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Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is very prevalent in our modern world, affecting around 12% of the population worldwide (1). Symptoms vary widely, but can generally be described as altered bowel movements with abdominal pain or discomfort occurring regularly over a minimum 3-month time frame. Other symptoms can include diarrhoea, constipation (or both alternating), bloating, flatulence, nausea or indigestion. Diagnosis is made when your symptoms meet a set of diagnostic criteria (such as the Rome III Criteria) and further investigations have ruled out any underlying conditions causing your symptoms (2).
IBS is a complex, multi-factorial and variable condition that affects individuals in remarkably different ways. This often makes it frustrating and difficult for sufferer's to find effective treatments, and it makes an individualised approach to management the most logical. Some contributors to IBS can include:
Alterations to gut flora (dysbiosis) which can include infections or overgrowths of undesirable strains of bacteria, fungi or parasites. We each have a unique balance of bacteria and other organisms in our digestive systems, which control some of our reactions to food, our immune function and the way that our digestive system functions. This balance is in a constant state of change, depending on the types of food we eat, our stress levels and the pH of our digestive system. Antibiotics (natural or conventional), anti-fungals and anti-parasitical agents can also influence our gut flora dramatically. IBS occasionally starts following an obvious digestive system infection, such as traveller's diarrhoea.
SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth) is an emerging area of interest in association with IBS symptoms. SIBO is a condition in which abnormally high levels of bacteria are found in the small intestines. SIBO can involve the overgrowth of 'good' or 'bad' bacteria and has a similar clinical picture to IBS. It can be tested for through a Hydrogen Breath Test, although it's accuracy is variable. While it is still being determined whether SIBO is a cause or symptom of IBS, there is clear association between the two, with one research study showing that the eradication of SIBO eliminates IBS symptoms in 48% of the test subjects (3).
Intestinal inflammation and permeability which can be caused by alterations to gut flora, like overgrowths or infections, or IGE-mediated allergies to foods. An inflamed mucosal lining struggles to produce enough digestive secretions to break food down and can feed the cycle of dysbiosis. Bacterial overgrowths then produce large quantities of gases like hydrogen and carbon dioxide that can contribute to symptoms further. Breaking this cycle of dysbiosis and inflammation is important for normalising digestion for IBS sufferers.
Insufficient digestive secretions and enzymes such as hydrochloric acid, lactase and other carbohydrate digesting enzymes can also alter the balance of organisms in our digestive system by changing the acidity of the environment and the types of food available for these organisms to thrive on. Generally speaking, high levels of digestive secretions will foster better digestion by taking food away from pathogens more quickly.
Food intolerances or reactions to FODMAPs (Fermentable Oligosaccharides, Disaccharides, Monosaccharides And Polyols) can contribute greatly to IBS symptoms. A diet low FODMAPs, which are fermentable carbohydrates, has been shown to reduce symptoms in 75% of IBS patients (3). However, a recent research article in BMJ's publication Gut has confirmed that low FODMAP diets also reduce the levels of good bacteria, such as Bifidobacteria spp (4). This is because FODMAPs are prebiotics, meaning they providing food for both good and bad bacteria in out digestive system. A reaction to FODMAPs is usually indication dysbiosis or SIBO. A low FODMAP diet can be a great way of getting your symptoms under control in the short term, but should be combined with a longer-term treatment plan that identifies and rectifies the underlying cause of your symptoms. Other types of food intolerances can also contribute to IBS symptoms, such as IGG-mediated food reactions. These can produce delayed reactions that are hard to pinpoint. These can be tested for ELISA (Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay) tests, and can also play a role in the management of some IBS symptoms. IGG intolerances usually indicate intestinal permeability.
Sympathetic Nervous System function and stress also play a role in the development of IBS. This part of your nervous system controls the 'fight or flight' response , which redirects blood flow to vital organs and down-regulates bodily functions not vital for immediate survival. This can reduce digestive circulation and secretions, and even increase the perception of pain. Just as individuals have varying pain tolerances, we all perceive other sensations within our bodies differently. Patients with IBS generally have a heightened awareness of their gastrointestinal function, which can result from overstimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
What next? If you suspect you may have IBS and you haven't been diagnosed you should see you doctor. They may wish to do some blood tests, or even a colonoscopy if your symptoms might indicate other digestive conditions. If you have an IBS diagnosis, consider working with a Naturopath to come up with an individualised Natural Health Plan. When an client in my clinic presents with IBS, I help them focus on the steps below.
Control your symptoms especially if your symptoms are drastically impacting on your quality of life. This may involve a short-term low FODMAP diet while other underlying causes are investigated. Symptomatic relief may also be achieved through herbal medicines such as peppermint, chamomile, fennel, globe artichoke, turmeric, slippery elm or psyllium depending on your specific symptoms.
Get your diet right for you by considering the role of food reactions, allergies or intolerances. Depending on your symptoms, this may include IGE or IGG testing, a temporary elimination diet or a 2-week food diary to draw connections between foods and your reaction. Eat a varied diet of whole foods that you tolerate, focusing on nutrient dense foods.
Have further testing if required such as a CDSA (Comprehensive Digestive Stool Analysis). These tests are performed in the privacy of your home, and sent away for testing. The results reveal a wealth of information about your individual digestive function and balance of organisms within it. Hydrogen breath testing may also be useful to identify lactose or fructose malabsorption and to diagnose SIBO, although CDSA's can also give an indication of SIBO. These results help treatments to be targeted to you as an individual, and can be an important part of finding underlying causes of your IBS.
Treat any dysbiosis or overgrowths that may have been shown in your CDSA. Natural treatments may include citrus seed extract, oregano oil, saccharomyces boulardii (a therapeutic yeast), berberine containing herbs, coconut oil, wormwood or pau-darco depending on the specific organism being treated.
Repair your mucosal lining so that you can improve your tolerance of foods over time (including FODMAP's) by increasing digestive secretions and the colonisation of beneficial bacteria. Glutamine can be useful for achieving this, which can be found in nutritional supplements as well as dietary sources go gelatine, such as homemade Broth or my Gummy treats. Zinc and Vitamin A are essential nutrients for mucosal repair, and you may benefit from a supplement containing high does of these nutrients for a period of time.
Encourage good bacteria growth by eating FODMAPs to your tolerance after treatment of dysbiosis or overgrowths. Also include a source of good bacteria in your daily diet, such as a high-quality probiotic or fermented foods like my Super Kraut, other fermented vegetables, kefir or home-made yoghurt. Probiotic sources are also individual, so find one that works for you. Find a fibre source that suits your digestive system.
Stress management and relaxation are also important for managing your symptoms. Simple relaxation techniques, such as the 4-2-6 technique can help. It involves breathing in for 4 seconds, pausing for 2 seconds and breathing out for 6 seconds. It is then repeated for an increasing amount of time as you get used to the process. Smiling Mind also has a free app that has short meditations for adults and children. Exercise has been shown to improve IBS symptoms, so find an activity that you enjoy and make it a weekly habit. Improve your sleep quality, by going to bed before10:30pm and ensuring your digestive system also gets a rest by not eating any food a minimum of 3 hours before bed.
The key to treating IBS symptoms effectively is finding out what underlying causes are the most relevant to your digestive system. Breaking the cycle of dysbiosis, inflammation, intestinal permeability and food intolerance requires the careful co-ordination of natural treatments, but it is possible.
1. Halverson, HA et al (2006). "Postinfectious irritable bowel syndrome - a meta-analysis ". Am J Gastroenterology 101: 1894–9.
2. Hechtman, L (2012). "Clinical Naturopathic Medicine". Elsevier Australia.
3. Pimentel, M et al (2000). "Eradication of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth reduces symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome". Am J Gastroenterology 95: 3503-3506.
4. Halmos EP, et al (2015). "Diets that differ in their FODMAP content alter the colonic luminal microenvironment". Gut (BMJ) 64:93–100.
This blog post is for your general information and is not intended to be medical advice. Please see your healthcare professional for more information on the safe treatment of your specific health conditions.


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There is absolutely nothing better than this fresh conch salad as an appetiser on a hot summer day, prepared by the local guy on the beach. It is slightly chewy, bursting with zesty flavour and so very refreshing.The Bahamian Islands are known for their wonderful fresh conch salad. It is made with Queen Conch, a large edible sea snail that tastes kind of like calamari. It is a little chewy and on its own does not have any distinct taste but prepared properly with the right ingredients, it's the ideal dish.
4 fresh conch – cleaned
1 large sweet pepper
1 medium onion
2 tomatoes
5 limes—juiced
1 orange—juiced (optional)
1 habanera/goat pepper (optional)
Salt and Pepper
Dice all vegetables & conch. Mix together in large bowl. Cover with the orange and lime juice. Salt and Pepper to taste. Serve Immediately.

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Looking to spend less on internet data while sailing the world? Unlimited data and bandwidths that will stream video that most North American landlubbers enjoy on their computers and mobile phones are not a reality for seagoing cruisers. We have a mobile business and are fairly reliant on the Internet. We have done some homework and research to try and find the best way to stay connected, save on usage and expense and therefor be free to roam the world. We would like to share some of our tips…and hope you will let us know if you have a tip for reducing the cost of internet data usage while cruising.
The internet browser you choose to use and its settings have a big impact on how much data you actually use. Here are some tips for reducing what your browser sucks in:
You can set your operating system to not allow automatic updates, but finding all those settings could prove a challenge. A couple of alternatives are:
Note that Windows 10 like all recent Windows upgrades will make it harder to control automatic updates (and hold onto your privacy). WinPatrol states it is 100% compatible with Windows 10, but I would check that out before upgrading as I have no experience with Windows 10.
It takes a little work if you are not in the habit of unsubscribing to things you are no longer interested in and setting junk email to the category of junk. But the next time you have time and plenty of internet data, go through your inbox and opt out of things you don't want. Right click and report junk email that enters your inbox. If you use Outlook 2010, there are more things you can do to control what enters your inbox in the first place.
Use one email account for specific family, friends, and business contacts. Use another for website registration, newsletter and blog subscriptions, etc. that naturally generate lots of spam. That way you can avoid using the latter email account until you have cheap WiFi available.
Many email solutions offer ways to limit larger emails from downloading or an offline mode where you can download the email headers and delete any unwanted email without ever downloading the full text and attachments. Investigate your email solution's features and use them.
Lots of configurations are possible. On Royal Salute in the nineties we were pretty much reliant on our SSB to keep in touch and to get our weather forecast updates. Lately we have used an Iridium Satellite phone and loaded OCENS software on our computer. It is a lot more sophisticated and less expensive now than when we first used it in 2005 but even then, it worked great for what we needed. We had voice and data so we could download weather and send and receive email. This worked great even when we were crossing the Atlantic Ocean. We even managed to sell a new boat while in the middle of the ocean. So this setup was good and even though a little pricey, it was worth the expense to be able to communicate with family and clients.
There are 3 basic setups can tackle low bandwidth email when at sea:
Global Marine Networks (GMN) wrote an excellent article on HF Radios vs. Satellite. Granted, the article is biased, but packed with useful facts. Another worthy option is SailMail.
If you are using a sat phone for connection, you will find that paying for an email compression service is well worth it. Here's a few to research (in no particular order):
Use a browser that is a data miser. OperaMini is a great one that is available for iOS or Android. Much like for your computer, try to eliminate all the "extras" that may be sneaking into your data usage.
For Apple users, be aware that like Microsoft (for Windows), they are always trying the "help you" and turn on features you don't need or want. Here are some tips not to pay for a lot of extra data usage for all that "help":
The process of locking down sneaky data is easier for Android users, but you still have to go through a few settings to ensure there are no hidden data users.
We are currently trying out the IridiumGo. This is quite a revolution in communications onboard for cruisers. Stay tuned for our report on how the IridiumGo performs.
What do you do to make blue-water internet usage work better or to save money on necessary usage? Share your tips with us!


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Jason Holder, West Indies' captain, has challenged his players to "look themselves in the mirror" and find a way to fight back into the series, after being dealt a humiliating innings-and-209-run defeat in the first Investec Test at Edgbaston.
West Indies lost 19 wickets in a single day, six of them in the final session under the floodlights, to lose a historic pink-ball contest inside three days, and now they face a massive challenge to recover their poise ahead of Friday's second Test at Headingley.
"It's obviously very disappointing, we didn't show enough fight," Holder said after the match. "We were totally outplayed.
"We've got to just believe, we have a few days off now, we have to use them wisely. We'll sit and talk, and formulate some plans about how we are going to go, but it's not impossible [to come back]. It's just one game, the series is not lost, we have believe, regroup, and come back strongly."
Holder's troubles, however, extend across every facet of West Indies' game. Neither of their innings totals (168 and 137) came close to matching the individual contribution of England's top-scorer, Alastair Cook (243), while Stuart Broad's feat of overtaking Ian Botham's Test wickets tally of 383 underlined the yawning gulf in experience between England and their opponents.
"There's inexperience in the side but we have to be professional and get over that," said Holder. "I thought we were in the game for a session, but Cook and [Joe] Root put on a really good partnership and we were struggling in the end. We're a young side with nothing to lose, we just have to believe and come back strongly."
The early finish to the Test does at least give West Indies the best part of a week to get over such a bruising defeat, but while Holder said that the coaching staff would do their best to formulate some plans to stage a comeback, it was up to the individual players to raise their games.
"We can't dwell on it, we have to critique each performance of each player, and look at ways we can move forward. But each player has to look himself in the mirror and see where they can improve."
Holder, whose own performance was well below the spirited standards that he has so far set in his Test career, singled out the efforts of Jermaine Blackwood and Kemar Roach for particular praise. Blackwood, who made a century against England in their last Test series in the Caribbean in 2015, top-scored with 79 not out in the first innings, having been recalled to the team for the first time since last year's tour of the UAE.
And Roach, whose first-morning extraction of Mark Stoneman was as good a delivery as was bowled all match, fought a lone battle to lift the standards of a seam attack that could yet be reinforced by a recall for Shannon Gabriel at Headingley next week.
"I was really appreciative of the way Blackwood played," Holder said. "He was his normal self after coming back into Test cricket. I want to keep encouraging him to be selective but play his natural game. And I thought Kemar Roach toiled and bowled well, he gave a tremendous effort every time I called on him."
"Not an easy job but it's not impossible," he said of captaining West Indies. "We've got to stay in the game and stay in the fight. Only a couple of Tests ago, England were beaten by South Africa, and we've competed really well in the last few Tests we've played. We beat Pakistan [at Sharjah in 2016], and they beat England here last year. So it's important for us to stay with it, and come back strongly."


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Nick Clegg was careful in his interview on the Marr show today to leave the door open to a Lib-Lab coalition - which bookmakers regard as more likely (4-1) than another Con-Lab coalition (6-1). It was interesting that so much of his description of coalition referred to himself:
He told Sophie Raworth:
'I've never, ever seen any of this as an issue about what one individual thinks of another individual. It is really all about what the British people think about the parties who are asking for their votes. David Cameron and I said lots of disobliging things before the last general election, disagreeing with things you've just highlighted. We still work together in a coalition government. That is coalition government.
'The attitude of working together in the national interest with politicians you don't necessarily agree with, because that's what the British people want you to do is the attitude I've always had and will always have in the future. You can take it as a yes that I will always seek to play a responsible role in making sure that this country is properly governed.'
Harriet Harman has released a none-too-enthusiastic response to the Clegg interview, saying:
'Nick Clegg will be judged on what he does, not on what he says. He chose to become part of a Tory-led Government, joining David Cameron in his failed economic plan, in cutting 5,000 nurses and 15,000 police, and in trebling tuition fees and increasing VAT after promising not to do so. His record is the Tory record - one of failure - and it is on this he'll be judged at the election.'
Currently it is in Labour's interests to call for his head, or at least attack his decision to go into coalition. Either way, even though Clegg tried to draw parallels between the way he and Cameron forgot their pre-election insults when they started working together with a future partnership with Ed Miliband's party, it is very difficult to imagine him moving as Deputy Prime Minister from one coalition government with one party to the next coalition with another party.


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I provided you with a guide in setting up your SharePoint 2010 farm providing it with the capabilities in receiving incoming email which can then be delivered directly to your SharePoint libraries and or lists. Today we wrap up our 2 part series on email flow in SharePoint 2010 in which I will provide you with another step by step guide in configuring your SharePoint Farm in order for it to send outgoing emails through your Microsoft Exchange server.
The environment
This article builds on the SharePoint Farm setup that I have documented here. It consists of the following servers which would form a common basis in most large organizations.
- Windows 2008 R2 server running Active Directory Domain Services
- Windows 2008 R2 server running SQL 2008 R2
- Windows 2008 R2 server running SharePoint 2010 RTM
- Windows 2008 R2 server running Exchange 2010 RTM
- Windows 7 client running Office 2010 RTM
SharePoint 2010 allows you to configure any SMTP service including the one which I had setup in my previous article to send outgoing email, however we will utilise Exchange 2010 (same instructions apply for Exchange 2007) to provide email delivery to our end users. Instructions on configuring the SMTP service (i.e. you are not using Microsoft Exchange in your environment) can be found on TechNet.
Creating a Receive Connector in Exchange 2010
If you recall from my previous article when we were configuring incoming email, we created a "Send Connector" in Exchange to forward the messages to the SMTP service that we had configured and installed. This time round we will create a "Receive Connector" in Exchange 2010.
Launch the Exchange Management Console and navigate to Server Configuration / Hub Transport / New Receive Connector. The New Receive Connector wizard is invoked.
Enter a descriptive name and ensure "Custom" is selected as the intended use.
Click Next
Leave "All Available IPv4" in your Local Network settings unless you have specific Exchange IP requirements.
Click Next
Edit the IP address of your SharePoint 2010 server.
Click Next
Click New
You will now notice that our SharePoint 2010 Outgoing mail connector is listed with our default Exchange 2010 Receive Connectors..
We will now venture into its properties and make a minor permission change. Click on the "Permission Groups" tab and select Anonymous users.
Click Apply.
Configuring outgoing email in SharePoint 2010 Central Administration
Launch Central Administration and navigate to System Settings / E-Mail and Test Messages / Configure outgoing e-mail settings.
Enter your Outbound SMTP server, i.e. your Exchange server where we created our receive connector and specify a From and Reply-to address.
Click OK
Testing our configuration
Lets navigate to our SharePoint 2010 web application and create an Alert . In my example I will create an immediate alert for Announcements.
Navigate to your Announcement List and click on List Tools/List and then click on "Alert Me" located in the ribbon interface.
Select "Set alert on this list" and select your Alert options. Ensure that you have "send notifications immediately" selected for testing purposes.
Click OK
You should receive your notification email that you have successfully subscribed soon after creating your alert.
I will now create a Test Announcement to ensure that the actual alert is delivered.
Alas! 5 minutes later (based on the immediate timer job definition schedule) we have received our email alert confirming that our SharePoint configuration with Exchange was successful.
Did you know that you can also configure outgoing email for a specific Web application? You might want to do this if you have multiple SharePoint Web Applications hosting specific site collections and would want a different From and or Reply Address setup.
Even though we are now going to configure outgoing email for a specific Web application, you are still required to setup the default farm outgoing email settings as per the above.
Configuring outgoing email for a specific Web application in SharePoint 2010 Central Administration
Launch Central Administration / Application Management / Manage Web Applications.
Select one of your Web Applications and then select "General Settings" from the Ribbon.
Select "Outgoing E-Mail" from the drop down.
It will pick up your default farm settings that we entered in earlier in which you can now change the From and Reply-to address to something more specific for the selected Web application.
Click OK


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So much has been made about the No. 1 offence of the Buffalo Bandits this National Lacrosse League season.
But just as much buzz should surround what the Eastern Division champs boast at the other end of the floor.
Defensively, they've been equally as stellar, with the proof in the fact they surrendered the least amount of goals during the regular schedule.
That was 186, which was seven less than the next best defenders, the Colorado Mammoth.
And the Bandits defence is led by a familiar foe where the Calgary Roughnecks are concerned, as Matt Vinc is the goalkeeper — the guy who backstopped the Rochester Knighthawks to the championship five years ago over the Roughnecks.
"They've put together a team that's extremely well-rounded," said Roughnecks GM Mike Board ahead of Saturday's Game 1 of the best-of-three NLL Finals between his squad and the host Bandits at KeyBank Arena (5:30 p.m, NLL.com). "In picking up Matt Vinc in the off-season — he's a six-time goalie of the year — they've upgraded their goaltending."
Vinc's numbers were sparkling this regular season, as he finished tops in the league in goals-against average (10.02) and second in save percentage (.803).
"He's a good goaltender, but we've got a good one, too," said Roughnecks head coach Curt Malawsky of Christian Del Bianco. "So we're not afraid of the goaltender matchup. Matt's a good goalie — you've got to shoot the posts, and you've got to make your shots count. If you throw fluff at the net, he's going to save it and it's going to end up down your throat with their transition game. We have to be very selective of when and where we shoot the ball from.
"But we can't be going in there and saying that he's unbeatable. We're going to have a shooting plan, and we have confidence in our offensive guys."
The Bandits and the Roughnecks met just once in the regular season — that being a 12-10 win for the hosts Feb. 16 at Buffalo's KeyBank Center.
Riggers stars Dane Dobbie and Curtis Dickson paced all players with six and five points respectively, with Dickson getting a game-high four goals.
But it's tough to draw a lot from their only meeting of the year.
"Both teams were missing a couple of guys, so it's really hard to judge what happened in February," said Malawsky. "But they don't have any holes — they're a really good team. We're going to have to have full marks to have success there (Saturday). We have to make sure all the facets of our game are going. For us, it's going to have to be sticking to our ideologies and principles and be prepared for a war."
How much do the playoffs imitate the regular season?
Judging by the scoring leaders, it's darn near a mirror-image.
After two rounds of these playoffs, the three top players points-wise of the NLL Finals are Dobbie, the Bandits' Dhane Smith and Dickson with 13, 12 and 11 respectively.
They are second, third and fourth respectively to the Toronto Rock's Adam Jones, with 16. But give it a game and that will change.
Dobbie and Smith were the top point-getters for their teams in the regular season. Dobbie had a league-leading 115, while Smith was the top Bandits guy with 102 for fifth most in the loop.
And Dickson's 81 in just 14 games made him the third-best points-per-game guy among Bandits and Riggers stars, so the scoring list fits in these playoffs.
It's no easy road to Buffalo … literally.
The route by air into the Upstate New York centre is expensive and time-consuming with no seemingly feasible way to fly direct from Canada, even from Toronto.
Even one-stop flights are hard to come by.
So the Riggers met up Friday in The Big Smoke and boarded a charter bus to travel the two-plus hours — not including time spent at the U.S.-Canada border crossing — to Buffalo.
They had one final practice in Buffalo on Friday night and have a usual morning shoot-around scheduled for Saturday morning.
The league will hold a ceremonial expansion coin-toss during Game 1 of the NLL Finals.
With two expansion clubs set to start life in the NLL next season, representatives of the New York Riptide and the new Knighthawks franchise will be on hand during halftime Saturday in Buffalo for a coin-toss to determine which team will claim the first selection of the expansion draft to be held in July 2019.
The old Knighthawks franchise has relocated to become the Halifax Thunderbirds.
All the changes add up to a 13-team NLL next season.
The Roughnecks have a viewing party set for Saturday for fans to gather and watch Game 1.
The free party at Band & Baron P.U.B. will be hosted by CHFM's Mookie Wilson, who is the voice of the Roughnecks, alongside Sportsnet 960 The FAN's Pat Steinberg. The festivities start at 4:30 p.m., and ball-drop is set for 5:30 p.m.
Fans will have the opportunity to meet Roughnecks players and take photos at the photo booth. All attendees will be eligible to win a variety of prizes including a team signed Roughnecks jersey, tickets to Game 2 of the NLL Finals next Saturday and more.


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About the Club
Philosophy Club
The Philosophy Club meets informally during the school year and is open to students in all areas of study. Regular events include guest speakers, panel discussions, and film viewings. Every March the Club sponsors an annual student roundtable, featuring discussion of a classic text with Tutor Tom May of St. John's College, Annapolis. Events are open to the College community and normally the public.
The Club welcomes all students with an interest in developing or participating in events related to philosophical themes. Contact Prof. Kevin Brien for regular mailings.
Meghan Cooney, Advancement Office (email@example.com), and Kevin Brien, Department of Philosophy and Religion (email@example.com) are co-advisors.
Dr. Peter Weigel (email@example.com) acted as faculty advisor from 2002 until 2008 and helped start the annual student journal, Apeiron.
The Club works in connection with Apeiron. Paper copies are in the alcoves of the Philosophy Department offices. Submissions are welcome anytime and should be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com
Since its founding in 2002, several contributors have had their work republished in a larger venue, including Bill Spencer '06, Jennifer Sutphin '04, Tim Huston '07 (posthumously, in 2005), and Ben Kozlowski '08. All of them published in Dialogue, the journal of the Phi Sigma Tau International Philosophy Honor Society.


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June 20, 2012 in Music (E)
[prMac.com] Springfield, Illinois - Gig Bag Apps, makers of popular drum reference app theDrumDictionary, are pleased today to announce the release of Click, a new metronome app for iOS. Click provides flexible features such as a wide tempo range, a large selection of time signatures, plus many other audio and visual options, all while maintaining an emphasis on clear visualization. A metronome has one job: to help a musician practice and play in time, but this can be accomplished in many different ways. Click takes advantage of the flexibility of a digital interface to provide a variety of metronome styles together in one app.
Click stands apart from other iPhone metronomes as the first to offer many visualization options in one app: a large beat counting display or fullscreen flash, along with the more traditional "pendulum" look, with and without beat counting. Once set to the desired tempo and time signature, Click can enter into a fullscreen mode, making it easily visible from a music stand or even from across the stage for the whole band to play along with. "Click focuses on providing an easy-to-use experience that can be quickly setup and then gets out of the way, so musicians can focus on what's important: making great music," said Gig Bag Apps founder, Ryan Dillon.
Click also provides the flexibility needed to adapt to a wide variety of musical needs and styles. With a tempo range from 10 to 400 beats per minute, it can provide a steady tempo for everything from slowly practicing tricky passages to keeping a band together during even the most fast paced up-tempo jazz pieces. 21 time signatures are available in total, including all of the basic essentials as well as odd groupings like 5, 7, or 11 beats per measure. Click can also play subdivisions within a beat, such as eighth notes, triplets, shuffles, or sixteenth notes. And for those looking for a more musical sound, subdivisions can be played softer to make sure the main beat is heard loud and clear. Tap tempo functionality allows Click to easily sync up with an external music source or even the iPod music player on the device. Its solid, accurate audio engine maintains perfect tempo, even while switching among time signature and subdivision options.
"Whether on the stage or in the practice room, Click gives musicians the flexibility they need to play in a variety of musical styles, all while providing large, easy-to-see visual feedback," stated Ryan Dillon. "And now, with Click, musicians are not locked into a single visual style but can purchase one app and get everything from a number display for help counting out complex rhythms to a simple flashing screen for easy viewing on a music stand." Click offers musicians a powerful, flexible metronome, but without all the clutter that is so common to this category of apps.
Other Key Features:
* Audio accent or visual flash on the downbeat to keep track of the measure
* Woodblock, Cowbell, Clave, and Electronic Pulse sounds
* All orientations supported for easy placement no matter what the device or configuration
* In-app quick tips and help screens
iOS Device Requirements:
* iPhone 3GS/4/4S, iPod touch (3rd/4th generation), or iPad
* Requires iOS 4.3 or later
* 3.5 MB download
Pricing and Availability:
Click - Metronome is available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Music category, for an introductory price of $0.99 USD (or equivalent).
Located in Springfield, Illinois, Gig Bag Apps was founded in 2012 by independent developer Ryan Dillon. Gig Bag Apps focuses on music apps for the iOS platform and believes that better tools can help create better music. Copyright (C) 2012 Gig Bag Apps. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.


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I meant to post earlier today but I got lost in everything I had to do. The sun was shining so I took some pics of the items to go in the shop. I still need to get some more shots but I'm closer to getting it done. I also posted several more things in the shop...and boy does that take some time. I guess it hard to streamline it any more than it is but it's very time consuming!
I did get some done on Small World last night and also more tonight. Here is a pic of last nights progress:
I got more done tonight and hope to finish that part sometime in the next few days. Hard to say though, as my hubby has a four day weekend and I'm sure we will be out and about part of the time.
I worked on another sketch today and another experiment also...but I dont have pics of those yet. The sketch is only halfway done so that will be awhile. I will post the other tomorrow if I get a chance to take pics.
As you can tell I'm sure, I have been busy, busy, busy! Sometimes busy is good though *grin*
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Wow, lots of stuff to do!
It took me a little while to figure out instreamia, but now that I know it seems to be going well!
This course will become read-only in the near future. Tell us at community.p2pu.org if that is a problem.
Bienvenidos! Welcome to the course! We're really excited to have you along. Before we go any further, I want to introduce myself. Since I'll be doing so in Spanish, you'll want to watch our introductions on Instreamia – the interactive learning platform we'll be using. As you'll see in a minute, Instreamia enables beginners like you to understand people speaking in foreign languages, by giving you interactive subtitles (you can hover over words and click on them) which are highlighted when someone speaks. We'll go into more detail in a minute, but for now, visit this page. As you watch, don't worry about understanding everything. Feel free to read the translations as I speak, and just watch the video through once and try out the interactive subtitles. We'll work on learning what I'm saying afterward.
|Note: For exercises to work, first enroll in Spanish MOOC on CourseSites
Lesson 1.1 Video, Teacher Introduction (view only)
Okay, I hope you enjoyed hearing my introduction in Spanish. (If you can't access the video for any reason, let me know). Hopefully the subtitles and translations helped for you to understand some of my phrases. If you didn't understand everything, don't worry! We'll work on getting you to understand next.
Now that you've seen a little of how Instreamia facilitates understanding Spanish, let's let it teach you. The next task is to watch the same video, and this time use it as a listening exercise. Instreamia will have you fill in the blank for words, so you can practice listening and identifying words. Listen to the video and participate in the listening exercise. Once you've done it once, click repeat exercise twice, so you will have done the exercise for a total of three times watching and learning from the video.
Lesson 1.1 Video, Teacher Introductions (with listening exercise enabled)
Great job! You are starting to train your ear on how to hear and understand Spanish. You've got a long way to go, but each exercise brings you closer to learning Spanish.
Now that you've practiced listening for a bit, let's work on learning some of the words in this same video, since you'll need to learn them for the speaking practice. This time, when you open Instreamia, it will have you guess the meaning of some words. When you see a word highlighted, choose the correct English translation for it. You should repeat this exercise twice more too, and the words will change, adapting to how well you answer each time through.
Lesson 1.1 Video, Teacher Introduction (with reading exercise enabled)
Excelente! You're doing great! Now that you have an idea of how the integrated learning platform works, you can learn from our first native speaker, or should I say singer: Laura Pausini.
Laura Pausini – Bienvenido on Instreamia
Okay, now that you're on boarded to Instreamia, and welcomed to the class, let's talk a bit about what this class is and how you'll be evaluated. This video will explain what to expect:
Alright, so now that you know what to expect out of this course, we can jump into the course material.
The first thing you'll learn is pronunciation. This set of videos with incorporated exercises will teach you rules for the correct pronunciation of each letter in Spanish. As you watch, pay special attention to the five vowel sounds since in Spanish they never change. You can watch or rewatch these videos as many times as you like, and afterward you should feel comfortable with the rules for pronouncing each letter.
StudyStream – Learn Spanish Pronunciation – Letters A, B, C, D, E, F
StudyStream – Learn Spanish Pronunciation – Letters G, H, I, J, K, L
StudyStream – Learn Spanish Pronunciation – Letters M, N, Ñ, O, P, Q
StudyStream – Learn Spanish Pronunciation – Letters R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
Okay, now that you've learned the rules for pronunciation, we'd love for you to get some practice hearing pronunciation from more native speakers. For this section, you can choose any videos you want within Instreamia, and you should use the "Listening" exercise to work on hearing specific words and identifying them correctly. For this exercise, don't worry about the meaning of what they're saying. Just focus on the letters and the sounds that combinations of letters make. Here are some of my favorite videos. I realize these videos go fast, and it will be a challenge, but if you focus your effort on listening, you'll be alright.
Shakira – Suerte (whenever wherever)
TedX – How the Internet can change lives
At this point, you should learn all the words in my introduction. This will give you a good base for your assignment, which will be to introduce yourself. This link will show you how far you are and help you make it past the check point.
Checkpoint – Words to Teacher Introduction
So now that you've watched me introduce myself in Spanish, it's your turn to do the same! Your assignment is to use this template to create 5 Spanish sentences you'd like to say about yourself. After clicking this link, click "Use Template" at the top. This will create a Google Doc in your Google Drive.
Spanish Introduction Template (note: You must be logged into a Google account to use this)
(Important! Don't write first in English then translate to Spanish. This will make the assignment extremely difficult and unnatural. Work on using words you've learned and seen in Spanish, and lookup words to complete sentences as you need to)
First, write your introduction as a new post in your assignment workbook:
SpanishMOOC Assignment Workbook
After writing your assignment, record audio/video introducing yourself at one of these links:
SpanishMOOC Voice Email (sends audio recording just to me)
SpanishMOOC Voice Board (lets all the students hear your audio)
GooglePlus Record a video (send a video to me)
After submissions are made, I'll make some of them available to the class so you can hear each others' intros.
This assignment is worth 20 points, which is 2% of your grade. You should complete it no later than 1/25/2013.
In Spanish, adjectives can be modified using special endings, like -ito, -ote, and isimo. Watch this video about these endings, then add two additional sentences to your introduction using adjectives with these endings.
Special Endings in Spanish Video
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November 23, 2014 My poor blog is withering from neglect. #shericonaway
My name is Sheri and it's been four days since I've blogged.
What can I say? It's been a crazy week. My daughter arrived on Thursday night, I got my new iPhone on Friday, only to fight with it for several hours before realizing I'd gotten an 8GB phone which barely holds the operating system and the apps. Spent most of Saturday fussing with AT&T (who ultimately proved to be quite accommodating) and getting a different phone. To top it off, the winds knocked the power out for several hours today, but as we'd planned to go see MockingJay anyway, it worked out ok. Oh, and of course, the power outage meant another call to AT&T to get my TV back online.
The joys of technology. But tonight, all is right with my world. The electronics are functioning, my desk is covered in cats, I'm on the downhill side of the novel writing challenge, and it's not even midnight!
What better time to renew my relationship with my poor, neglected blog? Also neglected temporarily due to phone issues and other minor calamities, was my gym routine. I only got in two workouts this week and no pilates, but will rectify that in the next few days. I'm ready to get back to healthy eating and sufficient exercise!
Funny how missing parts of a routine that makes you feel so good really puts a hitch in your gitalong. I feel slow and logey right now because I've eaten too much starch and not enough veggies. The only saving grace is that I'm consuming vast quantities of water in the process, and have been doing very little snacking between meals. Focus on the positives, right?
I've gotten into several conversations lately about the pros and cons of recognizing the darkness in our lives. The pervading opinion seems to be that we need to embrace the darkness of our souls as well as the light because the darkness is what brings us balance and provides us with the lessons to actually strive for the light. There are also elements in the darkness without which the light would simply have no meaning. No matter how hard we try, we simply cannot remain positive every minute of every day. We are offered challenges which drag us down, but as with my recent experience with AT & T, it isn't so much the challenge as how we handle it.
Once again, I discovered that if I continue to treat people kindly and respectfully no matter how irritated I am, things will eventually turn in my favor. In this case, I came out with everything I wanted and maybe even a little more. At the point where I was becoming more frustrated, I took a mental step back, told myself to relax and that everything would work out fine. It was only a few minutes later that the manager offered me a solution I had not expected, but for which I am very grateful.
So as I continue to work on avoiding getting stressed out over the current level of my income, I have built a little reminder into my brain. When I start getting wound up in the "don't haves" I remind myself that I truly do have everything I need and that anything which contradicts that is merely a temporary illusion. The opportunity I seek is just around the corner. I simply need to keep my faith high and strong, and continue to work towards my goals.
The point where things seem darkest is the point at which our faith in ourselves and our own propensity for success becomes an incredibly powerful force.
It's as if we are being tested, in the manner of Job, to see if we can hold our course no matter what our senses might be telling us. But unlike Job, we aren't going to get slammed against the rocks time and time again. Our faith and our confidence in ourselves will reap positive results, and will do so each and every time!
As human beings, one of our worst failings is a desire for instant gratification. We give up too quickly if we don't see the desired results almost instantaneously. That is a lesson I needed to learn and have, as a result, trained myself to focus on the small gains. The small gains do happen relatively quickly, but here's the real secret. The small gains also begin to add up quickly until you look back for a second and realize just how far you've come without even realizing it.
And so, I will continue to hold that faith that my goals, wishes and dreams are, even now, coming true in a host of small ways which, before I realize it, will be the next big thing.
My gratitudes tonight are:
1. I am grateful to be getting a whole week with my daughter and grand puppy.
2. I am grateful for all of the small victories.
3. I am grateful for the opportunity to get back to my healthy habits.
4. I am grateful for the family and friends who will share our Thanksgiving, both directly and indirectly.
5. I am grateful for the amazing things I've learned, accomplished and received this year.
6. I am grateful for abundance: blessings, gratitude, friendship, accomplishments, inspiration, perseverance, harmony, happiness, joy, love, peace and prosperity.


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Here you can get some HD allpapers of the upcoming Odia Film "Gote Sua Gote Sari" of the hit couple in Ollywood Anubhav and Barsha. This Film is Directed by Mrutyunjaya Sahu and Produced by Niranjan Rana. For more cast, crew of this film, see our article about the film Gote Sua Gote Sari here. See some latest and HD Wallpapers, Images, Photo Gallery or Posters of the upcoming Odia Movie Gote Sua Gote Sari of Anubhav and Barsha here on New Odisha.
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A micro-influencer focus on the category of interest the influencer follows like Kim Kardashian could be related to fashion and lifestyle group. On the other hand, micro-culture is focused more on the cultural aspects of the group, not the influencer in themselves. For instance, young Asians who like fashion and branded clothes can be a "micro-culture Read More
When you're starting a business or rebranding your current company, an overriding factor to consider is the message you want your business to communicate to your customers. The answer to that question becomes your BRAND.
What is digital marketing strategy?
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People that succeed with SEO do two things very well: First, they identify SEO techniques that get them results.
Dynamic re-marketing it is a new way to help you expand your reach and influence users to return to your website and re-engage lost customers. THhe way it works is by allowing your website to recognize your site visitors.
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Someone asked me on twitter account the following question: What skills could I develop in order to make myself more employable in the field of marketing, despite a lack of in-house or agency experience?
Google analytics Academy provides a fantastic free training of Analtyics fundamentals. This is good for any business owner or as a crash course. The online video courses teach you how measure a website's matrix, set up conditions to monitor elements on you site (traffic, conversion, tagging, filters, social media, and more) through marketing methods such Read More
Search Features This document summarizes the Search features and experiences that help Google Search users find, use, and take action with your creative content, your business and its offerings, or your listings. These experiences fall into these broad categories:
Map the buyer journeys associated with each of your personas, outlining what they will be looking for during each stage. Identify keywords that they will likely use along the way and the types of content that they will likely be seeking.
You are starting up your digital marketing business or working for a startup in USA or a oversees country. The first thing you need to get your focus on is on international business development in the following methodologies.
Baido has opened a machine learning tools to the Internet's AI community following in the steps of other Microsoft, google and facebook. The Search AI tool is called PaddlePaddle is now open source. Baidu says that the advantages the tool has over its western rival is its simplicity, calming that is more approachable for new Read More
The Search landscape has changed drastically; users search with different types of devices in different formats and the information is accessible right away through rich snippets, images, critic reviews markup instructions, direct answers with carrousels, Knowledge Graph cards and with smart business implementations like having your local business integrated with google maps. In a sense, Google has Read More
The core of marketing hasn't changed throughout the years and despite the many techniques and approaches, there is one consequential truth, and that is, where there is a market in need, there is a product that can satisfy that need; I personally think that's the key to successful marketing at its core: consumer satisfaction." -Mary


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1 1/2 cups dried, unsweetened coconut
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/3 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup chopped almonds
1/8 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 cup pure maple syrup
1/4 cup coconut oil
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
In a mixing bowl combine the coconut, cocoa powder, rolled oats and almonds together. In a small bowl combine the maple syrup, coconut oil, vanilla and cinnamon; pour over coconut mixture and mix to coat everything evenly. Set in the fridge for 20 minutes.
At this point you can eat them two different ways (both are delicious). The first way is to scoop the coconut mixture into 1-inch balls and chill for an hour before eating. The second way is to scoop into 1-inch balls, set them on a baking sheet lined with parchment and bake in a 215 degree preheat oven for 20 minutes. Remove from baking sheet to cool (or eat warm).
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd like to introduce you to a wonderful band pioneered by a extremely talented friend of mine: The Extraordinary Contraptions. From their own website, "A lawman, a time traveler, a gentleman explorer and a mad genius join forces… To alter the sound of steampunk as we know it! The Extraordinary Contraptions, Atlanta, Georgia's own steampunk rock band combines superb musicianship with visuals from a time that never was. The rock-and-roll aesthetic meets the steampunk DIY ethic to produce a unique sound and visual sensation."
I plan to do further posts and hopefully feature in-depth interviews with Professor von Stadberg himself here in the near future. They're extremely talented musicians and their take on all things musical and Victorian/steampunk is truly fascinating and inspired. Until then, here's their new video for everyone's enjoyment:
Follow them on Facebook here, peruse their website here, and listen to and purchase their new album, The Time Traveler's Constant here!


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A wedding is in our midst.
I am happy as can be about my son's upcoming wedding, and as the mother of the groom, I want to look my best. We went down this road seven years ago when my daughter got married, and it was truly one of the most joyous days of my life.
My daughter laying down the law!
Hubby and I enjoying the moment:
Son and I at my daughter's wedding:
Son and his fiancé:
So, in honor of the big day, I did the following:
Found the dress and tried it on:
Picked out the song for the Mother-Son dance (what a sob fest that was!) I Hope You'll Dance by Leanne Womack.
Now, all I have to do is think of something to say!
Any suggestions for wedding toasts or special words to share with the bride and groom on their special day?


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If you've been paying attention, you'll know that we're utterly infatuated with NYC group QTY. There's just something about their time-travelling mix of everything that makes the city's music scene so special. From the laissez-faire coolness of The Strokes to Velvet Underground's subdued tales of city life – the band have got just about everything going for them now.
So with a new album all sorted up and nearly ready to go – QTY are delivering one last hype building moment with their dizzying new video for 'Dress/Undress'. Here's a little letter from the band, who go into a bit more detail about the song and video.


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"Momma said there'd be days like this, there'd be days like this my momma said."
Momma said.
Yesterday Bob and I drove hundreds of miles through farmland and cattle country as we made yet another trek across this beautiful country. (I think this is our third trip in the last year and a half) We are on our way to North Carolina at the moment, but that's a subject for a different blog entry.
Having only eight hours on our driving schedule yesterday, we flew by city after city all the while serenaded by Glen Campbell, Alan Jackson, and John Denver on some country Oldies station out of Newton, Iowa.
There's something so great about tuning into local radio stations driving cross-country ~ they give us an instant connection to the people of the area. Local stations also give us any emergency weather updates should we ever need them.
Well, they are supposed to anyway…
Yesterday we (unknowingly) got caught in the backwash of a tornado that touched down causing considerable damage but no injuries. Bob was driving and I was bopping along to "Amarillo By Morning," when all of the sudden we entered a deluge of pounding rain. Midwest rain is not at all like Oregon rain; it's ferocious. The rain falls in huge drops pummeling everything in its path, like a T-Rex stomping through a cornfield.
Being a closet weather geek, I absolutely love to study storms and meteorology patterns. Tornado Week on "The Weather Channel" is one of my favorite weeks of the year. Yesterday I learned that it's one thing to watch a dangerous tornado on TV, but an altogether different experience to drive through one.
It unraveled me.
About the time we made it to the middle of the storm cell, the radio started blaring emergency weather advisory upates. "Tornado on the ground, seek immediate shelter! Tornado on the ground…" the official bulletin exclaimed.
Too late for us, we were already being hammered by the howl and I was about to enter panic mode. Do you stop and try to get out, or do you keep driving hoping it's not in front of you? I texted my sister to pray and my sons to see if they could go online to tell us where the storm was headed. After a barrage of texts back and forth, Philip let us know the tornado was going north. Thankfully we were going east.
For the next few minutes Bob and I rehashed the crisis/excitement we'd just been through when all of a sudden a semi truck on my side of the car blew one of its rear tires at 70 miles per hour. We thought something had hit the car. Bob swerved and I screamed. Not helpful. When we realized the semi had blown a tire, we followed him to a stopping place to check our own car. The car was fine. I was not. The concussion of the explosion altered the cabin pressure in our car and my ears throbbed for the next two hours.
By the time we stopped for the night, my nerves were shot. All I wanted to do was go out to dinner and eat away the danger of the day. Not only was I rattled ~ I was starving. Danger does that to me! Back in the car. As we drove to the main road, the sky opened up again and dumped sheets of rain faster than the city drains could carry them away. Instant flood.
Somebody was trying to kill us and I'd had enough.
"Momma said there'd be days like this."
Somewhere between hopping out of the car and puddle-jumping my way into the restaurant, I heard the Lord say, "For He will give His angels charge concerning you, to guard you in all your ways. They will bear you up in their hands, that you do not strike your foot against a stone." Psalm 91:11-12
I was four years old the first time I ever heard those verses. My mom quoted them to me while removing a hunk of tree branch that had flown up under my eyelid. I could have lost my eyesight.
Yeah, Momma said there'd be days like this, but despite any difficulties life might send our way, my own momma reminded me so many years ago that, as long as I walked with Jesus, I'd never face any of them alone.
Good thing.
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Turning adversity into opportunity
Cummins to boost global business from India
Sugar prices ruled steady at the Vashi wholesale market on Thursday as traders expect announcement of November month's quota. Prices for S-grade fair quality declined by ₹10 a quintal. Prices at naka and mill level remained range-bound. Inventory at Vashi remained stable at 110-115 truckloads keeping wholesalers away from fresh inventory buying. Freight rates, too, were stable at ₹80-100 a quintal.
Arrivals were at 58-60 truck loads and local dispatches, too, were at the same level. On Wednesday evening, due to lack of demand, hardly 10-12 mills sold 24,000-25,000 bags at ₹3,120-3,220 for S-grade and at ₹3240-3,400 for M-grade.
The Bombay Sugar Merchants Association spot rates: S-grade ₹3,232-3,402 (₹3,242-3,412) and M-grade ₹3,452-3,572 (₹3,452-3,570). Naka delivery rates: S-grade ₹3,230-3,340 (₹3,200-3,340) and M-grade ₹3,330-3,515 (₹3,310-3,515).
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For Christmas I was lucky enough to be given a Five Supercar Taster event at Dunfold Airfield, where Top Gear is filmed. I'm always a bit skeptical of these events so thought I'd summarise the day for you 🙂
To start the communications and documents received aren't consistent. Booked on trackdays.co.uk, but experience with Driving Experiences and waiver and directions from Everyman Racing. No idea who is actually running this event…
Arrive an hour early as per the recommendations, lots of signs for Driving Experiences pointing you in the right direction to the car park. There's a minibus hanging around the car park, which takes us across to the main site in the middle of Dunfold Airfield. Went straight to sign on and signed in, filled in the Everyman Racing sign on form….got the normal sales spiel you get at these events about Damage Waivers and buying videos packages etc but they weren't pushy and just took no for an answer which is refreshing. They handed over the Everyman Racing printed form with the cars you've signed up for and the times that you'll be driving each one.
I headed over to the safety briefing before taking part in the event and to be honest the briefing didn't really help explain the track layout, they only talked about how awesome the cars are and to listen to the instructor in the car with you. It would've been more helpful if there was a big diagram of the track or maybe even a video played of someone driving the track? Due to not knowing the track I signed up for some demo laps which involved one of the instructors taking a few of us out in a Skoda Octavia and doing 2 laps of the track, giving us an overview of the track and what the cones were etc. This really is something that should be explained in the safety briefing and not an additional extra I have to purchase for £10 (apparently it's usually £20 though!!).
After the demo laps my first car wasn't due for another half hour, so I hung around for a bit and watched people going out. There isn't really anywhere sheltered and on a cold windy day, you're going to get cold!! So make sure you wrap up warm. It is an airfield after all, so probably always going to be windy here.
First car up was the Ariel Atom, I was a bit worried about this being my first car and this was the main reason for signing up for the demo laps, I wanted to have an idea of where I was going before heading out in the Atom. I got strapped into the car and the instructor explained the different hand signals he was going to use and that we would only be using 4th and 5th gear out on the track. I popped the helmet on, put it into 2nd gear and pulled away. I assume we're being gentle on the gearbox. The Atom drives like a kart and with the raw inputs from the steering and throttle it really is a great car to drive. You're only supposed to change gear when you get told but I naturally tried to shift down into 3rd going into a chicane and got told off for that. You're allowed to go full throttle on the straights which is a great experience but you're not allowed to corner at any decent speed, which to be honest is the bit I really enjoy. You really get to know the car braking hard and taking a corner at speed, but I guess the cars have to be protected and this would be where accidents would occur. On the taster experience you get two laps, an out lap and an in lap, so you don't really get to build up any proper rhythm in the car.
2nd car – Ferrari F430 Spider. I've never driven one of these before but I was shocked to see a cheap JVC stereo fitted in there, took me back to working in Halfords many many years ago!! I wasn't particularly fond of the Ferrari it felt a bit clunky, the gear changes weren't very smooth and whilst it was of course fast in a straight line I wasn't particularly impressed.
3rd car – Porsche 911 997 Turbo. Bit different to the Ferrari, it doesn't have flappy paddle gear shifters but buttons on the steering wheel. With only two laps I didn't really get comfortable with the gear change, its different to every car I've ever driven. It did handle beautifully though and I was allowed to carry some decent speed through the chicane, it felt great!
4th was BMW i8 – apparently the normal i8 was involved in a crash on the motorway so we had a convertible i8. Instructor showed me how to adjust the seat to get comfortable, first time someone had checked. I can't believe how smooth this was compared to the Ferrari and the Porsche. The gear change was silky smooth. Unfortunately I got caught in traffic on both laps in the fast sections and you're not allowed to overtake unless the car in front indicates that there pulling to the right, none of the instructors seemed to be paying attention this time around so they ruined my 2 laps but I really enjoyed the i8 and would like to have another go sometime.
5th was Nissan GTR, got to be honest, I think the GTR I got to drive has seen better days, brakes were squeaking and something was making a weird noise on slow turns. I think it's probably taken some abuse over the years.
Summary, there's quite a lot of waiting around and getting cold. There is a burger van serving some food and drinks but don't expect anything special. Any spectators you bring are really going to struggle on a cold windy day!
The taster experience "two laps" isn't really two laps. It's an out lap and then an in lap. These two laps really aren't enough, you need a lap or two to get used to the car and you don't really get into a rhythm with the car. I would definitely recommend upgrading to do more laps if you can afford it. It will make for a much more satisfying day.


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In an effort to protect my couch and ottoman from becoming even dirtier from the kids feet, and the dusty dirt that blows in the windows, and the sippie cup spills, and the candy corn drool, and the...well you get the idea. I have little boys.
I decided to cover it up. Im starting with the ottoman, then I will do the couch.
It really wasnt too hard. For me the measuring and cutting is the worst part. But I had a cute little helper...
This fabric was just to pretty to pass up. Who says damask cant go with polka dots? Maybe someone did say that, but I didnt hear!
Come visit and prop up your feet! I dont even care if they are dirty ;)
No, seriously, come and visit!


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Ubuntu Linux Operating System Released for Google Nexus 7, Nexus 10
If you've been wishing your Google Nexus tablet could run the Ubuntu version of Linux, your wish has been granted. A preview version of Ubuntu Touch can now be downloaded from Canonical.
There are a couple of cavets, though. First off, this version is only for the Google Nexus 7 and Nexus 10. The goal is to eventually bring support to all devices that currently run Android, but that's still quite a ways away.
Also, Canonical assumes that anyone who wants to try out an Ubuntu tablet is already running a desktop with this same operating system, and is familiar with using terminal coomands. This process is not for timid Linux newbies.
Instructions for downloading Ubuntu Touch Preview can be found on Canonical's web site.
More about Ubuntu Touch
Ubuntu Touch will run on Nexus smartphones as well as tablets, and integration across these two typpes of mobile device is one of the hallmarks of this version. Users will be able to run a tablet and an smartphone app side-by-side, and drag-and-drop content between the two.
The Nexus tablets do not have many hardware buttons, and this operating system has been designed to not need them, as the four edges of the screen are used to navigate between apps, settings, and controls.
Ubuntu Touch offers multiple secure user accounts, plus a guest account, allowing a family to share one device, or for one to be shared by employees at an office.
For the security conscious, Canonical promises that data protection is "world class" with full disk encryption, and additional encryption for personal data.
Users will be able to add a keyboard and mouse to turn their Ubuntu tablet into a laptop.
Ubuntu is able run HTML5 software as well as native apps. And Canonical says it supports remote-access over standard protocols from Microsoft, Citrix, VMware and Wyse.


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This blog will be a bit brief today. Not because I have nothing to say but because I have my solo show at the Leicester Comedy Festival this afternoon and I haven't really changed anything to it since last week. Better late than never as they say, and clearly those that say that are people like me who leave things until the last minute. After hacking out today's blog I am going to sit in a quiet corner and think show thoughts until its good enough to perform to the 3 people that have bought tickets. Yes, its still just 3. I'm hoping this will increase, but if it doesn't, 3, as they say, is the magic number. It will be magic in the way that they will all want to disappear, however I am doing my show whatever, so they will have to sit through their hour of awkward.
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Those people that say the 'late than never' phrase are often also those irritating people who say things like ' you can lead a horse to water, but it wont make him dance' and ' never put all your eggs in your mouth and make someone punch you in the face. The only one of those sayings I like is 'you learn something new everyday'. I think this is true and yesterday I learnt that kids are brilliant, but only if you can give them back at the end of the day. After spending two hours in the Science Museum with a 4 year old and a 6 year old I felt as thought I had run a marathon. In a sense I had after running around each exhibit with Angus (the 4 year old) only looking at everything for 30 seconds. Kirsty (the 6 year old) was brilliant and actually took an interest in several things, but for Angus the museum was just a rather large obstacle course in which he could spend ages making me and Layla worried about his whereabouts. To be fair it wasn't that traumatic, but I was annoyed that I didn't get to spend more than 2 minutes and anything I wanted to play on and I have vowed to head back there when its not half term so I can get a go on the bubble machine.
While both the children enjoyed the Science Museum, the highlight of the day was that we took them to McDonalds. Its amazing how when young how the lure of a happy meal works. It suggests that you could stuff a bag with turds and put a toy in the top and children would demand it. I had my first McD's grub in well over a year and I can't say I enjoyed it. The veggie wrap they now do is akin to sucking the flavour out of a quorn burger (some might say there is no flavour to suck, but I challenge you to eat a McD's wrap and you'll be proved wrong) and replacing it with salt and card. Oh and mayonnaise. The worst thing about being there was not the food, but the lack of tables and the large amount of fat tourists not understanding how to queue barging past us to get a table first. I would have thought having two small children would be a queue jumper, much like being disabled, old, pregnant or so mental and covered in blood. Those are normally qualities people understand and allow for speedy table acquiring. Turns out that fat tourists are so desperate for their processed cow that they are willing to push a 4 year old so that they can eat it first.
One thing that always baffles me is why tourists would choose a McD's to eat it. Especially the American ones, who, I would assume have them all over their home area. Why not choose something unfamiliar and interesting? Or was leaving the country enough of a challenge that they can only survive with home comforts afterwards and a need to stay as fat as possible? When I worked in Timberland as a student, 50% of our customers were American tourists. They would exclaim that while they could get the boots in the States, they wanted to buy a pair to take home and show their families that we sell them here too. I would often tell them that one day I hope to travel round American searching for tea bags and mild disappointment in order to tell my parents about the UK/US similarities but they would never get it.
Hmm this blog has ended up longer than I thought. It must end now, if only so I can go and pretend to write a show and pray that I can just read out from Twitter for an hour and survive.


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Life Insurance
As a contractor is it important to take out the necessary life insurance to ensure that your family is taken care of in the unfortunate event of something happening to you.
The topic of life insurance is one that we would all prefer to avoid, but avoiding means that you are not prepared. Unlike your permanent counterpart, you will not be covered by a workplace policy provided by your employer. It is up to you to have put in place all the necessary means to make sure that your family is protected.
There are two main categories of cover and it is important to understand fully which one is appropriate for you and your family.
The first is Term Cover. This is the less expensive of the two and simply lasts for the term in which you specify. A period of time is decided and once the agreed end date has surpassed, the cover will finish.
The other option is Whole Life Cover. This will cover you from any age until death. It is more expensive but is essentially more common for contractors and freelancers as it provides a longer term-cover.
For more information, please fill in your details below.


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Mini Avocado & Hummus Quesadillas|Healthy Work Snack
These Mini Avocado & Hummus Quesadillas will add a little spice to a healthy diet! Add your favorite hot sauce and you will be in Avocado heaven! Crunchy on the outside, filled with avocado and hummus, how could it get any better?! This recipe is a great way to get even your picky kids to eat hummus! They can't hate what they can't tell is there!
We use our quesadilla maker for these, the one we have isn't really a quesadilla maker, it has 5 different plates you can use, amazing!
Get the Mini Avocado & Hummus Quesadillas Recipe here!


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Yes! First, be sure that you have uploaded your music in the required format:
16 bit (sample size), 44.1 kHz (sample rate), 1411 kbps (bit rate) stereo WAV files
Once your song has completely uploaded, you will see a play button next to the song listing for you to make sure you uploaded the correct audio file.
If in the event there is no playback button available for the song you uploaded in the above format, this is just a visual glitch and there is no problem with your audio. The file that you uploaded is exactly the same as the file on your computer since we do not make any changes to your audio files when you upload them.


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Africa could feed the world - if it overcomes these key challenges
African governments must not just focus on increasing their food production but on creating quality products that can compete globally.
The Grow Africa Partnership was founded jointly by the African Union (AU), The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and the World Economic Forum in 2011 and works to increase private sector investment in agriculture.
Grow Africa is an African-owned, country-led, market-based and inclusive platform for cross-sector collaboration which aims to increase inclusive and responsible investment in African agriculture and thereby generate agriculture-driven economic growth that contributes to reducing poverty and hunger. Grow Africa, together with its African strategic partners, helps facilitate collaboration between governments, international and domestic agriculture companies and smallholder farmers in order to lower the risk and cost of investing in agriculture and improve returns to all stakeholders.
The Grow Africa Partnership comprises over 200 companies and governments in 12 countries and is supported by a network of knowledge partners and topic specialists. Its Secretariat transitioned in 2016 to Johannesburg, South Africa, and is now hosted by the NEPAD Agency.
For more information, please read the Grow Africa Overview or visit https://www.growafrica.com/
African governments must not just focus on increasing their food production but on creating quality products that can compete globally.
Today we celebrate Africa Environment Day and World Wildlife Day. This year's World Wildlife Day theme—"the future of wildlife is in our hands"—strikes both a hopeful and a cautionary note.


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We have discussed Inventory Valuation Summary and Detail Reports last week. Here, we are going to show you Inventory Stock Status (by Item & by Vendor) Reports and Inventory Item QuickReport.
Inventory Stock Status by Item
As the name implies, this report shows the amount of your inventory stock by item (product) and guide you if you need to purchase item immediately. Open the report from Main Menu > Reports > Inventory:
If you have preferred vendor, Pref. Vendor column will appear. Reorder Pt. means reorder point quantity, set up when you created your item. Available calculation is defined in Item & Inventory preferences. One very useful column is Order – when you see a checkmark in this column, it means you have to refill or purchase your item immediately.
Inventory Stock Status by Vendor
This report basically gives you similar report to Inventory Stock Status by Item, except that it categorizes stock by vendor (supplier).
Inventory Item QuickReport
Another useful inventory report is Inventory Item QuickReport – open your Item List and highlight your item > click Reports drop-down menu > QuickReport:
Inventory (3,292) is the opening stock balance of your item which is the sum of opening balance of On Hand As Of (1,272) and opening balance of On Purchase Order As (2,020).
On Hand As Of. This represents the beginning stock balance minus sales and plus purchases you make during the month, which gives you the Total On Hand As Of.
On Purchase Order As. This represents beginning PO balance plus any current month purchases you have not received yet, which gives you Total On Purchase Order.
Total As Of is equal to Total Inventory (5,279), which is the sum of Total On Hand As Of (2,759) and Total On Purchase Order As (2,520).


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Fortiss (www.fortiss.org) is a non-profit research and development organization founded as a spin-off and associated with Technische Universität München (TUM) in 2009, under sponsorship of the Bavarian Ministery for Economics, Transport, Infra Structure and Technology. The associates of fortiss are the Technische Universität München, Fraunhofer Association and the state-owned LfA Förderbank Bayern. Scientific directors of fortiss are Prof. Dr. Manfred Broy, Prof. Dr. Alois Knoll and Prof. Dr. Helmut Krcmar. fortiss acts as a research and transfer institute in the field of software and systems engineering for the TUM, which has earned an outstanding international reputation that is apparent from research collaborations with more than 140 partner universities and its involvement in 119 FP6 projects, 420 projects financed by the German Federal Ministry of Science and in 17 special research programs financed by the German Research Association (DFG).
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Target Beats Expectations For Sales And Earnings
Target (NYSE:TGT) reported a much smaller than expected decline in comparable sales for the third quarter of its fiscal year and topped Wall Street's sales and earnings estimates. Target's adjusted earnings were $1.04 per share on sales of $16.44 billion in the fiscal third quarter. Analysts had expected earnings of 83 cents a share on $16.3 billion in revenue, according to Thomson Reuters. In the same quarter a year ago, Target earned 86 cents a share on sales of $17.61 billion.
Same store comparable sales fell 0.2 percent in the quarter. That was much better than the previous prediction of a 2 percent fall. Wall Street analysts predicted a 1 percent decline. The company's same-store sales ended a two-year winning streak in the previous quarter, falling 1.1 percent.
Target's sharper focus on product categories like kids and children's items, wellness, and its clothing brands helped comparable sales in those categories reach about 3 percentage points higher than the company overall. The company's traffic showed a modest improvement from the second quarter, but the number of transactions declined 1.2 percent.
Target attributed the results to a particularly strong back-to-school season. The company also posted strong e-commerce growth for the quarter. Target's digital sales rose 26 percent in the quarter. Target CEO Brian Cornell said in a statement, "We are very pleased with our third quarter financial results, which reflect meaningful improvement in our traffic and sales trends and much stronger-than-expected profitability."
During the third quarter, the company returned $1.2 billion to shareholders, with dividends of $345 million and share repurchases of $878 million. The board of directors also authorized a new $5 billion share repurchase program to begin upon completion of the prior $10 billion program.
Target also announced that it was raising its full year profit and sales forecast. The company now expects fourth-quarter comparable sales to range from a drop of 1 percent to an increase of 1 percent. The company is predicting full-year adjusted earnings per share of $5.10 and $5.30, up from a prior forecast of $4.80 to $5.20. The forecast excludes early debt-retirement losses and a small benefit from the resolution of income tax matters. The company's shares rose 9 percent in pre-market trading after the announcement.
During the holiday period, Target will once again offer free shipping with no minimum spending threshold to drive sales. It will also ramp up its exclusive toy offerings to 1,800, an increase of 15 percent. Target stores will open at 6 p.m. Thanksgiving Day to kick off its Black Friday sale.


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The Turks and Caicos is composed of about
one hundred islands and cays of varying size, of which only eight are inhabited. Each of our main islands is unique in terms of history, natural and historical attractions.
You should first ask yourself what you're looking for in your Caribbean holiday. The appeal of the Turks and Caicos Islands are spectacular beaches, a pristine marine environment, and excellent water sports and activities.
If you're looking for a relaxing time at the beach, you cannot do better than the Turks and Caicos.
Grace Bay Beach on Providenciales is of course famous, but all of our islands have
really beautiful white sand beaches.
Due to the extensive barrier reef and impressive walls,
diving throughout the Turk and Caicos is spectacular. Providenciales offers a great selection of dive shops and access to exceptional sites, but boat trips out can longer than what is typical for Grand Turk and Salt Cay.
The different islands in the Turks and Caicos each bring something unique to the table.
Providenciales is of course the centre for
beaches, luxury resorts, fine dining, marinas and shopping. It's also the place to be for many water sports and
activities, such as
parasailing and
boat cruises.
Diving is excellent. The majority of the population in the country lives here and all scheduled
international flights land at the
Providenciales International Airport (PLS).
Home to the capital of
Cockburn Town, up until the last few decades Grand Turk has been the centre of activity in the Turks and Caicos. The country's only
cruise ship port is found here, along with the best historical attractions, including the
Grand Turk Lighthouse,
Turks and Caicos National Museum and
Her Majesty's Prison.
The wild North Caicos and Middle Caicos offer a different perspective. The greenest islands in the country, plantations here once exported cotton and sisal. Today, a quiet atmosphere, vast undeveloped land, secluded and impressive coastlines, and great natural points of interest are the main draws. Small
vacation rentals make up most of the accommodation options on these two islands.
Often overlooked, the quiet Salt Cay and South Caicos offer visitors the chance to experience the Caribbean untouched by tourism. These little islands have both had a lucrative past
producing sea salt for export, but have seen declining economies since the end of the industry in the early 1900s. There's a lot of and beach and coastal scenery to explore.
If you're looking for casinos or nightlife, you would be better off visiting Las Vegas or another Caribbean destination. There are few casinos and nightlife options, so you would probably be disappointed.