See below for the wonderful testimonials from our happy customers.
Eddie our 3 year old bulldog is suffering from a bit of juvenile arthritis in his back legs. He went for his first swim with life jacket this week. The whole team were wonderful. Eddie was safe and enjoyed his first swim and will be back for me next week. Cannot say enough about the treatment he has received at a ridiculously reasonable price. Lisa's assessment of him was spot on. Just do it and book you best friend in!
10/10 Brought my two agility dogs Henri and Bella for a fun swim they loved it so much once they got used to it, can't wait for them to come along again next week, the girls were fantastic and really helpful, will definetly be bringing my puppy German Shepherd for a swim as well not sure will be as confident as the other two.
for him, A matter of week's and he is back to a couple of hour's walking, his personality is back and he is looking great. When you consider he doesn,t like water, and will walk round a puddle. All I can say ladies is thank you for giving me back my friend , companion,and from past experience my protector. Thank you for all you have done for Snowz.!!
I took my two Bassets to Healthy Hounds to find out if they could swim because they are not known for being good in water. Thanks very much for your patience and understanding (especially with the owners). I just want to add they love it and go once a week from now on. Thanks.
We knew Lisa and Abbie because they used to swim our 17 year old mongrel, Fudge. Even though Fudge did not enjoy his swims, he needed to swim to help his arthritis. Lisa and Abbie were brilliant and encouraged Fudge all the way. Unfortunately we lost Fudge in August 2012 when his kidneys failed.
We now have a German Shepherd puppy Rosie, who is 12 weeks old. After she completed her vaccinations we checked with the vet about taking her swimming. Abbie introduced Rosie to the water in such a kind and loving way, that Rosie had no fear at all. She did several laps on her first swim with rests in between each lap. Rosie seemed to enjoy it and wasn't in the least bit stressed, in fact she wasn't even out of breath.
We thoroughly recommend Lisa and Abbie and Rosie will certainly be returning as she grows. We wish you both every success in your new venture.
Took Amber for the first time today and I can safely say that the girls have done a great job and hope the business becomes very successful, thanks.
THE BEST HYDROTHERAPISTS EVER! Yes I did just shout it because it's true. I have 2 dogs, Harvey is a Dalmation cross Weimaraner so is a natural waterbaby. I also have Luna who is a staffie cross, so you can imagine, she's not so keen, she even avoids puddles when it's been raining! Lisa and Abbie are so good at what they do it only took 3 assisted swims to get Luna to jump in on her own. Now she loves diving in and races Harvey to the toys. Book in with these two and you wont be disappointed!!
Love you guys and hope everything goes swimmingly (sorry)!
I started my dogs swimming over 9 years ago after an introduction to fun swims by. Lisa Holland and have been taking my dogs ever since. My Rottweilers benefited greatly from the exercise and they absolutely loved their weekly swim, I also benefited as I had clean dogs ready for each dog show.
On a personal note Lisa is exceptionally knowledgeable on anything canine yet very personal and over the years has given me plenty training and medical advice with regards to my dogs. I truly wish Lisa and abbie all the luck in the world with her new venture.
I started swimming Charlie in December 2011 following TPLO surgery to repair his cruciate ligament on his right hind leg. He has the surgery in the October, and was being slow to weight bear on his operated leg (due to his love of traveling everywhere at a million miles an hour and his leg was getting in the way!). The vet suggested trying hydrotherapy with him as a means to get him using that leg without having to weight bear. Again, as Charlie is a nervy dog, Lisa took her time getting him used to everything and trying to encourage him with soft squeaky toys. After just a couple of swims, he started to weight bear on that leg, and we have never looked back.
Due to the success of Charlie's swims, we decided to try it with our elderly German shepherd, Shara, who at the age of 13 has started to slow down and lose muscle tone in her back legs. She really enjoys her swims and loves nothing more than swimming after her Kong Wubba! She is definitely more lively after she has had a swimming session and she enjoys it as well.
I would like to say a massive thank you to Lisa for all her care and support with Benson while swimming. When Benson first started swimming he was very nervous of the pool and new surroundings. Lisa was very patient with him and easily adapted to make things easier for Benson to settle in. Lisa took the time and effort to support Benson and with her love and encouragement Benson soon began to enjoy his swims. Lisa always puts the care and well-being of the dogs first and she soon became a friend. Benson loves to swim with Lisa and is always happy to enjoy a nice massage after! Thanks again Lisa, without you I don't think Benson would love swimming like he does now.
My dog Paddy has being going to hydrotherapy every week for 3 years. He loves jumping in and would go for hours if we let him. I recently introduced my other dog, Minnie, to hydro She wasn't very keen at first but with the patience of the staff she is now just as obsessed with swimming as Paddy! Even though my dogs don't have a medical condition, hydrotherapy is a great form of fun and exercise and a fantastic way to maintain general fitness levels.
I started taking my Springer Spaniel, Molly, to hydrotherapy when she was first diagnosed with severe osteoarthritis in her elbows. Lisa and her team always give Molly lots of attention as soon as she arrives, making her feel comfortable and happy in her surroundings. They take the time to introduce Molly slowly to each aspect of hydrotherapy, as her wellbeing is their priority.
Molly's limp vastly improved since starting hydrotherapy as this helped to strengthen her muscles around her elbows without any impact on her joints. Swimming is a great form of exercise for Molly as it is low impact and helps to build her confidence in the water. The team always strive to provide the best possible service with dietary recommendations and any other useful advice and tips that are beneficial for Molly's condition. It is evident that this is not just a job for the hydrotherapy team, as they obviously love what they do and care passionately about dogs. I cannot recommend them highly enough as their enthusiasm and passion for hydrotherapy reflects in their friendly and positive attitude, whilst the hydrotherapy itself is doing wonders for Molly's limp.
Lisa's passion and enthusiasm for dogs is obvious from the moment you meet her. She works extremely hard and everything she does and recommends is for the dog's benefit and welfare. As Lisa is qualified in canine massage she suggested that Molly would benefit from this as, due to her osteoarthritis, she had pulled muscles from redistributing her weight when limping. Lisa let Molly explore the room first so that she would feel comfortable in her surroundings before encouraging her to lie down for a massage. Molly responded really well to her massage and absolutely loved it. As Lisa performed the massage, she explained everything she was doing and how it worked, and released any muscles that were locked. Lisa also provided me with lots of aftercare advice and tips on how to massage Molly at home. Lisa goes above and beyond her job role every time I see her, and is always happy to answer any questions or suggest improvements to increase Molly's quality of life. Molly loves her massages as they give her relief from any muscles pain and she loves all the fuss and attention she gets from Lisa.
Overall, I would encourage all dog owners to take their dogs to hydrotherapy and treat them to a massage because the health benefits are amazing, the dogs love it and it really does help to enhance their quality of life. I cannot fault Lisa and Abbie, who are all clearly dog lovers. They are amazing people, who are passionate and driven to provide an excellent service. This is not just a business for them, it is a job they love, which is reflected in the quality of service, and makes canine hydrotherapy and massage a great experience for both dog and owner.
I took my Golden Retriever Holly for hydrotherapy and canine massage, as she had cruciate ligament problems. The hydrotherapy session lasted 20 minutes and she really enjoyed playing and swimming in the water.
During the massage I was amazed at the increase in her range of motion, and have noticed a remarkable improvement in Holly's quality of life.
I wholeheartedly endorse the services provided by Lisa and Abbie due to the increased vitality of my beloved pet.
Thank you for all your help with Rusty. We adopted Rusty who is a very boisterous Lab Cross as a Rescue in July from Cheshire Dogs Home and after a few weeks we realised that he needed more than just basic dog training to expend some of his energy. After some looking we were advised that Hydro Therapy (swimming) might be just the ticket to drain some of this excess energy. We booked him in for his first session and soon found out to our amazement that a dog who comes from a breed that loves to swim and also loves to splash about in metal bowls of water was actually scarred of water. However with your help and patience over the next few weeks we were not only able to get him into the water but he now actively enjoys his swims to the point of walking into the pool and looking to pick up the toys floating in the water and carrying them while swimming.
Obviously there is still a long way to go however there has been a huge improvement.
We would like to thank all of the girls at the for all of their care, concern and professionalism over the past year with special thanks to Lisa Holland who has shown considerable interest in the welfare of our German Shepherd Dog, Ella.
Ella is now 11 years old, a good age for a GSD, and began to look and act much older some eighteen months ago. She suffers from Arthritis and Hip Dysplasia, typical for her breed. It was suggested to us by our vet that perhaps she would benefit from Hydrotherapy. It has been a wonderful experience for Ella and definitely given her a new lease of life. Added to this Lisa also took Ella on as a case-study when she was completing her course in 'massage' and this has proved to be most beneficial.
We can recommend both Hydrotherapy and Massage and shall certainly maintain it for Ella and any dog we have in the future.
Jasper, my 10 year old chocolate Labrador started his swimming sessions after being diagnosed with arthritis and having a cruciate ligament operation. He started off with a few minutes in the water per session and after a few months he had made so much progress he can now swim for 20 minutes per session. His mobility has improved massively and I am certain that this is due to his swimming and he absolutely loves his swims, he is so happy swimming. I trusted Lisa 100 per cent to take care of him in the water and to build a swimming program to suit his specific needs. Lisa always came across as professional, experienced and competent. I am just so glad that I started his swims with Lisa, it has made a real difference to his quality of life.
My dog Sam has been swimming since he was 4 months old. he loves it even though Corgis are not renowned for being water dogs! It just goes to show that if you start them young enough they love it! It builds up their confidence, exercises them without putting unnecessary strains on their young joints and bones, builds up muscle tone and keeps their hearts healthy.
we get almost as wet as Sam because he gets so carried away swimming out to retrieve his toy and then coming back out to shake while waiting for the hydro girls to throw it again. God forbid he ever needs hydrotherapy for medical reasons in the future, but should he do so, at least we know that he will be happy to swim. Our previous Corgi was not so fortunate and when the time came that he needed hydrotherapy it was too late, his heart was too weak and he hated the water too much.
If you were to ask Sam what the best bit about swimming was, he would be torn between the fun side of retrieving/swimming and the shampoo/showering off at the end, followed by the drying down. Sam loves the total experience.
A year ago my collie, Dylan, developed arthritis in his spine. He went from being a happy lively dog to one who, despite conventional and alternative medication, found even the shortest walk an endurance test. A colleague said a friend's dog had benefited from hydrotherapy, so we gave it a try. The staff were very good at putting Dylan at his ease and the sessions were fun. Soon we found that the days following treatment Dylan was his old self, enthusiastic about his walks and more playful at home. Initially he required the hydrotherapy weekly for the improvement to be maintained, then fortnightly.
Jordi is a German Shepherd wit Hip Dysplasia so my vet recommend i took Jordi swimming. Lisa and Abbie how run the swims, ensures that Jordi has a good workout without over doing it and has plenty of fun so that the swimming is not something scary but an enjoyable experience. Although i think Jordi enjoys getting everyone soaked the most!!! It is definitely helping Jordi with her Hip Dysplasia and i have certainly noticed a difference when she does miss a session.
Overall, i would definitely recommend to anyone whose dog requires hydrotherapy to give Healthy Hounds a try. the facilities are excellent and the staff are very friendly and helpful. Most of all, though is how they treat your dog during those sessions. Jordi's introduction to swimming was done slowly and gradually so that it was not something that would frighten her and make her afraid of the water. her initial lessons were carefully structured to build her muscles up without overtiring her and the staff made sure that we understood what the exercises were doing for Jordi and how they would help her deal with her Hip Dysplasia.
I enjoy taking Jordi swimming and i think that Jordi enjoys it as well and that is what matters the most.
I have used Lisa and her hydrotherapy service for over 9 years. My first dobermann suffered from a condition called Wobblers and Lisa ensured that the rehabilitation phase after his operation was fantastic.
She talked me through the programme we would follow to build up his strength and explained fully the benefits of hydrotherapy for his Post Op Care. Within a few months my dobermann was back to full health thanks to Lisa's patience and professionalism.
I have also used hydrotherapy for fun and fitness for my other 2 dobermanns especially when they were young puppies. As large breed dogs the amount of exercise has to be minimal due to bone growth etc. Hydro was a fantastic way of burning that puppy energy whilst not putting any pressure on their baby joints. Both of my guys were not too keen on the water at first but they grew to trust Lisa and she ensured that they had a great time in the water, but most of all were tired at the end of the session.
Lisa has massaged all my dogs over the last few months. She is patient, kind and professional. I thought my youngest dobermann who was only 12 months old would not settle or relax for the massage, but Lisa ensured that she took the time and patience to make her feel comfortable and ensured that she had a pleasant experience.
I would have no hesitation in recommending Lisa's hydrotherapy and massage service to anyone. She is professional, completely committed to what she does and puts the pets needs first.
Following a cruciate ligament operation Meg spent months on the lead and I despaired of her ever having full use of her back leg again. I booked Meg in for a series of Hydrotherapy treatments and massage with Lisa and was delighted with the results. Lisa was gentle, patient and encouraging and her knowledge and experience meant that Meg was back running off the lead after a few weeks of treatment. I would highly recommend this for any dog who needs to build strength. Meg absolutely loved it too!
I brought my Rottie Rex for hydrotherapy and massage.He had many sessions of swimming and a few of the massage. Rex has a ruptured cruciate and we looked into the swimming to help build up his muscles and the massage to help with any sprains. After only a few sessions of swimming we noticed a massive difference in Rex, he had an awful limp before he started, his limp was barely noticeable a few sessions in. The massage was wonderful and Rex really enjoyed it. Lisa was great with Rex and he loved being fussed over. Lisa was fantastic at getting him to work with her. Overall the swim and massage has brought his recovery on leaps and bounds and he is getting back to the old Rex now.
We were very pleased with the caring way our dog who has hip dysplasia was handled. Once in the pool although he looked apprehensive he was encouraged to swim, which within a few minutes he looked like he was really enjoying it.
We brought Kujo to Lisa and Abbie, after noticing he was having difficulty getting in the car and up the stairs as a result of his arthritis. He is nine now and hadn't swam for eight years, but they were patient with him and gradually allowed him to start enjoying swimming. Within weeks Kujo's mobility had improved greatly, allowing him to get in the car without assistance and was back to running up the stairs two at a time, like he had done before.
Lisa also suggested we begin him on massage therapy to compliment the swimming. Kujo was easily aggravated at first by any massaging on his muscles and joints from previous experiences, but Lisa was again very patient with him. Instead of forcing him into massages, she gradually re-introduced massaging and allowed him to trust her when working on his joints and muscles. In addition to the therapy Lisa has offered, she has also provided us with many useful tips to do at home, to ease any pain and improve Kujo's mobility.
He is genuinely more active since his hydrotherapy and massage therapy and has not shown signs of pain from his arthritis as he used to.
I would highly recommend Lisa and Abbie for both hydrotherapy and massage therapy as she has helped Kujo so much.
Just wanted to say thank you so much for Milo's new lease of life. Twelve months ago, after his spinal injury, he couldn't walk unaided, and he didn't like water. The prognosis was not good, with a 50/50 chance of paralysis.
Your caring nature, patience and persistence with the hydrotherapy has paid off. He can now walk and run on his own and he loves coming for his swims. Thank you so much it's not just your job, you really do care and it makes such a difference.
Dora, our 15 month old American Bulldog had suffered with ligament and joint problems. After several invasive operations we were on a long road to recovery and no exercise for a young bouncy girl was very difficult not only for her, but for us to watch. Hydrotherapy was recommended by our vet and after the initial shock of the water Dora progressed well and thoroughly enjoyed her sessions. She is now able to enjoy short fun, filled walks and we have been able to avoid further surgery which we feel is attributable to the benefits of hydro. A great way to exercise and help strengthen joints! Thanks for all the hard work, support and commitment from the staff.


Is tea a commodity product? No it isn't. And if you are planning to get into the tea business, than read this article first. Many tea business have a hard time in the beginning phase, because they start thinking about things such as the packaging and the design of the tea shop or online tea store. However, they forgot to ask themselves the single most important question: What tea am I going to sell?
Bags versus Loose: The majority of tea drinkers today are still preferring tea bags over loose tea. The main reason is that tea bags are easier to steep. On the other hand, loose tea is much less consumed, but the market is growing faster.
Blend versus Pure: Are you going to focus on being authentic and sell pure tea? Or are you going to go for blends and make cool commercial teas to seduce the customer?
Tea Types:: Though most tea business try to sell different tea types from green, black to white teas, some others are focusing on one particular type of tea. There are for example many pu erh tea stores that are specialized only in this tea type.
Geography: Besides tea types, you can also specialize in tea from a certain country or even region. Teasenz.com is for example specialized in only authentic tea from China.
Tea versus tea ware: You don't have to sell tea to be in the tea business. Instead, you could go into tea ware or accessories that make the steeping process more convenient and/or more enjoyable. Very often, tea business decide to sell both, as they are complementary products. It takes some courage to go into tea ware only, but if you do so, you might look much more specialized and professional in the eyes of the tea shopper.
While you don't have to make a choice for each of the above consideration, I do advice to do that for at least one factor above. For instance, you could decide to only focus only on loose tea, but you do want to offer all tea types, from different countries, and sell blends as well as pure tea.
Final note: Many successful tea entrepreneurs, actually started out of frustration that they couldn't get certain teas or blends they had in mind, so they created it themselves. Or they found the steeping process to cumbersome and came up with their own tea ware. They have an advantage from the start, because they started with an identified problem that they experienced themselves, and later on they discovered that they weren't alone! So my advice would be to listen to yourself for business inspirations, and ask others to validate your ideas.
Unless, you sell internationally, it's most likely not wise to narrow down your market too much, because you end up in a market that is too small.
In reality, most local tea stores tend keep their offerings as broad as possible so they are able to make most customers happy. In addition, there are usually not that many competing tea stores in the neighborhood, so that specialization is not as necessary.
If you are an online business, it's a different story. The most visitors will come from Google search, and you will have to specialize to make sure you are different from all the other tea stores that rank in Google.
This post is part of a series of articles about How To Start A Tea Business.


People Inc. is pleased to announce that its president and chief executive officer James M. Boles, Ed.D. was recently honored by the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities with the 2011 Hervey B. Wilbur Historic Preservation Award. He was recognized for his achievements and many contributions to the field of developmental disabilities.
A resident of Snyder, Dr. Boles has been the president and chief executive officer of People Inc. since 1981, Western New York State's largest health and human service agency supporting people with developmental disabilities and seniors. He received masters' degrees in clinical psychology and education and a Doctorate of Education in family and community relations from Columbia University. Although he began his career providing direct counseling services, he quickly moved into behavioral health administration where he advocated for greater community inclusion and acceptance of individuals with disabilities. In addition to having membership in many professional organizations, Dr. Boles provided the impetus for the creation of the Human Service Alliance of Western New York. He has served on the New York State Commissioner's Advisory Council on Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities and served on the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities for two terms since 2006.
In 1998, while teaching as an adjunct professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Dr. Boles found that he could not direct his students to a single source for conducting research on disability history. The information available was scattered and scarce. Dr. Boles was astonished at the lack of educational resources available to increase society's understanding, acceptance and awareness of disability issues. To address this need, he set forth the work of collecting and preserving materials and artifacts documenting the history of people with disabilities.
In 1998, Dr. Boles established the Museum of disABILITY History, a project of People Inc. It is the nation's first and only "bricks and-mortar" museum dedicated to ensuring that the struggles, triumphs and contributions that people with disabilities have made to our nation's identity and culture would not be overlooked. Currently, the museum's collection consists of 4,760 rare and unique items which have become a premier resource nationally and internationally for scholars and students; government agencies; organizations and associations; health care workers, researchers and film-makers. Dr. Boles' vision, leadership and energy has also guided the development of: permanent and travelling exhibits to raise awareness on disability issues; a virtual museum (www.museumofdisability.org) that enables access to exhibits, timelines, collections, bibliographies and teacher resources; a disability history curriculum adaptable for grades K-12; an annual disABILITIES Film Festival and Speaker Series; and the formation of People Ink Press to publish books distributing the Museum's research and broadening its impact.
The mission of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities is to promote progressive policies, sound research, effective practices and universal human rights for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.


Minor Parent Services were established to assist young mothers in making a plan for themselves and their baby and to make sure needed services are accessed.
Teens who are under the age of 18 and in their 3rd trimester of pregnancy.
Teens who are under the age of 18 and already parenting.
Teen mothers who have been identified on the 72-hour birth report (per MN Statute).
Outreach assistance to pregnant or parenting teens for service/resource referrals. A sample of these include: counseling, financial and medical assistance, housing options, childcare options, and paternity or child support services.
Assistance for the pregnant or parenting teen in establishing a plan for herself and her child.
Resource referrals to appropriate agencies to assist with decision making regarding an unplanned pregnancy.
Meeting and speaking before school groups, community and private organizations.


Tonight on the show we have from the Horror film At Granny's House the female stars of the film Laura Lee and Rachel Alig. Whats funny if you watched the film your aware one of these actress kills the other but I wont say which , you will have to tune into the show tonight to find out. The music tonight will be from the sound track PLANET TERROR. I picked up the vinyl at That's Entertainment in Worcester Ma for Record store Day yesterday.
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Critic's Notebook
Juliet Wittman May 12, 2005 4:00AM
Over the past few years, some of the most reliably interesting theater performances in this area have taken place on the small, square stage above the galleries at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, under the aegis of artistic director Brandi Mathis. Mathis, who worked at the museum for five years before resigning in April, brought the first-ever performance of a play by Pulitzer winner Suzan-Lori Parks to Colorado. She provided a mix of work, from the deadly serious experimental dance of Lemon Spongecake through the hilarious menopausal griping of Nancy Cranbourne to the brilliant mix of visual, video, sculptural and verbal elements employed by performance artist Michelle Ellsworth. Mathis seemed to have one essential criterion in choosing performance pieces: Is the work alive? She brought in national talent; she nurtured local artists. According to Frances Charteris, who teaches dance at the University of Colorado, she served as a bridge between the college and the city: "She opened it up for so many different people."
Almost every show found the tiny theater filled to overflowing.
No one is saying why Mathis left, but it's clear there's a change in the culture and atmosphere of the museum. Ken Bloom left the post of executive director last year, and the job was split between two women: Penny Barnow, whose focus will be on fundraising, and Joan Markowitz, who for years ran the MacLaren Markowitz Gallery on the Pearl Street Mall.
There appear to be no concrete plans for the theater now that Mathis is gone. Vern Seieroe, chairman of the BMoCA board, sees the space "as a venue for people in the creative process, early on in that process," and speaks of using the transition period "as an opportunity to sit down and ask ourselves: Are we doing this the way that's best to meet our mission?"
"We're gathering information, creating a vision," says Barnow.
Let's hope BMoCA gets its act together. Otherwise, in a theater world swamped with franchise productions and American Idol wannabes, another oasis of integrity and creativity will disappear. And where will we go then to see humorist Eric Bogosian skewer the zeitgeist, singer-actress Ethelyn Friend sing Songs My Grandmothers Taught Me or Ami Dayan and Naropa's Lee Worley contemplating the end of the world?
Juliet Wittman is an investigative reporter and critic with a passion for theater, literature, social justice and food. She has reviewed theater for Westword for over a decade; for many years, she also reviewed memoirs for the Washington Post. She has won several journalism awards and published essays and short stories in literary magazines. Her novel, Stocker's Kitchen, can be obtained at select local bookstores and on Amazon.
Contact: Juliet Wittman
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The World Atlas of Coffee: From beans to brewing - coffees explored, explained and enjoyed
Mitchell Beazley
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This ultimate guide to coffee contains comprehensive details on the beans and brews of more than 35 countries.
The worldwide bestseller - 1/4 million copies sold
'Written by a World Barista Champion and co-founder of the great Square Mile roasters in London, this had a lot to live up to and it certainly does. Highly recommended for anyone into their coffee and interested in finding out more about how it's grown, processed and roasted.' (Amazon customer)
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For everyone who wants to understand more about coffee and its wonderful nuances and possibilities, this is the book to have.
Coffee has never been better, or more interesting, than it is today. Coffee producers have access to more varieties and techniques than ever before and we, as consumers, can share in that expertise to make sure the coffee we drink is the best we can find. Where coffee comes from, how it was harvested, the roasting process and the water used to make the brew are just a few of the factors that influence the taste of what we drink. Champion barista and coffee expert James Hoffmann examines these key factors, looking at varieties of coffee, the influence of terroir, how it is harvested and processed, the roasting methods used, through to the way in which the beans are brewed.
Country by country - from Bolivia to Zambia - he then identifies key characteristics and the methods that determine the quality of that country's output. Along the way we learn about everything from the development of the espresso machine, to why strength guides on supermarket coffee are really not good news. This is the first book to chart the coffee production of over 35 countries, encompassing knowledge never previously published outside the coffee industry.
James Hoffmann is the managing director of Square Mile Coffee Roasters, a multi-award-winning coffee roasting company based in East London. He is also the World Barista Champion 2007, having won the UK Barista competition in both 2006 and 2007. He writes a popular blog, www.jimseven.com, about coffee and the coffee business. The World Atlas of Coffee is his first book.
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Howard Kirschenbaum


One size does not fit all, so make sure you make the right choice for your customers.
We began a discussion in the February issue on the interaction—or more accurately—the intersection of the pump performance curve (head-capacity curve) and the system head curve.
Now we will graphically take a more in-depth look at how varying operating conditions and our resulting pump selections can lead to a successful installation or a source of frustration.
As previously discussed, a system head curve is comprised of three head components: static head, pressure head, and friction head. These are shown in Figure 1.
Static head (in blue) is the total lift or change in elevation from the surface of the water during operation (pumping water level when pumping from a well), plus any change in elevation between the pump discharge head and the irrigation system. Pressure head (in green) is the system design pressure requirement. This is given in pounds per square inch (PSI) generally, but is easily converted to feet of head by multiplying by 2.31. Friction head (red line) varies with flow and is a function of the resistance in the piping system, including the size and length of the piping plus any valves, fittings, or other appurtenances.
Once the system head curve has been established, a pump is selected that will match its head-capacity curve with the system curve at the desired flow rate. This intersection, when calculated correctly, occurs at what we call the design point.
It is important to recognize the design point as the intersection of the two curves for several reasons. First, whether we realize it or not, there are always secondary operating points, even if only temporarily such as during startup and shutdown. Secondly, there are usually several different pump selections that will meet our design point requirement, but may present different problems when secondary operating constraints are considered.
Pumps are designed to provide complete hydraulic coverage within certain physical sizes. Without getting too deeply into a discussion on pump design, suffice it to say that within a specific size, some pump designs will be engineered to produce high head/stage at a low flow, and other designs to produce high flows at a low head/stage.
Between these two extremes a range of designs will provide a continuum of hydraulic coverage. These designs are defined numerically by their specific speed (NS), a dimensionless expression of the impeller's geometry. Each of these designs has a characteristic pump head-capacity curve shape which rotates around the best efficiency point (BEP) of the curve.
Pumps with higher specific speeds have steeper headcapacity curves, and pumps with lower specific speeds have flatter head-capacity curves (Figure 2). There are additional characteristics of curves with differing specific speed and they will be discussed in a future article.
With the intersection of the two curves (design point) identified, conventional industry practices tend to focus on the lowest initial cost, followed closely by the highest efficiency offered at the design point. This results in a tendency to look for a selection that will meet the design point with the fewest number of stages. Low specific speed pump selections with their high head/stage offer this. The trade-off for this selection is its characteristically flat curve.
Figure 3. Blue system head curve line represents addition of 20 feet of drawdown.
head/stage, it will meet the design point using only three stages.
reduced to the point of being inoperable, particularly the end gun if equipped.
The pump curve selection in Figure 3 demonstrates the importance of another common industry practice: selecting a pump with a steep head-capacity curve. We see in many engineering specifications where not only is a steep curve required, it is mandated the design point must be to the right of the best efficiency point (BEP). This is because head-capacity curves are the steepest to the right of BEP.
Our second example is shown in Figure 4 and features a pump with a specific speed (NS) of 2720. An identical system head curve is drawn (note the y-axis scale is different but the curve is the same) intersecting the head-capacity curve again at 800 GPM. The selection requires five stages since it is a higher specific speed and therefore will produce more flow, but at a lower head/stage.
Figure 4. A five-stage selection where blue system head curve flow is better than 740 gpm.
Here, when the secondary design point is taken into consideration (blue system head curve), the flow at desired pressure is better than 740 GPM. Sprinkler performance will be somewhat diminished, but the system will still operate. This makes the selection more expensive (five stages vs. three stages), but it will operate successfully across a broader set of conditions.
It is easy to see why it is generally viewed steep headcapacity curves are superior to flatter curves. There are exceptions to this, though.
the pivot towers to fail.
We've already seen in Figure 3 the pressure on our initial low specific speed pump go up only about 15 feet or 7 PSI at 600 GPM. This would be an acceptable increase in pressure. In Figure 5, though, we see when using our second pump with a specific speed (NS) of 2720, the pressure at 600 GPM goes up more than 47 feet (over 20 PSI). It's additional pressure such as this, from using a pump with a steep head-capacity curve, causing boot failure.
Figure 5. Pump with specific speed of 2720 and pressure at 600 gpm goes up more than 47 feet.
Without knowing the specifics of the NRCS technician's situation, my assumption is the pump system designer likely subscribed to the principle the steeper the head-capacity curve, the better. This designer either failed to understand the relationship between head-capacity curves and system head curves, or worse yet, simply failed to ask the appropriate questions to take secondary operating conditions into account.
I think these examples show there is no one-size-fits-all approach to pump design. Each application requires us to ask probing questions so we can properly design the pumping system to meet our customer's present and future needs.
It is in asking these questions we truly become a resource, and not just a vendor or supplier.
More information on DACUM and the charts are available at www.NGWA.org.
Mike Allen has worked extensively on water issues in Nebraska and was appointed by the governor to the Water Well Standards and Contractors Licensing Board in 1999 and served as chairman until 2013. He also served two terms as a director on the Little Blue Natural Resources District Board of Directors and serves on the Board of Directors of the Nebraska Water Resources Association. Allen currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Mary Lanning Memorial Healthcare in Hastings, Nebraska. He can be reached at michael.allen@marylanning.org.


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Pandemics and Health Emergencies: A Teach-In
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The second post in our Coronavirus series, this time a virtual teach-in from Professor Sophie Harman, who has been our guest before. Sophie's research focuses on visual method and the politics of seeing, global health politics, African agency, and the politics of conspicuously invisible women. She has pursued these interests through projects on Global Health Governance, the World Bank and HIV/AIDS, partnerships in health in Africa, the 2014/15 Ebola response, the governance of HIV/AIDS, and her recent film project, Pili, for which she was nominated for a BAFTA as in the category of Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer. Sophie's recent publications include Seeing Politics: Film, Visual Method and International Relations (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019), 'Why It Must Be a Feminist Global Health Agenda' in The Lancet (with Sara Davies, Rashida Manjoo, Maria Tanyag and Clare Wenham), and 'Governing Ebola: Between Global Health and Medical Humanitarianism' in Globalizations (with Clare Wenham). She is also a Co-Editor of Review of International Studies, and the recipient of numerous grants and awards.
Pandemics, pandemic preparedness, social distancing, self isolation, secure quarantines, global health security, disease surveillance, vectors of disease, epidemiological curve, morbidity and mortality, health financing facility, PPE, vertical transmission, community transmission, Tedros, burden of disease, secondary impacts of epidemics, biosecurity, international health regulations, advanced purchase mechanisms… if these are words you only had passing familiarity with a few weeks ago and now obsessively reading newspaper articles about, or jumping straight to Foucault-explains-it-all, this list is for you. Over the last twenty years the field of global health politics has increased substantially to the point that most states and international institutions have some form of global security plan or agenda. Global health as a sub-field of academic inquiry in International Relations began in the 1990s as scholars began to explore the relationship between globalization (travel, trade, finance) and health and the growing HIV/AIDS pandemic, human rights, and subsequently, international peace and security. Since then the growth of the field has been dizzying.
The British International Studies Association (BISA), International Studies Association (ISA), and European International Studies Association (EISA) all have sections/working groups. Research into global health politics is now published in mainstream International Relations journals (this was not always the case, the regular gripe of global health Reviewer 2 that health issues cannot bring about social disorder or an international crisis). You may have missed this research and been busy doing other things. You may want to avoid this work entirely given the clear and present stress of living with COVID19. You may want to start to read more on this issue, so here is an abridged list of key things to read about pandemic flu and global health security to get you started. You will note these are all articles rather than books – I am hoping this blog will encourage publishers to un-gate these articles during this time to allow people access to them. This is an abridged list taken from my Global Politics of Health and Disease module, you can find the full module outline here.
The following two papers are on my 'Essential Reading' they just set out the issues so clearly. I recommend them to students, colleagues from public health that don't really get International Relations, and of course IR people who don't really understand global health.
Rushton, S. 2011. 'Global Health Security: Security for whom? Security from what?' Political Studies 59(4): 779-796
Davies, S. (2008). 'Securitizing infectious disease'. International Affairs 84: 295-313
Elbe's work (alongside Colin McInnes and Kelley Lee) was fundamental in putting health security on the radar of International Relations. This is the paper everyone in IR told me about when I was doing my PhD on HIV/AIDS (a great paper, not so relevant to my PhD on the World Bank and civil society in East Africa). It also captures the period when everyone was talking about Foucault and biopolitics.
Elbe, S. 'Should HIV/AIDS be securitized? The ethical dilemmas of linking HIV/AIDS and security'. International Studies Quarterly 50 (2006): 121-146.
After UN Security Council Resolution 1308 lots of global health security literature focused on the securitization of disease, not all great. Hanreider has produced some excellent, detailed work on WHO which is rich in detail and does not scrimp on the technical or theoretical debates. Mention Howell's work to a global health person, and they're guaranteed to respond with 'I love her work.'
Hanreider, T. and Kreuder-Sonnen, C. (2014). 'WHO decides on the exception? Securitization and emergency governance in global health'. Security Dialogue 45(4): 331-348.
Howell, A. (2014). 'The global politics of medicine: beyond global health, against securitisation theory'. Review of International Studies 40(5): 961-987.
This list really focuses on a handful of (mainly male) authors who have been working on flu for years. My longer list has more diverse sources and covers greater ground, but these are all excellent introductions to the topic of pandemic flu. I am also telling everyone to read Sara E Davies' Containing Contagion at the moment as it's great and the most topical book out there at the moment.
Kamradt-Scott, A. and McInnes, C. (2012). 'The securitisation of pandemic influenza: framing, security and public policy'. Global Public Health 7(2):95-110
Elbe, S. 2011. 'Pandemics on the radar screen: health security, infectious disease and the medicalization of insecurity'. Political Studies 59(4)
Hamieri, S. and Jones, L. (2015). 'The political economy of non-traditional security: explaining the governance of Avian Influenza in Indonesia'. International Politics 52(4): 445-465.
Kamradt-Scott, A. and Lee, K. 2011. 'The 2011 pandemic influenza preparedness framework: global health secured or a missed opportunity?' Political Studies 59(4): 831-847
The International Health Regulations (IHR) are the backbone of global health security and disease surveillance. Personally, I find them super boring, but you have to understand them to be allowed to say that. However, if you are interested in international law, then you should read up on them as they are one of the more important and powerful sources of law in the international system. The Fidler reading is long (so says every student I made read it) but it has all the background and technical detail you need. The Youde, Davies, and Parker readings are much more focused on the politics of implementation and compliance with the IHR.
Fidler, D. 'From International Sanitary Conventions to global health security: the new International Health Regulations.' Chinese Journal of International Law 4(2005): 325-362.
Youde, J. 'Mediating risk through the International Health Regulations and biopolitical surveillance.' Political Studies 59,4 (2011): 813-829.
Davies, S., Youde, J., & Parker, R. (2012). 'The shared responsibility of disease surveillance'. Global Public Health, 7(7), 667–679.
Ebola is not a flu and no outbreak has reached pandemic status, however it is very relevant for understanding global health security and COVID19 on account of: the role of calling an outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern; military involvement; an overwhelmed state; the gendered dimensions of disease; vaccines, international attention, othering, and discrimination; and significant social, political, economic, and health outcomes. Personally, I'd skip the pandemic flu section and jump straight to here. This is also the only section where I include one book, because I want you to read it.
Special Issue (2016). 'The International Politics of Ebola'. Third World Quarterly 37(3)
Benton, A., & Dionne, K. Y. (2015). 'International political economy and the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak'. African Studies Review, 58(1), 223–
Farmer, P. (2015). 'The caregivers' disease'. London Review of Books 37(10)
Hofman, M. and Au, S. (eds) (2017). The Politics of Fear: Medecins San Frontieres and the West African Ebola Epidemic. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Kamradt-Scott, A. et al. (2015). Saving Lives: the civil-military response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Sydney: University of Sydney
Finally, I've included these three readings on Zika to flag work on the gendered component of outbreaks, and the global and racial inequalities inherent to 'stratified reproduction' (see Johnson). If you are interested in the gendered components of COVID19, follow Clare Wenham on Twitter for updates on her project on this.
Davies, S. and Bennett, B. (2016). 'A gendered human rights analysis of Ebola and Zika: locating gender in global health emergencies'. International Affairs 92(5): 1041-1060
Wenham, C., & Farias, D. B. (2019). 'Securitizing Zika: The case of Brazil'. Security Dialogue, 50(5), 398–415.
Johnson, C. (2017). 'Pregnant woman versus mosquito: A feminist epidemiology of Zika virus'. Journal of International Political Theory, 13(2), 233-250.
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Björn Gooßes will be part of Summer Breeze 2016 with his exhibition 'Painted In Blood'
After a successful premiere in Bochum Björn Gooßes and his partners in crime Thomas Ewerhard and Jan Meininghaus will be guests at Summer Breeze 2016 with the exhibition 'Painted In Blood'. On Thursday and Friday, all Summer Breeze patrons will have the chance to meet the artists in the new circus tent close to the festival entrance and to check out their work.
Art in the circus tent: Cover exhibition 'Painted In Blood' at Summer Breeze
The artists presenting their part-concrete, part-abstract visions, were or still are active musicians and also have in common that they started their careers in graphic design working for their own bands. Thomas Ewerhard, Björn Gooßes and Jan Meininghaus have known each other for a long time – from the days when album covers still worked as a purchase incentive and the decision to buy an album in a record shop was often determined by an especially gory cover. Many of their customers, too, are high-profile bands who have their roots in the last millennium, but have stood the test of time: Doro, Kreator, Sodom and many more…
Born in '77, Björn Gooßes, voice of The Very End, is the youngest of the three artists. In his early days he would ask his colleagues Ewerhard and Meininghaus for advice surrounding paintbrush and pixel many times. Gooßes has worked with many different bands, festivals and authors from over 30 different countries. In the exhibition he is presenting a small selection of his works for e.g. Dew-Scented, Hatesphere, Sodom or The Crown, which are somewhere between image processing, mixed media and compositing. One piece of Björn's exhibition will be the artwork for The Very End's official DVD of 'A Hole in the Sun'!
Both days the exhibition will be opened with an acoustic performance by Swabian doom trio Undertow.
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Thursday, 18.08.2016: 12:00 – 17:00
Friday, 19.08.2016: 12:00 – 17:00
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CC069: Keeping the Faith During a Pandemic
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For most American Catholics, the Coronavirus is unprecedented; no public Masses, suspension of Confirmations, closures of schools – the list goes on. But pandemics, limited access to the Sacraments, and tough times have occurred many times throughout the history of the Church, and so it is up to Catholics to face uncertain times with courage, perseverance, and hope.
In this episode, Bishop Wall is joined by Bishop James Conley, Fr. Matthew Keller, Fr. Mitchell Brown, and Deacon Randolph Copeland (a physician) for a discussion on maintaining hope and faith during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2:00 – How to keep the faith in trying times
10:24 – How to not give into fear and anxiety
16:00 – What to do if you or someone you know is sick
17:00 – Good recommendations for spiritual reading and practices
Archdiocese of Philadelphia and the Spanish Flu
Word on Fire – pivotal players
Bishop Wall's podcast on Flannery O'Connor
Tools for talking to family and friends:
Patrick Madrid Show
Book of the Prophet Jeremiah
Arise From Darkness: What To Do When Life Doesn't Make Sense, by Fr. Benedict Groeschel
CC071: The Importance of Marriage
CrosierCast Bishop James S. Wall - August 5, 2020
What makes the sacrament of marriage so beautiful, and how can couples navigate the challenges and joys that come from a lifelong commitment to one another?
CC070: A Catholic Response to Systems of Injustice
CrosierCast Bishop James S. Wall - June 3, 2020
In this episode, Bishop Wall reflects on the killing of George Floyd, unjust systems, and offers advice for Catholics on how to productively follow Christ's call to love and serve our neighbors.


There is always time for up-to-date reporting on the "old" Auditor General Reports. These reports scrutinize the budget income and expenditure for the financial years of 2013/2014 to 2016/17 .
Why is this not an outdated issue? Precisely BECAUSE the reports have been submitted a long time ago. All deadlines are now over for everyone that WAS expected to act in response.
What followed after the Reports?
Chances are good that you can still easily produce a little exclusive series in your programme or newspaper or blog – with some research and asking questions to the right people, starting with the person who chairs the Public Accounts Committee of the County Assembly. Meanwhile, the county assemblies must have reacted with recommendations. But as far as we know the most of them take their time – or they never do. Which is a story in itself.
Read one report and understand the points. In most cases there are one or two dozen cases which the Auditor General has reprimanded. This website or experts in your county may help you to understand what went wrong.
Our timeline for Auditor General reports informs about the course of law. In all years we observed that even the AG reports themselves came later than the constitution prescribed. Not to mention the provisions in the Public Audit Act of 2015. As we write, in December 2018, the reports on the counties about the 2016/17 financial year have just recently been published.
For this story it is most efficient not to just pick one or two of the most interesting stories from the Auditor General Report. The reason for this fact is that you have only a few people to interview to get all the stories started, i.e. the Speaker of the County Assembly and the County Executive member for finance. There may be others involved to interview.
Make it a little series. This works even in radio where you as a reporter only get 90 seconds for each story.
If you want to invite the CEC Finance to your radio programme for an interview about the cases and their outcome make sure the audience is not just informed by buzzwords but with actual case facts.
In the process of investigation do not forget to follow up on recommendations the Auditor General has given. Example: There are some counties where the Auditor General recommended that money from the County Assembly members acquired without legal reason should be recovered. The County Clerk is in charge of that. Has this been done? Whether or not the recommendations were followed – it is news! Because we as journalists are neither judges; defenders nor public prosecutors.
If the report has found facts that constitute an offence the Auditor General shall inform the agencies in charge of prosecution (Public Audit Act Sec. 64) . So the Auditor General is also a source for these follow-up stories.
But what about the old Reports?
Reports about the OAG findings on county finances for the financial year of are supposed to be handed to the County Assemblies three months after tabling. This is not the case. But no matter when they are tabled, the County Assemblies shall respond three months later. Once they were in the Assembly they have become public official documents which you are entitled to look at. And they should be online shortly thereafter on the County website and on the Auditor General Website.
But the process is grossly delaying. The reports are not yet there. Why is this so? The county may not have given access to the facts early enough. The Auditor General has said his offices are understaffed. Anything that you find out is worth a story in your medium. In the course of investigation you may also find out when the reports are expected to be submitted.
If you are not yet aware of the Auditor General's tasks, read our general information pages.
You can dig out many of the stories even before other media. Because the OAG audits are often based on detailed reports of the Controller of Budget Controller of Budget (COB).


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Das BG/BRG Carnerigasse (bzw. BG/BRG Carneri) ist ein österreichisches Gymnasium mit naturwissenschaftlichem und sprachlichem Schwerpunkt. Es befindet sich im dritten Grazer Bezirk Geidorf in der Carnerigasse 30–32.

Geschichte
In der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus entstand 1940 im Grazer Geidorfviertel, mit Max Kößler als Direktor, in der Grabenstraße 29 mit dem Grabengymnasium das 2. Staatsgymnasium, welches vorerst noch ohne Schulgebäude auskommen musste.

1945 wurde die Schule in 2. Bundesgymnasium umbenannt und vorübergehend in die Keplerstraße 1, später in die Kirchengasse 1 verlegt. Im Jahr 1962 übersiedelte das Gymnasium in das neue, eigene Anstaltsgebäude in der Carnerigasse, woraufhin die Schule schließlich ab 1980 in Bundesgymnasium Carnerigasse umbenannt wurde.

Im Jahr 1992 wurde zusätzlich ein Realgymnasium mit naturwissenschaftlichem Schwerpunkt eingerichtet. Seitdem heißt die Schule BG/BRG Carnerigasse.

Unterricht
Das BG/BRG Carnerigasse bietet in der zweiten Klasse die Wahl zwischen einem sprachlichen und einem naturwissenschaftlichen Zweig für das dritte Schuljahr an. Der sprachliche Zweig hat wiederum die Wahl zwischen den Sprachen Latein und Französisch, der realistische Zweig hat dieselbe Wahl, allerdings werden hier diese Fächer erst ab der fünften Klasse unterrichtet.

Laborunterricht (in Physik, Chemie und Biologie) haben nur die Schüler des so genannten realistischen (naturwissenschaftlichen) Zweigs. Das Fach Chemie wird im naturwissenschaftlichen Zweig in der dritten und vierten Klasse unterrichtet, im sprachlichen Zweig dagegen nur in der vierten Klasse.

Ab der sechsten Klasse stehen für die Schüler diverse Wahlpflichtfächer zur Verfügung, wie zum Beispiel Altgriechisch, Spanisch, Informatik oder Chemie. Auch das Cambridge English Language Assessment, der Unternehmerführerschein und der ICDL werden angeboten.

Olympiaden und sonstige Projekte

Viele Schüler des BG/BRG Carneri nehmen regelmäßig an naturwissenschaftlichen Olympiaden teil, wie zum Beispiel der Physik-, Chemie- oder Mathematikolympiade. Das BG/BRG Carneri nimmt auch oft bei diversen anderen Projekten teil, wie zum Beispiel den Projektwettbewerben des VCÖ oder Faszination Technik.

Weitere Projekte sind Non-Smoking-Peers sowie die Berufsorientierung.

Bekannte Schüler
 Nikolaus Habjan (* 1987), Puppenspieler und Regisseur
 Florian Kainz (* 1992), Fußballspieler
 Andreas Kumin (* 1965), Rechtswissenschaftler
 Robert Persché (* 1961), Musiker, Regisseur, Autor
 Roman Wallner (* 1982), ehemaliger Fußballspieler

Weblinks
 Webpräsenz des BG/BRG Carnerigasse

Einzelnachweise

Geidorf
Gegründet 1940
Gymnasium in Graz
Realgymnasium in Graz

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The Club Cricketer's New Season Resolutions
by Wisden Staff March 3, 2015 - 10:05am 15 minute read
New year, new you? Or more playing around a straight one and getting sad? Adam Hopkins makes a few promises for the season ahead.
MASTER THE NURDLE
If the ball is straight you have no answers. Sure, you have your expansive cover-drive, your flashing cut shot and the agricultural swipe through wide mid-on; but if it's at your body it's going nowhere. What you'd give to be able to clip it off your hip or drop it into the off-side. Rotating the strike is as foreign to you as the South Korean pop music scene and, to be fair, you probably know more about that since your impressive rendition of Gangnam Style at your club's last karaoke night. However, this year, after some 'nurdlable' throw-downs in winter nets you'll be picking up more singles than Shane Warne.
BAT ON TWO
You've been marking middle-stump as your guard for the past 15 years and when you think about it, you have no idea why. Whenever a batsman comes in and asks for "two" or "two legs" you automatically assume he can play. Sure, he may be batting at No.9 in the 3rd XI but he has your respect and attention without even having faced a ball. You've heard that batting on middle-and-leg opens up the off-side. You're good at that bit, the off-side, you tell yourself: that's exactly what you need. You mark up, you feel good – you feel open. Yeah, this feels good, you're bound to score a ton this year.
MAKE 'EM LAUGH
There are some genuinely funny blokes in your team who never miss a beat. They have everyone on the field in stitches and have even been known to make the odd umpire crack up. Yes, you've had your moments. Who can forget "Strap your seatbelts on, boys, he can't drive!" However, this was in the under 13s back in 2001. You need to move on and write some new material.
Can you be the joker this term?
STOP WEARING YOUR OLD COUNTY GEAR
Everyone knows you played a couple of games for the Nottinghamshire under 15 B team. You still remember every ball of your 28 not out against Lincolnshire, especially that one that wasn't even that short. But that was eight years ago and you need to stop trying to squeeze into your old training top and should really consider throwing away that jumper. Not to mention that when you wear the shorts you look like a 1970s footballer…
LEARN THE BACK-OF-THE-HAND SLOWER BALL
James Faulkner bowls them in the Big Bash, so it can't be that difficult, right? You had to discard your incredibly poorly disguised off-cutter after that South African overseas hit it into a different postcode during last season's cup semi-final – the one game that your Bev, your now ex-girlfriend, came to watch. You need something harder to pick. Sure, it'll go wrong and you'll go the distance on a couple of occasions but when you get it right you'll be on top of the world. Who's laughing now, Bev?
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Pakistan Demands end to Israeli Aggression
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Pakistan has finally decided to take a stand against the Israeli aggression that is taking place in Palestine. There are not many countries who are speaking against the acts that are being carried out by Israel. However, there are others who have labelled it as genocide, since several women and children have lost their lives in the process.
The death toll at Gaza has reached 677, with over 170 being children.
Turkey became the first country to speak against the matter, but there is not a single country in the world that decided to take a stand against what is happening.
Pakistan has now entered the list of countries who are speaking against Israel. They claim that Israel should simply stop their oppression in Palestine and opt for ceasefire.
Ambassador Masood Khan stated, "Violence begets violence and peace engenders peace. The relentless bloodshed must be stopped and peace talks initiated. The asymmetry of the fight could not be clearer but military might would not solve the problem. International diplomacy initiated by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, (US) Secretary of State John Kerry and the Egyptian leadership must be intensified. A political solution must be achieved. No ceasefire proposal should be spurned and the two state solution should be pursued in earnest. An independent viable and geographically contiguous Palestinian state on the basis of the pre-1967 borders with Al Quds Al Sharif as its capital living side by side with Israel is the only way to guarantee peace and stability in the region. The children and women of Gaza are crying out for help. This Council must listen to their screams and respond."
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Substantial Swan toy with white knitted body and pretty in pink beak and feet.
A recent survey by a hotel chain claims that up to 35% of British adults still take their favourite cuddly toys to bed with them. They also shared their problems with their favourite childhood toy and cuddled them when upset. I'm not sure how seriously to take the survey as it also claims that 25% of British businessmen take their teddy bears with them on business trips, but if you are going to take a toy in to adulthood with you then this swan toy has everything you need.
•	Tactile knitted fabric and pink tweed feet.
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"The Odessa File" (1974)
Posted on June 13, 2020 by robbinsrealm
"The Odessa File" stars Oscar winner Jon Voight (Ray Donovan) as freelance journalist, Peter Miller. The film takes place in Germany, in the year 1963. Miller, by sheer happenstance, finds himself engulfed in searching for a Nazi war criminal. The man he's looking for is Eduard Roschmann, a former SS officer and concentration camp commandant, known as the Butcher of Riga. In the film, Roschmann is portrayed by Oscar winner Maximillian Schell (Judgment at Nuremberg). (As an aside: Odessa stands for Organization of Former Members of the SS).
The catalyst for the film is when Miller follows an ambulance. What makes following this particular ambulance ride worth his while, is the person it's carrying, or more importantly, what he leaves behind. Salomon Tauber (Towje Kleiner) an elderly Jewish man and survivor of the Holocaust has committed suicide. Tauber has no family, therefore, no one to claim his belongings, one of which is a diary. Miller gets a hold of the diary, thanks to one of his contacts in the Hamburg police department. The diary contains information about Tauber's life, during World War II, in the Riga ghetto. Contained within its pages is information about the aforementioned Roschmann. (As an aside: Riga is the capital of the country of Latvia, which is set on The Baltic Sea).
Miller has a reason, which will be imparted to the viewer later on in the film, for wanting to locate Roschmann. He begins his search by contacting Simon Wiesenthal. The real life Nazi hunter is played in the film by Shumuel Rodensky. Wiesenthal informs Miller about Odessa. The organization helps former SS members in a number of ways. For example, falsifying passports and providing safe travel. After consulting with Wiesenthal, Miller is approached by the Mossad (The National Intelligence Agency of Israel). The Israeli's are interested in having Miller take on a dangerous assignment by infiltrating Odessa. The task will not be easy and Miller's life is seemingly in danger from the start.
Helping Miller infiltrate Odessa is Klaus Wenzer, played by BAFTA and two time Emmy winner Derek Jacobi (I, Claudius). He is a forger, who helps Miller construct a new identity. Additional cast members include, but are not limited to, Frau Miller (Maria Schell), Miller's mother and Sigi (Mary Tamm), his girlfriend. Hannes Messemer has a small role as Nazi General Glücks; and Noel Willman portrays Franz Bayer, an interrogator, who is one of many obstacles in Miller's path to getting to Roschmann. (As an aside: Maria Schell is Maximilian Schell's sister. In 2002, Schell made a movie about her called My Sister Maria).
"The Odessa File" premiered in the UK on October 17, 1974. The film was directed by 3 time Oscar nominee Ronald Neame (Great Expectations). Based on the novel of the same name, written by bestselling author Frederick Forsyth (The Fourth Protocol), the film was adapted for the screen by Golden Globe nominee Kenneth Ross (The Day of the Jackal) and George Markstein (Robbery). Part drama and thriller the movie has a runtime of 130 minutes. The cinematography by Oscar winner Oswald Morris (Fiddler on the Roof) helps to elevate the tension in the story. Furthermore, the musical score by Oscar winner Andrew Lloyd Webber (Evita) helps in creating the right mood for what is transpiring on screen. For those of you seeking a well paced thriller, along the lines of "Three Days of the Condor" and Alfred Hitchcock's "Notorious," this will more than likely hold your interest.
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A trail of drippy droppings from a fat wombat!"
Zoo Keeper Bob is exhausted. There's too much poo in the zoo - and he's the one who has to scoop it up. Then one day, a mysterious glowing poo appears! Could it be alien poop from outer space? And what on EARTH will Bob do with it?
Hilarious book. Beautifully written with bright funny Illustrations. My older kids enjoyed it as much as the 3 year old. A favourite in our house!
After reading all the good reviews we just had to pick this up and it didn't disappoint! What child doesn't love reading about poo? Funny story about lots of different animals with very funny illustrations. We particularly loved studying the impressive poo collection!
From the moment I read the title with my children they couldn't help but be hooked on what was coming next. It was a clever, tongue twister, rhyming romp of deliciously descriptive fun! I enjoyed reading it out loud as the words flowed very nicely. The illustrations were bright and interesting - prompting further discussion before I was allowed to turn each page. My 7 year old daughter has insisted on reading it to herself and her little brother now each night since it has arrived! It has been a very clever and very humorous to read ! Would definitely recommend it to others.
Absolutely fantastic book the pictures are bright and funny it will keep the children interested in the story . It's also a very funny story about Poo which got my children laughing . All the different sorts of Poo Bob Mcgrew comes across it's also a rhyming story which I find great . I would definitely recommend to friends & family .
I like Poo in the Zoo because it is very funny! I laughed a lot at all the animals being silly with poo! I know friends would like this book too, it would make them giggle.
Bob McGrew is the Zoo Keeper. His worst job is having to pick up the animal poo. There is so much of it and the animals are all super messy! One day Bob finds some green glowing poo. He thinks it's from outer space. WHAT will he do? I liked this book a lot. It's really funny that he had to pick up all the poo. The story is hilarious and made me laugh out loud. I love the monkeys best! The pictures are brilliant! Especially the ones at the beginning and end of the book, with the bottles of different animal poo.
What a fabulous book for discussing every two year olds favourite topic...poo!!! Bob looks after the animals but doesn't really like dealing with poo! The illustrations are brilliant but I did find the flow of the book wasn't very good. The two year olds in my room really enjoyed this book and thought the constant use of the word poo was very funny indeed.
Absolutely hilarious! A book about some unusual poo which becomes a real attraction and ends up making the zoo keeper some money. All children love a book about poo, don't they?
I chose this book for Scarlett as a birthday present based on reviews I had seen on Toppsta. I thought it was going to be chaptered but when it arrived I was aware it was a picture book. I wanted something that would push Scarlett's reading ability up a bit but she breezed through it!
Poo in the Zoo was a beautifully illustrated book and it jumped out of the pages as soon as you started to read it. It was a real hit with the girls as it involved poo, their all time favourite word!
The zoo keeper spends his time cleaning al the poo at the zoo. One day the iguana eats all the food in the restaurant and produces a glowing poo. No one has ever seen a poo like this including the owner of the poo museum! Of course, he must have this amazing poo for his museum so he buys it and zoo keeper Bob can then afford a poo cleaning up machine!
We have read this book many times at bedtime and every time it results in lots of laughter and silliness! A great book full of great picture and easy to read.
I picked this book in the library as I thought it would be funny by the title of the story.
I did like this story, it does have rhyming sentences but I found my flow always went a bit skeewhiff when the museum part came in.
You can get a super rhythm with this rhyme...obviously, perfect subject matter for children of 'a certain age'...well, who am I kidding...all children!!
Lo loves it, I wasn't quite so keen on the museum section, it didn't have quite the same 'flow' as the rest of the book, but poo is poo and will always be hilarious to all children!!


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date posted: 12:00 AM Wed Aug 11th, 2004
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By Tristan Mayshark
With the release of Doom 3 this week, one of the most anticipated games in the history of the world saw the end of a massive five-year development cycle. Why have hordes of gamers, both casual and "hardcore", been waiting so long with so much hope for this title? The answer lies back in 1994, when the original Doom was released, initially as shareware over modem-based computer bulletin board systems and ultimately ending up on store shelves. The empire that Doom built became the empire that is iD, so it's of crucial importance at this point in gaming history, to remember why exactly it was that Doom was so impressive. It is my goal to show just how poorly this new incarnation lives up to its predecessors.
Doom had graphics that were unheard of at the time, presenting the first-person perspective in a way that seemed more engaging than previous efforts. True, Wolfenstein 3D predates Doom by two years, but not only did it lack the market permeation that Doom saw, the gameplay was significantly slower, and altogether different than the experience Doom provided. It was that experience that kept the franchise alive not only through two actual sequels (Doom II: Hell on Earth and Final Doom) but also any number of repacks offering only a few new levels or minor modifications (Such as Ultimate Doom).
So, after taking Doom to the next logical level, true 3d, with the Quake series, iD went "back to the lab" for five years and sequestered themselves away, promising that their next title, Doom 3, would be a true successor to the series. And people believed. And waited. And waited. Waited for a game that not only promised to offer unprecedented levels of realism in terms of visuals, but for a game they hoped would provide the same fresh, new experience that Doom had in 1994.
This is not that game.
Undeniably, the graphics and sound are unbelievable. You've undoubtedly seen the endless screenshots and gameplay movies at this point. Even on a pretty modest system, Doom 3 has a distinct look that's both gritty and realistic, to the point of seeming like a pre-rendered movie in places. However, ingenuity is where Doom 3 falls flat on its face.
The gameplay here is at least 5 years out of date. "Emergent Gameplay", that is, the idea of non-scripted events that just happen as a result of world complexity, are nowhere to be found here. Instead, expect doors that open as soon as you have walked passed them, lights that darken as soon as you've picked up an ammo belt, and all the other scripted events that haven't seemed original since, well, since Doom.
Is it fair to come down so hard on a game for being a copy of itself? That's an interesting question, but, sadly, one that doesn't really apply - one of the main features that gave Doom its longevity after players had killed every demon themselves was a cooperative multiplayer mode that let a team of marines work through the single player game in unison. That would have worked perfectly in this game, but iD elected to leave the co-op play out. Perhaps they knew that a user-made modification to allow co-op was one of the first things that would be developed, but if that's the case, I say to them, "Shame on you!" Any game, but especially one with a $54.99 price tag, should be complete out of box, and it really is my opinion that Doom 3 without cooperative multiplayer represents an incomplete product. It should come as no surprise that one of the "exclusive features" being hyped for the Xbox version is co-op.
In fact, the multiplayer modes in general are extremely lackluster. The official server only supports 4 players at once, which strikes me as completely ludicrous. An iD representative was quoted several days before release on the topic, citing the large overhead of the engine as a reason that most servers wouldn't be able to handle more than 4 people without chugging, but I think that has to be false � this is the same technology that Ravensoft is going to use to bring use Quake IV, and you can be very sure that that game will feature 32 player arenas if not more.
I should, at this point, take the time to mention that just as all the features from the original Doom have not made the transition to this new game, there are, in fact, a few gameplay mechanics in Doom 3 that the earlier games did not have: a flashlight, which looks and works suspiciously like Half-Life's flashlight, as well as health stations that bring the health and HEV stations from Half-Life to mind. The monsters show a strong influence from games like Undying and Silent Hill. Oh yeah, and you can look up and down this time, just like every other FPS. My point, of course, being, that in addition to being influenced by their own earlier projects, iD has ripped off pretty much every successful FPS since Doom in one way or another, and worked those elements into Doom 3 with varying degrees of success.
Another thing that really bothered me is that while there are some Deus Ex like narrative elements in the form of PDAs that you find containing video discs and email, sometimes these mechanics actually work to distance the player from the game. Twice within the first 4 hours of Doom 3, I received an in-game email with a web address on it, requiring me to save, exit the system, launch a browser, and then go back into Doom and sit though that long initial load again seemingly needlessly.
While the levels look very nice, they don't exactly hold together as cohesive environments. iD must have spent a lot of time modeling pipes for this game: in fact, it would seem to me that they must have had a department of artists working round the clock all five years doing nothing but producing pipe-related assets. Seems everywhere you look, there's a giant pipe with sixteen smaller pipes coming out of it. What are all these pipes carrying? They're not labeled "hot water" or anything like the pipes in Half-Life. Sure, they add a sense of.... Something..... but it's hard to say just exactly what. And the overall layout of the base is enough to give MC Escher a headache: you don't think about it too much as you fly from room to room, but when you realize that you've been to nine floors and only seen 1 bathroom but 3 kitchens, something is amiss. Looking at the maps in the official Prima guide didn't help much, either: it made the environment more accessible, but it still doesn't really feel like anything that would actually be constructed (although those of you familiar with William Gibson's book Neuromancer may find a striking similarity between the Martian base in Doom and Gibson's descriptions of the Straylight facility).
All in all, there isn't much else to say about Doom 3. Graphically, we've defiantly reached yet another milestone in the history of video games, but that's something we do every few months anyway. In terms of gameplay, the Serious Sam games remain at the top of my list of Doom � clones: even though the graphics pale in comparison to Doom 3, the games are still more fun, and I believe the same can be said for Painkiller. And if you're looking for a fun, cohesive singleplayer FPS with gorgeous graphics and decent multiplayer to boot, you don't have to look any further than the recently released FarCry. In summary, Doom 3 is a game you should buy if you're looking for the new Killer App to show off your 600 dollar video card, or if you're such an addict of Doom-style gameplay that you still play Doom95 on a regular basis. Everyone else might be well advised to check out the games that I have mentioned above, or just keep their fingers crossed and hope Valve avoids the trap iD sprang with Doom 3, with their upcoming release of Half-Life 2.
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Q: ubuntu on lenovo idepad s210 touch I'd like to buy Lenovo IdeaPad S210 and install linux (ubuntu) on it. So I'd like to ask if any of you have som experencie with running ubuntu on this notebook. Getting touch screen work is not so important, I'm more interested in installation (is UEFI a problem?), if wifi, ethernet etc. work out of box and what is the battery life while running linux.

A: I just bought one, and it runs great. Everything seemed to work, even booting off the flash drive.
I'm pretty sure you can install it with UEFI, but for now I just went all legacy.
Just turn off all the UEFI stuff in the BIOS setup, and anything that says 'security', and turn on anything that says legacy.
The downside of going the legacy route, is that the Win8 option in the grub loader won't boot Win8. You have to hit F-12 when booting and select Win8 that way.
If you use legacy mode, the dual-boot option comes up during install. It wouldn't come up if I booted up in UEFI mode. But I know it can be done, I just recently did it with another laptop, but already forgot all the details.
It's good to shrink the Windows 8 partition (inside Windows) to <100GB, so that GRUB can make a partition under 100gb, or else GRUB doesn't work.
Ideally, I would've wanted to scrub the whole drive, and re-install Win8 and Ubuntu from scratch so I could have it exactly like I wanted it, but didn't want to spend the time or copying of the recovery partitions, etc.
The touchscreen works really well in Ubuntu.
The only problem I had was the brightness control didn't work. This fixed it and posted here: How do I get brightness working on a Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga?
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_osi=\"!Windows 2012\""
sudo update-grub

I'd suggest installing tlp for power saving. Battery life seems to be at about 3 - 3.5 hours from it's estimate. The only problem is that the auto-dimmer doesn't seem to work when unplugging power. I'm sure that's fixable.
I think if I can spin down the drive more (have not heard it spin down yet), it would work well.
I'll probably buy a second power adapter, so I can have one ready to plug in wall at home, and carry the other with me. Saw one for $25. I would definitely get a 6-cell battery for it, if Lenovo comes out with one.

A: I cannot boot from USB on Ideapad S10 Touch :(
What I have done:

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*updated BIOS already to newest version (up to today - version 16).

*set "legacy" support in BIOS boot options set "legacy first" in BIOS

*boot options tried to boot my USB stick on other computer -
successfully

Problem:
Whenever there is USB stick present, laptop just remains stuck with initial "lenovo" pre-BIOS screen. The only thing you may do is hard switch off (holding down the power button).
Any suggestions, please?!

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