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The Holiday Mile®
More than just a holiday fitness challenge!
Pledge to run, walk or bike at least one consecutive mile every day, from Thanksgiving through New Year's Day. You'll find that once you get started, there will be days when you want to go farther—and then there will be days when one mile is enough (or more than enough). Either way, you'll get pulled in—you won't want to break your pledge, even if that means getting up super-early before a long car ride to squeeze in your mile. Be smart: pledge to run/walk "The Holiday Mile"® and you'll emerge from the holiday season unscathed, and maybe even fitter than you were before.
Benifits / What you get
– Dashboard to monitor progress
– Weekly Prizes
– Finishers Medal
– Event Shirt
– Team Incentives
– Charity Options
– Awards
– Sign up for the event
– Download app (Optional)
– Participate & Check in Daily
– Win Prizes
– Get your Event Medal & Swag
– Mail-In Registration
– Mobile App
– Create a Team
– Facebook Icon
– Facebook Banner
– Rules
Weekly Contests
In addition to being eligible for weekly prizes just for checking in, you are also eligible for a bonus prize for participating in one of the folowing programs:
– Week 1: Social Media
– Week 2: Photo Contest
– Week 3: RanDOmon act of KINDness
– Week 4: Clothing Drive
– Week 5: Food Drive
– Week 6: Survey Prize
Where to participate: Anywhere you want to walk/run. You can run indoors on a treadmill or outdoors. It doesn't matter where your Holiday Mile takes you: you just have to run/walk for 1 mile straight and check in each day.
Awards info:
Everyone who participates in the Virtual Holiday Mile will receive a custom finisher medal and an event t-shirt (Short Sleeve & Long Sleeve Options) mailed to them after January 1st.
It's always more fun with friends
You don't have to do it alone! Get your friends to take the pledge with you.
- Form a team of 10 or more people and we will donate a $25.00 gift card for you to raffle off to your team members (One gift card for every 10 people signed up under your team name).
- Each registered person gets an event T-shirt and Finisher Medal
- Register 25 or more under your team and the TEAM CAPTAIN gets a dry fit hoodie!
- All Medals and T-shirts will be shipped to the Team Captain for distribution.
- Download our Printable Flyer for your group here:
- JPG Flyer for Web
- PDF flyer for Print
- Program Intro Letter
- Sample Letter (Word Doc Download)
Let your friends know you're all in, and they too will keep you accountable. Just insert the Holiday Mile Banner or Icon on your personal Facebook pages. Right click on the images and save to your desktop.
How to check in
Checking in with your mile(s) every day is our way of holding you accountable for your pledge. Each day you check in, you will be entered in to a weekly drawing. So each week you can have a maximum of 7 chances to win!
There are two different ways you can check in (you only have to choose one, and it doesn't have to be the same every time).
1. Our website! www.holidaymile.com, Click the Daily Check In Tab
SUGGESTION: Stick to your pledge by making the Holiday Mile your "Start Up Page" on your web browser.
2. Use our VIRTUAL5K App– Download Here from Google Play
Apple – iOS Devices (open in Browser)
Desktop Browsers (Bookmark This)
Only one check in a day will be eligible for your entry to win a weekly prize. Winners of weekly prizes will be notified via email. Please be sure to add firstname.lastname@example.com to your safe sender list to ensure you receive updates from us.
The key to the success of this program is staying accountable and motivating others to doing the same. HELP US, HELP THEM, HELP YOU! by posting words of wisdom, fun images, sharing results, distances, etc. This is where we all hang out:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/holidaymile.
Be sure to make the post public so we can see it.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HolidayMile
Use #holidaymile
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holidaymile
ARE YOU REGISTERING A TEAM OF 10 OR MORE PEOPLE? Sign up as a wellness sponsor and we will send you a discount code for all your participants to use and we'll list your organization under our sponsor section. [ CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS ]
Swag Delivery:
Mailing of your custom race medal and event t-shirt will begin on January 1, 2019


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Are your kids ready to help out around the house but you're not sure how to motivate them to actually do the jobs you want them to do?
Look no further.
Today I bring you, Chore Punch Cards.
It's a type of reward system to get your kids to want to help out with chores so you can sit back and enjoy your cup of coffee while they learn how to work. 🙂 Just kidding, but seriously. I think kids learning how to do simple tasks is great for them.
So this is what my chore cards look like.
I type up their everyday tasks and glue them on the back of these cards so they know what they need to do on a daily basis to earn a punch.
They hang out on a bulletin board in our kitchen so they don't get lost. Then I also have a "work for hire" section on the bulletin board.
So if they want to earn extra punches they can complete one of these tasks before I get to it.
Then there is a reward list on the bulletin board that lists what they can get when they fill a punch card. Also on that list shows how to earn extra punches on top of the "work for hire" section.
I think this system works so much better than using a sticker system or an app on my phone to get the kids to do chores.
You can nab these punch cards by clicking on the cute little birdie below.

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All was perfect in my world at 10:45pm, 02/03/12. You see, because that marked the birth of our first baby – Grace. Until you have a baby I honestly believe you don't really understand life the way a parent does. I was immediately blown away with my emotions around this little bundle of joy. She was so quiet, peaceful, and naïve to all the joys and heartache of the world. The enormous feeling of responsibility to protect this child and start her off on the right foot, was with me right away. Little did I know, my power and ability to protect my baby Grace was going to be so quickly and so mercilessly taken away from me…or so I thought.
I will NEVER, NEVER forget the extreme fatigue I felt when returning home from the hospital with Grace. I will NEVER, NEVER forget how ill I was in the middle of the night – the night before going to the emergency room. I felt so helpless. I was sitting on the bathroom floor, nursing Grace, balling my eyes out, feverishly on fire, trying to clean up my mess from getting sick and thinking- I CAN'T DO THIS!! I am not a "can't" person. My mom and husband can attest to this. I always astound them with the things I say I am going to do and actually accomplish but this felt hopeless to me. I had never had that feeling before.
Everyone kept telling me that being tired was normal. I knew this was not anywhere close to a normal-new-mom-tired. The fatigue came on in October 2011. I remember trying to make it to work an hour away and it took me sometimes up to three hours because I had to stop and sleep several times just to make it. Many nights would pass at the end of my pregnancy with lifting my head long enough to literally scoop the dinner Ryan made me into my mouth and then, as if I were as helpless as Sleeping Beauty, crashing back down to the pillow in complete surrender. I kept thinking man, I hope this goes away with birth. How can I ever take care of a newborn when I can't even take care of myself? Birth came, my body blew up even more like a balloon, my fatigue got worse, and I felt like a crazy person the first two weeks trying to take care of Grace. Soon after a cascade of events featured in Something was Wrong led me to being without Grace for the first time.
The night before my surgery Grace was not allowed to stay with me. My mind kept racing in this endless sad loop of my first night in the hospital:
- Where's Grace?
Safe with my mom and Ryan's parents.
- How's she eating? I'm nursing her and don't have any reserves built up yet.
Formula and a bottle. AHHHHHHHH! More on this in another post.
- Are people letting the kids hold her? They're only 5 and 3 and I don't feel comfortable about it yet.
Yes. Dammit! That was my one request going into surgery- please don't let the kids hold her. I felt very betrayed as I was helpless and it was my only request.
- Is everyone washing their hands? She is being dragged in and out of doctor's offices and a hospital. Is she going to get sick?
Everyone was hand washing to the point of their hands bleeding. Yikes. Gracie never got sick though! YAY!
- Grace needs her mom's heartbeat to sooth her. Is this messing up a critical mother-daughter bonding time? Will there always be a disconnect because of this?
In retrospect, it was one night without her mommy and she was and still is okay. Grace was with me everyday of my ten day hospital stay except one. Most of the time she was under my arm and bonding with me. I think it is me that initially felt like I missed out. I don't remember those days. I was very drugged and my only memory of them is in pictures that are pretty painful to look at. I say they are painful but at the same time it is pretty damn cool that little Gracie, three weeks old, was as quiet as a mouse for nine days so she could be by her mommy. Pretty incredible in my opinion. My first real memories coming out of my drugged state were so bizarre. Ryan was wheeling me around the hospital and I had Gracie in my lap. People kept congratulating me on the birth of my baby. It was a really odd feeling because that was not why I was there and at that point I knew the result of my surgery and it was cancer.
- I am in the hospital being sent pictures of my baby. I AM SUPPOSED TO BE SENDING THE PICTURES.
It was so sweet that I was getting pictures while Grace wasn't with me but it was very hard for me. I didn't know what time was going to bring. I didn't know if I was going to make it out of surgery okay. I didn't know if she was going to have her mommy and if I would be going out looking at a picture.
The balancing act was about to begin. A few days into my hospital stay the doctor came in and gave me the results of my surgery. All my mind heard was you can no longer nurse then it reverted to the thought, Congrats on the baby! ps: YOU HAVE CANCER. All of the above racing thoughts switched off and I went into some sort of bizarre survival mode. I started making one of my silly lists in my mind again.
- Number one priority…ME. WHAT? WHAT!? I have never made myself the priority. Now I have a child and my first thought is, I have to be the priority! Yes, harsh reality but – yes! If I don't make myself and my health number one Grace and Ryan will never get the opportunity to be number one priority in my life because I won't make it through this and be healthy for them.
- Maintain a positive attitude and happiness. It is critical to a child's development to be surrounded with positivity and happiness. I want a happy child. Must keep Grace happy. Must teach her strength and grace through the hard times. I want her to look back at pictures of this time and know that she made it grand and gave me incredible strength to conquer this hurdle. I want it imprinted in her mind that you don't have to let illness consume you. You can make a choice to have your reality play out in a positive light even though it may initially seem devastating.
- Okay, I can't nurse Grace anymore. Must find the best formula on the market and deal with it.
- I am going to be in chemotherapy 8-5, M-F for 3-4 months. Make sure Grace can be with me.
- Keep moving so I have energy for Grace.
- Be with Grace as much as I possibly can. Don't let others take over unless needed. This is going to be hard enough, I don't want to add the feeling of not being able to raise my child.
- Expose, experience, and teach Grace as much as possible. Make awesome memories with her. Take a lot of pictures. Take a lot of pictures. Take a LOT of pictures.
- Regain my sense of power to protect my little one, raise her, and nurture her NOW. Nothing is being taken away from me. I am being given an enormous gift in disguise.
Surgery, chemotherapy, and a newborn were all very challenging but we had a lot of help and support (to be written about at a later time) that made it not so bad. Looking back, this has made us a very, very strong family. I feel like my cancer was a success and a blessing. I concentrated so hard on my list and it worked. I plunged forward and have my health and the most awesome little girl I could have ever asked for.
Reality changed!
Congrats on the baby! ps: YOU HAVE CANCER is now……
Congrats on the baby!! ps: SHE IS SO, SO COOL!!!!
Congrats on beating cancer!! ps: YOU WERE SO STRONG, POSITIVE, AND DID A DAMN GOOD JOB WITH YOUR KID!!
Everyone has the power to change their reality. Whether you are able to get out and muster up the energy to be active or you are bound to bed. Make your list. Empower yourself with the ability to change your reality. There are many things you can do from a hospital bed or a chemo chair. There are many ways to find happiness and a positive light even in seemingly dark situations. Empowering yourself to change your reality may just shock the hell out of you. You will see things in yourself and others you never thought was possible. I think this applies to everything in life.
Here are some photos from our hospital stay. The last one is celebrating Grace's 4 week birthday. Every week we celebrated on the Friday she was born at 10:45pm. I would make her balloons out of straws and Kleenex :). It's all I had access to. :)


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It is often said that mum knows best. Who knew that in this regard, this adage also applies to beauty tips, as well? Well, it should come as no surprise for you, dear offspring, since your mum is a woman first and foremost, after all!
So, with that said, what are the "beauty wisdoms" that dear mum has in store for you? Well, you can wonder no more since we're listing the most important ones below! Check them out below!
1. Take care of your hair, and the rest will follow
Men go crazy for long hair. Apparently, some women do, too. And really, there's no exact reason for it other than the probable fact that the hair is the one thing that displays a "femininity" of a woman in full. But hey, that's all just presumption on our part, so take it with a grain of salt!
Of course, you don't have to have long hair just so you can be beautiful for the rest of your life; a well-trimmed and well-maintained hair can often be useful enough for this purpose, and it's mainly because of the fact that once you have beautiful hair, you don't have to work as hard maintaining what is "below" it just so you can be beautiful. And really, constantly experimenting with the styles of your hair can give you a fresh leash to "reinvent" yourself. Seriously, that is all the reason you need for it do so.
2. Constantly wear sunscreen when you go out
Yes, the sun's rays is as harmful as it ever was before a generation ago, but lest we cast blame on factors beyond our control, do know that you still have the capability of protecting yourself by simply slathering your body with sunscreen every time you go out. But of course, if the thought of going out with sunscreen doesn't appeal to you, then maybe using makeup with SPF maybe more palatable to your… err, tastes!
This may be common to knowledge to some women already, but it still has to be stressed just in case you might have missed it the first time around: a decent amount of makeup is fine, but putting too much product on your face—particularly if you're wont to do so on a daily basis—can be very harmful to your skin. In particular, your face will become very sensitive to having too much stuff on. And really, that's not the kind of "red" you should be looking for when it comes to purposes like these.
So, mum really has got your back for this, then? Well, we hope you follow these tips to heart! Good luck!


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This weekend I received a wonderful surprise from my little sister that made me bawl my eyes out while smiling the whole time…. a beautifully packaged "message in a bottle". See, my baby sister is getting married in Hawaii next February – so she mailed me an adorable glass bottle filled with sand and shells and decorated with starfish. It contained a scroll that, when unrolled, revealeded a heartfelt letter of admiration, praise, love and a Maid of Honor proposal.
Are you crying yet? Because you didn't even read it! But just thinking about the act makes me tear up again. :) I assure you, the message would have you shedding big giant tears (but not crocodile tears, as I originally wrote, because my smart ass little brother corrected me and told me that crocodile tears are fake tears and you definitely wouldn't be crying fake tears after reading Jessie's letter).
ANYWAY… I mentioned the letter to my dad while he was visiting last night, and Adam just happened to be sitting right next to us. I hadn't even shared the letter with him, because, well, he's Adam. Besides, boys don't get that kind of stuff (except Dad, because it concerned his daughters, so of course he teared up too). So, when I handed the letter to my dad, Adam asked about it. I just waved my hand and said "oh, Jessie sent me a really sweet letter." Adam immediately turned to my dad and said "well it must be totally full of lies." Hardy Har, Husband.
Here's where the Adam-ism comes in (the one you'll all be referencing in the future, trust me):
Adam: Why did she send you a sweet letter? And why was it in a bottle?
Me: She asked me to be her Maid of Honor. And the bottle was Hawaii-themed.
Adam: But I thought you couldn't be a Maid of Honor anymore.
Me: Well, technically yes, I'd be the Matron of Honor since I'm married.
Adam: That sounds freaking awful. Might as well just call yourself "Old Bag of Honor".
Me: Oh yes, that has such a nice ring to it. We'll be sure to put that on the programs.
So Jessie… I'm totally looking forward to being your
Maid Matron Old Bag of Honor. Is there any way we can find rhinestones to put that on a tshirt or something?


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Editor's Note: This post is originally published on The Interpreter (the Lowy Institute for International Policy)
"Sit down like a dog, you idiot" Yells President Ghani's chief security officer Gen. Akhtar Mohammad Ibrahimi at rights activist Jafar Atai as he questions Ghani's decision to reroute the TUTAP transmission line. This happened at the prestigious Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) right in the capital of the United Kingdom.
"At this point Ghani's personal guards rushed towards me. I asked them to let me talk. But they grabbed my tie, covered my mouth, pressed my neck, pulled me down and beat me up." Jafar told me on telephone from London.
"Please help me. They are beating me." Jafar is heard screaming in a video clip produced by AFP News Agency. "I was almost suffocated. They expelled me violently while pulling my tie which was tightening around my neck". Says Jafar.
"We just wanted to raise our concerns about the change in TUTAP route. We had no intension of disruption or insulting the president. It was Ghani's guards who caused the heckling through abuse and violence." Jafar explains. He has got bruises on his face and already filed a complaint against the attackers at Metropolitan Police in London.
"You are a liar. You lied to people of Afghanistan. And now you lie to the world." Ahad Bahaduri from the audience had interrupted President Ghani while was thanking British soldiers for their sacrifices in Afghanistan. "Listen to him but don't trust him" He continued as he was forcefully removed from the event. "One of Ghani's guards followed me outside to actually beat me but he was intercepted by a British security personnel in plain dress. The Afghan guard threatened me to death (in Dari). I am worried about my relatives back in Afghanistan now." Ahad told me in a telephonic interview.
Although it is not the first time activists disrupt a leader's speech to voice their concerns but it is very unprofessional, to say the least, that a visiting head of the state's bodyguards abuse, assault and beat up British citizens and activists at a prestigious institute right in the capital of the United Kingdom. The irony, however, is that British Government has chosen to remain dead silent on the issue. All evidence suggests that the activists were at no point threatening the president and thus no point for his personal bodyguards to attack the demonstrators. It was entirely the RUSI's responsibility to ensure the discipline at the event, not the Afghan security force's.
Had an ethnic Brit been assaulted like Jafar Atai, it would have undoubtedly created a media hype and diplomatic crisis between the United Kingdom and Afghanistan. Apparently even the British government treats its citizens based on their ethnic background. Beating up rights activists in London and getting away with it does not strengthen freedom of expression or democratic values in anyways.
The activists are obviously disappointed over media blackout and the British government's inaction. "Of course, not doubt about that. Although I am a British citizen but I am sure the government and the media would have definitely responded and reacted differently if I were a Mr.Green" Responds Jafar to my question if he feels abandoned.
A female attendant, Rahila Muhibi, is seen in the video clip asking Ashraf Ghani very politely about the change in TUTAP route to Salang rather than Bamyan. And this time it is Sir Malcolm Chalmers, Deputy Director-General of RUSI who tries to silence Rahila. I contacted Rahila to know about the response despite being very polite and humble. "I was shocked." She says. "Sir Malcom was apologetic and let the guards do what they wanted to do."
The presidential guards "continued to throw all sorts of unprofessional and abusive remarks and insults". The female activist also confirms that Ghani's guards threatened them to death, "gab nazan, mekoshomet." (Don't talk. I will kill you, otherwise)
"I have been having nightmares. In my dreams I see the shadows of random people chasing me. In real life, I remain absent minded. And on two occasions, I mistook another medication instead of my hay fever meds." Rahila told me.
Siamak Harawi of Afghan Embassy in London, however, tells BBC Persian that they (the activists) were there to disrupt the President's speech, which ultimately lead to heckle, and physical clashes.
Just a couple of days before global Anti Corruption Summit in London the British Prime Minister David Cameron was caught on camera telling the Queen that leaders of two "fantastically corrupt" countries are attending the summit, namely Afghanistan and Nigeria.
Afghan president Ashraf Ghani attended the event saying he had no hard feelings for the Cameron's corruption remark because "the first part of addressing a problem begins with acknowledgment."
However, hundreds of Afghan-British protesters demonstrated right in front of Lancaster House where the summit was being held. They were carrying banners depicting 'Welcome, "fantastically corrupt" leader. The demonstration was actually launched against president Ghani's decision to change route of TUTAP (Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Tajikistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan) electricity project from central provinces that are dominated by ethnic Hazaras to Salang, which instead passes through northern provinces. Asian Development Bank funds the multi-billion-dollar power project.
The protesters accuse President Ashraf Ghani of 'bias' and even 'racism'. They claim that Mr. Ghani has changed the rout just because he did not want the transmission line pass through Hazarajat, despite the facts German consultancy firm Fichtner has recommended Bamyan route because, among others, it "will allow connecting further generation by coal fired power plants along the route and will secure power supply of Kabul and south Afghanistan by using a separate route".
Despite the fact that Bamyan-Wardak route is relatively safe and exposed to lesser natural disasters as compared to Salang route, the government's decision to change the route is largely seen as plain act of discrimination against the already deprived central provinces. The fact is that there is already a transmission line passing through Salang. This has deepened the sense of deprivation amongst the residents of central Afghanistan who believe the Kabul has intentionally kept development projects away from those areas.
Multiple demonstrations have been held in various provinces against the route change, including the so-called 'Million March' in Kabul on May 16, in which tens of thousands of people took part. But it didn't remain limited to Afghanistan. Afghan president who is an ethnic Pashtun is accused of having ethnic discriminations against non-Pashtuns, particularly Hazaras. British-Afghans, mostly with roots to central Afghanistan, gathered in Lancaster to demand implementation of the TUTAP power project through central provinces. They demanded the President to cancel his cabinet's 'bias' decision and let the 500kv transmission line pass through Bamyan as per earlier version recommended by Fitchner.
The demonstrations followed Ahsraf Ghani's events in London. at least four protesters where expelled by Ghani's bodyguards as they questioned Ghani's stance about TUTAP project.


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I am a new member but I have done a lot of reading on this forum and on pool forums and the pool solutions website so I am familiar with the wealth of knowledge offered here. Last year was my first year owning and operating a pool (bought the house in October 06) and I used the BBB method to a very successful season. Then...I had the pool professionally closed and have had nothing but problems since.
It was a rainy, windy winter here in NJ and the cover and water bags repeatedly fell in, the liner floated A LOT and now I have a real mess on my hands. After uncovering the pool, I have discovered some MAJOR liner separation. I will post some pictures but I have areas of 3 feet that have popped out and there is a large gap between the track and the liner.
I have the water level quite low now due to a large hole in my !#$%# cover that I did not realize and left the pump on a little too long so the water level is about 2 1/2 feet below the top of the liner. My wife and I used a hair dryer and made a little progress but I we have now reached a point where I can not get the liner to move enough to get in the track, not even close. The weather here is about 65 and overcast so I probably do not have the best conditions but I am not sure how much that matters. I am wondering if all the floating has pulled the liner down the wall and therefore no amount of stretching will help. The areas where it is out are all inside curves so that is adding to the distance I have to pull.
This pool is only 4 or 5 years old and I really want to try to salvage this liner. Can a pool company do something like drain and re-position the liner or do they have wonderful/magical stretching tools? I have a feeling they will just come out and tell me I need a new liner and collect a load of cash.
Any advice? I would greatly appreciate any help.


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Clegg urges Lib Dems to 'shout from rooftops' about record
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has urged activists to shout "from the rooftops" about their achievements, as he launched the party's campaign for the English local elections.
The deputy prime minister said backing the Lib Dems was no longer "a protest vote".
Instead there was a "proud" record in coalition government on which to campaign, he argued.
The Lib Dems would provide economic growth and fairness, Mr Clegg said.
The local elections take place on 22 May, with the Lib Dems currently polling well behind UKIP, Labour and the Conservatives.
Speaking at the Ministry of Sound nightclub in London, Mr Clegg insisted the Lib Dems were the only party able to fix Labour's economic "mess", "rein in" the Conservatives and "stand up to" UKIP.
'Vanity projects'
The campaign will focus on the party's record on freezing council tax - a policy encouraged by central government - and protecting key services.
Mr Clegg unveiled a dossier setting out more than £500m worth of "vanity projects" and "elaborate" expense claims racked up by Tory and Labour-run councils.
In his address to activists, he said: "Bluntly, we are not the protest vote any more. But I have never wanted the Liberal Democrats to be just the 'none of the above' party.
"Everything I have done as leader has been about taking us onto the next stage: making the Liberal Democrats a serious party of government - national and local too."
UKIP claims it is on target to have more members than the Lib Dems by the 2015 general election.
Mr Clegg said: "UKIP is Britain's protest party now and they're revelling in it. They think that all they need to do is stoke up people's anger, offering up fake solutions and dangerous fantasies - not least that idea that we could solve every problem."
He added that Lib Dems needed to be more positive, urging: "Shout it from the rooftops: if you want a party that can fix Labour's mess, if you want a party that can rein in the Tories, if you want a party brave enough to stand up to UKIP, if you want a party that will deliver a stronger economy and a fairer society, not one or the other, but both, you've got it: vote Lib Dem."
Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps criticised his coalition partners' record on keeping council tax down.
"Conservative councils cost those on band D, on average, £89 a year less than they do when they are Labour-controlled, and actually, interestingly, £106 a year less than they do when they are Lib Dem-controlled," he told BBC Two's Daily Politics programme.
Deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman MP responded to Mr Clegg by saying the "Lib Dems are a party of broken promises - Nick Clegg says they're different from the Tories, but the truth is they've backed David Cameron all the way".


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CD PROJEKT RED is looking for Junior Quest Designer who will be responsible for designing and planning "living world" substance for Cyberpunk 2077. Person on this position will be focused on creating open world content essential for our next project. He or she will be responsible for planning assets required for creating sandbox environment and implementing them in the game engine.
As a part of the recruitment process, a candidate for a Quest Designer is always asked to perform a test – design and implement quest with a specific number of requirements. Those are provided when the candidate decides to start a testing procedure and it has to be delivered on time in one of the following engines: REDkit (preferred), Skyrim Creation Kit, Neverwinter Nights 2 or Shadowrun. Please make yourself acquainted with the engine of choice before starting the test. For documentation about Redkit, please visit https://redkitwiki.cdprojektred.com.
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Aerial views of Orkney (Part 3)
And here is the final one.... showing the island of Shapinsay (briefly) and then onto Kirkwall, the main town on the Orkney Mainland, along the Churchill Barriers to the linked South isles. The wrecks you can see near the shore are now used for diving and training for divers. A short hop over to Flotta and back to the South end of Hoy. But still no Graemsay.....
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Sian, sadly our broadband connection is too flaky for more than a couple of minutes of video at present, but I'll bookmark these for when it improves.ReplyDelete
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Recent changes, as a result of the 2011 budget, have dictated that the GRAA Technical Assistance Conference that was scheduled for June 1-2 in Denver be cancelled. Because attendance at the 2011 OSDFS National Conference is required for 2009 and 2010 GRAA grantees, you may use plane tickets previously purchased for the GRAA TA Meeting to travel to the OSDFS National Conference. Additional information, including registration, can be located on the National Conference Web site at: www.osdfsnationalconference.com.
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Estimated Average Size of Awards: $350,000
Estimated Number of Awards: 70
Project Period: Up to 36 months.
Note: Contingent upon the availability of funds and the quality of applications, we may make additional awards later in FY 2008 and in FY 2009 from the list of unfunded applicants from this competition. The Department is not bound by any estimates in this notice.
The project period for this grant is 36 months (three budget periods of 12 months each). We intend the project and budget periods for projects funded under this grant competition to be June 30, 2007 - June 29, 2010. However, awards may be made as late as September 30, 2007. Projects will be funded for one year with an option for additional years, contingent upon substantial progress by the grantee and the availability of funds.
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U.S. Reps. Joe Knollenberg (R-Mich.) and Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) introduced the Coordinated American Response to Extreme Radicals Act , or CARTER Act, last week in the wake of former President Jimmy Carter's recent outreach to Hamas.
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Earl Howe: My Lords, perhaps my noble friend will forgive me. We are running up against the time deadline and, with respect to him, I cannot give way.
As I said earlier, environmental considerations are a matter for the local planning department. It would not be possible for my department to say how a site is used once we have sold it and have no further legal interest in it. However, for most larger sites it is normal either to sell the property with the benefit of a planning brief or to seek planning permission for redevelopment prior to the sale. That approach means not only that my department's financial interests are secured, but also that a purchaser has the best available information on what redevelopment may be permitted.
The noble Lord, Lord Bancroft, said that the future use of a site like Bentwaters should depend on liaison at the centre between the DoE and the Ministry of Defence. With respect, I wonder whether he realises the implications of that. It is worth making the point that the planning process is deliberately a local one. Local interests are protected by the local planning authority. What the noble Lord suggests is a centralisation of that process. I do not believe that that is helpful. The full planning advice is provided by the DoE through the Government Office for the Eastern Region in this instance, and what we seek to bring about and what is appropriate, I suggest, is local implementation of a national policy. That is what has happened and is happening at Bentwaters.
The noble Lord, Lord Chorley, and my noble friend Lord Bridgeman spoke specifically about RAF Upper Heyford. I have some material here which I would have given had we not been running up against the clock. I will write to them about that. It was suggested by my noble friend Lord Marlesford that the MoD was a poor steward of the land it occupies. I do not know how many defence sites my noble friend has knowledge of. I suspect it is quite a few in his role as head of the CPRE. I can only tell him that the care taken by the MoD in looking after its estate is the subject of constant praise from statutory bodies, voluntary bodies and individuals. I will put my noble friend on the mailing list of the MoD environmental magazine Sanctuary, which this year celebrates its 25th anniversary. It is almost true to say that wherever MoD training land is found there is a rare species of animal or a rare species of plant. With all respect to my noble friend, I believe that he was wholly wrong in what he said in delivering the strictures that he did about MoD stewardship of the land.
One other consideration is the possibility of contamination on sites which are to be sold. It is my department's long-standing policy to arrange for the
In April of this year my department introduced a new policy requiring land quality statements for all properties passed for disposal after that date. I believe that this is a useful step forward.
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I'm wrapping up what turned out to be a very successful, if quick, research visit to the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University. I had the delusion that I would have much more time than I did (partly because, in my mind, I didn't appropriately adjudicate travel-days versus research-days and instead lumped the whole trip together), but nevertheless I was able to do all the research I set out to do and a little more, even if it wasn't the tons of extra work I had hoped.
I am incredibly grateful for the expert assistance and friendly academic companionship of Paul Peason, the TMC director and archivist, and Mark Meade, the assistant director of the TMC. The TMC is the largest repository of Merton's manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, notes, and other materials. There are several other large repositories, including Columbia University and my own Alma Mater St. Bonaventure University, where Merton taught English before entering the Trappists.
One of the projects I am working on these days is the editing of the correspondence between Thomas Merton and his dear friend and literary agent Naomi Burton Stone (who, interestingly, was also the literary agent of other significant figures like Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird). Stone donated her entire collection of material to St. Bonaventure University, so the lion's share of the manuscripts, typescripts and related material is found in that collection (where I spent the better part of last July researching).
However, I was aware that there were 9 letters missing from the SBU collection and copies of these missing letters, each of which was published in excerpt form in a volume of correspondence decades ago, were held at the TMC. In the process of examining and transcribing those texts I discovered five more letters that I did not know existed, for they were not included in the SBU collection. It's very exciting to do this sort of work, laborious as it is, it allows me to have an increasingly more complete glimpse into this dimension of Merton's life.
The other Merton project, the reason for which I was granted funding to make this research trip, was to look at several aspects of Merton's developing understanding of religious life and how, more specifically, his interest in Franciscan spirituality, theology and philosophy might or might not have influenced that, especially early on. As I continue to work on that area of interest, it becomes clearer and clearer that the issue of poverty (both the evangelical conceptualization and poverty as abjection in a social justice sense) is where the nexus of Franciscan insight and Merton's theory and praxis meet.
I was able to accomplish quite a lot in that regard, examining the archives of his recorded lectures and conference notes on the subject. It's not surprising, then, that the one set of hand-written notes Merton had on St. Francis of Assisi is entirely focused on the theme of poverty. What is pleasantly surprising is the way, at least two decades before the renewal of Franciscan scholarship in this area began in earnest, Merton connected (accurately in my initial opinion) the notion of poverty with the Christocentricity of the crucifixion. In a way, Merton anticipated the work of Bonaventurean scholars like Zachary Hayes and Ilia Delio, my own M.A. thesis director. These Merton notes were never published.
The trip was very good and I could go on at great length describing additional discoveries and curiosities in my research, but I realize this is an already lengthy post. I concluded my trip to the home of Bourbon without making it to a new distillery — I suppose I have to save something to look forward to next time — but did enjoy a lovely dinner and conversation with the parents of a very good friend of mine. They happen to both teach on faculty at Bellarmine, so connecting with them was no trouble at all.
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Now in its 14th year, the report annually investigates trends in CEO success and successions at the world's largest 2,500 public companies. This year's study additionally highlights insights observed from ten years of data compiled on women CEOs.
"In the UK we hire more CEOs who come from different industries and geographies and have a diverse bank of knowledge and experience compared with equivalent chief executives in other global regions. This year's study also highlights how UK CEOs were twice as likely last year to be forced out of their role than CEOs in the US and Canada, underlining the important differences in corporate governance between the two regions." said Richard Rawlinson, Partner at Strategy&.
Carolin Oelschlegel, Principal at Strategy&, notes: "This year's study shows that there were 75% more women CEOs in the in-coming than outgoing classes in total over the past ten years. This is good news but in the UK we need to do more. Last year, we saw only one female chief executive out of the total 40 appointments made in 2013."
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- 51 percent of incoming CEOs in the UK had worked in other regions, more than the global share at 35 percent. Additionally, only 59 percent of incoming CEOs in the UK have the same nationality as their company headquarters, less than the global share (80 percent).
- UK companies appointed CEOs with more diverse industry experience. 63 percent of incoming CEOs in the UK last year had joined their current company from a different industry, greater than the global share at 42 percent.
- Outgoing insider CEOs ¬– people who had been promoted from within the company – in the UK delivered lower returns than outgoing insider CEOs globally.
- UK CEOs were twice as likely to be forced out of office compared with the US and Canada. Here the number of forced exits sits at 1.6 percent compared with the UK at 4 percent – and more still than CEOs in many emerging markets, despite being traditionally viewed as experiencing greater political or social upheaval.
- In 2013, the UK's share of the top 2,500 public companies by market capitalisation increased to 4.6 percent, up 0.7 percentage points from last year.
Women CEOs of the last ten years:
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- Globally companies in the information technology, consumer staples, and consumer discretionary industries had the highest percentages of women CEOs (3.1 percent, 2.6 percent, and 2.6 percent respectively). The materials industry has had the lowest (0.8 percent).
- Women CEOs are more often hired from outside the company than male CEOs – in the last decade, insider female chief executive promotions stood at 65 percent compared with male promotions at 78 percent.
- The UK saw just one female CEO out of the total 40 appointments made in 2013. Globally over the past five years, the share of women in the incoming CEO classes (3.6 percent) was 71 percent higher than in the prior five-year period (2.1 percent). Despite these trends, women made up just 3 percent of the global incoming class in 2013, a 1.3 percentage point drop from 2012.
- Strategy&'s recent report into the Third Billion ranked the UK as 13th out of 128 countries who invest to develop women in business with Australia, Norway, Sweden and Finland coming in the top three rankings.
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- Global turnover rates remained stable. In 2013, 14.4 percent of CEOs left office, a typical turnover rate for non-recession years and a small decrease from 2012's 15 percent. Among regions, the highest turnover rates were in Brazil, Russia, and India (at 21.1 percent). For the third year running, the industry with the highest turnover rate was in telecommunications services (at 22.1 percent).
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- In direct contrast to the UK, most of the new global CEOs are familiar to the companies that hire them. In 2013 76 percent of incoming CEOs were insiders and 26 percent had worked at only one company during their career. 58 percent joined their company from one in the same industry, 80 percent hailed from the country in which company headquarters were located and 65 percent did not have experience working in a region other than their company's headquarters region.
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This study identified the world's 2,500 largest public companies, defined by their market capitalisation (from Bloomberg) on January 1, 2013. Our research team members then identified the companies among the top 2,500 that had experienced a chief executive succession event and cross-checked data using a wide variety of printed and electronic sources in many languages. For a listing of companies that had been acquired or merged in 2013, we also used Bloomberg. Each company that appeared to have changed its CEO was investigated for confirmation that a change occurred in 2013, and additional details — title, tenure, gender, chairmanship, nationality, professional experience, and so on — were sought for both the outgoing and incoming chief executives (as well as any interim chief executives).
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Citing safety and health violations, officials called Thursday for the immediate evacuation of the Alpine Village Apartments at Cabot, leaving about 30 residents scrambling to find new homes Friday. City officials said the decision to close the complex came after an inspection left them in serious concern for the residents' safety.
The apartment complex is at 800 North Jackson at the junction with Polk Street.
Cabot Fire Chief Phil Robinson, on whose order as fire marshal the evacuation was made, said Monday that it was just a matter of time until electrical problems caused a serious fire. "One of the apartments already burned because of the same electrical problems we found in a lot of the others." That apartment, which burned in October, remains boarded over with no apparent repairs, he said.
Knowing the problems that abounded in the buildings left no recourse, Robinson said. Knowing what the inspectors knew, for the sake of the residents' safety the evacuation could not wait, he said.
Nearly all the residents who spoke Saturday said they had nowhere to go, one former resident had set up a tent in a commons area between the apartment buildings. "Someone has to watch out for our stuff. People was kicking in doors already last night," said a resident, who identified himself only as Bobby, about why he remained in his tent.
Those who spoke Saturday faulted the city for not giving them time to find new homes. The order allows residents until Feb. 27 to return to the apartments, during daylight hours, to retrieve their belongings, then all the apartments are to be boarded over.
"Not so," Mayor Bill Cypert said Monday of the claimed lack of notice to residents. "We warned the owner; it was up to him to warn the residents," he said.
Cypert said his statement, issued Friday, explained the evacuation. "The City of Cabot Code Enforcement issued an evacuation order 02/20/2014 to the owner of the Alpine Apartment Complex in Cabot, Arkansas to evacuate the complex within seven calendar days, with no overnight occupation, and to be boarded up at the end of the seven calendar days.
"This action was necessary due to several complex residents' complaints to Code Enforcement regarding living conditions. After investigation, Code Enforcement contacted the Cabot City Fire Marshal, who upon investigation and inspection ordered, under the Arkansas Fire Protection Code, immediate action as stated above."
Patricia White said she was given less than seven hours to get out. "I found out when they nailed this up by my door," she said, pointing to the evacuation order.
"I hustled up $275 to stay in a hotel this week. After that? I don't know. I got $100 in my pocket and now I am missing work to clear out of here. I can't afford to miss work. They don't put prisoners out like this," White said.
Cabot Public Works director Brian Buroughs said Monday that the initial code inspection was done Feb. 19 in response to complaints from three apartments of repairs not being made. Prior to the complaints, there was no out-of-ordinary attention given the complex, he said.
The owner was contacted and he agreed to an inspection of the apartments on Wednesday, Buroughs said. After a brief look, Robinson, as fire marshal, was contacted.
The list of problems included exposed bare wires, broken and burned electric outlets; improperly installed water heaters; evidence of overheated wires. "When we say 'exposed bare wires,' these are wires that are hot," Buroughs said. Melted circuit breakers, melted wires, and "cross wired" circuit panels, were other immediate safety hazards, he said.
Melted circuit breakers were bypassed with wires to other circuit breakers, posing the threat of short circuits, Buroughs said.
"There were roaches everywhere. There were toilets that had no water, but they were being used anyway. Just use your imagination with that," Buroughs said.
Warning was given after the inspection, which took from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m., to clear some of the apartments, Buroughs said. "But at the out-briefing [conducted immediately after the inspections] it was decided to close the whole lot," he said.
Robinson said he notified the owner Thursday morning of the order to evacuate. The authority to make such an order is given to fire marshals under the Arkansas Fire Prevention Code, which is state law, he said.
Former resident Donald McDaniel was puzzled about the evacuation. "These ain't great [apartments], but they're livable. They got new paint, the roof don't leak. There's been no problems before. Why now? I bet now the school gets the parking lot it wants," he remarked
Residents who spoke said they knew of the inspections on Feb. 19. "They said they found only a few things wrong. Then they showed up yesterday morning and told us to get out. Just like that. No warning. They said us finding somewhere to go was our problem, we just had to get out," McDaniel said.
"They said it was 'life safety issues.' What about our life safety at night with no place to go?" he asked.
Bobby said it was a "no-good thing to do, putting us out like that," but he added that he had survived worse.
"I been burned bad," he said, baring a scarred arm. "And back in those ice storms we had, I got through it with two sleeping bags and a lighter to keep warm. I got through all that because God took care of me before and he will again. But it was a no-good thing to do."
Robinson and Buroughs each said the decision was not an easy one. "But we could not, not do something. We knew about [the problems]. What if we waited and someone died?" Robinson said.


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In the crisp, early morning hours, the police are called to a suspected murder at a farm outside a small English village. A beautiful young woman has been found dead, blood all over the cottage she lives in. At the same time, police respond to a reported female suicide, where a car has fallen into a local quarry. As DCI Louisa Smith and her team gather the evidence, they discover a link between these two women, a link which has sealed their dreadful fate one cold night, under a silent moon. Told in a unique way, using source documents that allow readers to interpret the evidence alongside DCI Louisa Smith and her team, Under a Silent Moon is an unsettling and compulsively readable novel that will keep you gripped until the very last page.Elizabeth Haynes ... Her intention had only been to check the car park, to look for the Land Rover or the Mitsubishi pickup, but once she was there and saw the car park was ... 10:45. When Taryn had arrived atthepolice station she had been tense and tearful. Sam Hollands had phoned herat home, and when she heard theanbsp;...
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
My sculpted Witch head!
I thought you might like to see one of my sculpted Witch heads.
She is scary without her hair...I just love it!
I hand sculpt her tiny details with the tip of a straight pin. This 1" head took me around 3 hours to sculpt. Then I baked her in my little toaster oven. While she is baking I hand sculpt her hands...I use my old wrinkled hands as a guide!
Each one of my Haunted miniature art dolls are a true One of a kind(OOAK). The heads on my Halloween ornaments are about 1/2-3/4" and are also hand sculpted by me. I just LOVE creating fun little creatures of the night!!
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
a couple more photos...I just LOVE the colors!
I took some more photo around 3PM yesterday when the sun was shinning. You can really see the color better! I have a lot more decorating to do BUT I need to get back to work. I'll work on the decor this Spring when we finish the windows.
I'll be listing a couple ornaments today and working on a Miniature witch.
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Drum-roll!!! It's done! I LOVE my new studio!!
I start back to work in my NEW studio tomorrow! I still have to make curtains and buy a rug (Maybe a cool green!) I want shag but Gan said "I'll loose things in it!"
I also took a photo of inside my cabinets for my friend Lori (The Queen of organization!) In the photos you can see my art desk where I sculpt...I have my cup of tea and my cute little Ghost tea bag holder. The other art desk is to sketch out my designs...I just love my pumpkin pillow! Happy Halloween 24/7 from Woopitydooart studios!
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Monday, January 7, 2008
Cleaning and Moving in to my NEW studio!!!
OMG!!! I'm so excited!!! Today I can CLEAN and start moving into my studio!!! The windows still need to be sealed but that will have to wait until spring (Warmer weather). We still need one more shelf above the windows and the door could use another coat of paint. I have so many new design ideas in my head I'm excited to get back to sculpting!
Happy Creative Monday!!!
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Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Painting and painting and painting!
Well I don't think I will be moving back into my studio until January 6Th. We still have a lot of painting to do!!! Gan hopes to set the cabinets and finish the electrical today. Happy New Year!! I feel this will be the BEST ever!
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2013 Formula 1™ Airtel Indian Grand Prix – Free Practice 1 & 2
Buddh International Circuit, New Delhi
Friday 25 October 2013
BIANCHI MR02-02 FP1 P20 1:29.560 20 laps FP2 P20 1:28.799 32 laps
CHILTON MR02-03 FP1 P22 1:30.471 17 laps FP2 P22 1:30.164 27 laps
The Buddh International Circuit is another new track for the Marussia F1 Team drivers but both Jules Bianchi and Max Chilton got their weekend off to a good start in today's opening free practice sessions in preparation for Sunday's 2013 Formula 1™ Airtel Indian Grand Prix.
Jules and Max ended both sessions in P20 and P22 respectively, with Jules splitting the two Caterham cars and the times amongst this pack being very close overall, which bodes well for a competitive weekend.
Max Chilton #23
"Today was a pretty long day of track learning given that this is my first experience of the Buddh International Circuit. I have struggled with the car balance all day, so that didn't make the acclimatisation process very easy. It is also a demanding circuit so there is no margin for error and I had a few 'moments'. We are trying a new part on the car, which we are weighing up whether we should run or not. Hopefully when we've had a look at the data from both cars and looked at all the options we can improve tomorrow."
Jules Bianchi #22
"It is nice to finally get a feel for the Buddh International Circuit and I am pleased with how my first day has gone. We tried a few things on the car to provide us with some options for the rest of the weekend. Our times compared to Caterham are good, and we are pleased with the long run pace, so we are confident for the race."
John Booth, Team Principal
"We have brought a small suspension upgrade to the cars this weekend and the run plan was for Max to use the new development throughout Friday, whereas on Jules' car we opted to do the test in FP2. Obviously this made for a busy turnaround in the garage, however everything went to plan and we were able to achieve a good evaluation of the new development with Jules, whilst accumulating mileage on Max's car. Overall we can see positive signs, so now we need to spend some time looking through the data and evaluating whether we will continue with it for the rest of the weekend. Performance-wise, we are reasonably happy. The tyres look like they will be quite challenging for the race, in particular the Soft tyre. However we have collected a large amount of data in the second session which will hopefully allow us to make the right strategic calls. Overall, a positive Friday and we look forward to a stronger Saturday."


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WILD KRATTS - LIVE! PBS KIDS Show Comes Alive on Stage
The wildly popular PBS KIDS television show, WILD KRATTS, is coming to the live stage. Wild Kratts LIVE! will be at the Morrison Center on Sunday, October 1, 2017 at 1:00 PM. Tickets go on-sale Friday, April 21, 2017 at 10:00 AM and can be purchased at the Morrison Center Box Office, MorrisonCenter.com, or by calling (208) 426-1110. Tickets are $22.50 - $40.00 plus applicable fees.
Animated Kratt Brothers, Martin and Chris, "come to real life" in a classically Wild Kratts story. Off "To the Creature Rescue!" the Emmy nominated Kratt Brothers activate some fan favorite Creature Power Suits to confront a comic villain. Through hilarious pratfalls and amazing animal 'wow facts' the Wild Kratts team rescues their favorite invention from Zach's clutches so the animals of the creature world are safe once again.
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WILD KRATTS, which is in it's fourth season, was created and developed by real life brothers and zoologists Martin and Chris Kratt (both nominated for Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing in a Children's Animated Series). Wild Kratts features the brothers on incredible expeditions to meet wild creatures from the far corners of the earth. Diving into the habitats of these unusual animals with the use of futuristic technology and Creature Powers Suits that allow the brothers to take their funny and exciting adventures to where they've never gone before. Wild Kratts has received numerous awards since inception in 2011 including Parents Choice, Kidscreen, Aurora and 2 Emmy nominations). The series is a co-production of The Kratt Brothers Company and 9 Story Entertainment.
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