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Have you ever tried making homemade Hazelnut Milk? Hazelnut milk is richier and creamier tasting than say, almond milk. Unsweetened almond milk is lower in calories, with a very subtle nutty flavour with almost a clean white colour. Where as hazelnut milk, is an ivory white colour. Hazelnut milk pairs really well with chocolate and coffee flavours too!
Hazelnuts are loaded in vitamins and minerals that includes some extremely powerful antioxidants. Bake them gently and their seductive aroma and taste deepens. Add some crushed hazelnuts to your coffee or hot chocolate for an extra boost in flavour.
Hazelnuts can be found in your local supermarket and/or health food stores. They should always be stored in an air-tight jar or container. They can be eaten raw, roasted, blended into milk for delicious smoothies and make a delicious nut butter spread.
Let’s talk a little about hazelnuts what’s inside each and every little nut.
Helps protect your biggest organ – your skin from those dreaded harmful effects caused by ultraviolet rays. Plus fights against ageing. Vitamin E is essential for maintaining healthy skin, hair and nails. So how does it do all of this? The job of vitamin E is to prevent the red blood cells from disintegrating. Having good blood circulation strengthens the immune system, keeping illness away!
And although hazelnuts are rich in unsaturated fats, they are the “good fats” and these are good for your heart. They contain oleic acids. Their job is to lower the “bad cholestrol” and promote the “good cholestrol” in your blood. Regularly consuming hazelnuts will not only help to reduce the bad cholestrol, it will also reduce the risks of heart attacks. Go and start munching on some today!
So how many should we consume?
1 serving: 1 ounce or 28grams approximately 22 nuts = 1 serving of nutty goodness is equal to 1/4 cup.
One serving of hazelnuts contains nearly all of your daily intake of manganese. Vitamins and minerals goodness included. This is one super nut!
Hazelnuts contain magnesium. Magnesium helps increase your muscle strength. Hazelnuts are also highly rich in manganese. A mineral required for building the structure and strength of your bones. It actually increases bone mineral density and helps fight off osteoporosis. Plus the contain vitamin B6.
So, don’t be afraid of snacking on hazelnuts. Yes, they are full of oil, (but it’s the “good” oil). And here’s the best bit….. Hazelnuts are not fattening!! In fact, just the opposite, really. Hazelnuts give us the feeling of “fullness”. Which means when we eat them, we are left feeling satisfied. And what that means, is we are less likely to eat “less” healthier foods.
Now, let’s go make our own homemade Hazelnut milk!
Place 1 cup of hazelnuts and 2 cups of water in a medium bowl. They can be left on your kitchen bench covered with a cotton towel or place them in the refrigerator. I like to soak them overnight for an easier application. In the morning, discard the soaking water. Rinse them under running water.
Pour the milk into the lined strainer, allowing for the milk to just drip down through the strainer into the bowl. Gathering up the ends of the tea towel, twist to enclose the contents into a ball. Gently squeeze the ball pressing your fingers together to help release as much of the hazelnut milk as possible. Once you have gently squeezed your tea towel, there will be dry pulp remaining. If you don’t have a use for it, just leave it outside as I do for the birds to peck away at.
Transfer your beautiful fresh homemade hazelnut milk into a clean airtight jar or glass bottle. This will keep for 3-4 days in the refrigerator. Just remember, before using your hazelnut milk, to give it a good shake as it will separate into two layers. Now that you have made homemade hazelnut milk, perhaps you’d like to try out my recipe for Almond Milk or Coconut Milk.


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Though our services are premium, we have consciously chosen to offer them at very affordable rate so that many residents of Atchison, KS can have access to them. It is our desire that you concentrate your energies in doing more important things while you leave to us the mundane duty of taking proper care of your property. Give us a call today at 888-609-0991 to learn more about our prices and the kind of services we offer and how they can greatly help you free up so that you concentrate on other important things in your life.
It will interest you to learn that Property Maintenance Leaders is fully licensed and insured to provide quality Property Maintenance services in Atchison, KS. Our maintenance crew has also been trained in several aspects of Property Maintenance and they are able to take good care of any kind of property you might have. Whether it is fixing broken fittings in the interior or taking care of the lawns, fences and other exterior maintenance services, you can count on us to get the job done quick, fast and clean. Contact us today at 888-609-0991 if you need quality Property Maintenance services in Atchison, KS.
It is imperative for every property owner to have functioning lights both inside and their property. This is not just important to keep the property attractive but also necessary to keep the tenants and the patrons of your property happy and make them feel secure. At Property Maintenance Leaders, we offer both interior light repair services as well as exterior light repair services where we take care of the security lights, the parking lot lights amongst others. We have qualified service technicians and the necessary equipment to make all the lights function properly at all times. Contact us today at 888-609-0991 for the best lighting repair services in Atchison, KS.
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Social Media Platforms…we’ve seen them all.. so it seems. Here are two inventions that change the way we communicate via social media.
Number One on our list is the Live Instagram Printer created by the Social Playground. The Social Playground, a creative lab offering photographic services and equpment, brought social media into another level bridging the gap of the online and real world through digital experiences. The Australian brand created the very first Live Instagram Printer that engages the ‘selfie – generation’ (us) to be part of something bigger.
The printer carries the nostalgia that we all remember from the Polaroid photos and photo booths into the digital age and offers us to be part of events that we attend every day. The Business Director Matt Barbelli explains: “Launching London has been an exciting step for Social Playground. With the number of events happening every day, we are excited to bring a fresh way of engaging consumers and guests to the market and no doubt given Instagram’s popularity in the UK”.
The only thing you need to do is to attend an event, take a photo (selfie) and add the event hashtag. Collect a branded printout of your photo and build conversations with other people who attended the same event.
Have better sext with number two on our list: a new platform called Flirtmoji which offers animated caricartures of our intimate body parts and fetishes. Simply create an account so you get the first fifteen flirtmojies for free; and then simply copy and paste the pics into your messages. I assure you, your partner will be pleasantly surprised.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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I have always understood this card as a distant echo of mythological figures like Surtr, the lord of Muspelheim who will burn away the old world at the end of Fimbulwinter to make room for the new one, or like Greek mythology's titans who wielded the power of primordial elements against the gods. Argue what you like about the virtues of Lorwyn's art style or what effect M12 might have had on constructed formats, but giants represent the unharnessed forces of nature and are far more than the comic relief in fantasy settings.
This guy has never been the most purely powerful member of his cycle, and he's at no risk of being banned in any fan-made formats unless somebody invents one where you start on 3 life. He does, however, provide a form of card advantage in the form of free damage for doing something creatures do anyway (compare Flames of the Firebrand), and there are few creatures in any color with damage numbers comparable to his; even one attack could bring about the twilight of the gods.
The Titan cycle from Magic 2011is famous for not being the most “balanced" cycle. Two members are pretty powerful (Sun and Grave), and one member is a competitive staple in Modern (Primeval). Frost Titan is pretty underwhelming. Inferno Titan is sort of the middling member of the cycle: it's okay, but it's not as impactful as the better members.
Make no mistake, his triggered ability is nice: you can use it to clear out blockers, and you can even double-up and go to your opponent's dome. Firebreathing is an okay combat ability, but it just feels like a "win more" ability, and there are better curve-toppers red can turn to to close out a game (like Thundermaw Hellkite).

industry_corpus2: Gaming


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First time ever to have morning sickness. From weeks 6-12, I mostly felt like I was going to throw up all day long. Never actually did, although sometimes I just wished I would so I would feel better. Usually around 6pm it hit even harder. This made evening services at church interesting!
So far, no complications and baby looks healthy! Praise the Lord!
Seeing a midwife for the first time and love it.
When I am hungry, I want to eat random things like onion rings.
I don't want my "normal pregnancy craving." It sounds totally gross this time.
Have only gained one pound so far.
I'm in the "I just look fat stage." You mommies all know what I'm talking about. Too small for maternity clothes but bulging in regular clothes. Yeah.
I eat alot of watermelon.
Feeling really, really good most of the time!
Thank you to all who have been praying for me...please keep it up! We are trusting the Lord for a healthy baby and an uneventful pregnancy!
Congrats to the Chambers...we hadn't heard the good news yet. Hope you are blessed with a wonderful pregnancy and a healthy baby. You are all in our prayers.
You look really pretty. Still skinny as ever. luckayyy.
Congratulations on #4! What a wonderful blessing...hope you'll be feeling better soon. I had six children and and first 4 pregnancy's the morning sickness was awful. I now have my first two grand-babies on the way. One will arrive mid October and the other around Christmas.
Congratulations on number 4!!! Isn't the Lord amazing! We'll pray for health and safety of both of you!!
Oh, I feel your first time sickness woes! We're expecting our 5th and this was the first time I'd ever been sick too...feeling nauseated is worse than actually "givin' it up" if ya know what I mean! So glad that's over!! And watermelon...sounds yummy!!!

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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Kraft doesn’t want that spa video to be released.
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is doing everything he can to keep his spa tape video out of the public’s hands.
Deadspin reports that Kraft’s lawyers, William Burck and Alex Spiro, are targeting Florida’s public records laws, claiming that they violate the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which is designed to protect citizens from unlawful searches and seizures.
In other words, Kraft contends that police had no right to record video inside the Orchids of Asia Day Spa. However, as Deadspin notes, Florida’s constitution strongly endorses public records, which includes police evidence and, therefore, the videos taken by Jupiter police inside the massage parlor.
Kraft, who was recently spotted at a Boston Celtics playoff game, allegedly paid and received sexual acts at the Orchid of Asia Spa in Jupiter twice.

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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There are moments in a hurried mom’s life when you come rushing in the door, after 5PM, kids fussing and they need you. At the same time, you need to feed your family. You have nothing ready to eat and within 30 minutes you need to be eating or the kids will no longer be fussing. They will be melting.
I had that moment last week complete with the rushing, fussing and melting.
I want my family to sit down for a solid meal together and living 100 miles from any chain restaurant, it’s either I cook at home, we pick up a pizza in town…or on my favorite nights, Nana invites us over for supper.
In this particular hurried mom flurry of a moment, I dumped, stirred and pulled off a revised Cashew Chicken Stir Fry (the recipe I usually follow comes from Williams Sonoma Asian cookbook and I highly recommend it) in about 20 minutes last week while the girls helped me. By 6PM, our family of five was eating and everyone was happy.
I love stir fry because it’s pretty much a one-pan meal. I made Minute rice in the microwave in a bowl. Usually I have brown rice on hand or mix it with white rice. Knowing several California rice farmers has grown my understanding of where rice comes from and I have a fondness for quickly boiling up some rice because of it.
In my hurried meal making I took one picture.
The recipe calls to marinate the meat for 15 minutes but I skipped that but you should do that…and I also have made this with leftover chicken, frozen chicken bites (oven roasted from the Schwan’s guy/gal), etc. Most any white chicken meat works.
In the wok pan, on high heat, add the canola or peanut oil, add chicken, adding green onions after about 3-4 minutes. Then I stirred up soy sauce, sesame oil, honey and ginger together in a separate bowl. Turn down heat to medium. I poured in that mixture over the chicken and onions. Simmering and stirring. I added the pineapple. I added two cans of pineapple but you can just do one. I wanted my kids to eat extra. Simmered and stirred. Turn down heat to low/ medium low. I added the cashews. Then stir all together. Lastly, I add the corn starch which should be dissolved in the cold water. It thickens up the sauce quickly and just when it is heated up all together again, it’s ready to serve over the rice. My rice takes 12 minutes in the microwave covered for 6 servings, just follow the directions on the box.
Literally with a toddler on my hip and a 3 year old by my side from start to finish this meal wasn’t more than 30 minutes total in time from when we walked in the door and cooking and prep was 20 minutes.
It was easy, yummy, healthy, affordable and fed my family on the prairie. And believe me, it will again and again. Once I have an easy meal down, I repeat.
What’s your favorite stir fry dish to prepare?
Our teenager son makes Beef and Broccoli for us. I’ll have him take pictures and share that on another Hunk of Meat Monday!
I love everything with cashews in it!!!
Also, that ‘Hunk of Meat’ button is totally cracking me up. Too funny!
Sounds super yummy, cant wait to try it. Thanks!
That sounds great, i might just have to try that for dinner tonight. I don’t have cashews though, maybe almonds will work.
Nice hunky meat button you have there!
This dish looks delicious. I would like to invite you to link up at Full Plate Thursday. Thank you for sharing and have a great week!
Oh yum!!! NOW I’m hungry for stir-fry!!
I like this…the pineapple, chicken and cashews are everything I like!
Love this. Cashew chicken is my favorite chinese dish. Gotta wait till hubby is gone to make. Unless I can convince him this isn’t oriental food! Thanks for linking up to Hunk of Meat Monday!

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


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The cubic crystal system is one of the most common (and by far the simplest) class of crystals. As the name itself suggests, all crystal structures of this system have a cube-shaped unit cell with edge length given by the lattice parameter ‘a’.
In the simple cubic structure there is only one lattice point at each corner of the cube-shaped unit cell. They mark the position of either a single atom, or the same group of atoms, known as the motif, which is repeated across the lattice. The simple cubic structure with only one atom per lattice point is relatively rare in nature, as it is fairly unstable because of its low packing efficiency and low number of nearest neighbour around each atom. Polonium (Po) is reported to crystallize in the simple cubic structure.
Make your own 3D paper model of a simple cubic structure with our cutting instructions, and explore its nature.
The body-centred cubic structure is based on the simple cubic structure, but has an additional lattice point at the very centre of the cube. The packing efficiency and the nearest neighbour interaction are slightly higher than for the simple structure, so it is more common in nature. Prominent metallic solids with this structure are Irom (Fe), Chromium (Cr), and Tungsten (W).
Make your own 3D paper model of a body centered cubic structure with our cutting instructions, and explore its nature.
Another structure based on the simple cubic structure is face-centred cubic. In this crystal structure there are the eight lattice points at each corner, as in the simple cubic, but there are additional lattice point at the centre of each face of the cube. This structure is very common for metallic elements as it maximises the packing efficiency and has the highest number of nearest neighbours, increasing its stability. This is why the fcc structure is sometimes also called the cubic close-packed structure.
Make your own 3D paper model of a face centered cubic structure with our cutting instructions, and explore its nature.

industry_corpus2: Technology & Research


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Automotive repair shops rely on Ranger products to support their operations with tough, long-lasting, and versatile storage options. In home garages where working on cars and motorcycles is an escape from the daily routine, Ranger products are there to make your life easier. Whether you’re working on one vehicle or 10, Ranger tool benches keep your equipment organized and protected.
At EliteToolboxes.com, we stock a great selection of Ranger products in our selection of top tool box brands, ensuring that you can get the right storage for your wrenches, clamps, motor oil, filters, car parts, or other essentials. Our selection of some of the best tool storage cabinets and portable tool boxes makes it easy to find the right storage configuration for your workspace. Ranger has already made its name in wheel replacement and auto repair equipment, but makes it a top choice for your garage storage when you want the best of durability and versatility.
Shop and save on Ranger workbenches and tool storage carts today at EliteToolboxes.com.

industry_corpus2: Automobiles


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Reinsurance is insurance protection that is purchased by one insurance company (also called an insurer and sometimes called a "cedant" or "cedent") from another insurance company (called a reinsurer) as a means of managing the risks on its books. The reinsurer and the insurer enter into a reinsurance agreement which details the conditions upon which the reinsurer would pay the insurer's losses under the agreement. The reinsurer is paid a (reinsurance) premium by the insurer for the protection bought. The insurer issues its own insurance policies to its policyholders. The main reason for an insurer to purchase reinsurance protection is to transfer some of its risk to the reinsurer.
For example, assume an insurer sells one hundred policies, each with a $100,000 policy limit. At worst case, the insurer could lose $100,000 on each policy – totaling up to $10 million. It may be better to pass some risk to a reinsurance company (reinsurer) as this will reduce the insurer's exposure to risk.
When an insurer purchases reinsurance, it can issue policies with higher sums insured or limits than it would otherwise be allowed. This affords it the opportunity to take on more risk because some of that risk is now transferred to the reinsurer and grow its business.
There are different types of reinsurance protection. The insurance company decides on what is appropriate for it to create a more balanced and homogenous portfolio of insured risks. This would lend greater predictability on the performance of the portfolio whereby positive results on net basis (after reinsurance) would be achieved and smoothing of the income results/profits. While income smoothing is one of the objectives of reinsurance arrangements, the mechanism is by way of creating and maintaining balance in the portfolio of risks taken on the books of the insurer.
Reinsurance is acquired via insurers since ordinary policyholders cannot claim on reinsurers as there is no direct contractual relationship between them.
Non-proportional – The insurer retains what it can handle and offers the rest to the reinsurer.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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Once you've finished writing or updating an article following the various guidelines we provide, you may feel that a technical review is needed. Below, we'll look both at tips for deciding when to request a technical review and how to find and recruit a reviewer.
You've added significant amounts of new material, such as documentation for new interfaces, methods, or properties.
You've updated content based on a bug or specification which you're not certain you've interpreted correctly.
You've written a tutorial or sample code which should be reviewed to ensure that your implementation follows best practices as understood the experts.
You're concerned that you may have made mistakes, or misinterpreted the subject matter; or, the subject is complicated enough or important enough that a review is needed to be confident that the content is correct.
Of course, this isn't an exclusive list! You should request a review any time you feel it to be necessary. Even if you just think it might be necessary, it doesn't hurt to ask. And if you're just not sure if a review is needed, feel free to drop into the #mdn channel on IRC and ask for a second (or third, or fourth) opinion.
How urgent is the review? Is the material about a "hot" topic, such as something expected to be a commonly-used technology, or one which will be heavily discussed on blogs and social media?
How likely is it that you've made significant mistakes (meaning mistakes which could confuse or mislead readers)?
How long will the review take to complete? This depends both on the complexity of the topic and the amount of material that needs to be reviewed. And if there's sample code, that will take even longer to review.
You want to both know how hard to push to get a review done, but also have information about how much time the reviewer will need to set aside to do the work. Having that information, and providing it when requesting the review, will go a long way toward helping you get the help you need.
Once you've finished writing and are ready for a technical review, make sure the "Technical Review Requested" flag is set on every page that needs to be reviewed. Now it's time to ask for the review. There are several ways to find someone to get a review; typically, you should start with the first one and work your way down the list if you fail to find someone to do the review.
Start by posting a comment in the bug asking for someone to do a technical review. List all the changed pages and sections of pages, complete with links. The easier it is to find the stuff that needs reviewing, the more likely you are to get a review. If you can see who the most likely candidate is, use Bugzilla's "Need more information" option (commonly referred to as "needinfo" or "NI") to get their attention.
If that doesn't get any action in a reasonable amount of time (at least an "I'll do it in a couple days" comment within a day or two, depending on the urgency) follow up by directly emailing the person or people that contributed the patch(es).
If that doesn't work, follow up by asking in the appropriate IRC channel. Say something like "Hi everyone. We've got new/updated docs for X, and could really use someone who knows X well to read it over and make sure we got it right. Check out bug X, comment Y <link> for a list of what needs looking at. Anyone able to help?"
If that doesn't work, that's when you politely send email to ask the manager of the team responsible for the technology in question to suggest someone to do the review. "Hi ManagerNameHere! We just finished documenting X and could use a review. Do you know who would be a good person to read it over and let us know where I got things wrong? Thanks so much in advance!"
If that fails to get a suitable answer, that's when the decision needs to be made: how urgent is the review? If you feel that the odds of significant technical mistakes is low and/or the technology isn't a big one that lots of people will need or use, then you can probably let things go for a while and let reviews naturally happen a bit at a time.
If the odds of a serious mistake are higher and/or the tech is a key one, then you should escalate the review request to an MDN administrator (Jean-Yves, Sheppy, Will, Florian, Jérémie, etc) and see if they agree that it's urgent; if they do, they can attempt to encourage someone to take on the review, or find a manager to prod someone into action. Ask on the #mdn channel for help making this happen.
Be sure to include in the request for review a link to the article How to do a technical review, so the reviewer can find the information they need quickly and easily. You should also, of course, provide a list of links to all the pages that changed (including section names, if appropriate). The more information you provide about what you've done and what you expect of the reviewer, the more liekly you are to get a satisfactory review.


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Water stocks can make very good investments because they are utilities. A utility stock is a stock that is essential for the daily living of just about anybody. Whether in America, India or China, water is an essential daily necessity making it very recession resilient and a stock that is unlikely to lose much value even in a financial crisis.
Legend investors like Warren Buffett invest in utilities like water because they understand that this is something that is always going to be required, and therefore a safe long term investment.
Some of the best water stocks to buy are American Water (AWK), Aqua America (WTR), American States Water (AWR) in the United States. There are also water stocks to be found outside of America in emerging economies like India. While these are likely good places for investment, one must be careful because investing in companies outside the US carries its own set of unique risks and factors to consider.

industry_corpus2: Water Resources & Marine


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Jan Thomson was for many years a city girl, working and rearing her family in Wellington. Then, she and husband Robbie were “over it”!
They escaped urban life, moving to an alpine area of the South Island – Nelson Lakes. They built their home and self-designed studio-gallery in the village of St. Arnaud on the shore of Lake Rotoiti. Jan loves to host travellers from around the world to her gallery and home. She finds a lack of a common language is no barrier when it comes to discussing art.
Jan delights in her house, garden and beautiful alpine environs. Her painting subjects include the birds, plants, mountains and lakes of her local walks, but also shearers, the family motorbike or the quinces she is cooking! It is the light and colour of a subject that draws her to paint. She noticed her palette has changed with the shift from cityscapes to landscapes, moving to fewer pigments. She enjoys using the quinacradone colours, especially the sienna.
Her trusted favourite brush is a sable cat’s tongue, with a point and good paint-holding quality, purchased years ago from Webster Art Supplies. In her paintings she is working toward an element of abstraction, where more is left to the viewer’s imagination.
Flexibility is a feature of Jan’s artistic practise. She paints outdoors and in her studio. She selects her medium on site according to her subject – watercolour or acrylic, pen and wash or a drawing in a traveller’s sketchbook for future reference. When outdoor painting, speed is often a necessary factor. She always takes photos for reference, but finds her on-site sketch is usually the preferred basis for a painting. Watercolour is her favoured medium for the thrill of the unknown, its transparency and its ability to ‘paint itself ’.
the time and a wonderful mentor. Jan’s first moment of recognitioncame when she was invited to mount a solo exhibition at Naxos Gallery in Hataitai. This show was a near sell-out, encouraging her forward. In the years since, she has shown works in many galleries in Wellington and Marlborough. Her paintings are in collections in Scotland, Dubai, Canada, theUnited States, as well as Australia and New Zealand. Other artists who have influenced her progress are Australians, Lucy and Barry McCann, Charles Sluga and John Crump. Jan particularly admires the work of American artist Mary Whyte whose portraits have impressive use of light and varied edges.
Living in the relative isolation of the Nelson Lakes gives Jan an empathy with the difficulties faced by rural people. She is passionate about contributing to the life of country folk. She teaches groups around the north and west of the South Island and is about to embark on a series of workshops in smaller North Island towns. She also teaches for REAP, bringing art to rural communities. Jan considers a workshop anywhere in New Zealand, anywhere with six enthusiastic people, a dry warm space, water and a loo!
The business of running art sales, exhibitions and classes is demanding. Jan finds you need to be strong and decisive, even hard-nosed. You must market yourself actively. She uses media with flourish, sharing her sketches, paintings, ideas and photos for all to respond and be inspired. She finds it important to retain a clear idea of your worth and the value of your paintings. It is essential to maintain a balance: teaching / painting / running a business. Working in a small rural village can lead to isolation and turn you towards growing cabbages instead!

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One of the nicest people I met on my trip to San Francisco, Enrico Casarosa is a story artist at Pixar and a damn good one at that. On one of his last trip to Europe he put together a book, well more so I would say a visual journal of his time there.
I suggest buying this book. I had time to read it on my flight back to Seattle, and after i was finished it really inspired me to get cracking and make one of my own. Each page is visually spectacular full of water color and excitement. Once again I really suggest picking it up and taking a look at the wonderment of Enrico’s imagination.
I love this movie!!! I found this book at a used book store two days ago and haven’t been able to put it down since. The art is amazing, and just learning about there amazing process is well, AMAZING!
A lot of people (including me) have gave this movie a bunch a crap because the story was so far off from the actual tale of Hercules, but as I have learned especially after working at Disney there is just something you can’t show! haha I look at it i would rather have this movie here the way it is now then to not have one at all, and pretty much that is the options you would’ve had!
I’m sure this isn’t the easiest of books to find, but if you ever get a chance just to look at it. I recommend you picking it up. If nothing else I believe the pages would wow you something at least to crack a smile, and to you artists out there I believe it will inspire you to take out your pencil, and make your own legend!
This is a great book, and now one of the finest in my growing collection!

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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Verne Troyer, best known for his role as Mini-Me in two of Mike Myers’ Austin Powers films, suffered a seizure at the Heart of Texas Comic Con in Waco on Saturday, and was hospitalized as a result.
The actor has posted a short clip via Twitter, however, to assure fans he is doing just fine now.
“I was there for maybe a couple hours, did some tests, and now I’m here at the hotel and I plan on signing again tomorrow,” he added.
A rep for Verne Troyer told The Hollywood Reporter that even the trip to the hospital was a precautionary one, and that all of the actor’s test results came back just fine.
In addition to appearing in the Austin Powers films, Verne Troyer had a role in Mike Myers’ film The Love Guru in 2008. In 2005 he appeared on the reality show The Surreal Life.
Fans are no doubt relieved to learn that Verne Troyer is just fine. And hopefully he was able to return to the Heart of Texas Comic Con in Waco, Texas on Sunday.


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I reinstalled our koji buildvm builders recently with Fedora 21.
For most builds they seem to work just fine, but after a while random builds get stuck on them and do not complete.
strace/ltrace just hangs/doesn't output anything.
Did it never happen before the update?
What was the version of libcurl before the update?
I failed to reproduce it locally.
Which mirror is actually used to download the packages from?
It seems to work fine here with an squid proxy running on localhost.
Could you please check it with libcurl-7.32.0-17.fc20?
That version also includes a patch for bug #1166239 that already caused some issues elsewhere (bug #1172572).
Does it consume CPU or hangs passively when it happens?
> It seems to work fine here with an squid proxy running on localhost.
> Could you please check it with libcurl-7.32.0-17.fc20?
You want me to try that f20 package on an f21 host?
Note that the problem hosts here are f21. They worked fine _before_ as f20.
> issues elsewhere (bug #1172572).
> Does it consume CPU or hangs passively when it happens?
> You want me to try that f20 package on an f21 host?
Trying it on a f20 host should also be fine.  You choose.
> Note that the problem hosts here are f21. They worked fine _before_ as f20.
You referred to libcurl-7.32.0-15.fc20 as the working version.  However, it is actually libcurl-7.32.0-17.fc20 what is now tagged f20-updates and chances are it suffers from the same bug.  That is why I am asking about f20.
Per our conversation on irc I tried curl-7.37.0-9.fc21.x86_64 on the f21 hosts.
Could you please install libcurl-7.37.0-11.fc21 on a f20 builder and check whether it triggers the bug?
It could just take longer on hw... I could try reinstalling a few vm's with f20 and f21 curl and see if it happens there.
Not sure where else to look for the cause here. python-urlgrabber, python-curl, yum are all not very different. glibc and python I guess could be... mock is, but the spin/hang/bug doesn't seem to be in mock anywhere.
It is possible that both the versions of libcurl suffer from the same bug and something else just triggers it on f21 but not on f20.  Could you please install curl-7.40.0-1.fc22 on a problematic f21 host and check if the problem persists?
Then I attached gdb to the hanging process and discovered that it actually loops _inside_ clock_gettime().  This could hardly be a bug of libcurl.
I suspect this could be a duplicate of bug #1174664.
It loops in userspace.  The actual loop over the glibc instructions is attached.  I guess it could be caused by integral overflow?  Or just by invalid data from the virtualization layer?
The hosting HW is running the same NVR of kernel as the VM.
Actually, it does not loop in libc.so.6, but in the VDSO area, which starts at 0x7fff67ffe000 in the hanging process.  I am switching the component to kernel.
I am trying a 3.18.1 kernel (from rawhide) now on the f21 builders to see if it changes anything.
Seemed to take a bit longer, but the bug persists on 3.18.1-2.fc22.x86_64.
So I wonder if glibc might be more likely? Or I suppose it could be a host issue shared by the rhel7 and f21 kernels?
Adding Andy on CC since he's now the upstream VDSO maintainer.  He's nice, and maybe he'll have an idea.
and re-testing?  If that patch doesn't apply, grep for __getcpu in arch/x86/include/asm and add the missing volatile.  I hope that this patch will fix the bug for you, but, if it doesn't, then it will at least make what's going on much clearer.
I took a look at the disassembly you provided (thanks!), and I'm reasonably confident that my guess was right.  If you manage to complete an iteration of the vread_pvclock loop with cpu != cpu1, then you'll never escape the loop, because the compiler will keep using cached cpu values on each iteration.  I know this because "lsl" doesn't appear anywhere in the disassembly, so the __getcpu isn't happening, despite appearances in the C code.
Josh, I'm confident enough that this is a real problem and is probably the cause of this particular hang that it might be worth kicking off a scratch kernel build or something to make this easier to test.
> kernel build or something to make this easier to test.
The function is in vsyscall.h in 3.17, so a small trivial backport of the patch.
Will try that kernel once it's done building. Thanks!
ok. About an hour so far on that kernel and 0 cases of the bug... looking pretty good.
Excellent.  I'll try to get the patch included in Fedora git later this evening.
Test program posted at https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg273843.html works well now for more than 1 hour.
Seems to be fixed for me. Can you please release a new official kernel version to the update repo ASAP. Thnx.
BTW: What was the main source/trigger of the bug? gcc differences between F20 and F21?
I'm asking as already discussed because same kernel version worked on F20.
I guess the answer is: Bug is in kernel but was not triggered with old F20 gcc and was triggered by F21 newer gcc version.


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How is gastric bypass (bariatric) surgery performed?
There are two types of operations. In open gastric bypass surgery an incision is made in the abdomen. In laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery, a smaller incision is made and a surgeon uses small instruments and a camera to guide the surgical process.
In both procedures, surgical staples (or sometimes a plastic band) are used to create a small pouch at the top of the stomach, hence the colloquial term "stomach stapling" used to refer to the surgery. The smaller stomach is then connected directly to the middle of the small intestine, bypassing much of the upper stomach and intestines.
How does gastric bypass surgery work to reduce weight?
Most simply, gastric bypass surgery is surgery that makes the stomach smaller and allows food to bypass a portion of the small intestine. Patients who undergo successful surgery generally lose weight afterward for two reasons: they feel full sooner and bypassing the small intestine causes fewer calories to be absorbed by the body.
What are the risks of gastric bypass (bariatric) surgery?
While gastric bypass surgery has benefited many people, saving them from health problems associated with obesity, the risks of bariatric surgery are many. According to the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, which has an internationally respected gastric bypass program, these problems range from the commonplace and remediable to the serious and fatal.
Perhaps the most common problem is a leak from a staple or staples that have pulled loose from the stomach (or the spot where the new, smaller stomach is attached to the small intestine) into the abdominal cavity. This can produce peritonitis (an inflammation of the membrane that lines the abdomen wall) or a pulmonary embolism, a blockage of blood flow into the lungs. If left untreated too long, either can prove fatal.
Some programs have put the risk ratios at higher levels, some lower. The fatality rate was reported at 2 percent in the study of 3,328 gastric bypass patients reported in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. The American Gastroenterological Association reported in 2002 that fewer than three in 200 (or 1.5 percent) of patients die after the weight-loss surgery. Other studies have put the fatality risk at 1 percent or lower.
Still with 170,000 gastric bypasses expected to be performed in the United States in 2005, even a 1 percent fatality rate represents 1,700 deaths following bariatric surgery.
What is a major cause of bariatric-related injuries?
More than 64 percent of adults in the United States are considered overweight or obese, according to the 1999-2000 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Among those are people considered to be “morbidly obese,” defined as 100 pounds overweight, a condition associated with severe physical problems. The most serious, of course, is an increased mortality rate due to a number of health-related factors.
According to the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, for men and women 50 percent above average weight the mortality rate increased twofold, and by far greater rates for people with diabetes or digestive tract disease. Most of the deaths are associated with conditions stemming from obesity, including hypertension, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, cholelithiasis, obstructive sleep apnea, hypoventilation, degenerative arthritis and psychosocial impairments.


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NOTE: This story is the testimony of a Holocaust survivor named Jona Goldrich, courtesy of USC Shoah Foundation, to whom he gave a video recording of this testimony in 1995. These words were made into a public sculpture by Nicola Anthony in 2018. See it here.
My name is Jona Goldrich, I was born in Poland in Galicia, in a small town called Turka, September 1927. The population was half Jewish. My father Alexander was considered a wise man, he taught us to be independent. I learned a lot from him. He told me the only thing they can’t take away from you is what is inside your head. My Mother Elza was very observant and worried about her children; we were three brothers. She headed The Women’s Charity. We always had an open house for poor people. My 17 year old brother didn’t survive; his name was Isaac.
There was always antisemitism in school; calling us names, even throwing rocks at us. Jews were considered second class citizens. In June 1941 the Nazis marched in and made us put on white arm bands with the Star of David; we were not allowed to go out at night. They took the old people out into the forest and dug a big grave and shot them all: 300 people. My rabbi and his wife were shot. Our family hid in the attic for two weeks, with barely room to lie down. My father decided it was time to do something else.
I left my home in July 1942, just me and my younger brother Avram; I was 14. There was no hope in our city, there was no chance of surviving there. My father decided that we shouldn’t go as a whole family, it was safer for kids, and the family wouldn’t get caught at one time. He hired a guide, Michael, who took us through the mountains at night. We walked four days through the forest. I felt a little bit scared that I would never see my parents again. The guide took us to Munkatch, Hungary. My Father sewed some diamonds into our clothes so we would have money. It felt very bad to be so dependent on other people. Anyone that got caught hiding Polish Jews got arrested. It’s hard to tell a 12 year old how dangerous it is. It was tough on me, the responsibility that something might happen to my brother. That was my biggest fear. There isn’t a day in my life that I don’t think about what happened.
I went to the Palestine office every day, they were going to let 50 children in. It was the only safe place from Europe to go. We left for Palestine in December 1942. We had just enough to carry on our backs. The trip lasted almost a month by train. The train went from Hungary to Romania to Bulgaria to Turkey, then Syria to Lebanon to Haifa (Israel). When we crossed the border everybody kissed the ground. We didn’t know what happened to our parents until the war ended; we hoped they survived somewhere. They made it to Hungary but they got caught by the police. I felt guilty that if I had stayed with my family, maybe they would have survived too. If you don’t have a childhood, then you don’t know exactly what you’ve been robbed of.


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Despite the huge drawdown of about 30% from mid-2018, no one can argue against the fact that Dollarama (TSX:DOL) has been an excellent long-term investment.
An investment in Dollarama stock from 2009 has delivered total returns of +29% per year — completely outperforming the North American markets by a wide margin. In the period, the U.S. market delivered total returns of +12% per year.
Dollarama’s outperformance was largely attributable to its double-digit earnings growth that occurred almost every year. Of course, its growth has tapered off, which is why the growth stock has experienced some multiples contraction and the stock has fallen.
Do not worry. There’s hope. Here are three things that can propel Dollarama stock higher.
Dollarama entered into a licensing and services agreement with Dollar City in 2013 to help the value retailer expand its operations in Latin America. Essentially, Dollarama has been sharing its business expertise with Dollar City as well as supplying merchandises to the chain.
What’s really exciting for Dollarama investors is that the agreement also provides Dollarama with the option of buying a majority stake in Dollar City in February 2020.
You see, Dollar City is growing at a rapid pace. In 2013, it only had 15 stores in El Salvador and Guatemala. Today, it already has more than 150 locations in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Colombia. Dollar City can be Dollarama’s ticket to gain exposure to higher-growth markets in Latin America.
Dollarama began with selling merchandises at $1 or less. It has steadily raised its price point to up to $4, which is still very affordable. The value retailer can easily introduce higher price points. Even raising the price point to just $5 implies a huge percentage increase over $4.
Each time Dollarama introduces a new price point, it’s able to offer a greater range of merchandise, which attracts more traffic. Ultimately, new price points and a wider selection of quality merchandise should boost sales and earnings.
Although Dollarama’s growth has tapered off, it still generates strong and growing cash flow. In the last reported nine months, it had more than $155 million of free cash flow after accounting for capital spending and dividends paid. If the growing cash flow continues, the stock can trade in the $40s range sooner than you think.
Dollarama’s high debt levels can be a concern to some investors. Currently, it has a debt-to-cap ratio of about 88%. However, its recent interest coverage ratio of greater than 17 is very strong.
Coupled with strong cash flow generation and value offerings that should be even more popular in tough economic times, the correction in Dollarama stock seems like a great opportunity to start accumulating shares in the proven business.


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Energy analyzer can be integrated in the system.
This is a high quality system whose control and command capability is improved and the ease of command is increased by newly added properties. The system is particularly recommended to foundries with high capacity.
Working with full power or just keeps hot or makes a wait.
Breaks down it are supported by waiting converter.
The melted metal in the furnace hot by the help of a suitable generator.
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He's often cast as the villain with a history of terrifying audiences in films as diverse as 'Spider-Man' and 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'.
Willem Dafoe has had a rich career spanning over one hundred films. His big break came in Oliver Stone’s Platoon where he was able to showcase his diverse range as an actor. He got into acting in the seventies in New York’s avant guard and experimental theatre scene.
Speaking to Euronews Dafoe said the choice to become an actor wasn’t one he made growing up. Instead, he realised that he liked performing in theatre shows. He says he received very little formal education but that during the seventies in New York ‘people just made it up’.
Dafoe went on to say he knows if a script is good through an unusual method… by smelling it. Well, perhaps not entirely. Dafoe says it depends on whether or not he’s seen a directors work as then he can work on their impulses rather than being tunnelled into simply following his own. He went on to say he likes films which take him to a new place and trigger something new inside him.


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Carl Jung was the most celebrated psychologist ever lived if not Sigmund Freud. Both of them actually worked together at one time and then branched out to have theories of one’s own.
One of Jung’s key ideas that has always caught my attention is the concept of collective subconsciousness.
According to this hypothesis, human mind has consciousness as well as unconsciousness. The latter has two components i.e. personal and collective.
Jung argued the our unconsciousness consists of personal part which is unique to each individual and collective part that is common to everyone. Our ancestors had experience the world and passed down their experience to their offspring through DNA and so we all share this same experience in our collective unconsciousness.
For example, babies have tendency to find spiders and reptiles disgusting. These are not learned but have been built into our collective unconsciousness.
Every culture also has some common characteristics called archetypes that are not a result of cross-culture exchanges but rather a result of humankind sharing the same collective unconsciousness. For instance, the sun is a symbol of power or prosperity to most cultures in the world.
The significance of collective unconsciousness is twofold. First, it might explain the source of human creativity and intuition. Secondly, it might explain why every human culture has something in common, for example, superstitiousness, mass politics, etc.


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It’s always exciting when a new jump gets finished up and then it gets a little tense when you have to figure out who goes at it first to see if it works. Vinyl dropped this new edit of Mark Potoczny, Ryan Popple and Tom Arkus having their way with a new line at Hazelwood out in PA. Take a peek!
We’ve been posting each section from the Vinyl BMX “LP” DVD for the past few weeks, now the ENTIRE video is online for your viewing pleasure! Hit that play button and take in all 43 minutes of trails, park and street gold!
“Vinyl’s second full length DVD. Filmed mostly in the United States, and Europe. A trail based film that features some street and concrete riding. Filming process took from 2008-2012. The “LP” was release on March 1st 2013.
Every section from the Vinyl BMX “LP” DVD has been soooo damn good. They just dropped Brian Yeagle’s section which is filled with some of Pennsylvania’s finest all roasting through the woods with Brian finishing things up solo. There’s just never enough Yeagle footage going around! Enjoy!
Hell yeah! Ryan Wert’s section from the Vinyl BMX “LP” DVD is now online for your viewing pleasure! Watch as Ryan absolutely kills it on the streets, trails and parks of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! Definitely one you don’t want to miss!
Here’s an absolutely dialed video I’ve been waiting on from Vinyl BMX! Check out the whole crew roasting cement parks and trails, taking in the sights and camping during their trip to Colorado last summer! This looks like it was an absolutely amazing time.
It’s that time of the week again! Vinyl BMX has unlocked another section from the “LP” DVD for your viewing pleasure! This time around, we have one of my favorite sections from one of the nicest dudes I know, Mark Potoczny! Hit that play button!
Finally! Can You Dig It dropped another section from the Vinyl BMX “LP” DVD! This time around we have the trail mix section featuring Bobby Delaat, Quaggy, Lima and Robbo for you to enjoy!
Can You Dig It dropped another section from the Vinyl BMX “LP” DVD for you to check out! This time around we have the section from the man behind the lens and whole video, Tom Arkus, who was able to put down the camera enough on all of his trips to stack a ton of awesome clips for his section. Hit that play button!

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What Liza is gonna film next??
She's supposed to film one drama a year.
Wonder which drama she's gonna film.
I hope she will film a grand production drama.
Hope Mr Law can film with her too.
I agree with you Soly, I want her to film a grand production drama too. if not i want her to film with Mr Law.
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We do not recommend submitting the scores without seeing them first. One of the things you control in this process is which scores to send to each school. The SAT and ACT allow you to choose the test dates that you would like to submit (not the individual sections), and the College Board allows you to select the specific SAT subject test scores (if your son takes any) you would like to send regardless of the date on which they were taken. This means that if your son takes three subject tests on one day, he can opt to submit one, two or all of the scores from those tests.
The ideal situation is that you receive all of the test scores from different test dates, review them, and then select the strongest scores to send to the schools on your son’s list.
It’s important to keep two things in mind. First, many colleges and universities will mix and match SAT scores from different dates to give students their best possible composite score. This means they’ll take the highest math, critical reading and writing scores earned in each section regardless of the date on which they were taken. Some will do the same with the individual sections of the ACT, though this is less common. As a result, it’s usually a good idea to send the scores from all of the test dates that feature a high score in a particular section.
The second important point is that some schools require students to submit ALL scores regardless of the fact that the ACT and the College Board allow them to only send specific dates. Our college admissions consultants always stress the importance of adhering to individual colleges’ policies, since the consequences—denial, revocation of an acceptance—can be dire. Contact us today to get help from our experts on your college application plan.


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I had that experience as well. Getting high monthly page views doesn’t necessarily translate to more traffic. You also need to focus on the conversion rate of your pins. For each pin, divide the number of clicks by the number of close ups. That gives you the conversation rate. You want that number to be at least 50%. Make a note of the pins that have the highest conversation rates and see what design elements they have in common. They create more pins like them. Hope that helps.
ShoeMoney – This blog, run by Jeremy Schoemaker, also boasts insider knowledge about obtaining the Dot Com Lifestyle. His philosophy and business model is predicated on three ideas: Embrace new trends and look for opportunities to exploit them; focus on what you know; and small changes can equal big revenue. ShoeMoney.com shares information on how to be successful amid the ups and downs of online marketing. Schoemaker also offers a free online training program.


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Rick Baker is the most scary-talented special effects artist of all time. With these makeup tutorials, you’ll learn how to take your video project to a creepy new level – or maybe just rule Halloween!
Rick Baker might be responsible for your nightmares. He’s created some of the most iconic creatures, creeps, and killer monsters to ever stalk the silver screen — and now you can learn his practical horror makeup techniques for yourself! In the videos below, Baker shows you how to transform an ordinary human into all manner of monsters. Apply these techniques to up the production value of your next video project — or maybe just use them to rule your next Halloween party. First, let’s take a quick look at some of Baker’s most innovative and iconic work.
Rick Baker’s career began on the set of The Exorcist and his professional journey has taken him to the darkest corners of cinema and pop culture. In this very 1980s clip, Baker goes behind the scenes of the legendary transformation from the John Landis classic, An American Werewolf in London. This sequence won Baker the Oscar for Special Effects, an award category that didn’t even exist the year before. He would go on to receive ten more nominations and seven wins.
After the success of An American Werewolf in London, Baker was tapped to create the horror makeup special effects for Michael Jackson’s Thriller. The video would put Baker’s work into the mainstream… But, according to an interview with Vice, the makeup master wasn’t originally certain that the project would be a success.
Baker’s work in horror will likely define his legacy, but not all of his creations were creepy. In fact, Baker has said on record that one of his favorite creations is downright lovable… Harry the sasquatch from Harry and the Hendersons.
Im proud of most of the things that Ive done. One of my favorites though that I just really have the most fond memories of and really think the work is still good, is a film called Harry and the Hendersons. I really loved that character and I think it still holds up. I just read an article about CG stuff and somebody was talking about animatronics and how they didnt think they could do something better than Harry was in that film  and I did that in the 80s.
Today, practical effects appear to be making a comeback, but not enough to keep Baker in the studio; he announced his retirement in March of 2015. Be sure to check out his YouTube channel. He’s got all kinds of behind-the-scenes awesomeness and several how-to tutorials.
In 2013, Baker worked with MAC Cosmetics on some video tutorials that explain how to transform your friends into freaks and ghouls. You can use these techniques on your next no-budget horror project or, even better, use them to win $50 at your next Halloween costume contest. First up, a lesson in the living dead.
Next, Baker explains how to execute a classic Dia de los Muertos sugar skull look.
Go old school with the Bride of Frankenstein. You’re on your own with the wig.
Finally, channel your Inner-90s-Goth-Kid and transform yourself into Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas. This one is a little more involved, but it’s still completely doable.
What are your favorite Rick Baker creations? What are you going to be for Halloween? Let us know in the comments below!


text: Recent and current research interests focus on social learning, traditions and culture. To elucidate the evolution of these phenomena I study and compare human and non-human primates, especially our closest living relatives, chimpanzees. Studies include both large scale surveys of behaviour in the wild and behavioural experiments with children and non-human primates. The latter studies include the first ones that track the diffusion of behavioural techniques experimentally introduced into existing groups. Development of social learning capacities is studied in children and juvenile non-human primates.


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Phew, this has been quite the week!
Table reservations are currently “Sold out” but please take a chance and come if you were planning to. Anything could happen and those seats are not pre-sold.
I enjoyed meeting with host, Dan Olson and discussing how I met Keldon, his performance at last years Uke Fest and then a little about my own journey with the ukulele. It should air later this week.
Then just this morning I met with Natalie Nyhus from WCCO news. She does a great series on ‘Women Who Rock’ and in the past couple of weeks I was filmed solo and with the band and then today got to chat with her and tell her a little bit about my life. The piece was originally going to air this week to promote Uke Fest but will now air to highlight a future show. I will update when I know more.
It’s really been a thrill to get to share these kinds of moments. All I’ve really ever wanted was to have the chance to express myself and actually have a few people show up to listen.
Singing and writing is such a big outlet for me but to have people enjoy it is incredibly rewarding. I guess if I sang in an empty forest I would still love it but people hearing it makes is so much better.
I hope to see some of you this weekend. I will have t-shirts, necklaces and FREE BUTTONS for Uke Festers and I know we’ll have a fab time.
Love and thanks , Katy.
I wanted to let you all know about a pretty exciting opportunity I have coming up this weekend.
I will be playing a solo show this Saturday at 9 pm at the lovely Aster Cafe. WCCO will be filming my opening set as part of there ‘women who rock’ series. Please RSVP and support me. I really hope to see some friendly faces that night!
If you are able to attend (And it will be a great show with the talented and lovely Vicki Emerson and band playing) then please rsvp to the Aster.
Thank you and I will let you all know when the piece airs….


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There was a strong feeling that Erasmus had waited too long to give the young scrumhalf a start.
Ireland’s rousing 16-9 victory over the All Blacks in Dublin last Saturday was just the kind of result the game needed, a year before the 2019 World Cup in Japan.
Now, all that has changed. Ireland produced a special performance in what has been a special year for them. Irish club Leinster won the European Champions Cup as well as the inaugural Pro 14, while Ireland claimed the Six Nations and a 2-1 series victory over Australia.
What Ireland’s victory, combined with South Africa’s two thrilling games against the Kiwis this year, has done is to confirm that there is now a list of teams who can consider themselves genuine contenders for the trophy – Ireland, England, and of course our own Springboks. Even the likes of Wales, Australia, Argentina and Scotland will feel a new surge of hope.
Speaking of the Boks, Rassie Erasmus and his team have a great chance of further underlining their World Cup credentials with victory over Wales in the final match of their Europe tour in Cardiff tomorrow night.
We are especially looking forward to another appearance from Embrose Papier. There was a strong feeling that Erasmus had waited too long to give the young scrumhalf a start.
But Papier played a lovely part in Jesse Kriel’s try against Scotland – one of the best Bok tries of the season, if not the best of the season.
Papier aside, there have been much more positives than negatives for the Boks this season. Several young stars have found their feet. It’s “game on” for the World Cup. And we can’t wait.


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Founded in 2005, DigiLens has developed a proprietary waveguide manufacturing process which allows the company to “print” light manipulating structures (Bragg gratings) into a thin and transparent material wherein light can be guided along the optic and be made to project perpendicularly, forming an image in the user’s eye. While DigiLens isn’t the only company which makes waveguide displays, they claim that their process offers a steep cost advantage compared to competitors. The company says they’ve raised $35 million between its Series A and B investment rounds.
While DigiLens’ displays have primarily been used in HUD-like applications, the company is increasingly positioning its wares toward the growing wearable, AR, and VR industries. At AWE 2018 last week, DigiLens Founder & CTO Jonathan Waldern told me that the company expects to offer a waveguide display suitable for AR and VR headsets which could offer a 150 degree field of view between both eyes. He said that a single display could be suitable for AR and VR modes in the same headset by utilizing a liquid crystal blackout layer which can switch between transparent and opaque, something which DigiLens partner Panasonic has developed. A clip-on light blocker or other type of tinting film ought to be suitable as well.
Key to achieving such a wide field of view will be condensing the display down to a single grating, Waldern said. Until recently the company’s displays used three gratings (one each for red, green, and blue colors), but DigiLens recently announced that their latest displays can use just two gratings by splitting the green channel between the red and blue layers.
As waveguides are limited by the refractive index of the optical material, moving all colors into a single grating will allow multiple gratings to instead be used to transmit multiple slices of the image along each layer and then be aligned during projection, offering a wider field of view than a single grating could support.
While DigiLens plans to make this wide field of view waveguide display available in 2019, it will take longer until we’re likely to see it in a commercially available headset, since it will be up to another company to decide to build a headset using the display. And while DigiLens doesn’t make headsets themselves, it’s likely that it will develop a reference headset as it has done for its other displays.
With its current dual-grating display, DigiLens has partnered with smart helmet company Sena to offer its MonoHUD display (25 degree diagonal FOV) as a HUD for motorcyclists. That product will soon launch priced at $400, which DigiLens says has been made possible by a new “inkjet coating manufacturing process,” which brings improved visual quality and “significantly less cost,” so there’s hope that their wide FOV display could reach consumer price points as well.
The company is also presently developing a reference headset for what they call EyeHUD, a mono display in a glasses-like form factor that’s designed as a smartphone companion device.
good to see more developments in this space. Things are really starting to hot up with this tech!
What would the resolution be at 150fov and what is the refresh rate? Because if its not 90hz and very high resolution, it might be a good first step but its not really viable for VR.
I think AR is much more forgiving than VR since being able to see the real world helps mitigate many of the things that bother people and cause nausea.
I think the opposite actually — having a 0 latency background makes any latency of the augmented visuals more apparent.
@denny_unger:disqus good questions. Considering that they use microdisplays, it should be easier to achieve high resolution (than compared to what we see with macrodisplays in VR headsets today), though I’m not sure which will have the cost advantage. I believe the refresh rate is simply a function of the microdisplay used, but I will reach out to hear what DigiLens has to say.
Any latency would be more apparent, but as @disqus_Y46TwpeiPw:disqus said, you can see the real world through AR glasses and that keeps you grounded – it’s more like using a laggy AR app on a mobile phone, and that intruding on what is otherwise a perfectly normal world view than low latency in VR where your world view gets out of sync with what your body thinks should be going on.
I’ve experienced this with the Hololense, and unlike some early rift dev kit demos, there was no nausea or sense of “wrongness” – just an irritation factor.


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I'm pretty excited that we joined a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) this year. Scott was worried it would keep us from going to the farmers market. Our share is for a small family, but we eat more than 5 things of produce in a week so I'm pretty sure we'll still be going to the markets.
For our first week we got spinach, salad turnips, tarragon, salad mix and bok choy. I love that we don't know what were going to get. We were supposed to get green garlic, but somehow that was missing. I don't mind since we have plenty growing in our yard.
What do you use bok choy for?

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The iPhone XR, Is It Really a PP Device?
Right now Apple is in a very tough spot with regards to their iPhones between the XS and XS Max being ridiculously expensive and sales actually going down. The iPhone XR, it’s in kind of a weird spot right now in between kind of like a troubled middle child. Overall sales for the company are falling but this is still their best selling iPhone and on the other honestly it’s a very misunderstood device it’s the cheapest of the 2018 iPhones but it’s still pretty darn expensive especially here in the Turkey where it starts at roughly 6 thousand liras ($1200) and you have the relatively low resolution IPS display compared to its siblings higher resolution OLED displays and then you have the fact that it only has a single rear camera compared to the dual rear setups that the XS and XS Max have.
It’s awesome compared to Android’s quick settings menu. I actually like it a lot better it’s not as easy to customize but honestly for everyday use, everything you need is already right there by default and laid out very nicely at that including great music controls and native screen recording sure there are a lot of apps available in the Google Play Store and there are some Android phone brands that actually have included app but the iOS screen recording app by far is the best one I’ve used.
I generally prefer a fast reliable rear-mounted fingerprint scanner as my choice of biometric security but face ID is actually pretty cool to admit it’s annoying at first but after a while this simply just becomes routine and the way it works after a while you don’t even notice it’s there using Apple pay or your banking apps face ID notifications in the lock screen they won’t even appear unless you show your face and allegedly as Apple claims they don’t get your facial data for their use as it stays locally on the device it gives you a little bit of assurance but yeah I don’t really know how to feel about it and that’s a different topic.
So again I use a pixel so I get Android updates very consistently and first all the time and this is really really important to me so I appreciate that the XR is no exception from Apple school system update rollouts.
if you have friends or family who also have iPhones it’s just great it works very seamlessly now on to some bigger things design build quality wise.
So unlike its bigger brothers the XR doesn’t have an OLED display it has a measly IPS display with a resolution of a 1792 X 828 that’s six point one inches big. Now this pretty much bothered everybody at launch when the specs came out but actually in day to day use honestly you won’t even notice the difference unless you’re deliberately pixel peeping but then our display doesn’t look bad at all I mean sure when you put it side-by-side with the XS or XS Max you might notice the difference but yeah it’s not a bother.
Now well it’s got the Apple’s 12 Bionic chip and three gigabytes of RAM or one gig less than the XS or XS Max but performance is still really great personally coming from a snapdragon 835 powered phone this is actually has more performance than I previously had. The A12 is an awesome chip and apple’s hardware software integration is so damn efficient you really can’t go wrong with an iphone.
The battery life of XR with regular daily use it just feels like it lasts forever with that low resolution screen. I mean, i guess this was always going to be the case. I’m able to go like a day and a half on one full charge even up to a full two days or more like waking up after the second night, it still has like 30% which is crazy. This is definitely the reason to get the iPhone XR or if you don’t want to spend like nine thousand liras ($1700) for a XS and add wireless charging to that and it’s just one hell of an iPhone when it comes to battery so as an Android user for most of my smartphone owning life has the iPhone XR converted me over to the Apple.
First of all that’s not the way I think and second of all no it hasn’t convinced me personally to get it as my daily driver but I can tell you it’s definitely our favorite iPhone out of the entire line up. The design is cool, the camera is good, but the battery life is great. So if you’re looking to buy a new iPhone we’d be a fool for not recommending the iPhone XR.


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The Commercial 100 is the practical solution to collecting large volumes of waste materials. This twin fan machine has such a powerful suction system that brushes are not required to lift debris.
Using two fans enables two wanderhoses to be used at the same time, speeding up the cleaning process in restricted areas.

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The 13th BATJ Annual Conference will be held on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th September at the University of Reading. We are going to have Professor Ryuko Kubota of the University of British Columbia, who will give a keynote speech on �Critical teaching of Japanese language and culture: From theory to practice� and Dr Alan Tonkyn of University of Reading, who will give an invited speech entitled �Form-focused Teaching and the Communicative Language Teacher: Can the Explicit aid the Implicit?�. There will also be presentations of research papers, practical reports and poster presentations and workshops.
I�m sure that we will have productive two days with a variety of interesting presentations and workshops and hope to see as many of you as possible at the conference.
The first day of the conference is scheduled to start at 1.00 pm and�a provisional programme is available from the link above.
I look forward to seeing you all in Reading.
Please note that the following slides were not covered in the invited speech: slides 33-37 (which illustrate some of Dr Alan Tonkyn's general principles for Facilitating Automaticity (slide 32), and slides 40-59, which outline two key influences on Communicative Language Teaching, with examples.
There are bus services from Reading Station to the Whiteknights Campus (Address: Whiteknights, malady PO Box 217, Reading, Berkshire RG6 6AH), where the conference is held in Palmer Building. As you exit from the ticket barriers, you will see WHSmith on the right-hand side. Exit from the Station and you will see bus stops and a taxi rank across the road. There are a number of buses to the University but make sure that you take a bus to the Shinfield Road side of the Whiteknights Campus. Take either Bus No. 20 or No.21 (both to Lower Earley) that leaves from Stand SJ, as they drive into the Campus and stop close to Palmer Building. Either of these buses comes every 15 minutes. There are other buses that go to the Whiteknights Campus but I would not recommend them as they either do not drive through the University or are infrequent.
It costs �1.70 one-way and no change is given. There are no return tickets but you can buy a one-day pass called �simplyReading day� that costs �3.80. If you are joining us for the conference dinner at the Oracle Shopping Centre on the first day, it may be a good idea to buy this one-day pass.
The bus runs through the Town Centre, goes up a gentle hill and arrives at the University in approximately 10 minutes, unless the roads are congested. You will see large signs that say �University of Reading� at the entrance of the University. It should be easy to notice that you have arrived at the University because you will see a large green field (covered with grass) as the bus turns to the left and enters the University. Once the bus has entered the University, get off at the first stop (in front of Whiteknights House). If you look at the map of Whiteknights Campus available on the website numbered ? below, the bus drives into Queen�s Drive form Shinfield Road. Get off at the bus stop in front of Whiteknights House (Building No. 27) as it is the closest stop to Palmer Building (Building No. 26). You might wish to ask the driver to let you know when you have arrived at Whiteknights House of the University.
When you get off the bus, walk back a little to the left (where you came from on the bus) and you will see a car park on the right. Walk through this car park. You will see Whiteknights House on your right and Humanities and Social Sciences building on your left. Walk past the Humanities and Social Sciences Caf� behind a construction site and carry on until you see a large square on the left. Once you are in the square, you will see a two-storeyed-building with a clock on your left. This is Palmer Building. It also has a caf� called DolcHe Vita on the right-hand side of its entrance.


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How do you choose the best RC with the multitude of choices out there?
With all the options available for beginner RC cars what do you choose? Do you go for nitro, electric, on road, off road, 2 wheel drive, 4 wheel drive, buggies, truggies, rock crawlers or any other RC car for that matter. And don’t forget you also have these options to consider which scale is best for you? Are you going to practice and race at a race track or bash in your back yard or park?
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This article will help you choose between the best beginner RC cars that are perfect for you.
Nitro or Electric beginning RC cars?
Basically “electric” means that your RC car will be powered by a rechargeable battery and “nitro” RC cars will be powered with fuel. Make no mistake this is one of the most important questions you should ask yourself when deciding which RC car is best for you.
Electric powered RC cars are for you if you prefer a lower maintenance RC car that is also capable of running indoors. When your battery dies you simply recharge it. Plus, electric powered RC cars are cleaner and easier to run and maintain. The electric motors that are used to run electric powered RC cars don’t need tuning like nitro engines, furthermore, they hardly need any maintenance.
Simply put, electric RC cars cost less money to run, in the long term, and most of the time the purchase price is lower compared to nitro RC cars.
Scale, how big do you want to go, or not.
Here is how it works, scale refers to the size of the RC car, it ranges from 1/27 up to 1/5 but remember the smaller the second part of the number (fraction) the larger the RC car. For example, 1/18 means that the RC cars is 18 times smaller than the real life counter part. By far, the most popular scales of beginner RC cars are 1/10 and 1/8. They are of a great purchasing value and are practical to carry around and work on.
The smaller scale (1/18, 1/24, 1 /27 etc) RC cars are really small which make them light and easy to carry around yet, kind of hard to work on because of all their small parts.
If you have the space and don’t mind hauling the extra weight, 1/5 scale 4 wheel drive RC cars are good candidates for beginner RC cars. They run on regular gas not nitro making their engines easy to tune. And there is more, you can run a 1/5 car for almost 45 minutes on less than 1 liter of gas.
Check out the Team Losi Desert Buggy XL on Amazon . Its durable aluminum chassis will hold up on off road use, a powerful gasoline engine with that will allow you to run the buggy for over 40 minutes, all terrain tires for fun everywhere, dual adjustable disk brakes for quick response stopping power and oil filled coil over shocks for superior handling.
Hands down beginner RC cars are RTR’s. The reason? They are mostly 95% preassembled so you can enjoy your new RC car as fast as possible. All you have to do is charge or place the batteries, fuel up (if a nitro RC) are you are ready to have fun.
RC car kits are usually competition RC cars that do NOT include Radio transmitter & receiver, engine, exhaust, batteries, motors, esc among other things. The purpose of a kit is for you to build the RC car from the ground up and buy all of the other components needed based on your personal preference.
Let’s, face it you can run off-road RC cars on virtually all terrain. Grass, gravel, dirt, a local park, you back yard, and tons of other places. That is why I recommend off-road, for beginner RC cars, you can run them virtually anywhere even on-road if you just switch tires. Off-road cars are more durable than on-road RC cars and they will “forgive” your beginner mistakes.
If you have access to an empty parking lot or an on-road RC track then on-road RC cars are a good option especially if you really want an on-road RC car. If you plan to race on-road RC cars you will defiantly need access to a race track.
Good performance beginner RC cars are Buggies and Truggies. Working at a local RC race I witnessed firsthand how much abuse and “hard driving” Buggies and Truggies could withstand. Off-road RC cars are built to handle tough terrain and conditions making them very durable but remember electric RC are a better choice.
Rock Crawlers make good beginner RC cars. Contrary to Buggies and Truggies these rock crawling monsters are designed to go over boulders, rocks, climb steep hills at slow, controlled and precise speed. Rock crawlers are almost exclusively electric powered to allow you precise control of your beginner RC car throttle. Obviously, if you want something between Buggies/Truggies and Crawlers electric Monster trucks are for you.
If there is no way you can do without the roar and exhaust fumes of an engine I suggest you invest in 1/5 scale 4 wheel drive RC and the good news is that you don’t have to constantly tune your engine because of the absence of nitro.


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Kirsh, Steven J. "Cartoon violence and aggression in youth." In: Aggression and Violent Behavior 11.6 (2006), S. 547–557.
This manuscript reviews the literature concerning the effects of animated violence on aggressive behavior in youth. It begins with an overview of the research on children’s and adolescents’ perceptions of violence in cartoons. Next, the effects of cartoon violence on aggressive behavior across development are reviewed. In each section, the importance of the presence (or absence) of comedic elements in animated violence is addressed. Moreover, throughout the review, the potential influence of development is considered. Finally, a potential mechanism for reducing the negative influence of cartoon violence on youth is considered.


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The Texas Constitution, Article XVI, Section 44, Local Government Code of the State of Texas, provide for a County Treasurer and prescribe the duties as chief custodian of county finance.
Basic duties include, but are not limited to, receiving, investing, keeping and accounting, paying, applying, and disbursing all monies belonging to the county from whatever source derived, according to Law. The county treasurer preserves the system of checks and balances within the financial administration of county finances.
Banker for Martin County government - Working with departments and public for receiving and disbursing funds, including general payments of county expenses, payments for jury duty, and payments to election workers and county payroll.
Investment officer for Martin County funds - Working with external brokers and banking community for highest and safest investment returns on Martin County funds; ensuring proper collateral for all Martin County investments and funds; and proposes and oversees the Martin County Investment Policy, in compliance with the Public Funds Investment Act of Texas.
Contract Administrator for the Martin County Bank Depository - Including negotiating of Contract and management of all facets of banking services for Martin County.
Agent - For required monthly, quarterly, or annual federal and/or State of Texas reports and payments for Martin County.
Reconciliation Agent - For Martin County accounting, working with the depository bank, county departments, and external auditors.


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Research by Chantal Gautier, Visiting Lecturer at Cass Business School suggests that office romances are more common than we think, and the reason behind them is based on how organisations hire rather than cupid’s arrow.
In her book, The Psychology of Work: Insights into Successful Working Practices, Gautier examines how working environments provide the perfect breeding ground for intimate relationships to flourish.
Employers tend to recruit individuals on the basis of person-organisation fit, suggesting that the sampling of like-minded people could explain how the similarity and familiarity effects come into play so strongly at work. For example, most recruitment and selection practices involve the identification of the candidates’ values, beliefs or interests to match the culture of the hiring organisation.
As a result, jobs are often offered to candidates similar in mind-set, educational attainment and background. Gautier’s research suggests that this leads to the potential development of attraction and occurrence of workplace romances.
Companies such as American Apparel, Staples, Delta Airlines, and Lloyds of London have recently considered their policies on personal relationships at work. While some organisations have a more relaxed view on relationships between staff, others have prohibited them entirely.
This raises two important debates. Firstly, whether organisations are permitted or have the right to intervene in ‘love’, as the Human Rights Act 1998 gives everyone the right to a private life.
Gautier states that a 2014 survey by CareerBuilder.co.uk of 1,000 full-time workers across different UK industries found that 39 per cent reported having had intimate relationships with a co-worker, while 16 per cent repeatedly did so. Three in ten of those relationships ended up marrying their office romance. On the other hand, one in ten workers had to leave their job as a consequence of their romantic relationship. Those numbers may be understandable as employees are faced more and more with organisational demands, especially longer working hours. It is no surprise then that organisations become a breeding ground for intimate relationships to flourish.
As to the rights and wrongs of workplace romances, both scholars and industry leaders remain undecided. Some advocate that romance at work makes couples happier and more productive. One reason for the increase in productivity is that romantic couples are more eager to impress superiors. This is to compensate for their relationship due to a fear of stigma or being singled out.
However, problems tend to surface when couples break up. When organisations do opt to prohibit workplace romances, it is usually under the pretext that such relations trigger either loss of productivity or favouritism.


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We stayed in Valparasio a couple of days before taking a cruise to South America. As we were traveling into the town I was surprised to not only see the hills and curves but how the buildings were built. Still wonder how those cars got up on the roof.
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I hope you are having a terrific Monday! We had a great and very productive weekend. We finished putting in the garden, planted a few small trees, and put some grass seed in a bare spot. Now that the garden is in our focus will be on fixing more of the bare spots in our yard. We have 2 acres in native prairie grass with plenty of bare spots. We’re filling in with a combination of grass, grain and legumes. We are hoping that the grains and the legumes will grow well enough to become animal feed and also cover crop to improve the soil.
We also had a nice little addition to our place over the weekend. Our mama hen hatched out two little chicks. So far they stay under mama whenever we go around so I haven’t been able to get a picture. Trust me when I tell you they are adorable.
You might have read my post from the other day about how we are going to start trying to keep track of how much food we are able to produce or forage for ourselves. We would love to be able to avoid commercial grocery stores and get all of our food from our own efforts of other local farmers/ranchers and co-op situations. At this point, we are no where near this goal. Since we just finished putting in our garden we are not yet eating out of it. However, we did have a handful of radish, turnip and beet thinnings we put on our sandwiches the other day so we have had something out of the garden. 😉 Here is an article from someone who is also keeping track of what she produces. She has a goal of harvesting 4000 pounds of food from her garden this year! She harvested 26 pounds plus 74 eggs in the week she shared. Pretty spectacular.
This week we’re eating out of our food storage and our freezer along with adding in some fresh produce (I’ll shop again on Thursday). We’ll also be eating quite a bit of eggs this week since the chickens and ducks are laying well. I share our simple suppers. For breakfast we often have something from this list. Lunches are usually leftovers or whatever can be scrounged up including ideas here.


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Arose and walked Mix before breakfast and then spent this morning in a conference Skype Call with Martin and Alison from the Alliance of Religions and Conservation and Chris, a notable conservationist. The purpose of the ‘meeting’ (and what a green way of meeting this was) was to take forward our Green Pilgrimage plans for the European Chapter of this now world-wide network. I have agreed to represent the network in Scotland and I will be attending the meetings of the Scottish Pilgrim Routes Forum and making myself available to meet with pilgrimage places who would like to become involved as well as helping places already involved to develop their pilgrimage plans. I have also agreed to help to bring in a representative of pilgrimage in Wales, working closely with Chris – a meeting will be called early in the New Year and a team of interested people have already been identified. And so that I am seen to be entirely Celtic, I have undertaken to attempt to open up links with Ireland as well. There is the possibility of considerable European Funding for this project and Chris and I will try to work something up before we meet our colleagues in Sweden at the end of February. It was underlined to me again today just how much these projects tick all of the boxes for large-scale funding from Europe – they bring together so many different strands of community involvement, they involve faith communities and secular authorities, they are conservationist, they enable other activities to grow out of them, they create employment and so on. It is a wonderful opportunity and I am happy to be given the chance to be part of it. I also believe that it is a colossal opportunity for the Church – something which the church in Wales has already grasped and has appointed staff who will work to develop these opportunities.
After the conference I wrote up my notes before setting out for Gavinton Church with Rachel to have a look at the organ. It seems that the congregation sometimes struggles to find an organist and it was one of the organists who asked Rachel if we would see if it could be controlled by midi. It can – but we haven’t yet worked out the best way of doing this. In an emergency we could do it tomorrow but if it isn’t as much of an emergency as all that then we will have time to work out the best way of doing it!
Back home I started to plan some of the Green Pilgrimage activities I hope to generate in coming weeks and before I knew it, it was time to walk the dog and go for our evening meal: steak and mushroom pie with potatoes and carrots followed by ice-cream and brambles. I love brambles.