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|JSC2002-E-38493 (17 September 2002) --- Astronaut John L. Phillips, backup Expedition Seven flight engineer, participates in Minus Eighty-degree Laboratory Freezer for ISS (MELFI) training in the Jake Garn Simulation and Training Facility at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). MELFI will provide the International Space Station (ISS) with a low temperature freezer facility and nominal operating temperatures of –80, -26 and +4 degrees Celsius that will preserve experiment materials over long periods.
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CentriQS 1.0.363 - Detailed description page
A single integrated business management software that centralizes your company data, resources, operations and core business functions into all-in-one solution customized for your specific requirements and industry-related needs.
Start using CentriQS with a complete solution for effective managing of tasks in your projects, business processes and employee schedules.
Enhance CentriQS usage with custom solutions designed for your specific requirements and scalable from small office to midsize business.
Base Features
- Organize your business data into folders and subfolders
- Interrelate your business data, add files or links files and web pages
- Set permissions to restrict users rights to 'read' or 'write' certain data
- Subscribe users to internal and email notifications, reminders and alarms
- Configure analytic views with charts to visualize your business data
- Keep a detailed history log of any changes in your business data
- Search for any required data stored in the database
- Apply quick filters, set complex filters, or save and load filter presets
- Gather and monitor all essential data on dashboards
- Modify and save layout of any view in the program
- Use Active Directory integration for user authentication
Task Management
- Break tasks down into subtasks
- Set task dependency successors and predecessors
- Monitor your track productivity and performance
- Schedule appointments and tasks on calendar view
Customized Solutions
- Create custom entities for all of your business functions
- Design custom workflow that defines its life cycle
- Add custom properties with necessary fields of any type
Important! To activate the trial version you have downloaded, you need to go to Download Page, click the download link and fill out a quick form (Name and Email), so that we can send you the activation codes.
[Note that you don't need to download the installation file as you already have it]
Keywords: business management software, all-in-one, small and medium business, ERP system, customized software solutions, task management software, scheduling software
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Let's take it step-by-step. Last week, Nevada Rancher Cliven Bundy who defied the U.S. government by not paying grazing fees for his cattle made some ridiculous comments about black Americans and slavery. Mr. Bundy instantly lost any credibility he might have had.
A short time later the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, 80-year-old Donald Sterling was embarrassed when his mistress released tape recordings of him insulting black people. Reaction was fast and furious, led by President Obama.
OBAMA: The United States continues to wrestle with the legacy of race and slavery and segregation. That's still there -- the vestiges of discrimination. We've made enormous strides but you are going to continue to see this percolate up every so often. And I think that we just have to be clear and steady in denouncing it, teaching our children differently.
O'REILLY: Well, that's right. American children have to be educated about why, why this stuff is happening. But so do adults. Sterling's comments are just despicable. There is no excuse. And like Mr. Bundy, he's finished in the court of public opinion.
But why would these men say these things? The answer is twofold. First, both men are ignorant. Bundy has no idea what's what slavery was and Sterling doesn't seem to understand that in America you cannot deny anyone anything because of race.
Second, both men have a sense of entitlement and that's the key. Cliven Bundy sincerely believes that he should be exempt from paying grazing taxes, an insane sense of entitlement when others in his circumstance have to pay them and are paying them. Sterling has too much money and thinks he can shoot his mouth off and say whatever he wants because he has bought his way out of past controversies.
In 2005 Sterling settled a discrimination suit brought by some of his minority tenants in Los Angeles. In 2009 he settled a federal discrimination lawsuit and had to pay close to $3 million. Also in 2009 the general manager of the Clippers, NBA legend Elgin Baylor sued Sterling for racial discrimination among other things. Mr. Baylor lost that one. However, there is no question that Sterling has a problem.
But here is the headline. It's primarily his problem. Not the country's problem. He is shameful but does not represent anyone other than himself. However, Sterling has brought pain to other people.
Coach of the Clippers, Doc Rivers is a fine man. How do you think he feels? His team is in the playoffs. 12 of the 14 players are black. Mr. Rivers is a man of accomplishment and pride. You can imagine what this has done to him and his team, which has worked hard all season.
Other NBA legends have been insulted as well.
MAGIC JOHNSON, FORMER NBA PLAYER: I met with Donald two or three times. He wanted to discuss the issues with his Clipper team. So I had a friendship with him. So for him to then make these comments or alleged comments, about myself as well as other African-Americans and minorities, there is no place in our society for it.
BARKLEY: We cannot have an NBA owner discriminating against a league that -- we're a black league, Ernie, we are a black league. I don't know the number. But I would probably say 80 percent of our players are black.
O'REILLY: Now, the outrage felt by those men and others is a positive thing. They have a perfect right to be angry and to demand that Sterling be punished and he will be. He will most likely lose control of his team. I can't imagine that he can hang on to the Clippers but not all the reaction to Sterling was appropriate.
SNOOP DOGG, RAPPER: A message to the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) that owns the Clippers you (EXPLETIVE DELETED) redneck white bread chicken (EXPLETIVE DELETED). You, your momma and everything connected to you, you racist piece of (EXPLETIVE DELETED).
O'REILLY: So let me ask Calvin Broadus something. Do you really think that helps the cause of anti-discrimination in the country in the United States? Or you're just trying to get publicity for yourself? I think we all know the answer.
The bigger picture, there are bigots in every country, there are bigots of every race. For example, what are we to think of the thousands of people who go to hear Louis Farrakhan to rant against whites and Jews? But those folks represent a very small portion of the African-American community.
Same thing with Reverend Jeremiah Wright who has made a number of anti- white comments and was condemned in his own country. A vast majority of black religious people are good and decent so it's not fair to draw any general conclusions from Wright or Farrakhan or Sterling or Bundy. They are just misguided individuals.
Nevertheless, the anger they engender is real. I believe when most Americans see and hear racism in their own lives, they get furious. One of the strongest scenes ever in a movie was this upcoming sequence in "Mississippi Burning" when FBI agent Gene Hackman confronts a racist deputy.
GENE HACKMAN, ACTOR: I've got a question for you, Clinton. You don't mind if I call you Clinton, do you? I feel like I know you so well. On the night of the murders, you made short speeches that bulldozer buried the kids in the dam, how does Lester tell it. "Mississippi would be proud of you. You struck a blow for the white man." Is that what you said Clinton?
You've got a stupid smile, you know that. Can you see it? Good. Did you smile when the bulldozer ran over the black kids' bodies? Did you? Did you smile when the bodies are covered over? Did you? Did you smile that same stupid smile? Did you?
Make no mistake about it, deputy, I will cut your (EXPLETIVE DELETED) head clear off and not give a (EXPLETIVE DELETED) how it reads in the report sheet.
O'REILLY: Now, that scene epitomizes how most decent people want to confront individual racism. But we can't. We can't. We have to leave it to the authorities. And understand that this country has come a very long way from the days when denying Americans opportunity because of their skin color was acceptable in some places.
Now, racists pay a huge price. For the rest of his life, Donald Sterling will be a pariah. He will not be celebrated anywhere or welcomed anywhere other than the lunatic fringe precincts.
Finally, there will be people who seek to exploit Sterling and Bundy. Right away, Al Sharpton began threatening to boycott if Sterling wasn't dealt with the way he, Sharpton, thinks he should be. Instead of allowing the National Basketball Association to investigate, then issue a ruling, which it will tomorrow, Sharpton exploited the situation immediately, trying to bring attention to himself. Really sad.
In the end, racism will never be wiped out. It's a neurosis, a mental deficiency, it will always be around. But America is a place that no longer tolerates it in the public arena as Donald Sterling and Cliven Bundy have learned the hard way. And that's "The Memo."
- You can catch Bill O'Reilly's "Talking Points Memo" weeknights at 8 and 11 p.m. ET on the Fox News Channel and any time on foxnews.com/oreilly. Send your comments to: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Hello my crafty friends! I hope you are having a wonderful Memorial Day weekend! Are you ready for another fun challenge?!
This week's challenge: Welcome to the Neighborhood
Now it's time to sit back and enjoy these fun projects from my awesome design team!!:
Heather's card is soooo CUTE!! I love the house border and especially that fun background paper!
I love how she used the Chunky Alphabet stamps and the Natural jute twine!
GiGi's house shaped card is absolutely gorgeous!
The embossed brick is amazing and I love the polka dot roof! Such a pretty card!
GiGi cut her sentiment tag with the Tiny Doily Dies. The stamped circle sentiment is from the Stampin' Around Spring stamp set and she finished it off with a Toadally Green Crinkle Ribbon bow.
Robin's card is beautiful! What a great idea to use the vinyl as an outline and then watercolor!! She may have just started a new trend! Click HERE for her fun photo tutorial!
Robin's stamped sentiment is from the Friends & Neighbors stamp set.
I love the white picket fence on Gwen's fun card - brings back some great childhood memories! What a fun step card!
The sentiment on Gwen's card and on her cute box is from the Friends & Neighbors stamp set.
I love the inking on her cute bird! What a fun gift box!
This week's prize:
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Bob White is a legend in the horse tour business. He and his highly trained staff have been offering tours since 1996 with a great reputation for being both entertaining and informative. Bob's tours last two hours and incorporate quite a bit of local history and interesting lore to complement the sightseeing. In the four-wheel-drive area you'll see the horses grazing in their natural habitat, often along with the sight of dolphins in the ocean. All tours are given in safari-style open-air vehicles for a one-of-a-kind experience — and they can accommodate large groups up to 15 people. Call for details and reservations. All tours have a money back guarantee if you don't see the horses (restrictions apply).
Bob's Wild Horse Tours
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TED 2012: Low-tech machine offers new crop for Africa
Much as the spinning jenny is credited with helping kick-start a new era of industrialisation in the West, so it could be simple machinery that inspires change in the developing world.
Newly appointedTEDfellow Alex Odundo is passionate about the sisal plant - its fibres can be made into rope.
He has high ambitions for a plant he believes can help lift 10,000 farmers out of poverty.
"This is our saviour," he told the BBC. "In our community sisal does well with only a little rain."
Rain drain
Life in rural Kenya is very much tied into how much it rains. Lack of rainfall means little or no crops.
As a young boy, Mr Odundo remembers how, when crops failed, he helped his mother harvest the fibres of sisal.
"We used small machines with metal knives. The work was tedious and hard and at the end of the day you get very little," he said.
"I said to my mum, 'I will make you a machine.'"
He thought it would take a week or two but in the end it took 10 years and many different designs.
The first was made of wood, the second a hybrid of wood and scrap metal begged and borrowed from neighbours.
It was only when Mr Odundo moved to Kisumu City to study at the technical college of engineering that his dream began to become a reality.
Rope economy
Now 10 years on from the original promise to his mother, his finished product allows farmers to strip the fibres out of the sisal plant more easily.
It was a great breakthrough and, after so many years of work, many would be happy to stop there. But Mr Odundo saw there was even greater potential.
"Farmers sell the sisal fibre for 20 Kenyan shillings but rope with the same amount of fibre sells for 200 shillings (£1.50)," he said.
So he set about creating a machine that would convert sisal into rope. That didn't take quite so long - just five years.
According to the Kenyan Ministry of Agriculture, the world's demand for rope outweighs the amount made by a ratio of almost two to one.
Of the 250,000 tonnes of rope produced over the past three years, Kenya produced just 25,000, according to the ministry.
It realised there was a burgeoning industry and began its own search for a rope-making machine.
Eventually it heard about the work being done by Mr Odundo and is now working to convince farmers to buy his machines.
Mass production
Currently they are not cheap by Kenyan standards, with a price tag of 85,000 shillings (£650). Mass production would dramatically reduce the cost, he believes.
And he has found farmers willing to buy. Currently he has sold 18 machines and the farmers who invested are reaping the rewards.
Mr Odundo estimates that rope production using the machine can yield farmers 6,000 shillings (£45) a day. Traditional crops would bring in just 150 shillings (£1.10), he said.
He is already working on other projects, including a water pump for a new type of irrigation and a wind power generator, but his heart remains tied to sisal.
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Check out the latest version of the Spec Racer! LBoth ligher weight and more powerful!!! Available soon, racing in 2015!
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I think you can get more than 8 heat cycles out of the tires. I'd say 12, although I'm not great at keeping track of it.
No one commented on the 200-hour engine life. This is twice as long as any other engine in the spreadsheet. Are you sure about this?
Here's the scenario. You have a fresh engine producing power that is competitive in a Majors race or the Run-offs. It produces this power for some amount of time, and then starts to fall off, and at some point is no longer competitive. You send the engine back to the builder, who does whatever is necessary for that particular engine (some classes more, some less) to make it competitive again. How much does the builder charge for this? And how many hours did the engine operate competitively before becoming non-competitive?
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The engine life at 200 hours may be conservative. This engine is stout. Currently the transmission is the weak point in the package. Mike will probably have that rectified soon. Tires are track and driver dependent but 12 cycles is a reasonable estimate
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I think part of the reason why you're not getting any input on engine life is because it's so new. I'm not sure how many owner/drivers have had a GEN3 rebuilt yet (for reasons other than a major engine failure). I did my own GEN3 conversion in the winter between the 2015 and 2016 racing season, running my first event at the Blackhawk Farms Majors in April, 2016. I just last month converted over to synthetic motor oil, which is recommended after 30 hours of engine operation. My GEN2 engine had 5 years on it when I bought it, I put 6 more years on it, and it was still running strong when I pulled it to replace it with the newer GEN3. The new engine seems to have promise in being at least as durable as the GEN2, if not more. But how many hours? Who knows? I suggest there's not yet enough field data to make a statistically significant conclusion.
As for tire heat cycles, I'm getting about 16 out of mine, but I'm not exactly a Majors podium driver. As many have stated already, the gearbox and clutch are the Achilles Heel of the GEN3. The new clutch with springs and straight cut gears are rumored to help extend transmsssion life, but I doubt if there is yet empirical data sufficient to document how much.
OK, it appears that all the discussions in all the communities have died out, so you can find the results in the spreadsheet.
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One suggestion: In the engine model column, a more specific designation for the SRF3 engines is a Ford Sigma engine, which is a part of the Duratec family.
OK, I'll change it to Sigma.
Reading the wikipedia pages on the Duratec and the Sigma, I thought it was the other way around--Sigma was a family and Duratec was more specific. It's confusing.
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Regardless if summer, winter, autumn or spring, going to Africa is continually possible. It is always a good time to go on safari, even in winter. The heat of summer makes for a lethargic safari trip in summer, making the chillier winter months more ideal for the type of driving a safari requires. The cooler weather suggests that the wildlife in safari locations are more mobile.
Durban is a major beach hot spot at any time of the year, on account of the warm water of the Indian Ocean. The cold water of the Atlantic Ocean does not trouble surfers in Cape Town. The streets along the coast are brimming with inns, cafés and dining places, meaning there is still an abundance to keep you occupied, and with the best view under the rainbow – whether you are staying in Green Point or Bantry Bay.
Ocean encounters are still possible in Cape Town in winter. For persons still desiring under the sea moments, there are all kinds of these moments with the marine life you can experience, such as penguins, sharks, seals, fish and whales. While you are in Cape Town you can delight in a ride on the wheel at the Waterfront, which boasts panoramic sights of the city; spoil yourself with flavorful sushi at Beluga or go shopping at in the mall, jam-packed with a variety of retail outlets.
Can't decide between the city or the out-of-doors? Then Cape Town is the optimal choice, because it has both. Choices include horse-riding, the Giraffe House Wildlife Awareness Centre plus more. Hiking routes will supply you with impressive views of the ocean and heavens and the drive along Chapman's Peak will lead you to the lovely town of Noordhoek, where you can go horse-riding on the beach.
Experiencing wildlife in winter is prospective with a Cape Town safari. Book a safari holiday near Cape Town. Here you can go on game drives, encounter wild animals and spend the night watching the night sky, as the deficiency of city lights brings the skies to life during the night.
A loopy experience you are sure to have on a Cape Town winter safari is a snow-bound game drive. Some areas in the Western Cape experience freezing temperatures in winter-time, meaning snow falls habitually on the mountain ranges in winter, and at times on to the earth too. So if a snow safari seems like something you want to test, book a winter safari at a Cape Town game reserve.
Along with snow, style and luxury you stand a chance of seeing the Big Five. The laid back lion, rowdy rhino, huge elephant, giant buffalo and hidden leopard can all be found in this area. Hundreds of years in the past plenty of each member roamed free, but the beginning of farming and conflict in the area ruined their figures. Today these wildlife sanctuaries grant new hope for restoring these groups to their previous homes. Other wild animals to keep a lookout for are oryx, kudu, cheetahs and Cape foxes.
The mornings in these areas are immensely nippy. Mittens, socks, jerkins and tops are logically a must for a winter safari. Once you come back from the game drives you can thaw in front of a fire or under levels of cozy blankets in luxurious bedrooms at the game lodge.
There is a lot of diversified attraction in the Karoo, where you will find several safari parks. South Africa is truly magnificent in its diversity, none more so than when you compare the expanses of the Karoo flatlands to those of the lowveld a lot further north.
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Finally unpacked *some* of my boxes and found my green uggs and am amazed how the colour coordinates with most of my other favourite colours!
I just have to say though that these are INDOOR shoes, I repeat, INDOOR, okay? (we don't want any skankalicious-effect, ya know?) Even then, I like coordinating LOL Now, where can I find shoes/heels in the same colour? Maybe something suede will give the same effect.
Now that I am all nice and comfy for the winter nights, I thought I didn't need anymore cute boots for the rest of the season...Boy, was I wrong...There I was, happily minding my own business at the No.1 Shoe Warehouse @ St.Lukes and I stumbled upon these shelves filled with colourful gum boots!
It took me a minute to catch my breath and decide that I had to try on a few pairs! I had to frantically search for my size too! I liked so many of them but they didn't have them in my size *luckily...*
Ended up trying on these two cuties:
(photo taken by LilBrownBuddha on his mobile phone)
While trying to decide which one I wanted (zebra print was totally calling out my name!) But alas, I decided that I had to make a practical decision...gum boots are made for walking in the rain, mud, etc...so...which one did I get? ;) xxx


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2002 Award for Excellence in Program Innovation
The Archstone Foundation Award for Excellence in Program Innovation was created in conjunction with the Gerontological Health Section of the American Public Health Association, and was established to recognize the best practice models in Gerontology and Geriatrics. Emphasis is given to those innovative programs that have effectively linked academic theory with applied practice in the field of public health and aging.
This year we are pleased to announce the winner of the Archstone Foundation Award for Excellence in Program Innovation as follows:
Winner of the top honor
Kinship Support Network, San Francisco, California
The Kinship Support Network was the nation's first comprehensive, public-private partnership to support older persons who are raising their relatives' children as an alternative to foster care. Launched in 1993, this program model has been replicated across California and disseminated nationwide. The program has been documented to help elderly grandmother caregivers, predominantly African American, to improve health and mental health status during their participation.
Program Design Nationwide, 3.5 million grandparents are raising their grandchildren - all told, these grandparents are raising more than 5% of all American youth. Here in San Francisco, relative caregivers are raising one in every six youth. The typical caregiver is a 60-year-old grandmother, raising children who have lost their parents due to abuse, neglect, substance abuse, or incarceration. Prior to 1993, when the Kinship Support Network was launched, there was no comprehensive public-private partnership to assess and respond to the needs of these generous but overburdened elders.
Grandparent caregivers have stepped forward to raise children at a time in life when many of us look forward to retirement. They know that the safe home of a loving relative is often the best place for an abused or neglected child to heal. However, poverty, poor health, and social isolation threaten aging caregivers' well-being and that of the children in their care. Edgewood's research has shown that grandmother caregivers who enroll in our Kinship Support Network have poorer health and mental health than other women their age. Reports from the US Census Bureau confirm that the burdens of poverty and poor health are shared by grandmother caregivers nationwide.
Edgewood created the Kinship Support Network as an innovative way to help these elderly caregivers. Our program matches relative caregivers with peer mentors, support groups, and comprehensive whole-family services. Families are served within our private agency, allowing them to bypass public welfare systems and maintain their dignity. When possible, we hire program graduates and other caregivers (often times seniors) as program staff. All together, elderly caregivers can sign up for peer case management, grandparent support groups, respite care, emergency food or housing assistance, mental health counseling, or health care services. They can also find parenting education, after school tutoring, and enriching activities for the children in their care. Services are now available in English, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, and Tagalog. Last year, we served about 250 elderly caregivers.
Documented Outcomes and Benefits of the Program
When the Kinship Support Network program was created, Edgewood simultaneously founded the Institute for the Study of Community-Based Services (Donald Cohon, Ph.D., Director). The Institute was charged with conducting formal research to document relative caregivers' needs and assess the program's outcomes - filling a national knowledge gap on this long-hidden population.
Since then, the Institute has conducted several longitudinal studies and has partnered with researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, which gathers statewide data on kin caregiving. This research has documented three significant, measurable outcomes:
- Elderly grandmother caregivers in the program significantly improved their health and mental health, as measured by pre-post tests using the SF-36 Health Survey (Ware 1993). In contrast, elderly female caregivers enrolled only in the public child welfare system showed stable or declining health and mental health during this same time period. (Cohon, D., Hines, L., Cooper, A. B., Packman, W. & Siggins, E. (2000). Stuart Foundation Final Report July 28 2000. San Francisco, Edgewood Center for Children and Families, Institute for the Study of Community-Based Services.)
- Participating caregivers had reduced family needs in 30 out of 31 areas after participating in the program, as measured by pre-post tests using the Family Needs Scale (adapted 9/1995 by D. Cohon from Dunst, Trivette & Deal 1988). (Ibid. 2001)
- Children in the program improved their health, mental health, social competencies, and school competencies. In addition, they have significantly fewer problems with anxiety/depression, withdrawal, sleeping, or interpersonal issues. These changes were measured by pre-post tests using the CHQ-PF50 (Landgraf, Abetz & Ware 1996) and Child Behavior Checklist/4-18 (CBCL) (Achenbach 1991). (Cohon, D., Brown, S., Wheeler, R. & Cooper, B. (2001). Office of Criminal Justice Planning Final Report Abuse Reactive African American Kinship Youth Project November 2001. San Francisco, Edgewood Center for Children and Families, Institute for the Study of Community-Based Services.)
The Kinship Support Network has continually linked these research findings to program practice and innovations. For example, one of the Institute's earliest studies found that elderly grandmother caregivers in our program had poorer health and mental health than other women their age by comparing SF-36 Health Survey scale scores with national norms. This finding led Edgewood to add a "Kinship Health Team" to the program model.
Replication Potential and Dissemination Plans
Edgewood has replicated our program in two other cities, East Palo Alto and South San Francisco. The program is also being replicated across California with funding from the state legislature; already 13 California counties have stepped up to the plate to form local Kinship Support Networks with Edgewood's technical assistance. Finally, the Kinship Support Network has been recognized as a national model and has been shared in several other states. We sponsored the first National Kinship Care Conference in 1997 along with AARP, Child Welfare League of America, and Generations United, and a regional follow-up conference in 2000. Edgewood takes an active role in these replication activities and in disseminating research findings nationwide. We have produced a Kinship Operations Manual, Staff Training Manual, Advocacy Video, Research Fact Sheets, and brochures, which together can help any community plan and implement new services for elderly caregivers. Edgewood also provides group and one-on-one technical assistance to communities launching their own kinship programs. Funding, Partnerships, and Collaboration The Kinship Support Network is funded by a diverse blend of public contracts and private donations. We receive funds from our county Office on the Aging, mental health agency, child welfare department, and children's services department. We also seek foundation grants, donations, and volunteer support. The Kinship Support Network partners formally and informally with many other community agencies to avoid service gaps and overlaps. These partners include the Foster Grandparents Program, Asian Perinatal Advocates, schools, community centers, churches, and the local community college. The county has also co-located social workers on-site at our kinship centers to facilitate collaboration and program referrals. The Kinship Support Network is an innovative approach that has improved health and quality of life for hundreds of older people, and has raised the country's awareness of aging caregivers' essential role in our society. Indeed, this population of more than 3.5 million elders was virtually ignored by public and private agencies until the late 1990s—despite their selfless contributions to raising some of our country's most vulnerable youth. Thanks to the Kinship Support Network and other supporters, grandparent caregivers are no longer a forgotten part of our society.
Honorable Mentions include:
"Take Charge of Your Health for Older Adults" Georgia Division of Aging Services., Atlanta, Georgia;
SeniorNavigator.com, Richmond, Virginia;
The University of Arizona Elder Rehab by Students Program, Tucson, Arizona
We received 35 nominations this year, all of which truly excelled in program innovation. It is our hope that these model programs can be replicated in an effort to enhance services to the aging population in the United States.


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I have some news to share today, YAY :)
As of today I am on the Design Team for the Danish craft store & webstore Hobbyboden.dk. The owner Gitte got me persuaded when I visited her store on my birthday this year. So exciting to be a part of a Danish design team.
Here is a link to the BLOG.
And dont' forget!
Today is World Card Making Day - a perfect opportunity to get crafty and make load and loads of cards.
Have a splendid day :)


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This bluetooth module allows you to easily configure settings on your Naze32 using an bluetooth enabled Android device. It is powered by 5V and has 3.3V logic.
PLEASE NOTE: You will not be able to use this module in conjunction with a GPS module on the Naze32 as it uses the same pins.
- Multiwii FC Configuration with Android MultiWiiConfiguration App- UART TTL socket
MultiWiiConfiguration functions:
- Read and Write PID- Setting switch for AUX1 and AUX2- Monitor receiver signal and FC output signal- Monitor All sensors and GPS signal- Cablibration Magnetometer and Accelerometer- Save and read profile
- Baudrate: 115200- Pair code: 0000- Dimensions: 17mmX35mm- Height: 5mm- Weight: 2.2g
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Jeff Kohl Joins Fenimore's Intermediary Group
January 22, 2016
Jeff Kohl has been appointed National Advisory Sales Executive at Fenimore Asset Management, the investment advisor to FAM Funds, in Cobleskill, New York. Mr. Kohl previously worked at Heartland Advisors as Vice President of Registered Investment Advisors (RIA) Sales. He has more than 20 years of experience in the industry, specifically working in the RIA marketplace. Mr. Kohl holds both a BA and MBA from the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater.
Fenimore continues to enhance its third-party outreach in sales, service, and operations to expand the firm's presence in the intermediary market, especially with independent RIAs.
"We are pleased to have an industry veteran like Jeff join the team," said Anne Putnam, Vice President of Intermediaries. "His experience and efforts will strongly support Fenimore's third-party growth initiatives."


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I hear you loud and clear
Please be quiet dear
I've heard the same old tale
The words you spit are bare
Your words hold so many lies
You try to sound so intelligent and clever
You sugar-coat your lies
But thank God I know better
So you love the sound of your voice?
That's nice!
Go on if you wish
But try to taste your own dish
You say the sun is cold and white…stories!
I have no need for your fairy tales and fake theories
You don't even practice what you preach
And me, you try to teach
I can see how much you love to speak
You go around acting all meek
You hide your deeds
And neglect my needs
So you think you are so smart?
Hahaha…I see that!
I wish you good luck
Please go on…SPEAK!
By Sylvia Chika
© 2016 Sylvia Chika


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Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a customary practice that is prevalent worldwide. It is described by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to be:
Procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
Dexter Dias QC is a barrister from Garden Court Chambers in London. Dias is conducting research at Cambridge and Harvard into elements of social control. His initial research subject was the use of pain to control children in the UK prisons, but he is now examining how the practice of FGM as an expression of masculine domination and the control of young women.
I was able to conduct an interview with Dias in which he explained the reasoning behind the continued practice and ways in which we can contribute to the eradication of FGM. For lawyers, there are three aspects of FGM of particular interest: misconceptions about religious ties, the legal framework and the wider debates on competing issues of cultural sensitivity and fundamental human rights. This article explores the underpinning factors of FGM and outlines suggestions by Dias of ways in which we can address these factors to eradicate the violent mutilation of young females worldwide.
The key to understanding FGM is recognising that this is a practice that is deeply rooted, dating back hundreds of years. A common misconception is that its origins are Islamic. It is actually a customary practice that pre-dates Islam. Some Muslims do practice FGM, but there are also Christians and Jewish people who practice it too. Within one branch of Sunni Islam, there is commentary that suggests it is a desirable aspect of Muslim adherence. However, there is no Quranic authority to suggest this and in fact there is no religious script that advocates FGM at all. Thus, we are faced with a customary practice that is often dressed up in religious garments.
How prevalent is FGM?
There are 29 countries covering Africa and the Middle East in which FGM is heavily practiced, with the rates in countries like Somalia and Sudan in excess of around 90% of the population of young women. Twenty-four of these 29 countries have passed national legislation banning FGM, yet it is still commonly practiced. Most of the cases that come before the courts involve Ghana, Senegal and Sierra Leone. FGM has been a second-degree felony in Ghana since 1994.
The nature of this abuse means that the exact figure of how many mutilations occur each year is unknown. Estimates suggest that 3 million young girls will be mutilated next year. This is the equivalent of the whole population of Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Glasgow. If we imagine all of those 5 cities are comprised of young girls: all of them will be mutilated this year.
The Legal Framework
The legal framework can be sub divided into two categories: international rights conventions and national legislative provisions. In the 1990s the world's attention began to focus more intensely on the rights of vulnerable women. This saw the classification of FGM as a form of violence against women at the 1993 Vienna World Conference on Human Rights. There are various international conventions created to protect women and children, including:
- UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
- UN Convention Against Torture (UNCAT)
- UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
In addition to these, Article 25 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) outlines that everyone has the right to health and wellbeing. FGM violates the woman's right to health and bodily integrity.
Following these developments in the 1990s, various national governments sought to start protecting women and children. In the UK, FGM has been a criminal offence since 1985, introduced by the 'Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act.' The terminology of the legislation has since quite rightly changed from 'circumcision' to 'mutilation.' The use of 'circumcision' gave the impression that the mutilation was the female equivalent of circumcision of young men. This was a dangerous misconception. Circumcision of young men doesn't actually affect their sexual functions; the purpose of it is custom. With FGM, the mutilation removes any pleasure that can be derived from sexual activity by women. The UN recognises this as a form of social control of women in its 2008 interagency statement on FGM:
In every society in which it is practised, female genital mutilation is a manifestation of gender inequality that is deeply entrenched in social, economic and political structures. Like the now-abandoned foot-binding in China and the practice of dowry and child marriage, female genital mutilation represents society's control over women. Such practices have the effect of perpetuating normative gender roles that are unequal and harm women. Analysis of international health data shows a close link between women's ability to exercise control over their lives and their belief that female genital mutilation should be ended. (UNICEF, 2005b)
In 2003 the Female Genital Mutilation Act was passed in the UK. The use of 'Mutilation' was a step of recognition as it challenges traditional family pressures. These pressures are largely unrestrained because of female docility and concern of social acceptability. The offence was also extended in 2003 so that it is not only a crime to mutilate in this country, but also to perform – or solicit – mutilation on British citizens abroad. The purpose of this was to ensure that young girls who were sent abroad for mutilation were not falling through the legislative gap. In the US, the territorial extension of the offence was only ratified by President Obama earlier this year. Despite our timely introduction of the extension and a maximum penalty of 14 years, not a single person has yet been prosecuted under the UK Act. When considered alongside the fact that – and this may be a conservative estimate – something like a quarter of a million girls resident in the UK have been mutilated over the past 20 years and a further 24,000 girls in the UK are at risk, this figure is woeful to say the least.
Where do the pressures come from?
Garden Court's casework illustrates the types of pressure on young girls. These are primarily in the areas of asylum and family or care proceedings.
Case A:
A mother refused to send her daughter back to Somalia to have her cut. As a result, the mother faced problems with the father and the wider kinship group. In cases such as this, the societies have a diffuse familial social net, quite unlike a fragmented Western family. Decision-making is collective with the status of the wider group depending in some part on having women who have modesty and sexual integrity. The pressure is thus much wider than from the father and would include uncles or other men from the wider kinship group looking to protect the social status within the community.
Case B:
In the rural areas of Sierra Leone, a lot of the mutilations are performed on a collective village level with tribal elders in charge of the ceremony. A 'Soweia' is someone who performs the cut. It is a position that carries a kind of social prestige and is handed down within a family. Dias spoke of a case where the status of being a Soweia was handed down from the mother to the daughter.
The daughter, now a young adult who did not wish to be cut, sought asylum into this country to protect her from having to become the Soweia and perform FGM. The case was lost on the facts (the court ruling that she could reside anonymously in the capital Freetown), but the interesting thing about the case is that the court recognised a principle of a right not to be sent back in order to violate the rights of others – as opposed to asylum usually being considered for fear of your own persecution rather than a fear of being forced to hurt others.
The issues are consequently more complicated than they first seem. Dias is convinced that a unilaterally legal solution will not resolve this problem. This is because adopting a purely criminalising stance to the cutting doesn't address the underlying drivers of the problem.
Such issues speak to the focus of Dias' work at Cambridge (and which he is continuing at Harvard) in researching forms of social control. It is imperative to understand this wider dynamic in order to deal with the problem. FGM is a mechanism within these wider social processes that control young women through social norms (i.e. protecting the value and status of the kin group by inflicting this form of disciplinary violence).
As part of his research, Dias utilises the works of French anthropologist and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu in his book Masculine Domination. Bourdieu examined Algerian communities and the control of women within ancient tribal set ups.
Dias states:
I'm trying to understand how the practice of FGM is used as a way of controlling women. The evidence from anthropologists is that FGM is used in order to make the young girl docile. This is so she has modesty, which is a form of protection for the male. The underlying theory is that if you remove sexual pleasure from the woman, she is less likely to want to stray or commit adultery. This both protects the interests of the male and the honour and integrity of the kinship group.
There are two levels to this social control. Firstly, there is the eradication of sexual pleasure, the physical aspect. But what Dias describes as a second level of control is the psychological dominance of the woman by men.
Many people might argue our abhorrence of FGM is an imposition of Western ideas on a customary practice. Dias' response is that all moral judgment involves striking a balance. In this case, the balance is between cultural sensitivity and fundamental standards of what is deemed to be human. He argues that in such a circumstance, fundamental standards of humane treatment, particularly of vulnerable children, should prevail. In other words, if that means making a customary practice illegal, so be it.
What can be done to work towards eradication of FGM?
Dias encourages a multi-track approach to FGM. He accepts that we need better legal enforcement through prosecuting people who perform or promote genital cutting. However, he states that we also need to deal with the causes. Through his research, he is trying to understand the processes whereby social control perpetuates itself:
- Why do these social norms continue?
- Why is it that people who have been victims of the abuse end up inflicting the abuse on others?
His research thus spans over 3 fields: legal, psychological and sociological. To understand why these social values keep circulating, Dias delineates two processes that we need to understand:
1. The masculine domination and control of women
2. How social status is achieved in non-Western societies
In the west we have social capital and an individualistic approach to status. In Africa, social status is very much the status of the kin group. One of the 'assets' they possess is women, with a damaging idea that women are a commodity – which of course is predominated very strongly in the West, where in Medieval times women were 'chattels'. Men are keen to protect the status of their family network. Thus, the concept of women having 'market value' is important in their social status.
Once we have a basic understanding of the causes, how do we deal with FGM?
FGM is an abuse that dates back possibly thousands of years. A local custom does not become automatically socially unacceptable within those traditional communities because it is made a crime. Thus, it will not change overnight. To combat the problem, Dias suggests we need to raise awareness of the consequences to the victim.
The victims of FGM are invisible because women have a low status and little say in these communities. It is bad form for women to speak up and express even the pain of the mutilation. Mr. Dias decribed the report of a young girl who explained that while she was being cut, she had to try not to scream out. It is this kind of silencing that Dias suggests we can target with education:
By educating people broadly, we can start chipping away at the wall of silence that surrounds FGM.
He suggests that all aspects of protection and education need to be joined up. Over two decades of experience in social justice and campaigning, Dias has developed an understanding of what can work for social change. It must involve co-ordination between lawyers pursuing a legal solution and campaign groups fighting for social change.
The UK Home Office has now approved a budget of £35 million over five years for educating people in Africa about FGM. The Department for International Development is looking to fund programmes in 15 countries where FGM is most prevalent.
The educational role then falls to medical agencies, action groups and even to individual members of society. Spreading the word of FGM will help to 'chip away at the wall of silence' that surrounds its victims. Similarly, reporting any suspicions of FGM can make the legal framework put in place more effective, joining up the levels of contribution to social change.
For more information, see the UN interagency report on FGM here, follow @DexterDiasQC or visit justicebrief.com


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Rehearsal Notes 3
This is Liam's third blog entry for the 2003 production of Richard II in which he talks about voice work, the jig and Bolingbroke's character, amongst other things.
Transcript of Podcast
Voice Work
The voice session with our Master of Voice, Stewart Pearce, across the river at Middle Temple Hall actually went very well; it was good to be back and working in the space again. I'd only been there once before for a couple of hours on the first day and so this time it seemed friendlier and more familiar. We didn't run a full scene and so I still don't know exactly what we are going to sound like in the space. I do know a few people who are involved with the tours which operate at Middle Temple Hall and I haven't heard them say that they find it particularly difficult and so hopefully it's not too bad. I'd imagine there's a bit of an echo when it is empty but that's OK; the audience will help to dull the echo to some extent. It was good to just spend some time in the building and to get a feel for it again. We spent some time playing around in the space just to become familiar with it. I don't quite know when we're going to move over there full time. We open on Wednesday 16 April for the first preview and so I would imagine we will hopefully be in there the Saturday before at least. If it was the Monday we would have to adapt to our surroundings very quickly, and so hopefully it will be the Friday or the Saturday which should give us time to feel more settled.
Public Scenes
This week we have done a fair bit of work on the big public scenes, such as Act 1, Scene 1 and Act 1, Scene 3. They are difficult as they require a lot of people to be on stage at once and because they contain a lot of vital information for the audience to take onboard. We also worked on the parliament scene (Act 4, Scene 1) which again is vast. I found all of that work really helpful because I was nervous about these scenes. We had longer three hour sessions specifically working on each of them and the extended rehearsals enabled us to explore things to a greater extent and to become more comfortable with the scenes. They're not perfect yet, but it feels like we've played around with them and we've had a good go. We've done some speed work (running through the lines very, very quickly to fix them in your mind) and so I'd say 'the curse' and the bad feelings are off them a little bit now.
Some scenes require a lot of work because they involve complicated movements or stage furniture. One such scene is Act 1, Scene 3. It's the tournament scene (well the near tournament scene because it is actually called off by Richard II before it really gets going) where the actual challenge between Bolingbroke and Mowbray takes place. We've got a little roped off arena in the centre of the stage and basically for this production we are saying that it isn't a joust using horses, but rather a hand-to-hand combat with spears. The spears are about six feet long! So we will be in half-armour covering our bodies and thighs, with full helmets, and we will basically be going at each other with these giant spears (or we would do if it was allowed by the King). The only people in the roped off area are going to be Mowbray and I. We have to be very careful because the stage at Middle Temple Hall is very narrow and the audience members on the front row will be close to the action. We have rehearsed set technical moves and it is all precisely choreographed. We'll do one move then shuffle, then another move and shuffle, and then the whole thing is called off by Richard. I think there will be a lot of tension created in the scene.
Working on Verse
I am doing a lot of individual, personal work too in contrast to such epic scene work involving most of the cast. I've got a session with Giles Block [Master of the Words] on Thursday which I'm looking forward to. I'm trying to get one with Stuart Pearce [Master of Voice] but it's hard to track him down. We're still working with Giles and Stuart and Glynn [McDonald, Master of Movement] within our small groups, but actually I think we've nearly finished those now as we have only one more session scheduled for next week. From now on the one-to-one sessions are more useful as they allow you to explore deeper into your role. I'm just trying to work in my own way and in my own time.
Movement Work
The work we've been doing with Glynn on movement has been very useful. Because the sessions are always first thing in the morning I think she tries to prepare us for the day that we have ahead of us. For example, if we are working with her and she knows we have a jig session planned, she'll just kind of limber us all up and try to relax us. But if we are not scheduled to do anything so physical she'll do a certain amount of work on archetypes. These archetypes are movement case studies of certain types of character; the lover, the joker/magician, the warrior and the king. The work is very useful in principal, but, by the same token, what exactly is a king-like person? How can we say there is such a stereotype? As I always say, you can watch the Windsor's on the television and see that they don't behave physically in any way that would identify them as royalty. In no way do they behave differently from anybody else. In fact, in some ways they quite surprise me because the men often put their hands in their pockets. I've been told by directors in the past that you can't do that when you're playing a king or a prince – but the Windsor's prove that to be wrong. I think a lot of theories about posture and movement are very generalised; it's all much more complex then that. And Glynn recognises that. She does that kind of work but she identifies it as archetypes. She only concentrates on movement that is helpful to each individual actor; there's no question of you going on and doing 'kingly' acting or 'peasant' movement or whatever. I believe there's no such thing.
The Jig
We've done a lot of movement this week because we have also been rehearsing the jig. I really enjoy it. I actually wish we rehearsed it more often: it is such good exercise! I was feeling a little bit under-rehearsed before this week so I'm pleased we've been doing more. Also, I think we need to work really hard as we have to give the audience something even more exciting and impressive then last year. Having said that, I feel the choreography is a little bit simpler than the one we did for Twelfth Night, but maybe it just seems that way because I've done it before – maybe that makes it seem less tricky. The jig will have to be restructured for the Globe production. Hopefully we'll keep it as similar as we can so that we don't get too confused. I suppose it will just be done in a different formation and hopefully we won't get any new steps to master. It'll be the same steps in different positions: I hope it will anyway as we have only a couple of days to re-rehearse it!
I'm growing to like Bolingbroke more and more I think. I don't necessarily know everything about him yet or how to say a lot of the lines, but everyone has their own personal process in terms of development and I feel I'm on track with my own little time-table. I feel I know who he is - well who my Bolingbroke is anyway as apposed to the interpretation of him by any other actor. The process for me now is to get all of that information out; it is very easy to let it all stay private in my head and in my heart. It is all about fulfilling my responsibility to the audience, not by displaying or demonstrating things in an artificial way, but by sharing what is going on inside Bolingbroke's mind. I feel like I've worked all that out for myself and so now it's about opening it all up for the performance so that the audience can see it too.
I think Bolingbroke's a really interesting person. He never really opens up his thoughts to the audience: he never tells us the inner workings of his mind. For example, he doesn't really ever tell us that he is aiming for Richard's throne. Lots of other people say that he is planning the usurpation but Bolingbroke never actually does. I think there's something going on which is to do with not even admitting it to himself. The whole situation made me think of two people that I happen to know a bit about historically: it helped me to compare Bolingbroke's situation to that of Michael Collins (an Irish Nationalist at the start of the twentieth century) and Lawrence of Arabia (British Military liaison to the Arab Revolt during the First World War). They are two men who if you had said to them right in the middle of their journey towards where they ended up 'Are you actually planning to reach this position?' they wouldn't have known. If you'd said to Michael Collins 'In two years time are you planning to be Commanding Chief of the Irish Free State Army?' he would just not have understood the question. I think the same is true of T.E Lawrence: he knew he was involved but he didn't necessarily have the end in sight. As far as he was concerned he was responding to events in the moment and was taking one step at a time. And I think that's kind of true of Bolingbroke. It's interesting because it's a very human reaction. For example, I think if you were to have sat him down and said to him 'In two years time is the King of England going to be a street seller or is it going to be you?' then he would have known there was more chance of it being him, but that doesn't mean that the take-over was pre-planned. Everything he does screams out that that is what he is going for, but that is quite different from admitting, even to himself, that he is going for that. I mean, he certainly never admits it to anyone else and I think you could certainly make a case for the fact that maybe he doesn't even admit it to himself. His first thought and his first realisation doesn't occur until he actually gets there. I think it's very interesting because people do that a lot. There's a difference between just going along with events, acting as they happen, and not getting in your own way; then from seeing a goal and going straight for it. That's different.
These comments are the actor's thoughts or ideas about the part as s/he goes through the rehearsal process – they are simply his/her own interpretations and frequently change as the rehearsal process progresses.


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Queenston in Niagara Region, Ontario — Central Canada
Colonel Macdonell then took command until General Sheafe could arrive from Fort George with reinforcements. Macdonell rode 'Alfred' to lead another charge; he was mortaly wounded and 'Alfred' was killed, part of the price of saving Canada on that fateful day.
Presented to
The Niagara Parks Commission
by Mr. and Mrs. Stewart G. Bennett
Ralph Sketch,
Erected 1976 by Mr. and Mrs. Stewart G. Bennett.
Location. 43° 9.745′ N, 79° 3.262′ W. Marker is in Queenston, Ontario, in Niagara Region. Marker is on Clarence Street west of Queenston Street, on the left when traveling west. Touch for map. This historical monument is located on the Canadian side of the Niagara River, on the southern edge of a residential neighborhood, in a small community park with several other historical monuments, at the base of the
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Brock's Cenotaph (a few steps from this marker); Indians at Queenston Heights (within shouting distance of this marker); 4. The Counter-Offensive Takes Shape (about 180 meters away, measured in a direct line); Brock Dead House (about 180 meters away); Laura Ingersoll Secord 1775-1868 (about 180 meters away); Laura Secord (1775-1868) (about 210 meters away); Home of Laura Ingersoll Secord (about 210 meters away); The Battle of Queenston Heights (about 240 meters away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Queenston.
Categories. • War of 1812 •
Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. This page originally submitted on November 5, 2011, by Dale K. Benington of Toledo, Ohio. This page has been viewed 493 times since then. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. submitted on November 8, 2011, by Dale K. Benington of Toledo, Ohio.


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This blog shows an example of how to build an ASP.NET Web API ApiController that asynchronously talks to multiple other Web APIs in parallel without blocking a thread on the server. Btw, if you have detected a certain theme in these blogs around using Tasks with ASP.NET Web API then you are indeed on to something 🙂
Asynchronous programming is an important part of building scalable, robust, and responsive Web applications regardless of whether on client side or server side. Asynchronous programming has traditionally been very complicated leaving it to only the most dedicated to implement it but with the new Task model even complex patterns such as dealing with multiple asynchronous requests in parallel are manageable without braking too much of a sweat. The sample is written using Visual Studio 11 Beta but can be modified to run on Visual Studio 2010 as well.
In the scenario we have an ApiController that exposes a query operation with a single token (in the sequence diagram below the sample query token is "microsoft"). The ApiController then turns around and issues a query to digg and delicious respectively for stories on the query token. When both results are complete, the results are accumulated into a single response that is then sent back to the client. The goal is to do the entire ApiController request asynchronously and to issue the queries to digg and delicious in parallel so that we don't every block a thread and optimize network utilization.
The response we send back to the client is a collection of "stories" that simply look like this:
1: public class Story
2: {
3: // The source (either digg or delicious)
4: public string Source { get; set; }
6: // The description of the story
7: public string Description { get; set; }
8: }
Creating the ApiController
Writing the controller involves three things: two helpers for processing the requests for digg and delicious respectively and then the controller to put it all together.
Executing digg Query
First we write a helper for processing the digg query. Here we submit a request, wait for the response, and then process it as JsonValue to build a set of Story instances as defined in the scenario above. As there is no instance state involved the query processing can be done as a static method.
1: private static async Task<List<Story>> ExecuteDiggQuery(string queryToken)
2: {
3: List<Story> result = new List<Story>();
5: // URI query for a basic digg query -- see http://developers.digg.com/documentation
6: string query = string.Format("http://services.digg.com/2.0/search.search?query={0}", queryToken);
8: // Submit async request
9: HttpResponseMessage diggResponse = await _client.GetAsync(query);
11: // Read result using JsonValue and process the stories
12: if (diggResponse.IsSuccessStatusCode)
13: {
14: JsonValue diggResult = await diggResponse.Content.ReadAsAsync<JsonValue>();
15: foreach (var story in diggResult["stories"] as JsonArray)
16: {
17: result.Add(new Story
18: {
19: Source = "digg",
20: Description = story["title"].ReadAs<string>()
21: });
22: }
23: }
25: return result;
26: }
Executing delicious Query
Then we write a similar helper for processing the delicious query. It follows the exact same pattern and also uses JsonValue to read the response and create a set of Story instances. Again, as there is no instance state involved the query processing can be done as a static method.
1: private static async Task<List<Story>> ExecuteDeliciousQuery(string queryToken)
2: {
3: List<Story> result = new List<Story>();
5: // URI query for a basic delicious query -- see http://delicious.com/developers
6: string query = string.Format("http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/json/tag/{0}", queryToken);
8: // Submit async request
9: HttpResponseMessage deliciousResponse = await _client.GetAsync(query);
11: // Read result using JsonValue and process the stories
12: if (deliciousResponse.IsSuccessStatusCode)
13: {
14: JsonArray deliciousResult = await deliciousResponse.Content.ReadAsAsync<JsonArray>();
15: foreach (var story in deliciousResult)
16: {
17: result.Add(new Story
18: {
19: Source = "delicious",
20: Description = story["d"].ReadAs<string>()
21: });
22: }
23: }
25: return result;
26: }
Writing the Controller
Now we can write the actual ApiController. First we look for a valid query token (we don't want it to contain any '&' characters). Then we kick off the two helpers in parallel and wait for them to complete (but without blocking a thread using the Task.WhenAll construct). Finally we aggregate the two results and return them to the client.
We of course use HttpClient to submit requests to dig and delicious but as HttpClient can handler requests submitted from multiple threads simultaneously we only need one instance for all requests. This means that the same HttpClient instance is reused for all requests across all ApiController instances.
1: public async Task<List<Story>> GetContent(string topic)
2: {
3: List<Story> result = new List<Story>();
5: // Check that we have a topic or return empty list
6: if (topic == null)
7: {
8: return result;
9: }
11: // Isolate topic to ensure we have a single term
12: string queryToken = topic.Split(new char[] { '&' }).FirstOrDefault();
14: // Submit async query requests and process responses in parallel
15: List<Story>[] queryResults = await Task.WhenAll(
16: ExecuteDiggQuery(queryToken),
17: ExecuteDeliciousQuery(queryToken));
19: // Aggregate results from digg and delicious
20: foreach (List<Story> queryResult in queryResults)
21: {
22: result.AddRange(queryResult);
23: }
25: return result;
26: }
That's all we need for the controller – next is just to host it and then run it.
Hosting the Controller
As usual we use a simple command line program for hosting the ApiController and it follows the usual pattern seen in the other blogs:
1: static void Main(string[] args)
2: {
3: var baseAddress = "http://localhost:8080/";
4: HttpSelfHostServer server = null;
6: try
7: {
8: // Create configuration
9: var config = new HttpSelfHostConfiguration(baseAddress);
11: // Add a route
12: config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
13: name: "default",
14: routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
15: defaults: new { controller = "Home", id = RouteParameter.Optional });
17: // Create server
18: server = new HttpSelfHostServer(config);
20: // Start server
21: server.OpenAsync().Wait();
23: Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit");
24: Console.ReadLine();
25: }
26: finally
27: {
28: if (server != null)
29: {
30: server.CloseAsync().Wait();
31: }
32: }
33: }
Trying it Out
To try it out it is useful to use Fiddler as it allows you to see both the incoming and outgoing requests. In the screen capture below we use fiddler to directly compose a request to our localhost ApiController. To the left we can see the two requests to digg and delicious respectively and in the right lower corner you can see the result with parts coming from digg and parts coming from delicious.
Have fun!


text: Rules of Engagement 4 Helpful Tips To Connect With Customers Through New Media May 1, 2013 – by Christopher Ruvo Distributors are boosting their sales by utilizing innovative means to better engage with and market to clients. In a survey of more than 3,000 consumers, consulting firm Bain & Co. recently found that customers who engage with companies over social media spend 20% to 40% more money with those businesses than other clients. Such stats are not lost on Brand Fuel (asi/145025). The Morrisville, NC-based distributor has made engaging clients through social networks a significant priority. And one of the ways that Brand Fuel drives engagement on its Facebook page is through the use of "gamification." Broadly, it's defined as the use of games and game play dynamics in traditionally non-game settings to compel certain behaviors (in this case, customer engagement). In practice, it involves everything from earning points to winning contests while browsing places like business websites and Facebook pages. "A study by Social Media Today stated that 65% of people on Facebook connect with brands for contests, games and promotions," says Danny Rosin, co-owner of Brand Fuel. "We are investing in that insight." The results are more than just fleeting fun. The growing use of online gamification is just one of the innovative ways distributors are fueling greater customer engagement. From smartphone apps and mobile websites to Web-based surveys and creative videos, distributors believe these tech-powered marketing tools help achieve the goal of customer loyalty. "The longer a customer does business with a company, the more that customer is worth to the company," reads a recent report by Protiviti, a risk and business consultancy, on challenges facing businesses. "This type of customer buys more, requires less time to service, is less price-sensitive, has no start-up cost and may even bring in new customers." Here are four ways that distributors are successfully marketing to and connecting with customers through new media and innovative strategies. Game On For Brand Fuel, gamification centers on running weekly contests on its Facebook page in which participants compete for branded rewards and prizes. In the "What Am I?" contests, the distributor posts obscurely cropped images of products and challenges people to guess what the products are. These posts routinely receive an outpouring of comments. Winners receive the product in question and Brand Fuel-branded merchandise. Rosin says the most popular "What Am I?" contest involved Alexander Manufacturing's (asi/34040) "Take A Seat," an eco-friendly foldable stool. "The item was new to the market and pulled in client inquiries about costs along with hilarious back-and-forth banter," says Rosin. "Our fan base continues to grow, and our posts are often conversation-starters with our clients and our sales team." While social media platforms provide a perfect setting for gamification, brands are also working it into their websites. With the help of game software solutions developed by Bunchball, the 2011 MTV Europe Music Awards' official event website was turned into a "MegaFan Competition," resulting in a massive upsurge in views. Once users registered for the site, they earned points by voting for audience choice categories like Best Pop Act, viewing "photo flipbooks" of past shows, and more. Real-world prizes were rewarded to users with the most points, including a grand-prize giveaway trip to the EMAs. As a result, EMA-related page views on MTV's U.K. website shot up 530% year-on-year. Similarly, MTV's mobile and tablet app downloads surged 159%. Video Makes a Marketing Star If a picture is worth a thousand words, then maybe a good video is worth a million, especially when it comes to brand-building and engaging customers. While companies have been using videos as part of their marketing strategies for years, industry businesses have of late expanded the quality and scope of their videos in an effort to better engage, educate and entertain. Few in the industry are leveraging videos with the degree of business-building success attained by Ryonet (asi/528500). The Vancouver, WA-based supplier of screen-printing equipment and supplies has a YouTube channel that has received more than 7.5 million views. "The number-one thing with our videos is customer education," says founder and CEO Ryan Moor, whose YouTube channel is filled with screen-printing education videos that are easy to understand. "If we can educate our customers on what a product does and how to use it successfully, then they will be successful using it, make more money, and hopefully return to us to buy more of it." While the educational and customer testimonial videos from Ryonet are a hit, what distinguish the company are the elaborately themed – often hilarious – videos that do everything from promoting a sale or event to conveying the company's convivial, customer-centric culture. Often generating many thousands of views, these videos are exemplified by "Go Back to the Future With Ryonet's Yesterday Air". As the title suggests, the video's concept is based on the Back to the Future movie series. The video (with a bite-sized 2:39 running time) begins with the movie theme music playing as Moor hitches a ride to work by holding onto the back of a truck while he skateboards – similar to the movie's lead character, Marty McFly. Dressed as Marty, Moor, a member of the 2012 Counselor Hot List, arrives at work and fields a call from a nasty customer named Biff – the villain of the movies – who wants screen-printing ink delivered "yesterday." Ultimately, Moor meets up with the off-kilter scientist Doc, who, like his counterpart in the movies, has turned a DeLorean into a time travel machine. Moor uses the physics-modifying ride to travel back to yesterday and deliver ink to Biff, who is informed his order was delivered the day before by Ryonet's "Yesterday Air." The video concludes with a voiceover saying, "Yesterday Air from Ryonet and silkscreeningsupplies.com: Getting you products when you need them, even if it's yesterday." With the video, Ryonet creatively conveys it is a company with a positive, fun culture that is committed to doing whatever it can to meet the needs of its customers. That message resonates with screen printers. "I wish there were a screen-printing supplier over in the U.K. that was so much fun and provided us with this massive range of products," wrote one Britain-based poster on the video's YouTube page. "Ryonet, come to the U.K., my Canadian friend is getting tired of me ordering my (stuff) for him to send over." The lesson? When customers start viewing their vendors as a likable, relatable partner rather than just another company, chances are they're going to continue to spend their cash there. Survey Says … It seems like common sense: Want to know what clients are looking for? Ask them. And yet, companies across industries are notorious for focusing more on pushing product or what they think clients want, rather than finding out what customers need and delivering it. But as distributors compete in a marketplace where consultative service has become the key distinguishing factor, there has been a sea change in such thinking. Distributors are increasingly discovering the source of what clients truly need to meet their objectives. To gain that knowledge, many are using surveys to collect valuable customer feedback. It ultimately enables them to build on their service strengths and, if need be, tweak their approach to better provide for clients. In the past, Overture Premiums and Promotions (asi/288473) had intermittently sent out customer surveys. But the Vernon Hills, IL-based company has become more focused in its surveying over the last year, consistently sending customers an e-mail with a link to a survey seven days after the buyers have received their orders. Containing general service-related questions as well as questions specifically tailored to particular clients, the surveys ask customers to rate Overture's performance and invite feedback on how the distributorship can better meet customers' needs. It often happens that the surveys are filled out by employees of companies for which Overture provides an online store stocked with apparel and other products. Fortunately, the feedback Overture gets is overwhelmingly positive. What's more, that praise is quantifiable. The surveys allow for an overall rating to be attached to Overture's performance. The distributor can then show that data to the main procurement person it works with, demonstrating that employees buying the products the distributor provides are satisfied. And, crucially, if there are areas where Overture can improve, the distributorship shares that too with the primary contact, creating a refreshing air of transparency. Additionally, Overture can show that firsthand feedback from the employees buying products indicates that certain items should be added to the online shop. "Since we've become more consistent with our surveys," says Tej Shah, vice president of marketing and e-commerce, "we've seen a general trend where sales have gone up." APP-ointment Buying It's a mobile world. And that isn't about to change. By 2014, analysts predict that global smartphone sales will top 1 billion. Meanwhile, International Data Corporation, a market research firm, predicts that sales of mobile tablets will reach 172.4 million units in 2013 and 282.7 million units in 2016. Given stats like that, it's not surprising that ad specialty businesses are increasingly focused on connecting meaningfully with clients in the mobile realm. From launching apps to creating mobile-optimized websites, distributors want clients to be able to engage with their products and services from phones and tablets. Priding itself on being at the forefront of technology, Westbury, NY-based Motivators (asi/277780) created an app to make it easier for customers to access information about the company's products and services while on the go. Downloadable from both iTunes and the Google Play store, the Motivators app allows users to browse a gamut of products, from all categories of apparel to hard goods like mugs, pens, luggage and more. After clicking on a product image, users get a description and pricing information. Once on a particular product's page, users can click on the "$ quick quote" or "add to cart" buttons, which route them to a Motivators site where an order can be placed. "The app gives our customers the flexibility and choice to shop the way they are most comfortable, whether that's via the app, on our mobile site or on the Web," says Kimberly Laffer Nick, director of strategic development for Motivators. Since Smurk Creative (asi/328698) launched its mobile website, the San Diego-based distributorship has received thumbs-up from clients. "People want information then and there," says CEO Donny Michel. "The site loads quickly and displays just right for a mobile phone or tablet." On the site, customers can do everything from learning about the distributor's services to checking out products and viewing testimonials. "This year, more than 50% of website traffic will be mobile," Michel says. "That's a lot of people I want to make sure have a good experience on my site." –E-Mail: email@example.com; Twitter: @chrisr_ASI


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Indoor Lighting Package Hire
Here you'll find selections of equipment which we think go well together, and are great for parties where you just want to plug in and go. You'll also find that hiring a package cost less than hiring lots of individual items.
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There you go! Pension age to go to 70 by 2035....its official. But, hang on, the baby boomer bubble will just about be over by 2050. Why, because they will be dead! So altering the age won't make any difference to the budget "emergency" we are supposed to be suffering right now. By 2035 I'll be in my late 80's, if still around. The older children of baby boomers will be in their mid 60's. Sorry kids, you will need to keep working until you are at least 70 (just like you're dad will anyway). You guessed it. You've been Abbotted!
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Revell 1/48 Panavia Tornado IDS Model Kit
Brand: Revell
Model Number: 03987
Scale: 1/48
This item will be available in 4 days on 20th February 2019
It can be pre-ordered below.
- Description
- Reviews (7)
- Delivery
The Revell Panavia Tornado IDS in 1/48 scale from the plastic aircraft models range accurately recreates the real life European multi-role combat aircraft.
This plastic aircraft kit requires paint and glue to complete. For this model we recommend using paints from the following ranges.
We also highly recommend the following ranges for tools and accessories.
The Tornado is the largest European military aircraft program. The Tornado is in use with four Air Forces. The employment spectrum of this fighter-bomber includes Offensive Air Support for ground forces, containment of the battlefield and the fight against enemy air forces on the ground and in the air. It also features an electronic Flight Control System and an Automatic Terrain Following System. Due to its "Swing-Wing" technology, the Tornado is equally able to fly low-level at both high speed (swept-wing) and low speed (un-swept). With combat performance upgrades and modifications, the Tornado will remain combat ready for another 10 years.
Manufacturer: Revell
Model: 03987 Panavia Tornado IDS
Scale: 1/48
Average rating
Reviewed by Ian Foster
Tidy Tonka
Superbly detailed kit with excellent decals(which I won't be using as the model is destined to become a GR4). Another example of Revell's steady improvement in quality of moulding and accuracy. I haven't started to build it yet but, I am confident that I will enjoy the experience. Keep an eye on my facebook page (Built to Scale) for progress photos in the future.
Reviewed by Stuart Dyson
Tornado IDS
An eagerly awaited kit and it has not disappointed, finely engraved panel lines, very nicely done rivets for certain panels and hatches, not over done like the Hobby Boss kit (which i would add is over double the price of this kit!!)can be built as an RAF machine, few bits of scratch building needed though for it noting major, excellent features such as optional landing flaps, spoilers, airbrakes and even the reverse thruster mechanism for the exhaust/afterburners, very nicely moulded cockpit and ejection seats for out of the box standard, and excellent decal sheet for the German IDS variant, thouroughly recommended!! Stuart
Reviewed by Gavin Snowdon
The best Tornado yet.... by miles
A truly amazing kit, more special features than you can shine a torch at. If this had been £40-50 I would have been over the moon with it. But at under £20 it's about as good as its possible to get. Superb.
Reviewed by Andrew Walker
The best Tornado kit in any scale .
This has been well worth the wait ....simply the best kit of the Tornado on the market. Superb detail and a great decal option. You CAN build a RAF GR1 or GR4 from the box BUT you need to scratchbuild the lens for the LRMTS from a clear piece of plastic . Skyshadow ECM pod is also on the sprues. How Revell can produce a kit of this quality for such a small price is amazing. Roll on the next boxing .....Im sure there will be a few .
Reviewed by John cotterill
Revell Tornado IDS 1/48
Fantastic service. Great kit. Kit and Wonderland Models highly recommended.
Reviewed by DAVID EVANS
revell 1/48 tornado
Fantastic kit fantastic price wish other manufacturers would make kits this good for this money Regards Dave Evans
Reviewed by Julian Cook
Revell tornado
Excellent value for the price
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Italian Sub Recipe
Here is an amazing recipe for an Italian Sub Sandwich. There is nothing like a good sandwich to take to lunch with you or to make for a party. This sandwich is stacked and it won't disappoint. It is loaded with 3 different types of meat – ham, turkey, and salami. As well as 2 different types of cheeses – provolone and mozzarella. That's not all; it's topped off with lettuce, green pepper and a delicious dressing. The dressing uses ingredients such as garlic, oregano, and red wine vinegar. If you are looking for a fantastic sandwich for game day, give this one a try. Enjoy.
1 loaf French bread
½ lb ham (thinly sliced)
½ lb cooked turkey (thinly sliced)
1/4 lb salami (thinly sliced)
¼ lb provolone cheese (sliced)
¼ lb mozzarella cheese (sliced)
3 cups lettuce (shredded)
1 green pepper (sliced)
1/3 cup olive oil
¼ cup red wine vinegar
8 garlic cloves (minced)
1 teaspoon dried oregano
¼ teaspoon black pepper
Cooking Instructions:
Step 1: Cut the French bread in half length wise. Hollow out the top and bottom using a small knife or your fingers. Leaving ½" of the shell.
Step 2: To make the dressing- In a medium bowl combine oil, vinegar, garlic, oregano, and pepper. Brush the dressing onto the top and bottom of the bread.
Step 3: To layer the sandwich – on the bottom half layer the meats, then the cheeses, lettuce and green pepper. Repeat layers and cover with the top half.
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I LOVE Italian sandwich! The photos are so beautiful too! Love it!
This sounds too good. I'm going to have to try it. I'm betting that the leftover white bread would be delicious dipped in the dressing, too.


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Mt. Vernon is so lovely! I hope to revisit it this fall. Nothing like having a chitty chat with Martha on the veranda. lol
I used My creative sketches July sketch for this layout.
Well, unfortunately today I have a really bad headache so this will be short. Thank you for stopping by to see what the papers are saying today. I am always delighted in your visit and would love to see you again.


text: Thanks God, I had a chance to attend the Jil Sander fashion show. The stage was so romantic with glass paneled flower decor, combination palette of pastel with basic white. The music was soft and subtle, creating a very warm and relaxing mood. I was totally in love with the total look! Here are some pictures that i captured, Enjoy!


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Bible Bookshops – Belligerent Buggies – Bad Backs and Ballymena's Best
Baking sunshine for the week came as a pleasant and welcome surprise when the Tour reached the British Isles … 28 Degrees on Wednesday!!!!
Bible Bookshops
I received a text message from Hennie [Otto] when on the way to Cork looking for a bold print NIV bible for one of the caddies, … I had an interesting time seeking out a Christian bookshop in Cork and duly found a small second hand one that was owned by a Believing gentleman, Billy O'Mahoney who was in the priesthood before hearing of being born-again and finding Jesus as his personal saviour. It was good too meet him and he was equally delighted too find out that there was a presence on the Tour …. Pray for Dean that he will read the word and find Jesus …
Belligerent Buggies
Jake Roos got a very late entry and we met up … Jake always reminds me of the verse "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. " [Matt 5:6] which describes him … I had noticed he'd had a really poor event in St Omer the previous week, +12 then withdrawing and he told me the story … On the Challenge Tour you are not compelled to have a caddie and Jake was going down one of the many hills on the course with his three wheeled buggy and thought he'd just let it run down to the bottom of the hill, well the front wheel was out of alignment and the buggy headed toward the lake followed by a galloping Jake, who didn't catch it and into deep water it went … clubs ruined, phone destroyed, Jake soaked in the rescue .. He didn't see the funny side, but everyone else did …
Bad Backs
Hennie returned after three weeks out with a bad back, played round one and had a one under 70, then had to withdraw before the second round, back troubles again and has since gone home to SA for further treatment …. He is very happy and thankful for all to pray for healing, so I'd ask you to do this ….
Ballymena's Best
Our own Dermot McElroy was playing his fourth Irish Open and it looks as if he shall be leaving the amateur ranks at the end of the year … Good too meet up with him and his family during the week … He didn't make the cut, mind you neither did the other McIlroy ….
Ken Revie, Logos Golf Ministries Chaplain to the European Tour
More from the tour: http://www.logosgolfministries.com/lgmontour.html


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Beth Landon (Julie Mond), a small-town music teacher with big singing aspirations has been crowned the Strawberry Queen of the annual Festival. Pulling some strings, Beth has... (read more here)
Every dream deserves a chance to grow.
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Sive had lingered with her mind on the stallion, just for a few instants, to hear his story. The words poured over her like a silver requiem, the past and the pain in the moonlight eyes now unmistakingly clear. She knew the stab of loss, she could feel it like a blade ripping through her heart, everytime Sethe looked at her with those cold, cruel eyes, or Sanguine's bitterness lashed out at her, her tongue a scathing bite. She wanted to turn back, to say something that might...well, she didn't know. But, the mare, Frostbite, those two seemed to have an understanding. If anyone, she could give him something, as one of his own race.
She clasped at the small glass teardrop hanging from her neck, feeling like an intruder in the stallion's world. She bit her lip. She had been chosen as a messenger, and that is what she would do. It was her way of giving something to the cause. Taking a deep breath, she flitted swiftly to the riverbank.
Avalir could feel the words die in her throat. When he was a foal, often had that look rose in his eyes, as he struggled to find the words to say what he felt. But he never could, and soon all his words died, silent, as he was now. He gave her a small smile, laughing gently at her illusions.
"It is a rare gift that you possess," he spoke softly, his voice only barely above the rushing song of the wind and water. "Some might akin you to a prodigy. Sive said it took her many months study before she could attempt a trick like yours."
He fell quiet again as Tig moved to place the flower in Luna's mane. It did compliment her, wonderfully, something as fragile as a flower that illuminated the strength of her spirit, a vague aurora that danced around her. Only a faint smile gave away his thoughts. Then he felt a brush on his mind. Sive had come.
Sive hesitated under the shadows of the trees that skirted the river haven. She wasn't sure if Luna would accept her. Indeed, the filly hadn't even seen her till now, maybe felt her presence, but how would she handle a human intruding on her? She had grown use to them, as proved with Rainer and Indi, but those two had left. Maybe she would dart again, she would lose her, her father's words would lose her...
But she had to try.
She stepped slowly from the dappled shadows, the light catching on her and seeming to glow and reflect off of her pale features and silvery-white hair. Her golden eyes were soft as they swept around the group, giving a quiet greeting. Deftly, she flitted over to Avalir, entwining her fingers in his silken mane as she knelt beside him, hoping to gain whatever strength she could, to calm the butterflies that danced in her stomach.
The stallion started a bit. Sive seldom showed the tenderness and the fragility as she did now, and it was disarming to see her like this. He fluttered his wings slightly, the slight chime lulling. He turned his head to Luna. "This is my bondmate, Sive. I'm sorry you couldn't have met her earlier."
He lapsed into silence again, his words running out again. Sive took a breath, gently, giving a rapid look around. Then her golden eyes raised and she looked into Luna's, trying to convey the truth of her words.
"I-" her voice faltered, but strengthened again. "I have words from your father."