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Can giving my dog ice water cause bloat?
Simple answer… no.
Longer answer….Gastric dilatation-volvulus(GDV) or bloat is a result of the dog swallowing too much air, fluid or both and the stomach "twists". It is not caused by a spasming of the stomach as the article would suggest. The stomach would actually have to twist to cause the bloat and not allow air to escape from the stomach. It is much more likely the dog gulped water down too quickly and with the big gulps, swallowed a lot of air causing the stomach to expand. This is what can lead to bloat.
What to do when your dog is hot…
When your dog is overheated make sure to give them water, but monitor the intake. Dogs who drink too fast, especially larger dogs, are more likely to drink down large amounts of water with the air and lead to bloat.
Safer yet would be to hose them down or apply cool packs to their chest or inside their thighs.
So if you see this link going around facebook (http://wendtworthcorgis.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/no-ice-water-for-dogs-please-read-asap/), please know it is not entirely true.
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March 11, 2013
Notre Dame, Ind. – The Notre Dame hockey team returns to action at 7:05 p.m. on Friday, March 15th when the Irish open the best-of-three CCHA Quarterfinal round versus the Bowling Green Falcons at the Compton Family Ice Arena.
Game two of the series will be played at 7:05 p.m. on Saturday, March 16th and game three, if necessary, will start at 7:05 p.m. on Sunday, March 17. All three games of the series will be televised by Comcast and can be seen on South Bend Comcast Cable Channel 3.
Tickets for all three games of the first round series are on sale now and can be purchased at the Murnane Family Ticket Office in Purcell Pavilion, online at UND.com or by phone at (574) 631-7356.
The Irish finished the 2012-13 CCHA regular season in second place with a 21-12-3 overall record and a 17-8-3-2 mark in the conference, good for 56 points, three behind first-place Miami. Notre Dame received a first round bye in the CCHA playoffs that began last weekend.
Bowling Green will enter the weekend series with a 15-19-5 overall record and was 10-15-3-1 in the CCHA for 34 points and ninth place in the league standings. The Falcons opened the CCHA postseason last weekend, taking the best-of-three first-round series at Lake Superior State, two games to one. After dropping the series opener, 2-0, on Friday night, Bowling Green roared back to take 6-3 and 7-0 wins against the Lakers to advance to the quarterfinals.
The two teams met four times this season in the final year of CCHA play with Notre Dame taking three games to one for the Falcons. The teams split at Bowling Green with the Irish winning, 4-1, on Dec. 15 while the Falcons took a 4-2 decision at home on Jan. 15. They then met in the final weekend of the regular season at the Compton Family Ice Arena with Notre Dame taking 4-3 and 4-1 victories.
This is the first time that the teams have met in CCHA postseason play since the 1994-95 season when Bowling Green swept the Irish in Ohio with 7-2 and 5-4 wins. The two teams have played a total of five CCHA postseason games with the Falcons holding a 4-1 advantage.
Notre Dame and Bowling Green have met a total of 103 times in the all-time series with the Irish holding a 57-38-8 edge. At Notre Dame, the Irish are 31-13-5 versus the Falcons. Bowling Green's last road win came last season when the Falcons took a 3-2 win on Feb. 4, 2012 at the Compton Family Ice Arena where the Irish are 3-1-0 in four meetings.


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I am experimenting with baking bread at home for about six months now. I stopped bringing commercial sliced bread for some time now. I was put off by all the preservatives and other chemicals used in the production of bread. Also, everybody in my family enjoys the artisan bread with butter or bowl of soup. So I tried a number of recipes. My criteria for baking a bread at home is no extra equipment other than an oven, easy, healthy and good texture. This bread checks all my checkpoints. It has a very crisp crust and is so soft and full of bubbles inside. My kids love it. It does take a long time to prepare but most of that is just for the dough to rise. I generally start in the morning and bake it for dinner. It is so satisfying to be able to bake good bread at home. This bread freezes well and also taste very good when you reheat in the oven next day. I hope you try making it and enjoy it. Here is the recipe
2 Cups whole wheat atta flour
1 cup bread flour
1 and a half cup warm water (i heat in microwave for about 40 secs)
1/4 teaspoon instant yeast
1 tablespoon white sugar
2 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon salt
Take a big plastic bowl or container. First, add all dry ingredients and mix. Then add the wet ingredients. I use a big plastic bowl to mix and proof my dough.
Mix all the ingredients together and knead for 3-4 minutes. The dough will be quite wet and sticky. Don't be afraid it will be easier to handle later. I was also very afraid of sticky dough and started with recipes which used the drier dough, but I never got the light airy texture that I was after with a drier dough and once I started working with a sticky dough I found that it was not so difficult after all.
Make a rough ball of the dough in the bowl and then cover with a tea towel.
After half an hour wet your hand with water and gently pull and fold the sides of dough from all four sides over each other one by one. repeat the pull and fold from all sides one more time.
Cover and keep the dough and repeat the process of pulling and folding again. You will see that dough is much more elastic than the last time. It will still be sticky so don't forget to wet your hands with water.
Cover and keep the dough and repeat the process of pulling and folding one last time.
Now cover and let the dough rise for about six hours.
After the six hours take the dough out on a generously floured surface. Pull and fold the dough gently from all the side and make a rough round ball. Take care to not punch the air out of it.
Take a big round bowl about double the size of the dough. We will use this for proofing the bread so it should have space for the rising dough.
Take a big cotton tea towel. Sprinkle flour all over it and then spread it inside the bowl.
Gently drop the bread dough ball over it and sprinkle some dough on top of bread to keep it from drying.
Cover with another tea towel. Let it proof for an hour.
When the bread is proofing for about half an hour, place a pizza stone or a cookie sheet in the middle rack of the oven and let the oven heat at 500F.
Add water to a small ovenproof tray and keep it ready.
After half an hour carefully drop the proofed bread dough on the pizza stone or cookie sheet. Add the water tray on the lower rack. Reduce the oven temperature to 400F.
Bake for about 25-30 minutes till bread is golden brown all over and if you tap on the bottom of bread it sounds hollow.
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(Sunday Color Snippets will return in 2 weeks. Next week join me for Kat Eye Studio's Photo Heart Connection)
Today I've been tagged by magnetised by life...she is a fabulous photographer! I'm going to play along and if I tag you - I hope you'll play too.
The Rules
...you must post the rules
...answer 11 questions the tagger posted for you
...create 11 questions to ask the people you tag
...tag 11 people
...let them know you've tagged them
My questions:
1. If you have/had to get a one word tattoo. What would it be?
2. What are two things you love the sound of?
A cat purring and a child giggling.
3. What is your favorite holiday celebration of the year?
Christmas - it is when I see my family and my extended family.
4. Share some advice on friendship, love or marriage...
It is all about trust and open communication. You are the only person who knows what goes on in your head and your heart - you must share it in order to have strong, sincere relationships.
5. A quote you live by?
I am enough!
6. decisions..decision..heart or head?
Heart...I am a believer in following my intuition.
7. Where are you headed for your next holiday/vacation?
I am not sure - I am visiting my family at the end of May (Wisconsin) so that is kind of a vacation.
8. What is something you do every morning when you get up?
Write or read blogs. The morning is the time that is most quiet in my apartment.
When I am creating art: taking photographs, making jewelry, doodling, making books...I can get lost for hours.
10. What couldn't you live without?
My cameras. I carry at least one with me at all times.
11. Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring...tell us your favorite & what you love most about it.
Autumn - I love the cool nights and warm days. Also, the smell of Autumn reminds me of my childhood.
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Honey & Ollie
Spaark ~ Artistically Afflicted
Happily Ever After by Renee Burke
Jill's Dream
Tattered & Worn
Shells in the Bush
Everyday Endeavours
1. Coffee or Tea?
2. What's your favorite color?
3. What's your least favorite color?
4. Do you use your favorite color more in your art?
5. Are you a cat or a dog person?
6. If you could have lunch with one person (alive or dead) who would it be?
7. Carnivore, Vegetarian, or Vegan?
8. What's your favorite piece of clothing that you wear often?
9. What's your favorite way to spend a rainy afternoon?
10. Snow or Sand?
11. If you had 12 hours in between flights in NYC, what would you do?
Tag...You're It!
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Tag...I'm It!
5 comments:
Thanks so much Lori!! Such a lovely Sunday morning surprise! I'm off to answer my questions and come up with some of my own. xxReplyDelete
You're it again! :-) Of course i had to tag you! How could i not? :-)ReplyDelete
Thanks Lori girl... that was fun.
Ok mine is on its way but it may be a day or two as I am currently in transit!ReplyDelete
Thanks Lori!
::whew:: glad I wasn't tagged, I do horrible at these blo games, lol Just checking in to see how your doing! waving hi from the hills of North Carolina :)ReplyDelete
Lori, I love all your answers...It seems you had fun with it & your images are great. I love to see your images of the city..they have a great feel about them...makes me feel like a local..you take me there.. thanks for playing along & for the return tag I'll play ASAP xoReplyDelete
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Cassia Obovata for Healthy Hair:
I thought it was about time I tried a Cassia treatment on my hair! Cassia Obovata is an Ayurvedic herb that can be used as a natural haircare treatment to achieve healthy, strong, beautiful hair. So if you want to learn more about Cassia and my experience using it, keep reading (and watch the video below!)
Benefits of Cassia:
- Adds shine to hair
- Conditions and strengthens hair
- Helps with scalp conditions (it has antimicrobial and anti-fungal properties)
- Helps eliminate dandruff
- Natural remedy for lice
- Adds volume to hair (some say it makes hair look thicker)
Cassia vs. Henna:
Cassia is sometimes referred to as "neutral henna" however it's not actually related to Henna! Cassia will give your hair similar conditioning benefits to Henna but without the colour. Henna brings out the red tones while Cassia brings out golden tones. Henna is permanent whereas Cassia will wear away and you'll need to keep redoing the treatment to maintain results.
Does Cassia colour hair?
Cassia can add a golden tint to blonde/light brown hair. On dark hair you'll more than likely not see any colour change. Some people have successfully used it to turn their grey/white hair into gold blonde. Im not sure how effective it works on dyed hair.
What to look for:
You want to look for 100% pure, organic Cassia Obovata. I have also read that Cassia Auriculata is essentially the same thing, so you can use either. There should be nothing else on the ingredient list. It will look like a super fine green grass. You also want to look for Cassia that is "fresh". Try to find a brand that discloses what year the crop was from. I ordered mine from Amazon. However I want to try other brands as well. I've heard good things about the Cassia from Henna Sooq, however they were sold out at the time I was ordering. If you guys have a favourite brand, let me know!
Preparing your hair treatment:
First you'll need to decide on the amount of powder needed for your length/thickness of hair.
Recommended amounts: (According to the internet)
- 100g for short hair
- 200g for shoulder length hair
- 300g for long hair
- 400g for waist length hair
I was recommended to use 500g of powder for my length of hair, however I decided to use 400g. It ended up making a lot of paste, so from now on I'm going to use 300g.
First I added the packages of Cassia powder to a mixing bowl and then added warm, distilled water and mixed it until the consistency was similar to pancake batter. It's best to use distilled water because if you live in an area with hard water the minerals can react with the Cassia and turn your hair an unwanted colour (aka. green). I also avoided using metal bowls and utensils because some people say it could cause a reaction (although I think that's more for actual Henna).
You'll notice Cassia smells like grass. I found it to smell like Sweetgrass or Matcha powder. My eyes even went a bit blood shot when preparing the paste because of all the fine grass particles in the air!
Some people also mix in other herbs or teas. I decided to keep mine simple and use only Cassia and distilled water. I want to experiment with adding other herbs (like Amla) in the future.
How to use Cassia on the hair:
It's best to use Cassia on clean hair because it may not bind well to hair that has oils in it. Before I began my treatment I shampooed my hair but skipped the conditioner and let my hair air dry. You can apply it on damp or dry hair, however, it seems most people prefer applying it to dry hair, so that's what I did.
First I sectioned my hair into a few sections and started coating it with Cassia. Then I worked it into the scalp as well as the length of my hair. Once applied, I wrapped my hair up on top of my head (you can use a claw clip to secure it and then put a shower cap on top). I then let it sit for a couple hours (Aka. watch Netflix hehe). Most reviews I read recommended to leave the Cassia on for at least 1-4 hours. The mask was quite heavy on my head and actually gave me a neck-ache so beware if you have long, thick hair.
* Always do a patch test before using Cassia on your hair. I applied a bit of the Cassia to the skin on my wrist to make sure I didn't have any weird skin reactions. After that I applied a bit to one strand of my hair to make sure my hair didn't turn an unwanted colour (better safe than sorry!).*
Rinsing it out:
I was worried that removing the Cassia from my hair would be a difficult endeavor. Luckily I did a lot of research beforehand (thanks internet!) and discovered doing a "mermaid bath" really seems to help with the removal process. To do a mermaid bath, simply fill your bathtub up with water and dunk your hair in! This allows it to come out much easier. After that I applied a generous amount of conditioner (a couple handfuls!) to really help the paste come out/condition my hair. Some people claim Cassia can be drying so I wanted to make sure my hair was properly conditioned. I followed up by rinsing it out in the shower (I didn't use shampoo). Getting the paste out of my hair was quite a time consuming process!
My results:
Since I just rinsed the Cassia out with water (no shampoo) and conditioned, the next morning my hair felt like it had a residue in it. I could also smell the grassy scent so I decided to put some oil in my hair and let it "rest for a day". The next day I shampooed and conditioned like I usually do and that's when I saw the true results!
Although I didn't see dramatic changes in my hair, my hair felt super soft and it did have a bit more shine! I'm not sure if this was due to the Cassia itself or the copious amount of conditioner I used when rinsing it out of my hair. I also noticed the lighter sections of my hair had more of a golden tone (maybe even a bit brassy in some light).
You can see the before and after photos below (there is also before and after video in my YouTube video which is linked down below). I tried to get the lighting in the photos the same. I even wore the same outfit. It was hard to match everything though haha. In the after photo my hair looks like it was brushed smoother, so try to ignore that. In the photos I honestly don't see a difference, however in person I do notice some results.
I found the process to be quite pricey and time consuming since my hair is very long and needed to use a lot of the treatment. If you have short hair it should be quite manageable. I still want to continue using it (maybe once a month or so) to see what cumulative effects it has on my hair. I am hoping that with continued use my hair will be stronger and have less breakage. It was a fun experiment and a cool new addition to my natural haircare routine!
I want to mention again that the results you see from Cassia are not permanent so you will have to continually do these treatments to retain the benefits. I've read that it has a cumulative effect, so the more you do it the better your results will be. It is recommended to do it once a month.
Warnings and additional tips:
* I found the treatment to be extremely messy. I suggest doing it in the bath tub to keep the mess contained. It also stained my towels, so beware.
* It stained under my fingernails brown. So if you have long nails I would recommend using gloves.
* Storage: Store the Cassia powder in a cool/dark place. I keep mine in the freezer.
Want more haircare tips? Check out:
Benefits of Using a Wooden Brush
Avocado Hair Mask Recipe
DIY Herbal Hair Rinses


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Man hurt in fire in North Fayette
A man suffered burns to 95 percent of his body after his truck caught fire early Monday morning.
The fire happened around 4:15 a.m. in a pickup truck on Noblestown Road in North Fayette.
Richard Ackman owns the lot where the truck was found.
"I heard the fire whistle go off, I turned the scanner on and they said, 'Problems in the lot across the street.' Well, that's my lot," Ackman said.
Firefighters were able to rescue the victim. He was being treated at UPMC Mercy for what were described as severe burns. His name was not released.
Police believe the man intentionally set the fire, but it's still under investigation by the Allegheny County fire marshal.
Ackman said he is surprised the man was on his property.
"I said, 'Something more to this story than meets the eye right here.' Something's wrong here," Ackman said. "Trucks just don't burn up like this unless you're carrying your lawnmower gas in the cab."


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I think prophecy is an important part of writing, at least as important as technique or form. I think there are magical processes going on in writing. Like this raven thing. I'd been writing using the raven myth, and when I went up to Sitka in Alaska, the ravens disappeared. It was very unusual. Then the day before I left they all returned and flew around the totems. It was a strange experience.
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The eQuest Project draws from four exemplary environmental education programs:
- Harvard Forest Schoolyard Studies;
- Environment as Integrating Context for learning (EIC),
- Community-based School Environmental Education (CO-SEED) based at Antioch New England Institute;
- The Valley Quest project of Vermont Vital Communities; and educational technology research at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
We combined the Vital Communities Quest-making process with the latest in educational technology to make field-based digital Quests that serve the Athol community in 2009.
Following elements of EIC and the CO-SEED model, we seek to gather together "a partnership between a higher education institution (UMass, Harvard Forest), schools (ARRSD), diverse community organizations (several), and an environmental learning center (MREC)" (David Sobel, Place-based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities, p. 83).
Valley Quests typically focus on local social and natural history with works created with various analog writing tools and papers. We look forward to the challenge of making Quests that are equally interesting and personal using digital means. We also look forward to creating research science-based Quests by connecting to programs like the Harvard Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Schoolyard Program: Buds, Leaves, and Global Warming, cited above.
This project curriculum envisions students working with instructors, school staff, and community members as a community of learners. Partners are also learning and providing expertise as the curriculum evolves during project implementation. This is a cutting edge curriculum, piloting new technologies in the service of learning and place based studies.
The curriculum outline shows the themes or questions, timeline of implementation for each group (Tues/Thurs and Mon/Wed) as well as the community sites to visit and the lead technology introduced or used for that event.
The eQ Program Matrix (PDF) is a list of specific MA framework items in Arts, English, Science and Technology, and History for grades 6 to 8 and their referent in the eQuest framework. It is important to note that all the MA frameworks mention that skills acquired in earlier grades will be applied in the succeeding grades. In science and history, the most directly related subjects are covered in earlier years. Local and regional history is covered in grades 3 and 4. In science, grades 3 to 5 cover weather, water cycle, generate questions, investigate possible solutions, make predictions and evaluate conclusions. Much of the content of this program applies skills learned in earlier grades. These earlier grade framework items have not been included.
It is also important to note that the philosophies and guiding principles of each of the above subject frameworks are highly congruent with the approach adopted by the eQuest Productions approach. Our approach in this project is not so much to provide instruction in the nuts and bolts of content but to provide opportunities for students to apply what they've learned in the classroom to a real world set of problems.
This real-world set of problems is contained within our hypothetical production company, eQuest Productions. The mission of eQuest Productions is to design, produce, and distribute field-based, digital Quests that serve the Athol community. Our ultimate goal in the first year of this project was the creation of podQuests for the downtown Millers River area from Starrett's to Rich Park. Students made many drafts or design studies that exercised their knowledge of maps and introduced new concepts. We emphasized the practice of design studies throughout the project, in the same way that a real design company would produce a myriad of studies before arriving at a final design.
We wanted students to apply their knowledge, to show what they know, to increase what they know and show that. Many times we shot first and asked questions later. That is, produce the work first, then discuss it, formulate criteria, revise in light of criteria, try again. Most project work was not aimed at producing finished works, but aimed in a kind of successive approximation toward arriving at our final goal. Most people can speak very understandably without having a clue about the rules of grammar. In the same way, we wanted students to produce first, then learn and apply rules, then work towards final pieces.
We began with a series of sessions on mapping. We introduced a definition of a map as a graphic statement that locates facts. We located a number of activities around this central concept. Students produced map studies including a floor map of the relative locations of their houses from east to west and north to south, created a photo mosaic map from photos produced of the floor map session, located their houses on a road map, created maps of imaginary places using graphic statements, locational elements, and various facts. We did rudimentary hide a penny and around the school Quests.
From Maps we moved to Story. Of the many ways to approach Story, we used two main elements, the Interview and the Story I Want to Hear. We learned how to conduct interviews and turn them into stories from guest reporters from the Athol Daily News. We developed a simple exercise, If you could hear a story from anyone living or dead, who would it be, what would it be, and why? Many of the responses were heartfelt. We visited the library to look for resources that might help tell the Story that I Want to Hear. We discussed other methods of tracking down the story and students were tasked with finding more about the Story that They Wanted to Hear on their own and worked toward recording these stories.
We applied the lessons we learned making interviews and tracking stories as we begin the third phase, Podcasting. A podcast is a recent technological medium. It is essentially a radio broadcast posted on the web. Once posted it may be downloaded to a computer or to a portable device like an ipod or compatible cell phone. Once downloaded, the podcast may be listened to anywhere, including the site it might describe. The audio for our podcasts will be recorded and edited by the students. We recorded interviews with people involved with the River Rat race—organizers, racers, boat builders, river keepers and fishermen. We begin a phenology study with Harvard Forest and visited their weather station as part of ongoing collection of site observations. We meet local people involved in fishing, hunting, and other outdoor pursuits and occupations. We recorded ambient sounds. We will make simple musical accompaniments from sampled sounds. We began making enhanced podcasts. An enhanced podcast displays photos and scanned images as well as audio. Students photographed the people and places they visited. We scanned students' drawings and maps and include them as well. All these elements were rolled into the enhanced podcasts during the next phase of project implementation.
Finally, we combined our work with maps, story, and podcasts into podQuests. We aimed to make a new form Quest, a kind of guided treasure hunt that leads participants through points of interest in a given landscape. Whereas traditional Quests have been paper-based with all kinds of wonderful written and hand-drawn clues, we will be guiding people through the landscape using our enhanced podcasting techniques. Our podQuests will supplement the Tool Town Quest currently available in the Athol Public Library, a Quest that the participating students have taken. Our podQuest covers the area from Starrett's to Rich Park, along the river and the back streets of downtown. It is hoped that podQuests will encourage members of the Athol community to explore the area, to start to produce their own Quests, and serve as a small engine of environmentally-based, locally-produced economic development.
Podcasts and podQuests will be free and available to the computer-using public. Participating students will become a resource for producing podcasts and podQuests.


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Pear's Gourmet has the best peanuts, almonds, cashews and pecans ever! I'm totally addicted to the honey roasted chipotle peanuts. I love that I can buy these online directly from Pear's Gourmet! I wish Pear's sold the Honey Roasted Chipotle flavored peanuts in bulk because we eat so many! Thank you!
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Totally agree Paul...unless in the hand, you can never be sure 100%.lloydie1109 wrote: ↑17 Aug 2018, 12:39I am not sure if you where there Ian, but about 2008 at Renishaw a chap had something similar on sale, he had about 3 different display units, I know Pete Moss bought one, one was very close to the ones discussed here. Without actually seeing them in the flesh, so to speak, we cannot say for certain one way or the other, my mate from SSG has said about 30 such things where taken by HASBRO on the closure of Oulton Gate.spudski wrote: ↑17 Aug 2018, 12:15Hey Paul...hope you are good bud...
Maybe they did have them made Paul, I'll bow to your better knowledge on such things...however... I honestly don't think these examples are the real deal.
So many things standing out as wrong on all of them.
Take the 1968 display as an example. It's obviously a Catalogue cut up and slapped on some cardboard. You can even see the crease and staple marks/holes. Even the names of the teams are cut out from a 70's poster catalogue and stuck on. Karlsruher weren't even mentioned by SSG in 1968...not until the 70's poster catalogues. So a 1968 display with 1970's poster names stuck on...
Then the majority of the ohw players all have playwear.
There are endless mistakes on all of these imo.
If i'm proved wrong i'll willingly apologise and crawl back under my rock...but imo...these are way off the mark.
Also something to bare in mind, back in those days no computer generated screen shots where done, so perhaps, and its a guess, certain things were hand made. I know for certain that things from the warehouse in Dublin do appear on ebay from time to time. Like I say without having in ones hands we cannot confirm one way or the other
And yes I can imagine many things were made by hand and were often rough.
I'm still not convinced by these examples though...too many things ring bells for me, but it would be lovely to be proved wrong. I won't be bidding though. Thanks for the input...much appreciated as always fella.


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Prodigious vocalist Pandit Satyasheel Deshpande, who popularised the khyal form of singing and devoted his life to the study of Indian Classical music, will receive the Vatsalabai Joshi award at the Sawai Gandharva Bhimsen Mahotsav, this year. Kartiki Nitin Lawate caught up with the music maestro to talk about this prestigious award and his musical journey
What do you have to say about the award that will be conferred on you at the music festival?
I feel really privileged, since I will be receiving this award at the Sawai Gandharva Bhimsen Mahotsav, which is one of the most well-known music festivals in the country. Also, I knew Vatsalabai Joshi personally and I know her contribution to the life of Pandit Bhimsen Joshi (the founder of the festival) and his music. So, getting an award in her name is truly an honour for me.
Do you feel that the guru- shishya tradition is losing its importance in today's times?
Youngsters today want quick fame; they don't have the patience to learn. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi used to say that a student must first have the patience to just sit for two hours, only then will I teach that person. But, students get bored very fast nowadays. They want quick publicity. Classical training is not just about learning ragas, it is also the thought process that the teacher shares with his students. People also enroll in online music courses and some even feel that they can learn by listening to CDs. But, these are not the ideal ways to learn as when you learn from a teacher, you come to know a lot of things about music that you won't through other means.
Tell us something about your Samvaad project?
Samvaad was inspired by my father's (Vamanrao Deshpande) book, Indian Musical Tradition. The book is about the aesthetic values inherent in musical gharanas. In Samvaad, I did a study of all the gharanas and did their comparative study also. While doing the analysis, I got in touch with many maestros of different gharanas, who may not be very popular, but are the best in their field. The Ford Foundation, USA, presented me with a grant in 1987, under their education & culture programme. With the help of this grant, I established the Samvaad Foundation. I created one of the largest and most valuable archives of Hindustani music in the country. Some of the names that make up Samvaad's catalogue are Ustad Salamat Ali, Ustad Nayaz Ahmed, Ustad Aslam Khan, Pandit Jitendra Abhisheki, Pandit KG Ginde, Pandit CP Rele, Shobha Gurtu, Pandit Jagdish Prasad and Pandit Ramashreya Jha, among others. The method adopted at Samvaad is one of unprejudiced comparative analysis between alternate interpretations of classical forms. This work, besides unquestionably being of great value to contemporary and future students, has also deeply enriched my own vision of music.
You have sung in Bollywood films as well with Asha Bhosale, Hridaynath Mangeshkar and even Lata Mangeshkar. Tell us about it.
The experience was good. I sang only Classical songs. The major difference I found in Bollywood was that there was a time limit to sing a song, which is not there in concerts. First time I sang in a film was in Vijaya. Lekin was my next venture. I feel old movies had good scope for songs and even Classical singers like me used to get a chance to sing. But, now the kind of movies that are being made are not the kinds in which we can sing.
You have learned from Pandit Kumar Gandharva and also sung with Pandit Bhimsen Joshi. Please tell us about these legends.
I feel that Kumarji was a great guru. He never told us to follow him in any way. He encouraged us to develop our own style. He never forced us to do anything and Pandit Bhimsen Joshi was a great learned person too.
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text: The latest attacks come just days after the Afghan Taliban leader urged his fighters to avoid civilian casualties [AFP] At least 11 people have been killed by a roadside bomb in northwest Afghanistan, sources say. Two officers and eight civilians were among those killed after the blast struck a police vehicle and another car behind it in Badghis province late on Monday, Faizullah Azimi, the province's council chairman, said. "A mine planted by the Taliban hit a police vehicle in Qadis district yesterday evening leaving two policemen and eight civilians dead," Azimi told the AFP news agency. "All the civilians were members of the same family." "Two policemen and one child were also injured." Monday was the second day of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha, when many Afghans celebrate by visiting friends and family. It was the fourth attack during Eid in Afghanistan. On Sunday, a Taliban suicide bomber killed seven people returning from prayers at a mosque in Baghlan in northern Afghanistan. The Taliban's spokesman was not immediately reachable to comment on the latest attack. It came just days after Mullah Omar, the Afghan Taliban leader, urged his fighters to avoid civilian casualties in the decade-long Afghan war. The Taliban published a statement on Friday on their website attributed to Mullah Omar, calling on fighters "to take every step to protect the lives and wealth of ordinary people". The statement, issued to mark Eid al-Adha, warned of punishments under Islamic Sharia law for fighters responsible for civilian deaths. The UN says the number of civilians killed in the Afghan war in the first half of this year rose 15 percent to 1,462, with anti-government fighters behind 80 percent of the deaths. Around 140,000 international troops, mostly from the US, are serving in Afghanistan, helping government forces fight a bloody, Taliban-led armed campaign. Limited withdrawals of foreign troops have already started, and all combat forces are due to leave by the end of 2014, although a sizeable training and mentoring mission is expected to remain. SOURCE: Agencies Asia US & Canada Afghanistan United States


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Recently published research from Business Monitor International, "Slovenia Information Technology Report Q3 2012", is now available at Fast Market Research
Boston, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/09/2012 -- BMI View: Slovenian IT spending is expected to reach US$949mn in 2012, with growth of -3%, in US dollar terms, compared with 2011, as the market continues to feel the effects of the economic crisis. IT spending remains below pre-2008 levels as a result of Slovenia's worst recession in 20 years, with hardware particularly affected. Fiscal austerity measures domestically and in the eurozone will continue to weigh on demand for IT products and services. In 2011, IT services vendors reported a slightly improved situation in the Slovenian market, with increased demand, but strong price sensitivity. The fundamentals of rising incomes in a context of below EU average PC penetration mean this small IT market should advance at a mid single-digit compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the 2012-2016 forecast period. However, IT spending growth depends on business and consumer confidence in a sustained economic recovery.
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Headline Expenditure Projections
Computer hardware sales: US$494mn in 2011 to US$470mn in 2012, -5% in US dollar terms. Forecast in US dollar terms downwardly revised due to analyst modification following a contraction in Q411 and continued business caution in corporate and SME segments.
Software sales: US$205mn in 2011 to US$204mn in 2012, +0% in US dollar terms. Forecast in US dollar terms downwardly revised due to analyst modification and large enterprises still account for about half of the spending on enterprise application solutions (EAS) in Slovenia.
IT Services sales: US$279mn in 2011 to US$275mn in 2012, -1% in US dollar terms. Forecast in US dollar terms downwardly revised due to analyst modification, but in the medium term the IT services market is set to expand as Slovenian organisations upgrade IT systems to gain or maintain competitive advantage.
Risk/Reward Ratings: Slovenia's score was 51.1 out of 100.0. Slovenia ranks ninth in our latest Europe RRR table, ahead of Hungary, and Romania, but behind other relatively new EU accession states such as the Czech Republic and Poland. The country actually ranked a low 12th for its IT Market score of 35, but its overall rating was boosted by a relatively high Country Risks score of 60.
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- BMI expects Slovenian IT spending growth to decelerate in 2012 with another difficult year in prospect for IT vendors. The trading environment is still challenging, with only a mild recovery expected in 2012. Private demand, company investment and government expenditure all face headwinds over the coming quarters.
- Despite increased IT budgets for Unicredit and other organisations in 2011, even the financial services and banking sector remains in cautious IT investment mode. However IT services companies are expected to continue to benefit from IT projects tendered across various sectors, including education, retail and financial institutions.
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Whether they see immigration as a good thing or a scourge, Americans like to think of their country as an immigrant-friendly place, with borders that are among the most open in the world.
But that's not the case, according to a new comprehensive measure developed by the British Council and the Brussels-based Migration Policy Group. The Migration Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) rates the EU nations' (plus Norway, Switzerland, Canada, and the U.S.—31 countries in all) efforts to integrate immigrants according to 148 policy indicators, which range from opportunities for education and political participation to levels of protection against discrimination, from prospects for reuniting with family to the likelihood of achieving permanent residence status and citizenship.
For those keeping score, Sweden ranked first, Portugal second, and Canada third. The U.S. was ninth! The map below shows the scores for the 31 countries measured by the Index.
This new Index is an important advance in the way we measure openness to immigrants. Previous studies, including my own previous work on the subject, for example in The Flight of the Creative Class, gauge openness or tolerance by measuring the share of immigrants in the general population, or more commonly, with reference to surveys of attitudes toward immigrants, racial and ethnic minorities, or other excluded groups. The MIPEX measures something different and deeper – the degree to which nations successfully integrate and proactively include immigrants. Still it is closely correlated with those other measures of openness and tolerance, such as Gallup surveys which measure openness to ethnic and racial minorities (.66) and to gays and lesbians (.68).
It's about more than generosity and big-heartedness. Immigrants are in fact key to economic growth and development, especially in our high-tech industries. Immigrants "have started 52% of Silicon Valley's technology companies and contributed to more than 25% of our global patents, according to Vivek Wadhwa, who has extensively studied the subject. "They make up 24% of the U.S. science and engineering workforce holding bachelor's degrees and 47% of science and engineering workers who have PhDs." This is what venture capitalist John Doerr was talking about when he told an interviewer at the Web 2.0 Summit that America should "staple a green card to the diploma" of any immigrant who gets a degree in engineering.
In that spirit, I asked my colleague Charlotta Mellander to compare the MIPEX scores to a variety of other measures that have been seen to have a strong bearing on prosperity: economic output, innovation, entrepreneurship, and the broader happiness of nations With our usual caveat that our analysis only points to associations between variables, that we do not make any claims about causation, these scatter charts tell an intriguing story.
Nations that are more accepting of and better at integrating new immigrants have a higher level of economic growth and development. The MIPEX is closely correlated to a common measure of economic development – the level of GDP per capita (.5). The MIPEX is also closely correlated with the UN's comprehensive measure of overall economic, social and human development – the Human Development Index (.56).
Nations that are more immigrant-friendly have higher levels of overall economic competitiveness. The MIPEX is closely correlated to the Global Competitiveness Index developed by Harvard Professor Michael Porter and the World Economic Forum (.48).
Innovation is the underlying engine of economic development. And countries that are better at integrating immigrants are also more innovative. The MIPEX is closely correlated with the rate of patenting (.53)
The ability of countries to integrate immigrants translates into higher rates of entrepreneurship as well. The MIPEX is closely correlated with a comprehensive measure of entrepreneurial activity – the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor developed by Zoltan Acs and his collaborators (. 45).
So much for economic growth and development: But what about happiness and life satisfaction? Turns out, there is a close connection between the ability to integrate immigrants and the happiness of nations, too. The MIPEX and the Gallup World Poll's measures of happiness are closely correlated (.47).
Americans like think of their country as the world's great melting pot. But this new immigration index and our analysis suggest that that's no longer an assumption that can be taken for granted.
While America's pundits and politicians obsess over the alleged social costs of illegal immigration, they should be worried that we may not always be the premier destination for legal immigrants, who bring the skills, energy and ambition that provide so much of the punch for the twin engines of innovation and entrepreneurship. As Scott Page wrote in The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies, "When we meet people who think differently than we do, who speak different languages, who have different experiences, training, and values, we should see opportunity and possibility. We should recognize that a talented 'I' and a talented 'they' can become an even more talented 'we.'"
Nations that welcome the best and most diverse talent win, while those that close their borders to it fall further and further behind. The ability not just to attract immigrants but to integrate and effectively harness their skills is a key axis of global economic success, now and even more so in the future.


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Judgment Night
Ever wonder what it would be like if you could find a movie that was the personification of a moment in time? You can... as long as that moment is some time between 1992 and 1993! "Judgment Night" - a movie so early 90's it has Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Stephen Dorff, Denis Leary AND Everlast from The House of Pain. If there ever was a movie that embodied what it means to be so bananas that it edges into genius while being SUPER dated, this is it! Join Nathan and Brendan as they face "Judgment Night."
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We are starting to build your set lesson plans. I have asked you to think about the 5 lessons from your unit that you will develop.
So, here's what to do:
1. Identify the lessons. What are the 5 lessons from your unit that you will develop in full?
2. Determine the story. What is the story that these 5 lesson will be telling?
3. Lay out the pieces. Refer to the set of building blocks we developed together (see below) and start to think about the pieces you will use to create each of these lesson.
4. Be ready to share. Post your work to Pace Commons by the end of Monday, April 16th - use the tag: lessonplandevelopment.


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Last month I shared what I saw and what I liked at the CHA winter trade show. I wrote about new products I was excited about and the things I saw that inspired me. However, the reason that I was there in the first place was to share how I make these faux robin eggs using Plaid products.
I was a smidge nervous because they were recording the video tutorial and interview, but all things considered, it wasn't too bad!
The supplies used for this project are:
- plastic eggs
- a good adhesive, such as E-6000
- Extreme Glitter Paint, any color
- Martha Stewart Paint in Pond
- Martha Stewart Paint in Surf
- Martha Stewart Paint in Vanilla Bean
- paintbrushes
- toothbrush
- water
You can see some really great crafts and tutorials on Plaid's Craft channel on YouTube. Go check it out and get inspired!


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Being hillwalkers ouselves we welcome all walkers and there is plenty of room for all your gear! Plus washer/dryer in kitchen.
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5 Multiplayer Tips for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Combat Readiness Program
Your first steps into an online multiplayer game can be daunting at best and downright terrifying at worst. You've seen people online pulling off insane maneuvers and bragging about their double-digit killstreaks. Meanwhile you don't even know what a killstreak even is. Luckily for you, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has you covered with the new player friendly Combat Readiness Program.
This program throws you into one of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's maps for a Team Deathmatch game with a difference. This mode ensures that you are not up against people who might rage at you in voice chat or who can see your name at the bottom of any scoreboard – hell in there mode there isn't even a scoreboard. Every play is simply called Friendly or Enemy so there's very little pressure.
You're offered a choice of 5 different pre-made loadouts before being put up against a collection of human and computer controlled opponents. This isn't a place to be the best and see your time with Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare go completely, this is simply somewhere with no pressure to either enjoy yourself or get to grips with the game. You're also frequently offered Supply Drops which grant you the opportunity to try out new score-streaks without the fear of someone laughing at you missing hilariously.


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July 20, 2015
We're excited to share 11 new videos that showcase creative learning by young people across BC!
Explore virtual gallery tour videos of the current exhibition at the ArtStarts Gallery, At the Intersection: Where Art and Education Meet. The process behind each project is featured in these short videos. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the creative learning process that the students experienced!
Explore the exhibition At the Intersection: Where Art and Education Meet online to learn more about the artwork on display and discover the stories behind each project. There's detailed information about each project, plus lots of photos and virtual gallery tour videos to watch.
Our goal with these videos is to provide more information about each project, including curricular connections and how professional artists and teachers worked with young people to integrate the arts into their learning experience. We also want to provide a richer experience for gallery visitors and make the ArtStarts Gallery accessible to teachers, artists and families across the province, even if you''re not able to make it to our Vancouver location in person. And maybe seeing one of these project will inspire you to start your own creative endeavour!
Watch many more videos about At the Intersection online at artstarts.com/exhibitions/intersection
We would like to extend thanks to everyone who helped create these videos. Voice overs were performed by students Amanda Coccimiglio and Emily Gunn. Sound Engineers Peter Henrich and Peter Wingham recorded the audio at Blue Wave Studios in Vancouver. Exhibition photography and video editing and was provided by Juan Pablo Martinezguerra. ArtStarts Gallery Manager Juliana Bedoya took care of the curatorial work and ArtStarts , Communications Manager Siobhan Rich wrote the scripts. Additional photographs of the creative process were provided by teachers and artists involved in the projects. And thanks, of course, to the teachers, artists and students for all their amazing work on the featured projects!
At the Intersection: Where Art and Education Meet is open to the public at the ArtStarts Gallery until September 27, 2015. Visit the gallery at 808 Richards Street (at Robson) in downtown Vancouver, Wednesday through Sunday from 10am to 4:30pm. Admission is free and all ages are welcome!
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British Council recruits 01 Exam Test Day Delivery and Logistics
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British Council hiring an Exam Test Day Delivery and Logistics.
The British Council SSA has an exciting opportunity for a Test Day Delivery and Logistics Coordinator in Senegal within the Exams department.
The Role:
Test Day Delivery and Logistics Coordinator X1 – Senegal
The Role Purpose:
The purpose of this role is to ensure effective and efficient delivery of Exams within a small or remote exams office location. As sole representative of exams, there is a degree of independent working required to handle confidential materials during the multiple exchanges in country/location in accordance with compliance standards. To manage Venue Supervisor engagement, relationship and performance. To co-ordinate and manage any risk or issue resolution, including co-ordination of customer communication directly or through customer services. To be point of contact for Venues/Venue Supervisors on the day. This role will be required to work test days which will involve weekend work as part of the contracted hours.
Role Requirements:
Please refer to the role profile for a full list of the role responsibilities/accountabilities and person specification.
Please follow the links for relevant document to support your application:
Closing date for applications is 18 November 2019 (23:59 UK time)
In your application form, please clearly explain how you meet the essential and desirable skills, qualification and experience criteria mentioned in the person specification section of the role profile. This will help us determine your fit for the role and increase your application's chances of success.
About us:
The British Council is the UK's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. We create friendly knowledge and understanding between the people of the UK and other countries. We do this by making a positive contribution to UK and the countries we work with – changing lives by creating opportunities, building connections and engendering trust.
We work in over 100 countries across the world in the fields of arts and culture, English language, education and civil society. Each year we reach over 20 million people face to face and more than 500 million people online, via broadcasts and publications.
Our Equality Commitment:
Valuing diversity is essential to the British Council's work. We aim to abide by and promote equality legislation by following both the letter and the spirit of it to avoid unjustified discrimination, recognising discrimination as a barrier to equality of opportunity, inclusion and human rights. All staff worldwide are required to ensure their behaviour is consistent with our policies.
The British Council is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and is keen to reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within the organisation. We welcome applications from all sections of the community. In line with the British Council's Child Protection policy, any appointment is contingent on thorough checks.


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What is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)?
COPD is a lung disease which causes shortness of breath. Patients with COPD have narrower and destroyed airways (tubes that transport air in the lungs). They usually experience chronic dyspnea and fatigue. COPD can be a serious health problem. It usually worsens over time. Hopefully, there are some treatment options that improve symptoms. You may have heard COPD called t"chronic bronchitis" or "emphysema" instead. These are the two forms of the disease.
What are the causes of COPD?
The most common cause of COPD is by far smoking. Other causes include inhalation of toxic fumes or gases and air pollution.
What are the symptoms of COPD?
Initially, one can be completely asymptomatic. Later, however, and as the disease progresses he can experience the following:
- Shortness of breath – breathlessness especially during physical activity
- Wheezing – a sound like whistling during breathing
- Cough with phlegm production
Furthermore, patients with COPD have an increased risk for:
- Respiratory infections, eg pneumonia
- Lung Cancer
- Cardiac Problems
- Osteoporosis
- Depression
Is there a test that helps with the diagnosis of COPD?
Yes. Your doctor will advise you to do "spirometry". During spirometry, you take a deep breath and then you blow quickly and forcefully into a tube. A machine that is connected to the tube calculates the amount of air blown related to time. If spirometry results are abnormal, your doctor will give you a medication in the form of inhaled aerosol. After about 15-20 minutes, the spirometry is repeated. This will help your doctor to determine if you suffer from COPD or another respiratory disease, eg asthma. Patients with asthma usually in the second spirometry show normal results in contrast to patients with COPD in which results are abnormal.
What is the treatment of COPD?
First of all, STOP SMOKING! If you smoke, the most important intervention you can do is to stop smoking. No matter how much you smoke every day or how long you smoke, if you stop smoking, this will slow the progression of copd and help you feel better. It is also necessary to vaccinate against the flu virus annually and against pneumococcus at least once in your lifetime. Infections with these microorganisms can be very dangerous for your health, if you suffer from copd, too. Thus, it is very important to prevent them. There are 4 main therapeutic options for the treatment of COPD:
- Medicines. There are several drugs for copd treatment. Most patients use inhalers which help them by dilating their airways. Usually you need to take more than one kind of spray. As the disease progresses, some people need eventually oxygen at home.
- Oxygen. In the final stages of the disease, some people experience respiratory failure. Oxygen is necessary to keep them alive.
- Pulmonary rehabilitation. In this program, patients learn to improve their health status through various ways. They learn various breathing techniques, receive psychological support and participate in special physical exercises.
- Surgery. Rarely, people with very severe COPD may undergo surgery to remove the most destroyed parts of their lungs. This could improve their symptoms, but success in not always guaranteed.
For more information: http://www.goldcopd.org/


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Camila Mendes to Star in the Film 'The Stand-In'
Congrats Camila! Riverdale beauty, Camila Mendes, who plays Veronica Lodge on the hit CW drama, nabbed a starring role in Awesomeness Films' upcoming film, 'The Stand-In'. According to Deadline, Camila is set to star alongside Matt Walsh, Laura Marano, Noah Centineo and Odiseas Georgiadis. … Continue Reading


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fun.'s Jack Antonoff has had a killer year with the debut of his new project, Bleachers, but he's also working with some of the biggest names in pop on some of the most talked about records of 2014. Antonoff recently teamed up with pal Taylor Swift for "Out of the Woods" and other tracks on 1989. The friends had never worked together before, but it was a musical match made in heaven right off the bat from the sounds of it.
"We did three songs on the album together," he tells Fuse's Yasmine Richards in between sets at the Voodoo Music Experience. "They came from just hanging out and talking about music. It came from our love of Yaz's 'Only You.' That's the first thing we talked about." Given the record's title and the epicness of the '80s power ballad, it's not surprising that they found inspiration in that particular place!
Talking about music lead to working together in a shift that Antonoff calls "very organic," and he's got nothing but admiration for Swift's songwriting abilities.
"That's the point of songwriting, to be honest and share things," he says. "Songwriting should be an intimate conversation with everyone listening to the music. She's great at that."
For a look at Jack's collaboration wish list (hi Robyn!), how he feels about the differences between touring with Bleachers and fun. and who he's looking forward to seeing at Voodoo, check out the Fuse exclusive above. And don't forget to loop back for more on-the-ground coverage at the Voodoo Music Experience 2014!


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Yasser Arafat has won new assurances that the US is going ahead with a Mideast peace initiative that calls for establishing a Palestinian state with a foothold in Jerusalem, a Palestinian Cabinet minister said today.
The United States has not presented the emerging proposals to Israel or the Palestinians, officials from both sides said. However,
Palestinian officials have been briefed on the US ideas by Arab leaders, most recently this week when Arafat visited Saudi Arabia, said Nabil Shaath, the Palestinian planning minister.
The Bush administration was to have unveiled the peace initiative in September, during the UN General Assembly. However, that move was disrupted by the terror attacks on the United States.
Shaath said no new date has been set for going public, but that Arafat was reassured by Saudi mediators that President Bush remains committed to the ideas.
''In President Arafat's last visit to Saudi Arabia, just two days ago, our brothers informed us that the Americans assured them that they are still sticking to their positions,'' said Shaath. ''All the indications coming now from the United States are positive and encouraging.''
According to Shaath, the US plan would affirm the Palestinians' right to statehood, the principle of trading land for peace and UN resolutions 242 and 338 that call for an Israeli withdrawal from lands it occupied in the 1967 Mideast war.
The initiative also states that the fate of disputed Jerusalem must be determined in peace talks, and that Islamic and Christian holy places in the city would come under Palestinian control, Shaath said.
The renewed US efforts come at a time when Washington is trying to win Muslim and Arab support for US strikes against Afghanistan.
Israeli Cabinet Minister Dan Naveh commented: ''I have to say that what I hear about what's being said by the American government these days is a programme that Israel cannot accept.''
He said Israel staunchly opposes ''ideas which include at their core the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.''


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Shares of Computer Program Rank the Highest in Terms of Debt to Asset Ratio in the Health Care Technology Industry (CPSI, MDRX, MDSO, TDOC, INOV)
Below are the three companies in the Health Care Technology industry with the highest debt to asset ratios. The Debt/Asset ratio shows the proportion of a company's assets that are financed through debt. If the ratio is greater than one, most of the company's assets are financed through debt.
Computer Program ranks highest with a a debt to asset ratio of 44.76. Following is Allscripts Healt with a a debt to asset ratio of 37.29. Medidata Solutio ranks third highest with a a debt to asset ratio of 35.46.
Teladoc Inc follows with a a debt to asset ratio of 25.15, and Inovalon Holdi-A rounds out the top five with a a debt to asset ratio of 24.99.
SmarTrend recommended that subscribers consider buying shares of Medidata Solutio on April 15th, 2019 as our technology indicated a new Uptrend was in progress when shares hit $78.18. Since that recommendation, shares of Medidata Solutio have risen 18.0%. We continue to monitor Medidata Solutio for any potential shift so investors can protect gains and will alert SmarTrend subscribers immediately.
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Coho salmon fry discovered up a remote creek
Endangered coho seen in heavily logged watershed
Jennifer Carah is a scientist who doesn't normally squeal, especially not when she is under water, but a recent snorkeling expedition in an obscure creek on the North Coast caused her to abandon all scholarly protocol.
"Yeeeee heeeeee," she shrieked through her snorkel upon spotting a mass of little fish behind a rock in Pardaloe Creek, a remote tributary of the Garcia River, in the heavily logged forests of Mendocino County.
The critters that elicited the squeal were endangered coho salmon. In fact, juvenile coho were found in 10 places where they had not been seen in years in the 72,000 acre Garcia River watershed.
"I was pretty excited to find them there," said Carah, a field scientist for the Nature Conservancy. "We've checked the data of other agencies and haven't heard accounts of coho being up there before. These sightings have generated a whole lot of enthusiasm, especially given the fact that coho are pretty much on the brink of extinction."
The discovery of coho in the headwaters of the Garcia River is especially eye-opening because the watershed once was destroyed by logging. Now it is part of a unique experiment that involves what conservationists call sustainable forestry, or selective logging.
"As we all know, parks are struggling to manage the lands they already own, and local governments, particularly in rural counties, don't like to see big swaths of private land put into parks because it takes it off the tax roles and takes the land out of public use," said Chris Kelly, the California program director for the Virginia-based Conservation Fund, which paid the timber company Coastal Forestlands $18 million in 2004 for the 23,780-acre Garcia River Forest. "Why not own it and manage it as a productive forest and use the timber to pay for the restoration and management of the property?"
The Nature Conservancy paid $3.5 million for a conservation easement on the property that allows them to conduct studies and monitor fish and wildlife populations in the watershed. The Conservation Fund is in charge of managing the forest by repairing roads, fixing erosion and hiring loggers to selectively thin out stands and remove sick trees.
In exchange, the land is protected forever from residential and vineyard development.
The forests of Mendocino County are a crucial testing ground for this type of strategy because it is in this region that coho salmon once were extremely abundant.
Decline of the coho
A large American Indian fishing village once was located on the Garcia River, but when white men arrived in the 1850s and 1860s, the native Bokeya, or Central Pomo Indians, were moved out, land was cleared, and lumber production began. By the late 1870s, more than a dozen mills were operating in the watershed.
Meanwhile, salmon from the Garcia River were netted by the thousands, smoked and shipped to San Francisco. The Nature Conservancy's Carah estimates that as many as 500,000 coho once squirmed and wriggled their way up California streams every year as late as the 1940s.
Old-timers living in Mendocino County remember spearing coho in the Garcia. After the first rains, dozens of young coho could be seen in every pool and eddy. They were so abundant that people simply ignored the 25-fish limit, sometimes just scooping the fish out of the water.
The fish began to disappear when the widespread clear-cutting of forests began after World War II. The rampant building of logging roads in the watershed, the removal of riparian vegetation and huge amounts of silt running off into the creeks ruined their habitat.
The Garcia River Forest has been clear-cut twice, the last time in the 1940s, according to Kelly.
Coho now make up about 1 percent of their historic population on the North Coast. The construction of dams, pollution and the emergence of global warming appears to be making things even worse. So few spawning chinook salmon returned to the Sacramento River and its tributaries this year that ocean fishing for salmon was banned in California and Oregon.
Coho, which are more sensitive to water temperature and quality than other salmonid species, are in worse shape than chinook. The species was listed as endangered in 2005 under the Endangered Species Act. On top of that, fisheries analysts report a 73 percent decline in the already dismal number of coho returning to the creeks and tributaries along the coast of California during the 2007-08 spawning season. Coho in Oregon showed a 70 percent decline.
'Encouraging sign'
Pardaloe Creek, which at 2,470 feet is the highest point of the Garcia watershed, had been surveyed six times between 1975 and 1999 by the state Department of Fish and Game and the Mendocino County Resource Conservation District. Not a single coho was spotted in any of the surveys. In fact, the farthest up coho were found was in Inman Creek in 1997, 11 miles downstream from Pardaloe Creek.
The Nature Conservancy and the Watershed Fund have been working together to build wood structures in the streams to create pools for fish, upgrading logging roads to reduce sediment and choosing only non-thriving trees to harvest.
The coho were discovered during the first survey of the upper reaches of the watershed since the restoration work began. Success is hard to measure, Carah said, and one field survey is hardly definitive evidence of a recovery, but she thinks the little fish she saw in the creek are a message that better times could be ahead.
"Because coho are so sensitive, they really serve as kind of a canary in the coal mine for Northern California coastal rivers and streams," Carah said. "It is a really encouraging sign to find them in 10 places and especially way up in the headwaters given the status of coho in the state. I think it does indicate that we are having some success."
Kelly said the kind of forest management being practiced in the Garcia watershed might be the best way left to preserve woodland ecosystems, watersheds and fish.
"A forester would look at this land and say it doesn't meet my 8 or 10 percent return on investment, but we don't have a rate of return expectation. All we need to do is pay the bills," Kelly said. "I look at it as an intervention. We are preserving the viability of the forest and watershed in a feasible way that over the next 10 or 15 years could restore the productivity and volume of timber and again make the timber industry meaningful."