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Our products fully integrate revolutionary Taco Comfort Solutions® Delta-T ECM Hydronic Distribution Technology with the Weil-McLain® UO Series High-Mass, Triple-Pass Boiler using our proprietary near-boiler piping system. The result is a pre-built, stand-alone package appliance that optimizes heating energy generation and distribution efficiency. Our monitored, multiple "Beta Site" installations support our claims and provide the basis for our Patent(s).
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Beat the heat and enjoy the summer weather in Calgary by visiting one of our many wading pools, spray parks and outdoor pools around the city. Spray parks, wading pools and outdoor pools are typically open from mid June until fall (weather dependent). Aquatic wheelchairs are now available at some spray parks.
Wading pools and spray parks are not available to be booked.
The listed wading pools are run by The City. For community wading pools, please contact the Community Association directly.Wading pools operated by The City are un-guarded facilities open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
The listed spray parks are run by The City. For community spray parks, please contact the Community Association directly. Spray parks operated by The City are un-guarded facilities open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Hours of operation vary by location and may be affected by inclement weather. Outdoor pools are independently managed by Calgary Outdoor Swimming Pools Association. Please contact the individual pools for more information on operating hours.
Aquatic wheelchairs are now available in spray parks at Prairie Winds Park, Riley Park, Bowness Park and Variety Park in South Glenmore Park. These wheelchairs will be available until the spray park closes this fall (weather dependent). Visitors can sign out the wheelchair, upon availability, by approaching the attendant on site at the park.
Visitors are welcome to use the wheelchair for as long as they require; no deposit is required. Please be respectful if there are others waiting to use the wheelchair. While visitors are using aquatic wheelchairs, they can choose to keep their personal chair in the spray park storage area or keep their chair with them.
This is a pilot project to look at and evaluate opportunities to improve accessibility features in parks across the city. Thank you to Variety – the Children's Charity of Alberta for their assistance in determining the type of chairs to purchase.
Love the water? The City also runs several indoor pools and leisure centres throughout Calgary.


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This documentary is one of the best that I have seen on the Civil Rights Movement. Being that I have read many books on the subject, and love Black History in general, I really didn't expect this video to teach me anything that I didn't already know. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the depth of the information presented.
I enjoyed the way it showed how these monumental Civil Rights protests and events were interrelated. The documentary also did a fabulous job of not just showing the successes of the movement but also highlighting some of it's most prominent failures and highlighting not only the strategies of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. but also the strategies of those who didn't agree with everything the Civil Rights Movement was fighting for. I'm truly glad that the documentary exposed this information because I think most people who didn't actually live during that day and age have a tendency to believe that Dr. King, the SCLC and SNCC succeeded every time they had a rally, organized protest or march. The last aspect of the documentary that impressed me was how it spoke on some of the tension that existed between the different Civil Rights factions who shared the same vision but had different approaches they wanted to take when it came to making this vision a reality.
All in all, Eyes on the Prize is the perfect documentary for you to watch with your children to educate them on these historic times. This will be time well spent because most likely you will also learn just as much as them about the Civil Rights Movement from this 360 minute documentary created by Henry Hampton and narrated by Julian Bond. Keep in mind that this is only a part of the full documentary set that covers from 1954 to 1985 and consists of more than 14 hours of footage.
Season 1: America's Civil Rights Years Tracklisting
Episode 1: Awakening (1954-1956)
Episode 2: Fighting Back (1957-1962)
Episode 3: Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961)
Episode 4: No Easy Walk (1961-1963)
Episode 5: Mississippi: Is This America? (1962-1964)
Episode 6: Bridge to Freedom (1965)
Season 2: America at the Crossroads Tracklisting
Episode 1: The Time Has Come (1964-1965)
Episode 2: Two Societies (1965-1968)
Episode 3: Power! (1967-1968)
Episode 4: The Promised Land (1967-1968)
Episode 5: Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-1972)
Episode 6: A Nation of Law? (1967-1968)
Episode 7: The Keys to the Kingdom (1974-1980)
Episode 8: Back to the Movement (1979-mid 1980s)
Sample Video
Here is a link to Season 1: Eyes on the Prize (America's Civil Rights Years: 1954-1965) and here is the link to the full set that consists of Eyes on the Prize (America's Civil Rights Years: 1954-1965) and Eyes on the Prize II (America at the Racial Crossroads: 1965-1985)
View our: Black History Art Prints & Posters


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Ponytales Rescue
Ponytales Rescue
We work hard to make sure that we take care of all of our horses here at Ponytales Rescue. But, unfortunately we can't do it without people like you and your donations of time and money. So, if you ever feel like you want to be a part of our family and help some of the best animals around, check us out. We are a 501(c)3 Public charity and donations are tax deductible as allowed by law. Donations of feed and supplies are always welcome, as well as gift cards or donations made directly to our vendors. We use Pine Bush Equine Hospital as our primary vet. www.pinebushequine.com We buy our feed at Pet Central, 344 Eerie St, Honesdale, PA (579) 251-3470, www.petcentralstores.com and at Tractor Supply Company in Honesdale, P.A. Monetary donations can be mailed via snail mail: Ponytales Rescue, 1096 Bethany Turnpike, Honesdale, P.A. 18431 or made via paypal to address firstname.lastname@example.com
Q: Do you have limitations as to where you adopt horses to?
A: Yes, generally within a 4 hour radius of our rescue here in Honesdale, P.A.
Q: Do the adoptable horses have injuries or health problems?
A: Some do, and some don't. We offer full disclosure of Veterinary and Training records on each horse. We have some horses that have special needs, and others who have absolutely nothing wrong with them and can walk into the show ring tomorrow.
Q: Is there an adoption fee? How much is it?
A: Yes, there are adoption fee's on the horses. Our highest adoption fee is $1,500 and that is for a horse that is show ready or has show experience. The prices go down from there depending on the physical condition of the horse and it's level of training.
Q: If my adopted horse does not work out, can I sell it?
A: None of our horses can be resold, bred, or raced. We make a commitment to keep them safe for the rest of their lives and if you can no longer provide for them, they are to be returned to us. This is the reason why the adoption fees are so much lower than a sale price of the same quality animal.
All horses are Up To Date on vaccines, dentist, farrier, worming, and have a current Coggins Test. All horses have been thoroughly evaluated by a licensed veterinarian and a competent trainer. All findings are made available to the adopter prior to adopting the horse. We make sure that horse and rider are matched, we will always go with the best fitting placement for both horse and rider, and not by order of application received.


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Dreamforce #DF14 – Relationships Always Matter Most
This year the spectacle that is Salesforce.com's "Dreamforce" conference / hubbub / bizdev scrum / fiesta has reached new heights of both technology – and cultural – impact. It is one of the most important events all year for software and digital marketing people because it provides the chance for people usually at a distance to see each other in the real world and improve our personal and professional relationships with each other.
There as ample evidence of this theme in the names and featured content of the actual sessions this year, too. Fully 74 of the sessions listed included the word in the title or description.
Therefore, we thought we'd take that lens and apply it to our summary of the week.
We have the benefit of a first-person vantage point on Dreamforce this year. Our CEO Robi participated in a panel entitled "GROW OR DIE! From Idea to IPO: Fund and Grow your Startup" which was part of the Startups @Dreamforce content track on Monday. Robi spent the remainder of the week there also — forming new relationships, renewing old ones, and generally observing the whole thing. What follows are some personal observations of his about how the theme of real, personal relationships struck a chord with him during the conference.
Direct Dispatches from @RGanguly at the 'Relationships Festival', #DF14:
A few choice quotes from the conversation between Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman @WEF and Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton, natch) during the Day 2 session featuring them:
- "The world needs dialog. Because dialog builds trust." – Klaus Schwab, Founder @WEF #DF14
- "You have to sustain the community" – Klaus Schwab, Founder @WEF #DF14
- "You have to have face-to-face trust interactions and constant digital communication" – Klaus Schwab, Founder @WEF #DF14
- "The Leaders of Today need: Passion & Professionalism, Vision and Values, The Heart, and, these days strong nerves" – Klaus Schwab, Founder @WEF #DF14
- "At Dreamforce, ethics are as important as electronics" – @hillaryclinton #DF14
- "If you are not in dialog, if you are not communicating and building trust, you are not building relationships." – @hillaryclinton #DF14
Hillary Clinton also shared stories of how leaders (FDR, Kennedy, Eisenhower) used to have time to recreate and think: human beings haven't changed that much, but the scrutiny, the attention, the negative approach has created very difficult hurdles for those who want to serve and want to lead, to do so. Her point was that the media has intensified scrutiny over time, while the amount time spent reporting the actual news has dramatically shrunk. In discussing this, she made a point that I thought was particularly insightful and really something worth keeping in mind:
"Technology has put a higher premium on face-to-face meetings and encounters. To go to them. To listen to them in their settings. In unlikely settings. I don't think there is any substitute to spending that time together." – @HillaryClinton
For us, one of the key takeaways from Dreamforce is that it presents a chance for us all in this industry to remember what the words behind the acronym 'CRM' *really* mean. It is a moment in time when we should all recall that "Customers" matter most. When we can all remind ourselves that "Relationships" are what create the most value in business, as in life. Managing both requires not only powerful software, but a little time spent together – face to face – in the real world sometimes.
Cheers from the conclusion of #DF14, and from all of us @Apptentive.


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Internet Safety for Youth
Watch this video, then spend time helping your children understand the consequences of what they might think are innocent Internet activities. Protect your children. Monitor their computer and Internect activity. Know their passwords. Love your children.
From US-CERT (United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team), here is a great article entitled "Keeping Children Safe Online": Children present unique security risks when they use a computer–not only do you have to keep them safe, you have to protect the data on your computer. By taking some simple steps, you can dramatically reduce the threats, click here…to read the article. and here…to visit Wired Safety, the world's largest Internet safety, help and education resource.
Mother or Smother
By Laraine L. Thompson
In our well intentioned efforts to be good, nurturing parents do we end up smothering rather than mothering—or fathering for that matter? We have all smothered from time to time. We want our children to know that we love them. We think that the way to show them that love is to do for them—things that they can and should be doing for themselves. We launder and iron their clothes. We tidy their rooms. We prepare food at their whim. We hover over their homework, their scout advancement, their young women progress. We may even be doing some of their homework! The list could go on.
I know of one woman (and there are countless more just like her) who, in her willing and exuberant desire to be a wonderful, nurturing LDS mother, waited on her family for their every need. She even went so far as to wrap up hot meals to drive to her son's athletic practice so as not to force him to have to reheat his dinner when he would arrive home. She washed, folded, and put away her son's clothing. She hovered over his homework. He, along with his other siblings, was the very center of her world. She was admired by her peers for her mothering efforts. Yet, when it came time for him to go away to college, he began to struggle. Read more…
Preparedness Tip
Never let the gas tank in your car get below half a tank. If you do this, you won't have to worry about running out of gas, AND if you had to evacuate, you would be ready.
View the magazines, printable activities, and sharing time lessons. Find children's music from the Friend and the Children's Songbook, download music, play games and more…Take the time to visit this wonderful site with your children.
Click here to visit the Friend, a magazine from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Meals Together-So Much More Than Food Alone!
By Laraine L. Thompson
In recent years, numerous studies have indicated the overriding importance of family meal time. A 2004 University of Minnesota study published in The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine states that "frequent family meals are related to better nutritional intake, and a decreased risk for unhealthy weight control practices and substance abuse." Another benefit, of course, is reduced cost of feeding one's family. Going out for dinner is very expensive!
While nobody would quibble with the notion that family meals contribute to eating more healthfully or less expensively, it is the component related to less substance abuse that is of utmost importance. We constantly ask ourselves, "What one thing can we do as a family that will most contribute to our success?" We supply numerous answers—study the scriptures together, hold family home evening, attend church together, hold family prayer—the list goes one and on. The single, simplest, of all changes to implement is an ironclad establishment of family mealtime!
In yet another study the multiple benefits of a family mealtime are outlined: Read more…
What Family Means
Physical Activity for Youth
The AHA's Recommendations for Physical Activity in Children:
Physical inactivity is a major risk factor for developing coronary artery disease. It also increases the risk of stroke and such other major cardiovascular risk factors as obesity, high blood pressure, low HDL ("good") cholesterol anddiabetes. The American Heart Association recommends that children and adolescents participate in at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity every day. Read more…
No Family Is Perfect
None of us is without sin. Every one of us makes mistakes, including you and me. We have all been wounded. We all have wounded others.
It is through our Savior's sacrifice that we can gain exaltation and eternal life. As we accept His ways and overcome our pride by softening our hearts, we can bring reconciliation and forgiveness into our families and our personal lives. God will help us to be more forgiving, to be more willing to walk the second mile, to be first to apologize even if something wasn't our fault, to lay aside old grudges and nurture them no more. Thanks be to God, who gave His Only Begotten Son, and to the Son, who gave His life for us.
"One key to a Happy Family" by President Dieter Uchtdorf
Plan Ahead for Christmas Gifts
by LDS Intelligent Living
My husband and I decided years ago that in order to ease our spending budget at Christmas time, we would buy most of the gifts year round. The first thing we do early in the year is decide on an amount to spend on each family member/friend. We collect wish lists, and then check the retail price for each requested gift. When that is done, we total all the gifts amount so we can evaluate if the total matches the budget originally decided, and if not, we adjust.
Throughout the year, we watch for sales and purchase the gifts on the list at their lowest retail prices. This method enables us to save money on most of the items and then apply the money saved toward last minute unexpected gifts that need to be purchased.
This will work if the list is kept handy and reviewed regularly; it is similar to setting goals, we keep it fresh in our mind by reviewing regularly what is on the list, thinking about the strategy to achieve the goal and working at it.
We found that if we have a list and a set budget for Christmas gifts, it is less likely that we will succumb to impulse buying when visits to the stores are made during the Christmas holiday. However, in order for this plan to work, we have to stick to the list like glue, review it and adjust so we always know how the budget is doing as purchases are made.
We prefer a non-stressful Christmas, and with the shopping out of the way early, we are more available to help others during the holiday season.
Continue Learning
By Donna Norris
We as church members are encouraged to continue learning. D & C 88:118 says, "…seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith." D & C 130:18 – 19 states, "Whatever principle of intelligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection. And if a person gains more knowledge and intelligence in this life through his diligence and obedience than another, he will have so much the advantage in the world to come."
These following article excerpts give some ideas of what things we can learn and how we can go about learning.
Henry B. Eyring First counselor in the First Presidency said "A great teacher is always learning. The workplace in every profession is changing so rapidly that what we know today will not be enough for tomorrow." Later in the article he goes on to say, "It takes neither modern technology nor much money to seize the opportunity to learn in the moments we now waste. You could just have a book and paper and pencil with you. That will be enough. But you need determination to capture the leisure moments you now waste." "Education for Real Life", Ensign, Oct. 2002, 14, read the entire article, click here…
Dallin H. Oaks of the Twelve Apostles states, "Beyond increasing our occupational qualifications, we should desire to learn how to become more emotionally fulfilled, more skilled in our personal relationships, and better parents and citizens….Lifelong learning can increase our ability to appreciate and relish the workings and beauty of the world around us. This kind of learning goes well beyond books and a selective use of new technology, such as the internet. It includes artistic endeavors. It also includes experiences with people and places: conversations with friends, visits to museums and concerts, and opportunities for service. We should expand ourselves and enjoy the journey."
"Learning and Latter-day Saints" by Elder Dallin H. Oaks
Family Activity for Thanksgiving Celebration
A Thankful Activity for All
by LDS Intelligent Living
An idea to connect with family members who live too far to join you during Thanksgiving celebration.
- Colored card stock paper or construction paper
- Leaf templates (large enough for a picture to be glued on), autumn leaves (go for a walk with the kids to collect the leaves), or draw your own
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Markers
- Glue
- Magnets – some come in a roll and can be cut to desired sizes (optional)
- Tape (optional)
Ask your relatives to send you a picture, and share with you one thing they were thankful for this year.
Cut out all the leaves in different color paper and leaf shapes (they all should be close to the same size).
Glue the pictures on the leaves.
Write your family member's thankful thought under or above the picture.
Display Ideas
- Glue a magnet behind each leaf and display on the refrigerator.
- On Thanksgiving Day, have the family members take turn reading the thankful thoughts and then display the leaves on a wall (you can group the leaves by family). You could play a game by placing the leaves with the parents' pictures on the wall and have family members match the kids' leaves to their parents.
- Display all the leaves around the dining room table's center piece, and read them during Thanksgiving dinner.
You can easily find free printable pictures of leaves on the internet to use as template for this project. Some children would prefer coloring/painting the leaves and that's great too.
Don't forget to take a picture of the display on Thanksgiving day to send to your relatives.
Photos by LDS Intelligent Living
Parenting our Teens with Strength and Good Courage
Louis Sponseller, former member of our stake and past president of the Portland Stake held many parents and youth leaders at complete attention at a recent adult fireside sponsored by our stake presidency. Using a power point presentation, he skillfully described the often overwhelming challenges faced by today's youth and conversely, the parents of those youth. It is no dark secret that the youth are more challenged than ever before. The adversarial powers have combined to make their lives unbearable at times. Young women have been told for a quarter of a century now that they can survive quite independently without the companionship of man. Young men, as a result, are confused about their care giving, protective roles. As a result, they are adrift; floundering in a world that somehow no longer needs them. Talk about frightening! He told the story of a father who arrived home one evening only to find his teenage daughter sitting alone in a darkened living room. When he realized that she was crying, he asked her the reason. Through her tears, she sobbed, "Home is the only place where I can feel safe!" It was fortunate for her that her home afforded her that sort of comfort. What a pity for many more youth, even those within our church, whose homes do not provide them much, if any safety—particularly spiritual safety.
The cover of the March Ensign with a headline reading, "Home—A Sacred and Safe Haven" echoes the words of President Sponseller. Inside the reader finds a selection of art from around the world that embodies the power that is ours as parents if we will but fully embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ and live it genuinely, fully, and lovingly within the walls of our homes. The result of not doing just this is taking a staggering toll on our youth. Read more…
A Recipe For a Happy Family
28 tips for every Mormon couple: Marriage advice, encouragement from LDS leaders
For years, leaders of The Church of Jesus of Latter-day Saints have shared marriage advice, warnings and encouragement. They have given counsel on topics such as selfishness, gratitude, responsibilities and much more.
Click through this list to find 28 pieces of advice and encouragement from previous and current LDS leaders.
A Return to Walden Pond
Feeling overwhelmed by the busyness of his life, Henry David Thoreau, in 1845 took advantage of an offer from his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson and moved himself to Emerson's property near Boston, Massachusetts. There, for two years, on Walden Pond, Thoreau carved a life of great simplicity for himself. He chronicled those efforts in the now classic, Walden in which he wrote,
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
We, who live far more complicated, demanding lives cannot afford the luxury— such an ironic term—of making such a decision to leave life behind. Here we are smack dab in the 21st century. Thoreau would be completely overwhelmed by what he would see if he were here! While we cannot do as Thoreau did, perhaps we can glean a bit of wisdom from his experiences. He determined that there are only four things that a man needs to survive: food, clothing, shelter and fuel. Read more…


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Representative Office, Libya
Founded 2011
It is estimated that Libya's trade surplus was some $35 billion in 2012, compared with only $5 billion in 2011, as oil facilities were quickly repaired and exports resumed in the wake of the revolution. Reconstruction efforts, combined with new development projects, should impact on economic performance, with annual GDP growth henceforth of around10% being anticipated. Inflation is estimated at around 5% in 2012 as a result of strong money supply growth, but should begin to fall from 2013. Prior to the revolution, ABG had been at an advanced stage in its application to establish a representative office in Libya, but this was put on hold until the country returned to stability. ABG fully intends to pursue this strategy and to participate in the Libyan people's future development and prosperity in the fullness of time.
Address: Tripoli Tower, Tower 1
14th Floor, Office No. 144
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Tripoli, Libya
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From NewsOK.com
Norman — The University of Oklahoma is highly interested in moving basketball games to a proposed new arena near Interstate 35. The new 0,000-seat arena would be a part of a new entertainment district. Athletic Director Joe Castiglione believes it could draw larger crowds to games.
The proposed arena would be built on land owned by the OU Foundation on the east side of I-35 between Tecumseh Road and Rock Creek Road.
According to Castiglione, preliminary plans for the development call for an entertainment district that could include bars, restaurants and other entertainment.
A beverage license could also be obtained by the arena operator which would allow alcohol sales during basketball games with the venue located off campus and the university would just be a tenant.
Oklahoma's current basketball arena, the Lloyd Noble Center, would still be used for a variety of university events and could also host high school state championship games. The venue opened in the fall of 1975.
An economic impact study projects the development could generate more that $15 million a year in new tax revenue for Norman and Cleveland County.


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Archive for the sweet videos Category
It's Cool to be Awesome at SportsPosted in sports, sweet videos on June 27, 2012 by Allen
155. Succeed on Your First TryPosted in skills, sweet videos on August 31, 2011 by Allen
You can do this in a myriad of ways, from landing your first job interview, to throwing a knockout punch, to acing a cross court serve. Like everything in life, it's not so much what you do as how you do it. In the case of cool people, they do it in their first go!
Look, what it really comes down to is time management. The fewer interviews you have to go to, the fewer shots you have to take, the fewer strokes you have to execute, the more time you'll have to do cool things. True, always succeeding on your first try can get a little annoying for your friends but nobody ever said that being cool didn't come at a price.
Practice makes perfect, but wouldn't it be better to just skip all that boring practice stuff and jump straight to the perfect?
I wrote this post partially as an excuse to upload this super rad disc golf video that my little brothers showed me.
It's Cool to Travel to Other PlacesPosted in sweet videos on August 5, 2011 by Allen
Watching these reminds me that traveling is all I really ever want to spend my money on. Cool videos made by Rick Mereki.
It's Cool to Keep It RealPosted in sweet videos with tags getting real, Prius, Whole Foods on July 18, 2011 by Allen
Made by Fog and Smog. Shown to me by Seamus. Everyone's seen this already, but it doesn't make it any less rad.
151. A Couch in the Back of your PickupPosted in stuff, sweet videos with tags comfort, redneck, tailgate on July 8, 2011 by Allen
There is no finer way to watch a drive-in movie than sitting on a plush chesterfield in the back of a pickup truck. You want your rig to be the heart of the bush party? Why not toss a sofa in your Sonoma. At the pre-game tailgate, nothing says "opulence" quite like cooking bratwurst from the comfort of a loveseat.
Look, if you have a pickup, you're already one step closer to being a redneck. Time to embrace your true self and start moving your whole living room out there.


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Lab-on-a-Chip World Congress
Venue: Edinburgh Conference Centre
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
|Event Date/Time: May 15, 2007
|End Date/Time: May 16, 2007
The Lab-on-a-Chip World Congress is one of 3 co-located meetings centered on genomics and drug research. The others are AMT (Advances in Microarray Technology) and SEQNSYNTECH (Advances in Nucleic Acid Synthesis & Sequencing). Registration for this meeting will also permit access to the other conferences ensuring a very cost-effective trip.
Distinguished Speakers:
Jon Cooper, Head - Bioelectronics Research Centre, University of Glasgow / Andrew De Mello, Professor of Chemical Nanosciences, Imperial College / Andreas Manz, Head – ISAS, Dortmund / Sabeth Verpoorte, Program Chair, Institute of Pharmacy, University Of Groningen / Andrew De Mello, Professor of Chemical Nanosciences, Imperial College / Craig Venter, Founder and President, J. Craig Venter Institute and the J. Craig Venter Science Foundation.
Agenda Topics:
• Point-of-care diagnostics
• Microfabrication/engineering
• Life science applications
Make the most of your trip by attending the pre-conference training course presented by Nicole Pamme, Lecturer, Hull University:
Principles and Applications of Microfluidics in the Life Sciences - 14th May 2007 13:30-17:00.
For up-to-date information, including agenda and registration details, please visit the website http://www.selectbiosciences.com/conferences/loac2007/


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Top 10 Most Wanted
September 21st, 2015
We still have the biggest selection of titles in English you'll find between Oaxaca and San Antonio, but we're always looking to backstock our biggest sellers. We offer the most generous terms in cash and book credit you will find ANYWHERE – and we gratefully accept donations.
#1. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Has there been a more solid twofer than this Nigerian-American's debut 'Half of A Yellow Sun' and 'Americanah'. No. That's why we don't have them in-store right now, and they are badly missed.
#2. Jack Kerouac: Visitors coming through town make a beeline for his geographically apt volume of poems 'Mexico City Blues' and, because a young man's gotta dream (and get mired in cliche), 'On the Road'.
#3. Sylvia Plath: Her novel 'The Bell Jar' and stunning thin volume of poetry 'Ariel' disappear almost as soon as we get them in. Keep 'em coming.
#4. Roberto Bolan(y)o: His executors are still publishing found files, obscure stories and novels that make an art of being unfinished. We want them all.
#5. Elena Ferrante: Her autobiographical trilogy of novels has just been completed in English translation. We only have the first.
#6. Edward St. Aubyn: Same kind of thing. People are crazy for these books and loath to part with them. Maybe they should talk to Mr. Benito Juarez?
#7. Jonathan Franzen: Nobody seems as flat-out ecstatic about 'Purity' as the previous two books, but we're still eagerly awaiting this one's arrival.
#8. Philip Larkin: If you want to fall in love with a poet, Google this man's name and 'The Whitsun Weddings' – or if you're in a vulgar mind, 'This Be the Verse'. His substantial recent resurgence has yet to land his Selected or Collected in our hands.
#9. William T. Vollmann: We are slowly accruing this most prolific of living American authors' oeuvre, but still lack the five published volumes of the 'Seven Dreams' series, his National Book Award-winning 'Europe Central' and his raw punk semi-fiction opus 'Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs'.
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Speaking of snares, I just finished reading The Hunger Games by Susan Collins. What began as an interesting story set in a cruel futuristic totalitarian North America, turned into a semi-conscious love story between boy and girl. Ugh, really? Something tells me the author, Susan, at some point in her life watched Battle Royale and thought to herself, "Hey that was a great movie, there needs to be a book about it!". And away she went with those hungry little fingers, pecking away at the typewriter with a genius story idea in her head (completely stolen from a Japanese movie that was based upon a Japanese novel of same title). Yes, Susan, this has been done before, and might I add it was executed exceptionally better (pun intended).
Why does it seem like America is all about ripping off other people's ideas (or recycling ideas from the past)? It feels as though we've become a nation void of creativity, why is this? We don't produce anything anymore, unless of course it can be used in war to kill other humans, then we are innovative as all get out. This is upsetting to me, but don't you dare label me a Liberal. Libertarian maybe, but even then I'm still leery about ideologies. Out government needs a lot of fixing, and it will take more than a Democrat or a Republican to get the job done. If you are entrenched in either one of these parties and are unwilling to "compromise" (as John Boehner so doggedly put it), then you are part of the problem and I kindly ask you to get the fuck out of the way. There, I said it.
Whoa, where did that last paragraph come from? Sorry folks, I've been drinking and listening to the news again. Oh, and I cut my nut sack while shaving my ball hair again. Yes, these things will sour a good mood. Now, on to the next paragraph.
My parents sent me a Barnes & Noble gift card for Christmas, which is awesome. But before I tell you which books I purchased I need to explain a little about my mother. She is a wonderful human who raised three children the best way she could. I love and admire her for trying to be a mom while simultaneously dealing with her own personal issues, something I do everyday (minus the being a parent part). I could never do what she did, I'm not that strong. She is a very religious person who believes the Bible is the infallible word of a singular (upper case G) god. She embraces the Christian ideology and wears it like an electric blanket. It protects her, keeps her warm. Cool, no problem. She has pictures of dead fetuses as screen savers on her computer. Eh, not so cool, lol.
Anyway, so yes my mother is a devout Christian, which brings me to the humorous side of the point I'm trying to make. Now back to the gift card she and dad bought for me. I went online (since there are no Barnes & Nobles here in Salem) and ordered a few books, here are the books I ordered and will be reading over the next few months:
- Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution by Terrence McKenna.
- Fingerprints Of The Gods: The Evidence Of Earth's Lost Civilization by Graham Hancock.
I am too lazy and buzzed to write a synopsis for you about what these books are about, but let's just say that the Christian community wouldn't embrace either one of them. The first one is about the evolution of man, his journey from monkey to mushrooms; the second is about man's creation of civilization, myths and gods. Haha, oh boy. This is what a curious mind, untethered to ideology, will read about. I know my mother still loves me, even though I am tough on her religion and ask many questions, but I'm sure if she knew her money helped support anti-Christian exploration, she might have a tisk-tisk aimed my way. It's okay, mom, I'm still a good human being with love in my heart and hope for humanity! I just believe religion isn't the answer. God isn't suppose to be a complex math equation or an impossible riddle to solve. Or is he?
Wow, this blog was 98% religion and 2% politics. I need another beer..


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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Businesses leaving Baltimore have made news in the past.
Alex Demetrick reports, in a pleasant twist, a business is moving into the city, bringing hundreds of jobs with it.
There's new growth at a longtime landmark in Baltimore.
"Baltimore is glad to welcome MAIF to the city," said Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.
The Maryland Auto Insurance Fund, or MAIF, will move into new offices to be built on top of the Phillips Seafood Company on Fort Avenue.
The agency, created by the state legislature, insures drivers who can't afford private auto insurance.
Two hundred and forty people do that work in Annapolis but will move to Baltimore because the current headquarters is in need of some downsizing.
"Our present location is no longer suitable for us. It's an 110,000 square foot building, and we're occupying only about a third of it," said MAIF Executive Director Kent Krabbe.
The new headquarters will be 60,000 square feet and Annapolis's loss is a gain for Baltimore.
"I would like this to be a trend of businesses that are choosing to locate in Baltimore City," Rawlings-Blake said.
The move will mean a longer commute for some of those 240 workers, but not all.
"Some commutes will be a little longer, some will be a little shorter. A majority of our employees live between Annapolis and Baltimore, and they're really excited about coming here," Krabbe said.
The move is expected to be completed by fall 2015.
MAIF currently insures 38,000 Marylanders, 10 percent of them in Baltimore City.
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$35 Million for Griffith Base Hospital Upgrade
New funding has been announced!
Yesterday Premier Gladys Berejiklian along with Member for Murray Adrian Piccoli announced a $35 million upgrade for Griffith Base Hospital.
The announcement means that the hospital will be modernized and expanded as part of the upgrade as well as funding to redevelop different areas of the current Griffith Base Hospital.
Ms Berejiklian said "This funding boost recognizes that while Griffith Hospital provides a quality service to the local community, the physical environment and capacity of the hospital needs to be developed"
It's anticipated that the redevelopment will include;
- Refurbished and modernized medical and surgical inpatient accommodation.
- Upgraded and increased capacity of ambulatory care clinics and treatment spaces, including renal dialysis and oncology.
- Upgraded critical care services, including the Intensive Care Unit
- Improved access and onsite parking.
Mr Piccoli said he was very pleased the NSW Government was ensuring Griffith Hospital would benefit from it's regional health infrastructure investments.
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Lingua disponibile: ingleseBorn in Ann Arbor, Michigan but based in Los Angeles, Sam Baker, aka Samiyam, is an underground producer who makes instrumental hip-hop beats. Stylistically cut from the same cloth as J Dilla but with a tendency to incorporate synthesizers as well as samples, he is associated with the city's beatmaking scene, and was one of the first artists to release music on Flying Lotus' influential label Brainfeeder. Baker and FlyLo produced music together as FLYamSAM, first surfacing on Rush Hour Recordings' 2007 compilation Beat Dimensions, Vol. 1. Baker's solo debut, Rap Beats, Vol. 1 was self-released in 2008 as a limited CD-R, and had unique artwork for each copy -- collages made from magazine cutouts. He made his vinyl debut that year on the British label Hyperdub, which issued the Return EP. Baker's Man vs. Machine 10" EP appeared on Poo-Bah Records in 2009, and FLYamSAM issued a mixtape titled Bootleg Beats that year. In 2010, Samiyam released a split 10" EP with Ras G as part of All City Records' series spotlighting producers from the Los Angeles beat scene. Following additional compilation appearances, production credits on albums by rappers Blu and Pharoahe Monche, and remixes for producers like Shigeto and Illum Sphere, Samiyam released his proper debut full-length, Sam Baker's Album, on Brainfeeder in 2011. Following that album, Baker became much more active as a behind-the-scenes producer than a solo artist. He contributed to 2012 albums by the Gaslamp Killer and Flying Lotus' alter ego Captain Murphy before releasing Wish You Were Here, a cassette-only solo album on Leaving Records. Later that year, he produced "20 Wave Caps" on Earl Sweatshirt's major-label debut Doris. A 2014 vinyl reissue of Danny Brown's 2008 debut Hot Soup included a Samiyam-produced bonus track called "Radio Head," and Baker produced a track on Joey Bada$$'s 2015 full-length B4.DA.$$. Also in 2015, Baker and Earl Sweatshirt collaborated on a song titled "Quest/Power," and the MC made another guest appearance on Samiyam's 2016 full-length Animals Have Feelings. Released by Stones Throw, the album also included collaborations with Action Bronson and Jeremiah Jae. A brief LP titled Pizza Party appeared in 2017, featuring a collaboration with Jonwayne.
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Getting the most out of an educational experience is a top priority for students, teachers and parents. South Plains College recognizes the importance of allowing highly motivated students the opportunity to earn college credit while still in high school.
Dual Credit refers to the process by which a high school student enrolls in a college
course and receives simultaneous academic credit for the course from both the college
and the high school. The college course(s), whether academic or career/technical,
apply toward high school graduation and a college degree or certificate.
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Eligible Courses
South Plains College has identified a number of courses which may be taken for dual credit. Dual Credit students can take core courses commonly required for any bachelor's degree program at most universities. Additionally, academic credit received at South Plains College is fully transferable to Texas public universities. For a complete listing of available academic and career/technical course offerings, please contact a counselor from one of the high schools listed on the Dual Credit High School Partners page or click the links below.
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Students wishing to participate should talk with their parents and high school counselor before enrolling. Students must submit the following:
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Additionally, Dual Credit students are not required to show college readiness in all three areas (reading, writing, and math), but only for the course(s) they wish to take. For example, students taking English-1301 will only need to show college readiness in reading and writing, since no math score is required for the class.
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Per state and federal regulations, financial aid is not available to students who have not yet graduated from high school.
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LOS ARRIEROS, TEXAS. Los Arrieros is on the Rio Grande off U.S. Highway 83 ten miles northwest of Roma-Los Saenz in western Starr County. It is an old Spanish-speaking community dating to the eighteenth century. The name is Spanish for mule drivers. The location of the Arrieros Ranch has been identified as the site of the El Cántaro ford near Mier, Tamaulipas, which played a key role in the development of Nuevo Santander. In the late 1680s Alonso de León reportedly crossed the ford during one of his attempts to find Fort St. Louis. Los Arrieros was founded by descendants of followers of Spanish colonizer José de Escandón. It is mentioned as a ranch headquarters in the 1800 church census of Mier, Nuevo Santander, Mexico, as it was a part of the Mier municipality until 1848. It is again mentioned in a memorandum of 1848, explaining to the state of Tamaulipas that the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo had cost the municipality 80 percent of its territory, and 400 people on ten ranches north of the Rio Grande, including Arrieros. By 1990 only a few homes remained near the river and on the gravel roads of the old town. By that time most of the people had moved up to Highway 83, where their homes stretched from the west part of the old 83 cutoff for two or three miles to the Salineño turnoff. About 300 people lived in this area, most of them from Los Arrieros. A few were from Chapeño, a settlement that broke up after the building of Falcon Dam.
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"To mull or not to mull?", that is the question every player asks at the start of each game. For this week's article, I'll be talking about how to make mulligan decisions and go over some sample hands. For a primer to this article, I would recommend reading my previous Drafting 101 article first which has a short introduction on mulligans.
Mulligan System
Before talking about mulligan decisions, it's important to first understand the current mulligan system being implemented. Post mulligan, there is equal chances of getting 2, 3 or 4 power hands. This has 3 main implications for draft mulligans. Firstly, because the odds of getting extremely power screwed, you can afford to be slightly greedier with your mulligans. Secondly, because of the generous mulligan system, it is important to have early plays to avoid simply being run over.
Lastly, because the mulligan system only considers pure power cards, Initiate of the Sands, Seek Power and to a lesser extent, Avirax Familiar and Amber Acolyte, are great cards to run to mitigate power screw and artificially increase your power count post-mulligan. With such cards in your deck, you can also afford to be slightly greedier with your mulligans.
Play vs Draw
Having an extra draw step when on the draw allows for greedier keeps. For example, a 2 power hand with no 2 drops, but good 3+ drops is almost always a no-go when you are on a play, but a keep could be considered when you are on the draw.
The strength of certain cards can also vary greatly depending on whether you are on the play or draw. Low cost infiltrate cards (such as Blood Beetle, Lethrai Ranger) are much stronger when you are on the play since they are harder to answer on curve to prevent infiltrates. In contrast, reactive cards (such as Static Bolt, Talon of Nostrix) are stronger when you are on the draw. Playing either of those onto an empty board is not ideal.
Ideal Amount of Power
As a general rule of thumb, mulling a hand with 1, 5 or 6 power is usually correct. In most decks, the ideal amount of power in your opening hand is 3. 2 or 4 power hands with good card quality and nice curve outs could also be marginal keeps. How aggressive or control-oriented can also influence your power requirements. Aggressive decks are more likely to keep 2-power hands while control-oriented decks can consider keeping a 4-power hand if it has good early defensive drops.
Rule of 3
One common piece of advice that top drafters like to give is the rule of 3. What this means is that if your hand has nothing to do for the first 3 turns, you should always mull. Not playing anything for the first 3 turns is one of the easiest ways to get run over in draft. Ideally, you want a hand with something to do on turn 2 and something else to follow up with on turn 3. If you are missing a turn 2 play, you generally want a strong turn 3 play (e.g. Auric Sentry, Brightmace Paladin) to compensate and prevent falling behind on board.
"Dead" Cards
Another factor that I use to decide mulligans is the number of "dead" cards in my hand. Firstly, any card that I do not have the correct influence to play is considered "dead". Secondly, cards costing 5 or more is also considered "dead". This is because there is a high chance that I won't be able to cast these cards at a reasonable time and hence, they are likely to just be clogging up my hand as unplayable cards. I never kept a hand with more than 2 dead cards, and 2 dead cards is the fringe scenario that I could be tempted into keeping if the rest of the cards are of sufficiently high quality.
Deck Constitution
One of the most important factors to take into account is the deck itself. Knowing the game plan of the deck and the strengths and weaknesses of the deck can allow you to make more informed choices. A deck with a well-balanced curve can afford to be more aggressive with the mulligans. Knowing what are your best units and how much power you wish to hit can also make you a better judge of your current hand quality. While these concepts are pretty abstract and hard to nail down, hopefully the following sample hands would make it more clear.
Sample Hands
For this article, we will be looking at sample hands from 2 of my recent draft decks, a Praxis deck with a Primal Splash and a straight Hooru deck (Note these decks were before the balance changes).
Deck 1: Praxis with a Primal Splash
For this deck, I actually had a tough time deciding whether I wanted to cut the Jawbone Hatchet or Amaran Archeologist for the 18th power. However, with 3 fetches (2 Amber Acolyte, 1 Amaran Archeologist), 1 Avirax Familar and a cycle in the form of Dispel, I felt justified to slightly cheat on power. There is an argument for cutting Amaran Archeologist for a sigil, but given the FFF influence cost of Flamestoker, I valued his fixing ability very highly.
For this deck, the general gameplan was to go for an aggressive opening with my low cost minions and keeping the opponent's board clear with my removal suite. The 2 Cannonbearers and Flamestoker provided a form of late game insurance.
Hand 1
Two power hands are generally an iffy keep. While this hand has the potential to ramp up to 4 with a single power draw, having 2 "dead" cards in the form of Amaran Archeologist and Cannonbearer makes this hand an easy mull.
Final Decision: Mulligan
Hand 2
4 power hands is not what you want to see as an aggressive deck. Moreover, without a turn 2 play, I am highly unlikely to be able to spark Hatchet, making it an extremely weak card.
Final Decision: Mulligan
Hand 3
This hand is an unfortunate mulligan. While it has the potential to go nuts with a single Time sigil drawn, there are 4 "dead" cards currently. If one of the Fire sigils were a Banner or a Time sigil, this hand would be a snap keep. Even though I might miss the 3rd power, I can always just turn my Stranger into a 3/3 flier.
Final Decision: Mulligan
Hand 4
While this is effectively a 5 power hand, being able to have running plays from turn 2 onwards makes it a tempting keep. Moreover, if I fetched a Fire Sigil with my Amber Acolyte, I will have the right influence to cast all the cards in my deck. Sequencing the power plays for this hand is important as well. By playing a Banner turn 1, I would be able to play both Amber Acolyte and Striped Araktodon on turn 3 and turn 4 even if the Stranger gets removed. I should also play the Fire Sigil turn 2 so that if I draw my hatchet, I am able to still play Banner and Hatchet on turn 3 to avoid having a depleted power.
Final Decision: Keep
Hand 5
This hand is extremely marginal. Flamestoker is a dead card until I hit 6 power. Moreover, Teleport is relatively situational. However, opening with a Stranger into Accelerated Evolution is still a decent opening. Having most of my influence is what sways me towards a keep, but I can see the rationale behind a mulligan if I was on the play.
Final Decision: Toss-up (leaning towards keep) if on the play, Keep if on the draw
Hand 6
Remember everything I said about tempo being important? Well, this hand retorts, who needs tempo when you are nearly guaranteed a turn 6 "I win" card? I would snap keep this hand despite it looking slightly weak at first glance. Outside of consecutive power draws or my other 2 6-drops, this hand has nearly no bad draws since I have the influence to play all of my other cards.
Final Decision: Keep
Hand 7
Having Bladekin Apprentice in my opening hand makes it an extremely tempting keep. However, with 2 "dead" cards in my hand and Copper Conduit only really being worth casting at 5 power or more, I actually have nothing to do after playing Bladekin Apprentice and the Stranger. Moreover, without any of my removal spells, my entire snowball can be easily stopped by a Bold Adventurer or any other 3 health units.
Final Decision: Mulligan
Hand 8
This hand is a snap keep in my opinion. Going turn 1 Oni Ronin into turn 2 Accelerated Evolution is an extremely powerful and hard to answer opening. Having Time Weaver and 4 power in my hand also means that I am likely to play it on curve and effectively remove a card from my opponent's hand.
Final Decision: Keep
Deck 2: Hooru
This deck also has an more midrange slant where it orients more heavily around getting in early damage with District Infantry and finishing the game with my huge fliers. With regards to the power base, there is an argument to swap a Justice Sigil for a Primal Sigil to have equal sources. However, I felt that increasing the chances of being able to play my District Infantry on turn 1 is slightly more important than the increased chances of hitting double primal by turn 4 for Shelterwing Rider and Jotun Cyclops. Notably, this deck has only 5 2-drops and 3 3-drops. Thus, I need to be more conservative with my mulligans in general, but also more aggressively throwing back hands with no early game as I am unlikely to draw into them.
Hand 1
Given the low number of 2-drops in this deck, a 2-power hand is much more sketchy. The 2 high-cost drops are also unlikely to come down anytime soon, making this hand an easy mulligan.
Final Decision: Mulligan
Hand 2
Without knowing the deck, this hand is a very marginal call. However, given that my deck is low on good 2 and 3 drops, this hand is a easy keep for me. Moreover, if I am able to trigger the looting effect on Crafty Yeti, it becomes a decent 3-drop.
Final Decision: Keep
Hand 3
This hand is very marginal. However, there's a chance of high rolling with Tranquil Scholar to pull me ahead. Moreover, I have plays for turn 2 to turn 4 regardless of my draws, which is significantly better than most hands I would expect to see. Again, this ties back to the point that I have to be more conservative given the lack of early game in this deck.
Final Decision: Keep
Hand 4
This is not a great hand. However, having a good play on turn 2 and likely a good follow-up on turn 4 makes me much more inclined to keep this hand. I can't reasonably expect to mulligan into a significantly better hand given my below average early game and thus, I would keep this hand.
Final Decision: Keep
Hand 5
This is a pretty decent hand in general. Moreover, knowing that most of my strongest units are 4 cost or more, a 4 power hand is not as bad as it is for most other decks. Lastly, having things to do for my first 3 turns makes this hand a snap keep.
Final Decision: Keep
Hand 6
This is an extremely marginal hand. At first glance, a 2 power hand is almost an auto-mulligan given the mid-high curve that out deck has. However, if we were to draw consecutive power, this hand curves out insanely well with power-efficient drops from 2 power to 5 power. On the play, I have 67% chance of hitting my 3rd power drop on curve, while on the draw, that increases to 82%. Given that this hand becomes significantly worse if I miss the 3rd power drop, I would mulligan if I were on the play, but keep if I were on the draw.
Final Decision: Mull if on the play, Keep if on the draw
Hand 7
At first glance, this does not seem like an ideal hand for a midrange deck, with nothing costing above 2. However, opening with District Infantry, into Stranger, into Argenport Soldier and District Infantry is probably one of the strongest openings that any deck, including aggro decks, can have. So even though this hand does not seem to synergize with the overall gameplan of the deck, it has a good chance of simply running over the opponent regardless of future draws, making it an easy keep in my books.
Final Decision: Keep
Hand 8
This is another hand that is worth considering for a keep due to the 2 and 3 drop, similar to Hand 6. However, the key difference is that this hand is missing a 4-drop. Moreover, it has 2 dead cards in the form of the 6-power bombs, making it a mull.
Final Decision: Mull
I know there's been requests for more in-depth articles going over mulligans and I hope this article helped to provide more insight into the mulligan decision. Do let me know if you've enjoyed this article and if you would like to see more articles of this type in the reddit thread.
May the mulligans be ever in your favor,


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Take a break from theme park food… and stop by Exposition Park at Disney Springs for a first-rate food truck dining event. Disney has created four unique food trucks featuring culinary treats from its theme parks across the globe. Enjoy your meal on the West Side's waterfront, often with live entertainment…
- World Showcase of Flavors — Embark on a globe-trotting adventure featuring favorites from Epcot's International Food & Wine Festival…
- Grilled Chicken Gyro with House-Made Chips
- Grass Fed Beef Sliders with Monterey Jack Cheese & Sweet Hot Pickles
- Pot Stickers with Soy Chili Dipping Sauce
- Wines by the Glass — Riesling, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Zinfandel
- Fantasy Fare — Taste these savory delights featured at Disneyland Paris, Disneyland California & Magic Kingdom…
- Croque Monsieur — Grilled Ham & Cheese with Waffle Fries
- Hand Dipped Corn Dog with Waffle Fries
- Buffalo Chicken & Waffles with Blue Cheese Cream
- Superstar Catering — Step into the spotlight with this star-studded cuisine featured at Disney's Hollywood Studios…
- Shrimp & Lobster Macaroni & Cheese with Gouda Lobster Bisque Sauce
- Pepperoni or Cheese Flatbread baked fresh with Italian Cheeses
- Dueling Sliders — BBQ Brisket & Pulled Chicken with House-Made Chips
- Namaste Cafe — Venture into Asia with these "wild" flavors featured at Disney's Animal Kingdom…
- Lamb Kefta with Tomato Cucumber Raita Sauce
- Butter Chicken with Basmati Rice & Pickled Vegetables
- Naan & Dipping Safari with Pickled Vegetables
- Tandoori Shrimp with Basmati Rice & Pickled Vegetables
For a perfect midday break from the parks… or a time to unwind in the evening… head over to Disney Springs and enjoy the ultimate food truck experience!


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During the First International Mineral Processing Activists Symposium (IMPAS 2016) &3rd Workshop of Iron Ore and Base Metals Processing (ECO Experts), Mehadi Karbasian expressed that IMPRC (located in Karaj) is capable of providing high quality services up to international standards to mining and mining industries companies in Iran and the region and is able to play a crucial role in mining companies' success.
IMPRC is trying its best to improve quality of its services. In pursuing developing techno-economical collaboration and alliance with neighboring and the region countries, IMIDRO is hosting the third Iron and Base Metals and Mineral Processing Workshop for the ECO member states experts in IMPRC, he added.
Greater use of hydrogen, fuel cells and nuclear energy means increasing demand on metal catalysts and in this situation rare earth elements play a key role in clean technologies and are likely to experience significantly higher demand Karbasian continued.
IMPRC is trying to boost its experience and know-how by strengthens its cooperation with worldwide mineral processing companies and R&D's for acquiring new processing technologies and useful experiences in this sector, he said.
1st International Mineral Processing Activists Symposium (IMPAS 2016) &3rd Workshop of Iron Ore and Base Metals Processing (ECO Experts) was held on 25-26 October 2016 in IMPRC which is located in kilometer 9 of Karaj-Qazvin highway.


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Beach Cottage Shop, coastal vintage wares
Tue 13th, Aug, 2013
Helllooo, well let's get back to pretty Beach Cottage things shall we? No horrendously photo-shopped polka dots plastered all over this old cottage on the beaches this afternoon…I had to stroke the plain white walls of my sitting room last night to stop them weeping at the style debacle they suffered yesterday, ahem ahem ahem…. ;-)
So we've woken up to sunshine again, thank the lordy after a strangely windy day yesterday…and here I am today with some news!
Finally after lots of gathering and lots of asking from you lovely readers I'm starting to sell a few vintage things Beach Cottage style.
As you know I spend a considerable amount of my time vintage treasure hunting, it's part of my life that started as a hobby when I was a mummy to littlies and took off on a Saturday morning for an hour to myself with a coffee, moved to being a great way to find unique furniture and bits and pieces for my old cottage with a bit of character and an Aussie coastal flare…
…and moved onto being my fave way to grab some down time – albeit meaning my house began to fill up and underneath it became like my very own beach cottage shop – ahem when I say shop the house sometimes on this little blog for a tablescape or makeover, often it's literally, shop under the house.
So lots of people have been telling me for lots of time that I should offer up my wares and so here we are Beach Cottage Vintage Wares.
To keep it nice and casual a we'll (I've got a beautiful girl helping me) just be popping a few things up on Facebook once a week or so (and there will be a page here on the blog too if you, you know, are so not a Facebook peep)…however you want to have a look there will be lots of lovely Beach Cottage things, sourced with love from the beaches – things I love and more things that will love your home.
Anyone for a vintage blue Mason Jar?
I've got lots of lovely pretty things ready to go – think old weathered oars, beautiful old boxes, vintage cutlery, sweet old jugs, original vintage ladders and lots more, did anyone say vintage fishing floats ;-)
…if you live in Sydney you'll be able to stop by on the beaches and pick them up but there are also smaller favourite things that can wing themselves over the seas…
Here's a sneak peek of what's for grabs first up….I think you'll like it, I know I do, I love all of these beauties – they are soooooo perfect for Beach Cottage Coastal Vintage style, not too beachy themed but great to pare with a nautical stripe or a few shells shells for a lovely coastal look with pieces weathered by the patina of time…oh yeah baby
Lookout on Facebook tomorrow evening Sydney time…
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Yay! :D How exciting Sarah! Good luck in your new adventure… can't wait to see what else pops up!
Enjoy your 'shop' may it bring you a little more 'space' to breathe. Looking forward to seeing your 'wares'.
;) Neen
thanks Neen, I must say it's been a lot of fun!
I imagine I'm not the only one that has been hoping you would open a little shop again.Looking forward to perusing the goodies! Best of luck.
thanks so much!
Good luck with the new venture. I'm sure you will do a roaring trade.
Ooh La la Mme Beach Cottage!
Eet ees merveilleux oui!! A leetle pop up shoppe in zee leetle beach cottage!!
Tres tres Bien!
I am most delight oui to see zee wares!
Tres Excitement!!
Oui zee leetle heart is beating triple time…until to morrow
Bonsoir ;-) x zee Honeyaar
What a very clever idea. You have such lovely style ! Hope it's a success for you.
Kate x
excellent! I hope it all does well for you! Make sure you have a few photographic beachy prints on canvas too, I reckon they would sell well!!
Good luck Ms BC may your little shop be a continual source of happiness, I'll be popping in around Valentines Day, Christmas, Mothers Day and various birthdays.
All the best to you Sarah.A wonderful new adventure for you.I'm not a Facebook person,so I'll be checking stuff out here.I can't wait to pick something up.A Gold Coast home it will be coming to.
What a great way to participate in a favourite past time and then generate an income. Clever girl. :)
Hi there, I love this look – where abouts is your shop?
it's a pop-up shop on Facebook that pops up every now and then x


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Necessity – the mother of invention
Sometimes things just have a habit of working out rather well, especially if you've got the will – and a rather gifted design team in the building.
In early August (the 8th) we had a call from Amy at Transpharmation, part of the the Royal Veterinary College (BSU), a very long-standing client organisation over in Hatfield, North Mimms. Amy and team were looking to source a special chamber, suitable for housing mice and rats for use in the Hargreaves Test into Alzheimer's. We soon realised we didn't have anything exactly suitable, so after a more detailed discussion with colleagues at Transpharmation, Mark, our design Guru, got to work to create a device that would fit the bill. The researchers needed a red translucent chamber in perspex to hold up to eight mice. Ideally it would have doors on the top but no base. Simple! Only problem? They needed it yesterday (in ten days time which, in product realisation terms, comes to the same thing!)
Mark quickly sent them a hand drawn sketch of a suitable design. The clients liked the design but they also needed a version for Rats with 4 compartments. Mark straight away suggested a similar system to Datesand's Mini-Thermacage where the dividers are removable, and eight mice-sized chambers automatically become four larger rat-sized enclosures. This went down well – now it was just a question of actually manufacturing the item! Datesand received the purchase order from Transpharmation on August 9th and we were able to deliver the finished product to the client on the 17th (we think this may be some kind of a record!)
Their e-mail back to Mark and Ryan (their account manager at Datesand) said it all.
"Hi Mark and Ryan, The chambers have arrived and we cannot tell you how pleased we are with them. Thank you so much. We will happily write a little blog about this. Just give us a bit of time as we are a little busy but, we will get to it. We are thinking we would like another piece of equipment made to go with the chambers you have built but we will be in touch about this.
Thanks again so much."


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MUM was making lasagne the day I told her.
"I'm going to quit my job to travel the world," I said, worried that I'd be met with a look of shock and a bit of Italian guilt thrown in there for good measure.
"Oh good," she said, pouring another spoonful of sauce into the tray as if I'd just told her I'd bought a new pair of jeans. "You've been wanting to do that for ages."
I had been wanting to do it for ages, but a whole bunch of thoughts would usually whiz through my head. They were thoughts like: don't be silly, it's time to grow up, where are you going to live, how on earth are you going to afford that?
At the time, I lived in a nice apartment in Brisbane, spent my weekends sipping soy chai lattes with friends and life was pretty fantastic, but something was pulling at me to go. And it didn't even really matter where.
While my best friends were getting engaged, buying houses, saving money and making anxiety-free eye contact with strangers — you know, being functioning adults — I was Googling how to say "A beer, please" in Spanish and wondering how many pairs of bikinis were too many for my stint abroad.
I was excited about the adventures I hoped were to come, but a part of me felt like I'd be left behind while everyone else was busy "growing up". I worried I was making a mistake, that I'd return broke, unemployable and be doomed to live with my parents for the rest of my life.
The other half of me thought, heck, let's give this thing a shot!
So, out of the apartment I moved, any belongings that didn't fit into my 55-litre backpack were sold and I forgot all about any of the usual adult responsibilities I had assigned myself.
It was time to go. And my first stop was Colombia.
Why Colombia? Well, after many years of reading books by Nobel Literature Prize-winning Colombian author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, it seemed like a good place to start. I wanted to find out where on Earth this magical, whimsical, tumultuous country I kept reading about was. It turned to be in South America, so that's where I went.
Arriving at the El Dorado airport in the capital of Bogota, I watched as taxis wove in and out of traffic, the drivers seemingly unfazed by the many near collisions they encountered.
I spotted middle-aged women pushing prams filled with chocolate bars, chewing gum and lollipops for sale to passers-by. I watched men in business suits embrace their families in parked cars, all while I stood on the footpath and watched with my overpacked backpack feeling heavy on my shoulders.
Even though I'd never visited this city before, even though I had no grand plan, or even any idea how to get to my hostel, I felt like I was taking the right step.
No job, no idea, no plan, no worries.
In the year I spent in the country, I travelled through dense jungle, spotting wild hogs and
hummingbirds buzzing between flowers. I strolled along Caribbean coastlines where the high-pitched twangs of the accordion were played to friendly crowds on beaches.
I climbed Sierra Nevadas where snow peaks meet the sea, I fell ill and was nursed back to health with the help of shamanic medicine and I rode a horse through mountains on a dark and spooky Halloween night.
I danced and drank, then drank some more, swung in hammocks, made lifelong friends, and
somewhere along the way, even though being an adult was the last thing on my mind, it all became my job.
I started by telling stories about my trips on my humble travel blog, then a newspaper published one of my articles, then New York Magazine mentioned me in a post, a television program interviewed me, radio shows got in touch — all because I listened to that little voice inside me that said, go on, quit your job, buy that ticket and go travel abroad.
I haven't stopped travelling since, or Googling how to order beer in different languages, and now, all these years later, I'm working for lastminute.com.au, one of Australia's largest online travel sites, and a brand I have dreamt about working with for years.
Now I have my dream job: writing stories, sharing experiences and inspiring other people to enjoy the adventure and listen to that voice inside them that says "GO!" because you never know where a trip will lead you … it could even be your dream job.
This article originally appeared on lastminute.com.au.


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As most interpreters nowadays take notebooks to the booth, I was wondering which are recommendable -apart from tablets - specifically; portability, capacity and low noise.
I'm looking for something to recommend to those colleagues whose keyboards and fans challenge anyone's concentration.
asked 19 Oct '11, 20:56
Marta Piera ...
I don't have much experience with tablets, but if you're buying a laptop here is what you should consider:
answered 20 Oct '11, 11:23
Vincent Buck
I recommend a Dell Vostro v130. It sports a 2nd-gen Core i5 CPU (lower power consumption), has a replaceable battery (which lasts considerably longer) and is still very light (it weighs about 1.5kg). See dell.com. You can ask for any configuration. Even if you're ordering from Germany, you can have a Spanish keyboard and Spanish Windows (or a different language, of course). You can also change the default configuration to improve the CPU, for instance, go up to 4GB of RAM and switch the default HDD for at least 128 GB SSD. Dell computers are reasonably affordable. The only problem is the battery life (you only get about 3 hours before it runs out of juice).
Another alternative is the Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook, available from EUR 999 (with a 128 GB SSD drive and 4 GB SDRAM). This is an ultrabook, so don't expect all the bells and whistles like a DVD drive.
The MacBook Air is IMO the best ultrabook alternative if price is no issue (better battery life, more responsive trackpad, quiter fan).
answered 20 Oct '11, 13:29
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I agree with your last comment. However, the "overpriced" argument against Macs often doesn't stand. The 11-inch MacBook Air costs 999 €, which is a reasonable price. And 11 inches should be enough in the booth.
(18 May '12, 08:17) Alexander
Well yes, in fact, you can buy the 11-inch MacBook Air for EUR 949, but then again you would only have 2 GB RAM and a 64 GB SSD drive, which is ridiculous. The 11-inch MacBook Air with 4 GB RAM and 128 GB SSD drive costs EUR 1,149 (i.e. EUR 150 more expensive than the Dell equivalent). Updated: May 2012.
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I use a MacBook Air from Apple. Its fan and keyboard are not noisy at all.
By the way, it is my first Apple computer, so I needed to make sure I could continue to use my dictionaries and other programs that run on Windows. I found it very easy to install a virtual machine (Parallels) with Windows, so I am using all the programs that I used to on my PC.
answered 20 Oct '11, 08:57
One of these keyboard protectors might help silencing a clicky keyboard.
answered 18 May '12, 08:16
I've recently acquired a Lenovo Yoga 900S, and I have to say I'm delighted with it. The only potential downside as a booth computer is that, while it is quite compact, it's a bit bigger than the smallest things out there. It also isn't on the cheap end of the scale. Other than that, it ticks all the boxes I had in mind, and then some:
I do think it's worthwhile getting this specific model (the 900S) because it's the smallest of the series. It isn't terribly easy to come by, however. Apparently there's a bit of a retailer trade war being waged over the Yoga series in Spain, and it may never make it to the country. In Belgium, it looks as though neither Media Markt nor the Fnac have it. Vanden Borre is where you want to go.
answered 24 Jan '17, 17:24
Yes, laptop fans can be quite challeging and worse than air ventilation systems on top of mobile booths. I start to sweat when I see colleagues taking out an ante-diluvian laptop that take half the space of the booths desk :-)
I am using a MacBook Air 13" and I am very happy with it. However sometimes the fan gets a tad noisy with heavy application usage when I open Parallels Desktop in order to work with e-dictionaries that only run on Windows. Keyboard is quite OK but again: it depends on how wildly you hit on it.
I sometimes use my iPad and I am very happy with it: no fan noise, small and handy. Would that be an alternative, Marta? On the downside: no way on using technical Windows based dictionaries that you may have but now you can use Interplex, a terminology management system, now adapted for iPad, and iPhone and with internet conection to IATE, Linguee and Wordreference and Wikipedia I feel that the use of technical dictionaries is not that important but I understand it could be a hindrance.
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RMS Utilities Inc. has been excited to start a new project West of Colorado Springs located along Cascade Boulevard. Crews are working on site from sun up to sun down, Mondays through Thursdays. We would like to take a moment to thank all community members of Colorado Springs for working with us along this project to help maintain safety; safety is and always will be our number one priority. We hope with the cooperation of the community to get this project done in a timely manner. For any questions or concerns feel free to give us a call at 719-589-4263 or drop by our office located in Alamosa, Colorado.


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Ag Safety Day will welcome nearly 500 students in K-6
Ag Safety Day will be held Monday at the Chase County Fairgrounds.
Students in K-6 from Chase County and Wauneta-Palisade Schools, as well as some home-schooled children, will spend the day learning about ag-related topics from chemical safety, electrical safety, ATV safety and more.
Katie Miller will speak to parents and the public Sunday at 7 p.m. in the school auditorium about technology safety.
Miller will also speak to the younger students on Monday and to 7-12 students on Tuesday.
Ag Safety Day coordinator, Chris Tomky, said they are expecting almost 500 youths between CCS, Wauneta-Palisade and home-schooled children.
One of the sessions will include chemical safety, which Tomky says will be a fun, messy project for the kids as they learn how adding different chemicals to each other can change what they do.
Personnel from Southwest Public Power District will conduct a session on electrical safety, and Susan Harris from the University of Nebraska at Kearney will bring the ATV simulator to teach youths about ATV safety.
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We will issue a refund once we physically receive your order back at our HQ and confirm that your package was undeliverable, though you will not receive a refund on shipping costs. If you would like to purchase the same items, you will need to place another order. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause!


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If you go down to the woods today… That is the starting point for Idaho by Emily Ruskovich, who grew up on Hoodoo mountain in the Idaho panhandle. A family — mother Jenny, father Wade, daughters May and June — leave their little house in the big woods and drive a pick-up truck to a clearing where they chop birch wood, squabble and drink lemonade that attracts the flies. You want them to find something wonderful there. A teddy bears' picnic. A magic faraway tree. A Piglet. But this is Idaho, not our friendly day-tripping woods.
Nature is vast and hostile. In winter the house is cut off for months at a time, the paths too steep for a snowplough. In summer you sweat and sweat and tempers frazzle. Leave the windows open and the beetles get in. Then the spiders, hornets, horseflies, mice, garter snakes and katydid bush crickets. In the night, coyotes scream. Families make homes in trailers and on lonely farms, but there is a sense that man is only one howl away from wildness. When the heat and flies and jealousy and suspicion become too much for Jenny, she does something awful and irreparable.
Ruskovich moves through time: the day in the woods, the months and years before, the aftermath. Objects are returned to again and again as we piece together the evidence: the Styrofoam lemonade cups, the deerskin gloves to protect against splinters, the hatchet.
It is two parts Donna Tartt, one part Daphne du Maurier. Ruskovich shares the former's unnerving knack for isolating her characters — on a New England campus, in small-town Mississippi — and the latter's for psychological suspense and hauntings. Wade's second wife Ann is obsessed with the day in the woods, sitting alone in the truck trying to understand what Jenny did. Shades of the second Mrs de Winter.
It is a strange, uncanny novel, bewitching and heady. Grief becomes something as limitless as the woods, and Jenny and Wade in their separate ways — guilty, not guilty, tortured, unknowing — are felled by it.
Grief is the consuming emotion of Darke by Rick Gekoski, an antiquarian bookseller, writer and academic in his seventies. Dr James Darke is a retired schoolteacher and widower, laid so low by loss that he wants no part in the world. He hires a carpenter to change the locks, take away the door knocker and stop up the letter box. He disconnects the phone, deletes his email account, and has Waitrose deliver to the door. 'I will never go out again,' he pledges:
If I am incapacitated by severe illness or heart attack, I will abjure the emergency call, suffer and die. If the house catches fire, I will go down with it, perhaps put on some smothering and sizzling music — Stravinksy perhaps, can't think what else he's good for — and smoke and barbecue like Joan of Arc.
For company Darke has the canon: 'fucking T.S. Eliot'; 'that frigid snitbag Virginia Woolf'; Chaucer, Shakespeare, and his humbugging hero Dickens. He used to teach the boys in his sixth-form class 'slouching towards Oxbridge' that literature was everything:
The Church can't help us, not any more. (I got a visit from our rather aggrieved chaplain the first time I said this, when one of the boys snitched on me.) But good reading of good literature, I insisted, both to him and to my boys, interprets life for us, sustains and consoles us.
He is totally unprepared for the bereavement that no book or poem will soothe. In James Darke, Gekoski has created a powerful, raging voice. All that counselling stuff about finding joy in grief, light in darkness, taking one day at a time and cherishing the memories — rubbish. Darke gives you his blessing to swear, hate, wallow, reject help and company, to be selfish and bitter; and only once you've got all that out of your system can you pick up Oliver Twist and find a new way to go on.
New life is the theme of Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers. Not any old life: only an American one will do. This is the American dream, told through the hopes of Jende and Neni, recent arrivals in New York from Cameroon, determined that their son Liomi will have a better future: life, liberty and the pursuit of a law degree.
Jende gets a job as a chauffeur to Clark, a senior partner at Lehman Brothers; Neni as a nanny/maid/run-around for Clark's trophy wife Cindy and son Mighty. It is 2007. Note the date. When the crash comes, Jende is thrown on the mercy of US Immigration: an American nightmare of court hearings, work permits, Green Cards and waiting, waiting, waiting. Jende takes three jobs in order to pay the rent and his asylum lawyer. His friends, fellow immigrants, who bought white-picket-fence houses on impossible mortgages, are evicted. Mbue asks how much a man can suffer, how low will he crawl to be a US citizen? Is this really better than Cameroon? Than home?
It is a rally-paced read, quick-witted, satirical and, when the dream falters, windingly sad. The bonfire of the Wall Street vanities, eavesdropped on by Jende driving the car between Park Avenue and the Hamptons, is wicked and satisfying.
Eddy Bellegueule, narrator of Édouard Louis's The End of Eddy, also dreams of something better. He is a slight, thoughtful, gay child growing up in a working-class village in Picardy where obesity, illiteracy and aggressive masculinity are the norm. He is bullied at school — 'faggot, fag, fairy' —and beaten at home.
The book has been a bestseller in France, inspiring much op-ed hand-wringing about National Front voters, such as Louis's parents, who are unemployed, on benefits and wound up about the number of 'Ay-rabs' in the banlieues. It is starkly, viscerally written, and as a reader you feel every blow and humiliation. And it is suffocatingly horrible. The violence, dirtiness, spits and smells are the stuff of the most miserable of misery memoirs. When something nasty happens to the ten-year-old Eddy in the woodshed, I had to put the book down and go out for walk. Too much. The poverty and wretchedness of Eddy's Picardy make Idaho's big woods seem unexpectedly beguiling and benign.