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Yesterday's news leaked that Yahoo! had plans to kill or spin off a number of Web services, including Delicious, Alta Vista, MyBlogLog and others. Given the abandonment and mismanagement of these properties, this is not too surprising.
Alta Vista's mismanagement goes back more than a decade. In 1999, I wrote a story (this is pre-blog, so I'd love to say "post") on Internet Valley's Web site about how Compaq was not leveraging Alta Vista after they acquired Digital Equipment Corp. (See: Warning: Compaq is On the WWWarpath) The site is a shell of its former self, once being my go-to search site.
But Delicious is what has everyone up in arms, as the company was among the first Web 2.0 darlings, and is still widely used, as the Web's definitive bookmarking site. I've personally tagged more than 3,000 items in the last few years, most of them capturing external links to the blog. Yahoo! has managed to take a site with a deep bench of fans, considerable use, and make it obvious they would love to give it away. It's not even clear if anybody really works on it any more, or if it's just being maintained by the company's techies.
Compete.com Shows Traffic Freefall at Delicious
On this background, both Web traffic stats and sharing statistics from third party sites show the party long since ended at Delicious. Compete, whose traffic graphs are anything if not suspect, still manages to display some trendlines right, showing a decrease in traffic of nearly one half in the last year. In parallel, AddThis, the social sharing site, shows decreased Delicious bookmarking, down by 14% in the last three months, the fastest declining site of its kind on the service.
AddThis Displays Delicious Dive To the Bottom of the Bookmarking Pile
The moves Delicious has made have been odd or delayed. The long-awaited "New Delicious" was way behind schedule, and recent bumps made sharing to external services even more difficult. It's as if the company wanted to punish the users it had left.
If you want to get a fantastic return on a sale, the best time to sell is when you don't have to, when things are going fantastic and you have real momentum. Yahoo! has essentially telegraphed to the world that it wants to ditch Delicious to someone, anyone. But the catch is, its users already started ditching it themselves. Buy high, kill.... sell. That's the wrong order of things, Yahoo!.


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If you're looking to do something to help the people of Fort McMurray immediately, the first thing you can do is donate to the Red Cross at http://www.RedCross.ca. For those of you that might not be able to afford financially supporting the relief effort; we're putting together another option.
If you have anything Nerdy that you might want to donate to a good cause to raise money; we've got something lined up in the near future. This is going to be a marathon, not a sprint. Many of the people in need have lost their homes and will need help for a lot longer than just how long the evacuation lasts and we're keeping that in mind.
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Geoff Flynn is the new News Director at KUZZ, joining the team on March 1. He has worked in radio for over 30 years, most recently at KNCO Grass Valley as News Director, but has also worked at stations in Chico, Yuba City, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, and even a season of calling minor league baseball in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
While being asked to do news almost everywhere he has worked, Geoff enjoys sports and got his radio start as the statistician on the Sacramento Kings radio network when the team moved from Kansas City in 1985. He was also the studio host when Sacramento had a Canadian Football League team, covered the Utah Jazz, and did play-by-play for the Marysville Gold Sox, a college wood-bat summer team, for 15 seasons.
Geoff is no stranger to the Bakersfield area, having grown up in Palmdale, about an hour and a half away, and still plans to spend a lot of time there in the house he grew up in. He studied communications at Chico State University, and is a big Los Angeles Dodgers fan.


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Medscheme's Integrated Disease Management Programme encompasses both the management of high risk members through our Beneficiary Risk Management programme and the management and support of Oncology cases through our Oncology Disease Management programme.
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This award winning programme was developed using sound actuarial and scientific predictive modelling principles to identify members with multiple chronic conditions and a high chance of hospitalisation.
The identified members are contacted regularly by our health coaches who assist in co-ordinating access to appropriate care whilst ensuring that the member has access to sufficient benefits to manage their chronic condition, as well as educate, encourage and empower the member to make certain lifestyle changes so that they take responsibility for their own health and wellness. We also provide access to a targeted and educational health portal that empowers members with useful information at their fingertips. Pertinent information is also shared with the member's chosen doctor (on consent) and members are referred to their doctor for follow up consultations as needed. These actions ensure that the doctor is an integral part of managing the member back to health.
Our BRM programme generates financial savings and fuels appropriate health-seeking behaviour which has positive long-term consequences for the member and our administered Schemes. Members on this programme demonstrate a decrease in hospital admissions (emergency and medical admissions), an increase in pharmacy visits (improved compliance), increased compliance with follow-up visits with their doctor and increased use of psychology services. In this way we are not just managing hospital spend by negotiating lower rates, but also curtailing preventable hospital utilisation, which is why this programme has shown demonstrable savings and positive long-term health benefits for members and our administered Schemes.
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This programme adds value by ensuring that members access funding for appropriate and cost-effective Oncology therapy before, during and after active treatment. The member is also supported with educational material and advice and provided access to the most appropriate treatment while ensuring that medical inflation is contained. Complex or unusual patient-specific requirements are managed on a case-by-case basis with a strong focus on guiding the member through this challenging period.


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Podcasts 2013
Baby and Toddler Instructions is the place to go when you need help to successfully navigate those first few years of parenthood! While aim to provide parents the tools to navigate the often challenging moments of parenting babies and toddlers — I also like share the wealth of parenting expertise I found in the many interesting guests I host on my weekly radio show Baby and Toddler Instructions
You can listen to past shows on podcasts in Baby and Toddler Instructions at Toginet or in ITunes here. Note that Toginet downloads can sometimes be slow – but they do appear.
If you know of a site or parenting expert you'd like to introduce to baby Instructions please let me know. I would really appreciate it and so will other parents.
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Hunger Moon Excerpt #15
Logan grumbled and regarded her with a sour expression. He did not seem to share her amusement at their predicament. He turned the knob and found it dead-bolted. "Do you know how to pick locks?"
She snorted. "I'm many things: spirit speaker, healer, nurse. Regardless of what you think of me, I grew up in a nice neighborhood with a nice family. We did nice, boring things together. I can't pick locks or disarm security systems.
"You're ruining my fantasy."
"What about you, Silver Spoon?"
"My spoon was gold, baby, solid gold." Logan regarded the sturdy metal door and then gave it a rattle, checking its strength. He looked to Victoria and arched his brow. He had a gleam in his eyes that she did not like at all.
"Logan, what are you thinking?"
"That Evan had the right of it. Ready to have some fun?" Logan gave her no opportunity to formulate a reply. He stripped off his shirt and kicked off his boots. His jeans came last, sliding over lean hips, muscular thighs and trim calves. He folded his clothes and handed them to her for safekeeping.
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Victoria remained skeptical, but she had no alternative plan.
"You got a better idea?"
He turned his back to her and for the first time she noticed the tattoo on his back just above his ass. It was an Ouroboros Serpent, a dragon eating its own tail.
Victoria let out an admiring wolf whistle, using her teeth to create the sound. Her gaze lingered on his tight buttocks as much as the intricate artwork.
He shot her a cocky smirk. "Enjoying the view?"
"It would figure that you'd have a tramp stamp."
"Ouch." He pantomimed hurt, hand to heart.
She smiled and shook her head. "Nice ink."
"Thanks." Logan's quick glance and expression revealed his surprise at the compliment.
"Does your father know you have a tattoo of the world serpent?"
"It's a dragon and yeah, he knows. It's my back, not his." Logan turned back to the door. "I got it on spring break in Cabo when I was seventeen. Woke up hung over and there it was."
Victoria snorted. "No idea how you got it?"
"Not a one."
"You're such a cliché."
"I'm not. I never know where to put the accent mark."
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Lake Geneva Games. I was lucky enough to qualify for a monk, so that's what I went with. I went the entire session without choosing a name, because as we all know, names can be hard. So in my search for a name, I came across this Wu-Tang Clan name generator. From here forth, my monk shall be known as Ol' Mucky Terrahawk (unless of course I come across a cooler one before I play again).
Check it out. A lot of the subsequent names I got weren't really suitable, such as Eight-Legged DJ, or Tha Lonely Donkey Kong, but hopefully luck will be on your side!


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No COVID-19 cases have been reported in Mississippi prisons as of Thursday morning, but the state is taking precautions in light of the highly contagious virus, says the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
MDOC posted a list of frequently asked questions and answers to its website Wednesday. According to the Q&A, some of the agency's steps include:
- Having inmates use the sick call system to access medical staff, and quarantining or isolating symptomatic patients.
- Screening correctional staff's temperature. Staff with a fever of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit or higher will not be allowed to work.
- Installing additional hand sanitizer stations throughout facilities and in dining halls.
- Suspending programming and approved leave for inmates, such as travel to funerals or wakes.
- Limiting transfers between MDOC facilities.
- Suspending inmate work crews, out-of-state travel for people on probation or parole, and work for restitution center residents.
Healthcare personnel have been provided N95 masks and personal protective equipment, said MDOC Chief Medical Officer Gloria Perry in a statement: "In the event of a COVID-19 positive patient, the patient will receive an N95 mask. Correctional officers and staff posted in infirmary areas and clinic areas will be provided surgical masks and gloves for use while on post."
The system is not on lockdown, MDOC said. Release procedures have not changed, and people on probation or parole are still required to report to their supervising agents. Legal visits are still allowed.
The agency announced earlier that visitation and inmate transfers from county jails have been suspended, and that several job fairs for correctional officers were canceled. The state's prison phone contractor, Global Tel*Link, is providing up to 10 minutes of free phone calls weekly for each prisoner through April 13; phone calls are typically 3 cents a minute, not including fees.
MDOC Communications Director Grace Fisher did not respond to emailed questions about whether any staff or inmates have been tested for COVID-19; whether the state is waiving the $6 co-pay for inmate-initiated medical requests; whether canteen has been suspended or whether the state is providing additional soap or cleaning supplies directly to inmates; or whether there is a designated isolation room at each facility.
[Update: As of Thursday afternoon, the agency said medical co-pays for any inmate have been waived.]
A spokesperson for Management & Training Corporation, a private contractor that operates three prisons for MDOC, said in an email that the company is screening staff and any visitors prior to entering facilities. The prisons are also suspending volunteer programs and disinfecting high-traffic spaces such as housing units, classrooms and recreation areas.
Still, some family members of prisoners told Mississippi Today they are not seeing proactive steps taken inside facilities.
"I'm scared," said Teoshia Johnson, whose fiance is in Parchman. She said he has struggled to get timely medical attention in the past. "Everything's pretty much the same. Nothing has changed at all."
Many inmates are housed in open bay areas, where dozens of people share bunk beds in proximity to each other.
The MDOC said it is recommending staff and inmates follow health guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and that social distance and hygiene protocols "are being followed as well as the avoidance of unnecessary groups or meetings of ten (10) or more."
Public health experts have said that jails and prisons are hotbeds for infectious disease.
Earlier this week, Mississippi civil rights groups sent a letter to Gov. Tate Reeves, urging him to take action and plan for the prevention and management of COVID-19 in prisons and jails.
"Imprisoned and detained people are highly vulnerable to outbreaks of contagious illnesses such as COVID-19," the letter reads. They are housed in close quarters and are often in poor health. Without the active engagement of those who administer the facility, they have little ability to learn about ongoing public health crises or to take necessary preventative measures if they do manage to learn of them."
The letter calls for steps including creating adequate staffing plans and providing hygiene supplies, as well as releasing medically fragile and older adults and children, and eliminating probation and parole revocations for technical violations.
The parole board is still conducting business as usual, said state parole board chairman Steve Pickett in an interview Tuesday. Parole board members usually don't physically interact with the inmates up for review, often using Skype instead, Pickett added. The board is also continuing to "have to do revocations," he said.
"We're not going to start just paroling everybody just because there's a virus," Pickett said. "That's not what the parole board's function is. We're charged to review these cases and make decisions based on what's in our estimation in the best interest of the state."
Reform advocates, family members and prisoners themselves have long pointed to underlying issues at state prisons, including understaffing, poor facility conditions and inadequate healthcare. The Department of Justice announced a civil rights investigation into several facilities earlier this year.
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Did the 3rd generation iPod touch rumors take a turn to being credible? The Covino and Rich show blog posted what it claims to be 100% legitimate pictures of the next generation iPod touch. Whoever they are, they state that the images were sent in from a loyal listener and this is not some publicity stunt. Knowing the length to which radio show hosts will go to generate buzz, we are inclined to not believe them but the images and the video are at least intriguing enough to warrant a look. The images are reportedly from a prototype device that fell into the hands of a person who deals in used electronics parts. This prototype, by presumably some major oversight, was included in a cache of used electronics being sold for parts. The images show both an intact and disassembled iPod touch with a camera position that certainly corresponds with earlier rumors. Most interesting is the presence of a red circuit board, commonly used in prototype devices. The source of the leaked images also provided a video to further substantiate his claim that this is the iPod touch that is expected to be announced at an Apple event in early September. Hit the jump to check out the remaining images and the video and let us know what you think. Is this merely an excellent hard mod or is it the real deal?
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From Bombay to Jerusalem
With the crisis in Iraq worsening, how involved should India get in the Middle East?
The first high-profile national security challenge facing India's new Prime Minister Narendra Modi has come in an unexpected spot: Iraq. Over 100 Indians -- including 46 nurses -- were caught stranded in Iraq's conflict zone, while some 40 Indian construction workers were kidnapped in Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city. The sudden advance in Iraq of the jihadist militant group the Islamic State has had other important repercussions for India, which imports over a half-million barrels of crude oil daily from Iraq. The resulting rise in oil prices has led to India's currency, the rupee, dropping to its lowest value against the dollar in over a month, at a delicate juncture for its economy.
The first high-profile national security challenge facing India's new Prime Minister Narendra Modi has come in an unexpected spot: Iraq. Over 100 Indians — including 46 nurses — were caught stranded in Iraq's conflict zone, while some 40 Indian construction workers were kidnapped in Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city. The sudden advance in Iraq of the jihadist militant group the Islamic State has had other important repercussions for India, which imports over a half-million barrels of crude oil daily from Iraq. The resulting rise in oil prices has led to India's currency, the rupee, dropping to its lowest value against the dollar in over a month, at a delicate juncture for its economy.
The crisis in Iraq lies at the intersection of India's broader interests in the Middle East — or, to use New Delhi's preferred parlance, West Asia. While Indian political leaders and diplomats often emphasize their cultural affinity to the region — Persian was the court language of the Mughal Empire; trade links go back centuries — India's interests in the Middle East today encompass the safety and security of its large diaspora, its dependence on energy imports, and its complex but finely balanced defense and intelligence ties with several regional powers. While these are all consequences of India's growing international profile, they also expose the country's vulnerabilities to energy supplies, remittances, and international terrorist activity. Over the course of his tenure, Modi will have to weigh the merits of adopting a more high-profile role in order to proactively shape the Middle East's future. But a more diplomatically or militarily active India would risk abandoning what has so far been a fruitful, if low-key, approach to the Middle East, one that has enabled New Delhi to — perhaps uniquely — cooperate with Tehran, Riyadh, and Jerusalem.
Grand strategic considerations aside, India's top priority in the Middle East is rather basic: oil and gas. Among major economies, India's is the second-most dependent on energy imports from the Middle East, after Japan's. The oil shock from the first Gulf War (1990-1991) triggered a balance-of-payments crisis in India, forcing the country to embark upon the initial liberalization of its economy in 1991. Despite subsequently diversifying to newer sources such as Angola, Nigeria, and Venezuela, India's growing energy needs keeps it dependent upon crude oil imports from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates. Taken together, the Middle East accounted for about 64 percent of India's oil imports in 2012. Meanwhile, Qatar alone provided a staggering 85 percent of India's liquefied natural gas imports as recently as 2010, the last year reliable figures are available, although India has since made attempts to diversify.
While energy has flowed east across the Arabian Sea to India, labor has moved the opposite way. Roughly 5 million of India's 1.27 billion citizens work in the Gulf, many as migrant workers. And parts of India rely on migrant labor to sustain the local economy — in the southwestern state of Kerala, for example, remittances account for an estimated 25 percent of the state's revenues. While the deaths of more than 500 Indian workers laboring at World Cup venues in Qatar over the past few years received only a mild official response, the safety and security of Indian nationals is often a national priority: In late June, New Delhi placed two Indian navy warships and the state carrier Air India on standby for the potential evacuation of Indian citizens in Iraq. In 1990, India employed commercial airliners to evacuate over 100,000 Indian citizens from Kuwait and Iraq in the runup to the first Gulf War.
Energy and population security — coupled with counterterrorism considerations and geographical proximity — have required India to establish a complex web of security partnerships across the Middle East. While India only established diplomatic relations with Israel in 1992, the two countries quickly developed a close defense partnership. India is now the largest buyer of Israeli military equipment — an estimated $1-$1.5 billion for 2014 — and Israel has benefited from India's sophisticated and cost-effective satellite launch capabilities. The two countries also have shared interests in combatting terrorism, which deepened after the 2008 attack on Mumbai, in which the Pakistani perpetrators deliberately targeted Jews, as well as a 2012 attack on the wife of an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi.
India has carefully balanced its Israeli security interests with its ties with Iran and Saudi Arabia. Iran and India, for example, have cooperated in developing port and other logistical infrastructure to provide access to Afghanistan that bypasses Pakistan. Since the 1980s, both Tehran and New Delhi have maintained close ties to ethnic Tajik militias and other members of the erstwhile Northern Alliance, an anti-Taliban coalition, in Afghanistan. Although relations with Riyadh are more complicated — India has long faulted Saudi Arabia for financing Islamist militancy in South Asia — counterterrorism cooperation has recently improved, resulting, for example, in Riyadh's assistance in the 2012 capture of notorious Indian terrorist Abu Jundal.
India's tricky Middle East balancing act has been predicated on a policy of nonintervention. But New Delhi came close to abandoning that principle in the spring of 2003, when India's then-Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his cabinet considered sending an infantry division to Iraq in support of the U.S.-led stabilization operations. As described in Indian scholar Rudra Chaudhuri's 2013 book Forged in Crisis, the plans, which the Indian Army supported, would have involved between 15,000 and 20,000 Indian troops deployed in either the Kurdish-dominated areas around Kirkuk and Mosul, or in the southern province of Basra. Indian forces would have constituted the third-largest military contingent in Iraq, after the United States and Britain. So close were these plans to materializing, according to Chaudhuri, that some Pentagon planning documents even designated an Indian Area of Responsibility in the north of the country.
Despite India's deepening interests in the Middle East, an intervention of the kind contemplated in 2003 is out of the question today. But as the Middle East falls further into turmoil, India does not have the luxury of sitting on the sidelines.
Dhruva Jaishankar is Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings India in New Delhi and the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow with the Lowy Institute in Australia.
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hmmm either that .. or coming back home .. it probably has a nest in that dome :)ReplyDelete
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Very well taken picture Ruchira! These silhouettes and that tiny looking bird makes it a beautiful composition!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful capture Ruchira!! Love the silhouette of the fort and the bird and the glorious sky above! It looks vast!!ReplyDelete
Bikram, IHM, Vaish - Thank you !ReplyDelete
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In the South of France this week as the crowd expectantly awaited the arrival of Papa Noel aka Father Christmas / Santa, the children were heard comparing this year's favourites.
The whirr of an outboard engine disturbed the chatter, there he was, Papa Noel waterskiing in behind an IRB (inflatable boat) to Collioure Bay to the cheers and awe of the crowd.
Perhaps a little unusual, especially in the middle of winter, but you know, he's pretty innovative these days.
Then, to the shock of the crowd, Santa had a massive stack about 150 metres off shore. Disaster! He quickly sunk under the weight of Europe's answer to Eggnog, Vin Chaud. All that remained was his hat and the waterski.
Minutes passed but Santa failed to surface. The crowd drowned along with him and the mood became sombre. Chatting stopped.
After an eternity and maybe five minutes more of reciting Prancer, Dancer and all, a miracle ensued.
Papa Noel emerged from the deep cold water. Clambering aboard the Floating Commando Training Centre he waved with gusto and the sighs of relief may have been heard worldwide. (It is of course not possible to Google any information on the Collioure Commando Training Centre, the IRB, Santa, the skiing accident, submerged divers and all).
A beach landing, happy and excited children, sharing of festivity, Xmas cheer and much vin chaud followed.
It will be a Merry Xmas after all.
Enjoy the festive celebrations, many happy hours in the saddle and see you in 2013 for more pedal-powered 'esprit'.


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No. The Sun can influence the Earth's climate, but it isn't responsible for the warming trend we've seen over the past few decades. The Sun is a giver of life; it helps keep the planet warm enough for us to survive. We know subtle changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun are responsible for the comings and goings of the ice ages. But the warming we've seen over the last few decades is too rapid to be linked to changes in Earth's orbit, and too large to be caused by solar activity.
One of the "smoking guns" that tells us the Sun is not causing global warming comes from looking at the amount of the Sun's energy that hits the top of the atmosphere. Since 1978, scientists have been tracking this using sensors on satellites and what they tell us is that there has been no upward trend in the amount of the Sun's energy reaching Earth.
A second smoking gun is that if the Sun were responsible for global warming, we would expect to see warming throughout all layers of the atmosphere, from the surface all the way up to the upper atmosphere (stratosphere). But what we actually see is warming at the surface and cooling in the stratosphere. This is consistent with the warming being caused by a build-up of heat-trapping gases near the surface of the Earth, and not by the Sun getting "hotter."


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How to Train Your Cat to Travel in His Carrier in the Car
By Fred Goodson on Mar 15, 2018 with Comments 0
Your cat may need to travel in the car if you are going to the vet, or he may need to travel for longer periods if you are going on holiday or attending a cat show. A cat must never travel unrestrained in a car – it is very dangerous for cat and driver alike. Some cats do suffer from car-sickness. This can be caused by a faint smell of petrol or diesel but, more often than not, it is caused by the motion of the car which can affect their sense of balance coupled with a fear of unfamiliar territory.
As a minimum requirement you will need a secure carrier, but if you have a kitten pen or travelling pen, you can acclimatise your cat to travel in his pen complete with his litter tray. The beauty of this set-up is that it enables your cat to have the freedom to move about within an enclosed space.
Equipment: Cat carrier, kitten or travelling pen, optional litter tray and water bowls.
Training objective: To enable your cat to travel in his carrier in the car as part of his normal routine, without injury to himself or creating danger for the driver.
Training steps
- Make sure your cat is familiar with and comfortable in his carrier or pen.
- Do not feed your cat before a journey to avoid car-sickness.
- Take your cat for a short ride in the car. If he shows any sign of being restless after a short journey take him home again.
- After a couple of days' break, take him for another car ride, of longer duration.
- Repeat these journeys on a regular basis, making sure that each drive is longer than the last one. You will be able to assess when your cat feels comfortable with the routine and shows no agitation when getting into the car. Reward him by giving affection and treats.
Filed Under: Pets & Animals
About the Author: Fred Goodson has a passion for pets and animals. He has 4 dogs and is planning to have another one. He is also a blogger who writes about pets and animals. Currently, he is living in New Jersey.


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Dear friends,
The Friends of Myall Creek Memorial thank you for your interest and support as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Memorial, dedicated in 2000 to the memory of the 28 Wirrayaraay people murdered at Myall Creek on the 10th June 1838.
For those new to the Myall Creek Memorial, each year hundreds of people, including many school communities, gather to acknowledge this dark page in our nation's history and to commit themselves to healing the wounds of the past in order to create a more just and fairer society.
Although we are unable to meet in person on Gomeroi country this year, we can gather together in spirit through a virtual on-line commemoration including elements from the normal gathering we hold at Myall Creek.
We therefore invite you now to journey with us in spirit to the land of the Gomeroi people to whom we pay our respect for their culture, and to their elders' past, present and future.
As we do, we encourage you to also remember and acknowledge the original custodians on whose land you are at this moment. Remember also that the National and NSW State heritage listed memorial is an icon for the frontier violence and dispossession that occurred right across the continent and Tasmania.
Through sharing in this simple but moving commemoration, acknowledge also the ongoing impact for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of the dispossession of their lands, and the benefits gained by non-indigenous people from this dispossession.
Thank you for joining us in remembering that 'the path to our future passes through our past.'
Sincerely yours,
Keith Munro and Ivan Roberts
Co-Chairs, National Committee
Friends of Myall Creek


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Cue up the marching band, majorettes, flag-waving veterans, and cheering crowds. The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone is a proud celebration of American greatness. The hero of the story is David Fairchild (1869–1954), a botanist and agricultural explorer. Working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, his group was responsible for sending home seeds and cuttings of thousands of plants from nations around the world. The goal was to expand the variety of crops grown in America, and build the biggest, most profitable, industrial agriculture system in human history.
The devious villain in the story is Charles Marlatt, a childhood acquaintance of Fairchild who had grown up to be an entomologist. He detested what Fairchild was doing, because the tons of samples sent home to Washington were not quarantined and thoroughly inspected. So, plant diseases and pests were free to flee and discover America. Imported insects included the codling moth, Hessian fly, asparagus beetle, hop-plant louse, cabbage worm, wheat-plant louse, pea weevil, Croton bug, boll weevil, San Jose scale, gypsy moth, brown-tail moth, Argentinian ant, alfalfa-leaf weevil, and so on.
Marlatt understood that plant pests and pathogens were potentially as dangerous to society as a cholera epidemic. They could spread rapidly and cause enormous damage. Farms were getting thrashed, and Marlatt had stunning photos. It was nearly impossible to control problems once they were released into the ecosystem. It would have been far more intelligent to zap them before they left the starting gate. Fairchild scoffed at Marlatt's hysterical paranoia. Economic benefits exceeded economic costs, he believed. America could solve any problem. Full speed ahead!
The spooky fanatical weirdo in this story is Fairchild's all-star food explorer, Frank Meyer. In deepest, darkest Asia, he often walked 20 miles (32 km) per day, through regions where locals intensely hated white folks. He had frequent confrontations, beatings, and near death experiences. He obsessively gathered and shipped thousands of plant seeds and cuttings. Folks who comprehended the botanical risks of importing exotics gave him a nickname, Typhoid Mary (Google her).
In his book Grassland, Richard Manning talked about the unintended consequences of introducing European cattle to the western plains, where the climate and natural forage were not ideal for them. Efforts to introduce traditional European plants failed, so Meyer was assigned to send back plants from arid regions of Asia. Crested wheatgrass was one of his discoveries.
Following the Dust Bowl, and other agricultural wipeouts, the government aggressively planted crested wheatgrass for erosion control. It thrived on the plains, aggressively replacing native vegetation with colonies that were nearly monocultures. Unfortunately, in the winter months, this wonder grass retained little nutritional value, and the mule deer, elk, and antelope starved in endless fields of grass. Manning lamented that "Meyer brought with him botanical bombs that explode even today."
The plant importation fad introduced a number of bummers. Spotted knapweed suppresses native grasses, and has now spread to 7 million acres (2.8 million ha). Grazing animals avoid it. Leafy spurge now inhabits 2.5 million acres, only some types of goats can eat it. The result is biological deserts that are expanding, and extremely expensive to eliminate — essentially impossible, according to Manning.
Anyway, my curiosity about Meyer led me to discover Stone's book. It's easy to read, and portrays the food explorers as heroes who devoted their lives to making America great. If, like most Americans, school taught you little about environmental history, Stone's story is warm and fuzzy, a pleasant tale of courage, progress, and wealth creation. Fairchild became a celebrity, and hung out with the rich and famous.
One of the biggest eco-catastrophes caused by imported plants was the chestnut blight. Fairchild, Marlatt, and Meyer were fully aware of it. It was first noticed on American chestnut trees at the Bronx Zoo in 1904. At that time, chestnuts were a canopy species in 8.8 million acres (3.5 million ha) of eastern forest. The trees were called "the redwoods of the east." Some grew to 150 feet (46 m) high, having trunks up to 17 feet (5 m) in diameter, and a canopy 100 feet wide.
Every year, mature trees dropped an abundance of nuts, food for squirrels, wild turkeys, deer, bears, raccoons, and grouse. The wood was rot resistant, easily split, did not warp or shrink, and was useful in many ways. Both the Indians, and the hill people who followed them depended on these trees. Hillbillies could raise free-range hogs in the forest commons at no cost, and fill their smokehouses with chestnut flavored pork. Cartloads of nuts were hauled to town and sold for cash, "shoe money."
Spores of the blight fungus were transported by birds, mammals, insects, and breezes. As the contagion got rolling, it could spread as far as 50 miles (80 km) per year. The blight damaged the inner bark, blocking the flow of water and nutrients to the tree above ground. Within 40 years, the American chestnut was a threatened species. Four billion trees died. The wildlife disappeared, and many hill people had to abandon their subsistence way of life.* One reported, "Man, I had the awfulest feeling about that as a child, to look back yonder and see those trees dying; I thought the whole world was going to die."
In 1904, nobody knew if the fungus was native or imported. Meyer identified the source of the fungus when he found infected chestnut trees in China in 1913, and Japan in 1915. He noted that these trees rarely died from the blight, and some were very resistant. The food explorer lads did send back some chestnut seeds and cuttings over the years, but they weren't the first. In her essay on the introduction of the blight, Sandra L. Anagnostakis** noted that nurseries were importing Japanese chestnuts as early as 1876. Many seedlings were sold by mail order long before 1904.
Marlatt argued that the blight could have been prevented if the federal government had wisely quarantined and inspected all imported plants. Fairchild though this was a ridiculous idea, impeding the speed of progress for no good reason. Marlatt eventually won. Congress passed the Plant Quarantine Act in 1912, and inspections were the domain of the Federal Agricultural Board, which Marlatt controlled.
Stone devoted about four sentences to the chestnut blight catastrophe. In Stone's account, Fairchild dismissed the blight as a triumph of progress — an existing vulnerability had been eliminated by importing the superior blight resistant chestnuts from Asia. Hooray! Fairchild wrote a different version of this story in his 1938 book, The World Was My Garden. When he eventually comprehended the incredible devastation, he was stunned. He wrote, "I regretted any feelings of impatience I may have had towards their quarantines and inspections."
As we chaotically plunge into the twenty-first century, with seven-point-something billion humans furiously beating the stuffing out of the planet's ecosystems, all the red idiot lights on the dashboard are flashing. At the same time, the vast majority of consumers seem to believe that perpetual growth is both possible and desirable, life as we know it won't get blindsided by the end of the fossil fuel era, and wizards will find a way to feed eleven billion. I'm beginning to wonder if it might be wise to devote a little time to sniffing reality's butt.
It took thousands of years for Old World cultures to develop the skills and technology needed to obliterate their wild ecosystems. By the time these folks washed up on the shores of America, they were fire-breathing masters of the art of destruction. Uninvited immigrants colonized a vast continent and threw open the floodgates to legions of biological nightmares. Environmental history is loaded with horror stories caused by primate travelers — potato blight, anthrax, Dutch elm disease, white-nose fungus, bubonic plague, smallpox, cholera, typhoid, yellow fever, influenza, HIV, and countless others.
The tallgrass prairie and much forest land has now been stripped of indigenous life, plowed, and planted with sprawling monocultures of genetic clones — absolutely perfect paradises for pests and pathogens. Here comes the sprayers. Here comes the tumors. There goes the topsoil. The parade marches on. Hooray!
Stone, Daniel, The Food Explorer, Dutton, New York, 2018.
* Historical Significance of American Chestnut by Donald E. Davis.
** Chestnuts and the Introduction of Chestnut Blight by Sandra L. Anagnostakis.


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13 Ways To Make A Good Impression on Your Coach
By guest contributor Ben Edwards
Every coach you have will be different in terms of what they look for in a player and how they want you to play on the field but there are some things that most coaches notice and value.
Importance of a First Impression
When your coach forms an impression of you they create assumptions about you as a player. That can be good if you leave a positive impression, but it can be hard to dig out of a bad first impression.
If your coach has a positive impression of you as a player they're more likely to give you the benefit of doubt in times when you're struggling. If you're making a lot of mistakes they might say to themselves, "that's not like her". On the other hand, if they have negative assumptions about you as a player and you make mistakes then those only reinforce their impression. It's just a lot easier to get and stay on your coach's good side when you get off to a great start.
Coaches are excited to invest in players who they think want to get better so your coach's mental picture of you is important. If a coach has an impression of you as a "serious" player they'll be more serious about helping you get better.
How I Changed My Team Culture With One Simple Phrase
Pay attention to these details and it can help you no matter which team you end up on or who your coach is next season.
1-Be Early
Be on time or even early to training sessions and games. Give yourself time to settle in and get your head ready for the session. Everyone is late sometimes but if you're always early, or always late, the coach will notice.
2-Take Short Breaks
Be the first one back on the field after a water break. This one is helpful for several reasons. It shows the coach you take training seriously. Your focus is on the session and not on socializing. Coaches always have a lot they want to cover and never enough time, the sooner you get back the faster they can move on and they notice which kids are always the last few straggling back to the field.
Study any information the coach sends to you. Whether it's team formations, game footage, tactics, club values, etc. it's important to come ready to discuss at the next practice.
4-Answer Questions
When your coach asks the team a question, answer it. More and more coaches are using a method called guided discovery to help players learn by thinking for themselves. When they ask a question, they're trying to help you problem solve in your head and understand why the things they're teaching you are important. A vital part of that process is the player answering the questions they ask.
5-Ask Questions
Usually, if you ask questions it's a sign that you're paying attention to what they're teaching you and that you're trying to understand how to apply it.
6-Make Eye Contact
When the coach is talking to you or the team making eye contact is a sign that you're probably paying attention.
7-Use What They Teach
Try and use the techniques or tactics the coach is teaching at that practice or they went over during the week. You might not get it just right, but many coaches would rather have you try the new technique and come up short rather than sticking with what's safe – as long as you learn from your mistakes over time. It might not always be obvious why they want you to learn it but with a good coach, there's a reason behind it.
This should go without saying but play your hardest at training and games. It's worth repeating because hustle is relative. If you're working hard but all your teammates are working harder, then they're the ones your coach will notice.
9-Be Respectful
Show respect not only to your coach but also to your teammates, parents, opponents, and refs. There are many small ways you can do this. Like telling your coach thank you after training. Not interrupting your coach/assistant coach while they're talking. Resisting the urge to argue every call with the ref.
10-Be a Leader
There are multiple ways to show leadership and set a good example. Be positive with your teammates. Offer suggestions or feedback if they're struggling, confused, or frustrated. Be the teammate you'd like to have on your side when things aren't going right.
11-Watch the Sport
Coaches want players who play smart. If they know you're in the habit of watching the game played at a higher level, then you're more likely to understand the concepts they introduce. You're more likely to understand more of the nuance and intricacies of the game. How will they know you watch? When you get to practice early or are the first one back from water break ask them if they caught the game.
12-Be Consistent
Doing these things only at the first practice won't be enough to make a lasting impression. After they see these traits during the first few weeks of the season their impression of you will start to solidify. They have a whole team of players they're watching so they may not notice all the things you're doing right away. Just make these things a habit and as the season goes on they'll form an opinion of you in their mind.
13-Have Confidence
Notice none of these tips refer to your skills on the field but part of making an impression is having the confidence to show your coach your skills. When they ask for someone to demonstrate a move, raise your hand. Have the confidence to try the new things they've taught you at training.
How to Handle Bad Impressions?
Everyone has bad days occasionally and if you happen to have one the first training session you might not make the best first impression. If you feel like you and your coach got off on the wrong foot what can you do to fix it?
Start by doing all the things we just went over. Even if they did you can start changing their mind by taking regular, small actions.
Make sure to listen to your coach's comments during training. They can be clues to their impression of you. Pay attention to how they interact and talk about other players who seem to be making a good impression.
If you feel uncertain about how you're fitting into the team or meshing with the coach you can always start by asking the opinion of your assistant coach. They may feel a little more approachable to you and could offer some insight.
You can also set up a meeting with your coach. Just asking them after training might work but they may be distracted and have other players/parents approaching them with questions. You could try scheduling something ahead of time, so they know to make time to chat with you. You can simply ask them an open-ended question about what areas you need to work on.
Ben Edwards is a soccer dad, coach, and fan who's been in love with the game his whole life and now shares tips, stories, and innovative products for youth soccer families at Soccer Stripes. Check out their guide to choosing a soccer club.


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Lost in America: Criterion Collection
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If The Big Chill (1983) was the Baby Boomers at the height of their self-importance, then Albert Brooks' Lost in America (1985) is its antithesis, a sly satire of the generation. The Boomers came of age in the 1960s and by the 1980s many had sold out...
Finding Nemo: Collector's Edition
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Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) captures the sense of disillusionment that people felt towards the Vietnam War, racial hatred, and dishonest politicians like Richard Nixon in the 1970's. His film is an emblematic document of its time and...
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The Note Board - Wooden Rhodia Notepad Holder - Mahogany
- Designed for A5 Everyday Note Pads and Rhodia Top-Stapled Pads
- Holds a Rhodia A5 or smaller size notebook
- Made from laminated mahogany wood
- Brass Chicago screws
- Pen holder slot
- Refillable (To buy refills please click here)
- Dimensions: 18 x 28 cm or 7" x 11"
- BONUS: One A5 Everyday Pad is included
Galen Everyday Pad and Rhodia top-stapled pads are known as the best fountain pen-friendly and useful notepads. At Galen Leather, we love to use these pads as we're big fans of fountain pens.
We've once again collaborated with Walden Woodworkers Co to make this vintage-inspired notepad holder. We're confident you are going to love it as much as we do! Its basic, clean, and slim design makes it the perfect addition to your work desk or office space. Choose from mahogany or walnut wood. The brass screws can be loosened to refill the notepads.
To write on the backside of the notepad you will need to take out and turn over the notepad just as you would any regular notepad.
Compatibility Chart
The Note Board is compatible with the below Rhodia models.
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|Size (inches)
|7.4 x 21 cm
|3 x 8 ¼ "
|5.2 x 7.5 cm
|2 x 3 "
|7.4 x 10.5 cm
|3 x 4 ″
|8.5 x 12 cm
|3 ⅜ x 4 ¾ "
|10.5 x 14.8 cm
|4 x 6 ″
|11 x 17 cm
|4 ⅜ x 6 ⅜ "
|14.8 x 21 cm
|6 x 8 ¼ "
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Here's a news release from the Alaska State Troopers regarding the disabled herring seiner Shady Lady:
Location: Sitka
Type: Vessel collision
On 3/24/10 at approximately 1712 hours a collision occurred during the Sitka sac roe herring fishery. The seiner F/V Confidence, operated by Leroy Johns, 46, of Sitka, collided with the seiner F/V Shady Lady operated by Dean Anderson, 51, of Chignik. Both vessels were damaged, however, substantial damage was caused to the Shady Lady. No injuries were reported and alcohol does not appear to be a factor. The U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Office was contacted and is investigating this incident. Investigation continues.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Troopers, Coast Guard investigate Sitka collision
Posted by Deckboss at 1:20 AM
Labels: collision, Confidence, herring, Shady Lady, Sitka
2 comments:
Video of crash.
- March 28, 2010 at 10:44 PM
Sure looks to me like the Shady Lady turned into the Confidence.
- March 31, 2010 at 6:28 PM
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Brady Quinn can practice, but he still can't play.
Thus, it's Matt Cassel time again.
For a player who has been replaced, Cassel is getting plenty of second chances.
Fresh off throwing a terrible interception in the opening seconds of overtime that resulted in a 16-13 loss at Pittsburgh on Monday night. Cassel will lead the Chiefs at home against Cincinnati on Sunday.
Quinn was named the permanent starter before Week 8. However, he suffered a concussion against Oakland in that game. He missed the next two games and has been cleared to practice, but he will not be cleared to play until the weekend. Instead of taking the risk that Quinn will not be cleared in time for the Bengals' game, Crennel felt it is prudent to give Cassel the starter's repetitions in practice and make him the starter. It's the smart move just in case there is a complication for Quinn.
I've stated this before; this is all a stop-gap solution. I fully expect Kansas City to have a new starter next year. Quinn and/or Cassel are simply the best options for the time being.
Meanwhile, Crennel said receiver Jon Baldwin (neck/head) and guard Jon Asamoah (thumb) will not play Sunday, and receiver Dwayne Bowe (thigh) will be limited.


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The North London Derby Must Be BANNED! Remember, Remember…..Don't Mention the N Word
Come on, admit it, you're bricking it aren't you?
The North London Derby; a fixture that has given us all some of the greatest memories of our Arsenal-supporting lives, as well as some of the most gut-wrenchingly painful ones.
Win the game, you'll milk it for weeks – lose the game and you'll want to bury your head for months.
The fact that they have truly been in our shadow for the past couple of decades, and no matter how much we've laughed at the wheels coming off in increasingly hilarious and spectacular fashion, goes right out of the window when it comes to the game itself.
However the season pans out it doesn't matter when it comes to the NLD – it's all about that one game.
I mean, some of them still claim the fact that we didn't beat them at their place to clinch the league title in a season that we went undefeated as some kind of victory.
Get your replica wall clock here
My Dad is one of that lot, and I remember drunkenly texting him at some point after we'd clinched the title there, and him texting back "you never beat the Tottenham", or something.
Nah, Dad, we've just won the fucking league in your back yard for the second time, but you enjoy the draw that you got due to a ridiculous late penalty and Robbie Keane's wanky little celebration.
We could have won the treble every season since 1991 but you would still find some twat banging on about Gazza's free-kick at Wembley, such is the importance of this fixture to both sets of supporters.
Anyway, if you're anything like me, this is probably how you're feeling right now:
You're now at the point where your attention span is shot to pieces, your arsehole's twitching Harry Redknapp on speed, and the butterflies that have been lingering quietly for the last couple of weeks are now some kind of giant mutant killer butterflies, with razor sharp teeth that are eating away at you from the inside.
You lost the ability to concentrate on anything sometime around Wednesday afternoon.
There is the odd occasion when you forget about it for a few minutes, but then all of a sudden out of nowhere it comes back to you again, and you get that wincing, palpitation-inducing, arse-clenching feeling as it all comes rushing back to you.
The only real treatment for this is alcohol, and even this is nothing but a temporary measure.
And this isn't just any old NLD either.
No, this is the first time we have played the Spurs Invincibles.
I'm sure there are bound to be comparisons between the Arsenal Invincibles of 2003-2004 and the Tottenham Invincibles of August – November 2016 for the pundits to get their teeth into in the build up to the game.
Don't worry though, I'm here to help you! I've looked into it and come up with a permanent solution to those pre-NLD symptoms. I'll elaborate more on that a bit later, but first let's try and take our minds off it for a bit with a brief recap of the last few games.
For the Love of God, Do NOT Mention the N Word!
Up until the Boro game, things had been going well. Perhaps too well. There were of course murmurings about not getting carried away as it's "only October", but what we were really all thinking in the back of our minds (even the more positive among us), was what comes after October. The month that sends a shiver down the spine of Arsenal supporters everywhere at the mere mention of its name.
We need to give it a new name, I think.
A friendlier name.
A name that instead of making you crap your pants, makes you smile and feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
How about Fluffywuffywember?
Yeah, that'll do it. Suddenly, it doesn't seem so daunting does it?
Anyway, let's not waste too much time on the Boro game given that it was a couple of weeks ago.
A brief summary: Crap game, we didn't play well in a game we "should win", people got worried that this spelled the end of our good run, especially seeing as we have a tough Fluffywuffywember ahead of us (you see, don't sound so bad now does it.)
As much as that result was frustrating, it was all about how we bounced back from it, and a couple of wins were the perfect answer. It doesn't matter how you win, or who you win against, you need to head into Fluffywuffywember in the best possible way.
We did that with a League Cup win at home against Reading to put us into the quarter finals, and a win away at Sunderland.
Sunderland might be bottom of the league, and perhaps we should've been out of sight before they equalised, but at the end of the day we won 4-1, and again it's about bouncing back from a setback, be it a week before or during the game. Especially when you have an arsehole of a referee to contend with.
The first game of Fluffywuffywember; 2-0 down at Ludogorets with just fifteen minutes gone after some questionable defending. Our next two games are the NLD and United away. We've seen this movie before, right?
Amazingly, no!
We go in level at the break and then with minutes left, Özil scores that goal.
If this movie we've seen before, then it's a "movie" that you used to watch as a teenager when your parents were out; starts off a bit slowly, but you just fast forward it to the good bits, ending in one almighty climax at the end.
I've seen a few people, Arsenal fans included, belittle that goal due to the opposition, but if you are at the point where you have criticised Özil so much – however justifiable your arguments may be – that you can't just sit back and enjoy that goal then that's your problem, quite frankly.
Hopefully this has helped take your mind off of the upcoming NLD, and as promised, here is my solution to those pre-NLD nerves……
I don't know how anybody hasn't pushed for this already, to be honest.
Even from a football point of view, I mean, well….fuck it, basically.
All that really happens these days now anyway is the game ends in a draw, we get weeks of that "power shift" shite, only for them to eventually Spurs it up and spectacularly finish below us yet again.
We might as well just save everyone the pain and suffering, the nerves, the tension, the ruined underwear and all the other unpleasantness that come with the NLD and stop it altogether. Nobody enjoys it any more anyway.
Take a look at these figures from the Health and Safety Executive website:
• 27.3 million working days lost due to work-related illness and workplace injury
• 144 workers killed at work (2015/16)
• 611,000 injuries occurred at work according to the Labour Force Survey
How many of these were caused by NLD related stress? We can only speculate, but is it worth the risk? It might not be the end of the world if some office bloke gives himself a paper-cut while worrying if "this is finally the year…." But it only takes an Arsenal supporter working in a nuclear reactor somewhere to get a twitchy bumhole at the wrong moment to lead to the very extinction of mankind.
There are other factors to take into consideration too.
Alcohol, sweet beautiful alcohol.
Alcohol holds the power to cause you to forget who you are, where you are and where you live, let alone who we're playing this weekend.
As I said earlier, this can be used as a temporary measure, but we are constantly being told about the dangers of alcohol, not just from a medical point of view, but a social one too.
The term "Broken Britain" is one that's thrown around quite a lot these days, but do we really want to put the future of this country on the line, simply down to a football match?
There's something for you all to think about anyway.
Bearing in mind of course that should we beat them, then all will be good with the world, and I'll put the petition on the backburner until next time.
Let's hope that's the case.
Anyway, wherever you are watching the game, have a good one, and be sure to drink lots of alcohol. It does help.
Up The Arsenal
Islington born and bred, Arsenal through and through. Supported the Gunners for all of my 46 years (so far!) through thick and thin.
Published author.
Clickbait: Life as a Modern Football Fan – released 2019
Currently working on my next book – Over Land and Sea (and Lockdown), Arsenal 20/21 – A Diary of a Season – due for release Summer 2021.
I will back the club I have in my blood to the hilt and I don't care what you think about that. UTA.


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Towards the end of the Australian summer (which is still going in some parts) singer-songwriter Christie Lamb released 'Hot Hot Kiss', the first single from her third album, which will be released later this year. I spoke to Christie about the song, her writing process, and her big tour news for 2019.
The new single, 'Hot Hot Kiss', is fantastic, upbeat, catchy. It's still in my brain after listening to it. It sounds like you had fun recording it.
I did. I think with the new album that's going to come out – this is just the first single off the third album I'll be doing – I wanted to mix things up a little bit. So we've started working with a new producer. It's all going to be recorded organically in the room with all the musicians at the same time, which is a different experience to how I've recorded my last couple of albums. And I think the further along with songwriting you go the bit more personal you can get as well. So this album's going to be a bit more heartfelt and not so much about other people's lives. It's going to be a bit more about mine and some personal stories to share.
Does it feel confronting or a bit nerve-wracking to write more about yourself? Like you're about to reveal things to a whole lot of people? I know that's your job as a songwriter, to an extent, but still I think it takes a bit of courage to do it.
Oh, definitely. I had a little four-track EP out first and then I've had two albums, so now I'm at the third album it's only just feeling like the right time for me to do that now. Because you've got to establish yourself – what kind of sound you like, you're still getting to know your fans at that time as well. So now, third album in, I feel like we're all a bit more settled, whether it's me with my sound, whether it's the fans, they know me a bit more and therefore they want to go onto a deeper level and get to know even more about me. So I feel like now's the right time, but it's still daunting.
I guess that relationship with the fans is a bit of a safety net. Do you feel when you're writing songs and when you're recording them that you're actually singing to someone now, that you have that sense of the audience being there for you?
I guess so. But it's about that moment in the studio with the other musicians and you always thinking about, Is this going to work? Do I like that riff? Do I like my vocal take? Does it all work together?And then you think about, Actually, how's this going to be received by fans as well?So that is this big full circle that you've got to figure out, this big mathematical equation. But there's a lot of factors that come into it when you're in the studio, but the basis of it has to be emotion to start off with, when you're in that moment recording.
And is it emotion when you're deciding what to write about? When you are drawing on your own experiences, do you start with a feeling or do you start with a memory? Or are both valid as inspirations?
I write differently all the time. It depends what mood I wake up in. Then on the day, whether I want to write a ballad, whether I want to write an uptempo. Sometimes I just have titles hanging around in my head and that's exactly how it gets started. I was writing in Nashville and it happened to be four Aussies but we're all in Nashville writing together, and it was a really, really hot summer's day in July over there and a lot of people said, 'Oh, I'm over the heat, I don't like the heat.' And I thought, There are some positives about things being hot and it sounds fun and I want to write a fun song. It's almost the end of my trip. I need something a bit more light-hearted now. All the emotional stuff's come out of me already.And I thought, Hot – what would you like that's hot?And I thought, Hot kiss.And then I thought, What about hot hot kiss?And I thought, Oh no, they're going to laugh at me for suggesting that. And then my writers said, 'No, no, hot hot kiss is even better than a hot kiss.' So we just ran with it from there. Sometimes that's from a title. Sometimes that's from a personal story of your own. Sometimes it starts from a melody and whatever that melody sounds like, whether it sounds like a heartbreak or it sounds like a cheeky, flirtatious song, like all those different things kind of influence you in that moment.
So you're collecting those little snippets of things. If there's a bit of a melody that comes to you, are you recording that into your iPhone and, and writing down notes for lyrics, that sort of thing?
Yes. I would be very lost if I lost my phone, I'm sure. There's definitely lots of notes, and pages with titles or a concept of a song. Then there's voice memos on my phone where it would just sound terrible if anyone ever heard me mumbling to myself some kind of a melody that I could use. And then even after I've written a song and I'm in Nashville, all we've got to do is just hit record on an iPhone and then the song's there for us to remember. I'm there for five weeks, generally, in Nashville and sometimes you write two songs a day and by the time you get home you can't remember what the first one sounded like. I would be lost without my phone. And I've also got the red folder that everyone knows, that I come in with scraps of paper everywhere. It looks chaotic, but in my mind I've got all these different ideas. It's kind of like a weird mind map into my soul I guess, that little red folder [laughs] It's a bit manic, the process, but it's whatever works for each person, I guess.
Absolutely. You've got to have your own method . And with the three Australians you were writing within Nashville, was that a combination that you chose? Did you all know each other and you wanted to write together, or was it something that a publishing company put together?
Every time I go to Nashville, I've always booked the writing sessions myself with people that I've either worked with before who I really got along with or they've been suggestions from other people that I should work with that they think we come up with something really great. So I reach out to them direct and have to book them all in, because I'm the one who's got the songs that are already scheduled in and trying to figure out when I can write with them that works for them and for me. It's a pretty hard thing to get all these professionals' schedules to work. Jonathan [English] plays lead guitar in my band and he's my MD [musical director] on all my albums, so we went over together and we always write together. So that's kind of a security blanket we've both got. And we'd written with Phil Barton before, and we've always enjoyed fail. He's very eccentric and we'll just throw things out there, and if he likes an idea, you know he likes an idea – which is great. I always love that encouragement because I'm one of those people who can really internalise and doubt myself. Sinead [Burgess] I had always known of through the circuit, but we've never been able to make it actually work. It was getting towards the end of my trip and I didn't have any sessions left, but she already knew Phil as well. So we said, 'Yes, come and join us! We're all okay with that and let's make it a four-way write.' And I think it was a really new energy because we hadn't all written together before, and we came up with something really fun and energetic and light-hearted. Just something fun and fresh for the summer because it was a very, very hot day. So we were said, 'Let's take it nice and easy and write something nice and fresh that we can all sit back and enjoy.' And it ended up being the first single
And you've really suited our summer, of course.
It was that kind of song about keeping things light. You've been attracted to a person but it's always that awkward moment of who's going to make the first move? And I think everyone has that kind of moment in their life where they like someone but they want them to make the first move. They don't want to be the first one to put themselves out there. And that's what this song was about. So I think that's why it's related to everybody. And we just thought it was cute kind of song about having a crush.
And you of course you have a cute video to go with it. Do you enjoy making videos?
I do. It's definitely a different video clip again to match that different sound. We were going for a bit more of that commercial crossover pop country, so we kept it very fresh and colourful and summery. And it was nice to not be the one having to act out the role all the time. I've done that a few times, so I got to just be the one who gets to sing the song and to have a bit of a dance as well. It was great to do a little bit of choreography with the girls and have that kind of female empowerment kind of a video clip as well. I got to wear trainers all day, because my feet were killing me by the end of the day.
Now you mentioned the third album that's going to come out this year. Is that already recorded?
We've got to go back into the studio to get the rest of the tracks finished off. We've got a bit of a basic bed for the songs, but we've got to add some more instruments in and finish off vocals. They were just rough takes so that everyone could record along. But it is in the making . It's going to be a ten-track album, so it's going to be nice and punchy with a lot of different flavours on there. There's the heartfelt ballads, personal stories, the fun, cute falling-in-love songs. There's a bit more uptempo party kind of Saturday night songs. So there's a bit of everything on the album.
Well, I think, I think audiences like that. Yeah. It's good to go through a range of moods on an album.
Yes, and a lot of people ask, 'What's your favourite song?' And I think like most people: it depends on the mood of the day. If I'm getting ready to go out, I want to put on that upbeat kind of party track. If something sad is happening in my life I want something emotional. I think everyone needs different flavours in their life for different scenarios.
You were talking earlier about the recording process and sometimes thinking, Have I got that take right, or whatever it is. Because of your background, because you do have such an extensive musical training background and you play a lot of instruments, do you think you're quite hard on yourself?
Yes, I've definitely always been a little quiet achiever, I guess I was called at school. I'd always have my head and my head down and just work head. I can get hard on myself because I do like to achieve a certain thing or I want a certain result and I sometimes struggle to let go of things, especially when you're hearing a song so raw. Sometimes I doubt it: Okay, this doesn't sound like where I thought it was going to go. But then I haven't heard the rest of the percussion or loops and the extra electric guitars. There's just one guitar in the room and then I have to just say, you know what, I trust the producer, I love what he's done in the past. You've got to have a good relationship with the people that you're working with otherwise it would be really, really hard to get through an album. But it's been a great process and I'm really happy with how it's coming up so far.
And given her that you have had that different experience of all the musicians in the room as opposed to doing the track by track, from an academic point of view – because you do have that background – are you finding that really interesting with difference technically between those processes?
I feel like the album sounds more organic and it also has a bit more dynamic as well. When you're recording track by track and you've just got the basic guitar track and I send off my voice and guitar and players in Nashville will send an electric guitar track and then a drummer will send the drum track and it all gets put together – it's great, they're amazing players, but being in the room actually with them and they can follow my voice, when I'm building up, they build up, when I'm breaking down, they break down – you can just feel that there's a bit more authenticity, I guess, on the track. And I think that's the big difference on this album. It's got more highs, it's got more lows, and it just feels organic and the stories are more personal. So it's definitely that kind of next step in the process.
I'm sure your fans looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to hearing that – but I won't pin you to a release date yet. You have quite an extensive gig list coming up this year including some outdoor shows. Is it more challenging to play in those outdoor environments or do you love that energy of being outside with the crowd?
I definitely love the festival circuit where you're outdoors and there's more of that kind of party atmosphere rather than a seated auditorium with people staring back at you. It's also been announced that I'm going to be a special guest on Lee Kernaghan's. That will start from the end of May and go right through to December. So that's a really extensive tour. So we've definitely got to get this album finished pretty soon before that all starts.
Does that mean the Wolfe Brothers will be your band while you're playing with Lee?
Well, I think thinking we're going to do a three-piece with Casey from the Wolfe Brothers, myself and Jonathan and then the other boys could walk on and do their set and then obviously we all then join in for Lee's set. So it's kind of a building progression throughout the show. So that'll be good to collaborate a bit with them as well.
On that list of shows coming up, is there anywhere that you want to play but I'm not this year or that you want to play and have never played?
Oh, that's a tough question. I think we've done all the states apart from the Northern Territory. So that would be interesting to get all the way up there and do a show, whether it's a festival or a few venues up there. It's hopefully in the works for this year, but if not, we really, really want to make that happen for next year.
Listen to 'Hot Hot Kiss':
Apple Music | iTunes | Spotify


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Put people in the picture.
Staples wanted to make their e-reader page more engaging.
When you're competing with a giant like Amazon in a space they pretty much own, it can be tough to get noticed.
Responding to the brief, one of our team suggested embedding a speed reading test inside an image of an e-reader. We did a quick check to see what speed reading tests existed online. There really wasn't much.
Comparing yourself to others can be a very powerful hook. People like to discover things about themselves, provided there's a small barrier to entry and the results are sufficiently rewarding.
After reading the passage of text, you're challenged to answer 3 quick questions to check you read it properly.
Then you can see your results.
You can see where you lie on the spectrum of reading speeds – from 3rd grade students to world speed reading champions:
You can see how quickly you could read different books – from Harry Potter to War and Peace:
Then you're shown how many books you could get through on different e-readers before the battery dies – a nice bit of product placement that fits within the story:
This was one of the first pieces I ever saw that got a natural second wind, receiving a wave of additional shares and coverage. It even ended up on a TV show in Portland, about things that go hot online.
- Featured in ZDNet, Slate, Adweek, The Next Web, Forbes, CNET, Gizmodo, Daily Mail, The New Yorker, Metro, Laughing Squid, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, Refinery29, BuzzFeed, and Lifehacker
- Linked to by 777 sites
- 159,000 likes
- Personally responsible for executive creative direction


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Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Born: November 30, 1835 – Missouri
Died: April 21, 1910 – Conneticut
Profession: Author wiki
Samuel Clemens, better known as 'Mark Twain' is most well known for his two most popular books. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Twain was highly praised for his intellect, attitude, and humor. In fact, famous author William Faulkner refers to Twain as "the father of American literature". Twain was friends with presidents, celebrities, and royalty.
One strange note about Twain. He was born around the passing of Halley's Comet, and predicted he would die with Halley's Comet. Years later, he died the day following that Comet. Weird.
30 Classic Mark Twain Quotes
1. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.
2. Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.
3. Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
4. Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
5. Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
6. Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.
7. All you need is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
8. Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
9. Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
10. Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
11.The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
12. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
13. Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
14. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
15. Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
16. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
17. It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
18. "Classic." A book which people praise and don't read.
19. All kings are mostly rapscallions.
20. Do not put off till tomorrow what can be put off till day-after-tomorrow just as well.
21. Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
22. In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
23. What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
24. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
25. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
26. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
27. By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity — another man's I mean.
28. Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
29. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
30. Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.


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RNA information
|CAGE Accession numbers
|Download raw sequence, BAM & CTSS
Co-expression clusters with enriched expression in this sampleRanked list of co-expression cluster expression in this sample relative to the median expression in the FANTOM5 collection is shown. Value is log10 transformed.
Analyst:NA

link to dataset.
data
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Analyst:NA

link to dataset.
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TFBS(DNA)motifs over-represented in proximal region of promoters active in this sample
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Analyst: Michiel de Hoon

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library id: CNhs14136This sample isn't target for the analysis
FANTOM5 phase1 novel unique motifsSummary:Association of the 169 novel and unique motifs discovered in FANTOM5 phase1 in this sample. Among the de-novo motifs discovered by DMF, HOMER,ChIPMunk, and ScanAll, only novel motifs are selected after comparison with known motif sets, and their clustering based on MACRO-APE resulted in169 novel and unique motifs. Their association to the promoter expression is evaluated in the same way to the JASPAR motif above
Analyst: Michiel de Hoon

link to dataset.
data
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Analyst:NA
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FANTOM5 (FF) ontology
Direct parent terms
is_a relathionship
FF:0200021 macrophage, bone marrow-derived sample
Ancestor terms (non development)Summary:Connected ontology terms with is_a, part_of or located_in relationship
Analyst: Hideya Kawaji

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data
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0000548 (animal cell)
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0002371 (somatic cell)
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0000864 (tissue-resident macrophage)
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Analyst: Hideya Kawaji

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data
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CL:0000134 (mesenchymal cell)
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Any kind of emergency can make us start to panic and worry. Either you're in pain or someone you know is in pain. You want to help, but you're not sure what to do with a chipped tooth, bad toothache, or lost tooth.
If you are having any kind of dental emergency, call either of our Laredo, TX dental offices (Junction Drive at 956-242-6745 or Winfield at 956-517-2695) immediately for an emergency appointment. You can often be seen the same day that you call to get the help you need.
3 Best Tips For Dental Emergencies
Put Our Numbers In Your Phone Today
When you are in the middle of a dental emergency, things can get chaotic and confusing. The last thing you want to do is struggle to find the right number to call. That's why you should prepare for emergencies by putting our phone numbers in the contact list on your phone.
If you're closer to Junction Drive, use 956-242-6745. If you're closer to Winfield, use 956-517-2695. This way, our closest Laredo, TX dental office is just a few buttons away.
Stop The Bleeding First (And Go To The ER If You Cannot
Some dental emergencies only affect your teeth, but others can cut your gums or the inside of your mouth. If there is any bleeding, start by applying direct pressure to the cut to stop the bleeding. If it won't stop, skip our dental office and go to the emergency room instead.
Create A Dental Emergency Kit
You have a first aid kit for medical emergencies, so why not have one for dental emergencies? Get a container and put the following inside it:
- Sterile gauze
- Dental cement
- Non-aspirin pain relievers
- A small container for lost teeth
- The address and number of our Laredo dental offices
- Plastic gloves
Label the container something like, "Dental Emergency Kit" and put it somewhere in your kitchen or bathroom where anyone in your home can find it.
Specific Dental Emergency Tips
Knowing what to do in a dental emergency is a great way to keep calm and be helpful. While you cannot know about every possible emergency, here are some more common ones and how to deal with them.
Whether the toothache came on suddenly or it was something building up for a while, call Davenport Dental Group immediately and explain what happened to your tooth. Trauma and infection can both create a bad toothache. Until you can be seen, use cold packs and non-aspirin pain relievers to help get through.
With a lost filling, don't bother trying to get the old filling. Use some dental cement (available in drugstores) as a temporary replacement. With a dental crown that came off, gently rinse it off and use dental cement as a temporary adhesive to stick it back where it belongs.
Then call our Junction Drive or Winfield dental offices for an emergency appointment. Dental cement works for about 1-2 days before it needs to be replaced by something permanent.
If you are in any pain, take some non-aspirin pain relievers. Then call our Laredo, TX dental offices. Even if you are not in any pain, there may be damage internally that you cannot see or feel. That's why you need an emergency appointment.
Pick up the tooth from its top and gently rinse it off. Try putting it back in the socket. If it won't stay or that's too painful, put it in a small container and cover it with water or milk. Stop any bleeding, then call Davenport Dental Group for the next available appointment. Although your tooth might not be able to be saved, bring it just in case.
If you are having any kind of dental emergency, don't hesitate to call either of our Laredo, TX dental offices (Junction Drive at 956-242-6745 or Winfield at 956-517-2695) immediately. Our dentists have been successfully handling dental emergencies for many years, giving them the experience needed to help you through your emergency. While you're thinking about it, why not take a minute to go ahead and schedule your next regular checkup as well.


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New #1
Miracast Support ?
I was trying to see if my PC can use Miracast without using a Miracast Adapter.
My Sony Bravia TV shows it supports Miracast.
My PC i am not sure if it does one section on DxDiag does the other by Display shows it does not.
Is it the Graphics card or Display ? Driver is the newest.
When i try to connect i get this
or Project
I do not have a WiFi card inside the PC, built into motherboard Intel Ethernet Connection 1218-V ProSet connected to a modem router from the cable company with WiFi (if i explained that part right) it is 2 parts to the equipment. The Intel Ethernet has the latest drivers installed as does the rest of the PC.
Can this work with or without using a Miracast Adapter ?


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