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Today's Starter Vegan Videocast is all about making Vegan Pesto with Fianna MacGregor. This is a simple and delicious sauce and spread that will start your vegan lifestyle with a bang. It can be used on pasta, as a spread on bread or toast, or can be used as a pizza topping.
VEGAN FARM GIRL'S Vegan Pesto
2 cups basil, stems removed
2-6 cloves garlic
1/2 cup walnuts
1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 - 2 tablespoons veggie broth (more if needed)
Put everything in a food processor and blend for 3-5 minutes, stopping at least once to scrape down sides of bowl. Add more salt if desired. If mixture is too thick, add more veggie broth until desired consistency is achieved. Place in a covered container in the fridge until ready for use.
Fianna MacGregor | Blog | Blog | Twitter | Email New York City Fianna has been vegan for 36 years. She is currently working on a second M.A. in Human Rights from NYU. When she isn't veganizing every cookbook she can get her hands on, she's working her urban farm in New York City. She also writes extensively on veganism, running and green living. Her newest project is to trace everything she buys to find out if it's cruelty-free (both animal and human) and eco-friendly. Fianna and her fiancé are animal rescuers of dogs, cats and birds.
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This is my 1st read for Carol O'Connell & won't be the last! If you're into mystery, crimes, thriller & serial killers then this is one of your good writers out there!
The story revolves about a cop called Kathy Mallory who's on a road trip to discover her past & have a peace of mind. While she's driving on route 66, she walks through a crime scene & gets involved! A serial killer is out there hunting the parents of girls he had killed 30 years ago. He wants to feed on the pain of the parents who have a lil bit of hope in finding their daughters or their remaining to give them a decent burial.
The characters were awesome, all of them! Mallory, Rikers, Charles, Nehlman, Berman etc! But i thought that there were other characters that didn't need to be there in the story! Alot of conversations to go through that didn't help build up the story at all!
The ending of the story was shocking! I didn't see that coming! It was a good interesting read.

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ATS' Winning Form at NSW Exporter Awards
Friday 17 November 2017
Albury based company Australian Target Systems (ATS), was announced the winner of the Defence Industry Export Award at the 2017 NSW Exporter Awards held in Sydney at the start of the month. The award recognises ATS' supply of products and services to 34 military ranges in the United Arab Emirates, representing the world's largest range contract.
Established in 1950, ATS is now one of the most experienced companies in the live fire target system business. With a long history of targetry software development, targetry installation and maintenance of Defence live fire ranges, a change in ownership in 2012 resulted in a rapid transformation of the company's value proposition and footprint.
An increase in its operations saw nine staff grow to 71 employees in Australia and the UAE; with close to an additional 100 subcontractors working for the company in the UAE.
Under the leadership of owner and former soldier Paul Burns, ATS has applied an end-user focus designed to address capability needs and has worked to expand ATS products and services to meet this need.
The aim is to "enhance the judicious lethality and survivability of the Australian soldier in combat," ATS COO Lee Bath said. "ATS is striving to provide this through the delivery of immersive training using realistic targetry effects, leading edge range designs and enhanced facility management."
Bath explained that seeking strong partnerships with like-minded Australian and foreign companies has been a key ingredient in ATS' turnaround over the past five years. ATS has a strong partnership with Swiss targetry company Polytronic, and with Australian design and construction firms in order to provide holistic solutions to live fire training.
ATS is in the process of seeking approval to establish a live field firing range near Collector NSW, in order to sustain business development. They are also broadening their products and services to help meet the needs of the Police and other government agencies.
Albury Wodonga's regional export sector is estimated to be worth $4.07 billion and ATS is acknowledged as an important contributor to its growth, further stimulating the defence industry through partnerships and contracts with local SME's.


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A few shots from around Winslow
I forgot to post this so it's going up now. I'm switching to Wordpress but will keep this alive for awhile.
|Motorcycle Parking
|Pigeons around the corner
|How to be warm on 18° mornings
|Clear Creek
|"Rama-Rama-Rama..." (was a song in an old Ram commercial)
|Memorial on the Plateau
Next post: More Winslow and a little San Antonio-I'm already back.


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Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Crafter's Cafe #185 - Tic Tac Toe ~ DT card
Sketch: Sketch Saturday
Digital image: Star Stampz
Sentiment: Dream Valley
For Boys: City Crafter
Masculine: Cuttlebug Mania
Any: Emerald City Crafts
11 comments:
- cass said...
Fun card Dorothy, I know a number of young men that this would be a perfact card.
- November 15, 2017 at 1:57 PM
- Judy McKay said...
Very cute funny card. Thank you for joining us at the Anything Goes Challenge this week at Polkadoodles. Have a creative week. Judy DT Polkadoodles
- November 16, 2017 at 9:28 PM
- Bev said...
a really modern, bold design. It's great that you chose to join in the fun at Polkadoodles
- November 17, 2017 at 12:58 AM
- Dr Sonia S V said...
Perfect masculine card and love the bright colors and the cute image
Thank you so much for joining us at the Cuttlebugmania Challenge!
Cuttlebugmania Challenge DT
Dr Sonia
- November 17, 2017 at 4:12 AM
- lbwright22-loopylou said...
what a fun image and card! LOVE it! thanks for joining with this weeks Sketch Saturday challenge
- November 17, 2017 at 9:28 AM
- Unknown said...
Nice take on the Sketch for Sketch Saturday.
- November 17, 2017 at 3:07 PM
- Angie said...
Gorgeous make, thanks for joining us for the Polkadoodles Blog Challenge.
Angie DT
- November 18, 2017 at 2:05 AM
- Marina said...
Colourful card with a fun image. Thanks for joining in at City Crafter.
- November 18, 2017 at 10:25 PM
- MagsB said...
What a great card! I love the bright coloured background, and the image is so fun! Thanks for joining in at Dream Valley!
love Mags B x
- November 19, 2017 at 10:55 AM
- Dixie Designs by Gill said...
Great card, this is on of my go to images for boys cards. Thank you for entering in Emerald City Crafts Challenge
- November 22, 2017 at 1:02 AM
- Swissie said...
Great masculine card, Dorothy!
Thank you for joining Cuttlebug Mania this time!
Swissie DT
- November 30, 2017 at 3:38 PM


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In the world of data, it is not wise to jump on a problem at hand as soon as we get the data. We need to work on it a little before we can do that. It is like taking part in a racing event. We first understand the car we are driving, get comfortable driving it and then the circuit where we will be racing. We always try to be very clear about these two things before we start the race, this will help us to give our best to the race. Similarly, once we get the data we should not directly jump into getting the end result. We should first try to be very comfortable with the data, know the data, get some interesting insights out of it and then remove some roadblocks which will be present in our data before moving to get our result.
This very first phase and the foundation step where we get to know and understand the data is called Exploratory Data Analysis. Normally when we look at the countless number of data points in our it is very difficult to make sense of the data. EDA helps us to make sense of data.
It Gives Some Very Interesting Insights Out Of Data Such As:
- Listing the outliers and anomalies in our data
- Identifying the most important variables
- Understanding the relationship between variables
- Checking for any errors such as missing variables or incorrect entries
- Know the data types of the dataset – whether continuous/discreet/categorical
- Understand how the data is distributed
- Testing a hypothesis or checking assumptions related to a specific model
Exploratory data analysis (EDA) is very different from classical statistics. It is not about fitting models, parameter estimation, or testing hypotheses, but is about finding information in data and generating ideas.
For example, imagine there is an application which helps novice musicians to learn different notes using the microphone in his phone which detects whether he is playing the right note or not and accordingly instruct him to improve wherever necessary. Once he learns the notes, it also helps them learn how to play popular compositions using the vast amount of data fed into the algorithm. Now they wanted to understand what is it that these new musicians like the most and how can they build a better engagement for their audience. On doing EDA, we uncovered some interesting insights which might make our client re-think their strategy about targeting only novice musicians. New musicians were using the app but majorly because of the engagement level and the referral of the intermediate level of musicians that the app become so popular.
Exploratory Data Analysis benefits stakeholders by confirming if the questions they're asking are right or not and not just check whether the data is technically correct or not. Exploratory Data Analysis is all about getting to know and understand your data before making any assumptions about it or taking any steps in the direction of Data Mining. Exploratory Data Analysis provides utmost value to any business by helping scientists understand if the results they've produced are correctly interpreted and if they apply to the required business contexts.
Even though there are many algorithms in Machine Learning, EDA is considered to be one of the most critical part to understand and drive the business. EDA also intuitively helps to identify whether the data which we are using has any logical errors. Take an example where we have individuals whose age is above 25 years and we have their corresponding strength. EDA here can be used to check the relationship between these two variables. In an ideal scenario, it should give us negative relationship wherein as the age goes up the strength of an individual would go down. However, if we do a 2D plotting of these variables and find that the strength is going up as age is going up then we will investigate as to why is it showing such an unusual behaviour so I can avoid any mistake when I am building Machine Learning models. If we miss the step of EDA, a lot of such problems go unnoticed and can negatively impact our end result. Performing this step right will give any organisation the necessary confidence in their data – which will eventually allow them to start deploying powerful machine learning algorithms. However, ignoring this crucial step can lead you to build your models on a very shaky foundation.
EDA being championed and promoted by John Tukey made way for many new developments. R programming language which is based on S is a direct inspiration of the EDA approach to data in the 1970s. There is an arsenal of tools which we can use from statistics, mathematics, etc. to do exploratory data analysis. Normally EDA uses methods such as univariate visualization and summary, bivariate and
EDA gives us a lot of insights into the data provided we use it very well and to do that we should have a good domain knowledge or if we somewhat lack in that category we should try to work closely with someone who can fill in the gaps of our knowledge. EDA deals with a lot of visualization so not only the one who works on the data but all parties who
Some Tools Which We Use For Exploratory Data Analysis Are:
- 2D Scatter plot: A 2D Scatter plot as the name suggest would take the data point present in our data set and would then plot on a chart which will have
a X-axisand Y-axis.
- Pair plots: A pair plot is a collection of 2D scatter plot which helps us to get an understanding of the features when they are more than 2 variables.
- Histograms: Histogram is used to understand the frequency of a variable in a bar-type charts.
- Probability Density Function: The PDF is used to find the probability of the random variable falling within a particular range of values.
- Cumulative Distribution Function: The cumulative distribution function is the probability that the variable takes a value less than or equal to the value under consideration.
- Other plotting tools such as 3D Scatter plot, Bi-plots, Contour plots,
Box plots, Violin plots, Probability plots, Lag plots, Block plots, Youden plots, Stem and leaf plot, PhenoPlot, Scatterplot Smoothing, Diamond Plot, Sunflower Plot
- Dimensionality reduction techniques such as Multidimensionality scaling, Principal component analysis, Multilinear PCA, Nonlinear dimensionality reduction
- Projection methods such as grand tour, guided tour,
andmanual tour
- Quantitative techniques such as Median polish,
Trimean, Ordination
- Data traces
- Multi-vari chart
- Run chart
- Pareto chart
- Bubble Chart
- Parallel coordinates
- Odds ratio
- Targeted projection pursuit
- Linear Regression
- K-Means clustering
- Rootogram
- Resistant Time Series Smoothing
- Resistant Curve Fitting
- Wind Rose
- Heat Map
- Population Pyramid
- Trend Analysis
We will over a period of time look into all of these tools and how to effectively use them for our data and keep on adding new tools to our arsenal.


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Questions to Ask When Your Child is Starting Preschool: What Parents Should Be Asking Teachers
When my first born was ready to attend preschool, I was fortunate that my two nieces already attended a wonderful school. So, we just followed in their footsteps. I did not have to do the legwork that my sister-in-law went through to find this great little preschool. Once I became director of that same preschool, I began to see parents coming to me with questions and learned what important information I needed to share with families so that they were comfortable with their decision to entrust their child to our care.
Questions Regarding the Classroom
Some of the most important questions to ask when your child starts preschool pertain to the day-to-day operations within the classroom itself.
What is the teacher-student ratio? States will have minimum requirements regarding teacher-student ratio, so do an internet search for preschool student-teacher ratios for your state before hand.
What is the daily schedule? Knowing the daily schedule can help you better prepare your child for that first day of school. It
also gives you a good idea of the balance of play-time and learning-time.
What is the discipline policy? How and when are parents notified if there are discipline issues? Know in advance how discipline problems are handled. At the preschool level, there still needs to be teaching going on in this area, most children are not used to socializing within such a large group of same-aged children.
Does the school require that students are potty trained? Also, how do they handle bathroom breaks if there is not a bathroom in the classroom. If it is an issue, you may ask how independent the children need to be when using the restroom.
Is there a snack time and if so, how does it work? If your child has food allergies, this is of particular concern.
What is the teaching philosophy? Academically, do they use phonics or another teaching methodology. Do they use centers? Is there a concentrated learning time built in.
How do they handle children with separation anxiety? It happens when you least expect it! My oldest started having separation anxiety about 3 months into the school year….one of the hardest things I ever had to deal with!
Do you hold parent-teacher conferences? Will we receive a progress report? If so, how often? Knowing when, and how often, you will get updates on your child's progress is a natural question for any parent. If you are not told on your first visit, then be sure to ask. Most, if not all, preschools have a reporting policy.
Questions Regarding the School
You may also need to address some questions about the school as a whole.
- How much is tuition and when is it due? You may also want to ask how you go about making payments.
- How long has the school been in existence? I know in Ohio, you can check whether a school has ever had any licensing violations.
- Is there a great deal of staff turnover?
- Do you have a phone chain or other means of notifying families in emergencies? This could be for weather emergencies or other situations where the school is either closed for the day or if students need to be sent home early.
- What are the qualifications for staff regarding CPR and First Aid? In most cases, at the minimum, there must be one adult in the building who is certified at all times.
- Does each preschool class follow the same curriculum?
- If I have a problem with a teacher, is it best to go directly to him/her or should these issues be brought to the director/principal?
Information Overload
Don't feel like you have to ask all of these questions at once. Choose the questions that are most important to you at first and make a checklist. Then as you receive information packets or parent handbooks, you may find a lot of these questions are answered there. There is no magic list of questions to ask when your child is starting preschool. These only serve as a starting point and a guideline, looking at information that is helpful as you begin to find a preschool that best fits the needs of your child.
If teachers of staff seem put off when you so ask questions, then ask yourself if that is indeed a good sign! If approached the right way, these questions should be answered during a parent meeting. I had a parent come in with a notebook of questions when they were just on a classroom visit. I was teaching and in charge of the class, so that was not the appropriate time to go over these types of concerns. But, if you feel you need time to sit down and go over such things, choose a time when the teacher or administrator can give you their full attention without detracting from their responsibilities at the preschool.


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Apple TV 4K launched: Supports HDR, here are specifications and features
At the Apple keynote event today, after the Apple Watch 3, the company also unveiled the new Apple TV 4K. As the name suggests, the TV brings support for 4K resolution and HDR. In the product demo, the TV's output looked promising. It shows sharper details and richer colors.
At the heart of the Apple TV is an A10X fusion chip, the same as the iPad Pro. It runs the latest version of TV OS. For content, Apple says its has been using with the largest production houses in the world, to bring HDR and 4K content at the same price as HD. Apple will upgrade content for uses to HDR, free of cost.
Apple also announced that it will team up with Netflix and Amazon Prime Video for 4K HDR original content on iTunes.


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Survey & Awards
The Survey:
The Atlantico Digital Survey is a yearly canvass, analysis and evaluation of the marketing campaigns, offerings and impacts that firms in the marketplaces we operate in have to offer. Details of the forthcoming survey are published here.
As part of our survey, we canvass many firms in the areas of professional services, leisure and transportation. Each year awards are handed to the successful organisations that win one of several categories surveyed in the report as well as a number of unique special awards to firms that have created an outstanding marketing campaign or offering.
In addition to the survey and it's metrics, each category has specialist, often independent judges, picked from peers, practitioners and experts in the sector, who not only look for best practice in the category area, but also how it is felt the entry fits into that firms overall marketing strategy.
The awards team at Atlantico Digital would like to thank all the judges for giving their time and expertise to the awards .
If your firm is wishing to be included in the forthcoming survey you should ensure your details are registered by contacting us at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Mercer County, NJHome Menu
- Mercer County Board of Social Services
- Mercer County Community College
- Mercer County Improvement Authority
- Mercer County Park Commission
- Mercer County Library System
- Mercer County Prosecutor's Office
- Mercer County Technical Schools
- Mercer Property Information Portal
- New Jersey Courts
- Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Mercer County
- State of New Jersey
- Cure Insurance Arena
- Trenton Thunder
- Wildlife Center Friends
- Airport Development
Is Mercer Open?
On rare occasions Mercer County Government offices are forced to close unexpectedly. If county offices should need to close outside normal business hours, that message will be delivered as quickly as possible on Facebook or on Twitter. For closings due to inclement weather, you may visit any of the information sources listed below, which post closings at their discretion.
The following commercial stations also carry County announcements, although we cannot assure their timeliness:
Court Closings
The Superior Court offices in Trenton may have a different closing schedule than the County in the event of inclement weather. Listen to NJ 101.5 FM or go to their website for Superior Court closing information.


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Actress Shraddha Kapoor was recently in the news after reports claiming that she has decided to hire a new team (managers and PR) began to make rounds. It was stated that she is unhappy with her current team's performance and thus wants to have a new set of managers and PR professionals.
However, the 'Aashiqui 2' actress has refuted to all the rumors. Miffed by all the fake stories, she took to her twitter profile to post a clarification on all the reports surrounding her. She tweeted:
Her recent films Rock On 2' and 'Ok Jaanu' had failed to impress the audience. Since then, it was speculated that Shraddha might now change her team.
On the professional front, she will be soon seen in Mohit Suri's 'Half Girlfriend'.
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Sorry about the day delay on the winners. I honestly completely forgot about announcing the winners last night, and I apologize for that. Anyway, we've randomly picked two winners out of a hat for the MAG beta code contest, and we'd like to congratulate our two winners.
They are: Meus and ajkla92. Check your inboxes for the redemption code. Enjoy MAG.


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Cooler Master GeminII S524 CPU Cooler Review (Page 6)
Test System & Test Results
TweakTown uses a different method for testing CPU heatsinks which allows for an even playing field across all product tests. We feel that by using the same ambient temperature and strict lab-like testing procedures we are able to accurately compare one product to another. More information on our testing procedure can be found in the T.E.C.C. article here.
In the idle testing, the Cooler Master GeminII S524 didn't do so well against the others on the charts. While there is no excuse for being a poor performer, with all things considered; a quiet fan, less fins to make the cooler more compatible and it's still only eight degrees from the best coolers. For $40, that is pretty good!
The load testing is where the reality sets in. Our TEC is set to mimic a CPU that was pretty power hungry, and as you can see, this cooler didn't do so well at these levels. So let's just say that this cooler isn't intended for extremists, but rather as a creative multi-functional solution for cooling a lower TDP chip under control. For something like a 2500K or 2600K, this cooler will cope with the heat load, but our testing is more on point with say an i7 920 as far as temperatures are concerned.
The noise levels emitted from the S524 were, well, great! This fan with 7.5V surging through it only produced 30 dB of noise level, and in reality that is barely audible even with your ear right next to the fan.
This fan produced what I expected on the load testing as well. With the fan being so quiet at idle, it is no surprise to me that this 44 dB reading is all the noise I got with 12V of power to the fan. So while it may not take on the top power drawing processors very well, it will do it in near silence at any level.
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stock prices and capital expenditures have moved together with high correlation over time.
Capital Expenditures & Stock Prices Traditionally, stock prices and capital expenditures have moved together with high correlation over time.
– Field Of Dreams, 1989 The stock market rally has been lacking something over the last several years.
Conversely, if business investment ends up contracting, it would effectively take wrecking ball to the post-crisis stock market rally along with it.
Looking forward, a long overdue pick-up in capital spending will be required to keep the stock market going to the upside.
In many respects, the stock market rally along the way reflected the hope that capital expenditures would eventually pick up.
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Soft Start Seen For Indonesia Stock Market
For comments and feedback: contact firstname.lastname@example.com://www.rttnews.comThis article appears in: Politics , World Markets , US Markets , Stocks
The Jakarta Composite Index now rests just below the 5,565-point plateau, although the market is expected to open lower again on Friday.
The Dow shed 4.72 points or 0.1 percent to 20,656.58, while the NASDAQ dipped 3.95 points or 0.1 percent to 5,817.69 and the S&P 500 fell 2.49 points or 0.1 percent to 2,345.96.
WTI light sweet crude oil was down 35 cents to $47.69 a barrel, stuck near its lowest levels since November.
The European markets were up and the U.S. bourses were down, and the Asian markets figure to follow the latter lead.
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IMPLICATION=POSITIVEFed policy & interest rates: We expect the Federal Reserve (Fed) to hike interest rates twice more in 2017 following last week's (March 15, 2017) well-telegraphed 0.25% hike.
We have identified 16 keys for stocks?—?many of them policy related?—?for the rest of 2017 and assessed their implications forthe market.
The latest reading near 58 for the ISM Manufacturing Index, historically a good earnings indicator, suggests continued earnings growth (above 50 indicates expansion).
Fourth quarter earnings season was generally good, with high-single-digit S&P 500 earnings gains and supportive guidance that helped 2017 estimates hold up relatively well.
IMPLICATION=POSITIVEInterest deductibility: Current tax policy enables companies to deduct the interest paid on their debt to lower their tax bill.
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I apologise to all those who are regular readers of my blog; you probably feel like I am flogging the Walk for Women to death. However, we have newcomers amongst us who have come to find out about it, so I'm going to tell you all about it again! 🙂
On Saturday 11th June, I'll be taking part in the Walk For Women, a fundraising walkathon for the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia, where the amazing Dr Catherine Hamlin and her wonderful team are working to surgically cure women of fistulae. I visited the hospital in March 2010, and it was an incredible experience. I have written about my visit in the latest issue of Inspirations magazine (Issue 70).
The Walk For Women is a 50km walk across Sydney, though you don't have to do all 50km. Due to major health issues over the last few years, I don't feel it is necessary or wise to push my body to the limits and do all 50, so I'll be doing just over 20km. However, while we're considering that a 50km walk would take most people about 10 hours, and my 20km will probably take a little less than 4 hours, spare a thought for those women with fistulae in Ethiopia and other developing countries who have to walk many days to get to medical care, also coping with the horrible nature of a fistula.
Putting it simply, a fistula is a hole. The type of fistula we are talking about is a birth-injury brought on by extensive labouring without medical intervention. It creates a hole, meaning that liquid or solid waste (or both) constantly leak from the woman. This causes her to be outcast by her husband, family and community, leaving her destitute. The only cure is surgery.
I can surely do 4 hours of walking to help these women, who for all intents and purposes are just like you and me but with a birth-injury that makes them detestable to those around them. And I hope that you will be able to sponsor me doing it. If you'd like to donate (and all donations, large and small, are welcome) please go to the Hamlin Fistula Fund website Donate page. Please enter your details. If you are not in Australia, please put 0000 in the postcode field. For "Event", please put "Walk for Women YStanton" so that the fund can track donations for the individual walkers. For Australian residents, donations of $2 and over are tax deductible.
It would also be lovely if you could let me know of your donation, so that it encourages me in my endeavour, and makes me feel warm and fuzzy. 🙂
Please do support the wonderful work that Dr Catherine Hamlin and the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital are doing to give women with fistulae a second chance at life, by sponsoring me in the Walk for Women. I came away from my visit to the hospital feeling that the work they do there is very right.
My previous posts on the Walk for Women also include photos of the hospital and Ethiopia, so you might find them interesting:
Launch of inspirations 70
Training for the walk for women
Walk for women
You can also find out more about the hospital and its work at its websites:
Hamlin Fistula International
Hamlin Fistula Relief and Aid Fund, Australia


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Each month, mspninc.com will feature a tour story from the archives of Minnesota Snowmobiling and Wisconsin Snowmobile News. In the Rear View is a way to look back on the adventures we've had, while hopefully providing you with inspiration and ideas to plan your next snowmobile trip.
With Memorial Day just behind us, we find it only fitting that our first look back is on a ride that honors our nation's military. This story was originally published in the March 2014 issue of Wisconsin Snowmobile News.


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Santa Fe is a town in North America, it's high up in the Rockies mountain range making it a curious place. The sun seems to be always shining, the air is clear, it is dessert like and dry with pinyon and cacti growing. However, the ground can be covered in snow from November to April.
Unlike some other parts of North Amerca, New Mexico is steeped in culture. Santa Fe has a huge artists community, with creatives and actors in a huge abundance. There is rich diversity with a huge Hispanic/Mexican influence in feast day celebrations and customs. On Christmas Eve we visited Canyon Road in Santa Fe to experience the farolitos and luminaries. A tradition in New Mexico, initially these small bonfires were lit to light the way for people to go to mass on Christmas Eve. More recently children would carry farolitos as they reenact end the Las Posados. Now people use the lights to decorate there path to there door and to out line there roofline. People visit from miles around. Some say there is ever more spiritualism with thing this custome, as the lights also guide the spirits. It's a time to reflect and remember too.
Also, however, Native Americans stand assertively within this mixed.
Yesterday, my family went to visit Cochiti Pueblo near Albuquerque
it was an amazing experience, we gained a small insight in to a completely different way of life. One that has deep routed beliefs in tradition and ritual but has been touched on by modern day American life. The dancers and drummers learnt a routine, steeped in meaning, orally as history is past down that way. The dancing went on for hours, many subtle meanings were completely lost on us as outsiders.
Our Christmas Day was peppered with traditions coming from all around the world, we had stockings for the children, a Christmas tree, we cooked and ate a turkey roast followed by a British trifle, New Zealand Kiwi pavlova and a chocolate log. We then lit the kiva outside in a adobe walled patio.


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Henry Lawson
Henry Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922 / Grenfell, New South Wales)
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Where do I begin?!
I'm back from the most unforgettable ten days of my summer 🙂
Let's be honest – part of me thought that, at twenty-six, I was a bit old for World Youth Day, but Christ ALWAYS surprises.
WYD has been full of so many diverse experiences. One of the best things was our group: we had a group of 85 amazing, talented, generous and fun young people. They came from many different backgrounds, schools and universities, and it was beautiful to watch friendships developing over the week and the group becoming really close. On the one hand, WYD is an inspiring experience of the universal, worldwide Church. But on the other hand, our group shared a more intimate experience of the Church each morning – we were blessed to have our own chapel in the crypt of the church where we stayed, and here we had a half-hour meditation each morning, followed by Mass, and on some days, catechesis. For me, these were really worthwhile moments of the day – it ensured that World Youth Day was an interior experience for us, as well as the more dramatic, external, exciting experience…
It might seem incredible that, as one person in a crowd of 1.5 million, you can experience the personal call to conversion. You might think that in a crowd that size, you feel pretty anonymous and insignificant. But amazingly, the experience of World Youth Day is the opposite. I was aware, without a shadow of a doubt, that Christ had called each one of us personally to be there. He was intimately present to each young person's heart, knowing and loving us more deeply than we know and love ourselves. That love is experienced too through the great love of the Holy Father for the youth, who stayed with us in the rain, who did not abandon us. The depth of the call to personal conversion definitely takes you by surprise – Christ wants total holiness from us, not mediocrity, nothing half-hearted. He showed the completeness of his love, and invites us to give our complete selves too.
Finally – the role of suffering in World Youth Day! Yes, the Holy Father offers a plenary indulgence to the pilgrims, surely because the sacrificial aspect is like Purgatory itself! One of the life-giving things about the penitential parts of World Youth Day is that you are all in this together. Nowhere have I felt this more than in Madrid. On the five-hour walk in blazing heat to Cuatro Vientos, there was a severe shortage of water and shade. When we arrived at Cuatro Vientos, there seemed to be even less water and shade and, to top it all, a shortage of toilets. And stampedes of people crushing together whenever you wanted to get anywhere. Several people in our group fainted. Extreme conditions bring out both the worst and the best in people. It humbles you, because you realise how much you need the people around you, and how much they need you. World Youth Day forces you to forget your independence, your needs, and the standards of comfort you expect in your normal life, and to stay in solidarity with others. You have a choice – either you can fight for your own needs over others; or you can let go and realise your solidarity with everyone else who shares the same needs you have.
I believe that somehow, this element of sacrifice and suffering heightens the joy that is characteristic of WYD. The same goes with sleeping on the floor and cold, communal showers for ten days – I am sure our group was closer and stronger because of these things.
Thank you, Holy Father, for being with us, for loving us! ESTA ES LA JUVENTUD DEL PAPA!!!


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Research Article - Journal of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics (2017) Volume 2, Issue 1
The role of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) in treatment monitoring of acute lymphoblastic leukemia pediatric patients
Insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and IGF-binding proteins (IGFBPs) have been reported to play an important role in tumor proliferation. This study aimed to investigate the validity of measuring IGF-I in the serum of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) as additional markers in diagnosis and follow-up of the disease. IGF-I was determined in the sera of 33 ALL patients at time of diagnosis and after an intensification phase of chemotherapy (IPC) that lasts about 6 months as well as in 21 healthy children as a control group using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) technique. At time of diagnosis, serum IGF-I was significantly lower than those in the control group. After IPC, serum IGF-I returned to their normal levels. In conclusion, the changes in IGF-I could be useful to support diagnosis and follow-up of children with ALL.Author(s): Nabeela Sawaf, Jomana Saleh


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Turbo Oven-Baked Cajun Chicken Breasts Recipe
Turbo oven-baked Cajun chicken breasts recipe. Chicken breasts with sweet potatoes and cajun spices baked in a turbo (halogen) oven. Very easy and simple chicken breasts recipe. Many people ask: "What is it turbo (halogen oven)?" According to https://learn.compactappliance.com/what-is-a-halogen-oven/ : "These ovens use a bright halogen light to produce heat, which ...Read more
Halogen Oven Baked Tomato-Pepper Soup Recipe
Halogen oven baked tomato-pepper soup recipe. This is a really delicious tomato soup cooked in a halogen (turbo) oven. If you desire a more wholesome soup, add 2 oz (60 g) of dried red lentils. Boil dried lentils in a water until soft, then add them together with the water ...Read more
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Oven baked chicken drumsticks.This very simple and easy chicken recipe.Chicken drumsticks with salt and black pepper cooked in halogen (turbo) oven.If you like spicy chicken, replace black pepper with paprika or hot red pepper.Serve oven baked chicken drumsticks hot.Read more
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Oven baked chicken with wine and tarragon sauce. Chicken breasts with dry white wine , bacon and tarragon sauce cooked halogen (turbo) oven.Yummy!Read more
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Oven baked honeyed chicken breasts. Chicken breasts with honey,lemon,lime and orange juices cooked in halogen (turbo) oven.Very easy and delicious chicken recipe.Ready in 25 minutes!Read more
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Oven baked chili chicken in breadcrumbs. Spicy chicken fillets in breadcrumbs cooked in halogen (turbo) oven. This is a really delicious dish, made all the better by marinating for at least 1 hour, before adding breadcrumbs.Read more
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Oven baked honey-ginger pears.Very easy and delicious dessert cooked in halogen(turbo) oven.Read more
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Oven baked hot and sticky chicken drumsticks.Chicken drumsticks with honey and spices cooked in halogen (turbo) oven.very easy and delicious chicken recipe.Read more


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The Executive Council meeting in session
Dubai council agrees series of economic stimulus
DUBAI, June 7, 2018
The Executive Council of Dubai has approved suggestions to slash government fees among a series of economic stimulus aiming to reduce the cost of doing business in Dubai and further cement position as destination of choice for investments.
The meeting, led by Crown Prince of Dubai and chairman of the Executive Council of Dubai Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, reviewed a number of topics in the presence of Deputy Ruler of Dubai and First Deputy Chairman of Dubai Executive Council Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and Second Deputy Chairman of the Executive Council Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, reported Dubai Media Office.
The board members also reviewed the objectives of the strategic programs along with the time frame of execution. The new policy aims to slash "market fees" imposed by Dubai Municipality from 5 per cent to 2.5 per cent, in addition to scrapping 19 fees related to aviation industry, as Dubai aims to attract foreign investments worth more than Dh1 billion ($272 million) in the aviation sector.
The Council also directed Land Department to waive late payment fees on property registration imposed by Dubai Land Department for 60 days which used to be 4 per cent.
The Council also put a freeze on school fees for 2018-2019, where all private schools won't be allowed to increase the school fees during the next academic year.


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A portion of the Halemaʻumaʻu Crater wall collapsed at 1:20 pm today, impacting the lava lake and triggering a small explosion of spatter and a robust particle-laden plume.
Fist-size clasts were deposited around the closed Halemaʻumaʻu visitor overlook.
A sequence of still images taken from the webcam positioned at the closed Halemaʻumaʻu overlook, spanning about six seconds.
The collapse originated from a portion of the wall directly below the webcam, but just out of view. Large pieces of molten spatter can be seen flying through the air and being deposited on the crater walls below the camera.
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text: Today, some of our executives presented at the Consumer Analyst Group of New York. "Our advantaged platform positions us to be among the fastest-growing consumer companies with substantial margin upside and strong EPS growth while also returning significant cash to our shareholders," said Irene Rosenfeld, Chairman and CEO. Read the full news release as well as important information on forward-looking statements.


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It really doesn't matter if you are going away for two days or two weeks, there are a variety of things that you need to take care of ahead of time. Sure, you probably already got your bags packed, hotels booked, and flights planned, but what about your home? Do you have your home prepared for a smooth return? Whether you are traveling in the winter or the summer, there are a variety of things that you need to do to ensure that your home remains safe and secure while you are away.
Setting The Right Temperatures
Did you know that water freezes at 32 degrees? If you are traveling in the winter, this can be a crucial thing to know, as you don't want your pipes to freeze while you are away or you will come home to a total disaster. In addition to this, humidity and heat can play a major role in the home's longevity. While you probably don't want to waste money and resources on electricity, you do want to ensure that your home stays at a reasonable temperature during your departure. This is where a programmable thermostat can come in handy. Make sure that you set the heating to 85 degrees and the cooling to 69 degrees. This will ensure that the humidity doesn't affect the home and you won't have to deal with frozen pipes.
Consider Shutting Off The Plumbing
Whether you are planning your own personal vacation or you are partaking in one of the Mauritius Tour Packages, you should consider shutting off the main water valve to the home. In the event that the pipes do freeze or you develop a water leak while you are gone, shutting off the water can help greatly. Your washing machine, dishwasher, and sinks really don't need water while you are gone, so why leave the water on in the home? This handy little tip could prevent you from coming home to a house full of water.
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Just because you are leaving the home it doesn't mean that there isn't a chance of an electrical fire. In fact, you might be surprised to learn how many homes burn down each year due to electrical related issues. This is why it is not only imperative to ensure that your fire detectors are working and up-to-date, but you need to ensure that they are connected to an alarm system or the local fire department. It really won't do your home any good if the alarms are blaring while your house is burning down if they aren't tied to some sort of emergency alert system.
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Just because you are away from your home it doesn't mean that the rest of the world isn't going to continue rolling on. This means the mailman is going to arrive on a regular basis, the gardener might show up, and you might even have some pets that need feeding. This is why you need to assign an emergency contact that can drive by the home every day and take care of these issues. The contact should have safe and secure access to the home, as well as a clear layout of the security system. This will prevent any unwanted security issues from arising. Also, make sure the individual or individuals have a contact number to reach you at all times.


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Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, of Argentina, the first Latino pope, the first from the Western Hemisphere, the first non-European since the election of St. Gregory of Syria in 731, and the first Jesuit ever to be sit on the papal throne. And also, the second pope in over a thousand years to choose a totally new name. And what a name.
Pope Francis on Wikipedia
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Positions on Moral and Political Issues - no surprises on his social conservatism to be found, but his stance on economic injustice and poverty make some really interesting reading, especially in context of his history.
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Questions remain over Pope Francis' role during Argentina's dictatorship
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(Note: The use of 'Dirty War' is apparently extremely questionable, so I'm only using it here because it's in the title of the article.)
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CNN Vatican analyst: Pope Francis' name choice 'precedent shattering'
Pope Francis chose his name in honor of St. Francis of Assisi because he is a lover of the poor, said Vatican deputy spokesman Thomas Rosica.
Above and beyond everything else, I'm very curious about a man who takes his name from Francis of Assisi, patron of the poor and disenfranchised and--right, here it gets interesting:
After a pilgrimage to Rome, where he joined the poor in begging at the doors of the churches, he said he had a mystical vision of Jesus Christ in the country chapel of San Damiano, just outside of Assisi, in which the Icon of Christ Crucified said to him, "Francis, Francis, go and repair My house which, as you can see, is falling into ruins."
I don't even know if it's possible to adequately comment on that.
Question: does anyone have an English language reference or workable summary for the Aparecida Document? I mean, this was from 2007 condemning child abuse, child exploitation, and child prostitution as demographic terrorism, which is a term I haven't heard before, and even if it's introduced as culturally (in general) a problem, the timing on its release is kind of breathtaking.
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Google's Android platform has a reputation for being vulnerable to hacking and malware, but the reality is that developers and hackers are continuing to play the a coding cat and mouse game. There are many scary statistics used in headlines detailing the number of devices that are potentially vulnerable to a security flaw. Stagefright was seen as being a potential hazard to around a billion devices, and the latest big name issue, Quadrooter, which is seen as being a potential threat to around 900 million Qualcomm-powered Android devices. We are seeing hackers and security investigators uncovering deeper and deeper issues in the Android platform code, but this points towards something often overlooked: the deeper we must investigate to find a critical glitch, the more hardened the outer layers of the operating system are. This is a simplistic perspective, but read on.
Mobile device security developers like to release scary statistics almost as though they are trying to frighten potential customers into downloading and using their safer-device products. For example, mobile security solution provider, 360 Security, explained earlier in the year that the damage attributed to mobile ransomware for all of 2015 amounted to 95.6 billion won (approximately £65 million or $86 million). Their statistics show that 900,000 devices were infected between June 2013 and the first quarter 2016. Another security business, AhnLab, collected almost 50,000 malicious app samples in the first half of 2016 designed to root a device. Once a device is rooted – that is, once third party applications can gain access to the whole of the storage and not just the ordinarily permitted space – the device is effectively compromised and can be made to do pretty much anything the developers want it to. AhnLab explain that the number of rooting applications is around four times that of the second half of 2015 – this is a relatively new trend in mobile device malware.
Where is the blame for this? As always, it is a complicated question to answer. Google has made some great steps to harden Android by releasing software patches on a monthly basis. Some manufacturers or brands, such as Google's Nexus, BlackBerry, Samsung and LG (the latter two for some devices) take these critical vulnerability patches and apply it to their device software. Other companies, such as HTC and Motorola, do not give Google's critical security patches the same priority. Motorola will get around to updating devices and HTC go so far as to hide the patch date update in devices running Android 6.0 Marshmallow, presumably so customers don't realise the software on their handset is six months behind. It's time for manufacturers to step up and take security updates seriously. Google also use the Bouncer application monitoring system on the Google Play Store, which is designed to detect malicious applications as they are uploaded. Bouncer is not perfect but it helps: mobile app security business, Seworks, states that around 80% of applications available on the Google Play Store are "vulnerable to hacking" and 166 of the top 200 free applications are "prone to the possibility of decompile-based forgery and falsification." In other words, malicious developers can take the original application and re-make it with embedded malware. Bouncer should detect these issues, but it's an arms race between the hackers and those who would keep our devices safe.
The biggest threat is still seen as going off-platform for third party applications and games. Downloading a non-Google Play Store application from an unknown third party application store with no equivalent to the Bouncer service is asking for trouble. Google provides a toggle for allowing customers to install non-Play Store applications; sticking with the Google Play Store and using a device that is actively supported with monthly updates goes a long way towards keeping malware able of damaging our data off our devices. We should also be encouraging legitimate developers to harden their applications to make it harder to decompile and clone, and of course we absolutely need to encourage manufacturers to update their devices – all of their devices – on the same monthly schedule as Google.


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The state said in a lawsuit that David Minghella excavated an 800-foot-long trench in wetlands on land in Moultonborough that was to be subdivided for development. The work was done at the direction of landowner Robert DeCrescenzo without a permit.
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Immediately after Pope Francis became the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics this week, he prayed for guidance.
And it's little wonder. He is the newly elected CEO of the Vatican, a sovereign state, and faces the same crisis as does Washington or Brussels. His bureaucracy is beset by a nasty combination of fiscal constraints due to huge legal settlements, a major banking scandal, brand challenges, declining support, rogue operatives and warring factions.
Some of his followers avow he has an edge over other leaders because he has a pipeline into Divine wisdom. Unfortunately, that hasn't seemed to help most of his predecessors with the result today that the Catholic Church finds itself in the same quagmire as most of the world's nation-states, organizations and movements.
The United States, despite a currency mantra of "In God We Trust", has also been forced to undergo serious soul-searching following its 2008 fiscal catastrophe. Reforms ensued and there is much cacophony and fear about the future.
However, despite the rhetoric, the country's fiscal situation is finally being addressed. But Washington's solution was not due to Divine inspiration, but because its President "belled the cat" in August 2011. That's when the debt ceiling crisis led all sides to agree to sweeping cuts, in defense and social programs equally, unless a deal could be negotiated by the end of 2012.
No grand bargain ensued so on March 1, 18 months later, mandated spending cuts began. This is labeled "sequestration" and, despite bleating and pleading and threats of economic Armageddon, this will be the only way to bypass the gridlocked American political system.
What's interesting is that both sides say they hate it and yet both sides do nothing about it except complain. This is because they secretly love it. Sequestration is the fiscal gift that keeps giving: cuts are mandated which means that the blame is diffused widely across both parties.
The stock market also loves sequestration. So does the U.S. dollar. Captains of industry love it. It's bullish for stocks, jobs and the economy. Sequestration is, in essence, the only grand bargain possible wherever consensus is impossible.
"The ideal policy would be not sequester, but a process by which statesmen aware of government's legitimate functions rationally debate and carefully identify the ways and means of providing for such functions, without violating rights, without imposing prejudicial taxation, without issuing unsound money, and without burdening the economy. Non-essential and improper government functions would be judiciously defunded and dismantled. But today we lack this ideal. A sequester is a second-best method: at least it slows an otherwise reckless and runaway spending rate," wrote Richard Salsman in Forbes Thursday. He is President of advisory firm InterMarket Forecasting Inc.
Mr. Salsman is not an apologist for national profligacy. However, he is opposed to the demonization of what's going on. Half of the cuts will come out of the Pentagon, not difficult because it is unwinding two expensive wars. The other half will not cut sacred cows such as Social Security and Medicare. They are not only exempt, but self-financing through separate payroll taxes. Those reforms will be separate.
"The sequester is none of what most people claim it is: it does not entail actual `cuts' in spending, it does not affect spending `across the board,' it is not `automatic,' and it is not `arbitrary.' Above all, sequester is not harmful to the economy," he added.
(The real solution for the United States is to prune its defense spending in half. This will be the job of the newly approved Secretary of Defense and the public is being softened up for this. Headlines about cyber security and hacking are setting the stage to replace America's over-sized traditional armed forces with cheaper cyber and intelligence forces.)
Salsman says sequestration is bullish and Washington's dissonance and delusion is also instructive. "The reality is that the fact that sequester has happened at all is positive if only because it exposes the absurdity of the apocalyptic warnings of opponents. Perhaps more people will come to realize that the minor spending-growth restraint entailed in the sequester not only entails no disaster, but is a positive development fully consistent with a steadily rising stock market and more robust job gains. Ideally, in time, they might even come to recognize that the bigger the cuts (in non-essentials), the better."
Clearly, governance, divine or secular, is daunting. The Internet exposes skullduggery and stupidity whether it involves sexual abuse of children by priests or exploitation of people as a result of subprime loansharking by Wall Street.
Even worse, institutions are unresponsive, fossilized and outdated.
The conclave of Catholic cardinals who elected their Pope this week did not announce their choice by email, text, twitter or press conference. They sent out smoke signals as they have done for centuries. Likewise, Congress and Parliaments have not changed much since their 18th century prototypes and remain crippled by paper burden, filibustering and gauntlets of bureaucrats or committees.
Through it all, however, progress inches along. The sequester is one example of doing the right thing cleverly. Another is Brussels' technnique with its brinkmanship, overblown rhetoric, poisonous punditry, media spin or even Molotov cocktails. All serve to kick the can down the road and prevent a meltdown.
So, these days, all's well that simply ends. Ending well is not an option. The audiences are so diverse that no one will be happy with the ending. The new Pope faces a flock divided into hardliners and liberals who want decentralization, transparency and a softening of the church's stance on alternative lifestyles.
Both sets of believers are destined for disappointment, just as are the Republicans who believe America will only be great if its welfare state is dismantled or the Democrats who want to increase taxes on the rich and increase spending.
The only unanimity is that everyone wants to go to "Heaven", but they cannot agree on a definition and nobody is willing to die to get there.


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On Tuesday 27th June, Alf, Lottie, Taneya and Alex, took a trip out of London as they embarked on a volunteering day at Dogs Trust Rehoming Centre, Basildon. It was a great day where we learnt a lot about the charity, the Basildon Centre and of course, dogs!
We arrived for 10am and after a strong coffee session, we began with a presentation from Nickie, the volunteer co-ordinator at Basildon. Each rehoming centre has its own mini-team which consists of trainers, vets, a volunteer co-ordinator, rehoming assessors, press officers and then streams of volunteers who do everything from kennel cleaning and dog walking to laundry and path co-ordination (more on that later).
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The Freedom Project – providing temporary foster care to dogs belonging to families fleeing domestic violence
Following this, we had a chat with Gary, one of the dog trainers. He talked us through the different signs of aggression, how they go about reintroducing dogs, types of illnesses dogs can pass to humans and how being in a kennel can impact a dog.
Top 3 facts:
- If a dog is rehomed from the centre, an owner can bring it back. Basildon only have a 14% return rate!
- The centre is 100% open with anyone adopting a dog, every nip, bite or growl is recorded and passed on.
- A lot of dogs are brought in from Ireland as it is easier to re-home them over here.
Next, was a tour of the grounds. They had two main kennel blocks, an area for new arrivals and the sponsor dogs (the ones we do the marketing for!). The dogs go out for 2 hours max a day, meaning they are in a cage for 22 hours each day. As you can imagine it's little frustrating for them, and they get very excited at the prospect of heading out.
On the tour we looked at the food/walking/behaviour boards. They indicated the type of food to feed the dogs, their behaviours and things to look out for, the dogs they had beef with etc. To quote Alf, 'It was like a stocks and shares board of the dog world'. Dog walking was conducted with military precision.
After lunch we walked a few of the dogs in our pairs, Alf and Alex ended up with a dog who wanted to walk for miles whereas Lottie and Taneya's dog wanted to go in because of the rain. We build some snufflerugs (door mats with bits of material attached, food was buried within the layers for the dogs to find) and created enrichment boxes (cardboard boxes with paper cuttings and treats – for the dogs to rip apart). We also learnt that Alf is an expert at folding laundry.
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Preface to a Prologue of an Idea of a Thought (Part I)
While I'm
tanning doing journalism at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, I thought it would be interesting to totally overload everyone on Macedonio Fernandez. Museum of Eterna's Novel ranks right up there as one of the books that I'm most proud to be associated with. It's unique, strange, "difficult," endlessly playful, important, influential, conceptual, frustrating, enjoyable, and one of the most devoted love stories ever written. To build up to the March 11th event for Macedonio ("The Greatest Event Since It and the World Began"), which will take place at the Americas Society and feature Edith Grossman, Margaret Schwartz, and Todd Garth, all this week we're going to be serializing Margaret's translator's introduction. And next Monday we'll run a special interview one of our interns did with her about the translation. Enjoy!
I first encountered the archive of Macedonio's manuscripts, notebooks, photographs, and diaries in 2002, in the closet of an apartment in Buenos Aires's Cabellito district. I had come to Argentina as a young Fulbright scholar in search of Macedonio's son, Adolfo, who was his father's literary executor and posthumous editor, responsible for the meticulous work of typing out and arranging Macedonio's chaotic longhand. Since the bulk of Macedonio's publication was posthumous—including The Museum of Eterna's Novel—it is only thanks to Adolfo's meticulous care and patience that this book exists at all.
Unfortunately, the elderly Adolfo had died just a few months earlier, and the archive was in limbo. Perhaps because North American pilgrims to the shrine of Macedonio are few, or perhaps because I had come so far only to face disappointment, I was eventually put in touch with a friend of the family, in whose apartment the archive was temporarily stored. I read the manuscripts, under supervision and in secret, every day for two months, as clouds moved across the Southern Hemisphere's winter sky to settle over the river at dusk.
I inhaled the musty, yellowed pages, stroked my finger across the indentations made on the page by a thick pencil and a heavy, elderly hand, obsessively catalogued marginalia, stains on the paper, fingerprints in the ink, and even a crumb of something stuck to the page—perhaps evidence of Maceodnio's famous sweet tooth?—the fun and the frustration is, one cannot know. An archive is in many ways defined by what it cannot contain.
The most obvious piece missing from the archive is the writings that are commonly thought to have been lost because of Macedonio's own neglect for them. The story goes that he wrote on crumpled café napkins, that he used to light the stove or his cigarette with loose manuscript pages, or that he piled them up in suitcases, only to abandon them when he moved from one flophouse room to the next. Though this neglect for his own written production is a cornerstone of the Macedonio mythology, the enormous number of writings that have survived (over thirty notebooks, and five full manuscripts of The Museum of Eterna's Novel) suggest that perhaps rumors of Macedonio's disinterest in his writings have been greatly exaggerated.
Less obvious, and more real, missing pieces are the notebooks full of undeciphered pages. Macedonio did not type: every one of the manuscripts in his archive is handwritten. The early notebooks, like the diary or so-called "Book for Oneself " (Libro para si mismo) are written in ink in the lovely calligraphy considered a courtesy and a grace in the nineteenth century. As he aged, however, Macedonio's hand grew ever crabbed, and his utensil—in the later notebooks usually a dull pencil—more easily smudged and blurred. These later notebooks are thus often illegible for long passages. The object-quality of the notebooks, their stubborn thingliness, stands in this case as a kind of maddening tease, as the words, though they are there on the page in clear and obvious reality, do not necessarily give way to intelligible meaning, especially in an author whose hand followed his meandering and fragmentary thoughts with such obsessive fidelity. Like Poe's purloined letter, some of these thoughts are hidden in plain view, illegible.
As physical and thus mortal objects, these manuscripts have a lifespan. They were almost all written on cheap dime-store paper, and many were written with highly acidic ink. This ink is slowly breaking down the wood fibers in the paper, which will eventually disintegrate even if they are kept under ideal conditions. But the immediacy of the stroke of the living hand on the page leaves its trace on these manuscripts in a way I can only describe in metaphysical terms. The marks are not always intelligible or identifiable: they are ciphers. The only certainty is that Macedonio once held his living hands to these pages. It's like laying one's ear to a train track to listen for the vibrations of a train that passed fifty years ago. Microscopically, they are there—and knowing that is the thrill that keeps your ear pressed to the tracks.
Macedonio Fernández (1874-1952) is best known in his native Argentina as the mentor of a young Jorge Luis Borges, who later wrote of his friend, "I imitated him to the point of plagiarism." This confession, however, belies the longstanding anxiety of influence between the two writers, and gives some insight into why Macedonio—as he is affectionately known—is more of a local folk hero than an internationally renowned writer. There exists a Macedonio of Borges's invention, and this invented character's reticence, or failure, to publish tends to reinforce Borges's quaint mythology of a man dedicated to meditation, stillness, and only incidentally to the written word. Nevertheless, Macedonio wrote thousands of pages of manuscript in his life, most of which remained unpublished when he died, in 1952. His son, Adolfo de Obieta, organized and published these manuscripts, serving as literary executor, editor, and high priest of the cult of Macedonio until his death in 2002.
The Museum of Eterna's Novel is Macedonio's most important work. This is the first time it—or any of his considerable oeuvre—has been translated into English in its entirety. He began what he called the "first good novel" around 1925, at the height of his involvement with the avant-garde literary scene in Buenos Aires. He would labor over the book for the next twenty-seven years, producing five full manuscripts in total, the first of which was written out in longhand by his lover, muse, and companion, Consuelo Bosch. Although The Museum of Eterna's Novel eludes categorization, its many prologues and self-conscious use of authorial persona often lead to its characterization as an example of proto-postmodernism. Macedonio himself would have shrugged off this label, and insisted instead that the novel is a sketch for a metaphysics wherein love conquers death.


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NOTRE DAME, Ind. – University of Notre Dame senior linebacker Manti Te'o was named 2012 Notre Dame Monogram Club Most Valuable Player tonight at the 92nd Notre Dame Football Awards Ceremony (Echoes).
Te'o was selected in a vote by members of the Notre Dame football team and was one of 19 players honored at the show sponsored by the Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley.
Te'o spearheaded an Irish defensive unit that ranks first in the nation in scoring defense (10.3 points allowed per game) and sixth in total defense (286.8 yards allowed per game).
Through 12 games this season, Te'o has totaled a team-best 103 tackles and is tied for second in the nation with seven total interceptions. He has played a role in 11 of Notre Dame's 23 turnovers this year (seven interceptions, two fumble recoveries and two pass hurries that directly led to interceptions).
Te'o has appeared in 50 career games and amassed 427 tackles (209 solo). He is the second Notre Dame player – joining Bob Crable – to register at least 100 tackles in three consecutive seasons.
Senior tight end Tyler Eifert and senior safety Zeke Motta were named Notre Dame's offensive and defensive players of the year, respectively.
Eifert, the 2012 Mackey Award winner, has already been named a second-team All-American by both Walter Camp and CBS Sports. He has recorded 44 catches for 624 yards and five touchdowns. Thirty-one of his catches this season have resulted in a touchdown or first down. Eifert leads Irish with 12 receptions of at least 20 yards.
Eifert ranks No. 1 in school history in both career receptions (134) and career receiving yards (1,779) by a tight end.
Motta is the only player in the Irish secondary that had any starting experience prior to this season. He started seven games in 2011 and has opened 27 contests over his Irish career, including every game in 2012. Only Kapron Lewis-Moore and Manti Te'o have more career stops among active Irish players than Motta's 163 tackles.
Motta, who is tied for second on the team with 61 tackles, now captains a secondary that features a trio of players that never started a game prior to '12. In fact, all three players (sophomore S Matthias Farley, freshman CB KeiVarae Russell and junior CB Bennett Jackson) have undergone position changes since their respective arrivals on campus. Farley and Jackson were each recruited as wide receivers, while Russell was recruited as a running back.
Senior wide receivers John Goodman and Robby Toma shared the Nick Pietrosante Award. The Pietrosante Award is given to the student-athlete(s) who best exemplified the courage, loyalty, teamwork, dedication and pride of the late Irish All-America fullback. Pietrosante, Notre Dame's leading rusher in 1957 and '58 (and later a number-one draft pick and two-time all-pro selection with the Detroit Lions), died of cancer on Feb. 6, 1988. The recipient is determined by a vote of the players and past winners have included Robert Hughes, Mike Anello, Tom Zbikowski, John Carlson, Jeff Faine, Harrison Smith, Aaron Taylor and Chris Zorich.
Goodman has just seven receptions in 2012, but three have gone for touchdowns, including a 50-yard touchdown against Wake Forest and a one-handed, 36-yard touchdown at Michigan State.
Toma has registered 24 catches for 252 yards and one rushing touchdown. He has consistently delivered in the clutch this season with 13 of his 24 grabs resulting in first downs, including three of five receptions on third down.
Senior offensive tackle Zack Martin won the Offensive Lineman of the Year. He is the first player in Notre Dame history to win the award three times. Martin is part of an offensive line that has helped the Irish average over 200 yards per game in both rushing and receiving. Only two previous Irish teams ever have achieved the 200-200 in both categories (1977, 1970). Only two offensive lines from a Bowl Championship Series automatically-qualifying conference, including Notre Dame, can lay claim to averaging at least 200 yards on the ground, 200 yards in the air and yielding 16 sacks or less in 2012.
Junior nose guard Louis Nix III and sophomore Stephon Tuitt shared the Lineman of the Year Award presented by the Moose Krause Chapter of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame.
Tuitt has collected 12.0 sacks in 2012. He ranks third in the FBS in sack yardage (89), tied for seven in sacks/game (1.00), tied for eighth in total sacks (12.0) and tied for 12th in solo sacks (10). Among FBS underclassmen, Tuitt leads the nation in sack yardage (89), ranks second in total sacks (12.0), second in solo sacks (10) and second in sacks/game (1.00). He has already registered at least two sacks in three separate games (Navy, Purdue and BYU). Only five underclassmen over the last eight seasons have averaged more sacks per game than Tuitt in 2012.
Nix III, the anchor of Notre Dame's defensive line, has been a force in the middle of the Irish defense in 2012. He is eighth on Notre Dame in tackles with 45, including five and a half for loss and two sacks. Nix III has forced a fumble and added four pass break ups. His ability to draw and beat constant double teams has been one of the main reasons the Irish defense is so stout against the run.
Junior quarterback Tommy Rees captured the Next Man In Award. He has come off the bench for Notre Dame in seven separate games in 2012. Rees has completed 64.1 percent of his passes for 294 yards and one touchdown as a non-starter. In two games, Oklahoma and Boston College, Rees entered the game for exactly one offensive play and completed an 11 and nine yard pass, respectively. The 11-yard pass against the Sooners came on third and 10.
The Offensive Newcomer of the Year Award was presented to sophomore quarterback Everett Golson. He has started 10 games in 2012 and led the Irish to victories in each contest. The 10 straight wins to open his starting career is the second-most in school history. Bob Williams holds the school record as he guided Notre Dame to victories in his first 11 career starts. Golson is the first quarterback in school history to lead the Irish to road victories over top-10 foes in his first two respective road starts.
Freshman cornerback KeiVarae Russell was presented with the Defensive Newcomer of the Year Award. He was the first freshman ever at Notre Dame to start at cornerback in the opening game of a season (Sept. 1 against Navy). Russell picked up his second career interception on Nov. 24 in the victory over USC. He fared rather well against Trojans' star wideouts Robert Woods and Marquise Lee. Russell and fellow Irish cornerback Bennett Jackson contained the duo to 12 receptions for 167 yards and one touchdowns. Woods and Lee combined to average nearly 16 grabs for over 211 yards and better than two touchdowns per game entering the matchup.
Sophomore Kyle Brindza earned the Special Teams Player of the Year Award. He is 23 for 31 on field goals this season (and career). The 23 made field goals not only lead the FBS, but surpasses the previous single-season school record held by John Carney (21, 1986). Brindza is only the second place kicker in school history to connect on at least 20 field goals in one season.
Here are the final awards of the evening: Offensive Scout Team Player of the Year (Nick Fitzpatrick), Defensive Scout Team Player of the Year (Tyler Stockton), Irish Around the Bend Award (Mike Golic Jr.), A-Team Award (Kapron Lewis-Moore), Count On Me Award (Theo Riddick), Father Lange Iron Cross Award (Braxston Cave) and Rockne Student-Athelte Award (Danny Spond).