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Leading Australian lockout manufacturer and supplier Cirlock introduces the non-conductive (nylon) version of its popular original aluminium Cirlock lockout systems for switchboards.
Made from reinforced nylon material for non-conductive performance, the Cirlock non-conductive lockout systems for miniature circuit breakers are designed to permanently attach to the switchboard.
Designed to lock out most types of miniature circuit breakers, the Cirlock system is permanently mounted onto the escutcheon plate of switchboards, and can be fitted to most sizes and types of metal as well as plastic boards. The permanent fixing means the lockout device is always available for easy use.
The system also includes non-conductive individual lockout devices for circuit breakers to be permanently mounted as well. The mounting sets (rails) are available in various sizes, and can be joined together for combinations. Lockout arms must be ordered separately.
The Cirlock non-conductive lockout system is designed and manufactured in Australia, and available through local electrical and other wholesalers.

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Save Cost By Renting Furniture For Your Event
When you are planning to throw a party by hiring the best event manager then you are in proper track. What if you forget to hire furniture which actually suits to your party? Remember, furniture pieces are those which apart from serving ultimate comfort also create a party mood and provide an occasion a beauteous look.
But, most of the people do not use proper furniture which suits to their party best. They do this type of foolish thing in order to save some money. But they should know that hiring event furniture, like opting for most reliable chair hire, is also a cost-friendly way to give your occasion a decorative look. So, what are you thinking for? Save cost by renting furniture for your event.
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One primary benefit for which you should definitely hire perfect furniture for your event is its cost effectiveness. We all want to do a little lavishness if it is completed in a pocket-friendly way. So if you have a tight budget, then hiring event furniture is just suit you, because these event managers have different packages which will definitely include event furniture. While you have to spend huge money on buying event chairs, you can easily hire them in much lower cost which will actually save your money. You can get event and wedding chair hire Southern Highlands services in affordable price. Besides, after buying those furniture pieces you can't use them for your personal use as they are only designed for occasional use. So, surely you don't want to spend huge money on those which will not come in any use. This is why you renting those event furniture pieces will help you to save your cost.
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When you are throwing a party certainly there will come many guests. When your guests will come, you should give them seats to sit. If you offer them casual wooden chairs or plastic chairs, then it will not look as appealing as it should be. Besides, they will not also feel comfortable by sitting on those plastic or simple wooden chairs. On the other hand, if you buy those plastic chairs even then you have to spend huge money. These event furniture pieces will come in cheap price in rent. Besides, you can easily fulfil the need of seats after your guests will arrive. Comfort is the main criterion while handling guests and this type of event furniture will serve this comfort well.
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Last night was opening night for Denver Fashion Weekend and I can't tell you how excited I was to be there and take part in the city's developing fashion scene. Overall it was a fun night with good looking people, great drinks, a little snow (yes...snow!) and an interesting runway show. So how did my fellow fashion lovers do on night one? Well, if you remember from one of my earlier posts, I didn't know exactly what to expect from the crowd because Denver tends to be quite casual - but I'm proud to report that the #fashiondenver crowd brought it in full force to kick off the weekend. Attendees rocked a nice mix of styles - some fashion street-style/model off duty type looks, some "going clubbing" looks and even a few casual looks were represented and it was all good, because that's how Denver rolls. Personally, I had a bit of a clothing crisis as I was getting ready but in the end I was happy with what I picked out and felt comfortable at the event. The fantastic whiskey sour that I picked up two seconds post arrival certainly didn't hurt matters either.
Did I mention that it snowed? It snowed. Such is springtime in Denver, but that scrapped my hot pink Louboutin plans for the night, ha. And to be honest, I'm kind of glad! Each night of Fashion Weekend consists of a cocktail party, then the shows, then the after party...so I just may continue to opt for more reasonable footwear the next two nights.
The shows scheduled night 1 were for "national" brands - Mini, Ducati and Burton. Ok, to be honest, before this I didn't know that Mini and Ducati did clothing. And I still wouldn't say that Mini "does" clothing exactly, it was more like a line of T-shirts and bags with the Mini logo or inspired designs. But they were cool enough and if I were a big enough Mini fan, I'd consider snapping up a few. And before I wrap this up, I have to give an honorable mention to Burton's presentation which was pretty darn fun with all of the models walking barefoot, with freshly painted toenails - even the guys! And the women had unique, head-wrapping braided hair styles. All in all it was well done, but I'm really looking forward to seeing what Denver's local designers have in store for us on Saturday night.
Outfit of the (snowy) night...Zoe Karssen "Adieu" tee, Sigerson Morrison boots, Gap jeans, Lutz & Patmos cardigan, Chanel handbag.
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Yoga is now becoming more and more popular, and a great way to perform yoga even better is by acquiring the right yoga accessories like great yoga blankets. The best thing about yoga and perhaps the reason why it is so popular is that you don't even need to invest on a lot of heavy equipment just to get the exercise right. To perform yoga properly, all you need is a great yoga mat or blanket and your own body.
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A couple of years back, the most famous yoga accessory were the yoga mat or the yoga pad. Nowadays though, the most sought after yoga equipment is the Mexican yoga blanket. This is because these blankets can be very convenient, flexible, efficient and best of all, affordable. They only cost a percentage of what yoga mats or yoga pads cost, and work just as great.
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A fresh start, again.
10:22pm EST - Client update just hit. Updating a wiping our servers now...
9:50pm EST - Still waiting on the client update to hit (server version has been out for 20 minutes now). Good news though: it appears the exterior walls are fixed on this update also.
9:28pm EST - All looks good, update coming down the pike any moment...
9:20pm EST - Testing the hotfix on our dev branch now. It'll hopefully go live shortly so we can get on with it!
7:44pm EST - Hotfix hasn't gone live yet, however, it should hit any time now... will keep you posted.
5:54pm EST - A duping glitch for BP fragments was brought to light yesterday. As a result, people who exploited this glitch basically have unlimited access to blueprints. All this, just days after a game wide blueprint wipe… shit.
Given that even a small percentage of groups having full access to blueprints could throw off server balance for months, I've decided to wipe not only the map, but everyone's blueprints once this hotfix hits (which should be anytime now). I know, it fucking sucks to lose your progress. As always though, ripping this band aid off quick will be much better overall than slowly feeling the effects over the next weeks / months.
Consequently, Rustafied servers will not have any map wipes with update the Thursday.
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Nashua Telegraph: Kuster Hopes Bill Gives Residents a Voice
MILFORD - The federal agency in charge of reviewing energy projects came under withering criticism Tuesday from U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster as she announced her sponsorship of a bill to give people more say in the approval process.
Talking to a gathering in Milford's Emerson Park, Kuster said her bill would provide a strong framework to help towns and their residents deal with energy projects like Kinder Morgan's abandoned Northeast Direct pipeline.
She was backed up by town officials and local anti-pipeline activists.
"FERC holds the cards, and the deck is stacked against us," said Tad Putney, Brookline town manager and president of the New Hampshire Municipal Pipeline Association.
Kinder Morgan's project was officially canceled last month, but opponents say there is no guarantee it could not be resurrected someday.
Kuster's "Energy Consumer Advocacy Act" would provide funding to establish an Office of Public Participation within the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The office would give towns and their residents a stronger voice in the federal review of proposed energy projects.
The bill would require the agency to include community members in the review process and to take public opinion into consideration.
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Renkoo BusinessWeek
June 13, 2006
It was so very cool to open BusinessWeek and read Rob Hof's article, Web 2.0 Has Corporate America Spinning, which begins,
Web 2.0 technologies bear strange names like wikis, blogs, RSS, AJAX, and mashups. And the startups hawking them — Renkoo, Gahbunga, Ning, Squidoo — sound like Star Wars characters George Lucas left on the cutting-room floor.
I note that though we appreciate Star Wars references as much as the next Silicon Valley startup, there's a good reason why we chose the name Renkoo. 😉


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Sheryl Bailey
For more than a decade Sheryl Bailey has honed her reputation as a smoking post-bop ax slinger in the crucible of New York City clubs such as Smalls and the 55 Bar. As serious as she is about jazz, though, it was more popular music that drew her to the instrument initially. "I come from a family of musicians who all played great classical piano, so I decided that I wanted to play guitar," she recalls. "It was a combination of being rebellious and wanting to play rock music—the music that I was really into."
Bailey's early teens saw her sneaking into bars to play blues and classic rock, but before she reached her 20s she caught the jazz bug. Studying privately and at Berklee in Boston, she eventually reconciled the two forms. "When I lived in Baltimore I used to work with fusion guys like Dennis Chambers, and, having just come out of Berklee, my focus was on players like Mike Stern and John Abercrombie.
The fusion thing was a natural way to join my rock playing with jazz harmonies," she explains.
Upon moving to New York, Bailey shifted towards a more straight-ahead concept in her music. "I think it was about getting back into the roots of the music. There is a vulnerability to playing straight ahead for a guitarist," she says. "There is nothing to hide behind, and it was a challenge to make music with just the instrument plugged into the amp." The amp in question is a JazzKat PhatKat 1x12" combo, while her current guitar is a custom version of the McCurdy Mercury. "It was designed for me by Rick McCurdy in New York, and is proportioned to my size," says the diminutive Bailey. "I just tell people that it is a pygmy ES-335."
Though the screaming distortion of her fusion days is, for the most part, behind her, the machine-gun rapidity of Bailey's playing will pleasure even the most rabid fan of that athletic genre. "People are always asking me about my picking," she says. "I use the 'George Benson' technique, where the pick is pointed up and coming at about 2 o'clock across the strings [for a full explanation of her method check out the June 1999 GP article in her press kit at sherylbailey.com], but for me that is not the issue—it is about the relaxation principle. I used to play with my hand at a more traditional angle, and I could still play fast. The thing that unifies the two is relaxing into the pocket.
"I always say to my students that you can name any great virtuoso on any instrument— whether it is Vladimir Horowitz, Yngwie Malmsteen, or Wes Montgomery—and what they all have in common is they are completely relaxed when playing. If you can find that place at any tempo you can do anything you want—you can fly! It's all about finding the dance in the music. The whole relaxation principle revolves around that: you put the time in your body. If you are standing up, you send the tension down your legs so you can keep your shoulders and your arms really loose and relaxed."
To develop this state of relaxation in herself and her students, Bailey uses an exercise that is practiced away from the instrument. "I tell students to use a metronome and make a Tai Chi-type circle with their hand to the tempo for one-bar, two-bar, or four-bar phrases. You can actually see the physical space that the tempo takes up," she says. "You will have a small circle, a medium circle, and a big circle that you make with your arm. Once you see that circle, try to internalize it into your body. It is really just an exercise to feel the physicality of the tempo." This might seem somewhat esoteric, but her cleanly executed, break-neck runs on record and in person make it hard to dispute the results.
Though her attack is as authoritative as any in the business, Bailey does not assault the guitar. "The faster I play the lighter I touch the instrument," she explains. "Jaco would crank his amp up loud and play with a feather touch, and that's how he could play so fast." Bailey eschews Pastorious' often room-shaking volume, however. "I keep my amp just loud enough so that I can have a range of dynamics," she says. "You want to develop dynamics so that everything isn't the same level all the time."
Bailey's massive talent and technique would ordinarily make the gender issue completely irrelevant. Bringing it to the fore at this time is her current record, A New Promise [MCG Jazz], a tribute to another female jazz guitarist—the late Emily Remler. "Maybe a couple of years ago I wouldn't have been comfortable enough with myself to do this record," Bailey admits. "I have always tried to not call attention to the fact that I am a woman guitarist. But now that I have been out there proving myself I felt comfortable doing it."
Having to prove herself in this way is just one of the ties that Bailey felt with Remler. "There is this whole Pittsburgh connection: I'm from there originally, and she was living there, so when I came home from my first or second semester at Berklee I took a lesson with her. I still use everything she showed me in that lesson—she was a great teacher. She showed me a Pat Martino exercise for improving my alternate picking, and explained how to play over rhythm changes using the minor/ major seventh chord arpeggio a half-step above the dominant. Like if you were in C major, you would use an Ab m/maj7 arpeggio over the G7."
The tribute concept was encouraged by another Pittsburgher, executive producer and rhythm guitarist Marty Ashby. Ashby had already convinced Bailey to make the record backed by a 16-piece big band. "I had played with a big band in college, but not like this: featuring the guitar, with the arrangements all written to accompany the guitar," she says. "It involved a lot of faith in Marty, who just said, 'This guy's going to arrange your music,' and I'm like, 'Okay,'" she laughs.
"This guy" was saxophonist Mike Tomaro, who arranged the Bailey originals from recordings of her trio. The guitarist hadn't heard the arrangements before recording them over two days in the studio. In a way, her lack of familiarity made it more like the spontaneity of responding to a trio or quartet. "On 'Lament,' the first chorus is just bass and drums, and then the horns are comping for me on the second chorus. I really didn't know what was going to happen until we played it. I was sort of winging it and thinking, 'Oh, that sounds nice behind me.'"
Tomaro's arrangements are supportive, exciting, and occasionally startling. On Remler's tune, "East To Wes," there is a section that sounds like Bailey playing a synth-guitar. "It's trombone, soprano saxophone, and guitar. It's Emily's solo. Mike transcribed it and we learned it and played it," she reveals. "Originally it was written for the whole sax section to play, but it was too much so it got paired back to the just the three of us."
The record—including tricky stunts like the aforementioned group solo—was all done in real time with no overdubs. "Everything is live,: says Bailey. "We did two takes of everything and that was it. My philosophy for doing jazz records is to let it be. I'm sure there are tons of notes in there I would love to have edited out but didn't."
A comfortable studio environment eased the pressure of performing. "I was in the room with the big band. My amp, the bass, and drums were in isolation booths and I had headphones. I think the key to it was that the headphone mix was good. That recording captures two days of pure joy—having a big band comping behind me."
Anyone who has seen Bailey play, whether with bassist Richard Bona, sax man Gary Thomas, or with her organ trio, knows that joy is a major element in the guitarist's music: the terpsichorean movement of her fingers on the heavy top/light bottom roundwound strings of her instrument, and the smile that plays across her face as she deftly navigates complex changes help translate that pleasure to the listener. The joy was tempered, though, during her research for this record. "The journey involved going to the "All Things Emily" website where I learned how painful it was back in the '80s, having to deal with being the only woman jazz guitarist on the scene.
"It's 20 years now since Emily died. When I've mentioned the project to some people they go, 'Who's Emily Remler' and that's really wrong. I hope the record will bring attention to her work for people who don't know it, and that people who did know and love her will feel that it is a fitting tribute."


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Goodbye darling Jenny
Jenny, aka the Editter, was one of the first bloggers I met. She was a hilarious, wonderful woman. She would leave lovely comments on my blog, and subtly correct my horrendous grammar. Actually, I'm finding it a bit difficult to spell anything with her in my mind! I'd find little links she'd left all over the internet to Babylicious, in many different forums, and I was always grateful for her support.
Jenny died today, after a battle with cancer that stole her away far too quickly. Having followed her pregnancy and before that her efforts to get pregnant, things seemed to be so great. She loved being a mum, and adored her baby and family.
I'm so sad. I know my loss is the teeniest fraction of what her family must be feeling, they must be absolutely wrecked.
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I think my kitty is getting chubbs.
I cooked dinner (!!!) which was black beans and bacon over rice, Jess cooked dessert. We enjoyed it all while watching ANTM.
I thought I had a point to this post, but... nope.
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Dog Constantly Licking & Scratching
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I have a 10 year old Shih Tzu who is having problems with constant itching, licking and chewing. I have been to the vet several times and they tell me he has allergies.
He's on CD Hills Prescription dog food because he has urinary tract infections. He gets hot spots that I treat with a cortisone spray. I give him Benadryl to relieve itching. The vet said that should help. But the Benadryl really doesn't help at all.
He does have the black spots on his skin (around his legs) that another person wrote you about. His skin is oily and he does have a different smell when he's going through this.
He also tends to get very hot. This condition normally goes for about three to four weeks, then it goes away.
I'm at my wits end. I can't get any sleep because he cries and licks and bites himself all night long.
We are on week five and no changes in sight. The condition comes back every 3 months.
I have been putting drops in his food that are called HP. Drops really aren't helping, but I just started them three days ago.
He does eat treats that are not CD treats. He also gets table scraps.
He hasn't had vaccination shots in over five years.
What can I do to help him?
As far as his personality, he's not a real affectionate dog, yet he always needs to be in the same room as a family member. He doesn't get along with other dogs unless he has gotten to know them.
He hates having birds in his territory. He chases them until they leave. He eats CD hard food mixed with soft food twice a day.
I would love any help you can give me.
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Time Warner Cable today unveiled the company's new national educational and awareness program designed to address America's continuing decline in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math (known by the acronym "STEM"). Its program, called "Connect A Million Minds," seeks to inspire a new generation of problem solvers so they're prepared to solve the economic, environmental and community challenges of the future.
Time Warner Cable held its local launch ceremony and hands-on science demonstrations for girls involved in the Girls Inc. program at that organization's Albany St. location in downtown Schenectady. Time Warner Cable Regional Vice President of Operations John Quigley announced the company's multi-year and multi-faceted commitment of both sponsorship and in-kind support to assist Girls Inc. with its STEM-related programs which include:
• Tech Valley Girls -- providing girls with engaging hands-on activities integrating science and technology as well as vital skills that help them excel. Time Warner Cable and Girls Inc. estimate 150 girls in grades 3-8 will be served in one year through the company's support;
• Tech Valley Girls Summit – a forum for and about girls. This event will support the advancement of girls and women in careers related to science and technology. This full-day summit will serve an estimated 200 middle-school-aged girls living in the Capital Region; and finally,
• Operation SMART -- Working in collaboration with local schools, Girls Incorporated will provide an additional 100 Capital Region girls with its successful Operation SMART programming. Operation SMART encourages every girl in Science, Math and Relevant Technology by giving them the basic knowledge of math and science processes and allowing them to explore and question. This research-based national Girls Inc. curriculum includes programs that focus on areas such as forensics, astronomy, engineering, architecture and chemistry.
According to national experts, the next generation of youth in the United States is not prepared to take on the challenges of the 21st century. Eighty percent of jobs created in the next decade will require math and science skills. However, today's students show declining interest in those subjects, with 84 percent of middle school students saying they would rather clean their room, eat their vegetables, go to the dentist or take out the garbage than learn math or science.*
"Technology and innovation are key components of Time Warner Cable's ability to connect millions of people to entertainment and information every day," said Quigley. "Our new initiative seeks to create a powerful link between the strength of our company and the talents of our employees, working with local organizations who understand the necessity of providing students in the communities we serve with stimulating and exciting science and technology programs," he added.
Research conducted in communities served by Time Warner Cable indicated this was an issue of growing national and local importance so earlier this year (April 2009) the company announced this major initiative (see additional background.)
Connect A Million Minds is the next step in the company's dedication to the young people in its communities. The initiative includes Public Service Announcements, in-kind and monetary support for non-profit partners, the "Connectory"- an online resource that connects parents and children to local STEM opportunities, and an employee volunteer component.
For more information on Time Warner Cable's "Connect a Million Minds" initiative, visit www.connectamillionminds.com.
*National Science Foundation and 2005 Raytheon Corporation Survey
About Connect a Million Minds:
Time Warner Cable's (TWC) Connect a Million Minds (CAMM) is a five-year, $100 million philanthropic initiative to address America's declining proficiency in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), which puts our children at risk of not competing successfully in a global economy. Using its media assets, TWC creates awareness of the issue and inspires students to develop the STEM skills they need to become the problem solvers of tomorrow. Program highlights include: original PSAs that challenge public perceptions of STEM; a unique website, www.connectamillionminds.com, where parents and community members can pledge to connect young people with the wonders of science; "The Connectory", a one-of-a-kind online resource that makes it simple and easy for parents and students to find informal science and technology learning opportunities in their communities; grants to support non-profit organizations that bring stimulating, high-quality and affordable after-school STEM learning to students; TWC employees, over 47,000 strong, who volunteer their time at community events like science fairs and robotics competitions, and share their passion for engineering and technology with students at CAMM career days. TWC's national CAMM partners are CSAS (Coalition for Science After School) and FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). Local TWC markets are activating CAMM across the country with community-specific programs and partnerships.
About Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is the second-largest cable operator in the U.S., with technologically advanced, well-clustered systems located in five geographic areas—New York State (including New York City), the Carolinas, Ohio, southern California (including Los Angeles) and Texas. Time Warner Cable serves more than 14 million customers who subscribe to one or more of its video, high-speed data and voice services. Time Warner Cable Business Class offers a suite of phone, Internet, Ethernet and cable television services to businesses of all sizes. Time Warner Cable Media Sales, the advertising arm of Time Warner Cable, offers national, regional and local companies innovative advertising solutions that are targeted and affordable.


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What is Diatom?
Diatom is a natural product for plant and vegetables that removes pests in a non-chemical way. This makes it impossible for pests to develop the resistance power to survive. It can be used to control bedbugs, mites and slugs. Diatom is 100% safe and has no residual effect. It is made of fossilized remains of single-cell algae called diatoms. The wall of this diatoms consists of solica, which makes insects try out and die by absorbing the oils and fats from the cuticle of the insects exoskeleton. The sharp edges speed up the process. Diatom remains effective as long as it's kept dry and undisturbed.
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Stephanie Hilvitz
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I am honored to have been selected as the featured artist for the National WCA for the month of August 2017.
My current work explores the mythology, lore and science of the Monarch butterfly, the conversation between life and death,spirit and soul.
The beautiful ancient Mexican belief that the monarchs return each year after a 3000 mile migration as the souls of loved ones who have died expresses how we as people use myth and imagination to transcend loss and accept what cannot be truly known. This movement between the planes of life and death...or life and life are interweaving moments from one to the other as an expression of the wish to connect with our loved ones in a continuum of the soul and breath.


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The GNLF today said it had found a common ground with the Trinamul Congress to take on Bimal Gurung in the hills and was confident of strengthening the alliance with Mamata Banerjee.
Mann Ghisingh, the president of the GNLF, today led a six-member delegation that met Mamata at Nabanna for nearly an hour and discussed issues concerning the hills, like granting tribal status to 11 communities and the dues of workers of three tea gardens owned by the Trinamul Congress MP K.D. Singh.
After the meeting, Neeraj Zimba, a central committee member of the GNLF who was part of the delegation, said: "Whenever we feel we cannot go alone, we will go with TMC. There is no formal alliance yet and we might not be natural allies. But we have found a common ground."
Asked about common ground, Zimba said: "There is a need to end corruption in the hills and bring about better administration that Bimal Gurung has not delivered. As far as formalising the alliance is concerned, our party president will take a call as and when its needed."
Zimba was hinting at an election-centric alliance rather than a long-term political front.
Even though the GNLF had supported Trinamul during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and the recent Assembly polls, the party has not been able to cement its relations with Trinamul.
GNLF's apparent closeness with Mamata comes at a time Gorkha Janmukti Morcha president Gurung, too, is keen on establishing a working relation with the state government. Sources said the Morcha was keenly following the Mamata-Mann dialogue.
The delegation today discussed a number of issues with the chief minister. "We talked about the demand to grant tribal status to 11 hill communities, problems in tea gardens owned by Alchemist Group, the closure of NH55, voluntary teachers' jobs, corruption in the GTA and regularisation of employees of the hill body," said N.B.Chhetri, the spokesman for the GNLF.
Chhetri claimed that Aroop Biswas, the Trinamul leader in charge of the hills, had assured that tea garden workers' dues would be cleared within 15 days.
Alchemist Group, which owns Dooteriah, Kalej Valley and Peshok tea gardens, has dues to the tune of Rs 10 crore.(TT)


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|This was my first cg ever. I am very proud of it! His name is Nuchi. My mom gave him his name.
|This has to be my favorite of all of my furres. She so cute! I named her after my friend Amanda.
|I was bored. ^^;
|This was a VERY quick CG that I did to show my mom sort of how I do CG.
|I drew this for Kina because I love her characters. Mitzi is my favorite. ^^
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A Handbook of Globalisation and Environmental Policy, Second Edition
National Government Interventions in a Global Arena
Edited by Frank Wijen, Kees Zoeteman, Jan Pieters and Paul van Seters
Chapter 4: Globalisation, Sustainable Development, and Environmental Policies in Developing Countries
Hans Opschoor
Hans Opschoor SUMMARY Economic globalisation has had a positive effect on economic growth in developing countries, but its impact on the environment and institutions dealing with environmental policies is mixed. The search for sustainable development has partially remedied this, but the general performance of environmental policy suffers from several setbacks, especially in developing countries. Based on a review of experiences with environmental policies and with different policy instruments (especially in Africa), possibilities are explored to overcome governance challenges through institutional reforms. A reconsideration of the role of states is necessary. 'Countervailing power' exercised by environmental civil-society organisations (CSOs) may help to enhance the performance of national environmental policies in developing countries and in curbing the negative aspects of economic globalisation. A pragmatic and context-specific approach to the development of national environmental policy instruments is crucial and should be aligned with efforts towards sustainable development and poverty alleviation in developing countries. INTRODUCTION This chapter discusses environmental and resource-oriented policies in developing countries. The main rationale for this is that differences in socio-economic as well as ecological conditions account for differences in such policies. I will look at environmental policies from the perspective of global concerns with sustainable development and in the context of 'globalisation'. The structure of this chapter is as follows. Firstly, globalisation and 89 M2782 - WIJEN TEXT.indd 89 16/11/2011 11:30 90 A Handbook of Globalisation and Environmental Policy, Second Edition (sustainable) development are presented. Taking an institutional and actor-oriented approach, different categories of agents are distinguished and...
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Will has got a lot done on RPerl in April. Here's his report:
"All of section 2.1 (Numeric Types & Operators) and section 2.2 (String Types & Operators) are now completed.
RPerl v1.7 codename Tycho was released on April 1st (no joke!), now containing initial capabilities of generating stand-alone binary executable.
All of the following sections of Learning RPerl have been published:
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five things from a working madre
hi! To ring in my first day back to work, it feels like back to school time, my friend, coworker and madre to baby Lola, Molly is sharing five pieces of advice as I jump back into the working world. I love her humorous, honest & sweet notes.
Dear Making La Madre,
We're so glad to have you back at work and I wish you a smooth transition, looking forward to coffee with you soon! Here are my thoughts on five things that helped me with the jump into working mum-hood. I was very grateful to have almost four months with my newborn Lola. The time we shared together was very special to me, the days felt long but the weeks went by fast. My return to work was pretty smooth, but I definitely had mixed emotions about it. During maternity leave there were a lot of things I missed about being at work, having a schedule, my friends and team, starting and finishing projects, typing on a computer etc. A few weeks prior to going back I typed up Lola¹s birth story, (1) because I wanted it documented and (2) because I wasn¹t sure if I would remember how to type. So double win. I remember thinking a lot about the logistics of things, like how I would actually get ready, get Lola ready, get out of the house and somehow have my shit together. Looking back these were the 5 game changers for me.
1) Lightening Up I had a lot of things that I needed to take with me every day: computer (that was old and super heavy), papers, workout clothes, breast pump, parts and more. I found myself in a serious bag crisis. I started out by using my diaper bag, but despite how cool it was in the world of diaper bags it was super dorky in my work world. It had to go, FAST. Like an angel, my friend Michelle came to the rescue well actually she came into town for a visit sporting a new tote which loved and bought from her on the spot. It neatly fit my necessary items, bag crisis resolved. I also requested a lighter computer, can't even explain what a huge difference that has made.
2) Train Schedule I spent a little bit of time working in Europe where I learned the importance of a train schedule. If you miss the train, you miss a meeting or dinner or more importantly sitting in the sliver of sunshine on the patio with a glass of wine. Now I treat my mornings and evenings like a train schedule because I can¹t miss that sliver of sunshine before she goes to sleep.
3) Relearn You know what is the worst when think you know how it is and you really don't. I work in digital and I heard a shocking stat that in 5 years only 15% of what I know today will be relevant. I decided to focus on the silver lining here. For me, I treated maternity leave as an opportunity to come back and re-learn a ton. I looked at topics that used to bore me to death with a fresh perspective, and I have in fact learned a TON, uncovered so big wins and found myself out of my comfort zone often. Never stop learning.
4) Workout = Good Day I've always loved to workout, but before being a madre it was more of an item I tried to check off my 'to do' list than something I had the privilege of doing. Undisputedly, if I workout I have a better day. I found a mini-efficiencey by dropping off Lola at daycare (thankfully her day care opens at 6:30AM) in my workout clothes and heading straight to the gym. I get my workout done early and pretty quickly, 30 mins down from what was usually an hour. Plus, there is the rare upside of being able to get ready for the day without trying to juggle a baby and of course good parking.
5) Love like crazy Since my time during the weekdays with Lola and my husband is limited, I'm trying to block out all the distractions. Lola usually falls asleep on me every night and I have this guilty pleasure of putting my face up close to hers and smelling her little breaths. It's my favorite thing. Since she goes to bed at seven and is thankfully an excellent sleeper, Josh and I have plenty of time to make dinner together and catch up in the evening (this time surprisingly resembles our pre-baby life a lot). Lastly, I never go to bed at night with out starting the dishwasher. If those bottles aren't washed in the morning all hell breaks loose. With love, Molly


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cool hunting gift guide : w/ paperfinger feature
Cool Hunting always has one of the best gift guides out there. I'm looking forward to spending a lot of time on there these coming weeks, since they add new items daily.
I'm very happy to say that there are a few Paperfinger items featured in the guide this year. Yippee! And yesterday Paperfinger's custom bookplates were featured in special post on customizable gifts.
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It seems that everywhere you look someone has a suggestion on how to handle email. Unfortunately, a lot of people talk about email but few decide to actually change how email works. Mailbox is a new app which aims for users to rethink email and how it fits into your life. If you have researched ways to handle your email better you might have heard of Inbox Zero. It's the ultimate clean slate when you reach zero emails in your inbox. Having no emails that beg for your attention helps free your mind to think clear and maybe even relax.
The release of the Mailbox app has been hyped on the tech news scene a lot since February. You even might be on the waiting list for the app. Are you currently struggling with email? Then keep reading to see if Mailbox really does put email in its place.
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Mailbox Will Not Benefit Everyone
First, let's be clear that as of the writing of this article, Mailbox only supports Gmail. If you do not use Gmail as your main email service or are not willing to forward iCloud or other preferable email to your Gmail account, then the app is worthless. The Mailbox team has stated that there are plans to support other email providers in the future, but there is no time frame given and who knows if you would have to go through a reservation system — again!
Now you might have heard all about a reservation system and most likely have seen people complain in your Twitter stream that they are way high in line. How did my reservation end up? Well, thanks to discovering the development of the app early, I was able to secure a close position to the front when the reservation system started. So when first loading my app and entering my reservation code, I realized I was approximately over 14,000 activations away from having email change my life. At first I was bummed about how far back in the queue I was, but after seeing it skyrocket into the hundreds of thousands, I was content with my position.
For what it's worth, it only took a couple of days to gain access to the app, and I happened to check right before my access was granted. Several users on Twitter have been complaining and laughing at the Mailbox team about their reservation system. When I first heard about it I was skeptical and bummed that I would not have immediate access, but it was easy to see that team wanted to provide a quality product, even if that meant doing things that were out of the norm.
Inbox Zero
Let's dive in and actually see what makes this email client so special. There is one goal in Mailbox and that is inbox zero. The famous item that you might have heard before, and only thought it was a mirage since it never could actually exist within your inbox — but it is possible. In order to reach inbox zero, Mailbox utilizes list and scheduling actions which move emails out of your inbox and hopefully out of your mind until the time is right.
A lot of the structure behind the way Mailbox works is loosely based on David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) theory and how to rid your mind of all of the junk to actually accomplish tasks. A way to keep on top of your digital life is to keep on top of your inbox. By keeping a clean inbox and moving emails into their proper place, it should become clearer what you actually need to accomplish.
For Mailbox to work with your email it has to connect as a third party to Gmail. This is the main reason behind the reservation system for the app. The team did not rush things and allow access for everyone just to have their servers crash. Since your mail is being synced through Mailbox's servers, there can be a slight delay before your inbox will populate with new messages. This can be frustrating since you might have just received a notification for the new message but have to wait a few seconds to see it.
After clearing out your inbox you will be rewarded with a picture and a message stating you are all done. The picture actually changes every day but is the same for every Mailbox user. The pictures are pulled from Instagram, and is a great way to feature some great and otherwise unknown photos.
So maybe you are thinking that Inbox Zero is a complete myth and no amount of acting on your inbox can help, but I will urge you to just keep hacking away for this next part. When viewing your inbox, Mailbox allows you to use swipe gestures to move your mail where you need it to go. There are four different swipes which are dependent on the length and direction.
When the total number of items in your inbox is relatively small, you can swipe all messages at once by using the bar at the bottom of the list.
Swiping to the right is for putting a message away indefinitely. This includes either archiving a message or deleting it all together. To archive messages, just perform a short swipe to the right and it will archive it away until you need to find it again. If you know you will never need the message again and would like to delete it then just perform a long swipe to right and the action changes to delete the message.
Sometimes you might not be able to archive a message because you still need perform on action related to the message or you might need to reference it in the near future. Just perform quick swipe to the left to schedule the message to show back up in the inbox later. Some of the time options available to schedule include later today, tomorrow, this weekend and more. After deferring an item, it will be moved out of the inbox and put into a later list. When the fateful day arrives that the email is scheduled to show up it will appear again to either to be deferred or acted upon.
In the end, this app may not be for everyone. If you already have control of your email and do not receive hundreds of them a day, then the power of Mailbox may not appeal to you. If you constantly struggle with cleaning out your inbox then it can be a game changer. Adding list support with scheduling and topping it off with good design makes Mailbox a top contender for third-party iPhone email clients. Although, I admit the market is small.
While Mailbox is currently free, the team has hinted that they would like to pursue a freemium model much like Dropbox or Evernote. There has been no word on the price or structure of this, but my hope is that app as it is today is the free price level, and maybe for users who need more or want another email service, there would be a pay option. If email has got you down, there is no better place to start than with Mailbox; now go forth and reach Inbox Zero.
By scheduling emails and using gestures to quickly process your inbox, Mailbox makes it possible to reach Inbox Zero every day.
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The Neighbor (Hardcover)
Bantam, 9780553807233, 384pp.
Publication Date: June 16, 2009
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From a master of suspense comes a chilling new novel that explores the dangers lurking closer than you think. Because even in the perfect family, you never know what is going on behind closed doors….
This is what happened…
It was a case guaranteed to spark a media feeding frenzy—a young mother, blond and pretty, disappears without a trace from her South Boston home, leaving behind her four-year-old daughter as the only witness and her handsome, secretive husband as the prime suspect.
In the last six hours…
But from the moment Detective Sergeant D. D. Warren arrives at the Joneses' snug little bungalow, she senses something off about the picture of wholesome normality the couple worked so hard to create. On the surface, Jason and Sandra Jones are like any other hardworking young couple raising a four-year-old child. But it is just under the surface that things grew murky.
Of the world as I knew it….
With the clock ticking on the life of a missing woman and the media firestorm building, Jason Jones seems more intent on destroying evidence and isolating his daughter than on searching for his "beloved" wife. Is the perfect husband trying to hide his guilt—or just trying to hide? And will the only witness to the crime be the killer's next victim?
About the Author
Praise For The Neighbor…
"Gripping....Full of inventive twists, this highly entertaining novel delivers a shocking solution as well as a perfectly realized sense of justice."—Publishers Weekly
"Gardner's compelling narrative keeps her readers guessing."—Library Journal


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'The Boss' Dances With a 91-Year-Old Fan At His Sold-Out Concert in St. Paul (Video)
For centuries, mankind has been searching for the fountain of youth; little did they know it has been touring America for the last 40 years. It's not just Bruce Springsteen who is 66 going on 26; his fans are ageless wonders as well. Last month, we saw Springsteen celebrated an 89-year-old grandmother's birthday by inviting her on stage for Dancing in the Dark. Last night he did it again, this time with 91-year-old Jeannie Heintz. Watch the very adorable moment from the E Street Band's gig in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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How to configure PHP in Virtual Host?
I've installed the virtual host on my server and is working. mydomain.com is working perfectly, but, my problem is when I try in mydomain.com/info.php this is no work. if Itry with php: This not work. So . . . I need configure the PHP in my virtual host, someone has a solution for this?


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Errea Lennox Long Sleeve Shirt
Errea Lennox Long Sleeve Shirt
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The Errea Lennox shirt is a long sleeve sports jersey, suitable for football or any number of different sports. Part of our extensive selection of Errea match wear and team football kits.
Lennox shirts are styled with simple Italian elegance. These tops are made from a tough, lightweight material which has a soft feel to the touch.
Designed with cross over V neck and contrast strip detail to the collar and sleeve.
Ideal for teams at any level of the game, Lennox football jerseys are available in junior and adult sizes and a wide selection of colour combinations sure to match any club kit colours.
100% polyester performance fabric.
Errea football strips are produced to the level required by the Oeko Tex standard 100 certification which guarantees the absence of toxic or harmful chemicals in textile products.
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From our humble beginnings to the exceptional company that we have become, we have stayed true to the framework that was originally established and that continues to guide our business model today. In addition to these values, Roads Paving owns all of the equipment used on each job site, eliminating the need for subcontractors or leases. This passes the savings on to you, allowing us to provide quality work for affordable prices. It is our goal to be the asphalt contractor of choice for the individual homeowner, as well as large-scale commercial businesses. Give us a call today for a bid. We are excited to meet you and welcome the opportunity to earn your business and your trust.
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This paper demonstrates some pedagogical strategies for developing Open Educational Resources (OERs) using the knowledge mapping tool Compendium. It also describes applications of Knowledge Maps to facilitate meaningful learning by focusing on specific OER examples. The study centres on the OpenLearn project, a large scale online environment that makes a selection of higher education learning resources freely available via the internet. OpenLearn, which is supportedby William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, was launched in October 2006 and in the two year period of its existence hasreleased over 8,100 learning hours of the OU's distance learning resources for free access and modification by learnersand educators under the Creative Commons license. OpenLearn also offers three knowledge media tools: Compendium(knowledge mapping software), MSG (instant messaging application with geolocation maps) and FM (web-based videoconferencing application). Compendium is a software tool for visual thinking, used to connect ideas, concepts, arguments, websites and documents. There are numerous examples of OERs that have been developed and delivered by institutions across the world, for example, MIT, Rice, Utah State, Core, Paris Tech, JOCW. They present a wide variety of learning materials in terms of styles as well as differing subject content. Many such offerings are based upon original lecture notes, hand-outs and other related papers used in face-to-face teaching. Openlearn OERs, however, are reconstructed from original self study distance learning materials developed at the Open University and from a vast academic catalogue of materials.
Samples of these "units" comprise a variety of formats: text, images, audio and video. In this study, our findings illustratethe benefits of sharing some OER content through knowledge maps, the possibility of condensing high volumes of information,accessing resources in a more attractive way, visualising connections between diverse learning materials, connecting new ideas to familiar references, organising thinking and gaining new insights into subject specific content.
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On a recent weekend trip through the Pacific Northwest I stopped at a magical place in Portland known as Powell's City of Books. With four floors of reading material, I couldn't help but saunter a bit, even taking a moment to browse the rare books collection that included, among other marvels, an edition of Pliny the Elder's Historia Naturale circa the 1600s.
In the end, though, I was choosing between three books: a survey of global stream ecology, an American Fisheries Society survey of watershed restoration practice, and a narrative work by Anders Halverson, entitled An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World. Pragmatism aside, I chose Halverson's work (perhaps I was just seeking relief from my complete immersion in scientific literature of late). It has proved to be not only an entertaining read and valuable history lesson but also a tremendous thought exercise in relation to my own work.
Patty Limerick, the Faculty Director and Chair of the Board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado Boulder, accurately frames Halverson's narrative surrounding the rainbow trout's world takeover as a valuable precautionary tale. Natural resource management, particularly in the American West, has had no shortage of trial and error. Take the disastrous results of the early efforts of influential conservationists to control predator populations throughout the West, for example.
The decisions of well-meaning resource managers to eradicate predators resulted in immense numbers of starving and diseased elk, deer and antelope across the West. Because their numbers were no longer controlled by predators like bears, wolves, and lions, the game animal populations exploded and then subsequently collapsed to even fewer numbers than ever. Predators played an integral part in maintaining overall herd health, something of a revelation at the time.
This marked the beginning of a new era of understanding in ecology, one that would begin to acknowledge the great complexity of natural systems. Halverson's book contains numerous lessons about both the complexity inherent to natural systems as well as the cascade of error in management that has (and still can) arise when this complexity goes unacknowledged.
Tracing from the fish culturing practices in 18th century Europe, he elucidates how fish propagation later became a matter of national importance for the newly-formed United States of America. He moves on to describe efforts to rebuild decimated Atlantic Coast fisheries with Pacific salmon stock from our own neighboring Upper Sacramento River. Happenstance amid those efforts found the rainbow trout to be a hardy, aggressive, easily-domesticated alternative when efforts to stock other Pacific salmon failed.
Halverson explains how social convention elevated the rainbow trout to the realm of premier game fish, the pursuit of which defined a gentleman, and how, in the end, the longevity of such conventions prompted resource managers to enact sometimes disastrous management decisions in favor of rainbow trout over other native biodiversity across the West.
The most potent lessons found in the history of artificial propagation of rainbow trout can be found within the wholly unintended, and for a long-time unnoticed, consequences of proliferating the species. Halverson outlines the story of three of these devastating wake-up calls for fisheries managers.
The first, involves the spread of Myxobolus cerebralis, the agent parasite that causes (the most-often fatal) whirling disease, first through hatchery systems all across the world and subsequently into the wild due to wanton stocking practices. The second is the significant loss of biodiversity among the other native salmonids of the West due to hybridization with rainbow trout, not to mention, the dilution of genetic stock among wild populations of rainbows themselves. The third is the un-monitored impacts of rainbow trout stocking on taxa other than fish, most notably the endemic amphibian species of California and the rest of the West.
Most of this grand history lesson applies directly to the fisheries of the Feather River Basin. Extensive stocking has established non-native trout and other fishes in the Basin, efforts that concomitantly also introduced M. cerebralis. The stocking of rainbow trout has also certainly resulted in hybridization with true native populations, the extent of which is not known (although a recent study sheds a favorable light). Eradication efforts have taken place in the Basin to eradicate fish in the preservation of native amphibians.
So, amidst this history of inadvertent (and, yes, sometimes advertent) blunder of uninformed fisheries management, particularly surrounding rainbow trout (the eradication of which is a huge concern in water bodies where they are not native across the globe), the question arises: "What are we protecting?"
Well, at its core, the Upper Feather River Basin-Wide Native Fish Assessment and Improvement Strategy is meant to be, in small part, counteraction against this history of uniformed fisheries management strategy. The result, hopefully, will be the right knowledge and information to know where we can achieve the most bang-for-the-buck in protecting and improving wild rainbow trout populations here in their native range.
To the greatest extent possible we're hoping to account for the intended and unintended consequences of historical decisions in fisheries management to ensure we're doing so effectively. We think that this can be accomplished by identifying the distribution of pathogens, probable populations with low or no hybridization, as well as accounting for the impacts on other native taxa, before expenditure on any restoration can take place.
Often when I speak to people about my work, a similar set of questions arises. The first questions relate to the decline in stocking efforts by resource managers. People also often allude to the contentious management practice of poisoning water bodies (often done in the past to ensure the success of new stocking efforts). They often point out the folly of emphasizing continued preservation in systems that are, arguably, so altered that it is illogical to do so.
It's true, in reality there exists a history of resource management that will be impossible to escape. Many of the decisions being made by fisheries managers these days are all part of effort to proceed with caution until the trajectory of this history is better understood.
One of the graces of Halverson's work is that it distills the complexity of a particular history, that surrounding the propagation of rainbow trout, into a compelling narrative. It offers a resource for people like myself to share with others in an effort to provide contrast with business-as-usual management practices based on social convention rather than an understanding of ecology. In many ways, it sheds a real light on the value and necessity of efforts like the Upper Feather River Basin-Wide Native Fish Assessment and Improvement Strategy.
Better than that, it's not a scientific journal article.


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Yes, it is snowing in the Matrix. There are some interesting insights on Phyllis Daugherty's negative campaign against Brenda Barnette as pick for the new G.M. of Los Angeles Animal Services; and also some thoughts about emails supposedly being circulated by "a candidate" who was not chosen. Not positive who that is so no names from BW either (except for the one we know).
For the overwhelming most part, ADL says Barnette is absolutely the right pick. We are encouraged to compliment the Mayor's team and ...(well, that part I can't participate in).... and join together to rally around Barnette. Okay. If the harshest critic of this Department says "go"...I will go...and be observant, yet hopeful.
As I've said many times although skeptically...I want Barnette to be "the One." Here's hoping.
From ADL-LA:
ADL-LA was able to speak with many individuals including volunteers, employees and rescuers who work or have worked with Barnette on a daily basis and we even spoke to one of the individuals involved with the superb and large foster network program that Brenda Barnette set up herself and which has been so successful in saving the lives of hundreds upon hundreds of animals who would otherwise be dead right now.
In fact, in complete contrast to what we were told by employees in NYC and AZ regarding how inept, disorganized and duplicitous Ed Boks was while in charge of the homeless and lost animals of their cities, we have gotten irrefutable evidence and information about Barnette's programs that she set up with the Seattle humane community, the public and her employees which has saved the lives of thousands of animals since Barnette was appointed CEO of SHS in 2006. This is why (and we can't believe we are saying this,) but we at ADL-LA are asking our readers and supporters to e-mail Jim Bickhart, Jimmy Blackman and Mayor Villaraigosa and thank them for doing something that will save the lives of THOUSANDS of our city's homeless and lost animals. Their
e-mails are at the end of this post!
Unfortunately there are a few people, (there always are) who ironically have NEVER even worked with Barnette or even MET the woman who are circulating confusing, nasty and false e-mails about her. It is quite incongruous that all the people we spoke to that know Barnette personally and/or have worked along side Barnette at SHS and at ARF (Animal Rescue Foundation) have said nothing but amazing things about her. Yet a minority of so called animal welfarists here in LA who don't even know the woman, spreading nasty and completely false information about her. They definitely have their own personal axes to grind and it saddens ADL-LA tremendously (and the animals inside the LAAS shelters right now,) that a small minority are putting their ego's and their misinformation BEFORE what is best for the lost and homeless animals of LA. It's no wonder why many view LA's humane welfare community as a bunch of competitive, mean spirited, negative individuals who want change, yet fear that very change. Some have even called the animal welfare community here in LA 'kooks' who will never "get their act together!" We must prove these people WRONG! We can and MUST "get our act together" and get behind a woman who will not only be the first female to be appointed as General Manager for LAAS, but who is one of the most progressive, humane shelter leaders in the nation.
One of these individuals spreading untruths about Barnette we are very saddened to say, was a candidate for the GM position who obviously didn't get the job. She began spearheading a witch hunt against this superb and progressive shelter leader immediately after hearing the Mayor's decision. ADL-LA admits that this candidate is very knowledgeable about LAAS and has great ideas, and suggestions regarding reducing the killing inside our six city shelters, BUT. . . . she has no track record of ever doing it herself. Barnette on the other hand has a PROVEN STELLAR RECORD of implementing programs, policies and procedures in conjunction with employees, volunteers, a huge foster network, rescuers and even the PUBLIC that has brought the Seattle Humane Shelter to a 92% SAVE RATE! The numbers, and we have checked them out thoroughly through the Asolimar Accords (and they DON'T lie) show her save rate as consistently being between 91% and 92% for the past three years.
It would take ADL-LA hours to type in all the quotes and information we have obtained on this lady and needless to say it would be way too long for one post; so we're going to have to send them out in a series of posts. So here goes installment #1!
From what we have found out Barnette is a female shelter LEADER who is nationally recognized and who not only has the skill set to implement live saving programs and think outside the box, but has the vision as well. So please delete any e-mails from those people who have never worked with Barnette or have axes to grind with her personally and who are attempting to obstruct her appointment. ADL-LA says SHAME ON THEM! Not ONE of these obstructionists has ever run a shelter or better yet, turned a high kill shelter into a shelter that now saves 92% of the animals they take in (and they are an OPEN shelter by the way; they don't turn ANYONE away.) Instead of our entire humane community rejoicing and rallying around the Mayor and Ms. Barnette, a few bad apples are trying to spoil her stellar reputation of saving more animal lives on record than practically any other shelter in the of nation.
This time around the Mayor has chosen a winner to lead LAAS and he's handing her to us on a silver platter and we should all rejoice, not only for the animals whose lives WILL BE SAVED by having such a capable leader at the helm, but for ourselves. In fact some people from other states who know of her abilities are actually JEALOUS that Los Angeles was able to get someone of Barnett's caliber to run our city shelters! They want her!!
So we give you two of the many quotes we have gotten over the past four days.
This first one is a quote from Amber Yoo who worked along side Barnette for three years at SHS. We will be sending out more quotes in our future installments.
" I have worked closely with Brenda for three years at Seattle Humane and I can confidently say she is one of the nation's best leaders in animal welfare. The numbers speak for themselves. She took an aging, overwhelmed shelter that was high kill, killing many of the animals it "rescued" and transformed it into a cutting-edge community center that saved 91.5% of the animals that came through its doors. She did this by inspiring the staff to embrace a no kill philosophy * and by engaging the community in its mission.
Wonderful things happen when you have a leader who inspires staff and engages the community in creative, life-saving solutions. Soon we were able to expand our concern from the animals coming through our doors to the animals in our region. We traveled several times a week to other shelters in the community and rescued animals from death row.
As our life-saving reputation grew, the community called on us to help in emergency situations. In June 2009 we rescued 90 American Eskimo dogs during one of the largest puppy mill busts in the country. Brenda immediately reached out to the volunteer foster network she had established. When the rescue van pulled into the driveway, we literally had a line of foster families waiting to take them home. The foster families provided the one-on-one attention that these scared and neglected dogs needed in order to learn what it was like to be a cherished pet. Today, all 90 dogs are happy, healthy and loved.
The volunteer foster network is one of many examples of how Brenda engaged the community in our mission. As Brenda always says, foster homes "literally expand the shelter walls—allowing us to save even more lives." For example, only 150 cats could comfortably be housed at our shelter, but thanks to our foster network, we were able to care for upwards of 400 cats at any given time.
Another way Brenda involved the community was by partnering with local rescue groups. In 2008, Brenda's vision of a community-wide partnership to save lives came to fruition with the first annual "Catapalooza". Seattle Humane hosted six organizations in a community-wide, family-oriented, fun-filled cat adoption bonanza and in two days found homes for 146 orphaned kitties.
Ultimately, by uniting the community in our mission to save lives, we began to break adoption records. For the fiscal year of 2008-09, our adoption rate was the second highest in Seattle Humane's 113-year history. That same year, we also experienced the lowest return rate ever – which means we were making quality, long-term matches. When I left Seattle Humane, this trend was continuing. It seemed like every month, we were breaking an adoption record.
As I said above, wonderful things happen when you have a leader who inspires staff and engages the community toward creative, life-saving solutions. If the community of Los Angeles' goal is to save as many animal lives as possible, then Brenda is the leader who can make that vision a reality.
* There were only two scenarios where we considered euthanasia: for those animals who were so sick that they could not be saved and for those who were a danger to the community. The decision to end a life was extremely serious—and always saddening."
This next quote is from Lisa Simmons who was the Executive Assistant when Barnette was Executive Director of Pets in Need (1998-2003)
"Brenda Barnette is a true visionary in the animal welfare movement. As Executive Director of Pets In Need, Brenda implemented a number of programs that today are incorporated in most shelters striving to reduce and end the killing of our companion animals.
Under her direction, Pets In Need became one of the core shelters in the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program, a program training veterinarians and veterinary technicians how to best practice humane, progressive and compassionate shelter medicine.
She started a program where the shelter could help those community members who were feral cat caregivers wanting to practice TNR. Cat traps and trapping training was provided at no charge, and a list of low to no cost spay/neuter feral cat clinics was provided.
She also created the foster kitten program which saves on average 500-600 kittens annually. Many of these kittens come from feral cats. Brenda created other successful programs that saved the lives of hundreds of our animals. If you need more information please let me know. Los Angeles is so lucky to have Brenda as their new general manager."
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ADL-LA Disclaimer: Nothing contained in this publication is intended to encourage or incite illegal acts. Some of the information in the posts have been received anonymously and ADL-LA cannot make any guarantees for the accuracy of these reports. Any views or comments stated in this report are not necessarily the views of ADL-LA.


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We are a husband and wife team that lives in Phoenixville and we are very familiar with the entire Phoenixville area including Collegeville. You can search for Phoenixville Homes for Sale by following the links below or by communities on the right. We can show you any home for sale and we do not require any exclusive commitment to use our services.
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In addition to being able to find Phoenixville Homes for Sale and Phoenixville Real Estate here is some interesting information about Phoenixville. Originally called Manavon, Phoenixville was settled in 1732 and incorporated as a borough in 1849. In its industrial heyday early in the twentieth century, it was an important manufacturing center and it was the site of great iron and steel mills such as the Phoenix Iron Works, boiler works, silk mill, underwear and hosiery factories, a match factory, and the famous (and now highly collectible) Etruscan majolica pottery. Like so many American towns and cities, Phoenixville owes its growth to its waterways. It is not only situated on the broad Schuylkill River, an historic thoroughfare to Native Americans and early settlers alike, but it is bisected by the fast-flowing French Creek, which was quickly harnessed for water power.
Much of this history was recognized by the creation of the Phoenixville Historic District, the largest National Register of Historic Places site in Chester County.
Phoenixville is home to the Colonial Theatre, opened in 1903. In 1958, the theatre, along with some other parts of the borough, was featured in the motion picture The Blob. Beginning in 2000, Phoenixville has celebrated this with the annual Blobfest. Festivities include a reenactment of the scene featuring the Colonial. The Colonial runs special programs each weekend, and an ongoing series of movies and events for children.
The Valley Forge Christian College, located in neighboring Schuylkill and Charlestown Townships, is a part of this community, using the land belonging to the former Valley Forge General Hospital. The hospital was built in 1942 to accommodate the wounded of World War II. It was scheduled to be closed around 1949, but remained open until after the Vietnam War, closing in 1975.
Every year the Phoenixville Jaycees host their annual Dogwood Festival, typically beginning in the third week in May.
Since 2004 on the first Friday night of every month the downtown stores, restaurants and businesses and volunteer community groups hold special events including street musicians and entertainers and some outdoor concerts. Phoenixville is in close proximity to Valley Forge park and both the Perkiomen and Schulykill River trails.
Phoenix Iron Works foundry building.
Phoenixville is at the intersection of three state routes: 23, 29, and 113. Phoenixville is currently served by SEPTA's Route 99 bus, which connects with the Manayunk/Norristown Line Regional rail service at the Norristown Transportation Center, the Route 205 bus, which connects with the Paoli station during weekday rush hours, and the Route 139 bus, which connects the King of Prussia Mall with the Philadelphia Premium Outlets in Limerick.
Several major railroads once served Phoenixville. The Reading Railroad entered the east side of town via a station above Bridge Street. The line passes under the north side of town in the Black Rock Tunnel, the second rail tunnel constructed in the United States. Regular commuter trains last stopped at the Phoenixville Station in 1981, when SEPTA ceased operating non-electrified commuter lines. Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) currently utilizes the busy line on a daily basis as part of its Harrisburg Line.
The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) Schuylkill Branch also served Phoenixville. The line enters town crossing the Schuylkill River from neighboring Mont Clare on a high bridge, north of French Creek. The line passes along the north side of the former Phoenix Iron Works site. The station on Vanderslice Street, west of Gay Street, no longer exists. Past the Works, the line splits. The main fork passed through the now abandoned Phoenixville Tunnel, which partially collapsed in the 1990s, and continued toward Reading. The other fork continued along the Pickering Creek Valley and used to connect with the Main Line at Paoli. A section of the line remains in place, and is currently known as the Phoenixville Industrial track (also owned by NS). Passenger service ended in 1928 and regular freight service on the line ceased in 2004. During the 2008 replacement of the Gay Street Bridge, the line was severed at its crossing of Main Street and that rail bridge raised a few feet to allow emergency vehicles to reach the north side of town.
Interest to resume passenger rail service was spurred by the Schuylkill Valley Metro (SVM) project, which was rejected by Federal Transit Administration in 2006. Another project, called the Greenline, has since been proposed an alternative to the SVM. It would utilize the Phoenixville Industrial track, to give Phoenixville a rail link to Philadelphia via Paoli and the Paoli/Thorndale Line of regional rail. The effort to resume passenger train service has led to the creation of the group Citizens for the Train
The median income for a household in the borough was $42,500, and the median income for a family was $54,424. Males had a median income of $40,319 versus $32,295 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $22,911. About 4.2% of families and 6.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.7% of those under age 18 and 9.5% of those age 65 or over. The 2008 U.S. Census population estimate for Phoenixville is 16,382.
Wikipedia contributors. "Phoenixville." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 10 Feb. 2006. Web. 12 Nov. 2010
Link to Phoenixville School Ratings


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Awards provide six English museums with 'New Opportunities' to work with artists/
The winners of this year's awards are:
- Penryn Town Museum, Cornwall
- Bridport Museum, Dorset
- Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills, Yorkshire
- Touchstones Rochdale, Greater Manchester
- Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire
- Strutt's North Mill, Derbyshire
Click here to read more information about the winners.
Six regional museums based in the South West, North and Midlands have been selected to receive a special award that will enable them to collaborate with and commission new work by contemporary visual artists.
The 'New Opportunities Award' (NOA) has been developed by the pioneering New Expressions programme in partnership with Contemporary Visual Arts Network. Visual Arts South West have been thanked by New Expressions for leading on the call out and selection process.
NOA aims to create innovative partnerships for organisations in the heritage sector as well as new ways of working for artists. The six successful museums and their partner artists were selected via an open competition. They have each been given a grant of £4,000. As well as being able to realise their projects together they will also be able to take advantage of mentoring advice, support and professional development opportunities provided by the New Expressions team.


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9-9-9Herman Cain may be a great candidate, and very well could be the Republican nominee in 2012-but he might want to rethink the third 9:
As Tennesseans are aware, we are fortunate in this State not to be burdened with a State income tax, and that means that the State is dependent on sales tax revenue for its daily operation, and many counties and localities throughout Tennessee are at least partly dependent on sales tax revenue to keep their books in balance. In Jefferson County, where this writer lives, that means that we pay a combined sales tax rate of 8.75% on non-food items, and-thanks to a Republican effort to lower the grocery tax at the State level-7.25% on our grocery bills. A tax chart from the Tennessee Department of Revenue gives the reader a very good idea of what we pay in combined sales taxes, and it drives up the cost of goods and services quite a bit, though it is worth it to avoid an income tax. However, the Cain 9-9-9 plan would cause the combined 8.75% tax rate in Jefferson and many other Tennessee counties to double to 17.75%, since we would have to add the new federal 9% sales tax to the government's take of our bills for goods or services. The 9-9-9 plan would cause the sales taxes that most East Tennesseans pay to increase anywhere from 100% to 125%-something that Tennessee Republicans would, in recent times at least, call an act of tyranny.
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The excavation woke to the sounds of a triathlon going on just outside our hotel.
It was an early hotel breakfast this morning, always a treat, before the volunteers left for the 7:00 am bus trip to Jerusalem. Once there, they visited Hezekiah's Tunnel, the Israel Museum and a number of other sites. After the tour, some students stayed overnight in Jerusalem while many returned to Ashkelon.
Tomorrow is another day off and then Sunday is Seminar Day.
From excavation Thursday, baulk cutting in Grid 51.


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