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text: The numeral "2" is written below the badge, and either NEW PENCE (19711981) or TWO PENCE (from 1982) is written above. However, a small number of 1983 "New Pence" coins exist. These coins are rather rare, and are considered collectors' items.[8]It was originally planned that an alternative version of the 2p would be minted wit h a design representing Northern Ireland. [9]These plans never came to fruition, however. The design was also re-cut in 1993 producing two minor varieties for that year. PLEASE VISIT MY STORE AND CHECK MY OTHER ITEMS THANK YOU. The item "Very RARE 2P COIN 1971 WITH NEW PENCE VERY DESIRABLE TO A COLLECTOR" is in sale since Thursday, April 1, 2021. This item is in the category "Coins\Coins\British\Decimal Coinage (c. The seller is "minccatali168" and is located in Skegness. This item can be shipped worldwide.

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Code Vein is filled with all manner of deadly foes, and being a Dark Souls-like game, even the most basic enemies can kill you easily if you're not careful. That makes the bosses some of the most challenging around, and one of the toughest is the Code Vein Gilded Hunter boss.
The Gilded Hunter is the Code Vein Ashen Cavern boss, which is the location you travel to after beating the Cathedral of the Sacred Blood. We'll show you how to beat this frustrating boss.
How to find and beat the Code Vein Gilded Hunter boss
The Gilded Hunter boss is located at the very end of the Ashen Cavern - you'll see a narrow passageway lined with yellow, glowing roots before you meet him. Unfortunately he's not an optional boss, you'll have to face him to progress. He's also incredibly tough, even by Code Vein boss standards! Here's all his attacks:
- Double swing - Blood-powered swings with his axe. Slow and easy to dodge, but don't get caught out by the second swing.
- Blood area blast - he'll stand still and raise his hand, then he'll call in a massive strike on the ground around him in a circular pattern. You may be able to get in 1-2 hits here if you're quick, otherwise stay away!
- Charge forward - he'll fly forward with his axe in front of him, directly at you, from a fair distance away. Dodge when he gets close and you can get some hits in afterwards.
- Blood lightning - he'll back off, pull back his hand, and unleash a blast of red lightning at you. Just keep dodging!
- Blood aggro - At around half health, the Hunter will cast a blood spell on himself. It makes him a lot more aggressive, and more powerful. Watch out! His attacks will also get a boost, including the following two:
- Blood area blast with projectiles - as well as his area blast, he'll call down red rocks from the ceiling. They'll be marked on the floor, but you'll have to be quick to avoid them. Just stay away
- Triple swing - with his aggro cast, he can now attack more quickly, so will do a triple swing that's more difficult to avoid.
The hardest part of this is when the Gilded Hunter hits his half-health mark and casts the Aggro spell on himself, which makes him quicker and more deadly. However, the good news is - the aggro spell is temporary. Simply survive, and don't even bother attacking. Eventually the spell will wear off and he'll be staggered and vulnerable, and after that he'll be back to his slower self. As long as you keep alive through this spell, you should be fine! That's easier said than done, of course...


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Guest: Doris Hamill. Topics: NASA's mission and vision, commercializing human space flight. Our guest, Doris Hamill, wrote two excellent Space Review articles that formed the basis for this Space Show program. The articles, "To Reach Ever Further: A Mission and a Vision for NASA," Oct. 12, 2009 (www.thespacereview.com/article/1487/1#) and "The Second Fifty Years: Expanding Human Presence On The Space Frontier," Oct. 19, 2009 (www.thespacereview.com/article/1492/1) should be read as part of this program. In our first segment, Ms. Hamill outlined the goals and the purpose for NASA as a mandate and included from her Oct. 19th article the need for exploring space for scientific knowledge, using technology to expand the human presence throughout space, and using space to benefit humans using engineering, commercial, and operations practices. Our discussion included looking at the reasons for people going to space, asking the question if we need a human space presence for most things in space or not, and looking at the proper role of inspiration in our space policy. In the second segment in response to a listener question, Ms. Hamill commented that space was not a cure all for all our society ills and cited the space program of the 1960's as an example. We also talked about whether Mars should be the focus of our attention and the challenges and timing involved in a humans to Mars mission. Our guest said we needed lots more technology power to go to Mars. Ms. Hamill did say we have learned much and are very experienced in LEO but for elsewhere in space, we still have much to learn. She suggested the Moon was the best training ground. During this segment in response to a listener question, orbital space tourism was briefly talked about, especially the differences required over and above suborbital tourism. A phrase Ms. Hamill used to describe some of the fanciful thinking and statements on some of these subjects was the "optimism of ignorance." Make sure you listen to this complete discussion as this term was used a few times during our interview. Toward the end of this segment, I asked her to describe what she meant by the term "Valley of Death" which was used in her Oct. 19th article. Don't miss her complete discussion on this subject as part of what she had to say about Technology Review Levels. In the third segment, we talked about commercializing human spaceflight. Our guest told us about the studies and work she did several years ago when she was with Space Hab and how it was largely ignored by NASA and others. Pay attention to her commercial space model as in my opinion, it represents an excellent path to space commercialization. Doris also clarified cost versus value as used in the commercial world rather than the NASA and contractor world. In the fourth and final segment, we talked about commercial returns and the time it might take for an ROI to be achieved. Ms. Hamill said we must be prepared to allow sufficient time for commercialization to develop. Toward the end of this segment, we switched topics to discuss NASA and "green engineering." Doris went through four main areas with the last one being revolutionary technologies. Do not miss this discussion. Near the end of the show, a listener asked her about space solar power and she reported back that it was not likely to close the business case for SSP. She said the uses for SSP were within space, beaming to one satellite or another, to the surface of the Moon, eventually to Mars and more. If you have a question or comment for Doris Hamill, please send it to me at firstname.lastname@example.com and I will forward it to her.


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On this day (September 11, 2022), I stop to remember 9/11. Here is a piece I arranged for The United States Air Force Academy Band to commemorate the first anniversary of the unforgettable day. I was the Staff Composer/Arranger for the Academy Band at the time. Still today, it is a poignant memory for me as a member of the armed services, an American, and as a human being. Hate and fear caused this unthinkable event. Love, honor, courage and resilience helped bring together our nation and much of the world. Please join me in honoring those who lost their lives on this infamous day, and never forget that united, we can accomplish anything.
Follow this link to listen: https://josephspaniola.com/music/united-we-stand-september-11/


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Naresh Rao is a Chief Engineer with over 24 years of experience in the field of low noise mixed signal electronics. He holds a Masters in EE (CWRU, 1994) as well as a Masters in Physics (BITS, Pilani, India, 1992).
As part of his thesis, he designed the world's first low noise mixed signal ASIC for the closed loop control of a MEMS micromotor. He then joined Crystal Semiconductors (Cirrus Logic) and designed the receiver architecture for 100BaseTX Ethernet protocol.
Naresh joined the GE Research in 1996, where he has worked on electronics for numerous GE businesses such as lighting control, circuit breakers, residential metering, data acquisition systems (DAS) for PET, CT and digital X-ray, low power GPS correlators and radiation monitoring.
His work in novel mixed signal processing can be found in all GE's industry leading CT scanners and digital X-ray systems. He designed a spectroscopic photon counting ASIC for the DNDO Intelligent Portable Radiation Locator program as well as high temperature monitoring and control ASIC for Aviation systems. He is current working on developing electronics for wireless ultrasound probes and digitization on coil for MRI receivers.


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As one of the fae, Anil is shocked that he must seek his mate in the human world, and riddles are his only clues to who that might be.
Anil is very attracted to Cefin when they meet, but this human lacks the crown of stars the riddle foretold.
However, when Cefin is kidnapped, there's nothing Anil won't do to get him back, even travel to the lair of the creature that took him. Now Anil has a rescue to undertake as well as solving the mystery of the crown of stars.
Be Warned: m/m sex
A cascade of water startled Anil from his reverie, and he fluttered his wings with indignation. Droplets of water sprayed around, but none caught the culprit, although Anil heard his friend's laughter.
"You'll pay for that later, Fintan. I won't forget." Anil shook himself for good measure, and then flew toward the sounds of more laughter.
"It'll be worth it." Fintan lay sprawled comfortably across a large flower, and grinned up at Anil. He scooted up, so that both could perch on the large, golden bloom. "I wanted to cheer you up. You don't seem yourself these last few days."
Fintan looked as concerned as he sounded, and Anil hugged him tightly. "I can't explain it," he said. "I just feel ... unsettled. As though there's something I should do, or somewhere I should be. Yet there isn't. But I feel a pull, an urge." He shook his head and sighed heavily. "It makes no sense to me. I just can't put it into words."
"Do you think it's the mating urge?" Fintan's voice dropped to a whisper.
"But there is no one," Anil said, and his voice rose in frustration. "I'm attracted to no one I know among the fae. I've looked around. There are no strangers in our glade, and I even spoke to an elf, and he says things are quiet in the woodland realm, and I don't feel the urge to go there. I just feel ... unsettled. Like I need to be—somewhere else." He sighed heavily.
Fintan rose into the air and then leaned down to pull Anil up. "Let's go and see Nuha. She may find something to help you in her seeing bowl."
Anil hovered with his friend. "You'll come with me?" he asked.
"Of course. That's what friends are for."
Anil grinned. "I'm lucky to have you," he said as they flew towards Nuha's tree.
Nuha welcomed them both inside, and took them through to a room at the back of her home. Anil and Fintan sat side by side, and Nuha took her place at a table. In the centre of the table sat a wide, shallow, dark blue bowl. Nuha stirred the water inside her seeing bowl, and gazed at the swirls as Anil and Fintan watched intently.
"He whom you seek has come," she murmured.
Her voice was deeper, more resonant, and almost unrecognisable from her normal light and gay tones.
"Who?" Anil asked eagerly, but Nuha showed no sign of having heard him.
"You will know him from the signs, a crown of stars, blue like the ocean, and golden sun. But there is danger. Danger comes from iron over water. To leave love unfound is to give it to darkness. To find love is to look beyond our realm, and into the realm of mortals, yet as close as a kiss."
The water stilled, and Nuha looked up at them.
"Is that it?" Anil asked. "It's all in riddles. Can't you tell me what any of that meant?"
"Sorry, Anil, but I never remember what was spoken or can decipher the meanings even if you told me word for word. That's the way the waters work." Nuha stretched and rubbed her eyes.
"A crown with stars in it," Fintan said. "Is the crown itself blue, or is that something else? Crowns are usually golden, so that makes no sense."
"None of it makes sense," Anil said and shook his head. "Worse yet, I have to look in the mortal realm. Why there? Surely my soul mate can't be a mortal?"
"Soul mates come in many forms, Anil." Nuha's voice was soft, but stern.
Anil winced at the chiding tone. "Sorry," he muttered. I'm a fairy, one of the fae. I expected my mate to be a fae, or perhaps elven, but not a mortal. Now what do I do? Do I ignore the call? But that meant danger. I'm so confused.
Fintan seemed to sense his distress, clasped his hand, and pulled him to his feet. "Thank you, Nuha. You see what you see, and it's up to us now."
Once outside Nula's home, Anil turned to his friend. "What do I do?"
"We need to let your family know what Nuha has said. Then we need to go into the mortal realm, and find your soul mate."


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A little about Rachelle
Daughter of a Navy Veteran, Rachelle has experienced a tremendously diverse upbringing. In addition to being raised with a military background, she also has unique values instilled as the direct result of native Filipino parents.
Growing up in the Department of Defense Education System, Rachelle was exceptionally studious. She graduated with her B.S. in Family, Youth and Community Sciences with an area of specialization in Human Services. Afterwards, she began looking for a career that could facilitate her aspirations career progression in an environment that supports her spouse's mobility as her husband is an officer in the United States Army. She chose VACI because she has a vested interest in learning about this process for all Veterans who, for a number of different reasons, have been underserved.


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Eating disorders among teens and adults surge during pandemic
Experts say isolation and stress are thought to facilitate this mental health disorder
Sophie Balisky, 26, says she struggled with anorexia and bulimia through most of her teens but got help three years ago and was doing great — until COVID hit and she lost her job as a flight attendant.
She found herself reverting to old coping patterns in dealing with stressful and uncertain situations.
"I was actually quite shocked, I was a bit taken aback, because I consider myself to be quite strong in my coping against my eating tendencies," said Balisky.
Advocates for those who struggle with eating disorders say the pandemic is exacerbating the problem — prompting a greater need for community supports.
Experts believe the problem is related to the stress, uncertainty and isolation that stems from the pandemic and related-restrictions and say it's not only a problem in the province but around the world.
Some eating disorder support groups in Alberta who connect with people of all ages say they have seen a steady rise in demand since the pandemic hit.
With the isolation … eating disorders really are taking hold and people are needing support more than ever.- Colleen Hauck, Calgary Silver Linings Foundation
The Eating Disorder Support Network of Alberta is reporting a 5½ times increase in participants year-over-year between the period from March to the end of August.
"So a huge surge through this," said Lauren Berlinguette, executive director of the support network.
Another community-based agency that offers support to those who are struggling as well as their families, the Calgary Silver Linings Foundation, says it's experiencing a substantial increase in demand, too. The number of participants in all of its adult programs went from 37 to 64 participants, year-over-year.
"With the isolation, you know, eating disorders really are taking hold and people are needing support more than ever," said Colleen Hauck, executive director of the Calgary Silver Linings Foundation.
COVID-related triggers
Dr. April Elliott, a Calgary pediatrician, works with teens suffering medical complications from eating disorders. She says it's important that people realize eating disorders are complex mental health issues that require both medical and mental health support.
She says that from 2019 to 2020, during the period of March to September, there's been a 155 per cent spike in the number of new cases, whether it's for heart issues or severe malnutrition.
"These are obviously smaller numbers of patients, but the increase is significant," said Elliott, chief of adolescent medicine at the Alberta Children's Hospital.
She says current research points to social isolation as a major factor, which she says is an unintended consequence of the COVID-related restrictions that are in place to protect public health.
"So some of the hypotheses that we all have, and it's supported by what people have written so far, is that there's lots of anxiety around the pandemic measures and the pandemic itself, you know, the need to control an environment.… [One] of the things that we can control is what we put into our bodies," said Elliott.
Balisky, who now volunteers at Silver Linings, says she contacted her therapist and wrote about it in a blog — because she says isolation and secrecy help this disorder thrive.
"I knew that if I felt this way and some of my other recovery friends felt this way, it must be 10 times worse for the people who are really in the depths of their eating disorder," said Balisky.
COVID-impact on services
Alberta Health Services operates an eating disorder treatment program for teens and adults in Edmonton and Calgary.
AHS had to reduce some of its inpatient and outpatient programs due to COVID-19.
In Edmonton, AHS is still able to offer 12 designated beds at the University of Alberta Hospital, but it has had to limit the number of people attending an intensive day program.
In Calgary, the Foothills normally provides four to six designated treatment beds, but currently there are none. Two are scheduled to reopen in January.
However, a spokesman for AHS says anyone suffering acute medical or mental health problems related to an eating disorder can still be admitted through another unit at the hospital.
Wait times in Calgary for those needing an assessment to enter treatment are longer now than they were pre-pandemic.
Currently, there are 78 people on the wait list in Calgary.
For adolescents under 21, the average wait time is 12.7 weeks — compared with 5.4 weeks before the pandemic.
For adults over 21, the average wait time is about 5½ weeks — compared with one week prior to the pandemic.
A spokesperson for AHS says wait times also tend to grow around Christmas time.
Still, the wait times and reduction of beds at the Foothills have impacted the need for community support programs, according to Hauck.
"Treatment for eating disorders in Alberta has always been less than ideal. There is a lack of resources for the community. But certainly since COVID has hit, the access to service has decreased even more, unfortunately. So there is a real need for both inpatient hospital care as well as community care, Hauck said.
Hauck says that long term, Silver Linings would like to build a facility that would provide a residential program for people who may need more intensive support than a weekly therapist or support group, as is found in other provinces. She says they are at the conversation level with both the provincial government and other partners.
Both Hauck and Berlinguette say they have started to offer more support groups, which have also moved online, in order to keep up with demand.
"If the stress associated with the pandemic has encouraged more people to come forward and look for support or treatment, we can guess there's still people that are on their own with this … and we'll just do our best to adapt as things change," said Berlinguette.
If you, your child or someone you know may need help with an eating disorder, help is available.
Speak to your family doctor or connect with a local AHS Addiction and Mental Health clinic to speak to a counsellor. For services or support near you, call the AHS Mental Health Helpline at 1-877-303-2642.
Or you can reach out to silverliningsfoundation.ca or edsna.ca
Or call the National Eating Disorder Information Centre help line 1-866-NEDIC-20 or go to nedic.ca/contact
- A previous version of this article misstated wait time stats and has since been updated.Jul 18, 2021 4:01 PM MT


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Emmy winner and Tony nominee John Leguizamo will be the keynote speaker at the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene Immigration Arts Summit. The summit will be held July 17 and 18, coinciding with the Off-Broadway run of the musical Amerike—The Golden Land.
The two-day event will take place at the Museum of Jewish Heritage and will bring together leaders who serve immigrant communities or present work inspired by cultures from abroad. The summit will conclude with a free outdoor concert at the Robert F. Wagner Park on July 18, where attendees will be able to hear excerpts from the musical Amerike—The Golden Land.
Participating organizations include Pan Asian Repertory, Irish Repertory Theatre, Repertorio Español, the Irish Arts Center, the Kairos Italy Theater, and the Turkish American Repertory Theatre. Confirmed participants include journalist Ann Curry and Larry Kirwan.
"All immigrant story lines of starting new lives in America and pursuing the American Dream share many common threads," says NYTF CEO Christopher Massimine. "That is why we are so excited by the opportunity to welcome a wide array of New Yorkers from different backgrounds to see Amerike—The Golden Land, a musical that vividly depicts an iconic journey from hardship and racism to integration and continued identification with the mother culture. There is so much we hope to learn about the positive and negative aspects of this uniquely American experience."
Amerike—The Golden Land will run from July 4 to August 6 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.
Tickets for the summit are $10 for each day or $15 for both. The concert is free and open to the public. For more details or to purchase tickets, visit NYTF.org.


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Many prior studies on the business intelligence system (BIS) adoption stories are coming from the developed countries, while recent adoption stories on the developing countries are usually from Thailand, Singapore and Philippines. Rarely, research focusing on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) being reported, especially from the developing countries such as Malaysia even after the introduction of BIS by Malaysia's SME in September 2013. Since, SMEs are the primary drivers for national development in Malaysia, the research on the BIS adoption in SMEs is important to promote the resilient growth of SMEs. This study aims to study the BIS adoption theories and determinants as reported by prior researchers and propose the BIS adoption model for SME in Malaysia. The developed research model contains ten, enabling determinants covering four characteristics: technological innovation, environment, organization, and CEO. The findings revealed that out of ten determinants, only six are relevant to the decision-making in BIS adoption.
Recommended Citation
Md Hatta, Nurlydia Natasha; Miskon, Suraya; and Syed Abdullah, Norris, "Business Intelligence System Adoption Model for SMEs" (2017). PACIS 2017 Proceedings. 192.


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Tend to your need for pure culture during quarantine! There are plenty of classy places to explore from your own living room. Many people in "the industry" are adapting to our world's new needs, offering including virtual museum visits, live opera and orchestral Zoom events, and now, adding streams of elegant, adored, well-curated Broadway shows. There's even a free seven day trial to tempt you into expanding your entertainment horizons. The service offers over 300 productions.
BroadwayHD (a streaming service theater fans started in 2015,) says, "BroadwayHD was created with the goal of making high-quality theater accessible to everyone globally."
What shows are there, you ask? How about the plays with the best casts that you've always had in your bucket list, or productions you never could afford to catch before?
Growing up in New York only an hour's drive from Broadway made me jaded, but these performances are so integrated into our cultural consciousness that missing a FREE FREE FREE (no I don't get a kickback from them) chance to see Cats in all its glory is not to be missed. There's a reason the Cats movie bombed. It's just not meant to be enjoyed in a movie venue. (That's what makes dog races, if you pardon the awful pun.)
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Here's some of the listed BroadwayHD performances:
- Cats (I saw it live)
- The King and I
- Sound of Music (yep, saw live)
- Kinky Boots
- 42nd Street (saw live as well)
Travel and Leisure announced:
…in addition to its pre-existing library of nearly 300 productions, BroadwayHD will be curating two new playlists for anyone hoping to binge-watch some seriously stellar performances.
To honor Women's History Month, BroadwayHD curated a playlist featuring the works of female theater-makers and show-stopping performances including an all-female Shakespeare Trilogy, along with Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, A Night with Janis Joplin, Ann, Driving Ms. Daisy and more.
Even More Goodies, and the Seven-day Free BroadwayHD Trial
Sweet! BroadwayHD also celebrates theater composer Stephen Sondheim for his 90th birthday, as well as Andrew Lloyd Webber's 72nd, with a special tribute playlist that will make anyone misty-eyed while performance binging.
The new playlist includes:
- Gypsy
- Putting It Together
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Cats (Again)
- Phantom Of The Opera
- Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat
- (And more.)
The platform is currently offering a free seven-day trial, followed by a $8.99 monthly plan. (Because we can never have enough paid subscription channels now, right?)
But seriously, think about whether you like what you see by hopping on the free week's trial. This could be part of your children's cultural education, if you even need a reasonable excuse to work your way across the greatest Broadway shows ever seen from the comfort of a couch.
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ECE MS Thesis & PhD Dissertation Latex Template
The zip file above contains a package for BU Engineering MS Thesis and PhD Dissertation preparation in LaTeX/BiBTeX typesetting environment. It specifies thesis/dissertation style conforming to the requirements described in the "Guide for Writers of Theses & Dissertations" published by BU libraries.
It has been tested with TeTeX distribution on Linux and MiKTeX distribution on Windows, and has been reported to work on Macs as well. You can use various typesetting/compilation environments, depending on the operating system you are using. For example, TexStudio works well on Windows.
It can be easily adapted to various needs and, in particular, for other Schools and Colleges. For more details please see the README file inside the package.


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- Comprehensive operator comfort features: To promote a smoother ride, Cat compact track and multi-terrain loaders include features like independent torsion suspension. They also have fully sealed and pressurized cabins for a more comfortable, cleaner work space.
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For more than 50 years, we've made our clients comfortable.
They rely on us to manage complexity. And no one does it better.
Easy Way Products has been one of America's premier providers of high-performance lifestyle furnishings for more than 50 years. Many of the world's finest retailers have relied on Easy Way for innovative product design, superior quality, and our responsive manufacturing supply chain.
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"Over the 15 years of doing business at Easy Way, I have found them to be an amazing partner which has allowed our business to evolve, innovate and stay relevant in the market."
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"We have been working with Easy Way for over 20+ years. They make quality products and provide hands-on customer service. As our business has grown and evolved, Easy Way has and continues to be great partners by shifting and evolving with us. We look forward to our continued partnership for years to come!"
In this business, precision is the product.
Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, we leverage an extensive network of international manufacturing partners—including our modern manufacturing plants in Mexico and partners in Asia—to meet your company's dynamic fabric and design customization demands.
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Here are the ideals that guide our company.
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The questions we receive most often.
Yes, we have fully functional drop-ship capabilities, and provide this vital service for many of our customers.
Our standard lead times are 14 days from receipt of order for drop ship orders, and 30 day lead times for stock orders. Lead times are subject to supply chain constraints.
Yes, Easy Way currently manages COM business for many of our customers as a service in return for their larger stock, drop, and special order business.
Can Easy Way design cushions to fit my existing outdoor collections and furniture lines? If so, what will your product development teams need to get started?
Easy Way can develop cushion and seat back specs tailored to the specific piece by using CAD design, technical specs, or even via reverse engineering.
Easy Way's factories are based in Mexico, with distribution and warehousing facilities in Texas.
Easy Way can manage customers' fabric needs directly with their chosen mill based on provided projections, thereby eliminating the need to carry expensive inventory on their books and in their warehouses. Customers ultimately maintain liability for fabrics they may choose to drop or discontinue.


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Established in 1964, the Sundre Golf Club boasts 18 beautiful holes at the base of the Rocky Mountains. The Sundre Golf Club is blessed with mature trees, water features and a new completely renovated Clubhouse. Recent renovations have allowed the Sundre Golf Club to offer a fair challenge to all levels of golfers with improved and more forgiving fairways and larger greens. This picturesque course will impress even the most particular of golfers. The facility offers a full range of services including a large banquet area, lockers, club storage and club rental, and some of the best training and lessons from qualified CPGA professionals.


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When we hear the word "Western," certain images and storyline tropes come to mind: cowboys riding their trusty steeds, epic shootouts with rolling tumbleweeds in the background, and the fearless exploration of uncharted territory. We challenged the movies to a duel to identify movies that may not come to mind when you think of Westerns, but are significantly influenced by or are tributes to the gun-slinging films your grandpa can't get enough of.
From talking bugs to space pioneers discovering a mysterious native population, we present ten movies that take Western themes far away from the Wild West.
A Bug's Life
How's this for a cow-opera plot: a greedy gang comes to town and threatens to steal everything from its docile citizens. Sounds kind of like McCabe & Mrs. Miller, albeit without the whorehouse.
Wait, there's more: one resident decides to stand up to the bad guys by rounding up a posse and staging a daring defense of the community and all it holds dear. The Magnificent Seven you say? Well, sorta. A Bug's Life doesn't have horses, spurs, saloons, or duels at high noon, but in its broad outline, it's an oater through-and-through.
Wait, wait, hear me out on this one. An idyllic community is threatened by a deadly outside force, so it's up to a motley crew of locals - including a grizzled old guy and a young upstart - to band together in order to save the town. Just substitute Massachusetts for South Dakota, and the giant shark for Lee Van Cleef, and boom - you've got yourself another oater.
Of course, you'd have to change some of the dialogue, but that wouldn't be too hard: the characters could say stuff like "That's some bad ten-gallon hat, Harry," or "You're gonna need a bigger six-shooter." Still not convinced? Well, there's a scene in Jaws that's cribbed practically shot-for-shot from The Searchers - though, to be fair, virtually every movie from the 1970s Movie brats (including Star Wars and Taxi Driver) borrows liberally from the John Ford-John Wayne classic.
Assault on Precinct 13
The great Howard Hawks didn't much care for High Noon -- he though it was anti-American, and was rankled by its seemingly impotent protagonist and cowardly secondary characters. In response, he made Rio Bravo, in which his main character, Sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) is surrounded by helpful townsfolk intent on protecting their community from goons trying to bust one of their own out of jail.
John Carpenter was profoundly inspired by Rio Bravo when he made Assault on Precinct 13, set in contemporary Los Angeles but telling a similar story of an outgunned lawman who turns to a ragtag bunch - including one of his prisoners - for help in defending his station from a street gang. Though Carpenter updated the milieu for the 1970s - and also drew inspiration from George Romero's Night of the Living Dead - he proved that rugged, classic heroism is never outdated, even in a more cynical time.
Starring Gary Cooper in perhaps his most iconic role, High Noon tells the story of a retiring lawman who's forced to take matters into his own hands when a gang of killers threatens his Wild West town - the populace of which is cowed into submission. Outland is basically a remake of High Noon in space.
In Outland, O'Niel (Sean Connery) is a law-enforcement agent who discovers that the mining company he's been assigned to police has been forcing mind-altering substances on its employees to increase their productivity. It all climaxes with a big showdown between O'Niel and the company's goons - just like Cooper in High Noon.
Gran Torino
What if you were to plop the Man with No Name or the Outlaw Josey Wales in contemporary Detroit? He'd probably act a lot like Walt Kowalski, a racist, bitter Korean War vet who nevertheless maintains a deep-seated sense of honor - and a propensity for dishing out frontier justice.
When Thao, a neighborhood kid, attempts to steal Walt's pride and joy - his 1972 Ford Gran Torino - in order to gain initiation into an Asian-American gang, Walt is initially furious. But over time, he warms to Thao and his family, and despite his lifelong hatred of Asians, he decides that he's duty-bound to rid the neighborhood of its criminal elements.
In broad terms, Gran Torino isn't dissimilar to Pale Rider, a Western in which Eastwood is enlisted to protect a community of farmers under siege from evil business interests. By placing a classic Western plotline in a modern, big city setting, Eastwood got a chance to riff on his rugged, old-school persona - and make a few points about the current state of American race relations.
Near Dark
Years before The Hurt Locker cleaned up at the Oscars, Kathryn Bigelow was a struggling filmmaker who was having trouble getting a movie off the ground. She wanted to make a Western, but found few takers - the genre was considered played out at the time. So she threw some bloodsuckers into the mix, and voila - Near Dark was born.
Set in Oklahoma, Near Dark follows a band of vampires who roam the plains; shootouts, horse chases, and barroom brawls ensue. In addition to acting as Bigelow's big break, Near Dark inspired other directors to make horror flicks with a Western flavor - most notably Robert Rodriguez, who made the vampire-crazed From Dusk Till Dawn.
The Seven Samurai
In the 1950s, as postwar Japanese directors carved out a distinctly Japanese brand of cinema, the great Akira Kurosawa looked to the West - particularly the Wild West - for inspiration.
Profoundly influenced by the works of John Ford (considered by many film scholars to be the greatest director of the Western), Kurosawa reconfigured a classic Western scenario - that of a town under siege, defended by a loose band of heroes - as a samurai epic.
Western directors would return the compliment - John Sturges remade The Seven Samurai as The Magnificent Seven, and Sergio Leone's A Fistfull of Dollars was a loose reworking of Kurosawa's Yojimbo. But The Seven Samurai's influence extends far beyond the Western genre - it's considered by many to be one of the first modern action movies, and many of its elements - a motley group assembled to undertake an impossible mission, a leader who doesn't play by the rules - have been endlessly imitated.
But there's nothing quite like the original, which turns feudal Japan into one big town without pity, and contains action sequences of bracing, immediate power that remain thrilling even to folks who tend to avoid foreign films.
The Road Warrior
It's not surprising that Australia has produced its share of quasi-Westerns. Oz has a wild, untamed, mysterious frontier, and because it was used by the British as a prison colony, it produced some legendary outlaws - Ned Kelly, anyone?
In The Road Warrior, George Miller inverted the basic plotline of the Western classic Shane - instead of being unable to leave his violent past behind, Max (Mel Gibson) is a cold-blooded killer who finds he can't escape his fundamental morality. In this post-apocalyptic, distinctly Australian action flick, tribal warfare has erupted in the wake of a worldwide fossil fuel shortage, and Max, who is haunted by the death of his wife and child, finds himself in the midst of a deadly conflict.
As with any great Western, the environment is practically a character itself, and in The Road Warrior, the foreboding beauty of the desert is as evocative as anything this side of Monument Valley.
Strip Avatar of its CGI, its outer space milieu, and its tall blue people (difficult, I know), and you've essentially got the plot of Dances with Wolves.
Both tell the tale of an outsider attempting to learn the ways of native peoples - be they Native Americans or Na'vi - while defending them from aggressive outsiders - in the form of the U.S. military and/or a private security firm called Spec-Ops. Some conservative pundits objected to the Avatar as anti-American, while liberal types found the Na'vi to be one-dimensional savages - in other words, the kinds of for/against arguments that cultural critics have been making about revisionist Westerns for years.
Of course, audiences ate it up, and who can blame them? By wedding the latest in moviemaking technology to age-old Western tropes, Cameron was able to wow us with remarkable visions without upsetting our need for classic storytelling.
We obviously couldn't leave Serenity off this list, because we knew the fanboys and girls would throw a fit if we did. Serenity (and Firefly, the TV series that birthed it) was feverishly adored by a cult audience and widely praised by critics, but it never quite won over the mainstream.
The film chronicles the adventures of a roving band of outcasts, who traverse the galaxy aboard the Serenity, which is essentially a stagecoach in space. Now and then, they stop off in various one-horse towns (er, spaceports) and haul freight and/or contraband to various destinations - kind of like the railroads did in olden times.
And if there was any doubt, the Firefly intro features a twangy country tune and lots of horses.


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A new report conducted by Canadean analyzes trends in airport retail and explores how opportunities and demand are set to change in 2012-2013. This report is the result of an extensive survey drawn from an exclusive panel of European respondents.
The report reveals that the average expenditure of European travelers per visit to duty-free and duty-paid airport retail outlets is US$76 and US$51, respectively.
Competitive prices, renowned brands at discounted prices, and last-minute gifts are the key drivers behind recent market changes, ranking as the most important motivational factors of purchases at airport retail stores.
Overall, European travelers indicated that 46% of purchases at duty-free airport retail stores were pre-planned, while 54% of purchases were impulsive, with the leading product categories being food, beverages, and tobacco; perfumes, cosmetics, and personal care; and apparel, accessories, and luxury goods.
In total, 75%, 66%, and 65% of European respondents identified printed media, stationery and cards, and food and non-alcoholic beverages, respectively, as key products purchased from duty paid shops.
According to calculations, the average time spent by a customer at duty-free airport retail outlets is 23 minutes, as compared with 19 minutes at duty paid outlets.
The average expenditure on food and beverages per visit to airport outlets is US$14 overall – 27% of respondents spend between US$11-US$15 per visit on food and beverages, while 24% spend US$16-US$20.
Shoppers assign more significance to brand selection during the purchase of products from airport retail outlets, with art and craft, food and non-alcoholic beverage, and stationery and cards being the most important within the domestic brand category, while consumer electronics, perfumes, cosmetics, personal care, and tobacco are significant within the global brands category.
Key activities that optimize business of airport retailers are promoting price advantages over city-center retailers and adapting offers to passenger profiles.


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Relive epic memories from the fan's favorite Marvel Cinematic Universe movie titled Avengers: Infinity War. This famous weapon worn by the supervillain Thanos can now be recreated in your home. Make your LEGO Infinity Gauntlet 76191 glow on your table or wherever you display it with our fascinating LEGO Lights.
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This classic LEGO Infinity Gauntlet 76191 set comes with just 590 pieces. The model features amazing details that make it easier for you to create your version of the famous Infinity gauntlet. The bricks have a shiny, gorgeous gold color to perfectly depict the actual Gauntlet. This set also features a descriptive tablet, a sturdy stand, and colorful Infinity Stones. If you are looking for a perfect gift to give a Marvel or LEGO can, this model is a great option. Customize it with our awesome light kit and put it on display. Feel like an Avenger by building the LEGO Infinity Gauntlet 76191 set and relive fascinating scenes. Install our amazing LEGO LED Lights to make it look attractive.
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Your tumble dryer, much like the washing machine, needs cleaning occasionally. Cleaning the lint drawer is essential as it helps keep your drying appliance functional. However, just what do you do with tumble dryer lint? While you are accustomed to throwing it in the bin, there are uses to it.
Importance of Cleaning Your Lint Drawer
Before we dive deep into what do to with tumble dryer lint, it's crucial to point out the consequences of not cleaning your lint drawer. If your dryer lint gets too thick, you are risking a fire hazard. Also, the more lint that piles up, the more chances of your dryer not working to its full functionality.
Instead of Throwing It Away, Here Is What You Can Do…
We know the sight of your dryer lint isn't pleasing. It is tempting to throw it away but you will find it useful for many things!
Firstly, due to its flammability, you can use it to safely make fires when cooking BBQ. To do this, you must put the dryer lint into the bottom of the toilet paper roll and then get the newspaper to wrap up the roll. Make sure you are in an open space away from trees and fences!
You can also use your dryer lint to clean up spills or stains. If you ever accidentally spilled a drink or cooking oil, you can easily use your dryer lint to clean up the mess!
If you love gardening, you'd also love the idea of keeping dryer lint around. This is because it can prevent weed growth and erosion in your garden.
Another benefit of keeping your dryer lint is that you can use it to pack materials instead of using expensive items like bubble wrap. Due to its soft nature, you can use it to keep your items safe whenever they are in a box ready to be shipped or packed to go somewhere else.
Now that you know what to do with tumble dryer lint, we hope you do keep it around because as you've read, it does have its benefits!
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The Children's Reading Alliance focuses on advancing children's literacy in Doña Ana County. Because it has been proven that reading daily with children and having books in the home leads to success in school, we promote the message "Read with a child every day" and support programs designed to place books in the hands of families.
Our Mission
The mission of Children's Reading Alliance is to engage families and the community to promote children's literacy.
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Raising Readers Together
We believe that all families should have equal access to books and learning experiences that prepare their children to reach their full potential for success in school and life. We are committed to programs that support family participation in their children's education and enrich early learning experiences. We value our county's multicultural population, We value collaboration with other organizations including public schools to improve childhood literacy in Doña Ana County.


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11. The Inner Lives and Cultural Worlds of Animals – with Carl Safina
Carl Safina is an ecologist, author, conservationist, and animal translator whose body of work probes how free-living animals experience life. His books Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel and Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace have won numerous awards. Audubon named Carl Safina among its "100 Notable Conservationists of the 20th Century."
Carl uncovers the rich truth that many species and animals have entire cultures, traditions, familial stories, and individual quests, that all are part of this symbiotic tapestry of tales that we call "nature". He travels alongside the sweeping wingspans of albatrosses, the elephants of East Africa, the wolves of Yellowstone, the Orcas of the Pacific Northwest, sperm whales, seals, turtles, deciphering the role of matriarchs and elders, describing how individual personalities affect all kinds of behaviors, and how these creatures too experience mourning, loss, and grief.
Here we speak about all these interlocking animal worlds and lives, their highly evolved and complex cultural systems, how the world is awash in waves of communication, the imperfect evolutionary work in progress known as human empathy, and how knowledge of their existence should drastically influence strategies of conservation and regeneration. We end on a profound note speaking to the role of beauty across species and minds.
(Tip: Listen to the end of this episode, the closing is particularly special...)
"Culture is Life itself adjusting and responding and expressing to the corner of this galaxy in which it finds itself" - Carl Safina
Show Links:
- Carl Safina Website with links to books, articles, podcasts
- The Safina Center Non Profit
- Zebra Fish and empathy/oxytocin response
- The Mind of a Bee book
- Guardian: Australian Songbird forgetting love songs
Look out for meditations, poems, readings, and other snippets of inspiration in between episodes.
Photo Credit: Whales, Clark Miller
Music: Electric Ethnicity by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock & Ellie Kidd
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16. 16. Climate Grief, Eco-anxiety, and Loving a World in Turmoil – with Britt Wray01:10:34A necessary and beautiful episode on the emotional terrain of climate grief, loss, sadness, anxiety, and all the ways we can cope either maladaptively or adaptively to this challenging moment in time.This is an intimate conversation that makes the case for allowing ourselves to 'feel it all'. Because from the depth of feeling comes the power of action, hope, resilience and community. If we ignore the reality of this mental health crisis, we are turning our backs on the potential that can emerge on the other side of initiation. We discuss different frameworks for processing climate anxiety - practical resources, approaches and philosophical underpinnings of a phenomenon that is sweeping the world, especially among youth populations.Dr Britt Wray is one of the world's most esteemed and loved researchers on this topic, having published the viral newsletter and book Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis. She is Director Special Initiative of the Chair on Climate Change & Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences of Stanford Medicine, advancing research and approaches in the field with communities facing the reality of ecological and social breakdown.Show Links:Lifeworlds Resources PageBritt's websiteBritt's books: Generation Dread & Rise of the NecrofaunaJoanna Macey: World as Lover, World as SelfEdwards & Buzzel: The Waking Up SyndromeBlanche Verlie: Learning to Live with Climate ChangeGood Grief NetworkElizabeth Bechard: Parenting in a Changing ClimateJo McAndrews: Supporting children in the face of climate changeMartin Shaw: We Are In The Underworld And We Haven't Figured It Out YetClimate Psychiatry AllianceRoy Scranton: Learning to Die in the AnthropoceneMusic: Electric EthnicityPhoto: Midsummer Eve Celebration
Myth | Remembrance & Initiation of the Soul34:56An essential part of living into different lifeworlds resides in the mythic realm – the currents of poetry, mysticism and story that stream in the archetypal world below the world. Today I bring you a myth, from Darren Silver, rite of passage and vision quest guide; it is a myth that has laid dormant for many years and is finally here to be told. On the surface it's a story of twins, of a brother and a sister, and of their initiation. There is magical surrealism here, and mythic beings, ancient and enduring laws of reciprocity, of the ways of the forest, of how to barter in ancient exchanges of the soul. There are riddles and agreements and creatures that speak and weave wisdom through grit and pain and love. The enduring message that this myth leaves me with is that initiation does not come bundled in cozy sound baths and sipping cacao on a beach — initiation is painful and tears us to our bones, and yet it is a sublime liberation, because through initiation, we manifest our gifts into the world. And as Darren says, for our gift to manifest, we have to wager our own skin. So sit back and listen to this one closely. Be present, receptive, and dignify the messages that are coming through as medicine for you, because something will strike you close. Allow yourself to be carried away by the myth. And so we begin.Credit: Photo of Stag (Flickr)
15. 15. Re-Weaving Landscapes: Wildlife Crossings & Designing for Nature as the Client01:10:41The roads on which we drive are unlikely to strike us as an exciting source of design innovation or interspecies dialogue. And yet, some of the most fascinating experiments and living laboratories are taking place around the world in how humans can build structures of hope and creativity for other species to flourish, despite having their habitats sliced in half by concrete veins. Earth is a fluid organism and needs connected landscapes like a canvas upon which to paint its life. Roads, on the other hand, are the single most destructive element in the process of habitat fragmentation (not to mention the millions of deaths due to collisions and the massive economic cost of these accidents). Over the coming 30 years, an additional 25 million km of roads will be built across the planet's surface. So today in the show, we speak to pioneers in the world of wildlife crossings and design competition leaders who have spurred the process of globally rethinking and redesigning human structures to grapple with the concept of "wilderness" and the radical interconnectedness of nature and culture.Jeremy Guth is a trustee of the Woodcock Foundation, and an ARC founding sponsor. Nina-Marie is the Graduate Director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Toronto Metropolitan University where she leads the Ecological Design Lab, and has created a series of courses at the Harvard Graduate School of Design called Wild Ways. Episode Website Link: https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/reweavinglandscapes Show Links:ARC websiteCrossings for Wildlife websiteBiophilic Cities NetworkEcological Design Lab.caWild Ways Harvard CourseWild Ways publicationInteractive map of wildlife crossings in the USAeon article: Reweaving the Wild(Re)Connecting Wild filmNYT wildlife crossing articleLook out for meditations, poems, readings, and other snippets of inspiration in between episodes.Music: Electric Ethnicity by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock, Ellie Kidd & The Rising by Tryad CCPL
14. 14. Musicians of the Planet: On Making Interspecies Songs – with David Rothenberg01:01:38A clarinet plugged into an underwater hydrophone, playing with liquid humpback whale songs below the surface. A huddled group of musicians under a night-time forest in Berlin, singing with nightingales. A 17-year swarm of cicadas alighting upon a sole jazz musician. These are the scenographies that David Rothenberg provokes with his interspecies music compilations, asking us, why should we only play music with other humans and not improvise along with the original musicians of the planet herself? For human music and song emerged from a world that sings, hums, beats, chirps, and human translations of these sounds have captured our imaginations from our tribal origins through to the first recordings of humpback whales that spurred anti-whaling conventions in the 70s and electronic synthesizers. Today's episode brings us into this creative engagement with the planet, exploring how we are transformed when we open up to a world of music, beauty and art created by nature every day. So my friends, listen wider, expand your sense of music, and have David Rothenberg, interspecies musician, writer, and philosopher, show us how to become not just passive listeners but active participants in the symphony. Episode Website LinkShow Links:David's websiteDavid Rothenberg music on Spotifyall David Rothenberg books on AmazonNYT making music with cicadasIf Nietzche were an animal bookTim D recording windSlowing down nightingale song into whale songOn making music with whalesSounding SoilsBernie KrauseDavid's workshop in Costa Rica Look out for meditations, poems, readings, and other snippets of inspiration in between episodes. Music: Electric Ethnicity by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock & Ellie Kidd Songs: Nightingale sounds are from David, and the Monkey Chant is from Kecak from Bali (Bridge Records)
13. 13. The Sounds of Life: Bioacoustics, A.I. and Ethics – with Karen Bakker01:01:48The world around us is constantly vibrating with sounds we cannot hear. This magical soundscape evades our senses, tempts us by its elusive presence and beckons us to look deeper. Our ability to listen in is rapidly evolving. Over the last decades, scientists have begun installing digital listening devices in nearly every ecosystem. This process of deciphering what nature is saying is called "bioacoustics" and "ecoacoustics". Massive advances in both hardware and artificial intelligence are permitting us to go where no artificial ear has gone before. Recent breakthroughs unveil that many more species are speaking in ways we didn't know were possible, with far richer behaviors than were previously known. Karen Bakker - Canadian scientist, author, Professor at UBC and Rhodes Scholar - tells us how bioacoustics is poised to alter humanity's relationship with our planet by expanding our sense of sound. We can develop mobile protected areas for animal climate refugees. Simply by singing, a whale can turn aside a container ship. Acoustic enrichment can help corals regenerate. Acknowledging these forms of communication requires us to confront our entrenched ideas of sentience and intelligence. This seeks to understand non-human communication on its own terms and brings up new ethical and moral dilemmas. Who grants us consent to listen in to the conversation of bats? And as we inhabit such different lifeworlds, might we have enough shared concepts that would enable any kind of translation? Episode Website Link Smart Earth Project Sounds of Life Yale article Project CETI Interspecies Internet Earth Species Project Sonification Elephant listening project Wild Dolphin Project Sounds of Reef Marine mammal communication & cognition Biologgers Photo: Karen's Book Music: Electric Ethnicity Coral sounds Tim Lamont Bat sound Tomáš Bartonička
Meditation | Deep Time21:19This is a meditation I wrote and recorded to plunge us through epochs of cosmic time, through the tremendous evolutionary processes that preceded us, became us, and are us. It grants us invaluable context on the great tales of life whose memories are held in our bones. This is our origin and lineage. I hope you find yourself nourished and moved by the experience. This script is inspired by and takes language from the deep time practices of Joanna Macy and the Deep Time Walk of Stephan Harding and colleagues, along with some of the evolutionary notions explored in Otherlands by John Halliday – to them I am deeply grateful. My script here. Please credit if used or shared.Music attribution: Take Off and Shoot a Zero. Stunt Island Album. Written, produced, and performed by Chris Zabriskie. Published by You've Been a Wonderful Laugh Track (ASCAP). © 2011 Chris Zabriskie.Art made with… You guessed it. Midjourney.
12. 12. The Art of Tracking & Wild Bison - with Toni Romani51:52This episode weaves live narrative, interview and descriptions on Romanian bison, wild forest adventures, and the lost ancient art and science of tracking. Tracking is an ancient sensorial and survival strategy that our nomadic ancestors cultivated as state of profound observation. It led to the development of many innate abilities of the human mind and indeed, tracking is so ingrained in our very cells that it is synonymous with being human. There is a movement today to revitalise tracking into a new modern profession, into a science that can help to monitor the impact of climate change and biodiversity loss and nature conservation. More on this in the show… Here I bring you into my own story of tracking animals and wild bison in the mountains of Romania with We Wilder, a social enterprise and cooperative founded by WWF Romania and local community members. We were engaging in a 4 day experience led by Toni Romani, a certified Cyber Tracker facilitator, and organised as part of building a local circular economy and connecting more people to the practicalities and experience of rewilding. Episode Website Link Show Links:How the return of the Bison will transform Europe (by Mossy Earth)Cyber Tracker The Art of Tracking resourcesWe Wilder Romania Toni Romani: Research Gate & CyberTracker ItalyMovebank technology approach to animal tracking (Max Planck institute) Look out for meditations, poems, readings, and other snippets of inspiration in between episodes. Music: Electric Ethnicity by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock & Ellie Kidd
Season 1 | Your Host's Reflections & Resolutions!26:51My 2023 Reflections and Resolutions from Season One! I created this podcast to explore how people can learn to inhabit the world from multiple perspectives, with the ultimate goal of being able to feel the Earth's body as our own body. In this episode, I start the year and tie the bow on the closing of Season One, by looking back over our twenty or so conversations and harvesting the rich learnings and patterns that emerged across the show. There are three consistent topics I unearthed:The challenge of how we integrate others into our models of the worldThat tending to the lifeworlds of the earth begins to heal ourselvesA collection of insights from our guests on how to re-sensitise and re-animate ourselves to the aliveness of the worldIt's just me today with you in this episode, so lie back and I hope this harvest brings you inspiration and breadcrumbs to follow into the new year… Music: Electric Ethnicity by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock, Ellie Kidd The Rising by Tryad CCPLPhoto Source: Imgur


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It's time to take ownership of your "why."
You crave Financial Freedom . . . but why? What does it mean for you? What does Freedom allow you to do and be?
Your personal journey has intense purpose and power if you know your "why"—your dream for your life. But stating your dreams with confidence and clarity is its own challenge. If you're ready to discover, define and achieve your deepest motivations, commit yourself to this seven-step thought exercise.
Step #1: Take Inventory
Before visualizing your aspirations, take stock of who you are and what you have right now. In a quiet time and place, close your eyes and ask yourself these questions:
- What do I value above everything else?
- What principles matter to me?
- What qualities make me unique?
- What experiences have shaped me?
- What are my passions? What things, people and activities bring me immense joy?
- What do I hate?
Step #2: Think Back
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Election season has begun, and the Israeli public desperately wants one thing: escapism.
Last night, after the Israeli election was set for September 4, I saw a guy wearing a T-shirt that I thought summed up the public mood, which the main "opposition" candidates have been and will be catering to. The T-shirt showed a comically wide-eyed, frightened John Cleese and his classic line from Fawlty Towers: "Don't mention the war!"
Perfect. The prime minister has the whole world scared to death that he's going to bomb Iran, every poll shows that a great majority of Israelis don't want him to do it – but it's not an issue in Israeli politics and it almost certainly won't be in the campaign. People don't want to talk about it or hear about it. They sit silently as Netanyahu drips the fear of another Holocaust into their brains, softening them up for the war he's waiting for the opportunity to start, then they go on about their business, a little more tenderized than before. Except for the marginal left and a couple of rogue ex-Mossad and ex-Shin Bet chiefs, nobody challenges this "duty" of every Jew and every non-anti-Semitic gentile to choose war over a nuclear Iran.
Look at how the opposition and the public have reacted since ex-Shin Bet head Yuval Diskin accused Netanyahu and Barak last Friday of being "messianics" who can't be trusted to deal reasonably with Iran. None of the three candidates purporting to offer a centrist alternative to Bibi – neither Kadima's Shaul Mofaz, Labor's Shelly Yacimovich nor Yair Lapid of Yesh Atid (There Is A Future) – grabbed the flag Diskin raised. His words, like those of Meir Dagan before him, caused a huge storm in the media, even overseas – but didn't have the tiniest effect on the Likud and right wing's control of the political arena. A Haaretz-Dialog poll published yesterday showed Netanyahu being more popular than Mofaz, Yacimovich and Lapid combined. It also showed him enjoying 2-1 public support against Diskin and his accusations.
In their hearts, Israelis would prefer that their government not start a war with Iran, but if somebody, such as the prime minister, tells them he's going to do it anyway, they'll go along. When push comes to shove, they'll support it. The Israeli public is so weak, so intimidated by anybody who might stand up and accuse them of cowardice and treason if they don't nod their heads to the proposal of the day for screwing the Arabs. They're putty in the hands of a guy like Netanyahu.
The "opposition" leaders know this, so they run from any issue in which they would have to position themselves to the left of Bibi (since right-of-Bibi is, of course, already overcrowded). They don't challenge him on Iran, they don't challenge him on the occupation, they don't have anything to say about what most everyone else in the world thinks of when they hear the word "Israel" – war-mongering, trampling on Palestinians, militant Jewish fanaticism. These are the things that define Israel, the whole world knows it, and you won't hear about any of this in this election campaign.
What will you hear about? Drafting the Haredim (ultra-Orthodox) and high prices. These are the hot-button issues in the country today, this is what people want to hear about, this is what it's safe for both voters and politicians to scream and yell about – because it's not right wing and it's not left wing, it's consensus, nobody will call you a coward or a traitor, everybody agrees, the goddamn haredim should serve the country like everybody else and these prices are too goddamn high.
Again, perfect. This is what Israelis really want, this is what Netanyahu, Mofaz, Yacimovich and Lapid are going to promise to deliver – and everybody knows everyone's jerking each other off because nobody's going to draft the Haredim – they won't go and nobody's going to make them go – and nobody's going to lower prices, either, because this country's economy is a piggish capitalist one and Netanyahu, who everybody knows will win the election, is the last guy on earth who wants to change that.
So the issues shaping up as the central ones of the campaign are not just trivial, they're not issues at all because in Israel 2012, nothing can or will be done about them.
As for the real issues, it's not that there's an elephant in the room that everyone's pretending not to see, it's that there are several elephants – war with Iran, the occupation, war with Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and/or Turkey, the rise of McCarthyism, the dread that Israel doesn't have a future – which will continue to go unmentioned in polite, mainstream company during this supposed season of decision.
Boy, what a vibrant democracy we live in.


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How to Arrange Flowers: Submerged Rose Centerpiece
J digs back into the JTV Archives to share this Special Event Idea… Submerging a long stem rose in an incredible vase from Accent Décor! J shares his favorite tips and tricks for submerging flowers underwater!
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