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There are certainly some must have flower girl accessories for your wedding that are real staples for the event. You should always remember to include them as you plan things for your wedding day because they are important things that you should never miss out on. Keep in mind that the flower girls are one of the highlights of your wedding. They make it more special and they make the event a far more colorful thing to look forward to. To keep things in check, here is a quick list of the five must have flower girl accessories for your wedding.
1. Flower Basket – Whether you plan for your flower girls to hold their very own version of little bouquets or have them sprinkle flower petals on the red carpet where you will walk on later, it would be best to have them hold a flower basket instead . The little girls might not yet be too keen to hold some flower stalks and their little hands might find it hard to grasp onto it. It would be easier for them to carry a basket since it will also be something that they are familiar with. Just make sure that the grip of your flower basket is comfortable enough for them to handle.
2. The Flowers – Of course, what is a flower girl without her very own flower? If you want to stick with the formalities of the event, do not make the mistake of letting the little girls handle roses because you do not want them to run along the danger of pricking their hands while surveying the flowers. You should also ask their parents if the girls happen to have some pollen or flower allergies so you can choose the right one which will not be hazardous for their health. Should you wish to choose to have them sprinkle some flower petals, you might want to consider the age of the flower girl first. It might not be such a good idea to let a toddler so such a task.
3. Flower Tiara – If you want them to look like little fairies and elegantly style them during your wedding day, you can also create a flower tiara for them. For this you can already settle for artificial flowers or do a makeshift one that will go along perfectly with their gown. Also make sure that the flower girl has no issues with wearing something on her head so that she will really be able to use the said tiara while walking down the aisle.
4. Flower Wand – You can also try creating something magical for your wedding with the use of a flower wand. If you think a basket looks a bit bulky and heavy for the little girls to carry, you can choose to have them carry a piece of flower wand instead. You can attach petals too on the wand to make it more creative.
5. Charm Bracelet or Necklace – The little girls will certainly look elegant with either of these pieces.
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text: Watch the official Tamil trailer now! Movie – Adanga Maru Starring – Jayam Ravi, Raashi Khanna, Sampathraj, Munish Kanth, Pon Vannan, Subbu Panju, Babu Anotny, Azhagam Perumal, Meera Vasudevan, Gajaraj, Mathew Varghese, Nitin Mehta, Bharath raj, Shabir, Vijay Victor, Rajaa & others. Written & Directed by – Karthik Thangavel Music Composer – Sam C.S Director of Photography – Sathyan Sooryan Editor – Ruben Art Director – Lalgudi N Ilayaraja Dialogues – VIji Lyrics – Madhan Karki Stunts – StunSiva Choreography – Dinesh Costume designer – J Kavitha Casting director – Nithyaa Sriram Production Executive – Nagarajan Makeup – S A Shanmugham Costumer – K Sarangapani Stills – S Murugadoss PRO – Suresh Chandra Promotions – Shiyam Jack Digital Promotions – Whackedout Publicity Designer – Prathool N.T Line Production – Anusha Vijaykumar Production Controller – Sudharshan Co – Producer – Anand Joy Produced by – Sujataa Vijaykumar Music Producer – Onasis Mohan Guitars – Onasis – Bruce Lee Backing Vocals – Sam C.S Sound Engineer – Sabin Jose, Psalter Record Inn Teaser stereo mix and mastered – Balu thankatchan(20 DB studios) Music Supervisor – Swagatha S Krishnan Music Label – Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt. Ltd.

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Senator Jim Risch (R-ID) was elected to the United States Senate in November of 2008, after serving as Idaho State senator, lieutenant governor and governor. Sen. Risch serves on five Senate committees, include the Select Committee on Intelligence. He joined Neal Larson on KID Newsradio to talk about President Trump's discussion on sending the National Guard to the southern border, international trade and North Korea's silence since talks of denuclearization.
Listen to the full interview below:
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — Immigration is back in the headlines as President Donald Trump discusses sending the National Guard to the line the southern border of the United States.
"The President has now talked about putting the National Guard on the border, to do what should be done and has not been done and that is to secure the border," Senator Jim Risch (R-ID) told KID Newsradio. "You don't have a nation if you don't have a border."
According to the White House, over 1,000 people a day illegally enter the United States. With illegal immigration on the rise, Risch said, the demographic of illegal immigrants is shifting from Mexico to Central America.
"Central America is becoming much more the issue than Mexico," Risch said. "It's been growing steadily because one thing they say that's absolutely true is things are awful. They don't have rule of law, they've got gangs, because it's all drug related, corruption is ripe and deep in all institutions of government, so when you have that it's an awful situation."
But, terrible situations in one's home country are no excuse for illegal immigration, Risch said. As other countries enact swift punishments for those who illegally cross their borders, the United States is much softer on those who break immigration law.
"It's totally unacceptable to have one person coming in that doesn't meet the criteria," Risch said. "There isn't a country in the world that allows this to go on."
Away from the border, Washington is dealing with another international issue: trade. After President Trump enacted stiffer tariffs against 1,300 Chinese products, according to the New York Times, many worry a trade war is on the horizon.
"[The President] is of the frame of mind that the U.S. is strong enough that we are going to be able to negotiate more favorable deals than what we've had before," Risch said. "Most everyone agrees that when we do, do a trade deal, we wind up on the short end of the stick…we give more than what we take."
Still, Risch said the President is getting plenty of encouragement to end trade conflicts over and work out a better deal for the United States, as soon as possible
With the National Guard poised to head to the southern border of the United States and the country banters with China about trade, North Korea has stayed unusually silent. After President Trump and Kim Jong Un exchanged some heated remarks, the two countries began to discuss possibly meeting for negotiations; a result of a campaign to turn up the heat on the North Korean dictator, Risch said.
"People were assuming that what [Kim Jong Un] wanted was nuclear weapons," Risch said. "His strongest want is not nuclear weapons. His strongest want is he wants that dictator monarchy to stay in place. That's what he wants and so once that was realized and the program shifted to focusing on what can be done so he gets what he wants and gives up his nuclear weapons, all of a sudden, things started to happen."


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Help us get ready for the upcoming camp season. Pick up a paint brush, prep buildings for winter – every little bit helps!
May 9, 2020 and June 6, 2020
Help us transition camp in between seasons and prepare our buildings and grounds for summer or winter. Pick up a paint brush, hammer, or cleaning supplies – every little bit helps!
Be our guest and stay for FREE when you volunteer at believe.love.serve. We will provide overnight accommodations as space allows, childcare (for ages 2-8 only unless special arrangements are made) and three meals on Saturday, starting with breakfast for all volunteers.
Please Note: Participants under age 18 must be accompanied by a parent/guardian or another adult (if attending with a church group) who is responsible for their care.
Work projects begin promptly at 9:00 am on Saturday and continue, with snack breaks, until 4:00 pm. We are flexible, though – if you want to come up on Friday afternoon for a few hours as well or if you can't make it until later Saturday morning, please let us know. We would still love to have you join us!
What might you be doing when you volunteer? Check out the list below of possible projects that we will be looking to tackle during believe.love.serve.
Bring your family, your friends, your small group, youth group or your whole church!
The Weekend Details
Walls, doors, door-frames, chair railing, stairway railings, bathroom dividers, trim work, elevator doors, boathouse railing, window frames, and more.
Various projects including drywall repair, deck repair, replace door latches and stops, duct work repair, cut new vents in shower doors, screen repair, caulking, add fiberglass board to showers, add wood trim around A/C units, install down spouts, electrical labeling on circuit breakers (electrician), work on A/C-heating units (someone with this knowledge), and more.
Weeding, raking, and cleaning up.
Several buildings need a deep cleaning. Some of the tasks involved will be to wash curtains, shower curtains, vents, mattresses, and kick plates, clean out fireplaces, clean carpets and furniture, power wash the exterior, and more.


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THE EXACT MOMENTBy: Darrelyn L. TuttCarrie is an outgoing and enjoyable gal,Full of life, vibrancy, and vitality.She desires an open conversation about God and has invited me as a guest into her thoughts, Many of which I find curiously provoking.She raises interesting questions and then responds with interesting answers.I sense that my presence is desired but the processing of thought barely needs help.She is clearly encumbered and burdened by an underlying uncertainty about her salvation.The exact, precise moment of her salvation can't be satisfactorily pinpointed.She wonders whether I think she might possibly be unsaved.Hmmm ...------In relation to salvation,No man knows the soul or the state of another.But I believe that to question one's "moment" of salvation clarifies the need to take care of the matter at once with God.If you are wondering about the state of your soul, and the time of your salvation, then wonder no longer.Now is your moment to take care of it. Cry out to God, Confess your sin, Express your need of Him this moment.Be sure of it.Settle the matter once and for all upon your knees, that the greater part of your spiritual life is absorbed in communion with Him and not in question of Him.Remain alone with Him until the matter is entirely taken care of.Be done with the wondering and wandering of thought,And let it be answered of a clarity within.Enjoy the satisfying presence of peace,And the certainty of God.There are no substitutes.------'For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God."1 Corinthians 2:11
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Surviving a Storm while Boating
Luck can be an important factor in surviving a storm on open waters. However, knowing what to do when a storm hits and knowing good seamanship practices is imperative.
Keeping your head is of paramount importance when encountering a confusing and potentially dangerous situation.
Seamanship or luck – A combination of both. When you hit the point at which your boat is being battered, thrown, and pounded so much that you realize you're no longer in control — and your life is now in jeopardy — will you know how to survive?
Meteorological events can cause storms to materialize out of virtually calm skies quickly leaving boats no recourse but to ride them out.
When and Where to Run
The most important questions you will often have to answer are when and where to run.
Radar is an advantage – with all the new radar and storm warnings on cell phones and other electronic devices, situations where you are caught in an unexpected storm are rare and usually you can avoid getting slammed. You'll have an easier time of it if you have radar, either on your boat or on your cell phone, which will allow you to see the storm coming and track its direction of progress.
Don't hesitate – Remember, don't wait until it's right on top of you to start moving. When the edge of the storm is 10 miles away, you've already waited too long. Lightning can strike from as far as eight miles, and nearly 30-percent of all lightning strike victims report being under blue skies when the event occurred. So, get moving when the storm is still 10 to 15 miles in the distance.
Listen – You hear an unusual hissing sound? Check your VHF antennae, outriggers, and fishing rods that are pointing skyward. When one of these items starts cackling, you're in serious trouble—static electricity in the air is reaching critical mass and lightning strikes are not far behind. Take down or lower the item(s) if possible and get out of there fast.
LIFEJACKETS LIFEJACKETS LIFEJACKETS. – Make sure everyone has one on before the going gets tougher. If an emergency happens, this little device can save your life.
What to do if your boat is caught in a sudden storm – Make sure everyone onboard has a life jacket on before the going gets tougher. Prepare to idle at 45-degrees into the seas. Don't even try to run once you're in the storm. There's no reason to since most squalls are isolated and blow past as quickly as they pop up.
It is assumed that your judgment is good enough that you'll remain at the dock when a large, predictable storm is on the way.
Stay calm – Most of the time, you'll only experience harsh conditions for a matter of minutes. Instead of rushing for port in the middle of them with reduced visibility, heavy seas, and course-altering gusts — use just enough power to hold your position.
If there's time, secure your gear – Loose coolers, gear bags, fenders and the like can be expected to roll across the deck, fall off shelves, and generally cause havoc. Before the nasty stuff hits, secure everything you can. Do you have a heavy cooler or other weighty items? Tie them down aft, so they don't weigh down the bow.
Check all hatches and ports – Be sure they're properly dogged and watertight. Got any extra weight-creating cargo? This is a good time to get rid of it. Pump your bilges dry, drain the livewell and pump out melt-off in the fishboxes.
Note your position on the GPS – In case it becomes necessary to call for help, know your position. We're talking latitude and longitude, not "sort of near the third red channel marker 20 minutes from the inlet." Write it down on something so if your electronics get fried by a lightning blast, you still know your basic location.
Call for help – If conditions become extreme, call someone such as a friend, relative, or a dock hand at the marina and tell them your position and situation. Make arrangements to check in every 15 minutes and ask that they call the Coast Guard if you fail to check in at the appointed time.
In this day and age, there is absolutely no excuse not to have GPS on hand. In fact, there's no excuse for not having a back-up unit, too.
Any port in a storm – What if you're within a mile or two of land and visibility is good enough that you can make it? Then use that old adage, "any port in a storm." If you can get to a pier — private or public — before the nasty stuff hits, do so. I'm a firm believer in the sanctity of other people's property. But in this case, safety takes precedence over property rights. Tie off and head for cover.
If you lose power – If you can't maintain headway, it's imperative that you deploy an anchor or a sea anchor to keep the bow into the seas. In both cases, let out every inch of scope you have. No sea anchor or anchor aboard? A five-gallon bucket tied to a rope will work as a sea anchor for a small, open boat, in a pinch.
What Not To Do
Knowing what not to do is as important as knowing what are the proper procedures in a storm.
When you're getting slammed – Never ever put up a full aft enclosure, especially on sterndrive and inboard boats. On any type of boat, a full enclosure is bound to restrict the already-poor visibility. It will act as a sail, making steering more difficult. Then, there's the possibility that a strong gust will rip the enclosure open, and you'll have flapping canvass and swinging aluminum struts adding to the mayhem.
The most significant reason not to put up an aft enclosure – An aft enclosure can trap fumes. Exhaust fumes may come up through a deck hatch, or thanks to the station-wagon effect, roll up and under the enclosure. This is a very real danger, especially on boats with engine hatches that aren't airtight, including sterndrives and small inboards.
When to Run
There may come a point when running ahead of the seas will provide increased safety.
Time to run – Running along the back of a wave is a tactic that is useful for running inlets or making way when an emergency requires you to run for the dock. This may increase the chances of shipping water because large waves can roll over the transom. It is difficult to maintain this approach for long periods of time. Eventually, the wave you're riding will merge with another or sink below you into nothingness. Then, you'll either be over the top and surfing out of control, or in the trough between two waves larger than your boat. Not good. Secondly, running with the seas will extend the amount of time you're getting battered since you'll be moving more or less with the storm's direction of travel. Don't fight the storm for any longer than you need to — whenever possible if Mother Nature starts waving that stick, it is time to run!


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Here at Not Robot, we have created an evolving a development process that currently suits us very well. Taking advantage of Trello for our project management platform, we have created a streamlined workflow process as well as an easy way to plan and track meetings. We're going to explain what we do in order to provide some inspiration for building your own workflow.
First and foremost: For this post to make any sense, you will need to have some basic knowledge about Agile Software Development. If you've never heard about agile, a quick skim of the Wikipedia article on the topic is a solid place to start. You might also find our short article on using agile for indie game dev of interest as well.
The Process: The Overview
Our process consists of week-long sprint iterations with a retro at the end of each sprint. Every Saturday we get together on Mumble and have our weekly meetings: We end the previous week with a sprint review and a retrospective. After the end of sprint meetings, we'll kick off our next week with our sprint planning meeting. All of us here have paying jobs during the day, so most of the Not Robot work gets done after the sun has set. There isn't a really good time for us to have a daily standup, as we are all located in different parts of the country. So finding a convenient time to meet is difficult enough for one meeting a week; once a day would not be worth the headache.
This is the flow of how a bug or feature moves through our system to get implemented
The Sprint Planning Meeting
In our sprint planning meeting we will look at our feature list board and decide what makes sense to do in the coming week. We have a different list for each priority (Must Have, Should Have, Could Have) and in each list is a card for any segment of the project that still has work to do. For each segment, there is a checklist the card with a list of tasks that need to be done to complete the segment. During sprint planning, we copy tasks from these lists onto our sprint board. Once a task has finished development, we will check off the corresponding item on the checklist. Once the checklist on a card is fully checked, that segment is considered finished.
Here's what our feature list looks like. Don't worry, spoilers are censored, you'll just have to play the game to find out everything we have planned!
Another place where tasks can come from is our Bugs board. Any time one of us finds a bug, we'll make a card on the bug board. The bug board has 3 main columns: Unconfirmed, Confirmed, and Tweaks/Fixes. All new bugs go into the Unconfirmed list, hopefully with a screenshot and adding information on how to reproduce it. Adding screenshots is extremely valuable, since a picture can generally explain things much faster than words can. Plus trello makes adding images to cards very simple.
When a reviewer confirms a bug by repeating it, the card gets moved to the Confirmed list where it waits to be picked up. The Tweaks/Fixes list is a place where we can add things that we feel need to be changed, but aren't exactly new functionality. An example would be buoys being too high in the water. It's not exactly a bug, and the buoy card is already finished, it's just something that needs to be tweaked.
The Current Sprint Board
The Current Sprint board is the bread and butter of our work week. During the sprint planning meeting, we identify the tasks from the feature list and the bug board that are top priorities and transfer them into the 'To Do' list in the Current Sprint. When the cards are added, each one is given a time estimate. This estimate is intended to be the actual 'work time' a card should take. Butt-In-Chair time doesn't count, only the actual flow time that a card should theoretically take. If you are working on a 2 hour task but are checking facebook and getting distracted, that card might take 4 hours, but it still only counts as 2. The estimated time is just a rough estimate, and although we intend them to be accurate they very often are not. We use the estimates to shoot for about 10 hours of work per week for each person.
The Scrum for Trello extension makes time estimates very simple, as the estimates are clearly displayed on each card. Furthermore, each list is summed up so you know exactly how many hours are in each column. It even displays the total sum of the entire board.
Once all the work is added and assigned, we quickly review everything we've committed to for that week. We all talk and make sure one last time that the whole team believes that the tasks in the to-do list are all accomplishable. If everyone believes, then we commit to the work as a team.
The Work Week
Our current sprint board has a basic workflow of To Do, Doing, Done. We'll split up the 'To Do' list into categories: Business, technical, or art. When someone begins a task, he will move the card to the 'Doing' list. Once complete, the card goes into the 'Done' list. As the week goes on and cards are moved across the board, we might re-evaluate the work remaining if the original estimate is showing to be wildly inaccurate.
Once in a while, we'll pick up a card and get stuck on it. Either the feature is using a part of the code we don't have experience in, or there's a problem with something that we just can't get past. This kind of stuff happens, and when it does, we try to help each other out as much as possible. When we get to a point like this, we'll add a label to the Trello card that indicates there is a problem. This label will most likely be accompanied by a comment on the card describing our issues. Everyone else will see that this task is blocked, and they'll try to help however they can. If a certain person would be a valuable resource, we can add that person to the card, and then write a comment. This will make sure that the person gets an email notification, so they can respond faster and get the card unblocked.
Some cards depend on others, and that's just a fact. Sometimes the dependency revolves around a pull request that needs to be merged, or a design card that needs to be finished before the implementation can begin. In these cases, we will add labels to the appropriate "Blocker" and "Blocked" cards, showing that these are higher in priority than other cards. These are the cards we will try to work on first, before cards that aren't actively blocking others.
When we think that our task is finished, we'll move the card in Trello to the "Done" column and put in a pull request. Using Github-Trello integration, all of our issues (including pull requests) in GitHub will appear on our Trello board as cards in the "To Do" column. These cards will get a pull request label and are placed at the highest position in the list. When a pull request is created, it means that a different developer needs to do a code review on that new branch. We try to get code reviews finished as quickly as possible so we don't hold up any other dependent work. If a problem with the code is found during the code review, we'll let the appropriate person know, and they will work to fix whatever the issue is.
One of the things we try to do every Tuesday is to have team-wide office hours. On Tuesday nights we'll all try to get on Mumble (The VoIP software we use) for at least a little bit and be available for any questions someone else might have. The purpose of this is to get us together and asking questions early in the week so that if there are any blockers, problems, or puzzles, we can try to get them resolved early. We don't want issues to hold up other cards later in the week. We've also found that having office hours creates a positive feedback loop where everyone gets a large number of productive hours without distraction since we are all working at the same time. It's almost like having a virtual office.
The Sprint Review
The sprint review is a chance for us to tell everyone what we did in the past sprint. Since we don't have any formal meetings during the week, we may not all know about everything that's going on with everyone else. We'll take turns talking about what we did that week, followed by what went well and what we can improve on. It's extremely important to be honest during this part, because we can identify and solve problems, whether they are problems with our project management process or our personal work styles. By identifying problems we can find solutions and commit to increasing future productivity.
Once everyone has given their update, we'll move on to the meeting. We have an entire board dedicated to our meetings. It is a board where anyone can add discussion topics to a list, and we'll talk about them. This saves time during the meeting in general, as we'll already know ahead of time what needs to be discussed. Also, by being encouraged to immediately write down any topics we think of, we're less likely to forget about them. For the meeting we'll just walk down the list and talk about every card there. We'll reorder some cards if they make sense to talk about together, or we'll hold off on others if the entire team isn't needed to talk about it.
One thing that we have to be vigilant about is communication. Since we aren't guaranteed to see everyone during the week, we need to make sure that important questions are answered with key information surfaced quickly and effectively. This communication can happen in any number of ways (Email, IM, Trello, Pull Requests). Trello is particularly effective, because of the nature of card comments. We can write a comment on a card, and any relevant people will be notified and can respond in their own time. The Trello comments are also visible to all team members so anyone on the team can see the discussion, something that doesn't always happen with emails or IMs. We always need to have the channels of communication open, or else we'll come to the end of the sprint and someone will have a nasty surprise which should have been dealt with earlier in the week.
This process has been working great for us because we are constantly improving on it. Our current workflow version is not what it looked like a few months ago, and chances are it will look slightly different a few months into the future. It's extremely important to listen to feedback and recurring problems during those sprint reviews and to change your process to adapt to your team. By listening and iterating, we have managed to build a workflow that keeps us organized, despite the fact that we are all full time employees scattered throughout the world.
Let us know what works for you. As always, give us a shout out about things you like and dislike about our process and if you do something similar or different.


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This winter, there were some nights I didn't go to the barn. It was a little chilly but not snowing, and I wasn't sick. I stayed snuggled up under a fleece writing, and I cooked dinner. After years of having my horse on partial care (which meant I would clean the stall and feed every evening), it still feels odd not to bundle up against the wind and fumble around in the dark with the muck basket while futilely trying not to smear mud or horse poo on my sleeves before going out to dinner.
I switched to full care a few months ago during a busy period at work when I realized it was more expensive to pay a day rate on nights I was out of town plus extra for hay and shavings. I assumed I would switch back at the start of the year when things were quieter. And then winter came. It seemed silly to change arrangements just so I could slip and slide down the barn driveway and lose feeling in my fingers. So I stayed a full boarder and kept all my toes.
While I was away, I realized something unsettling. I am not what people commonly refer to as "a horse addict." If I go a couple of days without getting a horse hair stuck in my mouth or sitting in the saddle I do not get an ache in the pit of my stomach. I enjoy my mare (even if she does remind me a little of a cross between Scarlett O'Hara and Norma Desmond), but I also enjoy being a normal person. It is sometimes nice to spend the evening in the kitchen or at the movies instead of the barn. My house is a little tidier. I can keep nail polish on a day or two longer than I used to.
What happened to me? I was once the horse-crazy little girl who would stay for hours at the lesson barn, struggling with a stack of feed buckets taller than myself and untangling nests of lead ropes in hopes of a free trail ride on one of the green ponies. To me, the boarders were alien creatures who showed up once or twice a week for a lesson and disappeared. How could they stay away? I was thrilled when, as a teenager, I was allowed to free lease a draft cross mare. I didn't understand how her owner could stand to sacrifice weekend rides with her, but I was glad I had a saddle to clean and a horse to fuss over.
In the early part of my years with Jitterbug I was broke and sleep-deprived in my quest to afford her, and I developed a strange sense of pride about my bedraggled state. "Yes, I may have hay in my hair," I'd think. "But I have biceps, damnit. Financial planners may cry at the state of my savings account, but I know how to solve almost any other problem with baling twine."
Now, I'm a grown-up who's equally happy giving Jitter a good curry as I am digging around in the garden on the weekend. Sometimes my biceps are bigger than others. I am officially a Full Care Boarder who hides inside when it snows, fretting about whether Jitter is dressed warmly enough, while she no doubt is laughing at me from her pile of hay and a bed of shavings fluffier than my own.
We have a resident horse-crazy girl at our barn. She is thrilled for the chance to groom Jitterbug, clean stalls, throw hay—anything she can find to be closer to horses. She cleans tack to save money for a horse of her very own. She asks questions and learns as much as she can about everything equine. All of us who board at the farm remember being 11 and buzzing with the joy of horses, so we happily answer her questions and think up chores she could help us with. She has taken a few lessons on Jitterbug and is thoroughly smitten.
"I wish I could ride her to school every day," she said with a sigh last week while combing Jitterbug's tail. "She's my best friend."
"Well you know, you're welcome to groom or graze her whenever you like," I said. "She loves the attention."
You'd think the kid had just won the lottery. She went skipping off at the end of Jitter's lead rope that afternoon, grinning ear to ear and chattering away to the big mare. My heart has never been so full as when I watch a kid take such joy in a horse who has given me so much.
(Jitter herself could not have looked more smug. She loves children because she believes they are the only ones who know how to properly worship her.)
Through our horse-crazy girl's eyes, I've realized something: Life with horses is cyclical. I still eat, sleep and breathe horses, but now I do most of that in an office instead of a barn. I'll spend plenty of hours covered in dust every week, and I'll enjoy it a little more. The hours I've put into her mean I can share my mare with others. I haven't lost my identity as a horse person, I've just found a new one. I have a new place in the cycle, and it's a nice place to be.
You've gotten to know Jitterbug, the Chronicle's Quadruped Correspondent, over her years of posting hilarious columns from a cantankerous draft-cross mare's point of view. And now her "Human," Natalie Voss, has joined our roster of bloggers to share her adventures as a hunter-rider-turned-eventer mounted on the ever-opinionated Jitterbug.


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Where the 2020 Presidential Candidates Stand on Cannabis
Bluntness Team
The fate of cannabis legalization in the United States may well be decided by the results of next year's presidential elections. Nearly two dozen candidates are vying to challenge President Donald Trump, and keeping track of their views and track records on ending pot prohibition can be tricky. But as 61% of Americans now support federal legalization, owning the issue could provide hopefuls with a strong advantage.
Ahead of this week's first Democratic debates, we take stock of where the 2020 candidates stand on legal weed.
Among Democratic Nominees, Agreement in Degrees
There is an emerging consensus among the Democratic field that cannabis prohibition has gone on too long, and hurt too many people for the status quo to remain in place. A key disagreement is whether federal legalization is the answer, or if the decision should be left to the states. Most of the candidates favor federal legalization including [deep breath] Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Beto O'Rourke, Julián Castro, Tim Ryan, Eric Swalwell, Tulsi Gabbard, Andrew Yang, and Marianne Williamson. Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar thinks the issue should be settled in the states, despite the complications a federal ban creates for those legal markets. Though generally in favor of reform, Mayors Pete Buttigieg and Bill deBlasio haven't specified how they'd approach it in detail. Montana Governor Steve Bullock, Colorado Senator Michael Bennet, and former Maryland Representative John Delaney haven't made their preferred pot policies clear.
From there, the candidates differ in how vocal they've been about legalization and what steps they've personally taken to get it done. Senator Sanders introduced the first (unsuccessful) Senate bill to end federal prohibition in 2015, typically ahead of the crowd. New Jersey Senator Cory Booker continues pushing for the Marijuana Justice Act he's introduced in the Senate, which would legalize weed nationally and expunge the records of those previously arrested for non-violent cannabis offenses. The bill was co-sponsored by 2020 rivals Sanders, Harris, Gillibrand and Warren, and its House of Representatives companion bill sponsored by Reps Gabbard and Ryan. Senator Warren was the primary sponsor of the STATES Act, which would protect weed-legal states from federal pushback, earning the co-sponsorship from Senators Booker, Bennet, and Klobuchar, as well as Reps Ryan and Gabbard on the bill's House equivalent. California Rep. Eric Swalwell has been a consistent leader on legalization as well, sponsoring several bills on cannabis related topics, and lobbying President Obama directly during his second term.
For voters who value direct experience, the field notably includes a couple of Governors who've presided over legalization in their own states and know the complicated regulatory issues involved with rolling them out. Former Washington state Governor Jay Inslee broke ground in 2012, signing the first legal recreational cannabis law in the United States. Inslee campaigned against legalization while running for office, but became a staunch defender of the law against federal interference once it was in place. Former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper oversaw his state's successful transition to legal adult-use weed as well, also reluctantly. An avowed skeptic of 2014's Amendment 64 before its passage, he went on to successfully build consensus that turned Colorado into a major cannabis industry success story. Inslee is campaigning on ending prohibition nationally, while Hickenlooper favors the more cautious, state-by-state approach.
The Frontrunner Lags Behind
Vice President Joe Biden leads in most Democratic primary polls despite being more conservative than his rivals on many issues, and his perception among younger liberals isn't helped by decades of old public statements and positions that track even further to the right. He was staunchly "tough on crime" and clearly anti-weed during most of his Senate tenure, and became a key legislative figure behind the quixotic "War on Drugs" of the 80s and 90s. As late as 2007, he expressed doubt that cannabis was a reasonable solution for medical patients dealing with chronic pain. In 2014, he told Time magazine that he still didn't support legalization, but found busting casual smokers to be a waste of time and resources. His latest evolution on the issue emphasizes decriminalization and expunging criminal records for minor offenses, but still falls short of federal legalization.
Erik Altieri, the director of cannabis legalization advocacy group NORML, said Biden has an "abysmal record when it comes to marijuana law reform, ending our failed war on drugs, and addressing mass incarceration." On cannabis, and other hot topics, activists are having a hard time giving Biden the benefit of the doubt in the context of an extended career. When a 2010 clip of Biden repeating the loaded and shaky claim that marijuana was a "gateway drug" went viral on social media this spring, it was easy for doubters to believe he'd said it more recently.
An Elephant in the Room
Of course, the possibility remains that none of these people will be in the White House come 2021. As you may have heard, President Donald Trump also happens to be running. Legal weed is one subject the president has surprisingly not weighed in on much in his first couple years in office, not even a late-night tweet or two. On the campaign trail in 2016, Trump suggested cannabis legislation might be better left to the states to sort out. Just last week, though, he told reporters that he'd "probably end up supporting" the STATES Act, which happens to be co-sponsored by Republican Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado. (Hard to say if framing it as the work of Trump's hated foe Senator Warren would have compelled a different response.)
There's been a striking change in tone from his administration's early days. Ex-Attorney General Jeff Sessions caused alarm among activists with his long-standing, kneejerk antipathy to marijuana. So pronounced was his antagonism toward legalization that select cannabis stocks shot up as much as 30 percent upon his resignation from office. His already embattled replacement, Attorney General William Barr, has stated a personal preference for an enforced and unified federal ban on pot as well. But he seems more in touch with our current genie-out-of-the-bottle moment. Currently Barr's deferring to the states rights status quo, while waiting for Congress to settle the cannabis contradiction once and for all.
While it's odd that Trump's position on cannabis isn't drastically different from the man leading the Democratic polls, most any other candidate would become the most pro-pot president in American history. It'll be fascinating to see what might change as numbers shift, debates shake up the race, and the first state primaries draw near.
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The Rise of ETFs: What You Need to Know
Part Two: Opportunities for Active Managers
Part One of this series on the rise of ETFs outlined the limitations of actively managed funds, namely, the difficulty they have in delivering returns that justify the fees they charge. While this has encouraged more and more investors to turn to passive strategies, there are circumstances where investors may be better served by an active approach. There are also growing concerns around the speed and magnitude with which index-based investments like ETFs have grown, and the possible impact on the markets they track.
Which Markets Suit ETF Investing?
There are certain financial markets where ETFs might be more appropriate than others. In efficient markets that are actively traded and information is freely available such as the US equity market, ETFs have thrived as there is less scope for mispricing and therefore fewer opportunities for active managers to find undervalued investments and make above-average returns. Representative of this, three of the world's top-ten largest ETFs track the S&P 500 and have more than USD 300 Billion in assets under management combined. However, there are other investment sectors and asset classes where an ETF might be less suitable than a more expensive managed fund. In some equity markets like in China, the index has a very large weighting towards government-linked companies – some of which may be regarded as unworthy investments as shareholders may not have the same level of importance or decision-making powers that they might have elsewhere. An ETF tracking such an index, would include such companies indiscriminately whereas a fund manager has the flexibility to choose to avoid them. Possibly as a result of this, as shown in Figure 2, ETFs have failed to grow in less efficient equity markets like emerging markets in the same way they have done in the US.
Figure 2: Lack of Growth in ETF Assets Outside of the US, Source: ETFGI
In addition, an ETF may also be inappropriate for certain fixed income or bond indices. For example, an ETF tracking a bond index of all corporate debt in a certain region would, by design, be exposed to even the most indebted and highly leveraged companies whereas, again, an active manager has a mandate to choose to moderate or even eliminate exposure to the bonds of these companies. These concerns may be mitigated by choosing an alternative index, but at the very least a potential ETF investor should be cognisant of them.
Are ETFs Creating Risk?
The huge tide of investors moving out of actively managed funds and into passive funds – Morningstar suggest in the US actively managed funds had a net outflow of USD 204 Billion for 2016 whereas passive funds had a net inflow of almost USD 500 Billion – constitutes a significant shift in investor behaviour and is having unintended consequences. Some have warned that the ETF structure has the power to create new systematic risks; ETFs are designed to be highly liquid as they are available on exchanges they can be bought and sold instantly. However, this is on the assumption that they have underlying liquidity. A rule-based investment vehicle, like an ETF, invariably creates forced buyers and sellers and if the securities into which the ETF invests are not equally as liquid, then there is the potential for ETFs to trigger a market crisis. The problem is particularly acute in relatively illiquid and inefficient markets, like emerging markets, where fast turnover can cause significant problems. While ETFs are currently thought to lack, the critical mass required to cause such a crash, there is evidence to suggest that ETFs are beginning to lead markets now, rather than track them as originally intended because they allow investors to make sweeping bets on sectors or asset classes instantaneously. As an example, The Financial Times reported that in reaction to Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election, investors bet heavily on US financial stocks and that two ETFs covering the sector gained 46.5% and 31% respectively in just 12 days. As investors bet with ETFs with increasing conviction, the threat of triggering a market crisis rises
Are ETFs Creating Market Inefficiencies?
While mentioned above that ETFs are best suited to efficient markets where prices are likely to be accurate, there is an argument that flows into ETFs are actually breaking down the ability of financial markets to correctly price assets and efficiently allocate money. For example, the money invested into an ETF tracking the S&P 500 is channelled into each company listed on the index, regardless of the worthiness of each constituent. The trend of ETF investing means that stocks now move more in line with one another than before. Table 1 indicates the extent of this effect: the correlation between three stocks in the S&P 500 index ExxonMobil, AT & T, and Proctor & Gamble has almost doubled between 1995 and 2015.
|Proctor & Gamble
Table 1: Correlations Between Shares and the S&P 500, Source: The Financial Times
These three companies operate in very different industries, however, the price of all three is much more strongly correlated than before the rise of index tracking investments. Of course, correlation doesn't imply causation and it may be some other factor that is driving this change (quantitative easing perhaps), however, this doesn't detract from the fact that an investor in an index tracking instrument is much less diversified than they were historically. What is more, the indiscriminate flows of money may mask company-specific issues and as a result, companies that have poor fundamentals but are included in the S&P 500 continue to receive investment and may become overvalued. By the same token, there are potentially other companies with good fundamentals that are less prominent in ETFs and are therefore undervalued. While there is a suggestion that constant flows into ETFs will mean it is increasingly difficult to profit from buying good, undervalued companies because they will not receive sufficient capital and therefore remain cheap, there is evidence to suggest a growing valuation gap between larger stocks that are more included in ETFs and smaller stocks that are less accessible via ETFs. It is argued this even creates an increasingly abundant environment for active managers to find undervalued securities and beat the benchmarks. This would suggest that, if investors are patient enough to base their decisions of fundamental business analysis and have a sufficiently long investment horizon, then there may be, scope for an active manager to deliver returns above the benchmark. At the moment, these concerns around passive investments are mainly intuitive, and there is little data to suggest that active managers can exploit the systemic mispricing that these concerns could bring about (if indeed it exists at all). Investors should at least be aware of the potential impacts of ETF investing on market efficiency.
One less debatable criticism of ETFs revolves around the fact that ETFs weaken the already tenuous link between the underlying company and the investor. Whereas active managers have traditionally taken a vocal role in corporate governance to protect the interests of investors, in a world where all stocks were owned entirely by ETFs, the underlying companies would be essentially ownerless, with no-one to challenge the Board of Directors or the management. We are a long way away from this scenario and it is estimated that in aggregate, only around 15% of the companies that constitute the S&P 500 are owned by ETFs, however, at the same time, the three largest providers of passive investments: BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, are already leading shareholders in almost every large public company on the planet.
What if an Investor Requires a Return Above the Index?
By definition, it is not possible to beat the benchmark using a fund that is designed to track it. Whilst proponents of actively managed funds are quick to point out how difficult it is to an active manager to beat the index regularly; we should remember that passive funds will always fail to do so. For an investor who requires a return above that available on the index there might be little choice but to choose an actively managed fund. The problem then faced is selecting a fund that can reliably provide a return above the benchmark and as outlined in Part One, this can be rather difficult. One method investors seeking above average returns have employed is aimed at avoiding Closet Indexers – those actively managed funds that are invested so closely in line with the index that it is very difficult for them to generate positive net returns. Recently, academic studies have tried to determine how far away from the index active managers are prepared to invest. The concept of Active Share measures the extent to which actively managed fund's holdings differ to those of the benchmark, and might be used to judge whether a fund manager is following a strategy that he or she believes will help to offer outperformance over time. There is evidence of strong negative correlation between Active Share and net tracking error, which is the difference between the return of the fund and the return on its relevant benchmark, adjusted for management fees.
|Active Share Quintile
|Tracking Error (%)
Table 2: Net Tracking Errors for All-Equity Mutual Funds 1990 – 2003, Adapted From: Cremers & Petajisto (2009)
As per Table 2, on average, funds tended to underperform the relevant benchmark by 0.43% per year, but funds with a high Active Share overperformed by 1.13% annually. Contrastingly, closet indexers with a low Active Share underperformed by 1.42%. This suggests investors would generally be better served by investing in ETFs than closet indexers, when taking into consideration management fees. At the same time, their findings imply there is still room for actively managed funds to overperform their benchmarks.
What Should Investors Do?
While the rise of ETFs is founded in the well-documented difficulty that actively managed funds have had in delivering positive relative returns, there are a number of situations where a passive methodology may be inappropriate, and there is no hard and fast rule on when to follow one or the other. For an investor, evaluating which investment strategy is best-suited to their requirements in such a complicated investing universe can be an extremely daunting task. Part Three in this series explains how AAM assist clients by explaining the various options and offering advice on each.


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Start A Web Hosting Business From Home
This article about how to start a web hosting business from home is composed of two halves. In the first part I will look at how you can promote your new start up business and get customers buying into your service, and in the second part I will look at reseller hosting programs that can be used by anyone to set up a web hosting business with no technical knowledge or experience, and without having to get involved in the technical aspects of the business at all.
I obviously can't even begin to tell you everything that you need to know to run servers yourself, so I won't even try to touch on this aspect of it.
Running a web hosting business can be very profitable indeed if you can get clients.
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Creating a relationship with other businesses, such as web designers, is also a good idea, or even with developers of small CMS scripts. If you know nothing about web hosting you can still get in on this business using a reseller hosting program.
That basically means that you buy web hosting at a wholesale price and sell it on at a retail price, the same as any other business, meaning that you can focus on marketing and sales and leave the technical parts to the people who know exactly what they are doing. And even if you don't have the design skills to create your own site to sell from you can still do it using a white label, or private label program, many of which are free to use.
They then provide you with templates and a control panel to easily build your own website to sell from without having to do any major design or development work yourself.
As I already said, this can be a very profitable business indeed, but it is worth noting that you really do need to look at a business like this over the long term. Many customers will stay with you and keep paying you money each month for many years. This means that your business can expand very substantially over the course of years as new customers come in and old ones stay with you, generating a very large income.
But you will almost certainly find that this building over a period of years is necessary to reach a high level of profit – you are unlikely, therefore, to make a lot of money in your first year, or perhaps even in your second. But by year 5, you can expect to be doing very well from it indeed.


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John Mayer New Light | Nail Art
Hello there! How are you?! Hope your Friday is lovely. I am planning on getting a lot of blog work done today, as well as a new YouTube video however we have some rather loud storms going on so I'm waiting on the video audio and just chatting here! :) So today is the final day of the Digital Dozen album theme and I think I have a new favorite, well along side with this weeks Youngblood mani of course. So lets take a closer look!
Todays mani was/is inspired by the oh so fabulous song called New Light by John Mayer. I've been a fan of John Mayer for as long as I can remember actually. My mom has always been a big fan and so we've (my brothers and I) grew up listening to him and still love all of it. I mean can we just talk about the Room For Squares CD?! Thats probably my favorite John Mayer CD and that came out in 2001, but really I do long them all soooo.... Any way, todays exact look was inspired by New Light which came out last year and is SUCH a fun song! Mom bought it last year seconds after it came out I believe! Ha, we kept checking and checking for it and I remember exactly where we were and had to quickly download while we were on the road! ( I did all of that for her since she was driving! ;) )
The cover is so fun and actually really different for John Mayer things but at the same time the song is a bit different too, so it was really fun to turn into nail art. Plus I haven't don't anything THIS detailed in a long time, and it was actually REALLY fun! In case you aren't familiar with the song below is the cover and a snippet!
The nails are far from perfect and I did leave off the lil One Night bit due to lack of space, but I'm actually REALLY happy with the outcome. Plus its manis like this and the Youngblood one, the Valentine one, and the Pray For the Wicked one that are just really fun and different. After those manis I mentioned I always just am ready to try new things, attempt crazy designs and just have FUN! :)
Well thats a wrap for our Album week! I hope you have enjoyed them as much as I have. I sort of wish I'd had more time to do more detailed looks like this one, but the rest were still fun! What was your favorite? Are you a John Mayer fan, or more importantly what's your favorite John Mayer song?!
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This is great! I love John Mayer, his voice is so soothing and classic.ReplyDelete
As someone who's never seen the cover I wouldn't know if you made a mistake. These colors look pretty together.ReplyDelete
So creative! I love the theme based manis!ReplyDelete
Im most familiar with his song your body is a wonderlandReplyDelete
I LOVE how this mani turned out! It's so cool.ReplyDelete
Great job! I loved listening to John Mayer when I was in college... Neon is still one of my favorites!ReplyDelete
This is so much fun, and fabulous artwork!ReplyDelete
You totally nailed this album!!! Perfecting!ReplyDelete
So detailed! I love your nail art!ReplyDelete


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NHS England appoints South Tees doctor to 2016 fellowship to inspire women in science
An inspiring scientist from a local NHS foundation trust has been appointed to a prestigious national fellowship scheme to inspire the next generation of female scientists.
Doctor Charlotte Kemp, head of clinical measurement, consultant clinical scientist at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was named as one of four successful appointees to the first Chief Scientific Officer's (CSO) Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Fellowship scheme, NHS England has announced.
The competition, launched in conjunction with International Women's day in March 2016, attracted over 60 applicants from female healthcare scientists, with just four appointed to the WISE Fellowship Programme. The bespoke, 12-month initiative will campaign to promote women in science, technology and engineering.
Dr Kemp said: "I am delighted to have been awarded this fellowship. As I feel passionately about implementing the latest scientific and engineering techniques into the healthcare setting, I'm looking forward to the mentoring from leaders in industry, healthcare and academia, and using the communication and leadership skills training that I will receive to make a difference.
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Professor Sue Hill OBE, Chief Scientific Officer for England, said the initiative was a unique opportunity to inspire the next generation of female science students, gain leadership experience and showcase the wide variety of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) based careers within the NHS.
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The fellowship includes a career development programme, providing mentoring support, communication and leadership skills training starting in September 2016. In addition to allocated training, activity and network days, the fellows will attend both the WISE and Chief Scientific Officer conferences later in the year.