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Remember Wilson the volleyball, from the movie 'Castaway'? In a dash of newfound creativity and imagination, I shot a couple of photographs today of a coconut that shared an uncanny resemblance to Wilson! Seemed like the perfect opportunity for some prop-photography :-D.
Somehow he seems quite absorbed with the book ;-), don't you think? Ah, nothing beats the joy of laying back, relaxing and reading a nice book.
On his travels to the Orient, he received a fancy hand-held fan as a gift from a monk. In fact, that is exactly where he discovered his inner intellectual :-P.
… and loves his moped. How else would an intelligent coconut choose to conquer the streets?
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Women's Community House believes that all people – staff, volunteers, clients, service providers, students and visitors regardless of ability or disability will be provided services, and be dealt with in a way that respects their dignity and independence.
Women's Community House believes that all people with disabilities are entitled to have equal access to support, employment, information, buildings and services that others enjoy.
Women's Community House ensures a safe place to live and work, free from all forms of discrimination, and abuse (see definition in A03 Beliefs).
WCH also believes that its employees, students, Board Members and volunteers are entitled to fair and equitable personnel policies and practices.
All people will be offered the same opportunity to access our services and to receive benefit from the same services, in the same place and in a similar way as others. Anyone who requires alternative service delivery options will be offered accommodations which take into account their disability.
All staff will be trained in customer service provision in keeping with the Ontario Accessibility Standards for Customer Service (The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005).
Women's Community House will have an Integrated Accessibility Plan (Appendix A) that will be reviewed annually to ensure compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (2005) and Ontario Regulation 429/07 Accessibility Standards.
WCH staff will communicate with people with disabilities in ways that take into account their disability. Print materials & documents will be available in alternative formats such as large print, audio format and with assistance such as ASL upon request within a reasonable time frame.
WCH is equipped to receive and provide service using TTY, relay services, email, etc. and through interpretation services. All staff will communicate with caller in clear and plain language respecting the caller's communication needs. Staff who answer the 24 hr Helpline will be trained during orientation on the use of the TTY.
WCH is committed to serving people with disabilities who use assistive devices to obtain, use or benefit from our services. This includes training staff about the accommodation of various assistive devices such as: scooters, canes, wheelchairs, hearing aids, etc.
Any part of the premise that is open to the public is also open to service animals. Staff will be trained in how to interact with people with disabilities who are accompanied by a service animal. There will be no cost to the client for the normal care of the service animal; however, any costs for veterinary services will be discussed with the client. In the event that a WCH employee, volunteer or another resident is allergic to the particular animal, alternative arrangements where available will be negotiated. Any animal that poses a safety threat to others (e.g. aggressive, poisonous, or illegal in terms of city bylaws) may be excluded.
Any person with a disability who is accompanied by a support person (including males) will be allowed to enter WCH with a support person and will have access to that support person at all times while on WCH property. With a woman's consent, the support person will be allowed to be present during the provision of service, including the sharing of confidential matters. WCH may request a note from a professional (e.g. doctor, nurse, etc.) verifying the need for the support person. There will be no cost for the client or the support person while receiving services from WCH.
WCH will provide notice in the event of a disruption of service in the facility including the reason for the disruption, anticipated duration and a description of alternative facilities or services. The notice will be placed at all public areas and may be recorded on the automated telephone attendant answering message if the disruption is prolonged. Laminated notices regarding temporary loss of accessible washrooms and elevator are available for posting in the residential offices.
WCH welcomes comments on our services regarding how well expectations are being met by all people. Feedback from persons with disabilities is especially welcomed to ensure quality customer service is provided. Feedback can be received verbally, by email at email@example.com, using the Ministry of Community & Social Services survey or on a feedback form available from any staff member. All written feedback will be directed to the Director of Programs & Services. Customers can expect to hear back from WCH within ten business days. See appendix B for signage.
WCH will ensure that all persons to whom this policy applies receive training as required by the Accessibility Standards for Customer Service. In addition, training will be provided to WCH employees and volunteers as part of the orientation training and be retrained with policy changes and every three years for incumbent staff. A record of the training will be kept in the H. R. files. A copy of "A Guide to Annual Accessibility Planning under AODA act 2001" is available in the residential office for staff reference.
WCH is equipped with visual and audible fire alarm systems, and staff are routinely trained to respond in the event of a fire emergency. New residents are given a tour of the building upon arrival which includes emergency exits. Emergency plans and procedures are documented in the Disaster Plan and Intruder Plan policies: This information is also available in alternative format upon request (audio or large print). Accommodations will be made where possible taking into account the individual's disability.
WCH is committed to developing customer service & polices that respect and promote the dignity and independence of people with disabilities, Therefore, no changes will be made to this policy before considering the impact on people with disabilities. Any policy that does not meet the standard will be modified or removed.
This policy exists to achieve service standards to customers with disabilities. If a question arises about the policy, or if the purpose of the policy is not understood, an explanation will be provided by the Director of Programs & Services verbally, in print or in other alternative ways as required to meet the need of the individual.


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Symphony Z10 MSM8917 Android 7.1 Flash Files
Readme Once: Take a Backup: If you are going to flash the above Firmware on your Qualcomm device, then take a backup of important data such as Contacts, Call logs, SMS, and other data as because your personal data will be deleted after flashing the stock firmware.
1- Backup your Call Log – Contacts – Sms – Etc With G Backup
The firmware shared on this page is officially released by the company and helps you to recover your Phone if you ever got bootloop, software error, update error, hanging, Unknown Baseband, IMEI Null and dead issue.
How To Flash Symphony Z10 MSM8917 Android 7.1 Nougat With QPST (QFIL) Tool:
Download Qualcomm QPST. – Qualcomm Drivers. – Symphony Z10 Flash Files.
Step 1. After Drivers installation, Attach Phone to PC via USB cable.
Step 2. While connecting to PC, the phone should be switched off and press volume up & down as boot key.
If it Create Qualcomm HS–USB QDLoader 9008 port in device manager, the driver has been successfully installed.
Once driver installation is complete, follow the instructions below to flash the MBN firmware file to your Qualcomm device.
Step 3. Download the QPST tool & driver.
Step 4. Make sure your device is charged to at least 30%.
Step 5. Run QFIL tool.
Step 6. Now Browse under the Programmer path to Chose MBN File.
Step 7. As soon as the MBN file is selected, Select Build will automatically select the Update or Stock ROM.
Step 8. Next Go To Load XML, select rawprogram_unsparse_without_qcn.xml, and Select Patch0.xml
Load XML comes with two option:
- rawprogram_unsparse_without_qcn.xml: On choosing this file, data will not be lost.
- rawprogram_unsparse.xml: Will lose RF Calibration data, IMEI, and WiFi/Bluetooth Address.
Step 9. Turn off the Phone and Attach it to PC by pressing Vol up & down button.
Step 10. Click on Select Port and choose the port.
Step 11. Click on Download to start flashing.
Step 12. Disconnect device from USB cable once Finish Download appears.
That's all!
Follow Detailed Instruction How To Flash Stock Rom QPST 2.7.422 With QFIL.


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Granted, I'm currently a bridesmaid for my friend, Hannah, so I've been thinking about weddings more than usual, I'm still not ready myself. And I know that MJ has had my engagement ring picked out since our first anniversary, so I figured he wouldn't mind me warming up to the wedding idea. Don't get me wrong, I know I'm going to marry MJ, we're just not ready in my eyes to do so. (Unless one of you would like to pay for the big wedding we plan to have! That would be nice!)
Anyway, since I know my taste has changed a bit since MJ picked out a ring and then showed it to everyone but me, I agreed to do this post in hopes that what he's picked is similar to the one I've picked from Brilliant Earth, if not the one I picked. I love Brilliant Earth, and am happy to do this partnered post, because finding diamonds and making them into some of the most sought-after jewelry is not always done with the environment or people's well-being in mind. Brilliant Earth has strict labor and environmental standards, and gives back to the communities that have been harmed the most by the poor ethics of others in the jewelry industry, through the sales of their conflict-free diamonds. How good would it feel to wear a beautiful ring for the rest of your life, and know that no one was harmed in creating it?
Anyway, I narrowed down my favorites to these two out of all that Brilliant Earth has to offer. It was pretty easy to do since I know I only like square-ish looking cuts, specifically the cushion cut. I also prefer silver over gold, but both of these selections are actually white gold, which I have just decided is the prettiest.
|Left: 18K White Gold Petite Shared Prong | Right: 18K White Gold Chamise Diamond
So, as the final part of this style challenge, we're supposed to create a style board for the ring of our choice, but you guys know how obsessed with Polyvore I am, so I made two. One for a casual setting, maybe part of the engagement photo session? And one for the big day, because what else does the ring remind you of, if not the wedding?
Which Brilliant Earth ring do you like best? Browse their collection and read more about their mission!
This is a partnered post. I was asked to be a part of this challenge, but all opinions are my own.


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<trackbot> Date: 25 November 2009
<hhalpin> scribe: tinkster
<hhalpin> PROPOSED: to approve SWXG WG Weekly -- 18th November 2009 as a true record
<hhalpin> http://www.w3.org/2009/11/18-swxg-minutes.html
<yoshiaki> i see
hhalpin: Minutes need cleaning up, but everyone OK with them apart from that?
<hhalpin> RESOLVED: approved SWXG WG Weekly -- 18th November 2009 as a true record
<mischat> yoshiaki: http://www.w3.org/2001/12/zakim-irc-bot.html
<hhalpin> PROPOSED: to meet again Wed. Decemeber 2nd?
hhalpin: Meet again next week?
hhalpin: No speaker planned for next week. What should we do?
<hhalpin> Chris Messina next week.
<Adam> very nice
<mischat> http://activitystrea.ms/
petef: Chris Messina has been confirmed for next week - ActivityStrea.ms
<tpa> one action was closed
<tpa> I just closed it
hhalpin: Any progress since last week? We should probably just wrap them up, drop unfinished ones. Any issues with that?
<mischat> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/UserStories
<tpa> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/UserNarratives
hhalpin: It seems close to "done". We shouldn't spend too much more time on this.
<mischat> what is the relationship between the UserStories and the UserNarratives
<tpa> we talked about this last week
<Adam> think the groups were already there harry
hhalpin: This needs a strong editor. Henry, Oshani and Tim have sort of volunteered.
<mischat> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/UserStories#Groups is empty
<hhalpin> I am happy to step you through the process of making this is HTML document...
tpa: I was talking with Henry
about this, making them more readable. Dan A gave me an OK to
flesh out this idea.
... This is on the User Narratives wiki page.
<Adam> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/UserNarratives
hhalpin: What should a roll-your-own-Social-Network tool implement?
<hhalpin> Ah, I see now.
tpa: There are three types of users we want to address - end users, developer concerns, business concerns.
<hhalpin> This page is great!
<hhalpin> +1 tpa, the list is too long.
<Adam> my understanding was that they were a way to weave together the user scenarios in to a larger background
tpa: Aim is to take a big list and make it more readable/consumable/relatable.
hhalpin: What can we do to help?
tpa: We have four narratives. (Fourth one is about corporate usage.)
<bblfish> I can do a prison story if you like
<hhalpin> Which actions?
<hhalpin> Which action was done last week?
<mischat> hehe bblfish
tpa: End user story can be written by tpa. Need help with developer and business stories.
<bblfish> ;-)
<cperey> what do you mean business standpoi nt?
<Adam> i think tpa means from a startup standpoint
<cperey> by business stories do you mean corporate story?
tpa: This may be a matter of taking existing user stories and considering them more from a developer/business angle.
cperey: Different between corporate and business stories?
<cperey> can you put a URL to the third story?
<mischat> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/UserNarratives
<mischat> Zoe's ...
tpa: Corporate = social networks in a corporate context. Business = tech is not an end in itself; social networks are businesses.
<mischat> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/UserNarratives#Zoe.27s_angel_trust_ponders_funding_Twitbook
<hhalpin> thinks maybe cperey could run with the business angle
<mischat> agree christine
cperey: Third story seems to be about how social networks can make money. Is that right?
<cperey> that's where I want to be so I'm happy to drive it!
tpa: Yes - precisely. I'd welcome your help on this cperey.
<mischat> i would like to help with http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/UserNarratives#Trent_is_developing_Twitbook
<cperey> Yes
<hhalpin> Should these be actions?
tpa: Adam is taking lead on corporate (4th) story.
Adam: yes, that's right.
tpa: Can we talk more about this next week?
<Adam> peer pressure :)
<cperey> +1
<bblfish> sorry btw, to have been out of the loop for the last few weeks
hhalpin: We've got a backlog of actions. We'll put overdueness indicators beside each of them and start dropping the ones that seem static.
<hhalpin> Let's say end of Dec. or Jan.
<cperey> +1
<hhalpin> ACTION: cperey to flesh out corporate stories [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/25-swxg-minutes.html#action01]
<trackbot> Created ACTION-108 - Flesh out corporate stories [on Christine Perey - due 2009-12-02].
<cperey> Christine is not taking "Corporate stories"
mischat: User stories have one about Trent, which looks good for developer narrative.
<hhalpin> Oh, wait a sec..the "angel" story, right cperey?
<hhalpin> I.e. the "business" story?
<cperey> I'm taking Business strategies narrative (#3)
tobyink: I can have a look at that, yes.
<hhalpin> OK, will delete that previous action after meeting
<hhalpin> ACTION: cperey to take business narrative [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/25-swxg-minutes.html#action02]
<trackbot> Created ACTION-109 - Take business narrative [on Christine Perey - due 2009-12-02].
<hhalpin> ACTION: adam to take on corporate story [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/25-swxg-minutes.html#action03]
<trackbot> Created ACTION-110 - Take on corporate story [on Adam Boyet - due 2009-12-02].
<mischat> nice one tinkster
mischat: I'll make a start on that and liase with tobyink and tpa.
<hhalpin> ACTION: mischat to start on developer story [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/25-swxg-minutes.html#action04]
<trackbot> Sorry, couldn't find user - mischat
<tpa> ACTION: tanglade to take on developer narrative and user stories with mischat [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/25-swxg-minutes.html#action05]
<trackbot> Could not create new action (failed to parse response from server) - please contact sysreq with the details of what happened.
<trackbot> Could not create new action (unparseable data in server response: local variable 'd' referenced before assignment) - please contact sysreq with the details of what happened.
<mischat> hhalpin: my name on the w3c is mtiffiel
<hhalpin> ACTION: mtiffiel to start on developer story [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/25-swxg-minutes.html#action06]
<trackbot> Created ACTION-112 - Start on developer story [on Mischa Tuffield - due 2009-12-02].
<mischat> there you go mhausenblas we are on Final Report now ;)
<hajons> yes
<cperey> who?
<hhalpin> tim berners-lee
hhalpin: We have lots of writeups of speakers.
<cperey> ah, is there a URL?
<cperey> :-)
<mischat> when is it due ?
<cperey> we need to make recommendations
hhalpin: For final report, see if timbl can talk about his big vision; I'm happy to consolidate the various small pieces around that.
<hhalpin> ACTION: [CONTINUES] adam to write up the boeing use case for enterprise social networks [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/25-swxg-minutes.html#action07]
<hhalpin> ACTION: [CONTINUES] oshani to reframe the geolocation/intent/portability [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/25-swxg-minutes.html#action08]
<hhalpin> ACTION: [CONTINUES] bblfish to relabel data protection use case to be about controlled access and takedown to data "about" you [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/25-swxg-minutes.html#action09]
<hajons> Good idea. His vision was not entirely clear to me, so I think him writing something about it would be great
<hhalpin> ACTION: [CONTINUES] bblfish to merge Family and Group access usecases [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/25-swxg-minutes.html#action10]
<hhalpin> ACTION: [CONTINUES] hhalpin explain to henry and oshani doc editing process for usecases [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/25-swxg-minutes.html#action11]
<hhalpin> ACTION: [CONTINUES] DKA to write-up output of XG meeting next Tuesday [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/25-swxg-minutes.html#action12]
tpa?: His vision was changing the architecture for how this social data is stored and accessed.
<hhalpin> ACTION: [CONTINUES] DKA to send notes to camp to Social Web XG wiki and BarCamp.org [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/25-swxg-minutes.html#action13]
<hhalpin> ACTION: [CONTINUES] DKA to summarize OSLO and geoLocation conversation in order to spread knowledge of these efforts among W3C members. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/25-swxg-minutes.html#action14]
<hhalpin> ACTION: [CONTINUES] Mischa to describe/implement a report of terms and conditions, and how they change between now and the end of the XG. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/25-swxg-minutes.html#action15]
hhalpin: I'll try to get timbl involved.
<hhalpin> ACTION: [CONTINUES] Adam to write up Matt Lee's talk [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/25-swxg-minutes.html#action16]
<hhalpin> ACTION: [CONTINUES] mtuffied to put up wiki page about social networks deploying these technologies. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/25-swxg-minutes.html#action17]
<hhalpin> ACTION: [CONTINUES] oshani to write up David Recordon and Luke Shepard talk [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/25-swxg-minutes.html#action18]
<hhalpin> ACTION: hhalpin to try to get TimBL to either talk or write-up his use-cases [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/25-swxg-minutes.html#action19]
<trackbot> Created ACTION-113 - Try to get TimBL to either talk or write-up his use-cases [on Harry Halpin - due 2009-12-02].
tpa?: Tim's vision is that the data is stored in the cloud and you'd use apps to process that.
<cperey> The final report: we need to make recommendations
hhalpin: Eran's gotten OAuth off the ground, simplified XRD, etc. Eran can you introduce your work?
<cperey> person who just entered
Eran: The basic premise is to bootstrap new social protocols on top of existing web arch; allow people to identify themselves using (interrupted)
<claudio> Zakin, mute me
Eran: OAuth takes care of
security/authorisation part.
... But how do we find out what services a person uses, their preferences, their friends, etc?
... Started by looking at how to make OAuth easier.
... Has expanded into 5 or 6 specs across multiple standardisation bodies.
... It's a big/common problem. Value in solving it consistently.
<hhalpin> +1 to links being fundamental building block
Eran: Links are a fundamental
building block. If I've got a URI, I can get a representation
of that and find more links from it.
... Using HTML <link> elements we started to run into some problems.
... Adding the links changes to documents and violates the purity of the document.
... Retrieving the documents is a lot of work.
<PhilA2> See http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-http-link-header-06
Eran: So we've been looking at
the HTTP "Link" header which was taken out of HTTP 1.1 but
we're trying to bring back.
... Allows links in the HTTP header itself.
... HTTP also used to have LINK and UNLINK methods in addition to GET, POST, etc.
<hhalpin> I vaguely remember hearing/reading from Roy that the removal of "Link" from HTTP was a cut-and-paste error :)
<mischat> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/9707-link-header.html
<jar> no, that was removal of Link: header, not LINK method
Eran: Still looking for ways to make this better. Sometimes resources don't have a representation at all, so GET/HEAD don't return anything useful.
<mischat> ah
<hhalpin> meant link header :)
Eran: Yadis/XRDS uses content negotiation to do this. You'd make a request for a URI and ask for XRDS and get a description.
<hhalpin> interesting point re misbehaving proxies for conneg.
Eran: But this doesn't seem to be
an appropriate use of conneg. And big consumers like Yahoo
refused to use it because of the risk of broken proxies.
... But how about using a pattern which maps between resource URIs and description URIs. We spent 6 months trying to figure out where to store that mapping pattern.
<hhalpin> Am a bit confused about relationship between host-meta and .well-known
Eran: We came up with two
solutions. One was a well-known document called first
site-meta, then host-meta, then .well-known.
... There isn't a good way of storing this information other than well-known locations. (Other than DNS, more on that later.)
... HTTP OPTIONS looked promising, but not cachable or widely implemented/understood.
... LRDD tries to unify all these ideas. If you have a resource identified by a URI, there are three paths to find descriptions for it. (Not all of them will always be available.)
<PhilA2> Eran's excellent summary of this issue from September 2008 is at http://hueniverse.com/2008/09/discovery-and-http/
Eran: 1. <link> elements within document; 2. Link HTTP headers; 3. host-meta.
<hhalpin> +1 order of precedence
Eran: LRDD started as a very generic solution, but we plan on making it less generic because host-meta/.well-known provides alternative building-blocks for more flexible solutions.
<bblfish> I had a question earlier
<PhilA2> This document http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/mime-respect suggests that HTTP Link should be the first/most authoritative
hhalpin: What if different sources of metadata contradict each other? What are the social web use cases?
Eran: If you use OpenID, you're starting with an identifier. The application then needs to figure out from that how to authenticate you.
<hhalpin> Exactly, that's where LRDD or some notion of "authoritative" metadata algorithm would be useful.
Eran: Because OpenID is a
security protocol, it's important that all apps use the same
approach - otherwise conflicting data could be very
... OpenID thus has a very well-defined order of precedence when looking for links.
... For LRDD, when you take a URI, you need to figure out which description methods are available to you.
... Once you know your options, the issues are which do you try first, and what happens if you get different response codes?
... Link header is defined differently to other headers. A "Link" header on an HTTP 401 page is a link from the error page, not a link from the thing you asked for.
... If there's a 303, do you follow the redirection and use the links at the destination; or both?
... Different people will want to take different approaches.
... Some will want to slurp up as much data as possible; some will want to stop as soon as they find what they need.
... LRDD right now is essentially an inventory of your options.
... Another way we could have written LRDD would be to say which order you should check descriptions.
... Right now we want to move to a very deterministic approach, because the building blocks are still there for those who want to do things differently.
<hhalpin> http://www.iana.org/assignments/relation/
<PhilA2> See http://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relations.xhtml
hhalpin: <link> doesn't have a centralised registry. HTML5 has a wiki page. IANA might be starting a registry.
<hhalpin> all we have right now is ATOM :)
<PhilA2> (The link I posted was for Atom)
Eran: mnot started resurrecting Link and merging it with the Atom <link> registry.
<hhalpin> Maybe just update that Atom page?
<hhalpin> Or maybe not...
Eran: Some relationships have very specific meanings for particular media - e.g. rel="stylesheet" in HTML.
<PhilA2> HTTP Link Header draft establishes a new registry. See http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-http-link-header-06#section-6.2
<mischat> sounds like rdfa
Eran: People expect relationships to have semantic meanings like "parent" or "copyright". Some people want to restrict the media type / format of the linked object.
<hhalpin> well, this would be a way to give something like "foaf:Person" a shortname
<hhalpin> and solve the rather infamous namespace issue, i.e.what if people forget the namespace for certain well-known RDF vocabularies?
Eran: We'll probably have two types of relationship - some which are useful across different contexts - and these will be registered.
<Zakim> mhausenblas, you wanted to ask on XRD deployment (re update on http://linkeddata.deri.ie/tr/2009-discovery)
Eran: Other than that you can use a URI for a relationship type and you don't need to register it.
<mischat> sure, but the beauty of rdf is that you can say anything, why have to wait for a standard to be drawn out
<mischat> +1 tinkster
<PhilA2> yeay!
<hhalpin> +1 for having a centralized registries
Eran: For HTML5 we hope to avoid the need for different registry.
mhausenblas: Do you have any info on the XRD deployment base?
Eran: it's going through OASIS. We've got another change to align better with Atom's links that still needs to happen.
<mischat> mmm gmail foaf page?
Eran: In terms of deployment, it's used in Gmail/Yahoo for WebFinger. Not much data there. Gmail point to some FOAF.
<mischat> is that out already ?
Eran: We're waiting for some of the missing pieces to drop into place, especially LRDD.
hhalpin: What's the relationship between .well-known and host-meta?
<hhalpin> has one been deprecated?
Eran: Originally wanted to have
one document called site-meta which would be *the* place to
link to other documents. No more well-known URIs ever.
... It was then renamed to host-meta because site is not the right term.
... But people said it would never work - it adds too much indirection.
... Concerns that "/host-meta" might already be used on some hosts.
<hhalpin> Ah, good point re someone getting /hoste-meta
Eran: So instead we decided that
any well-known paths are OK, so long as they start with
"/.well-known/" and are registered.
... But rather than require people to register well-known documents, they can still use host-meta to store data if that's more suitable.
... An HTTP server on port 80 also has authority to provide host-meta data for other services on other ports (but the same host name).
hhalpin: Any more questions?
<jar> TAG is trying to track this, but there needs to be more coordination
<mischat> are you there tinkster
<mischat> i can scribe
<jar> (actually I meant more coordination within W3C!)
Eran: I'm in constant touch with W3C TAG; make sure they're aware of this work and provide feedback.
<mischat> does the W3C need to track the LRDD, and similar outputs from the OpenID/OAuth world
Eran: Role of W3C should be
formats, more ways of describing metadata, making RDF easier to
use for descriptions.
... W3C doesn't seem agile enough to support these communities. That's a bigger topic - how do we get the audience of the W3C to participate in these ideas without slowing down spec generation?
<PhilA2> Can't help noting that POWDER is all about making RDF about lots of resources easier to publish ;-)
<jar> among other things, W3C should decide how to advise use of these link mechanisms for nose-following... is POWDER the whole story?
<hajons> example host-meta: http://gmail.com/.well-known/host-meta
Eran: Maybe eventually we would want to turn to W3C or similar for standardisation once the specs are more stable.
<jar> I mean RDF nose-following specifically
<PhilA2> Even I wouldn't claim POWDER's the whole story jar!
Eran: This has been discussed extensively on TAG, so they're paying attention. TAG issues 62 and 63 relate to it.
<jar> (POWDER needs credit & standing. gets overlooked)
hhalpin: It's been discussed a lot recently what should be changed with RDF.
<mischat> interesting hajons
hhalpin: At TPAC we discussed
what the W3C could do to become more agile. Incubator groups
seem a good start, but what would be better?
... Can the W3C give advice on, e.g. how IP issues can be resolved?
Eran: W3C participation is very
... Open Web Foundation exists because a lot of people don't want to work within established standards bodies.
... Standards bodies can address some of these issues, but others cannot be addressed because of the very nature of standards bodies.
... OAuth started as a bunch of people hacking at something to try to make it work, but wanted a more "adult" spec, so turned to IETF,
... If XRD hadn't started within OASIS, then I would have taken XRD Simple to the W3C once it was getting mature.
<caribou> waiting until they are in stable state is not saving time
Eran: Little communication
between standards bodies and communities.
... Standards bodies need to look at how we can support this work without getting jealous and competing.
hhalpin: Right now W3C is concentrating a lot on APIs.
<Zakim> PhilA, you wanted to chip in
hhalpin: We'd like to run our final report by you.
Eran: Sure.
PhilA: Device Application Working
Group has taken ideas from outside the W3C.
... I met Eran just over a year ago. If I'd seen XRD before we started POWDER (or vice versa) we might not have ended up with them both.
... Some competition is inevitable because not everybody communicates with everybody else.
Eran: I meant more about gratuitous competing standards.
hhalpin: Academic journals - if you have a good paper, there's often only one journal it should be sent to.
<hhalpin> or is that problematic?
<mischat> i have to go now people, will follow on IRC
hhalpin: Perhaps standards should be endorsed by multiple different organisations. Perhaps W3C should be able to say, "for this use case, take a look at this spec".
Eran: W3C stamp means more than
"this is a good idea" - it has e.g. IP consequences.
... With XRD we spent a year throwing things out.
<hhalpin> easier to let people who start something finish it - like that point.
<hajons> have to go. thanks for a great talk
Eran: But spec writing doesn't
need to take long. It would be good if there was an easy path
for turning a community spec into a standard.
... The W3C already has the right expertise.
<hhalpin> well, we could imagine something like OWF or something jumping in where the XG process is right here.
Eran: I'm involved in this work because of my day-job with Yahoo.
hhalpin: Thanks Eran. We'll be
wrapping up now.
... Final Report should be in draft form in Jan/Feb. We'd like to hear any ideas you've got.
... What would you suggest we say in our summary of OAuth/WRAP?
<hhalpin> At some point, we should have serious discussion on maybe this topic - how to avoid rubber-stamping?
Eran: I'm happy to talk about this in the future. Now that it's 8am it's not so bad!
<cperey> bye all
<hhalpin> Meeting adjourned.
<hhalpin> trackbot, end meeting
<cperey> very valuable


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FTR was at the 24 & 12 hour European & UK 24 hour solo championships again in 2013. Supporting Michael McCutcheon in the 24 hour event and Chris Noble in the 12 hour event.
Michael got 2nd and Chris got 6th. A very good, but tiring weekend.
FTR was proud to help support Mark Spratt in retaining his 24 hour European & UK 24 hour solo championship title held at Rock UK, Newcastleton on 7th and 8th of April 2012. Not only did Mark win the European and UK 24 hour Veteran class but would have been 2nd overall in the open solo 24 hours, to the winner Huw Thomas, who was the only two to complete an impressive 20 laps of the 11 mile course.
Marks write up/blog entry about retaining his title is here.
Also I would like to say well done to another FTR customer, Chris Noble for winning the 12 hour single speed category.
So if you have a 6 to 24 hour plus, solo or team event coming up and you would like some event/mechanic support, please contact FTR.


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24th & Colorado stoplight installed, ready for operation
With the poles and mast arms installed, a stoplight at 24th Street and Colorado Avenue this week was the flick of a Colorado Springs Utilities switch away from becoming operational.
Project engineer Colleen Dawson said she has not been told by Utilities how soon that would take place, but City Transportation Manager Kathleen Krager has previously predicted the light should be on at least by mid-May.
When it is functional, motorists and pedestrians will find a light that is synchronized with the other lights through Old Colorado City, according to Rob Helt of Traffic Engineering.
As a result, during what Helt termed the weekday ōa.m. and p.m. peaksö (about 7 to 8:30 a.m. and 4 to 6:30 p.m.) 24th and the other lights through Old Colorado City are geared to give avenue traffic a higher percentage of the green time. The side-street traffic can get a longer green the rest of the time, aided by the same type of video detection system used at other side streets along the avenue through Old Colorado City, he said.
Pedestrians have buttons at 24th that will produce a walker logo when the light changes. The city will set the allowed ōpedestrian clearance timeö based on a measurement by the city of how long it takes a person to walk across either street, Helt said.
Dawson noted that the stoplight poles were specially ordered in a historically styled, scalloped design with ōfancier lights on topö that matches those at other Old Colorado City stoplights.
The contractor was A Higher Power Electrical Inc., a Colorado Springs firm.
According to Krager, the main reason the city decided to install the light was a concern for pedestrians crossing between the north side of the avenue (which has Bancroft Park and, in the summer and fall, the Farmers Market) and the south side of the avenue (which has various commercial/retail offerings).
Also for that reason, a stoplight at the intersection had been requested for years by numerous Old Colorado City residents, business people and/or property owners. The city installed pedestrian-activated flashing lights across one side of the avenue five years ago, but they were criticized for being ineffective and potentially creating a false sense of security.
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Privatization will lead to less corruption:Points to be known:-
- Privatization is the incidence or process of transferring ownership of a business, enterprise, agency or public service from the public sector to the private sector.
In Favor:-
- Employees of private companies are given high salaries, so they are much more motivated to work, and less interest on corruption.
- Private companies take immediate action on those who take bribe. This creates fear in employees to take bribe.
- If we take private airports, they take more care to keep them clean and to provide more facilities.
- Private companies have competitive spirit. So, they offer more features to public.
- Through privatization, our country's GDP increases from the taxes.
In Against:-
- There is no guarantee that privatization leads to less corruption, because there are some companies in the news which did scam.
- The cost of products increases by privatization.
- If we take private petrol bunks, even though they keep petrol bunks clean, they charge high than the bunks under government control.
- Our rights of demanding decreases by privatization.
Corruption does not depend on whether it's private or government, it completely depends on individual's attitude. But by privatization, we can reduce corruption up to some extent.


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Mike and I headed out to Verona, New York on Saturday morning to pick up our race packets at Turning Stone casino. We've been there only a few times before so it was fun to go back, and we were able to gamble because each runner got a 10 dollar free play card! I lost all of my money immediately but Mike played for awhile before he eventually lost it all too.
After checking into our hotel we were trying to figure out something to do before going to dinner. There weren't really any good movies out so I suggested mini golf. We ended up going to the only mini golf place in the area and that was an adventure in and of itself! Just take a look at the place.
We ended the night with some pasta and ice cream, if you are ever in the Utica, Rome or Verona area check out Nicky Doodles they have great ice cream!
Race morning wasn't too early of a start, basically the same time we wake up for work. We checked out of our hotel and then drove to the casino. When we got there I started to text Jenny and as I was she texted me! She was also running the half marathon so we were planning on meeting up. Luckily, as we were walking out of the parking garage we walked right by her and her husband.
After hitting the port-a-potties and stretching, it was time to lineup. There were a little over 300 people running the half and one person in the wheelchair category. The national anthem played and then the announcer sent the man in the wheelchair on his way. After about another 4 minutes, we were starting.
I tried not to go out too fast but my first mile was under 9 minute pace. I could actually see Mike and Jenny and I knew that I had to slow down a little bit. I was also really worried about the sun/heat because there wasn't a cloud in the sky and it was already 70 degrees.
I kept my pace under control the next few miles and as I hit mile 5 I saw Jenny's husband! It was really nice to see someone familiar out on the course. Unfortunately, right after I saw him I had to stop and stretch/walk for a few seconds. My calves were really tight and the sun was starting to get to me.
I only took one energy gel during the race and I think that it helped me enough to get to the finish line. I did end up walking a few more times, but I know that if it had been cooler that I wouldn't have needed to walk.
Around mile 10 I still had a chance to PR if I could run the last 5K around 30 minutes. As soon as I started the 11th mile I knew that wasn't going to happen, the sun had taken its toll on me. I focused on just finishing at that point, which was hard because the last 2-3 miles were completely in the sun with a few hills!
Finally, I rounded the corner back on to the casino's grounds and right before mile 13 I saw Jenny and her husband! She told me, "it's just up there", to which I made a comment about it being literally up. It wasn't the worst uphill finish we've had but at that point I just wanted to cross the finish line.
As I approached the finish I saw Mike and then finally finished my fifth half marathon!
My finishing time was 2:10:31 according to my watch (2:10:39 official time but we don't think that's right because it wasn't the chip time, even though we had chips), which is my second fastest half marathon time ever. Mike had a great race and finished under 2 hours for the second time with a time of 1:59:19 (official time 1:59:29).
None of us really felt like eating much right after the race so we grabbed some light food and chatted in the hallway for a little bit. We ended the day with a few photos.
Overall, I am really happy with how this race turned out considering the conditions. I know that I can run a PR half marathon and eventually run under 2 hours, I just need everything to be "perfect".


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Thanks to the 'Traffic Fleet' application, trailer manufacturer EBO van Weel has strengthened significantly its market position in traffic systems. Its new generation of mobile electronic traffic signs are a huge success. By adding a high-tech service to their existing trailers, it's carved out a niche in the market. EBO van Weel has gone from being a traditional family business to a high-tech company. In 2014, EBO van Weel sold three times more Traffic Fleet subscriptions than anticipated.
As a third-generation family business, EBO van Weel needed to innovate if it was to stand out in a highly competitive crowd. It was company director Benny van Weel who came up with the idea of mapping in real time all trailers with traffic management systems. It wasn't simply a case of making the locations visible; the application also had to let users change the text messages on the electronic boards via a desktop, laptop or tablet.
"Text messages on the mobile traffic systems can be changed in real-time using our web-based application."
We developed a web-based environment using Google Maps. This enabled us to show the real-time location of all of EBO van Weel's trailers on an interactive map. Information wasn't restricted to locations. Also shown are maintenance times, battery voltages and the text messages on each matrix board. It's simple for users to change these messages. Enigmatry Director Goran Balaban: "We understand that a relatively small family business can't afford a project to fail. That's why we created a user-friendly product that meets the customer's wishes. Those are the results we want to be judged on."
The key to making the best decisions is knowing the facts. Having transparency. That's exactly what you get with our smart applications: complex data made instantly clear.
Policy coordination, decision making and transparent communication? No problem. Our intuitive applications gather large quantities of data from different sources and turn them into accessible and transparent information.
You have a mass of data, so how do you locate the information essential to your decision making? Prices, costs, numbers, scores or ratings; we clear the clutter and leave you with an overview. For example, with a web-based application. Open and transparent. User-friendly and intuitive.
Deciding which management information is necessary, cleaning up and linking data, ensuring proper access. We take the hassle out of data management and usability with our mathematical and statistical database knowledge and our user-friendly interfaces. Translating your information needs into a smart and ready-to-use IT solution.
Want to make targeted decisions, get the most out of your IT software or launch a new business concept? Enigmatry designs, maintains and continually develops smart applications. To enhance your business processes and to increase the effectiveness of your company.Expand
Inventing, designing, maintaining and enhancing smart IT applications. That is Enigmatry. We produce solutions that strengthen organizations and increase the effectiveness of their processes. We will:
We like to think of ourselves as your partner, an extension to your business strategy. Which is why we will first spend time learning about your organization and its products and services. It's the only way to offer realistic advice. To keep to budgets and schedules. To make your project a success.
Our team of over 50 experienced, highly-skilled professionals take responsibility for producing the right results: a user-friendly and intuitive application that meets your needs perfectly. Guaranteed.
Fulfil your company's potential by increasing your software's effectiveness. We'll help you fully master all your IT applications. With smart management, ongoing maintenance and continued development. With ease.
Boost your company's competitiveness with smart application management. Because well-maintained applications work better. And because regular updates reduce your business risks. We'll learn everything we can about your applications. Then we'll provide management, maintenance and continued development. That's our guarantee.
It goes without saying that we'll resolve any software problems that crop up. But prevention is far better than cure. Our smart management methods will tackle incidents before they become a problem. By monitoring your applications continuously, we add value to your company. The result? Worries about your IT processes are a thing of the past. All you have to do is focus on your core business.
We invest in long-term relationships. That's why our developers remain closely involved with managing and evolving your applications. The knowledge our developers accumulate is preserved in house, ensuring continuity and quality of service.
The Board of Public Information is an online database provided by the Dutch Ministry of Interior. The aim is to make government knowledge, data and information transparent to policy-makers, who base their policies on this information, and accessible to ordinary citizens, who have a legal right to such information. This user-friendly website, developed by Enigmatry, has tripled the number of visitors since its latest release!
Information from the Board of Public Information comes from many different sources, including pension fund ABP, benefits agency UWV, individual ministries and research agencies. These various sources of data needed to be linked so they can be opened in an easy-to-use application.
"Themes help visitors access information easily."
We developed a web-based application that organizes data in two ways: arranged by theme and displayed in tables and graphs. CEO Jelle de Haan: "User-friendliness was paramount. Databases are not the core business of policy makers. That's our specialty. Because users were unlikely to know which data should be combined for a particular result, we came up with the themes. Everything is sorted according to these themes and, each year, the Information Base is updated. We clean up the updated databases and make sure proper links are made."
The strength of an organization lies in its ability to renew itself. To develop new concepts and applications. Enigmatry helps organizations turn ideas into effective solutions; that's what we're good at.
Putting an innovative idea, product or service onto the market? No matter how big or complex your dream is, Enigmatry will show you the possibilities. We'll get to know your goals. Spot opportunities. Then skilfully translate these opportunities into easy-to-use IT solutions.
Innovate, transform and develop using smart IT solutions. Our screen designs and prototypes will show you what's possible. Together, we'll generate new ideas. By stimulating and challenging each other, you can take decisive steps in innovating your organization.
If you have a great idea and you need a partner, look no further than Enigmatry. Our advice is always open and honest. After all, no one likes a project to fail. Our team of over 50 skilled professionals will draw on their considerable experience to determine what's feasible and what the risks are. If your idea looks promising, we'll invest in it and become a partner. Our goal is your goal: making your organization perform better.
We understand the power of a productive partnership. Contributing to the thinking process and generating ideas. We'll connect you with our core team of highly experienced professionals - the face of our organization – to make that happen. We'll then go back to our teams of developers (we have over 50 specialists), who will transform your concept into reality. Our core team has been working out of the historic 'Groothandelsgebouw' in Rotterdam since 2006. Our teams of developers are based in Serbia.
No time difference with the Netherlands, and minimum cultural differences. What's more, Serbia has access to a large pool of excellent programmers. Our professional developers – 25 in total – have to meet stringent selection criteria to join Enigmatry. Many have graduated from the Novi Sad Technical University. This experienced team works hand in glove with our core team in Rotterdam, which guarantees fast and efficient processes.
Just like our team in Novi Sad, Team Belgrade represents the ideal mix of expertise, quality and price. Nearshoring makes this possible: external teams, close to home. The Serbian capital is the business location of many international companies and highly-trained professionals. Many developers in our team of 27 professionals come from the Technical University of Belgrade. They collaborate with our team in Novi Sad for our Dutch customers.
Every issue, no matter how complex, can be captured by a user-friendly and intuitive application. We make that happen by employing the Agile method, in partnership with you. A clear goal is outlined as quickly as possible. Short lead times are adopted, usually of one or two weeks, so that our team and your company can re-evaluate the project and steer it in another direction if necessary. The further along the process, the more concrete the work becomes: from vision and prototype to dynamic management and maintenance.
Good working methods do not guarantee good results; craftsmanship does. At Enigmatry, we believe the people, the teams, the communication, the right tools and the partnership with our customers make all the difference. We are constantly setting higher standards. It's how we deliver excellent software. Or as we we call it: craftsmanship.
As specialists, we work only with the best tools and we keep up to date with the latest developments. We are constantly challenging ourselves to offer our customers the best solutions. Our professional toolkit includes: .NET, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Objective-C, Java, MSSQL, NoSQL, Azure, Elastic Search and jQuery. For document or content management, we are currently using Umbraco, Orchard, Alfresco or Kentico. Everything, in other words. It's simply a case of the right tools for the job.
The SBO software package is among the most commonly used and stable tax return packages in the Netherlands. Developed by multimedia publisher Sdu and managed, maintained and upgraded by Enigmatry, this application is used by tax advisors and offices across the country. Of course, program development is never static since tax laws change endlessly. That's why Enigmatry releases an updated version to all of Sdu's customers five times a year and provides technical support.
In 2011, the original developer of the SBO software package decided to stop issuing new updates. Sdu no longer had the capacity to maintain the ten-year-old software, let alone upgrade it. This was a serious problem for customers, who relied on the software being updated five times a year to reflect constantly changing tax laws. Enigmatry understood the urgency and leapt on board to assist Sdu. The stakes were high. The deadlines were short.
"We always retain in house the knowledge we accumulate in our projects."
Enigmatry immersed itself in the software, retaining in house all the knowledge it built up. Handling that accumulated knowledge in the right way was crucial to the success of the project. Enigmatry has been SBO's IT administrator ever since. Enigmatry director Goran Balaban: "Just one mistake can lead to serious consequences, especially in tax software packages. Fortunately, we have the skills and resources to keep everything under control. We started out as a contractor, but now we are a partner for Sdu. Together, we make a great product. Our professionals make the difference. They're very good at IT, but they've also learnt all the nuances of taxation. That's why they stay involved with this project. Accumulated knowledge is valuable. It's the reason we always work towards long-term relationships with our customers."
You can find the office of Enigmatry on the 8th floor of the monumental Grand Trade Building, next to Rotterdam Central Station. Plan your trip to Rotterdam Central Station with the NS-reisplanner or with 9292-OV
From The Hague / Delft:
From Utrecht and Breda / Tilburg / Eindhoven:
You can find the office of Enigmatry on the 8th floor of the monumental Grand Trade Building, next to Rotterdam Central Station.
Plan your trip to Rotterdam Central Station with the NS-reisplanner or with 9292-OV.
Enigmatry can be found most easily when you arrived at the Grand Trade Building, chooses entrance C.
From the parking garage:
From Rotterdam Central Station:
Also from input A to reach our office:
Scattered throughout the Groothandelsgebouw stand kiosks which also the route to our office can retrieve.


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words: Mary Walsh
photos: Aaron Blatt and Chris "Scandolf" Moran
It was a hot night in Southern California last Friday, September 12, 2014 when a few hundred family, friends, and industry attendees arrived in San Clemente for the first viewing of The SNOWBOARDER Movie: Foreword. Stance Socks had graciously opened their doors to host the crowd for the evening, projecting the film on an enormous indoor screen. Excitement was high as people filtered in and cracked icy PBR's to kill the late summer heat, letting wintery anticipation fill the space. The riders of Foreword had, of course, flown in to SoCal for the screening as well. A movie premiere is an exciting thing, but last Friday night held even more anticipation as for many of the individuals in Foreword, this was their first large-scale film project they had ever been a part of.
The accessibility of video cameras and the propagation of subsequent edits all over the internet has created a landscape flooded with young kids whose skills have been shaped by repeat viewings of video parts by Joe Sexton, Gigi Ruf, Scott Stevens, Bode Merrill, Jed Anderson, and the like. But while this expansion of attainable media has created a platform for aspiring riders, there's a lot to wade through in the melee and making oneself stand out requires a lot of legwork, potentially more than ever before in snowboarding's brief history. Coupled with this is the industry's eagerness to identify the next up and comer, to sign the next up and comer, to be the next up and comer. This competition for both riders and brands makes it challenging to identify the individuals who are truly carrying the torch as they come of age as the current generation.
And this is one of the things that makes The SNOWBOARDER Movie: Foreword a unique project. In Foreword, the selected riders should not be defined solely as up and comers. Yes, they are early on the arc of their professional careers, but they are ten snowboarders who are set to redefine the status quo on their own terms and are more than just the next big names to pass by on Facebook newsfeeds. Ben Ferguson, Blake Paul, Dillon Ojo, Dylan Alito, Garrett Warnick, Hans Mindnich, Jaeger Bailey, Nils Mindnich, Sam Taxwood, and Spencer Schubert are not complacent to merely inherit the reigns of snowboarding, but set on redefining what those reigns entail. In Foreword, fifteen years since SNOWBOARDER Magazine's last film offering, 1999, SNOWBOARDER set out to not only celebrate the individuals who we feel will positively affect snowboarding over the next decade and beyond, but honor the tradition of the snowboard film as the best way to showcase their talents.
Seeing as the cast of Foreword came of age within the cadre of SNOWBOARDER events like The Launch and Superpark, it is fitting that the first scenes of the film take place on the corduroy runs of Woodward Copper, on which Ben Ferguson, Hans Mindnich, Sam Taxwood, and friends showcase the resort terrain that led them to their current positions within snowboarding. Ben Ferguson has proved himself to be much more than just an emerging pipe rider as his board control and talent on transition far surpass any restrictions set by halfpipe walls or contest rules. Watching Taxwood rip up the walls and boost out of the coping is heavy.
From that session, The SNOWBOARDER Movie: Foreword shifts into gear. The efforts of filmers Trent Ludwig, Jon Ray, Derek Weimer, and John Cavan paired perfectly with that of the cast of snowboarders and while watching it is the best way to experience Foreword, don't worry, opener and ender are not revealed in the following, so read on.
It goes without saying that the Quebecois have been adamant about staking their claim as tastemakers of rail riding and over the past two years, Dillon Ojo has emerged as one of the most promising French Canadians braving sub-zero centigrade to proliferate new takes on both classic and creative street locations. In his first full length part, this Nowamean rider literally bumps Riff Raff and figuratively blows doors. Trick after trick of jaw droppers lead up to an ender that the moniker of "never been done" doesn't do justice to. Ben Bilodeau shares the song and infuses some SLC style into the segment with a proper frontboard and some hefty lines and redirects.
Along with Ojo, Hans and Nils Mindnich make up the East Coast representation in Foreword. Hans and Nils, despite the lack of vertical they had access to growing up, were bred for big mountains and Foreword provides a proper introduction to the Mindnichs' striking natural abilities in bigger peaks and deeper snow. Hans offers one of the most assertive parts of the movie, and rightly so, as this Vermonter has a lot to prove, though his efforts are in no way contrived. Though Hans' mellow misdemeanor doesn't let on, the past few seasons he, along with his younger brother, have transitioned from kids with head-to-toe sponsor packages into riders rebuilt whose natural snowboarding talents are gaining recognition away from the contest arenas of their youth as they moves into a more appropriate canvas: the backcountry. In his first year spent really filming in the North American steeps, Hans' ability to transition his competent jumping ability onto powder jumps and natural terrain is striking.
Nils is no different. He is the more sage of the brothers when snowboarding, but shares the ability to throw unexpected tricks with organic easiness. Nils regularly utilizes grab selection in a way that few other snowboarders choose to, eschewing the norm for his own brand of increasingly prolific style: tuck knees, double grabs and bloody Draculas are staples for Nils when out of bounds. These tricks, along with a some big spins are just the beginning of what this 20-year-old snowboarder has to offer.
Sharing a part with Nils is Sam Taxwood. In Foreword Sam's capabilities on transition and in the backcountry are plentiful in his part. In addition to his requisite banger rail shots, intro film of Taxwood boosting overhead airs in the Woodward Copper pipe, front nines in the backcountry and massive hip airs make for a more than well-rounded segment that includes a textbook switch method redirect. It's further proof that Stax is just a badass whose powerful riding shows no signs of letting up in the coming seasons. Unfortunately, last year a mid-season injury sidelined the Taxwood for a portion of the winter and considering the shots he was able to collect despite this only makes us more excited to see what he puts down in the coming seasons.
At only 21-years-old, Jaeger Bailey is one of the more seasoned of the crew when it comes to movie projects, having filmed parts with Think Thank and competed in the X Games Real Snow competition. With all of that under his belt, this Washington-born rider's portion of Foreword is undoubtedly his best offering yet as his snowboarding continues to evolve. Jaeger's part is a packed compilation of proper frontboards and backlips, transfers, a few flips here and there, and some very large drops. Most importantly, what Jaeger does is creative. His success in how he approaches spots elevates his snowboarding—it's just real fun to watch.
Street-savvy Dylan Alito performs in his section, his snowboarding loud and fast like an eighties power chord punk song. An X Games silver medalist and celebrated party starter, when Dylan straps in, he sends it full throttle (this also applies to his afterparty outlook). His section in The SNOWBOARDER Movie is further proof that his tendency to throw down in urban environments pushes him further each season, combining proper tricks with the occasional one-footer or flip. Cruising the streets with a loose and defiant style, Alito takes on bomb drops with complete disregard for the potential knee-crushing outcomes, continually riding away victorious. Tallying up, his part is another win for this Denver local.
In stark contrast to the street segments of Ojo, Bailey, and Alito, it's no surprise that with Blake Paul's Jackson, Wyoming roots he would deliver a compelling off-piste part that has an almost artistic feel about it. Whether Blake is making hard carves in hard boots or dropping powdery pillows, he is effortlessly at home on his board. From front three Japans to switch back ones and big front nines, the fluidity of #bproddiproductions' snowboarding mirrors the picturesque location that has shaped his abilities. Blake's section is floaty and smooth and he ends it with a clean front ten, riding off through the deep snow to continue his reign as the Backcountry Prince.
Garrett "Worm" Warnick comes in with one of the most diverse portions of the movie, splitting his part evenly between sending it in the streets and dropping into backcountry cheese wedges, deftly switching between both scenarios. Worm rides with a deliberate style shaped from growing up on the trails of Mammoth, but the young kid lapping Main Park has now applied his abilities outside the boundaries of a resort and it's working out real well. In Foreword, switch backside variations, lofty back ones and more made the transition from terrain park to big mountain, interspersed with cityscape bomb drops, pole jams, and redirects, proving that while Worm emerged out of a place that has bred a litany of pro riders, he's following no one's sled tracks but his own.
Spencer Schubert has become a popular face on the internet the past few seasons. Through his shots in High Cascade session videos, Lick the Cat edits, and Dragon's am team series last year, Spencer's style of snowboarding has become familiar, yet consistently unexpected as he combines an unusual way of looking at things with a deep, legitimate trick selection. In Foreword, his exclusively urban part is exactly that. From the opening trick to the ender, Spencer's section is full-on heaters, at times navigating ludicrous features and making heavy tricks look almost easy. Almost. While shooting the movie, Spencer crewed up with Dillon Ojo, and while he is from practically the furthest area away from the rail riding mecca of Quebec, he is the de facto flag bearer of the Bend, Oregon-raised rail movement. It's a smaller contingent than what's going on in eastern Canada, but if Spenny's level of talent has anything to say about it, it's poised to go the distance.
Throughout Foreword, the themes of opportunity, effort, and accomplishment permeate alongside footage of Chris Bradshaw, Bode Merrill, Jake Blauvelt, and Bryan Iguchi who share their experiences within the snowboarding's multi-faceted fabric. It's a nod to both these individuals and the cameos that appear in almost every section, as well as the whole Foreword roster who are welcomed in by these esteemed snowboarders as respected peers. As the credits roll and the Foreword crew takes it back into the terrain park, hotlapping through Woodward Tahoe, it is clear that if these ten riders are helping to lead the way when it comes to our culture's emerging present and future, snowboarding is undoubtedly in the hands it should be.
Thanks to all the sponsors that helped to make The SNOWBOARDER Movie: Foreword: Volcom, ThirtyTwo, Salomon, Vans, Woodward, Dragon, Gnu, Ride, Giro, Burton, Anon, Von Zipper, The North Face, Bataleon, and Elm Company. All of the riders who put their blood, sweat and tears literally into this project. Java Fernandez, Tristan, and the crew at Stance, Stix and PBR, Bird Dog Whiskey, and everyone who came out on Friday night to watch the movie and celebrate with all of us.
To watch The SNOWBOARDER Movie: Foreword, check out the premiere tour dates.


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Neocon American And Zionist Imperialist Lies
In Obama UN General Assembly Speech
By Dr Gideon Polya
29 September, 2012
The present American President Barack Obama, currently the world's number one active terrorist, war criminal, warmonger, opiate drug warlord, Zionist lackey and mass murderer, made a speech to the United General Assembly that is breathtaking for its dishonest obfuscation of reality and for its lies of omission and commission (Big Lies). An appropriate anagram of Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama is Abamo , I shall love you in Latin, and in Obama's case I shall love you to death as he mellifluously declares his love for humanity, free speech, and freedom, while simultaneously being variously involved as an arms, bombing and/or military personnel provider in wars in Somalia, Libya, Palestine, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Colombia, Uganda and Iran (50,000 drug-related Iranian deaths in the last decade, mostly from US-protected Afghan opiates, with 3000 Iranian police and military personnel killed in Iran's world-leading drug interdiction campaign). Some of the more appalling travesties of Obama's speech are analyzed below in order of their utterance.
1.. This violence and intolerance has no place among our United Nations . Obama devoted much of his speech to the murder of US Libyan envoy Chris Stevens and his 3 colleagues an atrocity that must rightly be condemned by everyone per se and as attack on diplomatic immunity in general but then quickly gets into massive lying and hypocrisy with this statement. The Neocon American- and Zionist Imperialist-backed, post-1990 US War on Muslims from Libya to Pakistan has been associated, so far, with violent deaths and avoidable deaths from war-imposed deprivation totalling about 12 million, the breakdown being 4.6 million (Iraq, 1990-2012), 5.6 million (Afghanistan, 2001-2012), 2.2 million (Somalia, 1992-2012), 0.1 million (Palestine, 1990-2012; 2.0 million, 1936-2012), and 0.1 million (Libya, 2011-2012) (see Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide: https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ ).
2. We insisted on change in Egypt , because our support for democracy put us on the side of the people. The US backed the Egyptian military dictatorship for about 40 years and still backs the Egyptian military.
3. We supported a transition of leadership in Yemen . The US backed the previous dictatorship as it backs the present one and under Obama is conducting a drone war against Yemenis that has appalling implications for the whole world under the Obama Doctrine the US can use predator drones to kill the citizens of any country (including the US) anywhere if it can get away with it. This is a 21st century version of Great Britain 's 19th century gunboat diplomacy in which today the killer drone operators, brought up on video games, munch popcorn in air conditioned offices in Texas as they destroy Muslim wedding parties and Muslim villages around the world.
4. We intervened in Libya alongside a broad coalition .. because we had the ability to stop the slaughter of innocents. About 1,000 Libyans had died in the civil unrest before the France , UK and US (FUKUS) Coalition started bombing Libya back to the Stone Age. Violent deaths now total about 100,000 and one supposes that a similar number of Libyans will have died from war-imposed deprivation.
5. The regime of Bashar al-Assad must come to an end. The horrendous civil war in Syria (about 30,000 dead, and 300,000 refugees) involves US-armed foreign terrorists, is backed by the US Alliance and by the Qatar and Saudi dictatorships. The US has actually invaded about 30 countries since 1945, effected further régime change in another 30 (see William Blum's book Rogue State) and , as revealed by Wikileaks, subverts and perverts every country on earth. Even Australia , where 80% of the population support the neoliberal, pro-Zionist, US lackey Labor and Coalition parties, is now set to be permanently occupied by up to 2,500 child-killing US Marines.
6. We have taken these positions because we believe that freedom and self-determination are not unique to one culture. These are not simply American values or Western values - they are universal values. The US-imposed reality is quite different as in US-occupied Afghanistan where the president, US puppet Karzai, was elected in elections in which there were no other candidates; in Iraq where the Iraqi Holocaust-denying Maliki regime was democratically elected after most of the conceivable opposition had been killed, imprisoned or exiled, in Honduras where a US-backed military coup in 2009 threw out the democratically elected government of President Manuel Zelaya who was imprisoned on a US air force base before being expelled from his country; in Burma (Myanmar) where Aung San Suu Kyi's overwhelmingly popular party has only 38 seats out 440 in the Lower House of Parliament; in Chicago, Illinois , where about 80% of adult African-American males are denied the vote; or in Palestine where 93% of 12 million Palestinians (6 million forbidden to even live anywhere in Palestine) are forbidden to vote for the government ruling all of Palestine.
7. Crude and disgusting video. Agreed, but murderous deeds against Muslims (12 million killed by the US since 1990) are far, far worse than a crude and disgusting video.
8. Re the anti-Islam video, I know there are some who ask why we don't just ban such a video. The answer is enshrined in our laws: our Constitution protects the right to practice free speech. This is the same US under Obama that recently forbade the building of a Muslim cultural centre near the WTC. This is the same US under Obama whose military have designated Australian journalist hero and Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange , an enemy of the state and, according to The Age newspaper (Melbourne): The US military has designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as enemies of the United States - the same legal category as the al-Qaeda terrorist network and the Taliban insurgency. Declassified US Air Force counter-intelligence documents, released under US freedom-of-information laws, reveal that military personnel who contact WikiLeaks or WikiLeaks supporters may be at risk of being charged with "communicating with the enemy", a military crime that carries a maximum sentence of death (see The Age, US calls Assange enemy of state, 27 September 2012: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/us-calls-assange-enemy-of-state-20120927-26m7s.html ).
9. The United States has not, and will not, seek to dictate the outcome of democratic transitions abroad This is the most flagrant of Obama's lies. It must be endlessly repeated that the US has actually invaded about 30 countries since 1945, effected further regime change in another 30 (see William Blum's book Rogue State) and , as revealed by Wikileaks, subverts and perverts every country on earth. In my own country, Australia, the US was involved the coup against the Whitlam Labor Government in 1975, vetoed the candidacy of Labor leader Mark Latham in 2004 and in 2010 backed the Mining Industry-supported, pro-Zionist-led coup against PM Kevin Rudd, perhaps the most popular Labor leader ever.
10. However, I do believe that it is the obligation of all leaders, in all countries, to speak out forcefully against violence and extremism. It is time to marginalise those who - even when not resorting to violence - use hatred of America , or the West, or Israel as a central principle of politics. For that only gives cover, and sometimes makes excuses, for those who resort to violence. This gain is an immense lie. Decent people around the world are OBLIGED to speak out against the horrendous, genocidal war crimes of America , the West and Apartheid Israel .
11. Understand that America will never retreat from the world. We will bring justice to those who harm our citizens and our friends But no justice for the 34 American servicemen killed and 179 wounded in the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in 1967 ; no justice for the 3,000 (mostly Americans) killed on 9-11 in an atrocity that almost certainly involved the US Government and very likely the Israelis (see Experts: US did 9-11: https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid911/ ) ; no justice for the 6,000 US veterans who commit suicide each year or the 50,000 who have done so since 9-11; and no justice for the 1 million Americans who die preventably each year because of the obscene fiscal priority of the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist-dominated US One Percent of spending $5 trillion this century alone on killing 9 million Muslims abroad rather than on saving American lives at home (see One million Americans die preventably annually in USA, Countercurrents : http://www.countercurrents.org/polya180212.htm ) .
12. The road is hard but the destination is clear - a secure, Jewish state of Israel ; and an independent, prosperous Palestine . The road is hard for 12 million Palestinians 6 million of whom are not even permitted to live anywhere in Palestine , the 2.5 million Occupied Palestinians confined to Israeli military-guarded West Bank Bantustans and the 1.6 million Occupied Palestinians confined the Gaza Concentration Camp. The US-backed ethnic cleansing of Palestine now means that over 10 million Palestinians can only have a state comprising a disjointed, mere 10% of Palestine with another 1.6 million Palestinians who are Israeli citizens living under race-based laws in Apartheid Israel the 2-state solution is patently dead now, thanks to racist liars like Obama.
13. The Holocaust is denied. Obama reveals himself as a Holocaust denier here because to Zionist puppet Obama and his racist Zionist puppet masters the Holocaust means the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million Jews killed, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) and NOT the much larger WW2 European Holocaust (30 million Slavs, Jews and Gypsies killed) of which it was a part, or the WW2 Bengali Holocaust in which the British with Australian and US complicity deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death for strategic reasons. Of course Obama is actually complicit in the Palestinian Holocaust, Iraqi Holocaust, Afghan Holocaust and Somalia Holocaust(deaths from violence or violently-imposed deprivation totaling 2.0 million, 4.6 million, 5.6 million and 2.2 million, respectively) holocausts that he and the Western mainstream media ignore and hence deny.
14. But just as it restricts the rights of its own people, the Iranian government props up a dictator in Damascus and supports terrorist groups abroad Make no mistake: a nuclear-armed Iran is not a challenge that can be contained. It would threaten the elimination of Israel , the security of Gulf nations, and the stability of the global economy. It risks triggering a nuclear-arms race in the region, and the unravelling of the non-proliferation treaty. More egregious lies from Obama. Unlike the US, UK, France and Apartheid Israel, Iran has not invaded any other country for several, centuries, is not at war with any other people, is not involved in genocide or terrorism, does not occupy the territory of other countries, does not have nuclear weapons, opposes nuclear weapons in the Middle East and repeatedly declares that it does not want them. Pathologically mendacious Obama ignores the reality that the US, UK , France and Apartheid Israel have nuclear weapons totaling 8,000, 225, 300 and 200, respectively (see List of states with nuclear weapons, Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons ). Further, in contrast to US state terrorism , UK state terrorism , French state terrorism and Apartheid Israel state terrorism in countries from Libya to Pakistan , Iran does NOT back terrorism. Indeed 3,000 Iranian military and police have died tackling US-backed terrorist and opiate smugglers. Iran is the world leader in interception of US Alliance-protected opiates from Afghanistan that have killed 1.1 million people globally since 2001 due to US Alliance restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from 6% of world market share in 2001 to 92% in 2007, the dead including 200,000 Americans, 18,000 British, 10,000 Canadians and 4,000 Australians (Google Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide: https://sites.google.com/site/afghanholocaustafghangenocide/ ).
15. And later today, I will discuss our efforts to combat the scourge of human trafficking. . Human trafficking begins with violently kidnapping human beings. The US is currently involved in the long-term, highly abusive, violent kidnapping since 1967 of presently over 4 million Occupied Palestinians and since 2001 of presently 28 million Afghans.
And not a word about the worsening climate genocide and US Alliance climate change inaction. US, Canada, and Australia through climate change inaction and world-leading annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution disproportionately contribute to a worsening climate genocide in which 5 million people die each year from climate change and carbon burning pollution with an estimated 100 million to die thus by 2030 (see this report on the latest DARA report commissioned by 20 countries and entitled "Climate Change Deaths Could Total 100 Million By 2030 If World Fails To Act ", Huffington Post, 26 September 2012: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/26/climate-change-deaths_n_1915365.html ).
I could go on but this is surely enough to establish that American President Barack Obama, currently the world's number one active terrorist, war criminal, warmonger, opiate drug warlord, Zionist lackey and mass murderer, has revealed himself in his speech to the UN General Assembly to also be a racist and a pathological liar with a litany of lies of omission and lies of commission. That said, decent people hope that Obama wins the forthcoming presidential election because the racist, religious right republican (R4) candidate Mitt Romney is far, far worse.
Dr Gideon Polya has been teaching science students at a major Australian university for 4 decades. He published some 130 works in a 5 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London , 2003). He has published Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950 (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ); see also his contributions Australian complicity in Iraq mass mortality in Lies, Deep Fries & Statistics (edited by Robyn Williams, ABC Books, Sydney, 2007: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s1445960.htm ) and Ongoing Palestinian Genocide in The Plight of the Palestinians (edited by William Cook, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2010: http://mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/4047-the-plight-of-the-palestinians.html ). He has published a revised and updated 2008 version of his 1998 book Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History (see: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ ) as biofuel-, globalization- and climate-driven global food price increases threaten a greater famine catastrophe than the man-made famine in British-ruled India that killed 6-7 million Indians in the forgotten World War 2 Bengal Famine (see recent BBC broadcast involving Dr Polya, Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen and others: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/social-economic-history/listen-the-bengal-famine ). When words fail one can say it in pictures - for images of Gideon Polya's huge paintings for the Planet, Peace, Mother and Child see: http://sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/gideonpolya/ .
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Buying car seats and children's accessories can be hard on a family's finances. Especially if you suddenly find yourself in a situation that wasn't accounted for. Be it because you had an accident or something else. Either way – for some people it can be an expense that is hard to save for or because it became a sudden expense that was not planned for – you might have had to borrow money.
I don't generally post these types of posts, though they are very much in the 'Lifestyle' and 'Family' category, they are not a car seat category or a safety category. But when I was approached with this article and I read it, I decided that it is indeed a very very useful article that I think can help many families and therefore it does fit in with my readers. :)
Generation debt, generation rent. Call it whatever you want, but there seems to be ample literature to suggest that millennials – and even Generation Y – are considerably worse off financially than those before them, with many headed for a lifetime of debt.
That said, debt is by no means exclusive to the young; especially in the UK, where average household debt is now in the region of £13,000, excluding mortgages. Whether or not we are a country living beyond our means is a debate for another day, but it's safe to say that being in debt is not something anyone enjoys.
So, if it is something that affects you and your family, here are some ways in which you can begin to chip away, and carve out a path to debt freedom.
The 0% balance transfer
Credit card debt is the most common type of unsecured debt, and while these pieces of plastic may be a convenient way to spend, the downside is that if you are unable to clear the balance each month, you'll likely get stung by high-interest charges. Yet for those stuck making minimum repayments on high balances each month, the good news is that there is a better way.
There are a myriad of credit card providers out there who offer 0 per cent balance transfers, whereby you shift your debt from one card onto another and are granted a window period – sometimes as long as three and a half years – where you won't be charged any interest.
Sounds too good to be true, right? It isn't, provided that you are confident that you can clear your debt in the allotted period. Because after that, you'll almost certainly be hit with hefty charges once again.
Debt consolidation loans
If you aren't confident about clearing your credit card balance in the required period as per the above, another option may be to simply make your debt cheaper. Debt consolidation loans are an increasingly popular option in this respect and don't actually require much effort. In the current economic climate, interest rates are at record lows, and, as a result, taking out personal loans has never been cheaper. For borrowers, and especially those mired in credit card debt, this is great news.
When you consider that APRs on credit card debts tend to be upwards of 20 percent, while those on personal loans are a fraction of that cost, it makes perfect sense to take out the latter to cover the former, and thus leave yourself paying plenty less in interest as a result. It isn't like borrowing from Peter to pay Paul: this is a legitimate way to reduce the cost of debt.
Prioritise debt in your finances
While the above two tricks are very helpful, ultimately the best way to get onto sounder financial footing is to look after your finances better. For starters, if you have any savings, these should be used to pay off debts. That's because interest earned on savings will always be less than the interest owed on the debt.
But at a lower level, simply getting a handle on your income versus outgoings, and restructuring your budget accordingly, will help you get your head further and further above water. It may need a few spending sacrifices here and there, but often, once you get in a routine where typical outgoings are better accounted for, it's not as painful as you may think.
It isn't always easy when raising a family to keep costs down, and certainly, our natural instinct is to give as much as we can to our kids. However, in these uncertain times, a secure financial future for your family may well be the best gift of all.
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Today is Your Tomorrow and Yesterday is Never Again
My dear son… If you are on schedule you will be here in 100 days! If you hold true to form you are going to be a feisty little boy with an attitude!
Jack…. you are going to have so many wonderful experiences in your life that are going to create a wonderful memories! I have so many memories to share with you from my life… and it will start the day that you come into this world. I remember so many wonderful days in my life… March 22, 2000 in Panama City, FL was when I first accepted Jesus into my heart… August 22, 2001 in Glendale, AZ was the day I was baptized… June 2002- graduating from Ohio State… September 11, 2008- the first date with your mommy… and June 12, 2010 was the day I married the most wonderful woman in the world! You will be the next great memory of my life!
Memories can be both wonderful and a curse. For me they have been a bit of both throughout my life, and I want to impart a bit of wisdom on you so that you can avoid the curse 🙂 As great as memories are, they can also be like swimming with anchors tied around your feet.
Until a couple of months ago I spent my free thoughts overwhelming myself with "what if I would have done this one thing different in my life". I remember back in 8th grade basketball try outs when I just quit because there were some guys that gave me a hard time. Or when I walked off the baseball field in the 7th grade when there was one boy on the team that made fun of me. I would think back to school projects and organizations that I quit on or didn't try. I remember specific interactions with people who needed me and I let them down. I remember the girl in 2nd grade that broke my heart because she moved… and I remember losing close friends because I chose people that were bad for my life.
I would get lost in thought for hours at a time… instead of hitting the gym or picking up my Operations book… I thought and recalled memories. In the past month I have written apology e-mails to people I wasn't always nice to that were there for me… prayed repentence for poor choices I have made….
A few months ago I decided that I wasn't going to be a victim and handcuffed by my obsession with past memories. It's a big pile of shit to dig out of… but I am digging. I share this with you because I do not want you to be someone that dwells on the past… because as I have experienced it can and will become an addiction.
The "I would have done that differently"… turns into a negative self view… you quickly identify your weaknesses… become timid and doubtful in your decision making (because you don't want to make the same mistake again)..and these things are not a good feeling.
The one thing that I have learned is that memories are just a small piece of who you are and they DO NOT define you! There is no reason to look back and be stuck in thought… wondering how life would have turned out if you made different decisions. After all… the slightest change in my decision making process would have led me down a different path… that didn't lead to your mommy, you, and future siblings.
Take my advice son… do not bond yourself to memories… they are anchors on your heart and mind. The release I feel by not getting lost in my past memories is amazing… and I want you to have an amazing life… never being bonded by these things!
I toast my Diet Cranberry Sierra Mist to you my son and to all the GOOD memories we are about to have!
Love Dad
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Thanks for visiting the Sakeji Mission School website.
News of the passing of Miss Joan Hoyte.
On June 12th, 2018 Miss Joan Hoyte (Katwevi) went home to be with her Lord. She served faithfully at Sakeji for many years.
Click the link below for pictures and details as we remember her and all the lives she impacted.
Who We Are
Sakeji Mission School is a Christian boarding school for grades one to nine, located in rural Northwest Province, Zambia. The school has a rich history, since 1925, of providing quality education in a nurturing environment; educating, training and caring for children in ways which honor God and follow Christian patterns of learning and living. Our desire is that each student will enter into a lasting, personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ, and will continue in His ways in every area of life.
To find out the latest news and updates visit our news page here.
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We love to hear from everyone who has a connection with Sakeji in any way so we have added a guestbook function to the site. Previous students especially are encouraged to leave an entry. Click here to view the guestbook.
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There is an article recently published by The American Academy of Sleep Medicine entitled "Narcolepsy May Be Caused By Environmental Exposures". It has been posted on many websites, and blogs lately.
While I find this article interesting, I just keep saying to myself "what is really new about this information"?
Maybe someone out there can tell me, but this article just seems like it is non-conclusive, and keeps the "environmental cause" of Narcolepsy, still as a possibility. Didn't we already know that?
I guess I was just hoping to read this article and be presented with some new discovery about Narcolepsy, instead of just "mights" or "maybes".
Anywho, I guess it is an interesting read regardless. Here's the link to the article, for those of you who would like to check it out. Also, if any of you have opinions regarding this article, please leave a comment. I would like to know you thoughts.
Here's the link.... Narcolepsy May Be Caused By Environmental Exposures
On a different note...
Do any of you out there take or have you even taken Ambien, to aid in sleeping? I am taking it, off and on, and while it does make me fall asleep fast, I seem to have so much tension in my neck and jaw. I already have these problems, but it seems like it has been worse when taking the Ambien. Anyone have opinions, or info/experience with this?
Thanks all for reading, and I hope everyone has a great rest of the week!
Go Easy,
This blog is about Narcolepsy, and how it effects one's life everyday. Yes, I am the sleepy woman, but I still have adventures every now and then...and when I don't, there is plenty of things to write about in this world:)
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Hello ladies!!!
Here is my detailed description on me getting the Implanon Implant.
By the way it didn't hurt!!!!
So I went to my appointment and they numbed my arm it felt really weird to have a numb are the shot stung just a little bit but then the medicine started working right away.
Here are the side-affects.
By the way it didn't hurt!!!!
So I went to my appointment and they numbed my arm it felt really weird to have a numb are the shot stung just a little bit but then the medicine started working right away.
They applied iodine on to my arm then made a small cut with a small surgical knife (remember I was numb I didn't feel it and I barely bled) then inserted a needle which is on the bottom right of the picture there it is freaking huge but don't scare yourself you don't even feel it. It seriously took about 20 seconds to insert it and then they wrapped me up in gauze and told me to keep the gauze on for 24 hours.
Can you see it? I can't and even now I can't but I can feel it I love the fact its so hidden there. You can see my son asleep in his car seat.
Here is my arm a day later bruised and a bit sore but no complaints I can still use my arm like normal no pain at all. Plus you still can't see the implant!
My doctor told me I can breastfeed while using Implanon (which is why I got it in the first place). There is limited scarring.
Some people don't go well with Implanon and will have irregular bleeding and spotting for the duration the Implanon is used. If it leads to that fact I will take it out but this is an Insertion Review and not a "It isn't or is working for me".
You can only use the Implanon for 3 years then it must be taken out and replaced with another Implanon or another source of birthcontrol.
If you are wanting to get pregnant again they will take out Implanon and you can get pregnant right away.
Some people have reported weight gain and some have reported weight loss so it is a 50/50 chance on weight.
20% will stop having a period during Implanon.
So I will leave you with an attack of info about Implanon just to give you correct information straight from their website! Here is the back to back comparisons to the most popular birth control.
Besides irregular bleeding, some of the most frequent side effects that caused women to stop using IMPLANON in studies were:
- Mood swings
- Weight gain
- Headache
- Acne
- Depression
The most common side effects reported by women using IMPLANON in clinical trials were:
- Irregular and unpredictable bleeding
- Headache
- Vaginitis (inflammation of the vagina)
- Weight gain
- Acne
- Breast pain
- Viral infections such as colds, sore throats, sinus infections or flu-like symptoms
- Stomach pain
- Painful periods
- Mood swings, nervousness or depression
- Back pain
- Nausea
- Dizziness
- Pain
- Pain at the site of insertion
This all came directly from the Implanon USA website. I hope this helps all of you when choosing a source of birthcontrol.