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Hello and welcome back for another month, folks. If you're just joining us, great! Welcome! :) If you've been here a while, thanks for sticking it out. I appreciate it.
Well, fall is on its way ... but here in the Toronto area, you'd never really know it. October is my birthday month so it's one of my favorite times of the year. Right now, we're actually getting 25 C degree weather though. And I certainly won't complain. Considering we had very little of a summer, I feel it's only fair. ;) I hope the weather is great where you are too!
Thanks to all of you that answered my questions about Florda. You sent me some wonderful information and I'm hugely grateful. I have a lot to think about!
And I just got back from Tucson, AZ where I was at a voice over conference with a hundred or so of my peers. What a *wonderful* bunch of people they are. Truly. I was inspired. And it's remained with me like an afterglow. :) Tucson was beautiful, too! Not really my kind of weather ... especially considering we were there in monsoon season ... but it was a great place to visit and I had a fantastic time. The trip also introduced me to an artist named Ted DeGrazia. WOW. If you ever have a chance to go to his Gallery in the Sun, I highly recommend it. Truly inspirational. You can find more information on the man and his art here. You'll probably recognize some of his pieces.
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I'll let you get to the good stuff now. ;) Have a wonderful month!
Jane Joyce explodes onto the 2014 music scene with her debut hit single “Kill This Beat”! Co-written and produced by Gardner Cole who wrote “Open Your Heart” by Madonna. Bringing fun, excitement, and sass, Jane is shaking up the pop world, one banging track at a time.
I’m deviating a bit from our customary books about songwriting to an interesting book I have been reading about a legendary songwriting duo, George and Ira Gershwin. Author Michael Feinstein is quite an accomplished songwriter, composer, musician and singer in his own right. He started playing piano at age 5 and has continued playing and performing his entire life, earning five Grammy nominations.
As Feinstein describes in the book, his connection to the Gershwins began in his early 20’s when he was introduced to Ira Gershwin. Ira was impressed by Feinstein’s knowledge and performance of Gershwin compositions and he hired young Michael to catalogue his sizeable collection of phonograph records. This lead to more involved work researching and cataloguing published and unpublished sheet music and recordings, much of which were stored in Ira’s home.
Working with Ira Gershwin for many years yielded a wonderful set of contacts to well-known celebrities in the music and acting trades. You can’t blame Feinstein for name-dropping and telling celebrity tales, that’s what adds interest and entertainment value to the book.
Along the way, you have an opportunity to study Gershwin songs. Each of 12 chapters begins with Ira’s lyrics to one of their compositions. From his discussions with Ira and others, Feinstein relates why and how the songs came to be. Much of the time, these songs were written for musical theater and the success and failure stories, plus behind-the-scenes details, captivated my attention. A CD is included with the book of Feinstein performing each of the 12 songs.
One might think there is little to learn about the art of songwriting by reading a book about songwriters. However, I learned at least one thing by examining pictures of George Gershwin’s original manuscripts shown in the book. Gershwin composed on piano. In fact, he was a very talented pianist and quite often was asked to perform at social gatherings. (Getting him to stop was another matter!) From the manuscripts, it appeared to me little or none of the composing was driven by chord progressions. George was creating melodies, generally played by his right hand. The left hand (bass clef) added harmony and chord symbols were rarely noted.
I have often marveled at the complex chords in works by legendary composers like Gershwin and Harold Arlen (“Over the Rainbow”). My best guess was chord analysis came later based on the bass clef notation. As an experiment, I tried composing a short melodic section on piano without regard to chords and added a left hand part that simply sounded good to me. Then I ran a chord analysis on the left hand part using my Logic Pro program. I was amazed at the result, I had unknowingly created chords I would never have dreamed of using!
If you need a break from reading books about mechanics of songwriting, I highly recommend “The Gershwins and Me”. I think you’ll find it enjoyable and entertaining, and you just might learn something interesting or be inspired to create a great work of your own.
Tim Zbikowski is an active member of the Minnesota Association of Songwriters, assisting with song critiques and presentations on songwriting. His introduction to music was piano lessons in the early 1960’s. He played drums in a garage band and in his high school’s band program. Tim bought his first personal computer in 1984 and by the 1990’s connected a keyboard to a computer. When notes appeared on a staff on the monitor, he was hooked forever! Tim is a free-lance audio engineer, seriously studies the craft of songwriting, and enjoys the mental recreation and stimulation of writing in multiple genres.
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As I was writing last month’s article it struck me that it didn’t really draw from the full spectrum of music and it’s time to broaden the search. It soon became apparent the results depended heavily on how the question was asked. There are many ways to percolate savvy designs to the top of search algorithms on the internet but could there be other ways to look? I can’t confess to a magic formula but reflecting on this I remembered how we would always wander into the tourist office wherever we travelled and that seemed as good a place as any to start.
For no good reason whatsoever I chose Ghana, Indonesia, and Barbados and tried to find a media site from within the area that opened an avenue to local music. In Ghana the GhanaWeb reported on MUSIGA support for aged musicians. I’ve yet to find a link to the music. If anyone digs one out I’d like to hear about it, but I did stumble across GhanaMusic where there are samples to a variety of Ghanian music. From there it’s easy to follow up on any artist or idea that may spark interest.
Wandering off to Indonesia I couldn’t find much at the official tourist site but eventually unearthed something at the bottom of ‘People and Culture’. There’s plenty of Gamelan Music on YouTube and there’s also some on Bali & Beyond. Another side turn introduced Kroncong music. There seems to be a lot of it about and Smithsonian Folkways has some samples. If you’re interested in Dangdut you can wander over here. This site is based in the U.S. but it is dedicated to the music of Indonesia.
The tourist site for Barbados offers samples of featured artists direct from their website however I must say that ‘Barbados Rocks’ made me gag. The other song I tried wasn’t much better so I ran away, very fast. Another search brought me to the calypso section of the same website and that was quite a bit better. In a short paragraph at the bottom of the page there were references to ragga soca and ringbang which, eventually, lead to Eddie Grant.
In the searches above there generally weren’t direct links to dig deeper into the music directly from the websites but there was enough in the narrative to give ideas and names to plug into a search engine and start to uncover some of the diversity out there. Needless to say this month’s search has not even begun to scratch the surface but it did offer up a few listening pleasures from outside my normal spheres of influence and stimulated an interest in developing these exploration skills further.
Almost everyone in music agrees that the best way to develop your own musical skills is to listen as much as possible and that was what this month was about; beginning to look around for ideas outside one’s immediate knowledge and which don’t pop up automatically in today’s web world. It’s a theme that could be interesting to develop so if anyone has some suggestions for wise searching on the internet I’d love to hear about it.
Richard Miller is a caterpillar who has begun his chrysalis phase. Originally from Maine, Richard has, via a series of mis-adventures and accidents, worked as an accountant in the English Midlands, a systems programmer on the South Coast of England (where he also pursued an illustrious career in rugby) and a statistical programmer in Belgium. Now he has put all that aside, bought a house, stripped it back to the brick and started to renovate it from top to bottom while simultaneously transforming himself from a results oriented automaton into a winged song writer. You can peak inside the chrysalis at: www.vanishingpirates.com.
When I was a kid I remember watching a movie entitled It’s a Wide, Wide, Wide World. A zany comedy about people from all walks of life looking for the same treasure. I’m really pulling from a long way back, but I remember the big clue was the treasure would be under a big mysterious W.
After a crazy story about people crashing, stealing, and wheeling their way through clues to find it. The big W turned out to be a set of beachside palm trees leaned in and out of each other to form a huge W.
Would you believe that movie and your song have a lot in common? I’m not kidding! Your song needs a huge W for your listener’s treasure; and not just one W either, but five Ws.
Because just about any written media uses the five Ws, we have grown accustomed to wanting them, actually DEMANDING them, in order to grasp what we are taking in.
We need to know who the song is singing to. Is it to the world in general, to a specific gender, to a social group, to a lover, to a friend, or maybe directly to you the listener.
What is the song saying? Is it making a social statement, declaring friendship, claiming unconditional love, saluting hair-raising patriotism, or suggesting ways to live life?
Where is it taking place? We hear better when we can put an image to what we hear. Does the song paint a picture of a park, a library, a bedroom, a dance floor, a corner bar?
When is it taking place? Morning, noon, or night? Or maybe after the wedding, before a job interview, or after work.
And probably most important is why it is saying what it is saying. What is the purpose, why is there a need to say it in the first place? The song needs a reason to exist.
Either before you start writing, or as you begin to write, be sure you answer all of these in the first few lines or at least the first verse. Do not let it get past verse numero uno!
Let’s take a quick peak at a lyric to see if the Ws are answered and how effective it is. Another one of my favorite writers is Jewel. Check out this beginning lyric of You Were Meant for Me. Do you see the five Ws there? The imagery she painted and the emotion with them?
Who is she singing to? Ex-lover.
What is she saying? She’s not herself without him.
Where is she? In her kitchen making breakfast.
When is she saying it? 6:00 AM.
Why is she saying it? To make you, the listener identify with lost love and console you with the same feelings you might be feeling or have felt in the past… that you were meant for each other.
Take a good look at your lyrics and make sure you are answering the Ws, and you’ll be off to a great start.
Until next time… keep writing from the heart!
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Six months in, the pattern of the Trump presidency seems clear, for however long we continue to be subjected to it.
Trump blusters, rants and tweets. He combines swaggering arrogance and pathetic insecurity, often in the same speech. He can't manage to address the Boy Scouts of America without making it all about him and the many things he hates. He appears not to understand what health insurance is, let alone have any ability to direct health policy. He is unwilling, and probably unable, to perform even the most basic duties of his office.
If this fact does not terrify you, you are not paying attention.
No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them [the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
His business interests include plenty of kickbacks and dubious payments from authoritarian governments, so that he is almost certainly in violation of this clause.
Meanwhile, there is a more than plausible argument that Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey constitutes obstruction of justice.
Back in the 1990s, Bill Clinton was impeached for less. If Obama had committed one tenth of Trump's sleaziness, the current generation of Republicans would have gleefully nailed him to the wall. Of course, Trump is at least nominally a Republican, and the Republicans control both houses of Congress. Naked partisanship keeps Trump safe, at least for now.
It's possible the Democrats could take control of Congress in 2018. Possible, but not very likely.
All members of the House of Representatives are up for re-election; but districts were heavily gerrymandered by Republican-controlled state governments in 2010, so that the Democrats will need a substantial edge in the popular vote to win a bare majority.
One third of Senators are also up for election; and they are elected by a statewide vote, so gerrymandering of boundaries is not possible. Here the Democrats face a different problem: They and their allies already hold 25 of the 33 seats being contested, so potential gains are very limited. They need a net gain of three seats to secure a majority of one, which would require victory in unpromising states like Texas and Arizona; meanwhile they face tough fights to defend seats in places like Missouri and North Dakota.
Even if the Democrats win majorities in both houses, removal of a President is a two-stage process. Impeachment by the House is by simple majority, but conviction by the Senate requires a two-thirds majority. It is not even theoretically possible for the Democrats to win enough seats in 2018 to have a two-thirds majority in the Senate. Trump will not be impeached before 2020 without Republican help, which may not be forthcoming.
Let's imagine that after 2018, the Democrats take the House; and they hold 52 of 100 seats in the Senate, a net gain of four. This is an extremely optimistic scenario; but it still means they need 15 Republican votes in the Senate to reach the required majority of 67.
Getting those votes would be difficult, perhaps impossible. At best, voting to convict Trump would split the Republican party. They would risk losing office; even the most senior Senators have proved vulnerable to primary challenges from the right. Given the heavily armed and belligerent nature of Trump's most devoted supporters, it might endanger their very lives. They haven't yet found the backbone to turn on Trump. Changing their minds would take something more than what we have seen so far.
Given a Democratic House which had voted for impeachment, a handful of Republican Senators might vote to convict out of principle, or personal dislike of Trump. Three or four or even half a dozen might do it, but fifteen? I think not. They will move as a group only if Trump leaves them no choice.
Maybe more revelations about the Trump campaign's ties to Russia will do it; or the special prosecutor Robert S Mueller will find shocking proof of illegal behaviour by Trump, in politics or his personal business affairs. Maybe that would cause such public outrage that even partisan Republican senators were forced to turn on him.
It would be nice, but I very much doubt it will happen. In today's online environment, facts are mutilated and defiled from the moment they are discovered. I fear Trump was right: He could personally commit murder on a crowded street, and it wouldn't bring him down.
The one exception might be if the Senators felt that Trump threatened to ruin the United States itself. If Trump was blundering into an utterly disastrous war or national security crisis, it might motivate his party to turn on him.
Then again, it might not. People rally round their leaders in times of crisis, even one as loathsome as Trump. As in the old joke about George W Bush, you shouldn't change horsemen in mid-apocalypse.
By the time it became obvious Trump had instigated a national disaster, I fear it would be too late for too many. The Republican leadership are so morally bankrupt, they might not act until they see millions slaughtered as a direct result of Trump's actions, and perhaps not even then.
If Trump is removed from office, via impeachment or his Cabinet invoking the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, he would be replaced by Vice President Pence.
Pence is a far more disciplined and capable individual than Trump, and at least as horrifying in his beliefs. Trump believes in whatever makes Trump feel good; Pence is a creature of the extreme Christian right, with all the hateful ideology that entails.
Nonetheless, I feel Pence would be an improvement as President.
It is true that Pence would be more able than Trump to pass horrifying legislation. But if Trump is impeached, it is likely to require Democrats to control the House of Representatives at the very least. Pence's ability to wreak damage would be constrained.
Furthermore, even the current Republican majority in Congress are a fractious lot. The previous Speaker of the House, John Boehner, resigned in disgust because he grew tired of trying to manage their antics. There is no reason to suppose Pence would do any better.
Finally, and most importantly, I am reasonably sure Pence wouldn't conduct diplomacy like a spoiled child, or risk nuclear war to stroke his own ego.
All in all, I don't think it will come to that. The most plausible chance to remove Trump from office is the 2020 presidential election. We can only hope he does not do too much damage in the meantime.

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So my list of “Items That I No Longer Buy” continues onto the kitchen area. This list will include items I stopped buying for the sink area, cooking and dining area. As well as a short list of items I no longer buy for grocery shopping as well as the refrigerator.
For the kitchen items, switching over to reusable items really cut down time for shopping and running errands. I didn’t have to constantly keep track of what I was running out of or running low on. Plus, looking for sales wasn’t as stressful as before. Since I shop so little now, I actually tend to only look for a sale once, and just stock up on the bulk item in my glass container. The products that I do stock up on now, will last me for a much longer period of time.
It’s interesting when I do go shopping for bulk kitchen items such as soap, vinegar or baking soda, because I know exactly where the items are located in the stores, but I’ll walk around thinking that I’m forgetting an item (also because my basket will ultimately have a total of 4 items in it). When in the end, the total number of items I need is just the four…. for the next 5 months, because that’s how long it lasts. It’s great. You should try it!
So I thought I would go over what I have actually stopped buying in lieu of alternative zero waste options. A few people have asked me about what I had to give up when I started my journey to a zero waste lifestyle and majority of the time I knew I was forgetting to mention certain items, so I decided to mke a list of what I gave up.
The items listed with “N/A” indicates that I no longer use it and didn’t find a replacement for it. There’s only one item that repeats and the item is the sage leaves which I use in lieu of candles and the scented bathroom spray. The bathroom and kitchen were the most effected rooms during the change of switching over to zero waste alternatives so this list is one of the more elaborate lists.
This list can give you an idea of what I gave up, but to be honest, I really didn’t have to give up too much. It’s simply a list of items that I simplified and the replacement items are longer lasting and more durable over a longer period of time. If you’re thinking of moving towards this lifestyle, I hope this list helps. If you’re loking for any of the items I listed, take a look at my store on my homepage and skim through the room categories. There, you’ll find the suggestions I recomend for certain areas in your home.
I’m located in Northern California and recently we’ve had some rain. It’s good situation, in fact it’s a great situation. Our seasons have been delayed in the past decade that we’re always thankful that we can replenish our water supply when the opportunity arises.
However, this situation also brings other issues to the area such as floods, landslides and residential water damage. There are five rain gutter spouts attached to my home and one of them releases water a little too close to the exterior structure of the house. There are splash blocks that are sold to be placed beneath the downspout elbow, which helps to disperse water away from the foundation. But I also don’t like to go out to buy new items if I can make it at home.
So my solution was to take an old metal paint roll pan and cut two slits on the wide-sided end, and about six inches apart. This section cut would create the gap where the water could exit the pan. I hammered the new piece of metal down and then slipped it under the spout.
For those of you who may have the same issue, I hope this post helps.

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Alden Richards Prepares Himself for the Cosmopolitan Bachelor Bash!
Kapuso teen hunk Alden Richards is getting ready for Cosmopolitan magazine’s 2012 Cosmo Bachelor Bash. Alden will hit the ramp along with 68 other ‘bachelors’ in a show-off of beautiful physique happening mid-September.
In fact, he headed for the gym immediately after he and his on-screen partner Louise delos Reyes answered questions from fans online via the GMA Network Live Chat on Thursday, September 6.
The teen actor said in an interview that despite his very busy schedule – he tapes for his soap three times a week and also performs in Party Pilipinas – he finds time to work-out.
Alden also follows a strict diet which restricts him to just fresh fruits and vegetables. Unfortunately, Alden contracted amoebiasis last week possibly due to his consumption of raw fruits, which might have been contaminated. He was hospitalized for two days.
Although still recuperating, Alden resumed taping after hospitalization because he did not want to be a cause of delay in the production.
Alden invited Louise to the Bachelor Bash but the beautiful teen actress hasn’t made up her mind yet. Louise, however, admitted that she was fascinated when she saw Alden’s macho physique in the latest issue of a glossy magazine.
Meanwhile, the pair’s primetime series is nearing its finale and viewers are intrigued by how the story will conclude. Although Alden and Louise did not “spill the beans,” they hinted that the finale will surely leave viewers teary-eyed. Now, whether that would be out of joy or sorrow, that’s what they should watch out for.

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We’re going to look at what makes a dive watch, the features that make a diving watch different from any other watch and also take a very brief look at the history and evolution in an attempt to offer an evaluation about which is the best divers watch. Will the best be a prestige brand like Rolex or Breitling, or perhaps something a little more humble like a Citizen or Casio?
Whatever it turns out to be, even with the best will in the world ‘The Best Divers Watch’ will, of course, be a subjective issue because it depends on the individuals’ circumstances and requirements, not to mention budget.
So anyway, simply put, the dive or diver’s watch, is similar to any other wrist watch with the addition of some special features that have been developed over its surprisingly long history dating back to the 17th Century although it was not until the 19th Century that design and development sped up in response to the needs of an elite groups such explorers and professional divers.
For example in 1926 Rolex created the new ‘Oyster’ watch, featuring an advanced hermetically sealed case, which was successfully tested and publicized in 1927 by English swimmer Mercedes Gleitze’s attempting to cross the English Channel wearing the Oyster around her neck.
Further down the line Omega was to build the first industrially produced diving watch designed specifically for commercial distribution in 1932, naming it the Omega Marine.
In 1935 the Italian Navy commissioned the design and production of a watch capable of operating at depth with the addition of luminous markings for use in poor visibility situations. The result of this came in the form of the ‘Radiomir’ made by Rolex introduced in 1936, closely followed a number of timepieces built to military specifications both during and after WWII by Hamilton, Elgin and Waltham, although only produced in relatively small numbers and not intended for large scale distribution.
Jump ahead to 1953 France and the Lip-Blancpain ‘Fifty Fathoms’ is introduced and issued in modest quantities to the allied military forces including US and French Navy combat diver teams, but probably most famously worn by Jacques Cousteau and his divers during the underwater film ‘Le monde du silence’. The following year Rolex re-entered the race with the introduction of the ‘Submariner’ debuting at Basel Fair as Reference 6204, which later went on to become the iconic timepiece of choice in the early James Bond movies.
As we can see, it’s been the military pushing the envelope of watch design and the manufacturers are responding by making newer and better offerings. By 1959 the United States Navy Experimental Diving Unit had been busy evaluating the top of the crop that included the Bulova US Navy Submersible Wrist Watch, Enicar Sherpa Diver 600, Enicar Seapearl 600, Blancpain Fifty Fathoms, and the Rolex Oyster Perpetual.
The push to develop better and better timepieces was in full swing and by 1961 Edox launched the Delfin line of watches, resistant to 200 meters, and by 1963 introduced the Hydrosub resistant to 500 meters.
Through the 60s, 70s, and 80s a lot of work was done and the water resistance attained just got better and better in response to the requirements of both military and civilian organizations working at greater and greater depths. The result of this increasing demand for better performance was the introduction of advanced watch design, a good example being the Rolex Sea-Dweller that is designed to operate at 2000ft or 610meters, and in 1996 ISO 6425 was introduced by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which set out standards and features for diving watches.
As a side note, many Divers now wear a dive computer or decompression meter as a more user-friendly alternative or backup to the very reliable diving watch.
If you are looking for the quick run through of the features defined by the ISO here is a short list followed by a more in-depth description below.
1. A unidirectional bezel with at least at every 5 minutes elapsed minute markings and a pre-select marker to mark a specific minute marking.
2. A clearly distinguishable minute markings on the watch face.
3. Readability at 25 cm or 9.8 in total darkness.
4. An indicator to confirm the watch is running in total darkness. Normally a running second hand with a luminous tip.
9. An End Of Life (EOL) indicator on battery powered watches.
Oddly, compliance here is voluntary and involves costs so not every manufacturer present their watches for certification according to this standard.
Watch cases must be water resistant and be able to endure the galvanic corrosiveness of seawater and provide protection against external magnetic influences and shocks. Case materials used are grade 316L or 904L austenitic stainless steel and other steel alloys.
As you will have seen analog diving watches will often feature a rotating bezel normally featuring 15 to 20-minute markings. This allows for an easier reading of elapsed time of under one hour from a specific point. Divers use this to compute the length of a dive which they need to keep track of in order to avoid diving sickness on a non-decompression dive for example.
If you have never used this tool it may seem a little mysterious so let’s take a quick look at its operation. The Diver initially aligns the zero on the bezel with the minute hand to show the elapsed time to be read from the bezel, saving the Diver from having to remember the exact point of entry and carry out the appropriate calculations to understand the correct exit time.
As a safety feature the bezel will only be unidirectional to prevent a miss reading and giving a false reading if moved, and in addition, some Dive Watch have a locking bezel option to prevent any unwanted underwater operation.
Digital dive watches will normally perform the elapsed time function by utilizing the standard stopwatch function. But in addition, they may feature a depth gauge and logging features, making them a great tool for divers, however, as good as they are they are not considered a replacement for the dive computer.
The glass or crystal covering the watch face is under considerable pressure while underwater so needs to be strong. The Crystal is built relatively thick to protect against this pressure and most likely has a dome shape to increased pressure resistance and like wearing a pair of glasses increasing the visibility at the same time in poor lighting conditions. There are three common materials used to make the crystal and they all have their plus and minus points. For example, Acrylic glass is resistant to breakage but scratched easily, Hardened Glass is scratch resistant but not so resistant to breakage, and Sapphire is very resistant to scratches but less resistant than the other example to breakage. The other option available to manufacturers is the combination of Sapphire and Hardened glass with a laminate, giving the best properties of both materials, with both scratch and shatter resistance combined.
Dive watches sometimes house their crown in unusual places such as 4 o’clock or 9 o’clock to avoid discomfort. These crown are required to be water tight and some have the ability to be locked with a screwing thread, or even a locking arm or handle that needs to be moved to gain access to the crown.
We could go into depth here if you pardon the pun, but in the simplest of terms the strap needs to be able to resist pressure and the corrosive nature of the environment and can be made from many different materials like rubber, fabric, titanium. Another thing that divers like in their watch strap is the ‘oversize’ allowing for the watch to be worn over the diving suit.
This is really recapping on previous ideas but basically, the Dive Watch must be readable in low light conditions. All the dials and markers on the watch face and bezel must be legible underwater and in poor light conditions, with the important addition of a running indicator. This is to show the Diver the watch is still functioning and is usually conveyed by a luminous second hand. Moreover, all markings are uncluttered and luminous for low light operation using luminous phosphorescent non-toxic strontium aluminates.
Another important feature of a diving watch is to understand when the power is running low. For a battery powered watch movement, an End Of Life (EOL) indicator is installed.
This is normally in the form of a two or four-second jump of the second hand or a warning message on a digital display to safeguard against insufficient power reserve during underwater activities. Some electric and mechanical powered movement models have power reserve indicators that show the current power status of the watch.
A Word About Water Resistance Classification.
You will have no doubt looked at the classification on a nice watch and maybe it says Water resistant 50m, and you thought quite reasonably this watch is good to go diving with up to the depth of 50 meters. Unfortunately, things are not quite that simple.
The guide below outline the true meanings of the water resistance measurements.
*Water Resistant or 50 m Suitable for swimming, no snorkeling water related work, and fishing. NOT suitable for diving.
*Water Resistant 100 m Suitable for recreational surfing, swimming, snorkeling, sailing and water sports. NOT suitable for diving.
*Water Resistant 200 m Suitable for professional marine activity and serious surface water sports. Suitable for skin diving only. NOT suitable for scuba diving.
*Diver’s 100 m Minimum ISO standard (ISO 6425) for scuba diving at depths NOT suitable for saturation diving. Diver’s 100 m and 150 m watches are generally old(er) watches.
*Diver’s 200 m or 300 m Suitable for scuba diving at depths NOT suitable for saturation diving. Typical ratings for contemporary diver’s watches.
*Diver’s 300+ m for mixed-gas diving Suitable for saturation diving (helium enriched environment). Watches designed for mixed-gas diving will have the DIVER’S WATCH L M FOR MIXED-GAS DIVING additional marking to point this out.
You are probably asking ‘Why?’. Why say it’s water resistant to 50 meters when it’s only resistant to getting caught in the rain? Ok, so I exaggerate a little for effect but still, swimming pool or snorkeling is NOT 50 meters so why say that!??
Well, I am sorry but a don’t know why ‘there’ settled at this but I can tell you why a 30 meters watch no good for diving. It’s basically down to the specifications and the testing environment, you see when a watch is pressure tested the non-dive watch is tested once and only on a sample watch. So, it is never expected to withstand these pressure for long periods with an environment that is constantly changing. The diving watch, on the other hand, is repeatedly tested and at differing pressure and with safety margins to account for the aging of the watch parts.
The final feature I want to mention is the liquid filled watch. As it suggests, the case is filled with liquid, but not any liquid, no this is silicone or fluorinated oil. This oil helps to equalize to the outside pressure and also help visibility by reducing refraction.
This technology works very well and has been proven to work at a depth of 12,000 meters or 39000ft which as you will agree is deep with a capital D. As good as this technology is, there exists a small drawback in that it only works on quartz movements, and a quartz movements will fail at 5,000 meters. Still, 5000 meters is nothing to sniff at right?
This is no big deal, simply clean your watch in fresh water after a dive, have your dive watch pressure checked every year and replace seals and gaskets when required.
Basically, if you look after your dive watch, it will look after you.
So what’s the best dive watch then and how are we possibly going to choose among the hundreds of designs to come up with a winner?
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HONOLULU – No. 2 BYU-Hawaii women's tennis opened its season with a resounding 9-0 sweep of Chaminade on Monday at Central Oahu Regional Park.
The No. 2 ranked pairing of Nannan (Dallas) Zhang and Min (Karen) Liu began with an 8-0 victory on the first doubles court over Kimberly Takara and Kauanoe Beamer of Chaminade (0-4). Jeong-Min Jeon and Kanela Adamson also won in straight sets (8-0) over the Silverswords' Jackie McGreal and Kim Spring. Jade Griffin and Chiung-En (JoJo) Wu earned an 8-1 victory for the Seasiders (1-0) over Michelle Bucher and Emma Haurillon.
In singles No. 2 Zhang and No. 9 Liu took the top two singles courts with 6-0, 6-0 victories over their Chaminade opponents. Jeon was victorious (6-2, 6-0) over Beamer on the third singles court. Griffin, Wu and Adamson each added straight set sweeps for the Seasiders.
BYU-Hawaii will be back in action Friday for a matchup with Hawaii Hilo at 2 p.m. HST in Laie, Hawaii.

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Happy Pi Day from my family to yours!
...yes, that is supposed to be a Pi symbol... it didn't cooperate, okay?!?!
Not my first choice for a game, but hubby is a pretty big Star Trek fan so when he heard about Starfleet Captains, he had to have it. We pulled it out for the first time tonight and had a go at it.
I took up Starfleet while he commanded the Klingons. I have no idea what was really going on on that side, his missions were pretty much all secret, but while he was building outposts, I was resolving missions left, right and centre. By round three, the Klingons only had one way to keep me from winning - they needed to take out the USS Enterprise.
Well, between the lack of engine power and some deadly water that trapped two of his ships, the Klingons stood no chance. By the time his turn ended, it didn't matter how I used my actions, I had easy access to 4 victory points when I only needed 2. I sailed that Enterprise all the way to victory, carrying extra cargo and an extra point!
While I may not be a huge Star Trek fan, even I felt it was fitting to have the Enterprise take the winning points!
Not a bad two player game. Even though the box says that you can play up to four players, it's in teams of two, and I don't know how I feel about commanding as a team. I'm sure we'll be introducing the game to a friend or two soon enough so maybe I can still be won over in sharing victory.
What can I say? Even quiet little me can get pretty competitive.

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Last Friday, the official version of MEP Therese Comodini Cachia's (EPP, Malta) draft of her report on the Commission's proposal for a directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) was published. Comodini is the elected rapporteur of the leading committee for legal affairs (JURI). Although some minor changes have already been made compared to the version that was leaked a few days ago, the most important points have all been kept. The deadline for tabling amendments is March 30th.
Member States shall provide publishers of press publications with a presumption of representation of authors of literary works contained in those publications and the legal capacity to sue in their own name when defending the rights of such authors for the digital use of their press publications.
It is important that the challenges press publishers face in enforcing the derivative rights upon which they depend to protect the investment made in their publication are addressed in a manner that strengthens the position of press publishers, but does not disrupt other industries. Press publishers are thus given the right to bring proceedings in their own name before tribunals against infringers of the rights held by the authors of the works contained in their press publication and to be presumed to have representation over the works contributed to the press publication.
Günther Oettinger's ancillary copyright seems to die a slow but steady death thanks to representatives that not only care about the industries' but also the civil society's interests.

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The short-term bias for GBPUSD is bearish after the pair fell below the daily Ichimoku cloud and below the 50-day moving average. Momentum indicators are also turning bearish with the RSI falling below 50. Support should come around the 200-day moving average around 1.5360. Resistance is at 1.5818.
In the bigger picture, GBPUSD remains neutral after the rebound from 1.4564 to 1.5929. We would need to see a break below the key psychological level of 1.5000 to see a shift back to the downtrend that began from 1.7190 in July 2014 to 1.4564.

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S&S Consulting was created by three consultants with entrepreneurial spirit and an eager interest in the industry. Despite the deep depression affecting the Finnish economy at the time, we believed there was a place for a Finnish company focused on recruitment services. Our profound expertise would allow us to generate additional value to our customers, both client companies and candidates.
We were united by a genuine desire to help our clients with their recruitment processes. Furthermore, we wanted to build a Finnish service company integrated in an international network. When we had only been in business for a year, we established an international network for our industry. This became the starting point for IRC Global Executive Search Partners.
From the very beginning, our goal has been to provide high-quality services. We have been in business for over 25 years. In this time, we have repeatedly won our clients’ trust through our constant commitment to delivering the best results.
The original three-person team has grown into a group of ten professionals. IRC has grown, as well: today, it is the largest international executive search alliance in the world.


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Dr. Kris Henry is a licensed audiologist who earned a bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State University, a master’s degree from the University of Colorado and a doctorate in audiology from A.T. Still University in 2011. She holds a certificate of clinical competence in audiology from the American Speech Language Hearing Association and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology.
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Can anyone tell me the meaning of the sentence in the following passage?
"And what doeth the saint in the forest?" asked Zarathustra.
The saint answered: "I make hymns and sing them; and in making hymns I laugh and weep and mumble: thus do I praise God.
Does it mean that Zarathustra didn't want to preach or argue with those who have different opinion and teach only those who wanted it? If no, what does the sentence mean?
Denying that he spoke of love, Zarathustra says instead that he brings mankind a gift.
Despite his persistence, the old saint is unable to take away Zarathustra's belief in mankind, but his warnings show that he is better acquainted with the ways of the world than Zarathustra, even though he is no lover of mankind. At a loss, finally, in the face of the old saint's insistence that he, a fellow solitary, not go to mankind, Zarathustra asks, in effect, "Why should one stay in solitude?"
When the old saint responds that he maintains his solitude in order to praise God, the com- passionate and gift-giving Zarathustra continues on his way, turning even his separation from the old saint into a gift to man, for he departs so as not to take away from the old saint the belief that makes his solitude possible. In parting they laugh at one another, each knowing the folly of the other's belief, Zarathustra's in mankind, the old saint's in God.
You must read it in context: Zarathustra is the prophet of the "new Nietzschean religion".
In the previous paragraph Zarathustra answers to the old saint that he is coming because "[he] loves mankind" and in order to "bring it [to mankind] gifts".
But the saint is speaking of material gifts, while Zarathustra is bringing to mankind the novel "that GOD IS DEAD!"
We can read it as a critique of traditional religious attitude : we pray God asking for "gifts" (of some sort) and - at the same time - as a critique of ascetic attitudes: leaving the world in search of a "direct contact" with God.
What separates the middle works of Nietzsche from his later works?

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text: The 2019 Oscar Nominated Short Films will be released in theatres, giving you the opportunity to see all of the nominees. This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! Don't miss this year's selection of shorts - to be announced on January 22, 2019. The Academy Awards take place Sunday, February 24, 2019.


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The SDG I-Beam system isn’t new, but you’ll be seeing a bit more of it in 2012 as several other manufacturers have licensed the design. The seatpost uses a tough single pivoting head and a pair of pinching clamps all working off a single 5mm bolt.
You have to use it with an I-Beam saddle; various models are available, all of which have a single central rail with serrations on the underside. Loosening the seatpost bolt allows you to adjust the tilt of the saddle and slide it fore or aft.
While it doesn’t look like much, it’s actually pretty bombproof – the fact that many downhillers run the system is testament to that. The 350mm-long post can be had in carbon fibre or alloy and with inline or 20mm set back clamps. We chose the alloy inline version which doesn’t weigh much more but costs a lot less.
Conventional saddle design often uses flex in the rails to add a little comfort; there’s none of that with the I-Beam system, which results in quite a ‘direct’ feel. The post does flex slightly though, if you’ve got enough exposed shaft, which takes the edge off bumps. This feeling is ampliﬁed a little more (adding to the comfort) in the more expensive (and lighter) carbon version.


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2,3,5 Trimethyl Pyrazine is a cosmetic chemical.
2,3-Butanediol is a chemical compound composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.It is used in the resolution of carbonyl compounds in gas chromatography.
2,3-Dihydroxynaphthalene is used as an intermediate for organic synthesis.It is used as a component of oxidative hair dyes.
2,4 Nonadienal is a cosmetic chemical.
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Both the racist English Defence League and a bunch of idiotic Americans have been posting their messages of happiness at what’s happened to the people of Japan after the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear fallout.
Idiotic/patriotic Americans think the Japanese deserve what happened to them, as some sort of karma revenge for Pearl Harbour…like dropping nuclear bombs on the civilian populations of Nagasaki & Hiroshima wasn’t enough.
No sense of humanity for their fellow mankind.
Isn’t it interesting that America would let in the chief agent provocateur Anjem Choudry into their country without a problem but wouldn’t let in a guitar strumming sufi like Yusaf Islam or university lecturer Tariq Ramadan.
Not only that (but what a surprise that) Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News gives Choudry a platform so that he can claim he represents what all Muslims secretly wish for, thus building the anti-Islamic sentiment that sustains America’s right wing rhetoric. These two need each other like flies on stink.
Choudry and his agents have a long track record of causing problems and then running away leaving the locals to pick up the fight – The EDL’s rise in Luton is down to Choudry’s boys antics at a British army homecoming parade, but when it comes to fighting the thousands of far right racists like the EDL & BNP, they are nowhere to be seen.
Here’s some advice, do what you did to his mentor OBM, revoke his passport while he’s out of the country, and then see how he cries foul.
Anyone who believes that Anjem Choudry is sincere needs their head examining.
A rather timely distraction to the struggles taking place in the Muslim world?
The English Defence League in action, one simple picture says it all.


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For a complete Texas estate plan, we will recommend that you execute at least five documents. For a brief description of each of these and why each is important, see this link. If you are married, you should also know which of your assets are your separate property and which are shared community property. For a brief discussion of the difference, see this link. To schedule an initial free consultation, please contact us today.
Every estate plan is unique. To ensure we appropriately tailor your estate plan to your situation, the estate planning process will require at least two meetings with one of our Dallas estate planning lawyers. At the first meeting, we will discuss your assets and estate planning goals to ensure that we draft your estate planning documents properly for your individual situation and objectives. The second meeting will be the formal execution ceremony where you will sign your estate planning documents in the presence of two witnesses and a notary.
Schedule an initial free consultation. At this meeting (which is not one of the two required meetings and can be done via email or phone), we will go over what an estate plan entails, answer any questions you may have about the process, and discuss your estate planning goals. If you’re interested, we can provide you with a flat-fee quote based on some basic information about your family, the size of your estate, and your estate planning objectives.
Sign an engagement agreement with us and schedule a follow-up meeting to discuss specific aspects of your estate plan.
Fill out our estate planning worksheet. This worksheet will include: (a) information about your assets and how you would like those assets distributed, (b) information about who you would like to make decisions for you regarding medical care and management of your property if you are unable, and (c) if you have children, information about who you would like to take care of them if you are unable.
Meet with us to review the worksheet and to discuss specifics of your estate plan. We will then draft your estate planning documents based on our discussion, provide copies for your review, and make any necessary corrections.
Schedule an execution ceremony at our office. At this ceremony, you will sign all of your documents and have them witnessed and notarized with the formalities required to make them legally valid and binding.
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Our fee will include a meeting to determine your estate planning needs, drafting of your documents, and execution of the documents at our office with the required formalities. If you need additional trusts drafted, if you have children from outside your current marriage, if you are a couple with significant differences in your estate plans, if you have substantial or complicated specific bequests, or if tax planning or other more complex planning is needed, there may be some additional cost. If your estate plan is more simple, the cost may be less.
For more information or to begin your estate plan, please contact us today.


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Danny Watterson of Vanderbloemen Search Group writes an article outlining the seven key lessons of leadership to focus on.
Sutton will be joining the Vanderbloemen Search Group team as Vice President of Candidate Relations.
Listen to the Vanderbloemen Leadership Podcast featuring Kieran Mathew, Founder and CEO of Amplify Solutions, in Toronto, Ontario.

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After learning his craft in his native Italy riding in the 125 Sport production category and then moving his way through the ranks of the Stock 600 championship, Fabio Menghi moved up to the Supersport 600 championship in 2010. That same year he took part in the Riviera de Rimini Round of the WorldSBK championship as a wildcard, ending the race in 16th. In 2010 he was 12th in the Italian Supersport championship and gained the accolade of rookie of the year, before improving further the year after and ending 2011 in 7th despite having only taken part in 4 races.
In 2012 Meghi continued his upward trajectory by making the move to World Supersport. He ended his first race in the points, despite a preseason in which he had been recovering from a fractured vertebrae suffered at Imola the season before, and was one of the surprises of the year. Always under the umbrella of the VFT Team (Valerio Family Team) run by his father, Menghi competed in WorldSSP until last year, ending the season 15th. This season he makes the move to World Superbike on board a Ducati 1199 Panigale R.


text: Ligation of the CD4 receptor by HIV envelope glycoprotein gp120 inhibits T cell activation and signaling through the TCR complex. Recent reports suggest CD4 ligation by gp120 + anti-gp120 Abs uncouples protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) from the TCR signal-transduction cascade. This finding and other observations led us to hypothesize that the effects of gp120 are mediated through p56lck, a PTK noncovalently associated with CD4. To test this hypothesis, we first examined the kinetics of gp120/anti-gp120-induced TCR signaling defects in the Jurkat T cell line. Pretreating cells with gp120/anti-gp120 for 1 to 4 h before stimulation prevented TCR-directed PTK activation. Coincident with TCR desensitization, pretreatment with gp120/anti-gp120 also decreased the amount of p56lckthat could be immunoprecipitated from the Nonidet P-40 detergent-soluble fraction of cellular lysates, while simultaneously increasing the recovery of p56lckfrom the Nonidet P-40 detergent-insoluble fraction (or cytoskeleton). To assess the potential role of the actin in this process, experiments were conducted in the presence of cytochalasin D. Cytochalasin D restored TCR signaling in cells previously desensitized with gp120/anti-gp120 and prevented translocation of p56lckfrom the Nonidet P-40 detergent-soluble fraction of cell lysates. Furthermore, p56lckwas found to coimmunoprecipitate with anti-actin. These data suggest that gp120/anti-gp120 may inhibit TCR signaling by sequestering p56lckto the cytoskeleton.


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Hosts and guests expect excellent service and the success of an event depends on it. Our competent and experienced team will take the time to meet your expectations and wishes and organise the best possible event for you.
From the pick-up service to the staff – everything has to suit you and everything is possible.


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Comprehensive information about Sri Aurobindo including biographical information, facts, literary works, and more. Sri Aurobindo (Sri Ôrobindo, Bengali : ) (15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950), born Aurobindo Ghosh or Ghose (Ôrobindo Ghosh, Bengali), was an Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, Maharishi, guru and poet. He joined the Indian movement for freedom from British rule, for a while became one of its influential leaders and then turned into a spiritual reformer, introducing his visions on human progress and spiritual evolution. This educational Sri Aurobindo resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.
Articles about Sri Aurobindo or articles that mention Sri Aurobindo.
Here are a few random quotes by Sri Aurobindo.


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Lecithin is a naturally occurring compound in many plant foods and some animal foods. The nervous system, heart and kidney tissues all need lecithin to maintain healthy function.
Lecithin is a naturally occurring compound in many plant foods and some animal foods. The liver continually produces lecithin, and its primary role in the body is the breakdown of excess cholesterol and other fats, helping the body maintain healthy cholesterol levels.
Lecithin contains a collection of lipids including two phospholipids that are essential for the health of every tissue in the body. Phosphatidyl choline is an important component of cell membranes and a restorative nutrient for the liver. Phosphatidyl serine helps improve memory, learning, concentration, mood swings and stress response. It has an anti-aging effect on the brain.
The nervous system, heart and kidney tissues all need lecithin to maintain healthy function. Lecithin is indicated for high cholesterol, gallstones and liver disease. It can help treat liver damage from alcoholism, toxic chemicals, drug use and viral infections, and provide protection from many liver toxins.
Lecithin improves circulation by reducing cholesterol and fats in the bloodstream. It is indicated for treating heart disease, atherosclerosis and hyperlipidaemia.
Lecithin is safe to use as directed.
I have used this to support breastfeeding to stop milk ducts getting plugged up. It works well!
Because I love cream & whole milk I've taken Lecithin for years now to keep my cholesterol in check. The Swisse one is particularly good value.
Have also bought from Healthpost for years because their service is 2nd to none.


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For some programs, a more detailed description could also be available, accessible by clicking on the course number. Physical health can even stop or deal with many continual health situations introduced on by unhealthy way of life or getting older. High faculty curriculum prepares students to change into highly proficient in a number of sport and/or fitness exercise of their alternative. Frequent bouts of physical exercise throughout the day yield quick-term advantages for psychological and cognitive health while additionally providing alternatives to practice skills and building confidence that promotes ongoing engagement in physical exercise.
Aside from educating bodily training and sport in schools, there is also a large demand for PE instructors in other sectors. Although bodily education has been largely related to the modern society, it truly has a protracted historical past that dates again to the times of ancient Greece. When considered from the target, bodily schooling and bodily training are both aiming to attain instructional objectives.
International Council of Sport and Physical Education (ICSPE) suggest that sports activities is any bodily activity that accommodates the sport and accommodates a struggle with oneself or with others, or confrontation with the elements of nature. It sets moral and high quality standards for all actors designing, implementing and evaluating sport programmes and policies. It makes clear how necessary it’s to follow the rules and laws games and sports activities assist us in producing very disciplined citizens, leaders and professionals. Sports are additionally other examples of expanded horizons for a Physical Education trainer.
A quality bodily education program for grades K-12 ought to include tutorial durations of 30 minutes a day on the main level and 45 minutes a day at the secondary level. Just as it is unrealistic to count on all kids on the similar age to achieve the same educational stage, it’s unrealistic to count on youngsters at the identical age to have the same bodily development, motor expertise, and physical capability. These games are largely played before, during and after faculty in addition to during PE (Physical Education class).
Therefore, the mannequin of training are typically extra appreciative movement of movement of the aesthetic dimension than the dimension of competitors. Last yr I produced a program for a PE instructor who wanted to indicate the mother and father what their students were studying in PE. She wanted to do it as easy as potential and have enjoyable in the meanwhile.


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Translation:Shanghai is a big city.
"Shanghai is a large city." <- Please program this as an answer. I believe that there's many fundamental issues with having English speakers type in the answer. There are many different types of word usage and choice differences from person to person, not to mention from country to country (American English vs. British English for example).
Large=Big! I keep getting burned buy typing large instead of big! They're the same thing!
Shanghai is a huge city.
City is an understatement for Shanghai. Metropolis if there ever was one.
Still after a solid year the use of "large" instead of "big" is still marked wrong. It should not take this long just to change a simple thing as this. Reported again on February 8, 2019.

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Where is the Sprague Resources LP corporate headquarters?
What is the ticker symbol for Sprague Resources LP?
On which exchange are the common units of Sprague Resources LP listed?
Sprague Resources common units trade on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
When did Sprague Resources LP go public and what was the price?
The Sprague Resources LP initial public offering (IPO) was on October 25th, 2013 at an initial unit price of $18.00.
When is the fiscal year end for Sprague Resources LP?
Sprague’s fiscal year end is December 31.
Whom do I contact for certificate-related questions (e.g., lost certificates, issuances, change of address, transfers, etc.)?
Whom should I contact with any additional questions?

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« Daily Scripture – March 25th – What Sanctifies Our Offerings?
“The options shall know that I am the LORD” (Exodus 7:5).
The ungodly world is hard to teach. Egypt does not know Jehovah and therefore dares to set up its idols and even ventures to ask, “Who is the LORD?” Yet the LORD means to break proud hearts, whether they will or not. When His judgments thunder over their heads, darken their skies, destroy their harvests, and slay their sons, they begin to discern somewhat of Jehovah’s power. There will yet be such things done in the earth as shall bring skeptics to their knees. Let us not be dismayed because of their blasphemies, for the LORD can take care of His own name, and He will do so in a very effectual manner.
The salvation of His own people was another potent means of making Egypt know that the God of Israel was Jehovah, the living and true God. No Israelite died by any one of the ten plagues. None of the chosen seed were drowned in the Red Sea. Even so, the salvation of the elect and the sure glorification of all true believers will make the most obstinate of God’s enemies acknowledge that Jehovah, He is the God.


text: (1) Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.	(2) Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.	(3) Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.	(4) Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.	(5) For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.


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"The fungus alone is sufficient to recreate all the pathology diagnostic for the disease," says David Blehert, a microbiologist at the National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin, and senior author on the report.
Blehert and his colleagues collected healthy little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) from Wisconsin, which is well beyond the known range of white-nose syndrome. They infected the bats by direct administration of G. destructans spores to the skin or by contact with infected bats from New York. By the end of the 102-day experiment, the tell-tale white fungus was growing on the muzzles and wings of all of the directly infected Wisconsin bats and 16 of the 18 exposed to sick bats.
This is the first experimental evidence that white-nose syndrome can be passed from bat to bat, and is very worrying from a conservation point of view because bats huddle together in large numbers in caves and mate in large swarms, says Emma Teeling, a bat biologist at University College Dublin in Ireland. "If a bat has this fungus on them, it's going to spread quickly throughout the population," says Teeling, who was not involved with the study. "It's like a perfect storm."
The infected Wisconsin bats did not die during the experiment, which may be due to the limited timeline of infection, the authors suggest. Although the study does not directly show that a healthy bat will die from infection with G. destructans, the results did show that the fungus alone was sufficient to cause lesions diagnostic of white-nose syndrome to form on previously healthy bats, indicating that the fungus is the cause of the deaths so often associated with white-nose syndrome in the wild.
Since it first appeared, white-nose syndrome has behaved like a novel pathogen spreading from a single origin through a naive population, says Jonathan Sleeman, director of the National Wildlife Health Center, who was not involved in the study. Proof that G. destructans is the primary cause of white-nose syndrome will "help us focus our actions or management efforts into the future", he says.
Although little can be done to control the spread of the disease through bat-to-bat transmission, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has asked people to stay out of caves in and near affected areas, and has closed some caves on agency-managed land.
On 21 October, the FWS announced that up to $1 million in fundingwill be made available for research on white-nose syndrome. Projects covering topics such as how the fungus proliferates within caves and mines, and the potential for biological means or environmental manipulations to improve bat survival, are among the service's top priorities.
Lorch, J. M. et al. Nature doi:10.1038/nature10590 (2011).


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Oh, weddings! We love, love, love your wedding as much as you do!
Planning your wedding and choosing wedding flowers can be a stressful, nerve-wracking and confusing time and our goal at asdaisydoes is to make it as easy and pain free as possible.
We provide a consultation, after which our wedding florists put together a mood-board and quote completely unique to your wedding. This mood-board will provide images as a guide to your bridal ﬂowers and a variety of price options, so you can sit down and decide how much you want to spend on your wedding flowers.
Are you the easy going, “I’m really not too fussed, I just love your style” kind of bride? Perhaps the Quickie option is for you? Read our Blog post about the quickie wedding!
Here at asdaisydoes we work best with creative license, so please tell us what your favourite flower is or what colour scheme you love however just remember that when we go to market we will be selecting what is fresh, healthy, available (yes, seasons exist and no, I am not Jesus) and the best fit for your unique and special day.
Our signature style includes oversized and foraged bouquets with an abundance of blooms and a slightly wild and untamed appearance. If you are after a perfect dome of gerberas (although we can do this) we need you to know that it isn’t our signature style.
So if you want something a little bit unrestrained and rough around the edges (why wouldn’t you?) you have come to the right place, and boy are we glad you found us !
We will put out heart and soul into surprising you with something completely unique and gobsmackingly amazing through the use of flowers, foliage, sticks, berries, fruit and whatever else we can find. Check out our blog for some inspo!
So if this sounds like you, we would love to arrange a meeting so we can start organising some beautiful florals for your big day.
Contact our wedding coordinator at events@asdaisydoes.com for more information, this Geelong Florist cannot wait to hear from you!


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The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by threats made against Liberian journalist Mae Azango, who has been in hiding since last week after she reported on the practice of female genital mutilation. We urge you, Madam President, as Africa's first and only female head of state and a champion of women's rights, to direct the Liberian authorities to ensure her safety and fully investigate the threats made against her.
Azango, a reporter for the daily FrontPage Africa and New Narratives, a project supporting independent media in Africa, published an article on March 8 entitled "Growing Pains: Sande Tradition of Genital Cutting Threatens Liberian Women's Health." The article described how tribes practice female genital mutilation on as many as two out of every three girls in the country. Although March 8 was International Women's Day, the publication of the article was followed by death threats against Azango. "They left messages and told people to tell me that they will catch me and cut me so that will make me shut up," she told CPJ. "I have not been sleeping in my house."
National Police Deputy Director Al Karley told CPJ today that he had made Azango's case a high priority. However, we believe your political leadership is required to ensure the government will take the necessary steps to ensure the safety and well-being of this journalist.
We ask you, Madam President, to use the moral authority of your office to speak out against the threats made against Azango, and to ensure that other journalists taking on this sensitive topic do not suffer the same fate.


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It’s dark, cold and a very long way to pay day.
Is it any wonder that the third Monday in January has been awarded the dubious honour of being called Blue Monday – the most depressing day in the year?
The resolution to begin a lifestyle overhaul got postponed till all the Quality Street were finished, the exercise regime is impossible in the dark and wet… and sure you can’t quit smoking when it’s this gloomy out?? Hardly inspiring stuff, is it?
Putting a little balance back into our lives is really what these resolutions are about and are a big help in finding a bit of peace for 2013.
Take 10 mins and look at your life in terms of 8 different categories and try to (honestly) give each one a rating out of 10 – if you’re falling below 5 in any of the areas it may be time to take a look at it and see what can be done.
Set yourself reasonable and attainable goals and as always feel free to fail and start again.
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text: Established in 1991 by Nicky and Simone Zimmermann, the Sydney-based label soon gained a loyal following among the fashion crowd as one of the first labels to bring a high fashion edge to swimwear. Since then, Zimmermann has become recognized for its use of flattering silhouettes that are finished with bold prints and colours. The label translates an effortless femininity to its fashion-forward swimwear and ready-to-wear that translates beach style to city life. See this in the selection of shorts, which range from printed boardshorts to delicately embroidered pieces in cotton and tailored silk.


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► can anybody draw me a track?
i have original dwg plans of one of local track.
can anybody covert/make it run at krp?


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Towards an Integrated Information Platform for the formulation, fault diagnosis and reconfiguration of processes.
In order to have an autonomous system (or at least semi-autonomous) some ingredients are necessary. The first one is information or knowledge. And the second one is how to use that information to allow the self-diagnosis, and self-reconfiguration of a system. In this seminar an overview of different information sources (data modelling, ontologies, libraries, ... regarding to process systems) is initially presented. After some methodologies that use information to pursue a target are commented.
Finally a devised draft proposal of an architecture to integrate "information & use" is commented. The purpose of the seminar is to open a discussion on how to approach a methodology that (using what's already available) can be generic enough to be applied to the generation of autonomous systems.
The long title of the seminar should be Integrated Information platform for the formulation, fault diagnosis and reconfiguration of process systems.
In order to have an autonomous system (or at least semi-autonomous) some ingredients are necessary. The first one is information or knowledge. And the second one is how to use that information to allow the self-diagnosis, and self-reconfiguration of a system. In this seminar an overview of different information sources (data modelling, ontologies, libraries, ... regarding to process systems) is initially presented.
After some methodologies that use information to pursue a target are commented. Finally a devised draft proposal of an architecture to integrate "information & use" is commented. The purpose of the seminar is to open a discussion on how to approach a methodology that (using what's already available) can be generic enough to be applied to the generation of autonomous systems.
This is a seminar on the nature of knowledge.
The Wikipedia says that knowledge is information of which someone is aware and that knowledge is also used to mean the confident understanding of a subject, potentially with the ability to use it for a specific purpose.
In the context of autonomous systems, this old-age question has to go to the very ground: what is this that enables a system to act properly?
Desde el inicio de la Inteligencia Artificial -o incluso antes- se persigue la construción de máquinas que sean semejantes a los humanos, en cierta medida, personas artificiales.
Una justiificacion de esta investigacion se puede encontrar aqui.
The Chinese Room is a mental experiment proposed by the american philosopher John Searle to highlight weaknesses of the classic artificial intelligence research program.
This mental experiment focus on the issues related to the process of language understanding, questioning the possibility of real understanding by the machines postulated by AI.
Searle first formulated this problem in his now classic paper "Minds, brains and programs" that was published in 1980 (link) in the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Ever since, it has been a mainstay of debate over the possibility of what Searle called strong artificial intelligence, i.e.the possibility of building machines that not only seem to think like us but indeed do.
iiii.Therefore, programs are not minds.
Searle's conclusion is that the intelligent machines postulated by AI are just mindless manipulators of symbols, just as the man in the room is - and they don't understand what they're 'saying', just as he doesn't.


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When I saw this Paw Pact image on Facebook I knew I would be making a post out of it. It is exactly how I feel. I do not feel animals are disposable and once you bring them in your home they become family and you don’t just get rid of family.
Animals are little angels. Just the other day a friend of mine put this on her Facebook Page: “Just because my children have 4 legs and fur and aren’t human, doesn’t mean they aren’t as important as your human children.” -Me I completely understand where she is coming from and feel the same way. The love one can have for an animal can be just as strong as it is for a human and when a person’s feelings for their pet is disregarded or minimized it can be very upsetting.
Just yesterday I was thinking about my sister who passed away this past summer suddenly. Her birthday is in April so I have been thinking a lot about her lately. I was feeling pretty sad and started crying when I got home. But a few minutes of holding my sweet Cino and getting kisses & cuddles, I was feeling much better.
Cino is not just a cat, she is a part of my family and ALWAYS WILL BE.
Here is a poem I wrote last year that seems fitting to share again in this post. I hope you like it.
This entry was posted in Animals, Opinion, pets, Poems and tagged animals, cats, Dogs, pets, poetry, thepawpact on April 6, 2018 by Animals Are Feeling Beings Too.
Me too. I have seen some people even close to me give up their pets for some of these reasons and it breaks my heart.
Thanks so much for such a nice comment. I pray everyday I am making a difference for animals. I really hope I am.
Thanks for the encouragement! I really appreciate it!
I wrote a story for the last Chicken Soup for the Cat Lovers Soul entitled “All My Children Wear Fur Coats”. I love my feline family!
Beautiful LeeAnn and I agree so much. There can come complications by one or another reason, but if it is necessary to give an animal away, we need to take care, that they will get a good life in their new home. Reasons can be allergy, illness or death and better to give the animals a chance to get a new life, than take them down, I mean.
I love how you added if we can no longer care for an animal that we take the responsibility to find them a good new home. Thank you for mentioning a really good point.
I have been in need to do so many years ago and this was necessary. I was lucky to find good families.


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Join the first, and the best, mud run in the Coastal Bend! The Junior League of Corpus Christi’s RUN AMUCK is a 5K adult fun run and a 1K kids fun run.
The adult course is set-up with 12-15 obstacles. Some muddy than others, but all of them contribute to the excitement of Run Amuck. The Kids Dash 1K has age appropriate obstacles.
All runners will receive a timing chip, but at Run Amuck, the ultimate goal is to have fun!
All participants will receive a souvenir t-shirt, race bib, medal, and post event snacks and drinks, A DJ will be on-site to keep your body pumping and vendor booths will be set-up for you to check-out before or after you finish the run.
Age group awards will be presented at the end of the event.
So get your friends, family and co-workers together. Plan a crazy outfit or just break out your normal running gear.
Awards will be given to the best individual and groups costumes as well as the top 3 runners in each registration category.
Looking to sponsor our 2017 run? Email us at runamuck@jlcc.org!


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Transform your living space into a cosmopolitan lounge that emphasizes luxurious comfort with the smooth leather upholstery, plush stitching-embellished cushions, single recliner and contemporary styling of this alluring five-piece sectional sofa.
Features: -Color: Black -Ideal for most existing decor. -Durable and sturdy iron frame construction. -Water and stain resistant faux leather is durable and easy to clean. -Assemble Required. Dimension: -Chair: 60.83" x 20.08" x 28.74"


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Love a slice of cake but watching what you eat? Try Rosemary Conley’s diet lemon drizzle cake recipe – it’s only 144 cals per slice!
Preheat the oven to 150°C/300°F/Gas Mark 2. Beat the low-fat spread with the caster sugar, gradually adding the egg. Sieve in the flour and baking powder and beat again adding the finely grated zest of both lemons.
Pour into a loaf mould, lined with parchment paper. Bake in a preheated oven for 60 mins until a skewer inserted into the thickest part comes out clean.
When the cake is cooked – remove from the oven and pour over the juice from the 2 lemons and sprinkle with sugar, allow to cool and then serve cold.
Line the bottom of the loaf mould with a strip of parchment paper to make it easier to lift out when cooked.


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Currently an Student at Expression with a major in Sounds Art, I have the love for music growing up in the church playing the drums an transitioning to playing in the school band and performing original material at different venues has helped me develop a love for music. When it comes to creativity I use a plethora of things from sitting outside listening to the sounds to going to different churches to practice different styles. Music is a relay of my emotions, whether I express it through instruments or on the stage rapping. Music is what you make i not how you make it.
80’s/90’s baby and queer diasporic Tamil artist born in the Bay Area. I enjoy making music and ranting about social justice. I’m a vocalist first I can do lots of things.


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This modern and architecturally designed ‘’Creation’’ off the plan home offers quality construction and generous living areas. It also present a great opportunity to invest or buy your first home.
Conveniently located within walking distance to the Ponds High School, Riverbank Public School and only a few minutes’ drive to the Ponds Shopping Centre which includes Woolworths. Close to John Paul Schools, Terra Sancta College and less than 5kms to the Rouse Hill Town Centre.
This two storey home comprise of living areas downstairs from the open kitchen overlooking the spacious family and dining area to the covered alfresco terrace, perfect for entertaining. There is also the added convenience of internal access to the garage and laundry facilities. Upstairs you will find three bedrooms, the main with a large walk in robe, ensuite and a private balcony to enjoy.
Choice of colour schemes and other upgrades available.