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Tutor Books for Hammered Dulcimer
Ashbrook, K (1)
Linda.G.Thomas (1)
Page, J.M (1)
Linda.G.Thomas First Lessons Hammered Dulcimer Book/Online Audio
First Lessons Hammered Dulcimer is designed to instruct beginning players on the instrument. The melodies in this collection include a variety of hymns, holiday music and fiddle tunes written in standard notation, with instructions on how to read the notation. Lyrics and suggested chords for accompanying instruments are also included. The accompanying online recording offers two tracks for each selection: a performance track with rhythm Guitar and an instructional track with detailed phrase-by-phrase demonstration. The guided audio instruction at a slow tempo will prove invaluable for the "by ear" player. This method provides a "private lesson" approach for success on the hammered Dulcimer. Designed to instruct beginning players. Includes a variety of hymns, holiday music and fiddle tunes. Written in standard notation. Lyrics and suggested chords included accompanying online recording, including two tracks for each selection: a performance track and an instructional track.
Page, J.M Hammered Dulcimer Chords
This book was written to aid the dulcimer player in playing as a backup musician. It provides the tools necessary for musicians who are seeking to go beyond simple melody lines. The majority of chords diagrammed are those most commonly used, and those whose notes are clustered on the instrument in six repeated shapes. Diagrams are shown for the 15/14 dulcimer. This book was written to aid the dulcimer player in playing as a backup musician. It provides the tools necessary for musicians who are seeking to go beyond simple melody lines. The majority of chords diagrammed are those most commonly used, and those whose notes are clustered on the instrument in six repeated shapes. Diagrams are shown for the 15/14 dulcimer.
Ashbrook, K Playing the Hammered Dulcimer in the Irish Tradition Book/CD
This book and CD are to encourage dulcimer players at the intermediate-to-advanced level to play the 'right' way. This book can teach you several basic, simple techniques that create the feel of traditional Irish music. Beautifully written and illustrated.
Tutor books for hammered dulcimer at Eagle Music Shop.

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Canucks Hockey - Pass it to Bulis
Canucks fan's GoFundMe raises over $2000 for 'Fire Benning' airplane banner
"This fanbase is very upset with the direction of this franchise."
Daniel Wagner
Vancouver Canucks GM Jim Benning takes questions from the media.Dan Toulgoet / Glacier Media
This has been an odd NHL season. With no fans allowed in buildings in most cities, there's a bit of an eerie atmosphere in arenas, which is only partially allayed by the fake crowd noise that echoes off the empty seats.
There's something missing without fans. When he went on John Scott's Dropping the Gloves podcast, J.T. Miller expressed what the lack of fans means for the players on the ice.
"It sucks with no fans. I feel like when they come back, it's going to be crazy. Like, we're going to be nervous again to go out and play," said Miller. "There's no momentum swings emotionally in the building anymore. You can carry play for a couple minutes in a row, but there's no fans — I tell you what, the silence of a home crowd and the rocking building of a home crowd is definitely a huge factor."
There's another element, however, with no fans in the building. While the team has missed the positive feedback from the Canucks crowd, given the team's struggles this season, that feedback might not have always been so positive.
The Canucks haven't been booed off the ice this season. They haven't seen any fans throw a jersey on the ice or start streaming towards the exits with ten minutes left in the third period. Alternately, they haven't seen seats empty by choice — there's a risk with a season like the Canucks have had that fans would check out and stop showing up.
It also means that the heat hasn't been on the Canucks' management and ownership from fans like they might have had otherwise. While fans have used the #FireBenning hashtag extensively on social media, there haven't been any chants in the arena like there were for Mike Gillis before he was fired by the Canucks.
With fans unable to make their displeasure known in person, one fan came up with another idea: an airplane banner.
"As a long-standing Canucks fan, I want a Stanley Cup," said the fan, who goes by Uncle Laleet on Twitter. "Jim Benning has displayed ineptitude and has no vision or plan to bring this city a cup."
One of Laleet's Twitter followers suggested a banner and, in response, he created a GoFundMe fundraiser with a goal of raising $1465 to fly a "#FireBenning" banner over Vancouver for one hour.
"I thought it was a neat idea as it would bring attention to the fact that a major portion of this fanbase is sick and tired of Jim Benning," he said. "Flying a banner to show your displeasure with your team hasn't been done in this city yet."
Just three hours later, the GoFundMe surpassed its goal. It's currently up to $2148, with 70 people donating amounts ranging from $5 to $200. All excess funds have been pledged to Canuck Place Children's Hospice.
"I was extremely shocked and grateful for how quickly the funds were raised," he said. "It goes to show that this fanbase is very upset with the direction of this franchise."
While flying a banner from an airplane may seem excessive to some, it's not unusual in sports. A few years ago, Ottawa Senators fans raised over $10,000 to put up four billboards campaigning for team owner Eugene Melnyk to sell the team with the message "#MelnykOut."
Banners are a common way for soccer fans in other countries to protest actions by their team or league. In comparison to some of the banners seen in those leagues, a "#FireBenning" banner flown from an airplane is relatively tame.
The time and date for the flight of the "#FireBenning" banner has yet to be decided.
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Women are working 1 hour and 40 minutes for free everyday – translating to 57 days of unpaid work per year.
That is, at least those women, who are earning 22% lower than male staff in equivalent roles.
An annual survey of 72,000 UK managers by Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and salary specialist XpertHR, revealed that full- time female staff are getting paid 22%, or £8,524 less than their male counterparts.
This gap was found to increase with seniority and age, rising to £14,943 for senior or director-level staff and up to 38% in women aged 60 or older.
When it comes to bonuses, female staff were also found to be at a disadvantage, with the average man's bonus being almost twice the amount of the average woman's bonus.
"Working for free two hours a day is unacceptable," commented Ann Francke, chief executive of CMI.
Additionally, the survey pointed out that the pay gap is widest at large organisations with between 250 and 999 staff.
Women in these organisations earn on average 27% less, making them 5% worse of than the national average.
"An entire generation has now worked its way through from school leaver to retirement since the first equal pay legislation came into effect in 1970. Yet the gender pay gap persists, and many employers still prefer not to know just how bad it is in their organisation rather than getting to grips with the data and doing something about it," Mark Crail, content director of XpertHR said.
"HR and reward specialists in larger companies have a special responsibility to get this firmly on to the senior management agenda and to develop the plans needed to close the gap," he added.
The National Wages Council (NWC) will convene in April and May 2019 to develop its annual guidelines on wage and employment-relate..
"If leaders merely mandate technologists to build a beautifully constructed platform, nobody is going to use it," Lelia Lim pointe..
"If we are not careful, we will imbue the wrong sense of entitlement in our workforce, and this can undo the position we now enjoy..


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"It is my hope that, as two NATO countries, we should treat each other with friendship, not hostility. But the current trajectory does not bode well," Erdogan said.
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The AUKUS deal is "not something that anybody needs to worry about, and particularly not our French friends," U.K. Prime Minster Boris Johnson said.
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By John Feng On 9/9/21 at 10:50 AM EDT
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The nimble warship is the first of a new batch of naval vessels that experts say will improve Taiwan's asymmetric warfare capabilities against China.
China Tells U.S. to Stop Peddling Its Values After Afghanistan Failure
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July 27, 2005 / by emptywheel
The CIA pushes back
Last week, we were treated to a number of articles sourced to former senior State department officials clarifying some of the facts in the Plame case, particularly as regards to the INR memo. Those articles undermine some of the anonymously (read, Luskin) sourced articles pinning Colin Powell with the memo on AF1.
Today, we're treated to a similar pushback article, this time from the CIA.
This is similar to a number of grand narrative articles the WaPo has published recently. It offers little that is entirely new information. One detail that is technically new, for example, is an expanded list of who has been interviewed.
Prosecutors have questioned former CIA director George J. Tenet anddeputy director John E. McLaughlin, former CIA spokesman Bill Harlow,State Department officials, and even a stranger who approachedcolumnist Robert D. Novak on the street.
While these names have never been published before, they should not come as a surprise to anyone who has followed this closely. It was rumored when Tenet quit, for example, that he did so so he could begin to testify fully to the Grand Jury. And several news reports have told stories about investigators spending a lot of time at the CIA. If they were at the CIA, then it's safe to assume they were interviewing people at the CIA.
And Wilson's friend? Well, Wilson's friend is the witness who can prove that Novak knew Plame's identity as early as July 8. And pinpointing when Novak knew of Plame's identity is a key step to learning who told him. Fitzgerald would have been remiss if, with all the publicity surrounding this detail of Wilson's story, he hadn't interviewed the friend.
Originally Posted @ https://www.emptywheel.net/2005/07/27/the-cia-pushes-back/


A sense of community and just a sincere desire to make people happy powers the altruism of Devlin Fernandes in Prince Rupert, video.
Seafest parade watchers saw the energy, the diversity and the precision but very little of those behind the scene that make it all happen.
Devlin Fernandes grew up in Toronto and watched the popular Santa Claus parade and the Pride parade, and also where she volunteered at the Toronto Film Festival and the Fringe Festival. But when she first came to Prince Rupert she was shocked that a city of 14,000 people could host such a large parade.
"Every year I'm so impressed by the number of people who are so excited and they've spent weeks thinking up their float idea and weeks decorating it," she said.
Six years ago when she heard that Prince Rupert Special Events was looking for volunteers, as they always are, she signed up. This year, Fernandes was the parade coordinator and helped out with the waterfront events. She started her volunteer duties on Friday at 3 p.m. and wound things up at 11 p.m. on Sunday.
It's crazy — she said with a smile — but it's great. There are early mornings, late nights and some people give the volunteers a difficult time if they are stopped from going through the barricades.
"There are elements of any activity or any volunteer work that can get tedious but at the end its all worth it. I love the behind the scenes work of making sure all the details are taken care of so that people can come and get to enjoy it," she said.
When she first moved to the North Coast in 2007 to work with the B.C. Forest Service, she used volunteering as a way to get to know her new community.
"I find here, people are really open and happy to include you if you want to learn or you're willing to contribute," she said with her gentle voice and an easy smile.
Her full time job is at Ecotrust, which works with the fishing industry and aims to connect communities with resources to establish better livelihoods for residents. During university, Fernandes tree-planted in regions across the country to pay for school. She witnessed cedars coming from Haida Gwaii, pine trees from northern Alberta and spruce from northern Ontario and yet mills were shutting down and people weren't getting processing jobs.
"There just seemed to be a real disconnect to the fact that there's all this wealth in the resources there and the community is not capturing it," she said.
She took her Masters in forest conservation at the University of Toronto and then she was drawn back to the beauty of the West Coast.
Her first move to connect with the community was to get involved with the Rainbow Warriors dragon boat team for breast cancer survivors and supporters. Through the team she met other like-minded volunteers and Joy Sundin of the Prince Rupert Special Events Society.
There are four big events a year that the society prepares for and beyond that to add more altruism to her plate, Fernandes joined the library board two years ago to support reading in the community.
"I love libraries. I think they serve such a valuable place in the community and they're free. You can access information. You have people there that are always there to help you. It's one of the few places that are warm and dry," she said.
If you don't love reading, she said it's because you haven't read the right books.
Fernandes is also known for her baking. Whenever there's a dessert auction or a bake sale she gets calls from her friends. She also bakes for the library auction every year.
For close friends she bakes luxurious wedding cakes as her gift to the bride and groom.
Last year was her biggest year with four cakes. One of the cakes was two-tiered with a gluten-free flour-less top adorned with fresh strawberries and the bottom was a three-layer chocolate cake with chocolate ganache and cream cheese mousse.
She baked half the cake in Prince Rupert, the other half in Queen Charlotte City and then took it up the dirt road to North Beach for the wedding.
Just another small, but telling, example of the lengths Fernandes will go to bring happiness to others.


Among the activities carried out, RACI dedicates a great part of the year offering training and free workshops aimed at strengthening Argentine civil society organizations and their human resources. These services are provided to anyone who wants to better their understanding and skills so that they can access international cooperation resources and for other strategic social investors that are oriented toward development.
Each new cycle, RACI intends to build capacity in terms of processes and tools relating to how to access resources; to technically assist the civil society organizations (OSC) with pedagogical mechanisms that collaborate in the search of resources more effectively and foster the exchange of good practice and links between the organizations.


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Q: Tkinter show and hide window and resume execution without destroying in python? I have a python script which creates a GUI Window using Tkinter. After creation of the window and reading input I expect the execution to proceed to the while loop, but the execution never resumes as the window isn't destroyed. I want it to resume after the input is read. But here after displaying "You entered xxxx" the screen freezes and execution never gets back to the former while loop. How do I fix this? I don't want to create the window everytime
from PIL import ImageGrab, Image
from glob import glob
from io import BytesIO
import time
import tkinter as tk

window = None
entry = None
window_created = False
x = None
name_of_file = None
input_wait = False

def handle_click(event):
    global name_of_file
    name_of_file = entry.get()
    print("You Entered " + name_of_file)
    entry.delete(0, tk.END)
    hide_window(window)

def show_window(window):
    window.update()
    window.deiconify()

def hide_window(window):
    window.update()
    window.withdraw()

def create_window():
    global window
    global entry
    window = tk.Tk()
    window.geometry("600x600")
    window.title("Name for your image")
    label = tk.Label(text="What do you want to name the image?")
    entry = tk.Entry()
    button = tk.Button(text="Create")
    button.bind("<Button-1>", handle_click)
    window.bind("<Return>", handle_click)
    label.pack()
    entry.pack()
    button.pack()
    window.mainloop()

while True:
    print("Looping")
    image_list = map(Image.open, glob('*.png'))
    presentItem = ImageGrab.grabclipboard()
    if presentItem is not None:
        with BytesIO() as f:
            presentItem.save(f, format='PNG')
            x = Image.open(f)
            if x not in image_list:
                print("New item found")
                if not window_created:
                    create_window()
                    window_created = True
                    print("Resumes")
                else:
                    show_window(window)
                    print("Resumes")
                presentItem.save(name_of_file + '.png', 'PNG')
    else:
        print("No item in clipboard")
    time.sleep(0.1)

A: You can hide a tkinter window with window.wm_attributes("-alpha", 0) and show with window.wm_attributes("-alpha", 0.99). This code adds an alpha value. There is a code which shows that better:
import time
from tkinter import *

tk = Tk()

def more_alpha():
    global alpha
    alpha += 0.05
    if alpha >= 1:
        alpha = 0.99
    update()

def less_alpha():
    global alpha
    alpha -= 0.05
    if alpha <= 0:
        alpha = 0.01
    update()

def update():
    global alpha
    tk.wm_attributes("-alpha", alpha)

alpha = 0.5
update()

Button(tk, text="More visibility", command=more_alpha).grid(padx=25, pady=5)
Button(tk, text="Less visibility", command=less_alpha).grid(padx=25, pady=5)

tk.mainloop()

The window is always active, but not when the alpha value is set to 0.

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Due to the tsunami in Aceh, 25,000 children were left as orphans. A native Aceh woman returned to her hometown to open an orphanage to help homeless children. She founded the Give Light Foundation, which is hoping to open a second orphanage in Pakistan. This clip proves to students that one person can make a big difference.


Women in Tourism (WIT), a group consisting of a cross-section of women organised its end of the year meeting and gala dinner on Sunday December 2, 2018 at the Accra Tourism Information Center.
As part of the activities lined up for their annual end of year meeting and gala dinner, they donated a lot of assorted items to the Cape Coast School for the Deaf and Blind. The presentation was led by the President of Women in Tourism, Ghana Ambassador Nancy Quartey Sam (Mrs.), and supported by the Minister for Gender and Social Protection, Cynthia Morrison; as well as Members of the Diplomatic Corp and other invited Guests.
The students of the school showcased amazing cultural display to entertain their guests.
This worthy gesture by these hardworking and generous women will definitely go a long way to put smiles on that faces of all these young kids who for one reason or the other find themselves physically challenged. It will also bring some life to the school as the Christmas fast approaches.
Give Shatta Wale a Break!


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LinkedIn Crushes Monster
Remember when you thought Microsoft had lost their collective mind when they dropped $26.2 billion for LinkedIn? HA!
Well, it looks like Microsoft is going to have the last laugh because LinkedIn is crushing it. And who's not
crushing it?
How about Monster? Shocker, right?
Of course, there's more WFH and COVID insanity that the boys cover. How about some MadMen, 2021-style? Got that too. Oh, and Walmart does some good (suck it, Amazon!)
Give it up for our friends at Sovren, JobAdX, and Jobvite!
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Hide your kids! Lock the doors! You're listening to HR's most dangerous podcast. Chad Sowash and Joel Cheeseman are here to punch the recruiting industry, right where it hurts! Complete with breaking news, brash opinion and loads of snark, buckle up boys and girls, it's time for the Chad and Cheese podcast. .
Oh yeah. Yeah. Two guys who will never put their mental health ahead of this show. We're live in Detroit rock city for this one. What's up boys and girls. It's the Chad and Cheese podcast. This is your co-host Joel "eight mile" Cheeseman.
And this is Chad "speak for your own damn self" Sowash.
On this week's, show LinkedIn crushes it, the boss wants you back in the office, like now, and job.com calls JG Wentworth 877-cash-now, 877-cash-now! When did we last do a face-to-face show?
Columbus.
I can't remember. It's been a while.
A long time man.
When we pulled the mics out, we sat down and I mean, we've done them in bars. We've done them in lobbies and he's always fun. Doesn't matter.
That's the morning after.
Warning after is generally in the morning, after which much drinking.
Rubbing the sleep out of our eyes.
And that being said, we're now in downtown Detroit, in the Western, thanks to Symphony Talent. They brought us up and we enjoyed some time in Lansing. Got to go and surprise Tim Sackett.
Beautiful Lansing.
And give him some beer. And that was a good time. Debbie, Gina, Aya, Gabby, and the rest of the Symphony Talent crew, we did, there was a lot of work that we did in pulling together content for Transform.
If you haven't registered for Transform yet, go to SymphonyTalent.com, find Transform, register. You're going to love it. They are doing so much amazing fun work. Good to see Tim. Good to see obviously,
You know, easy JZ makes a special appearance.
Josj Zywien, Julie and Torrin, obviously they came up, they came up with us. So it's been a good time.
And thanks to the city of Detroit. Thanks. We're seeing the Renaissance firsthand. The city is pulling itself out of the rust belt brand. It's quite a nice setting. Now, if you come here, it needs to be in July, August. Oh gosh. February. Wouldn't be quite as delightful, but this has been a great time.
Talking about what else isn't delightful. This Olympics is still holding strong as my number three worst Olympics ever, whether it's COVID, whether it's, you know, people pulling out, the marijuana fiasco and this is just turning out to be that Olympics that will have not just an asterisk, but like multiple asterisks.
No, one's watching this Olympics. Really? The ratings are horrible, man. Not no surprise.
Fire alarm. This is the kind of stuff that happens on the live Chad and Cheese.
Do you wanna take a break and edit this out?
We'll take a break. Yeah.
Or keep going? And so my first shout out in relation to your Olympics comment, I talked about the 1936 Olympics last time, and I listened to a podcast called This Week in History by the History Channel. And if you, if you want more information on the 1936 Olympics, this one coincided with our discussion, they talk about the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Nazi Germany. They talk about Jesse Owens and Mack Robinson, who is Jackie Robinson's older brother. Yeah. That is awesome. Yeah. They both in the race, they ran both broke the world record Jesse one by then two tenths of a second.
And just the aftermath of the Olympics coming back to a country that was segregated and the challenges there. So yeah, if that's something that's interesting, it's this week in This Week in History by the History Channel, wherever you listen to your podcasts.
Yeah and that being said on the same line, there's a new movie that came out like two, three years ago or something like that called Race. And that is an amazing story about Jesse Owens. And there's a little Ohio state love there, obviously, but it was a great as a great movie.
There's a great statue of Jesse Owens in Cleveland, which I think is where he grew up. And yeah, Hitler would not pose for a picture with Jesse Owens. No surprise there.
But the Olympic committee told Hitler, apparently either you take pictures with everyone or you take pictures with no one and he took pictures with no one.


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How to Care for Hardy Pampas Grass
By Willow Sidhe ; Updated September 21, 2017
Hardy pampas grass (saccharum ravennae) is not pampas grass at all, though the two ornamental grasses do share similarities in appearance. Hardy pampas grass, also known as raven grass or plume grass, has a coarser texture and grows in areas where the less-hardy pampas grass cannot. The plant reaches 12 to 15 feet in height and the purplish-bronze plumes that rise above the foliage in late summer fade into a silvery-gray during fall and winter. Gardeners often use hardy pampas grass as borders, screens and accents in the home landscape. Hardy in USDA zones 5 through 9, this ornamental grass requires only minimal care to thrive in most areas of the country.
Plant hardy pampas grass during mid-spring in a location that receives at least six hours of full sunlight each day and consists of moist, well-drained soil. Space hardy pampas grass 4 to 6 feet apart to accommodate the plant's maximum spread.
Water once each week during spring, summer and fall to keep the soil consistently moist, but not wet or soggy. Soak the soil surrounding the plant to a depth of 4 to 6 inches to ensure the roots come into contact with enough moisture. Do not water during the winter while the grass is dormant.
Feed hardy pampas grass once every three months using a low-nitrogen 0-10-10 NPK fertilizer to provide proper nutrition for blooming without causing the plant to grow too lanky. Read the instructions provided on the package for the best results.
Cut back to ground level during late winter or early spring, just before new growth resumes, to keep the plant healthy and compact. Cut back all stems to the same height with pruning shears to encourage even growth.
Reduce frequency of watering and fertilizing if the plant grows so quickly that it's unable to hold itself upright.
The plant's thin blades may be sharp around the edges. Wear gloves when handling the plant to avoid injury.
University of Illinois Extension: Ravenna Grass, Hardy Pampas Grass
Missouri Botanical Garden: Saccharum Ravennae
"Illinois Gardener's Guide"; James A. Fizzell; 2002
USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
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Q: Animate / transition height with CSS3, but using jQuery? I'm trying to make a show/ hide menu button for mobile devices using media queries.
I'm aware that CSS3 on mobile is faster, most of the time, on mobile compared to using jQuery animate because of hardware acceleration, hence I want to use this method.
I need a smooth, 0.5s CSS3 animation from 0px to whatever height the container is.
What I'd like to do - or the logic I'd thought of so far - is when clicking this UI icon, you toggle the height of the .nav>ul from 0px to auto.
I've tried using transition: height and adding a class to the required bit using jQuery, but I cannot figure out how to apply a CSS£ transform / transition to the height and get it to smoothly toggle the height, and I'm now stuck. Don't even know what to Google for (have tried, trust me!).
Here's a working JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/3v47n/ - the small grey 20x20 icon is the trigger.
My jQuery:
$('.nav span').on('click',function(){

    $('.nav ul').addClass('animateHeight')

});

And my CSS:
.nav {
min-height: 60px;
}
.nav ul {
height: 0;
overflow: hidden;
transition: height 0.5s ease;
}
.nav ul.animateHeight {
height: auto;
max-height: 9999px;
}

A: Just found a solution for you, maybe not the best solution, but a workaround.
As you can't transition to height: auto  you could transition the max-height. But you need to set the target height to a value which is close to height: auto, but always a big bigger.
See here: http://jsfiddle.net/3v47n/5/
.nav ul {
  max-height: 0;
  overflow: hidden;
  transition: max-height 2s ease;
}
.nav ul.animateHeight {
  max-height: 999px;
}

A: Looking at your code this could be your best solution I think, please use this jQuery below in your code:
$('.nav span').on('click',function(){
    if($('.nav ul').hasClass('animateHeight')){
        $('.nav ul').removeClass('animateHeight');
    } else {
        $('.nav ul').addClass('animateHeight');
    }
});


If you're booking a holiday to Guatemala, it's pretty much a given that you'll include Lake Atitlan in your itinerary. It's natural beauty and colorful Mayan culture make it a must for most travelers, yet most guide books refer to it as one place, which it is not. It's a number of small villages set around a large lake, and deciding where to stay is really difficult! We ended up staying in two different towns in 4 days on the lake, and visited more by boat during the short trip - so here's my summary of the top places to stay.


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Q: Update ocLazyLoad links with the revised links created by grunt-rev I am using yeoman (angular-fullstack) for my project. I want to use ocLazyLoad (link) in it with grunt-rev. But how do I update the asset links written in the js files by the new filenames created by grunt rev ? The links in the html file are update but how do I update the links in js file?

A: You'll probably be using usemin to perform the swapping of filenames in your specified files. So your usemin config might look something like this:
usemin: {
  options: {
    assetsDirs: [
      'dist/js/libs'
    ]
  },
  js: ['dist/js/config.lazyload.js']
}

Say your rev'd scripts are in dist/js/libs, then the above config will replace all references in config.lazyload.js with the rev'd filenames.
You'll probably have something already in your usemin config for doing the swap in your html files.


Depicting birds has long been an art of its own in the Armenian culture. Birds seem to appear everywhere in ancient Armenia starting from pottery and ending with the flags of Armenian dynasties.
Bowls and jugs dating at the 11th-13th centuries AD feature images of such birds as eagles, storks, doves, wild ducks, and other species. While stylistic in their form, those images are concise in their expression. They are thought to have served as the prototypes for the bronze statuettes of waterfowl, which were typical in Late Bronze Age. Over millennia, the Lchashen bird statuettes maintained their faunal diversity. Either direct and indirect human impact has threatened many bird species, which are as a result in need of urgent attention.
The birds' ability to fly, their beauty, and rich coloration have attracted human attention since times immemorial. The best testimony to this are images of birds seen on rocks, pottery, stamps, coins, as well as mosaic art. However, only those images cannot provide enough data on the species diversity and the birds' specific use by humans in prehistoric times. This is instead done through the investigation of archaeological remains. The work of DAL (1952), which is based on archaeological material gathered in the medieval town of Dvin, is especially notable because of its primary focus on the analysis of bird remains.
A variety of archaeological publications over the years have reported on the plethora of bird figures in the form of petroglyphs, which occur in the mountains of Gegham, Syunik, and Vardenis. Apart from that, bird images have been found on prehistoric monuments such as vishaps, temples, bronze pottery, and other objects. Thus, this subject has received quite a lot of attention from archaeologists.
Zwartnots ruins of Armenian cathedral built by order of the Catholicos Nerses the Builder from 641-653.
Vishapak'ar, "Dragon Stone," ca. 1200 B.C., found on Mt. Gegham Armenia, Sardarapat Museum.


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Once I got rolling on this, I could sense that it was going to be LONG, so I've decided to break it into at least two parts for now.
A few times over the course of the past year when I've mentioned the word 'ritual' it always generates comments or follow up emails from friends asking me to write some more on this subject. It's something that I kept promising to do, but never seemed to get around to it, but I've been thinking about it a lot in the meantime.
It was hard for me to name that during that period, but it became crystal clear as the fog started to lift again. I set two really big stretch goals for myself in that next year. The first was to immediately set up and follow through with an evaluation of my feet issues and schedule surgery and rehabilitation as soon as possible. It was a terrifying proposition to me, but I just forged ahead anyway. It was an incredibly painful surgery, and left me almost completely dependent on others for all driving and daily chores for 8+ weeks, and then I had several months of physical therapy that followed.
The second stretch was equally daunting. I decided to not only move forward with my licensing exams, but to commit to completing all seven of them in just a few months. I outlined this plan in my mind during the weeks I was confined to a chair or my bed post-surgery, and I made it happen by crafting specific rituals for each test. I scheduled the first three at two-week intervals, took a six-week hiatus to travel to Mexico, celebrate M, E, and F's late summer birthdays, and get everyone back to school in August. Then I scheduled the remaining four every two weeks – allowing one three week exception for the notoriously tough one.
I made this work by doing a few key things: I set aside the time I needed, established clear expectations (for myself and of others), and didn't permit myself to make changes based on fear or panic. I knew there was the real possibility that I might not pass one or more of the tests, but I also knew that I couldn't assign blame to the timeframe for that. I know I am capable of giving my absolute best effort in a specific (even aggressive) timeframe. I was just joking this week in a meeting that I think one of my strongest gifts is the ability to stretch time as I need it, when I need it. The ritual of my holiday card making demonstrates this to me each year. There's that word again – ritual. What could I learn from that and apply to my physical recovery and my tests?
I scheduled each test on a Monday. After completing each test, I drove to the same Starbucks down the street, ordered the same green drink (no longer on the menu, but luckily it stuck it out through my testing period), and spent the rest of the afternoon on a rare treat – like picking up a new book or shopping for a swimsuit for our trip. On Monday evening I boxed up all of the materials for that test, and went to bed early. On Tuesday I did nothing. On Wednesday evening I pulled the next materials out and got to work for ten days, then started all over again with the next one.
I learned a whole lot of things that year, exam material aside. In a household that splits domestic chores pretty evenly on all counts, it meant almost an entire year of doing very little cooking, cleaning, laundry, etc. I spent the first half with my feet up (by doctor's orders) and the second half with my tush in a chair (by my own orders). It felt crappy at the start, but it was good practice for the end. There were a lot of things I wasn't doing at 100%, but there were a few things I was killing it on, and those buoyed me for future challenges.
Over the next few years I began to articulate just what it was that I was hungry for, and I used the practice of creating rituals around those things so that they were both fulfilling and non-negotiable. I know that (physical) muscle memory is a thing, but I think it also can apply to the creating or breaking of habits. Ritual creates that muscle memory which then transforms desire into practice.
The most obvious first answer to what I was hungry for was food. I was grateful that my family kept me fed during that year when I couldn't do it myself, but I was ready to eat more and better, and to really stretch myself in that area. I got serious about menu planning, and I created rituals around the act of thinking about food week by week.Those rituals included a specific set of pre-printed note pads that live on the side of our fridge, a small stack of one or two cookbooks at a time, and (if lucky) a sunny weekend moment at the kitchen table. I make a breakfast from the leftovers of last weeks' meals, and I make a short list of random ingredients that are still hanging around. I map out our evening obligations so that I get a clearer picture of the nights with more or less time, and when the schedule dictates who's running the kitchen show that night. If we're receiving Blue Apron meals that week (I still use and love this service all the time), I plug in those three recipes to get the ball rolling. Already the week sounds delicious, and I haven't had to do a thing.
Mapping out the week this way takes some work, and a lot of follow-thru. But once the road map is there and the grocery list is ready, I already feel a lot better about it. It used to feel like such an undertaking to me, and I was prone to procrastinate on the task. But ritualizing the process – even down to my favorite teacup for coffee while I work – has made it part of my Saturday routine.
I've also made a practice of reading each new cookbook I purchase or receive from start to finish as soon as I receive it. To me they read like a regular book text, and if I know what is inside each cookbook, I'm much more likely to reach for it. And when I do, I'll pull several recipes at a time from one book. Often there are similar ingredient veins throughout the book, and that also helps to keep my ingredient lists slim and trim.
It's taken several years of regular practice, but even the way the list is organized and compiled makes the grocery experience better. I used to despise the act of grocery shopping, but it doesn't bother me as much anymore. I've slowly folded it into the start of each new week, and I try to use it as a quiet moment of expressing gratitude. Most of that gratitude happens in the produce section. We try to limit sweet treats at home, but always serve fruit with or after dinner. I am frequently grateful when shopping for fruit – in its seasonal abundance, and how it reminds me to savor the moment I'm in right then. I used to lament the last of the peaches, but now I know how good they are when they return again. The ritual of eating peaches for breakfast on the beach might be my favorite one of all.
We're in the middle of a significant snowstorm this weekend, and many of our regular weekend rituals have been cancelled or postponed. I'm excited for the possibilities of a different sort of weekend – the kind that happens so rarely as to be magical. I've learned that rigidity in rituals doesn't work for me, and leads to disappointment. Sometimes things get busy and overscheduled and we get off track for a week. But that muscle memory is strong, and I can sense when another Saturday aligns again in a way that fills me up again.
So I'm off to make coffee, and warm some pears in the oven, and move at a slower pace for a few more minutes before we head out into the wintry wonderland. I promise to return to this idea more next Saturday.