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Thanks to Wikipedia's GNU GRUB knowledge share, we won't spare much effort to explain the GRUB thing. Instead, only focus on the most concerned parts: what is grub loading error and how do we fix it without losing data?
For you information, GRUB is related to a user's choice of booting one of multiple operating systems installed on a computer or select a specific kernel configuration available on a particular operating system's partitions.
What's more, there are 2 versions of Grub, and if you're using Grub version 2 Stage 1.5 or Stage 2.0, you'll probably encounter grub loading error 15, 17, 21 or 22. Yes, now we come to the point. Refer to the table below, you can grab the chance of basically knowing each grub loading error along with its solution
|Grub Loading Error 15
|File not found. This error is displayed when the specified file name cannot be found.
|Make sure the kernel exists. To find out what the exact kernel name is, boot from the live CD, and mount /boot depending on your partition and then do the following: cd /boot | ls
|Grub Loading Error 17
|Cannot mount selected partition. This error is displayed when the partition requested exists, but the file system type is not be recognized by GRUB.
Make sure your root(x,y) settings are right in your Grub.conf. You could use a distribution CD or Live CD to set up Grub like shown below. (h0,0) means the first hard drive and the first partition on that drive.
sudo grub
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0) exit
|Grub Loading Error 21
|The selected disk does not exist. This error is displayed if the disk is not recognized by the BIOS in the system.
|Make sure the disk is correctly connected and detected by the BIOS.
|Grub Loading Error 22
|No such partition. This error is displayed if a requested partition isn't on the selected disk.
|You can use the Windows Installation Disc to run a Startup Repair and fix MBR.
By applying the fixing method for a specific grub loading error in Windows environment, data loss happens a lot. Some behavior would invertible format the disk partition or delete hard drive contents, so it's necessary to learn more about data recovery solution after successfully getting rid of the grub loading error but lost important data.
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Joe Saunders
Founder, CEO, and Lead TransformerDespite admittedly having no acting skills, Founder and CEO Joseph Saunders takes pride in modeling his leadership style after Hawkeye from Last of the Mohicans, who is widely-renowned for being a transformational leader in American history, culture and cinema. Aptly nicknamed JoeHawk by his high school baseball teammates, Joe is on a personal mission to transform cybersecurity by challenging outdated assumptions and disrupting the economics that motivate hackers to attack again, and again and again. Driven by a deep-rooted purpose to make the world a safer place, JoeHawk leads a group of tight-knit, high-performing transformers who are delivering world class security that is not only easy to deploy, but actually solves problems by thwarting vulnerabilities. JoeHawk is inspired on a daily basis by the company's current and prospective customers that have come to understand just how elegant, simple and effective RunSafe's product is. JoeHawk is a Michigan Wolverine (B.S. Mathematics), a Northwestern Wildcat (M.S. Predictive Analytics) and a George Mason Patriot (MBA), with a mix of entrepreneurial and corporate experiences that have each helped shape his leadership style. When not hardening binaries, JoeHawk plays chess almost as well as Bobby Fischer, swims laps sort of like Michael Phelps and proclaims himself as a data scientist, at least within the confines of his home. By the end of his tenure as CEO, JoeHawk expects RunSafe to be credited with building the de facto approach to protecting all embedded systems and devices.

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This large property close to the city is nestled within a thriving community and close to everything a growing family needs.
It has generous spaces and quality-driven fittings.
49a Second Avenue Altona North, 3025
- Sweeney Altona North: 9398 3777
- Price: Contact agent
- Auction: April 21 at 12.30pm
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There is an ease of living that comes from low-maintenance, perfectly functional outdoor entertaining spaces and modern accommodation in a fantastic pocket of Altona North.
The concrete aggregate drive leads to a single garage with rear and internal access.
From here, hardwood floors and high, downlit ceilings welcome you in.
The hall leads to the generously proportioned main bedroom with plush grey carpeting, a split-system and walk-through robe which leads to
the marble-and-glass-clad en suite
where beautiful finishes include full-height tiling.
All wet areas share the same fittings.
A separate powder room follows, then the large kitchen, meals and lounge room.
In the kitchen, waterfall stone benches adorn the large breakfast bench with a twin sink and seating for four.
The walk-in pantry will be appreciated by the resident chef, as will the six-burner gas cooktop and stainless-steel oven.
The meals and lounge area offers plenty of room for a large dining table and a big, comfortable lounge.
Zoned refrigerated cooling ensures every room is cool on those warm days and nights, or just one area of the house can be cooled to save on power.
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Upstairs are three further carpeted bedrooms with built-in robes, one of which also has an en suite.
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Pasta in Alfredo sauce
I finally get excited about the Aadi sale happening all over town. I have terrible luck with discounts. So I am pleasantly surprised that the dressy slippers with glittery brown straps I like, is on 50% discount. I can't remember when I last bought something like it. It must have been my marriage. I've since donned several different sizes of round, I've all but lost interest in clothes and consequently in shoes, bags and mirrors. Having finally lost some weight (although nowhere near my goal weight yet), I finally feel a faint interest well up again. I tell myself it's time I dress better. I buy the dressy slippers to wear with sarees. The next day is the paal kudam festival at our temple. I wear the glittery strapped slippers right out of the box. I've never done that. I never wear stuff as soon as I buy them. I let them sit awhile, get a little old and familiar and not as precious before I wear them. This time though, I thought a change was in order. I was putting off things too much. I told myself I had to jump in and do things. I was feeling chirpy. Not normal. I left my slippers outside next to a flower-seller's shop thinking to myself how pretty it looked. I returned a couple of hours later to find that my slippers were gone. The rest of the family's slippers were intact. Only my new dressy slippers with glittery brown straps were gone. I asked the "poo kaari" (flower-selling woman) nearby about it. She didn't for a minute ask me what I was talking about. She seemed too ready for the question. She told me it wasn't her job to take care of our slippers. She wouldn't look me in the eye. I knew then that the "poo kaari" shared my taste in dressy slippers too. I returned home barefoot. I was at my rotten worst the rest of the day. I swore. I cried. I threw a fit. Jagan, at the receiving end of all of this, offered to buy me the exact same slippers the very same day. I again swore, cried and threw a fit and then agreed. I went to the same shop and bought the same pair at 50% discount again. Jagan told me "You weren't meant for the discount". My maamiyaar told me that I've... Continue reading →


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The Arri / Zeiss Ultra Prime 28mm T1.9 is a PL-mounted prime lens covers the Super-35 format, allowing it to maintain high contrast and resolution even at close focus.This Ultra Prime Lens has the widest focal range of prime lenses giving you the flexibility to get the coverage you want. This Ultra Prime lens is a lightweight standard speed lens that is optically matched to the high speed Arri / Zeiss Master Prime lenses and are compatible with both HD and film cameras. The Ultra Primes provide the optimal image quality, vivid colors, and skin tones for which both Arri and Zeiss are known. Each lens in the series features a T* XP lens coating for reduced glare and minimized reflections. Minimal focus breathing does not draw attention to focus pulls, preserving the viewer's cinematic experience.


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I could spend this entire post apologizing for the length of time it's taken me to post again, but suffice it to say--I am a slacker! Enough said.
My mother-in-law got married, my family vacationed in Disneyworld, my two little granddaughters are amazing! The kids are back in school and so am I. My final semester is happening now and I've had to put some of my writing on hold--although I am working on a joint project with my husband, Tod, with a working title of Skunkworks. I should graduate in December and then plan on putting my full effort back into writing.
I've been asked a few questions about Finding Faith--the main ones being "Is it your story?" or "How much of it is your story?"
The story and its characters are fictional. There are moments of reality intertwined in the story. I am a convert to the Church, like Kit. I had a friend whose family invited me into their home and that is where I first felt the Spirit. Fortunately, my friend and her family are all still alive; although they had no idea of their wonderful influence on me until recently--they think they are just ordinary. You may remember in the book that Janet talks about a lady in her ward who adopted three children after not being able to have more of her own. My husband and I adopted three children after we were unable to have more after our first three.
A couple of questions about Having Hope: 1) Is it a sequel? and 2) What happens?
Having Hope is a continuation of the story of Kit Matthews and you'll recognize many of her friends and family in the story. I will tell you that Kit goes to Romania. As to the rest, I'll borrow a line from one of my very favorite authors, the late Robert Jordan, and say RAFO!
(RAFO means "Read and Find out!)
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Finding Faith & Having Hope
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This is the first in a series of posts on the Moral Twin Earth.
G.E. Moore's Open Question Argument is taken by many to refute analytic moral naturalism. These naturalists take good and some natural property N, like well-being, to be analytically defined–Sam Harris, for example. The open question argument says that competent speakers will treat the question "is is true that natural property N is good" as an open question. But if it is analytic, it wouldn't be an open question in the way "is a bachelor an unmarried male" is not an open question. So, analytic moral naturalism is refuted.
The other option for a moral naturalist is to be a synthetic moral naturalist. These naturalists want to synthetically define moral terms in the analogous way water is synthetically defined as H2O. A synthetic definition of morality is not a priori defined, and requires empirical work. Against these naturalists Horgan and Timmons construct a Moral Twin Earth argument that aims to show problems with synthetically defining moral terms.
Horgan and Timmons build a Moral Twin Earth argument upon Putnam's famous Twin Earth thought experiment. In Putnam's thought experiment, Earth and Twin Earth are mostly identical except that the stuff called 'water' on Earth is H2O, while the stuff called 'water' on Twin Earth is XYZ. Here, the intuition is supposed to be that when Earthings and Twin Earthlings talk of water they mean different things, so there couldn't be disagreement about what is water; they're merely talking past each other. (This intuition may come from joining meaning and reference on a semantic externalist view.)
Horgan and Timmons present a parallel though experiment involving moral terms instead of 'water.' On Earth, moral terms are causally regulated by a consequentialist theory TC; and on Twin Earth moral terms are causally regulated by a deontological theory TD;. If an Earthling said 'lying is not always wrong' and a Twin Earthling said 'lying is always wrong', we have the intuition that they're disagreeing. But on Boyd's causal theory of reference, they're not disagreeing; they're talking past each other like in the water case. Horgan and Timmons conclude that Boyd's semantics cannot work for moral terms, and the same problem will occur for other semantic theories that express moral properties in terms of natural properties. Synthetic semantic naturalism, of any kind, is in trouble.
Copp notes that synthetic semantic naturalism is partly a semantic thesis that's not entailed by all versions of moral naturalism. Moral naturalism is only the metaphysical thesis that moral properties are natural properties. A moral naturalist, like Nicholas Sturgeon, can hold that moral properties have the meta-property of being natural without holding to synthetic natural definitions; the MTE argument cannot be used against this version, assuming that this version doesn't leave open the possibility of moral terms expressing different moral properties between Earth and Twin Earth.
Copp offers two replies, or two routes, that the moral naturalist can take to diffuse the MTE argument.
First reply: Best Translation
The Moral Twin Earth argument assumes moral disagreement entails that 'wrong' and 'twin-wrong' express the same property. Copp thinks that there can be moral disagreement even if 'wrong' and 'twin-wrong' express different properties, because it might be that the 'twin-wrong' is the best translation for 'wrong.' Different languages often have inexact translations for their terms. Copp says that while moral and twin-moral terms would have different meanings in the philosophical sense, there is an ordinary sense where they have the same meaning. (I found this point about meaning confusing. I think he's saying if we reject Boyd's semantics we can have the same meaning.)
Second reply: About errors in semantics
Copp thinks that the tools Putnam developed in explaining various errors in semantics can be used to show that 'The resulting semantics implies that corresponding Earthling and Twin Earthling moral and twin-moral terms in Twin Earth scenarios express the same property if they express any property at all." In other words, based on Putnam's semantic theory, the MTE scenario is impossible: the Earthlings make a mistake, or the Twin Earthlings make a mistake, or they both do.
While Boyd used a causal theory of reference, Copp prefers to use Putnam's semantics. First we need to know something about Putnam's semantics. In determining the extension of a term we start with the referential intention, and, then, we figure out the "important physical properties" that the samples have in common. So in the case of the term 'water', the referential intention would be 'the liquid that has the underlying nature of the local samples', and the important physical properties that the samples have in common is H2O. In addition to natural kinds, there are artifact terms like "soda pop" and functional terms like "milk." The important physical properties are "interest relative." For water the molecular structure is most important, while for milk the function is the most important, since human, cow, and goat milk all have different molecular structure. So milk as a functional term will refer to something like 'the liquid mothers feed their young.'
This semantic theory also needs to take various mistakes in to account. For example, if Putnam pointed to a glass of clear liquid and ostensively defined it as 'water' while it was actually gin, then Putnam does not intend for his ostensive definition to be accepted. This is because the referential intention of the speaker presupposes the liquid in the glass is the same kind as the liquid found in lakes. Or, suppose Putnam pointed to a narwhale tusk and called it a 'unicorn horn.' Here, the referential intention is for a horse-like animal, so, in this case, the extension of 'unicorn horn' is empty.
Copp says that moral semantics must allow for analogous mistakes: "if our moral views are mistaken, then we might make mistakes in calling actions right or wrong." Copp says that this is the most important error in Horgan and Timmons' reasoning: It could be that speaking of 'wrong actions' is like speaking of 'unicorn horns' or calling gin 'water.' So even if Earthlings believe that TC actions are right it doesn't follow, given the referential intentions and interests of the speaker, that TC; actions are right.
Given these considerations about Putnam's semantics, Copp concludes:
… any coherent moral theory would say if wrongness is instantiated on the one planet it is instantiated in the other, and vice versa, and that the kinds of actions that are wrong on the one planet are wrong on the other, and vice versa. But if the worlds are the same in all morally relevant respects, and if corresponding terms in the languages spoken on the two worlds are used with relevantly the same referential intentions, and if people's interests are the same in using these terms, then the terms would be assigned the same meaning in Putnamian semantics.
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With that being said I was still Pretty Sad After Testing (PSAT'ed) this week. As I walked past the proctored rooms full of fatigued student faces I realized that this test, while checking them in one way for possible college success, did not prepare them for 'real world' expectations. Many colleges have determined that these tests require students to memorize and regurgitate factual knowledge that can be Googled in a moment, rarely asking for creative/original thought, and thus over 600 no longer require them for entrance. No where in the standardized testing world have I witnessed a test that checks students for important skills like collaboration, ethics, technology literacy, big-picture thinking, empathy, resilience, grit, leadership, resourcefulness or problem solving.
When employers are asked about what what they want most in employees "at the top of their list are the three 'Cs': critical thinking, collaboration and communication." Can the PSAT, SAT or ACT honestly claim they measure any one of these well? Communication through writing can somewhat be checked (if the tester elects to do the writing portion of the these assessments) but even so real communication embodies verbal and non-verbal communication as well.
Okay, so what do we do then?
This past Monday I had the pleasure of dining with Executive Producer Ted Dintersmith before we watch his film "Most Likely to Succeed". Here is an excerpt from the film's website:
"The film inspires its audiences with a sense of purpose and possibility, and is bringing school communities together in re-imagining what our students and teachers are capable of doing."
Following the film I have been asked to be part of an expert panel that will discuss how education must change to give our students the best chance to be prepared for life. I have been mulling over what I hope to impart during my part.
In my humble opinion we need to begin to move away from standardized, summative assessments and instead begin using the 3 Ps; projects, portfolios and performances to check if students are ready to tackle our ever changing world of innovation. All of these items also need to be embedded in authentic environments where students can collaborate to solve problems.
Even nearly 100 years ago Albert Einstein knew that our current remember and recall type of standardized tests are not what is best for students:
"[I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of ... education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think."
-Albert Einstein's response to not knowing the speed of sound as included in the Edison Test: New York Times (18 May 1921)
Hopefully we can work together in each of our communities (much like Ted asks for in the video below) to shift the reliance on standardized learning and standardized tests and instead make creative, adaptable, authentic projects, portfolios and performances the standard for our schools.


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In motocross, races are won in the corners. Everyone can go fast over jumps, rough straights, and whoops, but what truly makes a racer great is how fast they can rail a corner. With this in mind, we met up with Geico Honda's Wil Hahn while he pounded out motos at Lucas Oil MX Park in preparation for the 2013 season. On this day, Hahn was ripping around this particular bowl turn quicker than anyone else, making it an easy choice for this month's riding tip.
A lot goes into line selection. I try not to ride too high up on the berm, but sometimes you have to because that's where the line goes. You definitely don't want to put yourself up too high on the berm, because if push comes to shove with another rider, you're probably going to push the front end over the top of the berm and go down. Lately, I've been working on staying lower on the berm, a lot like Ryan Dungey does. I always watch Dungey because he is a perfect example of how to stay low in a bowl turn.
A bowl turn is pretty self explanatory because you can come into it fast, there are a lot of line choices, and you can carry your speed all the way through it. I try to make sure that I stay off my brakes, because when you hit your brakes, it can tend to stand you up in the corner. In a bowl turn, you want to be looser and allow the bike to flow a little more. It just takes practice to get comfortable with going faster through a bowl turn. You don't necessarily need to get on the gas really hard or brake slide in order to make the apex of the corner. The more momentum you come in with, the more you'll leave with.
Gear selection is different depending on the corner or the bike, but second is probably a pretty good bet in most bowl turns. In Supercross, though, there are times where you can land off a triple and carry third through a bowl turn.
You want to try to be super neutral on the bike and not drop your elbows or body weight because that's when you can wash out the front end. I try to stay very neutral on the bike and let the bike drop underneath me.
As soon as you're starting to come around the corner and toward the next section of the track, you need to start looking ahead because it will help to carry you through the corner. If you go through the corner looking at the front of your bike, and then enter the next section, it ends up making it into two different lines and doesn't connect the sections. Looking ahead is very important.


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Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action In and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada focuses on the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. Contributors here examine the impact of aesthetic and sensory experience in residential school history, at TRC national and community events, and in artwork and exhibitions not affiliated with the TRC. Using the framework of "aesthetic action," the essays expand the frame of aesthetics to include visual, aural, and kinetic sensory experience, and question the ways in which key components of reconciliation such as apology and witnessing have social and political effects for residential school survivors, intergenerational survivors, and settler publics.
This volume makes an important contribution to the discourse on reconciliation in Canada by examining how aesthetic and sensory interventions offer alternative forms of political action and healing. These forms of aesthetic action encompass both sensory appeals to empathize and invitations to join together in alliance and new relationships as well as refusals to follow the normative scripts of reconciliation. Such refusals are important in their assertion of new terms for conciliation, terms that resist the imperatives of reconciliation as a form of resolution.
This collection charts new ground by detailing the aesthetic grammars of reconciliation and conciliation. The authors document the efficacies of the TRC for the various Indigenous and settler publics it has addressed, and consider the future aesthetic actions that must be taken in order to move beyond what many have identified as the TRC's political limitations.
Contributors include Naomi Angel, Jonathan Dewar, Beverley Diamond, Byron Dueck, Alana Fletcher, David Gaertner, David Garneau, Bracken Hanuse Corlett, Elizabeth Kalbfleisch, Georgina Lightning, Keavy Martin, Sam McKegney, Peter Morin, Lisa C. Ravensbergen, Dylan Robinson, Armand Garnet Ruffo, Jill Scott, and Pauline Wakeham.
Edited by Dylan Robinson and Keavy Martin.
Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, July 2016.


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CHICAGO, Ill.—October 31, 2013: Prospect Partners, a leading private equity firm investing in smaller lower-middle-market companies, today announced the strategic acquisition of Infinity Data Solutions, LLC (IDS), by its portfolio company World Data Products, Inc. (WDPI), a leading independent provider of on-demand new and OEM-quality refurbished IT hardware.
The acquisition of IDS significantly expands WDPI's data storage offering. IDS, which provides a variety of differentiated data storage services, specializes in the data eradication and certification of magnetic media tape. Its industry-leading processes ensure that each tape is error-free and surpasses new tape performance, while providing customers significant cost savings compared to buying new.
IDS's other data center services include data migration, labeling and initialization, data center relocation and migration, magnetic tape cleaning, tape library audits, asset recovery, high security data transportation, and tape buy-back.
"The acquisition of Infinity Data Solutions is consistent with our goal of making add-on acquisitions of niche leaders that can further bolster World Data Products' strong reputation for providing high-quality refurbished products while increasing the company's presence in the growing data storage market," said Brett Holcomb, a Vice President at Prospect Partners.
"We are very excited about the opportunity to partner with IDS," added Neil Vill, WDPI's President and Chief Executive Officer. "This investment represents an important strategic opportunity to combine two industry-leading brands to offer a comprehensive range of IT hardware, IT repair, and data center solutions that are customizable to each customer's unique needs."
WDPI is a world-class independent provider of on-demand new and OEM-quality refurbished server, storage, and networking hardware to enterprise-level Information Technology (IT), healthcare, education, retail, manufacturing and government organizations. By taking a brand-agnostic approach and focusing on each organization's unique hardware requirements, WDPI is able to offer flexible, customized solutions that save customers up to fifty percent or more on their hardware investment. WDPI sells leading hardware brands such as Cisco, DELL, IBM and HP.
IDS will relocate its operations in early 2014 from Omaha, Neb., to WDPI's headquarters in Minnetonka, Minn.
About Prospect Partners
Prospect Partners is a leading private equity firm investing in smaller lower-middle-market companies, managing $470 million across three funds. A highly experienced and active investor, Prospect Partners focuses exclusively on management-led recapitalizations and acquisitions of niche market leaders with revenues typically under $75 million. Since 1998, Prospect Partners has invested opportunistically nationwide in more than 100 companies in a broad range of niche manufacturing, distribution, and specialty service markets. Based in Chicago, Prospect Partners also has an office in Menlo Park, Calif.
Prospect Partners And Management Acquire World Data Products, Leading Provider of Refurbished Computer and Networking Equipment


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News from Straja:
Ski Pass Prices for the 2016 - 2017 Season
08/12/2016: The winter is here and many slopes are already open across the country. We'll try again, for another season, to keep you informed about what's new in the Romanian resorts and what are the conditions ... read more »
Holidays Snow Report
23/12/2015: With all the slow start of the season there are plenty places to spend your Christmas and the New Year skiing in Romania.Up north, in Maramures, Cavnic has four slopes open, while Transylvania offers ... read more »
Straja and Ranca open their first slopes
27/11/2015: Saturday will mark the beginning of the ski season in two Romanian resorts. Straja will have the Platoul Soarelui, Platous Constantinescu and Mutu slopes ready for the winter sports fans, while Ranca ... read more »
Ready for another white season?
28/11/2014: The winter is here, so we should restart keeping you up to date with everything that's new in the Romanian winter resorts. Here we go ...Arena Platos (Paltinis): There will be an opening season party ... read more »
Most of the resorts will be open this week-end
11/12/2013: This comming week-end (December 14th - 15th) will bring the season opening in many Romanian winter resorts. Arieseni, Harghita Bai, Harghita Madaras, Izvoare, Suior, Vatra Dornei and Vidra ... read more »
A Weekend full of festivals and races
05/02/2013: At the end of this week many Romanian ski resorts have planned all kinds of fun activities for their visitors.The annual Snow Fair will be organized in Arieseni (Vartop slopes), Borsa and Vatra ... read more »
Ski season starts
13/12/2012: The snow that fell during the last 10 days created good conditions on most of the ski runs, so until the end of this week most of the Romanian winter resorts will open their ski season. While ... read more »
First open slopes of this season
07/12/2012: Finally, first slopes will be opened for this week-end. In Straja people are already using the Platoul Soarelui slope, and from tomorow Arena Platos (near Paltinis) will have the D slope open at 10 ... read more »
2011-2012 season prices updates
05/01/2012: We now have the new season's lift prices for 19 resorts: Arena Platos, Arieseni, Baile Homorod, Borsa, Busteni, Cavnic, Harghita Bai, Harghita Madaras, Izvoare, Muntele Mic, Piatra Neamt, Poiana ... read more »
New Years Eve on the skis
29/12/2011: Arieseni, Cavnic, Harghita Madaras and Sureanu have the best ski runs in Romania, at this moment. In all the other resorts the best offer is fair ski conditions, but many are still ... read more »


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As a business, you should know the importance of promotion and when you own an online business, it is of utmost importance to hire exeprt SEO professionals.
Business is able to be successful only when you use the right kind of marketing strategy. If you are in any online business, then you must get help from SEO services, which work to increase traffic.
The easiest way that will increase the visibility of the website and earn more traffic is by hiring a good reputable SEO company that has been in the job for many years and knows how the search engine optimization works. It is very affordable to hire one and you can get to see results after a few weeks.
Hiring ethical SEO services
The most important thing while hiring is to check for their success records. The ethical SEO services should know the terms on which the search engines work, the rules that need to be followed and also the conditions that have been applied by most of the search engines. The companies ought to know what strategies work and what not. Every search engine comes with a different set of rules and that is why the company should be well equipped with the basic knowledge and even the most complicated set of rules.
The ethical SEO services know the keywords that are used and how the density works. Even the content that is to be filled is based on the directions of the company as the visibility and the quality will determine the ranking done by the search engines. The services emphasize on providing content that are useful for visitors and get what they are looking for. It helps to hire ethical SEO services as there are no issues about spam, or other related issues. The more the SEO service compiles according to the rules, the more speedy traffic you are going to receive.
Ultimately, it is time and money that you will be saving.


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As the Statue of Liberty lurched into sight, Malvina Parnes felt a knot rise in her throat.
It was Aug. 19, 1940, and she was 11, her skinny legs rooted to the heaving deck of the Quanza, a Portuguese cargo ship that 317 passengers had chartered to flee war-torn Europe.
Malvina was desperate to feel safe. She had been seasick every day of the 13-day voyage, and spent the nights wrapped in a blanket on the open deck, unable to bear the fetid, windowless bunker where her mother, her 3-year-old sister, Annette, and her aunt slept.
But New York offered no sanctuary. While 196 passengers, including 66 American citizens, got off, the other 121 passengers, nearly all of them Jews seeking political asylum, including Malvina and her family, were denied entry. Eighty-six of the 121 passengers were later turned away in Mexico, too, and to their horror, the captain was preparing to go back across the Atlantic. It was only when the Quanza anchored for coal in Virginia on Sept. 11 and a State Department official finally granted them visas, at Eleanor Roosevelt's behest, that the refugees were able to disembark.
Until recently, the plight of the refugees aboard the Quanza was all but subsumed by history and faded memories. Their story had a happy ending, unlike that of Jewish refugees from Germany aboard the S.S. St. Louis, who were denied entry to Cuba and the United States in 1939 and were forced to Europe, where most died in the Holocaust.
Once in the United States, the Quanza's refugees scattered wide, though many ended up in New York. But even though they made the life-saving voyage together, few kept in contact.
"We were going on with our lives," said Nina Miness, 84, another refugee. But then Victoria Redel, a writer whose father, Irving Redel, was aboard the Quanza, wrote a novel, "The Border of Truth," based on the ship's crossing and its passengers. During Ms. Redel's research, she dug into her father's past, and he found himself remembering things that he had forgotten decades ago. To celebrate the publication of the book this spring, Ms. Redel contacted as many of the ship's surviving passengers that she could and brought them together.Continue reading the main story
Five of them met recently for lunch in the airy Park Avenue apartment of Mr. Redel, 84. They began chattering immediately, kindling memories, each a poignant vignette of a refugee's past.
Bright spots on the voyage broke through the solemnity of the departure. Mrs. Miness viewed the trip as a grand adventure, and Mr. Redel, who was 17 at the time, brimmed with a sense of youthful invincibility.
"All we ate was sardines, sardines, sardines," said Elza Weinman, 81, who was 14 at the time. "And then everyone got seasick."
Mrs. Weinman's mother wore the same corset every day, because she had sewn diamonds into it for safekeeping. Mrs. Parnes's fetching young aunt sneaked into lifeboats at night with equally fetching young men. When the ship reached New York, Mrs. Miness's lovely, vain mother begged to be taken to Ellis Island, because she had heard that there was a salon there and was desperate to have her hair coiffed.
There were luminaries aboard, too, to the delight of other passengers. They strained to catch sight of people like the French movie star Marcel Dalio and his glamorous wife, Madeleine LeBeau, who would later appear in "Casablanca."
Irving Redel's family members were not luminaries. They fled their home in Brussels in early May as the Germans advanced, first hitching a ride toward France, where thousands of refugees clogged the roads in cars, wagons, baby strollers and overflowing wheelbarrows.
Malvina Parnes's family fled Antwerp after her aunt charmed two young men into driving them part of the way. The family sought shelter where they could, spending one night in a farmhouse. While Malvina was standing by its front window, a bomb dropped feet from the glass but did not explode, a memory that haunts her still.
People scrambled to get visas, including phony ones, for anywhere outside Europe. In Toulouse, the Redels got visas to China and Morocco. Mrs. Miness's family got visas for Mexico. Mrs. Weinman's family had visas for Venezuela. The Quanza's captain also made many of the passengers buy return tickets, because he doubted their visas would gain them entry anywhere.
The Atlantic crossing was not easy. A hurricane hit. The windowless bunks were stifling. Mr. Redel's mother developed pleurisy. A New York Times article noting the Quanza's arrival described the bulk of the passengers as "lowly refugees."
Malvina's father, who had been admitted to the United States months ahead of his family, met the ship in New York. He was allowed on board only once, and came bearing food, clothes and kisses. Malvina, her mother, aunt and sister were not allowed off the ship, and Malvina paced its length, playing an imaginary piano to chase her jitters away.
Sailors hoisted her screaming little sister overboard in a chair fastened to a pulley, so her father could kiss her goodbye before she was hoisted back and the ship steamed away.
The Quanza headed to Vera Cruz, Mexico, where 35 passengers, including Nina Miness's family, were admitted. But the authorities rejected the visas of other passengers, including the families of Mr. Redel, Mrs. Weinman and Mrs. Parnes, 78. As the ship steamed around the Caribbean, Mrs. Weinman's father wired different governments, begging to be let ashore. No one answered his call.
Preparing to return to Europe, the Quanza stopped for coal in Virginia, where at least one despairing passenger threw himself overboard. (He swam to shore and was returned to the ship.) A lawyer, J. L. Morewitz, managed to keep the ship in dock until Mrs. Roosevelt stealthily instructed a State Department official, against the wishes of the secretary of state, Cordell Hull, to arrange for everyone onboard to get visas. The refugees raced ashore and scattered.
Mr. Redel's family ended up in Brooklyn. He went on to found a commodities trading business on Wall Street and raise his family in Westchester before moving to Park Avenue. Mrs. Miness lived blocks away. Mrs. Weinman lived on the Upper West Side, and so did Mrs. Parnes. While a few met up roughly 10 years ago, when the Morewitz family arranged a reunion, no one stayed in touch, despite their proximity.
Now, in their twilight years, the last of the survivors say it is gratifying to find each other again. The rekindled memories brought pain, they said, but solace, too.
"Many of the things that happened to people is a matter of luck, of us being in the right place at the right time," Mr. Redel said. "It's a story of desperation and hope."Continue reading the main story


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Syncing up after the holidays
There are two lanes
running down this road,
whatever side you're on.
Accounts for where you want to go
and where you're coming from.
--Mary-Chapin Carpenter
SL and I are on our way back from Africa. Parts of the trip were great, some weren't so great. But it was a great experience, as I hoped. We saw saw lots of amazing wildlife, and shantytowns. We talked to people from all over the world, and to several people who had never seen the inside of a jet. I sat at the knee of the Buddha, as he described how his brothers all left school to work so he could graduate from high school. And how determined he was to repay that debt, to the next generation.
I felt joy at accomplishments, and sadness at degradation, and I faced myself each day, thankful for the insane gifts I have been handed, simply because of the color of my skin, and the country of my birth, and my parents' love of education. Gifts are not earned -- my Catholic perspective notwithstanding. Gifts are given, and I am not worthy. But I am grateful.
But there's a foul wind blowing, a wind from the north, pregnant with smoke and tears and war and death. The north wind carries news, and blows the past away.
Sometimes the past is a mist, hanging damp over the hills. Sometimes the past is bright, sunny, Irish green.
Regardless, the wind wins.
SL is heading on an international assignment for three months -- or maybe a bit more. Three months isn't that long -- ask the Reserve units that have been dying in Iraq for longer rotations than they signed up for. But it's a long time to me.
Jeanne died slightly less than six months after she was diagnosed. Not even half a year after I spotted the rash on her back, and the slight yellowing of her eyes. Just a few days later, I was taking her out of a little plastic box, and putting her into 4 ziplock bags, so I could distribute her ashes.
Three months into her illness, more or less, we took her off therapy. Well, more like four, actually, but I like the parallelism of three months here, so I'll stretch the truth to my purposes. After all, the truth is a virus, yes?
Talk to me softly
there's something in your eyes
Don't hang your head in sorrow
I know how you feel inside,
I've been there before.
Something is changing inside you
--Guns N' Roses
A lot of life can happen in three months. A lot of growth, and change, and failure. I wonder if I'll remember how to talk? I don't have that many people I talk to. When I'm not working, I have gone for days without ever speaking, other than to tell my dogs that it's time for bed and to order anonymous take-out food. I hope that I do better than that this time through.
I've planned a few things to keep myself engaged in the world while she's gone. I'm going to a football game (the oblong kind played in the US, not the round-balled kind played in the rest of the world) I have a few talks to give. I might go ride a new toy -- I bought a touring-focused motorcycle.
SL will be different when she comes back. Or, at least, I hope so. She is going to learn and grow and show herself that she can. Everyone should know that, and I don't begrudge her the opportunity.
In fact, I can think of several people to whom I'd happily tithe from my self-confidence, and she's one.
Living in a different country, facing new work challenges, meeting new people who are different, and think differently. Such a terrific way to make a new start, to mark a new epoch like a layer of ash atop a city in an archaeological dig.
But, change is scary. To me, anyway. When people talk about change, we often speak of caterpillars changing into butterflies. I think most people would call that an improvement -- a multi-legged worm-like creature goes into a shell, and comes out a lovely flying animal. The animal is chased by little girls, in the same way we change unicorns and rainbows and peace.
It's all well and good to say that a butterfly is better than a caterpillar. But it isn't, intrinsically. It's just different. Have you ever watched a caterpillar walk? It's a symphony of harmonic motion between legs and body that is perfectly adapted to its environment. For those of you in the South, go outside, find a caterpillar, and let it walk on your arm. Feel the slight stickiness of its feet, the softness of its skin, the way it knows you aren't right for it.
It is, in and of itself, a work of perfection.
So why do we assert it's better after the cocoon? It's not better, perhaps, just different.
Of course, change -- and its kissing cousin, innovation -- are required for most of us, in varying degrees. Companies that thrive innovate heavily, and life as we know it is a product of millennia of incremental innovation (a.k.a., evolution). I'm a big fan of change, and yet, I recognize its appetite for destruction.
Most evolutionary changes result in death.
Think on that the next time you praise change.
In the pool halls,
the hustlers and the losers,
used to watch 'em through the glass.
--Bob Seger
When I first moved to the Bay Area, I was alone, and lived in an apartment just off of Market Street, in a little neighborhood called "Hayes Valley". I would go to work early and often come back late. There was a little mediterranean place across the street that was open late. Most nights, I'd get takeout hummus, pita, and dolmas after work, then go back to the apartment to read a bit and eat.
But lots of nights, instead of going to bed like a normal person who has to get up in time for market open, I'd go out onto the streets of San Francisco and walk. I loved to watch the people, and laugh at what happens at dark, in the hypothetical anonymity of darkness. I'd see the drug deals, and the attempted ones, with some mixture of humor and distaste. I'd see the homeless people following the winds to some warm corner to sleep. I'd see the streetwalkers trying to locate their next mark. I'd smell food and sweat and urine, hear music and laughter, and feel quiet.
It's hard not to feel alive in a city of walking sleeves. The thing I love most about San Francisco is the night, and the darkness, and that which lives at night.
Now, the weather? That, I don't love.
But I think the part I found most compelling was the fact the the players changed, each night, but the play never changed. I saw different dealers and Johns, and different people staggering out of the strip clubs, and different police officers. But the story line never changed. A foolish consistency, perhaps, but a endless chain of verses, slightly out of phase, like a campfire song. Always different and yet unchanging. Every night I could count on it being the same, and yet fascinating. It was comforting.
The term "sleeve" comes from those Morgan books I was telling you about a few days ago. The ones BF recommended to me. The main character is a guy named Takasi Kovacs; he's consistently annoyed that people say Ko-vacks, instead of Ko-vach. In this world, your memories and consciousness are stored not just in your brains -- the wetware -- but also in little computers called "stacks" that are implanted in your neck, inside the spine. If your body dies, you can dig out the stack, put it into another body, and, voila, "you" are back.
Because your body can change during your "life", they call them sleeves. Get it? You change them like you change clothes. Neat, huh?
And yet, it's not so clean and neat as that. When you come back, you are in some other body -- does your lover still love you? How much of love it mental, how much spiritual, and how much chemical? If it's chemical, then your love will not be in love with "you", but rather in love with some combination of you and your sleeve.
Oops, that could be tough on your relationship, after you are re-sleeved.
And when you come out from being "re-sleeved", your loved ones won't even recognize you. What if you decide that you want a new life? You can keep walking past them, and they will never know which of the unrecognized strangers was the husband/father/brother that just skipped out on his family.
And, if you can live forever, essentially, would you want to? Is there a point where you know too much, and have seen too much, and can no longer pretend to be part of the human race? Over time, I should think your personality would change, edges worn down and polished by the sands of time. But, isn't our weakness that which makes us human? A diamond is lovely, but cold, and loveless.
All in all, these books aren't the best reading I've ever done, but they certainly are disturbing.
Are we (we are)?
Are we (we are) the waiting?
This dirty town
is burning down in my dreams.
--Green Day
I have one and one-half hours left in my return from halfway around the world. So far, we drove an hour to the Cape Town airport to catch a two hour flight to Johannesburg. From Jo'burg, we flew 9 hours to Dakar, in Senegal, where we refueled, changed crews, and got sprayed for insects. Then, back into the air for another 9 hours to Washington Dulles. Two hours, and several customs agents later, we climbed onto a United flight to SFO. Right now, we are somewhere over the upper Midwest. It's clear out the window, and I can see snow on the rough hewn peaks -- not mountains, I don't think we are over the Rockies, but somewhere that has rock outcroppings that emerge from the snow. The sun is very bright and the sky very blue. I can see roads and the edges of parcels of land. But I can't see any buildings -- almost as if man had cut up the land and then left.
SL is sitting next to me reading her vacation book -- and laughing out loud every couple of pages. I guess she's recommending "Eat, Pray, Love" to everyone around us who is trying to watch the movie. I think I shall read it. The guy on the other side of me is watching a marathon of "Office" episodes, and hasn't laughed once. You make the call.
This trip marks the end of one stage of "us". Hopefully, we won't reunite re-sleeved, walking by each other, pretending not to notice. And hopefully we will both prefer butterflies to caterpillars.
I've made a healthy career hoping for the best, but planning for the worst. I'm too good at it; want to know a list of everything that might fail? Give me a call.
But I require hope, and faith, and trust. And the Angel's bright wings over me and the rest of the weary world.
Here's to a better 2008, to peace, to love, and to caterpillars and to butterflies, both.
And my old friend
will you shelter me from pain?
In return, I'll bring you Ireland
--Nanci Griffith


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Welcome to the web site of Richard Vialls, Equine Podiatrist.
Equine footcare techniques have moved on in the last few years. Many horse owners are now discovering that their horses can work without shoes and that there are health and other benefits that come with this approach. Equine Podiatry is an holistic, science-based approach to caring for your horse's feet without the use of shoes.
While the way the hooves are trimmed clearly has an important effect on the health of your horse's feet, there are also many other environmental factors that are equally important. As one of the most experienced Equine Podiatrists in the UK, I am not only experienced at trimming hooves, but also at providing advice and support on how to manage your horse's environment to maximise the potential for the feet.
With the right management approach, most horses can work without shoes... often to a high level.
Barefoot techniques are also very effective for improving hoof problems such as flat feet and navicular disease that have previously proved difficult to tackle. I have a strong research interest in hoof pathologies - especially laminitis and low grade laminitis.
I am based on the Isle of Anglesey and my practice covers North Wales.
I am a full member of the Equine Podiatry Association (the regulatory body for equine podiatrists) and am also a member of the EPA governing Council.
I am also one of the two main tutors on the Diploma in Equine Podiatry course.


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Sun, 10 July 2016
June 19, 2016 Father's Day
VBS Week: Journey Off the Map
All God's Children
Galatians 3:26
Synopsis: Today we celebrate Father's Day and mark the beginning of Vacation Bible School. Starting Monday night our children will be learning lessons for their "Journey Off The Map". All week we will be paying a lot of attention to the children. We know who our children are, most of the time, but in VBS we are expecting to have more children during the week. It will be a lot of fun and we hope to sow the seeds of life in them through the lessons and relationships we will form. My text is from Galatians 3:26 where Paul was writing to the church that was experiencing a lot of identity problems. "All of you are God's children" he writes, "through faith in Christ Jesus."
There are some identifying marks of faith, but they are not based on skin color, or sex, or socio-economic conditions. All God's children, as the Psalm 42 states it, have a thirst for God. That thirst brings God's Children together for worship.
Text (CEV): Galatians 3:23-29; Psalm 42; Matthew 18:20, ESV; Hebrews 10:23-25, NLT; Luke 8:37b-39, NLT
Scripture Reading: Psalm 42:1-2
Direct download: ebc_podcast_6_19_16.mp3
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gardens & villa @ coachella
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How awesome was it to see Santa Barbara represented at Coachella? I managed to rally at the crack of noon to catch a set by gardens & villa in the Mojave tent on Sunday. I highly recommend checking them out if you're going to the second weekend.
Closer to home you can catch them at the Santa Barbara Bowl for KJEE's Summer Roundup in June.


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For the most part of history, humanity has not known of the existence of the infinity that is the universe right above the horizon and as such has lived sheltered and somewhat ignorant lives, away from the truth. Today however, there is no such luxury, the knowledge of what is out there is widely spread and this in turn has sparked many dreams of the future. It is impossible to miss it. Some of the most successful creations in literature, movies, games, art, music just to name a few, have as focus the cosmos and what lies within it. Countless children have grown up imagining to be astronauts and space explorers by watching Kirk and Picard in their role as fearless and brave captains.
It is easy to dismiss such creations as simple wishful thinking, but those two characters are meant to embody some of the virtues that most individuals aspire to. Kirk being brave and without fear, whilst Picard representing the scholar, explorer and the principled. It is no mistake that in most of the artistic representations of a future spacefaring human society, characters embody the best of human virtues, because that is what it will probably take in order to advance to that level.
The role that these creations play, be it movies, books, games, is to inspire future generations that the future is out there and it is up to them to reach out and grab it. It should be noted that the very survival of the human race may very well depend on it successfully leaving the cradle of planet Earth, for as long as it resides solely there, it is always one unfortunate cosmic event away from extinction. Luckily there are individuals in this world with wealth, brains and the vision necessary to set the course of a better future for humanity, and it is up to the rest to support them.


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Oriola, Taiwo (1998) Adjusting to Local Needs the Principles of Patents and other Intellectual Property Rights on the Implementation of Biodiversity Convention in Developing Countries. Lesotho Law Journal, 11 (1). pp. 26-45. [Journal article]
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Dear IT Vendor,
Don't show me presentations that are just about your eco system of tools and how well interconnected they are and how all are problems are solved with your complete set of tools or systems.
You need to understand that nobody has an IT environment that is 100% your systems. You might want us to have only your 'stuff' but it isn't going to happen. And I'm not going to write a check for you today to replace all my other systems with just your systems. You don't know all my constraints and prior decisions and poured concrete so don't show me a magic fairy tale.
Instead, you've got to talk to me about interoperability. You must talk to me about how I can connect your messaging tool with the one I already have in place. Further, you've got to show me examples of where this is working. And you've got to convince me that this is what you want to support. You've got to talk about openness, open standards, APIs, etc. And don't try to steer me in a direction that is going to lock me in. I've got enough of those lock-ins and I've grown tired of them so I'm on to you.
If your story is only about you, then I'm going to tune out.
Thank you,
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How Learning Trips Expand Employee Ownership
How My Company Became Employee Owned
Some 35 years ago I owned several Re/max Offices I wanted to sell to the agents, but I had trouble finding a model. I discovered a worker cooperative in Spain— the Mondragón Corporation—and read all I could find about it. I also found an employee-owned real estate company in Fort Collins called The Group, Inc. Real Estate, which was formed by Larry Kendell. As I visited with Larry and "The Group" real estate company in Fort Collins and worked with an attorney, I put together a legal structure whereby we (meaning the agents, the attorney and myself) formed an agent-owned real estate company. That company still exists today: RE/MAX of Cherry Creek, LLC.
I needed a model to help me and my attorney figure out this "new" (at least to me) model of business ownership. My visits with The Group were extremely helpful, except that the RE/MAX model and The Group's model were very different. The structures I read about in Mondragón were helpful but limited. At that time, Mondragón had ~45,000 employee owners (now they have 85,000!), primarily in manufacturing. But both models, however, proved to me that employee ownership as a business worked and worked exquisitely.
The Power of a Learning Trip
In 2004 I retired from real estate, after forming another employee-owned real estate company with a Keller Williams office. In 2008, my wife and I finally visited the Mondragón cooperatives in Spain. We received a wonderful tour of their modern manufacturing plant and headquarters, and we spent much time just talking about the worker cooperatives. Mondragón runs an employee-owned bank, an employee-owned university and an employee-owned chain of grocery/dry good stores, which we visited and shopped in.
Visiting this cooperative made me realize that I needed to dream much bigger than just one business. Our entire state economy could benefit from greater worker ownership. I returned to Denver ready to do more to promote worker cooperatives in Colorado.
Where to start? On the web, I saw that the Ohio Employee Ownership Center was having their annual conference. It was affordable to attend, so I went. Ohio is ahead of the rest of the country in employee ownership. At the conference, I learned about ESOPs (employee stock ownership plans) as another form of employee ownership. I also learned about the Evergreen Cooperatives in Cleveland. Returning from Ohio, I partnered with my two friends, Larry Dunn and Bill Kirton, to start the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center.
Another Learning Visit
A few years later, we convinced staff members from The Denver Foundation to visit the Cleveland Evergreen Cooperatives. Several of us from RMEOC also went on the visit. A number people have told me that the Cleveland visit was the tipping point, the experience that inspired so much going on now with employee ownership and community wealth building in Denver and Colorado.
But we have much more to learn—now from northern Italy in the Emilia Romagna region. Here, cooperatives of all kinds (worker co-ops, grocery co-ops, credit unions, social co-ops) work together, to support each other. Italy's constitution mandates that each co-op contribute 3% of their total surplus—tax free—to develop new co-ops and help existing co-ops grow. Paul Bindel, an RMEOC staff member, toured the Italian cooperatives this past summer and will be sharing his experience throughout the year.
Based on my previous experience with learning trips, I believe we need to get a group of Coloradan business owners, political leaders, and economic developers to take a tour next summer to Italy. If we see what's happening there, we can have more of a vision for what we can bring back to Denver and Colorado. The approximate cost for a trip is nearly $4000. If we can get representatives from the City and County of Denver, the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade, and from Colorado-based economic development organizations and foundations, just imagine what we could do!
For more information about a future trip, contact Paul or myself and watch for more announcements on RMEOC's website.


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Bicycle routes connect York County
When the construction signs on the Fort Mill Southern Bypass come down later this month, bike route signs should go up.
The Fort Mill Route is a 30-mile, double loop bicycle route connecting the town to Tega Cay and Rock Hill. It is one of five routes on a 170-mile countywide system at varying stages of completion. Routes have numbered signs. About 98 percent of the bike route is state roads.
All five routes are the work of the Rock Hill Bicycle and Pedestrian Task Force. Public and private partners met in 2011 to identify the best bike routes countywide. A 49-mile York to Rock Hill loop opened in November. A 35-mile double loop between Rock Hill and the Catawba Indian Reservation opened in June.
Also planned are a 36-mile loop connecting York, Clover, Kings Mountain State Park and Gaston County coming in late August or early September, and a 19-mile out-and-back route connecting York, Sharon, Hickory Grove and Smyrna. Signs should go up in September.
The Fort Mill Route bisects U.S. 21. On the east side it runs along Fort Mill Parkway, Banks Road, Fairway Drive, Doby's Bridge and Kimbrell roads, Tom Hall Street, Springfield Parkway and Regent Parkway. The west side includes Springfield Parkway, Pleasant Road, S.C. 160, Gray Rock Road and Sutton Road.
Many of the roads in the new routes are already used by cyclists, but placing numbered signs can show cyclists the friendliest routes in terms of traffic and road conditions.
"The routes in York County provide mostly a rural riding experience, where traffic levels are minimal and roadways are narrower," said Steve Allen, planner with York County. "There are occasions where the routes travel through more urban or suburban environments. In those environments we have tried, where feasible, to plan the routes on lower volume traffic streets."
Planners say cycling for recreation and transportation is increasing. They also tout increased tourism revenue, economic growth potential and a variety of public health benefits.
Not all bike riders are the same, Allen said. Those who prefer trails at the Anne Springs Close Greenway may not want to bike roadways. Others may stick to the Giordana Velodrome in Rock Hill. The new county routes are another option.
"There are different types of riders with differing riding skill levels and preferences throughout the county and region," Allen said. "Some enjoy the wide-open rural roadways, some urban street environments with clearly defined bike lanes and lower speeds."


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An historical commentary on the physiological effects of music: Tomatis, Mozart and neuropsychology
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This article provides an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of the Tomatis Method, along with a commentary on other forms of sound/music training and the need for research. A public debate was sparked over the "Mozart Effect." This debate has turned out to be unfortunate because the real story is being missed.
The real story starts with Alfred Tomatis, M.D., scientist and innovator. Dr. Tomatis was the first to develop a technique using modified music to stimulate the rich interconnections between the ear and the nervous system to integrate aspects of human development and behavior. The originating theories behind the Tomatis Method are reviewed to describe the ear's clear connection to the brain and the nervous system. The "neuropsychology of sound training" describes how and what the Tomatis Method effects.
Since Dr. Tomatis opened this field in the mid 20th century, no fewer than a dozen offshoot and related systems of training have been developed. Though each new system of treatment makes clains of effectiveness, no research exists to substantiate their claims. Rather, each simplified system bases its "right to exist and advertise" on the claimed relationship to Tomatis and his complex Method. Research is desperately needed in this area.
The 50 years of clinical experience and anecdotal evidence amassed by Tomatis show that sound stimulation can provide a valuable remediation and developmental training tool for people of all ages. Offshoot systems have watered down the Tomatis Method without research to guide the decisions of simplifying the techniques and equipment.
KeywordsVestibular Nucleus Dyslexia Sound Stimulation Cranial Nerve VIII High Frequency Sound
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Laguna Art Museum
307 Cliff Drive
(949) 494-8971
Open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week. Open until 9 p.m. during First Thursdays Art Walk. Admission is $12 for adults and $10 for seniors, students and active military. Children younger than 12 are admitted for free. The museum is closed on the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's days. Free admission on First Thursdays Art Walk nights.
Current show:
Until Jan. 29: "Best Kept Secret: UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California, 1964-1971," in conjunction with "Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA, 1945-1980."
Special Events:
10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. Jan. 31: Art Appraisal Clinic with Bonhams and Butterfields.
Laguna Canyon Artists
3251 Laguna Canyon Road
Laguna College of Art & Design
2222 Laguna Canyon Road
(949) 376-6000
Gallery hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday; 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Free admission.
Through Jan. 21: "Visual tales from Eire and England," works inspired by summer 2011 travel program. Reception is 5 to 8 p.m. Jan. 21.
Carl E Smith Fine Art - CES / FA
2075-2097 Laguna Canyon Road Unit B
Through Jan. 19: "SLASH: An International Survey of Contemporary Collage."
Southern California Artists Assn.
3251 Laguna Canyon Road F3
(949) 715-6767
484 North Gallery
484 N. Coast Hwy.
(949) 715-4578
Open noon to 6 p.m. daily
Original paintings and vintage prints
Works by Art Guevara.
AR4T Space— Artists Republic for Tomorrow
210 N. Coast Hwy.
Winter hours: 3 to 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday
Multimedia gallery featuring fine art from the world of youth culture.
Opening reception, 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, for "Still Life with Wood," 20 years of documentary work by photographers on the skateboard circuit. Special musical guest El Mysterioso.
Blue Jay Gallery
352 N. Coast Hwy.
(949) 584-0777
Contemporary Russian art.
Edenhurst Gallery
305 N. Coast Hwy.
(949) 376-9222
Dealers in historic Early California paintings, including Guy Rose, Joseph Kleitsch, William Wendt, Granville Redmond, Edgar Payne, Maynard Dixon, Maurice Braun, as well as contemporary and early California Art Club artists.
Gallery McCollum
206 N. Coast Hwy.
(949) 497-4027
Sue Greenwood Fine Art
330 N. Coast Hwy.
(949) 494-0669
Through Jan. 15: "American Icons."
Hobrecht Sports Art
350 N. Coast Hwy.
(949) 945-3283
11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday
JoAnneArtman Gallery
326 N. Coast Hwy.
(949) 510-5481
Until Jan. 27: "Unforgotten Memories," works from the estate of Phil Joanou.
Laguna North Gallery
376 N. Coast Hwy.
(949) 494-4324
Landscapes, seascapes, still-lifes and plein-air by award-winning artists: Kirsten Anderson, Storm Case, Jean Choi, Patti Cliffton, Kevin Davidson, Laurie Downey, Julie Christiansen-Dull, Kathy Esnard, Christine Hooker, Margaret Jamison, Linda Johnson, Pam Panattoni, Elaine Ruettiger and Albert Stanchfield.
Lu Martin Galleries
372 N. Coast Hwy.
Open daily
(949) 494-8074
Continuing exhibition of Zen inspired paintings by Canadian artist Martin Beaupre, local artist David Palmer's unique "Fallen Heroes" series of portraits painted on bullet casings, and other fine paintings of various styles by 15 regional and International artists.
Marion Meyer Contemporary Art
354 N. Coast Hwy.
(949) 497-5442
Quorum Art Gallery
374 N. Coast Hwy.
(949) 494-4422
The Quorum Art Gallery is a cooperative association of 12 local artists and a guest artist, which allows us to provide our guests with diverse styles and an impressive collection of fine art paintings. "Aspen glow on the Minarets" by Mike Kinney is featured.
S Cube Gallery
346 N. Coast Hwy.
(949) 376-8800
Until Jan. 30: "On The Edge: Statements in Black and White," a cross-media show.
Sandstone Gallery
384A N. Coast Hwy.
(949) 497-6775
Open noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday to Monday and Tuesday by appointment.
"Cosmic Dream," abstract paintings by Sunny Kim, and "Persons of Interest," sculpture and paintings by Howard Hitchcock, through Jan. 30. Also exhibiting are contemporary artists Marge Chapman, KL Heagen, Mada Leach, Anne Moore, Marjorie Sanders and Lynn Welker.
Schaar Art Studio
305 N. Coast Hwy.
(949) 497-7289
Call for appointment
Studio 7 Gallery—North
384 N. Coast Hwy.
(949) 497-8291
Open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily
Whelan Galleries
353 N. Coast Hwy. No. A
(949) 494-5076
Showcasing original fine art oil paintings and rare classic book cover illustrations by Patrick Whelan. Sculpture by Leon Richman.
Annette Wimmer Fine Art
238 N. Coast Hwy.
(949) 494-3700
Len Wood's Indian Territory Inc.
305-D N. Coast Hwy.
(949) 497-5747
Art Cube Gallery
266 Forest Ave.
(949) 376-8800
January: "Reclaimed Existence: The Artist Life as a Chair."
Peter Blake Gallery
435 Ocean Ave.
(949) 376-9994
Ed Moses and Jimi Gleason.
City Hall Gallery
505 Forest Ave.
Open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday
Opening Monday: "Visual Tales from Eire and England," Laguna College study abroad program exhibit, through March 9.
Coffin/Fulton Fine Art
301 Forest Ave. (upstairs)
(949) 497-2214
Figurative and landscape work by A. Jane Fulton and Lesanne Coffin.
DeBilzan Gallery
224 Forest Ave.
(949) 494-2406 or (727) 804-7649
Essence Gallery
577 S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 494-8224
Original contemporary and traditional works of art from local and international artists.
Fingerhut Gallery
210A Forest Ave.
(949) 376-6410
Artwork by contemporary and 20th century artists.
Green Cube Gallery
264 Forest Ave.
(949) 494-1550
Kimerlee Curyl works depicting wild mustangs.
Kush Fine Art
265 Forest Ave.
(949) 376-8017
Featuring original oils, limited edition giclees on canvas and sculptures of Vladimir Kush and eight other artists.
William Merrill Gallery
611 S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 464-0067
Miranda Galleries
417 S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 497-4491
Miranda Galleries features international and contemporary artwork from all over the world, including an extensive collection of sculpture, fine art glass and works on canvas and paper.
Pacific Edge Gallery
540 S. Coast Hwy., No. 112
(949) 494-0491
Showcasing Laguna Beach painters.
Swenson Fine Art
460 S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 376-1122
Townley Gallery
570 S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 715-1860
Through March: "TechnoScape Past and Present, Which Brings Us to the Future."
Village Gallery
502 S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 494-3552
Artist in residence Joelle Blouin, from Quebec, will paint live.
Viszolay Gallery
577 S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 497-0951
Oil paintings and reproductions of Hawaii, Laguna Beach, Catalina and other Southern California scenes by artist-in-residence Walter Viszolay.
Wells Fargo Bank
260 Ocean Ave.
(949) 494-1145
Open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free.
Through Jan. 12: Juan Cervantes, New Work, CAP Gallery, second floor.
Through Jan. 31: Festival of Arts posters and gift shop items, third floor.
Whitney Gallery
305 Forest Ave.
(949) 497-4322
Open daily.
Artist Eye Laguna Gallery
1294-A S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 497-5898
A cooperative venture of 16 local artists in watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed media, as well as photography and sculpture.
Bluebird Gallery
1540 S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 497-5377
Specializing in California Impressionist paintings. Featuring Felice Hrovat, Mark Cummings, Doug Stotts, William Dorsey, Joseph Aaron, George Gallo, Elaine Hughes, Stephen Schlanser and Mike Brennan.
La Bottega Dell'Acquaforte
1590 S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 497-6690
January, February: Original etchings by Italian artists including Cacciarini, Ceschin, Zec, Zaliani, Mariani, Orselli, Piazza, Caffe, Beuchat, Petro and Faraoni.
Coolsville – Roark's Studio Gallery
2894 S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 376-2048
Open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and Saturday and Sunday by appointment.
Specializing in underwater photography, "Liquescent," of dancers and other subjects by Roark Gourley. Also contemporary paintings and sculpture by Roark and Michelle Gourley.
The Cottage Gallery
1524 S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 497-8932
Cove Gallery
1492 S. Coast Hwy. No. 8
(949) 494-1878
Cove Gallery is introducing four new artists who have joined the gallery. JoAnn Unger, Mary Lehner, Barbara van Rooyan and Sandy Clark.
DeMossa Gallery
1294-D S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 715-9229
Open noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.
DeRu's Fine Arts
1590 S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 376-3785
January: "The Impressionists in California" Showcasing the Early California Impressionists.
FOA South
1006 S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 494-1145
Open 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday.
Through March: Selections from the Festival of Arts permanent collection.
Ivan Guaderrama Original Arts Gallery
1452 S. Coast Hwy.
(310) 383-5051
Mixed media works by Ivan Guaderrama.
H Gallery
1294-B S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 497-5578
Featuring a collection of 20th Century masters. Dali, Picasso, Miro, Vasarely, Erte, graphics and originals.
Joseph Wise Fine Art Gallery
1550 S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 376-7902
Presenting contemporary and modern art, frescoes and oils; indoor and outdoor serpentine stone sculpture.
Until Jan. 25: Kerry Swank's "The Angel Collection," fine art photographs.
Kuhnert's Art Gallery
1493 Glenneyre St.
(949) 494-0676
Open daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and by appointment
Celebrating 26 years of featuring the original paintings, serigraphs, posters and digital prints of Manfred H. Kuhnert.
Lang Fine Art
The Art Center
1450 S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 494-1397
purelagunabeach gallery
1590 S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 315-5015
Featuring paintings by owner/artist Todd Kenyon and Mark Kerckhoff, and photography by Tom Lamb.
The Redfern Gallery
1540 S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 497-3356
Thirty-five years specializing in important historical American Art. Now showing works by the early California Impressionists; Guy Rose, Edgar Payne, William Wendt, Granville Redmond and contemporary painting virtuosos Macpherson, Hull and Cosby, with sculpture by Alleman and Rossi.
Salt Fine Art
1492 S. Coast Hwy., Suite 3
(949) 715-5554
Specializing in Latin Contemporary including masters and emerging talent.
Until Feb. 29: "Cuba!" featuring 11 artists from Cuba.
Situ Art Gallery
1590 S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 376-6703
Featuring fine contemporary art by Mian Situ, Andrew Peters, Ruo Li, Carole Cooke, Bi Wei, Dan Goozee, Zhuo S. Liang, Longyao Le, Sandy Scott, Robert Peters and Ralph Oberg.
Vladimir Sokolov
1540 S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 494-3633
Abstract and mixed media paintings by Vladimir Sokolov, acrylics by Alexander Sokolov and laminated acrylic sculptures by Vasa.
Studio 7 Gallery – South
1590 S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 715-0012
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily
During Art Walk, live oil painting demonstrations by plein air artists and live piano music.
The Vintage Poster
1476 S. Coast Hwy.
(949) 376-7422
Original vintage US 1 Sheet movie posters.


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SHAKARGARH: Unprovoked firing by Indian forces along the Silakot Working Boundary killed a 13-year-old girl and injured an eight year old child on Saturday.
Intermittent and unprovoked firing at the Working Boundary by Indian forces continued, despite the previous incidents during the last few days.
According to a statement by the ISPR, aggressive firing by Indian forces left a 13-year-old girl from Chak Nihala area in Zafarwal sector, severely injured. She was being immediately taken to District Headquarters Hospital, but died on the way.
Firing by Indian forces in Shakargarh sector also left an eight year old child critically wounded.
The Pakistan Rangers also retaliated with intermittent firing at the Working Boundary.
On December 31, two personnel of the Punjab Rangers were martyred in an unprovoked firing incident during a visit for a flag meeting invitation by Border Security Force (BSF) in Shakargarh district.


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In her work for English 120 with Professor Reid Barbour, UNC sophomore Grace Towery discovered in the Rare Book Collection a manuscript poem written on the flyleaf of a 1617 print edition of Edmund Spenser's poetry. Through careful research, she went on to discover that this poem is hitherto unknown by scholars. The poem is an especially interesting and complex response to the execution to the Earl of Strafford at the outset of the English Civil War in the 1640s. What started as a paper for English 120 is now a forthcoming article in Notes & Queries (publication date September 2017), an esteemed and longstanding journal published by Oxford University Press. In her article Grace provides both an edition and an analysis of the poem; and she also offers thoughts on what this poem may have been doing in a collection of Spenser's poetry.
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Why hello there!
Happy Saturday!
I am currently sitting on my balcony and sipping on a wonderful bullet-proof coffee. I still can't get over how great I feel when I drink one compared to regular coffee. Healthy fats for the win! My brain is lovin' it!
I also went for a fantastic bike ride through the river valley last night. Now, whoever lives in Edmonton must know how amazing our trails are by the river, I can't get enough. Check out this picture I took on one of my many stops. I'm definitely not as fit as I thought I was (sorry muscles). Haha
I'm biased, but Edmonton has to be one of the prettiest cities in Canada!
So, I think everyone should get outside and enjoy this nice weather!