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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — After 16 years with the award-winning manufacturer, Julie Stewart of Sportsheets International has been promoted to president.
According to the company, Stewart, will continue to work closely with Sportsheets' top executives and customers, and will continue to oversee the company's sales and marketing, finances and human resources.
Julie joined her brother Tom Stewart, founder and CEO in 1995, and 13 years ago became his business partner and vice president.
Julie says she enjoys working in the family business and with her husband Ed Hayes, the COO for the company.
Stewart will also continue to manage the company's exponential growth, especially following the recent sales explosion of the Sex & Mischief collection associated with "Fifty Shades" phenomenon.
"I'm grateful every day that I get to work with my brother and my husband as well as our amazing team, great customers and vendors to build something that makes people happy," Stewart said. "Running a small business is exciting, rewarding and challenging, and I'm constantly inspired by Tom, whose visionary, entrepreneurial mind and limitless imagination and generosity are key to the company's success. We have all worked really hard to build Sportsheets into the dynamic and respected company it is ˆ and it's way beyond just Tom and me."
Stewart has done it all at Sportsheets — setting up trade show booths, visiting customers and doing product training, purchasing and product design, and even operating the forklift ("Not a pretty sight," she said). She will continue to balance all of these roles with poise and enthusiasm and with a new level of responsibility that the presidential title will bring, the company says.
"It's an honor to name Julie our president and a delight to know that she'll play an even more integral role in the inner workings of this tight-knit of company," Sportsheets Founder and CEO Tom Stewart said.
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DVD-writers are slowly but surely on their way to being "all the rage," with fans egged-on no doubt by the technologies' (yeah, there's more than one) multi-faceted uses. Not only can you store gadzooks of data, but the notion of making your own DVDs strikes the director's nerve in all of us (and hopefully it won't make you start acting like Jeff Goldblum). Most important, however, is the simple fact that DVD burners are finally starting to ease down into more affordable price zones. Today Matt Woodward (forum goers would know him better as "Deffexor") offers us a review of the Pioneer DVR-A04 DVD-RW drive, along with with a brief introduction to the technologies that are waging a war for your DVD writable future (+RW versus -RW).
There has been a lot of excitement and interest in the Pioneer DVR-A04 as of late, and for good reason. It's comparatively inexpensive, has a good reputation for drive and burn quality, and has copious capabilities. And even though CD-RWs are great, there are also plenty of reasons why you might want to invest in a DVD-RW drive: authoring Video DVDs, backing up your system to hefty 4.7GB discs, and being able to take all your important data with you on the go are just a few of them.
The review covers everything from origins of the technology, to the operation of the drive, to a full break down on each piece of software included in the retail kit. Read on to find out if this DVD writer, or any DVD writer for that matter, is for you, today.

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Animated Origami Faces
Courier Corporation, Mar 15, 2012 - Crafts & Hobbies - 48 pages
Blending the art of paperfolding with the magic of animation, this fun and fascinating book will help origami enthusiasts at every skill level create twelve delightful faces filled with movement and life. Using ordinary letter-size paper, anyone can make lively three-dimensional faces with blinking eyes, snapping jaws, and wiggling ears:
• Talking Bird
• Masked Super Hero
• Blowfish
• Elephant
• Dog
• Monkey
...and more!
With this simple method of paperfolding, no tools or glues are required. Just follow the easy step-by-step diagrams, accompanied by tons of helpful tips on technique, and crystal clear illustrations. An inspiring way to create homemade masks, this unique guide also includes suggestions for creating your own movable models, letting crafters mix and match features to invent new and unusual origami species!
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Paris Saint-Germain are refusing to give up on Alexis Sanchez - despite Manchester City closing in on the Chilean.
Mirror Sport revealed this week that Sanchez is heading for City in a deal worth £400,000-a-week, with the Premier League leaders prepared to wait until next summer to land him on a free.
Sanchez has made it clear to Arsenal he is going to quit the club as he wants to win trophies.
City bid £60million for Sanchez in August but the deal did not happen as Arsenal could not get a replacement signed in time.
Pep Guardiola's side are confident they can wait until the end of the season to sign him, even though PSG remain keen and could bid in January.
Reports in France suggest PSG have contacted Sanchez's agent about a move to the Parc des Princes.
According to Canal Plus, PSG are aware that City are in pole position but are refusing to give up on striking a deal.
Meanwhile, Gunners legend Ian Wright has branded the contract sagas of Sanchez and Ozil as "disgusting business".
"It is terrible business for Arsenal, for a club that is accused of being a business to allow two players like that to run their contracts down," Wright said on Sky Sports' The Debate.
"Sanchez on top form is easily a £100m player. Ozil on top form is worth £70m to £80m. Arsenal are letting that go. It is disgusting business on the management side for Arsenal.
"How are you going to sell players like that in January for £25m? It is like people are laughing at you."


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What do I need to bring with me when we meet?
- Bring the offending computer as well as any other devices that may be related to your troubles.
What forms of Payment do you accept?
- Cash, Apple Pay, Android Pay, Debit/Credit Cards. ( Checks from return customers only)
What are your hours?
- I work by appointment only but am typically available nights and weekends. I try to be available when all other shops have closed down. in fact I have met clients at the stroke of midnight on a Friday night for emergency data recovery so please don't hesitate even if it is late.
Where can I read about some of your work?
How many people are on the team?
- This is a one man show. I will be your point of contact for everything you need, no getting passed around to different technicians.


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I am delighted that at the end of five months of fascinating discussions, slightly less fascinating hours battling with spreadsheets, academic articles and statistics, I have completed my project and am in the position to be able to share the results.
Firstly, I would like to take the chance to give huge thanks to all the representatives of organisations who engaged so fully in interviews, distributed questionnaires, offered invaluable feedback throughout and showed an enthusiasm for the project which was hugely motivating for me. I would also like to thank all the 1044 members of the public who took the time to take the survey giving real weight and statistical impact to the results and engaging passionate opinions about the future of the Lakes from people from across the country, from a wide range of professions and organisations. Many respondents commented that they had enjoyed doing the questionnaire because it made them think about what the Lakes meant to them for the first time. I've been amazed myself, after years of living in and visiting the Lakes, that it continued, and continues to pose those questions for me and I hope that the process was as enjoyable and interesting for everyone who took part as it has been for me.
What did the project do…
The project looked at four possible scenarios for the future of the Lake District National Park:
- Scenario A – continuation of the existing agricultural public funding and corresponding support of a status quo in Lake District land use with an emphasis on the farmed cultural landscape.
- Scenario B – a shift in government support towards diversification, resulting in a particular focus on tourism development in the Lake District.
- Scenario C – a reduction of government funding alongside a change in philosophy towards rewilding in the Lake District, envisaging reduced farming and a wilder landscape with the possibility of alternative industries such as wildlife re-introductions and associated tourism.
- Scenario D – an increasing focus on land management for broader 'eco-system services' – for example managing the land to protect water quality and store carbon. This could involve increased tree cover and vegetation which may also aid wildlife.
You can see the full detail of the project_scenarios here.
The project had two main phases:
1 – A range of interviews with key stakeholder organisations such as the National Park Authority, the Federation of Cumbria Commoners, Natural England, Cumbria Wildlife Trust and the RSPB.
2 – A public survey carried out online and also handed out at locations around the Lakes over the summer.
What did I find out?
In its simplest terms, the results could be summarised by saying that the public seem to favour maintenance of current land use with 51% of respondents choosing Scenario A as their preferred scenario. Depending on your point of view this could be interpreted as strong support for traditional communities and landscapes, or as a status quo bias, by which people in general dislike change and want to maintain what they assume the Lakes to have 'always been like'. In reality there are surely elements of both. The more interesting results of the project are, I think, the investigation of the factors which may influence the choice of scenario – ie not so much which scenario people chose, but why.
In this respect it is interesting to note that the views of stakeholder organisation did not necessarily match those seen in the general public. It is therefore interesting to think about the different perceptions of the Lakes amongst these groups and how they may have affected which scenario people preferred.
Using a combination of statistical analysis and reviewing the statements made both in the interviews and through the questionnaires I looked at who favoured different scenarios, and why this may be case.
Scenario A:
- This split the opinion of interviewees (5 chose it as their most preferred, 5 as their least)
- However it was the MOST popular with questionnaire respondents
(51% preferred, 16% least preferred)
- It tended to be favoured by respondents who felt that the state of the ecology and wildlife in the Lakes is good, that farmers are important for food security and wildlife and that the Lakes has only changed a little over the last 200 years.
- This is important and to an extent explains the difference between the organisations interviewed and the members of the public. The organisations who selected this as their least favoured scenario tended to be wildlife and ecology focused organisations. They tended to feel that the state of the wildlife and ecology was not good (see State of Nature Report), and that intensive farming was a considerable contribution to that. Therefore they favoured scenarios which altered the status quo and improved the situation for wildlife and ecology.
Scenario B:
- This scenario also showed a difference between the interviewees (who largely saw this as an accepted, important part of the Lakes' future) and the public questionnaire respondents who voted this their least favourite scenario (38% least preferred).
- This largely seemed to be explained because many members of the public were concerned that any increase in tourism would risk the Lakes becoming overcrowded and overly commercialised.
Scenario C:
- The philosophy of rewilding certainly generated a considerable amount of discussion amongst both interviewees and questionnaire respondents. There was passionate support and opposition but also a growing influence of a potential role for rewilding by selective use, in certain areas.
- However, it was largely not considered an appropriate scenario across the whole of the Lakes with stakeholder organisations considering it their least preferred and being the second least popular option amongst questionnaire respondents.
- This was for a number of reasons but focused around negative connotations of the idea of 'abandonment' and support for existing landscapes and livelihoods.
Scenario D:
- There appeared to be strong opportunities for the development of broader eco-system service focused land use.
- It was the second most popular option both with stakeholder interviewees and with the public through the questionnaire.
- However, some issues were seen in the difficulty of communicating the concept and explaining the potential combine ecology and wildlife benefits.
A key conclusion was that people's opinions regarding potential future land use in the Lake District depended greatly on their perceptions of how it is now, and how it has changed over time. Therefore, the project suggests that a key area in future will be the relative success of organisations in sharing more information and developing a greater understanding amongst the general public about the state of the wildlife, the importance of the cultural landscape, the positive and negative effects farming can have and a better understanding amongst the users of the Lake District about its past, present and potential future.
I hope that my project has done a little to help with this by getting people to think a little bit more about the landscape they see and what is important to them about the Lakes. It certainly has done for me…
To that end I plan to publish a short series of quotes, snippets and further details from the project over the next week – if you are interested to find out more, follow the blog. You can also find out more about the background to the project, respondents' enthusiasm to see more trees and less sheep, what they considered the main purposes of the Lake District and further details of the results of the surveys, in the project executive_summary. If you would like to know anything else, please do get in touch:


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Ozone is harmful to everyone but the elderly, children, and those who have respiratory conditions or asthma are especially vulnerable. Ground-level ozone makes it difficult for the lungs to absorb oxygen and may cause breathing problems such as coughing and airway constriction.
Ground-level ozone (not the ozone layer that protects us from the sun's rays) is formed when emissions react with heat and sunlight. More than half of all emissions that form ozone come from vehicles, paints and solvents and gasoline powered yard equipment.
You can do your part by reducing pollution by mowing and filling up the gas tank in the evening, and carpooling.
Ozone is monitored in the region by several stations. Up-to-date information about the ozone in the air can be found on the Air Quality Index. To find out what tomorrow's ozone levels are predicted to be, go to the SkyCast.


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Technology Might be Outpacing You? – A GoPhore Article/
GoPhore is a secure web-based Auto Carrier Software built for auto haulers. Use GoPhore for dispatching, quoting, auctions, ePODs, and so much more. GoPhore seamlessly integrates with QuickBooks for your accounting needs.
Niles Schambers is here to bring you fresh content.Including but not limited to Technology, Driver well-being, management and life hacks. Niles is the Marketing Manager at Auto Carrier Software. He has a passion for content creation, blogging and helping others.
I believe it is safe to say that most, if not all of us, use technology in our day-to-day life. Depending on your perspective it is either the most useful, entertaining thing in the world since sliced bread or it is a nuisance and gets in your way. Any way you slice it, technology is here to stay and all industries are moving rapidly towards the most modern tech available. Just take a look in your cab, it is amazing how technologically advanced some of yours are! While not all phones are as fancy as some, the majority of us have smartphones.
What This Means for the Industry
The trucking industry as a whole has been soaring forward with its pace of implementing new technology. Hold onto your seats, because if you haven't implemented new technology you will be very soon. Just go to any truck show like the Mid-America Trucking Show and you will be able to see all different kind of additions for your rigs (Stop by Booth# 66129 if you want to meet me in March! ). Now let's look at the actual logistics portion of technology.
Technology and the Auto Hauling Industry
The auto hauling industry is one of the last to adopt new technologies. For the most part, they are still using paper, pens, and sticky notes for their paperwork. That's where GoPhore comes in. GoPhore is a full software suite that enables dispatchers, drivers, and even customers to have a more enjoyable and streamlined experience when transporting cars (…okay Niles really are you trying to sell us right now? Stop it… we get it already). I know but bear with me this is more of a concept-to-practice change for the whole industry.
Firstly, please consider how you currently do your dispatching. Is it with pen and paper, or even a spreadsheet that can easily get lost in the mix of managing drivers? In GoPhore software system, it enables data entry clerks and dispatchers a single online portal to manage all of their orders, create manifests, and dispatch to their drivers' mobile app. It enables them to have a simple drag and drop interface for pushing loads out to drivers.
Okay, I get it, some of you are drivers reading this right now going, "Come on Niles; tell us something we didn't already know." To you I apologize but did you know that GoPhore is enabled to allow you to see every pickup/delivery you have in real time from your dispatchers? You can do vehicle markups, capture signatures, and take damage photos, markup damage photos, and a bunch more all from your Android or Apple mobile device. Now that is technology!
Customer Service Cloud Layer(CSCL): When you complete an action like: create an order, pick up a car, deliver a car, etc. MyEzTrack.com will automatically email the client with status updates! So your clients are completely in the fold of when and where their cars are going to be delivered. This is all driven by the GoPhore web and GoPhore driver application.
We are 100% AIAG compliant for OEM connections. So if you deal directly with manufacturers you are taken care of completely. So ask yourself, "does my current system do any of this and should I modernize?" More and more industry professionals are requiring you to be compliant with ePODs and this is one mechanism to fulfill that need. Don't be left in the dust by your competition, modernize your company's systems.


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The Enneagram Circle Characteristics of Type 6 - The Questioner
Find out about the different characteristics, stresses, management styles and ways you can assist a 'Type 6 Personality'.
Whether you feel you fit within this characteristic type or a colleague or loved one, learning more about the different character types of the Enneagram circle can assist you in your work and home life.
- Psychological defence is to question or doubt
- Alert to what might go wrong
- Watch for hidden motives of others, and can often see hidden
- agendas.
- Seek ways to ensure their safety and security and situations
- which provide protection.
- Generally loyal, warm, faithful and dutiful, but wary of authority
- and often suspicious, even of those closest to them.
- Either submit to authority or challenge head on. (Flight or fight).
- Can sometimes be known to procrastinate.
- Can be a little cynical and are often quite witty and funny.
Key Goal - Safety
Traits - Anxiety, doubt and mistrust, focus on what might go wrong, critical questioning, proactive thinking, loyalty, recognizing hidden agendas
Where the attention goes - Focusing on danger which is magnified, figuring things out, scanning the environment
Pre-occupations - Doubting and mistrusting others, seek relationships with others or organisations that provide protection, picking up on hidden agendas,
Difficulties produced for self - Procrastination, paranoid thinking, difficulties with authorities (both obedience and rebellion), seeing fearful possibilities everywhere, magnifying dangers, wasting time managing potential risks, cautious scenarios, need for too much information
What causes me stress - The pressure I put on myself and the time I waste in my efforts to deal with uncertainty and insecurity, difficulties with authority, either excessive obedience or rebellion, trying to maintain the trust and goodwill of others while experiencing mistrust and ambivalence toward them
What makes me angry - Untrustworthiness, betrayal, feeling cornered, controlled or pressured, interactions with others that feel too demanding.
Nature of my anger - Wit, sarcasm, biting remarks, accusations, defensive lashing out
Gifts - Thoughtful, warm, protective, problem solver, loyal, fair, humorous, clever
Basic strategies for development - Develop trust, notice the preoccupation with what might go wrong, pay attention to the positives, check out fears and concerns with others
Daily activity: Shift your focus away from what could go wrong, trust your own authority, test your perceptions or doubts with others
Management style - Management style is based on analysis, trust and security
Leadership strengths - Loyal to company and employees, responsible, practical, collaborative, strategic, sharp intellect, persevering, anticipates problems, insightful
Improve leadership by - Deal with authority issues, manage your anxiety, minimise procrastination, have a bias for action
Stress point - Type 6 moves in the direction of Type 3 when under pressure or feeling stress. The characteristics at this point could appear to be:
- Action
- Productivity
Relax point - Type 6 moves in direction of 9 when in a relaxed state. The characteristics at this point that may then appear are:
- Less suspicious, more relaxed
- Calm
How to get along with a Type 6
- The 6 likes to be kept informed, so give the 6 as much information as possible
- The 6 may appear to be in opposition, without believing it himself. He is usually playing the devil's advocate
- Make sure your proposals are well founded and that all details have been checked
- Be open and honest with a 6. Allergic to hidden agendas and spots them immediately . Be open and honest.
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Coconut Remedies Infographic ~Dr. Axe shares some great uses for coconut oil. It's such a versatile and helpful product – yet either not talked about enough or only talked about in negative ways.
Coconut oil might just be the most versatile health food on the planet. Not only is it my favorite cooking oil, but coconut oil uses are numerous and can extend to being a form of natural medicine, be used for natural beauty treatments and so much more.
Coconut Oil Nutrition Profile
Coconut oil, like other plant-based oils, does not contain cholesterol. The vast majority (more than 85%) of the fats in coconut oil are medium-chain triglycerides. These medium chain fatty acids (MCFA's) found in coconuts has tremendous health benefits; they are easy to for the body to burn as fuel for energy and have anti-microbial properties, in addition to other important traits.
Coconut oil contains three unique fatty acids that are responsible for its various health benefits:
These are some of the rarest substances found in nature and the reason why this oil is so beneficial.
Lauric acid has a particular structure that allows the body to absorb it easily. Once absorbed, it morphs into monolaurin, found in human breast milk, and coconut milk and oil. Monolaurin is known for its antiviral, anti-micorbial, and antibacterial properties.
In addition, coconut oil contains linoleic acid, oleic acid, phenolic acid, myristic acid, Vitamin E, Vitamin K, and iron.
#CoconutOil uses are countless and can be used for everything from deodorant to toothpaste and body lotion to weight loss aid.
Check out the link below on the 77 creative coconut oil uses and their 4 categories: Food Uses, Body and Skin Care, Household, and Natural Medicine.
Your life doesn't just "happen." Whether you know it or not, it is carefully designed by you. The choices, after all, are yours. You choose happiness. You choose sadness. You choose decisiveness. You choose ambivalence. You choose success. You choose failure. You choose courage. You choose fear. Just remember that every moment, every situation, provides a new choice. And in doing so, it gives you a perfect opportunity to do things differently to produce more positive results.
Here it is:
If you remember one thing, and one thing only, about the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People book, here it is:
At the start of every week, write a two-by-two matrix on a blank sheet of paper where one side of the matrix says "urgent" and "not urgent" and the other side of the matrix says "important" and "not important." Then, write all the things you want to do that week.
That's where the seven habits of highly effective people come in:
According to Healthline.com, the following is a recommended breakdown to give you an idea:
Daily recommended amount of water (from drinks)
children 4–8 years old
5 cups, or 40 total ounces
children 9–13 years old
7–8 cups, or 56–64 total ounces
children 14–18 years old
8–11 cups, or 64–88 total ounces
men, 19 years and older
13 cups, or 104 total ounces
women, 19 years and older
9 cups, or 72 total ounces
pregnant women
10 cups, or 80 total ounces
breastfeeding women
13 cups, or 104 total ounces
Here are some great healing combinations to get you drinking more water, but in an adventurous way: Drinking 8 glasses of water each day has never been easier with this collection of infused water recipes for weight loss and clear skin!https://www.healthline.com/health/how-much-water-should-I-drink#recommendations
Come out and celebrate Independent Bookstore Day with us as I will be having a "Healthy Lifestyle" book signing from 11 am – 2 pm with a drawing for all that attend for a chance at a Free 30 Day Healthy New You Health Coaching Program. Please join us for all the fun events planned throughout the day.
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Have you noticed the rise in popularity of tea drinking where you live? Tea shops are popping up as often as coffee houses! Beyond just the charm of drinking tea, science supports the health benefits of tea. Tea is wonderful for you! Black, green, oolong, herbal, white – there are so many choices. Let's discuss the benefits of each type of tea and when to drink them.
Drinking teas is a wonderful way to support the body through detoxification. You can make tea hot or cold and squeeze in the juice of an astringent fruit such as grapefruit, lemon or lime to refresh and revitalize your cells. You can also make a combination of any two or three teas below. To make any medicinal tea, let steep for at least 5-10 minutes, and then consume or make into iced tea.
Do you have a favorite type of tea? Are you going to try a new recipe after reading all of the health benefits of tea?


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The NV Cargo is offered in three models: V6-equipped NV1500; NV2500 HD (offered with V6 and V8 engines); and the NV3500 HD with a standard V8. All three models are available with the Standard Roof, while the High Roof body is offered in the NV2500 HD and NV3500 HD models only.
Three grade levels are also available: S, SV and SL. Standard features in the SV grade include cruise control, two additional audio speakers, power windows and door locks, remote keyless entry, rear cargo mat, centre console with sliding table and lockable storage (2500/3500 series only), rear sonar and more.
For the 2018 model year, all NV Cargo grades come equipped with standard RearView Monitor, 5-in. colour display audio (5.8-in. standard on SL grade), Bluetooth hands-free phone system, via Bluetooth, hands-free Text Messaging Assistant and USB connection port.
The Nissan NV Cargo offers an array of storage pockets, spaces and compartments to provide secure access to the typical commercial customers' everyday objects. The available lockable centre console (removable) fits hanging files and laptop computers, and includes a computer or mobile phone charging point, as well as a lid that slides forward to provide a usable work surface.
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The cargo area also features standard "upfitter pre-wiring" for easy access into the electrical system, wide-coverage cargo area lighting and available power outlets, including available 3-prong 120V outlet in centre console and D-pillar locations.
All NV Cargo models feature bumper-to-bumper coverage of 5 years/100,000 miles, whichever comes first.


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Sliding Screen Door Weather Seal - Many consumers have turned toward using retractable screen doors. These doors look fantastic but also provide increased airflow throughout the interior of your home. Accessible various shades and types, while preventing the entry of insects inside the inner part of your home, retractable screen doors provide clean air to you and keep outside perspectives.
These screen doors are also called the disappearing screen doors and help you make your house seem glamorous. You are certainly erroneous if you are planning that you're going to produce your doors a bit more complicated to open and shut then. You can also have the doors open sidelong which will be open or normal upwards depending on your choice and comfort.
There certainly are numerous service providers in the business for retractable screen doors - offering various gimmicks - some more significant than others. Many retractable screen door companies will strongly emphasize slow retraction speed. This is an important characteristic as it prevents the screen. Some companies need a braking mechanism to stop the screen.
In case the brake ever fails the door will slam the drawback is. Preferable companies have screens that do not need a braking mechanism because their screen speed is totally adjustable for a retraction speed that is safe eliminating the risk of needing to utilize a brake. The sort of magnet used is also crucial. Full length, rust proof, magnetic strips are usually the key choice for guaranteeing a secure and tight closure. Quality handles are crucial. The best are the full-length metal handles.


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The WEST COAST TRAIL. I have been looking into doing it just before planting season starts this spring. There are a few difficulties I am running into which are. First the trail is officially closed that time of year (April). Second when the trail is closed there is no official boat system to get you across the two major waterways on the trail. I really don't feel like swimming in 6 degree Celsius water (that's mighty cold). Lastly I currently would be hiking it solo, which may not be too bright of an idea during the offseason. It appears and reads such that it should be a fun time, but if I do it I need to do a lot of planning and background work. Possibly find one more person to do it with me as well.
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Monday, October 21, 2013
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Twiss ProgrammeLast week was one busy week. My weekend was packed with activities and programmes!.
One of them was TWISS Programme. I don't have a clue what is the full name for TWISS ( I think TWISS is a short form, right? ), but it was meant to introduce to us, USM School of Electrical and Electronic First Year Student , the concept of Student Centred Study.
It was organised in Friday and Saturday, using almost two days, and we were required to build an electrical car!
I was totally stumped by this project as we don't even know how to use a breadboard to test our circuit, not to say building a complete circuit! Well, they provided us with some short training session... Personally, I feel that the training session is too short, I had to take out all the components even before I completed my circuit. But then, this is the first time they organised such programme... So, keep up the good work!
Anyway, this is my complete circuit board done by my team. We did it quite fast, way ahead of other groups and most importantly, it works!
But then, nothing is certain in this world.
Our car won't move! We thought of using rubber band to move the wheel, but we forgot about the stretching power of the rubber band. The motor and the wheel axis were not properly fixed in place!
But all cars which succeeded using rubber band moved much faster and accelerates faster. That creates a motivation to remodify my model car, IF I have the free time hahaha.
IEEE DIY PCB WorkshopOn Sunday, DIY PCB Workshop was organised by IEEE society.
What is a PCB? PCB is Printed Circuit Board, and we were going to make PCB by ourselves!
If you would like to know more about the process, watch the video below.
It was made by my seniors.
This is my printed circuit on copper plate, transferred from PCB paper. Too bad I forgot to take a photo of PCB paper. Well, I will have another chance in November.
Notice the smiley!!!
The circuit is designed using EAGLE Cadsoft. Quite easy to learn in my opinion. Once you got the hang of it you will be able to design your circuit in no time. Youtube has some tutorials about EAGLE.
This is after the etching process and tin plating process. I was one of the last batch so the tin solution is too diluted. Not a good plating, looks messy. Well, at least it works haha!
With all the components on it.
And it blinks!
Not to forget, the souvenir keychain from this workshop. This is a PCB as well, manufactured by our lab. This is a complete circuit so if I solder all the components it might work!
That sums up what I did these three days. Quite packed but fun at the same time.Sometimes you just have to sacrifice something to gain something else. This is life, as we know it.
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Dearest Son,
You are fourteen today. It's hard to believe. Even as I told you the story of the day you were born, again, that it has been that long. To me it feels just like yesterday that the doctor was placing you on my chest, over my heart. The memory is so vivid. I think it may be one of the few times in my life that it was as if I was living a dream. Just like that moment between a dream and reality when you're not sure if it really happened or not. Only this time it had. There you were, in my arms.
Despite all the circumstances that surrounded the demise of your father and I's marriage, never doubt that you wanted and you have purpose. You were a dream in my heart when I was still a little girl. When I would be asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, the answer was always the same, a Mom. Being your Mom has been something more spectacular that anything I ever imagined. You are more than a dream come true, you are the love of my life. You were the boy who was always meant to be mine. The boy who bound up my broken heart. The boy who thinks and understands the things I don't say.
Many people compliment my parenting for the young man you are becoming, but I know that I can't take credit for your soul. It is genuine and it is yours.
Even as a little boy, you had such compassion and wisdom beyond your years. You always had reassuring words and a smile. They were simple and everything that needed to be said. I don't know many kids who would choose to sit in a hospital room or at bedside for hours on end because you already knew that's what being a friend is when your best friend has cancer. I could never find the words to express my overwhelming pride watching you go up to speak such moving words at his funeral in front of so many people in mourning. Consoling his grieving family. You are the very definition of a friend. I so admire your bravery and your comfort in being yourself. You're proud of being different. You flaunt it. You own it. Witnessing it just makes everyone else comfortable in themselves too.
You will be starting high school in your 14th year of life. It will be a time of great change and many lessons. Don't be too hard on yourself when you make a mistake, but keep the lesson. It's all apart of growing up. You may fall in love for the first time. Commit to memory all the little things that you do for your first love, so that you will recall to do them for your last love, your future wife. This is more important than you can understand now, but just trust me, the little things are BIG things. You're going to become more curious about sex and that's ok. It's normal. You're going to be told all the reasons why you should wait. Adults forget to explain that want grows in you like hunger though. You will crave it. Much like food, the richest experiences are worth the effort to make sure it's done right. Like making a gourmet dish. Take your time. Appreciate the art of preparation. Take care in the details that matter. You can't expect to create a filet out of ground chuck. It will taste so much better if you have put the care and time in. Girls are delicate and their hearts, even the wild ones, are fragile. Handle with care. Lead with honesty. You'll be fine.
Just please always retain the wonder of being a little boy, as you grow into the man you are meant to be, just as you do now. Keep doing you, son. You are an amazing person. You are a true Jedi. Using the force for good. Never trying, but do or do not. It's a privilege and my honor to be your mother.
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Question 1: What are the different languages you know? What other countries have you taught in?
A: I have taught in Costa Rica and Switzerland. I can speak Spanish, but I never actually took Spanish in school. I also speak minimal/bad German.
Question 2: What was your favorite place to teach? Why?
A: Switzerland because I could ski from a mountain ski resort to Italy on my lunch break to have lunch there. One side of the mountain was Switzerland, and the other side was Italy.
Question 3: How are students from other countries different? In comparison to them, are American students more privileged, spoiled, bratty, or lazy?
A: Most of the students I taught were actually American. American students are definitely way more sheltered than students from other countries, but American kids work harder in school.
Question 4: Why did you return to the USA?
A: My family is here.
Question 5: If you could spend a day in the life of any historical figure, who, and why?
A: They're all dead and I don't want to be a dead person.
Question 6: What were you like in high school?
A: I ran cross country and played saxophone in the marching band. I also did my homework in homeroom. Isn't that why they give you an extra five minutes in the morning?
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Strangers on a flight: anti-PC veal-eater, Prius driver hit it off
On a flight from Saint Martin to San Antonio two people were able to agree to disagree. They were able to do it without getting angry, storming out of the room, or belittling and making fun of the other person's viewpoint. One was me, the other was a lady sitting next to me.
She had lived many years in Mexico, the Netherlands and throughout the world. She had 11 children, and they all grew up outside this country. She actually felt like America had been blessed a little too much, considering how people live in so many other places. She still is not able to let water run down the drain, it seems to her like such a waste. She does eat meat and has no problem with fur, but believes America is bad because of the excess of everything.
She was reading Mother Earth News. I told her it used to be the magazine of choice with the hippie commune crowd, all ok with me. She said now it is mainly about letting people in suburbia know they can have chickens in their backyard.
It was fun talking about any and everything. She has driven a Prius for 12 years. She lives in Birmingham, Ala. and said the people there are too religious to vote for a state lottery. I told her the lotteries promise that they will cover education. I asked if she has seen kids selling candy. If so, they are raising what should have been lottery money for education.
At some point, we discussed political viewpoints. We both agreed it would be nice if there were statesmen, but they seem to be a thing of the past. I know that politics is a foul, filthy, vulgar, ugly game, even moreso nowadays. I let her know Rod Blagojevich should not be in jail. Yeah, he made Barack Obama's old Senate seat available to the highest bidder, but that is not out of the ordinary for Chicago politics.
I got her to admit that all the people who are declared dumb are not really dumb. I hope people are bright enough to see through that political ploy. If you become governor of Alaska at a young age, you are not dumb. If you are governor of Texas, you are not dumb. Graduating from Yale or Harvard does not make you dumb. Even now, if you have built one of the largest companies on Earth, you are not dumb. It is just political to say so, and I hope people are smarter than that.
She got me to admit that I am all for solar energy, if it were possible to have solar cover all the energy bills of a house, without the house being priced unreasonably. She says such houses do exist, but I am not sure. I have heard Al Gore's solar panels only pay 6 percent of his energy costs. She said her Prius cost $35,000, but it is not an option for me. I told her of my political incorrectness. I do not recycle. I like a little dolphin in my tuna. I like a good piece of veal. She had to have water delivered twice a week in Mexico, so she believes in living very close to the land.
All in all, we had a great time with each other, knowing we were totally on opposite sides of the spectrum. It shows it is possible to talk, disagree, and still appreciate how the other side looks at things. It may be that only special people can do it, and in this case, both of us are very special. I would like to hope there are more special people out there. Surely, not everyone has to be a raving lunatic. Of course, I could be wrong.
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15 Sep 2018 6 Comments
When I started this blog 10 years ago, I had no idea where it would take me. I had –and still have- things to share and things to say and I knew blogging was –and still is- the right media to address the world.
Blogging in English was a deliberate choice and to be frankly quite a challenge. My grammar and typing mistakes may hurt the eyes of native speakers, but I sincerely hope that the content you got may ease your pain.
It was not a smooth sailing. When a Turkish Court blocked the Blogspot, the original platform I was using, I had no idea whether I should continue or not and if yes how. The migration to WordPress, 8 years ago, was a big leap of faith for me but it worked fine. The Twitter account of this blog has been a good addition and an excellent platform for instant blogging.
Personally, the most satisfying moments were, when I was creating the news instead of relaying press releases or news articles prepared by somebody else.
Through this blog I was able to meet many wonderful people, must online, some in person and share ideas, information and thoughts. I am very grateful for this.
I would like to thank my family. Actually, I can't thank them enough for every minute I spent on this blog is a minute less spent with them.
And finally, I would like to thank all my readers and followers. Without your continued feedback, interest and engagement this journey would not be this interesting.
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I have been silent for the last couple weeks. I was on vacation. And returned with the following photos:
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This morning around 9.00 the Karel Doorman class frigate from Belgian Naval Forces F-930 BNS Leopold 1 arrived in Istanbul for a port visit.
The duration of the port visit is not disclosed. As far as I know, this is the first visit of BNS Leopold 1 in Istanbul. She is returning home from EU anti piracy mission Atalanta.
9 Mar 2014 11 Comments
The Arleigh Burke class destroyer DDG-103 USS Truxtun is the only US warship in the Black Sea as today with the southbound passage of FF(G)-50 USS Taylor through the Bosphorus.
The Perry class frigate was deployed to the Black Sea before the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games started. USS Taylor and the flag ship of the US 6th Fleet USS Mount Whitney were send to the Black Sea to help with the evacuation of US athletes and spectators in case of an terror attack to the Games.
USS Taylor had a grounding in Samsun harbour on 12 February 2014 as she arrived here for refueling. Her only propeller was damaged during the accident and all the work done to repair the ship turned out to be not effective.
US Navy contracted the company DonJon specialized in marine salvage and towing, to tow USS Taylor to Souda Crete where her propeller hub and blades will be replaced.
8 Mar 2014
As reported few days ago by US Navy, the Arleigh Burke class destroyer DDG-103 USS Truxtun passed through the Turkish Straits on 7 March 2013 and entered the Black Sea.
According the official US Navy press release the destroyer is en route to conduct combined training and theater security cooperation engagements in the Black Sea with Romanian and Bulgarian Naval forces. USS Truxtun, the ship will conduct a port visit and routine, previously planned exercises with allies and partners in the region.
US Navy careful stresses that USS Truxtun's operations in the Black Sea were scheduled well in advance of her departure from the United States. But the political crisis between Russia and Ukraine over the fate of Crimea makes this deployment of USS Truxtun to the region a special one.
A strong storm front is coming from the north. In literary and figurative sense of the word USS Truxtun is sailing into a storm.
Ms. Eser Çelebiler, kindly share her photos of the USS Truxtun as she passed through Bosphorus.
Mr. Kerim Bozkurt, an invaluable contributor to this blog also shared his photos of the USS Truxtun as she passed through Bosphorus.
5 Mar 2014 2 Comments
The flagship of the Ukrainian Navy, the Krivak III (Project 1135.1) class frigate Hetman Sahaidachny passed through the Turkish Straits today and is now in the Black Sea. I have no information about her destination. It can be Sevastopol or Odessa. We will know better tomorrow.
The ship was doing anti piracy operations first with the CTF-151 and later with Operation Atalanta since September 2013.
A large Ukrainian flag was hoisted as she was passing through the Bosphorus contrary to the earlier reports that she has changed flags. During her passage she was escorted by large patrol boat TCSG-90 from Turkish Coast Guard. Turkish Coast Guard vessels usually escort foreign warships during their passages through Turkish Straits.
A few minutes later a Turkish Meko 200 class frigate TCG Yavuz passed through the Bosphorus and followed the Ukrainian warship towards the Black Sea.
I do not think that the Turkish warship was shadowing the Ukrainian frigate or escorting her, but the presence of the Turkish frigate was not a coincidence either.
27 Feb 2014 2 Comments
After a well deserved 3 day port visit in Istanbul at quarter to 9:00 am, the flagship of the 6. US Fleet, USS Mount Whitney left Istanbul heading towards the Mediterranean. This is the formal end of the US Navy's Olympic Games Deployment.
USS Taylor is still in Samsun harbour in the meantime. The fate of the stricken frigate USS Taylor is still undecided. It is not clear how long the repair work will continue.
25 Feb 2014
After drawing endless circles in the water for 20 days between 4 and 24 February 2014, the flagship of the 6th US Navy Fleet, USS Mount Whitney have arrived in Istanbul.
To be honest I was expecting her to pass through the Bosphorus and head straight for Mediterranean but she is conducting a well deserved port visit in Istanbul. I am expecting the US Navy frigate USS Taylor to pass through the Bosphorus. She has turned her AIS transponder off, yesterday. This means that she has left Samsun and is underway towards Istanbul. It seems that the repair work done to her propeller has worked and she is underway under her own power.
The quality of the photos of USS Mount Whitney left much to be desired but it was raining heavy as she passed where I was standing and there was a very bitter and strong north wind. If the weather improves tomorrow I might have some better photos.
23 Feb 2014
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"Some days I'm glad that I'm asexual. I never felt like I needed a boyfriend or girlfriend. But asexuality does get in tough situation. My family questions my sexuality often.
Mostly it's just pressure from society. I even got to a point where guys were after me and they wouldn't leave me alone. They would tell me "why? Give it a chance. I'm different." I shoot them down with "No. I don't have the need. I don't feel empty. I don't need it." I just know they want sex or blowjob. I usually tell them off, "Go get a vacuum cleaner to suck it." I even get stalked by weirdos.
It gotten to the point where I had to ask a close friend to be my fake boyfriend to shoo them away.
It did work actually. I'm glad that he helped out, but later on he wanted a real relationship. He is sexual and I even told him I'm asexual. He says he was fine by it, but I don't think he fully understand it.
Like one time he would point out a muscular guy on a movie and asked if I like it or even a picture of him with his torso. I told him the truth, I don't get sexual attraction from body types. How I look at people through my eyes is that they are all stick people basically. They are all the same until I get to meet their personality. I only judge them by personality.
He hasn't force me into sex. I never had sex. He's more hungry towards touch: holding hands, cuddling, hugs and kisses. He would sometimes cook for me and ask about my emotional well-being. But I know one day he wants more than that. I'm not really repulsed from sex, it just I feel no need of it.
But I also ask myself, 'why hasn't he got a girlfriend before? He cooks, cleans, very emotional fella.' Found out from other ladies that he was, "scary looking" and "too upfront" or "crazy" or that he was "poor."
If the ladies took a chance to really see him, he's upfront or crazy because he has anxiety problems and poor doesn't matter in love.
That's when I see back again, that I'm glad I'm asexual. But I know I'm going to have a slight problem later on."
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"Some days I'm glad that I'm asexual. I never felt like I needed a boyfriend or girlfriend. But asexuality does get in tough situation. My family questions my sexuality often.


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Joint Sino-British Workshop on Environmental Archaeology
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, 16th-18th July 2018
Excavations within the cave of Fodongi in southwest China are providing novel insights into the sophisticated use of plants and animals over the past 17,000 years, twice as far back as the beginnings of agriculture. These were among the principal findings reported to an international workshop at the McDonald Institute last month.
Eight scholars from institutions in Beijing and Kunming were hosted at the Institute for the three-day workshop on Environmental Archaeology. It formed part of the Leverhulme Trust funded 'Crops, Pollinators and People' project led by Prof. Martin Jones and Dr Harriet Hunt. We also welcomed collaborators from the University of Bristol, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Needham Research Institute.
Research presentations by both Chinese and British participants were followed by a discussion of palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, and subsistence strategies in southwestern China in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene periods. We looked ahead to future collaborations between Cambridge and China, which Martin Jones and Harriet Hunt will be following up in China in autumn 2018.
All participants enjoyed a formal dinner in Darwin College following the workshop, and our Chinese guests were given a tour of the Needham Research Institute by the Director, Prof. Jianjun Mei, before leaving Cambridge.
We thank the Leverhulme Trust (grant no: RPG-2017-196), the University of Cambridge, the National Basic Research Program of China (grant no: 2015CB953803) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no: 41730319) for financially supporting this event.
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A woman went to the doctors office, where she was seen by one of the new doctors, but after about 4 minutes in the examination room, she burst out, screaming as she ran down the hall.
An older doctor stopped her and asked what the problem was, and she told him her story. After listening, he had her sit down and told her to go relax in another room.
The older doctor marched down hallway to the back where the first doctor was and demanded, "What's the matter with you? Mrs. Terry is 63 years old, she has four grown children and seven grandchildren, and you told her she was PREGNANT?"
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Shutterstock.com e-mailed me a link to their first blog post about colour trends. I've been interested in colour ever since my early days of working in the home décor industry, as Product Marketing Manager for a well-known wallcoverings company.
I'm familiar with the gorgeous colour prediction guides you can purchase (at significant cost) to help designers navigate the mysteries of future colour trends in the worlds of home interiors and fashion. The idea is to find out what's going to be happening several seasons ahead: early enough to do something about it – no mean feat, given the long lead times of some projects.
I've always wondered how far the very existence of colour trend forecasting creates a kind of self-fulfilment for their prophecies or whether it can be true that creatives all naturally tune into some kind of collective, pervasive inspiration.
I've wondered about Pantone's colour of the year too – especially as my sweetheart religiously paints it on a large, round wooden deck in his garden soon after it's announced (I'm not joking). This year it's radiant orchid.
So I found the Shutterstock analysis interesting, particularly as it relates to what's actually happening now, rather than the uncertainties of the future. I didn't find the colour trends they highlighted surprising in themselves – greens and blues, with a touch of lilac, orange and red. Colours you could imagine working well with the flat design that's so popular at the moment.
What struck me most was how strange it was that the colour families popular in their four top countries, America, Germany, Brazil and the UK, looked so broadly similar. All my experience of international product marketing screamed that this just doesn't usually happen. Colour trends don't seem to work like that. It would be so much easier if they did.
My training and experience all lead me to question facts that I'm presented with. I can't help wondering if the information is somehow being skewed.
Or are we saying the internet and the popularity of flat design has somehow made the graphic design industry global, not regional? If so, is there any real significance in publishing national trends?
Shutterstock have taken it a step further by saying that in all four countries the identical red hex colour is trending. I have great respect for the company, and feel sure that this is something they can show evidence for, but something feels wrong.
I'm sorry, but asking me to believe in the sneaky, world domination of #c04040 is a step too far for me.
If you'd like to learn a lot more about the science of hex colour, here's a useful link.
If you've got any thoughts on what I might be missing, please let me know.


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Jan 10, 2018
Japanese astronaut apologizes for feeding "fake news" he grew 9 cm
Fake news travels fast, and apparently even from outer space, according to Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai.
In a tweet on Wednesday, Kanai, the Japanese astronaut who said he has grown 9 centimeters in his three-week stay at the International Space Station, apologized for overstating his low-gravity growth spurt, saying, in fact, he is only around 2 cm taller.
"Very sorry for the outrageous fake news," said Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, who is on his first space mission. "It was a misreading, and I had no idea it would create so much talk."
The 41-year-old Kanai, a former Maritime Self-Defense Force doctor and the 12th Japanese to travel into space, said he went back to the tape measure after fellow astronaut Anton Shkaplerov of Russia questioned his newfound height.
And Shkaplerov turned out to be correct, as Kanai topped out at 182 cm -- just 2 cm more than his terrestrial height.
Astronauts' bodies do lengthen while in space, sometimes leading to back pain as the spine stretches. But even JAXA said 9 cm was unheard of, and Kanai took to Twitter to correct himself.
"My hip or my back does not hurt," said Kanai, who is scheduled to stay on the ISS until June 3. "As a matter of fact, the tightness I had in my shoulders is gone so I'm pretty certain I did not grow 9 cm."
(Norishige Kanai, at top)
Kyodo News Plus is an online publication delivering the latest news from Japan. Kyodo News Plus collaborates with City-Cost to bring those stories related to lifestyle and culture to foreigners resident in Japan. For the latest news updates visit the official site at https://english.kyodonews.net


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When my eldest daughter went to Manchester University, everyone told her how trendy Manchester was. At the end of her first term when they said how cool she must be finding it, Daisy pulled a face and responded: 'It's not exactly Camden, is it?'
She was right, of course. What London or Camden does today, Manchester and other British cities do tomorrow.
There is nowhere else like London in Britain, nowhere that comes close. This is one of the themes brought out in stark relief by James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti in London: The Information Capital. Using maps and graphics, they paint a picture of London that is both brilliantly arresting but disturbing. It may as well be in another country, such is its detachment from the rest of the UK.
London is closer to New York and Paris, to Mumbai and Shanghai, than it is to Birmingham and Glasgow. Unlike those foreign centres, however, its domestic domination is overwhelming. London is eight times bigger than the nearest British metropolis; it accounts for 25% of national GDP.
These figures are more akin to what you'd find in a small Third World nation. Paris, by contrast, accounts for only 10% of France's GDP. New York does not enjoy anything like the same supremacy in the US. In the UK, a small island, everything is routed through London.
That is certainly how it felt to me, growing up in the north of England. At university in the east of the country, it was quicker to go home by taking a train south to London then switch to another going north than to attempt to go direct, cross-country.
After graduating, there was no question we would head for the capital – the concentration of people like us was such that the alternative of living in a much smaller community did not appeal.
Except that today it is a draw for the world's super-rich as much as it is for those journeying down the M6 and A1 seeking employment. The result is a place that does not know whether to laugh or cry at the sometimes unhealthy position in which it finds itself.
Yes, as this book makes vividly clear, London is home to enormous wealth. But it's also the location for desperate poverty – five of Britain's poorest boroughs are in London.
London's cheek-by-jowl nature is not new, but what is alarming and what puts the city on a par with some of the biggest, sprawling conurbations in the Third World is the lack of a bridge between the two.
Increasingly, the middle classes are being squeezed out from residing anywhere near the centre of London, unable to afford to live there. As London's increasingly super-rich inhabitants move between world cities, the danger of the most expensive districts in the middle forming a 'doughnut' with few people holding down a socially useful, public-sector job and living there is becoming very real. Already, there are luxury apartment blocks in Knightsbridge and Mayfair that are virtually dark at night.
Much of London, of course, is given over to commercial buildings. In one corner of the City, the population soars from 222 at night to more than 127,000 during the day.
One of the effects of the new HS2 fast rail link between London and the north-west will be to bring an even further location, Birmingham, within daily commuting distance. It's possible that Britain's 'Second City' will become an extended suburb of the First, such is London's economic stranglehold.
As well as living and working in the capital, foreigners come to see the sights - and to spread their cash. On average, an American spends £800 on a trip to London; a Saudi will spend over three times that, and many retailers are hiring Arabic-speaking staff.
Where the graphics really excel is with their humour and quirkiness. The map showing how it is possible to visit all 270 tube stations in a single day is a delight. Likewise, the table of items left on trains, buses and black cabs at Heathrow Airport is mind-boggling.
This book may lack words but it is a monumental work all the same - the attention to detail is testament to that. Its pages are to dip into, to linger over and to return to time and again. It's hard to imagine tiring of them. In that sense, fittingly, they bring to mind Samuel Johnson's eloquent words about London itself.
Chris Blackhurst is the City editor at the Independent and Evening Standard and is an MT editor-at-large. Tweet him @C_Blackhurst.
London: The Information Capital by James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti is published by Particular Books/Penguin, £17.99


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Next right thing
My wife Kim, myself and our youngest boy have all been very ill with this horrible flu that has been going around. This weekend I chose to push through it (being the least affected, though trust me that is cold comfort) and be as productive as I could.
It may not seem like it in the moment, but when I do the right things, when I am productive and useful to others, I always feel happier and more centered. There is still much to be done, but I spent my time trying to order the house and get giant piles of laundry done. It is staggering how easily I give into my laziness and excuses when all I get out of it are negative feelings of ineptitude, guilt and shame. Instead, when I am productive I feel happy, more confident and more fulfilled.
I think upon entering AA four years ago, that was best advice given to me, "just take it one day at a time, and always ask yourself and your higher power what next right thing is, then go do it." I want to get better at following that consistently.
"We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable" AA – Step One
To keep it simple, this had to be the step and it is the right words to use, but to me, like many other alcoholics, there is a good deal more that is brought to mind and rings true. I am powerless over alcohol and many, many other things, like Depression, Anger, Resentment, Self Will, Laziness, Excess, Fear. The list goes on and on like that.
Though I have not had drink in close to 3 and a half years, I have no more power over alcohol today than I did when I was drinking and it takes more strength that I have on my own to keep from picking up the next drink. It takes more strength and wisdom than I possess on my own to keep doing the right things and to have the right attitude; to be myself and the best self that I can be.
I forgot all of this and even once I remembered it took so long for me re-commit to the program of recovery that I entered three years ago. That said, here I am once again and I am grateful that it has been there waiting for me, that I have AA and a higher power.
I am starting over, right here at Step One and as my form of meditation, I am going to write my way through each of the steps, as I started to once before and I hope that this time I make it through all of them before I choose to start over.
So, is Step One really?
Step One is really the admission of our own humanity, the first of many humbling steps in AA. When we contemplate and work on Step One, we come to examine the human and self efforts that we have put forth in the past and acknowledge a few things:
1. Alcoholism is a disease, it is an "allergy". Alcoholics process alcohol differently than other people and it simultaneously does more cellular damage in us and produces a powerful and urgent need for more. It is also a disease of the mind, producing obsessive thinking, so that even when the physical craving is not present the obsessive craving is. The disease also has effects that a broad reaching; inebriation as an avoidant coping mechanism is psychologically and spiritually unhealthy and all manner of moral/character defects spring from it, stunted mental and emotional growth, anxiety, mania, self absorption, grandiosity, guilt, shame, self loathing, depression, sexual misconduct, poor hygiene, poor life and relationship skills, control, self seeking…the list goes on an on. This is how, ultimately, it makes life unmanageable.
2. We are powerless over this disease and ultimately over the defects of character that have resulted from it. We can never, drink like normal people do. If you have been in the program a while, you might see that we are powerless over almost everything. Nothing is truly in our control, except, our decision to put the right effort into our own selves. This is not to say that we are weak, by any means, we are talking about recovery from an otherwise incurable, physical, psychological and spiritual disease. Could I go the rest of my life and not pick up a drink, maybe. I am firm in my belief though that I would likely still suffer the miserable side effects of the disease without a spiritual and task driven program like this one. If anyone has found something better, I encourage them to do that instead.
3. Our "running the show" has left our lives a wreck, whether it is the very tangible consequences of not unpaid bills, criminal charges and failed health, or simply strained and ruined relationships, we have not only poured ourselves a pool of terrible hell and misery to bath in, but we have splashed it upon others.
If we are alcoholics and it has taken the usual amount of time for us to find our way to AA (without court orders), we are typically ready to listen, understand and admit, having tried everything else, controlled drinking, switching brands, types and times, following systems of rules, abstinence on our own, therapy, rehab, etc..etc..that we are powerless over alcohol.
For me, right now, the second part is bigger…My life had become and remains unmanageable, why? Because for the last year and a half, the manager of my life has really been poorly qualified and wholly inept, we cannot fire him, but he does need demoted. That manager is me, I have been trying run the show, which keeps me too busy to work the steps and leads me to do nothing but give myself the opportunity to make poor choices, which invariably I make.
My name is James, I am an alcoholic. I am powerless over alcohol and my life has become unmanageable. This has been my first step (take two). Thank you for sharing it with me. I look forward to sharing my journey through the steps, as well as my experience, strength and hope with the world.
Dreams and Nightmares
Kim had a dream last night that I was taking pills and stumbling into cop cars, perhaps it was really a window into my past, the entire description of the event sounded plausibly like something that may have happened to me in my former life. I had strange dreams last night too, one was horrifying and still lingers. My biggest fear was realized in it.
I was at someone's house, a man, older and we were meeting in person it seems for the first time. I do not recall what I was doing there; I know I was writing poetry again and there were piles and piles of dusty books in this library at the mans house. There was also an upright piano and some other instruments. He had to excuse himself for a while, to eat dinner or do something in another part of the house. He pointed to a wet bar on the far side of the room, indicating I should help myself to some refreshments.
Distractedly I looked around the large library, examining book titles and the walls, taking it all in with awe and wonder. Without connecting the bottles to their contents, without even a thought that I mixing an alcoholic beverage, my hands reflexively poured a few ounces of some foreign Vodka into a tumbler, followed by a splash of tonic. I sat in an old, leather high backed chair, and scooping up the book nearest to me, I sipped on my beverage while I thumbed through the pages. The drink was good, so I made another, and another. I was fingering the keys on the piano with my eyes closed when I felt the buzz come on and with it the light bulb. I was drinking alcohol, I was buzzed. The delicious beverage I had been pouring was Vodka and tonic. I stared into the mostly empty third glass, 'Two years sober, and I just blew it without so much as a conscious thought toward it, without intention, OH god, I am gonna have to start my count over, all over at 1 day' There was a moment of protest in my head, the disease telling me that maybe I could drink again, that I could handle being moderate, Yeah I thought to myself, maybe I can – I looked to a clock on the wall and slumped 15 minutes I have been here alone and already I have had three of these. I chuckled at myself, but I was crestfallen that I could wreck two years of sobriety on reflex, without intention.
The fear of that lingers as I am in fact approaching my two year mark. I suppose, as long as I stay a little scared and vigilante I will be alright, but what a fucked up dream.


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Member & Practice Leader, Healthcare Industry Team
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Lucy Carter specialized in healthcare accounting before such a thing really existed in Nashville.
After graduating from the University of Tennessee, the Hendersonville native returned home to begin her career. "When I became a partner in a small local firm, the managing partner looked at me and said, 'You'll head up our Medical Services Department.' I said, 'Great ... we don't have one,'" Carter recalled with a chuckle. "He recognized my passion for healthcare and the opportunity that existed in developing a specialty area to serve the medical profession."
From the beginning, Carter wanted to develop services that would improve the profession. "Not just accounting and tax," she explained, "but consulting services that would provide a bridge between business knowledge and the practice of healthcare."
The only problem ... there simply weren't many resources available to help her get started. "I came across a two-day seminar on practice management at Vanderbilt for the medical residents offered by the Nashville Academy of Medicine," Carter said. She contacted Raymond Sklar, who was director of NAM at that time, to ask if she could attend.
Her presence at the conference was certainly an anomaly. "It was me in a suit, and everyone else was in white coats. They asked us to give our name and specialty. When I said 'Lucy Carter, CPA,' everyone just froze," she said with a laugh.
The foresight of Sklar to welcome her to the conference - and then to become an ongoing resource regarding the business of medicine - helped lay the groundwork for Carter's success as she has grown into one of the city's most respected and knowledgeable healthcare accountants and consultants.
A founder of Carter Lankford CPAs, which specialized in healthcare accounting, Carter joined KraftCPAs after her former partner retired in 2015. Kraft was already deeply immersed in the industry through the affiliated Kraft Healthcare Consulting led by Scott Mertie, and Carter has only enhanced the firm's expertise by creating a specialized industry group within the main firm.
"It's a cross-discipline team with specialists in healthcare embedded in each of the other areas like tax or audit," Carter explained. She added it's critical to have people who truly understand the intricacies of such a highly regulated, constantly changing industry in place. "Helping our clients navigate changes and assisting them in staying clear of regulatory landmines is a constant challenge," she noted.
However, it's a challenge she and her team are happy to meet so that physicians and industry leaders are free to focus on patients. "I love my clients - the hardworking, dedicated and compassionate providers of healthcare," Carter said. "My job is to reduce frustration and anxiety so that our clients can concentrate on what they love - healing."
Whether undertaking a simple accounting task or redesigning processes and workflow to achieve greater efficiency and profitability, Carter said she is mindful that business decisions ultimately have an impact on patients. "Being part of the healthcare profession is an honor and a privilege that I don't take lightly," she explained. "I am passionate about providing solutions to make a positive difference in the business side of medicine. I am also passionate about client service and responsiveness. Fortunately, I'm blessed to work with a great team that shares my passion and values."
Outside of work, Carter noted simply, "My family is my heart." Between she and husband Kirk, who is battling a progressive illness, the couple has four grown children and three grandsons. "We really like to be together cooking, eating, playing games," she said, adding the whole family loves sports, as well.
Carter is also actively involved in the community. She sits on the boards of Junior Achievement and the Nashville Medical Group Management Association, is a member of the Rotary Club of Nashville, and sings in her church choir. No matter how busy the workday, she makes sure there is always time for the friends, family and outside interests that round out a fulfilling life.
"As I tell the younger team members, don't miss important moments. You don't get do-overs in life. Love lavishly."


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The Galactic Supermassive Black Hole
Fulvio Melia
Here, one of the world's leading astrophysicists provides the first comprehensive and logically structured overview of the many ideas and discoveries pertaining to the supermassive black hole at the galactic center known as Sagittarius A*. By far the closest galactic nucleus in the universe, Sagittarius A* alone can provide us with a realistic expectation of learning about the physics of strong gravitational fields, and the impact of such fields on the behavior of matter and radiation under severe physical conditions. Its proximity may even provide the opportunity to directly test one of general relativity's most enigmatic predictions--the existence of closed pockets of space-time hidden behind an event horizon.
The plethora of research on Sagittarius A* since its discovery in 1974 has long seemed an interwoven pattern of loose threads. No one has successfully synthesized this growing body of work into a manageable, coherent book both for professional researchers and for students taking courses focusing on black holes and galactic nuclei--until now. With Fulvio Melia's The Galactic Supermassive Black Hole, readers finally have at their disposal a one-volume crucible of essential ideas, logically streamlined but with thorough references for those wishing to explore the various topics in greater depth.
Fulvio Melia is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Arizona and Associate Editor of the Astrophysical Journal Letters. His books include The Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy (Princeton), The Edge of Infinity: Supermassive Black Holes in the Universe, and Electrodynamics.


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August 09, 2016 03:08PM
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Hey guys,
here are some information:
my important config part:
link_dest 1
sync_first 1
retain daily 7
retain weekly 4
retain monthly 12
my cron schedule:
28 1 * * 1-6 root rsnapshot sync && rsnapshot daily
52 2 * * 0 root rsnapshot sync && rsnapshot daily && rsnapshot weekly
59 3 1 * * root monthly
In the manpage i read this note:
"It is usually a good idea to schedule the larger backup levels to run a bit before the lower ones. For
example, in the crontab above, notice that "beta" runs 10 minutes before "alpha". The main reason for this
is that the beta rotate will pull out the oldest alpha and make that the youngest beta (which means that
the next alpha rotate will not need to delete the oldest alpha), which is more efficient.
From my point of view this note does not care about on which day the backup starts and if the first chain is completed.
Lets say i will start my first backup on [url=https://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/Wednesday.html]Wednesday[/url] 03.08.2016 this would be the chain on Sunday:
Sun - 07.08.2016 - daily.0
Sat - 06.08.2016 daily.1
Fri - 05.08.2016 daily.2
Thu - 04.08.2016 daily.3
Wed - 03.08.2016 daily.4
Concerning my cron for Sunday:
"52 2 * * 0 root rsnapshot sync && rsnapshot daily && rsnapshot weekly
This would happen at the end of the first week:
"[2016-08-07T02] daily.6 not present (yet), nothing to copy
Exactly here is my problem, based on this error i would not have a backup from the first week.
To create on [url=https://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/Wednesday.html]Wednesday[/url] daily.0/1/2 (exact same copies) for the purpose of chain fullfillment (retain 7 = d0-d6) would not be the right solution in my opinion if you want to start your backup on any day.
[b]Do you have another idea to solve this problem ?[/b]
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I would appreciate an answer to this question!
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