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Here Ruth, a trainee from the summer 2015, shares her experiences of the Trinity Certificate in TESOL course at Active Language, Cádiz. She writes about how she got here and the choices she was faced with, about Cádiz and about the course itself.
Anybody with the right qualifications and motivations can apply for the course, irrespective of previous teaching experience, in fact most people start with zero teaching experience. Our job as course tutors is to help everyone improve their teaching as much as possible over the five week course.
As you can see Ruth was an experienced teacher before she came on the course and clearly developed her teaching significantly while she was on the course. So over to Ruth…
Which way to turn?
So I'd secured a year's career break from my post-primary teaching job in the UK and decided that, 20 years since I'd first thought about it, I'd start my year out by doing a English Language teaching course. Googling this led to a bewildering variety of choices: weekend short courses or intensive 4 week ones? Home or abroad? TEFL or TESOL? CELTA or Trinity Cert?
Applying for the course
I'm not quite sure what it was that led me to click on the Active Language web link under TESOL providers but I'm so glad I did. Their website interested me sufficiently to contact them about their 5-weeks course that summer. From my first email enquiry I knew that this was a great choice. No question went unanswered and my phone interview with Simon, confirmed that this was going to be a thorough and worthwhile TESOL course to undertake. If I'd been at all apprehensive about my new venture, my mind was completely put at rest in the weeks leading up to my departure.
And so I arrived in the wonderful city of Cádiz which is a fantastic location for 5 weeks of study. One of the oldest cities in Western Europe, it is a wealth of fascinating sights, yet is a small enough place in which to feel at home very quickly. Never once did I feel vulnerable walking in its maze of ancient streets. Nothing is more than 15 minutes away in the old town and the fabulous beaches of the new town are within walking distance too.
The CertTESOL course
Settling into my comfortable flat with 3 other TESOL Cert students, we wondered what the next 5 weeks had in store for us. As a teacher for almost 20 years it would have been easy for me to think I knew it all. Furthermore, I had become somewhat jaded with teaching in the UK and the stresses the job was increasingly facing, and was becoming cynical about many aspects of education. Nevertheless, I decided to embark on this course with an open mind. The result? Everything we did was fresh and innovative and I cannot rate the quality of instruction from Active Language's qualified and experienced staff highly enough.
The Trinity Cert TESOL course at Active Language in Cádiz is an excellent one, not simply in what you learn but in how it is all conveyed. I have spent many years attending professional development seminars and workshops, and can honestly say that nothing has been as useful, nor as clearly and engagingly delivered as this course. Feedback on teaching practice was insightful, positive and encouraging; seminars, where we undertook student activities, were fun and engaging with a very strong element of participation. Assignments are varied: firstly the Unknown Language Journal which is invaluable in putting you in the shoes of an English language learner; a Learner Profile in which you analyse the language skills of one student in your teaching practice group and devise a series of lessons for them; and a Materials Assignment where you develop, use and evaluate classroom teaching materials.
Paramount is the level of support received, not just with your teaching practice and written work but in every aspect of your time there. If you choose, you are placed with fellow students in clean and centrally located accommodation. This not only enhances the social aspect of the course but is great camaraderie on the work front!
The Trinity Cert TESOL course at Active Language is hard work but then I think that's what you should expect from an internationally recognised and accredited course. The sense of achievement when you receive your teaching certificate is immense as is the feeling of confidence as you embark on your new career, ably equipped to teach anywhere in the world. On top of that you've spent five weeks in one of finest places in Spain. I should know: I stayed there for the rest of my career break, returning home very reluctantly!
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Christian, Stop Sharing Joshua Feuerstein Videos
Joshua Feuerstein achieved social media notoriety in 2014. He started out posting simple devotional videos, cheesy "God thinks you're a hundred bucks" kinds of sermonettes, which attracted viewers because of his fierce delivery. None of his devotionals are ground-breaking. In fact, some just butcher the Bible verses he uses. It's his charisma that has been his draw and Facebook his primary medium.
His most recent video, posted two days ago, already has 2 million views. The videos are often hashtagged #shareifyoucare. He knows how to sell himself. A video critical of evolution has made atheists obsessed with him, and he's touched on various social issues. A couple months ago he made national news after recording himself calling a bakery to order a sheet cake that read, "We do not support gay marriage." (It was done in poor taste, and he's since taken the video down.)
Feuerstein has gusto, and his videos may have literally saved lives. He shared a testimony in the video "Cancel Your Suicide" calling on those who might be contemplating suicide to think before they pull the trigger. Hundreds have responded saying the video indeed caused them to re-think their death. He's a former pastor, a featured speaker, has toured the country, and appeared on television and other social media networks.
And there you go. That's Josh Feuerstein in a large nutshell. I understand why he's popular. But he never sat well with me from the first video I saw. Despite all the "good" one might say he's doing, his misuse of scripture is troubling. There's a self-centeredness to his madness, but let's forego that for now to examine just his beliefs.
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Oneness Pentecostalism denies the triune nature of God. According to this theology, God is not three distinct persons in one. He is not the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19). God simply has different "modes," sometimes manifesting himself as a Son, sometimes as a Father (Isaiah 9:6 is the passage they use to justify this belief), and sometimes as the Spirit (most often referred to by Onenists as the Holy Ghost).
This teaching, also called Modalism or Sabellianism, goes back to the false teacher, Sabellius, in third century Rome. Tertullian called it "Patripassianism" from the Latin words for "father" and "to suffer," because it implied that God the Father suffered on the cross. Sabellius taught that God the Father was the only true manifestation of the Godhead. Modern Modalists will say that God is only Jesus. T.D. Jakes is perhaps the most famous Modalist of today.
A few years ago, Rob Bell tried to say that believing in the Holy Trinity didn't matter since it's too hard to understand and because the belief didn't come about until the Nicene Creed in the fourth century, about a hundred years after Sabellius. Like most things Bell says, that's wrong. The Nicene Creed sought to affirm that which was already written down in scripture. God is unquestionably Triune defined in both the Old and New Testaments. (A quick :90 video explanation on the subject can be found here.)
The Holy Trinity is a divine mystery, this I won't deny. It is as complicated for us finite beings to grasp as it is to understand God's eternal and sovereign will. How do we fathom the complexities of God? How can God be one God and three persons at the same time?
It is okay to ponder these things. The prophets did. David and Solomon both marveled at and struggled to understand the nature of God. The Apostle Paul drew from Job when he wrote, "Oh the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! Who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor? Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?" (Romans 11:33-35)
It is good to ask such questions. In asking them it should drive you to praise God and study more about him. The desire for sound doctrine is supposed to inspire a life of godliness (1 Timothy 6:3). You're not going to fully understand the Trinity, and that's okay. What's not okay, however, is to reject God's Triune nature. To do that is to deny God himself.
We read in 1 John 2:21-23, "I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son." If you do not have the Father or the Son, you do not have the Spirit either since the Spirit is the one who testifies about the true identity of Christ (John 16:13-14, 1 John 5:6).
So here's what this comes down to: Joshua Feuerstein is a heretic, he is a liar, and an antichrist. The brand of "Jesus" Feuerstein presents is a false one. When he prays for his viewers and says things like, "In the power of the name of Jesus," if you know something about his doctrine, you know he doesn't actually believe in the power of God. He believes in his own power to call down the name of Jesus, channeling God to do his bidding, so to speak. That's what a Oneness Pentecostal believes. He is not submissive to the Almighty God of the universe.
You might say, "But Brother Gabe, Josh's videos are so loving! They do so much good!" I would agree with you to the extent that I would agree a godless person is able to convince another person not to kill themselves. But what is he accomplishing? Is Feuerstein saving a person just long enough to introduce them to destructive heresies (2 Peter 2:1), and yet still following the prince of the power of the air (Ephesians 2:2) to eternal damnation?
Feuerstein might be able to point a person to the true Jesus Christ of the Bible, but the Spirit would be doing this in spite of Feuerstein, not because of him. The gospel has the power to save eternally. There are much better videos and resources on the internet that you could be using instead of Joshua Feuerstein.
He's a gun-toting, evolution-hating, loud-preaching, fire-breathing charismatic and a spiritual man. But that doesn't make him a Christian. He's a false teacher. I hope he repents of his heresy and follows Jesus -- the true Jesus. Until he shows evidence of this, don't share his videos.
Edit: Here's another :90 video on Essential Doctrines. When a person is a mess on primary doctrines, they'll be off on a lot of other issues as well.

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Bald Cypress Allee
An allee (pronounced ah-lay) is a classic garden walkway structure lined with either trees or shrubs. At Reiman Gardens you'll find an allee created with intriguing bald cypress trees, native to the southeastern United States, and well suited to grow in Iowa. Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) is a conifer, with needle shaped leaves and it's also deciduous, meaning its tiny leaves are shed in fall. Be sure to jump and make some music on the CoHorts' Dancing Chimes at the north end of the Allee.


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COLUMBIA - Monday marked another national Women's Equality Day, founded by Congress in 1971 to commemorate the passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote on Aug. 26, 1920.
Women's Equality Day also recognizes women's continuing efforts toward full equality.
The President's Annual Proclamation said, "...although women graduate college at higher rates than men, they still have less money after graduation and often fewer opportunities to enter well paid occupations or promotions."
Both nationally and in Missouri, women are paid 77 cents for every dollar paid to men, which amounts to a yearly gap of $9,801.
Women are the majority of the electorate and a record number of 91 women currently make up Congress, meaning less than 17 percent of Congress are female.
This year, President Obama showed his support for women's rights by signing the Violence Against Women Act in March, which improved the criminal justice response to reduce domestic and sexual violence, strengthens support systems for victims and extends protections to more women.
Libraries, workplaces and other public facilities celebrate Women's Equality Day with displays, video showings or other activities.
On Sunday, women around the nation and in Columbia celebrated "Go Topless Day," which was founded by an organization called "Go Topless," by baring it all in public for women's rights. In Columbia, around ten people rallied for the cause with flags and posters, while one woman went topless.


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South Mac players anticipate first season on gridiron
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The Macoupin County communities of Bunker Hill and Mt. Olive have been county and natural rivals for many years in all sports.
But for one sport, football, all that changed late last winter, when it was announced that Bunker Hill and Mt. Olive would start a co-op. The South Mac Chargers, as what they have been named, are ready to get the co-op started.
Head coach Brian Borowski and the coaching staff have been getting to know the players since taking over the newly established Chargers. They've had team fundraisers and last week hosted a football camp.
Wednesday evening, the wind was blustery and the humidity was down, making for nearly a perfect night for football. The sun beat down on the practice field at Bunker Hill High School, where the camp was taking place.
Players who had earlier been getting their new helmets adjusted, slowly began trekking onto the practice field. Within a few minutes, the Chargers began drills.
Seven weeks from now, the Chargers will hit the field running when they travel to Trenton Wesclin for the season opener on August 25.
The Chargers' first home game as a program is the following week against Blue Ridge.
Senior players for the Chargers say that the transition has gone pretty good, and looking forward to having a good season.
Running back/middle linebacker Jonathon Darrah of Mt. Olive, who last year had 884 yards rushing and seven touchdowns for the Wildcats, says he is looking forward to getting going.
"We're getting along pretty well," Darrah said. "Bunker Hill has some really good athletes so I think it'll work out good. We'll have a better team and the numbers are up, so we should win a lot more football games."
Nick DeVries, a senior linebacker and wide receiver from Mt. Olive, caught five passes for 128 yards last year, while rushing for 413 yards and two touchdowns.
DeVries hopes the team bonding concepts continue heading into the season.
"The coaches have helped us – we've bonded pretty good," DeVries said. "There's a lot of talent showing up and a lot of kids."
DeVries said that making new friends and having fun are what he is looking forward to this season, adding the team should have a pretty good season.
Joey Stephens is a outside linebacker/tight end from Mt. Olive. He had 16 tackles, seven solo as a junior last year for the Wildcats.
"Everybody works well together and get along," Stephens said. "I think we're going to have a good season. I am looking forward to football and playing as a team."
Gage Terpening is a senior center from Bunker Hill said it will have a different feeling, but looking forward to the challenge.
"It's a little different having Mt. Olive since they use to be our rivals," Terpening said. "Most of them I use to go head-to-head with them and now they're on the same side of the line as me."
He also said getting use to more coaches has also been a transition.
"We've got all these other coaches I still have to learn their names," Terpening said.
Bunker Hill and Mt. Olive will share the practice time at both schools, and both schools will host two games this year.
Mt. Olive will host the Blue Ridge game on Sept. 1 and Dupo Sept. 29.
Bunker Hill will host Pawnee Sept. 8 and Marquette on Oct. 13.


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Dir: Robert Wise
Cast: Julie Harris, Richard Johnson, Claire Bloom, Fay Compton
This one is not to be confused with its 1999 remake. See the original please. I would have to say that for me this is the classic scary movie. Not a horror film perse but a thriller about the things that go bump in the night. Great tension, imagery and sound accompany a great story. I think it might be the root of my curious love of stairways.
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I love this film
It's on my 'to buy' list
I'd recommend it
This film is included on my list of The Scariest Movies of All Time
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Day 115: April 25
In The Year of Living Honestly
In The Quarter of: Education
In The Month of: Amusement
Waiting brought attention to the environs of the room in which participants acted as waitees, each with a unique way to pass the time. It seems when we wait we forget the opportunity to simply communicate. We have the commonality of why we are waiting and what we are waiting for, though engaging people into simple conversation can sometimes seem a challenge. Finding no need to push beyond the boundaries of receptivity, the mind can be entertained with an engaging experience of imagination in the use of what surrounds us that we don't often see. What became present was the doorway. 59 rings displayed the natural origin of the wood in age of the hallowed tree that it was produced from and amused by the circular nature of the rings, the design of the doorway became a new threshold experience for the labyrinth.
Passing time with amusing pursuits invited the creativity to see beyond mere rings and into the wisdom of this doorway. It brought opportunities to discover more beyond its stationary position in the wall and left to imagination and inspiration of what possibilities might lay just beyond the door frame. Always inspired by doorways and the invitation to live on the other side differently, each doorway holds that opportunity. Yet, why wait to go through with waiting being the operative word for the day; seize the potential of play and beyond the mind of design and like this new doorway, waiting can be a productive and potential building bit of amusing insight. The labyrinth can be a doorway to unlimited possibilities.
On this 115th day…
Step over the threshold into the labyrinth today and notice what is opened, how wide its opened and what is welcomed. Notice the doorways of your day afterwards for an insightful day of possibility
April's Focus
Let this month unfurl your creativity, spontaneity and jocularity. It feels good to feel good and while we have been conditioned to shush our good times, let the labyrinth be our own private creation station of amusement, enjoyment and playful experiments. This month educate with amusement and see how much farther you get. Have fun and be creative. We have three opportunities to education your potential with amusement this month that involves either your personal walk, your ability to design and how much you can learn by sharing. On your Mark, Get Set…Go!
- Innovate – Walk Amused
In the 30 days that grace this month, play with the way you personally experience the labyrinth. Let this season of education be one of personal bests and enjoy finding a new way to be innovative, creative, inspired and amused in your personal experiences. I'd love to see what you come up with!
Please share your wonderful experiences!
2. Create – Design Inspired
To date I have created 95 different labyrinth creations and designs since the beginning of the year, let that inspire you to create something new this month that is inspiring and firing for your imagination. Einstein said that playing with ideas was the highest form of research and this is an education for all of us. As you walk in new ways, share your designs as I have done with mine last year and this. Perfection isn't what we are after, amusement is! I look forward to seeing what you come up with! I will toss out lots of inspiring ideas… stay tuned daily.
Share away and become a glad designer instead of a mad one!
3. Relate – Share with Care
One of the best ways to learn anything is having to teach or explain it to someone else. Whether you facilitate others, teach or simply share with a few, spend the month discovering amusing new ways to help others get more out of their walk with a lighter attitude and a more earnest enjoyment in what you share. Anything you want to know more about, share and this month share with a fun flair and notice how much more you actually begin to understand. You just might find a side of yourself forgotten. To receive all that, be a great giver.
Share what you discover!


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A Florida woman claims that police pulled her over for a minor traffic infraction, strip searched her on the side of the road, and "forcibly removed" a tampon that she was wearing.
The woman, Leila Tarantino, filed a lawsuit against the Citrus County government, Sheriff Jeffrey Dawsey and six unknown officers last week seeking damages.
According to the suit, Tarantino was pulled over last July after a policeman waved her through an intersection at which each had stop signs.
The policeman, the lawsuit says, then pulled her over, approached with his gun drawn and put Tarantino in handcuffs while her two small children — ages one and four — watched.
Tarantino says the officer refused to explain why she was being detained.
Over the next two hours, five other policemen arrived, including a female officer, and Tarantino was "frisked and strip searched twice at the side of the busy road, in plain view of passers by." During one of these searches, the female officer "forcibly removed" the tampon.
The invasive searches were presumably conducted to find drugs, but Tarantino says in the lawsuit that she only received a citation for "violating restrictions on her driver's license," and that officers had not bothered to call in a drug-sniffing dog.
"None of the officers ever found any weapons, drugs, contraband or anything illegal," says the lawsuit, which alleges the searches were "unjustified, unprovoked, disproportionate and unconstitutional."
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text: Originally composed of six Samoan-descended brothers from Los Angeles, the Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. offered a distinctly authentic brand of gangsta rap. Sons of a Baptist minister, the brothers Devoux -- lead rapper Paul aka Ganxsta Ridd, bandleader Ted aka the Godfather, Donald aka Don L, Roscoe aka Rosco, Danny aka O.M.B., and David aka E.K.A. -- grew up in a rough neighborhood, and were drawn into gang culture as a survival tactic, joining up with the Mob Piru Bloods. They all served prison sentences at one time or another on drug and/or weapons charges, but it wasn't until brother Robert Devoux was killed in a shooting that they determined to leave the lifestyle. Quitting cold turkey, all six brothers left Los Angeles and moved to Japan to live with their cousin, a sumo wrestler. There they formed a rap and dance troupe dubbed the Blue City Crew, and performed regularly to enthusiastic response from Japanese audiences. Encouraged by their success, they returned to Los Angeles in 1988 and began working on original material, issuing a 12" single called "Coming Hard to America" later that year. They re-christened themselves the Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., with the first part of their name taken from a slang term that mimicked the sound of a shotgun (prior to becoming a more general shout of exuberance); the last part, meanwhile, stood for "Too Rough International Boo-Yaa Empire." After a guest appearance on the Club Nouveau track "No Friend of Mine," the T.R.I.B.E. signed with Island's 4th & Broadway subsidiary, and released their debut album, New Funky Nation, in 1990. Earning positive attention for its use of live instrumentation, it spawned a minor hit single in "Psyko Funk," and climbed into the Top 40 of the R&B album chart. A second album, Good Times Bad Times, was recorded in 1992, and featured guest appearances by George Clinton, Ice Cube, and Living Colour; however, despite some well-received appearances on that summer's Lollapalooza tour, the record was never released. In 1993, they collaborated with Faith No More on "Another Body Murdered," one of the all-star metal/rap teamings on the Judgment Night soundtrack. Signing with the smaller Bullet Proof label, the group issued two more albums, Doomsday and Occupation Hazardous, in 1994 and 1995, respectively. By this time, three members had adopted new aliases: Danny was Monsta O, Roscoe was Murder One, and Donald was Kobra Konvict (or just Kobra). Searching for a new musical direction, the T.R.I.B.E. formed their own Samoan Mafia label and tried their collective hand at rap-metal on 1997's Angry Samoans, albeit to little attention. Another effort, Mafia Lifestyle, appeared in 2000, with guest spots from Layzie Bone, Yukmouth, and Naughty by Nature's Treach, among others. By this time, David Devoux had left the group, and was replaced by Vincent Devoux aka Gawtti. Gawtti landed a small but memorable role in the 2003 film The Italian Job, and the T.R.I.B.E. further increased their visibility by snagging a rare guest appearance from Eminem on their subsequent album, West Koasta Nostra; it was released on Sarinjay and produced by Battlecat. Angry Samoans, an all-metal affair, was released three years later. ~ Steve Huey


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6 Minutes to Skinny is an unique fat loss program that uses the body's natural cycles to give you fast, safe, natural weight loss.
All you have to do is do a series of simple and fast movements (exercises) and prepare a metabolic cycle meal and from start to finish, it will only take you six minutes.
They say that you will feel full and burn 450% more fat during the day.
They also claim that that they have seen people lose up to 10 pounds in the first 10 days with this so you know I was excited to actually get it and and see what it was about.
How Does 6 Minutes to Skinny Work?
Craig Ballantyne, CTT is a well-known fitness expert and the creator of 6 Minutes to Skinny.
According to Craig and 6 Minutes to Skinny, when you follow the instructions for food and movement that takes just six minutes, what happens is it leads to biochemical and hormonal changes in your body and these changes are all-natural changes. When you start completing your first metabolic cycle correctly, your body will adapt to start burning fat for energy.
They call "metabolic cycling" synchronizing your food and movement with your body's natural cycle so that you get better results from much less effort.
Craig explains that metabolic cycling consists of a series of unusual yet extremely effective food and movement strategies that are the key to tapping into your body's natural fat burning cycles to give you fast and permanent weight loss.
Craig is confident that 6 Minutes to Skinny will work for you if you have terrible genetics, a terrible metabolism, a thyroid condition, and if you tried everything and nothing's worked for you.
It's called 6 Minutes to Skinny because the program is based on a simple six minute morning routine that sets your body up to burn fat all day long. Your body goes through various metabolic cycles and the first cycle happens when you wake up in the morning; so that's the most important cycle for those people who want to lose weight and reshape their body. That's when you do the 6 Minutes to Skinny routine – first thing in the morning.
They say that this routine boosts specific enzymes in your body and those enzymes tell your body to start burning fat for fuel.
So your morning routine will go like this:
1) Wake up
2) Complete a 4-minute movement video (4 minute workout)
3) Make yourself a delicious 2-minute shake
4) Continue with the rest of your day
Fat Crushers Sexy Back Scorecard
Program Ease of Use - 90%
Quality of Written Content - 95%
Easy to Understand Content/System - 85%
Video Quality - 98%
Workout Intensity Level (0 - too easy, 100-very intense) - 85%
Value For Money - 100%
Great for people who don't like working out and/or don't want to spend 30 minutes to an hour exercising everyday but still want results!
For those who get easily bored, the system is also designed to do completely different movement patterns each morning and to start your day off with a healthy shake made with protein and other nutrients.
They advise that you do this morning cycle at least 4 times per week and they recommend sticking to Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and then taking Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday off from the 4-minute workout and instead stay active doing something you enjoy like walking.
These are suggestions to get you started and but they add that after you get in the habit of doing your 6-minute food and movement pattern in the morning, then you can accelerate your results by doing longer exercise videos. You can use the nutrition book that they give you as well for your lunch and dinner meals and they say that you will see even faster results.
Many 6 Minutes to Skinny Reviews tell you want you get in the program, but I'm going to show you exactly what you get in the 6MTS System. Check out my 6 Minutes to Skinny Sneak Peak video below.
What Do I Get With 6 Minutes to Skinny?
6 Minutes to Skinny Guide
The 27 page e-book is printed in a nice large font and has a nice amount of spacing so it's easy to read.
The pdf e-book guide gives an overview of 6MTS and provides an 8-week guide that you use to mark your progress and your weekly goals.
Here's a sample page that shows you how to actually use it:
This is very helpful. I'm a person that needs check marks and lists and that's kind of how I operate. It helps me to stay on track. I think that's a great thing that they've incorporated this daily/weekly chart and you can print it out and use that on a weekly basis to make sure that you are following the system as you're supposed to.
6 Minutes to Skinny Review: 7 Day Fast Start Guide
The 7-day Fast Start guide is a short book to help you get started the right way – to get hit the ground running for your first seven days. They tell you in the book that you are free to substitute different smoothies and workouts from your other guides so you don't have to do those that are in the guide, but that probably would be the best thing to do so that you exercise your entire body. The most important point is to make sure that you drink your smoothie and do your exercise daily in the morning.
6 Minutes to Skinny Program: 8 Week Guide
This is the same 8 Week Guide that is in the main pdf. You use it to mark your progress and your weekly goals. They give you a goal for each week like "eliminate soft drinks from your diet", "drink eight glasses of water", "take small bites chew more and set down your fork between bites", "journal your thoughts and schedule the next day", "focus on getting eight hours of sleep every night".
What I like about this is that every day you have a different four minute exercise to do. All you have to do is look at your calendar: Day 1 – do this exercise when you wake up, make this particular shake. They give you the number and the name of the shake and then you just refer to your shake recipe book and make and enjoy.
I like that I can check it off at the end of the day and write down how my day was; it's really simple to stay on track and you can post this on your wall or put it in your diary.
6 Minutes to Skinny System: 2 Minute Shakes
The shake recipes are found in the 2 Minute Shakes pdf. There are 43 blender shake recipes – more than enough variety to keep you satisfied. In two minutes or less you have a great tasting nutritionally packed shake that will burn fat and help you power through your day. Make a note of which shake you're doing and whether you like it or not.
At the end of the book is a frequently asked questions section where many questions are answered about smoothies, nutrition and calories and more; so that's really helpful because you might have a question that may be answered in the back.
6 Minutes to Skinny: 4 Minute Metabolic Miracles
Then there's the 4 Minute Metabolic Miracles guide that walks you through your new workout program. It starts off by giving you 10 tips to train. You'll find short fat burning workouts that can be performed almost anywhere.
It has pictures of the actual movements and a description of how to actually do that exercise.
You can watch and follow along with the videos that are in the members area (which are also downloadable). So you can use this in conjunction with the videos and you should have all the information you need in order to do the exercises properly. They also advise you to keep a record of which workouts you like best.
6 Minutes to Skinny: Perfect Nutrition Program
You also get a 43-page book called Perfect Nutrition Program. The morning shakes are essential for burning fat, but then what about the other meals of the day? That's where the Perfect Nutrition Program comes in.
This guide covers what you should eat for fat loss, how to save money on healthy foods, awesome ways to eat while traveling, and they give you some lunch and dinner ideas.
Craig gives you some healthy dessert options, stop snacking rituals (things that you can do to stop snacking), a supplement stack and his daily fat loss diet checklist of what of what he eats and what he takes throughout the day.
He also talks about taking a baby-step approach to eliminating bad foods from your diet. We all have things that we shouldn't eat but we loved to eat them. Instead of just going cold turkey on things, you take baby steps and eliminate these things from your diet and replace them with healthier options and create healthy habits.
This book is filled with a lot of good useful information to help you in your fat loss journey.
6MTS User Weight Loss Successes
To fully disclose, Craig did give me a free copy of 6 Minutes to Skinny to try out and I do receive a commission if a purchase is made through my affiliate link (but it doesn't cost you any more). Thank you (so much!) in advance if you do go through my link, and please keep reading to learn about the Free Gift Bonuses that you can only get through Fat Crushers.
What I Like…
The 6MTS program is not the same thing every day so for people who need variety you're going to get that variety in your workouts and with your morning shakes.
The ebooks have large print and are easy to read.
It's a quick and simple to do routine that's perfect for women who don't have a lot of extra time but want to lose the fat and reshape their body.
The videos are very good quality and you feel like you have your very own personal trainer encouraging you through your 4 minute workout.
The 4-minute movement videos are accessible in the members area and are also downloadable.
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What I Don't Like…
One guide says to train for 4 days a week then rest for 3; but the 8-week calendar actually shows 5 days per week that you train and off for 2 days. This conflict in the instruction can be confusing.
There are 2 completely different week 1 charts that caused a bit of confusion for me. One is in the 8-week guide and the second is a part of the 7-day Fast Start guide. It makes no sense to have two week 1 charts. They have different exercises for the week and different shake recipes, so I was wondering why they would do that and which one is better for the first week! It just causes unnecessary confusion.
There's no clarity on when we do the morning exercises. They just say "when you wake up". Well does that mean literally when I wake up, or do I have a window? Can I do the exercises 15 minutes after I wake or up to an hour after I wake? This should be made clearer.
There are no recipes for meals. You get lots of smoothie recipes, but what about healthy meals for the rest of the day? Don't worry, if you decide to buy through my link, I'll give you a free gift that includes a healthy meal recipe book!
This may not be a good program for people with a limited range of movement. The 4-minute workouts are intense and you need to be physically able to do the movements that may range from going from a floor position (pushups for example) to a standing position and back again to the floor position.
My Conclusion
I highly recommend the 6 Minutes to Skinny program for anyone who wants to lose the fat in a healthy manner and does not want to spend 30 minutes to an hour working out everyday. I think this is perfect for those who don't like to workout but know that they need to get daily exercise to stay fit and healthy. The 4 minute workouts are intense but they go quickly and you will feel a huge sense of accomplishment when you're done – at least I know I do.
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Masters Trial -- Was A Car Involved?
FORT COLLINS — A forensic pathologist spontaneously surmised that a car had been used in the murder of Peggy Hettrick, a former police detective testified today.
And that is significant.
If a car was, indeed, used to transport Hettrick's body to the field where it was dumped, it throws into question the theory of the crime advanced by prosecutors when Tim Masters was convicted of the grisly killing.
Ray Martinez, a longtime Fort Collins police officer who later served as the city's mayor, testified about interaction with Larimer County coroner Patrick Allen after Hettrick's body was discovered in a vacant field on the morning of Feb. 11, 1987.
"I just remember one of his comments that there had to be a car involved," Martinez said while being questioned by David Wymore, who is leading the fight to win Masters a new trial.
The statement came as part of a series of questions by Wymore aimed at poking holes in the theory of the murder advanced by prosecutors.
Hettrick's body, with her pants pulled down and her shirt pushed up, was discovered in a field about 100 feet from the curb of Landings Drive. A blood stain was discovered at the curb by a bicyclist, and a "drag trail" in the field led to her body.
Since Masters was only 15 and did not have a car, the use of a motor vehicle in the crime would have him less attractive as a suspect in the killing.
Masters quickly became the focus of investigators. The home where he lived with his widower father overlooked the field where the body was discovered and he walked by and looked at the corpse on his way to school and didn't report it to authorities because, he said, he thought it was a mannequin.
Masters was not arrested until 1998, and he was convicted the following year, largely on the basis of a forensic psychologist's interpretation of his violent writings and drawings.
Now Masters is trying to convince a judge that he deserves a new trial, and his attorneys have alleged that police and prosecutors withheld evidence that would have helped his defense.
Among the evidence never given to the defense was information about Dr. Richard Hammond, an ophthalmologist who lived just a few hundred feet from the field where Hettrick's body was discovered. Hammond was arrested in March 1995 after a house-sitter discovered an elaborate, secret videotaping system in a basement bathroom and a trove of tapes.
Many of them depicted extreme close-ups of women's genitals.
Hettrick's killer sliced away flesh from her genitals and left breast.
Martinez also had a small role in the Hammond investigation, responding to his home the day the taping system was discovered.
At one point, Wymore asked Martinez whether Hammond should have been considered a suspect in Hettrick's killing.
"The thought certainly crossed our minds," Martinez said. "We were at the house and saw some of these tapes to make a determination to get probable cause for a search warrant. ... It came up in conversation — we should be looking at him in the Hettrick case."
Michael Goodbee, a special prosecutor in the case from the Adams County District Attorney's Office, pressed Martinez for his "best" recollection about what was discussed at Hammond's home.
"That honestly is the best — just that it came up in conversation," Martinez said. "Who mentioned it first? I have no clue.
"I think the most that was said was someone ought to let the detectives know."
Wymore also questioned Martinez extensively about documents that were never turned over to the defense, including a Jan. 8, 1988, memo that detailed an elaborate plan to try to get Masters to do something to tie himself to the crime. That plan included planting a story in the local paper and delivering it to Masters' house, and it included copying the obituary of the boy's mother and placing it on the windshield of a friend's car.
That memo was never turned over to Masters' original attorneys and, in fact, was only recently discovered by Wymore.
Martinez said it should have bene included in the case file and should have been sent to the prosecutors for the case.
"I don't think there's anything to hide," Martinez said.
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FYI Hawai'i
Directors James Sereno and Alex Munoz work with incarcerated youth at Hawai'i Youth Correctional Facility to create original films (faces are blurred to protect the kids' indentities).
Photo: Liza Simon for Office of Hawaiian Affairs.
Chamorro filmmaker Alex Munoz brings his pioneering program, Films by Youth Inside (FYI), to Hawai'i. Twelve teens made two movies in two weeks. The films will screen in Honolulu in early March.
Incarcerated youth get new focus on life through film
Ka Wai Ola, Office of Hawaiian Affairs
Troubled teens make movies
Honolulu Advertiser


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Folder Size is a free tool which helps you understand how your hard drive space is being used.
Launch the program, point it at the drive or folder tree you'd like to check (C:\, C:\Program Files maybe), click Start and watch as your system is scanned (a full C:\ drive check took around 30 seconds on our test PC).
On completion, Folder Size displays a list of folders in order of size. A separate pie chart presents a basic summary of the same data (you can switch this to a pie or animated chart with a click).
This list may not tell you very much, at least initially. 63.12% of our files were located in the Users folder, for instance - but which user?
To find out more, double-click a folder of interest, and Folder Size displays its contents only. This showed us which user had the most files; selecting that individual user told us their Downloads folder was a major space hog, and double-clicking Downloads displayed the ISO images which were the cause of our problems.
While Folder Size is free, the program does have Personal ($24.95) and Professional ($39.95) versions available which add extra features (they can scan network files, use command line switches, save/ load projects, filter your files, print results, export reports and more).
Slightly annoyingly, these features aren't left out or disabled. If you accidentally select one (File > Print) then you'll be told it's not available and asked to upgrade. This can be a minor hassle at first, but you soon learn what you can do, and what you can't, and the core features are more than enough to be useful.
What's new in 4.0.0 (see changelog for more)?
- Changed: Removed Adobe Flash dependency - charts no longer use Flash
- Added: Native 64 Bit version is now available - support for larger drives and faster performance
- Added: Improved support for scanning and displaying very long paths
- Added: Command line registration parameters in PRO version
- Added: Shortcut - ALT+UP - Folder Up (Same as Backspace)
- Added: Shortcut - Alt+Enter - Open the Properties dialog box for the selected item
- Fixed: Missing computer name on network locations
The interface is a little cluttered, but Folder Size is otherwise a quick and easy way to explore your hard drive usage.


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- Nationality: Spain
- Height: 5'10" (178cm)
- Weight: 11st 5lbs (72kg)
Adama Traore joined Wolves for an undisclosed fee from Middlesbrough, agreeing a five-year deal at Molineux.
Traore joined after an impressive season at the Riverside Stadium, where he was voted the club's Player of the Year as Boro reached the Sky Bet Championship Play-Offs.
The winger, who progressed through the Barcelona youth system as a youngster, made a handful of appearances at the Nou Camp before departing in 2015.
His move to Aston Villa brought Premier League football and after one season at Villa Park, Boro acquired his services following their promotion to the top flight.
Traore spent two seasons at the Riverside Stadium and last term netted five times and laid on a further 10 for his team mates.
His efforts were reflected with a triple award win at Boro's End of Season Awards, which has led to Traore's return to the Premier League with Wolves.
Internationally, the winger has represented Spain at four different age groups, including the under-21s earlier in 2018.
In a Wolves shirt, he introduced himself to his new supporters with a last minute winner at West Ham United in September 2018.


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Amongst the major sellers in on line Computer system video games are FPS, or To start with Particular person Shooter, video games.
Youngsters really like 'em. So do most Dads.
A lot of mothers believe the amount of violence is much too higher and much too graphic, so Father and the young children enjoy them when she is not searching.
FPS video games are centered on you, the player, from your level of see. Armed with different handheld weapons, you might be named on to thwart the invasion of Earth by aliens or to end a Nazi advance in WWII. As a player, you interact directly with the game surroundings from your have standpoint.
FPS video games developed in the late nineteen nineties as PCs turned effective sufficient to render the 3D graphics in genuine time. These are way outside of the arcade shooters from Area Invaders on up.
Many sub-genres of FPS have distinguished on their own:
tactical – most have a armed service motif
stealth – keeping away from detection by opponents is a significant component
operate and gun – among the the most popular with multiple enemies and quickly-paced action
genuine-time technique (RTS) – capable to give instructions to other models and manage the technique
first individual journey (FPA) – free roaming journey which normally takes one to the edge, like the controversial series Grand Theft Automobile
Most FPS video games get graphics to a new amount of realism whilst exaggerating the characteristics of the player. You now probably have muscle mass and toughness that make Arnold glance like a girlie-gentleman.
Youngsters and adults alike really like the frantic blasting of enemies in the context of heroic storylines.
Although FPS video games are demanding on your reflexes, they are also demanding on your Computer system. You will surely have a want for pace, as perfectly as a very good graphics card and a respectable set of speakers. The needs of avid gamers have pushed the Computer system field to make better desktop pcs for all.
The up coming large change – with broadband World-wide-web assistance now in millions of homes around the globe – will be the delivery of the most up-to-date FPS game to your Computer system by means of streaming obtain in its place of CD. As additional avid gamers take on line streaming delivery of the game by itself, expenses need to appear down over time as the game builders turn to on line delivery and bypass the CD/DVD publishers and merchants in the offer chain.
For the game builders, on line delivery of FPS video games represents an chance to open up up a new industry of avid gamers who would be prepared to test FPS on line, but who never check out EB Video games, the Electronics Boutique, or other game merchants in the shopping mall.
For these who want to test/demo any amount of FPS video games, I propose the Triton player. This streaming obtain will allow you to begin enjoy perfectly just before the full obtain is completed. You can even demo recent releases like Prey from 3D Realms.
You can sign-up free and obtain the player at: http://www.playtriton.com
As extensive as there are heroes and villains, and young children with vivid imaginations, there will be a place for FPS video games when the aliens appear contacting.


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Guidance Survey
In October, the counseling department provided students in grades 6-8 a schoolwide survey regarding Student Stress and Connectivity. The reason for us examining this type of information was based on several factors; information gathered through the MetroWest Adolescent Health Survey, student/teacher/parent reports of stress, and student attendance.
The following summary is to provide parents a broader sense of how our students in grades 6-8 reported feeling in terms of stress, connectivity to the school, and ways in which they may or may not be coping. We will re-administer this same survey in the Spring 2016 to determine whether action taken throughout the year has made an impact on our students.
Link to Summary of Results. If you wish to see a copy of the survey and a more detailed summary of the results, there will be a binder for viewing available in the RAMS office.
Destination Imagination
The Holliston Destination Imagination is hosting the first Holliston Film Festival. The event will take place January 31st from 12:00-2:00 PM at the Robert Adams Middle School. All video submissions are due by January 4th. All ages are welcome to submit videos and attend. For more information visit 'Holliston Film Festival' Facebook event or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Students Walking Downtown on Fridays
If you are allowing your child to walk downtown on Fridays, please remind them to be respectful of other's property and to use caution as they walk. We are having reports of students walking in the street, pushing each other off of the sidewalk, and climbing on private property.
MS PTSA meetings are every other month on the second Wednesday at 8 am. Meetings are casual and open to all Adams School parents and guardians. Our next meeting will be Wednesday, January 13th at 8 am. Please sign-in with the office and you will be directed to our meeting room. Mark your calendar for future meetings on 3/9 and 5/11.
December 16 Winter Chorus Concert HHS & Adams 7-9 PM @ HHS Auditorium
December 24-Jan 3 NO SCHOOL/Winter Vacation
General Info > RAMS News >


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Born and raised in The Grove, Pastor Shawn has never been the "typical" pastor that most people expect. Though he surprises most with his individuality, he remains a strong leader and visionary. Filled with God's heart for Garland, he strives to show everyone the love of Christ. A very active guy, he loves to play basketball, volleyball, tennis, golf, or maybe just go see a movie and hang out. Pastor Shawn loves people, and is always up for doing something together. Whether you are looking for a good friend to hang out with, or a man of God to ask advice of, Pastor Shawn is a true friend and strong mentor. He is married to Brandee and they have a beautiful daughter Cassidee.
Blessed with a beautiful voice and a warm heart, Brandee loves to make sure that every space feels like home. No matter the atmosphere, Brandee knows how to turn it into a welcoming place from top to bottom! With a heart to see others grow in their relationship with Christ, whether you'd like a friend to share a cup of coffee with or you need direction and prayer, Brandee is always there for those in need. Brandee and her husband Shawn have a beautiful daughter named Cassidee.
Doug is fun to be around! Easy going, relatable, friendly, relaxed. These are just a few words that describe Doug. But his most genuine characteristic is his heart for people. He works hard to ensure that everyone feels welcomed and loved. As a leader, he constantly seeks the face of God and His direction. Doug is a great servant, a devout leader, and a valuable friend. He and his wife Kim have two sons and one daughter in law – Caleb, Paul and Cassie.
Kim is blessed with unending kindness. One can't help but be drawn to her because of her sweet spirit and caring heart. She touches everyone with her great sense of humor and is always ready to laugh with friends and family. Whether you need a prayer partner or a friend to share a joke with, Kim is happy to know you! She and her husband Doug have two great sons and one incredible daughter in law.


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For Immediate Release
Steve Carpinelli (202) 481-1225
BP Cited for Worst OSHA Safety Violations Among U.S. Refiners
WASHINGTON - Two refineries owned by oil
giant BP account for 97 percent of all flagrant violations found in the
refining industry by government safety inspectors over the past three
years, a Center for Public Integrity analysis shows. Most of
BP's citations were classified as "egregious willful" by the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration and reflect alleged
violations of a rule designed to prevent catastrophic events at
BP is battling a massive oil well
spill in the Gulf of Mexico after an April 20 platform blast that killed
11 workers. But the firm has been under intense OSHA scrutiny since its
refinery in Texas City, Texas, exploded in March 2005, killing 15
workers. While continuing its probe in Texas City, OSHA launched a
nationwide refinery inspection program in June 2007 in response to a
series of fires, explosions and chemical releases throughout the
Refinery inspection data obtained by
the Center under the Freedom of Information Act for OSHA's nationwide
program and for the parallel Texas City inspection show that BP received
a total of 862 citations between June 2007 and February 2010 for
alleged violations at its refineries in Texas City and Toledo, Ohio.
Of those, 760 were classified as
"egregious willful" and 69 were classified as "willful." Thirty of the
BP citations were deemed "serious" and three were unclassified.
Virtually all of the citations were for alleged violations of OSHA's
process safety management standard, a sweeping rule governing everything
from storage of flammable liquids to emergency shutdown systems. BP
accounted for 829 of the 851 willful violations among all refiners cited
by OSHA during the period analyzed by the Center.
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Top OSHA officials told the Center in
an interview that BP was cited for more egregious willful violations
than other refiners because it failed to correct the types of problems
that led to the 2005 Texas City accident even after OSHA pointed them
out. Jordan Barab, deputy assistant secretary of labor for occupational
safety and health, said it was clear that BP "didn't go nearly far
enough" to correct deficiencies after the 2005 blast.
"The only thing you can conclude is
that BP has a serious, systemic safety problem in their company," Barab
BP officials did not respond to
requests for comment about the OSHA data. BP's website said it was
committed to improving safety companywide. "Creating a safe and healthy
working environment is essential for our success. Since 1999, injury
rates and spills have reduced by approximately 75 percent," the BP
website says.
To view a list of BP's U.S. OSHA Refinery Violations,
this interactive graphic can be embedded for the Web or
click on the following link: http://www.publicintegrity.
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Emerson Dameron on why L.A. is better than ChicagoBy Kate Dries
Emerson Dameron on why L.A. is better than ChicagoBy Kate Dries
Writer and comedian Emerson Dameron considers Los Angeles his "spiritual home." The city doesn't care about you or whether you succeed -- and that's what he likes about it. Read an excerpt of his thoughts, or listen below:
"I'll begin with a quote from one of my city's great ambassadors, and one of my person heroes. That's Greg Dulli of the band The Afghan Whigs: '12 million people don't live here because it sucks.'
If you want to be wildly successful or homeless, move to Los Angeles. Watch a few hours of network television and you'll realize there's no clear line. Most of the millionaires in Los Angeles have more ridiculous jobs than the panhandlers. Over the holiday break, an arsonist set an estimated 50 car fires in one Los Angeles neighborhood, some spreading to nearby buildings and causing, all together, about $3 million in damage. Even one of Jim Morrison's former homes took a hit, wounding his ghost.
His associate Mr. Mojo emerged unharmed."
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Correction: Even though the host of the Paper Machete identifies Dameron as an "L.A. native," the writer was actually born in Marion, North Carolina. But "Los Angeles is my 'spiritual' hometown," he says, "the only place I've ever considered myself 'from.'"


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People are arriving home from work in the late afternoon, turning on their washers, dryers and ovens. Demand for power is peaking, so a utility puts in a call to a big farm: "Can you postpone irrigating your hay for a couple of hours?"
Usually, that would be a tough sell for any farmer. Workers would have to be sent out to the fields to turn off pivots and pumps one by one. Simplot, a powerhouse in the Northwest agriculture industry, instead installed a system that allows it to adjust its water pumping schedule – on request – from the shady, air-conditioned confines of an office to take advantage of fluctuations in the power supply.
A worker monitors the system on a computer monitor and strikes a few keys to adjust the flow of water, enabling easy shutdown and ramp-up as needed. It's all part of a pilot project by Bonneville Power Administration this year to examine the benefits of a system like this, with the goal of improving flexibility in the power demand and supply chain and reducing costs for its customers.
It's not quite smart-grid farming, but it's close. "In a smart-grid world, the laundry would start itself in the middle of the night," said Tom Osborn, a mechanical engineer for energy efficiency and renewable energy for BPA, a Portland, Ore.-based federal agency that sells electricity wholesale to public utilities in the region.
"Could we do something similar in agriculture, with all these 120-acre fields and crop managers ordering water every day?" he asked. "It's worth finding out."
"Smart grid" has become the buzz of the electric power industry. Rising demands for electricity have utilities looking to customers to respond to that demand, such as home thermostats and individual appliances that adjust automatically based on the cost of power.
Customers stand to benefit, gaining detailed information on electricity costs and the ability to choose when and how much power to use at any given time. Experts say there's potential for large farm operations to benefit as well.
Peak power use in the Northwest typically is in the winter, when residents need to heat their homes, while agricultural peak use is in summer. Rising demand, however, is forcing everyone to consider changes.
It's not an entirely new idea. Utilities in California and Idaho have paid farmers to put off irrigating to off-peak hours. But in the Pacific Northwest, there could be added significance to better managing the load. This spring, BPA curtailed wind turbines – mainly at nights and on weekends when demand is low – because the large volume of melting mountain snowpack left the region flush with hydropower from the Columbia Basin dams.
If irrigators can shift their power usage to when wind power is available and BPA needs a place to send it, power generators, utilities and farmers could all win. That will especially be true next year, when BPA changes its rate structure to reward those who use power when there's less demand.
"Is there a way that they could change the timing, which would benefit Simplot with a lower power bill and would also help BPA because we like to move power from on-peak to off-peak times?" Osborn said. "That's kind of what this is doing right now when we ask them to push the button."
Simplot farms thousands of acres of grain, hay and corn in south-central Washington. The volume of water needed to irrigate all those crops is huge, as is the amount of power needed to move that water. To improve efficiency, the company has invested more than $1.5 million in an automated irrigation system.
As soon as Osborn heard about it, he wondered if there was a way the system could be used to aid the electricity grid by altering the irrigation schedule to meet power supply. He then worked to get the funding to demonstrate if the idea works.
"Now the question is whether we can expand it. I don't know how many farms could do this – maybe on smaller scales – but every little bit helps." The pilot project cost about $30,000, with two-thirds of that paid by BPA and the rest picked up by Columbia Rural Electric Association, the local utility, and Simplot.
"If, in the future, they want to expand this up and down the river system, you have to have support and buy-in from farmers," said Doug Case, energy efficiency specialist for Columbia REA. "Simplot is one of our members who's taken a lot of incentives to control and monitor usage in terms of agriculture."
Alan Weaver, Simplot's farm manager there, said he was initially reluctant to participate because he realized the work that would go into it. The project involved developing software to make Simplot's system perform to the utilities' energy management needs.
"After it's all done, I'm quite excited that we did it, because when they change their rate structure next year, we're going to be set up to deal with it," Weaver said. "Any farm in the future is just going to have to be there too. It's the nature of the future." FG
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With tech, everything is possible. Even hollandaise.
In another life and time, I learned the proper techniques for making a souffle from a series of black-and-white photos in a Craig Claiborne cookbook, and I was grateful for the photos.
Now with YouTube and cooking-site videos, modern appliances and other technology, you have no decent excuse not to tackle some cooking challenge you've been circling around for years.
Take hollandaise, a sauce that takes egg yolk, melted butter and lemon juice and turns then into something more than the sum of the insanely delicious parts. I'd always been told it was a finicky, fussy thing to make. Failure, not to mention wasting ingredients, isn't my thing, so like fellow cowards everywhere, I never tried.
But this weekend I had a hankering for Eggs Benedict, that tower to indulgence that includes an English muffin, meat (you can use bacon or Canadian bacon, but I like a thin slice of good ham), wilted spinach if you like, poached egg and hollandaise spilled over the top) but I had no desire to throw down for an expensive brunch.
I was going to have to learn how to make the sauce.
Oh Google, you're such a good friend. The first recipe that popped up when I searched "easy hollandaise sauce" came from allrecipes.com, and it looked, yes, easy. Ridiculously so. Escoffier might throw a clot if he saw the technique, but really, who cares?
(Maybe your obstacle is poaching eggs. There are videos for you, too.)
When you assemble the Eggs Benedict, be sure to ladle on plenty of sauce. The more actually is the merrier.
I was pretty proud of the results -- and how fast they disappeared.
Easy Hollandaise
Serves 2 very, very generously
2 egg yolks
1/4 lemon, juiced, or to taste
1 pinch salt
1 pinch cayenne pepper
1/4 cup salted butter, melted
Instructions: Beat egg yolks, lemon juice, salt, and cayenne pepper together in a microwave-safe bowl until smooth. Slowly stream melted butter into the egg yolk mixture while whisking to incorporate.
Heat in microwave for 15 to 20 seconds; whisk. Feel free to add more lemon or cayenne to taste. If it's too thick, whisk in a little water.


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Members of the El Paso County Sheriff's Office will be joining with other law enforcement agencies for Mental Health First Aid Training, which is being provided by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Peak View Behavioral Health and the Bank of Colorado. This training will take place on Wednesday, March 9, 2016, from 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, at the Office of the Sheriff, located at 27 E. Vermijo Avenue.
Many of the individuals law enforcement encounter on a routine basis suffer from substance abuse and/or some form of mental illness. It is crucial for law enforcement to have a foundation for how to recognize those suffering from mental illness, be trained in what signs to look for when dealing with this population of our community, as well as be given tools on how to deescalate behavior and help them cope with the crisis they are facing.
We are excited about the partnership that has developed with NAMI, Peak View Behavioral Health and the Bank of Colorado. Their generosity has allowed for this training to be provided free of charge and we are grateful for their willingness to invest in our community.
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Hi Chris,
thanks for adding this facinating.
This recently was listed on eBay ..... would have loved to have got it ...but at that price
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|24th February 2012, 03:48 PM
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Hi David,
My pleasure! And while I consulted with the Professor extensively on both the suite of items and the gentleman to whom they originally belonged, I just realized something of note:
While the artwork for the book cover illustrates the aforementioned charge in '29/'30, the lances shown have bamboo shafts...
Which raises the question about the continued use of older patterns in colonial regiments long after the migration to ash shafts as per Jim's research.
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Hi Chris,
I believe regulations in the 'colonies' tended to be more relaxed and , probably even more so for the native units.
As to the pennon, I believe they were attached to the lance during battle. One of its functions was to absorb blood .....preventing it running down the shaft and making it slippery
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|24th February 2012, 05:21 PM
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With that in mind, IMO they don't - nor did - pay the dhobis enough!
Then again, my non-frosted side cringes at all the clothes I've had laundered in India over the years that over time the dhobis turned into the same, washed-out shade of grey...
|24th February 2012, 07:21 PM
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Thank you so much Chris for posting the cover of this wonderful book by the Brigadier!!! it brings back many fond memories (it seems I still owe you a photo, which I will get to in due course . As I have mentioned, I have handled the M1912 British officers sword he carried in that charge, which seems accurately represented in the painting though the bowl is not visible, but the scabbard mounts are correct. This leads me to believe that accuracy was keenly observed, and knowing the stickler the Brigadier was, I have no doubt such a detail as lance pennons would have been noted had they been present and incorrect, in our conversations.
While pennons did seem to be 'parade' oriented in the images I have seen of these Indian cavalry in WWI and of that period, I do believe they were indeed mounted on lances in combat. I had never heard the item about them serving the purpose of collecting blood, and would presume this idea may present along with the purpose of fullers in blades being 'blood gutters'. While sounding feasible perhaps in limited degree, these observations seem more contrived in my thinking.
I do know that pennons were indeed attached in combat with lances as per accounts of Polish lancers in the Napoleonic period, and that these pennons added dramatically to the sepsis of wounds by carrying this obviously contaminated material into them. The morbid agony of this typically mortal penetration was heightened by this factor as described in accounts I have seen, and as a result , lancers when captured were summarily killed rather than being held prisoner.
In the dramatic charge of the British 16th Lancers at Aliwal in India during the Sikh wars, after the battle the pennons of the troopers were so encrusted with blood in the aftermath, that it became a long held tradition for these lancers to 'crimp' thier pennons in remembrance. While the blood on the pennons was clearly of thier opponents, the observance was for the decimated ranks and men they lost in that charge.
As with many, if not most, colonial circumstances, yes often obsolete and surplus weapons and materials did continue almost anachronistically in these settings long beyond the period of familiar use in original context.
It seems most of the issues regarding the British lances was availability of male bamboo, and presumably in India there were more ready sources.
The durability of the lance pennons however, may not have been sufficient to keep them servicable in these frontier regions, and having them mounted in the case of this time period may have been considered superfluous. I think more concern was to the actual purpose of the lance rather than the traditional presence of these probably unreplaced items.
As to the materials used, as far as I know most pennons are made of the kind of bunting used in flags, however one lance I had in blue and yellow (3rd Skinners Horse) was made of a dyed almost burlap material.
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|24th February 2012, 08:43 PM
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Hi Jim,
It is of course my pleasure - I am happy to have been provided a context to share this book in the thread, and only wish I had seen it sooner... Of course, your invaluable input, information, and feedback went a long way towards helping me better appreciate this tangental 'brush' with the career of the Brigadier, and reading his book heightened my appreciation for the various regimental Lancers to such a degree that I would jump all over the opportunity to acquire a couple of these sharp and pointy 'history sticks.'
Speaking of which, David, I don't think I made explicit mention of the fact I am envious!
|28th February 2012, 02:44 PM
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Hi Jim ,
thank you for your observations and info. It is mentioned on various sites including the official Canadian Mounties site that the pennon absorbed blood .....I personally feel that this action was one of its function.
I believe that the pennon added several advantages....
The 'fluttering' pennon would be a distraction to the 'target' ....I'm reminded of the Chinese long spear which had ribbons attached to the shaft just below the head for this purpose. Although after some 'action' I would assume that the blood soaked material would cling to the shaft and render it 'useless' in this case
A very interesting point about infection, archers used to stick their arrows into the ground to promote tetanus infection in the wounds of their targets. Often clothing fragments were forced into the wounds created by musket balls, due to poor hygiene these fragments caused 'deep' infection. This effect was known and a few realised that fresh, clean clothing at the start of battle could lessen this problem. A contaminated pennon could indeed act as a biological 'delivery device'
I still feel that absorption of blood was important, the lance, during battle, would not always be carried horizontally, in the melee with horses and men tightly 'bunched', to gain manoeuvrability the lance would have to be raised vertically thus allowing blood to run down to the handle/hand. The slippery nature of fresh blood would be a problem.
Hi Chris ,
I am very lucky to have got these......they were advertised as African and the poor pictures only showed the upper bamboo shaft and the head. I immediately recognised these as British Lances ....others didn't...which was advantageous to me as few bid. It was only on collection that I even knew the lances were totally complete .....this grin does not adequately show my face, as I was returning home after collecting them.
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|7th March 2012, 01:54 PM
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A recent documentary "War Horse", shed more light on the use of the lance during WW1. Early engagements tended to be suicidial due to the muddy terrain and the machine gun. A battle near the end of the war saw Canadian lancers/cavalry charge over open fields to attack a small wood, entrenched with Germans. This action was successful and was seen as many as a turning point in the war.
As the Germans tactically retreated towards Germany, the Lancer/Cavalry units became invalueable. As the retreating soldiers were now in open country as to opposed to the muddy, bomb shelled landscape of 'no mans land', the use of the horse allowed quick attacks ( hit and run) on the German units. The Lancers and Cavalry units became greatly feared, to the point that the infantry were quick to surrender when they were seen on the horizon.
|21st March 2012, 01:56 PM
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This just finished on eBay, earlier pattern British lance, extremely surprised at the final price.
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My guess is that they were deployed against poorly-armed and poorly-trained opponents for a reason. Why waste expensive ammunition and wear and tear of the firearms, when a lancer can pick as many running natives as he wishes?
I just bought a lot of three lances myself, haven't looked at them properly yet. This is a a useful thread.
|21st October 2017, 11:10 PM
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This is a fascinating topic and glad to see it back up!
Actually seeing the bit about the pennons purpose being for soaking up blood seems kind of like so many other 'explanations' for features on weapons in the eventual 'lore' that evolves.
Interesting that the source for this is said to come from RCMP history. I recall many years ago seeing one of their music parade events with laces drill...it was spectacular. These forces are in themselves most impressive and quite historically profound.
However it seems that they really never used the lance but for performances from c. 1870s and to notably impress American Indian tribes etc. They may have had some use in WWI, but while the unit was certainly there, unclear on how much use the lance had.
In my opinion, the 'blood' element may well have come from the long tradition of the British 16th Lancers, who fought Sikh forces at Aliwal in 1846. Apparently after the battle the pennons of the lances were so blood soaked and encrusted, that the regiment traditionally crimped their pennons 16 times, in remembrance of that terrible battle.
It seems that the Canadians adopted the crimping of the pennons as they took to use of the lance in 1870s and later Queen Victoria took exception to their use of that feature in the pennons. Perhaps there had been some earlier connection between the 16th and the 5th who later formed part of the Canadian brigade in WWI as they were amalgamated together in 1922.
Whatever the case, the blood soaked pennons of Aliwal may be the source of this notion.
In actuality, the pennon has been suggested as more regimentally symbolic and for parade type purposes than such matters. In WWI, the German lancers left their pennons off during battle.
|22nd October 2017, 02:00 AM
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On the practical and physiological aspects of the lance.
These weapons, while psychologically terrifying in an advance formation of cavalry, their impact was quickly ended once in the melee. These were useless in the ensuing combat, and even to drop them and draw swords would put the rider in immediate vulnerability.
Because of the horrific wounding potential of the lance, these horsemen were despised and vehemently attacked, never receiving quarter.
They were cumbersome even in normal maneuvers, and could be dangerous to other riders in formation. During the Civil War, an attempt was made to duplicate European lancer regiments, I believe it was a Pennsylvania regt.
The results were horrendous, and the troopers were their own worst enemy.
I believe the idea was abandoned and the troops back to regular cavalry.
The idea of lances ended up with blood hampering their grip is no more likely than from a sword or any edged weapon. Lances had their grips about half way down the shaft, suggesting that their use was not as much a full length penetration thrust, but more of a jabbing action. The idea was not to impale a victim on the lance, obviously rendering the rider weaponless or unhorsing him....but to inflict lacerating wounds at key locations.
At San Pascual, in California during the Mexican-American war, the dragoon forces attacked by Mexican lancers often had as many as 13 or more wounds. Actually they were unable to load their guns in the darkness and place the caps, while the Mexican lancers simply chose their targets . They used jabbing thrusts so as not to lose their weapons.
The notion of the pennon causing mortal sepsis by its entry into the wound is a valid observation, but penetration of that depth and with that pennon now an obstruction in retraction from the wound, something that probably led to some cavalry removing them prior to combat.
I think one of the most notable instances of lore about lances is the one about Polish lancer units attacking German tanks with these in WWII. This was pure propaganda, and while the unit was a lancer named unit, and they did have swords, they did not attack the tanks, especially not with lances.
They did use swords as German's exited disabled or stopped tanks though.
German Wehrmacht also had cavalry using sabres.
|23rd October 2017, 08:35 PM
Lancers were somewhat despised by their enemies since the wounds inflicted by the lance were so horrific...thus falling off ones horse in a melee was a very bad place to be...as no quarter was given.
Here is some artwork ~The black and white is Elandslaagt in the Boer War..and the other is Omdurman. The lance head and base are of the style made by Wilkinson.
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|23rd October 2017, 10:02 PM
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the pennants were there not only to identify the regiment, but to prevent the over-penetration of the point, much like the cross bar on a boar spear. why they didn't just put a cross bar on them i do not know.
one of the last true cavalry charges, in early ww1, a group of british cavalry drew sabres & charged a group from a german uhlan, brits has swords, the germans had the steel lance. they were a new unit and apparently not well trained, they broke and ran, only being saved when the survivors managed to get behind a farmer's barbed wire fence that stopped the pursuing brits as the horses refused to jump it.
and the poles never charged tanks with their lances in ww2 as german propaganda suggested...they did successfully charge a complacent german encampment that hadn't posted proper sentries and did great damage to it, and retreated in good order when some armour turned up. their lances were back in HQ for parades, they used firearms (and sabres) and were used more as mounted infantry. there were just not enough of them, especially with no air cover, and the russians attacking from the other side to aid their german allies.
|24th October 2017, 03:22 AM
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Wayne, your description of the myth about Polish lancers in WWII was much better described than mine!
The idea of the pennon serving as a deterrent for over penetration sounds plausible, but it is notable that the German uhlan units typically removed them from their lances.
Certainly there would seem to be a certain plausibility for unit recognition, however there were not that many lancer regiments so as to be confused in action. At Balaclava (1854), there was only one, in front as in battle order, the 17th Lancers.
Actually lancer units usually had more of a 'national' pennon color combination. The British used red and white (taken from the Napoleonic Polish lancers that inspired them); while others had different colors (Germany black & white). Lance pennons were not regimentally specific, while guidons were.
There were lances with the cross bars in the Spanish cavalry, 18th c.
The lance became the primary weapon used by horsemen in colonial New Spain in the frontiers of northern Mexico and the Spanish southwest. The reason for this was often described as because of the unreliability of the firearms and lack of powder. The Spaniards were adept in the use of the lance (with American Indians quickly adopting same).
The cross bar on boar spears and such hunting weapons was to prevent the animal from 'riding up' the shaft to its attacker in wounded fury, not to restrict penetration.
However over penetration is a notable problem with the lance as the lancer becomes instantly disarmed. This is why lances have the lanyard straps at center, as the lance is used at that stance in jabbing thrusts, rather than full tilt full penetration . At San Pascual in the Mexican American war, the Californio lancers destroyed an American dragoon column with lances, but the dragoons were essentially unarmed. Their paper cartridges had been dampened by rain, it was dark night, unfamiliar terrain, the mounts were spent, and they could not effectively place the caps in their guns in the dark.
Most received many shallow wounds, with many fatal, but gruesomely lingering deaths.
As has been noted, for these reasons, lancers were much despised, and never received quarter as in many cavalry cases others were.
|25th October 2017, 10:41 PM
Wilkinson made these lances..This is a copy of the inscription.
|26th October 2017, 05:18 AM
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just a tidbit: 'male bamboo' used for lances is a thicker stronger species than normal bamboo, comes from india/south east asia, and will not grow in the UK climate. (i know someone who has tried ). it's fairly rare in its native area as well. hence the occasional shortages and substitution of ash, the traditional european pole arm wood of choice.
|26th October 2017, 12:44 PM
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I understand lancers were also unpopular because of the ease with which they could wander among the dead and fallen and by simply leaning on their lance from horseback kill those too injured ti fight back. I think this cold-blooded killing from a relatively safe distance was regarded as verging on the cowardly. Snipers suffer from a similar prejudice.
|26th October 2017, 03:00 PM
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Going back to lances themselves .
|26th October 2017, 03:34 PM
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Good idea Fernando.....pretty unpleasant thinking about what these weapons were used for.
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Thank you Ibrahiim,
It really is interesting to see how 'tent pegging' was used to increase skills with these weapons. While it seems that all manner of study of martial arts, fencing and exercise with swords is readily acceptable in discussions on those and various other edged weapons...the lance was apparently so disdained that it is deemed a reprehensible topic.
Yet lancer regiments were typically regarded in elite status, and the British cavalry after Waterloo chose to fashion select cavalry units to lancers, in honor and admiration of the Polish lancers in those campaigns. The red and white pennons on British lances were chosen in commemoration of the Polish national colors, also on their lances.
I recently watched the wonderful 1930s classic movie "Lives of a Bengal Lancer" with Gary Cooper starring. It is situated in the Northwest Frontier about a British lancers unit, and shows the elite status of these units and the pride they took in their skills with the lance. There were some great scenes of this tent pegging exercise. It is notable that these units were actually still in service in India at the time this movie was made.
British cavalrymen also hunted with lances after wild pigs, and these were somewhat shorter with heavy lead bulbs at the base.
It is interesting to note these kinds of variations which reveal the actual use intended, and how to identify which units might have carried the lances discussed. Sometimes the history associated with weapons may not be entirely P.C. however it remains just what it is, history.
|1st November 2017, 04:36 PM
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not PC, but i always like watching 'gunga din - 1939', especially the final battle scene at the temple. they do show in a a relatively non-gory way, the use of the lance in pursuit of a fleeing enemy (as well as the two gatlings carried on elephant back. my favourite part ). sam jaffee as gunga din is not acceptable in these days...
|2nd November 2017, 08:14 PM
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Right on Wayne!!
"Gunga Din" was always one of my favorites too! and I cannot even count the times I watched it since I was a kid (was???).
One time (pre DVDs etc) and it was on late one night on TV and I wanted my wife to watch it with me...she said OK, but this time NO PITH HELMET!! Youre scarin' the cats!!!
Definitely no PCin those days, but the movies were fun.
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a remake might be cool, if they didn't us cgi. the PC luvvies would likely mess it all up tho. especially reading the poem at the end. they'd rewrite kipling and add a few dance scenes. and using real extras would drive up the costs...hard to find a trio that would match, let alone a good ugly gunga din.
(wear your pith helmet next time. the cats will get used to it.)
|3rd November 2017, 11:43 AM
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I don't buy that. Going at 20mph, and encountering someone's rib cage is a stop enough. If pennons were of any use as an additional stop, the working life of a lancer would be quite brief, with dislocated shoulders and dismounted riders. I'll abstain from commenting on the cross bar for the same reasons.
|3rd November 2017, 11:47 AM
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If this were the case, then the artillerymen would probably be drawn and quartered, when captured. I think you are repeating a myth.
|3rd November 2017, 02:06 PM
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May i admit that i tend to fully agree with the essence of Dmitry's last posts.
In a another perspecive, i find it amazing to see how wide the amplex of discussions on any determined weapon may reach; as close to discuss Gunga Din (that his name ?) underwear colour ... if you guys know what i mean .
BTW ... does it pass through your minds, english speaking guys, how many meanings there are for the PC initials ? .
|3rd November 2017, 02:24 PM
No. Its a known fact that cavalry were despised for their lance tactics..How many references repeat this..Flopping off ones horse was very bad..in a melee...it was the end!! Not a myth for what its worth..but fair comment...
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