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CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - June 26, 2014) - With the arrival of summer and warmer weather, the Calgary Parking Authority (CPA) is partnering with the Calgary Fire Department (CFD), Calgary Police Service (CPS) and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) to remind motorists of the importance of never leaving children alone in a parked vehicle, particularly during the summer months.
"Our goal is to create awareness about this issue and ensure that Calgarians understand the seriousness of leaving a child unattended in a parked vehicle, especially during hot weather," said Troy McLeod, CPA General Manager.
In hot weather the temperature inside parked vehicles can rise to fatal heatstroke levels within minutes, even if the car windows are left partially open or the car is parked in the shade. Leaving children unattended in parked vehicles puts them at significant risk of heatstroke because their bodies warm faster than an adult's and this makes them especially vulnerable as temperatures rise.
"Promoting child safety awareness is an important way to help reduce or eliminate the number of people who leave children in vehicles, and every little bit helps," said Staff Sergeant Paul Stacey, CPS. "But if you do see a child alone in a vehicle, call 9-1-1 immediately."
The Calgary Fire Department is often the first responders to a 9-1-1 call for a child left in a car.
"We work as quickly as we can to get the child out of the car and get them emergency medical care," said Carol Henke, CFD Public Information Officer. "Parents or caregivers may forget the inside of a car can heat up quickly and is much warmer than outside. It only takes a few minutes to put a child in danger of hyperthermia, so never leave a child in your car and remember to call 9-1-1 if you see a child unattended in vehicle."
Building off the International Parking Institute's Parking Safety Matters campaign, the CPA, CFD, CPS and EMS are advising Calgarians to follow a few simple guidelines:
"Our goal is prevention" said Stuart Brideaux, EMS Public Education Officer. "To avoid the risk of exposing children to a serious, potentially life threatening medical emergency, simply never leave a child alone inside a vehicle."
For more information on the International Parking Institute's Parking Safety Matters campaign, visit parking.org/safety.
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Follow Christ. Question Culture. Love the Church:
Houses, Cars, and Community
Jeremiah 29:1, 4-9; Matthew 5:13-16
Click "play" button below to view sermon video (also includes personal testimony by Andre' Mast, at end of sermon):
Last Sunday I used up half my sermon time introducing the series,
"Follow Christ. Question Culture. Love the Church."
I had to set the stage, because this is a different sort of series.
If you missed it, sorry I can't do it again.
Check out the CD, or go to our website to listen to it.
In a nutshell, we're looking at a number of pressing issues in our culture,
and doing so by first clarifying who we are as God's people,
and then trying to ask the right questions of our culture,
being appropriately skeptical.
So we follow Christ...
that is, get clear about who we are called to be as disciples.
We question culture...
that is, frame questions that rise out of our identity as disciples,
And we love the church...
that is, commit ourselves to life in community,
where we do the real work of faith-filled moral discernment,
centered around the living and written Word.
It will not be in these 20-minute sermons
that all the answers to these complex issues
will be packaged and dispensed for your convenience.
No, you will be sent from this place with, hopefully,
the right questions in hand,
and the right community in which to wrestle with them.
So, this morning we look at houses and cars.
I wonder what you came expecting me to say about this topic.
I'll bet some of you expect me to talk about
how much we spend on our houses and cars,
how we often use our resources to surround ourselves in luxury
at home and on the road.
That is a good thing to talk about.
And maybe we will, when we get to the topic of money,
later in this series.
I'll bet some of you expect me to talk about
how our houses and cars,
especially as they get larger, or more numerous,
wreak havoc on the environment,
and contribute to global warming.
That's also a good thing to talk about.
And no doubt we will, when we get to the topic
of caring for the earth, later in this series.
Instead, I want to reflect on how cars and houses,
and the way we use them,
impact our experience of human community.
So, as we begun, let's take the first step together,
and position ourselves rightly, as a follower of Christ.
Let's clarify our faith identity, our calling,
our shared convictions and commitments.
In your order of worship, you'll see "Confessing our Faith."
These words are gleaned from the Mennonite World Conference
statement of shared convictions,
and MCUSA's Confession of Faith.
Read this in unison, if you can in good faith:
As a church, we are a community of those whom God's Spirit calls to turn from sin, acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord, and follow Christ in life.
We believe that the mission of the church is to proclaim and to be a sign of the kingdom of God. The church is called to witness to the reign of Christ by embodying Jesus' way in its own life and patterning itself after the reign of God. It is the new society established and sustained by the Holy Spirit. By its life, the church is to be a city on a hill, a light to the nations, testifying to the power of the resurrection by a way of life different from the societies around it.
So we're saying that we, the church, bow collectively,
to Jesus Christ as Lord of all.
And we, the church, have a mission from God,
both to proclaim and to live, the good news of the Gospel.
And God expects us, the church, to live as a new society.
To show the world what life in God's kingdom looks like,
on the ground.
Living in community with one another.
Living as a sign to the world.
This is our identity. Our shared conviction.
We didn't invent it. Jesus gave it to us.
Today we heard part of Matthew 5, from the sermon on the mount,
You are the salt of the earth...
You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid.
If you check the Greek, you'll see the word is "y'all" (so to speak).
It's "you" plural, not singular.
Jesus was speaking to his disciples as a unit.
"All y'all disciples are like a city on a hill."
Jesus' instructions for witness,
were that we collectively shine a light.
So, if we accept this identity, this mandate,
to live as a new society,
and be like light and salt and leaven in our culture,
pointing others toward life in this new society...
then we have some pretty significant questions to ask of our culture.
Why should we care about our surrounding culture?
After all, isn't the church just its own culture within a culture?
And isn't the world around us someday going to judged by God?
Shouldn't we just live quietly, let the world be what it will be,
and wait for our heavenly home?
That's what the exiles in Babylon were thinking,
when the prophet Jeremiah wrote them a letter we just heard read.
The people were in exile in a foreign land—
like us citizens of God's kingdom living in this world,
we're resident aliens—
And the word of the Lord was to settle down.
Get married, have children, build houses, plant gardens.
In other words,
participate fully in the culture where you find yourself,
but participate as an agent of shalom, of peace, of wholeness.
Then, in v. 7 of Jeremiah 29 they are given this mandate,
which I take as our own.
"But seek the welfare—
and the Hebrew word here is literally shalom—
seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile,
and pray to the Lord on its behalf,
for in its welfare you will find your welfare.
We should care about our culture, fallen though it may be,
because as we seek its shalom, we will find our shalom.
And when it comes to the topic of nurturing human community,
our culture doesn't lend itself very well to that.
Human beings were created for community.
That message came through loud and clear
in Desmond Tutu's remarks at JMU on Friday.
In both his speeches, at the dinner and the public meeting,
he insisted that our humanness, which is a gift of our Creator,
can only be fully experienced in relationships.
He said, "A person is a person through other persons."
He said, "My humanity is bound up in yours,
for we can only be human together."
He said, "If I dehumanize another person, I dehumanize myself."
Those words brought thunderous applause
from the thousands gathered in JMU's Convocation Center.
As well they should.
The words of Archbishop Tutu are authentic,
because his life is authentic.
They ring true.
But the culture we live in tries to deny it.
And most of us who stood and applauded on Friday,
including myself,
have chosen a lifestyle that actively works against
forming deep and meaningful human community.
We build ourselves into a society that specializes
in separating ourselves from each other.
We design our towns and cities and subdivisions in such a way
that we ensure a maximum of privacy,
and a minimum of real face-to-face human interchange.
We have created an automobile culture
that gives us all a maximum of individual freedom,
and minimal opportunity to be true co-travelers with others.
And we people of faith,
we followers of Christ who should be thinking in different ways,
hardly even raise an eyebrow.
We accept it, uncritically, as the way it is.
Daily, we make choices that keep us in a private world of our own,
and never give it a thought that we might be working against
the kind of life God created us for,
the kind of life that makes us human,
as Desmond Tutu reminded us.
So I invite us today to question culture.
I invite us to question the kind of thinking that has led our society,
to flee densely-populated areas like cities,
and move to sprawling suburbs that promise a better life.
Better, defined as more private, more separated, more independent.
I recently read a book, which André Mast referred me to,
that had a rather significant impact on my thinking,
and is beginning, just beginning,
to have an impact on my behavior.
The book is Sidewalks in the Kingdom
by a Presbyterian pastor named Eric Jacobsen.
He writes from his context in Missoula, Montana,
a small city, a little bit larger than Harrisonburg.
He said the way our society structures itself,
is driven primarily by false gods that we worship.
For instance, he says we worship the god of individualism.
Nothing wrong about valuing the individual. God does, too.
But individualism becomes a false god, an idol,
when we commit ourselves so much to this value
that we distract ourselves from God and from God's will.
Our worship of individualism creates a culture where
almost any limitation on individual rights is bad.
The only way we limit individual rights at all,
is if the exercise of my rights,
keeps you from freely exercising your rights.
But to ask people to limit their individual rights
for something so vague as "the good of the community"?
No, that's too authoritarian.
How much has our worship of this false god,
determined how we design our houses and neighborhoods?
We know that living close to neighbors almost always, eventually,
bumps up against my individual needs or preferences.
So these days, we do anything we can
to avoid the inconvenience and annoyance
of having to interact too much with neighbors.
Take an imaginary walk with me
through an old traditional neighborhood.
It comprises a dozen or so city blocks.
We can see that the lots are quite small,
the house are close together, with lots of big front porches.
Every house is close to the street,
and a continuous sidewalk runs in front of every house.
It's clear, just from the physical design of this old neighborhood,
that people assumed they wanted to see each other regularly,
that folks would drop by unannounced,
or stop and chat as they walked by,
on their way to pick up something at the store.
Now walk with me through a new neighborhood,
romantically named, Whispering Oaks Estates.
Houses sit on large lots, well back from the road.
There are few front porches, but many magnificent-looking doors.
Most of the streets are cul-de-sacs.
People don't just happen to walk by, or even drive by.
If you're one of these streets,
you're either coming or going from a house on this block.
We have to walk beside the curb, on the slope of the road,
because there are no sidewalks.
But even if there were
and even if people were walking on them,
and even if a neighbor's front door was within earshot,
we wouldn't see or hear them,
because their living area is at the back of the house,
facing a fenced back yard.
We get the strong feeling,
just from how this so-called neighborhood looks,
that people don't expect to interact much with real neighbors.
I wonder...should our identity as Christians,
and our calling to love our neighbors,
make a difference in the way we design houses and neighborhoods?
How can we, in fact, love our neighbors,
when we've gone to great pains to make them invisible?
Another god we worship is independence.
We believe it is a virtue not to need another person,
not to be indebted to anyone else.
But I think our worship of this false god of independence
is directly and powerfully linked to the fact
that we Americans have developed a car culture.
The car allows us to do what we want, where we want,
and when we want,
without regard to distance,
and without being constrained to someone else's schedule.
The car has allowed us to construct a way of living
whereby people routinely get into their private,
sealed, quiet, climate-controlled transportation capsule,
and drive long distances to go to work,
or to shop,
or attend church,
or visit family and friends.
We rarely question whether, all things considered,
the benefits outweigh the costs.
What has the automobile cost us in terms of human community?
What has it cost in terms of stress-levels and time away from family,
when each year the average American spends more time
commuting to and from work
than they spend on vacation?
What has it cost us in terms of segregating people from each other, as people moved out of the city,
with its diversity of culture and class,
and into a homogeneous suburb you have to drive to get to?
One author makes the point that before 1950,
there were very few retirement communities.
We didn't have them, because we didn't need them.
In old-style neighborhoods, where there were
stores, barbershops, churches, and other businesses
all within a few blocks of each other,
and all connected with sidewalks,
when an older person lost the ability to drive,
they did not lose their independence.
They could still maintain a viable lifestyle by walking.
And those who were too poor to afford a car,
could easily get to work or the store or the doctor, on foot.
Isn't it ironic, that because we worshiped independence,
we structured our society around the automobile,
and as a result, we are now dependent in ways we didn't expect.
We live farther apart from each other,
and from the goods and services we need for daily life.
Oh, but the car is a much more efficient way of getting around,
isn't it?
The Austrian social critic Ivan Illich didn't think so.
In one of his books, he calculated,
that the typical American male devoted
more than 1600 hours a year to his car.
Driving, idling, finding parking.
Working to earn the monthly payments.
Working to pay for gas, tolls, insurance, taxes, and tickets.
Four of his sixteen waking hours are either in his car,
or gathering resources for it.
And this does not [include] time spent in hospitals after a wreck,
or in traffic courts and garages and watching car commercials.
If we spend 1600 hours to get an average of 7500 miles,
that's less than five miles per hour.
That's only slightly faster than walking.
But much slower than a bicycle.
I hope none of you think I'm saying these things
because I have it figured out.
In these areas, I am most assuredly, not holier than thou.
I've only begun to ask the questions more seriously,
and have only begun to take little baby steps.
It wasn't that many years ago,
that Irene and I were the owners of five cars.
Yes, five.
Okay, so a couple of them were real beaters,
that our daughters were driving around, but still.
We're down to two now, if you don't count my scooter.
I am pretty proud that I drive a scooter all over town.
But I really shouldn't be.
It gets such good gas mileage, and it's so fun to drive,
that I'm more likely to run quick errands
than I would be otherwise.
And the 2-cycle engine puts more pollutants into the air,
per horse-power, than most other vehicles.
And I don't have the option of taking a passenger.
Scooting down the road at 30 miles an hour,
with a helmet on,
the most I can do that's even remotely community-building
is waving at other scooter drivers.
Scooter or not, I need to walk more.
I need to ride my bike more.
And when it comes to houses, we have no front porch.
Our deck faces our back yard.
We were relieved when the maple grew tall enough
to shield us from our neighbors when we're sitting back there.
But at least,
I'm starting to get enough courage to ask some hard questions.
And maybe we will need to make some choices eventually,
that involve sacrifice,
if we want to be faithful to our calling
to love our neighbors as ourselves.
So no, I don't expect us as a church to suddenly, en masse,
reject suburban life and move back into old city neighborhoods.
But what I would hope for is this—
that we begin to ask ourselves, and ask each other,
hard, honest questions about how much we have bought into
the assumptions of our surrounding culture,
and have structured our lives in a way
that makes loving our neighbor more difficult than it is already.
Are there steps we can take individually,
Are there steps we can take as a church,
to overcome some of the barriers to loving our neighbor—
barriers we intentionally built into our lives
because culture convinced us to?
Are there steps we can take to be counter-cultural in this way?
At the end of your order of worship are some questions.
They are just a few samples of the kinds of questions
we could be asking each other,
and asking of our culture.
Take these questions to your Sunday School, your small group,
your family dinner table,
your coffee club.
In this sermon I just raised the questions.
Now it's up to all of us together,
to do the hard work of Christian moral discernment.
And may God help us,
with each other, and with our neighbors,
to be "strangers no more."
—Phil Kniss, September 23, 2007
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I was just thinking today, about what it means to me to be pro-life. I think sometimes people who call themselves pro-life care about protecting unborn children, but then the caring stops when those children are born. For me, it means so much more. I care about all of the innocent people in Iraq who are dying for a war that should never have started in the first place. I also care about the soldiers who are dying.
And those same soldiers who, when they come home, are not being given the care and help they need after their service to our country. Did you know that 1/4th of the homeless people in America are veterans? Does anybody care? I care, and it breaks my heart.
Jesus said, "whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me" (Matthew 25:40, NIV). This has been heavy on my heart lately, and I've wondered what I've been doing for the "least of these". What have I done when I've passed a homeless person on the street? What have I been doing for anybody?
If someone were to ask me if I'm pro-life, I would answer yes, right away. But am I? Have I been showing that I care for the lives of everyone, and not just the unborn? And in lieu of the upcoming Presidential election, as I look at the candidates, I must look at which of them are truly pro-life. Which of them really cares about the lives of all people? All of the people--not just Americans, unborn babies, the rich, the hard workers. Wouldn't it be awesome if, instead of negative campaign ads, traveling all over the place to give speeches, etc., a candidate made a small website that had this simple message:
"Instead of pouring millions of dollars into a campaign that will only be a benefit to myself, I am using all of my campaign money to help out AIDS afflicted Africa (or insert other charitable act here). That's the kind of person I am, and that's the kind of President I would be."
I would vote for that candidate in a heartbeat. And even with a small website, you can bet they'd still get the word out. Don't you think that would make the news? Wouldn't that definitely be in the spotlight? Are we wanting a President who is hungry for power, or one who is caring and compassionate, even to a fault?
The election is right on top of us. Is the candidate you plan to vote for pro-life at all levels? I don't know if any of the choices are, but we as American citizens need to make our voices heard that we care about the sanctity of life, not just of the unborn, but every single life.
Jesus didn't minister to the upper class, those who were hard workers, or those who helped themselves. He ministered to the sick, the poor, the needy, the sinners.
But when Jesus heard this, He said, "It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.
"But go and learn what this means: 'I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT SACRIFICE,' for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners." (Matthew 9:12-13, NASB)
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. (John 10:10, NIV)


text: Capcom has announced that Mega Man 1 – 6 will be coming to the North American Nintendo 3DS eShop. The promotion will begin with the original Mega Man on December 27th. This will be followed by Mega Man 2 on February 7th, with the rest of the games coming in regular intervals throughout 2013.


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Babies and Basketballs
A friend of mine had a baby recently, and he asked me to take photos for the birth announcement. I haven't been around a little baby in a long time, so it was fun and adorable, even though she was being a little fussy! When taking baby pictures, you have to be on your toes, always watching for the one right moment, which is usually tucked away between many wrong moments. It's an exercise in finding Henri Cartier Bresson's "decisive moment." Over the past year or two, I've found that photography involves taking hundreds of photos to find the ten or so that work, and the few that are truly excellent. While at the shoot in my friend's apartment, I couldn't help but compare taking those baby photos to shooting basketball games. At the beginning of the semester, I shot four or five women's basketball games, and it was great and frustrating at the same time. The movement is constant, and if I set my camera down for even a moment, I miss something. At the end of the day, I have to sort through hundreds of photos that are blurry, or have faces blocked out by arms, or show everyone looking at something that isn't in the frame. But then there are the few that make the experience worthwhile.


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A Forks Township man was arrested Tuesday on charges he fired a gun at two men Monday afternoon in Wilson.
Allan L. "Blaze" Sinanan Jr., 25, of the 1000 block of Greenleaf Street, was arraigned before District Justice Michael J. Koury Jr. of Wilson and committed to Northampton County Prison under $500,000 bail. Wilson police Investigator William Crouse charged Sinanan with two counts each of attempted homicide, aggravated assault and reckless endangerment.


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It is really hard to a parent if one of your kids will get involved with bad vices such as alcohol or drug addiction. It is hard for a parent to prevent the kids to get influenced from outside like friends and other people that could possibly encourage the kids to try the bad vices like these. That's why i am talking to my son in a grown up way even though he is too young to understand what i am trying to tell him. Soon in time when is old enough to understand all the reminders i have for him, he will realize that i am looking forward for his best future. I do love my son and i don't want him to be involve with such bad things around him.
Just like my friend's daughter, i felt so sad for her though because she is really a beautiful girl and she's got the sweetest smiles of all. She started to get involved with this bad vices when she turned teenager and her parents are very sad about it. So they took her to Drug Rehab that can help her to make her better and so that she can go back to her normal life. In that place where they took their daughter, they also have Alcohol rehab, a special place to people who got addicted to alcohol. This place is a very helpful assistance especially to those young kids who got involved with this kind of bad influences. They also can provide the Dual Diagnosis rehab which is the best cure of sick people that they can get from them.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Save The Kids From Addiction
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- Susie Langston said...
I think as a parent that a childs drug addiction would be extremely devastating and parents need help to find the right drug rehab for their child.
- April 15, 2008 at 5:30 PM
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For our first anniversary I gave Gary this orchid because it reminded me of our honeymoon in Hawaii. After the initial flowers died the plant consisted of only three leaves for over two years, but my intuition told me to hold on to it. Around the time of our third anniversary it finally bloomed again. This April was our fourth anniversary, and although the orchid was a little bit late for the celebration, it's making up for it with prolific flower production. There were eight buds, four of which have opened so far... it's a gorgeous show.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
The Anniversary Orchid
3 comments:
- Kathryn and Ari said...
Wow--what a lovely sentiment! The orchid is just beautiful, and I'm so glad it bloomed again in time for your anniversary.
- June 5, 2008 at 3:45 PM
- babyphat523 said...
Your Phalaenopsis is gorgeous! I love how they lay dormant, they're like little treasures when they start blooming again.
And a very happy anniversary to you!
xo :)
- June 5, 2008 at 9:31 PM
- The Zoo said...
I am so glad you posted this! I LOVE orchids! I bought one just like this last year and it bloomed for almost 8 months! Then...when the blossoms fell off I waited for it to rebloom but it never did. I only waited a year though. I just finally got rid of it a few months ago and now I wish I didn't! I never knew they would take this long to rebloom! I'm going to get another one this week! YAY!
- June 8, 2008 at 5:45 PM
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text: A memorial service for Willard Warren Webber, a former statistician for the American College of Surgeons, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Trinity Lutheran Church, 3637 Golf Rd., Evanston. Mr. Webber, 65, died in San Jose, Calif., on April 16. He worked as a medical statistician for the American College of Surgeons in Chicago for more than 25 years. He was a graduate of Harper High School and the University of Chicago. In 1978 he moved to Monterey, Calif., where he worked for the Monterey County Health Department and the Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula. He also was on the board of the American Cancer Society in Salinas, Calif., and was active with the American Diabetes Association and the March of Dimes. Survivors include a brother, Lloyd Webber; and a nephew, Charles Webber.


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Oxford Town and Gown, a 10k race raising money for muscular dystrophy.
This will be my first 10k - I trained for the Great Scottish Run in Glasgow last October, but wasn't able to participate due to travel plans. I was in pretty good shape last autumn, but I tend to lose motivation over winter. I didn't start running again until March (when the daily rains finally cleared up), and have only managed relatively short runs once or twice a week. So I'm not expecting to make very good time, but I might just be able to run the whole race, albeit very slowly.
I don't particularly like doing these sorts of fund raising activities, because I think it is more efficient for people to pick a charity and donate by monthly direct debit. But training for organised runs is the best way to motivate myself to exercise, so I reluctantly join in. If anyone feels compelled to donate, please visit my team's page. Go team COMPAS!
My allotment was completely under water, not once, but twice this winter.
Sadly, I lost a whole bed of cabbage and kale, and my herb bed was mostly decimated, as was the rhubarb. Fortunately the asparagus survived, and we enjoyed our first three stalks the other day. You are not supposed to harvest from new plants for several years, and I had to replenish the bed with new plants every year because they kept dying off, so unless we stay on in Oxford another year, we won't be able enjoy any more. Let's just hope whoever inherits my allotment likes asparagus.
|The best asapargus I have ever tasted!
For the past few years our vegetable harvests have been relatively poor, due to winter floods and summer droughts. So I have learned to lower my expectations, and don't have very high hopes for this year. Instead of spending a lot of money on plants that might not produce much of anything, I decided to use up random seeds left over from last year. I've managed to sprout some tomatoes, cucumbers and delicata squash on a sunny window.
The garden itself is mostly just growing weeds. I'm going to try to put in some serious gardening time over the upcoming May Day bank holiday weekend. And maybe also fit in a long run. I've discovered that gardening is a great way to stretch out the tight muscles I'm getting from running!


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Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Warning: Five Hand Gestures to Avoid When You Are in a Foreign Land
Training with JROOZ Review Center can help you obtain your desired band score. Instructors assess your language abilities and provide you with customized practical tests and feedback to help you enhance certain areas. More opportunities await you once you have finished your training in IELTS Davao and the actual exam. You will have the chance to travel and explore famous cities abroad. When traveling, you have to be wary of your gestures as a simple stare or nod can convey an offensive meaning to other people.
Five Hand Gestures with Different Meanings
Listed below are five common hand gestures that some people use in daily interactions. However, these gestures may imply an entirely different meaning in other countries.
In some places such as the North America and the Philippines, raising your thumb means telling the other person he/she did a good job. It can also be a sign of approval. However, in some places like the Middle East, South America and Iran, a thumbs-up is equivalent to "giving the finger," which is offensive.
Instead of making a sign or an act of approval, you can just say: "Okay," "Approved," "Agreed," "Affirmative," etc.
In some countries like the U.S., horn fingers mean "rock on." People usually do this during concerts and live performances. However, you should avoid doing this when you are visiting places such as Colombia, Spain and Greece as this may convey that someone's spouse is cheating on him/her. You do not want to cause a scandal, do you?
Many people around the world, particularly North Americans, use the okay sign in place of thumbs-up to express their delight or approval. For instance, individuals may use this to tell a restaurant manager that they enjoyed the meal. In some areas, this may symbolize money.
However, avoid doing this sign when you are in European countries. Pressing the tip of your thumb and index finger together means zero. This is equivalent to telling the person that he/she is worthless or he/she is a homosexual.
This gesture has different meanings depending on which way your hand is facing. For instance, using the V sign with your palm outward means peace or victory. Countries such as Korea also use this symbol to pose in pictorials to indicate a sign of cuteness.
In places like the UK, New Zealand and Australia, raising the V sign back of your hand facing the other person corresponds to telling him/her to back off in a rude manner or giving the finger.
Protruding fingers can be insulting to other people. In some countries such as the Philippines, pointing your finger to another person is tantamount to engaging them in a fight or confrontation. If you want to emphasize something, use an open palm instead.
They say that ignorance is not an excuse. Make sure that you do your research about the place, be accustomed to the culture and, more importantly, observe your environment to avoid getting into trouble.
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I think I was too ambitious to attempt to write about each of the films I watch for 52 Films by Women on this blog. I've fallen so far behind and I feel really overwhelmed. So, instead, my aim is to write feature posts on a select number that I feel particularly strongly about and then the updates for the rest will be in my monthly roundups. But I'll still do a little update, for now, because I already started this post.
As I mentioned in my January Roundup, I've decided to include rewatches in the pledge, but I'm still determined to make it to 52 new-to-me women directed films. So far, my rewatches have been of favourite films (like Wayne's World and The Secret Garden), but I might revisit a few I don't remember well, or didn't enjoy much the first time around. Sometimes, my opinion doesn't change when I revisit a film, but there have been occasions where a film I hated or didn't like turns into a film that I love.
If I were to pick a top three of the new-to-me films for this pledge, so far, I would go with: Miss Julie, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and Om Shanti Om. They're all so different from each other, which makes me happy – it's cool to see women making so many different kinds of movies, telling different stories, etc.
I've also realised that seeing every woman directed film out at the cinemas this year is just not feasible for me because of health and finances. I did finally manage to go see Looking For Grace, which I thoroughly enjoyed. If I can see more films directed by women at the cinema than I did last year, then I'll be happy. (Considering I only saw two last year, both at festivals, I don't think that will be too difficult). I'm fairly certain I'm overthinking this whole thing, but that's kind of my schtick. (This whole post is very thinking 'out loud').
Finally, I wanted to write a little about what I've observed so far, but I haven't thought about it much, to be honest. I have noticed that, naturally, women are as capable of making films I don't like as men are, but that's really a bit 'state the obvious'. The women characters, even when they're not main characters, are almost always that little bit more interesting, which isn't surprising. I'm fairly certain I prefer romances directed by women, but I haven't put that to the test, yet. It'll be interesting to see if I have any better observations by the end of the year.
Most importantly, I'm really looking forward to diving into the rest of the films on my watchlist (I'm keeping it at 100 for now) and seeing where this pledge takes me!


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Petawawa looks to 2018 challenges
SEAN CHASE/DAILY OBSERVER Petawawa Mayor Bob Sweet, a former warden of the County of Renfrew, is currently serving his fifth term.
PETAWAWA – As the town counted down to the new year on Sunday night, it's mayor and council are considering the challenges that they will face in 2018.
The first order of business for the council will be striking a budget beginning with deliberations on Jan. 11. This is the final year of this council's term in office, however, Mayor Bob Sweet is confident they can get a lot done for voters go to the polls in the October municipal elections.
"We are really going to have a busy and prosperous 2018," said Sweet.
The biggest hurdle will be bringing down a budget that can fund aging infrastructure, such as roads and buildings, while keeping taxes at a reasonable rate and not sending the town into debt, he added. The mayor said his key priority in 2018 will be to completely tie the asset management initiative up so the town can implement a long-term financial plan. He added he still believes they can keep pace with infrastructure upgrades while maintaining council's pay-as-you-go policy.
"There are huge demands on municipalities and it is a challenge not just to us but all those in the municipal field," noted Sweet. "It's too easy to go to the bank and either borrow or increase the taxes."
No matter who is still on council after November, the town will need to begin seriously considering the future of the Civic Centre. While reserves are being set aside for the ice surface, the arena itself is reaching the half-century mark.
"It doesn't look 45 years old but it is and it's not going to last forever," said Sweet.
Looking back on what he called a productive 2017, the mayor highlighted many milestones including hosting Rogers Hometown Hockey on New Year's Day, working with Garrison Petawawa to stage events marking the 100th anniversary of Vimy Ridge and the Battle of Passchendaele, and the official designation of the Ottawa River as a national heritage river. Petawawa also put itself on the map hosting the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) cross-country championships.
He lauded the many commercial developments that opened throughout the past year including Dollarama, Starbucks, Tim Hortons and Harvey's. He pointed to the residential and commercial development achieved with $42 million in building permits issued in 2017.
In 2018, the town will see the continued development of the Algonquin Trail along the former Canadian Pacific Railway line and the opening of the Petawawa Sports and Entertainment Hall of Fame at the Civic Centre. Sweet said he is looking forward to the impending opening of 14 additional housing units at the Riverview Seniors Apartment, a $3.5 million project that will address the need for seniors to gain affordable housing but remain in their community.
"I'm proud to be part of Petawawa," added Sweet. "We have a great bunch of people around the table and a great staff. The unsung heroes are the volunteers who don't get the credit they deserve."


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We've just had so much drama lately that it has consumed most of our conversations (that are fit to post, anyway!)
And then…dinner happened. Again, it involves the kids…but I was in tears from laughing.
The scene: the four of us are gathered around our kitchen table, eating the chicken fettucini that I made (with hubby's help in the spice department.) Somehow, the dinner conversation weirdly became about bananas. Honestly, I'm at a loss as to how exactly that happened.
Oh wait, now I remember. Diva started it.
Diva: "Mama, how are bananas made?"
JB: "They aren't made, they're grown."
Me: "On banana trees."
Monkey: "Then the banana people come get them."
We all just stared at him.
Me: "The banana people?"
Monkey: "Yeah, the Day-o people. They get the bananas off the trees."
At this point, I was so definitely running through the Harry Belafonte song in my head…Day-0, me say Day-o…but I was thinking that surely I heard him wrong when he said Dole.
JB: "Who are the Day-o people?"
Monkey: "You know, Daddy. The Day-o people." And he proceeds to bust out singing Day-O.
I couldn't help it. I had foolishly taken a drink of my tea just before he broke into song and came dangerously close to 1) spitting it out all over my poor daughter, who had no idea why her parents were suddenly laughing; or 2) choking to death. Tears were streaming from my eyes, and when I finally managed to pull myself together, I looked up at JB.
JB: He had a strange look on his face, like he couldn't decide to laugh or not. "Why are you connecting that song with bananas boy?" Yeah, at the time we didn't remember it was also called The Banana Boat Song.
Monkey: "Because my old chorus teacher said they were banana people!" And I always wondered what they were teaching him at that old school…
JB: "I think a Google search is in our future. I need to see how you are connecting that up."
Diva: who has been silent in confusion this whole time… "Ewww! I don't like boogers! They are gross, Daddy."
I will end the conversation there, because I'm sure no one really wants to know the 5 minute long convo we had about the ewww nasty b word…until we finally figured out Diva had mistaken her dad saying Google for booger.
It just got interesting.
After dinner, the boys went outside to work on something. I took the liberty of getting on booger Google and found this…which I had set to play loudly when they came back inside.


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Martin v. Naval Criminal Investigative Service et al
Plaintiff: Carolyn Martin
Defendant: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Mark D. Clookie, Wade Jacobson, Marine Corps West Field Office, Sean Sullivan, Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Gerald "Jerry&quo Martin, Ray Mabus and John Does
Case Number: 3:2010cv01879
Filed: September 9, 2010
Court: California Southern District Court
Office: San Diego Office
County: San Diego
Referring Judge: Anthony J. Battaglia
Presiding Judge: William Q. Hayes
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1331
Jury Demanded By: Plaintiff
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|June 11, 2013
|ORDER: Plaintiff's Objections to Discovery Dispute Order No. 1 (Doc. 96 ) are OVERRULED. Plaintiff's Objections to Discovery Dispute Order No. 2 (Doc. 102 ) are SUSTAINED. The Magistrate Judge's 1/22/2013 Order is VACATED. Within thi rty (30) days of the date of this Order, Plaintiff may file a renewed motion to extend the deadline to file amended pleadings. Signed by Judge William Q. Hayes on 6/11/2013. (mdc)(Modified on 6/12/2013 - Notified appeals clerk re this filing.)(mdc)(jrd)
|December 14, 2012
|ORDER Determining Joint Motion For Discovery Dispute No. 1, Granting In Part And Denying In Part Plaintiff's Motion To Compel (Re Doc. 92 ): The court GRANTS in part and DENIES in part Plaintiff's motion to compel. The USAO shall produce a privilege log by 1/9/2013 in accordance with this order. Signed by Magistrate Judge Nita L. Stormes on 12/14/2012. (mdc)
|August 1, 2012
|ORDER: The Motion to Dismiss the First Supplemental Complaint (Doc. 78 ) filed by the United States is DENIED. Signed by Judge William Q. Hayes on 8/1/2012. (mdc)
|May 3, 2012
|ORDER: The Supplemental Brief Seeking Leave to File Supplemental Pleading filed by Plaintiff Carolyn Martin (Doc. 64 ) is granted. No later than ten days from the date of this Order, Plaintiff may file the proposed first supplemental complaint (Doc. 61 -2 at 2-23). The Motion for Leave to File First Amended Complaint (Doc. 53 ) is denied as moot. The Cross-Motion to Stay Proceedings Pending Appeal filed by the United States on behalf of Defendants Mark D. Clookie, Wade Jacobson, Ray Mabus, Gerald Martin, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and Sean Sullivan (Doc. 55 ) is denied. Signed by Judge William Q. Hayes on 5/3/2012. (mdc) Modified on 5/3/2012 - Notified the appeals clerk re this filing. (mdc)
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The Goose
I met The Goose, a nickname he went by, when we were about ten years old or so. He was Goose, his brother Turkey, and I was dubbed Quail – all breasts and bird legs. We lived to torment one another. By junior high, however, we'd become friendly adversaries. He asked me to walk with him at Freshman Graduation, but then he also asked a half-dozen other girls to do the same. I'm not sure, but I think he was just hedging his bets in case one of us became angry at the last minute and ditched him.
Not one to pussyfoot around, and only looking out for myself, I pinned him against the lockers one day between classes and threatened to cut off his nuts if he stood me up. I already had the dress, the dyed-to-match heels, and the appointment with the town's premier beautician for the mile-high hair. Not wanting to sacrifice his testicles, he acquiesced.
We avoided the romantic tension that was building. He dated one of my best friends—I dated one of his rivals. When his girlfriend's father passed away the day before our senior graduation, he and I skipped school, despite being threatened by our teachers, and we drove to her house to be with her.
Later, when I was in college, he joined the service, and this time it was he who pinned me down. The night before he shipped out to Korea, there were several passionate kisses and long talks. He told me he loved me and asked me to marry him. I knew it wasn't a repeat of Freshman Graduation, but I couldn't commit. For reasons I still don't understand, I was unable to answer his letters. I married – he came home and married – and we never spoke of it again.
Somehow…I always thought we'd have the chance to talk.
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KARACHI: Air traffic between various cities remained suspended on Thursday and Friday as airlines cancelled domestic flights, citing dense fog and poor visibility.
Flight cancellation stranded a large number of people and air travellers staged a number of protests against rescheduling at a number of airports.
PIA cancelled five domestic flights on Friday: PK-218 Peshawar-Islamabad, PK-321 Faisalabad-Karachi, PK-287/288 Lahore-Peshawar-Doha-Lahore, PK-283/284 Karachi-Peshawar-Dubai-Karachi and PK-536/537 Karachi-Moenjodaro-Sukkur-Karachi.
The spokesperson for PIA, Mashhood Tajwar, said that the airline has no option but to cancel flights because of poor visibility and heavy fog in various parts of the country. PIA, he said, accommodated passengers returning from Dubai and other Middle East destinations after several of their connecting flights were cancelled on Friday.
Also on Friday, passengers chanted slogans against airlines at the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi. Passengers wanting to travel to Bahawalpur and Multan also faced difficulties because their flights first have to land at Lahore airport, Tajwar added.
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Coast Steering, Pembrokeshire
What is coasteering?
Think climbing, scrambling, cliff jumping, swimming and a whole load of adrenalin. That's coasteering. The awe inspiring coastline of Pembrokeshire provides the ideal venue for this exhilarating adventure event where you'll find yourself swimming into sea caves, climbing up through natural rock arches, and flinging yourself from towering vertical rock faces.
Coasteering in Pembrokeshire is open to everyone over the age of eight, be they swimmers or non swimmers and to all ability levels. The qualified coasteering guides will tailor your coaster session to suit you, your family, or your group.
Kitted out with a toasty warm wetsuit, helmet and buoyancy aid, you'll be ready to take on 'The Toilet' and 'The Washing Machine'. If it's a winter coaster, often gloves, a hood and socks are provided so there's no excuse!
Pembrokeshire's coasteering
guides are all highly qualified and have an intimate knowledge of our coastline. Coasteering is a dangerous activity so the best way to stay safe is to make sure you book with our qualified coasteering team.
Just bring along your inner dare-devil and have the time of your life.


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I made it all by myself, using this picture, and this free software.
Someday I'll ask my brilliant graphic designer husband to make me a really cool and unique blog header. After that, every time I go to my blog I'll feel all shivery and happy inside. It shouldn't be hard to do right? I mean, the word "quirky-ness", which actually isn't even a word, just screams "unique and cool", right?
For now though, Enrique is a little on the "hanging-on-by-the-skin-of-his-teeth" side. He's got less than two weeks to do about a million projects so that he can graduate from this fine institution.
After that, he'll be occupied with the building of an amazing state-of-the-art website for this fine business.
So, for a bit, it appears that I'm left to my own web-designing devices.
Lucky You.
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
Stopping By
This is the LOOK, the LOOK which commands my every move when I am at home and right now the look says, "I want treats and YOU are on that #%&* laptop. Not bad enough I am waiting for treats but you did not come home right after work, you did not give me lap time, and where are you hiding LM?".....I'm in big trouble so this post will have to be brief. Seeing that I am going to Seattle next week for 8 days, I feel compelled to give in to Ms G's whims right now. I really do want to go away with a fairly clean cat mom conscience.
Yes, the sisters' reunion is close now. Next Tues evening, August 19th, we will all be together and it is going to be fantastic. El, our hostess, called this evening and we talked a lot about what we will do. She has several nice tours on tap....one a "Duck Tour" of Seattle and another is a boat cruise on Puget Sound. Those work out well because we can all participate. Margaret and El both have MS and cannot do lots of walking but we wanted to be able to do as much as possible together. The first morning we are there will fulfill a dream for me....all together we can visit the University Farmers Market in Seattle. I have longed for years to see it and will be sure to take lots of photos to share here. Other than that we will spend lots of time on Eleanor's porch gazing at Mt. Rainier and walking along the beach in her neighborhood with my nephews. We are all dreaming of making some nice meals together and having some real salmon, Dungeness and King crab. Yes. we do love good food and I am sure it will be a feast.....a feast of love and gratitude at being together.
Meanwhile, I am still preparing for the journey...the weekend with LM lies ahead and we will celebrate his daughter, Meaghan's 24th birthday on Sunday, and eke out some quality alone time for us as we will be apart for a long time. Both of us feel apprehension and keep assuring the other of the daily contact we will have. Ah, love. Sweet.
Now, the LOOK is getting more and more indignant so I must report for duty....which right now will consist of providing freshly drawn water for Ms G, getting into bed, serving her her evening portion of Whiska Lickens and then allow her to get under the covers with lots of patting all the while.....tough duty being a good cat mom but someone has to do it here!
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Department of Veterinary Medicine, Udayana University, Indonesia
Received Date: December 07, 2015; Accepted Date: January 02, 2016; Published Date: January 11, 2016
Citation: Sampurna P (2016) Biplot Simulation to Determine the Growth Rate of Body Dimension in Local Bali Ducks. J Biom Biostat 7: 284. doi:10.4172/2155-6180.1000284
Copyright: © 2016 Sampurna P. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Biplot simulation using factor analysis rotation promax kapa 90 was conducted to determine the growth rate of body dimension in female Bali duck of 0-16 week-old. The result of the biplot simulation showed that the body dimension of female Bali ducks that belongs to slow growth rate was in quadran II including the length of radius ulna, femur, tarsal and humerus. The body dimensions of female Bali ducks with the moderate growth rates were in quadrant I such as the length of carpal, chest circumference, body weight, the length necks, the length of digital 1 and the length of head. The body dimension with fast growth rate such as head circumference, neck circumference, abdominal circumference, and the length of digital 2, 3 and 4, and the length of tibia-fibula. Based on the ages, the coordinates distances in two dimension Eigen vector space were as follows. At the most distance position was at the age of 0-2 weeks, followed by the age of 2-4 weeks, and finally with closest distance was at the age of maturity.
Biplot; Ducks bali; Body dimensions; Growth rates
In animals, the growth of body dimension during their growth phase usually follows exponential function with different growth rates among many different parts of the body. The differences in the growth rate among many different body dimension can be due to the fisiological and functional differences as well as their tissue components.. The body dimensions which are required to be functional early tend to grow faster than those required to be functional latter. The body dimension consisting of bones as the main functional components are required to develop earlier than those consisting of muscle and fat [1].
Sampurna [2] reported that the development of body dimensions in Bali duck can be determined by allometric equation. Based on the allometic equation, the development of such body dimension in Bali Duck started from head and neck, and proceeded by the development in the back area. The development of body dimension also occurs in other parts of the body starting from legs, lower and upper thighs, chest and finally at the wings. Sampurna dan Suatha [3] reported that the growth of the body dimension in male Bali cattle is started from the neck, head, back parts of the body, and finally in the front parts of the body. Meanwhile, the body dimensions that develop and grow early are chest circumference, preceded by abdominal circumference, front and back neck circumference. Sampurna [4] showed that the fastest growth in livestock occurs when they reach inflexion point.
In many studies, however, researchers are often faced with too many body dimensions, and presentation using allometric equation and allometical graph are often less interesting as it cannot be presented in Figure 1. Bispot presentation using rotation promax kapa 90 for exponential function is able to demonstrate the differences in the growth dimension into 3 quadrants in a double dimesion local space consisting of quadrant II for those with slow growth rate, quadrant I for those with medium growth rate and quadrant IV for those with fast growth rates. Based on those result, the dimension of Bali calf in quadrant II has slow growth rate , those in quadrant I has medium growth rate and those in quadrant IV has fast growth rate [5]. Factor analysis using rotation promax kapa 90 on the body dimensions illustrated in cross axes of local space is also able to demonstrate the closeness of the relationship among body dimension base on their growth rate. If the body dimensions are in similar growth rate, the coordinate distance among the body dimension will be close to zero, whereas the body dimension the longer coordinate distances have a wider range of the growth rates [6].
Cluster analysis is multivariate analysis aimed to group the data obtained from studies based on their characteristic similarities. Characteristic similarities are usually measured by the inter-object closeness of simmilaritis and un similarities. Furthermore, in data grouping based on the objects, another multivariate analysis that can be used is biplot analysis. The purpose of the analysis is to demonstrate both the raw (objects) and column (variables) on matrix data simultaneously in low dimension graph (two or three dimensions). The demonstration includes the variance and correlation among variables, and the closeness of the relation among objects which in turn will be able to identify the object grouping [7].
Biplot demonstration using factor analyisis to figure the raw (object) and the column (variables) of the available matrix data simultaneously in a low dimension graph is usually done by using rotation varimax. Mattjik and Sumertajaya [8] stated that the variables will be pictured as dried line. Two variables that has positive correlation will be pictured as two lines with the same direction or forming a acute angle. Meanwhile, two variables which have a negative correlation is pictured as two line with the opposite direction or forming a obtuse angle. Two variables which have no correlation will be pictured as two lines forming 90º angle (right angle). Variable with a small variance will be pictured as short vector, whereas those with big variance will be pictured as long vector. For the closeness among objects, two objects with the same characteristics will be pictured as two spots at close positions. Objects with a position in the same directions with a variable will have the value of above average. In contrary, other objects with the position in the opposite direction of the variable will have value of below the average. Meanwhile, the object with the position almost at the middle will value almost the sama as the average value. Sampurna [9] reported that biplot demonstration using rotation promax kapa 90 can show the closeness of the relationship among variables. The shorter the distance among variables, the closer the correlation among them and their correlation will be close to 1, whereas th angle among variable, and the standard or vector length of variables cannot describe the value of correlate and the variance among variables.
Biplot is an explorative data analysis method of multiple variables which can demonstrate in graph on the closeness among objects, the variance of variables, correlation among variables and the association among variables and objects. In addition, biplot analysis is used to describe the correlation among variables and objects in space with two dimensions. From biplot it was obtained three approach matrixes related to data, variables and objects [10]. In principle, biplot analysis is an effort to demonstrate a graph of matrix data X in a plot by redundant display of vectors in space with low dimension, usually space with two dimension representing vectors of row X (objects) and vector representing column X (variables). From this graph display it is expected to obtain the description of objects, such as the closeness of the relationship among objects, and description of variables, both on variance and the correlation, as well as the association among objects and variables [11].
In order to make assessment of relevant factors, the first selection steps is followed by rotation of factor which function to give a more understandable result. Rotation can be orthogonal or slope (enabling the factor to correlate). Promax rotation is an alternative non-orthogonal rotation of computation method which is faster than direct obliging method and is therefore sometimes used for a large number of data set. In practice of rotation in factor analysis, it is highly recommended to try several sizes of subspaces of factors retained for assessment of rotation stability [12].
This study was aimed to find out to the close relation among body dimensions of female Bali ducks based on their growth rate in bispot graph simulation in order to find out which body dimension and at which age of those with slow, medium and fast growth rates.
Biplot analysis was used to determine the body dimension of female Bali duck starting at the age of 0 to 16 weeks. The data were collected every two weeks in which 5 ducks were randomly selected starting at week 0, 2, 4, 6. 8. 10. 12, 14 and 16. The total ducks used in this study were 9x5=45 ducks. The body dimensions measured was: Head circumference, which includes the supra orbital margin of frontal. Neck circuference, which includes the vertebrae cervicalis. Chest circumference was measured in the area surrounding the sternum and the coracoid. Abdominal circumference was measured across the the os.ischium and theischiadicum. Humeral length was measured from proximal to distal regions of the humerus.
The length of radius ulna was measured from proximal to the distal regions of the radius ulna. The length of carpometacarpal was measured from proximal to distal regions of carpometacarpus. The length of femur was measured from the proximal to the distal regions of the femur. The length of fibula was measured from proximal to the distal portions of the tibia fibula. Panjang tars metatarsus, yang diukur dari proximal sampai ke bagian distal thetarsometatarsus. The lengths of digital 1, 2, 3 and 4 were measured from proximal to dital portions of thedigiti 1, 2, 3 and 4. The length of beak was measured at thepremaxillare from proc. Frontalis to i proc. maxillaries
The length of head was measured at thefrontal fromi proc. premxillare to prominentia cerebellaris. The length of neck was measured from the Atlas to the vertebrae cervicalis 14. The body overall length was measured from thethoracic vertebrae to thevertebrae caudal,The body weigh was measured by weighing the life duck using a balance weigher. The data obtained from this study was analysed by factor analysis based on the correlation among variables to obtain their correlation matrix and their significance. Eigen vector was determined by their correlation Rxo=λ xo, to obtain f(x)=R-λ I=0. Thus f(λ )=0 was disignated as own matrix equation R, the root of this equation was reffered to as matrix eigen root R and the vector which in accord with their eigen root was called eigenvector.
The data collected were their average values in order to obtain a value of 1 with differences only in their standard deviations. Biplot graph was obtained from 2 eigenvector with the highest eigen root which equal to the highest eigen root as X axis and the second highest eigen root as Y axis using Rotation Promax Kapa 90.
Coordinate position for each body dimension on X and Y axis in own space represent the the degree of correlation among many different body dimensions. The body dimensions with close position indicate close relation, whereas those with distant position indicate differences in growth rate. The uses of Rotation Promax Kapa 90 are intended to divide the position of the body dimension into 3 different quadrants. The body dimension in quadran II was used for those with slow growth rates, quadran I for those with medium growth rates and quadrant IV for those with fast growth rates. The object coordinate position or duck aged 0-16 weeks was based on Factor Scores Method Regression analysis factor 1 as absis and factor 2 as coordinate. The analysis was conducted using SPSS 22 program (Statistical Product and Service Solutions version 22).
The result showed that 98.05% of the 19 body dimensions in female Bali ducks with many differences in the growth rates can be demonstrated as biplot of Eigen space with 2 dimensions. The use of the two main components is, therefore, considered to be able to derscribe the data variation in body dimension with various differences in their growth rates (Table 1).
|Initial Eigenvalues
|Extraction Sums of Squared Loading
|Rotation Sums of Squared Loading
|% of Variance
|Cumulative %
|% of Variance
|Cumulative %
Table 1: Total variance explained body dimension bali ducks females.
Scree plot of female bali ducks body dimensions in Figure 1 showed that Eigen root values decreased sharply from component 1 to component 2, but no significant decrease was observed after component 2 to component 19 indicated by flat line which shows that the 19 body dimension of female Bali ducks can be demonstrated in two dimension eigen space with component 1 as abs is and component 2 as coordinate (Figure 1).
Based on the coodinate of component 1 as abs is and component 2 as coordinate. Table 2 was shown that the body dimensions in quadrant II were the body dimension with slow growth rate at the ages of 0 – 16 weeks i.e. respectively from the slowest growth rate of radius ulna, followed by the length of femur, the length of tarsal and finally the length of humerus. The length of carpal, chest circumference, body weight, the length of neck, the length of digital 1 and finally the length of head were in quadrant I which were the body dimensions medium growth rate at the age of 0 – 16 weeks. The other body dimension were in quadrant IV consisting of those with fast growth rate such as the length of tibiae and fibulae, followed by abdominal circumference and finally the head circumference.
|Body Dimensions
|1( Abscissa)
|2( Ordinate)
|Lengths of Radius Ulna
|Lengths of Femur
|11 Lengths of Tarsal
|Lengths of Humerus
|Lengths of Carpal
|C'i.rcu1uference of Chest
|Body Weight
|Lengths of Neck
|Length of Digiti 1
|Length of Head
|Circumference of Head
|Length of Digiti 2
|Length of Beak
|Lengths of Body
|Length of Digiti 4
|Circumference of N eek
|Length of Digiti 3
|Circumference ofAbdominal
|Lengths of Tibia Fibula
Table 2: The coordinates of the pattern matrix body dimension bali ducks females.
The result showed that the body dimension of female Bali duck aged 0-16 weeks have different growth rates. Such differences in the growth rate appear to be due the differences in the function and functional requirement of each body dimension [13-17]. Biplot demonstration showed that the wing component of female Bali duck such as radius ulna, tarsal and humerus have slower growth rates as compared to the leg components which are required to be functional earlier such as digital 2, 3 and 4. The result is in accord with the previous study by Sampurna [2] that the wings of Bali duck have slower growth rate as compared to the leg components as water fowl such as duck require leg to be functional earlier than wings (Table 2). Based on the coordinate score, it was shown that the body dimension of female Bali duck aged 0-4 weeks was in quadrant III, whereas at the age of 6 – 16 weeks was in quadrant I indicating that the growth rate rates of duck body dimension were affected by the age (Table 3).
|Age (week)
|1 (Abscissa)
|2 (Ordinate)
Table 3: The coordinates of the age factor body dimension bali ducks females.
Biplot graph simulation in Figure 2 showed that the body dimension of female Bali duck respectivelly from quadrant I to quadrant IV were as follows. Quadrant II were for those with the slowest groth rates such as the length of radius ulna, followed by the length of femur, the length of tarsal and finally the length of humerus. Quadrant I were for those with the medium growth rate such as the length of head and finally. Quadrant IV wa s for those with fastest growth rates such as head circumference and the length of tibia fibulae. The distance among body dimensions in Figure 2 showed that the body dimension with close positions were those with close relationship and with a high correlation, even for those in diffferent quadrant such as the length of humerus and carpal which has a closer relation as compared with those of the length of humerus and radius ulna. The length humerus and carpal were at the different quadrants, whereas the length of humerus and the length of radius ulna were in the same quadrant. The body weight of female Bali ducks belonged to medium body dimension which is the resultant of all body dimensions. Based on their coordinate of the body dimension, the body weight has the closest position with chest circumference indicating that the body weight has a closest relation with chest circumference (Figure 2).
Coorinate position based on the age of female Bali duck in Figure 2 showed that the h the most distance position was observed at the ages between 0 week and 2 weeks, followed by the age between 2 weeks and 6 weeks. The older the age of duck, the closer the coordinate position in the graph and some of which have a distance close to 0. This Figure 2 showed that the differences in the distance of coordinate positions and the closeness among ages are in turn able to identify the grouping among ages or among objects [6]. The result also showed that the growth rates of the body dimension of female Bali ducks were the fastest at the age of 0 to 2 weeks, and they were slowing down as the ducks getting older. The fastest growth rates were observed from the time of hatching to the age 4 weeks which reaches an average inflation point at 2 week old. After the inflexion point the growth rates of the body dimension were getting slower until they reaches adult as shown in biplot simulation that at the age of 14 and 16 weeks their coordinate positions were at disatnce of close to zero as they reaches their maturity. This is in accord with previous study by Sampurna [4] that the fastest growth rates of animal body dimensions occurs before they reaches their inflexion points. Suparyanto [18] reported that the fastest growth occurs in cross-breed ducks between Pekin and Mojosari ducks from hatching to 30 day-old.
Biplot simulation using rotation promax kapa 90 is able to demonstrate the differences in the body dimension growth rates of female Bali ducks aged 0–16 weeks and can therefore be used to demonstrate which body dimensions have the slow, medium and fast growth rates. Based on their ages, biplot rotation promax kapa 90 is able to demonstrate at which age the average body dimension of female bali ducks with the fastest growth rates or reaches their inflexion point and at which age they have a slow growth rate or reaches their mature.


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