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Water temperatures are in the mid 50s. Lake Lanier came up more than a foot this past week at 1,064.55, which is 6.45 feet below a full pool of 1,071.
Lake Lanier is clear on the main lake and stained in the creeks.
The Chattahoochee River below Buford Dam is clear. Check generation schedules before heading out to the river at 770-945-1466.
Bass: The bass are still biting well but the weather conditions will affect the patterns considerably.
On sunny days, the fish are relating to docks and steeper ditches that run next to the bank.
On cloudy days, the bass will get out and roam and it can be either fast and furious fishing, or you may just catch one here and one there.
There is some stained water in the creek pockets due to last week's rain runoff and also because windy days will stir up the particals in the water.
This stained water is actually good for fishing because it has more nutrients in it, which attracts the bait fish. Plus, water with color heats up faster than clear water does.
Water that is just a few degrees warmer will also attract fish in late winter and early spring.
No single lure seems to be the best as the varying weather fronts require a change of techniques from day to day and even from hour to hour.
We caught bass this past week on about every pattern you can imagine.
On cloudy days, moving lures like crankbaits, jerkbaits, Fish Head Spins and even the old reliable Rooster Tail will catch fish right.
On calm, cloudy days we have actually found fish schooling around the banks and even off shore. These fish are driving threadfin shad and blueback herring to the surface.
If you cast a lure into these feeding frenzies, you can usually catch a bass pretty quickly.
We actually caught two bass on one lure several times this past week and that is a good sign that the fish are active.
On sunny days, the same moving lures will work, but we have also had great success shooting or skipping finesse worms on jig heads around the docks, brush piles and lay-downs on the bank.
Just a note about dock fishing: When targeting docks, please remember that docks are private property and therefore anglers should respect the owner's rights.
If you hang up a lure, please retrieve it without damaging whatever it gets hung up on. Also make accurate casts to avoid hitting boats or other objects that could be damaged by lures.
You can practice casting at home to increase your accuracy when you make it out to the lake. Pass by any docks that have people out enjoying their day.
There have also been some spotted bass out deeper all winter, but I haven't been targeting them as much as the shallow fish recently.
These deeper bass will hit Texas- or Carolina-rigged worms, jigs and even spoons worked from 25 to 40 feet around off-shore brush and timber. Night fishing for spotted and largemouth bass will start to pick up very soon.
Striper fishing has been on and off, but the bigger fish are starting to appear and now is the time to catch a real trophy.
Like the bass, the stripers can be caught using a variety of techniques. There have been some deeper fish in the creek mouths down lake and in the river channels and creeks up lake.
Your electronics are key tools, and they will help quickly determine if an area will hold fish or if you need to move on.
Down-lined bluebacks have been working best for the deeper fish. Make sure to set your down lines slightly above where you mark fish on your electronics, as stripers will look up to eat a bait, but they seldom move down.
The birds can help you locate the right areas, but you do need to know what to look for.
There are plenty of gulls that will lie on the water during the day. These birds are not much help in showing where the fish or bait is located as they are resting between meals.
If you witness loons diving or just one, two or a small flock of gulls that are diving in one area, this is usually an indication that there are bait and predator fish in the area.
There have also been some good stripers shallow in the mornings and during the day.
Gizzard shad, trout and also blueback herring will work well for the shallow fish. You can use flat lines for fishing directly behind the boat or add planner boards to get your baits out beside the boat and up near the banks.
Trolling umbrella rigs has been working well.
Locate the stripers, then set you rigs at the level where you mark fish and troll your rigs around two miles per hour.
The night bite is on for the stripers, and they are hitting Bomber Long As and McStick 110s after dark around the dam and in some of the creeks both up and down lake.
Find the fish, cast your jerkbaits to the bank and fish them with a slow-and-steady retrieve.
Crappie fishing remains very good and it should remain that way for at least the next month.
Find docks, brush, lay-downs and stumps, and either troll small crappie jigs or shoot these same lures around the docks and wood. A crappie jig tipped with a live minnow will increase your odds.
Remember to respect the docks.
Trout fishing is good both on the river and in the Wildlife Management Areas that are open year-round. Just about any method is working, and the trout are hitting dry and wet flies, inline spinners and live earthworms where permitted by law.
The Department of Natural Resources is still stocking plenty of new trout, and these new releases will be the easiest fish to catch this year.
Bank fishing: You can fish from the shore for trout on the Chattahoochee River year-round, but the fishing has been pretty good lately.
If you fish directly below Buford Dam you can use artificial and live bait above Highway 20, but you must stick with artificial lures below Highway 20. Also, if you wade or float the river you must wear a lifejacket below
Buford Dam, so make sure to check your local regulations and enjoy a day on the river. Trout fishing is very good in late winter and early spring.
Eric Aldrich is an outdoor writer, marketing specialist and bass angler. Reports are based on personal experience and permission from a close network of friends. Contact him at email@example.com or visit
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Burnley defender James Tarkowski has withdrawn from England's World Cup preparation camp to undergo hernia surgery.
The 28-year-old, who earned his first England cap in March when Italy visited Wembley, was named on boss Gareth Southgate's five-man standby list ahead of the tournament in Russia and had been training with the Three Lions.
But following assessment it has been agreed that Tarkowski requires an operation and he will not play any part at the World Cup.
A statement from Burnley on Sunday evening said the centre-back is expected to be fit for pre-season training when it begins in early July, and that England have confirmed there are no plans to call up a replacement defender at this time.

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Just when the market felt like they'd found a trading pattern that was reliable - buy on Tuesday - the market couldn't get out if its own way today. The market had been up on ever Tuesday this year. This is just a crazy coincidence, but in the current computer driven markets it has been a reliable trading indicator.
Unfortunately, today was the exception that proved the rule. That momentum names in the tech sector were very heavily influenced by the fall of Twitter which hit a new all-time low today. Today was the first day that the stock could be sold by insiders and despite assurances that they would not be selling, nearly 20% of all of the stock in the company traded today which meant someone was lying and plenty of people were selling.
Well, maybe the computers will decide they like buying on Wednesday :)
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ANTANANARIVO — Former Madagascan president Hery Rajaonarimampianina on Thursday alleged that "many voting irregularities" pointed to fraud in this week's election, heightening fears of protests and a disputed result.
Early counting from a small number of polling stations put Rajaonarimampianina in a distant third place behind leading contenders Andry Rajoelina and Marc Ravalomanana, both also former presidents of the Indian Ocean island.
"Many voting irregularities and technical anomalies have been detected including an invalid electoral register... intimidation (and) the presence of pre-ticked ballots," said Rajaonarimampianina, who ruled from 2014 to September this year.
"All indications are that the votes of the Madagascan people have been stolen," he added in a statement issued the day after the poll.
"We will not let the people be robbed of their vote," he warned.
With only 358 of the 24,852 polling stations counted by Thursday afternoon, Rajaonarimampianina had obtained 3.32 percent of the votes counted so far.
Rajoelina had 44.35 percent and Ravalomanana was on 41.7 percent, according to official figures.
Thirty-six candidates ran in the election, which is considered an acid test of the democratic credentials of the impoverished island that has a history of coups and instability.
Ravalamonana has called for his supporters to rally in the capital Antananarivo on Saturday to "thank them for their support."
Rajoelina's spokesman said his team would wait "calmly and with confidence" for the results.
A candidate must reach 50 percent to win outright, otherwise a second round will be held on Dec. 19. The full results must be announced by Nov. 20, and made official by Nov. 28.
Ravalomanana, 68, and Rajoelina, 44, are bitter rivals. It is the first time they have faced each other at the polls.
Ravalomanana ruled from 2002 to 2009 until he was ousted in a military-backed coup that installed Rajoelina who was in power until 2014.
Rajaonarimampianina succeeded him, ruling until earlier this year.
Both Ravalomanana and Rajoelina were banned from contesting the last elections in 2013 under international pressure to avoid a repeat of political violence that engulfed the island in 2009.
Campaigning for Wednesday's polls passed off without incident and voting was peaceful.
Before polling day, around 20 lower-profile candidates had called for the vote to be delayed over alleged problems with the electoral roll.
Attempts by Rajaonarimampianina to change the island's electoral laws backfired this year, sparking nearly three months of sometimes violent protests in the capital.
The demonstrators forced Rajaonarimampianina to accept a "consensus" government tasked with organizing the election.
Madagascar is one of the world's poorest countries, according to World Bank data, with almost four in five people living in grinding poverty.
The former French colony has struggled to overcome political divisions after a disputed 2001 election that sparked clashes and the 2009 coup. — AFP


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Kenya has that rarest of anthems: one that actually sounds like the country it comes from! It's a tune you could imagine gazelles running to or Maasai singing in villages.
Yes, it's a bit "cliched" Africa – how many Maasai aren't using cell phones and listening to rap these days? – but it's better than most of Africa's anthems, which sound like they were written by an vicar after a walk through the English countryside.
If you go online – Wikipedia, for instance – it tells you that music was written by a committee headed by an English musicologist, Graham Hyslop.
But this week, Kenyan media was dominated by reports of the death of the actual composer, a 96-year-old, Mzee Galana Meza (pictured below). He died in poverty without any recognition from the government. It's an outrage, the newspapers screamed.
There is one problem; it's hard to work out if Meza did compose it. As he told the story, in 1963, Hyslop visited his village and asked for folk tunes. Meza sang him seven and only discovered one was chosen to be the anthem when he heard someone singing it after independence.
So did Meza write it? I haven't the faintest idea. For all I know, it was a melody that'd been sung for 100s of years. But even if he didn't, surely he deserves a mention in the song's history? Someone update Wikipedia now!


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To celebrate the upcoming launch, Dutch developer Digital Dreams has released a brand new trailer for Metrico+. "The response we got from both the many players and press on the original game for PlayStation Vita was extremely positive, and one of the most heard comments was that people wanted to play the game on platforms other than the Vita as well", said Digital Dreams Level Designer Roy van de Mortel. "With Metrico+, we can now finally give players the opportunity to experience the world of Metrico on all major platforms, along with new content that is 100% exclusive to this version. Both old and new players are sure to find something to love in this completely redesigned version of Metrico, whether it's the mechanics, puzzles, visuals or story. "We're really excited about Metrico making the transition to bigger screens and can't wait to share the look and feel of the Metrico+ experience with an entirely new audience on Steam and consoles."
Exclusive soundtrack by Palmbomen can only be listened to by playing Metrico+
Dutch synthesizer composer Palmbomen wrote original music specifically for each world in Metrico+. The music is written to completely respond to the way you play the game, and therefore the only way you can listen to his score. There will not be an album released separately.
About Metrico+
Metrico is a new world. A living world of infographics, driven by your input. All the bar charts, line diagrams and pie charts react to what the player is doing. One bar diagram might grow for every step you walk to the left, while another could decline with every jump you make.
You will have to explore Metrico and carefully analyze your every move to see how it affects the world, and whether it will get you further. This mechanic is called "Input Morphing" and it makes you think about actions you normally don't think about. There are 6 unique worlds to explore with distinct challenges, mechanics, looks, sounds, and original music by Palmbomen. Metrico+ is a combination of exploration, skill, experimentation, but most of all: thinking outside of the box.
Metrico+ will be available on the 23rd of August on the PlayStation Store, the Xbox One Store and Steam for $13,99 / €13,99.


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Im looking for an inexpensive way to heat incoming air to an insulated 300 square foot shed I use to spray exclusively waterborne coatings.
Theres a small exhaust fan at one end of the room, and I currently just crack the door at the other end of the building and spray away. Primitive, I know, but so far I have been getting acceptable results. Now, with winter coming Im looking to heat the incoming air on the cheap.
I am considering using a forced air torpedo style propane heater aimed in the door. With adequate air movement (the exhaust fan), and using strictly water-based products, I cant see why this would be unduly hazardous, beyond the more garden-variety problems of an open flame inside a building. Im unsure, however, if the water vapor from the propane would increase the humidity to the point of causing problems with the waterborne coats drying. Also, there would be no temperature control besides on and off.
Another thought I had was to install a natural gas boiler that would have coils running around a large diameter pipe, or something similar, which would lead to the outside. In this way the exhaust fan would pull its own air through the pipe to be heated. This is simply conjecture and Im curious what others have come up with.
My apologies to those with legitimate spray booths, hopefully you havent turned away in disgust! I simply dont have the money to build a proper booth, and were talking about five to eight gallons a month anyway.
Anyone have any experience with this type of situation and care to comment? Thanks.
A pellet stove might do the trick. Low cost fuel is one good feature, and you can get a good used one on Craigslist for $600 to $1200. Don't buy an off brand from Home Depot or Tractor Supply. A used Harman or Lopi is the deal.
Water based product have a very narrow window of temp and humidity where they work well. I can't imagine a shed and torpedo heater will keep your work in the factory specs. Moving the product outside and into the shed is even going to cause problems in my mind. But, you don't say if you are in Minnesota or Texas. Maybe you only need to raise the temp 10 degrees.
Thanks for the responses. I live in Canada, so I need to raise the air temperature a lot about half the year. I can keep the building at temperature with electric heat no problem, with the exhaust fan off. Parts can stay nice and warm waiting to be sprayed. I just need to replace the exhausted air while I'm spraying. It's worth noting that the exhaust fan is only 12", around 500 cfm I believe.
I actually worked for a guy for a little while who used the torpedo heater method with pre-catalyzed lacquer. I don't know that I would want to emulate this with solvents, but it did work, even in the dead of winter.
I definitely agree that the smaller temperature window of the water based is a problem. I've looked at prices for small air make-up units designed for commercial kitchens and they're still outside my budget.
A pellet or wood stove is not a bad idea, there's a lot of wood heat around here, so plenty of old stoves on the used market. It would also eliminate any concerns with humidity.
Opening a door to get makeup air in Canada has to be a horrible way to bring in makeup air. You need to add a LOT of btu to bring up that air temp. Do you do your woodworking somewhere else and bring it to the shed to finish? That trip to the shed will lower the surface temp of the wood. Be sure it gets warmed back up before spraying. Have you ever heard of a earth tube? You bury a LONG 4" PVC tube below the frost line, then bring it above ground some distance away. The air picks up the warmth of the earth on the way into your building. At least the inlet air might be above freezing instead of below 0 deg. F. Makes a better cooler in the summer, but does pick up some heat in the dead of the winter. I still don't like the temp swings you are playing with. I'd look at having a regular shop do the finishing for you during the winter. It won't cost you any money, just figure the cost into the bid.
I had a setup like yours when I was starting out: a converted garage dedicated to waterborne spraying, a decent exhaust fan, and a cracked door for makeup air. What worked for me through the pacific NW winters (wet, frosty) was to heat the room with two portable radiant oil heaters for a couple hours beforehand with the parts to be painted getting nice and toasty. Keep the paint products warm too, never on the cement floor. Crack the door, turn on the vent fan, shoot the project, and keep the fan on just long enough to vent out the overspray. Then I'd turn the fan off, close the door and get those heaters cranking, sometimes supplementing with a space heater that has a fan. Get the room back up to 60-70 degrees long enough for the finish to flash off and get a good head start on curing. It worked pretty well, all things considered. You'd be into it for a hundred, maybe $150 for all the heaters but it's an inexpensive way to improve what you've got.
Something else you might consider is a negative air machine/scrubber. Someone on the Paint Talk forum posted a home made version using a Harbor Freight blower and hose sucking through a plastic storage tub with a furnace filter taped to the top (having cut out a suitable sized section for the filter)
Thanks again, I appreciate the responses. Rich C, you hit the nail on the head with my situation: I have a leased industrial bay not far from my house, which is my main shop. The price is excellent, but the caveat is that it used to be part of an old fertilizer plant which once had its own hydroelectric power supply, and so there is no natural gas. The landlord has been lukewarm on my plans for a spray booth from the start, and so I decided to separate the two. The theory is that I squirrel parts back to my garage as theyre completed, to do the spraying all in one shot near the end of a project. This also has the benefit of not clogging up the woodworking shop with parts, and having a dust free place to spray.
I would have no problem outsourcing the finishing, but to be blunt, theres no one I would trust to outsource to around here. I do have the option of renting the booth of a guy Ive worked with in the past, but he wont budge from $40/hr, which although fair for a fully equipped shop, I feel is too expensive to do on a regular basis. Maybe I should reconsider this?
Im not married to the torpedo heater idea, Ive just seen it done with success, and Im guessing that propane or natural gas is the only energy source with enough b.t.u to work. Hot-rod enthusiasts on various forums Ive searched seem to use this approach to paint cars in their garages. In sub-zero temps, I would imagine it would take the room too long to recover with just electric heat to be able to spray in a continuous fashion? The power to my house is anemic anyway at 70 amps.
I shouldnt have said crack the door. Im imagining something like a 2 square hole cut into the wall with a small access door to close when the heaters not in use.
Anyway, reading my own posts, it kind of sounds like Ive talked myself into giving the torpedo heater idea a stab. Its maybe a tad idiotic, but for less than $200, I may as well give it a trial go. I will contemplate the pellet stove idea further also.
Bill in Oregon,
That's interesting. Do you mean reusing the air? I did find this unit online the other week while contemplating my problem, and thought it was interesting, although definitely outside my price range:
I was under the impression that recirculating the air was no-no? Maybe less so with low v.o.c?
The painters use them, including off the shelf scrubbers/negative air machines, to reduce or eliminate overspray in the air. I'd try it without any make up air first and increase the amount of exterior air as needed. I wouldn't try it using solvent based material.


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If a new tattoo parlor wanted to open in Uptown, do you think City Clerk Susana Mendoza would have an opinion about it? Probably not. But Mendoza recently inserted herself into the City Council debate over a new pawn shop in her neighborhood, Little Village.
Under the City Clerk's letterhead, Mendoza submitted an opinion to the Zoning Committee, stating a pawn shop "will only further contribute to a general decay of this vital neighborhood." That allied with community members who think pawn shops look slummy.
The Zoning Committee approved the pawn show, which has the support of Little Village's alderman, Ricardo Muñoz. Not only does Muñoz disagree with Mendoza about the new business, he's not happy that she meddled in the City Council's business.
"I'm concerned that she's now getting involved in local ward matters," Muñoz told the Chicago Tribune. "That hasn't historically been the clerk's role."
Indeed it hasn't. The City Clerk is a citywide elected official with ministerial, not legislative, duties. She shouldn't be using her office to influence zoning decisions.
Mendoza said she made a promise during her campaign to be a strong and independent clerk, and that this issue in particular hits home.
"This is my community and it needs another pay day loan place or pawn shop like it needs bad case of the plague," she said during a phone call with Ward Room. She also said members of her neighborhood presented her with 700 petitions and asked her to join the fight.
"I'm not going to be a cookie cutter clerk who sits behind her desk and does nothing," she said.
Muñoz and Mendoza are two ambitious politicians occupying the same neighborhood.
Muñoz has just announced he's running for Clerk of the Circuit Court. He's also indicated an interest in Congress someday, if Rep. Luis Gutierrez retires.
Mendoza is 39 years old, and I doubt she wants to spend the next three decades approving sticker designs. She may be looking to move up the dais at the front of the Council chamber.
This could be her way of maintaining the local political support she built as a state legislator. Keep an eye on this pair.


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When we arrived in the Philippines, one of the first things we were told was "never judge a missionary by the things they say while driving in Manila," and while it didn't make any sense at the time, it didn't take long at all to understand what they meant. There were no familiar fast flowing freeways in Manila, so going from any one place to another involved taking miles of clogged city roads. Major roads were often two lanes in each direction, but where space allowed, the road widened to three lanes. Traffic would quickly expand into the third lane in an effort to get ahead in the painfully slow congestion, but a few hundred feet ahead, a neighborhood or bridge would collapse the road down to two lanes again, forcing the traffic to merge, and creating even more congestion in the process. Continue reading "Getting around in Manila"
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Culture Shock
"Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly." – Charles Addams
After the first few weeks of being in the Philippines, the realization set in that we weren't in California anymore. It seemed that with every new task, there was a learning curve of how life would be different in this new land. Even the simplest things like buying a soda came with unexpected changes. When it was time to buy a soda from one of the sari-sari stories down the street, I selected my soda, asked how much it cost and forked over a few pesos. The lady behind the counter then popped open the soda cap on a glass bottle, poured the contents into a plastic bag, stuck a straw in the bag and handed it over to me. Holding the bag tightly, I thanked the lady and walked back to the house confused as to what had just happened. As it turns out, the Philippines had not yet switched over to using plastic bottles or metal cans, and almost all soda was sold in glass bottles. There was a bottle deposit added to your purchase so that you would return your glass bottle, which would then be picked up by the bottling company, washed, refilled with soda, and shipped out again. To save the hassle of paying for and returning bottles, many Sari-Sari stores would simply pour the contents of the glass bottle into a clear plastic bag, and not charge you the cost of the bottle deposit. As long as you held the top of the bag tight enough, the whole thing worked quite well. Continue reading "Culture Shock"
Arriving in the Philippines
June 28, 1990
After spending the previous night in a hotel after our long flight across the Pacific Ocean, my Brother, Sister, Mom, and I prepared ourselves for the relatively short three-hour flight from Taipei, Taiwan to Manila, Philippines later that morning. Before long, we were watching the blue ocean and puffy white tropical clouds stream by under our wings. Starting our descent into Manila, banking left over Manila bay, the ocean water changed from a vibrant blue to an emerald brown as the shoreline appeared. The land was swathed with vivid green palm trees and dotting the outskirts of the city were small collections of homes built out of corrugated metal roofing with intermixed colors – shiny sliver, rusted red, and painted black matte. As the plane lowered to the ground you could start to see office buildings, neighborhood developments, and every piece of spare space filled in by shanty towns. Nearing the runway, the plane finally touched its wheels down onto our new home. The plane loudly rattled down the rough runway, like a car quickly driving over a pitted road. The plane slowed, turned off onto the taxiway, and made its way to the nearby terminal. We disembarked through a flight bridge into a bright and airy terminal lined with plants, posters of tropical island beaches, and images of blue city skylines. Continue reading "Arriving in the Philippines"
Preparations and Plane Flights
In the years that we were living in Pasadena, Mom and Dad had watched as the political climate in South Korea become increasingly nationalistic. The government started pressing Protestant mission organizations to prove that their missions work in South Korea was necessary, and that they were doing tasks that the South Koreans themselves could not. The number of visas were being restricted and several missionaries with other organizations had already had to send missionaries to other countries instead. In addition, the group our mission organization had been working with had splintered and was no longer considered by the government to be a stable sponsor. By the start of our fourth year, the writing was on the wall that the door to return to South Korea had closed, and our missions organization, the Christian & Missionary Alliance, asked my parents about changing their field of service. They were interested in having my Dad become professor at the Alliance Biblical Seminary (ABS) in Manila, Philippines. The change was a disappointment for my Dad, who really wished to return to South Korea, but he accepted the new assignment it faith. Serendipitously, the leaders of the South Korean churches we had worked with had previously approached ABS about training their South Korean missionary candidates there, so Mom and Dad were encouraged that their work with Koreans would continue even in Manila.
During this time, my parents had remained silent about the changes to us kids until they knew for sure what they would be doing and where we would be living. One seemingly normal evening after dinner, Mom and Dad called us kids around the dining table for some news. "We're not going back to South Korea," they solemnly said. Continue reading "Preparations and Plane Flights"
Final Furlough Year
With our furlough years almost over, the summer before our departure was spent visiting family, while we still had the chance. We went to the Panda restaurant in Pasadena with Uncle Bob in the years before it turned into the popular chain Panda Express. We took one last road trip up to our Grandparents house in Sunriver, Oregon and visited Crater Lake. And we took a trip up into Washington to meet some relatives we hadn't met before – our Great Grandma and our Uncle Dale and Aunt Leigh. They lived several hours north of my grandparents house on a farm in Worden, Washington. Along the way, we stopped at a ghost town and explored the old buildings in Shaniko, Oregon. I was tired from staying up the night before, so when it came time for continuing the road trip, I asked my parents if I could take an afternoon nap in a sleeping bag in the back of the station wagon, and this still being the 1980's, my parents obliged. What I failed to realize was that the journey took us through the high desert of Oregon, and when I awoke several hours later covered in sweat. I unzipped the sleeping bag and felt the cold air rush in against my now damp clothing. As darkness settled, we stopped at a restaurant for dinner and I felt chilled to the bone sitting in the air-conditioned restaurant throughout the meal. Heading onward, we pressed into the night and finally arrived at the long gravel road leading to my Uncle Dales farm. Waking up the next morning, we explored the surroundings of their farm. They had acres of land that grew a variety of crops and several farm animals. At the center of the land was an old farmhouse with several outlying buildings. During the day, I spent time exploring around the grounds, looking at the farm animals, and riding on the back of an all-terrain-vehicle while my Uncle drove. My parents deemed that my brother and sister were old and qualified enough to drive off on their own, and I watched as they gleefully drove off across the field, down the gravel road, and disappeared. A few minutes later they returned looking nervous and frightened. Apparently one of the cows did not appreciate them encroaching on their space and chased them away while by brother quickly hightailed it back to the farmhouse. Before dinner I assisted Grandma and Aunt Leigh pick fresh raspberries from the rows of vines that grew next to the farmhouse and that night at dinner, we sat down at a long farm table covered in a white tablecloth and had a meal resembling a thanksgiving dinner, compete with ice cream and fresh raspberries for desert. The next morning we hopped back in our old Oldsmobile station wagon for the drive back to my grandparents house and then the further drive back to our home in Pasadena, California.
Seminary & Ministry
Before beginning his work as a pastor and then missionary, my father had completed a Masters in Theology at Dallas Theological Seminary. In the years that followed, our missionary organization (the Christian & Missionary Alliance) had recognized my father's gifting in teaching, language and leadership and had marked him for further study. With the completion of our four-year term in South Korea, the C&MA felt it was time to further his studies and suggested he attend Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. Fuller, at the time, had one of the premier programs in Church Growth and some of the best Missiologists or teachers in missions. The expectation was that after he had completed his doctorate, the door to return to South Korea would be open and if not, he would serve somewhere else, most likely in a seminary capacity.
My mother was also interested in furthering her studies. Over a decade earlier, she had walked away from her dream of earning a Ph.D. in linguistics in order to marry my father. Throughout my father's years at seminary, as a pastor in Oklahoma and on the mission field in South Korea, Mom had quietly and faithfully served by raising us children, leading children's groups and having women's Bible studies. But her desire and leading was to be a true partner in her husband's ministry. Some people assume that living abroad alone is preparation enough for cross-cultural ministry but that is rarely the case. Even though Mom had lived in Germany, Great Britain and Korea, had learned several languages, and had completed thirty units of Bible and Theology, she still had many lingering questions and relished the idea of being properly trained for ministry. While the C&MA would not pay for her schooling, Fuller offered a grant of nearly matching funds to couples that wished to study and serve together, and Mom enrolled as a student as well.
Furlough Summers
When it came for our family to travel, it quickly became obvious that airfare for a family of five on a missionary budget was prohibitively expensive. That could only mean one thing: road trips. Our trips were planned out with three goals in mind: seeing the sights, stopping to see old friends and supporters, and reaching our destination. Our longest road trip was to visit our Grandparents' house in Chicago. Packing up our grey diesel Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser station wagon, we headed out east of Los Angeles. After several hours on the road we approached Death Valley and Dad asked us to roll down our windows slightly. "I'm turning off the air conditioner so that the car doesn't overheat going through the valley" he said. As we sat three kids across in the back of the now sweltering car, the arguments started. My brother, sitting to my left, had a regular habit of what is now described as "manspreading," where he would sit with his legs wide open. For me in the middle seat, I would then have to move my legs to the right side of the car where my sister would have her space taken up. For whatever reason, the greatest source of arguing in the car was always my brother's spread legs which after several years, hundreds of discussions and several fireman drills to switch people around, never seemed to have any lasting effect. Fortunately, before we killed each other, Mom and Dad had arranged a steady stream of sight-seeing adventures. Continue reading "Furlough Summers "


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Our swing gates offer both great security and convenience of operation. Again they can be manufactured from metal or timber or a combination of both.
Operation systems can be above or below ground, and can be electro mechanical or hydraulic. The systems can also be interfaced with lighting systems for greater security.
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Get to know Foley alumna Alicia Reeves!
Where were you born and what year did you graduate from Foley High School?
I was born in Fairhope, Alabama at Thomas Hospital, and I graduated from Foley High in 2003.
Did you participate in any extracurricular activities? Were you any good?!
Yes and No! I participated in soccer, swimming, and one year of golf. I was good at soccer and swimming but terrible at golf.
Did you go to college, business, or technical school after graduation?
What sort of jobs have you done since graduation? Do you have a favorite?
I have been a special education teacher, a general education teacher and am now an assistant principal in Baldwin County.
If you hadn't become a , what might you have done?
If I hadn't become an educator, I would have done something in the health field.
What life lessons has adversity taught you?
Not to give up. If there is something you really desire in life, persevere even when the world seems to be shutting the door on you.
What are one or two things you really miss about high school?
The simplicity of my life at that time, although you think it's anything but simple. Also, I miss the closeness of the friendships with certain people.
Who was the person who influenced you most and how?
There wasn't just one, but if I had to name only one it would have been Cheryl Owen. She showed me the kind of teacher that I wanted to be-one who believed in and loved all of her students.
If you could travel anywhere, where would you go?
I would love to travel all over Europe.
What is one thing that you would encourage high school students to do before they graduate?
Spend time with your family. When you are in high school, it seems as if you can't wait to leave and be on your own; however, the more time goes by you learn to really appreciate them, especially when tragic events happen that take them away from you.
The best advice you would give to a 20-year-old would be?
Know that it is okay to make mistakes. This is how you learn and grow. The important thing is to work hard not to make the same mistake twice. Also, do not settle in life, love, or happiness.
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Thanks for letting us get to know you, Alicia Reeves, and best wishes from the Foley Lion's Roar.
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NASA Glenn Research Center could lose more than 10% of its budget if the federal government falls off the "fiscal cliff." NASA Glenn would need to cut roughly $70 million from its budget during fiscal 2013 — which begins today, Oct. 1 — if the government by the end of the current calendar year fails to pass a plan to cut the federal budget deficit. That failure would trigger massive, automatic spending cuts, according to two officials with the union representing the research center's engineers and scientists. They cited an estimate center director Ramon Lugo III gave during a recent meeting that was broadcast to all NASA Glenn employees. Cutting $70 million from NASA Glenn's budget — which was in the range of $650 million during fiscal 2012 — would have a "devastating" effect on the center, according to an email from Sheila Bailey, an executive with the Lewis Engineers and Scientists Association. Cuts of that magnitude would be "almost inconceivable," said Paul Greenberg, area vice president with the union. Drs. Bailey and Greenberg both said the timing of the automatic cuts would compound the problem: The entire $70 million would need to be cut during the final three quarters of fiscal 2013. "It's hard to even get your arms around how you would absorb that," Dr. Greenberg said. The roughly 1,800 private contractors who work at NASA Glenn likely would bear the brunt of any cuts that might take place. By law, the 1,600 federal employees who work at the center cannot be laid off, but that rule doesn't apply to private contractors. The contractors perform all sorts of duties at the center — engineering, maintenance, administration and logistics, among them — but they don't hold leadership roles or perform functions considered core to NASA, said Dr. Greenberg, who also is a physicist at the center. But they are important, Dr. Greenberg said. For NASA Glenn to cut back significantly on contract services would be like living in a house that never gets maintained, he said. "The guy who delivers your newspaper, cuts your grass — gone. ... You might not go out to eat. You might not eat, period," he said. NASA Glenn's press office directed all questions to NASA headquarters. The automatic cuts, often referred to as the sequester or sequestration, were built into the Budget Control Act of 2011 as a way to force Congress and the president to overcome their differences and find a way to cut the federal deficit by $1.2 trillion over 10 years. If they fail, automatic cuts for that amount would go into effect, starting in January. The military would absorb about half the budget cuts, and the other half would come from domestic programs. If the sequester happens, NASA as a whole would need to cut nearly $1.4 billion from its $17.8 billion budget, which amounts to a 7.8% reduction, said NASA spokesman Bob Jacobs. The federal agency would cut all its programs by roughly the same percentage, Mr. Jacobs said, adding that NASA could make minor line item adjustments without congressional approval.
Budget cuts could send NASA reeling
Contractors, key services likely would be slashed if
sequestration takes effect
It's unclear what specific cuts NASA might make, but Mr. Jacobs noted that contractors would absorb any personnel reductions. He added that the cuts would hurt existing programs and delay the start of new ones. "The sequester's bad policy all the way around," he said. Even if sequestration doesn't take place, NASA Glenn still might lose some financial support, because the federal government must reduce spending to avoid the automatic cuts, Dr. Greenberg said. "The general feeling seems to be that, in the near term, budgets are going to go down," he said. A lot of people think sequestration won't happen, said Carlos Grodsinsky, vice president of technology for Zin Technologies Inc., a Cleveland-based NASA Glenn contractor that develops hardware for NASA and for private companies. If the cuts took place, Zin's existing long-term contracts should remain stable, but the sequester could hurt Zin's ability to win new business, Dr. Grodsinsky said via email. All that he or anyone else can do, though, is wait to see what happens, he said. "There is not much we can do should we get some doomsday scenario," he wrote in the email.


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Long Island N.Y. guitarist Bobby Corsetti has several recent
albums out including his 2013 CD Not By Chance. From
a jazz guitar perspective, Corsetti keeps the sound upbeat and varied.
From smooth jazz and funky grooves to ballads and jazz-rock fusion,
the sound of Not By Chance lives up to its title. Bobby tastefully
accompanies his guitar sounds with added overdubs of keyboards and
drums, getting a full band sound throughout the disc. Speaking about
recording the entire album by himself, Bobby tells mwe3.com "Most
of the instruments on both of my previous projects were played by
me alone, except for a few cameo appearances. Recording Not By Chance
was not easy for me. I played all the instruments except the trumpet
and flugelhorn which were played by the talented Bill Mobley. Why
I played all the instruments on this record is a good question. The
number one reason would have to be the convenience of being able to
make things feel and sound just as close as possible to what I was
trying to achieve. The second reason, honestly, was the financial
aspect of it. I work cheap - and sometimes all night!" Another
recent CD of note by Corsetti is La Dolce Vita, from
2009. Another colorful snapshot of Corsettis eclectic approach
to jazz rock fusion, La Dolce Vita kicks off with a breezy,
instrumental cover of The Young Rascals 60s hit Groovin
played smooth jazz style and also, amid the originals, is a Corsetti
vocal of the 1960's classic My Favorite Things. While
he might not be internationally renowned, with these two CDs, Bobby
Corsetti is clearly a world class guitarist deserving further acclaim.
Photo credits top to bottom: 1) Playing my Gibson SG Custom 1975. 2) At Pat Martino's house 2003. 3) playing my Gibson L5-S in the Hamptons around 1977. 4) Brain Waves 2006. 5) Saint Thomas 6) Playing my Custom Strat 7) Playing By the Bay. 8 Not By Chance album cover. 9) Hanging at Birdlland NYC. 10) Jamin with Jimmy @ Cleveland Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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WARNING Since I ranted and raved on Valentine's Day, I've decided to write a more appropriate post today. Sorry if I make you puke.
As a scatterbrained, creative-type, I tend to have a lot ofmoments in which I have to make myself stop and just think about what's going on around me. You may not be able to tell that my gears are grinding away, but if you catch me with a zoned-out look on my face and my mouth open just enough to stick a piece of chocolate in there…I'm probably having a moment.
I had one of those on Sunday as I watched Paul make soap. That's right, soap. Uncolored, naturally scented lye soap. He weighed and measured oils, heated them on the stove, mixed lye with water, and mixed it all together. As I stood there (trying to wrangle a crazily squirmy baby) watching him methodically stir the soap, I was overcome with the feeling of being in total awe of my husband.
I'll never forget sitting in the passenger seat of my friend's car, (back when I'd just met Paul and had no idea that I'd ever actually be with him, let alone get married to him) wondering what it would be like to be with this guy who does what he wants and goes about everything ever-so-logically.
Isn't it weird to think about our significant others before they met us? Even if you're currently single, think back to previous partners. Isn't that just weird? Back when Paul used to make soap regularly, he had no idea who I was. He had a life full of people and routines that I knew nothing about. This person is one of the absolute most important people in my life; how could we possibly have not known about each other?
As I watched Paul make this soap, I felt like I was stepping back into a time I never knew; like I was watching a documentary. This is a little thing from his past that makes him who he is; that makes him the man I am so completely in love with. I'm so excited to discover more of these little tidbits of Paul in the future. It's kind of like starting winter and finding a twenty in the pocket of a coat you haven't worn in years.
I'm looking forward to reaching into all of your coat pockets, Paul. And I'm not being dirty. I love you.


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Cupping uses suction to bring toxic blood, phlegm, and other material to the surface of the body. Your immune system then discharges it naturally in the days that follow.
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 • 2 – 4 PM • 4th Street Yoga in Berkeley
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Integrate mind, body, heart and spirit via a gentle Iyengar-based yoga and movement practice rooted in Jewish mystical teachings. The Passover holiday celebrates the liberation of the Israelites from Egypt and this story is meaningful for all beings. Experience, via an embodied practice, why the Jewish mystics believe that the places of constriction hold the key and secret to freedom.
In this workshop we will enter into the tighter and less known places in the body with conscious awareness, loving-kindness and compassion. We will move from these places of restriction/constriction to freedom on all levels of being, via yoga, movement, art and writing.
No previous experience with yoga or knowledge about Passover is required. Please wear comfortable loosely layered clothing in which you can easily move.
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Picture perfect…
was the day this photograph ca 1930 was made. Minnie Viola Russell who was married to Andrew Ethelbert Kerby and her family lived in Florence; and on this day all but one daughter would be pictured with their mother. Those little twins lived into their nineties. Irene was the soft voiced one and seemed be the mother figure to others though childless; studied and down-to-earth is how she might be described. Pauline, on the other hand, well, was Pauline. She was talkative and never met a stranger. Much to her dismay as she aged her hearing became less acute and that must have been frustrating for her.
The twins and their younger sister, Marie, would sing on the radio in their youth. And, oh how you would love to hear these two little petite dynamos talk of their childhood, of their courting years, and about the close knit family life they lived at home with their Mama and Papa. One story Pauline could tell in her adulthood for then there was no fear of getting in to trouble, had to do with dolls that she and Irene received from a relative that Pauline thought favored Irene juuussst a little bit. Pauline unwrapped Irene's doll enough to see that the porcelain face was cracked. So, little miss priss went about re-wrapping the doll and…
exchanging the gift tag with the one on her package. So on Christmas, when presents were unwrapped, Pauline was happy with her perfect doll.
Pauline was the contest winning queen back in her day. She won lots of prizes and really nice things like a boat, a car, and washer and dryers. She had a method to the contests and she was good at her hobby. It was Irene who was the keeper of the memories and treasures of the family. At Irene's death she still had the original trundle bed that all her mother's children were born on over a span of a hundred years even at that point in time, a pump organ, and an antique view finder with all the scenes on cards still with it. And, that is not even to mention all the treasures of family photos over the years.
By the way, you don't believe that Harriet and Barbara middle name stuff, do you? The twins felt left out because they had no middle names, so they adopted the names of their favorite Kerby relatives for their middle names. Thus, Irene Harriet Kerby and Pauline Barbara Kerby were born. These little ladies were a delight to be around. The last time they attended the Sweetwater event was when their great grand-niece took them. They were the hit of the event that year. They grew up near Sweetwater, so it was always special to them.
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We have excellent facilities onsite with our own Metal Cabin where you can keep out the wind and rain and enjoy flying during the gaps in weather!
We have access to our field seven days a week 24 hours a day. On weekdays, you will usually find some members in attendance if the weather is reasonable and at the weekends, we normally see higher numbers with Sunday afternoons being the busiest all through the year unless the weather is really poor.


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Overview Recipe: Chicago Italian Beef Sandwiches Yield: Makes about 10 sandwiches with about 1/4 pounds of meat each.
Preparation time: 20 minutes. Cooking time: Allow about 2 hours to cook and another 3 hours to firm the meat for slicing in the refrigerator if you do not have a meat slicer. You need 90 minutes to cook a 3 pound roast, or about 30 minutes per pound. You can cook this well in advance and refrigerate the meat and juice and heat it up as needed. You can even freeze it.
This is a great Sunday dish because the smell of the roasting beef and herbs fills the house. After you cook it, you need another 30 minutes to chill it before slicing.
The beef
- 1 boneless beef sirloin butt roast, about 3 pounds with most of the fat trimmed off.
The rub
- 1 tablespoon ground black pepper
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- The juice
- 6 cups of hot water
- 4 cubes of beef bouillon (see discussion below) *
The sandwich
- About the beef. Top sirloin, top round, or bottom round are preferred in that order. For tenderness, especially if you cannot cut paper thin slices. David Rosengarten, the famous cookbook author and TV chef, uses chuck, a fattier cut, so the meat will be more tender and flavorful. "Luxurious" is the word he used. Problem is that you will have to chill the pan drippings after cooking in order to skim off the fat.
- About the garlic. If you wish, omit the garlic powder and stud the roast with fresh garlic.
- * About the bouillon. I have encountered lively debate on the makeup of the juice as I developed this recipe. Some insist you must use bouillon to be authentic, while others use beef stock, veal stock, or a soup base, and simmer real onions and garlic in it. The bouillon advocates have won me over on the authenticity argument, although I must confess, soup base is my favorite.
- Directions:
- If you wish, you can cut small slits in the surface of the meat every inch or so and stick slivers of fresh garlic into the meat. If you do this, leave the garlic out of the rub. Otherwise, mix the rub in a bowl. Sprinkle it generously on the meat and massage it in. There will be some left over. Do not discard it, we will use it in the juice. Let the meat sit at room temp for about 30 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat the grill or oven to 400°F. If you are cooking indoors, put a rack just below the center of the oven.
- Pour the water into a 9 x 13 baking pan and heat it to a boil on the stovetop. Dissolve the bouillon in the water. It may look thin, but it will cook down and concentrate during the roasting. Pour the remaining rub into the pan. Place a rack on top of the pan. Place the roast on top of the rack above the juice. Roast at 400°F until interior temperature is 140°F for medium rare, about 30 minutes per pound. This may seem long, but you are cooking over water and that slows things down. The temp will rise about 5°F more as it rests. Do not worry if there are people who will not eat medium-rare meat. The meat will cook further in step 6, and you can just leave theirs in the juice until it turns to leather if that is what they want. If you use a rotisserie on your grill, you can cut the cooking time in half because the spear and the forks holding it in place will conduct heat into the interior.
- Be aware. This recipe is designed for a 9 x 13 baking pan. If you use a larger pan, the water may evaporate and the juice will burn. If you have to use a larger pan, add more water. Regardless of pan size, keep an eye on the pan to make sure it does not dry out during cooking. Add more water if necessary.
- While the meat is roasting (mmmmm, smells sooooo good), cut the bell peppers in half and remove the stems and seeds. Rinse, and cut into 1/4 inch strips. Cook the peppers in a frying pan over a medium high heat with enough olive oil to coat the bottom, about 1 tablespoon. When they are getting limp and the skins begin to brown, about 15 minutes, they are done. Set aside at room temp.
- Remove the roast and the juice pan. Let the meat sit for about 30 minutes for the juices to be reabsorbed into the meat fibers, and then place it in the coldest part of the refrigerator. Let it cool for about a few hours, long enough for the meat to firm up. This will make slicing easier. Slice the meat against the grain as thin as humanly possible, preferably with a meat slicer. My wife remembers that her family would cook the roast and take it to the butcher to slice on his machine. That is a good strategy if you do not have a meat slicer. This, of course, is against health codes today. If you do not have a slicer, use a thin blade and draw it along the red part of the meat. If you try to cut down through the crust you will be cutting it too thick.
- Taste the juice. If you want you can thin it with more water, or make it richer by cooking it down on top of the stove. In Chicago beef stands it is rich, but not too concentrated. Then turn the heat to a gentle simmer. Soak the meat in the juice for about 1 minute at a low simmer. That is all. That warms the meat and makes it very wet. You can not leave the meat in the juice for more than 10 minutes or else it starts to curl up, squeezes out its natural moisture, and toughens. If you go to a beef stand and the meat is really curly, they have committed a mortal sin. At Mr. Beef, for example, I watched them take a handful of cooked beef and dump it into the juice every time they took out enough for a sandwich. This also enriches the juice with meat protein and seasoning from the crust.
- To assemble the sandwich, start by spooning some juice directly onto the bun. Get it wet. Then lay on the beef generously. Spoon on more juice (don't burn your hand). Top it with bell pepper and, if you wish, giardiniera. If you want it "wet", dip the whole shootin' match in juice. Be sure to have plenty of napkins on hand.
You can see this recipe and recipes on how to make the Giardiniera and sweet peppers at www.Italianbeef.com


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The latest mind-bending show to explore the question of how we know what's real, NBC's "Awake" tells the story of LAPD homicide detective Michael Brittan, a man who has no ability or desire to distinguish between his actual life and his extremely detailed dreams.Battlestar Galactica, Invasion, American Horror Story, The 4400, V, Source Code, Haven (right?) .... even the theme song to Friday Night Lights, for pete's sake.
Dual-Reality TV by Noam S. Cohen The Daily | Wednesday February 29, 2012
There've been so many of these stories that new shows with the same premise aren't new any more but merely "the latest" variant. Characters who are dead and don't know it, or they're aliens and don't know it, or they're pregnant with aliens and don't know it, or they're asleep (or awake) and don't know it -- the possibilities are endless.
I date this meme to 9/11, but I don't know whether that's right.


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New research released today shows no evidence that e-cigarettes are a 'gateway' for young people to start smoking.
The annual survey, by tobacco control campaign group, ASH Wales Cymru, questioned more than 830, 11 to 18 year olds across Wales.
For the third year running the survey shows there is no link between youths vaping and starting smoking tobacco.
It has been a concern among health professionals since the rapid emergence of e-cigarettes that they would 'renormalise' smoking and act as a 'gateway' towards tobacco for young people.
Of the young people who reported using both e-cigarettes and tobacco cigarettes at some point, 90% had used tobacco first, suggesting the absence of any 'gateway' theory. The report confirms e-cigarette use is confined to current smokers or ex-smokers and they are rarely used among 'never' smokers.
It also showed more than 30% of the e-cigarette users had quit smoking altogether. Reasons for using e-cigarettes varied from taste, to friends using them, to wanting to know what they were like.
Young people from the poorest parts of Wales were 25% more likely to have used an e-cigarette compared to their counterparts in the least deprived areas of the country.
These statistics around use by young people match recent results around adult usage from the Welsh Health Survey 2015. This was the first time the Welsh Health Survey had looked at e-cigarette use. It revealed that 6% of over 16's stated they currently use an e-cigarette – 140,000 of the Welsh population. Use among never smokers was negligible at 0.06%.
"For the third year in a row our research confirms young people are not using e-cigarettes if they've never smoked before.
E-cigarettes can contain highly addictive nicotine and there is no need for young non-smokers to use the devices. We are pleased to see these latest results confirm that e-cigarettes are being used as a smoking cessation device, similar to nicotine patches or gum and at the moment are not acting as a gateway towards tobacco. E-cigarette users are now reducing the harm to their bodies caused by poisonous and cancer-causing tobacco smoke."
"There is a lot of confusion about the relationship between e-cigarettes and smoking in young people. Surveys from other countries do keep claiming there is a link despite youth smoking rates continuing to fall in the countries where these studies take place. This new data from Wales should reassure people that although young people are experimenting with e-cigarettes, we are not seeing regular use in never smokers. Meanwhile, youth smoking rates in Wales continue to decline, which is key to preventing cancer and other diseases that smoking causes."
"We are pleased that latest ASH Wales Cymru findings highlight encouraging trends to show that young people in Wales are not turning to e-cigarettes as a way to start smoking but rather as a way to reduce harm caused by intake of tobacco by cigarettes."
- Full results: 'E-cigarettes and Young People' (download)
- Further information on e-cigarettes
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When you pack your hunting gear for a mixed bag combo hunt you will never expect to end up fly fishing for the best rainbow trout ever. And that is what had happened to me in 2007 at San Juan Lodge. It was there where I and famous photographer Marcos Furer met Greg Reyes, owner of Enchanted Lake Lodge, hunting some upland birds named perdiz, from the tinamu family (similar to quails in Alabama, but different color).
It was one night in front of a fire, where we have been invited to share a great week of fly fishing at well know Enchanted Lake Lodge in July 2008. We have organize our flights schedules to get to San Jose California, from where we had flight by private net jet plane to king Salmon, Alaska. The flight with Greg and all his friends was great and we were excited about visiting one of the paradises of the fly fishing and hunting: Alaska. We were going to Katmai National Park, close to Nonvianuk Lake.
Katmai National Park was established in 1918 to protect the volcanically devastated region surrounding Mount Katmai and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Today, Katmai National Park and Preserve remains an active volcanic landscape, but it also protects 9,000 years of human history as well as important habitat for salmon and the thousands of brown bears that feed on them. I have to confess that was strange to be fly fishing with all this bears around, especially for somebody that have fly fish a lot Patagonia and salt water in the Caribbean.
From King Salmon, our final destination in the private jet, we have been taken to the lodge by an extra 30 minutes flight till we landed on clear water, in small lake close by to Nonvianuk Lake and just in front of the lodge. The lodge was beautiful, but specially cozy and great for a private party of 8 fishermen's. We have had our own private cabins, with private bathroom, and very comfortable beds; what was very important after every exhausting day in the river. Food was outstanding.
We were there just in the right time. June and July can provide some of the most consistent, productive rainbow trout fishing found anywhere in the world and why you should consider it when thinking about your next vacation. Take a look at a few key points to keep in mind the next time you're tempted to brush off the early season in Alaska.
We have been in the water for 6 complete days and we had fly fished tiny rivers to fast waters, all kind of different size rivers, but all with an amazing volume of good fish. The guides at Enchanted boats and airplanes were always clean and we had never had an issue with the engines. Lodge service is amazing, food, drinks and camaraderie was unique. Thanks to ideal water levels and clear, blue skies, the fishing was on fire right from opening day. The annual fry migration did not disappoint, with several large rainbows being landed on floating lines and dry fry patterns. The dry fly fishing was even better than ever.
The Little Ku is another river experiencing a peak in the number of trophy rainbows. Ideal conditions late in the season on rivers like the Kvichak and Battle Creek made for some incredible days on the water. The Brooks has always been a favorite destination for all fly fishermen's, as Daren and Scott had told me, but you have to get use to fly fish with all the bears around you.
I am just waiting for the next group of friends to jump on board on 2015 season to be able to go visit Daren and his crew again, and feel again paradise under my feet. For further info regarding this lodge and fly fishing option, please visit the section about it in this website.
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- Saturday night's 1-hour WWE Tribute To The Troops special on NBC drew only 1.3 million viewers, a sharp decline from what the show has drawn in recent years. The show put NBC in last place among the major networks for the 9pm (EST) hour, well behind CBS, ABC & FOX.
To get an idea of how bad the viewership has declined from previous years, here are the ratings for WWE's Tribute to the Troops NBC special since 2009:
2012: 1.3 million
2011: 2.1 million
2010: 2.3 million
2009: 2.4 million
- Here's the latest installment of WWE's "Are You Serious?" YouTube series, featuring Holiday #garbagejuice:
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Sydney Technical Boys High School is raising awareness about domestic violence by holding a special White Ribbon Day assembly event on Friday 24th November, 2017.
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We also plan on fundraising through the selling of White Ribbon day merchandise and will finish up with a friendly student /teacher sporting match held at lunch time. Together let's help create a future free from violence.


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LUTON, a market-town of Bedfordshire, England, on the little Lea, among the Chiltern Hills, 31 miles N. N. W. of London; is the chief seat in England of the straw-plait (for hats, bonnets, etc.), an industry dating from the reign of James I., and employing 20,000 persons here and in the neighborhood; has St. Mary's Church, Plait-hall (1869), a town-hall, corn exchange, people's park, etc. Pop. about 45,000.


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Officers Amanda Haworth, Roger Castillo killed in line of duty Jan. 2011
DORAL, Fla. – Two Miami-Dade police officers who were killed in the line of duty were honored Monday.
In January 2011, officers Amanda Haworth and Roger Castillo were shot and killed while serving an arrest warrant in Liberty City. On Monday, Miami-Dade police renamed their warrants bureau in Doral to honor the two officers.
"I must say that Amanda and Roger were very unique in that they loved life," said Miami-Dade Police Dir. J.D. Patterson.
"Not a day, not a moment goes by that we don't think about Mandy and how much she meant to our family," said Haworth's mother, Susan Miller.
"We don't forget. We can't forget," said Magda Robaina, Castillo's cousin. "Because these were people that were so special and so important to our community."
Loved ones shared hugs and tears outside the building, a processing area now dedicated to two officers who had a big impact on so many lives.
"She left us these shining examples of what is truly important," Miller said. "She guides us in a way we can live our lives in honor and in memory of her."
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Hi, hope someone can help. We have recently (July'17) adopted / rescued 3 kunekune pigs (all 4 years old, castrated boar and 2 sows - all from same litter).
We have them in 1 8x4ft arc and they have access to 1 acre field. We are considering adopting/rescuing 2 younger kunekune pigs (c 3 months old - sow and uncastrated boar - sorry if terminology incorrect, new to pigs). They will be kept as pets and not for meat.
We were concerned with if new pigs would be accepted by older pigs and best approach to integrate them and at what age?
If anyone has any experience or advice then it would be greatly appreciated.
p.s. our pigs are generally placid and friendly although the castrated boar ("Pudding") wil push/tusk sows ("Patsy" and "Pumpkin") or us if we are in way of food. But I am obviously concerned for safety of new and existing pigs.
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M.I.A. takes it back to the underground with last-minute Wednesday night gig
Don't let it ever be said that M.I.A. is a conventional pop star. M.I.A., whose last area performance as one of the 2009 Coachella headliners was considered a calamitous affair, has just announced a last-minute live show somewhere in downtown Los Angeles for Wednesday evening.
Presented by M.I.A's N.E.E.T. recording label, a mere 500 tickets for the show will go on sale today at 1 p.m. at the Turntable Lab record store at 424½ N. Fairfax Ave. in Los Angeles.
Tickets are $25 with a $2 service charge. There is a limit of two tickets per person, and all sales are cash only. The event is also 21 and over. Tickets will not be available at the door, with the location released on the day of the event. More information can be found at danceright.net.
Turntable Lab is not allowing any lining up in front of the store before 12:30 p.m., so no morning camp-outs. In the meantime, good luck.
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Sometimes animals surprise me as I wander along trails in search of wildflowers. The Gray Jay and Sooty Grouse-- both hen and chick-- were hard to miss beside trails on Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park. Since I keep a Life List of birds, I added them to my tally. This adorable Olympic Chipmunk is an endemic species, only found here in the Olympic Mountains. The deer with antlers were spotted while walking in those mountains, except for the one with the longest antlers... he surprised me just by resting behind my garage!
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The Chinese government is getting worried that as its newly rich citizen-tourists fan out across the world, their behavior is giving their country a bad name.
The latest incident of Philistinism, in which a Chinese teenager scratched his name in a 3,500 year old bas relief in a temple in Luxor, in Egypt, has also triggered a tsunami of embarrassed anger among China's Internet community.
Earlier this month, deputy Premier Wang Yang was merciless during a televised meeting called to discuss a proposed tourism law. Too many Chinese tourists "talk loudly in public, cross the road when they shouldn't, spit, and carve characters on tourist attractions," he complained. "This has damaged China's image and had a dreadful impact."
Fifteen-year-old Ding Jinhao has not helped. He is the young hooligan who scratched graffiti into a Luxor temple wall – graffiti photographed by another Chinese tourist who then posted the desecration on Sina Weibo, a Twitter-like social media platform, last week.
More than a quarter of a million people have commented on the post, mostly to express their shame. His parents have publicly apologized.
Jinhao is hardly the first visitor to have defaced Egyptian monuments. Tourists have been carving their names into the pyramids outside Cairo for millennia. (My favorite: a wistful inscription in Latin left by a lonely Roman atop Cheops' pyramid. "I saw the pyramids without you, and wept.")
But young Jinhao's indiscretion, which the Egyptian authorities say they have now repaired, is only the most recent in a litany of reports from abroad about the ways in which Chinese tourists have managed to offend the locals.
If it's not Hong Kongers sniffing at a mainland mother encouraging her young son to urinate into a bottle in the middle of a restaurant, it's Balinese complaining about brash Chinese tourists making too much noise, or Thai Buddhists offended by immodestly dressed Chinese female visitors to temples.
The Chinese Tourism Agency has taken note of these reports. Last month the government department issued a set of "civilized behavior guidelines" for tourists going abroad, urging them to "be attentive to etiquette, maintain dignity … protect the environment…queue in an orderly fashion and eat quietly" among other recommendations.
On the same day, though, the agency issued a similar, but even more draconian, charter intended to govern the behavior of visitors to domestic tourist attractions, warning them not to sneeze in other people's faces, nor to chase and hit animals, nor to spend too long in public lavatories.
In the end, lamented deputy Premier Wang, the problem comes down to what he called "the poor quality and breeding" of many Chinese, whether they are at home or abroad. It looks like the "ugly American" that some Europeans and Latin Americans love to hate is about to get a run for his money.


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Eyelash magnet Katie Jordan Price Reid (formerly Andre) has today announced that she will go head-to-head against her ex-husband for the remainder of his sell-out UK tour.
At her Daily Price Conference Katie said, "I'm totally over Pete, and as you know I don't like to talk about him, but he's really making me angry the way he's selling out these venues with his shitty show. He has got no right to prove he is more popular than me like this. Well he ain't gonna destroy me because I'm going to compete directly with him - I'll show him who gets bigger audiences. I will be playing the same towns on the same nights as him for the rest of the tour with my new EXCLUSIVE band The Price Girls."
The Price Girls are a new band-brand for Katie and they consist of the lady herself (aka Posh Price) and her best friends Michelle Heaton (aka Sporty Price), Gary Make-up-man (Baby Price), Gary Make-up-man's husband (Ginger Price) and Alex Reid's alter-ego Roxanne (aka Scary Price). The set will include at least seven versions of her hit A Whole New World.
The Price Girls tour will also feature a support slot for pub singing Steve Brookstein off of X Factor. It's rumoured that Price did ask the legendary Boy George to be her support act during a recent visit to his home, but he's unavailable as he's washing his hair.
A source close to Price revealed, "Katie's really looking forward to the tour and thrashing Pete's audience sizes. This is really serious for her. She's spent almost £2 million hiring venues, as most wouldn't take a percentage of ticket sales because they felt the show's a financial risk."
Saintly Peter Andre commented, "I don't mind the competition from Kate - that's up to her. Can I just advise dog owners to protect their pets with ear-muffs when The Price Girls play near their homes."
Tickets are now on sale at £84 each plus booking fee. The ticket price includes free 12 months membership to Price's official website, which normally costs £24 per year. What a great deal!


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The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), the U.S. headquartered organization, which is transforming business and society by accelerating the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), has announced the Digital Solar Plant testbed initiative in India on November 08.
The testbed is led by IIC members Larsen & Toubro Infotech (LTI), a global technology consulting and digital solutions company, and General Electric (GE) Digital. It will deploy in multiple phases at an LTI Solar plant in Rajasthan, India, beginning in early 2018.
The digital solar plant testbed includes LTI's solution framework for solar plants with GE Digital's Predix platform integration. It provides the necessary insights and dashboards for plant status, forecasting, data analytics and KPIs.
The testbed improves the ability of solar plants to reliably supply energy to power grids by accurately forecasting electricity generated through solar irradiation, to provide insights, optimize plant output and reduce maintenance expenses by performing real-time asset condition-monitoring.
"Utility companies face several issues as global interest in solar energy soars – from mitigating operational and regulatory risks to maintaining efficiencies and improving capacity utilization," said Rohit Kedia, Chief Business Officer, Manufacturing and ERP, LTI.
"With LTI's expertise in IoT solution deployments coupled with GE Digital's Predix platform, utility companies now have a technological proving ground to successfully manage the growing demand for solar energy," Kedia added.
The testbed is an intelligent platform that drives optimal plant performance for operators, asset managers, and owners under complex grid & high-end energy forecasting requirements.
Shyam Varan Nath, Director, Technology Integrations, IoT/Industrial Internet at GE Digital said, "It will help solar plant utilities forecast energy requirements. Using real-time data analytics, utilities can also ensure that all of their assets are working properly and that their plants are running efficiently."
According to IIC, the forecasting accuracy improvement to 85% (from current trends of 60%-70%) will save utilities around $3 million annually (estimate based on current tariff penalties and assuming 40,000 MW grid connected solar capacity in India by 2021-22). Moreover, 20% Improvement in CUF (capacity utilization factor) would increase annual revenue by $33 million for all solar utilities (estimated at current tariff INR 4/kwh).
IIC mentioned that annual maintenance cost on solar plant is around $1000-1500/MW and solar utilities are going to spend $50 million/year on O&M (Operations & Maintenance) in India market alone. Therefore, 30% reduction in O&M expenses will save around $15 million/year for utilities managers, IIC estimated.


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"No life, except the life of Christ, has so moved me as that of St. Peter Claver."
–Pope Leo XIII
A statue of Peter Claver and a slave in Cartagena. This is a very good introduction, from a Cartagena page.
Claver's heroism in dealing with the diseased and sick is astounding. Even so, it was an everyday occurrence. Claver would wipe the sweat from the faces of the slaves with his own handkerchief. Moreover, he would often clothe the sick and diseased in his own cloak. As some of his interpreters witnessed, the cloak had to be washed up to seven times a day from the stink and filth which it had accumulated. It was routine for Claver to console his fellow man by joyfully undertaking practices which were considered extremely repugnant to most. As one eye-witness notes, "Most admirable was that he not only cleansed these plague-ridden ulcers with the two handkerchiefs he kept for that, but did not hesitate to press his lips to them." He plainly saw Christ "in the least of these brethren."
The chief problem in the evangelization of the slaves lay in the numerous languages used by the many "races" of Africans. Although Claver himself never mastered the African languages, he did have some facility with Angolese, the most common of them. On account of these linguistic difficulties, he continually worked with a team of interpreters, black slaves who had a fine ear and tongue for languages. It is important to note that Claver empowered these slave interpreters to become true leaders, diligently training them in the Christian faith. Treating them as his equals, close friends, and true collaborators in the work of evangelization, he always carefully looked after their food, clothing, and medicines. If they were seriously sick, he gave up his bed to them, and slept on the floor.
As images are the books of the illiterate, Claver was liberal in his use of pictures in catechizing the new converts. In his instructions, he taught them the rudiments of the faith. He especially enjoyed teaching them about the life, passion, and death of Christ through illustrations and the crucifix. At times, he even used the monitory pictures of hell to inspire in them a true sense of contrition for their own sins. At the same time, he also gave them hope, teaching them about the glories of heaven. It was not an easy task. The slaves had to be patiently drilled in such simple matters as the sign of the cross. At all times, however, he reminded them of their own dignity and worth, teaching them that Christ had redeemed them at a great price with his blood.
Every spring, Claver would set out on rural missions to plantations surrounding Cartagena. Here he would check up on the lives of his charges as much as he was able. Refusing the hospitality of the plantation owners, he dwelt in the Negro slave quarters. On many occasions, he was ill-received by the plantation owners and their wives. They looked at his spiritual ministrations among their slaves as a waste of their time. Throughout his life, he was never a revolutionary, a "hater of the rich and embittered protector of the poor." Although he had a special predilection for the poor black slaves, he did not ignore the rich; rather, he exhorted the wealthy to carry out their social duties and he promoted cooperation between the classes.
He's in The Loyola Kids' Book of Saints
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If you're ever in Cartegena…from Lonely Planet:
This convent was founded by Jesuits in the first half of the 17th century, originally as San Ignacio de Loyola. The name was later changed in honor of Spanish-born monk Pedro Claver (1580–1654), who lived and died in the convent. Called the 'Apostle of the Blacks' or the 'Slave of the Slaves,' the monk spent all his life ministering to the enslaved people brought from Africa. He was the first person to be canonized in the New World (in 1888).
The convent is a monumental three-story building surrounding a tree-filled courtyard, and much of it is open as a museum. Exhibits include religious art and pre-Columbian ceramics, and a new section devoted to Afro-Caribbean contemporary pieces includes wonderful Haitian paintings and African masks.
You can visit the cell where San Pedro Claver lived and died in the convent, and also climb a narrow staircase to the choir loft of the adjacent church…. The church has an imposing stone facade, and inside there are fine stained-glass windows and a high altar made of Italian marble. The remains of San Pedro Claver are kept in a glass coffin in the altar. His skull is visible, making it an altar with a difference.


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