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Apart from, "how do you achieve that flawless beach wave look?" the question I'm asked most is, "How can I live in Ireland, too?"
This is, of course, a natural question because Ireland is stunning, the people are warm, the culture vibrant and the accents dreamy. I've loved the idea of Ireland all my life, without ever imagining I'd find myself spending the majority of my 30s on her distant shore. And when we felt ourselves being led in an easterly (and green, in every way) direction, getting here was nothing short of miraculous. And staying here has been nothing short of harrowing.
Maybe I should clarify.
This is how we came to live in Ireland: A few years after getting married and working in the traditional marketplace, Matt and I started dreaming of the possibility of serving in Christian ministry overseas. In Christianese, we "felt the call." This was 2003.
At the time, with one baby in tow, we weren't sure if we could swing a lifetime in another country, so we narrowed down our destinations to English-speaking countries and searched organisations who were placing people on a short-term basis to work with young people, music and carpentry. In the end, Ireland was a perfect fit for us.
After a year of applications and interviews, we became employees of a US-based Christian sending agency from which we are paid a salary. That salary, however, is all raised beforehand, and we spent pert-near four years raising it (the EU is expensive, ya'll!).
If you're still counting, that's five years of prep work before embarkation.
We lived in County Meath for two years, relocated back to the US in order to raise funds so we could return to Ireland long-term (this particular home assignment lasted over two years) and finally moved back to Dublin in January 2013.
We have an amazing team of people who donate to our organisation so that we can afford to live and work in Ireland as ministers of religion. This is our particular visa stamp and it means we partner with churches, other faith-based orgs, and non-profits like Serve the City. I don't love that specific title (religion is not a word used lightly round these parts), but it enables us to do what we feel God has called us to do (serving through the local church, the arts and community development).
We do not have work visas to live in Ireland, though many of my expat friends do (or are attached to one through their spouse). Our visa actually requires we don't work, that we are not reliant on the State in any way, that we bring enough of a salary from the US to support ourselves and our children, that we have private insurance and are attached to a known agency to fulfill a specific purpose. And of course, as we've learned over the course of these last few years, this visa can only be renewed for a maximum of three years (more on that later).
Our story is not indicative of everyone's, but it is similar to the journey many of our friends and coworkers have walked/fought to live in Ireland.
Apart from a visa like our own, one must have a valid work visa supplied by a specific employer, be seeking refugee or asylum status, or be the owner of the golden ticket - an EU passport - to move to Ireland. And even though these are all viable and oft-used options, the qualifications are stringent.
In other words: we are not entitled to live in Ireland; it is a gracious gift (with terms).
On Monday, I'll share a little more about those terms, but for now, lemme know if I've got it all wrong or if you have a burning question about visas, sendings orgs or my beachy waves.


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Red Man Laughing - Big Moccasins To Fill (S.6 EP4)
Ryan McMahon
In this episode of Red Man Laughing we sit down with two artists on different journeys. In the first half of the show we sit down Anishinaabe musician/artist Dave Deleary, a well respected and long time member of the Indigenous entertainment scene. We talk about the roots of the Indigenous arts scene in Toronto and where he thinks the scene is headed now.
In the second half of the show, I share my conversation with a powerful emerging artist, Braiden Houle, a young actor just starting out in his professional career as an actor. In this conversation we talk about his mentors, the risks he took to accomplish his goals and what is next for him as he enters one of the most vibrant arts scenes in North America - the Indigenous arts scene.

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Jan/2012 Torkidlit Meetup at the Bedford Academy
Had fun with the Toronto Middle Grade And YA Authors group at the Bedford Academy last night. I continue to be grateful to Claudia Osmond for founding the group. I always come away so inspired and motivated!
I asked the attendees of last night's get together what they were working on, if they had any news to share, or just brief bio info and here's what they told me:
Helaine Becker
http://www.helainebecker.com/ - Twitter: @helainebecker
Trouble in the Hills YA launched this past fall; non fic called The Big Green Book of the Big Blue Ocean will be out from Kids Can Press this winter, and then a second YA contemp called How to Survive Absolutely Anything will be out from Fitzhenry and Whiteside in March. Currently writing two new Quiz Books for Scholastic and season 3 of Planet Echo, a science tv show. More news on new contracts next month!
Jo Karaplis
http://www.joannakaraplis.com/ - Twitter: @JoKaraplis
"Found one of my NaNoWriMo mauscripts from 2010 and it's better than I remember, so I've revived the project. It's been rattling around in my head for a while so I'm excited to dive back in."
Maureen McGowan
http://www.maureenmcgowan.com - Twitter: @maureenmcgowan
"Signed a three book contract with Amazon Publishing for a YA trilogy. The first book (Deviant) will be released in 2012."
Rob Weston
http://www.robertpaulweston.com/ - Twitter: @robertpweston
"Find out more about my novels, or read my blog (about books, writing, mad science, detectives and other miscellanea) at www.RobertPaulWeston.com."
Joanne Levy
http://www.joannelevy.com/ - Twitter: @JoanneLevy
Posting every Monday at http://www.thedebutanteball.com/
Jo Swartz
http://www.littlejolit.com/ - Twitter: @littlejolit
"First chapter of a graphic novel is almost complete and will be ready for submission in a month."
Karen Krossing
Karen has a draft of her middle grade fantasy novel complete and ready for reading.
Megan Crewe
http://www.megancrewe.com - Twitter: @megancrewe
Megan's contemporary dystopian YA, THE WAY WE FALL, comes out from Disney-Hyperion on January 24th! Here's the book trailer:
Patricia Storms
http://www.patriciastorms.com/ - Twitter: @stormsy
"My illustrated book, Winter Science, is out (Scholastic) and my non-fiction humor middle grade book (which I also illustrated) will be out in the spring, called Kid Confidential (Bloomsbury)."
Derek Molata
http://www.derekmolata.com/ - Twitter: @derekmolata
Derek is a YA/adult sf/f writer. "Scorpio. Tripping down the rabbit hole. Represented by the sharkly Janet Reid."
Jennifer Gordon
Jordan Hageman
http://jordanhageman.blogspot.com/ - Twitter: @ABookLongEnough
"Got my book back from a pro editor I hired and am revising, revising, revising!"
Ricki Schulz
http://rickischultz.com/ - Twitter: @rickischultz
It was Ricki's first Torkidlit meetup! Ricki is a freelance writer and editor, and coordinator of the Write-Brained Network.
Jeff Szpirglas
https://twitter.com/#!/jeffszpirglas - Twitter: @jeffszpirglas
Jeff is shopping some novels around and in theory, one is coming out soon. "It's called Evil Eye, about a disembodied floating eye that's totally EVIL." It was Jeff's first Torkidlit tweetup!
Debbie Ridpath Ohi
http://DebbieOhi.com - Twitter: @inkyelbows
Excited to be able to say that I'M BORED comes out THIS YEAR (woohoo!). I'M BORED is a new picture book by Michael Ian Black, illustrated by yours truly, coming out from Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers in Sept/2012. Also looking forward to the March/2012 launch of TOMO: Friendship Through Fiction - An Anthology Of Japan Teen Stories. I have an illustrated short story in this collection. Proceeds from the sales of Tomo will go to organizations that assist teens in the quake and tsunami hit areas.
If you're a middle grade or young adult author and would like to find out about upcoming meetups, please join our group on Facebook:
To find out more about what Torkidlit members are up to, please visit (and Like!) our Facebook page:
On Twitter, follow the #torkidlit hashtag.


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{ Disclaimer: We, the hard-working employees of Eveoganda and our friends and family, would like to make it perfectly clear that we do not like the word used in this post, it is mean, tactless, and just yucky poo-poo. We're not big fans of political correctness police either, but we just don't go around calling people names. So we do not endorse this post.
EDITOR: Dear Staff. As the one who pays the bills around here, I'd like you to know that I didn't start it. Someone posted the line in a comment yesterday and you are all aware of my policy, if you say it you run the risk of being mocked for it. I suggest you get my bowl of M&M's re-filled and get back to your desks! }
Some people say, they say, "Yo Rixx, it must be hard coming up with stuff to talk about on Eveoganda every day... how do you do it?" Those people are always surprised when I say, "Pfft!" in reply. Mostly because I spit a little when I do that. No one likes to be spit on, which is probably the reason I haven't been asked that in a really long time. Suffice to say that so far at least (and that may or may not ever end) coming up with something to talk about has been pretty easy. On a generally consistent basis.
It helps when someone says, "you are literally retarded" in the comments. I love my commenters. I enjoy the repartee the back and forth and the often insightful things they say. I also enjoy them when they say stupid things. Cause let's face it, we can't all be superior beings. But I'm not talking about anyone specifically here, making that comment doesn't automatically make the commenter stupid. Mostly because I lack context. The comment was short and to the point, which I appreciate, but it lacked elucidation. Context is important in determining motivation. So what was the commenter trying to say?
It would help if we knew the tone, without context tone would be the next important thing to know. Did he make the comment with a smile or a scowl? Was he angry or laughing? One could take it either way. The post was intentionally semi-stupid, that was the entire point of the post. I even admitted it in the last paragraphs, I was taking a strange point-of-view in order to make a point. And I did so in a, at least to my mind (which may be retarded... hmm) way that was funny.
Now I begin to wonder. This is a lot like that Super-Hero question... what if you were invulnerable? Or could fly? How would you know? (Unbreakable is one of my favorite movies.) Is the same true of mental challenges? Of course not, I think I would have noticed by now. Even more likely someone would have told me. So no short buses in my past, no special helmets, or any thing in that ilk. Quite the opposite actually, but enough about me.
This post isn't about the comment.
This post is about the set-up in the first paragraph. Coming up with something to write about every day is hard work. And sometimes I fail at it. I had some ideas this morning that didn't pan out, so I sat at my desk and thought about skipping the post today. But then I thought about Timmy. You don't know Timmy, but I do. Timmy is a little orphan boy that lives with his Grandmother in Ireland. Timmy doesn't have much in this life. His has been a rough and tumble, hand to mouth existence. But one thing Timmy does have is his love of Eve Online. And his favorite Blog Eveoganda. Timmy and I write each other almost every day and I know... (excuse me, pffft!) just how much this blog means to him.
So I post for Timmy today. And to Timmy I say two things. First, I hope the potato crop comes in this season. And secondly, you can rest assured that no lack of ideas will ever stop me from posting buddy. I can write hundreds of words about nothing as well as the best of 'em.
In fact, I just did.
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Hello! As a big supporter of awesome female characters in horror, I took it upon myself to compile my list of underrated carriers of the XX chromosome.
5. Elise Rainier (Insidious)
What a badass! Using her intense psychic powers, Elise helps families in need by dealing with the spectral creepy-crawly entities reaching out from "the further." She also happens to look like a boss whilst doing so. Elise barely breaks a sweat and rarely loses her cool. This is obviously the gal you want in your corner when tormented souls or spooky red and black colored demons are bothering you.
4. Samantha (House of the Devil)
You can't help but feel a little bit bad for poor Sam. Sure, it seems weird to accept a gig "watching" an elderly woman when you were set up to think you'll be babysitting small children. But then there was the allure of free pizza and that rental deposit deadline looming. I can relate, Sam! Anyway, once she gets into trouble on this fateful night, Sam isn't going down easy. She proves to be a fighter and a survivor. Not to mention a killer dancer.
3. Lorraine Warren (The Conjuring)
Here we have another psychic helper, just like Elise. But you know what makes Lorraine even cooler? She's a real life person who turned 89 this year! Lorraine bravely squares off against evil in order to aid and defend the innocent. Bravo, sister!
2. Melanie Daniels (The Birds)
Played by the exquisite Tippi Hedren, Melanie is a dry-humored, practical joker trying to prove to the world she's not some playgirl spoiled brat. Then she happens to get caught up in a bird-pocalypse along the way. She witnesses some crazy stuff and holds it together for a pretty long time. And lest we forget, she saves the school children from a particularly nasty feathered flock. Lesser women would have crumbled to pieces much sooner under the pressure.
Oh, wait! Before we get to #1, let me give credit to some honorable mentions…Thanks, ladies, for almost making the cut.
Liz Taylor! I didn't want to venture in TV land for this list, but I cannot get the amazing Liz Taylor from American Horror Story: Hotel out of my mind! She's a smart, loving, wise-cracking broad who is tough as nails. No matter what life and that crazy-ass hotel threw at her, Liz stayed golden.
Next, sisters Callie and Tricia from Absentia. I had a hard time choosing which of these brave and flawed ladies I admired more. Then I realized they're just even better as a packaged deal. I liked how realistic these characters felt to me, as individuals and as siblings.
And here is the darling Emily from Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. Emily is a whacky, fun, beautiful, and ultimately selfless romantic heroine. Animated or not, she's a treasure to the horror realm.
And now, I give you my #1 pick! Drum roll please…
1. Dani (Hocus Pocus)
Last but not least! This little moppet is the quintessential 90's cool kid. She's a tough little cookie with a heart of gold. Plus, she loves Halloween like every true horror fan does. Awesome witch costume? Check. Comic relief? Yes. Brave? Yup. Wise cracks? You know it. Perhaps it goes without saying that she is SO much cooler than her lame brother Max and is the real hero of this Halloween story.
Sandra is a The Bloodlust contributor and has been a fan of scary books, movies, and spooky true tales since a young age. Her favorite types of horror are supernatural/paranormal, horror-scifi hybrids, classics from the 1960's or earlier, and anything with a cult in it. Sandra is a married ghoul happily owned by a spoiled cat. When not immersing herself in the macabre, she's usually running, crafting, playing with creepy dolls, and watching either Disney or sports.
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So my immersion in all things Christmas - I'm still in the middle of decorating anything that doesn't move - has me thinking about seasonal jewellery. I'm generally very bad at anticipating seasonal occasions - yes, I know they come round at the same time every year! - but the one I can throw myself into with ease is Christmas. It would be nice to pretend I'm a shrewd marketer (stop that sniggering at the back), but the truth is it's no hardship to put together some pretty pieces with plenty of sparkle in Christmas colours. I've always loved festive jewellery - I was always the one at work with the flashing earrings and necklace! - and I've been making it since I very first started. I have several pieces that come out with tedious (for everyone else, I fear) regularity at this time of year. This is one of the first Christmas necklaces I made:
And I wore another early necklace of mine on Sunday when I was decorating my tree and wailing along with all the usual cheesy classics:
Adventures in Wire (or Adventures of a Bot - has a better ring to it, don't you think?)
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
Christmas-themed Jewellery
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look who i found!!!!
just watching shonen club and here i foooooound
it's kishi takayoshi whom i talking about on my previous post! finally found him again! yahoooooo hahaha!
and mizuki from drum club is playing drum besides so kakkoii *me/smile wide eiei~
now going tofinish watching the show before bed for a sweet sweet dream hoho~ byeeeeee


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My 5 Steps to Mindful Eating
This is something that evolved very organically over time. It's how I eat every meal and every snack and it's how I teach my clients to eat. It's a simple process that has a truly profound and delightful effect, not just on your eating, but on your entire life.
Step 1: To Get rid of any distractions, and get present to your eating
How many times have you finished a meal without even realizing it? The last thing you knew, you had just gotten your food and somehow (maybe you were on the phone, at the wheel, or typing on your computer) your plate was suddenly empty and you were stuffed?
If you find yourself in front of the TV, in the car, at your desk, standing, or walking while you eat, you are not in an ideal eating environment. Both your mind and your body really need to be present at mealtime for proper digestion as well as emotional and mental recognition.
Choose a place to enjoy your food that is free from distractions. If you're used to multi-tasking while you eat you may notice some feelings of guilt start to creep in, and if you're used to eating with entertainment (TV, co-workers, magazines, etc.) you may worry that you'll just be bored. But being present to your meal is a gift and it is anything but boring. In fact, being present with whatever you are doing is one of the greatest joys in life!
So find a quiet space, whether it's outside in the shade of a tree, at your dining room table, or in an empty conference room if you're at work.
Once you've found (or created) a serene environment, take a moment to really get present to it. If you're outside, take in the gentle breeze, the vivid color of the trees, and the birds chirping in the distance. If you're at your dining room table, light some candles, dim the lights, and sink in to the peaceful silence. And if you're in an empty conference room, close the door, leave your stresses behind, and smile.
Take a few deep breaths as you get present and let yourself relax and enjoy your time. Mindful eating is a meditation and an opportunity for you to relax and distress every time you eat.
Take in the beauty of your food along with the gentle atmosphere. Take a deep breath, and you're ready for step 2.
Step 2: To begin your meals with gratitude
In April of 2008, I went to Viejo Vallarta for 3 weeks. It was rainy and dreary in California, and I took one look at the weather report in Mexico and booked my flight. I stayed with a good friend and his girlfriend, Eiko, who I met for the first time on that trip. She was from Japan.
The 3 of us had an amazing time together. And every morning, we had a feast. We would cook eggs, tortillas, and vegetables and we would slice up fresh fruit, sprinkle it with cinnamon, and take it upstairs for a picnic on the rooftop.
Before every meal, Eiko would place her hands together in front of her heart and say, "Itadaki-masu," which means, "I receive this food." It's a common practice in Japan, and soon enough, all three of us were doing it together, and doing it at every meal.
There's something so sweet and comforting about this ritual. I still do it before every meal, only I've expanded on it and made it my own. I bring my hands together in from of my heart and say: "I bless this food to bring me perfect nourishment. Itadaki-masu."
And there really is something special to it. I've noticed that it truly affects how I eat. On those rare occasions that I forget to say it, I eat faster, and with less awareness. And when I catch myself, I always notice that I forgot to begin with gratitude. So I pause, say the blessing, and return to my meal with presence and a gentle appreciation.
Saying a blessing before you eat prepares your body to receive the food, and adds a level of awareness and intention. When you focus on gratitude and nourishment, you set the intention for a healthy, balanced, and nourishing meal.
Step 3: Delight Your Senses
When we're hungry (and sometimes even when we're not), food is really exciting, right? Either that or it's a pain in the you-know-what and we have "more important" things to do than waste our time eating, so best to get it over with.
Both of these approaches sabotage your eating experience – and your waistline. So the important thing to remember is to eat slowly and with awareness. This is essential for good digestion as well as keeping yourself from overeating.
And, it is much easier to do after you've followed the first 2 steps because by this point you actually want to relax and enjoy your meal (instead of wanting to get it over with or wishing you were somewhere else doing something else).
To make this even easier and even more delightful, keep in mind all of your senses as you go…
· So, your sense of sight: notice the colors, shapes, and overall presentation of the meal sitting in front of you
· Your sense of smell: take in even the scents and aromas
· How does the food feel in your mouth, on your tongue: notice the various textures in your mouth (is it smooth, crunchy, tender?). Also notice how a nice, warm bite differs from a cool and refreshing one
· And, of course, taste: this one should be obvious, but when you're really present to each bite you'll truly start to notice the intensity and variety of your food (is it spicy, salty, sweet?) and even the most subtle notes can be a burst of flavor
Another tip to being present while you eat is to take deep breaths throughout your meal. This one simple act brings you present quickly, easily, and very sweetly. It's astonishing how rarely we take time to breathe while we eat, but it makes a world of difference. If I ever notice myself eating too fast, I simply take a deep breath (or two), and everything slides back into place.
Step 4: To take a break half-way through your meal
This step is deceptively simple but it works like magic.
It takes your brain about 20 minutes to register that your stomach full. This is one of the reasons it's so easy to overeat!
Taking a break halfway through your meal is your secret weapon to make sure you stay on track. It can be anywhere from 1 minute to 5 minutes and it does three very important things:
- It slows you down. It gives your brain a chance to catch up with your stomach and register that you are getting full
- It helps you stay present and aware
- It starts to rewire your brain to learn that it's okay to stop eating! So many times we overeat because we are wired to think that "there's not enough" and this simple step helps get you in a space where it's safe to stop eating because there IS more! If you have trouble stopping when you're full, this is going to make a huge difference for you
Step 5: Rest up when you're done
Mindfulness doesn't end when you finish eating, there's still one last piece….
You've just finished your meal and now it's time to clear your plates, clean up the kitchen, get back to work, watch TV, get to your appointment, pick up the kids… whoa – I'm tired just thinking about all of that!
How would it feel, instead of jumping back into your hectic day, to just sit for a minute or two? To just be?
After a meal, your body actually goes through a very energy-intensive process digesting what you ate, and jumping straight from your meal back into action makes it difficult for your body to focus on what it needs to do.
Taking some time to rest will do you very, very good. And though you can use this time to just be still, you can also talk with friends, read a magazine, or even use it as a buffer to prepare for what's next. The goal is to give your body a rest, even if it's just for 2 minutes.
You may have heard before that digestion is the key to good health, and that's absolutely right! Your food is your fuel and the better your digestion is the more health, vitality, and energy you will have. So taking a few moments after a meal to honor your body is both an act of love and one of the best things you can do for your health.
Bon appétit!


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Practical information
The lease for your apartment or townhouse limits the items that you are allowed to place on your balconies to garden furniture and planting. Nothing else is permitted: in particular, washing may not be hung on balconies or in the window areas inside apartments. Barbecues are a fire risk and are prohibited on balconies. Please remember to keep noise to a minimum to avoid disturbing other residents.


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My wish for you as we move into the holidays ~
Give your loved ones a hug and let them know how much they mean to you.
Remember those less fortunate and reach out to them.
Be at peace, no matter the circumstances. Carry joy in your heart.
And stay warm.
I'll be trying to follow my own advice as well. I especially want to thank all of you who've reached out to me during this time when I've remained silent. You've given me a great gift. The gift of knowing I'm not alone.


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Students and Faculty: Join us for dinner at 6, the movie at 7, and discussion afterwards.
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.
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We stand on the edge of the sea because we want to be held. We are a boy and girl. We are babies. In the empty living room of our childhood is the devil who is real. This is where he looks for people, in their childhoods. We get naked at the sauna with everybody else. A tree falls in the exact center of the woods. And another tree. If we can stand still enough, we'll be swallowed up into something far heavier and more beautiful than the universe. Like, remember when you were a little girl and your mother left you alone in your first thunderstorm?
Post tenebras lux


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Harper wanted to play today, and he was clearly ticked off he is not. He took batting practice and is available to pinch hit, and Johnson said Harper will be in the lineup tomorrow when the Nationals begin a series in Toronto. But that provided little solace. He may be 19, but he did not believe he needed a break, mental or physical.
"Nah, [Jon] Lester's on the mound, so I was pretty excited to face him," Harper grumbled. "I like lefties. Whatever. Whatever they want to do. Nothing I can do."
Harper has been receiving treatment on his lower back, but has maintained it is not an issue. Johnson said the ailment flared a bit Thursday, when Harper dove for a ball in right field.
"He's had some tightness or stiffness," Johnson said. "It's mostly muscular. I don't think it's anything, but it was bothering him a little bit after the game. [Bench coach] Randy Knorr came in to me and said, 'Bryce is hurt.' The trainer came in and said the same thing. I think because of who he is, those guys notice anything that goes on. But Bryce hasn't said anything to me. We're just being on the safe side."
Because the injury is muscular, the Nationals have not considered an MRI necessary. Harper continued to insist his off day had nothing to do with the condition of his back. "No idea," he said. "No clue. I'm just not playing."
Johnson walked into the training room in the Nationals' clubhouse this morning as Harper received his treatment. He met a player in a foul mood. "I went and asked the Franchise how he's doing," Johnson said. "He didn't talk to me."
Harper loves to play, and he has played all but half an inning since his call-up in late April. He has crashed into a wall at Dodger Stadium, sprinted to first on every ball off his bat, taken hacks that push the limits of far a spine can bend and generally treated his body like a guided missile.
"The way he runs and the way he plays, I'd imagine he should be sore and stiff," Johnson said. "When a coach vocally says his back's bothering him and the trainer says the same thing, normally I don't have coaches and trainers saying that about players. But anybody that has a little something going on, nip it in the bud and be on the safe side, give him a day."


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The choice to move a family abroad is usually made after careful weighing of pros and cons. On one hand, the opportunity to provide one's children with international experience, access to good international schools and an environment conducive to becoming fluent in a foreign language sounds enticing. On the other hand, the prospect of uprooting one's children to an unfamiliar … Read More
#TCKChat: TCKs and Race
We asked adult Third Culture Kids to submit questions on race. We received such an overwhelming response that we decided to make it a 3 part series. These are their thoughts across 2 sessions. [View the story "TCKchat #18: Race (Part 1)" on Storify]
#TCKChat: Languages
We asked adult TCKs about both their native language(s) and the ones they learned abroad. These are the highlights from the 2 sessions: [View the story "TCKchat #17 : Languages" on Storify]


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Medicine Wheel Classes
Join our growing community of Pampamesayok Shaman School students!
In The South class,
Here you will begin your medicine wheel journey to transformation. The first step on this journey to wholeness is to release what no longer serves you. You will be supported in bringing to light the constrictive bindings of your old life stories, and how they limit and take you away from living the real truth of who you are in the present moment and who you are becoming. Our learning will be validated and interwoven with key concepts in psychology, bridging ancient wisdom with modern science. Through ancient sacred healing journeys and life awakening ceremonies, the teachings will guide you to walk the pathway of the shaman. Shed the obstacles to fully being alive; reclaim the power of your soul to craft a new wisdom map, filled with light and love, guiding you to a life of empowered freedom.
Come celebrate the medicine of Sachamama, great mother serpent!
The South Class Includes:
The Seer Rite (Kawak Rite), which allows us to perceive the invisible world. You can begin to perceive, follow, trust and effectively use your intuition as a valuable tool for navigating the world.
The Harmony Rite (Ayni Karpay Rite), which transmits universal archetypal energy into your Luminous Energy Field to assist you in creating balance in all areas of your life.
The Healer Rite (Hampi Mesa Rite), which connects you to a lineage of healer's altars through time to assist you in your personal healings.
Installation of luminous bands of power and protection in your energy field which allow you to be more present and available for life, instead of wasting your energy in fear, doubt or worry.
In The West class,
Here you will be supported in uncovering your own inherited ancestral and karmic patterns that may be limiting the expression of your destiny. You will be invited into multiple exercises and processes that will allow you to find the gifts your ancestors have given you, and respectfully honor the wisdom that lives in their path. As you break free from the crippling heavy energy of fear, undaunted even by the fear of death, energy becomes available to courageously express your life as you consciously want to dream it. This class delves deeply into the emotional ecology of the many archetypes that form our perception of the world. Embark fearlessly upon a more conscious life; follow the path of the awakened luminous peace warrior who has no enemies in this world or beyond.
Come celebrate the medicine of Otorongo, great mother-sister jaguar!
The West Class Includes:
The Earthkeeper Rite (Pampamesayok Rite) which makes you a steward of the Earth, and the ebb and flow of the seasons, death and life. This rite allows you to step out of the story of your personal mother and into the collective mother who never leaves you. You become a steward of all life.
The Rite of the Womb - This is from a lineage of women who freed themselves from suffering. This lineage of women wants us to remember that the womb is not a place to store fear and pain; the womb is to create and give birth to life. www.theriteofthewomb.com (In this 13th rite of the Munay-Ki, men participate and receive the celebrations and blessings as well by holding strong protective space for the women.)
In the North class,
Here you will be guided on sacred journeys outside of time to find hidden aspects of your soul. Through these soul retrieval journeys, you will discover the nature of past traumas and stress, listening deeply to your inner wisdom as it guides you to heal into and re-embrace the sweet nectar of your Divine Self. In this class we release the limiting roles and labels we identify with, and discover the incredible power that intent, thoughts and action have on shaping our experience. As you clear the inner and outer clutter of your life, you will be remembering and reclaiming your life as a mythic pathway where you are the self-referencing creator of the journey of your becoming. Return to your natural playfulness; reclaim a new and unvanquishable spirit of innocence. Become more available to hear Spirit's call and see the world through the eyes of child-like wonder.
Come celebrate the medicine of Siwar Kenti, great royal hummingbird!
The North Class Includes:
The Wisdomkeeper Rite (Altomesayok Rite). Lore says that the ancient wisdom resides in the high mountains. Learn to source directly from these mountains and become part of a lineage of wisdom keepers. This rite will help you to protect the wisdom you carry and to share it with others when appropriate.
The Mosak Rite, links you to the time to come and to who we are becoming, evolving from homosapiens to homoluminous.
In The East class,
Completing the circle of your transformational medicine wheel journey, you will be invited to courageously dream the world into being. In this class you will develop the skills to liberate amazing levels of life energy, and journey to receive the spiritual sources of support that are always available to you. As you explore the power of indigenous alchemy, you awaken to seeing the sacred in everything, embracing all events and situations as opportunities to love. By compassionately owning the deeply held limiting beliefs you have been unconsciously projecting into your life, you release their power over you, allowing you to retrieve your highest and best destiny. You will learn how when we live consciously, we can also die consciously, leaving this life fully aware as we step off into the greatest journey ready for the mystery of what lies beyond. Let your wings of light fly boldly into the vision of your becoming.
Come celebrate the medicine of Apuchin, great condor!
The East Class Includes
The Starkeeper Rite (Kurak Akuyak Rite), according to Lore, upon receiving this rite your physical body will begin to evolve into homoluminous, the aging process slows and you become resistant to diseases you were once vulnerable to. You will acquire stewardship of the time to come and the future generations.
The Creator Rite (Taitanchis Ranti Rite), awakening the God-light within and gives you stewardship for all creation, from the grains of the earth to the great galaxies. You will step into the place of the creator and envision the world into being.


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Nothing is MORE expensive than a missed opportunity!
H Jackson Brown Jnr
Remember, you get all this.
5 weeks of coaching call replays
Member's Area for Replays and Extra Training
Private VIP High Ticket Flips Facebook Group
Bonus Coaching Call After the Course is Completed
Lance Groom's $10k Flips Cheat Sheet
Trevor Carr's Domain Pimping Training


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Wall Hangings
the standoff
this large decorative wall hanging is quite unique and would fit most settings. would look great in a bar or cafe.
approx size 70H 300L 14D
the bone
wall hanging with great lines and curves with contrasting timbers using Baltic pine and spotted gum
Approx size 65H 180W 15D
the gun
very simple but still very effective lines and curves
made with a mix of reclaimed Australian hardwoods
approx size 170W 60H 13D
the A
this unique colorful wall hanging with go well in any home
the 6
made from old growth oregon and jarrah this contrasting piece would make a great feature in any home
the note
mixture of douglas fur with spotted gum shelves with a vibrant backing
the X
made with baltic pine and red iron bark shelves with a pastel colored backing


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A Whale's Sad Song
And now for something completely different. I read this story on Gizmodo the other day and it struck me as interesting.
'Home' A Film By Luc Besson
This is the new film by Luc Besson called 'Home'. It's available for streaming on YouTube (sorry no embedding allowed). It can be seen in 720p HD.
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Dr. Jeannine Hatt has graciously served on the International Child Care (ICC) Board for 14 years. Her husband, Dr. Charles Phelps, has supported ICC alongside her, serving as an affiliate of the organization. For eight of these years (becoming nine next month) Hatt and Phelps have participated as members of the Race for Grace cycling team.
Hatt and Phelps, along with their family, had participated in international medical volunteer work for about 10 years when they were first invited to observe ICC projects in Haiti. "I was told that a small children's hospital there wanted to raise its level of care and was looking to the U.S. for some support in their efforts," shares Hatt. "That was Grace Children's Hospital. I made the trip and found myself won over by what I learned."
Not long after, Hatt decided to join the ICC team. It was the "dedication and empowerment of the local healthcare professionals, the focus on education, and the emphasis on prevention of disease, as well as curative, healthcare" that solidified her commitment to ICC. Hatt, a pediatrician, and Phelps, a radiologist in Denison-Sherman, Texas, have worked to use their resources and medical expertise to benefit the health of the children and families that ICC serves. Part of their focus has been on spreading ICC awareness through growing the Race for Grace, including the involvement of their own family.
For most of their soon-to-be nine years of Race for Grace participation, at least one of their three children have participated in the event. Also physicians, each of their children have been to Haiti and have seen Grace Children's Hospital, as well as many of ICC's other programs. Hatt, therefore, isn't surprised by her kids' motivation to join the fundraiser. "They all have a global view of health and have seen how most children in our world live," she says. "They're willing to participate because they see how even one donated dollar can make a difference in a child's or family's life."
Hatt believes that physically participating in the ride has made a difference for her, adding a little more of, what she describes as, a "feeling of connection" to those ICC serves. "When I get on that bike and start to sweat... I feel humbled. I think about the difficult circumstances that so many of those in Haiti and the Dominican Republic experience every day, while I just have to sit on that bike for a few hours," says Hatt. She hopes that through the support she raises by willing to "sweat and suffer a bit," it will, in turn, help relieve the suffering of a child, parent or healthcare worker in ICC's programs. "It gives me a way to, at least for a few moments or hours, feel in solidarity with them," she says.
Nevertheless, the motivation to get back on her bike each year doesn't always come easy. As a physician, wife, mother and grandmother, finding time to train year-round proves to be a bit difficult. She makes an effort to ride as far as she can, when she can. Intending to complete several 60+ mile training rides, Hatt hopes to complete the 100 mile portion of the race, a step up from her usual 100k.
For those intimidated by long distances, Hatt reminds us that we don't have to be an avid-cyclist to pedal for kids in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The objective isn't necessarily to compete against those around you, but to compete for those in-need, away from you. "No one but YOU yourself knows how far you rode or how fast you rode," she says. "It's all about raising support for the kids."
As the biggest fundraiser of the year, the Race for Grace helps to support the life changing and life saving programs of ICC in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. ICC, and the children of Haiti and the Dominican Republic need YOU. Interested in riding in the Race for Grace? Click here for more details. Can't ride or live too far away? No problem! Help raise money by supporting other riders. Look on ourRazoo fundraising page and support one of the teams pedaling their way to promoting health and hope in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.


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become a food vendor
Kultura is looking for food vendors for this year's Kain Kalye: Filipino Street Eats!
When: Sunday, August 13th | 12pm - 7pm
Where: daniels spectrum + regent park | 585 dundas street east, Toronto
Fee: $500
Apply by May 8th, 2017 and receive a $50 discount off the regular fee of $500!
Early Bird Deadline has been extended to Wednesday, May 17, 2017!*
*Deadline to sign up as a Food Vendor and be eligible for the early bird rate is May 17, 2017. Space is limited. Hard deadline to sign up as a vendor is May 31, 2017. KAPISANAN reserves the right to curate the food vendors.
Are you interested in serving up some delicious Filipino food? KAPISANAN wants YOU to take advantage of all the festival goers at one of Toronto's acclaimed cultural hubs! KULTURA is free for everyone!
Kain Kalye: Filipino Street Eats Competition continues to be the biggest draw for the festival, attracting thousands of festival-goers every year who sampled Filipino food while shopping the KULTURA Marketplace and enjoying the stellar and local Filipino-Canadian entertainment!
Click HERE to see the KULTURA Food Vendor Package and learn more about how to apply.
To inquire, please contact:
Justin Bella:
(416) 516-1559 x5703
The KULTURA Filipino Arts Festival is organized by Kapisanan Philippine Centre, a registered Canadian charity (88838 7404 RR0001).


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Summary of District of Columbia Laws
Personal Injury
Statute of Limitations
Negligence: The limitations period is three years for an injury to real or personal property. D.C. Code Ann. § 12-301. The limitation of actions for wrongful death is one year after the death. DC Code Ann § 16-2702.
Intentional Torts: The limitations period is one year for "libel, slander, assault, battery, mayhem, wounding, malicious prosecution, false arrest, or false imprisonment." D.C. Code Ann. § 12-301(4).
Contracts: See under "Commercial Law," Uniform Commercial Code - Sales.
See D.C. Code Ann. § 12-301 for other specified limiation periods.
Case Law
SUZETTE RICHARDS, Plaintiff, v. DUKE UNIVERSITY, et. al. Defendants.
480 F. Supp. 2d 222
Plaintiff's claims for racial and sexual discrimination and sexual harassment are time-barred by the appropriate statutes of limitations. Plaintiff brings her claims for discrimination under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Neither of these statutes have their own statute of limitations, but courts have borrowed the statute of limitations from 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and § 1983 which in turn, rely on the respective personal injury statute of limitations in a jurisdiction. See Wilson v. Garcia, 471 U.S. 261, 105 S. Ct. 1938, 85 L. Ed. 2d 254 (1985); Doe v. Howe Military School, 227 F.3d 981, 987 (7th Cir. 2000). In the District of Columbia, a personal injury action has a three-year statute of limitations and therefore, a Title VI or Title IX claim also has a three-year statute of limitations in the District of Columbia. See Carney v. American Univ., 331 U.S. App. D.C. 416, 151 F.3d 1090, 1096 (D.C. Cir. 1998). As noted in the previous section regarding plaintiff's fraud claims, a tort action accrues, under District of Columbia law, "when the plaintiff has knowledge of (or by the exercise of reasonable diligence should have knowledge of) (1) the existence of the injury, (2) its cause in fact, and (3) some evidence of wrongdoing." Knight v. Furlow, 553 A.2d 1232, 1234 (D.C. 1989).
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Martina Della Valle, artist How is your bed? My bed has got a drawer that comes out from behind for my friends. Over the head there is my library.
Which kind of meal you do not like? I do not like the green beans with sauce. And your favourite? I love to bite parmisan cheese.
Your favorite book to read? "Giochi d'ossa" by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
Have you got an imaginary friend? No, I haven't.


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Paperless accident reporting
Having a central record of all the accidents, hazards, and basically any story that happens as part of the work you do is important. Not only does it help you make sure you work out and fix the things that are going wrong, it also makes sure you don't break the law.
No more nasty old paper records!
Traditionally this has been people having nasty old paper records, accident books, the back of a serviette or frankly, most not recording them at all. This is a real problem, as not only are you breaking the law, you're not valuing the people that have been hurt.
PeopleSafe uses our very own process called "Tell Your Story" which guides you through all the questions you need to answer to do the right things. All staff can log in and easily let you know whats going on. You then complete a review of any story that gets told just to make sure all the facts are true and correct.
Why we do it this way
We think it's important that your staff do get involved as it's them that will be hurt or injured. Other systems we know have strict gatekeepers which makes sure that all stories that get told are sanitised and cleaned up so that often they don't look anything like what really happened.
At a glance
- Emails and text alerts
- No more paperwork
- No jargon
- Log in anytime and anywhere


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Microeconomics mainly analyzes hoe basic elements behave in the economy while macroeconomics chiefly analyzes the issues that affect the general economy of a region. Examples of the common issues that can be addressed through macroeconomics include inflation, the fiscal policy, economic growth and unemployment issues.
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Are you passionate about helping Every Girl Counts and you're thinking about purchasing or selling a home in the near future? If you said YES, Location Williamson at Keller Williams Realty has an EXCITING way for you to show your support for Every Girl Counts while preparing to purchase or sell your home.
During the month of December 2016, Location Williamson will donate $500 to Every Girl Counts for every new listing and/or buyer client that signs on with the team this month.
Find all the details and how you can get involved HERE.


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Thank you for your interest in teaching with Transformation Yoga Project. We value your interest and dedication to service.
While you may still complete an application, currently, our instructional staff is at capacity. We actively staff upon the receipt of new contracts or when additional positions open at existing locations. Your application will be reviewed when positions arise that meet your interest area, availability, and location. You will then be contacted for an interview by one of our program directors. We appreciate your understanding.
To apply you must:
- Be at least 18 years old and insured.
- Have completed a 200 hour certified yoga teacher training.
- Have completed a trauma-sensitive training program or be willing to take one.
- Print and Sign our Release and Consent agreement. You will be required to upload the signed Release and Consent before your application can be submitted.
What happens after my application is reviewed?
If your application and experience align with TYP's current needs, you will:
- be contacted by a staff member for an interview;
- observe up to 4 TYP classes taught by experienced TYP instructors; and
- have a chance to be shadowed as you instruct a TYP class.
This process is designed to allow you to see firsthand what we do, how we do it, and how we want you to do it. You will have the opportunity to take notes, talk to staff and instructors, and share your feelings and thoughts about what we do.
What happens if I'm hired?
- We will contact you to provide us with some additional documentation (W-9, signed contract).
- You will receive a TYP Instructor Handbook, TYP t-shirt to wear during class instruction, and information about current classes.
- Once you are paired with a class, additional steps may be required depending on the facility's requirements (e.g., background clearances, orientation sessions). We will help you with this, but you will be responsible for making sure everything is completed.
- Begin leading your own classes! Typically, instructors teach 1-2 classes a week. As our organization grows and demand increases, instructors with availability may instruct up to 6-8 classes a week.
Who do I contact with questions?
Our team is happy to answer any questions or address any concerns that you may have.
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We look forward to the opportunity to work with you while learning and growing from each other and those we serve.


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Everything you will need to know about your stay at our luxury holiday cottage based just outside of Dunkeld in Perthshire, Scotland.
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Semantic music, Linked Data APIs, Digital Humanities on the Web
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Knowledge Representation & Reasoning Group of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I investigate the integration of and access to diverse types of knowledge, with a special interest in Digital Humanities data and workflows. I am interested in knowledge graphs, Linked Data, Web query languages, and APIs.
Mail: email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4646-5842
Publications: Google Scholar, PURE, Mendeley, DBLP, Scopus
Presentations: SlideShare
Source code & data: GitHub, FigShare, Zenodo, DataHub
Book reading list: Goodreads
Visiting address: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Department of Computer Science. Room U303. De Boelelaan 1081 A, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands (see on Google Maps)


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Choosing a coach for customized, one on one, programming to improve your training and racing is an important decision. Why should you choose Podium Training Systems? Podium Training Systems athletes have had some great results over the last couple of seasons, and we'd like to be a part of your future success. Have a look at what some of our athletes have said:
Through Podium Training, Dave has helped me go from training on my own as an existing AG elite to pushing new PR's across my swim bike and run. The training has been exactly what I needed: putting hard workouts where they need to be, adding a structured overall strategy towards an A race, and best of all, giving my training renewed enjoyment and personal reward.
Our TrainingPeaks relationship has been all the more successful when combined with the Podium Training tri-camp series. In addition to 1:1 coaching on form/mechanics/technique, we have a personal context to find new growth.Read More


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In May, I had the greatest pleasure of being invited to teach my workshop to a fabulous group of friends. They were originally inspired by a painting called Angel Warrior and they have committed themselves to 5 years of art retreats to excavate, research and create their own personal idea of Angel Warriors. Of the 10, some are painters and mixed media artists, but for the most part, they are women who are newly diving into art with wholeheartedness. What they are creating together is simply inspiring.
Their courage, love for each other and generosity were as astounding as the beauty of the Island itself. I was treated to an awesome massage, fabulous dinners, amazing dinner conversations, 2 fun birthday parties and a room above a completely stocked studio on the Wacky Nut Farm. I went on hikes in the gorgeous woods, did yoga in a studio above the horse barn, and soaked in the Washington weather otherwise known as Forest Bathing. I got introduced to Mary Oliver's work, watched 9 women comfort and love a friend in great need and did some paintings that I love. I got a private tour of Islandwood, a beautiful school situated on 250 acres on Bainbridge Island, that teaches the love of the environment, sustainability and art to kids in 4th and 5th grade. I got to know these 10 super smart and caring women and now call them my friends. Everything about my trip was amazing! Thank you again Debbi and all of you ladies! I can't wait to go back! I took a ton of photos, but here are a few favs......
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Forest Bathing
Hall Hill Labyrinth by artist, Jeffery Bale and Prayer Wheel by artist, Tom Jay
My prayer is that we all live in the complete awareness of LOVE and FREEDOM


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Nothing makes you Homesick like the holidays.
So what better a time to release a Brand New Single about just that? Right in time for the season, we're releasing the first single from the new record.
The song is called "Home".
Listen to the whole thing in it's entirety, with
lyrics to boot, on this video we made for you.
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The Windward story
Imagine a country 40 times bigger than the United States. There are no police, no surveillance cameras, no smartphones – an ocean of emptiness where everyone is pretty much blind to what's at stake.
Until 2010, this was the high seas. Then along came Windward. It's mission: go deeper into maritime data than anyone has gone before. Initially, it focused on finding ships involved in piracy, but quickly realised its technology could do so much more.
Imbued with a passion for the sea and a desire to create something big and meaningful, Windward set about becoming the first company to model maritime risks. It combined deep domain expertise with data science to create a technology platform that helps organizations assess these risks, and anticipate impactful events. Windward's insights led to major drug busts; helped curb oil smuggling; and even enabled the United Nations Security Council to discover ships helping North Korea evade sanctions.
As Windward's platform evolved into today's advanced analytics the process became more automated. It now identifies for customers previously invisible patterns created by ship movements, and assesses what they mean. And because maritime risk applies to all sea-based activities, Windward is now applying its expertise to marine insurance, enabling actuaries to build models to more accurately quantify risk; helping underwriters reduce losses and boost profits; and encouraging fleets to sail more safely.
Looking to its own future, Windward aims to model all maritime risks: every ship that might crash; every cargo that could be delayed; every dock that might suffer bottlenecks; and every company sweating on just-in-time deliveries. Supply chain disruptions will be anticipated, mitigating their impact, and even preventing them from happening in the first place.
The oceans are changing rapidly. Technology, regulation and climate change are transforming the way we interact with the maritime domain. Yet understanding what's happening at sea has become more critical and more complicated, throwing up challenges that can only be overcome with deep domain expertise, data and Artificial Intelligence. That's the Windward way.
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text: A Masterful Handmade Simpson's Character Cake. This Ralph Wiggum cake is the work of baker, Kylie Mangles. This brilliant lady has managed to create an anatomical cut out of the popular Simpson's character that is not only really creative but also looks super delicious too. Advertisements Share this:TweetPocketShare on TumblrPrintEmailLike this:Like Loading... Related


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For the second year in a row Etsy Dallas is presenting a supply sale in the summer. What is a supply sale, you may ask? It's an opportunity for you, the public, to buy the things that we, Etsy Dallas members, use to craft the amazing things that we make. Maybe we have too much of something or decided we no longer want to make that kind of thing anymore--what to do with all of the supplies left cluttering our closets?
Here lies the genius of the supply sale. We clean out our stash of crafty goodness and you get direct access to our supplies. Whether it's excess Japanese fabrics, colorful beads, or papercraft items you're sure to find something to inspire your next project.
Here's just a sampling of what to expect at the sale next Saturday: fabric, patterns, ribbon, craft magazines, beads, jewelry findings, paper mache products, wooden boxes, scrapbooking supplies, rubber stamps, papercraft goods, photo matte boards, buttons, cigar boxes, sewing notions, pillow forms, display and merchandising items, canvases, and yarn.
Who knows what else we'll dig up! Come find out for yourself at Supplies Me! Art + Craft Supply Sale, Saturday, June 25, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Blue Room, South Side on Lamar, 1409 S. Lamar, Dallas, TX 75215.


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Why is it that able-bodied folks assume disabled children are either little angels or incapable of normal curiosity? From time to time, I hear amazed adults marvelling about how disabled kids are so like others. This should be abundantly obvious to all but it apparently isn't to some.
In Deliverance From Jericho (Six Years in a Blind School), I related many instances of how my friends and I caused mischief. In this excerpt, our natural curiosity upset the adults but no real harm was done.
Even visually impaired children enjoy taking objects apart, regardless of the mess. During March, I dismantled some dead zinc-carbon batteries. Beneath the silver paper and cardboard of the Ever-ready C cell, I found a metal canister. Once I unwrapped it, the aluminum ends came off easily. Inside the cylinder was a carbon rod stuck in the centre of black paste.
I scooped it all out, getting my hands filthy, and cleaned off the rod. Rubbing it on paper, I found that it made marks like a pencil but messier. Mrs. Auld was unimpressed when I used my writing stick in class but I still felt I made an exciting and noteworthy discovery.
Ricky, Brian, and Christian were envious of my research. They wanted cells of their own to dismantle. I refused to part with mine but I did let them examine the one I took apart. My friends eventually acquired dead cells of their own and created their own writing sticks.
Our supervisor became upset when she saw the mess I made in the Play Room and how dirty my fingers were. "Get in that bathroom, you little twerp, and wash those hands thoroughly," Mrs. Parker ordered when she saw the state I was in. Fortunately, I suffered no other punishment that evening.
Deliverance from Jericho contains many more vignettes of what life was like in that government-run institution. These range from poignant experiences of homesickness to hilarious incidents of mischief. Click here to read more about this book and to order it. You may also e-mail me directly if the comment form doesn't work.


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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — A SURPRISING number of knife attacks on and by teenagers have appeared in the national news in recent weeks, but in terms of sheer tragic weirdness, nothing can match the case of two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls who stabbed a classmate 19 times, nearly killing her — and then said they did it to appease someone called "Slenderman."
Slenderman is not, in fact, a man, but an Internet meme, an urban legend for the digital age, a fictitious figure — tall, thin, faceless and dressed in a black suit — who appears in homemade "found" videos on YouTube, in Photoshopped pictures and on blogs describing alleged sightings around the country.
Although Slenderman has been around since 2009, the stabbing case has brought the phenomenon, most popular among teenagers, into the harsh glare of the media spotlight, with worried parents and pundits wringing their hands about the dangers of modern technology.
But they shouldn't worry: Slenderman is a largely harmless fixation of teen pop culture who fits firmly within America's long tradition of horror folklore.
The girls apparently became obsessed with Slenderman from reading about him on the website Creepypasta, a collection of fan-submitted horror microfiction. He's just one of many characters popular on the site, alongside "Jeff the Killer," vampires, zombies and aliens — and Creepypasta is just one of thousands of similar fan fiction sites.
Slenderman is usually shown as a shadowy figure (sometimes sprouting tentacles), momentarily glimpsed in the background of altered photographs or videos, intruding on scenes of everyday life: parties, hikes in the woods or children playing. His mix of specifics (height, dress) and ambiguity is a common notion in American horror folklore.
Indeed, Slenderman's creator, Eric Knudsen (who goes by the web handle "Victor Surge"), says he invented the character as an explicit "attempt to cooperatively create new folklore" by mixing stock horror tropes with the generative power of the Internet.
Mr. Knudsen had a lot to draw on. Legends of the supernatural, paranormal and horrific have existed in oral culture for a very long time. Many urban legends have a horror component. Almost everyone has heard, and probably told, stories about ghosts, haunted places (houses, bridges, cemeteries), the "Vanishing Hitchhiker," the teenage couple making out in a car when the radio flashes a story about an escaped serial killer. That Slenderman has proliferated online is new in terms of the medium, but not the message.
Nor is it new for someone to act on his or her relationship to horror folklore. In 1929 Nancy Bowen, a woman living near Buffalo, became convinced, through a Ouija board, that her dead husband had been killed by another woman. A few days later, Bowen killed her.
More prosaically, consider the "Bloody Mary" ritual carried on (usually) by preteenage girls, who recite "Bloody Mary" into a darkened bathroom mirror, half-expecting to see a monstrous image, or groups of high school students "legend tripping" to a local haunted house.
That said, we also have to recognize how Slenderman, as an Internet phenomenon, differs from past horror folklore. The web takes oral traditions — jokes, rumors, legends — and transmits them with a speed that far surpasses the word-of-mouth circulation of most pre-Internet folklore. Dead-celebrity jokes and 9/11 conspiracy theories go viral within hours.
In the past, Slenderman might have remained localized, a regional legend about a haunted neighborhood in Northern California or suburban Virginia. Instead, he is everywhere, at the same time.
And it makes sense that Slenderman appears predominantly in photos and film, rather than text. As digital cameras and home-editing programs proliferate, Internet memes are becoming increasingly visual — think LOLcats and "Thanks Obama," among countless others. As a visual meme, Slenderman is at once more accessible and more frightening, in ways that oral memes can't replicate.
Moreover, the Internet has become a melting pot where long-held distinctions among folklore, mass culture and literary or high culture break down. The stories of H. P. Lovecraft, a once obscure early 20th-century horror writer, have gained immense mainstream currency thanks to the web, where people who may never have read the books still revel in breaking apart the complex and immense world of Lovecraft's extraterrestrial monster Cthulhu, for visual fodder for everything from toys, games and fan fiction to YouTube films and even erotica.
In that regard Slenderman, who is both a very specific character and an infinitely pliable meme, is like Cthulhu, without the literary origins.
As a folklorist, I can't comment on what may have motivated those two girls in Wisconsin. I'll leave that to the psychologists. But I can say that we've seen this pattern before, especially when it comes to technology, pop culture and violence: killings said to be inspired by Dungeons & Dragons games or heavy metal in the 1980s, or Ouija boards long before that. Sometimes these are real but isolated incidents; often they are rumors, themselves a part of the folklore.
Internet horror memes are no more likely to motivate violence or insanity than any other aspect of contemporary culture. But like other examples of the folklore of horror and the supernatural, they can lead us to question distinctions between "everyday life" and the unreal or the numinous — distinctions that may be made even more ambiguous by the bewildering variety of alternative realities found online.


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This word "hisbah" has been popping up a lot in my face lately and it is usually associated with three things: 1) Saudi Arabia 2) The Muslim Brothers 3) An Egyptian intellectual, writer, artist, or thinker.
Islam Q&A defines hisbah and men of hisbah as people who are dedicated, voluntarily or paid, to refuting and denouncing apparent immorality. They continue what the vice police leave unfinished. Among the public immoralities that they fight comes a long list that starts from men and women dating, to non- Muslims openly manifesting their beliefs and religious symbols, promiscuous images, movies, and books, or promoting anything that leads to adultery, homosexuality, and gambling.
The most recent hisbah lawsuit in Egypt was against renowned best selling author and the editor in chief of Akhbar Al Adab newspaper Gamal El Ghitani whom he lost to Muslim fundamentalist cleric Sheikh Youssef Al Badry. - The novelist has to pay 20,000 Egyptian Pounds or the Sheikh will take over his newspaper.
This is not the first time Sheikh Al Badry succeeds in terrorizing Egyptian intellectuals:
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مبادرة مروة رخا للنشر الالكترونى
Monday, September 15, 2008
The Egyptian Ministry of "Hisbah" - Fact or fiction?
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In the Congress camp, the announcement of Modi's resignation has brought back some action with City President Narendra Ravat gearing up to prepare the party's campaign strategy. Incidentally, Ravat is tipped to be the party's contestant since he was originally the winner of Vadodara primaries. Ravat says, "We will see what the party says when it decides on the candidature from Vadodara. I have had three occasions in the past where I have almost got the party mandate and things have changed at the last minute. Whether I am given a ticket or not, I will be responsible for campaign here and the focus will be on making people realise that Modi has only used this seat for his gain and dumped it when he did not need it."
" They played with the emotions of voters here by urging them to elect the Prime Minister with a record margin and people turned out and voted with passion. And he simply resigned from this seat. Our campaign will be focused on local issues where the BJP has failed miserably," Ravat adds. Party leaders say many other aspiring leaders, too, are planning to pitch for tickets in the bypolls. According to sources, former MP Satyajit Gaekwad, who tried his luck to get a Congress ticket in Dhule-Malegaon, is now back in Vadodara and hoping to get a second run. A party leader says, "Ravat will be the choice or the Congress will have to answer why it ditched its own primaries idea two times."
Rajya Sabha MP Madhusudan Mistry, who lost the contest from Vadodara to Modi, will be meeting party members on May 31 to finalise the candidate. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which has been lying low throughout the election campaign, has also said it would contest the by-polls. Party convenor Paresh Patel says, "Of course, we will contest the bypolls, but with a new candidate."
District Election officers say that although the EC is yet to announce the date for the bypolls, it will be held in the first week of October, within the six months' deadline. Most likely, the polling day will coincide with the grand festivities of Navratri. "It might be difficult for us to convince voters to come out for a second round in October. We will try our best to ensure good turnout," an official says. District Collector Vinod Rao said he had not received any intimation from the EC on the resignation of Modi from Vadodara constituency.


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Aerospace & Defense
Innovation and collaborative, synchronized program management for new programs
Avantha Power specializes in power plant construction and operation.
India's rapid economic growth has fed an ever-increasing demand for reliable electric power throughout the country. This means opportunities for power plant builders and operators – as well as certain challenges, including meeting schedules and managing workflows on large-scale projects.
Avantha Power & Infrastructure Limited (Avantha Power) owns four power plants, is the part owner of another, and has two more plants under development. Once all of these projects are fully operational, Avantha Power will have a total installed capacity of 3,911 megawatts.
To meet its fast-growing business, Avantha Power turned to product lifecycle management (PLM) technology. Avantha Power manages its power plant engineering using Teamcenter® software from Siemens PLM Software.
"Power plants represent multifaceted assemblies of systems and components built on-site by an extended team of construction workers and engineers," says Janmejaya Mahapatra, head of Control and Instrumentation at Avantha Power & Infrastructure Limited. "We work with a large number of vendors, who are required to deliver their project segments at the right time so that the overall project stays on schedule. Managing these projects is extremely complex, far more complex than our conventional spreadsheet solution could handle. While it got us by for a while, the system simply wasn't practical for such an application over the long haul.
It became cumbersome and slow. It was difficult to find information. Sharing it with stakeholders, whether internal or supplierbased, was even more difficult. Keeping track of project engineering changes and just being able to manage large volumes of data were way beyond the capacity of this approach."
By implementing Teamcenter, Avantha Power management had chosen an effective and efficient system that would ensure an engineering-driven approach to power plant installation.
During the evaluation process, it was envisaged that the right PLM system would enable data to be used to quickly see the bigger picture or get granular. The requirements from management included a system that would provide substantially greater security for authorized users and better information access compared to its existing approach. Information re-use was critical, as was capturing lessons learned and best practices that could be leveraged to streamline future projects.
However, Avantha Power engineers had one big concern regarding PLM technology. They felt that it might take too long to implement, noting that the company simply couldn't afford any delays in meeting its competitive challenges and addressing a tough regulatory environment.
"The specialists at Siemens PLM Software convinced us that we could implement the new system quickly," says Mahapatra. "And they were good to their word. We were fully operational with Teamcenter in just six months."
Since implementing Teamcenter, the Avantha Power engineering team enjoys faster access to lifecycle information about their projects. Already, using Teamcenter has increased productivity by reducing workflow turnaround across departments. Visibility into the status of projects has been greatly improved through reliable reporting. Authorized users can access a single source of information via secure web connections from any location. The valuable knowledge and experience gained from each project is readily available to be re-used on future projects.
Avantha Power engineers say that using Teamcenter is SACRED, an acronym for Swift Archiving, Commenting, and Reviewing of Engineering Documents and Drawings.
The use of Teamcenter makes it easy for Avantha Power to manage drawings and bills of materials (BOMs). Such easy access to project data across the lifecycle of Avantha Power projects, including BOMs, speeds project delivery and substantially improves collaboration among users. "On a recent thermal project, we managed multiple workflows – as many as 800 or more at a time – and cut drawing review time from 21 days to just 7," says Ravinder Verma, deputy manager of Control and Instrumentation at Avantha Power & Infrastructure Limited.
Siemens PLM Software partner Avantha Technologies Ltd. (Avantha Technologies) played a key role in the software roll out. "Avantha Technologies has been very supportive and proactive in its approach throughout the process of implementation and customization of Teamcenter for our requirements," says Verma. "The technical team effectively gathered the process requirements and worked on the continuous improvement of the application. The team ensured that individual user intent was reflected. The whole team of Avantha Technologies deserves special kudos for this achievement!"
Mahapatra concludes, "Using Teamcenter, we can now readily customize plants to meet customer requirements, while markedly reducing engineering cycle time and costs. Our ability to quickly find and re-use the right data makes this possible. Perhaps most importantly, with Teamcenter, we are on the critical path to advancing our business goals and targets, and importantly, helping to meet our country's demand for energy."


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An Absence of Anydays
By Sydney Charvat
The Brandons were having a party.
The music drifted through the alleyways, the laughter from the kitchen shook the foundation, and the iridescent light trickling through the first floor windows hung the small, one story house aloft—like an ecclesiastical peg on an utterly incomprehensible nighttime board.
Every Tuesday night, it seemed, the small, yellow-paned house on the corner of Abbot and Levine would come alive with a spirit foreign to the deadened throes of suburbia to which it was held to comparison. No one could say why Tuesdays had been christened as a day of celebration for this young couple no one seemed to know. All they could say was that, every Tuesday, the light from the gas lamps and the flickering shadows of laughing, dancing silhouettes would extend an invitation to the loud, the young, and the reckless.
Because, every Tuesday, the Brandons were having a have a party.
Although their madness went unquestioned, it did not go unjudged. The houses flanking the Brandon's comparatively impoverished estate stood erect, austere, and ever judging. Their lights remained off, their curtains drawn. For them—those to whom and invitation was never extended—time passed in an orderly, condescendingly didactic fashion, and weeknight "parties" were simply out of the question.
Their neighbors, the Brandons felt, simply didn't understand the need.
'It is Tuesday, after all,' Mr. Anderson, a blunt, portly man from the left house noted before pulling up his sheets for the night.
'They shouldn't be up so late, those kids,' he mumbled to his wife, Margaret, before reaching over her to turn out the light.
'They're newlyweds. They'll get over it in time.' Margaret growled, as she turned away from him in a ritualistic fashion.
But they never seemed to learn.
Every Tuesday night, the sun would fall, the music would rise, and the house would come alive with the raucous din of laughter and the chatter of heeled feet scuttling across the floor. No one ever entered this place, and no one ever left. Somehow, this mysterious young couple managed to smuggle their guests in under the cover of twilight, and keep them held happily against the promise of conversation, dance, and drink until the early morning where, with an equal amount of stealth, they were able to escape without detection.
'I don't know what they're trying to pull,' Mrs. Povitz used to say as she spread jam across her husband's toast on Wednesday morning. 'They think they live in Uptown. They don't understand that, here, Tuesday nights are work nights. You stay in, you sleep, and you go to work the next morning. Tuesday nights are for adults. Children get Saturdays.'
The Brandons knew the talk.
They had been hearing it since they first met.
'The music is too loud,' their former neighbor, Mr. Albertson used to say.
'My kids have school in the morning,' a rabbity mother down the street liked to whine.
'Tuesday nights are no nights for dancing,' the night watchman criticized. 'You'd do better to get your sleep.'
The Brandons didn't care.
In truth, the Brandons didn't care much about anything.
Mr. Brandon worked six nights a week.
Mrs. Brandon worked six days a week.
Mr. Brandon didn't attend church on pretense of science.
Mrs. Brandon didn't attend church on pretense of guilt.
Mr. Brandon had little tolerance for living in hypotheticals.
Mrs. Brandon had little tolerance for the time her husband was away.
In truth, the Brandons didn't care much about anything.
Except the one night a week,
Where Mrs. Brandon could put on her favorite dress,
And Mr. Brandon could turn up the gramophone,
And where, if only for a night, the judgment and the anxiety of world around them would dissolve into the rhythmic enchantment of the only piece of furniture they owned. The night would drag on into early morning; Mrs. Brandon's blush would steadily begin to crease at the corners of her mouth as she smiled through dusk, and Mr. Brandon would slowly lose himself as deadly combination of whiskey and lust threatened to take him down for the count.
The Brandons were having a party.
The rest of the world could only hope to be so lucky.
Sydney Charvat is a junior at Boston University actively (potentially haplessly) pursuing a degree in Film and Television with a minor in English Literature. In addition to her love of prose, she is a lover of rainstorms, tweed coats, cold Chinese food, and Woody Allen films. You can follow her at explainingstalecrackers.blogspot.com. (Updated October 2015)
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In addition to the methods described in Fitzpatrick et al. (2005), we examined 56 video clips of Pileated Woodpeckers in flight, recorded by our field crews in Arkansas during the 2004-2005 field season. We searched for video clips that presented views of the dorsal and/or ventral wing surface, especially those presenting angles similar to the woodpecker in the Luneau video. We deinterlaced video stills from selected video clips, as we did earlier with the Luneau video. If Pileated Woodpeckers were larger in the frame than in the Luneau video, then we reduced the resolution to that in the Luneau video. If video stills were in better focus than in the Luneau video, then we added blur using Photoshop 6.0 until the bird and vegetation appeared similarly out of focus as in the Luneau video.
We measured wingbeat frequency of a known Ivory-billed Woodpecker flying away from its nest tree by analyzing a spectrogram of a sound recording made by A. A. Allen and P. P. Kellogg in 1935. We measured wingbeat rates of the woodpecker in the Luneau video and of Pileated Woodpeckers by counting the beats among video-frame sequences shot at 29.97 frames per second (=59.94 deinterlaced video fields per second).
On 15 March 2005, we filmed a reenactment of the Luneau video episode using life-sized models (right) of Pileated Woodpecker and Ivory-billed Woodpecker painted to resemble the respective species in terms of black-and-white patterns.
The Ivory-billed Woodpecker model had a typical narrow central black wing stripe on the underwing. The Pileated Woodpecker had a white underwing patch that was as large as the largest underwing patch of museum specimens of this species, to make the test as conservative as possible. In order to recreate features of the flying bird in the Luneau video, the wings of the models could be flapped rapidly by a system of strings and elastic bands to yield reasonably authentic angles and motion blur.
During the reenactment, all conditions were set to match as precisely as possible the conditions under which the original Luneau video was shot. The canoe with camera was moored at the exact location where it was when the bird took off from its perch. All sequences were filmed using the same camera (Canon model GL2), under similarly clouded skies, and slightly out of focus. We shot numerous video takes with different shutter speeds as low as 1/8 sec, in a specific effort to produce images containing motion blur and white-bleeding comparable to those in the Luneau video.


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TrailMix Pro App Review + Promo Code
If you're one of the many runners that prefers to run with an iOS device such as an iPhone or iPod Touch, you'll probably know there are many apps available that can help with your running routine. Today we review the TrailMix app, which claims to be the world's first fully automatic step synced music player that can help runners.
Read more for the TrailMix app review plus a special promo code to download TrailMix Pro version worth $4.99 for free.
What is TrailMix?
TrailMix is a free app or $4.99 for the pro version that provides automatic music syncing when you are running or walking. The idea is when you are walking or running and listening to your favourite tunes, the app can automatically detect and adjust the beats of your songs to match the tempo of your strides or steps.
For example, if you are running fast, the tempo of your music will speed up to match your steps and if you are running or walking slow, the tempo of your songs will also slow down.
So why is this important? It has been scientifically shown that synchronising your stride lengths to match the tempo of your music can allow you to run longer and further, increasing endurance by as much as 15%. The body loves rhythms and matching your stride lengths with the tempo of your music can make running more efficient. So if you want to improve your running efficiency and endurance, TrailMix might be the app for you.
How TrailMix works?
1. To start, you pick a song and TrailMix will determine its tempo
2. The app automatically detects the pace of your footsteps using the accelerometer sensor built into your iPhone
3. TrailMix will then remix the song to match your current pace
1. Automatic beat detector to detect the tempo of your songs
2. Can track the pace of your footsteps using your iPhones built-in accelerometer
3. Can set your own preferred custom tempo (pro version only)
4. User-friendly interface with large buttons. This is useful while you are running
5. The pro version also features magic shuffle that automatically picks the best song, unlimited playlist capacity and enhanced stats.
1. The free version can contain annoying ads
2. Setting custom tempos only available on the pro version
3. Limited playlist capacity on the free version (Up to 20)
4. Some runners may find the $4.99 price tag expensive for an app
TrailMix is certainly an interesting app that claims to be the world's first fully automatic step synced music player. There's no doubt that the body loves rhythms and running in sync to something can actually help improve your endurance, allowing you to run further and longer.
If you've already tried running with a digital metronome, you'll probably realise that running to beeps is not as interesting as running to your favourite songs. In a nutshell, the app brings the benefits of synchronising your stride lengths while listening to your favourite songs while improving your endurance.
TrailMix Pro Giveaway
The guys at Resonant Technologies who developed TrailMix have been kind enough to offer the first 10 lucky readers to download the TrailMix Pro version for free, worth $4.99.
Just follow this link to get your promo code to download the pro version on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Remember, only the first 10 readers can download the pro version using the link and they will expire on Sunday 22nd September, so be quick. Alternatively, you can download the free version here.
Be sure to check out our other recommended iPhone apps for running, to help you with your training.
Do you run with TrailMix? What running apps do you use? Share your feedback or comments below.


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$2.1 million Eltham Water Treatment Plant Upgrade
Monday, April 28, 2014
South Taranaki District Mayor, Ross Dunlop officially opened the upgraded $2.1 million Eltham Water Treatment Plant today.
The work, which involved installing a clarifier and sophisticated chemical and control systems, gives Eltham a more robust water supply and means that the town will be fully compliant with the latest Drinking Water Standards.
The opening of the Eltham plant comes hot on the heels of upgrades to the Opunake and Rahoutu water treatment plants.
Mayor Dunlop says the Council has invested a huge amount of time and money into upgrading and modernising the district's water supplies and Eltham is the latest to benefit from its water infrastructure upgrade programme.
"Since 2005, the main priority of the Council has been on improving the District's water infrastructure. Over the last 8 years we have completed nearly $56.3 million of work. Today our water supplies are more robust than they have ever been with new treatment plants, water bores, reservoirs and interconnections between supplies," he says.
South Taranaki District Council engineering assets and planning manager, Howard Wilkinson, says the treatment plant has the ability to treat 5,500m3/day to Eltham.
"As well as building a clarifier Council took the opportunity to overhaul the whole treatment plant and in particular introduce sophisticated chemical and control systems. The on-site reservoir was also strengthened to meet seismic standards," he says.
Mr Wilkinson says the $2.1 million project also received $415,000 from the Ministry of Health's Capital Assistance Programme.
"The $2.1 million upgrade means that in the last five years $4.85 million has been spent on improving the Eltham water supply, when a new reservoir was built, the existing reservoir was strengthened, and a new steel water main and other associated works were completed," says Mr Wilkinson.
Mr Wilkinson says the final major water infrastructure project in the district is the $11 million Waimate West upgrade which should be completed around August this year. Waimate West, which supplies water to about 800 farm connections and the towns of Manaia and Kaponga is South Taranaki's largest water supply by volume.
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In the context of cryptocurrency mining, a mining pool is the pooling of resources by miners, who share their processing power over a network, to split the reward equally, according to the amount of work they contributed to the probability of finding a block. A "share" is awarded to members of the mining pool who present a valid partial proof-of-work. Mining in pools began when the difficulty for mining increased to the point where it could take centuries for slower miners to generate a block. The solution to this problem was for miners to pool their resources so they could generate blocks more quickly and therefore receive a portion of the block reward on a consistent basis, rather than randomly once every few years.
Mining pools may contain hundreds or thousands of miners using specialized protocols. A pool can support "variable share difficulty" feature, which means that a miner can select the share target (the lower bound of share difficulty) on his own and change probability accordingly
Some Mining Pool protocols: Pay-per-Share, Proportional, Bitcoin Pooled mining, Pay-per-last-N-shares, Peer-to-Peer Mining Pool, Geometric method, Double Geometric method
Multipool mining
Multipools switch between different altcoins and constantly calculate which coin is at that moment the most profitable to mine. Two key factors are involved in the algorithm that calculates profitability, the block time and the price on the exchanges. To avoid the need for many different wallets for all possible minable coins, multipools may automatically exchange the mined coin to a coin that is accepted in the mainstream (for example bitcoin). Using this method, because the most profitable coins are being mined and then sold for the intended coin, it is possible to receive more coins in the intended currency than by mining that currency alone. This method also increases demand on the intended coin, which has the side effect of increasing or stabilizing the value of the intended coin.