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Taber Irrigation Impact MuseumThe museum focuses on the development of an irrigation system in southern Alberta, which eventually sparked the booming agricultural industry we see today in this region. Early irrigation systems and methods are on display. The museum includes an interpretive centre and archives.
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Few people know that James Barrie, of Peter Pan fame, wrote a book about a young man taking up his first pastoral charge. The Little Minister follows Gavin Dishart, a freshly ordained seminary graduate, as he adjusts to the village Thrums, life in the manse, and everything that goes with it. Almost nothing goes as Gavin thinks it will, and despite the book's theological perspective, it ably shows the confidence of the seminary graduate turning into a more careful humility. Moving into the manse, preaching, troubling the session (who are holding conference there on the left), and especially falling in love, all shape Gavin. Confronted with people who are not awed by his person or piety and confounded by situations that he has never had to think through before, Gavin is forced to change, often for the better.
His very first conversation in his new home is with his predecessor, who is moving out. It is a conversation that every new minister should have with an older one:
"Gavin only saw a very frail old minister who shook as he walked, as if his feet were striking stones. He was to depart on the morrow to the place of his birth, but he came to the manse to wish his successor God-speed.
'May you never lose sight of God, Mr Dishart,' the old man said in the parlour. Then he added, as if he had asked too much, 'May you never turn from Him as I often did when I was a lad like you.'
As this aged minister, with the beautiful face that God gives to all who love Him and follow His commandments, spoke of this youth, he looked wistfully around the faded parlour.
'It is like a dream,' he said. 'The first time I entered this room the thought passed through me that I would cut down that cherry-tree, because it kept out the light, but, you see, it outlives me. I grew old whilst looking for the axe. Only yesterday I was the young minister, Mr Dishart, and to-morrow you will be the old one, bidding good-bye to your successor.'
His eyes came back to Gavin's eager face. 'You are very young, Mr Dishart?'
'Nearly twenty-one.'
'Twenty-one! Ah, my dear sir, you do not know how pathetic that sounds to me. Twenty-one! We are children for the second time at twenty-one, and again when we are grey and put all our burden on the Lord. The young talk generously of relieving the old of their burdens, but the anxious heart is to the old when they see a load on the back of the young. Let me tell you, Mr Dishart, that I would condone many things at one-and-twenty now that I dealt harshly with at middle age. God Himself, I think, is very willing to give one-and-twenty a second chance.'
'I am afraid,' Gavin said anxiously, 'that I look even younger.'
'I think,' Mr Carfrae answered smiling, 'that you heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years. Many views that I held to in my youth and long afterwards are a pain to me now, and I am carrying away from Thrums memories of errors into which I fell at every stage of my ministry. When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility… I cannot deny,' Mr Carfrae said, 'that I broke down more than once to-day. This forenoon I was in Tillyloss, for the last time, and it so happens that there is scarcely a house in it in which I have not had a marriage or prayed over a coffin. Ah, sir, these are the scenes that make a minister more than all of his sermons. You must join the family, Mr Dishart, or you are only a minister once a week. And remember this, if your call is from above it is a call to stay. Many such partings in a lifetime as I have had today would be too heartrending.'"


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When I was a child, December meant Christmas. Intense, breathless anticpation in counting down each day, each hour until that moment when I could see what the tree looked like after Santa's visit.
Then, as a teenager, December became a month of darkness as I tried to carry on some traditions in the shadow of my mother's early death. I'm not sure my brother and I have ever fully recovered from the horror of that first Christmas without her, just 5 weeks after her death. We've never talked about it. It remains raw, and words won't change anything.
As a young adult Ioffered to work Christmas shifts so that my coworkers could spent it happily with their families. I spent one Christmas in Japan, which was wonderful. The Japanese treat it as a romantic holiday for couples, and my sweetie travelled from Canada to spend it with me.
When I became a mother, December meant creating memories for my own children. We have continued traditions I remember from my childhood. An angel my mother made adorns our tree each year. And we have new favourites, like building and decorating gingerbread houses, or stringing popcorn and cranberries for decorations. I take great pleasure in selecting gifts for my daughters, and sharing Christmas tradtions with them. We lounge in pajamas, watch our favourite movies, I read while they play with their stuff, and we wallow between pots of tea and naptimes.
As an entrepreneur, December also means a time of preparation. In the stillness of that Christmas break, I will always take a few days in the empty office to review results from the year in its last lingering moments. I love that feeling of the fresh new year just around the corner, and plotting out ideas and goals.
Remember that January always starts in a rush, and then before you know it, it's the end of February. Q1 is almost over – and how is it going for you? It is tough to take measure when you are always in motion. December is an ideal time to take a break from the daily operations and demands, and look at the whole year ahead. This is an opportunity to evaluate results and set targets. This is not about New Year resolutions. This is an integral part of being an Entrepreneur. And though it can and should happen at anytime, December is a natural break in the year to do it. Ask yourself just two questions:
1. What needs to happen this year to create what I vision in my Painted Picture? Note these down and decide when and how to implement.
2. What have I been doing the last 12 months which hasn't brought me results? Look at ways to delegate to someone else, phase out, or stop altogether.
If you don't know what I mean by Painted Picture – there are some good ones on YouTube, or read Double Double by Cameron Herold.


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Be sure and join United Yacht Sales at the annual Stuart, Florida boat show. United Yacht Sales is featuring (7) seven total boats at this years show. Click on any of these boats to see more detail about each one we will be featuring at this years show.
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TopSharePoint.com offers a showcase gallery that shows off a plethora of excellent SharePoint-based websites from all over the globe. They carefully select websites based on their usability, design, creativity and ability to incorporate modern techniques. If you have a spiffy SharePoint site why not submit it?
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Mankind has witnessed the birth of millions of new viruses and various illegal acts on the Internet in 2014. Unfortunately, the threat will not just stop in the 2015's.
ESET as a provider of Internet security services, warned that the potential of cyber crime will continue to grow along with the development of technology and gadget world.
Unfortunately, the impact of the development of cybercrime in 2015 could have an impact fatal for netizens. Call it a loss of time, loss of business opportunities, and polluted reputation as happened at Sony Pictures when attacked by hackers 'Guardian of Peace'.
Here are five Internet crime trends predicted by ESET will boom in 2015.
1. APT Attacks
APT Advanced Persistent Threats or Internet attacks executed is specific or focus on a specific target. The danger, APT attacks tend to persist in the system for a long time and did not realize its presence.
APT methods typically use social engineering techniques (gathering information before hacking) or Zero Days exploits. Site APTnotes reported when APT attacks increased in recent years, from three attacks in 2010 to 53 attacks in 2014.
2. The online payment system
With the development of eCommerce Indonesian climate, attacks against online payment system via the Internet is still very tempting for criminals.
The number of transactions and increase the perpetrators in the field of eCommerce helped trigger the birth of a new crime in the online payments sector. Especially today, online payment method has been integrated with online banking and mobile gadgets, which led to hacking activities to earn money 'haram' more interesting.
3. Point of sales (POS) system
ESET detects the presence of the worm Win32 / BrutPOS on PoS System is capable of doing overused password to get into the Remote Desktop Protocol user. PoS attack is predicted to continue to increase in 2015.
One of the attacks are quite shocking PoS is an attack on the online retailer Home Depot which resulted in 56 million user data exposed in cyberspace.
4. Bitcoin, ransomeware, and malware
Bitcoin has been declared as the currency with the most extreme decline in value in 2014 due to the many attacks launched to steal it. Well, Bitcoin will remain the main target of hackers in 2015.
In fact, hackers will most likely use it to impersonate ransom ransomware attack. Hackers believed will also continue to develop the type of malware that is increasingly difficult to detect and kill them, so they plan to run smoothly.
In July 2014, ESET researchers published an analysis of ransomware in Android, as well as a first Ransomware that encrypts files on Android. In a discussion forum Cybercrime 2020 Goeorgetown University declared Ransomware will be the future of consumer cybercrime.
5. Digital Devices
Internet of Things is a milestone in the various parliaments internet use human life began to glance cybercriminals to launch their illegal actions. Not only gadgets, various household devices that are already connected to the Internet can be used as a back-channel to attack the target.
Fortunately, ESET predict when an attack against the household digital technology is not going to get in the frequency of massive and not aiming for economic motives. However, remain vigilant against this attack pattern is the most appropriate measures so that we do not experience the business data looting or even money via cyberspace.
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PHPLinq: PHP Language Integrated Query
I admit, sometimes I get language envy. Don't get me wrong, I love php, but every once in a while I'll hear about a feature in another language that just gets me going. The C# Reflection implementation, IntelliSense and LINQ immediately come to mind. I really want to get a look at these features and play with them but, alas, I just haven't yet. (Honestly, I'm just not that good at C# yet. Soon though, very soon.)
BTW, yes I know php has Reflection but, the way I understand it, the .NET Reflection implementation kicks the crap out of the php one. Get over it.
Now it looks like there's a quasi-sorta-kinda implementation of LINQ done in PHP with the totally original title of PHPLinq. It's not a true port of LINQ, being that it deals with strings and isn't done at the language level, but it's still pretty compelling in it's own right.
If you don't know what LINQ is all about it stands for Language Integrated Query and is a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that encompass language-integrated query, set, and transform operations. It extends C# and Visual Basic with native language syntax for queries and provides class libraries to take advantage of these capabilities.
That basically means it allows you to query stuff, similar in concept but different in practice to how you would query a database. PHPLinq works well for searching an array of objects using a SQL like 0bject syntax.
There's a great tutorial on Switch on the Code that goes into some detail on how to use PHPLinq with a good example of usage. To help pique your interest the below should give you a reason to check it out; the code below searches an array for all the strings in an array with a string length less than 5 characters:
<?php // Create data source $names = array("John", "Peter", "Joe", "Patrick", "Donald", "Eric"); $result = from('$name')->in($names) ->where('$name => strlen($name) < 5') ->select('$name'); print_r($result); ?>
Notice how it's laid out like a database abstraction? Pretty cool, right?
The really exciting part about PHPLinq is that it can work off of lots of data sources like XML, RSS and a database table (more on this in a minute). Here's an example taken from the unit tests for PHPLinq:
<?php $rssFeed = simplexml_load_string(file_get_contents('http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/syndication.axd')); $result = from('$item')->in($rssFeed->xpath('//channel/item')) ->orderByDescending('$item => strtotime((string)$item->pubDate)') ->take(2) ->select('new { "PostTitle" => (string)$item->title, "PostAuthor" => (string)$item->author, "MetaData" => new { "Url" => (string)$item->link, "Guid" => (string)$item->guid, "PostDate" => strtotime((string)$item->pubDate) } }'); print_r($result); ?>
The above will return only the post title, author and whatever meta data the feed contains.
When I think about the database option I get a headache though; I can't, for the life of me, think of when I would want to use PHPLinq to search a return database call. If I understand right the flow would work as a) grab all database rows and b) use PHPLinq to search through those rows.
This idea goes against everything I've ever known about SQL and resource management. It's sacrilegious to grab all the rows in a table and just plain silly to use a separate layer of the program to parse those results. What possible argument could there be for not using plain old SQL (or even a SQL generator) and just let MySQL do the heavy lifting.
Admittedly, I haven't found any code samples for how the SQL portion would work so I may be way off base here.
Either way, PHPLinq is still a compelling module to help sifting through array sets and XML. It should make searching files a lot easier too. Even if that's not enough PHPLinq is still worth checking out if for no other reason an example of an interesting idea done in php.


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Top Ten Reasons Why Sonic Unleashed is Better Than Sonic GenerationsSonicFan4Life I love both games, but I personally prefer Unleashed. Here's my reasons why.
The Top Ten
What? I could have sworn this said "I prefer the Werehog over Classic Sonic" Huh? - SonicFan4Life
Actually, Classic Sonic is as great not just because of the character design.
I believe that the Werehog form is better than classic sonic because of his abilities and the 3D style gameplay... I cannot stand 2D gameplay, I barely made it through generations on the classic stages.
I just said it, y not?
In general, all of these are just opinions, but I'd have to agree: the gameplay in S:U does look a bit better than S:G imp - Livirus
Definitely. I miss Sonic games having more story.
Again, these are just my opinions. If you don't agree, that's fine. But, please don't attack me. - SonicFan4Life
I thought both games had great music. I love all the remixes in Generations (though I like the original Rooftop Run better).
The Contenders
Related ListsTop Ten Best Reasons Why Sonic Unleashed Is Great On the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and Not On the Wii and the PlayStation 2 Best Sonic Unleashed Songs Top 10 Sonic Unleashed Levels Best Songs on Skillet's Unleashed Best Songs on Skillet's Albums "Unleashed" and "Rise"
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Top Remixes
2. Unleashed has better hubworlds
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Do you like to make pie? I do!
And here is a great gluten free pie crust for your holiday baking!
5 c. Gluten free 1 to 1 baking flour
2 c. * butter OR lard
1 T. Vinegar
1 Egg
*butter makes your crust very tasty. Lard makes it flaky. I like to do half of each for the flavor and the tastiness.
Cut your butter into the flour. You can do this by hand or I like to just use my kitchen aid. Mixing by hand probably results in flakier crust.
Next put your egg and tablespoon of vinegar into a 1 cup measure, fill up with cold water and mix up a little with a fork.
Slowly add to your flour mixture. Combine until just barely mixed.
Now I like to set it in the frig for about an hour to make it more workable. But it is totally optional and you can use it right away. It will be slightly sticky, even when chilled. Sprinkle your counter with gluten free flour into about 5 balls and roll out.
Keep dusting your crust with gf flour as you roll it out or it will stick to the counter. Fold it gently in half and carefully transfer to pie pan. Patch up the cracks. Trim the edges.
This recipe makes about 5-6 single crust pies or 2-3 double crust. It depends also on the size of your pie pan.
There you have it- perfect gluten free pie crust for all your holiday pies!
Gluten free Pumpkin pie recipe coming up next! Or go Here to find a delicious and gluten free apple pie filling!


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Every summer, Senator Thanh Hai Ngo welcomes students from Vietnamese communities across Canada to work as interns at the Senate of Canada. The unique opportunity provides students from across the country with practical work experience in both official languages and a front-row seat to the inner workings of Canadian and international politics.
"I am extremely proud to have welcomed such fantastic groups of interns to work in my Senate office over the last five years. This summer internship program provides an invaluable opportunity for six engaged students before they enter the work force or pursue their studies. During their time on Parliament Hill, our interns acquire a firsthand experience learning about Canadian politics, directly following the Senate's work, and researching and drafting their own report on the human rights situation in Vietnam," Senator Thanh Hai Ngo said.
"I think it's a really valuable program because not everyone can say that they've worked in the Senate, directly for a Senator. It's been a really eye-opening summer and it's made me love what I study even more. This internship is a very rare and valuable experience and I think it's going to help me in the long run," said Kim Nguyen, a fifth-year international relations student from the University of British Columbia.
"I believe that students aren't necessarily interested in politics to begin with and they don't really understand how the system works or get exposed to the inner workings. So, coming to Ottawa and experiencing it firsthand is one of the best ways to learn. I've come away with a greater appreciation for the Senate as an institution," said Nathan Ly, a fourth-year biochemistry student from the University of Toronto.


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Disability Rights Commission hosts Parliamentary Reception
7 May 2003
Sir Richard Mottram (Perm Sec DWP) Bert Massie (Chair, DRC) GY
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The Disability Rights Commission marked the third anniversary of its launch with a Parliamentary Reception, and the publication of "Disability Equality: Making it Happen" - a review of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
"The DRC obviously has views on the potential creation of a Single Equality Body; as long as there are sensible safeguards, their view is that one body could promote equality and fairness by focussing on issues that cut across the range of discrimination."
"It was very useful to meet people at the reception who had first hand experience of a range of disabilities; they recognised that good progress is being made - but there are worrying stories of people being dismissed when they are in the early stages of a potentially disabling illness. I hope this can be addressed; as people come to terms with a potentially serious illness, they don't want the additional stress of losing their job."
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New Book Releases this November 2014
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The Retribution of Mara Dyer
(Mara Dyer #3)
by Michelle Hodkin
Published: November 4, 2014
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Mara Dyer wants to believe there's more to the lies she's been told.
There is.
She doesn't stop to think about where her quest for the truth might lead.
She should.
She never had to imagine how far she would go for vengeance.
She will now.
Loyalties are betrayed, guilt and innocence tangle, and fate and chance collide in this shocking conclusion to Mara Dyer's story.
Retribution has arrived.


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