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othing will take you down faster than your front wheel rubbing the rear wheel of a rider in front of you. I'd take my chances riding on ice before voluntarily swiping my front wheel across a rear wheel. Similarly, you should be conscientious of what your rear wheel is doing. Obviously every rider is responsible for their own bike handling and the protection of their front wheel. However, you can be kind and try to help people avoid slamming into the back of your bike.
Rapid decelerations happen. It's simply a part of group riding. Maybe a light turns red unexpectedly, or you come around a bend and see a line of stopped cars. Being ready with your hands on the brakes and an idea of what is going on behind you is always helpful. Just like jumping out of line to allow the group to compress, moving over when stopping quickly can help the person behind you have a bit more time to react to what is unfolding.
In the same vein, your rear wheel can become dangerous if you suddenly swerve a few feet to avoid a pothole or hazard. Sometimes this must be done, but if the person behind you has drifted forward and overlapped their front wheel with your rear wheel, any movement could take them down. Clearly, if you have to avoid something, you move, but knowing where people are may help you know which direction to move to avoid danger and keep riders behind you upright.
And lastly, be careful when you stand. This is a cardinal offense many riders make, even veterans. When you are climbing, your speed is directly correlated to the effort you are putting into the pedals at any given moment. Be VERY careful during this transition from seated to standing. Many riders will stop pedaling for a micro second as they stand, and as a result will slow ever so slightly. Now, if everyone behind you is holding a fairly close spacing, say 8", and you slow at all, they may run into your rear wheel. To avoid this, and the ire of those behind you, as you stand, pedal into that standing position. Maybe you're going to shift before you stand, do that first, and stand into the new cadence. But never, ever coast into a standing position and keep pedaling. You will eventually knock someone off the road or crash them completely. Again, it wouldn't technically beyour fault, but its considered a common courtesy to not drift back into others.
At the end of the day, only time riding with groups will hone your skills, and teach you to intuitively act and ride in the correct and helpful manner. While this list is definitely what I wish I had known before I started riding with a group, there are many more complexities to group riding that could be discussed.
What would you add from your experiences riding with a group? Let me know in the comments.


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Coach Rebecca demonstrates standing hurdles. Targets hip flexors and glutes. Good for range of motion and balance. Stand on one leg and bring the other up and across the body with a bent knee. Draw a counterclockwise circle. 15-20 reps on each leg, then do the same leg in the opposite direction (draw a clockwise circle). Focus on opening the hips and increasing ROM and flexibility. To increase difficulty, stand on a BOSU.
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On Sunday 19th November, SoLo Craft Fair returns to the iconic Prince of Wales in Brixton to serve all your Christmas Shopping needs!
We will transform the two floors of the venue into a craft winter wonderland, so avoid the queues, and make present shopping enjoyable this season by grabbing a drink at the bar and browsing the unique stalls that we have have handpicked for you. We have ploughed through hundreds of traders and have found the best in local handcrafted gifts, making Christmas shopping easy.


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This beautiful hand embroidered Grand Lodge of Illinois Grand Representative Apron is made from golden non-tarnish bullion and silk threads. The apron is decorated with a purple 1.5" purple border and gold metallic braids. The adjustable waist belt has been crafted with a 40" black polyester with silver metal snake fastener, perfect for waist line of up to 54 inches.
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The latest music video by Karmin may be trash… but you can give them props for trying.
You may have heard of the cute-couple pop duo from their good old YouTube days, when they rose to Internet stardom from performing covers of popular songs like Look at Me Now and Super Bass, which have amassed hundreds of millions of views.
Formerly signed to Epic Records, Karmin has chosen the path taken by independent musicians, aiming for "a more musically honest approach."
Question is, was it worth it?
Interestingly, Come with Me (Pure Imagination) is a cover remix of Willy Wonka's bittersweet Pure Imagination from the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
It sounds pretty wacky, and it is.
The song itself is inventive and it's impressive that Karmin have completely revamped a song that was more suited to musical theatre than pop. Producer Nick Noonan has added catchy beats and dreamy instrumentals that underlay Amy Noonan's (yes, they tied the knot) expressive, but otherwise flat voice. Honestly, this song is pretty soul-dead, or maybe that's just me.
As for the music video, it's not unusual for Karmin to produce eccentric works that are more influenced by 'artistic' style than substance. This one has shamelessly low production value and looks like something out of a B-grade horror flick.
I can appreciate that they were largely inspired by the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory surreal aesthetic, with Amy appearing out of a very green chocolate river like some kind of lagoon creature, as glowing fairy versions of herself dance around her. But this is just too tacky.
All of this takes place underneath an anthropomorphic moon, with Nick's isolated avocado-green head appearing out of the bushes and staring creepily into the camera. Oh and there's some weird ass flowers with human heads that sing, "Come with me and you'll be/In a world of pure imagination".
No thanks. If this is Karmin's version of paradise, I think I'd rather just go home.


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Pillars of Franchising: Franchising past present future.
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So recently I posted a Hawaiian Birthday invitation for a little girl...now its time to do one for a boy! This client wanted the invitation to be in Spanish! How fun! That's a first for me!
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So recently I posted a Hawaiian Birthday invitation for a little girl...now its time to do one for a boy! This client wanted the invitation to be in Spanish! How fun! That's a first for me!
So our neighborhood is throwing a block party this summer!! I was very excited to have a chance to do these invitations! I love our neighborhood! Last year we held a block party right before the 4th of July and we had at least 50 people turn out. This year we're going to be having a Pig Roast and hope for even more neighbors to turn out! I love community!!! Here are a few of the ideas I generated while we tried to narrow down our invitation.
Here is a new birth announcement for a little boy that I just finished! I love the blue and brown colors in this. Check out this cute little man! I love new babies! He was just 7 days old in these shots! How fun!!
I love this new Summer Party Invitation!!! The party is going to be an old fashioned picnic! Sounds fun doesn't it! I found this great image to use at Snippet & Ink: Daily Wedding Inspiration! This blog highlights lots of cool inspiration for weddings! Jessica of Jessica Johnston Photography took this gorgeous photo at Catherine and Andrew's wedding and was kind enough to share it with me! When I saw this photo and the red gingham tablecloth I knew it was perfect for this invitation! Thanks so much Jessica!
Here's a fun new Hawaiian birthday invitation I just did! Jessica contacted me and said she liked invite028 but wanted it to be a little more Hawaiian! I loved the color palette and cute little saying Jessica came up with - Luau, Limbo & Hula with the Little Kalumbula! So cute!
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Malin Namdal, head of refugee services in Kvam, uses TikkTalk to book highly educated interpreters.
Kvam is a medium-sized municipality along the Hardangerfjord in Western Norway. The municipality has taken in about 30 refugees per year for the last two years, and every week there is a need for interpreters.
– When refugees first arrive we use interpreters a lot. After that, we use interpreters when needed, says Malin Namdal. She is the head of refugee services in Kvam and one of the people in the municipality who uses interpreters the most.
Namdal explains that she books interpreters from several agencies and that she finds individual interpreters to be of varying quality.
– One of the best things about TikkTalk is that we know the full name and qualifications of the interpreters we use. That means we are more in control, she says.
When using traditionally interpreter agencies, Kvam only learns the first name of the interpreter, without any information about qualifications, she explains.
– This week, for instance, I know I will have a complicated conversation with a refugee. That's why I have used TikkTalk to book a specific interpreter with plenty of education and experience.
Almost no interpreters in the municipality
Namdal explains that getting interpreters to travel to Kvam is costly and time consuming.
– Our municipality is located far from where the interpreters live. I think we only have one interpreter in all of Kvam and he's retired. That's why we use a lot of phone interpreters, she says.
Because of the strain on resources, the municipality is only able to book in-person interpreters for particularly serious conversations which are flagged well in advance, she continues.
– If we only have a short notice before an interpreter conversation, it's unfortunately impossible to get interpreters to travel here.
To improve communication during interpreter conversations, the municipality is now looking to trial video interpretation.
Read also: Why the asylum centres at Hemsedal use TikktAlk
Happy with TikkTalk
Namdal says she has only used TikkTalk in recent months, but that she is already very pleased with the system.
– I will definitely keep booking interpreters through TikkTalk. The automatic system is working brilliantly, she says.


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Total moves to boost oil sands involvement
Total has offered C$1.30 per share - a 57% premium over the closing price of UTS shares on 27 January 2008. The unsolicited proposal is currently being reviewed by UTS's board of directors. The offer will require the acceptance of its shareholders, representing 66.67% of the shares according to Total.
UTS's main asset is a 20% stake in the Fort Hills Project, in the Athabasca oil sands region of Alberta, Canada. Petro-Canada operates the project and holds a 60% stake, with Canadian mining company


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One of the reasons I hated George Bush so passionately is that every single time he opened up his mouth I wanted to cringe in shame and embarassment for the man. On the flip side, I don't always agree with everything that President Obama says but at least when he speaks I get the feeling that he a) thought about the issue a little bit and b) took some time to figure out how best to explain his viewpoint.
A recent analysis of Obama's speech patterns show he generally gives speeches rated to be at the 12 grade reading level, although apparently he has taken this criticism to heart and dumbed his latest speech down to 9th grade reading level. By contrast, McCain's acceptance speech at the 2008 Republican convention was rated at a third grade reading level. Apparently, this is viewed as being populist and understandable by a large majority of the population, whereas speaking intelligently and making use of some of the 171,476 words currently in circulation in the English language is deemed "elitist" and by extension "incomprehensible."
Normally I consider myself a pretty good communicator, especially in writing, and I often take pride in my carefully crafted emails to my colleagues and to the users of the helpdesk. But recently I've begun to doubt my communication skills, because I, like our elitist president, tend to unconciously use those big college level words in favor of more simple words. For example, in an effort to stop people from forwarding chain hoax emails, I sent this to everyone in the company:
Anything that exhorts you to send it to all of your friends is almost certainly a hoax. If you are unclear as to the veracity of a particular email, please feel free to forward it to the Help Desk.
It wasn't until much later, dealing with another problem caused by a user who either couldn't read or hadn't taken the time to read the instructions provided to her, that I looked over this email and realized that most of my intended audience probably had no idea what "veracity" or "exhort" even meant.
And they weren't likely to look it up, either.
And they could probably only comprehend emails written at a third grade level.
And they are proud of this fact.
I have tried, as much as my entire soul rebels against it, to incorporate this into my daily interactions with people and to simplify any messages I might have that could be remotely confusing. However so far I have failed in this quest. Witness this exchange from a user who had requested verification that a file had been sent:
"Peggy, is the customer missing a file or are you just confirming that it was processed? If the latter it appears that it was processed."
To which Peggy's reply was:
"Ok, all set."
In retrospect, my mistake was most probably using "if the latter." Peggy was probably confused about why I was talking about ladders for her missing file and may have decided this was some kind of "IT lingo" and therefore disregarded the entire sentence from her brain altogether.
Two days later we get a critical request from Peggy's supervisor because it turns out that the customer was indeed missing the file. Being annoyed I forwarded the above response to Peggy's supervisor, hoping, for some reason, to alert her supervisor to a potential performance issue, which turned out to be a foolish hope because Peggy's supervisor is the aforementioned Jessie.
Jessie's response was that I should have interpreted Peggy's "all set" to mean that a file was indeed missing, and that in the future if an answer to a question was incorrect or missing information that I should carbon copy her on it so that she could chime in, in effect telling me that although Peggy and I both appear to be speaking English we are actually conversing in two separate languages and that the whole thing would have been solved if I could only read minds or somehow magically discern right from wrong by mere force of will.
I used to stand in disbelief that people like this were really fundamentally unable to comprehend not only what I was saying but the basic tenets behind it. Now I've lowered my expectations and am merely amazed that these people are able to get up and dress themselves in the morning.
Meanwhile, I am dutifully trying to learn American English. Because whatever I'm speaking, it's not the native tongue.


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The great Siddharta Gautama uttered one sentence, which sounds so pessimistic, yet is so true. Life Means Suffering, now before you start to scream your arguments and try to prove me wrong, keep this in mind. What happens during birth? You scream of suffering. What happens during life? You suffer from sickness. Death? Your suffer from pain.
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Could this be the beginning of a big happy family for Sean Penn and Charlize Theron? Sean Penn has apparently filed papers to adopt Charlize's son, Jackson.
People magazine recently reported that Sean has started the process in order to secure a happy family for him and Charlize.
"Charlize and Sean are very serious. Charlize says this is it. Jackson already calls Sean daddy. This is the first step toward them getting married", says the source
But other sources have said that it's still early days for Sean's adoption plans and that he still plans to adopt Jackson, but has not started the process yet.
We not sure who to believe. After all, no one is even clear whether the pair are engaged!
Either way, Sean seems committed to making things work with Charlize. Good on him!
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January 19, 2005
Nouriel Roubini Preprocesses the Wall Street Journal
Nouriel writes:
Nouriel Roubini's Global Economics Blog: January 2005 Archives: While Greg Ip wrote a very fine front page analysis of the risks of a dollar crash in the WSJ today (and thanks for the citations of my work with Brad Setser on financial crises), an even finer article by him on the risks of a bursting of housing bubbles made it only to page 2 of the paper (I guess the informal rule is that you cannot have more than one article per journalist in the front page). And his timely analysis was matched by another good WSJ piece by Agnes Crane in the Credit Market section on how the risk of a bursting of the housing bubble may affect US monetary policy (i.e. whether Greenspan & Co. may not tighten as much as is needed if there are risks to the housing markets from higher interest rates).
A lot - academic, policy and market-wise - has been written recently on housing bubbles in the US and abroad, the risk of a housing bubble bursting and the relation between asset bubbles and monetary policy (see my web site pages on housing and asset bubbles and the Fed). So, not too much original may be said. A missing link between the good Ip dollar piece and the good Ip housing piece is that of the effects of a dollar crash on US bond markets and thus on housing markets. The link is implicit but worth fleshing out: i.e. a dollar crash/hard landing that would be associated with a bond market rout (see my previous blog) would have severe consequences on all other risky and overvalued assets, including housing values.
In that scenario, the Fed would be in a ugly trade-off: to stave off a free fall of the dollar with its inflationary consequences it would have to sharply tighten monetary policy; but such tightening would be recessionary, it would also exacerbate the increase in short and long term interest rates and the fall in housing prices.
In that regard, one issue missed by the Crane piece is the following one: in the usual comparison between the US and UK/Australia, the standatd argument is that in the US a larger fraction of mortgages are at fixed rates (compared to UK/Australia) and that the ability of households to refinance and move from adjustable rates to fixed rates (at a hint of expected increased in long rates) may reduce the impact of short term interest rate tightening by the Fed on the housing market compared to UK/Australia where such tightening may be restrained by concerns about a collapse in housing prices. I.e. the Fed - compared to the Bank of England - should be less concerned about the effects of its overdue tightening on the housing market.
This argument is only partially - and comparatively - true. If households are not taking on the risk of rising long rates as they can refinance, someone else is gonna take such risk and the ability of banks, mortgage finance companies or, down the chain the large GSE's, to hedge such risk is limited. The hot potato of higher short-rates leading to higher long rates and losses deriving from households not taking the long rate increase risk will be borne by some other agents in the financial markets, banks/mortgage companies and/or GSE's. The general equilibrium effects of derivative hedging of the yield curve rising are not clear but, as it well know, the risk of a systemic crisis event are rising in such circumstances...
Posted by DeLong at January 19, 2005 08:23 AM
S & L - style bailouts perhaps?
Posted by: theCoach at January 19, 2005 08:43 AM
It seems unlikely to me that there will be a real estate crash. Negative price corrections due to rising interest rates, certainly, perhaps over several years. But corrections in home prices in the negative double digits? Only in certain overheated markets.
I'm not sure what the impact would be to issuers of fixed rate mortgages. Most homeowners will probably just sit tight. The default rate might go up a bit. Consumer spending will decrease from the negative wealth effect.
But I don't really see a meltdown.
Posted by: steve at January 19, 2005 09:35 AM
having just bought a condo (two weeks ago) in the bubble of bubbles (San Francisco) this has been a major, major concern of mine. I've seen a number of articles that show the proportion of adjustable rate mortages in SF has been over 50% for at least 18 months.
I have not been able to get data on the type of adjustable rate periods these have been for. 3 years, 5 years or 7 year fixed prior to going adjustable? If a majority have 5 or 7 year fixed, is this enough time to ride out a correction?
I think part of the run up in property prices has been a structural change in the availability of different financing. 5 or 10% down is the standard now and the availability of these adjustable rate financings has changed the mind set of the buyer.
When I was shopping for rates, I had to consider the length of time I'm planning to stay and balance that with any risk of a correction. Given me and my wife's age and family status, I'm putting my bet on the fact that we will want to move out of a condo in the city in the next 5 to 10 years. Why pay the extra interest for a 30 yr. fixed if we are not planning to stay?
On the other hand, if there is a sharp rise in interest rates, I want to be protected.
In the end we went for a 7 yr fixed period with adjustable rates after that. The loan also has 10% cap. If things start to look really bad, I'm sure I enough time to refi into a 30 yr fixed well before the market gets to 10%.
And why, do you ask, am I buying?
Well, tax breaks for one. We don't own now and can use the breaks. Also, sometimes you just get to that point in life where you want a place of your own.
Posted by: I can't belive at January 19, 2005 09:40 AM
We don't have a housing bubble, we have a permit bubble. Land costs are reasonable if the land does not have a permit to build attached to it. It's even more reasonable if the land does not have a federal, state, or local government agricultural subsidy attached to it.
The interest rate/inflation risk has been transferred from the banks to the public in the form of US government guarantees of pension funds (you know, like social security) that have invested in bonds, in bond and money market retirement accounts held by the general public, and in overseas holdings of treasury debt.
Posted by: walter willis at January 19, 2005 10:57 AM
walter willis wrote, "We don't have a housing bubble, we have a permit bubble. Land costs are reasonable if the land does not have a permit to build attached to it."
So what? Suppose the land comes with a provision that *nothing* may be done with it. Then (aside from natural conservation) the land is worthless anyway. That it would also command a low price means nothing.
In fact, you actually have it precisely backwards. Excessively strong zoning restrictions act to make land scarcer, and drive up the resulting demand.
Posted by: liberal at January 19, 2005 01:17 PM
On the fixed rate/variable rate question, it has always seemed obvious to me that this is just shifting, not reducing, the loss from sharp interest rate rises. Putting the risk into the financier's court, rather than the consumers', just means the contractionary mechanism is different - not necessarily less at all.
What has happened to interest rates on new fixed rate mortgages in the US? They ought to be rising sharply for the same reasons long bond rates should be. Do we have a similar puzzle here to that for long bonds?
Posted by: derrida derider at January 19, 2005 05:02 PM
I don't think the US has ever experienced a situation where a significant proportion of houseowners are "in negative equity", i.e. the value of their house (or condo) is less than their mortgage balance. Owners in such a situation cannot sell, since to do so they would have to come up with the difference between what the house would fetch and what they owe. They can't refinance either, since they can't borrow enough on the new mortgage to pay off the old. They therefore have to pay whatever their current mortgage holder demands--and on an adjustable mortgage, such demands may become exorbitant--or go into foreclosure.
People who took 90%, 95%, 100% loan-to-value mortgages are most at risk to end up in negative equity on a fall in house prices. Those whose mortgages were also adjustable rate will be the ones to get worst squeezed. Does anyone know how many such (high ltv, adjustable rate) mortgages are out there?
Posted by: jam at January 19, 2005 05:09 PM
"I don't think the US has ever experienced a situation where a significant proportion of houseowners are "in negative equity", i.e. the value of their house (or condo) is less than their mortgage balance."
Can this be true? Even in the 1930s?
Posted by: otto at January 19, 2005 06:42 PM
I don't think it is a bubble in the strict sense of the term, which requires people buy with a plan to sell to the greater fool.
Rather, my guess is that home prices have responded forcefully to the mortgage market rally because that rally has not been associated with any serious deterioration of trend income growth in the household sector. Rather, this time around, the mortgage rally has been driven mostly by developments in the corporate and foreign sectors. Specifically, the corporate sector has moved sharply toward financial surplus and the foreign sector has recycled its surplus savings into the US debt market. The resulting decline of interest rates should have delivered a uniquely potent stimulus to the real estate market -- and it has. We do not have to introduce the notion of a bubble to get this result.
Of course, when these special factors reverse, home prices will probably go down -- and by more than normal. Another way to put this is that the duration of the housing stock is longer than normal in this cycle. But this does not mean that housing is a bubble. The dynamics here do not require that anyone -- except perhaps Asian central banks -- behave irrationally.
Posted by: Gerard MacDonell at January 19, 2005 06:48 PM
I don't know. Brad's the economic historian here. But I don't think so. The modern mortgage, long-term, used to finance home purchase the cost of which is amortized over its life, dates, I understand, from 1934 and Title II of the National Housing Act. Prior to that, mortgages were short term (3-5 years) and for much less than the property was worth. Think of them as the real estate equivalent of pawning chattels.
So in the '30s, there weren't very many mortgages used to buy houses with and the worst of the house price falls had already occurred by the time they were issued.
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Lord, Give Me This Mountain
Joshua 14:6-14
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6 Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the Lord said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.
7 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.
8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the Lord my God.
9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the Lord my God.
10 And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
11 As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.
12 Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the Lord spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the Lord will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said.
13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.
14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the Lord God of Israel
The book of Joshua describes the Israelites conquest of Canaan-from the initial invasion across the Jordon River to the final division of the land. Like most military histories, Joshua focuses on the commander. The book repeatedly emphasizes that the Israelites victories were due to God's intervention (chapters 10,11). The extraordinary victory over Jericho dramatically demonstrated this chapter 6. Now God was decisively acting on the promises that He had made to Abraham: He was giving the land of Canaan to His people. The book of Joshua describes a God who faithfully fulfills His promises. The book of Joshua is named for the man who figures most prominently in it, Moses successor and Israel's leader during the conquest of Canaan. Appropriately, Joshua's name in Hebrew means "The Lord Saves" or "May the Lord Save." Many summaries often give the impression that the campaign of conquest was one in which the Israelites overwhelmed the Canaanites with a superior force, inflicting a series of total defeats. But the Book of Joshua as a whole does not describe Israel as winning a frontal offensive attack (bombing, super fire power) by means of a superior force. Rather, under God's direction, Israel used various means such as ambushes and diversionary tactics to defeat it enemies. The Israelites are said to have destroyed only three cities: Jericho, Ai and Hazor. Joshua 16:10 and Judges 1 suggest that Israel's victory over the Canaanites was incomplete. There were Canaanites still living in the land. Nevertheless, God did give the greater part of the land of Canaan in the Israelites hands through a series of dramatic battles in a relatively short period of time. God was faithful to His promises. God had repeatedly promised the land of Canaan to Abraham The book of Joshua emphasizes that the conquest of Canaan was a direct fulfillment of that promise. God was fighting for the Israelites and giving the m the land in the process. Since God was demonstrating His faithfulness to Israel, He expected Israel to be faithful to His covenant with them.
So why was Possessing the land so important.
Conquering the land enabled Israel to experience God's rest, which He had promised to the Israelites from the beginning. The text today talks about what you need to do in order to get rest.
The text is tailored to teach you:
If God said it! You can believe!
- We need to Remember those who fight for our freedom
- Remembering those who have fallen in battle
- Remembering all loved ones who have died
- Chapter 14 is This is a Text From a Book of Battles
- After Moses, Joshua became the leader
- The land divided among the tribes of Israel
- The area given will have to be conquered and developed
- Caleb: "Give Me this Mountain"
1.Asks the most difficult task (v.12)
2.What motivated Caleb to press on to higher ground?
- He Remembers God's Promise to Him (vv. 6-7)
(He promises us, desires of your heart, peace, joy, rest, ask and it shall be give…)
- Caleb the spy (Num. 13:1-4)
a.Sent by Moses 40 years earlier to spy out the land
b.The fruit of the land, flowing with milk and honey
c.But Caleb saw beyond this to Hebron, where Abram met God
- Caleb; "We are well able to overcome it" (Num. 14:23-24)
a.The majority had great giants and a little God
b.Caleb had a great God and little giants
c.The majority were problem-conscious, but Caleb was power-conscious
- Caleb will now stand on the promises
a.He will never forget them
b.You will never find him part of the grumbling crowd
c.He is on his way to this better land all through life
- Caleb Remembers His Own Commitment To The Lord (vv. 8-9)
1."I wholly followed the Lord…"
a.Reminded of the time of his full surrender
b.A man of God, total dedication, committed
2.Remembers how he had stood apart from the crowd
a.Do you remember a day of victory?
b.What about the day you were saved?
c.What about the time of full surrender?
3.The sad story of Revelation 2:1-7)
4.Have you left your first love?
- Caleb Remembers God's faithfulness to Him (vv. 10-11)
1.God hath kept me alive
a.Have you thanked God for keeping you alive?
b.Except for Joshua, all the rest had died
2.I am now fourscore and five years old (85)
a.some senior citizen!
b.Not resting on his laurels
3.God had cared for him up to that hour
4."Grace hath brought me safe thus far?
III Conclusion
Many of you are going through times like never before. I come here to tell you that even though this seems like the worst time, its not the first time.
My mother taught mentally challenged kids and was the foster mother to a young man for 20 years. The first day he came to live with her, she took him to the carpet store. When he walked in immediately, turned over all of the carpet samples in the whole store. She called me crying saying I think I made a mistake in taking him in. I knew before he came that he was locked up everyday. But I prayed and God told me to do it. He said in his word to ask and it shall be given, seek and it shall be found, knock and the door shall be open.
What did God promise. He said I will give you rest…. But it will be a fight!
- Now, Therefore, Give Me This Mountain!
1.give me your best
2.Give me your toughest task
- Remembering Should Challenge Us
- Lincoln at Gettysburg
- Accept the Challenge
C. Move on to Higher Ground


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Carrot Rosemary Scones
From http://patentandthepantry.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/carrot-rosemary-scones/
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2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/4 t baking powder
1 1/4 t salt
9 T chilled, unsalted butter
1 1/2 cups grated carrots
2 T fresh rosemary, chopped or 1 T dried
2 cloves garlic, peeled and finely minced
2 T Dijon mustard
3/4 cup cream (whipping, half and half, or combination of the two)
1/2 cup grated parmesan (optional)
Preheat the oven to 350. In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Add the butter and rub it into the flour mixture with your fingers or using a pastry blender or in a food processor. It should resemble coarse crumbs when it's blended enough. Add the carrots, rosemary and cheese if you're using it.
Mix together the mustard, cream and garlic and then add to the dry ingredients. Mix together gently until the dough comes together and then empty out onto floured counter. Pat together into a ball and then roll out until the dough is about a half-inch thick. Cut out using a biscuit cutter.
Or once rolled out use a pastry cutter and cut into triangles ,squares or pieces.
(I did this after using a glass as a biscuit cutter was NOT working!)
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In October 2009 the National Center for Lesbian Rights and It Takes A Team!, co-sponsored a national think tank entitled, "Equal Opportunities for Transgender student athletes" to develop model policies and identify best practices for athletic programs.
Content Summary
This think tank report includes best practice and policy recommendations for high school and collegiate athletic programs about providing transgender student athletes with equal opportunities to participation in school-based sports programs. In addition to specific policy recommendations for both high school and college athletics, the report provides guidance for implementing these policies to ensure the safety, privacy, and dignity of transgender student athletes as well as their teammates. Specific best practice recommendations are provided for athletic administrators, coaches, student athletes, parents, and the media.


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A movie was released in 1976 titled, Murder By Death, featuring Peter Falk, Truman Capote, Peter Sellers, and of course, Eileen Brennan. It was a classic murder mystery spoof comedy. The most recent movie I can think of that is similar would be Clue with Tim Curry. Almost 25 years later a band had begun to take shape in the college town of Bloomington, Indiana who would eventually take on the same moniker as the 1976 cinematic classic, Murder By Death.
In 2000, the band Little Joe Gould was up and running featuring guitarist Adam Turla, and Sarah Balliet on Cello. Drums and bass guitar would round out the band playing a unique version of indie rock with distinct surges of whisky-laden alternative country, and rock n' roll. Adam is a small left handed guitar player with the huge voice of a rock n' roll monster. In 2003, Little Joe Gould was touring with some major people in the indie rock world, releasing EPs, and appearing on soundtracks. They officially adapted the name Murder By Death around this same time. It may just be a coincidence that 2003 is the same year Johnny Cash died, because Adam Turla's voice is eerily similar to the man in black. I would like to believe that Cash was left wandering purgatory long enough to find someone to give his haunting voice to. Turla was an easy find because for the next few years Murder By Death toured and wrote the album, In Boca Al Lupo, which brought their sound to a greater audience and larger shows. I saw them in support of this tour on the small club stage at Waterstreet Music Hall, in Rochester, NY to a sold out crowd. This amount of power that came off the little stage was awesome, even when the band played acoustic, the deep resonating frequencies from Turla's voice, and cello would ripple through my body and ears. It was over before it even started in seemed to me, but was one of the most memorable concerts I can ever remember.
After a few more albums, and major label releases, Murder By Death released Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon in 2012. Of course, I purchased this on vinyl and added it to my collection of the previous releases on vinyl. I listened to this vinyl a lot when I got it. It was a very stressful time for me when I was listening to this. We just moved into a new house back in Rochester to help take care of my dying father, busy working in a field I was not happy with, but sacrifices needed to be made. With everything going on the days fell off the calendar quickly, sometimes by weeks at a time. In February of 2013, Dad died, my taste for wine was gone, and I couldn't play Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon anymore. It felt weird, and like I was cheating myself. Only within in the last few months, this vinyl has made it back into rotation. I don't know who the last track, Ghost Fields, on the album is about, but it hits home for me. It is a about the loss of a relationship as far as I can tell. If I open a bottle of wine, most of the time I forget what I am even drinking and I find myself staring off out of the big front bay window of my house with Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon spinning behind me. When the track ends, I come to my senses and top off my glass. The last bottle I was pouring from was a Bordeaux-style blend from the obnoxiously good grapes of Girard, called Artistry.
Girard is constantly hailed as one of the best wineries in the Napa valley. They are small in comparison to a lot of the other Napa Valley giants and make a handful of Cabernet based wines and a few whites. The Chardonnay in grown in Sonoma, while everything else comes from vineyards in the Napa Valley. I visited Girard a few years ago with a group from work and out of all the wineries we visited in Napa, the Girard team was by far the coolest and most laid back of the bunch. Napa valley has really become a land of lawyers and investors and a lot of the old time farmer's traditions are not very transparent to the naked eye anymore. A lot of hospitality, showing off, and money being spent on showing off. Don't get me wrong, the wines are all fantastic, I just like getting to hang and get to know the people, not the same rehearsed stories over and over again. Girard was cool. We arrived at their tasting room in St. Helena. It was a small facility with a main typical tasting in the front and a private room in the back with a large table and a few lounge couches. We sat down and I crashed on the couch. We were asked what we wanted to try, just a full glass, or full line up of wines. I was cool with just a glass, but the team chose the full line up. When the bottle of Artistry and I took a sniff as soon as I poured, I grabbed the bottle back from my neighbor and filled my glass. The aromatics were just layered with everything under the sun, but showed lots of blackberry, savory herbs, cocoa, plums, and old leather. As weird as it sounds to a beginner wine student, I just couldn't stop smelling the wine. It blew me away. Upon tasting it, I quickly realized it wasn't going to disappoint following the nose. It was layered with bright fruit flavors, intense tannins, dark and deep tones, wrapped into and overall perfectly balanced wine, much like music on Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon.
I can't say enough about Girard Winery, Artistry, and band Murder By Death. The essence of both mirror each other and balance out to perfection. You can order Girard wines from their website if you can't find it at your local retailer. You know how to find music. You won't be disappointed.


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Monday, October 30, 2006
Fourth grade was a very long time ago. Fourth grade starting at the Catholic school with all new kids, 50 kids in the class and new rules was a shock to me. But out of the horrors of Catholic school came a life long friend, Ms Kathleen.
Some of us are lucky enough to have one really good friend and I have two, Kathleen and Julie.
She occupies a place in my heart where there are no others. Someone who endured the whole trauma of that particular classroom, that particular group of kids so we have a special history together. She has known me almost as long as my family and understands that place where we grew up. Her parents are buried in the row next to my father.
Recently I was across the street from our old church. I saw a funeral ending and people leaving the church. I suddenly remembered it was the mother of one of our old classmates. I immediately called her and even though she wasn't home, I gave her the play by play of the people leaving and the cars driving to the cemetery. Yes, it is a strange and wonderful relationship.
We reconncected after one of her sisters died and I read the obituary in the paper. I sent her a letter and one night in December I got a phone call from her. We caught up, shared our lives and my life has been better since that call. Her generosity of spirit is amazing. I look forward to our long talks and even longer laughs.
What a joy to know I have a friend for life who makes me laugh and understands my tears. Happy Birthday. You will always be a day older than me, old thing.
And for you, once again, the headless nun.
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If you are like me, your answer is a resounding NO WAY!. But then reality reminds me that there are occasions I may "need" windows and the ability to access it from my iPad is pretty cool.
Now you can have that ability... and for free! (depending on what you want to do of course). Onlive, the folks who are best know for online gaming, has taken their technology and introduced OnLive Desktop. Basically it is a full copy of Windows with Word, Excel, and Power Point in the cloud. So it is like remote controlling a windows computer but instead of you having to install, configure, and maintain that computer, they do it for you virtually in the cloud.
Currently it is free for the basic setup with MS Office and for $4.95 / month you get web browsing with explorer, adobe flash, acrobat reader and additional storage. Does anyone else find it interesting that MS Office access is the "free" part of the service, but web browsing will cost you? It is good news that accessing and editing your documents is easy enough that Office is not worth paying for. It is sad news that there are still ancient web sites that can only be accessed with internet explorer and that so much content still relies on flash.
I have downloaded my free copy and played with it a bit. I think I will stick with the free version for now as it is very handy to be able to simply launch windows on my iPad when needed. The bad news for me is that my wife may need to get the paid version as she has to access a 1990's era web portal for a large school district and this option may be simpler than all the work to install and maintain Windows on her Mac... just to access ONE web site.
If you want to know more, take a look at the article David Pogue wrote for the NY Times. My recommendation, go on over to your iTunes and try it out for free. It won't be your day to day way to work on MS Word, but it is a handy arrow to have in your quiver.


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These include adult and paediatric refractions (for spectacle prescriptions), specialist medical contact lenses for children and adults and low vision rehabilitation, with a comprehensive range of low visual aids (magnifiers) available. Our Eye Clinic liaison officer (ECLO) complements the low vision service by providing support and information to visually impaired patients. The optometrists also undertake a wide range of other outpatient clinics. These include OCT, visual field, cataract pre-assessment and glaucoma clinics. The Optometry Department is also involved in training medical students, pre-registration optometrists and other health care professionals.
Contact us on 01473 703232.
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Away with the Grey: Bringing Green Spaces Back to the City
From New York City's Central Park to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park to Paris' Luxembourg Gardens, urban green spaces are an iconic element of many of the world's greatest cities. Below, CADdetails highlights 5 unique urban green spaces destined to become not only lush landmarks, but shining examples of sustainable design, bringing innovative green spaces back to the urban jungle.
If you're already feeling inspired to redesign your landscape, search 'landscape' on CADdetails.com to view the latest products that will help you complete your project.
Singapore's Gardens by the Bay
British architects Wilkinson Eyre and landscape architects Grant Associates are the creative team behind Singapore's enormous tropical Gardens by the Bay, above. Dotted with tree-like towers, shell-shaped greenhouses and a 98 foot-high man-made indoor waterfall, the spectacular Gardens is located on reclaimed land beside the city's downtown marina. The unique horticultural destination is the recipient of 16 international awards, including the Landscape Institute Awards 2013 for Climate Change Adaptation and World Building of the Year 2012.
The futuristic site is dominated by a grove of eighteen larger-than-life 'Supertree' structures measuring between 80 and 160 feet tall, with thousands of orchids, ferns and tropical flowering climbers growing up their vein-like cladding. According to the design team, "they are at one level spectacular vertical gardens and landmark features, at another they are the environmental engines for the cooled conservatories, incorporating devices for water harvesting and storage, air intake, cooling and exhaust, photovoltaic arrays, and solar collectors."
The spectacular vertical gardens are connected by an aerial walkway, leading to a treetop bar. There are also themed gardens, a lake, tree-lined walkways, a playground and an events space. Promoted as a tourist attraction, the Gardens are meant to restore public parkland to this fast-moving city and, in the 2 giant climate-controlled biomes, provide a cool respite from the intense equatorial heat. The horticultural oasis is in stark contrast to the country's extremely dense urban environment, forming an important part of the government's overall strategy to transform Singapore into a "city in a garden."
Just as important is the message Singapore is trying to send about itself as an up-and-coming center of green technology. Both the Supertrees and the biomes use cutting-edge window glazing, cooling and water capture and recycling technologies to maintain the indoor temperatures. A biomass furnace deep underground is entirely fuelled by wood waste collected from Singapore's parks, leaving the entire Gardens power-neutral, and independent of the local grid.
The Rubens at the Palace Hotel
Victoria, United Kingdom
The Rubens at the Palace Hotel near Victoria Station, in London, England, is now home to the British capital's largest living wall, pictured at right. Soaring 68 feet up the side of the luxury hotel, the lush living wall designed by Gary Grant of the Green Roof Consultancy Ltd. contains over 10,000 plants including buttercups, crocuses, strawberries, spring bulbs and winter geraniums, irrigated by harvested rainwater that is caught in dedicated storage tanks on the roof. The permanent living wall will not only provide a vertical garden for visitors to enjoy, but it will also help combat surface flooding and air pollution naturally, while attracting hungry pollinators like bees and butterflies to the urban environment.
Unveiled in August, 2013, the ground-breaking green project came to light following a Green Infrastructure Audit, a mapping process that sought to identify new locations for green space in Victoria that was carried out by the Victoria Business Improvement District (Victoria BID), the body representing over 250 businesses in the Victoria area including the Rubens at the Palace Hotel. As a result of the audit, the hotel commissioned concept designs for the wall in recognition of the environmental benefits the wall will have for Victoria. The wall's unique design enables it to capture rainwater from the roof of the building in dedicated storage tanks. A key environmental challenge in Victoria is the risk of flooding during periods of heavy rain, due to the low absorbency of urban surfaces. According to the Environment Agency, there are now around 534,000 properties in London on the Thames floodplain, and one in four in London are at risk of flooding. Water collected by the tanks is channeled slowly through the wall, nourishing plant life and helping to reduce the risk of surface water flooding in the area by storing up to 10,000 liters at any time.
The project has received support from the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, through his Greening the BIDs program. In addition, the wall will improve the air quality in the area, deaden noise and help to keep the hotel cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. Finally, the vegetation will trap microscopic pollutants, high levels of which have been shown to cause respiratory illnesses. The wall was installed and maintained by TreeBox Ltd.
One Central Park
Sydney, Australia
A residential building in the heart of Sydney, Australia, has recently been named the best tall building in the world. One Central Park by French design group Ateliers Jean Nouvel and Australia's PTW, beat 87 other international entries to top the list, and was commended for its visible use of green design.
Pictured at right, the building's key features include hanging gardens, a cantilevered heliostat, an internal water recycling plant and low-carbon tri-generation power plant. Not surprisingly, One Central Park has also been awarded a five-star green star by the Green Building Council Australia.
French landscape artist Patrick Blanc was commissioned to design the vertical gardens that cover the surface of the building. 35,200 plants and 383 different species were used, including some natives such as acacias.
The gardens use a remote controlled, dripper irrigation system and a special process developed by Blanc in which the roots of a plant are attached to a mesh-covered felt, soaked with mineralized water. This allows the plants to grow without soil along the face of a wall. The gardens are maintained by a local green roof and wall company called Junglefy.
One Central Park is also unusual for its cantilever that is covered in a series of reflector panels. These panels automatically redirect natural sunlight to various parts of a nearby park during shady periods of the day. In the evening the heliostat turns into an LED artwork called Sea Mirror, designed by French artist Yann Kersale.
Mick Caddey, development director of Central Park, said that while it is the building's on-site water recycling factory and power plant that are responsible for most of the water and energy savings, the vertical gardens are a visible and tangible reminder of innovative green infrastructure.
Project Jewel
Changi Airport, Singapore
Singapore's Changi Airport, aptly named the 'world's best' by the 2014 World Airport Awards, is planning to get even better with a massive glass and steel structure that is being hailed as the terminal of the future.
Construction is now underway on 'Project Jewel', which will boast the world's tallest indoor waterfall, a large indoor park with native trees and plants, winding walking trails, and improved check-ins and transfers for passengers.
Safdie Architects and PWP Landscape Architecture are creating a spherical "air hub," in the center of Changi so even brief visitors passing through Singapore will get a sense of this garden-city as they walk through the lush interior landscape. When it opens in 2018, Jewel will have five storeys above ground and five below ground, with a total footprint of more than 1.4 million square feet.
By bringing elements of the outdoors inside, the round-shaped terminal will be unlike anything that has been built before.
Designed by a team led by world-renowned architect Moshe Safdie, the visually stunning terminal features a glass and steel facade. Officials said Jewel will be the first in Singapore to seamlessly integrate abundant greenery with other attractions and facilities within the same building. It will house one of the largest indoor collections of plants in Singapore and one of its top attractions will be Forest Valley, a huge five-storey garden filled with thousands of trees, plants, ferns and shrubs.
Officials describe it as an 'idyllic valley of verdant landscaping and waterfalls' where visitors can go for a hike in air-conditioned comfort. There will be four different gardens and an incredible 130-ft 'Rain Vortex' that is expected to be the world's tallest indoor waterfall. The spectacular waterfall will be located at the core of the complex and at night will transform into a light and sound show with special lighting effects.
Pasona Urban Farm
Tokyo, Japan
In the offices of Pasona, a multi-national recruitment agency located in the center of Tokyo's busy financial district, 20% of the 215,000 square foot office space is dedicated to growing fresh vegetables, fruits and rice, making it the largest and most direct farm-to-table urban farm in Japan. Ripe tomatoes hang from conference room ceilings, rice paddies grow waist-high in the lobby, and a living façade of flowers and orange trees covers the expanse of the building's exterior, pictured at right. In total, over 200 species of fruits, vegetables, and rice are grown within the office building, including lemons, broccoli, salad greens, berries, squash, eggplant, and passion fruit.
Pasona dedicated itself to creating this urban farm in part because of Japan's worrying reliance on foreign food. With a shortage of arable land in Japan (roughly only 12%, compared to 20% in the US and over 50% in Denmark), the country's food supply is highly unsustainable. By creating this urban farm, Pasona is working to encourage and educate new farmers, while exposing urban inhabitants to farming. Pasona employees, supported by a team of agricultural specialists, are encouraged to take part in the care and cultivation of the crops, which are eaten on site in the office cafeteria. Employees can be seen working in the rice paddy or broccoli field, pruning fruit trees, tending to lettuces and harvesting veggies.
The plants are kept healthy via HEFL, fluorescent and LED lamps and a state of the art automatic irrigation system. The building is also equipped with an intelligent climate control system that monitors humidity, temperature and breeze so that the human inhabitants are comfortable during business hours, and the plants are comfortable overnight.
This unique office space is truly a vision of a more sustainable future that promotes worker's productivity, mental health, and social interaction and engages the wider community of Tokyo by showcasing the benefits and technology of urban agriculture.
These five examples highlight innovative approaches to bringing a little more green back to the city in our increasingly built-up and built-out urban environments.
Looking to add some green to your space? Search 'landscape' on CADdetails.com.


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"The stronger the wind, the stronger the tree." -Anonymous
5000m row @ 2K pace plus :20-:23 seconds
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5000m row @ 2K pace plus :20-:23 seconds
Back to long and slow this week. For example, if my 500m pace for a 2k is 1:40 I would hold 2:00-2:03 500m pace for this workout. I'm excited to see the results at the end of the program.


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June 9-11, Grief and Loss Retreat
We have all experienced loss of something - a lifestyle, relationships, people, family members, things, memories.
It's inevitable. The only certainty in life is death. It's rooted in our experiences of humans living here on Earth.
Living with grief and loss is another story. One that sometimes we find ourselves a character in and not knowing what to do next.
This retreat will give you the opportunity to reflect on the grief/loss story that you're living in and see if you're ready to write the next chapter.
Alongside facilitators who have turned to addictions, depressions, and bad behaviors to cope - we will spend the weekend working through how to overcome whatever you're going through.
Your Facilitators
Iman Gatti is a life coach, speaker, and Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®. She loves helping people heal past grief and trauma and increase their confidence, self-love, and quality of life.
Katie Turner will speak on the psychology of trauma and how past negative emotional experiences can show up and impact our present reality. Katie will also speak on the keys to getting unstuck and healing trauma and the research around post-traumatic growth and how we can come with past trauma in ways that help us thrive.
Jill Drader is the founder of Recovery Transformation Retreats. She has found a lot of life through death and uses this model to craft her retreat teachings and experiences.


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WHAT IT MEANS: Rick Ankiel and the pitcher whose glove he borrowed played central roles as the Mets dropped a season-worst seven games under .500.
Ankiel, in his Mets debut, charged hard and lunged forward, but had pinch-hitter Ty Wigginton's sinking liner pop out of the glove he borrowed from Scott Rice.
Wigginton, credited with a seventh-inning double, then scored when Matt Carpenter sent a comebacker at Rice. The shot struck the pitcher and ricocheted into foul territory. John Buck retrieved the baseball, leaving the plate vacant, and Wigginton scored the tiebreaking run from second base.Bill Boyce/Associated Press
The Mets are 0-7 in games started by Jeremy Hefner this season.
Scott Atchison served up a two-run homer to Matt Holliday later in the inning and the Mets lost, 6-3, to the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday night at Busch Stadium.
Although Jeremy Hefner received a no-decision, the Mets dropped to 0-7 in games he has started this season. They also fell to 0-8 the game following Matt Harvey's start.
The seven straight losses in Hefner starts match the third-longest streak in franchise history for the Mets for one pitcher to open a season.
The Mets lost Anthony Young's first 10 starts in 1993 (although that streak started in June, after he moved from the bullpen to the rotation). They lost the first eight starts by Randy Jones in 1981, and the first seven starts by Dave Mlicki in 1997 and Wally Whitehurst in 1992.
DEBUTANT: Ankiel walked in his first plate appearance as a Met and finished 0-for-3 with two strikeouts. He now has K'd in 37 of 65 at-bats this season.
SILENT NIGHT: In seven innings against Lance Lynn and the remainder against the bullpen, the Mets mustered only four hits -- three from Daniel Murphy, who had snapped an 0-for-17 skid Sunday.
The Mets (14-21) really were gifted their three runs because of unusually shaky Cardinals fielding. Ex-Met Carlos Beltran, now ranged-challenged and playing right field, misplayed Murphy's line drive into a two-run double. Murphy then scored from second on a tapper by David Wright just past the pitcher's mound that was ruled an infield single as the Mets took a short-lived 3-2 lead in the second.
The Mets did walk five times, getting Lynn's pinch count to 124. But they mustered only one hit after the second inning.
START OF SOMETHING: Hefner retired the final 10 Cardinals he faced and did not allow a hit after a second-inning RBI single by Carpenter that evened the score at 3. Hefner, although he remained winless, finished with a decent line: 6 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 4 BB, 2 K. He threw 97 pitches (58 strikes).
WHAT'S NEXT: Dillon Gee (2-4, 5.55 ERA) opposes John Gast in the southpaw's major league debut Tuesday at 8:15 p.m. ET.


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The statistics are shocking. The number of people with visual impairments living in our community is three times greater than the number of homeless individuals, yet they are invisible. 1 in 4 adults in the US are at high risk for serious vision loss, which means someone in your life — a loved one, a dear friend, a colleague, maybe even you — is at risk of becoming legally blind.
Our mission is to positively impact everyone who is blind or visually impaired.
We do this in a few different ways. We're the largest employer in a 7-state region, creating jobs for blind and visually impaired individuals. We offer adaptive technology training that connects those who can't see or those losing their sight to their support system and the rest of the world. We hold art, cultural and recreational events for people with vision disabilities of all ages so they can experience something they've always wanted to do. We lead the way in providing educational opportunities for those with visual impairments and their loved ones so they know where to turn for help. We lead the Vision Resource Coalition that brings together more than 25 local agencies that serve the blind and visually impaired and hold the Visually Impaired Community Resource Fair.
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"To me, Outlook Nebraska's success is running very thoughtful programs that have enough services to really help people."
"Thank you for making it possible for visually impaired people of all ages to be able to enjoy something in which we do not often have the chance to participate and would not be able to do alone."
"Talking about the pervasiveness of visual impairment in the community is really important. Sometimes people don't realize how common it is and how few resources there are."
"Because of the enrichment activities offered by Outlook Nebraska, we feel very fortunate to be living and raising a child with a visual impairment in Omaha. Outlook Nebraska works so hard to spread a positive image of blindness throughout the community."
Other Ways to Show Support
Your Donation at Work
Your support allows us to do everything from offset the cost of adaptive technology training to sending a teen to a weeklong summer camp. More than 75% of those we serve come from low to moderate income households. Your donations have the power to change lives forever.
For $50, you can provide an hour of adaptive technology training for a visually impaired person.
For $75, you can fund a visually impaired teen's participation in an adapted recreation activity.
For $100, you can provide a smartphone app that a blind person can use to read print materials.
For $150, you can subsidize a smart device purchase for an adaptive technology training client.
For $200, you can purchase a refurbished computer with software a visually impaired person can use independently.
For $250, you can make audio description services available for one theatrical production.
For $500, you can cover the cost for five people to try digital eyewear potentially overcoming vision loss.
For $2,750, you can support a blind student to attend Camp Abilities Nebraska.
If you'd like to designate your donation to a specific area of our mission, you may choose from one of our funds.
Launch a Community Donation Program
If you're interested in making a greater impact with your donation, consider launching a paper products drive. If you'd like to participate in a current drive, head to our Community Donation Program page.
Outlook Nebraska is a 501(c)(3) organization, therefore all or part of your contribution may be tax-deductible. Your help is paramount to our work. Every dollar makes a difference. Please help today.
We'd like to give a warm Thank You to all of our generous donors and partners who help us improve the lives of the blind and visually impaired residents in our community.
Our Funds
When you donate to the General Fund, your contribution will be directed to where the need is greatest. However, if you wish to limit, or designate, your gift to a specific area of our mission, you may choose a defined fund. Our Fund Development team would be honored to discuss options with you to ensure your wishes are met with the greatest benefit to the mission.
General Fund
Gifts will be allocated where the impact is greatest. This fund is provided for all contributions given to Outlook Nebraska without a specific intention or purpose. They are undesignated and unrestricted.
Employment Growth Fund
Gifts will help support the employment opportunities and job readiness of people who are blind and visually impaired. This may be within the existing enterprise, or may be innovative employment areas identified by the organization as it grows and expands.
Enrichment Fund
Gifts will help support the Enrichment Programs offered at Outlook Nebraska: adaptive technology training, cultural experiences, recreational opportunities, and, community awareness and engagement for the needs and capacities of individuals who are blind or visually impaired.
Capital Vision Fund
Gifts will provide the start-up or supportive funding for capital improvements, such as building enhancements and asset purchases when the opportunity arises. The expenditure of these funds will be approved by the Board of Directors.
The Legacy Fund
Gifts will support the sustainability and perpetuity of the mission of the organization. Within this permanently restricted fund, the principal is invested according to the Board-approved investment policy and the expenditures of the investment income.


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Upholstery Cleaning
Quality furniture can be quite expensive. Keeping upholstered furniture looking clean and smelling fresh is important to your health and wallet. Justice Carpet and Tile Cleaning of Florida, Inc. cleans more than carpet and tile. We also clean upholstered furniture. Find out for yourself just how affordable our prices are with a free, no obligation quote 772-800-8817.
Furniture is seen as an investment. Keeping your upholstered furniture looking great for as long as possible is important for your pocketbook. Over time, due to use, upholstered furniture becomes covered with oils, dirt, hair, and pet dander. This leaves your furniture looking and smelling dirty, leads to faster wear and tear, and can even be dangerous for children with allergies.
Furniture is used on a daily basis, so it is no wonder that it gets dirty so quickly. If you have pets or children, your furniture probably is dirtier than you realize. Give your upholstered furniture some TLC with a professional cleaning by Justice Carpet.
No matter the material of your furniture—suede, fabric, leather, microfiber—our professional team ensures that the proper cleaning process and materials are used. We do not rush through any job, but rather take pride in making sure that your furniture is cleaned with the utmost care and patience giving you a newer looking and fresher smelling couch, loveseat, ottoman, or recliner.
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We use the best and most modern equipment in the industry. Our owner is IICRC certified, which means that he stays up to date on the latest cleaning products and solutions.
First, we check the tags on all pieces we are cleaning to ensure that the proper chemicals are being used. Next, we vacuum the furniture thoroughly using a crevasse tool. We collect all items we find deep in the cushions and return them to the owner. Then, we test our chemicals on the back of the furniture. Once we are sure that the material will be safe, we clean the rest of the furniture. Finally, we apply a stain resistant protective coating to the material to provide additional protection even after we have gone.
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The question should be is it safe NOT to clean your furniture? With the buildup of dust, dirt, and pollen, if there are those in your household who suffer from allergies, not removing them from the items they sit on daily could mean the difference between an allergic reaction and clear sinuses.
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At the Rail: Carlin, Communion, & Crabby Priests
Father James writes "At the Rail" to create a chance for interaction with you. I was asked to write a blog for our church website. The only thought that came to mind was: "We drink the wine so you don't have to." I completely drew a blank on any serious subject to write about.Read More


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Most studies on upper airway are conducted based on airway measurements in the western population. However, very few are done in the Indian Context
A recent study was performed by doctors from Department of Anesthesia, Cancer Institute (WIA), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India to find the normal values of upper airway measurements in South Indian population with the aim to perform various upper airway examinations and to set standards for normal measurements in the South Indian population as well as to analyse the data for predictors of difficult intubation.
This prospective observational study was conducted in a tertiary cancer hospital in Southern India. Airway assessment parameters, including modified Mallampati classification (MPC), upper lip bite test (ULBT), sternomental distance, thyromental distance (TMD), and the inter-incisor distance were documented for 2004 patients meeting the inclusion criteria. Laryngoscopic view after induction was graded as per Cormack and Lehane's (CL) classification. Any CL ≥3 was considered to be difficult laryngoscopy. The collected data (2004 cases) was analyed with SPSS software version 17. Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve was used to determine cut-offs in the population. Sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value were computed.
Doctors Kalpana P Balakrishnan, Punitha A Chockalingam, from Cancer Institute (WIA), who performed the study, found that MPC, ULBT, and ratio of height to TMD (RHTMD) predicted difficult intubation with sensitivity of 40.86%, 45.53% and 64.60%, respectively and these were statistically significant. Using the area under the curve of the ROC curve and discrimination analysis normal RHTMD in our population had a cut off value of 17.1.
The authors concluded that the cut off value for RHTMD to predict difficult laryngoscopy in the South Indian population is 17.1.
The Study has been published in the August 2017 Issue of the Indian Journal of Anaesthesia, the official scientific journal of Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists.
You can read the article by clicking on the following link
Balakrishnan KP, Chockalingam PA. Ethnicity and upper airway measurements: A study in South Indian population. Indian J Anaesth [serial online] 2017 [cited 2017 Sep 6];61:622-8. Available from: http://www.ijaweb.org/text.asp?2017/61/8/622/212871


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This is a chance to learn about using Figma for all sorts of designs including creating User Interfaces and simple illustrations in real time.
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I have a new post on the Minerva crafts blog ! Here's a quick summary but be sure to read the full post here. As many of you will know already, I love to sew with knit fabrics! and so when Minerva Crafts sent me some of their gorgeous spandex stretch jersey* to review I … Continue reading Sewing the Joni dress by Tilly and the Buttons
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Stretch by Tilly and the Buttons
The new book, Stretch by Tilly and the Buttons* has taken the sewing world by storm. It's no wonder really given the amazing patterns and wonderful tutorials that fill its pages. I make it no secret that I love Tilly and her books. In fact her first book, Love at first Stitch* was how I … Continue reading Stretch by Tilly and the Buttons
Plaintain T-shirt – free pattern review
Free to download pattern from deer & doe The Plantain T-shirt is a free to download pattern from Deer & Doe so there is absolutely no reason not to give it a try. Given my new-found obsession with sewing with knits after completing the SewOverIt online course I was looking for a few good … Continue reading Plaintain T-shirt – free pattern review
Sew Over It Online Course: Intro to Sewing with Knit Fabrics
Following on from last years Me-Made-May I decided I needed to stop sewing so many fancy dresses that would only get worn occasionally and start bulking up my me-made wardrobe with items that I could wear everyday. For me, this means comfy clothes that are smart enough to wear for work - the perfect solution? … Continue reading Sew Over It Online Course: Intro to Sewing with Knit Fabrics
Planning Moneta
I have had my eye on Moneta by Colette patterns for some time, and so when they had a sale last week I decided to snap up a pdf copy. I have recently come round to liking pdf patterns. Although they can be a bit of a pain to stick together, there is no need … Continue reading Planning Moneta
Goldhawk Road
A couple of weeks ago I took my first trip to Goldhawk road. A quick trip around bloglamd and the sewing community will have you realise that this is THE place to go for fabric shopping in London. I wasn't dissapointed we walked from Kensington gardens through Shephards Bush and arrived at Goldhawk Road. At … Continue reading Goldhawk Road


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Get Santa - Tickets on sale
Information about Get Santa tickets.
Tickets for our musical extravaganza 'Get Santa' are on sale every lunchtime from today. Tickets are £3 for adults and £1.50 for students. Performances are next week Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd January. Doors Open at 6.30pm. Get yours before they sell out!


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Cruise Trips
A cruise is an escape in its truest form -- a chance to leave it all behind, discover new cultures and destinations, and relax in pure luxury between each port. Freedom Travel offers cruise options for families, couples, friends and singles. Sit down with us, pick your paradise, and sail off into the sunset.


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Queen's University Festival of Brass 2017
What a day last Saturday turned out to be for the Lourdes Brass Band as they competed in the Queen's University Festival of Brass and took home all the silverware on offer.
In addition to winning First Prize, the Band were also awarded the prizes for "Most Entertaining Band", "Best March" for their performance of 'The Voice of the Guns' by Kenneth Alford, while the Band's principal cornet player Mark Newman also scooped the prize for "Best Soloist". This is a great achievement for Mark as he was also awarded best soloist prize at the South of Ireland Band Championships held in Clonakilty earlier this year.
The adjudicator at the championships, Mr Leigh Baker, former Composer in Residence with the world famous "Brighouse and Rastrick Band", was particularly impressed with the age profile of the band commenting that the band played with "so much style and colour from a very young band".
The Band's Musical Director added, "I am delighted to see the band's hard work over the past year being acknowledged at the weekend with a clean sweep of prizes. The comments from both adjudicators picked up on lots of things that we have worked so hard to develop in recent months. I was especially pleased to see so many of the younger players in the band playing a full part in the performance on Saturday and it bodes well for the future of the band and importantly, the youth band. Well done to all of the soloists on Saturday, particuarly Mark Newman for a beautiful performance of Gordon Langford's "My Love is Like a Red Red Rose".
The band would like to thank Professor Michael Alcorn for all his hard work and dedication to the Band. There truly isn't a harder working man in banding.
The next outing for the band is our Christmas Concert which is held on Thursday 14th December in the Droichead Arts Centre, tickets are available from the bandroom on Bachelors Lane and the Droichead Arts Centre box office.