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So we are getting amped up for a trip to Missouri this weekend, we’re going to hit as many wineries as we can in two days along the Missouri River. I was asked recently why we enjoyed visiting other wineries while on vacation from our winery.
I think this goes back to one of the key points in owning a winery. I have met people who thought owning a winery was “cool” (Sure); I have met people who think there is good money in the winery business (Wrong); I have met people who want to be their own boss (Reasonable); and I have met people who thought it would be an easy business to run (Crazy).
Finding work that speaks to a passion you hold in your heart has to be a dream for many and a goal for some. For many of us who own wineries we do this because we love it, we love the wine business, we love wine. When you can make a living off your passion, life is good.
But for us, we have not reached that goal; we cannot yet live off the winery financially. Every year is better then the year before and we have met our financial goals set five or more years ago. When we started thinking about a winery, it was a dream. As it approached reality, we were able to see our plan was reasonable and measurable. We hit our first year sales goal and five out of six years we have exceeded our expectations, following that plan. We have adjusted the plan, adapted our methods, and moved forward. The light at the end of the proverbial tunnel has gone from dim to quite bright. The business is a passion for us.
But when we think about vacation, we always ask, “What wineries can we visit?” because wine is truly a passion for us, not just the business, but enjoying wine itself. When we go to Missouri, we search out the outstanding wines, those that make us smile. We want not just the average, but the outstanding.
Last year we were surprised to find a Dry Vignoles from Montelle Winery was the best wine we tried and we came home with a case. Strangely, we would have not even tried it had not an employee at another winery pointed it out to us. She said it was a fabulous wine and well worth the drive out-of-the-way to visit the winery and try it. She was right and we all loved it.
A great side benefit from our taking several winery tours each year is we can give visitors to our winery advice on where to go for weekends and vacations to find the style of wines they might prefer. In a future post, I will give a sketch of what we have found in our travels: Where to find the best sweet, off-dry, dry white, dry red, and just about every kind of wines you might want.
LOVERS OF KOKOMO CIDER: Keep in mind we only have 200 gallons (1000 bottles) this year of our popular sweet apple wine. The locally poor 2008 apple harvest kept us from getting as much of this wine as we usually get, so if you are planning on serving this delightful wine as a hot-spice holiday treat, come in and get you supply soon!
It is said by many that an aged wine is a better wine. But that is a broad statement which is not true in general terms. For example, the vast majority of sweet wines do not improve with age, it’s our recommendation you should not buy more of our sweet wines then you can drink in six to 12 months.
The issue as to whether a dry wine improves with age is a bit of a trick question. It can be said that wine CHANGES as it ages without argument, the question is whether those changes are improvements, -does the wine taste better today then it day a year ago? Only much experience and taste-testing will answer this question.
As I have aged, I have found this story to contain a fair amount of truth and relevance. This week I heard of a dear friend who had been fighting cancer successfully, until now. The cancer has spread and the outlook is bleak.
The taste in my mouth is sour over this, I believe a part of who we are, is who we know. Our friends are the landscape of our life, adding color and interest, flavor and tenor. Take them away and we become less.
A crucial part of this process is we may impress ourselves into this situation. We can feel and see the grief of the family and knowing the inevitability of life and its end, we see our future grief and hurt. We cannot avoid it, it happens to all and that is the sourness of ageing for humans.
Like the old wine, as we age the potential for a bad ending increases. Yet I think the people who surround those we lose suffer in some ways more then the patient. At some point, the suffering ends for the patient. For those who cared, the hole in our hearts remains for many years and with time the bitter taste will diminish, never gone but manageable.
One of the ongoing challenges we face as a small business is the question, what else do we want to sell besides our wine? When we were considering opening the winery, we talked to a lot of small winery owners to get advice and input.
One consistent comment I heard in the way of advice was, “Don’t spend a bunch of money on accessories!” It was suggested that too often you tied way too much money up in do-hickies and gadgets that only a few people might want to buy. Your money was better spent on items directly related to wine and wine drinking that are proven winners, sales-wise.
Let me tell you, even a small place like ours gets many calls each week from salespeople with wine-related stuff they want us to buy from them so we can sell. Recently, I had a call from a guy who sells wine and grape themed jewelry, he claimed we could make “big money” selling his stuff. Yea, right.
I have always been cheap when it comes to corkscrews, preferring a simple $10 model to the $25 fancy-pants gizmos some people use. We have sold a few of the fancy ones, but at least one broke the first time it was used and it took me three months to get a replacement.
We have always had a few artists and craftspeople whose goods we sell on consignment during the gift-giving season. This year we have some hand-painted glasses and wine bottles that are beautiful and have been selling very well! They have been very popular as wedding gifts I notice and I suspect they will continue to sell well as we get farther along in the year.
Keep us in mind when you are shopping for that hard-to-satisfy friend or relative, where else can you find locally-made joy-in-a-bottle that makes a great gift?!?
The cool weather has taken hold and I think we might need to whip up a new batch of our sweet apple wine, KOKOMO CIDER. Its been a best seller for many years here and we hope the 2009 version will live up to expectations.
The interesting thing is, we sell a fair amount of KC in the spring and summer, it’s a refreshing warm-weather drink. But sales go through the roof beginning in late fall through the holiday season. The key is adding a few key spices and warming the KC up a bit. It has been called wassail, hot-spiced cider, a hot toddy, and even “Super Cider”.
We do offer some cider spices, made right here in good old Indiana from a company called Marion-Kay, plus a recipe on how we make it taste for samples here in the tasting room. Many people make it in a sauce pan in advance, make a gallon or more, then heat it up in crock pots when needed. It stores surprisingly well for a week or more.
We expect to introduce our new Kokomo Cider in the next week or so, so stop by and check out how the new batch tastes cold and hot-n-spicy .
Honey, where are the TV trays?
The mess has officially begun! Every fall we dig out the boxes of stuff we need to build the gift baskets we sell by then bunch load and thus, we lose our dining room.
Oh, for those of you who do not know, we live next door to the winery. We do all the winemaking, sales, bottling, and tasting in the old 1894 carriage house we converted into our small winery. The problem is its really not big enough, so we do a few things in the house and one that always makes a big mess is the gift basket assembly area i.e. the dining room table.
For the last three months of the year I eat among bows, ribbons, grass packing material, wine glasses, and all the do-hickies that we put in the gift baskets, Boxes and boxes of stuff, piled six to seven feet high, its an obstacle course to just get through the place.
I have to laugh when I remember the harried guy who came rushing up the stairs, burst into the tasting room, and said in a loud voice, “Honey, we’re golden, they do have gift baskets!” It seems someone forgot to pick-up a house-warming gift and halfway there it dawned on them they had nothing with which to warm the new house.
My favorite though will remain the solid looking, gray-haired man with a mustache who came in and said, “I had never tasted your wine before, figured ot was all sweet. The I got a gift basket from a business friend with your dry reds and I thought they were good. So here I am to see what you’ve got in toto.” Made me think of the actor Ronald Coleman and a heavy English accent. He would have made a great butler, but acted more like he had one himself.
So, pay attention to the gift baskets next time you are in, $19.95 to $49.95, my wife went to a lot of work to make them, so take one or two home!


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FILE - Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou leaves the Istana after paying his respects to Singapore's first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, in Singapore.
Taiwan says it is disappointed that political rival China rejected its bid to be a founding member of a new regional development bank. Attention is turning now to whether Taiwan can join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) later as a normal member despite the two sides’ precarious relations. The government in Taipei said joining regional organizations was its right.
China says the bank to be launched later this year has 57 countries approved as founding members and will have an authorized capital of $100 billion, of which China is expected to contribute about half.
Experts say China stuck to its principle of letting only sovereign states join the bank as founding members. Beijing sees self-ruled Taiwan as part of its territory, not as a separate country. Wu Chung-li, a political science research fellow with Taipei-based institute Academia Sinica, said allowing Taiwan to join would have sent a message.
“If the Beijing government lets Taiwan be a founding member, it might give an impression Taiwan is a sovereign state, and then how about Hong Kong and Macau?” asked Wu.
Hong Kong and Macau are ruled by China but with a degree of autonomy, and many in Hong Kong are pushing Beijing for more self-rule.
Beijing’s new institution, which is set up like the World Bank, will provide funding to power plants, transportation projects and urban redevelopment in emerging parts of the 4.3 billion-person continent. The infrastructure bank is also seen as an extension of Beijing’s global clout. The United States, and some rights groups, has expressed reservations about policies governing the bank's loans, saying they may lack the similar safeguards for protecting human rights and the environment that govern the World Bank's projects.
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou said last week participation in the infrastructure bank would give Taiwan’s construction industry a chance to expand by winning contracts around the region.
The rejection has hurt President Ma’s image at home, where his approval ratings already hover below 20 percent in many surveys. Taiwan’s chief opposition party said the government was rushed and irresponsible in asking to be a founding member of the infrastructure bank.
But Taiwan’s governmental Mainland Affairs Council says it will apply again to become a regular member of the infrastructure bank as long as Beijing treats it with respect, including a name that does not imply both sides belong to one country. China said Monday it would be open to the application.
Lin Chong-pin, a retired strategic studies professor in Taiwan, said the two sides can probably work out a deal.
“Beijing’s attitude is to welcome Taiwan to join later, not as a founding member. The question is what name. These options can be worked out, because there has been precedent,” said Lin.
The two sides are expected to agree on a membership name for Taiwan that neither implies statehood nor suggests it is part of China. They have been separately ruled since the Chinese civil war of the 1940s, but over the past seven years have worked to repair relations.
China Infrastructure Bank - World Bank Rival or Partner?


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The JMX specification defines the architecture, design patterns, APIs, and services in the Java programming language for management and monitoring of applications and networks.
Using the JMX technology, a given resource is instrumented by one or more Java objects known as Managed Beans, or MBeans. These MBeans are registered in a core-managed object server, known as an MBean server. The MBean server acts as a management agent and can run on most devices that have been enabled for the Java programming language.
The specifications define JMX agents that you use to manage any resources that have been correctly configured for management. A JMX agent consists of an MBean server, in which MBeans are registered, and a set of services for handling the MBeans. In this way, JMX agents directly control resources and make them available to remote management applications.
The way in which resources are instrumented is completely independent from the management infrastructure. Resources can therefore be rendered manageable regardless of how their management applications are implemented.
The JMX technology defines standard connectors (known as JMX connectors) that enable you to access JMX agents from remote management applications. JMX connectors using different protocols provide the same management interface. Consequently, a management application can manage resources transparently, regardless of the communication protocol used. JMX agents can also be used by systems or applications that are not compliant with the JMX specification, as long as those systems or applications support JMX agents.
Next page: Why Use the JMX Technology?

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On the other hand, pretending that it's not stupid to text while driving, to swim during a thunderstorm or to ride a bike without a helmet is dangerous indeed.
Our awareness of potential bad outcomes can cause us to make really good choices to avoid those outcomes.
How much would it cost you (in time, money, effort, distraction) to make yourself ten times less likely to be at risk?
It turns out that wearing a helmet is a cheap way to avoid a lifetime spine injury.
You get a 10x improvement for very little effort. Knowing about the risk is really helpful, and any time you're tempted to run the risk, remind yourself of its implications.
On the other hand, the only way to becoming one-tenth as likely to die from choking on food is to stop eating anything but soup.
Worry is useful when it changes our behavior in productive ways.
The rest of the time, it's a negative form of distraction, an entertainment designed to keep us from doing our work and living our lives.

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Philadelphia, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/04/2019 -- Coach Pederson drives Jeep! Now, all you Jeep enthusiasts can jump on the Jeep wagon all the way to chi-town and watch the birds take on the bears.
Barbera was asked if the winning was a result of Jeep and he said he's not superstitious, knock on wood. Barbera also kiddingly said, "The football equipment for all the away games could all fit in the new Jeep Gladiator." Barbera's Autoland is stocked with over 300 Jeeps cheap. They also have newest Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram models.
In addition to being Philly's famous car guy, Barbera, who was born and raised in Northeast Philadelphia has been giving back to his community through his "Barbera Cares" program. His program is focused on the local community and the wants and needs of the people who live in it. According to Barbera, he "found a quote from Teddy Roosevelt that sums it all up." The quote is, "Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."

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The City offers Regence HealthFirst 250, Regence High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP), Kaiser $200 Deductible, and Kaiser High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP). The City pays 100% of the premiums for employees and 90% for dependents/qualified domestic partners.
The City offers Washington Dental Service (dental and orthodontia) and Willamette Dental. The City pays 100% of the premiums for employees and 90% for dependents/qualified domestic partners.
The City offers Washington Teamster's Welfare Trust Dental Plan A. The City pays 100% of the premiums for employees, and a portion for dependents/qualified domestic partners.
The City offers Vision Service Plan. The City pays 100% of the premiums for employees and dependents/qualified domestic partners.
The City offers Washington Teamster's Welfare Trust Vision Plan EXT. The City pays 100% of the premiums for both employees and dependents/qualified domestic partners.
The City offers an Employee Assistance Program (EAP). The EAP provides confidential assistance to employees and anyone living in their household. The City pays 100% of the premiums.
Employees participating in a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) receive a contribution to their HSA, and have the option to contribute make additional pre-tax contributions directly from their salary.
An employee who elects not to enroll in the city's medical plan, or whose family members choose not to enroll, may be eligible for a VEBA contribution.
Supplemental insurance plans including life insurance, short-term disability and supplemental dental insurance are available. Many of the plans feature pre-taxable benefits.


text: Even with all the confidence in the world; even if you have the best resume, most well-written cover letter, and are dressed to the nines, it can still be intimidating and challenging to look for and apply to Slidell jobs. As you seek employment, there aren't really any "rules" per se of finding that perfect job. There are, however, some helpful guidelines we'd like to point out that will greatly improve your chances of landing that job.

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Symantec is a global leader in infrastructure software, enabling businesses and consumers to have confidence in a connected world. The company helps customers protect their infrastructure, information and interactions by delivering software and services that address risks to security, availability, compliance and performance. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has operations in more than 40 countries.
Preparing applications for deployment through enterprise software packaging and developing Windows Installer installations is a critical component of Altiris service-oriented management solutions. Wise Package Studio has been and will continue to be focused on providing the strongest application packaging functionality available in the market for all our customers regardless of distribution system. Altiris, now part of Symantec, will also continue to support Windows Installer technology and our full line of developer products.

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2x military-grade protection harnessed into a slim iPhone 6s & iPhone 6 case.
Patented design provides three layers of protection with Radial Impact Geometry for a spring-like rebound against drops. This MightyShell iPhone 6s / iPhone 6 case is certified to exceed 2x MIL-STD-810G drop test standards.
2x military-grade drop tested protection for iPhone 6s & 6 in a slim, sleek composition. Its three layers include Radial Impact Geometry which provide a spring-like rebound to absorb shock.
Military-grade drop protection. Certified to meet or exceed MIL-STD-810G drop test standards.
Patented one-piece, multi-layer design. Patented design provides three layers of protection.
Patented raised bezel screen protection. Bezel rises above screen to guard glass from direct drops onto phone face and prevents screen from scratching when laying flat.
Precision-engineered slim fit. MightyShell protects iPhone 6s & 6 without adding unnecessary bulk.
Perimeter port and camera protection. TPE liner protects ports from drops without compromising sound or photo quality.
Lab-tested durability. Durability testing against extreme temperatures, cracks, and abrasions.
Responsive button protection. Rubberized covers shield volume and power buttons while keeping them fully accessible.


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Increased chance of gum disease- Whether it’s periodontitis or gingivitis, these gum diseases become more prevalent. Diabetes reduces the capabilities of your immune system, making you more prone to these infections, making proper, regular dental care even more important.
Increased chance of oral thrush- Again, the weakened immune system increases the susceptibility to oral thrush, a fungal disease recognized by sores and difficulty swallowing.
Burning mouth syndrome- The fluctuations in blood glucose levels cause a burning sensation in the mouth. This uncomfortable sensation persists until blood glucose levels are brought under control.
Dry mouth- Diabetes comes with decreased salivary flow in the mouth. Saliva is important in remineralizing the teeth’s enamel layer and maintaining the pH of the mouth. A dry mouth can promote the growth of cavity causing bacteria and prevent the remineralizing of the tooth.


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Tanzanian microbiologist and environmental scientist, Joyce Msuya was appointed as acting Executive Director of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on 22nd November 2018.
Joyce Msuya (50 years) was appointed following the resignation of the executive director Erik Solheim. Solheim had quit in wake of internal audit report accused of rule-breaking UNEP. The report has accused him of laundering up to $500,000 in unnecessary and budgeted travel expenses in just 22 months.
Joyce Msuya prior to this appointment has served as the Deputy Executive Director of the UNEP at the level of Assistant Secretary-General.
UNEP is voice for environment within the United Nations system. It was founded as a result of the United Nations Conference on Human Environment in June 1972. It is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. UNEP also has six regional offices and various country offices.
UNEP is the leading global environmental authority that sets global environmental agenda, promotes coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.
UNEP acts as catalyst, advocate, educator, and facilitator to promote the wise use and sustainable development of the global environment. It works with a wide range of partners, including UN entities, international organizations, national governments, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, and civil society.


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Answer the quiz below and you just might get a copy of this very unique book. You have to watch the show to answer, of course!
There are two important lessons to take out of this. One: the rest of the country knows how weird we are. And two: an hour isn’t even close to enough time to cover all of Florida’s zaniest places and stories.
Hosted by “Florida’s Master of the Weird,” Charlie Carlson, and his curious canine, Lady Isabel, the duo set off to travel over 1,500 miles across the Sunshine State in search of some very unusual people and places. The duo discover Florida’s best-kept secrets and oddest legends.
Discover your Weird Florida! Watch the show at 8:00pm on January 9, 2013 on WLRN channel 17. Then take the quiz.
Send answers to Producer Mia Laurenzo at mia(at)wlrn(dot)org for our prize!
1. What had Lady Isabel spooked in Casselberry?
2. A non-human, named Bob, is buried In Sanford's historic Lakeview cemetery. Who was Bob?
3. Near Lakeland, what was our new “on the road” weird discovery?
4. In Tampa, what does Hong Kong Willie make from trash?
5. Sarasota has the World’s Biggest Littlest Circus, how many seats are under the Big Top?
6. What brutal event took place in 1918 in the Green Swamp?
7. In Rockledge, Florida, what kind of eerie activity is experienced at Ashley’s Restaurant?
8. What is unusual about the trash receptacles in Lake Placid, Florida?
9. In Frostproof, Florida, it is believed that Charles Mallet was killed by what?
10. In West Palm Beach, the Great Cindini performs by doing what?
11. What government secret was hid on Peanut Island during the Cold War?

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This provocative simile was apparently proposed in comments over at the WSJ. It's hard to know how to even begin disassembling the assumptions underlying this question. My colleague Lisa McElroy takes a good shot at that project over at Dorf on Law.
Known as the “grandfather of empirical legal studies,” Eisenberg was a passionate teacher, beloved colleague, and prolific scholar during his 33 years at the Law School.
The implications of the ill-considered decision in Massachusetts v. EPA comes to the Supreme Court today in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA and its related and consolidated cases. In Massachusetts the Court concocted a dubious standing rule for states as parens patriae, and then concluded on the merits that the EPA had authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate CO2 emissions from new cars as a "pollutant." As a result, the EPA takes the understandable position that CO2 is an air pollutant, no matter its source. The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to regulate stationary sources of air pollutants that emit more than a specified amount of such pollutants. The levels set by the Act are fairly low (around 100 tons annually) because Congress had in mind such pollutants as sulfur dioxide, not CO2. But practically every building of consequence emits more than the threshold amount of CO2, so the EPA is mandated to regulate all these point sources: small businesses, residential facilities, schools, churches. If it burns carbon to ward off winter cold it's probably subject to mandatory EPA regulation. Even the EPA couldn't go that far, so it set an arbitrary threshold of 75,000 tons per year, a threshold that has no warrant in the Clean Air Act. The EPA had to do something like this, as the agency estimated that it would take over $20 billion annually to comply with the statutory mandate, and the EPA doesn't have that amount of money.
Now the wages of Mass. v. EPA are to be paid. The EPA has no statutory authority to set an artificial threshold for point source CO2 emissions, but it is utterly impracticable to comply with the statutory mandate. The sensible course would be to revisit Mass. v. EPA and conclude that CO2 emissions are not a pollutant for purposes of the Clean Air Act. But that option is not before the Court, so it will either rule that the EPA threshold is invalid and leave the EPA with the impossible task of creating an army of carbon cops to monitor your home furnace or contort the statute to say that CO2 is a pollutant when it comes out of new car exhaust pipes but not when it spews out of your chimney. The Supreme Court made this mess; it's up to them to fix it. Of course, Congress could act, but that seems to be asking too much of them these days.
Nationalism in nineteenth-century America operated through a collection of symbols, signifiers citizens could invest with meaning and understanding. In Confederate Visions, Ian Binnington examines the roots of Confederate nationalism by analyzing some of its most important symbols: Confederate constitutions, treasury notes, wartime literature, and the role of the military in symbolizing the Confederate nation.
Nationalisms tend to construct glorified pasts, idyllic pictures of national strength, honor, and unity, based on visions of what should have been rather than what actually was. Binnington considers the ways in which the Confederacy was imagined by antebellum Southerners employing intertwined mythic concepts—the "Worthy Southron," the "Demon Yankee," the "Silent Slave"—and a sense of shared history that constituted a distinctive Confederate Americanism. The Worthy Southron, the constructed Confederate self, was imagined as a champion of liberty, counterposed to the Demon Yankee other, a fanatical abolitionist and enemy of Liberty. The Silent Slave was a companion to the vocal Confederate self, loyal and trusting, reliable and honest.
The creation of American national identity was fraught with struggle, political conflict, and bloody Civil War. Confederate Visions examines literature, newspapers and periodicals, visual imagery, and formal state documents to explore the origins and development of wartime Confederate nationalism.
This sounds like a great book -- I think legal opinions are an often-overlooked source of data on ideas about nation and region during the Civil War. Some years ago I published an article looking at the opinions of five Confederate state supreme courts on whether a person who had provided a substitute for service in the Confederate army could be conscripted "again." All of the courts upheld the statute (you may recall that there was no Confederate Supreme Court, so this was all decided in state courts). Though the rationales differed widely -- I was particularly interested to see the differences in the reasoning styles. Judges who had been Democrats were much more willing to decide on broad governmental power grounds than those who had been Whigs. The latter were more likely to decide in favor of the statute on narrow grounds, such as the terms of the contract to provide a substitute did not promise perpetual exemption from service. It was really quite an interesting exercise to look at so many opionins (there were some seritam opinions and also one dissent), on such an important issue decided more or less simultaneously. I've thought that I'd like to reprise this methodology on some other issues for the pre-Civil War judiciary.
I'm also interested in how ideas about southern nationalism began to grow in the decade before war -- particularly on college campuses like UNC and the University of Alabama. I think a lot of really excellent work that looks at Confederate Nationalism (like Michael Bernath's Confederate Minds and Drew Faust's The Creation of Confederate Nationalism) have ideas that could very profitably be applied backwards to the 1850s, particularly to what judges and lawyers were saying.
The image is the Richmond Equine Statute, which was an important symbol of Confederate nationalism (even though it was put up in the 1850s). About that I hope to have a lot more to say down the road.
For those who haven't kept up with the state of law school tuition in Ohio, the NLJ reports that four schools there - Toledo, Ohio Northern, Akron and Cincinnati - have sliced tuition in some fashion over the past year. Two weeks ago, Toledo (a public school) cut tuition for Ohioans and Michiganders from $20,578 to $17,900. A year ago, Akron (another public) announced it would give all out-of-staters the same tuition as in-staters. Ohio Northern (a private school) just cut tuition from $33,700 to $24,800. And in June, Cincinnati (a public school) chopped out-of-state tuition by 30%, to $29K.
I imagine that the other Ohio law schools are also chopping effective tuition, but they're being less transparent and doing it on a case-by-case basis. The real question is whether these four schools will reduce their scholarship outlays to pay for these cuts - or whether scholarships will continue, and the schools will cut other expenses.
It would be a mistake to see this as a purely Ohio story. Many of these schools compete with other non-Ohio schools - particularly in Michigan, Kentucky, Western Pennsylvania, Indiana, and West Virginia - and the reductions in out-of-state tuitions are designed to expand the applicant and student base of these schools.
The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation offers an annual prize of $2,500 for the best article in American legal history published by an early career scholar. Articles published in 2013 in the field of American legal history, broadly conceived, will be considered. There is a preference for articles in the colonial and early National periods. Articles published in the Law and History Review are eligible for the Surrency Prize and will not be considered for the Cromwell Article Prize.
The Cromwell Foundation makes the final award, in consultation with a subcommittee from the American Society for Legal History. This subcommittee invites nominations for the article prize. Authors are invited to nominate themselves or others may nominate works meeting the criteria that they have read and enjoyed. Please send a brief letter of nomination, along with an electronic or hard copy of the article, by May 31, 2014, to the subcommittee chair, Alfred Brophy, University of North Carolina School of Law, Campus Box #3380, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3380 or via email, abrophy [at] email.unc.edu. Other members of the articles subcomittee of the Cromwell Prizes Advisory Committee are Daniel W. Hamilton of the Univeristy of Nevada Las Vegas, Michelle McKinley of the University of Oregon, and Kristin A. Olbertson of Alma College.
Past winners of the prizes are listed here. If I might offer a personal note, I have been absolutely astonished and inspired by the high quality of work that is being done by newer scholars in legal history. I've been on the prize subcommittee for two years now and have been really impressed by how deeply scholars are thinking and writing and also how broad the field of legal history is these days. I think it is an incredibly vibrant field right now.
Lawyers earned a median salary of $113,530 in 2012, according to the BLS. The best-paid earned more than $187,999, while the lowest-paid made approximately $54,310. The highest earners worked in the metropolitan areas of San Jose, Calif., Dothan, Ala., and San Francisco.
I'm thinking folks like this are pushing up average incomes in this town of 65,000.
I'm delighted to report on the University of Pittsburgh Law Review's sympoisum in honor of Derrick Bell, which will be held on March 27 and 28. There will be a roundtable discussion on Thursday afternoon with Kristina Campbell, University of D.C. David A Clarke School of Law, Timothy Golden, West Chester University (Philosophy), Llezlie Green Coleman, American University George Washington College of Law, Tanya Asim Cooper & Therese Beaudreault, University of Alabama School of Law, Patience Crowder, University of Denver Sturum College of Law, Justin Hansford, St. Louis University School of Law, Marissa Jackson, Law Clerk to Hon. Damon J. Keith U.S. Court of Appeals (6th Circuit), Melinda Molina, Capital University Law School, William Rhee, West Virginia University College of Law, Josephine Ross, Howard University School of Law, Rakhi Ruparelia, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, and Andre Smith, Widener Law. Ian Haney Lopez of Berkeley Law will give the opening night keynote address.
And on Friday the first panel has papers by Andrea Freeman, University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law, Derrick Bell and Food Oppression; Montré Carodine, University of Alabama School of Law, Race as Character Evidence; SpearIt,Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Economic Interest Convergence in Downsizing Imprisonment. The second panel has papers by Paul Finkleman, Albany Law School, Slave Law was American Law: Slavery Stories and the Scholarship of Derrick Bell; Stacey Gahagan and me, Reading Professor Obama: Race and the American Constitutional Tradition (available here); Juan Perea, Loyola Chicago School of Law, Doctrines of Delusion: Bakke, Fisher and the Case for a New Affirmative Action. Richard Delgado of the University of Alabama will then deliver the luncheon keynote, Law's Violence: Derrick Bell's Next Article. And the third panel will have papers by Pat Chew, Pitt Law, Challenging Authority; George Taylor, Pitt Law, The Object of Diversity; Jean Stefancic, University of Alabama School of Law, Discerning Critical Moments: Lessons from the Life of Derrick Bell. The closing keynote address will be by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Devon Carbado, and Cheryl Harris all of UCLA.
Here is a flyer about the symposium. And here is the final program.
Update: here is a podcast of my talk at Pitt's Bell Symposium.
The 2014 Conference on Race, Class, Gender and Ethnicity will be "Captive Audience: Incarceration and the Family." It will be held in the Rotunda of Van Hecke-Wettach Hall on Saturday, February 22.
The United States has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, with nearly two and a quarter million individuals housed in state or federal prisons at the end of 2011. A great many of these prisoners--the vast majority of whom are men--have families: partners, children, and extended family members living outside prison walls and yet, at the same time, captive to the prisoner’s sentence.
This year, UNC School of Law’s Conference on Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity will explore the myriad social dynamics implicated by incarceration’s destabilized families, including both causes of the destabilization and their results.
The Conference will invite speakers from the law, the academy, and the advocacy world to share their expertise on diverse topics such as how our war on drugs has contributed to mass incarceration and the destabilization of poor families, the way our education system continues to fail children and adolescents, how incarceration further (and permanently) divides immigrant families, the psychological effect of solitary confinement on individuals and their families, the way incarceration destabilizes and reorders community and family economies, and how families of North Carolina prisoners will adapt in our new political and social climate.
Please see the conference schedule page for more information on the individual panels and speakers!
I am tempted to reply with Honey Boo Boo and Mommie Dearest videos, but instead I’ll leave you with Mary Poppins and her superlative routine.
Details of the school's search and a call for applications and nominations are here.
On March 14-15, 2014, the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law will host the fifth annual ASU Legal Scholars Conference. The purpose of the conference is to gather together “juniorish” academics (generally, those who have been in the academy for fewer than 10 years) to receive constructive feedback on their scholarship, to network, and to enjoy Arizona’s March weather! Each registrant is asked to submit something for comment and feedback. The paper can be a draft of a work in progress, a recently accepted piece, or even just a half-baked idea; the only limitation is that it should not be a piece that is already published (because the whole point of the conference is to get feedback to improve the piece). Based on the subject of the paper, each conference attendee will be assigned to a group of other attendees with similar scholarly interests. The members of each group will read the papers of the other members of the group, and then provide feedback on those papers.
Details here. Given this nasty winter, there's never been a better time to spend a weekend in Tempe!
The University of Missouri School of Law seeks proposals for a works-in-progress conference affiliated with a symposium that is being convened at the University of Missouri's Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution on Friday, October 10, 2014. The symposium is entitled "Judicial Education and the Art of Judging: From Myth to Methodology" and addresses a number of issues relating to the role of judges and the goals and methods of judicial education. The symposium features the Honorable Duane Benton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit as keynote speaker as well as an accomplished group of judges, academics, and judicial education experts from the United States and Canada as panelists.
The day before the symposium (October 9, 2014), the law school will host a works-in-progress conference relating to the subject matter of the symposium, broadly interpreted. Presentation proposals should be no more than one page in length and can include analyses that are practical, theoretical or interdisciplinary in nature. Participants can discuss judges at the state, federal or international level. Proposals for the works-in-progress conference should be directed to Professor S.I. Strong (strongsi@missouri.edu) and will be accepted until May 26, 2014. Decisions regarding accepted papers will be made in June 2014. Prospective attendees should note that there is no funding available to assist participants with their travel expenses.

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Care for children ages 1-17 years old must be requested by a parent or legal guardian eligible for 98point6. In order to receive care, the child must also be eligible for 98point6 through the parent or guardian’s plan.
To request care for your child, begin a visit as you normally would. A list of your eligible dependents ages 1-17 will appear. Select who you’re seeking care for, and complete the child’s profile.
Next, the automated assistant will gather information about the child’s symptoms, then will deliver the information to one of 98point6’s board-certified physicians. The physician will have a text-based conversation with you about your child’s symptoms, using audio, video or photos as needed. For younger children (i.e., under age 5), the physician will likely request a brief video encounter.


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LEGO ® Bricks continue to inspire curious and creative minds to build more, do more and learn more. With the recent addition of robotics to the LEGO ® Bricks line-up of toys it’s truly amazing what our kids can learn to do.
The digital age continues to grow as a requirement in many career fields. As homeschooling parents we want to be sure we are staying ahead of the cutting edge curve and preparing our homeschool children to be able to compete in the job market in their future.
By combining their love of LEGO ® Brick fun with educational opportunities to explore digital programming, robotics and engineering we allow our students every chance to grow up into the ever-changing career market.
Which is why I’m sharing with you my Top Ten list of Online LEGO ® Learning Classes and Resources.
What about you? Have you or your kids tried an online LEGO learning class? Tell me about it in the comments below. I’d love to know about your experiences.
Joining the Top Ten Tuesday Link Up with the iHomeschool Network. Add your own Top 10 Posts.
LEGO®is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this site".
I didn’t realize there were so many online LEGO classes! Thanks for the heads up!
You are so welcome. I hope your kids enjoy.

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The need for a clear description and an indicator of the economic situation led the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS) to start a system of GDP estimation at both the national and provincial levels in 1985. Although it initially started with production-side estimation only, the NBS formally adopted an expenditure approach in 1993.
The quarterly GDP is estimated for the following eight industries: agriculture, forestry, husbandry, and fishing; mining and quarrying, manufacturing, electricity, gas, and water; construction; transport, post and telecommunications; wholesale, retail trade, and catering; banking and insurance; real estate; and other.
The annual GDP is estimated for 16 industries. Along with the eight industries included in quarterly GDP estimates, the following eight are included for annual GDP: services for agriculture, geological prospecting and water conservancy; transport and storage; social services; health care and social welfare; education, culture and arts, radio, film and television; scientific research and technological services; and government agencies, parties and social organizations.
There are three main sources of data in China.
Data collected by government agencies: The NBS collects data on agriculture, forestry, husbandry and fishing; mining and quarrying, manufacturing, electricity, gas, and water; construction; wholesale, retail trade, and catering, fixed-asset investment; labor; wages; price; household income and expenditure. State councils collect data on transport, customs, and balance of payments.
Final fiscal accounting datasets of revenues and expenditures from various administrative departments.
Final financial accounts belonging to multiple sectors, including banks, insurance, railways, civil aviation, and post and telecommunications.
The NBS owns and delegates data collection through its various departments at both national and state levels.
Firms and industries are required to report data about production, sales, and financial status by submitting prescribed forms either directly to NBS, or to local statistical agencies, or both. Further verification is done through surveys conducted by the Enterprise Investigation Organization unit of the NBS. The methodology includes NBS calculating the value-added for different enterprises on the data it has collected on its own (or through its departments). Similar values are derived or calculated by local agencies and competent authorities at the state and province levels.
Preliminary Estimation (PE): Aimed as a quick primer for the current macroeconomic situation, PE is conducted early the following year. For example, for 2019, the PE would occur in the first quarter of 2020. Due to limited data availability at that time, PE is based on limited statistics in specific fields as available from different NBS departments.
Primary Revision: The primary revision is conducted around the second quarter when more data becomes available from various NBS departments, ministries of states, and various administrative datasets. This enhances the earlier PE report, but still lacks data on final fiscal accounts, and financial accounts of multiple sectors, including those from banks, insurance, railways, civil aviation, and post and telecommunications.
Final Revision: The final revision is made in the last quarter, once all the data related to accounting, statistical and administrative sets for annual GDP estimation become available.
To ensure uniform comparability across historical datasets, periodic adjustments to the historically published datasets are also made as needed, including when new data sources are identified, or there is a change in industry classification or in accounting methods.
China has remained a closed economy with a tight government control. The authenticity of data sources, data collection techniques, calculations, and published figures has been questioned time and again. China has taken a few measures to circumvent the associated problems, which includes reforming the survey and aggregation methods, increasing the scope of the survey, and revamping the calculation methods. The change to its method of national accounting from old System of National Accounting (SNA) 1993 standards to the newer SNA 2008 standards is one such initiative to win investors trust and have uniform accounting system similar to global standards.

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Studio M Portraits’ photographers bring years of experience with corporate gatherings into your special meetings and events. We can also organize photo-taking sessions with each department of your company, as well as cover other gatherings like team building exercises, company anniversaries, and more.
Since our inception, it’s been our goal to offer only the most professional photos for corporations and non-profits alike. Our dedicated team of corporate portrait photographers in the Holt and Lansing area, including Mount Hope Church has taken perfect photos of many prestigious companies.
Studio M Portraits is a Lansing-based agency that delivers high-quality photography services thanks to industry expertise and years of working experience.
Dress for Success: When it comes to corporate or business portrait photography, the idea is to look professional and successful, not to let fashion overpower your true self. From choosing the color of the tie to buttoning your blazer a certain way, we understand how vital every little detail is for a professional business portrait.
Efficiency Is Key: We have handled countless corporate events throughout our 30+ year journey, and we know how to prepare beforehand to ensure both efficiency in the process and top-notch quality photos.
Establish the Brand: We primarily focus on elevating your brand in the community through creative and innovative corporate photography.
Our journey has made us who we are today. From basic corporate portraits to exclusive corporate event photography, we do everything with professional-level performance. We want you to feel the same pride we do when sharing our work.
We have spent years in the industry fine-tuning our practices to ensure we produce only high-quality work in an efficient manner. Whether it’s media coverage for a conference or a corporate photo shoot, you can rely on our photographers’ expertise and know-how.
We have helped numerous clients become household names through our photography. Every single picture is a hallmark of our excellence, skills, and leadership in the realm of professional photography.
Our experience allows us to understand what draws people in to a picture. It’s more than just choosing the best background, lighting, or attire for a photo shoot. It’s also about highlighting the best parts of a scene and letting the image tell the story.
For this reason, Studio M Portraits is your ideal partner when it comes to conveying your brand story. It is our belief that through our expertise, we can aid our clients with their professional branding and ensure they stay top-of-mind with their own clients.
We have carved a niche in the corporate event photography industry with special emphasis on corporate portrait photography and business portrait photography. At Studio M Portraits, we have built our client-base not only by covering corporate events, functions, and gatherings, but also by helping companies create professional portfolios and branding through the images we have taken.
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All Family Weekend events and activities are completely optional. There are no required events. The most important thing to do is spend some quality time with your student. Some events subject to change.
9 a.m. Men's and Women's Golf Invitational. Wine Valley Golf Club.
10 a.m. Art Tours: Join a student-guided tour of works in Whitman's campus art collection. Tours start at the entrance to the Sheehan Gallery in Olin Hall.
2 p.m. Harper Joy Theatre presents Big Love by Charles Mee and directed by Christopher Petit. Big Love retells Aeschylus's The Suppliants, setting the play in a villa in modern day Italy, where fifty brides have fled to avoid marrying their fifty cousins. While the brides and grooms wait for their wedding day, the play explores issues of gender politics, love, and domestic violence. Tickets (available October 3): $12 for adults, $8 for students and seniors (60+) and free for Whitman students with their student IDs. To make reservations, call the Box Office at (509) 527-5180. For more information, visit www.whitman.edu/hjt.
3 p.m. Art Tours: Join a student-guided tour of works in Whitman's campus art collection. Tours start at the entrance to the Sheehan Gallery in Olin Hall.
• Meet your student’s roommate(s), housemate(s), or best friend(s).
• Take a tour of the residence hall, interest house, fraternity, sorority, house or apartment where your student lives.
• Walk to Pioneer Park.
• Ask your student to give you a custom tour of her or his favorite places on campus.
• Visit the Welty Student Health Center and have your student get a flu shot. The cost of the shot is $25.
• Visit the Stevens Gallery in the Reid Campus Center and the Sheehan Gallery in Olin Hall.
• Take a sculpture and public art tour of campus.
• Work out with your student at the Baker Ferguson Fitness Center.
• Borrow a bike from your student’s roommate or from Allegro Cyclery downtown and ride with your student up the Mill Creek trail to Rooks Park.
• Take a walk around Bennington Lake (the local reservoir).
• Go out for a milkshake at the Ice-Burg Drive-In or create your own frozen yogurt treat at Blue Palm.


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The Dustin and Stacey Show!: It's Racing Time!!
A couple of weekends ago, Dustin and I went to a Nascar Busch Series race. I was given free tickets from a co-worker and neither of us had ever been. So we packed ourselves up and took the 3 hour drive to the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas. What an adventure!
We got there around 11:00 am. The main race started at 2:00 so we decided to use the time before to check out the merchandise and roam around the track. All the big-name racers had their trucks of clothes and stuff to sell. Being the huge M&M fan that I am, I had to get a picture with David Gilliland's truck( he drives the M&M car).
Then the main race began! After donning our awesome fashionable earplugs, we were ready to enjoy the action! That race was, without a doubt, the loudest event I have ever attended! Other than the roar of the engines, you couldn't hear a single thing. Dustin and I found out that we do not communicate well without words. It was actually quite funny!!
And the winner was.....#5 Kyle Busch!! Not our first pick, but still exciting to see!

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When: Monday, November 9, 5:15-6 p.m.
More: Bring signs if you can, and a smile for the cameras. Place sign ideas in comments if you like, and help us go viral with the info.
If you’ve not yet been phoned or e-mailed by one of the ringleaders and would like to participate, please e-mail me at yinn[at]citybarbs[dot]com and I’ll put you in the loop. Whether or not you can be there yourself, your recruitment efforts are greatly appreciated. We hope to include folks from the two most recent casualties of city business as usual (I mean besides the rank-and-file city workers themselves), social services staff and building tradespeople; but of course any fed up person is welcome.


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Listed below are some links that we think you may find useful in planning your chimney repair project.
Underwriters Laboratories of Canada (ULC) is an independent, not-for-profit product safety testing and certification organization.
Intertek is the world's largest independent testing, inspection and certification partner. We provide manufacturers and retailers with faster, more efficient market entry around the world.
Directory for services offered by architects, artisans, contractors, designers, installers, fabricators, managers, consultants and educators in the custom building and restoration fields.
An online community for people who love old houses.


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NetBotz wireless pod data loss if NBPD0180 coordinator is disconnected.
You will lose data for any sensor connected to the wireless coordinator if it is disconnected from the NetBotz appliance.
If you follow the steps below, you can prevent data loss from the router or end devices that are also being monitored.
4. Wait for the end devices and routers to report back into the coordinator and they should come back online in the bot, all previous data should be available to graphs / reports.
Any pod deleted from advanced view will also have it's data deleted. Following the above instructions will cause the coordinator to be removed but any router or end device should remain.


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Locate a Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facility near me in Larned, KS.
Drug & Alcohol Rehab Programs in Larned, KS.
An individual may have past failures at getting sober and also previous failures in drug and alcohol treatment, however have a very good chance at getting off of drugs for life if the right alcohol and drug rehab facility in Larned, KS. is a choice right now. If someone won't obtain the help they need, it needless to say rests in the hands of loving family and friends who have to place aside all other emotions and opinions to get the individual in to a drug and alcohol treatment program in Larned that may save their lives. For anyone who has attempted to help someone they care about who's struggling with substance abuse get help, they can tell you that sometimes this really is easier in theory. However, an intervention will help in ways that past attempts haven't, because if conducted properly it is much better planned and orchestrated than prior efforts and it is always a strategy done out of love and support instead of making anyone feel guilty or ashamed.
An intervention is something that may start today, and doesn't have to wait until the person reaches a record low as some individuals think. So the first step is usually to choose an alcohol and drug rehabilitation program that may effectively address any type of substance abuse, and when choosing recognize that inpatient and residential centers in Larned which provide long-term rehab possess the best track records of doing so. Individuals usually stay in a rehab setting in such a program where they can be treated without being distracted and without their successes being jeopardized. And since long-term centers are prepared to accommodate clients for several months on many occasions, these programs are of sufficient length to deliver rehab in a manner which may completely handle every substance abuse issue. Once this type of center has become selected, a treatment counselor can help organize an intervention without delay.
Household and Income Statistics in: Larned, KS.
Larned State Hospital is a Hospital Inpatient Drug Rehab that can be reached at 620-285-2131. They specialize in Co-Occurring Mental And Substance Abuse Disorders, Treatment for addicts with Hiv/Aids, Treatment for Seniors, Criminal Justice Clients, Assistance For Hearing Impaired and accept the following forms of payment: Self Payment, Medicaid, Medicare, Private Insurance, Military Insurance, Sliding Scale Payment, Payment Assistance.
They are located at 1301 Kansas Highway 264 Larned, KS. 67550.


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According to neuroscientists being forgetful could be a sign you are unusually intelligent.
Being forgetful has never been seen as a good thing especially as we grow older, but scientists now believe forgetfulness is a sign your brain is functioning properly and in some cases even better than you would have first thought. A good memory does not equate to high intelligence, the brain is set up to forget some things in order to remember others. In conclusion, forgetting is a big part of what builds intelligence.
How essential is it that we forget?
A new review paper from Paul Frankland a senior fellow in CIFAR’s Child and Brain Development program and Blake Richards, an associate fellow in the learning in Machines and Brains program our brains are actively working hard to forget. The world constantly changes and old information stored in our brains becomes outdated and useless to us. If the brain is full of useless information makes it harder for us to understand and process new information. The ability to forget allows new information to be stored ready to use when needed.
So how is harmless forgetting different from memory loss?
Everyone experiences forgetfulness from forgetting where you put your keys to that celebrity you end up having to google. These are everyday examples everyone experiences and are perfectly normal and healthy. More serious symptoms of memory loss tend to be more visible and occur much more frequently they include things like forgetting the names of everyday objects to getting lost in familiar places.


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Washer Repair In Minneapolis St. Paul MN. Minneapolis Appliance Repair Service Is among the most reliable and reputed washing machine repair experts in the region. We have 40 years of experience in Whirlpool Duet washing machine repair, and Sears Kenmore washing machine repair. There is no mystery in understanding how important that washer is to your daily routine. Minneapolis Appliance Repair Service is committed to providing you peace of mind as far as your home clothes washers go. We strive hard to ensure that you receive the best value for your money on each washing machine repair visit. Were wanting you to enjoy the comfort, speed, and efficiency your home washing machine provides. At an affordable cost for the longest period of time.
We offer Sears Kenmore washer repair in addition front loading Whirlpool washer repair too. Older models with a timer knob or a newer front loading Whirlpool Duet washing machines with a computer. Newer Machines with a mother board, we have the experience and factory training. For a fast and easy repair for most washing machines not just Whirlpool and Kenmore call now. We have well stocked vans and can complete most repairs on the first visit. If for some reason we don’t carry that washer part, you will not pay for a second service call. We will return as fast as we can. Pick up the phone and call us and we believe you will hear the difference. Invite us to the home and you will see the difference.
1. If something doesn't seem right the newer models with a computer should be unplugged for 1 minute to see if the washer cooperates now. It’s like rebooting the computer, This should be tried before calling us.
2. Monitor the exact problem as long as it takes so you can give the service tech an accurate idea. This helps him to understand the challenge he is facing, this saves us time and you money.
3. Make sure the hot and cold water valves are turned on fully.
4. Make sure the lint filter on the drain line is draining free.
5. Yes you should leave the door open due to moldy bellow seals on a front loading washer.
6. One hot load a week will keep smells out of the front loading washer tub.
7. A little white vinegar in the rinse water will help get the soap out of the clothes, soften the water. This can also help to cut back on softeners and chemicals.
8. A little baking soda in the wash will help fight odors and soap build up.For front loading washing machines.
9. Place small items in a wash bag or they will end up in the pump.
10. Never ever slam the washer door, door latch assemblies are plastic and expensive.
11. Check those pockets, something sharp can cut the bellows seal, very expensive.
12. Of coarse if it falls apart don’t put it in the washer, especially $5.00 throw rugs. Throw them away or soak it somewhere else.
13. Front loading washers and HE washers need wash bags to be used on anything small or delicate. Small things like socks will sneak into the pump and stop the washer from use.
14. Adults should know how and where to shut off the water to the washing machine or entire house if necessary. In fact this practice could be very important in that time of need, when minutes count.
15. Hydrogen Peroxide in and around your washer can help in many ways. To read up here and around the internet is not a waste of time on the many uses.
16. Hydrogen peroxide can be used to pretreat stains, just soak your whites, shower curtain, garage rags, towels and more. With no clothes in the washer put 4 ounces in the washing machine. Run a load to disinfect the washing machine inside where you can not see. Add 4 ounces of hydrogen peroxide and 4 ounces of baking soda in your washing machine. This will also take away that musty smell from your towels.

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text: It may not be a pure-bred dog, but the Cockapoo is one popular option. This smart little dog just wants to please. Our Cockapoo dog ID tag in antique silver finish features the adorable face of the Spaniel and Poodle mix surrounded by white enamel and clear stones. We can personalize the one-inch dog ID tag for your pup.


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Gilt metal. A pair of military pattern spurs with circular rowels, complete with chains, buckles and leather straps, accompanied by a period card inscribed in ink 'Last Spurs worn by His Majesty William 4th’. Maker’s name of Royal Warrant holder Maxwell to each spur. Contained in a refitted Victorian letters patent case, the hinged lid embossed with the Royal arms.
The spur making firm of Maxwell was established in 1750 and is now part of the Jermyn Street boot maker Foster & Son. Maxwell was granted the first of its many Royal warrants by King William’s elder brother George IV.


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Coca-Cola has once again delved into the '90s archives to bring back a nostalgic favorite.
Seven months ahead of the release of the new "Ghostbusters" film, Coca-Cola could be rolling out an old favorite: Hi-C Ecto Cooler.
The company filed a trademark patent in September for the orange-tangerine flavored drink, which was approved in November.
Great Scott! This much for a Pepsi?
Ecto Cooler, colored green in honor of Slimer from the first "Ghostbuster" film, debuted in 1987 in partnership with the franchise's cartoon series. The beverage lasted long after the 1991 cancellation of the show and was available until 2001 before being renamed "Shoutin' Orange Green."
Ultimately, the drink left shelves in 2007 after being renamed again. However, fans of the beverage resurrected Ecto Cooler with their own recipe in 2011.
This isn't the first time that Coca-Cola has gone into their beverage archives and brought back a fan favorite. In September the company brought back Surge, a popular citrus-flavored soda.
Competitor Pepsi has also doubled-down on the nostalgia market. The company released Pepsi Perfect in October in honor of "Back the the Future" Day.


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If you’re looking for an authentic, cultural experience, in a one of kind environment, look no further than Amantani Island. This unique Lake Titicaca homestay offers visitors a very small window into the real daily life of Amantani’s Quechua residents.
The location way up on the world’s highest altitude navigable lake provides brilliant blue skies, stunning vistas and incredible light. Add in the total serenity of Amantani itself, and it’s an experience you’ll never forget.
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Amantani Island is located approximately 40km away from Puno on the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca. It’s a circular-shaped island approximately 9.3km² in size, inhabited mainly by people of Quechua origin. It has spectacular terraced hillsides planted with wheat, quinoa, potatoes and various other vegetables. You’ll also find alpaca, sheep, and other livestock grazing around the island, but no cars.
There are 2 mountain peaks rising approximately 4000 metres above sea level on Amantani Island. The local Quechua population refer to them as Pachatata (Father Earth), and Pachamama (Mother Earth). Ancient Incan ruins on top of both peaks are generally only accessible on the 3rd Thursday of January, each year. At this time, the residents of Amantani Island divide in half, with some congregating at Pachatata, and the rest at Pachamama, for their annual Feast Day.
Visit during this event, and you’ll witness an exciting race to a finish line somewhere between the 2 peaks. A win for the Pachamama side predicts a plentiful harvest for the following year.
If you book a homestay on Lake Titicaca, it will be on Amantani Island. So, you may also find this experience called the “Amantani Homestay”. They’re exactly the same thing, so no need to worry that you’ll end up on a random island in the middle of nowhere. You won’t!
An Amantani homestay will be part of a tour that starts out of Puno on the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca. You’ll also make brief stops at the floating reed islands of Uros, and Taquile during the tour. If you’re short on time, booking a tour to visit all 3 islands in a single day, is really your only option due to the distances and coordination involved.
However, if you can swing it, I really do recommend staying overnight on Amantani Island if you can. It was undeniably the highlight of our visit to Lake Titicaca.
If you’re a planner and feel more comfortable reserving a spot in advance, you can book a Lake Titicaca tour that includes transport from Puno, an english-speaking guide, meals, the overnight Amantani homestay, as well as visits to the islands of Uros and Taquile. This will make your experience completely low stress.
Lake Titicaca tours to Uros, Amantani and Taquile depart from the Puno dock.
It’s also totally possible to book your Lake Titicaca homestay independently. There are two ways to do this.
You can walk directly up to the dock in Puno, and make arrangements to visit one or all of the islands there. You’ll definitely save some money by arranging things independently. Keep in mind though that transport to and from your lodging in Puno, and a guide won’t be included. Be sure to carry some cash with you, as you’ll have to pay the “entrance fees” to each of the islands yourself upon arrival. This is how we visited the Lake Titicaca Islands ourselves… and it’s totally doable.
Alternatively, you can book accommodation on Amantani yourself, and stay for as many days as you’d like. Don’t forget to reserve transport from Puno to Amantani and back.
Staying on Amantani Island for a few days wouldn’t be that bad.
Where we stayed in Puno: Santa Maria Inn– private double with ensuite bathroom, hot shower (not a given in Peru), delicious breakfast (eggs and freshly squeezed juice) and wifi in the lobby. Definitely recommended for a budget stay.
The homestay on Amantani Island is the second stop on almost every Lake Titicaca tour. On the way to Amantani, you’ll stop in at Uros. On the way back to Puno, you’ll stop at Taquile.
There are varying degrees of comfort available in each home, but generally speaking, houses are very simple. Toilets are very basic, and there may be no running water or electricity. Odds are your host family will not speak english. They may not even speak spanish. However, they’ll be warm and welcoming and happy that you’ve decided to spend the night. After all, it’s a much needed contribution to their economy.
Each of the families involved in the Amantani homestay must have a special room set aside for tourists to stay in. They’ll provide you with meals, and take you to a dance show in the evening. Feel free to dress up in the traditional clothes provided and join the dance. There will also be handmade alpaca hats and other items available to purchase if you wish. There is no obligation to do so.
A traditional evening of dance and music is a part of every Lake Titicaca Homestay.
If you want to bring a gift for your hosts, it’s much better to bring food staples or school supplies, rather than sweets or sugar. It’s difficult to get dental care on Amantani.
It takes about 2 hours via a really slow “speedboat” to reach Amantani Island from the floating reed islands of Uros. It’s a lovely ride though, and a real opportunity to explore the true peace and beauty of Lake Titicaca.
After all, you’re currently 3,800 metres above sea level, making your way across the largest volume lake in South America and the world’s highest navigable body of water. Not many make it here. As you glide across Lake Titicaca’s calm blue waters, revel at the incredibly clarity of the sky above you and the whisper of the long grass reeds around you. Look out for the Andes Mountains, and see if you can still feel the presence of the God Viracocha, who once rose out of the Lake, and created the sun, the stars, and the first people.
I see a small group of women waiting by the dock, as our speedboat laboriously makes its way closer to Amantani. There are none of the big smiles and contrived waves we’d just encountered on the Uros Islands. Instead, the women hang back, giving us shy smiles from behind a village elder, while he determines which family will host us for the night.
Headed to our home for the night.
Agri and I, along with a Peruvian from Lima, follow our Amantani homestay lady to her house. It’s just a short 10 minute walk away from the dock. We’re shown to our rooms, which are rustic, with no electricity and only an outhouse for a bathroom. The beds are large and surprisingly comfortable though, so we settle in for a quick rest before lunch.
We’d been warned that meals would be very simple and starchy, and they are. We’re served a simple vegetable soup to start, followed by the main course, which consists of a plate of many different kinds of boiled potatoes and a slab of fried cheese. The meal is filling, if not wholly satisfying. However, we’re getting a taste of what real life is like on Amantani Island… and if the people of Amantani eat potatoes every day, we certainly can too.
A simple soup to start.
Many kinds of potatoes and a slab of fried cheese.
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After lunch, our lady walks us to the main square, where we are met by a “tour guide,” from Amantani Island. He explains that there are 2 peaks on the island: Pachamama (Mother Earth) and Pachatata (Father Earth). We can choose to hike to either or both peaks.
We decide to make our way up to the top of Pachamama. It’s 4,100 metres above sea level, and we definitely feel the high altitude and lack of oxygen as we struggle our way up to the peak. It’s worth every breathless step though. At the top, we’re able to see the calm waters of Lake Titicaca stretching out peacefully in every direction, as well as the natural beauty of the island itself. There’s a feeling of serenity and calm at the top that I haven’t felt for a very long time.
We watch the sunset until it becomes too cold to bear, and then make our way back down the mountain for dinner at our homestay. After we eat more potatoes than I’d ever imagined we could eat in a single day, Agri makes his way back to the main square for an evening of dance and music. Ever the introvert, and too cold to contemplate the half hour walk back in the dark, I huddle under the covers, and await his return a few hours later.
When was the last time you saw a sky this colour?
The next morning we wake early and have a breakfast of bread and instant coffee, that’s been freshly prepared on the family’s campfire stove kitchen. And with that, our Amantani Island homestay is over. After saying goodbye to our homestay family, we walk back to the dock, with a greater appreciation of what life is like on Lake Titicaca.
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Hey, I remember Amantani now I look at your photos!
I remember the trek up Pachamama, but mostly the dancing… I guess it was in that exact same room haha. I doubt any of the women we danced with were over 4’10” right?
At least I think that was on Amantani.
I know we won 3-2!!
Yup 4’10”, you must’ve been in heaven ;).
I’m sure the room was the same since it’s the only “community hall”. The dancing was more like spinning around in circles that kept going faster and faster, and we couldn’t even dance to that.
You’re lucky you got to play some soccer, good for potato digestion. I’m dying to play, it’s been three months and barely touched the ball twice. I’ll officially warm the bench for you guys when I get back.
Never heard of Amantani and not much of Peru, so this was a very interesting read. Sounds like there are many houses to choose to say in, and I guess if you wanted to be more adventurous, you can ask for the one of ‘least comfort’ lol. Cooking seems so simple using the most basic ‘kitchen’, and your place seem very hospitable. Very sporting of Agri to join in the late night dancing XD If I were there, I would join you huddling under the covers and recharging for the next day (sure to be tired after a day of climbing and walking!).
I loved Isla del Sol and Lake Titicaca is beautiful – but this looks another step up in amazinG!
We didn’t make it over to Bolivia or Isla del Sol at all – but we totally should’ve made the effort it seems!

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May 1 9:23 PM PT10:23 PM MT11:23 PM CT12:23 AM ET4:23 GMT12:23 9:23 PM MST11:23 PM EST8:23 UAE0:23 ETNaN:� BRT - Paul Martin had 15:35 of ice time in the Sharks' 4-3 loss to the Golden Knights on Monday. He didn't take a shot and had a plus-minus of -2 for the game.
Apr. 28 8:24 PM PT9:24 PM MT10:24 PM CT11:24 PM ET3:24 GMT11:24 8:24 PM MST10:24 PM EST7:24 UAE (+1)23:24 ETNaN:� BRT - Paul Martin had 10:38 of ice time in the Sharks' 4-3 win over the Golden Knights on Saturday. He took one shot and had a plus-minus of even for the game.
Apr. 26 8:58 PM PT9:58 PM MT10:58 PM CT11:58 PM ET3:58 GMT11:58 8:58 PM MST10:58 PM EST7:58 UAE (+1)23:58 ETNaN:� BRT - Paul Martin had 10:01 of ice time in the Sharks' 7-0 loss to the Golden Knights on Thursday. He didn't take a shot and had a plus-minus of -2 for the game.
Apr. 19 9:09 PM PT10:09 PM MT11:09 PM CT12:09 AM ET4:09 GMT12:09 9:09 PM MST11:09 PM EST8:09 UAE0:09 ETNaN:� BRT - Paul Martin had 10:26 of ice time in the Sharks' 2-1 win over the Ducks on Wednesday. He took one shot and had a plus-minus of even for the game.
Apr. 17 9:32 PM PT10:32 PM MT11:32 PM CT12:32 AM ET4:32 GMT12:32 9:32 PM MST11:32 PM EST8:32 UAE0:32 ETNaN:� BRT - Paul Martin had 16:37 of ice time in the Sharks' 8-1 win over the Ducks on Monday. He didn't take a shot and had a plus-minus of +1 for the game.
Apr. 15 9:21 PM PT10:21 PM MT11:21 PM CT12:21 AM ET4:21 GMT12:21 9:21 PM MST11:21 PM EST8:21 UAE0:21 ETNaN:� BRT - Paul Martin had 16:35 of ice time in the Sharks' 3-2 win over the Ducks on Saturday. He took one shot and had a plus-minus of even for the game.
Apr. 13 9:21 PM PT10:21 PM MT11:21 PM CT12:21 AM ET4:21 GMT12:21 9:21 PM MST11:21 PM EST8:21 UAE0:21 ETNaN:� BRT - Paul Martin had 15:47 of ice time in the Sharks' 3-0 win over the Ducks on Thursday. He took one shot and had a plus-minus of +1 for the game.
Apr. 8 9:07 PM PT10:07 PM MT11:07 PM CT12:07 AM ET4:07 GMT12:07 9:07 PM MST11:07 PM EST8:07 UAE0:07 ETNaN:� BRT - Paul Martin had 15:28 of ice time in the Sharks' 6-3 loss to the Wild on Saturday. He didn't take a shot and had a plus-minus of +1 for the game.
Apr. 6 9:09 PM PT10:09 PM MT11:09 PM CT12:09 AM ET4:09 GMT12:09 9:09 PM MST11:09 PM EST8:09 UAE0:09 ETNaN:� BRT - Paul Martin had 17:51 of ice time in the Sharks' 4-2 win over the Avalanche on Thursday. He took one shot and had a plus-minus of even for the game.
Apr. 4 9:12 PM PT10:12 PM MT11:12 PM CT12:12 AM ET4:12 GMT12:12 9:12 PM MST11:12 PM EST8:12 UAE0:12 ETNaN:� BRT - Paul Martin had 16:17 of ice time in the Sharks' 4-2 loss to the Stars on Tuesday. He took one shot and had a plus-minus of +1 for the game.
Apr. 1 9:27 PM PT10:27 PM MT11:27 PM CT12:27 AM ET4:27 GMT12:27 9:27 PM MST11:27 PM EST8:27 UAE0:27 ETNaN:� BRT - Paul Martin had 14:46 of ice time in the Sharks' 3-2 loss to the Golden Knights on Saturday. He took one shot and had a plus-minus of +1 for the game.
Mar. 29 7:01 PM PT8:01 PM MT9:01 PM CT10:01 PM ET2:01 GMT10:01 7:01 PM MST9:01 PM EST6:01 UAE (+1)22:01 ETNaN:� BRT - Paul Martin had 14:24 of ice time in the Sharks' 5-3 loss to the Predators on Thursday. He didn't take a shot and had a plus-minus of even for the game.
Mar. 27 6:42 PM PT7:42 PM MT8:42 PM CT9:42 PM ET1:42 GMT9:42 6:42 PM MST8:42 PM EST5:42 UAE (+1)21:42 ETNaN:� BRT - Paul Martin had 19:26 of ice time in the Sharks' 3-2 overtime loss to the Blues on Tuesday. He took one shot and had a plus-minus of even for the game.
Mar. 26 7:21 PM PT8:21 PM MT9:21 PM CT10:21 PM ET2:21 GMT10:21 7:21 PM MST9:21 PM EST6:21 UAE (+1)22:21 ETNaN:� BRT - Paul Martin had 15:07 of ice time in the Sharks' 4-3 shootout win over the Blackhawks on Monday. He took one shot and had a plus-minus of even for the game.
Mar. 24 2:49 PM PT3:49 PM MT4:49 PM CT5:49 PM ET21:49 GMT5:49 2:49 PM MST4:49 PM EST1:49 UAE (+1)17:49 ETNaN:� BRT - Paul Martin had 17:19 of ice time in the Sharks' 5-1 win over the Flames on Saturday. He didn't take a shot and had a plus-minus of +1 for the game.
Mar. 22 8:50 PM PT9:50 PM MT10:50 PM CT11:50 PM ET3:50 GMT11:50 8:50 PM MST10:50 PM EST7:50 UAE (+1)23:50 ETNaN:� BRT - Paul Martin had an assist in 10:29 of ice time in the Sharks' 2-1 overtime win over the Golden Knights on Thursday. He didn't take a shot and had a plus-minus of +1 for the game. Martin now has two assists on the season.
Mar. 21 9:15 PM PT10:15 PM MT11:15 PM CT12:15 AM ET4:15 GMT12:15 9:15 PM MST11:15 PM EST8:15 UAE0:15 ETNaN:� BRT - Paul Martin had an assist in 14:59 of ice time in the Sharks' 6-2 win over the Devils on Tuesday. He didn't take a shot and had a plus-minus of +1 for the game. Martin now has one assist on the season.
Mar. 17 8:48 PM PT9:48 PM MT10:48 PM CT11:48 PM ET3:48 GMT11:48 8:48 PM MST10:48 PM EST7:48 UAE (+1)23:48 ETNaN:� BRT - Paul Martin had 10:10 of ice time in the Sharks' 5-3 win over the Canucks on Saturday. He didn't take a shot and had a plus-minus of +1 for the game.
Jan. 15 3:38 PM PT4:38 PM MT5:38 PM CT6:38 PM ET23:38 GMT7:38 4:38 PM MST6:38 PM EST3:38 UAE (+1)18:38 ETNaN:� BRT - A person with direct knowledge of the decision says Sharks have placed Martin on waivers. If Martin clears at noon Eastern Tuesday, the Sharks could assign him to the American Hockey League's San Jose Barracuda, who share the same home arena.
Analysis: An ankle injury and illness have limited Martin to three games this season and none since Dec. 7. The 36-year-old did not register a point in any of those games. Martin is likely to clear waivers because of his $4.85 million cap hit for this season and next. He has 318 points in 859 regular-season NHL games with the New Jersey Devils, Pittsburgh Penguins and Sharks.
Oct. 12 1:22 PM PT2:22 PM MT3:22 PM CT4:22 PM ET20:22 GMT4:22 1:22 PM MST3:22 PM EST0:22 UAE (+1)16:22 ETNaN:� BRT - Martin (ankle) will return Thursday.
Analysis: The veteran defenseman hasn't played since the second game of the season.


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Responding to the impacts of climate change effectively at national policy and local planning level requires robust and comprehensive information and a strong knowledge base. The potential for this information to provide crucial knowledge in the designing and implementation of climate-resilient policies, plans and programmes is enormous.
In 2010, the Government of Nepal established the Nepal Climate Change Knowledge Management Center (NCCKMC) to facilitate the generation, management and dissemination of climate-related knowledge. The Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) has established a climate carbon unit to manage knowledge of climate change adaptation and mitigation. The Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation (MoFSC) has established Reduced Emission from Forest Degradation and Deforestation (REDD) Implementation Centre to manage knowledge related to mitigation and REDD. Similarly, the Ministry of Agriculture and Development (MoAD) has established Agriculture Information Management System (AIMS) to consolidate climate information and develop these into practical agro advisories.
Issues have, however, arisen within the climate change knowledge management community about the effective functioning of the knowledge management centres (see "Barriers" below).
assess the supply side of knowledge management, with specific focus on the way knowledge and information on climate change is available, processed, packaged and made accessible to those involved in local government planning at sub- national (district) and national level.
An overview of the methods used, key barriers and recommendations are provided below. See the full text (download from right-hand column) for much more detail.
The study used a mix of methods to generate information.
It carried out a desk review to analyse the policy, programmes and projects on managing knowledge of climate change in Nepal. The desk review also analysed the institutional strategy and action plans, particularly of development partners, international and national non-government organisations (I/NGOs) and research institutions related to demand for, and generation and sharing of, knowledge of climate change.
Field work was carried out in Rukum and Dang Districts in mid- western region of Nepal. The aim of field work was to assess the demand for and supply of climate change knowledge at district and community level. The study interviewed 64 persons at district and national level to obtain an overview and suggestions on climate change knowledge management at these level. A Google-based online survey tool was used to map the perceptions of stakeholders, particularly to assess the effectiveness of the NCCKMC.
Finally, two district- and one national-level stakeholder workshops were organised to draw stakeholders’ feedback on ways to strengthen knowledge management work on climate change in Nepal.
the existing knowledge management system has not been able to effectively guide decision-making at policy, planning and implementation level due to its inability to process and package knowledge according to the demand and requirements of the various institutions in the country.
NCCKMC should capitalise on the favourable policy environment for climate change to improve climate change-related knowledge management practices. Nepal has significantly progressed in crafting national policies and a framework on climate change. Several national-level institutional mechanisms and financial flow systems provide mechanisms for partly strengthening the implementation of the climate change agenda in Nepal. Policy is, therefore, not a barrier to operationalising a climate change knowledge management system in Nepal. The country, however, lacks a clear vision, strategy and institutional commitment to knowledge generation and management. This is the reason the available knowledge has contributed little to operationalising a knowledge management policy and practices on climate change.
There is genuine and strong need for an overarching national strategy and roadmap on knowledge management to streamline ongoing initiatives and responses to climate change. There are opportunities for climate change knowledge management in Nepal. This and other research support the assertion that knowledge management could be streamlined and harmonised if government has clear national and local-level strategies on knowledge, and strong leadership and commitment. Policy, institutions and human resources are not an issue in climate change knowledge management in Nepal. Knowledge management centres have already been established in Nepal. What is needed are joint proactive actions and a harmonised approach to climate change knowledge management among different agencies and stakeholders which can feed into policy making, planning and budgeting.
Climate change knowledge management should be mainstreamed within the policy and institutional mandate and work. There is need for state ownership and dedicated institutions to drive climate change knowledge management forward. A multi-stakeholder mechanism should be created for information and knowledge sharing and for learning at different level to allow innovations, ideas and learning to expand and flourish. It is also necessary to mainstream knowledge management within the government and non-government institutions to create a sustainable mechanism for learning and sharing.
Research and academic institutions should take the lead role in knowledge generation. Unless existing research institutions take the lead in knowledge generation, there will continue to be a mismatch in demand for and supply of climate change knowledge. Since many grey areas and knowledge gaps have been identified, the government and development agencies should invest in research and knowledge management.
This study was undertaken as part of the Climate Proofing Growth and Development (CPGD) project funded by the UK aid from the Department for International Development (DFID). The programme has been branded as Action on Climate Today (ACT). The programme aims to improve resilience by directly incorporating climate change considerations into policy, planning and investment environments within each country. Practical Action is an implementing partner of the ACT programme in Nepal.


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