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wordpress | Sometimes stuff just falls into your lap. Some call it luck. Some call it Karma. I’ve always thought of it as a birthday present from a distant relative halfway around the world who chose to send the parcel by cargo ship rather than airmail. Better late than never. | 2019-04-20T16:24:26Z | https://bobsegarini.wordpress.com/tag/jamie-prokop/ | Porn | Reference | 0.435904 |
wordpress | Meeting some great travelers and agents in Australia. I hope my South Australian friends will be able to come to this function we are hosting on June 12th!
Morocco is one of the main countries in North Africa obtaining an overall population of almost thirty nine million where several travelers travel annually making this country among the list of top sights in this North African region. This gorgeous spot has many sights that attract almost all the art lovers due to her natural and scenic elegance. Thus, morocco flights may lead you to these destinations and popular hotspots and that can be a source of pleasure and comfort during your flights to this shining spot. The tourism industry contains an important purpose in the economy of the condition and the state on the contrary facilitates and endorses the travel and tourism in the country.
Travel to Morocco attained an all-time high in 2007. Some feel that the goal of having ten million plus travelers annually happens much prior to the predicted year of 2010. It has an exotic tourist attractions in Morocco, including mountain-dwelling cultures called the Berbers, the rise, transformation, and different views of women, together with the political change that King Mohammed VI and his wife, Princess Lalla Salma are providing to the country. The modifications are gradual, steady, however, noticeable.
Many Morocco travelers are thinking about the ethnic and religious awareness. Certain cultural and custom Morocco trips can get people further than the mass tourist journey and bring them into the center on this land and its people. The mixed Berber along with Arab peoples does not have serious tensions and the various populations regarding each other with respect. The Berbers themselves have three major languages, which differ noticeably from one region to another. The Rif Mountains, near Chefchaouen, the Middle Atlas Mountains near Fez, and the High Atlas Mountains close to Marrakesh all possess their own ethnic nuances and languages.
Casablanca is the largest city in the country of Morocco. Casablanca is regarded as Morocco’s most industrialized city. It is also well renowned for its busy streets, exciting nightlife, and beautiful architectural structures. Casablanca makes for a fantastic vacation destination. Established in the 10th century BCE, it served as an essential strategic point for many civilizations. If you want to get away for a little while, look into visiting Casablanca. If you have a lost or stolen passport you can go online and get a new one prior to traveling.
Expedited passport service is available online and makes preparing for an international vacation very easy. It is no longer necessary to go to physical location to get a passport. Now you can simply visit a virtual passport office right from your home computer to take care of all your passport needs.
The Corniche is a famous neighborhood in Morocco constructed along the water. Many compare it to the modern-day New Jersey Shore, due to all the nightclubs, resorts, and fancy hotels. It makes for an awesome place to stroll at night to see the bustling party scene or during the day for scenic ocean views at a seaside cafe. Octagon Square is another fantastic spot to walk and people-watch in Morocco. | 2019-04-20T06:45:42Z | https://onetimetraveltomorocco.wordpress.com/category/family-vacation-trip/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.461542 |
wordpress | I had started working on a very special quilt for a terminally ill person. I really don’t like doing these type quilts! They are always bad, bad ju ju for me. Yet, I get them quite often. It’s so hard to say no to a long time customer even though I say over and over and over again….. please NO deadline quilts. Quilts with deadlines should be taken somewhere else. Yes, I know, I need to practice saying NO. When I forget, I get into trouble.
It’s actually two quilts. One is for the back, seen here. The picture part is printed on very tightly woven fabric made for clearer printed photos. Makes great photos but is extremely difficult to quilt.
This is the other quilt for the front. Again, there are the pictures printed on tightly woven fabric. So that’s tightly woven fabric on top of tightly woven fabric. Oie!
Here is the 3D raised area around the blocks. Looks nice but will be hard to quilt around. This makes it especially difficult to stabilize the quilt because I usually SID around blocks to stabilize. No way to SID those seams. The trim is sewn into the seam.
Here is the multiple layers of fabric at the seam intersections. Must avoid those very hard fabric warts. Most especially avoid if one from the front falls on top of one on the back.
She wants two layers of batting to create loft to certain areas of the quilt. She wants a wool batting and a low loft. The pictures should stay flat. She wants the applique to be raised and possibly a raised feather along the border to meet up with the applique.
She wants the pieced part of the blocks to be raised also. To give dimension to the hexie flowers and then flatten the background.
Here are the steps I take for quilting this special quilt all while I’m praying like crazy that I’m not still working on the quilt when that person is called home.
I know the pictures are to remain flat so those areas need only one batting. The easiest way for me to achieve this is to individually cut pieces of wool and spray baste it to hold in the right areas. In this photo I have completed all except the borders. I cut the wool just slightly smaller than the area so it is not in the seam lines.
The low loft batting will be kept whole and attached as if there were no wool batting. Before I actually put it on the machine I find the center of the backing and center of the front. She wants the panel on the back to be centered.
In order to stabilize I use my fingers to pull back the raised trim and do the best I can to stitch so it will be hidden. I use monofiliment thread to make it less visible but with very tight woven fabric that’s near impossible to hide. Tightly woven fabric causes tension issues too so I check that carefully.
It’s difficult to keep it squared on the machine. A fat area next to a thin area does not want to roll evenly. Eventually I get it all stabilized and square. Can you see the loft of the wool next to the flat of the bamboo? Ok, it’s not so easy to photograph. The pictures are flat and the flower blocks raised.
I’ve been careful that no fabric warts land on top of each other by constantly checking the back as I go. I use my hands to feel for them. I would feel and then put a pin on the top marking where one from the back is located.
Finally the hardest part of the quilting process is done. Stabilizing and squaring done right means the rest of the quilting is easier. By my estimation I should have the rest of the quilting done in no more than a couple of days then it can be on it’s way.
I got far enough along on the quilt that felt I could take a half day with my Ladybug. I had promised my Ladybug I would take her to a quilt show. She really loves quilts and wants to spend time with me. We had a nice afternoon at the Quilter’s Day Out. Saturday March 15. Ladybug signed up for a children’s block challenge for the fall. She also won a fat quarter by tossing it through a hole in a board. Which naturally meant that would be the basic of her challenge block. We spent about 3 hours walking around, seeing quilts, voting for our favorites, learning to make Kleenex holders, and seeing lots of my past customers. All of them asking if I’m back to quilting full time yet? It was a very pleasant afternoon with my six year old Ladybug.
The next day I get started on the quilt again. I got all the applique stitched in the ditch and started doing around the edges of the hexie flowers. I’m still using mono thread. After a few hours of stitching my throat starts to hurt and I get a headache. I decided take a coricidin tablet (heart friendly medication) and take a nap. Only that nap lasts a whole week!
From the time I lay down a week ago to this morning, March 22, I’ve been unable to do more than get up to go to the bathroom, drink some water, and make my way back to the bed. I have not eaten for a week. Eww, I had not showered either and I knew it. On the first morning after getting sick I did manage to get up and call my customer to explain. I would get to the quilt again as soon as I could. A neighbor called to ask if I needed anything. She bought me a 16 oz ginger ale and put it into the mailbox for me. I got it later when I was able to make it that far from my bed. I took a sip each time I went to the bathroom. It did help settle my stomach a little. That’s the only food I had the whole time. I didn’t have congestion or coughing or sneezing. Just pain, fever, nausea, weakness, and feeling of complete exhaustion.
My fever broke sometime in the wee hours of this morning. Oie! That was a dozy of an illness. I did sleep until early afternoon today. This time there was no pain in my sleep. While sick I had terrible pains in my muscles. Like they were rebelling against me. Pain like when you hit something and it bruises and hurts. Only this was all over my body. It was especially painful around my lower back and sides. Anyway this morning it finally stops hurting.
First thing I want to do is shower. Wow, much better. Wash the sheets too. I’m still not hungry but I fix a boiled egg and eat it slowly. My stomach gets only a little queezy. I look at the quilt, turn on the machine, and take a few stitches to get myself going again. I only work a few minutes. I don’t want a set back. The phone rings. It’s the owner of the quilt. She sounds upset. She says not to worry about being in a hurry to finish the quilt. The person getting the quilt passed away a few hours ago. All I can do is say how sorry I am that I didn’t get it done in time.
Like I said before, quilts for the terminally ill are bad, bad ju ju for me. I’m setting here typing a post because when I go near the quilt I start crying. All I can do is apologize for getting sick and not finishing the quilt. I’ll get started on it again tomorrow. I’m seriously thinking it’s time to quit quilting for others completely. It really hurts when this happens. Hurts so much that I’d rather go without the income as retired than ever go through it again. I’ll give it more thought but at this point I think it’s time to call it quits.
I’ll post more about the quilt as I finish it. I don’t know what’s up with ATT and Google lately but it’s like working through molasses. Extremely slow! Must be one of those “fixing what ain’t broke just so seniors can’t keep up anymore” things. Thank goodness I can use Firefox instead. I typed, edited, typed, inserted photos, edited, and proofread several times while Google is still trying to connect to WordPress. Nobody likes to play nicely with anyone else.
So sorry Anita. Being sick like that is not fun at any time. Yes, you need to be firm with that NO word. Alas, I also regress often when attempting to use it. (remember. You taught me, just pucker your lips and let the NNNooo come out) However, do not feel overly sad that the quilt was not done “on time”. God has the perfect plan for everything. Nothing gets by without His knowing about it. The dear one was not meant to have that quilt. It must be meant for another to hold and find comfort in.
so sorry about you being so sick and also what a nightmare that quilt has bee in for you. Don;t quit quilting…..just limit what you take, no deadlines, no seriously ill people.
I love seeing your talent.
I don’t know what to say. My heart goes out to you. Even though I don’t think you should completely stop doing customer quilts, I think you should definitely stop this kind of quilting. I believe their is a connection to your getting so sick and this quilt. You need to seriously consider your health. Ladybug needs a healthy grandmother. Take care Anita!
Anita, I’m so sorry you had such a rough week. Glad you’re doing somewhat better now.
I hope you will not quit quilting for others yet. I will send you my quilt top with Fall colors.
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wordpress | Join section meetings at the AAS Conference. Come to the PSG gathering that takes place once a year during the Association for Asian Studies annual meeting. The last PSG meeting took place in Toronto, 17 March 2017 with thirty-one attendees from twenty-three universities and foundations from seven countries. Minutes of the meeting and the roster of all present will shortly be circulated by email amongst attendees. The next meeting will take place at the 2018 AAS in Washington D.C.
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You and your blog readers may be interested to know that a we’ve released a major new version of the BayesFactor package to CRAN. The package computes Bayes factors for linear mixed models and regression models. Of course, I’m aware you don’t like point-null model comparisons, but the package does more than that; it also allows sampling from posterior distributions of the compared models, in much the same way that your arm package does with lmer objects. The sampling (both for the Bayes factors and posteriors) is quite fast, since the back end is written in C.
Some basic examples using the package can be found here, and the CRAN page is here.
Indeed I don’t like point-null model comparisons . . . but maybe this will be useful to some of you!
It’s not clear from the writeup what kind of MCMC is being done for the posterior sampling. RW on the likelihood marginal on the random effects? Gibbs?
The posterior sampling is just Gibbs, using the models defined in the Liang et al (2008) and Rouder et al (2012). | 2019-04-21T22:51:23Z | https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2013/01/19/r-package-for-bayes-factors/ | Porn | Reference | 0.197908 |
wordpress | Tuscana is no new name to Chennaites when it comes to Pizzas.
As part of CFG Showcase, we were invited for “Launch of New Menu” in Tuscana. There isn’t much that I am going to write about here instead just put up some pics from the Showcase.
Dessert Coffee Pannacota might not be every ones’ choice unless you are a “strong coffee” lover – it has espresso flavour – so beware before you order.
Gluten free again might not be every one’s choice.
You could have said how the pizzas were. Good pics though. | 2019-04-21T02:18:56Z | https://foodiebuddie.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/tuscana-new-menu-launch-cfg-showcase/ | Porn | News | 0.737727 |
wordpress | If your attention span for poetry only extends to the length of time it takes to read a limerick, you may find yourself challenged if you try to read the Mahābhārata.
Edgar Allen Poe originally intended his poem, “The Raven” to feature a talking parrot.
I Rose And Met This Bet and Yet ….. | 2019-04-26T09:54:06Z | https://commonplacefacts.wordpress.com/tag/poetry/ | Porn | Arts | 0.465013 |
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wordpress | Geeks in Love: Real Life Portrayed in Comics | "I'm Not The Artist"
Geeks in Love at 2010’s SacAnime Convention.
Sarah and Beau Straub of Geeks in Love are comic couple based out of Northern California. This webcomic, as drawn by Sarah, revolves around actual conversations and incidents that happen to this married couple of six years. In the year-and-a-half they’ve been exhibiting, Beau has often been confused as the artist— another subject that has been a topic of a recent strip.
What is Sarah working on now?
Right now Sarah is working on transitioning her storybook-like illustrated art style into comics. Her first project is a series of comics adapted from Greek myth which she’ll be collecting into an anthology titled “Blind Follies.” The first issue will be a short based on Narcissus but with a bit of a Gothic-Horror spin. The second installment will be a two-part telling of the story of Eros and Psyche (known to the Romans as Cupid and Psyche).
Which conventions do you regularly attend?
What is your role? To what degree do you provide creative input?
I’m a combination manager and sherpa. I take care of convention registration and other logistics such as food, hotel and transportation as well as being our pack mule.
Creative input-wise, I provide the occasional opinion or suggestion and help Sarah work through layouts or scripts when something doesn’t strike her as quite right. I make a lot of random jokes and comments and those are the basis for many of the Geeks in Love strips.
Do you attend every convention Sarah does?
So far yes, and I hope to continue to in the future. However, as we do more conventions further away from home I may not be able to make as many of those.
How often do people confuse you as the artist? How do they react when they find out you’re not the artist?
Pretty often, or at least often enough that we made a Geeks in Love strip about it (see above).
In fact, our friends will often approach the table and compliment me on the art just to razz Sarah. Usually they politely apologize or get very excited when they meet the real artist and find that she’s a female which is still a bit unusual in this field.
Are you both always manning the table?
Almost always, from time to time one of us will just take break to stretch our legs, grab a snack, or maybe attend a specific panel.
Are you equally comfortable pitching the product?
Yes, absolutely; we’re both talkers and we’ll find ourselves talking to Con-goers visiting our table about any number of different things from Sarah’s inspirations to her creative process to movies, comics and food. I love my wife and I love her art so it’s something I love telling people about.
Sarah’s driver’s license as drawn by Beau and a bonus robot.
It’s given us another thing to combine our knowledge on and work toward a common goal.
What do you do besides helping out at convention? Do you have a day job or other hobbies?
My day job is as a computer technician. I do a lot of reading in my spare time and I’m slowly gearing up to do a little writing in addition to my wide array of obscure hobbies (beer brewing, studying Japanese sword arts).
Are there any couples that you regularly see at conventions that you look up to?
Rebecca and James Hicks of Little Vampires. In addition to the many parallels between us, they’re actually the ones who gave us a big push to start going to conventions and getting Sarah’s work out there. Also, David Petersen of Mouse Guard and his wife Julia, who are such a sweet couple and so willing to talk to crazy fans (like us) for far longer than they probably ought to.
What do you look toward most on the first day of any convention?
Lunch! I like to try to find something unique to the area for us to eat. Sarah and I are self-proclaimed Hobbits so new and unusual food is definitely one of our favorite parts of traveling.
Is there one thing you absolutely dread working at comic-cons?
Not really; we thoroughly enjoy meeting people and making new friends at Cons but I suppose the least enjoyable part is usually getting our badges amidst the commotion and confusion during the setup phase of a Con.
What advice would you give other couples that tour the comic-con circuit?
Don’t get discouraged. It’s not easy starting out but try to take notice of what things work and what things don’t and every Con will be better than the last. | 2019-04-23T06:12:43Z | https://nottheartist.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/geeks-in-love-real-life-portrayed-in-comics/ | Porn | Business | 0.230157 |
wordpress | The next time the patient came in for a checkup, the cardiologist had a “theoretical” question for him.
It’s important to know how and when to give someone information.
Sarah lived until the age of 127. Clearly not young, even by biblical standards. Yet, we find that many people in her time lived longer. Her husband Abraham lived till 175. Isaac lived until 180, and Jacob lived a “mere” 147 years.
Sarah died shortly after the almost-death of her son Isaac. Isaac, the carrier of Abraham’s legacy, had been bound to an Altar to serve as a burnt offering to G-d. Just as Abraham was about to fulfill G-d’s command to sacrifice his son, G-d informed him that he was not to harm Isaac at all. This had been a test of Abraham’s (and Isaac’s!) faith, and he had passed the test.
Rashi tells us that when Sarah heard about her son’s near-death experience, the shock killed her.
Rabbi Yerucham Levovitz observed that Sarah died too early. She could have, and should have, lived longer.
How did Sarah hear about what almost happened to Isaac? The Sifsei Chachomim, a commentary on Rashi’s commentary, explains that a messenger came back to Sarah to report on the events that had transpired on Mount Moriah.
He told her how Abraham had arranged the wood pile under the altar, and how he had secured Isaac’s hands and feet onto the altar. He described how Abraham had lifted the knife over Isaac for the coup de grâce.
The messenger was just about to tell her the rest of the story. He was about to tell her about the Divine reprieve. Unfortunately, he was too late.
Isaac was the beloved only son of Sarah. He represented the entire future of the Abrahamic dynasty. Isaac was supposedly destined to carry on his father’s teachings to the rest of the world. Isaac had no children; he had never married. Who would carry on the legacy?!
Sarah was distraught. She was beside herself with distress and grief over the about-to-be-reported demise of her son. She died from the shock.
Rabbi Levovitz points out that Sarah needn’t have died. The reporter messed up his report! Had he told the story a little differently, the results could have been different.
It would have made all the difference in the world. Sarah, listening calmly, would have heard the ENTIRE story, including the fact that Isaac was saved. She would have rejoiced in hearing that how righteous and self-sacrificing her son and husband were, without any loss to her and to our future.
Rabbi Levovitz points out that sometimes we think we’re doing someone a favor by telling them good news. The problem is that if we don’t do it right, we’re not doing them any favors.
People have feelings; people have fears. Sometimes simply talking to someone improperly can have devastating effects. In Sarah’s case, information given over improperly caused a woman to die.
Know who you’re talking to. Know their backgrounds and their sensitivities. If you don’t know how to say something correctly, don’t just blurt it out. When in doubt, say nothing.
Remember, the mouth bone is connected to the think bone… At least it SHOULD be.
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wordpress | Women in Games are in need of a UK-based student blogger to cover this year’s events at both Develop 2009 in Brighton in July and DiGRA 2009 at Brunel in September. In return for live blogging, photographing and general networking at both these events, the WiG steering committee are able to offer free student passes to both events. In order to apply for this unique opportunity please email enquiries@womeningames.com asap (i.e. before June 28th) with a 250-word reason why we should choose you.
Please forward to interested colleagues and related networks..
to deliver focussed work to the wider community.
of work in this area what can we say we have learnt?
around histories, difference and generation in game space.
My lovely facebook friend Camille sent me info on this event, it looks interesting especially with the O’Reilly links and I will certainly be attending.
Happy New Year everyone, I hope 2008 brings you everything you need.
We have a date for the Women Who Tech Telesummit – March 31, 2008. So pass it along to all the women you know.
We are still nailing down an agenda filled with thought provoking panels and great speakers. Speaking of panels, we would love to hear your ideas on panel topics. Will you send me your suggestions at Allyson@womenwhotech.com? You can also post them to the discussion board on our facebok group. Thanks!
250 women have joined our facebook group. That’s a great start but I know there are a lot more women who work in tech and online communications that should be a part of our group. Will you help grow our Facebook group? A couple of quick things you can do to help.
2. Post Women Who Tech Telesummit info on your blog and appropriate listservs.
brin5tar’s written in to let us know that the transcripts are up from the Women in Games debate held last week on XFire.com. You can read the results here and here.
Women in Games, a network of women united in their passion for games, announces its first WIG Mixer as part of the London Games Festival Fringe. The networking event is Tuesday October 23rd from 6:00 to 9:00 pm held at Central St Martins Innovation Centre. Admission is free and requires an advance RSVP.
Emma Westecott for Women in Games is the local host and emcee. Complimentary food and beverages, supplied by Central St Martins, will be provided for all guests. The LDA, Make Your Mark and WIG partners proudly support this unique game industry networking event. Mixer attendees from all across the UK are welcome, and remember although this event is concerned with women and games men are very welcome to attend! The industry needs a meaningful dialogue between the sexes as it moves forward.
The WIG Mixer in London will be held at Central St Martins Innovation Centre, The Innovation Centre, Central Saint Martins, Southampton Row, London , WC1B 4AP (Map). Admittance is free, but an advance RSVP is required. | 2019-04-24T15:54:33Z | https://womeningames.wordpress.com/tag/event/ | Porn | Arts | 0.296881 |
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Many factors go into the decision about where to attend college. While majors, location, and ranking undoubtedly hold a high place, the experience of other students and the school’s reputation also play a crucial role.
Schools must strike a careful balance between providing a rigorous academic environment, while at the same time offering an enjoyable experience that will make students talk about their school in a positive way to other prospective students.
Successful professionals who have ‘made it’ in their respective fields eagerly voice their support for their alma mater.
What they don’t realize, though, is the importance of employee satisfaction when it comes to the customer experience.
Think about the last time you heard someone complain about the company where they work. How did those complaints impact your perception of the company? Chances are, that negative feedback made you feel worse about the brand in question — and less likely to turn to them when you need products or services in their industry.
Treating your employees well can help boost their satisfaction and improve how they represent your company to the general public. Remember that your employees are the face of your brand. That means you need to select them — and treat them — with that goal in mind. Cultivating a great employee culture is a wonderful way to improve your brand’s reputation from the inside out.
Most recording artists want to sell as many records as possible. That’s only natural, after all. So they focus on promoting albums and use concerts as a way to advertise their music.
Some of the more iconic bands, however, have taken the opposite tack. They place their primary focus on entertaining their fans. They want to provide an “experience” that encourages fans to spread their music and enjoy what they have to offer. Album sales grow naturally as the word spreads and more and more people are drawn to them.
That’s the same idea behind successful inbound marketing. It all starts with the experience. Great content draws customers to your sites and pages. Once there, you engage them, encourage them to spread your information, and watch your sales increase as your brand reach grows.
Success didn’t come overnight for most iconic bands. They had to tour constantly, often for years, spreading their music gradually from town to town and venue to venue. Their sound evolved naturally during that time, as they strove to meet their fans’ demands for entertainment. Eventually, they were able to reap the benefits of their dedication.
Once again, the same holds true with social marketing. When you begin using a digital marketing strategy, you have to be willing to give your efforts time before you begin to see a strong return. You have to regularly produce quality content that will bring people back and encourage them to become fans. You need to hone your voice and get to know your audience. Other websites need to find your content and begin linking to it. Search engines have to recognize your value as your popularity begins to rise. In time, you’ll begin to see positive returns for your effort, but only if you continuously produce high-quality, valuable content.
Of course, all the marketing in the world wouldn’t have helped these bands grow if they didn’t have something unique and worthwhile to share. They created incredible music that people love to listen to. For your marketing efforts to be successful, you have to be able to show your potential audience that you’re worth their attention, too. That means developing your own voice, creating new ideas, and building on your strengths within your niche. You want to stand out against the crowd and give people a reason to return to you again and again.
The next time you sit down to enjoy the music of your favorite artist or band, pause and consider the incredible marketing lessons these musicians have to share. If you’re ready to start taking your marketing campaign to the next level, let us know how we can help.
Sound far fetched? It probably is. After all, who would show such little interest in helping their friend succeed? Yet, for many companies, that’s precisely the attitude they take with their marketing content.
We’re all turning more and more online to learn about products and make intelligent and informed buying decisions. In response to this trend, many companies broadcast themselves as the expert and want people to turn to them.
Their content, however, is far less than helpful.
Rather than actually answer industry questions or help customers learn about their products, these companies simply repackage the same general information found elsewhere online and remain vague about the advice they give.
They’re afraid that by ‘giving away’ too much information, customers will not have a reason to hire them. In the process, they’re missing a key part of the marketing puzzle: building trust.
Instead of giving customers a reason to hire them, they’re driving them away in frustration over the lack of information they provide. Potential customers end up visiting competitors’ websites and getting the information they seek there instead. The unhelpful content meant to entice customers actually destroys opportunities to build trust and credibility.
The solution to this problem is straightforward: provide valuable content. Listen to the questions that customers ask and use them to generate blog posts. Write helpful articles that will actually inform the reader and guide them in making better decisions. Use the Internet to build a reputation as an approachable leader in the industry.
Consumers today want answers and help navigating your industry. Like a student seeking help in a school subject, these customers aren’t going to stick around someone who just tells them general information they already know. To convert your customers, you need to be the helpful authority.
As managers, we all strive to develop an atmosphere of success and teamwork. When you can develop a culture that respects those in your office and encourages success, you’ll notice many immediate benefits.
Workers will become more motivated.
Employees will feel valued and know the role they play in the success of the greater organization.
They’ll also feel more confident handling day-to-day situations and solving problems.
You’ll be able to spend your time more productively, too, by not having to handle issues your employees now feel confident dealing with on their own.
When your employees feel valued and content, the impact can stretch far beyond the office walls. Happy employees present a more enthusiastic and helpful face for your brand to potential customers. Your company’s reputation for caring for its employees and its customers will spread. Referrals will grow, and your marketing efforts will have a greater impact. In short, this type of fantastic company culture can help the bottom line.
So how do you achieve this type of business-friendly dynamic in your office?
Building a fantastic company culture begins during the hiring process. Make hires based on two main factors: skills and how well the candidate will fit with the culture you’ve created or are trying to create. Many companies focus solely on finding the person with the best qualifications, without taking into account how well that person will fit in with the rest of the team.
Ask questions during the interview that speak to the values you seek. When you’ve found a candidate that appears to work well, consider having them do a trial project with your team to see how well they get along.
Educate and empower your employees so they feel confident taking control of their interactions with customers. Teach them how to delight customers not by just telling them or giving presentations, but through examples and demonstrations. Build a culture that focuses on under-promising and then exceeding customers expectations at every turn. Teach employees to focus on solving problems for their customers. Develop concrete buyer personas that employees understand completely, so they can quickly gauge what customers seek when they speak with them.
At the same time, empower your employees. Let them know they’re trusted and responsible for solving problems and finding new ways to help their customers. Have clear guidelines about when employees should ask for help and when they need to come up with their own solutions. This will help employees better assist customers and solve their problems. Customers will be happier knowing they’re speaking with someone who can actually do something, rather than just relay messages.
Creating a positive culture and work environment does more than make your organization a great place to work. It can also help boost marketing efforts and improve the bottom line. By helping your employees, you’re improving the face of the brand your customers see. You might be amazed at the impact it can have on your efforts. | 2019-04-26T05:54:04Z | https://ccpressnet.wordpress.com/2015/02/ | Porn | Business | 0.889008 |
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Artist Class is an online collection of 12 project tutorials, created by 12 different artists. Each session takes place over 4 weeks, on a members-only blog, and there’s something new every day.
Daily posts will include instructions for one dozen individual projects plus additional, bonus links, images and mini-projects.
Students receive quality in quantity: project tutorials filled with great pictures and information designed to get creative juices flowing and introduce new skills. There’s a lot of material available during each session, so every tutorial is downloadable to be saved or printed.
Artist Class tutorials are flexible enough to provide lots of information for beginners, as well as fun, beautiful projects for experienced artists.
Each Artist Class session takes place on a private, members-only blog. There are daily posts throughout the 4 week session. The blog is open for 3 months to allow plenty of time to save material, ask questions and share pictures of your creations.
The price for each 4 week session is $59.
It's the last week of the Garden Party session of Artist Class; just more 3 projects to go. Registrations are open through Saturday, May 1st. All of the projects and material will be available for 6 months, so there's still lots of time to do projects and download materials.
Artist Class will be back later this year. If you can't join us for this session, I hope you'll watch this space for announcements this Summer.
There are 3 upcoming tutorials to finish out the session, each one is a great addition to a really fun session.
On Monday, Nancy Maxwell James presents her Bird's Nest Cigar Box, a charming assemblage perfect for celebrating the spring season. It begins with a cigar box and utilizes many of the art materials you probably already have at home.
Wednesday's project is Sandy Babb's Fairy Garden Picks, designed to decorate cupcakes or any small space. The picks use lots of garden themed materials to create the look of a woodland forest. Sandy even included an adaptable cupcake recipe to go with your Fairy Picks. The entire project is perfect for your next Garden Party.
On Friday we'll be treated to Lesley Venable's Tailored Tags, complete with transfers, sewing, ephemera and ink. The techniques for these beautifully layered tags are taught by Lesley at events throughout the States. She's sharing her techniques for the Garden themed tags in an Artist Class tutorial, complete with images and voice-over.
I hope you'll join us this week, to get all of the projects already presented, and to enjoy our latest. Registrations are open through Saturday, you can sign up HERE.
We're starting Week 3 of the Garden Party session of Artist Class, and the stunning projects just keep coming.
Today we're being treated to Mona Moore's cheerful paper flowers and decorated bottles. These fast and fun decorations make a great gift for you or someone special. They're also a green way to mix up left over papers and create something new.
Wednesday's project is Sandy Camarda's Family Nest Assemblage, a really special piece that allows you to display favorite family photos in a completely new way. Birds and nests are perfect this time of year, and this project will be a beautiful decoration for your home.
On Friday, we get out the drill and assemble Nikki Mans' Silverware Wind Chimes. These chimes use your vintage silverware pieces to make a little magic in the garden - they sound wonderful. I've seen the quick tutorial and there are fewer steps than you think - you'll get a lot of compliments and a major sense of accomplishment.
There are a little less than 2 weeks left to sign up for this session of Artist Class, so if you've been considering it, there's still time to join us.
We have some great projects coming up next week, and registrations are open so you can join in.
Recently, Lilla LeVine sent me some more pictures of her Embellished Fabric Book, so I thought I'd share one of the inside spreads with you. Every page in the book is fabric, not just the cover. Lilla includes many of the images she used in the book so you can print them on fabric to use too.
Also next week you'll receive a great tutorial from Tina Jensen on making a paper and fabric flower garland. So perfect for this time of year, it's a nice way to use pieces left from other projects, or to coordinate with other pieces in the same room.
Finally, Beth Leintz will decorate our tea party tables with a charming Spring Centerpiece tutorial. This one is very adaptable, and Beth provides lots of inspiration and suggestions, along with images you can use.
This project can actually be place card holders when you make them in multiples, or make a good group activity with each person making their own.
Please join us in Artist Class where we're just getting started. You can join us at any time - you'll still receive all of the same content. Registrations are open now.
It's time to announce our 12th project. It's from returning artist Tina Jensen - this gorgeous Flower Garland.
Using cardboard, tea dyed coffee filters, different fabrics and a bit of lace and old paper, we’ll create a beautiful and romantic garland – a sweet and shabby chic decoration for your home all year round.
Tina is 48 and a self taught artist living with her husband in Denmark in a very small town half an hour drive from Copenhagen, the Capital. She has two grownup kids - a boy and a girl.
She has been designing and creating artist bears since 2001. Besides the bears she has a passion for all things old - old books, vintage lace, old buttons - you name it, and she loves to create old fashioned and vintage inspired decorations and stuff.
This past year her work was publicized in Somerset Home.
To register for The April, Garden Party session of Artist Class, and receive all 12 of the projects plus all the extras, go HERE.
Lisa McIlvain brings Artist Class a perfect Mother's Day gift.
This tattered textile collage is a tribute to a Mother's love.
Lisa's tutorial demonstrates how to transfer images, layering them onto fabric and lace to create a lovely hanging art piece.
Join Lisa as she shows us how to assemble this feminine piece, so perfect as a gift for a loved one...or for yourself!
I'm a stay at home mom & married 14 years to my best friend & biggest supporter. I studied fine art at Southeastern University in Louisiana, & have a background in marketing & visual arts.
Working in mixed media keeps me sane while being a stay at home mom to my 4 year old triplets. My art is inspired by the exploration & excavation of my past. Sometimes I feel like an archeologist, but instead of cataloging my artifacts, I alter them & give them life.
Visit Lisa's blog, Tarnished and Tattered, and her Tarnished and Tattered Etsy shop too.
The April Garden Party session of Artist Class will include a great tutorial for this wonderful architectural birdhouse and the delicious chippy paint process used to give it that natural stucco and rust appearance.
Imagine going to your favorite flea market and finding an old stucco birdhouse that’s been created from found architectural pieces that have that aged chippy appearance we all love. That is what we are going to create, and the techniques you will learn can be applied to many other projects as well.
The birdhouse brings the garden indoors with it's natural finish and bird's nest & egg detail.
Adaptable for other wood pieces, this chipped paint technique is a combination of the right materials and these easy to follow instructions. You'll soon be using it on all of the wood in your house!
Karen Valentine has been creating art of one kind or another her whole life. Her artistic point of view usually involves vintage elements or items made to look old and worn. She describes herself as a “modern girl with a vintage heart” and that certainly is reflected in her creative style. Karen is new teaching but is very excited about sharing her favorite how-to’s with all of us.
You can visit Karen's blog, My Desert Cottage, for more great art, garden and home ideas.
Using plain shipping tags, simple tape transfers and either a sewing machine or a needle and thread we will create beautifully layered and tailored tags.
This is the perfect project to use up those little bits and pieces of paper ephemera and other scrap embellishments that have been collecting in your studio!
These tags make the perfect adornment to a gift, as decorations for a vintage style Christmas (or other holiday) tree or simply tied to a lamp switch, armoire knob or as additions to your altered books.
Lesley is a self taught mixed media, collage, assemblage artist who lives in Roanoke, Virginia with her husband and their furry family which includes three dogs and two cats.
She has taught at Art Is You and at Art & Soul in both Virginia and Oregon. She is currently scheduled to teach in 2010 at Artiscape in Ohio, Art & Soul Hampton, Lisa LaRosa’s Inspirational Retreat in California, KC Willis’ Art Studio in Colorado and at Art Is You. She also has online classes scheduled at My Creative Classroom and has begun “The Art of Altering”, a NING group, that offers free vintage images as well as online classes (upcoming).
Her artwork has been published in the Artitude Zine, Somerset Gallery 2008 and Somerset Weddings 4. She is a co-author of “Exploring the Latest Trends in Mixed Media Arts Volume I” and a contributing artist in Volume II. Two of Lesley’s fabric collages have also been chosen to appear in this Summer’s issue of Sew Somerset.
Sandy Babb is joining us once again for Artist Class...and this time she's bringing cupcakes! Well, not actually bringing them to your house, but she'll be sharing a 5-in-1 cupcake recipe with us.
Take a look at the picture for a glimpse of these sweet little favors, an unexpected touch for your next garden tea party.
For a look at Sandy's beautiful art, please stop by her blog, Quill Cottage.
Another great Garden Party project, from Mona Moore, is two-part project.
First, we’ll alter an old bottle or even a mason jar with clip art and pages from old books. Then we’ll fashion pretty paper flowers from wire, old buttons and leftover bits of scrapbook paper, old books, old maps, whatever.
Mona Moore is a retired newspaper reporter and editor who lives in southern New Jersey. She makes jewelry, dolls and crafts for local gift shops and enjoys teaching craft classes.
She has had work published in Somerset Studio magazine.
Sandy brings us a marvelous Springtime assemblage you'll create representing your family.
It's just perfect for spring and a lot of the supplies can be found just outside your door.
This piece is customizable in many ways, and Sandy will show additional embellishment and personalization ideas.
Sandy says: I am a full-time mom to 3 children and enjoy making art -as it is my little escape.
I love to go 'junking' at Antique Markets and making art with my vintage found objects. I am fascinated by vintage dolls and like to use them a lot in my art.
Visit Sandy's blog, Sandy's Creations, for more beautiful creations, and her Etsy shop, Distressrelief for art and vintage finds.
Nancy brings us this beautiful shabby altered shrine, a perfect mix of nature, images and assemblage. The piece uses a vintage cigar box as a base and is very customizable.
Nancy Maxwell James is a mixed media artist who resides in Hamburg, Michigan with her husband Steve and their three fur babies. She is also the Mama to three children who are now young adults.
Creating allows her soul to be fulfilled and she loves spending time in the studio.
Her art and written work has been featured in various Stampington publications and her blog Sugar Lump Studios offers challenges, tutorials and rubber stamps.
To learn more, visit Nancy at www.sugarlumpstudios.com.
Corinne brings us this charming toy, really too pretty to pass on to the kids.
It's a cone puppet toy, otherwise known as a pop-up puppet, a type of puppet which became popular in the Victorian period.
Corinne did this sample as "Alice down the rabbit hole" - a perfect subject for a pop-up puppet, as it looks like Alice is falling down the rabbit hole when the dowel is raised and lowered.
The tutorial will show more options for decorating your puppet, including fairies and garden themes; many images will be provided.
Corinne is a mixed media artist living near Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She has an Honours B.F.A. in theatre design from York University in Toronto and completed post-graduate theatre design studies at the prestigious Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the UK. Her mixed media artwork has been published in the books Artist Trading Card Workshop, and Good Mail Day, and in various Somerset magazines.
She was a featured artist for Our Sweet Marie zine.
To see more of Corinne's projects, visit her blog, 100 Pretty Things.
Join Nikki Mans in making this terrific wind chimes from discarded flatware.
Assemble forks, spoons and more to create a one-of-a-kind addition to your garden.
This project is a great way to use the stray pieces in your silverware drawer, or a lovely chance to display those tarnished treasured pieces.
Grab a drill and get out of your comfort zone to make something truly special.
Nikki is a crazy craft-monster who mostly loves working with vintage items & supplies. She’s also a pastor’s wife, mommy of 2 kidlets, a newspaper columnist, photographer, a blogger, a giggler, & an all-around silly gal.
She’s been featured in Glamour Greece, Artful Blogging, the 'Photojo!' book, apartment therapy website, CRAFTzine & Blanket magazine.
Visit Nikki's blog, Whimsy Love, to see more great projects, and her Etsy Whimsy Love Shop to purchase her colorful crafty pieces.
In the April Garden Party session of Artist Class, Lilla LeVine will present her gorgeous fabric books for us. These are stunning, multi-layered pieces, and Lilla takes us through the steps to create them ourselves.
Another infinitely customizable project, this elegant book is a golden opportunity to use your special fabrics and embellishments.
Lilla's fabric books will be featured this Summer in Sew Somerset, and she's written this April tutorial just for us.
Been a teacher and fiber artist for many many years.
Exibited in many countrys, USA, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and Switzerland.
Indigo garments in NZ and Ribbon embroidery in Australia.
I was born in NZ and live in Hawaii.
Next teaching classes will be in Long Beach CA at the Int. Quilt Festival July 23 - 25th.
Will teach 5 classes. Come and see me.
I also produce articles for Somerset magazines and others in Australia.
Visit her blog, Just Lilla, to see more fabric books and her other amazing works.
One of the beautiful springtime projects in the Garden Party session will be this festive Spring Centerpiece from Beth Leintz. The centerpiece is infinitely customizable, but Beth also includes images and patterns if you'd like to to make one just like hers.
This project is fun for a single centerpiece or in a series, and fitting for May Day, Mother's Day, birthdays - any special occasion! It's also a wonderful project for crafting with friends - each person will make it their own.
Join us for the April, Garden Party session of Artist Class to learn how to make this one yourself!
Three days a week, I use the left side of my brain as a CPA at a construction firm. Weekends are reserved for scouring estate sales and auctions, buying junk and reselling it as antiques at my antique booth, antique shows & on-line. In between, I like to use the right side of my brain for collage, crafts & knitting. I've been published in Romantic Country, Victorian Decorating, Somerset Life, Simply Handmade & Art Quilting Studio magazines.
Also- in 1999 I was published in Parade magazine in the Ask Marilyn column. Marilyn asked her readers to finish the sentence "If a man could build a better mousetrap.....".
My reply was "he better be willing to empty it".
Visit Beth's blog, Gathering Dust, to see more great art! | 2019-04-23T02:04:44Z | https://artistclass.typepad.com/artist-class/april-garden-party-projects/ | Porn | Arts | 0.201687 |
livejournal | That gave me just a little bit of a scare. The first time I woke up this morning, I found an email waiting for me saying that TekSavvy had taken another $45.64 from my card, this time for February, and just now switched back to that tab to find a second one, containing an invoice, which are normally sent at a more sensible time in the morning. Although it's fun to imagine them being excited about usage-based billing fizzling out, just as I do when I'm particularly excited about something. Somewhat amusingly, the only example that comes to mind is from an afternoon a very, very long while ago when I was much younger, wherein I was informed that we were going out for supper, and in such a state of delight and excitement at that news, ran upstairs and immediately told Mom that "[some word I can't remember] is a compound word!" Of course, you might expect as much from kids, but that doesn't explain another night several years later. Christmas, as a matter of fact, back when I went to bed at or around 9pm. I fell asleep thinking about what the following day would bring, and woke up sometime after midnight (I think it was around 3am) to find my stocking waiting for me, which I of course had to unwrap the contents of immediately, causing Dad to come into my room to see what was going on, and me to tell him "Look at what I got!" Well, I kind of want to say Adam and possibly Naomi came into my room so we could unwrap our things together, because I distinctly remember saying "Look at what we got!", but it leads to the same thing in the end. Thank Dad for just shrugging it off and going back to sleep and leaving me, at least, to think "But it's not like it's any surprise to him. He and Mom bought these things...". Better times and such, because nowadays, if we're to have any chance of going out for supper, I'll most likely be the one to pay for it, and Christmas - at least this past year - isn't quite the same.
On the other hand, one good thing that's come of tonight is another season of Doctor Who finishing downloading (this one in just under 24 hours, surprisingly enough), and continuing the trend of estimating what chance there is of everything being complete within just under a week now, I'd put it at about 65%. It would be 70 or even 80 if I could count on the download speed to remain constant, but like everything else, it has a tendency to fluctuate, making my estimations exponential (I think), as opposed to linear. But even now I have to remind myself that even if it reaches 100% before next Monday, looking forward to having George over here to give him the final update is the very thing that could cause him to forget his drive. The other problem lies with potential reimbursement. I still do fancy the idea of asking for some small reimbursement, considering that I've been downloading these things, ultimately at my expense for over half a year now, but I dislike the thought of asking to be compensated for doing somebody a favor. Payment upon completion wasn't part of the original agreement, so I can't very well impose it now. What's more, making cookies for him and his mom as a parting gift has become a bit harder now too, in that two of the cookie containers we used to have are missing. Chances are they're somewhere in Naomi's room with the pizza sticks she's so fond of making and hoarding to herself in them, so if I remember, I'll ask tomorrow, because otherwise the last place I saw them was on the kitchen counter, holding (or perhaps containing) the banana and zucchini bread that George's mom made for me. Although we still do have one large container, as well as the method I used to transport the cookies I made for Munedust from here to where she lives, being putting a dozen into a plastic bag, and lining them up on their sides in a nice column, carefully rolling the bag over, and putting that bag inside of another one. That works, but it's quite messy-looking. Time for another topic change though, onto some serious matters.
This $20 is to make Prized Possession mine again. Giving up all of my rights to it only for you to eventually turn around and shut the door in my face anyways was a dumb, dumb thing to do, and I despise the thought of there being a story written for me and about me, but which I am about as far removed from having anything to do with as I can possibly get.
I've only sent you half of the original price because forget it - I'm buying back the rights, not a whole story, along with an extra two dollars so that you can provide me with 200 words worth of a response. I would still ask (mind you, ask, not demand) that you change your comment on Furaffinity which says the disability *is* autism, to say that it's something *like* / very close to it. I don't know why I am the way I am yet, which is why I'd prefer to avoid labels. I could go off on a tirade about how and why what you did was wrong and dare I say an odd form of plagiarism (you essentially said my story spoke about you, when the only part you were supposed to have in it was writing the thing), but I won't, and instead just ask you to consider this: while I may not have asked for the disability theme, it works. Everything else aside, depression of the variety that I'm facing is more a disability than some other things out there, and my difficulties with friends and relating to pretty much everybody else in the past could very well be something of the same sort, that I've just been thinking of as normal up until now. However, it was my story, which is why I tried to take that where I wanted it to go as much as possible, and if you'll recall, I paid you an extra eighty dollars for the extra words, which you eventually turned into a grievance as well, meaning that I paid *you* to write about what *you wanted* in *my* story. And you wouldn't let me change that one certain part either, meaning what, altogether?
As I see it, your options are thus: accept this message and the above conditions and terms exactly as they are, or be prepared to write another story for me of at least 14,000 words in length at some point in the future. Oh yes, I would compensate you fairly (speaking of which, did the commissioner of Endure to the End do that, or did they just say thanks and run off when things were all done as well?), but I will not be run away from.
Thanks for your time, and as noted above, I've included an extra two dollars so you can give me some form of brief response. And kindly don't refund my payment either. I want my story back. That's all.
In all seriousness, I'm still practically bending over backwards to try and work things out nicely with him. I provided an option other than completely removing the offending comment mentioned in the second paragraph, and my ultimatum in the third is just that. There is of course a third option, being for him to refund that payment anyways, but that'd prove that he's more concerned about meeting and furthering his own ends than he is about the way his specialized works affect people like me. It's fine to say "If you don't like that then don't look at it", but he has something of mine, which he is perfectly entitled to in that he created it, but what isn't fine is him saying things of it that only he wants to be true. I haven't received a response yet either, and I send the payment much earlier this afternoon, so maybe he thinks he's doing me a favor by not responding, which is why I'm including the message in its full text in this entry. I want there to be an objective record of what happened between us instead of playing the victim card, which I imagine he's doing at least in the way he thinks. Maybe that's incredibly arrogant and presumptuous of me to say, but look at the facts: I have made every attempt to end this reasonably, including but not limited to asking three or four times if we could just agree to disagree. The most he's said to me is "I'm sorry you're feeling bad now", "You're forgiven", followed by "now please go away" in one instance, and "I'm sorry for stringing you along by saying I was willing to talk to people who reacted badly to An Enemy to God". I've sent him, well, at least $160 on top of the original price of the story now, bringing what originally cost $40 to $200, not counting commissioning the cover and illustrations for, and publishing of a book that I couldn't even look at before today. I have been beyond reasonable with him, albeit unstable for the first bit of the bad parts, and what do I have to show in return for it? Nothing whatsoever.
Which makes me wonder why exactly I'm still comparing myself to the guy and getting intensely distraught about our situations. Who cares if he's giving back to people with the stories other people commission him for? The very fact that he takes advantage of said people to write about himself should negate that on its own, perhaps nullified somewhat if he did change his commission descriptions, but even then, his hypocrisy and double standards are there for anybody to see, yet he'd apparently prefer to act as if they don't exist, and excommunicate anybody who points them out and won't let it go. Who cares if I spend entire days off playing videogames? That is what days off are for, and as of Thursday this week, my free time will be cut back by at least eight hours. Not a huge loss by any means, but you must understand that one of the things I previously wasn't able to get over is that all throughout these issues I've been dealing with since October, he has continued to write stories even though he may have been feeling bad, and I've spent my free time making ultimately meaningless progress in videogames. What I've failed to consider, however, is that throughout all of that time, I did not shirk my duties at work. Well, there was one night I had to call in because I just couldn't go with the way I was feeling, but aside from that, I've gone in every night I have been scheduled to work, and even on those nights where I would rather have run out screaming for all the panic and anxiety and veritable heart-rending pain I was experiencing, I remained as steadfast and stoic as possible. With one other exception for that supper shift where Manoah let me go home an hour early because I couldn't even stand up for more than five minutes. As for how that compares to him, for all intents and purposes, commissions are his job, and just as I have done the best I could under the circumstances, so has he. Ergo, even though I'm effectively doing a disservice to everything I stand for with such comparisons, we are equal. He is no better than I, and I am no better than him, and as for his giving back to people, there's a specific trick to that. I avoid contact with people I don't know, both online and in real life as much as possible, because I am much more comfortable being reclusive and keeping to myself, which means I am doing what comes naturally to me, just as he is doing what comes naturally to him. To feel bad because I'm not doing the same things as him is the equivalent to getting upset because certain staff at work only ever open, and I almost always close. Closing is what I've become accustomed to over the years, and you can be quite certain that forcing an opener to close, or a closer to open would not go over well. Although it would be funny to see, because the two parties would probably just end up switching shifts, but assuming a schedule like that was forced, they wouldn't be pleased with what they were given.
Another caveat is that I'm good at doing one thing that he is not, and that is listening to other people. Even though I'm terrible at offering consolation, listening and offering other points of view on things is something I could even see making a living out of, assuming there is or was ever a market for that. I can't remember what else I was going to say there, unfortunately, so I'll end on saying that for something that started out with a fictional story in a fictional world depicting fictional events that I already have in real life, to a certain extent, this has become a thoroughly rotten mess. I'm not saying it's over yet, because I'm saving such judgment for the point where I can go a month without being dragged down by it again. As for my story, it's presumably still on his site in the same way that certain works (like my reference sheet) are still on other artists' sites, even though I'd rather they weren't. I commissioned those, and while I may not entirely want them there, it's in my best interests that they stay where they are, and have my name next to them. What's also amusing is how because of all this, about the only picture I actually like these days, including the icon and full-size, full-color piece I got a little while back, is the first picture I commissioned from Pachabel. I kind of even want to find a way to get a nice, high-quality print of the full-sized image, but I'm holding off on those thoughts for now, because it could just be my brain looking for someplace else to start spending money.
In the end, just... I don't think there is an "in the end". There are still too many potential pitfalls and other setbacks I haven't yet encountered, such as whether or not I'll get a response to the above message, but like the title of this cut says, with writing about these things, I am free from what dragged me down most recently, and I believe that's all there is to it for now.
As for the rest of the day, I've mostly been fiddling around with my EZ-Flash, trying to figure out why Megaman Battle Network 4 suddenly only showed a white screen upon startup, but updating the loader fixed that, which unfortunately overwrote the custom theme I'd downloaded, so I had to search around for a way to combine the loader update and theme files together, and I think it's mostly working now. Along the way I found Goomba, a piece of GBA homebrew that emulates GB(C) games, but which I haven't played around with yet to answer my most important question: using the included "goombafront" program, is it possible to add multiple ROMs to the same .gba file? I should think so, because otherwise the frontend would need to be nothing more than a couple dialog boxes asking for the location of goomba.gba, the location of the ROM you want to attach to the former, and where to save the combined file. Even so, one game per GBA file seems much more convenient, and I'll try it either once I finish here or tomorrow sometime to make sure. I also found this post about Picross-like games while searching for an explanation of why Hatena Satena'a tutorial never seemed to end (which drove me to give up on the game earlier, and I haven't gone back to it yet), and from there, to downloading the DS games mentioned, and playing a couple levels on each. They're all a little more clunky than Picross DS as yet, and I don't foresee taking enough interest in them to pick up again for a longer amount of time soon, but yes, that's what I've done. Then on a somewhat spontaneous note I went out to 7-11 for candies, and as I was paying for my purchases, the guy behind the counter (not the one who is always surly) asked if he could ask a question without offending me. I said he could go ahead, meanwhile my mind started racing as to what he might want to know, because there isn't much of a personal nature that I am offended by these days, and then he asked "Why do you dress like that?" Yes. I wish I had more to say, but being asked that question has become so common that I'm almost getting bored with saying "Because it's something I'm into / that I enjoy doing". That is what I said tonight, but ultimately, I do it to be different. I do it because it's meaningful to me, and represents a large, if not the largest part of what makes me who I am, and I do it because it's fun to meet the occasional person who does take it seriously and with interest, but most importantly I do it because if I didn't, I wouldn't be who I am today. That's not to say the present can affect the past, but if I stopped, I would cease to be the same person that I am now, and in the end, I like who I am. I think that's as good a way to say it as any, don't you think? | 2019-04-21T01:16:27Z | https://karadur.livejournal.com/556246.html | Porn | Kids | 0.818902 |
wordpress | This entry was posted on Saturday, August 29th, 2015 at 2:38 pm and tagged with divorce, separation and posted in education, humor, neologism, phrasing, student writing, word choice. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Maybe Dad split & left her with Mom. Maybe both Mom & Dad split & left her with grandparents. I agree that it’s good, poetically overloaded phrasing.
Oh, I never thought of a horizontal split. Now, THAT’s hilarious.
my parents too were divorced growing up, you covered some major topics.
I hope I covered the topics with sensitivity at the same time that I was having fun with the sentence? Glad to hear from you.
Reading and seeing into their heads – that’s the fun ( or sad or terrifying sometimes) part.
If the writer is supposed to intrigue the readers and make them want to read and find out more, she did that. It is to the point concise. Split. Hard on the child.
Agree with you, phil, all the way.
My parents are close to a split and they always blame me for their fights. It’s all on me, the youngest kid, to keep them together. I feel so pressured. That’s why I write it helps me vent about stuff that I can’ tell other people.
I have an apple tree that is over 100 years old (I’ve never seen an apple tree so TALL!). In the last few years it’s been developing a crack between the top two principal branches, but my arborist said we had to wait until there was a big apple crop before we braced it, because anything we did before that wouldn’t hold against the weight of a full crop. So one year there were no apples at all; last year there was a rather sparse crop. But THIS year, a bumper crop–it seems as though there are more apples than leaves! And the weight of the apples opened the split wide–and one of those main branches split completely off. Once the split started, in other words, subsequent events did what they were going to do, and my arborist and I could no more keep that tree whole than an ant with a piece of Scotch tape could have. It’s the same with relationships, I think. You may be blamed, but the split that’s starting is in the relationship, and you’re just one of the apples. Writing is a good way to deal with pressures and feelings you can’t do much about, a way to stay strong on the outside while you privately release the pressures and live through the feelings. Best wishes to you. The apples are, by the way, very very delicious….
Thanks. You helped me see all of this in a different view.
I’m glad to hear this. Thank you.
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yahoo | Welcome to the latest episode of the Full-Court Finance podcast from Zacks Investment Research where Associate Stock Strategist Ben Rains dives into Puma’s partnership with global soccer powerhouse Manchester City, and then takes a look at ESPN’s DIS first big push into the sports betting scene.
German sportswear firm Puma announced what is reported to be a record-breaking deal with Manchester City. Puma will take over one of the world’s biggest clubs from Nike NKE. The deal, which is said to be worth as much as $86 million a season comes not too long after the firm lost its biggest asset, Arsenal, to Adidas ADDYY. “Puma's partnership with City Football Group is the largest deal that we have ever done—both in scope and ambition,” Puma CEO Bjorn Gulden said a statement on Thursday.
Puma’s partnership is somewhat unique in the world of soccer as it includes all of the teams under City Football Group’s larger umbrella of clubs around the globe—aside from one notable exception. The German sportswear firm will soon see its logo on the chest of one of the biggest and quickly ascending teams in the world, which should help it compete against its rival Adidas, who spent upwards of $100 a year to steal Manchester United MANU away from Nike a few years back.
On top of its ability to penetrate the sports performance market, Puma has been able to expand its business through popular culture. Puma has deals in place with some of the biggest names in fashion and music that help expand its reach across the quickly growing Instagram FB, which is only going to become more important in a mobile retail age.
All of this has helped Puma stand out against Under Armour UAA as it struggles to roll out compelling athleisure offerings and on-trend footwear. Puma’s ability to expand its fashion-based clothing and sneakers could help them grow in a market that has seen Lululemon LULU and the Gap’s GPS athleisure businesses expand.
The episode then closes with a look at ESPN’s recently announced daily sports betting show. ESPN will air Daily Wager five days a week on multiple outlets as the legal sports gambling market continues to expand in the U.S. Investors should pay attention to this market as it becomes more mainstream. For instance, all four major North American professional sports leagues have deals in place with either MGM MGM or Caesars CZR. | 2019-04-23T14:21:52Z | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/puma-goes-nike-adidas-espn-202508551.html | Porn | Sports | 0.607292 |
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wordpress | Hi guys, how have you been? I totally missed you too, its been so long!! First let me start by saying thank you very much for all those who sent their condolences after the death of my mum. The emails I received from readers of this blog alone were so many I couldn’t reply all of them. If I didn’t reply your email, please do know that I read it (I actually read EVERYONE of them to be honest) , and my heart said a prayer for you along with a thank you. Thanks for the calls, texts and some even sent condolence cards to my office .. lol. I received about 16 condolence cards and notes from some of my blog readers(Most from the Obafemi Awolowo University ) . Thank you!
Really??!!!! Now, this is a perfect example of someone who needs to pray! He needs to brake the yoke fast and stop destroying people’s marital homes abeg. Does he know how many marrages he has broken from his losing streak? Well I have no business with them chelsea people afterall..I think he needs to watch more of Arsene Wenger’s games(maybe live) with a book and paper in his hands, patiently jotting down how to win football matches. .. lol.. Did I tell you I watch football now?? Yes and guess my team?? The first 2 people to get it corrrectly will get an mtn recharge card worth N1000 mailed to their emails lol. It’s a promise.That my own way of celebrating my convocation for all my readers.
Yea that..lol.. Yes I am done with the university now! I am a graduate! And I really thank God for that. I remember my matric day really clearly ..lol . You know, I didn’t really get to snap pictures on my matric day and I cant remember why anyway but then I went to fetch this matric picture from the dungeon just to compare with my convocation picture. By the way, I didn’t even snap any personal picture sef.. Check them out anyway!
The one on the left was taken on my matriculation day (JEEZ!! I looked sooo…… ha! ) and that young handsome good friend of mine Toyosi Oyekan who also happens to be the nicest guy I know in my entire life was one of the few friends I had then. We took a picture together during our final year dinner (you could see that on my ig @oseigajoel) if you like. Now the young handsome man on the right!! That’s me 😀 ! On my graduation. Lemme show you one more.
(lmao.. Tolani my brother, pardon me for showing your 100 level nakedness on my blog) So, that’s my friend who has actually grown into a brother; Tolani and we go way back. We met in 100level and we have been really good friends since then. Anyway, whats my point?? The pictures and all? People change! Situations Change! Not only does time heal things, time changes all things! Lets make a quick comparism between how handsome I was in my 100 level and now. Not like I am some sort of Chris Brown or something but on a scale of Segun Arinze to Brad Pitt, I think I will fall on a Idris Elba (We actually look alike..) ! Lol.. let me share this with you about time.
I had just finished speaking about God’s love and his promise of peace at a bible study breakfast some years ago when a young lady walked up to me. She spoke about how hard she had been finding life and how she had been unable to neither sleep nor control her temper ever since she lost her parents during a robbery attack the previous holiday. She spoke about how she had to use sleeping pills every night and how she always kept dreaming and thinking about the events that happened that night. As she kept talking, she began to cry. At that point, I really felt her pain because I could only imagine how life had been for her since the incidence and how horrible it must feel to be able to take drugs bfore she could sleep. When I asked her what she had done about the whole situation apart form using drugs, she said she had prayed and expected “time to heal it” all. At that point, I began to explain to her that The fact that maybe time doesn’t just change all things, heal all wounds and clear most memories on its own afterall. Its like saying “ just sit back and in no time you’ll no longer have the sadness , anguish, guilt, anger and the fear you are feeling now. They will fade away and you will be fine”. Wow! What an intresting concept! .. lets think of it this way; why doesn’t the concept apply to all other parts of our lives afterall if you want to be rich, you have to get a job. If you want to stay in your own house, you have to either buy one or build one. Even if you want to win a lottery, you have to buy the ticket first. (The words in italics are the actions take to achieve the goals set. ). I spent quiet a lot of time encouraging her and then I asked her to go see a doctor. She did, she enroled in a group theraphy of some sort in the hospital and in no time she totally recovered and was able to live her life again. The next time she saw me, I felt so happy with myself after she hugged me and started speaking about how her life had changed since the last time we had met. Now my pont is this; Time doesn’t heal all wounds,but what you do with time is what does the healing.
Let me also share this with you. After my mother died, though I didn’t place how I felt on my forehead, I felt totally crushed. For about three nights straight, I didn’t sleep, not because I didn’t feel like but because I couldn’t. I began to bury myself in my CCNA books and the academic papers I was writing for a journal. It felt totally weird and extremly sad. When I decovered the enviroment wasn’t helping me because I was gradually becoming very depressed and angry, I left home for a while and went to work. I tried as much as possible to never be alone at any point in time and after some time, I gradually began to understand the fact that my mother wasn’t going to come back to life and my depression wasn’t helping matters, I made an intentional decision to stay cool headed and refuse to be sad no matter what. Now that was the first step, it was an action I took. I leant all weird and sad momments are for a while also. There is a huge difference between how I felt the night my mother died, the evening of the wake keep, the day of the burial, the week that followed it, my convocation day and how I feel right now.
Now don’t forget the point I am trying to make about time, time doesn’t change all things but what we do with time heals even the deepest of emotional injuries.
LMAO.. am I a joker!! If I hear!! Freeman ko, slave ni!! The shii is still the same lol… Unless maybe i have another home outside..
Now, that caption could have never been better! “What a time to be Alive” indeed! Really?? You ladies had better grab if asap before it leaves the market.. cus you know you definatly need it! ! sorry for any mistakes in my spelling or diction, I don’t ever proofrread my work. So you guys should enjoy yourselves, and remember to always be happy because happy people are the most wonderful people. Follow @joeloseiga.
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wordpress | More (hasty) livestream blogging from the Games for Change 2011 conference: This afternoon’s topic has been trends in gaming.
Jessy Jo Gomez, an incoming student from Parsons The New School For Design, shared her insights in this panel.
Alan Gershenfeld, Founder and President of E-Line Media, stated he did not come from the education sector, and was influenced by learning about the high attrition rates of kids from high school and the dramatic social and economic impact of this. The perceived lack of relevancy of school is an important factor: competing social issues will necessarily win if perceived relevancy is low.
He discussed two approaches to games for learning.
Pathway products: What are kids’ natural interests? How can you connect this interest to a core curriculum and build a learning pathway?
To design good game tools, you need to think systemically. Can you map game system thinking to other systems? Game tools require 21st century skills but kids are happy to engage in hard fun.
Gershenfeld urged the audience to think about game development software for kids as a gateway to further natural interests and to connect kids to other products that are more inquiry-based. These software products should be high touch, high tech, free to play, and ideally web-based. Consider how you can connect kids to mentors (peers or teachers). Gershenfeld cited “Global Kids” as a “phenomenal program.” “Building an expert network is key” and game designers/developers should be involved.
Game systems can capture aggregate data on where players are struggling. Reviews are also informative. Both qualitative and quantitative feedback is weighed. However, to add a different level, bring kids into the mix and allow them to review games. When a child publishes a game, the child can see game analytics (e.g., a heat map of where players may have “died”) and this provides engagement and opportunities for learning.
Some kids want to go from design and systems thinking into programming; others become fascinated by art and others by marketing. The take-home is that games provide an entry into multiple career paths. Children can naturally progress from learning 21st century skills to practical vocations. Considering how these paths map to learning ecologies is critical. Tools and game design should be grounded in the context of how kids live their lives.
Jamison Selby, Senior Producer at TimePlay Entertainment discussed opportunities for in-game economies to facilitate donations to real world causes. Jason Behr, Designer at 343 Industries, continued this discussion by proposing game incentive systems. Can games like Halo have a positive impact? How can you create impactful games that have “retention” for less money and less time? (Sound familiar learning developers?) Behr urges teaming with big development companies that may not have social impact as an initial primary focus.
What if you modified mechanics of existing popular games to achieve social impact? For example, in Halo, you shoot aliens and collect points to buy virtual goods. Modifying the game challenges might be used to introduce social goals and data sharing could be used to understand and tune the impact. What if in-game rewards could be tied to real-world volunteer efforts? For example, after verifying volunteer hours, the game platform might provide rewards tied to the existing game narrative (and economic model).
Behr proposed that virtual incentives and streamlined choices would make community activism easier. “Start small, dream big” so that mainstream games become more than about escape. Use achievements to effect change.
Ken Eklund, the creator of World Without Oil and Ruby’s Bequest, spoke about ARG games and noted that his task was not to demystify ARG games (it’s too early in their evolution) but to explore them as ways to reach serious goals. ARG games have the “potential of a massive campfire” where listeners participate in the story and the game is centered on collaboration, action, and change. “When games resonate they change us.” He noted that ARG stories don’t have to be highly realistic. “Fictional stories are the ones that enter the realm of myth.
If I connect with the story, the story should connect with me.
I should be able to impact the story; I know stuff too.
Benjamin Stokes talked about games that take place in the real world and led a discussion with members from Mobile Active. “More than 90% of the world population is covered by mobile networks” Mobile allows more people to access services and programs. For example, Nokia mobile phones are available widely throughout Africa for about twenty dollars and Android phones are becoming increasingly accessible. With that being said, many still don’t have access to Smartphones and data plans.
Dr. Math is a game tied to a social network called “Mix It” which allows people to connect to a social media platform by SMS.
IVR or interactive voice response (think menus) can be used as a resource to deliver news. People in the community can call in and report news of their community and others can access based on their interests.
Stokes stated: “We need a global perspective when considering game mechanics.” Mobile may be most helpful in situated learning (not an “any place any time” view, but an “I’m here now, what can I do in my environment?” view).
Stokes discussed genres in activism, encouraging us not to overlook existing “civic genres.” What genres let us do is to have short cuts; we tap into certain mental models; however, currently we don’t have existing genres in the mobile space. What are the civic genres that we can connect to?
Touring: Connect people to organizations (e.g., non-profits, neighborhood organizations) and people who work there. Tell a story through the space, not necessarily about the space.
Non-profits are beginning to explore Facebook to spread their causes. Mallika Dutt, President and CEO of Breakthrough, discussed using Facebook as a platform as the base for the company’s alternate reality game, America 2049.
As noted by Dutt, gaming allows a conversation about problems to occur in a very different way. Facebook. as a platform, was attractive because it provides a built-in growing, global community which can be leveraged to bring people together in a game space.
The game is based on four-part structure: view, discuss, make, and act. It’s important that players become active participants versus just passive consumers of the game content. A message system in the platform creates a space for dialog (players share knowledge and solutions). The challenge is to keep game engagement going past the game, but the hope is that public forums and celebrity involvement (a humanizing effect) will drive continued participation.
Colleen Macklin, Associate Professor, Design and Technology at Parsons the New School for Design spoke of PetLab, a game lab for social games and games for learning. In partnership with the Red Cross and Red Crescent, they developed a game for Senegal using pervasive, solar-powered, platform-agnostic technology. The game goal: How to translate scientific forecasts into action. The game is low tech (a card game). Take home: High tech is not necessary to create an engaging game, nor is social media necessary to create a social game.
Emer Beamer, Co-Founder and Research and Development Director, Butterfly Works stated that there’s a revolution occurring in the Middle East and Africa in education and games can be part of a playful, homegrown, revolution. It’s important to focus on existing realities…e.g., long, three-hour commutes might be a great opportunity for mobile gaming that’s also educational. Beamer commented that adapting Western content is a mistake; you need to consider culturally relevant content, starting from graphics.
His company’s approach is to create tools first and then invite partnerships. Recognizing the low literacy levels of game players in some communities, ZMQ has created a pre-natal game solution involving iconic messaging, minimizing the amount of reading and writing involved.
Don’t decouple access and applications: If you build the cool widget, your players need to be able to access it. Democratization of information technology is needed. Be innovative in building capacity but recognize what’s at hand. | 2019-04-22T18:20:06Z | https://instructionaldesignfusions.wordpress.com/tag/game-design-trends/ | Porn | Kids | 0.483209 |
wordpress | Which Way Do I Lay My Floor?
Q: How do I figure out which way to lay the flooring in the dining room.
A: Typically wood floors are installed so that lengthwise they run parallel to the longest wall in the room. Now sometimes floors will be installed perpendicular to the longest wall based on one of a few reasons. The primary reason is usually how the home owner wants to the floor to look.
Wood flooring naturally will make rooms seem larger and in particularly long areas, like hallways flooring will occasionally be installed perpendicular to prevent the “bowling alley” look. Keep in mind, it is fairly rare for this to occur as it usually involves a lot of cuts and waste.
Another reason would be if you choose to install the floor at an angle or if you want the natural light coming into the room to move across the floor in a different orientation.
In the end, the easiest way to install a floor is to have it run lengthwise parallel with the longest wall. | 2019-04-26T16:38:11Z | https://floordujour1.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/which_way_do_i_lay_my_floor/ | Porn | Reference | 0.238842 |
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wikipedia | 1671 portrait o the Haly Roman press with her daughter Maria Antonia bi Benjamin Block.
Margarita Teresa o Austrick (Margarita María Teresa; 12 Julie 1651 – 12 Mairch 1673) wis, bi mairiage, Haly Roman Empress, German Queen, Airchduchess o Austrick an Queen o Hungary an Bohemia. She was the daughter of Keeng Philip IV o Spain an the elder full-sister o Charles II o Spain, the last o the Spanish Habsburgs. She is the central figure in the famous Las Meninas bi Diego Velázquez, an the subject o many o his later paintings. She wis also a half-sister o Maria Theresa o Austrick (the wife o Louis XIV o Fraunce) In Austrick she wis kent as Margarete Theresia.
She mairit Leopold I, Haly Roman Emperor an on 5 December 1666, the solemn entry of the Infanta in Vienna took place an the official mairiage ceremony wis celebrated seven days later, on 12 December.
Airchduke Ferdinand Wenceslaus Joseph Michael Eleazar o Austrick (28 September 1667 – 13 Januar 1668) died young.
Maria Antonia o Austrick (18 Januar 1669 – 24 December 1692) mairit Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector o Bavarie an haed childer.
Airchduke John Leopold o Austrick (born an died 20 Februar 1670) died the same day he wis born.
Airchduchess Maria Anna Josepha Antonia Apollonia Scholastica o Austrick (9 Februar 1672 – 23 Februar 1672) died young.
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wordpress | Just a rant….for everyone who has the chance to read this. If you are homeless for the holidays…donate your time and talents. There is Veterans, Home of the Sparrow, Churches and many other sources to cheer you up.
Never give up prayers or your type of faith! Keep going forward.
Jobless? Keep on looking, forward thinking, go to the library. I don’t think you got into the homeless situation because it’s WHAT YOU WANTED!
Life happens and some lose a job, quit a job, got laid off or chose to retire.
Go into businesses tell them you are in a jobless, homeless situation trying to work your way OUT!
Who cares what the world thinks, keep POSITIVE!
If others chose to stop being your friend, you WILL MAKE NEW ONES!
If family turns you away, run fast and never look back!
Life is not always fair, but God will give you this lesson to help others!
Old TV and NEW TV?
OLD Classroom and New Classroom?
OLD Telephone and New Cell Phones?
I sure do! Maybe it’s my age. It’s now wonder Innovation is such a great time saver in 2018. I am so happy modern technology helps us all remember that we Love IT today compared to the old ways!!
I do not know about you, but I am obsessive about cleaning. I am obsessive when I use cleaning materials. I love the micro fiber towels. I love the different colors. I use different colors to clean different areas.
The other day I took a 1.00 fan and from a garage sale, box box fan…I took it apart and cleaned it and already friends think it’s NEW.
I am obsessive about Organizing anything. I love to keep utensils in the place properly in the kitchen. Over flow items…need to go elsewhere.
Oh how it bugs me to have bad cutting knives! If I want to cut a piece of meat, then I have to get new knives…any suggestions?
I vacuum every day! And every single day, I get “this that and the other thing” found inside to vacuum, the kind you empty and see what you are throwing away, this makes me feel good because all of those pieces of garbage go exactly where they belong, in the garbage.
I am obsessive about researching and keeping important information, and ONE NOTE is the only place I put them. It’s is the best thing next to a nice slice of fresh bread! In college I have tabs for classes, notes, chapters, key terms, and so much more and I get to color code them!
What I hate to do is clean and organize for my spouse because over the years, he expects me to do it. So he cooks, I clean, makes sense right? NO! He messes up the stove and everything he touches! I feel like I am in a zoo! Cleaning everything top to bottom, which is more work for me!
I do not separate clothes when I wash them! SO how do you do that? Wash whites separate from sheets, to socks, and what have you? How unimportant it is to do this.
I tell ya world, if you lost everything like I have 3x, you learn to be a minimalist and learn to live without. The best part is my bills are 300.00 a month and that is good considering when I get my master Degree in HRM generalist in 2019….I already have a plan for that too!
I have a huge collection of pens of all sorts, sized, and colors. Fine Point and Think Point. I have to STOP buying them!
I have a huge obsession with BOOKS. My obsession started years ago when I lost all my books in a house fire. At first I was bummed out to lose over 1000 books! I even got an reader a KINDLE FIRE. Well, that did not fix me. I am still obsessed with true stories, true crime, like NCIS, CSI, Numbe3rs, Criminal Minds, and even Supernatural.
I also had a collection of Titanic books, old and new. I am obsessed with the real story.
Now I am on a kick, to read one author and all the books they write…for example right now I am reading Iris JoHansen series.
BUT, I am also in College.
I have been in college for ten years. I raised my daughter 1st as a single mom. My hubby walked out on us when she was 1.5 years old. Going back to college is my passion and finishing is my passion.
So with all that said, I do college most of my free time. On my spare time I spend with my two cats and or reading. Here and there I get to watch Netflix movies.
Greetings and welcome to Day Five of the Ultimate Blog Challenge!
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“A step by step guide to _____” and then outline something that you do.
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How to stop caring about what others think about you.
The reason I chose this topic is that I see society judging others for the way they look. I have a chronic face condition that others see me “different” than normal people. What is amazing is that It does not allow me to get certain jobs in America. What I did was learn about my visible dis order, and know that no one can change me or my intelligence. So what I have been doing is living to others expectations of me. I no longer do this. In my younger years I use to care about what others thought of me. In my older years I just figure that those lucky to know me are just that LUCKY. I choose to live authentically, and make few friends that mean the world to me. That is what I have to say today.
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Welcome to the Ultimate Blog Challenge, Jackie!!
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WordPress Photo Challenge is gone! I cannot believe this. I have been blogging for atleast ten years. I loved this challenge. I hope WordPress has other challenges or does something!
Well, as a Christian women I wish to say that I believe in God. I am a college student and I will probably write more about my college classes. I am taking Marketing Management and this author is Phillip Kotler. I will write more as I am in class, which starts the first week of July.
I look forward to sharing with all of you my College knowledge as I continue to study. | 2019-04-26T14:19:42Z | https://jackielovesreadingtruestories1.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Home | 0.695795 |
wordpress | Everyone knows that you’re eating them.
carrots are some of The Loudest Food Known to Man.
You’d never see a ninja eating carrots.
You haven’t interacted with my family.
memories I have of my grandfather.
to seeing my cousins again.
What I should be thinking about is how to help my grandmother.
Because I am not good enough for my parents.
Nor am I good enough for my grandmother.
certainly not as an adult.
and my family would still find something to criticize.
Your ELBOWS are showing! HUSSY.
That’s just what they do.
and I am still voiceless.
Find a corner to hole away into every couple of hours.
I wish my sister was coming.
Update: Sister was able to get a ticket after all!
I am so, so grateful that she will be there.
except that it was good to be with LauraJane.
I often miss what my home was like, two years ago.
With Jessie, Lexi, Laura, me.
People over every Sunday night.
Mary still in Santa Clarita.
Tam and her wonderful clarinet practicing.
Katie and the scent of her paints.
I miss Disneyland with Lex.
I miss getting ready in the morning with Jess.
I miss giggling with Laura.
I miss girl days with Mary.
I miss Project Runway with Tam.
I miss the *hours* of talking with Katie.
knowing that the women who love me are in the room next to mine.
when I’m home alone, sick, and sewing.
These are the trims for my Faire skirt this year. Pretty, oui?
Room with a View. Forster would be so proud. | 2019-04-21T02:06:21Z | https://cheekypinky.wordpress.com/tag/depression/ | Porn | Arts | 0.567581 |
wordpress | A Romeo & Juliet for the modern American scene… without the daggers and poison of course.
Jasmine is starting her senior year and things are working out perfectly. She’s captain of the cheer team, she’s on the road to valedictorian, she met a cute boy at the hospital where she volunteers, and her school counselor just gave her the best news ever: she’s won a highly prestigious award, the National Scholarship Program, which will pay for her entire college career at any school of her choice. She can’t wait to get home to tell her parents, but when she does, they don’t react the way she expects. After all, she didn’t expect them to have even bigger news.
Jasmine isn’t going to be able to accept the scholarship, her parents tell her, because she doesn’t have the necessary documents. In fact, she doesn’t have any documents. The green cards Jasmine believed her family had are fictitious. Jasmine’s family moved to America from the Philippines when she was nine, and California is the only home she really remembers. But after their temporary work visas ran out and their green cards fell through, they’ve been secretly flying under the radar. With Jasmine starting to apply to colleges, though, under the radar isn’t going to be an option too much longer. Now what?
To add to the stress level, enter in Royce Blakely, aforementioned cute boy, who Jasmine quickly falls head over heels for. The sweetness and kissing in their romance is definitely swoonworthy and sent my old-married-lady heart a twittering. The only problem is, Royce is the son of Senator Blakely, the California congressman who is leading the crusade against the new immigration bill that would allow her family to reapply for green cards and, eventually, citizenship. The Blakelys represent everything her family is not: wealthy, well-connected, blonde Americans. Jas is sure their relationship — and likely her future as an American citizen — is doomed.
Finally, I loved all the quotes de la Cruz provided at the beginning of each chapter to kind of set the tone. I was amazed at how apt they all seemed to be, and have added some new favorites to my list. | 2019-04-22T12:17:37Z | https://eward511books.wordpress.com/category/young-adult/ | Porn | Reference | 0.177633 |
typepad | His essay caused me to step back and reflect on the fact that I am seeing more entrepreneurs inspired to harness the power of some of the forces he describes - entrepreneurship, technology, innovation and shockingly fast productivity - to make a positive societal impact. I would like to see this trend continue. I'd like to see more Impact Entrepreneurs (a concept I first saw coined in an article in Wired Magazine by Adam Levene) not just wealth-creating entrepreneurs. Impact entrepreneurs are inspired to direct their entrepreneurial energy and skill to make a difference, help a group in society, right a wrong or turn around an injustice. Not just build the next Candy Crush Saga.
Impact Investing - A new class of investors is emerging at the intersection of financially-driven investments and social initiatives called impact investing. I am seeing impact investing funds popping up all over the world (e.g., one from Israel came into my inbox this morning). Deval Patrick, former Governor of Massachusetts, recently joined Bain Capital to start a new impact investing fund to find a sustainable, middle ground between profitable investments and social responsibility. The field is still unproven and there are many questions to be sorted out (e.g., should the investment return target be similar to "regular" investing or consciously lower?), but this notion has led folks to talk about “triple bottom lines" for firms: financial, social, and environmental.
Human progress is often the result of multi-disciplinarian efforts. I am optimistic that the trends Paul Graham points to - and is in the midst of helping accelerate - are going to ultimately have a very positive impact on society at all levels. But it will take some inspired entrepreneurs to get us there. | 2019-04-23T15:04:02Z | https://bostonvcblog.typepad.com/vc/2016/01/impact-entrepreneurship.html | Porn | Business | 0.356984 |
wordpress | To state the obvious, the holidays are coming up and it’s getting colder outside. This means I need to dress warm when I go outside, but of course still while looking good. It’s a good thing New York in the winter makes me love cold weather fashion! Want to look even more cold weather chic? Click here to get inspired.
Standing tall at 5’1.5, I like to have some more height when I go out to social events. The Steve Madden suede Annnie wedges are comfortable, fashionable, and make a little one like me much taller! I purchased them in taupe color (they look more gray to me), but they come in black and olive green, as well.
Check out them out on Steve Madden’s website. With a 4.8/5 rating, it’s hard to go wrong with them! For those of you who like animal-inspired shoes, take a look at the Annnie-L; they come in Leopard and in Black Pony.
Okay, okay, I admit it!
A tall (“small” in Starbucks’ fancy language) cup contains about 70 milligrams of caffeine, and for someone who doesn’t have caffeine too often, this is just enough. Plus, that’s a lot to pack into a 12-ounce cup for tea alone! It has almost as much caffeine as a cup of coffee. A grande (medium, 16 oz.) cup contains 95 milligrams of caffeine, while a venti (large, 20 oz.) cup contains about 120 milligrams.
If its a warm day, or I just want a cold drink, I get my chai iced, which I find just perfect. I know some people who only drink their chai tea lattes iced. The regular, hot version is delicious, as well, and it actually keeps me full for a little while. Though, that may just be because I drink it slowly because it’s so hot; the iced ones are hard not to drink quickly!
I like to get mine made with skim milk, but you can also order it with 2%, whole, or soy milk.
Adding discretionary spending subtracts mucho dinero from wallets everywhere. And that is exactly the grand lifestyle of the average college student!
Looking for breakdowns of how typical college students spend their own money, I found that 40% of their spending goes towards recreational purposes while 49% of the students surveyed have a part-time job, garnering their own income. Students attending college in New York City most likely hold a higher percentage in that area. | 2019-04-25T14:32:00Z | https://collegespendingnyc.wordpress.com/tag/spending-money-in-college/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.125646 |
typepad | It's time for the Baker's Dozen Studio Challenge. This is a monthly opportunity for the Taylored Expressions team to share what makes our stamping studios hum. Each month we have a fun, crafty question so we can share our favorites, some tips and tricks, stamping advice and more.
Actually, I've just developed my own idiosyncratic system over the years that works well enough for me. I'll give you a peek into my photography process.
First of all, I always take my card/papercrafting photos with a white background. The reason for this is that I want the cards (or whatever) to be the star of the show, and to minimize distractions for the viewer. I also like the consistency of this, since I move the location of where I take my photos depending on what time of day it is.
Pretty fancy, no? So much depends on a piece of poster board and a binder clip... This is a little adjustable medical table that I can roll around to where I need it. I've got a piece of white poster board that's propped up against an ink turnstile and held in place with a binder clip.
Please note the dirty-pawed windows and the peanut gallery made up of my constant companions. This photo is taken in my family room/great room. The barstool is one of eight that surround the countertop bar that sections off the kitchen from the family room. I like to the barstools because they have a high back that I can binder clip the posterboard to and upholstered seats that I can stick quilting pins in to help keep the posterboard in place.
I don't take my photos in direct sunlight as the glare is too harsh and causes shadowing on the photos.
I believe the camera and lens I use make a big difference in the clarity of my photos. I use a Nikon D90 DSLR, and I take my card photos with a AF-S Nikkor 50mm F1.4 G lens that really bumps up the resolution. It's a great camera and lens, and was a Christmas gift from my husband in 2011.
I also think photo editing is so, so important in showing off your paper crafting. I use a really unsophisticated photo editing software program: iPhoto, which comes standard on any Mac computer. I've bought various packages of PhotoShop, but have never taken the time to sit down and get familiar with it. It intimidates me! I've been using iPhoto for so many years (since at least 2002), that I know it well and it does most of what I need.
I grab the photo and put it on my desktop. I rename it, then I go into iWatermark (a software you can purchase and download over the web for Macs) and add my watermark. iWatermark also resizes photos, and I generally resize my pictures to about 680 pixels and 72 dpi.
It truly doesn't take a lot of fancy equipment to take good photos of cards! The biggest mistakes (in my opinion) that I see crafters making across the blogosphere and in galleries is that their pictures are too dark and that the photos on their blogs are too small. If your photos are dark, try to take them in natural light and/or start playing with the exposure levels in your photo editing software. Never assume someone is going to click a photo on your blog to enlarge it and get a closer look -- people are lazy! (At least, I know I am -- there are too many blogs out there with big, clear photos for me to spend my time on blogs with poorly sized and/or lit photos.) I use Typepad to blog with and my photos are set to post at a width of 475 pixels (unless I change it). That's about as big as I can get them with the margins of my blog. If I could make them bigger, I would! A width of 500 pixels is probably ideal. If you use Blogger, or a blog service that has pre-set widths, bump that sucker up to 'large' or 'extra-large'! Don't make me squint or have to put my face closer to the screen to see what awesome stuff you've created!
I think I've said all I can think of on this topic. Make sure you go visit my fellow Baker's Dozen team mates to learn how they make their photos look so good - I'm hoping I can pick up some hints and tips, too!
Please ignore dog nose prints on the window and all the clutter on the side of my cardstock file cabinet. It's one of the only magnetic surfaces in the house. Since we're looking at it, though, let me share with you a couple of funny magnets friends have given me over the years. Mind you, I have no idea what it is about me that inspired these gifts, but they make me giggle, I must admit.
Farm animal butts from Cammie, artwork and poetry by Truman, circa 2003.
A truism from my buddy Jen del Muro.
Can't remember who gave me this one, but there are days when this rings so true.
This one, I bought myself because it reminded me of Claremore. Hey - look at that cute, young gal in the photo. There I am, on a field trip to the Zoo, tying Truman's shoe. Look how young - 33 - and cute I was! (I'm sure I thought I was fat when it was taken, of course...) Now, I'm totally depressed - I am NOT aging well. Of course, I've had another kid and become a politician's wife since then, which, as Anne LaMott would say, is enough to make even Jesus want to drink gin from the cat bowl.
Which brings me to the SECOND very important thing: to see for yourself just how badly I am aging, head on over to the There She Goes blog, where I'm hosting Stampbook Saturday. You will have a special place in heaven if you say I look good in the photo. I don't care if you have to lie to do so (just don't tell me you're that lying).
Have a great Saturday, peeps!
I know I mention my cardstock swatchbook all the time, to the point where you regular readers are probably thinking to yourself, "Enough about that dang swatchbook! If you love it so much, why don't you marry it1?" It's just that it's so so handy, and has really changed and streamlined my cardmaking. I can't tell you how much time I wasted, getting up from my desk, browsing through my cardstock filing cabinet for a shade to grab me, taking it back to my table, then comparing colors under the Ott light, only to have to get back up, return it to it's proper file, and start all over again. Now, I just grab my cardstock swatchbook at my desk, flip through it for a moment, pick the shade under my Ott light I want, then get up and get it. So much better!
It got me thinking: maybe I should do the same thing for all of my inks? I don't know about you, but I have an OBSCENE number of inkpads, even though 95% of the time, I just use trusty old Momento Tuxedo Black. Still, when you want to use a colored ink, you want the right color when you need it, and without having to test a bunch of different shades on scratch paper. And maybe, if I could easily distinguish which color I needed, I'd be more apt to use those colored inks and feel better about all the money I spent on them and the space they take up in my craft room.
Or maybe something from the orange family?
For the cover, I took a scrap of glossy white cardstock and used a brayer to lay down a coat of Celebration Kaleidacolor ink. I mounted that on black cardstock covered chipboard, then made my title out of die cuts from TE's new Whimsey Alpha dies.
1. Maybe I will, once the kids are grown. Until then, I'm for sure keeping the old man. Lucky guy, isn't he?
2. I used the cheap stuff because there were an awful lot of cards to be trimmed down & punched. How many? I don't know & lost my place trying to count the other day. To tell you the truth, I'm a little embarrassed to know. I mean, why on earth do I have 39 varying shades of red/pink ink?! (I do know that number, because I counted it just now.) That's insane. And yet, I still want to try out those new shades from Hero Arts, and every Distress Ink that Tim Holtz comes up with, etc. It's sick, I tell you!
1. Unless I'm creating something for a particular type of challenge, my creative process inevitably starts with selecting an image. I have so many uninked stamps ready and waiting for a little attention, I inevitably drift towards those I've purchased but haven't had a chance to use. For example, for today's Studio Challenge, I couldn't wait to use the train image from TE's Life Is a Circus set; I think it's so fun & whimisical, and I know my 8-year-old train afficianado will get a kick out of it.
2. After selecting the image, my thoughts turn to what patterned paper I have that will coordinate best with the image. If possible, I try to pick a pattern collection that is current (in other words, in the paper company's most recent release), but if I think there is a pattern in my stash (in other words, older paper no longer carried in stores) that's too perfect for the image for me to resist, I'll opt for what I consider the better fit over what's trendy.
Because the train image is so horizontal, I opted to go with the sketch on the left of my clipboard versus the one on the right (it looks like it will be harder to fit my image with the circle feature of the right sketch than it will be to elongate the one on the left).
4. Once I've got my stamp set, patterned paper and sketch figured out, then I start figuring out the rest of the card ingredients I'm thinking about using: cardstock (I am CONSTANTLY referring to the cardstock swatchbook I made last summer; it was a huge investment of time to make, but I can't emphasize enough how handy it's been), dies, embellishments, etc. These inevitably end up changing as I make the card and figure out what works and what doesn't.
5. Next, I set about coloring my image.
Like my cardstock swatchbook, I keep my Copic or Spectrum Noir color guides close by when I'm stamping to select the markers I'm going to use.
For this card, I ended up modifying this week's Deconstructed Sketch by turning it from vertical to horizontal because it fit the train image better. The baker's twine is supposed to resemble train tracks, and by laying the Small Scalloped Border die cut on top of the image panel, I was able to avoid creating some sort of grounding on the airbrushed sky background layer (score!). I used a strip of yellow chevron washi tape at the bottom, but backed it with white cardstock so you wouldn't see the patterned paper show through underneath it. If you look at the photo before my finished card, you'll see that I had originally planned to use white brads, but then thought better of it when I found the polka dotted red brads in my stash.
As I create my cards, I always keep a list of the materials I use so I don't leave anything out when it's time to create my blog posts or various gallery posts.
7. I usually don't stamp or embellish the interior of my cards, but because I figure this will be a perfect one for a child's birthday (and I had the stamp set out in front of me), I thought I'd go ahead and stamp an interior sentiment.
9. Lastly, I file the card away into my card stash, because heaven knows if I leave it out, I'll spill something on it or mess it up some how.
Reading has always been one of the great joys of my life. In fact, I am completely dependent on books; I have to have one with me at all times or I feel panicky. What if I get stuck in traffic or have to wait in line somewhere? I judge all purses by whether or not they're big enough to hold a book. And my house? We bought it from a woman in my book club. In 2007, I met one of my major goals in life by seeing my name on the spine of a book (Voices From the Heartland,a book I co-edited with friends, was published this past August). All of this is to give you an idea of how happy I am to have finally gotten my hands on Bookwormabella.
I'm also awfully fond of Joseph Campbell, whose phrase "Follow Your Bliss" became a national mantra after he was the subject of the phenomenal "The Power of Myth" PBS broadcast with Bill Moyers. I have kind of a crush on J.C., even though he died before I graduated from high school. (Death doesn't stop me from having crushes on certain men; I also have a big one on Thomas Jefferson. I know, I'm weird...) I love that the My Favorite Things Sassy Sayings set includes this sentiment (even more proof that Kim V. is one smart chick), and think it's perfect paired with Bookwormabella. This card uses the sketch from today's SCS Sketch Challenge.
Supplies Used -- Stamps: Bookwormabella by Stamping Bella, Sassy Sayings by MFT, A Muse oval; Paper: River Rock, Brocade Blue, Ruby Red, Georgia Pacific White, patterned paper by Daisy D's and Creative Memories; Ink: Brilliance Archival Graphite Black, River Rock, Brocade Blue; Accessories: Copic Sketch markers, ribbon, Dimensionals.
Today's Featured Stamper is dlounds (aka Fat Cat Stamper, or Danielle). She may have a lot of names, but fortunately, she also has a lot of talent and a gallery full of sweet cards to CASE from. I chose this card, because I like the clean simplicity of it, and it gave me a chance to ink up the Time Well Spent set that SU! sent all active Demos as a holiday present (it's a level 3 hostess set in the new Spring-Summer 2008 SU! catalog).
The terms of the FS challenge require changing at least two elements of the chosen card; I went with a different color scheme (I know you're shocked that I went with pink and green), and instead of an oversized brad, I used a cute little chipboard button from Making Memories as an embellishment. | 2019-04-23T20:30:17Z | https://motherslittlehelper.typepad.com/mothers_little_helper/my-stamping-space/ | Porn | Computers | 0.479895 |
orange | Skream set at CRSSD Festival, March 2017 in San Diego, California.
Watch more CRSSD sets via MixmagTV.
The bi-annual San Diego event has been charted as one of California's top electronic music occasions, taking place across the San Diego Bay Waterfront for two days of warm weather bliss.
The spring series featured Dusky, Jackmaster, Seth Troxler back-to-back with Eats Everything, Peggy Gou, Josh Wink, Claude Vonstroke, Mija, Heidi, Cassy, Moon Boots, Skream, Horse Meat Disco and more. | 2019-04-25T02:35:36Z | https://video-streaming.orange.fr/musique/skream-set-at-crssd-spring-2017-CNT0000018ZlPc.html | Porn | News | 0.453821 |
yahoo | GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Twelve Congolese soldiers were killed alongside seven U.N peacekeepers in clashes with militias on Wednesday in Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola-hit east, government spokesman Lambert Mende said.
The casualties, incurred during a joint operation against the Ugandan Islamist group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), make this week one of the deadliest for troops in Congo's volatile eastern borderlands since a rebel attack in early 2018.
The insecurity is hampering international efforts to contain an Ebola epidemic, the worst in Congo's history, that has infected over 300 people and killed two-thirds of them since July. | 2019-04-19T05:20:25Z | https://in.news.yahoo.com/twelve-congolese-soldiers-killed-clashes-ebola-hit-east-180441559.html | Porn | News | 0.53966 |
wordpress | Pat Blythe – Blues, Rock and a Fond Farewell….
My first AirBnB guest has arrived. A Brooklyn girl from NYC. A very young (emphasis on the word “young”), freelance film producer who has one of her works showing at the Female Eye Film Festival. Jessica has never been to Toronto before although this is the second time one of her films has been selected to show. With only two full days, unfortunately she won’t have an opportunity to really experience The Big Smoke. However, she was asking me if I knew any clubs with live music…..REALLY!!!
Tamara Saviano has written a biography of Guy Clark. She dedicated it to Chet Flippo who I know as a music writer and historian who wrote for and edited a series of important zines back in the seventies. The article which struck me the most was the piece he wrote for Phonograph Record Magazine in the March 1974 issue titled “Texas Rock and Roll Spectacular” which broke Texas music into regions and highlighted the most notable musicians. Buddy Holly was in it, of course, as was Doug Sahm and Johnny Winter and Waylon Jennings and even Groovy Joe Poovey, all cited as influential to Texas music. Even Townes Van Zandt got mention and I mention that not in the sense that he did not deserve it but in the sense that Guy Clark, very much a cohort of Van Zandt, was conspicuous in his absence. I have scratched my head over that for years. I can stop scratching. Saviano, in this book, sets the record straight.
Well…. This was supposed to be Part Five of The Women of Rock. However, I’m going to take a break and fill you in on some of the sights and sounds of this dynamic city I call home….Toronto…. Hogtown… Muddy York…. The Big Smoke…. Tdot…. where I’ve been going, who I’ve been seeing, what I’ve been drinking (G&T w/lemon if you must know. Bombay Sapphire is the chosen one.) AND update you about an exciting event that’s coming to Toronto. Yep….it’s another Toronto Scrapbook! | 2019-04-24T04:33:24Z | https://bobsegarini.wordpress.com/tag/blue-rodeo/ | Porn | Home | 0.786807 |
wordpress | Although the government continues to admit to a housing shortage which is driving prices of the existing market up, housing starts rose 10% over the first 3/4’s of 2010. 66,800 apartments were under construction in 2010.
After a visit to a recent housing fair where prospective buyers have the opportunity to compare building contractor’s latest offerings, prices for on-paper purchase were shockingly higher than previous years. This author believes this will continue to drive the cost of the existing market up.
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tripod | allow to rest for 20 minutes off the heat. Reheat and serve over rice.
NOTES : To make crawfish stock: boil the heads and shells of crawfish.
onions and allow to simmer for 15 to 20 minutes.
and celery. Cook until tender. Add bay leaves and thyme.
stock, garlic, sliced andouille, and ham. Bring mixture to a boil.
Cover and let simmer about 30 minutes or until rice is done.
toasted French bread and a green salad.
Reduce heat to medium low and continue to cook an additional hour.
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wordpress | 😧 There has to be more to this story… He seem like such a nice guy and he’s a great singer too. But if what they’re saying is true then that’s heartbreaking. I know what it feels like to be hit, bullied, and outcast for being different.
Omg this is just heartbreaking!
Sadly, some nurses and some doctors don’t care about their patients, they only care about the pay. Smh!
Heartbreaking story, I hope both baby and mother are ok.
There’s many people in this world who are just teaching #HATE!
There’s many people in this world who are just teaching HATE!
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livejournal | So, resolutions. I make resolutions all year round. Whenever I'm given some sort of pep talk I usually try to change things. When someone calls me something I actually take it into consideration. But since I take part in your pithy Gregorian calendar (HOGWASH!), I'll conform - FOR NOW - and list some things I'd like to get done by next year.
So basically I'm focusing outward instead of inward this year. I'm starting out happy, fulfilled, and confident, and it's time to face the world.
Those are neat goals, but it would have been way more cool and funny to use words like "battle," "adventure," and "destiny."
Seriously, I've always thought of you as being pretty outward; not like, ALL the time, but you certainly don't mind the odd spot of attention. I don't think you'll have trouble finding what you're looking for, if it's what you're after.
I don't really have anything to say except I hear ya.IF I made real resolutions, one would be to change my public appearance to reflect my true self.
"Perhaps by the end of the year I'll be less self-conscious"
As outward as you are, you are the last person I thought was self-conscious. But yes those seem like some good resolutions, too bad I don't really do those for the fact that I can never gaurantee what the future holds.
Yes, uh, I do like to think I'm conscious of how I appear to others. Yes, even you. But of course I have anxiety like anyone else about stuff like that, and often it affects what I decide to do to meet other people.
This year I don't CARE what the future holds in terms of meeting new people. That's how I was last year, I didn't take any risks, and of course, it got me nowhere. Now I'm ready to trek into territory unknown to myself, and just like I said before, I like drama now and then, if that happens. | 2019-04-25T20:24:11Z | https://jeffreyatw.livejournal.com/218751.html | Porn | Reference | 0.230995 |
wordpress | I’m on a holiday, hooligan’s holiday.
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Modern times and new blood’s pumpin’.
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wordpress | I’ve been working on a class that wraps the low-level PGP crypto capabilities of Bouncy Castle and presents a higher-level, directly-usable interface similar to a command-line utility. One obvious test is to start with a file, sign and encrypt it, then decrypt it, and compare the result with the original. I’ve gotten so spoiled to having so many rudimentary things like this already available in the .net framework I was surprised when I didn’t find a Compare method on the File class or anything like it somewhere else. If there is something already built-in, please post a comment. If there isn’t, hopefully this small method will save a few people a few minutes. | 2019-04-21T02:35:07Z | https://jopinblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/ | Porn | Computers | 0.577365 |
wordpress | It is with great sadness that Wakefield Jazz announce that Chris de Saram, Wakefield Jazz promoter, has died aged 72. Friends recall him deep in conversation in the clubhouse whilst studying the Brecon Jazz programme and the concerts he’d enjoyed. He had an encyclopaedic knowledge of jazz and a deep enthusiasm which he shared with everyone he met. He will be greatly missed.
“We share Marc’s respect and liking for Chris and are sad to hear this news. He had been a member for years and was always a pleasure to talk to.” Arlene Jones.
The funeral will take place this Friday, 7 September. Please go to http://www.wakefieldjazz.org/ to see details of funeral arrangements and how you can attend.
This entry was posted in Friends' News on September 3, 2018 by fobj. | 2019-04-20T18:32:52Z | https://friendsofbreconjazz.wordpress.com/2018/09/ | Porn | News | 0.716786 |
wordpress | Despite the fact that sushi by definition – as I am sure the majority of you are well aware of – is a mixture of cooked japonica rice and sushi vinegar, it never ceases to amaze me how so many people continue to insist on labelling sushi as raw fish.
First off, shame on you for misrepresenting our poor little friend Mr. Sushi; I mean what on earth has the little guy ever done to you, besides provide you with a continual and delicious source of savoury umami goodness.
And secondly, can’t you see that by purporting this fallacy you are inadvertently stopping millions – if not billions (granted perhaps a slightly over exaggerated figure) – from enjoying the heavenly and delectable non fishy pleasures that sushi has to offer… and that is not to mention all of its wonderful additional health benefits. For instance, did you know that sushi is a great source of slow release carbohydrates and that it is almost always gluten free (I say almost always since it depends on whether any soy sauce has been applied, and if so what type)… But don’t get me started on people dunking their sushi into soy sauce as if it were a biscuit drowned in tea!
Plus I am sure you have all heard about the plummeting fish stocks around the globe.
Evidently, it is time for us to start exploring a world of sushi outside of the ubiquitous salmon and tuna nigiri sushi that we seem to see everywhere and keep telling ourselves that we ‘can’t live without’. I am sure if we were to ask the fish what they couldn’t live without, it would most likely be ‘our eating of fish’!
To celebrate all that is wonderful (and not fishy) in the world of sushi, we were asked by none other than Crumbs Magazine to host a 3 course sushi luncheon at the famous Lahloo Pantry in Bristol last week.
Below is a series of images from the event including brief descriptions of each type of sushi that we created for this strictly no fish sushi event!
European Sushi with a ‘Clearspring’ organic brown rice miso soup.
Blue cheese & fig hosomaki (French).
Mozzarella and sun blushed tomato hosomaki rolled in parma ham (Italian).
Spanish chorizo topped temari ball (Spanish).
For the main course we served two types of futomaki (fat roll) and three types of uramaki (inside out roll). Fillings included asparagus, chicken goujons marinated in soy sauce, shredded carrot, takuan (pickled radish), salad leaves, red pepper, avocado, mozzarella, sun dried tomatoes, fresh wasabi, cucumber, chives and cress.
Alongside the main dish was a selection of sides. A chicken, lettuce, and red pepper caterpillar roll topped with a hint of spicy mayonnaise atop of the thinly splayed avocado slices (above), and some salad leaves carrying julienned carrot, avocado and cucumber mixed with a sushi vinegar and soy sauce dressing (below).
Below are some pictures of the other side dishes that we served with the main that day.
A simple sweet edo-style nigiri sushi with fresh strawberry slices and a hint of butter chocolate cream alongside a single raspberry and blackberry served with a light and refreshing pot of Lahloo Japanese sencha (green tea).
This is perfect!. I love to eat sushi so much!.. I want to try the different sushi dishes and specialties like in So Good Sushi in Nice France.
I love eating sushi. I cook it very well and keep experimenting with it.
Tamago sponge cake – so moist!!! | 2019-04-20T10:52:32Z | https://learnhowtomakesushi.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/strictly-no-fish/ | Porn | Health | 0.811584 |
wordpress | Before I start talking about the dogs I met this week (and I’m very excited to introduce you to them!), I want to give a quick reminder about Orphans of the Storm®’s 12th annual Benefit Dinner, happening Monday, April 23 at 5:30 p.m. It’s just a week away, so make sure you reserve your spot ASAP!
Today was my first ever interaction with a Miniature Pinscher, and I can see that I’ve been missing out! What a great little dog six-year-old DooDah is! With a name like that, you know he has to be fun. He was incredibly excited to come outside with me and scampered around the run, sniffing everything.
After a couple minutes, DooDah realized that I was squatting down and came running over, putting his front paws on my legs and jumping up to get close to my face. He is ready to happily receive your love and attention, and will love you back just as much. His little legs and little face are just too cute!
This guy will be a great watchdog. He was very attentive to what was happening on the other side of the fence and was eager to tell me all about it. He hopped onto the bench next to me, enjoyed being pet for a little while, and then launched himself back off the bench to continue his explorations. DooDah will make a lovable and fun addition to any home!
Are you a Beagle lover? If so, you’re in luck! Orphans of the Storm® currently has a bundle of Beagles looking for their new homes! I only visited with two of them today, but check out the website for a full listing of all the Beagles (and all the other adoptable dogs!).
Chloe the five-year-old is a happy little dog. Her tail was wagging the entire time we were together. She put that Beagle nose to good use and spent much of her time sniffing the run, investigating who else had been outside before her.
It’s hard to not fall in love with an adorable Beagle face like hers. Even though the gray fur on her face makes her look a little older, you know she still has lots of energy and lots of affection to give her new family.
Chloe also came to learn that she could at least partially climb into my lap, and liked being scratched on the side of her neck. Take Chloe out to one of the off-leash runs and see if she’s the perfect fit for you!
Boomer the six-year-old is slightly larger than Chloe, and is her current kennelmate. He was a little more playful, though I don’t know if Beagles are known for being good fetchers–they like using their noses more.
My copy of Simon and Schuster’s Guide to Dogs says that Beagles have a “harmonious voice,” which is true for Boomer. He doesn’t have a booming bark at all! He has that wonderful, low Beagle voice and was using it in an attempt to get the attention of the dogs and humans in the run next to ours. And, I’ll note, he was successful.
This sweetheart was eager to stand next to me and get a nice back rub and scratch on the ears. Although he might be a little big for the average lap, that won’t stop him from trying to get nice and close to you. Come meet Boomer–I bet you won’t be able to resist those lovable eyes.
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blogs | Village Capital and Autodesk Foundation are teaming up on a forum to showcase and support early-stage startups that are using AI, automation, or robotics to create new jobs in emerging industries, fill gaps in the current workforce, and retrain or upskill workers whose jobs will be automated, freeing them up to focus on higher level tasks. The companies will benefit from peer learning, access to cutting-edge technologies, and executive level mentorship.
The growth of artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and robotics has disrupted the labor market and is changing the way we work. While one result of automating tasks previously done by people is that some jobs will disappear, increasing levels of automation can also be harnessed to benefit more people, create new jobs in emerging industries, and upskill the workforce to provide job stability. | 2019-04-23T09:57:30Z | https://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2018/03/automation-ai-for-good-2018.html | Porn | Business | 0.980889 |
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wordpress | On this episode of The Intentionalist Podcast, I’m on location to find out about the unfashionable truth to fast fashion.
When we think of pollution, the clothing on our bodies isn’t what first comes to mind. Despite there only being four seasonal changes each year, brands are now marketing clothes in a 52-Week fashion cycle.
The life of every garment ultimately ends with disposal and the current trends for throw-away fashion is damaging the environment, ultimately accelerating carbon emissions and global warming.
I had the chance to speak with Marina Debris a self-proclaimed “Artivist” and eco warrior, Lisa Heinz a sustainable fashion expert and author, and Jo Lamble a clinical psychologist in Sydney. Tune in to find out more. | 2019-04-21T16:35:32Z | https://theintentionalistsite.wordpress.com/2017/07/08/102/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.69773 |
wordpress | September | 2016 | Mabuhay DIY!
New artworks up on my wall!
At the start of the year, I named this year: The Year of Abundance. I was thinking that I wanted more money haha because to be quite honest I was really challenged in that area (maybe because I have hoarding tendencies and the urge to stresseat haha). Now that we’re in our Ber months, I’m happy to report that this year proved to be super abundant for me, and not just money-wise (still figuring that area out lol).
In other news, I joined the workshop of Arlene Sy yesterday because I wanted to improve my flower-painting skills. She’s one of my idols because she’s so good at what she does and she has that distinct painting style which I adore. Her flowers look so fresh and alive and also delicately gorgeous.
The snacks were from @alchemybymeryl and we got to take home one beautiful yummy box each! I think I squealed with delight lol when Arlene announced that because I’m pataygutom hahaha. And because the boxes looked delightful and I wanted to store my washi tapes in them haha.
I had to keep on adding shadows to it because it looked so flat at first. Accckkk.
Let’s talk about art with #realtalktambay!
Also joining @getfiled’s fun challenge!
Can’t wait for the unveiling of the @getfiled 2017 planners! . Planning on using it as an art journal and filling out mine with creative art prompts. | 2019-04-23T03:21:11Z | https://mabuhaydiy.wordpress.com/2016/09/ | Porn | Arts | 0.927411 |
wikipedia | In 1952, Frank Lloyd Wright completed his last Los Angeles building, the Anderton Court Shops, a small three-story group of shops on fashionable Rodeo Drive in the downtown section of Beverly Hills, California.
The entrance to all the shops is off of an angular ramp which wraps around an open parallelogram as it leads upward to the shops. Four shops were envisioned with the penthouse space, an apartment. Like the Marin Civic Center, this is another example of a secular Wright building with a "steeple". The inverted “V” front elevation stands out in sharp contrast to its traditional, flat-front urban neighbors.
Since the Anderton Court Center's completion, the space has been subdivided. Today the complex consists of six small shops; three on each side, each staggered a half-floor from one another and offset by the ramp. The facade, which was once light buff with oxidized-copper-color trim, has been painted white with black detailing. Today's canopy and signage are later additions, not consistent with Wright's original design.
The Anderton Court Shops are on the National Register of Historic Places.
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wordpress | how long it had been raining.
“Death is only a failure of the imagination,” I said.
here comes the wind, no worries, no wages.
mirroring the nurse’s Irish accent.
a chubby dark-haired kid with all kinds of laurels.
No service at the drive-thru without a car.
a bottle of wine and loaf of bread on the window sill.
a cop pulls up we’re behind Ruby Tuesday at 2 a.m.
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wordpress | “Then they set the house on fire and everyone inside was screaming – I was the only one who got out”.
Maggie O’Kane’s 36-hour trek out of besieged Gorazde brought her to Visegrad with its burned houses along the Drina river valley, a small haven for eastern Bosnia’s Muslims driven from home by conquering Serbs. In the valley, the survivors told their story.
Her ears are melted away. All that is left are two waxy, twisted beige blobs like burned out candles. Her forehead is covered in a huge scab that is still healing and her nose is a maze of burst blood vessels.
She holds out her bandaged burnt arms delicately in front, like a Hindu woman at prayer. She says she is the only one who survived. Her name is Zehra Turjacanin. She is aged 31, a textile worker from Visegrad with a Muslim name. This is her story.
“It happened on June 27. Milan Lukic, a policeman in Visegrad, knocked on our door. He had six Serbs with him from Obrenovac. He said we were to go with him.
“There were eight people in my house: my mother, Djulka, my sisters, Dzehva and Aida and their children, Elma who was four, Ensar who was two, Sada who was five, and Selmir who was seven.
“After about 100 metres we went into another house on Bratislav Street. We were told to go in by the balcony. When we got to the balcony door, I saw that there was a wardrobe against the front door and all the windows had been blocked with furniture.
“There were Serbs all around the house and they were drinking. We tried to stay on the balcony but they started to throw stones at us to make us go inside, then they threw hand grenades. We went inside and it was full of people. They were crying.
“We were the last ones in and then the Serbs took a garage door from another house and put it up against the balcony, so we couldn’t get out. It was just after eight, when the curfew starts in Visegrad, and we were all in a sort of kitchen-dining room. I saw about 10 babies and some old people, but it was mostly families.
“I think there were about 70 people in that room. They weren’t screaming or banging on the doors, just crying because they knew what was going to happen.
“I said to my mother, ‘Don’t worry, they won’t kill us’. Then they set the house on fire and everyone inside was screaming, but nobody could get out. I saw the window in the garage door and I pulled myself through it.
“I was the only one who got out. I was wearing trousers, a jumper and a cardigan, and I pulled off my burning clothes. Outside the Chetniks were standing around watching the house burning. They were drunk and playing music very, very loud, so no one could hear the sound of the burning people screaming inside.
“One of the Chetniks saw me and shouted at me to stop, but they were far away from the house because of the big blaze. Then he just shrugged his shoulders and I ran and hid. I was the only one that survived.
“At one in the morning, I knocked on Ismeta Kurspahic’s door with my foot, and then I went to the Chetnik’s headquarters and I said to the commander: ‘Kill me, just kill me.’ But he said he wouldn’t and he brought Dr Vasiljevic to me and then took me to an old woman’s house.
Here is the mountain village of Medjedja, in a place the Muslims call the Valley of Freedom. It is a stretch of beautiful Bosnian countryside along the rivers Praca and Drina that wind their way below pine forests and through villages. A 50-mile stretch of the valley that is a last sanctuary for people like Zehra Turjacanin.
Thousands of Muslims have fled here, driven out from towns like Visegrad, Foca and Rogatica, to find peace in this valley. But once inside they are trapped – surrounded by the Serbs. “A bird cannot pass from here,” said one refugee.
But last Friday afternoon, in the driving thunderstorm, the Serbian checkpoint that guards the western entry to the valley was unmanned.
There is no petrol in the valley, so the mountain road along the Praca river is deserted. The Serbs had been through here in April and May. Burnt-out Muslim homes bear testimony to their coming. The people fled into the mountains while their homes were being looted and then moved back to their burnt-out villages, and the Serbs moved on to richer pastures.
A Bosnian soldier came up from the river bank to say we were in Free Bosnia. “Come to the commander,” he said. But the commander came along the river path to us. He and his men melting out of the trees, dressed in teeshirts, jeans and running shoes and carrying rifles. They were young, most in their early twenties and wearing green headbands. They wanted cigarettes; none had come through to their isolated valley for four months.
This Robin Hood band were going “up” – up in to the hills behind Gorazde to attack Serbian artillery positions. The scout who led the way carried a sack on his back, and the noses of a dozen rockets peeped from behind his right shoulder.
The commander, who had a walkie-talkie, was a electrical engineer before he went to war. He wore a green chiffon headscarf with silver spangles around his head. He paused to write our note of passage into his valley.
In the village of Ustipraca, Nehad Devlic said the Serbs had come in April. Then he was a rich man, owned three restaurants and two cars and a lorry. He fled into the forest and when he came out the Serbs had taken his Alfa-Romeo, his Volkswagen Golf and his lorry and burned down his three roadside cafes.
He now lives from the land, on eggs, wild plums and sacks of wheat that come down from the fields high in the mountain. We go to visit the ruin of his roadside restaurant, built in the days when tourists passed on the road to Sarajevo and Dubrovnik. But now the roads have been blocked.
They defend the valley by causing landslides from the hill on to the road to prevent the Serbs from coming back up along the river. The balconies of the modern apartment blocks in Ustipraca are filled with chopped wood. There are no cars, no electricity, and the telephones have been cut off.
There is a tranquillity in Ustipraca, peace among the charred houses in the shade of the mosque, which has a single shell hole left by passing Serbs making their point as they went through. Old men sit in the sun, surrounded by scrawny dogs looking for food and love, with hunting rifles ready for the Serbs if they come back.
In the village of Kopaci it is not so quiet. In Mehmed Mehovic’s back garden, under trees heavy with apples and plums, broken branches cover an 8ft long cluster bomb, designed to open in the air as it falls and send baby bombs scattering over his village. The cluster bomb did not explode and has been embedded in his back garden since June.
The sound of mortars boom outside. The Serbs are still mortaring the village from the distant hills. “It’s okay, they are only 105mm; they could be 155mm, they’ve used them before – takes the house away,” says the commander.
Every day someone is injured or killed in Kopaci, but they have to hang on. There is nowhere to run to.
“Wait and listen for the whistle of the mortar, then you know it’s close” says Mehmed.
On Saturday afternoon Senad Niakonja, aged 10, was wheeled in his father’s barrow to see the doctor on the hill, to take out the mortar shrapnel in his back.
Among the refugees in Kopaci is Aldijana Hasecic, who tells us of Zehra Turjacanin’s ordeal. He will take us to see her, but first he wants to say that he has come from the woods near Visegrad and has seen the camp where Serbian men are taking Muslim women.
On the hill above the village of Medjedja the next day, a weeping woman in an orange polka-dot scarf says: “They took my daughter. They took all the girls from the village. We don’t know where they are. I haven’t seen her for four months”. Standing with her in the ruins of her house, where the only identifiable object is a scorched fridge freezer, are Hamed Sulejman and his wife, Kahriman. They have come to live in the woman’s woodshed. Kahriman says they were burnt out of their village and now her home is the woodshed where she lays out her jars of pickled fruit on a shelf above the mattress.
All along the mountain top are small burnt-out villages, clumps of houses where the people who have come out from the forests to live again among the ruins tell the same story, of how the Serbs came, looted their homes, burned them down and moved on.
We came out through the trees and walked the last couple of miles into Visegrad, in the open along the road. At first no one seemed to notice two strangers in a town that had a population of 20,000 before all Muslims were driven out and into the valley – 10,000 people.
But first there is a little time to pass quietly to the main street, where on the corner with Bratislav Street rust coloured earth marks the spot where the first bulldozed mosque stood. Further down the street another mound marks the site of the second mosque.
Behind the supermarket on Bratislav Street, looking out on the cemetery, are the tired remains of a burnt-out house. A house that may have been the one where Zehra Turjacanin’s family and 60 others were burnt to death. We asked casually about a man called Milan Lukic.
Papers checked. The English journalists are allowed to pass out of town in a police car with a kind Serb driver who offers cigarettes. A truck piled with furniture is parked outside the burnt-out shell of a two-storey house.
“Muslimanis,” he says, and drives us on through another 20 miles of charred Muslim homes and villages, through an apocalyptic rural wasteland that is the new Serbian republic of Bosnia.
Biljana Plavsic to be freed!
A former citizen of Sarajevo. Professor of Biology at the University of Sarajevo, Biljana Plavsic, rose up the Serb political ladder quiet fast. During the Bosnian Genocide she took part in the dehumanization of Bosniaks.
After making a deal with the prosecution, she pleaded guilty to one count in the indictment: crimes against humanity. Genocide charges were dropped due to the guilty plea.
*Note: Read this interesting article at Daniel’s Srebrenica Genocide Blog.
Bosnian Serb MP’s turn down Holocaust&Srebrenica rememberence days.
Today (13.05) the B&H parliament voted on an initiative to proclaim 21 January as Holocaust Rememberence Day and 11 July as Srebrenica Rememberence Day. Bosnian Serb Members of Parliament from Republika Srpska(Republic of Srpska) voted against this initiative. The initiative was based on a European standard which Yad Vashem clearly shows and the European Parliament Srebrenica Resolution.
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wordpress | My family went to Disney World as part of our spring break vacation. I don’t particularly buy the whole “magic” of Disney—it’s an interesting enough place, an impressive business success, but I didn’t spend a lot of time oohing and aahing over anything. Granted, my kids’ ages kept us completely in the Magic Kingdom, so I can’t speak to the place as a whole, and I did LOVE the Mickey’s Philharmagic 3-D movie. If you’ve never quite understood the hubbub over 3-D, that movie will show you, and I hear Disney has other 3-D movies in other parks that are pretty awesome too.
Anyway, since I wasn’t so taken with the magic of Disney, why am I wasting time writing about them? Because I was particulary impressed with one aspect of Disney, and it illustrated why parents shell out the big bucks to bring their kids there.
My son has certain food allergies that are often difficult to explain to restaurant waiters & waitresses. They don’t understand why his hamburger can’t touch the bun, for example. They’ll come to the table with the hamburger on the bun and when we tell them he can’t have it (which we already made clear when ordering), they often think they can just take the burger off the bun and everything’s hunky-dory, not understanding that the contamination has already occurred.
When we sat down at a Disney restaurant and looked over the menu to see what would be OK, a waiter came to our table. We explained our son has allergies, and he immediately said “I’ll have the chef come talk to you.” Which is exactly what happened. The chef showed up, made sure he understood the issues, offered some suggestions on dishes they could prepare that weren’t shown on the menu, and even came back a second time with a box to show us a gluten-free product we’d never heard of. It felt great to be taken care of, to not have to worry whether the food coming out was going to be OK. And it also gave us a more nutritional option for our son than we usually have when eating out.
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My husband knows how much I like Treat Williams, and found this videotape at a flea market for 2 bucks, and he came home with it and we watched it, and both of us actually really liked it! It was a lot better then I thought it would be.
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livejournal | Baekhyun has never known friendship before he met Chanyeol.
To the world, Byun Baekhyun was as introverted boy, quiet and perpetually off in his own little world. He was a skinny boy, small and frail-looking, and his face was shadowed with eyebags that made him look quite sickly. He was the son of a chairman of a successful company and was impeccably rich. He could have anything he wanted, anything at all but his freedom. He was expected to succeed the company, and to facilitate this his father sent him to the best school in the region, hired tons of instructors and tutors to ensure his brilliance. Baekhyun didn't have a choice, after school, he was whisked back home while the other middle-schoolers went to play, left in a stuffy room with boring teachers and mountains of books.
It was too much for a child to handle, and soon after the boy named Baekhyun retreated into his own world, going about life as nothing but an empty shell, a robot programmed to fulfil duties. He had no friends, friends required time and he had no time to even catch his breath. People called him The Shadow, just the boy who sat at the front of the class and yet was invisible to the world. It hurt at first, watching all the boys in his class get into their groups, dragging their chairs to each other's tables whereas he sat alone, isolated and lonely. He was always the boy looking out of the window, a wistful expression on his face as he watched his classmates run around the field blissfully, wide happy grins on their faces.
He wanted to have friends, he, too, wanted to run around the field freely, laughing and feeling the wind on his face. He tried, he really did. Many a time he found himself opening his mouth, hand an inch away from his classmate's shoulder, and then his mouth to clamp shut, his hand falling limply in free air. He didn't know what to say, he didn't know how to start a conversation. He had memorised all the names of everyone in his class on the first day of school in the hopes of making friends with them, but he had never used them.
And so as time passed, he grew to accept the fact that he would never be accepted by others and he gave up, throwing away his hopes of a possible friendship.
Baekhyun found solace in the piano class his mother had enrolled him for. Initially he hated it, saw it as another heavy load on his already weighed down shoulders. That was until he heard the instructor play the piano, saw his long fingers racing over the pristine white keys. The happy tune made his heart lift, showed him that he could find joy in music. He thought that if he wasn't happy in school, he could be happy when he played the piano.
And so he immersed himself in the complexities of learning the basics of piano-playing, eager to master the instrument. For just one hour each day he would sit at the piano in his house with his teacher beside him, guiding him through the trebleclefts and flats scrawled in the music notes.
Luckily for Baekhyun, he had a natural affinity with the piano. His long, slender fingers moved with the speed of a cheetah and yet with the grace of a ballerina, pressing keys and making tunes roll off the piano, echoing in the small room. According to his teacher, he was well above the standards of his age, just several more grades to perfection. He worked harder than ever, memorising notes when he went to bed, lying on his fluffy mattress and reciting the notes that would play the next day. His enthusiasm was fuelled by the promise of a happy tune the next day, just as happy as he would feel playing out in the fields with friends. To him, the piano and its crystal clear tune stripped away the sadness and lonelinesshe'd buried deep in his heart, replacing it with happiness and a sense of accomplishment.
During recess, while the other boys were out on the fields playing catch, Baekhyun sat at the piano in the empty music room, off in his own world as joyful music danced to his ears. He thought that as long as he could play the piano, he didn't need anything else.
On the summer of his thirteenth year, things fell apart. His father was arrested for corruption and embezzlement and his mother had gone back to her mother's house, leaving him behind to face the music. He was sent to live with his grandparents in the neighbouring town and of course, all his lessons were terminated. There was going to be no more piano. His new place didn't have a piano and he spent the days aching with the loss of his only friend.
He was bullied in his new school, picked on by the malicious boys who knew about his father's mistakes and spread it around the school. Soon after the whole school knew and he was bullied by everyone, the subject of the harsh whispers in the canteen. He was more miserable than ever.
He continued to play the piano in an empty music room, drowning himself in its tunes. He was playing sad tunes these days, heartwrenching songs that reflected his current predicament. Hot tears spilled out of his eyes, and it was a good thing his fingers knew each key like the back of his hand or otherwise he would be playing a mess of music.
Everyday he went to school with his head bowed down, trying not to see the incriminating stares the other children shot him. He wished he could shut his ears from the taunts of the boys in the senior class, he wished he could block the rest of the world out, shutting the door and keeping them out.
To a boy with an already scarred heart, such treatment was like adding salt to a wound, painful and torturous. He wondered when it would all end.
He first met Chanyeol when he was playing the piano in the music room. He had been playing a sad song, feeling the music bounce off the walls and echo in the room, drowning him in misery. He heard a noise coming from behind him and saw a tall and lanky boy standing in the doorway, tears spilling down his child-like face. The boy took off right after he'd been spotted, accidentally dropping his student card in his haste. Baekhyun picked it up and found out that the boy was named Park Chanyeol.
He had been on his way to Classroom 2 after school to return the card when he ran into a trio of seniors who were notorious bullies. He bolted, running for his life like a man running from a lion's den, but it wasn't long before he felt cold hands grip his shoulders, jerking him back roughly. They surrounded him, blocking out all means of escape.
Fear gripped him, swallowed him whole as he felt the first punch knocking him to the ground. Sounds of mocking laughter filled his ears and everything seemed to move in slow motion. He felt the forceful kicks and jarring punches rain on his body, causing sharp jolts of pain to wrack through him.
And then he cried out, a strangled scream echoing in the deserted corridor. The heavy shoe on his right hand twisted, grinding into his bones and crushing his fingers, sending a frenzy of sparks to ignite on the inside of his hand, so powerful that his body shook with the pain that pulsated through his flesh. His eyes blurred, blinded by excruciating pain and by the hot liquid overflowing from its wells.
He heard a shout and the next moment the shoe flew off his hand, easing the pain a little. The sounds of boot against solid filled his ears, followed by loud yelling and laughter. When the blinding light finally faded from his vision, he could see feet kicking a figure sprawled on the ground, curled up in a protective ball.
Soon after, the torture stopped and Baekhyun could not have been more relieved to hear the heavy footsteps echo in the corridor, every step softer as the distance between them increased. He couldn't move, every muscle in his body was bruised and hurt, in no shape to comply with the orders of his brain. His hand throbbed with the force of a beating drum, sharp explosions of pain in the sore fingers. He couldn't move his fingers, they were unresponsive to the cries of his brain.
The figure on the ground infront of him stirred slowly, long limbs slowly uncurling. A boy with messed-up brown hair that tumbled over his huge, doe-like eyes stared at him, blood streaked down his face. And then his pink lips curved into a broken smile, the most beautiful smile Baekhyun had ever seen, genuine and heartwarming, causing his lips to quiver as something flipped in his constricted chest.
The boy crawled over to him, his movements slow and stilted.
"Are you okay?" he asked, right eye twitching as his face scrunched up to form a concerned expression.
Baekhyun tried to speak, but nothing came out. He didn't need to say anything, for the boy helped him up with the gentleness of a nurse, slow and light. His knees quivered, knocking into each other like a nervous wreck.
"Put your arms around my neck," the boy said in a rather low voice. Baekhyun did as told, slowly and carefully arranging his hands around the boy's skinny neck, his left hand supporting his wounded right hand.
Warm hands lifted his knees such that he was on the boy's back, and the boy walked forward unsteadily, one step at a time.
"I-I'm heavy," Baekhyun managed to say, his voice small and soft against the boy's shoulder.
"No you're not," the boy said assuringly, and Baekhyun could hear the smile in his voice.
"I'm Chanyeol by the way," the boy said, turning around to look at him, eyes twinkling.
Park Chanyeol, the boy who cried to the sound of his piano's tune.
Chanyeol carried him to the nearest hospital, legs shaking with fatigue as they reached. He'd refused to let go of him, persevering all the way until Baekhyun was safely in the hands of a nurse.
"You come too," Baekhyun said, looking at the boy's swollen eye (which was turning a nasty shade of purple), his bleeding nose and his beat-up body which could hardly stand straight.
"It's okay, I'm not hurt," Chanyeol insisted, waving a hand profusely. Baekhyun decided not to argue after spotting his faded Pokemon T-shirt which was several sizes too big, his well worn jeans which had rips on the knee area and the scuffed sneakers that didn't quite fit him. He couldn't dislodge the guilt wedged in his throat as he was pushed on a wheelchair to the doctor's office while Chanyeol stood outside, just as beat-up as he was but too poor to afford medical care.
The doctor cleaned his wounds and declared that his hand sported three broken fingers and a wounded nerve which resulted in his inability to move his fingers. Upon hearing this, Baekhyun's eyes burned, hot tears flowing down his swollen cheeks like lava flowing down the side of a volcano. He cried and cried at the injustice, at the stark realisation that he wouldn't be able to play the piano anymore. He tried moving his fingers, tried with all his will and strength, ignoring the jolts of blinding pain coursing throughout his hand, but it was no use.
His fingers remained motionless on the table, as good as dead.
The doctor tried to calm him, telling him soothing words that he'd be able to play the piano again as long as he went for physiotherapy, that it would take long but it was definitely possible, but Baekhyun knew, he knew that it was impossible. His grandparents weren't that rich to afford such extensive treatment and most importantly, his fingers couldn't move. Even if they were to recover, it would be impossible to play the piano to his past perfection or even to play simple tunes.
When Baekhyn emerged from the treatment ward with puffy eyes and a tear-streaked face, Chanyeol rushed up to him and swallowed him in a hug. He didn't speak, just stroked his hair and let him spill hot tears on his thin shirt, sobbing into his chest. Baekhyun cried at the comfort of Chanyeol's chest, the care the boy was showing him. It was the first time he had ever been subjected to such treatment and the emotions he had bottled up all his life overflowed in the form of hot, salty tears. He didn't know why Chanyeol was being so nice to him, why he had taken the blow for him, why he had carried him on his injured back one whole kilometre to the nearest hospital, and just why he was holding him, stroking his hair and letting him cry into his chest. He was afraid, afraid that after all this the boy would leave him and he would be back in his lonely world again, now without the ability to play the piano, his only refuge. He cried until he had no more tears left and his eyes were mere slits, red-rimmed and painful.
"It's okay now," Chanyeol whispered, flashing him a small smile. Baekhyun's lips quivered and if he had any more tears left, he would have started bawling again.
"He said--he said I can't play the piano anymore," he said, voice choked and shaky. "My hand--it--won't move. I tried, i r-really did, but it hurts and I can't move my fingers, I--I--"
Chanyeol shushed him, his rough thumbs gently wiping away the streaks of tears on his face. Baekhyun looked up at him.
The boy was crying for him.
Chanyeol waited with him till his grandparents came. The memory of how the boy stood alone in the corridor with blood smeared all over his cheek, waving at him happily was etched into his mind, the memory of his first friend, Park Chanyeol. | 2019-04-25T16:45:42Z | https://paradisist.livejournal.com/1471.html | Porn | Recreation | 0.419118 |
wordpress | Another worthy addition to our blog series on Inspirational Women in Tech, today we focus on Ada Lovelace – as today is Ada Lovelace Day, which was started in Britain in 2009 as part of #DayoftheGirl. At Akoni we are inspired by women in technology and hope to see more women enter the sector drive innovation – just as she did.
Rejected at birth by her father, the famous poet, Lord Byron, who was only interested in being a father to a son, the one-month-old Augusta Ada Byron was whisked away to her maternal grandmother’s home in Kirkby Mallory, by her mother, Anne Isabella Milbanke.
There, she was largely brought up by her maternal grandmother, Lady Milbanke, who doted on her. The young Lovelace was encouraged to pursue her love of science and mathematics by her mother, as it countered the “insanity” that she had potentially inherited from father.
The young child was fragile, even suffering a bout of measles which left her paralysed and bedridden for an extended period of time. During her recovery period, the young Ada decided that she wanted to invent a way of flying. The twelve year old Ada went about this task with a clear and systematic plan. She investigated the construction of wings, studying the anatomy of birds, exploring different materials (oilsilk, wires and feathers) to build these out of – drawing on her mathematical skills to calculate the right proportions. Steam would be used in the final stage. Ada produced a fully illustrated book, “Flyology” which mapped out the entire project, illustrating her findings and inventions with plates. Perhaps she told Babbage about this production – he used to affectionately refer to her as “Lady Fairy”. She was clearly an individual, not afraid to go against the grain from the start.
Her tutors in mathematics and science included some of the best brain around – William Frend, William King, Augustus De Morgan and Mary Somerville. De Morgan said that she was “an original mathematical investigator, perhaps of first-rate eminence“. It was Mary Somerville, who became a great friend to Ada, that introduced her to Charles Babbage, a mathematician, philosopher, mechanical engineer, inventor of the concept of a programmable computer.
Babbage introduced her to his prototype machine – the Difference Engine, which entranced her. Impressed by Lovelace’s mathematical and analytical abilities, he asked her to translate the Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea’s article on his latest machine – his Analytical Engine.
In her extensive notes on the article, Lovelace emphasised the difference between this machine and previous calculating machines – regarding this latest machine as a breakthrough, with massive potential because of its ability to be programmed to solve problems of any complexity.
Her notes also included, in great detail, a method for calculating a sequence of Bernoulli numbers using the Analytical Engine – which could have run correctly if it had been built. Based on this algorithm, Ada Lovelace is now widely considered the first computer programmer, and her method is recognised as the world’s first computer programme.
Lovelace held imagination and intuition in high regard, integrating them into her scientific and mathematical explorations and concepts. Her “poetical science” led her to ask human questions – “basic assumptions” about the Analytical Engine and future inventions – how society and individuals would relate to technology as a tool. She valued metaphysics as much as mathematics, viewing both as tools for exploring “the unseen worlds around us”.
The remarkable Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron), died of uterine cancer in 1852 at the age of 36, leaving behind three children and her husband, William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace.
Lovelace’s astonishing intelligence, her original thought and the fact that she accomplished so much in an era when women were not given much credibility or voice was remarkable. Her self-belief from an early age is exactly what many young girls need more of today – a value that the Akoniteam admire and encourage. | 2019-04-23T23:09:26Z | https://helloakoni.wordpress.com/author/strongjonesblog/ | Porn | Kids | 0.105646 |
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The Better Homes and Gardens "bookazine" features over a hundred gluten-free recipes ranging from simple snacks (Spicy Kale Chips) to elegant entrees (Parchment-Baked Halibut with Asian Vegetables) and decadent desserts (Fudgy Mocha Pudding Cake).
What I really like are the mini-bios about bloggers and book authors. New sources of inspiration help me stay motivated on my own journey.
The bookazine also tackles some common frustrations faced by the gluten-free cook, such as pizza crust, with innovative ideas. I am interested in trying the Zucchini-Sage Crust as well as the Mini Spaghetti Squash Crusts. There are also some great product reviews/comparisons for categories such as gluten free chips and crackers.
In the past week I've made several recipes from this publication. First I made a variation of the Pho-Flavor Flank Steak Wraps. The recipe is made for a slowcooker but I adapted it to be a quick stirfry method after marinating the stirfry steak for an hour or two. Next I made the Pumpkin and Parmesan Risotto - and I absolutely love risotto - and served it with homemade meatloaf. The pumpkin was so subtle and delicious, it went perfectly with the meatloaf. I used canned organic pumpkin from Whole Foods; make sure you don't buy pumpkin pie filling by mistake.
Lastly, I made Life-Affirming Warm Nacho Dip last night, and I have to say I feel my life is affirmed! This is one of those dishes that is so delicious and addictive, you would never guess it is gluten free (and vegan!). I don't normally cook vegan but hey - it's fun to try new things and everyone gobbled it up. The cheese sauce is made of soaked cashews and cooked carrots blended together -- the color looks like natural cheese sauce and I suspect you could use it with gluten free macaroni for a GF mac 'n cheese.
Boston Cream Pie was always a favorite in my family when I was growing up, especially for my dad's or my birthday in the summer. I've never been able to figure out why this is called a pie and not a cake, or even a torte for that matter! Whatever you call it, I think it is delicous comfort food...yellow cake filled with vanilla custard, enrobed in bittersweet chocolate ganache. YUM!
Preheat oven to 350F for shiny metal pan, or 325F for dark or nonstick pan. Grease only the bottoms of two 8" - 9" round cake pans, place a parchment round on the bottom of each pan, and then grease the bottoms again. This will ensure the cakes release cleanly from the pans.
Beat cake mix, water, butter, vanilla and eggs in a large bowl or electric mixer for 30 seconds on low speed. Increase speed to medium and beat for another 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally as needed. Divide batter evenly between the two cake pans.
Bake cakes 41-46 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in center comes out clean. Cool for a couple of minutes in the pan, then run a knife around the perimeter. Invert cakes onto wire rack and allow to cool completely.
Now you will assemble the layers. Assuming your cakes dome up in the center like mine do, you will want to even this out on at least one of the cake layers. Using a long serrated knife, cut off the dome and set aside for another use (or snacking!). Spread the chilled pastry cream on the trimmed layer, spreading evenly. Invert the second cake layer on top of this.
Pour ganache over the top of the assembled cake, allowing it to drip down the sides as it wants to. Chill and serve!
This is so easy and works really well when you need icing that is more pourable than spreadable - like for Boston Cream Pie.
Place chocolate in a medium bowl.
Heat cream in a small saucepan until bubbles begin to appear around edges (scalding); pour over chocolate.
Let stand 5 minutes, then stir until smooth. Set aside at room temperature until cool but pourable, stirring occasionally.
This is a delicious vanilla custard which can be eaten alone, or piped as a filling into pastries. I made mine for the filling of a Boston Cream Pie.
Cut the vanilla bean in half lengthwise, scrape out the seeds, and add the seeds to the milk in a medium saucepan. Bring to a scald over medium heat.
While milk is heating, whisk the yolks and sugar together by hand until well combined. They should be pale but not frothy. Gently whisk in the cornstarch.
Slowly add the hot milk to the yolk mixture, whisking constantly.
Add the mixture back into the saucepan and, over medium heat, bring to a boil again, whisking constantly. Continue to whisk vigorously and boil for one minute until well thickened and no taste of starch remains. Remove from heat.
Strain mixture into a clean container and stir in the butter. Cover the cream with plastic wrap or waxed paper directly on its surface, and place over an ice bath. Cool completely.
Tip: Place the leftover vanilla bean with a cup or two of granulated sugar, and seal in an airtight container. Vanilla sugar! | 2019-04-18T18:26:41Z | https://minigirl.typepad.com/fmrecipes/2014/09/index.html | Porn | Shopping | 0.907747 |
google | We know that you have the tough job of quickly and responsively serving your users, while also simultaneously defending your internet-facing services from malicious attacks. That’s why we announced Cloud Armor, a new DDoS and application defense service, at the CEO Security Forum in New York last week. It’s based on the same technologies and global infrastructure that we use to protect Google services like Search, Gmail and YouTube.
Our security experts work around the clock to defend Google’s core services from a wide variety of malicious attacks. Metrics from DDoS attacks targeting Google services over the past decade reveal attack volumes have increased exponentially across several axes: bits per second (bps), packets per second (pps) and HTTP(S) queries per second (qps).
To defend against this threat, we deploy edge infrastructure and security systems to mitigate attacks targeting our services—and this same infrastructure underpins Google Cloud. With global HTTP(S) load balancing, the first Google Cloud Platform (GCP) service to support Cloud Armor, you get built-in defense against infrastructure DDoS attacks. No additional configuration, other than to configure load balancing, is required.
Defense is a collaborative effort.
Sharing resources across Google and Google Cloud services allows us to easily absorb the largest attacks, and also ensure that an attack on one customer doesn’t affect others.
Cloud Armor works in conjunction with global HTTP(S) load balancing and enables you to deploy and customize defenses for your internet-facing applications. Similar to global HTTP(S) load balancing, Cloud Armor is delivered at the edge of Google’s network, helping to block attacks close to their source. It's built on three pillars: a policy framework, a rich rules language and global enforcement infrastructure.
With the above foundation in place, we look forward to expanding Cloud Armor’s capabilities in the coming months.
Cloud Armor configuration is driven by security policies. To deploy Cloud Armor, you must create a security policy, add rules, and then attach this policy to one or more HTTP(S) load balancing backend services.
A Cloud Armor security policy is comprised of one or more rules, where each rule specifies the parameters to look for in the traffic, the action to take if the traffic matches these parameters, and a priority value that determines the position of this rule in the policy hierarchy.
Cloud Armor allows you to create multiple policies per project. You can customize the defense for a subset of backend services by creating a policy specifically for these services.
Cloud Armor rules language enables you to customize defenses for your specific requirements. Often attackers use multiple well-known and custom malicious patterns to attempt bringing your service down. Custom rules enable you to configure specific attack patterns to look for in the traffic and then block this traffic at scale.
Here’s an example of a custom rule to defend against an attack seen to be originating from US and containing a specific cookie and user-agent.
You can request Alpha access to these features by signing up using this form.
We have a rich ecosystem of security providers who offer solutions that complement Cloud Armor’s capabilities. You can use these in conjunction with global HTTP(S) load balancing and Cloud Armor to build a comprehensive security solution. Learn more about our security partners here.
Cloud Armor is for everyone deploying internet-facing services in Google Cloud. Learn more by visiting the Cloud Armor website. We look forward to your feedback!
Editor’s note: As of November 2018, Cloud Armor whitelists and blacklists are now referred to as allow lists and deny lists. | 2019-04-24T12:59:11Z | https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/getting-to-know-cloud-armor-defense-at-scale-for-internet-facing-services | Porn | Shopping | 0.103341 |
wordpress | Democrats in the US House of Representatives will now wield the awesome power of subpoena, and the key party figures who will be able to force Trump administration officials to testify are Jewish. Barring a surprise, five Jewish Democrats are now set to chair key House committees, including Jerrold Nadler for the Judiciary Committee, Eliot Engel for Foreign Affairs, Nita Lowey, for Appropriations, Adam Schiff for Intelligence and John Yarmuth for Budget.
If you thought the first half of Donald Trump’s first term as president was volatile, think about the next two years: His hated opponents, the Democrats, are now weaponized.
Returned to the majority after eight years, Democrats in the US House of Representatives will now wield the awesome power of subpoena, and the key party figures who will be able to force Trump administration officials to testify are Jewish.
Caucus elections will take place between now and the launch of the 116th Congress, but barring a surprise, these five Jewish Democrats are now set to chair key House committees, including three from New York — Jerrold Nadler, the Judiciary Committee; Eliot Engel, Foreign Affairs; and Nita Lowey, Appropriations. Also, Adam Schiff of California will helm the Intelligence Committee and John Yarmuth of Kentucky will lead the Budget Committee.
Those committee chairmanships and others will figure large in efforts by Democrats to stymie what they consider to be a catastrophic presidency.
Impeachment does not appear to be an option for now: Nancy Pelosi of California, likely to regain the Speaker’s gavel, has counted it out, and so has Nadler, whose committee would conduct any investigation into the president.
But there are other areas in which the Democratic majority in the House will reshape policy.
Just because impeachment is off the table does not mean investigations are out of bounds. Democrats are furious that the White House and Senate Republicans constricted the investigation into sexual assault charges against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who was confirmed. Nadler said he may delve further into the Kavanaugh allegations.
Democrats, including Yarmuth, say they want a gander at Trump’s tax returns, which would reveal the extent to which his businesses are in debt, possibly to foreign interests. The Oversight Committee will want to explore ties between businesses owned by Trump and his family and interests that have business before the United States — queries that could unsettle Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, and her husband, Jared Kushner.
Schiff, a persistent critic of Trump on the cable networks, has been bursting with frustration at what he says are the obstructions placed by the current GOP chairman, Devin Nunes of California, on the committee’s investigation of alleged collusion between Russia and Trump’s presidential campaign.
Efforts to kill “Obamacare,” the Affordable Care Act that was former president Barack Obama’s signature policy win, are dead. Key protections, including guaranteed coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, remain in place. Expect talk of reform to take a leftward direction, with key Democrats now endorsing contemplation of a single-payer, “Medicare for All” plan.
A Yarmuth-led Budget Committee also would seek to tamp down the deficit by restoring some of the tax cuts that have been Trump’s signature first-term accomplishment.
Trump’s immigration policies, including family separations and the planned deployment of troops to the US border with Mexico, have mostly been by executive order, bypassing the legislative process. With Democrats controlling the House, however, they will be subject to oversight. Jewish groups that advocate for immigrants and refugees, like HIAS, will feel a sense of relief, albeit not complacency.
Much virtual ink has been spilled analyzing what the effect on the Democratic Party will be of the election of a handful of Democrats who have sharply criticized Israel. They include Rashida Tlaib in Michigan’s District 13, the first Muslim woman elected to Congress; Omar Ilhan, the Somali-American winner in Minnesota’s District 5; Ayanna Pressley, who won her uncontested House race in Massachusetts’ District 7 on Tuesday; and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose primary upset over a 10-term incumbent paved her way to victory in New York’s 14th.
In the long term, it is an interesting question, as more Democrats appear willing to question Israeli policies.
But over the next two years, their election is not truly significant. Staunchly pro-Israel lawmakers still call the shots. Engel is one of Israel’s most reliable supporters, of either party, in the House, and so is Lowey, who will be the most influential Democrat controlling government spending.
Israel and many of its backers in the Jewish community have been thrilled with Trump’s unilateral and often precedent-breaking moves on Israel, including his decision to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv; his tepid talk about a two-state solution; and especially his decision to scrap the nuclear deal with Iran. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hasn’t been shy about how pleased he has been with the president and his party.
If there will be a change, it will be in restoring some of the funding to the Palestinians that Trump has slashed. But that’s not funding that Israel necessarily opposes. While relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are at a nadir, Israel’s security establishment still sees a viable PA as critical to keeping the West Bank quiescent.
It’s too late, if it ever was possible, for Democrats to affect the other area of Middle East policy where they have a substantial disagreement with Trump: Iran. Trump’s pullout from the 2015 nuclear deal is pretty much final, with many pre-deal sanctions reimposed on Iran this week.
More broadly, Democrats and some Republicans in Congress have been appalled by Trump’s nonchalance about abuse by US allies, including Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Expect more oversight related to how the United States is intervening on behalf of the oppressed abroad.
Impossible for the Times of Israel to contain their glee and to rub it in all our faces that ISRAEL OWNS the U.S. CONGRESS. Again, the Honorable James Trafficante, Congressman from Ohio warned us years ago and was imprisoned and ultimately killed for it. | 2019-04-20T08:45:34Z | https://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2018/11/07/as-democrats-win-house-jewish-lawmakers-to-step-into-key-roles/ | Porn | Reference | 0.19293 |
wordpress | Well my first RAOK giveaway has finished. 🙂 A winner has been picked. Congratulations to Gina Gresch! YAY! I can’t wait to send you your prize! Thanks you to every one who entered. Stay tuned for the 1st of March When I do my next RAOK. I have already got what I will be giving away and I can’t wait!
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wikipedia | For the commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, see Kathleen L. Casey.
Kathleen Casey is a Canadian politician. Casey was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in the 2007 provincial election. She represents the electoral district of Charlottetown-Lewis Point and is a member of the Liberal Party. She served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 2007 to 2011.
A native of New Waterford, Nova Scotia, she received a BSc from Saint Francis Xavier University in Physical Education. Casey moved to West Royalty, Prince Edward Island in 1986 to become recreation director for the community. In 1995, she was hired as Superintendent of Parks for Charlottetown. She served on the Charlottetown City Council from 1997 to 2003. Casey is married to Sean Casey, a former president of the PEI Liberal Party, who was elected as the federal Member of Parliament for Charlottetown in the 2011 Canadian federal election.
"Casey, Hon. Kathleen". Telephone Directory. Government of Prince Edward Island. Retrieved 2009-06-08.
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typepad | Sorry for the gap in the posts. I'll use the usual excuse -- it's been busy.
Really, really busy -- but in a good way.
Fortunately, I've been able to squeeze out enough time to finish out the sequence from this event from March 10th.
If you need the prequel, please see Joe Tucci's intro, the storage discussion, comments on protection, intelligence and automation, Joe's introduction of the private cloud, Paul's discussion on vSphere, and his thoughts on the vCloud and vClient initiatives.
In this segment, we'll wrap up with some final thoughts from Joe Tucci on EMC's newest business unit -- the Cloud Infrastructure Group.
Keep in mind, by now we're a good 90 minutes or so into the event. Yes, it's great material -- big concepts with solid execution behind them -- but at this point people's brains are starting to overflow and eyes are beginning to glaze a bit.
Joe has reviewed EMC's business, drawn a line in the sand, and talked about how the emergence of private clouds was the biggest thing to happen to IT infrastructure in a long time, and how well EMC was positioned to play.
Paul Martiz then came on, and demonstrated how his three initiatives -- vSphere, vClient and vCloud -- created the software foundation for the private cloud. He also pointed to service providers that already were successfully standing up services based on these technologies.
Joe retook the stage at this point, and started by stating that there were still a few missing ingredients in this vision -- most importantly, how to best address the new wave of telcos and service providers that would provide compatible infrastructure to make the private cloud a reality.
One could argue that "cloud is different". Perhaps very different, depending on your level of skepticism.
Using Paul's examples, "cloud as architecture" certainly was a different way of building IT than previous models.
And "cloud as consumption model" was certainly a new variation on a theme.
But how to close the gaps on architecture and consumption model?
If you think about service providers that will form the "open marketplace" of compatible providers, their needs are somewhat more specialized than enterprise IT.
They need dedicated multi-tenancy infrastructure that can scale efficiently and effectively.
They'll certainly need new types of storage infrastructure than understands information logistics and workload relocation (think EMC Atmos, at least for the present).
They need to be able to provision new services quickly and automatically -- in some cases, by the customer directly, or in an autonomic fashion in response to a workload surge.
They need to be able to precisely monitor the delivery of those services over the network, as well as secure ever aspect of them, and provide fully auditing.
For this particular model, these service providers will eventually need core technologies and standards that enable not only dynamic federation with enterprise IT organization, but amongst themselves to create even more compelling bundles of services and options.
And -- most of all -- they need to be able to charge and bill for what they deliver.
Now, not a lot of this stuff exists today. Sure, you can see pieces of it in VMware's porfolio, and EMC Smarts and RSA and from other technology providers.
But all of this has to be wrapped into a business model proposition, rather than an assemblage-of-cool-technology proposition. Service providers tend to invest in business propositions -- the technology is somewhat secondary -- so it's important that all the pieces are there to make money.
And that's just one of CIG's missions.
EMC's interests in clouds isn't limited to enterprise IT and private clouds. At the same time, EMC's Cloud Infrastructure Group is making a concerted play for personal information management delivered as a cloud service -- either directly through EMC, or by working with service providers.
You're all probably familiar with the Mozy remote backup service. What you haven't seen yet is what PI can do on top of that information. I'd like to tell you, but it's not exactly GA yet ... let's just say you're gonna want it as bad as I do.
Finally, Joe said that no company -- not even EMC and VMware working together -- could pull off this vision working along. We needed some pretty strong partners.
Now, this was no "beauty pageant" of partners being talked about here -- Joe was emphasizing specific partners that would help play specific roles.
The first partner logo that went up was Cisco's. Since this was prior to the UCS launch, Joe couldn't go into too much detail as to why Cisco's logo was up there all by itself for a while.
The audience could only speculate at the time -- which they did.
The next build on the slide brought up partners on the right hand of the diagram -- the growing roster of service providers we would need to work with to build compatible infrastructure.
And finally, the last build showed all the system integrators and consultants we'd need to work with to help transform our customers' environments -- not only the technology, but the process and business rationale associated with IT.
Joe put up a final slide that kind of summarized his feelings of how EMC and VMware were positioned for the future.
Personally, it felt a bit understated compared to all the visionary fireworks we'd seen for the last hour or so.
But I guess it had to be said.
We'd shown this audience a bold and comprehensive vision of the future, and a detailed strategy to get there.
We'd pointed not only to our current combined product strengths, but talked about how these would extend even further in 2009.
Joe once again referred to EMC's financial strength to weather any economic downturn, and to continue to invest our way through the turmoil.
And finally -- as he usually does -- he shares just how proud he is of EMC and its leadership team.
And -- you know -- watching all of this -- I had to agree with him.
First off, please excuse the non-technical nature of this post. Your profile mentions that mountain biking is one of your passions, so the question is in that area.
I'm originally from the Boston area, but currently living in Sweden and working in Denmark as the storage manager for Tieto, Denmark.
In June I will be traveling to Milford for back to back ECC courses, and hear that there is some great mtb'ing to be had in the area, so am looking for some tips. Could you possibly point me in a direction?
In Milford there is an extremely popular mountain biking area known informally as "Vietnam". You'll find it at the corner of the big highway 495 and 85. Look for power utility lines going up a hill, then head off to your left into the forest. You'll find at least 6-8 hours of exploration and a wide variety of trails from beginner to oh-my-god. | 2019-04-23T08:40:22Z | https://chucksblog.typepad.com/chucks_blog/2009/04/emc-2009-strategic-forum-joe-tuccis-final-thoughts.html | Porn | Business | 0.843535 |
livejournal | i have climbed many mountains with tads, thads, thadz, thed, ted, duff, although i only had the privilege of being in the same group as he during our second training climb up the perilous sky trail in mount mariveles, and when i was his group leader during the 2k6 2nd induction climb up mount pulag. i remember rather vividly how the two of us worried sick about our other companions who didn't arrive at the tarak ridge campsite, and we spent our vigil under the kitchen tarp, getting to know each other. tads himself arrived well after 7pm, and we didn't manage to cook dinner because none of our ingredients were complete: we only had the coconut milk but not the meat for our thai garlic pork, and i couldn't whip up an omelet with just eggs, and no tuna. we were going hungry, and all i had left was a bottle of gin. tads, who had stopped drinking due to some intestinal issues, still had some peanuts. we munched on the pack while we eagerly awaited signs of some late arrival. i remember ribbing tads about his educational evolution, how it resembled the march towards nirvana, going from la salle, then to ateneo, and eventually ending up in UP, where he was also pursuing his MA in anthropology. had tads been any more shallow, who basked in the notion that a person's worth is directly proportional to the school he attended, he would have jumped on my joke and agreed. but he didn't. rather, with much humility, he said that he didn't move to UP fine arts because he felt it was a better institution. rather, that he was kicked out of ateneo's management engineering program.
many other climbs took place meanwhile, but i only got to share moments with him again while freezing temperatures were crawling into the seams of our clothes on the saddle below mount pulag's summit. he again refused to have even a shot of the expensive vodka i had taken up with me, but volunteered, nevertheless, to be tanggero. and he was pretty good at it, i would suppose, since he wasn't intoxicated -- although he didn't require alcohol to be witty, sarcastic, acerbic, and piercingly funny. his comments about things mundane and trivial were always spot-on, and anyone who is any less intelligent would probably not get it. i'd like to think i am near his league, because i often found him deliriously humorous.
admittedly though, we are opposites in many ways. he has this quiet reassuring presence; he doesn't feel the need to be at the center of attention, content in sharing his bizarre observations with just one or two persons. he needn't raise his voice to be heard, because people will offer to listen, and he has this sunny disposition, with a smile that could illuminate everyone's faces around him.
when tads went missing on sunday afternoon, and i was informed of the situation while feeling helpless and stranded in camarines norte, i had conjured images in my mind of my friend cooped up in a cave, or washing ashore on an uninhabited island, not appearing in most navigational maps. it was going to be an interesting story of survival, i was most certainly sure. and despite the terrible terrible news that came soon thereafter, i refused to let go of hope. my friends sped off for zambales to help in the search and rescue and i felt awful i couldn't at all be of any assistance.
on wednesday, i received updates that tads had been found by fisherfolk, floating on the south china sea, near the island of hermana mayor, two hours from the shores of santa cruz in the province of zambales, only less than 20 kilometers from the hundred islands. tads traveled a great distance to get to where he was found. my friends rushed to the town, first to identify his body, and second, to bring him home. however, cris was pursued by michael fajatin of GMA news, and in an effort to lose the vehicle, cris's pick-up skidded on a sharp and slippery curve, rolled over twice, crossing the opposite lane, crashed through a barb-wire fence, and finally stopped upside-down. it was a total wreck. neri managed to crawl out the window, only to find GMA's camera man taking videos instead of helping.
when this happened, janice was left with the duty to accompany tads's father and cousin to santa cruz. they stood on the shore of a beach, and amid much beauty and drama, the small boat that carried tads sailed in while the sun was setting. tads was covered in a woven mat, but from the distance, his right arm was exposed, and it was unmistakable: he was still wearing his orange happy group shirt, and the AMCI patch was clearly visible. it was an exhausting ordeal for janice and lui, having to deal with corrupt and lackadaisical local policemen, and a bureaucracy that would have added pain to the family's grief, rather than offer comfort. she was there with tads at the morgue for a few hours, and helped convince tads's father to explore the possibility of cremation. the other option was to encase tads's body in cement.
so it was rather symbolic and also literal for janice to choose to sing imago's "sundo" during our memorial service for tads. on request of his family, we decided to make it a tribute filled with happiness and joy (his dad's words were: "kelangan paghandaan yung program. masaya tayo sa sabado ha. party tayo."). they wanted us to resonate the kind of life that tads lived, particularly when he discovered mountaineering, and mountaineering found him. jason, lui and i worked together on a collage with pictures i found on my album, and allowed people to write messages. i think it was a testament of how much tads has positively affected all of us. the program, which maida and JC hosted, was light, full of laughter and smiles, and far from mourning. we were channeling a bit of tads in all of us, in a way. many of his batchmates showed up, most of whom wore the skyblue shirt tads loved to wear, and which he insisted we should always be proud of (i thought i had disposed of the shirt immediately after training, although i discovered it in my closet).
during the second song performed by janice, with accompaniment from carlo, joven, and jason (plus back-up vocals from me, haha), we started the lyrics of "paglisan" encouraging tears, but ended it with laughter. all throughout the ordeal of trying to locate tads, the family had always been very positive, so much so that they were themselves the source of strength for many of us. we didn't want to disobey their wishes, nor destroy the mood that they'd set. several people spoke: mountaineering buddies, former classmates, colleagues and officemates, family, a fraternity brod, including tads's special friend -- a mystery girl insofar as all of us were concerned, and i would suppose we were ourselves a mystery to her.
after the program, tads's family -- his parents, his aunt, his nephews -- thanked us for all our efforts. i wanted to apologize, in a way because i felt they were not enough. but someone said that if even half of the people present at tads's wake attended his funeral, he'd be happy. i have said many times that i do not like to go to wakes, but the energy i felt at the don bosco chapel was different. death is a subject that i hardly touch on, but i would want my own funeral to be something like it: no open casket. i always find it utterly strange for people to approach a casket and view anyone's remains. instead, i'd like the place to be filled with stories and photographs of the wonderful life i've chosen and lived. i would like everyone to exhaust their tears outside of where my service would be held, so that when they see each other during my wake, they'd just be sharing anecdotes of how i never took anything seriously, but also how i pursued my passions with such fervor.
the past weekend has been terribly exhausting for me, and i delayed on writing about anything because i felt i had to rest my emotions, as well as my physical body. nonetheless, i had to submit myself to this exercise so i can move on. writing is therapeutic for me, and i know that tads, although he never had such an active online life, knew of my blog. he once told me: "o, baka i-blog mo na naman yan!". i'm sorry tads that although you were never one to seek attention, i just poured a lot of effort to focus on you. but in doing so, my intention was never to write a page, close the book, and eventually forget. rather, i wrote a page and placed a bookmark. some time in the future, whether sooner or later, i will open the book again and reminisce, rekindle your memory. you've taught me (and others, i'm sure) a very valuable lesson. but more than that, you've provided us with a lot of inspiration. your sacrifices are not for naught. i'll see you at the summit!
"neri managed to crawl out the window, only to find GMA's camera man taking videos instead of helping."
Kung minsan, the media deserves to get kidnapped by the abu sayaf.
grabe nainis nga ako when i found out about this. kapuso pa naman ako. pero yang si michael fajatin, dapat maparusahan! | 2019-04-25T22:03:01Z | https://ialman.livejournal.com/124375.html?thread=377303 | Porn | Arts | 0.294151 |
wordpress | This lists all the Breakfast items.
Cook the chicken in the oven at 350 degree for 35-40 mins and remove the skin or else cook in a pressure cooker and keep aside.
Place the chicken in a bowl and add mayonnaise, grapes, salt, pepper, vinegar and toss well.
Serve: Toast the bread by adding little butter or oil and top with the chicken salad ,aragula and cover with other slice bread. Cut in half and serve.
Apply some mayonnaise in the bread – while serving.
Add some Tomato ketchup while serving.
Instead of bread you can add more salad leaves and serve as a salad too.
Mix all the ingredients and make soft dough. Let this dough rest for ½ hour – 1 hour.
Make small balls as you do for poori and roll out and deep fry in the oil.
Serve with your suitable gravy. | 2019-04-23T18:03:54Z | https://cuisineparadise.wordpress.com/category/breakfast-dishes/ | Porn | Reference | 0.272904 |
wordpress | It’s that end of the year time when lists beckon. I’ll be doing my annual list of the best of the year in the next 36 hours or so but before I embark on that I was out with my youngest nephew the night before last and he showed me his Top 10 Films list on his Christmas-new iPod Touch (he’s got very refined taste for an 11 year old and I liked most of his choice which included great American indies like The Way Way Back) so I took the opportunity to jot down my Top 10 on my phone. Not an easy task once you get thinking (so I’m including my bubbling under list with a view to expanding it to my Top 20).
You can survive the battle as long as you don’t show anyone a picture of your sweetheart back home.
The Eiffel Tower is visible from every window in Paris.
More often than not colliding cars burst into flame.
A single match can light up a room the size of a football pitch.
That bomb with the red numbers counting down, it also has a red and a blue wire. Don’t worry which you cut with 2 secs to go – you’ll always snip the right one.
You can always reload your gun even if you haven’t been carrying any ammo. That’s if you need to reload it at all. Ever.
Although mothers cook eggs, bacon and waffles every morning, husbands/children never have time to eat it.
The Chief of Police will give you 48 hours to finish the job before you get suspended/reassigned/in big trouble.
Any job in a romcom based in London or NY can afford you a lovely flat in a swanky area of the city. [Helen Newton] Or a broom cupboard. Which by the end is replaced with a swanky apartment.
Your average laptop is powerful enough to hack into most alien systems.
Mediaeval peasants had perfect teeth.
Why waste a bullet when a complex contraption with laser beams or a rotating saw will do?
This post began as an idle conversation on my Facebook page. I’ve preserved here some of the ones that most resonated with a view to adding to the list, especially in the wake of Christmas movie viewing. And of course I’d love further suggestions below if any occur to you.
What else have you learnt from the movies…?
This one (from the year I made my debut on earth) is for me his most memorable role as an actor – as Bartlett, who can forget that tragic end, machine-gunned in a field by the heartless Nazis alongside his stalwart Scottish buddy, MacDonald (played by the ever dependable Gordon Jackson)?
His fresh faced debut, already a screen presence to be reckoned with. Directed by David Lean and Noel Coward, a suitably English place to start.
My hero well captured by the talented young Robert Downey Jnr. under the assured direction of Dickie.
I remember this one opening my eyes to the outrages of apartheid South Africa back in my university days. Denzel Washington was powerful as Steve Biko and first came to international prominence under Dickie’s direction.
Richard Attenborough was instrumental in the establishment of Channel 4 – Deputy Chairman from 1980 to 1986 as it got on its feet and Chairman from 1986 to 1992 through its golden age.
He was also a key leader in BAFTA, associated with the Academy for 30 years and President for over a decade.
I interviewed Lord David Puttnam about him recently for my book, When Sparks Fly. I was thinking of including him in the Film chapter (Choose Life) which focuses on Danny Boyle. With its central theme of the creative rewards of openness and generosity, Attenborough struck me as the cinema embodiment of British public service values. Channel 4 and BAFTA are just two of many appointments which demonstrate his prodigious energy and unfailing commitment to public service media/arts, from the brilliant Chickenshed Theatre to the Mandela Statue Fund. | 2019-04-25T00:46:54Z | https://aarkangel.wordpress.com/tag/films/ | Porn | Arts | 0.139932 |
livejournal | This was a wonderful first fic!
Sorry so late in reply. Thank you for reading and liking us minority shippers gotta stick together, ya know? | 2019-04-19T11:28:04Z | https://sunny-serenity.livejournal.com/376655.html?thread=2442063 | Porn | Reference | 0.398379 |
google | 2006-03-31 Assigned to KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO reassignment KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: SHINKO PLANT CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
A food washing apparatus of the invention includes an ozonized water generator (10), a cylindrical washing tank (1) in which the food materials are put and which can rotate to wash the food materials, a drainage part (4) formed at a part of the washing tank (1) and including openings to such a degree that water passes through and the food materials do not pass through, and wash water pipings (2, 9) which are inserted and disposed in the washing tank (1) in an axial direction and in which water spray holes (2 a , 2 a) for spraying wash water including at least ozonized water are formed, and while at least one part of the wash water sprayed from the wash water pipings (2, 9) is draind from the washing tank (1) every rotation of the washing tank (1), washing of the food materials is performed. Further, there is also a method in which a receiving tank (8) for wash water drained from the washing tank (1) is provided, and at least one part of the wash water in the receiving tank (8) is returned to an inlet side of the ozonized water generator (10) to perform cyclic use of the wash water.
The present invention relates to a food materials washing apparatus which performs effective sterilization and washing of vegetables to be eaten raw, or grains, tubers, or seeds (including ones for gardening and for farming) or nuts etc. (hereinafter simply abbreviated to “food materials”), and a washing method using the apparatus.
Conventionally, a method of cutting vegetables to be eaten raw into predetermined sizes and transporting or selling them has been carried out. This method is carried out when vegetables for salad to be eaten raw are cut into predetermined sizes, are divided into small pieces for single persons, are packed and are sold, or vegetables cut in a processing plant are transported to related restaurants. In recent years, the demand tends to increase. Besides, needs for a treatment of enabling the long preservation of grains, tubers, or seeds or nuts, or a treatment of performing washing and sterilization when they are processed as food, are also increased.
Particularly, for vegetables to be eaten raw, such as salad vegetables, washing is performed and a sterilization treatment is performed in order to prevent a change in quality or decomposition until they are eaten. For this, there is also a method in which a washing step by clean water and a sterilization step using a chemical agent are independently performed in separate work places. However, recently, as a rational method in which such washing and sterilization are performed at the same time, a method of using ozonized water is proposed. As this method, there is a revolving current method disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 19376/1997. That is, this is a method in which stored water in a washing tank into which vegetables are put is circulated by a circulation pump to generate a revolving current in the washing tank, and an ozone-containing gas generated by an ozone generator is blown into the washing tank. By this, bacteria stuck on the vegetables are sterilized, and at the same time, pollutants such as agricultural chemicals are also removed, and moisture is supplied to cells of the vegetables to revive freshness. As another method, there is a method disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 290049/1999. In this method, after vegetables are received in a space of a sealed type chamber, low concentration ozonized water is poured to such a degree that the vegetables are not soaked. Stored ozonized water is circulated and jetted to the vegetables. By this, washing and sterilization of the vegetables are performed under a mixture atmosphere of gaseous ozone and ozonized water.
In the conventional methods, first, in the revolving current method disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 19376/1997, even if air containing ozone is blown into the washing tank, before the ozone dissolves, most of it passes through the washing tank without stopping and is diffused into the atmosphere. Thus, there has been a problem in a sterilization effect by ozone.
Further, since both are of a batch type in which vegetables are put into the container and are washed, they are unsuitable methods as a continuous method applied to an apparatus for continuously washing plenty of vegetables.
In view of such circumstances, the invention has an object to provide a method in which a large amount of food materials can be always continuously washed and sterilized by fresh ozonized water, and which uses a small quantity of water and is economical.
The invention has been made in view of the above, and a washing apparatus of the invention comprises an ozonized water generator, a cylindrical washing tank in which food materials are put and which can rotate to wash the food materials, a drainage part formed at a part of the washing tank and including a large number of openings to such a degree that water passes through and the food materials do not pass through, and a wash water piping which is inserted and disposed in the washing tank in an axial direction and in which a water spray hole for spraying wash water including at least ozonized water generated by the ozonized water generator into the washing tank is formed, and is characterized in that while at least part of the wash water sprayed from the wash water piping is drained from the washing tank every rotation of the washing tank, washing of the food materials is performed.
Besides, the above apparatus is provided with a receiving tank for the wash water drained from the washing tank and a wash water return current piping for returning at least one part of the wash water in the receiving tank to an inlet side of the ozonized water generator. By this, at least the part of the wash water drained from the washing tank is returned to the materials water inlet side of the ozonized water generator and is cyclically used, so that water consumption can be greatly reduced.
Besides, an inlet for the food materials is formed at one end of the washing tank, a drain port is formed at the other end, and a spiral member is formed inside the washing tank. By this, the food materials put in the washing tank can be washed while they are conveyed to the drain port from a side of the inlet with the rotation of the washing tank, and a continuous massive treatment of food materials becomes easy. Incidentally, as the spiral member, there are a continuous one and a discontinuous one, and both can be adopted.
Besides, it is preferable that the drainage part of the washing tank is formed to be continuous in a longitudinal direction of the washing tank, and by this, it becomes possible to renew all of the wash water every rotation. Besides, in order to facilitate drainage from the drainage part, it is preferable to form the drainage part out of a wire net or a porous metal plate. Further, in order to facilitate the transfer of the food materials in the washing tank, it is preferable to obliquely dispose the washing tank so that a falling gradient is realized from the side of the inlet to the side of the drain port. Incidentally, it is also possible to reduce the amount of wash water supply by forming the drainage part intermittently in the longitudinal direction of the washing tank and by forming a draining portion and a staying portion.
Besides, it is preferable that a sectional shape of the washing tank is a circle, an ellipse, or a polygonal, and especially a regular hexagon is optimum in that manufacture is easy and a suitable depth of the staying wash water can be secured.
Further, in a preferable embodiment, the wash water piping is made rotatable, and by this, a water spray angle of the wash water piping is made variable in accordance with the size, shape and the like of the food materials.
Besides, a method is also effective in which the washing tank is constructed so that normal and reverse rotations can be made, and it is suitably rotated normally or reversely in a state where the wash water is stored in the inside, so that the washing effect of food materials is raised by a swing action of the washing tank, and the amount of wash water used is reduced.
Besides, the wash water piping is constituted by a first wash water piping including a water spray hole in a front half portion of the washing tank and a second wash water piping including a water spray hole in a rear half portion, and one of ozonized water and clean water is enabled to flow to both the wash water pipings by a changeover operation of valves. Especially, a preferable method is a method in which as the ozonized water generator, an electrolytic ozonized water generator is adopted in which ozonized water is generated at an anode side by electrolysis of water, and alkaline water is generated at a cathode side, and the ozonized water or the alkaline water, or clean water is enabled to flow to both the wash water pipings by the changeover operation of the valves. In this case, it becomes possible to use the alkaline water for the degreasing washing of the food materials or the degreasing washing of the washing tank itself.
Besides, the receiving tank for the drain wash water is constituted by a front receiving tank for wash water drained from the front half portion of the washing tank, and a rear receiving tank for wash water drained from the rear half portion. Then, at least one part of the drain wash water in the rear receiving tank is enabled to be supplied to an inlet side of the first wash water piping. By this, it becomes possible to reuse the ozonized water used in the rear half portion in the front half portion.
Further, a method in which at least one part of the drain wash water in the rear receiving tank is returned to the inlet side of the ozonized water generator, or a method in which at least one part of the drain wash water in the front receiving tank is returned to the inlet side of the ozonized water generator is also a preferable method which is expected to have a great effect in reduction of the amount of clean water used for the washing of the food materials.
Incidentally, an ozonized water tank for storing the ozonized water generated by the ozonized water generator is provided, and the second wash water piping (ozonized water piping) is connected to both the ozonized water tank and the ozonized water generator, and when supply of the ozonized water from both is enabled, a flexible change can be made in the amount of ozonized water supply in accordance with a change of the amount of ozonized water demanded.
Besides, it is preferable that the washing tank has a structure that unit cylindrical bodies in each of which a spiral member is formed along an inner wall are coupled to each other so as to be separable. By this, the disassembly and washing of the washing tank is simplified.
Next, a food materials washing method using the above washing apparatus is characterized in that food materials are put in from an inlet disposed at one end of a cylindrical washing tank, the food materials are drained from a drain port formed at the other end of the washing tank by rotating the washing tank, ozonized water is sprayed from a wash water piping disposed in the washing tank in an axial direction, the sprayed ozonized water is drained by rotation of the washing tank through a drainage part formed in the washing tank and including an opening to such a degree that water passes through and the food materials do not pass through, whereby while at least one part of the ozonized water sprayed from the wash water piping is drained from the drainage part of the washing tank every rotation of the washing tank, washing and transfer of the food materials are performed.
Besides, there is also a method in which at least one part of the ozonized water drained from the washing tank is returned to a materials water inlet side of the ozonized water generator, and the drained ozonized water is cyclically used, so that water consumption can be greatly reduced.
Also in these methods, a first wash water piping having a water spray hole in a front half portion of the washing tank and a second wash water piping having a water spray hole in a rear half portion are used as the wash water piping. Then, as set forth above, it is also a preferable method to spray the drain wash water, which was sprayed to the rear half portion of the washing tank and drained from the second wash water piping, to the front half portion of the washing tank through the first wash water piping, or to return the drain ozonized water drained from the front half portion to the materials water inlet side of the ozonized water generator. Besides, the ozonized water is ozonized water generated at an anode side by an electrolysis method of water. It is also a preferable mode that one of the ozonized water, alkaline water generated at a cathode side by the electrolysis method, and clean water is enabled to flow to the first wash water piping and the second wash water piping by a changeover operation of valves.
Especially, in the case where the electrolytic ozonized water generator is used, it becomes possible to adopt a washing method including following processes by changing over and using the ozonized water, the alkaline water, and the clean water.
A process: “washing tank before-washing process” in which while the alkaline water generated at the cathode side by the electrolysis method or the clean water is sprayed from one of or both of the first and the second wash water pipings, before-washing of the washing tank itself is performed.
B process: “food materials washing process” in which the food materials are put in from the inlet while the washing tank is rotated, and water spray of the ozonized water is performed from at least the second wash water piping, so that while at least one part of the sprayed ozonized water is drained every rotation of the washing tank, the food materials are conveyed in the washing tank, and washing and sterilization of the food materials are performed.
C process: “after-washing process of washing tank” in which after completion of the food materials washing process, while the alkaline water or the clean water is sprayed from one of or both of the first and the second wash water pipings, after-washing of the washing tank itself is performed.
Besides, as the A process, it is preferable to select a process including at least one of following A1 step to A3 step.
A1 step: “washing tank alkaline water before-washing step” in which the alkaline water is supplied to both the first and the second wash water pipings to perform alkaline water washing of the washing tank.
A2 step: “washing tank water before-washing step” in which the clean water is supplied to both the first and the second wash water pipings to perform water washing of the washing tank.
A3 step: “washing tank alkaline water and water before-washing step” in which the A2 step is performed after the A1 step is performed.
Besides, as the B process, it is preferable to select a process including at least one of following B1 step to B3 step.
B1 step: “food materials before-washing and washing step” in which the clean water is sprayed from the first wash water piping in the front half portion of the washing tank, and the ozonized water is sprayed from the second wash water piping in the rear half portion of the washing tank.
B2 step: “food materials degreasing and washing step” in which the alkaline water is sprayed from the first wash water piping in the front half portion of the washing tank.
B3 step: “food materials ozonized water washing step” in which the ozonized water is sprayed from the second wash water piping into the rear half portion of the washing tank, and the ozonized water is sprayed from the first wash water piping into the front half portion as well.
Besides, as the C process, it is preferable to select at least one of following C1 step to C3 step.
C1 step: “alkaline water after-washing step of washing tank” in which the alkaline water is supplied to both the first and the second wash water pipings to perform alkaline water washing of the washing tank.
C2 step: “water after-washing step of washing tank” in which the clean water is supplied to both the first and the second wash water pipings to perform water washing of the washing tank.
C3 step: “Alkaline water and water after-washing step of washing tank” in which the C2 step is performed after the C1 step is performed.
Incidentally, as a reuse method of the wash water, there is “ozonized water recycling” in which in the B3 step, the drain ozonized water drained from the rear half portion of the washing tank is supplied to the first wash water piping and is sprayed from the first wash water piping to the front half portion of the washing tank, or “wash water return method” in which at least one part of the drain wash water from the washing tank in any one of the A process to the C process is returned to the materials water inlet port of the ozonized water generator.
Besides, also in these methods, in a state where the wash water sprayed into the washing tank is stayed, a rotation direction changeover operation is performed at least one time in which a rotation direction of the washing tank is reversed and is next normally rotated, so that a staying time is prolonged, a water level of the wash water is made deep, And a contact time between the food materials and the wash water is prolonged, and whereby efficiency of washing and sterilization of the food materials can be improved and the amount of wash water used can be reduced by the effective use of the wash water. Incidentally, it is preferable that the rotation speed is adjusted so that the rotation speed of the washing tank at the time of the swing operation becomes faster than the rotation speed at the time of non-swing.
Further, it is also a preferable method that the spiral member is disposed in the washing tank to perform transfer of the food materials smoothly.
FIG. 1 is a side view showing an embodiment of a food materials washing apparatus according to the invention.
FIG. 3 is a main part sectional view of a washing tank of FIG. 1, FIG. 3( a) is a sectional view of a washing tank front half portion, and FIG. 3( b) is a sectional view of a rear half portion.
FIG. 4 is a conceptual view showing a washing process of food materials by the washing apparatus of FIG. 1.
FIG. 5 is a process view showing temporal changes of staying and drain of ozonized water in a washing tank of FIG. 1.
FIG. 6 is a main part sectional view showing an example of a washing tank having an elliptical section according-to the invention, FIG. 6( a) shows a state in which a major axis direction is vertical, and FIG. 6( b) shows a state in which it is horizontal.
FIG. 7 is a main part schematic view of an electrolytic ozonized water generator used in the invention.
FIG. 8 is a flow view of a washing apparatus of the invention in which an electrolytic ozonized water generator is applied.
FIG. 9 is a changeover conceptual view of a washing process by the apparatus of FIG. 8.
Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a side view showing a food materials washing apparatus according to the invention, FIG. 2 is its plan view, FIG. 3 is a sectional view of a washing tank shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, FIG. 3( a) is a sectional view of a front half portion, and FIG. 3( b) is a sectional view of a rear half portion.
In these drawings, a sectional shape of a washing tank i is a regular hexagon as shown in FIG. 3( a) and FIG. 3( b). A drainage part 4 is provided at one side of six sides. A large number of openings are disposed in this drainage part 4. The openings have such a degree of size that food materials do not pass through and water passes through. The drainage part 4 is formed of a wire net, a porous plate or the like disposed in a longitudinal direction of the washing tank 1. After-mentioned spiral members 3 are disposed along the inner surface in the washing tank 1.
Besides, a double pipe 14 is disposed substantially at the center of a front half portion of the washing tank 1 in an axial direction. The double pipe 14 is formed of an inner pipe as a second wash water piping 2 and an outer pipe as a first wash water piping 9. The second wash water piping 2 is disposed over the whole length of the washing tank 1 in the axial direction. The first wash water outer pipe 9 is formed only in the front half portion of the washing tank 1. Besides, water spray holes 2 a are formed only in a portion of the second wash water piping 2 corresponding to the rear half portion of the washing tank 1. Water spray holes 9 a are formed only in a portion of the first wash water piping 9 corresponding to the front half portion of the washing tank.
The washing tank 1 used in the invention is a long cylinder formed by coupling unit cylinders 1 a, 1 a, . . . to be separable at coupled faces 1 b, 1 b, . . . The spiral members are formed along the inner walls of the unit cylinders 1 a, 1 a, . . . This is based on such consideration that the unit cylinders can be divided and immersed in hot water in the case where heat sterilization of the washing tank 1 under obligation by food sanitation law is performed. An inlet 5 for food materials is formed at an input side of the washing tank 1, and an outlet 6 is formed at output side. A receiving basket 7 formed of a wire net or the like is disposed below the outlet 6 as a receptacle for the food materials output. Besides, the second and the first wash water pipings 2 and 9 are disposed at the center of the inside of the washing tank 1 to pass through in the longitudinal direction. Incidentally, the washing tank 1 is rotatably held through a not-shown bearing member with respect to the second and the first wash water pipings 2 and 9. Besides, both end parts of the through pipings are rotatably supported to support members 20 a and 20 c by bearing members 21 a and 21 b. The support members 20 a and 20 c are provided upright on a base B. Besides, the beating members 21 a and 21 b are respectively held to the support members 20 a and 20 c rotatably in the up-and-down direction. Two support members 20 b and 20 c at the side of the inlet 5 of the washing tank 1 can be respectively extended or contracted in the up-and-down direction. By this, it is obliquely disposed so that the portion on the side of the food materials inlet 5 of the washing tank 1 is high and the portion on the side of the outlet 6 is low. Incidentally, the support member 20 b is a member for holding the food materials inlet 5 from below. The support member 20 b and the food materials inlet 5 are rotatably coupled through a bracket (not shown) or the like. Incidentally, the inlet 5 portion is a body separatable from the washing tank 1. An end of the inlet 5 portion is fitted into a tip opening of the washing tank 1 and is disposed.
Besides, a ring member 24 is disposed around the outer peripheral surface of a body of the washing tank 1. The washing tank 1 can be rotated by a belt 23 stretched between the ring member 24 and a drive motor 22. Incidentally, reference numeral 8 in the drawing denotes a receiving tank for drain wash water disposed just under the washing tank 1. This is for temporarily storing the wash water drained from the drainage part 4 of the washing tank 1. There is a case where the wash water in the receiving tank is cyclically used as described later.
Next, FIG. 4 is a drawing conceptually showing a transfer process of food materials by the rotation of the washing tank 1, which is one of the features of the invention. FIG. 4 (a) shows a state where food materials A are put in the washing tank 1 from the food materials inlet. The put food materials A are sequentially sent to the side of the outlet 6 by the spiral members 3 as shown in FIGS. 4( b) and 4(c). Then, the food materials A drop downward from the outlet 6 then are output. The spiral members 3 are disposed along the inner wall of the washing tank 1. Accordingly, the food materials A are sent from the inlet side to the outlet side by the rotation of the washing tank 1 and by the spiral members 3. Thus, it is not necessarily indispensable to obliquely dispose the washing tank 1 with a falling gradient from the inlet side to the outlet side as shown in FIG. 1.
Next, FIG. 5 is a process view of the embodiment of the invention. FIG. 5 shows a state of storage and drain of the wash water (ozonized water) by the rotation of the washing tank 1, which is another feature of the invention. In the drawing, one side of the washing tank 1 indicated by double lines denotes the drainage part 4 formed of the above-mentioned wire net or the like. In Step 1 of the drawing, the washing tank 1 is rotated in a clockwise direction as indicated by an arrow (X). The ozonized water is always sprayed from the water spray hole 2 a of the wash water piping (the drawing shows the second wash water piping 2). The washing tank 1 is rotated from this state, and when a state occurs in which one apex of the hexagon is positioned down as shown in Step 2, the ozonized water W which has been sprayed up to that time is collected in the apex part and its depth increases. However, further, as shown in Step 3, when one side of the hexagon is positioned down, the ozonized water W comes to have an inverted trapezoid shape with the one side as the bottom, and the depth becomes shallow. In the process of the rotation of the washing tank 1, the food materials (not shown) are raised upward according to the rotation of the washing tank 1 and drop as indicated by an arrow (Y) in the drawing. The food materials repeat such movement. Thus, all surfaces of the food materials are apt to receive the water spray of fresh ozonized water. Similarly, when the rotation of the washing tank 1 proceeds from Step 4 to Step 7 in the drawing, ozonized water sprayed in this process is gradually accumulated. The depth gradually becomes deep. At the same time, it is gradually contaminated by the washing of the food materials.
Next, when a state of Step 8 in the drawing occurs, the ozonized water W stored in the washing tank 1 comes in contact with the drainage part 4 of the washing tank 1. From this point of time, drainage of the stored ozonized water W from the drainage part 4 is started. Between Step 9 and step 12 in the drawing, since the drainage part 4 is positioned down, the sprayed ozonized water is also drained, and the storage of the ozonized water does not occur. However, at the same time, this step is a step in which the surface of the food materials on which the contaminated ozonized water is stuck is washed by fresh ozonized water and the ozonized water is drained. Next, Steps 13 to 16 show a process for washing the food materials while the ozonized water W is again stored in the washing tank 1.
As stated above, in this embodiment, replacement of ozonized water is performed every rotation of the washing tank 1. As a result, the following effects are obtained. In the state where the drainage part 4 is positioned down, when the ozonized water which has been stored up to that time and is contaminated by the washing of the food materials is drained, and at the same time, by the constantly sprayed ozonized water, the surface of the food materials on which the contaminated ozonized water is stuck is washed by the fresh ozonized water.
Incidentally, it is preferable that a water spray angle of the ozonized water is adjustable. Since the water spray angle of the ozonized water is determined by the formation position of the water spray holes 2 a of the wash water piping 2, the wash water piping 2 is made rotatable in order to make the water spray angle variable. By this, while a position in the washing tank 1 to which water should be sprayed is checked in accordance with the kind, size or input amount of food materials, it becomes possible to adjust the water spray angle by rotating the wash water piping 2.
The above description relates to an example of a case where the washing tank 1 is rotated in only one direction. In FIG. 5, the states of Step 1 to Step 5 show the process in which the washing tank 1 is rotated by 120° so that the drainage part 4 is moved from the upper left position to the upper right position. During this, although the ozonized water is stored, it is not drained. Then, when the state of the Step 1 reaches the state of Step 5, the rotation direction of the washing tank 1 is changed over from the normal rotation to the reverse rotation, and the reverse rotation is performed like Step 5→step 4 . . .→Step 1. Then, when the state again reaches the state of Step 1, the rotation direction is again returned to the normal rotation, and the rotation is performed from Step 1 to Step 5. As stated above, it is also possible to perform the washing while the storage amount of the ozonized water W is increased. In the reverse rotation step of the washing tank 1, the food materials and the ozonized water are swung by swinging the washing tank 1, the ozonized water covering the surfaces of the food materials is renewed, and the washing sterilization effect is raised. Therefore, it is preferable to provide the reverse rotation step of the washing tank 1.
Incidentally, the number of times of normal and reverse rotations of the washing tank 1, the swing angle, and the rotation speed at the time of the swing are arbitrarily selected. It is preferable that the number of swings is roughly not less than one and not larger than three. If larger than this, there is a fear that a harmful effect of a drop in throughput becomes more serious than an increase in washing effect. Besides, it is preferable that the swing angle is approximately not less than 100° and not higher than 150°, and is especially approximately 120°. Further, the rotation speed of the washing tank 1 at the time of the swing may be the same as the normal rotation speed. However, in order to raise the washing effect by swinging the inner ozonized water and food materials, it is preferable to make the rotation speed higher than the normal rotation speed, By the existence of the changeover operation of the rotation direction and by suitably setting the number of times of changeover and the rotation speed at the time of the swing, it becomes possible to adjust a contact time in relation to the ozonized water and to adjust the depth of the ozonized water stayed in the washing tank in accordance with the amount and size of the food materials. By this, wasteful spray of the ozonized water is prevented, and the amount of ozonized water strayed can be adjusted to an optimum state.
Besides, although the foregoing embodiment shows that the shape of the washing tank 1 is a regular hexagon in section, another shape may be adopted. FIG. 6 shows an example of a case where the section is elliptical. The same drawing (a) shows a state where the washing tank 1 is rotated aid a major diameter direction d1 of an ellipse is positioned in the vertical direction, and the same drawing (b) shows a state where a minor diameter direction d2 of the ellipse is positioned in the vertical direction. As is apparent from these drawings, the depth h of the stayed ozonized water W is different between the case (a) where the major diameter method d1 is in the vertical position and the case (b) where it is in the horizontal position. In the case (a) where the major diameter method d1 is in the vertical position, a water depth h1 becomes deep, and in the case where the minor diameter method d2 is in the vertical position, a water depth h2 becomes shallow. Accordingly, in the state of the same drawing (a), the food materials are immersed in the ozonized water deeply and narrowly, and in the state of the same drawing (b), they are immersed in the ozonized water shallowly and widely. By this repetition, all the food materials are uniformly washed. Incidentally, the swing operation may be performed in either of the state of the same drawing (a) and the state of the same drawing (b). However, in the case where the swing operation is performed in the state of the same drawing (a), the drainage part 4 must be provided at the position shown in the same drawing (a). In the case where the swing operation is performed in the state of the same drawing (b), the drainage part 4 must be provided at the position shown in the same drawing (b).
The sectional shape of the washing tank 1 may be, in addition to the foregoing regular hexagon and the ellipse, a circle or a polygonal shape such as a regular triangle, a square, a rectangle, or a regular octagon. However, from the viewpoint of ease of manufacture and ease of realization of a suitable water depth, it is preferable that the section is the ellipse in addition to the regular hexagon.
Next, with respect to the drainage part 4, in the foregoing embodiment, a porous member such as a wire net is disposed on the whole of one surface of the hexagonal cylinder in the longitudinal direction of the washing tank. However, with respect to the drainage part 4, there are various modified examples. For example, the drainage part 4 is intermittently formed on one surface of the hexagonal cylinder in the longitudinal direction of the washing tank. The drainage parts 4 are formed like stepping-stones with suitable spaces on the respective surfaces of the hexagonal cylinder, In the former case, in the section where the drainage part is formed, drainage of the ozonized water is performed by one rotation of the washing tank. However, in the section where the drainage part is not formed, the drainage of the ozonized water is not performed. Flowing of the ozonized water occurs from the section having no drainage part to the section having the drainage part. Washing of the food materials is continued through the decrease of the ozonized water by this flowing and newly sprayed ozonized water. On the other hand, in the latter case, since the drainage parts are intermittently formed on the respective surfaces of the hexagon, the drainage of the ozonized water is performed at any rotation angle. As a result, flowing of the ozonized water occurs from the section where the drainage part is positioned upper toward the section where the drainage part is positioned lower then drainage of the ozonized water is performed, and at the same time, supply of new ozonized water by spray of ozonized water is also performed. Thus, washing of the food materials is continued by mixture water of the stayed ozonized water and the new ozonized water. In any of these methods, in an arbitrary section of the washing tank 1, the respective Steps of FIG. 5 are carried out, and there is no problem in the washing effect. However, from the viewpoint of manufacture of the washing tank, it is preferable to form a continuous drainage part on one specified surface of the washing tank 1.
Next, as the ozonized water generator used in the invention, for example, an apparatus in which an ozone gas is dissolved in water to generate the ozonized water can be adopted. However, as described later, in view of the merits that secondarily generated alkaline water can be used and high concentration ozonized water can be obtained in a short time, an ozonized water generator using an electrolysis method of water is preferable.
As such an electrolytic ozonized water generator, there is a well-known apparatus as disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 134677/1996. FIG. 7 shows its outline. In FIG. 7, an anode electrode 32 is disposed on one surface of an organic solid electrolyte film 31 so as to put the anode electrode 32 and the electrolyte film 31 together. Similarly, a cathode electrode 33 is disposed on the other surface of the organic solid electrolyte film 31 so as to put the cathode electrode 33 and the electrolyte film 31 together. As the organic solid electrolyte film 31, a fluorine-based ion exchange membrane with ozone resistance, or the like can be named. The anode electrode 32 is made of a wire net of noble metal having an ozone generation catalytic function. Then, lath nets 34 and 35 are disposed on the outside surfaces of both the electrodes 32 and 33 over the whole length. The lath nets 34 and 35 are respectively lath nets made of metal having corrosion resistance against ozone, such as titanium or stainless steel. The respective electrodes are connected to a direct current power source (not shown) so that a direct current voltage can be applied between both the electrodes. Besides, an anode side jacket 39 and a cathode side jacket 40 are respectively disposed outside so as to contain the respective electrodes 32 and 33 and the lath nets 34 and 35. An inflow port 41 for materials water on the anode side, an inflow port 42 for a materials water on the cathode side, an outflow port 43 for the ozonized water and an outflow port 44 for the alkaline water are respectively formed in the respective jackets.
In this apparatus, while the direct current voltage is applied between both the electrodes, materials water is supplied to the respective electrode sides from a materials water piping 30 through valves 36 and 37 and the respective inflow ports 41 and 42 for materials water, then electrolysis of water is performed. When the electrolysis of water is performed, an OH ion (OH−) generated by the electrolysis of water is collected at the side of the anode 32. This OH ion becomes ozone by the action of the ozone generation catalysis of the anode. The ozone is immediately dissolved into the water and the ozonized water is generated. This ozonized water is fed into an ozonized water tank (not shown) from the outflow port 43 for ozonized water through a piping 38. Here, a complicated flow path is formed in the vicinity of the outer surface of the anode electrode 32 by the lath net 34 which is made of wire nets mutually connected in a stagger shape.
Thus, many small vortex flows are formed on the outer surface of the anode electrode. The ozone generated on the electrode surface is caught in the vortex flows and is quickly dissolved in the water. As a result, an amount of ozone gas flowing out together with water is decreased. Then, an amount of the dissolved ozone is increased, and high concentration ozonized water of approximately 30 ppm can be obtained.
Similarly, a hydrogen ion (H+) generated by the electrolysis of water is collected to the electrode surface at the side of the cathode electrode 33. Then, the hydrogen ion becomes hydrogen gas, and is released from the water. An alkali metal ion, such as a sodium ion (Na+) or calcium ion (Ca++), and an alkaline earth metal ion, which are contained in the water in extremely small quantities, are also collected to the cathode surface. Those are condensed and the water at the cathode side is made alkaline water. Together with the foregoing hydrogen gas, it is fed to an alkaline water tank (not shown) from the outflow port 44 for alkaline water through a piping 45. As stated above, the alkali metal ion and the alkaline earth metal ion (mainly Na+) contained in the water in extremely small quantities together with the hydrogen gas, are also condensed at the cathode side. As a result, it is confirmed that alkaline water of not less than pH 9 and not higher than pH 11 or not less than that is generated as water at the cathode side.
Incidentally, this pH value varies according to the ratio of the quantities of water supplied to both the electrode sides. If the quantity of water supplied to the cathode side is made smaller than the quantity of water supplied to the anode side, the pH value becomes relatively high, on the contrary, if made larger, the pH value becomes low.
Next, a food materials washing apparatus according to the invention using the electrolytic ozonized water generator and a washing method will be described. FIG. 8 is a whole flow view of the food materials washing apparatus of the invention, and FIG. 9 is an enlarged view of the washing tank 1 and the double pipe 14 shown in FIG. 8. Clean water such as tap water supplied from a piping 51 branches off to a piping 51 a and a piping 51 b. The piping 51 a is a piping leading to an electrolytic ozonized water generator 10 (hereinafter simply referred to as “ozonized water generator”). The piping 51 b is a piping leading to a washing system. Materials water supplied from the piping 51 a becomes soft water in a water softener 11 in which a calcium ion (Ca++) and a magnesium ion (Mg++) contained in the materials water are removed, The soft water is supplied through the piping 30 to the ozonized water generator 10. Then, here, as described before, it is subjected to an electrolysis treatment, and ozonized water and alkaline water are generated. The ozonized water is fed to an ozonized water tank 12 through pipings 38 and 52 b. The alkaline water is fed to an alkaline water tank 13 through the piping 45.
In an actual washing operation of food materials, the following process is carried out: “Before-washing process of washing tank” (A process) in which washing of the washing tank itself is performed before washing of the food materials; “Food materials washing process” (B process) carried out subsequently to the washing of the washing tank 1; and “After-washing process of washing tank” (C process) in which the washing tank contaminated by the washing of the food materials is washed.
There are following steps as the above “Before-washing process of washing tank” (A process). “Alkali before-washing step of washing tank” (A1 step) in which washing of the washing tank is performed by alkaline water; “water before-washing step of washing tank” (A2 step) in which washing of the washing tank is performed by clean water; and “Alkaline water and water before-washing step of washing tank” (A3 step) in which clean water washing is performed after alkaline water washing.
First, in the above A1 step (Alkali before-washing step of washing tank), an oily substance stuck on the washing tank 1 is dissolved and removed by the alkaline water. In this step, valves V1, V3 and V6 are set “closed”, valves V2, V4 and V5 are set “opened”, and a pump P1 is activated. Then, the alkaline water in the alkaline water tank 13 is supplied to a piping 55 through a piping 54, the pump P1, and the valve V2. In that portion, the alkaline water is divided into two flows, one leading to the second wash water piping 2 through a piping 61, the valve V5 and a piping 56, and the other leading to the first wash water piping 9 from the valve V4 through, pipings 57 and 62. The first wash water piping 9 constitutes the double pipe 14 as an outer pipe part of the second wash water piping 2. The outer pipe part exists from an end at the side of the food inlet 5 of the washing tank 1 to a substantially half position of the washing tank 1 in the axial direction, that is, in a former half portion U of the washing tank 1 in the axial direction. Besides, many wash water spray holes 9 a are bored in the axial direction. On the other hand, the second wash water piping 2 as an inner pipe part of the structure of the double pipe 14 extends over the whole length T of the washing tank 1. Its water spray holes 2 a are formed in a portion where the first wash water piping 9 does not exist, that is, only in a rear half portion D of the washing tank 1.
Thus, the alkaline water supplied from the piping 62 to the first wash water piping 9 is sprayed to the front half portion U of the washing tank 1 and performs washing of the washing tank. On the other hand, since the water spray holes 2 a are included in only the rear half portion D of the washing tank 1, the alkaline water supplied through the piping 56 to the second wash water piping 2 (inner pipe of the double pipe 14) performs washing of only the rear half portion D of the washing tank 1.
Also in this washing process, the washing tank 1 is rotated in the foregoing manner. Accordingly, the alkaline water repeats the washing tank storage process, the washing process, and the drain process in this order every rotation of the washing tank. Incidentally, in this washing step, it is also possible to perform the swing operation by changing over the rotation direction of the washing tank between the normal and reverse directions. However, there is no problem even if the swing operation is not performed.
Next, the A2 step is a washing step using the clean water instead of the alkaline water, and is a step for washing away dust stuck on the washing tank 1. In this A2 step, the pump P1 is stopped, the valves V1, V2 and V6 are set “closed”, and the valves V3, V4 and V5 are set “opened”. The clean water is supplied to the branch piping 51 b branching off from the clean water piping 51. The clean water is divided into two flows through the valve V3. Part of the clean water is supplied through the pipings 57 and 62 to the first wash water piping 9. The remainder of the clean water enters the piping 61 through the valve V4, and then, is supplied to the second wash water piping 2 through the valve V5 and the piping 56. Then, similarly to the foregoing case, in the front half portion U of the washing tank 1, the clean water is sprayed from the first wash water piping 9. In the rear half portion D of the washing tank 1, the clean water is sprayed from the second wash water piping 2, and the water washing in the washing tank is performed while the washing tank 1 is rotated.
In the A3 step (alkaline water and water before-washing step of washing tank), after the washing by the alkaline water of the A1 step is performed, water washing by the clean water of the A2 step is again performed. With respect to this step, the propriety of its execution should be suitably judged according to the kind of food materials to be washed, pH of the alkaline water used, and the like.
When the washing prior to the use of the washing tank 1 is ended in this way, the procedure proceeds to the [Food materials washing process] (B process). In the [Food materials washing process] (B process), while predetermined food materials are put in the washing tank 1 through the inlet 5, washing of the food materials by ozonized water is performed. Further, there are the following steps as the B process : “Pre-washing and washing step of food materials” (B1 step) in which food materials are washed by clean water and ozonized water; “Degreasing and washing step of food materials” (B2 step) in which washing is performed using alkaline water and ozonized water; and “Ozonized water washing step of food materials” (B3 step) in which washing is performed by using only ozonized water.
First, the B1 step (Pre-washing and washing step of food materials) is washing by a combination of clean water and ozonized water. This step is adopted in such a case that dirt such as soil or dust is stuck on the food materials. While the washing tank 1 is rotated, soil or dirt stuck on the food materials is removed by the washing using the clean water in the front half portion U as the upstream side of the washing tank 1. Subsequently, finish washing and sterilization by the ozonized water is performed in the rear half portion D of the washing tank 1 as the downstream side. Accordingly, in this step, for the first wash water piping 9 for supplying the clean water, the valve V3 is set “opened”, and the valve V4 is set “closed”. The clean water is supplied from the piping 51 b of the clean water through the valve V3 and the pipings 57 and 62 to the first wash water piping 9. The clean water is sprayed to the front half portion U in the washing tank 1, and the water washing of the food materials is performed. On the other hand, for the second wash water piping 2 for supplying the ozonized water, the valves V1 and V5 are set “closed”, the valve V6 is set “opened”, and a pump P2 is activated. Then, the ozonized water is supplied from the ozonized water tank 12 through a piping 58, the pump P2, a piping 59, the valve V6, and the pipings 59 b and 56 into the second wash water piping 2. The ozonized water is sprayed to the rear half portion D of the washing tank 1, and the finish washing and sterilization of the food materials are performed.
Incidentally, also in this case, in order to raise the washing efficiency, the swing operation for suitably repeating the normal rotation and reverse rotation of the washing tank 1 in the state where the clean water or the ozonized water is stayed in the washing tank 1 may be performed.
Next, the B2 step (food materials degreasing and washing step) is washing by a combination of alkaline water and ozonized water. It is adopted in such a case that dirt due to an oily substance is stuck on the food materials. While the washing tank 1 is rotated, the dirt due to the oily substance stuck on the food materials is removed by the washing using the alkaline water in the former half portion U as the upstream side of the washing tank 1. Subsequently, finish washing and sterilization by the ozonized water is performed in the rear half portion D of the washing tank 1 as the downstream side. Accordingly, in this step, for the first wash water piping 9 for supplying the alkaline water, similarly to the foregoing case of the alkaline water supply, the valves V2 and V4 are set “opened”, the valves V1, V3 and V5 are set “closed”, and the pump P1 is activated. Then, the alkaline water in the alkaline water tank 13 is supplied through the piping 54, the pump P1, the valve V2, the piping 55, the valve V4, and the pipings 57 and 62 into the first washing piping 9. Then, the alkaline water is sprayed from the water spray holes formed in the first wash water piping 9 to the front half portion U of the washing tank 1, and dissolving and washing of the oil substance stuck on the food materials is performed. On the other hand, similarly to the above first step, the ozonized water in the ozonized water tank 12 is supplied through the piping 58, the pump P2, the piping 59, the valve V6, and pipings 59 b and 56 into the second wash water piping 2. Then, the ozonized water is sprayed to the rear half portion D of the washing tank 1. By this, the finish washing and sterilization by the ozonized water is performed for the food materials sent from the front half portion U of the upstream side.
Incidentally, also in this case, in order to raise the washing efficiency, the swing operation for suitably repeating the normal rotation and reverse rotation of the washing tank 1 in the state where the alkaline water or the ozonized water is stayed in the washing tank 1 may be performed.
Next, the B3 step (food materials ozonized water washing step) is a step in which only the ozonized water is sprayed over the whole length T of the washing tank 1 and washing is performed. This is adopted in a case where food materials are not very contaminated, and sterilization and washing is a main object. Water spray of the ozonized water is performed from not only the second wash water piping 2 but also the first wash water piping 9. In this case, the valves V1, V4 and V6 are set “opened”, the valves V2, V3 and V5 are set “closed”, and the pump P2 is activated. Then, the ozonized water in the ozonized water tank 12 is supplied through the piping 58 and the pump P2 to the piping 59, and is divided there into two flows. Part of the ozonized water is supplied through the valve V6, and the pipings 59 b and 56 to the second wash water piping 2, and then, is sprayed to the rear half portion D of the washing tank 1. The remainder of the ozonized water is supplied from the pipings 57 and 62 to the first wash water piping 9 through the piping 59 a and the valves V1 and V4, and is sprayed to the front half portion U in the washing tank 1. By this, the ozonized water washing of the food materials is performed over the whole length of the washing tank 1.
Also in this case, in order to raise the washing efficiency, the swing operation may be performed in which the normal rotation and reverse rotation of the washing tank are suitably repeated in the state where the ozonized water is stayed in the washing tank 1.
Incidentally, in the above food materials washing process (B process), the throughput of food materials per unit time is proportional to the rotation speed of the washing tank 1. Thus, the amount of ozonized water sprayed is also adjusted in accordance with the throughput. The adjustment of the amount of ozonized water supply is basically performed by control of the revolution speed of the pump P2. However, according to circumstances, there is a case where it is required to treat a large amount of food materials exceeding the maximum drain rate of the pump P2 in a short time. With respect to only the throughput of food materials, if a staying time of the food materials in the washing tank 1 is shortened by raising the revolution speed of the washing tank 1, the throughput of food materials per unit time can be increased. However, feeding can not be performed in a state where the amount of ozonized water supply exceeds the maximum drain rate of the pump P2. Then, in order to deal with such a situation, the invention adopts the following structure. A branch piping 52 a is disposed to the piping 38 for feeding the ozonized water to the ozonized water tank 12 from the ozonized water generator 10. This is connected to a suitable place at the drain side of the pump P2. The branch piping 52 a is provided with a valve V7. Accordingly, in the case where a large quantity of ozonized water is temporarily required, the valve V7 is set “opened”. Part of the ozonized water supplied to the ozonized water tank 12 from the ozonized water generator 10 is divided by the piping 52 a. An amount of divided flow is supplied to the piping 56 at the drain side of the pump P2. By this, the divided flow of the ozonized water joins the ozonized water fed from the ozonized water tank 12. An amount of joined ozonized water is supplied from the piping 56 to the ozonized water piping 2. By this, it becomes possible that the ozonized water more than the ozonized water fed from the pump P2 is supplied to the second wash water piping 2.
Incidentally, in the case where the ozonized water is supplied also to the first wash water piping 9, the valves V1, V4 and V5 are set “opened”. Then, the flow of the ozonized water supplied through the valves V1 and V4 and the pipings 57 and 62 to the first wash water piping 9 joins part of the ozonized water supplied from the piping 52 a through the valve V5. Then, the joined ozonized water is supplied to the first wash water piping 9.
This branch piping 52 a has various use modes. For example, in the case where the throughput of food materials is small, the pump P2 is stopped, the valves V1, V5 and V6 are set “closed”, and the valves V7 and V8 are set “opened”. By this, a predetermined quantity of ozonized water is directly supplied to the ozonized water piping 2 from the branch piping 52 a through the piping 56, and the remainder of the ozonized water can be stored in the ozonized water tank 12 through the valve V8 and the piping 52 b. However, in general, the following mode is preferable. The valve V7 is set “closed”, the ozonized water in the ozonized water tank 12 is supplied to the second wash water piping 2, and surplus ozonized water is stored in the ozonized water tank.
Incidentally, the foregoing B1, B2 and B3 steps can be singly carried out in the food materials washing process. However, in the food materials washing process, it is also possible to carry out these steps by combining and changing over them. In this case, it is necessary that while the food materials put from the inlet 5 exist in at least the front half portion U of the washing tank 1, changeover of one cycle is completed. For example, in the case where alternate changeover is performed between the B2 step (alkaline water washing+ozonized water washing) and the B1 step (water washing+ozonized water washing), while a block of specific food materials inputted in the washing tank 1 from the inlet 5 exists in the front half portion U of the washing tank 1, the alkaline water washing and the clean water washing are performed. Thereafter, the block of the food materials is conveyed to the rear half portion D of the washing tank 1.
When the washing of a specified amount of food materials is ended in the manner as described above, finally, the procedure proceeds to the after-washing process (C process) of the washing tank 1. As steps performed in this process, there are following steps, and these steps are suitably selected and performed: “Alkali after-washing step of washing tank” (C1 step) in which the washing tank is washed by alkaline water; “Water after-washing step of washing tank” (C2 step) in which the washing tank is washed by clean water; and “alkaline water and water after-washing step washing tank” (C3 step) in which after the alkaline water washing (C1 step) is performed, clean water washing (C2 step) is performed. Incidentally, since the C1, C2 and C3 steps are identical to the A1, A2 and A3 steps, the detailed description is omitted.
In the above respective processes, the ozonized water, the alkaline water or the clean water drained from the washing tank 1 flows down into the drainage receiving tank a disposed below the washing tank 1. The receiving tank 8 is constituted by a front receiving tank 8 a and a rear receiving tank 8 b. The front receiving tank 8 a receives drainage from the front half portion U of the washing tank 1. The rear receiving tank 8 b receives drainage from the rear half portion D of the washing tank 1. The drain wash water flowing down into the front receiving tank 8 a is drained through a piping 71, a valve V11 and a piping 74 to a drainage groove (not shown). The drain wash water flowing down to the rear receiving tank 8 b is drained through a piping 72, a valve V12 and a piping 78 to the drainage groove. However, it is also possible to cyclically use the drain wash water flowing down to the receiving tanks 8 a and 8 b. A case of cyclic use will be described below.
First, a description will be given of an ozonized water recycle step in the case where the B2 step (food materials ozonized water washing step) is adopted in the B process “food materials washing process”. In this step, the ozonized water is sprayed from both the first and the second wash water pipings 9 and 2 into the washing tank 1. Since the food materials are sequentially washed while they are conveyed from the front half portion U of the washing tank 1 to the rear half portion D, the ozonized water drained from the rear half portion D is less contaminated than the ozonized water drained from the front half portion U. Accordingly, the ozonized water drained from the rear half portion D and flowing down to the rear receiving tank 8 b can also be used for washing of the food materials in the front half portion U.
In this step, the valves V1 to V5 of the piping system for supplying the ozonized water from the ozonized water tank 12 and the ozonized water generator 10 to the first wash water piping 9 are set “closed”, the valve V6 of the piping system for supplying the ozonized water to the second wash water piping 2 is set “opened”, the valve V12 of the drain wash water piping system in the rear receiving tank 8 b is set “closed”, a valve V9 is set “opened”, and a pump P4 is actuated, Then, the ozonized water drained from the rear half portion D of the washing tank 1 and stored in the rear receiving tank 8 b is supplied to a filter device 91 through the pipings 72 and 79. Here, solid matter included in the drain ozonized water is removed. Subsequently, the ozonized water is supplied to the first wash water piping 9 through the pump P4, the pipings 79 and 75, the valve V9, and the piping 62, and is sprayed to the front half portion U of the washing tank 1. Incidentally, since the ozonized water in the rear receiving tank 8 b is ozonized water which is hardly contaminated, the filter device 91 is not necessarily required. However, in the case where mixture of dust is expected, it is preferable to dispose the filter device 91.
Besides, the ozonized water flowing down from the front half portion U and stored in the front receiving tank 8 a is made to flow out to the foregoing drainage groove through the piping 71, the valve V11 and the piping 74. However, it can also be used as materials water of the ozonized water generator 10. In this case, the valve V11 is set “closed”, a valve V10 is set “opened”, and the pump P3 is actuated. Then, the drain ozonized water stored in the front receiving tank 8 a flows to the filter device 90 from the piping 71 through a piping 73. Solid matter, such as soil particles, contained in the drain ozonized water is removed there. The drain ozonized water joins the materials water piping 51 through the pump P3, the valve V10 and a piping 77, and is returned to the ozonized water generator 10 through the foregoing water softener 11. The filter device 90 treats the ozonized water drained from the front half portion U of the washing tank 1 in which the food materials are first washed. According to the state of the food materials, there are various food materials from one which is previously subjected to water washing prior to shipping and is relatively less contaminated, to one which is seen to be contaminated noticeably with adherent soil. However, most of them are washed and the dirt is removed before they are put on the market, Accordingly, the ozonized water drained from the front half portion U is not contaminated noticeably, and a small quantity of contained soil is also deposited in the front receiving tank 8 a. Further, even if some inorganic particles such as soil particles are contained, there is no influence on the ozonized water generator. Apart from the case of heavy dirty, the filter device 90 is not necessarily indispensable. In this connection, the front receiving tank 8 a is subdivided, drain ozonized water at the most upstream side in which contamination of drainage is heaviest is drained to the drainage groove, and only drain ozonized water at the midstream and the following in which the contamination is relatively low can be returned to the ozonized water generator. In this case, according to the degree of contamination of the drain ozonized water, it is also possible to omit the filter device 90.
Incidentally, all of the drain ozonized water in the rear receiving tank 8 b are not supplied to the first wash water piping 9, but only a part is supplied, and the remainder of the drain ozonized water can be returned to the materials water inlet piping 51 of the ozonized water generator 10 through a piping 80, a valve V13, and the piping 77. In this case, the ozonized water supplied to the first wash water piping 9 through the piping 75, the valve V9, and the piping 62 is decreased. Accordingly, similarly to the foregoing case, it is also possible to adopt a method in which the fresh ozonized water in the ozonized water tank 12 is supplied to the piping 62 through the piping 58, the pump P2, the pipings 59 and 59 a, the valves V1 and V4 and the piping 57.
Incidentally, other than the ozonized water, alkaline water or clean water is sprayed in a process as set forth below. In the case of “Alkaline water before-washing step of washing tank” (A1 step) in the washing process of the washing tank 1, “alkaline water after-washing step of washing tank” (C1 step), or the “before-washing step of washing tank” (A2 step), or the “After-washing step of washing tank” (C2 step), the alkaline water or the clean water is sprayed to the front half portion U of the washing tank 1 and the rear half portion D. Thus, also in this case, similarly to the case of the recycle use of the ozonized water, it is also possible to recycle the wash water (alkaline water or clean water) flowing down to the rear receiving tank 8 b to the first wash water piping 9. At the same time, it is also possible to return the wash water flowing down to the receiving tank 8 a to the ozonized water generator 10.
Further, in the case where the kind of the wash water is different between the front half portion U of the washing tank 1 and the rear half portion D, it is impossible to recycle the drain water of the rear half portion D to the front half portion U. However, it is possible to return the wash water in the front receiving tank 8 a or the rear receiving tank 8 b to the materials water inlet side of the ozonized water generator 10. For example, in the “food materials washing process” (B process), and in the “Pre-washing and washing step of food materials” (B1 step) in which the clean water is sprayed to the front half portion U, and the ozonized water is sprayed to the rear half portion D, or in the “food materials degreasing and washing step” (B2 step) in which the alkaline water is sprayed to the front half portion U and the ozonized water is sprayed to the rear half portion D, the wash water in the front receiving tank 8 a or the rear receiving tank 8 b can be returned to the materials water inlet side of the ozonized water generator 10. Specifically, in the case where the wash water is returned from the front receiving tank 8 a, the valve V11 is set “closed”, the valve V10 is set “opened”, and the pump P3 is actuated. Then, the drain wash water in the receiving tank 8 a enters the filter member 90 disposed in the piping 73 through the piping 71. Solid matter is removed there from the drain wash water. The drain wash water is returned to the materials water piping 51 through the pump P3 and the piping 77. On the other hand, in the case where it is returned from the rear receiving tank 8 b, the valves V12 and V9 are set “closed”, the valve V13 is set “opened”, and the pump P4 is activated. Then, the drain wash water in the receiving tank 8 b enters the filter member 91 of the piping 79 through the piping 72. Solid matter in the drain wash water is removed there. The drain wash water is returned to the materials water piping 51 by the pump P4 through the piping 80, the valve V13 and the piping 77. Incidentally, it is also possible to return the drain wash water in both the front receiving tank 8 a and the rear receiving tank 8 b to the materials water inlet side of the ozonized water generator 10. In this case, it becomes possible to suppress the use of the fresh clean water supplied from the materials water supply piping 51 to the minimum.
Incidentally, the changeover operation of the valves in the above description, the operation of the activation and stop of the pumps, and the rotation operation of the washing tank are all controlled automatically based on previously inputted control values. The control values are previously inputted to a control plate 60 installed at the apparatus side.
Besides, in the above embodiment, the second wash water piping 2 and the first wash water piping 9 are constituted by the double pipe 14. However, the second wash water piping 2 and the first wash water piping 9 are respectively independent from each other and may be disposed in parallel at the center of the washing tank 1. In this case, the water spray holes 2 a are bored only in the rear half portion of the first wash water piping 2, and the water spray holes 9 a are bored only in the front half portion of the first wash water piping 9. By that, it is possible to spray the alkaline water, the ozonized water and the clean water quite similarly to the case of the double pipe. Besides, water spray holes may be formed over the whole length of both the wash water pipings 2 and 9 disposed to be parallel with each other. In this case, in the “food materials washing step”, by a timer operation of the valve, the ozonized water and the clean water or the alkaline water are alternately sprayed every predetermined time, for example, every rotation of the washing tank 1.
Besides, the second wash water piping 2 and the first wash water piping 9 may be constituted by one common piping, In this case, in the “food materials washing step”, the ozonized water and the clean water or the alkaline water are alternately made to flow by an automatic valve operation, and the changeover is performed every rotation of the washing tank 1. In brief, in the invention, the way of changing over the ozonized water, the clean water and the alkaline water and the form of the pipings are basically arbitrary. Also in the before-washing process of the washing tank 1 and the after-washing step of washing tank, which are performed before and after the washing step of food materials, washing can also be performed by the ozonized water. The invention is not limited to the flow shown in FIG. 8.
Besides, in the illustrated apparatus, the spiral member 3 is disposed in the washing tank 1, and with the rotation of the washing tank 1, food materials are automatically sent from the inlet to the outlet. Such an apparatus is effective in the case where a large amount of food materials are continuously subjected to a washing treatment. However, in the case where a small amount of food materials is subjected to a batch processing, the spiral member is not required. In this case, the washing tank 1 is horizontally installed, and both ends are hermetically sealed or a weir is formed to such a degree that inside water does not flow out, and further, an openable door is provided at the drainage part 4 of the washing tank 1. At the time of washing, the door of the drainage part 4 is opened, and the food materials are put in the inside. After this is closed, while the washing tank 1 is rotated, the ozonized water is sprayed and the washing of the food materials is performed. After the washing, the drainage part 4 is positioned down, and when the door is opened, the food materials drop into the receiving basket.
Further, the shape of the spiral member 3 may be a discontinuous spiral in which the continuous spiral is partially cut, in addition to the continuous spiral. Especially in the case of the discontinuous spiral, the spiral member must be formed such that it becomes a weir for causing the ozonized water to stay in at least the bottom when the drainage part 4 is positioned up by the rotation of the washing tank 1.
Besides, in the illustrated apparatus, the ozonized water generated by the ozonized water generator 10 is once supplied to the ozonized water tank 12. Since the ozonized water is once stored in the ozonized water tank 12, it becomes unnecessary to frequently perform the control of the ozonized water generator. Thus, it is practical. However, direct feeding may be performed from the ozonized water generator 10 to the second wash tank piping 2 or the like. In this case, in accordance with the amount of ozonized water demanded, the amount of materials water supply to the ozonized water generator 10 is adjusted so that the amount of ozonized water generated is adjusted. Thus, the ozonized water tank 12 becomes unnecessary, and reduction in installation cost becomes possible.
Next, a washing test of cut vegetables using ozonized water by the method and the apparatus of the invention will be described. The sectional shape of a small washing tank used for the test is a regular hexagon having one side of 150 mm. The small washing tank used for the test is a hexagonal cylinder having a length of 500 mm. A piping of 40 mm φ (diameter) is disposed at its center in a longitudinal direction. One surface of the hexagonal cylinder is a porous plate in which a large number of small holes are bored, This constitutes a drainage part. This washing tank was used and the washing test was carried out under the following conditions.
<3> sampling: sampling was performed at two places before the water washing, after the water washing, at a point of time when 90 seconds (one minute and a half, ozonized water flow of 80 liters) passed, and a point of time when 180 seconds (three minutes, ozonized water flow of 160 liters) passed.
(3) Sterilization estimation: general live bacteria of the sampled cut cucumber was cultivated in a standard agar medium, the number was counted, and its average value was obtained. The results are as follows: Incidentally, a left numerical value in a parenthesis indicates a value when a state before the water washing is made 100%, and a right numerical value indicates a value when a state after the water washing is made 100%.
As is apparent from the above test results, by the ozonized water washing for one minute and a half, as compared with the state before the water washing, which is the state of raw vegetables, the number of live bacteria decreases to about 2%. As compared with the case of only the water washing, the number of bacteria decreases to 7% or more and 8% or lower. From this, it is understood that the number of live bacteria can be reduced (sterilized) to about 2% in the ozonized water washing for one minute or more and two minutes or lower. In this meaning, it becomes possible to perform necessary washing with a small quantity of wash water (ozonized water), and it may be gathered that a great saving of water resources also becomes possible.
<1> rear half portion of the washing tank: fresh ozonized water of a concentration of 10 ppm generated by the above electrolytic ozonized water generator was sprayed at a speed of 25 liters/minute.
<2> front half portion of the washing tank: the whole quantity of drain ozonized water draind from the rear half portion of the washing tank was supplied and sprayed to the front half portion of the washing tank.
(4) Return flow of drain ozonized water; Until the drain ozonized water drained from the front half portion of the washing tank is stored in the drainage receiving tank, tap water is kept supplied to the electrolytic ozonized water generator at a flow of 28 liters/minute. At a point of time when the water of about 50 liters was stored, this was made to pass through a filter device for removing only solid matter, and return flow to the materials water inlet side of the electrolytic ozonized water generator was started at a flow of 25 liters/minute. At the same time, supply of the tap water was changed to a flow of 3 liters/minute.
As a result of the test under the above conditions, the following items were confirmed.
(a) The concentration of the drain ozonized water drained from the rear half portion of the washing tank decreased to about 2 ppm. However, the drain ozonized water had sufficient sterilization performance.
(b) With respect to the drain ozonized water drained from the rear half portion of the washing tank, dirt was not recognized by visual observation. The drain ozonized water can be directly supplied to the front half portion.
(c) With respect to the drain ozonized water drained from the front half portion of the washing tank, soil particles were confirmed though they were few. However, if only the solid particles are removed through the filter device, it may be returned to the inlet side of the electrolytic ozonized water generator. There is no problem in the operation of the electrolytic ozonized water generator, and ozonized water of a set concentration (10 ppm) can be stably generated.
As is apparent from the test results, the drain ozonized water can be returned to the electrolytic ozonized water generator. By this, it becomes possible to greatly decrease (reduction of about 90%) the amount of the tap water used from 28 liters/minute to 3 liters/minute. Incidentally, in the above example, although all the alkaline water generated by the electrolytic ozonized water generator is drained, as described above, this alkaline water can also be used. Besides, if this alkaline water is also returned to the inlet side of the electrolytic ozonized water generator, a cyclic use of approximately 100% becomes possible. Accordingly, the clean water such as the tap water is supplied only at the beginning, and only the clean water corresponding to a leakage amount from the washing apparatus has only to be supplied during the washing operation. A great reduction in the amount of wash water used can be expected.
As described above, according to the food materials washing apparatus of the invention, the washing tank 1 is formed into the cylindrical body, and while this is rotated, the ozonized water is sprayed, and the renewal of the ozonized water is performed every rotation of the washing tank 1. Thus, it becomes possible to realize a sufficient washing sterilization effect by a small quantity of ozonized water.
Especially, if the spiral member 3 is disposed in the washing tank 1, with the rotation of the washing tank 1, food materials put in the washing tank are subjected to washing by the ozonized water, and are automatically conveyed from the inlet side to the outlet side. Thus, it becomes possible to continuously perform the washing treatment of a large amount of food materials, and as compared with a conventional batch processing method, it becomes possible to perform the washing treatment in a short time. As a result, in a large restaurant, a giant center for supply of food or the like, even in the case where food materials for several thousand people per day are subjected to the washing treatment, it becomes possible to perform the treatment collectively in a short time.
In addition, even in the case where harmful bacteria such as O-157 stick on the food materials and the bacteria generate toxin, not only the bacteria are sterilized by the ozonized water, but also the toxic matter is oxidized and dissolved, and therefore, it can be said to be a very desirable sterilization method from the viewpoint of food material sanitation.
Besides, if the water electrolytic ozonized water generator is adopted as the ozonized water generating apparatus, alkaline water secondarily generated at the cathode side can be used as wash water of the washing tank and food materials. Further, if the alkaline water is made to be sprayed from the wash water piping disposed in the washing tank, washing of the washing tank and the food materials becomes possible by the changeover operation of the valves. Thus, a cleanser and a tool for the washing of the washing tank become unnecessary, and not only the washing operation of the washing tank is simplified, but also the use of the cleanser as a cause of environmental pollution becomes unnecessary, and there is also an effect from a viewpoint of earth environment.
Further, in the case of the mode in which the alkaline water washing and water washing of the washing tank, and the water washing, alkaline water washing and ozonized water washing of the food materials are performed by the automatic changeover operation of the valves, all operations from the washing of the washing tank before use to the washing of the food materials and the washing of the washing tank after use are automated. Thus, a great person-saving effect can be expected.
Besides, in the case of the embodiment in which the swing operation by changing over the normal rotation and reverse rotation in the rotation direction of the washing tank is performed in the state where the drainage part is positioned up, the washing can be performed by effectively using the ozonized water or the like stayed in the lower part of the washing tank at the time of the washing process of the food materials and the washing tank. Especially in the case of the food materials, since a turnaround of food materials is performed in the washing tank by the changeover of the rotation direction, the ozonized water or the like permeates every part of the food materials, and the washing effect can be further raised. Besides, at the same time, the amount of ozonized water used can be reduced by the effective use of the ozonized water.
Besides, in the case of the embodiment in which the wash water piping provided in the washing tank is connected to both the ozonized water generator and the ozonized water tank, and the supply of ozonized water can be performed from any of them by the changeover operation of the valves, when there occurs a demand for the ozonized water exceeding the amount of ozonized water generated by the ozonized water generator per unit time or the drain capacity of the ozonized water supply pump of the ozonized water tank, it becomes possible to supply the ozonized water to the washing tank from both. Accordingly, it becomes possible to flexibly deal with a peak demand without providing a large capacity ozonized water generator corresponding to the peak demand for the ozonized water. As a result, installation costs can be reduced.
Further, in the embodiment in which the washing tank is divided into the front half portion and the rear half portion, the first and the second wash water pipings for spraying the wash water to each of them are disposed, and the wash water (ozonized water, alkaline water or clean water) used for the rear half portion is recycled to the front half portion, it is possible to reduce the amount of wash water used to approximately half. As a result, a great energy-saving and resource-saving effect can be expected.
Further, in the case of the mode in which the ozonized water sprayed to the washing tank is received by the drain water receiving tank, and this is returned to the materials water inlet side of the ozonized water generator, water recycle of 100% is possible in principle. At least, as compared with the case where wash water once sprayed is directly draind to a drainage groove, it becomes possible to save water resources at about 90%. Thus, in a washing workshop of food materials using a large quantity of wash water, a great reduction in cost is enabled, In addition, also from the viewpoint of earth environment protection, a remarkable effect can be expected.
As described above, according to the invention, while the ozonized water is effectively used, the continuous washing and sterilization treatment of food materials becomes possible. In addition, a harmful toxin generated by bacteria sticking on the food materials is also made nontoxic by strong oxidizing and dissolving force of the ozonized water. Besides, materials water is also effectively used by the recycle of the wash water. Thus, the food washing apparatus according to the invention and the washing method are very useful for washing and sterilization of various food materials to be eaten raw, or for washing and sterilization of food materials before cooking, and for washing and sterilization of preserved food materials. Then, a great contribution in food material sanitation is expected.
wherein while at least part of the wash water sprayed from the wash water pipings is drained from the washing tank every rotation of the washing tank, washing of the food materials is performed.
wherein at least one part of the wash water drained from the washing tank is returned to a materials water inlet side of the ozonized water generator.
3. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 2, wherein an inlet for the food materials is disposed at one end of the washing tank, a outlet for the food materials is formed at the other end, and a spiral member for conveying, with rotation of the washing tank, the food put in the washing tank from a side of the inlet to the outlet is disposed on an inner wall surface of the washing tank.
4. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 3, wherein the spiral member is a continuous spiral member.
5. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 3, wherein the spiral member is a discontinuous spiral member.
6. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 3, wherein the washing tank is obliquely disposed to have a falling gradient from a side of the inlet to a side of the outlet.
7. A flood washing apparatus as set forth in claim 2, wherein the drainage part is formed to be continuous in a longitudinal direction of the washing tank, and the whole quantity of the sprayed ozonized water is drained every rotation of the washing tank.
8. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 2, wherein the drainage part is formed intermittently in a longitudinal direction of the washing tank, and part of the sprayed ozonized water is drained every rotation of the washing tank.
9. A food washing apparatus as set, forth in claim 2, wherein the drainage part is formed of a wire net or a porous metal plate.
10. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 2, wherein the polygon shaped cross-section of the washing tank is a hexagonal shaped cross-section.
11. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 2, wherein the wash water pipings are made rotatable, and by this, a water spray angle of the ozonized water from the water spray holes of the wash water pipings is made variable.
12. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 2, wherein the washing tank is constructed so that normal and reverse rotations can be made.
13. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 2, wherein the wash water pipings are constituted by a first wash water piping including a water spray hole in a front half portion of the washing tank and a second wash water piping including a water spray hole in a rear half portion of the washing tank, and one of ozonized water and clean water is enabled to flow through both the wash water pipings by a changeover operation of valves.
14. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 13, wherein in the front half portion of the washing tank, the second wash water piping and the first wash water piping are formed of a double pipe.
15. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 13, wherein the receiving tank of the wash water is constituted by a front receiving tank for wash water drained from, the front half portion of the washing tank and a rear receiving tank for wash water drained from the rear half portion.
16. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 15, wherein wash water reuse pipings for supplying at least one part of drain wash water in the rear half receiving tank to an inlet side of the first wash water piping.
17. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 15, wherein wash water return flow pipings for returning at least one part of the drain wash water in the rear receiving tank to the inlet side of the ozonized water generator are provided.
18. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 15, wherein wash water return flow pipings for returning at least one part of the drain wash water in the front receiving tank to the inlet side of the ozonized water generator are provided.
19. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 13, wherein an ozonized water tank for storing the ozonized water fed from the ozonized water generator is disposed, at least the second wash water piping is connected to both the ozonized water generator and the ozonized water tank, and the ozonized water is enabled to be supplied to at least the second wash water piping from one of or both of the ozonized water generator and the ozonized water tank by a changeover operation of valves.
20. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 2, wherein the wash water pipings are constituted by a first wash water piping including a water spray hole in a front half portion of the washing tank and a second wash water piping including a water spray hole in a rear half portion of the washing tank, the ozonized water is ozonized water generated at an anode side by an electrolysis method of water, and one of the ozonized water, alkaline water generated at a cathode side by the electrolysis method, and clean water is enabled to flow through both the wash water pipings by a changeover operation of valves.
21. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 2, wherein in the front half portion of the washing tank, the second wash water piping and the first wash water piping are formed of a double pipe.
22. A food washing apparatus as set-forth in claim 2, wherein the washing tank is constituted by coupling unit cylinders in each of which a spiral member is formed along an inner wall, to be separable in a longitudinal direction.
23. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein an inlet for the food materials is disposed at one end of the washing tank, a outlet for the food materials is formed at the other end, and a spiral member for conveying, with rotation of the washing tank, the food put in the washing tank from a side of the inlet to the outlet is disposed on an inner wall surface of the washing tank.
24. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 23, wherein the spiral member is a continuous spiral member.
25. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 23, wherein the spiral member is a discontinuous spiral member.
26. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 23, wherein the washing tank is obliquely disposed to have a falling gradient from a side of the inlet to a side of the outlet.
27. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein the drainage part is formed to be continuous in a longitudinal direction of the washing tank, and the whole quantity of the sprayed ozonized water is drained every rotation of the washing tank.
28. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein the drainage part is formed intermittently in a longitudinal direction of the washing tank, and part of the sprayed ozonized water is drained every rotation of the washing tank.
29. A food washing apparatus as set, forth in claim 1, wherein the drainage part is formed of a wire net or a porous metal plate.
30. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein the polygon shaped cross-section of the washing tank is a hexagonal shaped cross-section.
31. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein the washing tank is constructed so that normal and reverse rotations can be made.
32. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein the wash water pipings are constituted by a first wash water piping including a water spray hole in a front half portion of the washing tank and a second wash water piping including a water spray hole in a rear half portion of the washing tank, and one of ozonized water and clean water is enabled to flow through both the wash water pipings by a changeover operation of valves.
33. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 32, wherein in the front half portion of the washing tank, the second wash water piping and the first wash water piping are formed of a double pipe.
34. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 32, wherein the receiving tank of the wash water is constituted by a front receiving tank for wash water drained from the front half portion of the washing tank and a rear receiving tank for wash water drained from the rear half portion.
35. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 34, wherein wash water reuse pipings for supplying at least one part of drain wash water in the rear half receiving tank to an inlet side of the first wash water piping.
36. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 34, wherein wash water return flow pipings for returning at least one part of the drain wash water in the rear receiving tank to the inlet side of the ozonized water generator are provided.
37. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 34, wherein wash water return flow pipings for returning at least one part of the drain wash water in the front receiving tank to the inlet side of the ozonized water generator are provided.
38. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 32, wherein an ozonized water tank for storing the ozonized water fed from the ozonized water generator is disposed, at least the second wash water piping is connected to both the ozonized water generator and the ozonized water tank, and the ozonized water is enabled to be supplied to at least the second wash water piping from one of or both of the ozonized water generator and the ozonized water tank by a changeover operation of valves.
39. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein the wash water pipings are constituted by a first wash water piping including a water spray hole in a front half portion of the washing tank and a second wash water piping including a water spray hole in a rear half portion of the washing tank, the ozonized water is ozonized water generated at an anode side by an electrolysis method of water, and one of the ozonized water, alkaline water generated at a cathode side by the electrolysis method, and clean water is enabled to flow through both the wash water pipings by a changeover operation of valves.
40. A food washing apparatus as set-forth in claim 1, wherein the washing tank is constituted by coupling unit cylinders in each of which a spiral member is formed along an inner wall, to be separable in a longitudinal direction.
wherein while at least one part of wash water sprayed from the first and the second wash water pipings is drained from the washing tank every rotation of the washing tank, washing of the food materials is performed.
wherein at least one part of wash water used in the rear half portion can be used as wash water of the front half portion.
43. A food washing apparatus as set forth in claim 41, comprising a piping system for enabling drain wash water in the front receiving tank or drain wash water in the rear receiving tank to be returned to the inlet side of the ozonized water generator, wherein at least one part of wash water drained from the washing tank is enabled to be used as materials water of the ozonized water generator.
44. A food washing apparatus as set-forth in claim 41, wherein the washing tank is constituted by coupling unit cylinders in each of which a spiral member is formed along an inner wall, to be separable in a longitudinal direction.
wherein while at least one part of the ozonized water sprayed from the wash water piping is drained from the drainage part of the washing tank every rotation of the washing tank, the food materials are washed and conveyed.
46. A food washing method as set forth in claim 45, wherein at least one part of the ozonized water drained from the washing tank is returned to a materials water inlet side of an ozonized water generator configured to supply the ozonized water to the wash water piping, and the ozonized water is cyclically used.
47. A food washing method as set forth in claim 45, wherein the wash water piping is constituted by a first wash water piping having a water spray hole in a front half portion of the washing tank and a second wash water piping having a water spray hole in a rear half portion of the washing tank, the ozonized water is ozonized water generated at an anode side by an electrolysis method of water, and one of the ozonized water, alkaline water generated at a cathode side by the electrolysis method, and clean water is enabled to flow through each of the first and the second wash water pipings by a changeover operation of valves.
A3 step: “alkaline water and water before-washing step of washing tank” in which the A2 step is performed after the A1 step is performed.
B3 step: “food materials ozonized water washing step” in which the ozonized water is sprayed from the second wash water piping to the rear half portion of the washing tank, and the ozonized water is sprayed from the first wash water piping to the front half portion as well.
51. A food washing method as set forth in claim 50, wherein in the B3 step, the drain ozonized water sprayed from the second wash water piping to the rear half portion of the washing tank and drained from the rear half portion of the washing tank is supplied to the first wash water piping and is sprayed from the first wash water piping to the front half portion of the washing tank, so that recycle of the ozonized water is performed.
53. A food washing method as set forth in claim 47, wherein the ozonized water drained from the front half portion of the washing tank is returned to the materials water inlet side of the ozonized water generator.
54. A food washing method as set forth in claim 47, wherein in at least one of the A process, the B process and the C process, at least one part of the wash water drained from the washing tank is returned to the materials water inlet part of the ozonized water generator.
55. A food washing method as set forth, in claim 45, wherein in a state where the sprayed wash water is stayed in the washing tank, a swing operation by rotation direction changeover is performed at least one time in which a rotation direction of the washing tank is reversed and is next normally rotated.
56. A food washing method as set forth in claim 55, wherein a rotation speed of the washing tank at a time of the swing operation is made faster than a rotation speed at a time of non-swing.
57. A food washing method as set forth in claim 45, wherein an inlet for the food materials is disposed at one end of the washing tank, a outlet for the food materials is formed at the other end, and a spiral member for conveying, with rotation of the washing tank, the food materials put-in the washing tank from a side of the inlet to the outlet is disposed on an inner wall surface of the washing tank. | 2019-04-20T00:37:39Z | https://patents.google.com/patent/US7275551B2/en | Porn | Business | 0.421206 |
wordpress | Kind of says it all huh?
Hmmmmm…..good advice. Though sometimes one person can do all three of those things.
Um how can they leave u n help u?
Help then leave later. Some people start out okay, but change later.
They don’t actually change. They just start showing you who they really are.
I wonder why that remembering the last one hardest to do.
In my case it is more about the pathological nature of my family.
Learning how to undo the damage that abusive childhoods induce is a lifetime process; at least for me. Thanks for the post. | 2019-04-18T22:59:05Z | https://emma75love.wordpress.com/2015/07/25/never-forget-three-types-of-people-in-your-life/ | Porn | Reference | 0.217299 |
wordpress | Sydney is known for its spectacular coastal walks but this is one of the best. All the icons are there (bridge, harbour, Opera House), as well as heritage buildings and lovely coastal forest with wildflowers in season and the odd bit of wildlife.
This one is my personal fave – for me it is the perfect combo of views, easy access and, the clincher – mid walk coffee that do it for me. I also like that, depending on time and fitness levels, you can keep it short (6km) or have a longer walk by adding the Middle Head extension (approx 1km). Even if you do the shorter version, it is hands-down so scenic that between stopping for photos, coffee and perhaps even a dip, it can easily take all day.
The scene for the walk is set early with the scenic ferry ride from Circular Quay to Taronga Zoo. From there the path skirts the harbour on a well-worn track with a delightful short detour to Athol Hall, with sensational gardens and a beautiful heritage function centre, which opens for coffee during the day. The path meanders gently through the bush (depending on the time of year there may be a few rather stunned water dragons on the track) and undulates downhill to Chowder Bay. This means coffee, hooray! There are several very cute eateries here, ranging from slot-in-the wall sandstone numbers to top-notch restaurants. Or, in the spirit of a bushwalk, if you have bought your own lunch, you can enjoy it in the ample picnic grounds by the beach, and if the weather’s hot, you can have a dip.
Rest for a while at Chowder Bay because after that comes the set piece big hill. It is a giant slog to the top but it’s worth it for the views of Sydney Harbour. You can get an eagle-eyed’s view of Manly, North Head, South Head and the glittering harbour in between. Ah….the serenity – it’s hard to believe you are in the middle of a metropolis. Then it’s a skirt downhill on a wide staircase, surrounded by ferns, to Balmoral Beach. Here after a meander on the foreshore and a coffee it’s time to catch the bus back to the ferry or train station.
It’s an excellent walk for most fitness levels and a good one to do on a hot day because you catch the sea breezes and can have a dip at the end. | 2019-04-26T16:01:28Z | https://bikewalkeat.wordpress.com/2018/04/24/hike-taronga-to-balmoral/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.986651 |
wordpress | Sketch of the day no 911 in my moleskine art journal: vintage Spong mincer N605.
It’s easier to digest things in small bits.
Sketch of the day in my moleskine art journal is of a vintage Spong mincer N605 I spotted at a flea market.
I’m sure they have schemes for the homeless. A friend of mine used to work in NYC on homeless issues.
wow that’s a lot of homeless people in SF. That is really sad.
PS. Take good care of yourself my dear. The UK is not immune to the madness we just saw in France. Also, I understand that there have been unpleasant “incidents” from some brits towards foreigners. One has to move on and ignore the jerks, but just watch your back. Bz.
Yes, we did. Thank you. A nice town, a bit… marred by a terrible homeless situation. There are more than 6,000 homeless in San Francisco. Most concentrated between Powell and Market St. Most with sever health (physical and mental) health issues. A shame really.
How was SG?Did you have a good vacation?
You are very resilient. I’m not. Same happened to me more or less, just swap the mouse for a hyrax, and the wasp for a scorpion. let us say I have learned to give animals their distance… Oh! I saw a lot of Stewart’s cousins in San Francisco. They say hello.
A brain cell mincer? 🙂 Have a lovely week Tiffany. (Going to San Francisco tomorrow. For a week. Nice. I will say hello to the sea lions on your behalf) Cheers.
haha yes I do love vintage and my brain works like a mincer or mixer. It floats around and perculates and something materializes!
Interesting how your mind works… I already know you like vintage objects (what on earth is a “spong”?), but you see something, and somehow, the idea for a sketch springs AND the words that go along, and very nicely. I suspect the image is what stir the words, right? And the words come… easily.
When I saw this at a flea market I was instantly drawn to it. I havent seen one since I was a child like you, brings back great childhood memories. This orange one would be perfect for mincing carrots! What colour was the one in your kitchen? | 2019-04-22T02:37:09Z | https://bulanlifestyle.wordpress.com/2016/06/25/sketch-of-the-day-no-911-in-my-moleskine-art-journal-vintage-spong-mincer-n605/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.548358 |
wordpress | See also this and this for related stuff.
3. Endogamy. The Wiktionary says endogamy is: “The practice of marrying or requiring to marry within one’s own ethnic, religious, or social group.” The article has more. Didn’t know there was a name for this.
4. Factor analysis (somewhat study/exam-related).
Btw, I think Randall Munroe perhaps does not spend much time around people with average IQ’s, if the RHS is supposed to illustrate that 30 point drop. The average IQ of people who don’t know what a car is, well, it’s pretty damn low (most of them also probably can neither read nor write). The learned helplessness (‘why should I remember this when I can just look it up’) aspect of tech is important, but that comic was too much over the top to do it for me.
Incidentally, the drop (which is real and significant for me too) is part of why I almost prefer to interact with people online rather than in person. I have the impression that real-time face-to-face interaction is not exactly where I have my comparative advantage. Online interaction also makes discussions with a significant knowledge-component much easier to engage in, and the lag/delay between idea exchanges which is often a part of that interaction makes sure people like me, who perhaps aren’t really all that quick on the uptake, have time to think things more through. It goes both for ‘pure ideas’ and it goes for implicit social rules and norms which I sometimes have a hard time remembering implementing when doing the face-to-face stuff because there’s not enough time to both have the conversation and be aware of all that other stuff. | 2019-04-19T14:20:03Z | https://econstudentlog.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/ | Porn | Reference | 0.232857 |
wordpress | Over the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about books I read as a child. Barnes and Nobles new “rating system” has made me realize how many books that I loved as a child have fallen out of favor with the current generation. There does not seem to be nearly as much a sense of nostalgia among teachers today. My teachers in elementary school always made it a point to read to us. Usually the books they chose weren’t whatever was new and hip; they chose books they considered to be classics. By the same token, whenever I asked my school librarian for recommendations, she would immediately steer me to similarly classic books. These books helped shape who I am today (a creative Victorian with a strong sense of feminism). They provided me with good, solid outlines of characters to immulate. I’m not fully versed in current elementary-level literature, but most of what I’ve seen appears to be geared more toward action, adventure and fantasy or superficial fluff about very materialistic characters. While that’s all well and good, not all of these books provide the same ground work for a love of reading that my friends and I were privileged enough to have.
So, in a fit of nostalgia, I’ve made a list of some of the favorites among my friends and me, and reviewed some of my top favorites.
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott- Most girls are told they should read Little Women at some point, but very few move past that and read this book. While I adore LW, I actually love LM more. This tells the story of Jo and her husband and the school they run for boys and girls in her aunt’s old mansion. It is a quite old-fashioned book, but I love the simplicity of what is expected of the children. They are good because they want to be and if they misbehave, their misdeeds are used to teach them how to do better instead of as reasons for harsh punishment. The capers that the kids get up to are amusing and refreshing. I always wanted to grow up to be like Jo March Bhaer and run a school full of lively children while being a successful writer. Jo was my idol- she was smart, witty, patient, and creative- and I’m still working to be as much like her as I can. I think this is a great book to remind kids of the simple joys of childhood that are missing from today’s society.
Mr. Tucket Series by Gary Paulsen- If you’re looking for a good, old-fashioned adventure tale, this series is great. Really, this author is great for adventure. Gary Paulsen writes these tales of boys out in the wilderness surviving on their own. In the Mr. Tucket series, Francis Tucket is separated from his family on the Oregon Trail and survives being a prisoner in an Indian camp, as well as learning to make his own way as a young man of the west, all the while searching for his family.
Stepping on the Cracks by Mary Downing Hahn- This World War 2 story was always fascinating to me. I not only loved the characters, but I also loved the complexity of the problems they ran into. Life in WW2 mid-western America was highly patriotic with nearly every family having someone off at war, but these two girls had to confront how to react to a deserter. Should they help him because they know he’s a good person? Or should they turn him in because he wouldn’t make the sacrifice their brothers willingly were making? While I enjoyed the rest of the series as well, this book packs an emotional punch that shouldn’t be missed.
Dear America/Royal Diaries series- While American Girl books were my gateway drug to historical fiction, the Dear America and Royal Diaries series were my brand of choice for most of my elementary school years. The groundwork for everything I know about history, I gleaned from these books. They made the people and places real for me. They also provided strong female role models who provided examples of perseverance, courage, and strength. The stories of these young women and their places in history became vivid and alive and I wanted to know more. I found myself spending hours researching the events that I read about. They helped to foster I life-long love of history, as well as of reading.
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine- I can’t resist a good Cinderella retelling and this book went above and beyond. Characters that in the children story were flat and rather uninteresting became quirky and complex and alive. Ella had to save herself from herself, as well as taking on her evil step-sisters and a misguided fairy. She didn’t wait around for the prince (who was decidedly charming and funny) to save her. She took care of herself and still got her happily ever after.
What was your favorite book in elementary school and why?
In elementary school, I decided to read the entire Newberry list. My favorites were: Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of Nimh, The Island of the Blue Dolphins (my favorite), The Westing Game, A Wrinkle in Time, The Twenty-One Balloons, The Witch of Blackbird Pond and Bridge to Terabithia. I have not been successful in getting my kids to read these old books, but there are some really good ones on that list. Recenlty I read Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, which I highly recommend. | 2019-04-26T07:40:50Z | https://tmlunsford.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/un-sung-heroes-of-my-childhood/ | Porn | Kids | 0.348253 |
wordpress | This entry was posted on Friday, July 14th, 2017 at 12:33 pm and tagged with Belize, Cahal Pech, Duality, Earth, Environment, Inspiration, Jung, Mayan, Mayan Calendar, Photography, Prophecy, Self Development, Spirituality, Transformation and posted in Essay, Futurology, Main Course, Photography, Travelosophy. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
I like the way you think. I’m not familiar with the Tzolkin calendar and wonder if it correlates to the harmonics assigned to planetary configurations in astrology. I’ve found lots of overlap in different symbolic systems, different ways of presenting the same concepts. By looking around, it’s easy to see there’s lots of room for spiritual growth, isn’t there?
Katharine, thank you for your feedback. I have not compared the Tzolkin directly with other energy systems, but there may well be similarities. My understanding is that the Mayan calendars factor in telluric (earth) energies and directional (the four directions) energies as well as some planetary movements – however I think that it predominantly an earth based energy measurement system rather than a planetary one. I have found it to be astoundingly accurate and very deep. The main thing that draws me the the Tzolkin and beyond – for example the Mayan Cross -is that it has a real depth to it in the Jungian sense – in terms of personality. The in-depth information about the archetypes are really to me unmatched in any other system – whether MBTI, Enneagram, or any other type of psychometric tests I have come across – also richer and deeper than Chinese astrology (although I have only dipped into it). So as a personal development tool, the Mayan calendars hold phenomenal potential for individuals and it is this that draws me to it.
Yes – I think spiritual growth is in a bit of a slump right now, but I think people will start seeking out the light again naturally when things become to dark.
JJ, I hope you’re right that people will begin to seek the light. It certainly seems many of us are lost now. I need to know more about Tzolkin. Will look forward to reading more of your posts.
JJ, Will check it all out soon, but at the moment I’m feeling scattered by too many demands on attention, probably like many others. Oh, for a simpler life . . . I need to start with your series.
No problem Katharine, when/if you have time. I’m snowed under too – lots of projects, so little time. That’s why I’m holding off from commenting on WB right now – just can’t fit it in too and it does require a certain regular presence on the website. Thank you for visiting!
Great article. I got into the Mayan’s in 2012 with all the speculations back then and I’m starting to read more. Considering what’s going on in the world, I think their philosophy is convincing.
Thank you JC. Just like you, I was fascinated by the whole 2012 phenomenon, but it was a great let down, when after the “great date” not only did nothing happen, but all the Maya “gurus” disappeared… Probably because they got it wrong – but the only reason why they got it wrong was because they had not done their homework.
For me the most important benefit of following the Tzolkin with its Mayan days (archetypes) and tones (numbers) and weeks (known as ‘trecenas’), is that it brings a groundedness on a daily and weekly basis and it it brings direction – we know what days are coming up and we can plan certain tasks or projects accordingly, because we know from learning the energies that some days are ideal for doing certain things.
It is very useful for writing for instance – as some days are more intellectual and some days can bring great clarity or even vision – so we can really benefit from organising our actual day to day living according to this system – and it really works once you get a feel for it (it does take a while to synchronise one-self to the energies, but the longer you follow it, the more you flow with it and the more you know the characteristics of each day). Knowing that every day has a certain purpose and benefits makes for a very enriching way of experiencing day to day living.
It’s worth getting a good book on the subject too. I hope you benefit greatly from the Tzolkin.
I will definitely check it out. I’ve felt lately as though something is calling me and I always end up at the door of the Tzolkin.
Thank you David. I have made considerable effort to research the topic so that I can present the information as truthfully as possible, considering that I am also using intuition to guide me, so I feel the factual elements will keep me on track. Also, there has been a lot of misrepresentation of the Maya calendars in the past, so I wish to correct that, or at least not fall in the same trap.
I find that by staying close to the traditional and authentic objectives of the Mayan calendars we can reconnect with the understanding that there is a sacredness within everything. Too many of us have lost touch with nature and its cycles.
Unfortunatkey some spiritual “gurus” have used the Mayan calendars to boost their egos due the the knowledge they got from it, rather than to share the information in the right way for the greater good of the community and society.
but we can all play a small part to contribute our bit.
An enthralling post, Jacques, as always. I’ve left a more detailed comment on your other site.
Thank you for reading the full article, Josh – I will reply over there. | 2019-04-21T00:51:08Z | https://gypsycafe.wordpress.com/2017/07/14/the-valley-of-shadows-in-the-landscape-of-light/ | Porn | Arts | 0.260316 |
cnn | The White House has told some senior members of Congress to expect President Obama to nominate Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense, according to a knowledgeable source. Another source with knowledge of the nomination called it "locked down."
The timing is uncertain, but other sources have told CNN it could come early next week.
A Republican, Chuck Hagel represented the state of Nebraska in the US Senate from 1997 until January 3, 2009 when he retired.
The White House has previously said that the president has made no final decisions. One source told CNN Thursday that the president was "mulling" over appointments in Hawaii this week.
A White House source told CNN's Wolf Blitzer the president "has not offered the job to anyone."
In an interview on NBC December 30, Obama allowed he had not then made a decision on who to nominate, but said in making the choice his "number one criteria will be who's going to do the best job in helping to secure America."
"I've served with Chuck Hagel. I know him. He is a patriot," Obama said on "Meet the Press. "He is somebody who has done extraordinary work both in the United States Senate. Somebody who served this country with valor in Vietnam. And is somebody who's currently serving on my Intelligence Advisory Board and doing an outstanding job. "
The source with knowledge of the nominations adds that White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew is likely to be nominated as Treasury Secretary, perhaps as early as next week. This source says that while Lew is expected to be confirmed, there is some consternation in the business community about Lew, who is known as a "numbers guy" but has "little or no market and business experience."
The administration is believed to be searching for a person with business expertise to run the Commerce Department, but there seems to be no first-in-line name circulating at this point. Gene Sperling is expected to stay as Director of the National Economic Council.
Former Washington state governor Christine Gregoire, former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm are also being considered for cabinet posts.
Chuck Hagel is just the right person to take the reigns at the Pentagon. A thoughtful, independent-minded Republican who is moderate in all things and has made many principalled stands as a senator. Once again, Obama is showing he welcomes Republican cooperation in solving the nation's problems and that there is nothing partisan about national security.
If Bill Kristol opposes Chuck Hagel that is a sterling endorsement for Chuck Hagel to get the Secretary of Defense post .
Like President Obama, Chuck Hagel is sure to be the leader who will make American people and its allies feel more exhausted than ever.
A man who's allegiance is to the United States of America and not Israel?
Bibi and his thugs will be p!ssed! Outstanding!
This is great news! I hope Obama stands by his candidate despite opposition – in the past he has dumped them at the slightest sign of trouble.
Looks like, Obama is showing his strength to his opponents and basically to the Israeli lobbies around the globe. Hope, he will succeed and place his name in the great, daring and mightiest American President. If he will bogged down, during the process, he will be considered as the timid President, Who has no guts to stand-up to the Israeli puppets in the Congress and Senate.
Obama has done much more than other presidents in the past decade to stand up to Israel. Eveytime Obama has "pushed" on Israel, Israel has retaliated with more forced "settlements"! Israel even "dissed Joe Biden!
It is our congress (not our president) who has no back bone in dealings with Israel! Congress is madly in love with Israel and will do whatever Israel asks! | 2019-04-22T12:43:02Z | http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/04/white-house-has-told-some-members-of-congress-to-expect-hagel-nomination/ | Porn | Business | 0.527666 |
wordpress | The tri-season nature display you see as banner image above was created by John especially for this website – to my ever delight!
You’re unlikely to successfully predict this site – ‘gotta go there’ to know!
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My favorites are ‘nature’ themed, but John explores people and abstract creations as well. Pieces spark a range of responses, including beauty, humor, insight, and whimsy.
The artist offers custom prints, mugs, and calanders – each made unique by intrigue and beauty of his work. | 2019-04-22T18:32:27Z | https://thoughtsfromthewell.wordpress.com/johns-art/ | Porn | Arts | 0.94154 |
wordpress | This was our third visit to the Sol Aloha Puerto, now renamed Sol House and it lived up to the usual expectations.
It’s situated right on the sea front, about five minutes walk from Benalmadena harbour. The rooms are huge (ours was a junior suite, but I think that’s pretty standard).
Wi-Fi is fast and free and the TV has UK channels. I should say TVs, as there are two of them, one more than we have at home! You get a free safe and fridge too.
The mojitos are delicious (as you can see it’s happy hour). The food is excellent too, lots of choice, especially in vegetables and fruit. Spanish strawberries are in season, so I indulged at breakfast and dinner!
Last month we stayed at the neighbouring RIU Nautilus and on balance I would say that this is the better hotel. Both are four stars and priced similarly, but this suits a younger clientele (well, fifties, not seventies).
For a winter break that won’t break the bank, you can’t go far wrong with the Costa Del Sol and I’m sure we’ll be back next year.
If you’re looking for some winter sunshine, but are not fussed about whether you can get into your cossie, then Torremolinos is a great place for a January break. The weather is a bit variable and last week we had a mix of hot and sunny, plus a couple of overcast days. Perfect for strolling about, eating out, reading and relaxing. We stayed at the four star RIU Nautilus which is a very comfortable base.
The hotel is modern in style and the rooms are pretty good.
The food was spot on, especially if you like to stay on track and eat healthily. Great choice of fruit and vegetables.
We were half board, but there’s no shortage of great places to eat. Larry’s Chiringuito is our favourite for great fish.
Unless you speak fluent Spanish, or like BBC World News, then the swish wall mounted TV is a waste of space. Shame because I do enjoy a bit of late night TV when staying in a nice hotel.
The Wi-Fi s not worth bothering with either, as you only have one hour per day which must be taken in one session. Prehistoric by today’s standards.
As you would expect for a winter sun break, the hotel entertainment is geared towards the seventy plus market. Nothing wrong with that, it’s just not to our taste.
Luckily the last three things are easily sorted. We can do without TV. Most bars and cafes around the hotel offer free Wi-Fi so that’s easy. Finally, no need to stay in the hotel at night as you can pop across the road to The Full House for some conversation, a cheeky drink, access to the internet and even a cup of PG if you so desire!
I would definitely stay at the Nautilus again. It’s a really comfortable hotel. Crazy that it has ultra modern décor with ultra old fashioned technology, but you can’t have everything as they say!
I know that many people have preconceived ideas about Torremolinos. I can hear you saying ‘yuk, high rise and British pubs’ right now. In some ways, it makes the place cheaper to visit, as unless you’re in the know, you stay away, but I thought I’d share a couple of snaps with you to show you what you’re missing. These are taken in La Carihuela, just outside the main town, and you couldn’t ask for a prettier Spanish street in my opinion.
Despite the kitty in the picture, this street is called Calle De Los Perros.
La Carihuela has some fantastic fish restaurants as well as a myriad of shopping opportunities. Here I’m debating whether to add to my collection of harem pants.
Anyone else a fan of Torre?
I just love these little guys. My holiday starts as soon as I see a flock of them flitting from tree to tree chatting to one another. Their presence is controversial as they are not an indigenous species, but they are very cute!
If you like to spend an afternoon eating and drinking with a sea view, then you won’t go far wrong in a chiringuito, or beach restaurant. There are dozens to choose from, all with a huge selection of fish dishes.
Over the years we’ve stayed in every class of hotel, from the charming one star Cabello, to the elegant four star Riu Nautilus (don’t think there are any five stars). Last month we stayed at the newly refurbished Sol House which has a bit of an Ibiza vibe going on. There’s something to suit all budgets. We usually book our flights and hotel separately through Alpha Rooms as it saves money and gives us more choice of flight times.
The beach is huge, well kept and clean. Still lots of traditional fishing boats knocking about.
These very kind people let me try out my Spanish when shopping and don’t smirk when I get it wrong – they are happy to chat to help improve your conversational Spanish skills too.
It’s not called the Costa Del Sol for nothing! We go out of season March, April, October, November and it’s usually 20 degrees plus and sunny.
So many shops, so little time! I always come back with unusual pieces of jewellery.
Best fresh fish you can get anywhere at a reasonable cost. This whole fresh turbot cost e25 for both of us. Less than a tenner each.
Anyone else been to Torremolinos? I’d love to know what you thought!
These are my favourites to eat on the Costa Del Sol. I suggest you look away if you don’t like fish!
Gambas al Pil Pil – hot sizzling prawns in chilli, garlic and olive oil! (This was at chiringuito Antonio y Ana. There are lots of these beach front restaurants in Torremolinos and they’re the best place to eat fish in my opinion).
Rodaballo – a whole turbot grilled and served with garlic potatoes- this was the special of the day at Larry’s chiringuito (our favourite fish place).
Sardinas al Espeto – grilled on a stick over a red hot charcoal BBQ on the beach.
Chocolate con Churros – unsweetened deep fried batter served with thick hot chocolate for dipping. The best place for this is Heladeria San Miguel.
Lenguado a la Plancha – grilled lemon sole with garlic. This was at Larry’s.
Calamares – deep fried squid rings, tender and fresh as you like!
Jamon Serrano – served in our hotel for breakfast with a fried egg. We stayed at the Sol House Hotel.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this (mostly fishy) tale. What’s your favourite thing to eat on holiday? | 2019-04-20T23:08:35Z | https://flowerpowerlife.wordpress.com/tag/torremolinos/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.71547 |
wordpress | Tessa Bertoldi | Books, More Books, Writing and Healing. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Practical Prepping and my little half acre.
It has been a few months since I posted anything. I have been busy! My daily routine is to start my day by getting up, go over my daily task list with my creator, count my blessings, pet the cat until he purrs and get dressed. Victory already and I’m still in the bedroom.
It doesn’t take Harlan long to convince me he will continue to twist around my ankles until I feed him. Task accomplished, off to feed the girls. Six lovely free range hens. Then hair and makeup and off to work. Woot! More success!
My employer strongly believes in accomplishing more with less, so every day is stressful and I break the stress by a brisk walk on my 15 minutes. Some days I forget to take a break, not good. I watch the clock way too much until I can leave to start working on my house. I am so much closer, but everything has been an ordeal whether or not I do the work myself or hire a contractor. Lather, rinse, repeat; since January.
The counter tops were to be installed in my kitchen this Saturday. THEY DROPPED THE 52″ GRANITE SLAB ON MY NEW BAMBOO FLOOR!!!! It was seriously damaged through the protective cardboard, the slab did not fare well either. The workers were polite and very apologetic and gave me the option of a $200. discount for a repaired counter top. I declined and they came back on Sunday to install a new slab.
Even though the workers were good (except for the drop-age), I was exhausted at having to babysit them for TWO DAYS! I couldn’t go anywhere, not even to another room. The company insisted that I stay in visual distance at all times, for their protection as well as mine. I understand this, but the entire weekend was spent doing nothing! I went through paper and shredded bills, so almost nothing.
The cabinets are Natural Hickory by Kraft Maid and they are IN! The counter-tops are a lovely granite. (But don’t match the tile I picked out, slightly different from the slab in the store.) The last big repair is the kitchen floor tile (and the repairs to the bamboo floor). I don’t know how much I will get done since NaNoWriMo begins in a few days. I released my Municipal Liaison status due to my crazy schedule. Someone with more time can carry the county banner this year. I will be so happy to have a normal life again!
I’ve been absent for a while, thanks for sticking with me. My mother passed away and my house fell apart. I’ve found that when something big happens, like my leaking roof and five rooms with water damage, God is using it to keep me busy and keep me out of trouble.
It is unfortunate that God has to use such measures. However, He know my heart. I would most likely try to rescues the situation, if I had the energy and time I would hop on my high horse and try to save the day.
The roof has been re-engineered and has been completed. The rain has stopped and dry days are forecasted. I’ve pulled out the wet cabinets, sheetrock and insulation. There is not much left to rip out, just one little block I can’t pry out without causing more damage.
I’m not Rosie the Riveter. I have to study and learn what the code is, which tools to use and how to use them. Generally, it’s a very slow process. They money tree has not produced the greenbacks for the repairs and the insurance company is not paying for all the damages or the upgrades. I’m cutting costs where I can.
New studs have been installed and mold has been treated and cleaned. (I’ve been living in a trailer in my driveway.) I have painted everything that is nailed down with Red Guard, a paintable vapor barrier normally used near water service. Expert advice says that it will help keep water from coming through any small cracks in the stucco. I even installed an extra layer of water barrier in the sink area.
I still have other rooms to work on, but the kitchen/den area is ready for the electrician, cabinet installer and plumber. I hadn’t planned on a kitchen remodel, but who puts 1977 cabinets back in? The silver lining to this costly project is free. I discovered a beautiful load-bearing beam behind layers of sheetrock. It matches the smaller one on the other side of the room. The smaller beam took me five months to remove all the paint and plaster. It took me about an hour to pull down the sheetrock from the newly discovered beam. I can’t wait to sand it down and apply a light finish.
I originally wrote this and let it sit, it’s a touchy subject with me; apologies from people who don’t really mean it and over/under exaggeration to the point of lying. I was embarrassed for a young professional woman at a recent party. She apologized for all the world’s woes, none of which she created. She did so, making sure my friend got lots of eye contact and even got close to her face for emphasis. My friend is an introvert and was born outside of the US, it was threatening to her personally and she took a step back. She is extremely intelligent and holds a professional position in a male dominated field. She is well aware of the struggle for ethnic women to be successful, she does not need a lecture on it. Yes, we can and should do better, but, please don’t lecture the introvert or get on the current soapbox. A meaningless apology about something you had no part in, no control over and are simply parroting what you think is popular, does not bring about change. Kindness and honesty bring lasting change. Look at the lasting changes Gandhi and Dr. King brought to the world!
I sat in yet another session by an individual who made choices that capitalized their success, then made a career of apologizing for that success! Making money twice over, ARRGH! While I understand that people can change, I see this as another form of greed. The latest one was a “true confession”, the author wrote a book on it. That is, after making A LOT of money doing what is now socially unacceptable. He apologized for being successful, he apologized for being white, he apologized for his birth parents, he apologized for his trust fund, and he apologized for many things he could not control. It is boring, droll and really poor taste. It insults all those individuals who happen to fall into the categories the speaker was apologizing for. He did not, however, talk about any philanthropic activities he put that money to work in.
If I tell a better story, yell louder or repeat the story often, does that make it a better cause? Should I apologize for things I have no control over; my ethnicity, hair color, height, parents? Would I want my daughter to apologize for her ethnicity? It is boring and disingenuous to apologize for something you have no control over. Instead, motivate me, inspire me with your optimism and heroic everyday efforts for your cause. Inspire me by what you are doing now that is different. Give me a reason to think differently. Challenge me to do better in a positive non-judgmental way. Persuade me to be a partner in your passion for excellence. Win me over with kindness, truth, logic and real facts.
I check facts for publication and write engineering specs. I translate engineer speak into plain English. It was natural for me to pick up my phone and ask Dr. Google if the facts presented were truth. I found a small grain of truth and widely exaggerated falsehoods.
The “true confessions” the speaker is currently making money on are not entirely true. The speaker was still doing the same thing that he “confessed”, only the venue changed. Profiting in a shady way, not quite telling the truth and misleading the public.
This is not a new experience for me. I belong to several authors’ venues and we often have speakers. Several years ago, I listened as a semi-famous individual apologized for the mistreatment that goes on daily to dairy cows in California. Really, in California where a plethora of watchdog organizations for animal protection and rights exist? There may be more people living in California that care passionately about animal treatment that those that do not. Every one of them is a whistleblower. I’ve personally been to large scale dairy farm to check it out. I wanted to know. They may not be “Happy Cows” as the ad states, but the herd was certainly well cared for. The milking area was extremely clean and the ladies were very well fed. The dairyperson explained that sick and mistreated cows cost money. Common sense tells you that this visible dairy would be a favorite target for animal rights groups to take a look at. These are operations that enjoy excellent reputations and are highly regulated and inspected. I’m not saying mistreatment does not occur, but it does not occur in the exaggerated scale presented in the speech. Dr. Google did not support the speakers assertions.
Exaggerating a grain of truth, whether it is a positive or negative one, has become too common place. Don’t be common!
Do you check facts with Dr. Google, Yahoo, Bing or a fact checking site? List your favorite sites below! If you don’t check facts, today is a good day to start. Please don’t be led by these obvious dupesters, gaining recognition and money on partial or no truth! Please check facts, don’t follow the herd (pun intended) mentality.
P.S. If anyone else wants to apologize for their trust fund, please send me a check. I can and will find a worthwhile way to spend it for you!
Waiting 10 Months on a Permit!
Repair work in progress after old balcony removal.
I have written before about my awesome list of things I need to get done. I started with 100 line items and I’m ecstatically reporting the list sits at 25 today. It represents a lot of my time and an additional $32,000. Ouch!
I’ve budgeted $10K to construct the replacement second floor deck over the patio. My handyperson is visiting his grandchildren in Illinois and will be back in a few weeks. I hope to have the permit from the city by then. It is about a 50/50 shot, I’ve been working on it since September 2016. The plan check engineer had just a few more items for me to include, but my engineer was in a vehicle accident! He is o.k. but the vehicle was totaled, someone ran a stop sign. It could have been worse and I so glad they are alright. I’m hoping to get his results this week so I can submit the final changes. The plan check engineer says he wants a P.E. designation, something that the code DOES NOT require and will cost me a lot of money. My Civil Engineer is doing a lot of work for free, he has quite a bit of experience but is young working on his E.I.T. (engineer in training, precursor to the P.E. designation). He has access to state-of-art design programs that take the guesswork out of the plans. The building code gives the city leeway to demand just about anything, but it is not required. I will give it one more try with all the plan check requested changes. Keeping my fingers crossed and saying my prayers!
I will be revisiting the problems I have experienced with her after my job is complete. She has created unnecessary obstacles, malicious ones, and even told me to have a man come down and help me out. I’m not particularly a feminist, but that statement made my blood boil! I have been a technical writer for 30 years. I’ve worked for various building and manufacturing businesses. My father, brother, and foster sons are in trades. I know my way around a simple build like a balcony/deck. It’s simple construction and physics! I will be addressing this issue with the City Manager before long! I don’t need this level of headaches in my life.
The final work on front of my house will be complete today. I will write a separate post after I have a nice photo, it’s looking fine and dandy!
These are the stairs that I have mastered, twice a day. There is a matching set at the other end of the parking lot that we circle three times to make up one mile. It has not been easy and I huff and puff, but I have achieved some success. Around 20 pounds since Thanksgiving, 40 pounds in the last year. That’s three dress sizes! The last one is a little slower to come off.
It’s easy to do something for someone else, not so easy to be your own best friend. Fitness is one of my goals for this year. My weight was starting to signal early signs of medical problems ahead. When your feet scream at you in pain by the end of the day, check your weight first. My loving daughter let me know that one pound of fat can exert 7 pounds of pressure on just your knees. No wonder my poor feet protested!
Seriously, diabetes and other medical problems run in my family and I am doing my best to beat the odds and avoid it all by eating right and exercising. That means getting my weight down another 40 pounds.
While I’m at it, I’m working on my financial fitness as well. Selling some stock, why was I keeping it anyway, some of it was a negative rate of return and some down in the 2% range. I’ve kept the good performers and dumped the bad. I have a new financial guy and he wants to manage all of it, but I’m a little on the cautious side. I decided to compromise and keep my star performers, liquidate the bad actors and send the cash to him to invest. He has one year to convince me he can handle my retirement money. I can do about 5-7% on my own. He was a little surprised when I told him that. The money in my 401k was doing 3-4%, time to make some changes. So I rolled the account out for him to handle it.
We all know that God has just two rules for us to live by, Love God, Love others. That little rule that goes like this: Love others as yourself. Somehow we are able to lie to ourselves that we are doing good by giving away all our time. Giving all your time to a cause, even to your family, is not a good thing. Balance is a good thing. If you do not spend the appropriate time taking care of yourself first, the quality of the remaining time degrades. It is not giving your best to others. Spending an hour on fitness at least 3 times a week keeps you healthy. You are able to give to others a rested healthy persons time as opposed to a tired, run down and possibly sick persons time.
I’m sleeping through the night for the first time in my life. No more sleepwalking, RLS and insomnia. They finally figured it out; after a lifetime of extremely low REM sleep waking up felt like I was swimming through mud. I am so grateful that they did since I have much more energy and as a result, I can exercise more and get in shape!
The nasty head cold is circulating at work. It has hit just about everyone, including me. I don’t get the flu, but this hit me hard. I beefed up on vitamins and hand washing, it still got me. The nurse was afraid it could go into pneumonia and I have been on bed rest for the last two weeks. BORING!!!
I did follow the doctor’s orders and made myself rest and take care. I focused on my nutrition and being still. I spent some time going over my goals for 2017. I am a list maker and I need to look back to celebrate accomplishments in order to move forward in a positive space. It has been hard to rest the last few days. I’m finally released to return to the land of the living.
I don’t know that I can do everything on my list of goals, but I’m sure going to give it a try! Nothing is every gained by failing to take the first step.
It’s been a few weeks since my last post. I’ve been putting the time to good use in my attic room conversion! All the sheetrock is hung, 90% of the taping is complete and at least one coat of “mud” has been applied. The finish skim coat has been applied on about 10%. I hope to get the rest of the taping/mud done this week and possibly the texturing sometime around Christmas. The panoramic view might be difficult to get a good idea of the room. It helps to orientate yourself if you imagine the wooden door and the glass door as opposite each other.
Here’s another view of the early days when I first split the room in half at the top of the stairwell. I’m not very fast, but it is getting done. I used to be able to work only a half day on Saturday. Since I’ve been sleeping better, I can now do an hour or so here and there after work and a whole day on Saturday. If I had a whole Saturday! I can also wake up as a functioning human by 8:00 a.m. now. It used to take me until 10:00 a.m. to be able to think straight at work.
It’s been a large project, but I wanted to do everything above code requirements. I’ve managed to do a lot of the construction using recycled/reclaimed materials. The drywall looks like a puzzle because a lot of it was left over from construction sites. It was free because the corners were slightly damaged. I managed to get contractor packs of insulation for $50.00 at a going out of business sale. I saved almost $500.00 there! I did have to invest in two new LED lights and a fan. I paid a professional electrician to alter the wiring. My HVAC guy at work gave me the “T” to divert A/C and heat from the main line and coached me on how to do it myself.
I’ve made tentative arrangements with a High School senior art student to use the wall with the wooden door as a canvas for a senior project. Maybe a Dawn Redwood. I love all things Sequoia! I’ll post a photo if that happens.
The room is a little more private that my other bedrooms and I hope to have some very special visitors in it! I think my WWOOFer* will like it! I plan on giving them three choices of where to sleep. This next year will be exciting as I attempt to transition from a consumer to a sustainable producer of my own food. Who needs well over 5,000 sq. ft. of green lawn? I would much rather have some zucchini, yellow squash, tomatoes, herbs and more in my garden.
*World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. WWOOF has allowed Urban Gardens into the organization. I already have a couple of WWOOFers that are interested in visiting my “garden”, several want to help in laying out the new format I’ve chosen.
Lots of changes, exciting times!
My Brain is Broken – Why RLS?
I’ve always had what my mom called the wearies. Even as a child I would shake my legs to fall asleep. I remember my cousin shaking her whole body to get to sleep. This was more normal than not in my family, so why would I question it?
I’m getting ready to retire in a few years so a round of medical appointments and routine screening. My generalist was not happy with the non specific pain in my legs and my chronic exhaustion. He sent me to a neurologist. What seems like a million questions later and his diagnosis, broken brain. Actually, low dopamine levels. Just talking about my history of sleep walking, sleeping a few hours a night, waking up and trying to fall back to sleep resulted in almost no sleep night before last. I’ve started on a very low dose of a drug given to RLS and Parkinson’s sufferers. It’s so low that I didn’t expect to really notice any difference. I managed to sleep approximately six hours straight through and was able to get out of bed before the third alarm went off.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m still exhausted. Just much less exhausted. I’m hopeful that I will someday soon wake up rested and wonder at the experience. Just think how much Mrs. Winchester could get done if the hammer didn’t feel like it weighed a ton and I could keep my eyes open!
Head on over to The Better Man Project, this motivation blog on personal risk is worth the read!
My fingers are itching to plant something so bad!!!! Winter garden anyone? No, that is not on the list. Sigh! Mrs. Winchester wins again! Keep on building.
The loft room is almost done. The electrical is mostly complete, the fan and second light fixture will be installed after the paint work is done. I finally found a solid core door that will fit and if you look at the 8×8 block of wood on the right side of the roof, that is where I will eventually punch a hole into the main part of the house. I still need to complete the short wall frame on the right and build a bench over the A/C. I have purchased all the parts for the A/C vent into the room waiting for the box to be built.
I was rushing to give my adult kids more space to move back in. They gave notice and are in the process of buying their first house. Bad news is the good news, depending on how you look at it.
They found a house they loved right away.
It’s in escrow, waiting for the home inspections now.
I added the rest of the single pane windows to the list so it bumped back up to 38. That’s a lot better than 100 that we started with when we bought the home. It will happen, I keep reminding myself that God is still in control and to just take it one nail at a time.
Instead of planting, I went online and selected what I want in my organic CSA box next week. I can wait. Retirement is not that far away and although I really want to build those raised garden beds, I need to finish the loft and balcony first!
Blessings to you all, remember to pray for Florida this week!
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(by Bruce Lyons & Andreas Stephan) The UK government is consulting on potential reform of a wide range of issues in its competition regime. The issues are those confronted by each of the increasing number of competition regimes across the globe and should be of more than local interest. These include possibly major changes to: the institutions implementing policy (e.g. merger of the Office of Fair Trading and Competition Commission, concurrency with sector regulators, appeals); the way evidence is gathered and presented (e.g. inquisitorial versus prosecutorial approach); the type of decision maker (e.g. executive or independent tribunal); design of the criminal cartel offence; notification of behaviour (e.g. proposed mergers); scope of intervention (e.g. markets which do not contravene antitrust rules; funding (e.g. merger fees); etc. We will be using the blog in the coming weeks to explore some of the issues that are raised, to suggest the appropriate way to frame the debate and to highlight some of the pitfalls.
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google | A sport monitoring system includes a projectile(s), sensor units for one or more players to wear, and a data processing arrangement. The projectiles are useable in a game played by players. Each projectile has a motion sensing arrangement for generating one or more motion-indicative signals, and a data recording arrangement for recording the motion-indicative signals as a function of time. Each sensor unit is provided with a motion sensing arrangement for generating a motion-indicative signal(s), and a data recording arrangement for recording the motion-indicative signals as a function of time. The data processing arrangement receives data pertaining to the motion-indicative signals from at least one of the projectiles and/or at least one of the sensor units. The data processing arrangement performs a temporal correlation of the data to determine one or more periods of time when the projectiles are likely to be spatially closely associated with the players.
This application is related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/471,404 entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC VIDEO FILMING AND BROADCASTING OF SPORTS EVENTS” filed May 14, 2012 and incorporated by reference in its entirety; U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/660,385 entitled “SPORTS APPARATUS AND METHOD” filed Oct. 25, 2012 and incorporated by reference in its entirety; and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/767,756 entitled “SPORTS TRAINING APPARATUS AND METHOD” filed Feb. 14, 2013 and incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The present disclosure generally relates to sports monitoring systems, and more specifically, to sports monitoring systems for determining one or more periods of time when one or more projectiles are likely to be spatially closely associated with one or more players. Further, the present disclosure relates to methods of operating the sports monitoring systems. Furthermore, the present disclosure also relates to software products recorded on machine-readable data storage media, wherein the software products are executable upon computing hardware to implement aforesaid methods.
In various team sports, it is often desirable to know when one or more players have been in contact with a projectile. For example, in a game of American football, it would be desirable to keep a track of which player has been carrying the projectile (i.e., a football) during playing of the game. Presently, such tracking is often implemented by using cameras, and personnel collating statistics manually.
However, these conventional techniques suffer from a number of disadvantages. Firstly, a viewer watching the game may not be able to identify which player has been carrying the projectile, for example, because of an unclear camera view. Secondly, manual tasks are bound to involve risks of human errors.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,353,791 discloses a method of tracking possession of a sports projectile such as a ball. Based on disclosure a ball has short range radio beacon and each player has receiver for the radio beacon signals and GPS. System can be used to determine which player is in possession of the ball. Problem with said solution is that ball possession could be determined to be on any player in proximity of the ball.
Therefore, there exists a need for a system for determining one or more periods of time when one or more projectiles are likely to be spatially closely associated with one or more players, in an automatic manner.
The present disclosure seeks to provide a sports monitoring system.
The present disclosure also seeks to provide a method of operating the sports monitoring system.
In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a sports monitoring system. The sports monitoring system includes one or more projectiles that are useable in a game to be played by one or more players, one or more sensor units for the players to wear, and a data processing arrangement.
Each projectile is provided therein with an associated motion sensing arrangement that is operable to generate one or more motion-indicative signals, and a data recording arrangement that is operable to record the motion-indicative signals as a function of time.
Optionally, a motion sensing arrangement of a particular projectile may be operable to provide data indicative of acceleration and/or rotation and/or orientation of that particular projectile as a function of time, wherefrom the motion-indicative signals corresponding to that particular projectile may be generated. Accordingly, the motion sensing arrangement of each projectile may include at least one of following sensors: accelerometer, magnetometer, pressure sensor, temperature sensor, gyroscopic sensor, microphone, Global Positioning System (GPS) sensor or other location sensor for indoor and/or outdoor positioning, and timer.
Each sensor unit is provided therein with an associated motion sensing arrangement that is operable to generate one or more motion-indicative signals, and a data recording arrangement that is operable to record the motion-indicative signals as a function of time.
Optionally, a motion sensing arrangement of a particular sensor unit may be operable to provide data indicative of acceleration and/or rotation and/or orientation of a player wearing that particular sensor unit as a function of time, wherefrom the motion-indicative signals corresponding to the player may be generated. Accordingly, the motion sensing arrangement of each sensor unit may include at least one of following sensors: accelerometer, magnetometer, pressure sensor, temperature sensor, gyroscopic sensor, microphone, GPS sensor or other location sensor for indoor and/or outdoor positioning and timer. The term “wear” can include a sensor which is attached in a player for example with band, a sensor embedded or attached in clothes such as shoes, helmet, shirt etc. and a sensor embedded in a sporting equipment carried by the player.
Further, the data processing arrangement is operable to receive data pertaining to the motion-indicative signals from at least one of the projectiles and/or at least one of the sensor units.
Optionally, the at least one of the projectiles may be operable to communicate its recorded data (i.e., data pertaining to the motion-indicative signals corresponding to the projectiles) to the data processing arrangement via a wireless communication link. Similarly, the at least one of the sensor units may be operable to communicate its recorded data (i.e., data pertaining to the motion-indicative signals corresponding to the players) to the data processing arrangement via a wireless communication link.
Furthermore, the data processing arrangement is operable to perform a temporal correlation of the data so received, to determine one or more periods of time when the projectiles are likely to be spatially closely associated with the players.
In accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, the temporal correlation is performed to determine when the players have been in contact with the projectiles during playing of the game, and/or when mutual contact between a plurality of players has occurred during playing of the game.
In another aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of operating the sports monitoring system.
In yet another aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a software product recorded on machine-readable data storage media, wherein the software product is executable upon computing hardware for implementing the method of operating the sports monitoring system.
Embodiments of the present disclosure substantially eliminate the aforementioned problems in the prior art, and enable users to know when one or more players have been in contact with one or more projectiles during playing of the game, and/or when mutual contact between a plurality of players has occurred during playing of the game, and enable users to collect statistical data indicative of movements and/or spatial positions of the players and/or the projectiles as a function of time, and thereby further analyze the statistical data, for example, to provide feedback on the performance of the players and/or to edit video content recorded by various cameras concurrently during playing of the game.
It will be appreciated that features of the present disclosure are susceptible to being combined in various combinations without departing from the scope of the present disclosure as defined by the appended claims.
The summary above, as well as the following detailed description of illustrative embodiments, is better understood when read in conjunction with the appended drawings. For the purpose of illustrating the present disclosure, exemplary constructions of the disclosure are shown in the drawings. However, the present disclosure is not limited to specific methods and instrumentalities disclosed herein. Moreover, those in the art will understand that the drawings are not to scale. Wherever possible, like elements have been indicated by identical numbers.
FIG. 6 is an illustration of results of a temporal correlation performed on the example set of motion-indicative signals, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure.
In the accompanying drawings, an underlined number is employed to represent an item over which the underlined number is positioned or an item to which the underlined number is adjacent. A non-underlined number relates to an item identified by a line linking the non-underlined number to the item. When a number is non-underlined and accompanied by an associated arrow, the non-underlined number is used to identify a general item at which the arrow is pointing.
The following detailed description illustrates embodiments of the present disclosure and ways in which it can be implemented. Although the best mode of carrying out the present disclosure has been disclosed, those in the art would recognize that other embodiments for carrying out or practicing the present disclosure are also possible.
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a sports monitoring system. The sports monitoring system includes one or more projectiles, one or more sensor units for one or more players to wear, and a data processing arrangement. The projectiles are useable in a game to be played by the players.
Each of the projectiles is provided therein with an associated motion sensing arrangement and a data recording arrangement. The motion sensing arrangement is operable to generate one or more motion-indicative signals, while the data recording arrangement is operable to record the motion-indicative signals as a function of time.
The motion sensing arrangement of each of the projectiles may, for example, include at least one of following sensors: accelerometer, magnetometer, pressure sensor, temperature sensor, gyroscopic sensor, microphone, Global Positioning System (GPS) sensor, or other indoor/outdoor location sensors and timer.
Similarly, each of the sensor units is provided therein with an associated motion sensing arrangement and a data recording arrangement. The motion sensing arrangement is operable to generate one or more motion-indicative signals, while the data recording arrangement is operable to record the motion-indicative signals as a function of time.
The motion sensing arrangement of each of the sensor units may, for example, include at least one of following sensors: accelerometer, magnetometer, pressure sensor, temperature sensor, gyroscopic sensor, microphone, GPS sensor or other indoor/outdoor location sensor, and timer.
The data processing arrangement is operable to receive data pertaining to the motion-indicative signals from at least one of the projectiles and/or at least one of the sensor units. The at least one of the projectiles may be operable to communicate its recorded data to the data processing arrangement via a wireless communication link. Further, the at least one of the sensor units may be operable to communicate its recorded data to the data processing arrangement via a wireless communication link.
The data processing arrangement is operable to perform a temporal correlation of the data so received, to determine one or more periods of time when the projectiles are likely to be spatially closely associated with the players. In accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, the temporal correlation is performed to determine when the players have been in contact with the projectiles during playing of the game, and/or when mutual contact between a plurality of players has occurred during playing of the game.
Beneficially, at least one of the data processing arrangement and the sensor units may utilize a portable computing device for their implementation within the sports monitoring system.
Referring now to the drawings, particularly by their reference numbers, FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of an example playing scenario in which a sports monitoring system is implemented pursuant to the present disclosure. For the sake of simplicity, FIG. 1 shows a portion of a playing area, where one or more players, depicted as a player 102 a, a player 102 b and a player 102 c, are playing a game. The player 102 a, the player 102 b and the player 102 c are hereinafter collectively referred to as players 102.
The sports monitoring system includes one or more projectiles, depicted as a projectile 104 in FIG. 1. The projectile 104 is useable in the game to be played by the players 102.
The projectile 104 is provided therein with an associated motion sensing arrangement and a data recording arrangement (not shown in FIG. 1). The motion sensing arrangement of the projectile 104 is operable to generate one or more motion-indicative signals corresponding to the projectile 104. The data recording arrangement of the projectile 104 is then operable to record the motion-indicative signals as a function of time.
The motion sensing arrangement of the projectile 104 may be operable to provide data indicative of acceleration and/or rotation and/or orientation of the projectile 104 as a function of time, wherefrom the aforementioned motion-indicative signals corresponding to the projectile 104 may be generated. For this purpose, the motion sensing arrangement of the projectile 104 may include at least one of following sensors: accelerometer, magnetometer, pressure sensor, temperature sensor, gyroscopic sensor, microphone, GPS sensor or other indoor/outdoor location sensor, and timer.
The motion-indicative signals corresponding to the projectile 104 may include information about at least one of: an identification code (ID) associated with the projectile 104, one or more movements (for example, accelerations and/or rotations and/or orientations) of the projectile 104, one or more spatial positions of the projectile 104, sound received by microphone, and associated time stamps. In addition to time stamps the received (and recorded) audio can be used for time stamping purposes. In addition recorded sound can be used to determine if a projectile is in motion i.e. used as motion-indicative signal.
The sports monitoring system also includes one or more sensor units for the players 102 to carry, for example, by wearing the sensor units during playing of the game. With reference to FIG. 1, the player 102 a is wearing a sensor unit 106 a, the player 102 b is wearing a sensor unit 106 b, and the player 102 c is wearing a sensor unit 106 c. The sensor unit 106 a, the sensor unit 106 b and the sensor unit 106 c are hereinafter referred to as the sensor units 106. The players 102 may, for example, wear the sensor units 106 by a detachable attachment to waist, wrist, ankle, or any other suitable part of body or in the sporting equipment carried by the players 102. In some embodiments the sensor unit 106 is attached to player 102 in a way that it is possible to determine orientation of the player 102 in respect to playing field. In some embodiments player 102 might have more than one sensor 106.
For example, the sports monitoring system may be implemented for use in a game of ice hockey, wherein the playing area may be an ice hockey rink, and the projectile 104 may be a hockey puck. Accordingly, the player 102 a may be carrying and/or wearing one or more sports equipments, such as a hockey stick, hockey skates, a hockey helmet, protective gloves and various protective pads, during playing of the game. Beneficially, the sensor unit 106 a may be implemented spatially within at least one of the sports equipments carried and/or worn by the player 102 a.
Each of the sensor units 106 is provided therein with an associated motion sensing arrangement and a data recording arrangement (not shown in FIG. 1). The motion sensing arrangement of the sensor unit 106 a is operable to generate one or more motion-indicative signals corresponding to the player 102 a wearing the sensor unit 106 a. Similarly, the motion sensing arrangements of the sensor unit 106 b and the sensor unit 106 c are operable to generate one or more motion-indicative signals corresponding to the player 102 b and the player 102 c wearing the sensor unit 106 b and the sensor unit 106 c, respectively.
The data recording arrangement of each of the sensor units 106 is then operable to record the corresponding motion-indicative signals as a function of time.
The motion sensing arrangements of the sensor units 106 may be operable to provide data indicative of acceleration and/or rotation and/or orientation of the players 102 as a function of time, wherefrom the aforementioned motion-indicative signals corresponding to the players 102 may be generated. For this purpose, the motion sensing arrangement of each of the sensor units 106 may include at least one of following sensors: accelerometer, magnetometer, pressure sensor, temperature sensor, gyroscopic sensor, microphone, GPS sensor or other indoor/outdoor location sensor, and timer.
For example, the motion-indicative signals corresponding to the player 102 a may include information about at least one of: an ID associated with the player 102 a, one or more movements (for example, accelerations and/or rotations and/or orientations) of the player 102 a, one or more spatial positions of the player 102 a, sound received by microphone in a sensor and associated time stamps. In addition to time stamps the received (and recorded) audio can be used for time stamping purposes. In addition recorded sound can be used to determine if a player is in motion i.e. used as motion-indicative signal.
Further, the sports monitoring system includes a data processing arrangement (not shown in FIG. 1) that is operable to receive data pertaining to the motion-indicative signals from the projectile 104 and/or at least one of the sensor units 106. The projectile 104 may be operable to communicate its recorded data (i.e., data pertaining to the motion-indicative signals corresponding to the projectile 104) to the data processing arrangement via a wireless communication link. Further, the at least one of the sensor units 106 may be operable to communicate its recorded data (i.e., data pertaining to the motion-indicative signals corresponding to the players 102) to the data processing arrangement via a wireless communication link.
The data processing arrangement is operable to perform a temporal correlation of the data so received, to determine one or more periods of time when the projectile 104 is likely to be spatially closely associated with the players 102. In accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, the temporal correlation is performed to determine when the players 102 have been in contact with the projectile 104 during playing of the game, and/or when mutual contact between a plurality of players from amongst the players 102 has occurred during playing of the game.
Embodiments of the present disclosure are suitable for sports such as American football, football, soccer, hockey, ice hockey, and basketball, but not limited thereto. In the example playing scenario, the sports monitoring system has been implemented for use in a game of American football, wherein the playing area corresponds to a football field, and the projectile 104 corresponds to a football. In some sports the number of projectiles in a game 104 might be more than one.
During playing of the game of American football, the player 102 a holds the projectile 104 for a particular period of time, as shown in FIG. 1. The temporal correlation between the data pertaining to the player 102 a and the projectile 104 enables the data processing arrangement to determine the particular period of time when the player 102 a has been in contact with the projectile 104 during playing of the game. Details of how the temporal correlation is performed have been provided in conjunction with FIGS. 5 and 6.
It should be noted here that the implementation of the sports monitoring system is not limited to a specific number of projectiles and players. FIG. 1 is merely an example, which should not unduly limit the scope of the claims herein. One of ordinary skill in the art would recognize many variations, alternatives, and modifications of embodiments herein.
FIG. 2 is a schematic illustration of a sports monitoring system 200, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure. The sports monitoring system 200 includes the projectile 104, the sensor units 106 and a data processing arrangement 202.
A wireless communication network 204 couples the projectile 104, the sensor units 106 and the data processing arrangement 202 in communication with each other. The wireless communication network 204 can be a collection of individual networks, interconnected with each other and functioning as a single large network. Typical examples of such individual networks include, although are not limited to, Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) and Wireless Personal-Area Networks (WPAN).
In accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, the projectile 104 is operable to communicate its recorded data (i.e., data pertaining to the motion-indicative signals corresponding to the projectile 104) to the data processing arrangement 202 via a wireless communication link.
In accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, the sensor units 106 are operable to communicate their recorded data (i.e., data pertaining to the motion-indicative signals corresponding to the players 102) to the data processing arrangement 202 via wireless communication links.
In accordance with another embodiment of the present disclosure, the projectile 104 and/or the sensor units 106 are operable to create a virtual sensor network by sharing their recorded data amongst themselves. In such a case, at least one of the sensor units 106 and/or the projectile 104 is required to communicate the recorded data to the data processing arrangement 202.
In accordance with yet another embodiment of the present disclosure, at least one of the sensor units 106 and/or the projectile 104 is operable to collect the recorded data from the sensor units 106 and/or the projectile 104, and communicate the data so collected to the data processing arrangement 202.
The data processing arrangement 202 is operable to receive data pertaining to the motion-indicative signals corresponding to the projectile 104 and the players 102, and perform a temporal correlation of the data so received, to determine one or more periods of time when the projectile 104 is likely to be spatially closely associated with the players 102.
(b) one or more periods of time when mutual contact between a plurality of players from amongst the players 102 has occurred during playing of the game.
The data processing arrangement 202 may perform the temporal correlation either periodically or concurrently during playing of the game. Alternatively, the data processing arrangement 202 may perform the temporal correlation after the game is over.
For example, the data processing arrangement 202 may perform the temporal correlation concurrently during playing of the game, to collect statistical data indicative of movements and/or spatial positions of the players 102 and/or the projectile 104 as a function of time. Optionally, the data processing arrangement 202 may be coupled in communication with one or more cameras (not shown in FIG. 2) installed in the playing area. Accordingly, the data processing arrangement 202 may be operable to analyze the statistical data for editing video content recorded by the cameras. In this way, the video content may be edited concurrently during playing of the game.
Optionally, the data processing arrangement 202 may be coupled in communication with a remote server (not shown in FIG. 2) that may be operable to collect statistical data indicative of movements and/or spatial positions of the players 102 and/or the projectile 104 as a function of time. The remote server may, for example, be operable to further analyze the statistical data to provide feedback on the performance of the players 102.
For this purpose, the sports monitoring system 200 may include one or more databases, depicted as a database 206 in FIG. 2. The data processing arrangement 202 may be coupled in communication with the database 206, whereat the data processing arrangement 202 may store data pertaining to the periods of time when the players 102 have been in contact with the projectile 104 and/or when mutual contact between the plurality of players from amongst the players 102 has occurred during playing of the game.
Beneficially, the data processing arrangement 202 may be implemented using a wireless device/a portable computing device that includes computing hardware which is operable to execute one or more software products recorded on machine-readable data storage media. In one embodiment, the computing hardware comprises a controller, microcontroller or processor device, as is generally described herein. Optionally, the wireless device may be spatially positioned in a proximity of the playing area. Typical examples of such a wireless device/a portable computing device include, although are not limited to, a smart telephone, a Mobile Internet Device (MID), a tablet computer, an Ultra-Mobile Personal Computer (UMPC), a phablet, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a web pad, a Personal Computer (PC), a Handheld PC, a laptop computer, and a server.
In accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, at least one of the data processing arrangement 202 and the sensor units 106 utilizes a smart telephone for its implementation within the sports monitoring system 200.
It should be noted here that the sports monitoring system 200 is not limited to a specific number of projectiles, sensor units, data processing arrangements and databases. FIG. 2 is merely an example, which should not unduly limit the scope of the claims herein. One of ordinary skill in the art would recognize many variations, alternatives, and modifications of embodiments herein.
FIG. 3 is a schematic illustration of various components in an example implementation of a sensor unit 300, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure. The sensor unit 300 could be implemented either as the sensor units 106 or spatially within the projectile 104. For illustration purposes only, let us consider that the sensor unit 300 is implemented spatially within the projectile 104.
The sensor unit 300 includes, but is not limited to, a memory 302, a processor 304, a configuration of sensors 306, a wireless interface 308, and a system bus 310 that operatively couples various components including memory 302, processor 304, the sensors 306 and the wireless interface 308. Memory 302 stores a motion sensing module 312 and a data recording module 314.
The sensors 306 may include at least one of: accelerometer, magnetometer, pressure sensor, temperature sensor, gyroscopic sensor, microphone, GPS sensor or other indoor/outdoor location sensor, and timer. Outputs generated by the sensors 306 may, for example, be indicative of accelerations and/or rotations and/or orientations of the projectile 104 as a function of time.
Beneficially, the motion sensing module 312 may be interfaced with the sensors 306. When executed on processor 304, the motion sensing module 312 is operable to resolve and integrate the outputs generated by the sensors 306 into the aforementioned motion-indicative signals corresponding to the projectile 104.
As described earlier, the motion-indicative signals may include information about at least one of: an ID pertaining to the sensor unit 300, one or more movements (for example, accelerations and/or rotations and/or orientations) of the projectile 104, one or more spatial positions of the projectile 104, and associated time stamps. The ID may, for example, be a Media Access Control (MAC) address, a Terminal Identifier (TID), or other identification pertaining to the sensor unit 300.
Optionally, the sensors 306 may include a GPS sensor for determining one or more absolute spatial positions of the projectile 104 upon a surface of the Earth. Alternatively, the wireless communication network 204 may be employed to determine one or more relative spatial positions of the projectile 104, for example, by way of triangulation. For this purpose, the wireless communication network 204 may, for example, include wireless routers for Wi-Fi communication, or Bluetooth base stations (“Bluetooth” is a registered trademark).
Optionally, the sensors 306 may include a timer for including the time stamps in the motion-indicative signals. Alternatively, processor 304 may provide system time as reference for including the time stamps in the motion-indicative signals.
When executed on processor 304, the data recording module 314 is operable to record the motion-indicative signals as a function of time. Optionally, the sensor unit 300 may include one or more data storage media (not shown in FIG. 3) for storing the recorded data as a function of time.
Alternatively, the sensor unit 300 may be coupled in communication with the database 206, whereat the data recording module 314 may store the recorded data either periodically or on real-time basis.
In accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, the sensor unit 300 is operable to communicate its recorded data to the data processing arrangement 202 using the wireless interface 308.
In accordance with another embodiment of the present disclosure, the sensor unit 300 and the sensor units 106 are operable to create a virtual sensor network by sharing their recorded data amongst themselves. In such a case, at least one of the sensor units 106 and/or the sensor unit 300 is required to communicate the recorded data (i.e., data pertaining to the motion-indicative signals corresponding to the players 102 and the projectile 104) to the data processing arrangement 202.
In accordance with yet another embodiment of the present disclosure, the sensor unit 300 is operable to collect the recorded data from the sensor units 106, and communicate the data so collected to the data processing arrangement 202 using the wireless interface 308.
Optionally, the wireless interface 308 may be used to upload new configuration and/or software updates to the sensor unit 300.
The sensor unit 300 may also include a power source (not shown in FIG. 3) for supplying electrical power to various components of the sensor unit 300. The power source may, for example, be a battery or other suitable power storage means.
FIG. 3 is merely an example, which should not unduly limit the scope of the claims herein. It is to be understood that the specific designation for the sensor unit 300 is for the convenience of reader and is not to be construed as limiting the sensor unit 300 to specific numbers, types, or arrangements of modules and/or components of the sensor unit 300. One of ordinary skill in the art would recognize many variations, alternatives, and modifications of embodiments of the present disclosure.
For example, the sensor units 106 could be implemented in a manner similar to the example implementation of the sensor unit 300. With reference to FIG. 3, the sensor unit 300 has been implemented spatially within the projectile 104 for illustration purposes only.
Further, the sensors 306 and the motion sensing module 312 form a part of the aforementioned motion sensing arrangement of the projectile 104, while the data recording module 314 forms a part of the aforementioned data recording arrangement of the projectile 104.
FIG. 4 is an illustration of a method of operating the sports monitoring system 200, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure. The method is depicted as a collection of steps in a logical flow diagram, which represents a sequence of steps that can be implemented in hardware, software, or a combination thereof.
At a step 402, the sports monitoring system 200 is provided with one or more projectiles, such as the projectile 104. In accordance with the step 402, the projectile 104 is provided therein with the associated motion sensing arrangement and the data recording arrangement, as described earlier.
The step 402 includes a sub-step of arranging for the motion sensing arrangement of the projectile 104 to include at least one of following sensors: accelerometer, magnetometer, pressure sensor, temperature sensor, gyroscopic sensor, microphone, GPS sensor or other indoor/outdoor location sensor, and timer.
In addition, the step 402 includes a step 404 and a step 406. At the step 404, the motion sensing arrangement of the projectile 104 operates to generate the motion-indicative signals corresponding to the projectile 104. Subsequently, at the step 406, the data recording arrangement of the projectile 104 operates to record the motion-indicative signals generated at the step 404. In accordance with the step 406, the motion-indicative signals are recorded as a function of time.
Further, at a step 408, the sports monitoring system 200 is provided with one or more sensor units, such as the sensor units 106 that are wearable by the players 102. In accordance with the step 408, each of the sensor units 106 is provided therein with the associated motion sensing arrangement and the data recording arrangement, as described earlier.
The step 408 includes a sub-step of arranging for the motion sensing arrangement of each of the sensor units 106 to include at least one of following sensors: accelerometer, magnetometer, pressure sensor, temperature sensor, gyroscopic sensor, microphone, GPS sensor or other indoor/outdoor location sensor, and timer.
In addition, the step 408 includes a step 410 and a step 412. At the step 410, the motion sensing arrangements of the sensor units 106 operate to generate the motion-indicative signals corresponding to the players 102. Subsequently, at the step 412, the data recording arrangements of the sensor units 106 operate to record the corresponding motion-indicative signals generated at the step 410. In accordance with the step 412, the motion-indicative signals are recorded as a function of time.
Beneficially, the method includes an additional step in which at least one of the sensor units 106 and/or the projectile 104 operates to communicate its recorded data (i.e., data pertaining to the motion-indicative signals corresponding to the players 102 and/or the projectile 104) to the data processing arrangement 202 via a wireless communication link, as described earlier.
Optionally, the projectile 104 and/or the sensor units 106 may perform one or more additional steps of sharing their recorded data amongst themselves to create a virtual sensor network. Alternatively, at least one of the sensor units 106 and/or the projectile 104 may perform an additional step of collecting the recorded data from the sensor units 106 and/or the projectile 104.
Finally, at a step 414, the data processing arrangement 202 operates to receive data pertaining to the motion-indicative signals from the projectile 104 and/or at least one of the sensor units 106, and perform a temporal correlation of the data so received. Based on the temporal correlation performed at the step 414, the data processing arrangement 202 operates to determine one or more periods of time when the projectile 104 is likely to be spatially closely associated with the players 102.
The step 414 may be performed either periodically or concurrently during playing of the game. Alternatively, the step 414 may be performed after the game is over.
Optionally, the method may also include an additional step of arranging for at least one of the data processing arrangement 202 and the sensor units 106 to utilize a smart telephone for their implementation within the sports monitoring system 200.
It should be noted here that the steps 402 to 414 are only illustrative and other alternatives can also be provided where one or more steps are added, one or more steps are removed, or one or more steps are provided in a different sequence without departing from the scope of the claims herein. For example, the step 402 may be performed simultaneously with the step 408. The steps 404 and 406 may be performed simultaneously with the steps 410 and 412, for example, during playing of the game.
Optionally, the method may include an additional step of collecting statistical data indicative of movements and/or spatial positions of players 102 and/or the projectile 104 as a function of time.
(b) providing feedback on the performance of the players 102.
Such an analysis may, for example, be performed either concurrently during playing of the game or after the game is over. Additionally consumers accessing the system could be provided performance related statistics from the venue and/or other content and information related to the game. Consumers could for example download video clips related to the game in their mobile terminal or a computer at home.
These additional steps may, for example, be performed either by the data processing arrangement 202, or by a remote server coupled in communication with the data processing arrangement 202.
FIG. 5 is an illustration of an example set of motion-indicative signals as functions of time, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure. The example set of motion-indicative signals includes a motion-indicative signal 502 corresponding to the projectile 104, a motion-indicative signal 504 a corresponding to the player 102 a, a motion-indicative signal 504 b corresponding to the player 102 b, and a motion-indicative signal 504 c corresponding to the player 102 c. The motion-indicative signals 502, 504 a, 504 b and 504 c have been depicted as functions of time, in FIG. 5.
For example, in order to determine the periods of time when the players 102 have been in contact with the projectile 104, the data processing arrangement 202 may perform the temporal correlation between the motion-indicative signals 502 and 504 a, between the motion-indicative signals 502 and 504 b, and between the motion-indicative signals 502 and 504 c.
The temporal correlation may, for example, be performed by way of sliding dot product. A sliding dot product may, for example, be calculated by sliding the motion-indicative signal 502 over the motion-indicative signal 504 a. The value of the sliding dot product is considerably large during periods of time when the motion-indicative signals 502 and 504 a substantially match with each other, i.e., when the projectile 104 is likely to be spatially closely associated with the player 102 a.
Optionally, the temporal correlation between the motion-indicative signals 502 and 504 a may be performed for a suitable period of time, for example, from a starting point of the motion-indicative signals 502 and 504 a. Subsequently, the temporal correlation may be iteratively performed for other suitable periods of time. Accordingly, the temporal correlation may also indicate how dependence between the motion-indicative signals 502 and 504 a varies with respect to time.
Further, the data processing arrangement 202 may perform a temporal correlation between the motion-indicative signals 504 a, 504 b and 504 c, to determine the periods of time when mutual contact between a plurality of players from amongst the players 102 has occurred.
(c) the projectile 104 is likely to be spatially closely associated with the player 102 c during a period of time (t5).
Based on the results of the temporal correlation, statistical data on when the players 102 have been in contact with the projectile 104 may be derived.
Further, results of the temporal correlation performed on the motion-indicative signals 504 a, 504 b and 504 c may be indicative of the periods of time when mutual contact between a plurality of players from amongst the players 102 has occurred. The results may, for example, be indicative of one or more periods of time when a plurality of players moved in sync with each other. For example, a plurality of players involved in a tackle situation may be moving with apparently large accelerations and/or in the same direction at the same time.
Embodiments of the present disclosure can be used for various purposes, including, though not limited to, enabling users to know when one or more players have been in contact with one or more projectiles during playing of the game, and/or when mutual contact between a plurality of players has occurred during playing of the game, and enabling users to collect statistical data indicative of movements and/or spatial positions of the players and/or the projectiles as a function of time, and thereby further analyze the statistical data, for example, to provide feedback on the performance of the players and/or to edit video content recorded by various cameras concurrently during playing of the game.
The aspects of the disclosed embodiments may also include software and computer programs incorporating the process steps and instructions described above that are executed in one or more computers. In one embodiment, one or more computing devices, such as the data processing arrangement 202 and sensor units 106 of FIG. 2 or sensor unit 300 of FIG. 3, for example, are generally adapted to utilize program storage devices embodying machine readable program source code, which is adapted to cause the computing devices to perform the method steps of the present disclosure. The program storage devices incorporating features of the present disclosure may be devised, made and used as a component of a machine utilizing optics, magnetic properties and/or electronics to perform the procedures and methods of the present disclosure. In alternate embodiments, the program storage devices may include magnetic media such as a diskette or computer hard drive, which is readable and executable by a computer. In other alternate embodiments, the program storage devices could include optical disks, read-only-memory (“ROM”) floppy disks and semiconductor materials and chips.
The computing devices generally described herein may also include one or more processors or microprocessors for executing stored programs. The computing device may include a data storage device for the storage of information and data. The computer program or software incorporating the processes and method steps incorporating features of the present disclosure may be stored in one or more computers on an otherwise conventional program storage device.
Modifications to embodiments of the present disclosure described in the foregoing are possible without departing from the scope of the present disclosure as defined by the accompanying claims. Expressions such as “including”, “comprising”, “incorporating”, “consisting of”, “have”, “is” used to describe and claim the present disclosure are intended to be construed in a non-exclusive manner, namely allowing for items, components or elements not explicitly described also to be present. Reference to the singular is also to be construed to relate to the plural.
a data processing arrangement for receiving data pertaining to the motion-indicative signals from at least one of the one or more projectiles and the plurality of sensor units, for performing a temporal correlation of the data pertaining to the motion indicative signals including the sound recorded by the microphone, by using a sliding dot product to identify a substantial match among the data from at least one of the one or more projectiles and the data from the plurality of sensor units, and for using the substantial match among the data to determine one or more periods of time when actual mutual contact among the plurality of players has occurred, the motion indicative signals of the at least one projectile and the at least one player sensing unit further comprising acceleration, rotation, or orientation information.
2. The sports monitoring system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the temporal correlation is performed for determining when the one or more players have been in contact with the one or more projectiles during playing of the game.
3. The sports monitoring system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one of the one or more projectiles is operable to communicate its recorded data to the data processing arrangement via a wireless communication link.
4. The sports monitoring system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one of the one or more sensor units is operable to communicate its recorded data to the data processing arrangement via a wireless communication link.
5. The sports monitoring system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the motion sensing arrangement of each of the one or more projectiles includes at least one of following sensors: accelerometer, magnetometer, pressure sensor, temperature sensor, gyroscopic sensor, microphone, Global Positioning System (GPS) sensor or other indoor/outdoor sensor, and timer.
6. The sports monitoring system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the motion sensing arrangement of each of the one or more sensor units includes at least one of following sensors: accelerometer, magnetometer, pressure sensor, temperature sensor, gyroscopic sensor, Global Positioning System (GPS) sensor or other indoor/outdoor sensor, and timer.
7. The sports monitoring system as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of the data processing arrangement and the sensor units utilize a portable computing device for their implementation within the system.
providing the system with a data processing arrangement for receiving data pertaining to the motion-indicative signals from at least one of the one or more projectiles and the plurality of sensor units, and for performing a temporal correlation of the data pertaining to the motion indicative signals including the sound recorded by the microphone, by using a sliding dot product to identify a substantial match among the data from at least one of the one or more projectiles and the data from the plurality of sensor units, and for using the substantial match among the data to determine one or more periods of time when actual mutual contact among the plurality of players has occurred, the motion indicative signals of the at least one projectile and the at least one player sensing unit further comprising acceleration, rotation, or orientation information.
9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the method includes performing the temporal correlation for determining when the one or more players have been in contact with the one or more projectiles during playing of the game.
10. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the method includes operating the at least one of the one or more projectiles to communicate its recorded data to the data processing arrangement via a wireless communication link.
11. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the method includes operating the at least one of the one or more sensor units to communicate its recorded data to the data processing arrangement via a wireless communication link.
12. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the method includes arranging for the motion sensing arrangement of each of the one or more projectiles to include at least one of following sensors: accelerometer, magnetometer, pressure sensor, temperature sensor, gyroscopic sensor, microphone, Global Positioning System (GPS) sensor or indoor/outdoor location sensor, and timer.
13. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the method includes arranging for the motion sensing arrangement of each of the one or more sensor units to include at least one of following sensors: accelerometer, magnetometer, pressure sensor, temperature sensor, gyroscopic sensor, Global Positioning System (GPS) sensor or other indoor/outdoor location sensor, and timer.
14. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the method includes arranging for at least one of the data processing arrangement and the sensor units to utilize a portable computing device for their implementation within the system.
15. A software product recorded on machine-readable data storage media, wherein the software product is executable upon computing hardware for implementing the method as claimed in claim 8.
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Here is the cover of her comic book. You can see the amount of detail Anna always puts into her drawings. I particularly like the bee ferris wheel!
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The prizes are the most exciting thing of all. Anna has received 50 printed copies of her book, her school will receive a collection of picture books for their library, and an author or illustrator will come to the school as a special event!
Anna has been invited to read her story to the nursery and Primary one classes, and in preparation she has made a little Bea toy to take with her. Isn’t she the cutest thing? She is made with a yellow sock, bits of a black sock and braided black wool for her arms and legs. Her antennae are made from a black paperclip, and her eyes and shoes are made with Fimo baking clay. I just hope the children won’t pull her legs off!
Update: Anna had a lovely time with the nursery children at her school, who seemed to really enjoy hearing her read the Bea story. She visited two nursery classes and four P1 classes, and had a great time being a visiting author!
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