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When I stopped being a victim and moved to becoming a survivor, I found attending my local domestic violence groups very good. However I decided that I would try to understand the tactics used with me in more detail. The wheel of power and control that I have adjusted is very similar to the original power and control wheel I was handed at my sessions. Most abusers use very similar tactics to control however individuals with a religious belief tend to manipulate the religion to suit there objectives. My own father made my mother not take contraception as he was catholic. He was however hypocritical and slept around all the time. He also used the religion to silence her.
My abuser manipulated religion and even though I had studied Islam. He would abuse shouting and swearing if confronted for being wrong. He had no worries about the hereafter when considering his violent treatment of us all or his non provision.
I then decided to make my own version of the pyramid of power also shared at a domestic violence workshop. Religion plays a massive part of the abusers toolkit as they manipulate whatever religion they are to meet there unsavoury goals. I personally know that I have suffered a backlash from the community for getting help. I was told that I shouldn't have called the police. I am bring the authorities into our private family issues. Its just family problems. Being forced to remain a wife to someone for fear you and your children being killed is completely out of Islam. Not providing for your wife and children is out of Islam. Oppression is out of Islam. Rape is out of Islam. Violence is out of Islam. Yet I have been told by sisters that its haram not to forgive him if he says he is sorry. This is completely wrong as in Islam a woman can ask for a divorce because she no longer finds her husband attractive. We need to end the sigma on survivors of domestic violence and the misguided pressure applied to victims to return to a abuser.
We need to end the silence of domestic violence. We need to end the shaming of victims who are brave enough to speak out. We need to share our stories to let fellow victims know they are not alone. Domestic violence happens to women from all walks of life and is not because the victim is unlovable or deficient. Its not the victims fault. The fault lies with the perpetrators.


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Westfield Matildas head coach Hesterine de Reus has announced that the Westfield Matildas will play two matches against New Zealand in June.
Westfield Matildas Head Coach Hesterine de Reus has announced that the Westfield Matildas will play two matches against New Zealand in Canberra on the 13 and 16 June.
The team will then embark on a European Tour with international friendly matches against the Netherlands (29 June), Dutch club side Ado Den Haag (2 July) and world No.5 France (6 July).
The announcement of the Westfield Matildas international match schedule comes after de Reus has held a number of training camps with an extended group of players since March.
De Reus said she looking forward to her first matches in charge of the Westfield Matildas against quality international opposition.
"The first matches against New Zealand are very important to us as the only way to check on our status is by playing international matches," de Reus said.
"The matches in Europe against the Netherlands and France will be very challenging as these two top teams will be in the final stages of their preparations for the upcoming UEFA Women-s Euro 2013.
"They will both be at the top of their game which again will be good for us to test ourselves.
"The match against Ado Den Haag will be interesting for me to see the players perform on an artificial pitch, similar to what we will experience at the FIFA Women-s World Cup which will be held in Canada in 2015.
"I am very happy where the players are at the moment. There is a good energy within the group and we are making progress step-by-step.
"Initially we had nearly the whole main playing group together for the first training camp, but with a number of players recently heading overseas to play, we now have a wider group of players to choose from."
Since taking on the role as the Westfield Matildas head coach, de Reus has made a number of changes to the Westfield Matildas set-up, which includes relieving Spencer Prior of his duties as the Westfield Matilda-s assistant coach. Prior will continue in his role as head coach of the Westfield Young Matildas. The appointment of a new Westfield Matildas assistant coach will be announced shortly.
In other Australian Women-s national team coaching news, FFA is currently searching for a new Westfield Australian U-17 Women-s Team head coach after Vicki Linton recently resigned to take up the head coach position with Bay Area Breeze in the W-League in the USA.
A 22-player Westfield Matildas squad will have another four-day training camp this week (25-28 April) at the AIS in Canberra.
Westfield Matildas - International Friendly Match Schedule - June/July 2013
Westfield Matildas (9) v New Zealand (20) Thursday 13 June 2013 AIS Athletics Track, Bruce, ACT Kick-Off 5:30pm Note: this is a closed door match only open to authorised media
Westfield Matildas (9) v New Zealand (20) Sunday 16 June 2013 McKellar Park, Belconnen, ACT Kick-Off 2:00pm Ticketing details to be announced shortly, please visit www.footballaustralia.com.au/tickets for further details
Netherlands (14) v Westfield Matildas (9) Saturday 29 June 2013 TATA Steel Stadion, Velsen-Zuid, Netherlands Kick-off - 7:00pm Click here for ticketing details.
Ado den Haag v Westfield Matildas Tuesday 2 July 2013 Kyocera stadium, The Hague, Netherlands Kick-off - 6:30pm
France (5) v Westfield Matildas (9) Saturday 6 July 2013 Venue - Angers Kick-off - TBA
Westfield Matildas squad for AIS Training Camp - Canberra - 25-28 April 2013
Name Caps (goals) Teigen ALLEN 22 (0) Laura ALLEWAY 14 (0) Mackenzie ARNOLD (gk) 2 (0) Kim CARROLL 48 (2) Stephanie CATLEY 9 (1) Amy CHAPMAN 18 (4) Brianna DAVEY (gk) 4 (0) Emily GIELNIK 4 (0) Heather GARRIOCK 130 (20) Kathryn GILL 72 (37) Katrina GORRY 4 (0) Michelle HEYMEN 8 (3) Elise KELLOND-KNIGHT 30 (0) Alanna KENNEDY 7 (0) Collette McCALLUM 76 (11) Teresa POLIAS 2 (0) Clare POLKINGHORNE 60 (2) Vedrana POPOVIC - Sally SHIPARD 59 (4) Brooke SPENCE 12 (0) Marianna TABAIN - Emily VAN EGMOND 16 (3)

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Come Up With A Business Story
Telling stories is a great way to connect with your audience, and for life coaches, business stories illustrate the struggles and successes we all share.
It doesn't matter if you are on stage, teaching a class, writing an email to your list, recording a podcast or writing a blog post. Business storytelling could and should should play a big part of your content creation and marketing strategies. But how do you come up with those stories in the first place? Here are seven tips to help you keep the business story ideas flowing so you can find just the right one for just about any situation.
Share A Recent Encounter
Often the best story are happening to you and all around you. Think about a client who is successful in her achievements? Can you tell her story as an example to newbies? What is the best coaching conversation you ever had? Or which complement from a client meant the most to you? And why was that story most meaningful?
Recall A Conversation
Conversations offer great story ideas. Without going into too many details or sharing too much information about the person you were talking to, what was the underlying message of the conversation in your storytelling. Example: One parent, who called me, was frustrated her their three-year-old daughter was always singing, dancing, and seemed "overly" playful. The daughter was a total contrast to their eldest daughter, aged ten, who mom described as most like the parents. Parents and older daughter liked to read, study the stars, read science-type magazines. The younger child shared few, if any, interests with the parents and older sister. I shared with the parents how there are different temperaments, and because the older sister was an intellectual, didn't mean that the second child would be of the same temperament. No, the younger child was the talkative, creative, dancing ballerina.. They got it, and I didn't hear from them until ten years later. Now older daughter is thirteen and younger daughter is six. Mom called to share how the knowledge of temperaments changed their lives. They started offering the younger child outlets for her dancing body and creative brain, as they offered the older child classes and experiences in which her strengths could flower.
Dig Deep and Share A Childhood Memory
Childhood memories are another great source of story ideas. The memories that stick with us from way back when are often the ones that taught us a valuable lesson or had a significant impact on who we are today. Think back to what you remember from your childhood and how you can tie those memories into what you're doing today.
Pay Attention To Your Surroundings
Stories are going on all around us. Pay attention to the situations and conversations people have around you. You'll be pleasantly surprised how many story ideas you'll get just by paying attention your surroundings. Example: I went to the hospital when I felt sharp pains crackle cross my chest. Heart attack? Not sure! Go to bed or go to the emergency room? Go to the hospital. Over five hours, I was admitted, assigned a bed, tested, and the doctor finally arrived in the early morning to tell me the news.
"You have a pulmonary embolism."
"And that is….?"
"You have a blood clot in your lungs."
Carry A Little Notebook
We've established that there are conversations around us from which we draw a story theme. as you observe those stories, which are memorable that would be a good fit with the content or product. Stick a little notebook and pen in your purse, briefcase or jacket. Keep it with you and jot down short notes about ideas, thoughts, conversations and situations that have storytelling potential.
Listen To Your Family and Friends
Pay attention to your loved ones. They are sharing stories with you on a regular basis. Listen to your kids when they come home from school. Sit down for an after-school snack, and ask them about their day. You'll have an almost never-ending supply of storytelling material. Listen with rapt attention to feel their emotions and exemplify those feelings in your story, as they are genuine and believable. Keep looking for new ideas and keep telling those stories to grow your business, connect with you readers and make the sale.


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The Detroit Branch NAACP has developed a resource guide that is filled with useful information, as well as reliable organizations in the city of Detroit. You can also find the Detroit Branch NAACP information downloads here.
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My son rides the Smart bus to school everyday. He is a freshman at Cass Tech & we live in Redford, so that distance is very expensive! But on Mon Feb 25th I dropped him off at the bus stop like I do every morning, when the bus came the bus driver refused to let my son on the bus, he just closed the door on his face and drove off!! My son called me right away and I had to go back and pick him up and take him to school which made him late. I couldn't believe it at first but it happened. I immediately called and made a complaint. So Tues Feb 26th I took him to the bus stop and waited this time to see what would happen and he did the same thing! I called again and made another complaint! I really believe he discriminated against my son and action needs to be taken! I would like advise please because this as got to stop! We are really effected by this!


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By focusing on efforts across the country to remove or restrict access to books, Banned Books Week draws national attention to the harms of censorship. Check out the frequently challenged books section to explore the issues and controversies around book challenges and book banning. The books featured during Banned Books Week have all been targeted with removal or restrictions in libraries and schools. While books have been and continue to be banned, part of the Banned Books Week celebration is the fact that, in a majority of cases, the books have remained available. This happens only thanks to the efforts of librarians, teachers, students, and community members who stand up and speak out for the freedom to read.
For more information on getting involved with Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read, please see Ideas and Resources, Calendar of Events, and the new Banned Books Week site. You can also contact the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4220, or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Controlling Variables
There are literally hundreds of variables that can be set in both AutoCAD® and IntelliCAD®. Depending on what tasks you are performing, the effect of each variable and their inherent settings can range from practically unnoticeable to catastrophic. Most are just simply annoying. I could spend the rest of my career addressing each variable that exists (knowing that more may be created with each new release), but instead, I will focus on a few that I have found to be a common disruption for Carlson users.
Linetype Scale
There are three main variables that affect the Linetype Scale:
• LTSCALE – sets the overall scale for the drawing
This variable affects any linteype that exists in the drawing and controls the spacing and size of the dashes, dots or characters that are part of that linetype.
• MSLTSCALE – is a toggle (off/on or 0/1) that sets model space to follow the LTSCALE value
• PSLTSCALE – is a toggle (off/on or 0/1) that sets paper space to follow the LTSCALE value
Setting the LTSCALE can be done in the Drawing Setup dialog box.
Note that if the Line Type Scaler is set to 1, the LTSCALE will match the drawing scale.
All of that seems simple enough but the complication is that the use of these variables is completely dependent on the preference of the user.
Example: If the LTSCALE is set to match the drawing scale, i.e. 20, and the MSLTSCALE and PSLTSCALE are off, the appearance of a linetype will be different when in model space than when in paper space. This is a common frustration for users. They feel they have to work in model space with all linetypes appearing to be incorrect so that when printing from paper space, they will appear correct on the final plan. To remedy that situation, they merely need to set both the MSLTSCALE and PSLTSCALE to on, or a value of 1.
To complicate this further, many users prefer to use the drawing Annotation Scale to control both annotative text height and linetypes. The variable that controls the annotation scale is CANNOSCALE. To utilize this variable most efficiently, set the LTSCALE to a value of 1, ensure both the MSLTSCALE and PSLTSCALE are on, and set the CANNOSCALE to the desired plot scale such as 1" = 20'.
When using this option, the user must set the Carlson Drawing Setup LTSCALE to a value of 1 manually.
The default for the Carlson setup is to set the LTSCALE to match the drawing scale leaving the CANNOSCALE variable as 1:1. That way the drawing setup will control the linetype scale completely.
A more convenient method of access the CANNOSCALE variable is shown below under Annotative Text.
Dimscale and Dimensioning
There are probably more variables to control dimensioning than any other aspect in CAD. The main variable for controlling dimensions, though, is simply the DIMSCALE variable. The value for this variable is typically set to match the drawing scale. It is used to scale the text and leader sizes for dimensioning.
The settings for dimensions are controlled through the command DIMSTYLE.
Within the Dimstyle dialog box, there is a plethora of variables that are used to control virtually every aspect of a dimension imaginable. However, getting these set exactly the way you want can sometimes be a lesson in frustration.
Carlson has an abbreviated method of performing simple dimensioning in the Survey Text command under the Annotation menu.
These settings essential override the Dimstyle variables and simplify the process of dimensioning, specifically, structure offsets to a property line. In this dialog box, you can set the size of the text, define the type of arrows, set the layer for the dimensions, and even add alternate units. After making all of the settings you can use the command Offset Dimensions:
The added feature to this command is that it automatically sets an Endpoint Osnap followed by a Perpendicular Osnap with appropriate prompts and the command line. It is a favorite of mine.
Insertion Units
The variables that affect inserting blocks are those that can cause erroneous results. The three variables that control inserting a block into a drawing are:
The concept behind these settings is to be able to automatically scale a drawing (block) that was created using different units. For example if an architect sends an engineer or surveyor a drawing that was created using architectural units (inches), it would be 12 times too large for a drawing that is set to decimal (feet). If the source and target units are set correctly, the block will automatically insert at the correct scale. The problem occurs when these variables are set unknowingly or incorrectly. I've experienced this myself.
You can also access control of the INSUNIT variables through different dialog boxes in both AutoCAD and IntelliCAD.
Having the insertion units set to Unitless or Undefined, is a safe way to proceed.
Point Nodes
There are two variables that control the display of Nodes contained in a drawing, PDMODE and PDSIZE. By default, Carlson sets a Node (or Point) when it draws points from a coordinate file. Many users prefer to have a symbol inserted underneath each node for visibility:
The "X" symbol you see above is actually a block inserted over the top of the point. By default, the node itself is the entity that is linked to the coordinate file, not the symbol. Symbols are typically inserted on each point and are utilized heavily in Carlson's Field to Finish program. The "X" symbol above actually has four end points so care needs to be taken when measuring distances and using an Osnap to select the point. You can accidentally grab an endpoint of the X instead of the Node causing you to get erroneous results. Some users prefer to not have a symbol on every point, but instead, display the node only. You can set the type of node and size using the two above variables, PDMODE and PDSIZE. An easier way to access these settings is to use the Point Style dialog box found in the Carlson Settings Menu.
When selected, you can control both the look and size of the nodes displayed in the drawing.
Annotative Text
Annotative text seems to be one of those features that people either love or hate. The concept behind annotative text is if you change drawing scales, all text will automatically alter its size relative to that new scale. For example if you create a drawing at 1"=20' and later modify it to 1"=40', all annotative text will double in size. This is especially useful when creating multiple viewports at different scales. The variable CANNOSCALE controls the scale for the annotative text. It is also possible and more convenient to access this setting by clicking on the Annotation Scale icon found on the lower right part of the drawing editor, provided it is displayed.
When using Annotative Text, it is most productive to create text styles and choose the Annotative Text option:
Enter the text height as the printed Paper Text Height as opposed to a height relative to the drawing scale. In other words, if you want text to print out as 0.10 in height, you simply enter that as the height. When not using Annotative text, you need to multiply the desired printed text height times the drawing scale. As in: a height of 0.10 for a 1"=20' scale drawing would require a text height of 2 (.01 x 20 = 2.0).
Text Editor
The TEXTED variable sets the characteristics of the text editor dialog box. Some users have found that during a recent upgrade, they no longer see the same display and options when double clicking on a piece of text or using the Text Edit command. These variables vary slightly between AutoCAD and IntelliCAD but essentially function the same way. The variables range from 0 to 2 in AutoCAD and 0 to 4 in IntelliCAD and can be set at the command line.
Alternate Fonts
One of the more annoying situations occurs when receiving a drawing from another firm and the fonts they are using are not contained in your own system. When opening such a drawing, you will see an error message indicating that there are one or more missing SHX files:
This happens because the font being used is actually an external SHX file that you do not have access to. If you choose the option to Ignore Missing Fonts, the program will substitute an existing font for those that are missing. To control which font to use during this operation, use the variable FONTALT. The default is likely to be Simplex or a similar type font.
Angle Units
The AUNITS variable is part of the Units settings and controls the display of the angular units.
Carlson Configuration
Carlson builds in an easy way to set many of the necessary variables upon starting each drawing. The options for each are contained in the General Settings of the Carlson Configure dialog box:
Most of these settings are default settings so there is a good chance things have been working fine for you and you did not even realize that these variables were being set. If, however, you would like to change them, you can change settings in the General Configuration and/or set each desired variable in your startup template file (DWT) ensuring that each new drawing created will be set the way you want it.
Let's Grow Together.
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Who is mommylok? CEO, CFO, COO of my personal business – and by that I mean my family! As impressive as my title may be, I make no claim to be a supermom! I have 3 incredibly adorable kids (including the star writer of A 1st Grader's Book Reviews) and one super lucky husband… Currently a Mom Ambassador for The Juno Company; my past life was spent at the NFL – Youth Football Programs, Events, and grant administration. My biggest hobby right now? Taking pictures of my youngest kid while he's on his Sleeping Adventures! OH and yes, I am PR-friendly! E-mail me at mommy_lok at yahoo dot com.
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Koenigsegg and Creaform: united through innovation
Koenigsegg Automotive AB, the Swedish manufacturer of high-performance sports cars integrates portable metrology at different stages of their production process to improve overall product quality. To learn more, visit the Creaform blog.
Scott sports and creaform: no shortcuts in product design
To SCOTT Sports, there are "no shortcuts" for doing things the right way, for the right reasons. When designing their latest Symbol 2 helmet, the swiss company's engineering and design team turned to Creaform's 3D scanning and software solutions to streamline their product development processes. 3D scanning came as the perfect solution in the development of high-performance headgear that meets both the industry's safety requirements as well as athletes' fit and comfort. Read the full story on the Creaform blog.


text: Singapore scientists have discovered a chemical compound that stops heart cells from healing themselves, and hope to be able to block this function. Researchers from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and the National University Health System (NUHS) have found a ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecule in mice called Singheart that stops heart cells regenerating and self-healing. The failure of heart cells to heal by themselves causes heart attacks and heart failure to be severe and incurable. In Singapore, cardiovascular disease accounts for 19.8 per cent of all deaths, and about 16 people a day die of heart disease. Patients with heart failure will have more Singheart in their heart cells than patients without heart failure, as the RNA blocks other cells from regenerating, say the researchers. The study was led by Associate Professor Roger Foo, who is principal investigator at both GIS and NUHS' Cardiovascular Research Institute and senior consultant at the National University Heart Centre Singapore. It was published on Aug 9 in Nature Communications journal, after having been in development for three years. The next steps of this research are to conduct similar experiments with human heart cells and to find a way to target this molecule to block its function.


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A Poem here? Entropy and Thermaldynamics?
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If it's not growing it's dying
Nothing is in a steady state
That's why we have terms like half-life
And unpleasant ones like decay
There are those not yet timely due
Like you and me and youthful flames
Ours burns with passion fueled by love
Spurning law's thermaldynamics
(Spontaneous combustion, yes?)
After its started to charcoal
We will grow anew our baby
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Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2018, All Rights Reserved
Written for Bjorn, Physicist Extraordinary, poet as well, at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/03/entropy-and-thermodynamics.html?m=1
Labels: Personal-Challenge-2018, Poem, Real Toads, Spontaneous combustion, Syllabic Form


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Sämtliche Inhalte auf der CPN-Website sind auf Englisch verfügbar. Einige Inhalte, wie z. B. Produktbeschreibungen, aktuelle Produkteinführungen und einige technische Artikel, sind ebenfalls auf Deutsch, Spanisch, Französisch, Italienisch und Niederländisch erhältlich. Wählen Sie in der Liste oben Ihre Sprache aus, damit sämtliche darin verfügbaren Inhalte automatisch entsprechend Ihrer Wahl dargestellt werden. Ansonsten wird als Standardsprache Englisch verwendet.
All content published on the CPN website is available in English. Some content – such as product descriptions, recent product launches and some technical articles – is also available in German, Spanish, French, Italian and Dutch. Choose your language from the list above and all content that is available in your language will automatically be displayed in your language, otherwise the default language will be English.
Todo el contenido publicado en la página web de CPN está disponible en inglés. Parte del contenido –como descripciones de producto, lanzamientos recientes de productos y algunos artículos técnicos– también están disponibles en alemán, español, francés, italiano e holandés. Elija su idioma en la lista anterior y todo el contenido que esté disponible en su idioma aparecerá automáticamente en ese idioma, o , si no, en el idioma predeterminado que es el inglés.
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Tutti i contenuti pubblicati sul sito CPN sono disponibili in inglese. Alcuni contenuti come descrizioni di prodotto, lanci di prodotti recenti e alcuni articoli tecnici sono disponibili anche in tedesco, spagnolo, francese, italiano e olandese. Seleziona la lingua dall'elenco in alto e automaticamente si visualizzeranno tutti i contenuti disponibili in quella lingua; diversamente la lingua di default sarà l'inglese.
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Canon Explorer David Noton was the first landscape photographer in the world to get the opportunity to work with the 50.6 Megapixel EOS 5DS DSLR and he promptly jumped on a plane to South Africa to photograph the stunning western Cape region and discover exactly what the camera was capable of. In an exclusive CPN interview and film he reveals his first impressions of working with a camera that combines easy portability and intuitive handling with high-resolution image quality never before seen in a DSLR...
Having been given the privilege of trying out the ultra high-resolution camera, David admits: "I was intrigued and I had an open mind. For three years I've been using the 5DS's stablemate, the 5D Mark III, and I've become very familiar with the capabilities of that camera. Now there was an opportunity to see what this huge sensor – not in physical size, but in terms of pixel count – was capable of. Out 'in-the-field' in South Africa, on the clifftops and in the mountains, there was very little difference to how I work with the 5D Mark III, compared to the 5DS. There was real continuity [in handling] there, which was quite reassuring."
David chose to shoot in South Africa because of its epic landscapes, superb natural light and the need to avoid jetlag on an extremely tight shooting schedule. He explains: "I went with my full armoury of lenses: from a super-wide-angle 14mm through to my two Canon tilt-shift lenses (the 17mm and 24mm), the 24-70mm mid-range zoom, the 70-200mm and the new 100-400mm IS Mark II lens; I used all of them. I particularly like using tilt and shift lenses. I can use the perspective control to keep strong verticals in the frame, absolutely parallel with the side of the frame, and I use the tilt function to get optimum depth-of-field. That really is a useful asset to be working with, in tandem with the new camera, because to extract the maximum [image] quality, the technique has to be absolutely spot-on. And the lens needs to be performing at its optimum. These two tilt and shift lenses, particularly, are incredibly sharp."
The first shoot of the trip was on Bloubergstrand to shoot the iconic 'across-the-bay' shot of Table Mountain with the city of Cape Town below (you can see one of the shoot's results in the image shown on the left). David reveals: "This was one location I knew of, from a previous visit, so it seemed a good one to start with. It's using the motion from the water and the lovely rocks in the foreground. I like the way that the shape of these rocks mirrors the shape of Table Mountain beyond and the cloud in the sky is all part of the drama there. I'm leaning heavily on the dynamic range of the camera here, exposing the image to make sure that I'm recording everything. I'm retaining some kind of detail here, in the darkness of the rocks. They look black but there is detail there – when you zoom in, you can tell – and yet it still hangs on to the brightest tones in the sky. I think the dynamic range of the EOS 5DS is similar to the 5D Mark III."
Like all photographers David has his own ways of working – he shoots RAW, usually with neutral Picture Styles, and adds: "I'm a great fan of Aperture-priority metering, and I'll use Evaluative metering, which I find virtually failsafe, in terms of enabling me to achieve the perfect exposure. Using plus or minus exposure compensation to optimise exposure, in tandem with looking at the image's histogram display – brightness histogram and the highlights alert – enables me to ensure, with every frame, that I'm recording the optimum amount of tonal and colour information."
David began using the EOS System in 2005 and of the 5DS he says: "I think it's an evolution. If I look back on the very first EOS DSLR that I started using – the 1Ds Mark II; if you compare this camera to that, you can see this 'step-by-step' progress, which has ended up with a camera, in terms of controls and display, that is far, far superior. I have to say that the monitor on the back of this camera is beautiful; it's big, [and] gives this really luscious bright image of what I'm shooting. That is sort of instant gratification that every photographer, if they're honest, enjoys. It enhances the moment of being there at the time, seeing that glowing image on the back of the camera. That's really quite rewarding to see. I think that's something Canon really has over its rivals – the quality of the display on the monitor."
He adds: "On top of that, we've also got all other information you need in various other displays, particularly the brightness histogram, the RGB histogram, the highlight alert – all of those things are aids to help us obtain the optimum exposure. And, of course, we can zoom in on Live View to just check our focus point and our depth-of-field. That's really crucial with this camera because, to really extract the optimum quality, we need to be so, so careful about these considerations – depth-of-field and focus, in particular."
David is also keen on the EOS 5DS's 100% viewfinder: "It's a little thing, but it really makes a difference to me… I like the fact that when I look in the eyepiece [viewfinder] of the camera, I'm seeing 100% of the image area. What you see is what you get. Sometimes I'll use the eyepiece; sometimes I'll use Live View to compose my pictures. Most of the time I use both, because I think using the eyepiece you can really look in to every nook and cranny of the shot and see it within the whole. Then looking at the same composition, with Live View, you're seeing a two dimensional representation, which is often very beneficial, when you're piecing together compositions… to stand back and look with an analytical eye at the Live View display and make decisions about how all the shapes within the frame inter-relate."
Aside from the obvious benefits of shooting high-resolution images, one of the big advantages of the EOS 5DS is its ease-of-use… as David recalls: "In the past, all we photographers have had to make an informed decision about ultimate quality versus the portability of our systems. Landscape photographers have to be able to move over the landscape – the more flexible and the more mobile I am, the better the pictures will be. I've always made my decisions based around the fact that it's the picture that matters – that's the only thing. I've shied away from using large format cameras, purely because they are so inflexible… so bulky, so slow and so inflexible. I've used medium format. But now, the quality that this 5DS is producing is comparable to what I would associate not with medium format, but with large format photography. That [quality], allied with the full range of Canon EF lenses, gives a photographer incredible flexibility… and we're talking about a camera here that is a DSLR. On its own, the body is relatively portable and small, and I can walk over the hills and far away with it on my back, easily, carrying as many lenses, within limits of course, as I like. So that flexibility is a real liberation."
He explains: "I think if you marry up this incredible quality with the portability of a body that is similar to the 5D Mark III – a portable DSLR body – and ally that with the complete range of the lenses available in the Canon system, then we've got this real 'nirvana', where we have the ability to create quality only previously available with large format photography. And yet [you] still have this flexibility and portability – that really is something that changes everything. It will change the way that I think about my work and the way I approach it."
David didn't want to spend the whole shoot taking coastal images, so he went into the Hottentots Holland Mountains. He explains: "We got up there and I looked around and thought 'Well, it's an interesting place, but I'm not seeing anything… no one shot is jumping out at me'. But it's often the way, just give yourself time… just settle into a shoot, settle into a location, use your eyes, let the picture come to you. As the sun started dipping down behind the mountains, I loved the way this shaft of light was sliding down the side of the mountain. We've got this wonderful light and shade, and the receding planes of the mountains there. So one picture, from one long journey up into the mountains, is fine by me. With all of my photography, it's always about quality over quantity and I think this camera is made for that kind of approach."
David did notice one consequence of shooting large image files with the 5DS: "When I shoot a picture, the read time to the memory is slower than I've been used to, because it's such a huge image. We're talking [about] an image that's 50 Megapixels, so that's over twice the size of the 5D Mark III [images]. That image, when it's converted into a 16-bit tiff, ends up as something like a 250Mb image. That's absolutely huge. If you were thinking of using this camera for sports it's never going to have that speed that the 1D X has. But we're talking about a camera here that's really biased towards obtaining that optimum single image. This camera is much more a tool for putting on a tripod and going for the absolute optimum quality."
David reveals: "The first thing you notice, as soon as you zoom in [to the pictures], is the level of detail there is absolutely incredible… absolutely phenomenal. If I enlarge one of the images I can be looking at a tiny section of that image, and yet it's absolutely razor-sharp. The more you enlarge the picture, the more you see that level of detail. I was quite surprised because, when I printed one of these pictures out, just at a relatively modest print size of A3+, even at that size the difference in terms of the quality and clarity of the image was really quite apparent."
He admits: "When I heard about this camera from Canon, I did question just how many pixels we need. I have to say, I was sceptical. Do we really need 50 Megapixels? At the end of the day, a camera is only as good as the glass in front of it. I thought this super high-resolution sensor was overkill. But the proof is in the pudding and when you look at these images up big there's really no arguing with that [quality]."
The EOS 5DS kept performing throughout the shoot as David recalls: "This shot (shown left), looking down on Hout Bay, was the last shoot of the trip. It's the late afternoon light, just sliding in here, cross-lighting the scene. You've got this beautiful texture and detail in the rocks, the colour here, and I've used the 17mm tilt and shift lens and got amazing detail. As I was making this shot, just at the decisive moment when the light was at its best, we had this bird on the rock, which came along and perched in the perfect place. This illustrates something that I say all the time – if you put yourself in the right place at the right time enough, good things will happen."
He adds: "The tool, the camera, when you become familiar with it, becomes something in your hand that you don't even think about using… it becomes part of you. I'm just at the start of that process with this new camera, so I'm looking forward to getting to know its strengths and its capabilities. But straightaway, right from the word go, on the shoot in South Africa, I was able to use it productively."
With such high-resolution images being produced by the camera the key to appreciating the image quality came not out 'in-the-field', but later on… as David reveals: "My 'Road to Damascus' moment came when I was back in my office, in Dorset, processing the images. As I was shooting in South Africa I'd backed them up onto my laptop every day and had a quick look at the results. But it wasn't really until I came to edit the pictures on my big screen, back at base, and started really looking into the RAW images that I really realised what quality was there... and that was quite an eye-opener."
He adds: "These days, 90% of the time we're looking at images on screens, whether it's on computer screens, a [mobile] phone or whatever, often quite small images. But there's something really satisfying about producing a picture, knowing that it can be enlarged up to absolute billboard size, and still retaining this incredible optimum quality."
David concludes: "Photography is an art but a craft too. There's such satisfaction to be gained, from producing something that is the best… that you know is the best you can possibly make. My enjoyment of the whole process – from planning the shoot, going there, standing beside the tripod waiting for the light, hour after hour, the moment when I finally press the shutter release, through to the moment when I come back and process the image, and then finally – it's always the consummation of the whole experience – when we make that big, beautiful print. That's really what photography is all about, for me, and I love every step in that process. Being able to look at an image now, at this kind of size, with the kind of quality produced by the EOS 5DS, will only help to enhance that whole satisfaction."
© Ben Pipe
Born in England, David Noton is an award-winning landscape and travel photographer. After setting up his photography business, in 1985, his career developed within the landscape and travel arenas and he won awards in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition in 1985, 1989 and 1990. Over the years he has travelled extensively to almost every part of the world, exploring deserts, rainforests, mountains, islands and ice caps. In 2008 his first book 'Waiting for the Light' was launched to critical acclaim and in 2010 his book 'Full Frame' was published alongside his second film 'Photography in the RAW'. His pictures are published all over the world and he writes for a broad range of media, including photographic magazines and websites. He became a Canon Explorer in July 2012.


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Year 21, Cloud City was nationalized into the Resistance when Gand Xitwa officially became part of the Resistance Command.
Year 19 Day 84, Cloud City has been traded to the Gand, Xitwa of the New Republic. Cloud City is now a Private Sector Company (PSA) of the New Republic. Administration is currently working on updating the company literature to better reflect this change. The information listed below is existing history of this Cloud City.
Commissioned by executive order of the Holowan Privy Council, Holowan Resources and Engineering (HRE), now known as Cloud City, was established and serves as the primary authority over the natural resources of the Ardroxia, Cejansij, and Colavas systems in the Halla Sector and Roche in the Tennuutta Sector. The primary goal at its core is to provide its sister entity, Holowan Laboritories, with the much needed materials used to create the galaxy's premiere droids and other products. Another function of Cloud City is to oversee all logistics of raw materials and their application in the building and continual colonization of Holowan's systems throughout the Halla and Tennuutta Sectors.
Employment opportunities are available for both citizens and non-citizens of Holowan. Sentients wanting to take advantage of Holowan's Contractual Progam should enquire with the Privy Council by accessing our shared holonet, which can be found below. Holowan desires to provide advancement opportunities to those who seek honest compensation for honest work in a community that seeks advancements through shared honor, loyalty, and hard work.
Year 21 Day 238:
Ben Tzadikim, the leader of Cloud City was replaced today by Paige Wellington.


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My Baby's First Fiesta (and Cake Smash)
I created a one year and cake smash set based on the theme for baby's one year birthday party: Baby's First Fiesta. The cake is a mini 2-tier, and is a small version of the cake for his actual birthday party. My intention was to have a session outside at Corriganville Park in Simi Valley because it has a nice desert look to it, but in the end, it was much more comfortable to do the cake smash in-home. Baby was so comfortable that he was singing during his session. Shout out to Golden Mittens Bakery for the amazing cactus/succulent cake and Enchanted Rose Creations for the custom banner! Session:…
Easter Sunday with my Family (Baby Gabriel's First Easter)
Spent Easter with my favorite people…and now I'm stealing my kids' candies… Wishing everyone a Happy Easter! 🐇🐰🐣 Session: Children, Family Occasion: Easter Sunday Location: Private Residence in Oxnard, California (Ventura County) Theme: Garden Photographer: Rosalind Prieto Photography
Newborn Memories
I can't believe my baby is almost 1… I am planning his one year cake smash and birthday party, while looking back at old photos (yes, this is the same big baby I took taking the sink bath). I took the above photo at the hospital with my iPhone the day after he was born. So, I thought it would be fun to do a creative edit of this photo: So what did I change? The Trees: I wanted the photo to be about light, so I took away the green from the open window and made the window bright and white. Smudges: I minimized the smudges on baby's bed…
My Kids and their Easter Session with Real Bunnies
Session: Children Occasion: Easter, Easter Bunny Location: Just Shoot Me Photography Studio at Simi Town Center in Simi Valley, California (Ventura County) Theme: Spring, Easter, Floral, Vintage Photographer: Just Shoot Me Photography Studio
Baby Sink Bath
If you follow my main Instagram account, you know that every so often I upload a handful of session photos taken of my children and have people vote on the one they want me to creatively edit. The first photo at the top of this post is the final edit of the winning photo. Here were the photos I had my followers vote on: The 3rd photo won. The last photo was close to winning but lost by 1 vote in the final hour. So what did I change? Lately, I've been trying to stop adjusting color so much during final editing. It takes up a lot of time and…
Addy's 3rd Birthday
Cake photos are ready! Credits: Cake & Cake Pops: Golden Mittens Bakery Photography: Just Shoot Me Photography Studio Edited by: Me Linens & Backdrop: Dreams America Banners: Enchanted Rose Creations Venue: Rockin' Kids Play Center (Simi Valley) Not Pictured: Cookies: Cookies by MAC
This Heavenly, Organic Balloon Arch Vintage High Chair Inspiration is a Smash for Baby's First Birthday | Ventura County, CA
Oh Mister! Suspenders and blue jeans, white and navy blue ribbon bunting, organic white balloon arch over a white vintage high chair, mustache balloons and mustache cake…could anything be more charming and dashing than this one year photoshoot and cake smash inspiration? We don't think so! Baby Dante (later joined by his sisters) is looking sharp in his outfit at this Thousand Oaks outdoor location at Conejo Creek North Park. We spent the morning celebrating baby's one year milestone with The De Luxe Balloon Company putting together a heavenly, organic balloon arch around the cool vintage high chair. The white and blue mustache smash cake from the Golden Mittens Bakery tasted as great as…
21 Fun Baby's 1st Birthday Party Ideas from Local Experts | Santa Barbara, Ventura County & Westlake Villager
Yes Mama, you did it! Soon you will add another notch on your "Mom belt" as baby's first year comes to a happy close. You've survived. You've conquered. Bring it on two's, we're ready! Before we move on, we first must celebrate the milestone! And to help you celebrate baby's (and Mom's) first year, I've asked local children and party experts for tips and tricks to make your baby's party fabulous and stress free. A little bit of direction to help with planning for the party will give you the cute party you want for this special occasion, filled with fun and unique birthday decorations and activities. Every tip you could want…


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Getting Your Garden Design to the Build StagePosted by David Andersen at Wednesday, June 20, 2012
So you've finally got your garden design!
Now comes the really tricky part: getting it built!
Let's look at the two main ways that you can go about this and some of the advantages and pitfalls of each:
Do it Yourself
The main advantage here is that (providing you have some technical expertise and muscle power!) there will be a great sense of achievement, a feeling that the garden is very much 'yours'.
Of course it may be cheaper, that is as long as you have a good ability to interpret the design properly and avoid making the many mistakes that even experienced landscapers make.
Most landscape schemes are very multidisciplinary, and you would have to be the proverbial 'jack of all trades' to do everything, but using skilled sub-contractors for say brickwork may work well.
You would also need to be aware of health and safety requirements, particularly with regard to hiring in diggers and all things electrical.
Using a Landscaper
Perhaps the obvious choice. Make sure you use a reputable contractor, preferably one who has been recommended. A list can be obtained from BALI (The British Association of Landscape Industries). It's always a good idea to get competitive quotations from up to three different firms, your designer should be able to prepared tender documents (There would normally be a charge for this).
Be aware that using a contractor your designer recommends is OK, but there maybe some financial arrangement between them. (The designer getting a 'sales commission' that is.) This may be seen as a controversial arrangement, however if the various parties tell the client about this, it is often seen as 'above board' otherwise it maybe seen as non-competitive.
Be aware that cheapest is not necessarily best. A few years ago, when times were hard (wait a minute times are hard now!) I remember quoting to build a medium sized garden (£10,000 I recall), I had gone in very competitively since it was January, I had not much else on. Two weeks later I was informed that a competitor had been awarded the contract for around £5,000. Given that I had worked out that materials were £5,500 (trade price) I was a bit mystified. Some weeks later I had a phone call from the tearful wife saying the landscaper had been desperate for that deposit cheque and had gone in at under cost price just to keep himself afloat and soon abandoned the garden.
Also with landscapers make sure that they have proper terms and conditions, proper, well laid out terms of payment, public liability insurance and written guarantees.
To put the landscapers side for a moment it would be most unfair to expect them to do things not in the contract. Time and time again, I get client's saying (usually on the first day) "Oh while you're here could you just……..prune that tree". It can be really unfair, especially as you are trying to create a good atmosphere within your working relationship.
The most common 'extra' to emerge usually quite early on in the contract is to do with a badly drained or waterlogged site. When I first started in business over 20 years ago I was struggling to landscape a really wet garden, using a lot of my own money to put in land drains. I then realised that another landscape firm were doing a similar garden next door. After two days I saw them packing up "What's up?" I asked "Well" replied the boss, "that garden is too waterlogged to landscape. I asked my clients before I started to get it sorted and so I am pulling off until they do so!" My lesson was learned.
I hope this helps. Happy landscaping!
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Local Area
Explore the beautiful village of Turvey located on the banks of the River Great Ouse and the attractive undulating farmland of the Turvey House estate. Ye Three Fyshes welcomes all walkers – you're all more than welcome to use the facilities in our pub at any time of the day and if you would like to pre order food before departing we'll have it ready for when you return.
- Google Maps – Click here to open and plan your directions
- Postcode for Sat Nav – MK43 8ER
The Village Of Turvey
The village of Turvey (the name means turf island) is a fascinating assortment of interesting buildings. All Saints Church is partly Saxon and is said to be one of the finest in Diocese St. Albans. The churchyard contains many monuments to the great families of Turvey, the Mordaunt family (Earls of Peterborough) and the Higgins family. The Higgins family were responsible for most of the many new buildings in the village the material used being the locally quarried limestone rubble. During the 19th Century John Higgins in particular was concerned for the welfare of his tenants and a building programme was undertaken. Such work has left its mark throughtout the whole village and is a major reason for its attractive character.
The landscape around the village is dominated by parkland with sheep grazed pasture, large trees and blocks of woodland. Further south the landscape is very open with a few scattered woodlands and hedgerows, and recent planting will improve the amount of cover but it remains an arable landscape.
Turvey Bridge
Turvey Bridge is reputed to be the oldest bridged crossing of the River Great Ouse in Bedfordshire, a bridge across the river was first documented in 1140 and the present structure, which was widened in 1935, crosses three branches of the river. There is an excellent view of Turvey Mill (now a residential development) and two statues standing on the end of the mill's island. To the left 'Jonah' and his companion to the right were brought from Ashridge House in hertfordshire by Charles Longuet – Higgins in 1844.
Turvey Abbey
The Abbey dates from the 17th Century but was not a monastic establishment until it was bought by a Roman Catholic Order of Benedictine monks and nuns in 1980.
The Abbey was inherited by John Higgins in 1792 together with its farmland and the Manor of Turvey, the farmhouse in the park until then was essentially the farmhouse. He remodelled and added to it for his own use including the addition of the clock tower and cupola visible from various points on the walk.
By 1801 John Higgins, who had a keen interest in gardening had already done much to redesign and replant the Abbey garden and was also responsible for the creation and planting up of Abbey Park and the digging of ponds within it.
Following his death in 1846, the parkland fell into disrepair not least because his son Charles was under the mistaken belief that his asthma was made worse by trees and cleared much of his father's planting creating the open simpler arrangement present today.
Turvey Abbey Park
Until 1783 most of the area that is now Abbey Park was included in one of Turvey's large and open common fields 'Garden Field' which would have been communally cultivated arable for many centuries and is the reason for the ridge and furrow earthworks, some very substantial, which survive over much of the park. There are excellent examples of the reversed 'S' shape typical of the ridge and furrow, the lengthways shape caused by plough teams gradually preparing for turning round some way before reaching the ends of the ridges.
The roundel to the right of the footpath is the 'Royal Anniversary Roundel' planted to commemorate the Queen's 40th Anniversary on the throne. It is planted on the site of an original 1838 roundel and includes a Hawthorne hedge, Oak, Scots Pine, Crab Apple and Western Red Cedar.
The small castle like structure on the edge of the Abbey grounds was built in 1829 for John Higgins as a garden house and was one of his last contributions to his complete remodelling of the gardens at Turvey Abbey from the 1790′s. It possibly served as a retreat for quiet thought or relaxation whilst enjoying the garden. A Field Maple in the grounds is thought to be the largest tree of its in kind in Bedfordshire.
The Old Railway
The disused railway was the Bedford to Northampton Line. Closed in 1962, the old track bed, associated cuttings and embankment slopes now provide a valuable wildlife corridor.
Planning your Walk
Turvey Village is the suggested starting point and the walk is described in a clock-wise direction. However you can walk in either direction and there are shorter routes, one of which is identified on the map.
Refreshments, Parking and Toilets
We have a pub car park available for diners and guests. Parking is limited within the village, however we are happy for walking groups who use the pub, to use our car park – so pop in for something to eat or drink.
Public Transport
A frequent bus service operates between Bedford and Turvey for information contact Traveline 0871 200 22 33 or www.travelsmartuk.com The closest train station is at Bedford.
Ordnance Survey Maps
The route is covered on Ordnance Survey Landranger Series map 153. It is also shown on Explorer map 208. Both are available from local bookshops and some petrol stations.
Countryside Code
- Be safe – plan ahead and follow any signs.
- Leave gates and property as you find them.
- Protect plants and animals and take your litter home.
- Keep dogs under close control.
- Consider other people.
Tips for enjoying your walk can be found here – www.countrysideaccess.gov.uk
Parts of the walk can become muddy especially after heavy rain, so strong waterproof footwear is recommended. Take care where conditions are rough and do let someone know where you are going. Please be aware that much of the walk is unsuitable for wheelchairs and difficult for pushchairs.


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Pendleton Country Club
- 69772 Highway 395 S, Pendleton, OR 97801
- (541) 443-4653
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18 total holes at facility
Green fees - $55 (estimate)
Designed by Gene Mason
Built in 1930
Blue Grass
Driving Range: Yes
Private golf course
Pendleton Country Club is an 18-hole regulation length golf course in Pendleton, Oregon. This short layout has 3 sets of teeboxes for a fun, but challenging golfing experience. Online tee times may be available at Pendleton Country Club or at nearby golf courses, usually offered at a discount from the normal rate.
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Manager: Richard Matteson
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New Gender Policy in NYC
Looks like soon in New York City, you'll be able to change the sex on your birth certificate without undergoing sexual reassignment surgery. The whole article is interesting and worth the read, but I wanted to extract these particular passages:
The change would lead to many intriguing questions: For example, would a man who becomes a woman be able to marry another man? (Probably.) Would an adoption agency be able to uncover the original sex of a proposed parent? (Not without a court order.) Would a woman who becomes a man be able to fight in combat, or play in the National Football League? (These areas have yet to be explored.)
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Joann Prinzivalli, 52, a lawyer for the New York Transgender Rights Organization, a man who has lived as a woman since 2000, without surgery, said the changes amount to progress, a move away from American culture's misguided fixation on genitals as the basis for one's gender identity.
"It's based on an arbitrary distinction that says there are two and only two sexes," she said. "In reality the diversity of nature is such that there are more than just two, and people who seem to belong to one of the designated sexes may really belong to the other."


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We offer robust and reliable biogas plants.
Lundsby Biogas Ltd. manage and build turn-key biogas plants in Denmark and the surrounding countries. We cooporate with various suppliers of upgrade plants, if the plant delivers bionatural gas to the Natural Gas Network. We participate in considerations with power/heating plants if there is a possibility of supplying to one. Lundsby Biogas Ltd. always deliver a well-tested and operating biogas plant, including the training of the personel. We provide ongoing support until the manager feels safe with the technical and biological part of the biogas plant.
Lundsby Biogas Ltd. puts great effort in making sustainable, robust and simple biogas plants. We constantly develop the plants in cooporation with new and existing customers. We have ongoing contact to the managers that are running the biogas plants. They are exchanging experiences with each other from the daily operations.
Lundsby Biogas Ltd. provide credible and competent advice from the initial meeting with the customer. This typically starts with visiting an existing Lundsby Biogas plant. This provides the opportunity to discuss the challenges with producing biogas with the manager at the plant.
Lundsby Biogas was established in 2005 by Erik Lundsby Andreasen. Erik Lundsby sold at least 35 biogas plants through more than 20 years. The sizes of the plants varied from 100 KW plants to big plants with upgrade modules and gives the possibility to provide the upgraded natural biogas to "Naturgasnettet".
In 2015, Erik Lundsby Andreasen chose to sell Lundsby Bioenergy Ltd. ti 3 investors, who now continous under the name Lundsby Biogas Ltd. The majority shareholder is SIC Stenger & Ibsen Construction, who previously build biogas plants along with Lundsby Bioenergi Ltd. The to other owners is CEO Gert Rosenqvist and Senior Project Manager Karsten Hjort, who both run the company on a daily basis.


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The Norwegian Civil Aviation Authority has grounded all search and rescue flights of the H225 helicopter indefinitely following a fatal accident in Norway in April. The new restriction applies from June 1 and is in response to the findings of a preliminary report into the April 29 accident. The Airbus H225 (EC225LP) helicopter was en route from the Statoil-operated Gullfaks … [Read more...]
Offshore Community Mourns Victims of Helicopter Crash in Norway
Norwegian oil company Statoil and the greater offshore community are mourning the loss of 13 people who died in Friday's helicopter crash in Norway. All 13 people aboard, including 11 passengers and 2 aircrew, were killed when the Super Puma helicopter crashed just offshore of Turøy, Norway, to the west of Bergen. The CHC helicopter was en … [Read more...]


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82 Queen is known for many things, but none perhaps as well as their award-winning she-crab soup. They're not greedy about the recipe. They share it right there on the website, but you're much better off stopping by for lunch in the courtyard and slurping your way through a big bowl. It's so good.
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Episode #56 Data Science from Scratch
You likely know that Python is one of the fastest growing languages for data science.This is a discipline that combines the scientific inquiry of hypotheses and tests, the mathematical intuition of probability and statistics, the AI foundations of machine learning, a fluency in big data processing, and the Python language itself. That is a very broad set of skills we need to be good data scientists and yet each one is deep and often hard to understand.That's why I'm excited to speak with Joel Grus, a data scientist from Seattle. He wrote a book to help us all understand what's actually happening when we employ libraries such as scikit-learn or numpy. It's called Data Science from Scratch and that's the topic of this week's episode.Links from the show:
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The 2010 ASUG BusinessObjects User Conference begins this week at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort. Hundreds of SAP BusinessObjects enthusiasts will gather to make the most of their current tools and to see a glimpse of the future. I'm presenting three breakout sessions at the conference. The focus of the conference will be the public unveiling of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0, the first major release of the BusinessObjects platform since SAP acquired BusinessObjects two years ago.
Of course, change is both fun and frightening. Just as Sniff, Scurry, Hem and Haw learned to cope in Who Moved My Cheese?, all SAP BusinessObjects professionals are learning to cope with "Who Moved My BusinessObjects"- SAP. SAP has already started barbecuing the sacred cow of product names (see related article SAP BusinessObjects Product Name Change by SAP Mentor Simon To on the SAP Community). But more is happening in the business intelligence world than mere software vendor acquisitions and branding strategies. The world is indeed changing. Five years ago, the iPhone and iPad did not exist. But the era of mobile computing is here, and we're privileged to live in it. Five years ago, ASUG was not organizing BusinessObjects user groups. Five years ago, I was helping organizations implement BusinessObjects with their custom AS/400 and niche-vendor ERP solutions. Today, these organizations are performing global deployments of SAP ERP.
So while SAP BusinessObjects will remain open to all data, a significant number of organizations are running their businesses differently than just five years ago. And SAP is responding to the customer landscape, not just its internal marketing standards. Besides, "All Information, All People, One Platform" doesn't magically happen once the software is installed. It happens because people make committed efforts to improve the operational efficiency of their entire organization, not just their organization's IT department.
I'll have to be honest. I'm not looking forward to doing Google searches on "Dashboards". "Xcelsius" was a much more focused and relevant search term. But I have to decide if I'm going to Hem or Haw.
So let's come together this week and admire the new shiny toys- Crystal Reports 2011, Analysis (Pioneer), Dashboards (Xcelsius), Explorer, and the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 platform. And admire the giant iPhone demos. Learn to make the most of the software we've already deployed. Catch up with Twitter friends that are seen only once a year. Find a table of strangers, share a meal, and build a network. Build new relationships with the folks in SAP shirts. Put on a pair of mouse ears. And have a great time.
You can follow the conference on Twitter with the hashtag #SBOUC.
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Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Art We Heart... Dionne Kitching
The second artist I want to feature in our 'Art We Heart' series is Dionne Kitching. I first met Dionne at a Crafty Fox Market last year when we were stall neighbours. I absolutely adore her style of illustration, and of course the fact that she features lots of bears and wolves in her work, and regretted not being able to purchase everything from her stall! Fast forward to a few months ago, and I spotted this beautiful hand painted wood wall piece on her Instagram feed and knew he had to be mine!
I adore peach, grey, and minty green together as a colour combination - I am currently planning out a crochet pillow/throw combo that uses those very colours. Although the piece is painted you can still see the texture of the wood coming through, and around the edge the original rustic bark of the tree is still on, which contrasts beautifully with the modern style of painting.
Thank you so much for creating such gorgeous art Dionne - I will treasure this piece forever, and hope to add more to my wall very soon! I'd love to hear who your favourite artists/illustrators/creators of art are - there are few things I love more than discovering new creatives to follow!
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I love getting comments and read every single one. I try to check out the blogs of people who leave comments, and reply wherever possible :) Thank you! xoxo
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University Of Oregon
UO board bars the public from 'training' event
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The University of Oregon Board of Trustees excluded a newspaper reporter and a blogger from its Saturday morning meeting at the Hilton Eugene.
Board Secretary Angela Wilhelms said the board had convened for a "training" about the operations of TrackTown USA and the public — and its media representatives — were excluded.
Trustees need to understand the nonprofit TrackTown's operations because, even though it's not an official part of the university, TrackTown stages events at Hayward Field, Wilhelms said.
"It's important to understand the interplay between the two," she said.
Saturday marked a third day of meetings for the new UO board, which took charge of the university in July.
Board members and university administrators — many in yellow and green regalia — attended the 8:30 a.m. breakfast meeting it the Hilton Eugene's 12th-floor Vista room, which has floor-to-ceiling windows and spectacular views of the city.
The plan was to finish the board's business in time for kickoff at Autzen Stadium. A quorum of the board planned to attend the game. The agenda emphasized the gathering was a "social event only," according to the board's agenda.
The nature of the Saturday morning meeting evolved daily through the board's fall session. On Wednesday, the agenda posted on the trustees' website said this: "Public Meeting, Eugene Hilton, Vista Room."
On Thursday, the first day of the board's fall meeting, Chairman Chuck Lillis began describing the Saturday meeting — and was interrupted by Wilhelms.
"There's nothing like having a coach," Lillis said, before continuing.
"We're going to hear a discussion. It will be in a nonpublic environment about the possibility of the state of Oregon hosting, centered in Eugene, the world championships of track and field."
Eugene is competing with Barcelona, Spain, and Doha, Qatar, to host the 2019 International Association of Athletics Federation World Championships.
"It's never been held in the United States," Lillis said, "just other small college towns, like Paris."
Under Oregon Public Meetings Law, reporters are allowed to attend nonpublic executive sessions; however, they are prohibited from reporting what they hear. The provision is a safeguard against public bodies making decisions in private.
But Friday afternoon, the trustees changed the Saturday morning agenda to say that its fall meeting was adjourned. The next day, when journalists arrived at the Hilton, they reclassified the meeting as a "training."
The Oregon Attorney General's Manual calls closing public meetings for board training a "very sensitive area" that depends on whether any substantive issues are discussed.
If a meeting is for the purpose of gathering information to serve as the basis for a subsequent decision or recommendation by the governing body, the meeting is subject to the law, according to the manual.
"An informed public must be aware not only of the decisions of government, but also of 'the information upon which the decisions were made,' " the manual says.
UO Professor Bill Harbaugh, who was the blogger who was turned away from the meeting, said "clearly they're skirting the open meetings law. Obviously they're going to have to deliberate about getting the national championships here."
The TrackTown USA presentation is likely to undergird a significant financial decision down the road, Harbaugh said.
"You know the subsidies for that are going to be huge. They're going to be millions and millions of dollars from UO and probably from the city, too."
The university's conduct, however, generally is more open than it was before July, when the university was governed by the state, Harbaugh said.
University administrators detailed their future plans during the open parts of the day's long meetings. "It's a big improvement over the past," he said.
Follow Diane on Twitter @diane_dietz . Email firstname.lastname@example.com .


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|Release date
|19 July 2010 (Update)
|Main music
|Unknown Edit
|Strongest monster
|Blue dragon
|Dwarf multicannon allowed
|Quests taking place here
|Blue dragon
The Taverley blue dragon resource dungeon is a resource dungeon found in the blue dragon room of Taverley Dungeon. It has a Dungeoneering requirement of 60 to enter. Inside are several blue dragons and multiple blue dragon scales, which are scattered around a large pillar and are close together. The blue dragon dungeon has several safespots for rangers and mages, with each safe spot covering 1 or 2 dragons. Collecting blue dragon scales from inside the dungeon provides a minimal speed difference as opposed to collecting them outside. When using a spirit terrorbird, collecting scales from inside the dungeon as opposed to collecting them from outside where there are 7 spawns, the whole run will only be about 10 seconds quicker. Players will be granted 7,000 Dungeoneering experience upon first entrance to the dungeon.
Trips to this resource dungeon are greatly simplified by using a combination of teleport tabs to Taverley available after the quest Love Story or Teleport to house tablets if the player's house is in Taverley, and a free return trip to a bank with a ring of kinship (or other teleport jewellery). The ring will still function even if a monster attacks during the teleport phase, but not if the player is already under attack, so another method such as ring of duelling may be more suitable.
- The resource dungeon was graphically updated in September 2013.


text: America, Racism and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum by Steve Treder January 17, 2006 The historical fact of the Negro Leagues has long presented a complex of challenges to Major League Baseball and its fans. On the one hand, that such a Jim Crow institution ever existed, that its founders were forced to create it, is an enormously sad fact, properly engaged with a sense of bitterness, indeed disgust. On the other hand, the institution of Negro League baseball itself, its players, teams and fans, earn neither bitterness nor disgust; Negro League games were very obviously vivid pageants of fun, high energy and excellence, and they deserve to be remembered and celebrated as such. It's taken MLB, its fans and the mainstream sports media a long time to figure out just exactly how to deal with the reality of the Negro Leagues. In the 1960s, when I was a kid, the subject was almost entirely ignored, and when mentioned, it was treated rather dismissively, the way one might embarrassedly shush away a crazy old uncle who comes stumbling and scratching into the living room when new friends are visiting. It took almost 40 years for Negro League stars to be seen as eligible to be considered for the honor of Hall of Fame induction. The dynamic has shifted dramatically, of course. It's become accepted, even hip, to not only acknowledge but sincerely celebrate the history of the Negro Leagues. Ken Burns's Baseball documentary film, released in 1994, turned the strikingly photogenic and charismatic Buck O'Neil into something of a mainstream celebrity. And today, thanks in large part to the persistent leadership and star power of the redoubtable O'Neil himself, there exists a Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. The Museum Last week business took me to Kansas City, and I paid my first visit to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. I'm delighted to report that this museum is completely gorgeous, a marvelous place. Its visitor is richly rewarded with an experience that's at once comfortably welcoming, colorfully captivating and intellectually stimulating. If you've ever wondered if this attraction would be worth your time, if it would repay the investment of a stopover in Kansas City and the devotion of a couple of hours, wonder no longer. My advice is, enthusiastically: make the stop and visit the museum the next time the opportunity presents itself. You'll be glad you did. I'm a fancier of museums of all kinds—art museums, science museums, history museums—I seek them all out. You might infer therefore that I'm a softie, an easy mark for museums, but honestly I don't think that's the case. Since I've visited so many, all over the U.S. and in other countries, I believe it's fair to say I've developed a rather high museum standard. The mere display of interesting artifacts won't cut it. To please me, a museum must add value, it must take its inherently interesting content and make it come alive, presenting the content in such a way that the presentation itself is a major element of interest. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum meets this standard with élan; it's a wonderfully designed and executed display. Sincerely, it's difficult to imagine how it could be done any better than it is. It isn't a large place; it doesn't feature anything close to half the exhibit space of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. But the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum makes maximum use of its environment. It isn't crowded, but neither is there any wasted space. The basic design is quite ingenious. The centerpiece attraction is the "Field of Legends," a mock baseball diamond featuring an exquisitely rendered life-sized bronze statue of an all-time great Negro Leaguer at every position. Satchel Paige is pitching, with Josh Gibson catching and Martin Dihigo at bat. Playing first base is Buck Leonard, at second is Ray Dandridge, at shortstop John Henry Lloyd, at third Judy Johnson, in left field Cool Papa Bell, in center field Oscar Charleston, and in right field Leon Day. Managing the crew, alertly surveying the action with his foot poised upon the imaginary dugout step, is O'Neil. The visitor enters the museum and sees this magically inviting tableau, but cannot enter it. A sequence of exhibits leads the visitor around the Field of Legends, starting at the first base side and circling it in a counter-clockwise path (metaphorically rounding the bases, if you will). The exhibits are terrific, presenting just the right balance of physical artifacts (gloves, balls, uniforms, scorecards and so forth) with explanatory text, photos, video and audio. The tricky tasks of educating while entertaining and of addressing both the sweet and bitter aspects of Negro League reality are handled with aplomb. Children over the age of 10 or so, especially those with an interest in baseball but really any with an appreciation for history, will have a good time and learn something. One of the final exhibits is perhaps the best: "Legends' Lockers" displays, for every Negro Leaguer so far inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, a mockup locker, with one of the great's vintage uniforms colorfully displayed on a hanger, along with photos and career information. The Cooperstown Hall, tremendous as it is, could well benefit from a similar mode of display, which brings each star's humanity to palpable life. And then, a couple of exhibits later, the visitor is finally allowed to enter the Field of Legends from the left field corner. The player statues are hauntingly lifelike, all the more for their full-sized verisimilitude and our ability to examine them up close from 360 degrees. One gets a real sense of what these guys were like. I'm a pretty big fellow myself, taller than most of these great old athletes, but Satchel Paige towers over me, in gaunt, wiry toughness. The experience is electrifying. 18th and Vine The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is where it is, in Kansas City and on 18th Street, in the 18th-and-Vine neighborhood, for important historical reasons. It was in this city, and in this black district, that the mighty Rube Foster and others met in February 1920 and founded the Negro National League. The establishment of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum at this site in 1997 was part of an ambitious plan to revitalize the 18th-and-Vine district, to stimulate a regeneration of some of its Jazz-Age glory. Indeed, the Negro Leagues museum shares a building with the American Jazz Museum (which, while well done, I didn't find to be nearly as clever or compelling as the baseball museum, and I'm a huge jazz fan). The 18th-and-Vine area of Kansas City was a verdant oasis in the parched desert of Jim Crow America, a fountain of black artistic and economic creativity, flowing with music and frolic and commerce and sin of all description. I'd love to report that today the neighborhood surrounding 18th Street is blooming anew, but I cannot. The area surrounding the 18th-and-Vine district today remains, in a word, blighted. To be sure, there are far worse slums; this portion of Kansas City doesn't approach the apocalyptic bombed-out look of parts I've seen of the Bronx, or Detroit, or (what used to be) New Orleans or for that matter some areas of San Francisco or Oakland. The vicinity of 18th-and-Vine appears to be more deserted and abandoned, than festering with vileness and misery. Save for a smattering of thrift stores, pawn shops and bail bond offerings, there appears to be almost no activity at all; there isn't even much graffiti. Indeed, the content of both the Negro League Museum and its Jazz Museum companion offers ironic commentary on the surrounding neighborhood. Both museums celebrate the richness and vibrancy of life in an African-American community shouldering the crushingly unfair burden of Jim Crow discrimination. Today, Jim Crow is long dead, a demise mourned by no one of conscience. Yet the 18th-and-Vine district of Kansas City sits amid a broad tract of bleak, inert economic and social ruin, in stark contrast to the bright, albeit tightly circumscribed, prosperity and vigor the all-black neighborhood displayed 75 or more years ago. Where Are We Now?A Hardball Times Updateby Rachael McDanielGoodbye for now. Thus among the many questions confronting the visitor to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is the big one: just where are we today regarding the issues surrounding race in the U.S.? Too often, examination of the integration of baseball properly hails the courage of the pioneer Jackie Robinson, but then assumes something of a self-congratulatory tone, more than implying that everyone lived happily ever after. A similar dynamic often occurs in the discussion of larger racial issues as well, substituting Justice Thurgood Marshall or Rosa Parks or Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King for Robinson, and again closing on the presumption that bigotry was in our midst, that racial injustice was a national scandal, until a larger-than-life hero (Robinson/Marshall/Parks/King) came along and saved the day. The truth is vastly more complicated, of course, and vastly less sanguine. A half century following Brown versus Board of Education, thousands of American public schools remain as racially segregated as ever—not by law, but instead by de facto residential segregation, and by the ability and desire of affluent white families to avoid the use of urban public schools altogether. A half century following the banishment of Jim Crow legal structures, business enterprises such as professional baseball are genuinely integrated, but racial ghettos such as that in Kansas City stubbornly persist in nearly every major American city. The historical fact of the Negro Leagues still presents a complex of challenges to Major League Baseball and its fans. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is a great institution, properly and beautifully honoring the rich history of that enterprise and its stars: African-Americans living noble, creative and successful lives despite the wrongs done them by Jim Crow. But the honor the rest of us pay to their legacy becomes deeper and stronger to the degree that we're honest about what's happened and continues to happen in the absence of Jim Crow. That kind of honesty is too rarely an element in the modern MLB's and the modern mainstream culture's feel-good celebration of Negro League Baseball. Visit the museum; it's fun and fascinating. Enjoy it as a baseball fan, and appreciate its contribution to the preservation and understanding of American history. Bring your kids and leverage the visit into your conversations about bigotry and justice. And ponder seriously the questions the experience raises. References & ResourcesEven if you're unable to visit the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, you can support it through membership. Click here for information. No visit to Kansas City is complete, I'm sure, without a taste of that town's legendary barbecue cuisine. A business colleague took me out to a quaint little old place, in the far southern hinterland district of KC known as Martin City, called Fiorella's Jack Stack. Oh my. Spectacularly good. The side dish "Cheesy Corn Bake" was a surprise treat amid the gloriously sumptuous slow-cooked meats.


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The beauty of a frosty spring or fall morning is something to relish. Most gardeners don't really design for it, but why not? There are plenty of cool-weather plants that not only tolerate a bit of frost, but are enhanced by it! You can set them out in spring or fall and in some climates, even watch them bloom through winter.
Find the right cool-weather plant
Here are eight plants that thrive in cool weather. Many of the flowers are available in a variety of colors, so you have a lot of options if you are looking for a particular color. Browse the tables at your garden center or peruse your favorite mail-order nursery's offerings to find the one that's just right for your garden.
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After a hard day's activities, there's nothing like kicking back with a cocktail to help you relax. These colorful alcoholic beverages can "take the edge off' and a look at the contents of your drink can explain why. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), a "standard" drink in the U.S. is regarded as any beverage containing about 6 ounces or 14 grams of "pure" alcohol. So, it stands to reason that the more pure alcohol in a drink, the more you will feel its effects. Content matters Read More »
Tag Archives: beer
5 Hangover Cures That Actually Work.
The dreaded hangover. We have all had one, or hundreds. I remember my college days where I could drink all night long, take shots of whatever I felt like, and mix liquor and beer every night. Sadly, the glory days have been replaced with mornings of regret and misery. It seems as if only a few drinks can have me curled up in bed dying the next day. I wake up, reality sets in and you will feel like I was ran over by a train. Going to work or trying to do anything productive hungover is awful and sometimes even impossible. Luckily, there are however a few cures that should help can help shake any hangover immediately. Read More »
Hold Your Liquor: 4 Tips To Stay Sober Longer.
With the holiday season drawing nearer, it's safe to assume that alcohol consumption will be on the rise, too. Alcohol is one of the most abused substances, but in most states it is not illegal to drink, as long as the age requirement is met and you don't break laws related to drinking. Excessive alcohol consumption has adverse effects on the physical health and mental acuity of the heavy drinker, aside from the social blunders and legal troubles that you may get into from being intoxicated. There are countless horror stories of the effects of getting drunk, from vomiting on your date's dress to getting handcuffed for overly rowdy behavior. That is why it is imperative for men and women who drink beer, wine or liquor to learn how to hold their alcohol. Holding your liquor means not losing control of yourself when drinking. Read More »
5 Signs Your Spouse Is An Alcoholic.
Sometimes it is hard to believe that the people we love are developing an addiction. It can be difficult to tell the difference between a person who drinks socially and one who has a serious problem especially when it is someone close to you like your own spouse. If you are beginning to wonder if your spouse is an alcoholic then there are a number of signs to watch out for before confronting him or her. If they seem to show several of the signs of alcoholism then it may be time to get them to seek help for their addiction. Read More »
Women And Alcohol: A Lethal Mix.
Contrary to some feminists' claims, men and women are NOT created equal, at least as far as the effects of alcohol drinking is concerned. Women who want to protest this particular inequality are up against data and statistics that unanimously support the hypothesis. Read More »
How to Talk to your Teen about Peer Pressure and Alcohol.
Every teenager is going to deal with peer pressure at some point, and they are also likely to inflict the same thing upon other teens. In some instances, this can be relatively harmless, but peer pressure can also cause teenagers to undertake risky behavior such as drinking, experimenting with drugs and having sex before they are emotionally ready to take such a big step. Because of this, it is imperative for parents to take the time to discuss all of these issues with their teen. Keep in mind that getting drunk even one time could lead to serious legal consequences, especially if your teenager makes the bad decision to get behind the wheel while they are intoxicated. Read More »
The Correlation Between Acid Reflux And Alcohol.
What is Acid Reflux? Acid reflux is a disorder that occurs when the sphincter muscles found in the digestive tract are dysfunctional leading to refluxes of the stomach contents to the esophagus. Symptoms of acid reflux include heartburn, severe cough, voice problems, and the urge to frequently clear your throat. Specific foods and beverages may make you more susceptible to acid reflux like tomatoes, chocolates, caffeine as well as alcohol. Alcohol and Acid Reflux Read More »
Booze And Fitness -Is it Healthy;Can They Go Together?
Alcohol is one of mankind's most cherished social lubricants. After the Sumerians first brewed beer- there was no turning back. For almost as far back as recorded history, alcohol has been the balm after (or during) a hard day's work. It's not surprising that many are concerned about giving up alcohol when starting a fitness program. The good news is, moderate amounts of certain types of booze – namely beer and wine – have been shown to have beneficial effects. Drinking beer can improve cardiovascular health and wine has antioxidant properties. So drinking and fitness can coexist? Well...yes and no. Read More »
Different Types Of Beer.
People have enjoyed beer for hundreds of years, and during that time, it has evolved into a variety of types. All of beer's body, colors and flavors fall into two main categories: ale and lager. Altogether, those two classifications encompass thousands of types of beer; the two categories' primary difference is in their brewing temperature and the yeast used in the brewing process. Lager beer uses yeast which ferments best at colder temperatures, and ales use a different kind of yeast that ferments best when it's warm. Both ales and lagers also contain water, barley and hops. Beer-drinking is an enjoyable pastime for many, not just for the variety that's available or for the relaxing feeling of kicking back with a cold brew, but for the experience of savoring the flavor. If you want to know more about beer and begin to experiment with beer/food pairings, you should read on to learn more about the different types of beer. Read More »
How Alcohol Affects Business: The Trouble Of Drinking With Coworkers.
Drinking alcohol socially is often an expected part of the business world, but this can lead to some issues if you fail to stop before you begin to feel intoxicated. On the other hand, if you are able to handle your liquor responsibly, the socialization that accompanies going out with co-workers for a drink can often bring a team closer together. Although some companies frown on fraternization, it is common for co-workers and even supervisors to go out for a drink either after work or to celebrate a special occasion. Read More »
4 Main Treatment Methods in the Common Alcohol Rehab Programs.
The effect of alcohol devastates the lives of many people and causes trauma to their families. Fortunately, there are many alcohol rehabilitation centers designed by doctors and medical specialists to solve the problem of continual increase in the number of people addicted to alcohol. Alcohol rehabilitation facilities have come a long way in the past few decades and many alcoholics have started realizing the need for seeking help. Alcoholism is a widespread problem, but many people tend to plainly ignore it until it develops into alcohol dependence and invades their lives completely. Different methods of treatments are applied by the rehab centers to help the patients overcome alcohol dependency. Depending on the condition of the alcoholic, the rehab center provides suitable treatment with a detailed treatment approach. Here are some of the methods applied in alcohol rehabilitation centers. Read More »
Teenagers and Alcohol; What A Parent Should Do To Control Their Child.
As a parent, you have to prepare yourself to the fact that your teen is going to try alcohol one day. It's something that you can't control, especially since you won't be around him most of the time. The only way that you can protect him from the ill effects of alcohol is to make him aware of the consequences of drinking and hope that he listens and exercises good judgment. Read More »