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Central Hardwoods Joint Venture
The Central Hardwoods Joint Venture (CHJV) is represented on the Regional Coordinating Committee for the Central Hardwoods Framework project. The CHJV also provides expertise and input into the vulnerability assessment and will work to incorporate model results into its conservation planning efforts.
The Central Hardwoods Joint Venture (CHJV) is a partnership of state and federal government agencies and non-governmental organizations who work together to ensure the long-term viability of native bird populations. One task of the CHJV is conservation planning, which involves identifying priority species for conservation efforts, assessing the status of species populations and threats to their sustainability, and identifying the location and amounts of habitat required to sustain populations at desired levels. Climate change is one of the threats to sustainability of bird populations in the region.


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Raising awareness and understanding of hidden difficulties and mental health and celebrating neurodiversity.
Friday, 16 August 2013
Take Two Minuites
I've decided to call this blog "take two Minuites" because it's so easy these days especially with how huge social media is to assume something about someone without properly knowing them or knowing the bigger picture of a situation. It's quite easily to assume someone does something in a certain way through being lazy or not caring about themselves or may just be a rude awkward person. In the mass media the main struggles which are often documented are those relating to education and struggling at school and maybe having a difficulty with reading or spelling or numeracy. Often there's a huge bigger picture than that. It's quite easy if you've never experienced something or not known someone in close contact to you to not understand how something can effect someone. It can be particularly easily to assume about someone if they have a hidden condition as the difficulties or symptoms are not visible to the outside world. If someone breaks their leg they have it in pot or if someone needs glasses try wear them to make life easier. You never know what someone is secretly battling especially in the world of social media. It's so easy to forget what has happened before in the day for someone for a lot of people coming in something like Facebook and twitter etc is as form escapism after maybe a busy day at work or so you can switch off from eveything. The message behind this blog is just think for a little bit before you might judge or assume something about someone you don't know what is going on in somebody's life or maybe they have a medical or hidden which may make their behaviour slightly different to how society expects. We all are unique individuals with a pattern of weaknesses and strengths nobody is "perfect" try and see someone's positives more than their weaknesses. You never knew what an amazing person they might be once you get to know them.
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Ronin Arts's vs. Outlaws is possibly the smallest RPG ever published, and is an excellent "hip-pocket game" for those evenings when no one planned a game.
This tiny game is a standalone product that doubles as the GM's screen. A six-page fold-out (essentially a CD insert) with a finely printed game that sells for $2.95, it also comes as a combo pack of five copies for $10. The art is vintage pulp-era Western art purchased from Time Tunnel, and gives a nice feel on an adobe-and-old-wanted posters background. The heading fonts are Western-style, of course, and the text font is quite legible, despite being tiny.
The operative word is "brevity"; both the rules and the setting are quick sketches left for GM and players to fill in. The authors openly acknowledge on the cover that "vs. Outlaws is for experienced roleplayers."
No one will be surprised that the game includes no index, table of contents, character sheet, appendices, etc. Despite this omission, I had no trouble navigating through the half-dozen pages.
The System
Appropriately for the setting, the game uses a deck of regular playing cards instead of dice. The rules are a stripped-down version of vs. Monsters, another Ronin Arts game. Characters have two Qualities, Brawn and Brains, on which all skill or action resolutions are based; the player rates one at 6 and the other at 4. Players can elect to take up to two items of Good Stuff (advantages), each balanced by an item of Bad Stuff (disadvantages), that may modify Qualities or Hardiness (hit points, health levels) up or down.
Good and Bad Stuff may also provide flaws, backstory elements, circumstancial advantages, etc. PCs can have any reasonable equipment (for example, a horse, a six-shooter, etc.), a cool-sounding handle, and some notoriety. Voilà!
NPCs are either Cowboys (minions and bystanders), with qualities lower than the PCs, or Trail Bosses (major antagonists), with qualities equivalent to the PCs'.
The only substantive rules provided are for combat: initiative, melee attacks, ranged attacks, damage, pain and dying, and recovering. No, I'm not going to detail them — the review would become as long as the game! I'll simply give you the generic rules provided for everything else: draw a number of cards equal to your Brains or Brawn, whichever seems most appropriate to the GM, and compare the highest to a target value: 4 (easy), 6 (average), 10 (hard), or King (damned hard). If you equal or beat the target value, you succeed.
The game spares some of its precious space to list and briefly discuss a series of staple locations used in Westerns (the Mission, the Fort, the Railroad, etc.) It also provides a collection of quick plot-in-a-line summaries (Bank Robbery, Range War, Showdown, etc.)
Finally, the content is rounded up by some suggestions for ambience and sources of inspirations.
Actual Play
I ran vs. Outlaws at Emerald City Gamefest's 2007 game day; the actual play thread is posted here on RPG.net, including example characters. In other words, my experience with the game is short — like the game itself. Normally, I like to feel versed in and comfortable about a game before I write an actual play review, but in this instance it seems fitting to go for a minimalist approach!
Character Creation. It takes very little time to create a character, and group character creation ensured that no one was doubling up on someone else's concept, something that would be very easy given the sketchiness of characters in this system. Good and Bad Stuff are the key to creating characters that are interesting and different from each other.
Minimalist Characters. Even with all the Good and Bad Stuff in the world, characters still come down to two stats. If you're good at shooting, you're almost certainly perceptive, book-smart, and a hard bargainer, for example. In the long run, this would make for characters that overlap too much.
Big Handful of Cards. With the high scores characters players can stack with the right combination of Good Stuff, including certain characters that can act twice per round, a group can cycle very fast through the card deck. In addition, savvy players will rapidly find an angle to always use their best stat. Consequently, it can be very difficult for PCs to fail at most tasks.
Circumstantial Modifiers. I had to make a few calls on how to handle beneficial or adverse circumstances. I had to choose whether to adjust the difficulty number or to give a bonus/penalty to the Quality used (Brawn or Brains). Both are valid choices, but it's a good idea to be consistent throughout the game. I prefer the second solution because I don't like setting arbitrary difficulty values, but that's a question of GM style.
NPC Actions. Similarly, when PCs and NPCs compete against one another — for example, stealth versus perception — the GM has a choice to assign static target values or to use a Quality and draw cards for the NPCs. The second solution is slower, so perhaps not the best choice; nevertheless, that is the one I used, once again because I don't like the arbitrary task of assigning a difficulty.
In Short… The players in my game really got into the spirit of the game and seemed to have a great time with it. As GM, I had fun and felt free to respond to their ideas without needing extensive background to support me. Nevertheless, this is a one-off or short-run game; it doesn't have the depth to support a longer campaign except for a very unusual group.
This is a great game for experienced groups and story gamers, people looking for an afternoon of fun with little or no preparation. People looking for more detailed character stats, depth, or detailed sourcebooks must look elsewhere. But I had great fun with the game, I've had requests to run it again, and I always carry a few copies with me when I go out with gamers.
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Discover with us the heart of the chilean Capital on a walking tour around its historical centre, learning about the history, traditions and life style of santiago's people in a funny and direct way.
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On this night tour you will submerge on the urban floklore traditions as well as our national dance called "cueca", always accompanied by drinks and snacks.
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In the 70s and 80s, Chile experienced great political and social conflict, marked by human rights abuses during the military dictatorship. On this tour, you will meet directly the traces left by this period of history in which they lived.
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Following the footprints of our Nobel Prize Pablo Neruda we will visit his house at Isla Negra to discover his amazing collections and his special relationship with the sea, and then we will walk around Pomaire to know about the clay handcrafts made by its inhabitants.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Another ANA 787 delivered, another being prepared
ZA117 (JA806A, L/N 40) made an appearance on the Everett flightline after passing the last few months insidethe EMC. Thanks to Johanny who gave us a link to a flickr page maintained by "Simpilot459" which shows this aircraft with lights on at the Compass Rose at Everett. This is scheduled to be the next 787 delivered.
See ZA117
However weather in the Pacific Northwest may become an issue over the next few days that may disrupt the delivery schedule. ZA236 (VT-ANH, L/N 35) was scheduled to fly yesterday but was postponed due to a winter storm that is hitting the Pacific Northwest. This storm is expected to dump snow in the region over the next few days. It's unlikely that this plane will fly its B-1 flight until the storm passes or is reduced in intensity. I'm estimating that it probably won't fly until the end of this week. Likewise, ZA117 is supposed to have it's B-1 flight around the 20th but this is looking increasingly unlikely as it was just pulled out of the EMC and will need to have its first engine start and other pre-flight activities done prior to the flight. I can't se this plane flying before the end of next week.
The end result is that deliveries will be delayed due to the storm as it moves the schedule to the right.
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- graeme77 said...
Only one thing has any certainty:
All Boeing delivery dates are consistently unreliable and never haveany buffer or contingencies built into them. Any date that Boeing gives for the 787 program needs automatic adjustment to the right regardless.
- January 17, 2012 at 11:10 AM
- greg said...
LN9 and LN23's delivery dates should be in 2012, not 2011.
- January 18, 2012 at 1:34 AM
- airplanedriver1 said...
Hello boys,
Does anyone know for sure which 787 LNs are planned for delivery to LAN AIRLINES?
Initially LNs 10 & 16 are shown as the airframes for LAN. Here in Chile our Chief pilot said that the Dreamliner starts operation with us in Sept. 2012?
787 LNs 10/16 are still sitting at Everett with no engines on them and they seem to be in "storage"?
Any comments would be appreciated.
Thanks and nice blog!!!
- January 19, 2012 at 10:12 AM
- Uresh said...
They're srill allocated to for LAN. It's still possible for those two to be delivered by Sept. 2012.
- January 19, 2012 at 10:23 AM
- airplanedriver1 said...
Thanks Uresh!
- January 19, 2012 at 10:45 AM
- johnv777 said...
We have not see a line move for almost a month now. Any word on when the next one will be ? Also nay word on progress in South Carolina?
- January 19, 2012 at 7:07 PM
- Uresh said...
Nothing yet. I'm still trying to get info from sources. The storm is making that hard.
- January 19, 2012 at 7:09 PM
- PhilsStory said...
All Nippon has started regular 3 days a week service from Haneda to Frankfurt as NH203 and NH204.
Flights are visible on Flightaware as
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ANA203 and 204
- January 25, 2012 at 11:19 AM
- johnv777 said...
Possible update to your spreadsheet, Paine Field blog shows a picture of 2 JAL frames on the flightline, JA825J, LN21 and JA822J, LN 23(?) both with engines attached.
- January 27, 2012 at 12:53 PM
- Uresh said...
That change was made a couple days ago. It's already reflected in the spreadsheet.
- January 27, 2012 at 12:57 PM
- johnv777 said...
Uresh - Did not see the engines attached comment.
- January 27, 2012 at 12:59 PM
- SNOOZE CONTROL said...
JA806A is due to fly Feb 6, deliver 19.
JA822J is due to deliver Feb 27
JA825J is due to fly Feb 7, deliver Feb 27.
- January 28, 2012 at 3:47 AM
- AJ said...
Great post... ready for an update. Keep up the terrific reporting!
- January 28, 2012 at 3:49 AM
- Shuan said...
No news about Air India b787 delivery???
- January 29, 2012 at 4:42 AM
- Emily said...
Looking forward to your next update!
- January 30, 2012 at 6:21 PM
- scott.johnson said...
Update please! And thank you for the great work!
- February 2, 2012 at 6:00 PM
I too look forward to any available updates. Thanks for the hard work Uresh.
- February 3, 2012 at 5:51 PM
- Shuan said...
Have heard that both Japan airlines and Air India plans to take delivery of their first b787......is this true
- February 4, 2012 at 8:31 AM
- Uresh said...
Yes that's true but it looks like JAL will receive them at the end of this month and AI will get them starting next month
- February 4, 2012 at 9:05 AM


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Guest Designing for NOVEMBER 123 CHALLENGE & an entry in SCRAP AROUND THE WORLD CHALLENGE:
- It's possible to create a multi photo spread, using different occasions and times, by finding at THEME that ties them together - in this case 'happy'.
- CUT your photos down, creating different sizes, using a 'step' approach for your design.
- Journal with small word processor font - it takes less room. Make it feature as an embellishment to your page.
- Don't mount your photos - you haven't room. Instead, either ink around the edges or on a dark background as here, sand the edges.
- Create more depth by mounting the photos with dimensional tape.
- Keep clusters to a minimum, so the page doesn't get too crowded.
- You can use a large title. It helps 'balance' the photo spread.
Another way-fun challenge!
I've taken the hearts, blue, the white wash effect, typography, wood grain & silver!
I used bubble wrap with Gesso, to give a white wash effect:
some typography in....the blue hearts are with gelato color
through a stencil:
Below I've got a die cut I made up myself:
The whole page:
Such a fun photo to scrap!!!
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It's was set up by a group of peeps in London (oh how I miss you London) last April. I know it's taken me this long to tell you all about it !!
It's a lovely site, so clean and easy to use (well I think it is). But not only that the feel of the company is nice too. Take a look at their values listed on their site.
I have to say each time I receive an email from them I certainly do have a smile on my face so high five guys (not sure where that came from!?) you are certainly sticking to your values.
So I digress (you should be used to me by now). The site. Not only is it packed full of yarns and needles but there ares ome lovely buttons too. I just LOVE these wooden heart buttons, oh sew cute!
On the subject of buttons I love how there are different options to search on the site. See ... you can search by type, material, size and (ooooh smiling !!) colour. I just love the cute little button graphics. Come on your smiling too ... aren't you?
Can you feel a theme coming on here? Maybe I should have kept this post for Valentines. OMG LoveKnitting guys you can do up Valentine Knitting kits - so much better than a bunch of roses - a bunch of red heart knitting needles swit swoooooooo what better way to say I love you. Am I brilliant or am I brilliant?
and the same for yarn - including ... oh yeah here comes another smile .... cute little balls of yarn graphics ...
Ok I get that your cheeks are sore from smiling but if they are not and you feel like smiling some more get yourself over the loveknitting.com. No I don't work for them and nor am I getting paid to write this I just think when you find somewhere nice to shop it's nice to share that info :O)
Keeeeep smiling and Keeeeeeeep Stitching!
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Virgin America Airlines is pulling its sponsorship of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Los Angeles Clippers after controversial comments about race allegedly made by the team's owner became public.
The Clippers' owner, Donald Sterling, is alleged to have told his girlfriend that he did not want her to bring African-Americans to the team's games after she was pictured with former Los Angeles Lakers' player Magic Johnson.
Virgin America said it was pulling its sponsorship of the team because it did not want to be associated with the controversial statements.
"While we continue to support the fans and the players, Virgin America has made the decision to end its sponsorship of the L.A. Clippers," a spokesperson for the airline said in a statement to The Hill.
Virgin America is one of several corporate sponsors that have reportedly ended their association with the Clippers after Sterling's alleged comments were made public.
The inflammatory statements were first reported by TMZ after the gossip website released tapes it obtained that appeared to show Sterling making the comments to his girlfriend.
Clippers players staged a pre-game protest of the comments by wearing their shirts inside out during warm-ups before their playoff game Sunday so the team's logo would not be displayed.
Players also wore black arm-bands during the game to protest Sterling's statements.
The NBA has said that it is investigating the veracity of the tapes containing the owner's alleged racist comments.


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Top of the afternoon to all...
My medium child received a warning from the police the other day due to a traffic violation. He was riding his bicycle in the crosswalk. It happened here:
His citation was a warning as he was riding his bicycle in the crosswalk.
When his school called me and told me what was going on, I knew exactly where it had happened.
And now for the rest of the story. First of all, the lad is just fine. He has some bumps and bruises. His bicycle...at the absolute least needs two new wheels, new pedals, and a new front gear system. When the light turned green, he pedalled out into the crosswalk, with the idea of riding parallel to the crosswalk. The person taking the left from Wilmington onto Finch either did not see him or thought that he could turn in front of him. It was the wrong set of decisions on the car driver's part. He hit the kid, pretty hard.
I met up with everyone at Humber River Hospital. We hung out there for a few hours while the nice folks there checked him over. He is fine.
There is no long-term damage.
The car, from what I understand, requires a new windshield. Good! It serves the driver right. He should know better than to zip out of an intersection like that, and crossing in front of anyone in the crosswalk is illegal. At least he stayed.
I always knew that the medium child would be the one with a police record.
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Have you heard, there's a new Challenge Blog going live on May 15th! My very talented friend Priyanka of "My Heart Pieces Digital Stamps is starting a challenge blog"
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My washing machine died last weekend. No really. It's dead. Kaput. A-goner.
We bought our first washer and dryer (used from a buddy of my brother in law) when we were pregnant with Noah. That was 15 ½ years ago. We've still been using the same washer since then. Eric's had to fix a couple things on it from time to time, but for the most part it's been a reliable washer. The matching dryer died years ago and was replaced but even THAT dryer isn't really drying well these days.
We knew our washer's death was imminent. The sounds that were coming from it during the spin cycle were pretty indicative that the end was nearing.
New washers … well, let's just say they are a whole new kind of machine. Treading into Lowes to look at machines feels like you're in over your head; looking at these washers with a gajillion settings and see through top lids and massive drums without agitators. I'm telling you… they are nothin' like my old machine.
We saw a machine Saturday (when we weren't in the market to buy b/c we hoped the red-neck fix my hubby was trying was going to work…). It's cost made us gulp but gave us an idea for the future… we hoped long off into the future…
Cue Saturday night when my washer officially breathed her last (with a sopping load of wash sloshing within her ta'boot). The washer we'd glanced at earlier that day was on sale for a couple more hours. But I couldn't pull the trigger on an expense like that without touching it and seeing it in person.
Sunday we went back to Lowes. This time we looked with purpose. But left empty handed to do some more research and read reviews.
Monday we went back and I had a plan. I knew what I wanted. But when we talked to the sales guy (someone we know and trust) he told us that that particular brand does tend to "come back more often than the others".
Enter doubt and frustration… and my furrowed brow and look of despair.
We leave. Empty handed and in our truck with nothing to bring home.
By now, I'm exhausted. It's been a rough weekend without a washer, parenting has been hard, I'm still wrestling from time to time with my Dad's diagnosis and my natural bent to worry about him, and I just want something to be easy.
We get home and I'm working on dinner while Eric returns a phone call to our pastor. He walks out of our room and stands there looking at me while I stand over the stove. He proceeds to tell me that someone (an anonymous someone) has left a "monetary gift" for us with our pastor and that we need to go over and pick it up tonight. He tells us that someone must have known we had some kind of need.
Only God.
Of course, we'd told some people that our washer broke, that we were on the hunt for a new one etc. But only God moves in the hearts of his people to decide to prompt someone to give gifts of this size to another family. We are continually humbled and blessed and blown away by the generosity of others and to see how God continues to supply for our every need.
All the sudden the washers that weren't on sale and the washer that got returned too often didn't seem important. My focus was no longer on what I was lacking. Instead my focus became more on what God had done. In the midst of my panic, he was moving on my behalf and setting up provisions in advance for me.
With this gift – we are thankful. With this gift, we want to steward it to the best of our ability. Once I have my new washer – there won't be any way that I will be able to do laundry and not feel the love of God and the love of our anonymous giver. The body of Christ, at work, lacks for nothing.
So tonight, I'm grateful and blessed.


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Ambitions for our children
There is, I believe, a natural desire on behalf of parents to give their children every opportunity to grow and develop. The very notion of parenting necessitates some level of sacrifice on the part of the parents in order to open new doors for their children, doors that for many parents were shut due to familial circumstances. Their children will have the best education, primary, secondary & tertiary.
Although this ambition itself is worthy of analysis, it may be that the dreams of the parents are being lived through the children, I am rather perplexed by another less mentioned, and possibly ignored ambtion.
That our children become "Better;more ethical, more patient, more kind, more charitable & more moral than us".
Surely that is just inconsistent?
Our children's future, if we are to attempt to direct it is some way, should be pointed in the direction of making more of a contribution to the world than we have....
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J Psychiatry Neurosci 2010;35(3):185-194
Janina Seubert, PhD; James Loughead, PhD; Thilo Kellermann, PhD; Frank Boers, Dipl.-Ing; Colleen M. Brensinger, MS; Ute Habel, PhD
Seubert, Kellermann, Habel — Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, Aachen University; Seubert, Kellermann, Habel — Jülich Aachen Research Alliance, Translational Brain Medicine; Boers — Brain Imaging Physics, Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine INM-4, Research Center Jülich, Germany; Seubert, Loughead — Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania; Brensinger — Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
Background: Patients with schizophrenia frequently have deficits in social cognition, and difficulties in the discrimination of emotional facial expressions have been discussed as an important contributing factor. We investigated whether this impairment is aggravated by difficulties relating the observed facial expression to contextual information, as is often provided by emotionally valenced crossmodal stimulation.
Methods: We investigated the effects of odorant primes on the accuracy and speed of emotional face recognition. Healthy controls and patients with schizophrenia were exposed to 2-second odorant stimuli: vanillin (pleasant), ambient air (neutral) and hydrogen sulfide (unpleasant). The odours were followed by an emotional face recognition task, in which participants determined if a face showed happiness, disgust or neutral affect.
Results: Controls showed improved performance in the categorization of disgusted faces after all types of odour stimulation irrespective of the emotional valence. However, in controls, the response time for happy faces was slower after presentation of any odour. Schizophrenia patients showed an attenuated effect of olfactory priming on disgust recognition, which resulted in the increased performance differences between the groups. This effect was particularly strong for the unpleasant odour.
Limitations: The study design did not allow us to fully differentiate between the effects of perceived odour intensity and valence. A possible contribution of cognitive deficits on the observed effects should be investigated in future studies.
Conclusion: Our results provide novel evidence for a special connection between the presentation of odorant cues and the accuracy of recognition of disgusted faces in healthy controls. This recognition advantage is disturbed in patients with schizophrenia and appears to contribute to the observed deficit in emotional face recognition.
Submitted Aug. 4, 2009; Revised Nov. 25, 2009, Jan. 17, 2010; Accepted Jan. 19, 2010.
Competing interests: Dr. Seubert has received a scholarship from IRTG 1328 Schizophrenia and Autism and travel assistance from GlaxoSmithKline. None declared for Drs. Loughead, Kellermann, Boers and Habel and Ms. Brensinger.
Contributors: Drs. Seubert, Loughead, Boers and Habel designed the study. Dr. Seubert acquired the data, which all authors analyzed. Dr.Seubert wrote the article, which all other authors reviewed. All authors approved the final version submitted for publication.
DOI: 10.1503/jpn.090094
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Last night was one of the times when Peeple Watchin' were asked to play some Pantera, though I'm sure there have been others. Sadie came out with a total warlock-looking guitar and wearing a red vest with a cool "Replacements Stink" patch on it, but then she took the vest off before the first song. I was like, "hey, that's a cool patch" and she was like, "So?", and I was like "SO PUT THE VEST BACK ON, FUCKER!" which basically earned me one of those "who's this asshole?" type looks, which I'm used to. If you haven't checked out Peeple Watchin', they're kinda like Bent Outta Shape with extra hard-rock riffs, which sounds cool to most people, plus they tear shit up when they play live, it's like a Vinnie Vincent Invasion concert or something (just kidding). They have a great album out on Nervous Nelly and you should go buy it, probably.
Talking about "Renegade" by Styx played a big part in this night, for some reason, and then there was the part where Matt Rowe gave me a copy of the Dead Uncles LP, which had me all choked up because it was the first time ever that a Connecticut band gave me a free copy of their LP. Well, maybe Oiltanker did once, I don't really remember, but still, Dead Uncles.


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Once Upon A Time Comes To The End Of A Chapter
Is it a tale as old as time, or a neverending story?
Well, that was...a season of television that we watched. Look, long-running shows evolve over time, and go through ups and downs. I'm still watching Grey's Anatomy in its improbable thirteenth season, and there were some very low low points in there. But Once Upon A Time, for which I was once a fierce advocate, just feels to me like it has run its course. Its premise could maybe only take it so far. How many times could these people be cursed and lose their memories? How many gaps in the backstory were left to fill in? How many more people could move to Storybrooke before it would fill up?
I've been down on this season but I did like a lot about it. Jaime Murray brought the right attitude to her performance as the Black Fairy, even if the character didn't make a ton of sense. The separated Evil Queen let Lana Parrilla ham it up again like she did in the old days, even if the character didn't make a ton of sense. Jafar was a wasted opportunity but clearly I have a thing for the villains, and Aladdin was nice to look at, even if the character didn't...you get it.
What I liked best was the way the Final Battle seemed like it might be, well, final. The show seemed to be building to a natural conclusion, and with no renewal announcement, I was perfectly happy to let it go. Buuuut that's not what's happening, and as usual I have a lot of questions.
Why are these curses always so convoluted?
Everyone at the wedding knows that's the deal, that the curse will send them somewhere: "Wherever we end up, we're gonna win." They're not even very scared. Snow, David, Regina, and Killian (and baby Neal) end up in the Enchanted Forest, Zelena gets sent to Oz, and everyone else stays in yet another bizarro version of Storybrooke, where the Black Fairy, using her original name, is mayor and Emma is in the sanitarium for that time she believed in fairy tales. Oh, and Fiona is Henry's adoptive mother. How is any of this fun for her?! Just kill them! I know there has to be some maneuvering or there wouldn't be a show but it just seems so tedious for the curse-thrower. If I had that kind of power I'd use it to go back in time to see closed Broadway shows, always get a seat on the subway, and make Hillary Clinton president. I would not adopt a whiny child actor in the most boring town on earth.
Henry is fourteen?!
Between the various time curses and loops and trips to magical realms, the timeline of this show has always confused me, but this week we got confirmation that Henry is supposed to be fourteen years old. Which I guess explains some of his behavior. And it's not like Jared Gilmore is Luke Perry, but there's a pretty big puberty difference between fourteen and seventeen.
Wait, has this always been the mythology of the fairy tales?
Maybe it has been; Season 1 was a long time ago and I've read a lot of Stephen King. But I always thought the idea was that all the stories and lands were real in a literal sense. But now, as we learn that the Final Battle is in fact one for Emma's soul, belief, and hope, it seems that "as the Savior's belief fades, so do all the realms of story." So the Authors created them, they didn't just transcribe them? And Snow knows this and is totally cool with it? Does that mean somewhere out there there's a much darker, German version of the Enchanted Forest?
Oh god, this story isn't neverending, is it?
As cursed Emma's belief fades, a dark cloud consumes all the -- fine, I'll say it -- story realms. This is so close to being The Nothing from The Neverending Story that I expected Henry to start yelling "Atreyu!" at any moment.
No one thought to check the Mad Hatter's shop before?
Zelena escapes Oz using one of the Mad Hatter's hats. "One of," because he had several. Because it was, in fact, his job to make hats. This convenient plot device allows people from all over to seek refuge in the Enchanted Forest, and for us to see the destruction of their realms represented by disappearing doors, which is probably pretty inexpensive. But it would have come in handy so many times before now!
Are they doing this on purpose?
Killian and David go off together in search of a magic bean. Their friendship is totally plausible and there's really nothing gay about it but the writers have to know this is a thing now, right? Because we go from the silly ("Take a deep breath, calm down. Let's go get that bean together.") to the sublime, as they arrive in a giant's castle and Hook scales a table leg to come face to face with...a plate full of sausages.
We can dream.
How does falling work in the Enchanted Forest?
It turns out a dragon is living atop the beanstalk, not a giant (which seems like an awful waste of CGI, not to mention a tease that Maleficent might make an appearance), so after grabbing each other's magic beans (sorry) Hook and David have to make a run for it. Hook falls from what appears to be very high up, and seconds later the rumblings of The Nothing make the whole beanstalk topple. It topples very slowly, so I'd buy that David might be gently placed on the ground, but in fact Hook is unharmed and David is lightly dead.
How do these writers think real estate works?
Unable to believe in fairy tales (but totally able to believe that Henry would be so stupid as to fall down a flight of stairs for no apparent reason), Emma burns the OUAT book and heads to Boston. Where she hasn't lived for at least two years, even in curse-time. She opens the door of her perfect, improbable apartment as if nothing has happened. So she's been paying rent and a cleaning person this entire time? I guess she could own, but that seems unlikely and anyway there'd still be a maintenance fee. You'll recall this also happened with Neal's apartment in New York. It is by far the least believable thing on this show.
Isn't Henry the Author?
He snuck a book into Emma's bag to try one last time to jog her memory, or at least inspire her to want to be the person he believes she is. I know he's in a cursed town and doesn't have his magic pen and all, but...
Wait, so the Final Battle is a literal battle?
Emma starts believing -- at least in Henry -- in just the nick of time to stop the Enchanted Forest from being completely destroyed. So Fiona changes tacks and retrieves her wand from Gold's shop, using it to translate the doodle Henry made while he was in that trance a while back. She learns that "only light can snuff out light," so she sends Gideon (whose heart she still has) to kill Emma. "Once the Final Battle is won, the curse will be lifted. I'll have unchecked power." This makes her ridiculous curse make more sense, since it was designed to make Emma lose her belief and send the others away to be killed. But then she's just sending Gideon off to kill Emma like she spent half the season trying to do and it sounds like that will have the same effect, so really what's the point and what are the rules here?
Why would the Black Fairy betray Rumple (this time)?
She didn't necessarily know that he'd find a way to stay woke under her curse, but it was a decent bet. And for some reason she made Belle an agoraphobe and hid her away, making the curse backstory that she'd run off and abandoned them. Wouldn't she want Gold to be happy (as she had said she did), if only so he wouldn't have a reason to turn on her? He's been biding his time and now that things are coming to a head, he's had it officially. He kills Fiona with her own wand, breaking the curse.
Why are there never any consequences on this show?
I'm not saying I want Game Of Thrones-level deaths here, but is there anything True Love's Kiss can't cure? I mentioned that David died on the beanstalk, but of course Snow kisses him back to life. Now, the genius of Fiona's plan is that if Gideon kills Emma, he destroys light. But if she kills him, because he's basically innocent what with the heart-control and all, she'll turn dark anyway. But she realizes there's a third way: She sacrifices herself in order to give others hope, spreading the light around. (This still means she's dead so it's not really clear how this would work, but we're over 90 minutes in and I'm just going with it.) Somehow, Gold choosing to at least try to do the right thing by finding Gideon's heart and trying to stop him (it doesn't work because blah blah blah curse) rather than letting Emma die and reaping the evil benefits plays a part too. Good and evil coming together, yadda yadda.
Anyway, Emma makes this big sacrifice, and I snark but it's quite beautifully done, and seems like a very natural way to end the series and her journey from selfish to Savior. But then Henry gives her True Love's Incestuous Kiss on the forehead and she's totes fine.
Oh, and in the Enchanted Forest, the Evil Queen also sacrificed herself, holding off The Nothing long enough for the others to get away. It's not quite the same as if Regina had done something similar, since she's basically a spare, but she is all the darkest parts of her, and she did something purely good. Aaaaand then the curse is broken and she's fine too.
How much therapy is Gideon going to need?
Gideon turns back into a baby, giving Gold and Belle their "happy beginning." Which is all well and good, but Gideon wasn't aged by a curse, he was kidnapped and taken to another realm. So will he, on some level, remember everything when he gets older? Will anyone tell him? Will Belle finally cut her hair?
Why wasn't this the series finale?
I've never seen a season finale that was so clearly meant to be a series finale before, and that includes the time Buffy The Vampire Slayer prematurely killed off its title character. When the last page of Henry's book seems a little anticlimactic, Snow says, "This isn't the end. I mean, maybe of this book, but this isn't the end end. Now we get to see what's next." The clock on the tower restarts and all the realms are restored. In a sequence that's very Return Of The Jedi Special Edition, we see Arendelle, Neverland, Wonderland, Agrabah, and the Enchanted Forest. There's a montage of everyone living their lives (remember when living their lives in Storybrooke was supposed to be a punishment?) happily ever after. The dwarves change the sign on Regina's office from "Mayor" to "Queen." Gold and Belle dance to "Beauty and the Beast," and whenever they pay for that you know they mean business. Everyone gathers at the diner for some sort of party and a tableau right out of a storybook. The sequence goes on forever but I have to admit I got a little verklempt. It was sweet, it was appropriate, and it would have made a perfect ending. But...
What is this Cousin Oliver bullshit?
Throughout the episode are scenes of a girl in the Enchanted Forest, and her young father who gives her a book to protect at all costs. "Years later," she's in Seattle, reading the story we just watched (poor thing) in that book. She knocks on a door and her father from the flashbacks opens it. "Are you Henry Mills? I'm your daughter." Well, that explains the whiny line readings in every scene then! So...another curse? Another present/flashback structure? But now with a new, somehow even more annoying kid? Yay?
When is a spin-off not a spin-off?
If you've been following the news of the season's renewals and cancellations, you may know that this flash-forward is an excuse to dump most of the cast of Once Upon A Time. Which is all well and good on paper; I've been railing against the surfeit of characters on OUAT for years, and to return to my Grey's comparison, remember when they killed all those interns off and it was awesome? And while I know others will disagree, keeping Regina, Rumple, and Hook means they're keeping, in my opinion, the most fun and interesting characters, and dumping the most boring ones (Henry aside -- at least it's a new actor). But whatever I think of Emma, she's unquestionably the main character, so this feels like it will be The Good Fight to OUAT's Good Wife.
I guess we'll find out...or enjoy that final diner tableau and just stop. See you next season? Maybe?


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Last week, ex-Girls frontman Christopher Owens announced his next musical step in the form of Lysandre, his debut solo album, out Jan. 15 via Fat Possum. He debuted two of the songs off the record, and now he has some solo touring dates to go along with it. As of now, he's plotted four shows in all in the U.S. and Europe, but DIY reports that Owens will be performing Lysandre in its entirety at these concerts. In addition, only a small amount of tickets will be available for the San Francisco date wherein he'll be joined by the full band that accompanied him in recording Lysandre. Below, check out the itinerary, "Lysandre's Theme/Here We Go," and the LP's track list.
Christopher Owens tour:
11.09 – San Francisco, CA: The Lodge
12.07 – Lisbon, Portugal: Vodafone Mexefest
12.08 – Paris, France: Gaite Lyrique
12.10 – London, UK: St. Giles Church
Lysandre track list:
01 Lysandre's Theme
02 Here We Go
03 New York City
04 A Broken Heart
05 Here We Go Again
06 Riviera Rock
07 Love Is in the Ear of the Listener
08 Lysandre
09 Everywhere You Knew
10 Closing Theme
11 Part of Me (Lysandre's Epilogue)


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"Whether you sell online, on social media, in store, or out of the trunk of your car, Shopify has you covered," the site proclaims, and they aren't exaggerating. This eCommerce platform is the top choice of Canadian businesses and our number one recommendation. Shopify is suitable for small, large and growing businesses.
Choose from a hosted eCommerce solution or use the software with your chosen website host. Shopify has a fantastic selection of high quality, mobile compatible templates, as well as app's for a vast array of extendable functions and features and it's constantly growing.
There are excellent Point of Sale (POS) features, including a card reader and merchant account, level-1 PCI security compliance, and Canadian sales taxes are automatically calculated. They accommodate all types of online selling, from direct sales, to social media, to drop shipping or fulfillment centres like Amazon. Sell unlimited tangible products, digital downloads, gift cards, and easily integrate discount codes or coupons. Shipping is a breeze through a range of Canadian shippers and flexible rates.
SSL certificates are included for all hosted pages (which Google says reflects well on your ranking), as well as unlimited bandwidth, 99.99% up-time and daily backups. The support team is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, by email, live chat, and phone. They also have a help centre, forums, and eCommerce University. Overwhelmed? Work with a Shopify-approved eCommerce designer, developer, or marketer.
Volusion is a hosted eCommerce platform with more than 900 features, yet is very easy to use. Website, shopping cart, and hosting are all included, with a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Get support building your store with dedicated account managers and expert resources. They offer eBay, Amazon and drop shipping integration, along with stellar eCommerce features such as a reward program and "deal of the day".
Secure, PCI/CISP certified & flexible payment options, including all major credit cards and PayPal. There are no transaction fees. Each package has a limit on product numbers except for the Premium Package that offers unlimited products.
You'll have powerful SEO tools at your disposal. Optimize URLs, meta tags and image alt tags to boost rankings in all major search engines. Share products effortlessly from your eCommerce store with social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
If you need help, they have one of the most highly acclaimed customer service teams in the industry, backed by an exceptional knowledge base. Support is provided online or by phone, depending on which package you purchase.
LemonStand (Based In Canada)
LemonStand is a Software as a Service (SaaS) eCommerce and content platform intended for web designers or those with more advanced web design skills. For those who aren't as advanced, they offer setup and migration professional services, or they can pair you with a LemonStand design and development expert. Once the online store is set up, there's an easy to use interface for store owners and staff, along with integrated Customer Management Software (CMS) and Blog software.
Using LemonStand, you can sell retail, recurring subscriptions and digital products. You have the option to offer volume and wholesale pricing to specific customers or groups. There's a choice of over 18 payment processors, PCI/DSS compliant infrastructure, and site-wide SSL. LemonStand offers built-in integrations to many popular web services and thousands more integrations via Javascript and Zapier.
Increase sales with product extras and cross-sells with related products, along with advanced search engine optimization (SEO). Sales and conversion analytics are provided so you can make data-based decisions and track growth.
Enjoy unlimited storage and bandwidth, auto-scaling, "bulletproof reliability," and Global CDN for "blazing speed". There are limited monthly orders depending on the package you purchase. The premium package allows unlimited orders. There are no limits on product options and variants. Customize the entire user experience, including the checkout process.
Customer support is available through email, documentation and demo's.
Why Go With An eCommerce Platform?
eCommerce software will save you so much time and spare you the aggravation of trying to learn and do everything yourself. When comparing the expense with DIY plus regular hosting, make sure you factor in your time (both learning and executing), hiring experts, buying a store template, added security like SSL Certificates and scanning, etc.
If you're relatively new to online business, you'll find the customer support provided by the top eCommerce platform providers will be a lot more helpful than most website hosting customer services. Online retail software or SaaS providers specialize in eCommerce and you'll need that level of expertise as you navigate your way through doing business online. In fact, their success relies heavily on your success, so they have a vested interest in helping you succeed.
What are you looking for in eCommerce software for your Canadian business? Please share your requirements or questions in the comments below.
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Hi, I install XMAPP 1.6.5 into a machine, but XMAPP can not startup automatically after machine reboot.
I uses intallation method B - installation without the installer. The MySQL, Apache & XAMPP control panel work fine if I startup them manually. And then I try to install XAMPP control panel as an windows service, and that service startup MySQL, Apache. It failed. None of XAMPP control panel, mysql or apache startup after reboot machine. I found a service called XAMPP service, it is set as startup automatically, but in fact it will started and tehn stopped immediately, and pop up a alert say:
"The XAMPP Service service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do, for example, the Performance Logs and Alerts service."
My PC is Windows XP, Pro, SP2.
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The following quote summarizes the whole thing quite nicely:
When my colleagues and I advocate cutting back on workshops and classes, we don't suggest firing the instructors. Rather, we recommend redeploying them as connectors, wiki gardeners, internal publicists, news anchors, and performance consultants.
I agree that training, old style training, is mostly dead. Old style training was based on the fact that all learners come in with the same basic knowledge. This may still be true when new products are deployed and people need training on those new products, however most types of training that I've seen have been more along the lines of boutique-style-training (I think I invented the term a few years back when I started as a formal trainer).
Most people don't start from point A in their knowledge of subject X. Some people are more advanced, and some are at the beginning. One size fits all training doesn't cut it. In addition, in a work environment, people seek training in order to accomplish a task, for example someone wants to learn Access or Filemaker (or Bento) to be able to streamline some process in their department.
In my line of work I've also become an (informal) social media consultant. A lot of people are curious because their heard twitter-this, or Ning-that, but they don't know much about the topic and what it can do for them. In other cases people have a need for a solution but don't know how to tackle it. Training is one aspect of it, but if you don't know you need training in X, how will you seek help?
What do you think?
Shall we change our titles from Trainers to Personal Learning Consultants? :-)


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Sheffield Churches Council for Community Care (SCCCC) has raised almost £500 towards its work in the city following a Botanical-themed fundraising event held at The Botanist.
The first of its kind for the charity, guests at the event were treated to a drinks reception, followed by a two course meal. The evening then blossomed into a Q&A session held by Sheffield City Council's Ian Turner, Curator of Sheffield's Botanical Gardens. Invitees were then invited to ask any horticultural questions in The Botanist's Private Dining Room, and received a lesson on the history of the gardens.
The evening also included a raffle and an auction, meaning that the total raised (including ticket sales) reached £455 – a fantastic effort with which the charity were delighted.
Ericka Hill, Fundraising Manager for SCCCC said: "We were delighted to be able to collaborate with The Botanist for this very special event. Since visiting last year, I've been inspired to discover more and get involved with it in some way and we're thrilled with their support."
Amelia Scholey, Business Development Manager of The Botanist said: "The work SCCCC do within Sheffield, to provide a range of services for the isolated and lonely older people in the area is incredibly valuable – we're very proud to support them and hope our contribution can make a difference."
SCCCC provide help and support for older members of the community, aiming to enhance their quality of life through volunteers who offer the kind of support a 'Good Neighbour' might give. The services can include regular visits provide hospital aftercare, all of which are free of charge as the charity intends to combat loneliness for people over 65 living in Sheffield.
The team at SCCCC have sincerely expressed their delight with the event and are thoroughly looking forward to hosting more events throughout the city centre as they continue to build support for the charity.


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In the week of 4-8 February, UCT Astronomy is hosting a large international conference on Galactic and extragalactic novae. This meeting, named "Stella Novae: Past and Future Decades", is the 4th international conference in a series of conferences on classical novae. It follows "Novae and Related Stars" in Paris (1976), "Physics of Classical Novae" in Madrid (1989), "Classical Nova Explosions" in Sitges (2002) and brings together 90 experts and young emerging researchers from around the world to discuss their latest research in understanding the evolution scenarios of the binary systems in classical novae, the physics of the nova explosion, understanding the energetic feedback of the nova ejecta into the interstellar medium, multi-wavelength observations and modelling of the nova outburst and the relation between novae and type Ia supernovae.
The program includes a public lecture on campus by Prof Steve Shore on "Exploding stars! Novae, supernovae and gamma-ray bursts" on Tuesday evening (5 February at 19:30 in the NSLT on upper campus). All are welcome to the public lecture.
See the conference web site for further details: http://www.ast.uct.ac.za/stellanovae2013
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Broadband satellite Internet access for schools in rural Ireland
SchoolSat is a trial service providing fast access to the Internet for schools in rural Ireland using leading-edge satellite technology developed by Web-Sat in Dublin and supported by the Telecommunications department of the European Space Agency (ESA).
The aim of the trial is to investigate how far this technology can offer a solution to connect schools to the Internet, to build networks between schools and to transmit large files of information be it data, video, audio, or graphics.
The service is based on the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) standard which is deployed Europe-wide (and is becoming accepted as a worldwide standard) for digital television. It allows the user to receive Internet services with a relatively small antenna (less than 1metre diameter) and a PC equipped with a satellite modem anywhere within the footprint of the Eutelsat W3 satellite (used by Web-Sat). This PC can be used as a gateway to connect multiple PCs to the Internet.
The Belgian company ATiT, audio visual and IT service providers specialising in education and culture, initiated SchoolSat as a project under ESA Telecom's User Segment programme in response to the currently low levels of Internet connectivity for schools in Ireland.
The SchoolSat service currently serves the Donegal Education Centre and 9 secondary schools in the county, ranging from the largest secondary school in Ireland, Carndonagh Community School on the Inishowen peninsula serving more than 1300 students, to the small Gaeltacht Vocational School on Arranmore island with just 46 students. The schools taking part have been equipped with small satellite dishes that allow them to send and receive information at a speed far faster than ISDN.
Many teachers taking part in the trials have reported a significant improvement in their use of the Internet for teaching purposes through their use of satellite-supported network. "For the first time", according to Colm Toibin from Carndonagh School, "whole classes can use the Internet at the same time, something which simply wasn't possible in the past". George Mullin, another teacher taking part says, "It can help to alleviate some of the social and economic disadvantages of living in remote and often isolated parts of Ireland".
Capitalising on experience gained and technology developed under earlier ESA Telecom supported projects – Trapeze, (tele-education via satellite for traveling communities) and Web-Sat, (high-speed satellite Internet provision) – SchoolSat is top of the class, successfully developing a solid example for the provision of sustainable, fully operational satellite Internet services for schools.


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You might have noticed that LearnJCU looks slightly different (look at the logout button) this week. Updates have recently taken place to fix bugs and update the LearnJCU system. There is also something brand new. Blackboard Collaborate Ultra! That's right, Ultra!
For those of you who don't know, Blackboard Collaborate is a web conferencing tool that we often use here at JCU to deliver online content like lectures or tutes. This can be really useful for external students. The new and improved 'Ultra' version of Collaborate does not require any pesky software installation, so you can open it up straight from your browser. Yay!
Access Collaborate Ultra through LearnJCU. Log in to LearnJCU here or find out more about Collaborate Ultra here.


text: Paulo Lopes On Trump & Environmental Policy by Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod published on 2018-07-26T18:17:21Z Today on Sojourner Truth, we continue our coverage on the Trump administrations migrant family separations, focusing on the administrations efforts to modify the landmark 1997 Flores Agreement which sets strict standards for the detention of migrant children. Also, Jefferson Sessions, the U.S. Attorney Generals reinterpretation of asylum law in contradiction to international standards. Our guest is Peter Schey, Executive Director of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law. And the Trump administration's attack against Endangered Species laws. We speak with Paulo Lopes, Public Lands Specialist at the Center for Biological Diversity. And St. Croix-based Dr. ChenziRa Kahina on recovery in the English-speaking Caribbean following Hurricane Maria as well as politics in the region. Genre News & Politics


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Dogs have different temperaments. This innovative collar has three modes, each with six levels of electrical stimulation, so you can fine tune according to the unique needs of your dog. The progressive static stimulation automatically increases after each subsequent bark. Patented Perfect Bark™ technology ensures that your dog's bark is the only stimulus to trigger the stimulation.
This has been the best purchase ever. I had a very yappy Pomeranian who just wouldn't stop barking when he was left alone. To the point my neighbours said they had to shout at him thought my letter box just to calm him down. Well I was moving homes and didn't want to annoy my new neighbours so had to take action quick. Yes this was a lot of money but not only can I now leave my house and not worry about my dog, it's really calmed him down! He was always nervous when I left him but now all he does is sleep or play with his toys. I can now also leave him in my front room to sleep instead of him being right next to me because I didn't like the fact he was on my bed. It didn't take him long to stop barking with this collar, 5 minutes every now and then he lets out a little bark but that's about it. Thank you so much for making me fall in love with my dog again and making my new neighbours not even realise I had a dog in the first place!
> PetSafe Response: Hi Zlata, thank you so much for sharing your experience with us! We're pleased your Pomeranian is much calmer now and that you have a stronger relationship than ever, this is the kind of story that we love here at PetSafe. You both must be so happy. Thanks again :)
We have two cross breed, medium sized dogs who have the absolute freedom of acres of land around our house and are generally well behaved. However our collie cross would persist in barking around what she considered to be her territory, every evening after dark and was not her usual responsive self. We would hear her barking and then stop but only seconds later would be barking again many hundreds of yard away and this behaviour would persist for many hours without being under control. We were reluctant to use a static shock collar but having tried many other devices,ultrasound etc, we went for our last resort. We wish we had tried it first but were reluctant to "hurt " our dog and spoil our relationship with her. On the first occasion the collar was worn and she was out after dark, as per instructions we made sure we were nearby, we heard 2 short yelps after she had barked, these were not prolonged and she she was not too disturbed. She stayed out for about 20 minutes within 50 yards or so of our home and then wanted to come in.She came readily to us to have the collar removed and was settled for the rest of the evening. The next night the collar was put on and this time no bark, no yelp. We have had the collar about two months and it has been highly successful as we now have a calmer dog. We still use the collar from time to time and when she sees it she quickly sits ,wagging her tail and is anxious to have it on, we cannot believe this positive reaction when using a product that we feared would have adverse affects. How wrong we were and how happy we are to have bought the collar.
> PetSafe Response: Thanks Pauline for leaving this great review of the Deluxe Bark Control Collar. We understand completely that at first you were reluctant to use static stimulation but the results you've had are tremendous! We strive to support the relationship between dogs and their owners, and it sounds as though this product has achieved its' purpose on all levels. You've done everything right by preparing and training your dog properly for this product. Thanks again for your comments.
I have two King Charles Spaniels who are lovely dogs but had become intolerable due to their incessant barking. There was no particular reason for the barking - and as soon as one started, it would start the other off. It had begun to drive my husband and I to distraction. We had tried lots of different products; sound and vibration collars, water sprays, a calming 'plug in' and a pet correction spray. Nothing seemed to work and the dogs got more distressed with our anxiety and the failed attempts to stop the barking. I then contacted the customer services team at Petsafe and Ashley was quick to respond, in an incredibly sensitive, yet pro-active way. He suggested these collars and as my mother had already used Petsafe with her dog (and highly recommended them), I was happy to take the advice.
Needless to say, they have worked, and we're both so relieved! The dogs now bark occasionally as you would expect, and seem much less irate in general. My husband and I are also much calmer and I'm sure the dogs sense this. I am a very happy customer but wanted to write this review as the service I was provided with was outstanding. I have since contacted Ashley for further advice about the battery, and once again, he was very prompt (and helpful) in his response. I would highly recommend both the collars and the company itself for it's efficiency and personalised response. Thank you Ashley - and thank you Petsafe! My sanity has returned!!
> PetSafe Response: Hi Clare, you're most welcome! We're so pleased that you've had such a great experience with our Deluxe Bark Collars. It really does sound as though you'd tried everything before coming to us for advice and support, and your feedback will be passed onto Ashley. Thanks again and if you need anything else, you know where to find us :)


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Celtic bank on home comfort against Juventus
Celtic manager Neil Lennon hopes his side can continue their unbeaten home record in Europe this season when they take on Juventus in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 clash at Parkhead on Tuesday.
The Glasgow giants have seen off HJK Helsinki, Helsingborgs, Benfica, Spartak Moscow and the mighty Barcelona at Celtic Park this season in their best European run since 2008.
Lennon knows they face a mammoth task if they are to get past the Italian league leaders and qualify for the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time.
But he hopes his side can take inspiration from their support and fine home form to build up a decent advantage to take to Turin in three weeks' time.
"Everyone is excited about this, particularly the supporters because they have been waiting a few years," the Celtic manager said.
"The crowd spurs our players on and can intimidate other teams. Parkhead is a fortress again and that's what I wanted."
Lennon has already been part of a Celtic team that stunned Juventus, playing in a 4-3 win over Marcello Lippi's side in 2001.
But the Hoops boss, who watched Juventus take on Genoa a couple of weeks ago, reckons the current crop of Serie A stars are even better.
"Lippi's team had more flair with Trezeguet, del Piero, Nedved and Davids. This team is more workmanlike, without being disrespectful to them," Lennon said.
"But in the final third they are clinical and they are probably also better defensively than Barcelona. They are strong, organised and very difficult to break down.
"They have three strong players in midfield and up front Mirko Vucinic is a great player who takes everything into feet.
"He links very well with Seb Giovinco. Giovinco also likes to drop a little deeper and do damage there. Juventus are very pragmatic but clinical in the final third. We believe we can get at them though."
The Celtic boss will have almost a full squad to pick from after he revealed James Forrest and Emilio Izaguirre will be fit while Georgios Samaras will be given every chance.
Keeper Fraser Forster returned after a three match absence in Saturday's 3-1 win over Inverness Caledonian Thistle but defender Efe Ambrose is likely to have to make do with a place on the bench after the Nigerian took part in Sunday's Africa Cup of Nations final in South Africa.
Many of Lennon's players have come in for plaudits with their European performances this season but the manager singled out Victor Wanyama, Gary Hooper and Charlie Mulgrew as big players for him in the match.
"At any set-piece, with the quality of delivery and height we have, we can be a threat to anyone," Lennon said.
"Charlie is very important. People wonder why I play him in all the games. It's not just for his delivery, Charlie can play. He is brave on the ball and has a goal in him. Victor brings strength, power and reads the game very well.
"He is a threat from set-pieces and rises to the occasion as he showed against Barca. Hooper is a goalscorer and quality player."
Juventus, who beat Fiorentina 2-0 in Serie A on Saturday to stay five points clear of Napoli, saw Paolo De Ceglie limp off with a muscle strain that will rule him out of the Celtic match.
Vucinic also picked up a knock to his knee in that game, but is in the squad travelling to Glasgow along with Kwadwo Asamoah who returns from international duty with Ghana.
Nicolas Anelka is also included, though the January signing is yet to make his Juventus debut.


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Seventeen-year-old Meg Flannigan wasn't very lucky at love. In sophomore year, her idiotic boyfriend dumped her by making out with another girl in front of her locker. Ouch! Now a senior, and with a little more self-confidence, Meg catches the eye of not one, but two guys at school. Lucky! Both attend her tennis matches, vie for her attention, and are each gorgeous in their own way. So what's the problem? Meg has already chosen one of them, and the one waiting in the sidelines will do anything to change her mind. She's enjoys the attention right up until it's her heart that's caught in the middle, and she risks losing both. Can Meg Love All, or will choosing be her undoing?
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I don't usually read novellas so this was a refreshing and quick read. I found it a tad hard to relate to Meg and her personal situation between boyfriend and old crush but that could have just been a personal thing. Overall, I think Hashway has a really great voice (loved it!) and I'm a sucker for sports movies and books. I think pacing is something one has to be very careful with in a novella. It's so short that we need a sort of climactic moment as well as a resolution. I think Hashway wrapped it up pretty neatly and really followed an interesting plot arc in this small amount of space. Oh and the boys definitely sound swoon worthy!
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Buffalo Chicken Lettuce Wraps
This recipe combine some of my favorite stuff - hot sauce, blue cheese, chicken, AND the crock pot. So easy and so good. Here's the recipe from Skinny Taste (told you this site was awesome):
For the chicken:
- 24 oz boneless skinless chicken breast
- 1 celery stalk
- 1/2 onion, diced
- 1 clove garlic
- 16 oz fat free low sodium chicken broth
- 1/2 cup hot cayenne pepper sauce (like Frank's)
- 6 large lettuce leaves, Bibb or Iceberg
- 1 1/2 cups shredded carrots
- 2 large celery stalks, cut into 2 inch matchsticks
In a crock pot, combine chicken, onions, celery stalk, garlic and broth (enough to cover your chicken, use water if the can of broth isn't enough). Cover and cook on high 4 hours. Remove the chicken from pot, reserve 1/2 cup broth and discard the rest. Shred the chicken with two forks, return to the slow cooker with the 1/2 cup broth and the hot sauce and set to on high for an additional 30 minutes. Makes 3 cups chicken.
To prepare lettuce cups, place 1/2 cup buffalo chicken in each leaf, top with 1/4 cup shredded carrots, celery and dressing of your choice.
I love this recipe! Each time I've made this there have been a good amount of leftovers that I've been able to use for a salad the next day for lunch.
Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week!


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In Dr. Abraham Morgentaler's 26 years as a urologist who treats issues of male sexuality, he has seen thousands of patients, and "probably there hasn't been a single one who hasn't paid attention to his penis size on some level," he says.
"Most men tend to believe they're smaller than average, and there's some distortion about what reality is," says Morgentaler, director of Men's Health Boston and author, most recently, of "The Truth About Men and Sex: Intimate Secrets From the Doctor's Office."
A new study could help combat some of that reality distortion.
Combining 17 previous published studies for a total of 15,521 men, it amounts to the biggest review to date of medically measured penis size, says its lead author, Dr. David Veale of King's College London. It processed the data into "nomograms," or graphical diagrams, like the one above, familiar to parents as the typical form for the growth charts that pediatricians use.
From the press release on the paper (metric conversions mine), which is titled "Am I normal? A systematic review and construction of nomograms for flaccid and erect penis length and circumference in up to 15,521 men":
The nomograms revealed that the average length of a flaccid penis was 9.16 cm [3.6 inches], the average length of a flaccid stretched penis was 13.24 cm [5.21 inches], and the average length of an erect penis was 13.12 cm [5.165 inches]. The average flaccid circumference was 9.31 cm [3.66 inches], and the average erect circumference was 11.66 cm [4.59 inches]. There was a small correlation between erect length and height.
So those are the averages, but the great beauty of a nomogram is that it can also give you a sense of the distribution of the variation, and you may have already noticed that the curve above looks strikingly flat. That is, there's just not much difference, except at the extreme edges.
If your erect penis is 11 centimeters, that puts you down in the 10th percentile; if your erect penis is 15 centimeters, that puts you way up in the 85th percentile. Quite a jump, for a little over an inch.
"What's interesting is, when you look at the curves, you see that most penises actually are fairly similar in size," Dr. Morgentaler says. "You really have to go to the extremes — the top or bottom 5 or 10 percent — to really see some big differences. And truthfully, in my practice, I would say that's exactly right. Most men have penises roughly the same size."
But somehow, many men who are average think they're below average. The study notes:
"Men may present to urologists or sexual medicine clinics with a concern with their penis size, despite their size falling within a normal range. This type of concern is commonly known as 'small penis anxiety' or 'small penis syndrome.' Continue reading