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Florece Hidroponia - Bowie, College Park, Washington | CBO Financial Inc.
Puerto Rico has close to 4 million residents; it imports approximately 90% of the food it consumes and by some estimates has little more than one week’s food supply on the island. Over the last several decades, the agriculture sector has declined precipitously, from over 20% of Gross National Product (GNP) to less than 1% of GNP. As a result, “food security” has declined dramatically and the reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable and nutritious food has become a major concern. Hydroponics can help solve this looming food security problem.
In recent years CBO Financial’s subsidiary, Community Development Funding (CDF), has expanded into Controlled Environment Agriculture such as hydroponics, focusing on sustainable production, processing and distribution of healthy foods. In 2014 CDF funded its first major investment in this area by providing $3.6M in NMTCs to Florece Hidroponia, a hydroponic tomato production facility in Morovis, Puerto Rico. Morovis is in the north central region of the Island a little over a half hour drive from San Juan and is composed in its entirety of low-income communities, with a 64% poverty rate and 22% unemployment. Historically an agricultural farm-working community, jobs have been lost as Puerto Rico’s agriculture sector has declined. Florece Hidroponia will contribute to the revitalization of this severely distressed community and provide quality jobs and skills training to low-income residents in a growth industry of significant importance.
The 175,000 square foot hydroponic facility can produce up to 2.2M pounds of tomatoes annually and represents an engine for job creation that will help revitalize the low-income community and serve as an educational and training center by incorporating observation points and work and training areas. It also provides fresh, locally produced food which is greatly lacking on the island. Florece Hidroponia is a good example of CBO Financial’s commitment to improving the lives of Puerto Rico’s citizens.


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The family of Marion Jessen created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories.
Marion Jessen, 91 of Marietta died Sunday, September 19, 2010.
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Bold, scarlet blooms, eye catching bright colour.
This frilly "Spencer" type of tall single was first introduced in 1942.
An average of 20 seeds per packet.

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We're not sure that the death of an aging tyrant really counts as a "Black Swan" but nonetheless, that's how Nomura's Young Sun Kwon puts it in a brief note on the implications of Kim Jong Il's death.
The North Korean news agency officially announced the death of leader Kim Jong-il. Initial market responses were negative as this is a Black Swan risk for events on the Korean peninsula. From our point of view, the important focus points are: 1) North Korea's reaction to Kim's death; 2) South Korea's response; and 3) the positions taken by the US and China, along with other important neighbours such as Japan and Russia.
Regarding the North Korean reaction, we believe that the military response is likely to be similar to that which followed the 1994 passing of his father Kim Il Sung - that is, highlighting their sadness to strengthen the regime. South Korea most probably has contingency plans that include economic policy measures to military and diplomatic actions. The top priority in economic terms would be to limit market volatility and enhance market confidence. South Korea has currency swap lines with China (USD56bn) and Japan (USD70bn), which should help control the KRW, and if needed, could also reinstate their currency swap agreement with the US.

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“Our ‘best beach’ location – The resort sits on a world’s best beach as named by Forbe’s magazine – almost two kilometers of natural white sand, overlooking a turquoise lagoon and the uninhabited island of Navo. InterContinental Fiji Golf Resort & Spa is an outer island experience with all the comforts and conveniences of being located on Fiji’s main island of Viti Levu.
“InterContinental Fiji Golf Resort & Spa is nestled on 35 acres. The Resort is made up of 271 rooms, configured to offer 216 elegantly appointed resort rooms and 55 luxurious suites at the iconic Club InterContinental. Offering a haven of peace and tranquility our well appointed rooms have been thoughtfully designed in harmony with our tropical surrounding, and each feature generous outdoor living space with daybeds and our signature Cleopatra baths.
Set upon a private island of 3,200 exclusive acres in the Fijian Pacific archipelago, Laucala Island brings a new meaning to the term “all-inclusive resort.” A beyond-five-star, luxury private island resort, Laucala is set amidst coconut plantations, sandy beaches, turquoise lagoons, rich green mountains and breathtaking natural beauty, often drawing comparisons as the veritable Garden of Eden of Fiji.
True luxury is appreciated in the privacy of the resort’s 25 villas as well as the freedom to experience a variety of activities with spontaneity, ranging from pro golfing to beachside horseback riding to watersports and more. The resort prides itself on an integral philosophy, incorporating elements of the entire island into each guest’s experience, www.laucala.com.
The Reef Restaurant is Vomo’s main dining restaurant and boasts à la carte dining at each meal with daily changing lunch and dinner menus. On balmy evenings guests dine poolside and lunch may be served under the trees on the beach. In the evening, a selection of acoustic Fijian and international music will enhance your dining experience.
The Vuda Bar sits adjacent to the restaurant and is Vomo’s main bar. An international wine and cocktail list combines with open-air seating for a relaxing drink or snack at any time.
“1. Royal Davui Island Resort Fiji exudes romance – an über-exclusive South Pacific retreat far and away from the trappings and technology of today’s fast-paced society – ideal for romance, reconnecting, destination weddings and other dream getaways.
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I have been a Swimming Teacher since I was 16 years old and have fond memories of my first job as a lifeguard in Epsom! I joined the Metropolitan Police Service after leaving school and after 17 years I have recently left this job to spend more time with my family and follow a career in something I really believe in and am passionate about.
Throughout my career in the Police Service and as a Swimming Teacher I have regularly attended First Aid and Lifesaving courses and have often asked myself – why do courses about SUCH essential life skills have to be so BORING?!! This has given me the drive to set up my own business, creating UNIQUE, FUN and INFORMATIVE courses where people learn practically rather than listening to someone talk at them all day. Courses where people learn because they want to gain these essential skills, and find it interesting and useful, and because they know that these courses could make a difference!
I can honestly say I enjoy teaching all of my course. I am passionate about what I teach and think that my experience in the Police, seeing some of these skills being used in real life has benefited my teaching. I try and put the skills into real life scenarios which emphasises the importance and makes the practical learning fun and authentic. The feedback I have received is overwhelming and just proves that First Aid courses are not always boring and just a necessity. It can be a fun day, meeting new people and learning new skills which could really make a difference and SAVE A LIFE!!


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All the Guanacastecans that competed in the Special Olympics won more medals for Costa Rica over the weekend and this week.
Liberia’s Britanny Bermúdez, 14, took two gold medals, one in the 100 meters and another in shot put.
Fellow resident Anthum Loria, 16, won a silver in table tennis and a bronze in doubles with his partner Yislania Corella.
In bocce, Yefferson Gutiérrez, 19, reached the podium after winning a bronze.
Swimmer Jesús Flores, also 19, who had already won a bronze in the 400 meters, took gold in the 800 meters and two bronze medals, one in the 1,500-meter freestyle and another with her partners Adriana Sotela, Yuliana Mora and Luis Vázquez in 4×100.
This is the seventh time that Costa Rica has participated in the games. Excluding these recent medals, the country has won 380 medals, and the delegation hopes for more, even though this year is one of the smallest that has represented the country.
In total, 7,000 athletes from 170 countries took part in the games in the United Arab Emirates across 24 sports.

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Congressman Pedro Acharon Jr. of the 1st District of South Cotabato has again filed a bill which seeks to establish a separate congressional or legislative district for the City of General Santos.
House Bill 4678 filed by Acharon on December 13, 2016 and was then referred to the House committee on local government the following day suggests the creation of a lone legislative district for the City of General Santos and reconfiguration of the present composition of South Cotabato’s first and second congressional districts.
At present, General Santos City which has a population of more than 594,000 according to the 2015 census, is part of the 1st district of South Cotabato with the towns of Polomolok, Tupi and Tampakan while the 2nd district is composed of the City of Koronadal and the municipalities of Tantangan, Banga, Tboli, Surallah, Sto.Nino, Norala, and Lake Sebu.
With the proposed creation of a separate legislative district for General Santos City, the first district of South Cotabato will have the remaining towns of Polomolok, Tupi and Tampakan. The three towns are also qualified for a separate legislative district with a combined population of more than 260,000.
Based on the 2015 census, Polomolok has a population of at least 152,789, Tupi has 69,976 while Tampakan has 39,525.


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Germany are now just four days away from their World Cup opener against Portugal. The team has been preparing at their training camp on the Brazilian coast this week with the overall mood and atmosphere within the squad improving on a daily basis.
Ahead of the Portugal game and the tournament, coach Joachim Löw addressed the press on matters of the squad, tactics against Portugal, the opposition in Brazil and the challenges they’ll be facing this summer.


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Learning efficacy and user acceptance of a game-based social skills learning environment.
Social maladjustment places children at risk in early life as they are integral to many emotional, behavioral and psychological problems. If left untreated, these negative consequences may be precursors of serious problems in adulthood such as adult psychopathology and criminality. The possible deleterious effects of social skills deficits have underscored the importance placed on social skills programs in schools. To address the issue of acquisition of social skills, a Web-based game, as a specific instantiation of educational games for social skills training in a classroom setting was developed for this research. The game, Socialdrome® is aimed to intentionally teach children to identify and manage feelings, exercise self-control, solve social problems and negotiate conflict situations. Specifically, the research seeks to design and evaluate the game based on instructional and game design principles and investigate the learning efficacy and user acceptance that the children derive from the game-based learning environment, Socialdrome®. The Game Design and Evaluation Model, which was influenced by the Crick and Dodge’s Social Information-Processing Model, Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory, Gagné’s Events of Instruction and Keller’s ARCS Motivation Model, was developed to provide a frame of reference for the design and evaluation of the game as a pedagogically meaningful tool for learning and entertainment. The model was constructed on the postulate that learning is a constructive process, anchored in an experiential game-based environment with real-life examples and social problems usually experienced by children in their everyday interactions. Both formative and summative evaluation studies were carried out. Study I was undertaken to evaluate the game prototype during the start of the development to ensure that the game attributes were successfully embodied in the final game prototype. Two methods, heuristic evaluation by prospective users and participatory design, were adopted to elicit feedback and ideas to assess whether the features of the game pose playability and usability issues to the young users and to translate the children’s contributions into game design directions. For Study II, a summative evaluation methodology was constructed drawing from research streams of educational, game design, human computer interaction and information systems academic communities. Quantitative data collection was adopted in a formal school setting to examine how the distinctive immersive game features affect the learning efficacy and user acceptance among the participants. The study established that the game was effective in promoting social skills knowledge acquisition. It demonstrated that increasing playability influences playfulness in gameplaying and the importance of reflecting playfulness as an intrinsic factor in shaping an individual’s acceptance of a game. Game design researchers should place high priority on the two success factors, playability and playfulness, when designing gaming tasks. Three variables, gender, gaming experience and gaming self-efficacy, introduced in the research, had no effect on behavioral intention. By combining these two approaches, the study provided evidence about the educational efficacy and impact of the game and a better understanding of the users’ profiles, experiences and behavioral intention to use the game.


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Ingalena Schömburg-Heuck (29) is a former long-distance-runner, she earned her masters degree in sports-science and is also a nutrition consultant. As a coach and consultant she works für athletes and companies and is also an ambassador for several sports-brands. Sports is her passion and she lives up to that passion every day. But that's not it, with her work she inspires other people to do the same.
With the first of her five-piece running-series, Ingalena explains how runners set their goals for the new running-season properly and what they should avoid.
2015 – What do you think of when you reflect on this past year? What first comes to mind when you think about 2016? When the new year comes along, it’s good to think back over the past year, to reflect on the good and less good things you’ve experienced and to think about what you can take from those experiences going into the new year.
Running is the new trend in China and ISPO Shanghai will feature this trend with an extra area with accompanying program and exhibitors.
Of course our resolutions are always ambitious – our intentions are for everything to be better. Less stress, more consistent work towards our athletic and personal goals, to finally lose weight and live healthier, etc. Many people plan to take on much too much – and this newfound consistency then ultimately lapses in two weeks or less.
Being able to consistently act on your resolutions begins with how you define them and how much you plan to take on. Don’t expect to do a complete 180, but set yourself intermediate goals so that you can accomplish things step by step. One sensible way to do this is to set goals according to the SMART model: S stands for specific, M for measurable, A for accepted, R for realistic and T for timed.
Start out with the goal of losing 20 pounds. It’s realistic to lose 1 pound per week, so you’d need 20 weeks to lose 20 pounds. It makes even more sense to stretch this out to 6 months so that you can still have one or two weeks that don’t go exactly to plan.
Ask yourself how you can best achieve this goal and what you need to change to do so. Maybe you can find someone nearby to join you in your goal of losing weight? How can you better plan to incorporate exercise into your life and who will help you to change your diet?
One foot after the other – this basic rule is also important when setting your goal. If you plan in smaller steps, you’ll experience several small successes every now and again and you’ll stay motivated longer.
Is your goal to run a marathon? Then you should start training for it now. The best case would be for the marathon to be held in autumn, meaning you should achieve an intermediate goal of completing a 10k race in March or April.
You can then start to make your initial calculations to adjust to a marathon tempo. You should then participate in a half marathon in June or July. After this race, cut back on your training a bit for two weeks and then start to train specifically for the marathon for 12 weeks.
This plan would be ideal to be well prepared to run a marathon in autumn and to experience a few highlights along the way and really take note of how your training is progressing. That’s how to keep motivated!
It’s easy to set goals, but putting them into action always comes with its ups and downs. This is totally normal! At the start it’s crucial for you to view your goal as a realistic one and to ask yourself what obstacles you’ll face along the way.
Try to consider things from all sides. Be aware of your starting point and ask yourself honestly whether this goal is achievable or if it’s too high of an initial goal to set. Do you have the capacity to achieve this goal, both in terms of time and physical ability? And what will you have to change to achieve it?
Once you have asked yourself these questions, you can start to plan how you want to tackle it.
It is essential that you remain flexible should you encounter any problems on the way to your desired goal. If along the way it transpires that you’ve taken too much on or it’s too difficult a goal to achieve due to a change in your situation, you should ask yourself how you can adjust the goal?
There’s no reason you can’t find an intermediate solution so that you can still achieve a goal with satisfaction – even greater satisfaction than you’d experience if you were to continue battling windmills and ending up exhausted and drained to such an extent that you weren’t able to achieve anything at all.
Grab the new year by the horns! With good resolutions you can happily fulfill! With goals that bring a smile to your face! Clear goals with a defined plan and small steps are the best foundation for long-term successes.
You can get more Information about Ingalena Schöburg-Heuck and her passion running on her website.


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HCT-specific comorbidity index (Sorror-Score) is an index score to identify relevant pre-transplant comorbidities that predict non-relapse mortality and survival and therefore enable risk assessment before allogeneic transplant. Data were collected retrospectively from 1055 patients undergoing nonablative and ablative conditioning prior to stem cell transplantation.
Sorror ML et al. Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT)-specific comorbidity index: a new tool for risk assessment before allogeneic HCT. Blood. 2005 Oct 15;106(8):2912-9.

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Animal lovers from all more than the globe have one particular widespread problem that no one can look to deal with effectively, and that is certainly flea and insect control. The top provider in goods to combat this pest problem is Innovetpet. They are based online, and also you can order several of their excellent products straight from their site. They offer many different diverse products for people with different demands with regards to pest manage for their pets. The main two animals, these items, are great for cats and dogs. In case you have any pest difficulty with your animals, please think about investing in among these wonderful products to assist make you and your pets happier than they have ever been.
The first product accessible for flea and insect control through Innovetpet is named BioPel. This product is a leave in conditioner which is perfect for both dogs and cats. It has been confirmed to become effective against fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes. This is a need to have for any pet owner that has any animals which are outdoors. It is made from all natural ingredients like lemongrass oil. Even though this could possibly be an all-natural item, it really is proven to become an effective insecticide. It leaves your pets with a fresh citrus scent for days, and also you will actually have the ability to appreciate, and other people around you may notice how fresh your pet smells as well! It truly is one hundred percent safe for pets, as well as protected for youngsters! This really is essential if you have tiny children around the property. Most flea and insect control goods have damaging chemical compounds that not just burn your pet, but can be toxic if your youngsters ingest it. To work with this leave in conditioner all you need to do is rub it into your hands and wipe your pet down with it, it truly is really straightforward as that! It really is excellent in case you are taking your pet out for a stroll; this really is when most pests take the likelihood to obtain in your furry close friends! The primary ingredient that assists in keeping your pet insect free is named diatomaceous earth; it’s an all-natural ingredient that destroys the exoskeleton of fleas even though leaving your pets untouched!
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The final solution presented is known as BioPelPlus Dietary Supplement. This can be a solution that helps manage insects in the inside out. It is a dietary supplement created from human grade natural components, so you understand it’s good for your pets! It truly is high in vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and much more! Every single individual jar comes with 160 servings so you are able to make sure your pet is going to stay insect-free for months to come! One of the active ingredients within this solution is aged garlic extract. This really is the primary ingredient in defending your pet against insects; additionally, it is easy to digest because it truly is an aged garlic solution. In addition, it has brewer’s yeast in it that is a terrific supply of all B vitamins, proteins, and zinc. This can aid your pet’s fur stay healthier and vibrant searching. It also consists of hormone free of charge beef liver, which is high in iron and vitamins and gives your pet’s a taste that they will love.
Yet another essential ingredient that aids in flea and insect control is pumpkin seed powder. Believe it or not pumpkin seed powder aids in eliminating any kind of worm parasite that could infect your pet’s physique. It also helps market a healthful urinary tract. The final ingredient would be the diatomaceous earth, but it is produced for meals! It really is a natural, nontoxic solution created from the skeletons of algae it will actually quit fleas in their tracks if it comes into get in touch with with them. It is going to also aid help against any parasites that may possibly have infested your pet at any point. The only exception to this product is you should in no way use it with pets which can be pregnant, nursing, or possessing surgery quickly. Aside from that little element Innovetpet has developed a line of excellent all all-natural flea and insect control merchandise that you could use for the furry loved ones. When using this solution you are going to have content and wholesome pets, which means a happy you!


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Theo Caldwell is an international investor, writer, news anchor and commentator. As a financial professional in the United States and Canada for two decades, he has been a member of the New York Stock Exchange, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, The American Stock Exchange and the Kansas City Board of Trade.
A ubiquitous opinion-maker on television and radio, Theo is a Host on Newstalk1010 in Toronto. He has contributed to numerous outlets worldwide, including CTV, CBC, BBC, Fox News, RTE Ireland, and others. His columns have appeared in the National Post, Sun Media, the Daily Caller, the Washington Times, The Hill and publications across North America.
Born in Toronto, Theo is a citizen of Ireland, Canada and the United States. Theo’s first novel, Finn the half-Great, debuted as the #1 Teen Literature book in Canada and the feature film version is in development with Theo’s friend and business partner, Cheryl Hines, star of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm.
As a journalist, Theo has interviewed and argued with major figures in government, business, sport, science, and the arts. These include prime ministers, premiers, presidents, senators, governors, captains of industry, media stars, Middle East scholars, and world-beating athletes.
Having been an award-winning debator in his student days, Theo served as the McLeese Chair in Debating, in which capacity he worked with students across Canada to help them develop elocution abilities and embrace the art of argument.
Theo’s erudition includes a BA in English from the University of Toronto and a Master’s degree in Public Policy and Management from the University of London, UK.
You can find him at theocaldwell.com.
Do you stand with Theo Caldwell?
There are two types of people: those who think Mark Steyn and Jonah Goldberg are the best columnists in the world, and those who are wrong.
As Dennis Miller is fond of saying, liberals have a War Room for everything but war.
Recently, this column took issue with those who claim the Syrian refugees are just like another Middle Eastern family seeking shelter at Christmastime.
Surely we can agree that what Christians need most is a good talking-to from people who don't share their beliefs.
Anger is a funny thing. It gets a bad rap, but it serves a purpose.
As the expression goes, if you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
“If he can do it, so can I!” This sentiment has been bouncing around Canadian cultural and political circles lately, as the nation sees Liberal leader and noted lightweight Justin Trudeau installed as prime minister.

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The spiritual worlds are our home. We came from these worlds and we return to these worlds. Each night the human soul journeys in these worlds and is refreshed. In death, the sister of sleep, the soul journeys further. In this discourse, Rev Mario explains the different stages of this journey.
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On a Sunday evening, Reverend Mario would like to sit down with his students in his chapel at The Centre in Caulfield, Melbourne. In that setting, he would speak to them about many matters which are pertinent to the Christian esoteric life. From November 1989 through to September 1990 he gave what is known as the Spiritual Discourses. During these evenings he presented foundational principles of esoteric knowledge to his students, although there is nothing basic about the way Reverend Mario gives this. Each discourse is very pertinent, up-to-date teaching about the spiritual state of the world and the human being of this present time.
I am here to teach you wisdom; wisdom about the Gods, about the hierarchy, about the brotherhood to which I belong, about the esoteric teachings down the ages, about things belonging to the future, and about our practical application - for spiritual truth, unless it is practical, is not spiritual truth.
In this discourse, Rev Mario speaks about the invisible levels of our being and how these change and separate in sleep and in death. The experiences of dreaming, sleep and clairvoyant perception can be understood more clearly and purposefully when the etheric and astral levels of the human being are taken into account.
In death, the etheric and the astral must be cleansed from earthly attachments and the ‘essence’ of life gathered. This is the soul’s main work during the journey. Rev Mario describes how we can support the dead in this work.
The different regions of the spiritual worlds – kama loca and the four different regions of devachan – are described.
This discourse wakes us up to the ongoing nature of life and how we can prepare now for that journey, and also for our future incarnations on this earth.
Etheric, Astral, Sleep, Dreaming, Death, Spiritual images, Karma, Reincarnation, Thoughts, Future, Evolution.


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Since the mid 1970s there has been talk of creating a local walking trail to showcase the natural terrain and beauty of the Otway Coast. It was 2001 before development began and 2006 when the trail finally opened. The 100km walk has been designed to offer not only long walks, but numerous short walks that are easily achievable by almost everyone.
Victoria's premiere tourist attraction, the Twelve Apostles currently number fewer than the name suggests due to the battering they are dealt by the same severe conditions that originally carved them from the rugged Limestone cliffs.
One of the experiences of a lifetime, the Otway Fly Treetop Walk is the longest and tallest elevated walk of its kind in the world. There are 600 metres of raised walkway reaching 35 metres above ground level, with a 45-metre high lookout above the canopy.
Perched on the cliffs above Bass Strait, the Cape Otway Lighthouse is steeped in history and would have been the first glimpse of land that thousands of colonial settlers would have viewed since rounding the Cape of Good Hope. Cape Otway was opened in 1848 and is now the oldest surviving lighthouse in mainland Australia.
The Otway Harvest Trail is a celebration of the seasons that bestow a rich bounty on this luscious part of Victoria. Base yourself at the Great Ocean Walk Retreat and take some time to discover some of Australia's finest produce created by the unique combination of aspect, soils, climate and farming practices of the Otway hinterland.
One of the last bastions of original natural beauty, the Otways still possess the original character explorers of the area encountered hundreds of years ago. Walks and waterfalls within the national park allow all to discover the 300-year-old giant trees, tree-ferns, spectacular rainforests and stunning waterfalls. Visit after dark when some of the most amazing creatures come out - including dirt banks adorned with glow worms!
For those who want to enjoy a some time exploring some quaint towns in a spectacular beachside setting, Apollo Bay, Lorne and Port Campbell are all within easy reach and offer a wide variety of activities ranging from the local farmers markets, fresh seafood from the fisherman's co-operatives, great restaurants, shops and festivals.


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Project Days are designed for those who are already familiar with some digital photography processes but who want to pursue a particular aspect or develop more specific skills in one or more areas.
This one-day introduction to composition and design in photography is aimed at beginners or those looking to improve their skills in DSLR photography who are moving beyond the auto and program modes, and want take more confident creative control over their cameras.
We will then spend the remainder of the day out and about, identifying compositional opportunities and putting the new ideas into practice. It will hopefully change the way that you make pictures and view the world around you. However, I will not be revealing the ‘rules’ of composition – there aren’t any!

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Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott’s adorable 1-year-old daughter Stormi Webster was clearly loving seeing her dad perform the halftime show at the 2019 Super Bowl alongside Maroon 5 and rapper Big Boi. The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star uploaded the sweetest video of little Stormi watching her dad live from Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta, Georgia, on the TV to her Instagram account as they both watched together.
Stormi, who celebrated her first birthday last week on February 1, adorably cooed as she gazed up at her dad when he took to the makeshift stage in the middle of Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium where the New England Patriots won over the Los Angeles Rams.
Travis appeared during the halftime show to perform his track “Sicko Mode” alongside the band and his fellow rapper. Little Stormi looked to be transfixed by seeing her dad on the screen as he rapped for the world while surrounded by fire.
Jenner’s little girl was sporting a bright multi-colored tie-dye hoodie with the hood up as she watched her dad perform for the world in the southern state, while the reality star told her impressive 125 million followers on the social media site that seeing Stormi gazing at the screen during the sporting event was a “priceless” moment for her as a mom.
The cute video has already been viewed more than 10 million times on the social media site in the first 10 hours since Kylie uploaded it for the world to see. It’s also gained more than 2.9 million likes from Instagram users across the globe.
The sweet peek inside Jenner’s life as a mom comes shortly after Kim Kardashian’s little sister gushed over baby Stormi while celebrating her turning 1-year-old.
As reported by Harper’s Bazaar last week, the Kylie Cosmetics makeup mogul shared a gushing message for her baby girl and also gave fans a look inside Stormi’s lavish first birthday party just days before Travis was front and center at the Super Bowl on February 4.
“How did I get so lucky to have such a sweet, smart, happy baby. I just couldn’t have dreamt you up, storm. I wish you could stay this little forever and I could protect that contagious smile and laugh of yours,” Kendall Jenner’s younger sister wrote on social media in celebration of her baby girl’s big day.
The accompanying snap showed the 1-year-old standing next to a wall of full of teddy bears.

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It feels strange to wake up in the morning without having to face unfinished homework or a pile of new vocab words. Being done with Middlebury is a wonderful feeling.
I am just starting to settle into the daily routine here at Middlebury at Mills.


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In between the 10 million other things I have been and need to be doing, I spent a couple of hours last night updating The Raven’s Nest, my little portfolio/blog for jewelry and prayer beads. As I mentioned not too long ago, I want to start beading again to make a little extra money. Now more than ever, right?
The site is now all controlled via WordPress with galleries conveniently taken care of by the Flickr Photo Album plugin. There’s an RSS feed and an email notification thing. No LJ-syndication of said feed yet because I don’t have a paid account anymore. I’ll start selling stuff as soon as I make it.
Speaking of: remember me mentioning that I wanted to make a game out of it? I solidified that idea into a feature on the site called Reader’s Choice. That is, you pick the beads and the theme, I then work within those constraints. Check out the first post and vote and stuff!
This week I discovered that my workplace is raising my contribution to our health insurance to $50/paycheck. (Before it was $30.) I’m not too upset about that (whatever keeps my insurance from going away is fine, plus, they are paying a big chunk), but it does mean more of a crunch on my budget. I decided that the best way to deal with it is to resolve to make fifty extra bucks a month via creative means.
In some months I’ll get money from stories I sell (and yay that), for the others I think I will again attempt to sell jewelry. Or, I should say, I will start making jewelry again. I haven’t for a while, mainly because I have so much else to do.
It used to be that I would make websites for extra cash. But now that both of my jobs involve dealing with web stuff, I DO NOT want to spend my free time doing it. At all. Besides, Jeremy Tolbert is far better at it than me and he is more in need of serious gigs at the moment.
I think that I can swing making two reasonably priced necklaces or five $10 earrings a month. I may even make a game out of it and solicit your participation. That’s right, I’m making my readers my accomplices. Mwahaha.


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A local home showcases Japanese-inspired modernism.
PERHAPS THE GREATEST HURDLE of building on a hilltop where the towns of Ross and Kentfield share a territorial border was that a woodsy midcentury summer home by noted architect William Wurster already stood there.
Its historic value was hotly debated, but because of clumsy additions and other changes made to it over the years, both cities eventually allowed a new house by the Los Angeles and San Francisco firm Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects to take its place.
Completed about a year ago, the 7,500-square-foot home, designed collaboratively by principal architects Steven Ehrlich and Takashi Yanai, has nearly the same-size footprint as its predecessor. Nestled amid an acre and a half of redwoods and sun-loving live oak forests that thrive in that ecotone, the new house also takes full advantage of a wide panorama, crowned by the county’s emblematic peak, Mount Tamalpais.
Composed of four rectilinear volumes laid in a roughly reverse Z-shaped plan and stacked on three floors, the house has discrete public and private open-plan areas that flow easily from one into the other to accommodate the owner, an audiovisual systems specialist who often works from home.
The building’s rigorous right-angled geometry allows him “a variety of indoor-outdoor experiences,” says Yanai, who admired such layouts when he was an architecture magazine editor in his native Japan.
Because of its floor plan, nearly all the rooms have access to stone-covered courtyards and wood decks interspersed with Zen-like gardens planted by the San Francisco landscape architecture firm Surfacedesign Inc.
To establish other subliminal links to nature, the building exterior features German-made terra-cotta panels that match the color of redwood bark and all-weather Rheinzink roof fasciae. And large slim-line aluminum-and-glass doors and windows by Vitrocsa literally reflect the surrounding woods.
A dramatic glass-walled stairwell, visible from the entry court, links the building’s top floor to the ground floor and a state-of-the-art screening room in the basement. Figures walking up or down the stairs animate the sculptural tower, which illustrates a Japanese concept called ma. Loosely translated, “ma is a desirable empty space, a gap or an interval between forms, sounds or emotions,” Yanai says.
On the ground floor, even though the nine-foot-high solid wood and blackened steel front door seems impenetrable, rooms inside seem to have only invisible boundaries, suggested largely by the materials that cover floors or walls.
For instance, the kitchen/dining area’s polished concrete floors abut black American walnut wood floors in the adjacent sunken living room, and its boards in turn line up perfectly with a teak deck just outside sliding glass doors.
The owner’s casual lifestyle obviated a formal dining room, so the custom kitchen by New York–based Minimal has an easy-to-clean back-painted glass backsplash, dark wenge wood cabinets, and a wood dining counter that springs off the Corian kitchen island. Its bar stools are comfortable enough for dinner parties — at the chef ’s table, as it were — as well as for the owner to sometimes do his work there, facing the south lawn and mountain views.
“When this room’s glass doors are pushed open, the dining counter feels just like a picnic table,” the owner says.
On the top floor, above the living area, the cantilevered master suite has wall-size windows on three sides, facing views. Opposing doors on the east and west walls open onto teak terraces. In sync with Northern California’s preference for natural building materials, a large walk-in closet and dressing area at the north end of the room are wood lined, and the master bathroom looks onto a gravel-covered roof deck.
A separate one-story pavilion on the northeast side of the main building contains a home office, gym and sauna. Its flat roof cantilevers westward to meet the main house at a right angle, forming a breezeway between the conjoined buildings. The L-shaped wing also shelters a dark basalt-and-concrete tile courtyard with unhampered views of the San Francisco Bay and the East Bay hills. The courtyard abuts the living room deck as well as a highly reflective black tile swimming pool perched on the east slope. A square infinity-edge plunge pool in the middle of the courtyard also mirrors the sky. In this stylized Japan-inspired setting that “borrows” elements of the landscape, a long rectangular gas fire pit next to the larger pool adds a ceremonial finishing touch.
Part retreat and part home office, the house is also a showcase for the owner’s growing collection of modern furnishings, art photography and cars. The three-car garage, painted black inside, is like a theater that can be viewed through a large “proscenium” window cut into the wall of a corridor that separates the garage from guest rooms.
“Even my Mini Cooper looks like a million dollars in that garage,” the owner says with a chuckle.
Despite such deliberately jazzy features, the house does settle into its wooded site comfortably, thanks to its material and color palettes. Several corridors within the structure offer long telescopic views through windows placed strategically at the ends, and from his vantage point high above the center of Ross, the owner can also toast the summer fog that quietly floats past Mount Tamalpais and edges the valley below.
This article originally appeared in Spaces's print edition under the headline: "Frame of Mind".


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India’s Directorate General for Foreign Trade (DGFT) under the Ministry of Commerce has withdrawn the facility of duty-free imports of flat rolled stainless steel products under the Advance Authorization scheme, a ministry official said on Tuesday, March 12.
Under the Advance Authorization scheme, duty-free imports of flat steel stainless steel products were permitted for export production subject to the condition that such exports were completed within six months of the date of customs clearance of the import consignment.
The current import tariffs on flat rolled stainless steel products include a basic import duty of 10 percent, a countervailing duty of 12 percent and a special countervailing duty of four percent.

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Supply chain experts assume critical distribution roles by providing tailored solutions for companies in surging e-commerce sectors of Africa and Asia.
Booming global e-commerce has expanded ever faster with the emergence of middle class consumers in Asia and Africa, whose business is set to lift online trading worldwide to an estimated $4 trillion in 2020. But to meet soaring demand marketers must stock and transport goods to often remote clients via limited infrastructure, and navigate myriad regulatory and customs complexities attendant to increasing cross-border e-commerce. Those challenges have led traditional marketers and pure internet players alike to seek help from supply chain specialists, who determine the best ways to get goods to buyers as fast and economically as possible.
That trend is growing fastest in Asia-Pacific, which already represents 50% of the global e-commerce market. China made up 80% of the region's 2016 trade, as the nation's second-, third- and fourth-tier cities – home to the majority of China's population – began joining the country's expanding 340 million online shoppers.
Meanwhile, in addition to continued growth in more mature internet markets like Japan, South Korea and India, consumers in Southeast Asia -- Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore and the Philippines -- are flocking online in ever-greater numbers.
"A major driver of this trade is increasing use of mobile devices for e-commerce, and not only in places where internet access isn't high," says Ludovic Laungani, the Singapore-based Regional Asia-Pacific E-commerce Solution Manager for Bolloré Logistics, of the m-commerce trend some observers say already constitutes 50% of all Asia-Pacific e-transactions.
"Consumers in larger cities who initially bought online are now being joined by people in more remote locations, where e-commerce is the only way of getting things like diapers, watches, new smartphones or the latest pair of shoes that aren't available nearby," Mr. Laungani adds. "Often, that's done via mobile."
Ordering is the easy part; getting such goods quickly to waiting consumers is a harder affair.
In addition to assisting traditional marketers adapt supply chains to handle growing online business, logistics and transport specialists are also working with enormous Asian marketplaces like Alibaba and Lazada to set up and operate their widening distribution networks. The challenges in doing that are considerable. Final destinations are often in remote areas with limited access, and finding reputable transport partners locally can be difficult.
"Awaiting the creation of region-wide networks, you go with the best players in each spot – we use four different last mile partners in the four regions of Malaysia, for example," Mr. Laungani says, stressing the importance of reliability.
"Nearly 95% of purchases were cash-on-delivery when Asian e-commerce began, and they're still 65% today," he notes. "So you need partners who are as solid delivering to even difficult last-mile destinations as they are dependable in handling cash payments."
Similar geographical, transport, and financial challenges confront online marketers and supply chain specialists in Africa – the world's other blossoming e-commerce giant.
African consumers are projected to spend nearly $75 billion online annually by 2025. And, as in Asia, internet purchases already rival brick-and-mortar options that offer less choice, higher prices and required travel to shops.
A main feature of that effervescent African e-commerce is the large role of international marketplaces involving European and China merchants. Those are expected to represent considerable shares of African sales in 2020, varying largely by national market maturity in modern retail -- 20% in South Africa, for example, versus the anticipated 70% in Nigeria.
Also similar to Asia, meanwhile, is the growing number of African e-consumers using mobile devices – not illogical on a continent where 93% of the population owns cell phones, according to Afrobarometer.
"These African consumers have leap-frogged traditional retail networks by buying goods online or via mobile devices for delivery to their door," says Xavier Personnic, Director of Fast-Moving Retail Goods and E-commerce activities for Africa at Bolloré Logistics in Paris.
Mr. Personnic also notes the challenges marketers subsequently face getting orders to African end-users.
"Merchants, especially international players, have to work through limited transport networks, warehousing complications, enormous distances, security issues and customs evolutions for e-commerce administrative procedures," he says. "That requires the help of specialists with hands-on experience in Africa's differing markets."
Another common trait between e-consumers in Africa and Asia makes successfully surmounting those difficulties from the start vital for longer-term business, too.
"These consumers are just as demanding anywhere else, and any quality, price or delivery promises that aren't met will result in future lost business," Mr. Personnic notes. "You need to know what goods are worth importing vis-à-vis cost, what supply chain options are best adapted to those, and how local transport, security and customs complexities can be managed fast and effectively. That takes local expertise."
An example of that scaling marketing and distribution activity to demand, Mr. Personnic says, was sportswear retailer Decathlon's establishment of an e-commerce partnership with African marketplace operator Jumia. It allowed Decathlon to test its assortment before launching brick-and-mortar stores, and use Jumia's depth to reach more consumers.
"Other non-e-commerce pure players without any African entities, but with the willingness to open outlets could use this type of cross-border capability to access African markets," Mr. Personnic stresses.


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The Tony Lager Award is awarded for meritorious service to an Institute Branch by an individual.
Details of award: Framed certificate.
Eligibility: Any individual Institute member is eligible.
Nomination arrangements: Branches to nominate. Contributions to Branch and other Institute activities should be described.
A nomination form can be downloaded here.
No nominations were received for 2017.
A list of all previous winners of the Tony Lager Award can be found here.
The T H Cole Award is presented annually to the Institute Branch with the best percentage increase in membership during the preceding year.
Details of award: Gavel and engraved block held for one year. Also a framed certificate.
Eligibility: All Institute Branches automatically qualify.
The T H Cole Award was not awarded in 2017.
A list of all previous winners of the T H Cole Award can be found here.
The Branch Service Award is awarded for an outstanding contribution to Branches.
Eligibility: Any Branch member who has made a significant contribution to the Branch.
Nomination arrangements: Branches to nominate. Citation to be submitted to the Secretariat and ratified by the Croxson Committee.
The Branch Service Award was not awarded in 2018.
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본 연구는 실제 고속도로 인접지역에서 발생한 토석류를 대상으로 고속도로에서의 토석류 거동을 FLO-2D 모형을 적용하여 재현함으로써, 고속도로에서의 토석류 영향 해석에 대한 FLO-2D 모형의 활용성을 검증하고자 하였다. 대상유역으로는 2005년 8월 집중호우로 토석류가 발생하여 24시간 동안 교통이 차단된 대전-진주간 고속도로의 덕유산 휴게소구간으로 선정하였다. 발생 토석류에 대한 현장조사 및 토성 시험분석 자료를 활용하여 GIS를 이용한 지형분석, HEC-HMS를 이용한 수문분석, 그리고 토석량을 산정하였다. 그리고 나서 FLO-2D 모형의 매개변수 민감도 분석을 통한 최적 매개변수 조합을 선정한 후, FLO-2D 모형을 적용한 토석류 거동해석을 수행하였다. 모형의 예측치와 실측자료와의 비교·분석을 통하여 고속도로에서 토석류 거동해석을 위한 FLO-2D 활용 가능성을 보여주었다.
This study demonstrates the applicability of the FLO-2D for the influence analysis of the debris flow on expressway. To do this, the behavior of debris flow on the expressway was reproduced by applying the FLO-2D to actual generated debris flow. The study area is a part of the Deokyusan Service Area on the Daejon-Jinju Expressway, where traffic was blocked for 24 hours due to the debris flow in August 2005. Geographical analysis with GIS, hydrological analysis with HEC-HMS, and estimation of the amount of debris flow were carried out using field survey and soil property test data. Then, the optimum parameter combination of FLO-2D was selected through the parameter sensitivity analysis, and the behavior analysis of debris flow on expressway was applied. The comparison of the predictions with the observations shows the availability of FLO-2D for the behavior analysis of debris flow on the expressway.
Choi, D. Y. and Paik, J. C. (2012). "Characteristics of runout distance of debris flows in Korea." J. Korean Soc. Civ. Eng., Vol. 32, No. 3B, pp. 193-201 (in Korean).
Heim, A. (1932). Landslides and human lives (Bergsturz und Menschenleben). Translated by Skermer, N. (1989). BiTech Publishers, Vancouver, Canada.
Kim, S. E., Paik. J. C. and Kim, K. S. (2013). "Run-out modeling of debris flows in mt. umyeon using FLO-2D." J. Korean Soc. Civ. Eng., Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 965-974 (in Korean).
Korea Expressway Corporation Research Institute (KECRI) (2005). Review of flood recovery plan on August 3, 2005, Technical Advisory Report : GE-2005-S-00 (In Korean).
Korea Expressway Corporation Research Institute (KECRI) (2007a). A Study on the Countermeasures for Reducing the Damage of Debris-flow on the Expressway (In Korean).
Korea Expressway Corporation Research Institute (KECRI) (2007b). A Detailed Survey of Debris-flow Occurrence Areas on the Expressways (In Korean).
Korea Expressway Corporation Research Institute (KECRI) (2008). Guideline for design against debris flow on expressway (In Korean).
Korea Expressway Corporation Research Institute (KECRI) (2010). Guidelines for Risk Assessment and Grading in Vulnerable Section for Debris-flow (In Korean).
Lee, J. H., Ryu, S. H., Koo, H. B., Kim, S. W. and Kim, S. H. (2012). "Case study on the hazard susceptibility prediction of debris flows using surface water concentration analysis and the distinct element method." The journal of Engineering Geology, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 283-291 (in Korean).
Lee, J. S., Song, C. G., Kim, H. T. and Lee, S. O. (2015). "Risk analysis considering the topography characteristics of debris flow occurrence area." Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 75-82 (in Korean).
Lin, P. S., Lee, J. H. and Chang, C. W. (2011). "An application of the FLO-2D model to debris-flow simulation – A case of SONG- HER district in TAIWAN." Proc. of 5th International Conference on Debris-Flow Hazards Mitigation: Mechanics, Prediction and Assessment, pp. 947-956.
Meyer, N. K., Schwanghart, W., Korup, O. and Nadim, F. (2015). "Roads at risk: traffic detours from debris flows in southern norway." Natural Hazards and Earth System sciences, Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 985-995.
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) (2007). Mountain road design manual (In Korean).
O'Brien, J. S. (2018). FLO-2D Reference manual, version 2018, FLO-2D Software Inc., Nutrioso, AZ 85932.
O'Brien, J. S. (1986). Physical processes, rheology and modeling of mudflow, thesis presented to the Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University, at Fort Collins, Colo., in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
O'Brien, J. S. and Julien, P. Y. (1985). "Physical properties and mechanics of hyperconcentrated sediment flows." Proc., ASCE Specialty Conf. on Delineations of Landslide, Flashflood, and Debris Flow Hazards in Utah, D. S. Bowles, ed., Logan, Utah, pp. 260-279.
O'Brien, J. S., Julien, P. Y. and Fullerton, W. T. (1993). "Two- Dimensional Water Flood and Mudflow Simulation." Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Vol. 119. No. 2, pp. 244-261.
Woolhiser, D. A. (1975). Simulation of Unsteady Overland Flow, in Unsteady Flow in Open Channels, Mahmood, K. and Yevjevich, V. eds., Water Resources Publications, Fort Collins, CO.

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“It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” we are told by the holiday ditty that goes on to tell us that is true because of caroling and “fun in the snow.” Not likely in Tucson. But that does not change the sentiment. There are many things that make this the most wonderful time of the year. Outside of the religious significance, I can think of lots of culinary and commercial things that make this the most wonderful time of the year. As a long-time movie buff, I think it is wonderful because this tends to be when the best movies of the year are released. The weather in Tucson tends to be pretty good this time of year. And of course there are the many parties and gatherings with family and friends. These are all wonderful. But none of them are necessarily about Christmas. In reality, there are 2 Christmases in the world: One is all bout the things I mentioned above: food, commerce, friends and family (and a little bit of “Peace on Earth” thrown in too). And don’t get me wrong; I do not begrudge non-religious people their Christmas devoid of religious meaning; I just can’t imagine it.
The challenge to us as believers is to live in such a way that others can clearly see that we celebrate the birth of Salvation. For us to become, by our lives, a preaching of the Word-made-flesh, so that others can come to believe that the real Christmas – the MESSIAH MASS – is worthy of our attention each year in December. May this Christmas be a time in which the Word of God is born anew in you and that you become more and more convinced in Faith that “Peace on Earth” and “Good will towards all” are possible in your life and in the world.
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GE14 | Registered voters can now check the location of their polling stations for the coming general election.
As announced by the Election Commission on Thursday, the relevant information concerning voters' polling centres and channels can be found online on the electoral body’s website pengundi.spr.gov.my.
Voters may also obtain the relevant information via the MySPR Semak mobile application (available on Google Play and Apple Store).
With this application, voters will also be able to check the names of candidates and the results of the elections.
They may also contact the EC at 03-8892 7018, contact any state election office, or send an SMS to 15888 with the text "SPR <space> IC number."
The 14th general election has been set for May 9, with nomination day on April 28 and early voting on May 5.


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Discussion in 'Mac Basics and Help' started by screensaver400, Oct 20, 2005.
I'm considering upgrading a family member's eMac 800 from 128mb of ram with Jaguar to 256 mb of ram with Tiger.
Would she feel a speed increase, or a slow-down?
Increase... although even 256MB is not enough.
It will be better, and if that is the maximum you want to do it will work fine. But you will find it to work MUCH better with at least 512 total.
I know it's not enough. I tried to sell her on a 512 stick, but even the $80 OWC charges is too much. She was receptive about the benefits, but as soon as I mentioned the price she cut me off before I could say another syllable.
I might be able to sell her on a 256 stick, though (total of 384).
What I'm trying to figure out is, would Tiger eat up the ram more quickly, thanks to Spotlight and Dashboard? Or would there still be a speed increase?
Spotlight and Dashboard can both be turned off. Do a google search or search the forums here, or ask in the forums to find out how - it's pretty easy. 256 will definitely be an improvement over 128, with or without Spotlight & Dashboard, even though Tiger is more bloated.
Dashboard only loads when you first launch it yourself after boot. So, eliminate the Dock icon and keyboard references and it will never load, even if you hit F12. Spotlight doesn't seem to do much after initial indexing unless you use it. I'm not sure if there is a way to disable Spotlight altogether, but you could just put "Macintosh HD" in the Privacy section of the Spotlight preference pane. Then there would be nothing allowed to index.
I'm impressed Jaguar'll even run on 128, but I can pretty much guarantee it's running dog-slow no matter what she's doing. 256 will be an improvement no matter what, even with the more RAM-hungry Tiger on it (and actually, Tiger has enough speed benefits over Jaguar that it you'd probably come out ahead even if it was equally RAM starved at 256, which it won't be).
That said, do anything you possibly can to talk her into at least another 256MB--384MB will make a HUGE difference over 256, and Tiger might actually run somewhere close to how it should if she doesn't push it (I've run Panther comfortably at that level on a number of machines at work). Compared to 128, it'll be like a new computer.
Considering that DMS charges $20 for 128 and $33 for 256, not spending the extra $13 borders on stupid. I can see, though, how $80 could feel a bit steep even if it would make a difference (which wouldn't be as much as from 256 to 384).
No slowdown on yours? I got a G3 500 Mhz ibook with the same ram, and Panther is even slow...Tiger would probably be a slug!


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Get out your big red marker! The German election for the European parliament will be held on June 7. If you're an expat European citizen, and you want to use your shred of influence on the only directly-elected body of the European Union, check out The Local's practical guide.
Voting regulations are rarely lucid, but since the European elections are subject to both national and European rules, there's an extra layer of complication. All EU citizens over 18 have the right to vote in the European elections, as long as they live in the EU. But where you are allowed to vote depends on the rules of your native country and those of the country where you live.
The location of your vote, it should be noted, has an effect on its power. As the largest population in Europe, Germans return the most MEPs to the European Parliament (99 out of 785), and there are more German voters per MEP than in any other member state. This is a consequence of the recent Lisbon treaties, which ensure that smaller countries are not squeezed out. Mathematically, though, a vote in the EU's smallest state, Malta, is worth more than ten German votes.
As a non-German EU citizen living in Germany then, you have a unique choice. Obviously there are a few other factors to be considered when honing your voting tactics; for example, while the election is decided by proportional representation, some countries, including Ireland, the UK, Italy, France and Belgium are subdivided into electoral regions. Some countries also impose a 5 percent threshold which parties must reach to achieve representation.
Similarly, each EU member state decides individually how its citizens living abroad are allowed to vote. Some offer postal votes, some allow you to vote in the consulate or embassy, and some even accept a proxy vote.
Great Britain, for instance, accepts postal votes and proxy votes. Although the deadline for registering to vote has passed, anyone who has been registered to vote in the UK in the last 15 years is eligible to vote in the European elections, and there is still time to apply for a postal vote and return it by 10 pm on election day – though one should keep in mind that the UK's European election is being held on June 4!
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Let’s examine a poem by Joshua Mehigan, one published in Accepting the Disaster, his most recent collection.
waiting for us to cry out.
My first question about this poem: is it a sonnet? Let’s remodel the house a bit, shall we?
waiting for us to cry out. And we will.
Mehigan has taken a perfectly straightforward Shakespearean sonnet, separated it into individual lines, broken each line in half to form a couplet, and presented the poem to us as something other than it is. I suppose the question becomes this: is it something other than it is? Is the poem a sonnet because it sounds and scans like a sonnet, is it a poem in short-lined free-verse couplets because it looks like one, or is it something else altogether?
listening at the deep air, walls, and dust.
sure the deepest mysteries must always deepen.
Water squeezed and squeezed with a changeless motion.
Water wasn’t easy to finish drinking.
delicate fern some six miles beneath the surface.
struck her ready eye with a tragic strangeness.
It was hard absorbing herself in dying.
This poem’s stanzaic divisions—two quatrains followed by two tercets—suggest a sonnet, but there is no rhyme scheme, and when you scan a few lines, a different sort of poem emerges.
These sonnets are different, however, from “Fire Safety” in an important respect. Both poems are visually and audibly distinct from a traditional sonnet: the echoic effects of “Fanatics” are unmistakable to the ear, and by the end of “The Suicide,” a reader should be majorly suspicious of a sonnet-looking thing that sounds, and especially ends, so much like a sapphic. They are not presented, however, in a way that obscures their musical properties. These are poems that at a more integral level splice or recombine. “Fire Safety” is a poem that hides.
Other writers have done these sorts of things, and I want to look at them in a moment, but first I think it wise to identify what I don’t mean by disguised form. I am interested in when a poet obscures the nature of the poem, not when the poem contains buried formal principles or when the poem’s formal nature is so rare as to be hard to identify.
What I mean by “buried formal principles” is best embodied by rhyme. Sometimes rhymes can be difficult to detect because the rhyme has been put in an odd place in the line, because the variety of rhyme is uncommon or unclear, or because the rhyme is distant from its mate, but in such cases writers have simply worked in unusual traditions; they haven’t worked in a very common tradition and presented it in an uncommon way.
effect when you need none.
The tiny world of lovers’ arms.
And stirs their secret to a smile.
Our life-day long shall part no more.
Oh, Wystan. I haven’t even tried to take stock of patterns of assonance or alliteration, nor patterns that might be working across stanzas; it was exhausting enough to try to keep track of all these intrastanzaic rhymes. I would only note that the bracketed pairings are instances of consonance, not rhyme, but the final pair—borne and burns—makes clear, I think, that we are to see the other pairs (miles/fills, wood/shade) as exhibiting systematic musical intention.
….. pure being, perfect in music and movement?
Than vision asleep in the eye’s tight translucence.
You’d be right, in a sense, to argue that t doesn’t equal d, nor p equal b, nor k equal g, yet there is more to the story. T and d, p and b, and k and g are all consonantal pairs in their unvoiced and voiced forms: that is to say, t and d are much the same except that when saying d, one must vibrate the vocal chords. If we consider voiced and unvoiced consonants as equivalents and disregard the vowels altogether, these rhymes work perfectly well; they just derive from a system no one else in the language is using. I have wondered if Muldoon’s ideas about rhyme in part derive from Hebrew, in which only consonants are written (with diacritical signs used to indicate vowels, although not always), but that is only a suspicion, and it certainly doesn’t account for his decision to treat voiced and unvoiced consonant pairs as equivalents. Still, these rhymes aren’t disguised, per se; it’s merely that their principles are unique and must be inferred from what they have in common with each other and with other rhymes in Muldoon’s oeuvre.
because Muldoon’s unique variation, like fuzzy logic, spurns all-or-nothing dichotomies in favor of greater and lesser probabilities or, as I have been saying, greater and lesser security. The term “fuzzy” also appropriately combines suggestions of granularity and blur…. Fuzzy rhyme asks us to hear (and/or see the graphic signifiers of) a series of not necessarily contiguous units of sound—sequenced consonantal phonemes—instead of the rounded or canted but at any rate uninterrupted sound of full and half rhyme. This sequencing of anchored units is its granular aspect. But each of those units of sound has a range of tolerance within which some shifting—or, as I often say, phonetic proximation—changes nothing. That is fuzzy rhyme’s blurry aspect.
enables the keys to “make” music. Praise is their major labor.
praise, of a kind, he’s building unit by unit up there.
His hair smells like the derrick by now, his spit does.
then going to rest. Now he rivets. He watches the ocean roil.
ecstatic that the ice cream maker churns.
Again, this isn’t a question of disguise: the poem is presented as clearly as possible, given the nature of mirror rhymes alternating with rhyme pairs within each quatrain, and given the length of the poem. It merely requires attentive reading to notice this formal feature. In even more elaborate examples of distant rhyme, Paul Muldoon has poems that rhyme not across stanzas but across whole poems: William Logan writes, “One critic noticed that several of his long poems use the same ninety rhyme sounds, in the same order—then sometimes repeated in reverse order,” and I’m going to take their word for it. I suppose at some point a critic will realize that Muldoon has used the same rhyme sounds in the same order as those of another poet’s poem, and we will have not an oeuvre-spanning rhyme scheme but a poet-spanning rhyme scheme. One wonders if some things are not so much poems as invitations to Adderall-fueled criticism.
A week-end of personal life.
I was reading a book on Chinese poetry, in which I discovered that though Chinese is mostly monosyllabic, it is not entirely so, and Chinese poetry is organized not by syllable but by word count. Since the theme [of “For Friends Only”] seemed rather “Confucian,” I thought it might be fun to write in English on the same principle. As you will see, the counting is in 7s and 5s (standard Chinese practice).
Not until I read the subsequent conversation did I realize the formality of Woodward’s poems: he identifies the formal constraints as “five words per line, five lines per stanza, three stanzas, and done,” and indeed, all three excerpts play by these rules. Only my inattention, and the relative prosodic rarity, prevented me from identifying the counted verse in both the Woodward and the Auden poems.
I hope it will not seem to the reader that I am making an arbitrary distinction by claiming some formal elements, like the many varieties of rhyme, can be buried while others can simply be rare or obscure, yet neither of these is disguised. What I mean is that head rhyme and internal rhyme by definition belong in the places they occur; the many varieties of rhyme have no way of announcing themselves other than to be placed at line ends where structurally they can call attention to themselves; and alternative prosodic systems, such as classical prosodic adaptations or counted verse, cannot be presented any more clearly than they are in the examples given. It is up to the reader to notice that there are apocopated rhymes, five words per line, or funky rhythms such as the choliambic’s With disguised form, there is a clearer method of presentation of the form in question; there are line breaks that would better point up the organizing principles of the lines. “Fire Safety” could have been printed as I have above, as four quatrains with a couplet, or even as one fourteen-line stanza, and it would have made clear that it was a sonnet. That just isn’t what Joshua Mehigan did.
and light and love—it clung. It didn’t care.
The future looked like death to it, from there.
Williamson’s essay first attuned me to the possibilities of the eye and ear being at odds, and not too long ago I wrote briefly about the way Kay Ryan disguises relatively formal poems as radically enjambed short-lined free verse. Rather than spend much time on those particular examples, which have been discussed already, I would prefer to zero in on another practitioner that might shed light on Mehigan’s modus operandi: John Burnside.
The poem proves to be a sonnet despite being broken up into couplets and despite the rhymes that shade into consonance: disappears/yours/hours/stars. (We also should not let the acephalic first line throw us.) I offer this specimen to make a specific point: Burnside can write straightforward iambic pentameter when he wants.
Again, one might defend another scansion, but it would be of the few lines in the passage that don’t recombine into solid iambic pentameter.
These last examples, from Black Cat Bone, invite some criticism of my analysis. First, my scansion, and consequently my argument, relies to a great extent on promotional stress, as in the “and” of the first example just quoted; to this, I can only respond, so does meter. Second, a critic might point out that you can scan passages from almost anything and find buried pentameters—indeed, “scan passages from almost anything” is iambic pentameter—so that Burnside’s method isn’t really a method but merely the byproduct of an analytic language that favors the iamb. To this, I would respond that the practice is too consistent to be accidental. Burnside doesn’t always do this, nor do the lines always resolve neatly into a series of pentameters as they do in the third section of “Alcools,” but the fact that Burnside presents those lines as a series of couplets, most of which can easily be scanned as pentameters, suggests that at least in certain contexts, the technique is quite purposeful. Furthermore, he does it often: read through Selected Poems, Black Cat Bone, and All One Breath and tell me how often you encounter iambic pentameter, either in its fully realized or broken-backed form. I find that most commonly it is a mixture of the two: the broken-backed pentameter provides variety in generally pentametric contexts. In any case, when something happens that often, we have every reason to suspect the poet is doing it on purpose.
This invites the more interesting question: what is the purpose? A Scottish Poetry Library website page identifies this technique as “flexible pentameters” and suggests it as a means of keeping technique an undercurrent, saying it might also be a means of “creating a looser visual effect, which can have the effect of speeding up one’s reading.” Maybe. It might be a way of experimenting with enjambment or heightening the importance of pentameter’s phrasal caesurae. It might be both a continuation and a critique of Pound’s “first heave,” which was to “break the pentameter.” It might be an attempt to play the visual against the aural. It might have a heuristic function: it is simply what Burnside needs to do to get the poem written. It might also be a disguise.
There are a few additional things to say here. First, Mehigan’s practice in “Fire Safety” is certainly analogous to Burnside’s general practice, but it could be that these are independently developed techniques rather than an indication of Burnside’s direct influence on Mehigan. Second, there is a precursor that might be relevant here, and it is once again Auden. The critic R. Victoria Arana points out in W.H. Auden’s Poetry: Mythos, Theory, and Practice that Auden organized later poems not around line-based syllable counts but around stanza-based syllable counts. Burnside and Mehigan are perhaps loosely adapting as an alternate unit of measurement the sum of several lines rather than individual lines themselves.
Finally, I want to say a brief word before returning to Mehigan. If I’ve leaned heavily on a few writers in considering hidden formal elements—particularly on Auden—it is perhaps an indication of my limited reading, but I suspect the more likely reason for this is that so few writers have the technical interest, or achieve the technical mastery, required for such feats. (This would put writers such as Burnside and Mehigan in very select company.) It may simply be a testament to how diverse and technically proficient his body of work is that at times it seems all roads lead back to Auden.
1. It was pure whim.
2. It was an attempt at publication in a venue antagonistic to form.
3. It was an attempt to provoke this very conversation about the eye versus the ear and the free versus the formal.
4. It secures local effects.
5. It is semantic: it presents a variety of formal mimesis or thematic embellishment.
6. It was an attempt to expand the formal possibilities of English-language poetry.
7. It is a contract with the specific reader(s) whom Mehigan has in mind.
I believe we can dispense with the first two possibilities at the outset. Whim is less an explanation than a critical shrug, a way of saying that a poet’s decision has no meaning apart from the meta-meaning that whims are important, too, in which case we need not spend any more time on the decision. My tendency is to see even whimsical choices as purposeful ones. As for the venue, this poem was first published in POETRY, a journal that published a number of poems from Accepting the Disaster, including “Citation,” which consists of three abab iambic pentameter quatrains; “Cold Turkey” and “The Crossroads,” which are both triolets; and “Here” and “The Professor,” both more traditional sonnets. (This hardly exhausts the list.) Clearly POETRY has no problem publishing formal poems, so Mehigan needn’t have disguised it to get it published there.
Mehigan might have chosen to break each line into couplets to secure local effects, and there are a few ones worth noticing. Generally, the line breaks emphasize natural phrasal caesurae, ones not marked by punctuation, in each of the original pentameter lines. There are more specific discernible effects, as well. In the fifth couplet, for example, the line break emphasizes a musical property: dividing “waiting for gas or smoke / or hands or heat” emphasizes the alliteration of “hands” with “heat” by isolating them on a line in which they are the only nouns (or indeed the only words that aren’t “or”). Moreover, there is the subtle possibility for a productive misunderstanding: by pairing “hands” and “heat” in a counterpoint to the “gas or smoke” of the preceding line, the division reminds us that while gas and smoke are “unnatural” environmental warning signals of danger, hands are normal, as is heat by extension—after all, the human body generates it—until we remember that the hands in this line are pulling fire alarms and the heat of the line isn’t normal, safe body heat but the heat generated by a blaze. We have the potential to be taken aback by our realization that the heat that at first felt as nonthreatening as our own is in fact life-threatening—a realization that perhaps registers as startlingly as the realization that a room has suddenly grown too warm. Other line breaks play with visual spatial effects: the couplet “positioned like beige land mines / overhead” revels via line break in the unexpected revelation that the land mine in question, a smoke detector, is not underfoot but overhead, and “sprinkler heads, / blooming from the public ceiling” plays a similar game by turning sprinkler heads (which we associate with looking up) into flowers (which we associate with looking down) by way of the participle “blooming.” In each case, the separation between the overhead and underfoot elements by way of line break draws attention to the wit by pitting the elements against each other visually and spatially (one line above the other) in addition to conceptually and imagistically. Finally, the line break of the last couplet draws particular attention to the syntax and again allows for a suspenseful delay of meaning: “waiting for us to cry out. / And we will.” I have gone so far as to wonder if this final couplet, in which the syntax of the original pentameter line is emphasized as in no other couplet in the poem, might have been the inspiration for the procedure as a whole.
Now, when it comes to the sixth reason listed above, expanding formal possibilities, I speak not as a reader but as a practitioner. There are times one consciously pursues the undone thing so that it may be done, times one attempts to expand on the work of a predecessor in order to increase the formal possibilities for oneself and for future writers, and it may be that Joshua Mehigan (and, for that matter, John Burnside) has written in broken-backed pentameters for this very reason. It gives writers in English another option for composing poems, an option that hovers between free verse (visually) and metrical verse (aurally) much as the poems of Kay Ryan or Heather McHugh do. Partly this is out of poetic hubris—one wishes to stake out territory as Muldoon does with his idiosyncratic rhyme—but partly it is out of the recognition that all poets are part of a grand project, poetry itself, and that we all contribute to its increase in range and possible reward through formal innovation as through rhetorical, musical, thematic, imagistic, syntactic, or lexical innovation. By such innovation, poetry itself grows a little bigger.
….. or a prettier shell than before.
Not that I’m like Isaac—more like Wayne Newton, say.
Perhaps one writes to the standard one does and the way one does simply as a manner of being true to oneself and to the intelligence, human or divine, that will notice what work went into the poem and how much in excess of the necessary that work is. In a ruminative mood on a rainy afternoon, I wonder if that very combination of integrity and excellence is something that can keep us human beings, for at least a little while longer, safe.
Stephen Kampa has three books of poems: Cracks in the Invisible (Ohio University Press, 2011), Bachelor Pad (Waywiser Press, 2014), and Articulate as Rain (Waywiser Press, 2018). He teaches at Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL and works as a musician.
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YES! What a promise for those who are in Christ Jesus by faith!
but our competence comes from God.
to suffer & die & rise again!
when we dont have the results we want.
when he cried out to God?
seeing as God sees is vital to us surviving & thriving.
but your commands give me delight.
when we hope in what we want/feel/think.
A boat of Scripture (God’s Word) endures a storm–we’re sustained.
not any pragmatic solutions (whatever works) that seem best.
they key is thinking deeply about & obeying the Bible.
Waiting on the LORD is active, not passive.
“I wait for your salvation, LORD, and I follow Your commands” (Psalm 119:166).
in anticipation of the game before it occurs.
it’s another to be discipled (trained) by them.
Are you starting to act/think/believe like the world?
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