Removing loose paint on the outside of a house before painting.
Remove rust from metal trim, and apply a coat of rust preventative primer.
I live in Milwaukee, WI. Can I still paint the exterior of my house at this time of year? Actually I only need to paint trim. The rest of the exterior is vinyl siding.
We live in a small townhome area with 17 units consisting of four buildings. Our hired painter is not cleaning off the black dirt, grime and mildew. Our home owner association board told him to clean the exterior siding. Should we be concerned.
Why are you cleaning the exterior of the house then scrapping and sanding? If you reverse this process you then have a clean surface for the paint to ahear to. If you leave all the paint chips and dust on the surface your paint cannot stick well and will peal off. Plus cleaning with a product like TSP will remove all the mildew and oils that water from pressure washing just can't do alone.
I assume caulk you used on wood can take paint and was therefore different than caulk you needed to remove around window pane.
Is pressure washing necessary? Can a stiff brush be used? If washer needed, what pressure (psi) needed? Thank you for your helpful site!


Summer is a fast-approaching reality for us here at Buffalo River Outfitters. A lot of people are planning their floating adventures on the Buffalo National River for 2018. Food on the Buffalo National River can be tricky to plan. We are here to help!
Are you wondering what food or foods are easy, quick and work well for a group or individual to bring on their trip to the river? And it's a good question! There are rules and regulations for containers for food and beverages. Some kinds of foods just work better for grab and go and limited adventure interruption.
Buffalo River Outfitters does not currently provide catered or prepackaged meals for river goers. However, we do sell snack-like food and candy from our storefront. If you are looking forward to a picnic it's best to plan ahead and pack along what you will need for your meal.
Sandwiches made ahead of time and stored in plastic baggies are classic and perfect for river trips. Make sure you have your park-approved trash receptacle on board for the plastic and trash.The red mesh bag we provide for customers is what you are required to have with you.
It's best to prepare any finger food ahead of time to avoid any unnecessary steps or bulky knives and cutting boards. Obviously, having everything ready to go makes snacking fast and enjoyable. You can bring these and any other foods in zipper-style plastic bags or seal-able containers. Always remember that glass is prohibited on the Buffalo National River. Also, any trash from food on the Buffalo National River must immediately be placed in a trash receptacle.
As a general rule, anything that requires silverware or dishes is going to slow you down. Dishes will also raise the possibility of something being left behind to harm animals or pollute the river. Keeping things simple, quick and trash-free as possible not only protects our beautiful Buffalo River, but also makes sure you have the best uninterrupted adventure.
If you decide to drink alcohol while on the Buffalo National River, we ask you to do so responsibly. Alcohol can and will dehydrate you quickly. It is against river regulation to have any type of glass on the Buffalo National River. Additionally, aluminum cans must be in a float-able container such as a koozie. Remember, drink a lot of water while enjoying alcoholic beverages to protect against overindulgence, dehydration, heat stroke, and a nasty hangover.
Also, the Kenda Drive-in movie theater has a full concession menu on the weekend. Check it out here!
As always, our phone lines are open if you have questions concerning food on the Buffalo National River. We are happy to help you plan your next adventure!


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Doctor Who episode rec: A Christmas Carol
I just saw the Christmas special between series five + six. The Doctor is trying to crash a spaceship from crashing into an impenetrable planet atmosphere, killing everyone on board. There's a device that can let them through but the only one who can operate it is - well, he's a Scrooge. And that's kind of the point. The episode send this man on a journey modelled after "A Christmas Carol," and it's really well done with all the optimism and almost mythological quality you expect, only there's the Doctor and timey-wimey nonsense and the eternal optimism of the Matt Smith years thrown in there as well.
Plus, the Scrooge character is played by Michael Gambon, the Dumbledore of the later Harry Potter movies, and his younger self who also features heavily in the episode is Laurence Belcher, probably best known as the young Xavier in X-Men: First Class. Really, quite a gifted kid. And while Amy + Rory feature on the edges, this is really Matt Smith's story. Imagine Matt Smith and Michael Gambon engaged in an existential battle for an old man's soul, throw in a heap of Chrstmas spirit and faerie, and you've got the idea.
It's only $2 at Amazon, or free if you have Amazon Prime. Do check it out. I suspect it's probably free through Netflix as well, but I don't have that service, so I can't offer a link. (If anyone does find it there let me know and I'll post a link here.) I liked it!
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• There aren't a whole lot of "quick" Whole30 options, but thankfully Chipotle is one of them. Granted, my lunch only vaguely resembles my normal meal (salad with carnitas, guac, and extra pico vs. chicken bowl with rice, veggies, pico, corn, and cheese), but it's still delicious, just in a different way. Fresher and not as rich, maybe?
• I have had scrambled eggs for 15 days in a row, and I'm nowhere near getting sick of them. Special thanks to co-worker Linda for homemade Whole30-compliant salsa, which is delicious on them.
• I have eaten more avocados in the past 15 days than probably in my whole life combined. The one pictured above is pretty sad-looking.
• We are selling a bunch of stuff at a yard sale tomorrow. One of Chris' aunts lives in an area that is having a community yard sale, and she kindly agreed to let us set up a table. Unfortunately, I got the dates mixed up in my head and thought it was next weekend, so I'm not as prepared as I would like. But I never am because I have impossibly high prep standards.
• I have never had a yard sale. This should be interesting.
• I had to go shopping for food to bring with us because her aunt very kindly agreed to let us spend the night. We don't want to get caught with our Whole30 pants down.
• Therefore, I will be breaking my scrambled-egg run. Egg "muffins" with sausage from our meat CSA will stand in. They are a worthy sub.
• Gay-marriage decision any day now, PA. Any. Day.
• Got to see Chris a little bit extra last night and this morning, so that was nice.
Off to work. Ready for the end of the day! We have some pricing to do!
i love avocados! and yard sales! and you!


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My Favorite Podcast: The Always-Enlightening EconTalk
Comments: 13 Current Affairs April 14, 2014
Audiobooks and podcasts are handy when you're on-the-go–while in the car as driver or passenger, sitting in an airplane (especially during meal time), or walking around outside. Both formats are experiencing a renaissance: audiobook sales are booming, and, more anecdotally, I'm told podcast listenership and ad rates are up across the board.
The comparative advantage of podcasts over audiobooks is that they are short and self-contained, so unlike in a book, you needn't remember where in a long narrative you left off. If you drive or fly every day, or have an especially long one-off drive or flight, an audiobook makes sense. Otherwise, I prefer podcasts.
I subscribe to several. The HBR Idea Cast delivers informative 15 minute segments on important business themes. Dan Savage's Savage LoveCast is frequently hilarious and wise on all things love and sex. Longform has interviews with interesting writers.
But the best podcast I subscribe to is EconTalk. It really is a central part of my continuing education. Russ is a first rate host and moderator, and his guests are distinguished in their fields. The topics run the gamut–sometimes Russ pairs a fundamental economic framework with a timely issue of the day, other times the topic is completely random. Almost always I leave feeling enlightened and entertained.
One podcast tip: if a guest is speaking slowly, change the speed on your audioplayer to 1.5x, and you'll finish an hour-long podcast in no time.
Here are a dozen of my favorite episodes from the EconTalk archives.
Nina Munk on the Millennium Villages Project
Nina Munk, journalist and author of The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her book. Munk spent six years following Jeffrey Sachs and the evolution of the Millennium Villages Project–an attempt to jumpstart a set of African villages in hopes of discovering a new template for development. Munk details the great optimism at the beginning of the project and the discouraging results after six years of high levels of aid. Sach's story is one of the great lessons in unintended consequences and the complexity of the development process.
Jeff Sachs Responds on the Millennium Villages Project
Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University and the Millennium Villages Project talks with EconTalk host about poverty in Africa and the efforts of the Millennium Villages Project to fight hunger, disease, and illiteracy. The project tries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in a set of poor African villages using an integrated strategy fighting hunger, poverty, and disease. In this lively conversation, Sachs argues that this approach has achieved great success so far and responds to criticisms from development economists and Nina Munk in her recent EconTalk interview.
Jonathan Haidt on How Morality Binds and Blinds
Jonathan Haidt of New York University and author of The Righteous Mind talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, the nature of human nature, and how our brain affects our morality and politics. Haidt argues that reason often serves our emotions rather than the mind being in charge. We can be less interested in the truth and more interested in finding facts and stories that fit preconceived narratives and ideology. We are genetically predisposed to work with each other rather than being purely self-interested and our genes influence our morality and ideology as well. Haidt tries to understand why people come to different visions of morality and politics and how we might understand each other despite those differences.
Michael Munger on Violence in Sports
Michael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the role of formal rules and informal rules in sports. Many sports restrain violence and retaliation through formal rules while in others, protective equipment is used to reduce injury. In all sports, codes of conduct emerge to deal with violence and unobserved violations of formal rules. Munger explores the interaction of these forces across different sports and how they relate to insights of Coase and Hayek.
Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers on Happiness and Money Being Correlated
Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, of the University of Michigan talk with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about their work on the relationship between income and happiness. They argue that there is a positive relationship over time and across countries between income and self-reported measures of happiness. The second part of the conversation looks at the recent controversy surrounding work by Reinhart and Rogoff on the relationship between debt and growth. Stevenson and Wolfers give their take on the controversy and the lessons for economists and policy-makers. This conversation was recorded shortly before Betsey Stevenson was nominated to the President's Council of Economic Advisers.
Dan Pallotta on The Idiocy of Measuring Non-Profits by Their Overhead
Dan Pallotta, Chief Humanity Officer of Advertising for Humanity and author ofUncharitable talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his book. Pallotta argues that charities are deeply handicapped by their culture and how we view them. The use of overhead as a measure of effectiveness makes it difficult for charities to attract the best talent, advertise, and invest for the future. Pallotta advocates a new culture for non-profits that takes the best aspects of the for-profit sector to enhance the mission and effectiveness of charities.
First of all, this focus on costs and this focus on overhead eliminates any conversation about impact. So, we're not having a conversation about how effective the organization actually is at solving problems. So, who cares if the overhead is low if no problem is getting solved? And really, who cares if the overhead is high if the problem is getting solved, because ultimately we want the problem to get solved?
Kevin Kelly on Productivity in the Internet Age
Kevin Kelly talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about measuring productivity in the internet age and recent claims that the U.S. economy has entered a prolonged period of stagnation. Then the conversation turns to the potential of robots to change the quality of our daily lives.
Gary Taubes on Why We Get Fat (Low Carbs)
Gary Taubes, author of Why We Get Fat, talks with EconTalk host Russ Robertsabout why we get fat and the nature of evidence in a complex system. The current mainstream view is that we get fat because we eat too much and don't exercise enough. Taubes challenges this seemingly uncontroversial argument with a number of empirical observations, arguing instead that excessive carbohydrate consumption causes obesity. In this conversation he explains how your body reacts to carbohydrates and explains why the mainstream argument of "calories in/calories out" is inadequate for explaining obesity. He also discusses the history of the idea of carbohydrates' importance tracing it back to German and Austrian nutritionists whose work was ignored after WWII. Roberts ties the discussion to other emergent, complex phenomena such as the economy. The conversation closes with a discussion of the risks of confirmation bias and cherry-picking data to suit one's pet hypotheses.
Richard Burkhauser on the Trickiness of Measuring the Middle Class
Richard Burkhauser of Cornell University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of the middle class. Drawing on recently published papers, Burkhauser shows that changes in the standard of living of the middle class and other parts of the income distribution are extremely sensitive to various assumptions about how income is defined as well as whether you look at tax units or households. He shows that under one set of assumptions, there has been no change in median income, but under a different and equally reasonable set of assumptions, median income has grown 36%. Burkhauser explains how different assumptions can lead to such different results and argues that the assumptions that lead to the larger growth figure are more appropriate for capturing what has happened over the last 40 years than those that suggest stagnation.
David Weinberger on How Knowledge Has Changed in the Age of the Internet
David Weinberger of Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and author of Too Big to Know, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book–how knowledge and data and our understanding of the world around us are being changed by the internet. Weinberger discusses knowledge and how it is attained have changed over time, particularly with the advent of the internet. He argues the internet has dispersed the power of authority and expertise. And he discusses whether the internet is making us smarter or stupider, and the costs and benefits of being able to tailor information to one's own interests and biases.
Alain de Botton on the Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Author Alain de Botton talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work. How has the nature of work changed with the increase in specialization? Why is the search for meaningful work a modern phenomenon? Has the change in the workplace changed parenting? Why does technology become invisible? These are some of the questions discussed by de Botton in a wide-ranging discussion of the modern workplace and the modern worker.
Adam Davidson on Manufacturing in America
Adam Davidson of NPR's Planet Money talks with EconTalk host Russ Robertsabout manufacturing. Based on an article Davidson wrote for The Atlantic, the conversation looks at the past, present, and future of manufacturing. Davidson visited an after-market auto parts factory in Greenville, South Carolina and talked with employees there as well as with executives at corporate headquarters. What is the future of factory work in America? Why are some manufacturing jobs in America while others are in China or elsewhere? The conversation looks at these questions as well as how well or poorly the U.S. education system prepares students for the world of work.
Dani Rodrik on Productivity and Globalization
Dani Rodrik of Harvard University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about trade, the labor market, and trade policy. Drawing on a recent paper with Margaret McMillan on trade and productivity, Rodrik argues that countries have very differing abilities to respond to increases in productivity that allow production to expand using fewer workers in a particular sector. When workers are displaced by productivity increases, what is their next best alternative? Rodrik discusses how this varies across countries and policies that might improve matters. He argues that poor countries should subsidize new products as a way of overcoming uncertainty and externalities from new ventures.
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Yes! Russ Roberts is the best! So intellectually honest.
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I've just subscribed to both IdeaCast (I guess I should have done so once we were interviewed) and EconTalk.
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Few others that I occasionally enjoy: Freakonomics radio, Buddhist Geeks, Mixergy Refolution Health Radio, Robb Wolf – Paleo Solution, Bulletproof Radio, Stuff you Should Know, BrainStuff, NPR: Planet Money.
And thanks for sharing, I will give it a try!
Also, "NPR Intelligence Squared"
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One of more puzzling trends for Spring must be: the bath robe trend. It exists in many shapes and forms. Just like regular bath robes, these coats are made of different materials and come in different styles. Bath robe coats can give different vibes, from luxurious to relaxed ones. These bath robe coats sometimes come in silk and satin, while at other times they are made of wool or cotton. There was some confusion when the bath robe coat first appeared on the runaway. It was actually a few years ago, this is not the first season that it was introduced. However, this season we're seeing it around quite a bit, with a lot of celebrities choosing to wear this trend.


Fry the mushrooms in a little oil. Add some washed organic arborio rice and fru until the rice is translucent, about 2 minutes.
Add about 200ml of boiling water to 2 tsp of organic, salt free boulion to make a stock.
Add the stock bit by bit allowing the rice to fully absorb each time. Continue adding in small amounts.
Chuck in the chopped organic wild garlic.
Simmer on low for about 10 mins, add more water if it's too thick or sticking.
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Our Story | Torres Novas 1845
The Companhia Nacional de Fiação e Tecidos de Torres Novas (National Spinning and Weaving Company of Torres Novas) was founded on October 2, 1845, in the town of Torres Novas, by a group of merchants from Lisbon, wishing to become independent of imports.
In its first years, the company focused mainly on spinning linen, jute and cotton, as well as the production of cotton canvas, predominantly for the national market. At the end of the 19th century, it was already one of the largest manufacturing companies in Portugal.
With the acquisition of the company in 1959 by António Medeiros e Almeida, the Companhia de Torres Novas went through a significant modernization process and international promotion. In 1972 it began the manufacture of bath towels and other terry cloth products, such as bathrobes and slippers, thus beginning to take control of the entire production process, from production of cotton yard to final product.
As one of the first terry cloth production lines in Portugal, the Companhia de Torres Novas quickly became a reference in the manufacture of bath towels. The Torres Novas brand established itself as the most well-known Portuguese bath towel brand, recognized for its high quality manufacturing process, the use of the best raw materials and the Almonda, Luxus and Elegance designs, as well as several creative designs and other articles. At this point it also became available at traditional high-end Portuguese home product retailers.
With the arrival of the new millennium, the Company began to suffer from foreign competition and the disappearance of important clients, caused by the financial crisis of 2008, ultimately closing in 2011.
In 2020, a new generation relaunches the "Torres Novas" brand with the support of a historic shareholder and former director of the Companhia de Torres Novas, Adolfo de Lima Mayer, building on the brand's legacy and acquired know-how since the foundation of the factory in the 19th century, maintaining the quality and design characteristics that have always characterized the brand, whilst seeking to adapt to the needs of the modern consumer. The goal remains the same as always: to offer high quality products that span generations.


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U. S. History
Daria is an Oliver Stone fan.
U. S. History is an episode of Beavis and Butt-head which aired on November 20, 1995.
The episode starts immediately with Daria standing in front of Mr. Van Driessen's history class. In context, it becomes clear that she is giving a report on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. She is standing in front of a chalk-drawn diagram of the relative positions of John F. Kennedy and Governor John Connally of Texas which shows a curving path passing through both chalk figures. She uses a pointer for emphasis.
Daria: "...and when this magic bullet went into the president's chest, it had to make a sharp turn in order to exit his body from the neck. Then it would have had to turn right, then left, and somehow have enough energy to hit the governor in the front seat. Clearly the assassination was a conspiracy."
Van Driessen congratulates Daria ("that gave me chills") and the rest of the class on their excellent oral reports. (Which brings laughter from Beavis and Butt-head.) The only students who haven't given their reports are Beavis and Butt-head, and they are told that if they give no report they will have to repeat the ninth grade. Due to their idiocy, they think this is a desired outcome. Daria is forced to clarify matters.
Daria: "You guys'll never graduate."
Butt-head: "Uh...never masturbate?"
Daria: "Graduate. It's when you're all done with school."
Beavis: "...um... you mean, like, school ends?"
Van Driessen further explains that graduation means never attending school again. They finally get it and both are eager to give their oral reports - and start fighting over who gets to give it first. Beavis wins the fight, but being incapable of preparation or rational thought is clearly stalling for time. Van Driessen becomes impatient, but Beavis tells the story of how he and Butt-head went to a fast food restaurant - and learned that you can look at girls from their reflections off the polished surface of the windows. The end.
Van Driessen says it's the worst oral report he's ever heard and asks what it has to do with American history. Beavis states that since it happened the previous week and since the events took place in America, that it counts as American history. For Beavis's dishwater-thin effort Van Driessen gives Beavis a D-minus...and Beavis's academic career continues.
It's Butt-head's turn next. His report is about when he kicked Beavis in the gonads and he passed out all day. Van Driessen sighs and appears to throw in the towel - he gives Butt-head a D-minus. Butt-head's final conclusion? "We're gonna graduate."
This is one of Daria's main memories of the duo, in "Beavis and Butt-head are Dead".
Daria shows her morbid interests and interest in shocking people, not seen in Beavis and Butt-head since "Sign Here" but common in her show.
Whether she believes the conspiracy theory (so even Daria can be dumb!) or is trolling Van Driessen is not clear. In "Boxing Daria", Daria says she wrote violent revenge fantasies at age 15 to get a reaction from people so this could be another such attempt at getting a reaction - a failed one, as Van Driessen is happy with the report.
This is only one of three speaking parts for Daria in 1995, though she has a significant non-speaking bit in "It's a Miserable Life". After that, she only gets a role in two episodes in two years - a contrast to eleven episodes across 1993 and 1994. In 1995, MTV was already at work on Daria's own show and in circumstances that had annoyed Mike Judge (who felt MTV were deliberately leaving him out). Either reason may explain Daria's drop-off in appearances (though she continued to be a regular in the comics).
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Trump campaign guy finally loses Veterans Affairs post after being unable to find anything to do
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If you don't remember the name Peter O'Rourke, don't feel too bad about it. He went from a Trump campaign press guy to a posh spot in the Department of Veterans Affairs, and by "posh spot" we mean he jumped from scandal to scandal as Team Trump did their apparent level best to bring the whole department down around their ears.
He was made the head of a new "Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection" that appears to have been mostly used as a tool to purge low-level employees. He soon switched to becoming Trump's chosen VA secretary David Shulkin's chief of staff, after Shulkin's prior chief of staff resigned; after Shulkin was tossed from the job (for, he says, opposing Team Trump's agenda of privatization) O'Rourke became the new acting secretary, a pretty good gig for a campaign flack; after Trump's next nominee, White House doctor Ronny Jackson, went down in flames O'Rourke became new pick Robert Wilkie's "senior adviser," with no apparent duties and an apparently dwindling motivation to show up for work.
He has now been canned, ending one of the weirder, more scandal-adjacent tenures of Team Trump's tattered tenure, and that is saying something.
O'Rourke was rarely in his office at VA headquarters in Washington, according to four people with knowledge of the arrangement, and by last week White House officials had grown concerned that O'Rourke was getting paid but not working, creating a perception problem in a corner of the government where the president has promised greater accountability.
Just to be clear on this, the VA has suffered from widespread vacancies and despair-related retirements, there appears to be no end to department scandals and the agency is currently being pilloried for botching up G.I. Bill benefits so badly that some veterans may never see their full promised payments. O'Rourke's defense, however, was to say that "there were times I didn't have a lot to do." Self-motivated, he is not.
Anyhoo, he has been asked to resign by the aforementioned Wilkie, finally, but according to the Washington Post O'Rourke holds no hard feelings and apparently looks forward to working for Donald in some future capacity, presuming Donald stays out of prison and once again needs a campaign-trail press guy. Consider that swamp drained.
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Scandinavian cuisine is generally mild when it comes to spiciness, but extremely flavorful when it comes to natural goodness. Not surprisingly, given Scandinavia's geography, seafood is very important to the local diet. Cheese is another major part of Scandinavian cuisine, as are sausages and bakery items.


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Summit Day Three: Celebrating our community
By Lauren Woodman, NetHope CEO
It's Wednesday at the NetHope Global Summit -- the day after election day in the U.S. We had more than a few bleary-eyed attendees who'd stayed up late to watch returns, but our morning speakers did a terrific job of bringing us back to our missions.
Elizabeth Mynatt, Executive Director at Georgia Tech's Institute for People and Technology, presented the incredible work and research her team is doing, including humanitarian systems powered by social media, wearable tech that lets service animals communicate, and augmented reality systems that let users explore alternate viewpoints and bias.
We also heard about "Fixing the Internet of Broken Things in Global Health," from Evan Thomas. Thomas is an associate professor at Portland State University, and director of the Sweet (Sustainable Water, Energy and Environmental Technologies) Lab, which has created some truly creative programs to measure the impact of technologies in the field.
For instance, SweetLab developed cellular, network-based remotely reporting systems to record the performance and use of cook stoves and water filters given to 25 percent of the poorest families in Rwanda. The sensors monitor and reinforce healthy behavior change and adaptive programming, Dr. Thomas said.
Snehal Antani, CTO of Splunk, started his talk with a story of being on the London Tube in the middle of a stampeding crowd. There were sensors to detect whether there was real danger, he pointed out, but there was a failure to connect the dots. "We need to effectively listen to the data ... to collect, synthesize and take action the allows us to fundamentally transform and disrupt how we respond to crises," he said. "The data tells a story."
I then moderated a panel which consisted of Michael Duggan, a NetHope board member and CIO of Trócaire; Greg Snow, Global IT Architecture and Innovation Director of Save the Children; and Jean-Louis Ecochard, VP and CIO for the Nature Conservancy. The panel presented a draft of the NGO Reference Model, a process that began two years ago, and is meant to guide organizations toward digital transformation. Michael said that the tool is being used with great success at his organization, and is viewed as a crucial intermediate step toward a fully digital toolbox.
This afternoon, we took a break and attended tours of either the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library or the Georgia Tech Campus, which included a peek at some of the amazing innovations Beth outlined in her morning talk. Shortly, we'll come together for our NetHope Community Celebration at the Center for Civil and Human Rights. After this long day, I'm looking very forward to being with our members and partners in a profoundly moving and inspirational setting.


What time is it when standing on the North Pole?
It's any time you want! All the time zones come together at both poles, so asking what time it is at the North Pole is like asking which way is north.
Local time at all other locations on the Earth's surface is based on the Sun's position relative to the celestial meridian, an imaginary line running north and south directly overhead. Noon is based on when the Sun crosses the local meridian, which also corresponds to its highest point in the sky on a given day.
At the North Pole, there is no north/south line that can define a meridian. Also, on any given day the Sun circles the sky at the same apparent altitude. There is no "highest position" to define noon.
By convention, I assume it would be convenient to select the prime meridian and its corresponding zulu time as the standard time at either pole.


Description: Elle Russ chats with Steven Gundry, M.D.—who during his 40-year medical career performed over 10,000 heart surgeries and developed patented, life-saving medical technology. After discovering key secrets to health 15 years ago, his mission is to prevent surgery by helping patients heal themselves through proper nutrition. His best-selling book from 2008, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution, focused on specific diet principles for weight-loss and disease reversal. His second book, The Plant Paradox, further illuminates truths about hidden dangers of supposed "healthy" foods.
Holy smokes, I'd really be interested in hearing a rebuttal or clarification from the primal perspective regarding the saturated fats and protein.


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Cary O'Dell
The success of 'The Shield' has doubtless upped the ante in regard to what networks will allow -- and resort to -- in order to gain ratings.
Airtime: Tuesdays, 10pm ET
Cast: Michael Chiklis, Glenn Close, CCH Pounder, Benito Martinez, Jay Karnes, Michael Jace, Catherine Dent, Walton Goggins, Kenneth Johnson, David Rees Snell
The debut of the original series, The Shield, on the so-far pretty low-rent, basic cable channel FX is a worthy addition to primetime for at least two reasons. First, and thankfully, it brings actual original programming, and something of an identity, to the FX channel, which has (like many basic cable channels) until now offered, almost exclusively, repeats of network fare. (Maybe FX's tapes of X-Files and M*A*S*H* are starting to wear out.)
Second, the show brings back to series television actor Michael Chiklis, in a vehicle worthy of his talents. (I'm choosing to forget his NBC sitcom Daddio from last year; I'm sure he'd like to too.) Chiklis's performance as the title character on ABC's The Commish remains one of the most undervalued characterizations in one of recent TV's most underrated shows. Though The Commish ran for four seasons (1991-95), it didn't come with a stamp from Steven Bochco or David E. Kelley, and unfortunately was consigned to the long line of generic cop/detective-action/adventure dramas that starts somewhere around Vega$ and ends, for now, with Walker, Texas Ranger. In actuality, The Commish was a well-crafted, well-acted mix of humor, family drama, and old-fashioned police action.
On The Shield, Chiklis gets to stretch beyond expectations, as Vic Mackey. Vic is a rogue cop, but he's hardly the standard TV rogue cop. He's larger than that, Dirty Harry-esque, breaking a few heads and even more laws as he attempts to clean up the seedy, downtown streets of L.A. In many ways, Vic is the flipside of Chiklis' Commissioner Tony Scali, who solved crimes in inventive, common-sensical, nonviolent, and occasionally humorous ways. His methods often caused city officials to pull their hair out, but they ultimately led to happy endings.
By contrast, Mackey generally enforces the law, and works outside it, with his fists. While he's creative, he's not always conventionally admirable, striking deals with drug dealers or harassing gang members (in one case, to death). He's corrupt and selfish, too. In an early episode, he and other members of his special Strike Team kidnap a basketball star so that the team Mackey is betting on that night will have a better chance of winning. Or, in The Shield's already infamous pilot, Mackey shoots a fellow cop who is threatening to blow the whistle on him and his misdeeds -- point-blank in the face.
Mackey is easily the meanest anti-hero ever to head his own TV show. While J.R. Ewing, Alexis Carrington-Colby, and the like were far from nice, their badness always had an over-the-top, campy slant to it. Chiklis plays Mackey straight. And it is a tribute to the actor's talent (and charisma) that, despite Mackey's evil, we don't completely despise him. The inevitable question, however, is: how long can this go on? Will Mackey's out-and-out depravity, week after week, become too disturbing even for the most tolerant of viewers?
In part, this question is answered by the series' adherence to generic conventions. For one thing, The Shield employs an already trite cinema verité camera style. What Homicide: Life on the Street started with its constantly shaking visuals has now become de rigueur for all "gritty" police shows. Equally predictable are many of the character relationships. Mackey, of course, regularly butts heads with his uptight boss, Captain Aceveda (Benito Martinez). (When was the last time a TV cop ever saw eye-to-eye with his superior? Not since Dragnet.) But in a series where the protagonist is so volatile, the chief -- a supporting character, for heaven's sake -- can't be any more likable than the lead, lest we begin to sympathize with him over Mackey. Hence, Aceveda is slowly being revealed as being bitter and opportunistic, with an eye on a future political career.
Also predictably, the series picks up on the tried and true formula of NYPD Blue and ER, which asserts that those with ugly working lives must also have ugly personal lives. The Shield gives us occasional glimpses of Mackey's ostensibly "fine" but actually troubled marriage (he's having an affair with a coworker, uniformed Officer Danny Sofer [Catherine Dent]). As if to add insult to injury, his toddler has just been diagnosed with autism; last week the boy bit his elder sister on the face so hard that she ended up in the ER. Though cop show-makers may consider such domestic subplots "true-to-life," the overloading of one horrible scenario on top of another actually smacks of soap opera. It's a good thing Vic doesn't have a dog, or it would be doomed to blindness, broken limbs, or worse.
So far, the use of such clichés, combined with edge-pushing violence and compromised protagonists, has proved successful. The Shield is a hit and little criticism (so far) has been hurled at the channel or at the show's producers due to the show's "adult content." And the network has made the most of whatever "controversy" this content might stir up. In fact, before the show debuted, its ads waved its "Due to mature themes..." disclaimer like a banner. This strategy appears to have worked. So far, the ratings for The Shield have been high, especially for a little known cable channel most people probably didn't even know came in their basic package.
But even this appeal is familiar by now: the possibility of fist fights and overheated arguments brings viewers to reality shows like Survivor and The Real World. And if viewers do tune in to The Shield to see its "mature" elements, they haven't been disappointed. So far, each episode has featured a teasing bit of nudity; ample foul language (we've heard the "S" word and the "A" word uncensored; though no "F" word... yet); and loads of violence.
This is not to say that The Shield is only depending on sex, violence, and naughty words. There's no denying that The Shield features strong, if brutal, storytelling; good direction (by Gary Fleder, who made Kiss the Girls; Scott Brazil, who directed the Commish tv movie; and Clark Johnson, who acted on Homicide, among others); and solid acting, all making for a compelling hour each week (actually, three, if you count the repurposed reruns on Sunday and Monday nights).
But I return to my original question, somewhat rephrased. Are the program's "adult themes" (carried out in the noble name of "realism") really necessary for an effective and highly-rated drama? Furthermore, one must ask what is going to be the overall effect, on the TV industry at least, of such on-air envelope-pushing? The success of The Shield has doubtless upped the ante in regard to what networks will allow -- and resort to -- in order to gain ratings. Whether these networks be broadcast, basic cable (like FX), or premium cable (like HBO, home of The Sopranos and Sex and the City), their executives are likely already thinking they must go to even greater extremes in order to pull in an audience, perhaps following the same route as daytime talk shows, which still appear to be waging an ongoing contest of "How low can you go?"
Granted, The Shield is probably nowhere close to portraying the dangers and intensity of the lives led by real cops, and television has every right to show us accurate portrayals of life on the steets. But, at the same time, like the rough justice that Mackey and his team dishes out, just because a program is realistic and effective doesn't mean it's right. And making a show graphic doesn't make it good. Primetime, like daytime, can still choose to take the high road, instead of taking the quick and easy path to popularity, substituting shock for innovation, excess for insight, or cheap thrills at the expense of more thoroughly thought-out drama.
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Things that go bump in the night
By Nile Sprague | Published: January 15, 2013
#343 in a series of true experiences in real estate
November 2000, Hills Newspapers
Friends of ours who recently moved into a Montclair rental house began their tenancy with a spider problem. The telephone man had come to hook up their phone line but when he approached the phone box on the side of the house, he stopped cold. "I can't do it," he said. "We've been warned about Brown Recluse spiders, and there is one!"
The lady of the house wanted her phone. She swept the spider down, stomped on it, buried the body, and persuaded the phone man that the danger was past. She got her phone.
When she found another spider the next day which seemed to be like the first one, she called an entomologist at U.C. Berkeley. The spider man said that Brown Recluse spiders are poisonous and should be avoided, but that they are shy and in short supply. Probably her spiders were some other type. She tried to forget them.
Then, a week or so after the spider incident, she called us to report another problem. She and her family were hearing scrabbling and loud scratching in the walls at night. Some kind of animal was obviously in the house, but what kind? Whom should the landlord call?
From the description, it sounded like a fairly good sized animal, maybe a raccoon or opossum, so we suggested assistance from the pest trapper people.
Several years ago when we noticed an unpleasant odor at Anet's house in Rockridge, we'd called the pest trappers who sent out a man to investigate. He quickly identified the source of the problem, a large raccoon, unfortunately dead under the house. The man removed it and, having a little time to spare, he sat at Anet's piano and played for us some quite good music he'd written himself. He was a songwriter who traps animals on the side.
Too bad, it wasn't the piano player who was sent to our friends' house. The man who did come said there was nothing he could do. After looking around, he said that the night noises were coming from something smaller than a raccoon, opossum, or skunk. They'd have to call someone else because he doesn't "do" rats.
Rats! How icky. The rat people were called immediately. The guy who came advised cutting back ivy on the side of the house and closing up holes in the siding. He set some large traps baited with peanut butter in the attic and went away.
In the middle of that night a loud clap was heard followed by scraping and thunking, then nothing. Examination of the attic the next morning revealed that one trap was missing. The exterminators said that a rat must have dragged the trap away, probably to somewhere in the walls. Nothing to do but wait.
That was about a week ago. At least it is silent at night now. But there is a bad smell in the house. Without tearing up floors and opening walls, again there is nothing to do. Supposedly the smell will go away before long.
Thankfully, I've never had rats. At least I don't think I've had. We have had at my house in lower Montclair skunks, raccoons, deer, and recently, for the first time, one lone opossum who comes to the patio outside the kitchen most nights. He doesn't do anything; he just walks around, then leaves. Same with the skunks.
The raccoons seem to be the smartest and the most trouble of the bunch. A number of times they managed to pry open a window at night, enter, wash their paws in our cat's water and eat dry cat food.
The deer no longer eat my back garden since we attached copper pipe bent into pretty arches to the top of the back fence. Apparently the deer can't jump high enough to clear the pipe, the top of which is about eight feet off the ground.
I didn't know we had mice, had never seen one until the kitten we adopted earlier this year became a cat. This cat is a big hunter. He's dragged in from the garden a number of times a lizard who lives there. The cat doesn't hurt the lizard; he just finds him and brings him to us and we return him to the garden.
But he does catch and kill mice. Where does he find so many little mice? Why don't the mice get it that this cat will never stop? It seems like they'd move on to a better place, but maybe they don't talk to one another.
All these animals in the city! We hear about them often from clients, people who live in attractive areas, both in the hills and in the flats. Raccoons pry up the edges of lawn turf to look for grubs. Squirrels build nests in attics. Skunks spray basements. There is more talk about deer than any other animals – how to keep them out, what plants they might not eat – but maybe that's because people don't like to admit they have problems with other critters, especially rodents.
Things could be worse. The same people who are waiting for the smell in the attic to end moved here from Texas. In addition to enormous cockroaches, lizards, opossums, and skunks, they also had at their house in an upscale suburban neighborhood, snakes and armadillos.
They could have done without all of those, but they had one wonderful animal experience while in Texas, this one with birds called Chimney Swifts.
Fireplace chimneys are the nesting home of choice of the mother Chimney Swift. If she finds one that is open at the top, as was our friends' chimney, she builds her nest and lays her eggs inside.
It was in April that our friends first heard the babies chirping. Although, as they discovered, each baby was only about as big as your thumb, there were six of them and, in unison, they were loud. They were so loud that it wasn't possible to watch TV in the same room with them.
The fireplace was a corner type with two fireboxes and a wider opening than is often true so it was possible to look up inside the chimney and see the nest perched precariously on a ledge. Concerned that the nest might fall, our friends laid soft rugs and crumpled packing paper in the fireplace to make a safe landing.
It was good they did because heavy rains soaked the nest and two of the little birds fell down. The local bird rescue people first suggested moving the babies into a wooden bowl placed on the ledge. But when water collected in the bowl making the new nest soggy, it was replaced with a plastic colander which worked like a charm.
Although the birds had been handled in the relocation process, everyone was hopeful that the mother would continue to feed them, and she did.
Every day our friends used a flashlight to check on the birds. They watched as the babies, clinging to the brick surface, inched their way along the chimney walls in an attempt to reach the top – and adolescence.
Two of the babies fell and had to be taken to bird rescue, a third died, and two made it out the top. The last one's teeny feet held onto the bricks but his progress was slow.
It was mid-July, ten weeks from the time that the birds' chirps were first heard before the last bird reached the chimney top and he flew away.
Now, isn't that a nice animal story?
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Grange Mill Lane, Sheffield, S9.
Based in Grange Mill Lane, Sheffield, 512 (Sheffield) is a freight company.
512 (Sheffield) is in Grange Mill Lane, Sheffield. You can view a list of neighbouring businesses by going to the Grange Mill Lane page.
If you would like a list of other freight forwarders office & administration listings throughout Sheffield, please visit the Freight and Transportation section of this website.
Note: the pin is positioned at the postcode centre, and may not correspond with the precise location of 2 Grange Mill Lane.


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Clyde Brown Jr. dies on Friday at his residence
Clyde R. Brown Jr., 87, of North Wilkesboro passed away Friday, Jan. 10, 2020, at his home.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020, at Lutheran Church of the Atonement, with the Rev. Roger Hull officiating. Burial will be in Mountlawn Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 1 until 2 p.m., prior to the service at the church.
Mr. Brown was born Aug. 1, 1932, in Rowan County to Clyde Roscoe Brown Sr. and Mary Eliza Overman Brown. He was a member of Lutheran Church of the Atonement.
He graduated from Catawba College and later served on the board of trustees for Catawba College. He was a long-term member of the Elks Club, served on the Board of Social Services and with Wilkes Cares. He also served as the chairman of the Wilkes County March of Dimes, vice president of the N.C. Lutheran men and served many years on the Atonement Lutheran Church's church council. Mr. Brown made his career at Lowe's Companies, where he retired.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two sisters and brothers-in-law, Madge Russell and husband, Gilbert, and Mildred Brown and husband Leo, and a brother-in-law, Milton Crowther.
He is survived by his wife, Anna Hughes Brown of the home; three sons, David Lewis Brown and wife, Janice, of Efland, Martin Andrew Brown and wife, Leisa, of Gastonia and Douglas Warren Brown and wife, Melony, of Lewisville; seven grandchildren, Matthew Brown and wife, Jessie, Genavee Brown, Kristine Brown, Lee Brown, Marinn McKelvey and husband, David, Jessica Brown and Noah Brown; and one sister, Louise Crowther.
Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Wake Forest Care At-Home Hospice, 126 Executive Drive, Suite 110, Wilkesboro, N.C. 28697.
Online condolences may be made at www.reinssturdivant.com.
Clyde R. Brown Jr.
Clyde Roscoe Brown Sr.
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Need to get started with Blender ?
Blender docu is in Blender's Help section.
Whenever you create a new Avastar character, the Blender default Material (light grey, with white specularity) is assigned to all of the created Objects. Thus the character is seen with a light grey surface. And you can assign your own materials to your character at any time later.
In the Avatar Materials panel you can technically select from 4 material presets, "Female", "Male", "Custom", and "Template". When you select a preset, then Blender will create a set of 5 materials for you: These Materials are for "eyes", "head & lashes", "upper body", "lower body" and "skirt".
But Avastar does one more thing: It first checks if the materials have already been created. In that case it will NOT(!) add new materials but simple reuse the already existing materials. Thus materials can be setup once and then later reused for all your Avastar characters.
Of course you do not need to use the presets for your work. You always can select your very own conventions and your very own materials. The preset selector only helps you to quickly setup a material set.
Currently all material sets use copies of blender's default Material. So without any further preparations Avastar will only create material placeholders for you. Thus even when you select a Material set, your character does not look different from the default. You still need to setup the materials by yourself.
But the good news is: You can setup your material sets beforehand. As long as you take care of the name conventions (see above) Avastar will recognize your materials and reuse them. This is why Avastar first checks if a material does already exist!
Then i create 4 times 5 materials using the Avastar name convention.
I assign each material to a different face of my placeholder object.
Now whenever i create a new Avastar and switch between the different Material presets, then Avastar will recognize that the materials already exist and reuse them from my placeholder object.
But that is a pain!
Yes it is a pain. But isn't it more pain to set up your characters every time when you create a new Avastar character ? If you want your characters to be skinned, then you will end up with some sort of prepared skin sets anyways. Avastar supports that for now.


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Reading the Comics, August 1, 2016: Kalends Edition covering the comics from the last day of July and the first of August.
Reading the Comics, August 5, 2016: Word Problems Edition as I get the rest of the first week of August done.
Finally, What I Learned Doing Theorem Thursdays besides how much extra padding I could wring out of the gimmick.
Reading the Comics, August 12, 2016: Skipping Saturday Edition because I couldn't read Saturday's comics owing to going to Michigan's Adventure and a pinball thing. Turns out I didn't miss anything anyway.
When you plunge the ball and don't get to touch it before it drains that's called a ``house ball''. On this game of Fireball , I got 80 points my first ball. I got 40 more points my second ball. I was honestly kind of hoping to get 20 points my third ball and complete the sequence but no, look at what did happen to me there as player two. I believe I got a flip in, last ball, so it wasn't technically three house balls in a row, but that doesn't really make a difference.
Greetings! I am here from Bally and happy to see you enjoy your video game machine play! But were you children of 1981 aware that pinball machines are not merely cool but also cyber-cool? Thank you for considering this exciting coin-operated amusement game option! Do not wager on this attraction!
Gamatron ! Optimus Prime will defeat you yet! ... Apparently the table was a conversion kit which turned the 1980 game Flight 2000 into a game that was hopelessly out of date for 1986.
bunny_hugger tearing it up at closing time on Bally's Game Show with your host Keith McTeeth, one of those fun games that came in right before The Addams Family and dot-matrix displays made a generation of solid-state tables obsolete.
Row of tables at the VFW being put to bed for the night. Also yeah, that's a Wheel of Fortune game from the early 2000s when Stern was apparently buying licenses to stuff at random and hoping something would stick. The game is weird --- it's got an extra-wide space, with two lanes, between the center flippers, making slap-saves impossible in a way not seen since the 60s --- but I like that.
Trivia: The rowing contests for the 1920 Antwerp Games were held on the Willebroek Canal, near Brussels, amid reservoirs, oil storage tanks, and walls of factories. The setting was ugly enough that Baron Pierre de Coubertin described it as an ``anti-Olympic setting''. Source:	 Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement, Editors John E Findling, Kimberly D Pelle.


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2. Audaciousness; impudence; in a bad sense; implying a contempt of law or moral restraint.
- Websters Dictionary 1828
"Miss Sunday morning if you have to; miss Sunday evening if you must, but never miss the prayer meeting unless you are dead." - Bill Mcleod
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"I believe the shortest cut to hell is down the middle aisle in the average church." -Leonard Ravenhill
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The Hilton Bora Bora Nui Resort & Spa is nestled in a sacred cove of white sand and majestic lava rock. Protected from the open sea by a string of tiny coral islets, the stunning lagoon is the perfect tropical playground to be explored with your snorkel, or for the perfect getaway enjoy a picnic on the unspoiled private islet Motu Tapu, just five minutes away by boat.
The Hilton Bora Bora Nui Resort and Spa sits on Toopua Motu, an island in the lagoon just over a kilometre from the mainland. Unlike other motu, it is hilly and rocky and rises to over 100 metres. The summit of the hills are tumbled with grey volcanic boulders, remnants of what was once a volcano now sinking into the ocean floor. The top of the hills also provides spectacular views towards the main island and Mt Otemanu. Toopua Motu is also significant in the cultural life of local Polynesians, featuring prominently in many of their creation stories.
the Hilton Bora Bora Nui Resort and Spa is nestled in a sacred cove of white sand and majestic lava rock. Protected from the open sea by a string of tiny coral islets, the stunning lagoon is the perfect tropical playground to be explored with your snorkel, or for the perfect getaway enjoy a picnic on the unspoiled private islet Motu Toopua, just five minutes away by boat. The importance of sacred Motu Toopua in Polynesian mythology is reflected throughout this Bora Bora resort in authentic artefacts, decor and landscaping. Watch the sun set from the terrace of a Polynesian styled beach or hillside villa featuring marble tiles, exotic wood furnishings and precious tapa cloths. Take in spectacular views from the hilltop Nui Spa and sample delicious local cuisine in Iriatai Panoramic Restaurant at the Hilton Bora Bora Nui Resort and Spa.
Guestrooms. Hilton Bora Bora Nui Resort and Spa has 122 non-smoking guestrooms and bungalows, all outfitted with fine wood finishes, wooden floors, and louvered windows, and boasting sea/ocean views. Accommodations are air conditioned and also have ceiling fans. Bungalows are decorated with traditional tapa cloths and Polynesian paintings, and have entrance halls with dressers and mirrors. Separate lounge areas have large sofas, coffee tables, plantation chairs, and cable/satellite TVs showing local and French channels, as well as CNN, Cartoon Network, Eurosport, and two movie channels in both English and French.
Iriatai Restaurant serves Polynesian and Mediterranean cuisine, while Tamure Beach Fare Grill offers casual dining by the beach. Upa Upa Bar offers ocean views and a wide range of snacks and cocktails.
The following questions have been answered for you by Hilton Bora Bora Nui Resort and Spa….
We serve a buffet breakfast. It costs 7100 XFP per couple and has a variety of European and Polynesian mix.
The cuisine in both our restaurants are Mediterranean.
Internet is available at the resort, with Wi-Fi or cable.


O'Keeffe painted two versions of the tree, indicating its importance to her. On a visit to Ghost Ranch I heard this story and was captivated.
David took this photograph in 2008. The tree has not changed in the years since O'Keefe painted it. That this twisted tree, would be the subject of several painting fascinates me. To see color in dirt takes a willing eye. It is easier to see beauty in vivid flowers or lush forests. The desert makes you work to see it's unique beauty.
Over the years, I have made many trips to the Southwest. One of my favorite pieces of writing is from the novel, Song of the Lark by Willa Cather. This takes place after an intense period of her life as an opera star. She goes to the desert to rest and recuperate.
Sitting down in the dirt, or the grass, and letting the sounds and small movements of the tiniest creatures catch your attention is a way to play. Play comes naturally to children. They can play by dancing round the mulberry bush, or by laying down in the tall grass and watching the clouds move across the sky, creating castles and animals in their mind. Or watching a line of ants as they carry their burdens along their well worn tiny paths, letting imagination carry them away.


What a day! Petrol head heaven!!! I had the fantastic opportunity to go along to the Porsche Carrera Cup to support G-Cat Racing team with new sponsors BNC Contracts. Access to behind the pit lane and all the garages. Fantastic set up at G-Cat Racing, what a amazing group of people. Greg Canton (team owner and driver of the BNC sponsored Porsche) finished second in his class on the first race, which was a great for the team. The second race wasn't as successful unfortunately. The team finished up racing and were straight out of Brands Hatch onto their next event at Silverstone – never a dull moment for G-Cat Racing. Looking forward to watching their progress this season.
Massive thanks to Terry, G-Cat Racing for making me feel so welcome and BNC Contracts. Good luck with the rest of the season.


Foodcareers is a website developed and sustained by ISEKI-Food Association (IFA), aimed at bringing together graduates and professionals working in the food sector, both in industry and academia.
It will also provide the guidance and tools for creating and maintaining a continual professional development portfolio, which would be part requirement for maintaining your certification. You will be able to find relevant training courses offered by certified training providers and other CPD activities.
An online network for continual professional training and career development for Food Scientists and Technologists in Europe will also be established, hosted through our Linkedin site, where special interest groups will be created.


We identify roadblocks, bottlenecks and process gaps in your business and use these findings to determine the potential for process optimisation through to the potential application including its suitability for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
The B Hive will meet with management to discuss and consider the existing application of technology to workflows in business, interviewing key staff and conducting desktop research to gain a 360 degree view of technological usage, covering both the direct and indirect costs of your business.
A full report, including recommendations, anticipated ROI and cost-benefit analysis will be provided. This may include existing technologies, APIs, diverse data set aggregation and, in some cases, even the potential application of cognitive computing, AI techniques and machine learning to meet the needs of your business.
Throughout the audit process, we'll maintain the philosophy of customer intimacy and remain committed to the principles of discover, transparency and entrepreneurship. And, our team will always be guided by the understanding that your business ultimately aims to solve any identified problems.
What are the main components of a Technology Audit?
What's covered in a Technology Audit?
At the conclusion, clients will receive a complete Technology Audit Report including implementation recommendations.
The duration will vary depending on the complexity of scope and the size of business.


Special occasions are made special by the people in it. If you're missing out on a special occasion back home, one small way to fill the void of your absence is to send gifts to your loved ones in India. Oxigen provides you with options to send gifts for birthdays, anniversaries, festivals and other special occasions. Choose from a variety of gifts, flowers, sweets, cakes, chocolates, mithai, namkin, digital gifts or different combinations of them.
Sending gifts to India through Oxigen is simply a matter of minutes - the prices are upfront, there are no transaction fees and we deliver to 130 cities across India. Whether you're sending a last-minute gift or are looking to schedule a gift well in advance, we've got you covered with our express delivery and schedule-in-advance options.
Another benefit of using Oxigen to send gifts to India are the Reward Points you earn on every transaction with us. While it is a given that you'll earn points on your transactions, we periodically have contests and offers to win extra Reward Points. We encourage you to like our page (Oxigen USA) on Facebook and register on our website to receive communications regarding our latest discounts and offers, which in the past have ranged from flash sales and movie tickets to a chance to meet Sachin in the USA!
As far as payment options go, you can use credit or debit cards in combination with any Reward Points you might have accumulated from previous purchases. Yes, you can use them even if they don't cover the entire value of your purchase, or if you choose to not use all your Reward Points for a particular transaction. When you get hooked on to sending gifts to India through Oxigen, saving your card information to your profile will allow faster checkouts that do not require you to enter your card details each time you decide to send a gift.


CoDE distinctively combines quantitative and qualitative methods in an interdisciplinary framework to examine changing patterns of ethnic inequality over time and in the contemporary context. We bring together expertise from a range of disciplines including sociology, demography, economics, history, geography, political science, cultural studies.
We utilise a variety of research techniques and tools and ensure that the potential economic and social benefits of our research are realised. Our current programme of work is focused in particular on institutional change , recognising that it is at a meso, institutional, level that ethnic inequalities impact directly on the lives of ethnic minorities, but also that it here where powerful interventions can take place. We examine key institutions from two intersecting perspectives – how internal employment practices reproduce or challenge ethnic inequalities and, relatedly, how these institutions construct, influence and regulate perceptions of ethnic difference within UK culture.
Find out about the researchers, affiliates and PhD students that make up our interdisciplinary team.
Our activity is primarily funded through the ESRC with support from a number of other organisations who contribute to the impact of our work.
We're currently working with councils, networks and education providers to increase awareness and address issues concerning ethnic diversity.


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Seventeen year old Mia is a talented musician, possibly on her way to Julliard, she has two awesome punk-rock parents, a quirky little brother, an amazing boyfriend she is in love with, and her whole life ahead of her. That is, until one snowy morning that changes everything. Mia and her family are in a car accident and somehow she has found herself looking down at her own body, separated from her life. Soon she will find that she has more control over what happens to her than she thought and she is faced with the most difficult decision any person could ever make: whether she should stay and live or move on and die. Mia learns how hard it really is to live.
There are many things I enjoyed about this book, but there were also some technical issues. A lot of the story was told using flash backs, which generally flowed together well with the present tense plot line and made sense in that context. However, there were some time jumps that just felt disjointed and became distractions from that main plot line... in fact there were a couple of times when I felt like the present tense story wasn't really going anywhere, because we were stuck in the past so much. I did enjoy the characters and loved all of them, so much so that I know I will read the follow up book simply because I want to know what else happens to them. The flash backs contained many stories which I otherwise wouldn't have reason to have known about the characters and did make me love the characters more, but I also think some of the flash backs felt a bit forced and were simply extra things that weren't really necessary. I thought the descriptions of connections to music, and people through music, were well done and felt authentic. I found myself reflecting on times when music really made a difference in my life. The relationship between Mia and her rock star boyfriend (Adam) was written really well too, although there were some melodramatic moments where I found myself sighing heavily. It needs to be said that Forman does make sure to show every side to love, not just what we usually see in YA romance. She shows the reader how Mia and Adam worked hard on their relationship, it wasn't a soul mate connection bound by the Gods or hyped up on teenage hormones, it happened because they both wanted it to and were willing to try to make the relationship work - no matter what. So I definitely want to give Forman extra points for that unique honesty in her writing. Overall I was happy I read it and recommend it to anyone who enjoyed the novel The Fault in Our Stars, the film August Rush, or any other bitter sweet story wrapped up with love and loss.
I chose Oregon Berry Frosty as the drink to enjoy with this book because it takes place in the beautiful lush countryside of Oregon, where tasty berries run wild and plenty, plus the frosty part will make you feel like it's a chilly morning with scattered snow where you are too. I think this treat will bring comfort to you as you read, highlighting the sweet parts and making the sad parts more bearable.


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10/29/18 - 9:00am pst on KUCI 88.9fm, Janeane spoke with Writer/Director/ Actress/ and Producer of Bardo Blues Marcia Kimpton - recent winner at the LA Femme International Film Festival
LISTEN to today's conversation!
Bardo Blues is the story of a man coming to grips with tragedy by escaping to paradise. Set in Thailand, Bardo Blues follows Jack as he struggles to learn the truth about the mother that abandoned him and his own reason for existing.
Weaving spiritual awakenings and soulful struggle, Bardo Blues will leave you questioning everything you think you know about who you are, where you came from and where you're going.
ABOUT MARCIA KIMPTON
Marcia Kimpton is a writer, director, producer and actress based in Aspen Colorado after living in New York city and Los Angeles for many years. Marcia has produced and directed her own late night shows, TV pilots and web series.
Her most recent feature film "Bardo Blues" is set in Thailand and tells the story of a man coming to grips with tragedy by escaping to par aside. "Bardo Blues: won the best film at the Amsterdam International Filmmaker Festival, the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival awards and Canada's Yes Lets Make a Film. It has also received awards for best cinematography, best editing, best lead actor and Marcia received a best actress award at LAIFF. Bardo Blues has also been a semi-finalist at the World of Film International Festival Glasgow and Best Film Film Festival. Bardo Blues is being distributed in theaters across the US May 3, 2019 by Freestyle Releasing.
Marcia's second short film called "My Reality" is a mock documentary about the Queen of Late night who loses her job only to find herself desperately looking for any job that will pay the bills and she in the end has to settle for reality TV. This film is currently being submitted to film festivals.
https://www.bardoblues.com/
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