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Last night's dinner was vegan meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and peas. I was in the mood for some good old fashioned comfort food and this was perfect! Obviously, you could substitute ground beef for the vegan meat, but, really, why would you want to?
While I'm on the subject of vegan meat, let me just say that, like a lot of foods, there are good brands and there are not-so-good brands. For substituting ground beef in recipes, I like Match Meats much better than anything else I've tried so far. Gardein is winning in the chicken department though. Anyway, on to the recipe:
1. Preheat oven to 350*
2. In a large bowl, add all ingredients (except the olive oil) and mix well. I just use my hands to really get in there and blend it all together.
3. Divide into four loaves.
4. In a large skillet, heat olive oil over medium-high. Place loaves in the pan and cook until nicely browned, about 2 minutes or so on each side.
5. Remove from skillet and place in a prepared 8 1/2 x 11 baking dish.
6. Bake 20 minutes, or until internal temperature reaches 160*.
7. Top with a little extra ketchup and put back in the oven for another five minutes.
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In the Acts of the Apostles, we revisit the martyrdom of Saint Stephen at the hands of a very perturbed Sanhedrin. In fact, we read that they
"were infuriated, and they ground their teeth at him."
Stephen's crime was in recounting of all the ways they were just like their ancestors in rejecting the holy prophets of God that had come before them.
Even without stones, Christians online get knocked down all the time on social media. It's not uncommon for an unpopular point of view to result in an account getting restricted, blocked, or removed. Friends and fans unfollow or unfriend feeds. It's a tough world out there in cyberspace! But even before the posts and tweets get to that point, some of the conversations in social media are brutal. The art of civility just isn't there.
So how can a Christian post a viewpoint without getting figuratively stoned? Here are 11 suggestions:
- Remember the people behind the keyboard we are writing to, have feelings and thoughts just as vulnerable as our own. Address them in the way you would want to be addressed. This is a modern version of the Golden Rule.
- Choose your battles! If you have to reply to something take a deep breath first and walk away. If you still feel like replying ten minutes later, proceed with extreme caution, and only on a computer or tablet with an actual keyboard. How many wars start over autocorrect, I wonder?
- Write in complete sentences. Clarity is key. Keep the emojis to a minimum. Use your well-thought-out words!
- Focus on being hard on ideas, but soft on people. No name calling or ad hominem attacks! Provide information or observation instead of confrontation.
- Avoid logical fallacies altogether! It's just poor reasoning.
- Realize that readers come to us from many different places in life and experience. Give slack accordingly.
- Read and re-read your posts and responses. What tone do they exhibit?
- Avoid broad-brush pronouns, especially the mysterious "they." Surely not all of any group is even aware of what the 14th amendment is, let alone that they should be going after it. If you must use a pronoun at all, say something like "some."
- Frame an argument like this: "In my opinion, if this happens, then this could occur," or "Based on my experience, this could happen if this occurs." It takes you out of the prognostication business and takes that big pointy finger out of the face of a large group of people!
- If you must write something like, "They want to re-engineer Western civilization" have an article, a reference, or something else to link to, so that readers know you're not just going on a rant, but have actually done some homework and can prove it! In fact, sometimes it's better to just link to another source and let everyone figure it out for themselves.
- If you dare to enter into a conversation that is 180 degrees from your perspective, sometimes it's best to just leave with some thought-provoking questions. Sometimes just planting a few seeds for the reader to ponder is enough.
Even with all of that, at this time it seems that sensitivities are high. These tips might keep you safe from attacks and problems, but speaking the truth always comes with risks. St. Stephen, pray for us!
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Grand Final Success!
Last year's Grand Final success has everyone in Wigan geared
up for more silverware in the coming weeks. After last season's victory 11
members of the squad celebrated landing the Super League Crown by having a
memento etched onto their skin! Sam Tomkins – on of the players inked, has not
ruled out the prospect of more artwork if they enjoy a successful 2011.
"It's a team decision so if we win again I'll let others
decide, but I'm not sure my mum will be too impressed if I win a lot and I end
up completely covered in tattoo's!"
Skin Graffiti Tattoo Artist Peter Eccles tattooed the
Warriors players who all had the same design, but did special ones for Paul
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Hi Rod,
I look at three areas and I think they apply equally well to technical and non-technical roles.
It's a lot like building a road between two cities:
Activity: How many miles are you building each day?
Quality: Will the road stand up to the weather and use by vehicles?
Direction: Are you taking the optimal path?
1) Activity
This is the easiest to measure but it's only a starting point.
For a technical role, this may include the number of features that are now completed or the number of bugs that have been fixed.
For a marketing role, this may include the number of inbound leads generated.
For a business development role, this may include the number of calls that were made.
2) Quality
Quality is harder to measure than activity and is often more subjective.
Using the same examples from above:
For the technical role, does the code include unit tests and will it be easy for other developers to understand it?
For the marketing role, are the leads well qualified?
For the business development role, how much information was learned in each call?
3) Direction
Direction is even harder to measure than quality. Are people doing the right things? It's great to find people who have experience thinking strategically but there is no replacement for building testing/validation activities into all roles in your company so that you can be sure everyone is headed in the right direction.
Using the same examples from above:
For the technical role: Have they built a feature that anyone will use? Did they do testing to validate the need before they jumped into code? (That responsibility may be shared with someone in a product management role.)
For the marketing role: Do the leads come from the right target market? How did they choose that market?
For the business development role: Were the calls placed to the right people in the organization? What activities did they perform to learn the buying cycle of your target customer?
What is the role you had in mind? If you can provide a specific example then I am sure you will get some specific ideas for what types of metrics or objectives work well for that type of a role.


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– Gail Kim and Chris Masters will be appearing at Forland Automotive in Lakewood, Colorado on Friday, March 12th from 4-6pm.
– WWE's Cryme Tyme attended the XBIZ Porn Awards this past Wednesday. They were spotted hanging out with Ron Jeremy and other adult film stars.
– WWE has added Serena to the SmackDown and Divas roster.
– Tonight's WWE RAW will take place from the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa with Jerry Springer as the guest host. Tonight's matches will see Elimination Chamber participants face off with Kofi Kingston vs. Ted DiBiase, Sheamus vs. Randy Orton and Triple H vs. John Cena.
Rare Candid Pix of Serena, SmackDown Spoilers, Chamber/Title News and MORE!


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There is no doubt that we are really looking forward to opening our first charity warehouse in Lagos officially in September. Between now and the official opening date, we hope to fill the warehouse with interesting and useful items that can find a welcome and loving home in the future.
Jewellery Design and Manufacture
If you're looking for trendy jewellery at reasonable prices, then head to Praia da Rocha in Portimão and visit Carty Jerez shop, where you will meet Hildegard who will be happy to discuss with you your ideas and to introduce you to her creative works.


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A. I wouldn't do that. If your 401(k) is invested in good mutual funds, it's likely you'll miss out on some pretty good rates of return. But that's not the biggest reason this is a bad idea.
The biggest reason is that when you leave your company — and you will leave, whether it's because you get a better job, you get fired, or you die — that loan is considered an early withdrawal. If you don't repay it within 60 days, you'll get hammered with a 10 percent penalty plus your tax rate. You could easily lose almost half of what's in the account.
If you want to start paying off debt, my advice is to start doing things to generate extra income and begin living on a tight budget. Grab an extra, part-time job for a while, too, and have a big garage sale. Sell so much stuff the kids think they're next! You need to work a serious debt-busting plan.
The good news is it's only $12,000. Knocking out the credit card debt won't be so bad, and with your income, the kids' school isn't unreasonable. It's the $80,000 in student loans that's killing you. Scrape together and save every penny you can find each month, and put that toward paying off the credit card debt. Then, roll that amount over, add anything else you can come up with, and attack those student loans.
Q. I'm trying to help my elderly mom with her finances. She has no debt and more than $1 million in assets. There was also another $500,000 trust left for her by my dad. With access to all this, does she still need long-term health insurance?
A. Absolutely! She also needs an estate planner immediately. Your parents were far too wise with their money to have your mom end up in a bad situation toward the end of her life. You need to do everything you can to prevent this from happening.
In the event she's unable to take care of herself, long-term care health coverage to take care of nursing home or in-home care is an absolute necessity. The cost of nursing home care can run from $75,000 to $100,000 a year. Your mom is in great shape financially. But just imagine what a prolonged nursing home stay could do to her nest egg. It's not a pretty thought.
When you hit 60, you need long-term care insurance, period. Whether you have $1 million-plus in the bank or not, I strongly recommend it as a wise part of any asset management plan.


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Licensing of Plone
There is a very interesting conversation happening in the Blogosphere about the conflicting licensing terms of Zope and Plone. Paul Everitt does a very nice job of summarizing the issue in his blog.
The general gist is that Zope uses the Zope Public License (ZPL) which is modeled after the Apache 1 license and is less restrictive than Plone's GPL license. Plone's use of a more restrictive license is thought by some to be uncooperative with the Zope community and confusing to users. I think Paul raises an excellent point that Zope did the exact same thing by not adopting the OSI Certified Python license.
However, Chris McDonough, in the comments of Paul's blog, raises a very good point that developers on the Plone platform tend to commit code to both Zope and Plone and having different licensing schemes makes things unnecessarily complicated. I definitely hear that. You don't want licensing terms to determine where your code belongs.
I don't think that this problem is going to get solved but I don't think that it necessarily needs to. Paul has a nice status quo solution:
Forget about product re-use. Instead, focus more on avoiding duplication of framework stuff. When somebody needs to do something, get them to do it at the right stack layer, under that layer's license. This is the goal of Goldegg. I think this is a more useful and realistic answer to code sharing in the stack.
By "forget about product reuse" Paul means trying to do things like using a piece of Plone in another (possibly proprietary) product. I think this solution makes sense and it is certainly more actionable than trying to get everyone to change their licensing schemes.


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Our Mission
At the Dover Library Media Center we believe success in school begins with a love of learning, especially reading. We believe, our media center is the heart of our school and an integral part of our curriculum. It is our philosophy that the Library Media Center exists for the purpose of helping young learners learn to read and begin a life- long love of reading and learning through books, media materials, and technology. Our staff is committed to encouraging, helping, and promoting young readers in the use of books and various forms of technology that is appropriate for them to be successful.
We invite you to visit our Library Media Center to see what is available. We offer thousands of books for your reading pleasure. Our library offers an online card catalog as well as an online research database to aid in research. Please see the Media Specialist for the username and password for the DISCUS site. Our collection contains age appropriate informational text and fictional titles, including picture books, beginning chapter books and more difficult chapter books for advanced readers. We also have a great selection of biographies.
The library hours are Monday-Friday 7:30 am - 3:30 pm.
We offer an open check out schedule anytime the library is open. Students in PreK, Kindergarten, First and Second Grades are allowed to check out 1 book at a time. Third - Fifth grade students are allowed to check out 2 books at a time. Students are only charged a fine when the book they had checked out is returned damaged or they do not return the book(s) at all. There are no late fines.
Parents are encouraged to volunteer by shelving books or being a guest reader in the library. Please come in and check out books with and for your child. Each class visits the library to check out a book(s) once weekly.
READ, READ, READ because READERS are LEADERS!
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I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in October 2000 at the age of 16 years old. I was told for years that I couldn't do certain things and this discouraged me from trying. It wasn't until I met my husband Derrick that we decided to take a chance for me to have children. I had my son Trysten August 2011 and Skye August 2014 (yes I have a thing for August babies). These are my only two due to complications not caused from my diabetes but I'm am grateful for a man that was willing to risk me potentially dying to give me a chance to be a mother to my own children. In December 2012, I ended up with a cardiac pacemaker due to bradycardia. I was running in the low 40s and dropping to 20 with 2 and 3 second pauses. This not only stemmed from me being on a ketogenic diet, but started years before that with superventricular tachycardia (first heart ablation was in 2009, second was in 2010.
My background in fitness and nutrition spans out for almost 6 years now. I was previously a ASFA certified yoga instructor. I am certified as a NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine) Fitness Nutrition Specialist. I know the ins and outs of nutrition from that certification as well as my own research that I have done and mine and my husband's experiences with nutrition. I have had some personally scary ones with the keto/low carb diet. I am backed by a nationally known cardiologist and my endocrinologist who both agree that the long term use of the ketogenic and low carb diets are harmful. I have a blog about ketogenic diet and what it exactly did to me in one of my first blogs, linked here. I believe in fully a balanced diet of all macro nutrients. I do work with paleo, vegan, vegetarian, and other patients as well. I will also customize for those wanting to do low carb but on a temporary basis only. I also teach carb cycling as well to help with weight loss.
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Have you ever heard of someone taking a tag after 10 months? Well, that's exactly what I'm out to do right now. Its been 10 months since Ooomz has tagged me with his 123/5 post, and here I am responding to it now! (In my defense, I've got the time only now you see ;)).
A brief repeat of the rules of the tag – its all about writing what's written in the 5th paragraph of the page 123 of the book I'm reading right now. In my case, the book is "Ageless Body, Timeless Mind" by Deepak Chopra. Here goes (the 4th paragraph of the page, since there is no 5th para, and my move is as per the rules):
There is no denying that free-radical damage occurs and is suspiciously linked with aging, along with cancer and heart disease, the two leading causes of death. Yet it has not been shown that older people necessarily have higher levels of free-radicals in their cells, or lower levels of antioxidants. What I'd like to suggest is that free-radical damage is but one type of imbalance that can occur at the level of cellular intelligence when the balance tips towards entropy. If the body's intelligence is at full strength, disorder and chaos do not attack a cell. The basic tenet of life extension – preventing free-radical damage before it occurs – is sound. To do that, however, we need to understand a cell's intelligence directly.
Profound, eh? :). Well, this is the first book I'm reading, authored by Deepak Chopra – a pioneer in mind-body medicine, and holistic healing. Before reading this book, I was acquainted with metaphysics, healing and a bit of quantum physics (Autobiography of a Yogi by Swami Paramahamsa Yogananda comes to mind). But this book has introduced to me some mind-boggling concepts, especially in Part One "The Land Where No One is Old". Referring to the body as a storehouse of energy and information, Deepak analyses its biochemistry and drives home the importance of awareness in definining its intelligence, processes and existence in this dimension. Part Two speaks about Aging and Awareness, and with it the plot thickens – merging theory with case studies and exercises. With "Defeating Entropy", "The Science of Longevity" and "Breaking the Spell of Mortality" – the other three remaining parts, the mind-body can no longer be relegated to being an incomprehensible, indisciplined instrument. Deepak tries to bring to light our unconscious programming that's the root cause of sickness, deterioration, and also seeks to break moulds of how we've perceived growth and aging. Deepak's writing is not for the faint hearted 😉 – some lines/paras would need two to three reads for the full breadth of its significance to sink inside you. Interpretations could vary and even change the whole dimension of your thought – especially since concepts of time, space and reality, all fade into oblivion.
The above paragraph is an excerpt, and concludes a chapter titled as "The Free-Radical Theory" in Part Three. The chapter tries to expose the paradoxical nature of free-radicals, once thought of as the enemy because of its contribution to cellular damage, till it was proved that they are beneficial also in maintaining the body's balance and protecting it. The chapter and the paragraph seek to show a bigger picture to the Free-Radical debate, by encouraging us to see beyond the damage, examine and solve the original cause. What I also found relevant in the chapter is the mention of how people are (even today!!) always so ready to consume antioxidants, vitamins and other drugs (beta carotenes, vitamin B, C, E, zinc etc), in the belief that they're contributing to their personal health and life extension, when in reality these may end up doing more damage than good.
Coming back to the purposes of this post – apart from my need to take up the tag in the first place :), it also lets me tell you that if you have the time and interest in all of the above, pick up this book, or atleast read up on material in this line of thought – be aware of your body, and know that the way you perceive, understand and choose to change will make all the difference. There's a lot out there that you probably don't know, yet!
P.S. Ideally I'm supposed to tag 5 people. But then, I choose to just throw open this tag to anyone else who thinks they're reading an interesting book and would like to talk about it.


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There are schools offering English degrees in Arkansas!
Schools Offering English Programs in Arkansas
Nearby States
Approximately 0.6% of graduates in of Arkansas receive English degrees every year. That means an estimated 452 english professionals graduate from Arkansas' 18 English schools each year.
Top Schools
The top-ranked school in Arkansas with a English program is Harding University, which is located in Searcy. In 2010, it was ranked 33rd nationwide. In 2010, 16 students graduated from Harding University's English program. Tuition at Harding University was $14,040 per year.
John Brown University, which was ranked 33rd nationwide in 2010, is the second-ranked school in Arkansas that has a English program. It is located in Siloam Springs. 8 students graduated with degree in English from John Brown University in 2010. The tuition rate at John Brown University was $19,770 per year.
Arkansas State University-Main Campus, which is located in Jonesboro, is the third-ranked school in Arkansas that has a English program. It received a ranking of 42nd in the country in 2010. In 2010, 31 students graduated from Arkansas State University-Main Campus English program. The tuition rate at Arkansas State University-Main Campus was $6,640 per year.
If you are hoping to attend one of Arkansas' English schools, you can expect to pay an average tuition of $11,522 per year, though tuition can range from $32,040 per year to $4,804 per year. The Arkansas English schools with the highest tuition rates in 2010 were:
- Hendrix College - located in Conway, students are charged $32,040 per year
- Lyon College - located in Batesville, students are charged $21,324 per year
- University of the Ozarks - located in Clarksville, students are charged $20,530 per year
The lowest tuition rates at Arkansas English schools were charged at the following schools:
- Arkansas Tech University - located in Russellville, students are charged $4,804 per year
- University of Arkansas-Fort Smith - located in Fort Smith, students are charged $4,918 per year
- University of Arkansas at Monticello - located in Monticello, students are charged $4,990 per year
An English degree from an Arkansas school... what next?
The largest populations of Arkansas english professional are working in the following counties:
- Faulkner County - 390 english professionals
- Cleveland County - 150 english professionals
- Clay County - 110 english professionals
Projected Growth
The government projects that, by 2018, the number of english professionals in the state of Arkansas will grow to 1,680. This would require a 11% growth in the field.
On average, english professionals earn a salary of $48,003 per year in Arkansas state. But, salaries for english professional can vary. In 2010, english professional made as little as less than $20,980 per year or as much as more than $100,020 per year in Arkansas. On average english professional earn the most in the following Arkansas counties:
- Benton County - $61,820 per year
- Faulkner County - $52,987 per year
- Cleveland County - $46,190 per year
English professionals in the following counties in Arkansas make the lowest salaries on average:
- Clay County - $33,360 per year
- Arkansas County - $45,110 per year
- Cleveland County - $46,190 per year
On average, the highest paid english professionals in Arkansas were:
- Creative Writer - $53,460 per year
- Technical Writer - $45,660 per year
- Literacy Teacher - $44,890 per year
On average, the lowest paid english professionals in Arkansas were:
- Technical Writer - $45,660 per year
- Literacy Teacher - $44,890 per year
More Information
Take a look at the graphs and charts below for additional Arkansas statistics regarding a career in English and to compare salaries with a variety of related fields such as language or creative writing.
Here are the different levels of study available for you to explore.
- Bachelor's Degree in English in Arkansas
- Master's Degree in English in Arkansas
- Doctoral Degree in English in Arkansas
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With Christmas fast approaching, we at DroidBOX® decided to bring some extra cheer to our customers. Rather than dressing up as reindeer or creating an Xmas background wallpaper for our devices, we thought people would prefer something a little less like wrapping paper, and more like the presents contained within.
So, whilst the boss was forcibly locked into his office with some mince pies the elves rest of our staff decided that holding our biggest (so far) giveaway would spread a little holiday cheer!
We thought a great top prize would be our newest top of the range model - the T8-S Plus (with a whopping 32Gb of internal storage!), combined with both our DroidBOX® Play gamepad and the B52 remote control. At this point the mince pies must have run out, as our leader escaped! Upon hearing of our plans, he approved but decided that the top prize going to just one lucky household wouldn't be enough. So... now we have FIVE (!!) sets of the T8-S Plus and our game pad & remote control to give away (to five lucky winners; one win per household).
Whilst still in a good mood, some of us decided to push hard and see what would happen. The result? 50 more prizes! So even if you're not one of the five top-prize winners, there is still a chance of some extra Yuletide cheer with fifty DroidBOX® Play gamepads to win.
With the winners being selected on the 17th of December, the prizes will even arrive in time for Christmas!
(Please note the competition is open to UK residents and prizes will only be sent to addresses within mainland Britain and Northern Ireland. If a winner is unable to supply a suitable postal address within those confines, they'll need to pay the difference in postage. We will dispatch them within time, but rely on Royal Mail to get them to you.)
The Prizes
5x First Prize
Our five top prizes are our latest DroidBOX® T8-S Plus model which comes with all the features of our DroidBOX® T8-S but with a massive 32GB of storage. You can of course dualboot with both the Android and openELEC operating systems being present.
openELEC is a stripped down racer of an operating system for increased media playback performance. Please do watch our T8-S video (we'll be producing one specifically for the T8-S Plus soon) to get an idea of the capabilities.
You will also find our DroidBOX® Share system (click the link for another video) is included (previously exclusive to the T8-S) to control your DroidBOX using your mobile phone or tablet, as well as stream.
Each 1st prize winner will also receive our DroidBOX® Play gamepad which you can read more about below, and the B52 remote control.
50x Runner-up Prize
We have fifty DroidBOX® Play gamepads for our competition 2nd place prize winners. The DroidBOX® Play gamepad (again, please do click the link to learn more) connects to your DroidBOX® via Bluetooth. It features a comfortable grip, long battery life and multiple buttons to meet all your gaming needs. The gamepad can be used throughout the DroidBOX® interface just like a remote control, and of course with compatible games. Many popular games are compatible including the GTA series, Riptide GP2, Dead Trigger 2 and SoulCraft.
How To Enter
There are a few ways in which you can enter, and each social share completed gives you an extra entry in the competition, and therefore increases the chance of winning. You can refer your friends and if they participate, you'll have even more entries for yourself!
To enter, all you need to do is complete the entry form below with your email address, then perform a few steps for following and sharing via social networks.
The giveaway starts 19th November 2015 and ends 17th December 2015. Good luck, thanks for reading and don't forget, the more you share, the higher your chances of winning a prize.


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Product acceptance and quality identification.
User acceptance of the product can be identified from the following several aspects, to determine whether the product is in line with the standard. Considering the possibility that the user has a professional testing equipment is not a simple and effective way to introduce a few:
1, the main material for the current security cable is copper and polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Can be used to identify materials with the naked eye.
1)Copper conductor must be luster, soft and stretch good, whereas copper conductor gloss differential and black, or oxidation, with hand slightly and pull off the conductor may not up to the standard.
2) PVC material should be smooth, smooth, clean, if the surface is rough, not only shows that the plastic material, processing technology and plastic performance is poor, at the same time, if the plastic surface of the pores is large, it is easy to damp and affect the product performance. The tensile strength is also very important, it is possible to use the hand to pull off the quality of the material is not qualified.
3) was observed within the cable structure, cable core whether tensile protection of filling materials, the use of this kind of material can effectively protect the stability of the internal structure of the cable and improve the products in the construction of tensile strength.
4) use micrometer measuring product size, thickness, diameter fit
2, structure process detection
The user in the product acceptance process, structure of cable sheath peel products detection. Can focus on the following several projects:
1) copper conductor is stranded in a significant proportion of informal manufacturers is omitted in this important procedure, copper conductor is stranded can produce conductor structure instability, cable in the bending state, construction is easy to cause insulator cracking or conductor pierce insulating layer.
2) cable pitch is too large cable pitch refers to the node from the multi conductor cable in the production process of the core wire. Some manufacturers in order to control the cost, improve the production rate, often to enlarge the cable section distance. So the product of the soft bending, the internal structure is not stable, so that the use of cable products.
3) the insulating plastic should be tightly packed on the conductor and does not damage the conductor, and the conductor may not be the core.
4) the outer sheath is closely coated on the inner structure, the gap is not too large, and the outer sheath and the inner structure of the outer jacket have a polyester wound coating to prevent the adhesion between each other.
5) the quality of shielded cable is very important in the security system engineering. Requires close, regular and smooth. In addition to the production process requirements of production enterprises, production equipment is very important, at present, the main domestic An Fang cable companies are using high precision PLC control of the weaving machine, this type of equipment to produce the product structure is stable, the arrangement rules, to ensure a good shielding performance.
6) diameter, roundness can be unified. Most of the security and cable used in the project, the main consideration is the production of the product structure is stable, reliable transmission performance, so the appearance of the roundness is not deliberately stressed.
3, professional equipment testing
More accurate detection method is to increase the professional testing equipment, or commissioned by specialized agencies for product testing. Routine inspection and testing equipment are as follows:
Voltage endurance test - Test Stand
Structure check - projector or measuring microscope
Conductor resistance - direct current bridge
Body -- the filament diameter micrometer
Power test -- a thousand meter
Anti pull force
4, other considerations
Cable delivery length, packing quality, quality, certification, marking the standard uniform, factory name, address, telephone number, and so on.
Product additional functions and value added services
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Wits' End Corner
Are you standing at "Wit's End Corner,"
Christian, with troubled brow?
Are you thinking of what is before you,
And all you are bearing now?
Does all the world seem against you,
And you in this battle alone?
Remember – at "Wits' End Corner"
Is just where God's power is shown.
Are you standing at "Wit's End Corner,"
Blinded with wearying pain,
Feeling you cannot endure it,
You cannot bear the strain,
Bruised through the constant suffering,
Dizzy and dazed and numb?
Remember – at "Wit's End Corner"
Is where Jesus loves to come.
Are you standing at "Wit's End Corner"
Your work before you spread,
All lying begun, unfinished,
And pressing on heart and head,
Longing for strength to do it,
Stretching out trembling hands?
Remember – at "Wit's End Corner"
The Burden-bearer stands.
Are you standing at "Wit's End Corner"?
Then you're just in the very spot
To learn the wondrous resources
Of Him who faileth not.
No doubt to a brighter pathway
Your footsteps will soon be moved,
But only at "Wits' End Corner"
Is the "God who is able" proved.
~ Antoinette Wilson
"28Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble,
and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
29He maketh the storm a calm,
so that the waves thereof are still."
(Psalm 107:28,29)


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Dell announced a partnership with Red Hat to offer enterprise-grade, private cloud solutions based on OpenStack.
The Dell Red Hat Cloud Solution, powered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, addresses enterprise customer demand for more flexible, elastic and dynamic IT services to support and host non-business critical applications – including mobile, social and analytics – and dev/test environments.
The companies also have extended their collaboration to enable the compatibility, portability and reliability for Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings that enterprise customers need as they build public, private and hybrid cloud environments.


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When asked "Why do you rob banks?", infamous bank robber Willie Sutton responded "That's where the money is".
Today, thanks to advancements in technology – and an ever-increasing trend of storing data, financial, personal information and business related on computer devices – the new "bank robberies" are cyber-crime related. Such incidents are increasing, as you can tell by the number of attacks that make the news every day.
As these news stories tend to mention large companies, you might be thinking "But we're small, nobody would bother to hack us, right?".
You just don't HEAR about these attacks; the news wants to focus on BIG stories. Second, most small businesses don't know they've been hacked OR don't report it as they should because they're embarrassed or afraid of the legal and reputational consequences.
According to PC World, 82 Thousand NEW Malware threats are being released every day.
Spam email levels continue to rise increasing the risk of someone clicking on infected links or opening bogus attachments
Social media has become the #1 cause for lost productivity in most businesses
Web surfing and hitting a compromised site causing an infection – possibly Ransomware, where the hacker holds your data hostage until you pay to regain access
Mobile devices are being increasingly targeted – people don't tend to spend to secure their personal devices even though company data is likely on them making them an easy target
Low end routers connecting your business to the Internet can be easily bypassed by sophisticated attacks allowing access to your network.
You Need To Get Serious About Protecting Your Company Against Cybercrime!
But What Does That Look Like?
The days of thinking an anti-virus being enough are gone. While an important piece of the puzzle, security now requires a multi-tier approach to minimize risks.
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On the morning of September 25 (Beijing time), China Information and Communication Industry Development Summit,2018 was held in Beijing. Dong Xin, deputy general manager of China Mobile, attended the summit and noted that China Mobile has so far built the world's largest 4G network boasting over 2 million 4G base stations that extend service to more than 1.3 billion people. The Group has also been pushing forward the construction of national optical networks, with optical fiber cables running 420 million households, each with access capacity of over 100 megabytes. Since 2016, about CNY 2 billion in total has been invested in the pilot project of people's well being on universal telecommunications services.
China Mobile has pioneered the research and development of Massive MIMO, one of the core 5G technologies, and taken the lead in applying it to 4G. It has also initiated the establishment of 5G Joint Innovation Center, 14 open laboratories and 4 innovation alliances.
China Mobile has promoted industrial Internet cloud platforms and established connections between 160 million devices, providing connecting services for 45 million motor vehicles and 28 million shared bicycles. It has built a state-level demonstration base and six innovation and entrepreneurship zones.
China Mobile's "Internet plus Medical Care" has extended services to 140 million patients, "Internet plus Education" has serviced more than 90 million teachers, students and parents, and "Internet plus Government Affairs" has been joined by over 350 cooperative cities.
China Mobile has taken action on spam messages, harassing calls and malware, with more than 7 billion pieces intercepted and blocked per year.
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- Write every day--and don't do anything else until you get your targeted writing completed. He writes every morning and aims for 2,000 words a day, which he generally achieves by lunchtime. Afternoons are for exercise, chores, etc. and evening is for reading. He gives a long list (updated in this edition) of people he's read and considers to be good.
- King says that if you don't write every day, you risk having the thing go stale. Press ahead even if you don't know about the background; you can check on that later.
- Once you have the manuscript done, during which time you've shown it to no one but may have an ideal reader in mind, leave it in a desk drawer for 6 weeks. Go work on something else until you've almost forgotten it. Then take it out of the drawer and read it with a fresh perspective.
- For one of his books after the accident that nearly killed him, King used what he called the best wordprocessor in the world: a Waterman cartridge fountain pen. Pen geeks among you will be disappointed that he didn't say which model, but still: fountain pen!
2. Next up is John Scalzi, who wrote this today in what he probably wouldn't have tagged "writing inspiration"--but it sure is. Those of you who follow Scalzi know he's a prolific Twitterer, blogger, etc., as well as a novelist, so this marks a change for him:
I also think it also has to do with a certain amount of habituation, i.e., if I'm checking email, by brain just goes "Oh, we're on the Internet now," and just fires up those parts of my brain that work on the Internet. These do not, by and large, correspond to the novel writing parts of my brain.
How to deal with this? Well, I've made a new rule, which really isn't a new rule, but kind of an update rule. And the rule is: before 2,000 words or noon, whichever comes first, no Internet at all. No blog, no Twitter, no Facebook, no email, no checking the news. When I sit down at the computer (usually around 8am), I disconnect it from the network. I leave the cell phone in the other room (and unless you're my wife, daughter, editor or agent, if you call the landline, it's not going to get picked up, either). No Internet. At all.3. What to say about Joyce Carol Oates, whose productivity puts us all (except maybe Anthony Grafton) to shame? I've just started her memoir The Lost Landscape and will report back soon. Until then, here are some bullet points from a video I wrote about before in which she discusses writing:
--She can "basically write all day long."4. And finally, a different sort of writing inspiration: reading inspiration. Hugh McGuire, at Medium, identifies a problem:
--She writes every day, as soon as she can, even before 7 a.m.
--She looks out the window and her cat keeps her company.
--Revision is "exciting and relaxing."
--Writing is "thrilling."
And so, the problem, more or less, is identified:And his solution:
1. I cannot read books because my brain has been trained to want a constant hit of dopamine, which a digital interruption will provide.
2. This digital dopamine addiction means I have trouble focusing: on books, work, family and friends
Problem identified, or most of it. There is more.
And so, starting in January, I started making some changes. The key ones are:
- No more Twitter, Facebook, or article reading during the work day (hard)
- No reading of random news articles (hard)
- No smartphones or computers in the bedroom (easy)
- No TV after dinner (it turns out, easy)
- Instead, go straight to bed and start reading a book — usually on an eink ereader (it turns out, easy)


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Given the brexit vote, falling pound and a reasonable bank balance, the whole family got new computers this year for Christmas. A Lenovo M700 MT desktop for myself, a HP laptop for my son and a Lenovo Yoga 510 for my daughter.
(I was rather surprised doing my initial research to discover that desktop computers now cost more than a laptop of equivalent spec - even though the latter also includes a battery and a screen.)
While my son just wanted MSWindows on his, my daughter wanted Linux. We had an interesting conversation with the salesman at PC-World. When she asked him if it would run Linux, he said that installing Linux would void the warranty. "But its just software?" she replied. He insisted that installing anything other than what it came with would void the warranty. I interjected at this point and asked him to clarify "Installing any other software than MS-Windows will void the warranty?"
"Yes - I can't get my manager if you don't believe me".
So we bought her computer from John Lewis.
Unlike my desktop which came with MSWindows 7, shrinking the C drive in Windows 10 actually worked! Getting into the UEFI setup to change the boot order was a bit harder though - no messages at startup to advice what key press would open the setup or allow the boot order to be changed.F1, F2, escape and F12 during boot had no effect.
The only option was to select restart from a running MSWindows session while holding down the left shift button. This rather enforced the option of dual boot - but with a 1Tb disk, there was plenty of room to spare.
I was rather surprised to discover that although I could get into the UEFI setup, the keyboard was completely unresponsive. Plugging in an external keyboard solved that problem. Boot order changed and I was ready to go.
Since it's a touch screen device, I decided to go with a Gnome 3 desktop. And since it came with SecureBoot, I decided to go with Fedora (which has a signed boot loader). I'll maybe get a bit more adventurous in future, but for now, baby steps.
Running from the USB stick was a bit ropey, but these problems went away when I installed to the hard disk. Everything is working apart from the touch screen. That's quite a big omission, but as relatively new hardware running with a very new display system (Fedora 25 uses Wayland rather than Xorg) it may take a while to get it sorted - meanwhile I'll let my daughter play around.
Even without the touchscreen stuff, this wee device is a viable proposition as a laptop - there are a lot of devices available at this price point, but this is notable in feeling very sturdy.
Monday, 26 December 2016
Keyboard nirvana? Almost.
Having blogged about keyboards twice before, you may have got the impression I'm slightly obsessive. I am.
While my old PC was merely getting a bit past its sell-by-date, the keyboard I was using was horrible - a really nasty HiPoint silicone bump device purchased as a temporary measure until I could do some proper research.
As before I had started with what I thought was a reasonable set of requirements:
Instead, I decided to take a gamble on a keyboard found on eBay - a Bakker Elkhuizen 840.
I'm well pleased.
While my old PC was merely getting a bit past its sell-by-date, the keyboard I was using was horrible - a really nasty HiPoint silicone bump device purchased as a temporary measure until I could do some proper research.
As before I had started with what I thought was a reasonable set of requirements:
- UK layout
- Compact (i.e. full-sized keys, but without a numeric keypad) to save space on my small desk, and avoid having to reach so far for my mouse.
- Nice tactile action
- High contrast between the lettering and background on the keys (or illumination)
- Wired (i.e. USB, despite the fact my new PC still comes with PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors)
Instead, I decided to take a gamble on a keyboard found on eBay - a Bakker Elkhuizen 840.
- the right size
- in the right place
- legible with black on light grey
I'm well pleased.
Lenovo ThinkCentre M700
|My HP Pavillion desktop (4Gb, dual Athlon 2200) was getting a bit long in the tooth, and I decided to treat myself to a new rig.
In the past I've been rather impressed with the robustness of high-end PCs - I had a dual Pentium II HP Kayak XM600 for many years before I passed it on my mother for an extended tour of duty. Apart from the RD-RAM which never came down in price while the cost of DDR tumbled. Add to that the fact that running the X Window system, I wasn't going to see a lot of benefit from a fancy graphics card, I really wanted to get the fastest CPU I could. I did consider getting a retired server - but they are typically horrendously noisy. Then I thought about a used HP Z400. But looking at the behaviour of my current system, while the CPU was frequently maxed out, it was usually with just one or 2 processes causing all the pain. Having 8-16 CPUs wasn't going to help unless they were a lot faster than what I already had.
|Looking at the single-core benchmarks, the 3.7GHz i3 6100 seemed to hit a sweet spot for budget/performance profile. So I started shopping for such a device. Form factor was a consideration - I have a small desk which my computer sits underneath - so a tower case was important. I ended up choosing a Lenovo ThinkCentre M700 from eBuyer.
The handle at the front/top is not particularly sturdy, but adequate for occassionally lugging the device about.
Powered up, it seems remarkably quiet compared both to the HP Pavillion its replacing and the HP i5 generic corporate device I use at work.
Accessing the BIOS (sorry UEFI setup) was easy - just F1 at boot. The default configuration came with Windows 7 and Secure boot disabled. As I'm doing a lot more MSWindows dev and admin stuff these days, I decided to keep it as dual boot. Shrinking the C drive in MSWindows proved to be a complete PITA - even after disabling swap, updates and rollbacks, it still wouldn't release more than around 10Gb due to "unmoveable" files. And having to use the horrible tools with MSWindows was just too painful - so I booted up with a Mint install disk and had no problem shrinking the drive down to 100Gb.
Installing Mint 18.1 from a DVD I had prepared earlier was a no-brainer. I created the same users on the new machine as existed on the old, rsynched /home and everything worked - but a lot faster!
The onboard ethernet works with the RTL8168g driver. Its a 500Gb Western Digital HD. This feels a little slower than the 2 x Seagate 250Gb disks in the old machine (configured as OS+Backup and home+var+data+swap rather than in any RAID setup). But the planned SSD upgrade should fix that.
If only the laptop had been this easy! (details coming in a later post).
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The cops have just pulled you over because they suspect you are driving under the influence. In order to investigate their suspicion, they begin to ask you a series of questions. The preliminary questions are designed to identify you. The police ask for your driver's license, insurance, registration, etc. Although you may be inclined to give a false name, say you don't have your license on you (when you really do), or give any other false or misleading information in an attempt to escape criminal liability, don't do it!
And when the cops being asking you questions about your evening…were you drinking, how much were you drinking, when were you drinking, etc. you may be tempted to tell the officers that you haven't had anything to drink (when in reality you had a least a couple of beers). As difficult as it may be, resist that temptation! You have the right to remain silent – exercise that right. But if for some reason you are compelled to talk, be honest because if you're not…and that fact can be proven…you subject yourself to further criminal charges.
Vehicle Code 31 VC California's law against providing an officer with false information is a misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in jail and a maximum $1,000 fine. Prosecutors can technically charge you with Vehicle Code 31 VC California's law against providing an officer with false information anytime you do just that…knowingly make a false statement to an officer engaged in the performance of his/her duties.
So, please – comply with the officer's request and provide the appropriate identifying information. And then, politely advise the officer that you wish to remain silent. Your silence can only help you…false statements can come back to haunt you. Read our article about when you have the right to remain silent in California.


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Cubist Pharmaceuticals
|Subsidiary (formerly: Public)
|Traded as
|Pharmaceuticals (Biopharmaceuticals & Biotherapeutics)
|Lexington, Massachusetts
Key people
|Robert J. Perez, President, CEO;
|Product Pipeline
|$926.4 million USD (2012)
|Merck & Co.
Cubist Pharmaceuticals is an American biopharmaceutical company with activities spanning from research and development to commercialization of pharmaceutical products. Its main products target pathogens like MRSA.
Cubist was one of the few firms that continued to research in antibiotics while larger pharmaceutical companies have abandoned such research.[1] The company employs 638 people, with 370 in their headquarters in Lexington, MA.[2] As of 2011, the company's headquarters are under expansion and is expected to occupy 373,000 sq ft (34,700 m2) in Lexington, MA. On 8 December 2014, Merck & Co. acquired Cubist for $102 per share in cash ($8.4 billion) as entree to the market for drugs that can combat superbugs.[3]
Cubist was founded in May 1992 by John K. Clarke, Paul R. Schimmel, Ph.D. and Barry M. Bloom, Ph.D, all of whom were also directors.[4] Cubist appeared on Fortune 2010's List of fastest growing companies, and was named to the 2010 Deloitte Technology Fast 500.[5] In 2006 it had the 19th highest sales among American based biotechnology companies.[citation needed]
In 2011, the company acquired Adolor, maker of a drug for treatment of constipation.[6]
Cubist had an ambitious growth plan laid out for the 2012-2017 quinquennium. Under this plan, the company was expected to reach 2B dollars in sales and have 4 new drugs in late stage development by 2017. As a part of this plan, sales of its flagship drug Cubicin were expected to grow to more than 1B dollars per year.
In July 2013, Cubist Pharmaceuticals agreed to purchase Trius Therapeutics and Optimer Pharmaceuticals for around $1.6 billion.[7]
In 2014, succeeding Michael Bonney as President, Robert J. Perez, was announced to take leadership on January 1, 2015.[8] In January 2015 Cubist Pharmaceuticals became a wholly owned subsidiary of Merck & Co.
The company markets Cubicin (daptomycin) for injection, the first antibiotic in a class of anti-infectives called lipopeptides. In 2011, Cubist settled a patent litigation with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries regarding Cubicin.[9] In April 2011 it reached a deal with Optimer Pharmaceuticals in which its class of bacterium fighting drugs will be co marketed with Optimer's Fidaxomicin/Dificid (for $15 million per year). Optimer chose Cubist because according to its CEO, "Cubist has a proven track record and well established relations with all stakeholders involved in the antibiotics space".[10]
In 2011, its product pipeline focused on gram-negative bacterial infections,[11] Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea,[12] and respiratory syncytial virus.[13]
Tedizolid was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration on June 20, 2014.[14][15]
- ^ Mullin, Emily (26 Aug 2014). "Cubist exec: Challenges mount in antibiotics discovery". Fiercebiotechresearch.com. Retrieved 23 Nov 2014.
- ^ "Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc. homesite". 2009 Annual Report. Retrieved 20 May 2011.
- ^ Merck to take on superbugs with Cubist Pharma buy. Reuters, 9 December 2014
- ^ "SEC Form S3 Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc". March 8, 2000.
- ^ "100 FASTEST-GROWING COMPANIES". CNN. 2010. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
- ^ Associated Press (19 Jan 2012), "Cubist Profit Down 53%", Drug Discovery & Development, Advantage Business Media, retrieved 22 Jan 2012
- ^ Vrinda Manocha and Zeba Siddiqui (30 July 2013). "Cubist to pay up to $1.6 billion for two antibiotics makers". Reuters.
- ^ Weisman, Robert (20 Oct 2014). "New Cubist Pharmaceuticals chief executive will be Robert J. Perez". www.BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 23 Nov 2014.
- ^ "Cubist Settles Teva Patent Litigation on Antibiotic Cubicin". Bloomberg. 2011-04-05. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
- ^ "Optimer to Market Dificid Drug With Cubist Pharmaceuticals". Bloomberg. 2011-04-06.
- ^ Donnelly, Julie M. (13 December 2011). "Cubist advances antibiotic for Gram-negative bacteria". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2017-10-31.
- ^ Brown, Rodney H. (6 April 2011). "Cubist - Optimer diarrhea drug could net $47M". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2017-10-31.
- ^ "Alnylam Loses Cubist as RSV Partner, Stays Focused on ATTR Programs". GenomeWeb. Retrieved 2017-10-31.
- ^ "Sivextro by Cubist Pharmaceuticals". www.pharmacytimes.com. Retrieved 2017-10-31.
- ^ "Cubist Announces FDA Acceptance of Tedizolid New Drug Application with Priority Review | FierceBiotech". www.fiercebiotech.com. Retrieved 2017-10-31.
External links[edit]
- Kennedy, Val Brickates, "Nothing bugs Cubist CEO Michael Bonney", MarketWatch, January 17, 2012.
Coordinates: 42°25′25.2″N 71°14′32.9″W / 42.423667°N 71.242472°W
- Companies formerly listed on NASDAQ
- Biopharmaceutical companies
- Biotechnology companies of the United States
- American companies established in 1992
- Pharmaceutical companies established in 1992
- Life sciences industry
- Biotechnology companies established in 1992
- Biotechnology companies disestablished in 2015
- Pharmaceutical companies disestablished in 2015
- 1992 establishments in Massachusetts
- 2015 disestablishments in Massachusetts
- Defunct pharmaceutical companies of the United States
- Defunct companies based in Massachusetts
- Health care companies based in Massachusetts
- Companies based in Lexington, Massachusetts
- 2015 mergers and acquisitions
- Merck & Co.


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Absolutely myriad decades of single word cliches around the globe
"Myriad" now joins the other single-word cliches littering our written and spoken language: From a hed on an Alternet story: The Myriad Ways Political Corruption and Mass Incarceration Go Hand and Hand.
What's wrong with plain old "many"? Nothing, since it's more familiar, less pretentious, means the same, and has only two syllables instead of the three in myriad.


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Boksburg-based slurry equipment manufacturer eDART's dual valves and poppet samplers continue to offer high-quality level control at South African miner Northam Platinum's Booysendal plant near Lydenburg, Mpumalanga.
eDART slurry valves director Richard Rule says, when Booysendal was originally built in 2010, eDART supplied dual dart valves and poppet samplers. It continues to be involved in the commissioning and after-sales support to Booysendal which has sourced additional samplers over the years.
He notes that the company's dart valves have kept level error to less than 2.5% over an eight-hour period at the Booysendal plant. "This is a great and important achievement as level control is vital in order to maintain the required 'grade' of the concentrate."
Rule explains that, initially, external dart valves were chosen for flotation level control to concentrate the metal from ore, and that Northam currently has 27 flotation machines, each of which are fitted with a dual dart valve.
"It can be argued that this is the most important valve on a concentrator as it is the last controlling element that determines if the metal reports to the concentrator or is lost to the tails."
According to Rule, Booysendal has commented that eDART's dart valves offer the "best level control they have experienced on a plant".
He adds that the company does not just sell product and walk away. "We offer a considered assessment of valve requirements to our customers and, throughout the first year of operation after our original installation at Booysendal, we assisted in the optimisation and fine- tuning of the plant to ensure that the best possible performance was obtained from our valves."
Driven by the need for improved efficiency and throughput, good concentrators continually evolve. Samplers play an important and useful role in the monitoring system required to direct this evolution. "The Booysendal plant in particular has been very proactive in using our samplers and analysis to improve their processes. "I believe eDART's valve technology played a role in Northam's improved results at its Booysendal plant, [owing] to their superior quality," says Rule.
Booysendal plant superintendent Brian Whitehead adds, "through the proper sizing of valves, we have been able to increase our feed rate to the plant without any major control issues on the valves".
Together with valves company Afrivalve – which forms part of eDART Group – eDART was responsible for servicing and maintenance of equipment at the Booysendal plant, which included all the calibration and servicing of their valves to maintain optimised operational efficiency. Other control loop elements also had to be correctly selected, calibrated and tuned in order to ensure peak plant performance.
eDART are specialists in the design and manufacture of slurry equipment and offer external and internal dual/single dart valves, as well as pinch, dosing and slurry valves; pneumatic actuators, instrumentation, samplers, flow analysis technology; and related accessories.
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With this, they get the new knowledge, uniting the theory with the practical one in the classroom, thus exerting, an active paper in its professional process and consequently stimulating its learning to the research, taking them it an analysis becoming them critical. She is necessary to understand that without the theoretical knowledge, it is impossible to have the practical one, therefore one is related to the other. In if treating to research, it must be had in mind that it produces knowledge through concepts and analyses acquired in collections and being thus, produces acquired information of systematic form where, the principle, has as base the theory. The scientific or academic research offers subsidies to the teaching future to become autonomous worker, therefore it is searching that this discovers new abilities, acquires new abilities so that it exerts thus them of practical form in the next future, that is, in the school. Some contend that Ray Kurzweil shows great expertise in this. In the school, the professor must to assume a estimuladora position, applying works that foment the learning to search, making with that these, since the basic education, have the notion of how much the research is important not only in the day-by-day pertaining to school one, as well as in the day-by-day social one. With this, it is left clearly that the research must be active in the life of each one, therefore is with it that essential knowledge for the life in the scope of the social complexities are acquired. To if dealing with the applicabilities of the acquired basic knowledge during the research, that is, of the practical one of education in the classroom, if it comes across with the one of that many times the professor does not have time to dedicate itself in the research, therefore many have that to work in up to three turns so that thus they obtain a wage enough to cover its necessities. .
In accordance with SAINTS, in relation to the way Technician Cientfico and Informacional in the region, guarantee. In the same way as they participate of the creation of new vital processes and of the production of new species (animal and vegetal), science and the technology, together with the information, is in the proper base of the production, the use and the functioning of the space and tends to constitute its substratum. (2009, p.238) It points with respect to the necessity to provide the increase in quality for the produced food diversity, for conservation and I reuse of the water in the ground, in the guarantee of the production stability that they aim at to sociabilizar many experiences and greater alimentary security you stop families who usufruct of the agriculture of irrigao.CONCLUSODiante of this context, recognizes the importance of the handling, the control and the conservation of the hdricos resources for the Mesorregio of the Paraibano Wasteland. Looking for always to use of less sensible cultures to the hdrica deficiency, reverting the process of degradation of the natural resources in the micron-basins, alternative on the basis of technological that increase the vegetal production, the agricultural productivity and the net income of the agricultural producer. Mainly for the construction and the intensive use of the wells (or cacimbas), dams and underground barrages for production of foods and animal consumption. Especially used for the creation of polar regions of irrigated fruticultura. As well as implanting, of gradual form, stimulating next to the institutions of research and assistance technique the generation of alternative technologies for the recovery of areas in degradation process. Stimulating practical that it facilitates to the preservation (infiltration) of the water of rains and the replacement of the water in the ground and without damage to the basic necessities of the devoid population for the preservation of the environment that culminates in a sustainable alternative to guarantee the future generations more abundance to its locality.
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NEW YORK―Actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman's death is being treated by police as an accidental overdose, following the discovery of his body next to five empty heroin bags and 65 unused ones on Sunday, February 2. He was last seen at 8 p.m. on Saturday night, and was supposed to pick up his three children on Sunday at 9 a.m., but had not showed up. He was found at 11:15 a.m. in the apartment of his friend, screenwriter David Bar Katz, who called 911.
At first, police declared to have found 50 bags, but further investigation proved that the number was much higher. Along with the bags, police found used syringes besides the one found stuck in his arm; detectives are attempting to determine the purity of the heroin found in his possession and to track down the origins of the drug by examining the stamps on the bags and checking with nearby jurisdictions. So far, it has been concluded that Hoffman did not possess the heroin-fentanyl combination, which has been linked to other drug-related deaths in northeasternUnited States.
Detectives are also speculating that Hoffman was less able to tolerate the drug because of his detox stint last year, but the exact cause of death has not yet been determined.
The actor has openly admitted to battling addiction in the past. Eight years ago, Hoffman spoke with "60 Minutes" about his experience with drugs and alcohol during his youth.
Hoffman told "60 Minutes" that he left rehab at the age of 22, remarking that he reached for "anything [he] could get his hands on" and that he "liked it all." He explained that he first decided to get treatment because "[he] was 22 and [he] got panicked with his life."
There have been many conflicting accounts regarding who found the actor first at his apartment. A tweet from Pervaiz Shallwani at 10:55 a.m. on February 2 gives one account: "Law enforcement official: Actor was found in the bathroom of 4th floor apartment with a needle in his arm."
"We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Phil and appreciate the outpouring of love and support we have received from everyone," his family said in a statement. "This is a tragic and sudden loss and we ask that you respect our privacy during this time of grieving. Please keep Phil in your thoughts and prayers." Broadway theaters will be dimming their marquees for one minute on Tuesday at 7:45 p.m. in his honor.
The actor recently spent time in rehab in 2012, after suffering a relapse while taking prescription drugs. Hoffman is a multiple Oscar nominee where he was nominated three times for Best Supporting Actor for his work in "Charlie Wilson's War," "Doubt" and "The Master."
He won an Academy Award in 2006 for Best Actor for his performance in "Capote." The actor recently appeared in the sequel to the "Hunger Games" franchise, "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" and completed work on the first installment of the final chapter in the franchise, "Mockingjay."
According to reports, Hoffman made multiple withdrawals from an ATM totaling more than $1,200 on Saturday, the day before his death. On Tuesday, February 4, New York Police Department officials conducted several drug raids in connection to Hoffman's death. Authorities arrested four people in connection with the actor's death; the suspects are believed to be dealers who the actor frequently purchased drugs from. An autopsy has been ruled inconclusive in determining an exact cause of death for the actor.
The actor will be laid to rest over the weekend at a private funeral inNew York. He is survived by his long-time partner Mimi O'Donnell and his two daughters, Talluah, 7, Willa, 5, and his son Cooper, 10.
By Staff


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Melbourne Day 2
We had to be out of the hostel at 10am as there were no beds available for any other nights. We headed to a hostel in North Melbourne in the suburbs in a taxi with a driver who didn't have a clue and drove around two different blocks in search of the hostel before he put the road in his sat nav. How annoying especially as we still had to pick up the bill. I wasn't happy. what topped it off was that when we found the hostel we were on a road that was like a dual carriageway with a grass verge in the middle. There was a gap right opposite the hostel that he could have turned in to drop us right outside, but no he took us all the way to the end of the road where he did a u-turn. Nause!
The hostel was nice and we got a double room. Once checked in we headed out to have a look at our surroundings. We went to a small shopping area and had lunch then to the shops to get some groceries and left them back at the hostel. We then headed towards the city centre, went to an internet cafe and started our job hunt. Things didn't look very good. Disheartened we headed home and washed some clothes. Oh how nice it is to have clean fresh smelling clothes and underwear that hasn't been handwashed.
We headed to bed to get some beauty sleep in preparation for further job searching the next day.


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Tree-related damage is usually apparent. Limbs crashing through a roof or onto automobiles or power lines are hard to miss. Sometimes the damage is so severe that entire homes are destroyed. This is especially likely to happen when large trees are torn out of the ground and topple onto a house, crashing through the structure or knocking it off its foundation.
Remarkably, extensive tree damage can also occur underground, out of sight. This happened in 1992 in the Miami-Dade County area of Florida, where trees uprooted by Hurricane Andrew caused hundreds of millions of dollars of damage to underground utilities such as sewer and water lines, buried communications cables and sidewalks.
Some trees are also notorious for aggressively sending out roots that can damage the foundation of a house, buckle sidewalks or plug up septic systems, forcing homeowners to spend thousands of dollars for repairs.
The kinds of trees in a yard, their proximity to a house and the care they receive all affect safety and the potential for damage or personal injury.
Some potential problems are easy to spot. These include:
Hollow and decayed trees.
Trees that look one-sided or lean significantly.
Branches hanging over the house near the roof.
Limbs in contact with power lines.
Mushrooms growing from the bark, indicating a decayed or weakened stem.
V-shaped forks rather than U-shaped ones. V-shaped are more likely to split.
Crossing branches that rub or interfere with one other.
Tree care professionals, including arborists, can also examine trees for more subtle signs of trouble and take care of any problems, such as the need to cut down a tree or prune limbs that might be too big, too high, or too dangerous for a homeowner to take down. Arborists can also help save trees and limbs.
Homeowners, property owners, landlords, property managers and property management companies can be the first line of defense and take steps to minimize damage to real estate property. They should regularly examine trees and check for damage or other trouble signs and take corrective action if necessary, either themselves or with the help of an expert.
Proper pruning
Good pruning can prevent many problems. Prompt removal of diseased, damaged or dead plant parts helps limit the spread of harmful insects and disease, as well as reduce the possibility of future storm damage. Pruning can also have other benefits. For instance, pruning a dense canopy reduces its mass while permitting better air circulation and sunlight penetration. Pruning also helps provide proper shape and improves the health and vigor of the plant. Do not over prune, a practice called hat racking, as this will significantly weaken a tree.
Experts offer these pruning tips:
Avoid pruning branches flush to the trunk. Doing so removes not only the limb but some of the trunk wood, opening the plant to possible decay or insect damage.
Begin by making a cut partway through the bottom of any limb to be trimmed, a few inches from the trunk. Then cut through the limb just above the first cut. This ensures that when the limb falls, it will not tear off a long strip of bark on the way down.
Finish by cutting off the few inches sticking out from the trunk. Be sure to leave the branch collar, the swollen area of trunk tissue that forms around the base of a branch. Leaving the branch collar protects the main trunk from damage.
Appropriate species
Even the best care cannot overcome poor tree selection. Some trees are more prone to storm damage than others. Also, trees that grow strong in one area might grow poorly in another. Thousands of homes have been damaged because nearby trees were wrong for the soil or region where they were planted. A shallow-rooted tree growing in soft soil, for instance, can easily topple onto a house in a strong wind. The roots will pull right out of the ground.
City foresters, county extension offices, local nurseries and landscape firms can provide advice on tree selection for your area and soil conditions. By selecting appropriate trees, planting them in the proper location and giving them the care they need, homeowners can go a long way toward not only beautifying but also protecting their property.
After a Storm
The type of care you give after a storm should depend on a tree's age, the extent and type of damage.
To care for storm damaged trees:
In general, it is best to reset only smaller trees, since large trees will be weakened and may fall again.
Decide what to do with tree stumps.
If you are going to leave them, cut them off flush with the ground.
If you plan to remove them, leave four feet of stump standing.
Removal will be cheaper and easier if stumps can be pulled out instead of dug out.
Cut off broken or torn limbs to avoid unnecessary bark stripping.
When straightened, uprooted trees will require bracing for a long time.
Before you reset a tree, cut, smooth and paint all jagged and irregular root breaks.
Water the tree well and fertilize.
Do not remove guy wires or braces for two years.
After repairing trees, continue to care for them. Check soil moisture regularly.
Prune a damaged tree just enough to balance the loss of roots.
Cut out broken, diseased and malformed branches to give the tree a desirable shape.
Source: Institute for Business & Home Safety
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Anyone who has evented a fit, keen horse knows all about warming up for the dressage phase, with unwanted leaps, spooks and the odd big buck making it difficult to even 'stay on' a deep seated dressage saddle, so with exactly this problem in mind, Sue Carson Saddles is asking event riders for help with design features for the new Eventa Dressage Saddle.
As founder and managing director Sue Carson explains; "We have been working on the design of a new style of dressage saddle specifically for event horses and would welcome input from riders about what they would like from an eventing dressage saddle.
"We want to know what riders would prefer when it comes to things like the depth of the seat, the position and size of the blocks and what helps with security on a fit, 'bouncy' event horse, whilst still allowing them to ride in a dressage position and correctly influence their horse."
Event riders who would like an input into the final design of the Sue Carson Saddles Eventa Dressage Saddle should email their 'wish list' to email@example.com before April 15th, making sure to include a full postal address and daytime telephone number, as everyone who helps with ideas and suggestions will be entered into a free prize draw to win a 'thank you' prize of £100 in vouchers to spend on any item(s) from the Sue Carson Saddles range of accessories.
To find out more about the range of Sue Carson Saddles, contact 01629 5403343, visit www.suecarsonsaddles.co.uk or make a note to visit the Sue Carson Saddles trade stand at Badminton Horse Trials (Thursday 2nd – Monday 6th May).


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The Secret To Finding The Best Paper Writing Service
If you are searching for a paper writing service, you will want to make use of a reliable resource. This is important if you are to score high grades in your paper. The good news is that there are some tips that you can use to ensure that you get the best paper writing service.
Check credentials
Before you choose an essay writing service, you should take time to assess their credential. Ensure that you have gone through their testimonials, declarations and exactions. Also go through their FAQ. Check for online reviews to have an idea of what other people are saying about the writing company.
Qualified writers
Consider whether the company has qualified and experienced writers. Does the writing service offer a guarantee that all their professional essay writers are native? This can be important since the writer will need to use English idioms. Hiring a nonnative writer may be cheaper but the paper may not be of the quality you are searching for.
Customer service
Do they have good customer service which is accessible 24 hours in a day? This is important as you may need something to be addressed or fixed at any time of the day.
Access to writers
Does the writing service allow you to contact writers directly through chat or email? This is crucial as there are certain parts you may need to explain further.
Original work
Does the writing service offer guarantee that they will provide you with work that is free of plagiarism? This is essential as plagiarism can have a negative effect on your work.
Ability to meet deadline
It is a key for the writing company to submit your work within your deadline. If you need the assignment under a tight deadline, consider whether they are able to submit the work under quick turnaround. If they cannot guarantee this, you should choose another alternative.
Free revisions
Consider whether the writing company is ready to provide free revisions for the individual project. They should be able to do this until you get satisfied with the results. If the company is reputable, they should be able to stand with their work. Once they promise to do revisions until you get satisfied, it is an indication that they are confident of their work.
These factors will help you determine whether you are dealing with a legit writing service or not.


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Solid Spectroscopy Hosting Architecture of Databases and Expertise
SSHADE is an interoperable Solid Spectroscopy database infrastructure (www.sshade.eu) providing spectral and photometric data obtained by various spectroscopic techniques over the whole electromagnetic spectrum from gamma to radio wavelengths, through X, UV, Vis, IR, and mm ranges. The measured samples include ices, minerals, rocks, organic and carbonaceous materials... and also liquids. They are either synthesized in the laboratory, natural terrestrial analogs collected or measured in the field, or extraterrestrial samples collected on Earth or on planetary bodies: (micro-)meteorites, IDPs, lunar soils...
SSHADE contains a set of specialized databases from various European research groups and is developed under the European program "Europlanet 2020-RI" (H2020)* with the help of OSUG, CNRS/INSU and CNES. It is hosted by the OSUG data center / Université Grenoble Alpes, France.
(*) Europlanet 2020 RI has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N° 654208


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Apple released iOS 7.0.6 software update, with build number 11B651, for compatible iPhone, iPad and iPod touch models last month.
The new firmware weighing in at 35.5MB for iPhone 5s, is available as Over-The-Air update, which brings fix for SSL connection verification. The SSL bug has been found in one of Apple's SSL/TLS library that could let hackers intercept as well as modify user's data on source HTTPS sessions.
The SSL bug is due to an error where the portion of the code that verified authenticity of the server is never reached. Users are advised to upgrade their iOS devices to iOS 7.0.6 to fix the SSL bug issue.
Those who wish to fix SSL bug without updating to iOS 7.0.6 or iOS 6.1.6 may follow our step-by-step guide.
Meanwhile, some iPhone and iPad users are reportedly facing an unusual battery drain and warm device issue after upgrading to iOS 7.0.6.
The above screenshot shows how quickly the battery level is going down. It should be noted that after the specific device (from which screenshot has been shared) received a 20% battery remaining alert, the battery indicator was actually showing 17%.
Besides, some users have mentioned that the battery drains out quickly while in standby mode or, when the iPhone is in use.
Thankfully, there is an easy fix for battery drain and warm device issue.
Step-1: Quit all apps running in the background on the iOS device by going to the multitasking screen (double-tap on Home button) and swiping up on every app to close it
Step-2: Forcibly reboot the device by holding Home and Power buttons together until the device restarts
The aforementioned two-step process has reportedly worked on several iPhone models resolving the rapid battery drain issue.
[Source: OS X Daily]


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CHFL round 12 reviews | see photos from the round of mud
Dunnstown 5.20 (50) d Carngham-Linton 2.0 (12)
By Tim O'Connor
Dunnstown booted an inaccurate 5.20, but still managed to run out easy winners in the heavy mud on Saturday.
The Towners were led by big man Aaron Brennan, Rhys Cahir down back and Jackson Brown in the centre as they kicked clear from a three-point half time led to score a 38-point triumph.
Justin O'Brien, Beau Ketchen and Jacob Dawson led the way for the beaten Saints, which managed just two goals for the afternoon.
Waubra 8.13 (61) d Rokewood-Corindhap 5.12 (42)
By Tim O'Connor
Waubra star James Lukich suffered a bad concussion as Waubra eventually fended off a gallant Rokewood-Corindhap on Saturday.
Lukich left the field in the third quarter and didn't return.
The Grasshoppers were within a kick of the lead deep into the final term, but couldn't manage a huge upset against the league pacesetters, which booted clear to win by 19 points.
Andrew Wettenhall kicked three goals to be the Roos' best ahead of ruckman Geordie Lukich and Ben McDonald, who played both forward and down back.
Leigh Finlayson and Paul Wells were among the standouts for the Grasshoppers, which lost coach Damon Delaney to a hamstring injury on Saturday.
Bungaree 6.9 (45) d Newlyn 1.3 (9)
By Tim O'Connor
Sometimes you've got to get the job done with just effort and willpower.
And that's what Bungaree did on Saturday.
In awful conditions for football - the Demons' home ground a swamp of mud - the hosts showed the most desire to run out comfortable 36-point winners.
Goals were scarce, but two hard-fought majors in the first term and three in the third broke the match apart before a sweeter in the last sealed the win.
And while there was the odd Bungaree goal, the Cats managed just one in a dirty day for the Central Highlands Football League's big improvers.
It was an important victory for the Demons, which maintain some breathing space on the teams nipping at their heels outside the top eight.
The Cats stay inside the top four, but now only by percentage.
While identifying players from the sidelines was a tough task, Scott Mann booted those two first-quarter goals and worked hard all day to be a standout for Bungaree. Joel Mahar - who was barely recognisable after the match with a face covered in mud - was busy throughout the afternoon, while John Butler and Alex Browning also rated mentions in the best. Browning was one of the Demons' other goal-kickers, with coach Heath Pyke, Jake Trevenen and Andrew Milroy also managing to find the target.
Jason Slater kicked the only major for the Cats, which gave the standout player honours to joint-coach Dan Wehrung.
Looking ahead to next weekend's round 13 matches and Bungaree must head to the spa country to take on Daylesford, while Newlyn has a difficult home encounter against Gordon.
Hepburn 13.12 (90) d Skipton 4.5 (29)
By Tim O'Connor
Hepburn strung together its second win in succession on Saturday, but still remains adrift of the top eight.
While the Burras handed Skipton a 61-point defeat on home soil, it wasn't enough to climb into the finals bracket. The side is one game behind eighth-placed Learmonth with five rounds to play.
Joe Malone, Brad McKay and Ken Cummings had good days for the winners, while Andrew Pitson starred for the Emus.
Beaufort 16.11 (107) d Creswick 5.3 (33)
By Tim O'Connor
Beaufort produced some of its better football to dispatch of Creswick in good style on Saturday afternoon.
The Crows, which rested key players such as Daniel Venditti and Michael Foster, led at every change on their way to a 74-point success.
Interleague backman Lee Marshall was sent forward and kicked three goals for the winners, which rated Levi Cox, Rupert Sangster and Lachlan Pfeifer – playing his first senior game since knee surgery last year – as best.
Creswick coach Ryan Knowles, who didn't take the field on Saturday, was proud of the way his charges battled out the game after the side lost at least five players to injury during the afternoon.
Knowles said Jayke Arnold, Joel Berry, Mitch Gervasoni, Brad Castleman and Jack Marshman all finished with injury concerns.
Among the standouts for the visitors were Darrien Mann, Pat Taranto, Liam Blake and Clint Robinson, who rucked given the absence of Tom Walmsley.
Gordon 8.12 (60) d Learmonth 7.4 (46)
By John McGregor
What a turnaround! Gordon clawed its way back from a 37-point deficit at half time to run out victorious over Learmonth by 14 points.
The Lakies ran the Eagles ragged in the first half and had booted seven majors without Gordon registering a goal.
It looked like Learmonth was going to continue the pain in the second half and was first out on the ground waiting for Gordon to appear.
That enthusiasm was shot down in the first five minutes with a goal from Eagle Brendan Sutcliffe.
Sutcliffe's major was the first goal for the Eagles and it fired up a glum Gordon home crowd.
Steven Nicholson snapped a second for the hosts and the pressure was on Learmonth to retaliate.
Two behinds was all the Lakies could find in the second half.
Gordon was just hitting its straps… a quick snap in the last term from Nicholson opened up the scoring opportunities.
A huge kick by Tye Murphy took Gordon to the lead by a point.
Adam Toohey led the assault on the scoreboard and it was his last shot on goal that sealed the result with minutes to go.
Learmonth's sudden drop-off was caused by injuries to a trio of on-field generals.
Playing coach Nick Willox was taken to hospital with a dislocated shoulder, assistant coach Brenton Powell didn't return from a calf injury and skipper Kyle Mackay suffered a corked quadriceps.
Learmonth's Tony Zelencich was the highest scorer on the day with four goals. He and Jason Rae, Nick Martin, Billy Hoye, Michael Zelencich and ruckman Vincent White were best for the Lakies.
Gordon's main scorers were Sutcliffe with three and Nicholson with two. They were also the main drivers in Gordon's fightback. Caleb Myers, Zack Ryan and ruckman Zac May were exceptional.
Afterwards, Mackay explained the frustration at the lack of rotation after such a good start.
"Credit to the boys for being able to push through 50-60 minutes of football without having a spell on the bench. Heavy legs. You could see in the end Gordon was getting the spread on us," he said.
Gordon coach Ron Watt said his frustration was the lack of scoring in the first half.
"I don't think we were bad at any stage of the game. Our general contest was good. It just took us a while to wear them down. I think our players showed that they really wanted to win," Watt said.
Saturday's win leaves Gordon fifth on the Central Highlands Football League ladder and just percentage outside the top four, while the loss sees Learmonth tumble to eighth, but still a game clear of ninth-placed reigning premiers Hepburn.
Ballan 6.14 (50) d Clunes 6.7 (43)
By David Bilbrough
Ballan and the Bongart boys held off a gutsy Clunes outfit to post a thrilling seven-point victory on Saturday afternoon.
In a first for the club and the Bongart family, the ageless Jayson led his three sons - Harley, Ryan and Austin - on to the ground and all four were solid contributors in the triumph.
Harley earned the bragging rights after a relentless, four-quarter performance in the midfield.
The hard work of Dylan Galea, Jack Wilkie and Harley Bongart in the first half paid off.
Jack Gibbs and Harley Bongart hit the scoreboard in the difficult conditions, while Brodie Richie broke a run of six behinds late in the second term to give the hosts a four-goal buffer at the main break.
And when Gibbs booted his second from deep in the forward pocket, the Blues were enjoying a 31-point lead early in the third term.
Clunes evergreen Jason Yole judged the flukey wind to perfection to kick-start the Magpie revival.
The Magpies' best Jesse Baird followed up with a ripper from the boundary line and when Mitch Wrigley added another, the margin was a teeth-clenching six points.
Nic Clarke and Ash Anderson were pivotal in the visitors' fightback, continually repelling the Blues' forward thrusts.
Goals were traded early in the final term. Wilkie gave the hosts enough breathing space as the Magpies' Josh Thompson produced a well-judged shot to manage the final major of the day.
Victorious coach Jason McNamara was pleased to get another win, his side's fourth from its past five outings.
"We started the game pretty well. They got a bit of a run on in the third term and we just did enough to keep them out," McNamara said.
"The conditions were tricky to read and it was going to be the team that was cleaner with the ball that had the best chance of winning."
Despite a winless season so far, Clunes coach Johno Leoncini felt his young charges are heading the right way.
"We're starting to keep ourselves in the game and we're starting to play to how we want to move the footy. If we keep that then things will come – it's that mental toughness they've got to understand," Leoncini said.
"I'm pretty proud of the boys. We were down to just one on the bench at the end. They're a good bunch of young men and we'll keep fighting."
While the Magpies sit at the foot of the Central Highlands Football League ladder, the Blues have climbed to 13th.
Next week, Clunes can claim that elusive success when it hosts Dunnstown, while Ballan can catch its breath during the bye before hosting Learmonth.
Springbank 15.6 (96) d Daylesford 4.5 (29)
By Tim O'Connor
Chris Graham had a day out as Springbank made light work of Daylesford.
The onballer collected a stack of possession and kicked four goals to help the Tigers land a 67-point success at Wallace.
Billy Driscoll and Paul O'Shea were also dangerous with three majors each, while hard-at-it midfielder Joel Maher relished the conditions.
Daylesford managed just four goals for the afternoon, with Max Risstrom and Joel Cowan the team's best.