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The Technique of cutting or trimming the bonsai aims to give shape, throw branches or twigs that are not needed and shorten the stem or branch. Plants that will be formed into a bonsai or known as going bonsai usually has a rapid growth. This can be seen particularly in the growth of stems and branches. If left to grow naturally, the plant will continue to grow high, wide branches, as well as the enlarged part of the other limb. By cutting, branch or trunk can be selected as desired. Stems or branches that ugly and detract from the beauty discarded and the elected branches maintained and regulated growth.
The principle of cutting the stem bonsai is as follows:
- The Cutting is done such that the resulting wound evenly with the surface of the base of the plant. If the injury due to sizeable cuts should be wound is closed with chemicals such as paraffin.
- Cutting the stem unhealthy or bad growth should also consider the growth of existing branches and healthy. Cutting plants resistance against different rod depending on the level of fertility.
- Healthy plants will be more resistant to cuts while the plant is not healthy to have a weak resistance.
- If want new branches grow from a branch, the cutting should be done as close as possible to the part of the question and the branch should indeed good growth.
- After configuring the larger branches, you now move on to the smaller ones. Smaller branches and leaves can be trimmed using fine sears to create clean incisions.
Some seasoned bonsai gardeners trim off leaves by using their fingers. This is done with a quick twisting motion that breaks off twigs and leaves. It is recommended that you practice this motion on some other plants first before you try it on your bonsai. The trick is to break of the leaving without exerting too much pressure on the main branch. If done wrongly, you may accidentally break some branches in the process.


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Home health care is the fastest growing industry in the United States based on the projection period of 2014-2024. The anticipated employment growth for the period is more than 760,000 jobs, reaching a total of over 2 million. While some of these jobs are for home health aides and personal care aides, a wide variety of healthcare professionals will be needed, particularly registered nurses.
Home health services will only continue to grow in an aging society and with the increased prevalence of chronic illnesses. The pressure on home care agencies to provide sound, evidence-based care is great. With publicly reported outcomes and agency ratings that will affect payment for care, it is critical for the home care nurse to provide the best care and to optimize patient outcomes. With the continued growth of the home care industry coupled with an expectation of excellence in clinical outcomes, there is clearly a need for highly educated home care nurses.


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Sailing boat of great performances and comfort for pleasant sailing through the Ionian sea. The boat has been refeated completely in 2016. It is waiting for you at Lefkada. It is the island of fantastic landscapes, long sandy and pebble beaches that surround the white cliffs and beautiful milky color of the sea. The boat has three cabins and can host up to seven people for the unforgetable cruise. There are also two bathrooms and spacious salon with the kitchen inside while outside you can find vast cockpit with table to enjoy your meals with breathtaking view. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.
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How a South Shore bakery became a Kennedy family favoriteBy John Galluzzo | Photo courtesy of John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Founded 70 years ago in the basement of a Quincy pizza shop, Montilio's Baking Company has been called upon to create many magnificent cakes for notable VIPs, including John F. Kennedy. When asked how the bakery has maintained close ties with the Kennedy family, George Montilio, the latest in his family line to run the business, says "It's all about relationships."
Montilio's Baking Company opened in 1947 and it was thanks to George Montilio's dad Ernie's political interest that the bakery was commissioned to make then-Senator John F. Kennedy's wedding cake six years later. When JFK went to Washington in 1961, he asked Montilio's to provide a cake for his inauguration, but there was a catch.
"We weren't union at the time," says Montilio. "We were allowed to make slices of cake, but not the official cake." But the relationship between the Montilios and Kennedys was already established. Since that time, Montilio's has become a bakery of choice for Kennedy events. For the dedication of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Montilio's provided a cake that was designed to look exactly like the building and they made a cake for Ted Kennedy when he was running for president. On the 20th anniversary of the JFK's death, the bakery made a huge American flag cake that measured eight feet by 12 feet, with a portrait of the president in the middle. Montilio's Baking Company has delivered cakes to the Kennedy family compound in Hyannisport and even out to the Rose Kennedy Greenway. For Rose Kennedy's 90th birthday, the bakers designed a cake covered in roses.
The baking tradition continues to this day as Montilio's prepares to make a special cake for the celebration marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of John F. Kennedy in May. If there's one thing the family has learned over the years, it's that to get the "keys to the compound," you need high-quality customer service, old-world recipes and a healthy dose of flavorful frosting.


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In its most basic sense, "Mediation" means any communication among 2 or more parties that is guided or facilitated by an unbiased third person (the mediator). The mediator helps the parties communicate more effectively in aid of achieving the voluntary and mutually acceptable resolution of disputes.
There are many different models or styles of mediation, differing mainly on the degree in which the mediator exerts influence. In Evaluative Mediation, the top-down end of the spectrum, the mediator, who is a legal expert, reviews the claims of both sides and the evidence supporting the claims, and steers the parties toward a settlement based on the mediator's best assessment of how the case would play out in court. The other end of the spectrum, Transformative Mediation, is much more open-ended and the mediator deliberately fades into the background of the conversation.
My style falls pretty much directly between the above models. Like an Evaluative mediator, I possess the knowledge and experience to understand the legal aspects of disputes. Unlike an Evaluative mediator, I try to focus parties' efforts on resolutions meeting THEIR needs, not a hypothetical judge's fiat. Like a Facilitative mediator, I believe that the parties are in the best position to understand their interests and to suggest solutions based on their interests. Unlike a Facilitative mediator, I have no problem with taking control of the process of discussion to ensure full participation and understanding.


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"A logo is an instrument of pride and should be shown at its best. If in the business of communications, "image is king," the essence of this image, the logo, is the jewel in its crown."Paul Rand (created logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Morningstar, Inc., Westinghouse, ABC, and NeXT.So, when you work with a logo designer to create your logo identity, your focus should be on the effectiveness of the end result and not entirely on the cost.If you'd like to learn more, sign up for my free 5-day course on how to make an impact with your brand 🙂
But how are costs decided?You can't precisely put a figure on a bespoke service like logo design as you would with valuing a product. (if you google online for 'logo design', you'll be inundated with hundreds of different links offering logo design services). However, there are certain basic aspects that determine the cost of a logo design. Designing a logo is not just simply choosing a nice font and playing around with different shapes and colours; there are many other factors involved which determine the value of a professional logo design. You need to define the details of what you're business is all about (I sometimes use a logo design worksheet to help clients define their business and ideas.) And when you choose a logo designer, as with any service profession, you need to research them and check them out. They need to have an updated, responsive, and professional looking website, have useful, informative content describing their services and process – and be showcasing it online and various social media channels. You are paying for their experience, skill and their time. So, the rates vary depending upon the expertise of the designer, how long it takes to create your unique logo design, and the level to which the designer pushes himself.A professional logo designer spends years mastering their skill sets, not just in logo design, but delving into other overlapping fields such as psychology, information design and colour theory to name just a few. They're always researching, updating and honing their skills, as well as making the perfect cuppa. And it's never a 9-to-5 job. We often have ideas that pop into our heads late at night (the optimal time for creativity I find…) so a pad and pencil is always close at hand. To design a professional brand and logo identity, the designer will need the latest design software, tools and materials - these do not come cheap (unless you take the risk of illegally copied software). Designers who use cheap software and tools can only offer low quality logos. In retrospect, larger specialist design and brand agencies have physical central city offices with staff/freelancer wages that they need to maintain and pay for, and these overheads are transferred to you. Check out the video below that describes the 'spec work' and 'competition design' sites:
https://youtu.be/DsstOs-K7gkI won't bore you on the pros and cons of crowd-sourced logo design competitions, but here's a great quote from David Airey – a fellow logo designer from Ireland, who sums it up:
"It's important to differentiate "crowdsourcing" from "spec work." Some websites sell design contest listings, defining that as crowdsourcing, but they essentially make their profit off people who work for free. Crowdsourcing… can work well when used for simple tasks, in a similar way to how focus groups might be useful… and although there are always exceptions, crowdsourcing the outcome tends to generate poor quality."
So, what should I pay?Depending upon different factors, here in the UK, a professional logo identity design can cost anywhere from £500 upto £2,000 for a small business and around £3,000 to over £5,000 for a medium sized, bricks and mortar business that requires signage, vehicles, and marketing materials. And for larger companies, with more requirements across print and online, it can go beyond £10,000 for a full brand identity with guidelines. Other UK logo designers may charge on an hourly basis, (the average is around £25 upto £100 per hour) which can easily become expensive with many revisions if there is no clear brief at the initial stages.Fixed fee logo design packages are great if you want to keep costs on a budget and offer a professional logo design as well as additional brand designs such as business cards, stationery templates, social media banners, slide decks and a website ready to launch. All logo design prices reflect the cumulative increase of time required, including the allocation of work hours to meet a client schedule. This can also involve working through the brand strategy as well as complete and thorough research of direct and indirect competing companies, which can eat up many hours, and this is all before we've even started the process of brainstorming ideas, and putting pencil to paper.
Most logo designers will charge a fixed fee based on a set process which includes a number of design stages from researching, sketching, mood boards and taglines. The final delivery may range from the supply of a logo and single page guideline file - through to a full set of brand logo identity guidelines that can include; roadmapping and strategy, tone of voice, typography, photography, icons and illustration style - as well as business cards, letterheads to advertising and slide deck templates. You also want your logo identity to stand the test of time - at least five years for startups, refining and adjusting their logo identity as they expand. Good examples of well-known startups that updated their logo identity are Facebook, Pinterest and AirBnB. Another option if you're just starting out and don't want to invest in a full logo identity, and that's using a quick online logo design app. A good example I found is Logojoy. This allows you to try your hand at a professional looking logo on your own time and want to try some ideas before going to a professional logo designer. But remember, investing in a strong logo identity for the longer term and not just for the sake of a new design trend will create stability and trust, providing a clear and consistent message to not just your customers and clients – but also to your valued team too. View some of the Top 10 logo designs gone wrong


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The ultimate purpose of hypnosis and hypnotherapy is to help you dissolve any inner obstacles, so that your innate greatness can freely express through you, enabling you to live a life that is greater and more wonderful than anything you have yet even imagined possible.
Hypnosis is an art and a science of creating subjective experience of reality which in turn influences objective experience of reality. It is summed up in expressions "As within, so without", "As above, so below".
Hypnosis is a science because it is governed by the Laws of the Mind, also called the Laws of the Spirit. These laws arise out of the principle of Oneness - The Law of One. The principle of Oneness states that:
Hypnosis is an art because there is infinite number of ways in which you can play with and alter subjective reality - yours, or someone else's. The secret of successful self-hypnosis is in learning how to play the game of pretending really well. You choose what you want to experience and pretend that it is real for you now.
The truth is - you have been playing this game your entire life - perhaps unconsciously and unknowingly. To be sure, people around you helped - in different ways they influenced how you should think and act and feel - and then you continued to make your choices and created experiences that validated the perception of the world you accepted. In time you set up a feed-back loop - you think a thought, then look for something in the external world to validate it and confirm it. This in turn, reinforces the original thought, and as the same pattern repeats, you reinforce your chosen beliefs about reality. Your beliefs then influence your experience of reality automatically. If you don't like what you are experiencing you can begin by changing your thoughts by choosing what you want to experience and taking care and control of your mind.
If you don't care to take control of your mind, others will do their best to do it for you. It begins with your parents who most often do have your best interests at heart, though they can only teach you what they have learned. It then continues with educational institutions whose main interest is in turning you into a socially-productive individual who will pledge allegiance to and feel dependent upon the external world or rather the powers that govern the specific country. It is not in their interest to turn you into a fearless human being who is fully aware of and capable of using his mental faculties, who knows that his thoughts create his reality, because then you cannot be controlled and manipulated. It is in their interest to keep you feeling slightly anxious, afraid, slightly inadequate, insecure, and helpless - feeling good enough to be socially productive, but not so good that you stop participating in a never-ending chain of purchasing pills and goodies that will at least for a few moments make you feel a little bit better. In this way you keep on fueling economy, which is good for the country.
That's why, after you get sufficiently brainwashed through the schooling system, you get more helpings through daily newspapers, news and TV programs. In this way, your mind gets a new daily dose of programming with fresh disasters in the world, lest you forget that there is a possible danger lurking behind every corner. You get more helpings through flashy advertisements. They are all happily programming your subconscious mind, whether you are aware of it or not.
Companies are investing billions of dollars each year on advertising because it is a wonderful way of hypnotizing people - of influencing people's thoughts and emotions - and it works. When you keep on flashing an idea - whether through words, pictures, music, movies or any other form - day in and day out - it becomes so familiar to the people that they accept it as their own.
You can do the same for yourself - by flashing to yourself ideas of the things you desire to experience in your life and out of the infinite ways in which you can do this here are just a few - choosing the thoughts you think, working with affirmations, using hypnosis recordings, hanging out with people who have accomplished what you desire to accomplish, choosing what you read and what you watch, choosing the songs you listen to, making treasure maps and essentially surrounding yourself with anything that helps you to keep your mind focused on your desired outcome - as if it were already a part of your life now. You are the only person responsible for your life. Let go of the past and embrace your power to create the life you'd enjoy living now.Funtasma Men s Santa Combat B079L1C6WZ Boot 14169 Black/What Faux Combat Fur cbd1eac Hypnosis Programs and Articles in Other Languages Military & Tactical
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The sliding door is your entrance to the modern world
The door is a peculiar output to the large, unknown world. That is at the same time entrance to our private room where we hide our personal feelings and thoughts. The door is somehow a barrier of protection to a separator between the two worlds. These features make the door to one of the most important parts of our apartment. If you are looking for extravagance, what new try – E.g. sliding door. She not only different looks, but moves smoothly and fluently, and makes no noise. These are very important benefits.
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5 NOTES: on USA-Guatemala & PPV PatriotismFirpo's Five Notes on the USA-Guatemala World Cup Qualifier
by Mike Firpo | Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Here are five things that come to mind on the USA's 1-1 Tuesday night World Cup Qualifying draw in Guatemala:
1. Pay-Per-View Patriotism
Nothing irks US Men's National Team fans more these days than being forced into buying pricey pay-per-view broadcasts of their own team during meaningful World Cup qualifiers. $29.95 no less on cable or the internet to see the Yanks play Guatemala away.
Yes, some will say it's about the money, so deal with it commie. Others may point a finger at US Soccer for not upping the ante to get this match for its fanbase and to grow the game. And many will cite the now standard "don't blame us" wording in the FAQ (Forget Away Qualifiers) that US Soccer published basically stating, yet again, to look to CONCACAF's policies and ultimately not the federation.
But then again, the perennial host of the Gold Cup, regional powerhouse and world superpower can throw a little weight around. If not just for its own fans and self-interest, than to force CONCACAF into changing future TV broadcasting packaging and policies for the entire region, and to lean towards long-term logic and growth instead of short-term profiteering via pay-per-view.
No matter the explanation, the fact of the matter is that Traffic Sports USA as the winner of the USA rights from the Guatemala federation and the main backer of the NASL (and for that matter all of North America's 2nd division soccer) should have the growth of the game short and long-term at its heart when it wins these deals.
2. 30 Bucks for 30 Issues
At some point during the match I stopped counting how many technical errors were being beamed onto my screen and into my ears.
If it wasn't bad enough that the picture was blurrier than a polaroid (no tech nerds, not the app, the real ones) we had to cope with the decent if not awkward Joe Tolleson & Shaka Hislop broadcasting combo, the lack of any on-screen graphics/info/stats, an incessant buzz that kept giving me that unsettling "is my cellphone too close to the alarm?" feeling, or the cuts to black, then blue and finally low sound, then no sound and finally cue the Spanish feed and your angst at not pulling the trigger on that Rosetta Stone program … it was just all too much to bare. Well, maybe if it was free I could groan and tolerate the myriad of sight and sound issues. Unfortunately being sent on a one way trip to "Gouge-amala City" made me less tolerant than normal.
Amazingly it took the broadcasting duo until the 71st minute to apologize to the paying listeners for transmission issues. Too little, too late.
And ultimately, this situation is not acceptable, not anymore. Maybe in 1998, but not in 2012. CONCACAF and US Soccer need to figure this out for the future. And Traffic as a USA soccer stakeholder in clubs, players and media rights, needs to make decisions that are good for this domain, otherwise their status as harvester of American soccer, needs to be reevaluated by the USSF.
The World Cup qualification matches of the United States of America (the now #1 fan ticket buyer & media rights spender for the FIFA World Cups) should never be invisible to most of its new and growing fanbase and certainly not make hostages of the hardcore by forcing them to pay princely for their pride. And finally, if you want to charge $30, be a dear and kindly present it better on TV than a typical Friday night Texas highschool football broadcast.
3. Defensive Mid or Defensive Minded?
Not surprisingly US Coach Jurgen Klinsmann came out with a similar lineup to the last few friendlies and the first qualifier versus Antigua and Barbuda. In that I mean to say it was a bit too defensive, well at least in the midfield. I won't go too deep into it because SN columnist Chris Enger covered the 3 DMid issue succinctly in his latest article.
I agree with Enger's take that maybe against Brazil or superior opponents the notion of an extra Defensive Midfielder (to a maximum of two) would be good enough to stifle, contain and ultimately keep the lesser USA in those games. But versus Antigua (population: see decent suburb USA) 3 DMs was overkill.
It comes as no surprise then that Klinsmann opted for 3 DMids yet again in the away match in Guatemala. His now favored Bradley-Jones-Edu tri-dribbling-here combo did what they usually do in the midfield: clean-up, counter, battle, win balls and possess. But with 3 cooks in the kitchen doing the same tasks it can get a bit redundant, crowded and tiresome. Two is more than enough (1 for us romantics) but 3 is borderline schizophrenic. To make matters worse, for the last sub of the game Klinsmann brought off Donovan and replaced him with RSL captain and fellow DMid Kyle Beckerman. This to kill the game off, waste some late precious moments that Guatemala hoped to score within and to leave Guate with a point. When he did that, albeit briefly, the USA had 4 defensive midfielders on the field. Four.
So much for bringing in a central midfielder to attack, keep possession and force the opponents to play defense. With 3 DMids becoming the USMNT norm, the US' matches will rarely, if ever given that Antigua affair in Tampa, entertain. Sadly that goes against the defacto mandate given to Klinsmann by US Soccer, the media and the increasingly sophisticated American soccer fanbase.
The USA will qualify from CONCACAF handily, as is now expected. But the evolution of the style and entertainment value of its highest men's squad will likely be the cost yet again, as pragmatism is used to justify points and fancy football is deemed in the end, fanciful. Even if coach Klinsmann's ideal is genuinely to play positive soccer, it would seem his on-field squads run counter-intuitively as they continually have 8 of 11 players on them whose main skillset and position is to defend.
4. Fabian Fantastisch
There's been a great deal of chatter in the USMNT soccersphere recently about the capture of our newest German "uber-Yank"™ - Fabian Johnson. The young leftback not only fills the previously shallowest part of the American player pool, but does so, swimmingly.
For me, he was the most consistent and effective American player versus Guatemala. Not only did he create from nothing and assist Dempsey's efficient goal in the 40th minute, but he did so with his now customary overlapping runs up the left flank followed by dangerous cuts inside in the final third. Though not at that level, his jaunts are reminiscent of Brazilian wingbacks like Dani Alves and Roberto Carlos. For me, his play on the left-side is even stronger than Timmy Chandler, should our wayward ringer ever decide to come back to the American fold and forego dreams of Germanic grandeur.
5. Donovan Set Piece Danger – Made in UK?
Is it just me or does it look like Landon Donovan's set pieces have a bit of Beckham influence in them the last few USMNT matches?
His corners and free kicks all seem to land in nearly perfect locations for goal-scoring potential. The precision is there, the incoming speed is dangerous, the bending seems more … well, made in Britain.
Go back and watch the last few matches and all of Donovan's set pieces, you'll see many of them are on the money, bending away from keepers and moving at hi-speeds. That type of delivery may just nick the USA a goal or two in qualifying. Even in the small fishbowl of CONCACAF that just might be the difference in watching World Cup 2014 from home or playing in Brazil.
Oddly enough Herculez Gomez and Jermaine Jones took two remarkably bad free kicks during the match. Those wasteful efforts just served to reinforce the need for Landon to use his newly-improved set piece prowess in all future US matches.
Coincidentally, if anyone still belligerently doubts the USA landing on the moon or the many benefits to MLS and North American soccer that came with David Beckham's charming grin and worldwide superstar brand arriving on these shores. Maybe they'll reconsider if on the field Becks, by osmosis or competitive drive, has bestowed onto the greatest American soccer player of all time, an improved skillset from his fading, yet still majestic, golden tool belt.


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Twelve years ago, the first crystal structure of a synthetic nonheme oxoiron(IV) species [FeIV(O)(TMC)(NCMe)]2+ was reported by Lawrence Que Jr. and Wonwoo Nam1 (Science, 2003, 299, 1037), initiating an explosion of activity that has resulted in the characterization of more than 70 such complexes by a number of laboratories. Two additional structures of oxoiron(IV) complexes supported by closely related TMC-based ligands have been reported. In all three cases, the oxo atom is situated anti to the four methyl groups of the TMC macrocycle, suggesting a thermodynamic preference for this site. Recently, Jai Prakash, Ph.D, in the Que laboratory synthesized what appeared to be an isomer of the first [FeIV(O)(TMC)]2+ complex, and Gregory Rohde, Ph.D., solved its structure to demonstrate the anticipated syn binding of the oxo moiety. This result has just been reported in Inorganic Chemistry (Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54, 11055).
Crystals of [FeIV(Osyn)(TMC)(OTf)]+ were obtained at -80 ºC by recrystallization of the product from the reaction of FeII(TMC)(OTf)2 with the oxo-transfer reagent, 2-tBuSO2-C6H4IO in MeCN at 25 °C. Interestingly, when the same reaction was performed with C6H5IO as an oxidant, the anti isomer, [FeIV(Oanti)(TMC)(NCMe)]2+ was obtained, as previously reported. The syn isomer has the shortest FeIV=O bond (1.625(4) Å) found to date among all crystallographically characterized oxoiron(IV) complexes and exhibits UV-vis, IR, 1H-NMR and Mossbauer parameters distinct from those of the anti isomer. Further investigations are underway to determine whether structural differences give rise to different reactivities.
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Those who have followed Neill Blomkamp's career since the South African-born Canadian was a visual effects wunderkind working out of The Embassy VFX in Vancouver knew that the director would be worth watching as he moved into bigger projects. Blomkamp had earned a name as a visual pioneer, for blending fantastical and sophisticated CG creations into everyday reality – be that reality the greige-hued world of office drones, as in his 2006 short TempBot, or the gritty streets of Johannesburg as in the stunning Tetra Vaal from 2003 and 2005's Alive in Joberg (http://creativity-online.com/work/neill-blomkamp-alive-in-joburg/16792 ). Blomkamp's way with visuals was also showcased in spots, like Nike's Crab and Evolution.
Director Peter Jackson famously tapped the director to direct the feature version of Halo3 in 2007. And then that film famously fell apart due to disagreement between Fox and Universal (though Blomkamp did leave us with some fantastic promos for the game).
Sad, but with that studio blockbuster dead, and with Jackson's backing, Blomkamp was able to make a more personal film in District 9, which is based in part on his earlier Alive in Joberg. There was little doubt that the director's first feature would deliver on superlative visuals. But it felt like District 9, made for $30 million, was an order of magnitude above what even fans were expecting.
The New Yorker's Anthony Lane wrote: "You don't feel bamboozled, fooled, or patronized by District 9, as you did by most of the summer blockbusters. You feel winded, shaken, and shamed."
And that is perhaps what the people behind the huge blockbusters whose box office grosses are surpassed only by their breathtaking inanity felt upon viewing the superb District 9 – shame.
Blomkamp on lessons from making District 9 (from Creativity): "The learning curve was so steep and so much more intense than I was expecting. People always say the only way to learn how to make films is to go out and make them, and nothing could be more true. If I had to pick one (lesson), it would be how my ability to get what I was looking for in actors got better as the filming went along."
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Continuing a series of videos devoted to the special abilities of the hero in Call of Duty: Black Ops III, the developers decided to talk about the set of skills designed for use against robots. First, for example, allows you to incite the enemy to their comrades. If you don't need, you can always overload the systems that will lead to an explosion.
Sometimes it may happen that you do not want to personally go into battle, and nearby there is a combat drone. Just take control of it, destroy enemies and blow up the drone! Hand-to-hand battle will allow you not only to quickly defuse the robot, but will also give you an unstable energy core, an exploding grenade is not worse.


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If it's not been snow, it's been ice or it's been rain.
|March 2015
From Sunday on, we've had nothing but rain. Last week, we had the threat of ice, and I pick snow over ice any day! But the next week (this week) was forecasted as sunny. By Saturday, that forecast changed and we could expect rain all week.
We have been framing for six weeks now and it has flown by and felt long all at the same time. It's not until I look back at my timeline, do I realize how much time we have lost due to the weather.
|February 2015
I have an Excel file where I document weather and the actual tasks that were completed that day. But I also have my Project (.MPP) file that is what helps me predict the impacts of things. Excel can't do that.
From my original forecast, we are behind. I predicted we'd be finished with framing by March 6th. I've now been told we have another two weeks. It's not bad. It's actually what I've been working towards, but I had high hopes I was being conservative with my timing. I never thought weather would impact us so much. I knew it could, but our crew promised to work in rain.
Back in December, when we met with our framer, he said he worked in the rain. He wouldn't work if it was thunder and lightening, but if it rained, he'd be there. Well, if you have anyone ever promise to work in the rain, they are lying. I didn't expect snow or ice to be worked in. The foundation is dangerous with ice, plus getting to and from the job site is dangerous. People up north can do it, because they are prepared for those conditions and have special equipment they invested in. But I had a misconception that rain would not derail us. However, it has been explained to me that at the point of framing we are in (trusses and roof) it is too dangerous to work in the rain. The lumber can be very slippery and a fall could result. We don't want that.
My patience is growing. This has been hard. It's hard to see it rain and snow. I usually love the weather changes. Especially now when I want my garden to come back alive. But when building a house, I want sunny skies!
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If Pelosi had the votes today, the bill would've been scheduled to be voted on *today*
23 Dem Yes Votes on ObamaCare Switch to Undecided | RedState
Nor would funding in the stimulous bill for *any* problem we face today have made any difference at all *today* and certainly no funding to deal with a pandemic would have yet born any sort of fruit.
Write Thymer Review @WWD @today @review @1. 5 @important @waiting will assign myself a task, due today, called "Write Thymer Review."
Haha someone just knocked on my supervisers door and she was sleeping haha poor thing shes been sick mamas not in today either due to sickness I think everyone feels like shit around this place today .
But today ooo, today just has to top this shit off.
If you make the person of today put money into a 401(k) *today* you make them worse off (since they wanted to put money in a 401(k) tomorrow), but you make their yesterday's self happy.
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only thing changed from the default precision theme is i made it a true today plus (sneak peak appears / disappears by scrolling to different respective icons) clarification on today+: calendar items will always show up. only new items will show up for sms / messages / call log
President Obama used some of the harshest rhetoric of his term today in denouncing the Republican jobs plan, saying the GOP's emphasis on less regulations would harm the environment, undercut health care, and failed to produce necessary jobs in the short term.
Because the Baath Party was dominated by Sunnis, and ruled ruthlessly over a Shiite majority for decades, the term today also carries sectarian undertones, as was seen Tuesday in Tikrit, Mr. Hussein's hometown in Salahuddin Province, north of Baghdad.
A person finishing such a term today would have entered prison when Ronald Reagan was U.S. president, Margaret Thatcher was Britain's prime minister, and actress Lindsay Lohan was a year old.


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Both of these teams have been very dangerous on the power play this season. The Leafs enter tonight 4th in the NHL converting on 23.6% of their chances. The Capitals are 2nd at a robust 24.2%. In addition both of these clubs are amongst the most heavily penalized in the NHL. The Leafs have accumulated 371 minutes which ranks 2nd in the league, while the Capitals are 4th with 325. The Capitals penalty killing has been very good as well. They've killed off 85.9% of the opposition's power play opportunities. The Leafs have been average while shorthanded ranking 16th at 82.4%.
I give the overall edge in special teams to the Capitals in this evening's contest.
Michal Neuvirth was in goal for Washington in last night's 3-2 home loss to the Montreal Canadians. In all likelihood it will be the Capitals #1 goalie Braden Holtby between the pipes tonight versus the Leafs. In 17 starts this season Holtby has posted a 2.70 GAA and a .923 save percentage while posting 1 shutout. In his last 3 starts Holtby has been peppered with a combined 124 shots on goal. He was able to turn away 116 of those 124 shots for a stellar .935 save percentage.
The Leafs tandem of Jonathan Bernier and James Reimer has been terrific this season. Especially when you consider the fact that the Leafs are allowing an average of 35.5 shots on goal per game which ranks 28th in the NHL. In 15 starts Bernier has posted a solid 2.19 GAA and a very good .934 save percentage while also recording 1 shutout. James Reimer has been outstanding in the backup role. In 7 starts Reimer has a 2.27 GAA, an excellent .942 save percentage, and 1 shutout.
I give a huge edge to Toronto in this category.
Inside the Leafs Numbers
- The Leafs are 17-35 in their last 52-games versus an opponent with a winning record.
- The Leafs have won 5 of their last 6 home games.
- The Leafs are 16-5 in their last 21 home games versus an opponent with a losing record on the road.
- The Leafs have gone under the total in 7 of their last 8-games, versus an opponent who scored 2-goals or less in their previous game.
- The Leafs have scored 2-goals or less in 6 of their last 8-games.
- This will be the Leafs 4th of a 5-game home stand. They've gone over the total in their first 3-games of the home stand which concludes on Monday versus the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Inside the Capitals Numbers
- The Capitals are 6-2 in their last 8-games when playing their 3rd game in 4 days.
- The Capitals are 3-13 in their last 16 road games versus an opponent with a home winning percentage of better than .600.
- The Capitals are 3-9 in their last 12-games versus an opponent with a winning record.
- The Capitals have gone under the total in 5 of their last 6-games versus an opponent with a winning record.
- The Capitals have gone over the total just 18 of their last 69-games versus Atlantic Division opponents.
- The Capitals have gone under the total in their last 3-games.
Final Analysis
Although the Capitals have had recent success when playing their 3rd game in 4-days, this environment will be a whole different animal. They will be facing an opponent that's very good on home ice this season, and has a decided edge in the goaltending department. An intangible factor will be the home team knows they will be playing to a huge viewing audience on the "Hockey Night in Canada" telecast broadcast by CBC. My lean for my NHL picks is toward the hometown Maple Leafs.
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COMMERCE - Jack Julian, Ward 1 council member for the City of Commerce and mayor pro tem, resigned from his position early Wednesday.
Julian, whose second consecutive term is set to expire in 2011, offered no explanation for his departure.
His announcement comes hours after the council failed to pass a property ordinance change that would have reduced lot restrictions for single family dwellings in Commerce.
Julian has attempted to bring the matter before the council more than once. On each occasion, the proposed change has fallen victim to a technicality that prohibited its passing - a state law that says ordinance change can only be passed by a majority of the full council.
Council woman Lena Enochs, voted against the ordinance change.
On Tuesday, Sandra ross and Julian cast votes in support of reducing a restriction in a city ordinance that prohibits construction or the introduction of mobile or modular homes on lots with frontage of less than 60 feet.
Billy Bissell, chairman of the city's zoning committee who modified a Nowata zoning code to fit Commerce, said it was an oversight on his part when he did not reduce the footage restriction to 40 feet.
�I overlooked it,� Bissell said. �My personal recommendation is to change the lot size from 60 feet to 40 feet.�
Bissell said 80 to 90 percent of the lots in Commerce are 40-foot lots.
As Enochs voted against the change, she said that the zoning committee members had collectively indicated to her that the ordinance is exactly what they intended it to be.
In its current form, according to Ross, the ordinance robs property owners of the value of individual 40-foot lots as it reduces the resale value to nearly nothing.
�A 40-foot lot is worthless (under the existing ordinance),� Ross said.
Ross has consistently maintained that people may not realize the ordinance prohibits all construction on 40-foot lots.
�If your house is on a 40-foot lot and it burns down, or a tornado hits it - you can't build it back,� Ross said.
Additionally, the city is without a mayor.
Clouding the issue in Commerce is a concern among residents that unsightly trailers will be allowed to be brought into town.
Despite city ordinances that require trailers and modular homes to meet council approval, residents complain that unsightly homes are slipping in.
Zoning committee members and residents who attended Tuesday's council meeting said their biggest concern is a lack of consistency on the part of the council to hold property owners to guidelines that are in place.
Councilman Bob Crawford, who abstained from the vote when it came before the council in February, was absent from Tuesday's meeting.
Additionally, the city is without a mayor.
The two votes cast in favor of
Clouding the issue in Commerce is a concern among residents that unsightly trailers will be allowed to be brought into town.
Audience members challenged council members to strive for constancy.
�I think we are missing an opportunity if we don't do this,� Julian said. �It will bring revenue to the city and it will save people who, if they lost their house in a fire, from the legal hassles.�
There is a process that will allow people to build back on property if their home is destroyed, but the process is complicated, city officials said.
With Julian's resignation, the city now faces the expense of a an election.
Additionally, with two members out, the council is left with only a quorum. If anyone is absent from a council meeting, the effort to conduct city business is jeopardized.


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Team Rocket (Rated BG Team) - Mondays at 9pm Server
Blast off at the speed of light!
9pm server. If you're on my list, be there. If you fail to show up, I will PuG up to 2 members.
Lets do it.Post edited by Valisa at 2011-08-05 21:57:16
May i easedrop on vent =)
Also, Team Plasma is way better.
Team Restraining Order.The chintacle can sense fear.
Thanks everyone! We'll be taking a break this Monday (unless someone wants to pick up lead), but we'll be back the following Monday!
Let's try to do it again Monday, minus Val? Maybe bring Sub in? Try to get our arena caps and just work on the one win for the points? Seems worth it, then resume actually working on it after Val's back.
Post edited by hronk at 2011-08-09 02:38:39
works for me!
Arenajunkies class discussion forums are at this link. Please read them.Post edited by Valisa at 2011-08-09 18:35:54
I'm game for next Monday as well..
Thanks for the reading, Val!
Who else is available this coming Monday? Looks like Sub can make it so with we have a replacement for Val.
I am, maybe slap it on the calendar for that week just for head count?
Well, it's not really all that calendary and we've had 3 people so far express any interest so it's looking a little on the unlikely side.
Well if we have Sub, then that's 5 people and I can harass some more. I'll post something on the calendar. Sign up if you can make it. I'll harass some others.
Editing to add: I posted a raid for Monday at 9pm. For Team Rocket, please sign up if you can make it. For anyone else reading this, please sign up if interested, have PVP gear and experience with BGs.Post edited by Jexii at 2011-08-11 11:33:31
Jexii | Mexiico | Jezaal
I'm in if you need an extra for the week.a/k/a Victarious
We have 5 on the calendar, Hronk is neglecting to use my calendar but hoping he's still in. With theory saying Yes above, so far we would have 7. Will look for Wraith, Gali, Leon in game! We should have enough though.
Jexii | Mexiico | Jezaal
I'm in, Theory is in, Sub is in, I bet Leon-'the internet confuses me'-harrt is in, so that just leaves some sundry canadians and other riffraff. Go find 'em!
Oh and Spinn! Are you able to come Monday?
Jexii | Mexiico | Jezaal
Did this happen? How did it go?
Alas no - not enough peeps.. Wraith and I ended up doing Arenas instead..
Jexii failed us as an organizer and leader!Post edited by hronk at 2011-08-16 00:34:57
Its true! We just can't do it without Val!
I did make the attempt, but then took what I had hoped would be a brief nap before the BGs and woke up to a text from Waffle. Once logged on we didn't have all our peeps that we normally would like and some of us online were just not feeling it without the presence of our awesome leader Val. :) Come back soon!
Jexii | Mexiico | Jezaal
I had suggested to Jex that we not try and force it as an undergeared, thrown-together group could and would be frustrating. I was also utterly exhausted last night so my usual sub-par performance would have been less than dismal.
You weren't the only one that expressed concern about taking in folks who didn't have the gear to the RBG; frankly the string of losses from doing just that broke us the last time we did rated BGs. It was the smart call when we only had 5 regulars to not PUG the other 5 ;)The chintacle can sense fear.
Glory happens this Monday. Be there. Calender invites will be live in game shortly.
English major fail.I love gnomes.
Haven't had time to get to Geren and 'verses' (vs 'versus')!
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Jexii | Mexiico | Jezaal
Jexii is drunk.I love gnomes.
so i got to reading this prot flag carrying guide...and ive basically gotta regem/reenchant and reforge everything to make it work...if i do this thats all im gonna be able to do that night so let me know
Just stay arms, then.Post edited by Valisa at 2011-08-20 18:00:04
A great guide for RBGs. It's apparently terribad not to have a rogue, so I can try Gearteeth instead of MK this Monday for team comp (also might have more fun on him, an important criteria for me). The problem is that I was the FC, albeit a rather unsuccessful one mobility-wise, so we'll need to see who's doing what.
What precisely is our team comp right now anyway?The chintacle can sense fear.
criterion. /pedantidance
I suppose I'm running flags Monday. I don't particularly like keeping myself off of the O team, but it seems the best option for now.
Eek, for some reason I thought we had the frost mage that was deemed as mandatory as the rogue =(The chintacle can sense fear.
It's probably mandatory if you're 3300 rated. Interesting read, that guide.
Would be nice to see some more rangedness in there though, that's for sure.
There is a distinct lack of mixture ... we're like a southern family, a few too many like each other =P
Definitely tears it; one way or the other MK and Mal are out of consideration /sighPost edited by Maloch at 2011-08-20 20:20:07The chintacle can sense fear.
It would be pretty badass to have a more varied range of classes, but we're gonna make the best with what we have. Wraith has offered to xfer over his hunter for us, so that will help a bit.
I also suppose I could level Valisai feral for flag running . . .
Looking at the data it looks like Mal is back in. Feral's actually not that good at flag running, or rather it's not good at surviving until the cap. Trying to gear Mal up now as FC.The chintacle can sense fear.
I had this (interesting if inconclusive) conversation with MK, but don't we already have a pile of warriors one of whom could step in to be an FC? Let's assume Mal gears and trains up to be world's greatest FC - we'd still be sorely short CC (which his rogue can provide) and ranged (which we just have close to bupkis of, right now) and we'd have an even bigger pile of warriors.
According to the very guide I linked the author regularly runs with three warriors in their team, so that's not too bad. When Wraith brings in his hunter things will be a bit more spaced. Funny thing is, I've got a frost mage within striking distance of 85 ... you know, the other most needed class we're lacking lol.
What it comes down to is that Leon is a raid tank, and only has one spec/gear set for pvping. Val can't really lead and call targets when hiding on the flag cap point, and we need him out there (Leon is also an excellent murdernmachine). Whoever becomes the flag runner has to dedicate not only his spec but also his gear set to it; that actually entails a hell of a lot more than a respec each week. Prot FCs need to reforge everything to mastery, and can even ignore the 5% hit down to 2% or so. An arms warrior commits suicide by wearing the same gear (the arms mastery is legendarily bad). A Prot FC regems to a combo of resilience first followed by strength; also not great for an arms warrior. So we're talking an entirely different gear set between the two roles, and I'm not eve sure you can HAVE two of the same tier set pieces in your bag.
Enter me. My DK, while I'm really good on him, is sub-par for FC (that's of course counteracted by the non-flag maps being able to transition easily to frost 2H though). We were already talking last night about how I missed two caps because I didn't have spell reflect/heroic leap last week. I've also played a warrior tank since the beginning of time, to the point where I still slip up on MK and look for my disarm button =P I've also specifically pvp'd as prot before it was 'cool' lol. DKs seem survivable, but a warrior's mitigation is always 'on' and they don't suffer as much from being kited (a smart team kites a DK flag carrier, and I have been ... prevents Death Strikes).
I don't really have much choice. We've got currently three DKs, and in the winning scheme it's better to have three warriors with one as the FC rather than three DKs. Even after Wraith brings in his hunter one DK is enough. Now I could play Gearteeth or Nunatak (my frost mage) or even level my druid Primal, or xfer my own hunter who I've pvped with extensively. But what it comes down to is that we need a FC, and hands down the warrior is the best. There's no high-rated teams with a non-warrior FC. That's just how it is. So either I gear up and run Mal (he's already decently geared) or we hard-force Leon into a once a week spec and reforge where he can't arena or we take our BG leader, a man who has gotten the super-gladiator title on his warrior, and confine him to a blindspot where he's literally leading the BG without firsthand intel.
I think our chances are a lot better if I bite the bullet and swap MK for Mal. And while my rogue is needed, a warrior flag carrier is even more critical.The chintacle can sense fear.
Our setup is far from ideal, but that's all we have to work with really. Wraith is unable to bring his hunter over, so we will be having 2/3 DKs again. It's fine, we'll make it work.
Mal, if you run your war tank, that's fine. If you decide another way, I'll run the flag on Valisa.
We need Mal, I'll run Mal. Besides, I finally get to be pvprot after all these years of being it when it made no sense lol.The chintacle can sense fear.
Okay, after playing some with Mal, yeah ... likely going to stay on MK lol. Val said he'd run it :)The chintacle can sense fear.
Alright, colour me convinced. WTB, 419871334 frost mages!
All right, Maloch it is after a long talk with Val. I'll do my best to get him better geared before Monday (he's in a lot of 358-371 gear, not like he's wearing greens lol) but chances are this Monday he will be slightly more 'squishy' than next.
All I can say is: Bless Alterac Valley weekend next weekend =DThe chintacle can sense fear.
Are you all psyched? I'm pretty psyched. Also, for each game we lose I'm doing two shots. You don't want drunk me giving orders in vent. Lets get some wins!
After the experiment today I'm not so sure about my abilities as a warrior anymore. I stand ready to rock with either Mal or MK as we see fit though.The chintacle can sense fear.
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News from the Ladies' Section at Kington Golf Club
The Ladies held their Annual Meeting and Presentation of Trophies on November 23. Lady Captain, Kay Taylor reported on a year where the weather had played a large role with the snow in the Spring causing many cancellations, but then the glorious Summer and mild autumn making golf a pleasure on Bradnor Hill.
The Trophy winners photographed are : Back Row: Angela Wilkes, Claire Burton, Jo Burton, Sue Purslow, Carolyn Jones, Wendy Douglas Front Row : Barbara Smith, Roma Watkins, Bee Baxendale, Pip Frost Barbara Radbourne.
The Club Championship this year was won by Lorraine Bourne with Ruth Alexander taking the Iris Paget Trophy for the best net
2013 Herefordshire Junior Championships
We extend our congratulations to Ryan Hotchkiss, Jamie Thomas and James Herdman for their fine showing in the 2013 Herefordshire Junior Championships. The event held at Upper Sapey Golf Club saw Ryan and Jamie tie for the lead, both with 77's, after a four hole play off Ryan came out as the new Junior County Champion by two shots. Ryan and Jamie were joined by James to give Kington the team prize and round off a good days work. It was however a close call in the team event as Kington scored 245 with Burghill Valley just one shot back in second place with 246.
Seniors' AGM
At the recent Seniors' AGM the following were elected to the Committee for the 2013/2014 season.
Captain - Terry Weight, Secretary - Paul Finch, Treasurer – Joe James
Fixtures Secretary – Richard Hill, Competitions Co-ordinator – Andy Edey
Terry takes over from David Mains who did a splendid job as Seniors' Captain for the past three years. David has now taken over Ron Davies-Jones's post as the Club's Membership Secretary.
The Seniors match results for the 2013 season are:-
29 scheduled matches - 6 cancelled due to rain and snow. 11 matches won (10 at home) – 11 lost and one drawn.
Home results very good -- away matches --Terrrrrrrible!!!!!
The Inter Club Quiz Night
Kington were the hosts to Burghill Valley Golf Club and The Herefordshire Golf Club. Approx 15 teams of four took part. The three best scores from each Club counting.
The Quiz was set independently. Allan Williams read the questions (but didn`t always give the answers we put!).
I would say it was a great success and I believe well over £400 was taken over the bar plus £200 from the entrance money and raffle. Chips and sandwiches were served at half time.
The result was:- The Herefordshire 265 points, Burghill 240 and Kington 225
It is a round robin tournament with away matches at Burghill on January 25, 2014 and The Herefordshire on the 15 February, 2014.
So come on all you experts, we need your support in the two away matches!
Energize Shropshire Awards Ceremoney
Dear All,
I'm sure you will all join me in congratulating the Chairman of Junior Golf, Charles Sievewright, on his success at the Energize Awards ceremony in Shrewsbury last night.
Energize Shropshire is the Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin County Sports Partnership and holds the awards to highlight the excellent work happening across the county and to celebrate all that is great about community sport and physical activity.
Charles, who has been associated with Junior golf in Shropshire and Herefordshire for around 20 years – as Junior Organiser at his Club, Patshull Park and for the last four years as Chairman of Junior Golf in the twin Counties – was voted the Volunteer of the Year in recognition of the sterling work he does on behalf of young golfers.
One of the two runners up in that category was Shrewsbury's Junior Organiser, Richard Beason, who has done an immense amount of voluntary work for the youngsters in the Club.
Sportsmen and women, together with many who operate behind the scenes to ensure the success of their sports, were honoured at a ceremony at which Olympic Gold Medallist, Tessa Sanderson, was the guest of honour. Congratulations to both Charles and Richard, the only two nominees from golf in S&H.
Bob Davies
President, Shropshire and Herefordshire Union of Golf Clubs
Matthew Davies
Have you been a member of the club long enough to remember the name Matthew Davies. Matthew started playing golf at Kington around 1998 after being encouraged by his grandmother. His golfing career as an amateur and now as a Professional has gone from strength to strength and he is now working in China where he is the Manager of International Development for the PGA. Matt is based at the PGA Golf Acadamy, Mission Hills, Dongguan near Shenzhen. He has been involved in staging tournaments and arranging training workshops. Matt comments that China marks a potentially exciting new career for him but it is culturally very different and not for everyone.
Birthday Girls!
Greta Davies celebrated her 80th birthday recently and the ladies celebrated with her. Elaine Allen (who also had a recent birthday) had organised a wonderful cake with a golfing theme made by Jenny Kelly of Lyonshall. Greta showed her appreciation by buying all the drinks. The weather was lovely and it seemed that the course was celebrating with us all.
News from the Pro Shop
Christmas greetings from the Pro Shop and on behalf of Sarah and Chris thank you for all of your support that we have received since I took over as Head Professional in May. As a thank you, from December 1 through until the December 24, for every £50 you spend in one transaction in the Pro Shop you will receive a £5 gift voucher to spend. (T&C's apply)
Thanks to the fantastic demand for tickets for our Christmas Raffle we can now announce that a Ping putter will be added to the list of prizes. Tickets are £1 each and are available in the Pro Shop. The draw will take place on Sunday , 22 December after the Men's Competition.
Look out for our Cracking 'Christmas Cracker Deals' which will be running through December. Starting with the SkyCaddie GPS Watch – RRP £159 'Christmas Cracker Deal' £149
Finally Sarah, Chris, Ross and Harry at Sarah Walton Golf wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and look forward to your continued support in 2014
And finally ......
Fred got home from his Sunday round of golf later than normal and feeling tired. "Bad day at the course?" his wife asked."'Everything was going fine'" he said. "Then Dai had a heart attack and died on the tenth tee". "Oh, that's awful" "You're not kidding. For the whole back nine it was hit the ball, drag Dai, hit the ball, drag Dai….. "
Golfer: "Notice anything really different about my swing and my game today Alan?"
Partner: "Yes I think I did. It's the first time you have kept a ten off your card!"
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Badminton star Lin Dan entered the men's singles final for the fifth consecutive time at the 13th Chinese National Games here on Wednesday.
As a two-time Olympic and five-time world champion, Lin is dominant in the Games, held every four years. He has participated in five Games since 2001, entered all of the five men's singles finals, won gold medals in 2005, 2009 and 2013.
Lin, representing team of Beijing, played two matches in one day. In the morning session, he was pushed to three sets by national teammate Huang Yuxiang of Zhejiang province before winning the quarterfinals 20-22, 21-13, 21-12. In evening's semifinals, he defeated Lu Guangzu of Jiangsu province, the winner over Rio Olympic champion Chen Long in second round, in three sets, 21-15, 12-21, 21-11.
Lin was defeated by Denmark's Viktor Axelsen in the final of the World Championships in August, after which he and his national teammates flew directly from Glasgow, Scotland to Tianjin, 140 kilometers southeast of Beijing, the host city of the Games.
"The National Games is right after the World Championships. The World Championships was consuming to me, but once on the court of the National Games, I have to adjust myself to the best form," said Lin.
Lin will face national teammate Shi Yuqi in the final, and will fight for a fourth consecutive crown at the Games for yet another record.


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Editor' Note: This paper has been targeted for a broad audience. The level of scientific detail provided is therefore not as high as would be normally be required in technical paper subject to peer review by environment industry professionals.The Problem is not with Waste, but with Climate…- how Perceptions Influence Behavior
Both solid waste and greenhouse gases are "wastes" in a broad sense, one solid, the other gaseous. Solid waste has access all our senses, not so greenhouse gases. Over recent decades, inadequate disposal of solid waste has caused locally felt environmental damage and nuisance. As a consequence our management of waste has improved to a level approaching sustainability, at an acceptable cost to society. Yet, in spite of the twenty-fold greater mass of greenhouse gases polluting our environment, we have so far not been motivated to act as we did, and continue to do, with solid waste. An urgent need exists to heighten society's perception of the potential damage of our greenhouse emissions so that mitigating measures – both technical and value based – can be implemented.
Environmental problems and challenges can be attributed to a range of very different main causes: solid waste, wastewater, toxic gases, atmospheric particulates, noise, and greenhouse gases. These problems are resolved to varying degrees in the economically highly developed countries of Western Europe (let´s here take as examples Switzerland, Austria and Germany). This paper – written from the perspective of these countries and offering food for thoughts – compares "waste" against "greenhouse gases" to demonstrate to what extent our perception of the problem is steering our willingness to resolve it.
From a broad perspective both materials concern wastes, one solid, the other gaseous. The first is perceived with our senses, the other not. Solid waste is accessible to all the senses: we see, feel, smell – and even hear it, once the garbage truck arrives. The essential greenhouse gases of methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide are outside our sensory capacities: invisible, odourless – and, moreover are disposed of at virtually zero cost, even allowing for the current European carbon trade system. We simply dump the gaseous garbage into the "air ocean" on the bottom of which we live.
Comparison of quantities – visible apples, unvisible oranges
About 250 kg of household and commercial garbage is generated per person per year. In addition, about the same amount of recyclable materials is separately collected, comprising: paper, glass, biowaste etc., altogether 500 kg of "waste" per person per year. The quantity of greenhouse gases (measured as CO2-equivalents, to which the various greenhouse gases are converted according to their relative impact) comes to about 10,000 kg of CO2-equivalents per person and year, or 10 tonnes, about 20 times the quantity of waste. If you were of the opinion that the waste problem has largely been resolved in Germany (and Austria, Switzerland…), you would be correct. Separate waste collection is almost a cultural given in these countries, it has been forbidden to landfill untreated waste in these countries for at least the past five years, the climate-damaging release of methane from landfills has therefore been dealt with. The utilization of waste through resource and energy recovery has been perfected over the last 20 to 30 years in such a way that the greenhouse gas balance of management of our waste is now positive: recycling of waste saves more emissions through substitution of raw materials than emissions released during its collection and treatment. That´s a considerable success story which is the envy of many countries outside Central Europe.
No action without suffering, or reward
Three factors have been the main drivers for this development: the negative impacts of improper waste treatment were quickly felt (e.g. groundwater pollution caused by dumpsites), and prompted action to be taken. Secondly, waste – through its sensory qualities – is present to some degree in everyone´s mind on a day-to-day basis – this increased the political priority to deal with it. Thirdly, the adoption of environmentally friendly waste treatment has enabled tangible environmental benefits to be quickly realised.
All these mechanisms do not apply to CO2-waste: damages occur only following considerable delay and are not locally connected to the source. This, together with the fact that CO2-waste cannot be perceived "sensorily", has resulted in less intense countermeasures being taken.
Good behaviour is not rewarded promptly and locally, but only following considerable delay, and at a diffuse, global level.
No perception = no problem
In order to understand how our willingness to solve a problem is influenced by the capability to perceive the problem, the following example is given: You observe somebody throwing a noticeable piece of paper litter – say an empty cigarette packet – out their car window every two seconds. This continues for a minute, over one kilometre, resulting in 30 pieces of litter lying on the road, one piece every 33 m, altogether maybe 150 g of waste. Your indignation at this would likely be considerable. What if everybody behaved like this! At the same time, the car has left behind 150 g CO2 over the one kilometre "on the road" via its exhaust. Does this annoy to the same degree? Almost certainly not: CO2-waste cannot be seen, cannot be smelt, cannot be felt – so it does not exist in our perception. Apart from that everybody does it.
Although vehicular traffic produces "only" about 20 % of greenhouse gases, the car example above can be taken further as an object of comparison as it is something that falls easily within our perceptive capacity.
Differences in perceptions between solid waste and CO2
If greenhouse gases were solid waste we would already have solved the problem
Unlike solid waste, carbon dioxide regrettably does not do us the favour to be a solid material at ambient temperature – it is in solid form (as dry ice) only at temperatures less than -78 o C. Let´s imagine – using the car example – that CO2 is a solid waste: of course it could not be dispersed on the road, but would need to be collected in a "dust box" inside the car. At each stop for refuelling of say 50 L of petrol the dust box, containing 130 kg of "solid" CO2-ash, would need to be emptied, at considerable effort.
Each petrol station would need large containers to collect the ash, the CO2-landfills of our cities would be (when considering all CO2-sources) 20 times larger than the solid waste landfills we know (an impressive example of a "landfill" composed of former gaseous CO2 is the Alps).
On further reflection, if CO2 were solid, the disposal problem in the above example would never have occurred, as it would have already become a major issue some 80 – 100 years ago, with the rapid expansion of electricity production and industrialisation. Surrounded by rising CO2-ash heaps from these activities, the notion to transport a human body weighing around 100 kg using a vehicle weighing more than 1,000 kg, thus a payload of less than 10 % of the total mass, resulting in more than 90 % energy loss, which is clearly too high as a proportion of energy inherent in the system, would have been promptly rejected.
We have after all direct experience of the banning of forms of energy consumption that produced atmospheric pollution which is obvious, we could see smell, and even taste it, and in terms of fatalities: in most of Europe in the middle of the last century laws were introduced to limit particulate atmospheric pollution ('smog') through smoke control. Within a few years people willingly gave up burning coal to heat their houses and water, because they could see both the problem and the benefits of action.
But would we be ready to accept being deprived of the automobile in its energetically senseless, conventional, 45 million (number of passenger cars in Germany) form? Almost certainly not. Why? Because we have become accustomed to this highly convenient form of transport and because we do not suffer directly and immediately from the resulting CO2-waste.
And because of its friendly gaseous nature, at the end of each winter we also do not have to drag out from our homes 40 kg of CO2-waste for each square metre of living space, we don't have to carry from the plane 5,000 kg of CO2-waste together with our luggage after each long-distance holiday. We belong just to the second generation in the history of mankind that has had the luxury to conveniently and cheaply move more than 500 m away from our places of residence. Let´s be honest: would we be willing – by way of climate protection rationale – to drastically reduce our air travel for the rest of our lives? No? That´s exactly what we mean. We – you and the authors – don´t feel like doing so (and moreover do not want
Smart waste management – sluggish climate protection
It is interesting to compare the speed and extent to which solutions for waste-related problems have historically been implemented with those for climate protection. Roughly speaking, in successive 10 year periods in e.g. Austria, all uncontrolled dumpsites have been closed, separate collections for glass, paper, biowaste etc. have been introduced nationwide, and facilities for environmentally friendly treatment of residual waste established – all measures which have solved the waste "problem" by nearly 100 %. Over similar timeframes the country was equipped with wastewater treatment plants with no single object left discharging untreated effluent to receiving waters. Based on such experience it is somewhat puzzling when acommitment is announced – example again from Austria – to reduce within 30 (!) years fossilbased greenhouse gas emission by 16 % (!), followed by the announcement that even this target might not achieved.
Recycling is easy and makes us feel good – avoidance is hard and an annoyance
Another important difference should to be noted: solid waste is largely usable. From almost each component (glass, paper, metal, kitchen waste, etc.) more energy can be generated from recycling than the energy expended for its recovery. This also applies to incineration with energy recovery of commingled waste. Because of this, waste avoidance at all cost, i.e. through reduced consumption has not been deemed necessary. The analogous idea to utilize our CO2-waste by extracting and recovering the energy from the carbon present does not work due to its physiochemical properties: certainly it is possible to disassemble CO2, but the energy required is greater than the energy of the reclaimed, disassembled carbon. The envisaged subterranean storage of CO2 at thermal power plants (Carbon Capture Storage CCS) shows clearly that, for generated CO2, the only option is disposal – either by conventional dumping into the "air ocean", or by innovative subterranean storage. So, a fundamental partial solution for reducing CO2-waste must be avoidance – in contrast to solid waste with its recyclability – and that means abstaining from consumption, which we are reluctant to do because we love convenience, and because we do not suffer enough immediately from the problem.
With over 100 years of increasing CO2 output, the unspoken assumption has been made that its disposal would not cause environmental damage. Hence no aversion measures or costs have been forced on polluters. Until science could at long last agree that there would be any damage at all, technology and society developed into a state of enormous – because of its free-of-cost – CO2-waste production. The acknowledgement of the damage, and acceptance of the soon-to-be enforced CO2-levies will be, unlike for solid waste, clearly more difficult, as
a) the damage is a future damage, is not clearly defined and not locally felt (honestly, who really is touched by the possible extinction of Bangladesh)
b) the existing social and economic system would be hit hard – one may imagine that all 10 tons CO2 per person per year would be charged per tonne analogous to waste treatment with say 100 € (which is the cost for one tonne of avoided CO2 for renewable energy technologies). Such a cost impost would only be seriously considered by someone who had lost their desire to hold office.
c) for this investment no reliable and auditable outcome can be assured.
The notion that fossil fuel based energy can be universally substituted by renewable sources, or that other technical solutions can be found, thus enabling our current way-of-life to continue, will hardly pass a sound sustainability check. We already see cornfields for fuel production up to the horizon and countless windmills, yet renewable sources cover just 10 % of our energy demand. We can wrap our houses warmly and optimize energy processes, nevertheless additional avoidance will be indispensable for achieving real sustainability.
Climate protection achieved through low energy happiness generation
At this point a philosophical consideration of the avoidance issue is necessary:
As humans – apart from the securing of our basic survival needs – we ultimately aim for one thing: to be happy (according to competent studies "happiness" is the least common human condition by the way, and not attainable by directly trying). Now, happiness is a condition that exists only in our minds and is generated in essence by ourselves and our emotional response to external influences. If we can produce in ourselves the same level of happiness with reduced material and energy consumption, it can be referred to as climate friendly happiness.The initially noticeable satisfaction "loss" caused by abstention and effort is counterbalanced by the satisfaction "benefit" caused by the certainty of "doing the right thing" (Mr Kant would be posthumously pleased by this consideration). This, we have already achieved with waste. If we were able to imagine greenhouse gases "materialized" in solid form according to the examples outlined above, we would be able to create within us an increasingly greater sense of happiness from the initially unpleasant sacrifice associated with "doing without". This prospect appears to us – in view of what we regard as necessary to meet the basic requirements for an enjoyable and fulfilling life – as almost impossible to imagine. Rather, we prefer almost as a reflex response that – as per usual – technology will find a solution, and that the Chinese and Americans… we are quick to come up with extremely ´powerful´ arguments against the prospect of reduced consumption.
On the other hand we realize that in the waste sector we have – with the participation of the broader community and developments in technology and organizational framework – been able to achieve something which, at the end of the seventies, was also unimaginable. In the area of climate protection, technology, while vitally important, will not provide the whole answer; the challenge remains to shift our philosophical basis and value set. Only then will meaningful and efficient outcomes be achievable.
Hence a policy target for Central Europe´s foremost countries with regard to climate protection could read, coarsely broken up, as follows: One third by renewable energy One third savings by technical measures One third savings by changing values – leading to reduced consumption.
The technical/scientific knowledge for implementing a climate-related change of values is available and is gathering momentum. It is now a priority to keep this change of values in our conscience, and to increase its perceived importance.
Together, we have been able to develop a highly successful solution to the challenges of waste management. We now need to demonstrate to the world how best to respond to the climate challenge, through a combination of innovative technical measures and a society-wide "value change".
Dr. Ulrich Wiegel
PhD Environmental Technology (Technical University Berlin), specialization solid waste management.25 years experience as Consulting Engineer (www.icu-berlin.de). Together with Martin Steiner author of The Book of Rubbish, a guide to the basics of waste management www.sunnyarea.eu
Martin Steiner
Graduated Engineer Environmental Technology (Technical University Berlin), specialization solid waste management.Since 1989 General Manager of TBU www.tbu-austria.com, an independent consultancy firm exclusively and mainly internationally engaged in solid waste related issues.


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Pricing In A Jam
When Wanda was involved in the Crafters Hand store this past winter she was often criticized for charging too much for her saskatoon jams. She was charging $5 per jar that her "competitors" in the same store were charging $3 for. Wanda's jams had a higher concentration of fruit, but other than that there was little difference to defend the pricing. There is a good article in a recent issue of the Farmers Market Association of Manitoba Co-op Inc. Newsletter <FMAM Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 1 – Released on January 29, 2008 > by Tamela Friesen that gives Wanda a good justification for her saskatoon jam pricing.
The article focuses on the fact that farmers' market product costs matter – but that they are often not tracked enough, nor considered adequately in pricing. The article illustrates this using an example of homemade preserves and proves "that if you do not cost it, you likely spend more than you earn".
According to the article homemade preserves involve the following costs:
– "The least expensive jars were $0.66 each, including taxes.
– Pectin cost about $0.25 per jar.
– Sugar averaged about $0.22 per jar.
– Ingredients, if we picked them, were the cost of labour and any u-pick fees. In the case of saskatoon jam, a u-pick four-litre pail was $11.00, sans labour. That works out to nearly $1.00 per jar.
– Our best picker picked a pail in half an hour. If we pay ourselves $10/hour, that's $5 per bucket … $0.50/jar for picking.
Have you been keeping track? So far, the cost of producing our jar of jam registers at $2.63/jar. What's still missing from the cost?
– Labour for cleaning and sorting berries and for cooking and processing the jam,
– electricity for the stove, labels, transportation to the market,
– labour at the market, & marketing materials.
– Need to use your air conditioning because your canning heated up the house too much? That counts too!
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