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Salad Leaves for All Seasons
Organic Growing from Pot to Plot
By Charles Dowding
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Known as the guru of no-dig, Charles Dowding has updated the definitive book on salad growing in this hardback, beautifully illustrated edition. In it he shows how to-
- have tasty salad leaves all year round in a garden, balcony or windowsill, whatever the weather
- grow healthy plants grown in a healthy manner in healthy soil using organic, permaculture principles
- enjoy a wide variety of salad leaves, including micro leaves
- show off the fantastic taste and vitality of your home-grown salad in his delicious and imaginiative recipes
Charles is an expert grower who inspires you to grow your own healthy and tasty salad, while maintaining the health of the soil and saving on your food bill.
Over 10,000 copies of the previous edition have been sold to gardeners and food lovers keen to eat tasty food with a low carbon footprint.
Part 1 HIGH YIELDS
Essential Know How
Potential of Small Raised Beds,
Containers & Window Boxes
Sowing, Raising, Sustaining
Part 2 THE SALAD CALENDAR
Spring, Summer,
Autumn &Winter Harvests
Part 3 A CELEBRATION
Lettuces, Chicories & endives
Oriental leaves, Other Winter leaves,
Spinaches & chards
Exotic ideas, Herbs & flowers
Part 4 INDOOR SOWING
Sowing in Greenhouses, Polytunnels,
Conservatories, Coldframes &
Growing & Harvesting in
Greenhouses & Polytunnels
Charles is a passionate and accomplished gardener who grows vegetables of amazing flavour
An essential book for every kitchen and garden
The number one book for anyone who loves salads
Charles Dowding is an organic gardener and author of many books on vegetable growing, contributing articles to leading gardening periodicals and teaching courses. He is an internationally recognized expert on organic, permaculture and no-dig gardening and appears regularly on radio and TV.
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We are on the verge of December, which means the Viennese are already deep into the Christmas season. The Christmas markets are open, the decorative lights over the streets and plazas are lit (including our Wahringerstrasse electric blue Christmas clouds), and the weather has turned appropriately cold.
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As always in our outings, we come upon surprises. One recent cold, wet Saturday we were wandering with no particular purpose and beginning to think better of it when we turned a corner and were met with a parade that encompassed much of the European military past.
We still don't know exactly what it was about, but it was like watching a history book march by. The pictures don't do it justice. The horses were enormous.
Most of what we've been doing, however, has centered around Keir's activities. We've always enjoyed watching our kids play sports, perform in plays, do music and the like. Keir, as the last of the herd, has dutifully provided us with years of basketball and baseball games, as well as a few wrestling meets and karate events.
For the past few months he's been on his high school varsity volleyball team, and once we figured out the rules, volleyball has proved as exciting as the other sports. As with everything over here, what is routine is, for us, exotic.
Keir's school hosted the high school volleyball championship tournament, so Keir played against students from Athens, Tel Aviv, Brussels, Munich, Dusseldorf and a few other schools. We had boys from the Brussels team stay with us, one American and one Swedish, although neither one of them had spent much time in their home countries.
Misti ran into a more extreme situation recently when some Viennese women lectured her on American traditions.
Keir's team played well in the volleyball tournament and made it to the final four. As he was playing his last set, Misti and I realized that after more than 30 years of being parents, this was likely the last high school sports event we'd attend, at least until the grandchildren become teens.
As is evident from the photos, Keir is rather intense when he plays. His guitar, by the way, is a Schecter. The band was good.
While we're on the topic of musicians, they are everywhere downtown this time of year, mostly playing German/Austrian tunes. Here are a couple of images from recent weeks.
I'll conclude with Thanksgiving, which, obviously, doesn't exist in Austria. Apparently it is one American tradition the Viennese women aren't interested in upholding. Because there are many Americans at the institute where I work, however, there is an annual Thanksgiving luncheon that is spectacular.
Beyond the setting in the palace cafeteria (see photo), the lunch includes turkey, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, green beans, carrots, and pumpkin and apple pie. Excellent red and white Austrian wine was served and we enjoyed lively, delightful conversation with people originally from Britain, Argentina, the Philippines, and Texas.
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We likely will have a quiet Christmas this year, but with blue clouds out our windows and the city decorated like no other, we'll spend hours walking and enjoying the streets. It's sort of becoming a tradition.

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Smack in the middle of Gävsjövägen in the woods east of Täby Kyrkby.
I was gonna drop off my dads car near Lidingö this morning so why not do a hash on the way.
After dropping the car off I planned to do some retro hashing so I took the 5 closes to the auto shop towards the Metro near Karlaplan. I was trying out my new code for showing all retros through history around your position. I managed to do these 5:
I hopped in the car around 0900 and it was cold and a lot of snow on the car and on the ground. I went to Sollentuna to buy some gloves cause I had lost one the week before and it's been very cold. After Sollentuna it was an easy drive towards Täby Kyrkby and I followed Google Navigate that told me to take a right and go onto Roslagsvägen. But after a kilometer I encountered big boulders and the road was totally closed. And absolutely no parking. Except for the car that someone had broken into and was dumped with the plates removed. I backtracked to Täby Kyrkby and they were building like crazy there. Found the tiny little road that was Gävsjövägen that started taking me towards the hash. I went past more and more houses and farms and further into the woods.
I found the hash and drove right through it seeing geohash droid go down to just a few meters. I stopped and backed up, went out and took some pictures. It was a nice and sunny at this point. As I was uploading to the gallery a car with an older lady came from the other direction. I hopped into my dad's car and drove backwards to a meeting point on the road, since I needed a run up to try a speed racer achievement. it was really hard getting enough traction to get it up to 50 km/h which was the legal limit here, but I managed. Tried it again since I couldn't tell if the speed was showing in the first picture or not but it turns out the second try was worse.
Since my dad was borrowing my car I did not have any Orangetm with me so no marking, but I continued south on the road. That car must have come from somewhere and if there was fresh car tracks in the snow that means it could not end up in the rocks blocking off the street I had seen before. As I emerged from a tunnel under the 265 I got onto Roslagsvägen. I had entered the address of the auto shop in Google Navigate and again, it told me to take a left and drive into the fat blocks in the middle of the road. Damn you non-working technology!
I found another route which was actually probably shorter and got to the auto shop and dropped the car off. I was wearing my Icebug shoes with metal studs and extra layers of clothes for a walk home and some Retro Hashing! Onto 2004-12-04 59 18
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Recessionary down-sizing is a phenomenon the whole region's agencies have had to face. But Memac Ogilvy Dubai have taken their reductionist efforts above and beyond the call of duty.
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Churchill 6 stove
The Churchill range come in 3 sizes, the 5,6 and 8kw model.
The difference is mainly the depth giving the highest output for the deepest model.
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Joya de Nicaragua Cuatro Cinco Reserva Especial Review
In 2013, Joya de Nicaragua commemorated their 45th year in business with the Cuatro Cinco Edicion Limitada: a 6×54 box pressed Nicaraguan Puro. The limited release of only 4,500 boxes of 10 cigars was much anticipated and they sold out rather quickly. Earlier this year, Joya de Nicaragua released a new line of the Cuatro Cinco: the Reserva Especial. This release currently offers 4 vitolas; none of which are identical to the original release of the 2013 Edicion Limitada. Although the Reserva Especial is the same base blend, Joya de…Read More


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Another original article by Dr. John Bacher:
March 21, 2017
Natives Are Defending Ontario Forests
Dr. John Bacher (PhD) and Danny Beaton
(l) Dr. John Bacher and Danny Beaton, Niagara Council 2016, Photo: Carla Carlson
Our Mother Earth is protectively robed in a cloak of beautiful forests, but in southern Ontario they are threatened by urban sprawl. Most of the remaining forests away from the northern taiga bogs and the rocky Canadian Shield are wetlands that farmers have gained the wisdom to understand are unsuitable for agriculture. These vital wildlife refuges are now threatened by a policy review that has escaped coverage in the mainstream media, outside of the Niagara Region.
The cornerstone of public policy in Ontario, whose concepts have emerged from the United States' Clean Water Act and subsequent battles by environmentalists in the courts, is protected achieved from the wetland policy mandated in 1992. It was achieved following a process triggered by the New Democratic Party, (NDP) government of Ontario, initiated by the previous Liberal government.
The core of the wetland policy is that once it achieved a scoring of 600 points, a wetland is considered "provincially significant", and therefore legally prohibited from development and what is technically termed, "site alteration." Apart from having plant species that thrive in wet environments, what pushes generally the point score to the needed threshold is the presence of species at risk.
The wetland policy was one of the achievements by the NDP government when it was intensively consulting with native peoples on needed environmental reforms. During this time the respected Iroquois Confederacy Chief, Arnie General, would complain about the need for better mileage allowances, although he tried to economize through getting around in a mini two seat car.
During the early 1990s when the wetland policy was being developed Danny Beaton a Mohawk of the Turtle Clan, worked closely with General and other environmentally concerned native leaders such as Norm Jacobs. This experience stood put him in a good position, when in 2015 brave public servants sent alarm signals privately to environmentalists that two disturbing changes in public policy were being made to open up southern Ontario's wetland forests to developers.
The two changes that were being proposed to open the gates to developers were to the Conservation Authorities Act and the Provincial Wetland policy. Currently wetlands are evaluated by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry. (MNRF). The policy change was to change the Conservation Authorities Act to permit the staff of municipally appointed Conservation Authorities, subject to influence from developers, to evaluate wetlands. The other change was to allow currently protected provincially significant wetlands through having them destroyed by developers if compensation in the form of what was called in a provincial consultation paper, "bio-diversity offsetting", was made.
In September 2015 Beaton journeyed to Newmarket, where the consultation on the Conservation Authorities Act was taking place with environmental groups. Beaton's inspiring words denouncing the firing of conservation authority staff who had worked to protect wetlands woke up the environmentalists present. This discrediting of proposed alterations to the conservation legislation had the impact of developers putting even more pressure on the province to implement bi-diversity offsetting.
Developers targeted the 500 acre Thundering Waters Forest in Niagara Falls for what they termed a "pilot project" in bio-diversity offsetting. The old growth predominately oak forest is a refuge for a number of endangered species. These include three species of bats, the rare Black Gum, the Wood Thrush, Acadian Flycatcher, Chimney Swift, Monarch Butterfly, the Nine Spotted Lady Beetle and the Snapping Turtle. The forest is rich in vernal pools that provide critical habitat for obligate species, such as the Blue Spotted Salamander, and the Wood, Chorus and Grey Tree Frogs. It also contains rare Buttonbush and Rufous Bullrush communities.
On April 12 Beaton went to the Niagara Falls City Council to rescue the threatened Thundering Waters Forest. He spoke about the dangerous precedent that was attempted to be set at Thundering Waters, which could spread destruction to forests throughout Ontario.
Danny speaks about the sacredness of Creation and Mother Earth at Niagara Falls City Hall Council, 2016, Photo: Sandy Devih Heeralal
Beaton's words helped to inspire an Oneida resident of Niagara Falls, Karl Dockstader. He mobilized his extended family in Niagara Falls to take part in the struggle to save the Thundering Waters Forest. Dockstader also subsequently played a major role in mobilizing native leaders in the struggle on both sides of the Niagara River.
Dockstader played a key role in organizing on July 7, 2016 in front of the City Hall of Niagara Falls a rally by the Indigenous Solidarity Coalition of Niagara. Here native leaders who took part included Celeste Smith, Allan Jamieson, Lester Green and Kelly Frantastic Davis. Smith, who is of the Wolf Clan of the Oneida of Grand River, called for a "moratorium on the development of the Thundering Waters Forest until a clear, transparent, public process can decisively establish a full social, environmental and economic benefit of this forest remaining completely intact."
In his many writings in defense of the Thundering Waters Forest Dockstader penned the moving essay, the "Life Cycle of a Niagara White Oak Tree." The essay is a tribute to the tallest and oldest tree discovered in the threatened forest. It is estimated by an expert, a Mohawk ecologist of the Turtle Clan, Dr. Barry Warner, to be 250 years old.
Dockstader wrote how, "Almost 250 years ago then Superintendent of Indian Affairs William Johnson stood only a few miles" from the now great oak, when it was just a seedling. Then in the Treaty of Niagara of 1763 Dockstader explains, Johnson "planted the seeds for a covenant of peace that became formative in the country now called Canada. This agreement, the Treaty of Niagara, which came on the heels of the Royal Proclamation, laid the foundation to formalize the importance of Niagara as a traditional land of peace, strength and integrity. Johnson understood better than any of his contemporaries that the only path to peace was by including the principles of people original to the land. Those legally affirmed principles of land stewardship-such as equal access to resources like water and air for all living things-now tower over the Western cultural appetite for endless exponential growth."
Beaton and Dockstader woke up the residents of Niagara and a few leaders of environmental group. It is to be hoped that their message of the urgency to protect threatened forested wetlands and the wildlife that they depend on is heard more widely.


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Do you have a dream? I do. It sure is fun to have a dream. Well Mrs. Melissa (our special visitor from Friday), has a dream and she is working hard to make sure that her dream comes true, but her dream requires lots of things in order for it to come true. Melissa started out in Spain where she was teaching at an international school, and is riding her bike all the way to America, (Oregon to be exact). Mrs. Melissa plans on going through 4 continents (20 countries) in order to make her dream come true. If you were riding your bike around the world, what would you bring with you? Melissa had to solve that problem too. Whatever she brought was going to be put on the bike, making the bike heavier. What was brought isn't much. Melissa carries lots of water, a little extra food, money she has saved up, a camera, a laptop, and a few pairs of clothes. Those are just the basics. To learn even more about Melissa and her long way home as she calls it go to www.theloongwayhome.com and get a better idea of her journey ahead of her.
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By Matt O'Bryant
It was just a few weeks ago when we got our first part of the epic full-length trailer for Daredevil Season 2. Now Marvel and Netflix have released part 2 of the trailer and it's even better than the first. While the first one concentrated on the conflict between Daredevil and The Punisher. This one fleshes out Elektra and The Hand. Also this one has a ton of action which looks amazing.
We have less than a month to go until the premiere, so sit back and enjoy this badass new trailer below, amd sound off in the comments with your thoughts.
"Just when Matt thinks he is bringing order back to the city, new forces are rising in Hell's Kitchen. Now the Man Without Fear must take on a new adversary in Frank Castle and face an old flame – Elektra Natchios. Bigger problems emerge when Frank Castle, a man looking for vengeance, is reborn as The Punisher, a man who takes justice into his own hands in Matt's neighborhood. Meanwhile, Matt must balance his duty to his community as a lawyer and his dangerous life as the Devil of Hell's Kitchen, facing a life-altering choice that forces him to truly understand what it means to be a hero."
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Statement of Max Mayfield, former director of National Hurricane Center
I can truthfully say that no one told me at any time what to say in regard to possible impacts of climate change on tropical cyclones.
Please bear in mind that my testimony for the various Congressional Committees was focused primarily on the National Hurricane Center actions during Hurricane Katrina. The NHC is an operational center whose mission is "To save lives, mitigate property loss, and improve economic efficiency by issuing the best watches, warnings, forecasts and analyses of hazardous tropical weather, and by increasing understanding of these hazards." Someone suggested that I should include a statement on the cause of the increased hurricane activity because there was so much interest in this after Katrina. I remember asking for and obtaining input on this topic from staff at the NHC most knowledgeable on the topic. At the time, it was my belief that the increase in hurricane activity since 1995 was primarily due to natural fluctuations/cycles and was "not enhanced substantially by global warming."
I accept the fact that global warming is real. There have been too many papers published by too many scientists in too many countries to argue otherwise. This is a very significant problem. But my area of expertise is in hurricanes. Most meteorologists with knowledge of tropical cyclones think that there will be some impact from global warming on hurricanes. The debate is over how much of an impact. I have always said publicly that I am willing to be convinced by new data. However, I have problems accepting some of the conclusions from some published papers primarily because of the quality of the historical data sets. Please don't forget that most tropical cyclone centers now use satellite imagery to estimate the intensity of tropical cyclones - andthe geostationary satellite did not come into operational use until the mid 1960s. And the objective technique used to estimate tropical cyclone intensity (the Dvorak Technique) using infrared imagery was not published until 1984. In my opinion, there are indeed more stronger tropical cyclones in the historical data bases in all ocean basins due, in large part, to the better technology.
My current thoughts on climate change and tropical cyclones arein agreement with the consensus statement issued by the InternationalWorkshop on Tropical Cyclones held in Costa Rica at the end of 2006.The statement was written by 125 tropical meteorologist from some 34countries if memory serves me correctly, and it can be found online(http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/~tk/glob_warm_hurr.html):
"Given the high degree of interest in the possible relationshipbetween climate change and tropical cyclones (including hurricanes andtyphoons), a new summary statement on the topic has been developed bythe global community of tropical cyclone researchers and forecasters asrepresented at the 6th International Workshop on Tropical Cyclones ofthe World Meteorological Organization (November 2006). A morecomprehensive statement was also developed at the workshop.
The summary statement notes the following: "The surfaces of mosttropical oceans have warmed by 0.25-0.5 degree Celsius during the pastseveral decades. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)considers that the likely primary cause of the rise in global meansurface temperature in the past 50 years is the increase in greenhousegas concentrations....
...Some recent scientific articles have reported a largeincrease in tropical cyclone energy, numbers, and wind-speeds in someregions during the last few decades in association with warmer seasurface temperatures. Other studies report that changes in observationaltechniques and instrumentation are responsible for these increases."
Consensus statements by the workshop participants
"1. Though there is evidence both for and against the existenceof a detectable anthropogenic signal in the tropical cyclone climaterecord to date, no firm conclusion can be made on this point.
2. No individual tropical cyclone can be directly attributed toclimate change.
3. The recent increase in societal impact from tropical cycloneshas been largely caused by rising concentrations of population andinfrastructure in coastal regions.
4. Tropical cyclone wind-speed monitoring has changeddramatically over the last few decades leading to difficulties indetermining accurate trends.
5. There is an observed multi-decadal variability of tropicalcyclones in some regions whose causes, whether natural, anthropogenic ora combination, are currently being debated. This variability makesdetecting any long-term trends in tropical cyclone activity difficult.
6. It is likely that some increase in tropical cyclone peakwind-speed and rainfall will occur if the climate continues to warm.Model studies and theory project a 3-5% increase in wind-speed perdegree Celsius increase of tropical sea surface temperatures.
7. There is an inconsistency between the small changes inwind-speed projected by theory and modeling versus large changesreported by some observational studies.
8. Although recent climate model simulations project a decreaseor no change in global tropical cyclone numbers in a warmer climatethere is low confidence in this projection. In addition, it is unknownhow tropical cyclone tracks or areas of impact will change in thefuture.
9. Large regional variations exist in methods used to monitortropical cyclones. Also, most regions have no measurements byinstrumented aircraft. These significant limitations will continue tomake detection of trends difficult.
10. If the projected rise in sea level due to global warmingoccurs, then the vulnerability to tropical cyclone storm surge floodingwould increase."
The full texts of the summary statement and comprehensivestatement should be consulted for more details and context."
I also feel strongly about the main hurricane problem facing theUnited States which can be found athttp://wind.mit.edu/~emanuel/Hurricane_threat.htm. It is worth notingthe scientists who signed the following statement. This statement isjust as valid today as when it was written last year.
"Statement on the U.S. Hurricane Problem
July 25th 2006
As the Atlantic hurricane season gets underway, the possibleinfluence of climate change on hurricane activity is receiving renewedattention. While the debate on this issue is of considerable scientificand societal interest and concern, it should in no event detract fromthe main hurricane problem facing the United States: the ever-growingconcentration of population and wealth in vulnerable coastal regions.These demographic trends are setting us up for rapidly increasing humanand economic losses from hurricane disasters, especially in this era ofheightened activity. Scores of scientists and engineers had warned ofthe threat to New Orleans long before climate change was seriouslyconsidered, and a Katrina-like storm or worse was (and is) inevitableeven in a stable climate.
Rapidly escalating hurricane damage in recent decades owes muchto government policies that serve to subsidize risk. State regulation ofinsurance is captive to political pressures that hold down premiums inrisky coastal areas at the expense of higher premiums in less riskyplaces. Federal flood insurance programs likewise undercharge propertyowners in vulnerable areas. Federal disaster policies, while providingobvious humanitarian benefits, also serve to promote risky behavior inthe long run.
We are optimistic that continued research will eventuallyresolve much of the current controversy over the effect of climatechange on hurricanes. But the more urgent problem of our lemming-likemarch to the sea requires immediate and sustained attention. We callupon leaders of government and industry to undertake a comprehensiveevaluation of building practices, and insurance, land use, and disasterrelief policies that currently serve to promote an ever-increasingvulnerability to hurricanes.
Kerry Emanuel
Richard Anthes
Judith Curry
James Elsner
Greg Holland
Phil Klotzbach
Tom Knutson
Chris Landsea
Max Mayfield
Peter Webster
I'm sure this is more from me than you wanted to know. But Iwant the record to show that no one forced me to say anything on thesubject of climate change and tropical cyclones that I didn't believe atthe time.


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National Journal was founded in 1969 by 30-year-old attorney Anthony Carder Stout and investment banker Randy Smith, with the goal of creating a magazine that would cover the executive branch in much the same way that Congressional Quarterly covered Congress. That narrow focus proved untenable for a long-term venture, though, and in 1975, after Stout hired Newsweek's to become the magazine's publisher, National Journal expanded its purview to include all aspects of the federal government.
Between 1986 and 1997, National Journal was owned by the company; in 1997, Bradley acquired it. (He , forming the Atlantic Media Group, in 1999.) When Bradley bought it, National Journal had . And though it by way of "more user-friendly content" — shorter, less jargon-filled stories — it was largely read by an inside-the-Beltway audience of Congressional members and staffers, White House and agency workers, lobbyists, lawyers, and members of the media.
In 2006, National Journal with the public television show "Washington Week," which resulted not only in National Journal reporters making appearances on the Gwen Ifill-anchored show, but also in editorial collaborations and shared promotion, marketing, and fundraising efforts.
In October of 2010, National Journal of its print product and (free) website, accompanied by . The goal was, at it had been in 1997, to expand National Journal's audience both inside and outside the Beltway and to raise its circulation (). The overhaul was widely seen as an .
As part of the revamp, National Journal offered buyouts to its entire staff — some 200 workers — and went on a hiring spree for big-name journalists, including , , , , and (now the magazine's editor-in-chief). Fournier's goal for National Journal, he said just after its re-launch in October of 2010, is to "out-think everybody," "out-work everybody," and "out-clever everybody."
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The Poynter Institute is a nonprofit journalism education and training center in St. Petersburg, Fla. The Poynter Institute was founded in 1975 as the Modern Media Institute; its name was changed to the Poynter Institute in 1984. Poynter has owned the Tampa Bay Times, Florida's largest newspaper, since 1978, when its founder, Nelson Poynter, willed…


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How to be a profitable Mompreneur by sharing your passion!
Are you itching to become an entrepreneur or namely a "Mompreneur"? If you have an idea of what you want, you can start your business today. If you don't have an idea, don't worry. I would love to help you out with that.
Being a mom is not easy. You are busy all the time. Between your family and your home there is almost no time for anything else. But, you have been bitten by the entrepreneurial bug. And one of the prime reasons is your family.
In this time of recession and loss of jobs, it seems funny to start up new businesses. But all enterprises have not been affected by the recession. Many internet businesses are still doing well. They have the advantage of putting you in touch with potential clients from around the world who may not be in financial trouble right now. And, if you have a great niche product or service, people will continue to buy anyway.
Today, it is estimated that there are more than 8.3 million women-owned businesses in the United States. These women owned businesses are responsible for employing upwards of 7.7 million people and generating nearly $1.3 trillion in revenue, according to the State of Women-Owned Business Report.
So, if you are a mom and you want to make extra money starting your own business, here are a few ideas that may be helpful to you. One thing to consider is your area of interest and passion. These will drive the idea for your new small business.
- Set up an online store: This can be done on eBay or another marketplace. You can sell items that you have around your home. If you are a crafter and create dolls, clothing or other items, sell them in your online store. Here, you can set a price for items instead of using the auction and having people bid. EBay also provides many tools (both free and paid) for sellers to utilize to grow their store
- Take surveys: Survey takers are needed to do market research for many companies. You can make good money signing on with businesses to get paid for sampling products.
- Home-based service business: Do you do alterations, fix computers, or watch kids in your spare time? You can take your expertise and turn it into a business that you can run out of your home. This will require a home office or other set-up for you to entertain clients and also to perform the day-to-day operations of your business.
- Online business: If you can offer a service that will be of benefit to people in all areas of the world, an online website business may be for you. For example, let's say that you are a writer. You can offer your expertise as a freelance writer to clients needing content for websites, writers needing editors for their books, and other content needs to help grow their businesses. With a website, anyone anywhere can find you.
- Direct sales are one of the most enduring business models out there: If you have extra time and want to be your own boss, consider a direct sales business. Have you ever heard of Tupperware, Pampered Chef or Avon? These are direct sales businesses. There is a parent company that offers a variety of products. These products are, in turn, sold through individuals who are called consultants, sales associates, distributors or representatives. For a share of the profit of the sales they make, the company offers rewards, incentives and advancement opportunities.
There are a variety of online and offline service businesses that can be started by you, the Mompreneur. Start with your passion and go from there. In my case, I feel passionate about health and wellness, healthy eating, exercise. I also love to connect with people and motivate them or encourage them to live life to the fullest. I've always loved the idea of being my own boss, of being able to spend quality time with my kids. I also love to travel. That is why I chose a Direct Sale company that offers safe and natural supplementation to help with energy, weight loss and overall health. This business has given me the opportunity to help others not only to lose weight but to improve their overall health while at the same time generate an additional income that definitely has been a blessing to us. If you would like to know more about my company and my products, please comment below. I would love to send you more information about the business opportunity and how you can start achieving your health and financial goals. Also, please share and comment what you are passionate about and what your idea is of being a Mompreneur.to help you find the right home-based business fit for you!
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As much as I hate to admit it, I was slightly inspired by Taylor Swift's recent break up for this one…
1. "Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you're pretty sexy."– Sex and the City ("Ex and the City", Season 2, Ep 18)
2. "Who do you think has more freedom: the married man in America or the single man in Communist China?" – Curb Your Enthusiasm (Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm, 1999)
3. "I think God gives us children so that death won't come as such a disappointment" – Two and a Half Men ("Sleep Tight, Puddin' Pop", Season 3, Ep 7)
4. "Please, don't kill me, I'm not married! My life is awesome!" – Family Guy ("Joe's Revenge" Season 11, Ep 5)
5. "Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth." – Criminal Minds ("The Sandman", Season 11, Ep 17)
6. "My aunt and uncle were married sixty-three years. Towards the end it was like watching cheese melt." – The Big Bang Theory ("The Commitment Determination", Season 8, Ep 24)
7. "Settling down is for losers and kids who never go out anymore." – How I Met Your Mother ("Last Forever Part 2", Season 9, Ep 24)
8. "I've been single for an hour now and it's the tits!" – Parks & Recreation ("Swing Vote", Season 5, Ep 2)
9. "Maybe I won't get married, you know? Maybe I'll do one of those Eat Pray Love things." – The Mindy Project ("Pilot", Season 1, Ep 1)
10. "I am single now. What we have here, is the ultimate smackdown between the Nard-Dog and crippling despair, loneliness, and depression. I intend to win." – The Office ("Lecture Circuit", Season 5, Ep 16)
Amy Nguyen is a 24 year writer in Calgary, Canada who currently works in the film industry, primarily in exhibition, and runs a blog on tumblr called "Wicked Pop Culture."


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Current Exhibition
Upcoming Exhibitions
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"I'll will explain on the way"
Finissage: Saturday 17 March | 16:00 - 18:00
The British artist Tim Ayres (Hastings, 1965) has recently chosen a new creative direction. Although the meaning of words and phrases continue to play a strong role in his work, Ayres has taken to writing upon the canvas, in his own handwriting, using a brush. Handwriting has long fascinated him, among other reasons for its increasing rarity, due to the ubiquitous use of computers. The texts that he now paints on canvases are drippingly wet, resulting in unreadable or at the least challenging to decipher texts. Sometimes he paints a word on the canvas only to hide it under another layer of paint, and the word is barely to be distinguished. His new work is a puzzle to unravel, with the meanings of words and phrases hidden and the traces of their absence to be found in the form of mysterious signs.
Up until recently Ayres made poetic canvases where he featured precisely formed texts painted over a heavy underlayer, using an identical lettertype each time. He created this effect with templates. Now in his newest work, he adds the text with a wet brush dipped in pearlised paint. He also uses a spritzer to rework elements of the text or to make them disappear altogether, bringing a liveliness into the paintings. The way in which the painting is meant to be hung determines how the texts and signs are applied, and influences the images that come to mind. For this reason too, is Ayres' work about the drawing that occurs within painting.
As in earlier series, much of the text used in the current series spins off of pop songs or his personal experiences. They are about singing and his own interpretations, such as the the work entitled 'I Wish This Was A Song' shown at Galerie Roger Katwijk. Another piece shown is a blue work upon which he first wrote something secret upon the white, bare canvas, only to cover it with a layer of blue. The text gleams through. It is titled 'When I Am Humming To Myself I Am Singing To You.'
Tim Ayres earned his masters degree in 1989 at the Chelsea School of Art in London, remaining from 1989 to 1991 as artist in residence at the Rijkacademie of Visual Arts in Amsterdam. He lives and works in Amsterdam to this day. After his stay at the Rijksacademie, he had several solo exhibitions in the Amsterdam galleries of Milco Onrust and Vous Etes Ici. Ayres work was featured in numerous group exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Museum van Bommel van Dam. February 2018 a fourteen piece work will be shown at Art Chapel Amsterdam, and during Art Rotterdam 2018 Roger Katwijk will feature his work in his stand. Ayres work has also taken off internationally, with exhibitions in Zurich, Berlin, Copenhagen and Palma de Mallorca. In 2010 he had a joint show with Han Schuil at the Andreas Binder gallery in Munich, and two years ago a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Space PM/AM in London. The work of Tim Ayres can be found in important corporate collections and museum collections such as those of ABN/AMRO, the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam, the Sharjah Museum (in the United Arab Emirates), the Akzo Nobel Foundation, and the New York Public Library.


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London Asylum
Miss Jools releases may be be modest in number, but she is woven deeper than ever into the Mobilee fabric. In stepping back into the studio with Scott Kemp, Miss Jools has signalled that her production hiatus is officially over, and now Berlin's favourite transplant revisits the madness of her former home with London Asylum.
The title track stalks the city's late night streets, moody and brooding with a washy vocal treatment and a deep, sultry pace. "Counter Culture" is just as sleek and seductive, with a thick bassline and a vintage UK tech house feel. Fellow ex-Londoner Anthea provides the "Expectation Remix" of "Counter Culture", but expect the unexpected: it's dark and stark, and a real deep techno workout.


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15 May 2015
Nebula Systems win BT's automotive innovation showcase competition
A unique cloud based vehicle diagnostics system is the winning entry in the latest BT Innovation Showcase competition.
UK-based Nebula Systems submitted a telematics solution called MECH5 that revolutionizes the way diagnostics and repairs are performed on modern vehicles.
And soon customers will be able to see this cutting edge technology in action. A new showcase, dedicated to innovation in and around the world of vehicles, will be displayed at BT's research and development headquarters at Adastral Park in Ipswich.
Technology roaring into action
The system works by using a small on-board diagnostics device that plugs into the vehicle's diagnostic socket and hooks up securely to the MECH5 cloud.
Individuals can then access a multitude of information contained within the vehicle's computer systems, wirelessly and remotely from anywhere in the world with an internet connection.
Which means that now both professional mechanics and car owners can carry out in-depth analysis of a vehicle's electronic systems using their smartphone, tablet or laptop like never before.
Exceptional contribution
Rob Hull, VP consumer and networks scouting for BT Technology, Service & Operations said: "The judging panel saw MECH5 as making an exceptional and unique contribution to vehicle innovation and we're looking forward to developing this relationship and uncovering more exciting advances around the connected car."
Nebula Systems CEO, Andrew Steer said: "We're extremely proud of MECH5, it really empowers people to find out for themselves what's wrong with their vehicle in a very simple and accessible way. Winning this competition and getting to work with BT means we can reach more people. Which is great news."
BT promoted the competition through the Autotech Council, a Silicon Valley based organisation that helps innovation in the auto industry get to market faster.
Leading the way
BT has long been at the forefront of development in innovation and each year welcomes around 2500 business customers to the showcases at Adastral Park, representing a significant part of BT's customer contact programme for new wave business.
The showcases give visitors the chance to not only hear about BT's capabilities, but to see, touch and feel them through live personalised demonstrations.


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Solemnity of the Holy Family 2015
The Sunday which follows Christmas is always dedicated to the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. It is powerful reminder that Jesus was born into our human condition, a condition that necessitates a fundamental foundation, a family. As Christians, the humanity of the Son of God is everything to us. It is the golden chain that binds us to Christ, and through Christ to God. Today, we see how Christ is bound to us through a human family.
The importance of the Holy Family's example of faith and love is essential for families. As St John Paul II said, the Holy Family is "the prototype and example for all Christian families." The family of Nazareth, according to Pope Francis, was not unlike most families: "with their problems and their simple joys, a life marked by serene patience amid adversity, respect for others, a humility which is freeing and which flowers in service, a life of fraternity rooted in the sense that we are all members of one body." Our Holy Father is renowned for his favourite leitmotifs of joy and mercy. But often too little attention has been given by the secular mainstream media to another favourite theme, a theme that has been quite apparent in the convoking of the Extraordinary Assembly of Bishops last year and this year's Ordinary Synod on the Family, and the Pope's weekly catecheses.
In the first year of His pontificate, which coincided with the Year of Faith, Pope Francis delivered a catechesis that provided three simple tips on how to make family holy. It would be good to revisit these points today.
First, the family prays. The first reading taken from the Wisdom literature of the Book of Sirach sets out the basic dynamics of a family, with a special focus on children revering parents. What is interesting about this passage is not just a lesson of filial piety but also one of prayer. The one who listens, obeys, and respects his parents will have his prayer heard. Just like the Holy Family of Nazareth, every family must be a school of prayer. Prayer is not taught in a classroom setting. Neither is it handed down through lengthy and complicated theological discourses. We learn to pray from those around us. And the first and primary teachers are our parents. When parents do not pray, children follow suit. When parents gather together to pray, not just for special occasions, but on a regular basis, children also begin to learn the value, the art and the beauty of prayer. The best gift that we can give to our children and to each other within the family is prayer. Tuition, expensive toys, holiday excursions all make cheap substitutes for this invaluable gift. It would be the pole and anchor for the family that keeps it afloat even in the stormiest of weathers and most challenging of crises.
Secondly, the Holy Father exhorts families to "keep faith." Keeping faith doesn't mean keeping it to ourselves and keeping it private. We live a society where faith is often kept secret in the private sphere for fear of offending anyone. Just like politics and other divisive topics, religion is often not on the table for discussion. But Pope Francis said that "Christian families are missionary families … They are missionary in everyday life, in their doing everyday things, as they bring to everything the salt and leaven of faith." Catechesis can only take place in the context of evangelisation. The New Evangelisation which the last few Popes have been emphasising speaks of this need to re-evangelise our own members. Faith can no longer be taken for granted. We live in a culture and society of unbelief. We experience a market place of ideas, values, ideologies and other religious teachings. The family can no longer remain aloof and uncommitted in this area of evangelising. If the members fail to evangelise to each other, we would soon fall victim to counter-evangelisation from other factions and groups.
And finally, the Pope raises one of his favourite leitmotifs, as he insist that a family must experience joy. Though simple in comprehension, this last secret of a holy family may be the most challenging. Most of us know so well the pain and hurts we experience in families. This is understandable as the persons who are dearest to us and most important to us are often the ones who can inflict the most severe hurts. But, the Pope is insisting that joy is not an impossibility. True joy comes from transformation that must take place if families are to survive and even proclaim the good news of salvation. True joy is never the denial of pain, disorder or even sin. To do so would be to relate in a superficial way. The Holy Father tells us that "True joy comes from a profound harmony between persons, something which we all feel in our hearts and which makes us experience the beauty of togetherness, of mutual support along life's journey."
But the greatest secret is this – joy can never be humanly engineered or manufactured. It is the gift of God. Cut off from God, human love does not remain human for long. The Pope tells us that "the basis of this feeling of deep joy is the presence of God, the presence of God in the family and his love, which is welcoming, merciful, and respectful towards all. And above all, a love which is patient: patience is a virtue of God and he teaches us how to cultivate it in family life, how to be patient, and lovingly so, with each other. To be patient among ourselves. A patient love. God alone knows how to create harmony from differences. But if God's love is lacking, the family loses its harmony, self-centredness prevails and joy fades. But the family which experiences the joy of faith communicates it naturally. That family is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, it is the leaven of society as a whole."
On the eve of this year's Synod on the Family, Pope Francis presided over a candlelight vigil for the synod, calling on the Synod Fathers to listen to families, including the Holy Family, over the course of their deliberations. "The family is a place of discernment, where we learn to recognise God's plan for our lives and to embrace it with trust. It is a place of gratuitousness, of discreet fraternal presence and solidarity, a place where we learn to step out of ourselves and accept others, to forgive and to be forgiven." Looking out onto the darkened square filled with candlelight, the Pope reflected on the symbolism of the candle in the dark, in reference to the difficulties we face throughout our lives. "What good is it to light a little candle in the darkness? Isn't there a better way to dispel the darkness? Can the darkness even be overcome? When life proves difficult and demanding, we can be tempted to step back, turn away and withdraw, perhaps even in the name of prudence and realism, and thus flee the responsibility of doing our part as best we can."
But then the Holy Father issued this timely reminder that "every family is always a light, however faint, amid the darkness of this world." He prayed that for every family, "the Gospel is always 'good news' which enables us to start over." In order to this, we must always keep our "gaze fixed on Jesus, the definitive Word of the Father and the criterion by which everything is to be measured."


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Westminster Academy rallies for OT win, advances to Thursday's Class 3A state final
When the circumstances were at their lowest for Westminster Academy on Tuesday night, guard Jerald Butler soared the highest.
Butler's emphatic put back dunk with 21 seconds gave the Lions a chance.
Paul Atkinson's bank shot at the regulation buzzer sent the game to overtime.
And Zachary Scott's eight points in overtime helped seal a dramatic 68-58 comeback win for the Lions over Orlando First Academy in a Class 3A state semifinal at The Lakeland Center.
Westminster Academy (23-6) will take on Windermere Prep on Thursday at 5 p.m. as it tries to win its second state title in school history and first since 2002.
"This has been a special year with this special bunch," Westminster Academy coach Ehren Wallhoff said. "They've been the comeback kids the entire season and I never doubt them in any game."
Trailing 52-48 with less than 30 seconds left, Westminster needed a quick score to have any chance.
Scott took a jump shot that bounced off the rim. Butler crashed boards, leaped, gripped the ball with one hand and slammed it home with 21 seconds left.
"That dunk lifted all of us because I know I was getting nervous," Butler said. "I knew I had to do something, anything. The ball just landed in my hand perfect. That's when we started believing we could win the game again."
Atkinson, a 6-9 junior center, finished with a game-high 25 points and 12 rebounds, and held his own against First Academy (25-6) following a dismal start for Westminster Academy in which it fell behind 12-2.
The Lions' defense gradually improved and took over after halftime.
First Academy, which shot 59.3 percent from the field (16 of 27) in the first half, shot only 16 percent combined in the second half and overtime.
"I admit when we stepped in at halftime down eight points and those guys had scored 40 points in the first half, I was a little shocked," Wallhoff said. "We had come in really primed so to see our guys really step up that second half and stop them is a microcosm of how our season has gone."
Butler's high-flying jam was the highlight of a 21-point performance that also included seven rebounds and four assists. Freshman shooting guard Chase Johnston was battling illness according to Wallhoff, and had the Lions' only other points with three.
Butler, a 6-5 junior, also did an impressive job guarding highly touted First Academy junior guard Chaundee Brown Jr., who finished with 23 points, but was held scoreless during the third quarter and had only four points in the fourth.
The Lions only outscored First Academy 11-5 in the quarter, but the shift in momentum was noticeable. And with 6:09 left in the fourth, Westminster had its first lead of the game.
Westminster opened the overtime period with a 6-0 run and never seemed threatened.
Scott, a sophomore, finished with 19 points and put the finishing touches on Westminster's balanced attack.
"This was our best comeback the whole season," Atkinson said. "It was a very physical game and it was hard to make shots. I wanted to win so bad and we're so excited to be here. We needed to do everything we could to win this game."
Wallhoff credited the team's poise from a difficult schedule in which it played several close games with teams such as Sagemont, Miami Norland and Chaminade-Madonna.
"We played everybody we could play not only in South Florida but all around," Wallhoff said. "Those games helped these kids believe even when we lost, we were never out of the game."
WA (23-6): Atkinson 25, Scott 19, Johnston 3, Butler 21. TFA (25-6): William 10, DenBensten 2, Summers 7, Jordan 14, Brown Jr. 23, Baker 2. Half: TFA 40-32. Three-pointers: Butler, Jordan 3, William 2, Summers, Brown Jr. Rebounds: Atkinson 12. Assists: Jordan 4, Butler 4. Steals: Scott, William, DenBesten 2. Blocks: William 4.
Andre C. Fernandez: 305-376-4997, @AndreMHsports
If you go
What: The state boys' basketball finals.
When: Through Saturday.
Where: The Lakeland Center, 701 West Lime St., Lakeland.
Admission: $10 per day; Parking: $10.
Tuesday's results — Class 1A semifinals: Chipley 56, Jasper Hamilton County 53; Paxton 63, Bell 50; Class 2A semifinals: Bradenton Christian 61, Tallahassee FAMU 44; Boca Raton Grandview Prep 64, Orlando Christian Prep 52; Class 3A semifinals: Fort Lauderdale Westminster Academy 68, Orlando First Academy 58 (OT); Windermere Prep 80, Miami Archbishop Carroll 61.
Wednesday's schedule — Class 4A semifinals: Miami Westminster Christian vs. Melbourne Holy Trinity, 1; Tampa Catholic vs. Jacksonville Bolles, 3; Class 1A final: Chipley vs. Paxton, 5; Class 2A final: Bradenton Christian vs. Grandview Prep, 8.
Thursday's schedule — Class 5A semifinals: Tampa Jesuit vs. Jacksonville Bishop Kenny, 1; Kissimmee Poinciana vs. Zephyrhills, 3; Class 3A final: Westminster Academy vs. Windermere Prep, 5; Class 4A final: Westminster Christian-Holy Trinity winner vs. Bolles-Tampa Catholic winner, 8.
Friday's schedule — Class 7A semifinals: Tallahassee Lincoln vs. St. Petersburg, 10 a.m.; Pompano Beach Blanche Ely vs. Melbourne, noon; Class 8A semifinals: South Miami vs. Sarasota Riverview, 2; Coral Springs vs. Winter Park, 4; Class 6A semifinals: Fort Lauderdale Dillard vs. Deltona, 6; Largo vs. Pensacola, 8.
Saturday's schedule — Class 5A final: 11 a.m.; Class 6A final: 1:30; Class 7A final: 4; Class 8A final: 7.


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I think I just passed out.
Or my head exploded.
Or something.
Because, on saks.com under 'New Arrivals,' there is a piece of metallic python so resplendent that it makes me wish I hadn't written about the Zagiani python clutch so recently. Because this? THIS IS WAY BETTER.
It's still Zagliani silver python. BUT IT'S A HOBO. That means the Zagliani Python Z Bag contains about a thousand times more beautiful pewter snakeskin surface area, plus I could buy it and wear it every day for the rest of my life, and that? That would make Amanda die happy. I would sit this bag next to me on the couch and have conversations with it. It would watch Project Runway with me (and agree that Blue Cup Dress was easily the best last night and Michael Kors can STFU about coffee filter bodices). I'd hang it on the control board of the elliptical machine at the gym, and it would cheer me on. I'd take it everywhere, and people would ask me what it was and where I got it, and I'd just stick my tongue out and say "I'm not telling! You're not cool enough to have one! Isn't that right, beautiful python hobo?" And it would nod solemnly and turn up it's little metallic nose at all those that THINK THEY COULD HANDLE IT. Because they can't.
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As carnivores, grains and gluten are not a natural part of a dog or cat's diet. While grains contain chemicals that interfere with your pet's absorption of important vitamins and minerals, gluten attaches to and irritates the intestines, causes digestive distress, itchy skin, runny eyes, ear infections, oral disease and cysts and can even create behavioural issues.
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GMOs ('genetically modified organisms') in pet food include animals or crops, such as corn, grain and soy, that have been altered, e.g. crops that withstand repeated spraying with herbicides which do not kill the plant, but are absorbed instead. Studies show GMOs cause inflammation and abnormal cell growth in the kidneys, liver, heart, spleen, pancreas and brain.
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FIX: MismatchCorrector fixed for MacOS.
NEW: metaSPAdes metagenomic pipeline.
CHANGE: improved performance for both error correction and assembly stages.
FIX: Multiple bug fixes.
NEW: Contigs/scaffolds paths for assembly_graph.fastg in Bandage-supported format.
FIX: Multithreaded MismatchCorrector.
FIX: BayesHammer bug fixes.
FIX: Python 3.5 support; python 3 support for truSPAdes.
CHANGE: No misleading FASTG files, only assembly graph is saved in FASTG format.
FIX: Multiple bugfixes.
NEW: Added truSPAdes – an assembler for short reads produced by Illumina TruSeq Long Read technology.
CHANGE: Better running time, less RAM consumption and improved results for BayesHammer error correction module.
CHANGE: Improvements and bugfixes in repeat resolution and scaffolding modules.
CHANGE: Improvements and bugfixes in dipSPAdes.
CHANGE: MismatchCorrector now uses bwa-mem.
FIX: Bugfixes in MismatchCorrector.
NEW: New MismatchCorrector module.
NEW: Support for Oxford Nanopore long reads.
NEW: Support for Lucigen NxMate mate-pair libraries.
NEW: Possibility to specify coverage cutoff: automatic and manual.
CHANGE: Better running time.
CHANGE: Improved RAM consumption.
CHANGE: High-quality mate-pairs are now assumed to have forward-revers orientation (same as paired-end).
FIX: Fixed FASTG format.
FIX: Several improvements in IonHammer.
FIX: Fixed a few minor bugs in repeat resolution and scaffolding.
NEW: Mate-pair only assembly with high-quality libraties.
NEW: Support for BAM files.
CHANGE: Improved IonTorrent pipeline.
CHANGE: Better quality and higher performance when using mate-pairs.
FIX: Fixed dipSPAdes bugs and user interface.
NEW: Module for assemblying diplod highly polymorphic genomes.
NEW: Support for PacBio reads.
NEW: Support for IonTorrent reads.
NEW: Support for Sanger reads and additional contigs.
NEW: Possibility to restart SPAdes starting from the specified check-point with the
--restart-from option.
NEW: Output contigs/scaffolds in FASTA and FASTG.
CHANGE: Improved algorithm for mate-pair repeat resolution and scaffolding.
CHANGE: Improved N50 and misassembly rate for single-cell data sets with low genome fraction.
FIX: User-friendly handling for errors in mismatch corrector.
REMOVE: Rectangle graph repeat resolution module.
NEW: Python 3.2 and 3.3 compatibility.
NEW: Possibility to continue SPAdes run starting from the last check-point with the
--continue option.
CHANGE: Decreased memory consumption for error correction module.
CHANGE: Improved misassembly rate for single-cell data sets with low genome fraction.
FIX: User-friendly handling for the case when paired reads do not align to the assembly graph.
NEW: Multiple paired-end and mate-pair libraries.
NEW: Recipe for assembling Illumina 2x150bp and 2x250bp reads.
CHANGE: Improved mismatch and indel rate.
NEW: Mismatch correction post-processing module.
NEW: Rectangle graph repeat resolution module as an option.
NEW: Build for Mac OS.
CHANGE: Improved assembly quality of standard (isolate) data sets.
CHANGE: Decreased memory consumption in error correction module (14 Gb instead of 24 Gb on E.coli test dataset).
REMOVE: SAM-file generation.
NEW: Generate scaffolds alongside with contigs.
CHANGE: Use N instead of A, C, G, T for the variations in repeats.
CHANGE: Memory requirements for E.coli test dataset decreased from 35 Gb to 24 Gb of RAM.
CHANGE: output_dir is a required command line parameter instead of project_name.
CHANGE: Simplified output directory structure.
CHANGE: CMake 2.8 is required instead of 2.6.
REMOVE: No dependency from boost library.
FIX: Avoid
Verification of expression 'v1 == conjugate(v2)' failed error.
NEW: No special binaries for different K values.
NEW: Great improvements in error correction tool BayesHammer.
CHANGE: Memory requirements for E.coli test dataset decreased from 85 Gb to 35 Gb of RAM.
CHANGE: Only 1 iteration of BayesHammer by default.
NEW: Improved assembly quality.
NEW: Support multi-threading.
NEW: Improved algorithms.
NEW: Command-line interface.
CHANGE: Quality assesment separated from the core pipeline.
REMOVE: No support for debian and RPM packages.
FIX: Quality tool fixed.
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In Autumn 2012, Eurofins Agroscience Services increased it's already impressive global service portfolio by expanding into the Irish market with the creation of a new facility and team. Located at Castlecomer, County Kilkenny, the new facility is located in the South East of Ireland, approximately 90 kilometres South West of Dublin.
It's central location means that the main arable growing areas of counties Carlow, Kildare and Wexford are within easy access. It is also within easy reach of the M7/M9/M8 motorways ensuring reasonable travel times to Dublin, Cork, Waterford, Athy and Kilkenny.
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Part of the Eurofins Scientific Group of companies, Eurofins Agroscience Services aims to be the number one contract research organisation of its kind. Formed officially in 2007, Eurofins Agroscience Services has succeeded in acquiring some of the agrochemical industry's most highly regarded CRO's and laboratories. Whilst the resulting global offering from Eurofins Agroscience Services is fairly new, its constituent companies all have proven track records stretching back over more than 30 years, for providing their customers with high quality services in those areas in which they specialise.
Eurofins Agroscience Services now leverages the expertise and strengths of each to create a full portfolio of services for the agrochemical manufacturer. We aim to provide the industry with all the technical support needed to screen and develop, register and steward new and existing products around the world.
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Pest and disease control as part of wider ICM is vital now more than ever to help achieve global food security - for families today and generations of the future. The ability to conserve and enhance natural resources while producing food on an economically viable and sustainable foundation is based on a good understanding of the interactions between biology, environment and land management systems.
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Aging in Place House Plans
In the past, families went through a cycle. First, they moved into a starter home. As they got bigger and older, families moved into larger houses. Then after their children left home, empty nesters downsized their house. Now things are different. Many people are buying houses to keep through their senior years. This is considered a fairly new trend to "age in place."
As stated by Stephanie Nelson, one of the top leaders in the house plans industry, " see these plans for aging in place which are made easier by common features such as open floor plans; master suite and guest suite(s) on one level, spacious master suite/bathroom and safe rooms. These plans also are available with bonus space above or below are great for grand kids, overflow, game rooms, hobby room while owner is still flexible etc.
Other key features:
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Here are some designs offered by Houseplansplus.com that serve as great examples. HPP-21299 HPP 21299 house plan -Main-Color This design has all the key features needed for those wanting to "age in place". In particular, notice the larger turn radius in the laundry room and master bath. HPP-2329 HPP 2329 house plan -Courtyard-Main-Color This zero threshold design has no walk up to worry about. There is also a lot of space, a safe room and deeper garage. HPP-2679 HPP 2679 house plan main floor See more of our designs at Houseplansplus.com


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Sometimes I love tech support. This came into our office today. Want a quick response to a technical support issue? Ask it like this! A tip for you non-Revit folks, a family in Revit is similar to a block in AutoCAD.
Oh, great master of all things Revit…
I hath attempted to sway the favor of thine Revit Gods, only to find myself cast into the valley of consternation. Oh, great master, I beseech thee to gaze upon the sordid details of mine dysfunctional family…
Mine family hath made offerings to false idols who demand satisfaction. Yet, mine family of Fire Extinguisher Cabinets hath not made themselves as flexible and useful as both thine Revit Gods and the false idols demand…
The false idol, Fire Marshal, demands that mine family bear witness to maximum travel distance by radius, for all who shalt make a spectacle of the Code Plan. Yet, the false idol, Project Manager demands that mine family disguise such radius, and shalt not bear witness to those who make a spectacle of the Overall Floor Plan and the Enlarged Floor Plans.
I hath made offerings of Instance visibility to thine Revit Gods, yet they demand I shalt display mine radius in all views or none.
Oh, great master, I beg thee, guide mine family to the light, so that they shalt appease thine Revit Gods and all false idols, in turn.
Oh, great master, I make offering of mine family thine grace, so that thou shalt enlighten mine family in the ways of thine Revit Gods.
I pray thou shalt find favor upon me and mine family in this time of darkness.
Your most humble servant,
And certified lunatic,
edit – the response of our Revit guru (the other Brian, not me) and then John's final response
Oh thy humble servant,
Why do you exhaust time pondering the solution of thoughts already known? This light hath been observed in the past by oneself many times. Thy answer is simple, "Subcategory". Thy radius can be delegated to a code subcategory (matching the steps created in the footprint family done in the past) so that thy subcategory can be turned off in the false god views thus pleasing all involved.
Your Great Master
Oh, great master of all things Revit,
Thine humble servant is most grateful for thine tidings of benevolent enlightenment.
As thou hast exercised mine memory of thine previous enlightenment, thine humble servant shalt now return to mine task master, and shalt submit mine self for a most thorough flogging. I am most grieved for the imposition upon thine grace for such a trivial matter. I most fervently beg your mercy and shalt most hastily retreat from your presence.
I make offerings of gratitude, many thousands of times over, and pray most solemnly for the blessings of thine Revit Gods upon you.
Your most humble servant.
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Camping Eden offers the ambiance and charm of a typical French family campsite combined with a superb landscaped swimming pool where you can relax in tranquility and then enjoy a drink in the Bar/Restaurant which also specializes in delicious local cuisine.
If you love the French way of life we think Camping Eden has something very special to offer you. Our Mobile Homes are bright, spacious and comfortable. They come ready-equipped for six people and contain all you need for a great stress-free holiday.
We pride ourselves on keeping the Mobile Homes to a very high standard and are on site regularly throughout the season, making ourselves available to cater to all our clients' needs.
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23-24 May 2018, Rome
Attracting top level speakers and highly qualified professionals from across the nonwovens and related industries, the 2018 International Nonwovens Symposium is the leading European event to learn about the industry developments and network with your colleagues.
EDANA closed its 2016 International Nonwovens Symposium (INS), having confirmed and shared the industry's confidence in the opportunities and strengths of the nonwovens industry.
With a highly-praised table top display, and the traditional EDANA walking dinner, more than 185 participants from 123 companies of 23 countries across the supply chain took advantage of the many networking opportunities, discussing the variety of topics such as "Industry 4.0" challenges and opportunities, to biodegradability, recycling, innovation support, new processes, and new filter media.
Wolfgang Plasser from Lenzing in Austria said that he believed the INS to be "a worthwhile event, in the right place at the right time, with a strong presence of companies from Central and Eastern Europe, excellent technical content, and attended by 100% industry experts."
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The new EXR CMOS II sensor with Phase detection AF and EXR Processor II make the FinePix F900EXR a truly powerful camera when it comes to capturing moving objects. In addition to the 0.05 sec. AF speed*, it also achieves a start-up time of 1.1 sec.**, interval time between shots of just 0.5 sec.**
Featuring advanced CMOS-shift image stabilization which reduces the blurring which often occurs at long zoom ratios from camera shake or subject movement, the FinePix F900EXR is built to help you take good quality long zoom shots.
Movie recording is as easy as taking pictures, with a dedicated "Movie recording button" to start recording instantly. The high resolution, 1080p movie capture at 60fps and slow-motion capture at 480fps is superb when played back on HD TV screens.
Wireless Image Transfer makes it easy to transfer photos and movies to smartphones and computers.
Photos or videos can be easily uploaded by simply connecting your camera to PC.
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The CFMEU C&G div WA branch is "expecting a stoush" over a rostered days off (RDO) proposal being sent to employers as part of its upcoming building industry bargaining round in October. The WA branch is also seeking a 7% a year over three years pay deal and a 21% increase in allowances. But it expects the biggest stumbling block to be the RDOs, with the union seeking a Vic-style nine-day fortnight for WA building workers.
WA branch sec Kevin Reynolds told Workforce "at least two" major building companies had flagged their opposition to the nine-day fortnights. One of those, Canadian-owned Multiplex, had made it clear RDOs would be an issue in upcoming EBA talks, he said. Up to 300 building industry EBAs in the boom state are up for renegotiation this year.
See also Construction pay talks progress around the country.
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Sunday, August 16, 2015
The International Language of Love: Steely Dan
I'll have a Number Seven, with a side of miso soup.
There are numerous trite opportunities to mention raying down the raw and blaking it, but I urge you not to. We must experience the Dopamines in their native habitat, and appreciate the forces that produce a Steely Dan cover band at the Sumida Street Jazz Festival in Tokyo. We must appreciate it all the way to the the tinny goodness of that last wan cymbal hit by the drummer.
The United States of America took over the world, you know, without firing a shot, really. The wars were sideshows. A Steely Dan cover band at the Sumida Street Jazz Festival makes building a triumphal arch somewhere superfluous. When Japanese people sing, "angular banjos sound good to me," we've crossed a pop culture Rubicon that can't be forded in reverse.
The United States of America has led the world out into a wilderness. It has a responsibility to go forward. Moses didn't take the Jews into the desert, turn around, and say, "Now what do you want to do? I'm wide open here."
The United States must keep going. Angular banjos don't really sound that great.
4 comments:
- Sam L. said...
That guy with the hat--that's the kind your Spare would look GREAT in. I'm tellin' ya; your boy NEEDS that hat!
- vanderleun said...
You realize that it is now going to take years of professional therapy to erase the video from my brain. Years and thousands of dollars. My lawyers will be in touch.
- leelu said...
Donald and Walter would be impressed. Altho, I can't see Donald in a Kimono...
- RonF said...
I'm impressed with the courage it took those kids to do that. Or the sheer insanity. I'm an admirer of both.
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MATLAB implementation of SPIHT (without Arithmatic coding stage)
Please I am using only SPIHT on my image - it is working but the compression is way too high (PSNR 1dB). How to reduce it?
Hi, Code is very well written for the understanding of SPIHT algorithm.But it doesn't seem to work for sizes other than 512x512?Can someone please help me with that?My mail id is firstname.lastname@example.com.
Bits_Header = Bits_Header + 24 ?
bitctr = bitctr + 24 ?
How to find the compression ratio in this code
Input argument "max_bits" is undefined.
Error in ==> func_SPIHT_Enc at 17
out = 2*ones(1,max_bits);
Input argument "level" is undefined.
Error in ==> func_DWT at 18
[C,S] = func_Mywavedec2(I,level,Lo_D,Hi_D);
I think, the most of these lines of programs submitted to the public here are taken from the matlab code available in rpi.edu.
can any one mail me matlab coding for image compression using spiht. 3 level wavelet transform image compression method, thank u
Hi everyone,
It is ok when I run this code with 8 bit depth images and dimension are 256 x 256 or 512 x 512. But it doesn't work with images (8 bit depth) have other dimensions (e.g. 1152 x 768). Is there anyone know why and how to fix it? If you know, please tell me. My email is email@example.com. Thank so much!
Thank you so much for sharing this great code. It's helping me a lot to learn SPIHT. Can anybody please tell me why 'value' is defined as: value = floor(abs(2^(n_max-n+1)*m(LSP(temp,1),LSP(temp,2))));
instead of just taking the values from LSP? Thank you!
Dear all;
many thanks for the code.
Can any one mail me with listless SPIHT code and strip based code, my email is firstname.lastname@example.com
thanks in advance.
can any one pls mail me the code for plotting the graph between bit per pixel and psnr...my mail id is firstname.lastname@example.com
nice one. can any one please mail me the code to plot the graph of bits per pixel vs psnr. my mail id is email@example.com
Hi Everone,
Can somebody please share the matlab code for colour image compression using SPHIT algorithm and Isphit Algorithm.My email ID: email@example.comfirstname.lastname@example.com
Many thanks in advance.
give me matlab code for B2 coding
Very nice code, although it could use some refactoring, e.g. this part in the main demo file:
OrigSize = size(Orig_I, 1);
max_bits = floor(rate * OrigSize^2);
OutSize = OrigSize;
image_spiht = zeros(size(Orig_I));
[nRow, nColumn] = size(Orig_I);
n = size(Orig_I,1);
n_log = log2(n);
level = n_log;
Could be simple rewritten as:
[nRow, nColumn] = size(Orig_I);
max_bits = floor(rate * nRow^2);
level = log2(nRow);
OutSize and image_spiht are never used in fact. Last line assumes silently that dimensions of the image are power of 2 and that there are at least as many columns as rows. Perhaps this would be better:
level = floor( log2( min( [ nRow, nColumn ] ) ) );
Matlab code analyzer complains a lot about variables growing inside the loops. I think that optimizing that could improve performance a lot.
Hello everyone, I have a problem with the SPIHT algorithm, when the images are different from 512x512, someone could help me. thank you very much. My email is firstname.lastname@example.com If you find the solution, thank you very much
I got problem on PSNR when compressing dicom image 512x512x3 using this coding. Is it because it is rgb/truecolor image? Do I need to convert it to indexed image?
this program has som errors in its psnr,if you want provided with the right one ,plesae contact with me .email@example.com
given code is very good, but i want arithmatic code for image compression
good morning
i want to convert a signal with .dat extention to binary signal .bin
because i want to compression ECG
i can't undestand the code gived..please help
thanx a lot
Your code is very helpful for me.but i want explanation for each & every line so that i can understand coding. can u help me?
Your code is very helpful for me. But i found that your root nodes are not in the LL. Am i right? Thank you again.
the code is excellent but i want to access the compressed file and want to know the size of that compressed file in KB/MB as well as in pixels....
can u guide me please...
thanx a lot !!
Very well written code and very useful. Thanks much.
Good work
I am using SPIHT algorithm for imge compression. in C language as specified in the AMIR SAEED IEEE PAPER. i want to go for programming in the MATLAB i am finding problem in C during LINKING and also in MATLAB EXECUTION PLEASE HELP ME OUT.
Very good, thank you for this program
To all: sum2 means the 2-D summation. That is, sum2(X) = sum(sum(X)) for the input 2-D matrix X.
I used the SPIHT coding from your program. It nice. Thank you.
But func_SPIHT_Main.m gives some problems there is call to sum2 but i could not find any method sum2 func_SPIHT_Main.m gives error message. I replace sum2 with sum but it gives some other error.s
Amazing toolbox!
Great implementation, great results. The different parts of the process are nicely splited.
Best code see on this Site
Excellent....pray for me as i can be like u....
Its an excellent package. I had some problems in implementing the idea, which got cleared after going through. Hats off to the programmer.
Excellent tool for researchers and students to play with and understand the concepts
Its nice to interact as well as helping for all,those who are having problems in coding
excellent help you are providing to the people
very good
thank you !It's my need;
can u plz send me the c or c++ code for speck algorithm...thnk you...
my alternate email id is firstname.lastname@example.com
please send me a matlab code for haar transform based image compression w/c display compression ratio
some updata in http://guohanwei.51.net/ask/SPIHT-0.1.rar
thanks for email@example.com
please,how can i do if wavelet packet transform?
send me any answer at my e-mail.
i wanna somebody could tell me where to get adaptive binary arithmetic coding code,and thanx very much.
Well done
need yo
Correcting few typos.
update few help lines.
The program has been revised to support BMP file.
please change this code to "image processing" section. Thank you.
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Friday, July 21 - Monday, July 24
Register / Contact
There is a small $25 registration fee for this workshop which includes the Friday night dinner and all workshop material. Participants are responsible for travel and other meal expenses. If your school district is paying, you must add in an appropriate per-diem to cover meals. (We will provide dinner on Friday evening and snacks during the workshop breaks.) Please plan on arriving Friday so you can participate in the opening dinner/social to get to meet the other participants.
Lodging will be provided on campus for no charge for the entire three nights for each participant who wishes to use it. The campus housing is air-conditioned with independent heating and cooling systems in each room. It hosts a fully equipped kitchen, recreation room with pool and ping-pong tables, a dining room, reading room, lounge with big screen TV, first floor laundry and exercise room. It is also fully handicapped-accessible and has an elevator. There are tub rooms on every floor for people who prefer to take baths.
Parking on campus is free after 5PM on Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday. During the workshop on Monday, visitor parking is available in the East Campus Garage for a daily rate. For more information about visiting CMU, see Carnegie Mellons's Visitor Page.
Click HERE to register for the workshop. (A new window should appear that will allow you to register via ACM's TECS website.) Registration will be accepted up to June 30, 2006, but on-campus housing cannot be guaranteed for registrations later than June 15, 2006.
Once you register, please send a check made payable to Carnegie Mellon University for the $25 registration fee to:
Ms. Angie Brookins, CS4HS Registration Coordinator
Please contact Angie Brookins at (412) 268-5483 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com
about on-campus housing for more information and to register for free
on-campus housing for CS4HS. Participants who need on-campus
Please contact Tom Cortina by email at email@example.com for any additional information or questions about this workshop.
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Kanye West is one of the highest in-demand artists right now, but that doesn't stop him from ditching his adult frown and bringing out that kid smile when he can. To the public, Yeezy may seem like he's always serious and focusing on his music, with some bizarre ranting in between, but when he's around younger rappers, a whole new kid side of him seems to come out. From running races, to swinging from night club ceilings, Kanye is a sucker for the hip hop youth.
Check out the times that younger rappers brought out the kid in Kanye on the following pages.
When he photoshopped his album cover to poke fun at Chance The Rapper for delaying his album release
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 13, 2016
Kanye clearly went back to his high school years by doing a funny photoshop prank on Chance that he released to Twitter for everyone to poke at him for.
When he did a running race with Tyler, The Creator at Coachella
Kanye and Tyler, The Creator racing at #Coachella. April 15. ??(?: @yungtaco) A video posted by TeamKanyeDaily (@teamkanyedaily) on
We're still not even sure who won this race.