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|Apr 18, 2010, 6:36 PM
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need help taking pictures of jewelry items
I have the Nikon Coolpix, 10 megapixels, 3x zoom; vibration reduction,etc.
I need to take pictures of jewelry, mainly silver, for a web based business I have started. I bought one of those "white photo tents" with black background,etc but my pictures just "glare" and/or have shadows.
Could you make recommendations on the settings I should use to take these pictures with? I have played with them all as instructed by guy I bought the photo tent from, and all his advice didn't help.
Would appreciate any tips/settings/etc so much.
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What kind of lighting are you using with it? Most of those tents are designed to diffuse your light sources (so, you'll need to have lighting pointed towards it's opaque fabric). I'd give more information on how it's setup for starters (lights you're using with it, etc.). If you have a link to it, that may help, too.
You'll probably need to use a tripod and set your White Balance to match the lighting. I'd also give more information on the camera model you're using (as it may have the ability to use a custom white balance, measuring the temperature of the lighting inside of the light tent). You may want to use manual settings for the exposure if your camera has that feature, too. We'll need the camera model to tell more about it (as Nikon makes many Coolpix models).
That's not the type of setup you're going to want to use a camera's flash with (the idea behind that kind of light tent is to diffuse external light sources, so that you don't have problems with glare, shadows, etc., if the lights are positioned properly). You'll also want to use a tripod.
So, I'd try to give more details about your setup (camera model, lighting you're using) so that members have more information to go on about your issues.
I'll move this post to our Newbie Help Forum for now for further discussion (as the Contact Steve's forum you posted in is really more for site related feedback). Later, we may want to move it to one of our other forums (for example, our Nikon forum or our Studio Lighting forum, depending on the issues you're having and type of feedback needed).
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Uploading a couple of your problem photos would also help diagnose the problem.
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Casa, T. M., Firmender, J. M., Cahill, J., Cardetti, F., Choppin, J. M., Cohen, J., … Zawodniak, R. (2016). Types of and purposes for elementary mathematical writing: Task force recommendations.
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A truly heartbreaking 4 part story: https://t.co/iA6KoJuMJQ—
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Lets break down the 4 pictures taken:
- She takes a mirror pic selfie and is rocking blue and orange. Clearly she is excited to go see her favorite team play especially on her birthday.
- She takes a picture of Nationals Park from her seats before the game starts. She loves the Mets.
- The score is now 13-0 in the third inning and she want to kill herself.
- Bottom of the 8th. The score is 25-1 and she is still rocking her orange and blue but now it looks like she wants to kill someone.
Kudos to you girl for staying the whole game especially on your birthday! I hope you had a ton of drinks to make time go by faster and ease the misery of that game!
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"Arguably, women are now the most powerful engine of global growth." So says The Economist in its recent look at women and world econcomy. (12 April 2006)
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More organisations should entertain the idea of going virtual. It just makes good business sense if you want to tap into "girl power". The Economist cites Catalyst research that, "American companies with more women in senior management jobs earned a higher return on equity than those with fewer women at the top." Indeed! We Strivers have embraced virtuality and our clients reap the benefits.
Technology allows true liberation. But, Strive is at the thin end of the wedge. The next 10 years are going to be so exciting!
UPDATE: I just noticed that Todd Defren on PR Squared is STRIVING "to be as flexible and supportive as possible, while running a profitable business that is fair to everyone." He raises some good points, is 20 hours facetime really necessary to lead a solid team? I think not, with the right use of technology.


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New LEAF program will change the way that Ontario youth learn about their food.
Having raised three kids on their family-operated farm in southwestern Ontario, Danielle Schill is well aware of the importance of educating future generations about agriculture.
But sometimes that is easier said than done. Especially with many schools having limited curriculum and programming dedicated to agriculture education.
So Danielle set out to change that. She figured the local high school – Norwell District Secondary School in Palmerston, Ont. – could benefit from a program that informs students about agriculture and the many career opportunities within the industry.
"There are some programs at the school that revolve a little bit around agriculture, but nothing geared solely towards agriculture and the different types of agriculture in our community," explains Danielle, whose youngest child is currently in her last year at Norwell District Secondary School. "There are so many misconceptions about agriculture. I want to make sure that word about agriculture gets out by giving the students a first-hand look at what is real when it comes to this industry."
Danielle got the ball rolling by contacting her local trustee at the Upper Grand District School Board about the idea of introducing an agriculture education program at Norwell. She soon joined forces with Paul Frayne, a teacher at Norwell who also happened to be looking for an opportunity to introduce such a program.
A hands-on approach
Their efforts, which included presenting the idea for an agriculture education program to the school board, paid off and LEAF – Local, Environmental, Agriculture, and Food – will be introduced at Norwell in September 2018 as a half-day, two-credit program. Using the theme "field to fork," the program will consist of weekly field trips to local farms and agriculture businesses where students will have the opportunity to meet and interact with farmers and develop an understanding of the diversity and innovation of agriculture in the local area. There are also plans for trips to the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair and the University of Guelph's Research Park.
"Any of these students can read about agriculture, but it is not the same as them actually experiencing it," says Danielle.
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"And certainly it is not just students who come from an agriculture background who are interested," says Paul. "The students want to be on a farm and interacting with the people who are living this every day. I think that is part of the excitement for our students because this is something real. A lot of the time we will be out and around the community, working and interacting with people."
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To make sure they have local farms and agriculture businesses lined up for the planned field trips, Danielle and Paul have been busy presenting the new program to the local agriculture community. And so far, the response has been overwhelmingly supportive.
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"The local farmers and agriculture businesspeople are eager to share their stories with the students and help educate them and maybe guide them towards a career path in agriculture," says Danielle, adding that informing the students about the many educational and career opportunities available in agriculture will be an essential component of the program.
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How do I bring ag into the classroom?
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*WARNING: SPOILERS BE ROAMING BELOW* (…just in case you didn't read the post title)
For the curious minded, here's a list of what I specifically liked and didn't like about the series:
Book 1 Likes: Atypical characters Kelsier, Vin and Elend. Perhaps not entirely original (you can find a foil for anything if you look long enough) but enough that they deviated from the being cutouts like a fantasy knockoff would have. Delightfully layered, with clear motivations, weaknesses and quirks to lend insight to their personalities. Vin especially impressed me as a character not often seen in high-fantasy: the young street-rat, closed off to the world and slightly crazy (Reen's voice in her head)… and a girl. She manages to stay feminine and strong, not giving up either to make a point. Thank you, Sanderson.
The immediate world-building. Nice and subtle, but with a distinct effect. Little nudges about the landscape and the people work together to create a vibrant world.
The mist-cloaks. I want one. I have a friend who can make them, and I'm willing to pay him.
Book 1 Dislikes: Kelsier died. Are you freaking kidding me? I hear he's… back-ish in the secret history, though, so I won't hold it against you. Probably.
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Book 2 Likes: The ending twist (holy crap they'd been played all along–Ruin as the mastermind? Brilliant.)
Ore-seur/Ten-soon. Despite his being the next in a long line of betrayals, I loved him as a character. Even after discovering he was the betrayer (at that point I was fairly unsurprised by any double-crossing, there was so much of it) I couldn't help but love him. He hadn't changed, only who he worked for. Which, being a Kandra, he couldn't really help. And he even got over it (…by betraying his people) to stay true to his friend. Ok, so… mixed feelings. If you need to betray someone to do the right thing, does it still count? Is your word or morality more important? IDK go watch Bridge of Spies.
Sazed. He got some much needed and appreciated development in this books (which makes sense considering the last one). And although I still think it was a mistake on Sanderson's part for the man to lose faith after losing his lady friend, I do appreciate the effort to deepen the complexity of the character.
Book 2 Dislikes: the typifying of Vin (come on, Sanderson, gimme romantic-angst I haven't seen before)
Straff's racy encounters with his evil mistriss (there's a line between telling and showing, and it's good to know where it is and when to stay on which side.)
The mass quantity of betrayals. Betray your friend (Oreseur), your city (what's his bucket the next leader of Luthadel), your family (Zane, the flouncy girl–Allriane) yourself (Sazed). There's more, those are just the stand-outs. Nobody can hold onto truth for longer than five minutes in this installment, because it likely isn't the reality of things. Slow down, Sanderson, give your audience time to breathe before someone else goes down the drain.
The mass quantity of blood. This book felt the bloodiest by far, with Vin rampaging and the Koloss rampaging and everybody rampaging. So much blood–all purposeful, but a bit tactless.
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Book 3 Likes: Vin and Elend died. A bit contrary to my usual maxim (if there's romance, they've gotta end up together), but really they did end up together… in the afterlife. And really, they deserve the rest.
The tying of the threads: 16 metals, 16 seconds, 16 shards. Everything from every previous book comes together to shape one grand picture–like the three magics. Allomancy, Feruchemy and Hemalurgy. Each with their own uses and ties to their powers. Ruin, Preservation and Harmony. Ohh, you connected that all well.
Marsh. Marsh's character got a lot of development this time around, and I'm glad for it. He made for a well done representation of an interesting dilemma in Super-hero stories (Bucky comes most readily to mind): how do I best help others if I cannot trust myself? Is killing myself the best way to do it? Not to make light of suicide, but an interesting question for the ultra-powerful.
Book 3 Dislikes:
The de-villification of the Lord Ruler. Just because he tried to make preparations against Ruin doesn't make him a better person. Common enemies do not allies or friends make, contrary to popular opinion. Imo.
Spook's insecurity. When I first met Spook I saw a different path of character growth for him in my head, and he didn't go that way. Oh well, you can't win them all. He was still pretty boss.
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Throughout Likes: The magic. You, sir, should never stop making gorgeous, creative magic systems. They're a delight to read about.
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The key to good health is emotional diversity
Accepted medical science has it that stress is actively bad for you, while happiness correlates with good health and longevity. However, new research, reported on by Crystal Ponti in New York Magazine, suggests that access to a spectrum of positive emotions (also called 'emotional diversity') might be the key to a healthy life.
The study's lead, Anthony Ong, speculates that the benefits of a positive emotional range may be similar to an ecosystem in which all the elements exist in balance with one another, rather than crowding each other out.
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UCD researcher to become first Irish researcher to deliver Cournand lecture in Society's 25-year historyMonday, 23 March, 2015
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Dr Silke Ryan, a University College Dublin medical researcher, will deliver the prestigious Cournand lecture, to an expected audience of 20,000, at the forthcoming international congress of the European Respiratory Society (ERS).
The ERS Congress, the largest annual respiratory meeting in the world, takes place this year in Amsterdam, the Netherlands from 26-29 September.
Dr Ryan is a Consultant in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at St. Vincent's University Hospital and a Health Research Board-funded research fellow in the UCD School of Medicine and Medical Science at the UCD Conway Institute.
She is the first researcher from Ireland honoured by the Society to deliver the flagship lecture at its international congress in its 25-year history.
Dr Ryan was selected by the Society based on the impact of her research over the last decade. Her research has resulted in a better understanding of the mechanisms associated with the development of various cardiovascular complications, such as high blood pressure, heart attacks or stroke, in obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA).
OSA is a common disease affecting at least 5% of middle-aged adults. It is characterised by frequent breathing pauses during sleep leading to sudden drops in the blood oxygen level resulting in subconscious awakenings in order to restore the oxygen level. In severe cases these events can occur several hundred times during the night.
Using a truly bench-to-bedside approach, Dr Ryan's research has identified that the frequent oxygen fluctuations (termed intermittent hypoxia) preferentially activate inflammatory pathways known to promote atherosclerosis (hardening and narrowing of the arteries), and these events are likely key mechanisms of cardiovascular disease processes in OSA.
Further understanding of these mechanisms may lead to the identification of therapeutic targets for heart diseases associated with OSA and for other disorders associated with intermittent hypoxia.
Dr Ryan's research has been published in high-impact journals such as Circulation, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, and Thorax, and is widely cited.
On being selected to deliver the Cournand lecture, Dr Silke Ryan said, "Receiving this award by the European Respiratory Society is a tremendous honour and will further motivate me to continue my research in this exiting field of respiratory medicine. I would like to thank my mentors and colleagues from University College Dublin and St. Vincent's University Hospital, especially Professor Cormac Taylor and Professor Walter McNicholas, for without their strong support this award would not have been possible."
Professor Orla Feely, Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact, UCD, said, "I would like to congratulate Dr Silke Ryan on being honoured by the European Respiratory Society to deliver the prestigious Cournand Lecture at its forthcoming 2015 international congress."
"Her selection, the first ever of a researcher from Ireland, is based upon the impact of her world class and highly-cited research performed at UCD and St. Vincent's University Hospital. Her research has shed significant insight into the mechanisms underpinning cardiovascular diseases associated with obstructive sleep apnoea and these insights may lead to the development of therapies to treat and improve the lives of people with these diseases."
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Day in Octave of Christmas - comm St Thomas of Canterbury
1. There was a dread and consternation in the little town of Bethlehem, as Herod's soldiers were snatching little infants from their mothers' arms, and slaying them. Cries of grief resounded everywhere. In profound humility we bow in adoration before this decree of Providence.
2. Petition: May we always and in all things trustfully accept and adore the decrees of Providence in the government of our own souls and of the world at large.
I. The Cruelty of Herod
Only a while ago the heavens at Bethlehem were filled with the joyful song of the angels, and now the shrieks and groans of striken mothers fill the air. "A voice in Rama was heard, lamentation and great mourning; Rachel bewailing he children, and would not be comforted, because they are not" (Mt. 2:18)
Herod, a cunning and cruel oriental despot, who out of hatred and jealousy had murdered many of his own relatives, had decreed to kill the new King, about whom the Wise Men of the East had told him. "Then Herod, perceiving that he was deluded by the Wise Men, was exceedingly angry: and sending killed all the male children that were in Bethlehem and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under" (Mt. 2:16). To what monstrous crimes a man can be driven by an unbridled passion! Remorselessly Herod sacrifices innocent children to his ambition and his jealousy. What had he to fear from the King of Peace?
Non eripit mortalia
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He does not snatch away earthly crowns
Who bestows a heavenly Kingdom.
Thus the Church sings at Vespers on the eve of the Epiphany. Self-love, when uncontrolled, can drive a man to the utmost limits of stupidity, blindness, and cruelty, where every vestige of justice vanishes. Remember also the cowardice and vacillation of Pilate, who to safeguard his own interests condemned an innocent Man.
II. God's Ways Are Not Our Ways
In this frightful tragedy we cannot help asking ourselves: How could God allow it? Are these the ways of Providence? These ways are indeed inscrutable. How often does it seem that supreme Power fails when faced with the powers of Evil. Could not God have saved His Son from the clutches of that tiger, Herod, whose son and heir Jesus would call "that fox"? Why did Divine justice not strike the brutal tyrant now, as it would chastise him later? Then there would have been no need for Mary to flee with the Child into Egypt, and the innocent babies would not have been slain.
Why did the Divine Justice not stretch out its avenging hand? We humbly confess that the ways of the Lord are inscrutable.
And what did mothers of Bethlehem feel when they were told that their children had perished, whilst the victim sought by Herod had escaped? Poor desolate Rachel! Her children are the first martyrs to bear testimony to Christ. Their blood will fertilise the earth, and in God's own time a golden harvest of souls will rise.
But it remains true that God's ways are not our ways. We cannot unravel the mystery of His Providence: it is the Providence of a loving Father, of a Father who abideth in heaven and who sees so much further than our eyes can reach. He is wiser than we are and more powerful, and infallibly He guides us to the goal He has appointed for us, in His love and mercy: eternal bliss in heaven.
III. Joy and Suffering at the Manger
It has been said that, when Jesus enters the life of a man He comes with His blessing and His cross. So it was with Mary and Joseph, with the shepherds of Bethlehem, who heard the tidings of great joy: with the mothers of Bethlehem who mourned their little ones.
The life of every man is a succession of blessings and of trials. God Himself has mapped out our course, He spares our weakness but steadily directs us to the goal He has appointed for us. He does not lay burdens on us that are beyond our strength, and when we fail and falter He is there to raise us up. Our duty is humbly to trust, to accept, to adore the divine Counsel. "Yea, Father, thus it has pleased Thee."
Prayer: O Lord, give light to our minds and strength to our hearts, that we may know and firmly believe that "to them that love God all things work together unto good", and that nothing "shall be able to separate us from Christ Jesus our Lord" (Rom. 8:28, 39)
1. St John is the disciple "whom Jesus loved", and to whom on the cross He entrusted His holy Mother; "from that hour the disciple took her to his own" (19:27). We may rightly think that Mary related to St John all she knew about her Divine Son, "how the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us".
2. Petition: Grace to understand better John's lesson of love, and to practice it more thoroughly every day of our life.
I. The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved
John calls himself by that name. We know that he wrote his Gospel when all the other apostles were dead; otherwise delicacy would have prevented him from claiming this title.
Jesus loved all the disciples with His whole heart; yet among them there were three to whom He showed special predilection: Peter, James and John. They had accompanied Him to the mountain and seen His glory; they had entered with Him the garden of Gethsemane and had beheld Him lying prostrate on the ground. And among these three Jesus seems to have shown greater affection for John. At the Last Supper, John was very close to Jesus. "Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples whom Jesus loved" (Jn. 13:23). To him Jesus revealed who was the man that was to betray Him. John was the only one of the Twelve to stand beneath the cross, and Jesus entrusted His Mother to him.
Humbly and reverently, remembering that the Almighty is free to elect whomsoever He pleases, we may ask, why was John the disciple whom Jesus loved? John was not exempt from petty human failings, no more than the others. He together with his brother James had urged their mother to ask that her sons might occupy the first places when the Kingdom would be established; and when, one day they had stood before the closed gates of a town of Samaria, these two sons of Zebedee, whom Jesus Himself had dubbed Boanerges, which means "fanatics", had said to Jesus: "Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven and consume them? And turning, he rebuked them, saying: "You know not of what spirit you are" (Lk. 9:54,55). Theirs was not yet the spirit of Jesus, who "came not to destroy souls, but to save" (ib. 56). They had to learn of Him that He is meek and humble of heart.
There is an ancient tradition that John had preserved his virginity; and for this reason Jesus bore him special love, and for this reason also Jesus was pleased to entrust His blessed Mother to him.
God's creative love is free; it is not bound by any law, neither is it subject to caprice. "Is thy eye evil, because I am good?" said the householder to the disgruntled labourers (Mt. 20:15). In all things and at all times it behoves us to thank God and obey His decrees.
II. Behold Thy Mother
John himself heard these words from the lips of the dying Saviour, and he set them down in his Gospel. "Woman, behold thy son; behold thy mother." Simple but creative words, words which God alone can utter. During many centuries the Church has pondered over them, ever penetrating deeper into their meaning, and which perhaps is not yet fully understood.
At the foot of the cross Mary is given a new mission; she is appointed by Christ to be the mother of all the brothers and sisters of her Son. Together with John, all of us are entrusted to her as her children.
We pray that John, who from that moment "took her to his own", would obtain for us the grace to love and honour the Mother of Jesus as our own Mother, as he did until the day when she was assumed into heaven.
III. The Apostle of Love
The eagle is the symbol of St John among the Evangelists. What his piercing eye has discovered in God he has communicated to us in the words "God is Charity, and he that abideth in charity abideth in God, and God in him" (I Jn. 4:16). Nor may we forget those other words: "If any man say: I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar" (ib. 20).
When the Apostle had become very old, his only words to his disciples were "Little children love ye one another"; and when they asked him whether he could not teach them any other lesson, he replied: "It is the Lord's own commandment." Our Lord Himself had called brotherly love his own commandment. "This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you." (Jn. 15:12). It was not the first commandment, but like unto it and inseparable from it, and its observance proves that we truly love God. These words should be remembered by every disciple of Jesus, above all by those who strive to lead a holy life and who would follow Christ closely.
Prayer: "Pour into our hearts, O Lord, the spirit of Thy Love, so that all those whom Thou hast fed with the same heavenly Bread, may through Thy fatherly goodness be united in Thee, through Christ our Lord (Postcommunion Votice Mass for concord).
O St John, who with great love and reverence didst take the Mother of Christ "to thy own", intercede with her for us, and teach us how to abide in the presence of the Mother of God.
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Horsham U11s had a three week lay-off prior to the final group 'A' match of the President's Cup, due to postponement. Coaches and parents were keen to watch the boys in action and the young Hornets were eager to put all the extra training in to action.
Lancing started the first half more spritely and it took a good instinctive save from Zac R in goal to prevent them opening the scoring. The opening minutes of the half were certainly in favour of the home side but the Horsham defence were winning the majority of play and attempting to building from the back. Ryan A, Will K and Harrison J all made crucial tackles, with captain Harrison playing well centrally and bringing the ball forward. Harrison opened the scoring on eleven minutes from just inside the opposition's half. The Lancing 'keeper was well out of position and Harrison's quick vision and early shot saw the ball land in the net. The Horsham midfield started to get in to the game with a display of determination from Dylan H, Jack Y, Callum W & latterly Liam B.
Lancing were attacking both on the left and right wings but the endeavours of the mid field lads were rewarded with counter attacking opportunities. Harry L was looking lively down the right and Horsham's second goal looked imminent and it was Harry who scored it, on twenty-two minutes. Dan B held up the ball in midfield and put the ever-present Harrison back on to the ball who played a superb crossfield pass in to the path of the on-running Harry who slotted the ball neatly in to the bottom left corner. Horsham had to stay alert at the back and continue to defend a series of Lancing corners and rely on Zac to ensure nothing was conceded before the break.
The second half started with Hornets pushing hard and attacking looking for another goal. A series of corners were now in favour of the yellow and green and it was from one of these that Horsham added their third. Jack Y whipped in a fierce and fast corner which was met by the head of Dan B, the speed of the ball giving the 'keeper no chance as it flew high in to the centre of the net. Although it was a cracking connection from the tall front man, Dan was clearly dazed from the strike and tThere was a delay to the game as Dan was dealt with before he was unable to rejoin. The player was reported as fine, later in the day. Lancing pulled a goal back shortly afterwards after a good patient build up where a number of players could have shot but chose to pass until their number seven finally hit the ball from a central position in to the net to keep their hopes in the game alive. Horsham had two further chances to score but it was Zac R in goal that was the more active in the closing fifteen minutes with a triple save the highlight of a man of the match performance.
Final score: Lancing United 1 Horsham 3
Man of the match – Zac Robinson
The win puts Horsham Youth U11s joint top of group A with a play-off match next Sunday against Felpham for a place in the final.
Manager Sam Jones commented after the game "With a number of players injured, we had to work hard as a team not only with the ball but also without. Playing on a pitch that has suffered from the recent elements, our normal flowing passing football was going to be hard but the team moved the ball well through the Lancing defensive line to create opportunities"


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Rich has been married to his wife Pam for over 26 years. They have two adult daughters, Alicia and Courtney. The Lozano family has been active in public service for many years. Rich and Pam have been youth sports coaches and board members for many years. Their passion for improving opportunities for citizens of the community is of the utmost importance. They have been involved in toy drives in both the Galt and Elk Grove communities for 8 years. Rich is also a member of the Galt Sunrise Rotary Club.
Rich served as a youth sports league president for 5 years and board member for 7 years before being elected to the Cosumnes Community Services District (CSD) Board of Directors, your fire protection agency. Rich was elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. Rich served as Board President in 2014 and 2018 before being elected to the Galt City Council. Public safety is a priority for Rich and he believes when a community feels safe, citizens and businesses will have the opportunity to thrive.
Rich has worked for the Elk Grove Unified School District for over 25 years where he currently supervises the Safety, Security and Police Services Operations. Rich worked 23 years as a School Police Officer and Police Sergeant. Rich holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Management and a California P.O.S.T. Intermediate Certificate. Rich has been awarded several professional awards for Distinguished Service and Critical Incidents.
Rich is honored to serve the citizens of Galt on the City Council and takes pride in his Great American Little Town. Rich is dedicated to listening to the citizens of Galt and representing their interests on the council. Rich credits his desire of public service from his late father, Ralph Lozano.
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When it comes to cheating on tests, I was the genius in my class. I used my shirt's front pockets to write notes. I also taped notes on the inside of my shirts.
I was a part of that 'hip-hop clothing' generation so the teachers were used to me wearing baggy clothes. I could've had As in every test, but they knew I was more of B- student.
I pushed my luck with a few As, but they could never prove I cheated on tests. So we settled on me not faking it for an A and they weren't paying close attention to HOW I manage to get good grades.
His teacher said the class could use a single notecard.
I would've been proud to call this man my fried.
This guy managed to write this in larger font outside of his math class window.
He's a genius.
There's a lot you can fit into a tiny juice box.
Well, maybe not much if you're writing in German, but still…
A lot of my girl friends managed to nail a couple of exams.
You get the pun, right?
This was actually not that difficult to pull off.
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I guess this would only work if the teacher was lazy.
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I had one of these pens.
Came with obscurely dressed ladies and a blank side. You can guess how that went…
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Ebooks were supposed to be the end of the publishing industry. Then it was Amazon and the resulting loss of a number of brick-and-mortar bookstores; of course, Amazon's traditional publishing arm was also to blame for destroying the publishing industry. The Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and several publishers was going to end the publishing industry, and apparently so will allowing libraries to lend ebooks. There are also the swarms of self-published authors clogging up the online retail catalogs with their unvetted ebooks to ruin things as well.
In spite of all of those insurmountable hurdles, the publishing industry seems to be hanging on, but now the end is certainly near. According to an article in The Guardian, the current discount price war on ebooks is going to finally pull the plug on books.
According to the article, the business practice taken on by several retailers now that settlement terms have been reached with some publishers to reinstate the wholesale model is going to make it impossible to purchase ebooks. The price of ebooks is dropping so rapidly that no one will want to buy a book ever again, since they are so obviously worthless.
Even though the authors and the publishers will still make their same commission and even though the supremely discounted price on ebooks has translated into tens of thousands of book sales for authors and fiction's digital sales are up by 188% for the first half of the year, authors are speaking out against having their ebooks discounted at the retailers' cost. The fear is that once consumers become used to paying a steeply discounted price for books, they will no longer be willing to pay a more typical price in the long run.
Interestingly, the vocal supporters of the publishing industry must not have very much faith in an institution that is nearly six hundred years old if it can be brought down so drastically by an ebook sale. More importantly, it does show that the industry itself is able to adapt and adjust, and will hopefully weather this storm, too.
Mercy Pilkington is a Senior Editor for Good e-Reader. She is also the CEO and founder of a hybrid publishing and consulting company.


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It's a visual and auditory feast when The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra's Woodwind Quintet presents Brushes & Beats: A Pairing of Art and Music, at the Dayton Metro Library. The free performance is Thursday, October 4, 7:00-8:00 p.m. in the Main Library's Bassani Theater Off Third, 215 E. Third Street.
Brushes & Beats is a multimedia presentation that pairs live music performed by the DPO Woodwind Quartet with projected images of artwork. This performance features music by Gershwin, Grieg and Offenbach, and the artwork of Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec and Bierstadt.
"This program connects the two art forms, giving viewers and listeners new ways to appreciate them both," said Julie Buchanan, Programming Manager for the Library.
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Who am I?
Those who have positive qualities to offer employers or future co-workers are the ones who get somewhere in life. The qualities that I have deemed most important to my current lifestyle are dedication and leadership. Since my childhood and continuing to this day I have been preparing and learning to acquire these qualities so that I may achieve the goals I set for myself. I try to dedicate myself to whatever I do so that the level of quality I perform to meet the standards I set as well as those I am performing for. Also, when I am not striving to meet these standards I try to help those who are facing challenges similar to mine. I enjoy teaching and leading other people so that they may achieve the goals that they set without facing too many hardships. This has been the way I do things since my elementary school years.
My entire life has been going to school five to six days a week, and they have proved to be very fun years for me. Seeing the leadership in my teachers get has inspired me to follow their footsteps. I have always tried to lead my friends to make sure that what they do is the right thing. This made me think that since I like school and being a leader that being a teacher might be the career for me. Fortunately, I recently have been able to try out the field of education. Every other Saturday during the school year my church has religious education classes for students up to eighth grade. After I finished being a student there I still came back to help. This past year I even had the chance to substitute teach for a classroom of third graders. The class was two and a half hours and I had planned a whole lesson for them. The whole experience was a fun and an exciting chance to get involved with teaching. I knew this when toward the end of the class one of the students said to me, "Are you going to be our teacher again next time?" Unfortunately, that was the last time I taught for them, but that experience made me feel I would be good in this field.
Everything I do in my life I try to give it my best to make sure that I can be satisfied with my performance. My dedication is what has made me the most successful at things that I take part in. To keep my level of performance at a decent rate I set standards for the work I do. This is important to me because having these standards keeps me focused on the goals that I set and makes sure they are worth the quality that is deemed well done. The thing that I put most of my dedication into is hockey. I have been playing for a couple of years and I want to be at a level that I can keep increasing. For most of my life I have just been academics, so this opportunity shows the other sides of my capabilities as a person. I remember when I was younger how I would be one of the last ones picked, and usually I would bring down the team. That was one of the worst feelings I ever had. Since then I practice and dedicate myself to being worth having. Now when my friends and I line up I can proudly hear, "Who do you want to pick first? I'll take Anthony." Since then I try to make my time and efforts worth something.
Everything that a person learns or tries to learn all begins when they are a child. They learn about new things, adjust to those things, and try to make themselves better through time. It has become my goal to do exactly that. I am trying every day to take what I am given and make sure that is going to good use. Thanks to my two most important qualities, leadership and dedication, I have continued to prove to that through all this time and effort things begin to get done. People, businesses, and schools will be looking for the people who are able to adjust to the difficulties faced in them. I am glad that I have tried different aspects of activities through my life such as school and sports because now I am more aware of the difficulties that can arise. Mental and physical stress are things that affect people every day, but how much it affects them depends on their dedication to get up and keep moving forward.


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Put the bread mix in a large bowl with 310ml warm water, 1 tablespoon of the oil and half the chopped rosemary. Mix to a dough, then knead on a floured surface for 5-10 minutes, until smooth. Place in another lightly oiled bowl and cover with lightly oiled cling film. Leave in a warm place for 1 hour, until it has risen to double its size.
Meanwhile, mix the garlic and crème fraîche together in a small bowl. Set aside. Put the potato and broccoli in a microwave-safe bowl with 1 tablespoon water, cover and cook on high for 2-3 minutes. Drain, then add the onion and most of the remaining rosemary. Season with black pepper.
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Sponsorship and Social Media: Getting It Right
A question I get a lot is why I don't address specific how-tos on using social media with sponsorship – some kind of step-by-step formula for social media success. The answer to that is pretty simple:
There is no formula. It's not about a formula.
We all know how social media works; people follow you, you provide compelling content and interesting experiences, those followers engage. It's a very powerful tool for leveraging sponsorship, and sponsorship is a very powerful tool to foster that engagement.
HOW you engage with sponsorship, however, isn't something that can be done using a formula, no matter who tells you otherwise. If you know how best practice sponsorship works, social media will naturally form a large and very important part of your leverage plan. How it looks will be a function of a few things:
Sponsorship is now win-win-win, with the third "win" going to the target markets. The goal for sponsors should be to create several small, meaningful wins that a large proportion of fans will get. In order to find the wins that you can provide through social media, or that are share-worthy for fans, you need to know what's meaningful to them.
- What are the best things about being a fan? Is there some way you can amplify that fan experience through social media? Is there some other way you can amplify the fan experience that people are likely to share in social media?
- What are the worst things about being a fan? Can you improve those things through social media? Can you improve them some other way, in a way that is likely to be shared?
- Is there a way that you can use social media to make fans feel more a part of the experience? Closer to it? A participant, rather than a spectator? More like an insider? Or can you make them feel closer in a way that they're likely to share?
- What about fans who don't attend? People who are interested in the larger themes? How can you add value to them?
Fan priorities
Whether you're sponsoring a museum, a festival, a team, or an association, the fans will have opinions and priorities. As a sponsor, you can reflect that, thus aligning yourself with those fans.
- Are they celebrating or commiserating?
- Elated or frustrated?
- Are there controversies to address?
- Comebacks, rebirths, or glimmers of hope?
Whatever the fan priorities are, your brand should be prepared to share and reflect those priorities. Your voice around sponsorship should always be that of a fan, not of a corporate automaton.
"Proud sponsors" my arse – you should be giddy with excitement. You should be stoked!! Losing season? Have a look at the ad Vodafone created way back in 2001, when the New Zealand Warriors couldn't seem to win a game. Kiwi fans still know this song.
Property responsiveness
Some properties are really bloody stingy. They may be ninjas at social media, sharing all manner of exclusive content, but they don't make anything meaningful available to you. This doesn't mean the above strategies are out of your reach, but it does mean you've got to take a different angle.
Create your own content
One of your best options is to use the access that you do have to create some of your own content. Skip meet-and-greets, and instead use appearances, access to artists or experts, or whatever you have to create great content.
Ask for content no one else has thought of
Can't access the team? Access the trainer or the nutritionist. Can't get face time with the star speaker? Ask to do a 20-questions email interview a few weeks before they arrive. Ask for valuable content that is super-easy to facilitate, and that likely no one else is asking for, and that doesn't form the frontline of the property's social media strategy.
Get fans to create the content
The key to this is finding something that matters to the fans and giving them a place to share it. Brewer and major ice hockey sponsor, Molson Canadian, did just that with their "Official Guide to Playoff Grooming". If you're an ice hockey fan, you already know that when your team gets into the playoffs (AKA "finals"), fans have rituals, and a lot of them have to do with grooming. Molson decided to celebrate this, creating an introduction video and inviting people to submit their own photos and videos on a Facebook page they created. Let me tell you, compared to what was submitted by fans, the Molson video is positively tame!
Use ambush techniques
No appearances? Or your partner is blocking you from accessing the experts or IP you need? They're living in the dark ages and you need to go around them. Approach the sponsorship like you're using social media to ambush it, and create something – or several things – that don't require any IP or permissions from them.
The Molson example is something you could do with no cooperation whatsoever. Another great example is this viral campaign from Puma, which actually was an ambush. In 2010, soccer game day happened to fall on Valentine's Day. They created a virtual Valentine that could be sent from a soccer fan to their beloved. The most famous was this English one, with soccer fans singing the super-romantic "Truly, Madly, Deeply", but they also created one in Italy using the song "Ti Amo" ("I love you"), and one in Korea around their national Children's Day.
The video below is the generic version. The real one was customisable, with a link to a personalised message and the video being sent to your loved one.
"Be every-fing that you need" indeed. If my partner sent me this, I'd melt on the spot. Hell, yeah, you can go to the game!
The upshot
There you go… a few ideas, some angles, but no formula. It's all just about applying the principles of best practice sponsorship to one of the most flexible and ubiquitous marketing channels you've got. Not sure you understand best practice well enough? I suggest you download my white paper, "Last Generation Sponsorship" for a primer.
Need more assistance?
For all you need to know about best practice sponsorship selection, leverage, measurement, management, and more, you may want to get a copy of The Corporate Sponsorship Toolkit.
If you need additional assistance with your sponsorship portfolio, I offer sponsorship consulting, sponsorship training, and strategy sessions. Please drop me a line to discuss.
Kim Skildum-Reid
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Book List - Junior Infants 2019-2020
English Ready to Write A1 Cursive- Edco
*Class Readers are provided by the school
Maths Cracking Maths (Junior Infants)- Gill and Mc Millan
Religion Grow in Love (Junior Infants)- Veritas
Stationery 4 x Whiteboard markers (BIC/Niceday/Staedtler)
2 x 40 page Pink Ormond Project Book (Top blank, bottom extra-wide ruled)
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2 x A5 Plastic Button Folders
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€60 for Classroom Supplies (e.g. science and art materials, novels, photocopying etc.) is due by Friday 13th September and should be paid online. Class teachers cannot accept cash/cheques.
The school uses the Aladdin ePayment system which will make payment for classroom supplies easier and reduce the amount of cash and cheques being sent to the school. In early September, you will receive a text message containing your payment access link. This will bring you to a parent payments page which will contain the payment due for classroom supplies. Once you have completed your payment you will be issued a receipt by text message.
Second - Hand Book Sale - Bring and Buy in Scoil Íde Hall on Thursday, 20th June at 7p.m. organised by Parents' Council. Uniform Drop & Swap also this time.
Tony Clarke's Book Shop in School Hall on Friday, 21st June from 9.00a.m. - 3.00p.m.