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The first-ever special edition Accelerate Corporate "Next-generation Industrial Refrigeration – from Japan to the World" sheds light on the new generation of low-charge, high-efficiency NH3/CO2 secondary systems challenging traditional ammonia systems.
Jan holds a Doctor of Engineering degree in System Design from Hosei University in Tokyo and a Master’s degree from the Czech Technical University in Prague. During his studies, and research undertaken in the USA, Europe and Japan, Jan has centered his academic focus on environmental technologies and marketing strategies. Having lived in Japan for over 8 years, Jan communicates fluently in Japanese and has a rich experience cooperating with Japanese industry. Jan is currently based in Tokyo, responsible for business development activities and monitoring Asian markets on behalf of shecco Japan.

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A cooperation agreement between the Russian Society of Clinical Oncology (RUSSCO) and the Foundation for Cancer Research Support (RakFond) was signed on November 16, 2017, within the framework of the XXI Russian National Cancer Congress. The agreement establishes the conditions for cooperation between organizations, including: organization of joint events, research grant competitions, and other initiatives to support and promote basic, applied, translational and clinical research in the field of oncology, as well as implementation of joint projects, preparation of publications, and development of international cooperation.
The signing of the agreement took place during the annual general meeting of RUSSCO members. RakFond’s Founder and Chair of the Board of Directors, Christina Zakurdaeva, gave a presentation on RakFond’s mission, strategy, and tasks. She called the cooperation with the most successful organization uniting clinical oncologists in Russia to be both a great honor and a significant responsibility. In her speech, Christina emphasized that RakFond’s main assets are the people whose united efforts will make it possible to achieve Foundation’s ambitious goals. She specifically addressed the unique composition of Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Board, which consists of leading Russian and international oncologists. The Board was created to establish RakFond’s research priorities and maximally objective evaluation of scientific projects.
Chairman of RUSSCO, Professor Sergey Alekseyevich Tyulandin, praised the importance of creating RakFond as an instrument for supporting the oncological science and noted that oncologists themselves frequently become leading donors of such initiatives. This was confirmed by the results of fundraising during the Congress: 500 thousand rubles, received from participants’ registration and sale of RUSSCO-branded merchandise decorated with the emblem of scientific research support, will be used for the first joint research grant competition, which will be announced in early 2018.

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To make the cilantro cream, place all the ingredients in a high-speed blender and blend until the mixture is completely smooth. This might take up to 5 minutes, depending on the power of your blender. Add more water as you go if needed. Taste and add more salt or lime juice if desired. Pour the cream into a small bowl and rinse your blender-you’ll be using it again soon.
To finish the dish, heat a few tablespoons of veggie broth or a “glug” of oil in a large skillet over medium.
While the sauce is simmering, spread the tortilla pieces on a baking sheet and bake for 5 to 15 minutes, until they begin to dry out and start to curl on the sides. If you aren’t able to spread all the chips on your sheet, do them in two batches or use two sheets. You can also spray the tortillas with a little olive oil for extra crispness.
Stir the beans into the sauce and simmer on low for a few more minutes. When you are ready to serve, stir the chips into the sauce-but only when you are ready to serve! You don’t want them to get too soggy-you’re aiming for a combination of soft and crunchy. Serve the chilaquiles warm, topped with cilantro cream and your chosen toppings.

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We have a complete mechanical laboratory for the construction of virtually any drive or automation system needed to operate today’s high tech, intricate machinery. Each system is first laid out in AutoCAD ®, producing an extremely clean and efficient panel with well marked circuits that match our professionally drawn schematics.
Our systems come complete with full documentation, including mechanical and electrical schematics, device cut sheets, bill of materials and briefs outlining the operation and maintenance of the systems we design and build.

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SINGAPORE: A Singaporean tutor has pleaded guilty to helping six Chinese students cheat in school exams in a "highly sophisticated" operation using video calling and skin-coloured earphones, court documents seen by Reuters on Wednesday showed.
Private tuition is big business in Singapore with parents paying as much as S$700 ($535) for four-session courses and some tutors have become millionaires from the business.
Singapore's reputation for a good education system attracts students from across Asia and beyond.
Tan Jia Yan, 32, worked for a tuition centre that offered money-back guarantees to Chinese students if they failed to pass exams and get a place in a Singapore polytechnic.
Tan pleaded guilty on Monday to 27 charges of cheating.
Together with her colleagues, Tan helped attach "wearable Bluetooth devices" and skin-coloured earphones to the students which were connected to discreetly placed mobile phones when they sat their exams in 2016.
Tan then sat the exams herself as a private candidate and used a camera phone attached to her chest to send video footage of the paper to her colleagues via Facebook's Facetime app [FB.O].
Her colleagues would then call the students to tell them the answers.
Court documents said the "highly sophisticated" operation ran between Oct. 19 and Oct. 24, 2016, before it was uncovered by an invigilator.
Tan faces up to 3 years in prison or a fine, or both, per charge.
Three of her colleagues, including principal of the Zeus Education Centre, had also been charged, but were contesting the charges, media reported.
The principal allegedly worked with a Chinese associate, who would refer students to him, court documents said.
For each student referred, the associate allegedly received S$8,000 ($6,100) in deposit fees and another S$1,000 ($763) in admission fees.
The court documents said the six students were witnesses in the case.

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Finishing details are taking place at the 70's Bungalow project. It's truly my favorite part of the process seeing all the custom elements being perfectly fit into place and witnessing the entire house transform as fresh paint is applied and new millwork is installed. Its the custom details and thoughtfully coordinated specifications that distinguish a well designed home from your average Developer's build or DIY renovation. Only with hands-on involvement and the direct supervision of an Interior Designer is this quality of detail possible on a project. Just having the plans or the ideas for specific design details is not enough,,,,,,communicating directly with the fabricators and installers throughout the process is critical in order for it to come together properly and effeciently. With this interior nearing completion, I've been on site almost daily giving instruction and direction as the finishing details are coordinated amongst several different trades and installers, if just one element is wrong its a domino effect of very expensive mistakes.
Slabs of calaccatta were selected for the countertop and shower jambs to try and match the large calaccatta floor tiles. This beautiful section of the slab was specifically chosen for the soap niche in she shower and you can see how perfectly the fabricator matched the veining, its like a piece of art.
The custom vanity in the guest bathroom awaits its new Caesarstone countertop and undermount sink. The walls and trim are ready for paint.
The kitchen cabinetry with beautifully matched select veneers has been perfectly fit into place.
Counter depth appliances with custom front panels create a truly integrated look.
Crisp white paint is applied in all the common areas and living spaces.
There's simply no other wall colour that I react stronger to than Cloud White, it takes my breath away every single time, every single house I see it in, its eatheral. The newly painted interior was the turning point in the transformation, instantly the spaces looked fresh and modern and sophisticated all at the same time.
Invisible hinges and automatic light switches are meticulously routered into the front closet door jambs.
The rest of the interior doors have been installed and painted and the pair of rolling doors are almost ready to go up (on the left).
This stainless steel rolling track hardware has been a mini project all on its own but the master trim carpenter has patiently figured it all out with a little help from me and a few espressos.
Non-custom cabinetry was installed in the laundry room, the new counter, stainless steel backsplash and sink will be installed next week. (That's a blue protective film on top of the door fronts right now). Although the cabinetry units themselves were ready-made, the installation details are fairly customized, I worked one on one with the installer to explain how every component was to be cut/installed.
The exterior of the house is undergoing a dramatic transformation. In addition to a new roof, the old windows and chunky mouldings have been replaced with modern aluminum windows. The entire house has received a new smoother stucco finish in a deep warm grey (not as brown as it looks in this photo).
New soffits and eaves being installed and finally the temporary front door will soon be replaced with a gorgeous custom wood door - its arrival will signify the complete modern transformation of this dated facade.

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A few chances comin’ up to catch LCG in action. Tune in to WRFG Radio Free Georgia 89.3fm tonight @ 9pm (or stream it here online). Also see ‘em live at The Mountain Music & Medicine Show in downtown Dahlonega this Saturday, September 4th @ 8pm.
Cowboy Angel Music is pleased to announce that Adam Klein‘s Wounded Electric Youth is now available for purchase via the beautiful new www.adam-klein.com site. Check it out! Expect to see the album for sale online at iTunes, eMusic, CD Baby, and other outlets in the next six weeks or so.
Adam and Gabriel Mintz are on tour in the southeast now, so check the tour dates to cath their shows this week in Johnson City (TN), Winston Salem (NC) , Chapel Hill (NC), Columbia (SC), and Athens (GA).
On Saturday Aug. 28th, Justin Evans and Timber will be playing at Max Canada, while Adam & Gabe are at the Flicker. So you can hop back and forth between venues (next door to one another) to get your fill of Cowboy Angel acts this weekend!
Expect updates and news on Cowboy Angel artists shortly..
Greetings from south India, y’all. Adam here. Hope the summer’s treating ya well. Pleased to see some great reviews and radio play coming through for some of our recent releases, including Timber, The Granfalloons , and Nutria. Justin Evans will be getting a 4* review in England’s fine Maverick Magazine and look for deservedly high praise for Little Country Giants in the next Sing Out! Magazine. We’ll have a run-down of reviews and key radio support in mid-late August when I’m back stateside.
New show added in New York at Banjo Jim’s (Ave C & 9th St.) in ‘Alphabet City’ for Thursday, August 12th @ 8pm. That’ll be my first show back from India and Raphael McGregor will be on hand playing lap steel and guitar. Followed by a tour with Gabriel Mintz in the southeast in 20s of August. Check out the tour dates for more info.
Thanks for checking in. My next record, Wounded Electric Youth, will be available at all shows beginning in mid-August. Official release date to be announced.
Praise and airplay’s been coming in for Timber‘s Scrawled! Check out fine reviews at The Fire Note and AltCountryForum.nl (Dutch). Taproot Radio, Americana OK, Dutch Roots Radio, Inner FM in Melbourne, Australia, Roots Revival (June Playlist) and others have been playing this great collection of songs. Thanks for sending these out on the airwaves y’all.
Nutria‘s Permanent Reminder of a Temporary Emotion is out! Approval’s trickling in. Here’s The Cosmic American on the seven song EP gem. We can expect reviews and radio for Nutria and The Granfalloons throughout the summer.
Speaking of which, Adam‘s off to India to group lead for a service learning program until mid-August. Back in action with a southeastern tour in 20s of August with Seattle’s one and only Gabriel Mintz. Look for occasional updates here, perhaps, in the next six weeks. Otherwise, we’ll be bringin’ the good Cowboy Angel news and cheer come mid-August. Soak in the sun and records..
Nutria CD release, Flagpole Music Awards & videos!
Nutria is one of the finest pop/rock bands around. Period. Celebrated Athens tunesmith Bob Spires’ fantastic pop sensibility is featured on their upcoming seven-song extended EP, Permanent Reminder of a Temporary Emotion, and Cowboy Angel couldn’t be more pleased to get it out there.
The CDs are in! Purchase the album on iTunes or CD Baby for now. It will be available on other sites shortly.
Athens Banner Herald chimes in on Nutria and the new album, PROATE. Check it out here. And how ’bout Nutria’s new website? Have a look at www.nutriaworld.net. Also, tune in to WUGA 91.7fm (stream it online here) for a live interview with Nutria and hear some tracks from the record on Wednesday, June 2nd, at 4pm EST.
Wanna see the show flyer? Sure ya do. Check it out on CAM friend Jason Harwell‘s site!
Members of the Cowboy Angel family have been nominated for the 2010 Flagpole Music Awards! Please click on this link, enter your contact info at the top of page, scroll down, and vote for Timber for best Americana act and Kaitlin Jones & The County Fair for Country/Southern Rock! Congratulations to all the nominees (Cowboy Angel is a friend and fan of them all) and way to go, Timber & Kaitlin!
Speaking of Timber, Daniel Aaron recently stopped by WUGA 91.7fm in Athens to discuss Scrawled with JoE Silva, host of the “Just Off the Radar” program. Check out the interview session here! It will be up and live soon.
Athens’ new web show, ‘Live from the Classic City’, features video of Adam Klein performing three new songs, “Come so Far” from the upcoming Dugu Wolo album recorded in Bamako, Mali, as well as “Jesse’s Mind” and “Wishing Wells”, two tracks which will be on a future acoustic EP (likely to be released in 2011). Have a look!

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In an interview with CITE from his base in Johannesburg, Chairperson of the African Diaspora Forum (ADF), Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda said the Congress of South African Trade (COSATU) is in support of a planned march by Zimbabweans living in South Africa.
The bulk of meetings and the marches that have taken place in South Africa were apparently organised by ordinary people with no affiliation to any political party or grouping. A lot of meetings are actually taking place and I’m attending most. We are basically discussing mass action that will be supported by COSATU around February 1 to stand with people of Zimbabwe. Brothers and sisters in the diaspora are very unhappy about the situation in Zimbabwe and want action and see this government moved. The march coming on February 1 has now received more attention as a lot of civic society organisations and COSATU have come in and the meetings would be at COSATU house.

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Last year, I asked David Mallett if there was anywhere else in the world he’d like to open a salon. His answer was firm.
Three salons later – two in Paris, one in New York – and we’re very happy Heriard Dubreuil had that chat.
An extension of his Parisian flagship, his eponymous New York outpost – the first outside France – is equally as stylish, but with a little Manhattan about it. Rather than cast onto the street front, David Mallett à New York is discreetly kept from view; the studio is located on the fifth floor, away from nosy New Yorkers. Sitting at only eight-chairs, it is small, yes, but it is this sense of intimacy which is intrinsic to the Mallett brand as a whole. Even within the unusually sprawling space on Rue Notre Dame des Victoires, there is intimacy; petit pockets where you feel like it’s you – and only you – getting une coupe brushing, because from intimacy stems quality, and most importantly, trust – an integral quality in the relationship between hairdresser and client.
Careful not to displace his French soul (or Australian heart), the rarefied air of his right-bank salon remains, albeit subtly. French craftsmanship is celebrated, which for Mallett, is an important story not only in his own narrative, but one for his new American clientele. Custom-made hairdressing suitcases, designed mirrors to marry well with classic New York period architecture, vestimentary codes and designer capes, and a spectacular fifteen-foot-long marble table (which acts as the pièce de résistance), are all made-to-measure by French craftsmen. The 1,600-square-foot space was carved by renowned French architect Charles Zana, combining both the old-world grandeur of mighty ceilings with the original architectural details of historical New York.
Despite the commonalities with its Parisian siblings (Mallet also has a tiny salon within thy hallowed walls of Ritz Paris), there is not a pretentious peacock in sight. Nor a naughty cheetah. Even the famous ostrich didn’t make it across the Atlantic. Unlike the taxidermy and trinkets of David Mallett Paris, David Mallett à New York is different. It’s its own space, with its own unique character.
For the Australian-born, Parisian-based hairstylist, it’s a new chapter in his “real journey,” and one we’re very happy about. Extremely, in fact.


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It’s Week 47 of Michael Baca II’s The War Report, featuring a full recap of boxing’s best and what to look forward to in the coming weeks.
It might not be the most compelling spate of bouts to round out 2017 but at least HBO is making some sort of effort. Steve Kim reports.
As long as boxing exists, there is a Square Jungle in which it resides. And in this Jungle, Carlos Acevedo rules with an iron keyboard and a wit to match.
With a new regulation in New York State dictating a $1,000,000-per-fighter insurance policy, is boxing doomed in the ‘Empire State’? Steve Kim reports.
With the help of several of boxing’s luminaries and friends, our own Bill Tibbs has compiled a laudatory list of praise for our dear, departed Muhammad Ali.
It takes a special film about boxing to make critics take notice. Today, “Creed” is that very movie. Steve Kim reports on the latest “Rocky” tale.
On Sunday, the International Boxing Hall of Fame’s Class of 2015 was inducted in Canastota, NY. Bill Tibbs reports.
Can World Heavyweight Champion Wladimir Klitschko get an even break, whether or not he defeats undefeated Bryant Jennings on Saturday evening? Michael Baca II reports.

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text: The HONEY-DEW LIST, enjoyed at Crop Saturday evening at 9pm, the new banker hours. This is a remodeled bank building, it was huge, comfy and tasty. I wasn't done with just one libation. I also enjoyed the Crop SUMMERTIME FIZZ..um good. If you were old enough to remember blop, blop, fizz, fizz on what a relief it is. Well its nothing like that, more like yum,yum,i'll have another. And another thing, like i said Bloody Mary's aren't just for Sunday, this one being enjoyed on Saturday evening.


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Cycling by nature is repetitive, requiring being in a fixed, and often quite flexed position, for long periods of time. Mobility, strength and stability are therefore crucial to not having to compromise on position and to generating maximum power. Trunk control and strength through the abdominals and obliques is therefore essential to holding a good posture on the bike, which in turn helps with efficiency – if you’re not stable in your core it doesn’t matter how strong your legs are, you’re going to be rocking around and wasting energy.
Strength conditioning programmes are also important. You lose strength quickly when you haven’t ridden for a while – something that tends to happen a lot over the winter – but strength conditioning helps minimise the loss of riding miles. Alongside that, stretching is important for mobility and flexibility, helping recovery and regeneration, a kind of general maintenance really.
Having a programme that incorporates these things alongside your normal riding timetable will therefore be beneficial for both performance and injury prevention. For example, look to incorporate two or three strength and conditioning sessions into your week, on the days when you’re not riding. Then look to do 10 minutes of stretching either side of a ride or session, though I don’t advise you do hard stretching after exercise, as you don’t want to inflict more damage on the muscles you’ve just been working.
A programme of 12 weeks is optimum, but you’ll see improvements in four to six weeks, or with some exercises even sooner. Some things like muscle lengthening can take longer, but as with everything perseverance will pay off.
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Mesquite Nevada Condos on the North Side - Hawkridge Condos Not far from Wolf Creek golfcourse, and still within walking distance to casinos and Smith's shopping center. Located on the bluffs right above Marilyn Redd Park and right next to Rock Springs Condos - some units have beautiful views of the mountains, city or park.
Two floor plans are available. A downstairs unit is 2 bedroom, 2 bath with 996 sq ft. The upstairs unit is a 2 story, with 1364 sq ft - 2 bedrooms downstairs and the master is an upstairs loft. Hawkridge Condos have granite kitchen counters and tile floors in the wet areas. Each condo has a covered parking space, with plenty of extra parking for guests.
There are currently 16 condos for sale in Hawkridge - listings start at 82,000 and go up to 129,000, depending on the size, condition, and views. These townhomes are only a few years old, some look like they are brand new. Many have been used as vacation or second homes, some as short term rentals - with easy access to our north side golf courses, Hawkridge has been very popular with Mesquite golfers.


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Special Essential Thai Oils are imported from Thailand and then applied to the skin by one of our fully qualified Thai female therapists. By warming the oil with their hands this ensures a truly relaxing experience.
This is probably the most traditional form of Thai massage, a harder massage where all the muscles are worked.
For the last three years Top Massage Dubai have been dedicated to bringing the best quality Thai massage service to our clients in the UAE. Top Massage Dubai is your trusted partner when it comes to relaxation and professional Thai massage. Let one of our 35 Thai female therapists transport you to a world of bliss and relaxation. Wherever you stay in Dubai, call us and book for Dubai outcall massage service will be part of your best memories in the hotels. We can arrange Thai female therapists travelling to your hotels to share the fantasy moments… We can arrange our massage services for outcall and hotels in Dubai. Just call our contact NO 052 788 7434 to make an appointment and our Masseuses are expected to arrive in 20 mins. Rate varies from 800 DHS -3000 DHS according to the girls’ status and massage services. Please kindly be noted that taxi charge should be paid for round-trip.


text: A California electrical utility performing regular maintenance performs regular hydroexcavation work. The resulting soil slurry must be tested before disposal. Transport and disposal of this liquid waste is very costly. On this occasion, there were 17,000 gallons to dispose of.

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text: That’s right, folks! I’ve moved and gotten my own domain name and hosting at http://www.mindofamaka.com, I just hope I can maintain that. Please subscribe and channel your love that way, and Happy New Year! See you in 2018!

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Liu, L.; Tai, X.; Zhou, X. Au3+/Au0 Supported on Chromium(III) Terephthalate Metal Organic Framework (MIL-101) as an Efficient Heterogeneous Catalystfor Three-Component Coupling Synthesis of Propargylamines. Materials 2017, 10, 99.
Liu L, Tai X, Zhou X. Au3+/Au0 Supported on Chromium(III) Terephthalate Metal Organic Framework (MIL-101) as an Efficient Heterogeneous Catalystfor Three-Component Coupling Synthesis of Propargylamines. Materials. 2017; 10(2):99.
Liu, Lili; Tai, Xishi; Zhou, Xiaojing. 2017. "Au3+/Au0 Supported on Chromium(III) Terephthalate Metal Organic Framework (MIL-101) as an Efficient Heterogeneous Catalystfor Three-Component Coupling Synthesis of Propargylamines." Materials 10, no. 2: 99.


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I think this New York Magazine profile of Rightwardly drifting education reformer Michelle Rhee is meant to be admiring, although the reporter, Andrew Rice, seems to have adopted a Missourian’s form of admiration.
Over the past few months, rather than taking another municipal gig, Rhee has been campaigning through flash-point states, like a sort of wonky Che Guevara, lending celebrity, credibility, and covering fire to political leaders who endorse her vision of school reform.
It may be admiring but it’s not all that flattering.
Rice has her stating again and again in various ways that she’s out to save the children, but he never quotes her saying anything that shows she ever thinks about children as individuals. No stories. No examples. No offhand remarks that show she was ever in a classroom, although she started out her career as a teacher and apparently, after a rough rookie year, a good one.
Children come across as her cause but not her concern.
Nothing Rice reports her saying shows she’s aware that there are such people called parents either.
And there are no quotes that show that she is either a deep or original thinker on education, on teaching, on politics, even though she has in effect become a politician, or on reform.
She has one idea that has become more of an article of faith with her than anything else. Our schools are full of bad teachers who must be run out of the profession now.
Who those bad teachers are, what makes them bad, how do we identify them? Rhee doesn’t seem to feel any need to answer those questions for us. She’s answered them for herself and that’s enough for us to know. She knows who they are and she knows what needs to be done and she’s prepared to do whatever it takes to see that it gets done.
Rhee seems to want to set herself up as principal---a very strict principal---for the entire country’s schools.
She says she doesn’t care what kind of schools those schools are, public or private, charter schools or traditional neighborhood schools. Doesn’t matter. Just as long as they all answer to her, if not directly, then by living up to standards she’s set.
Nothing seems to turn a certain type of leftist into a Right Winger more effectively than the discovery that the people don’t want to be led by him. Or her. Rhee is ostensibly a Democrat and a liberal but she has a pronounced authoritarian streak and I suspect her of being one of those “reformers” who start out on the Left but wind up on the Right as they learn to resent and hate and want to reform the people they’re supposedly championing.
Rhee is mad at teacher unions and appears to be working her way towards hating them. And one thing about Right Wingers, they make the best haters.
Rice presses the point that Rhee has allies among liberals and conservatives.
And her most prominent conservative allies at the moment are the Right Wing bully boys who occupy the governor’s mansions in Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Florida, and New Jersey. Rhee has issues with liberals and Democrats, but lately she doesn’t seem to have met a Republican she doesn’t like.
Whisking from Fox News to Bloomberg before heading to the Today show, Rhee picks up a copy of the Journal and scans it for a column under her own byline arguing that fiscal crises around the country could usher in “the best of times” for education reformers. By lunchtime, she’s in the back of a Town Car on her way to the Capitol Building in Trenton, to be Christie’s guest of honor at his State of the State address. “No one in America has been more clear that we must change our public-education system from one that caters to the feelings of adults to one that prepares our children for the 21st century,” the governor says as he introduces her to the crammed chamber. “Michelle … I want you to count New Jersey among those who, like you, are finally putting students first.” When he finishes, Christie strides over and wraps Rhee in a bearish hug, and they recede to a closed-door meeting in the governor’s chambers. Then Rhee is speeding back to Cipriani’s on 42nd Street, where Davis Guggenheim, the director of Waiting for “Superman,” is to receive the award for Best Documentary at the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures’ annual gala.
First, Republicans hate teacher unions for the same reasons they hate all unions. Unions give workers the strength to stand up to bosses and they help get out the vote for Democrats.
Breaking the teacher unions isn’t about improving the quality of education and it’s not about bringing deficits under control. Republicans care about education as much as they care about deficits.
This is all about putting Republicans in control of all levels of government so they can do what Republicans believe government is meant to do, help their rich friends and donors make more money.
And for all their talk about merit pay, Republicans clearly think all teachers are overpaid, the good ones as well as the bad ones. But then they think all American workers, except hedge fund managers and corporate executives, are overpaid. The money Rhee will need to attract and reward the best and the brightest into teaching and to support them on the job won’t be there if Republicans are running things everywhere.
All the current budget cutting that Rhee sees as an opportunity is resulting in the one sure way to turn good teachers into mediocre ones---overcrowding classrooms.
The Republicans of course have a solution to that problem. The same solution they offer to any problem that arises from their policies of helping the rich get richer.
The market will sort it out.
We’re talking about opening and, naturally, subsidizing, lots of private schools.
Leaving aside for now those Republicans who hate public schools and are all for vouchers and more private schools so that their children don’t have to mix with THEM or learn things that might have the kids questioning Right Wing Christian beliefs and defying the authority of the preachers, generally what Republicans don’t like about public schools is that they cost a lot of money and yet nobody gets rich off of them.
Republicans see all of life as business. That is, they think the purpose of life is to make money. In their eyes, education reform is an opportunity to privatize.
That means turning education into a business.
They don’t really care if a school turns out well-educated future citizens. Well-educated future citizens are just the product. The point is to turn a profit while turning out the product.
Now, how many businesses not only fail to turn a profit in their first year or two in operation but out and out fail?
Rhee talks about how the first couple of years of schooling are critical to a child’s intellectual development. You get only one chance at first grade.
But what about all those kids who are in first grade when their schools run as businesses are failing?
They go back to underfunded, overcrowded public schools?
Rhee doesn’t show that she’s thought things through that far.
Again, she doesn’t show that she’s thinking about anything except getting rid of bad teachers.
So, second, there are plenty of bad teachers. There are plenty of good teachers too. But what there are a lot more of is teachers in between.
They have their good days and their bad days, good years and bad years.
It’s very easy for a determined principal to make one of those teachers look like a bad teacher.
For that matter, it’s not all that hard for a determined principal to make a good teacher look like a bad teacher.
The unions’ job is to protect those teachers.
Rhee seems to think---echoing the current crop of Republican demagogues’ rhetoric---that unions are all about protecting bad teachers.
Conversely, she seems to think---again echoing current Republican demagoguery---that the unions ought to see it as their job to be concerned with the children and the quality of their education.
But that’s the job of teachers not their unions. The unions look out for the teachers so the teachers can look out for their students.
And it’s not unions that get in the way of teachers doing their jobs.
It’s administrators, bureaucrats, politicians, and, sadly, all too often, parents.
Sometimes it’s other teachers, which is a whole ‘nother ballgame.
Rhee is furious with the unions but for the time being she is not a union buster. At least, she doesn’t see herself as one.
But her Right Wing allies are union busters. And what happens if they succeed?
Besides over-crowded classrooms and lower pay, teachers will get fewer and stingier benefits, same as all other non-unionized American workers.
Just a reminder, benefits are not party gifts. They are compensation. We give teachers good benefits because we can’t pay them the high salaries they deserve. Without those benefits, it will be harder to attract and keep teachers, any teachers, not just the most talented ones.
Rhee believes that being a good teacher is a talent not a skill. You’re born with the gift. Which I think is true. But if teachers are like artists and athletes in being born with a gift, they are also like them in that they get better as they gain experience and head into their primes.
Athletes tend to reach their primes in their late twenties and early thirties. Artists reach theirs later, in their forties and fifties, although for some their primes stretch well into what for the rest of us is old age. I can’t say for sure when teachers reach theirs. But I would think it’s probably in their thirties and forties and even early fifties, when they’ve piled up the experience but still have the energy and emotional endurance.
Which means they enter their primes right about the time they are starting their families and continue in their primes through the years when they are buying houses, raising kids and sending them off to college, and, in a good many cases, taking on the care of aging parents.
Their primes, then, coincide with the years when they need more and more money and desperately count on job security and keep themselves going by focusing on consolation that at the end of the day they’re going to have a well-earned comfortable retirement.
And now we’re talking about cutting their pay and reserving the right to take away their jobs at whim?
You bet we are! And this kind of talk is coming from both Rhee’s supposedly liberal allies as well as her Right Wing bully boy ones.
I’m telling you. If I was a good teacher in my prime right now, I’d be looking into early retirement or a career change. And if I was a bright and ambitious young education major I’d be applying to law schools.
Ok. None of the above is meant to downplay the idea that our schools and our approach to education need to be reformed.
And as it happens I agree with Rhee on some things, particularly in it not mattering---in theory, at least---if a school is public or private, a charter school or a traditional neighborhood school. I’m a liberal. That means I’m not in favor of what ought to be. I’m in favor of what works. We started our kids off in private school and someday I’ll write about how that didn’t work out and how a charter school saved our lives. We happen now to live in a district with good public schools but we lucked into it. There are other districts nearby where the schools are nightmares and I don’t know what we’d have done if we’d found ourselves living in one of them.
But those schools aren’t nightmares because they are full of bad teachers the union won’t let the administrations fire.
They are nightmares for a slew of reasons, not the least of which is that they don’t have enough money.
You want to be a teacher, a good one? What’s the surest way to guarantee that you will be?
Get yourself hired in an upper middle class suburban school district.
That’s where you’re going to have to deal with the fewest outside problems that get in the way of your doing your job to the best of your ability.
The irony is that Rhee’s best allies in reforming our schools aren’t “liberal” hedge fund managers or conservative politicians on the make.
To her credit, Rhee does seem to have considered this and she sees her movement’s organization, StudentsFirst, as offering teachers a kind of alternative union.
Of course it’s one run by her rules.
As I said, nothing in Rice’s article shows that Rhee has thought deeply about what makes a good teacher good. She uses the same metric to judge good teachers as she uses to judge bad teachers: How well their students do on standardized tests.
In other words, Rhee’s preferred method of measuring a teacher’s performance tends to nobble that teacher.
The other problem with relying on standardized tests is that there is a strong temptation to cheat.
A USA TODAY investigation, based on documents and data secured under D.C.'s Freedom of Information Act, found that for the past three school years most of [D.C. public school Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus’] classrooms had extraordinarily high numbers of erasures on standardized tests. The consistent pattern was that wrong answers were erased and changed to right ones.
USA TODAY was looking at years when Michelle Rhee was running D.C.’s schools and using test scores to make decisions about which teachers to reward and which to fire.
Hat tips to Tom Watson and Bruce Bernstein.
Photo courtesy of AP by way of USA Today.
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Michelle Rhee taught for three years at a Baltimore public school, under private management at the time, as part of Teach for America. Two of those three years the classes seem to have been 'co-taught'. Her achievements were never proven (records were lost) and relied on the word of her principal. There is some evidence Rhee's claims were exaggerated.
She built a career out of those three years.
I've seen bad teachers and good teachers and a lot of teachers who were just okay. Also teachers who were a terrible fit for one kid and just perfect for another. Rhee seems to think the whole problem is that teachers don't work hard enough. Maybe she's right (undoubtedly in some cases) but she's no exemplar of sticking to a job.
Of course it maybe be a case of those who can't teach, administrate.
"And if i was a bright and ambitious young education major I’d be applying to law schools."
LANCE!! FOR GOD'S SAKE, NO!! DON'T EVEN JOKE!! HOW MANY F$#%$$& LAWYERS DO YOU THINK WE CAN STAND!!?
I don't think that's true, at least in urban areas when looking at systemic problems. When I started out as a cop, every kid I dealt with might have had a dad around, might not, but he/she usually knew where to find him, but there was always a mother in the picture, always. By the time I retired there was never, ever a dad and there was usually no mom either. There was a grandman for a year, then an aunt, maybe mom comes back, then another aunt and maybe back to grandma.
My point is that unless you send a child home to something stable, it doesn't matter AT ALL what reforms you institute because at the end of the day the child returns to chaos. I have seen some studies of schools, particularly in Harlem, where the child is immersed in an all-encompassing 10-12 hr a day school universe and that does often produce great results, but it requires teachers to put in 12-14 hr. days which most won't (reasonably) want to do after a few years.
Now I do have some thoughts on what Govs. Walker and Christie are trying to do, but I've rambled on enough on someone else's blog.
I'd take that a step further and say that what works is what ought to be.
"Her achievements were never proven (records were lost) and relied on the word of her principal. There is some evidence Rhee's claims were exaggerated.
She built a career out of those three years."
Actually, BF Brandenburg has conclusively proven that her claims were a lie.
"And there are no quotes that show that she is either a deep or original thinker on education, on teaching, politics, even though she has in effect become a politician"
Do you know of a politician who is either a deep or original thinker? Deep and original thinking takes time, a lot of time, after having spent long years studying the problems about which one is thinking. I don't believe that the requirements of success for a contemporary politician allow for deep and original thinking. Image is everything (yes, I know, this is just the measurement problem all over again, no different from standardized tests, etc., etc.).
Chris, your comment made me desperately sad. Is there any way out of this awful mess?
I'm sorry if I made you feel bad.
To answer your question (whether it was rhetorical or not) I haven't got a clue - I don't know how you rebuild fractured families on a national level. I just try and take care of my girls. And I tell them probably once a month: when you decide to start a family, find someone, fall in love, get married and have kids--in that order, and stay with your husband as hard as you can once those kids are born.
Go read Somerby today. [Ed. note: scroll down.] He's been following Rhee since 2008. Not only have several cast doubt on her "accomplishments," but it may be that she did little to nothing when it was almost immediately determined that something was wonky about the test scores coming from her schools. And yes, it was actually her job to do something about those observations, something with great vigor.
Jeff, thanks for the Somerby link. Always good to be reminded to check out the Daily Howler.
Chris, from the New York article, I get the impression that Rhee pretty much rejects the idea that the situation you're describing has anything to do with what goes on in the classroom or, at least, that she thinks it's a problem that good teaching can overcome, as if a talented teacher can somehow make up for a chaotic homelife.
Ken Muldrew: Do you know of a politician who is either a deep or original thinker?
You mean besides Thomas Jefferson? Rhee is a politician-come-lately. But she's been in education for 20 years. You'd think somewhere along the way she'd have taken the time to give things a deep thought or two. But I'm just going by what's in the article or rather what's not in the article. However much thinking she's done in the past, though, it does seem as if she's given up thinking for believing. She's become a true believer in her own cause.
vjs, mcstowy, thanks for the background. Like I said, all I'm going on is what's in the article.
Owen: I'd take that a step further and say that what works is what ought to be.


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'The Eurosceptic Surge and how to respond to it', a new policy brief by Mark Leonard and José Ignacio Torreblanca, is available to read online or in e-book format.


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A little over 3 years ago after much consideration, I took on a rather larger restoration project, the Thames sailing Barge, ‘Raybel’.
I knew this would impact greatly upon me and the shop and it has been some journey so far. It brings to mind the film ‘Fitzcoraldo’ by Werner Herzog, except I am working largely alone.It meant last year I closed the shop from june till December as I needed more money and time than the shop could offer so I sought this elsewhere.
I am telling you this as I need to do the same again this year, so I am closing the shop from May 2nd till the end of June.
I am optimistic that after this period things might get back to ‘normal’.
I apologise for the inconvenience this may cause you and I look for your understanding and compassion in this matter.
The Raybel is a most worthy cause, if only she were made of steel.
As we celebrate Chinese New Year here at Sargent & Co let’s not forget that China is one of the greatest cycling nations in the world. Over 500 million bikes and counting.
…and today vintage bikes are back and popular as ever in fashionable Shanghai, where over 60% of people commute to work. That’s 6.5 million registered cyclists.
For those familiar with Strava please accept my apologies as I quickly overview it for the benefit of those that aren’t.
Strava is an app. Yes an application – something you download on to your smartphone so that your life will improve. You get this app. and you create a profile – Gender, Age, Weight (optional), Bike Make and Model, you can even add a befitting image of yourself riding your bike if you like.
The app. has an in built GPS and maps your journey. Certain sections of your trip will have been earmarked out by other users and given a name. For example The Seven Sisters Sprint – this is a 200m stretch of road with a defined beginning and end – when you ride along this 200m stretch it records your time and adds you to a table. The Table of Truth. Every user who has done that same stretch of road has had their time recorded and added to the Table of Truth. You can see the fastest ever time and the slowest ever time this has been ridden. The facts are laid bare.
You may believe you are something special, but let me tell you once you see the Table of Truth you will realise at best you are a mediocre excuse of a cyclist. There are people out there that ride so fast it will blow your mind. Take Claire Wright (I have changed her name for privacy purposes), she rides the Reserevoir Revver at 39.1km/h. Yes. This is flat road. How does this Claire ride so bloody fast? Do you know? I do – she is on a scooter. Yep you heard right, she is a cheat, she must be.
And then there is this Nicola girl. According the Table of Truth she rides the 250m Home Run 17 seconds faster than me. Now I drank a double espresso and attacked that road the other morning I and can’t see how it’s possible. I mean there are cars to consider and pedestrians. I was close to branding her a cheat as well, but when I clicked on her time I saw that it gives you the hour at which she rode her ‘superior’ time. And you know what she did? She rode it at 06.30 on a Sunday. The cunning cat got up specially when there is the least amount of traffic around and made herself the Queen of the Mountains (this is the title you get for being number 1 on a stretch). Well Nicola, if you are reading this, just remember what goes up must come down.
So this Strave app. all joking aside is a really good tool for anyone with fitness goals and for mapping routes – perfect for those weekend spins. It is also lots of fun as you win cups and medals for beating both others and your personal bests. You can of course also use this app. to start a hate campaign against complete strangers like I have, it’s up to you.
(It maybe worth noting that you do have the option to make all of your information private, oh and that this app. is highly addictive).


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Do they come with different sizes of shaft ?
Is this the same as a Curtis 211 gearbox ?
A: It appears to be interchangeable with that model functionally, yes.
What is the torque (N.m) that this gearbox can support.
A: We have no figures from the manufacturer regarding radial or axial load limits.
Can you tell me what the OHL on this gearbox is or do you know if i can put a v-belt pulley directly on the shaft?
A: We do not have any figures on the overhung load rating of these boxes. The shafts do have bearings and will tolerate pulleys on the shafts.
Would these gearboxes work in water?
A: The are not made to be submerged, no.
are the shafts on this box specific as to powered & loaded, or power in vs power out? Or can I power either shaft?
A: Either shaft can be the input on this box.
I have a 15 hp tractor with a 4 'pto mower is this gear box rated to high ?
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What would shipping be on two of these gearboxes to Canada?
Do you have one like this but splined on both ends?
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Can this gearbox rotate in either direction?
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Pulsing Rhythmic Bodywork is possibly one of the very best forms of bodywork, and also one of the most enjoyable. Pulsing is a transformative Reichian bodywork that helps you connect to your embodied self, release physical tension and emotional stress, let go of old patterns and discover your authentic self.
The training is primarily hands-on learning. Short demonstration sessions are followed by supervised practice in pairs, during which you will receive one-to-one coaching on technique and on general good practice. The groups are small and friendly, with no more than 12 participants. Jenny Firkins of ZenBodywork is assistant facilitator.
These weekend workshops are a great way of immersing yourself into an experience of this delightful bodywork.
Pulsing uses a continuous rocking of the whole body to encourage the receiver to release both the superficial holding of everyday muscular tension and the chronic holding of body armour. The wave-like rhythm brings a sense of ease and flow, and coaxes the receiver to accept support and nurturing, to surrender to the motion and release their habitual control of the body's natural impulses.
Within this matrix of continuous rocking, the limbs are stretched, lifted, shaken, rotated and swung to encourage the whole body to open up. Different rhythms may be explored, from the slow and meditative to the dynamic and exciting. This allows you in your body to experience unfamiliar states or engage with ones you habitually block while being safely held. It grants you permission to connect with feelings and sensations, to release physical tension and emotional stress and attune to your natural energy and power.
A Pulsing session is likely to leave you profoundly relaxed, yet sparkling with energy.
While many practicing bodyworkers attend, no previous experience is required: the workshops are for anyone who is open and willing to engage with both themselves and with others in a spirit of play, exploration and acceptance.
Attendance at 4 weekends leads (subject to satisfactory completion) to certification by the Pulsing Association. This qualification is generally accepted by professional organisations such as Embody and the FHT. This makes it ideal for any practitioner of hands-on bodywork wishing to add another skill; or for practitioners of performing, movement & martial arts who would like to introduce an element of hands-on work into their practice. It is also useful for psychotherapists and counsellors wishing to explore how to use touch with clients.
Workshops take place at weekends only. They run 10am to 6pm on both Saturday and Sunday.
Precise dates for 2020 will be confirmed Autumn 2019.
The venue is 1 minutes walk from Colliers Wood underground station (Northern Line). There are also buses into Wimbledon (British Rail and District Line tube). Parking restrictions are in force on Saturdays in the roads closest to the centre; there are no parking restrictions on Sundays. Parking is not restricted on Saturdays and Sundays in Zone CW, just around the corner from the tube station.
For anyone needing accommodation, the Premier Inn Wimbledon South is across the road from Colliers Wood tube station.
The venue has a kitchenette where drinks can be made; tea and coffee will be provided. Lunch may be brought or easily purchased nearby.
Unlike conventional massage, it is not necessary to be unclothed to receive a Pulsing session. Wear or bring clothing that is comfortable and does not restrict movement; t-shirt and jogpants or leggings are recommended (preferably cotton, as Lycra tends to be too slippery).
The workshops run from 10am to 6pm both days.
A single weekend costs £125.
To obtain the Pulsing certificate you must complete any 4 weekends within 2 years - total cost £500.
Anyone who has already completed the Pulsing practitioner training and wishes to attend for a refresher is entitled to a reduced price for a single weekend of £85.
Your place is not guaranteed until payment has been received. Once you have reserved a place I will hold it for you for 3 weeks pending payment. If payment has not been received within 3 weeks, your place will be un-reserved and offered to others. If this may be a a problem for you, please contact me to discuss.
All courses must be pre-booked and paid for in advance. There is no admission on the day without prior registration.
Step 1: Decide which date(s) you wish to book. It is probably advisable to first text or email me to check on availability of places.
Step 2: Complete the online booking form.
Step 3: Once I have confirmed your place, make your payment. Your place is not guaranteed until payment has been received.
Paypal: Go to https://www.paypal.me/Lawton123 and follow the instructions.
Your place will be confirmed once payment is received.
I do not currently accept credit cards.
*Alternatively, the full amount may be credited towards a place on the next workshop.
This deeply enjoyable and gentle form of bodywork provides a wide range of benefits to physical health and mental & emotional wellbeing. Like massage it helps release stress, eases muscular tension and promotes the overall health of the physical systems of the body, such as the immune system, digestion, circulation and the lymphatic system.
It also provides benefits that are generally more associated with exercise practices such as yoga and Pilates and movement-based modalities such as Tai Chi and 5 Rhthyms dance meditation. It can enhance balance, co-ordination and mobility; it stimulates energy and a sense of aliveness. It may also assists you in developing self-expression and psychological transformation, helping to shift old patterns of behaviour. This may be with conscious awareness of your process, or simply by allowing fresh energies to emerge within the body.
Pulsing may also be a very meditative experience, helping you connect to a deeper sense of self: a holsistic self-experience.
Pulsing connects you to the security of movement: the rocking of a foetus in the womb, the rocking of a baby in its parents' arms, the rocking of the cradle and the self-rocking that children (and people of all ages) readily slip into. Rocking maintains the sense of safety and relatedness.
Like the pulse of music, touch can set a bodymind dancing. The effects of Pulsing occur below the level of conscious awareness and will continue to be felt for some while after the session. It is a joy to give and a delight to receive.
Practitioners or students of any other form of hands-on bodywork who are interested in other approaches or want to add a new skill to what they offer.
Counsellors and psychotherapists with a desire to learn how to use touch to facilitate deep emotional work and support the working through of preverbal experience in a regression mode.
Students and practitioners of performing, movement, and martial arts who would like to introduce hands-on work into their practice.
Anyone drawn to holding and moving bodies who has not yet found a way to do that, whether in a spirit of play or as a mode of joyful work.
People interested in their personal development especially through making a deeper connection with their embodied self.
Searchers and researchers interested in the interface between the transpersonal and the prepersonal. Temporary ego loss and altered states of consciousness may be accessed via the trance that Pulsing can facilitate.
Movements applied by the practitioner utilise the client's own bodyweight. Therefore no particular strength or body build is necessary to practise Pulsing.
The weekends develop as a community of learning whose members make a deep, heartfelt and enlivening contact with each other. This means there is the option of continuing to exchange practice sessions between weekends, building the confidence to give a Pulsing to a friend or attract clients to your practice.
Previous course participants have included shiatsu practitioners, aromatherapists and reflexologists; deep tissue bodyworkers and practitioners of holistic and intuitive massage; doctors and physiotherapists; nurses, healers, and social workers; practitioners of Reiki, Bowen Technique and Polarity Therapy; counsellors, psychotherapists and performing arts practitioners; Tai Chi and Qigong teachers; dance movement therapists and people who practice 5 Rhythms and ecstatic dance - as well as people who have no interest in professional training, but are seeking a whole-person approach to personal development. Weekends are usually a mix of all types.
Both newcomers and old hands are welcome on the course.
The persistent rocking of Pulsing can have a hypnotic effect, which easily results in an altered state. It is perhaps then not suitable for anyone for whom an altered state might be problematic. This might include anyone who experiences flashbacks as a result of PTSD or is suffering from any kind of dissociative disorder.
You will not be admitted on the day if you are under the influence of alcohol or recreational drugs.
The core of each weekend will be short demonstration sessions followed by supervised practice in pairs. During this practice you will get one-to-one assistance on whatever aspects you require: technical issues on the strokes; the application of theory; general principles of practice; good posture. For those on the qualifying track, you will receive hints to help you develop your own style.
1) Give a whole body session for an hour. This repertoire is expandable and the sequencing variable.
3) Introduce single moves or short sequences into your existing mode of bodywork.
12) Combining pulsing with verbal facilitation.
You must satisfactorily complete any 4 weekend modules within the space of 2 years.
It is strongly recommended that you receive at least three sessions from an existing practitioner to gain a felt sense of Pulsing as a professional modality.
Regular peer exchanges in between workshop modules are essential (at least 10 overall is the recommendation).
If you wish to practice professionally it is recommended that you have a qualification in anatomy & physiology or hold an existing bodywork qualification.
If you wish to practice professionally in an explicitly psychotherapeutic mode, you should undertake suitable training in counselling or psychotherapy.
If you would like to be kept informed about Pulsing workshop dates, special events and offers, please submit the sing-up form below.
This training was previously run by Guy Gladstone, whom I assisted for many years.


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Remove the outer skin of the beans by gently breaking open the skin and squeezing out the bright green fava bean.
I serve mine with fresh burrata, heirloom grape tomatoes, a drizzle of olive oil, a squeeze of fresh lemon juice, flaky sea salt and lots of freshly ground pepper.

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Do you have pets? Not right now, except for some fish in a fish tank.
What do you do on your free time besides spending time on SMF? Football, basketball, school, and lots of other stuff.
What are your goals/dreams in life? To be better than you.
What got you involved in SMF? I was on SMF4Free and wanted to have more "control" over the board. My fairly active forum had just died due to Staff crap, so I was looking to start a new one. I actually asked an SMF4Free-related support question here back in April of 09. I must be shunned. I also wanted to learn PHP, which I knew none of until November when I came here, so I thought it might help.
Who do you admire? Why? Lots of people for lots of different reasons.
What is your dream job? Not too sure, yet.
Do you have any piercings? No, and no plans to get any.
Do you have any tattoo's? If not do you wish/plan to get one? I don't, and not really... waste of time/money IMO, and I don't even want to think about what they'll look like on me 50 years from now.
What is your favorite website? Several are tied, really... it depends on what I'm looking for. YouTube, ESPN, SM.org, and my own site are definitely up there, though.
Do you play computer games? If so, which ones? Not really any more, though I used to play Civilization III/IV, and when I was younger, Zoo Tycoon (gasp!).
Do you play video game consoles? Which ones? I probably spend an hour a week on the PS3.
Do you smoke? Me no likey early death.
Did you play hookey from class? Surprisingly, never.
Do you obtain a good amount of sleep daily? Depends... usually 5-7 hours.
Do you wear jewelry? If so what jewelry do you wear? I wear a real skull necklace from my term in 'nam from 1970-1972. Is that weird?
How do you dress? Usually casual.
How many keys are on your keyring? I rarely carry my old key ring with me, so I'm not sure.
What time do you go to bed? What time do you wake up? Go to bed anywhere from 10 to 2 AM depending on the day, and wake up between 6 and 7 on school days (7-10 on weekends).
What's the freakiest thing you have done? Joining this team requires absolute insanity.
How many hours a day do you spend in the computer? Anywhere from a half hour to 4-5 hours; depends on the day.
How many hours a day do you spend in SMF? Probably 75% of my online time; see above.
What is your favorite beverage - coffee, tea, soda, beer, other? Water. I don't consume caffeine (don't ask why, either ).
How tall are you? Short for 15-- 5'7"
How much do you weigh? Not sure... around average IIRC.
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Spanish language development for adults is designed to meet the needs of working professionals and members of the Lehigh Valley community who want to increase their linguistic and cultural competence.
Our professional development program follows a natural approach to learning as developed by linguists Stephen Krashen and Tracy Terrell. This approach focuses on "comprehensible input." When learners are exposed to this input in low-anxiety contexts, acquisition of the target language is inevitable.
Members of various fields such as medicine, law, and education see language as a way to enhance their services.
Our communities are culturally and linguistically diverse. This diversity in the workforce demands cultural sensitivity and understanding of the practices, products and perspectives.
Spanish is the second most spoken language in the Lehigh Valley community. Employers are looking for professionals that can interact with future clients.
WHY DO I STUDY SPANISH?
Starting from the first session, facilitators introduce the language through low risk conversations. They allow multiple opportunities to understand the language through the use of strategies that include visual aids, actions, photographs, and gestures. The informal small group setting encourages learners to get to know each other, and ultimately feel comfortable using the language with their peers/colleagues. Interpersonal skills are a priority, and professionals further develop these skills at every session. Our learners gain access to real world opportunities. They interact and practice speaking with other professionals in the Lehigh Valley who share the love of language.
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What a perfect theme for me this weekend. I am so thankful for all of my friends on the Cat Blogosphere. Your kindness in words and deeds the past two weeks has warmed my heart and brought my Mom leaking eyes so many times. I am doing so much better this weekend and I am sure with your continued purrayers, I will continue to feel better.
Mom Robyn has donated a beautiful AmethystPendent for a raffle to assist with my vet bills. I think it is just perfect that this beautiful piece of jewelry was picked to help me because it is my mom's birthstone, so it must mean lots of luck. Thanks Mom Robyn and all of the CB gang!
I am also so thankful for those of you who do beautiful graphics of me, especially Diamond and Zoolatry. The picture below was used on Diamond's Thursday Thirteen last week in honor of Mardi Gras. I love the fact that my "natural mask" gives me permission to pawty!
"Sweet Praline comes with her own built in mask!
I guess that means she is always ready for a bit of a Paw-ty!"
Zoolatry featured me on the High Five Sunday last week with the graphic below. I just love it!!!!
Mom Paula - Praline is doing so much better. She is more sociable again and is slowly getting her appetite back. Now that things are settling back to "normal", we should be able to begin visiting again! Thank you so much for everything you have done with week!
I am feeling all better and floofy! This photo was actually taken this morning so I could show you how much better I am looking. My mom and I had a great day on her birthday and she wanted me to tell everyone thank you for the well wishes.
Don't forget to go to Misha and Cosmo's blog and vote for the best toehawks! There are some wonderful kitties that are finalists, including me! The last day to vote is Sunday, so please go by and vote for your favorite! I've included a video below that shows my special toehawks in action.
Sweet Praline - Guess what? Today's my mom's birthday! She was born 53 years ago today. Boy, she sure is ancient!
Mom Paula - Praline I feel 73 after the week you've put me through!
Thank you so much for all of your purrayers! They appear to be working. I gave mom an early birthday present last night by playing THoE all by myself! I was running all over the house!! Mom just laughed with joy!
Pee ess - Mom does need more gum surgery and it is scheduled for March 20. It's a long story - let's just say she was very ill two years ago with an abscess that went into her sinus cavity and began calcifying! Luckily, she has a great oral surgeon that caught it and has been working with her to correct all the damage.
Mom said she experienced two totally different emotions on Tuesday concerning my health. Yesterday morning, she was still very worried about me because I was being more unsociable than usual and basically staying in the back room. She hated leaving me to go to work, but when I came out of the back room long enough to eat some of my stinky goodness, she felt a little better.
Just try and crawl under here and get me! I'm not coming out!
When Mom got home Tuesday night after her adjustment and trigger point therapy (she really needed it after the stressful weekend with me), I met her at the door meowing for treats. I had eaten most of my stinky goodness, had drank my water, and had used the litter box. I followed her around the house for the first time since last week and even let mom trim my front claws. I think I am feeling a little better.
A bonding moment with Mom on her lap Tuesday evening.
Mom Paula: I'm almost afraid to say Praline is doing better because of the roller coaster ride the past week, but she was acting more like my little spoiled Diva. I just love the picture of her on my lap. Please keep those thoughts and purrayers coming. They mean so much!
Pee ess - My mom goes back to the Oral Surgeon today to discuss the possibility of another gum surgery (this will be the 5th surgery on her mouth in two years).
Mom took me back to the Vet yesterday. The Vet believes that I have picked up a stomach virus that has been going around and that I possibly picked it up on Wednesday when I went to the other site. She gave me some Sub-Q fluids and a shot of Reglan to control the vomiting. I slept a lot on Monday and haven't been vomiting anymore. Let's hope this was the problem and I will be doing better very soon.
Even my laser eyes didn't keep me from the Vet!
Resting on Mom's foot rest is one of my favorite spots.
Thank you for all of your thoughts and purrayers. I hope to be visiting again in a couple of days. My Mom's birthday is Thursday and I want to be well for her!
Mom Paula: All of your thoughts, well wishes, purrayers and assistance means so much. I am still quite worried about Praline, but I must remain positive she will be okay.
Update (11:02 am). Back from the vet. The vet thinks I may have picked up a virus from the clinic office I visited on Wednesday (my vet has two different locations and the normal one I visit was closed on Wednesday). She said there had been several kitties that had visited that office and within 4-5 days, they were back with the vomiting. They don't know what this virus is, but said the kitties were usually okay within two days after getting medicine. I've lost a few ounces of weight, which the vet said is normal with the vomiting, but she does want to get it back up. My temperature was normal and she felt no blockages. She did stick a needle in me to give me some Sub-q fluids and a shot of reglan for the nausea. She told my mom to watch me closely today, so mom is working from home.
The vet said no treats for a little while (oh no!) and to just feed me the Royal Canin Persian 30 dry food for a few days. No stinky goodness for me!
Thank you for all of your kind words and purrayers!
I was doing a little better since I saw the vet on Wednesday until Sunday morning about 5:30 am. Mom heard me "yaking", which woke her up and she saw that I had thrown up a hair ball. She felt much better because I was getting rid of the fur. Unfortunately, around 4:30 pm, I threw up again and this time there was no floof. I got sick once again around 10:30 am last night (no floof). I have a good appetite and am eating, drinking my water, and using the litter box, but this vomiting is a reason for concern.
Mom is waiting to call the vet's office when she opens at 8:30 to schedule an appointment. I will update everyone once we get some news. Thanks for everything that you are doing!
Update (4:30 pm) - I got sick again. Mom is getting a little worried and says I may go back to the vet tomorrow.
Update - I threw up again this morning. There was a lot more of my floof in it, so Mom thinks the Laxatone may be working and I am getting rid of it. However, she's still going to watch me very closely.
Mom and I are feeling better today. She must go to church to play the piano and she has a solo today, but then she is coming home to rest with me the rest of the day.
In the meantime, I am going to take a little snooze until she comes home.
Today's Photo Hunt theme is "Warm". There are so many things I could choose for this theme because it is very warm in SC in the spring and summer. The care and concern of all of my CB friends "warms" my heart. For the photos, I chose to show two ways that I get warm when it does turn cold in SC.
I love to stick my face directly in front of the heat vent and let the warm air blow on me. Of course, this works two ways - when when we have the hot summers, I love for the cool air to blow on my floof!
Nothing like the warmth of a good fire.
On a different note: Thank you so much for your visits, well wishes, and purrayers. Mom stayed home on Friday and both of us slept most of the day. We are both feeling a little better!
Thank you so much for all of the kind words and well wishes this week! My mom and I have been taking it easy the past two days. I take the last of my liquid medicine today and have four more days of the pills. Mom says we can ease up on the Laxatone a little. The pictures below are me snoopervising my mom last night while she helped me visit my friends.
Mom, please make sure you thank everyone for their good wishes and purrayers!
I'm getting tired now, so I am going to rest a little. It's been a rough week!
We had a double whammy on Wednesday! Mom came home sick and then she realized that I wasn't doing so well either. Needless to say, she whisked me back the Vet. The Vet said she didn't feel any blockages and everything sounded well. Mom said I kept going in and out of the litter box, so the vet wanted to check my bladder. At first she told mom that she was going to keep me overnight because my bladder was small at the time. Mom got 1/2 way home and the Vet called her and said as soon as I got in the cage, I went to the bathroom, so Mom turned back around. When she got back the assistants told her the Vet wanted to see my Mom in one of the examination rooms. Mom said her stomach got a big knot in it. The Vet came in and told mom that she thought I had a bladder infection. She thought it could have been brought on by the stress of going to the Vet Monday and trying to get rid of the floofball. She said to continue the Laxatone twice a day and now I have two additional medicines to take. The Vet said I should be better by Friday. Next month is my annual check-up and the Vet said I she would probably do bloodwork then. Please keep me and my Mom in your thoughts and purrayers!
Is your paws so floofy you can go skidding across da floor? All the time! I make my mom laugh when I go skidding across the wood floors.
Do slinkies joke that you must be bonkers cos your paws have so much floof growing out of dem? I've been told I should have them trimmed.
We is looking for the most spectacular toehawk.
Here is a picture of one of my front paws with it's toehawk. I like to use this paw because it is tri-colored.
Here's a picture of one of my front paws with its toehawk! Mom says it's a little blurry because she had to hold both me and the camera. Hee! Hee! They are so long, you can't see my paws or claws.
Just to prove to you these are my paws, my mom helped me expose my claws on my back paws! I think I definitely have floofy, long toehawks!
I'm up for the challenge!!!!
I threw up two more times today, so Mom decided it was time to go to the Vet. It turns out that I picked up fleas again (guess it is from the recent warm weather) and between the seasonal shedding and licking the flea bites, I am swallowing a bunch of floof. My temperature was normal, the Vet didn't feel any blockages, and my weight was still fine. The Vet gave me two big slabs of Laxatone (yuck!) and a treatment of Advantage. Mom still needs to watch me closely, but the Vet thinks this will do the trick. I do have my yearly checkup next month when they will steal my bloods and other stuff!
Here I am imprisioned in my PTU! Let me out!
After a little drama, I decided to explore. I was trying to figure out how to get up on that shelf when the Vet walked in. Mom didn't get a chance to take any pictures duing the examination because she was holding me and keeping me calm. I only hissed when the Vet checked out my backside.
The extra Laxatone started working last night and Mom says I stink a little. It's not my fault she brought in the fleas. Let's hope this does the trick and nothing else is wrong. As usual, my Mom is a little worried.
Wanted! Dependable bean for secretary for the Minister of Floofy Affairs (that's me)! Must be willing to give lots of treats, belly rubs and grooming. Oh yes, and must love floofy kitties. Only loving applicants need apply!
My Mom has been MIA since Friday which makes it nearly impossible to keep up with my duties.
Will you be my substitute mom? I mean, secretary?
UPDATE! Mom is home! She had to come home early because her friend caught some bug and mom didn't like that bug, so that gives us a whole day together. Now to work on those secretarial skills!
Sweet Billie and her mom, Lorianna sent us a special Valentine's package! Mom got bunches of chocolates and I got a mouse dipped in the nip. Thank you so much Billie and Mom!
Here is a video of me playing with my mouse!
My grandpa and grandma bean are watching over me this weekend, so I am getting a bunch of treats! Yay! I am still working on that floofball!
I want to wish a very Happy Valentine's Day to all of my furry friends out there and to their beans. Take the time today to give someone a hug! A very special thank you goes to Miss Diamond for my Valentine's cards to Goma and Bhu.
But watch out Goma and Bhu, I received a special Valentine from Ginger Jasper and he wants to be mine also!!!
Pee ess - mom left last night to go out of town for the weekend, so I won't be able to visit this weekend. She promised she would help me catch up on Monday.
You must excuse my Mom! She thought yesterday was Friday, so you got a Floofy Friday on Thursday. I didn't want to disappoint my fans, so I insisted she do another Floofy Friday of Baby Praline today!
Bhu and Goma, make sure you come back tomorrow for your Valentine!
Filed under F for Floofy!!!
Mom's a little worried about me because I have been trying to get rid of a floofball for a few days. She keeps slabbing that laxatone stuff on my tongue. I just keep leaving surprises on the rug.
Pee ess - mom always get worried when things aren't going perfectly.
Mom Paula - Hush, Praline.
It's finally here! The Inaugural Ball for President of the Cat World, Coco and the Vice President, Misha. All of the members of the Cabinet are present in their finery! Madame Coco appointed me as Minister of Floofy Affairs and I will take my job very seriously. In the meantime, let's have fun!
curly-up-do, banded in gold ribbon, as a salute to Madame Coco.
Madame Coco, our beautiful, ever elegant Cat President of the World (and Minister of Frootbat Affairs... need we say more) is escorted by the Honorable Sir Misha, the esteemed Vice Cat President of the World. Sir Misha also serves in the capacity of Minister of Foreign (a/k/a female felines) Affairs... again, need we say more?
Tuesday is the Inaugural Ball for Madame Coco and Sir Misha. I already have my dress attire picked out, so today I am getting the extra beautification treatments!
Mom has already trimmed my claws, so I am smoothing them over by using my scratching post! I don't know why Mom insists on getting a "backend" view of me.
I must maintain my beautiful floof since I am the Minister of Floofy Affairs. Mom is assisting by brushing my floof (notice the floof on the brush again).
I look forward to seeing all of you at the ball!
Thanks to Secret Agent 007.5, Harley (with my assistance), the culprit for stealing my floof has been found! It was the evil Kirby Monster!!! Kirby has been in hiding for quite a while and began sneaking out of the closet a few days ago. Mom is trying to claim she had nothing to do with it, but after that "age" blunder, I must keep my eyes on her. I reminded my mom that I must be in all of my floofiness for the Inaugural Ball on Tuesday, so she could just put Kirby back in hiding.
I think I smell my floof!!! Just look at that evil red smile!
Kirby, give me back my floof!!!!!!
By the way, Mom says thanks for all of the ideas for my excess floof (Mom! I don't have excess floof). Some of the suggestions were to put the floof outside for the birds to use in building their nests, send the floof to the shelters to help warm up the "not so floofy" kitties, or even get someone to convert my floof into yarn and make a sweater or purse. I prefer to think that my floof is extremely valuable, especially since I have been named as the Minister of Floofy Affairs, and someone (MOM) is trying to sell my floof on the black market. For that reason, I have hired extra security for the Inaugural Ball on Tuesday.
Secret Agent 007.5, Harley, is hard at work on the case of the missing floof. He thinks he has a lead and is convinced I should see positive results soon (MOM, can you repeat "TREATS?"). I thought I would assist SA 007.5 in the search.
Is my floof up in the chimney? I know smoke rises when there is a fire and my floof is very light, so maybe it went up there.
Is my floof in this bag? Mom is always leaving the house with this bag. She claims it's paperwork for work, but I'm not so sure . . .
Mom, what are you doing with my floof?
Pee ess - Sorry I haven't visited much this week. Between my search for my missing floof and mom's job and her painful neck and shoulder, we are both exhausted. Mom promises she will help me catch up with my visitation this weekend.
Harley has been helping out with his screwdriver and flashlight and we still can't find out where Mom is putting all of my floof. It was suggested by one of the kitties that Mom is either trying to clone me or build a sweater from my floof.
And you thought you could fool me by putting logs in the box.
I just know there is something else in this box!
This one is open! Harley must have been successful with the scredriver on it. I wonder what he has found out.
But this box is empty.