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Through An Artist's Lens
By Art Martens
I'm convinced local Similkameen artist Harvey Donahue views the world through a very different lens than most of us. Where we might see only an abandoned house bleached by the sun, or an ancient, decrepit logging truck left to rust in the woods, Harvey is likely to see unique beauty. For him these relics of the past could be worthy of an honoured place on his canvas. "Old houses can be beautiful," he told Linda and me. "When I see one, I'm inspired to paint."
I first heard from Harvey almost 2 years ago after I wrote about Bill Robinson's iconic cabin along the Sumallo River in Manning Park. "I painted that cabin and the outbuilding before they fell into disrepair," he said. "I'd like to send you a copy of the original." That was the beginning of a phone relationship until he visited our home two weeks ago. On that occasion he surprised us with the framed, original painting of the snow bedecked Robinson cabin and outbuilding. For some reason known only to himself, he very generously presented it to Linda and myself. It is likely the best representation of that scene in existence today. It's a gift we prize highly.
Being raised in Lac Ste. Anne, a Metis village in Alberta, very likely played a key role in the formation of how Harvey views the scenes and people around him. Now age 80, he retains vivid memories and images of those early years. He recounted them as though talking about individual mental snapshots from his past. "I started trapping when I was about 7 or 8. When my uncle moved away, I took over his trapline. Mostly I trapped weasels and sent the skins to a company in Edmonton. There was an annual pilgrimage of Metis people to our village. Some Cree came too. I attended school only until I completed grade 10," he said. "Metis youths were encouraged to drop out after grade 8. We were called half breeds. I grew up feeling shame at being Metis. I used to tell people I was French. I remember that my dad had a few cows, some chickens and a garden."
Although there wasn't money for art lessons, he began painting at age 10. "When I was 14," he remembers, "I painted a mermaid luring a ship onto the rocks. I still have that painting."
His negative view of the Metis heritage began to shift at about age 20. "I decided I should be responsible for my existence. I began studying my Metis heritage and learned that my grandfather Gabriel Balcourt supported Louis Riel. He is listed on a plaque naming supporters."
Harvey's first wife was Metis and they had 4 children before she passed away. As he matured, his appreciation of the Metis heritage blossomed. "I became proud of being Metis," he said. After moving to the Lower Mainland, he started a Metis organization and built it to 500 members. He is gratified that it is still functioning.
Harvey believes the Metis heritage shaped him. His life experiences, including the early discrimination, seem to have given him an understanding that we should not be quick to discount or discard our past. I sensed he has come to a deep realization that a historic structure or event represents what was important to people at an early time and place. It tells us about their culture, values and life experiences. It's a connection with our past.
"When I see a scene that is likely to disappear, I take a picture and paint it," he said. "I paint heritage scenes so they won't be lost to the next generation."
As an example he told us about one painting that depicts an old truck standing near a grove of trees. "Shortly after I completed that painting," he told us, "the trees were cut down." Sometimes he adds something to a painting. One of my favourite scenes is of the one way bridge in Princeton. He placed his own pickup truck in this picture.
Harvey views the Similkameen Valley with the watchful, observant eyes of an artist. "When the sun rises in the east," he said, "you see subtle colours in the west." He paused and then added, "art and music are important. They help us appreciate life, the past and the present, that exists all around us."
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Before any response to this critique of the Canadian government's statements about the terrorist attack, read the entire post–including the addenda. I put this here to stimulate some much needed thought and conversation.
(Note that the editorial was actually written about a previous attack, not the one pictured above.)
Try as hard as you can to step outside the fishbowl of what you hear all of the time from government and media in this nation, and make a heroic attempt to understand the events of our time from the position of someone on the receiving side of our endless meddling in the Middle East and the "War on Terror."
I am referring to Glenn Greenwald's commentary at The Intercept: "Canada, at War For 13 Years, Shocked That 'A Terrorist' Attacked Its Soldiers."
Canada has spent the last 13 years proclaiming itself a nation at war. It actively participated in the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and was an enthusiastic partner in some of the most extremist War on Terror abuses perpetrated by the U.S. Earlier this month, the Prime Minister revealed, with the support of a large majority of Canadians, that "Canada is poised to go to war in Iraq, as [he] announced plans in Parliament [] to send CF-18 fighter jets for up to six months to battle Islamic extremists." Just yesterday, Canadian Defence Minister Rob Nicholson flamboyantly appeared at the airfield in Alberta from which the fighter jets left for Iraq and stood tall as he issued the standard Churchillian war rhetoric about the noble fight against evil.
It is always stunning when a country that has brought violence and military force to numerous countries acts shocked and bewildered when someone brings a tiny fraction of that violence back to that country. Regardless of one's views on the justifiability of Canada's lengthy military actions, it's not the slightest bit surprising or difficult to understand why people who identify with those on the other end of Canadian bombs and bullets would decide to attack the military responsible for that violence.
That's the nature of war. A country doesn't get to run around for years wallowing in war glory, invading, rendering and bombing others, without the risk of having violence brought back to it. Rather than being baffling or shocking, that reaction is completely natural and predictable. The only surprising thing about any of it is that it doesn't happen more often.
As Glenn Greenwald so powerfully says, "The issue here is not justification (very few people would view attacks on soldiers in a shopping mall parking lot [or at a War Memorial, or on a New York Street-BA] to be justified). The issue is causation."
The ideology of Islam is most definitely a problem—it has been since Muhammad repeatedly bloodied his sword and sexually-abused young girls hundreds of years ago—but as "The Dark Knight," "Winter Soldier," and so many other movies have explored in recent times, in responding to evil you must ensure you don't become the very evil you say you're trying to eliminate.
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X Factor has confirmed the details of a new Flash Vote twist, which is intended to shake up the Saturday night reality show's live rounds.
The 10-minute Flash Vote will take place at the end of each Saturday live show and will allow fans a short chance to vote for the acts that they want to save from the drop.
After all the contestants have performed, the voting lines will open and the public can select their favourite performer. When the phone lines close, the act with the lowest number of votes will be told that they face Sunday night's sing-off.
Voting lines will reopen on Sunday night's show, where the second contestant to face the sing-off will be revealed.
The new twist has replaced the unpopular decision to have voting open throughout the Saturday night show last year, which many critics described as a cynical attempt to make more money from phone votes.
The X Factor Judges' Houses round takes place this weekend and the Final 12 acts will be unveiled on Sunday (October 6).
Gary Barlow is looking after the Groups this year, Louis Walsh will mentor the Boys, Nicole Scherzinger has the Girls and Sharon Osbourne takes control of the Overs.


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Hi, this is Steven Cherry for IEEE Spectrum's "This Week in Technology." Did you know that there's a formula to calculate happiness? Happiness is P + 5E + 3H where P is personal characteristics, E is existence, meaning your health, and H is higher order needs. There's a way to attach a number to almost everything, it seems. Here's how to calculate the most miserable day of the year, which turns out to be January 24th, by the way: 1/8 W + 3/8 D – d x TQM x NA, where W is weather, D is debt, M is motivation, and NA is the Need to take Action.
As mathematics filters out from engineering and science to become more and more important to everyday life, unfortunately, all too often, it's merely the appearance of mathematical soundness that people covet. The result? Numbers without substance. And they're everywhere, and they've become the particular bugaboo of my guest today. Charles Seife is a professor of journalism at New York University and a rather prolific science writer of books and articles. His writings have appeared in The Economist, Science, New Scientist, and The New York Times, and as of September 23, he's now the author of five books on those subjects. His newest is called Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception. Charles, welcome to the podcast.
Charles Seife: Thanks for having me.
Steven Cherry: Charles, by my own calculations, you cannot swing a dead cat without a 94.7 percent chance of hitting a meaningless number, and that's up 6.5 percent from 10 years ago. Tell us about "proofiness," and those ever darker arts of mathematical deception.
Charles Seife: And about 74 percent of people believe the statistics you just gave. The problem with numbers is that they seem to have a higher truth associated with them. In pure math, numbers are as close to absolute truth as we can get. A mathematical proof brooks no argument. It is true, given certain assumptions. Real world numbers don't have that purity. Whenever we humans generate a number, whenever we make a measurement, whenever we count, whenever we estimate something, we create a number that has flaws, because they reflect the flaws of our measurement. Even though people think of numbers as pure, flawed numbers don't have that absolute truth. So we tend to think of numbers as being better than they actually are.
Steven Cherry: According to your book, the problem is a little beyond flaws. Your book starts with a remarkable anecdote about Senator Joseph McCarthy back in the 1950s. More than anyone else, McCarthy was responsible for the so-called Red Scare and persecution of Communists. He was an obscure junior senator from Wisconsin, and in your book, you describe how McCarthy got Americans to take him seriously.
Charles Seife: Yeah, he held up a sheaf of papers, and he said, "I have here in my hand 205 communists working for the state department." And the number of the list changed over time. It went down to 87, back up to 207. The actual number didn't matter. But the very fact that it had a number attached to it meant that people took it very seriously. The specificity of the claim made even the White House wonder: "Maybe McCarthy does know about the communist infiltration of the state department." So it started a little bit of a panic in Washington and a number of hearings followed. It turns out McCarthy was lying. He didn't actually have those people in hand. But it really didn't matter. Then he had sparked this fear, and combined with the fall of China and Russian nuclear tests and all of that, there was a gigantic fear of Communism that he was able to exploit. And because he had the wherewithal to peg his lie with a number, it was extremely powerful, and it launched him into becoming the most divisive figure of his time.
Steven Cherry: McCarthy just made his number up, but there's lying with numbers a little more circumspectly. Your book describes a lot of different ways people do that. Potemkin numbers, as you call them, dissemination, fruit-packing, cherry-picking. Tell us about some of them, and having studied so many ways to lie with numbers, which are the most dangerous.
Charles Seife: Well, they're each dangerous in their own way. Potemkin numbers are numbers made up out of whole cloth. They're the numerical equivalent of Potemkin villages, the facades that were used to convince the empress that there was actually thriving life in the Crimea, when there was in fact just a barren wasteland. Numbers like what McCarthy said when he held up his sheaf of papers—that was a Potemkin number. There are enormous numbers that are just kind of made up out of nowhere. If you look at any advertisement, you're likely to find one. When Vaseline Intensive Care says it delivers 70 percent more moisture in every drop, this is a meaningless number because, first of all, how do you measure the delivery of moisture? It's not easy to see. And how could a drop of Vaseline deliver more moisture than water, which is 100 percent moisture? So there are made up numbers. They're not very dangerous because if you inspect them a little bit, they evaporate; you see that they're bogus. More dangerous are numbers, which are shaped so that they look more convincing than they are, or they are represented to mean more than they actually do. Good example, concrete example: A few years ago, Quaker Oats ran an advertising campaign that seemed to imply that eating Quaker Oats could suck up all the cholesterol in your bloodstream and they had a nice lovely bar graph that showed the cholesterol dropping, dramatically. The thing is, if you look closely at the bar graph, you see that the scale on the y-axis is tinkered with. It doesn't actually start with a zero, as we expect it to, but very high up, and that exaggerates the seeming effect of Quaker Oats. So that's one form of fruit-packing. That's apple-polishing—just as green grocers present their fruit in the best possible light. Even if it's rotten on one side, people will take numbers and turn them just so, so they look really appealing. Another example is cherry-picking, where people will take certain data and ignore data that contradicts them. One example I like to use: Even though global warming is real and man-made—global warming is a significant problem—Al Gore was actually guilty of some cherry-picking in his movie An Inconvenient Truth. If you look at his graphics, where he shows these scenarios where the landscape is dipping under the water, those images he chose were for a case where the sea level rose by 20 feet, which is an extreme estimate. Most scientists think that the rise of the next century is going to be much, much less, 4 or 5 or 6 feet. So by showing graphics of a 20-foot rise and not showing graphics of a lesser rise, he cherry-picked data by picking the worst scenario and ignoring the more likely scenarios to happen.
Steven Cherry: You have a lot of great examples in the book of people playing fast and loose with numbers. A lot of them involve politicians. I should point out that you do so in a very bipartisan way—in the same chapter where you point out Al Gore's cherry-picking, you also to take George W. Bush to task for proofiness. There are a lot of good examples of political proofiness in your book because they're so easy to find; they're delivered right to your door in your morning newspaper frequently—or is there something going with politics?
Charles Seife: If you look at papers nowadays, you can't avoid proofiness, and every time a politician opens his mouth, it's a pretty good chance that some statistic which is dubious will drop out. But I do think there is an increase in mathematical malfeasance over the past few years. There's a recognition that numbers can be fiddled with and they're a very effective form of propaganda. I think, for example—the media is producing polls at a tremendous rate. The media always love polls, but if you look at the number nowadays as opposed to what happened 15, 20 years ago, you'll see that the numbers have increased dramatically. You can't go to CNN.com without having an Internet poll on the front page. And everyone knows that Internet polls don't mean anything. They only reflect a certain portion of people who are on the Internet and feel like they enjoy filling out those polls, which is not even close to representative of the general public. I think there's a large group of people who are producing proofiness on an industrial scale for public consumption.
Steven Cherry: Polls aren't an obvious problem, but some pollsters do seem to really know what they're doing. In the last election there was the one Web site, 538.com, which seemed to get a lot of things right, and to be able to explain their predictions. That guy is actually now working full-time for The New York Times. Obviously there are respectable ways to make numerical predictions. How does the ordinary person tell the good from the bad?
Charles Seife: It's really difficult, and that's part of the problem. Nate Silver at 538.com is really good at what he does. He takes a whole bunch of polls and he compares them and he does analyses, regression analyses, and he tries to extract information from this collection of polls. I think that's atypical of what people do with polls. That people tend to live from poll to poll. Each one gets handed down, and if they like it, they talk about how wonderful it was, and that it shows that their favorite candidate was winning. If it shows what they don't want, and it shows that their candidate is losing, they'll tend to dismiss it or explain it away, and it turns out that if you look at individual polls, the amount of information that's contained in them is fairly small. Quite often, biases creep in, choices of who gets to answer the poll—very significant, choices of how the wording is phrased are very significant, and you'll find that polls typically can be very, very far off from what they're supposed to be. The margin of error guarantees that the real answer is within, 95 percent of the time, within 3 points, plus or minus, usually. Yet you'll find that the actual results of elections are way further off than these polls would allow. A good example recently is the Alaska race, where people thought that Senator Murkowski would win, when in fact, she didn't. And it wasn't even close, in the polls; it was a 10 to 20 point lead. So individual polls can be very deceptive. If there's any value to polls at all, it's in taking a whole bunch of them, comparing them, and treating them with a very great deal of circumspection, as Nate Silver does.
Steven Cherry: Your book not only discusses polling, which is an obvious hotbed of numerical shenanigans, but also vote counting, which, until a few years ago, most of us though was a pretty straightforward matter.
Charles Seife: Any engineer, any scientist knows that any measurement can't be done perfectly, and when you do a measurement, you have to understand that there are errors associated with that measurement. Counting is no different than any other measurement. Therefore there are errors associated with it. When those errors are large compared to the margin between the two candidates, you're in trouble. And this happens. This happens over and over again. The recent example is Al Gore versus George W. Bush. That was in 2000. The votes were within a few thousandths of a percent of one another, yet the error rate was on the order of a couple percent. Similarly, Al Franken versus Norm Coleman. Again, a few thousandths of a percent separated the two candidates, but if you count something and count it again, you'll find you get an error rate on the order of a couple hundredths of a percent. So it turns out that even in the simple act of counting votes, we can't do it perfectly. And sometimes that imperfection swamps the signal that we're trying to read. It swamps the fact that one candidate may be very slightly preferred over another candidate. Given the measurement ability that we have, we might not be able to tell who actually won the election.
Steven Cherry: Charles, do you know—more than 100 years ago, maybe it was Mark Twain, maybe it was Benjamin Disraeli, maybe it was Charles Wentworth Dilke, said: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics." Over the years, a number of books have been written to express that idea in long form—why did you decide to take it on, and why now?
Charles Seife: Well, before I was a journalist, I was a mathematician. I was going the Ph.D. route before I decided to join the circus. And one of the things that helped me decide to go into journalism was my annoyance at the fact that journalists didn't have the mathematical ability to see that certain things were obviously wrong, even when presented in numerical form. They seemed ill-equipped to challenge a bit of wisdom if it was in numerical format, so their sense of skepticism would shut down. I went into journalism trying to bring a little skepticism, a little bit of numerical understanding that was lacking. Over the years, I've been gathering stories, and just watching bad numbers filter down through the media to the public, and as I watched this problem, I realized it was a larger problem than I initially thought, that in fact, humans are ill-equipped, generally speaking, to deal with bad numbers, and we tend to turn off our BS detectors when someone presents us with a number. After gathering 21 years' worth of files, I decided it was time.
Steven Cherry: Well, I'm glad you did, it's a terrific book, and I hope a lot of our readers read it. Thank you!
Charles Seife: I really appreciate it.
Steven Cherry: We've been speaking with New York University journalism professor and science writer Charles Seife about his new book Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception" For IEEE Spectrum's "This Week in Technology," I'm Steven Cherry.


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This photograph pretty much sums up that entire feeling of solitude. But in a really, really good way.
By nature, I am a solitary person. It may have something to do with the dueling aspects of being a Gemini. The whole two personality thing could have different meanings, and in my case it can be applied to my moods which then affects whether or not I want to be bothered by anyone. I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing, but it can be misconstrued as such. It's really not that weird to be alone, and enjoy it. I can entertain myself pretty easily, and it must have been a skill I picked up as a kid. I really like driving around by myself, and I really like seeing moves alone, too.
I think a lot of photographers, especially those who enjoy landscapes, can relate to the I'm all by myself, and it's awesome! feeling you get when it's just a landscape or scene, you, and your camera. We (the loners) have a companion that travels with us in silence and that's totally fine.
But admittedly, this feeling doesn't really apply when checking out abandoned buildings. I'm a serious pain in the ass about the whole thing, and there are even rules about staying in small groups when exploring a new floor. It's a safety thing, and more importantly I do not want to come up on a 100 year old crazy spirit by myself.


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Abattoir Co.
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Climate-driven tipping-points could lead to sudden, high-intensity parasite outbreaks
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Parasitic nematodes represent one of the most pervasive and significant challenges to grazing livestock, and their intensity and distribution are strongly influenced by climate. Parasite levels and species composition have already shifted under climate change, with nematode parasite intensity frequently low in newly colonized areas, but sudden largescale outbreaks are becoming increasingly common. These outbreaks compromise both food security and animal welfare, yet there is a paucity of predictions on how climate change will influence livestock parasites. This study aims to assess how climate change can affect parasite risk. Using a processbased approach, we determine how changes in temperaturesensitive elements of outbreaks influence parasite dynamics, to explore the potential for climate change to influence livestock helminth infections. We show that changes in temperatesensitive parameters can result in nonlinear responses in outbreak dynamics, leading to distinct 'tipping-points' in nematode parasite burdens. Through applying two mechanistic models, of varying complexity, our approach demonstrates that these nonlinear responses are robust to the inclusion of a number of realistic processes that are present in livestock systems. Our study demonstrates that small changes in climatic conditions around critical thresholds may result in dramatic changes in parasite burdens.
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The cloud took operators by surprise. They want AI to have a different story.
Q&A: Cisco's David Ulevitch on Security and the Brain in the Cloud
Cisco's new security chief has ambitions bigger than $2B a year.
VMware Courts Telcos With vCloud NFV 2.0
VMware is taking telecom seriously.
Nutanix Disappoints With Q3 Guidance
The Band-Aid is ripped off.
Cisco-Docker Partnership Involves UCS, Flexpod and Contiv
Cisco servers get integrated with the biggest name in containers.
Cisco's OpenDNS Unfolds Into a Managed Security Service
Another missive for the 'network-as-security' file.
5G Will Be 'Useless' Without NFV, VMware Says
VMware and Atos team up on 5G, NFV, and security.
How Nokia's Deepfield Maps the 'Supply Chain of the Internet'
The startup has figured out where the Internet's major services live.
SAP States Its Case in Platform-as-a-Service
SAP's cloud isn't just for databases any more.
Ericsson CEO Looks Ahead to an AI-Powered Network
Kicking off MWC, Ericsson says it's already 'in' on AI.
Dell Adds Gateways for Industrial Internet of Things
Dell's edge gateways provide some analytics at the edge.
Aria Adds AI to an SDN Controller
Not the orchestrator. That's important.
Diamanti Raises $18M to Push Container Appliances
Container networking and storage get a new twist.
Telco Data Centers Get a New Look at MWC
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Intent-Based Security Gains Momentum at RSA
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Last year it was dhak dhak girl Madhuri Dixit-Nene who received the prestigious award Padma Shri from the President of India and now this time around it's going to be the world's most beautiful lady Aishwarya Rai Bachchan who would be honoured with this award.
Amitabh Bachchan who feels extremely proud of her bahu Aishwarya speaks on this eve, ''I would rush to be in time for the President's Award Ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, where Aishwarya will be honoured with the Padma Shri. It's a moment of great pride for all of us.''
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Further the legendry actor adds, ''She will become the 5th Padma Award recipient in our family. First my father was awarded with the Padma Bhushan, then the Padma Shri for me, followed again by the Padma Bhushan to me some years later, Jaya's Padma Shri and now Aishwarya's. This must be a record for the country. 5 Padma Awards in one family. God has been very kind to us. The people of this land have been very kind to us. We are humbled and with bended knee and bowed heads acknowledge your affection and care & love.''
Padma Awards were announced on the eve of the Republic Day. Aishwarya is the youngest person to ever achieve this honour from the film fraternity. Apart from her even Akshay Kumar's name was also announced for this recognition.
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All of the kaftans in this selection are made from cotton. This all natural fabric is first choice for garment manufacturers worldwide and it's not hard to see why. The many impressive qualities of this fabric mean that it is perfect for making our exquisite kaftans.
One of the main reasons we choose cotton for our kaftans is that it is a soft, comfortable fabric which feels good next to your body. Unlike several harsher fabrics, cotton won't irritate those with sensitive skin.
As well as being soft our wide range of cotton kaftans are brilliant for keeping you cool as the relatively open weave of cotton means that it's super breathable. This allows cooler air from your surroundings to permeate the fabric and the heated air next to your skin to escape. Keeping you feeling fresh.
Using cotton to make this beautiful collection of kaftans means that they are also extra absorbent. They will wick sweat away from the skin and leave you clean and dry in even the stuffiest conditions.
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So, this shade came out 2 years ago... Specifically, around the time of my sister's wedding, and Mr. Sparkle and I drove down to Mississippi to attend. At that time, Cinderella had mainly been spotted at Walgreens, and I didn't have one anywhere near me. During the journey, (there and back again... heehee) stops were made in convenient proximity to Walgreens or other drug stores. (Yes. Mr. Sparkle does indulge me... most of the time. Hey, someone has to...) Honestly, I can't even remember if I picked it up during the trip, or if I only found it once I got back home... :)
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1 Coat Beauty Secrets Ridge Filler
6 Coats Sinful Colors Cinderella
1 Coat Color Club Top Coat
1 Coat Seche Vite
It's been a long time since I pulled this out of the sparkle stash... Cinderella is a sheer pastel blue with super extra-fine glitter that flashes from purple to pink to orange. So named for that famous scene when Flora and Merryweather are fighting over what color Princess Aurora's gown should be.
Given the fact that I haven't worn this in a long time, or dealt with a polish like this in a long time... I forgot how problematic the formula can be. Cinderella is definitely best layered over a pastel blue creme... Don't do what I did and use 6 coats... just... don't. It didn't turn out horribly awful, but cleanup was a little trickier and the end result was messier than I normally prefer. Also, perhaps, waking up at midnight and deciding to paint my nails wasn't the best decision in the world... O.o
Cinderella became a must-have for a lot of polish addicts because of the interesting combination of colors. It's definitely a unique polish in my collection... BUT... not something you couldn't recreate by layering polish together. Off the top of my head... Layering NYC Sweet Candy over Revlon Blue Lagoon would give you similar results. Cinderella inspired me to try a similar-but-bolder layering with SinfulColors My Buoyfriend and Sally Hansen Pink-Grapefruit last summer. (And looking at it makes me want to wear it again... I'm soooo obsessed with bright blue right now!)
Despite the problematic formula and later-than-normal painting session... I still really love Cinderella on my nails. I think more companies should try their hand at pairing glitters and shimmers with unexpected colors. Can we start with Cinderella II or Allerednic... a pretty pastel pink (that flatters every complexion) with super extra-fine glitter that flashes blue? I'd buy that in a heartbeat... :)
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Launceston, Cornwall 1
Draughtsman: Hewitt, John
Medium: Pen and ink on paper
Date: 1808
Once the capital of Cornwall, Launceston is represented here by red blocks, each indicating a stone building. The castle dates from Norman times and was one of the greatest strongholds of the Earls of Cornwall, controlling the main entry route into the county. The road leading to Trevadlack Cross is physically marked on the map by a series of pin-holes. This means the draughtsman used measuring dividers to plot the exact course of the road. Recording archaeological sites did not become obligatory until 1816, but many draughtsmen included them before then out of personal interest. Here, a set of concentric circles at the top of the map represents such a site, called 'Giant's Grave'.


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This is a high end event featuring an exotic menu of historically accurate recipes. Tickets in 2006 cost $25. In 2006, the dinner was accompanied by a Military Ball. Costumes were optional, and many folks wore them. Some gentlemen came in their military finery from the 19th century. Our General for the dinner was played by Ray Howser, who did it reluctantly. We made sure he didn't have to say much, because he didn't want to. He was terrific, though.
The dinner was served buffet style in 2006, but many requests were made to have a sit-down dinner, served. The menu in 2006 included a "steamship of bison" and other recipes.
See the Victorian Christmas Feast for further information about the intentions of these dinners.
This pattern worked well, and we'll probably do this event again in 2007 sometime near Independence Day.


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Editorial ~ Enfants Terribles Issue # 5
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Photoshooting Fun with Stylist Rebecca
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Nomad Dakini Kids Photoshoot Kickoff Party! Themes: 'Cold Weather' & 'Imagination' For more photos from the shoot & behind the scenes glimpses visit Nomad Dakini…
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When Will Video Telephony From a Browser Work?
There is a lot of value in doing things from the browser: You don't need to download a thing Theoretically, it works across operating systems Theoretically, it works for PCs as well as mobile handsets You can "widgetize" it and... Full Story
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As televisions get smarter the nagging question is - do we really need a set-top box? Do we really need a cable or satellite operator? And will the set-top box find other features that won't fit in our television set? Full Story
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Of all the stories of bravery and courage told about the sinking of the Titanic, perhaps the most enduring is that of the band that played on.
The story is that, in spite of the inevitability of their situation, the orchestra on board the ship '… continued playing to sooth the anguish of their fellow passengers until the ship sank into the deep', (words from the Titanic memorial plaque, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall).
The 'orchestra' was made up of eight professional musicians, and was, in fact, a quintet and a trio, not a single band. The bandleader was Wallace Hartley.
|Wallace Hartley
Wallace Hartley was born on June 2nd 1878, at Colne, Lancashire. His father, Albion Hartley, was choirmaster at the Bethel Independent Methodist Chapel, Colne. Wallace's musical education began there as a choirboy, and Albion encouraged his son to take additional music lessons after school. Albion worked for the Refuge Assurance Company, and after a series of promotions, the family moved to Huddersfield in 1895. Wallace joined the Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra and played with them whilst working as a bank clerk. In 1903 he moved to Bridlington, where he began his professional career as a musician as first violin of the Bridlington Municipal Orchestra. In 1909 he took a position on board the Cunard liner Lucania, before moving to the Lusitania, as second violin. In 1910 Wallace was offered the post of bandmaster on the Mauretania, and he accepted the position on October 29th. The Mauretania was the fastest, most luxurious liner in the world, carrying the most affluent people of the day on the trans-Atlantic crossing. At the end of 1911, due to a gale, the Mauretania was damaged and was laid up for repairs for two months, leaving Wallace unemployed. At the same time, the Cunard and the White Star lines negotiated a deal with the Liverpool music agents CW and FN Black, to employ their musicians through a contract at a much cheaper rate than the same musicians had previously been paid. The musicians and the musicians' union protested, but Blacks held complete control of the contracts. Wallace, now officially employed by Blacks, sailed for New York on the newly repaired Mauretania on March 23rd 1912, and arrived back in Liverpool on April 8th. His new employers told him that he was to go immediately to Southampton and take up the position of bandleader on the new White Star liner RMS Titanic.
On April 10th the Titanic left Southampton on her maiden voyage. Wallace led the quintet on the Upper Decks, providing music for the first class passengers. The trio of piano, cello and violin played in a reception room outside the a la carte restaurant and Café Parisien. Just after midnight on April 14th passengers began to assemble in the First Class Lounge, in response to the alarm raised when the liner struck an iceberg, and Wallace gathered the musicians and began to play. As the passengers started to file to the lifeboats, Wallace moved his musicians to the Boat Deck, beside the Grand Staircase, and continued to play. His aim was to maintain a calm, orderly mood amongst the passengers as they left the liner, but his actions may have led to some underestimating the seriousness of the situation because of the band's composure. Two hours later the liner sank; Wallace Hartley and the seven other musicians perished with over 1500 others. His last words were reported to be "Gentlemen, I bid you farewell."
Almost two weeks later Wallace was recovered from the sea as body 224 (of 333), by the Canadian cable ship Mackay-Bennet, and from Halifax, Nova Scotia, was transferred to the White Star liner Arabic II and transported back to Liverpool. From there, his body was returned in a horse-drawn hearse to Colne. He was buried there on May 18th 1912; one thousand people attended the funeral, with an estimated 40,000 others lining the route to the cemetery.
|The Funeral of Wallace Hartley
In 1915 a memorial was raised by public subscription and sited on Albert Road, Colne, outside the Bethel Chapel. Wallace also features in the 2000 Millennium mural on Parliament Street, Colne, and in 2008, the former King's Head pub, Colne was renamed the Wallace Hartley after him, (the irony of naming a pub after a Methodist obviously missed by the new owners).
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Obituary of Willie Smith Jr.
Willie Jr. (DICK) Smith, age 68 years, of Foreman, passed away on Saturday February 17, 2018 at his residence.
Willie Jr. was born in Foreman, Arkansas on Sunday June 12, 1949, son of Isiah and Rena (Brown) Brown. Willie Jr. worked as a Truck Driver.
Survivors include: His loving wife Shirley Smith of Foreman, Arkansas. (5) Daughters Kashandra Meadows of Texarkana, Tx; Patty Hankins of Texarkana, Ar; Shenyce Young of Oklahoma City, OK; Nemesha Wilson of Foreman AR; Sherrye Tate of Phoenix, AZ.(5) Sons William Manning f Texarkana, AR; Demarcus Bragg of Texarkana, TX; William Bragg of Okinawa, Japan; Michael Brown of Peoria, AZ; Demetrius Haskins of Phoenix AZ. His Loving Mother that God has blessed to see 93 years of life Mrs. Rena Mae Smith of Foreman AR; (5) brothers Edddie Dean Smith, Leon Smith, Eddie Lee Smith, Wadie Smith, William Smith Jr, all of Foreman, AR; (3) Sisters Lilly B. Smith of New Boston,TX Shelly Queen of Foreman, AR; Jean Threadgill of Stratford, CA
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We had this Thursday night and it was a hit. While it wasn't necessarily spicy, it did have a nice flavor. The recipe is adapted from the New Day Woman's Cookbook. It called for cooking four hours on high or eight to ten hours on low, but only took about three on high when I made it.
1 cup Ketchup and BBQ sauce, mixed together with 1tsp of your favorite hot sauce (I used one of the hot sauces I got Mike a few Valentine's Days ago, but I'm sure Tabasco would work fine)
1-1.5 pounds ground beef
3/4 cup seasoned bread crumbs
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 large egg
1.5 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce (we call it "woozie" or "winchester")
2 tsp minced garlic
1 tsp salt
1tsp pepper
Put half 1/2 cup of Ketchup mixture with remaining ingredients in a large bowl and mix with hands until well blended. Form into a load. Place in a slow cooker or crockpot and spread the remaining sauce over the loaf.
Cover and cook for 3-4 hours on high or 8-10 hours on low or until thermometer reads 160F.
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The World's Most Beautiful (and Terrifying) Stairs
Let's talk about stairs. Besides providing a convenient way to move vertically through one's house, they can also provide a really lovely, sculptural element to a design. Sometimes designers take liberties with stairs in ways that make them especially beautiful — and especially terrifying. This post is a celebration of those scary stairs. Take a gander at these 12 envelope-pushing designs, and don't forget to watch your step.
Above: This lovely (and somewhat precarious) staircase creation is by Italian architect Francesco Librizzi.
Also by Francesco Librizzi is this half staircase/half ladder — easy on the eyes, maybe a little hard on the feet.
This staircase, from a Roman apartment spotted on Architectural Digest, is beautiful and sculptural and requires you to have really, really good balance.
A beautiful but terrifying design spotted on Archiproducts.
A suspended steel staircase spotted on Contemporist.
Designer Mieke Meijer created this suspended staircase/art installation, which incorporates a desk, storage, and a side table. It does not, however, include a handrail.
This staircase, instead of breaking up the space, lets light flow through it. Its suspended nature and thin steel supports make it almost translucent. Still a bit scary, but at least there's something to hold on to. From Haptic Architects.
The folks at TAF Architects developed this staircase as a solution for a very tight space. It works, and it's lovely, but you might want to be careful on the way down.
This staircase, spotted on Yellowtrace, is really quite safe compared to some of the others. But it's still a code inspector's worst nightmare.
Not really a staircase so much as a ladder, but definitely scary. Spotted on Our Local Commons.
A lovely ribbon of a staircase from Emmas Designblogg.
This design from Arch Daily really breaks a staircase down to its essence. The essence of a staircase, apparently, is terror.


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May 31, 2010
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According to a survey conducted via the Internet by the Japan Research Institute, only about 10 percent of people are unwilling to participate in social or environmental activities through products or services, while more than half are willing to participate in such activities if no cost is required. In addition, one in four people would like to take part in such activities even if it involves a cost. Furthermore, less than 10 percent of people are willing to choose environmentally conscious products or services even if their prices are high regarding to almost all of the listed products and services, while more than half are willing to choose them if their prices are the same as the corresponding products or services.
On the other hand, respondents had a poor understanding of technical terms concerning environmental and social issues. This means companies should try to communicate with consumers without using such terms. The survey also revealed that about one-half of people get information on companies' social and environmental activities from products and services themselves, although most of them also get such information from advertisements and news from the TV and newspapers.
The survey was conducted January 16-17, 2010, and targeted 2,060 men and women throughout Japan aged 18 and over, to investigate consumers' actions and awareness of environmental protection (including social contribution activities).
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Why Work From Home With The Freedom Travel Group?
There are plenty of websites out there that will help you find a job. Cheap Air Travel Most people are really wishing to visit other countries or even just a country once in their lifetime. Well, who will not wish such idea? This is very useful when embarking on an adventure as a trip to Japan or a circuit in Viet Nam without knowing the region. Reducing margins, limiting intermediaries and offering products manufactured less than usual, Ola Voyages is a true concept. A separate system, which aims to simplify travel and make it more enjoyable for passengers and a mini-revolution in the world of travel agencies in France and on the Internet. There are some companies who will provide for the housing as well as accommodation of nurses who are from overseas. This will make life easier especially when moving to a new place with different culture and traditions. There will be culture shock but at least some companies will provide assistance for the new recruit.
Your travel agency will help, guide and assist your needs. Also, most of the travel agencies now are tied up with airline companies, so they can help you to have cheap cost air travel deals. In addition, there are companies and agencies that offer promos to attract travelers. Timeshares and vacation memberships are rapidly growing. This opportunity may require an upfront cost, but it comes with a hefty payoff with each and every sale. If you are in the market for a home business that offers a solid product and hefty commissions, be sure to check out the travel home business opportunities. If this is the case, a niche operator may be just the right travel partner for you. Ola Voyages offers its customers as collaborators solutions that make tourism easier, cheaper and more modern. First specializes in travel to Argentina, Venezuela, Chile and Brazil, Ola Voyages has gradually expanded its destinations to five continents. Other destinations will follow, and it will soon be possible to ask questions about your trip to Hong Kong, Brazil, Namibia …
Niche agencies are usually independent, and focus on one specific part of the world. If you're flying to say, Greece, you might find a niche agent who knows the area very, very well. Consider your individual needs, preferences, and trip objectives when choosing your travel agent. Different types of agencies provide different levels and types of services. If you are a frequent globe trotter, you may want to use a large corporate travel agency with many branches in countries all over the world. The agency will generally offer 401K, health benefits, and retirement. Do as much research as possible before you pick an agency to represent you. Talk to other nurses that have done work as traveling nurses and have worked for that agency. Each of the ships will have different entertainment, whether this is musical acts, comedians, magic shows, or other types of entertainment. Therefore, something that you want to keep in mind is that whether you are traveling alone, with your spouse, or with your children, the types of entertainment that you are seeing should mirror the things that you most enjoy.
When you are booking a cruise with a travel agency, another thing that you want to think about is the time of the year you will be taking your cruise and what this means for pricing and destinations. Most of the flights might already be taken by the time you will have your bookings if you will book on holiday seasons. Fares are constant but flights are few, so many companies demand for higher prices. If you are flying alone and it will be your first time to travel outside your country, it is suggested that to have a travel agency. This includes selling tickets and travel products, reservations, and so on, on behalf of one or several suppliers. Travel agents generally work with no charge to the traveler him or herself. Rather, the travel agent takes a small commission from the overall cost.


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Well, its finally on us. After a little over a year of waiting, the big geek con is back in Indy!
I don't know about you, but I am pretty psyched. Not only is this a break from work (and I love my work, but I still need to get away from it every now and then), but its a chance to hang out with some very dear friends, while wandering around the coolest, largest game store in the world.
There are so many new releases each year that I go in wide-eyed and spend way too much money. But I can't help myself; its an opportunity to support small publishing companies, independent artists, and local restaurants. Its like nerd charity, and I love every minute of it!
If you are going, I hope you are well-prepared, coming equipped with everything you need. If you aren't going and you wanted to, I am sorry…maybe next year.
Otherwise, see you at the Con!


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- Rally your armies to march across continents
- Keep advancing until you've taken over the world!
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"If positivity is not your mindset, then reset"
― Josh Stern
The end of the year is a crazy time with the holidays in full swing, traveling, cars, trains and planes, delays and cancellations! Different climate changes, time differences, family, friends, too much money spent, eating, drinking and more eating, time and energy all out the window! WOW! Then we have those zombie five days after Christmas before it's the New Year! Well hello 2016! And now we are asking ourselves, am I ready? Of course! Here are good ways to reset yourself for the new year and good for you, you can do them in one day or take this month and get yourself feeling good!
Social Media Time Out
Take a break from all the noise online! Check your email less, and slow the constant picture posting. Stop feeling depressed from others holidays in tropical places, or their engagement announcement or new baby photos. Let it all go and most importantly, get back to you.
Self Care aka "Treat Yo-self Day"
We've been spending the end of the year giving and receiving, but let's face it giving can take a lot out of us. Whether it was gifts, time and energy with others, take a time out and have a "Treat Yo-Self Day". Cash in on a spa day, massage, facial or even hibernate at home and read a book with your new house slippers in your face mask with cucumbers on your eyes and just breath! You'll have a fantastic reset feeling before you know it.
Get outside & Visit Nature.
Some of us might have spent too much time inside, so take a breather and get outside. Bundle up if you need to, but take a walk in the woods. Ground yourself with nature. Drive in the mountains, walk on the beach at sunset. Feel the trees, pick a flower and or check out the fallen leafs. Listen to the winds and reset your busy mind in one walk! Get the body moving and the blood flowing!
Think Healthy Thoughts
Now that we have a month to truly think about our year (thanks to Mercury retrograde), lets start off positive and healthy. Visualize yourself eating healthy, being more active, feeling stronger, happier and hey why not having fun and laughing! Thoughts become things so really imagine yourself in your full potential. Are you a little stressed on goals for the new year? Just pick a few words or even one word and let yourself become them. My word for the year is expansion! Expanding my skills and feel more confident in my skills. Expand my view of the world; traveling. Expanding my love and relationship to new levels. Expanding my money flow! Find a word that works for you, some might be more focused on physical health so maybe your word is Strength, or Will-Power.
Or try an intention like these-
I will work less, live more.
I will speak less and listen more.
I will buy less and simplify more.
I will complain less and appreciate more.
I will worry less and surrender more
Find a mantra that works for you here!
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Are you ready for the third plate I have to show you from Winstonia? This time we're going to look at the Wisdom Of Henna plate, one of the lovelies I featured in this video:
So let's take a closer look:
|Winstonia Wisdom of Henna
Let's talk size:
|Winstonia Wisdom of Henna
|Winstonia Wisdom of Henna
These images should be big enough to cover your nails unless they're reaaaally long or reaaaaaally wide.
But, but, but...does it stamp?
I call that some pretty darn good stamping, my friends!
For my first sample manicure, I stared with Ladybug Lacquer Blowing Bubbles and then stamped with Messy Mansion Chalk:
|Ladybug Lacquer Blowing Bubbles + Winstonia Wisdom of Henna
|Ladybug Lacquer Blowing Bubbles + Winstonia Wisdom of Henna
I love how the glitters peek out from in between the design, and I love how soft and pretty this all is.
For my second manicure, I tried something I've been wanting to play around with for a while--lacy stamping on nekkid nails. I stamped with Messy Mansion Soft Gold and Chalk directly onto three of my nails (well, I had basecoat on), and on the other two I put a coat of Color Club Marina, then stamped on top with Chalk. Finally, I added two stripes of Marina to the ring finger:
|Color Club Marina + Winstonia Wisdom of Henna
|Color Club Marina + Winstonia Wisdom of Henna
I'm not sure how I feel about the ring finger--I think maybe the gold stripes on the side should be wider or something. But other than that, I love it!!! And I really love how pretty the white looks directly on the nail, I'm gonna have to play around with that some more.
You can find this plate in the Winstonia store use MICH10 for 10% off your entire purchase; you can also buy it through Amazon if that's easier for you. And you can follow Winstonia on both Facebook and Instagram for updates on sales and tons of inspiration. :)
Happy stamping,


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Busch Media group is one of the most interesting and successful independent providers within the range of home entertainment, film production and distribution. With a broad program of more than 100 films on DVD and Blu-ray Disc, we have particularly specialized in extraordinary films and special interest. Thus, our portfolio includes successful arthouse milestones such as Baraka and Chronos, as well as genre gems like "House of the Devil." High-quality documentaries, fitness and wellness titles and highlights from areas of chill and relaxation in perfect picture complete our offerings.
Our productions meet extremely high standards. In terms of product quality, we have set a new benchmark. Aside from the classical deal with image and sound carriers over chain stores like Saturn and Media Markt stores or mail order companies like Amazon we also use alternative distribution channels. Right from the start we have focused on video-on-demand and have worked in this field for some time with great success, among others, with Deutsche Telekom (T-Entertain) and Maxdome. With partners inland and abroad, we are also working on a worldwide distribution network.
Another mainstay of Busch Media Group is production. Via a network of competent partners from the media industry, we are able to professionally implement all types of content, from TV shows over own productions for the home theatre evaluation to commercials and corporate films for medium-sized companies - of course in the best HD quality. As one of the few providers in Germany, we have from the beginning set our focus on the third dimension and offer a full range of 3D production, from the shootings in REAL 3D through to point of post production and Blu-ray 3D Authoring.


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What's New
Here is a selection of articles which we think may interest you .......
Woody Update
Woody is the cat that we were called out to by the RSPCA on 26th September 2017. Here is the original post about him He'd been hit by a car and had a horribly fractured pelvis as well as being hypothermic and with multiple leg wounds. As a charity, the RSPCA contribute around £50 towards the care of such strays. The option then is either to find a home or euthanase. At AlphaPet it is... read more »
The Importance of Microchipping your pet
Recently we have seen several animals brought into us as strays that either didn't have a microchip, or had one, but the owners contact details were out of date. Sadly this means that we are either unable to locate their owner, or we have to use other means of trying to track them down. In some cases, social media can be very effective, but can equally be a cause for confusion when ownership is... read more »
Woody is the name that our nurses have given to this stray cat that we have in with us in at the moment. We think it suits him. What do you think? We were called out to Woody by the RSPCA around 8am on Thursday 26th September. A member of the public had found him in the road in Orchard Way, between Church Lane and Lancaster Place in Bognor Regis. He'd been hit by a... read more »
Furry Friends Fortnight!
AlphaPet have teamed up with local radio station Spirit FM for Furry Friends Fortnight! For the next two weeks, Monday 21st August until Friday 1st September, we will be trying to rehome a pet every day from local animal shelters. Each day, Spirit FM will visit an animal shelter to highlight one of the animals looking for a new home. To find out more, please click this link: https://www.spiritfm.net/features/furry-friends-fortnight/ There's even a great competition you can enter too! Make... read more »
Avian Flu Update
AlphaPet have received the following update from APHA (Animal and Plant health Agency) on the current Avian Flu situation. We have today announced https://www.gov.uk/government/news/updated-measures-to-protect-poultry-against-avian-flu that all poultry in England are to be allowed outside from Thursday 13 April following updated evidence on the risk posed by wild birds. The requirement to house or fully net poultry in Higher Risk Areas of England, introduced on 28 February to minimise the risk of them catching avian... read more »
National Pet Month 2017
National Pet Month runs from 1st April to 1st May and its main aim is to promote responsible pet ownership. It's also a time where we can celebrate life with our pets. The Top 10 Tips for Responsible Pet Ownership are: 1. Think carefully before getting a pet and learn about its special requirements. 2. Ensure your pet is sociable and well trained. 3. Provide a nutritious and well balanced diet. 4. Provide suitable housing and bedding. 5. Clean up... read more »
Tortoise Awareness Month
March is AlphaPet's Tortoise Awareness Month! Tortoises were originally brought to the UK by the Victorians and have become commonly kept pets. Due to their long lifespans, they also frequently become family heirlooms, passed down from generation to generation. So it's really important that all tortoise keepers know how to care for these fascinating animals Unfortunately, many of the species kept in the UK originated in the Mediterranean region are... read more »
S.A.G.A Clinics
Here at AlphaPet, our qualified nurses run a senior pet clinic - Small Animal Geriatric Assessment, better known as S.A.G.A! A 30 minute appointment is just £15 and includes a general health examination and basic urinalysis. The nurses will also advise you on your pets diet, exercise, grooming and dental health and discuss any changes in their behaviour or mobility associated with the ageing process. If the nurse discovers anything she feels needs looking at more... read more »


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Welcome to the School Library Learning 2.0 program and blog. Chances are if you've found your way here you're either:
a. a member of the California School Library Association (CSLA) who is participating in the School Library Learning 2.0 Challenge.
b. interested in learning about and playing around with some new Web 2.0 tools that will help you expand your information literacy toolbox.
Either way… we're glad you're here!! Discovery has never been so much fun ... School Library Learning 2.0 is an online learning program that encourages you to learn more about emerging technologies on the web that are changing the way people, libraries, and society access information and communicate with each other. The concept for this self-discovery program was borrowed from the Learning 2.0 program designed in 2006 by Helene Blowers, Technology Director of the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. Learning 2.0 has been enthusiastically promoted at CLA, Internet Librarian and other library conferences. Libraries across the country have modified the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Learning 2.0 program for their own staffs. This version is also based on SJLibraryLearning2, a modified program for employees of San Jose State University and San Jose Public Libraries. Unlike other library programs, School Library Learning 2.0 is packed with curriculum connections and is the equivalent of a 36 hour graduate level course.
This site highlights "23 Things" and discovery exercises to help you become familiar with blogging, avatars, RSS news feeds, tagging, wikis, podcasting, online applications, and video and image hosting sites. To familiarize yourself with this project, be sure to read the About page. The FAQs should answer most of your questions about this program. We recommend that you subscribe to our RSS feed as well.
So fasten your seat belts, grab your mouse and get ready for a discovery adventure… and remember it's OK to play in the library and have fun!
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He has also served as:
Clinical Professor, Baylor University Hankamer School of Business
Director of University Entrepreneurial Initiatives
Curtis Hankamer Chair in Entrepreneurship
Founding Director of i5 Program (2007)
Dr. Gregory Leman's 25 years of experience as an engineer, scientist and entrepreneurial leader in companies sized $1M to $2B propels TEI's dedication to real world experience. He received a BS in Chemical Engineering with honors from Purdue University and his Ph.D (ChE) at the University of Illinois.
Dr. Leman was an Engineering Scientist with the Cabot Corporation for 11 years, where he was awarded two patents. His roles spanned from process research to management of R&D, product line, and operations. Moving to Germany, he became Managing Director of Cabout-Huls.
In 2000, Dr. Leman joined Great Lakes Chemical Fluorine Division where he led the commercialization of several new products and initiated two product platforms. He is an inventor on a number of pending patents.
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Phone: 254-710-6176
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Monica graduated with a bachelor's degree in Marketing from Oral Roberts University and has 10 years experience in Sales and Marketing working with Management Development Systems, a consulting firm in Waco, Texas.
She worked for 9 years as an Administrative Associate and then Children's Ministry Coordinator for Antioch Community Church before coming to Baylor. She worked part-time as Administrative Associate in the Management & Entrepreneurship department in the Hankamer School of Business for a year and then gained full-time status as Marketing & Administrative Associate for LAUNCH Innovative Business Accelerator in August 2012.
She is the Founder and President of RLabs Waco, Inc., a start-up non-profit that serves the most vulnerable: unemployed 18-24 year olds. Clients engage in a globally proven, self sustaining program of IT training, mentoring & restored hope, leading to further education, gainful employment & new ventures.
She is married to Brad and has 3 children, Braden, Makayla and Chandler. She volunteers with the Live Oak Classical School Booster Club, which she founded in 2010, where her children attend school. She and her family are active members of Antioch Community Church.
Ryan Robinson is an Entrepreneurship and Marketing double major in Baylor's Hankamer School of Business. He is a cofounder and CEO of Campus Crates LLC which provides an on-demand storage solution to college students who need a place to keep their belongings for the summer. Currently, Campus Crates serves Baylor's campus, and plans for expansion will be set into motion by the end of the 2016 Fall semester.
Ryan is excited to contribute and develop his business skill sets working for the LAUNCH program at Baylor. His goal after college is to continue working in early stage business incubators to further develop understanding of the entrepreneurial process and the incubator model. He then plans to continue his education with an Executive MBA program concentrated in entrepreneurship at the Imperial College Business School in London.
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As an Entrepreneurship student at Baylor University, Evangelina is studying more strategic ways to utilize resources in a community for empowerment. She strives to be a dependable person and thrives in creative, challenging environments.
After 2 years at Baylor, Evangelina still tutors once a week as a Kids Hope Mentor, was an officer for the Baylor Chapter of the International Justice Mission, interned for and then was hired by a small branding company in Tulsa, Oklahoma as a part-time Digital Strategist, went to Guatemala as a Trip Leader and managed the schedule and budget for her team with Buckner International, studied and interned abroad in business development for a startup in London, and lived in Dallas as a Summer Sales Intern. Evangelina continues to work as a freelance marketer and travel writer for Arrivedo – an online neighborhood platform for hotels across the world.
Evangelina plans to graduate a semester early so she can live abroad and learn a new language. She then hopes to join a Management Consulting firm for a full-time career.
Evangelina is so excited to see others succeed and be a part of the LAUNCH team. She wants to use this opportunity to learn some of the best practices of Entrepreneurship, which she will apply to her own future social enterprise and consulting career.
My name is David Shine and I am currently a Professional Selling and Entrepreneurship major at Baylor University. I am a senior with a 3.54 GPA and an executive member of the Theta Kappa chapter of Pi Kappa Phi national fraternity. I have experience in working for Congressman John Carter, American Bank, and Owens Corning and I am excited to put my sales experience to work for LAUNCH!


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Dr. Luc Berghman was recognized for his accomplishments during the 2017 Patent and Innovations Award Luncheon which was held on Thursday, May 4, 2017. This event was put on by the Texas A&M University System Office of Technology Commercialization and spotlights the patents and PVP's issued to TAMU faculty during 2016. The patent of which Dr. Berghman was a co-inventor describes compositions and methods of enhancing immune responses against Influenza A and methods of reducing morbidity associated with an Influenza A infection in chickens
- Patent # US 9,226,957; 5, 2016. Compositions and methods of enhancing immune responses
Inventors: Bottje, W., Hargis, B., Berghman, L., Kwon, Y.M., Cole, K., Cox, M., and S. Layton.
Abstract: Provided herein are Salmonella enteritidis 13A strains and compositions comprising these strains. Also provided are methods of enhancing an immune response against Influenza A and methods of reducing morbidity associated with an Influenza A infection. Methods of enhancing an immune response to a vaccine vector by expressing a polypeptide of CD154 capable of binding CD40 are also disclosed. Methods of developing a bacterial vaccine vector are disclosed. Methods of generating scar-less site-specific mutations in a bacterium are also disclosed.
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Nursing students are quitting their courses despite the government setting new targets for all nurses to have degrees.
Figures obtained by the Nursing Standard show students are already leaving graduate-level programmes, costing the taxpayer millions of pounds a year.
The news provider claims the Department of Health (DoH) is 'so worried about the problem it has ordered an annual report to be prepared on quit rates from university nursing courses, but it refuses to publish the findings'.
The magazine therefore obtained a Freedom of Information Act request, detailing the most recent completed degree programmes in adult nursing from England's ten strategic health authorities.
Nursing Standard's obtained figures show there is huge variance in quit rates across the country, ranging from two per cent to 51 per cent. The magazine claims rates in other branches of nursing run even higher, with one university losing 78 per cent of students on a children's nursing degree course.
The magazine has estimated the net loss of investment to the taxpayer (in education fees and bursary support) stands at £99 million a year.
A DoH spokesperson said a new incentive scheme to pay universities with low attrition rates would start next year.


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I'm on a diet!
Can't you tell?!
I've been really good lately. I'm eating smaller portions and making healthier choices.
When I got off from work, Huck and I went to the grocery store to buy food for dinner and my blog post. Today, the Bulldogs are playing the North Texas Mean Green. I wanted to make a recipe using a Texas beer. Unfortunately, I could not find any Texas beer {not even Shiner Bock!}
We were walking around, and I was about to cancel the whole plan, when we walked pass a pack of frozen fried green beans. Mean Green… Green Beans… Got it! Not exactly healthy, but everything in moderation, right?
Beer Battered Green Beans with a Mean Green Ranch dipping sauce. Perfect for my Bulldog theme. Since I couldn't find a Texas Beer, I decided to stick with a local beer. Monk In The Trunk, by Inlet Brewing, is our local beer. It's actually brewed in South Carolina, but shipped here for distribution. It's called Contract Brewing. A brewer gives a brewery their recipe and they brew that beer for them. Inlet Brewery doesn't have a location in South Florida, but you can purchase their beer at the grocery store and most bars.
I made a Ranch Wasabi sauce to dip the Green Beans in. That's what gave this dish the mean part. I love Wasabi because it only burns for a few seconds, but those few seconds are rough.
Huck jumped in to get some pics, too.
In other news, the Barley Dolls newsletter went out this week. Something so simple took so much time! I'm hoping next months will be a lot easier.
Our next meet up is Tuesday at TBC. We even made the line up for Hop Week…
I was really excited to see our name posted on the Hop Week board. It's only our second month and we're already a big deal ;)
Now, I'm off to watch Football and clean. This is my last full day at home for 2 weeks. Tomorrow, we're going to the Miami vs Atlanta game and next weekend we'll be in Georgia.
Beer Battered Green Beans with Wasabi Ranch
- Oil
- 1/2 cup Flour
- 1/2 cup Panko
- 1 tablespoon Spicy Blend (I used a mix of Pepper, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Pepper Powder, and Salt)
- 1 cup Beer
- 1lb Green Beans
- 1/4 cup Ranch Dressing
- 2 teaspoons Wasabi (Optional depending on Spice preference)
|Heat oil in a fryer or large skillet to 350-375 degrees. {I used a large skillet and added 1 inch of Oil}
|Combined Flour, Panko, Spices, and Beer in a large bowl. Add Green Beans to batter and fully coat each Green Bean with the Beer Batter. Remove from batter and carefully drop into oil. Cook the Green Beans in small batches not to overcrowd the pan.
|Cook for 1-2 minutes or until golden brown. Using tongs, flip Beans if needed to brown on both sides. Removed from oil and let drain on paper towels. Sprinkle with salt if desired.
|In a small bowl, whisk together Ranch and Wasabi.


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Daily Report Quote
An additional quote from the "letter never sent" (except to the OIG):
This really angers me. I am about as non-violent as a heterosexual male addled by testosterone can be, but if I was in your position and I had just read this I just might "invite myself" to BCAG Headquarters, "burst" through the ceiling high mahogany doors into BCAG's Taj Mahal main office at Longacres at my appointed meeting time, rudely ignoring and pushing past the gang of the usual BCAG Senior Management folk just behind those doors just waiting to greet me with the usual tired "Good Afternoon Mr. Eastman, can we implement self-inspection in Final Assembly today?—Look at these (bogus) charts--our CORRS numbers are now at the level we promised before implementation," then making a quick beeline toward the solid mahogany paneled opposite wall where various important BCAG documents are framed and hanging, grabbing BCAG's most cherished and most violated framed document from the wall, ripping it from the frame, racing with it toward the adjacent open window, then grabbing a lighter out of my pocket, and with use of that lighter "revoking it"—revoking the Production Certificate "my" agency, the FAA, had granted BCAG, then letting it go--to flutter away in the wind to the parking lot below while the flames it is engulfed in turn it to ashes while it flies, just as so many unknown numbers of airplanes will do due to the rampant violation of it that made its revocation into those ashes inevitable.
Would I do such a thing if I was in your position?—Of course not. Yes, I would still revoke BCAG's PC for the above and myriad other reasons I know of that make that action urgently necessary--but I would do it through the formal legal process, and not the above theatrical manner. But one can always fantasize of such a grandiose way to perform the same act in a more direct manner that therefore may show BCAG more physically how perturbed the TAD (if I was running it) was with their soiling of that PC for "value" that made that revocation necessary—those fantasies just cannot be acted upon by responsible people.
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The Last Inspector
November 2018


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Alex English
Alex English is a freelance food writer. She lives in London.
Binders, cards, scrapbooks or some high-tech wizardry - if you manage to organise your recipes at all, how do you do it?
From mango monomania to the meatball menu, restaurants offering Hobson's choice are appearing everywhere
Can you sustain an air of sophistication with the shaker, or is the evening on a downward trajectory the moment you break out the olives?
Fugu, a poisonous pufferfish, is now available in the UK. Surely this is the sort of cliched macho nonsense we could do without?
Do afters come first when you look at a menu, and would you ditch the main course in favour of a second pudding?
Are there some foods you hated as a child and still can't stand?
Do you know what's in your freezer and store cupboards? Could you dine in style for a week without shopping? A month?