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The calendar may say that spring has sprung, but it still feels like soup weather around here. And since I LOVE soup, I will cook it for as long as there is even the tiniest chill in the air!
Most home cooks already have a lentil soup recipe in their back pocket. This one is a simple, tried and true, family favorite and I wanted to make sure I got it up on the blog. It has a rich, tomatoey broth and a subtle smokey flavor from the sausage. The addition of potatoes makes for an even heartier soup. Use gold potatoes if you can find them…they hold up better in soups than russets do and have such a great buttery flavor. You can use pork, beef, or turkey smoked sausage. I use whatever clean, nitrate free brand that I can find.
I love the organic smoked sausage from Pederson's. I have found it at my local Whole Foods as well as Sprouts. Costco often carries some good organic smoked sausage as well.
Of course you are going to want to serve this with some crusty bread. If I am going to be perfectly honest with you, the reason I love soup so much is because it means there will be crusty bread. I have a problem with it and I am not ashamed to admit it. The rest of my family is like, "Oh, sure, I will have a slice of bread with my dinner". And then there's me…devouring half the loaf. Sorry Not Sorry.
This recipe makes a BIG pot of soup! The four of us ate it for dinner and then we had lunch for all of us the next day. If the soup gets too thick the next day, add some more chicken stock or water to thin it out a bit.
Lentil and Smoked Sausage Soup
Makes 8 hearty servings
- 1 to 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 package smoked sausage (about 14 ounces) pork, beef, or turkey, cut into bite size pieces
- 1 large yellow onion, chopped
- 3 medium carrots, peeled and cut into 1 inch pieces
- 3 celery stalks, chopped
- 4 to 5 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/2 to 1 tsp red pepper flakes (to taste)
- 2 tsp dried oregano
- 1 cup dry white wine (like chardonnay)
- 1 lb dried green lentils
- 2 qts chicken stock
- 1 – 28 oz can of crushed tomatoes
- 4 sprigs of fresh thyme, tied together with kitchen twine
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 cup water
- 4 medium gold potatoes (about 1 1/2 lbs), cut into 1 inch cubes
- 2 tsp salt
- plenty of fresh ground pepper
- ½ cup chopped fresh parsley
- fresh grated parmesan cheese to garnish
In a large pot, heat the olive oil. Use 1 tbsp if using pork or beef smoked sausage as they will render more fat. Use 2 tbsp if using turkey sausage. When the oil is hot, add the sausage and brown for about 5 minutes. Remove the sausage from the pot and set aside, reserving the oil.
Add your onions to the pot and sauté for 5 minutes. Add the carrot, celery, garlic, red pepper flakes and dried oregano and cook for a few more minutes. Add the white wine and bring to a simmer, scraping up any browned bits from the bottom of the pan that might be left from browning your sausage. Add the lentils, stock, tomatoes, thyme bundle, and bay leaf and return your browned sausage to the pot. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and cover keeping the soup at a bare simmer for 45 minutes. Stir occasionally and check to make sure you are keeping the soup at a simmer.
After 45 minutes, add your cubed potatoes, 2 tsp salt and plenty of pepper. Cover and simmer for about 15 more minutes or until the potatoes and lentils are tender.
Taste your soup for seasoning, I added more salt at this point but if your stock or sausage is especially salty, you may not need to. Add your fresh parsley, reserving some to garnish. Serve garnished with fresh grated parmesan cheese, a drizzle of good olive oil, and fresh parsley.


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As I was helping my son research information for an article assigned to his English class, I learned something about witches and was inspired to write this post.
As a child, one thinks of a witch as the mythical, evil, ugly, and scary character in a movie or storybook. The witch is always distinguished in the story by their dark clothing, including a pointy hat, claw-like fingernails, and a long, hooked, wart-encrusted nose.
As you get older you learn that witches do not necessarily have those physical characteristics. Witches simply become people that practice witchcraft, good or bad acts, for health reasons, or evil purposes.
Years ago, anyone suspected of possessing the ability to perform these extraordinary acts was considered un-Christian and hunted down in historical witch hunts. When caught, these individuals were tried in court, with those found guilty either hung or burned to death. This practice was common in many European countries as well as in North America. Salem, Massachusetts is renowned for its history of witchcraft.
Today, witches are still believed to be in existence but have adopted the term Wicca, or Pagan Witchcraft, to classify themselves. To clarify, Wicca means witch in the Old English language, and people who follow the beliefs of Wicca are termed Wiccans. Wiccan traditions are predominantly based on theology, morality, the afterlife, magic, and the five elements of spirit, air, water, earth, and fire.
I discovered that the Wiccan beliefs are not evil-based, and not all that odd. I must admit, however, that the morality category is the one that intrigued me the most.
The main thought process of Wiccan morality is that all actions, good or bad, performed by any individual, will be returned to that person threefold. In simple terms, when you perform a good deed, three good or positive things will happen to you in return. This threefold rule also applies to bad or evil deeds which are rewarded with three bad or negative things happening to the perpetrator.
I was fascinated by this belief since this rule of morality can apply to many common ideologies today:
- Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This "golden rule" has been adopted by Boy and Girl Scouts around the world.
- Pay it forward. If someone does something nice for you, do something nice for someone else.
- You reap what you sew.
- You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
- What goes around comes around.
I believe that most of us try to do the right and ethical thing in any circumstance. In fact, the rules of morality listed above are things we humans strive to teach our children. It just seems like common sense to me…

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DAS is one of the latest in wireless technology that focuses on boosting delivery to distant clients in challenging signal environments. A distributed antenna system (DAS) focuses on bringing better signals across numerous wireless components. This includes signals for voice, audio and data. Buildings in congested metropolitan areas mostly suffer from signal degradation from weather, numerous competing signal technologies and other bandwidth-consuming devices.
At Axcex Media, our technology and installation focuses on transforming poor communications and signaling power into clear, crisp data signals that improve your conversations, data transmissions and audio output. Our customers included construction and wireless installations for stadiums, airports and enterprises in remote or congested locations.
Statistically, DAS networks have increased in popularity by 20,000 percent according to AT&T. This is due to wireless and Wi-Fi network available from not only the home but in various places including offices, hotels, restaurants and coffee shops. These shifts in Internet habits have increased the demand for DAS networks in several commercial outlets. DAS provides boosted signals that help data reach intended destination in wide area locations such as stadiums, hospitals, colleges, airports and hotels.
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Just like a newly born child learns to talk, our student will learn the alphabets, so we concluded this courses as Telugu PALUKU. The syllabus will broadly deal with learning alphabets - vowels, speaking two/three/four letter words, doing related exercises, Numbers 1-10 etc. Text books & Exercise books are developed on School Education Dept prescribed syllabus Students will mainly understand the words and able to speak with a teaching formula of 50% Oral and 50% Written
After the kid started speaking small words ( palukulu), he/she will start WALKing and hence we named Year 2 as Telugu ADUGU. The syllabus covers Alphabets – consonants and making of simple and complex words. Syllabus covers States in India, USA, Poems, Numbers from 11-100 Students will understand the words and speak and also start writing with a teaching formula of 40% Oral and 60% Written
After the baby has started walking, he moves on to the next stage – running. Hence, our Level III course is named as Telugu PARUGU. The syllabus will be on learning adjectives, adverbs, attributes and exercises on all of these items, tense makers, sentence makers, knowing about traditions, festivals, literature, poetry, poets etc. Telugu Parugu course shall have a teaching formula of 30% Oral and 70% Written
After talking, walking and running, the child's talent gets polished in all aspects. Our Level IV course is named as Telugu VELUGU. The syllabus will be on learning about Telugu culture, fine arts, vocations & crafts, historical information about Telugu people, epic poets, geography of Andhra Pradesh, Telugu poets, eminent Telugus in India & abroad, etc. Telugu Velugu course shall have a teaching formula of 20% Oral and 80% Written
Keeping kids of the next generation in mind, we are taking Paatasala a step ahead. We are happy to announce eLearning support for Paatasala students. This enables the students to access and practice the course at anytime from anywhere.
This eLearning modules are available on Iphones, I pads and Android phones also and are very user friendly. This eLearning support will be offered to each Paatasala registered student with a username and a password.
Apart from classroom teaching, e-Learning reinforces the skills needed to grasp Telugu easily. In addition to the traditional course material, the online courseware contains online assessments, interactive quizzes, and user forums. Once registered, the user/teacher/parent can access the course through the internet. Downloadable and printable worksheets are also provided for the user's convenience.
Not only students, but the Paatasala volunteers can benefit through this online teaching material where support will be provided with teacher's guidelines and methods to teach students in an effective manner.
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To the delight of astrophotographers, Comet ISON has gone through a surprisingly quick round of brightening in the run-up to next week's crucial swing around the sun — but some researchers suggest there's a dark side to the shining spectacle. Is ISON's rapid change a signal that it's starting to break apart?
The debate adds drama to observations of what some have hoped would turn into the "comet of the century." More than a year ago, when astronomers first observed ISON, they figured out that it would come close enough to the sun on Nov. 28 to put on a brilliant show afterward (like 2011's Comet Lovejoy) or crumble into bits (like Comet Elenin). Now that ISON is passing close to Mercury, they're watching for any signs that can tell them which scenario will unfold.
One group of researchers reported that bright streamers seemed to be spreading out from the comet's bright head, known as the coma, in a characteristic pattern that "may indicate recent nucleus splitting in the comet." That caught the attention of Karl Battams, a comet-watcher at the Naval Research Laboratory who plays a leading role in the NASA Comet ISON Observing Campaign.
"Comet ISON's recent dramatic outburst could absolutely be the result of fragmentation of its nucleus," Battams wrote. "However, it could equally likely be the result of the expected increase in activity as it continues to approach the sun."
If the comet is breaking up, there should be a large increase in brightness followed by a similarly dramatic decrease over the next few days, Battams said. If ISON is hanging together, and merely spewing out more dust and gas, the streamers should become steadily brighter.
"We may not find out until ISON reaches the field of view of the NASA STEREO spacecraft on November 21, 2013," the observing campaign's team wrote in a follow-up post. "Until then we encourage everyone to make the most of what has turned out to be a truly stunning comet!"
These pictures are stunning, to be sure, and it's theoretically possible to get a glimpse of ISON near the east-southeast horizon just before dawn — but don't expect to see views this good with your naked eye. Battams and his colleagues note that the photographers who provide the shots you see here and in SpaceWeather.com's comet gallery rely on "specialized equipment, powerful telescopes and years of experience in processing astronomical images."
"Most visual (including binocular) observers are reporting Comet ISON is mainly a 'green fuzzball,' with maybe a very faint tail visible," they write.
Nevertheless, it's worth trying to see ISON if you're up before the sun with clear skies to the east. Get out the binoculars and look for the fuzzball near the bright star Spica. The Comet Watch app for iPhone and iPad can help you get your bearings, or you can turn to the Heavens Above website for guidance. Let's hope that it gets much easier to spot the comet after its close encounter with the sun on Thanksgiving Day.
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For updates on Comet ISON, keep tabs on Space.com, the Comet ISON Observing Campaign, Hubblesite's ISONblog, SpaceWeather.com and the websites for Astronomy Magazine and Sky & Telescope. On Twitter, follow @ISONUpdates, @CometISONnews, @CometISON2013, @SungrazerComets and @Cosmos4u.
Alan Boyle is NBCNews.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter and adding the Cosmic Log page to your Google+ presence. To keep up with Cosmic Log as well as NBCNews.com's other stories about science and space, sign up for the Tech & Science newsletter, delivered to your email in-box every weekday. You can also check out "The Case for Pluto," my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.


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Floorplans are located in the Location tab of the Rhombus Console. After you have registered all your Rhombus devices, you can upload a floorplan to help you visualize where all your devices are physically located.
This step is also critical if you are using T1 asset tags as they rely on the placement of the cameras on the map to calculate their position.
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Yes. It may appear that the other driver was at fault for the accident and for your resulting injuries. However, car accident liability is not always clear, and car accident damages can be complicated.
How an Attorney Can Help
Even if you feel the other driver was definitely at fault for your car accident and injuries, a personal injury attorney can help you by:
- Gathering evidence to establish liability. You may know that the other car ran the red light, but that is not enough to convince the insurance company or the court to provide you with fair compensation. Instead, you need evidence that proves liability.
- Being prepared if you are accused of being at fault. In Virginia, you may be unable to recover damages if you bear any responsibility for the accident. For example, if you were distracted at the time of the crash and are found to be partially at fault, you will be unable to recover damages even if the other driver ran a red light.
- Establishing the value of your damages. The other driver may be clearly at fault for the crash, but his lawyers may dispute how badly you were injured in the crash and the value of your damages. An experienced lawyer can review your medical records and gather the required evidence to prove how badly you were hurt and what you should recover for past, current, and future medical expenses, lost income, out-of-pocket costs, and pain and suffering.
Don't Hesitate to Call an Attorney
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App.net: Could an ad-free Twitter replace the original?
Tweet stream looking extra noisy? Entrepreneur Dalton Caldwell is building a new pay-service that elevates the quality of conversation
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Ready for a better Twitter? Dalton Caldwell, a San Francisco-based entrepreneur, is trying to build just that. App.net looks a lot like the original with a few key differences. The service features zero advertising and users are allowed to drone on a bit more: Twitter's 140-character limit has been expanded to a more verbose 256. What's more, the service is completely open, meaning third-party developers are free to build new services on top of it. Caldwell, whose resume includes music site iMeem and the Instagram-like Picplz, originally floated his idea in a blog post called "What Twitter Could Have Been," which outlined his disappointment with Twitter's attitude towards outside developers and the obtrusive presence of sponsored tweets. He's funding App.net with a Kickstarter-like donations page, offering new users the handle of their choosing for $50 a pop — and his plan seems to be working. Though he originally hoped to raise $500,000 by Aug. 15, App.net has already acquired 12,000 enthusiastic backers, amassing over $800,000 in initial funding. Could a minimalist new ad-free Twitter be the next big thing?
It's incredibly promising: I still find Twitter rewarding, but the concept of App.net appeals, says Harry McCracken at TIME. A community built around people willing to pay "can keep the focus on users rather than trying to please advertisers," theoretically elevating the level of discourse. App.net reminds me of BIX, one of the best social networks I ever joined (in 1988). It cost $99 a year, and was a dial-up, text-only creation. And yet, "the quality of discussion was very, very high." If App.net approximates BIX, "I'd be thrilled."
"App.net: Both Twitter clone and anti-Twitter"
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App.net doesn't have a chance: "I hate to be the spoil-sport," but App.net is better as an idea than a reality, says MG Siegler at Massive Greatness. Its problem is two-fold: First, Twitter already exists. Second, a user-supported service can never reach the scale of a free service like Twitter and so will never get a chance to challenge Twitter. Take a look at Google+, which is trying to be Facebook when Facebook already exists. "App.net looks like the hero right now only because it hasn't had the opportunity to become the villain. And it probably never will."
"You either die a hero or you become the villain"
App.net wants to be bigger than Twitter: App.net wants to be more than just an app or a Twitter alternative, says Mathew Ingram at GigaOm — it wants to be the next email. Of course, users can already send an email to anyone else on the internet using a variety of services, like Gmail or CompuServe email. App.net doesn't want to simply be one of those service: It wants its form of short-burst communication to be the web's go-to. Good luck.
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I'm happy to announce that we've released FreeSewing 2.20, which comes with a feature request that was on our roadmap: Better support for doll clothes. We have some passionate doll enthusiasts in our community which make sense when you consider that our patterns adapt seamlessly to all sorts of measurements, including those of dolls.


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The international fishing community, one of the oldest industries in the world, has plenty to learn when it comes to labor practices and environmental stewardship, says Tobias Aguirre, CEO of FishWise, a local nongovernmental organization (NGO).
"Our world is more than 70 percent water," he offers, "so as the oceans go, so goes our planet."
Aguirre says there's only one way to improve the field, which is rife with overfishing, illegal fishing, mislabeling and human rights violations like human trafficking. That path forward, Aguirre says, is through increased transparency and oversight of an industry that supplies protein to more than a billion people a day.
"There are a lot of critical gaps in this really complicated system," he says.
FishWise has a plan, Aguirre says, to fill these gaps through a new global alliance for sustainable fisheries called the Seafood Alliance for Legality and Traceability (SALT). With FishWise guiding the way, the SALT alliance aims to do for the seafood industry what Fair Trade USA has done for coffee and chocolate. FishWise will coordinate SALT's efforts to share information and make industry changes, while working with stakeholders that include other NGOs, countries, and major companies, all with the goal of improving fishery management.
The SALT effort focuses, in part, on making the supply chain more traceable, Aguirre says, with the aim of letting groups track a product through the supply chain back to its origin. "The global traceability system," Aguirre explains, "is similar to what we have in banking where you can go to any ATM around the world and through this integrated network, it eventually talks to your home bank or credit union. We really need that in seafood."
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Repeated research has shown that, due to mislabeling, people often aren't eating the fish they've picked out for dinner. A study last year out of the University of Washington said that up to 30 percent of the seafood in restaurants and grocery stores is getting mislabeled. A report from Oceana, a conservation nonprofit based in Washington D.C., suggested in 2015 that mislabeling is particularly common with salmon, with 43 percent of the popular fish getting labeled incorrectly. Most of those errors were from farmed fish mislabeled as wild-caught. And often times, according to a story in the Atlantic, farmed salmon has quirks of its own, as it is wild salmon's krill-based diet that gives the species its pink color. Farmed salmon, meanwhile, eat a highly processed kibble, which includes corn, soy, and chicken parts, naturally giving their meat a gray hue—something fish farmers then mask using a pink dye. The Washington study did note, however, that many of these phony alternatives are more sustainable than the real thing when it comes to seafood. But regardless, how can foodies know for sure when they can't even be sure what they've ordered?
Indeed, Aguirre says it can be difficult for restaurants and grocery stores—let alone consumers—to know the backstory of the fish they're carrying. Fisheries, he explains, "deal in huge piles of paper, if they're even keeping records."
It's common, he adds, in countries like the Philippines, for a lone fisherman to return to shore with a catch and without much information, given his limited ability to easily and efficiently record information about his yield. Crucial information about the fish is lost from the start.
"Maybe they write down their catch and how it was caught, but often they don't, and it just gets kind of consolidated, and that person on shore moves it to the next person in the supply chain," Aguirre explains. He says those sparse records end up getting "transferred from one entity to another 20 times."
"By the time it finally gets to us in a grocery store or restaurant," he says, "it's really easy to lose information about that product."
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As it prepares for the SALT discussions, FishWise has ideas for how to fix this, including equipping fishermen with apps on handheld devices to record their catches.
Aguirre says that better record-keeping systems can also help reduce human rights abuses, which have garnered attention in Southeast Asia. UCSC alumna Martha Mendoza won her second Pulitzer Prize last year for a series of investigative reports for Associated Press detailing human trafficking on fishing boats in Indonesia. Mendoza and a team of three other reporters traced the fish caught by slaves to stores like Safeway, Kroger, Albertsons and Wal-Mart. That food, the report detailed, was ending up in everything from popular pet food to fancy restaurants to the frozen section of the grocery store.
Aguirre says that the AP's investigative stories, along with reporting from The Guardian, "pulled back the curtain in some of these really hard-to-see areas in the seafood industry."
"You can't talk about environmental sustainability or sustainability in the seafood industry, without looking at the human side of it," he adds.
Aguirre hopes that by ensuring that the whole crew has passports and access to reporting grievances, SALT can hold bad players in the industry accountable. And if the fishermen have more access to data, that means they can be more informed about the best times and places to fish as well as how to avoid bycatch, the unintended species that end up in nets. Changes could save fishermen time, fuel, and energy, he explains. "It's hugely ambitious and there's a lot of great NGOs, seafood companies and foundations working on it, but we do need more support from tech companies," Aguirre says.
The SALT alliance will be a five-year $5.3 million project with funding from the United States government, as well as nonprofits like the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation.
In a FishWise press release, Teresa Ish, oceans program officer at the Walton Foundation, called traceability "a critical component of an efficient, modern and sustainable seafood industry." She added that she hopes the new alliance will incentivize companies to use best practices out in the water.
It isn't clear yet exactly how incentives would work, but Aguirre is optimistic that fishery managers will see a need to modernize their operations, including record keeping and data sharing.
Aguirre grew up in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and attended Mount Madonna School. While in grad school in San Diego he returned to Santa Cruz to do an internship with FishWise in 2004. At the time there were only five employees; there are now 30.
New Leaf Community Markets was already a leader in the green grocery business, as Aguirre noticed at the time. And when he returned to grad school, he immersed himself in learning what corporations need in order to commit to environmental progress. He looked for ways that major chains might sell more fish and become more responsible at the same time.
"In the last 12 years, we've created a whole portfolio of examples of companies doing exactly that. It's been really fun," he says.
Now 80 percent of the largest grocery stores and foodservice companies have some sort of sustainable seafood program, Aguirre says, adding that it all started with New Leaf in 2001.
Chris Farotte, program and category manager for meat and seafood for New Leaf Community Markets, says that FishWise has been instrumental in helping educate customers on the quality of their fish purchases by developing a data-driven flowchart, which store employees call "the Bible." Both purchasers and customers can see the sustainability of various fish categorized with a stop light labeling system, split into three areas—green, yellow and red.
"I give a lot of credit to the customers because they voted with their dollars," Farotte says. New Leaf's customers, he says, avoided red-designated fish, even as the store saw an increase in overall purchases.
FishWise and its partners aim to empower major seafood buyers like Safeway, Albertsons, Target and Hy-Vee, a grocery chain of 240 stores with sustainable practices in the Midwest. It's also helping to build comprehensive sustainability goals into the commitments of major companies.
"Now [there] is a groundswell of work to really think about the well-being of everyone that's catching and raising and processing our fish," Aguirre says, "and getting this critical protein to us."


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Joanne of our very own EiEi Home family has decided to undertake a backyard renovation!
Behold the before shot. (Now we know why she's getting it done!) Note how her lovely green lawn is untouched by shovels, stone or dirt.
Her lawn didn't stay pristine for long, after days of planning with landscaping company Dreamscape Design the supply truck finally pulled up in front of her house. This is what 85,000 pounds of stone looks like from Arnt's Top Soil of Pickering, Ontario.
Joanne had a fence panel turned into a gate to access the forest behind her home. However, now that it's open it is also how the coyotes get in.
After the rocks were delivered and the gate removed for better access, the landscaper went hard to work in a Bobcat to remove the turf (and weeds) from the back of Joanne's yard to ready it for the large stone installation ahead. Here you can see the before and after shots of the yard.
Afterwards they moved in all the stone to the backyard. Notice the lovely tractor marks in the yard from the machinery that hauled in the stone.
Before Dreamscape could begin to lay the stone they had to cover the ground with some tarp and draw a sketch of the shape of the new raised patio that will be built.
Do you have any tips, comments or suggestions for Joanne? We'd love to hear from you and be sure to join us next time to see the patio take shape.


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Cyberlaw deals with the legal issues related to almost everything that happens in cyberspace.
The term social media encompasses many different types of internet applications that allow user-generated content and multi-directional exchange of information (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, YouTube, Discord). In many areas of law, there are no specific or different laws or rules in place for social media. This means:
Be careful about what you say about yourself and others. Posting something rude, offensive or derogatory can have consequences. For instance, your comments and/or the photos you post may be considered defamatory, hurtful, threatening, or image-abuse by others. Even after you've 'deleted' them, there's no guarantee that your content has disappeared – copies of it could exist on backups, or might already have been downloaded by others. This content could later be presented as legal evidence against you at university, your job, or even in court.
Cyber abuse is online behaviour that is reasonably likely to have a seriously threatening, intimidating, harassing or humiliating effect on a person. It's behaviour that threatens to hurt a person socially, psychologically or even physically. Cyber abuse includes behaviour such as cyberbullying and image-based abuse. It can take place in various online spaces, like chat rooms and social networking sites, or through emails, messaging apps or on message boards.
More information on cyber abuse.
Cyberbullying is behaviour carried out online or through mobile phones that: is meant to be hurtful; targets a certain person or group of people; happens more than once; and embarrasses, threatens or intimidates the person being bullied.
More information on what cyberbullying is and how to get help.
Cyberbullying may be a crime under either NSW or federal law when it involves:
You can report cyberbullying to your local police on 131 444 or by going to your local station; or you can make a report to the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC).
If you're questioned or arrested by the police in relation to cyberbullying, you should give your correct name and address, but exercise your right to remain silent for any other questions. Try to stay calm, and politely ask to get legal advice before you give them any other information.
In general terms, defamation occurs when a person intentionally spreads information about another person, group of people, or small company that damages their reputation, or could make others think less of them. You can be sued for defamation regardless of the medium of publication. For example, a person can be defamed on the internet as well as in print and through photos.
If you post defamatory content online, you could be sued for defamation. Even if you didn't create the defamatory content, but only shared it (e.g. by retweeting it), you could also be held liable for defamation.
The best thing to do if you're accused of defamation is to take down the offending post as soon as possible and seek legal advice about your next steps.
In NSW, it's illegal to record, distribute or threaten to distribute an intimate image without consent. If this happens to you, you can report it to the police on 131 444 or by going to your local station.
For confidential information, referral and counselling you can call Rape & Domestic Violence Services Australia (RDVSA) on 1800 424 017 (24 hours a day/7 days a week) or contact them online.
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If you've experienced image-based abuse, there are a number of actions you can take to have your images removed or deleted.
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Only the tower's top level is still a bedroom, now with reclaimed fir floors, handcrafted mahogany bed and window frames, and whimsical oak dresser. (Collin Andrew/The Register-Guard)
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SingStar: Take That is Sony Computer Entertainment's Music game with a release date in 2009.
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Lyca Mobile takes reporting fraud very seriously. If you have been a victim of fraud, we will support you. There are steps you need to follow and reporting this is key to minimise any further impact. It is important to understand that we may never understand or find out how the root cause and what initially occurred, nor can we make any assumptions.
There are known examples which have started from phishing, smishing and the use of social engineering tactics to obtain information. This is not only to trick you but to appear to be something the perpetrators are not i.e., Lyca Mobile.This is Fraud
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• Fake Lyca Lottery Prize winner
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If you suspect something is not right, report this straightaway via the communication methods outlined below. We will never ask you for money. We have been made aware of scenarios where fraudsters request you to transfer money to subsequently receive a large prize amount. These are common and known methods and should be treated with suspicion. Any request for money to be sent via Google Play vouchers, MoneyGram, Giftcards, PayPal vouchers and Western Union transfer are known fraud tactics.
These are known methods fraudsters use for financial gain and should be treated with suspicion. Do not send money via these methods. These payment methods are classed as high risk as they are almost impossible to track down and are almost redeemed within minutes of transfer. If you have sent any money via these methods, please report accordingly via the links outlined below.
We will never ask for your personal government-issued photographic identification nor will we communicate with you by WhatsApp or Viber. We have seen in some cases fraudsters requesting to claim a prize this way and share personal information. This is fraud.
There are examples of fraudsters requesting an 'up-front' payment to release funds relating to a lottery pay out, again this is fraud. If you are contacted via WhatsApp, Viber, or phone call to claim a prize, do not send any money as this is part of the scam. The listed payment methods below are used by fraudsters and are classed as high-risk: MoneyGram, Western Union & Google Play vouchers.
There have been reported examples of fraudsters impersonating company CEO's and those equivalent job titles with the request to transfer funds via Google Pay vouchers and similar voucher-based payment methods.
Fraudsters have targeted specific people within a company 'acting' as a CEO, then requesting money to be sent via WhatsApp or Viber. Never send money via these methods and end all communication. Report this type of scam to your Information Security Officer within your organisation. Additionally, report as per links found below.
The amounts are usually large, and vouchers used with suspicious e-mail addresses as an initial contact method. The telephone number is identified with a foreign number and Lyca Mobile logo image.
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After a long summer of laying eggs, chickens use the winter as a time to rest and recuperate. Knowing what to feed chickens in winter to produce eggs is important. Egg production requires a lot of protein, so your birds will need plenty of this vital resource in their feed to get through molting and maintain their strength. If you're lucky, you may even get some good winter eggs — just be sure to collect them before they freeze.
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Remove these two eproms following similar steps and precautions as in step 3, again, being careful not to scratch the Millipede PCB traces. These chips will not be reused. If you chose to keep them, it is suggested that they be stored in the anti-static bag provided with the kit.
If the game does not come up, turn power off immediately, double check your work, and read over the trouble shooting section.
Now is a good time to verify your game settings via the setup menu. Put the game in test mode by sliding the test switch on. You should see a screen similar to the original millipede test mode screen. Follow the on-screen instructions in test mode to press and hold P1-start and P2-start at same time. The game will transition to setup mode.
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As a side note, if you want, you can also remove the old code eproms. These are located at the edge of the board near the 6502 CPU location. See code eprom pic1. You can also remove the EAROM if desired. See earom pic1 and earom pic2. Once the Multipede kit is installed, the EAROM and existing CPU ROMs are no longer accessed.


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"These enviable youngsters appear to be the winners in the race we have made of childhood. But the reality is very different, as I have witnessed in many of my own students and heard from the hundreds of young people whom I have spoken with on campuses or who have written to me over the last few years. Our system of elite education manufactures young people who are smart and talented and driven, yes, but also anxious, timid, and lost, with little intellectual curiosity and a stunted sense of purpose: trapped in a bubble of privilege, heading meekly in the same direction, great at what they're doing but with no idea why they're doing it."
–William Deresiewicz, Don't Send Your Kids to the Ivy League
The New Republic
July 21st, 2014
Author's Note: I encourage you to read Mr. Deresiewicz' piece before continuing on with mine below.
Throughout my life, I've had access to privilege, especially in regards to my education, which included a lifetime of private schooling followed by matriculation at Harvard University. I resonate a great deal with what this author has to say, and indeed, in the deep reflection and exploration I've done during these years of post-Psychiatry life, I've come to understand that my first crisis at the age of thirteen—the crisis that would get me psychiatrized and sent into the depths of the "mental health" system for fourteen years—was, in fact, a spiritual and existential one tied very much to the issues this author puts forth. Of course, I never had the chance to make sense of it in this way at the time; to see that my profound suffering and emptiness and desperate searching was, in fact, a meaningful and incredibly important quest I was embarking upon to make sense of a world that I didn't feel I belonged in, a world that didn't make sense to me.
No, I never had this chance, as my pain was quickly labeled "Bipolar" and I was thrown on Depakote and Prozac in a matter of fifty minutes by a psychiatrist I'd never before met. Only now am I circling back to those deep and meaningful questions that emerged back then—questions about who I am (and am not), and about what it means to even ask that question. About what it means to be human, to be authentic, to belong, to feel worthy of being alive. About how one finds a way to fit into a world that so often doesn't make sense, and so often is alienating, scary, traumatic, and painful.
I grew up in an environment that taught me my worth as a person was directly tied to my grades, my athletic performance, my list of extra-curricular activities, and my SAT scores. That if I wasn't the best, I was the worst. That if I wasn't perfect, I was a failure. It wasn't a lesson taught to me by any particular individual or institution (and I should add that I feel no blame in my heart towards anyone specific for this), but rather one steeped into every facet of the world around me, one that seemed to pulsate in the very air my peers and I breathed. At thirteen and in all my psychiatrized years to follow, I never had the chance to step back and process what this all meant, and whether these were values I wanted to hold onto, and I continued through high school and on to Harvard in this existential limbo, simply because I saw no other way.
I would arrive in Harvard Square without a shred of self-worth beyond that which I felt from my grades, my athletic accomplishments, and the rest of my college application. And the message that I was "mentally ill"—defective, abnormal, different, broken—would only serve to deepen my sense of emptiness and self-alienation beneath my list of "achievements," leading me to place more and more dependence on these "achievements" to make me feel OK. Of course, the more psychotropic drugs I was put on and the more psychiatric labels I acquired as time moved on, the more these "achievements" fell apart, leaving me with absolutely nothing to hold onto. It makes complete sense to me that this trajectory of the so-called "American Dream" led me to one place and one place alone: three hundred pills, a bottle of wine, and a suicide note.
I should say that I have deep gratitude and appreciation for the countless resources, opportunities, and access points I've been afforded throughout my life and especially in these last few years since coming off of psychiatric drugs and leaving behind psychiatric labels. Indeed, this privilege has, I believe, played a large part in giving me the gift of psychiatric liberation. My life today is full of meaning and purpose, of pain and joy and anguish and connection and fear and love and passion, and this is a fact I savor daily. Today, I am fully human. Today, I belong.
What I struggle with, however, is knowing that this same liberating privilege was also, in many ways, my enslaver in the first place. I'll leave the reader to Mr. Deresiewicz' article to get a better sense of what I mean, because it does more justice to this notion than I ever could. Indeed, I hope his message reaches people far and wide, because it is of the utmost importance for our society—especially our young people, the ones who are stepping onto the field and into the classroom and onto the stage for the first times in their lives, prepped for initiation into a blinders-on life of performance and achievement and accomplishment and perfection. Prepped for pursuit of the so-called "American Dream," whose funnel is, of course, our Educational Industrial Complex.
It took me nearly thirty years—and fourteen years of psychiatric imprisonment—to connect with the powerful message articulated by Mr. Deresiewicz, which I've done by deprogramming myself from this "Dream" and discovering that I was born a worthy human. Today, I realize that the values and lessons that truly matter to me—those of truth and justice and equality and compassion and authentic connection and integrity and commitment and unconditional love—have nothing to do with grades on a paper, or the number of awards won, or the length of a list of achievements. They have nothing to do with the name of your college—or whether you even went to college— or the number of letters you acquire behind your name. These values are learned in life lived with feet on the ground, with the cultivation of a critical and ever-questioning mind, and through the nurturing of a human spirit in symbiosis with this oppressive and beautiful world, amongst one's fellows, inherently worthy.
Thank you, Mr. Deresiewicz, for getting this message out there. I stand in solidarity with you.
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Aside from end-of-semester course evaluations, you can gather mid-semester evaluations to check how your course is going while it is in progress.
You can also check in occasionally with classroom assessment techniques (CATs) that quickly and easily let you to assess how students are learning in your classes.
Purpose of Student Evaluation
- Student evaluations are helpful tools that give insight for modifying, planning, or re-designing a course.
- When collected mid-semester, student evaluations give the chance to address issues regarding student learning while the course is in progress.
- Students may appreciate that their experiences in your course matter to you, and they respond well when they feel that their feedback is valued.
- Student evaluations of teaching are an important way to gauge teaching effectiveness and document instructional development for a teaching portfolio or the peer review process.
Collecting Student Evaluations
- Create a plan for when (mid-semester? end-of-semester?) and how (online? in class?) you will collect student evaluations of your teaching.
- Create questions that reflect what you want to receive feedback on. Modify existing student evaluation surveys to address your specific needs.
- Consider collecting student evaluations with an online survey
Mid-Term Student Evaluations
Collecting information early enough (once students have experienced your course for a number of weeks) gives you the chance to adjust your course to address student learning while the course is in progress. On your syllabus, keep in mind to add a disclaimer that course components are subject to change.
Mid-semester feedback can be a longer student course evaluation survey, or it can comprise of one or two questions for students to respond to anonymously.
Classroom Assessment Techniques
A quick way to collect information is to do occasional classroom assessment techniques (CATs). This involves asking students to take a few minutes to respond anonymously to a prompt.
Example questions:
What was the main point of today's lecture?
What's one thing you have still have a question about?
What was unclear about the lecture today?
End-of-Semester Evaluations
Supplement department course evaluation forms with additional questions that address your needs.
Svinicki & McKeachie (2011, pg. 341) suggest using two types of questions: those dealing with the learning goals, and those addressing specific behaviors.
Example questions:
Learning goals questions: "My knowledge of 'x' has increased as a result of taking this course."
Specific behaviors: "I became more interested in this field as a result of taking this class." or " The instructor was organized."
How to collect student evaluations in your class:
- Explain to students that you are collecting their anonymous feedback to check how they are experiencing/have experienced the course. Share with students that their feedback is important and will use it when making course design decisions.
- Assist students on giving useful and effective feedback. For example, if they did not like something, ask them to explain why or suggest what they might have preferred. Ask them to also share what is going well.
- Give class time for students to give their feedback.
- Review the completed student evaluations for common themes and organize your feedback into three categories:
– Those you can modify this semester (for example, the turnaround time on homework).
– Those that must wait until the next time the course is offered (for example, the reading or texts).
– Those that you either cannot or, for pedagogical reasons, will not change (for example, the number of exams or quizzes).
- Share the results with the students. For mid-semester evaluations, you can do this in a subsequent class. Inform them what the general feedback was, and what changes you will or will not make along with your rationale. Following through with modifications based on mid-semester feedback leads to enhanced teaching and, therefore, better end-of-semester evaluations. For end-of-semester feedback, you can share findings with new students the next semester. This communicates the value you place on student experiences and may improve student motivation to provide you with effective feedback.
Factors Influencing Student Evaluations
According to a study involving 200 faculty respondents, the following four factors significantly contributed to improvement of teaching as measured by student evaluations (McGowan & Graham, 2009):
- Engaging in active and practical learning that highlights the relevance of course material to students.
- Creating the chance for significant teacher/student interactions and conferences that enable instructors to connect with students.
- Emphasizing learning outcomes and setting high expectations.
- Revisions and improvements to how student learning is assessed.
Meaning of Student Evaluations
Research has shown that reviewing student evaluation data in a follow-up consultation tend to result in positive modifications in teaching and course design that can influence future evaluations (Murray, 1997).
Increasing Response Rates to Online Evaluations
- Provide a "live" demonstration of how to submit an online response to decrease any computer-related questions.
- Make the survey easy for students to access by providing the URL link in an email.
- Remind students of the evaluation deadline date and the value of the results. Instructors can also program the survey website to send email reminders to invited participants.
- Extend the duration of a survey's online availability.
- Explain the significance of student feedback to course improvement in the syllabus.
- Give class time for students to fill out the online form using their laptops.
- Stress the anonymous nature of student evaluations.
- Reassure students that their responses will be taken seriously and specific actions taken to resolve issues regarding the course.
- Create evaluations that seek constructive criticism and let students to engage with the questions.
- Keep questionnaires brief.
- Direct students to a computer lab where they can submit their evaluations.


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Sliding dropouts provide versatility to single speed frame designs by allowing different 'sliders' to be mounted to the frame. Chain tension is achieved using a single M5 screw to push the axle rearward while preventing unwanted forward motion. For disc brake applications, the disc slider and rear axle move rearward at the same time which maintains proper caliper and rotor alignment.
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CALTRANS Road Closures
I-215 & I-259 for Maintenance
Friday June 16, 2017 San Bernardino ____
The California
Department of Transportation (Caltrans) will close the Route 259 (SR 259)
connector to eastbound Route 210 in San Bernardino this Saturday and Sunday to complete brush
removal and pavement crack seal.
full closure will begin on northbound Interstate-215
just before State Route 259 and continue through that short connector to
eastbound State Route 210. Motorists
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LED ring light for stereo microscopes.
The LED brightness is adjustable, soft ,with no flicker and good consistency. This kit is equipped with three screws in the interface port to connect microscope objectives of different diameters. The available voltage of this kit is from AC85 to AC260V. It is an ideal durable cool light source for microscopes.
Microscope LED illumination provides cool, natural color light for a various incident light applications. LED technology also consumes lower power and lasts longer compared to halogen lamps saving energy and money. It is uniform, high-contrast, coaxial, highly diffuse, or nearly shadow-free illumination
led ring light Specific advantages
1, no stroboscopic: because LED lights for pure DC power supply, no stroboscopic, not easy to cause eye fatigue, nor to the working area other devices (such as oscilloscope) produce harmonic interference.
2, uniform illumination: LED shadowless lamp is 360 degrees in the uniform illumination of observed objects, no shadow, high definition.
3, long life: LED shadowless lamp because of low calorific value (no heat radiation), power consumption small (low voltage, low current start) the average life expectancy of more than 35000 hours, far greater than circular energy saving lamp 1500-2500 hours, life is more than ten times of that of an energy-saving lamps.
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Ok, so I'm a whiner. ?You haven't figured that out by now? ?I have good cause to be on occasion. ?I work two or more jobs, I'm a full time mom, I'm trying to start a charitable foundation and man alive does my stomach burn at the moment. ?I am trying to cut back on any extraneous obligations, trust me.
I've struggled over the past year on what to do with this blog. ?I would like to say that my heart is still in it, but I'm not sure that is the case. ?The reason I still write is to keep people interested so they will buy chocolate at Christmastime. ?I am terribly afraid that if I don't have this site our candy sales would dramatically drop. ?I think I've built up a good enough loyal customer base and we have added the sales people so that helps, but believe it or not, the BlogHer network thing on the side brings in a few extra sales each season. ?I love having first time customers. ?They are just one more person who can spread the word about what Sweet Hope is about.
Sweet Hope is a passion of mine, if you haven't noticed. ?The scope of the project goes way beyond selling candy and sending money. ?It is no longer just me running the show. ?I have a whole board of directors and one director in particular who has helped me expand the vision. ?I can't let her down now.
As for Life of Elle… I know who my loyal readers are and that they like to hear about some of the stuff our family gets into, but I feel like my life is rather boring. ?Well, except for that whole pooping in the backyard incident. ?That was pretty funny. ?I can still write those stories, but they would be rather few and far between.
So help me out, how can I keep Sweet Hope going and make it bigger and better and be able to feel less obligated to Life of Elle?


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I have prayed for a solution to my daughters rude behavior, aggression and defiance for a long time. I dont know how we got here. I have watched a bright ,beautiful, happy, well adjusted child turn into a completely different person who is so lost and lonely. She is 17 and for so many years I have tried EVERYTHING to better her life and health. I firmly believe there is no one in my area that truely understands Aspergers Syndrome and all that comes with it. (I live in Youngstown,Ohio)
I NEED MY DAUGHTER BACK! I love her so much and want nothing more but to see her smile and enjoying LIFE! I have let her suck me into being someone I dont want to be. I am burned out and wasting away into an angry bitter parent. I am tired. I hope you can help me. She has a beautiful spirit under all of this muck! I just hope i can find a way to get the real her back.
I sympathize with you because I feel the same about my 9-year old son as far as wanting nothing more than to see him smile and enjoy life! I feel frustrated that the school doesn't understand him though they are trying. Some people learn differently and need a different environment to thrive in as far as school. Have you talked to Dr. Hutton online? I haven't yet, but may if I can't find a solution in my area. There is a great school for Aspergers in my area, but Townships don't want to pay for it. Sometimes, you have to keep pushing and going up the ladder until you find the right environment for your child. Have you also tried psychiatric analysis and any meds? It's not my favorite route, but it may help if your child has depression.
The fact that you know the Beautiful spirit that your daughter is and love her so much, I know you both will suceed. Wishing you both the best, and TRUST YOUR INSTINCTS!!!!
Thank you so much Mark. You have no idea how many therapists we have been through. You are the first person who is giving me concrete scripts and things to do and it is working.
I am the step-father of a 15 year old girl.
Her grades are dropping and I learned that there is nothing I can do unless the biological mother allows me to come in and be a father to my step-daughter.
My wife is a very lenient and enabling mother.
I hate Facebook and her Kindle, yet my wife thinks they are okay as long as she isn't in any trouble.
Her lack of boundaries won't let her recognize the danger and when one is involve with a step-child, I am learning, that my influence is guided by the biological mother. N matter how much reason I bring into this, unless mom says no, nothing will change
Today's parents are helpless because they are.
My parents never allowed what is allowed in today's homes.
The first thing we are dong is moving to a different school district. We moved to a higher-end city for the schools. Now that it means nothing, we will find more affordable housing. There is no reason to pay for C's and D's. Then, facebook is gone.
I hated that from the time she joined it, BUT her mother let her.
It feel sad to watch a child slowly be allowed to throw their life away because my wife refused to see the obvious.
I have a 14 soon to be 15 year old that always had A and B in school. But she is a freshman this year and she is not focused like before. She brought home 4 's this midterm. She always had that phone in her hand and never wants to do anything with the family. Unless someone is buying her something or she is getting her way. I am about to pull my hair out over her. She is so mean to get brother. St is almost out of control. I need some pointers.


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Enjoy Senior Living That Keeps You Active In Body, Mind And Spirit.
Every day is filled with activities, friends and fun.
With a busy calendar filled with events, classes, clubs and trips, there's always something new to do, learn and enjoy at our senior living community in Bucks County, Pa., one hour outside of Philadelphia.


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|Ralph, a small cat, saved his owner from possibly freezing to death or suffocating after she had become locked in her walk-in freezer. Ralph attracted the attention of Mrs. Bowes' father with his desperate cries from another section of the house. Mr. Bowes followed the cat to the basement, where he heard his daughter's faint cries for help. (Peterborough, Ontario; 1970)


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New research suggests the wealth gap in the U.S. has reached a level it hasn't seen since before the Great Depression.
Preliminary findings from the National Bureau of Economic Research shows the top 1 percent of America's richest families hold about 40 percent of total household wealth.
According to available data, that hasn't happened since the 1920s.
Wealth in this case is defined as net worth, but it doesn't include assets like cars and furniture. But, as the researcher points out, it can be hard to determine just how much money the wealthy have due to hidden assets held in offshore bank accounts.
And wealth isn't just unevenly distributed in the U.S. This data shows that China and Russia also have large wealth concentrations, with a similar trend happening in France and the U.K.
While other experts argue wealth inequality is a temporary situation, it's still an issue that at least some lawmakers are taking notice of.
Most recently, Sen. Elizabeth Warren floated the idea of taxing the net worth of the richest Americans in order to fund social programs. Warren has previously been advised on wealth inequality by the author of this latest research.


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Heading into the 2012 NHL Entry Draft, Guelph Stotm defenseman Matthew Finn was ranked 13th overall by the International scouting Service, while The Hockey News had Finn ranked 18th overall in their annual Draft Preview issue.
Listed at 6'0" and 195 pounds, Finn was the Storm's go-to defenseman, playing an integral role in every facet of the game. Through 61 games with the Storm in 2011-12 Finn registered 10 goals, 47 points and a plus/minus rating of minus-13, good enough to lead the team in scoring from the blueline.
Finn's skill set includes great skating, the ability to rush the puck, a physical element, the ability to run the power play, decent size, tremendous leadership skills and a good two-way game.
Even with great offensive numbers and all the skills that Finn brings to the table, he managed to slip through the first round of the 2012 NHL Entry Draft, landing in the Toronto Maple Leafs' lap in the second round of the draft at number 35 overall.
To say that Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke was thrilled to take Finn with the 35th pick overall is an understatement. Burke was all smiles when he took to the podium to announce thatToronto was selecting Finn and with good reason. Given Finn's performance with the Storm this season Burke's smile is only going to get wider.
Through 16 games with the Storm Finn has lit the lamp a total of seven times, added eight assists and improved his plus/minus rating to a plus seven.
Watching Finn play against the Oshawa Generals Friday night I was able to observe a confident player who controlled the puck with ease and dictated the pace of the game. His ability to read the play was strong and his offensive prowess was quite evident. Finn's physical side was also on display, as was his strong power play quarterbacking abilities.
Finn, a huge fan of the Maple Leafs growing up, would end the night with two points, including a strange goal. With his team pressing the Oshawa Generals Finn skated into the Generals' zone, fired the puck at the boards and watched as the puck hit the opposing goaltender in the back and into the net. It was a lucky goal, but one wonders if Finn had practiced that shot in anticipation of using it in a game?
Either way, Finn's strong start to the 2012-13 season with the Storm is a good indication that Finn might just be the steal of the 2012 NHL Entry Draft.
With continued development and patience Finn is expected to evolve into a solid two-way defenseman at the NHL level. Not bad for the 35th pick overall.


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Baby and Toddler Sleep Pattern
It's spring again, which means the clocks go forward an hour. In some ways that's lovely, because it means summer is on the way and the nights will get lighter. But if you have a child who you've just got into a good bedtime routine, you might find that the changing of the clocks affects their sleep. Bear in mind that your baby or toddler doesn't actually know the time – they use their own inner clock – use that to your advantage. The secret is to be prepared, and with just a little bit of effort you'll find their sleep routine gets back to normal really quickly. Here are some tips to help you prepare your little one for time changes.


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Don't you wish your partner had a registry that you could use to buy the perfect gift for your special evening? You might know him like the back of your hand, but you still struggle to find the perfect gift for him.
If any of this resonates with you, take a look at this list to pick out the perfect anniversary gift.
A whiskey decanter lets wine breathe and allows certain flavors in it to become more prominent. Getting your partner a whiskey decanter will make his day! Opt for one that's stylish or has an unconventional shape.
You might not be able to tell just by looking at them, but almost everyone fusses about their hair. You can get a customized pocket comb made for your partner and have it inscribed with a thoughtful message to add a personal touch.
If your partner travels often, you can buy a compact and durable leather passport holder for him. The holder will have several other slots for cards, making it ideal for use during traveling.
If your partner is into cooking, giving them a cookbook is a good idea. Find a cookbook that has recipes similar to the ones your partner likes to cook or prefers to eat.
If he knows his way around the grill and is always up for some meaty food, a meat-centric cookbook can be a good gift option. Throw in an adorable apron to seal the deal.
Black, stylish leather shoes can up anyone's outfit game. Opt for a pair that your partner will fall in love with and will be up for any occasion.
A French coffee press will undoubtedly benefit you too. Buy a fancy coffee press and satisfy your partner's caffeine cravings. If he likes it enough, you can bet you'll get a cup of fresh-pressed coffee every morning.
A convenient kit for shaving that includes shaving cream, razors, multiple blades and post-shave balms all packed in one portable bag is a good gift idea, especially if your partner travels for work frequently. The package can also be used to carry toiletries.
If you're willing to splurge on a gift for your partner, buy a classic luxury watch for him that he'll never want to take off. Get one with a leather band and you can even add a personalized inscription at the base to remind your partner of the special bond you two share. A luxury watch will help your partner stand out and look professional at the same time.
If you're interested in buying luxury watches online, visit TodaysStyle US and check out our exquisite collection of reliable and classy luxury watches that will make for a perfect present for every occasion.