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Here is some encouraging news from Rogers Norton, our legal specialists working to help our industry with any impounded instruments resulting from the CITES regulations…….
Peter Hastings and his team were delighted to have assisted one of their music industry clients in securing the release of musical instruments, following their seizure due to the presence of Rosewood. Border Force agreed to restore a shipment of various instruments, that included ukuleles, they had impounded, free of charge.
Border Force also mentioned that they had over 11,000 ukuleles alone impounded – this obviously means that there are quite a few MIA members equally frustrated at their inability to get hold of goods they see as rightfully theirs.
Peter commented "It was pleasing to see that we were able to repay the faith our client had placed in us, by having the goods restored. In many instances people are reluctant to instruct a solicitor, as they see it as an unnecessary expense and they believe they can deal with Border Force direct. Our client was able to secure a retrospective CITES licence which helped, but we made several other points that justified the release, including that the seizure was unreasonable and disproportionate.
By instructing the R&N team, our client managed to save money by getting his musical instruments returned quickly and is now able to fulfil the orders he has on in books, together with keeping his valued customers happy."
Peter is also delighted to assist those within the music industry. In his younger days, Peter was a percussionist and tuba player who was a Member and Tutor of NYBB of Great Britain and also performed with local orchestras, big bands and some of the top brass bands.
Peter comments "I have been delighted to assist businesses that my family and musical contacts have had associations with for many years together with businesses that are new to me. In doing so, it brought back many happy memories for me. Music has always been a major focus and interest throughout my life and I have met and dealt with many people who have a similar passion. To assist and help those within the industry is a source of great satisfaction. Businesses are facing the loss of tens of thousands of pounds and are struggling to know which way to turn to recover the musical instruments"
Dealing with HMRC and Border Force is an involved and intricate process that needs a thorough understanding of how they work and what they are trying to achieve. Border Force admit that they are struggling to deal with both the volume and interpretation of the ruling by the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Wild Fauna & Flora (CITES). This has caused considerable disruption in the industry causing many companies to have valuable amounts of stock seized by Border Force due to licensing issues.
If you are having similar problems and issues concerning:
- Detentions and Seizure of Goods by the UK Border Force including goods stored in warehouses, detained/seized at Ports and Airports.
- Restoration Claims
- Condemnation Proceedings
- Injunctions (including urgent injunctions)
- Judicial reviews (including claims for the urgent release of goods and damages for unlawful detentions, and injunctions)
You can contact Peter and his team at email@example.com or on 01603 675639


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One week from tomorrow (January 16) is the release date for The Myth Manifestation (SPI Files 5)!
The ebook pre-order links are now live. (See below.)
The pre-order links for the print version should be live either Monday of next week or Tuesday (the release date). Sorry about that. It's the nature of the self-publication/print-on-demand beast. I'll shout it out as soon as they're up.
The audiobook from Audible is being recorded. Release date to come.
Here are the ebook pre-order links:
Now, on to Chapter 2 of The Myth Manifestation. . .
Ian and I weren't officially on duty for another hour, but we knew we'd been unofficially so the instant we'd set foot outside our hotel rooms.
When we glanced around the lobby, it wasn't apparent to either one of us what was wrong.
The Regor Regency was a fully restored, thirteen-story epitome of art nouveau elegance.
The hotel's defining feature was a central atrium that rose to a pyramidal skylight on the roof, revealing the surrounding Lower Manhattan skyline. The guest rooms and many of the meeting rooms opened out onto lushly carpeted walkways overlooking the atrium. The ornate, wrought-iron railing on each floor was waist-high to keep guests from taking a dive to the lobby below. It was Darwin Award–winner prevention that also looked good.
The hotel had been reopened for business for almost five years, and in that time, the Regor Regency had become the preferred destination for the well-heeled, both human and supernatural, who needed to be close to the Financial District. The logistics for the summit required a venue that was supernatural-friendly, meaning the staff had to be supernaturals themselves or some of the select humans who were in-the-know. Most of all, the staff couldn't be the type to scream and run at the sight of guests with tentacles, wings, tails, scales, pointy ears, and/or fangs. The hotel also had to be able to accommodate the dietary and comfort needs of said unusual guests. And, most importantly, the venue had to be able to close itself to the general public (aka clueless humans) for the duration of the summit.
That meant the Regor Regency.
Plus, it was a nice touch that last year, the Regor had achieved a five-star rating. If you wanted people and not-people to make nice and work together, you'd better be sure they were happy with their surroundings.
Part of the hotel's supernatural-friendliness lay with what ran below its foundations—several ley lines of power. They weren't any of the four major lines that ran through the tri-state area, but rather smaller branches. The foundations of the hotel had been embedded in the bedrock right above the ley lines, which emitted a low and actually rather pleasant hum to people and beings who were sensitive to such things. After being exposed to a rudely awakened major ley line, I was officially a sensitive. As a result, the hotel's interior was brighter and more vibrant, its cuisine more flavorful, its guest rooms more inviting and restful. I could see why the owner chose this hotel to renovate. It was a moneymaker waiting to happen.
To cover the preparations for the summit itself, plus getting the hotel ready to reopen to the public afterward, the owner had stopped taking reservations, and closed it for three weeks, citing renovations. To say that the owner was losing a lot of money from closing his hotel was an understatement, but I was sure that Vivienne Sagadraco had made it worth his while.
The owner was Rake Danescu.
Rake was a goblin, spymaster, billionaire, and presumed playboy. I say "presumed" because while I had no evidence to support that statement, he was tall, dark, blazingly hot, and his bank accounts were loaded. I felt safe assuming all of the above equaled a chick magnet; and since Rake was hot-blooded, breathing, and male, I couldn't see him turning down the women who threw themselves at him on a regular basis.
I'd never thrown myself at him.
Maybe that was part of my appeal to him.
I still didn't know.
By the way, Rake and I were kinda-sorta-maybe dating, and to the best of my knowledge, Rake had turned into a one-woman goblin.
I hadn't slept with him. Not yet.
Call me paranoid, cautious, or merely sensible. Considering who and what the object of my affection was, I thought all of the above were good ideas.
But I hadn't had to exercise any of my caution lately.
Rake and I hadn't seen much of each other for about two months. I'd expected him to go full speed ahead after what had happened on Bannerman Island. We'd saved Ian, prevented an invasion by a race of ancient Irish gods, and as an added bonus, had made out in the woods. When it came to taking a relationship to the next level, that was a green light combined with flashing directional arrows. Instead, Rake had suddenly become "busy."
To tell you the truth, it'd been kind of hard not to take personally.
But the reason I was here wasn't personal, it was business, and I needed to get down to it.
I slowly turned in a full circle, my seer and regular human senses wide open.
I didn't see anything in the hotel lobby that wasn't supposed to be there. And all I could smell was the bacon biscuit in my pocket. Though a second later, I did hear my stomach growl in annoyance at being denied its crispy, bacony goodness.
The goblin chief of Rake's hotel security stood utterly still across the lobby in front of the door leading to the hotel offices. Goblins had black eyes and hair (which they usually wore long), upswept ears, vampiric fangs, and a predator's senses. I'd been introduced to Gethen Nazar yesterday. He and all those on his staff were battle-hardened dark mages, like their boss, Rake Danescu. A lot of supernatural VIPs stayed here, and as SPI knew through copious experience, wherever supernatural VIPs went, trouble was sure to follow. Rake and his people prided themselves on being prepared for anything.
If Gethen Nazar didn't know what was wrong, I didn't feel so bad.
A low, rumbling growl made the marble floors vibrate beneath our feet.
It came from the hotel ballroom, not my stomach.
As did the crash of something large and extremely breakable immediately after.
I didn't know what was going all Hulk-smash behind those ballroom doors, but I knew I hadn't had nearly enough coffee to deal with it. Worst of all, I didn't think I was gonna get to eat my bacon biscuit anytime soon.
One of the doors quickly opened, and two pale and wide-eyed goblin hotel staffers darted out, slammed the door, and threw their backs against it as something bigger than both of them put together times ten charged the door from the other side.
The resulting boom shook the floor under our feet again, and the door buckled, but held.
My mouth was suddenly a tad bit dry. "I always thought the Hulk was a fictional character."
"He is," Ian said from beside me. "Unfortunately, that isn't."
I was fairly certain I was underqualified to deal with whatever was in there, and I was positive I didn't want to open that door for confirmation, but that was our job. Confirm and confront things from the other side.
Sandra didn't have to call her commando team; they'd followed us out of the dining room. They were still on duty. SPI's second commando team, led by Roy Benoit, was on call.
Sandra called.
Ian and I hurried over to the wall to the right of the doors that had taken yet another hit. Whatever was in there wanted out. We needed it to stay in.
Gethen Nazar was already there, speaking in low tones to the panicked goblin staffers.
Goblins didn't shock easily, and if they did, they kept it to themselves. Whatever was in that ballroom had made these goblins toss their reserve right out the nearest Tiffany window.
"That's impossible," Gethen was saying.
Those words coming from a dark mage said a lot, none of it good.
"It was there . . . then it wasn't," the staffer managed.
The second staffer jumped in. "Then it appeared again."
The security chief slid aside a small wooden panel that was at eye level in the ballroom door, like you'd see in an old speakeasy, and looked inside.
"What is it?" Ian asked him.
"Well, I'll be damned. It is a buka."
I blinked. "A what?"
"It's a goblin legend," Gethen said. "They exist, but they're rare. A monster used to frighten children."
If the staffers' borderline panic was any indicator, bukas worked their mojo on adults, too.
"It appeared out of nowhere," the first staffer told us.
Ian and I exchanged a glance. We both knew that a lot of monsters could come out of nowhere, and that applied to the proverbial "thin air" as well. Not all air was thin, and when it came to portals or tears in dimensional walls, there really wasn't such a thing as "nowhere."
"Gethen, what's happening here?"
The familiar voice came from behind us.
He was tall and lean with shoulder-length black hair, angular features, and cheekbones you could cut yourself on. With the hotel being closed to the supernaturally clueless, Rake had dispensed with the human disguise, so his pale gray skin, pointed ears, and a pair of fangs that he knew how to use and use well—whether for ripping out the throat of an enemy or nibbling yours truly into incoherent babbling—were on full display.
The way things were going, there wasn't going to be any nibbling on his part or babbling on mine for the foreseeable future.
Gethen answered his boss. "There is what appears to be a buka in the ballroom, sir."
Rake paused for a moment, as if waiting for what he'd just heard to make sense. Apparently it didn't. "A buka?"
The staffers were nodding in unison. "Yes, sir," staffer number two said. "We were setting up the room for tonight, and it appeared."
Rake crossed to the doors and slid aside the panel. He looked, he saw, and he carefully closed it.
He turned to us and said calmly, "There's a buka in my ballroom."
Ian stepped forward. "May I?"
"By all means."
Ian took a peek, and I stood on tiptoe to do the same.
It was about nine, maybe ten feet tall, and bore a vague resemblance to a sasquatch. And yes, they do exist. Sasquatches are shy and gentle unless provoked. I didn't know what had set this buka off, but those yellow eyes were blazing with a feeling that was way beyond provoked. It appeared to be deciding which set of antique tables and chairs to Hulk-smash next.
A normal person would think that was something you didn't generally see in an upscale Manhattan hotel.
We weren't normal people, and this wasn't a normal hotel.
I drew back. "It looks like some kind of were-sasquatch."
"Bukas are monsters native to my world," Rake said, "specifically my home kingdom."
"So, it shouldn't be here." I didn't ask it as a question, since it was obvious that the thing was here. I shouldn't have said it at all, but I think my mouth was killing time while my brain caught up to what my eyes were seeing.
"No, it should not be here."
"Whatever we're gonna do to make it go away, we need to do it quick. You're starting to lose furniture in there."
Sandra shouldered her way forward to take a look for herself. "All I need to know is how to kill it."
"They're tough and they're fast," Rake told her. "But they bleed and die just like anything else."
Sandra gave a sharp nod. "Good enough."
"That being said," Rake continued, "some of the delegates have already arrived. A few have never heard gunfire before. We don't want to upset anyone."
Ian gave Rake a flat look. "So, you're going to ask it nicely to leave?"
"The magic I plan to use is silent—at least it will be to my guests. All that will remain is a rather unpleasant odor, which the air filtration system can easily eliminate."
"And if it's tougher or faster than you think?" Ian asked.
I did a little internal wince.
Rake and Ian had never been what you'd call friends. More like two alpha males who had a mutual agreement not to kill each other in the immediate future. Maintaining that no-kill stance at any time beyond that was open to negotiation.
From what I had heard from others and seen for myself, Rake Danescu was quite possibly one of the most powerful dark mages on our planet right now. Ian had witnessed Rake's magical badassery up close and firsthand. He knew what the goblin was capable of. So, Ian wasn't questioning Rake's qualifications to deal with the rabid goblin sasquatch; he merely wanted to cover all his bases should this not play out the way Rake believed it would.
Fortunately, Rake now knew Ian well enough to know this about him, and didn't take it personally.
I resisted the urge to roll my eyes.
"I believe my team and I will be able to deal with the threat quietly," Rake told Ian. "However, I am never opposed to backup—even if it is not needed."
The members of SPI New York's two commando teams were qualified to take down any monster in many ways. We had humans, elves, goblins, vampires, werewolves, and a couple of supernatural species I hadn't been aware existed until I'd signed on with SPI.
All could kick monster ass with an assortment of lethal weapons, by hand, and with magic. That being said, I suspected they had nothing on Rake Danescu's black magic security team, who had now joined their commander.
There were only six of them. Three men and three women Rake trusted to be able to deal with anything that could happen. He took the security of his properties very seriously, especially after what had happened a couple of months ago with a certain brimstone-leaking Hellpit under his most profitable nightclub.
Rake knew how much was riding on the summit. He'd pulled the best of his security personnel from his properties around town. They could fight and they could fling magic better than our commandos. I didn't like admitting it, but it was true. It was true because Rake and his people were dark battlemages. They didn't just practice black magic; they were experts. Their magic wasn't the sacrifice-a-virgin kind; it was the too-dangerous-to-be-tried kind.
These people didn't try it. They did it—and lived.
They were all goblins. While Rake had no problem with other races or supernatural species, when it came to those who had his back, he preferred his own people.
Considering the power even I could feel that they were packing, I didn't blame him.
Ian had stepped to the side to call Ms. Sagadraco to inform her of the situation. While she would be on-site this afternoon when the rest of the delegates arrived, she always wanted to be notified if a situation went south when she wasn't there.
A buka in the ballroom definitely qualified.
Rake and his people were going to take this entrance. Sandra and her team had moved to the ballroom's east entrance, with Roy and his folks taking up position outside the west entrance. Both had just reported that they were in position.
As the leader of his team and owner of this hotel, it was Rake's call when to move. They would attempt to deal with it themselves with magic alone. Our two teams were backup if dark magic muscle couldn't get the job done.
The buka had stopped pounding on the doors. While we couldn't hear it, no one could help but smell it. The closest I'd come in my experience to a stink quite that bad was a billy goat. Don't get me wrong, I loved goats. Cutest babies ever. But once the boys grew up . . . dang, that was some serious stink.
Rake turned to his team. "If at all possible, I want this taken care of with minimal damage."
Meaning to everything except the buka.
"I couldn't see the entire ballroom through that little peephole," I told him. "That buka could have friends—or whoever brought him here."
"There was only one," the goblin staffer said.
"That you could see. And you said that one kept disappearing and popping back up. What's to keep another one from doing the same thing?" I held up a hand. "I'm not disputing what you saw, merely saying it's a possibility we should consider."
There was silence at that.
The staffers didn't know what I meant, but Ian and Rake did. I was a seer. My survival instinct didn't want me going into that ballroom, but keeping our people safe by alerting them to danger that only I could see was my job. It was my job, and I was going to do it. I wasn't asking for Ian's approval as my partner, or Rake's as the owner of this hotel. It was more of an FYI. I was going in there.
"Me first," Ian said.
"I wouldn't have it any other way," I told him. "You're the badass monster hunter. I'm here to help you aim, if needed."
I drew my own weapon. It was the latest and greatest paint pistol SPI's chief armorer had made for me. As a country girl who grew up in the mountains, I was a good shot. Since I'd been working at SPI, I'd become a better shot. Our agents and commandos were expert shots—when it came to what they could see.
My paint pistol and I were there to help them shoot what they couldn't see.
SPI's R&D department had come up with ammo for my pistol and rifle that had a much wider splatter radius than a standard paintball. Plus, the dye was brighter and had the added advantage of glowing in the dark.
If a monster was sporting any kind of cloak or veil, I tagged it so our commandos could bag it.
I'd felt silly at first, carrying guns that fired dye pellets, but after dealing with the first few veiled baddies that had nearly killed two of our commandos, I carried my lethal-by-association toys with pride and honor.
Rake was wearing a suit, a suit that probably cost a month or more of my salary. He didn't seem concerned that things could happen to the suit that even the best dry cleaner and tailor couldn't fix.
I found myself on the receiving end of one of Rake's bemused glances.
One corner of his mouth twitched in a quick grin. "Worried about me?"
"You can take care of yourself. I'm worried about endangering an innocent suit."
Rake glanced down. "Good point. At least I can preserve the jacket." With that, he shrugged out of the suit coat with one smooth movement, tossing it over the back of a nearby chair. Then he deftly removed his cuff links, which had probably cost more than the suit, tucked them in a pocket, and rolled up his sleeves. "Shall we?" he asked.
Ian gave a sharp nod.
A rafter-shaking roar came from what sounded like the middle of the ballroom. The buka was still there, but at least it had moved away from the door.
Our opportunity to get inside without the buka getting outside wouldn't be any better.
Rake opened the door.

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I found this playlist on Spotify called "Rock Ballads" and I heard this song start playing. The funny thing about this is that all these memories from my childhood and sitting in the car with my mom came back. The memories of the few sleepover's I had as a child came back as well as my nighttime tunes. I have not heard this song in years but it was just so incredible to see how much of our memories can be revived through just hearing a song we loved from before. I did not know the bands name or even the actual name of this song (despite its repetition in the song) until last week, and now I cannot stop listening to this.
With Arms Wide Open is a song by the former post-grunge band Creed. Not only is this song a beautiful rock ballad, but the vocals of the lead singer are so raspy and haunting that you're kind of engulfed with this song in a strange way. Its like a haunting yet hopeful tale but it also sounds like forgiveness, which is heartwarming in the same stroke. I really do enjoy this song and I hope that you will love the ballad as well.


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This image is from the Chronica Hungarorum. János Thuróczi wrote the chronicle - a history of Hungary - which was printed in 1488 in Brünn. It was also printed in Augsburg. (This link provides background information on early printing in Hungary.)
The image depicted here is from the Augsburg edition which includes "hand-colored woodcuts of Hungarian kings and battle scenes." The book also contains gold work, as described by the web site of Hungary's national library:
The publisher of the Augsburg edition dedicated the work to Matthias and used gold paint for the dedication of this luxury copy printed on parchment. Today this is the first known book printed with gold paint.
This colored woodcut is of Attila the Hun. Click on the image for a much larger view.
Image and information, courtesy National Library of Hungary (which virtually reconstructs King Matthias' Library).


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Community Relations: Jump for Scouting
This post is a recap written by Nathan Casper, our Corporate Communications Associate, highlighting his experience at the event.
This morning I represented Shift4 at the Jump for Scouting event atop the Stratosphere Tower. Aside from being there as a representative of the sponsoring organization, I was also afforded the singular opportunity to leap from the top of the Stratosphere on the SkyJump thrill ride.
The event went off with out a hitch. Mother Nature cooperated beautifully providing a picturesque morning sky (complete with a rainbow over the Sheep Mountains) as a backdrop for the event and keeping the winds just below the no-go threshold set by SkyJump safety regulations.
Fifteen local business leaders and politicians participated in the event (including the Mayor of Henderson and two candidates currently running for the mayoral seat in Las Vegas).
In all nearly $20,000 was donated to the Scoutreach program, which benefits at-risk and underprivileged children in Las Vegas by establishing Scout troops in their communities.
The Scouting officials were very appreciative of the donations made by Shift4 and the personal donation made by Dave and Kathy Oder (our CEO and COO, respectively). They expressed interest in meeting Dave and Kathy to thank them personally and even mentioned getting Shift4 a seat on the local Scout council's Board of Directors.
That's the end of the business portion of this update, so if you're not interested in my personal account of the event, feel free to quit reading now. If you want to hear about the most terrifying thing I've ever done in the name of business, then read on.
My day started at 5:30, when I woke before my alarm with a pit in my stomach and an impeding sense of near-certain doom. I got ready for the day and kissed my wife goodbye, making sure to tell her I loved her – just in case.
As I drove to the Stratosphere I was struck by the same thought that has plagued me for the past two weeks, "Holy cow that thing is huge, and I'm going to jump off it!" The trouble with the Stratosphere is that no matter where you go in the Las Vegas Valley, it is always visible – so for the past two weeks I have been constantly reminded of my own insanity at volunteering to participate.
As I got closer to the Stratosphere the building grew from a landmark on the horizon, to a massive, frightening edifice so tall that I could only see the bottom third in my windshield. I leaned my head out the window of my car and strained my neck looking up. The news helicopter from channel 8 was hovering at the height of the tower, filming the first jumper of the day as he made his leap.
I made my way inside, through the labyrinth of slot machines and drunken revelers, and to the base camp for the SkyJump. I checked in, and was told to wait outside until it was my turn to suit up. Outside I was warmly greeted by Scout executives and Cub Scouts who innocently told me how crazy they thought I was for doing this. (They had already seen a few people come down by the time I got checked in and signed my life away).
Now at the base of the tower, I had a true sense of its colossal height. It seemed surreal as I watched other jumpers make the 855-foot dive. That surreal calm left the moment my name was called to suit up. I donned a one piece jumpsuit (no pun intended) and a monster harness.
Once dressed, I was weighed and escorted to the scariest elevator in the world. Up, up, up I went – 108 floors above the Las Vegas Strip. Stepping out of the elevator, I was struck with a stunning panoramic view of the Las Vegas Valley. It was beautiful, and then – being the glutton for punishment I am – I stepped over to the edge and looked down. If I was prone to expletives, it would have been prime time to drop some choice phrases.
Watching the simplicity of the machine I was struck with the realization that there was only one wire connecting me to the deceleration device – and, essentially, to my life. No backups, no fail-safes, and… no looking back. My name was called. It was my turn.
I stepped into the equipment room and was hooked to a safety cord. My harness was checked and rechecked and then the doors opened to a platform. Looking back now, I'm sure it was larger, but at that moment in looked about the size of a doormat.
"OK, hold on to the rail while I clip you in," the attendant said. I froze as I heard him unclip my safety line and didn't feel much better when I heard the main cable click onto my harness.
"Hang your toes over the edge and then I'll start the countdown." I would pay to have a picture of the face I shot him when he told me to hang my toes over – the moment when my expression went from "yeah right, buddy" to "oh gees, you're serious." I inched forward, looking down to confirm my feet were in fact doing what I was trying to do. I felt strangely disconnected from my feet (I think they realized what I was doing was nuts).
I saw my toes, hanging over the edge and then saw what was beyond that edge – NOTHING – eight-hundred-plus-feet of nothingness and then an infinitely small landing pad on the roof below.
"Three!" he said, my mind whizzing with thought of all the things that could go wrong.
"Two." Suddenly peace, I realized that thousands had done this before me and they had all survived.
"One." Peace gone, fear back, just because they had survived didn't mean I would. I froze. I gripped the handrails with all my might – I wouldn't be surprised to go back and see indentations from my fingers. Every muscle in my body clinched with similar terror, and every part of my carnal being screamed "NO!" But then peer pressure kicked in – everyone was watching, I had to do it.
I leapt. For a few moments I could not feel the harness or cable and I again was faced with my own mortality. I was certain that death would result from my jump and found peace with that. Then I felt the straps catch my weight. Relief, of the variety I have never before felt. I breathed for what felt like the first time since the elevator ride some 10 minutes before. My stomach caught up with my descending body and the scary-roller-coaster feeling subsided. I was flying. Well, maybe not, but in the words of Buzz Lightyear, I was "falling with style." The view was stunning and the feeling unlike any I have ever experienced.
I landed, not very gracefully, but I was glad to be back on solid ground. And then the rush – adrenaline, relief, invincibility … I'm not sure exactly what hit me, but I felt like a superhero. I looked at the vertical wall next to me and honestly thought, "I bet I could do one of those Jackie Chan back-flips off the wall right now." (Luckily I didn't attempt it or I would probably still be waiting in the Urgent Care for stitches in my head.)
I was congratulated and presented with a plaque, some pictures, and a DVD of my jump (which I will upload to YouTube later for those who want to see it). It was awesome. One of the Cub Scouts in attendance snapped a salute, which I returned – feeling rather like the President disembarking from Marine One. I wasn't really sure if I should use two fingers, like he did, or three, because I'm not sure I ever graduated from Cub Scout to Boy Scout… but whatever I ended up doing worked for him and a smile lit up his face.
It was terrifying. It was invigorating. It was insane. But mostly, it was an honor to be able to help a great organization to reach out to kids who really need what they offer. These kids are learning to be Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent and in their communities in this day and age, there are not many other places for them to learn these skills. (Woah, check it out, I know the Scout Law… somebody should upgrade me from Bobcat—since I'm pretty sure that's the last merit badge I ever earned).
Nathan Casper
Corporate Communications Associate
Shift4 Corporation


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FOODBIZ aims at promoting acquisition of relevant skills and competences related to employability in higher education students through their active involvement in community learning activities. This will allow them a) to learn in context; b) to establish links with enterprises and other stakeholders of the territory to which the university belongs; c) to understand the economic strengths and opportunities of the territory in relation to agri-food and food tourism; d) to reflect about their own competences, motivations, and ambitions; e) to contribute to community development and job creation. FOODBIZ supports then innovation and creativity of students and all players involved through regional partnership: the project aims at promoting co-creation of knowledge between students, business players, researchers/universities, other stakeholders concerned, and policy makers for local development in the field of agri-food and food tourism.
The context
A recent policy brief published by the European Commission on "Food and Gastronomy as Elements of Regional Innovation Strategies" (Cavicchi and Ciampi-Stancova, 2016), emphasizes the role that agriculture and horeca can have for sustainable development. The combined agricultural and food sector accounts today for 30 million jobs (13.4% of total employment) and for 3.5% of total Gross Value Added in the EU-28 (Eurostat 2014). In 2012, the European Economic and Social Committee of European Union contemplated that regional food value chains and cross-sectoral fertilisation of productive processes have a strong impact on local development. Several initiatives and projects carried out at local and regional level, confirm the huge potential of food to contribute to job creation, social well-being, and cultural and health commodity. Food tourism strategies are significant instruments of regional development, particularly because of the potential leverage between products from the two sectors (Hall et al. 2005), and consequently significant sectors for new enterprises creation and increased job offers. Food is also part of the immaterial cultural heritage, as stated by the WTO (2012), as embedded in local identities of destinations.
In spite of high potential and running policies to enhance agri-food and food tourism, implementation face major problems, such as difficult dialogue among heterogeneous stakeholders, which often have very different set of values and interests; lack of training and business planning, due to limited time, finances, personnel, skills, and experience of food producers and local touristic players (Verbole 2003; Saxena et al. 2007); high skills mismatch between graduates in related subjects and the sector needs.
In the frame of a socioecological approach, that is particularly relevant in sectors where the environment and the strength of communities play a key role for local development, higher education institutions could initiate and favour processes of community learning, in particular by focusing on the role of students.
The challenge
Higher education students could be key players of innovation, and key mediators between research, business, and local development: they represent the educated workforce of the future, and to be employable and active contributors of economy, they should acquire skills that are relevant to the labour market. However, in addition to what the universities are used to do (courses on soft skills, career development support and career guidance, entrepreneurship courses etc.), they first need to understand and know their own contexts and communities, relate with business players, policy makers, other stakeholders, and create synergies with them since the study years.
The project
The project aims at implementing an action where the students are active in the community to which their belong during the study years, bringing into the university the knowledge of the community and vice-versa, and co-creating with other players, as peer, new knowledge and innovation. The key element of the project is therefore the concept of co-creation, which takes place when all the subjects involved establish a dialogue, reciprocal understanding and common goals.


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Inside A Riot At The Hungarian Border
Journalist Diego Cupolo shares his account of a violent riot on the Serbia-Hungary border in September 2015, when the so-called Balkan Route was shut off for the first time, with unsettling results. The Seeker Network, currently known as Stories, is an online subsidiary of the Discovery Channel. See the video here.


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It was pretty cold when we reached at the location site. Our shoot started with myself spotting Navkiran getting cozy in Satwant's blazer 😀 As soon as I pointed the camera towards them, they immediately shied away 😀
Nevertheless, we picked the momentum in no time. I have picked the name 'Towards Light' for two reasons. First one being the relevance : A Couple who has chosen a spiritual path, is now ready to enter into the holy matrimony. Hence, the name. Other one is a little technical : It was getting dark and I asked the couple to walk towards the flash strobes I was using. :p (ok, I attempted a PJ here, i think it should work).
Satwant and Navkiran, wanted their pre-wed shoot to be done primarily in the traditional attire of Nihung Singhs/Singhnis. Here is a collection of beautiful photos from that day :


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26/07/2018 – Autoneum — auf Deutsch lesen
Change to the Group Executive Board
Dr Alexandra Bendler will join Head of Business Group Europe and member of the Group Executive Board as of February 1, 2019 at Autoneum.
Since joining the Company in 2008, Alexandra Bendler has held various management positions, including Head of Group Strategy & Marketing from 2010 to 2014. She has served as Head of Sales & Program Management for Business Group Europe since 2014.
Alexandra Bendler will assume management of the Business Group from Matthias Holzammer, who is leaving the Company at his own request to take on new professional challenges. Under his leadership, Business Group Europe has made a remarkable contribution to the Company's profitable growth since 2012.


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We have a new developer in our ranks!
28th October 2014
We are pleased to announce that we have another new recruit within our ranks. Ex-Reading Room developer, Jason Kelly has joined the team as a back-end developer.
Jason is has been a full-time programmer since January 2013 and already has some fantastic experience under his belt, working on sites such as Ask Malawi for Fairtrade and #HookedOnMusic for the Museum of Science and Industry.
Jason will predominantly be developing the back-end infrastructure for our clients although his ability to implement interactions through JavaScript and AJAX will no doubt come in handy.
Having talked to the team at FARM and after looking at the kind of work they're producing it's obvious that they're experts in the industry. I'm looking forward to the kind of challenges that await working here and I'm excited to get involved with the innovative projects in the studio.
Our aim is to continue supplying Jason with technically challenging briefs to ensure that he can progress as much as possible whilst at FARM Digital.
Technical Director, Jon Atkinson said the following on Jason's arrival, "At FARM, I'm always looking for talent to drive our business forward. In Jason, we have found a developer with strong agency experience and a broad range of technology expertise to further strengthen the production team. I'm looking forward to seeing the impact Jason will make."


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Pillowcase / 16 x 26 inches
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Capsule collection "Un Eté Formidable" designed specially for our pop-up store in Bordeaux
This rectangle pillowcase in blue is designed in Paris and hand block printed in India. Block printing is an ancestral technique from Rajasthan in the West of India. It consists of hand printing fabric using carved wooden blocks. The irregularities of the fabric add a unique character and make this pillowcase even more special. Its motif inspired by the sea and colors from Bordeaux will add a boho chic touch to your interior and be a perfect accessory for your sofa or bedroom !
Try mixing and matching with another product from our line for a stunning effect !
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Spanish sculptor and artist Romulo Celdran (born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1973) makes hyper-realistic oversized versions of everyday household objects.
Romulo says that his series entitled 'Macro' "act as camera lens, graduating the scale of measurements with which we perceive what we look at and breaking down the correspondence between the real size of an objects and the size that we perceive depending on how far away from it we are. It acts as a kind of traditional magnifying glass that draws us closer to the object worthy of observation even when we keep an appropriate distance in order to view it."
"The concept of 'Macro' give the object new dimensions, strengthening its presence and inviting us to explore it, discovering hidden spaces and unnoticed nooks. It breaks down the physical laws that govern our logic as observers and place us before a growing world


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It's Picture Book Month – Let's Celebrate with Marianne Richmond
Put Me In The Story is jazzed. There's no better way to say it. Every day is a reason to celebrate picture books here at Put Me In The Story, but the fact that November is internationally celebrated as Picture Book Month really moves us. It's celebrations like these that continue to remind everyone how people (children, adults, families) connect with picture books the way they do, and why we need picture books in our lives. So, let's celebrate!
This month especially, we're celebrating the gift of author-illustrator Marianne Richmond and her works on Put Me In The Story. Marianne has touched the lives of millions for nearly two decades with her award-winning picture books. Her dedication to and sincerity in reaching out and touching the hearts of each and every reader of her books is beautiful. Marianne's books offer children, parents, and even adults heartfelt ways to truly connect with one another through her words and artwork.
To celebrate the significance of picture books, we'd like to share Marianne Richmond's inspiration behind her title If I Could Keep You Little…
Happy Picture Book Month!
Marianne Richmond's Inspiration for "If I Could Keep You Little..."
Through the years, people have asked me where I get my ideas. For me, it's through being an observer of life. Listening to people's tellings. What moves them. But more so, listening for the themes that run through everyone's journey. As unique as we all are, we share universal feelings about our most heartfelt experiences of love, loss, and family. I write to capture the "unique everybody."
The spark for writing If I Could Keep You Little…, for example, was ignited by my own experience of watching my four kids grow, and wistfully recalling their "littler" times. During a particular moment of cuteness from one of my kids, I put my hand on his 6-year-old head and said, "Oh…if I could just keep you little."
Now, while my mom self fully resonated with this sentiment, my author self immediately recognized a great book title! That's the sixth sense developed over 20 years of writing—you know it when you know it.
What I couldn't have known, however, was how far and wide this book would travel (more than 250,000 copies sold!) and how deeply it would connect with mamas of all ages! Whether sending a child off to kindergarten or college, moms wistfully reminisce about days gone by. Yet, at the same time, they know they wouldn't miss for the world the adventures forthcoming!
"If I Could Keep You Little... really connects to what parents feel as they watch their tiny bundle of joy quickly grow before their eyes. A great addition to your child's library to pass down to them as they get older, or for a special gift for that new addition to any family you know."—Carey
I love walking the journey with kindred souls and look forward to giving voice to our collective stories for years to come! I'm listening…
Marianne Richmond


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Lately the Yuba River has been rewarding to fish. Flows have been hovering around 700 for a few weeks, and the condition of the river is great! The last storm a few weeks back bumped flows enough to clear some of the algae that can make wading tough.
The amount of bug life has been consistently staggering. We have been seeing March Browns, gray drakes, golden stones, skwalas, bwo's, pmd's and many other bugs.
There has been a ton of anglers on the river, more than myself and many other guides have ever seen. This has made some of our fish quite educated, perfect drifts with the right bugs are key.
I am fishing a good bit of dropper rigs, either putting a bead head nymph, or an emerger behind a larger fly.
Head hunting greatly increases your odds of success, and picking fish out to catch with a dry fly is what it's all about.
Throw your cast, get your drift, and you may be rewarded with a rise.
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"Books are a finer world within the world."
- Alexander Smith
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Library News
Showing on Thursday, June 5 at 1 p.m.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Wednesday, June 4 is the first
"Catch the Reading Bug"
program, if you haven't registered your child stop by the library or give us a call at 334-3490 (the phone has an odd ring, don't hang up). The
"Hey Kids!"
program also begins this week.
The film,
"The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep"
will be shown at the library on Thursday, June 5 at 1 p.m. This magical motion picture is rooted in one of the most enduring and intriguing legends of our time. A young boy finds a mysterious enchanted egg and what hatches from it will set in motion an adventure that will take him on the journey of a lifetime as the sea creature of Scottish legend is born. The film is 111 minutes and rated PG.
New on the fiction shelf is
"River of Heaven"
by Pulitzer finalist Lee Martin. This is a story of Sam Brady and his brother, Cal, and the dark secret that both connects and divides them concerning the long-ago death of Sam's teenage friend, Dewey, on the railroad tracks outside Mt. Gilead, Illinois in 1955. A mystery of secrets and intrigue.
Other new fiction includes
"Naughty Neighbor"
by Janet Evanovich,
"And Less Than Kind"
by Mercedes Lackey,
"Dear to Me"
by Wanda E. Brunstetter,
"Death Walked In"
by Carolyn Hart and
by Carol Higgins Clark.
New non-fiction books are
"Being Well When We're Ill: Wholeness and Hope in Spite of Infirmity"
by Marva J. Dawn,
"Yoga for Arthritis: the Complete Guide"
by Loren M. Fishman and
"Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder: and Other True Cases"
by Ann Rule.
A new young adult book is
"So B. It"
by Sarah Weeks.
Lennea Lewis Slagle Children's Library
has these new easy titles
"No Matter What"
by Debi Gliori,
"Just Like You"
by Emma Dodd,
"A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever"
by Marla Franze,
"The Little Rabbit Who Liked to Moo"
by Jonathan Allen and
"The Birthday Tree"
by Paul Fleishman.
is the theme for Storyhour on Tuesday, June 3, 2008 and Thursday, June 5, 2008. Storyhour is held each Tuesday and Thursday from 10 to 11 a.m. for children ages 3 through kindergarten throughout the year.
Check out this month's Storyhour Schedule
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number. Dial-A-Story is sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Dial in and hear an exciting story today!
After 24 years we are able to begin binding
The Lusk Herald
newspapers again, we are missing some issues in the time period of 1984 through 1994, if you happen to have any issues in this range and would consider donating them please stop by.
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About Levi32
Masters student in tropical meteorology at FSU. Raised in Alaskan blizzards, but drawn toward tropical cyclones by their superior PGF.
By: Levi32, 6:09 PM GMT on January 31, 2006
There are no signigicant changes this morning. Some to the models are starting to diverge from the main solution, but the canadian and the GFS are still holding to the currently accepted solution. The GFS has been exceptionaly stubborn. It has had this solution going for two weeks! And if the GFS is that consistant, then it is a good bet that it is right. The first storm is already bombing out east of Japan. You can see it good on satellite. I will leave the rest of yesterdays post unchanged below.
I am growing increasingly concerned about a potentially major winter storm here is southern Alaska this weekend. The concern is that the cold temps are still hanging around, so there is plenty of cold air to poor into any storm that tries its luck at hitting the state. Here is what the models are currently thinking. A storm will track east across the Pacific from Japan. This low will intensify early, moving just south of the Aleutian Islands. This low will curve up toward southwest Alaska, bringing with it plenty of warm air to erode the cold dome that has plagued us so long. However, the air will not be warm enough to support snow, at least not at first. This is where two solutions conflict. Either the low stalls south of Bristol Bay and remains strong with waves moving up the front into the gulf, or it moves northwest and weakens while a new low rides the jet up into southern Alaska much stronger than the one before it. Possibly in the 950�s pressure range. If this new low comes up, then that just might bring air warm enough to support snow. But I think it will be borderline, and it will depend on the exact track of the storm. I just hope that it does not knock out the power during the Superbowl. That would be a disaster that I would cry about. Here some of the latest model runs and a satellite image.
Latest GFS
Latest Canadian
Latest European
Here is IR and Visible Satellite:
By: Levi32, 6:47 PM GMT on January 29, 2006
I thought it would be cool if I did a blog on Augustine Volcano during its episode of unrest. Right now it is in the middle of a long eruption that started yesterday afternoon. The ash is currently heading to the south and southwest, affecting Kodiak Island and the eastern Alaska Peninsula. I live in Homer, so if the wind switches to the east or northeast, then we will get the ash too. Here are some links for information about Augustine, and a couple images below.
AVO Augustine Monitoring Page
Here you can get the latest information, pictures, and webcams.
Anchorage Forecast Office Augustine Page
Here are the latest ash and other hazards advisories and other information.
Here is a super zoomed in radar loop of Augustine. When Augustine is in eruption, the radar picks up the explosion and ash clouds and you can see them come off the volcano and move away. Below that you will see a link to the seismograph for Augustine. Right now there is lots of Activity, so it is a perfect time to monitor both these images. Both update every 10 minutes.
Link to the Augustine Seismograph
For more information and safety tips, please visit Pamshubby's blog.
By: Levi32, 5:57 PM GMT on January 26, 2006
Well we have finally cooled off here in Alaska. The temperature right now at my house is -6. Homer is near the waters of Katchemak Bay, so the temps are modified by quite a bit. So lets see what the temperature is 75 miles north of here in Soldotna. Minus 27!!! That is cold! But it gets into the 50�s below zero in the interior of the state, with some of the coldest air in the northern hemisphere situated there.
Now this is an Alaskan winter as bad as advertised down in the states. Cold, windy, and snowy! We received a foot and a half on Monday, with the temperature at -3, and 40 M.P.H. wind gusts. Now it is calm, but still cold, as you read above. A major trough has established itself over Alaska, and this has been sucking the cold air into the state. The low that caused the snow on Monday ran right into the cold dome and got stopped in its tracks. So it rang out its load of moisture and sat until it spun itself out. The trough has nudged a little to the east, so we are under a cold dry NW flow aloft, while all the storms head into the southeast panhandle and the pacific northwest.
The latest GFS has the jet stream becoming more zonal and less amplified for the next week or so, with the cold remaining until early next week. Then some storms will try to ride north as the trough backs west, and may bring some snow into the coming weeks. The GFS has been up and down as to whether lows will come far enough west to bring warm enough air for rain instead of snow. But I think there is a good chance that the cold will hold enough for the amplifying ridge to stay east and bring us some good snow. And this could be a set up for a classic Alaskan winter.
Here is the latest radar, satellite, and a N. hemisphere 500mb chart:
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.


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It wouldn't be going out on a ledge to make the claim that the dystopian storyline is really big right now. Trends like this in fiction come and go quickly—but I don't see dystopias leaving us any time soon.
Just like the Twilight series started the spark of the seemingly never-ending vampire/paranormal trend, the latest dystopians (in my humble opinion) are just the beginning. Movie magic helps keep fictional trends alive much longer than books normally enjoy. With two more Hunger Games movies, and the Divergent series just beginning to cast actors, there will be more, not less, people reading and looking for new dystopia fiction in the future.
Dystopia fictions are characterized by featuring a future society that is messed up and controlling. The story is usually filled with pain and hardship. Dystopia fiction shows us the worst of humanity.
Why on earth would anyone want to read about that?
Because these stories serve as warnings, moreover, they remind us about real life.
Rosemary Stimola, the agent who represents Suzanne Collins and The Hunger Games said, "I don't think the readership is tired or these types of stories. This is population of young people who don't remember a time when the country was not at war. It makes perfect sense that their literature would allow them a way to exercise their thoughts about the nature of good and evil, and that it might reflect violence and great loss." –quoted in "YA Comes of Age," Publisher's Weekly, 09/30/11
Sure, dystopian fiction is dark, and many shy away from it because of this fact, but I believe dystopian stories have the ability to shine the brightest and impact readers the most. Because when everything shakes down, the reason we're attracted to these stories isn't to read the bad, but to see the hope that they offer.
The main theme in every single one of these stories is that one person, or a small group of people, must take a stand against all that is wrong and evil in the fictional society. In the midst of unimaginable suffering, good rises to fight against seemingly insurmountable odds and wins.
We learn the impact that one life—one person—can have.
Maybe, just maybe, it makes us wonder if little old us can make a difference in our own world. We realize that our actions matter in the big scheme of things. And dare to hope that if push came to shove, we'd have the courage to rise against the worst sort of evil, no matter the cost.
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If I find a YA book or romance book that is to die for, I'll share the details. My author friends even stop by!


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Sandusky Ohio Border Patrol Trial to Begin June 16
Sandusky Ohio Border Patrol Trial to Begin June 16
Trial is scheduled to begin in U.S. District Court in Toledo, Ohio on June 16 in the case of Roberto Muniz against the United States Border Patrol. The trial is scheduled to last for eight days. Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc. (ABLE) and the law firm of Murray and Murray are co-counsel for the plaintiffs.
Plaintiffs contend that since the Border Patrol's Sandusky Bay Station opened in approximately February 2009, its agents have engaged in a pattern and practice of targeting persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Plaintiffs assert that a combination of statistical and anecdotal evidence will show that the Border Patrol agents' enforcement activity deprives persons of Hispanic descent of their equal protection rights under the Constitution and is tantamount to racial profiling.
The Plaintiffs in this lawsuit are the Immigrant Worker Project (IWP) and the Farm Labor Organization Committee, AFL-CIO (FLOC). IWP's mission is to assist immigrants living in rural Ohio to have control of their social and economic lives, through work in several programmatic areas including economic literary programs, citizenship classes, Spanish literacy classes for workers who speak indigenous (pre-Colombian) languages, and education around violence in the family. FLOC's immediate constituency is migrant workers in the agricultural industry, but FLOC is also involved with immigrant workers, Latinos, local communities, and national and international coalitions concerned with justice.
ABLE is a non-profit law firm that provides free legal services to low-income residents in 32 counties of northwest and west central Ohio and to agricultural workers throughout Ohio. Murray & Murray Co., L.P.A. is a private, family owned law firm based in Sandusky, Ohio representing individuals and businesses in critical matters.


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Removing a stump is accomplished through stump grinding. The stump grinder is a machine that uses a notched and quickly spinning wheel to grind the stump into sawdust. Eliminating stumps can be just part of the larger process of tree removal. Our tree experts can then bury or dispose of the remnants, leaving your property cleaner, safer and more aesthetically pleasing. If you have too much overgrowth on your property, it is definitely in your interest to get professional stump removal as quickly as possible.
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Welcome Fall and prAna Fall Style 2016
prAna Fall Style. A peek at one of the new great looks. *Disclaimer: My review of prAna Fall Style is made possible by prAna through my association with Fit Approach. I received a complimentary outfit to review. All opinions expressed here are my own. As I run down my winding road through the Connecticut River Valley … Read More »


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PICS OF NEW IPAD IS NEXT APPLE TABLET? 5×8 inch display on ORDER NOW?!?September 11, 2009
>Update! Rumors say the "iSlate" will be Apple's next tablet and clearly that is probably a different product line. We, however, would still like to see Apple move forward with an "iPad" type device!
Feast your eyes upon…
With tablet-like features it's viewing area is an astonishing 5.5″ x 8.5″ and some are saying the iPad 2D could be the next version of the iPhone or the rumored Apple Tablet.
- Send email and text messages using advanced USPS technologies.
- Flexible flat screen display 5.5″ x 8.5″
- Touch screen changes "pages" with simple flicking motion.
- Keep track of contacts, calendar and notes! Wireless sync with other devices using a touch-typing system.
- Many drawing tools already available in virtually every color!
- Guaranteed not to freeze or crash ever!
- No power source!
- Pen not included.
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Dude. No kidding. I totally pitched the idea for an analog twitter to my agent last year. She said no. The world is being denied our genius.by Jenny, Bloggess September 12, 2009 at 10:13 am


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Hello all!
My colleague Sandra Ball and I have completed another resource for primary teachers!
Read A Story: Explore The Math promotes the teaching of important math concepts through the context of great children's books… The lessons span K-3 and some are even appropriate for grades 3/4 classrooms. Lessons involving number sense and operations, data management, measurement and more are included in this 65 page resource. Scan through the list of titles and corresponding math concepts to sort out which children's books would be a best fit for you and your students. The complete set of ISBN numbers for each of the stories is included so you can easily share ordering information with your teacher librarian…!
To download, please visit my online store (https://mindfull.ecwid.com) and click on the FREE DOWNLOADS icon.


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In this second edition of a two-part series, we're looking ahead to the coming women's basketball seasons all over the Chicago area. We looked at the upcoming men's basketball seasons last week.
No NBA? No problem! The college basketball season is about to get going, and there are some exciting – and nationally ranked – women's teams at local universities ready to start a strong campaign.
On Friday, Nov. 11, the nationally ranked DePaul Blue Demons will begin their 2011-12 season hosting the Maggie Dixon Classic at the McGrath-Phillips Arena. Ranked 19th in the polls to begin the new year, DePaul will host St. Mary's on Friday night of the four-team tournament. The championship game will be Saturday.
After a trip to Hawaii, DePaul returns to Chicago for an early season match-up with Northwestern in Evanston on Nov. 27. For DePaul's complete schedule and ticket information, click here.
The University of Chicago women begin the 2011-12 season ranked #2 by ESPN and USA Today in NCAA Division III. On Nov. 18-19, they'll host the University of Chicago Tip-Off Tournament that includes Benedictine, Fontbonne and Macalester. They will also host Lake Forest (Nov. 22) and Carthage (Nov. 27) before travelling to Wheaton College on Nov. 30. For more information about tickets and a complete schedule, click here.
The Northwestern University women's basketball team will begin their home schedule on Nov. 15 against Western Kentucky, followed by a home date against Illinois State on the 17th. After hosting DePaul on the 27th, Northwestern will be visited by North Carolina State as part of the annual Big Ten/ACC Challenge on the 30th of November. For a complete schedule and ticket information for Northwestern, click here.
After an exhibition game against St. Xavier at home, the UIC women's team will begin their regular season with three home games in November. Drake (Nov. 12), Southeast Missouri (Nov. 15) and Saint Louis (Nov. 18) will all visit the UIC Pavilion this month. For UIC's schedule and ticket information, click here.
Loyola University's women's team will begin their regular season home schedule with a date against Northern Illinois on Nov. 13 and will host Western Michigan on Nov. 20 before heading to Seattle for a tournament. Loyola will visit DePaul in a great intra-city matchup on Dec. 3. For information about tickets and a complete women's schedule for Loyola, click here.
Chicago State University starts their 2011-12 season with three home games. Loyola (Nov. 11), Northern Iowa (Nov. 14) and Rice (Nov. 18) will all visit the Jones Convocation Center before they hit the road. For a complete schedule of the Chicago State women's home games and ticket information, click here.


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Party on, Wayne. Party on, Garth.By: Aly Semigran
Halloween party on, Wayne.
Halloween party on, Garth.
If there's any twosome that's ready to party this, or any, Halloween, it's former Miss Delaware Kate Banaszak and her Irish Wolfhound Kellan.
Banaszak—who currently manages an animal hospital in Pennsylvania—and her adorable, two-year-old, 140-pound pooch have become nothing short of viral sensations this Halloween season thanks to their perfectly executed pet-and-pet-parent ensemble of SNL classics, Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar of sketch-turned-movie Wayne's World.
"My brother and I were huge Wayne's World fans in the 90's. We watched the movie so many times the VHS tape just about lived in the VCR permanently," Banaszak tells PawCulture. "For Halloween this year, I wanted to do a 'couples' costume for Kellan and I. I started thinking of famous duos, and Wayne and Garth were one of my first choices!"
After finding a wig and Garth's iconic Aerosmith t-shirt on Amazon and the perfect blue button down shirt in her husband's closet, Kellan made for a surprisingly spot-on Garth.
Banaszak posted the hilariously adorable photo of her and Kellan in their costumes on her personal Facebook page and a dog enthusiasts page, and the rest is history.
"Within a day, it had spread to Reddit and Instagram, and then really took off from there. Friends started texting me that the photo went viral," she says. While Banaszak is still in disbelief about the reaction, "It's really cool to know that Kellan is loved by so many," she says.
Banaszak admits that she's guilty of dressing Kellan up in "goofy outfits" on the regular, but her lovable dog doesn't seem to mind. "He's so chill and laid-back, and just a fun guy to be around," she says.
Due to Kellan's recent stardom, Banaszak is setting up a Facebook page for her him, so his legions of new fans can find updates on Kellan and his funny antics. But there is no bigger fan that Banaszak herself.
"He's an amazing soul who just wants to experience everything this life has to offer, and he wants to do it with his loved ones by his side," she says. "I don't think it gets much better than that!"
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I got 'em today! They're in pretty good shape, though the board for Snow White is warped which may make it a bit of a challenge to scan.
Looking forward to starting work on Mary Poppins after I've completed Happy Days. I suspect the only part that will give me any trouble will be the final carousel spinner. Gonna have to figure the degrees closely on that one.


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Wuzhou Sun Shine Forestry and Chemicals Co., Ltd. of Guangxi is a foreign-investment enterprise, the biggest manufacturer of gum rosin and its derivatives products in China. The main products are: gum rosin, gum turpentine, hydrogenated rosin, rosin ester series, other modified rosins, disproportionated rosin and its potassium soap, and food additives ( ester gum), can be widely used in the applications of adhesives, coatings, inks, synthetic rubber, engineering plastics, electronic solder flux and food industries, etc. With full range products, we become the supplier of more and more famous domestic and international companies. WSSFC has been continuously honored as "Pacesetter Enterprise of Chinese Industry" for many years, and national "High & New Technology Enterprises", "Head Enterprise for Agriculture Industrialization of Guangxi", "Industrialization Base for Rosin Deep-processed Products of Guangxi", and also the vice board chairman of China National Forest Product Industry Association Rosin Branch.
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We are now learning more of the details behind Mike D'Antoni's sudden resignation earlier today.
Here is the latest from TNT's David Aldridge by way of Sekou Smith at the NBA Hangtime blog (with a hat tip to Deadspin):
A source with knowledge of the discussions says D'Antoni and Knicks chairman James Dolan mutually agreed to terminate D'Antoni's job with New York after the two met this morning.
D'Antoni, the source said, had been advocating that the Knicks attempt to trade Anthony to the New Jersey Nets for guard Deron Williams, a deal D'Antoni believed would be beneficial for both franchises. But Dolan categorically declined that request, and the "conflicting visions" between the owner and head coach about Anthony meant there was no way forward.
D'Antoni had hoped the Knicks' inspired and winning play with Lin as the centerpiece — while Anthony and Stoudemire were injured — would convince Dolan the Knicks could win without Anthony. Bringing Williams from the Nets would also have eases the burden on Lin, D'Antoni believed, allowing Lin to settle into a three-guard rotation.
Frankly, I agree with D'Antoni.
Despite my misgivings as a "basketball purist" about a coach for whom defense is barely an afterthought, giving him a ball-stopping, iso-needing shot-hunter like Carmelo Anthony for whom defense is also barely an afterthought is one of the worst coach-player pairings I can think of.
But giving him a dynamic playmaker/scorer like Deron Williams, to pair with an emerging player like Jeremy Lin, plus the other pieces the Knicks have? Brilliant!
I realize Deron Williams doesn't have the "Q rating" of a guy like Carmelo, at least not right now now, and that is important in a market like New York, but Williams also doesn't come with the same level of me-first Carmelodrama that the NBA's most one-dimensional superstar brings. (If you haven't realized that I'm not a huge Carmelo Anthony fan, at least a centerpiece of a potential NBA champion, just know that I am not a huge fan of Carmelo Anthony as the centerpiece of an NBA champion.)
Even though I don't like D'Antoni is the kind of coach to lead a championship team, I'd still love to see him surface in another NBA city or perhaps even in college. I think there is a place for his style of basketball. Paul Westhead made Loyola Marymount relevant there for a bit. If D'Antoni can't get another NBA job (which he should), he should go to a fledgling big conference school or anonymous mid-major and make them relevant. He could do what Mike Leach did for football at Texas Tech. It sure would be fun.
Just keep him away from Carmelo Anthony.
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Fortescue Metals Group was down more than 2% before the close today, after lifting the lid on its quarterly production figures.
At 3:32 it was down 2.17% or 0.08 cents to $3.60. Click this link for a live price.
The miner said its operating costs were getting cheaper, its production had increased and that it would continue to try and get customers to pre-pay for iron ore, which takes pressure off its cash-flows.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson told Fairfax Media no MRRT or mining tax had been paid over the June quarter.
''We're not seeing any MRTT in our future … we haven't even booked the tax benefit that's available to us,'' a company official said.
Here's the headline points from the company's announcement:
- June 2013 quarterly shipments were 25 million tonnes (mt), a 24% increase on the prior quarter. FY13 total shipments were 80.9mt, 41% higher than the prior year
- US$6.2 billion capital expenditure in FY13, US$0.1 billion below guidance
- Commercial negotiations for the sale of a minority interest in Fortescue's rail and port assets are progressing
- Cash balance of US$2.2 billion at 30 June 2013
- Expansion projects remain on budget and schedule to initially achieve production at the 155mtpa run rate across the supply chain by end December 2013 and sustainably produce at 155mtpa post the wet season in March 2014
- 120 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) shipping run rate in the month of June, 5mtpa greater than expectation
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