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Saturday 6th August, 2005
Hiroshima - 60th Anniversary - prepared and presented by John Milce. 60 years ago to-day an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. To commemorate this event, to-days program is dedicated to anti war songs.
Saturday 13th August, 2005
It's Folk Festival time in the UK - prepared and presented by John Penhallow. Today's programme features a selection of live in concert performances from Fairport Convention, Richard Thompson, The Albion Band, Chris While + Julie Matthews and Show of Hands.
Saturday 20th August, 2005
From Rivers to Rogues - prepared and presented by Patricia Early. The Irish have some lovely songs about their rivers and some humorous songs about their rogues.
Saturday 27th August, 2005
As I Roved Out - prepared and presented by Carol Garland. Carole Garland presents folk material that celebrates going on journeys, and the sometimes awful results thereof.
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You guys think it's cause of the aero package that made the 600 not so good?
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I think the track is more of a problem then the package. Hell, Indycar couldn't produce a good race on it back in the day. Charlotte is too narrow for the racing it wants to do. So there is not enough passing on it. I would rather take a math standardized test, then watch a race at Charlotte.
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True... they need to go to a different track each year then you don't expect how it'll be each yearMr.YAMP wrote:Charlotte is a great track. As well it's on Memorial Day for a reason Scott. Here's the thing the racing was awesome last weekend for the All-Star. What changed? The All-Star race gave drivers and teams a chance to adapt their cars to the track. Furniture Row adapted the best. Otherwise it might of been like last week. I think if anything should be moved it's the All-Star and maybe to a track that's not on schedule.
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When you have the keys to your car, the world is your oyster. Having a reliable vehicle allows you to travel and often earn a living. However, it also includes certain responsibilities such as performing preventative maintenance on your vehicle and paying for repairs. The tips in this article are going to help you to get your car back into great shape.
You don't always need a mechanic when your car is having problems. You can easily learn to perform small repairs yourself. If you are game, consider doing some online research to diagnose the issue. Simple repairs that do not require special tools can be done by yourself, and can save you money.
Each time you get your vehicle repaired, no matter what the reason, be sure you have a record of it. Future problems can be easily solved when auto technicians have access to past records. Without records, you might have to pay higher costs due to taking longer to find the problem.
Take out all of the valuable items in your car when it is being repaired. The mechanic may need to remove these items in order to do their job, and they are not responsible if you find out later that something is missing. Also, remove everything from the trunk.
Fixing a headlight or a taillight by yourself is very easy. It's easy in some vehicles, and it's a lot cheaper than having someone else do it. Ask someone you trust if he can teach you how to fix these problems.
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Named after a wedge monitor speaker that you'd get onstage at a gig, the Wedge.js library is designed for people who want very simple audio playback – no fancy effects, only loading and playing and looping sounds. It's targeted at cross-platform development, to make it easy to target both desktop and mobile HTML5 apps.
This means you can write your HTML5 application to play sound using Wedge.js, and if accelerated audio is available through Cordova, that will be used. Otherwise, it will fall back to Buzz! by Jay Salvat. This means you can develop on your desktop and still hear audio, while still getting the benefits of low latency when you compile.
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It was a pleasure to meet with eight local businesses operating within the Cities of London and Westminster, all of whom have participated in the 10,000 Small Businesses scheme run by Goldman Sachs. This scheme looks to equip small business leaders with the skills and tools they need to allow them to turn potential growth into real and tangible success, to the benefit of themselves, their employees and the wider economy. This is done through a programme of tuition and specialist training provided by Goldman Sachs together with leading UK universities.
The roundtable, held in the delicious surrounds of Paul A Young Fine Chocolates in Soho, brought together small business leaders operating in a variety of industries including the medical and bio-tech sectors, recruitment, social mobility, property development and translation services. It was fascinating to learn about the expertise that these business leaders have gained from the 10,000 Small Businesses initiative and the growth that their businesses have undergone in recent years.
Many spoke of the way that their ambitions and aspirations had been developed during the programme, and were able to capitalise on this once they had completed the course. Essentially they had been given the tools they needed to help their businesses reach their full potential. In one case, a representative reported their business' turnover was forecast to grow by 200% in each of the next three years, an astonishing rate of growth. Additionally all present told of how they had taken on, retained and trained many new members of staff.
Whilst, of course, Brexit remains firmly in the back of their minds as they plan for the coming years, what struck me was the way in which they remained full of optimism and belief in the future. Many spoke of looking to set up offices in other countries, from Central America to south-east Asia, as well as growing their abilities to export to new markets. Not only this, but the high regard in which they all held the scheme stood out, together with the way in which their shared participation had created a brand new community of which they were proud to be a part of, to share ideas and to learn and grow together.
London is a competitive market place (anyone who has established a business at any time in the last thirty years or so here will know that all too well) but what resonated with me was how each of the businesses present was willing to take chances to grow and expand, but also to take the time to invest in their people and develop their skills. They were all fine examples of the entrepreneurial spirit which some say has been dampened in recent years. On this evidence, such assessments are clearly wide of the mark.
I would like to pay tribute to the fine work done by all those involved in the 10,000 Small Businesses scheme, which has helped to develop and support all manner of SMEs from across the UK. If this is something you or anyone you know might be interesting in enrolling on, do follow the below link:


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When the entire smartphone industry was doling out phones with the biggest of screens, Apple stuck to its principles and continued with 4-inch displays, citing reasons of convenience and better handling.
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When the entire smartphone industry was doling out phones with the biggest of screens, Apple stuck to its principles and continued with 4-inch displays, citing reasons of convenience and better handling.
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Steve Jobs was famous for dissing phones with mammoth screens and it was probably his stubbornness that made Apple stay behind the competition purely in the display size department. But that all ended with the iPhone 6, which became the first iPhone to house a 4.7-inch display. Users who wholly supported Apple's previous principle were left a tad bit disappointed. Not everyone wants a mini-phablet in their pockets. Some of these users stuck to the reliable iPhone 5S while others turned to the Sony Xperia Z Compact range and other compact models.
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So when rumours started flying that Apple had never really forgotten it's loyal compact phone fan-base and that a four-inch sequel to the phenomenal iPhone 5S was in the works, people rejoiced. Now it turns out that the rumour might be true after all. If sources are to be believed, Apple is all set to announce a new compact iPhone called the iPhone 5SE. The announcement may come by the 15th of March this year. The new iPhone would be a direct follow-up to the iPhone 5S with pretty similar looks. The new smartphone will have curved edges, a four-inch screen, and dimensions similar to the 5S. Apple has reportedly revamped the hardware, with the 5SE device sporting the new A9 processor, a new and improved camera, and support for Apple Pay. It will also reportedly support Live Photos, a feature seen in the Apple iPhone 6 and later models.
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In order to keep the price affordable, the new device may not have Force Touch support in its display. Most of the other features will be similar to the iPhone 6S. It will be available in the same colours as the iPhone 5S, that is Silver, Gold and Space Grey. The price is rumoured to be in the same range as the iPhone 5S.
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Even though there is no official announcement from Apple, most of us are keeping our fingers crossed for them to announce the iPhone 5S. Such a device is ideal for those of us who want something similar to the 5S but do not want to go for the newer models.
A smaller frame and screen would also mean the device would cost less and will have better ergonomics than the iPhone 6 and later models.


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French badminton enters a new era with performance in Thomas Cup
New Delhi, May 22 (IANS): It was a new beginning in the history of French badminton when their men's team qualified for the Thomas Cup quarter-finals in their debut appearance.
Though the team lost 1-3 to Japan in the last eight clash here Thursday at the Siri Fort Sports Complex, they leave India on a high.
Considered minnows, the French were thrashed 0-5 by defending champions China in their Group D opener but came back strongly to defeat Asian powerhouse Chinese Taipei 3-2 and toppled one of the top European teams Russia 3-2 to qualify for the quarter-finals.
"It is a really great performance by us to reach the quarter-finals in our debut appearance. Of course we are a bit sad as we could have made it a bit tougher for Japan. But playing for the first time made us give out everything we had and I can't blame anyone for being tired," France's No.1 singles player Brice Leverdez told IANS.
"This is a great achievement for France and it means we are in the top-8 of the world as a men's team. The media and youngsters back home will see that we can do by reaching the highest level in the world. This is good for the future of French badminton," added the World No.31.
France's first doubles shuttler Gaetan Mittelheisser believes that this performance will create an impact for the sport in a country dominated by football.
"We are happy with our result. Badminton is starting to get popular now with the help of our federation. But it is still nowhere close to popular sports like football, handball and rugby. I hope this is a beginning of a new story," Mittelheisser told IANS.
Leverdez concurred that the performance will help create a bigger space for the sport in the minds of the French.
"We have a small place for shuttlers in France. Badminton is not that popular but it is growing with a lot more people taking up the sport. Since we never had big results, the media didn't care but this performance will make an impact for the future," said Leverdez.
The Frenchman also accomplished a new personal feat when he defeated Japan's World No.4 Kenichi Tago, his first win over a top-10 player. He gave a winning start to his team but his teammates went on to lose the next three matches to end their campaign Thursday.
"I was looking for a win over a top-10 player for a long time so I am really happy this happened. It still hasn't sunk in. Every time I had a chance to beat a top-10 player I lost but today I made it. I put in everything I had," added Leverdez.


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N.S. man sues Scouts in child sex-abuse case
Alleged perpetrator committed suicide before trial
A Nova Scotia man has filed a lawsuit against Scouts Canada alleging the group failed to do enough to protect him from a scout leader molesting him.
The 40-year-old former boy scout alleges in the lawsuit that his scout leader, Donald George Schweyer, sexually abused him repeatedly over more than two years in the 1980s while he was a scout in Lunenburg County.
The allegations have not been proven in court. Schweyer was criminally charged in 2007 for sex abuse involving five boys, but committed suicide at the age of 57, just days before his trial.
"There's no other options left I guess. He's not here to face justice," says the plaintiff, whose identity is covered by a publication ban. "I figure if you don't make them pay, nobody's ever going to ever stop this stuff from happening to other people."
A CBC investigation unearthed the lawsuit while searching court cases across the country. It's one of 24 civil cases involving dozens of plaintiffs that have been filed against Scouts Canada since 1995, for incidents dating from the 1960s to the '90s.
More than half of the cases were quietly settled out of court, many involving confidentiality agreements barring plaintiffs from discussing the settlement.
The Nova Scotia lawsuit, filed in 2008, is one of a handful of civil cases still underway.
The statement of claim, filed against Scouts Canada and Schweyer's estate, alleges that the abuse took place while Schweyer was a scout leader in the Mill Cove area. It happened near the former Canadian Forces Station Mill Cove where Schweyer was a navy medic.
The lawsuit claims the organization failed to take adequate steps to discipline and terminate Schweyer when it knew or ought to have known that abuse was occurring.
In a statement of defence, the Scouts have denied all claims and argue that the lawsuit is outside limitation.
'Call it despair'
The former scout first met Schweyer in 1983, when he was 12 years old and part of the small Mill Cove Scout troop.
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"He seemed nice at first," said the man. "Kind, and just like a regular person."
Soon, though, the Scout leader was allegedly molesting him during camp outings and during meetings at his house, he says.
When he joined the troop, the former boy scout says Schweyer used the pretence of a physical exam to strip him down and fondle him.
Another time, he says he awoke to find Schweyer's mouth on his genitals. "I couldn't believe what was going on," said the man. "I just felt I guess you'd call it despair."
For years, the former scout struggled with drug and alcohol addiction. Twenty years passed before he finally told his mother in 2005 about the repeated abuse.
Scouts Canada declined to comment about the lawsuit or any other possible civil cases against Schweyer.
"I do not have any information or insight that I can provide you on this," Scouts Canada's spokesman John Petitti said in an email.
Scouts Canada has stated that the organization's current policy is to immediately suspend volunteer leaders when a complaint is made and report accusations of abuse to police and child protection authorities.
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There's always a story behind a pair of knitted socks….
For the last three months, in part due to the severe stress/difficulties alluded to in previous posts, I've found myself suffering with recurrent and severe tonsillitis. As soon as I recovered from one case, it would come straight back. It has twice led to hospitalisation with IV antibiotics, steroids and painkillers. Quite honestly, I've never felt so unwell but the good news is that I'll be undergoing a tonsillectomy soon and the tonsils won't be around for much longer.
This pair of socks was cast on whilst I was lying in a hospital bed, slowly starting to feel better as the drugs snaked through my bloodstream. I am quite proud of the fact I managed to knit with an IV in my arm that required it to be kept straight. The nurses were impressed. Or maybe they thought I was a bit mad/delirious, I don't know but working on these helped me to get through the night in a ward so noisy that sleep was nigh on impossible.
Plain stockinette stitch. Heel flap. An easy, reliable classic.
The yarn is Schoeller+Stahl Fortissima Mexiko in shade 9072. Found in the depths of my deepest, darkest sock stash following a rash purchase inspired by a pair knitted by the Yarn Harlot.
A man's UK size 11+, they've been given to the guy I'm dating: The South African (referred to as TFA from now on). He looked very confused when I presented him – bursting with knitterly pride – a pair of handknitted socks on one of the hottest weeks of the year, but he eventually came to it when I reminded him that an English summer is soon over. He gets bonus points for approving the colourfulness.
How has Monday been for you?
I've got to say that I'm very glad the day is over, and to be sat here working on (yet another) another pair of socks with a glass of wine in my hands. It doesn't matter how long I've been working for: Mondays do not get any easier….
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On behalf of the Unsworth family and Bridgeport Realty, Fotenn was a key part of the multi-disciplinary team that organized the phased development plan for two parcels of land flanking both sides of McRae Avenue, south of the Scott Street intersection in Ottawa.
In addition to our role in the development and design plan, Fotenn also led all municipal planning approvals for the development within Ottawa.
This high profile redevelopment will take place within the vibrant community of Westboro Village, mere steps from the Westboro Transit Station and Ottawa River. The comprehensive development involves redesigning McRae Street into a pedestrian-friendly thoroughfare. Phase 1 of the development will accommodate residential condominium units above the relocated Alterna Bank as well as a new Farm Boy retail food store. Upcoming development phases will entail additional retail, office and residential uses in the area.
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The Fair Credit Reporting Act
The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) was originally passed in 1970 to protect consumer rights related to credit. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is now responsible for enforcing the terms and conditions of The Fair Credit Reporting Act. The FCRA sets guidelines for the collection and reporting of consumer information between consumer reporting agencies, individuals, lenders, and employers. All parties involved work to preserve the integrity of creditor information.
Consumer Reporting Agencies
Consumer reporting agencies (CRAs) serve as the intermediary between consumers, lenders, and employers. The CRA collects financial and personal information that is applicable to consumers and disseminates the data to interested parties. Americans will recognize the three major consumer-reporting agencies as Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. The aforementioned consumer reporting agencies are not to be confused with credit rating agencies Standard and Poor's and Moody's that are more so instrumental to the functioning of financial markets.
Collecting Consumer Information
The basic credit report carries information related to address, employment, lawsuits, arrests, and most importantly, financial transactions dealing with credit. Lenders generally furnish information to credit bureaus monthly.
Total consumer credit will be categorized into type, creditor, individual amount and payment history. Credit reporting agencies will then use Fair Isaac Corporation models to generate a FICO, or credit score, to determine an applicant's credit worthiness.
Distributing Consumer Information
Lenders, employers and even insurance companies analyze the credit information of prospective borrowers, employees, and clients. Interested parties review credit reports to determine the risk levels associated with doing business with particular individuals. Financial institutions will routinely check credit reports, prior to approving loans and setting interest rates for mortgages and car payments.
Insurance companies and employers have also emerged to check personal credit reports as an indicator of character. An unfavorable credit report may very well be the difference between who out of two highly qualified candidates actually receives a job offer.
Correcting Errors
Credit report errors may be due to either misreported information out of lenders and banks, or outright and fraud and identity theft at the hands of scam artists. Criminals often use the Internet as a tool to steal personal information and open up accounts that go unpaid. Erroneous credit reporting will lead to higher interest rate charges or the rejection of loan applications.
Consumers should view reports from all three major credit-reporting agencies to reconcile information and check for errors. Consumers will contact the CRA and information furnisher in order to dispute any false data. Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion all supply online correction forms to help people file disputes.
Your Rights as A Consumer
The Fair Credit Reporting Act was originally intended to protect consumers by influencing financial institutions to gauge default risk, irrespective of race or gender. Americans maintain rights to ensure that information is reported accurately and on time.
The Federal Trade Commission has set guidelines limiting the amount of time that bankruptcies and liens can remain upon an American's credit report. Further, disputes must be addressed, proven or disproven within 30 days.
The FTC has also established mandatory language that must be communicated by lenders to consumers – notifying them in regards to adverse decisions. Information furnishers must issue statements to consumers before and after submitting negative information to credit reporting agencies.
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September 18, 2018 Podcasts
Dan, Ryan and Tom are back with a preview of week 4 of the college football season. The show begins with an analysis of Florida State's struggles and Dan's idea for how they can turn things around. Then they make picks for the biggest games of the week, including Alabama vs. Texas A&M, Wisconsin vs. Iowa, Florida vs. Tennessee and many more. We end with a brief debate over which franchise is more dysfunctional, Dan's Pittsburgh Steelers or Tom and Ryan's Buffalo Bills.
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New Town is one of St. Charles glowing and most desirable places to live.
With easy access to St. Louis for work and play, New Town is a quiet suburb perfect to come home to after a long day of work or social adventures in the region. This well-thought-out neighborhood plays up the family and social calendar that most families appreciate from a tight-knit community.
New Town Topography
One of the most unique features of this neighborhood is how developers built the community to ebb and flow among landscaping and waterways. Its canal-like features make for an ideal place for young ones to explore while walking and biking paths offer easy and safe access to the entire neighborhood. Large open fields allow families to gather or serve as the perfect location for a neighborhood game of tag or flag football. Kids will never be bored with plenty of playgrounds scattered throughout the city.
Inside New Town – The Neighborhood
Gone is the time you have to travel miles to merely send a package or attend a city hall meeting, both can happen right onsite at New Town. In fact, with features like the Swim Club, the expansive Pool Club, restaurants, bars, shops, concerts, and family-friendly events, most people won't have to leave the community for much.
The neighborhood offers plenty of chances to meet new residents and even opportunities to learn new things with workshops and camps. They take safety seriously with things like regular tornado drills and winter advisory notices all of which can be found on their vibrant Facebook page.
Businesses at New Town in St. Charles
New Town doesn't just have "fun" businesses, but also those that allow residents to keep up with day to day life responsibilities. This includes a barber shop, dog grooming, event spaces, gyms and fitness studios, hair salons, insurance services, photography, printing services, financial services, grocery, and religious options.
Having all of these things at your fingertips as a resident makes daily living, in a bustling world, easy to maintain along-side residents who work together. The sense of pride of living in the community, with residents participating and patronizing local business, makes for a vibrant community atmosphere.
New Town St Charles Real Estate
Homes in New Town range from one bedroom lofts starting at $99,500 to four bedroom homes just over $400,00, so the possibilities are everything in between. The architectural features of each home play into the traditional Midwest farmhouse almost as an homage to the area being the gateway into the westward expansion. The neighborhood was even more recently featured in Southern Living magazine.
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We are based in Toronto.
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text: Onward to the Tuamotus 7/9/2017 rgoldberg 1729 views Our 500 mile 72 hour trip to the Tuamotus was uneventful, except for a series of squalls. The first was the fiercest, packing winds in the low 40's. Nancy is glad she slept through it. This interlude did demonstrate that putting the storm plates back on the port side was a good idea, as this squall came from the port side. Putting the plates on was a bit of tour de force, as we no longer had Sean's help. We spent some time figuring out how to actually get the plates on, preferably without dropping one into Daniel's Bay. We only had two to install, as we'd only removed the ones on the opening windows when we arrived in Nuku Hiva, to give us more ventilation. Then we still had the big dink, which has higher pontoons than the little one, so someone could stand on it and reach the top of windows. The little dink can't manage that. So installing the windows meant lowering them down the side of the boat, using a block and tackle. Once each plate was in place, Ron walked along the edge of the salon (Duet is a wide body, so we have no walkway on the port side, just a 3-4 inch ledge under the windows) and installed the upper bolts, while Nancy managed the block and tackle to keep the plate still. We have Sean to thank for the walking method, he demonstrated it when we removed the plates upon our arrival in Nuku Hiva. The lower bolts were installed from the small dink. Initially, Nancy towed the dink up Duet's port side, with Ron in it, and secured it, so Ron could have both hands free to put the bolts in. This didn't work really well, as there was enough chop in Daniel's Bay that every time Ron let go of Duet to do up a bolt, the dink went up, down and sideways. The bolts have to be lined up just so to work. To make matters worse, one of the plates we were installing has one bolt that is a little off, so it requires some serious jiggling to get it squared away. Given the conditions, jiggling was not in Ron's repertoire that day. So Nancy also got in the dink, after tying off the window to the boat deck rail, as a backup just in case. The problem with this is then there was no one to then tow the dink alongside the boat, and there are few handholds there. Fortunately, the flopper pole was deployed on that side, so we used it for leverage to get the dink most of the way forward to the subject window. Nancy then lassoed the base of the pole with the dink bow line and pulled us into position, after we tied off the stern. We can't imagine what this looked like to the other boats in the anchorage, but we can say that it worked, the plates were securely on, no one got hurt and, almost as importantly, given the state of the water, no one fell in, nor did we sink a plate. It did take most of a day to do, and it was pretty hot, so beers were issued earlier than usual that night. Our trip from the Marquesas to the Tuamotus and our cruising on Tahanea are depicted in the following video. The blog text describes our experiences in more detail. Cruising Tahanea We were bound for the Tahanea Atoll in the Tuamotus, which is an uninhabited national park. We arrived at the pass right on time, which was good. One of the tricks to the Tuamotus is managing the passes, they are narrow and the current can flow quickly. We've seen this before in BC and Alaska, but in the Tuamotus there is no current information. It turned out that our C-Map charts were quite accurate as far as the tides go, but it took us some time to figure that out. We had time, waiting in the Marquesas, so by the time we left we were pretty confident with our timing at this first pass. That said, it was nice to see a calm entrance when we arrived. Tahanea is one of the easier passes in the Tuamotus, it is straight, deep and oriented NE, as is Tahanea. We had winds and seas from the SE. The night we came into the Tuamotu Archipelago was a bit squally, but between the radar and the charts we did OK. The charts were spot on with trafficked atolls, but not so good with those that aren't visited. Fortunately the radar doesn't know the difference, so it got every one. Most of the targets in the shot below are squalls, but one may be an atoll. Atolls don't move, and have a characteristic shape. As an aside, on this trip we have also been using Google Earth satellite pictures, as a backup to the chart. A kind Nordhavn owner explained to us how to load these, which we do with a fast connection when we are home. Coastal Explorer can display a split screen with the C-Map chart on one side and the satellite photo on the other, so you can see where the boat is in real time against both the chart and the photo. This is quite helpful, unless there happens to be a lot of cloud cover when satellite passes overhead. We have found the C-Map charts to be quite accurate so far in the South Pacific. We also run Navionics on Nancy's iPad. These charts turn out to better detail on the coral heads inside the Tuamotu Atolls than the C-Maps do, more on this below. After entering the pass with no drama, we anchored in an area recommended by the Compendium, just to the west of the pass. There were several boats there. We did some boat chores and generally had a quiet day. The next day we were pondering the weather and where to go, as one of the disadvantages in any atoll in the Tuamotus is that you have to move around to gain shelter from whatever wind is blowing. We were on the eastern side of the atoll and the wind was projected to come around to SSE. We therefore needed to move south or west, or both, to tuck in. As we were chatting about this the VHF radio called our name. It turned out to be friends of friends of friends. In one of those classic cruising situations, we had met a very nice gentleman on the CUBAR rally several years earlier. It turns our his brother has been cruising the South Pacific for several years. He introduced us and we had been corresponding by email. Chuck knew where we were, and he had some friends who were also in Tahanea, so they called us. Chuck and Linda are also the authors of Jacaranda Journey, which provides the Cruising Compendiums, as well as a lot of other valuable information for cruising the South Pacific. To make a long story short, we traveled westward across the atoll to join Roger and Sasha on their sailboat Ednbal. The journey was interesting, as the interiors of the atolls are not charted, or at least not on C-Maps. We later found out from Roger and Sasha that the Navionics charts on Nancy's iPad are a much better source of info, but at the time we eyeballed the 8 mile trip. The Navionics chart shown below is oriented with North up. Waypoint #3 is just outside the pass. We anchored south and east of it inside the atoll. Waypoint #7 is where we met Ednbal and Waypoint #26 is another possible anchorage further south. All the "spots" on the charts are coral heads. In the small world category, the charts below are from Nordhavn 52 Dirona's blog. She anchored in almost literally the same place Duet did in Tahanea. James and Jennifer have been very helpful to us during our South Pacific planning. This was an anchorage we didn't want to miss, based on their comments when they stayed there.Dirona's route across the atoll. Note that the charts shown below are C-Maps, which have far less detail on the interior of the atoll than do the Navionics chart shown above. Anchoring behind the "zed" as it is known locally The key to managing this kind of crossing safely is to have the sun above or behind you, with preferably not too much cloud or any squalls. We made it across unscathed. The coral heads are very easy to see in the right light, but harder to see without it. This can be a little disconcerting when a squall rolls in as you are moving from one place to another. We would sit in one place until the light improved, on one trip from one anchorage to another we went halfway, then turned around and went the next day, as the light just wasn't good enough. The Tuamotus are a long way from anywhere, and hitting a large coral head isn't something we want to do there, or anywhere, for that matter. In addition to finding your way around the coral heads in the Tuamotus, you also anchor among them. It is quite easy to get the anchor chain tangled in the coral, in which case you hope you can somehow get it untangled by maneuvering the boat, or you are going to have dive on it. Since we don't carry a tank (we will be adding one in Tahiti) we worried about this a bit. The way to avoid getting tangled, or at least not get all your chain tangled, is to buoy the chain, so it floats above the coral, rather than winding through it. This also protects the coral and, since there isn't a whole lot of coral left in the world, we wanted to do our best not to damage it. The diagram below was taken from an article in Yachting World. In it several buoys are used. We decided that several buoys would be too complex to deal with in an emergency, so we are only using one. This does mean that our chain will lay over some, hopefully low, coral, a long way from the boat. The general idea is to be able to recover that chain without getting stuck or damaging the coral. We can control the retrieval pretty well in anything but very bumpy weather. After some experimentation, and useful advice from Roger and Sasha, we have figured out how to buoy Duet's chain, although our procedure is by no means perfect. We use our largest ball fender, deployed about 50 feet from the boat. We want to keep at least some of the chain above the coral, so it can't wrap around a coral head close to the boat as Duet moves around her anchor. With the buoy 50 feet from Duet's bow, about 80 feet of the chain is lifted up by the fender. If we are anchored in less than 50 feet of water we will have a maximum of about 150 feet of chain out, with about 70 feet of chain laying in the sand or across the coral. Normally Duet doesn't pull on that section of the chain at all, unless it is extremely windy. The picture below shows our big buoy, rising ghostlike from the depths, in the evening when the wind has died and the chain has slacked enough to let it come to the surface. When there is much breeze at all Duet is pulling on the chain and the buoy remains 4-6 feet below the surface. In the moonlight, you can see it floating serenely underwater, which is rather cool. The whole idea behind buoying the chain is not to lose the chain catenary. Catenary is the curve, or lazy loop, formed by the chain as it hangs between the anchor and the boat. The catenary is the result of the chain's weight. The boat has to pull pretty hard on it to straighten it out, so it creates a shock absorber when the seas build and the boat starts to bounce up and down. If you lose the catenary by getting the chain tangled around a coral head, however, the boat will be pulling on the coral head, rather than on the heavy length of lazy chain and/or the anchor itself. Without catenary you put a lot more strain on everything if the waves get bigger. A chain snubber (line between the chain and the attachment point of the chain on the boat, so the boat is pulling on the line, not directly on the chain, which has no stretch) helps considerably with this, but we'd rather have both the catenary and the snubber working for us. Worst case, if we do get stuck in rough weather, we plan to let out more chain, with another buoy, rather than struggle to get unstuck in poor conditions. So, when we anchor, we try to leave room around Duet to drop more chain, should we need to. As an aside, none of the anchorages we have seen in the Tuamotus are free of shallow coral heads. So, when you anchor, you need to take the boat's swinging circle into account, to avoid hitting a shallow head when she turns. If you also plan to have more room to drop chain if necessary, you have to position the boat in the center of a pretty large area with no shallow coral heads. This is even harder than it sounds. We have managed to get stuck, and unstuck, twice so far, from low coral. We are only anchoring in areas recommended as having little coral and we are staying shallow water of well less than 50 feet. Ron is very careful to put on the bigger snubber to take the load off the windlass (it will stretch whereas the chain will yank) when we maneuver the boat to get the chain loose. So far so good. We now snorkel the anchor as soon as we can, to see if we are already stuck, to check on the set of the hook and to survey the general area in case we need to drop more chain. It is important to remember that, if we have to drop more chain, it will always be in the middle of the night, so it helps to have a good sense of where everything is in daylight first. Also, if the anchor hits a coral head on the way down, it can get tangled, but still feel like it's hooked when you pull on it. Given Duet's weight, she will probably break the coral in rough conditions, which would leave us dragging. So we'd rather raise the hook immediately and know the anchor is well set the second time (or the third, or the fourth....) than find out that we are dragging, which also always occurs in the middle of the night. We are made even more cautious by a recent tale of an experienced skipper who got caught in an unexpected blow and lost his catenary in deep water when his chain wrapped around a coral head. He was in pretty tight quarters, so he couldn't let out more chain, which would have solved the problem, albeit temporarily. His windlass ripped partially loose from his deck while he was recovering his anchor, but recover it he did. Anyway, when we arrived at our new anchorage at the "zed" on the other side of Tahanea, it turned out that Roger and Sasha's refrigeration was on the blink, so we offered space in ours while they fixed it. This was the beginning of a nice cruising interlude, which we much enjoy. They proved to be a fount of local knowledge about which atolls to visit, how to catch a coconut crab, how to ship parts into French Polynesia, where to provision, etc. They even hosted two beach BBQs, which were very special events. Roger and Sasha have been living aboard for 11 years, starting the in the US, then the Med, then the Caribbean and now French Polynesia, where they have been for 2 years. They are headed home to Australia this summer. Roger, in a impressive show of electrical skill, repaired their refrigeration by soldering a new capacitor, cannibalized from an old video screen, into the control unit. Friends of theirs also brought a new control unit from the next atoll over, and we met them when we all moved east again to avoid more weather. Nice folks from Sitka, Alaska, with beautiful custom steel sailboat built in New Zealand. He was a general surgeon, so, as Roger said, all he and Ron needed was a patient. Fortunately, none showed up, so we weren't forced to improvise an operating room in Duet's cockpit. We had some great times together telling cruising stories instead. We much enjoyed Roger and Sasha's company. The beach BBQs, in particular, were spectacular. There is no light pollution in Tahanea, and we had the additional advantage of a full moon. The beauty is hard to describe and pictures don't do it justice. The colors are like a Disney Technicolor shot, and the moon reflecting into the crystal clear water, so you can see 20 feet down to the gleaming sand, made the evenings quite memorable. We've not seen anything like it before. To trap a coconut crab, you need an open coconut, tied to a tree so the crab doesn't haul it off. The crabs can grow to 4 kilos (9 pounds) and have serious claws. Roger taught Ron how to grab them from behind, and, while we didn't catch any big ones, Roger and Sasha did several days later, so we got to eat them anyway. Coconut crab, courtesy of Wikipedia. Tempting cracked coconut, carefully secured.Ron and Roger setting up the BBQCrowded beach for our BBQBBQ fire, made of coconuts and coconut husks All ready to goIt wouldn't be boating without the odd project, so Ron tightened up the main engine mounts, one of which had come a bit loose on the long crossing. He also did the usual oil changes and, wonder of wonders, read several fiction books. Ron reading fiction is something that Nancy hasn't seen in over 20 years. She was thrilled to see him relaxing that much. Ron cuts Nancy's hair, but for some reason she isn't allowed to cut his.Visiting booby. There are large numbers of birds, including boobies, nesting on Tahanea, and they aren't afraid of people. We hope it stays that way.Weather is difficult to come by here in French Polynesia. Much of it is in French, which we don't speak. Not only that, but there is only a small population here, so there isn't the demand for sophisticated weather products, as there is in the US or Canada, for example. Also, there is no internet, so everything has to come via email on the Iridium GO. We used a translated version of the local French forecast, which is good for 24 hours, as well as GRIB files via both Saildocs and PredictWind. Even so, we decided to work with our weather router, OMNI Bob, again for the short 36 hour journey to Tahiti. He had been very helpful on choosing our window from the Marqusas and so he proved again.Roger, Sasha and Ron reviewing the weatherSimilar to the Marquesas, we ended up waiting nearly a week for a window. At this time of the year, which is the Southern Hemisphere winter, the storms from the Southern Ocean make their impact felt even this far north. So we were waiting for a series of southern fronts, and their associated winds and seas, to pass, before we could go. It is similar to the fronts we experienced in the Bahamas, which were driven by weather in North America. Of course, waiting for a weather window at Tahanea wasn't exactly hard duty, we had friends to spend time with, boat projects to do and fantastic sunsets to view. Our brief time in the Tuamotus gave us a taste of how beautiful they can be. We shall definitely return in the fall. Moonrise over TahaneaSunset Rainbow


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A more creative method of problem-solving is the use of
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Kanzi, the chimpanzee, communicates with researchers by using
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Niles has begun to fall asleep suddenly during the day, sometimes in inappropriate places. Niles is most likely suffering from
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According to Csikszentmihalyi, people who are creative
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Which is NOT an example of a biological rhythm?
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non-REM Stage 1
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private speech
The theory that thought processes and concepts are controlled by language is
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A recent study has shown that for a group of individuals with ______, computerized cognitive exercises that placed increasing demands on auditory perception were beneficial.
Daydreaming and being hypnotized are both examples of
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Michael painted the picture and The picture was painted by Michael have the same semantic meaning but different
Grammar includes the rules of syntax, morphology, phonemes, and
In a well known animal language research study, Kanzi the chimp
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A heuristic in which the differences between the starting situation and the goal is determined and then steps are taken to reduce that difference is known as the
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People who believe that aliens have come to earth may disregard evidence that crop circles are human-made. This is an example of
confirmation bias.
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Natasha saw a picture of her "dream" dorm room in a catalog. With the goal of making her dorm room look like the one in the catalog, she made a list of things she'd have to buy. This is an example of
a means-end analysis
In order for people to be able to tell you how many televisions they have in their house, they would probably use
a mental image.
Research has shown brain activity in the ______ during tasks involving visual perception.
parietal lobes
The ________ involves estimating the likelihood of an event based on how easy it is to recall relevant information from memory.
availability heuristic
Csikszentmihalyi found that
creative people are not necessarily unconventional in all aspects of their lives.
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The heart rate slows, breathing becomes more shallow and irregular, and an EEG would show the first signs of sleep spindles in
non-REM Stage 2 sleep.
As ______ accumulates in the body, a person will begin to feel sleepy.
The body is at its lowest level of functioning during
non-REM Stage 4.
Nearly ____ percent of an infant's sleep is REM, compared to about ____ percent for a normal, healthy adult.
50; 20
If a person experiences increased amounts of REM sleep after being deprived of REM sleep on earlier nights, it is called
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John Cardy
John L. Cardy
|March 19, 1947
|Walnut Creek, California
|Known for
|Conformal field theory, Quantum quench
|Scientific career
|University of California, Berkeley, All Souls College, Oxford
John Lawrence Cardy FRS (born 19 March 1947, England)[1] is a British-American theoretical physicist at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his work in theoretical condensed matter physics and statistical mechanics, and in particular for research on critical phenomena and two-dimensional conformal field theory.
He was an undergraduate and postgraduate student at Downing College, University of Cambridge, before moving to the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he joined the faculty in 1977. In 1993, he moved to the University of Oxford, where until 2014 he was a Fellow of All Souls College (now Emeritus) and a Professor of Physics in the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics. He currently holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of California, Berkeley.
He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991,[2] received the Dirac Medal of the IoP in 2000,[3] was awarded the Lars Onsager Prize by the APS in 2004,[4] the Boltzmann Medal by IUPAP in 2010,[5] and the Dirac Medal of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in 2011.[6]
He is most known for his contributions to conformal field theory. The famous Cardy formula for black hole entropy, the Cardy formula in percolation theory,[7] and the Cardy conditions in boundary conformal field theory are named after him.
Selected works[edit]
- Scaling and renormalization in statistical physics. Cambridge University Press, 1996
- with Krzysztof Gawedzki, Gregory Falkovich: Non equilibrium statistical mechanics and turbulence. London Mathematical Society Lecture notes, Cambridge University Press, 2008
- Conformal Invariance and Statistical Mechanics. in Les Houches Lectures, vol. 49, 1988
- as editor: Finite Size Scaling. Elsevier 1988
- Cardy Conformal Invariance in Percolation, Self-Avoiding Walks and Related Problems, 2002
- Cardy Conformal field theory and statistical mechanics, Les Houches Lectures 2008
- Cardy, Pasquale Calabrese Entanglement entropy and conformal field theory, J. Phys. A, 42, 2009
- Cardy Entanglement entropy in extended quantum systems, 2007
- ^ Guggenheim Foundation: Annual Report 1985.
- ^ "Directory of Fellows and Foreign Members". The Royal Society. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
- ^ "Recipients of the Dirac medal of the Institute of Physics". Institute of Physics. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
- ^ "Prize Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
- ^ "Boltzmann Medal". University of Melbourne. Retrieved 2010-02-08.
- ^ "Dirac Medallists 2011". Retrieved 2011-08-10.
- ^ John L. Cardy (February 21, 1992). "Critical Percolation in Finite Geometries". Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General. 25 (4): L201–L206. arXiv:hep-th/9111026. Bibcode:1992JPhA...25L.201C. doi:10.1088/0305-4470/25/4/009. arXiv:hep-th/9111026v1.
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Jan 17, 2019 • Parsippany, NJ
7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Networking and Breakfast
8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Program
While private and family-owned businesses may not be subject to all of the legal and regulatory rigors of publicly-traded companies, your business can nevertheless benefit from good governance practices suitable for your company. Our program features an opening dialogue with Lynn Clarke, a director of several privately-held companies, primarily in the food, beverage, retail, and e-commerce sectors, and Bill Schlimbach/VP-Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at J.M. Huber Corporation, one of New Jersey's premier family-owned companies, operating in industries ranging from personal care products to food and beverage, flame retardants and smoke suppressants, sustainable forestry and engineered wood products. We'll then launch into a series of expertly-led roundtables, in which private and family company leadership and directors will share issues, ideas and learnings on topics such as: What is the linkage between effective governance and a company's legacy and future prospects? What are the options for an effective governance structure? Does my company need a board of directors, an advisory board or other oversight body? Should we bring in outside members to our board? And what skills do we need? How should we be using a board: objective reality check and good sounding board on strategy, competitive threats, long-term growth, talent and compensation? What are workable boundaries between the roles of board and management? What are some of the issues where we could get real value from a board: succession planning, coaching and mentoring your management team, assessing your longer term plans/strategy, identifying disruptive risks? We encourage company leaders to attend in conjunction with a board member or members if your company has a board.
This well-attended event with a mix of private and family-owned businesses opened with an informal conversation between Bill Schlimbach, General Counsel for J.M. Huber Corp. a 6-generation family-owned business and Lynn Clarke, a family-company Board Director, a former private company owner and corporate executive.
Bill presented the history about how the Huber family decided, due to the size and complexity of the business, to create a formal board of directors, and the to bring non-family Independent Directors into the decision-making process. This was later followed, due to the absence of a family member to replace the retiring CEO, by the hiring of a non-family CEO. In such cases, as is true today, active communications and frequent interaction with the family members have been critical in building and maintaining the trust of the non-family management. In addition, the implementation of an internship for young family members to gain a working insight about the business; on-voting Director seats on the Board; and on understanding the strategic decision-making process, which Bill emphasized, are critical components of their proactive process of succession planning.
Lynn shared her experience of when she bought a business and formed a Board of Directors, who not only brought their individual experiences, but provided a solid sounding platform to challenge her about the future, which she referred to as a "Hard Head with a Soft Heart."
She also shared her experience as a Director of a family-owned business, which similar to Bill's experience, brought in non-family member executives who actively mentored the next generation of family members to learn the business and gain operational experience. She presented a board maturity model and described three factors that are often recommended for good family and private business governance: establishing a family council, developing a strategic planning process and setting up a board of directors.
The informal conversation was following by discussions at each table of specific topics relevant to the special environment surrounding private and family-owned businesses. These ranged from when does the business transition from informal to formal, the decision-making process, succession planning, and managing the dynamics of family values and business decisions. Each table's takeaways were shared with the group. The common theme was that it takes hard work to be a successful family-owned or private business, and that the passion shared by the founder or owner is difficult to maintain without a succession planning process. This was underscored, as Lynn noted at the beginning of the program, with the statistic that only 5% of family-owned business continue to the 4th generation. Participants shared insights and suggestions for dealing with the various challenges presented to family and other privately owned businesses.
An overwhelming majority of the participants showed interest in attending another session on this theme and would allow more time on their calendars to cover the topic.
All participants were provided a copy of the 2017-2018 NACD Private Company Governance Survey to take to their boards. The survey is a comprehensive document, which includes insights and guidance on areas of particular relevance to private company boards.
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Lynn Clarke is an independent board director, chair, and CEO with consumer packaged goods, technology, e-commerce, and digital and specialty retail expertise. Currently, Clarke is a director of several privately held companies, primarily in the food, beverage, retail, and e-commerce sectors. Clarke is a board member of the National Association of Corporate Directors' (NACD) Atlanta chapter and a member of Women Corporate Directors and the Young Presidents' Organization. A frequent speaker at events for business and educational groups, Clarke has most recently spoken at the Institute of Internal Auditors Conference on the role of boards and internal audit, at the Google-sponsored E-Commerce Traffic Summit, and at a Women Corporate Directors program on the Impact of Millennials on Consumer Markets. She has also spoken to board chairs about the board's role in strategy at the Family Business Consulting Group's Chair Forum and on building effective independent boards for privately held businesses.
William Schlimbach is Vice President, Secretary and Deputy General Counsel of J.M. Huber Corporation, a 135-year-old, 5th generation, multi-billion dollar family-owned New Jersey company. As Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Bill works closely with the Board on governance issues including shareholder matters, heads a shareholder communication team and is regular liaison with family members including family leadership on relations with the Board and the Company. Bill has broad based experience in corporate and commercial legal and litigation matters including acquisitions, divestitures, real estate, bankruptcy, finance and securities. Bill started his career as an associate at the Javits & Javits law firm in New York, became a partner at Javits, then joined Huber in 1985, where he started out as counsel to 11 operating businesses, and in the mid 90's, became responsible for the legal aspects of divestitures and acquisitions, financing, major capital projects, start-up businesses and a financial services business. Headquartered in Edison, New Jersey, J.M. Huber Corporation has remained a family-owned business since its founding in 1883. Huber's portfolio companies have strong leadership positions in many different areas, including: ingredients for personal care and food and beverage products; flame retardants for a wide range of polymer-based applications; engineered wood products for residential construction; and sustainable timberland management.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
The making of slime and other green ways to save money.
I have only been trying it on my laundry for the last couple of days but it seems to be working pretty well. Also the making of it was quite fun. At least I thought it was fun, I have always been one that loves to make messes and experiment (my mom will verify that statement) and so this was just up my alley. Thought it actually wasn't that messy. Basically you just shave a bar of soap into some hot water in a pan on the stove and dissolve it well.Then you add it to more hot water in a 5 gallon bucket, add the soda and stir well, add the borax and stir well and let it sit overnight and it is ready to use. My kids thought it looked like I was playing in water and they thought it looked like a very fun job too.
Even thought I have always bought inexpensive laundry soap (I am not a loyal Tide user) this will still be quite a money savings over time. Every little bit helps and this is not at all a hard way to save money.
~The other new thing that I am doing is brushing my teeth with baking soda. The reason I actually started doing this I because for years I have had problems with canker sores. If you have never experienced them just let me tell you they aren't fun! Lately I have been thinking that there is probably a reason I am getting them and I should do some research on it and try to find a solution for my problem. Well according to the things I read, they don't seem to truly know for sure, and it seems to vary from person to person, but a common problem with many people seems to be the Sodium Laurel Sulphate which is in many toothpastes. So I decided to check my toothpaste and sure enough it had it, then I thought I would check all the other toothpastes I had (I have gotten quite a stash from all the Walgreens deals) and they all had it in them. So I decided to try just plain soda, I know that this has been something that has been used for years and it does work, it just doesn't taste as good. Well when I switched the canker sores that I had healed up right away and so far I haven't gotten any more.
I would love to hear if anybody else has found a solution for canker sores (other than medicine) that works well. I will continue to try the baking soda and will try to remember to let you know in the future if I am still canker sore free.
~ The other thing is something I am actually just thinking about trying, I haven't tried it yet. It is where you use baking soda to wash your hair and then rinse in vinegar. It is called the no'poo method. Babyslime has a very in depth post about it explaining the benefits of the no'poo method and the problems with shampoo. I think it makes quite a bit of sense but I haven't made the switch yet. I will be sure to report if I do and how well it works. I am interested to know if any of you use this method and what you think.
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8 comments:
- Nadine said...
oohhh..those canker sores hurt so bad!!
I never had these until after I had needed to be intubated for emergency surgery last year...24 hours after surgery 3 of these showed up in my mouth! outch!
Salt water is what I did..hurt and burned like crazy but did it the trick...even dabbed pure salt on the biggest of them...not sure what hurt more..
I did not want any more meds at the time so I bared the pain or the salt...
Not sure you'll want to try this..but it cheap!
Good luck..
- May 16, 2008 at 6:19 PM
- All in a Day said...
You could try peroxide also.
- May 16, 2008 at 8:12 PM
- Jennifer said...
Ok! Here's a TON of information on going no poo. I've been thinking about it too, too chicken to try it :D Have fun!
- May 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM
We make our own toothpaste and only use the store-bought stuff when we are on trips. Here's our recipe:
3 Tablespoons baking soda
3 teaspoons salt (can adjust)
1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
enough water to make a paste.
Keep it in a covered container in the bathroom. Keep a spoon with it (we use a baby spoon) to stir it up and place a glob of toothpaste on your wet toothbrush.
Also, it's not harmful if your kids swallow it! (Why is there a warning to call poison control on the toothpaste?!)
Use the cheap salt and baking soda!
Hope it helps!
Kim Fraser
- May 17, 2008 at 10:58 PM
- Rita T. said...
I started making my own shampoo for my son who is allergic to sodium lauryl sulfate. I use homemade soap grated, fragrance oil, water, & glycerin. He doesn't really like it, but he's not breaking out with purple boils anymore.
Thanks for visiting my blog. We found about 250 mushrooms in the last 2 weeks. Our restaurants are paying $10 a pound and up for them.
- May 18, 2008 at 8:36 AM
- Ang said...
I do not know if it is true but I have heard that if you just use baking soda you are more likely to
get cavities. worth looking into?
- May 18, 2008 at 3:00 PM
- Abbi said...
Thanks for all the comments and tips!
- May 18, 2008 at 9:02 PM
- Hadias said...
This is my first week using homemade laundry soap and I love it.
- May 24, 2008 at 8:21 AM


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Buddhism is a natural religion, for it does not violate either mind or body. Its ethics closely approximates the Natural Law. Buddhism is also classified as an atheistic religion, for it does not consist in God and Soul theories which can neither be proved by self-experiment nor by intuition. It concerns only self-evident facts of suffering and can be experienced by every man in himself and the surrounding world.
Buddhism is a teaching of the Buddha who was born a prince of Kapilavathu, at the part of the Himalaya mountains near the border of Nepal in 623 B.C. He married and had a son. Although surrounded by all the Court's glamour and luxuries, the sight of a decrepit old man, sick man, dead man and mendicant monk, these "four signs" left such a deep impression upon His mind that, at the age of 29, He decided to leave His palace and enter "the homeless life" of a monk to seek the truth and find a way to salvation for all sentient beings. In His search for salvation among the teachers, He surpassed them and found that their doctrines were insufficient, not leading to Awakening, to Extinction and to Enlightenment and Insight. He departed those teachers and turned to practice self-mortification for six years with great zeal and effort. He met five ascetics or Panca Vaggiya who offered their services to Him. Finally, the Buddha realized that the ascetic exercises were not the right way to attain salvation. He had practiced self-mortification to the limit of His endurance and felt very weakened without achieving anything. So, He partook of food, regained strength and began to practice meditation which finally led to His enlightenment under the Holy Bodhi tree near the town of Uruvela, the present Buddha-Gaya when he was only 35 years old.
Through His deep contemplation upon His ownself, the Buddha became cognigant of how men are born and die according to their good and evil will actions, according to their self-created Karma (or the consequence of meritorious and demeritorious deeds.) By the same intuition, He became cognigant of the "Five Aggregates of Existence" or the Panca Khandha that are Rupa (Body), Vedana (Feeling), Sanna (Cognition), Sankhara (Impression) and Vinnana (Consciousness), that man is only an embodiment of these five aggregates, or in other words man is made up of Khandha, none of which belongs to anyone, and the clinging to each or to the whole, will only result in the conception of the new life and the round of existence (Samsara.) This creates the "Delusion of Self", and He discovered the "Four Noble Truths" which lead to the cessation of all sufferings and of rebirth.
Finally, the Lord Buddha out of compassion to all beings, was determined to reveal His Teachings. He proclaimed for the first time the Dhamma in a discourse to the five ascetics. This discourse is universally known as the "Four Noble Truths" and contains the essence of the Buddha's Doctrines. The Lord Buddha taught His Doctrines for nearly 45 years, walking up and down from town to town and from village to village, in Northern India. At the age of 80, He fell ill and died in Kusinara in the country of the Malas on the Visaka, on the full moon day of the sixth lunar month in the year 543 B.C.
There are lots of historical proof of the Buddha's real existence, such as the Asoka-Pillar erected in Lumbini park at Kapilavatthu (near Nepal) in remembrance of the Birth of the Lord, by King Asoka (262 - 222 B.C.) and discovered in 1890, contemporary Indian literature, the Pali-Canon Tripitaka, that is the collection of Discipline (Vinaya), of Discourses (Suttanta) and of Philosophical (Abhidhamma), the Sanskrit Canon, the records of two Chinese travellers to India, Fahian (394 - 441 A.D.) and Yuan Thsang (630 - 644 A.D.) and lastly the Buddha's Doctrine itself, which is based on true facts of actuality, the truth of which can be experienced by Insight by anyone himself with sufficient intelligence and patience.
The Teaching of the Buddha was not written down by Himself. Immediately after his death, the first Council of his disciples took place in 477 B.C. and all his Discourses were fixed and the ground plan was laid for the Pall-Canon. There was a second Council and third Council (377 and 343 B.C.) and the discourses were sorted into different collections called Pitakas, namely the Sutta Pitaka which contains the discourses of the Buddha, the Vinaya Pitaka which contains the rules and regulations of the Holy Brotherhood, and many centuries later the Abhidhamma Pitaka was added which contains expositions of a scholastic nature of the two first Pitakas.
From the "Asoka Pillars" we learn that King Asoka of India sent forth his missionaries to all provinces of the Empire and then to the neighboring Kingdom of Ceylon, Kashmir and Tibet in the North, to Persia, Antioch and Egypt and Greece in the West. King Asoka called a council which was the Third Council, and the Pali-Canon was revised and confined. After his death, Buddhism split into two different schools, namely Hinayana or the Lesser Vehicles and the Mahayana or the Greater Vehicles. Hinayana is the orthodox, based upon the Pali scripture. This school tries to preserve the original doctrines, and nowadays is practiced in Ceylon, Burma, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. While, Mahayana is an enlargement and further development of the original doctrine and based on the Sanskrit scripture translated from the Pali Text and modifies some doctrinal principles in order to adapt its teaching to local environment and to interpret Buddhism by laying a stress on some philosophical points of view. This is believed in Tibet, Korea, Japan, Sikhim, Bhutan, Mongolia, and Vietnam.
Buddhism was first introduced into Thailand as Hinayana Buddhism in about 329 B.C., later in about 700 A.D., Mahayana Buddhism came. However, in 1000 A.D. Hinnayana was again re-introduced from Burma. In 1253 A.D., Thai Buddhist Monks went to Ceylon and brought back with them the Pali scripts. They also invited the Ceylonese Monks to Thailand. Ever since then all Kings of Thailand embraced Hinayana Buddhism which then became the National Religion.
Lord Buddha formulated his Doctrine of Misery and Salvation from it in four theses, called the Four Noble Truths. They are:
1) The Noble Truth of Suffering: Rebirth, old age, disease, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair, association with objects we dislike, separation from objects we love, not to obtain what one desires cause suffering. There are also many happy hours and pleasure in a man's life-time, but according to the law of nature, they are impermanent and these last only for a short time and vanish into nothing. Only sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair are left by them behind.
2) The Noble Truth of The Arising of Suffering: The Threefold Cravings lead every being from birth to birth and is accompanied by joy and lust, seeking its gratification here and there, namely: Sensual Craving, Craving for Existence and Craving for Wealth and Power. There is also a sixfold craving, namely, the eye craves for forms, the ear craves for sounds, the nose craves for odors, the tongue craves for taste, the body craves for objects, and the mind craves for nouns, dreams or illusions. These Cravings and ignorance of the law of nature are the condition of origin of individual sufferings.
3) The Noble Truth of the Cessation of Sufferings: The condition of cessation of suffering is the complete fading away and extinction of this three fold craving, forsaking it and giving it up, the liberation and detachment from it. The condition of mind of a person who has been giving up this threefold cravings or this sixfold craving together with ignorance can realize Nibbana (or the Extinction of the Cravings.)
4) The Noble Truth of The Path leading to the Cessation of Suffering: It is the Noble Eightfold Path (or the Middle Path because it avoids the two extremes of sensual pleasure and self-mortification), that leads to the Cessation of Sufferings.
To weed out cravings and ignorance, these two chief evil-doers of individual existence and to overcome rebirth, old age, disease, death, sorrows, lamentation, pain, grief and despair, to make an end of this whole mass of misery and thus to attain Nibbana, Liberation and Salvation one should practice the Noble Eightfold Path (or the Middle Path)
The Noble Eightfold Paths are:
1) Right Knowledge, which means an intellectual grasp of the Teaching of the Dhamma, the Four Noble Truths and the Law of Karma;
2) Right Intention, which involves the elimination of all ambitions, revenge, hatred, greed lust and violence;
3) Right Speech, which means stamping out all lies, controlling speech, being courteous, considerate, scrupulously true, no evil words escape from lips, compassionate and full of sympathy, with a heart full of loving-kindness and free from secret malice;
4) Right Action, which means the avoidance of destruction of any living being, of taking what has not been given, indulging in sensuality, slander and intoxicating liquor or drugs;
5) Right Livelihood, which means pursuing a trade or occupation compatible with the above;
6) Right Effort, means to prevent new evil entering one's mind, to remove all evil already there, to develop such good in one's mind and to maintain a good and meritorious state of mind that has already arisen;
7) Right Attentiveness, which means the continual recollection of all phenomena about bodily structure, all parts of the human body, all states of health, all impurity and purity of mind, contemplation of various states of mind and all kinds of temperaments;
8) Right Concentration, which is the threshold of Nibbana, consists of the Four Great Efforts, namely, the effort to avoid and to overcome evil states of mind, and the effort to develop and to maintain good states of mind. It is also a composed state of mind which is accompanied by Right Knowledge, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort and Right Attentiveness. The purpose of attaining Right Concentration is to develop the eye of wisdom.
However, the most simple teaching which the Buddha taught, was to do good, to avoid evil and purify the heart. According to the Buddha, the hearts of ordinary men are not pure. They are filled with greed, ill will and delusion. Greed and hatred are impurities caused by desires which ignorance is the cause of delusion, especially delusion of self. Ignorance, in fact, is the cause of desire itself and thus the primary cause of all suffering and of rebirth. The Lord taught, purifying the heart: 1. by practicing self-control, and self restraint; 2. by meditating upon one's ownself; and 3. by following the Holy Eightfold Path that leads to the cessation of all sufferings.
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