text: Share: Comments Print August 31, 2013 at 2:08 PM Report: Clemons will start season on active list Posted by Bob Condotta In what could be a pretty significant development for Seattle's defensive line, Ian Rapoport of NFL.com is reporting that defensive end Chris Clemons will start the season on the team's active list. Here's his Tweet: https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/373913543604576256 Clemons has yet to practice with the team while rehabbing from an ACL injury suffered in the playoff win over the Redskins on Jan. 6. But coach Pete Carroll said this week they were encouraged by his recovery and that they would have a big decision to make about his return. "Clemons has been working out great," Carroll said. "We watched him again today. He's made fantastic progress. You would not be able to tell, from his workouts today, that he had any issues. That's a really good sign. He hasn't worked against anybody or practiced or any of that kind of stuff. We have a big decision to make there and we will figure that one out." Clemons led the Seahawks with a career-high 11.5 sacks last season. That he will be on the active list indicates the team assumes he will be back fairly soon — he couldn't have come off the PUP list until after week six. Comments


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IO module migration: Bridge old to new
I/O wiring can be among the most challenging (and perhaps feared) of upgrades. When replacing input/output connections, questions to ask include:
- Is there documentation for all of the I/O wiring?
- How much time is required?
- If a wiring error is made during the upgrade, do I have the time and the proper personnel to troubleshoot the system?
- What if the devices are not working as expected after the upgrade—can I continue to use the old I/O for a while?
I/O replacement represents a large investment and the potential risk of extended downtime. Rockwell Automation provides an upgrade for Bulletin 1771 I/O that can accommodate existing schedules and budgets while helping to minimize the risk of errors that could result in extended downtime.
Bulletin 1492 I/O wiring conversion system provides a method to reconnect the existing 1771 I/O wiring to Rockwell Automation new 1756 I/O modules without disturbing the field wiring connections. This can help dramatically reduce labor and downtime that could result from wiring mistakes. Planning a migration is more manageable as I/O can be swapped one rack at a time or all at once, based on the schedule and budget. In either case, old and new I/O networks can run simultaneously. I/O cross-reference documentation helps assure accuracy and provides historical backup for future troubleshooting or diagnostics.
Additionally, the wiring conversion system provides a mounting assembly that helps reduce the need to drill new holes in the control panel to mount the new I/O chassis. This can help lower engineering costs and installation labor, but more importantly eliminate the metal filings from drilling new holes that can wreak havoc with the other electrical components in your panel. This mounting assembly uses the same panel footprint (length and width) as the 1771 I/O chassis. The new assembly with the 1756 I/O chassis is 10 in. deep; the 1771 chassis depth is 8.5 in. deep.
The speed and ease of the conversion provides some added benefits. A recent time study indicates that an 8-slot chassis can be converted in just over 6 minutes using the 1492 I/O wiring conversion system, while it takes almost 2.5 hours using the conventional method. The design makes it possible to quickly "undo" the I/O upgrade if you find your control system is not performing as required and further programming changes are required.
– Jeff Kilburn is global product manager, logic components, Rockwell Automation. Edited by Mark T. Hoske, CFE Media, Control Engineering, www.controleng.com.
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As I mentioned in my last article on Virat kohli's performance and comparisons to the cricketing legends, it has become inevitable to compare his performances to those of Sachin Tendulkar. There are many factors that can be considered to compare their performances. Factor like the number of total runs made in equal number of matches, the strike rate with which the runs were scored, the average number of runs scored in each match, the number of ce
nturies scored, matches that they have played at home and away. I will cover most of those comparisons but in a different way. Graphical representation of their performances makes it look outstandingly easy to see how they have performed. So, here is an info-graphic presenting the performances of Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli.
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The Marriage of souls
The Marriage of Souls: Why we now need a renewed conjugal theology
Mark Vernon
Equality is politically effective. Its message is immediate and, in a mature democracy, one that most understand. But it is also a blunt tool, riding roughshod over some crucial, subtle issues about what it is to be human. Now that the Church of England bishops appear genuinely to have offered us a chance to explore the nature of marriage openly, my sense is that we who have deployed the language of equality to get thus far, need now to develop ways of talking that go theologically deeper; much deeper.
We must rest on the richest conceptions of what it is to be human. And a good place to find that is with the notion of soul.
By soul, I mean something implicit but simple: the quality of being alive, and knowing you're alive - with longings, connections, movement, hope. It's soul as Genesis 2:7 has it: "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." It's soul as is used dozens of times in the New Testament, and also translated as life, heart, breath, mind. "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with your all your soul, and with all your mind." (Matt 22:37).
This is not soul in distinct contrast to body, as if the soul were that naturally immortal part of ourselves that floats off when the body dies. That's neither a Biblical nor, I think, an ancient Greek understanding of things. Rather, it's the feature of being human that we know as a felt sense of another's intimate presence; or can gain when feeling the aliveness of the sunrise. Embodiment is the tangible expression, the physical manifestation of soul. It's why the soul gradually reveals itself as, say, laughter lines on a face; or is glimpsed in the eyes of someone who is inwardly free. It's similar to what Charlie Parker said about music: "Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Soul is your experience, your thoughts, your wisdom too.
Holding in mind this felt sense of soul - its subtlety, its vitality, its reliability - is invaluable because without it arguments about life and love, gender and sexuality become abstract and dry. But sensing soul, you can sense what's at stake in these debates. Same-sex attraction becomes same-sex love; ethical problems become people to be blessed. The language of soul also reveals how much of human worth is at stake in the theology of marriage.
The merging of human and divine
The theology of marriage sits within a wider attempt to express what is possible for we humans. And what is possible is, ultimately, nothing less than knowing God.
It's Jesus' prayer in John's gospel: "On that day you will realise that I am in my Father, and you are in me and I am in you." (John 14: 20). It's the meaning of the incarnation that was felt by Athanasius when he pithily wrote in, On the Incarnation: "God became man so that man might become God." Augustine knew it too, when his soul finally found its unity with God and so could call God "deeper in me than I am in me."
Marriage matters because it is known as a prime experience of this unity. It's a sacrament. Marriage is not just a human right or legal contract, though it is. It is not just for society and family as a basic unit of stability, though it is. The truth of two becoming one and the sanctity of conjugal love is in the "merging of the human and the divine", as Catholic teaching has it. The merging happens at the soul level within us because soul is the meeting place for human physicality and God-kinship; and it's the meeting place at which two individuals join in love, becoming one in an ecstatic echo of God's union. It's why John Paul II said of marriage that "there is no more perfect, more complete image of God, Unity and Community. There is no other human reality which corresponds more, humanly speaking, to that divine mystery."
It's a tremendous vision. Without it, arguments about marriage rapidly entangle in biological technicalities and knots of Biblical dispute. Without it, sight is lost of the spirit in a fixation on the letter of the law.
Men and women
Catholic teaching and, for different reasons, Anglican teaching argue that this vision of marriage is shown only between a man and a woman. In Catholic teaching, the insistence is much mixed up with anxieties about the need to redeem the presumed fallen nature of sex. Anglicans left that particular concern behind when, for example, the church sanctioned contraception. But still, officially, Anglicans insist on the meeting of different genders to realise the mystery of marriage. Usually, the reasons presented for this doctrine revolve around the presumed binary and complementary nature of the sexes.
So it can be shocking, or liberating, to learn that such gender binaries are a modern invention. In the ancient world, women were regarded not as from Venus, with men flown in from Mars, but as less well "cooked" men, to borrow Aristotle's unhappy metaphor. They'd both come out of the same oven, only women were half-baked. To put it more technically, the natural world was thought to display a hierarchy of being, with God at the top and humanity somewhere in the middle, and men placed significantly higher than women.
This hierarchical vision of gender difference, as opposed to the complementarity one, is embedded in the second creation myth of Genesis. It carries the verse, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him." Hence woman is formed, "taken out of man" (Gen 2:23). It also lies behind the Letter to the Ephesians' metaphor for marriage as a relationship of a man and a woman that parallels the relationship between Christ (fully renewed) and the church (putting on the new). Note the hierarchy, the reason the author can also state: "the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church" (Eph 5:23).
This is clearly an understanding of gender that is alien now. Where it is taught, it gives rise to offense. But the hierarchical teaching holds a wisdom that helpfully subverts the complementary account of gender, and further, it can be articulated without the old prejudice.
Making sex
The complementarity model is essentially biological and scientistic. Scholars such as Thomas Lacquer, in his book Making Sex, have shown how gender complementarity emerged in the early modern Enlightenment. Anatomists then began presenting genitalia as fitting into each other, rather than being versions of each other. The significance of this shift for the theology of marriage is that it presents gender as not to do with soul but as determined by physiology. It's gender as a science of the body that is blind to the living reality of the soul.
However, imagine what happens if the ancient prejudice against women is dropped and the hierarchy of being model is revisited. Instead of human diversity being determined by biological differences, it can be seen as expressions of different qualities of soul. What are culturally called masculine or feminine, and which convention hooks onto male and female, can be known as attributes of inner life - how we can all be receptive and generative; rational and godly.
The upshot is that biological identification becomes, theologically, a secondary issue. I believe this is intimated in the New Testament in the instances where women are regarded as equally rational as men and so also apostles and witnesses (Rom 16:7; John 20:1-18); and in ancient Greek thought when women are celebrated as philosopher queens alongside philosopher kings by Plato. In these moments of inspiration is seen that what most fundamentally matters is fullness of soul - the capacity of all to exercise all the human qualities that are at other times labeled masculine or feminine. It's why, I suspect, androgynous language emerges in the Bible too, when female metaphors are applied to Jesus as a hen, say, in Matthew 23:37; or when John declares that the word was made flesh, a non-gendered description to express the full soul truth of the incarnation, filling-out the gendered descriptions.
In short, the erotic union of marriage, and its capacity to carry the sacramental truth of our kinship with God, does not depend upon a literal adherence to biological difference. Indeed, today, a rigid definition of marriage as between a man and a woman probably distracts from the tremendous, incarnational vision held by traditional theology. A doctrinal doggedness in an equal society risks reducing marriage to a nominalist contract blown about by the winds of shifting gender constructions.
Our eros for God
There's a further, final dimension that a soulful understanding of marriage opens up. It has to do with those who are not married too.
Conjugal love is so important because it reflects the eros of God, which the Greek Fathers also came to realise is central to understanding the incarnation. You can read of it in Gregory of Nyssa's teaching on virginity, as Sarah Coakley is inviting us to contemplate in her recent writing - in particular God, Sexuality, and the Self, and also, The New Asceticism. Virginity was an arresting subject for Gregory to turn to because he was happily married. But what he argues is that true virginity is not about a legalistic abstention from sex. Rather, it is about cultivating a pure directedness of passionate desire for God, a transformation that is also a becoming open to God's desire that is so passionately directed towards us. Godly erotic longing can, therefore, be nurtured as much in marriage as in celibacy. The complex context of a relationship is as good a school of love as the complex context of singleness. Again, this truth is understood only at the soul level because, then, eros is seen as not primarily to do with sexuality, but as to do with intentionally channeling all of life's energies towards God.
Gregory read Plato. The ancient Greek philosopher had a number of useful suggestions as to how to picture such divine-seeking eros. It is typically awoken when someone first falls in love. But it needs then to extend from the longing for another to the longing for God, perhaps also shared together in an on-going relationship. It may lead to the procreation of children, that joyous overflowing of love shared. But it can equally precipitate in what Plato called "offspring of the soul" - those creative, expansive, life-enriching activities that bring the human and the divine closer together, regardless of marital status. To switch back to the Christian vision: it's the vocation of all, to resonate with God's incarnating act within us and within the cosmos. It's the groaning of the Spirit that Paul knew (Rom 8:26).
To put it another way, Anglican theology has recognised that marriages don't need children to be marriages, in the same way that God doesn't need creation to be God - though, as it happens, creation is the possibly inevitable spilling-over of divine love into more and more and more. So too, individuals can equally be single and participate in the generative power of God's eros and their own.
The necessity of renewal
All this depth of our three dimensional humanity is captured in the theology of marriage. At their best, marriages experience the soul-truth of knowing another as you are yourself known, a relatedness that is in turn experienced as a sacrament of God's incarnational knowing us. Further, in marriage, this union is not only experienced but is publically celebrated as being blessed.
So equal marriage is not just a matter of equality. Far from it. I'd go so far as to say that to save Anglican theology from the scientistic reductionisms of the complementarity model, as well as to renew the dynamic sense of life as soul in all its fullness, marriage should now be celebrated equally for all in permanent, stable and faithful relationships.
Mark Vernon is a psychotherapist and philosopher.


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When you're just starting out with investing in individual dividend paying stocks, it can be completely overwhelming to figure out what to buy. Honestly, until recently I didn't think I could do better than buying mutual funds. I have since decided to focus on investing in individual dividend stocks, over funds, because I can better estimate their dividend income potential. Generally speaking dividend investing stocks perform well over the long term, if the company is well managed. Of course, just because a company pays dividends "today" doesn't guaranty it will be able to continue to pay them in the future. You've probably heard the say "past performance does not guaranty future results".
With my budget, I'm not ready to buy into advice or advanced information services. I'm also not doing many transactions at this point either to balance out cost. So to control the chaos, I built my own list of potential stocks to buy and track them in a Google Spreadsheet so that I have a quick reference when I have cash to invest. To build my list I used several sources. This is just my list of potential targets and there is still further research to be done before actually making a purchase (and deciding if it's the right time to buy).
Check out what Mutual Funds and EFTs are holding
One of the first places that I check for ideas is the holdings are various funds. In theory their investing analysts are researching stocks and creating the mix that makes sense for their investing goals. If you know the popular mutual funds (possibly ones that you already in your 401k for example), you can go to sites such as Morningstar or Fidelity and search on the fund's symbol for more information. You will need to check if that stock actually pays dividends, but it's at least a starting filter.
Read the portfolio updates from the top posters on SeekingAlpha
There are many active investors on SeekingAlpha that monitor their portfolios and publish updates either quarterly or monthly. Their transparency helps shed light into potential stocks to add to my list. Again, I double check if stock pays dividends, but in most cases I'm following authors that are also dividend investors. To start finding potential investors to follow, check out the Dividend section on SeekingAlpha. The author's follower count and comments on the article help determine how solid the advice is.
Look for lists of companies that have long histories of paying dividends
One of the key tenants of focusing on dividend paying stocks is that there is a strong likelihood that the company will continue to pay dividends in the future. And there are companies that have been paying dividends for years and make it a core principle of their business to continue paying dividends. Their stock price would likely be punished (i.e drop) if they stop paying dividends. For example check out the Dividend Aristocrats companies that have a long history of paying dividends. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_500_Dividend_Aristocrats)
Look at the products that you buy for ideas
Ideally you're investing in profitable companies. What are you buying? What stores look popular? That may be good place to check as well. Peter Lynch, who previously ran the Magellan Fund, once suggested to buy what you know. It's an interesting theory to help kickstart a list of possible stocks to buy (or at least research further). Also consider what the next generation is buying because you need to make sure that company has future. You likely shouldn't buy only what you know, but it may help spark a few ideas.
Final thoughts
Start building your list of potential stocks buy so that when you have money to invest you can move a little quicker. You can get ideas from:
- mutual funds and EFTS,
- what people are talking about on SeekingAlpha,
- what you buy (or stores that are popular)
- lists of stocks that have long histories of paying stocks (and increasing annual payments)
Once you build your list, you can start researching further, checking the news for updates to help further filter down. Also keep an eye on their Ex-Dividend Dates. I sometimes prioritize what I'll buy depending on if I'll be able to catch the next dividend payment or if I just missed it.


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After well, forever, Sony has released an app for their eReader on the Apple app store. Sony has had a variety of capable eReaders for some time, but up until now hasn't had a method of supporting iThingies. Their new app is pretty typical (cloud integration, cross platform bookmarks, pretty bookshelf, etc), but the one major thing they've left out is the ability to purchase books through the app. In order to do that you still have to use your Sony eReader account, either on a laptop/desktop or on a traditional Sony eReader.
Because that way they don't have to pay Apple for each book sold.
This isn't a totally new strategy – Amazon does the same. It will be interesting to see how it works out for Sony.
You can check it out on the iTunes store. FYI, it's a US/Canada link, so it might not work in your location.


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I enjoyed finishing this book the other day, which I had started a few months back then discontinued. I was inspired to synchronise my reading of the second half with an escalation in my efforts to launch my blog and further, a fledgeling business inspired by the blog (coming very soon). To add to the synchronicity, I saw my good friend Jenny, who lent me the book; I don't see her often these days. She told me of her time at Embercombe -the house and gardens in Devon, not far from me, that were bestowed on 'Mac' (the book author) as a thank you to him and his company 'Pathways' for helping businesses work with more integrity and connection to Nature.
The essence of the synchronicity is that I am striving to launch a business in a way that is deeply respectful of, even repairing of, the environment, as well as inspiring social justice for disadvantaged groups in society. I am striving to use all the entrepreneurial savvy available to me, but in an ethical way. Similarly, Tim 'Mac' Macartney, with Pathways, attempted to bridge the gaps between the corporate world, and eco-spiritual integrity; authentic and ethical leadership. I personally am scathing of corporatism and wonder whether Mac was wasting his time with these big actors complicit in the global destruction of the environment. For me, the end of corporatism is necessary if we are to move on, constructively and healthily as a species. I do think there are exceptions: 'Transition Corporations' that would have obsolescence designed into them; special rafts to carry us from here to there, using the power of capitalism to transform or even end capitalism.
Nevertheless in 'Finding Earth…' with his very poetic and Nature-inspired language, and his revelation that he started his 'invisible path of authentic leadership' as an anti-corporate gardener in a business development centre, Mac has shown me that, underdog though I may be, I am capable of mixing in a variety of different circles, including corporate if necessary, to help make the changes that I see need to be made. My poetry and deep connection to Nature can be a help -actually must be at the core of my directed action- even in the most capitalist of contexts. But I need to find some courage!
I was also impressed in the book by the willingness of Mac and his Pathways business team to take risks on a human rather than purely financial basis. There is the incredible story of Dorota, a Polish woman in her 20's with no business experience. Based on her heartfelt longings for purpose and her belief in Pathways, Mac took a massive risk in supporting her wish to develop 'Pathways Poland', which then happened (after a bit of a shaky start).
I also take as a timely warning Mac's early idealism. He had 'plenty of dreams, plans and ambitions', he writes, but it came to a point where he realised he needed to act. Ideals can drive us and guide us, but if they are not grounded in what can be done in the here-and-now, then they can be counterproductive -an escape. I know this only too well, but I'm working on it.
There are a few other moments in the book which really stood out for me. Some are autobiographical incidents -including one very dramatic life-focusing event- and others are more points of wisdom and philosophy, along with the standard call to heroic action that is the feature of any environmentally aware book written in the past decade or so.
I was also pleased to read about Mac's awareness of feminist issues, although he could have gone deeper.
Essentially, Mac seems to agree with the basic tenets of The Evidence section of Epic Tomorrows; he says that we are in 'crisis' as a species due to our degrading of our planet home, and quotes politicians who agree. He includes climate change and biodiversity loss in his assessment. But this was back in 2007. Things have gotten worse since then.


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How to Do the Yoga-with-Weights Dolphin Exercise
The Dolphin is a weighted variation of a classic yoga pose. This version is truly a full-body yoga-with-weights strengthener. The pose reverses the blood flow in your legs, which is good for circulation and reduces bloating and water retention in your ankles, and exercises your hamstrings, calves, and Achilles tendons. The exercise is also an upper-body builder because you have to support your body with your upper half.
Kneel with your elbows below your shoulders, your knees below your hips, you forearms and hands flat on the floor in front of you, and your toes curled onto the floor.
Spread your fingers wide for support.
Don't let your elbows splay out beyond your shoulders. Doing so can make your shoulders roll in, which can cause injury to your rotator cuff.
Press down into your forearms, hands, and the balls of your feet as you lift your buttocks into the air.
This is the starting position. You should be looking back at your legs. Your head shouldn't touch the floor at any time; let it dangle between your arms and elbows as you press your wrists and forearms downward.
Press your hands, wrists, and forearms into the floor for support. Support your body with your shoulders as well as your arms and legs. Feel your armpits lifting toward the ceiling and forward toward your hands.
As you inhale to a count of four, extend your right leg directly behind you so it forms a straight line with your torso.
If you feel too much stress on your shoulders, press into your hands, wrists, and forearms to put more weight on those areas.
As you exhale to a count of four, slowly lower your leg to the starting position.
Moving your leg slowly is important for your balance. Keep your hips squared; don't turn or wobble them as you lift and lower your leg.
Do this exercise six to eight times on each leg, pause to rest, and then do another six to eight repetitions on each leg.


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He already knew what her dream proposal was, no need for custom ideas with this one! Fatimah's dream was to take a helicopter to the top of a mountain and be proposed to surrounded by snow and fresh mountain air!
Absolutely made Fatimah's dream come true - the tricky part was executing her dream and ensuring she'd be surprised. Absolutely reached out to her best friend and sister to have all hands on deck. Absolutely and Rizwana, Fatimah's best friend worked on a script she would say to Fatimah. When ready, Rizwana called Fatimah, excited she had won a prize at work: a helicopter ride! The catch? They would be accompanied by a photography and videography team to capture content for their website the day of. Next, we reached out to Hamidah. Fatimah's sister to take her out for a sister-date at the spa. They would be getting their hair and nails done.
With all the pieces of the puzzle set, we needed to swap Rizwana for Hanif and make it believable. We instructed Rizwana, to call in sick the morning of the proposal and to have the team onsite in on it. We worked with everyone involved, the team at Alpine Helicopters Inc., our photographer, Jeremy Martel at JM Photography and our videographer, Harrison Burton with Glass Stone Cinema to act confused when the couple arrived. When Hanif and Fatimah arrived, the Alpine Helicopters Inc. crew mentioned they had thought it would be two women, Fatimah explained how her friend, Rizwana had caught the flu and that her boyfriend Hanif would fill her spot. Next, the couple was mic'd up by our videographer and again he mentioned he thought that he was filming two women - "not to worry," he instructed "we will make this work!"
Hanif, Fatimah, Harrison and Jeremy all attended a safety demonstration before boarding the helicopter. They took a beautiful flight through Marvel Pass before landing on the top of a mountain. When landed, Hanif couldn't wait to pop the question and when he did, she said "Absolutely!" Jeremy and Harrison captured it all! The day proceeded with a full engagement shoot atop the mountain and then again below at the Alpine Helicopter Inc. base. It was a short drive to the second location, Quarry Lake, Canmore AB. After the photoshoot, Hanif and Fatimah enjoyed the day in Banff and Canmore before enjoying a romantic couples massage.
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The world airline industry is only now beginning to realise the extent of the Year 2000 problem and fears are growing among an increasing number of government and industry leaders over the complex nature of the so-called millennium bug. It was originally thought that the problem would only afflict record-keeping and accounts systems but it has now been discovered that so-called embedded chips which power high-tech products such as security systems, lifts and shipping navigation systems will also be affected by the date change. In the UK, Action 2000 director, Gwynneth Flower, believes that although the bulk of the country's vital infrastructure will not be adversely impacted by Year 2000, there will be some inconvenience for the general public, with no power on <1 January 2000>. Action 2000's approach is designed to counter alarm but the are fears that the lack of preparedness by countries other than the UK could have a detrimental impact. The overriding feeling is that the Year 2000 bug had larger implications that merely a computer failure, with legal and insurance problems emerging, and has highlighted the vulnerability of the so-called just-in-time economy.
World: Airline ind realizes extent of Year 2000 problem & fears are growing among govt & ind leaders over its complex nature
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Frequently Asked Questions
How long before Castle Hills is completely built out?
Castle Hills is about halfway through its development. In addition to new homes, the next five years will bring more apartments, retail stores, restaurants and office space to Castle Hills. Bright Realty, the developer of Castle Hills, currently has under construciton a mixed-use development, The Realm, located along SH 121 at Castle Hills Drive.
Who are the new home builders in Castle Hills and what is the price range of homes?
We have new homes by American Legend Homes, Britton Homes and Saxony Homes. Home prices range from the high $300s to over $3 million, depending on phase and location within the community.
I wish to build a custom home. Who do I contact regarding estate home sites for sale?
Enchanted Hill offers oversized lots from the $300s, where you can then build a custom home priced from $2 million and up. Please call 972-899-1923 for information.
Can I find an apartment in Castle Hills?
Discovery at The Realm is Bright Realty's first apartment community in Castle Hills, with convenient access to SH 121 and the North Dallas Tollway from Windhaven Parkway. Please see the Apartments page for a listing of all apartment communities in Castle Hills.
Does Castle Hills have a golf course?
Yes. The Lakes at Castle Hills is a private, full-service country club featuring an 18-hole championship course located in the heart of the community. Open to members and their invited guests, The Lakes at Castle Hills offers an aquatic center with resort-style swimming pool, a tennis center, a wide range of event & tournament packages, casual & formal dining, and full-service golf and tennis shops. A variety of membership options are currently available.
What is the Castle Hills Schools Foundation?
The Castle Hills Schools Foundation is a non-profit organization funded by a 1/2 of 1 percent fee on the transfer of all real property within the community. This applies to residential as well as commercial property sales. To date, the Foundation has distributed more than $10.8 million to local area schools and scholarships, both public and private, serving Castle Hills residents. It was created by a development deed restriction. For more, see the Schools page.
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The tax rate in the majority of Castle Hills - including Chateaux at The Shops, The Reserve and Enchanted Hill – is 2.3653. If you are a resident of The Villas and Castle Hills Southpointe, the tax rate is 2.5453. The Castle Hills Southwest tax rate is 2.2450 (based on 2017 tax rates). In addition to the tax rate, Castle Hills Southwest has a Carrollton Castle Hills PID No 1 installment (based on lot size) due in full or payable annually for the next 20 years.
The largest percentage of tax is for the Lewisville ISD school tax. The City of Lewisville plans to annex Castle Hills at some point in the future. When that happens, it's possible that the tax rate could be lower, depending on the City of Lewisville rate at that time.
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For single-family homes in non-gated areas, the 2018 annual rate is $777.20 (as of 1/1/2018), which covers:
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Castle Hills homeowners must pay a membership fee each year to use the swimming pools. There are four community pools throughout Castle Hills, open from April 1 through October 31.
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Postcard from Yesterday
I draw your attention today to the new poetry feature up at Escape Into Life, a set of "postcard" poems by Robert McDonald and wonderful collage art by Carly Bartel.
This is her piece called Lost.
My heart goes out to the people in Minot, North Dakota, faced with floodwaters, leaving and losing their homes. I was driving home from lunch with a friend yesterday, listening to the news on NPR just as the sirens went off in Minot, to tell people still near the waters to get out. The evacuation program was working well, and people have been through this before, so they know when it's time. After the destruction, "Some people just walk away," the reporter said, as there is sometimes nothing to rebuild.
In this CNN account, you'll see a call to help via the Red Cross. And here in the Minot Daily News, at the bottom, you see the poignant cancellations of local events. At the top, the caption "Hope and Despair," and a resident facing the truth, "Unfortunately, it's all over."
Meanwhile, the ABC video and text report details as well the flooding along the Missouri River further south, endangering two nuclear power plants. The "catch-22" that flood waters could knock out power on a power plant, stopping the cooling system.
Soon we are to head that way to see family in Missouri and some coming from Omaha, also a danger zone, and I hope this annual get together can work out. If not, I am glad for the time we have had together.
Thinking of the woman in Minot, "You do what you can, and then you get out," her lip trembling.
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- Nancy Devine said...
thanks for posting about minot. i remember the 1969 flood there pretty well. i remember the 1997 flood here in grand forks too well. awful stuff.
- June 23, 2011 at 7:52 AM
- ted tingley said...
Disasters suck.
- June 23, 2011 at 7:59 AM
- Kathleen said...
Disasters do suck, Ted and Nancy. Seems like an onslaught lately, all over the world. Earthquakes, simmering volcanoes, tsunamis, flooding, nuclear threats aside from war, war. Of course, this has always been going on. And, as William Faulkner said, about all kinds of human disaster, we endure...and sometimes we prevail.
- June 23, 2011 at 8:04 AM
- Maureen said...
My husband used to be stationed at Minot. He's on his way home from California this morning and we talked about the flooding. It seems as though disasters are everywhere. It's so easy for people to become disaster-weary and yet we have to respond to each as though it's the only one.
Love the McDonald poetry and collage art by Bartel.
- June 23, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- Kathleen said...
Yes, Maureen, that's how I see it, too--each disaster is a terrible thing happening to those particular people.
On another topic, one of my poetry students said a past class told her, "Child abuse has been done," when she tried to handle her own personal material in art. That kind of dismissive cruelty or dismissive weariness is so astonishing.
- June 23, 2011 at 10:39 AM
- Dale said...
"You do what you can, and then you get out."
That resonates.
- June 23, 2011 at 11:53 AM
- Kathleen said...
It's resonating for me in lots of ways now, Dale. I've had jobs like that! Human relationships.
- June 23, 2011 at 12:22 PM
- Marylinn Kelly said...
Thank you for Robert McDonald, his postcard poems, the link to his blog, and for Carly Bartel's collage art.
As the list of just domestic natural disasters grows, I think of the writers and photographers with WPA assignments during the Dust Bowl. We now have photos of everything, yet are always in need of insight, what meaning can be made of life being life.
- June 23, 2011 at 1:58 PM
- Kathleen said...
I've been think of the WPA projects, too, Marylinn!
- June 23, 2011 at 2:12 PM
- Catalyst said...
Thanks for thinking of Minot. I grew up 55 miles from there and started my career there many long decades ago.
- June 23, 2011 at 3:01 PM
- Kathleen said...
It brings us all together, doesn't it, to feel sympathy or empathy or some connection to people during their time of trouble. Here, and all over the world.
- June 23, 2011 at 4:42 PM
- Collagemama said...
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/06/24/opinion/20110624_SHAPTON_FRIDAY.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=thab1 Don't miss, Ms. Lap Swim!
- June 24, 2011 at 6:28 AM
- Kathleen said...
Thanks, dear, will link for all!
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Arch installation thoughtsTue 3 Apr 2012 by mskala Tags used: linux, software
I had a request for some comments on Arch Linux, now that I've been using it a few days, and in particular the question of whether it is easy to install.
Well, I don't know. I found it reasonably easy to install. However, I know a lot about Linux installation in general and Slackware in particular, and Arch's installation process is similar to Slackware's. It is driven by a terminal-based menu system (probably the same library of scripts that Slackware uses). My own installation was a little unusual because I was installing on a machine that already had a live Linux installation on it; I wanted to first install to a dual-boot configuration between my old installation and a small testing partition of Arch, then if I liked that, do the full install which would preserve only the home directories and some data files from the old system.
I used a USB image and a net install. Because I already had a working Linux installation I could use that to download the USB image (185 megs) and put it on a key. I didn't consult the documentation for how to do that and am not sure whether it's any good - I already know off the top of my head how to write an image to a USB key. Booting the USB key and running the installer went smoothly. Disk partitioning was tricky in my case because I was doing something complicated - a mixture of old and new partitions, and leaving alone several existing partitions from the old system, all of it in LVM logical volumes on top of a RAID. I did it all manually (on the old system before I started, in fact) and then carefully told the installer where to put each part of the system. That would be less of an issue for someone installing onto a new system or wiping out the existing operating system on a machine. There is an automatic partitioning option; I don't know whether it's any good.
The net install went slowly because I have a slow DSL connection, but was otherwise uncomplicated. (One can also get and burn a DVD image.) There were some issues with the boot installation because of my partition configuration: LVM, RAID, and having /usr in a separate partition from the root, each require their own manual changes to the configuration for the init-ramdisk generator, and the user is not clearly warned that these changes are necessary. I don't know how well the installer does with creating a dual-boot system; on my first installation I was using the existing system's LILO instead of putting on a new boot loader, and on my second installation I found that GRUB can only handle installing to a RAID mirror from its own interactive installer, not a config file, and so I had to do that one by hand as well.
I'm not too concerned about LVM or RAID being issues for boot, because they always are, and tend to only be used by people who are comfortable doing it by hand anyway, but I am displeased by the fact that having /usr in a separate partition is an issue. I think it's good practice to have /usr in a separate partition, the developer in charge of this part of Arch evidently doesn't, and even with the right incantation to mkinitcpio, what is actually being done is a less-than-good workaround. Someone who wasn't trying to use LVM, RAID, or separate /usr wouldn't face those issues; and it's not really a big enough deal to stop me from using the distribution.
More detail on the /usr thing: I think it should be possible to bring up a system without /usr. Arch has trouble booting on a system that has separate /usr because it needs things from /usr early in the boot. I think it shouldn't need things from /usr early in the boot. I'm told to configure mkinitcpio so that it mounts /usr earlier than other filesystems, in order to have the things from /usr available early in the boot. That means it can boot with a separate /usr, but it still can't boot without any /usr, which defeats the main purpose of having a separate partition for /usr and indeed the reason for existence of /usr at all. In fairness, however, while I was working on this I discovered that even my old Slackware system which had separate /usr and I thought could boot without it, nonetheless wasn't willing to unmount the /usr partition in single-user recovery mode once it had been mounted, because of locale files opened by the shell. So maybe "can't boot without /usr" is not as big a departure as I thought.
Once the system was up: it seems to work pretty well. Package installation with the command-line "pacman" program works. I installed another package manager called "pcurses," which is not part of the main distribution and had to be downloaded and compiled semi-manually from a separate "Arch User Repository" of source code packages. The advantage to pcurses is that it gives a terminal-graphics browser of available packages and allows making up a list of desired packages and then installing them all in one go (nice when doing it over a slow network connection). I'm sure GUI package management programs exist too.
Basic networking was easy (good thing, because I needed it to run the installer). I had some difficulties getting the smaller details right, and ended up having to hack some of the scripts manually while guided by poor documentation. I am using a DHCP address provided by my
cable DSL modem but want my computer to also listen, on the same interface, to a static private IP address assigned by me, for networking with other machines on my home network. That configuration isn't supported by the default installation at all, and is supported by the more advanced set of network configuration scripts in the package I downloaded, only with manual modifications to the scripts. I don't know how wide the range of networking options that are easily supported actually is. There were some similar issues with configuration of networking demons and the default settings not really being sensible or what I expected: fetchmail wants to run as its own unprivileged user, which may be good for security but wasn't what I'd been doing before and that meant my old configuration of it broke in unexpected ways; I'm not sure the SSH demon disables root logins by default; you can install PHP, Apache, and SSL with the package manager but making them work together requires manually adding extra stanzas to the Apache config; you can install sendmail with the package manager but they try to discourage you from doing it and you must deal with the notorious sendmail.cf all by yourself; and so on. There's a nice interface for starting and stopping demons and it's easy to add your own if you're not afraid of shell scripts.
I'd certainly recommend the XFCE lightweight desktop environment; that's not really a feature of Arch, since it runs on Linux in general rather than any specific distribution, but I switched from KDE to XFCE at the same time as the switch from Slackware to Arch. XFCE fixes most of my annoyances with recent versions of KDE and introduces only a few new ones of its own. Time was when GNOME and KDE were basically the desktop choices and if you didn't like one you'd use the other; but the big new excitement in the GNOME world is that they're going all Semantic Desktop, and that's what drove me away from KDE, so it seems unlikely that I'd be pleased with current GNOME. Getting my keyboard set up the way I wanted it in XFCE (to allow Japanese typing with the Anthy input method; a compose key; and Unicode hexadecimal including non-BMP characters) required some tricky manual configuration but was no worse than doing the same thing in other environments.
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Matt - 2012-04-04 15:02
You shouldn't have to manually edit the network scripts to get a second static ip address with netcfg. try adding something like
POST_UP='ip addr add 10.0.0.2/24 dev eth0'
to the end of the confguration file for your interface (/etc/network.d/eth0 or whatever). You probably want to add a POST_DOWN as well to remove the static address.(https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg#Adding_multiple_IP_addresses_to_one_interface shows this for a card with only static addresses but the POST_UP thing should work with dhcp as well). The /usr thing is pretty standard across a lot of distros now, particually any that offer systemd compatability.
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We are now down to about 7 weeks left in the year and I am way behind in my cycling miles compared with prior years. Last year I exceeded 12,000 miles for the first time. It started in May when we went on a European cruise. Then we decided to move to Utah and it seemed harder to find time to bike much. Now that we have settled down, I have been doing a bit better, but I don't think I can even catch my prior worse year of 2011. Weigh is up and mileage is down == slow rider.
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My Fourth Trek Road Bike
I have had a long experience with Trek bicycles. My first Trek, which was my second road bike, was a Trek 5200, which is still being using by one of my sons. In 2006 I decided to get a new bike, buying a Trek Madone 5.9 for around $4,600 new. That bike came with Dura Ace 7800 components and I thought it was a great bike. The frame later was replaced with the Madone 2009 6.9 series and then later I replaced the components with Dura Ace 7900, moving to a compact crank for the first time.
Which Trek Road Bike to Buy
Using a credit that Trek kindly gave me due to an issue with my other frame, I decided to buy a new bile. Trek now offers three different road bikes, the Domane, the Madone and the Emonda. Initially I was intrigued by the lightweight Emonda but I don't do hill climb racing anymore and had some concern that the lightweight would come at the cost of reliability, considering I don't get a new bike every year or two. I had been riding a Madone for 8 years so that would be the safe bet but I don't like how they moved the rear brake down by the chain stay, requiring using non standard brakes. I have been intrigued by the Trek Domane with the ISO Speed link that decouples the top tube from the seat tube, with the intent of damping vibration.
Bike Geometry
I took a look at the sizing for my prior Madone and the Domane.
The Trek dealer helped me with a Trek Project One order where you can customize many options. I was only able to test a Domane a size too big for me before ordering and thought my traditional stem length of 70 mm might be too short. The effective top tube of the H1 Madone is 53.9 cm and for the Domane it is 53.0 cm, so I went with a stem that was 10 cm longer.
Which Components
Once I decided on the Domane, the next decision was the drive train. I have been riding Dura Ace mechanical for many years and thought about that, but my younger brother suggested I try the electronic Di2. When I checked the Trek Project One pricing I was surprised that the Dura Ace Di2 was an additional $1,732 over the mechanical version so I looked at the Ultegra Di2 and found it to be actually $262 less expensive. That makes the price difference between Ultegra Di2 and Dura Ace Di2 to come close to $2,000. Considering I only spent $4,600 on my last new bike purchase, that seemed like a lot.
Since Di2 shifts so well, even with the Ultegra model, it came down to only an issue of weight for me. With a weight difference of only about one pound, I could not justify spending $2,000 so I decided to go with Ultegra Di2. One other advantage is that Ultegra offers a medium rear cage so it can handle a 11/32 cassette. It is not a range you usually need but I wanted that option.
Black on Black
Besides the drive train, Project One allows you to pick paint schemes, stems, saddles, wheels and even things like color of the cables. I went with one of the four paint scheme options that does not add additional price and selected a matte black with ghost imaging lettering, which is quite similar to the Giant Anthem Advanced mountain bike I bought last year. I never understood why cyclists who are not sponsored want to have big letters like "S-Works" on their bike. They don't drive around a car with big "Toyota" plastered on the side door.
Since I didn't want everything black, I went with a white saddle and white handlebar tape.
Bike Fit
The Trek deal did a bike fit for me. I had them lower the handle bar 10 mm by moving a space up above the steam. It was just too relaxed of a fit for me. I used that fit for the first couple of rides, then made some minor adjustments, moving the saddle back about 1/3 in and rotating the handlebars forward slightly (back to how it was delivered from Trek). I was glad I got a longer stem.
I also found the handle bars much higher than on my Madone. The Frame Stack on the Madone is 54.7 (H2) or 51.9 (H1). For the Domane it is much higher at 56.1 cm. I ended up moving 25 mm of spacers above the stem, which would give me a new stack height of 53.6. That is still more relaxed that my old Madone, indicating I did indeed have more like a H1 fit before. I now have a fit that I feel is even better for me than my prior Trek Madone, with a bit more relaxed fit and and room to adjust even more relaxed as I get older since I anticipate using this bike into my 70s .
Ride Quality
The bike came with 700×25 tires so I am not quite sure how much of the smoother ride is form the ISO Speed and how much from the wider tires but in any case I definitely notice a significant difference. Some of this might also be due to the 3 cm longer wheelbase. Once I get a new cassette for the Dura Ace 9000 wheels I bought last year, I do better comparison. The geometry is also much better than my Madone, which was probably setup too aggressively for me. Even though I have a longer stem, I can ride on the hoods for a long period of time, whereas before I found myself almost always riding on the tops, except if I were in a pace line, climbing or descending.
Electronic Shifting
I really like the electronic shifting. On the other hand I heard that the Dura Ace 9000 mechanical shifts very well. Frankly I think Shimano blew it when then went from the Dura Ace 7800 to the 7900 shifters because I found the front derailluer to be much harder to shift into the big change ring. This was one reason why I wanted to go with Di2. Also I am getting older and many older people prefer the Di2 as they might develop some mobility issue with their fingers.
Additional Changes
I Project One ordered the bike with the 11/32 cassette since I wanted to make sure I got the medium cage derailleur. I don't think I need that low of s gear since we have moved away from California and it's steep hills. but but I wanted the option. I put a Drua Ace 9000 11/28 11 sp cassette (Cost of $159 at Pro Bike Kit) on my existing Dura Ace 9000 wheels and am using currently. At a 190 grams this new cassette is a big weight savings compared with the Ultegra 11/32 weighing 290 grams.
I had Michelen Pro Race 4 700×23 tires on those Dura Ace wheels and it felt quite different than the Bontrager R4 tires that came with the bike and handling felt more like my Madone. The R4 tires are also worthless since they are too thin for the area around here and I grew weary of flats. I wanted some new 700×25 tires, but the Pro Race 4 Service course doesn't come in that width so I ordered some Pro Race Endurance Course to replace the Bontrager tires on the Race X Lite wheels that came with the bike.
Other Weight Saving Options
I needed a cassette for my other wheels so that was an easy choice to save some weight. I was wondering if I could replace any of the other components to get some weight savings. My Dura Ace 9000 wheels are already very light so new wheels is not in the cards. I did some research on Dura Ace Di2 vs. Ultegra Di2 component weights and there is no clear area where spending additional money will be worth it. I did get a new DuraAce crank only because there did not look like sufficient clearance for a Stages Power meter. That cost me $358 and when I weighed the Ultegra I took off and the new DuraAce I put on the difference was only 90 grams. The wheels I got with the bike are Bontrager RXL, tubeless read. However the skewers are RL, and weighed a total of 138 grams. I bought some Enve titanium skewers that I weight at 55 grams, so that resulted in a weight savings of 83 grams, at a cost of only $44 and saved the same weight as switching to a DuraAce crankset.
I weighed my new bike after installing the pedals and water bottle cages and my Dura Ace 9000 wheels and it came to 15.8 lbs. My Madone was 15.3 lbs. After changing the crankset and the skewers, the weight dropped to 15.6 lbs, almost the same as my Trek Madone with Dura Ace 7900 components.
I also have a Cycle Ops Powertap Pro wheelset I used for training on my Madone. It was not 11 speed, but I found you can get a $99 freehub to convert to 11 sp so that is on order. It was very easy to install but I still intend to order a Stages Power meter replacement left crank arm.
The other think I have ordered is tubeless tires and will give a report on those after I get them delivered and installed.
In the end I will have a bike that weights not much more than what I had before, fits me much better, has a smoother ride, and also sports electronic shifting, so I am happy with the changes.
During the process of buying a new bike, I decided to try electronic shifting this time. In the past I have always used Shimano Dura Ace mechanical components so I thought maybe I would order with Dura Ace Di2. However for the Trek Project One website, that change would cost nearly $2,000. With Di2, how much different could the shifting be? So it seemed that the only real gain you were getting was a weight saving. I decided I was not interesting in spending $2,000 to save one pound of weight. Someone then mentioned to me that half of that was the difference in the crankset. That got me curious so I did some research to find out where the weight differences were and how much each of those cost. Turns out upgrading the crankset would be poor investment. The prices are roughly what I could find buying the components online at discount and not the list price. You might find some prices even lower and can use that to make your own comparison. The weights were the best I could find, either on a vendor's website or better if I could find some cyclist who actually weighed the component after they received it. For another view, this website lists many of the weights but came up with some numbers that a bit difference but the delta weights are in the same ball park. I didn't try to figure out the difference in the wiring harness. The battery is the same between the two.
The dollars per lb weight saved are assuming you have not already invested in the Ultegra component. If you already have a new Ultegra 6800 crankset and are thinking to replace it with the Dura Ace 9000 to save some weight, it will cost you around $500 and you will only be saving about 60 grams.


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One for the Birds/
Looking for a fun and FREE activity for your kids? Check out Nature Canada's Bird Day Fair on May 31, 2014 (10am to 4pm at Andrew Haydon Park).
Before we purchased our own home, I really knew nothing about birds (um, except that most of them fly....:) ). However, now that we own TREES and have invested in several bird feeders, I'm delighted to see these feathery friends paying us a visit.
Of course my personal favourite is the Chickadee, but the Bird Day Fair will be a celebration of Canada's migratory birds (my chickadees like to hang out all winter!). Some birds travel as far as 25,000 miles round trip from their breeding grounds in the Canadian arctic to their wintering grounds in South America.
Here are some highlights of the day:
- Falcon Ed is back this year by popular demand. Meet life raptors and see their impressive free flight demonstrations
- Join experts on nature walks where you will spot birds and other natural wonders
- Let your creative side loose by helping to build a bird nest big enough to sit in, and learn how to make your own ink prints
- Learn about bird banding, a method that scientists use to study birds, by being banded yourself
- Meet local groups working to protect wildlife
For more information on what is happening at the Bird Day Fair, check out the event page.
If you are interested in volunteering at this event, please contact Sarah Kirkpatrick-Wahl at email@example.com


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Hi everyone, I purchased Type-0 just today and loved the game so far, but I could not let this go unnoticed and thought I should bring this up to the developers. What I would like to talk about is the excessive motion blur in the game.
I'm sure there are a vast majority of fans out there that knows what I'm talking about. I'd like to speak up for those out there that's suffering from this nightmare when all they want to do is enjoy the game but is hindered by the terrible design decision of adding motion blur to the HD remaster of this game.
The player will experience either or both discomfort, inducing nausea, migraines, dizziness or have visibility issues in game when the camera is turning.
I do not understand why this was a good idea in the first place to blur everything on screen other than the GUI and the player controlled character model. 95% of the screen becomes a jumbled mess when motion blur kicks in. This is much to excessive. Motion blur should be used subtly on objects in motion. So... i guess in this case the whole world is "in motion" because everything just BLURS, right....
The game itself requires the player to move and survey the battle field for enemies constantly. This involves nonstop movement and camera panning. In no way does motion blur bring any benefit to the game or player experience other than being a cool effect, and this cool effect stops the player from seeing the beautiful scenery the developers have created, becoming an annoyance and a health issue.
If it is possible at all, please patch the game to remove, reduce or give player control of the motion blur effect.
Maybe even letting us change camera sensitivity?
Thanks for reading.
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For your safety, all persons entering the facility are subject to search of their persons and belongings at the discretion of the Deerfield Fair.
Adults - $10.00 each (13 and older)
Children 12 and younger are FREE
Senior Days are Thursday and Friday - $7.00 each (65 and older)
All Military - FREE (active, reserves, and veterans with identification)
No dogs are allowed during the fair. Thank you!
We do not rent wheelchairs or scooters.
HOURS The fair is open Thursday, September 27th from 8:00 am until 10:00 pm; Friday, September 28th from 8:00 am until 10:00 pm; Saturday, September 29th from 8:00 am until 10:00 pm and Sunday, September 30th from 8:00 am until 7:00 pm.
ADVANCE TICKETS Advance tickets are available for $8.00 each starting in early August and may be purchased by visiting the administration office on the fairgrounds or at one of the following locations: Candia First Stoppe, Candia; Radio Grove Hardware, Raymond; Osborne's Agway, Hooksett, Concord and Belmont; Mike's Meat Shoppe, Pittsfield; J.R. Rosencrantz & Sons, Derry and Kensington; Deerfield Veterinary Clinic, Deerfield and Yannis Pizza, Deerfield. Advance tickets are on sale until September 16, 2018. Thank you for your patronage.
AMUSEMENT RIDES Rockwell Amusement & Promotions, Inc. is the Deerfield Fair's supplier for amusement rides. Ride Special Days are Friday from 9:00 am to 5:00pm with unlimited rides for $25.00 AND Sunday from 9:00 am to 6:00pm with unlimited rides for $30.00.
PARKING IS FREE We have over 100 acres of free parking. We also have premium parking, which is across from "A" Gate (Firehouse/Police) and is $5.00 a vehicle.
CAMPING We do allow camping in our camping area, which is behind "G" Gate. Camping is $30.00 a night with hook-up (water/electric) and $20.00 a night for dry camping. For further information, please see Forms & Information.
DIRECTIONS From Manchester - 93 N to Exit 7; 101 East, Exit 3 to Rte. 43. From Concord - Rte. 4 E to 107 South; Exeter - Route 101 W to Exit 5, Right on Rte. 107; Nashua - Rte. 3 to 293 N, merge to 93 N, Exit 7 to 101 E, Exit 3 onto 43; Massachusetts - 93 N to Exit 7, Rte. 101 E, Exit 3, take right off exit and follow signs; Maine - 95 S to Rte. 4 (Portsmouth), Rte. 4 W to Rte. 43 S; Massachusetts (Eastern) 95 N to 101 W, Exit 5 to 107; Dover/Rochester - 125 S to Rte. 4 W, take 43 S 34 Stage Road, Deerfield, NH 03037.


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First FrostBook - 2015
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I really enjoyed Garden Spells so I was excited to read this sequel. I heartily enjoyed this one as well! It continues the saga of sisters who have special gifts and who are affected by the strange apple tree that grows in their ancestral home. Clair, whose gift centers around her cooking, has been focusing all of her time and attention on her new business - Waverley's Candies. The huge amount of time she is giving to this is stressing her out and also affecting her loved ones - including her favorite niece Bay. Bay's mom, Sydney, is wrapped up in her obsession to have another child. She is also worried about Bay, who is now a teenager and navigating ups and downs of teen romance and high school. There is also a mysterious man who has showed up in town and who seems extremely interested in the Waverley family for some not so good reason.
As this followed this family through there ups and downs (mostly downs that they were hoping to turn into ups) I felt thoroughly engaged with the characters. I was most interested in Bay's story - a young girls desire to for love that conflicts with her peers, her parents, and even the boy in question. I was rooting for things to work out for her. I also enjoyed some of the side characters who popped up and the general quirkiness of the mysterious force from the apple tree and their gifts that was involved in their lives. In the end everything works out - perhaps a bit too neatly or quickly - but it was very satisfying. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a family story with engaging characters and interesting twists.
A great follow-up to Garden Spells which I enjoyed very much. Sarah addison Allen is a great author. And I loved that she does Large print books. I am back to get a couple more of her books.
This a light, charming read, with appealing characters. The author's thoughts about relationships and life are affirmative; this is a welcome break from some of the darker books I read.
Took my time reading this, because Allen is such a good writer, and because I didn't want the story to end! The Waverley women and their unique gifts enchant. Also this is a sequel to Garden Spells, about Claire's special cooking powers and her often wayward family. And the magic apple tree. I want a empathetic apple tree in my yard!
Kris L.
Loved getting to come back to Bascom, NC and spend some time with the Waverlys.
I love Sarah Addison Allen. This book picks up the thread of her first novel "Garden Spells", but ten years later. Every bit as good.
As a sequel to Garden Spells, this magical novel is all that you would e xpect from Sarah Addison Allen.
This second visit to Bascom, NC is just as satisfying as the first (Garden Spells). Things are going well for the Waverley women who each have a magical talent except that the time leading up to first frost is a bit unsettling. Things can go kind of crazy. When a strange man shows up threatening to upset everything for Claire, she discovers the real Waverley magic: the power of family.
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Most folks look forward to spring as a time of celebration, a time of renewal. Not so the Waverly women of Bascom. They look forward to the first frost of the autumn, when their strange apple tree - the one with fruit that will show you the most momentous event of your life should you dare take a bite - bursts into unseasonal bloom with a blizzard of white flowers.
It's been about ten years since Sydney returned to Bascom with her daughter Bay, and reconnected with her sister Claire. Claire, whose food can turn friends into lovers or cause feuding families to suddenly declare peace though they can never explain why, has turned her talents to hard candies, candies that are in demand across the country. Sydney's hair salon is always busy – a style from Sydney and a job interview will go well, a parking violation will be forgiven, a sales pitch will be successful. Evanelle still wakes up with the urge to give random things to random people that they will need, for reasons that will only become apparent much later. And Bay, the Waverly who always knows where things belong, knows that she belongs with a certain boy – a boy from whom she can see tendrils of smoke curling, his personal misery burning him from within – a boy who doesn't know she exists.
And Bay is not the only unhappy Waverly woman – Evanelle is feeling her eighty-nine years, and fears for her best friend, Fred. Sydney desperately wants to have another child, with her beloved Henry – she wants it so badly her hair begins turning red of its own volition. And Claire's booming business is consuming her leaving her with little time to spend with her husband and daughter Mariah, a daughter who doesn't seem to have anything Waverly about her at all. But this is nothing compared to the threat she will face before first frost finally settles in, a threat that shakes the Waverly women to their very core.
Fans of Joanne Harris and Alice Hoffman will find Sarah Addison Allen's stories slightly more genteel, but no less engrossing. Find First Frost and Ms Allen's first novel of the Waverly's, Garden Spells at spl.bibliocommons.com under the tag Shelf Life Reviewed.
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Boy George recently took the Twitterverse by storm by posting a picture of his new dramatic weight loss on Twitter.
The 51-year old karma chameleon singer tweeted "Rock n roll Sunday," and shared a picture with his fans that showed off a much thinner body. The British star turned back the clock to the height of his fame in the 1980s, as compared to how we've seen him in the last few years.
The singer credits his new slim body to "eating right and exercise". The Culture Club singer has also been documenting his new healthy lifestyle, including his fondness for exercise and a recent healthy breakfast:
"Mmm, porridge with cherries & a dash of cinnamon! Cook the cherries with the porridge! Bloody gorgeous!" he tweeted on Feb. 8.
The singer also seemed quite pleased that news of his weight loss was buzzing online, as he tweeted, "I love that the size of my ass is trending worldwide!"


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Estimate: £100,000 - £120,000
+buyer's premium of 15% including VAT @ 20%
In the year 2000, on the back of a rumoured £12m budget from Ford (!), Banbury based legendary race and rally experts, Prodrive, built 3 Super Tourers to contest the 2000 British Touring Car Championship. With factory drivers Alain Menu, Anthony Reid and Rickard Rydell they went on to dominate the championship completely, winning most of the rounds and finishing 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the 2000 British Touring Car Championship final standings. At a supposed cost of £1m each car (and £3m running budget per car) the team dominated like no other before or since. One car was written off during the season so only 3 of the 4 cars ever built survive to the current day. The 'Menu' Championship winning car features in the Banbury Prodrive museum, the 'Reid' car is campaigned enthusiastically by noted Ford collector/driver Alvin Powell and this is the only other car (chassis: # Prodrive 004), as driven that season by Rickard Rydell. Bought by the highly enthusiastic current privateer owner in 2006, the car has since been campaigned successfully by him over the past 4 seasons in mainstream historic touring car races, such as the Silverstone Classic, and is a welcome entrant in to the new HSCC series for period Touring Cars. The car is now 'on the button' and ready to race and has been maintained by a professional team, regardless of cost, during current ownership. Stored in a 'Carcoon' in a bespoke facility as part of an extensive collection of cars, it presents exceptionally well today and is a totally unique opportunity to own a highly collectable car with a very significant Works history. But this is not just an opportunity to buy a highly useable race car - this a full 'equipe' - offered with the following unique Works spares and parts required to run it: 3xlh doors, 3xrh doors, 3xlh front wings, 3xrh front wings, 3x bonnets, 3x front bumpers, left hand rear quarter and a right hand rear quarter, 5x light brackets, 2x carbon splitters, rear light, carbon fibre front vent, 2x carbon air intakes, 2xlh and 2xrh headlights, 4x rear discs and bells, 4xfront discs and bells, 4x front wishbones, 30 separate gear ratios, coil pack, 2x gearbox input shafts, 3x gearbox shafts, fuel line, ST8600 steering wheel with electronic display, brake reservoir, clutch and various 'O' rings, 1 complete engine (Mazda V6) - freshly built and in a crate, 1 part engine, windscreen, rear window, boot lid, 9xrims, 5x wets, 11 used slicks, engine pre-heat system, centre dashboard, seat, front and rear bumper mount, air-jack stops, water pump pre-heater and fittings.


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Let's not forget why we are doing this!
"Thank you and your CRA teams in reaching this important [patient recruitment] milestone. We know that this is only the first step to the finish line and has taken great effort from the collaborative team we have working in partnership. For the patients and families, this is hopefully one more step to having another medication to help manage – let's not forget why we are doing this! Congratulations everyone!"
Head of Clinical Development & Medical Affairs, small pharma
A great team!
I just wanted to say thank you for all your hard work and continued enthusiasm and patience with all the challenges we are facing on this study. You really are a great team and every contact we have with you, whether email or phone, is so pleasant and cooperative. As a sponsor, it makes a great difference as we often have direct comparisons to make with other third parties on our studies.
PM Support Specialist, specialty pharma
Quick turnaround
THANK YOU SO MUCH! We appreciate your quick turnaround!!!!!
Clinical Research Scientist / Clinical Trial Leader, large pharma
Above and beyond
Just wanted to say an extra thank you for going above and beyond and providing help to the team! Thanks for all your efforts!
Director of Clinical Data Management, small biopharma
Fantastic news! Thank you very much! Great team accomplishment and major milestone for our program. Thanks to your hard work, we've achieved the IA on time. Hooray!
Global Development Team Lead, small pharma
Great display of ownership culture
Thank you for your contribution to 100% QC of Submission PDRs. This was a great display of ownership culture and of what can be accomplished through teamwork. Thank you again for your focus, dedication and sacrifice of weekend to support the urgent request. You have displayed admirable characteristics which lead to a more trusting and effective partnership between Premier Research and our company. As we work together effectively, we are showing great benefit to our studies and most importantly to our patients. I hope to continue a close and successful working relationship with you.
Anonymous, large pharma
Great big thanks
A great big thanks to everyone on our study teams for the hard work (and so many other things!) to get us to this important milestone! THANK YOU!!!
Clinical Operations Manager, small biotech
The best I've ever seen
The monitoring reports for this team are the best that I have ever seen.
Project Director, small biotech
The best writer I've ever worked with
I want to thank you for your careful and hard work on our clinical study report. I very much appreciate your willingness and ability to work with us to meet our deadlines, despite last minute changes and other challenging issues, while also maintaining a high level of diligence over the drafts. I also was impressed by how you grasped our technology and the language around our somewhat esoteric subject matter. By far you are the best writer I have worked with in my career. We are on the verge of completing enrollment of our follow-up study. I will be lobbying hard for you to work with us on that report as well.
Chief Medical Officer, medical device
Organized approach to SQV
Just a quick note to say thank you very much for yesterday. It was a pleasure to meet you. I wanted to say how impressed I was with your organized approach to the SQV, you had clearly spent a lot of time understanding the protocol and preparing for the visit. Thank you.
Project Manager, CNS, small pharma
An important milestone
An important milestone has been successfully achieved by the team. Big thanks and recognition are also due for so ably and steadily planning and driving towards this milestone over the past couple of months, including incorporating lessons learned from the past interim analyses. Fantastic job, team!!
Global Clinical Development Lead, rare disease, small pharma
Super happy about the HREC submission in Australia
Many thanks to the Premier Team for working to achieve this important goal, and supporting us in this submission! One down, 119 to go!
VP, Clinical Development, small biotech