear dangers and obstacles.)
The Virtue Tickets Game: Courage
This week, focus on training your kids to recognize the virtue of courage by inviting them to issue virtue tickets whenever they see courage in action.
- Print out the sheet of Virtue Tickets for the virtue of courage (found here: Virtue Tickets – Courage), or make your own.
- Have your kids cut out the individual tickets as you discuss the virtue of courage using the talking points above.
- Throughout the week, have your kids "issue tickets" by filling out a ticket with the appropriate details whenever they "catch" someone practicing the virtue of courage. You can play this game in one of three ways (or blend the three methods):
- Option 1: Invite your kids to actually issue the ticket to the person responsible for practicing the virtue. At the end of the week, family members can turn their tickets in for a prize that the whole family can enjoy—for instance, if everyone in the family manages to collect 25 tickets altogether, then the family will order pizza, and the kids can choose which type it will be. If the family collects 35 tickets altogether, the kids can choose ice cream to go with it, etc.
- Option 2: Whenever your kids spot an instance of courage anywhere—on television, at the mall, in the family—they fill out a ticket, which they keep. As with option 1, the tickets are counted at the end of the week for a family prize.
- Option 3: You're the primary ticket-writer. When you write out the ticket for your youngster, write a "penalty" (really a reward) on the back, redeemable at the end of the week (for older kids) or immediately (children under age 7).
- Your kids might enjoy issuing tickets to friends, neighbors, store clerks, etc.


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Community Health and Well-Being Services
The Longreach Region has a wide range of health and well-being services including aged care, mental health services, and disability services. To find contact details for a specific health or well-being service, please choose from the links below. For all emergencies, call - 000.
Anglicare Aged Care and Disabilities Southern Queensland
Anglicare Southern Queensland is a not-for-profit organisation providing care and supportive services to the community including HACC services, Home Care Packages level 2, NRCP services and Home Care Package 4.
Location - 150 Eagle Street, Longreach
Phone - (07) 4658 2389
Anglicare Central Queensland
Anglicare Central Queensland provides a range of human services, working with people of all ages and backgrounds. Services range from crisis response to ongoing support, affordable housing, foster and kinship care, mental health services and supporting children and young people, parents and families.
Location - 15 Pelican Street, Longreach
Phone - (07) 4658 0431
Blue Care
Blue Care is one of Australia's largest providers of community care who provide services which are individualized to your needs. The services Blue Care offers are respite care, disability care, chaplaincy, personal care, Indigenous services, and volunteer services.
Location - 106 Galah Street
Phone - (07) 4658 3689
Department of Human Services
The Department of Human Services offers services such as providing information products, forms and brochures, Medicare phone claiming service and reply paid envelopes to forward receipts to support claims and telephone for department-related business. There is limited face-to-face staff assistance. All other enquires are to be done by calling the Human Services number or completing services online.
Location - 96 Galah St, Longreach
Phone - 136 240
Disability Services Queensland
The Local Area Coordinator works with people with a disability, their families and the local community to bring about positive changes.
Location - Gordon Gibson Arcade, Longreach
Phone – (07) 4658 1576
Home and Community Care (HACC)
Longreach Home and Community Care provide a range of services to clients and carers in the Longreach area. HACC provides assistance to frail, aged, younger people with disabilities and their carers as well as helping people with special needs to remain living independently in their own homes. HACC offers a large number of services including personal care, nursing care, social supports, respite care, transport, and maintaining independence.
Location – 19 Duck Street
Phone – (07) 4658 1416
Phone – (07) 4658 0114
Home Assist Secure
Home Assist Secure aims to remove some of the practical housing related difficulties experienced by people with a disability and people over 60 years of age who wish to remain in their home. Home assist Secure provides free information and referrals about home maintenance, repairs, modifications, and home security.
Location - 19 Duck Street
Phone – (07) 4658 0671
Longreach Family Medical Practice
The Longreach Family Medical Practice is a General Practice providing a wide range of hospital based services. The Longreach Family Medical Practice provides excellent quality complete medical services to the people of Longreach and surrounding areas. This Practice is open between
8:30 am – 5:00pm Monday to Friday.
Location – Level 1 Eagle Arcade, 109 Eagle Street
Phone – (07) 4658 3866
Iningai Health Arcade
Visiting specialists and specialist nurses run clinics and telehealth appointments with specialists are also conducted at this location. The Iningai Health Arcade also accepts referrals from individuals regarding healthy aging, speech pathology, aged care and assessment team, cardiac rehabilitation program, pulmonary rehabilitation program, chronic disease team, healthy lifestyles program, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health team, child, youth and family services.
Location - Unit 5 Iningai Health Arcade, 109 Eagle Street
Phone - (07) 4652 5500
Central West Hospital and Health Services
The Central West Hospital and Health Service is a thirty-one-bed acute facility located approximately two kilometres from the town centre and provides the Longreach community with integrated health services across a wide range of specialty areas.
The Longreach Hospital offers mental health and alcohol, tobacco and other drug services, allied health, physiotherapy, dietitian, occupational therapy, podiatry, social work and grief and loss counseling. For further information or to make a referral please contact the allied health Administration Officer on 4652 7951
Outpatients Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5.00pm.
Doctor appointments 9.00am-1.00pm
Weekends 9.30am to 6.00pm. No Doctor appointments.
Accident and Emergency services are available 24 hours, 7 days a week - staffed 24 hours a day by Registered Nurses.
Location – Jabiru Street
Phone – (07) 4658 4700
Longreach Dental Clinic
Queensland Health offers Public Sector oral health services through a statewide network of dental clinics. The services provided are subject to the clinical judgment of the dentist based on the assessment of the individual. Services that are available are diagnostic, scaling and cleaning, restoration, and simple extractions.
Location – The Longreach Hospital, Jabiru Street
Phone – (07) 4658 4721
North and West Remote Health
North and West Remote Health employ a high-quality Allied Health Team, consisting of a Dietitian, Diabetes Educator, Podiatrist, Physiotherapist, Speech Pathologist, Continence Advisor, Aboriginal Health Worker, Exercise Physiologist, Care Coordinator, and Health Promotion team.
Location – 19 Duck Street, PO Box 256 Longreach
Phone - (07) 4652 7100
Relationships Australia
Relationships Australia Longreach is a free and confidential service for the community. Services include gambling help, victims counselling support, domestic violence, sexual abuse, assault and various other crime counselling.
Location - 19 Duck Street
Longreach Office – (07) 4658 1855
General Phone - 1300 364 277
Royal Flying Doctor Service (Social & Emotional Wellbeing) RFDS
The iconic RFDS's emergency retrieval service operates 24 hours a day, 7 hours a week. A broad range of essential health care services to rural and remote communities are also delivered by the RFDS. The comprehensive health care service include general practice, indigenous health, child health, child and family health, social and emotional wellbeing, women's health and health promotion.
Location – 137 B & C Eagle Street, PO Box 599
Phone – (07) 4652 5800
Bolton Clarke Pioneers Retirement Community
Bolton Clarke is the new face of RSL Care, a leading not-for-profit provider of retirement, and residential care with a range of care and lifestyle options to suit local seniors. Bolton Clarke supports the principle of 'ageing in place' which means every effort is made to help existing residents access higher levels of care within the same retirement community.
Location – 1 Sparrow Street
Phone – (07) 4658 1777
Clarity Hearing & Balance
Clarity brings its full range of audiology and hearing services to Longreach. Their audiologists visit North and West Remote Health in Longreach regularly to ensure all your audiological needs are met.
Location – 19 Duck Street, PO Box 256 Longreach
Phone - (07) 4779 1566
Vision Australia
Vision Australia is the leading provider of blindness and low vision services in Australia. It supports thousands of people who are blind or have low vision, of all ages, in the home, school or work so they can live the life they choose.
Phone – 1800 84 74 66
Lives Lived Well
Lives Lived Well offers alcohol and drug counselling and NewAccess Mental Health Coaching across the Central West. They provide free, professional one on one counselling to people struggling with alcohol and drug problems, and their family members. They also offer NewAccess mental health coaching to help people deal with life stresses.
Location – 19 Duck Street, Longreach
Phone - 1300 371 309


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Ceremony: A Spenser Novel
Parker, Robert C.
New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1982. First edition 182 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. Slight edgewear to boards & spine ends. Slight cocking & shaking to spine but binding sturdy. Slight foxing & soiling to textblock edges. Light soiling to pds. Pgs clean & crisp. Slight scuffing & edgewear to dj. Very Good in Very Good DJ Hardcover 0440011515 (Item ID: 153189)
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