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Photo Video Guru makes sure that all the little details are captured as much as possible regardless of what wedding photography package is taken. Our style of wedding photography is known as wedding photojournalism or reportage wedding photography. This means photos are taken completely naturally without using any kind of posing techniques, so in return you get a true story of your wedding day in its true natural form with moments and emotions emphasised. Documentary photography is also another style which we try to include as part of the wedding day where we attempt to produce truthful and objective photography of people and objects.
As a company we try to avoid using flash were possible and use natural light which keeps skin tones looking correct and shadow free backgrounds. Being unobtrusive as possible is important for us so everything can run its course with no disturbances or interference. We also like to capture the little details as this is what makes the wedding day that extra bit special. We capture wedding décor to table decoration and general different parts of the venue.
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We offer different type of storybook albums ranging from many sizes to types. We range from hardback albums to a premium faux leather bound range allowing us to cater for all types of budgets. No matter which album you take we do not compromise on the service we provide. All customers receive fully designed artwork, proofing so you can make changes, full colour correction so prints come out correctly.
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One day after Howard Wolfson arrived at City Hall, the administration announced Kevin Sheekey is leaving.
To spend more time at Bloomberg L.P.
Here's the announcement:
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced that Kevin Sheekey, who served as Deputy Mayor for Government Affairs during his second term, will leave City government this spring. Sheekey has been one of the Mayor's closest advisors for 13 years and has served as the Mayor's chief political aide and New York City's chief lobbyist since 2006. As Deputy Mayor, Sheekey advanced an aggressive city, state, and federal legislative and public policy agenda that resulted in the reauthorization of mayoral control of schools, the passage of major legislation – including a comprehensive green buildings bill – to advance the most wide-reaching sustainability program at any level of government, and more equitable treatment of the City in state and federal budgets, among other accomplishments. Sheekey was also the chief architect of successful efforts to broaden New York City's legislative and public policy footprint by developing coalitions and building relationships with Mayors, Governors, and leaders in Congress and the White House.
"Kevin helped lead the way as this Administration advanced our education, sustainability, housing, immigration, and fiscal responsibility agendas," said Mayor Bloomberg. "He has had his hand in just about everything we've done over the past four years – and we've been smarter, more strategic, and more successful due to his efforts.
"It has been inspiring and an immense privilege to work for Mayor Bloomberg, someone who has always been willing to search for a new approach and use the bully pulpit to fight for New York City," said Kevin Sheekey. "He is the rare person who has innovated in business and government at a level few can ever expect to attain in either."
In one of his first acts as Deputy Mayor, Sheekey designed and implemented a strategy that resulted in New York State providing more than $6 billion to New York City – funding half of the largest school capital construction campaign in New York history – in settlement of the capital portion of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit. In 2008, Sheekey's efforts resulted in New York City ending its relationship with the cash-and management-challenged Off Track Betting, removing billions of dollars in liabilities from the City's books and taking the City out of the business of gambling.
Sheekey re-joined the Administration in 2006 after running the Mayor's successful reelection effort. Prior to the campaign, he was the President and CEO of the City Host Committee for the 2004 Republican National Convention. In 2002, he led the successful bid to win the national convention. Sheekey also launched the Mayor's first election effort in 2001, and before that worked at Bloomberg L.P. from 1997 to 2001. For a decade, Sheekey also served on Capitol Hill where he was Chief of Staff and Press Secretary to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and also oversaw the Senator's reelection efforts; and served as Chief of Staff and Legislative Assistant to Rep. James H. Scheuer.
Bloomberg L.P. announced today that Sheekey will return to the company. He will also advise Mayor Bloomberg on his philanthropic endeavors.
When Sheekey leaves City service, Deputy Mayor for Operations Edward Skyler will oversee government affairs during a transition period, after which they will report to Howard Wolfson, who will then become a Deputy Mayor. Mr. Wolfson has worked in Washington DC for over a decade, including as chief of staff to Rep. Nita Lowey and as executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. He has advised many elected officials: including Senator Charles E. Schumer, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, and United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.


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One of the best parts of Marvel's superhero movie franchise is searching for the next super shout-out or cameo. Nick Fury was introduced in Iron Man, and Thor in the sequel. So, which superhero is in Thor? Spoilers ahead...
The Wrap is reporting a rumor that Jeremy Renner's character, the Avenger Hawkeye, will be Thor's big cameo. Huge surprise? Not particularly — Renner alluded to this possibility to Empire Magazine... then retracted that statement to Movieline a month later.
Now The Wrap is confirming these long held suspicions via an anonymous source, who has already seen an early cut of the the film.
We can see why Marvel would want to utilize the dashingly handsome Renner any way they can. Plus, Hawkeye's a lesser-known character (much like Fury), and it might help to lay the groundwork for the Avengers film, for mainstream audiences, to plant a bit more character framework earlier in the saga.
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You are young and feel invincible, but starting a disease-fighting diet strategy now can pay off in the future. Prepare an anti-inflammatory, Mediterranean meal plan that includes fruits and vegetables, whole grains and legumes, and healthy omega-3 (wild salmon, walnuts, flax) and monounsaturated (olive oil) fats. We've got 20 healthy recipes to get you started.
Highly regarded for its delicious flavor, salmon has a stellar nutritional reputation. It's packed with healthy fats plus plenty of vitamins and minerals -- and yet it lacks the high mercury levels that taint some of its seafood kin.
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New Air Force Weapon Makes Combat Debut in Iraq
By Air Force Staff Sgt. Don Branum
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JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq, Aug. 28, 2008 - Coalition air forces in Iraq unleashed a new precision-guided weapon against enemy forces Aug. 12 when two F-16 Fighting Falcon pilots with the 77th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron here executed the first combat employment of a GBU-54 Laser Joint Direct Attack Munition against a moving enemy vehicle in Diyala province.
The GBU-54 is the Air Force's newest 500-pound precision weapon, equipped with a targeting system that uses a combination of GPS and laser guidance to accurately engage and destroy moving targets.
"This employment first represents a great step in our Air Force's ability to deliver precise effects across the spectrum of combat," Air Force Lt. Gen. Gary L. North, U.S. Air Forces Central commander, said. "The first combat employment of this weapon is the validation of the exacting hard work of an entire team of professionals who developed, tested and fielded this weapon on an extremely short timeline, based on an urgent needs request we established in the combat zone."
When the GBU-54 was identified as an urgent operational need in early 2007, the Air Force completed its development and testing cycle in less than 17 months, fielding it aboard 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing aircraft in May.
"We have consistently used precision-guided weapons to engage stationary threats with superb combat effects," Air Force Brig. Gen. Brian T. Bishop, 332nd AEW commander, said. "This weapon allows our combat pilots to engage a broad range of moving targets with dramatically increased capabilities, and it increases our ability to strike the enemy throughout a much, much broader engagement envelope."
Teamwork in all aspects, from development to employment, was crucial, North said.
"From the experts in our Air Force Materiel Command who shaped our requirements, then developed, tested and fielded the weapon, to our aircraft maintainers, our munitions airmen, and weapons loaders and everyone in between, they made the operational employment of this weapon possible," North said.
On Aug. 12, the joint terminal attack controller's team worked with the ground unit commander to ensure all criteria were met for the weapon's first combat delivery, the general said. "And finally, our F-16 pilot accurately and precisely delivered and guided the weapon to desired weapons effects, the disabling and destruction of an enemy vehicle and personnel," he added.
(Air Force Staff Sgt. Don Branum serves in the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs Office.)
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Watch: Werner Herzog Discovers John Waters Is Gay
Intrepid filmmaker Werner Herzog is fearless. He's been shot at and practically shrugged the attack off moments later. He once pulled Joaquin Phoenix from a car wreck. He's filmed numerous movies in locations that required dangerous "stunts" in order to capture the right image. The German filmmaker has evaded a plane crash and even got himself banned from an airline after refusing to crouch down in a "shitty, undignified position" during an emergency landing. Some might say he's crazy, others might say he has a death wish. No matter how you slice it, it's clear that the man is untouchable and plays by his own rules. That also holds true even when defining something, including what a "man" is.
In the 2007 documentary On the Ecstasy of Ski-Flying: Werner Herzog in Conversation with Karen Beckman, the director shares that he refuses to distinguish a gay man from a straight man. His brain simply doesn't think that way. "For me a chair is a chair — and I do not reference to other possibilities … For me, a man is a man. I cannot distinguish a gay man from a straight man. I just cannot distinguish … " he said. This logic even applies to his 35-year-long friendship with filmmaker John Waters.
"After 35 years of knowing John Waters I turn to my wife and I said to her, 'I have the feeling that this man is gay,' which is in a way wonderful, because I took him as John Waters," Herzog shared. "And I love the man, I love him dearly, he's a wonderful … he's the boldest of the bold filmmakers. I wish I had the guts of this man, and he's very, very dear to my heart — but for me this is a man. Yes, a man is a man."
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Former Miami Dolphins star Mark Duper confirmed to NBC 6 that he has tested positive for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, making him the latest retired NFL player to come down with the concussion-related brain disease.
Duper, 54, said he has been having headaches and his body hurts all the time, so he went to UCLA to get tested.
Doctors told him Friday afternoon the tests were positive for CTE, a degenerative brain disease found in athletes with a history of head trauama. Its symptoms can include depression and memory loss.
"The way I look at it, I know what I'm dealing with," Duper said Friday night.
The news follows the revelation earlier this week that Hall of Famers Tony Dorsett and Joe DeLamielleure and former All-Pro Leonard Marshall have tested positive for signs of CTE.
Duper caught 511 passes during his 11 seasons with the Dolphins, and holds the team record for career receiving yards with 8,869.
The three-time Pro Bowler retired after the 1992 season and was inducted into the Dolphin Honor Roll in 2003.
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DII Women?s Basketball Player of the Week ? No. 4
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Casey Davis of Roosevelt (Ill.) has been named the NAIA National Division II Women's Basketball Player of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. Davis, who is the third-straight honoree from the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC), was selected based on her performances from Jan. 20 – 26 and was chosen out of a pool of conference and independent award winners.
Davis, a native of Country Club Hills, Ill., scored a program single-game record and career-high 51 points – the highest scoring mark in NAIA Division II women's basketball this season – in Roosevelt's 112-99 loss against Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) on Jan. 25. The senior guard ended the contest 21-for-34 from the field, connecting on all but one of her shots from inside 3-point range. Davis entered the game against Olivet Nazarene 15 points shy of the 2,000 career points plateau, a feat that she accomplished less than eight minutes into the contest. Davis, who is the first player in Roosevelt history to score 2,000 career points, currently rests with 2,036 points in a Laker uniform. Three days prior to her record setting performance, Davis scored 25 points to lead Roosevelt to a 69-66 win against IU South Bend (Ind.). For the week, Davis averaged 38 points and shot 60 percent (30-of-50) from the field.
On the season, Davis ranks second in the NAIA in total scoring with 512 points and sixth in points per game at 22.3.
For a complete list of all the national statistical leaders, click here.
The next NAIA National Division II Women's Basketball Player of the Week will be announced on Feb. 4. For the complete Player of the Week calendar, click here.
Nominees: Amber Ramsey, Ottawa (Kan.); Samantha Heier, Mayville State (N.D.); Ashley Lutz, Bethel (Ind.); Brooke Adams, Concordia (Mich.); Akia Davis, College of Saint Mary (Neb.); Yesenia Lora, Webber International (Fla.); Ashlynn Muhl, Morningside (Iowa); Makenzie Zeitler, Mount Mercy (Iowa); Sarah Petersen, William Jessup (Calif.); Kayla Kiriau, Point Park (Pa.); Armeka Booker, Tennessee Wesleyan; Kristen Schoenherr, Southern Oregon.
2013-14 Division II Women's Basketball Players of the Week
Week 1 (Jan. 7): Laurel Zwiener, Hastings (Neb.)
Week 2 (Jan. 14): Morgan Stuut, Saint Xavier (Ill.)
Week 3 (Jan. 21): Morgan Stuut, Saint Xavier (Ill.)
Week 4 (Jan. 28): Casey Davis, Roosevelt (Ill.)


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Municipal Solid Waste
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Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)more commonly known as trash or garbageconsists of everyday items we use and then throw away, such as product packaging, grass clippings, furniture, clothing, bottles, food scraps, newspapers, appliances, paint, and batteries. This comes from our homes, schools, hospitals, and businesses.
Each year EPA produces a report on MSW generation, recycling, and disposal.
In 2012, Americans generated about 251 million tons of trash and recycled and composted almost 87 million tons of this material, equivalent to a 34.5 percent recycling rate. On average, we recycled and composted 1.51 pounds of our individual waste generation of 4.38 pounds per person per day (Figure 1 and Figure 2).
EPA encourages practices that reduce the amount of waste needing to be disposed of, such as waste prevention, recycling, and composting.
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- Source reduction, or waste prevention, is designing products to reduce the amount of waste that will later need to be thrown away and also to make the resulting waste less toxic.
- Recycling is the recovery of useful materials, such as paper, glass, plastic, and metals, from the trash to use to make new products, reducing the amount of virgin raw materials needed.
- Composting involves collecting organic waste, such as food scraps and yard trimmings, and storing it under conditions designed to help it break down naturally. This resulting compost can then be used as a natural fertilizer.
In 2012, newspaper/mechanical papers recovery was about 70 percent (5.9 million tons), and about 58 percent of yard trimmings were recovered (Figure 3). Organic materials continue to be the largest component of MSW. Paper and paperboard account for 28 percent and yard trimmings and food waste account for another 28 percent. Plastics comprise about 13 percent; metals make up 9 percent; and rubber, leather, and textiles account for 8 percent. Wood follows at around 6 percent and glass at 5 percent. Other miscellaneous wastes make up approximately 3 percent of the MSW generated in 2011 (Figure 4).
This section describes the requirements for disposal and combustion of Municipal Solid Waste:
- Landfills are engineered areas where waste is placed into the land. Landfills usually have liner systems and other safeguards to prevent polluting the groundwater.
- Energy Recovery from Waste is the conversion of non-recyclable waste materials into useable heat, electricity, or fuel.
- Transfer Stations are facilities where municipal solid waste is unloaded from collection vehicles and briefly held while it is reloaded onto larger, long-distance transport vehicles for shipment to landfills or other treatment or disposal facilities.
Resource Conservation
Recycling and composting prevented 86.6 million tons of material away from being disposed in 2012, up from 15 million tons in 1980. This prevented the release of approximately 168 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent into the air in 2012equivalent to taking over 33 million cars off the road for a year. Learn more about how common wastes and materials, including food and yard wastes, paper, metals, and electronics, contribute to MSW generation and how they can be recycled.
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Bleed lines are often misunderstood. Fundy contributed this helpful guide to better understand them when designing your book. Feel free to ask any questions or leave your comments at the end of this article.
An album reprint can be a costly mistake, going well into the hundreds of dollars. Know what bleed lines and cut lines are, can keep you from making this costly mistake. Album companies have a few different names for them, but mostly they are known as bleed lines, guidelines or cut lines.
Why they are important?
Ever wonder how album companies get all the pages to line up perfectly when they bind their books? How the heck do they do that? The simple answer is that they dont. Its impossible to get pages to line up with each other, especially when theyve been folded in half and glued together.
After gluing all of the pages together, and before putting on the cover, album companies use a large guillotine cutter to lop off the rough edges. This is where those guidelines come in. Album companies say, hey, if you keep your photos inside of this line, they wont be lopped off. But what does this really mean when you are designing?
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In this little tutorial, well make it very easy to understand. Follow these simple rules and youll never make a mistake.
1. Never line a photo up right on the line.
Album makers cant guarantee where the cut will be. They can only guarantee that it will be somewhere between the edge of the paper and the guideline.
2. Never go just over the line.
If you think youll be safe by going just over the line. You are wrong. You could still end up with a strange white edge because the album company cut just before the edge of the photo.
3. Never get too close to the edge.
If the album company does cut right on the line, your photo will look pretty funny with that thin white border.
So, what do we do?
Well, here it is in two easy steps.
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White space is your friend. Stay well within the guides and let your photos breath a bit.
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Christopher Newport's softball players apparently resolved those nagging team-unity issues.
Asked if they were surprised to make the NCAA Division III championship tournament, teammates Jessie Atkinson, Jen Falin and Whitney Haller nodded simultaneously and vigorously.
One day removed from their four-day NCAA regional sweep, the Captains' trio — they were joined a few minutes later by Krista Townsend — was equal parts amazed and impressed with the team's performance last weekend in Salisbury, Md.
"We had so many new people this season, that in the beginning I don't think we bonded very well as a team," Atkinson said. "We didn't play very well at the beginning of the year, and there were times we didn't play very well during the season."
Someone flipped a switch after they crossed the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. The Captains were seeded fifth out of eight teams at the regional, yet were clearly the best bunch there.
Highlights included Falin's walk-off grand slam in the 13th inning for a 7-3 win against top-seeded and No. 2-ranked Emory, which previously had lost two games all season; Haller's complete-game pitching performance that gave Falin, a former Bruton High star, a chance to be the hero; Falin's second grand slam one day later, which was the deciding blow in a 7-3 win against host Salisbury; a 19-3 exclamation point Sunday versus the Sea Gulls that vaulted CNU to the D-III Elite Eight for the second consecutive season.
"I don't think I've seen our team play that well since I've been here," said Atkinson, the senior third baseman who leads the Captains in batting (.433), hits (55), home runs (15) and slugging (.843). "Last year's team was good, but we knew we were good. This was different. It wasn't just one person that stepped up, everybody stepped up."
Though CNU (35-10) ended up in the same place as a year ago, the journeys couldn't have been more different.
Last year's upperclass-heavy team was low-maintenance, internally motivated and policed, and competed as if on a mission. This year's squad was at times a study in collective attention-deficit disorder.
Credit that to youth and players being asked to assume new roles. By the end of the season, the Captains fielded an everyday lineup that included four freshmen and a sophomore. The sophomore tandem of Townsend and Haller rotated on the mound and took the place of all-conference hurler Kristen Rowe.
"Every team has ups and downs and faces periods of adversity," CNU coach Keith Parr said. "Some are shorter than others. We had prolonged periods this year. … We were searching. It was a little more of a roller-coaster ride."
Understand that the Captains' shortcomings and criticisms are relative — products of high expectations and sustained excellence.
CNU has been to five consecutive NCAA tournaments under Parr, whose teams have won at a tidy 78-percent clip and have won at least 33 games per season during the present stretch.
The Captains finished atop the USA South conference regular-season standings and won 16 consecutive games late in the season.
"I still don't feel like we played great softball," Atkinson said. "We just did enough things to win."
As if to drive home Atkinson's point, the win streak came to an end in the conference tournament, where the Captains lost back-to-back games to a Shenandoah team they had beaten handily three times prior.
"One of those days," Parr said.
The Captains then had more than three weeks to stew about the losses, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise. They finished classes and exams, had some team time and me time, and were able to focus on softball without the backdrop of school — especially valuable for the younger players.
Where last year's team was consistently stout and seemed to run out of gas at the nationals, this year's group has a vibe that the last couple of months was preparation and that forces are converging at the right time.
It doesn't hurt that the nationals are at the Moyer Complex in Salem, which is relatively close to home for most of the players and a site at which many of them have competed in the past.
"From the beginning of the season, the national championship is always our goal," Atkinson said. "I think if we play like we did this past weekend, I don't know that anybody can beat us."
Something else they all agree upon.
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Correction: The article misquoted the owner of the composting company, Jeremy Brosowsky, as saying: "It's not about waste production. It's about food production." The first sentence of that quotation should have read: "It's not about waste reduction." This version has been updated.
Jeremy Brosowsky never pictured himself in the garbage business. A serial entrepreneur, he is 39, with an Ivy League degree and a stint at Goldman Sachs on his résumé. But when he turned his attention to sustainable agriculture, he realized that what Washington needed most wasn't another urban farm. It was compost — rich, organic matter to enrich city soils — for the city farms already out there.
Trash, even "good" trash like compost, is not usually appetizing enough to make it into the pages of the Food section. But this column's mission is to highlight businesses that fill the gaps in the sustainable-food chain. Composting is one of them: Americans generate 250 million tons of garbage every year. Nearly a third of what is sent to the landfill could be composted but instead sits in an airless hole where it decomposes and releases methane, a dangerous greenhouse gas.
"I don't think of it as the garbage business," Brosowsky said. "I'm in the magic business. As I tell my kids, 'I turn garbage into food.' "
Brosowsky remembers the date when he had his eureka moment about composting. On March 21, 2010, he was in Milwaukee at Growing Power, one of the country's most successful urban farms, where he hoped to learn enough to start his own rooftop garden in Washington. On a compost run — a trip to a bakery, a cafe and several other locations to pick up food scraps — he realized just how inefficient it was for the farmer to drive from place to place, often waiting an hour or more between pickups. Suddenly, he had an idea: Farms need materials to produce compost. And people need stuff picked up. Putting those together is natural. On the spot, Brosowsky sat down and wrote up the outline of his business plan. Using Growing Power's shaky WiFi connection, he registered the domain name CompostCab.com.
For $32 a month, Compost Cab gives each customer a countertop collection basket and an airtight bin, lined with a sturdy, compostable bag, to minimize smells and keep away rodents, always a worry with composting. Customers fill the bin with kitchen scraps such as banana peels, coffee grounds or vegetable trimmings. If it grows, it goes, is the company rule.
Each week, Compost Cab picks up the bag, leaving behind a clean bin with a new liner. It delivers the waste to urban farms, including Eco City Farms in Edmonston (near Hyattsville) and the Washington Youth Garden at the National Arboretum, which use the material to improve their soil and grow more food. It also works with commercial clients including the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill and Qualia Coffee in Northwest Washington.
"As composting becomes more mainstream, my job is to make sure that some significant piece of the stream gets captured for urban farms," Brosowsky says.
For Kate Hill, a caterer and self-described "foodie," subscribing to Compost Cab was a no-brainer. She had been giving her scraps to a neighbor with a compost pile, but that ended quickly when rodents became a problem. "It killed me to see how much I was returning to the trash," she said. "There was no reason that it shouldn't go someplace that it can do some good, rather than sitting in a landfill in a plastic bag."
The company has converted city residents who otherwise might not have considered composting, including Doug Rand, a policy adviser at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He doesn't garden, and he doesn't have a back yard. He wanted to compost but he wasn't interested in collecting trash and driving it each week to a dropoff: "Until Compost Cab arrived, there was no way to do it unless you were a zealot." If it weren't so easy, he wouldn't do it, he said.
To date, with no marketing save a few postings on local listservs, Compost Cab has recruited 350 residential customers. Seventy-five percent of customers continue to subscribe after one year. Each week, Compost Cab delivers about two tons of compostable material to local farms. Next month, the company will begin to offer service in Baltimore. Brosowsky says he hopes to add six more cities, possibly including Brooklyn, Chicago and Charlottesville, in 2013.
Brosowsky admits that residential compost pickup is only a short-term business. In the long run, it makes sense for cities and towns to pick up organic waste along with garbage and recycling as they do in San Francisco, where city trucks collect 600 tons of compostable material each day. Washington's Sustainable DC task force, which aims to make the city the "greenest" in the nation, is discussing options for composting, though no formal plans have been announced. In the meantime, Brosowsky is working to prove to municipalities that composting makes sense.
In University Park, he helped to run a 50-home pilot project for the town council, which was interested in composting as a way to reduce methane production. After a six-month test, all but one participant recommended the service, said Chuck Wilson, program director for University Park's Small Town Energy Project, which oversaw the pilot. During that time, each house contributed between eight and 10 pounds of kitchen waste. The only whisper of a complaint was that customers wanted bigger buckets so they could compost more.
University Park plans to expand the program to include 150 homes, 20 percent of the town's households. With triple the number of families, the town will be diverting three tons of food scraps each month from the local landfill. Remarkably, the cost of the program is no more than paying to dump the town's waste, Wilson estimates.
"We wouldn't be here if Jeremy hadn't pushed us down this road," Wilson said. "He wasn't working with us to try to get a bigger contract. He was trying to get composting to work."
There are still many challenges to making composting work. Urban farms can handle only so much waste. There is a dearth of commercial composting facilities big enough to handle large quantities of compostable material. (Right now, the closest one to Washington is in Wilmington, Del.)
But Brosowsky says he is convinced that if he can make composting simple enough for families, businesses and urban farms, it will be easy to sell. "It's not about waste reduction. It's about food production," he says. "Farm-to-table is great. But farm-to-table-to-farm is better."
Black, a former Food section staffer based in Brooklyn, writes Smarter Food monthly. Follow her on Twitter: @jane_black.


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(NAPSI)—The next time you turn on the faucet and fill a glass from a
household well, chances are you'll see crystal-clear, sparkling water.
There's a good reason for that: The ground is an excellent filter
for water, and groundwater—the source water for household
wells—is usually of better quality than surface water. This is
especially true when it comes to "turbidity," an opaqueness or
cloudiness in water caused by suspended matter.
When There's A Problem
When the water from a well is cloudy, it may be cause for concern. That
murkiness could indicate a breach in your well system. Such breaches could
affect the water's clarity, taste and odor—and even present a
health risk.
The suspended matter in turbid water can be both inorganic (matter other
than plant or animal) or organic. The size of suspended matter can range from
microscopic to coarse grains like sand.
If your
water looks like this, get it tested by a drinking water testing lab.
The Danger
Of greatest concern are disease-causing microorganisms such as bacteria,
viruses and protozoa. Groundwater may contain E. coli, giardia and
cryptosporidium, and cause physical symptoms that range from moderate to
severe gastrointestinal problems.
The Causes
Sometimes a breach in the well system can be at or near the surface, such
• A hole or break in the well casing
• A broken well cap
• Deteriorated grouting that has allowed surface runoff to
infiltrate the well.
Turbidity could also be due to a failing septic system that has overloaded
the groundwater with untreated or inadequately treated sewage. Shallower
wells tend to be more vulnerable to a failing septic system.
At other times, turbidity is related to well construction. After a well is
drilled and installed, it still needs what's known as "well
development." This process removes loose material resulting from the
drilling process. It leaves the borehole more clean, stable and permeable so
the water flows more freely into the well. Proper well development can
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water production.
How To Fix It
The first step toward a solution to turbidity is to have the water tested
by a drinking water testing laboratory. The lab can determine whether there
are any disease-causing microorganisms, and that could provide clues to their
Also, before considering water treatment for turbidity, a water well
system professional should inspect your well system. It's always better
to treat the cause of a water quality concern—particularly if it
presents a health risk—than to simply treat the result.
An inspection can determine whether the well has a breach, is dirty and
needs to be cleaned, needs to be developed, or is being affected by a failing
septic system.
If water treatment is necessary, a common approach is filtration.
Different types of filters include:
• A cartridge sediment filter installed in the service line before
the tap
• A back-washing sediment filter
• Reverse osmosis, in which water passes through a semipermeable
membrane to remove suspended or dissolved solids.
If turbid water contains microorganisms, filtration is important because
turbidity can impede water disinfection. Filtration and disinfection are
often used in tandem with filtration first, then disinfection.
When considering a filter, compare its specifications to your water test
results to make sure it's designed to treat what needs to be treated.
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or just that coming out of certain taps. This can make a big difference in
the system you choose.
Learn More
Use a water well system or water treatment system professional to install
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Continuous Integration (CI) Best Practices with SAP – Pipeline Suggestions
The practices described in the part CI/CD Practices are a good starting point for planning your delivery pipeline. But how can they be translated into a concrete Continuous Delivery (CD) landscape? Which components are needed and how does the overall CD process look like?
CI/CD pipeline
The recommended process flow starts with the change by a developer. This change is targeted to the main line in the source code management system. As outlined already in the CI/CD Practices part, it is highly recommended to implement a voter build including automatic tests as a gate keeper. This helps you to discover issues before they reach the main line.
When the change has passed the voter build and tests, it is merged into the main line. As a precondition for a merge, applying a 4-eyes principle by doing code reviews is a common practice. Gerrit for, example collects, feedback of human code reviewers together with voter build and test results in one common place as a prerequisite for the merge.
As a next step after the merge, the CI build is triggered automatically. It builds the change and thus checks the build integrity of the main line. The build is self-testing, that is, it contains automatic tests. With this step the Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline has been passed. The change has been integrated into the main line successfully.
When running a Continuous Delivery scenario, the requirements are much higher. The single change does not only have to be successfully integrated into the main line. After the qualification of every single change the product must still have a quality such that it could be released and deployed to production. To reach this, the change has to be deployed to an acceptance test system that by any means should correspond to the productive runtime system. Automation of the tests executed there should be done as far as possible, but also manual test steps might be executed. The deployment to the test system can be triggered either manually or by time schedule, the execution should be automated.
A change that has passed the acceptance tests is ready to be deployed to the production system. This last step in a CD process is still assumed to be triggered manually. The reason is that in most cases, a human, for example a release manager or application operator should explicitly decide whether to release the version.
CI/CD process actors
The actors in a typical CI/CD process implementing the process flow are basically the ones described below. The picture we are drawing is still a more or less high-level one. Actual implementations may deviate from it to a large extent by means of the selected components and their layout. Also, depending on the specific requirements of a concrete process, some of the components might not be required, but instead some others that are not described here.
The main actors are:
- The developer's workspace
- The developer who creates changes.
- He works in his local workspace: either locally with IDE and build tools and runtime physically installed on his PC, or on the cloud with the Web IDE). The changes done by the developer are pushed to the source code management system.
- The CI/CD infrastructure
- The source code management system.
- A process orchestration system controlling the pipeline and providing transparency.
- A build scheduler managing build and test requests.
- Build tooling on build nodes, being the work horses in the process.
- Test tooling on test nodes for automated tests that do not require a runtime system.
- Artifact repository as storage of build results.
- Test tooling on test nodes for scenario and acceptance tests.
- Deploy tool for installing the application to runtime systems.
- Test runtime systems onto which the application is deployed for acceptance tests. These are explicitly parts of the CI/CD infrastructure.
- The Quality Manager responsible for the acceptance tests. He triggers the deployment to the test system.
- The productive runtime system.
- The delivery manager releasing the application and triggering the deployment to production.
CI/CD process flow
Voter Build
We will now describe in detail, how the actors described above interact with each other. We start with the local development and the voter build.
The developer first fetches the latest version from the main line. Based on this, the developer starts working locally resulting in a change. This change is pushed into the central source code management system. There are different solutions to keep this change first outside the main line to enable a voter build to check the change before it is actually being merged.
In the case of Gerrit, for example, the change is pushed into a virtual branch from where it is fetched by the voter build. In a GitHub landscape, a pull request with a separate branch for the feature in work could be used. The voter build is triggered whenever a commit is pushed into the branch.
The initiator of the voter build is shown here as Process Orchestrator. Which tool is used in a dedicated case depends on the implementation of the CI landscape. In a Gerrit/Jenkins landscape, this role is rather taken by Gerrit. Feedback messages always are sent from the Process Orchestrator to the developer to give him transparency on the process status of the change.
What happens in detail in the build is that first the source code is fetched. In this rather high level picture it is left open how the build scheduler is implemented. In many cases, it might be a distributed system in which the scheduling unit is different from the processing unit. This distinction is omitted here. In any case, the build tool triggered takes over the job to transform the sources into binaries or whatever form of artifacts. We assume here that unit tests are done in this build step. As soon as the build has finished, the artifacts are uploaded by the build tool to an artifact repository to be consumed by the next automatic process step, the test.
The test tool fetches the artifacts just uploaded from the artifact repository and runs the tests. Whether the testing scope for voter builds only contains component tests or, for example, a virtual runtime is instantiated on the fly for some runtime tests, depends on the requirements of each development team on the voter build process.
Whether a separate artifact repository is necessary in this step, depends highly on the concrete setup of the landscape and the process. In its role as exchange medium of build results, the artifact repository stores the artifacts for the test process that runs after the build. This is required especially when the build and the test on the runtime system are decoupled by means of the underlying machines. Some build controllers like Jenkins which we mainly use in our examples offers an archiving mechanism that could be used instead of a separate artifact repository. It can also be omitted in the case builds and tests are tightly coupled and are running for example on the same machine: the runtime tests could be part of the build process.
In addition to the technical validation of the change by a voter build, a code review by another person applying a 4-eyes principle might be desired.
It is good practice to define both - the voter build result and the assessment of the code reviewer - as prerequisites that must be fulfilled in order to let the change pass to the next stage, the merge into the main line.
Merge and CI Build
If the voter build was successful and all other prerequisites - like 4-eye code review - are fulfilled, the change can be merged into the main line. This could be done automatically or manually triggered by the developer himself, by the reviewer or even by a responsible person like the team architect. This depends on the policies that are established within the team. In the diagram below, the developer himself initiates the merge.
As soon as the merge into the main line is done, the CI build is triggered automatically. Now, from a technical point of view, similar things like in the case of the voter build happen: the change is built and automatically tested in an extend that makes sense for the CI process.
Now we have reached the point from where on the sequel processes differ in the two scenarios continuous delivery and continuous deployment. In the latter case, which is not in the focus of this guide, the application would be automatically released and deployed to production after having passed a successful CI build. But we stay in the realm of continuous delivery (CD) scenario.
We assume that the successfully built artifact still requires additional acceptance tests, which may include both automatic and manual parts but which are in general too exhaustive to be executed within the CI build.
The upload to the artifact repository has similar as in the case of the voter build the sole purpose to temporarily store the artifact for being fetched by sequel process steps.
Acceptance Test
The changes that have passed the CI build successfully are candidates for the acceptance tests. Usually not all candidates are tested since manual acceptance tests take time. Maybe they are scheduled on a daily basis, whereas changes entering the CI build may come in high frequency. One other thing is that the test system has to be kept stable during the test and must not be polluted by other changes coming in rather randomly during this time. Therefore we assume that the choice of a candidate and its deployment to the test system is a conscious action done by the quality manager or some other responsible person triggered by pressing a button. Alternatively, an automatism, which takes the last successfully CI built candidate and which is scheduled at a fixed time every day, could be implemented.
After pressing the button, the process orchestrator fetches the artifact in question from the artifact repository (or from where is it currently stored) and deploys it to the test system. Then, the person who is responsible to execute the test is notified and, if the acceptance test contains automatic parts, they may be started now as well.
The quality requirements that a software has to fulfill before it can be deployed to production are a topic that can fill a whole book. Going into the details will be far beyond the scope of this small best practices guide. For sure, the quality requirements and thus the scope of the tests to be executed to qualify a software to be ready-for-production depend on various things, like, for example, the size of the application, the technology, the complexity (is it a stand-alone application or does it run in a complex integration scenario), the consumer space (is the application open for any cloud user or is the access restricted to a small user group), and so on.
It therefore highly depends on the specific landscape which tests have to be executed and whether they can be automated or must be executed manually. Since one can think of different tests with completely different characteristics (functional tests versus performance tests), it could happen that more than one test system has to be used in parallel.
The following list gives you an idea of what could be part of a full-fledged qualification:
- Automated integration tests
- Manual scenario and acceptance tests
- Performance and scalability tests
- Globalization checks
- Security scans and IP scans (these usually operate on sources and hence could be part of the CI build)
- Translation
- Artifact signing
A software version that has successfully passed the acceptance test is ready to be instantly deployed to the productive system.
The Release
The release process controls how to bring an application version that was successfully qualified into production.
There are the two additional actors, the delivery manager and the production runtime system which come now into the game.
The delivery manager is responsible for the life cycle of the application and decides on the release of the software. He triggers the release through the process orchestrator. Two technical things happen: the artifact is put into the release state in the artifact repository and the installable archive is deployed to the productive system. We assume here that the deployment process on the production runtime system is automated as much as possible with the orchestrator as the unique entry point for any process triggering. The deploy tool which is called by the orchestrator downloads the artifact and deploys it to the production system. Success notifications are flowing back through the orchestrator to the application operator.
Further Remarks
What was shown in this part is only a proposal. You may use it as a CI process prototype implementation that can give you an idea of the implementation principles and a starting point for you to continue. It will for sure not be sufficient to serve all the specific requirements of the team, the product, or the QA strategy.
The implementation of the components you choose may differ from this proposal. Also the granularity of the actors just described may differ in a concrete setup. The separation between process orchestrator and build scheduler is not sharp and the aspect of process orchestration might move freely between the two actors. From a technical point of view it could be even the same component.
What concerns the developer and the application operator, so-called DevOps approaches eliminate their separation as well: for cloud applications, it is meanwhile state of the art for development units to be end-to-end responsible for their application. This starts with analysis, design, and prototyping and ends with deploying and operating the running application on the cloud.
When discussing the concrete setup of CI process landscapes for specific SAP technologies, we will also see aspects to be covered that were not yet part of the rather prototype-like process landscape just described.
Finally, any CD process must fit to the individual needs of the development team and the technological boundary conditions. We will explain later in part 4: CI/CD Process Setup how these aspects influence the design of the CI process and how this leads to adaptations of the prototype landscape.
What was discussed here so far is the process for integration into the main line. But as we have learned in section "Everything is under version control", it is possible to apply the process for feature branches as well. All what was said before applies to this case except that the "release" is not implemented as deployment into the production system but as push of the bundled changes made to the feature branch into the main line.


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Marcus Berg, owner & professional photographer at Unique Angles Photography, is returning to our Eastern Oregon bed and breakfast in early June to update our portfolio of high quality images. Sure, we can always capture images on our digital camera or our smartphones and they'll look fine on the Facebook page, but it's also important for the Bronze Antler Bed & Breakfast to have high quality "dense" images for magazines and other print advertising.
We're excited to have Marcus out with us for a few days. I know it'll be a lot of work. A good photo shoot involves lots of preparation. Beautiful flowers, a variety of props to dress up the guestrooms, a varied menu for food photography–and then there are things we can't quite control like great weather for exterior photos. The last time Marcus was here, he & I were up before the dawn to capture images of the bocce court in the north perennial garden of our Wallowa Lake lodging. Little did I know that watering the bocce court the night before meant I'd need to quickly spray down the rest of the gravel walkways at 5 am!
If you have a chance, take a look at our website photography and send us suggestions on which photos you think should be updated, What images should we capture that aren't on the website? What would best depict our romantic getaway Oregon style? Send your ideas to firstname.lastname@example.com and we'd love to incorporate your ideas.


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Imagine you're stranded for the rest of your life and only had five albums to listen to. (And never-ending batteries, I guess.) Which albums would you want them to be?
- Apollo (Atmospheres & Soundtracks) – Brian Eno
- Lifeforms – The Future Sound of London
- The Pavilion of Dreams – Harold Budd
- Neroli – Brian Eno
- Debussy for Daydreaming – Claude Debussy
The first three are obvious. Pleasant ambient atmospheres, melodic movements and layered grooves. If you question their place in this list you should probably be smacked hard on the cranium.
I had to include Neroli because I would have to have some form of background sonics to keep from going insane. You can leave Neroli on repeat for a week and it's fine. Elegant, simple melodic tones passing through the air.
The final album was a tough decision. I wanted a classical album and it was between Holst's The Planets and something by Claude Debussy. I love The Planets but, in the end, Debussy's themes won. I chose a compilation, Debussy for Daydreaming, because it's a good mix of Debussy's thematic work with a good combination of piano and full orchestral arrangements throughout. The arrangement and performance of Clair de lune alone is worth the price of this album.
I've picked music without lyrics because I think the same words would get old after a while. I'd much rather have the option to simply listen to the music or create my own lyrics and let them evolve over time into a meaningful statement of my situation.


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Yes, you can make your own fertilizers. The ultimate avid gardener recipe would be the recipe to make super good, organic fertilizers for your own use.
For some people, home gardening is an expensive pursuit. But at one time people gardened because homegrown produce was far better and cheaper than anything from the store. Any of the farmers of years ago knew, just like we know today, that to have healthy plants, you need healthy soil. An interesting Web site for "down home gardening" is backwoodshome.com.
One of the easiest and best low-cost methods for making your own fertilizer is to make seaweed fertilizer. Seaweed is a rich source of potassium so mixed with fish emulsion that it makes a great "pick me up" for garden plants. Follow the lead of gardeners from the Pacific Coast. Collect seaweed from our local beaches then place it all into a big 55-gallon drum. Fill the drum with water and cover it. In about two months, the seaweed will be fully decomposed. This liquid is then used as a concentrate. Dilute it with water and spray onto plants. It is a little smelly (fishy, ocean smell) for a couple of days, but your plants will love you!
Earthworm casting is another easy fertilizer to make. Rather than buy the castings, you could make an earthworm compost pit using kitchen scraps, grass clippings, leaves, etc. As it is processed by the earthworms, you soon have a rich, black garden amendment. Add compost in volumes of about 10 percent at a time.
Rabbit droppings are readily available, if you have rabbits or friends with rabbits. It is one of the best readily available fertilizers around. These droppings have the highest nitrogen content of any of the commonly available barnyard manures. These droppings are small, compact and nearly odorless. One organic gardener described them as "miniature, time released fertilizer capsules.
Save egg shells. They contain 93 percent calcium carbonate and 1 percent nitrogen. Save the eggshells in a pan in the oven or a container somewhere. Crush them by hand and powder them in the blender if you like. They are great to place around the base of fruit trees, in roses and in vegetable gardens. Snails don't like their sharp edges, either.
Coffee grounds are useful in the garden. They contain about 2 percent nitrogen, phosphoric acid, potash and trace elements. Plants which like acid food such as blueberries, evergreens, azaleas, roses, camellias, avocados and some fruit trees will love dried coffee grounds sprinkled at their base.
Follow the tricks of the gardeners and farmers of years ago and enjoy even healthier plants!
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We were given this sign and we really know nothing about it. There is no date on it. It is porcelain over metal and in perfect condition. We have it up in our store and have had several folks try to buy it. We don't want to sell it, we love it and want to know more about it.


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VCWS 5 Clerical Comprehensions and Aptitude
Purpose: To assess a variety of clerical work skills, including those required in mail sorting, filing, telephone answering, and bookkeeping. The work sample simulates sedentary and light work and makes the following physical demands upon the evaluee: reaching, handling, fingering, hearing, near acuity, depth perception, and accommodation. General learning ability, verbal aptitude, numerical aptitude, clerical perception, motor coordination, finger dexterity, and manual dexterity are called for to perform the work sample exercises at a competitive level.
The work sample elicits information on several work-related characteristics, including the ability to follow instructions, concentration skills, communication skills, decision-making skills, and self-confidence, among others.
Design: Hands-on work sample in two main sections with six exercises. Work sample sections may be administered independently. A grounded 110v outlet is required.
Special Features: Scores may be interpreted against criterion-referenced standards or locally developed norms. The work sample is appropriate for use with disabled or nondisabled persons.
Information Collected: The exercises of the work sample have been analyzed according to U.S. Department of Labor job analysis techniques. The analyses resulted in four lists of rated DOL work-related abilities and other factors that are required for successful exercise performance, called the Worker Qualifications Profiles or WQPs.
Valpar uses Methods-Time Measurement (MTM) to establish industrial work rate standards for the work sample exercises. For two of the exercises, learning curve adjusted error and work rate (in seconds) scores are used to determine whether the evaluee has demonstrated the WQPs. Unadjusted MTM standards are also provided to analyze single and multiple administrations of the exercises.
Procedures: In their standard format, the work sample exercises take approximately 40 minutes to administer.
The Mail Sorting exercise is the first of the three exercises of the General Clerical section and simulates the job of sorting office mail into designated mail boxes. The evaluee reads the names and titles of addressees on 100 cards and sorts them as appropriate.
The second exercise of the General Clerical section is Alphabetical Filing. This exercise requires the evaluee to file 100 addressed cards into a file box alphabetically.
The third exercise of the General Clerical section is the Telephone Answering exercise, which is administered simultaneously with the first two exercises. A tape recorder plays and periodically interrupts the work. When the "telephone" rings, the evaluee must stop working and record information onto telephone message forms.
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This is Pradip bhatt. My requirement is like this that I have so many classes for my application. I have so many common fields for different different model classes. So I have made four Common Base classes as per my requirement. Although I am not satisfying with this.
I heard and read about Java DEsign Pattern. But I do not think so it will become helpful for me.
So... What i s the solution for this in which I have get functinality that whtever I like and i can extend it??
Mind it all that common classes have only common field (hibernate) so based on it i have to generate database table.


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As announced on last week's platform meeting, this week we would like to disable tp4 as we have been running tp5 side by side and without issues*.
We have not heard any concerns on disabling tp4 so we will do so on Thursday June 30th.
If you have anything to add please do so at bug 664831.
* The only issues were to adjust tbpl and compare-locales to show tp5 which are fixed
This work by Zambrano Gasparnian, Armen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.


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I would like to introduce you to William Weir Bridges and his new bride, Lenna May White. As I continue to scan photos for others, this one caught my attention for some reason and I wanted to make it available here.
I really do not know anything about them other than their names. Some quick research tells me William Weir Bridges was born 15 April 1891 in Ogden, Weber, Utah and died 9 May 1959 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. He is buried in Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah although I do not know which cemetery. This photo is likely in the collection because Will's mother is Janet Fyfe (aka Fife)(1873-1953), half-sister to Agnes Fyfe (1903-1994) as referenced by Dale Vern Ashcraft. I have also written of another sister, Charlotte Fyfe.
Lenna "Lena" May White was born 30 March 1898 in Salt Lake City and died 7 June 1974 in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah. She is also buried in Sandy. The two married 1 July 1915 in the Salt Lake City LDS Temple. This photo was likely taken near their wedding date.