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There are real benefits to one-on-one time with an instructor. Agility involves a steeper learning curve than the newbie might imagine, and sometimes the amount of information can be overwhelming, especially to a person who hasn't developed any dog-training skills prior to taking agility lessons.
Private lessons can be booked on an ongoing basis or for occasional extra help if you have something you are struggling with.
1st lessons: $80 for 40-45 minutes. I will assess you and your dog's current skills -- does your dog have a sit-stay, does your dog have a recall, etc.? We will discuss agility training fundamentals. If your dog has experience, we will run some short sequences and assess where the holes are.
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Teaching your dog to weave properly is quite complex. Some dogs never learn to weave at all, some dogs weave but don't perform the obstacle correctly in its entirety, and some dogs weave unreliably or inefficiently. Many students give up and accept substandard weaving because teaching your dog to weave takes quite a bit of work. Teaching weaving takes time. But this time can be cut down if you take private lessons because I can make sure you are on the right track.
In the past year, it took one of my dedicated group-class students 9 months to teach her dog to weave whereas it took a dedicated private lesson student 5 weeks to teach her dog to weave. Really!
Pixel is the 2nd dog with whom I have done serious agility training. She is a tricolour sheltie, a rescue that I adopted at 6 months of age and I started her in classes when she was 1 yr. Initially very shy she seemed to make fairly good progress with her training but I really wanted to teach her the 2X2 method of training for weaving as it teaches the dog to do the "weaves" independently. I was struggling with the steps and needed more help so I decided to try some private training with Sylvie. I am not sure who is more amazed and thrilled with Pixel's progress, Sylvie or myself! Pixel and I were able to work at our own pace and being good at pinpointing problems Sylvie was able to correct errors right away. She could tell me exactly what Pixel was doing (which you can't always see for yourself when working with the dog) and was able to suggest things to practice, specific to her/our needs. Sylvie is very committed to her dog training. Thank you Sylvie for your help, enthusiasm and positive feedback.
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"Student travel" is defined as any trip taken by currently enrolled students as part of a College-affiliated function, on a voluntary basis, and not as a requirement of the student's coursework or program of study. This includes all trips sponsored by student organizations, whether or not College funds are used, except for College-affiliated study abroad programs and varsity athletics.
Students must complete and sign the Student Travel Assumption of Risk, Release, and Hold Harmless Agreement Waiver and send the originals to Risk Management prior to the trip taking place.
Travel Information for Clery Act Compliance
The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act requires EFSC to report statistics of certain crimes that occur on property controlled by EFSC and frequently used by students, which includes facilities used in conjunction with student travel in the following circumstances:
- Short-Stay "Away" Trips
EFSC must report crime statistics for student travel "away" trips of more than one overnight. This obligation requires EFSC to report crime statistics for any facilities or portions thereof that are provided by EFSC (i.e. rented, leased, etc.) for students to use during the trip. This will generally include hotel rooms, and could include other places such as conference rooms or practice facilities, if provided by EFSC and used exclusively by EFSC students.
After each student trip of more than one overnight, travel sponsors must use the Overnight Student Travel Log to keep detailed information about the facilities provided by EFSC for student use during the trip. This includes the name/address of any lodging facilities, room numbers, date/time of check-in and check-out, plus similar information for other spaces provided by EFSC and used exclusively by EFSC students during the trip.
- Repeated Use of a Location for Student Overnight Trips
In addition, EFSC must also report crime statistics for any locations where overnight student travel regularly occurs (i.e. annually), wherein the students stay in the same lodging facility each time. Repeated use of a location is the determining factor, rather than the number of days it is used or whether it is used by the same students. For example, this would apply if a conference were held in the same location each year and students stay there, even if only for one overnight. In those cases, Travel Sponsors must provide the same information as listed above for short-stay trips, using the Overnight Student Travel Log to document the required information.
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Eivor leads the charge in Assassin's Creed Valhalla, gathering together a motley crew of vikings to wage a bloody war against England. As with Assassin's Creed Odyssey though, you can pick the gender of your Eivor, but crucially, you can change the gender of your playable character at any point. In this guide, we'll explain everything there is to know about Valhalla's gender selection for Eivor.
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Eivor Choice Explained – Assassin's Creed Valhalla
Assassin's Creed Valhalla opens with Eivor as a child, joining in the festivities in their home town before everything goes to hell when enemy vikings forces attack. After watching both their parents perish in battle, Eivor crawls away with their childhood friend Sigurd, only to be set upon by wolves. While Eivor is being attacked by the wolves, the screen repeatedly glitches out, and you'll hear Layla, the hero of our current timeline in the latest Assassin's Creed games.
At this point, Valhalla presents you with three options. The first two of these options are to play as either the male or female Eivor and there's no difference whatsoever between the two gendered choices. You won't be cut out of quest lines if you choose one gender over the other. The Eivor that you don't choose doesn't exist in Valhalla as a non-playable character, like how protagonists Alexios and Kassandra worked in Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
The third option is a little different. If you select the option to 'Let the Animus Choose,' you'll periodically switch between playing as the male and female Eivor at very specific points in Valhalla. This is an option that effectively gives you the best of both worlds: you're not cut out from romance options since you can switch back and forth between Eivors whenever you please.
We should also mention that the choice of Eivor's gender has no bearing on the plot outside of the Animus, in the current timeline. If you're familiar with Assassin's Creed, you might remember how there's a prolonged plot in our time going on throughout all the main games in Ubisoft's franchise. Layla and company return from previous games for this new adventure, but as with Odyssey, Eivor's gender has no bearing on Layla's plot.
Can You Change Eivor's Gender?
The simple answer to this question is yes, and it's a surprisingly easy thing to do at that. Valhalla actually allows you to switch Eivor's gender whenever you please. To change your Eivor's gender, simply head into the game's pause menu. Then, press up on the d-pad, and you'll be presented with the three base options that you were at the start of Valhalla: female Eivor, male Eivor, or let the Animus choose.
There's no penalties of drawbacks whatsoever to changing your Eivor's gender. Valhalla lets you switch genders like this whenever you want, so don't be afraid to change your Eivor whenever you want. Thankfully, the game doesn't put any cost on changing your Eivor's gender. This isn't like World of Warcraft, where Blizzard would formerly charge players to change their character's gender.


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Few, if any, companies are as inseparable from the emerging trends, as well as established norms of their industry, as Microsoft. The emergence of several synergistic technologies – that redefine capacities and possibilities – is ushering in a transformative age in Information Technology. As intrinsic as IT has become to the modern business already, technologies and solutions such as IoT, Cloud Computing, AI, Machine Learning and Virtual Machines hold forth a promise that can dwarf even the metamorphosis that came before them.
The fundamental advantages of Cloud Computing have been obvious to enterprises for a few years. Especially because the IT industry has reacted to emerging possibilities with remarkable creativity – resourceful solutions are adding to the basket of services on a near daily basis. The exceptional profits recently posted by Microsoft Azure also underscore the general interest in, and enthusiasm for, Cloud Computing. Nevertheless, while several functions – such as email, storage and resource sharing – have been fairly enthusiastically adopted, many of the most exciting possibilities continue to be hindered by concerns around security.
From proprietary advantages to industry compliance, several factors make the security of Cloud based SaaS, IaaS and PaaS deployments a matter of concern for businesses. The advent of several new technologies, that are bound to become indispensable business advantages, are further complicating choices. Clearly, the profusion of game-changing technologies on offer must come bundled with credible, effective and dependable security, for adoption to reach an even greater scale.
Symantec partners Microsoft Azure for enhanced cloud based security
In this scenario, the announcement that Symantec is partnering Microsoft in providing a cloud based security stack could be a formidable driver of change. Moving forward, Symantec Web Security Service will be enhancing secure cloud connectivity to both Office 365 and Azure. Threat protection as an integrated feature of applications – comprehensive, coherent and applied across devices, networks and technologies – should make greater adoption of hybrid cloud infrastructure much easier.
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Flexibility of operations, functional speed and magnified capacities, at a much reduced price point, has been the greatest promise of cloud computing. While these advantages have been obvious for a while, concerns regarding security have not been entirely unfounded either. Symantec's collaboration with Microsoft Azure could finally address the opportunity cost for businesses and steer industry into a brave new world of efficiency, profitability and growth. To know more about the latest options for enhanced security in a cloud computing environment, contact us on email@example.com for your complimentary consultation.


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Operator for Electricity Distribution OSHEE data for the balance sheet of 2015 show significant increase collections and reduction of losses .
OSHEE has collected in total for 2015 65.7 billion lek and in 2014 collected 49.7 billion and 38.3 billion in 2013 alone.
The level of losses for 2015 decreased to 31.3%. A year ago they were 37.8% and in 2013 reached 45%.
Distribution Operator for the first time come up with a positive financial result. In 2013 the financial result was negative 27 billion while in 2014 4.5 billion negative. By preliminary data, the balance of OSHEE for 2015 appears positive with 14.9 billion.
New connections, as another indicator of restoring legality in electricity consumption increased by 34% compared with a year ago while 34 thousand meters were installed.
This improved economic situation has enabled OSHEE to increase necessary investments to improve the distribution network. During 2015, investments were 7.5 billion lek from internal funds of OSHEE, transmits Serbia-energy.eu


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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - A judge revoked the bond for a 25-year-old woman who was arrested after a fatal, wrong-way DUI crash on I-264 that occurred early November 4.
Melissa Hancock's attorney said she suffered severe injuries during the crash, saying she needs 24/7 care. She was limping and using a walker in court.
The judge said his biggest concern was about how the jail would handle her injuries, instead of her. He called it an unusual case.
Virginia Beach Police were called at approximately 2:07 a.m. to investigate a two-vehicle crash on I-264 eastbound, just west of Birdneck Road.
The investigation revealed Hancock was driving a 2011 Cadillac westbound on I-264 in the eastbound lanes when she hit a 2009 Mazda driven by 29-year-old Daniel Dill.
Dill was taken to Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital where he died from his injuries the following day.
Hancock was arrested and charged with DUI/maiming and driving the wrong way. She was taken to the Virginia Beach Jail where she received no bond.
Due to Dill's death, the case is being reviewed by the Commonwealth's Attorney for additional charges.
Hancock is scheduled to be back in court on May 23 for a preliminary hearing.


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You undoubtedly know that hackers are everywhere these days, including openly operating in Moscow near the government offices and inside the Chinese military. You probably have virus and malware protection on your computer, and you know not to click on suspicious links sent by email.
But an interesting new vulnerability is emerging which you may soon be hearing more about: internet-connected toys.
A recent article in Forbes magazine reports on what a group of professional hackers found when they tried to sneak into smartphones connected to the Hello Barbie toy that will undoubtedly be a popular gift this holiday season.
The toy records kids' conversations through the phone, and uses artificial intelligence to build that data into semi-realistic conversations with the toy's owners. The Hello Barbie app connects to your phone through your home Wi-Fi network, but it also connects, automatically, to any Wi-Fi network that has the word "Barbie" in the name. All the professional hackers had to do was set up another Barbie Wi-Fi hub, wait for the toy to automatically connect, and they could pilfer data from the phone at will.
In addition, the Hello Barbie apps proved to be vulnerable to so-called POODLE attacks, which let hackers intercept traffic between the phone and the servers at doll manufacturer ToyTalk.
Would hackers really target a toy? Last month, a Hong Kong-based firm called VTech was hacked through its own kids product, the InnoTab tablet. The result: the theft of information on 6.4 million children and 4.8 million adults.


text: Letter from William Whewell Whewell, William (1794-1866), college head and writer on the history and philosophy of science Berkeley, George (1685-1753), Church of Ireland Bishop of Cloyne and philosopher Reid, Thomas (1710-1796) philosopher Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834), poet, critic, and philosopher WW is 'sorry that you are so much puzzled to chuse between ideas and things that you are making up your mind to be content with words which so far as I understand it is the Platonic resource. I cannot tell you what people in general believe about Berkeley [George Berkeley] and Reid [Thomas Reid] but the two appear to me to come to much the same result - B. says that what we perceive are ideas and that there is nothing else. R. reports that we perceive things and that there is nothing else. But they both agree that what we perceive, exists, and they deny any other objects. The important question is whether the objects wh. we perceive are independent of us in their relations and sequences and of that we have complete evidence as far as the proposition is intelligible. I would never desire to prove a proposition farther. But I will tell you what the mischief is - (very likely I have told it you before -) almost all the quarrelling in this world arises from propositions - are not all your theological disputes questions of in and by and with and from & so on? So likewise in this instance - people chuse to ask whether the objects we perceive are without the mind or not. What the devil do they mean? I know what is meant by a church steeple being on the outside of the eye or a dead dog on the outside of the nose; and if the mind reside in the eye or the nose you may in the same sense say that these objects are exterior to it; not in point of fact the relation between the mind & object is not one which can be expressed by any such beggarly part of speech - it is that of perceiving and perceived. The only externality which is worth lifting an eyelid for is the constancy of the laws of nature by which certain qualities perceived by the different senses are inseparably connected and act upon each other in the way of cause and effect. Have you read Brown's book's? They are dashing, and on some material points strongly wrong, but about cause and effect he has an admirable clearness of view and happiness of illustration'. Samuel Coleridge can publish whenever he wants - 'as he takes all the conceivable elements of unintelligibility it is hard if any envious ray of meaning finds its way through the theologico - metaphysico - etymologico - Coleridgical thatch with wh. he will cover his Platonic hut'. 24 Sept. [1822] 4 pp. https://archives.trin.cam.ac.uk/letter-from-william-whewell-18 17


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And the special day has arrived! Yesterday, March 20, the Grand Finale of the Youtube Symphony Orchestra. Read more here and here.
In the photo above, Pedro, the Portuguese musician that played trumpet is the 4th from the left side.
Last year, 2010, he was one of the 101 musicians from 33 countries that uploaded videos on YouTube of themselves auditioning for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011.
"December 2010! Chosen with the help of leading orchestras around the world and the YouTube community, the musicians have finally made it to the end of their journey to perform in an extraordinary concert conducted by Grammy-award winning YouTube Symphony Orchestra Artistic Advisor, Michael Tilson Thomas, and streamed live on YouTube directly from Sydney Opera House."
For those that couldn't listen the Grand Finale, watch the video below:
A wonderful digital project based on Music (classical) that provided an increadible experience in Music education to many young people from all over the world.
A project to share with our students in Music lesson or not! It can inspire some of our students to practice more and more a musical instrument in order to join the new group of musicians of YouTube Symphony Orchestra in 2012 if Youtube repeat the project. Who knows?
"Young people can learn from my example that something can come for nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts."
Franz Joseph Haydn
Music is not yet a major value in school curriculum in Elementary and Secondary Education. But music is a fundamental part in education of young people.
We must take Music curriculum seriously!
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Residents Encouraged to Engage in Planning Process
Consultation runs until 14th December
A draft Statement of Community of Involvement (SCI) has been produced which sets out how and when residents and businesses will be involved in the planning process about changes to the built environment.
Cllr Ruth Cadbury, Hounslow's cabinet member for planning and regeneration, said: "Involving local people in planning is key to helping shape the future development of the built environment across the borough. There should be opportunities for everyone to have a say in how their community is planned and developed, so that when we make decisions about the built environment, we know what is important to the local community.
"This updated Statement outlines the council's commitment to engaging the community in both the development of new planning policies and decisions on planning applications. "
The changes to the current SCI, which was adopted in 2006, take into account changes in planning legislation and the Localism Act 2011.
The six-week consultation began this week (Monday 5 November) and residents have until Friday 14 December to give their views on the new engagement strategy.
The draft Statement of Community Involvement is available to view at www.hounslow.gov.uk/consultation or by requesting a hard copy by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com or calling 020 8583 5202.
We would like to encourage people to mention the use of local sites such as BrentfordTW8.com for spreading information to the local community.
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Jewish Holocaust Victim Anne Frank And Her Family Were Denied Entry As Refugees To The U.S.
The controversy over the plight of Syrian refugees seeking asylum in Europe and the United States incidentally sparked a debate on social media after some users circulated a claim that the Jewish girl Anne Frank and her family had sought asylum in the United States but were denied entry.
Annelies Marie Frank (June 12, 1929 — February, 1945) is one of the most famous Jewish victims of the Holocaust whose wartime diary, "The Diary of a Young Girl," brought her posthumous fame when it was published after the war.
Some social media users sympathetic to the plight of Syrian refugees made a comparison with the plight of Jewish refugees who sought asylum in the U.S. during the war, saying that restrictive policy of the U.S. authorities towards Jewish refugees during the war made possible the death of Anne Frank and thousands of other Jews in the hands of the Nazis.
Although many dismissed comparison between Anne Frank and Syrian refugees fleeing the ongoing carnage in their country, documents discovered for the first time in 2007 revealed that Anne Frank's father, Otto Rank, had, indeed, made desperate efforts in 1941 to secure asylum for his family in the United States.
According to the New York Times in an article published in 2007, nearly 80 pages of documents discovered in 2007 by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research reveal the details of the efforts by Otto Frank to escape with his family from the Nazi-occupied Netherlands to the United States.
According to Professor Richard Breitman, history professor at the American University, the documents give insight into the complicated and tortuous process that European Jews trying to flee Nazi terror had to go through to secure refugee status and gain entry into the United States.
With the discovery, scholars now understand better why thousands of Jewish children, such as Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, perished at the hands of the Nazis. The U.S. State Department imposed severe restrictions against European Jews seeking asylum in the U.S., and many were unable to scale the hurdles.
#AnneFrank wanted to live in Boston.She died in Bergen -Belsen-denied refugee status. https://t.co/H7hJuoRIro pic.twitter.com/0qs8qBTsPW
— Charles Adler (@charlesadler) November 24, 2015
According to Breitman, "Otto Frank's efforts to get his family to the United States ran afoul of restrictive American immigration policies designed to protect national security and guard against an influx of foreigners during [a] time of war."
Among the documents discovered in 2007 were three letters Otto Frank wrote to a friend, Nathan Straus Jr., son of a co-owner of Macy's department store and friend of Eleanor Roosevelt.
In one of the letters to Straus, who was head of the U.S. Housing Authority at the time, Frank asked his friend to put up a $5,000 bond, saying, "I am forced to look out for emigration and as far as I can see U.S.A. is the only country we could go to. It is for the sake of the children mainly that we have to care for. Our own fate is of less importance."
As danger closed in on his family living in Amsterdam, Frank made desperate but unfortunately late efforts to move his family to the U.S. Historians say he may have succeeded had he made moves to leave with his family earlier.
During the months Frank struggled to obtain a visa for himself and his family, Straus contacted the State Department on behalf of his friend and appealed to the immigration authorities.
Relatives – brothers of Frank's wife, Edith — living in the U.S. willingly provided affidavits of support for the family through their employer. Frank filled out application forms, but the authorities rejected the application.
In these times, I return to her beautiful voice and beautiful words. We need them now more than ever. #AnneFrank pic.twitter.com/QSyppDJOdq
— Cindy Waitt (@cindywaitt) November 21, 2015
After efforts to get into the U.S. directly failed, Frank turned his attention to gaining entry to the U.S. through Cuba. But the efforts failed eventually.
The tight restrictions against European Jews seeking entry into the U.S. at the time was further complicated by a decision to deny entry for all European refugees who still had close relatives in Germany or in Nazi-occupied territories. The decision was due to fears that the Nazis could hold relatives hostage and use them to blackmail refugees living in the U.S. and force them to spy for the Nazi regime.
New Documents Reveal Anne Frank's Father Tried to Seek… https://t.co/rTAGURxEHB #annefrank
— Anis (@anissira) November 19, 2015
Otto finally obtained a single visa for himself to Havana in Cuba. The visa was granted and forwarded to him on Dec. 1. But Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S ten days later, and Havana canceled Otto's visa.
The entire family was thus stranded in Amsterdam.
Anne Frank and his sister, Margot, eventually died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in February-March, 1945. Their mother, Edith, had died of starvation in Auschwitz in January, 1945. Only Otto Frank survived. He worked to get his daughter's diary published in 1947.According to Breitman, had Frank been able to get his daughters out of the Netherlands, Anne Frank would likely be today a 77-year-old woman, living probably in Boston.
The tragic fate of the family prompted Anne Frank's step-sister, Eva Schloss, to compare the plight of Jewish refugees during World War II and Syrian refugees today, saying, "You must not be selfish and you must share whatever you have and help in a desperate situation. They need help from you… This is history repeating itself."
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(GovTech) – The COVID-19 pandemic has provided momentum for all things digital and remote. For instance, in health care it led to the rapid adoption of telehealth, which had struggled for years to gain widespread acceptance.
In motor vehicle regulation, the pandemic accelerated what has been a gradual transition to serving customers remotely. "The evolution of mobile driver's licenses and the recognition of being able to do transactions without exchanging a physical document certainly fits within that," said Ian Grossman, vice president of member services and public affairs for the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA). "Being able to empower customers to have a credential that they can use in a transaction where they're not passing back and forth a physical document has been further accelerated by the pandemic."
Arizona rolled out its mobile driver's license (mDL) app in March 2021. Eric Jorgensen, director of Arizona's Department of Transportation, is leading his state's nascent mDL initiative. He wants to make clear, however, that the state has its sights set on something much bigger.
A 2020 white paper by an industry consortium called the Secure Technology Alliance highlights some of the reasons states are intrigued by mobile IDs, described as a "new way of cryptographically verifying identity."
"The person who holds the mDL controls what information is shared and with whom," the report noted. "In addition, mDLs support more efficient and secure transactions. For in-person transactions, electronic authentication can give the mDL verifier confidence in the presented ID without requiring specialized knowledge of the hundreds of card design and security features applicable to the driver's licenses (and their variants) that are issued by 56 states and territories. The mDL can also eventually be used to increase security for online purchases and interactions." Read Full Article >


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Hanging a Fireplace Mantel
You have probably seen a lot of fireplaces built without mantels and with a clean front face to them above the firebox. Inversely, lots of fireplaces have been built with shelves, commonly referred to as a mantel, above the firebox. Either look is cool but I've always thought the mantel addition to the front of an outdoor fireplace was a neat touch. Hanging a fireplace mantel can be difficult depending on the type of material used. The most widely used mantel material is wood so we'll cover that in this post.
What Now
So let's assume you are done with your fireplace rough build, finished to a bare cinder block front face. You now have a drab gray block wall and you want to know how to hang the large four foot wide, railroad smelling, piece of dark beautiful wood as a mantel. That sure is a descriptive mouthful, but there is a bit of worry in the planning. The last thing you want is for the mantel to come down or appear to sag at all in the life of your fireplace.
We have an installation method for your heavy wood fireplace mantel, using pieces of steel. Have you ever paid attention the hinge side of a door in your house? If not, open one up. Look at the hinge and see how the edge of the door has been cut out in the shape of the hinge. This allows the hinge to be recessed into the door, allowing the smaller gaps when the door is closed.
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You can use that same technique when hanging a wood mantel to the front surface of the fireplace. You will need at least two or three pieces of 1/8" thick steel. These pieces of steel will be about 2"-3" wide and about 10"-12" long, depending on the size of your mantel obviously. You can use a chisel and hammer or a router and cutting bit for a faster method. Cut out the back of the wood from the top, equal to the width of the metal. As an example, if you have an 8" tall railroad tie, you will probably want to cut out at least 5"-6" down, assuming your piece of metal was about 10" long.
This metal will be bolted to the wood with some pretty gnarly screws or bolts. Using a heavy threaded bolt will insure a good bite into the wood. You will drill holes in the metal and put a couple of bolts in the wood, per piece of metal. The metal will be pretty flush with the back of the wood and the head of the bolt may be a bit further out. No biggie.
Your mantel can now be held up by your favorite helpers or suspended with vertical wood pieces. Drill some more holes in the exposed section of metal above the wood and mark your holes on the cinder block. Drill into the block and add lags. These lags are like wall anchors in your drywall. They will expand when a bolt is screwed into them.
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Once the mantel is in place, it may have a slight front tilt, but that's okay for water runoff. You can shore up the underside of the wood with some shims to even it out if it is leaning too far forward. The veneer will be applied to the structure and directly over the metal that is holding the mantel in place. The mantel will appear to be floating and your guests will think you're a genius for being able to complete such a feat.
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This photo of my daughter and mom is priceless AND it is a mess. The red and green channels are pretty bad but the blue is shot. Does anyone have ideas about how to tackle this problem? I've done a little bit of work with channels, switching to LAB, Apply image, but I don't know if that's even the place to start. I'm working in Photoshop CC if that's helpful.
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Here is a beginning - some lab adjustments to bring out more detail, then noise reduction and color blending. All that's left is to use a brush to improve the skin (time consuming).Attached Files
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Interesting result! In my most current version, I also used a lab adjustment and did some blending. I put together a mask for the faces which helped contain the changes. The mask is a little stiff around the edges but I can fix that I think. You did a great job getting the little green specks out - what blending did you use to achieve that?Attached Files
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Originally posted by Pentaxlover View PostInteresting result! -what blending did you use to achieve that?
After reducing the noise there were still large brown specks, so I made a duplicate layer, and using curves, I lowered the color contrast in the skin (which wiped out most everything, but created a soft, flesh colored blob that I blended into the faces to reduce the noise even more - old technique). Then did a contrast adjustments with curves to enhance the detail, along with a selective color move to brighten the skin, and then did some sharpening.
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Thank you so much for your help! I'll post it again when I've gotten to a good point.
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Hi Pentaxlover
Here is a B&W shot using mostly camera raw filter functionality and removing some background objects:
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Hi John,
I like what you did. I'd been thinking about making it black and white and after seeing your version, I'm pretty sure that I will. I'll play around in Camera Raw and sometimes I've had good luck with the Photoshop CC B&W.
Thank you!
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John's B/W got me thinking about an alternative workflow.
1. I split the channels into individual greyscale images.
2. Opened each image in Camera Raw to reduce the noise and open up the shadows.
3. Pasted each channel into a blank RGB image.
4. Applied another Highlight/Shadow adjustment to the composite image.
5. Then adjusted color with blending to improve contrast.
Result is similar to my original but with less saturated skin (I toned it down using Hue/Saturation) and smoother shadow areas.Attached Files
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What a cool trick! I love how much I learn every time that I go into this forum. I've done the split channel on this end and when I'm done with what I've got I'll post it. Thank you so much for all of the help and information!
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I think it is soooo kewl that their noses form a heart.... A sign of true love?? I think so!
fixed as above with a little noise removal addedAttached Files
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So...how did you get the colors so clean? I'm guessing all sorts of blending?
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I used Imagenomic Noiseware selectively, the Spot healing brush and the Patch tool for problem areas.
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I've spent a bit of time on this picture. I lost track of time, it took oh my a few hours, I think.
Anyway I'll explain some of what I did in general.
Step one: I did an average blur over the entire image to get the average colour of the image. Then I invert this layer and set the blending mode to colour and lower the opacity to 0% then bring it up from there to suit. I do this to remove the general colour cast of the entire image. I learnt this technique from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAQsOeCCrAY
Step two: I masked 4 areas of the image The main part which is the people. The car the grass and the dark area at the back.
Step three: I did a skin tone correction using the mask of your daughter and mum and adjusting cmyk values, using the technique herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vRj77klnXQ
I also raised the black to rgb(15,15,15) and white down to rgb 245,245,245
Step 4:After getting the skin tone as best as I could, what I then did is I further masked individual areas such as the hat, hair, both faces, the blue and white shirt, I got average colours for each masked area and used the same technique as in step one.
Step 5: I did an average blur again for the other areas in the background within the masks for those areas. This was to seperate the general colour cast at different depths.
Step 6: Everything from here was a lot more manual(minor adjustments using my tablet and mouse). I used surface blur to soften the skin of your daughter and a little on your mum. After that I reintroduced texture into your mums skin using a skin texture brush set to a soft light blending mode, then I added a small outer glow to the layer to simulate the skin texture.
Step 7: Custom dodging and burning with tablet.
The rest: At this point I grabbed the image from http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/att...8&d=1449252387 because I liked the values in this which worked reasonably well I took the values and applied them within my foreground mask.
I continued a little bit more using my tablet and painting where I thought things could be improved.
It's a bit intense but I think it's the type of image where individual areas need to be worked.
So that was a bit of work. Hope you enjoy feel free to ask any questions for any part of the image and I'll see if I can remember what I did.Attached FilesLast edited by zeroLiver; 12-17-2015, 05:12 AM.
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Many people wonder "What is Baptism?"
The wide variety of opinions on this question are revealed by the diversity of forms, methods, and teachings about baptism. Some groups baptize infants, while others baptize only adults. Some groups get baptized every year, while others will get baptized numerous times per week. There is even a group out there that gets baptized for dead people.
So it is no wonder that people are confused about what baptism is.
What is Baptism?
Much of this confusion can be clear up by simply defining baptism.
The first thing that we must realize about the word baptism is that, like many confusing words in Christianity, it is not a translation of a Greek word, but a transliteration. Since there is so much division and strife over what the word means, Bible translators have traditionally chosen to leave the word untranslated, and just change the Greek letters of the word into English, and leave it to the reader to figure out what the word means.
The word baptism is a transliteration of the Greek words baptizma or baptizō. The most basic definition of the word is "to dip" or "to immerse."
But do not think that this solves the ancient religious debate about baptism by immersion vs. sprinkling. It doesn't.
Baptism means "Immersion"…
…but not necessarily immersion into water.
In Greek literature, "baptism" rarely refers to what we think of as "baptism with water." Instead, the word refers to a wide variety of events or ideas. It is used to refer to a sinking ship or a drowning person, and also to someone who is overcome by sickness and disease and "sinks" into death. In some Greek references, it refers to people who sink into sleep, intoxication, or impotence, or even to those who are overwhelmed by faults, desires, and the magical arts (Oepke, TDNT, I:530).
So "baptism" does not inherently include any idea of getting dunked under water, but rather refers to being immersed, overwhelmed, or overcome by something else. It means you are no longer who you were before, and are now fully identified with something or someone else.
Therefore, whenever you see the word "baptize" or "baptism" in Scripture, it would be wise to stop and change the word into "immersion" or "identification" and then ask yourself, "Immersed or identified with what?" This will help clear up numerous confusing passages in Scripture which talk about "baptism." We will look at a few of these passages in the next two posts.


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Badam Halwa (Almond pudding) is one of my favorite sweets and it is always on my top things to make for any festival at home.
I made it for Rakhi festival this week and everyone loved it. It is a super easy and very quick recipe, takes only 15 minutes of cooking time.
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Badam halwa is a simple dish to make as all it takes is just four ingredients: Almonds (Badam), Jaggery, Milk and Ghee 🙂 You can even use water instead of milk (for vegan version).
No Sugar
This sweet is usually made with sugar, but as I am getting more health-conscious, I used jaggery (gur) instead of sugar. But as it turns out, the taste does not differ much.
Traditionally we use jaggery in various dishes as it has good iron content that our bodies need (especially useful if you are anemic). Also, almonds' health benefits are well-known. This makes our badam halwa particularly healthy!
You have a healthy and tasty dessert just by using jaggery as a healthy replacement to sugar. So, go on and indulge in this delicious guilt-free dessert and satisfy your sweet tooth 🙂
Badam Halwa without sugar recipe
Here is the recipe to sugar-free Badam Halwa.
Time taken
4 hours to soak almonds
15 minutes cooking time
- Almonds (badam) – 1 cup
- Jaggery – 1 cup
- Milk – 3/4 cup (vegan substitute: soy/almond milk)
- Ghee – 4 tbsp
- Cardamom/Elachi – 1 powdered (optional)
- Saffron – few strands for color (optional)
Also read: How to make Ghee at home from butter easily
- Soak the almonds for 4 hours or more.
- Remove the skin of almonds and put them in a mixer/grinder.
- Grind the skin-less almonds along with the jaggery and milk to a smooth paste. Vegans can use water instead of milk.
- If you are using elachi powder and saffron, you can add them now.
- Heat a deep-bottomed pan on the stove top and add 2 tbsp ghee to it.
- Once the ghee gets hot, reduce the heat to medium and drop the almond-jaggery-milk paste into it.
- Keep stirring the halwa and add the remaining ghee at a few minute intervals.
- After 10 to 15 minutes of stirring, your sugar-free almond dessert is ready!
Sprinkle a few chopped almond pieces on it if you like. Enjoy delicious sugar-free Badam Halwa 🙂
Also read: Delicious Carrot Halwa Recipe
- You can reduce or increase the jaggery quantity according to your taste.
- You can store the halwa in a clean container at room temperature. It stays good for at least 4 days, later you can refrigerate it if you made a large quantity.
My favorite brand for almonds and jaggery powder is below if you want to try!


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I'll never forget where I was when our long, national nightmare came to an end. February 21st, 2011, night after the NBA All-Star Game. I'd just finished watching the latest episode of 'Being Human,' a nice little show on the SyFy Network in its first season. Twitter began to explode. I wondered if the rumors were true. Sources from Denver had given out bad info before on the subject in question, so I was cautiously optimistic. Then, finally, with this tweet, the Melodrama, in my eyes, came to an end:
@FisolaNYDN: Source confirms Knicks get Carmelo. Deal done.
Thank goodness. I just couldn't take it anymore, and let's be honest. You were tired of it too. The constant chatter from all angles. Daily questions about contract extensions. Secret meetings held in public restaurants. A good...


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the culture of death
"If only I had died instead of you, Absalom my son, my son!" —2 Samuel 19:1
Nathan, the prophet, had revealed to David that David's sin of adultery would result in many deaths (see 2 Sm 12:10). The child conceived through David's adultery died (2 Sm 12:18). Amnon followed in the footsteps of David, his father, by committing the sexual sin of raping his sister Tamar (2 Sm 13:14). Absalom, Tamar's brother, took vengeance on Amnon and murdered him (2 Sm 13:28-29). Years later, Absalom started a civil war against his father. In the final battle of the war, "the casualties there that day were heavy — twenty thousand men" (2 Sm 18:7), including Absalom. When David heard of Absalom's death, he "was shaken, and went up to the room over the city gate to weep. He said as he wept, 'My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, Absalom, my son, my son!' " (2 Sm 19:1)
"The wages of sin is death" (Rm 6:23) — more sin, more deaths, still more sin, and thousands of deaths for generations. Resist temptations. Don't sin.
Prayer: Father, raise us from the death of sin.
Promise: "Daughter, it is your faith that has cured you. Go in peace and be free of this illness." Mk 5:34
Praise: Jesus healed Teresa of cancer.
Reference: (For related teaching, order our leaflet, The Challenge of Making Disciples in a Culture of Death, or on audio AV 97-1 and AV 97-3 or on video V-97.)
Rescript: †Most Reverend Joseph R. Binzer, Auxiliary Bishop, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, March 3, 2017
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ACWA Power, OQ, Oman's leading integrated energy group, and Air Products (APD) signed a joint development agreement (JDA) toward a multibillion-dollar investment in a world-scale green hydrogen-based ammonia production facility powered by renewable energy in Oman.
The JDA signing follows a memorandum of understanding signed in December 2021.
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It is anticipated that the green hydrogen-based ammonia production facility would be equally owned by the project partners.


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Flexible size and proportion
The Drape Circle 8 Chandelier is a small enough diameter to work with multiple dining table shapes and sizes, not just the obvious synergy of round tables. It is also small enough to work in many other scales of rooms and spaces. The ability to adjust the location of the ring in relation to the overall length of the light itself means this light has many different possible personalities.
The possibilities of simplicity
The Drape collection is an investigation into the potential behind the idea of a simple cord-suspended pendant that displays the quality and variation of SkLO handblown glass. It begins, necessarily, with the basic Drape Pendant itself, but from there minimal additions are made, opportunities that add structure, shape and volume, to allow for the many varied designs and collections-within-collections, which make up the Drape collection such as the Drape Circle, Drape Hook, Drape Skirt and many more.


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I agree with the governor's veto of the jail bill, and was disappointed the Legislature overrode the veto.
First of all, I am not in favor of county government in law enforcement. The correctional system needs to be one body and law enforcement under the Maine State Police system.
The answer to everything in this state is spending more money. The Democrats wait until we are on the brink of disaster and push bills through knowing if they don't get it their way there will be trouble, like they did with increasing sales tax.
It's as if they were saying, "If you Republicans don't override the veto, the state will shut down, and we will make sure you get the blame."
The sad truth is the tactic works, just like it probably did this time. I wonder how many of the Democrats run their personal finances like they do the state's? Replace the tire don't put a blow patch on it!
Too many department heads are not held accountable for their budgets or they just are not qualified to fulfill their responsibilities. New money thrown at broken problems is not the answer.
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Cannon from the Endeavour
This Cannon from the Endeavour was jettisoned in 1770 by Captain James Cook and the crew of the HM Bark Endeavour when the Endeavour struck the Great Barrier Reef. The Endeavour under the command of Cook was sailing north along the east coast of Australia when at 11 p.m. it ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef and started taking in significant amounts of water. Desperate to lighten the ship and avoid further damage, the crew threw 48 tonnes of material over the side, including six cannons
The Endeavour became the first British ship to reach the east coast of Australia when Cook went ashore at what is now known as Botany Bay. He then sailed north along the Australian coast, where he narrowly avoided disaster after running aground on the Great Barrier Reef. He then beached the Endeavour on the shore for seven weeks to allow for temporary repairs to her hull. She then limped into port in Batavia, now named Jakarta, in the Dutch East Indies for more substantial repairs. The crew was all sworn to secrecy about the lands they had visited. She resumed her westward home journey and reached Dover, England, after nearly three years at sea.
HM Bark Endeavour Replica in Sydney Harbour
Searches for the lost cannons of the Endeavour started in 1886. Rewards were offered, but after many failed attempts, it was not until 1969 when a research team using a magnetometer, locate the cannons. The recovery of the six cannons occurred one year before the 200th anniversary of Cook's charting of the east coast of Australia. The Australian National Maritime Museum undertook conservation work on the cannons.
The six Cannons can be seen at the following Museums:
- Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney
- National Museum of Australia, Canberra.
- James Cook Museum, Cooktown ( together with bower anchor)
- National Maritime Museum, London
- The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington.
Endeavour beached at Endeavour River for repairs, after her grounding on the Great Barrier Reef in 1770.
Captain James Cook's voyages of discovery laid the groundwork for Britain's expanded colonial empire and the establishment of settlements in Australia and New Zealand. HM Bark Endeavour, also known as HMS Endeavour, was the British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded on his first voyage of discovery, to Australia and New Zealand, from 1769 to 1771. The recovered cannons are witness to this incredible history and adventure. Endeavor's Pacific voyage is commemorated in the use of her image on the reverse of the New Zealand fifty-cent coin and in the naming of the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1989.
HMS Endeavour
The HMS Endeavour was the British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded to Australia and New Zealand on his first voyage of discovery from 1768 to 1771. The Endeavour's fame started when she departed Plymouth in 1768, to reach Tahiti in time to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun. She then set sail into the uncharted ocean to the south, reaching New Zealand, she was the first European vessel to reach the islands since Abel Tasman's Heemskerck 127 years earlier. In 1770, the Endeavour became the first ship to reach the east coast of Australia and did not return home to England for nearly three years.
After her epic voyages, she was eventually sold into private hands in 1775 and renamed as Lord Sandwich. She was then hired as a British troop transport during the American War of Independence and was scuttled in a blockade of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, in 1778. In September 2018, marine archaeologists announced that they had located what they believed to be the wreck of the ship off the coast of Rhode Island in the United States.
Cannon from the Endeavour
- Title: Cannon from the Endeavour
- Material: Cast iron cannon, replica wooden carriage, metal fittings
- Type: Four-pounder gun
- Carried by: HM Bark Endeavour from 1768 until it was jettisoned in 1770.
- Recovery Site: Great Barrier Reef
- Date Recovered: 1969
- Dimensions: L: 1,845 mm; W:790mm; H: 960 mm; D: 325mm
- Weight: 600kg
- Museum: National Museum of Australia
Explore the National Museum of Australia
- Platypus Nest
- Thylacine Skeleton (Tasmanian Tiger)
- Mummified Thylacine Head
- Aboriginal King Plate of Billie Hippie
- Convict Leave Pass
- Ptolemy's View of the Solar System
- Cannon from the Endeavour
A Tour of Museums in Australia
- Museums in Sydney
- Museums in Melbourne
- Museums in Canberra
- Museums in Brisbane
- Museums in Perth
- Museums in Adelaide
- Museums in Darwin
- Has the famous ship that carried these cannons finally been found?
- Is the name "Endeavour" appropriate for the ship that carried these cannons?
- Where the Endeavour Cannons ever hired in anger?
"Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act."
– Anton Chekhov
Photo Credit: GMs 2)By Hpeterswald (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons 3) By Sydney Parkinson[1] Engraving by Martin Rennoldson (1764 – 1793), London engraver[2] [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons