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POLICE SAID IT is continuously working with different government agencies in its campaign against suspected rice hoarders in the country.
"Sa ngayon, we are having close coordination sa DTI (Department of Trade and Industry) and DA (Department of Agriculture) and NFA (National Food Authority). Binigay naman natin lahat, continuous monitoring natin sa rice hoarders. Meron na nga order coming from the Office of the President," said Director General Oscar Albayalde after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the police to crackdown on rice hoarding.
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, however, said Duterte has actually issued the same order not only to the police, but also to Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año. He said Duterte's order shows government's resolve to combat rice hoardings.
Roque insisted there was no rice shortage in the country and said the supply will be sustained with the arrival of additional imported rice this year. He accused some rice traders of creating artificial shortage by resorting to hoarding to jack up the prices of rice.
He said opposition politicians have been using the issues of rice shortage and high prices of commodities against the Duterte administration.
Roque said National Food Authority Council has already allowed private rice dealers to import supply beyond the minimum access volume aimed at stabilizing prices and supply of rice. The Philippines is allowed by the World Trade Organization to import 800,000 metric tons of rice per year.
Just recently, thousands of bags of confiscated rice suspected to have been smuggled from nearby Malaysia had mysteriously disappeared from the custody of the Bureau of Customs in Zamboanga City.
And this has forced Mayor Maria Isabelle Salazar to again call the attention of Customs District Collector Lyceo Martinez and told him to act and be accountable for the smuggled rice and other items proliferating in Zamboanga.
She said millions of pesos worth of dried sea horses seized in Zamboanga also disappeared from the Bureau of Customs.
"Clearly, there is really an anomalous activity that is preferential towards those that are smuggling. I will never tolerate it," Salazar said. "Smuggling activities must be stopped in our city, and I'm calling on his (Martinez) authority to act and be accountable for the smuggled rice." (With a report from Christopher Lloyd Caliwan)
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A lucky group of 10 warrior girls (myself included) were selected to go Bismarck, North Dakota for our newly acquired D-league affiliate team the Wizards! Were visiting for the opening weekend, and get to perform and participate in the fan fest! Be sure to check back for more updates 🙂
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Today was a very long day filled with waking up at 4:00am, a three hour lay over, and two plane rides, it gets hard to eat healthy while in the airport
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¶ "The U.S. Nuclear Boom Has Turned Into a Dud" • Five years ago, we were supposed to be entering a nuclear renaissance. New nuclear plants were being planned and there were loan guarantee programs in place. Today, the nuclear industry in the US is dying. [Motley Fool]
¶ Warmer winters played an important role in the decline in EU greenhouse gas emissions. A report says CO2 emissions across the bloc dropped by almost 25% from 1990 to 2014. Renewable energy, a switch from coal to natural gas, and recession also contributed to the fall. [BBC]
¶ The University of Cambridge has blacklisted all investment in coal and tar sands companies following mounting pressure to divest from fossil fuels. The University currently has no coal or tar sands investments, and has "no expectation of having any such exposure." [CleanTechnica]
¶ Dutch technology company Royal Philips has committed to a new sustainability program that it hopes will render its operations carbon neutral by 2020. The company announced a new 5-year sustainability program, "Healthy people, sustainable planet." [CleanTechnica]
¶ Leading investment bank Morgan Stanley believes the Australian energy market is seriously underestimating the grow of solar and battery storage, and says the technology will be installed at rates four times quicker than the incumbent energy industry expects. [RenewEconomy]
¶ A new £20-million biogas plant is being built in Ireland to generate 3 MW of renewable energy from up to 40,000 tons of chicken litter each year. One important goal of the project is to avoid the unhealthy spreading of untreated litter on land. [Power Technology]
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Spring is a time when the world comes to life with blossoming new opportunities after a long winter. For many professionals, it is an excellent time to apply for new jobs, according to TopResume. When seeking a new job, you're likely focused on finding the right position, updating your resume, and writing the perfect cover letter. What may not be as top-of-mind is your social media presence.
According to a CareerBuilder survey:
"Seven in ten employers (70 percent) use social networking sites to research job candidates during [the] hiring process- Nearly half of employers (48 percent) check up on current employees on social media- A third of employers (34 percent) have reprimanded or fired an employee based on content found online."
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I love your underlying adoration of Wriggles that comes through loud and clear in this post. She's a lucky girl and I can imagine her as a young lady reading these posts and thinking: I can't believe you went through all that with me Mum.ReplyDelete
The bit about those standard letters on "Your child will now be doing....." really got to me. We had one of those not to long after Adam had been diagnosed as severely hearing impaired, "Your child will now start recognizing their own name, turn to loud sounds, sing Handel in four part harmony, give extensive speeches at the United Nations...." Ok so I got a teeny bit sarcastic there. As I recall, that was one of those letters I tore into tiny little shreds before putting it as far into the bin as I could.ReplyDelete
I admire your strength coping with each new twist and turn in Wriggles path and hope things become smoother for you both soon. x


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According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention every second of every day an older adult falls, making falls the No. 1 cause of injuries and deaths among older Americans.
With more than 10,000 older Americans turning 65 each day, the number of fall-related injuries and deaths is expected to surge. Physical therapists and other health care professionals have very little information about a patient's everyday life, which doesn't allow for proper assessment of treatment and demonstration of improvement.
Families are also constantly worried about their loved ones living at home. Peter Chamberlain was one of those family members and wanted to ensure his grandparents lived a healthier and longer life. The creation of WalkSmart was the best step to making that mission real. Since 2016 he has been working to help provide peace of mind to generations.
Age: 26
City you live in: Grand Forks, N.D.
City of birth: Salem, Ore.
High school attended: South Salem High School
College attended: Undergrad: The University of Portland; Graduate: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Name of company: WalkSmart
Website: Walksmart.io
Business Start Date: March 2016
Number of Employees: 1
Number of Customers: 5
Q. What led to this point?
A. As an engineer, I have always been fascinated by how technology and innovation can solve some of the world's toughest challenges. Every project I've done has been has focused on helping people, whether it was building the world's first Hyperloop pod for fast transportation, designing a medical device to keep kids from getting hypothermia during Jaundice treatment, or starting the MIT Water Innovation Prize to reward those with innovation solutions. I saw a way that I could help my grandparents with new technology, and I took the leap.
Q. What is your business?
A. WalkSmart is about helping people maintain their independence and saving lives. People who use walkers are one of our most vulnerable and costly populations, yet few innovations have succeeded in reducing falls and improving care collaboration. With proper design and market focus, I think this can change.
WalkSmart is the world's first smart walker attachment. It monitors motion throughout the day and night without the need for charging, (like) a smartphone, or a wearable, eliminating many of the adherence issues faced by existing devices. The device acts as a traditional fitness tracker, but it also alerts families and caregivers when a person may have fallen, had a stroke, or have a urinary tract infection. The implications for therapy, home care, and senior living are massive.
Q. Where do you go for help when you need it?
A. I go my advisers, who are essentially people in the community that have taken a great interest in me and my pursuit of this goal. They are generous people who give their time and expertise in exchange for very little. Every community has them, and usually people know who they are.
Q. What is the origin of the business?
A. I had three grandparents that were all using walkers at the same time, either living alone at home or in assisted living. They all faced a different set of issues, such as falls, infections, dementia, etc., but I knew there was something I could do to help. After much experimenting with different walker-based innovations, experiencing issues with my grandparents, and talking to the right people, I finally figured out the solution to a number of these problems.
Q. What problems does your business solve?
A. Falls are the leading cause of fatal injury for older adults, and they cost the health care system $34 billion per year. Walker users are the most likely demographic to fall, but these can be substantially reduced by encouraging 24/7 walker use, improving fitness, and by sending help when people most require it. Physical therapists and other health care professionals have very little information about a patient's everyday life, which doesn't allow for proper assessment of treatment and demonstration of improvement. Families are also constantly worried about their loved ones living at home, and WalkSmart can help provide peace of mind.
Q. Where did you pivot in your company's journey? What big obstacle or hurdle did you have to overcome?
A. We have had some major pivots in the life of the company, which extends back prior to the incorporation date. Most of the pivots were changes in the technology, meaning we came up with a different approach for how to solve the problem. However, one of the most significant pivots was deciding to enter the "home monitoring" space, rather than focusing entirely on physical therapists and health care. This has opened up a completely new consumer market and allows for seniors living facilities to be involved in the solution.
Q. What personal strengths or skill sets do you bring to the business?
A. I'm a technical person, but I have also developed some leadership skills over the years. Even though I'm the only person working on this full-time, I still have to manage advisers, boards, suppliers, supporters, customers, etc.
Q. What are you most proud of?
A. Two awesome success stories: the first is that we have successfully reduced falls for at least one assisted living resident. It's difficult to measure the outcome of something that was "prevented," but it's certainly possible to imagine that one of these falls may have led to a hospitalization or death. The second story has to do with my grandma, who is now a fitness buff because she loves looking at her WalkSmart data. I'm helping her live a healthier and longer life, and that makes all the work (and non-existent wages) worth it.
Q. What obstacles must you overcome to be wildly successful?
A. Education. People need to understand what this little device is capable of doing. Once they do, I know they will see the value of it and send sales through the roof. The company is predominantly a marketing and sales challenge at this point. Partnerships can also go a long way to helping bridge the education gap.
Q. How are you funding your business — organically, angel or VC investments?
A. All of my funding has come from government programs and angel investors. We've been very, very lean and haven't needed much until now, but as we ramp up our marketing and sales (and thus manufacturing) we have required more funding.
Q. What would be success for your business in the next 2-3 years?
A. I want to have a profitable business by the end of year three. At some point, a much larger company will probably come along and take this amazing technology to the "next level" with their massive distribution or marketing power. Until then, I want to help as many people as I can and prove that we can make money doing so.
Q. In your opinion, what does it take to be a great entrepreneur?
A. In what I have observed about other entrepreneurs I respect, it's much about perseverance and fearlessness. For me personally, I know the road to becoming a "great entrepreneur" will be filled with many tasks that I don't particularly want to do. But I know I have to do them anyway. It's a bit like lifting weights to become a better basketball player. Hardly anyone likes to work out, and often it is difficult to see progress. No one likes revising their business plan and financial models for the 10th time this year, but the discipline you develop by doing these exercises will eventually pay off down the road.
Q. Why do you do what you do? What is your "why," your purpose?
A. I do what I do because I have the skills to make a difference for people like my grandparents.
Q. How did 1 Million Cups St. Paul help you?
A. 1MC St. Paul was a great audience, filled with people who actually followed through on promises to help. Just about all you can ask of a room of strangers is to spend five minutes of their time to help, and there were some who have done even more, both by providing feedback and by making connections.
You can hear from startups like this one each Wednesday, 9-10 a.m. at the James J. Hill Center during 1 Million Cups St. Paul. The James J. Hill Center is a nonprofit in downtown St. Paul that provides access to business research, educational programming and a place to work. The Hill is open to the public 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday-Thursday. To keep updated on what startup is presenting next or to apply to present, visit www.JJHill.org.


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The Razzle Dazzle Red Hats met March 13 with 17 persons in attendance. Guests included Linda Tarzis, Margaret Killbourn, Martha Vannoy and guest speaker Margaret McCord.
McCord discussed a collection of books by the late Erma Bombeck.
Hostess for the meeting was Lee Hodges, aided by Carolyn Duke and Killbourn. Prayer was led by Tricia Lewis. Door prizes were won by Nelda Roberts and Lewis.
Hostesses for the April meeting will be Carolyn Duke and Dorothy Sullins.
Texoma Art Association
DURANT, Oklahoma — Local and area artists over the age of 18 are encouraged to take part in the 18th annual Magnolia Festival Art Show May 30 through June 1. The show, overseen by the Texoma Art Association (TAA), will be held at the Choctaw Event Center in Durant and the entry deadline is May 16.
Show categories are magnolia, Texoma regional, 3-D media, acrylic, collage/mixed media, graphite/ink, oil, pastel/charcoal, photography and watercolor. Each artist is allowed up to five entries and the non-refundable fee is $15 per entry for non-TAA members and $10 per entry for TAA members. For those wishing to join the TAA, the yearly membership fees are $25 for an individual, $40 for a family and $10 for students.
For more information and/or entry forms, contact Magnolia Festival show chairperson Phyllis Elrod at 580-924-0424 or send an email to email@example.com.
Denison Rotary Club
The Denison Boys & Girls Club was the topic of this week's Denison Rotary Club meeting.
Guest speaker was Tom Hough, Chief Professional Officer of the Boys & Girls Club, accompanied by board member Judy Donowho. They were introduced by Rotarian Mike Scully. Hough is new to the Denison club, but explained that he has been with Boys & Girls clubs most of his adult life. He explained that the Denison club is used by 130 youngsters each day and that transportation is a problem as the club has only one van to transfer children to and from elementary schools. He stressed that learning is as important as play time at the club. He reported that the Denison Independent School District has given the club the Golden Rule Elementary School gymnasium which provides a much-needed facility for the club. Hough added that the key element in making needed improvements to the club is public understanding and support. For information on the club or a tour of the facility, call 903-465-9008.
Presenting next week's program will be Ron Manthey.
American Legion Auxiliary Unit 29
The American Legion Auxiliary Unit 29 held its regular meeting March 10 at ecan Point in Sherman.
During the business meeting, the group discuss and finalized plans for its annual Easter egg hunt on April 12. The 2 p.m. hunt will be at Pecan Point. Donations of candy, plastic eggs and other prizes will be accepted. For more information, contact President Shirley Geer at 903-271-3429.
American Legion Auxiliary members will be attending the Washington, D.C. conference March 23-26. While there, attendees will learn about veterans' issues and the legislative priorities of the American Legion. They will also visit Capitol Hill to encourage lawmakers to protect veterans' rights.
Unit 29 members who volunteer at the Bonham Veterans' Hospital on Thursdays are Linda Graham, Shirley Geer and Nancy Thomson. Others who participate are Edie Watkins of Unit 62 and Kathy Anderson of Unit 283. Currently, women of Unit 29 are making Easter care packages to be donated to the hospital's PTSD Unit on April 17.
A discussion of the auxiliary's meeting agenda line-up included the expectation of state department officers to fund the unit's plans to furnish money for the American Legion Girl's State program.
Lynda Awtin from Sherman's AMVETS Ladies Auxiliary was welcomed as a guest. She announced there will be a Mexican food fundraiser on June 14 at the AMVETS site on Frisco Road in Sherman.


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Mary Louella Lund (nee Mundt)- age 86 of Chicago and Round Lake Beach IL., passed away peacefully on December 3, 2018 surrounded by her family. Mary was born on January 7th, 1932 in Chicago, IL. On October 20, 1951 she was married to Kenneth Lund. Loving mother of Christine (Mike) Gillespie, Kathy Anderson, Keith (Mary) Lund, Cynthia (Trey) Collins and Kelly (Carla) Lund. Loving Mother-In-Law of Mike, Gary, Mary, Trey and Carla. Loving Grandmother of Michael (Denise), Elizabeth (Joe), Tom (Catherine), Jacob (Jeannie), Brigette (Larry), Carl (Connie), Doug (Allison), Jessica (Adrian), Alexandra, Kenneth and Kevin. Loving Great-Grandmother of Patrick, Shannon, Jackson, Killian, Lochlan, Morrigan, Mick, Grace, Alice, Georgie, Carl (CJ), Andreas, Emma, Sofia and Logan. She was preceded in death by her husband Kenneth, mother Ella Miller and sisters Ann McCaskey and Charlotte Nielsen. She was loved and respected by all that met her and an inspiration to her children and grandchildren whom adored her. She worked as a checker at Mayflower Foods in Chicago, IL, as a bookkeeper at the Independent Register in Libertyville, IL and at the A & P Supermarket in Round Lake, lL. She was a member of the Danish Woman's Auxiliary where she spent countless hours volunteering to help the residents of the Danish Home. Visitation will be held Friday, December 7th 3:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Cooney Funeral Home 3918 W. Irving Park, Chicago, IL. Funeral Service will be held on Saturday December 8, 2018 at 10:00 am at Cooney Funeral Home. Interment at Mount Emblem Cemetery- 520 E. Grand Ave, Elmhurst, IL. God bless this beautiful soul, may you now sing and dance in heaven among the stars. For further information please call 773-588-5850 or visit www.cooneyfuneralhome.com
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September 24, 2009
Family-Run Amusement Parks Surviving a Downturn
By ROBERT STRAUSS
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/busin ... ml?_r=1&hp
WILDWOOD, N.J. — Given that consumers have been so reluctant to spend lately, the family-run amusement park would seem especially vulnerable.
But amusement park owners around the country say the weather, not the housing downturn or job losses, played a bigger role in their fortunes this past summer.
"We had a lousy, wet June and a couple of hurricane threats this summer, so that was bad," said Jack Morey, who with his brother Will, owns and runs three amusement piers along the Wildwood boardwalk. "Then the weather got better in August, and suddenly everyone was there."
If they have sunshine and moderate temperatures, Mr. Morey and his fellow owners around the country say, the slower economy seems to be favoring them.
Indeed, the fact that most of the independent parks are owned by families may insulate them a bit from the normal business cycles, said William Alexander, who teaches courses in family business at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. "In many cases, these are seasonal businesses," Mr. Alexander said. "And in the summer, the whole family would participate. In difficult economic times, particularly, a family committed to a business will sacrifice in deferring compensation and bonuses."
Mr. Alexander also noted that the family-run amusement parks were generally "not as involved as the large ones in the amusement arms race, where building the next big roller coaster is the goal." As a result, he said, "Their capital cost structures are not as stretched."
Six Flags, which runs the Great Adventure Parks, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in June. New owners took over in 2005 after the company had increased its debt through expansion and spending on gigantic roller coasters. When it filed for bankruptcy, the current managers said that park attendance had held up over the last couple of years, but that revenue was not adequate to cover its debt.
Family-operated parks run the gamut from places like Storybook Land, an amusement park in Cardiff, N.J., about a dozen miles west of Atlantic City, that offers smaller rides aimed at younger children, to places like Morey's Piers, which have roller coasters just short of the Six Flags-type screamers. Most have 20 to 50 rides or attractions, sometimes water parks, and often arcades or shows. They are day-trip places, with passes that stay firmly in the low- to mid-double-digit dollar range. A day pass for one of the Six Flags parks costs $45 to $55 a person, and parking is at least $15.
"We feel in competition with places like Six Flags," said Dick Andrew, vice president of marketing at the Lagoon and Pioneer Village, a 49-ride park in Farmington, Utah, which opened in 1886, 10 years before Utah became a state. "Denver has a Six Flags and that is 600 miles away, and the large parks in California are more than 700 miles away. But people here in Utah think nothing of loading up the kids in the van and just driving. We always have to be aware that the customer isn't just going to come here because we are down the road."
Thus, the family amusement parks have to be both keepers of nostalgia and up-to-date. In Wildwood, the Moreys say they try to come up with at least one new ride or attraction a year, but still have the old bumper cars and carousel. At the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in that central California seaside town, the Canfield family, which has owned the park for more than a century, decided not long ago to replace the Haunted Castle ride that had been showing wear after 30 years in operation.
"But we asked around and you know what we replaced it with? An updated Haunted Castle ride," said Marq S. Lipton, the company's vice president of marketing and sales. "It is an advantage to be working for a company that has been in business for more than 100 years. You have seen just about every type of economy. You can let the past help guide your future actions and plans."
Even though the economy did not devastate the family parks, it did lead many of them to re-evaluate what the future might bring. At Wild West City, a 53-year-old park in northwestern New Jersey with an old-time Western village, some rides and a mock shootout and Western show on the Main Street every hour or so in the summer, there are often obstacles just to staying in business.
"Our cap-gun supplier went out of business two years ago," said Wild West City's manager, Mary Benson. "Who would figure that? So we had to find someone else, which was more expensive." Licensing and insurance goes up every year, she said, and the minimum wage, which is what many young seasonal workers often get, jumped in New Jersey to $7.25 this year from $6.15 an hour in 2006. Corporate business — companies throwing picnics and the like — has declined but, she said, will hopefully come back when the economy improves.
"We're managing, but we do it because we love it," she said, noting that the owner, Mike Stabile, whose family bought the park in 1963, still gets out on the Main Street daily to do the lasso show.
There have been at least three closings of long-term amusement parks this year, according to Jim Futrell, the historian for the National Amusement Park Historical Association and the writer of four books on amusement parks. But all those, he said, had family-based disagreements, and were not related to the general economy. In the early part of the decade, though, he said, several seaside parks in places like Myrtle Beach and the Outer Banks and the New Jersey shore closed because the land along the ocean just became too valuable.
"The ironic thing, though, is that most all of that land lies vacant today," he said. "It never did become condos or housing developments," he said. In fact, in one place, Sea Isle City, N.J., the town leased back the land to an amusement operator this summer. John Fricano, owner of Storybook Land, which has been in his family for 54 years, said the family amusement park offered a form of stability to customers. "People know what we have to offer, and well, we have been lucky that they always come back," he said. "There are always new kids and, for the most part, this business is about kids and their families. Now the original kids bring their kids."
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Undergraduate prerequisites - applicants admitted to the Ph.D. program in Combined Clinical/Counseling who do not major in psychology or related field may need to take some undergraduate psychology courses, e.g. elementary statistics as prerequisites for program requirements. Any prerequisite requirements will be made in consultation with the student and program faculty.
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Posted Wednesday, November 17, 2004 2:38 PM | Contributed by Jeff
[Ed. note: Press release follows.]
ORLANDO, FL-----Exactly a year after becoming a finalist in the theme park industry's coveted Applause Awards, Holiday World was named the 2004-2005 winner of the international award this morning in Orlando, Florida.
"We are thrilled beyond words," says Will Koch, president and general manager of Holiday World & Splashin' Safari. "To be honored by our peers at this level is nearly unbelievable. We all keep pinching ourselves."
Koch, along with about a dozen members of his staff, is in Orlando this week attending the International Association of Amusement Parks & Attractions (IAAPA) convention. The Applause Award was announced this morning during the "What's New Theater" general session.
"This award is a reflection of the spirit of our staff," says Koch. "Our full-time staff and seasonal employees believe in our innovations such as free soft drinks and free sunscreen. They embrace our determination to be the cleanest and friendliest park. It's their hard work that we honor with this incredible award."
The Applause Award, which is presented by Amusement Business trade journal and Sweden's Liseberg Park, is a highly coveted international honor. The criteria for the award include foresight, originality and creativity, plus sound business development and profitability.
Last fall, Holiday World was the only park in the U.S. to be named a finalist in the Applause Awards, which is presented every two years. The other finalists were Gardaland in Verona, Italy; and Tivoli in Copenhagen, Denmark.
With annual attendance of 883,000 in 2004, Holiday World is the smallest park ever to win an Applause Award. Previous winners of the Applause Award are Disneyland, Universal Studios Florida, Cedar Point of Sandusky, Ohio; and Europa Park in Germany.
Now, if only Will can be so overcome with joy that he goes on a spending spree at IAAPA...LOL! Hopefully he'll stop by the GCI or Gravity Group booth ;)
...They will come....
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What a woman! :)
They didn't just build it, they operate it wonderfully every day.
Have Fun and congratulations to my hometown park on winning the Applause Award.
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I just wish you were closer to my home... ;) As it is, HW is my "home away from home" park...
Way to go Paula and the rest of the HW gang! WoooHooo!!!
In writing the news release, I opted to list the Applause parks that I thought our locals would most readily recognize. No offense was intended to the parks I didn't list.
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It is recommended to run a test on a regular basis as it will help in tracking any performance issue that might have struck on your site. If there is not issue, it is still recommended to be on the safer side.
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If one sits down to write, a whole book will not be enough to describe SEO tools, and how they could help us. I know we have mentioned only 3 out of them. However, as far as I believe, these 3 tools will cover most part of your SEO Analysis and I could swear by them. Hope you will use the same tools and let us know your experience with the same. Also, if there are some additional tools you would like to add to the list, you are always welcome.
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Obviously, we'd give ANYTHING for a second *NSYNC reunion. Their reunion at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards only made us want MOAR! (And yes, we're still very much reeling over Ryan Seacrest's cruel April Fool's Day prank. YOU DO NOT JOKE ABOUT THESE THINGS.)
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Hollowing out the song's funky, pre-solo Justin Timberlake groove, the Aussie outfit cut the groovy guitar licks short and toss in hazy synths, sparse drums, and blink-and-you'll-miss-it flourishes of piano instead.
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We can say with some confidence that astrophysics as a topic is far, far away (lightyears, perhaps) from the thoughts of most people in fashion. Yet Israeli-born, New York based designer Ronit Genik has gazed beyond the fashion world to the celestial world, and come away with the inspiration for Reverie. Her collection draws on images of stars and gases from deep space, and, more broadly, the dreamy quality of pondering natural phenomena. You'd be surprised how modern a planetarium looks when sewed into a shimmery dress (it's more compact, too). While it's nice when nebulous—ha!—science concepts become tangible, we'll leave it up to you to decide if interstellar matter is indeed wearable.
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Follow the adventures of legendary Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda, along with Anakin's new Padawan learner, Ahsoka Tano, as they struggle against the dark side.
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Episode 16 - Hidden Enemy
Anakin and Obi-Wan discover evidence of a traitor amongst their ranks while attempting to lead Republic forces to liberate the planet of Christophsis from a Separatist siege.
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Episode 09 - Cloak Of Darkness
Ahsoka and Jedi Master Luminara escort captured Viceroy Nute Gunray to trial, unaware that Count Dooku has dispatched his deadly apprentice assassin Asajj Ventress to free the prisoner and eliminate the Jedi.
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By Jessie Tierney, Certified Yoga Instructor and Sanborn Wrangler for the Sanborn Western Camps Blog, 2011.
After such a successful first Horse Yoga Long Trip, I could not imagine it getting even better.
With a new group of 9 campers, two staff and a total of 14 horses, we set out this time on a 5-day trek to unite with ourselves, our equine partners and each other . . . and this exceptional group of ladies made our 5-day trip an experience I'll never forget.
One especially important element of this Horse Yoga trip was providing journals to campers at the start of the week. We sat on the front porch at the barn and talked about the power of Intention. With ideas of manifesting our dreams in mind, we made them concrete by writing them down in our small journals. The girls were asked to keep track of their intention throughout the trip, taking the time during Hawking (watching the horses graze for 6 hours each day) to answer some of the prompts I included in the pages, and also writing whatever came to mind on the blank sheets. This week was punctuated by torrential rain on each of the five nights, but this did not stop the girls from pulling their journals and pens from their cantle packs to huddle inside their ponchos and write. We made sure to "debrief" each evening, sharing some of the insights they came up with in the presence of their munching horses and the sound of rain. We woke up each morning with sloshy boots and soaked jeans, but thanks to the Colorado morning sun, we were dry before heading back out on the trail.
We talked about the girls' answer to the prompt: "What is your Dream for the Future?" Answers were as varied as the ladies in the group, and we learned one girl's dream to become a vet despite her allergies to animals. Another girl spoke of working with an organization to end child trafficking. A third hoped to overcome her anxiety and nervousness around competition, and said that she was looking forward to using the breathing exercises we had learned in one of the yoga practices. As we shared our dreams with one another to the backdrop of our horses grazing in a hay field, we became vulnerable–together–and provided support that felt tangible. It was like etching our dreams in stone, solidifying these intentions and banding together to make them manifest, our horses and one another as witnesses. It felt powerful.
This trip's destinations allowed for us to do more bareback yoga on the trail–3 of our 4 camping spots had arena setups which allowed the girls to ride without a saddle. Something profound happened here, too. One evening, we un-tacked the horses, hung their bridles on a tree branch and stacked their saddles below. After we'd allowed the horses to eat for three hours, we led them into a fenced-in section of pasture.
"Okay girls," I said, "this is going to be an exercise in trust for your horse," as I began tying a hobble knot on one of the horses' lead ropes so it did not drag on the ground. "Tie your knots and I'll give you a leg up."
"How are we going to steer?" one of the girls asked. I smiled.
"You're not. You are going to breathe deep and trust where your horse takes you." There was a ripple of nervous excitement, and I breathed deep to release a bit of my own uncertainty about the exercise. "Who's ready?"
As I walked around the herd of 11, hoisting each girl onto the back of her mount, I silently prayed that no one would get hurt. These horses could potentially cause a ruckus, but part of me had a good feeling about the Trust exercise, and I focused on the good potential rather than the bad. It will be okay, I thought, especially with this group of girls, who picked up on the power of their breath easily. I expected that the horses would take advantage of the opportunity to graze, and that they wouldn't venture too far.
"Deep breaths, ladies. See if you can get your horse to lick his lips or sigh with you," I coached. Some of the mounted girls had already turned their bodies around to lay their heads on their horses' rumps. Once everyone was on, I led them in some collective breathing and a few horseback asanas (poses).
To my surprise, not one horse moved. None of the horses even lowered their heads to graze. They had complete freedom: every opportunity to find a good patch of grass to munch or even trot around the pen if they pleased, yet each horse stood stock-still, ears gently turned toward the rider on its back. In fact, the horses seemed to relax deeply, standing in a group with their riders lounging on their backs, eyes drooping with one leg relaxed. These horses were doing yoga, too.
I nearly cried. There was something happening that I had not anticipated. Even Sugar, a horse known for kicking any horse who got near to her, stood nearly drooling with what I would normally deem "uncomfortably close spacing" to the horse by her side. Even more than on the last trip, these horses were actively participating in the yoga practice. They transformed as soon as their riders shifted their awareness to the breath.
Bridleless & Bareback Pasture Meditation
I have personally experienced the power of breath awareness in horseback riding innumerable times since I was a kid–calming a nervous horse by slowing my breathing and feeling my seat sink deep into the saddle–but it was always something I took for granted that felt difficult to articulate to others. Now, so visibly in front of me, it was made obvious: horses respond to breathing. Bigtime. Suddenly applications of this teaching flooded into my mind: we can make riding infinitely more safe by teaching this simple technique. The horses trusted their mounts because their mounts became wholly present in the moment through watching, listening to, and lengthening their inhales and exhales. So simple! Yet so profound!
Taken seriously, these breathing exercises allowed for the campers to "get away with" doing poses even I would have deemed impossible before the start of this trip. Girls were sitting backward on their horse's rump in Sukhasana in meditation. Some did partner poses on horseback, nearly hanging upside-down off their mounts. Ekha Pada Kapotasana–Pigeon Pose on horseback–impossible? Hardly! I stood by laughing nearly the entire trip. It was miraculous!
This camper made up a pose she dubbed "Fly-Asana," sitting like a fly on her horse's back.
There was one element whose absence I think made possible much of what these ladies and their horses accomplished: Fear. Likely because of their youth and my (at times feigned) confidence that they could accomplish whatever they set out to try, these girls were fearless. The absence of fear in the girls gave their horses confidence, and the equines embraced these new, foreign activities as though they'd been waiting to do yoga all their lives. Or, perhaps the horses had been doing yoga all their lives, and the girls finally got up to speed. After all, horses as prey animal depend on the awareness and presence of the other members of their herd for survival. This makes horses the ultimate yoga practitioners: wholly present every moment. Once the girls caught on to how to be wholly present through their breathing, the horses felt they could trust them completely (thank you Linda Kohanov!).
The trip was magical. The girls loved it; the horses loved it; I loved every second of it–okay, perhaps not the moments when I woke up at 6am to put on a pair of soaked jeans and puddle-filled boots. But the attitudes of the ladies and the transformations that took place are memories I will cherish forever and that will surely fuel me to continue doing this work.
I have a feeling this is the start of something very big. Thank you, Sanborn, for making it possible.
Yee-Haw! Namaste.
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