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To me, food symbolizes comfort, happiness and nourishment. Knowing that I'm feeding my body the most noutritious ingredients leaves me feeling blessed.
Today I want to share a very simple recipe for an apple-almond crumble, that is easy and fast to make.
I used a combination of sweet pinova apples, oats, maple and chopped almonds. All of the produce is organic, which I pay very much attention on. In my opinion it's a very big step towards helping our planet, supporting the right way of farming and keeping our health in mind. No one wants to consume bad pesticides that will only harm our bodies and those around us.
This apple-amond crumble recipe can be enjoied as a dessert or even as a breakfast. It's filled with the best ingredients that support your wellbeing.
Oats are high in fibre and if consumed regularly can lower your cholestorol level. From a youn age on, we're taught that "an apple a day keeps the doctor away". Apples are also able to lower your cholestorol level as well as fighting cancer and prevent type 2 diabetes. Over all they are a "superfruit".
Almonds are a superfood. They contain many antioxidants, as well as Vitamin E, that keeps our cells membrane from damage. They can help with controlling your bloodsugar levels and are also known for their ability of lowering blood-pressure through their high content of magnesium.
I used maple syrup and coconut sugar as sweetener, which are also beneficial to your health, as coconut sugar has a lower glycimec index as regular table sugar and also contains healthy nutrients like iron, zinc and calcium.
I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as I do every time I make it.
xx Lisa
Apple-Almond Crumble
Ingredients for 2 servings:
- 3-4 pinova apples or apples of your choice
- 2 Tbsp of maple syrup
- 1 Tbsp of coconut sugar
- 1 tsp of cinnamon or more depending on your preference
- a splash of water
For the crumble:
- 1 cup of oats
- 1/2 cup of chopped almonds
- 3 Tbsp of coconut oil
- 1 tsp of maple syrup
How to:
Chopp your apples into small cubes and add them together with the rest of the ingredients into a sauce pan and bring it to a boil. Afterwards turn the heat down, put on a lid and let it simmer until the apples have softened.
Preheat the oven to 220°C.
Prepare your crumble in a bowl by mixing the oats, chopped almonds, coconut oil and maple syrup with your hands until it forms a crumbly consistency.
Pour the softened apples into small ovenproof pots and crumble the topping on to the apples. Take some leftover chopped almonds and sprinkle them on their as well.
Bake in the oven until golden brown and then enjoy!
Bon appétit!


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Scientists Will Use A Hibernating Spacecraft To Land A Robot On Comet 67P
The ESA spacecraft Rosetta has spent the last 31 months hibernating in deep space, but in a matter of weeks it will be awakened from its slumber and sent in pursuit of the Comet 67P. Once it arrives, it will attempt to place a robotic lander on the comet's surface. While this sounds like the opening scene of the latest sci-fi movie, it is in fact very, very real....and incredibly cool.
In January, the European Space Agency will take up the task of restarting Rosetta, which was initially launched into space all the way back in March 2004. With no active systems other than an internal clock, the initialization procedures will take the best part of 24 hours, after which Rosetta will begin its journey towards Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Once it is close enough, the team's toughest task begins, placing a robotic lander called Philae, onto the comet's icy surface. Should Philae land successfully, it will start taking samples of comet just as it makes a close pass to the sun in late 2015.
Rosetta has already travelled thousands of kilometers since its launch almost a decade ago, orbiting Earth 3 times and slingshotting around Mars, but after a 31 month hibernation it is set to begin a journey that will potentially unlock the secrets behind the icy objects that hurtle through our solar system. However, the mission's success is by no means guaranteed and as ESA Scientist Dr. Matt Taylor tells the BBC the team face many nervous moments over the course of the next year.
"You have the hurdle of getting it back on and then there is the massive hurdle of getting it close to the comet....and there's landing on it," said Taylor who concludes that "This is going to be a year of intensity." Well Dr. Taylor, it may be a year of intensity but if you guys pull this off, this will be yet another case of science truly catching up with science fiction.


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I bought some wellies today. They're quite elegant and I'll paint the design tomorrow. But even sketching the outline tonight, made me think how it's a simple object but with some elegant lines.
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Here I am, 6 hours away from the calendar flip over from one year to the next.
I am alone, sorta. Hanging with my youngest son and his friend.
My Sexxy Chef is working, my older son is with his girlfriend.
While my Sexxy Chef will be off work in about 3 hours, I've volunteered to DD to help raise funds for my roller derby team. We'll spend maybe half hour, an hour together on our first New Year's Eve together.
I will spend the evening with my daughter. My oldest is in another town, and I'll send him a text around midnight.
This is not the New Year's Eve I anticipated.
I accept… that the Sexxy Chef has to work. I accept it. I understand it. I understand that the nature of his job means that he can't join me in volunteering because of tomorrow's work schedule.
I accept that.
I don't like it.
I have spent too many New Year's Eve's alone in the past 5 years.
Before Mark went into the hospital, New Years was puzzles. Drinks. And after I met Kathy it was a party.
It was surrounded by people.
This alone thing… feels weird.
New Year's 2012 – Party at the Dunlops'
New Year's 2013 – New relationship, don't really remember New Years – was in a relationship that ultimately failed and posted *nothing* about what was going on on Dec 31, 2013
New Year's 2014 – single, quiet evening.
New Year's 2015 – single, went to a party. Won (?) mother of the year award by dragging my kids to said party (it was kid friendly) and let them have a couple drinks. Sent them home, stayed and tried to make myself feel better about my life by hooking up with a random.
This year, I'm in a fantastic relationship with a man I love. I am looking forward to our life together.
I've cried less over Mark.
I've cried more intensely over Mark.
I've found someone who will hold me and keep me together while I fall apart over Mark.
Christmas came and went… no tears shed, although it felt like I was going to on several occasions.
So another year has gone by. Every year marks one more that I've been without him. Every year is one closer to longer without him than I was with him. That frightens me.
It's been almost 5 years since he got sick. 4 1/2 since he died. And while my future looks fucking amazing… I miss the future that isn't.
But it's a happy New Year. Despite being mostly alone, I'm surrounded by people who love me… I am blessed with many friends and a whole 'nother family.
I hope your New Year shows promise of joy and laughter. If you're reading this, fresh out from the loss of someone you love, know that it doesn't get better, but it gets different. The pain you feel now will become a part of you, and you will feel joy again. It's not the same as before…there's always a thread of sadness and missing your person that will run through everything, but it becomes a part of who you are and the laughter and joy will be genuine.
You're not alone, no matter how alone you feel right now. There's a whole community you can reach out to – starting with me. And I can help you find someone closer if you're looking for someone in your time zone.
Happy New Year to all my widda peeps and to all the friends and family who have been there for me the last 5 years.


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The greatest single blow since D-Day in support of Allied ground troops on the Continent was struck yesterday by a force of up to 2,000 American warplanes in a savage assault on a wide variety of enemy installations in France.
About 1,000 Eighth Air Force Fortresses and Liberators, escorted by a like number of P47s, P38s and P51s, bombed German coastal batteries, bridges and viaducts as other Allied aircraft covered advancing ground forces and bashed Nazi supply and communications lines.
The weather deteriorated slightly yesterday after the heavies roared forth on their morning mission, but so adequate was the umbrella thrown over every inch of the 50-mile battlefront that it was called the closest air support ever given ground operations.
Joining in the fray for the first time with British-based planes were Allied aircraft operating from two emergency landing strips and one renewal and re-armament strip on the Normandy coast.
Even as the heavies were heaping their explosives on vital enemy targets, Ninth Air Force P47 fighter-bombers were sweeping over the Normandy battle zone to dive-bomb railroad tracks, a round-house and other objectives.
Marauders and Havocs, ranging from as far as the Bay of Michel to a few miles northwest of Paris, pelted six targets, while Ninth Mustang fighter bombers dive-bombed two railroad bridges and a railroad repair shed on the Vire River south of St. Lo. Carrying out widespread attacks in two missions. Thunderbolt fighter-bombers hammered motor vehicles, radio installations, a railway yard a round-house, a factory and railway yards at Courance.
From all these operations, one Marauder, two Mustangs and three Thunderbolts failed to return.
Making their second air evacuation mission of wounded soldiers since the landing, Ninth Troop Carrier Command skytrain flying ambulances returned to beachhead landing strips yesterday morning with a strong P51 escort and brought out more wounded Allied soldiers.
One the Cherbourg Peninsula, one force of P47s dived through thick could to attack a German troop convoy moving toward Cherbourg. About 30 trucks were deployed as the fighter-bombers dropped more than 500 20-pound fragmentation bombs on the convoy near Briguebec about 12 miles south of Cherbourg. Not one enemy plane rose to protect the convoy.
Yesterday's activity followed a mighty RAF night offensive against German supply lines. Pounding four rail centers through which the Germans are shipping troops and supplies to the battle area, a strong force of Lancasters and Halifaxes hit Orleans and Dreux, within a 90-mile radius of Paris, and Versailles and Acheres, near Paris. Twenty bombers were lost.
It was announced yesterday that from the first Marauder mission on July 16, 1943, to D-Day, Ninth Bomber Command dropped 47,000 tons of bombs on Europe in 38,600 sorties. On D-Day alone the command mounted 818 sorties and dropped 1,500 tons.
Although weather limited activity yesterday, by 6 PM the Allies had flown about 4,000 sorties and dropped more than 4,000 tons of explosives. In that period, only three small concentrations of German aircraft were encountered. Six were shot down.
A medium-sized force of B17s and B24s opened the weekend offensive Saturday morning by bombing enemy airfields in Brittany and Normandy and gun positions and defended areas near the north French coast. All of the escorted bombers returned, but 23 U.S. fighters were lost.
I flew B-24 missions on July 13 and 16. These missions were more tactical than strategic to support the ground forces in their push into France after the Normandy landings.


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Today let's look a little a closer at the Christmas story as found in
Luke 2:8-20.
8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9 An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10 But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. 11 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. 12 This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."
13 Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, 14 "Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests."
15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let's go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about."
16 So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. 17 When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, 18 and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. 19 But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. 20 The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.
The Good News of Christ is personal, and is available to all people. Once you have encountered the living Christ you will never be the same – just like the shepherds! They spread the news and everyone was amazed.
May we be excited to take the Good News to the world just like those on the first Christmas. Amen?
Pastor Ty Choate


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Racing Day: The Backyardigans
Let it Grow (Celebrate the World): Ester Dean
Gitchee Gitchee Goo: Phineas and the Ferbtones
Lovely, Love My Family: The Roots
Speed and Velocity: They Might Be Giants & Marty Beller
Ladybugs' Picnic: Sesame Street
Flies On My Taters: Wee Hairy Beasties
Party In the U.S.A.: Miley Cyrus
Something That I Want: Grace Potter
The Ninjas: Barenaked Ladies
The Bullet Train: Choo Choo Soul
What's In the Fridge?: Imagination Movers
My Family: The Laurie Berkner Band
Henrietta's Hair: Justin Roberts
Fake-Believe: They Might Be Giants
Just Like a Rockstar: The Fresh Beat Band
Dig a Little Deeper (feat. Pinnacle Gospel Choir): Jenifer Lewis
I'm Gonna Catch You: The Laurie Berkner Band
We're Going to Be Friends: Jack Johnson
Pig On Her Head: The Laurie Berkner Band
Jack and the Never Land Pirates: The Never Land Pirate Band
I Like Chocolate: Choo Choo Soul
Seven Days a Week: Imagination Movers
The Love Bubble: Mista Cookie Jar
My Brother Did It: Justin Roberts
Another Perfect Day: The Fresh Beat Band
Movin' Right Along: Alkaline Trio
Muscles: Bobs& Lolo
My Nemesis: Danny Jacob
In the Middle, In the Middle, In the Middle: They Might Be Giants
Upside Down: Jack Johnson
It's Okay, Try Again: The Shins
Meet the Elements: They Might Be Giants
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We recently discussed the penalties that you face if you refuse to take a breath test during a traffic stop for suspicion of drunk driving. These penalties are serious, but they are the reality that you face if you don't take the breath test. This does bring up an important point.
You do have the right to refuse the breath test; however, you might find that the penalties aren't worth the refusal. If you do refuse the breath test, there is a good chance that the law enforcement officer might be able to get a warrant to obtain the sample. This means that even though you refused, your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) percentage will likely be able to be determined anyway.
If you do allow your breath test to proceed, there are still some options that you might have for a defense. We could use factors like how the sample was obtained, how it was processed, the training of the people who handled it, the way the chain of custody was handled and similar points to call the sample's results into question. There is also the possibility of using the metabolism rate of the alcohol into question.
We know that you might be unsure of what options you have at this point. We are here to help you learn about what you can do and how you can handle this situation. It is important that you explore all of the options that you have. You wouldn't want to miss a key component of your defense, so be sure to give yourself enough time to consider all of the options.


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The first grim tidings came from the state to its south, with the bar graph of success dipping in height conspicuously. But the party pulled through in Gujarat, and it was left to Rajasthan to wear the taint of outright defeat, even if only in three bypolls. Chief minister Vasundhararaje, as she emerged to describe the drubbing as a "wake-up call" for the BJP, had an uncharacteristic air about her: sedate, shorn of that usual sense of pomp, deep in thought. With caveats, that perhaps describes the mood in the party nationally too, as it nears the home stretch to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. It was to be an unquestioned mandate, drawing on the limitless Modi cheque for the second time. But with just a year shy of Lok Sabha campaign time, the BJP finds itself a trifle apprehensive, in a way they had not anticipated.
With good reason. If the trend of diminishing returns seen in Gujarat/Rajasthan persists in the assembly polls later this year, it would not just be a marker of receding popularity but could itself create a negative momentum. The key problem for the BJP is this: the party is already at its peak in 12 big states (see graphic), with a whopping 284 out of a total 332 seats in its kitty or that of its NDA allies. It cannot climb further—if anything, the graph can only go south in most of the states. And if the erosion in its core zones is steep, making up for it in the potential buffer zones will be tough.
It's clear that the BJP, having read the signals, is mindful of a certain disillusionment with governance issues that Modi's personal charisma and appeal are barely balancing. That's why it's enlarging its strategic options, if not exactly rewriting its blueprint. So Modi's clean image is still a key propaganda item—especially since the Indian public still hasn't recovered from the UPA-era scam exhaustion. DeMo will still be marketed as a move towards probity—and GST, and now the elite bugbear LTCG, as essential reforms. Hindutva will be there, unfailingly, with Yogi Adityanath billed as a star campaigner. But beyond that usual script, there is now a new welfarist vocabulary—things like Modicare, being spoken of as a "game-changer", and the Ujjwala scheme that's already reached LPG connections to 3.2 crore women and is targeting 8 crore.
Party leaders are not letting slip any sign of nervousness but admit they may have to depend on allies for the final numbers. "Even if we lose some seats in the next elections, we will still form the government. The benchmark the BJP set in 2014 is very high. It's possible that we may not get majority single-handedly," concedes a party leader involved in number-crunching. The BJP had won 282 seats on its own in the 543-seat house, attaining a majority on its own. With allies, it stands at a formidable 336.
On one thing there's no ambiguity. Modi remains the trumpcard, as was seen in the Gujarat campaign: he batted single-handedly and almost non-stop on a very dicey pitch and ensured a BJP victory against all odds. The Modi magic evidently endures, and seen against less solid assets, the overwhelming reliance on it is both visible and understandable. "The PM will remain our mascot; his clean image and work will win us a second term. He's seen as a bold, decisive leader who enhanced India's prestige in the world. Nobody can stop Modi from coming back in 2019," predicts party general secretary Muralidhar Rao. If the incantatory tones are still heard, it's because they still work like a charm.
The BJP has another asset: the Opposition. It's fragmented, directionless and without a strong, salient focal point to gather all anti-Modi feelings. Rao pooh-poohs the possibility of a united Opposition fighting the BJP in 2019. "When India's Opposition couldn't unite to fight the British, it definitely won't be able to take on a respected leader of the country like Modi," he laughs.
Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot
But it will still take lots of seats—states that can be alternate catchment areas. What about the two states under Rao's charge—Karnataka and Tamil Nadu? The party will win the Karnataka assembly polls and definitely improve its tally of 17 out of 28 Lok Sabha seats there in 2019, he insists. On Tamil Nadu, he promises only a "respectable presence" on its own. To be sure, it's a fluid picture—with even superstar Rajnikanth in the mix—but whichever way it turns, the BJP can always go there shopping for allies.
Party vice-president and Rajya Sabha MP Vinay Sahasrabuddhe finds himself in one of the unenviable 'maximum states': he's in-charge of Madhya Pradesh, where the BJP already has 26 of 29 Lok Sabha seats. No room to improve, plenty of room to fall. "If the party loses some seats, it's bound to gain in other places. Whether the losses and gains match or not remains to be seen. Both government and party are working hard," he says, almost philosophical in tone.
Soon after the BJP came to power in 2014, it started working on breaking new ground. Sahasrabuddhe was entrusted with a membership drive aimed at making the BJP the world's largest party—the base now stands at over 13 crore. At that time, the aim was expansionist: to take the BJP's footprint to non-traditional areas like the Northeast and what it calls the 'Coromandel states' i.e. the South plus Orissa and West Bengal. But now it's working out differently, like an extra bank account it can draw from in crisis.
"The BJP's tally in West Bengal is two out of 42. And Orissa is represented by a solitary BJP MP, in a total of 21. The party will gain in both states, which send 63 MPs to the Lok Sabha," says a BJP general secretary. "In Bengal, the BJP is second, though a distant second, while the Left and Congress are nowhere in the picture. In Orissa too, we've gone to number two. Any vote against the ruling BJD will come to us. Adhyakshji (party chief Amit Shah) had the foresight to extend the party footprint. That's how Assam was won and we took power in Manipur for the first time." The BJP sees the often neglected Northeast as a fertile area. A party leader active there cites the region's 25 Lok Sabha seats, of which at present the NDA has only 10.
But the real struggle will come in its old fortresses: holding on against a tide is always tougher than riding the crest of a wave. And there are a multiplicity of factors to manage, a combination of the local and the national. Take Rajasthan. Vasundhara had not allowed the BJP to name a sangathan mantri—or general secretary (organisation)—for the state for the major part of her tenure. It's only five months ago that Shah finally installed his trusted lieutenant, Chandra Sekhar, there (he had worked closely with Shah during the UP assembly polls as in-charge of its western regions).
"The cadre here are quite demotivated. Chandra Sekhar didn't have enough time to invigorate them before the bypolls," admits a party senior. "But positive results should be visible in time for the assembly polls." The not-so-veiled message to Raje has been to change her ways or make way for a change. "She has responded positively and is working on her style of functioning," the leader adds. Avinash Rai Khanna, party vice-president and Rajasthan in-charge, has no time for despondency either. "Why are we forgetting BJP's record win Dholpur last year? It wasn't even our traditional seat. There's no need to be pessimistic," he says. The first focus is the assembly polls. "We have 160 out of 200 seats. It's a challenge to retain the seats and we will," says a determined Khanna.
Finally, there's the infantry—the Hindutva footsoldiers of the larger parivar, the BJP's biggest strength. A UP-based BJP leader, veteran of many wars, has this to say: "Our workers along with those of the RSS, VHP, Bajrang Dal and other sister organisations are spread all over the country, ears to the ground. They have the voters' pulse. Our critics can call them the fringe element or whatever. They are the ones who know what's happening, what people want. We know from them the wind is still blowing for what the BJP stands for."
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Burnley Football Club start their Europa League campaign against Scottish Premiership runners-up Aberdeen, on Thursday, July 26 at Pittodrie (7:45pm provisional).
We can now confirm that tickets for this game has now sold out. Thank you for your continued support
Tickets ordered online will be available for colection from Monday 9th July
Please note, while this is an away game, the normal ticket policy has been adapted to ensure the club comply fully with UEFA regulations in regards to ticket sales.
Ticket Prices
Adults: £26
Over 65: £19
Under 18: £10
Ticket Priority Sales Periods
9:30am: Wednesday 4th July: 2018/2019 Season Ticket Holders with 8,000 or more loyalty points
9:30am: Thursday 5th July: 2018/2019 Season Ticket Holders with 7,000 or more loyalty points
9:30am: Friday 6th July: 2018/2019 Season Ticket Holders with 6,000 or more loyalty points
9:30am: Saturday 7th July: 2018/2019 Season Ticket Holders with 5,000 or more loyalty points (Ticket office close time is 12:30pm) - Now Sold Out
ALL tickets must be collected in person, along with either a driving licence or passport with matching address for that Clarets Number, which must be shown before any tickets will be released. All tickets will be accompanied by an authorisation voucher. When attending the match at Pittodrie, you must ensure you have your ticket, authorisation voucher and photo ID in your possession, as random spot checks will be made by stewards and Police.
Collection of your ticket ahead of matchday must be made in person at the Ticket Office (or in Aberdeen, see below), along with driving licence or passport.
For avoidance of doubt, if you purchase tickets for 'friends & family', you must have their original valid driving licence or passport to collect tickets.
Any tickets not collected at Turf Moor in advance will be available for collection from a venue in Aberdeen on the day of the match, which will be announced in due course.
UEFA regulations strictly demand that the ticket holder must be the one that enters the stadium and takes their seat. Any supporters found to be trying to enter the Pittodrie Stadium with a ticket not registered to them will have it taken away, will not be allowed into the stadium, will not be refunded, and will be at risk of a stadium ban at Turf Moor. The same repercussion will also apply to the original ticket purchaser
What photo ID can I use?
The club will accept a passport or drivers license as proof of identity. These must be originals. Photocopies WILL NOT be accepted, nor will ID badges, print-outs, photos taken on mobile phones etc.
How do I check how many points I have?
Log in to your account at www.claretsstore.com, go to the 'my account' tab and click 'loyalty points'. Your current points total will be displayed on this information page.
Can I transfer my loyalty points to someone else?
No, your loyalty points are designated to your account and cannot be transferred
What happens if I lose my ticket?
Once you have your ticket in your possesion it is your responsibility. Reprints will not be available for this game
Can I transfer my ticket to a friend if I am unable to attend?
No, any supporters found to be transferring tickets will have their ticket removed, will not be allowed to enter the stadium, and will receive a stadium ban from future matches at Turf Moor. As a result tickets are also non-refundable.
Is the match going to be broadcast on TV?
The clubs are currently working with a potential broadcast partner, and an announcemnet will be made in due course.
When is the return leg at Turf Moor?
The return leg is scheduled for Thursday, 2nd August. Tickets for this game are due to go on sale on 9th July, with season ticket holders given SIX days to purchase their seat. From Monday, 16th July all seats in the stadium will be on general sale. Further details will be announced in due course.


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Enchanted Florist is one of the best places where you can get Homecoming mums in Pasadena. Homecoming is one of the most important events in the school calendar, and people really get into it. This event is especially a big deal in
Texas, especially the Homecoming football game, the pep rally, and the Homecoming Court. Seniors compete with each other to be Homecoming King and Queen, while underclassmen are up for Homecoming Princes and Princesses. Amongst the pomp of Homecoming celebrations, Homecoming mums take a very prominent place.
A Little Homecoming History
Historically, students gave each other small and simple chrysanthemum corsages on Homecoming. These corsages evolved into the large and elaborately-decorated mums of today. Instead of real flowers, florists now commonly use fabric flowers to create ornate and long-lasting mums. Students can give each other mum boutonnieres and garters that can be worn around the arm. Schools allow students to wear these mums on the day of Homecoming, which typically falls on a Friday. Almost every florist in Pasadena offers a selection of mums for students to choose from.
Homecoming mums are usually made with a lot of decorations. Enchanted Florist in particular offers the Starter Mum, which is kind of a blank canvas on which students can paint a masterpiece of a mum. Students can choose from a
variety of braids which trail from the mum all the way down towards the floor. They can also choose from a selection of chains, boas, stuffed animals, and trinkets. Ribbons with their name, their date's name, and the school year are also included in these mums.
Enchanted Florist also offers Homecoming mums in Pasadena that come in the official school colors of schools in the area. Of course, students can also choose their own preferred color combinations. Because Homecoming mums are highly customizable, they can pick trinkets and decorations that reflect their interests, hobbies, and preferences. This way, they can have a mum that is completely unique to them and can also be kept over time as a memento.
In the interest of being unique, many students go all out in decorating their mums. Some include picture frames, trinkets depicting their hobbies and sports, and even battery-powered LED lights. These lights can illuminate the mum itself and can also trail down the streams of ribbons and boas.
Ordering homecoming mums from a florist in Pasadena is usually easy, but with Enchanted Florist, you're dealing with professionals. To order, you can go to Enchanted Florist's website and browse through the catalog of Homecoming mums. Once you've chosen a particular mum, you can fill up an order form and specify your customizations. However, if you have more special requests and specifications for your mums, you can also visit Enchanted Florist's store to place a custom order. Once your order is done, all you have to do is wait for the delivery or pick your mum up from the store yourself. With great designs and great customer service, you can get the best Homecoming mums in Pasadena from Enchanted Florist.
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Jürgen Blum is senior certifier in the German Common Criteria Certification Body at the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). His work has an emphasis on embedded systems and he acts as chairperson of JEDS, a European working group for embedded devices. For over 25 years he has been working for the German Federal administration (including two Federal Ministries) as expert for IT project management and IT security. He holds university degrees in Electrical Engineering and in Business and Engineering.
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Dear faculty,
The ODU Writes a Book project begins next week, on Tuesday, 2/11, and I'm writing you now to remind you about it in time so that you've still got an opportunity to mention it to your students in class if you're on either a TR or MWF schedule.
We'll have a project launch event at 12:30 on Tuesday in the Learning Commons, and then writing will commence. Participants will be able to start their own chapters in new documents on the Google Drive, or simply jump into chapters already in progress. Contributions may be scholarly, informal, or creative writing—or video, photoessays, spoken word performance, or any other sort of engagement with the theme, "You are (w)here: How knowledge is related to virtual and physical place." We'll wrap up writing 24 hours later at 1:00 on Wednesday, 2/12, and then we'll have a closing event, in which we'll present some of the results and reflect on the experiment, at 12:30 on Thursday, 2/13.
We're very excited about the event, and hope that you can help drum up further interest, excitement, and involvement by presenting it to your students, and possibly mentioning the theme's relevance to your course or your field. We understand WVEC will be coming by to film the launch, that the event will be up on the front page of odu.edu shortly, and that President Broderick will be speaking at the closing event on Thursday. This is a unique experiment and, if successful, may be of national or international interest.
Thanks for your interest and support. We hope to see great turnout from students—but we hope that faculty members will be well represented as well. Please consider whether you'll be able to make some time during these 24 hours to drop in physically or virtually, see what's going on, and contribute!
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One of my favorite American animated series was Avatar, the Last Airbender, which aired on Nickelodeon from 2005 to 2008. The show is a children's adventure set in a quirky, Asian-influenced fantasy world. By turns hilarious and dramatic, it presents the struggle of Aang, last of his tribe, to fight off the rapacious Fire Nation. He's joined by many friends, chief of whom are Katarra and Sakka from the Southern Water Tribe and Zuhko, a Fire Nation prince who (late in the series) becomes Aang's comrade in arms.
In Avatar, magic takes the form of "bending." Through moves similar to a martial art, bending allows people to control one of four elements — Earth, Water, Air and Fire. In charge of it all is the Avatar, the only person who can command all four elements simultaneously. He's responsible for maintaining the balance of nature and negotiating between spirits and people.
In this series, dragons play a small but important role. As in Asian myth, the dragons are long and thin, with elegant manes and whiskers. Dragons exist in both the physical and spirit worlds. They are wise guardians and advisors to all humans, but especially to the Fire Nation. Dragons were the original source of firebending, although it can't be said they willingly taught this skill. An enterprising man named Wan watched a white dragon swooping gracefully through the sky. By copying its movements, he was able to master his new element.
Wan taught others what he had learned, and eventually his followers grew to become the Fire Nation. Centuries passed, and it became a tradition that the most powerful Firebenders had dragons as companions. Not pets, mind you — companions who help and protect them but also seem to provide a moral compass.
Throughout the series, there's a dichotomy of dragons representing yin/yang or good vs. evil. Red dragons are virtuous beings who accompany the most enlightened characters. Blue dragons are vicious creatures who join with forces of hate and greed. It's a striking way to show who some of the characters really are.
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So many teenagers go through the difficult times of wanting to loose weight. Many restrict themselves extremely when it comes to food. Instead, they should just be making healthy eating choices. So, how can a 16 year old loose weight fast?
How can a 16 year old lose weight fast? Well, counting calories is important. The average 16 year old needs about 1,800 calories per day. This helps maintain a healthy weight. So, you still ask how can a teenager lose weight? Well, look at what your child is eating. Heavy starches, fried foods, sugar-filled snacks and the like are all high calorie foods. So replace them with healthy foods.
Again, this is key to the question how can a 16 year old lose weight fast? Well, it is about the kinds of food they are eating. The average 16 year old needs about 3 ounces of protein, 3 cups of fruit, 3 cups of vegetables, 3 ounces of natural fat and about 5 ounces of fiber a day to function healthily and maintain a healthy weight. How can a 16 year old lose weight fast? Just ask them to focus more on nutrition.
So how can you lose weight really fast
Well here there are a number of other factors to consider. How can a 16 year old lose weight is also a down to the to the amount of exercise they do. Well its time to get their bodies moving. If you want to know a secret how someone can lose weight, look at how much sport they play and how much intensive exercise they get.


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Dear Parents:
Welcome to the start of a new school year and another year of A+ School Rewards. Starting October through March, Liberty School will have the opportunity to register to earn cash through Stop & Shop A+ School Rewards Program. After you register your card, each shopping trip at any Stop & Shop using your STOP & SHOP CARD earns CASH for our school! Each month, the amount of CASH awarded will be updated on the Stop & Shop website. You can track the amount of points you earn for our school by checking your grocery receipt and online when you create an account atwww.stopandshop.com. Our school will receive a check at the end of the program. The money can be used for any of our school's educational needs.
Please be sure to register your card to benefit Liberty School by using ID #07173.
All you have to do is:
1. Log on to www.stopandshop.com/aplus to register online OR
2. Dial 1-877-275-2758 to register your card over the phone OR
3. Return this form to school with your child, providing the following information,and we will register the card:First 3 Letters of Last Name on Card:____ ____ ____ Stop & Shop Card Number (13 #): ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ Remember, even if you registered your card last year, you must re-register this year for our school to receive credit .
Attending to this simple process makes a HUGE difference to our school. We need your support. The sooner the cards are registered, the more money we earn. Also, don't forget to encourage your friends and relatives to do the same.Registering for the A+ School Rewards Program does NOT affect the Gas Rewards Program – you will still earn all your gas points! Thank you for your support!
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Maybe you have had the experience of having one or more of your fingertips go numb. For whatever reason there is just no feeling there. You touch it or pinch it, but nothing. Your fingertips have just lost the sense of feeling. There is no connection to pain or heat.
We are made for a longing for God alone but our insatiable craving is usually misdirected toward the consumption of stuff that on the one hand lasts for a few days, but continues rampant throughout our lifetime in our "misplaced values" culture. This time of year we are convinced that if we just get that X Box, sweet jacket or take that trip we will have our longing satisfied. Oh, and there's that Pickup…
All the time, God is working to remove the insensitivity we have towards Him by taking us through the class of "These things don't ever satisfy."
We are made for God alone. Psalm 42: needs to be checked out first thing each morning. David chases after God in a way that seems so foreign to us. Again in Psalm 73:25 David challenges us with "I've got heaven coming, got relationship with him: Nothing here on earth's worth a second view!" Isaiah loudly agrees saying that his soul and spirit longs for God (Isaiah 26:9). Even Paul learned that a flat out trust in God is all that gets you through the stacked card game of life that is strategically set to disappoint and destroy us (2 Corinthians 1:8 and 9).
How's your feeling for God? What do you need to stop chasing after in order to have contentment, satisfaction, or meaning? How can you begin to develop a heart for God alone? Talk about it with someone else.


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We get a lot of questions here in the Admissions Office. Questions on a whole wide range of topics. Academics. Sports. Professional development opportunities. Campus life. Toilet paper in the trees (so many about the toilet paper in the trees). One such area is the arts and opportunities relating to the arts here at Wake Forest. While it would take far too much time to tell you everything artistic happening on our campus, we do want to highlight one particular opportunity for incoming students.
The Presidential Scholarship is awarded to students who demonstrate both excellent academics as well as a continued talent and dedication to an artistic medium: dance, debate, music, theatre, or visual art. The scholarship is valued at $8,000 per semester, renewable over eight semesters (four full years of college) pending the meeting of certain requirements. Before we get to a few frequently asked questions, here is a link to the application website (including the application itself):
Applications generally require submission of a portfolio detailing your involvement in a particular area. We encourage all students to have both their Presidential Application and their College Application (they are distinct – you need to fill out both) submitted by November 15.
Now on to your questions…
Q: Wait, hold on. What do you mean by "certain requirements?" Am I signing over my right to do pre-med or be a business major?
A: Not at all! Requirements vary by program. Generally speaking, the various departments want you to remain involved both academically (i.e., taking classes) and extracurricular-ly (being involved in department events). However, you are free to major in whatever you want. Other requirements include maintaining a 2.0 cumulative GPA while making progress towards your degree, submitting an apologia detailing your involvement in the program at the end of every spring term, living in on-campus housing, and hosting prospective students from time to time. Again, the details vary for each discipline, so feel free to reach out to us if you have questions.
Q: Okay, good. What if I am talented in multiple disciplines? Can I apply for a Presidential in more than one area?
A: Yes you can! Although we do recommend students focus on their strongest area, as the involvement required can be quite high at times, you are free to apply in as many areas as you wish.
Q: So what's the deal with the separate application? I thought Wake Forest was going to consider me for merit scholarships because I interviewed and submitted my application for admission before the December 1 deadline.
A: We do require a separate application for the Presidential Scholarship, and frankly, this is in your best interest. We have some talented people in the Admissions Office, but none of us have a doctoral degree in art or dance or theatre. We may know the difference between Bach and Brahms, but when it comes to the finer details of evaluation in these areas, we choose to let the experts handle it! Thus, we share your application with members of our faculty who in turn provide to us their professional evaluation of your abilities.
You will also be eligible for consideration for our other merit-based scholarships because you are submitting your application before the December 1 deadline.
Q: What if I have specific questions about my application? Who should I reach out to?
A: You should always feel free to reach out to us with questions. Please contact Lowell Tillett at email@example.com or 336-758-7438 – I will happily answer any questions you may have.
Q: Okay, one more. What IS the deal with the toilet paper in the trees, anyway?
A: You'll just have to come visit and take a tour to find out!
Thank you and good luck!
Lowell Tillett
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I've reviewed a number of Onkyo A/V receivers over time (see my review of the TX-SR705 from Playback 3) but never one of the really large models and I've always wondered how one of the "big guys" might perform. Partly to satisfy my own curiosity, partly to continue the Playback review series on sub-$2k AVRs begun in issue 11, I decided to try Onkyo's second biggest receiver—the $1,799, 7-1-channel, THX Ultra2 Plus-certified TX-SR876. As you'll see in a moment, this receiver is powerful (7x140 watts per channel), flexible, incorporates a great video processor (the HQV Reon VX device from Silicon Optix), and provides one of the most sophisticated room EQ systems on the planet (Audyssey MultEQ XT). On paper, the TX-SR876 looks excellent, but the key question is whether its real-world performance lives up the potential promised in the specifications sheet. And the answer, in a nutshell, is that it does.
Consider this AVR if: you want an A/V receiver whose performance meets or beats the best in its class—a receiver that, though not inexpensive, is well priced for what it is and does. Look at this model if you prize excellent sound and picture quality, terrific flexibility, and advanced features you will not soon outgrow. One small caveat: to tap this AVR's full potential, you'll need and want to read its manual. It's not overly complicated, but it does offer layer upon layer of sophisticated options.
Look elsewhere if: you crave that "nth" degree of performance that only truly great (and typically very costly) separate A/V controller/amp combos can provide (though this Onkyo can handily outperforms some controller/amp combos I've heard). Also look further if you require truly "dirt simple" set-up and operation procedures. While the TX-SR876 is by no means hard to use, it is a multi-faceted product whose rich features set requires a certain amount of study and experimentation for best results.
Ratings (compared to other sub-$2k AVRs)
- User interface: 8
- Sound quality, music: 9
- Sound quality, movies: 10
- Dynamics: 9
- 7x140 watts per channel with Onkyo WRAT (Wide Range Amplifier Technology) linear (not class D) amplifier circuits.
- Unused amplifier channels can be re-routed to bi-amp main loudspeakers.
- 7.1-channel analog pre-amp outputs mean the receiver can drive a standalone multichannel amplifier, if desired.
- THX Ultra2 Plus certification ensures that power specifications are the "real deal"—not "paper tigers." With THX certification comes a wealth of additional sound processing options, such as THX Loudness Plus.
- Audyssey MultEQ XT automated room/speaker EQ system with support for Audyssey Dynamic EQ and Dynamic Volume functions.
- ISF (Imaging Sciences Foundation) Video Calibration function (for use by qualified ISF technicians).
- Video Processing: Silicon Optix HQV Reon VX processor provides 1080p upscaling for all video sources (including component video sources) via HDMI.
- Tuners: XM and Sirius satellite radio-ready, with AM, FM and HD radio as standard
- Extensive range of A/V inputs (see Specifications, below), including a moving magnet phono input (a boon for vinyl fans) and optional Onkyo RI iPod dock.
- High quality parts: HQV video processor (as above), Burr-Brown 192kHz/24-bit DACs, and three Texas Instruments 32-bit Aureus DSP engines
- Supports all contemporary surround sound codecs including Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio and THX Neural Surround.
- Supports DSD Direct mode for those who love listening to SACDs.
- Beefy construction (all 53.1 pounds worth), featuring a massive, "high power" transformer, and "high current power supply."
The TX-SR876 features a sophisticated new graphical user interface (GUI) and set-up menu that is even more intuitive than that of the already good TX-SR705 I tested last year. Be aware, though, that there are lots of menu options, not all of which are completely self-explanatory. Let me emphasize again that to understand and use all the features this AVR has to offer you'll need to read the manual (just do it; you can thank me later).
Because Audyssey's MultEQ XT room/speaker EQ system is a vital, integral part of the TX-SR876, its set-up and control procedures should be part of our User Interface discussion. My finding was that the Onkyo (GUI) guides you through Audyssey automated speaker setup in a simple, foolproof manner. But here are four important hints for best Audyssey results:
- Make sure you place the included calibration mic at ear level for a seated listener (ideally by mounting the mic on a camera tripod that you can move from one listening seat to another).
- Be sure you start your measurements in the most centrally located listening position in the room.
- Do the Audyssey setup when your room is dead quiet; the system is very reliable, but in my experience it can be thrown off by spurious room noises, such as footfalls, cars passing by, household HVAC fans, etc. For this reason, I sometimes do Audyssey calibrations late at night or early in the morning.
- For optimal results, take the full set of eight room/speaker measurements that the system allows. Note that the Audyssey system's "model" of your room and speakers becomes more accurate and sophisticated as additional measurements are taken.
There are two small criticisms I would offer regarding the TX-SR876's Audyssey controls. First, I'd like to see Onkyo provide onscreen graphs to show the EQ curves Audyssey applies for each speaker. Second, I wish the TX-SR876 offered the option of applying either "standard" or "flat" Audyssey EQ curves (the Onkyo provides the standard curve only). Both features are offered on some of the other Audyssey-equipped AVRs now on the market.
The TX-SR876 comes with a backlit remote that, in most respects, is a model of clarity and intuitive operation (the surround mode controls are particularly nicely done and easy to use). One change I would suggest, however, would be to provide an Audyssey control button to allow toggling through various EQ options on the fly.
The Onkyo's HQV Reon VX processor does a good job of upscaling lower resolution sources to 1080i/p levels while producing very smooth, film-like images. Not surprisingly, the processor performs very well on tests found the Silicon Optix HQV Benchmark DVD—especially on that disc's difficult jaggies tests. This said, however, I found the HQV processor's overall image sharpness was not quite the equal of the Gennum processor used in our lab's reference Anthem A/V controller. Small details, such as the louvers or vents seen in the concert hall ceiling in the Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds: Live at Radio City Music Hall Blu-ray disc, look much sharper through the Gennum/Anthem combo than through the more softly focused HQV/Onkyo system. But the tradeoff is that the HQV processor never exhibits jaggies or flickering motion artifacts, which is a great blessing.
The TX-SR876 takes the basic elements of Onkyo's house sound—namely, a good measure of clarity and articulacy coupled with smooth, unexaggerated natural warmth—to a higher level of refinement than I've ever heard from any Onkyo receiver. But what also sets the TX-SR876 apart from many receivers in its class is its ability to serve up serious dynamic wallop without ever breaking a sweat. The Onkyo exhibits a kind of confident swagger, no matter how demanding the program material may be (though the TX-SR876, like all Onkyo AVRs of recent memory, does tend to run pretty warm).
The receiver sounds very good with its EQ options turned off, but for many speaker systems—even for some very revealing ones—bringing the built-in Audyssey EQ system into play can elevate performance to an entirely different level. Specifically, Audyssey gets rid of room/speaker response anomalies while preserving the subtle tonal and textural qualities that give each speaker system character. The net effect is of hearing your chosen speaker system sound better than it ever has, with most "problem spots" (hey, all speakers have them) either removed or mitigated and with markedly improved surround sound imaging. Audyssey MultEQ XT is one of the few EQ systems that passes muster even by the finicky standards of veteran audiophiles.
There are, however, two Audyssey caveats you need to know about. First, Audyssey's Dynamic EQ function, which is meant to preserve optimal tonal balance and imaging characteristics at reduced volume settings, sounded somewhat imbalanced in my tests, imparting an overly heavy degree of bass boost while occasionally making upper midrange frequencies sound strident (though you might achieve better results than I did). Second, note that Audyssey's Dynamic Volume settings are mostly meant to help control overall volume levels for late night use; turn Dynamic Volume off for critical listening.
Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers Blu-ray shows off the power and subtlety of the TX-SR876 in dramatic fashion. In the main Iwo Jima beach invasion scene, the Onkyo reproduces battles sounds—Japanese machine gun fire, artillery shells exploding at close range, or the throb of radial aircraft engines in Corsair fighter planes overhead—with a great combination of brute force and timbral purity. When shells go off, for example, you'll feel palpable shock waves rattle your chest cavity. Yet in a later sequence, you will also hear even the smallest, most subtle vocal details clearly reproduced, as U.S. soldiers urgently whisper to one another in their foxholes at night, trying to avoid detection by the Japanese. It's this ability to go "big" with power, yet to play "small" with delicacy and finesse that makes the TX-SR876 so special.
Like many reviewers, I've come to use the Dolby TrueHD soundtrack of the Dave Mathews & Tim Reynolds: Live at Radio City Music Hall Blu-ray disc as a benchmark test of sorts, and it proved to be a test that the TX-SR876 passed with flying colors. On this disc, many receivers give Tim Reynolds's Martin guitar a clear yet thin, "jangly," and almost brittle sound. But the Onkyo, happily does not, partly owning to its smooth and naturally warm sound, but also because the Audyssey EQ processor helps the receiver get rid of edgy-sounding artifacts that don't belong. As a result, Onkyo simply nailed the righteous sound of Reynolds's Martin acoustic guitar, revealing its big, clear, penetrating voice while deftly avoiding the "clangy," metallic sound that other receivers so often impart. Better still, the front surround image was terrific, giving a beautiful sense of the interplay between Reynolds's guitar on the left and Matthews's guitar and voice on the right of the stage. The TX-SR876 shows that Blu-ray has tremendous, though perhaps as yet untapped, potential as a music medium—provided you own a receiver as capable as this one is.
This is one of the best, if not the best, sub-$2K AVR I've heard. Beyond rich features and functions, Onkyo's TX-SR876 pays close attention to video and audio fundamentals, offering very good levels of clarity and resolution, plus a rich yet natural-sounding tonal palette backed by plenty of muscle. The receiver, though not cheap, offers excellent value for money. Heartily recommended.
Onkyo TX-SR876 THX Ultra2 Plus-certified 7.1 channel A/V receiver
Power output: 7 x 140Wpc @ 8 ohms
Decoding formats: Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Digital EX, Dolby Digital, and Pro Logic IIx Music/Movies/Games; DTS-HD Master Audio and High Resolution Audio, DTS 96/24, DTS Express, DTS-ES Discrete and Matrix, and DTS Neo:6; THX Neural Surround, THX Surround EX, and THX Ultra2 Cinema/Music/Games
Video inputs/outputs: Composite video (6 in, 3 out); S-video (6 in, 2 out); Component video (3 in, 1 out), HDMI (4 in, 2 out)
Audio inputs/outputs: Stereo analog (8 in, 3 out), 7.1-channel analog (1 in, 1 out), moving magnet phono (1), digital audio (3 optical in, 3 coaxial in; 1 optical out), HDMI v1.3a Repeating/Switching (4 in, 2 out), XM satellite radio (1), Sirius satellite radio (1), headphone output (1), AM/FM/HD Radio tuner (1)
Other: RS-232 port (1 in), IR input/output (1/1), 12V trigger output (1), auto calibration mic 1)
Dimensions (HxWxD): 7.625" x 17.125" x 18.062"
Weight: 53.1 lb.
Price: $1,799
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No. Weather has no effect on a water ionizer. What does affect a water ionizer is changes in water quality, so does build up of hard water deposits inside a water ionizer. The quality of the water going into a water ionizer has a huge impact on the quality of the alkaline water coming out of the ionizer. To get the best quality of alkaline water from a water ionizer, you need to properly condition the water going into the ionizer with a pre-filter system.
How a pre-filter system improves the quality of tap water
Everyone's water quality is different. If you live in San Francisco, you get your water from deep underground aquifers, the water is chock full of healthy minerals and needs very little treatment to condition it for a water ionizer. On the other hand, if you live in North Carolina, your tap water is so toxic that you should not drink it unless it has been treated by reverse osmosis, and then remineralized for health. The pre-filter system you need is based on your local water quality.
How to select a pre-filter system for a water ionizer
You can select the right pre-filter system for your water ionizer by identifying the contaminants in your water. If you are on a city water supply, the contaminants found in your water are listed in your local water quality report. Contact your local water authority for a copy of that report. In the report, you will find a list of contaminants that have been found in your water. You will need to select the right pre-filter(s) to remove those contaminants.
Situations where you must use reverse osmosis treatment
If you live within a mile of a hydraulic fracturing "fracking" well, you must get a reverse osmosis system. Fracking has a devastating effect on water quality, your water is full of benzene, heavy metals, and radioactive particles. The same goes if you live in coal country, your water is full of heavy metals, arsenic and other harmful substances. If you live anywhere that there is coal, oil, or natural gas extraction, pipeline transportation, or processing, you should assume your water is highly toxic, and filter it with reverse osmosis.
LIFE Water Ionizers come with free pre-filter systems
Owners of LIFE water ionizers don't need to figure out what kind of pre-filter system they need. LIFE Ionizers will do the research for you, and provide you with a free pre-filter system with the right pre-filters for your water quality. However, if you need reverse osmosis, that would be extra because reverse osmosis systems are a separate treatment option. LIFE will help you determine if your water needs the additional processing that reverse osmosis provides, and will give you a discount on the reverse osmosis system if you need it.
Pre-filtration is peace of mind
You should always run a pre-filter system with a water ionizer, it gives you peace of mind. With a properly configured pre-filter system, you can rest assured that the contaminants in your water are being taken out before they get into your water ionizer. A pre-filter system is cheap health insurance.


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Developed to help low-income families in the U.S. find safe, affordable housing, government programs provide housing for low-income seniors. These programs for the elderly offer lower rents and/or access to medical care. Local department of health and human services offices, community action partnership agencies (CAP), housing authority offices and local Veterans Administration offices offer access to housing and assistance programs for the elderly.
Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-housing
Homelessness does not discriminate against the elderly. Older individuals who are homeless do not necessarily sleep on park benches. A senior may live with another person because she cannot afford her own housing. The Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP) helps low-income seniors with housing and rent costs. HPRP funds do not go directly to elderly individuals. Instead, non-profit organizations and charities receive the funds to assist elderly clients with security deposits, rent and back-rent payments, homeless prevention services, and eviction prevention. HPRP programs can provide up to 18 months of assistance.
Section 8 Housing
The Housing Choice Voucher program, also known as "Section 8," through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) offers rental assistance to the low-income elderly. This program allows seniors to live in government-subsidized homes or privately-owned rental units. Through the Section 8 program, the elderly tenant only pays a fraction of the fair market rent (FMR) and HUD pays the rest. However, if the individual chooses to live in a rental property that charges above the FMR rate, the senior has to pay the difference. CAP agencies and local housing authority programs generally assist the elderly with Section 8 housing programs.
Low-Income Assisted Living
Elderly individuals who meet the income guidelines can receive supportive housing assistance through HUD's Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program or the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program. Income guidelines for these programs vary by state, and local housing authority offices can assist individuals interested in applying. Like the Housing Choice Voucher program, the elderly individual only pays a portion of the rent cost and HUD pays the balance.
Housing for Veterans
The Veterans Administration provides home care benefits and affordable housing options to those who served in the military. Programs vary by state, but eligibility criteria are the same. Qualified veterans are those who served at least one day during a time of active war, served in the military for at least 90 days, have less than $80,000 in bank and investment accounts, received an honorable or general discharge, and do not participate in other state assistance programs. Surviving elderly spouses of veterans also qualify for VA housing assistance if the spouse was married to the veteran when he passed away.
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- Senior Man Sitting pleasant look on face. Close Up. image by Michael Drager from Fotolia.com


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With AMC launching a new rewards program (AMC Stubs) to replace Movie Watcher, they've invited three movie "bloggers" (Mike Eisenberg of ScreenRant, Wilson Morales of BlackFilm, and me) to participate in a competition to visit the most AMC Theatres and see as many movies as possible from April 15 – May 6, 2011. While I have no idea how I'm going to find the time to do this, I'm going to try my best as the winner gets a 5-Year Movie Pass to AMC Theatres! Yes… 5 years of free movies! As someone who loves going to a theater to watch movies, needless to say, I'd love to win. Over the next three weeks, I'll post a few updates about how things have been going on Collider. But for more real time updates, follow me on Twitter.
While most of this contest falls on my shoulders, there is a way for some of you to help me win. With this promotion about the new AMC Stubs Card, if you have the card, you can vote for me. The one with the most votes get a huge number of points and it will definitely help one of us win. Details on how to help me out and what you should know about the Stubbs program after the jump.
Here's what you need to know about the Stubs programs at AMC: if you live near an AMC theater you want to get the card. What it does is collect every dollar you spend (either on concessions or tickets) and when you've spent $100, you get $10 in rewards back. It's basically like a 10% off card. In addition, you get free upgrades. So if you buy a small drink, with the card, they give you a medium. Same for popcorn.
Also, if you're someone that likes buying tickets online, if you use a Stubs card, you don't pay online ticketing fees at either MovieTickets.com or Fandango.
Obviously if you don't live near an AMC theater this is all meaningless info, but if you go to one on a regular basis, this is a no brainer. Sign up or get more info here: www.amcstubs.com
Keep in mind, the card costs $12. But that money is applied to the $100 you need for a reward. Again, if you go to the movies a lot, it's definitely worth it.
So about how you guys can help me…here's the form to fill in. The only thing is…you have to have a Stubs Card. If you have any questions about the Stubs program, here's the contact info: AMC Theatres Customer Service email@example.com (888-562-4262)
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As a company, we always want to make sure all of our users are getting as much out of our tools as humanly possible. So, in an effort to make sure that is happening, we surveyed 273 SoapUI users a few months back (thanks again!) to find out what functionalities are most used and what features, well... just aren't used in SoapUI Pro.
SoapUI Pro comes with a bunch of productivity and time saving features that make your testing faster and more efficient. Since we've already mentioned the most used (or useful) features of SoapUI Pro, I thought it was time to give some attention to the ones that you may not even know about.
Surprisingly, the data showed that more than 1/3 of SoapUI Pro users didn't know about or use the Refactoring feature, also known as the "hit a moving target" feature.
Below, I've highlighted common situations that this feature could be useful to you. Our SQL Query Builder and Security Generator features were also at the top of this list of hidden gems, so I will also show how they can be beneficial to your daily activities. Enjoy!
Problem: During the development process, the WSDL is constantly changing - if you don't notice that the WSDL has changed, your tests are going to break. Along with changing all messages related to certain WSDL update - property transfers and Xpath expressions may need to be updated. Also Instead of having time to write new tests, you need to spend more time updating your tests to fit them to new WSDL.
Solution: The WSDL refactoring feature in SoapUI Pro easily updates all of your tests by providing a simple wizard that allows you to map old message elements to new ones instead of manually looking at, and replacing, project code. This feature also allows you to manually override or discard changes created by SoapUI during the process, ensuring that the correct result comes out in the end. By using SoapUI Pro Refactoring you'll not only increase your test quality, but decrease the time invested while also minimizing the risks.
Problem: When doing data-driven testing or using the JDBC test step to test the contents of your database, you need to build complex SQL queries, which could be both time consuming and complex for a non-technical person. You also need to spend more time debugging your SQL queries instead of creating and running new tests.
Solution: SoapUI Pro's SQL Builder helps you build all SQL queries automatically by using point-and–click and simple graphical interface. This feature makes your data-driven testing remarkably easy and less time consuming whether you're a technical or non-technical person.
Problem: Security testing is extremely important. This is especially true if the system is publicly available, but it is very complex and requires a lot of background knowledge. Usually security testing is not done because it often requires a specialist and can be very expensive to do. It's also difficult to incorporate security testing as part of the regular process because it is such a time consuming act.
Solution: SoapUI Pro's security test generator makes it extremely easy for you to create a set of complete security tests for your entire test case - in just a matter of seconds, I might add – in order to protect your services against the 10 most common attacks on the Web.
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60 Day Journey of Deloitte Churn Prediction Competition
Last December, I teamed up with Michael once again to participate in the Deloitte Churn Prediction competition at Kaggle, where to predict which customers will leave an insurance company in the next 12 months.
It was a master competition, which is open to only master level Kagglers (top 0.2% out of 138K competitors), with $70,000 cash prizes for top 3 finishers.
We managed to do well and finished in 4th place out of 37 teams in spite of that we did not have much time due to projects at work and family events (especially for Michael, who became a dad during the competition).
Although we were little short to earn the prize, it was a fun experience working together with Michael, competing with other top competitors across the world, and climbing the leaderboard day by day.
I visualized our 60 day journey during the competition below, and here are some highlights (for us):
- Day 22-35: Dived into the competition, set up the github repo and S3 for collaboration, and climbed up the leaderboard quickly.
- Day 41-45: Second spurt. Dug in GBM and NN models. Michael's baby girl was born on Day 48.
- Day 53-60: Last spurt. Ensembled all models. Improved our score every day, but didn't have time to train the best models.
Motion Chart - Deloitte Churn Prediction Leaderboard
Once clicked the link above, it will show a motion chart where:
- X-axis: Competition day. From day 0 to day 60.
- Y-axis: AUC score.
- Colored circle: Each team. If clicked, it shows which team it represents.
- Right most legend: Competition day. You can drag up and down the number to see the chart on a specific day.
- Initial positions of circles show the scores of their first submissions.
For the chart, I reused the code using rCharts published by Tony Hirst at github: https://github.com/psychemedia (He also wrote a tutorial on his blog about creating a motion chart using rCharts).
We took a rain check on this, but will win next time! 🙂


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The end is nigh and The Greatest Depression is closing in with millions of ferocious, unemployed, disillusioned and helplessly starving infected people erratically walking an unforgiving earth for years to come. Truth to be told we´re heading for a financial apocalypse because you, the people, believe in any tall tale The Powers That Be cables out. All we can do now is to wait for the fattest lady in history to sing the highest note ever heard...
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Out running
Firstly you gotto know I do run with my MP3 on high volume and this is ancient wilderness, way out there were no-one except hunters and the occasional bear or wolf running past you.
Anyway, about 5min into my exercise I suddenly felt pain down by my ankle and for some reason two bees found it amusing sacrificing their lives to puncture two holes in my body. Two nice little holes conveniently apart down by my ankle. It looked like Ashley Greene (I wish) has nibbled on my feet. A couple of other bees I found attached to my shirt probably not able to penetrate it into my skin. But I did get stung in the back a couple of times so at least some poison was running through my veins.
I did keep running along though. Wouldn't let any minor suicide insects ruin my road to lesser fat around the waist. Sadly I should have because just around the bend I stumbled upon a man and his dog. They were trapped in some kind of play with the man holding the dog from behind in a compromising position and for a moment it looked… suspicious… Even more interesting the man was a splitting image of the now resigned Swedish Minister of Labor. You know, the guy with the pants-problem, the one making the best out of immoral liaisons, he who exchanged both wife and a 'hands-on' approach for hookers. But then I remembered that his clientele is of the younger sort and as far as I know dogs never entered into the picture. And what would that criminal doing way out in the wilderness anyway?
That shock came and went pretty fast but it still got my heart pumping an extra beat so when a couple of mountain bikers swooshed by me moments later the heart attack cannot have been far away.
As I said, this is nowhere. Normally it is far more likely literally bumping into a moose than seeing a person. But for some reason this day the road was littered with them. People that is…
Standing there feeling like I've just run a marathon instead of just ten minutes I suddenly see some woman shaped objects up ahead. Two or three of them it seemed. Any man that has ever been running would admit - under torture - that during such a workout he will always run faster, longer, with a straighter back and try to look as comfortable as possible whenever encountering a female. It never fails. Heart failure be damned.
Doing so this time could very well have led to my undoing. You see it wasn't three females, not even two of them. Only one. She was female I do think, however the ripple effects on her body from each step she took made her look strangely blobish. I was like seeing a huge ball of fat forcing its way through the forest. A hideous force of nature that wouldn't (couldn't) stop for anything.
At this point I had two main concerns. First, get the hell out of the way. If ever getting caught in front of or in the wake of such a beast – that's it. No coming back. Secondly, something was seriously wrong with me. Sure it's very hot and humid, I got poison in me and I just got scared by mountain bikers and a "sex-crazed minister", but come on. How did I turn one toddling obese Medusa into three lush hot running females!?
To be fair seeing a zeppelin that should be hovering over a stadium walking in the forest were no-one normally goes is a complete mystery in itself, but that doesn't explain my mirage.
I think I will blame another woman. I'm starting to see females again (been totally uninterested for years) and the only reason I can think of is that this particular one have come into my life again. Nothing else has changed. Not that there's something going on or anything, but sometimes one incredibly beautiful woman can, only by existing, make your senses come alive again. Standing there thinking that I've figured it out I almost forgot to sidestep and jump far into the bushes, but I did survive, evidently. However, the run was ruined. I'll take another one tomorrow instead…
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Though toys comprise less than 1% of the typical household waste stream, there is an industry-wide understanding that everyone has a role to play in support of sustainability.
For more than 15 years, the Toy Industry Association (TIA) has worked with its toy company members to improve the industry's commitment to environmental protection. These companies pledge to consider the environmental impact of their products and activities while continuing to provide safe, quality merchandise that meets customer and consumer needs.
In addition, the toy industry supports efforts to educate consumers to minimize waste by: (1) using environmentally-conscious strategies such as the recycling of packaging materials and (2) only buying products appropriate and needed for their family. We support the leveraging of existing recycling infrastructures and encourage consumer curbside collections of recyclable components and packaging, as these are the most efficient means for addressing consumer waste packaging that can be re-used in the production of other products. And we support efforts to create new partnerships and opportunities for innovative products and packages that can be reused or used for new product raw materials.
Members of the toy industry are committed to reducing their environmental impact through packaging reduction and by increasing the use of recycled and bio-materials and renewable energy sources in production.
But packaging also plays a vital role in assuring that a toy reaches the consumer in the same form that it left quality control at a manufacturing site. Tamper-resistant packaging ensures that a product is not lost, broken or damaged during shipping and display and that small products or those that have multiple components are received in their intended state and are operational and safe upon purchase.
Packaging also helps to mitigate counterfeiting and theft, as well as ensures that the consumer clearly understands the intended use and design of the product. Certain elements of toy product packaging ― including age grading, warning labels and other important safety and usage instructions ― are required by existing regulations and safety standards. Mandates to reduce packaging could jeopardize the placement of vital warnings and could undermine the safe use of certain products.
TIA's Environmental Sustainability Committee has developed useful tools for members that help drive more sustainable material and packaging choices, as well as to assist in reducing impacts of production processes, and is making significant progress in reducing the environmental impact of TIA events such as the North American International Toy Fair.
This statement was revised by the Toy Industry Association in October 2016.


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Managing editors in editorial office assess the compatibility of manuscripts with authors' guidelines as well as ethical considerations. Appropriate manuscripts in the scope of journal are sent to the related editors in editorial board for primary scientific evaluation and assignment of reviewers. The editors consider two or more reviewers for each manuscript according to the research topic and methodology. If the editors find reviewers' comments insufficient for decision, they may assign more reviewers.
Review process in JHA is double-blind and names of authors and reviewers remain confidential. Manuscripts enter the review process anonymously. In addition, JHA utilizes external reviewers to prevent possible decision biases pertaining to the acquaintance of authors with the editorial board members.
Reviewers' comments are sent to the authors for revision. Revised manuscripts are re-evaluated by the editors and may be sent to more reviewers in cases of doubt in the integrity of the papers. Verified manuscripts are referred to the Editor-in-Chief for final decision which, if need arises, is made by consultation with the related editors. Review process may last between four to eight weeks.
Invited manuscripts, letters and commentaries are directly reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief or the related editors.


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SolidWorks 2013 will go live in October. Every new release of SolidWorks includes many enhancements and improvements, most in direct response to customer requests. While we are busy preparing for coming SolidWorks Innovation Day 2012 to LIVE SolidWorks, it goods to recap what are the top enhancements in SolidWorks 2012.
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Walking around the city today a very mundane sight caught my attention: a building site on the 1700 block of M Street, NW… One building is in the process of being demolished between two others (see photo).
Do you notice what I noticed? The adjacent building has hardly been scratched by the destruction! It may not seem like much, but if you've ever worked with a sledge hammer you know it's not exactly an instrument of finesse.
I marveled at the work crew's achievement for a moment then walked on. I'm sure the destruction will be matched eventually by equal feats of construction. It's all very impressive… but it pails in comparison to God's achievements in nature. Whether it's me strolling the city or any of us being self-impressed, a dose of humility never hurts the avid humanist. I was reminded as much when I sat down later with this verse from Bl. John Henry Newman:
Man goeth forth with reckless trust upon his wealth of mind, as if in self a thing of dust creative skill might find; he schemes and toils; stone wood and ore subject or weapon of his power.
By arch and spire, by tower-girt heights, he would his boast fulfill; by marble births, and mimic lights – yet lacks one secret still; where is the master hand shall give to breathe to move to speak to live?


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Well this time around I won't write about anything particular instead I will dedicate this blog to all those things which happened with me worth mentioning. So few of mine last blogs were either the work of copy paste or of mine co author's. So going back to mine last blog which I wrote was about mine surgery and I am sorry for yet not publishing its final part. I will soon do that.
Well after that blog I got involved with my rigorous industrial training(IT) sessions. Due to mine surgery I wasn't been able to do much in mine first month of holidays so now I was left with only one month of holidays to go for any industrial training. And I never wanted it to be just a casual affair, as was the case with rest of mine training batch mates.
Mine application as a trainee for 4 weeks was accepted by Hindustan Aeronautical Limited, Accessories Division, Lucknow and asked me complete some of their formalities before 1st July. Well they had only one formality to cover up and that was police verification. As a good Indian citizen I thought of first completing it through legal way but after seeing the legal procedure and all not so friendly ways I gave up and finally gave bribe. It worked and within seconds I was through police verification. Finally mine training started from 5th July in HAL. Meanwhile I joined a course in embedded system using 8051 microcontroller and like before, this time too i regretted it in the end.
I went in HAL for 11 days of mine 15 days total training time. You might be surprised so was I after knowing that the training was only of 15 days. HAL has a policy which states that the industrial trainees have to undergo 15days in-factory training and 15days out-factory training. Experience in HAL was quite good and when I communicated this to mine friends who also got themselves sometime or the other as a trainee in HAL laughed at me. I took it as their ignorance. HAL is a pool of knowledge and you have to get into the pool for absorbing it. You can't sit and wait for someone else to really teach you something. It's a PSU and people their got lot of work to do. They have to complete their assignments within a time limit failing which can prove to be really fatal even sacking of the employees.
Meanwhile in FB I met three people( I need not to disclosed their sex). Soon mine 72 days long holidays ended and I got the best example of Sir Albert Einstein Relativity theory. As the tradition attached with the EIE students this time too we went for a week long bunk and attended college only when our seminar date approached.
I had to present a presentation on mine IT. And don't raise your eyebrows when I will tell you that I presented the ppt on Embedded system instead on HAL. I did so 'coz mine college authorities wanted a 6 weeks training report and HAL was just of 4 weeks. Seminar was more of a joke and teachers raised silly not so important questions. It looked like more of a formality stuff. A good news to give too that I cleared mine 4th semester without any backlogs. This time around I was disappointed by me teachers rather then the university. Nevertheless I will keep doing good work.
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11 January 2016
This is the recovery of discontent. We are in the midst of one of the longest periods of economic growth in American history, and the job market is close to full employment. The economy is now consistently creating hundreds of thousands of jobs per month. And yet two-thirds of Americans believe our country is on the wrong track. Over half describe the economy as "bad."
To understand how the recent upswing in job growth might feel for the American worker, we need to put the growth in context. After all, adding 200,000 jobs in an economy of 80 million feels a lot different than adding 200,000 jobs in an economy of 160 million. But we can scale historical job numbers by the size of the workforce such that they are comparable to job numbers in 2015.
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"The spirit was already aloft, I was pulling on my boots" - W H Murray, Mountaineering in Scotland
Saturday, 22 December 2012
Merry Christmas
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Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Two short winter days
(1) - Tuesday 11 December
|Distant Ben y Hone above Crieff from the drove road
As a result of walking the Ochils drove roads, A R B Haldane of Cloan House near Auchterarder became interested in "this droving traffic, the routes by which it reached the Lowlands, its ultimate destination and the methods of the men whose work it was". His excellent 'The Drove Roads of Scotland' makes fascinating reading.
|The car could have done with its own set of crampons
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Thursday, 13 December 2012
Massey Ferguson - for Alan R
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Wednesday, 12 December 2012
His hypocrisy knows no bounds
Mr Salmond said :"Throughout 2013 we will celebrate the outstanding and diverse beauty of this country in the Year of Natural Scotland, where we encourage people to get out and enjoy what the great outdoors has to offer".
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Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Beautiful nacreous clouds
These photographs of iridescent clouds, taken from the garden at 9.10am on the 10 December are known as nacreous or mother of pearl clouds and are formed some 15 -25km high in the stratosphere at temperatures below -78C.
They most commonly appear in polar regions but it is apparently quite rare to see such good displays in the UK. The clouds play a part in the formation of ozone holes as they contain chemicals which destroy ozone. (Information from the Met Office).
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