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Peyke (Cliff) is a large fortress city in the islands of Myrdalar, and one of the oldest of all Bretannia. It is located between the mainland and some barren rock stacks surrounded by the sea, and connected to each other by wide bridges; differently from many other fortresses of the Bretannians, there is no safe anchorage in Peyke, so ships must dock in nearby villages. The location was chosen because it is virtually impossible to besiege, and it allows the Bretannians to watch the waters that separate their land from Atlantis. Peyke is roughly square in shape, built mostly of stone and surrounded by lichen-covered walls: it is often considered the capital of the Myrdalar, and many important noble houses of Bretannia live in its buildings. Its seal is a golden kraken on a black field.
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A crafter of many years, interested in many types of creative enterprises. I decided it was time to enter the 21st century and put this out to the big wide world
Sunday, 20 February 2011
Thank You
Here is a card for 2 challenges: Crafty Creations #106 - Thank You Card and Sketch and Stash Challenge #55.
The stash for the Sketch and Stash Challenge is the gorgeous Poppy rubber stamp from Elusive Images which I have not used for absolutely ages. The "Thank You" sentiment is from them too.The harlequin paper has been languishing in my stash draw for about 5 years so I am pleased that it has seen the light of day.
The card is A5 in size and dark green. Layered onto this was some green harlequin paper. The light green square was shaped with Martha Stewart PATP punches. The slider was cut from silver mirror card using a Shapability and my cuttle bug. The was also used to cut out the sentiment, The sentiment backing mat and the mat for the main image.
The main image was stamped with blue ink and coloured in with Promarkers. The image was stamped 3 times and the flowers cut out so that depth could be built into the card by decoupaging them.
The sentiment was tinted around the edge whilst it was still in the Nestability die to leave the outer edge uncoloured.
All the items were added to the card with either D-S tape, foam pads or Pinflair glue.
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Hi Shirl, hope that you are ok, and looking forward to your move.ReplyDelete
I love your card the decoupage is fabulous and that buckle on your ribbon is very effective. A really stunning card. With love and hugs Shirleyx
Fab card! ...luv the colour comboReplyDelete
Thanks for joining us at Sketch N Stash ...good luck!
xx Lizzy xx :)
Lovely card-love the vibrant colours! Thanks for joining us at Sketch N Stash this time around, JuliexxReplyDelete
Thank you for popping over and taking the time to leave a comment. I love to receive them. Hugs, Shirl xx
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2013 Trifecta Russian River Pinot Noir
Rich dark fruit dominates the aromas with plum, boysenberry and bing cherry. These aromas are layered with floral aromas of violet, spicy elements of cinnamon and dusty earthy notes. On the palate the soft and round fruit tannins meld with the juicy red fruit flavors on the mid palate. These flavors meld with the rich caramel flavors from the French oak that carry the long finish.
October 14, 2013
100% Pinot Noir Clone 115, Pommard, and 777
Aging & Cooperage:
The clusters were destemmed and then cold soaked 48 hours before inoculation. The wine spent a total of 14 days on the skins before it was drained off and racked into French oak barrels. The wine was aged for 18 months in 33% new French oak.
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Much has been written about powerful messaging, corporate storytelling and boosting personal and business narratives. The business of messaging can sound complicated. I plead guilty to adding to the library of resources. But, if I were to boil down what makes someone internalize and act upon an organization's or individual's message, it would be because that message was:
- Delivered with authenticity and with eloquence
- About something that was relevant to them
- Which set the organization (or individual or cause) apart from (similar) others
- And, it was clear
Consider this a kind of haiku (albeit much longer than the requisite 17 syllables) against which you can compare your elevator pitch or other key statements.


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What have you learned about yourself through your career in the arts?
I learned that I am a peculiar kind of artist. I don't have a big studio and I don't so much show my work in galleries. But rather I create my work on the walls and in the streets of some of the world's most challenged and traumatized places. More often than not, I co-create with people living in the places where I create art. Their artistic sensitivity, stories, experiences, and their physical participation shape the outcome of the public work we create together. At the end, these public art pieces all belong to the communities where people participated.
I learned that abandoned places are my canvases; people's stories form a part of my palette. People's talent and imagination become the tools in my collaborative creative art-making process, through which healing and transformation take place.
-Lily Yeh


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The Fandom
We are the damaged ones.
We get attached to fictional characters.
We fall in love with stories that are impossible,
We get emotionally scarred by the stories and characters we love.
It's like being in love with one person, but stretched across many.
We find community and solace in one another.
We form friendships with each other even being oceans, continents apart.
We are united.
We are one.
We are the fandom.
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I would like to share a demo of an arcade-style game I've been working on for a while. Rather gratuitously called 'Return of the Beast', it's a sequel to my earlier game ROTABB (Revenge of the etc.) There's still quite a bit of work to do but there's enough there now to finally be able to put out a demo.
It can be played with keyboard (left/right/space) or the right joystick (point & shoot).
My thanks to Sixxie for xroar, asm6809 & CyD and to Bosco for great ideas, inspiration and motivation.
In case anyone is wondering, it's all done in software, no hardware tricks and no speed up poke
Edit: Attached version is now a bit easier to play and includes a vdk image


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It's finally here. The long nights, multiple revisions, and constant hustling. The Bob Cut Mag team is proud to present our first print magazine.
As a primarily digital magazine, it has been the waking dream of Bob Cut to have it's own print exclusive magazine. So what's in it? You're dying to know. Well a lot of your favorite pieces to read. Meeting some of the Bay Area's finest artists, the meals and snacks that make up the NorCal flavor, and style you're craving currently.
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text: From the True Crime Reports archive: Breakfast reading from the Village Voice Empire: Nathan Bozonier was at a party when he was hit by a car. The occupants then got out and beat him to death. Though there were witnesses, many seem to have gotten voluntary laryngitis. Westword has the story.


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Published on December 6, 2013
Author: professionalcapital
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10 ETIQUETTES YOU MUST KNOW TO SELL IN ASIA. Adapted from material compiled by www.ediplomat.com
"SALES IS ALSO ABOUT BEING ADAPTIVE TO CROSS-CULTURE ETIQUETTES." Maarten Colijn, MSc Founder & co-owner Professional Capital
The people. • Deeply rooted in Chinese society is the need to belong and conform to a unit, whether the family, a political party or an organization. • The family is the focus of life for most Chinese. Age and rank are highly respected. • However, to the dismay of older people, today's young people are rapidly modernizing, wearing blue jeans and sunglasses, drinking Coke and driving motorbikes.
Meet & greet. • Shake hands upon meeting. Chinese may nod or bow instead of shaking hands, although shaking hands has become increasingly common. • When introduced to a Chinese group, they may greet you with applause. Applaud back. • Senior persons begin greetings. Greet the oldest, most senior person before others. During group introductions, line up according to seniority with the senior person at the head of the line.
Names & titles. • Use family names and appropriate titles until specifically invited by your Chinese host or colleagues to use their given names. • Chinese are often addressed by their government or professional titles. For example, address Li Pang using his title: Mayor Li or Director Li. • Chinese generally introduce their guests using their full titles and company names. You should do the same. Example: Doctor John Smith, CEO of American Data Corporation.
Body language. • The Chinese dislike being touched by strangers. Do not touch, hug, lock arms, back slap or make any body contact. • Clicking fingers or whistling is considered very rude. • To beckon a Chinese person, face the palm of your hand downward and move your fingers in a scratching motion. Never use your index finger to beckon anyone. • Chinese point with an open hand. Never point with your index finger.
Corporate culture. • The Chinese are practical in business and realize they need Western investment, but dislike dependency on foreigners. • In personal relationships, the Chinese will offer friendship and warm hospitality without conflict, but in business they are astute negotiators. • Punctuality is important for foreign businesspeople. Being late is rude. Meetings always begin on time.
Corporate culture (cont'd). • Business cards are exchanged upon meeting. Business cards should be printed in English on one side and Chinese on the other. • Be prepared for long meetings and lengthy negotiations (often ten days straight) with many delays. • The Chinese will enter a meeting with the highestranking person entering first.
Corporate culture (cont'd). • Seating is very important at a meeting. The host sits to the left of the most important guest. • There may be periods of silence at a business meeting; do not interrupt these. • A contract is considered a draft subject to change. Chinese may agree on a deal and then change their minds. A signed contract is not binding and does not mean negotiations will end. • Observing seniority and rank are extremely important in business.
Corporate culture (cont'd). • The status of the people who make the initial contact with the Chinese is very important. Don't insult the Chinese by sending someone with a low rank. • Chinese negotiators may try to make foreign negotiators feel guilty about setbacks; they may then manipulate this sense of guilt to achieve certain concessions.
Corporate culture (cont'd). • Two Chinese negotiating tricks designed to make you agree to concessions are staged temper tantrums and a feigned sense of urgency. • If the Chinese side no longer wishes to pursue the deal, they may not tell you. To save their own face, they may become increasingly inflexible and hardnosed, forcing you to break off negotiations. In this way, they may avoid blame for the failure.
Dining & Entertainment. • Dining is used to probe positions without any formal commitment. Business is generally not discussed during meals. Meals are a vehicle for indirect business references. • The Chinese are superb hosts. Twelve-course banquets with frequent toasts are a Chinese trademark.
Dining & Entertainment (cont'd). • The Chinese sponsoring organization generally hosts a welcoming banquet. Foreign guests should reciprocate toward the end of their visits. Invite everyone with whom you have dealt. • Always arrive exactly on time for a banquet. Never arrive early for dinner. This implies that you are hungry and might cause you to lose face. • Spouses are not usually included in business entertaining, however, businesspeople may bring their secretaries.
Dining & Entertainment (cont'd). • Be prepared to make a small toast for all occasions. • The first toast normally occurs during or after the first course, not before. After the next course, the guest should reciprocate. • Three glasses -- a large one for beer, soda or mineral water, a small wine glass and a stemmed shot glass -are at each place setting. The shot glass is the one used for toasting.
Dining & Entertainment (cont'd). • It is not necessary to always drain your glass after a ganbei (bottoms up), although a host should encourage it. • Do not drink until you toast others at the table. Chinese consider drinking alone to be rude. Simply raising your glass and making eye contact is sufficient. If you are toasted, sip your drink in reply. • A toast to friendship among companies will help cement a business relationship.
Dining & Entertainment (cont'd). • Unless you are totally drunk, it is not advised to refuse a drink. Sipping your drink is perfectly acceptable. • Leave some food on your plate during each course of a meal to honor the generosity of your host. It is bad manners for a Chinese host not to keep refilling guests' plates or teacups.
Dining & Entertainment (cont'd). • Seating is very important. The guest of honor is always placed at the head of the room, facing the door. Allow the host to begin eating before joining in. • Do not discuss business at dinner unless your Chinese counterpart initiates it. • Slurping soup and belching are acceptable. Cover your mouth with your hand when using a toothpick. Put bones, seeds, etc. on the table, never in your rice bowl.
Dining & Entertainment (cont'd). • Chopsticks are used for all meals. Tapping your chopsticks on the table is considered very rude. • When finished eating, place your chopsticks neatly on the table or on the chopstick rest. • When hosting, order one dish for every person present and one extra. In addition, order rice, noodles and buns. Soup usually comes at some point during the meal. The host should tell his/her guests to begin eating a new dish before he digs in himself.
Dining & Entertainment (cont'd). • The host (the one who invites) pays the bill for everyone. • If you are the guest of honor at a dinner, leave shortly after the meal is finished, as no one will leave before the guest of honor. • Breakfast meetings are rare, but you may request one. • Guests are rarely invited to a Chinese home. It is an honor to be a guest. Be on time or a little early for an invitation, and take a small gift.
Dining & Entertainment (cont'd). • Bedrooms and kitchens are private. Don't enter these rooms unless you are invited to do so. • All dishes are served at once in a home. The host will place portions of each dish on guests' plates. Sample each dish. • Rare beef is considered barbaric by the Chinese.
Dress. • Conservative, simple, unpretentious, modest clothing should be worn -- nothing flashy or overly fashionable. • Women should avoid bare backs, shorts, low-cut tops and excessive jewelry. • For business, men should wear sport coats and ties. Slacks and open-necked shirts are generally suitable in the summer for business meetings; jackets and ties are not necessary.
Gifts. • Present a gift with both hands. Gifts are generally not opened upon receiving. Always give a gift to everyone present or don't give gifts at all. • Older Chinese usually refuse a gift at first to be polite. Offer a second time. • Never give a gift of great value until a clear relationship is established. This would cause embarrassment and may not be accepted. Never give gifts in sets (i.e., dishes), but never in sets of four (a number associated with death).
Gifts (cont'd). • Avoid white, which is symbolic of death, especially of parents, and black, which symbolizes tragedy or death. • When invited to someone's home, always bring a small gift for the hostess, such as brandy, chocolates or cakes. • Be prepared to exchange a modest gift with your business colleagues at the first meeting. Not giving a gift could start a business meeting off on the wrong foot.
Gifts (cont'd). • Always give gifts to each member of the Chinese delegation that meets you in the order in which they were introduced. Suggested gifts: cigarettes, French brandy, whiskey, pens, lighters, desk attire, cognac, books, framed paintings. Give more valuable gifts — like cellular phones or small CD players — to senior level people. • Give a group gift from your company to the host company. Present this gift to the leader of the delegation.
Hints. • Chinese find "no" difficult to say. They may say "maybe" or "we'll see" in order to save face. • Always refer to China as "China" or "People's Republic of China," never as "Red China," "Communist China" or "Mainland China." • Always refer to Taiwan as "Taiwan" or "Province of Taiwan," never "China," "Republic of China" (the name adapted by the Nationalist forces after they fled to Taiwan) or "Free China."
Hints (cont'd). • Do not in any way suggest that Taiwan is not part of China. • Show respect for older people. Offer a seat or right of way through the door to a colleague or older person as a polite gesture. • Return applause when applauded. • Refrain from being loud, boisterous or showy.
Hints (cont'd). • Do not be insulted if the Chinese ask personal questions. Just change the subject if you do not want to answer. • Asking about divorce would cause a Chinese person to lose face. • Forcing the Chinese to say "no" will quickly end a relationship. • Never say or act like you are starving and don't ask for a doggy bag.
Especially for women. • China is a difficult place for anyone to conduct business. A woman may gain acceptance, but it will take time and will not be easy. • China is a male-dominated society. However, there are many women in business in China and some occupy high-ranking positions and important managerial jobs. One of the principles of the Chinese communist system is to work toward sexual equality.
Especially for women (cont'd). • Negotiating teams may have women members. Women may be used to decline unpopular proposals. • Businesswomen attend business dinners, but rarely bring their spouses. • Chinese women rarely smoke or drink. However, it is acceptable for Western women to do so moderately.
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Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 2
The second volume in a collection of the most influential essays on Legal History from the career of John W. Cairns
Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critiquedeals with broader themes in Legal History, such as the development of Scots Law through the major legal thinkers of the Enlightenment, essays on Roman law and miscellaneous essays on the literary and philosophical traditions within law.
Both volumes collect together and reprint a selection of some of the many articles and essays published by Professor John W. Cairns over a distinguished career in Legal History. It is a mark of his international eminence that much of his prolific output has been published outside of the UK, in a wide variety of journals and collections. The consequence is that some of his most valuable writing has appeared in sources which are difficult to locate.


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text: Morning Services at Camp Jul 06 2011 This week at camp, I'm doing a service each morning with middle school students. Many of these campers have seen my shows before here at camp, so i'm glad we worked on so much new material over the winter. Even so, there is a familiarity they have with me that I don't have with most audiences. Nonetheless, we're having fun, and hopefully learning about Jesus in the process. That being said, today's show was a rough one. I had been dealing with administrative issues right up to the start of the show, so I hadn't stretched, warmed up, or even sequenced the routines I was going to perform. My opening juggling routine had many drops, I seemed confused or lost a lot (which I was!), and my mind was very distracted by things unrelated to the show. Feeling so poorly about my session with the campers, then, I was surprised and pleased with how so many of the things I was trying to communicate were reiterated so clearly by our evening speaker, Peter Valji. Perhaps some of the things he said triggered a memory in a child's mind of a moment in my show when I made the same point. Maybe they got more out of what I presented than I think. Maybe I'm unnecessarily hard on myself. What ever the situation, I know that 'One waters, one reaps, but the Lord provides the harvest.' I know that even in my worst performances, somehow what I do is part of that process.


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Not all elemental systems have eight elements, some such as certain Eastern ones have 8, for example.
With the four you also have your elemental grades in each, wherein the four are reflected in each of the four:
Fire of Earth, Air of Earth, etc.
The Zodiac is actually an elemental system with a triad modality of cardinal, fixed and mutable.
For example, Pisces is mutable water, Cancer is cardinal water and Scorpio is fixed water.
The planets while they aren't elements per se, are a celestial equivalent to the base elements.
Elementsl, magic(k) then can be very broad indeed, and everything has relation to it.
As for gods, sometimes they do work with gods if those gods have a strong affinity for a particular element.
Then again, you may be discovering there is more than elementalism to your praxis.
What exactly is it you inherited from her that influences your own path?
Did she leave you any kind of understanding of how these things are related-
and are you trying to make them harmonious under the term witch because of her influence?
In a very basic sense an elementalist and a mage tend to be the same thing but this is not always a case.
Elementalist is a term used to describe someone who works with the elements, how they work with them varies.
They may simply try to be around, get a feel for and learn the virtues of these elements.
A magician does this, however an elementalist may or may not practice magick, though most I would say do on some level.
A magician may not work within an elemental heavy paradigm but good luck finding a system that does not have elemental or planetary correspondences.
Magical systems, ceremonial ones usually tend to operates on the mechanics of one or the other, often both.
Neither infers gods, yet neither path is anti-gods, and we are talking about umbrella terms that are very broad.
If we are looking at the cultural origins of the word magick we are looking at the cermeonial magick stying.
Traditionally and classically ceremonial magick does include god-names and calls thereof,
however while the writers of many of the classic sources would have been more apt to see these as very literal and specific beings with their own agendas,
Many ceremonial magicians, though hardly all, tend to see the names as formula.
Is a magicians path ceremonial magick? Depends on what you mean when you think of magician, technically witches that practice the arte magical are considered magicians.
Wiccans who follow trad-Wicca via Gardner are certainly magicians. However many witches do not draw upon the culture the word "magician" comes from and might not chose it for their preferred label. Practitioners who pull from the grimoires and traditions characterized by the styling thereof are much more likely to refer to themselves as a magician.
They also practice Ceremonial Magick.
Now technically, Ceremonial Magic(k) means exactly that, magick that is heavy on ceremony and ritual, and tends to be very specific in what it calls for.
However, it is also associated with the traditions of classical magick of this nature, which tend to draw heavily on Abrahamic and pre/proto-Abrahamic sources.
Not all magicians work those influences, some use ceremonial techniques but go off in another direction.
Examples inlude those who work based on the Necronomicon,
Crowley, who went even further with an Egyptian pantheon than the Golden Dawn, which still often incorporated YHVH, INRI etc.
Or even Gardner, who applied ceremonial techniques to witch-mythos.
Ceremonial magick isn't a specific set path so much as a category of many paths.
Same with a mage, there is no one term for a religion of mages.
Nope, it doesn't work like that. You many personal have an affinity with a specific element however the magician is to be elementally balanced, and able to work effectively with all four.


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Unite accuses of First West Yorkshire of allowing services to wither on the vine
Hundreds of Bradford bus drivers today begin a 48-hour strike over jobs, attacks on their terms and conditions and allegations of bullying.
The main issue in dispute is the transfer of part of the 576 bus service from Bradford to Halifax with the loss of eight jobs when it will be operated by the Halifax depot. The Unite members accuse First West Yorkshire of allowing services 'to wither on the vine'.
The union also opposes the imposition of rosters, without prior consultation and negotiations. This was an abrupt change to the existing good relationship between the union and local management.
Unite regional officer Harriet Eisner said: "This blinkered management has let services wither on the vine over the last four years – for example, the number of drivers employed has shrunk from 470 to 380 in that time.
"While the strike on 27/ 28 April will be inconvenient for thousands of bus users, the bigger picture that Unite is fighting for is the maintenance of good and reliable services with top quality buses, properly serviced. We also want our members treated with dignity and respect.
"There is a big shortage of drivers with no recruitment of new drivers and this is coupled with the movement of jobs without consultation from Bradford to other towns.
"This situation is compounded by inadequate engineering of the buses and the recycling of old buses. Many buses are unreliable – with all the health and safety considerations that this state of affairs raises.
"The management needs to wake up and take the union's legitimate concerns seriously.
"The company has been dragging its feet in talks with Unite and we have been left with no option, but to call this strike, so the citizens of Bradford get the service they deserve and pay for.
"We call on management to jettison its macho stance and get back to mutually respectful and meaningful negotiations to avoid this damaging strike."
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We make home visits in Elland and surroundings for dog obedience and puppy training. Our training is 1-2-1 with you and your dog or puppy at your home in Elland so that you can learn to control your dog. We believe that training for you is just as important as training your dog.
Our training is aimed at solving the problems you may be having with your dog such as pulling on the lead, poor recall, aggression, barking, jumping up, and general dog obedience. Our training is effective and is based on our ten years training dogs in the UK and abroad.
- Cockapoo,Labradoodle
- Goldendoodle,Sprocker
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Some trainers believe that giving a dog treats is the best way to train but in our opinion relying on treats exclusively just does not work. Your dog may learn how behave but only does it at because there's a treat at the end of it and many times treats just stop working. Essentially you are bribing the dog to behave properly.Bad behaviour by a dog makes an owner's life a misery. Our dog training solves problems with bad behaviour as this is our speciality. Many of the problems are very common and we work with your dog and just as importantly, with you at your home or on a walk, to solve the problems.
- Stop pulling on the lead
- Stop lunging at other dogs
- Stop barking at dogs & people
- Stop jumping up at people
- Stop aggression
- Stop running away and not returning
- Stop constant barking
- Stop barking at the door
Training you dog to be obedient is vital for the owner and vital for the dog. A disobedient dog is not a happy dog as it has no stability as it doesn't know the rules. Owning a dog should be a pleasure not a chore. Our Elland dog trainer will train your dog in basic dog obedience on home visit and will show you the commands so that you are able to follow up the training. We will go for a walk with you in the local park or wherever you walk your dog to ensure that you are comfortable with your dog and know how to control the dog.
- Heel Work – dog will be taught to walk to heel on the lead without pulling.
Puppies go through phases that can make you wonder why you wanted a puppy to begin with. They jump up at people, bark constantly, and bite. All this is perfectly normal but needs to be stopped so that your puppy becomes well behaved.
At Elland dog training we are very experience in training puppies to grow up to be well behaved members of your family. Our training is based on correction and reward as the only way your puppy will ever learn is if there is a clear and consistent connection between your puppy's actions and your reaction.
We train your puppy at your home one to one and on a walk with you in Elland so that you can learn how to correct and reward your dog. Working with you is an essential part of the training which is why we do not offer classes. Our training is all one to one which is both quicker, more effective, and suited to your family circumstances.
- Toilet Training - we will show you the easiest way to toilet train your puppy
- Crate Training - we will show you how to crate train your puppy
- Biting - we will show you how to stop "mouthing" or biting
- Destructive Behaviour - we will show you how to stop destructive behaviour
Some trainers believe that giving your puppy treats is the best way to stop bad behaviour but in our opinion relying on treats exclusively just does not work. Your puppy dog may learn how behave but only does it at because there's a treat at the end of it and eventually they just stop working. Essentially you are trying to bribe the puppy to behave properly and it just does not work. Our puppy training solves problems with bad behaviour as this is our speciality and stopping bad behaviour is vital and should be done as soon as possible.
- Stop pulling on the lead
- Stop lunging at other dogs
- Stop barking at dogs & people
- Stop jumping up at people
- Stop aggression
- Stop running away and not returning
- Stop constant barking
If your dog is, jumping up at people or you, stealing food, destructive, running out of the door, barking constantly, aggressive to humans or dogs and more … you need home 1-2-1 home training. Two hours is usually enough to cure most problems because we train you to take control and then you don't need us anymore.
We train throughout Yorkshire. We come to your home wherever you live in Yorkshire and work with you and your dog or puppy on a 1-2-1 basis.
We train all breeds of dog from "designer" dogs such as the cockapoo or labradoodle through to working dogs such as spaniels and terriers. We also specialise in larger dogs such as German Shepherds, Rottweilers, Dobermans, all Mastiffs.
Pulling on the lead , running away and refusing to return, and barking and lunging at other dogs are the most common problems we deal with. We go for a walk with you and we always choose a busy park and usually stop this in an hour.
Unlike some trainers, we only use "treats" in some circumstances particularly with high level obedience training. They are over used and eventually do not work with problem behaviour. Our method is correction and then reward with praise. Enticing or "bribing" a dog is counter-productive and they soon spot how to manipulate the situation. The most important training, however, is the owner training so that you can control your dog.
The short answer is NO. We simply do not think they work. There are too a many puppies and they just want to play with each other and are totally distracted. The owners cannot possibly get individual attention in an hour with 8 or 10 or more people in a class. We only offer 1-2-1 puppy training in your home because it's quicker, more effective, and cheaper!
Our dog trainer offers a one to one home visit in Elland & surroundings for dog and puppy training.
Many local authorities restrict where dogs can be walked and also where they can be walked off the lead. Elland dog training can train your dog or puppy to walk off lead and there are places near Elland where you can let your dog run free.
Taking your dog to the pub or cafe is a pleasure if it's well behaved. Elland dog training in obedience ensures that you can go for a drink with your dog knowing that you are not going to have any problems. These pubs welcome dogs and there are more at Doggie Pubs.
After an initial telephone conversation with a lovely gentleman at Leeds Dog School , Rob came to see our 9 month old Labrador who was jumping up, stealing food, and making it difficult for me to leave the room without him barking or trying to follow me. Rob had an immediate impact . Everything he said would happen actually happened !! He showed us simple but effective techniques that work and explained the psychology begins it so you understand . A very genuine , knowledgeable man who wants to help people to enjoy their dogs and make lives easier. Will definitely be booking another session to address pulling on lead and recall and feel very confident that Rob will be able to address . Thank you so much . Highly recommended .Kathryn Shaw 13 Jan 2019
Rob has just been around to our house wonderful knowledge and is very down to earth bloke. Would highly recommend him to anyone our bulldog showed an instant improvement and we now have the tools to carry on and progress with the training Thanks RobJoe Emmo 05 Jan 2019
We have a 9week old golden retriever who was generally being a naughty puppy but we didn't really know how to address the bad behaviour (biting, constant crying in the crate, jumping up etc.).We found Leeds Dog School on-line and given the 5star reviews from everyone, we decided to give them a call. A few days later Rob come round and literally within 10minutes we noticed a change in our puppies behaviour through us leaning simple but effective techniques. Would highly recommend.Adam Juniper 02 Jan 2019
Rob visited me and my 13 month Cocker Spaniel this afternoon and he was brilliant. He helped us set up the foundations of training so we can eventually let him off the lead. I instantly noticed a difference in his behaviour and I now enjoy walking him without him virtually pulling my arm off! I would recommend Rob to anyone, he really is excellent.Jan Brook 21 Dec 2018
Just had our first session, so impressed with how it has gone! The hour started with our 6 month old GSD ripping a hole in Rob's jumper and ended with a calm puppy. Just successfully mopped the living room floor with a spectator rather than "helper". Looking forward to the next session. Thanks so much!Freya Shaw 20 Nov 2018
I contacted Leeds Dog School for help in controlling our Labrador's incessant and aggressive barking at anyone who comes to the house. It had reached the point where my own mother has stopped visiting because of the din my dog makes. Rob came out and showed us a very simple technique which worked immediately and is easy for the whole family to implement and commit to.Leach Ann-Marie 19 Nov 2018
Had our first session today with Rob. It's not rocket science what you learn, it's sensible and practice lessons in dog behaviour. We love our 2 year old black Labrador, but he runs rings around us, and we are too soft. Not anymore, Rob has show us how to gain control and correct Finley. So we have less stress with our dog. Looking forward to the next session.Tracey Oliver 30 Oct 2018
Rob came to our house to help us with our 5 year old Doberman. In less than 15 minutes he had stopped her barking when people came to the door. We've seen a massive improvement in her behaviour already since he came and can't wait for him to come back to help us tackle her response to joggers, cyclists, etc.Pat Mangion 14 Oct 2018


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Look at her cute little nose! I couldn't resist!
Thursday, March 1, 2012
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Aw, your puppy is SO cute!! And I love these little walk photos, adorable + your outfit is very casual chic. Love!! xo VReplyDelete
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Awwww your puppy is really cute, and I like veeeeery much your outfit is like chill but cool.ReplyDelete
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Happy Saturday, friends!
Yesterday, my girlies and I worked on a cute little Valentines Day craft together and we had a lot of fun!
I usually have a habit to stray away from the crafts for my own selfish reasons…
- Glitter/Glue= Mess
- Fighting
- More mess
But……… I made a promise to myself at the beginning of the year to start embracing all things motherhood (including the aggravating moments of spilled glitter, etc). You can read a little more about that here.
I honestly have just come to a place in my life where I had to make a choice to change my mind set to see the positive during the hard (mommy) times. I was starting to make myself go crazy… I mean crazy, and even though getting my littles together to do this project was likely going to cause some type of bickering over "who got to do what", I followed through anyways and we all absolutely loved it!
It was super simple and I already had everything here at home.
The girls loved having their little feet painted. Brooklyn giggled and Harper wasn't quite sure what I was doing… she just wanted her foot back to see what was going on.
Honestly, as the girls are getting older it is getting SO fun to do these kinds of activities with them. They are learning to understand holidays and that some kind of "celebration" is getting close! If my girls are anything like me, they love getting to decorate for a party!
This moment was a classic with Harper in the background, I wonder if she found anything in there?
Enjoy your weekend with your beautiful families and let you love grow FOOT by FOOT for each other!


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Use hypnosis to increase your sports performance
Hypnosis has long been an accepted part of psychotherapy, medicine and dentistry. Hypnosis has also historically been used by sporting competitors at all levels and is an incredibly powerful tool for athletes for both therapeutic and performance-enhancement purposes. Athletes try many different ways to help enhance their performance in sports and one extremely effective method commonly used is hypnotherapy.
In 1956 the Russian Olympic team took 11 hypnotists to the Melbourne Olympics as support staff and at those games the Russians won more medals than any other competing country. Golfer Jack Nicklaus says hypnosis and visualization techniques helped with his success in his sport and tennis pro Andre Agassi worked with Anthony Robbins using hypnosis and NLP to improve his performance on the tennis court.
Many successful sports professionals use some form of visualisation or hypnotherapy for sports performance and many seek the help of a clinical hypnotherapist or sports psychologist to assist in their mental preparation. While these two modalities have much in common clinical hypnotherapists directly influence the subconscious mind which controls learnt behaviour such as sporting skills, muscle memory, mental focus and other vital elements of sports performance.
Hypnotherapy for sports performance
You can use hypnotherapy, creative visualisation and NLP techniques to maximise your performance in many ways:
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For DERBY-538 I have code to use a class loader, for the application jars installed in a database, based upon the standard Java URLClassLoader. The advantages to this are the standard security features of URLClassLoader are picked up such as signature checking and Jar sealing. However, I hit a couple of test failures where a restore from backup fails because the old database cannot be removed because an open file cannot be deleted on Windows. Basically it is a reflection of/related to this Java bug where URLClassLoader keeps the jar files that it is using open. http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4950148 The code that fails is from backupRestore.sql ----------------------------------------------------------------------- call sqlj.install_jar('extin/brtestjar.jar', 'aggjar', 0); call SYSCS_UTIL.SYSCS_SET_DATABASE_PROPERTY('derby.database.classpath', 'APP.aggjar'); create function dv(P1 INT) RETURNS INT NO SQL external name 'dbytesting.CodeInAJar.doubleMe' language java parameter style java; select cast (dv(x) as dec(5,2)) from x; -- empty statrement cache -- call ec(); ----take a backup. call SYSCS_UTIL.SYSCS_BACKUP_DATABASE('extinout/mybackup'); disconnect; connect 'wombat;shutdown=true'; ---restore a databases connect 'wombat;restoreFrom=extinout/mybackup/wombat'; ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The last connect to restore the database is failing. I can do either of these two things to make the restore work: 1) don't execute the select with the user's function that is using code from the aggjar jar file 2) Uncomment the call to the ec() procedure that empties the statement cache. Thus the compiled plan is obviously holding onto a reference to the generated class that in turn has a reference to the dbytesting.CodeInAJar class that was loaded by the URLClassLoader. This URLClassLoader has the open file that is the aggjar jar file. But I can't figure out what is holding onto the statement cache and/or the compiled plan when the test is failing, I have so far done all of: - null out the reference to the statement cache in the language factory at database shutdown - null out references to the URLCLassLoader in the ClassFactory at database shutdown - checked ij is performing a close on the connection - checked the background raw store daemon thread is going away at database shutdown - executed extra simple queries after the select to ensure ij is not hanging onto the last ResultSet obtained - Looped 100 times on database shutdown, calling System.gc and System.runFinalization with a 40ms sleep on each iteration I do see the URLClassLoader being finalized eventually (too late, several statements later in the script) and with the empty the statement cache, the URLClassLoader is finalized at database shutdown as one would expect. Is there any tooling builtin to the JVM to show reference chains, so I can see at shutdown who is holding onto the generated plan? Thanks! Dan.
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The Father says today, this year the high call will be accomplished in your life. This year, says the Father, I call upon you to pour out your life as a drink offering in service to the kingdom. You have prayed, cried and declared that you would be THAT ONE who would serve, THAT ONE who would allow Me to spend you, allow Me to bend you to My will. I heard that prayer when you said "Lord, you can have all of Me…" and this day I take you up on the offer. This year, I receive the sacrifice. I call you oh My beloved, says the Father, to run after Me and to run the way of My commandments. You said "Father, draw Me and I will pursue…" and to you I say "come". Come and see where I dwell. Come and see what the casual and those tepid in their faith will never know.
The inner court is open, says the Father, to all who are hungering for more than what religious infrastructure can give. To all those who are thirsting and will not be satisfied with the saccharine libations of unenlightened men, who have mistaken charisma for anointing and license for My favor. Come My beloved. Come and see. Come and sit at the table I have prepared for you. Set aside the casual and the careless ways of the false professors and become truly Mine in a measure that goes beyond all that you have ever offered on My altars. Allow Me to make you salt in the earth. Allow Me to make you light to those who sit in darkness. To all who are thirsting and all who are longing for the inner court I say, come.
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Coca-Cola Co.'s new chief executive wants the company to shake off a culture of cautiousness that has dogged the soda giant for more than a century.
Nicknamed the "New Coke syndrome" -- after the company's catastrophic 1985 decision to reformulate its namesake brand -- that fear of failure is counterproductive at a time when Coca-Cola has to take more risks, James Quincey said in an interview this week at his office.
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The 52-year-old Mr. Quincey, who succeeded Muhtar Kent as CEO on May 1, is taking the helm at an existential moment for the world's largest beverage company. Fewer people are drinking soda. Sugary drinks are being slapped with taxes in the U.S., U.K. and beyond, as governments look to raise revenue and curb consumption of added sugar, which has been linked to diabetes and obesity. And while Coca-Cola has diversified into dairy, tea, bottled water and other beverages, 70% of its global sales by volume is still soda.
Mr. Quincey's answer: Coke must become a "total beverage company." And to do that, it must not be afraid to make mistakes, he said.
"I'm not sure fear of failure is entirely wrong, except when it leads to inaction," Mr. Quincey said, sipping occasionally from a bottle of sparkling smartwater. "If you're trying to do something different on Coke, failure is big and emblematic."
But on smaller, emerging brands, the company needs to be experimenting more, he said. "If we're not making mistakes, we're not trying hard enough."
Some company insiders and analysts say Coke should have moved sooner to address the sugar issue and adapt to shifting consumer tastes. At Mr. Quincey's urging, Coke in 2014 dropped its fight in the U.K. against voluntary health labels on its beverage packaging, which included a warning about high levels of sugar in its regular sodas. The company has begun promoting smaller package sizes and reformulating beverages to offer more low- and no-calorie options.
In the U.S., where consumers now drink more bottled water than soda, Coke is shifting from a volume-focused business to one in which it shares profit with its bottlers, so it can sell smaller cans and bottles at higher prices.
It is also in the process of selling off most of its bottling operations to focus on its more profitable concentrate business, a process that by next year will leave it with fewer than 40,000 global employees, down from 150,900 in 2012.
Mr. Quincey is cutting another 1,200 jobs, representing 20% of the company's corporate staff. And he is officially giving employees permission to say that Coke isn't their favorite brand in the company's portfolio, an admission that would have been blasphemous a year ago.
"If we are to be a total beverage company, it has to be OK for consumers to say something else is their favorite brand. Therefore, it has to be OK for an employee to say something else is their favorite brand," he said.
In 10 or 15 years, he said, soda could represent less than half of the company's global sales by volume, a shift he hopes to accelerate by investing more in upstarts and acquiring new brands.
Mr. Quincey was born and raised in the U.K. and studied electrical engineering at the University of Liverpool, then decided he was better at business than designing semiconductors. He joined Coke in 1996 and led operations in Latin America and Europe before being tapped as COO in 2015 and heir apparent to Mr. Kent.
Mr. Quincey cited a product stumble of his own, when rolling out a drink in Argentina in 2003 modeled on mate, a local herbal tea. It is traditionally made by filling a gourd with leaves and hot water and consumed in a group, with everyone drinking from the same straw. Coke's version, bottled and bubbly, missed the point, he said.
"The mistake that we made was not to understand why people drank it," Mr. Quincey said. "It's about the social occasion."
Coke is now under pressure to become more cost-efficient. Analysts have speculated that within a few years, it could be a takeover target of Brazilian investment firm 3G Capital Partners LP, whose founders are controlling shareholders in brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev NV. A 3G spokesman didn't respond to a request for comment.
Improving efficiency will be "a critical success factor" for the soda giant, HSBC analyst Carlos Laboy said. "Bottlers say head count is a problem at Coke. Too many people are doing the same redundant things."
Of 3G, Mr. Quincey said: "They're very clearly saying: We're setting a new benchmark as to what running an operation efficiently looks like. I think every company, including us and our bottling partners, we need to look at those benchmarks." He added that Coke would look to cut costs without sacrificing revenue growth.
As recently as 2015, Mr. Kent was doubling down on soda, a strategy that analysts say failed. Mr. Quincey rejects that conclusion.
"There's no road to the future without a successful red Coke," he said. "We need to be growing the sparkling revenue and expanding our leadership in the other categories. You've got to do both. That's the only way forward."
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- February 3, 1927 - January 14, 2018
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Leland Wayne Roth, Born February 3, 1927, age 90, passed away peacefully in his sleep on Sunday, January 14, 2018 at Country View of Sunbury in Sunbury, Ohio. He was preceded in death by his parents Guy and Arlie Roth, his first wife Lillian Mae Roth, second wife Norma Thacker Roth, and brothers Lloyd, Virgil, Ralph, and Paul Roth.
Leland served his country in the U.S Navy during World War II on a destroyer, the USS McGowan (DD678). He retired from Columbus Coated Fabrics Company, after more than 30 years. He resided with his wife, Norma Thacker Roth in Westerville, Ohio, where they were members of Westerville Christian Church.
Leland held a private pilot license and enjoyed the thrill of flying; he was a long-time member of EAA Chapter 9. He was also an automotive enthusiast, attending many races as a spectator, but also spent some time on the track as well as at racing schools. He was a member of the Minerva Park Mallard Ducks Racing Team.
He is survived by his brother Kenneth Roth, son Leland Roth II and wife Rebecca, his three grandchildren, Steven (Arnie), Adam (Keyla), and Melinda, and two great grandchildren, Vickie and Max, plus many nieces and nephews.
Family and friends may call 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Friday, January 19, 2018 at Crouse-Kauber-Fraley Funeral Home, 225 N. Main Street, Johnstown, Ohio 43031 (740-967-6085). Funeral service will immediately follow at 1:00 p.m. with minister Mark Stier presiding.
Interment will be at Northlawn Memory Gardens in Westerville, Ohio. The family would like to thank the staff at Country View of Sunbury and Bella Care Hospice for their loving care of Leland.


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If people just played music to suit the mood, we would not have new music.
Nature is a symphony if only you listen .
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If people just played music to suit the mood, we would not have new music.
Nature is a symphony if only you listen .
Even if the apocalypse does happen, people will still come to the beaches to watch the sunset.
Kanyakumari was just a few hours away from Kovalam, the venue of 2015's hackbeach, that I() decided to plan a day trip to visit the Southernmost tip of the Indian subcontinent. We toyed with the idea of taking a cab like a friend of ours did but in the end we opted to take the Island City Express to travel the roughly 3-hour journey. This was turning out to be quite a low cost trip thanks to the company I had. One of the concerns I have with solo tripping is that it does burn a hole in your pocket if done for short periods of time.
Tip: To get to the station from Kovalam, you have to choose between a rick (tuk-tuk), cab or the bus.
So we caught the train around 12:30 and reach Kanyakumari by 15:00. We were staying at Vedanta – Wake up and since it seemed closeby we decided to walk there. As we walked to our Inn, we got our first taste of the multi-ethnical, multi-cultural town of Kanyakumari.
After a brief break, we decided to head to the tip, where the action seemed to be; the sea shore. The Triveni Sangam is one of those rare places where you get to see the "meeting" of 3 bodies of water. This incidentally also means that at Kanyakumari you can see the sun rise from the sea and set into the sea as well. However the weather was gloomy and we did not get to see the sunset.
There is a Gandhi Mandapam where his ashes were kept before immersion. This is really a huge empty building populated in some parts by lovers.
As it grew darker we decided to explore the shops around and man! were we in for a surprise. The busy market was full of LED lit shops selling wares for Rs. 30, Rs. 20, etc. Entire shops dedicated to a single pricepoint.
We headed back to Vedanta to sleep early so that we could wake up to see a sunrise.
Unfortunately, the morning was just as gloomy and the crowds that had woken up with the hope of seeing a sunrise had nothing to do. Some of us walked down the stone jetty to the far end and sat down to take in the calmness of the morning but there were people selling watery tea and trying to con people into buying 'pearl' necklaces. There was this one guy who haggled with a family and brought down the price from 200 to 20. Later on in the market, I overheard another seller trying to sell similar necklaces to foreigners for $100. I wonder if anyone falls for their tricks.
When we got back we could see that the line to visit the Vivekanand Memorial snaked through the bylanes of the town and the memorial had not even opened yet. So we decided to skip it since we wouldn't be able to make it back to Trivandrum in time. But we had plenty of time to kill, so I decided to go for a stroll along the coast.
Being from a coastal town, I felt surprised to see the amount of construction and development done to commercialize the shoreline and provide people a place to sit and see the ocean. The roads too were well maintained and the streetlights bright.
Finally it was time to go. We headed back to the train station and waited for the island city express to start.
Back we headed to Trivandrum.
The birds created convoluted patterns in the sky, as the students sat on the lawns absorbing into their souls that this magical night was the end of their journey.
Three years.
These three years that came at the right time.
These three years where we grew up.
These three years made us who we are right now.
These three years full of stories and people.
These three years that we needed.
The first time I heard of Varkala was probably way back in 2011, when we were in chennai and trying to decide what could be our next trip post Pondicherry. We never ended up going for it then and when I was planning a list of places to visit in 2015, I tried to include it.
The Diwali extended holiday seemed right for a trip down south and so it began with me flying to Trivandrum from Bangalore on the 11th of November. In hindsight, I should have tried the train from Bangalore.
Tip: A cheap way of getting to Varkala from Bangalore is taking the 16526/Island Express which leaves at 8:00 PM and reaches the next day around 12:00 AM.
Now that I landed in Trivandrum, I had to figure out a way to get to Varkala. The internet spoke of buses from the airport to the city and the city to Varkala but I was told that they are not very frequent and the train is my best option. So after getting to the city for which I paid a rickshaw ₹ 150 to ferry me, I bought myself a ticket to Varkala. It cost ₹ 30 to get to Varkala in a crowded general compartment (the Island express on its way back to SBC) full of the afternoon crowd. Once there, I just took an auto after non-aggressively haggling to take me there for ₹ 80. My return trip cost me ₹ 70.
Vedanta Wake up! was where I chose to stay in Varkala. I had tried Vedanta earlier this year at Kochi and was quite satisfied with what they offered. Vedanta, though is located a bit away from the beach but not too far so it still is a good choice for solo travellers.
Tip: Go for a morning walk along the cliff walkway and the beach, you will get to see fishing boats casting their nets. Walking south takes you to quiet beaches, walking north takes you to the black sand beach.
I spent just a day out here but I liked is so much that I shall surely return again. I had to head to Kovalam next, so at around 12pm I set out to the train station. I was told that there is an AC volvo and decided to take it instead since the train would take longer. There are no boards informing you of the bus, but luckily one did come along at 1pm, half hour later than what the local shop owner had told me. It cost me ₹ 92 to Trivandrum and the bus continued to go to Kovalam from there so I travelled on it for ₹ 32.
2015 was the year I realised that I now read non-fiction more than fiction. I also tried to buy a graphic novel a month this year and resolved to finish my backlog.
Though I was not successful at finishing my backlog I did get some really good books into my collection which I shall finish in 2016. Unlike those long lists out there, I am just getting back to reading. Here are the chosen ones.
Being Mortal: I loved his style of introducing his topic and keeping you interested through every chapter.
Do androids dream of electric sheep: One of the smoothest sci-fi stories which is bound to make you fall in love with the genre.
Nick and Norah's infinite playlist: I do not know why i like the story, but I finally read the novel behind one of my all time favourite movies. Next up is Me, Earl and the Dying Girl.
Haroun and the Sea of Stories: Surprisingly my first Rushdie was a book written primarily for the child in you. Next up is Luka and the Fire of Life.
Modern Romance: A subject I would not have chosen to read upon but was a delight and reading it made me enjoy 'Master of None' even more.
What I talk about when I talk about running: Easily the best book i've read this year and the one I shall recommend and gift to people to read. You need not want to run to read this book.
The Hard Thing about Hard Things: Recommended by a lot of people, this book did not live up to its hype and Ben came across to me as a mighty lucky chap who is looking at things in hindsight but there were good things to be learnt from it.
The New Ghost: A short story about the afterlife with some great art.
By this Shall You Know Him: A short story about creation with some mind boggling art
In Real Life: A story set in the contemporary world of MMORPGs and questions ethics on the internet.
Killing and Dying: This anthology of short stories of people like you and me made it to bestseller lists this year.
Gaysi Zine #3 #4: A shoutout on the Kokkachi fb page showed me this wonderful zine and I ended up funding the #4. However I liked #3 better 😛
Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland: This tribute revival of the Winsor McCay comic strip was beautiful though I had bought this book thinking its the entire collection.
Prophet: Remission Volume 1: I bought this book because I am a fan of Brandon Graham. The story so far has been cryptic.
The Wrong Place: What a pretty watercolour graphic novel. Brecht Evans' debut has a good story to go with the art but it ends up lacking something.
Chicken with Plums (reread): Because I was feeling like Nasser Ali Khan.
Antares Episode 5: I just love this series, the alien world's Leo illustrates are fascinating.
I hope to read more in 2016. Feel free to recommend me books to read.
The box sat there long after I had put everything else away. I did not know what I was to do with it. It had come to me along with the other boxes from the old house but this box was different. It was filled to the brim with notebooks of all kinds; big and small, fat and thin, square and rectangle. Most were unruled and some had square grids. Some were even within their original plastic packaging. They all had one thing in common and that is that they seemed to be unused.
I sat down beside the box and started to remove them one by one. Why were they empty and what was the point of having so many of them in the first place? What was the reason for their existence?
I picked one and ruffled through the pages. It was hand bound and looked exotic like it had been found in one of those kitsch stores. Nothing.
I repeated this action with every book in the box, hoping to find a clue to what they had meant to their owner, my father. But I found nothing. Nothing but yellowing pages sometimes riddled with bookworm holes.
One by one, I put them back in the box, and put the box under my bed.


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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #559
Dean is having surgery this week and Phil's cat, Fuzz Aldrin, continues her brave recovery. Because some of you asked for updates on these matters, your friends in podcasting begin this week's epic installment with fascinating and inspiring stories pertaining to them. Then, it's all about movies …
The critics groups have all awarded their favorites. The professional guilds and unions have honored theirs. The Academy Award nominations were announced, which your Dean and Phil analyze a bit on the show. For the most part, however, this week it's Dean and Phil's turn. Keep those Netflix queues handy as the gents count down their Top Ten Films of 2017. And, of course, far more than 20 films will get discussed in what is an extra-long installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour, one that truly stretches the definition of "hour"! Trust us, they go off the beaten path for their choices this year in an effort to champion some films that were sadly overlooked or under-marketed. Discover cinematic gems and regale in hilarious, irreverent, and occasionally insightful bickering.
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #338
This week's show opens with four emails from listeners like you, prompting discussions about Henry Fonda, spaghetti westerns, the LAX shooting, depression, kindness, listening, a sketch comedy podcast, the Nielsen television ratings and digital piracy.
That's not all, though …
There's a live event involving actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus and filmmaker Nicole Holofcener.
There are movies like The House on Haunted Hill, The Grapes of Wrath and three of this year's Oscar hopefuls.
And there's even the "sunk cost fallacy", the third of eight ways our brains lie to us every day.
It's all in an hour (and two minutes) of work for your friends in podcasting!
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #333
From an historic gold rush town in rural British Columbia to the origins of our (3 dimensional) Universe, your friends in podcasting go way back into the past and look forward into the speculative future on this week's show.
Like television? Then, you might enjoy hearing Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness discuss the ending of "Breaking Bad" and the debuts of "The Blacklist" and "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
Like movies? Then, you might enjoy hearing Dean and Phil discuss Jude Law's work in Steven Soderbergh's Hitchcockian Side Effects, Ron Howard's effort to bring Formula One to the big screen with Rush, the influence Sergio Leone is having on Phil's own filmmaking efforts these days and what Phil has learned about the interesting journey Leone's "Dollars" trilogy took to U.S. theatre screens. Oh, and also, Dean tears into the abysmal Man of Steel.
Like science fiction? Then, you might enjoy hearing Dean and Phil discuss Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep in print, on screen and even on stage! And they effusively reminisce a great deal about Alfonso Cuaron's Chrildren of Men (and a little bit about his Prisoner of Azkaban) in anticipation of the release this week of Gravity.
Of course, if you just like good, insightful, irreverent and inspiring conversation, then you'll definitely enjoy this brand new episode of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour!


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I am glad that I have enough brain cells left to read between the lines. Well, it was definitely out there. I guess, it was something only I could understand. I wouldn't have known about it until I clicked on the page. Have you ever received an apology through a song? Of course, I should have known better knowing who it was coming from. Then again that is probably why there are millions of songs and lyrics out there. It's the easiest way to express oneself. A milquetoast perhaps? An apology is better than no apology at all right? I guess I would have to live with that.
I posted a song and got a song for an answer. I must admit I was close to tears. Thank God I had my Grey's Anatomy Season 3 to look forward to. We know it's only temporary relief too right? Inhale...exhale...breathe Bettina. Breathe...
"Oh no, I see,
A spider web is tangled up with me,
And I lost my head,
The thought of all the stupid things I said,
Oh no whats this?
A spider web, and Im caught in the middle,
So I turned to run,
The thought of all the stupid things Ive done,
I never meant to cause you trouble,
And I never meant to do you wrong,
And i, well if I ever caused you trouble,
Oh no, I never meant to do you harm."
That was his apology.


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Provident Financial Hikes Dividend 8%
Fourth-Quarter Profit Rises 12%
New York, NY — Provident Financial Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PROV), the holding company for Provident Savings Bank, F.S.B., raised its quarterly cash dividend by eight percent to $0.13 per share as the mortgage market strengthened in its core business market.
The company announced an increase in dividend as it reported a 12% jump in profit to $2.8 million, or $0.34 per share, for the quarter ended in June. (Source: "Provident Financial Holdings Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2016 Earnings," The Wall Street Transcript, July 26, 2016.)
The increase in net income for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2016 was primarily attributable to an increase in the gain on sale of loans and a higher recovery from the allowance for loan losses as compared to the same period one year ago.
"Mortgage banking fundamentals continued to improve this quarter which resulted in the sequential quarter increase in net income," said Craig G. Blunden, chairman and chief executive officer of the company. "We continue to increase our preferred loan portfolio at a solid pace, up 15% from last year, while the legacy single-family portfolio is declining, resulting in what we believe to be a more favorable loan portfolio composition." (Source: Ibid.)
The bank operates 14 retail banking offices in Riverside County and San Bernardino County. Provident Bank Mortgage operates two wholesale loan production offices and 14 retail loan production offices located throughout California.
For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2016, net income decreased $2.09 million, or 21%, to $7.71 million from $9.80 million in the comparable period last year. The diluted earnings per share for the fiscal year decreased $0.17 per share, or 16%, to $0.90 per share from $1.07 per share for the comparable 12-month period last year, the company said in the statement.
Net interest income decreased $88,000, or one percent, to $8.76 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2016 from $8.85 million for the same quarter of fiscal 2015, attributable to a lower average earning assets balance, partly offset by a slight increase in the net interest margin. The average earning assets balance for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2016 was $1.13 billion, down one percent from $1.14 billion during the same period last year. (Source: Ibid.)
Shares rose more than one percent after the announcement and were trading at $19.50 on the NASDAQ.
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SkyLine Gondola, Queenstown are opening for mountain bike uplifts from 24th January 2011 for four months until May 29th 2011 from 10am – 8pm every day.
After pressure from local riders over the hill in Wanaka, they have adapted their pricing structure to include a half day pass for $40 (10am-3pm or 3pm-8pm). The 5-day pass (adult $250, youth $200) is now usable over a 2 month period rather than the original 1 month.
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Camden court clerk faces challenger
By Chris Day
Multi-Media Editor
Thursday, April 19, 2018
CAMDEN — Paula Harrison likes her job as Clerk of Superior Court for Camden County. To keep it, she'll first have to fend off a challenge in the May 8 Democratic primary and then defeat a Republican opponent in the fall.
Harrison is seeking a third term as Camden's top court administrator. Her Democratic opponent is Monique Chamblee, an employee of the city of Elizabeth City. The winner of their May 8 primary will take on Republican Rhiana Srebro in the November general election.
A Camden native, Harrison has been an employee in the clerk's office since 1985, when she began working for the office part time. That remained her status for nearly nine years, until Oct. 1, 1993, when she was made full time.
"My desk was in the vault back there in the corner," she said, pointing from her office.
Harrison, 58, was appointed clerk of court at the start of 2009, filling the vacancy resulting from Ann Spivey's retirement. Harrison was elected to a term in her own right in 2010 and was re-elected to a second term in 2014.
Chamblee, too, has experience in the Camden clerk's office, where she worked for 10 years before leaving for another job.
Chamblee could not be reached for an interview for story. However, she was one of several candidates who participated in a Brunch With the Candidates forum held Saturday at the Camden County Senior Center.
At Saturday's forum, Chamblee was asked by a resident why she left the clerk's office. At the time she left, she explained, the state was not offering raises for court employees. Additionally, she said, her position was at-will and she didn't want to be in a situation where she could suddenly lose her job.
Chamblee said she went on to become the first female crime scene investigator for the Elizabeth City Police Department and enjoyed that work. Now she is ready to return to work in Camden County at the clerk's office, she said.
The chief role of the clerk of Superior Court is to maintain all court-related documents, which include both civil- and criminal-related matters. The clerk's office also is where residents go to make payments on civil and criminal fines, such as traffic tickets or probation fees.
The clerk of court also serves as an ex-officio judge of probate, which gives them authority to exercise judgment in estate issues, such as foreclosures.
"My main field right now is estate work," Harrison said in an interview this week.
In North Carolina, clerks of Superior Court fall under the oversight of the N.C. Administrative Office of the Courts and their duties are mandated by state law.
Harrison said most often when residents visit her office they are distraught. Helping them is what she likes most about her job.
"I just enjoy what I do," she said, of her job. "I enjoy helping people, solving whatever issues they have."
Sometimes helping residents solve those issue can be rather uplifting.
"Adoptions are probably the most joyous of what we do," Harrison said.
Chamblee, who works as an administrative assistant for the city's Community Development Department, said in March after filing for election she had decided to challenge Harrison because she feels change is needed in the clerk's office.
Chamblee also said she has no criticism of the operations of the office. One change Chamblee said she'd like to make if elected would be to bring back student internships to the clerk's office.
She also believes, she said, that there needs to be what she called better collaboration between the clerk's office and the community.
"I feel like, even though you are a clerk and a deputy clerk, you need to also be prominent in the community," Chamblee said in March. "I just feel like there needs to be more of an understanding and connection."
Harrison notes that she is involved in the community. Besides the work for her church, Sawyer's Creek Baptist, she notes she also volunteers at Food Bank of the Albemarle and Blackwell Preschool and in the Camden County Schools.
One service the clerk's office provides to the community are computers for residents to search civil and criminal data. Currently those terminals are in the back of the office in the vault. Harrison said plans are to relocate those computers to the lobby of her office to provide residents easier access.
Camden has one of the smallest clerk's offices in the state, which requires a minimum staff of five employees plus a court clerk.
"That's us," Harrison said, indicating that only six people total work in her office.
On Wednesday, about 150 fifth-graders from Grandy Primary were set to visit the Camden Courthouse. Harrison said she often speaks to students about the role of her office. Teachers at Camden County High School will at times bring their students to her office, too, for civics lessons.
For her part, Chamblee said she participates in several activities in Camden, and has a servant's heart.
"I just want the opportunity to give back to the county," Chamblee said.
Staff Writers William F. West and Reggie Ponder contributed to this story.


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Arsenal take on Crystal Palace on Saturday 16th August, 2014, with kickoff at 17:30. This match is currently being shown LIVE on Sky Sports 1.
Another year, and another exciting attacker has been added to the Arsenal squad when most of the fans wanted something different, but nevertheless optimism is high at the Emirates. Last season went from good to indifferent in a very short space of time, and although the manager seems happy with the FA Cup win it's not really enough for a club that spends as much as Arsenal.
As for Palace, the loss of Tony Pulis is probably the worst thing that could have happened, but it may have been a decision made for the right reasons given how he likes to spend.
Arsenal v Crystal Palace is LIVE on Sky Sports 1.


text: Introduction: Widespread agricultural use as well as increasing number of suicidal or accidental ingestion of paraquat in the last few years enhance the necessity to evaluate the mechanism of action and the complications, especially neuronal side-effects, of this herbicide. The aim of this study was to evaluate the histopathological alterations of the substantia nigra after paraquat intoxication in rats. Materials and Methods: 28 adult Wistar rats were randomly divided into three experimental and one control groups. Paraquat at different doses (10, 15 and 20 mg/kg) were injected intraperitoneally once a week for three consecutive weeks to experimental groups; normal saline was injected to control group. After 28 days, the brains were removed and sections from the compact part of the substantia nigra were stained by toluidine blue. Results: A significant enhancement of the number of dark neurons in the substantia nigra was observed in rats receiving 15 and 25 mg/kg of paraquat compared to control group. Conclusion: Our findings point to the harmful effects of paraquat on neurons of the substantia nigra. This suggests paraquat toxicity as a risk factor for neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's disease.


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Long Weekends are great for a Property Hunt
As West Australians prepare to kick back and watch the Dockers take on the Hawks in this weekend's AFL Grand Final, one thing that mustn't be forgotten is that it's the Queen's Birthday on Monday 30th September 2013 and long weekends are a great time to go on a property hunt.
The ideal way to get the ball rolling is by working out what your budget is for your ideal property. You can determine this by taking into consideration your annual income, the amount you have saved aside as your genuine savings, the area where you wish to purchase your home and the sort of home you wish to purchase. While these are all crucial elements to your property hunt, they are ultimately your decisions. Nobody knows your circumstances better than you do.
Once you have worked out your price range and borrowing capacity, use a good property comparison website to search for the sort of home you are looking for. As this blog is a special edition focussed on the long weekend in WA, we recommend the following websites as a good starting point for you:
Pick the ones you like the best based on what you see on the website and start phoning up the relevant property agents. There are plenty of homes open for viewing on all weekends regardless, and particularly on long weekends. Some properties are open for viewing at designated timings which your property consultant will tell you about in advance while others need to be booked beforehand.
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Energy based simulation of a Timoshenko beam in non-forced rotation. Application to the flexible piano hammer shank.
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Abstract : A nonlinear model for a vibrating Timoshenko beam in non-forced unknown rotation is derived from the virtual work principle applied to a system of beam with mass at the end. The system represents a piano hammer shank coupled to a hammer head. An energy-based numerical scheme is then provided, obtained by non classical approaches. A major difficulty for time discretisation comes from the nonlinear behavior of the kinetic energy of the system. Numerical illustrations are obtained by coupling this new numerical scheme to a global energy-preserving numerical solution for the whole piano. These numerical results show that the pianistic touch clearly influences the spectrum of the piano sound of equally loud isolated notes. These differences do not come from a possible shock excitation on the structure, nor from a changing impact point, nor a -longitudinal rubbing motion- on the string, since neither of these features are modeled in our study.
Keywords : flexible piano hammer shank piano model pianistic touch implicit time discretization vibrating Timoshenko beam energy preservation
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The United Arab Emirates has announced plans to allow 100 percent ownership and visa incentives to foreigners, in a bid to attract investors to boost its slowing national economy.
The decision, taken by the UAE cabinet Sunday night, aims to lure "international investments and exceptional talent", according to Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashed Al-Maktoum.
The new measures come amid signs of an economic slowdown in the oil-rich Gulf state on the back of lower oil prices, with reports showing the vital real estate and tourism sectors of Dubai struggling.
The decision will allow foreign investors 100 percent ownership of companies, coupled with 10-year residence permits for them and their families, according to a cabinet statement cited by WAM news agency.
The measures will come into force by the end of 2018, the statement said.
The UAE leads all Arab countries in terms of foreign direct investment, attracting $11 billion last year — a jump of 22 percent on 2016 — according to the International Institute of Finance.
Although it is the most diversified and open economy in the Middle East, foreigners can only own up to 49 percent of companies unless they are established in special free trade zones.
The new measures also grant 10-year long residence permits to professionals in the medicine, science, research and technical fields.
Like other energy-rich Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, foreigners working in the UAE must have their residence permits made by a national sponsor known as kafeel.
The International Monetary Fund earlier projected that UAE economic growth would fall from 3.0 percent in 2016 to 1.3 percent in 2017.
Capital Economics, a London-based think tank, however has said that the UAE economy grew by just 0.5 percent last year.
It said that the economy of Abu Dhabi, the largest of the seven emirates making up the UAE and the richest in oil, shrank by 1.3 percent and 1.1 percent in the third and fourth quarters of last year, respectively.
In Dubai, sales and rents in the real estate sector slowed by five to 10 percent in 2017. The downturn is expected to continue through 2019, before picking up in 2020 when it will host the World Expo trade fair.
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