text: SOUTH BEND - Ken Whittaker, 68, of San Bernardino, Calif., formerly of South Bend, died Sept. 25 in San Bernardino. Survivors include a daughter, Caroline Schneider; two sons, Jason and Chris; four sisters, Hattie Messer, Evie Jacobson, Judy Wolfe and Joyce Pruyn; and two brothers, Jud and Alan. Memorial services were held. Montecito Memorial Park and Mortuary, Loma Linda, Calif., handled arrangements.


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Tazetta update
The instructions from Old House Gardens came today along with a box of wonderful, earthy-smelling bulbs. I put the box of bulbs next to my other big box of bulbs (soon to be joined by the next box UPS tells me is about to arrive).
Here's the deal with the tazettas like Grand Primo and Early Pearl, which can be grown outside in warmer places. They are like paperwhites, and can be forced over water and pebbles, but they do need two weeks in a dark, cold place before they can be brought out to grow in the light. Old House Gardens cautions that the room should be chilly like a Victorian parlor. Ha! No problem. Soon I will be starting my indoor-sort-of-greenhouse project, and that's where there these will go. More on that later. The fact is that any room in our house is chilly enough during the winter for these or any other plant that doesn't like it too hot and dry.
I do wonder. Old House Gardens is headquarted in Michigan, and yet they really seem to specialize in bulbs for warm zone gardeners who can't give bulbs a natural chilling period. Hmmm. I'm glad they do though. Everyone should have access to bulbs.
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Bogert Aviation has introduced a leak-proof 90° oil quick drain probe. The probe for the AVI-BJ107 drain valve, used on many Continental aircraft engines, has an O-ring seal around the valve body, making it leak proof while also locking the probe to the valve body.
Another improvement is the compactness of the probe, company officials said, noting it is actually shorter than the original AVI-BJ107B probe, making it easier to install and use.
The Bogert 90° probe is a alternate to Piper part number 481-359, Beechcraft part number 107-B and Auto Valve Inc. AVI-BJ-107B.
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May 3, 2017 - instagram tips, Instagram Tutorial
Are you looking to track your Instagram followers? Do you want to find out who unfollowed you on Instagram? Well, if that's the case then you will have to use this content and get to know who unfollowed you on Instagram. One of the best Social Media platforms, Instagram unfortunately doesn't give you a notification when someone unfollow you. However, out of curiosity you want to know who unfollowed you and probably do the same to them. So, let's proceed and learn about how to know who unfollowed you on Instagram.
There were and still are few websites which can be used to mange your Instagram Account. However, recently due to changes in Instagram API some websites have disabled their service. Unfollowgram and Insta.friendorfollow.com to name a couple of them.
The service which I am going to tell you is still active and works accurately. I have tested it and did the job perfectly. Have a look at the website used and the procedure to use it.
1. Visit Justunfollow or Crowdfireapp. Both are similar as Justunfollow will automatically redirect to Crowdfireapp.
2. Click on Login with Instagram and Enter your Instagram Username and password. Click on Login.
3. Give access to CrowdFire by clicking on Authorize.
Note: You should be careful while giving third party apps access to your Instagram account. As they get full control over your account and you might face posting of unauthorized content on your Instagram account.
4. After logging in you can select Recent Unfollowers from the left sidebar.
There you go! You will have all the friends who have unfollowed you recently. Piece of Cake, Isn't it?
If you have already logged in and want to get the list in realtime, make use of Refresh button at top right corner.
Apart from showing you the friends/users who have unfollowed you this amazing service can give you information about hell lot of things. These include users who are your Fans i.e. you can get to know the users who follow you but you don't follow them back, Non Followers – Insta users whom you follow but they don't follow you and more.
As most of the users prefer using Mobile devices rather than computer for social media, hence I assume that this method will be vastly used.
1. Download and install App CrowdFire on your smartphone.
CrowdfireApp : iOS | Android
Note: I will use screenshots from iOS app for this article.
2. Open the app and select Connect with Instagram.
3. Enter your Username, Password and Click Login.
4. Authroize the app if prompted.
5. Tap on three horizontal lines at top left corner.
6. Select Recent Unfollowers from the Menu.
This will show list of users who have unfollowed you recently. Please note the Refresh icon just above the list to the left. Click on it to update the list.


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text: SOUTH BEND -- Caralee and John Stanley of 2801 Fir Lane are celebrating their 60th anniversary with a family dinner. Mr. Stanley and Caralee Parkinson married April 29, 1946, in Benton, Ark. They have one son, Bruce, of Mishawaka; two grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Mr. Stanley retired in 1982 from the former Bendix Corp., where he was plant superintendent. Mrs. Stanley retired after 10 years as a bookkeeper for a certified public accountant in South Bend. They have lived in South Bend for 59 years.


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The Ministry of National Development (MND) announced yesterday (1 Oct) that there will be 16 town councils managing public housing estates.
According to the press release by MND, only Tampines Town Council will remain unchanged. Two town councils are new and 13 have been reconstituted as a result of the redrawing of electoral boundaries for the recent election.
The two new town councils are Jalan Besar and Marsiling-Yew Tee.
The newly-formed Jalan Besar Town Council will take over management of the areas in Jalan Besar GRC and Potong Pasir SMC with effect from 1 Oct while the newly-formed Marsiling-Yew Tee Town Council will take over management of the areas previously under Chua Chu Kang and Sembawang town councils in the GRC from 1 Dec.
13 other town councils were reconstituted as some areas under their purview became part of other towns due to changes in electoral boundaries or the grouping of constituencies for a town. The transferred management of these areas will take effect from 1 Dec.
Members of Parliament (MPs) in charge of three town councils have also asked for a change in name.
Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East will be renamed Aljunied-Hougang, after the Workers' Party (WP) lost single-seat Punggol East to the People's Action Party. Mr Singh is the chairman, alongside Ms Sylvia Lim and Mr Png Eng Huat as vice-chairmen.
The two other renamed town councils are East Coast-Fengshan to accommodate single-seat Fengshan, and Jurong-Clementi after Jurong GRC absorbed Clementi. Punggol East will now be part of Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council.
MND is encouraging all town councils to ensure a smooth transition, "so that the needs of all residents can continue to be served".
How can town councils better serve the needs of residents?
Read the press release from MND on Formation of Town Councils.
Source:"Changes to all but one of 16 town councils", (The Straits Times, 2 October 2015)


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Top & short set: Mara Hoffman
Swimsuit: NA-KD
How perfect is this twin set? I am obsessed with it. I got it at the end of summer so I wasn't able to wear it as much as I wanted but next summer I will be wearing this all the time!
These photos were taken at the resort I stayed at in Mexico. I would love to go back, it was so beautiful.
I just want to remind any women that is reading my blog that you are beautiful always and life is too short to care what people think of you.
I am going to make this a small post because I am getting ready to meet some friends for a late dinner and drinks! I hope you all have a lovely Saturday. Till next time babes XO ♥


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Rick Shinto is a leader by nature. After joining InnovaCare Health, he really sees how this firm can succeed in an industry with endless possibility. He created an environment where everyone fed off of each other's teamwork, providing great communication for anyone involved. The strong relationships created by these qualified professionals have allowed the company to grow and prosper. For example, after starting at InnovaCare, Shinto has been able make a doctor's visit much more affordable for patients. This has attracted a pretty big crowd to the firm. People have been choosing InnovaCare over various other large insurance companies for this fact alone. Shinto and Innovacare have made it possible for Puerto Ricans to have access to phenomenal healthcare due to the fact of innovative technology. This also gives them cheap options without having to sacrifice service or quality. In fact, customer service rates at a consistent 90 percent. Because of their success that Shinto has lead them to, they have confidence that they will be able to expand into new markets and have success there as well.
View: http://www.camarapr.org/Pres-Izq/PRH-2015/bios/Bio-Richard-Shinto-2015.pdf
Before all of the success occurred, Shinto started his career in the medical field as a pulmonologist in Southern California. Prior to this, he earned his MBA at Redlands University and his medical degree from the University of New York.
Before Innovacare, Shinto was CEO at Aveta Inc. While there, he was awarded with the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. This further highlights Rick Shinto's leadership ability. He won this due to his commitment to success through various innovative ideas and his dedication towards helping communities. Overall, Shinto's experience and his love for improving situations for others led him to his career at InnovaCare. I believe that under his control, InnovaCare will continue to grow and prosper just as they did when Shinto was hired. Read more at phppgads.com about Rick Shinto.
Overall, I believe Rick Shinto is a person we should all look up to and respect for his leadership capabilities. He has literally led this company to massive success in such a respectable way. As the cliche goes, "Teamwork makes the dream work". This is definitely the case for Rick Shinto and InnovaCare. Their relationships and great communication have done wonders for the company and the success shows it. Innovacare is a company with such great momentum that I don't see them slowing down any time in the near future.


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Both industrial and municipal waste water system owners are moving more towards sourcing complete pumping systems rather than having contractors purchase the individual components and then assembling and designing the systems. By outsourcing complete systems it creates a more reliable, more cost effective system. Also the pump system supplier is responsible for the promised performance, up-time and service to the owner for the system's lifetime.
Contractors also benefit with predesigned systems in which they do not have to understand the complete system to install and start-up the system. A good system is designed such that the system is factory tested and delivered to the site. The contractor with most systems will only need to connect the input and output piping and electrical connections to the system. When needed factory personnel can be on hand to assist in start-up and training of system operability.
A service agreement for complete packaged pumping systems can be purchased by the owner so that the supplier will periodically visit and perform necessary maintenance on the system and fine tune any programming requests by the owner. By having a service agreement with the manufacturer the owner can focus on running their facility rather than dealing with a pumping system's performance .
In waste water typical systems provided would be for flocculants, sodium hypochlorite, sodium bisulfite, ferric chloride and other chemicals. Ideally the pumps utilized in these systems should have safety devices to insure that if a hose or tube breaks in the pumps then the pumps affected would be shut down automatically. The Larox Flowsys pumps pictured above incorporate two hastelloy C probes in the pump heads which will sense liquid from a tube leak usually within a few seconds to shut the pumps down on a tube breakage. This insures that expensive polymers or aggressive chemicals are not continuously leaked to the external environment. Also the system is built upon a collection basin which will capture any undesirable chemical release.
Selection of the correct pump for pumping chemicals such as flocculants is very important. For instance gear pumps have a tendency to shear valuable flocculants and cause the flocculants to become less effective. In this case the owner may need to use twice as much of the required flocculants to perform the intended function. In that case the owner would spend thousands more per year on flocculants. A peristaltic pump is ideal for flocculants because it is a low shear device. So it is very gentle and does not damage costly flocculants. Thus less flocculants can be used per year and savings can be achieved.
Sodium hypochlorite is another chemical where the correct pump must be selected. In many facilities mechanical diaphragm pumps are used to deliver 12.5% sodium hypochlorite. However on warm summer days these pumps may experience vacuum degassing due to their design. This creates a situation where unexpected and unwanted time must be spent to get the pumps running again. A peristaltic pump is ideal for pumping sodium hypochlorite because the rubber hose is the only component in contact with the sodium hypochlorite. Also a peristaltic pump will not vacuum degas.
There are tube pumps and rubber hose peristaltic pumps. Tube pumps utilize thermoplastic tube materials such as Norprene or Tygothane. Peristaltic pumps that have these thermoplastic tubes typically do not utilize glycerin for lubrication or heat dissipation. In many cases, peristaltic pumps that use thermoplastic tubing are relatively small diameter pumps that have limited pumping discharge pressures of about 30 – 125 psig, depending on manufacturer and tube material.
Rubber hoses in peristaltic pumps typically have burst pressures that exceed 600 psig and have continuous pumping pressure capabilities up to 150 psig or greater. Peristaltic pumps with rubber hoses typically do utilize glycerin for either lubrication or heat dissipation or both. The lifetime of rubber hoses in most pumping applications far exceeds the tube lifetime that peristaltic pumps can achieve with thermoplastic tubes. Hose lifetime can be 5 – 10 times longer with a rubber hose compared to a thermoplastic tube.
There are many reasons for this variation. The number one factor that determines how long a hose or tube will survive is how many times the hose or tube is compressed. A common misconception that consumers typically have is that the largest determining factor of hose life is the medium that passes through the pump. However, this is not reality because it is much more relevant to concentrate on the number of times the hose or tube is compressed. Hose pump designs date back more than 75 years. Obviously tube and hose manufacturers have made monumental improvements over the past 75 years in rubber and elastomer technologies. You are wise to select the hose pump that places the least amount of compressions on the hose or tube.
Many hose pump manufacturers utilize two rubbing shoes or two rollers to compress the hose two times every 360 degree revolution. Newer designs utilize an eccentric shaft and roller that compress the tube or hose only once per 360 degree revolution. Single compression per revolution devices will produce at the very minimum twice the hose life than shoe designs and two or more rollers. Because the single roller design creates less friction and heat, the life of its hose or tube is often 4 – 5 times longer than two or more shoe or multiple roller designs. The savings in maintenance and operational costs of a single roller design compared to two or more shoe or roller designs is often just as much as the cost of new pump every year. So when choosing a peristaltic pump chose wisely. Operation and maintenance costs can vary widely from one manufacturer and designs to another.
In general the maintenance on peristaltic pumps is extremely easy. In 99% of instances the maintenance required is simply replacing a failed tube or hose. This process usually takes less than one hour to complete and in some designs only minutes.
As stated above there are some very good reasons to consider peristaltic pumps for many waste water applications. As well complete pumping systems designed and delivered by the pump manufacture create a very strong advantage for the owner and the contractor in waste water systems. Finally service contracts are an excellent way to guarantee pump system performance for the lifetime of the equipment.


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Schmidt on Turda, 'The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945: Sources and Commentaries'
Marius Turda, ed. The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945: Sources and Commentaries. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. 656 pp. $176.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4725-3175-9.
Reviewed by Marion Schmidt (Johns Hopkins University) Published on H-Disability (October, 2017) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=49619
In the last decade, the historiography of eugenics has steadily expanded beyond its original focus on Western Europe and North America.[1] Our understanding of what eugenics meant in different national contexts and time periods has diversified significantly as historians have explored its history and influence in the Soviet Union, Latin America, diverse African countries, Asia, and Australia. Most of this scholarship is, of course, written in the respective national languages. For those interested in the history of Eastern European eugenics, Oxford-based historian Marius Turda now provides an overview of this region's eugenic thought and policies. The volume's clear structure makes it easy for the reader to learn about eugenics in a specific country or to gain an overview of an area that encompasses Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia with Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia. For each of these countries, a short essay provides an overview of key actors, eugenic organizations, and eugenically motivated measures and legislation. It also provides insight to their relationship to national health-care policies, political movements, and the frictions that arose. This is followed by short biographies of leading eugenicists and key texts,. Here it would have been helpful for the reader to find the year of publication alongside the title; the years are only provided in the otherwise very useful bibliography that is included at the end of each section.
The strength of this volume, and its individual essays, is the way in which the role of eugenic thought in Eastern European nation building and rebuilding in the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century, when national borders shifted back and forth, and when a former majority could find itself a minority, is described. In the ensuing process of ethnic, linguistic, and cultural homogenization, eugenics offered a tool for biologizing more traditional concepts of race and belonging. Simultaneously, eugenics was an important part of a larger modernization project in which medicine and medical professionals played a disproportionately high role. Thus, eugenics entered public and professional discourse via projects of health and social reform that aimed to improve the health of race and nation.
Particularly interesting is the pioneering analysis of the eugenic subcultures developed by ethnic minorities who found themselves threatened by the homogenization attempts of a larger national majority. As Turda points out, eugenics provided a "defensive biological strategy" to "protect the ethnic minority from a number of challenges posed by the post-Versailles world" by helping to "create the physical and cultural differences that underpinned the categories of majority and minority" (p. xix). Filip Krcmar and Tudor Georgescu give two examples of how these strategies could play out in the Volksdeutsche minority in Vojvodina and for the German Saxons in Transylvania. It would, however, have been useful to have further comparative examples beyond these German minorities.
A strength of the volume is the way in which it highlights areas for future research. It falls somewhat short, however, on its promise to "redefine the current scholarship on eugenics by taking into account the multiplicity of scientific, cultural, linguistic and political contexts that served the complex ideological transmission and application of eugenic ideas and practices" (p. xii). Eugenics as a tool of modernization and conservation, and its close ties to national health and reproductive policies, has long been a topic in diverse national historiographies. Here, a stronger contextualization in this international historiography would have helped the reader to better assess the originality and typicality of Eastern European eugenics. Moreover, during the last two decades the historiography of eugenics has diversified to include the categories of gender and of disability, and not the least the perspectives of victims of coercive eugenic measures, such as sterilization. In contrast, the history of eugenics as presented by Turda and his contributors remains strictly one of professional actors and organizations. The target populations of eugenic policy, whose bodies and civil rights were at stake, are only mentioned in passing, and their perspectives are wholly absent. Perhaps as a consequence, disability as an analytic category is missing completely. Here, too, there is much potential for future research.
Nevertheless, with its short essays and translated key texts, The History of East-Central European Eugenics is a highly useful resource for research and teaching, especially for readers not versed in the various languages of Eastern European majorities and minorities. The volume succeeds in providing a thorough introduction to eugenic thought, movements, and measures in this region.
[1]. For an overview, see Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Citation: Marion Schmidt. Review of Turda, Marius, ed., The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945: Sources and Commentaries. H-Disability, H-Net Reviews. October, 2017. URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=49619This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.


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Deluxe reports increase Q1 revenue
Friday, April 29, 2011
Press release from the issuing company
St. Paul, Minn. - Deluxe Corporation reported first quarter revenue of $349.8 million, up 4% compared to the prior year and at the high end of the Company's previous outlook. Adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) from continuing operations of $0.75 exceeded outlook and compared favorably to $0.73 in the prior year. Adjusted diluted EPS for 2011 excludes losses on debt repurchases related to the retirement of a portion of the Company's long-term debt due in 2012 and 2014. Adjusted diluted EPS for both periods excludes restructuring costs related to cost reduction initiatives. Adjusted diluted EPS for 2010 also excludes the impact of transaction-related costs associated with acquisitions. Earnings were better than the Company's previous outlook for the current period due primarily to favorable product mix.
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The first quarter of 2012 is officially wrapped up, and it's one for the record books. The Nasdaq
Why's tech outperforming? Apple
However, it's not all Apple driving the tech sphere. Four out of the five largest tech companies in the Nasdaq 100 outperformed the S&P 500. Microsoft
Is tech set to cool down? My crystal ball is out to the shop for repairs, but I will say there are some signs the rally is running out of steam. The P/E on the Nasdaq stands at about 21.8, which isn't close to what we saw during the "bubble," but it's also not cheap by any means.
The information technology sector posted the highest earnings growth of any sector last quarter. Tech earnings leapt 17.1%, a number more than double the S&P 500's 8.4% growth rate. With that kind of growth, a higher P/E for tech stocks could be justified. However, the main problem is that without Apple, tech-earnings growth falls all the way down to 4.8%! Simply put, aside from Apple, technology companies aren't exactly booming.
With the tech space outside Apple actually underperforming growth in other industries, the broadness of the tech rally is concerning. Unless other giants of technology, such as Oracle
One more idea for the road
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regulations, regulations, regulations.
The control of the Web would be a disastrous adventure on the part of the government. It would curb the freedom that people had known since the beginning of time. It would decimate many lives.
In an article under "Opinion" titled, Obama Wants to Control the Web, on FOX News website, it seemed frightening to the point that the FCC would soon be shoving so much regulatory measures on the Internet; and it was a wonder that charging a fee or a monthly payment of some kind before the ordinary people could comment on an issue on the Web, let alone blog, as the case might be, to derive any kind of income, was not one of those measures.
However, when that should happen, only big business could go online (the Web) and present whatever they desired to push on the public. Why? Because they could afford any type of a fee or payment to the government, irrespective of how high it was. They would, in effect, had bought and paid for the Internet; and like the newspapers, TV, radio, magazines and other forms of (the) media, only the rich, the powerful and the affluent could afford to use it.
It would only be a privilege for the man in the street to contribute to the Internet or the Web, when he was in the news through a plane crash or an automobile accident, or something like a mugging happening to him. He would be sealed in to the same extent that we saw today, with big business having a self acquired enterprise by coercion of the government through money over those media mentioned above; using influential law firms to fight any violations.
We all knew what the government was attempting to do, and that was to make certain that there was no domination of any kind by any group or, for that matter, by the capitalist corporations, who have made the airwaves and the print media their personal properties, and were milking society, as a fleece sucked the blood out of a mule. They saw society as a carcase, and even though it was dead, they would kick it anyway. Or those who were raking in vast sums of money by way of pornography.
They were the ones to be controlled, and not the student, or a housewife with children to feed, or a retiree school teacher, or just out of luck, unemployed person, who could not get a sanitation job even if he or she tried to; but he or she could write and make a living out of it (writing) through the Web.
The FTC (the Federal Trade Commission) vote of 4-0 to regulate "blogging" was so frightening, it left mothers and unemployed fathers, as well as debt riddled people, with poor students among them, crying their eyes out. They knew that the word "regulation" meant nothing but control of the only medium, the Web, that has truly bestowed freedom on human kind; and was the exercise of that freedom going to be taken away? Good grief.
Under the tutelage of a White House staffer by the name of Susan Crawford, who happened to be a well known Marxist socialist, and who has been organizing the "OneWebDay", along side the radical environmental Earth Day campaign idealists, who just wanted to bamboozle everyone, but themselves that they were the ones to restore the biomes of the world; and she being the Internet Czar, has been using that same word quite frivolously, calling it the neutrality regulation, to enhance her agenda to revolutionize the information industry, and for that matter, the whole world's media, including the Web, of course.
Therefore, the ordinary person has once again been caught between the capitalists, who had the profits to be able to afford to eat a $1500 dollar lunch, and the socialist activists, who wanted to correct the inadequacies that allowed such people to exist, but could not do so without soliciting them (capitalists) to help them (socialists) to achieve their aim, which was the total socialistic transformation of the Web. An Internet revolution that would remove the liberties that all people should equally have.
At this juncture, they would forget that they were sworn enemies; and they would clamp it down in such a way that only the very rich could afford to use it; whilst they, the same capitalist conglomerates, continued to derive their profits by the exploitation of the underprivileged, the common man and woman in the street.
Regulations? Yes; but only on those that deserved them.


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The speech contest semifinals take place Thursday, August 16, and the nine winners —http://www.toastmasters.org/semifinals#semione
representing regions from around the world —will advance to the final WCPS round, to be held Saturday, August 18.
(Districts have been randomly assigned to the contests. Districts in each event are listed in numerical order).


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Blitzball (FFX)
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Blitzball is a mini-game from Final Fantasy X, hailed as one of the best of the franchise. It also appears in Final Fantasy X-2 Blitzball is the only sport and the main source of entertainment around Spira. It is a game that has been around for over a thousand years, regardless of the rise and fall of Sin.
A Blitzball match takes place in a huge dome filled with water. There are two teams of six, two goals and one blitzball. There are no rules, but everything is based in numbers. As with fighting, your players stats will only go up by taking part in matches. Experience Points are earned for most if not every move that your character will do during the match.
The aim in Blitzball like in all major sports is to score more goals than the opposition, the time limit is 10 minutes, with each half being 5 minutes long, and any changes can only occur during the half-time.
[edit] Blitzball Basics Tutorial:
Moving: There's five players per team in the Sphere Pool. Your team is the green arrows and the opposing team is the red arrows on the minimap (bottom right corner).
There are three moving modes:
- Auto: the players move automatically
- Manual A: You control the player, the direction of the movement corresponds to the minimap.
- Manual B: You control the player, the direction of the movement corresponds to the sphere pool.
The manual controls are:
Analogue Stick - Move player about
X - Make a selection
O - Cancel a selection
[] - Bring up the offence menu
Tri - Bring up the defence menu
Action Commands: the square button opens the command window. There's three commands: Pass, shoot and dribble. Dribble simply makes the character resume movement.
Pass: Use this command to pass between your players, but beware of the stat PA (pass) if it falls to 0 when the ball is still on the way between the characters, the one who's supposed to catch the ball "fumbles" it and the player closest to that player gets the ball.
Shoot: Use this command to score. If you shoot with a shot of 20 and the goalie has a catch of 10 you will probably score a goal, but beware of the fact that the longer you are from the opposing teams goal the more your shoot falls on the way. If it sinks too low (10 or below in this case) the goalie has a higher chance to catch it and probably will catch it too.
Calculations: If you pass/shoot and haven't broke trough a player theese will step in action:
- If your pass is 10 and 'Bicksons' block is 5: 10-5= 5 so your pass will continue forward but markably lower, same goes for shoot.
Note: the calculations are random so 10-5 = 5 may not always be correct it can be 10-5 = 3 or 10-5 = 8 for example. The stats randomization is bcs Pass Shoot and Block can vary for 50-150 percent of the players stat.
Using HP: everything you will do in Blitzball costs HP. Also HP will be drained when you have the ball and move around. when you pass HP will be drained equally to your pass stat and drained even more if you use a technique, same goes for shoot. Dribble is free of charge though.
Encounters: an encounter occurs when opposing players com in contact with the ball carrier. If you are the ball carrier the command window will open and you will have to choose one of the options: No Break Break through "Bickson" (example)
Select No break for the options: Pass Shoot
But here you have to look at how high the opposing player(s) stats are, mainly BL (block). If "Bicksons" block is 10 and your pass is 5 he will most likely catch your pass/shot and get the ball.
If you select break through Bickson, Bickson will tackle you. Here you gotta look at you EN (endurance) and Bicksons AT (attack) if your EN is 10 and Bicksons AT is 20 he will take the ball from you, if his AT is lower than your EN then you will still remain with the ball, and the options: Pass Shoot Dribble
now if you pass/shoot you don't have to worry about anything because no one is in your way blocking.
Tech Copy: This is a way of learning techniques from opposing players. First you need to 'mark' the player who has the technique you wish to learn. You can do this either pre-game or during half-time. To learn the technique from the player you need to successfully press 'X' at the correct time when they use the technique(the words 'Tech Copy' appear in the top left hand corner). If you press it at the correct time, you will learn the technique. If you do not learn the technique this is either because you did not press 'X' at the correct time, or you are not a higher enough level to learn the technique. Some techniques are harder to learn than others, some of these are:
- Sphere Shot
- Volley Shot
- Invisible Shot
- Anti-Drain
- and Drain tackles
To get a better chance of learning the technique it is recommended you are a higher level than the player you are tech copying from.
[edit] Techniques
Main Article: Blitzball (FFX)/Techniques
Techniques are an important part of blitzball. The more techniques at a player's disposal, the better the team's offense and defense will be.
[edit] StatsEvery character has a particular stats which they can raise by levelling up, there are 8 different stats:
- HP - Health, this reduces as you have the blitzball in your possession and as you use techs
SP - Speed, this determines how fast the character can move. This cannot be changed.
EN - Endurance, How much consecutive damage the character can withstand
AT - Attack, how much damage the player can cause (the actual damage can be anywhere around 50% to 150%)
PA - Pass, the distance the player can throw the ball, it is reduced as the opponent blocks the pass and over distance
BL - Block, the amount that a player can block a pass or shot by
SH - Shot, the power and distance that players can shoot the ball with, it is reduced as the opponent blocks the shot and over distance
CA - Catch, the power which the player can catch a shot with
[edit] Teams & Players
In total there are around 60 recruitable players found all around spira. To recruit a player you must go up to them and press []. If they arn't part of a team already, you will be given the option to recruit them. As you win more games, your rating will go up and you will be able to see more information and stats prior to signing the player.
The teams featured in FFX are:
Free Agents: There are also many free agents up for hire. They can be found in various locations around Spira. The players are:
- Biggs (Luca, above blitz reception)
- Brother (airship)
- Durren (near Cavern of the Stolen Fayth)
- Jumal (Luca square)
- Kiyuri (SS Winno)
- Kyou (bridge to Djose Temple)
- Linna (Macalania Temple)
- Mep (Kilika Temple)
- Mifurey (Thunder Plains agency)
- Miyu (North Moonflow)
- Naida (Calm Lands agency)
- Nedus (Luca port 1)
- Rin (airship)
- Ropp (Mi'ihen Highroad agency)
- Shaami (Luca theatre)
- Shuu (Luca café)
- Svanda (Calm Lands north)
- Tatts (Kilika)
- Vilucha (Besaid)
- Wakka (airship)
- Wedge (above Luca blitz reception beside Biggs)
- Yuma Guado (Guadosalam)
- Zalitz (Luca theatre)
- Zev Ronso (Luca port 5)
[edit] Winning the Championship Match
To get you started heres tips for the first blitzball match of the game, which is verses the Luca Goers:
-For the whole of the first half do not aim to score, but just keep passing between each of your players. This will get your experiance up for the next half
-When the second half begins equip Tidus with the Jecht Shot if available, if not then the Sphere shot will do
-Equip the other characters with as many techs as possible
-Try to score one goal before the 3 minutes mark when Wakka comes in, after scoring just try to keep passing between your characters so your players gain experiance and so the Luca Goers can't score.
-As soon as Wakka comes in, try and score another goal and return to passing between your players
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This year's #NewformsGathering is quickly approaching and we wanted to share a *health warning* about the weekend…It's going to be powerful and life changing
Here's 5 reasons why you SHOULDN'T join us from 27th-29th Nov:
- If you don't want to see the communities and people around you transformed – then you'll probably find the #NewformsGathering slightly boring and irrelevant. The weekend is not just another "Christian Conference" – but rather an opportunity to spur each other on in the work of spreading the Kingdom that God has called us all to. We're 'Gathering' for action, encouragement and empowerment – not to gorge on yet more theory which has no real affect on pushing back the Kingdom of darkness
- If you already know everything then don't come to the #NewformsGathering. You'll be disappointed by all the experienced practitioners who have realised they don't know everything and realise the value of working together and learning from each other. In fact – if you're looking for magic formulas and 10 step success programmes then you'll also be very disappointed this year. All we have to offer this year is a wide range of leading missional thinkers and practitioners who have more questions than answers. Also – if you think your particular perspective is right and everyone else is wrong then you'll probably find the strong sense of unity and diversity at this year's Gathering rather frustrating…
- If you want to use the weekend to talk/grumble/pray/prophesy/preach about the problems with your Church, your Vicar or Pastor or how nobody else seems to 'get' the vision then you'll be sadly disappointed by the #NewformsGathering. Whilst there will be times to share frustrations and challenges with other like minded brothers and sisters – this Gathering is more about creating solutions together and learning how others are overcoming and turning challenges into opportunities
- If you like the 'status quo' and are comfortable going through the motions then it's probably worth staying at home rather than come to the #NewformsGathering. At this year's Gathering there will just be loads of people who are REALLY passionate about thinking outside the box and are re-imagining Church, Mission and Business/Enterprise in the 21st century…
- The #NewformsGathering is an opportunity to meet with folk from across the world who are working to create a 'whole new world' where the Kingdom of Heaven is invading earth. Frankly – if you're looking to further your own little world then there won't be much to help you at this year's Gathering…If however you're wanting to build God's Kingdom in our generation then there will be a wealth of valuable resources and connnecting-opportunities for you
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Student-Athlete Dustdevil Twins End Play, Earn TAMIU Degrees
This Friday, twins Anna and Brenda Parnin end successful seasons on the softball field and in the classroom. The twin Dustdevils are candidates for graduation from Texas A&M International University.
The twins joined the Dustdevil Softball program in 2014 from Louis D. Brandeis High School. Both have racked up a number of awards in their four-year careers, and the duo has been to the Heartland Conference Softball Tournament in each of their four seasons.
Anna was named the Gold Glove Award winner during her sophomore season in 2015. Brenda sits inside the Top 10 in 10 different All-Time Career Statistical categories. Both were part of the 2016 team that won the TAMIU Athletics Community Service Award for their dedication and hard work in the community.
The twins have also both earned spots on the Heartland Conference Honor Roll, which honors Student-Athletes achieving an overall Grade Point Average over 3.0.
Anna graduates as a Kinesiology major with a minor in biology and plans to become a physical therapist. Brenda will graduate with a degree in Management Information Systems and will pursue a career in Management Information.
In a testament to their academic and athletic prowess on and off the field, both are graduating on time in four years.
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Caterina Fake started Ludicorp in 2002. Ludicorp was a massively multiplayer online games company that allowed players to interact in real time. In 2004, Ludicorp added a photo sharing service that surpassed their initial venture in popularity, so Ludicorp became Flickr. It has grown into one of the most influential examples of Web 2.0 technology and was acquired by Yahoo in 2005.
One interesting fact about Fake is that she is married to her co-founder. She is taking commitment to the venture to a whole new level. In the beginning, Flickr began development on a photo sharing website without thorough analysis of the industry or the creation of a business plan. This contributed to the success of Flickr – if the founders would have done their due diligence research they would have determined that photo sharing has not worked yet, and they would be foolish to enter the field.
Flickr's naivety in field paid off. They created a great product that people love – they created their own market with a breakthrough product. This is refreshing because most entrepreneurial thought is centered around building a product around a market, but Flickr proved that if something is innovative then people will use it, regardless if they fit into a certain market of demographic.
Flickr is the textbook example of web 2.0 – integrating blogging and social networking and capitalizing on the widespread adoption of broadband internet.
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Which fountain is right for my pet?
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Protection with Impact Shields
Award-winning safety
Driven by the CYBEX safety philosophy and safety concept, all forward-facing CYBEX car seats in Group 1 are equipped with an adjustable impact shield by principle, offering maximum protection without confining the child.
Numerous tests by leading international motoring or consumer organizations have demonstrated that the safest forms of transport are rear-facing seats followed by impact shield systems.
Car seats with impact shield have regularly received top results in the test of leading independent European consumer organisations like Germany's "Stiftung Warentest", British "Which? Magazine", the French "que choisir", the number one European motoring organisation, the German "ADAC" and the Dutch "ANWB".
When comparing the Stiftung Warentest test results from 2007 to 2012, the top 3 seats in Group 1 (approx. 9 months - 4 years) are seats with impact shield. In the combination Group 1/2/3 (approx. 9 months - 12 years) the superiority of impact shield systems is even more striking: 9 seats in the top 10 are seats with impact shield technology.
In 2012 Stiftung Warentest and ADAC for the first time ever awarded the top mark "very good" in Group 1 in the category "accident safety" - to the Group 1 test winner CYBEX Juno-fix, a seat with impact shield (Stiftung Warentest of test 6/2012).
When looking at conventional seats with harness system there are reports, statistics and studies about heavy or fatal injuries, especially in the critical head and neck area. As a head-on collision is often linked to high speeds, the child is exposed to enormous forces. Our belief here is that the CYBEX impact shield has tremendous advantages over a harness system. In a simulated head-on collision, car seats with traditional harness system show significantly higher force on the critical neck compared to systems with impact shield.
Leading Independent institutions continue to award CYBEX and other safety pillow technology manufacturers some of the highest safety accreditations in the industry.


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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 03, 2014
Students from various FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising majors competed in Cotton University's Just Design It Student Scholarship Competition, sponsored by Cotton Inc. The entrants worked in groups of three over two quarters to research a specific sport activity and their fiber properties, technical construction, and consumer needs required for success.
Teams then attended workshops, such as Customer Research, Cotton Textiles, and Technical and Performance Features, to increase their knowledge of cotton fabrics and how they can be used to enhance active wear products. The groups produced one sample each from their product lines and presented their product assortment via a visual and oral presentation in front of a panel of judges from the industry.
First Place (Boxing) went to International Manufacturing & Product Development Students Linda Solano Diaz, Brodie Silver, and Amanda Ziegler. Second place (Dancewear) was awarded to Business Management Students Amanda Gebran and Imani Steiner and Interior Design Student Danny Lucero. And third place (Equestrian) went to Business Management Students Leslie Seo and Helen Ton and Graphic Design Student Patrick Pin-Tsung Lee.
The three winning teams each received scholarships. FIDM has a longstanding relationship with Cotton, Inc. who has generously awarded over $30,000 a year in scholarship funds exclusively to a handful of dedicated, innovative, and eager-to-learn FIDM students.
FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising is a co-educational, specialized, private college dedicated to educating students for the Fashion, Graphics, Interior Design, and Entertainment industries. Known as a one of the top fashion design schools, FIDM is also a leading graphic design school and digital media college. Visit fidm.edu for more information.


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Discussion in 'General Mac Discussion' started by Sun Baked, Feb 29, 2004.
Inquirer Article...
Hmmm...That brings up a lot of questions that I didn't have before, and a lot more interest in the Xbox 2. I wonder if we're going to see something we didn't expect here...
Interesting... but I don't know how much i believe this. I mean, surely M$ could have used some other way to do this other than using Apple computers.
They could have used some other way but building another set of machines to builds on could prove expensive. They've gone with what works
this way was easier and probably cheaper in the long run. this acutally helps apple. if the SDK on the G5 are producing assembly code that runs on the same processor, i smell alot more games in the future on macs.
What about DirectX? I know thats used on Windows games, but I don't know how it stands on the XBox platform. If XBox games used DirectX, there's pretty much no hope of it running on the Mac, unless MS ports it to the Mac, or just uses OpenGL.
That'll be the day:
XBox games using OpenGL!
That would really push the game developers to using OpenGL instead of DirectX.
IMHO DirectX not being available for the Mac is one of the main reasons why game many game developers are not developing for Macintosh, and why we have to rely on the (great!) efforts of Aspyr and Feral etc.


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Eating for Two: The Home Stretch
Hey folks!! Happy Wednesday!!
I'm still alive, still here, and still VERY pregnant!
It's been a busy time, man!! Although I adore blogging… it just hasn't been a priority these days. Particularly because I usually blog … ya know … new recipes or workouts or things of that nature. And, to be honest, making new things and doing new workouts haven't really been priorities either. I'm still cooking and still working out, of course, but it's just easier these days to eat the same things I always do and pop in a yoga DVD so I don't need to think about it or worry about it too much when I've still got cloth diapers that need to be washed and a hospital bag that's almost-but-not-quite together (I know…I'm due next Thursday…it should be done by now…I live on the edge).
Regardless, I know that I wanted to share with my loverly readers (yes, that's you) some of the fabulous photos Johnny and I had taken at 36 weeks (I will officially by 39 weeks pregnant tomorrow. WTF mate?!)!! My amazing friend Ashely's awesome friend Lindsay was kind enough to take these for us and I love, love, love them so, so, much!!! I hope you guys enjoy!! These are just a few, but they're my favorites!! We'll see if I can squeeze in another bumpdate before I squeeze out this baby, too.
I'm still linking up with Jenn this week for What I Ate Wednesday. So far, as today is Wednesday, I've eaten a banana oat muffin, some decaf english breakfast tea, and a banana with some peanut butter. Exciting stuff, right??? That's why I'm sharing THESE photos and not THOSE photos. XX/OO!!


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Who've you got your money on the triumph at this weekend's Oscars?
Before you go lumping it all on Bruce Dern because of his long odds, get the lowdown from our film experts - Daily Mirror film critic David Edwards and the Sunday People's movie man Chris Hunneysett.
Whether you agree or disagree with their predictions, make sure you vote in our polls and comment at the very bottom of this article - purely for the glory of being able to say you had the winners identified ahead of the golden envelopes being opened.
And check out the contenders' film awards season form by taking a look at the road to the Oscars.
* The 2014 Oscars will take place on March 2 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood - find out how to watch in the UK by clicking here.
David Edwards is the Daily Mirror's film critic
WILL WIN: Chiwetel Ejiofor
SHOULD WIN: Chiwetel Ejiofor
The 36-year-old Londoner has already won a BAFTA for his rousing performance as Solomon Northup in the epic 12 Years A Slave, making him odds-on favourite to repeat the feat at the Dolby Theatre.
While some are talking up Christian Bale's chances for American Hustle, Ejiofor is a sure thing.
Who will win the Oscar for best actor in a leading role?
WILL WIN: Cate Blanchett
SHOULD WIN: Cate Blanchett
The Aussie actress has long been the front-runner following her stirring turn as a spoiled rich girl forced to live with her working-class sister in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine. You can bet the farm she'll be walking off with the gong.
WILL WIN: Barkhad Abdi
SHOULD WIN: Jonah Hill
Captain Phillips has six nominations, with the Somalian newcomer among them.
The hostage drama has been a hit with audiences (worldwide box office: £130million) but I predict a bad night for Paul Greengrass's film with perhaps just a couple of winners.
Abdi is likely to be one of them but Hill's turn in The Wolf Of Wall Street is more memorable.
Who will win the Oscar for best actor in a supporting role?
WILL WIN: Jennifer Lawrence
SHOULD WIN: Lupita Nyong'o
Lawrence won the best actress Oscar last year for Silver Linings Playbook and it's a good bet she'll be clearing another space on her mantelpiece for her performance in American Hustle.
A shame, since Nyong'o's less showy but more nuanced turn in 12 Years A Slave is leagues above.
WILL WIN: Frozen
SHOULD WIN: Frozen
Despite vast box-office takings, it's not been a vintage year for feature-length toons. The Croods and Despicable Me 2, both nominated, were unmemorable and the other two shortlisted films, Ernest & Celestine and The Wind Rises, don't look like Oscar fare.
The favourite by some distance is Disney's Frozen, which should easily triumph.
Who will win the Oscar for directing?
WILL WIN: The Act Of Killing
SHOULD WIN: The Act Of Killing
Another dead cert. Joshua Oppenheimer's interviewers with the perpetrators of the Sixties genocide that rocked Sixties Indonesia is both compelling and repulsive.
The sight of men, now in their seventies, boasting about how many innocent people they killed will stay with you for an awfully long time. A sure thing.
WILL WIN: 12 Years A Slave
SHOULD WIN: 12 Years A Slave
This should be very interesting. While Steve McQueen's slavery drama deserves to win, it faces some very stiff competition.
The sci-fi film Gravity, starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, could easily triumph and it's not beyond the realms of possibility that David O Russell's American Hustle will cause an upset.
Chris Hunneysett is the Sunday People's film critic
SHOULD WIN: Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf Of Wall Street)
A movie star at the pinacle of his acting game, DiCaprio delivers a grandstanding performance that powers Scorsese's three hour epic.
His talent and charisma are on full–throttle in a hugely energetic, intelligent and hilarious performance, leaving the competition out in the cold.
WILL WIN: Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
It's a victory for the pretty–boy romcom star who has rediscovered the highly gifted actor lurking within him.
It's the best personal narrative and the Academy – like politics – rewards those players with the best, most interesting backstory. His performance is pretty good too.
SHOULD WIN: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jamsine)
The Aussie actress presents a performance that is as dominating as DiCaprio's though in a much more nuanced way.
Her deluded and highly strung high society divorcee is as hard to ignore as she is to forget.
As she descends through several circles of personal hell we daren't, can't tear ourselves away from watching.
WILL WIN: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jamsine)
None of the other nominees even come close to competing: Streep is self–indulgent while Bullock is overshadowed by panoramic technical accomplishment.
Adams has to compete for oxygen with her equally excellent fellow cast members while Judi Dench makes her work look far too easy to warrant an award.
Who will win the Oscar for best actress in a leading role?
SHOULD WIN: Barkhad Abdi (Captain Philips)
An electric first time performance from a novice actor that is all the more impressive for being opposite five time Oscar nominee and two time winner Tom Hanks.
Despite Hanks being on top form Abdi more than matches him in creating a character that is complex and sympathetic despite playing a vicious, desperate pirate.
WILL WIN: Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
Leto lost 30 pounds while shaving his eyebrows and waxing his body to play a drug addicted transgender woman with AIDS. Plus it's in a film with a message on a big important subject. These are all things the Academy love to award.
Additionally his character is arguably the only straight–up good guy on a list otherwise composed of a pirate, a shuckster, a dodgy cop and a slave–owner. And good guys are winners in the eyes of the Academy voters.
SHOULD WIN: Sally Hawkins (Blue Jamsine)
When Blue Jasmine was released back in September everyone immediately pointed to her co–star Cate Blanchett's eyecatching performance. Some of us (well I did) immediately flagged up Hawkins for this award.
Her selfless, intelligent and understated performance is in a large way responsible for allowing Blanchett to shine.
WILL WIN: Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
Despite being in a film of brilliant comic performances where all the main players have been nominated (and have all been nominated before), she still manages to upstage them all.
She's a sassy, sexy scene–stealer extraordinaire and she'll run away with this award in her pocket.
Who will win the Oscar for best actress in a supporting role?
SHOULD WIN: Gravity
With its boundary–pushing technical brilliance this redemptive rollercoaster of suffocating tension is light years ahead of the competition.
Its cinematic DNA is written in the stars alongside that of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Georges Méliès 'A Trip To The Moon'.
It's also taken a huge amount of money which from the Academy's point of view is something that's never to be dismissed lightly.
WILL WIN: American Hustle
The only real competition the groundbreaking Gravity has is 12 Years a Slave. Yet Slave could have been made at any time since colour film was invented – it's not even the only film about slavery in the cinemas this year.
However due to it being an 'important issue' movie it will garner votes at the expense of Gravity leaving American Hustle to steal in between the split vote.
With great performances and great energy, Hustle is much more entertaining than Argo which won last year.
Which film will win the Oscar for best picture?
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While I acknowledge that this is not entirely true… I still very much relate to these words as someone who put off beginning an art career until age 50! I am so glad that I didn't let the refrain in my head "you are too old to start now" stop me! If anything, it has added a motivating urgency to my work. I have an inkling of just how valuable and fleeting these days are!
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I was thinking, I have leftover spice boxes, and I have stuff that are still taking space in my cupboards. So I added 3 more spice boxes to my bento pile. Here's a picture of all 5 spice boxes together:
The two boxes at the front were there already: on the left my eggs molds and on the right my "little stuff" separated in little containers.
On the back row from left to right: My little containers with their lids, then in the next box my bigger silicone cups, my little paper cups and my cookie-veggies cutters (butterflies and dog bones!), finally the box to the right has my smaller silicone cups and the heart shaped ones I bought at Target yesterday!
By putting my containers and silicone cups in spice boxes, it has made space in my wooden box to put just my bentos, and onigiri molds. That way I don't need to get a bigger box. AH! I'm a genius right?
Here's what my spice boxes look like in my kitchen. I have two more, but I think that 3 is as much as I can pile before it gets unstable.
So there you go, now ALL my bento stuff is together and easy to get to. I'm happy at how it turned out, and proud because I'm not usually overly organized. I could see this become a disaster pretty quick.
It didn't! AH!
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Bulldog Pride in DecemberPublished by dayna.kirgan on Fri, 01/05/2018 - 14:42
Barnett Elementary awarded Top Dogs and Leaders of the month in December. This month, as crazy as it was, resulted in great acts of academics and leadership in the classroom. How lucky are we at Barnett Elementary to have so many leaders to choose from. Not only do we have great students are Barnett Elementary, but also great faculty members. Our Alpha Dogs for December were Mrs. DeNaughel and Mrs. Standish. Here are December's Top Dogs and Leaders of the month.
Top Dogs:
Blair Terry, Angy Gomez, Paityn Hutchison, Logan Everett, Mason McFadden, Bentley Hanks, Tyler Kearns, Faith Palea, Rylee Fullmer, Kaidence Peck, Tucker John, Yoselyn Gomez, Emeli Gomez, Megan Fletcher, Avangeline Manuta, Makayla Cook, Carter Ruch, Harrison Egbert, Mason Pierce, Wade Hoover, Andrew Evon, Aaron Smith, Thomas Stowell
Leaders of the Month:
Olivia Pugmire, Samantha Villegas, Kaylee Jensen, Christopher Stephens, Rebecca Reinitz, Cole Deschamps, Jenevieve Pierre, Kylee Lance, Holly Christensen, Gracie Smith, Gabriella Greenhalgh, McKenna Terry, Kyara Miramontes, Noah St. John, Roselia Gomez, Addilyn Finlinson, Cameron Blue, Brooklyn Derfler, Jessica Villegas, Katelyn Pugmire, Azalea Ottosen, Alexa De La Torre, Andrew Dean, Eliza Bennett


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Chorba Frik or Firik ( Read as Shorba Freek) is quite popular soup in Ramadan in Mediterranean countries like Algeria,Tunisia and Morocco.
It is so easy to cook as well and tastes great along with its satiating fragrance of coriander and mint .
In my recipe I have used meat balls but you can add normal chicken and meat pieces too.
Preparation time : 15 minutes Cooking time : 30 mins
Serves :2 -3
Tomato 4 medium size ,pureed ( 2 cups)
Onion-1 medium size, finely chopped or paste
Garlic -2 big clove finely chopped or paste
1 bunch of coriander leaves chopped
5-6 mint leaves
handful of chickpeas- soaked overnight.
(7-8) small meat balls made from keema added with some herbs and spices of your choice.
Green chili -1 (medium hot) finely chopped
Salt -2 teaspoon
Pepper-1 teaspoon
Cumin powder-1 teaspoon
chili powder-1 teaspoon
1 bay leaf.
2 tablespoon Olive oil
Freek – 2 tablespoon ( It is blé of Wheat , can be substituted with Indian Dalia ,split wheat )
(You can even add Harisa to it, if you like very spicy,I prefer it medium hot.)
**Harisa is chili paste for my friends who donot know.
In a wok/pan heat oil and add bay leaf, chopped onion, garlic, chili and fry them for 3-4 minutes on medium flame.
Add the spices and fry for a minute.
Add tomato puree and Sauté for 2 minutes till you see oil separates from gravy.
Add now 5-6 cups of water and bring to a boil.
Now add meat balls, chopped coriander , mint , chickpeas and frik .
Cover the lid and Cook it on low flame for 20 minutes .
Garnish with some fresh coriander on top and lemon juice before serving.
You can choose to make it thick or watery , as you prefer to have your soup. If you want it more thick add less water .We like it a bit more liquid.


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Our Oz Trampolines weather covers are designed to extend the life of your trampoline by providing cover to your mat, springs and padding when not in use.
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A Different Approach To Property
Inventive Asset Management
The Amalgamated Berkshire Group was founded in 1954. Our previous incarnation was a precision engineering firm in Maidenhead. But when we needed to move to larger premises, a significant number of companies were interested in the property. We therefore established the Richfield Trading Estate in nearby Reading to meet the demand, with a range of newly-built industrial units.
Since then, the AB Group has expanded throughout the home counties and western corridor, with investments and developments from Bristol to St Albans.
But throughout our expansion, we have sought to create a different kind of property company - one characterised by the inventive management of our assets and by good, long-term relationships with clients.


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Five DVDs cover the WDSF Syllabus for the Waltz, the Viennese Waltz (including the development of the latter), the Rumba and the Samba by providing visual information to teachers, adjudicators and dancers.
The WDSF DanceSport Academy released the first two Syllabus DVDs in 2010.
The Rumba DVD is presented by Barbara Nagode Ambroz and features as demonstrators Zoran Plohl and Tatsiana Lahvinovich.
Michael Herdlitzka presents the Viennese Waltz DVD. Simone Segatori and Annette Sudol are the demonstrators.
The Samba DVD
Order the DanceSport Academy Syllabus DVDs from the WDSF distributor!


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fyi updated QA documents I was mentioning on call.. best wishes Tim Boland NIST >X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 >To: firstname.lastname@example.com >From: Karl Dubost <email@example.com> >Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:12:51 -0400 >X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) >X-Original-To: email@example.com >Subject: QA Framework: New versions !!! >X-Archived-At: >http://email@example.com >Resent-From: firstname.lastname@example.com >X-Mailing-List: <email@example.com> archive/latest/1607 >X-Loop: email@example.com >Sender: firstname.lastname@example.com >Resent-Sender: email@example.com >List-Id: <www-qa.w3.org> >List-Help: <http://www.w3.org/Mail/> >List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com?subject=unsubscribe> >Resent-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:12:53 +0000 >X-MailScanner: >X-MailScanner-From: email@example.com > > >Hi everyone, > >In a major efforts of making the QA Framework more accessible to anyone, >the QA WG has released new version of the QA Framework documents. > >As the QA WG Chair, I would like to thank all efforts made by the >participants of the QA WG and the QA IG list members, without them, this >would not have been possible. > > > >* The QA Handbook * > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-qa-handbook-20040830/ > A short guide to help a WG to organize its life. Chairs and Staff > Contacts are most likely to be interested. Though anyone can read it as well. > > >*The QA Framework: Specification Guidelines* > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-qaframe-spec-20040830/ > A guide to help you to go through all the problems you might > encounter creating a technology and writing a specification. Some of > these guidelines will be obvious for you, but a few others might raise > new isuues you had no opportunity to think about. A checklist (ICS) has > been given with this document to control if you have forgotten or not to > explore a topic. > http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-qaframe-spec-20040830/specgl-ics > > >*Variability in Specification.* > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-spec-variability-20040830/ > When designing a technology, you might face very difficult > topics, with very deep ties to conformance and interoperability. If you > need to explore further advanced topics, we recommend you the readin of > variability in specification. > > >* The QA Framework: Test Guidelines * > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-qaframe-test-20040820/ > This document is put on a hold, due to the lack of resources of > the QA WG. If more manpower was joining the WG, we might have the > possibility to finish it. > > > >-- >Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ >W3C Conformance Manager >*** Be Strict To Be Cool *** > > >Received on Wednesday, 1 September 2004 14:17:58 UTC
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Relevant shipping profits: Secondary activities qualifying up to set limits
The secondary activities that qualify up to set limits are described in SI00/2303/REG3 (4). There are three categories:
- Work carried out for third parties - see TTM06130
- Betting and gambling - see TTM06150
- Sale of luxury goods - see TTM06160
Cliff edge
Some of the rules allow activities up to a certain limit. Where this limit is breached, the whole of the profit or loss from that activity will fall outside the tonnage tax ring-fence. HMRC will apply this criterion flexibly in relation to occasional minor breaches, but not if breaches become habitual.
|SI00/2303/REG3(4) (permitted levels)
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Performance Details
Event 5000 Meter Run
Mark 19:34.90
Place 146th
Race/Results Page Varsity Boys
Round Finals
Heat 1
Native Country USA
Season XC 2015
Level HS
Meet Date Oct 3, 2015
Date Added Oct 3, 2015
Grade 2017
Timing FAT
Personal Best? No
Season Best? No
Venue Ray-Pec XC Course, Peculiar, MO, USA
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Innobuzz Knowledge Solutions High Technology Training Solutions
We at Innobuzz Knowledge Solutions, are headquartered at Delhi, India with strong presence in Australia, United State of America and Canada, apart from many other countries. The main activity of Innobuzz is providing training in Information Security, which is delivered to its audience all over the world via Computer Based Training Courses, Onsite Training Programs and Company Owned learning centers.
News & Events
May 2018 - New Course ICAH Launched.
May 2018 - New Center Opend in Balaghat- Madhya Pardesh.
Our Trainers
Narender is a skilled practitioner in the Information Security domain. He has a sound academic background with his core expertise in IT Security, Cyber Forensics. His zeal to grow in his domain has helped him earn laurels and have made him an IT Security connoisseur.


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Sydney Youth Jazz Orchestra
SYJO2 has vacancies for new members for 2019:
- Tenor sax, bari sax, piano, and bass in the BIG BAND.
- To arrange an audition time please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
- SYJO2 is for school-aged students. We are currently seeking expressions of interest for an 18+ advanced-level little big band commencing 2019. Email email@example.com
- Limited spots available in combos (small ensembles) Monday evenings for ages 18+.
Criteria: you must be able to play and read, and to commit to a weekly rehearsal & band performances. Commitment to a weekly rehearsal means you come every week to rehearsal. You do not have to be the best player in the world, we'll help you become a much better player, whoever you are provided you are committed.
SYJO is an acclaimed jazz big band, ranking among Australia's finest. It is the flagship ensemble of the Sydney Youth Jazz Orchestra program, a not for profit music training association dedicated to helping young musicians achieve the highest possible standards of performance. SYJO plays a wide repertoire, covering the swing and mainstream traditions of the 1920s to today, as well as new works of contemporary Australian and international repertoire. The band often features new compositions by members of the ensemble.
The Sydney Youth Jazz Orchestra program includes SYJO, the flagship ensemble, and SYJO2 for high school & advanced primary-aged musicians. Members do not have to be working towards careers in music. It is an opportunity for anyone who enjoys playing big band jazz at a high level. Music doesn't have to stop just because school ends!
SYJO offers young musicians with potential the chance to develop through working with the best, most successful jazz educators in Australia.
The Sydney Youth Jazz Orchestra, SYJO, is a non-profit association established for the encouragement of music. Specifically, through providing a framework of outstanding jazz ensembles for students and young musicians to rehearse and perform with.
Following in the tradition of other youth jazz orchestras around the world, SYJO is set to become Australia's foremost youth jazz orchestra. In the UK the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO), the Midlands Youth Jazz Orchestra and the Wigan Youth Jazz Orchestra for many years have all outstanding examples of the level of performance an opportunity such as this can offer. Locally the Sydney Schools Jazz Orchestra for public secondary school students and Judy Bailey's Jazz Connection are two other youth jazz orchestras performing at a very high level. SYJO works in tandem and in cooperation with these, and the many other fine youth jazz orchestras of Sydney and Australia.
Membership of the ensembles is by audition and is open to musicians aged 30 years and under. There are three SYJO ensembles, grouped roughly by age but all auditioned on the basis of playing ability.
SYJO's non-profit status allows it to fundraise and seek support through grants and donations in order to provide programs for its members. These include regional touring grants, artist in residence programs, support for young composers and scholarship programs for assisting young musicians to access excellent jazz education opportunities and to later establish viable careers as professional performers as alumni of the SYJO program.
An exciting initiative of SYJO is the Australian Youth Jazz Orchestra AYJO, an occasional ensemble bringing together the finest young jazz musicians in the country for collegiate rehearsals, performances and touring.
The SYJO conductor and musical director is Saul Richardson, B.Ed (hons), MACE . Saul is well known internationally as one of Australia's most successful jazz educators. He is an experienced big band conductor, electric guitarist, adjudicator, clinician former lecturer in the Jazz Department at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and a PhD student at the University of Sydney.
The Sydney Youth Jazz Orchestras is a not-for-profit organisation. It is administered by a volunteer committee.
Rehearsals at held at The Jazz Workshop on Atchison St in St Leonards.
- SYJO rehearses Thursday evenings from 7pm
- SYJO2 rehearses Wednesday evenings from 6:40pm
- SYJO3 currently not being offered – however please register your interest for future updates.
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Next Episode of The Ronnie Johns Half Hour is
"An Australian comedy sketch show that's funny... the result is fresh, funny and irreverent…" - The Guide, SMH
If you haven't sampled the naughty comic genius that is 3rd Degree, if you haven't fallen off the couch from laughter while watching THE RONNIE JOHNS HALF HOUR, then don't miss your fix, every Wednesday night !
The one and only smash sketch show hosted by a cowboy riding a papier mache horse (Ronnie Johns and the Good Taste Pony), THE RONNIE JOHNS HALF HOUR is side splitting new Australian comedy at its best with the emphasis on characters, and including animation, puppets and vox pops.
3rd Degree is a group of performers and writers who have honed their skills and relationships through live performances in revues and with tours, including the Melbourne and Big Laugh Comedy Festivals this year.
Heath Franklin, Jordan Raskopoulos, Felicity Ward, Caz Fitzgerald, Dan Ilic and James Pender - These comedians aren't household names they're just piss funny, very talented and willing to take risks.
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