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Maintaining excellent joint health for your cat or dog is essential to ensure they lead a good quality of life. Poor joint mobility can make it hard for them to perform simple tasks, such as bending down to their food bowl, jumping onto furniture, or being able to go on walks.
There are a number of reasons why your pet might be suffering from poor joint health, which includes, old age, being overweight, as well as trauma or injury. Joint stiffness tends to occur more often as you pet ages with dogs being more susceptible. Some large breeds of dog in particular, are more prone to developing joint stiffness.
During the colder months, joint stiffness can appear more pronounced in your pet. They may struggle to bend down to their food bowl or not jump up as much. It is especially important to support joints in senior pets, as they may feel the cold more. If your pet has had any broken bones, this may also mean they are more sensitive to the cold.
There are common signs to look out for with regards to your dog or cat's joint health, which include:
- Your pet may rest more following exercise and show signs of stiffness and lameness.
- Your cat may sleep more and play or go out less.
- They may have an inability to perform certain tasks, such as jumping into the car or onto a chair.
- Their joints may become swollen or warm.
- Your dog or cat may bite at irritating joints.
- There may also be personality changes or increased aggression and they could become irritable.
- Heat can soothe joints, so your pet might seek out warm spots around the house, such as sunny spots, heat vents or near to radiators.
The mobility of your pet's joints can have a dramatic impact on their quality of life, such as simply having a comfortable night's sleep. Here are some top tips on how to help maintain optimum joint health for your pet:
Manage their weight
Excess weight can put pressure on joints, aim to reduce your cat or dog's weight and keep them at a healthy weight for their breed and age.
It is important that your pet gets regular exercise to avoid stiffness and muscle wastage. Avoid long or infrequent walks and make sure your dog goes for several, short walks throughout the day. Think little and often to keep the joints mobile.
Feed your pet a good quality diet. Reassess your pet's food and consult a veterinary professional who can recommend the best diet for their needs. Raise water and food bowls if your dog or cat has difficulty bending down to them.
Keep your pet warm and avoid cold and drafty or damp conditions, which can aggravate joints. Provide a cosy warm place to sleep with enough room to find a comfortable position to sleep in. Add extra bedding for senior pets and shorthaired dogs to help pad around their joints. Try to limit stair use and jumping on or off furniture.
Help to groom your cat, when their joints become stiff. They may not be able to groom as they could previously.
Pain relief
Your vet may prescribe medication to reduce the inflammation and provide pain relief. A natural alternative is boswellia extract, which acts as a natural anti-inflammatory, and helps to promote mobility and flexibility, as well as supporting joint structure.
Key nutrients
Glucosamine HCL and Chondroitin are essential for maintaining healthy joints, ligaments, tendons, cartilage and synovial fluid.
Visit your vet
Regular vet visits ensure your pet's joints can be monitored frequently and the best up-to-date advice can be given. Ensure you follow your vet's advice.
Alternative therapies
You could consider other therapies to help your dog or cat, such as physiotherapy and hydrotherapy. These can help to to increase circulation and mobility in your pet.
If you are concerned about your pet's joint health you should consult your vet. They are best placed to offer advice and the best solution with regards to your pet's health needs. Ask your vet about nutraquin+, which is specifically formulated to offer natural joint support to cats and dogs. It contains high quality key nutraient that are essential for maintaining healthy joints.


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by Bill Conley — Originally published in the March/April 2016 issue of FMJ—"So easy a child can do it!" These fateful words have conspired to lure many unsuspecting FMs into treacherous territory. Push that button; just set that dial! There are many concepts and precepts in the world of facility management that sound simple, but are far from easy. Thus it is with sustainability.
Sustainability makes sense. In concept it seems simple enough and there's plenty of information about it. However, having the proper tools and instructions is not a formula for success. Being able to find and apply the right knowledge and truly understand the ends and means of a process are the true keys to saving money, becoming more efficient and ensuring continued existence of a company or facility, as well as the environment.
Sustainability is a characteristic of a system — in this case, the global ecosystem — in which all defining processes, such as the maintenance of biodiversity at a high quality of life, are able to continue indefinitely.
Sustainable development is one of the most significant societal changes of the 21st century. One universal trend that has major implications for sustainability is the rapid evolution and application of technology. These disciplines are two of the most powerful drivers of change within modern economies and have the capacity to transform the relationship between governments, companies, citizens and consumers.
Facility managers are at the ground floor of the integration and implementation of these two forces. They both require facility professionals to rethink the nature of goods and services, their availability and their use. In this climate, it is increasingly important that the correct and applicable decisions are made.
Sustainability can be simply defined as doing the right thing, at the right time, for the right reason. Actions tend to be right when they serve to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. They can be broadly defined as wrong when they tend otherwise.
There is a great reliance on technology to solve environmental problems around the world today, because of an almost universal reluctance by industry and government leaders to make the social and economic changes that would be necessary to conserve natural resources. There seems to be a failure to understand that sustainable development policies seek to change the nature of economic growth rather than limit it.
Conversely, though, technology does have the potential to transform modern business into a more efficient, cyclical, networked and sustainability-oriented system that pays returns for economic, ecological and social prosperity. Moreover, the right technology can be leveraged effectively to facilitate transitions to sustainability as long as positive and viable linkages are identified and utilized appropriately. It is also important that the technology can be customized to fit specific needs and address critical institutional
and organizational challenges and opportunities. This entails a new strategic methodology for gauging and assessing current and long-term needs.
Technologies are meant to be total systems that include experience, utilitarianism and procedures as well as digital, organizational and operational measures. Technology should not be categorized as just digital or just scientific. Instead, it is necessary to cultivate a broad view of the term that encompasses information technology as well as machines and equipment.
Skills, abilities, knowledge, systems, processes and common sense need to be part of the exercise in order to fully allow technology to fulfill its promise. Such technologies must be accompanied and supported by the parallel development of more holistic environmental and facility management strategies. This requires integrated planning and management, accountability, effective capacity building and informed decisions in implementing sustainable actions.
Information technology
Over-arching all of this discussion is a cross-cutting focus on the role of information technology and
its contributions to development processes. The convergence of three new trends is creating opportunities for transcending barriers to sustainable development.
Globalization, the expansion of information and communication technology/infrastructure, and knowledge intensity of economic activity are becoming more and more inter-linked. This symbiosis is enabling technology to allow intuitive leaps in decision making by taking advantage of the contributions of IT to development.
Information technology facilitates the reduction of gaps between knowledge provision, access and diffusion. It supports key global initiatives in best practices and responds to demand for local and global content availability.
The Internet has led to an increase in information visibility and community building on an international scale. It allows for more teaching and learning, is a vast resource for research and capacity building, and highlights the role of technology in contributing to developmental processes.
Addressing operational IT strategies and investment development is the newly emerging Internet of Things (IoT). This discipline offers vast opportunities for transformational innovation and sustainable growth. Complementing industry efforts to reduce direct emissions footprints, IoT and other IT-driven technologies provide opportunities to increase mitigation efforts in reducing the climate footprints of other sectors of society. The potential benefits of IoT are estimated to include a 20 percent reduction of global carbon emissions by 2030 and more than US$11 trillion in new economic benefits versus a business-as-usual baseline.
IoT can help enable transformational accomplishments via intelligent efficiency. It can change lives and economy in ways as significant as the Internet itself did over the past two decades. IoT advances offer nearly limitless possibilities for incorporating smart technologies in ways that could not have been imagined even in the most recent past. With smart cities, smart transportation and other innovations, it could be possible to raise the quality of life in society, while decreasing humanity's footprint on the Earth and its climate.
Sustainable technology
The term "sustainable technology" describes technologies that enable more valuable use of natural resources and greatly reduced ecological impact, among other technological benefits. It focuses on enabling significant savings through using less materials and energy. The technology allows for a shift from non-renewable resources to renewable ones; from persistent chemicals to bio-degradable substances; from extra-active systems that use up the eco-system to restorative ones.
Practitioners of sustainable technology have established three strategic commitments in efforts to address global climate change. First, the tech sector aims to reduce the carbon footprint of its operations by supporting corporate goals and policies that focus on conserving energy, reducing emissions of fossil fuels and generating or using renewable energy. It is committed to reducing the carbon footprint of technological products over the course of their life cycle.
Even as these technologies are created to improve quality of life, the tech sector is devoting renewed attention and resources to ensuring that these products leave a more positive mark on the world. Industry leaders are taking into account the carbon footprint of the technology by considering sustainability and energy efficiency in their creation, packaging, use and disposal.
There is a lot that can be said to support these claims. A sustainable technology is planned to be economically viable; it aims to create more value than it costs. In the case of energy savings, a sustainable device will be designed to save more money in energy conservation than it cost to create.
Sustainable technology is to be managed so that it does not irrevocably destroy any resource that is not renewable and is durable enough that any renewable resources it requires can be replenished during its life. It will create a trend of reduction in resources required per unit so that overall resource consumption remains constant or decreases even as population and economic growth increase. A sustainable technology and the training required to operate and maintain it should be proportional in value.
The challenge arises when ideals meet with reality. Knee-jerk reactions or technological "fixes" sometimes do more harm than good. Instead of trying to solve pollution with pollution control technology, attempts should be made to devise technology that does not pollute. Rather than using natural resources conservatively, use only renewable resources. The point is to look at technology that is appropriate as well as sustainable.
There are tried-and-true sustainable technologies that are helping to actively reduce the carbon footprint of operations over the life cycle of facilities and align FM with corporate goals and policies.
FMs can develop energy-efficient practices and networking systems through a number of right-out-of-the- box solutions. They can investigate and implement innovative and/or diverse solutions for resource efficient data centers. Used products can be reused, refurbished or recycled to extend their life spans. Understanding and employing relevant green label brands and developing green procurement programs can lead to better resource utilization. ENERGY STAR or other energy benchmarking systems are available to help measure and monitor facility operations.
Looking forward, there are glimpses of the transformational innovation that is possible leaning toward more assistance from technology when wrestling with sustainable operations.
Smart grids offer sensors deployed in both traditional electric grids as well as distributed generation networks.
This helps increase transmission and distribution efficiencies and promotes greater visibility to improve system reliability through the use of big data techniques.
Technology has enabled smarter manufacturing processes and engines that are making factory floors far more efficient and productive. Building energy management systems and building automation systems create the opportunity for a comprehensive, systems-based optimization of energy in commercial and industrial buildings. Intelligent transportation systems and connected vehicles are reducing vehicle emissions while making traveling easier and safer. Smart city projects are setting trends for municipal leaders to follow that can provide more livable and more resilient cities at less cost.
The right technology can foster resilience — enhancing the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing change — to still retain essentially the same function, structure, identity and feedbacks. Resiliency will prove to be the next major component of business continuity and sustainable development.
So many choices
Facility management should not be a profession that relies on the stagnancy of the status quo, and when it comes to the health and well-being of this biosphere, the status quo is unacceptable. But neither should FMs be led down the garden path. They should be determined to use their innovative minds to find solutions to the challenges that sustainability and technology present. It is prudent to identify the opportunities that lie ahead to reduce carbon emissions and conserve natural resources. The research and development of new, sensible advances that can help lead the transition to a vibrant, sustainable, livable world should be supported.
People would be hard-pressed to run into a challenge that has not been faced by someone else. Answers are out there; finding the right questions is the issue. What is needed is the implementation of a structural learning process that will define the criteria for correct solutions and applications. The key components of such a process is knowledge derived from real-world experience, coupled with the facility management expertise and insight that is capable of transforming that knowledge into action.
Sustainable development is probably the most daunting challenge that humanity has ever faced, and achieving it requires smart choices. In all respects, the role of science and technology is crucial to success. Scientific knowledge and appropriate technologies are central to resolving the economic, social and environmental problems that make current development paths unsustainable.
However, just as the Industrial Revolution seemed like a good idea at the time, technology should be viewed with a long range eye-glass. FMs must be cognizant of the repercussions and ongoing impacts of any processes they implement or technology to which they may ascribe. A good example is plastic; built to be a less expensive alternative to glass, plastic does not degrade in landfills, because it was created to
be persistent.
Technology can only serve sustainability if its aims are designed with the ecosystem in mind, rather than the immediate short (sighted) term solution. Thus comes the caveat: not all technology will work for specific needs; not all technology will work well in the sustainability realm. Like anything else, one size does not fit all. FMs should embrace technology, but be careful what you hold on to: the match may not be ecological.
Bill Conley, CFM, SFP, FMP, LEED AP, IFMA Fellow, is facility manager at Yamaha Motor Corp. in Cypress, California, USA. Prior to that, he served as owner and chief sustainability officer of CFM2, a facility management and sustainability consulting company. Conley has more than 40 years of experience in the facility management profession and has been a proponent of sustainable operations for more than 20 years.
Conley has served on the IFMA board of directors, is a recipient of IFMA's distinguished member of the year award and has received the association's distinguished author award three times. He has been a regular contributor to FMJ for more than 20 years and has authored more than 50 FMJ articles.


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Wow Noah, I can't believe it! You are 2 now, where has the time gone! Your growing into your own person now and are so independent about everything! Your talking like crazy now and picking up everything others say and do. Right now the words of the moment are mine, icky (Mickey), choo choo and help! Help is used at all times and all places so it can get a little embarrassing!
You started a new daycare last week because grandma isn't able to watch you now and you have adjusted so well. It amazes me how easily you adapt to new things. You have no fear of anything, sometimes that worries me but others it makes me happy. Having that quality will get you far in life. I see a lot you myself in you with that and hope you never lose it like I did a little bit.
Not a day goes by that you don't make me laugh with something silly you have done, like try to walk around with your pants at your ankles, pull a funny face, wear my shoes or just act silly. You melt my heart daily too with you random hugs, smiles and kisses for no reason what so ever. Like at bedtime right before you fall asleep you will sit up and give me a kiss like it has to be the last thing you need to do before you fall asleep.
I love to watch your eyes as your experiencing new things or even old things and think they are the most amazing things in the world! The joy in your face is just amazing to me and I can't stop thinking of how lucky that I am that I was chosen to be your mommy.
I think my most favorite thing is hearing you say mommy! It is a name I will never get tired of being called. I love when you just call mama mama when your looking for me in the house. Or when I get home from work, your so excited to see me as if I am the most amazing person if your life. You have really become a mommy's boy these past few months.
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By the time you can read this, I'll be on an island in a river with Handsome. I'm on vacation this week, and he asked, weeks ago, if we could go camping again. In the same place we went last year.
In case you wanted to read about last year's trip, here's a link to my post about it (Sweat, Handsome and the Poo Hole)
This year I'm a little bit behind the 8-ball on it. We're leaving this afternoon, hopefully right after lunch, and I haven't started packing yet. I just started some laundry I need to get done before we go so I can at least start with some clean shorts! We may be there for 2 nights, unless Handsome decides he wants to come back after one. I told him he may get bored out there; no phone, no electricity, no internet or cable tv. He said we can bring books.
"You're going to read?" I'll admit, I sounded a little surprised.
"No. You can read to me!"
We all have these mental pictures of the Pharaohs, with one slave wielding a huge fan for them, one popping grapes into his mouth while a third stands ready with a pitcher of wine, should the Pharaoh develop a thirst. Sound familiar? Well, I'm pretty sure this is how Handsome sees himself. But in his picture all three slaves are wearing my face!
I did just pack up a few things I wrote in the past year to bring. The four parts I have so far of the Sci-Fi series I am writing for Handsome. A ghost story that I wrote with him in mind, more funny than scary (I hope). The story of three children, a mean old woman and a very fat cat. The Leprechaun story that is being published in an E-zine soon. Some other short stuff.
Now it may seem like he's getting his wish, but keep this in mind: I wrote this stuff. This means that I'll be reading it with a pen in hand, making notes and corrections and flipping the pages over to make more extensive notes on how the story could be made better...
You see, in my mental picture, there isn't a slave, there's Pharaoh and his tutor. The tutor is completely engrossed in getting it all right and is absent-mindedly handing the fan to Pharaoh so he can fan himself. And my God does the Pharaoh look bored!
Now I have to try to set this to auto-post at about my usual time, later on today.
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Early on, when President Obama had everyone pondering "who and what he was", most of us perceived him incorrectly — exactly what he'd counted on.
Had the conservatives known, he never could have been elected; but he hid what he believed. Obama was deceptive from the 'get-go'.
Had they known, they would have blown the whistle, exposed him and continued to rant about Communism / Socialism, what it had done to the people of the world, and what it would mean for America, if we elected him!
Certainly, it was beyond our wildest imagination to consider that Americans would elect a Communist, or even a Socialist!
But, … we have to come clean, and admit where we've failed! We've allowed the school curriculums all across America to change the history books and not teach our children the historical horrors of these evil philosophies.
It's not just our fault though; as I exposed previously, it was a leftist conspiracy (directly out of the 70's) to take over our schools in a quest for long-term change … and the opposition has been successful.
"COVERING IT" vs. "COVERING IT UP":
But, as intelligent and intuitive as the leaders of the conservative movement are, they didn't get it. He'd successfully hidden his true nature from them and though he was pseudo-truthful about what he'd intended to do — "Transform America" few understood what he had in mind.
"TRANSFORMING AMERICA" should have sent up Crimson Red Flashing Signs though, … but it didn't —
As soon as the media recognized who he was, they agreed with his "the-end-justifies-the-means rhetoric" the traitorous media signed on and participated in his tactical maneuver.
They are to blame. He surprised most all of us — to use a more present-day-colloquialism, he did a "fly sweep," effectively doing an end-run blocking out intellectual conservatives while he quietly began his assault.
To the pragmatic conservatives, his promise to transform America meant one thing- an end to corruption and wasteful squandering of tax monies.
To the left, it meant something totally different – it effectively became, … a coup by a "Manchurian candidate."
There was someone who immediately saw through the intentional smoke and mirrors early on; that was "Joe the Plumber."
"JOE THE PLUMBER" — where are you when we need you?
Pajama TV picked up on Joe, and hired him as a 'reporter' – a good move, like Bill Whittle, he presents the truth in a way we can understand it, and in a momentary lapse, the lame-stream media even covered Joe's entry to the field …
Dennis Prager noted today – see http://www.JewishWorldReview.com, that 'The Left had Learned Wrong Lessons from Nazism' — they'd incorrectly but successfully called Nazi-ism right wing, when in truth, it was exactly the opposite — solidly left wing.
Hitler's political party appropriately changed their name to the: National Socialist German Workers' Party. Note the term "Socialist" Hitler "scapegoated" Judaism. Obama blamed Bush and conservatism.
But then, … surreptitiously, Obama proceeded to use Socialist tactics and impede recovery from a recession by massive rules and regulations – or, as Saul Alinsky taught … his tactics were mis-direction and smoke and mirrors as his Czars as quietly as they could, brought in teams of leftists to overwhelm the opposition.
Other than the firing of Van Jones, (now CNN's admitted Communist), that's continuing to this day.
That's where we sit – overwhelmed by a traitorous charlatan, a pied-piper who spoke of Utopia and blamed others, while his long-term goal was to take us out of the way, … to divide and conquer!
The question remains: Is the Republican Party so controlled by the old guard, that they'll be able to stop the Tea Party?
The fight is on. Leftists and Old-Guard Republicans alike, equally fear Tea Party candidates who would return us to our foundational underpinnings of the Constitution, freedom, and free-market principals . . . .
They, the left, will use any unethical, subversive tactic they can, to bring America down from the position of world power; and that, beg's the final question ..… it is "End Times" after all.


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The ability to acquire a countless number of action sequences and retrieve them from memory precisely in the right context is crucial in daily life, such as for speech, tool use, athletic and musical performance. In each of these domains the nervous system needs to form a robust, but flexible memory of the spatio-temporal sequence involved. Several conditions affecting the higher organization of movement such as dyspraxia, stuttering and task-dependent dystonia can affect the learning, retrieval and control of skilled action sequences - with profound consequences for the individual in daily life.
The goal of the "Skilled Action Memory" lab is threefold:
1. To identify the neural markers of successful skilled action performance;
2. To characterize the functional plasticity related to long-term training;
3. To develop entry-points for intervention for improving skilled action learning in patients and the healthy population.
To address these aims, we use spatio-temporal sequence learning paradigms in combination with representational neuroimaging analysis (fMRI and MEG/EEG patterns) and non-invasive neural stimulation techniques. This work is complemented with collaborations addressing the link between the cognitive/systems and the cellular levels using electrophysiology and mouse mutants.


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Albert Whata graduated with an Honours degree in Statistics in 1999 from the University of Zimbabwe. He enrolled for a M.Sc. in Statistics part-time in 2000 and was also employed as a full-time Teaching Assistant at the University of Zimbabwe's Statistics Department and later a Statistics Lecturer for a short period before he joined the Tobacco Industry. Albert graduated with a Master of Science degree in Statistics in 2002. He continued to lecture Statistics on a part-time basis until 2007 at Zimbabwe Open University.
Albert Joined British American Tobacco ( Tobacco Processors Zimbabwe) as a Statistician in 2002 and in 2004 he was promoted to the post of Quality Assurance Manager and was send to Brazil, Kenya and Turkey for further training in Quality Management and Statistical Process Control. One of greatest highlights of his career as a Quality Assurance Manager was when he was appointed to be in charge of BAT Global leaf testing for tobacco samples from a number of countries around the world that process tobacco for BAT, and checking whether they conform to the BAT Quality Specifications. In 2007 Albert was promoted again to the post of Production Manager until 2008 and from 2009 to 2010 he was the company's Logistics and Warehousing Manager.
Albert joined African Leadership Academy (ALA) as a Statistics Teacher in February 2011 and he later became Residential Life Faculty in September of 2011. Albert really finds pleasure in teaching Statistics at ALA because he can relate to the experience he gained in industry to teaching his students topics such as probability, permutations and combinations. Albert is characterised as an effective, understanding and approachable teacher. His skill in motivating students' at all academic levels gives "effective teaching", a whole new meaning. In addition to teaching Mathematics and Statistics, Albert works as a Residential Life Faculty and he enjoys acting in loco parentis to the bright young students at ALA.
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Florile Dalbe is a traditional Romanian Christmas carol. It tells the story of trying to bake a Christmas ring biscuit, but first the sieve is lost, then the tray is cracked, then the oven is broken, and then everything is ready but it is now New Year. For this version Mircea and Alina
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Old Christ Church schedule
Old Christ Church, an historic church in Laurel, will meet on Sept. 5. Services are open to anyone of any denomination and will include refreshments and tours of the church after each service. The traditional "Blessing of Animals" will be held on Oct. 3 at 3 p.m. A collection will be taken for local animal shelters. November features a Thanksgiving Day Eucharist at 10:30 a.m. followed by Advent lessons and carols with guest concert artists in December. For more information, call 875-3644 or email
New service times
Atlanta Road Alliance Church is changing Sunday morning service times effective Sunday, Sept. 5. The new time schedule will be: 8 a.m.–Intercessory Prayer; 8:30 a.m.–Worship Service/Nursery; 9:45 a.m.–Nursery and classes for children, youth and adults; 11 a.m.–Worship Service/Nursery/Kids Church (age 4 through grade 4).Atlanta Road Alliance Church is a Christian & Missionary Alliance church located at 22625 Atlanta Road, Seaford. For more information, call 629-5600 or visit
Weekly Bible Study
A weekly Bible study is being held every Wednesday night from 7:15-8:15 p.m. at the Days Inn, Rt. 13 South, Seaford (next to KFC). Family oriented Bible lessons for all ages. Sunday worship service is at 12 noon in the same location. Elder Cornell Johnson of Jesus The Christ Apostolic Ministries is Pastor. Call 628-0349 or 302-344-9672 for more information.
Mt. Calvary events
Mt. Calvary United Methodist Church located at 28 Church St., Bridgeville, will hold the following event: Saturday, Aug. 28 - 6 p.m. - A time to celebrate birthdays andthose who were born the same month. There will be prizes, games and great food.Cost is $10 for adults and $5 for ages 5 thru 11, ages four and under are free with a paying adult. Call 337-8350 for more information.
Free soup and sandwiches
New Zion United Methodist Church in Laurel offers free soup and sandwiches every Wednesday from noon to 2 p.m. For more information, contact Pastor Timothy Duffield Sr. at 875-0727.
New service time
The Lighthouse Church, 27225 Kaye Road, Laurel, is changing their service on Sundays to 1:30 p.m. This new time will accommodate those who can't make it to church for morning services. For more information, call 875-7814.
Mt. Zion hosts ice cream sale
Mt. Zion Methodist Church, located on Route 13A between Seaford and Laurel, will be hosting an ice cream sale on Saturday, Aug. 28, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Flavors include vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, banana, pineapple and peach. To pre-order call 875-3055 or 629-7110.
No Name Band to perform
The No Name Band will be at the Union United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, on Friday, Aug. 27, at 7:30 p.m.
The church is located on Laws Street, Bridgeville. For further information, please contact Everett Warrington at 337-7198.
Fall Festival at Snethen UMC
Snethen United Methodist Church is holding a Fall Festival on Saturday, Sept. 18 from 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. There will be food, produce, crafts vendors, flea market, yard sale, classic cars, fun and much more. The event will take place, rain or shine. The church is located on Rt. 54, Delmar Road, in Mardela Springs, Md. Vendor, craft and flea market/yard sale space is available. Call 410-341-4520 for information or a registration form.
Gethsemane seeks musicians, singers
Gethsemane United Methodist Church on Woodland Ferry Road in Seaford seeks musicians and singers with a country gospel flair. The second 10:30 a.m. service is adding a new, fresh twist to the praise music and needs violin, banjo, guitar and voices. If you can help, call 629-2862.
Labor Day Gospel Concert
A Labor Day Gospel Concert hosted by Faith Fellowship Church will be held at 6 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 6, at Federalsburg Marina Park Pavilion in Federalsburg, Md. Featured artists include The King's Ambassadors, Pickin' Pals and Judy Laramore. Bring a chair and a friend. Concessions will be available and a love offering will be received.
Free weekly soup social
A free weekly soup social is held every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at Christ United Methodist Church, 510 S. Central Ave., Laurel. All are welcome. For more information, call the church office daily, 9 a.m. to noon, at 875-4233.
Women's Ministries program
Come be a part of the Women's Ministries program at The Salvation Army. On Tuesday, Aug. 31 at 6:30 p.m., we begin an 11-week Bible Study series by Beth Moore, "Living Beyond Yourself: Exploring the Fruit of the Spirit." Meetings, which are every Tuesday, are located next to Food Lion in Seaford. Women ages 16 and older are welcome to attend. For more information, call 668-7412 or 628-2020 or email the instructor, Envoy Debbie Engel at
'Walking For The Homeless'
A "Walking For The Homeless" Walk-A-Thon will be held on Saturday, Sept. 25, at the Boardwalk in Rehoboth Beach. The two mile walk begins at Delaware Avenue on the Boardwalk at 9 a.m. Check in is from 8 to 8:45 a.m. All proceeds benefit the homeless shelters in Sussex County. The event is sponsored by Faith United Methodist Church Women in Rehoboth. Registration deadline is Sept. 24. For more information, call Christina Miller at 227-3118 or Tenesha Duffy at 644-1159.
Weekly Bible Study
A weekly Bible study is being held every Wednesday night from 7:15-8:15 p.m. at the Days Inn, Rt. 13 South, Seaford (next to KFC). Family oriented Bible lessons for all ages. Sunday worship service is at 12 noon in the same location. Elder Cornell Johnson of Jesus The Christ Apostolic Ministries is Pastor. Call 628-0349 or 302-344-9672 for more info.
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There is No Honking Here.
Traffic in Thailand is...amazing. Or incredible. One of my friends says it resembles a car race with hundreds of participants. But there is a politeness about it that defies description.
The concept of lanes is rather fluid; sometimes a two lane road can become a three lane road. And if you need to stop to let people off, just do it. Everyone will stop for you. Or, more likely, create a new lane and go around. When you have to merge, the lane markings are mere decoration; more than once I was looking at a complete jumble of cars that somehow sorted itself out. However, if you continue to let people in front of you, you will come to a complete stop. There is a certain polite aggressiveness that marks drivers. There is also no honking. I don't believe I saw Natcha or Bank (love some of these nicknames) ever get upset at being cutoff; they just went with the flow and proceeded to be a little more aggressive and got ahead of the next guy.
What we call "cutting people off" is a normal lane change to them. (The skill of these drivers...)
Then there are the motorcycles. Hundreds of them. Here in the good old U.S. of A., they are treated as cars and have to pass properly (not cutting people off!) and stay in the lane, etc. In Thailand, they can travel between cars (I saw it on the freeway once!), they travel in made up lanes, they travel on the sidewalk...I saw them travel in the wrong direction on a highway. and not once did Natcha or Bank ever startle (like I did).
It has been said, that there are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old bold pilots. Here in Thailand, there are no old motorcyclists. Just saying. I did see the results of one accident; everything had been cleaned up but a pair of sandals in the road.
U-turns are ubiquitous. These people, because there are no turns to cross traffic, will travel several blocks until there is a U-turn. This consists of a gap in the cement curbing, and people waiting to turn around. And people will stop and let them do this -- in the case of our tour bus, that meant several (if not all) lanes were blocked while we accomplished this; once or twice we had to back up and completely block traffic going BOTH ways. And cloverleafs for freeway exits? They don't exist. If you want to exit across the freeway, you exit to a lane that goes up and over the freeway, turns around, then you join the freeway again going the other direction and exit the freeway again going the direction you originally wanted. It takes less space.
And did I mention that they are driving on the wrong side of the street? All my instincts, I've discovered, are for driving on the right! More than once, Natcha would signal to turn left and then go in spite of what I saw was oncoming traffic! But it wasn't. And I hope I didn't startle her.
It is possible to walk across the street in the city. You negotiate with the car in the first lane, and they may or may not stop for you. If they do, go ahead and cross. That lane only. The next lane is more likely to stop, but not always. Twice I did it with experienced street-crossers. Once by myself. I stood in the middle of a 4 lane street (which is not as wide as our 4 lane streets!) in Chiang Mai waiting for a car -- any car -- to let me go. (Later I found a coffee shop on the same block as the hotel.)
Anyway, here is a toll road that they are waiting for money to complete. MOST of it is usable.
I think this bus had about 30 people on it.
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The piston rings are going on my 2007 S40 but I can't seem to find any OEM rings for this car. These are a few that i have found:
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I asked the people selling the MVParts ones and the said they were OEM but I did have to explain what OEM was before hand to them so I am slightly sceptical as to whether they were telling the truth. Any views on which would be the best to get or where I can get some Official Volvo or OEM parts?
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His hour upon the nation's biggest political stage is almost up. The Democratic nomination is receding from his reach. And a 74-year-old doesn't have a lot of presidential runs in his future. So it's time for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to take stock: What does he want?
Yes, yes, everyone knows: a revolution. But Sanders is not Lenin and this isn't Russia circa 1917. So what does he really want? He has surprised us all, himself surely included, with the depth and breadth of his support in the Democratic primary. As a result, he has valuable leverage, afforded by millions of votes, and a trove of digital addresses, afforded by his supporters' passion.
Sanders has a few months left to take full advantage of those assets. For himself, he'll want a prime-time slot for a convention speech and a serious role as a surrogate on the campaign trail. For his followers, he'll no doubt have the opportunity to insert some pet peeves into a Democratic platform, for whatever that's worth.
After losing four of five states to Clinton, Sanders said he's going "to fight for a progressive party platform that calls for a $15 an hour minimum wage, an end to our disastrous trade policies, a Medicare-for-all health care system, breaking up Wall Street financial institutions, ending fracking in our country, making public colleges and universities tuition free and passing a carbon tax so we can effectively address the planetary crisis of climate change."
Clinton will take what she wants from that list and leave the rest. If she wins the White House, she will be unlikely to offer Sanders a Cabinet post that is worth his while to accept. His challenge will be to remain influential in a party that would be very happy to dispatch him back to obscurity.
Sanders spent a quarter century at the margins of Democratic politics and policy, and at the margins of Washington political culture. Democrats have never treated him as a player in the Senate or the House because he never was a key one. His presence on Sunday mornings was not requested by Washington television hosts. How often did you see Sanders quoted by major news media before 2015?
Now that he's used to being a big deal, he's going to want the campaign treatment to continue. That could be tough.
First, managing a "movement" is harder than running a campaign. After the election of Barack Obama, a group called Organizing for America was supposed to channel his supporters' enthusiasm into support for Obama's agenda. It was mostly a bust. After political campaigns end, supporters tend to drift. They get on with their lives. Pay less attention. Respond to fewer urgent calls to action.
And Sanders, while he has proved to be a compelling figure in Democratic politics, is a long way, in talent and impact and significance, from Obama. Whatever difficulties Obama had maintaining an organization — as president — will be multiplied many times for Sanders — as senator.
As leader of the Democratic Party, Clinton will retain all the institutional, media and political advantages. Sanders, by contrast, not only won't be the leader; he will return to the same institution that houses Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Youth, the foundation of Sanders' political support, is notoriously fickle. And Warren is a shrewd and effective politician. Just because Sanders is the one who jumped into the arena, put in the work, made the sales and banked the votes doesn't mean he will get to be keeper of the flame. Warren, with a single carefully chosen issue, could end up stealing that fire for herself.
If Sanders wants to remain relevant, he may have to fend off Warren while battling Clinton and the Democratic Senate leadership for attention. He's had an uphill fight for the nomination. It isn't over.
Francis Wilkinson writes on politics and domestic policy for Bloomberg View.
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Biofuels' Potential Danger to Biodiversity
It isn't all about carbon. Too much of today's environmental discussion focuses on carbon emissions and climate change. While carbon is obviously one of the most important issues facing the global environment, the real issues are sometimes much broader, and often much less simple.
Take, for example, biofuels. Many businesses and environmentalists have embraced biofuels as a way of declaring their "green-ness" and reducing their carbon footprints. But biofuels can present their own problems.
As discussed recently in The Guardian, many experts warn that an over-reliance on certain biofuels can have a dramatic effect on biodiversity. Biofuels may produce fewer greenhouse gases, but some of them have great potential for hurting wildlife through habitat destruction, and growing their source materials can have its own problems.
Here's the situation:
- Planting biofuel crops can mean razing existing forests (and as we've written about before, that can destroy habitats for species like orangutans, driving them into extinction)
- Razing forests releases greenhouse gases, and reduces the amount of forest available to absorb carbon from the atmosphere
- Some crops, like corn, require heavy fertilization, which has its own environmental impact
I'm not saying that biofuels are bad -- just that there should be some thought into which ones we use and how they are produced.
The state of Minnesota feels the same way. They're conducing research into how to best turn biofuel into big business for the state without hurting the state's environment or wildlife. They're concentrating on switchgrass and prairie grass, for a number of reasons:
Jim Kleinschmit with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minneapolis says a field of prairie grass creates a home for wildlife, a filter for runoff, and doesn't require the fertilization needed to grow corn.
Back to The Guardian's article, which points to a new study that judges a biofuel's total environmental impact. Some biofuels rank pretty poorly overall:
...almost half of the biofuels, a total of 12, had greater total environmental impacts than fossil fuels. These included economically-significant fuels such as US corn ethanol, Brazilian sugar cane ethanol and soy diesel, and Malaysian palm-oil diesel. Biofuels that fared best were those produced from waste products such as recycled cooking oil, as well as ethanol from grass or wood.
We're likely to see a huge shift in what fuels we use over the next ten years. Let's just hope we make the right decisions along the way.


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Bozo criminal for today comes from Des Moines, Iowa, where bozo Luis Rodriguez was discharged from the local hospital and didn't want to walk home. So, he did what any bozo would do. He took a taxi. Except we mean he literally "took" a taxi. He drove off in one that he found unattended with the keys in the ignition. Working on information obtained from the hospital, the cops were able to track down our bozo. In his pocket, they found the keys to the cab. He's busted! Charged with second degree theft.
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A perfect citizen. A captured rebel. One decision could destroy them both...
Doesn't that tag line make you want to read the book? :D Yeah, me too. Read on to glean details on Ashley Bogner's debut novel!
// Summary
As a Regulator, seventeen-year-old Katherine Holliday's duty is to protect the people of the Federation from a group of violent rebels who have exiled themselves to the mysterious wilderness. When one of these rebels is captured within the Federation, the government leaders propose an alternative to execution, a procedure they call Reintegration. The procedure involves erasing the rebel's memory and attempting to make him a member of society. The rebel, a young man named Matthew, is not the violent criminal Katherine expects, and she can't help but befriend him. A few weeks after Matthew's Reintegration, Katherine realizes the procedure failed and she is now presented with a choice no one else can help her make. Can she warn her superiors that Reintegration failed, which could mean death for Matthew? Or will she defy everything she knows to help him escape—and risk her own execution?
// Author Bio
When Ashley Bogner was in third grade, she decided she would be a published author when she grew up. Ashley is a homeschool graduate and has lived in seven different states. She completed a year of Bible college and in the fall will begin pursuing a degree in Communication Studies. After college, her plan is to work in the Christian publishing industry. When not writing, she can be found baking, posting book reviews on her blog, and watching her favorite movies over and over to the point of memorization.
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"Kakarot, no!"
|Future Vegeta
Mirai no Bejīta
|Alternate names
|Mirai Vegeta
Vegeta of the Future
|Cameo: "Mystery Revealed"
Full Appearance: "Ghosts from Tomorrow"
|Appears in
|Date of birth
|Age 732
|Date of death
|December 24, Age 762 (Revived)
May 12, Age 767
|5'6" (168 cm)
|152 lbs (69 Kg)
|Planet Vegeta (Formerly)
Capsule Corporation
|Planet Trade Organization (Saiyan Army)
Z Fighters (Age 762 - 767)
Future Vegeta is the alternate timeline counterpart of Vegeta who appeared in the alternate timeline in which Future Trunks and Future Gohan lived. This Vegeta appears in the brief opening scene of Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks and in a flashback during an episode of Dragon Ball Z. Future Vegeta was the lover of Future Bulma, and the father of Future Trunks.
Future Vegeta's life was the exact same as his main timeline counterpart's life until August of Age 764 when Future Goku used the Instant Transmission to arrive on Earth and kill Frieza and King Cold. Sometime afterward, Vegeta trained and became a Super Saiyan.
In Age 766, Future Goku had been stricken down by a deadly Heart Virus that had no cure. Future Vegeta, along with the other Z Fighters and company await the news of Future Goku's health. However, Future Goku passes away, leaving Future Vegeta shocked about Future Goku's death and finds himself very upset due to the fact that he will never get his chance to defeat his rival in battle.
Dragon Ball Z Edit
Perfect Cell Saga EditMain article: Perfect Cell Saga
Six months later on May 12th, Age 767, the Androids attack and Future Vegeta is the second Z Fighter to be killed by them. In the TV special, Vegeta is shown receiving a hard kick to the stomach by Future Android 17, and in the episode "Ghosts from Tomorrow" it is shown during a flashback that he dies after being struck by 17's Photon Flash while stuck in the ground after a receiving the brutal attack. In both instances, he retains his Super Saiyan power and abilities.
After his death, the Androids proceed to kill the rest of the Z Fighters except for Future Gohan, Future Jimmy, Future Kayla and Future Trunks (Future Vegeta's only son). Because of Future Piccolo's death (and the consequent death of Future Kami), the Dragon Balls vanish permanently, rendering the deaths of Future Vegeta and the other future Z Fighters irreversible.
Future Vegeta was 35 years old when he died.
Power Edit
Future Vegeta was about the same power level as his present timeline counterpart. However, by the time the Androids arrived, Future Vegeta was weaker than his present counterpart, due to being unaware of, and therefore not training in preparation for the Androids. This lack of foreknowledge proved his downfall, as he was easily taken out by a heavy blow from Future 17, followed by a Photon Flash. Because his life is cut short, Future Vegeta never masters the basic Super Saiyan form and is unable to ascend past its limits. In contrast, present Vegeta goes on to achieve higher grades and levels of Super Saiyan, including Super Saiyan 2 during the Majin Buu Saga, Super Saiyan 4 in Dragon Ball GT, and Super Saiyan Blue in Dragon Ball Super respectively
Forms and transformations Edit
Great Ape Edit
Main article: Great Ape
Future Vegeta took this form during his battle with Future Goku, as noted by Cell in his retelling of how he obtained Vegeta's cells.
Super Saiyan Edit
Main article: Super Saiyan
Like his alternate counterpart, sometime after the battle with Future King Cold and Future Frieza, Future Vegeta manages to transform into a Super Saiyan after undergoing various training.
Video Game appearances Edit
In Dragon Ball Z: V.R.V.S., Future Vegeta appears in Future Trunks' ending, as Future Trunks' wish to Shenron is to bring him back to life.
Voice actors Edit
- Japanese dub: Ryō Horikawa
- FUNimation dub: Christopher Sabat
- AB Groupe dub: Doug Rand
- French dub: Éric Legrand
- Italian dubs: Massimo De Ambrosis (original dub), Gianluca Iacono (2003 re-dub)
Battles Edit
- History of Trunks
- Future Vegeta (Super Saiyan) vs. Future Android 17
- In Future Trunks' flashback, he claimed that Future Vegeta was the first to die at the hands of Androids 17 and 18, and Future Piccolo was the second. However in The History of Trunks, it was said Future Piccolo was the first to die and Future Vegeta was the second.
- In a what-if in the video game Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2, Vegeta is the one who destroys the Androids and larval Cell.


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A born and bred city girl since '79, I thrive under pressure. I am a problem solver and a solution finder, being faced with challenges, especially if it entails financial numbers makes my day. My meticulous attention to detail and team playing nature makes me well suited in my role at VBKom. My main responsibilities at VBKom entail the management of admin, financial, legal and HR functions for the company.
Before joining VBKom in 2009, I built my working experience through an array of industries including banking, medical and property management. During my career I completed a number of higher certificates in business management, bookkeeping, financial and project management. My highest qualification to date is a B.Com degree in Financial Management. My educational aspirations do not stop there though and I am a proud newly enrolled student studying towards a B.Com in Industrial and Organisational Psychology.
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Each day I try to take a walk, not a long one – maybe half an hour on a good day. I don't jog (the cardiologist told me it's bad plan). 'Everything you need you can get from walking,' he said. He was right and not just from the health perspective. No one needs me to bleat on about the health benefits, they're a given. The bonuses I get from walking are ideas that it generates. As I walk, I collect them like I'm on a massive treasure hunt. I often go out with a head full of trouble and return home with a head full of story.
I'm not sure of the science behind it but there is something about the rhythm of my stride and the fact that I am not distracted by all the 'to do' things that are in my face when I'm at home: the washing, general chores, stack of bills to be considered, needs of others – in another words a procrastination list that stops me from writing. Of course these things need to be taken care of at some point but not to the detriment of the thing that is most nourishing to me.
In 'The Artist's Way', Julia Cameron suggests regular walking as part of artistic practice. I have found this to be true. When I get out into my walking world, I can let the must/should/ought thoughts rattling around in my head evaporate for the duration. I'm free to concentrate on what I see and hear. I can look at gardens and house designs and the strange objects that people place on their window sills for the world to see. Things like this make me ask, 'What's the story behind that?' The possible answers are like seeds planted in my head, waiting for the trigger to germinate. They are my resources and my tools.
An added bonus I get from daily walks is the fun of people-watching; definitely a writer's resource. My observation is that early morning walkers are greeters and late-in-the-day walkers are not; possibly they are grumpier and walking off a bad day. I say 'Hi' to everyone regardless of whether they return the greeting or not. I note how they interact with me, others and with their environment. It gives me ideas about character. Here's an example: The other day, I passed a very trendy two-year-old out with his mum. Mum had made sure he had the fashion spot on and his hair gelled into the latest style. He was still being a kid, having a great time squatting to examine something on the path – an ant or piece of rubbish. Like me he was being inspired. As I passed, his mum decided it was time to move on. 'Come on Arthur, let's go!' Arthur? On that, the kid and I exchanged looks.
I'm sure his said, 'What's the story behind that?'
Definitely fodder for a head full of story.