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Hummingbird is doing a school project on Louisiana, and she was asking me how to spell Lake Ponchartrain. Bumble Bee piped up, "Mom whenever I see a train, I'm going to punch it like the lake... Lake. Punch. A. Train. Hahahaha! I could punch the train in the lake."
Anyway, I had some leftover sour cream a couple of weeks ago, and no idea what to do with it. So, I did a search for entrees with sour cream. Of those I found I decided to try a recipe for "gyro burgers" with a sour cream based sauce (I can't find my source now!).
Well, DH, who is always honest about what he likes and doesn't like, informed me that this was a miss, but could be a hit with some tweaks. The first step was to break up the burger patty and simply use ground beef (we're not really big lamb eaters). So, I searched all over the internet for recipes to make an American-style Gyro with ground beef and a truly Greek sauce.
Here's what I came up with by pulling ingredient ideas from several sources. I've linked the main ones I used for the base.
The meat, pita, and onions were a hit with DH (the girls preferred cucumbers over onions). The sauce was okay, but still seemed to be lacking. I had run out of time to try pureeing and juicing a cucumber to add to the sauce. This may be my only failing it, but I wouldn't doubt if there are more things lacking. So, does anyone have suggestions for an authentic sauce to add to my gyro burgers? We definitely want to try this again.
When I wrote Josiah and Julia Go to Church, I had NO idea I was writing a scandalous book. I certainly had no intention of doing so. However, it has come to my attention over the last couple of weeks that there is a campaign against it. The prickly point is Josiah squirming at Communion. It is the opinion of those who are upset by it that I am giving children bad ideas and being disrespectful of the Eucharist.
However, I did not think up this idea. No, this is behavior that I have seen -- that my daughters have seen -- on several occasions over the years. Largely, the children whom we've seen squirming, flailing, and indeed, spitting out Communion have been visitors or infrequent attendees. So, early on my girls questioned why those children were acting that way. I had to explain to them that some children don't attend church often enough to be accustomed to receiving Communion, and perhaps some don't like the taste of wine. I also explained to them what Communion is and why it is important to be calm when receiving it and not only not to spit it out, but not to put fingers in their mouth or chew on teddy bears right after Communion. Having had this conversation with my own children, I thought it might just be one that other parents were having, too, and that J&J might be a tool to broaching the topic.
Since respect for the Eucharist was a large factor in my conversion to Orthodoxy (After months of fighting to defend Catholic doctrine, I knew I couldn't keep up the fight when I saw a Catholic priest tell parishioners at a midday Mass to let those who had to return to work receive communion first, so they could leave right away.), I am hurt that people think my book is disrespectful. The entire purpose of this book is to show children how to behave respectfully in church. I have seen children doing all of the "bad" behaviors in church, and I find it hard to believe that others haven't seen them all, too.
Of course, I've read this book hundreds of times to my own children and neither of them has ever tried to squirm or spit out Communion after reading it. So, unless a child is just deliberately trying to be bad, I don't think my book is going to have them spitting out the Eucharist.
Deep breath! I guess I'll have to learn to ignore all reviews like celebrities say they do if I'm going to keep writing for public consumption.
In other news... if you're a fan (or if you're not but want to give me a second chance), I started a Facebook page not so long ago. Check it out for a special offer.
I think after a decade he's happy that I thought he was, though. On our first anniversary he put on a tuxedo and met me at the door after work with a red rose and a bottle of champagne. I think we may have gone out to dinner a little later. He would remember better than I. My best memory of the evening was my first sight of him as I came home, though.
We spent the day together today. Nothing big... kids off to school (thank you teachers for returning to work for my anniversary!). The first was early and easy; the second one was more difficult -- lots of "I don't want to go to school." Then, we had a couple of hours to ourselves, including a walk to pick up Thai food for dinner (love that tofu!). We spent the evening at home, but after 10 years it was time to try the wedding clothes. I'm sad to say I don't quite fit in my dress anymore... Pregnancy caused me to lose some much needed fat in certain places.
The lighting is bad in the current one, but we may try again in the daylight tomorrow. The shrug I wore at the wedding began to yellow a few years ago, so I had to throw it out to protect the dress. Hummingbird has asked to wear it at her wedding, so I definitely need to keep it nice.
I'm sure you've all heard Republican candidate Mitt Romney's remarks that "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. There are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it."
More shocking than the fact that he apparently doesn't believe that all people are entitled to food and housing, is the fact that he thinks his remarks are offensive simply because he didn't phrase it well. He actually said, "It's not elegantly stated, let me put it that way. I was speaking off the cuff in response to a question." I pay income taxes, unlike the people Mr. Romney disdains, but I still think everyone is entitled to food and housing. Our Lord commanded us to care for the poor, the sick, those in prisons. The Lord cares for all Americans. Mr. Romney professes to, but he clearly doesn't. The rich man in the Bible was unwilling to give up his possessions to help those less fortunate and follow the Lord, and it seems Mr. Romney is the same type of rich man. If those who have more are not going to help those less fortunate as the Lord commanded, then government has to fill that need. Should 47% of Americans live on the streets? Starve?
I can't even begin to express how disgusted I am with this man, and how scared I am that he just may get elected.
...and I am most annoyed with the CTU. They have a contract that seems quite reasonable, and in some cases more than reasonable. I understand wanting to "mull it over" before signing it, but at this point get the kids back into class while you mull it over. I spent last night and this morning reading the Summary of Terms sheet posted on CTU's website. They summarize the things they like and don't like.
Two things they don't like is the longer day and longer school year. It seems to me if schools around the nation have days longer than 5.45 hours and 180 day school years, then CPS can and should, too. Not to mention, of the now 7 hour day, teachers will only about 6.25 hours working. They will be getting a 45 minute duty-free lunch. That's a shorter day than most professionals work. I do recognize they teachers are spending some time at home doing things like grading, so I think this is perfectly fair, but it's certainly not unreasonable as CTU seems to think.
Anyway, I've marked up the Terms sheet with my opinions on the big issues. I'm neutral about many things in it, so those parts are simply unmarked. I've underlined in green things I like and struck out in red things I don't like, and I've added a few comments along the way. The evaluation process seems more than fair, and overall this contract seems quite reasonable.
My last little point to note is that I'm happy to see that CTU agrees to make up the days that have been lost to their strike. Now, I want to make my opinion known that those days should be made up on single day holidays (Columbus day, Presidents day, etc) throughout the year, and not with an extra 1.5 weeks at the end of school. Without our Labor Day start to school the kids already get out 2-3 weeks later than all of the school districts I know (suburban and Louisiana). Adding time at the end will keep them in school pretty much until July, which really isn't fair to them or parents!
Well, homeschooling crumbled today. We're hearing rumors that this will be resolved in time for students to return to school on Monday. Three quarters of our household will be thrilled if that happens. Bumble Bee is the only one who still wants the teachers to strike so she doesn't have go to school. I told her teacher last week it would set her back if they went on strike, and it will.
The city has 145 schools open and staffed by principals and other non-CTU staff. One of those is within 2 seconds of us. So, we may send Hummingbird tomorrow, and perhaps, Bumble Bee. They won't be holding classes, but it will be like a day camp with including independent reading and writing, arts and journaling, sports activities, and computer-based programming.
Even though today didn't work out the week certainly wasn't a total loss. Hummingbird did complete a nice project on the history of the American Flag. She also learned some new grammar and practice a bunch of math. And we've done two cool science projects, one of which I recorded and used to practice video editing.
One thing I do like about this strike is that we can all sleep until 7:00 AM. We usually have to be up by about 6:30 to get Hummingbird on the school bus. So, we've just had breakfast, and I'll be printing out worksheets in a minute. I just did an email check before we get going. There was an "update" from Hummingbird's principal. The update was there's no news on when this will be settled. Mr. Netterstrom is a pretty high profile principal in the city because his school is a new classical school with accelerated learning, and he is taking it to the forefront of many of the changes the mayor wants. They did a longer school day last year, which was even longer than this year. He has had full choice in hiring teachers with no requirements to draw from a laid off pool. The staff at the school are fabulous, and I really think it is a great model for others to imitate. Here's a what Mr. Netterstrom thinks about principals' right to choose their own teachers without restrictions.
Here's to a good day of learning and hoping for a return to school!
Today went pretty well for us, but we all wish the teachers would go back to work. I'm definitely on the fence about the strike. I think it's terrible because it impedes the education of our children. I understand that they want a fair contract, but I also think that they need to make some concessions, too. I am generally pro-union; I've even belonged to a union in the past. However, everything I'm reading reports that CPS has conceded on this point or that, but nowhere has the CTU given an inch.
As a parent it is even more frustrating when union president Karin Lewis says things like "I've got to go back to the silly part of my day [referring to the negotiations]. . .Y'all continue to have fun. Show each other some love." (Read more on today's happenings) Never mind, that kids are missing out on their rights to an education, or that parents are having to find and pay for ways to take care of their kids while they're not in school; y'all just have fun! (I do like that the Tribune reporter spelled "y'all" correctly).
Okay, I'm done ranting. We actually had a pretty good day, and if I lived somewhere where my girls weren't going to a really good school, I think I could get the hang of homeschooling. We were a little more laid back today, but we still did some good work.
I let them start the day with playtime because I need some time to prepare tutoring lessons for this evening. Best to get that out of the way first. Next, we took a walk to the library where everyone picked out chapter books, and we had an impromptu photography class along the way (pictures below). Then, we had a brief lunch and started the real work.
I found some grammar sheets for Hummingbird to do, and I helped Bumble Bee practice writing her name (she's great at tracing, not so much at freehand). Her goal is to be able to write her name and get a library card of her own, so this may not take too long.
Next came math, Hummingbird worked on the computer with Math Trainer. She answered 100 of 102 multiplication facts (from 1x1 to 5x5) correctly! Tomorrow we push her up a notch... Bumble Bee and I worked on a pre-K workbook -- counting & circling objects, tracing numbers, and determining sets.
After math came social studies. Hummingbird suggested on our way home from the library that she would like to learn more about the Star-Spangled Banner. So, I found some color sheets and informational sheets online that she worked on. I also wrote down 7 questions for her to research online with Daddy while I was out this evening. They completed all but one of those. Tomorrow she'll finish that, and we'll add some state flags (Illinois, Georgia, Louisiana, & Indiana).
We didn't get to the science experiment today, so tomorrow we'll learn about air pressure and crush a can. I'll probably post a video of that one.
Karen Lewis says the union is in this strike "for the long haul." I worry that with their utter refusal to compromise, like the Tea Party, we may indeed miss a large chunk of school time.
As we started out we met a striking teacher and her daughter.
As it happens they are neighbors to Hummingbird's best friend from school.
Despite my frustrations with the current day, I am reminded each time I look at the calendar that things could be so much worse. As I go to sleep tonight, I will be praying for those whose lives were so devastated eleven years ago.
I'm exhausted. Summer vacation is over, so we're not really willing to let the girls sit idly wasting brain cells while the teachers strike. So, we had our first day of homeschooling today. It actually went well, but I managed to catch a severe cold, so I am now wiped out.
We started the day with breakfast and cleaning the bedroom, especially the desk area. I knew we would need a good spot for Hummingbird to work. Then around 8:30 we did an hour long French immersion lesson. I've started teaching part-time with Multilingual Chicago, so the kids are good practice for my classes. We read La Chenille Qui Fait des Trous, and sang a song about the days of the week & ducks. We also talked about the weather and numbers, ending the hour with a game of Bingo in French.
Next, we had a short art class. First, we made sun catchers. The girls came back from their summer adventures with this craft, but we never got around to it. The paint was dried out, so we improvised with sharpies and glitter glue. Upon finishing that, we took a walk for a photography lesson. The girls each took pictures of the strike in progress. We had to see it for ourselves, as the teachers were shouting outside our windows by 6:30 this morning.
Hummingbird was interested in practicing the zoom feature. Thus, most of her photographs were from behind the teachers, and half a block away.
Bumble Bee, on the other hand was up close and personal. She spotted the kids and was curious to know why they were striking. The teachers started marching to another nearby school while she was taking pictures, and we even saw her teacher. I was worried they wouldn't like us taking pictures, but most of them smiled at us. Her teacher even paused to say hello, and let Bumble Bee snap a quick shot. We do like Bumble Bee's teacher, and I can't wait for her to return to class & relieve me.
Back to our schedule, we had P.E. & recess at the school playground after art class. Then, we came home for lunch followed by spelling work for Hummingbird and puzzles for Bumble Bee and Grace (she's 2 and she's with us two days a week). After puzzles, we put Grace down for a nap, and Bumble Bee took a bath and learned about what floats & sinks in water. She really like this, and was very quick to grasp why the different objects floated or sank. Math work followed spelling for Hummingbird while Bumble Bee finished her bath.
Next came reading time. After 6 books, I was ready to collapse, so Bumble Bee got about 40 minutes of TV time, while Hummingbird continued her reading of Socks by Beverly Cleary. Our day was almost to the end. Hummingbird had to do a little social studies. She played games on the Little Passports website and read up on the various countries visited by Sam & Sophia. I made her name each country and its capital. I even learned something new. I never knew the capital of Australia is Canberra. I guess I always assumed it was Sidney. Bumble Bee had free play with Grace.
By this time it was late afternoon, and we had a science lesson. Daddy made it rain in the kitchen! He questioned Hummingbird about the water cycle & why it rains. Then, he heated water in a tea kettle to steaming. He held a pan of ice over it, and as the steam hit the pan, the water condensed. The girls loved this and wanted it to rain on them. Daddy was obliging and moved the pan over their heads so little bits of "rain" could fall on them. This brought many giggles and squeals.
So, we got through one day. I don't quite know what to do tomorrow. Daddy has agreed to do another late day science experiment. He's going to crush a can under atmospheric pressure... I'll let you know how it goes.
The girls had fun today, but after years of wishing she could be homeschooled, Hummingbird decided today that she'd rather leave for school. I know many of you out there homeschool, so if you have any suggestions, I'm all ears.
I'm am a very disappointed parent right now. I am especially disappointed in the Chicago Teachers' Union.
CPS offered many concessions giving the CTU what it wanted on some big issues. School board President David Vitale said the district changed its proposal 20 times over the course of talks and didn't have much more to offer. Here's a link to the current CPS offer. This includes a 16% pay increase over 4 years. Chicago teachers' salaries are nothing to sneeze at. According to a CPS spokesperson, the average pay for teachers, without benefits, is currently $76,000/year (the highest in the nation). And these increases will occur at a time when CPS really doesn't have the money for them.
Despite major concessions on the big issues, which apparently were agreed upon, CTU has decided to strike. Some of the factors stated for the decision to strike include job security, dissatisfaction with Health Benefits, and a new evaluation process.
What doesn't CTU like about the Health benefits? They reject a wellness program, which seems to me a great option to improve health and lower overall health care costs. The wellness program even includes an option for opting out of it. They also dislike a slight premium increase for families (as opposed to single and couple teachers).
Another "big" thing CTU mentioned in the strike announcement was the new evaluation proposal which would mean that approximately 30% of their members would be discharged in 1 to 2 years. I don't know exactly what the new evaluation process would look like, but it seems to me that if 30% of your members can't pass evaluation, they probably shouldn't be teaching our children. I certainly want my children's teachers to be good enough to pass their evaluations. And as they spoke out against this new process, I couldn't help but notice that one CTU representative (or teacher) couldn't even speak properly. Speaking of the evaluation process, he said, "Us educators have a real stake in that." If you don't know when to use a direct object pronoun versus a subject pronoun, what are you teaching our children?! Don't get me wrong, my girls have had some great teachers over the past few years. However, let's keep good teachers and compensate them fairly, while getting rid of teachers who can't do their job effectively.
First Week of School & Teacher Strike?!
The girls started school this week. Hummingbird has always liked getting away from Mommy since the first day of preschool. This year she didn't even want me to drive her on the first day. She was adamant that she wanted to ride the bus. She's already reaching the point of being embarrassed by Mom... Dad waited for the bus with her, and got her off to school successfully. Her biggest disappointment was being late for what we call "second breakfast."
Bumble Bee's first day of preschool was a mixture of excitement, tears, and fun. She woke up excited about school, probably sensing some of Hummingbird's excitement. When it was time to go, though, she got nervous. I think the crowds of kids and parents started the nerves. By the time we got into her classroom, she was clinging and begging to go home. When I finally extricated myself, half of the kids in her class were in tears. The teacher, her aide, and another staffer were trying to calm them. And eventually they did. She had fun reading, playing, and singing.
The second day, she was moved to the afternoon with a new teacher. The PM schedule was much more manageable. That first day we had to get Hummingbird to the bus at the same time that Bumble Bee was supposed to be dropped off at school. Well, the second day was rough at first, too. And so was the third. Today was the worst of all. She started crying to stay home before we even go out the door. Again, as all week, she had fun at school once she calmed down. And she has made friends with the other little girl in class who cries, Solilie. This class has fewer children (about 6 boys and 4 girls from what I can tell), and they're not as nervous about school.
All that effort to get her accustomed to going to school may be wasted... The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is considering a strike. That is just what Bumble Bee doesn't need. More on that later if it materializes; for now, I'm just hoping it doesn't.
Thank you to both of you who participated.
A dozen children turned out for today's launch party and had a grand time. We started with coloring sheets and food as everyone arrived.
After everyone arrived, we played a game of Father Says. The kids really loved this despite the fact that they kept forgetting they shouldn't do the things Father didn't say.
Next, I read the book followed by a rendition from Hummingbird and Maggie.
We ended the structured activities playing "Hot Book."
Congratulations to Caroline who won a copy of Josiah and Julia Go to Church and agreed to donate it to her church!
1. When you see "children's book", what comes to mind first?
Josiah and Julia Go To Church (shameless plug: if you don't own it yet, run out and buy it)! I also think Kevin Henkes, and Kiss Goodnight (awesome illustrations). Okay, before I end up with a long, long list, I'll admit I am a children's literature junky. I definitely read more children's lit than adult lit these days, and while there are a few books that I'd rather never read again, there are tons that I could read a million more times.
I promise the rest of my answers will be shorter.
2. Who is funnier: Buggs Bunny or Moe, Larry and Curly?
3. Name a form of music or artist you can't believe you ever used to like.
All I can think of is New Kids on the Block, but I still have a certain fondness for them actually.
4. Name a fashion fad you fell for in middle school.
5. What do you call a car that sweeps past you on the interstate?
6. Have you ever been anywhere with two different shoes on?
This could go under number 4, too. In middle school I intentionally wore one black & one white tennis shoe. Hummingbird and Bumble Bee like mix and match shoes, too.
7. Do you have a local accent? Does it match your current location?
Only when I'm upset or talking really fast, and no it doesn't match Chicago. Definitely not.
By way of explaining his opening remarks, we had a severe thunderstorm roll in just in time for the procession, which, of course, had to be modified.
Painted Easter Egg instructions are now here.


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This statistic shows the number of active Grubhub diners worldwide from 2011 to 2017. Grubhub Inc. had approximately 14.46 million active diners in 2017. Active diners were defined as by the source as the number of unique diner accounts from which an order has been placed in the past twelve months using the company's platform.
* Active diners are the number of unique diner accounts from which an order has been placed in the past twelve months through the company's platform.
How familiar are you with using Grubhub for restaurant reservations, recommendations and food delivery?
Which dating app do you have?
Do you have any shopping app on your smartphone?

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Fancy a truly different learning experience?
With Cooking Your Spanish, a product of Pencil & Fork, you will learn bites of Spanish language and culture whilst making tapas. Simple, fun and tasty!
Now you have the opportunity to try our unique methodology of Learning through food.

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I am looking for pilgrim travel reports in english speaking forums and blogs. If someone who knows, please send me the URL.
In the moment only german reports there are.
Hey. My native language is russian. I'm on the English route. I play with an interpreter. When I'm playing someone, I forget to take screenshots. When more free, I take photos. Has started to make out the report in a blog. I will continue: I will add a short text. I'll post more photos. I need to visit three more places. But I already send a link to the blog. I hope you will enjoy.
Let all the pilgrims see the mountains of Sardar!

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So of course Dulce proceeded to hop, skip and jump down the trails for the first twenty minutes. Poor Barbara looked like she was on some kind of carnival ride.
I’ll bet you can think of even more famous last words. They’re uttered all the time in the horse world. In fact, next time you say something that turns out to be painfully untrue, just have a good laugh and know you’re not alone.
Or, what about this one? “Hey y’all, watch this!” Followed by the horse giving said rider a quick reality check. I’ve heard that comment plenty of times. Or, the redneck version, “Hey, hold my beer and watch this!” Heard that one a bunch too.

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Lovely park with phenomenal views of Morecambe bay and lake district hills.
Lovely Butterfly House and also small animals and birds to view.
Lovely eclectic park with butterfly house & fab memorial building.
I enjoy a walk in this beautiful park and stop for a coffee and cake on a regular basis. Friendly staff, lovely coffee and a great view across Morecambe Bay. Dog friendly (inside and outside seating areas) which is bouns.
This park and monument are well worth the visit. Beautiful scenery, great little cafe, butterfly House, play areas etc. We had a lovely time and would go again.
Butterfly house excelent and nice and warm ! Little animals were a treat. The view is excellent and the cafe is very good value with a good range of food for all ages.
Get quick answers from Williamson Park staff and past visitors.
are there disabled parking spaces that are near without having to go up a hill ( walking)to get tot he butterfly place?
Hi, yes there are disabled spaces in the top car park near the café.
Really sorry for the delay in replying, yes the park is pram friendly, there are a few steep climbs but it is manageable. Enjoy your visit.
Yes! 😊 it's a great place with a friendly staff.


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In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to install windows 10 from a USB drive. Now, this process will delete all Information on your hard drive, so make sure to have a backup of your important files. Before we continue, we also have to make sure what type operating system we are using whether it is 64-bit or 32-bit. For this right-click on “This PC” icon and then click on properties to check your system is 32-bit or 64-bit.
1- Visit Microsoft website to download Windows 10 downloading tool. After downloading the tool install it on your pc.
2- Open the installed software and select “create installation media file” then click next.
3- Select the language of your choice and then choose the edition of windows you want to upgrade too.
4- Now in the architecture section chose the same architecture you found in the earlier step and click next.
5- Here select USB flash drive and now click on next it should automatically detect that USB drive.
6- Now click on the Removable drive in which you want to install windows and hit next.
7- After you click next the windows 10 starts downloading on your USB flash drive, and it would take around 15 to 30 minutes or more according to your download speed.
8- Now after the process is completed 100% hit finish.
Now, all we need to do is change the boot sequence in the bios to be able to boot from that USB drive. To do this restart your windows pc.
1- When pc starts booting press F12 continuously or the key might be different on your pc. To find boot key of your pc closely watch your screen when it boots.
2- In bios go to the boot section, and now you have to move your USB drive at the top of that section by using “+” or “-“ sign or read the instruction on your bios.
3- After moving USB drive at the top save the settings and exit the bios.
4- The computer will restart, and it will boot from that USB drive.
1-Now when the boot process completed it will ask you enter the time, language and keyboard fill all the fields and hit next.
2- Next screen shows you “install now” tab just click it.
3- Now Enter the license key if you don’t have license key hit skip.
4- Accept the license terms and condition by checking the box and hit next.
5- Now select upgrade if you do not make the backup of your data or choose custom install if you do the backup of your essential data.
6- Now here we are selecting custom install and deleting the previous windows entirely because we have made a backup of it.
7- Select the previous windows drive and hit the format button and ok to confirm.
8- Now select the disk you recently formatted and click next now it will automatically start installing windows 10.
9- This process can take up to 15 to 20 minutes to complete.
10- Your pc will restart several times in this process and if it asks you to “boot to press any key to boot from CD /DVD.” Do not press any key.
11- Now again it will ask you to enter product key skip this step and select use Express settings.
12- After that select, “I Own It” and click next.
14- It will ask you to enter your Microsoft email and password if you have one enter it or you can skip this process.
15- Now enter the username and password for your local account and click next to complete this process.
Thanks for reading this tutorial if you have any query ask me in the comment section.

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Automatically creates new snapshots on a configurable schedule.
Uploads any snapshots it finds to Google Drive.
Automatically cleans up old snapshots in Home Assistant and Google Drive.
Integrates with Home Assistant Notifications, and provides sensors you can trigger off of if something goes wrong.
Provides a web interface for you to watch or control what its doing.
I’ve written this with a focus on reliability, ease of use, configurability, and thorough documentation. The effort was born out of the frustration I had trying to get the existing solutions to work reliably, and my aim is to create something that literally anyone can use.
Add my repository, install the add-on.
Check to see the default settings are to your liking, particularly the number of backups kept locally and in Google Drive.
Start the add-on, then visit the web UI.
Click the button to link your Google Drive account. Snapshots should start backing up immediately.
Optionally, check out some of the sensor integrations on the github instructions.
I’m going for a “polished” feel with this, something that “just works”. Any feedback or criticism you guys have is appreciated.
This looks great, but I’m running HassOS 2.8 - HA .90.1, installed the repository, installed all good.
Bummer. That looks to me like there is a problem with at least one of my Docker images. If you’re willing to help me sort it out, could you tell me what the Hass.io system logs tells you when you try to start the add-on?
In Hass.io > System > System Log when you start the add-on. Would also be useful to know hardware you’re running Hass.io on. Thanks for trying it out!
Thanks for the detail, its got to be something related to your environment since I’m able to run the arm version of the add-on on a few different RaspberryPi’s and I can run the amd64 version outside of virtualbox. I’ll take a crack at setting up VirtualBox and see if I can reproduce what you’re seeing.
Admittedly, my first thought when I saw this was whether we really needed yet another Google Drive add-on, and what this one would do that the others don’t. I must say, though, that I like the extremely polished, set-it-and-forget-it look of your implementation. While I’m pretty happy with what I’ve already got set up, I think this will really help streamline the process for a lot of people. Great work!
I am also getting the fatal error. I also have this running in a VM environment on a docker. My fatal error has a 8 in it.
looking forward to trying out the addon.
I had misconfigured all of the non-arm docker images, which is why you guys saw errors running in a VM, NUC, etc.
I’ve released another version just now (0.51) that fixes it, so if you update you should be on your way.
You probably already know, but make sure you press the refresh icon in the upper right of the add-on store page to force a check for updates.
Thanks for the addon! It’s working great!
I got another feature request: can we get the option to use a " Grandfather-father-son" backup method?
If I choose to backup frequently and don’t want to have 20 copys, I will have the situation where I only have recent backups stored. An issue that occured 3 weeks ago, which I didn’t notice until now will be in all snapshots I have.
With Grandfather-father-son, we could get the option to have eg., 4 snapshots that get changed every 3 days, 1 update that gets changed every month and one that gets updated every 3 month.
Hey that looks pretty cool, never heard of it before. I created an issue for it in GitHub and I’ll get to it if bugs don’t get in the way. I still want to keep the default behavior simple and straightforward but I don’t see why I couldn’t include this behind a config option. I’ll need to do some thinking about how it would interact with backups that aren’t part of the schedule.
Yeah, sure. Nothing that has to be adressed in the near future.
Once more: I just love how easy this Add-On was to set up!
Thats great to hear. I tried every trigger based/nodered/gdrive/dropbox/add-on backup solution out there before deciding to do the work to write this. If I can save anyone the trouble of spending hours parsing through logs and enabling developer APIs only to find it it doesn’t quite do enough then it was worth it.


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text: In Japanese, Ruri is the color of clear blue skies. Crystal clarity is what this pure premium pilsner is all about. Its flawless golden color contrasts perfectly with its soft, white head for an easy drinking beer that pairs well with any dish.

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The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) had issued new regulations controlling advertising and label claims for food products, restricting the use of words and phrases such as natural, fresh, original, traditional, authentic, genuine and real.
The regulations also ban the use of words or phrases like ‘home-made’ and ‘home cooked’, which according to the notification “may give an erroneous impression to the consumer”. Furthermore, the notification must give specific quantities of ingredients like sugar, salt and vitamins to back any claims for products that are said to be “low” or “high” in a specific ingredient.
Non-compliance with these regulations, which must be followed from 1 July next year, would result in penalties of as much as INR1m (US$14,254), said the FSSAI notification.
Indian food manufactures are not happy with the rules and will be pressing the government for changes before they are enforced. They are collecting comments from their members including multinational corporations and will make a representation to the government within the next two months.
Brahma K Gurbani, president of the Indian Confectionery Manufacturers Association in Mumbai said, “The area on the label is not sufficient for all these kind of declarations and the new disclaimers and extra labelling requirements could affect sales and are worrying: “We hope that the July 2019 deadline for its implementation would be extended,” he said.
Although the existing packaging and labelling regulations already regulate advertising and claims, it was important to create a new explicit regulation because these days lot of companies are misleading consumers, claimed FSSAI.


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Most adults have grown up with the idea that leadership is a job, title or position, not a way of life that expresses your unique purpose in life. They think that you become a leader by your position in your job or your community and not by the daily actions you take. That is an erroneous example of... Your school-age child’s development relies heavily on a stimulating, supportive environment and the healthy habits that you instill. Model good nutrition, fitness and hygiene, as well as activities like reading and learning new skills.
Your school-age child’s development relies heavily on a stimulating, supportive environment and the healthy habits that you instill. Model good nutrition, fitness and hygiene, as well as activities like reading and learning new skills.
Developing Leadership Skills That Children "Get"
Imparting leadership skills is one the best gifts that you can give to your child. It will make him independent, responsible and diplomatic in the long run. It will make him independent, responsible and diplomatic in the long run.


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Food blogger Victoria Milne shares her tasty breakfast frittata recipe for your Big Breakfast.
A quick and easy solution to a full English breakfast but just as delicious!
Preheat your grill onto the highest setting.
In a large frying pan melt the butter over a low heat, add the sliced onions and garlic and gently fry for 10-15 minutes until softened.
Now add the cooked sausages and stir well.
In a large bowl whisk together the eggs, cream, thyme and season well.
Add the egg mixture to the sausage and onions, stir well over a medium heat for 10 minutes.
Transfer the frying pan to under the grill for 5 minutes or until set and golden.
To serve, turn the frittata out onto a large plate and cut into quarters. Place a quarter of the frittata onto four warmed serving plates and serve with a generous spoonful of baked beans.
Ching-He Huang shares her healthy and filling oatmeal recipe for your Big Breakfast.


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Gutter Cleaning is an important step in your Maryland home’s exterior maintenance.
Gutter systems on residential homes and commercial buildings are designed to divert water away from the structure’s foundation. Over time, gutters can fill with leaves, pine straw, dirt and debris, leaving them unable to function properly. Gutters that don’t function properly will leave your home or business at risk for possible damage.
As water dams in clogged gutters, it will begin to overflow the gutter trough. Although this may seem harmless, the water is not just running over the outside of the gutter. It’s also running over the inside. This overflowing water can saturate roof sheathing, fascia boards, and soffit causing wood rot, roof leaks, and even rodent infestations. The water that isn’t diverted away from the home can potentially cause both damage to the foundation or drain underneath causing mold and mildew growth in the crawl space.
The best solution for these potential problems is routine gutter maintenance. Chesapeake Hydro-Wash recommends having your gutters cleaned a minimum of 2 times yearly and we offer an affordable gutter cleaning maintenance program for scheduling them more frequently.
Removing all debris from the roofs surface and gutter trough.
Blowing out gutter downspouts to insure there are no clogs.
Flushing out gutter troughs and downspouts with water to insure the system is functioning properly.
Inspect gutter system and notify the homeowner of any repairs that may need to be made.

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Those who have recently acquired the two CDs which contain everything in the Journals No 1 to 45 will like to know that it is planned to provide a further CD which is an index of the articles, to help find them on the other CDs. The work has been done, and it just remains to decide the cost.
It would help the Committee's deliberations if members indicated how much they would be prepared to pay for such an index.
admin wrote: Those who have recently acquired the two CDs which contain everything in the Journals No 1 to 45 will like to know that it is planned to provide a further CD which is an index of the articles, to help find them on the other CDs. The work has been done, and it just remains to decide the cost.
How might I get hold of the CD Journals?
With regards to the price of an Index, I'd pay anything so long as it wasn't more expensive than the actual Journals.
The Society gives the CDs free to any member who makes a donation of Ã‚Â£15 or over. This is to get over the copyright which requires that they are not sold. Members are required to keep them safe and not to pass on to others, either electronically or otherwise. They are especially asked not to put anything onto the internet from these CDs.
Considering that the payment for the two CD's is 15 pounds sterling, I would be willing to pay 5 to 10 pounds sterling for the index.
Just to make things clear. The is an index OF THE ARTICLES (i.e. their titles and authors) it is not a complete index of words contained in them. It is therefore not a large index.
As I've received the 2 CD's I now fully understand the need ofr an index. I would be willing to pay 5 to 10Ã‚Â£ for such a usefull tool.
Is there any estimate on when the index might be ready for sale?
I will check out postage to the USA and let you know.
Thank you. I will order one after I know the postage to include.
Will the index run on a Mac?
Thank you. I sent the payment, by way of Paypal, in today.


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In South Carolina on Saturday, the Republican candidates for president got together to discuss what they would do to address poverty in America. If you missed it, they promised that if elected they would do everything in their power to make things worse by cutting services, slashing corporate taxes and furthering the dehumanization of people of color and the poor.
What a contrast to what was happening at the same time in the heartland, where real solutions, ambitious strategies and fierce hope led the agenda.
In Iowa, 1,000 grassroots leaders from across the Midwest came together at the Putting Families First Presidential Summit. In a standing-room-only church in the center of Des Moines, 16 activists and grassroots leaders asked tough questions of Democratic presidential candidates Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders about actual solutions not just to poverty, but in the areas of criminal justice, health care, immigration and deportation, predatory lending and the need for corporations to pay their fair share.
By putting real people at the center, this event, sponsored by Center for Community Change Action and Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund, was able to focus on critical issues that have largely been missing from the public debate so far this cycle.
Notably absent from the event was candidate Hillary Clinton, who was invited but declined to attend. It’s a shame that Clinton chose not to come to First Christian Church and hear what real Americans, struggling in this economy and facing the evils of structural racism every day, are facing. That would have given the undecided voters in the room a chance to hear how her plans compare to those of her Democratic primary opponents.
Structural racism and inequality were themes that emerged repeatedly. Leaders from Maryland, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota told their stories and asked the candidates how they would tackle the ongoing and pervasive disinvestment in urban communities of color and rural communities. O’Malley, a former Maryland governor and Baltimore mayor, responded with his plan for investment, including doubling funding for the Community Development Block Grant program, investments in affordable housing, transportation and workforce investment.
Several other issues were highlighted at the event, including the need for a more equitable health care system, an end to predatory credit, and the urgent need to address our climate crisis.
Gretchen Maune from Missouri shared her moving personal story of losing her sight while in college and how Medicaid helped her as she learned to cope with blindness. She called out the states, such as Missouri, where Republicans have blocked Medicaid expansion, leading to hundreds of unnecessary deaths every year. “Health care is a human right!” she thundered as the crowd rose to its feet.
Angela McCall, also from Missouri, told Sanders her personal story of facing financial hardship and getting trapped in triple-digit interest payday loans. Sanders responded by noting that according to every major religion “usury is a sin.” Sanders promoted proposals for an 18 percent nationwide cap on interest rates and give the U.S. Postal Service the authority to provide affordable financial services across the country.
Ross Grooters, from Iowa, told his story of being a union rail worker and an environmentalist, decrying efforts to pit those fighting for higher wages and good union jobs against those who are fighting climate change and environmental disasters-in-waiting, such as the proposed Iowa Bakken crude-oil pipeline. Both O’Malley and Sanders spoke about the environment, with O’Malley promising to put the U.S. on a path to “100% electric renewable energy” and Sanders touting his legislative proposal on climate change that includes funding for displaced workers.
It was an inspiring event and shows what you get when you move past poll-tested questions and push the debate to go beyond bland generalities. When real people ask real questions, we get the debate that Americans are clamoring for, with real solutions and real leadership that puts you and me and our families at the center of the story. Quite a contrast to the corporate-money fueled, anti-family policies and racist rhetoric that dominated the stage in South Carolina on Saturday.
Liz Ryan Murray is policy director for National People’s Action.

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According to the fresh report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC), quick measures must be taken to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. Fortunately, ways to reduce emissions already exist. Global warming can be curbed if investments in low-carbon technologies and new innovations can be increased on a global level. The long-term goal must be to reach a balance between humans’ actions and the Earth’s carrying capacity.
Transportation becoming electric would significantly reduce emissions. Transportation causes nearly a third of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU, with road traffic covering over 70 per cent of this. Positive development is thankfully already taking place: the share of electric cars in the Nordic countries increased by 57 per cent last year alone.
However, the sufficiency of battery metals may pose a challenge. In this regard, Finland has an important task: our bedrock contains all the metals needed for batteries, and we have an exportation cluster, significant on the EU level, for recovering and refining these metals. Certain investment decisions related to the battery industry have already been made, and the opportunities in Finland for establishing battery production higher in the value chain are also good.
In addition to electric transportation, increasing renewable energy is a central source of reduced emissions. Wind and solar energy have seen rapid global growth for years. Wind power has also emerged as a profitable alternative due to the increased size of the plants. Finland has good potential for significant extensions in offshore and onshore wind power. The increasing use of renewable energy also increases the need for raw materials. A wind power plant requires up to 11 different metals.
An industry that manufactures low-carbon technologies can also reduce its own emissions, which many companies have done for a long time. For example, the EU’s steel industry has reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by over 50 per cent since the 1960s. Even now, there are several ongoing projects that seek to cut emissions.
In the HYBRIT venture, SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall are attempting to get rid of carbon dioxide emissions from steel production entirely by replacing coke in steel production with hydrogen. The companies are aiming for steel production to be free of carbon dioxide emissions in the year 2035 at the latest. Upon its success, HYBRIT would reduce Finland’s CO2 emissions by seven per cent.
Advancing circular economy is important when shifting into a low-carbon economy. However, fresh raw materials will continue to be necessary alongside recyclable materials. These should be produced in Finland, where the ethical way of production can be trusted.
Finland must do its own share in the climate work and reduce its own emissions, but we could do even more by exporting low-carbon technology into other countries. An export industry relying on our strengths is in the interest of Finland, the environment and the entire world.

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Made you look! Today’s blog only has a little bit to do with the results of the presidential election and much more to do with how to maintain peace in the midst of what we might not want.
As a bleeding-heart, liberal, democrat, I am pleased with the results of yesterday’s presidential election. At least 40% of the US population and over 50% of the House of Representatives are not, however, happy with these results. With the make-up of Democrats vs. Republicans in the House and the Senate, President Obama will once again have his work cut out for him. Posing an even bigger challenge will be the fact that many of our political leaders are no longer working with the best interests of the collective in mind, but instead work for the special interest groups and lobbyists that pad their pockets and fund their elections. While Barack Obama has succeeded in winning this race, he might once again face a losing battle in accomplishing anything of meaning or value to the American people as policy change gets thwarted by bi-partisan politics. Regardless of what may or may not happen in the forty-eight months ahead, today, there are many people who will be disappointed, frustrated and angry over the results of yesterday’s elections and even more who will be frustrated, angry and disappointed over the inability of our current form of government to affect positive change that is truly for the good of the people. But, as I suggested in my August 12th blog, Elections and a Disturbance in the Force, the results of yesterday’s elections has nothing to bear on our ability to move forward with our lives enjoying peace, contentment, love and joy.
Do everything without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation.
These words certainly apply to our response to yesterday’s election results – if we are not happy about the results, let’s not grumble about it, complain, throw stones, cast dispersions…instead….let’s move on and look toward how we can make the best of the situation. For those happy with the results and who will become later frustrated by that battles that are sure to continue between parties and interest groups, again, let us not grumble, complain, throw stones, cast dispersions…instead….let’s move on and make the best of the situation.
The results of yesterday’s elections and the path ahead are but a drop of water in the pond of challenges that we face in our everyday lives. What happens in Washington truly has little to bear on the day-to-day struggles that we face – death, job loss, illness, aging, unemployment, underemployment, divorce, heartbreak, children growing up and moving away, business failure, unfulfilling jobs and relationships, injuries, physical, emotional, mental, verbal and sexual abuse, assault, natural disasters, crop failures, etc. etc. etc. No matter what happens in Washington, we will still face these challenges. People we love will die. We will find ourselves in unfulfilling and seemingly meaningless jobs. We will age and experience illness. Our businesses will fail. Our hearts will be broken. While it is appropriate and important to grieve these losses and disappointments, it is equally important to remember that the end result of healthy grief is ACCEPTANCE. It is in grieving the loss and finding acceptance that we once again know peace. This peace is what Paul is inviting us to enjoy in the reading above. Political races are lost. We don’t always get what we want. We become frustrated when our efforts fall short. Bad things happen to good people. And…..in the midst of all of this is the promise of peace. As Paul says, this peace is found not in the grumbling, complaining or questioning, but is instead found in acceptance of what is and in trusting that this too is in the highest good, no matter what it might look like right now.


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De Silva, V.; Caine, M.; Skinner, J.; Dogan, S.; Kondoz, A.; Peter, T.; Axtell, E.; Birnie, M.; Smith, B. Player Tracking Data Analytics as a Tool for Physical Performance Management in Football: A Case Study from Chelsea Football Club Academy. Sports 2018, 6, 130.
De Silva V, Caine M, Skinner J, Dogan S, Kondoz A, Peter T, Axtell E, Birnie M, Smith B. Player Tracking Data Analytics as a Tool for Physical Performance Management in Football: A Case Study from Chelsea Football Club Academy. Sports. 2018; 6(4):130.
De Silva, Varuna; Caine, Mike; Skinner, James; Dogan, Safak; Kondoz, Ahmet; Peter, Tilson; Axtell, Elliott; Birnie, Matt; Smith, Ben. 2018. "Player Tracking Data Analytics as a Tool for Physical Performance Management in Football: A Case Study from Chelsea Football Club Academy." Sports 6, no. 4: 130.

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$100 on lawn maintenance every month?
We are spending $100 on lawn maintenance. Cutting and fertilizing. I know I can save $50 by mowing my own lawn. What should I do about the fertilizing part?
Can we do this ourselves? I know there is a lot if chemicals involved is it worth it? Any suggestion from DIYers out there?
I don't use any chemicals on my lawn. Of course, it's not golf course-quality, but it's a lawn. I use corn gluten meal and I plan to aerate in the fall. If you want a nicer lawn and want to be a little more diligent about it, get this book: http://www.amazon.com/Organic-Lawn-Care-Manual-Low-Maintenance/dp/1580176496/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1336016190&sr=8-2 He has a good month-by-month guide to lawn care. It certainly should cost less than $50 a month most months. Also, it's kind of comforting to know you hire someone to mow the lawn. I often wonder how people like you get it all done in the same 24-hour day that I live. You seem to have a lot of projects and jobs going all the time.
Hi Steve, Thanks for responding. I'd love to spend less than 100 on the lawn but need to make sure HOA doesn't come after me. Another thing I learnt is to focus on the most important things in life. I'd rather spend an hour with my girls than mow the lawn. I am hanging in there Steve, it's been quite a challenge but I keep the focus. I'll check out the book for sure. Thanks for the link.
Yamini, I just got sprecticide that you hook up to a hose and will killl 250 kinds of weeds and covers 5000 sq. ft. Cost, inculding water - under $11.00. Guaranteed to last 6 months. I just used it, and will let you know results. Maybe you can use something like that and just have them mow. It could save you a little money, while still having time with your girls.
Terri, Thanks so much for the suggestion. What is this product called. I'd like to try it for sure. It will not only save me time but also money. Yay I love that!!!
Yamini, check out Walter Reeves' website for compreheisive advice on products and timing for various types of lawns. I follow his suggestions religiously. Have tried lawn services in the past for the fertilizer/weed control, but have much better success doing it ourselves.
Yay! that gives me hope. Yes I will start following Walter and his advice on lawns.
Yamini, I mispelled it - Spectricide Weed Killler - got it at Lowes and am noticity alot of weeds starting to die this afternoon.
Yanini, a few days filled w/ lots of rain has gone by. Dandilions and many other weeds have died. No sign of new one's growing. However, there is one pest that doesn't appear to be dying yet. I was told to give it a couple of weeks to really hit the root system. If it doesn't die, then I am taking it to Lowe's with me. Over all, I would say a 90% success rate so far.
My DH says no fertilizer no mow so we fertilize spring and fall and mow 3 inches high about once a week but not as much July and August. We also never water our lawn either.
If it were me, I would plant flowers, especially natives that take care of themsleves. Personally, I find nothing but green grass boring, no texture, color. But that is me. I like my bees, butterflies darting about the yard.


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Ishi Buffam is a visiting scholar from the University of Cincinnati (U.S.) and part of a SLU research project that recently received seed funding from the research platform SLU Urban Futures.
Tell us about your work at SLU! What do you do and what are your main focus areas?
– My background is in aquatic ecosystem ecology, with most of my research focusing on water, carbon, and nutrient flows and transformations at interfaces between land and water – for instance, riparian zones around streams. I am particularly interested in research that helps address environmental challenges, and in the past several years have focused mainly on ecosystem services provided by urban green spaces. Here at SLU, one focus is continuing a research project with Tobias Emilsson exploring how green roof ecosystems, and the services they provide, change over time as the roofs age. Another focus is a new collaboration with researchers from different disciplines to examine the potential role of urban green infrastructure in managing environmental, social, and health challenges.
You are part of a new project that received seed funding from SLU Urban Futures. Can you tell us a little about this project?
– Sure! The project explores the tension between urban densification and urban greening, with a particular focus on different strategies for urban greening, namely “on the ground” green infrastructure like street trees, rain gardens and parks, vs. “on the roof” green infrastructure like green roofs and walls – sometimes called Living Architecture. We are interested in the details and potential tradeoffs between different green infrastructure strategies in providing needed services.
– We plan to examine several different residential architectural typologies that can be found in local cities, and modeling the services provided by different green infrastructure scenarios. The main, concrete goal of the project is to write an idea paper on this topic for The Nature of Cities. We also plan to use our case study typologies to identify the parameters needed to help visualize and model the different scenarios using ESRI’s CityEngine framework, and to build a larger research proposal from the ideas and pilot data generated.
– To me, one of the most exciting aspects of this project, is the degree of interdisciplinarity of the team – apart from my own training in ecosystem ecology, the team brings expertise in plant ecology and technical performance of green infrastructure (Tobias Emilsson), GIScience and spatial analysis (Neil Sang), and sustainable mobility and urban transformation (Nina Vogel). A wide range of perspectives - very useful for stimulating new ideas about how to approach wicked problems in sustainable urban development!
Where do you see the need for future research and focus points concerning urban ecosystem services?
– I see several challenges concerning ecosystem services that would be fruitful avenues for research. One important research challenge is how to assess multifunctionality – this is one of the key advantages of urban green spaces for example, but it is difficult to accurately assess all of the different functions and services provided, and take them (and the tradeoffs involved) into account when planning. A second challenge is balancing the need for context-dependent or place-based ecosystem services assessment, with the need for more universal models and approaches. Individual locales inevitably differ in environmental conditions and climate, as well as the needs of the local community. This means that a “one-size fits all” approach to studying ecosystem services is unlikely to be fully successful. However, in order to move the research field forward, broadly applicable frameworks are needed.
Green roofs in Vancouver, Canada.
To stimulate new collaborations and transdisciplinary research projects, SLU Urban Futures offers seed funding that supports multi-/ inter- and transdisciplinary research activities aiming at enhancing urban sustainability.


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You searched for +publisher:"University of Notre Dame" +contributor:("David W Severson, Committee Co-Chair"). One record found.
Clemons, Anthony E. “Conserved Developmental Cues of Aedes aegypti and their Impact on the Mosquito Vector
.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Notre Dame. Accessed April 20, 2019. https://curate.nd.edu/show/w089280462m.
Clemons, Anthony E. “Conserved Developmental Cues of Aedes aegypti and their Impact on the Mosquito Vector
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Clemons AE. Conserved Developmental Cues of Aedes aegypti and their Impact on the Mosquito Vector
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This is quite an old design, I prefer RepRap Rostock, which is much cooler and, in a way, simpler.
Well, Rostock is next on my todo list. Yes, it is definitely a cool design (and with one stepper less). However, I wonder whether the extruder with bowden is strong and precise enough, compared to the one on i3 - directly connected to the hot end.

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Liana & Mike Hall are a husband-wife team of creative entrepreneurs. Inspiration comes from their travels, little ones, and parents & grandparents who are also artists and small business owners.
Outside of their Leather & Letterpress business – Maycomb Mercantile – they can be found photographing weddings, consulting with small business owners locally and abroad, and most recently renovating a vintage airstream into a mobile shop and studio!


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JOSE MOURINHO has revealed Chelsea made an enquiry for a young English talent in the transfer window - but refused to declare who it was.
The Blues boss chased Manchester United and England star Wayne Rooney over the summer but the hunt didn't come up trumps.
However, Rooney wasn't the only homegrown player the Special One was after.
Mourinho said: "I like a young player, a young English player.
"The market is closed but I asked a question to position myself to see where he was. We are speaking about a very young player but his price was like he has 50 caps when he had none.
"The price for English players is very high, the market is very difficult."
It's led some to speculate that man was Blackpool ace Tom Ince.
The 21-year-old winger has torn defences apart in the Championship but turned down a move to Cardiff in the summer.
The Welsh club had an £8m bid accepted.
Derby midfielder Will Hughes and Southampton full-back Luke Shaw could also have caught Mourinho's eye.


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Using arrow keys you can control your car. Control your car and park in right position without hitting objects, you will earn points and move to next level. Using arrow keys you can control your car. Control your car and park in right position without hitting objects, you will earn points and move to next level.
Using arrow keys you can control your car. Control your car and park in right position without hitting objects, you will earn points and move to next level.

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Qi (Harry) Zhang, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the School of Community and Environmental Health at Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA. His research focuses on health disparities in low-income and other vulnerable populations in the U.S. and China. He has developed the expertise of multidisciplinary research methods, including behavioral economics, health economics, qualitative studies, and systems models. He has been the PI on numerous projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the US Department of Agriculture and Duke-UNC-USDA Center for Behavioral Economics and Healthy Food Choice Research (BECR Center). His research has been published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Health Services Research, and Annals of Internal Medicine. He served as the President of China Health Policy and Management Society (CHPAMS) 2014-2016 and the Director of the Board of Chinese Economists Society (2014-2015). He is currently on the editorial board of six international journals and on the scientific committee of International Health Economics Association (iHEA).
Behavioral economics is emerging as a new frontier in economics. This talk introduces key topics in behavioral economics, including prospect theory, bounded rationality and dual system theory with their applications in business and public health. To reduce the behavioral barriers for attendants, interesting observations and case studies will be presented with the theories. No prerequisite is needed to enjoy this talk.


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Tumbles is a two-week-old puppy that was found abandoned in Athens, Ohio. He was born without his two front legs, but now he can get around without issue.
An animal shelter took him in, the workers decided to name him "Tumbles", for obvious reasons. Other than the birth defect, they say he's in good health. He could only get around by scooting across the floor on his stomach. So researchers at Ohio University used their 3-D printer last week, to make a tiny wheelchair.
It fits around his chest, and he uses his back legs to walk. Obviously he'll grow out of it eventually, and will need a new one. According to the shelter, it'll be a while before someone can take him home, but people are already lining up to adopt him.


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Please note that accommodation is NOT included in the registration fee. We have secured a block of rooms on the UBC campus at a reduced rate for delegates. Please book by May 4, 2018 to avoid disappointment. Accommodations and rates are subject to availability after May 4.
or by calling or emailing the Reservations Office at 604 822 1000, 1 888 822 1030 (toll free) or reservations@housing.ubc.ca.
The nearest airport Vancouver International Airport (YVR).
There is a standard rate for taxis from YVR to the university campus of $35. No need to pre-book – just follow the signs at the airport to the taxi stand.


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SleepSling’s unique design keeps your elbow comfortably elevated away from your body and off of the bed, preventing the aches and pains caused by conventional slings. By immobilizing the upper arm and shoulder while allowing the forearm to move freely, the sling significantly improves circulation, reduces discomfort, and helps you get a relaxing night’s sleep.
How to properly put on a SleepSling.


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The Parish Finance Council is a consultative body of lay persons established to advise the Pastor in matters pertaining to the financial affairs of the Parish. They are required to review financial statements, proposals, contracts, budgets and other financial related activities that pertain to the parish and daycare.
The St. Margaret of Scotland Finance Council members are appointed by the pastor.
The committee meets a minimum of 3 times a year.

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Five scholars discuss how the looting of antiquities puts our cultural heritage in peril, and what to do about it.
The market for looted antiquities has long posed a threat to cultural heritage and historical knowledge. Heightened instability in the Middle East, however, has increased the dimensions and stakes of the problem as terrorist organizations like the Islamic State group sell looted goods to fund their operations. Because the illicit antiquities market is international, crossing legal jurisdictions, it is tricky to detect, prosecute, and combat.
This spring the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society held the capstone conference of the three-year project the Past for Sale: New Approaches to the Study of Archaeological Looting. The project brought together archaeologists, legal scholars, economists, sociologists, and other experts to examine a problem that crosses borders both geographical and scholarly, and to explore policy solutions.
In a conversation excerpted here, the Magazine spoke to five of those experts: UChicago’s Lawrence Rothfield, associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, and Gil L. Stein, senior advisor to the provost for cultural heritage and professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; DePaul University’s Patty Gerstenblith, distinguished research professor of law, and Morag Kersel, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology; and Fiona Greenland, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. The conversation has been condensed and edited.
What is so intractable and so urgent about this problem?
Gil Stein: It’s appropriate to think of this as the perfect storm. Cultural heritage has to be looked at as a nonrenewable resource that’s the history of world civilization. It’s the physical evidence of who we are. You can think of it as like the fossil record of human evolution, of our cultural development. And it’s being destroyed now at a faster rate than ever before in history.
This intractable problem of looting flourishes during conditions of a breakdown of security and warfare. And right now, we’re seeing a massive crisis across the Middle East with wars in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Morag Kersel: I predominantly work in Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. So perhaps not the places we would first think of as where their cultural heritage is in jeopardy. But looting and the destruction of cultural heritage is a big problem in all three states. From an archaeological perspective, that impacts what we know about the past. I work at an early Bronze Age site, a cemetery that people have decimated in the quest of pots for sale, legally available now in the market in Israel. Because there’s demand, there is looting. Ultimately it skews our understanding of past mortuary practices at an early Bronze Age site.
Patty Gerstenblith: As long as there’s demand, there will be a desire to fill that demand. The end destination markets, particularly in Western Europe and North America, mean that the incentive to loot is at its core an economic incentive that will continue. The law has tried to reduce that incentive, but it’s very difficult for a number of reasons.
When you look at an antiquity by itself, you can’t tell whether it’s a recently looted one or one that might have been looted 100 years ago. From an archaeological perspective, that may not make much difference. But if we’re trying to reduce current market demand, then it does matter because somebody who buys a recently looted piece is feeding that international network with more money.
The other problem is that these objects pass through many different jurisdictions. The laws in those countries are different. The laws even at the point of origin may be different over time. Whether we would characterize a particular pot as illegal will vary depending on when it came out of the ground. It’s very difficult to interdict the piece—usually through forfeiture—and return it.
We need more criminal prosecutions of those involved. That’s very difficult because you have to show that they knew the piece was illegal, and you need the government to make this a high enough priority that they’re willing to invest the resources in building a criminal case.
Lawrence Rothfield: It’s one thing to try to stop the movement of already looted material across borders and into markets, but it’s an equally difficult issue to provide the resources to help countries that are struggling to protect their own patrimony by securing their sites—to find the resources to police and to make it easier and possible for customs officials to interdict items before they leave the country.
What do you know now that you didn’t know at the beginning of the project?
Fiona Greenland: I now know that artifacts take on very different values as they move through the international market. I was trained as a Roman archaeologist and I thought that I understood what an artifact is as a piece of knowledge—as one piece of a puzzle that could help us to tell a broader story about history. But through this project I learned how an artifact becomes an antiquity. The antiquity becomes a container for different values, ideas, projections, fantasies about the past, fantasies about the present, status. I’m a sociologist now, and so those are the questions that really interest me.
So I’ve come to understand something about the strong claims on artifacts from very different points of view that might be explained by where people sit with respect to the market—whether they’re collectors or dealers or work in a museum or a university collection, or are local people who also have something to say about artifacts and what heritage means to them.
What about the role of terrorist groups?
PG: It’s not a totally new phenomenon, but by using satellite documentation, satellite imagery, and seeing when different patterns of looting emerged, we could see that all the different armed conflict groups in Syria have engaged in looting of archaeological sites. It’s not unique to the Islamic State.
But we have been able, at sites like Mari or Dura Europos in eastern Syria, to track that after they came under ISIL control, the rate of looting increased pretty dramatically.
A lot of really large numbers of how much money ISIL has made have been thrown around in the media. Those large numbers are almost certainly wrong, but it’s very difficult to come up with a more accurate number. The study that Fiona is operating through the MANTIS [Modeling the Antiquities Trade in Iraq and Syria] project is trying to do that.
The fact that ISIL is making any money while they are destroying the past is something that policy and lawmakers became very interested in—in Congress, the State Department, even to some extent the Department of Defense. So this is the first time that we have been able to mobilize the community that is worried about security and terrorism on the one hand, with the archaeological and heritage community on the other, to see that we have a common interest to try to stop that looting and to stop, or at least reduce, the market demand.
FG: The MANTIS project tries to estimate the market value of objects pulled out of archaeological sites. One question we’re investigating is, can we use different forms of data to make a better estimate? What we’re seeing is that the nine- and 10-figure numbers that have been occupying headlines are probably not substantiated by available evidence. But the project has drawn our attention to other aspects of terrorist exploitation of cultural heritage and antiquities. One is the fact that the terrorists are able to leverage rural manpower on a broad scale. Satellite images, for example, document eight to 10 hours a day worth of digging by hundreds of men.
Also, antiquities seem to be moving through more than one pathway, so there’s probably a cooperative network, which suggests a fair amount of strategic thinking.
LR: The focus on terrorism has had a very important impact insofar as it’s gotten people to think about the antiquities market as an industry that needs to be analyzed in the same way as banking or other regulated industries that are already under much scrutiny in terms of terrorist financing. We now have people who don’t normally think about antiquities looking at that market and saying, there’s no regulation here, and trying to ask, how would you regulate the antiquities industry? What are the mechanisms that you would put in place?
GS: The terrorist connection is going to help fight this more than any kind of cultural arguments we could make. But we can’t characterize this connection between terrorism and antiquities looting as the same across the world. There are huge differences even between Syria and Iraq, and certainly Afghanistan. The planning of 9/11 was carried out in Afghanistan, and the training for it took place there. The attackers were actually looting sites in Afghanistan and using the money to finance flying lessons.
The connection between ISIL and looting is strongest in Syria. In Afghanistan the Taliban are no longer focused on antiquities smuggling because they’re making so much more money from opium. That’s the real growth industry for them. So you have what you could almost think of as market responsiveness.
MK: The project has allowed this kind of thinking, to make these connections, but ultimately ending with demand. Speaking to the variety of people who have come through the Neubauer project has allowed me to understand that [for instance] demand for wildlife is similar to demand for antiquities, and the policies that we come up with for those things are similar.
GS: This issue of demand gets us into a realm of psychology and applied anthropology. How do you get people to recognize that they should not be buying these kinds of antiquities? We have the example from wildlife smuggling, we have the example of ivory, we have the example of blood diamonds from West Africa. How do you get people to change the whole way of thinking to, no, this is morally wrong and ethically wrong?
This is a new frontier. This combination of actual enforcement of our laws to make real penalties for people who knowingly buy illegal antiquities, combined with a real effort to educate, or almost applied marketing projects, would be something to explore a lot further.
LR: One thing that came out in the last year of the project was other ways of thinking about demand in addition to the stick approach—like bringing in an economist who thinks of demand in a neutral way and says, if you’re looking at a market and you want to reduce demand, or you want to reduce the harm that’s done by the activity, how can you do that without simply telling people that they ought not to do this, and/or punishing them with criminal penalties? Can you make the activity itself more costly so that people will choose not to do it? Putting a tax on the sale or purchase of antiquities may have the effect of reducing demand in the same way that putting a tax on dirty coal will reduce its production. And if it doesn’t, at least it will provide funding that will help to mitigate the harm that’s done.
Another possible approach is to try to encourage people to shift their demand to artifacts we are relatively certain were not looted. That can be done by instituting loan programs of artifacts that might come out of museum storerooms.
FG: I think it’s important to say a word about demand and what we mean by demand. Most of us sit back and say, I’m not part of the demand problem. But there’s a collective responsibility. That demand is also me finding something online for $100, $150 maybe, a nice coin, and thinking it must be OK to buy, somebody’s vetted it. Or I’m going on vacation to Israel, to Italy, there’s a nice little pot, I can fit it in my backpack, it’s $50, and they can give me a certificate.
So demand isn’t just wealthy collectors buying an enormous sarcophagus or a nine-foot-tall marble statue. There are thousands of little objects for sale right now online that may have come from Syria or Iraq and shouldn’t be bought and sold, but they’re there.
MK: But it’s also institutional demand, right? Because there are undiscriminating museums and other institutions who buy things that may have iffy backgrounds or incomplete backgrounds. It’s not just individuals.
PG: In the United States, a donor to a museum will receive a tax deduction. Our museums are mostly private institutions and are supported at least indirectly through the ability to deduct from your taxes the value of the donation. Yet the IRS does not look at the question of whether an antiquity being donated has proper legal title. That makes the United States a great place to launder these objects.
What’s the next step for each of you? Is there anything readers can do to help?
LR: There is going to be some effort to pursue a few of the policy ideas that got raised, such as developing a market for leasing of antiquities. We’re going to try to explore that further, I’m hoping.
MK: I’m going off to the Middle East where I will interview more people about what they’re buying in the marketplace and why they’re buying it so that I can continue looking into the demand side of the equation.
GS: I’m continuing to work in Afghanistan on aspects of documenting collections that are in museums and archaeological sites that are at risk for looting. One of the ways that we can be proactive in fighting the antiquities trade is to help build up the local infrastructures in these countries where looting is going on, or that are at risk for the kinds of conditions that would lead to another outbreak of looting.
FG: I would encourage people to ask questions of their museums, especially, where do artifacts come from? Have conversations with the curators and department directors. Make clear that you care about legally sourced artifacts.
PG: I’m in the middle of a project analyzing the level of provenance information that museums use when they’re trying to decide whether to acquire an object. Museums have developed a lot of policies about what to acquire and what not to acquire but it’s unknown whether they actually follow their own policies.
From a broader public perspective, there are a number of initiatives that are beginning. We are approaching the US International Trade Commission to change the ways in which antiquities entering the United States are declared. That will, we hope, both bring better statistical data as well as greater transparency to the import side.
Also, in the past year, we got Congress to enact a law dealing with importation of cultural materials from Syria. We would like to try to broaden that to apply to other countries as well in a more effective and efficient manner.


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Self-proclaimed New York Mets fan Jerry Seinfeld returns to television, as he will make an appearance tonight on SNY broadcast.
It’s no secret that comedian Jerry Seinfeld is a New York Mets fan.
He’s been tweeting about his favorite team in the past, and made appearances at Citi Field.
Now, he will become part of the broadcast team tonight on SNY, when the Mets play the Washington Nationals.
Wonder what calls he will make fun of or question in the broadcast?
I don’t believe anything will be off limits tonight, even his old co-star Keith Hernandez may not be immune. However, I believe if he doesn’t ask Jerry to help “move” some furniture, the former 1986 World Series champion will be safe.
But, I hope the SNY booth has plenty of liquid refreshments. The comedian might drop a hint to everyone when he snacks on something at the ballpark, tonight.
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The Innovative Agro Industry Limited and several partners will be involved in a multi-million Kina coffee project soon to be rolled out in Hela Province.
A team from IAI was recently in Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province on Tuesday October 23 to meet with officials from the Coffee Industry Corporation (CIC) to discuss the imminent project.
The company backed by Israel’s LR Group was led by Chief Executive Officer Mr Lior Crystal and a high powered team of scientists, extensionists, agronomists and an economist.
They were welcomed by Chief Executive Officer of CIC Charles Dambui and met with the senior management team.
The group was able to visit a CIC’s Productive Partnership in Agriculture Project (CIC-PPAP) Lead Partner Hataville Coffee Ltd at Asaro Valley implementing some coffee rehabilitation work in the area.
They also travelled to Ipagu Plantation to see first-hand a wet and dry coffee processing factory.
Mr Crystal said the company had already signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Exxon Mobil, Mineral Resources Development Company (MRDC) and the district and provincial governments of Hela to formalise plans for this massive coffee development project.
He said it will be a large scale project looking at planting 15 million coffee trees. He added that it was a timely visit to Goroka to meet with the CIC management to exchange and share ideas on the current status of the industry and how this project aims to address some of the issues.
This project is expected to create employment for 5,000 people in Hela. Also, the project anticipates to address coffee development and marketing issues starting in Hela and to roll out to other coffee growing provinces.
“We came into PNG in late 2011 realising mainly the potential in agriculture and we have started projects in Port Moresby (9 mile farm), poultry and vegetable projects in Hela and another vegetable project in Sirungki, Enga Province,” Mr Crystal said.
He said to date IAI has invested close to K80 million in PNG focusing on agricultural projects with focus on addressing logistical issues, one of the main constraints faced by farmers in rural PNG.
CIC Chief Executive Officer Charles Dambui said CIC is open to contribute technical advice primarily on market accessibility which is very important in the investment.
Mr Dambui outlined some of the challenges which include climate change, poor rural infrastructures, law and order problems, lack of credit facilities, socioeconomic and cultural implications among others.
Project Manager of CIC-PPAP Potaisa Hombunaka said the involvement of Israeli experts in the coffee industry will contribute meaningfully to the growth of an important sector in the medium to long term.
He added that it is envisaged that after 5 -6 years, they will produce and export minimum of 200,000 green bean bags annually. At an average price of K300 per bag this would bring in K60 million per year in foreign exchange.


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In Pool A, Namibia laid down another marker with a 12-try defeat of Hong Kong and put themselves within 80 minutes of the final. Samoa stand in their way and got the victory over Romania they needed to keep pace at the top of the group despite an ill-disciplined performance that earned them two yellows and one red card. The two sides meet on Wednesday afternoon in a winner-takes-all encounter for Pool A spoils.
Fiji are the only remaining unbeaten team in Pool B, but they were made to sweat for victory against Portugal, who led their more illustrious opponents with 23 minutes remaining. Fiji play Canada on Wednesday, who suffered late heartbreak for the second game running as a try in stoppage time gave Uruguay their first win of this year’s tournament.
Uruguay’s superior scrummaging power and technique told at the death as they reignited their World Rugby U20 Trophy hopes and handed Canada a second agonising defeat in succession.
Having blown a 15-point first-half lead against Portugal in their Pool B opener, that hangover seemed to seep into day two as Uruguay dominated the opening quarter.
The South Americans scored the game’s first try in the 11th minute when captain Santiago Civetta took advantage of a strong five-metre scrum to dot the ball down.
Will Percillier got Canada on the board with a penalty in the 19th minute, before he and Juan Cattivelli traded three-pointers as the game approached the half-hour mark.
Uruguay retained the upper hand, though, and they stretched their lead to nine points on the stroke of half-time as Alfonso Costa won the race to the goal-line following a mix-up in the Canadian defence that resulted in Josiah Morra tapping the ball towards danger.
Canada number eight Michael Smith drew his side within two points less than eight minutes into the second half as he stretched over from close range. But when Manuel Portela took a pass on Nicolas Buysan’s right shoulder it looked as though normal order had been resumed.
That was until Uruguay’s replacement prop Ignacio Peculo was sent to the sin bin. Canada scored 10 points in the period he was off the pitch, through a Percillier penalty and converted Jackson Matthews try, to take the lead.
The North Americans had around 10 minutes to hold out, and did until the final play of the game when the Uruguayans turned the screw at another five-metre scrum, and profiting from the holes punched in the Canadian defence, replacement playmaker Matias D’Avanzo danced over.
Namibia accelerated away from Hong Kong in the final quarter, scoring seven tries from the 60th minute onwards to put the seal on a second successive victory in Pool A.
Having racked up a half-century of points against hosts Romania on Tuesday, the southern African side picked up where they left off at the Stadionul National Arcul De Triumf on Saturday.
Impressive Namibia fly-half Denzo Bruwer missed a long-range penalty attempt, from inches inside his own half, in the third minute but his side took the lead when Donaville Lebereki crossed eight minutes later.
A successful Bruwer penalty stretched Namibia’s lead to 10 points before an unconverted James Rivers try gave Hong Kong hope. Bruwer struck his second penalty before Gerswin Mouton grabbed two tries in four minutes - the second a wonderful solo effort - to edge Namibia’s advantage beyond three converted scores.
Callum Tam profited from a strong Hong Kong scrum to score his side’s second try three minutes before half-time, but from then on it was all one-way traffic.
Adriaan Ludick powered over to score shortly after the break, and 10 minutes later, with Namibia defending on their own line, Delron Brandt snagged an intercept before offloading for Elmarco Beukes to score.
Namibia scrum-half Jacques Theron ran back a 22 drop out almost unopposed on the hour mark to stretch his side’s lead to 36 points, but when Gerbus van Wyk was shown a yellow card five minutes later Hong Kong would have been forgiven for thinking there would have been a let up.
However, in the 10 minutes the back-row sat out his side ran in four tries. First, Mouton completed his hat-trick with a length of the field intercept, before Gilad Plaatjies, Gerhard Opperman and Pretorius all carved holes in an increasingly weary Hong Kong rearguard.
Van Wyk returned for the final four minutes and there was still time for Daryl Wellman and Wynand Breytenbach to both breach the goal-line.
Samoa got off to an inauspicious start against the hosts as lock Stefano Leavasa was sent to the sin-bin within four minutes of kick-off.
Romania put the pressure on from the resulting scrum and when play was switched to the left, their route one approach tied in the Samoan defence and allowed Emanuel Grigore to scamper over.
Samoa scrum-half Pupi Ah See was not going to be outdone by his opposite number, however, and within two minutes he carved open the home defence to level the scores.


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