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The Rider is our traditional working coat. With top to toe protection from the elements and unrestricted movement it's no wonder it remains as Australia's favourite working coat. Perfect for riding, working or playing, it's the obvious choice if you need a water & wind resistant jacket.
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The Rider is our traditional working coat. With top to toe protection from the elements and unrestricted movement it's no wonder it remains as Australia's favourite working coat. Perfect for riding, working or playing, it's the obvious choice if you need a water & wind resistant jacket.
Relaxed fit: Designed to fit over at least two layers of clothing. We advise going down a size for a more tapered fit.
100% cotton heavyweight premium Oilskin
Water & wind resistant, breathable
Traditional Driza-Bone cape detailing at shoulders
100% cotton lining
Lower double entry side pockets
Back studded vent for extra movement
Centre front flap with stud closure
Internal chest pocket
Internal leg straps to keep the garment in place
Designed and Made in Australia
100% Australian wool or poly fleece liner sold separately
Detachable hood sold separately: DBDH-H
In 1898 a British Sailor Emilius Le Roy envisioned an all-weather, indestructible jacket made of old recycled ship sails that were treated with oil. His first iteration that was dubbed the first 'Driza-Bone' unfortunately was pretty flammable due to the use of linseed oil.
Later, T.E Pearson who was the son of E.J Pearson and the founder of Pearson Soap brought a consignment of LeRoy coats to Australia to rework the proofing process. It is this excellent formula that we still use to proof our coats today.
Since 1898, Driza-Bone has become an Australian Icon being worn not only by stockmen but by politicians such as John Howard and George W Bush; Rockstars and models like Kate Moss and by the everyday Australian.
Whether it's wearing one to drove a mob of sheep across the central plains or throwing one on to keep dry at the footy, there's nothing more quintessentially Australian than wearing a Driza-Bone.
Fabulous Coat That Lasts DecadesBought my first DrizaBone Rider coat about 1990 and it finally came time to replace it as all of the wax waterproofing the coat wore away. Just too lazy to re-wax. I wore it in very wet weather including horseback riding in Alaska, and between it and my Akubra hat, I was always comfy and dry. The new one has some upgrades from the 30-year-old model: the capelet is removeable where the old one was sewn on, pocket layout is better, interior liner is better material, and it's just a bit longer. DrizaBone logo tags are now quite innocuous but I had liked the BIG dog-bone shaped old one. Should be the last one I'll ever need, but you should start on your first one if you haven't already.
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Really great riding coat.This is my coat of choice whenever I am out mustering in bad weather. Always keeps me warm and dry. My one used to be my mum's and it is still going strong.
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20 Years and still running strong!!My parents bought me this coat in 1998 and now (2018) still an EXCELLENT coat! Ive been on hundreds of camping adventures, hunting and tracking in horrible weather and the only thing "wrong" with it is a small size burn hole from an amber. Love this quality coat!
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Awesome for the farmCoat awesome product for the farm
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Fast and efficient service to the UKWhilst there are two small modifications I would like to see made, I want to make it clear that I unreservedly recommend this coat, which is every bit as good as the description implies. I feel two small modifications would improve the coat even more: 1. The rear vent should start a few inches higher up the back to further enhance freedom of movement when required. 2. The storm flap at the front should be capable of being fixed back out of the way when not required. Even without these modifications I am delighted, both with the coat and the fast and efficient service to the UK I received.
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Great coatGreat coat, a little on the heavy side but you get used to that - only thing I would change would be the cuff to more Velcro to enable it to be made tighter due to length of sleeves
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A great waterproof coat, perfect for fishermanHi all,I'm a fisherman and I spend most of my time on boats in the ocean,and quite frankly I couldn't of asked for a better jacket to keep me warm and dry on those freezing cold mornings in heavy seas with terrible winds. Most jackets can't take that much water and stay dry,but my riding coat is great.To be honest the only reason I bought a new one is because I lost my old one that I got back in 1990 overboard 3months ago,so with winter coming again,it was time for a replacement,and a new old faithful was bought.if your looking for a great waterproof coat you can't go wrong with these,mine lasted 28 years before I lost it and my father has had his since the '60's.made to last,great job everyone at driza-bone this ones just as good as the old one,greatly appreciated, Mr B Stewart
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Like the lighter material, it's an excellent productExcellent product. This new version is a bit lighter than the older version I had what will make me use it a bit longer at spring. The older version had a thicker liner that made it very hot on nice and warm days.
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Prompt shipping and quick returnsGreat order confirmation feedback, & prompt shipping. I ordered a Large, based on sizing info, but was too big. Upon ringing customer support, I organised a return. Driza Bone very quickly sent me a Medium. Perfect size ( I'm 173cm tall). Beaut coat. Exactly what I required & expected. Quality is spot on.
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Replacing after 17 years because I outgrew itAm replacing my Driza Bone finally after 17 years, but only because it is now getting to small for me. Well worth the money!
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Pat Thaddeus is the Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, and Professor of Applied Physics, Harvard University, and Senior Space Scientist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
Following Penzias and Wilson's great discovery, it was clear that measuring the microwave background near its peak intensity at a wavelength of 2 mm was the crucial observational test to demonstrate the blackbody spectrum of the radiation and its cosmological origin. Most of the energy of a 3-K black-body lies in the vicinity of 2 mm, and because the energy in the CMBR is enormous on a cosmic scale - 100 times that of starlight when averaged over the great voids between galaxies - that is the observation which constituted the dagger at the throat of the steady state universe. Because the opacity of the terrestrial atmosphere increases greatly at short wavelengths, it seemed likely that a spacecraft observation was required, with all the expense, difficulty, and delay which that was likely to entail.
I had recently designed a small radio telescope for the Nimbus satellite to study the thermal emission of the Earth at a wavelength of 2 cm (chosen because that is a band where the contrast between water and land is large, and icebergs are readily distinguished against the surrounding ocean). I was therefore well aware of the technical and political problems - and the frustrations - which a spacecraft measurement imposed. I discussed these from time to time with my colleague William Hoffman at the Institute for Space Studies in New York City, who was working in collaboration with Neville Woolf on a small balloon-borne cryogenic telescope to conduct the first survey of the Milky Way in the far infrared. That instrument, which went on to discover how remarkably rich the Galaxy is in the far infrared, was the forerunner of Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) and the other far-infrared telescopes which have had such a large impact on space astronomy.
Woolf had been in New York working with Hoffman but had recently gone to the University of Texas, where he remained a member of our informal discussion group, and he was aware of my interest in the microwave background. From there in September 1965 he wrote me a letter which set me back, because it suggested that I might be wasting my time. "On a theoretical approach," he wrote, "I wonder what can be made from the case of the missing CN lines. Lines arising from a level only 3 cm-1 above the ground state are absent." This came as a severe shock and a disappointment, because it implied that there might be no background radiation at all in the millimeter-wave band, and that the Penzias and Wilson radiation - whatever it was - was not the faint blackbody remnant of the primeval fireball predicted by Gamow. An attempt to observe directly the short wavelength background could be a significant waste of time and money.
So I decided to look into the question of interstellar CN and the mechanisms which excite it in the interstellar gas. It didn't take long to discover that this widely studied radical, readily observed on the Sun, in comets, and in laboratory discharges and flames, was not stationary in the interstellar gas at all, but was rotating instead by just the amount expected from excitation by 3-K blackbody radiation. Observed as an extremely faint satellite, the R(1) line, to the R(0) line from the rotational ground state, this seemingly insignificant fact made almost no impression on astronomers when it was first observed by McKellar in 1940 as a barely perceptible absorption line on a high-resolution Mt. Wilson spectrum of the second-magnitude star Zeta Ophiuchi. But Gerhard Herzberg, the eminent molecular spec-troscopist and a sharp-eyed observer who missed little, was aware of it - to the point of citing it on the penultimate page of his well-known monograph Spectra of Diatomic Molecules, whose first edition appeared in May 1950. There Herzberg quotes a rotational temperature of 2.3 K, but proceeds to say that this excitation has "... only a very restricted meaning."
This conclusion was far from unreasonable at the time - it is probably what most astronomers and spectroscopists would have said had they taken the trouble to consider the matter at all. In 1940 only three molecules were known in the interstellar gas: CH, CH+, and CN. As the heaviest of the three, and the one with the lowest frequency rotational transitions, CN was the most susceptible to excitation by purely local processes such as collisions with H atoms or resonant scattering (fluorescence) of starlight. Herzberg therefore reasoned that CN was the first interstellar molecule which one might expect to find rotationally excited in space, and its excitation was hardly surprising and had no general significance. It presumably varied from interstellar cloud to cloud, in response to the local density, intensity of starlight, etc.
But with the scant interstellar CN data which existed at that time and the poor signal-to-noise which characterized all of it, variation from cloud to cloud was very difficult to demonstrate. Astronomers would have been puzzled to discover that CN everywhere was excited by the same amount: just under 3 K. Was Herzberg right? was the crucial question.
About this time I took on for his doctoral research a versatile and energetic graduate student in the Columbia Physics Department, John F. Clauser, and together we undertook to do two things to see if CN really served as a good thermometer for the CMBR. The first was theoretical: to see if local processes were fast enough to explain the CN excitation. The second was observational: to obtain better CN data to better measure the CN excitation and the CMBR temperature, and to see whether the excitation was constant from cloud to cloud, as predicted by a universal mechanism.
Our theoretical calculations were hampered at the outset by the fact that the CN electric dipole moment - the parameter that determines the rate of rotational excitation by background photons and how tightly CN is coupled to the CMBR - had not been measured. So it had to be obtained indirectly. In our first paper, Clauser and I argued that the small value for the dipole moment of the first excited electronic state of CN, which had been obtained from pressure-broadening in a flame, implied that the dipole moment of the ground state was probably substantial, at least 1 Debye (in the standard unit of molecular dipole moments, the Debye, 10-18 esu), making CN a sensitive thermometer for the CMBR. That assumption turned out to be correct. Thanks to a communication from George Field, who we discovered was also pondering the question of the excitation of interstellar CN, we then learned that the Belgian astronomer Claude Arpigny had recently deduced the dipole moment of CN to be 1.1 D from cometary spectra, and that is what we adopted for our calculations. A few years later Thompson and Dalby observed the optical Stark effect of CN in the laboratory - a difficult experiment - and with it measured directly the CN dipole, and found it to be even larger: 1.45 D. So our indirect estimate turned out to be conservative: CN was even more tightly coupled to the CMBR than we had assumed, and was an even better radiative thermometer than we had supposed.
Clauser and I soon calculated that if the CN was located in a normal HI region, as generally assumed, the excitation by local processes, in particular collisions with hydrogen atoms and fluorescent excitation by background starlight, was quite slow compared to that from the CMBR, and it was therefore the CMBR which largely determined the excitation. We found that in an
HII region the situation was less clear-cut: collisions with charged particles, slow protons in particular, could be a significant source of CN excitation; but there was then - as today - little evidence that interstellar CN is found in HII regions, so that possibility could be discounted. Our conclusion was therefore, contrary to what Herzberg had assumed, that the excitation of CN was the work of the CMBR, and the rotational temperature of CN was a direct measure of the temperature of the background at the wavelength of the 1-0 rotational transition, 2.64 mm - quite close to the peak of the 3-K blackbody curve, which is the reason why our measurement was important. It implied that the enormous amount of radiant energy locked up in the CMBR which had escaped detection by the low-frequency measurements of Penzias and Wilson and other radio astronomers was really there, and could not be swept under the rug as the proponents of the steady state theory might have liked.
Our attempt to show that the CN excitation was constant from star to star was somewhat disappointing, because in the 1960s the number of bright stars with interstellar CN absorption was very limited, consisting of only two really good examples: ( Oph, the second-magnitude star studied by McKellar, and ( Per, a similar star in the opposite part of the Milky Way. We were nonetheless able to conclude from a total of ten stars with some evidence of interstellar CN that all the available data were consistent with invariant CN excitation, and the existence of background radiation at a temperature of 3 K or somewhat less. Today with modern echelle spectrographs and CCD detectors, one could demonstrate the constancy of CN excitation much better than in the 1960s, but with the remarkably accurate direct measurement of the CMBR spectrum by COBE, the question now is largely of historical interest.
Over the next few years we made an effort to obtain a really good measurement of the CMBR with CN and the other molecules then known to exist in the interstellar gas. This was well before the flood of interstellar molecule discoveries, which began with the discovery of ammonia and water by Townes and Welch and coworkers at Berkeley in 1968-1969. Radio lines of OH had been identified in 1963, but OH optical lines analogous to those of CN do not exist, and this widely distributed molecule unfortunately does not serve as a useful radiative thermometer for the background. Of the more than 130 molecules now known to exist in the interstellar gas or circumstel-lar shells, it is remarkable that none surpasses CN as a thermometer for the CMBR - or even comes close.
For a radio astronomer, obtaining the necessary time in the 1960s on a large optical telescope with a fast high-resolution spectrograph was far from easy. To get started, Clauser and I succeeded in begging time on the large McMath solar telescope at Kitt Peak, which had a very high-resolution spectrograph and had been used for a small amount of interstellar work, and with it we succeeded in obtaining a few rather ragged spectra of Z Oph showing interstellar CN. These yielded a rotational temperature of about 3 K, but our data really represented little or no improvement over McKellar's pre-war observations at Mt. Wilson. It became clear after discussions with optical observers who worked at high spectral resolution that the instrument to use for a significant improvement was the Lick 120-inch telescope, which thanks to George Herbig had a very high-resolution Coude spectrograph that was fast and efficient.
To obtain a substantial block of time on this telescope as a visiting faculty member of the University of California, I moved with my wife and two children to Berkeley for the spring quarter of 1968, and was granted then and over the summer a substantial block of time on the 120-inch telescope for the CN project by Albert Whitford, the Lick Director. With another New York student, Victor Bortolot, I ultimately obtained over 30 very high-quality Coude spectra on IIao emulsions, carefully baked to enhance sensitivity, at the highest available resolution of the spectrograph, 1.2 A/mm; most were 5 mm wide to store a large amount of information on each exposure, which typically required several hours. Back in New York we digitized these spectra and added them together numerically to obtain the interstellar spectrum of Z Oph with a signal-to-noise not previously achieved. I was fortunate to be tutored in the art of high-resolution Coude spectroscopy by two masters, George Herbig, then on the faculty at Santa Cruz, and Gene Harlan, a fastidious and exacting member of the Lick technical staff.
During one of our Lick runs we were paid an impromptu visit by George Mueller, director of the Apollo Program, and Wernher von Braun, director of the Marshall Space Flight Center and the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle developed for the Moon landing. They were contemplating a telescope of the Lick class in orbit and wanted to see what one actually looked like. As a prototype for a space telescope, the Lick 120-inch with its long focal ratio was a bizarre choice, and one is thankful that this visit did not sour NASA on a big telescope in space for good. Mueller soon left, but von Braun, who knew something about optics and had an affection for telescopes, decided to stay the night. I put him to work in the bowels of the Lick Coude guiding the telescope, keeping the light from the star streaming down the entrance aperture of the spectrograph. He was an interesting companion for a long observing night, and a good talker. It was not long before this - about 1960 - that von Braun published his memoir I Aim at the Stars, which a well-known comedian (Mort Sahl) said might have been better called I Aim at the Stars, and Sometimes Hit London, and it was about the time Norman Mailer in his book Of a Fire on the Moon described von Braun as looking like "the head waiter in the largest hofbrau house in Heaven." It was an unusual evening at the Coude focus of the 120-inch.
Our synthesized spectrum represented well over 100 h of 120-inch observation. With it we determined the rotational temperature of CN toward Z Oph to be 2.99 ± 0.06 K, which with small corrections for optical depth and collisional excitation yielded 2.78 ± 0.10K for the temperature of the CMBR at A = 2.64 mm. It is gratifying that this result obtained by photographic spectrophotometry in 1972 is within 0.6a of the COBE temperature published 18 years later.
Our synthesized final spectrum covered not only the violet band of CN, but also, as Figure 4.3 shows, the stronger interstellar bands of CH and CH+, and it yielded also a marginal detection of 13CH+, which furnished the first observational evidence for carbon-13 in the interstellar gas. The 13C/12C ratio, which we obtained, was consistent with the terrestrial value, 1/89, and with the many measurements later made of this important isotopic ratio.
Several years later I took on as a postdoc in radio astronomy John Mather, a brilliant student of Paul Richards. For a research topic John took up the recently discovered SiO masers, but, true to his training in Richards' laboratory, his real interest was in the microwave background and the challenge of its short wavelength spectrum. The first proposal for a Cosmological Background Radiation Satellite was written in my office in New York. Already present at our first meeting to draft a proposal to NASA for a spacecraft experiment were some of the key COBE players, including Weiss, Wilkinson, Hauser, and Silverberg. Mather was so good at both the political and the technical requirements of this enterprise that when he later took a job at the Goddard Space Flight Center, the project followed him with my support. The discovery of polyatomic molecules in space was underway, and that promised the kind of science which was closest to my heart.
My excursion into optical astronomy was short, but it left an indelible impression. After a many-hour exposure, the thrill of holding up a developed photographic plate in the darkroom to the light and seeing the faint, barely perceptible absorption line of excited CN, knowing that it was a fingerprint of the universal radiation filling all space, once as brilliant as the surface of the Sun, was an aesthetic and intellectual pleasure which I have
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Jesse Lizer's plans for a new house in Climate Zone 6 call for a 60-foot long walkout basement wall on the north side. The three below-grade foundation walls will be built with insulated concrete forms (ICFs) with an R-value of roughly R-25.
Lizer's question, posted in GBA's Q&A forum, concerns the exposed north wall of the foundation. Should it be built from ICFs like the rest of the foundation, or would he be better off framing it as a double-stud wall with an R-value of 40, like the rest of the house?
With the wood-framed wall, he not only gets better thermal performance, but wood framing would also make it easier to put in windows and doors. "Plus," he adds, "if a rough opening gets framed wrong or something changes, we are fixing wood and not concrete."
"Would it still make a better/stronger basement system if all the walls were ICF?" he asks. "I realize the length is quite long, which is why I am curious if it would even help make any difference or not."
The discussion is the topic for this week's Q&A Spotlight.
Thermal mass vs. higher R-value
With a core of concrete, the ICF wall has more mass than a wood-framed wall, and Mike Collignon thinks this benefit is worth considering. "This often doesn't show up in R-value discussions," he writes, "but it [is] quantifiable and does make a difference in reducing air infiltration."
Added thermal mass, however, may not have much benefit in Lizer's climate zone, Dick Russell says.
"Bear in mind that the 'thermal mass' effect of concrete is most useful in climates where there is a lot of outside temperature swing above and below the inside temperature," Russell writes. "In prolonged cold weather, the mass really doesn't help with temperature profile. True, it can provide a very airtight wall, but that can be achieved easily with a framed wall also."
Philip Gross agrees, writing that the higher R-value of the framed wall has more advantages than the thermal mass of the concrete. One factor is that in an ICF wall, the mass of the concrete is wrapped in rigid foam insulation.
"With thermal mass you can store the extra heat and release it during the night," Gross says. "Also, it prevents the structure from overheating during the summer as long as you have cooler nights. However, I am not so sure about the benefits of the thermal mass in ICF walls because of the interior insulation. I don`t think you can effectively store solar energy in an ICF wall and release it when needed."
What about ICFs for the whole house?
Lizer is planning to use ICFs only for the foundation, not above grade. The double-stud exterior walls above grade will be insulated with blown-in fiberglass.
"Fiberglass? Ugh," Collignon says. "In my opinion, you're headed down the wrong road."
Collignon e-mailed the thread to an old colleague, a professional engineer licensed in 20 states and one Canadian province, for a second opinion. According to Collignon, the engineer thinks Lizer would be better off building the whole house with ICFs. "Even with the double-stud configuration, unless he is using polystyrene foam in the wall, the old saying comes to mind, 'fiberglass is a filter,'" Collignon quotes him as saying. "Air doesn't blow through ICF walls."
There are two additional points raised by Collignon's engineer: first, if the concern is higher R-values, Lizer can use ICFs with 4 in. of foam on the outside face and 2 in. inside; and second, the windows and doors are the real energy-wasters. "Windows are R-1," the engineer pronounces. "They are the 'hole in the bottom of the pail of water' … all of the heat leaks out through the windows."
Hogwash, writes Dick Russell. No one building a superinsulated house is going to use single-pane (R-1) windows, he says, adding, "Statements like that detract from whatever other useful thoughts he may have offered."
In defense of fiberglass insulation
Fiberglass insulation is frequently criticized, at least in batt form. But John Zito thinks some of the blasts are undeserved. "Air doesn't blow through fiberglass when all sides are air sealed," he writes. "While I'm not a big fan of fiberglass for a few reasons (I would have chosen cellulose), it is effective when air sealed."
On this count, Lizer seems to have done his homework. "Fiberglass, while not as 'green' (depending on your definition) as cellulose, it also has some advantages that make it the correct choice for me," Lizer says. "When blown at pressures of 1.8-2+ psf, it has similar air convection current reductions as dense-packed cellulose, and at a slightly higher R per inch."
As to the recommendation that the whole house be built with ICFs, Lizer isn't buying in. For one thing, any wood-framed wall can be just as tight as, if not tighter than, an ICF wall. Further, benefits of thermal mass are marginal in a heating-dominated climate, and ICFs with thicker foam on the exterior "greatly increases the price over an already expensive product.
"I have priced out ICF all the way up to the trusses, and my materials cost nearly tripled for a wall with half the R-value," he says. "Hitting similar R-values will make the price close to 5 times the cost of a double-stud shell."
Our expert's opinion
Peter Yost, GBA's technical director, added this:
There are a couple of key points to this issue:
- R-value and thermal mass in Zone 6. Yep, unless you have deep diurnal temperature swings, put your money and efforts towards insulation and air sealing in cold climates. And when I have been in well-designed passive solar homes with plenty of thermal mass in Santa Fe, New Mexico (a climate with nearly ideal diurnal swings) during the winter, I've concluded that it is best to expand your thermal comfort zone quite a bit in the early mornings until the sun catches up on that mass.
- Thermal mass and ICFs. Good catch on this one: All insulation, whether it be on one side of the concrete mass or the other, retards heat flow. ICF walls have interior rigid insulation that decouples the concrete mass of the ICF from the building's interior, reducing whatever thermal mass effect it has.
- ICF and airtightness. While the airtightness of the field of an ICF wall is impressive, it's not in the field of building assemblies (walls or roofs) where we get the bulk of our air leakage; that occurs at assembly transitions (for example, the transition between an ICF foundation and an above-grade wall, or the transition between an above-grade wall and the eave) and penetrations (windows, doors, plumbing stacks, chimneys). Really tight homes can be built of just about anything, but not without attention to these challenging spots, which are nearly as common in ICF assemblies as any other.
- Blown fiberglass and cellulose insulation and airtightness. Granted, the air permeability of cellulose is generally higher than spray fiberglass, but neither is airtight enough to qualify as an air barrier; BOTH require six-sided containment and a dedicated, continuous, air barrier system.
Finally, I have never seen the open side of a walk-out basement with few enough openings and their configuration to really make any real structural advantage of an ICF over a framed wall. And boy, do they seem to get reconfigured over time as the use of the walk-out space changes. So, I really don't see any real advantage, thermal or otherwise, to making the walk-out side out of ICF over any other assembly.


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Linda Ruschau is part of the PatientPoint founding team, bringing 25 years of experience in pharmaceutical marketing and point-of-care expertise to the company.
As Chief Client Officer, Linda leads a national sales team in helping brands impact patient-physician dialogue, drive patient engagement and create sustainable success for forward-thinking pharma, OTC and CPG clients.
After earning a degree in business administration from the University of Cincinnati, Linda went to work for Procter & Gamble's Beauty Care Division.
A founder and now board member of the Point of Care Communication Council, Linda regularly shares her insights in industry journals and as a prominent speaker at industry events.
In 2017, she was the recipient of the PM360 Sales MVP award.


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Relocation is a tiresome and troublesome task for an individual. This gives lots of stress to the relocator but planning in advance your move and choosing the right options that can help you to move flawlessly can turn the tedious move into fun chore for you. If you are moving in Pune then you have to plan your move in advance to make your move safe and hassle-free. So, here are some tips and ideas to make preplanning for home shifting in Pune:
Organize ahead of time
Relocation takes lots of time than your expectations. You have to organize in advance so that you can finish all the works in scheduled time. Last moment preparation is never advisable as there are chances you may miss something at the last moment. Hence you should plan at least month before your moving day.
Purge your home
The more the luggage you will have the more you have to pay for it. Your moving cost depends on the quantities of your luggage hence you should reduce the unwanted and useless goods from the list of your luggage. Purge your home before you start packing your stuff for a move. Get rid of those goods that will not be used by you in future or have outdated or the plants that you cannot be able to move. You can sell them or donate it to charity. This will reduce the weight of your luggage.
Choosing right option
It is very important to choose the right options for you to relocate your home. You have to go through the phases of shifting process that is packing, transporting, loading, unloading, unpacking, rearranging, etc. You have to take assistance of professionals and experts. So, choose the right options wisely to make your move easy such as the right packers and movers Pune or rent a truck. It depends on your requirements and budget too.
Inform movers
Once you have finalize your deal with the right and reliable movers and packers always remind them about the moving day. Inform your packers and movers in Pune about your planning and expectations. Also inform them about the minor details of your move.
Make inventory list
You must be ready for your move with inventory list. Making of inventory list makes great sense. This will help you to load your stuff in the truck, you can know which goods have been loaded into the truck and what yet to be loaded. You can recheck the inventory list while unloading the stuff to be sure every stuff has been delivered safely. Keep the original with you and give a copy to your movers if your movers do not provide you.
Planning in advance for home shifting is so much important in order to have safe and damage-free shifting experience. Hence you should always plan your move and hire movers and packers in Pune to relocate your home safely to your new destination.
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June 6, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - Over 40 bodies of protesters killed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) were pulled from the Nile River on Wednesday, confirming previous reports that the militiamen threw their victims in the Nile.
The Central Committee of Sudan Doctors (CCSD) which is part of opposition professionals association, said that over 40 bodies were pulled from the Nile. Also, it added that the number of people killed by the government militiamen has reached 108 including four slain in their houses.
The statement said that this figure does not include bodies pulled from the river by some people in some areas of Khartoum. It further stressed that they continue to claim that bodies of other victims are still missing.
However, in a short news story on the first hours of Thursday, the official news agency SUNA put the number of victims at 46 citing the undersecretary of the health ministry.
people slain by Sudanese security forces were pulled from the Nile River in the capital of Khartoum, organizers of pro-democracy demonstrations said Wednesday, and new clashes brought the death toll in three days of the ruling military's crackdown to 108.
The CCSD, in addition, said over 500 people had been wounded by bullets are now in the capital hospitals.
On Wednesday despite the blockade of the internet, activists succeed to post on the social media bodies pulled by civilians from different positions in Khartoum.
Due to the deteriorating security situation in Khartoum, the UK foreign office issued security advice urging British nationals to avoid travelling to Sudan and advised those who are already there to leave the country.
"The decision was made to withdraw non-essential British Embassy staff and dependants from Sudan," further said the statement.
For its part, the US Embassy in Khartoum issued a security alert urging its nationals to "shelter in place at home or another safe location".
The statement pointed out that Khartoum airport is open but some flights have been cancelled or res rescheduled and underscored that "travelling to the airport may be hazardous due to roadblocks, civil unrest, and violence".
Last April, the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum evacuated its non-essential staff members and their families from the Sudanese capital.


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We'll start this blog with serious stuff then talk about practical solutions for overcoming the stress of injury. When we can't move, work out, or train how we wish, we come unglued…simple as that. Consider this blog your glue. Maybe your boss exasperates you. Or maybe you'veRead more →
Ultrarunning injuries I'm excited to share a podcast I recorded with ultrarunner and physician, Jason Friedman, on his podcast, The Pain Cave. The Pain Cave is a free-flowing conversation with a wide variety of guests from the worlds of running and exercise science. We talk about physiology,Read more →
NOTE: If you haven't read part 1, please check it out before you read part 2. Otherwise, you won't have the necessary background for part 2, where I talk about how to suffer less. Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke, co-hosts of one of my favoriteRead more →
"If you want to make someone unhappy, tell them they've never suffered," said Dr. Bob Duke at the beginning of his weekly podcast, 2 Guys on Your Head. He and Dr. Art Markman conjure up the Car Talk guys, Click and Clack, only they discourse about psychologyRead more →
Introduction I'm sharing a personal vignette in this blog because so many of you share similar struggles. I want you to feel unashamed and know you're not alone. I want you to know there's an infinitely effective tool to help. It's called EMDR, and we'll talk allRead more →
Being injured means experiencing frustration, impatience, disconnection, and anger for most athletes. Consequently, overcoming injuries means learning to deal with each of these challenges. On a recent visit, Nicolas Pujol and I had a conversation about recipes for success for handling these challenges and moving forward. NicolasRead more →
About how I got involved with the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation In 2000 my favorite Uncle (UC is what I call him; everyone else knows him as Kevin) nearly lost his foot to diabetes. Months of not knowing how the wound heal (or not) ended in relief whenRead more →
It's the first Saturday in September, on a mercifully cool Texas summer morning. I'm sitting under a gnarled old pecan tree, plump with nuts, watching a remarkable event unfold before my eyes. A man I know through swimming is celebrating his 10,000th swim in a row withRead more →
This is the third in a 4-part series where I'll share why, after injury, working with a Movement Therapist is a must. You can read part 1 here and part 2 here. I'll share what prompted me to see Jesse, what happens to your nervous system afterRead more →
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From 'Romeo' to 'Figaro,' love rules as Lyric plans eight operas, 'King and I' for 2015-16
Report: You know that Valentine's Day is just around the corner when the romantic couplings planned for the Lyric Opera's 2015-16 season are the stuff of headlines. The game of love becomes a delicious frenzy when lots of money and a very attractive widow are at stake: Soprano Renée Fleming will be playing her "Merry Widow" title role to the hilt with baritone Thomas Hampson beginning Nov. 14 and into the holiday season. We provide details.


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Hello bloggers and readers,
I'd just like to peek out and say that my blogging frequency will reduce for the coming few weeks. Two weeks ago, I moved to the east coast for a job. It will take a while before I become comfortable with the new surroundings and new expectations and get my work and house in order. Reading hasn't stopped altogether, but the opportunities are fewer and shorter. Often, I carry a book to read on the short, daily train ride from Porter Square to Kendall and back.
These days, it takes me between two to four hours to write a single post, which is very long by blogging standards. So, I thought it might be better to go slow for a few weeks. I hope to be back to "normal" blogging soon. Meanwhile, I shall have a lot of fun catching up with all the posts that I have missed on my favorite blogs when I made the protracted move from California.
Blog on!


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A cursory glance of the world will show that humanity is not in the best of places mentally. Sure, there are the elite people who seem to have it all figured out but they are few and far between. The rest of us are but mere mortals and undoubtedly we can be shaken up from time to time, figuring out life as we go along. This is ok!
What is not ok, however, is that most people do nothing about it. Most people are horrified at the idea of talking to their inner circle about what is bringing them down, let alone reaching out to a stranger for help with their feelings.
Why is this? What is so scary and/or taboo about seeing a mental health professional? Most civilized adults have their teeth professionally cleaned & checked once or twice a year. Most of those same people also have regular eye exams and a good percentage see their general health doctor on the regular. Women are even more likely to regularly visit a doctor, given the amount of "women" things that only happen to women's bodies (sidenote: it can suck to be a woman.)
Yet when it comes to mental health, all bets are off. Society seems to have scarred the idea of colloquially talking about visiting a psychologist, psychiatrist or "shrink", with negative or embarrassing connotations being attached to those and similar terms. As a result most people never even consider seeking out professional help, instead simply adhering to their way it's been mentality and ultimately accepting mental mediocrity.
I'd like to change that. I'm not afraid or embarrassed to admit that I regularly see a psychologist. Hell, I'm proud of it. I've been fortunate in my business and investments that I'm able to afford an insurance plan which allows for me to see a fantastic PsyD for just a $25 co-pay per visit [2016 edit: now $60 but still well worth it!] Aside from discussing my feelings about any particular problem or issue, we also discuss life, business and all things esoteric. I consider him a trusted and valued advisor, life-coach, & mentor as well as a fantastic doctor. He is one of many sharp people who I surround myself with to help me be the human I can be.
If you've ever considered reaching out to someone for help, now is the time! Don't let your pride get in the way. Don't worry about what others may think of you. No one is going to ever care about your mental health more than you should. Step up and ask your doctor for a referral and then add your mental health professional to the list of doctors you regularly visit.


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When Apollo Mission Astronaut Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he not only said his famous One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Mankind statement, but followed it by several remarks – usual communication traffic between him, the other astronauts and Mission Control. Before he re-entered the lander, he made the enigmatic remark Good luck, Mr. Gorsky.
Many people at NASA thought it was a casual remark concerning some rival Soviet Cosmonaut; however, upon checking, there was no Gorsky in either the Russian nor American space programs. Over the years, many people have questioned him as to what the Good luck, Mr. Gorsky statement meant.
On July 5, in Tampa Bay, FL, while answering questions following a speech, a reporter brought up the 26 year old question to Armstrong. He finally responded.
It seems that Mr. Gorsky had finally died and so Armstrong felt he could answer the question: When I was a kid, I was playing baseball with my brother in the backyard. He had hit a fly ball which landed in front of my neighbors bedroom window. The neighbors were Mr. and Mrs. Gorsky. As I leaned down to pick up the ball, I heard Mrs. Gorsky shouting at Mr. Gorsky, Oral sex? Oral sex you want? Youll get oral sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!
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Regular readers will know that I'm on a bit of a quest to discover some new walking areas and the quieter side of mountain life. Aiding me in this quest are the "Hillwalking in Wales" guides by Peter Hernon and the second volume made reference to the Radnor Forest. I've driven past this area on the A44 numerous times on my way to the coast and the northern hills without ever giving them a second glance. It was time to check them out.
The previous day had been my grumpy walk in the Brecon Beacons so I wasn't desperately keen to go out. However I'd promised Jane a day out in the hills and the weather did look ok. We'd chosen a horseshoe around Harley Dingle taking in the two main summits. As you'll see some of the places have lovely evocative names hence the title of the post. (by the way even I'm not able to steer a perfectly straight line across the summit of Black Mixen – I'd forgotten to turn my GPS tracker on my phone back on after lunch)
We parked up in the sleepy village of New Radnor and started up Mutton Dingle. The first part of the walk to the forest is up a punishingly steep road although as the views were expansive and there is no traffic it was no real problem. It would be a nice walk in spring when the hedgerows would be splashed with the colour of new growth.
Right at the top of the road there is a small parking area that would be really handy for a short out and back walk to avoid the road. As the route turns north along the side of the forest it turns into green path with views to the west over Harley Dingle and beyond. I don't know why but I love these green grassy paths, probably that bright natural vivid green colour.
We even got buzzed by a low flying helicopter which appeared to be from the electricity board, checking on their power lines I suppose. And there was me wondering why my electric bills were so high….
I can safely say I was in a much better mood and Jane was thoroughly enjoying being out. Only downside is it was terrifically windy and would stay that way all day. As you reach the edge of the trees the little mini mountain of Whimble suddenly rears up ahead of you. There is no indication that it's there until you round the corner of the path.
It just begs to be climbed so we pushed up it's extremely steep west ridge onto the gale force wind on the top.
The views were superb down to the Brecons and across to the Cwmdeuddwr Hills I'd been to a couple of weeks back.
It's a cracking little top and ideal for a summer stroll with the kids but today it was far too windy to hang about so we went down the east ridge and up again past Whinyard Rocks. We found a couple of airy little sheep tracks to contour around Bache Hill.
At one point we dropped into a tiny green valley with the most idyllic tiny campsite in it – well worth a return although no water source nearby.
We found an old quarry hollow just before the climb to Black Mixen where we had a draughty lunch. The whole place looked like it was about to collapse and was full of sheep sh*t so we didn't overstay its welcome and headed onto Black Mixen. There is a somewhat unsightly communications mast on the top but it doesn't detract too much from this vast heathery plateau.
I was revelling in another totally new area with its new vistas and experiences and as I'd hoped we had it all to ourselves. The only slightly sad thought I had, was this would be prime territory for the evil wind-farm developers although perhaps the transmission mast might be a blessing in disguise – perhaps they can't co-exist. Lets hope so
It was still pretty windy and cold so we pressed on around the head of Harley Dingle towards the highest peak of the area, Great Rhos. It looks a long way but it's pretty much level and there is a decent path all the way around. In fact it's a highly enjoyable high level stroll with views across to the rocks on Great Creigiau and the upper reaches of Harley Dingle.
As we approached the summit the sun came out and the views became clearer and I could make out the Shropshire Hills to the north – Long Mynd, Caer Caradoc and Stiperstones – as well as a now sunlit Brecon Beacons.
The paths across the summit plateau have been badly churned by trail motorbikes, it really is about time these bloody things are banned from upland areas – they cause immense amounts of damage. It gave the hardest walking of the day until we found a much cleaner and better sheep track to head down. I took a wander to the edge of Harley Dingle for a look and well worth the effort it was. It's a superb pretty much hidden valley with steep sides and lovely golden autumn colours, a fantastic route for a walk.
Well it would be if someone hadn't given it to the MOD so they can practice shooting at things. The whole valley right the way to the summit plateau is completely out-of-bounds. A travesty in my book, insult to injury from the fact the valley floor is littered with sheds and excavations making the whole place look like a building site. Rant over. Probably
I wandered along the edge taking in the views and Whimble now looked even better from this angle. We found a nice sheltered hollow on the way down for afternoon tea and we enjoyed the late afternoon sunshine.
There is a nice long raking path that drops you into the end of Harley Dingle so at least you can see the start. In fact it's a lovely place for a summer picnic by the river and If you are lucky the army won't shoot you
All that remained was a short walk around the hill to New Radnor but even then the sun came out for one last blast and we were treated to some glorious autumn sunshine lighting up the valley and New Radnor itself.
So the Radnor Forest was another new area explored and what a top-notch one it was too. Another great day when I should have been working and all the better for the company of my wife to make sure I stayed out of the grumpy zone. Highly recommended with varied scenery from little mountains, to deep valleys and wild heather moorland. There are several longer options to take in other well named spots like Davy Morgan Dingle and a waterfall called "Water Breaks it Neck" as well as decent looking horseshoe from the north. On top of that, no-one has heard of them so they are deserted. Apart from a woman walking her dogs at the start we didn't see anyone all day. Give them a go
I even managed to find a song called "Radnor Forest" to go with little slide show!


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Burr, Hagan urge action on currency manipulation
By Richard Craver
Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services
Sept. 27–A bipartisan group of 60 U.S. senators is appealing again to the Treasury secretary to address foreign currency manipulation as negotiations proceed on a proposed Trans-Pacific free-trade agreement.
Economists say that most currency manipulation occurs when a country intentionally undervalues its currency to lower costs for companies operating in its territory. The lower value enables the companies to have a pricing advantage on foreign competitors, including those in the United States.
The group's four-paragraph letter was sent Monday to Secretary Jack Lew and to Michael Froman with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
Potential partnership members are Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam. Recent Trans-Pacific Partnership talks have involved customs, telecommunications, sanitary issues, technical barriers to trade, cross-border services, electronic commerce and labor.
The effort is being led by Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., co-chairs of the Senate manufacturing caucus. Among the signees are Sens. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Kay Hagan, D-N.C.
The senators say addressing potential currency manipulation issues is critical to meet "high standards worthy of a 21st century trade agreement."
Compiled by Mason LinkerCurrency is the medium through which trade occurs and exchange rates determine its comparative value," the senators wrote. "It is as important to trade outcomes as is the quality of the goods or services traded.
Compiled by Mason LinkerCurrency manipulation can negate or greatly reduce the benefits of a free-trade agreement, and may have a devastating impact on American companies and workers."
Currency manipulation remains a hot-button import issue, particularly in the furniture, sock and textile industries. Hagan said the state has lost "hundreds of thousands of jobs over the last decade as a result of unfair trade agreements and currency manipulation."
The senators cited a study by the Peterson Institute for International Economics as determining that foreign currency manipulation has already cost between 1 million and 5 million American jobs.
Compiled by Mason LinkerThere is no point in negotiating a TPP agreement to eliminate import duties if countries are allowed to effectively re-impose those duties by manipulating their currencies," U.S. Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., said in a statement. Members of the U.S. House have made their own currency manipulation of the Obama administration.
Compiled by Mason LinkerWe must continue to oppose an unfair competitive advantage from our trading partners, through legislation and trade agreements," Levin said.
Advancing a bill focused on currency manipulation in Congress has been challenging.
For example, the Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act of 2011 drew significant bipartisan support. It instructed the U.S. Commerce Department to consider China's undervalued currency as an illegal subsidy. With that designation, U.S. companies on a case-by-case basis could seek relief through compensatory penalties against Chinese imports.
However, even though the bill passed the U.S. Senate by a 63-35 vote, it did not come out of a U.S. House committee. A similar bill was introduced in June but has not emerged from a Senate committee.
Currency-manipulation bills tend to face opposition from pro-retail trade groups, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Those groups say U.S. consumers benefit from lower retail cost for foreign-made products.
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Toronto Police have released images of a man wanted in the alleged sexual assault and robbery of a teenaged girl late last week.
Police say the 17-year-old girl was walking in the Kennedy Rd. and Glamorgan Ave. area around 3:45 p.m. Friday when a man came up behind her, "sexually assaulted her, and robbed her of some personal items."
The girl's screams got the attention of bystanders and the man then fled.
He is described as about 20 years old and 5-10 with a medium build and short dreadlocks. He was wearing all dark clothing.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 416-808-7474 or Crime Stoppers.


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January is here already (!) and it's time once again to prepare Form 1099-MISC's before the January 31, 2019 deadline. Using QB's desktop here is the answer to the important question, "how do I run a 1099 report in Quickbooks?" How to find and produce 1099 reports in Quickbooks Here's how to get the report… Read more about How Do I Run a 1099 Report in Quickbooks?
June Newsletter – The Do's & Don'ts of Social Media in the Workplace
Summer is here and that means many of you will be posting photos of your vacations on your various social media accounts, which by the way may or may not be intertwined with your professional lives. Many of us have coworkers or even (gasp) superiors that follow us on our social media. This has lead… Read more about June Newsletter – The Do's & Don'ts of Social Media in the Workplace
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We hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful Spring weather as we make our way through March. The newsletter this month brings us a market update that will teach you 6 ways to think outside the box to creatively market your small business. Our payroll topic brings you an important update from the IRS. Be sure… Read more about March Newsletter – 6 Ways to Creatively Market Your Small Business
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Entrepreneur Magazine agrees that outsourcing your payroll is a good idea for many small businesses. The time savings alone is worth it, let alone the avoiding the headaches, potential government fines for payroll mistakes, and upset employees when payroll is late. But while you may have the pleasure of dodging these chores, you may be… Read more about Payroll Service Tips in QuickBooks: How to Enter Payroll Prepared by an Outside Company
Troubleshoot for QuickBooks: Part IV
When it comes to QuickBooks, our accounting wizards have got this stuff down! Today the expert aurors would like to give you the rundown on transferring funds and reconciliation. They are both fairly simple tasks that take a few steps to get through. Stick to these troubleshoot for QuickBooks tips and you will make it… Read more about Troubleshoot for QuickBooks: Part IV
Troubleshoot for QuickBooks: Part III
QuickBooks, in all its gloriousness, makes accounting and bookkeeping easier for anyone who uses it. It is the Giving Tree of online organizers and accounting software's for small businesses. As you know, our team of accounting wizards swear by its magic. However, everyone runs into problems and confusions sometimes. Check out our third blog about… Read more about Troubleshoot for QuickBooks: Part III
Troubleshoot for QuickBooks: Part II
The accounting wizards here at PayTech are at it again. We've come up with another list of solutions and ways to troubleshoot for QuickBooks. Regain control over your business's numbers, checks, and balances with this series of tutorials and best tips to troubleshoot for QuickBooks.
How Do I Use Quickbooks?
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Nano Zinc/Copper mineral water is produced by using a unique method consisting of purified water containing 20mg (20ppm) of pure Zinc and 2mg (2ppm) of ultra fine copper.
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Copper is an important trace element necessary for respiration and also important for the production of collagen, and tissue repair. As an antioxidant mineral it protects against free radical damage.
Combined with Zinc makes this water particularly good for sportsmen & women aiding tissue repair and recovery and many enzyme activities in the body. As the combination of Zinc/Copper goes to the same receptors in the body, makes a perfect supplement suitable for long-term use.
Excess amounts are naturally excreted by the body through the skin and lymphatic system.
- Joint mobility and tissue repair
- Energy boosting
- Good for cardio-vascular activity
- Immune protection
- Memory and concentration
Dosage: 10-20ml daily maintenance. 30ml daily for complaints and as directed by a practitioner.
Children: 2-6 yrs 1 tsp. 6-12yrs 1 Tbls.
Directions: Hold the water in the mouth for 1 minute and take on an empty stomach without water.
The product is tasteless and odourless.


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Canadian holidays: Quebec genie is out of the bottle
SLIDE the blade along the wine bottle five times and on five hit the rim at the top of the neck of the bottle. In principle, simple. But I was holding a rather large and very sharp sabre!
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'Good to Great' Author Answers My Question
Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, was the subject of an earlier post of mine entitled "Good to Great, Then Gone or Gobble Up." In that ditty, I queried how Circuit City, which Collins claimed had gone from being a good to being a great company, could go under just a few years after having been proclaimed "great." At the same time, I also e-mailed Collins to get his take.
Turns out that the author of Good to Great has been busy, but he didn't neglect my letter. I got a response yesterday to my question about what happened to Circuit City, and here's what Mr. Collins wrote:
Thank you for your email. I apologize for my long delay in reply; I've been buried working on two books, feeling like a snake that swallowed two watermelons at the same time. In response to your question: Circ uit City engineered its transition from good to great under Alan Wurtzel and his team principally during the 1970s and 1980s, then fell in a later generation; we focused our research for Good to Great primarily on the Wurtzel era, when CC made its leap. Perhaps it might be helpful to underscore that the principles we uncovered in prior research do not depend upon the current strength or struggles (or even the later demise) of the specific companies we studied. Think of it this way: If we studied healthy people in contrast to unhealthy people, and we derived health-enhancing principles–such as sound sleep, balanced diet, and moderate exercise–would it undermine these principles if later some of our previously healthy subjects started sleeping badly, eating poorly, and not exercising? Sleep, diet and exercise would still hold as principles of health. That said, the question of how once-great companies can self-destruct ignited my curiosity. Not all companies that attain greatness manage to sustain that greatness for two, three or more decades. Some do, but others lose their greatness in later generations of leadership. Some companies fall a long way and come back as great, and others disappear or become irrelevant. The question is: why do some great companies fall, and others not? And also, why do some come back, and others not? I have recently published a small book on this topic entitled How the Mighty Fall.


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How to increase Page Authority – With Killer Case Study
This article depicts about how to increase Page Authority of a web page but not like other website do. When I started blogging, I was too much passionate to increase Page Authority and Domain Authority of my blog on Moz. When I searched on Google, I saw each and every website depicting same story of Good Content and External links but no exact solutions for it. Well I have got exact solution and I know now how to increase Page Authority for sure. Read the below article and don't miss the last sub heading of this article where I have presented my CASE STUDY.
By following some techniques, web pages can index in search engine result pages to get more organic traffic.
What is Page Authority?
Page Authority (PA) is score created by a Saas company Moz, used to predict the ranking of specific page on Search Engine Result Pages (SERP).
In short, Page Authority is a measure to predict the ability for a specific page to rank in Search Engines.
The score is between 1 to 100, where higher score of a web page means greater probability to rank in SERP.
- PA score depends upon Backlinks, Internal Links, External Links, Off Page SEO, Word Count, etc.
We cannot influence a web page's PA score directly but by following some steps we can drastically improve the PA score of a web page. (Hence signalling Search engines to rank our site web pages)
How to increase Page Authority?
Here is to-do list to follow to boost up page authority of web pages, with description wherever required. The content is updated regularly with updated market strategies and so please save bookmark for future reference.
The above points explained in some detail below.
- Keep updating pages regularly with rich content (try to use show statistics data)
- Focus on writing in depth quality content – The content of a page matters a lot. A good article will attract viewers and . Without our knowledge, people will start referring our page resulting in creating backlinks automatically from different locations on internet. Hence a free off page seo for you.
- Get more referrals from higher PA pages – Try to place your low PA page link in the relevant high PA page. This will increase more user interaction and more time spent on low PA page. Hence getting more link juice from higher PA score pages will give search engines signal that low PA score page is also useful content.
- Build Domain Authority.
- Don't buy backlinks. It can drastically decrease your site trust value and hence resulting fall of PA score.
- Remove bad backlinks on regular basis – Hard work of building quality back links can be undone if you site is pointed by number of spammy links. To keep track on this, use Open Site Explorer of Moz or Google webmaster tool to detect harmful links.
- Build External links pointing to most authority pages.
FAQ – How to remove bad backlinks?
To remove these links, start contacting site owner who are responsible to point to your page. You can ask them to remove the links otherwise use Google Disavow Tool to request to remove certain links from your link profile.
OK. Now one more content which should not be missed.
When I started my blog (WantExtra), I did the same things as stated above like other websites. But I wanted to rethink on the strategies. Above strategies are being followed by every top sites and then also their PA score is just like an average (somewhere between 40-60) irrespective of their presence on Internet for years. If they are so good in knowing how to increase Page Authority, then why don't their Page Authority doesn't increases more than current one? Right?
Blogging is something like, if you share more, you get more exposure. I wanted to do the same and wanted to learn something. So here it is what I did.
I placed some backlinks of my site on different blogs as a comments, submitted my site to high PR web-directories, joined online forums to take part in discussions. Everywhere I left the link of my website i.e, my homepage link.
After one month, my Moz rank? PA=1 , DA=1
Till now, I got too much of exposure about Google updates, algorithms, bad backlinks, spam links, quality backlinks, etc. You can understand more on backlinks from my other post. So I wanted to think like Google. Please take a time to read it. It will be worth for sure.
- If you search "Facebook" on Google, The first page links are flooded with Facebook homepage links, whether it is about Login, or Sign Up, or News, or Wikipedia, or anything others.
- If you search with "Facebook Policies" on Google, the first page links are flooded with FB policies links.
But when you searched with keyword "Facebook", why you didn't got any links about "Facebook Policies"? Think it once?
You are right. Because its not relevant.
Now, as already discussed above, Page Authority is a trust or ability of a specific page, to rank well on search engines. In depth, it depends upon whether you website pages links, are useful for people or not. If you have a website of Jewellery shop, but you placed your link in my blog of "how to start a blog", how they are relevant? By doing this, you are making fun of SEO. This backlink will not give any type of benefit to you because your link is 100% irrelevant.
So, instead of placing my website link directly on other places over internet, I started placing my relevant pages link on relevant discussion forums. Like, if a forum discussion is about "where can I find list of high PR directory sites?", then instead of placing my site link in that discussion, I put my page link which gave information about high PR directory sites in my website.
Advantages as of now
- I started getting more traffic on that particular page because my link was relevant to the question. Also people liked it.
- My link was placed at a place, where if that question gets opened after 100 years, then also people will get answer to their question on my website.
So here my link was now 100% relevant to the content.
Fast forward 2 more months. Since I was only concentrating on PA score, my current scores on Moz is PA=26, DA=12. You can check here. I already wrote the same in my point 3 above in ways to increase Page Authority.
My PA score is more then double of DA score and that too within 2 months. My Page has more trust rating to come over Search Engine result pages. Right?
But there is one problem. How can you get each time that type of question in discussion boards to place your relevant link over there?
- Connect with the related forums where people discuss about things which you have on your website or blog.
- Be an active, useful and polite participant over there and keep sharing, discussing in QA.
- Place your post link, if you see a question which is at least 80% related to your post.
Now wait for next update by Moz. Your PA score will sky rocket.
Along with this, you also must understand the value of Domain Authority and how to increase domain authority of your website.
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Hope your site roars by increased PA score following these steps. Please do comment if you like the post and about what strategies you followed.
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Got the thrill of a lifetime when another Scoutmaster's plans suddenly changed. The Scouts could not be disappointed; therefore, anot qualified Scoutmaster must be found! Fortunately for the Scouts, I was fully trained, qualified, conditioned, and available. The Air Force allowed me time off to support the Scouting Program, provided a van, fuel, food for the Scouts, and the long planned high adventure trek was saved! My happy grin still hasn't faded since 1988, Philmont's 50th anniversary.
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"An armed society is
a polite society"
Robert A. Heinlein
"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer."
John F. Kennedy
Please vote [X] MIKE Thornton MILFORD - SELECTMAN
Town Election: 10 March 2020
Milford Middle School
33 Osgood Road
Can you Volunteer? Many essential jobs, everyone can help out!
call: 603.249.9981 Home
603.249.6666 Mobile
Donations always needed and welcomed!
Boot Camp June 1969 Drill Instructors: SSgt Parker, SSgt Donnellan, & Sgt O'Reilly. Platoon 2105, meanest bunch of recruits to hit the "Yellow Footprints" at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, California. We were nothing but teeth & toenails.
Finally getting orders to Vietnam, I'd expected a direct flight. Life as a Marine is full of surprises. Mine was when a squad of Marines boarded my '707 when we landed to refuel. I became the victim of a "press gang," Yanked off my jet & put to work at "Force Logistics Support Section, Camp Foster." "Request Mast:" asking your commander for a favor, orders to Vietnam again! Success, right after NCO School, Camp Smedley D. Butler. (one VERY decorated MARINE!)
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Paid for by the Candidate: Michael E. Thornton


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Special Forces (2002)
Directed by Jenö HodiGenres - Action | Sub-Genres - Action Thriller | Release Date - May 31, 2003 (USA - Unknown) | Run Time - 84 min. | Countries - United States | MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Buzz McClain
Brash renegade CIA agent Rick Halsey (Daniel Bernhardt) assembles a crack team of special forces operatives to rescue a Russian nuclear scientist (Marina Mogilevskaja) held in a fortified mental institution behind enemy lines. She knows the whereabouts of a rogue nuclear missile about to be sold to a Middle Eastern government. With his team's knowledge of hand weapons, aircraft, artillery, languages, disguises, and psychology, it should be easy to slip into Russia, release the scientist and then track down the bomb. But can they do it before it's too late?
bomb, CIA (Central-Intelligence-Agency), enemy-lines, government, mental-institution, Middle-East, nuclear-scientist


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As a young scout, Kate Gordes fell in love with the art and skill of knot work and the feeling of the rope running through her hands. This love of rope as a child inspired her to push the boundaries of knot work, creating a new crafting adventure named 'Scout Gathers'. Scout Gathers' modern macrame pieces, sold through her Etsy shop, are versatile and modern and made using cotton rope from NSW.
We asked Kate to create a DIY for our creative crafters out there who might want a little inspiration for your upcoming #etsycraftparty. So here's a tutorial that will impress your friends – How to make a Floating Rope Table.
Tools & Materials
- Scissors
- Circular Wooden Chopping Board
- Fabric Dye for Natural Fabrics
- Plastic Bucket
- 2 x 4 metre length – 8mm Cotton Rope ( found in any DIY store)
- 1 x 1 metre length – 8mm Cotton Rope ( found in any DIY store)
- Natural Coloured Yarn
Getting started
- Gather the two pieces of 4 metre rope and halve them to make a loop.
- Cut 1 metre of your yarn.
- Form a loose loop with your yarn over the top of your looped rope; the longest length being on the right hand side. Wind the yarn from the right clockwise and upwards.
- When you have wound the yarn to the top (or run out of length!), poke the end through the loop.
- Pull the bottom yarn end until the loop has been pulled down about half way into the noose. To tighten, pull on both loose ends at the same time.
Creating the bottom of the floating shelf.
The Tassel
- Measure 1.5 down the rope and create another noose knot. This will form the base of your floating shelf.
- Cut your rope 15cm from the bottom of your noose knot. This will become the tassel.
- Start to fray the end of the cotton rope to create your gorgeous tassel.
The Base
- Spread the 4 pieces of rope out and place the wooden chopping board over your tassel.
- Gather the 1 metre of (8mm) spare rope and place it around the chopping board.
- Cut 4 small lengths from the yarn.
- Tie each piece of yarn with a tight double knot to the 1 metre rope and the 4 pieces of rope that have been spread out.
- Fray the ends of the 1 metre rope to finish it off .(This rope is to secure the pom poms)
The pom poms
- Wrap the yarn around the fork approximately 50 times. Cut the yarn from the ball.
- Thread a piece of yarn through the middle of the fork and tie a tight double knot.
- Slide the yarn from the fork and cut the looped yarn on either side.
- Create 3 more pom poms.
- Secure the 4 pom poms to the 1 metre rope around the chopping board.
Dip-dying the tassel
- Using a glass bowl or container mix up your yellow dye according to the instructions on the packet. Make sure you wear gloves and wear clothing that you don't mind getting splashes of dye on.
- Sit the tassel half way into the dye. The dye will start to creep up the tassel.
- Let it sit in the dye for a half an hour.
- Rinse it out with hot water, until the water runs clear.
- Lay flat to dry.
Photo credits: Kate Gordes, Scout Gathers
Love this DIY and want to make more? Visit our other DIY projects here.


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City of Wilmington, NCHome Menu
Wilmington Fire Department Recruitment Information
Email notification of application status for those currently in the process should be received by Friday, October 25, 2019.
Application Process
To apply, the applicant must be at least 19 years of age by the closing of the post date, have a minimum of a High School Diploma or GED and possess a valid driver's license. When submitting the online application, the applicant must electronically submit the following:
- Copy of Birth Certificate
- Copy of Official High School Diploma, High School Transcript or GED Certificate
- Copy of current and valid Driver's License
- Copy of CFCC Placement English Test results- within 5 years / Transcript showing passing grade of English 111 through CFCC within past 4 years
If you are interested in becoming a firefighter, you are encouraged to visit
Wilmington Fire Stations and ask questions!
Recruitment Process
The Wilmington Fire Department will receive 300-400 applications per posting period. Applicants are encouraged to study, prepare and practice prior to attending the process. Candidates must demonstrate a strong work ethic, responsibility, motivation, determination and team work. Firefighting experience is not required, all knowledge needed will be given during Recruit Academy.
Applicants will be required to successfully complete the following screenings:
- Aptitude Test
- Strength and Agility Test
- Audio Interview
- Panel Interview
- Passing results of English Placement test through CFCC*
- Criminal Background Investigation
- Driving History Check
- Personal and Professional reference check
- Pre-Employment Physical, Stress Test and Drug Screen
* All Firefighter Academy candidates must complete the CFCC Placement English Test prior to being hired in order to participate in the EMT portion of the recruit academy. The course requirement for the EMT class is an English Placement score of 151 or completion of English 111 though CFCC. Even though you may have a degree or have completed an English course from another College or University, you are still required to complete the Cape Fear Community College (CFCC) Placement English Test. If you have previously tested with CFCC and received a score of 151, or completed English 111 though CFCC, you meet the requirements but must show proof. Applicants must submit their passing score documentation to Human Resources. Scores can be obtained from the Admissions Office. Please visit the testing center website to schedule your exam.
Note: Correspondence will be sent to candidates using only the e-mail address included on the application.
Please monitor your e-mail closely after the posted closing date.
Due to the number of applicants, phone calls will not be accepted or returned
Aptitude Test
FireTEAM is a video-based testing system that assesses critical skills necessary to be a firefighter and includes the often overlooked content areas of teamwork and human relations as well as mechanical aptitude, reading ability and basic math skills.
***NOTE: It is highly recommended that interested applicants prepare for this test.***
You may purchase practice exams from Ergometrics.
Strength and Agility
Firefighters need to be physically fit in order to perform their job safely. Candidates of the hiring process can find out more information pertaining to the Strength and Agility test by watching the video below. More information can also be obtained by reviewing the Strength and Agility Test Booklet.
Salary & Benefits
Starting salary: $35,691.84
Comprehensive benefits package including :
- United Health Care PPO or HDHP
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending
- Retirement- 4.5% contribution to 401k or 457 plans and in lieu of social security the city will contribute an additional 3% to the 457 plan. If you elect to contribute an additional 3% to the 457 plan, the city will match your 3% contribution.
- Term Life Insurance
- Supplemental Benefit options
- Critical Illness
- Cancer
- Short Term Disability
- Life Insurance
- Hospital Indemnity
- Identity Protection
- EAP Services
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Sick Time
- Education Reimbursement- $1500 PFY
- Education Incentive
- $1,000 - Associate Degree
- $2,000 - Bachelor's Degree
Visit the city's benefits page for more information.
Applications are only accepted during active recruitment periods. Please sign up for a Job Interest Card with the category of "Public Safety" to be notified of future open positions.
Recruit Class of 2017
Over the course of 6 months, each member completed approximately 847 hours of training along with 121 hours of physical training. During this time our recruits achieved state certifications for Emergency Medical Technician, Fire Fighter, Shipboard Firefighting and Hazardous Materials Operations as well as Child Passenger Safety Seat Technician. The class was also trained in Firefighter Rescue, Safety and Survival.
Why do you love working at WFD?
- 24 Hour Shifts
- 220 Personnel
- Water Rescue
- Tactical Rescue
- Haz-Mat
801 Market Street
Wilmington, North Carolina 28401
Human Resource Technician
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There is still talk of a Financial Transactions Tax, and clearly it would hit The City.
Call it whatever you like, but a financial transaction tax is bad news. You really would have thought that Europe's finance ministers had better things to talk about. But, no, when they gather in Italy at the end of next week, a good portion of the agenda will be taken up with discussions about introducing a financial transaction tax in the European Union.


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Medical SpecialistStaffDepartment InformationClinicUseful InformationAcademic and Research Activities
Ran Katz, MDDirector
Ibrahim Elias, MD, Deputy Director Carmella Azoulay, Head Nurse Orit Ochana,Deputy Head Nurse Brunia Kuttlier, Deputy Head Nurse Senior Physicians:Dr. Edward CoritaniDr.Michael HuchimDr. Alexander Visoki Physicians and residents:Dr. Wasim Abu Nassrah,Dr. Abu Achmud MuhammedDr. Andrei GoloshkoDr. Halil SachDr. Rozinski YuriDr. Gadban Samich Secretary: Ms. Talya Schwartz
The Department of Urology was established in 1973, and since then, the department's mission is to provide the residents of northern Israel with the best possible urology treatment. The Department offers quality treatment for a wide range of common problems in urology. The Department's physicians are active in the Health Fund Community Clinics and maintain efficient contact with the patients and family doctors.
The Department physicians have experience in rehabilitation of urinary tract wounds and are involved in the dedicated treatment provided to IDF soldiers as well as to foreign citizens brought to the hospital as a humanitarian gesture.
The Department treats patients suffering from malignant tumors of the urinary tract, benign enlargements of the prostate, stones in the urinary tract, female and pediatric urology, sexual dysfunctions and neuro-urology.
As of 2014, innovative surgery in a range of leading fields have been introduced in the Urology Department:1. Laparoscopic Surgery. Minimally invasive surgery for tumors of the kidney adrenals. Ureters and bladder.2. Advanced oncological surgery of bladder and prostate cancer, kidney and testicle tumors.3. Innovative surgery for treating incontinence among men and women. Installing artificial urinary sphincter and male sling operations.4. Injecting Botox to improve continence among women suffering from an overactive bladder.5. Reconstructive and correction of male sexual organs. 6. Advanced laparoscopic treatment of female prolapse of the pelvic organs, in cooperation with the Department of Gynecology.7. Laparoscopic surgery in pediatric urology in cooperation with the Unit for Pediatric Surgery, treating congenital anomalies in the urinary system and undescended testis
The Department's Day Clinics offer the following clinics:
General Urology Clinic , offering treatment for a wide range of common Urological problems and triage of referred cases.
A Kidney Stone Clinic which deals with all aspects of treatment and prevention of stones in the Urinary Tract.
A Uro-Oncology Clinic which treats malignant tumors of the kidneys' adrenals, prostate, bladder and testicles. The clinic cooperates closely with Ziv's Oncology Clinic.
A Uro-dynamic clinic which diagnoses and treats disorders relating to incontinence and malfunctioning of the Lower Urinary Tract.
A clinic for treating male erectile dysfunction treating urinary tract infections, incontinence, treatment of sex organ and urinary tract defects.
Location :The department is located on the 3rd floor of the main building. no. of beds - 24
Telephone :Nurse's station: 04-6828930 ,077-6828930Secretary: 04-6828775, 077-6828775Fax: 04-6828782, 077-6828782
Consultation with a senior physician and nurse: 13:00 – 14:00 to be coordinated with the department secretary.Visiting hours: Sun. – Sat. between 12:00 – 14:00 and 16:00 – 21:00
As of 2012 the Urology Department is affiliated to the Bar-Ilan University's Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee. The Department regularly receives medical students for bedside clinical teaching and frontal lectures. The Department also teaches nursing students from the School of Nursing at the Ziv Medical Center.
Research in the Urology Department is conducted in cooperation with other such departments throughout the country and with the Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee. The main subjects of research in the Department are:1. Physiology of the smooth muscle (bladder, prostate, corpora cavernosa)2. Hypogonadism - laboratory and physiological models.3. Laparoscopic training and models of minimally invasive surgery.4. Current protocols for treating malignant tumors of the urinary tract.5. Early symptoms of prostate cancer 6. Non-invasive diagnosis of bladder cancer7. Genetic link in kidney cancer
Relevant LinksUrology ForumThe Israel Cancer AssociationProstate Cancer The Israel Society for treatment of Sexual MedicineDr. Katz's blog and YouTube


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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei's book on 'Palestine' has become the latest nightmare of the Israeli Prime Minister, standing so high in Benjamin Netanyahu's long list of Iran-related phobias that he even took the book to the podium in his Thursday speech at the UN.
Addressing the UN General Assembly meeting in New York on Thursday, Netanyahu held up what he said was the Iranian Supreme Leader's "latest book".
The book is actually a collection of Ayatollah Khamenei's speeches that has been reprinted in several editions in recent years. The third Persian edition, published in 2012, came with the cover Netanyahu displayed on Thursday, as can be seen on Ayatollah Khamenei's website.