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- 0.1 When you are looking for patio umbrellas, the first thing you want to consider is the space where it will be located.
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When you are looking for patio umbrellas, the first thing you want to consider is the space where it will be located.
You will want to choose patio umbrellas in size are neither too large nor too small for the area where it will be located.
Once you have an idea of the size of you are looking for, you can turn your attention toward the style and color of the patio umbrella. You may want to choose something in solid color, in either muted or bold shade. Some patio umbrellas are made in colorful patterns, and this is an option to consider. Be sure to consider several options so that you can get the one that will be the best fit for your decor.
The patio umbrellas you choose should also protect anyone sitting underneath it from UV rays. Be sure to ask the retailer whether the umbrella you are considering has this feature. It's good idea to find out if the fabric will stay cool under the hot sun, since breathable fabric is very durable choice.
Any fabric used to make patio umbrellas will likely be mold- and mildew-resistant, but you will want to ask about this as well. The last thing you want is to store it while damp and find that it has been damaged when you take it out during warmer weather. Be sure to ask about any special cleaning or storage instructions before you complete your purchase.
Ease of use is another factor to keep in mind when shopping for patio umbrellas. Consider whether you want to use crank to raise and lower it or if push button style would be better for you. If being able to tilt the umbrella at different times of the day is feature you want, then look for this option when you are considering the different offerings on the market.


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Frankie Cole has a passion for flowers that has gotten her through the toughest times of her life. Now living on her own in New York City, and running an event and concierge business with her two best friends, Paige and Eva, Frankie loves her independent life. Having lived through the horrific divorce of her parents and becoming the pariah of Puffin Island due to her mother's shameless actions after her father ran off, moving to New York had given her much-needed space all those years ago. Relationships don't work. There is no happily ever after. Love is an ideal that nobody can live up to. And Frankie will do whatever it takes to block any advances from men. Until Matt. Paige's brother and one of her closest friends has started to look at her differently and wants more than friendship. But is it worth taking the risk? And what will happen when he discovers the real Frankie?
Matt Walker has loved Frankie for years. Understanding that she has issues with commitment because of her past, Matt is determined to take it slow and show Frankie that not all guys are bad and that they could have something special. But even though he has known Frankie most of her life, Matt soon realises that Frankie has so many layers that she has been hiding from everyone, even her two best friends. Convincing her to work alongside him on a project, Matt persuades her to return to Puffin Island for a visit and face her demons. But can you ever really leave your past around? And when old fears resurface will Matt and Frankie lose their shot at something real?
SUNSET IN CENTRAL PARK by Sarah Morgan is one of those novels that I didn't want to put down. With quirky characters and funny dialogue, this novel was a dream to read. I love Frankie and her prickly front, and as she started to let down her guard, we really got to know her fears and why she is the way she is. Matt is sweet and caring but has that protective, sexy edge when it comes to those he loves. The secondary characters in the book add so much dimension to the story and I really hope we will get to read Roxy and James' story in the future. With plenty of laughs and tears, steamy romance and true friendship, SUNSET IN CENTRAL PARK by Sarah Morgan is a perfect read.
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Feeding Donkeys
Donkeys need:
Coarse, low protein hay with low non-structural carbohydrates. If you have your hay tested, this number is referred to as NSC. Protein should be less than 9% but way lower protein (less than 5%) is okay too.
They need barley straw (oat straw is too rich and wheat straw is too long and hard to digest.) Barley straw should make up 75% of their diet in winter, according to the UK Donkey Sanctuary. Why? Because donkeys are trickle feeders like horses, and need to eat small amounts of forage frequently. If this forage is in the form of grass or hay, you are giving them too many calories and they will get too fat, which in turn has many associated health risks. Having said this, I don't feed 75% barley straw, probably closer to 40% as it's harder to come by than hay.
Also, the stomach of an equine produces hydrochloric acid which is buffered by digesting feed. If the stomach is empty, the acid can cause ulceration to the stomach lining, hence the need to eat often. But as I mentioned in a previous post, the intestine is complex, so you don't want to overwhelm the animal with a huge amount of feed to process all at once.
They need salt, either in the form of a mineral/ salt block or loose.
They need clean water (not freezing cold.) They won't drink out of murky grungy buckets!
DO NOT feed them:
Cereal grains (that's corn, oats, barley)
Sugar (that's molasses, glucose, dextrose, etc.)
Never give them a bite of your ham sandwich (animal protein can be fatal!)
Don't feed them Oreo cookies or bread or doughnuts (people do!)
If your donkey needs supplements (for example, Deenah gets Ulcerex, ground flax, vitamins and a selenium/ Vitamin E supplement every day) you can mix the powders into a soaked mash of something.
I have been using Fiber Max from Otter Co-op which is 40% beet pulp & 60% soy bean hulls. But I have just been able to get some Timothy Balance hay cubes (which have some un-molassed beet pulp mixed in) and so will switch to that.
They love brush and I offer huckleberry, a few maple branches, raspberry canes, even hemlock branches that have lots of twiggy ends. They sometimes have access to salal and Oregon grape which they will eat when they choose, roots and other sticks and twigs. On my land, I have to watch out for Ragwort, foxglove, poison hemlock, cherry trees and leaves, red elderberry and mushrooms but there are many other plants that are toxic to donkeys. It's important to know your flora and be able to identify what is either poisonous or toxic.
You can also offer carrots, cut into "fingers" not disks and apples cut into wedges but remember there are sugar and carbs in both of those so go easy.
I use treats when I am clicker training, but I go for Timothy hay pellets or broken hay cubes, the occasional horse peppermint or apple flavoured treat.
When I administer dewormer, I will squish it from the tube into a scooped out piece of apple or sometimes, I'll make a sandwich of a thinly sliced piece of bread (just this once!) slathered with dewormer paste and folded over. I just find it easier than haltering, tying and jamming the tube into the donkey's mouth but that's just me. I've never had a donkey spit it out and they think they're getting a treat rather than meds.
But honestly, try to abstain from giving them grain or sweet feed or alfalfa unless you have a sick or thin animal. Keep it as natural as possible!
Give them air and room to move but also provide shelter from rain and wind and snow. I have made plenty of mistakes. Ringo's pre-laminitic condition last summer was caused by diet - I let him get too heavy and boy was I sorry.
To do it right, really really right, we all should:
- measure the height and heart girth to estimate body weight (see the UK Donkey Sanctuary's nomogram)
- feel our donkeys all over to body score them (not just a visual guess)
- have hay and straw analyzed by a lab annually (I use A and L Canada Labs)
- figure out how much hay each donkey needs based on their weight - between 1.2 - 1.7% of their body weight = total amount of feed per day, including any grazing!
- feed small amounts of hay and straw frequently, not a big pile twice a day) or feed from a slow feeder
- do several fecal floats a year for each donkey rather than simply shove dewormer down them
Phew! ... seems like a lot to figure out but to me, feeding donkeys (and horses) is a balance between art and science - hence the lonnnng post!
44 comments:
- AnonymousNovember 17, 2011 at 7:03 PM
What vitamin/mineral supplement do you feed your donkeys? Thanks!ReplyDelete
- KEN JOHNJanuary 27, 2012 at 12:52 PM
ken of hereford... can anyone tell me why not to feed my donks cabbages ???ReplyDeleteReplies
Hello - I am very careful about feeding anything that contains sugars, so I rarely feed carrots, apples or bananas. Some people feed banana peels, but I think I would only do that if the bananas were organic. Apple peels or core would be better than whole apples I think. And I do offer carrot tops from the carrots on my garden. I really can't comment on feeding cabbages or broccoli! I also don't feed any cereal grains, although I do add ground flax to the daily mash, but only a tablespoon or so. But it sounds as though your donkey is doing just fine and lucky to have you to care for him. Older donkeys do have trouble keeping weight on. If he has a good supply of roughage, I wouldn't worry. One sign that he is having dental problems is if he is dropping wadded up food before swallowing it. Best of luck!Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2013 at 5:13 AM
I have a two year old lovely donkey who shares afield with two shetlands and a cob I feed hay twice aday and one feed of alfalfa,carrots and garlic powder but recently i have read that garlic is not good for horses and donkeys am i doing it right? It is something i have always done. I would be grateful for any comments.ReplyDelete
Hi, Please don't feed Alfalfa - it is too rich for donkeys and probably for the Shetlands also. Can you find a coarse, mixed grass, low protein hay? They will do much better on that - even barley straw would suffice if they are getting grass as well.ReplyDelete
I'm not sure about garlic - I don't feed it. Have you tried an on-line search? I feed a morning mash during winter with soaked hay cubes (not alfalfa though!) beet pulp, salt, ground flax and vitamins.
I feed 4x/ day with extra barley straw overnight. Donkeys are trickle feeders and need forage in their system to counter hydrochloric acid produced by the stomach. Do they have anything to nibble on in their field?
- AnonymousOctober 16, 2013 at 6:48 PM
I have a two year old amazing boy. He is out on pasture through the day in the barn at night with local hay and his mash made up of fiber max and recently added cubes of Alfalfa mainly for a treat. He seems like he's bored with the fiber max by itself. Should I cu the cubes out? Could I replace it with something more appealing? or is the Fiber Max just fine on its own?ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks for your comment - a couple of questions ... is your boy a mini or a Standard? How is his weight and have you noticed any separation at the white line on his hooves? This would happen if he is getting to much feed that is high in protein and/ or non-structural carbohydrates (sugars) - hay or pasture could have both. I wouldn't feed alfalfa - the Fibermax should be okay but is probably not necessary. He needs a mineral lick and if you live in an are where selenium is low, get one that has that added. I also put out loose white salt and make sure he has clean water. Does he have company?Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 26, 2015 at 6:38 PM
please tell me why i should not feed corn, oats, and sweet feed to my donkey friends? the owner has fed them this for years and now im confused because i feed them this alsoReplyDeleteReplies
Think of donkeys as though they are all diabetics! While a bit of an exaggeration, it's true that they are all borderline insulin resistant. Fat, sugar and starch in the diet can lead to metabolic problems later on, hoof problems and obesity. That's why it is important to keep their diet full of low calorie fibre. Sure they love sweet feed and kids love candy but you are not doing them any favours by including that in their diet.Delete
- AnonymousAugust 15, 2015 at 11:53 AM
Is rye straw safe to feed donkeys? I can't find barley straw.ReplyDeleteReplies
Good question and I'm afraid I don't know the answer! Go to the UK Donkey Sanctuary website - they may be able to help you. For feeding any straw though, you want to make sure that it has no residual grain and that your donkeys are able to chew and digest it well. Their teeth need to be in good condition. I'd be interested in what you find out about rye straw!Delete
Hi there!ReplyDelete
I'm very happy to have come across your blog as my husband and I just inherited three Sicilian Donkeys with the home we just bought! Unfortunately they are overweight as the previous owner gave them full access to their three acre meadow in spring when it was full of lush high sugar grasses. They have bellies and neck fat :( Now their meadow is pretty much dry and although they have full access to it I don't feed them anything supplemental except and apple a day as we have apple trees on our property. I'm worried about their health, will they lose their weight come winter? And what about the neck fat? I heard that it doesn't go away once it's there, is that true? Should I be doing anything else at this point or just wait it out? I did get them a salt block and they love it! And how to maintain their healthy weight once/if it's back to normal? Perhaps come spring I don't give them full access to the three acres and/or only let them out at night when the grass has a lower sugar content?
Hi Alina, Thanks for getting in touch! Your instincts are good but perhaps I can help. When you say "their meadow is dry" what do you mean? Is it dry grasses or is it barren? It's important to go VERY slowly when trying to help donkeys lose weight. Sudden changes in feed, or withholding feed is NOT the way to go and can lead to health problems. The best approach to helping donkeys to lose weight is to offer them access to clean barley straw, free of any residual grain.Delete
They need to have fibre in their diet throughout the day in order to mitigate possible problems with ulcers. They should eat approx. 1.5% of their body weight (for each donkey) per day. My minis eat about 4 lbs of mixed hay and straw per day. and I divide that into numerous small feedings.
If this is impractical for you, try filling slow feeder hay bags with 1 lb. of barley straw in each bag and offer each donkey a bag several times a day or leave them scattered about the field for them to find. Take care in how you tie up the bags (that's another topic.)
Please don't feed them apples if they are overweight. Yes apples have fiber but they have a concentration of sugar too and I think I would eliminate any sugar from their diet. Especially since you don't know the sugar content of the grass they are eating.
An electric fence in their meadow can be used to offer strip grazing in the Spring. My donkeys only get to graze a strip of grass at a time throughout the year! Unfortunately grass is not really that healthy for donkeys, even though they will tell you otherwise!
The fat neck crests will probably remain but it should become soft, not hard. Please don't withhold food though - donkeys should be fed appropriately - low sugar, starch and protein, but access to fiber, a vitamin mineral salt block and fresh clean water. Exercise will help them lose weight too. It takes quite a while though so, like the donkey, you need to be patient! Hope this helps!
- Carol in TexasFebruary 11, 2016 at 2:12 PM
I have a mini donkey that lost his buddy awhile back. He is doing fine but wanted to get another mini donkey. Will they get along or should I not get oneReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Carol, Yes definitely get a companion donkey for your little guy - donkeys are stoic - they may appear to be doing fine, but they don't do well at all on their own. He'll be terribly lonely and the saying goes "a lone donkey is a lonely donkey!" It's true and with loneliness can come depression and possibly illness. How old is he? If he is a youngster, I would look for a donkey who is older and can act like an auntie or uncle. Two youngsters together often don't get the guidance they need from a donkey who is more experienced, in my opinion. They should get along fine. Good luck!Delete
This question is going to sound silly however bear with me . I live in Australia and just want to confirm that when Donkey owners speak of Barley Straw they mean as in bedding barley straw NOT Barley Hay (which we have access to in Winter when our grasses don't grow as quickly for the farmers to bale.) I can access barley straw (bedding straw) all year around and from what I've read I'm looking obviously for the cleanest, freshest straw, which can be harder to come by as the priority isn't for eating it's for bedding! .... thanks for any clarification :-)ReplyDeleteReplies
Hello, Thanks for your question - yes you are correct - barley straw, not hay and most equine owners do use it for bedding. not feed. So you have to select the bales carefully to look for clean straw that is not dusty or mouldy. The benefits to feedings straw to donkeys are many ... it offers fiber/ roughage without calories and really helps them keep their weight down. At this time of year in Canada, I am feeding approx. 50% barley straw and 50% grass hay that is low in sugars and starch. on Feeding Donkeyssafe: "2 replies."Delete
Hi Stephanie, It sounds like you are really doing your homework! My concern about Bute is the long-term effects on the liver but also that it can mask pain and the donkey may re-injure or aggravate an an existing injury. But I'm not an expert on this! Theres a veterinarian in Australia who writes a newsletter about donkeys and also manufactures some products that sound excellent (wish we could get them here!) Perhaps you've heard about him: www.kohnkesown.com - hope this link works - they have a Facebook page also.ReplyDelete
Hi rrlgrl, Yes! I have Dozer on Kohnkes Own Donkey Supreme (the mineral/vitamin pellet). Dr Kohnke is invaluable with his research. I read all his papers re donkeys so far :-) Really appreciate you commenting on my post!! I agree with your advice re 'bute, it is always my last course of action and for a minimal time as possible. :-(ReplyDelete
Ah - maybe you could be my supplier for Kohnkes products! I wrote to them once about shipping to Canada but alas, they said "no." Funny but in the UK and Australia, it seems there are excellent products especially for donkeys but not so in Canada! I am lucky to find a good supply of barley straw though. PS - rrlgrl and Cynthia are the same person!ReplyDelete
Oh dear, that's funny! I'm new to blogs and posting comments etc :) And here I was thinking another person was reaching out to me across the oceans !! So I think we could set up a working agreement here... I can box up Kohnke's Own products easily enough however I'm not sure you're going to as successful posting barley straw ! ;-)ReplyDelete
I've started walking with Dozer, we did our second walk today. The pair of us hit the blistering pace of 3kms in just a smidge under an hour! I'm told that's a fair crackin' pace for a donkey! I'm having such fun slowing down within myself to match Dozer... he is helping me to 'come back to Earth' in this whirlwind world of ours. xoxReplies
Hi Stephanie, Let's continue these interesting conversations through email instead of through the blog. Near the top right just above the "recipes" you'll see a note that says "Visit my Art Website" Go there and find my email under Contacts. You and Dozer sound like a happy team - I look forward to chatting more and maybe photos?Delete
Hi there, great to find your blog :) I am getting two gelding foals who are nine months old. We have a huge space for them - about 10 acres, of forests and tracks and open grass spaces. A donkey paradise I'm thinking! However - there are also literally hundreds of foxgloves! I have done so much research and yes I know the whole plant is incredibly toxic, but I'm also told by a couple of vets that they should be fine, as they are very bitter and they are likely to spit it out when they try it (which they will do....) They said that donkeys are very selective and have a strong survival instinct. I'm wondering about your thoughts?? I am naturally feeling a bit nervous! many thanks :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi there, thanks for writing. I personally wouldn't assume that the donkeys will NOT sample foxgloves. I have had donkeys eat daffodils, red elderberry and other toxic plants - and found said donkey drooling copious amounts of saliva to try to purge the toxins. Also, 2 nine-month foals will not have the guidance of older animals and may not know what to avoid. They do learn from each other!Delete
Could you reduce the number of foxgloves and then follow them a bit to see what they choose? Also - be very careful about grass - you probably already know this, but it is so dangerous in many ways ... good luck and keep me posted!
- AnonymousSeptember 14, 2016 at 10:34 AM
I have a small donkey not really miniature though. My question is he is has been losing his frogs. i try to pick them every night and they don't seem to really smell bad. Does this mean he might have thrush? Thanks P.S. is it OK to give him about a cup of grain a day for a treat with my horses or should I reduce the amount or not at all?ReplyDelete
Hi, Thanks for getting in touch! Regarding your donkey's frog - if he is standing on soft wet ground, that would be the cause, I think. It happens to us every winter even though my donkeys have a high, dry barn and our land has good drainage. But if that's not the case, please have your farrier take a look. You could also feed him a mineral supplement that has Biotin in it (I feed CA Trace minerals) and that might help - does he get a vitamin/ mineral supplement? If not, that could also be contributing to his hoof condition. A powdered or pelleted supplement is better than a block as they can't really get what they need from licking a block. Please do NOT feed any grain. Yes, they love it, but donkeys should not have any cereal grain, as recommend by the UK Donkey Sanctuary. Keep me posted!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 14, 2016 at 11:22 AM
It has been very dry here so not because of wet ground. I will try some of the supplement you suggested. ThanksReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 14, 2016 at 11:54 AM
My donkey tends to flick his back heels, is this something I should be looking for? Is this normal?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 22, 2016 at 5:15 AM
We changed our feed from sweet 10 to sweet 13. Nothing else has changed and we lost 2 donkeys. Could this be the problemReplyDelete
Everything else is the same we are looking for answers we had these donkeys 15 years and could not get sweet 10 anymore so went to sweet 12.Replies
I am SO sorry to hear that you lost two donkeys - of course it's not possible for me to know what happened but ... PLEASE do NOT feed any grain or anything with sugar/ molasses to donkeys!
Yes, they love it but it is far too rich, to caloric and too high in energy for them. I believe my post above outlines a proper diet for donkeys. Donkeys are very close to being insulin resistant, so sweet feed also spikes their glycemic index (same with us!) Think of forage diets for donkeys and they should have room to walk around.
Trickle feeding (small meals, often) to approximately 1.5% of their body weight is a good rule of thumb. I use slow feeder hay bags and mix barley straw in with my hay that has been tested so I know what the level of total sugars in the hay is (should be close to 10%)
Good luck! Where are you located?
- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2017 at 11:04 AM
Hi. Can (or should) donkeys eat orchard grass? Is this ok for them?ReplyDeleteReplies
Hello, Yes Orchard grass hay is fine for donkeys provided that it is low in sugars, starch and protein. Even better if you can mix it with barley straw -that's what I am currently feeding. If I think the donkeys are putting on weight I adjust the ration of straw and hay (more straw!) Feed to a max. of 15% of body weight.Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2017 at 3:37 PM
Thanks. When we first got our donkey (BLM Burro) she was eating alfalfa as that's what the BLM was feeding them all. We switched her to Bermuda but then decided to switch her to Orchard (mind you this is over an 8 yr time span and not real fast).ReplyDelete
She is getting a bit "chunky" so I am wondering what I could do. She eats about 1 flake a day, half in the morning and half at night.
I really don't want to put her back on Bermuda as our horse can't have Bermuda and he does like to go clean up her leftovers. Plus the Bermuda we get around here is really bad.
She's been having issues with her front feet on and off lately so I was wondering if that could be the Orchard. She walks VERY tender footed and her front feet hurt. Thought either was from the Orchard or from the wet ground from the rain. Hoping (CROSSING FINGERS) it's not something like founder.
Farrier is coming out next weekend to check her out.
Should I leave her on the orchard or mix it or what? (just want whatever it is to be something the horse can also eat)
Thank you !
A couple of thoughts ... Feet are connected to nutrition, so if she is having hoof problems, it could be related to her diet. Check our Pete Ramey - he has an excellent set of DVDs on donkey nutrition and hooves but also lots of great info in the internet!ReplyDelete
Donkeys are not small horses and you can't feed them like horses - they need coarse, low nutrient fiber and lots of it. That's why barley straw is an excellent option if you can get it? If you are feeding grain, please eliminate that from her diet as well as any sweet feeds or high protein processed feeds. She needs, salt, fresh water and hay + straw.
Small frequent meals are much better than 2x/ day. I feed in slow feeder hay bags + loose straw and they almost always have something available. This won't make them fat unless the hay is too rich. Exercise is also a key component in maintaining weight and overall health.
Wet ground can cause lameness or abscess - does she have a dry spot or can you create an area of pea gravel for her to stand? Where are you located? Sounds like you're on the right track and great that the farrier is coming.
If she's sore, you could make her a hoof boot - one of mine really benefits by this! I use cotton batting, vet wrap and duct tape. Good luck and keep me posted!
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2017 at 8:06 AM
Hello and thanks for your suggestions.ReplyDelete
We are in Southern California. We got his hard with this last rain and my whole pen was pure mush and parts of it were flooded. She does have a dry place to go but insists on walking thru the slush. Since we are supposed to get a bit more rain in the next few days, i'm thinking of locking her up and covering the whole bottom of one of my pens with straw. Maybe that will give her a better place to stand than in the mud? It's a corral with 3 sides and a cover. I can fill it all up with straw. Think that may help?
My husband said when he got home from work last night (just before I did) she was walking awful. I gave her some bute with dinner and she seems to be walking better this morning. She was even SCREAMING for breakfast which she hasn't done in a few days.
I did notice while cleaning her feet last night that her back hoof is peeling. It's like the whole outside of the hoof wall is just peeling off. Doesn't seem to bother her though. So yet another thing for the farrier to look at.
In your opinion do you think that we should take her completely off orchard? I'm going to the feed store this weekend to talk to the owner and see what food she suggests as she also has donkeys.
This is so frustrating to me as I just adore my equine. I've had her for almost 10 yrs now and never had an issue with her feet before.
Thanks again.Replies
Oh dear - it's so complicated eh? One one hand, we don't want donkeys to just stand all day but when the weather is bad, we don't want them slogging through slush either? Yes, I'd say put straw down for her but - is she used to it? She will eat it (which is good) but you don't want to radically change her diet, i.e. go from Orchard grass to straw! Even switching hay types should be done gradually. Do you happen to know what kind of straw it is? Barley is best, oat straw is richer and wheat straw is coarse. Are her teeth good? I feed straw (plus hay) and what they don't eat, I add to their bedding. It's not the best thing underfoot as it gets slippery. but I think she'll appreciate the cushioning. I have heard about hoof sloughing but I have no experience with that - I'll be really interested in what your farrier says (and maybe the vet?) And remember donkeys are SO stoic, just because she "seems" to not be bothered by her hoof, it's not really a good indicator with donkeys.Delete
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2017 at 9:48 AM
I have put straw down for her before, especially when she had her baby so she is used to straw as bedding. I'm not sure what kind of straw it is, it's the only one the feed store carries and it's usually for bedding, not feed.ReplyDelete
The feed stores always say straw is for bedding, so no worries there! Many people don't understand the benefits of feeding straw to donkeys - I think the UK Donkey Sanctuary has really opened this up as an excellent forage for donkeys who need lots of fiber but not calories! As long as your donkey's teeth are okay, she'll be fine eating whatever kind your feed store carries (but it would be good to pry some info out of them!)Delete
- AnonymousFebruary 28, 2017 at 2:09 PM
Hello again ! Due to all the rain and an unexpected funeral, we've had to cancel the farrier twice now! He will be out this sunday to check out our donkeys feet. She's doing much better just since the ground has dried out. We have added some 3 way hay (grass/straw or whatever they call it) to her orchard. It is Oat/Wheat/Barley mix. (hope this is ok for her)ReplyDelete
She doesn't care for it of course she wants the horses alfalfa (which she CANNOT get to). She is eating the 3 way though, mixed with her orchard.
I will fill you in with what the farrier says this weekend.
Hello! So glad to hear that your donkey is feeling more comfortable! I don't have access to forage hay here so don't know too much about it! You could write to the UK Donkey Sanctuary for their opinion. I have always thought that forage hay would be too rich for donkeys due to it being cut when the seed is still intact, however it's not really something I know about. Do you know if it has been tested? That would give you a lot of information!ReplyDelete
- JenniferMarch 30, 2017 at 10:47 AM
I have three miniature donkeys and I am worried that they are too thin. I feel like their pelvic bones are protruding too much, but everything I read about donkeys seems to indicate that giving them extras can be bad for their health. I feed them hay regularly throughout the day and leave them some overnight as well. I have given them carrots as treats and have started feeding them Sweetena. The two females are pregnant. We will be moving them to a field soon, but it is not rich at all. Do you have any suggestions for other options to fatten them up a little bit?
Hi Jennifer,ReplyDelete
Thanks for getting in touch! I understand your concern about your donkeys' weights. Here is a link to the UK Donkey Sanctuary's Body Scoring chart - this should help you determine whether or not they are in fact too thin.
And I don't know what Sweetena is but the word "sweet" makes me nervous! I try to avoid any and all sugar. Even carrots should be fed in moderation. This next link discusses sweet feed in general (for horses) but will give you an idea. Donkeys tend to be borderline insulin resistant, so I feed as though they are ... i.e. you wouldn't give any sugar to a diabetic so I don't give any to my donkeys! Also avoid cereal grains (corn, oats, barley etc.)
Be careful of fast growing Spring grass as even poor pasture can be high in sugar.
And finally here is yet another link re feeding pregnant jennys:
I hope this information helps! Good luck and keep me posted!
Hi there,ReplyDelete
I just recently purchased a sweet Donk named Murphy. She's 24 mos and just a doll..well mannered, halter broke and just follows you around like a puppy. My only concern is her hooves...My horse is on SmartPak (Farrier's Formula) Hoof Supplement.
Can you tell me if this is safe to give to Murphy as well??
Many Thanks!!Replies
Hello - why are you concerned about her hooves? When supplementing donkeys, you need to read the ingredients on the formula - avoid anything sugar (molasses) and any cereal grain (oats, oat bran, corn, wheat, etc.) and also no alfalfa. So take a look at the list on SmartPak and see if any of those things are in it. Donkeys need low protein too and sometimes supplements have a protein source in them as well so check.Delete
Does she hang out with your horse? Donkeys need a companion and they love to be with their own kind but if she bonds with your horse that's good.
It's very hard to feed a horse and a donkey together though for the above-mentioned reasons. Donkeys are prone to weight gain, colic and laminitis and if fed like a horse, those nasty problems will be encouraged. Feed for lean (hard to do!) Keep me posted!


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Shrimp with chilli and salt
– 12-15 large shrimps – leave shell on & devein
– 5 Thai red chilli – minced
– 2 tablespoon of red bellpepper – minced
– 2 tablespoon of cilantro – minced
– 2 tablespoon of fresh garlic – minced
– 2 tablespoon of green onion – minced
– 1 tablespoon of soy sauce
– 1/2 teaspoon of salt
– 2 tablespoon of Chinese rice wine (for cooking)
– 4-5 tablespoon of vegetable oil
– Pour vegetable oil in a pan, set over medium heat.
– Add shrimps to the pan, stir until both sides change color only
– Place half-cooked shrimps on a plate, set aside
– In the same pan, add minced Thai red chilli and minced fresh garlic, stir well
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Daisy Stroud lived life very well
One sunny morning in 2006 I visited Daisy Stroud, and she took out photos and shared the story of her life. Every tale was an illumination of the times in which she lived, of the life she made with husband Gerson and the woman she came to be.
Her story was an apt illustration for a book I was working on called "Thriving in the Shadows." The book, published in 2007 by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library's Novella Festival Press, recounted first-person stories of how blacks lived through segregation, triumphed over adversity and created thriving communities filled with civic-minded and accomplished people.
Daisy helped pull the shade back on a time many prefer to forget but that remains instructive. I can still hear her talk about the importance her mother and father put on family and education: "Every Sunday afternoon, we'd assemble in the living room. We only went into the living room on Sunday, no other day. We'd sit around and there was a program that was on the radio, and it was classical. It was called 'Arabesque.' We'd have to sit there and listen to this symphonic music. My mother would say [it was] for us to uplift ourselves."
Daisy's impish, ever present smile, often hinted at a bit of mischievousness. It was present in stories she told. Take the one about how her family came to live in a neighborhood that was white. "When we came to Charlotte, we were in luck because my father heard of a place in First Ward. It was all Caucasian.... They had gorgeous homes. Our neighbor's name was Thad Tate. The word was out that Thad Tate was the son of a wealthy white family. Evidently his mother was very fair, and could have passed for white. Anyway, Thad Tate's father wanted his son to be raised in a place that was comparable to what he had. So he built these big, big houses. When the neighbors found out Thad Tate was the son of a black person, they all put their homes up for sale. My father was able to get a 13-room house for a song."
When she talked about her wedding, she got that twinkle in her eye again: "My husband was my brother's best friend. He was of the same ilk as my brother: My brother was what he called sophisticated and I was the opposite. Gerson was not the sort of person I thought I'd be interested in. But when he asked if I would marry him before he went overseas, I did. We were married July 24, 1944. My mother got the wedding together in 14 days. My husband's friends were in the Army so the men in my wedding picture were just people from the community. We just drafted men to be in the wedding. I was with Gerson for four days, and from that day until 1946, I did not see my husband."
Daisy and Gerson's marriage was a true partnership. People took notice – including Oprah Winfrey who featured them on her show in 1996 to get their "Secrets of a Lasting Marriage."
They were both educators. Their post-retirement years were filled with volunteer work and community activism, and they received deserved recognition for their contributions.
Gerson died in 2006 after living with Alzheimer's. Daisy was never far from his side. After his death, she continued an engaged life of accomplishments. In 2008, at 86, she was one of 10 winners chosen from more than 14,000 applicants to be AARP "Faces of 50+ Real People" models. In 2010, she received the Maya Angelou/Elizabeth Ross Dargan Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual UNCF-Maya Angelou Women Who Lead Luncheon.
Daisy died last week at 92. I smile in remembering her. Her vivacious personality and graceful demeanor sometimes masked her fierceness. But she had the kind of tenacious spirit that served her and this community well.


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This phrase keeps crawling into my ear uninvited and boring through my head whenever I look at the big television news conglomerates today in the face of the early collapse of the two-party American duopoly with whom they are irrevocably joined.
The original big three NBC, ABC, and CBS, now joined by CNN, Fox, Microsoft, and others, have always been the stenographers of power. They rely on big money. They get paid the big money. They spend the big money. They sip champagne and snort coke and play golf with the other big moneys. The rest - what you and I see and hear - is a show, sponsored by the transnational parasitic class that runs energy, pharmaceutical, financial, and weapons corporations.
Nowadays, it has gotten so that two stations are portrayed as the partisan news - MSNBC as a fully owned subsidiary of the Democratic Leadership Council and Fox as the Republican arm - the rest pretend at being 'balanced.' And it is all pretense. The function of these great propaganda outlets has always been in large part to place limits on the scope of public discussions; and while they publicly disagree about Fox's discussion on the conservative end of the allowable and MSNBC determines the limits of the conversation on the liberal end, behind the scenes the decision-makers' own agenda is best revealed by what is off limits. Many on the right and left, for example, are opposed - albeit out of differing metaphysical foundations - to so-called 'free trade' agreements. But one thing that MSNBC and Fox both support are these agreements, and both work equally hard to misrepresent, ridicule, and marginalize anyone who opposes the agreements. This is where their policing function is revealed, in what is part of any 'bipartisan' consensus. Both also fall all over themselves to 'support the troops.' Nuff sed.
These outlets are intellectual conformity machines; and as such they have exercised tremendous power - to include those they want and exclude all others - to assist in king-making, to distract the public from any of those conversations that might spill outside the right-edge and the left-edge. They have been able to determine the political Zeitgeist in the United States. To do so, they have prevaricated, kissed asses too numerous to count, ignored important events and inflated trivial ones, and generally pretended they have the correct handle on the world.
But they are beginning to see, with the every more likely nomination of of a non-Republican Republican in Donald Trump and a non-Democrat Democrat in Bernie Sanders, that their toadying stenography for power is every day more exposed for its show-like character; and that - for more and more people - these propaganda representatives of the ruling class are (and ought to be) the objects of ridicule. That neither of the openly partisan 'news' companies could steer the nomination into an acceptable channel for their advertisers (maybe a Bush-Clinton rematch) is a tangible demonstration of the rising sea of irrelevance lapping at their feet.
The internet has progressively undermined News Television. And for all the ways that info-tech has put newer generations as risk, one thing you can say for it - speaking now as one of the television generation, a generation that anticipates Barcaloungers with remote controls in heaven - is that mobile technology is mobile. Younger folks might be tweeting, texting, taking work calls, checking in on sick relatives, and making dates on a phone that is a mobile computer; but they are walking, driving, working, eating, shitting, even watching TV... while they take in the simulacra. They don't have the time or inclination to watch TV except when one offers a better picture to watch 28 Days Later or Children of Men. When they want 'news' - that stuff about which the public is talking - they can get it on their own time, in a context of their choosing (a train instead of a Barcalounger?), and from multiple, often contentious, sources. Just as often as mistaken or perfidious as News TV but without the great endowment of homogenizing power, internet 'news' sources not only subvert the limits on subject matter that were policed by News TV, these variable sources subvert the borderlines of specialization. Humble, self-critical people can learn very quickly, as autodidacts, using the world wide web, that the separations between, for example, science and moral philosophy, between plumbing and physics, between history and economics, between psychology and political science and amphibian behavior and flint-knapping are arbitrary borderlines. This doesn't merely cross over the boundaries of respectable opinion (that News TV policed); it topples the taxonomies of our age.
An old organizer friend from Jackson, Mississippi - Sarah Williams - musically riddled me once, "What are the blues about?" Answering her own set-up, she said, "Any damn thing." People out of reach of News TV's apish malevolence are already drifting away from the old political norms, because both poles of the duopoly have been thoroughly exposed and discredited. But that doesn't mean they are flocking to the right or wrong banners. With the breakup of the two dominant political parties - which is what is really going on and merely expressing itself in our increasingly farcical News TV, those in the Great Unwashed who are flocking at all might go for any damn thing.
Hope. And threat. Freedom contains both. We will become free of these institutions by fits and starts, not in some great masculine upheaval. We can do things rightly. But history has schooled us on how pride and impatience and selfishness can lead us to do things very, very wrongly.
Some will be leaning forward to issue this or that boilerplate on Trump or Sanders, or to compare their positions, or to prove or disprove that Trump is a proper fascist or Sanders is a proper socialist; but that isn't what is as interesting as the underlying dynamic. This election discloses the early break-up, the degeneration and eventual disintegration, of the two hegemonic political parties in the United States.
I'm kind of a gardener, and one of the things I like to do is companion plant. That's when you plant two or more different species together to produce a desired interaction that benefits one or more plants in the guild. If I grow cabbages, one of the best ways to prevent their destruction by the dreaded cabbage looper (a cabbage-loving green worm), is to plant dill alongside the cabbage. The dill then attracts a species of tiny wasp that injects her eggs into cabbage loopers, which kills them graveyard dead. No poisons required. These wasps do the same thing to tomato hornworms (tomato-loving green worm), so plant dill around your tomatoes and cabbages.
Something like this is going on with the Republican and Democratic Parties. They've been colonized with foreign eggs who are hatching out and consuming the corpse.
The Republican Party is a long standing, post-Nixon mashup of chiliastic Christians and unpopular capitalists (like oil and tobacco companies), combined with gun nuts, tax-hating mid-range entrepreneurs, and grayhairs (like me) committed to the return of that imaginary patriarchy of the 1950s. The party held them together with simplified programs, a steady stream of supportive propaganda, and fealty to the strange attractor of Republican politics - profound Negrophobia.
The Democratic Party - here I will confess my ineradicable history with leftism- according to an old friend, "is the roach motel of radical politics. You can check in, but you never check out." But it is here, alas, at least in terms of interested constituencies, that something unites the 'progressives,' women-generally, and minorities (especially African Americans, because - aforementioned Negrophobia as the unseen organizing principle of the party), is that many many people who fall into one or more of these categories do face real existential threats from Republicans. That's not a unifying program; that is the only strategic defense available against the worst damage Republicans can do. It's like a political protection racket. There is justified disgust among leftists, black radicals, radical feminists, and some Christians about both these discredited, manipulative, instrumental, and ruthless institutions, that can't be closed out by 'realisms.'
This may be a moot point, however. The Realisms are no longer holding.
Sanders may not be the new Lenin that the uber-lefties imagine. He may not be the FDR that liberals would like to imagine. He won't be the Chavez that many of my old comrades admired. He may not fit your definition of what makes a Democrat or a Socialist. Doesn't matter. What matters is that a chasm has opened up between the directed leadership of the Democratic Party and the remarkable emergence of Bernie Sanders as someone who has managed to mobilize enough of a motivated popular base to threaten (1) the efficacy of the Democratic National Committee in carrying out its own intentions, and (2) it's ability to contain public discourse.
Trump is likewise not describable except as Trump, something he continually reinvents like a cheap huckster; but one parallel is clear. Just as the Democratic National Committee did not want Bernie Sanders in the party at all, much less as its presidential nominee, the Republican National Committee sure as hell does not want to see Trump as candidate, or worse, as President. They know the damage he will do to an already doddering party - where conservatives are parting with libertarians, where the tax-obsessed are fed up with the evangelicals, where selfish yuppies are breaking from the nitwittery of the Tea Party, the GOP is faced with a monumental crack-up that has been in play for a decade. No, hell no! Not Trump. But Trump they have, at least for the time being, and they are so on their heels that the best they have to offer is Ted Cruz?
In each case, popular movements have taken unexpected control over the institutions themselves; and so even if both parties find a way to 'correct' their current trajectories, one thing can't be taken back. People know they can do it. The Trump acolytes and the Sanders devotees, they have this in common. They've done the headcount that neither the DNC nor the RNC wanted done.
The networks now exist - with the demonstrated independence from their own leadership - to turn the US from a two-party system into one of several political parties or, perhaps, one hegemonic party. Everyone knows it. Only the most ideologically hidebound will be unable to see it. The floor is open.
Another thing won't be taken back either. The very conditions that are fueling these outbursts ought never be trivialized or homogenized as 'populism.' For a century we have been brainwashed into limitless desire in order to 'expand markets.' We are left standing now, with a child's disappointment, to watch one entitlement after another drop off the precipice of our cultural decay. I wonder if we'll grow up a bit or throw a tantrum.
What did Yeats say?
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
This is the sea rising around News TV. Like the message from the dead: as you are, I once was; as I am you shall be. Footnotes in history.


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Mother and daughter American expats Marjorie Taylor and Kendall Smith Franchini always dreamed of living in France. With a lot of hard work and a sprinkling of fate, they realised this dream and founded The Cook's Atelier, a celebrated French cooking school in the heart of Burgundy.
Combining their professional backgrounds in food and wine, they created a convivial international culinary destination. Their debut cookbook chronicles their life in a charming French village and their relationships with the region's artisan food producers and winemakers. Featuring more than 100 market-inspired recipes, the book—like their school—teaches classic French techniques in a beautiful, approachable way. With more than 200 enchanting photographs, THE COOK'S ATELIER is a richly illustrated presentation of the family's delicious world, and a practical primer for adopting elements of the French lifestyle at home, no matter where you live.
The following recipe is from The Cook's Atelier: Recipes, Techniques and Stories from Our French Cooking School by Marjorie Taylor and Kendall Smith Franchini, photographs by Anson Smart.
Lemon Soufflés
When we make soufflés, we can't help but think of Julia Child. Inspired by her classic recipe, we begin with a sauce bouilli, a thickened mixture of milk, sugar, and flour, which makes them especially delicate. Light and airy with just a hint of lemon, they can be adapted using orange juice and zest or vanilla.
- 7 tablespoons (90 g) granulated sugar
- 1¼ cups (300 ml) whole milk
- ¼ cup (30 g) unbleached all-purpose flour
- 4 large egg yolks
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, plus more for the moulds
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 6 large egg whites
- ¹⁄⁸ teaspoon fleur de sel
- Confectioners' sugar, for dusting
1. Set a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat the oven to 400°F (205°C).
2. Butter the insides of eight individual 1-cup (240-ml) ramekins or one large 6-cup (1.4-L) soufflé mould. Using 2 tablespoons of the granulated sugar, sprinkle the inside of the mould(s), tapping to remove any excess. Set aside.
3. In a medium saucepan, whisk together the milk, ¼ cup (50 g) of the granulated sugar, and the flour until well-combined. Place over medium-high heat and cook, whisking continuously, until the mixture thickens and comes to a boil, about 3 minutes. Transfer to a large bowl and let it cool for 2 to 3 minutes.
4. Add the egg yolks, one at a time, whisking until fully incorporated before adding the next yolk. While the mixture is still warm, add the butter, lemon zest, and lemon juice and whisk until fully combined.
5. In a large, very clean, preferably copper bowl, use a large balloon whisk to beat the egg whites with the remaining 1 tablespoon granulated sugar and the salt until firm peaks form. Stir a large spoonful of the whipped egg whites into the soufflé base to begin lightening it. Using a rubber spatula, gently fold in the remaining egg whites, leaving some white streaks in the mixture and working quickly to keep the base light and airy.
6. Pour the finished mixture into the prepared mould(s), filling them just below the top rim. Run your thumb along the inside edge of the moulds to remove any excess and ensure a proper lift. Bake until the tops of the soufflés are golden brown and lifted about 2 inches (5 cm) over the tops of the ramekins, 15 to 18 minutes (25 to 30 minutes for the soufflé mould). Do not be tempted to open the oven during baking or the soufflés will fall. Dust with confectioners' sugar and serve immediately.
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Four tile decks and a large tiled front porch provide ample outdoor lounging and eating areas. Three bedrooms are located on the lower level of the villa, while a fourth bedroom is located in a separate private cottage. One to four couples or a large family will have generous room for privacy, activities, and relaxation.
Drake's View has the ambiance of a home rather than a rental. The large great room is furnished with Indonesian and American antiques, and contemporary, comfortable, plantation-style furniture. The villa is decorated with bright local prints, paintings, and a mobile by internationally-known and local artists including Robert Tharsing, Aimee Trayser, Karen Samuel. The well-equipped kitchen is very spacious and includes one of two dining areas. Three bedrooms have king sized beds and one has a king, convertible to twins. Each bedroom has air conditioning, a private bath, and Swedish TempurPedic mattresses. As of 2018, two Tesla Powerwalls have been installed to make the villa more environmentally friendly, and help guests avoid any power outages during their stay.
The traditional Caribbean architecture of the house's yellow stucco exterior, red roof, and simple columns, contrasts with a dramatic facade of glass along the east wall. No matter where you look in the house or cottage, you see Coral Bay, the valley of Estate Carolina, Drake's Passage, and the British Virgin Islands. On a clear day, you can see the Baths at Virgin Gorda, and rainbows, mangrove cuckoos, falcons, and red tailed hawks are common sights.The villa is surrounded by lush local vegetation and beautifully maintained terraced gardens.
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Half-Bath Leading to Pool Area
Gas Grill (BBQ)
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Local Artwork
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Wicked day-of-performance drawings announced
Oct 22, 2013
Broadway In Chicago is pleased to announce that a WICKED day-of-performance drawing for a limited number of orchestra seats will take place inside Block Thirty Seven. Block Thirty Seven is located at 108 N State, across from the Oriental Theatre. An additional pair of tickets for each performance will be given away, courtesy of Block Thirty Seven, in honor of the 10th Anniversary of WICKED. WICKED begins performances at the Oriental Theatre on Wednesday, October 30. Throughout the run of the show on each performance day, people can pick up entry forms at the Block Thirty Seven information booth during business hours up until 2 hours prior to the performance. Entry forms are placed into the WICKED hat, one entry per person. Names will be drawn two hours before each performance for twenty orchestra seats at $25 each, cash only. This drawing is available only in-person at Block Thirty Seven, with a limit of two tickets per person. Drawing participants must have a valid photo ID when submitting their entry form and, if chosen, when purchasing tickets. After the twenty tickets are chosen for $25 each, an additional name will be drawn for a pair of tickets to that performance courtesy of Block Thirty Seven. WICKED, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Pippin, Godspell, Disney's Enchanted, Academy Award winner for Pocahontas and The Prince of Egypt) and book by Winnie Holzman ("My So Called Life," "Once And Again" and "thirtysomething"), is based on the 1995 best-selling novel by Gregory Maguire. The musical is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello (Take Me Out, Love! Valour! Compassion!, The Vagina Monologues) and features musical staging by Tony Award winner Wayne Cilento (Aida, The Who's Tommy, How To Succeed...). WICKED, the untold story of the witches of Oz, is produced by Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt and David Stone. WICKED features set design by Tony Award winner Eugene Lee (Ragtime, Show Boat, Candide, Sweeney Todd), costume design by Tony winner Susan Hilferty (Spring Awakening, Into the Woods, Assassins), lighting design by Tony winner Kenneth Posner (Tony Award winner for The Coast of Utopia, Hairspray) and sound design by Tony Meola (The Lion King). Stephen Oremus is the show's music director. Orchestrations are by William David Brohn, with dance arrangements by James Lynn Abbott.As WICKED approaches its 10th Anniversary this October 30th, there are currently nine productions of the musical worldwide: New York, London, Japan (Tokyo), Australia/New Zealand (Auckland), South Korea (Seoul), Latin America (Mexico City), a U.K. Tour, and two concurrent North American National Tours. Broadway's #1 show for an unprecedented nine consecutive years, WICKED has been declared "A Cultural Phenomenon" by Variety and "The Best Musical of the Decade" by Entertainment Weekly. Winner of over 50 major awards including the Grammy Award and three Tony Awards, WICKED is the untold story of the witches of Oz. Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. WICKED tells the story of their remarkable odyssey, how these two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good.
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The rate of competition in the marketing world is way too high, and there are numerous companies in the arcade which provides services and packages related to online facilities, but they fail to produce remarkable results. This is where Dubai Web Design Agency is an inch ahead of them. We take credentials for our appealing and trustworthy services. We strive to work according to our goals and your needs. We believe in educating our customers, clients, partners and newbies in the technology world by arranging workshops, sessions, and conferences for them. Our vision is to guide everyone with the basics and how they can start up their business in the market. A little guidance and help hurt no one.
The team of people that we have here is simply outclassed, they push themselves forward and continue to make our agency proud. The experience they have gained by working on some low and high profile projects have really boosted up their confidence. We want to add not just a little but a lot to this industry and Dubai Web Design Agency is already ranked amongst the top well-known and reputed company.
What if you get to work with a team of lazy, dull and obnoxious team of people? What if your business plan is not being executed perfectly? Certainly you would be disappointed and business will go awfully down for you. Dubai Web Design Agency is lucky is this regard, because we have an outstanding team of well-educated, focused and hardworking individuals. The massive experience and exposure into the technical world have given them a lot of confidence. Our team members not only promise to produce fantastic and appreciable work but they show it off for real by delivering the work before the deadline date. And this exactly what the clients are looking for, they want to work with challenging team members, in a friendly environment.
Communication plays a vital role in this regard, Dubai Web Design Agency makes sure that each and every employee here easily overcomes the communication gap and listen the clients very attentively. We train our team members very efficiently and they know how to deal with the business partners. Our smart digital marketing strategists have guided the clients too about the core ideas of communication and that how important it is for a successful business run.
"Design something that makes you different from other. "Dubai Web Design Agency believes that the key to success is to follow the latest trends and marketing techniques. We began our company with a small team of individuals and an average setup. Because not everything is presented to you in a plate of gold. We have worked hard enough that now we have built a remarkable setup and our agency hold one of the finest and latest technological tools. While we were enlisting the equipment, we have surveyed the entire market and then chose the best ones.
Our agency wants to fully satisfy the clients, this is why our team members always look for something that is unique and new in the market. Dubai Web Design Agency designs your ideas and plans. While creating your project, we do not want to disappoint you by either compromising on work or on software applications.
Dubai Web Design Agency solely work for its clients, so obviously client satisfaction is what matters the most. We put all of our efforts to produce the results that would make your web presence visible to the world. Our clients are our strength and we never neglect their choices or opinions. We communicate with our partners in a way that helps us in delivering exactly what they desire for. So, what are you thinking about? Are you still confused? You want guidance? Come to us fellas.
Dubai Web Design Agency conducts a lot of meeting sessions with the clients until and unless they speak their mind out and put their faith in us. Every time we manage to surpass the clients' level of expectations and your valuable feedback gives us self-assurance. In this competitive world, our agency holds a list of trusted clients who know what we do and we keep them updated about each and every progress about the project. Our consultants design a list of proposals for the partners and we give them various tip/ideas on how they can promote their work. And if they are not being able to do it themselves then our ever ready team of Social Media experts and SEO professionals is waiting for serve them. We believe that social media marketing plays a vital role in raising one's business but needs to be handled proficiently.


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Job Description
Qualification: Degree / Diploma in Mechanical Engineering.
Experience: Candidates should have 3-8 years' experience in execution of piping, steel structure and equipment erection works in Refinery, Petrochemical plants. Exposure to planning and scheduling will be an advantage.
Candidates selected must be willing to work anywhere in India or abroad.
Desired Profile Please refer to the Job description above
Experience 3 - 8 Years
Industry Type Construction, Engineering, Cement, Metals
Role Construction-Heavy
Functional Area Site Engg., Project Management
Education UG - B.Tech/B.E. - Mechanical, Diploma - Mechanical
PG - Any PG Course - Any Specialization, Post Graduation Not Required
Compensation: INR 4,00,000 - 9,00,000 P.A. Designation, salary and benefits will be commensurate with qualification and experience, and will not be a constraint for deserving candidates.
Location anywhere in India
Keywords Piping Execution, Structural Execution


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Piedmont Technical College Dental Assistant Preparation Courses
The state of South Carolina has approved dental assistant training courses in the city of Greenwood for those intrested in a rewarding career as a dental assistant. One can call Susan Kinney associated with Piedmont Technical College at (864) 941-8324 or via email at email@example.com to learn more about the program offered. More information for Piedmont Technical College is furnished below.
School Information
Piedmont Technical College
Dental Assistant Professional Education Programs
620 North Emerald Rd.
Greenwood, South Carolina 29646-
Phone: (864) 941-8324
Website: http://www.ptc.edu
Program Details:
Contact Person: Susan Kinney
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Degree or Certification Type: Diploma


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The Medical/Clinical Program is one of three graduate programs in the psychology department at UAB. While there are no specific tracks within the MedPsych Program, students have access to training in the areas of General Psychology, Health/Rehab Psychology, Child Psychology, and Neuropsychology. Emphasis areas are determined entirely by the research and clinical experiences a student chooses to engage in. Descriptions of Training opportunities can be found below:
Neuropsychology at UAB
Research practica opportunities exist both within the department and in the broader medical center. Some students may be involved with established research labs while others engage in research opportunities identified through clinical rotations. Students have been involved in neuropsychological research across various clinical and psychiatric populations.
Students have access to training opportunities at clinics that serve individuals across the life span, from child to geriatric. Neuropsychology rotations occur in clinics that specialize in a broad range of neurocognitive pathologies including, traumatic and non-traumatic brain injury, stroke, brain tumor, viral encephalopathy, epilepsy, developmental disorders, and a range of neurodegenerative disorders, though this is not an exhaustive list.
Other Training Opportunities
Health & Rehab Psychology at UAB
General Psychology at UAB
See the
UAB Medical Clinical Psychology Program Website
for more information about the program.
UAB Medical Clinical Psychology Program Website
for more information about the program.


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Facebook recently introduced a new feature to their news feed called "story bump." Story bump is meant to promote the most relevant content to the top of the Facebook news feed based on the particular individual browsing Facebook. So, in other words, based on that individual's interests, Facebook will now place posts with more reaction and engagement (Likes, Shares, Comments) at the top of the news feed, even if they were posted hours, or even days, before. This new story bump feature is an adjustment to the already established EdgeRank. Story bumping has been rolled out to 99% of desktop users and it is still being refined for mobile use. Bottom line, the new story bump feature will show you posts that you may not have seen when they were initially posted.
To give an example, imagine you are scrolling through your Facebook news feed and you end up viewing 30 posts. However, the 31st post that you missed initially shows up at the top of your news feed 4 hours later because it has continued to receive Likes, Shares, and Comments. Your news feed will now display popular posts that have received a lot of engagement above posts that are more recent.
You'll notice that the post with more engagement (71 Likes, 7 Comments, and 19 Shares) is at the top of the news feed even though it was posted several days ago, while the post that was posted only 2 hours ago, but only has 36 Likes and 2 Shares, is displayed below it. Facebook has already conducted studies on the new news feed and they have found that there has been an 8% increase in Likes, Shares, and Comments on posts by company pages. So, starting on that good note, let's take a look at how marketers can leverage the new story bump feature in their favor.
Not Every Post Is Seen By Everyone
According to Facebook, the average person can possibly see up to 1500 posts a day, however, it is Facebook's job to show you the most relevant and interesting things based on your online behavior. So not every post you post is being seen by everyone who Liked you page. Facebook has stated that the following things affect their algorithm:
- How often a particular individual interacts with posts by a page, friend, or public figure.
- The amount of Likes, Comments, and Shares a particular post receives from the world in general and especially from your friends or trusted company pages.
- How often you have engaged or interacted with similar posts in the past.
- Whether or not the individual, or other people, are reporting or hiding a particular post. So if you publish a post that a lot of people are hiding from your news feed, odds are it won't show up in many other people's either.
If you are wanting to see posts from a particular page or friend, regardless of the type of interaction the post is generating, you can create a Facebook Interest List much like the lists you can create on Twitter. You will see EVERY post of any page or friend you put on your Interest List. That being said, we strongly recommend that you encourage your fans to create their own Interest Lists and include your company's page in it. To do this, simply click on the "Liked" button of the page you have already Liked, then click "Get Notifications."
It looks like this:
Story Bump Increases The Shelf Life Of Your Posts
Wisemetrics recently conducted a study that found that most posts on Facebook receive 75% of their overall engagement within 2 hours and 30 minutes of the initial post. It takes less than 2 hours for it to reach 75% of its max reach. In other words, the window of exposure for any given post used to be very short. However, with the new story bump feature, stories that receive a lot of reaction and engagement (Likes, Shares, Comments) will jump back up to the top of news feeds, regardless of the time they were posted.
Engagement Is King
This has been a fundamental concept of any type of online marketing for years now. If you are not engaging people with your posts, you are not accomplishing your ultimate goal, which is to increase exposure and awareness of your brand on the internet. So how do you do this? Simple, you need to continuously be creating and promoting relevant, interesting, and REMARKABLE content! Whatever you do, just don't be boring! This may seem like a tall task, but don't fret. Facebook's Insights feature allows you to see which posts are generating engagement and which aren't, so you can model your future posts after the posts that seem to be generating the most interest among fans. You can see your engagement rates by clicking on the "View Insights" tab at the top of the admin panel, then scrolling down to see your most recent posts and their reaction.
It will look like this:
The "most recent posts" section will literally show you exactly how many people have seen your posts and how many people are engaging with them. This will give you a great perspective of what's working and what isn't, allowing you to adjust future posts accordingly.
Don't Forget About Facebook Advertising
The best Facebook marketers don't need Facebook advertising to accomplish their goals. Their content is so relevant, engaging, interesting, and REMARKABLE that it is shared without any help from Facebook. However, not everyone is an expert on Facebook and can drive content themselves. If you want to give your posts a little extra boost, then you can take advantage of Facebook advertising to generate more reaction on a particular post. You can see the "Boost" feature whenever you scroll over a particular post on your page. By advertising a particular post, more people will see your post, therefore increasing the chances of interaction with the post. Ideally, your Facebook advertising will generate enough interaction on your post that story bump will bump it up to the top of people's news feeds. If that doesn't work, then people are not liking the content you are producing.
The new Facebook news feed story bump feature should have marketers excited because it rewards posts that generate engagement, which is what inbound marketing is fundamentally based upon. Knowing posts that generate Likes, Shares, and Comments are now being moved to the top of the news feed, marketers should be scrambling to produce the best possible content for their Facebook pages. Here at Anchor, we have seen several posts reach thousands of people without any form of Facebook advertising simply because the content was so great. So what does the new story bump feature mean for marketers? It means that those who continuously produce interesting, engaging, and REMARKABLE content are the ones that are going to be kings of Facebook's news feed. So start creating AWESOME content and reign supreme over the feed!
Blog Written By Brett Gordon Certified Inbound Marketing Strategist | Content Marketing Specialist | Social Media Strategist | SEO


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Contributor : jr
Tribal Affiliation : my ancestors are from maine and are eastern abenaki indians on my mom's side
Orgin of Recipe : algonquin quebec
Type of Dish : Today's Native Dishes
put the sunflower seeds, water & salt into a pot, cover & let simmer for 1 1/2 hours. when well cooked, crush the seeds to amke a paste. add the corn flour, add 1 tablespoon at a time to thicken.
work with your hands; cool a little. make small, flat pancakes of approximately 5" diameter. heat oil
and fry on both sides, adding more oil if necessary.
drain well & eat jr (aka chief thunder cloud)
Please visit my personal page at Waaban Aki Crafting


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Rights of Way
The Tees Valley has some great countryside, parks and green spaces, and a lot of work is being done to care for them. Each Countryside Access Officer across the four Boroughs is actively working on projects that will make their Borough a greener and healthier place to live, work and visit.
Each Local Authority Countryside Access Team works with landowners, voluntary groups and other associations to make sure the existing rights of way are protected. They also hope to improve access to the countryside and coast and are actively seeking permissive access partnerships with all landowners, be they private individuals or companies.
Each Countryside Access Officer is required to record, manage, maintain and improve the rights of way network in their borough. Each also manages the Definitive Map, which highlights all the Rights of Way in their Borough. New paths can be claimed and added to the map by way of a Definitive Map Modification Order (DMMO) and each Local Authority will hold a register of applications made.
Each Local Authority has produced a Rights of Way Improvement Plan and these are available to download via their web sites, which are given below.
On this site we have detailed those nature reserves in this area that are open every day. These can be found on the Nature Reserves list on the top of this page. Also listed are a small selection of the guided walks and countryside events that go on all year round across the Tees Valley.
If you believe we have ommitted a nature reserve, if you have photo to share, or a countryside event to promote, please let us know.
Outlined on this site are the links to each Local Authority that make up the Tees Valley Local Access Forum; Darlington, Hartlepool, Stockton on Tees and Middlesbrough.
We have also included links to our neighbouring authorities; North York Moors, Redcar & Cleveland and Durham.
Defra and Natural England links can be found here.


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Thursday Thought
Teen pregnancy and abortion could be quickly reduced greatly by one simple measure, prosecute the "boyfriend" and the female's parents if they don't disclose the males ID. It is rape and child abuse. The real threat of prosecution as a sex crimes offender needs to be brought home to the boys. A little propoganda and enforcement would go a long way. Medical groups like Planned Parenthood should also be held accountable in a crime as abettors. The laws are already there, enforce them!