GOOD NEWS – Early registration for membership renewal begins on June 1st. Discount pricing on all levels of membership will be available from June 1 – June 30th. The quickest way to link is through our completely redone website. Browse through it and see all the new features and then go to NWBRRC.com and click on join. This will take you to Active.com. The club exists because of you, our members. We appreciate and value your continuing support and being part of the premier running club in South Florida.
Memorial Day is Monday. For those not racing a 5k in Weston or Boca, if you are in town lets plan on doing a run to honor those that have served our country. We will meet at the Walmart parking lot at 6 am for a 3 mile run (the small loop) or longer if you choose. See you out there.
Have a wonderful holiday weekend everyone and stay tuned for a followup notice on our June board meeting. It is our annual election of the board of directors. All are welcome to attend and participate in elections to join the board for the 2017/2018 year.
Thursday, March 16th from 6p – 730p: our sponsor, Ameriprise Financial (Diego Velasquez) is holding a dinner seminar from 6p – 730p at Bru's Room on Hillsboro Blvd. The topic is "Learn How to Cover Long Term or Chronic Care costs." To RSVP, please call:954-603-0515, Alejandro.Silva@ampf.com or Judy.Morales@ampf.com.
Thursday, March 23rd from 530p – ??: we are having our spring social at Angelo's in the Heron Bay Shoppes (5920 Coral Ridge Dr). It is pay as you go and drinks under $20 are 2 for 1 as well as discounted tapas. Happy hour is from 4p – 7p. As an added bonus, our new sponsor Mobile Cryotherapy will be in the parking lot from 6p – 8p so that you can experience their service. It is $40 for the session but discounted to $35 if we have 15 people signed up to try it. Get happy and give your body a treat to get it ready for the weekend run.
Our professional staff of Certified Fitness and Yoga Instructors and Personal Trainers are here to share their knowledge with you. We have over 100 group fitness classes per week and are open to every level of fitness ability from beginner to the more experienced. We keep our classes small enough to know you personally and to meet all of your fitness needs and goals.
Fusion Fitness and O2 Yoga is a boutique, independently owned, fitness studio located in the heart of suburban Coral Springs, Florida. It is the fruition of experienced fitness enthusiasts Debbie Wolff and Andi Boddie and has become a haven for those seeking a balance in their lives, mind, body and soul.
Fusion Fitness and O2 Yoga has grown from a small space to a multi-room studio offering over 100 classes weekly in a variety of group fitness formats. Classes are intentionally kept small enough to provide personal training in an intimate group setting. Fusion Fitness and O2 Yoga enables clients to meet their whole body fitness needs and goals. Fusion Fitness and O2 Yoga has consistently been voted "Best Fitness Studio in Town."bFusion is located at 4670 Coral Ridge Dr, Coral Springs, FL 3307 Phone: (954) 345-9642. Check out their website, fusionfitnessyoga.com for a list of classes and schedules.
Thank you for your sponsorship. I look forward to our membership taking advantage of all they have to offer.
I would like to welcome a long time friend of the club, former president, and now new sponsor with her business that can make you feel absolutely recovered from whatever you put your body through in training, from injury, or race ready in preparation for your next event. Ilene Sonin is owner of Mobile CryoSuite and here is a brief introduction.
What is Whole Body Cryotherapy? First off, let's discuss cryotherapy (or as some call it… "Cryo Therapy"/ "Cryogenic Therapy") in and of itself first before we dive into the "whole body" aspect of it. Cryotherapy, as defined by the ever-reliable Merriam-Webster dictionary, means "the therapeutic use of cold." Based off of this definition Cryotherapy, in the simplest of terms, is essentially, COLD THERAPY.
Let's back up for a second, what is the purpose of cold therapy? Studies have shown that exposing the body to sub-zero temperatures, aka cold therapy, can help reduce inflammation, relieve muscles soreness, improve energy, boost endorphins, and much, much more. Nice!Now to discuss Whole Body Cryotherapy. Whole Body Cryotherapy deals with exposing the WHOLE BODY to cold temperatures… cold as in -202ºF! Wowza, that's cold. Now how does one expose their entire body to frigid temps? Well you could stand out in the middle of Antarctica while barely wearing anything but that doesn't sound very fun, or safe; OR you could hop on into an Impact Cryotherapy Cryosauna for a quick 3-minute Whole Body Cryotherapy session!
Ilene would like to give you more information on the treatments and is also available to book appointments. Her contact is cell# 954-415-1000 or ilene@mobilecryosuite.com. Of course there are club discounts for the service which Ilene will share. She has also offered to come out if we can get a group of 10 or more who would like to experience a sample treatment (normally $50 but only $40 to club members for the first time).
Contact me if you would like to be part of the group and we will coordinate dates and times.
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This Saturday, February 4th at 8am, the folks at One to One Fitness are conducting a kids boot camp. For those of you who have kids in our Youth Running Program you know what fun the kids have on the obstacle course. Manny plans on holding the boot camp classes one Saturday per month and the cost of the class is $15 with each additional child in the family at $10/class. Bring your children out for a fun time while encouraging their fitness. It is open to children of all of our members. One to One Fitness is located at 5451 N University Dr # 101, Coral Springs, FL 33067 at the corner of Westview and University. The phone number is 954-796-7001 for further information.
YAY!! It's that time of year again to run with cool ocean breezes and finish up with coffee, bagels, and your fellow members. We will be having our annual beach run on Saturday, February 11th at 530 am (the weekend before the A1A Half). We will leave from The Cove Shopping Center in Deerfield Beach. The course goes to Spanish River Park in Boca Raton and back to The Cove (10 miles round trip). You can turn around at any time. Coolers will be available at Palmetto and A1A and there are bathrooms available at the golf course about a mile up from there. NOTE: If you decide to run out west that weekend, coolers will not be available so please plan your hydration accordingly.
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Few things divide running opinion as much as technology used on the road. I declare my beliefs from the outset. I do not, and never will, understand why people run with music piped into their ears, even less so in a race!!!! Having never been bored or in need of diversion for one yard of the thousands of miles I have run, it is an utter mystery why runners pollute the serenity and meditative qualities of running with music. I love music. I listen to it often. Never when I run. A run is time when I think, debate or structure thoughts free of influence from an increasingly noisy world. It is meditation in motion for me.
There is one piece of technology I have always used, namely the Garmin or GPS watch. Interestingly, I when look back I recall using a simple Timex 'Ironman' wristwatch strapped diminutively to my arm. It did little more than tell the time. Imagine that!!!! I often ask: How did I ever cope without knowing my splits and pace? How did I complete runs with absolutely no awareness of such esoteric details as calories burned, ambient temperature, humidity or cadence? How indeed?
Interestingly, the minutiae springing readily from the generously priced and larger device now adorning my arm still re- mains something of a mystery while running. Why? Because the ravages of advancing age mean that one's ability to actually SEE this cascade of vital information recede with the passing years. Presbymyopia is my new running companion.
Runners oft times are caught furtively squinting at their watches vainly stealing brief glimpses of precious, nay life changing and critical numbers, conveniently and luminously tattooed to their wrists. I am no exception, but I ask fellow runners to read my watch for me to salve my need for information. Do they wonder if I can actually read? No matter. My craving surmounts any level of embarrassment that might result When, I ask therefore, will Garmin produce the Senior Runners GPS device? We have needs. The market should deliver. There are many of us. We are waiting!!!
A situation recently befell me at a post run breakfast. I had not run that day as I am, sadly, nursing a knee ligament and cartilage injury. This Saturday morning, I joined two friends. Conversation ensued. The joy of a race completed was shared amid humorous excuses as to why they merely strolled and did not race. This made sense to me. At least, it did, until I was exposed to a horrifying admission, read on.
Initially I noted nothing unusual. Then. Quite unexpectedly. One of us, with a fleeting hand gesture, beckoned the others to draw close. Our heads convened semi secretly around the full circumference of the Diner table we occupied in a vain attempt to ensure that NO ONE in the bustling restaurant would notice we might be learning something truly awful, embarrassing and above all shameful. They all stared, it seemed – maybe straining to hear the prospective horror.
Our impending confessor looked both of us in the eye. To make a point, we assumed. Next, she took a slow, deep, calculated breath before speaking in a deliberately hushed tone. Her eyes dropped. She quietly uttered, 'You know. Today was not at all fast, but I have to tell you, I did not wear a watch'.
That was it. The air raced out of the room. Garmin Free?
Now, nothing made sense. At all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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On Thursday, October 6th, as the kickoff event to our seminar series this year, NWBRRC along with ONE TO ONE FITNESS , will be hosting "Self Defense for Runners". We had this program last year and it was extremely interesting as well as interactive. We invite all who are interested in learning how to protect yourself on the run to attend.. Here is the address: One To One Fitness. 5451 University Drive, Suite 101, Coral Springs, Fl. 33067. The time is still to be determined.
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Little Giants Volleyball
Little Giants Volleyball Club began life in the summer of 2015.
In 2016, Little Giants VC hired its first volleyball court at Clapham Leisure Centre and formed its first women's team, a team that lifted the trophy in its first year, At the same time, the club launched friendly community tournaments: an immediate blast and a nursery for new talent. This enabled the club to increase the number of its open sessions the following year from twice a week to seven-days-a-week with the goal of getting as many people as possible active. The club funded another venue to ensure volleyball facilities for any residue from the existing open games and, that same year, introduced its very first juniors' session at Clapham Leisure followed by a second one at Caius House Youth Centre. Meanwhile, in collaboration with Lambeth Borough, the club launched outdoor grass volleyball sessions throughout the summer to introduce the sport to the local children and adult community.
The club's first Under 15 and Under 16 girls' and boys' teams were formed in 2018 from its open play junior groups and the local borough, recognising the club's achievements and ambitions, proposed it be the umbrella club for the borough's youth female squad preparing for the London Youth Games.
The Coronavirus pandemic tested the club's resilience, and its leadership has come through eighteen testing months using imagination, flexibility, and hard work. It stayed home, stayed connected and whenever restrictions allowed, it played volleyball, growing the interest of the sport amongst juniors alike with the result that it can now proudly announce that it has 1,000 under 18 junior members with those numbers growing almost daily: volleyball players who can enjoy well-established sessions for all levels from beginners through intermediate to competitive players, every day of the week. As well as this, club members have expanded their sport in several schools, providing volleyball programmes as a lunch or after school activity in more than twenty schools now since 2018. The club can collaborate with more local schools and introduce more school volleyball programmes; further information can be found on the website.
This means that, as the new academic year begins, the club has established juniors' sessions seven days a week for two age groups: 7 to 12 years old and 12 to 18 years old. Following a few years of training juniors, the club now has youth teams as well as adult teams competing in national competition for its most talented members as well as sport for all for thousands and a pathway to progress from school and youth volleyball into adult participation.
The adult's section is already very large as well. Divided into three level groups: beginners, intermediate and advance level players, the club offers training opportunities, hosts friendly tournaments, enters teams in competition and, during summer months, organises outdoor sessions for all. For those mums and dads who have had any experience with the sport or are keen to try volleyball alongside their kids Little Giants Volleyball club provides opportunity.
Weekly juniors timetable:
Mondays Boys 12-Under 18s team training (Open to all until the end of September) 6 pm to 8 pm at Caius House Youth Centre
Tuesdays Girls 12-Under 18s team training (Open to all until the end of September) 6 pm to 8 pm at Caius House Youth Centre
Boys 12-Under 18s Open coaching session 5 pm to 7 pm at Crystal Palace NSC
Girls 12-Under 18s Open coaching session 5 pm to 7 pm at Crystal Palace NSC
Mixed 12-Under 18s Junior training session 4:15 pm to 5:45 pm at Brixton Recreation Centre
Girls 12-Under 18s team training(Open to all until the end of September) 6 pm to 8 pm at Clapham Leisure Centre
Boys 12-Under 18s team training (Open to all until the end of September) 10 am to 12 pm at Caius House Youth Centre
Mixed 12-Under 18s Junior training session 12 pm to 1:30 pm at Caius House Youth Centre
Mixed 7-Under 12s Junior training session 1:30 pm to 3 pm at Caius House Youth Centre
Girls 7-Under 12s Junior training session 10 am to 11:30 am at Caius House Youth Centre
Boys 7-Under 12s Junior training session 11:30 am to 1 pm at Caius House Youth Centre
Mixed 12-Under 18sJunior training session 2 pm to 4 pm at Clapham Leisure Centre
Little Giants Volleyball offer 20% off, please email littlegiantsvolleyballclub@gmail.com and mention Clapham Mums to avail the discount.
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Department statement on the insurrection
The members of the Department of Political Science at Lehigh University formally condemn those who incited or participated in the insurrection against the American government, which took place at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. We join our colleagues across the country in calling for the immediate removal of Donald Trump and the other elected officials involved in this coup attempt.
Peaceful transitions of power after legally-sanctioned elections are integral to democratic practice. Whereas we acknowledge the importance of civil disobedience in confronting systemic oppression, to be perfectly clear, this was not an act of civil disobedience in the face of oppression; it was sedition, urged on by a dangerous fascist, who is also a White supremacist. Those storming the Capitol intended to overthrow a fair and legal democratic election; their actions were fed by lies and Donald Trump's disgraceful stoking of violence and fear. The ongoing security threats, both foreign and domestic, resulting from these actions are staggering and cannot be tolerated.
White supremacist insurrectionary violence has a long and troubling history in America. For example, the coup of November 10, 1898, in Wilmington, North Carolina, overthrew the democratically-elected mixed race Reconstruction era government and remains a part of our national shame. History also demonstrates that citizens are not powerless, however. All Americans who respond to coup attempts through peaceful, nonviolent resistance uphold the principles of democracy and help to secure the freedoms that our particular form of constitutional democracy protects.
In this moment of tremendous unrest, we remember that the work of the university is not separate from the world we inhabit. The discipline of Political Science, in particular, offers significant knowledge about democracy and democratic backsliding. What we study and learn together directly shapes our perspectives. In this moment, we recommit to bringing all our knowledge and resources to illuminate peaceful approaches to conflict resolution and the pursuit of social justice.
We also understand that we, as a community, have experienced a tremendous amount of trauma lately, and the exposure to and consequences of that trauma are not evenly distributed throughout society. As scholars of political science, the faculty in the Department of Political Science at Lehigh stands with those who are targeted by White supremacy and remains committed to learning and facilitating the study and practice of a genuinely inclusive and empowering form of democratic politics. Together, we can transform these experiences of violence and hostility into something positive for ourselves and others.
The members of the Department of Political Science
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MRC Attacks The Messenger, Won't Admit O'Reilly Is A Liar
Topic: Media Research Center
In promoting the Brian Williams controversy, the Media Research Center wanted to make sure you knew that Williams was a liar. With Bill O'Reilly, not only does the MRC refuse to concede he has lied, it's attacking anyone who dares to point out that inconvenient fact.
Jeffrey Lord made the MRC's O'Reilly agenda clear in a Feb. 28 NewsBusters post declaring that O'Reilly lies are irrelevant:
There is a lesson from all of this O'Reilly story, a reminder of exactly how the American Left works. Make no mistake. This story of what Bill O'Reilly did or did not say or do decades ago during the Falklands War is not what this latest dust-up is really all about.
The first objective here was to try and ruin Bill O'Reilly's career. To get him off of Fox News and shut him up. Not coincidentally sending a torpedo into Fox News itself - and more. Much more.
The disturbing fact is that Bill O'Reilly is but the latest figure in what is called "conservative media" to have this experience. And worse? This obsessive drive to destroy - not disagree with, but destroy - conservatives or even those like Bill O'Reilly who do not self-identify as a conservative, (O'Reilly sees himself as a traditionalist or "T-Warrior" as in "traditionalist warrior" and is well out there, as here saying that "I vote all over the map") has spread well beyond conservative media.
Lord makes no mention of Williams -- probably because he cannot plausibly claim that the right-wingers who glommed onto that controversy were not motivated by an "obsessive drive to destroy" Williams. Indeed, as we noted, the MRC was fundraising off it.
The MRC's hypocritical strategy was made even more clear in a March 2 MRC item by Mike Ciandella huffing that "liberal groups attacking Fox News host Bill O'Reilly about his past reporting got more than $15 million from left-wing billionaire George Soros." It's so insidious, according to Ciandella, that "Even some outlets pushing this story that are not funded by Soros have Soros connections."
At no point does Ciandella dispute the accuracy of what this outlets are saying about O'Reilly -- he's just trying to kill the messenger.
And that's the MRC's agenda. Conservatives never lie and anyone who point out that they do obviously has a nefarious puprose. It's easier than admitting the truth.
Posted by Terry K. at 12:44 PM EST
WND Columnist Still Spouting Her Prime Derangement Elsewhere
Andrea Shea King's weekly column for WorldNetDaily that covers various to-dos on the Internet is pretty dull as far as such things go. But as we've previously noted, her right-wing insanity rears its ugly head outside of WND.
It did so again on her Internet radio show where, as Right Wing Watch documented, King called for members of Congress who decline to attend today's speech before Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be "hanging from a noose in front of the U.S. Capitol Building." She further channels Ed Wood by declaring that those who elect members of Congress she doesn't like are "stupid, stupid people."
So why is King stuck writing a boring tech column for WND when she's obviously capable of bringing the derangement expressed by fellow columnists like Erik Rush and Marisa Martin? It's a mystery.
Posted by Terry K. at 10:52 AM EST
Not News at CNS: Gaffes And Birthers At CPAC
Topic: CNSNews.com
CNSNews.com sent a full complement of reporters to cover the speeches at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference -- chief among them from their boss, Brent Bozell.
But curiously, CNS' reports on the speeches quoted only the red-meat attacks. Missing was any hint of gaffe or controversy.
Ali Meyer's story on the speech by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker plays up his anti-Washington attacks, such as calling the District of Columbia "68 square miles surrounded by reality."Meyer failed to mention a serious gaffe by Walker in which he likened pro-union protesters to ISIS.
Strangely, CNS did publish (but buried by refusing to promote on its front page) an Associated Press article about Walker's gaffe.
(Meanwhile, the MRC's Kyle Drennen huffed that NBC reported on Walker's "blunder," while happily noting that "CBS didn't deem the comments newsworthy.")
When two CPAC speakers -- Donald Trump and Rick Santorum -- pandered to extremists by making birther-friendly comments, CNS not only refused to report on them, it neglect to report on their speeches at all.
Given how long Bozell has worked to bend CPAC to his right-wing will, he certainly doesn't want any controversy over extremist statements overshadowing the festivities. Through selective and biased, reporting, his "news" division is making sure that doesn't happen.
WND's Farah Retcons His Birther Obsession
A "retcon" (retroactive continuity) is an attempt to reframe past events to serve current needs. While the term is generally applied to comic book plots, it applies in real life as well.
Witness Joseph Farah retconning WorldNetDaily's birther obsession in his March 1 WND column:
Before the 2008 election was held, I tried to warn America of what was coming.
If we ignored what the Constitution explicitly said regarding the eligibility of presidential candidates, then the founding documents that held our nation together and set it apart from the rest of the world would be rendered meaningless.
We would no longer be governed by the rule of law, I predicted. We would be governed by the rule of men.
Now, more than six years later, we are saddled with a president who knows no one is going to hold him accountable to the law. After all, if we didn't take the Constitution seriously on a matter of the few and simple eligibility rules it set forth regarding the presidency, why would the Congress, the courts and the people hold him accountable other laws of the land?
The results are in. The evidence is clear. The history has been written.
It gives me no satisfaction that I saw this coming and that I pointed it out over and over again over the last six years. I would have preferred to be wrong. I would have preferred that Obama respected his oath of office. I would have preferred that he faced real opposition when he didn't. I would have preferred if America's system of checks and balances on power worked the way they were intended. I would have preferred that a federal judge or the Congress of the people held Obama accountable to the Constitution back in 2008.
It would have saved America a great deal of pain and suffering.
Even worse, Americans don't seem to have learned a lesson yet.
Farah cannot claim WND's birther obsession is about the rule of law because it was never about that; it was always about trying to destroy Obama for failing to be as right-wing as Farah is. It ignored its own reporting that experts found Obama's birth certificate to be authentic (which prompted another retcon attempting to redefine "authentic") to smear Obama with fraudulent documents and manipulating into existence an incompetent and biased "cold case posse" to give a legal patina to its hateful obsession. And as all of WND's birther conspiracy theories were discredited, WND hid the truth from its readers.
Not only did all of WND's anti-Obama efforts fail, they destroyed what little credibility WND had. Farah's cowardly refusal to hold Ted Cruz to the same "eligibility" standards he's holding Obama simply underscores the fact that his jihad against Obama is politically motivated.
And now Farah -- an inveterate liar -- wants us to believe that his birther obsession really was all about warning the country about the rule of lawand not personal destruction? Please.
MRC Not Interested In Correcting False Anti-Gay Post
WorldNetDaily wasn't the only one to fall for a false anti-gay story peddled by a right-wing legal group.
In a Feb. 6 MRC TV post, Kristine Marsh uncritically repeated the Pacific Justice Institute's claim that "a Bay Area high school's freshman English classrooms were taken hostage by the school's "Queer Straight Alliance" group and grilled about each student's opinions on gender and sexuality."
Marsh quotes only from a PJI press release, adding that PI and its leader, Brad Dacus, "have good reason to complain. This isn't the first incident of sexual propaganda and intimidation students have undergone at Acalanes High School."'
But as Media Matters reported, the story is bogus. Unlike Marsh, Media Matters contacted the school district, which confirmed that PJI's biased version of events "does not reflect what actually took place."
Will Marsh correct her blog post? It appears unlikely -- it's been nearly two weeks since PJI's deception was exposed, and her post remains uncorrected.
Posted by Terry K. at 9:52 AM EST
WND's Bid To Stop Loretta Lynch Ends In Failure
Remember a few weeks back when WorldNetDaily tried to raise a ruckus over the nomination of Loretta Lynch as attorney general? Well, never mind.
If you'll recall, WND tried to make a big deal out of Lynch, in her work as a federal prosecutor, supposedly letting HSBC off with just a ($1.9 billion) fine over money-laundering allegations, prompting WND to lie once again about how it broke the HSBC story. But WND never identified what exactly Lynch had done, giving the appearance that this was all about its pathological Obama-hate instead of actual facts.
Well, it didn't work -- not surprising given the well-earned lack of respect WND is given in the real world. Lynch's nomination advanced out of the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee with three GOP senators joining Democrats in approving the nomination.
WND, meanwhile, seems to want to bury this failure: It devoted no original reporting to Lynch's advance, instead stealing an article from TownHall on the subject.
As so many times before, a hate-based partisan WND crusade ends in failure. After all this time, WND has apparently notgotten the message that nobody believes them.
CNS' Hunter Finds Even More LGBT-Related Federal Spending She Objects To
After a brief detour, CNSNews.com deputy managing editor Melanie Hunter is back to cherry-picking federal spending to find another example of LGBT-related spending she disagrees with.
In a Feb. 25 CNS article, Hunter complains that "The National Institutes of Health has awarded $251,173 in taxpayer funds to the University of California Los Angeles to use 'social-network based intervention' to promote the use of an HIV-prevention drug regimen among 'transgender women' in Peru."
This is the ninth article Hunter wrote has written since December highlighting LGBT-related federal spending, versus one article on spending that's not LGBT-related.
Bradlee Dean Lies Again In His WND Column
In addition to be a lying preacher, Bradlee Dean isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer.
In his Feb. 26 WorldNetDaily column -- which ironically begins with the "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on," which he misattributes to Winston Churchill; in fact, the statement dates from the 19th century -- Dean writes:
Today, there are:
1,500 newspapers
1,100 magazines
9,000 radio stations
2,400 publishers
All of these are owned and operated by only 6 corporations.
While there are legitimate concerns about concentration of media ownership -- one accounting claims that six corporations control 90 percent of "media" -- Dean's statement is utterly false.
The largest radio station owner in the U.S., iHeartMedia (formerly Clear Channel), owns around 850 stations, less than 10 percent of the total Dean claims. The largest owner of daily newspapers by circulation, Gannett, owns 80, also less than 10 percent of the total. If the largest company in those sectors don't even own 10 percent of the outlets in their sector, it's physically impossible for "six corporations" to control all of them.
Dean huffs: "Often, we see people who are put in front of our faces as being just and upright. However, when you pull the curtain back, you find that the opposite is true." Why, it's almost as if Dean is talking about himself; members of the street teams for Dean's now-defunct "You Can Run But You Cannot Hid International" ministry have told of the mistreatment they received and denounced the operation as a "cultic sham."
Den then attacks Time magazine for naming tyrants such as Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin as its "man of the year," suggesting that Time was endorsing their works. Dean ignores that Time has explained that the honor is not necessarily an endorsement of their activities. After listing that rogues' gallery, Dean then rants:
Barack Hussein Obama was declared Person of the Year by Time in 2008 and 2012 (Time changed the title from Man of the Year to Person of the Year in 1999). Barack Hussein Obama has been the most destructive president in America. He is known as the most biblically hostile president. He has attempted to attack the foundations of America, tear down the Constitution and re-create it in his own image. He is a shameless supporter of the murder of children in the womb, even attempting to force private institutions to fund it, and has abused his power in an attempt to strip American citizens of their rights to keep and bear arms, which are to be protected under the Second Amendment.
Obama is following in pursuit of dictators aforementioned by Time magazine.
And Dean is going Godwin -- not to mention lying again -- by portraying Obama as just like Hitler.
CNS' Starr Can't Stop Falsely Reporting That Emergency Contraception Is Abortion
CNSNews.com has long perpetuated the falsehood that emergency contraception is just the same as having an abortion. Apparently, CNS will continue to refuse to let the truth get in its way.
Penny Starr gives it another go in a Feb. 20 CNS article:
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is advancing federal regulations that require federally funded organizations caring for illegal alien minors who are in the United States without their parents (Unaccompanied Children or UC) and who may have been sexually abused access to "emergency contraception" services.
"Emergency contraception" includes abortion-inducing drugs.
According to an HHS Fact Sheet, emergency contraceptives approved by the Food and Drug Administration include Plan B One-Step, Next Choice One Dose, My Way and Levonorgestrel Tablets and the IUD.
The label of one such emergency contraceptive--Plan B One Step—says: "this product works mainly by preventing ovulation (egg release). It may also prevent fertilization of a released egg (joining of sperm and egg) or attachment of a fertilized egg to the uterus (implantation)."
According to Web MD the hormonal IUD "changes the lining of the uterus, so implantation of a fertilized egg cannot occur."
As we pointed out the last time Starr peddled this falsehood, failure of a fertilized egg to implant in the uterus is not an abortion under any medical definition. If that were so, Starr would have to count the more than 50 percent of a woman's fertilized eggs that do not implant naturally as an abortion as well.
But it appears that, given a choice between right-wing talking points and the truth, Starr sticks with the talking points.
Obama Derangement Syndrome Watch, Supersize WorldNetDaily Edition
Thus, there is a vast segment of America that simply isn't aware of this administration's basis in Marxism and fundamentally anti-American worldview, under-the-radar executive and regulatory power grabs, material support of terrorists and criminal participation in the overthrow of governments. They also have no idea that Obama has provided unprecedented access to our government to Islamist militants for the express purpose of compromising our national security and placing the American people at grave risk.
Were this segment of our electorate – stupid though they may or may not be – suddenly made aware of these facts, we would be looking at an entirely different political landscape right now.
-- Erik Rush, Feb. 18 WorldNetDaily column
President Obama seems more interested in defending the religion of Islam than in defending the United States against the threat of Islamic jihad, but Islam isn't under attack; we are.
Obama has created a straw man – or fattened one up that others created. The United States isn't at war with Islam – or even radical Islamists, for that matter. By incessantly and wrongly suggesting we are hostile to Islam proper, Obama is giving credence to that charge and planting a seed in the minds of Muslims, thereby aggravating the problem he claims he wants to diminish.
-- David Limbaugh, Feb. 19 WND column
What else did Imam Obama – who professes Christianity – proclaim in the name of the ISIS Islamic eschatology? Obama claimed that ISIS has "perverted the religion [of Islam]" and that it is peddling a "twisted ideology used to incite others to violence."
-- Ilana Mercer, Feb. 19 WND column
Dear candidate for president of the United States:
Congratulations on your decision to pursue a career as leader of the free world. The following exam, while in no way comprehensive, is intended to assess your basic qualifications and level of occupational competency. Though a failing grade does not automatically exclude you from being elected by low-information voters, hipster millennials, liberal yuppies plagued by white guilt and lesbian feminists with sleeve tattoos, it does strongly indicate that you are better suited for a career in an industry requiring no experience whatsoever and few, if any, measurable skills.
Alternative career paths might include:
1. Community Organizer
2. Law professor at the University of Chicago
3. Serial bad golfer
4. Mom jeans model
-- Matt Barber, Feb. 20 WND column
While I can understand why some politicians won't fall into the obvious trap of judging the hearts and minds of others – especially a president running roughshod over the Constitution, making dangerous and reckless foreign policy decisions, ruling domestically like a dictator and destroying the economy, I am only too happy to comment on Obama's alleged Christian faith.
-- Joseph Farah, Feb. 23 WND column
Obama refers to our nation as "this" country, as though it is some other country and not "our" country, as when he said, "There's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped disproportionately by the police, and that's a fact." Obama once told a European audience that "there have been times where America has shown arrogance."
When Obama has expressed admiration for our country, it is often in a backhanded manner. "I realize that America's critics will be quick to point out that at times we, too, have failed to live up to our ideals; that America has plenty of problems within its own borders. This is true," Obama declared to the United Nations General Assembly last year.
By contrast, Mayor Giuliani said, "With all our flaws we're the most exceptional country in the world. I'm looking for a presidential candidate who can express that, do that and carry it out."
-- Phyllis Schlafly, Feb. 23 WND column
I'm familiar with what I call the political juvenile delinquency of Barack Obama. Part of my job in the Army was reading the Communist press. I see through all of Obama's political juvenile delinquency. Been there. Done that. Got over it before Obama was born.
Don't tell me I can't question the patriotism of someone whose patriotism is as questionable as that of Barack Obama.
And I want his patriotism questioned like a select committee of the House of Representatives would. And not like a nudist crossing a barbed-wire fence!
-- Barry Farber, Feb. 24 WND column
The secret is that Obama and nearly all in his employ despise America and the entire model of Western society. This includes democratic republicanism, capitalism, as well as Judeo-Christian principles and values. A large measure of their antipathy is also due to the fact that they consider this paradigm an Anglo-European (white) paradigm.
Obama and his ilk are an amalgam of radicals in the '60s mold, whether Marxist-Leninists, Maoists, Structural Marxists, black and Latino nationalists, Marxist feminists, Nation of Islam, or Sunni Muslim Islamists. All of these groups are intensely hateful, and all embrace the short historical worldview that the Evil Old White Man (those of northern European descent) has been exploiting nonwhites for centuries, it is time for this to come to an end, and it is their mission – nay, their destiny – to bring this end about.
They view America as the white man's "signature creation" – so of course America has to go.
The sentiments of a Barack Obama (or an Eric Holder, Van Jones, etc.), therefore, will always lie with the Islamists, who they perceive as having been exploited and oppressed by the Anglo-European capitalist colonialist Judeo-Christian leviathan. Their sentiments will always lie with the urban black street thug rather than their law-abiding white victim, because it is the white victim who is in part responsible for the black thug's pain.
-- Erik Rush, Feb. 25 WND column
Enter Rudy Giuliani, supposedly speaking for America's wounded feelings, letting us know that Obama doesn't love America. Yet it says something deeply uncomplimentary about America's leadership during this era of purposely induced decline that a well-known star in the GOP's firmament has taken this long to get less than halfway to the truth about Obama.
I say halfway because, like the unfaithful spouse in the slapstick comedy, Obama has approached the task of bringing American down with studied ingenuity. Nothing that contributed to our success has escaped his destructive efforts. Refusing seriously to address the issue of his eligibility for office, he quietly sneered at the authority of the Constitution's words. Seeking to confer voting privileges on the D.C. delegate in Congress, (which the Constitution explicitly withholds), he waved off another constitutional provision. Seeking to usurp Congress' oversight of the decennial Census, he sought to poison the electoral root of its independent representation of the people.
When I heard that Rudy Giuliani was questioning Obama's love for America, I wondered, "Why does he still refused to admit that it is hatred, not the absence of love, which drives Obama?" It drives the whole elitist faction Obama represents. Giuliani stops short of the truth. So should I be struck dumb by his bold courage, or intrigued enough to investigate his odd failure of perception?
-- Alan Keyes, Feb. 26 WND column
-- Bradlee Dean, Feb. 26 WND column
CNS Notes High Beef Prices, Doesn't Bother To Explain Why
A tagline at the end of CNSNews.com's economics articles states that they are "funded in part with a gift made in memory of Dr. Keith C. Wold." We have to wonder if Wold is spinning in his grave at the abysmal quality of so-called reporting his bequest to the Media Research Center is funding.
A Feb. 26 CNS article by Ali Meyer is an example of this. It's all about how "The average price of a pound of ground beef climbed to another record high -- $4.235 per pound -- in the United States in January." Even though Meyer slings a full complement of stats in her article, at no point does she explain why beef has become so expensive, implying that it's somehow the fault of President Obama.
In fact, as more responsible news outlets have reported, the high prices are the result of a years-long drought in Texas and the Midwest that shrank the U.S. cattle herd in 2014 to its smallest size since 1952.
Unless Wold's bequest specifically ordered Meyer and CNS to mislead about the economy to falsely smear the Oabma administration -- which may indeed be the case, given that many of CNS' misleading articles about monthly unemployment rates also contain the tagline crediting him -- we can't imagine that Wold's heirs are happy about how CNS is using his money.
WND's Peacock Is Still Obsessed With Blaming Obama For U.S. Spending In Kenya
Steve Peacock's peculiar obsession with suggesting that any U.S. aid to Kenya is personally directed by President Obama continues in a Feb. 21 WorldNetDaily article:
A new round of advisers is being sent to Kenya on behalf of the Obama administration, which plans to deploy individual private contractors to assist in the simultaneous expansion of health-care services and the ongoing decentralization of the national government.
Indeed, one of Obama's long-term goals "is to establish a social health insurance system to enable equitable provision of health care to all Kenyan citizens," one of the adviser-recruitment documents explicitly declares.
At no point does Peacock prove that Obama is personally behind any of this aid to Kenya, or even that the aid is an increase from that under previous administrations. Peacock is simply a WND tool to suggest that Obama wasn't born in America.
Peacock is a little sensitive about his biased, obsessed, cherry-picked reporting getting called out.
NewsBusters' Shepherd Shows Why He Was Named Top Blogger At CPAC
Topic: NewsBusters
NewsBusters managing editor Ken Shepherd received an award for "Nonprofit Blogger of the Year" at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference. One apparent reason is that he dutifully promotes right-wing talking points.
We've documented Shepherd promoting dishonest conservative narratives on alleged discrimination against Christians, voter ID laws and a Houston anti-discrimination ordinance. He's also taken President Obama's words about vaccines out of context.
A Feb. 25 NewsBusters post further demonstrates the technique that won Shepherd his award. In it, he complains about MSNBC host Chris Matthews' criticism that John Boehner's invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before Congress two weeks before an Israeli election was "purely partisan":
As I've documented previously here at NewsBusters, Boehner's invitation to Netanyahu -- which noted that the invitation was on "behalf of the bipartisan leadership" of both houses of Congress -- was initially for him to speak on February 11.
The president was notified by Boehner about the February 11 invite AFTER it was sent to Netanyahu but prior to Netanyahu's response, which turned down February 11 but offered March 3 as an alternate date, which Boehner readily agreed to.
Again, Mr. Boehner noted bipartisan consensus in extending the invite to Prime Minister Netanyahu. Either that is true and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D) and Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) have some explaining to do, or Boehner is lying or at best misrepresenting the bipartisan "OK" he got from his colleagues. Rather than presenting this as nefarious partisan conspiracy, Matthews would do better to attempt to get to the bottom of that question.
But we could find no evidence Boehner consulted any Democratic congressional leaders before inviting Netanyahu. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi has stated she was not consulted. Politico reports that "Boehner's office coordinated with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Ron Dermer, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S." The response from Boehner quoted by Politico did not contradict Pelosi's claim.
Politco also reports that Boehner didn't even invite Pelosi to Netanyahu's speech, though he invited other Democratic officials.
So it appears Matthews has done his research. So why is Shepherd still giving Boehner the benefit of the doubt? Instead of pussyfooting around it, Shepherd should simply state what is apparently obvious: that Boehner lied when he portrayed Netanyahu's speech invitation as bipartisan.
But then, that's not the kind of truth in blogging that earns you the "Nonprofit Blogger of the Year" designation at CPAC.
Updated: Friday, February 27, 2015 10:55 AM EST
Serial Commandment Violator Farah Judges Obama's Christianity (Again)
As he is wont to do, Joseph Farah devotes yet another WorldNetDaily column to insisting that President Obama isn't a real Christian:
here are good reasons for Christians to wonder about Obama's claims to be a follower of Jesus – including his policies such as affirmation of same-sex marriage, abortion on demand for any reason or at any stage of development, including babies who survive outside the womb, the abject abandonment of persecuted Christians in the Middle East while offering "refugee" status to tens of thousands of Sunni Muslims, who are not experiencing religious persecution.
Some are fond of quoting Matthew 7, in which Jesus said, "Judge not, that ye be not judged." But that's not all Jesus said about judgment.
In the same chapter, He said believers would not be clueless in knowing who is a true believer and who is not: "Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? and then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."
Does Obama have such fruits of the faith to show?
I'm not judging, but I can't see any. Can you?
Farah judging the sincerity of Obama's faith is the height of hypocrisy. Not only does Farah repeatedly violate the Eighth Commandment by bearing false witness against Obama and others, he facilitates others in doing so -- indeed, the whole of WND can be seen as one massive, ongoing Eighth Commandment violation.
Farah is on record as appearing to be unduly proud of the fact that WND publishes misinformation -- something reinforced by his refusal to publicly repent for his dishonesty even as he demanded others do so during the "national day of prayer and fasting" he invented.
What fruits of the Christian faith does Farah show? We can't see any because his record of lies make it impossible.
MRC Still Won't Call Out O'Reilly's Lies, Instead Attacks His Accusers
The Media Research Center went nuclear on the exaggerations of NBC's Brian Williams, despite the fact that MRC chief Brent Bozell is guilty of much more serious falsehoods. But the MRC won't call out Fox News' Bill O'Reilly for making similar exaggerations, and as they continue to pile up, the MRC has now taken to sniping at O'Reilly's accusers.
Bozell has been utterly silent on O'Reilly -- after all, liars stick together. Thus, the role as chief sniper has fallen to Tim Graham, despite his role in helping Bozell hide the fact that he ghost-wrote Bozell's syndicated columns for years. (If Graham didn't speak out on the issue, he helped conceal it.)
Graham grumbled in a Feb. 24 NewsBusters post: "The left is trying to knock off O'Reilly after the Brian Williams scandal." As if the MRC's attack on Williams wasn't motivated much more by partisan hatred than concern for journalistic integrity.
The fact that Graham's post is mostly about an irrelevant side issue of whether a Washington Post blogger should have disclosed his wife's employment with Mother Jones, the magazine that first disclosed O'Reilly's exaggerations, shows that the MRC will be playing blame-the-messenger on O'Reilly in a way it didn't regarding Williams.
Indeed, Graham attacked another messenger in a Feb. 25 post, bashing GQ for daring to opine on O'Reilly:
No one looks to GQ for political analysis. It would be like looking to Rolling Stone for religion coverage. But they can still ape the rest of the liberal media and mock Fox News. As the Fox haters campaign to get Bill O'Reilly canned, GQ (not an abbreviation for Genius Quotient) has come up with a mocking list of "18 Things That Actually Would Get Bill O'Reilly Fired."
Graham took it even farther promoting his post on Twitter, seemingly questioning the sexuality of anyone who questions O'Reilly by sneering that GQ is "Foppishly against Fox":
In a response to ConWebWatch, Graham denied he was questioning the sexuality of O'Reilly's critics: "'Foppish' doesn't mean gay, you doof."
Graham's not alone in aggressively ignoring the substance of the charges against O'Reilly. In a Feb. 25 NewsBusters post, Randy Hall similarly borrowed from the kill-the-messenger playbook: "Could this assault on the most popular person in cable news for 15 years be an attempt to balance the scales after the liberals recently lost former NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams? Only time -- and ratings -- will tell."
At no point does Hall acknowledge the factual basis behind the accusations against O'Reilly.


Performing 2-3 sets of 1 exercise at the end of your warm up could dramatically increase your power and strength in your training session.
I've already dove head-first into warm ups, you can find those here: Part 1 and Part 2, but there is one portion of the warm-up that will have a lasting impact on your workout.
I'm talking nervous system activation.
The central nervous system is your body's computer, the central processing unit. It controls all the activities of the body.
The nervous system is the key to unlocking gains in the gym. Muscles leave much to be desired, as it's is theorized that voluntary muscles contract at about 30% of their total ability.
We've all heard stories of superhuman strength where someone lifts a 3,500 lb car off a loved one. This is due to adrenaline up-regulating the nervous system to maximize muscular strength. These extraordinary feats show the power a fully engaged of the nervous system.
Note: Before going further, it's important to note I'm not talking about creating a life/death experience in a warm up to jack up your strength.
So if we are only using say, 30% of our potential muscular strength, what would an extra 4-5% percent do for sports performance or workouts in the gym?
And what if our muscles contracted faster, getting to maximal activation faster?
Performing an explosive warm-up before your main exercise of the day will ignite your central nervous system (CNS) and maximize your strength.
Using explosive movements prior to your heavy training will prepare and teach your body to move with maximal velocity and force due to the increased rate of firing from the previous exercise.
The faster you can contract the muscles the more muscle fibers recruited, and the stronger are. It's vital that these exercises are not performed to fatigue, rather short duration (5-8 reps), maximum intensity, and plenty of rest.
A good warm up should wake up your muscles and central nervous system to maximize performance during your workout. The activities in your explosive warm up should mimic the body positions and movements in your training, and explosive movements that mimic those patterns are best.
Perform 2-3 sets of 5-8 reps after your warm-up — directly before the start of your training session. Rest 1-2 minutes between sets, focusing on maximum intensity on each rep.
What good is all that strength if you can't generate it quickly? An explosive warm-up will help shatter strength plateaus, sprint away from your competition, and build more muscle. Implement the simple movements warm-up movements for explosive growth!
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Catzowey! Life is meowvalous when Me & Myself snuggle with our favorito Book "Love Saves The Day" authored by my meowster pal Homer's momma! Yep uh huh my cat eyes always reading and meeting and greeting cuz that's what makes life Catzowey !
And itza fur shure that here izza Homer's Momma, the author and cat momma Gwen Cooper cuddling Me & Myself in purrrrstaticat form, and my Staff holding our pawsagraphed copies of her 2 books at the San Francisco SCPA in my City by the Bay.
When Me & Myself are chillaxing in this PAWzishun itza cuz I'ma comfy cat and sending dat lil bit of love and more love across the Planet tooza youza. Yep Uh Huh, cuz Me & Myself izza comfurtable sending out luv cuz it's fur shure that Love Saves The Day! Hoorayzatini!
And sometimes you gotta go digging but youza finds dat Lil Bit of Love in the strangest places!
Come one and bring em all to the mostest meowvalous Wrestling match on da Planet. Itza so so so giganticat that my Aussie pals flew over dat Pacific Oshun to San Franfuncisco for a front row seat. Kango is wearing da right purrtective helmet too & dat little bear gots thru the airport security with his booming returnable boomerang!
In the blonde fur pants, we has Grazie and of course youza knows I'ma wearing my EyeTailYun deeziner Tiger stripes pants. We boyz checking out the middle of the Wrestling ring to be sure itza fair, squared and even too.
Ding Ding - ROUND 1 and Me & Myself gotta da Grazie down and sure taking him by surprise!
Ding Ding - ROUND 2 and Grazie does a flip uppa and over and izza ready to pin me & myself ... well datza what I'ma thinking.
Catzowey! Itza ROUND 3 and Grazie pinning Me & Myself with dat double leg take-down move. I thinks he learned it on All-Star TeeVee Wabbit Wrestling! And whatza with his giganticat sized paws looking like heeza wearing boxing gloves or ready to play a tune on a giant Grand Steinway piano.
Ding Ding - ROUND 4 and itza more purrfecto moment to sirPrize my wrestling partner with a hunky Hulk Hogan "hammer power punch".
Ding Ding! The Finale ROUND 5 and dat catzowey ref says itza tie wrestling match so weeza gonna relax and chillax this week and gets rested and rev uppa for da finale wrestling series - coming sooner than you know.
Now make it a nonCATastrophic week!
What's A Better Cup Than a Cup of Catpuccino?
Catzowey! I'm reporting live, yep uh huh itza fur shure I'ma live and not using my 9 lives at The AMERICA'S CUP races in San Franfuncisco.
Itza got meowvalous security and all the San Franfuncisco Police are ecstaticat bout my attending.
Itza all over the news that the sails of the CATamarans getting shredded in the wind, so I tried shredding cuz then I'm up to date on the Shred-Oh-Matic logisticat stuff!
Fat Cats at The America's Cup drinking da bubbly with a view of my San Franfuncisco Kitty City skyline.
Pssst ... itza secret of course, and youza knows I'ma EyeTailYun kitty but my heart izza here with the USA at the America's Cup. Now if I can just get my cup o' Felidae favorito food filled uppa, I'll be a happy Man Cat no matter whooza wins dat CATamaran America's Cup race! There's 2 cups in this race: My food Cup and the America's Cup!
Catzowey! Nothing finer than trying to CATCHIT and finally snagging it!
La La La Labstah - thatza EyeTailYun for Loving da Lobster and I really did reel it in and CATCHIT! No catch & release for me.
To be fit and ready to CATCHIT, Me & Myself always starts my day the GUIDO way with an Irish breakfast - not EyeTailYun pizza.
Weeza CATCHITS it - yep we gottta our USA Flag and purrroud of it cuz America just had the 4th of July, ALL week long!
WOWZA MEOWZA! Itza Me & Myself when I CATCHITS a great row of seats at a San Franfuncisco Giants game! Take me out to dat ballgame and I will purr fur shure.


Forest School sessions are frequent and long term; they provide children with the opportunity to build up a relationship with the natural environment and each other while discovering their passions, interests and skills. Taking place in a natural or wooded area, there are many natural resources at the disposal of both adults and children alike, enabling everyone to be creative and inspired. Opportunities are varied and child led, they are not determined by a set curriculum. Structure is based upon observation and reflection, which serve to inform our child centred approach to learning and development. Learning and development is play based and open ended; the adult's role is as a facilitator and to ensure children are safe.
Year 2 children playing on the swing.
Forest School also supports and encourages risky play, where children are given unique opportunities to learn about themselves, the world around them and important life skills such as risk management, reasoning strategies and how to risk assess. Development of children in this setting is holistic; it focuses on physical, intellectual, emotional, social and spiritual aspects, engaging all areas as they interact with one another. Sessions are led by Mrs Mac, who is a trained level 3 Forest School practitioner; the qualification ensures that the Forest School ethos and principles are adhered to along with health and safety requirements.
Mrs Mac turning the chocolate bananas on the fire.
Forest school is a place where everyone has the opportunity to learn, grow and develop. Here we can achieve our full potential, enjoy ourselves and develop skills we never knew we had. Forest school is a place where we can all shine.
Working with the holistic child we aim to build confidence, self esteem, independence, social skills (team working), self reliance, resilience and a positive disposition through forest school activities. We aim to encourage feelings of wellbeing and develop autonomy in a warm, welcoming and safe environment.
We aim to educate and encourage empathy for the natural world through a shared ownership of the site. Our children will develop an understanding and respect for our flora and fauna, while discovering how we can care for nature through our actions and sustainable methods.
Adults will model good leadership skills. Shadowing children in a supportive safe manner whilst allowing them to take risks, make choices and initiate their own learning through their chosen activities. By allowing learners to feel safe and uninhibited we want to promote spontaneous learning experiences which occur naturally.
We aim to allow the children to lead our planning by working as a continuum. Learning in forest school must be simple and flexible within our set boundaries, using observation as a key to developing further sessions. Our planning must always be appropriate for the age, stage and ability of our learners. Small achievable goals are far better for promoting greater confidence and self esteem.
We aim to support all adults who are part of our forest school community. The forest can be a daunting place for adults as well as children, so it is important to include everyone in our routines and explain their role within our forest with care.
Forest School is for everybody.
Forest School is a process that builds on an individual's innate motivation and positive attitude to learning, offering the opportunities to take risks, make choices and initiate learning for themselves.
Forest School is organised and run by a qualified Forest School Leader.
Forest School maximises the learning potential of local woodlands through frequent and regular experiences throughout the year.
Forest School helps everyone appreciate and care for the environment.
A year 2 girl whittling a stick using a knife.
Appropriate clothing is very important when attending forest school. Children need to be warm, comfortable and able to stay dry in a variety of weather conditions. A list of clothing requirements will be provided to parents/carers prior to the commencement of Forest School sessions. In cold weather layers of clothing are recommended as they will provide the most warmth. Should a child become too hot layers can be removed in order to make them more comfortable.
Children wearing winter layers in their den.
Shorts and sort sleeved tops cannot be worn as children's arms and legs must always be covered within a woodland environment. The school will carry a selection of spare waterproof clothing, hats, gloves and wellington boots and socks in order to insure children are appropriately dressed.
Long sleeved T-shirts are ideal for the summer in Forest School.
Children are encouraged to bring a water bottle and snack to forest school. In hot weather water bottles are essential in order to stay cool and well hydrated.
Throughout our sessions we aim to offer a warm drink such as hot chocolate, along with a variety of foods which will be cooked on the camp fire.
Children making chocolate bananas ready for the fire.


The M010 is the latest technology card reader from Miura. Sporting a blue trim and ergonomic design, the M010 looks and feels good, and is packed with features such as a sizeable easy to read screen and a large simply operated keypad.
If you're looking for an economical way to accept payments without the need for a standard terminal, the Muira Card Reader could be just the solution you're looking for.
It fits snuggly into the hand for secure ease of operation, is light and comfortable to use and when not required, can be slipped into a pocket.
Payments and donations can be accepted using contactless, Chip & PIN, Apple Pay or Android Pay.
The Paymobile App does not have the pre-set donation button capability. The merchant needs to input the payment amount per occasion, making the device & app more suitable for small business use and for larger donation amounts. For frequent smaller donations, the Muira should be used in combination with the Payacharity App as featured under the Charity Solutions menu.
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When asked to name the current coalition government's finest accomplishment, Conservative Party candidate Simon Marcus said "changing lives", making reference to the economic recovery and welfare changes which Conservatives say have increased opportunities and life chances for many people.
The subject of welfare reform evinced some real passion; Marcus spoke about people who had been out of work for months and years finally receiving the counselling they need from Job Centre staff – "they're in the business of turning lives around".
On the NHS, Simon Marcus insisted that a state owned and operated healthcare service is still sustainable and financially viable in the twenty-first century: "There's no question whatsoever, but you have to make efficiencies". Marcus said that "free at the point of use is here to stay", and spoke of his commitment to the NHS – "my children were born on the NHS, my dad was an NHS doctor – it's in my blood".
Simon Marcus also drew attention for opposing several key elements of government policy – he stated his firm opposition to the bedroom tax, but also to the renewal of Trident, the UK's independent nuclear deterrent.


text:
<?php

namespace Elastica\Test;

use Elastica\Document;
use Elastica\Mapping;
use Elastica\Result;
use Elastica\Test\Base as BaseTest;

/**
 * @internal
 */
class ResultTest extends BaseTest
{
    /**
     * @group functional
     */
    public function testGetters(): void
    {
        // Creates a new index 'xodoa'
        $index = $this->_createIndex();
        $index->addDocument(new Document(3, ['username' => 'hans']));
        $index->refresh();

        $resultSet = $index->search('hans');

        $this->assertEquals(1, $resultSet->count());

        $result = $resultSet->current();

        $this->assertEquals($index->getName(), $result->getIndex());
        $this->assertEquals(3, $result->getId());
        $this->assertGreaterThan(0, $result->getScore());
        $this->assertIsArray($result->getData());
        $this->assertTrue(isset($result->username));
        $this->assertEquals('hans', $result->username);
    }

    /**
     * @group functional
     */
    public function testGetIdNoSource(): void
    {
        // Creates a new index 'xodoa'
        $indexName = 'xodoa';

        $client = $this->_getClient();
        $index = $client->getIndex($indexName);
        $index->create([], [
            'recreate' => true,
        ]);

        $mapping = new Mapping();
        $mapping->disableSource();
        $index->setMapping($mapping);

        // Adds 1 document to the index
        $docId = 3;
        $doc1 = new Document($docId, ['username' => 'hans']);
        $index->addDocument($doc1);

        // Refreshes index
        $index->refresh();

        $resultSet = $index->search('hans');

        $this->assertEquals(1, $resultSet->count());

        $result = $resultSet->current();

        $this->assertEquals([], $result->getSource());
        $this->assertEquals($indexName, $result->getIndex());
        $this->assertEquals($docId, $result->getId());
        $this->assertGreaterThan(0, $result->getScore());
        $this->assertIsArray($result->getData());
    }

    /**
     * @group functional
     */
    public function testGetTotalTimeReturnsExpectedResults(): void
    {
        $index = $this->_createIndex();

        // Adds 1 document to the index
        $docId = 3;
        $doc1 = new Document($docId, ['username' => 'hans']);
        $index->addDocument($doc1);

        // Refreshes index
        $index->refresh();

        $resultSet = $index->search('hans');

        $this->assertNotNull($resultSet->getTotalTime(), 'Get Total Time should never be a null value');
        $this->assertEquals(
            'integer',
            \gettype($resultSet->getTotalTime()),
            'Total Time should be an integer'
        );
    }

    /**
     * @group unit
     */
    public function testHasFields(): void
    {
        $data = ['value set'];

        $result = new Result([]);
        $this->assertFalse($result->hasFields());

        $result = new Result(['_source' => $data]);
        $this->assertFalse($result->hasFields());

        $result = new Result(['fields' => $data]);
        $this->assertTrue($result->hasFields());
        $this->assertEquals($data, $result->getFields());
    }
}

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Learn about fabrication through various welding technologies.
Program uses CWBi ACORN, a digital platform that provides world-class training material.
Acquire thorough knowledge of shielded metal arc welding (SMAW), gas metal arc welding (GMAW), gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) and thermal cutting.
Essential skills required to meet the performance objectives of the Apprenticeship Training Standards.
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We humans think, so in an easy way, it can be said that cognitive computing a simulation of human thought process in a computerized model. It involves self-learning systems that make use of natural language processing, data mining and pattern recognition. The main goal is to make use of cognitive computing to create automated systems that are capable of solving problems without human assistance.
Cognitive computing systems can harness learnings and past experiences at an immense scale to solve soft problems.
Cognitive computing makes use of machine learning algorithms and they continuously acquire knowledge by acquiring data by data mining techniques. The systems refine the way they look for patterns and as well as the way they process data so they become capable of anticipating new problems and modeling possible solutions. Being contextual, they understand what the data actually implicates. They draw from multiple sources to create holistic and contextual image data.
Cognitive computing is used in many Artificial Intelligence applications such as Artificial Neural Networks, Robotics, Virtual Realty.
These cognitive systems, most notably IBM Watson, rely on deep learning algorithms and neural networks to process information by comparing it to a teaching set of data. The more data the system is exposed to, the more it learns, and the more accurate it becomes over time, and the neural network is a complex "tree" of decisions the computer can make to arrive at an answer.


Sara Fennell, business coach and marketing strategist for fit pros - and host of a very, VERY good podcast called The Fulfilment Project, joins me today to discuss some key tools in this area.
First of all, you're going to hear an incredible story of overcoming and exactly what life *can* look like if our ability to perform at a higher level is non-existent.
- What is high performance? Does this involve MORE than just being super productive and focused all the time?
- If your close inner circle ISN'T full of people as obsessed with high performance as you – and if you are the average of the five people you spend the most time around… What the heck do you do?
- Are ALL high performers generally great at giving up their need for instant gratification – and how do we do that?
- How do we plan out our weeks to get the most amount of 'stuff' done possible and STILL have plenty of time for our non-work lives?
- Does your intimate relationship have a significant impact on how well you can produce and work, or should we 'silo' our personal and professional lives?
- How do we stay in control of our emotions so that our days run smoothly rather than experiencing emotional ups and downs?
- Do high performers spend a lot of time 'getting ready' to do their work?
- Sara's NLP coach – what can we learn about high-performance from this area of psychology?
- How do we go about rewriting negative thought patterns that might exist in our minds that prevent us from working and performing at a higher level?
- Do you actually NEED to be a morning person as a prerequisite to being a high-performer?
- Sara's homework for you!
NEWS: Are you a fitness professional?
If so, I HIGHLY recommend you head over look at Sara's upcoming Canadian Fitness Business Summit, which she is co-hosting with Joe Arko.
There's a LOT of really good speakers - almost makes me wish I was still a fit pro so I could go along - and tickets are, until January 31st, VERY affordable.
It's going down April 13th & 14th in Mississauga, Ontario. Grab your tickets - I suspect it'll be ridiculously good!


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Initially, we will call and visit you, for a friendly informal chat to discuss your individual needs.
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Q: How to get Speaker Volume Level? How can I get the speaker volume in C#?
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A: Using NAudio, you could do the following:
using NAudio.CoreAudioApi;
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//  download NAudio.dll from https://github.com/naudio/NAudio/releases
//  and add it as Reference to the project

var devEnum = new MMDeviceEnumerator();
var defaultDevice = devEnum.GetDefaultAudioEndpoint(DataFlow.Render, Role.Multimedia);
var volume = defaultDevice.AudioEndpointVolume;
float leftVolumePercent = volume.Channels[0].VolumeLevelScalar * 100;
float rightVolumePercent = volume.Channels[1].VolumeLevelScalar * 100;
float masterVolumePercent = volume.MasterVolumeLevelScalar * 100;

This article demonstrates, how to achieve such things without external frameworks.

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The Galapagos: A Natural Laboratory for the Earth Sciences by Karen S. Harpp,Eric Mittelstaedt,Noémi d'Ozouville,David W.
The Galápagos Islands are renown for his or her distinct natural world, inspiring Charles Darwin within the elaboration of his conception of evolution. but in his Voyage of the Beagle, released in 1839, Darwin additionally remarked at the attention-grabbing geology and volcanic starting place of those enchanted Islands. considering then, the Galápagos proceed to supply scientists with idea and worthwhile information regarding ocean island formation and evolution, mantle plumes, and the deep Earth.
Motivated through an interdisciplinary Chapman convention held within the Islands, this AGU quantity offers cross-disciplinary selection of fresh study into the foundation and nature of ocean islands, from their private roots in Earth's mantle, to volcanism, floor procedures, and the interface among geology and biodiversity.
Collectively, The Galápagos offers case reports illustrating the Galápagos Archipelago as a dynamic ordinary laboratory for the earth sciences. This e-book will be of certain curiosity to a multidisciplinary viewers in earth sciences, together with petrologists, volcanologists, geochronologists, geochemists, and geobiologists.
Not like another reproductions of vintage texts (1) we've not used OCR(Optical personality Recognition), as this ends up in undesirable caliber books with brought typos. (2) In books the place there are photographs equivalent to photos, maps, sketches and so forth now we have endeavoured to maintain the standard of those photos, so that they characterize safely the unique artefact.
This can be the tale of ways we all started and built our butterfly backyard. We all started with flora well liked by a few of the butterflies in our sector. the method was once academic, wonderful, pleasant and infrequently even heartbreaking. every little thing from hand feeding butterflies to giving them scientific realization.
The worldwide exchange of aquatic organisms for domestic and public aquariums, in addition to linked apparatus and add-ons, has develop into a multi-billion buck undefined. Aquaculture of marine decorative species, nonetheless in its infancy, is well-known as a workable replacement to wild assortment because it can complement or change the availability of untamed stuck specimens and possibly support recuperate common populations via restocking.
energy Books > Nature Ecology > The Galapagos: A Natural Laboratory for the Earth Sciences by Karen S. Harpp,Eric Mittelstaedt,Noémi d'Ozouville,David W.


About 10 years ago, I first got in touch with 3D Printing when I investigated the use of resin printers for jewellery model making… At the time the players to look at were Envisontech and 3DSystems and each of them had their individual strengths and the capabilities were bettering every time I saw the machines.
For some years my interest stayed on that level… A tool for industry to make resin models as an alternative starting point for wax loss casting. Becoming more and more efficient over time and more and more capable. But still a supportive tech for an old way of making jewellery as it has been done for centuries… That is what the industry likes, doing things the way they have always been done.
Then I got in touch with the Makerbot community and the fact that you can actually own a 3D Printer at home… This opened possibilities, but I was still waiting and watching the tech maturing… What would be a good time to leap in?
The year 2011 brought changes… the first was Baselworld 2011, there in the basement of an outlier building were the guys from Concept Laser demoing their DMLS machine… The stand was only about DMLS and they admitted the tech was not ready for prime time yet, but close enough to start generating interest… This got me excited… finally 3DPrinting as I had seen it: a new production method rivaling wax loss casting rather than supporting it.
Next came TEDxKids@Brussels… I registered my son for it and they gave him some homework: a website 3DTin on which they needed to make some stuff… Ritik did not need a lot of nudging to get started… the interface was cumbersome and frustrating, but slowly and surely he got to building. His creation: glasses with his name on them… Something he would always have wanted, but would never be able to buy in any store, since his name is not conventional!
The glasses were part of Joris Peel's workshop on 3DPrinting for the kids… they got to see their creations printed and this got Ritik fired up… "You could make so many cool things!". The next thing I see is a sale of Makerbot Cupcakes for Father's day and being a good father, I bought one for Ritik.
From then on, it has been one big roller coaster ride… I feel like I am 12 again and I got my first computer with a dot matrix printer… All the other kids used tapes and TV screens and I used a Mac with a mouse and floppies and could print stuff… Pretty soon, I was making my homework on the computer and got the printer to do color by swapping ribbons and lining up the paper… next came scanning using the Thunderscan and all kinds of tweaking: printing on thick paper and then soaking it in water.
Now with the 3D Printer, Ritik is doing similar stuff, but still under parental supervision: but the parent is also a kid trapped in the body of an adult! The transformation I saw in my children by introducing them to the 3D Printer, is something I wanted to share with more people, so I did a talk and 2 workshops at the first TEDxYouth@Flanders 2011 and it was amazing to see how easily the participants accepted the fact that you could print in 3D.


An absolute unit of a solo here at no. 71. I've been waiting for this one to come up --- tough one to nail. Think he did really well.
joeymakesmusic Slightly OT, but if you had to pick a top 100 (or even top 20) solos using only tracks from the 2000s onwards, which would be your top choices?
Man just listened to that album again --- someone has been cutting onions in office --- I'm not crying I promise.
First Jimi solo at No 70! Such a great song.
Third honorable mention with another Rush track. Looks hard!
No 69. Beatles. Didn't know this song before now. The one-guitar version looks mighty tricky.
klaasvakie He nailed the 12-string esque tone for both parts - easy to imagine people thinking that was a 12 string or some studio trickery back in the day?
V8 easy to imagine people thinking that was a 12 string or some studio trickery back in the day?
Yeah, I think I would've just assumed two guitar players But as he says, two guitar players weren't really a thing back then.
No 68. New to me, not sure if it fits in 100 greatest solos of all time, but maybe it will grow on me.
No 67, with EVH. Great solo, and a great shot at playing it IMO.
Haven't given this a good listen yet, not close to headphones, but a great song none the less. No 63. Black hole sun.
No 62 with some Gilmour - nice.
No 61 with Zakk Wylde - good solo.
klaasvakie Really enjoyed that one! I reckon so did he, that pick flick at the end had me chuckling He really cranked up the gain and shredded out on that one, I could hear the 'amp' squealing away in the background...Moar gain!
No 59. The Kinks. Haven't given it a listen yet, will dig out some earphones later.


I used to be able to set ssh arguments in filezilla, now I cannot. Because of this limitation, and because my filezilla is installed as a flatpak, I cannot use my ssh settings to stop using all keys available .
There must be something else going on as this functionality has not been changed in recent years.
I am having the same issue - If there is not a solution then I will also have to use another FTP client since I need to access this to update my clients' websites. I would prefer to keep filezilla since I already have all of my accounts set up in the site manager. Right now I can get it to work if I remove my private key (which is only used on one site out of all the sites that I maintain) and then I have to reload the key file every time that I need to access this one client site. It is doable, but a really annoying extra step that I didn't have to do before. Any solution for this would be much appreciated!


While defining telecom gets more and more difficult, the profit and ethics behind the business keep on diminishing. SBC spent $16B to a company whose revenue stream is declining more than 10% year over year. Verizon bought MCI, and in order to make deal lucrative, they say they will layoff over 7,000 people.
The reason for scaling-down in telecom is that the technological advancement has terribly been focused on communications. We all owe a thank to nineties for that... Lots of technical people has seen the future in Telecom and made huge amounts of mind investment to the business. Today, we are forced to live in an overly competitive industry where telecom is forced to be cheaper everyday. To make matters worse, a company called Skype appeared. This global P2P Telephony Company decided to make old fashioned definition of telecom a commodity through its software, which allows you to make free calls over the Internet. Other emerging companies like Net2Phone and 8x8 also flocked customers to make cheaper (sometimes free) calls.
Some traditional telecom companies have kept an awry eye on those start-ups while adopting technologies like VoIP. They mostly thought those new technologies are something to monitor and investigate. In other words, they are disruptive. Some assumed the danger and started firing QoS bullet, as those startups do not provide top-notch service like incumbents do.
The fact of the matter is, none of those business plans will hold true should they are based on making money on calls. Like Michael Powell said, "I knew it was over when I downloaded Skype..."
So, can we say that telecom is a commodity?
My answer would be no, if network providers accept to change their musty mindset. Three things are important if the full background of this new notion is to be understood. First is, telecoms exist to provide infrastructure. The rest needs to be handled by networking and computing companies.
The need for voice, video and data are going hand in hand. There is no value in them when there is no Internet. That's why, the second is, the new business plan should be based on the Internet access. If telecoms want to survive, charging customers packet-based with the guarantee of excellent QoS is the only way to go. MPLS is their material to make this happen.
This way, optimization, the biggest concern of telecom industry, can be solved as the packet usage can be approximated. Demoting VoIP into an application to where it originally is can be doable in packet-based model. This new model will also disallow fighting against free-of-charge models and bring a fresh breath to network providers to generate more revenue.
Third is, not only the ability of optimization but also the prioritization and security of the traffic, if needed, will let network providers to put extra cash to their pockets. The money behind the content will not be their ball game.
Some may argue that there is no incremental cost of extra usage of packets to a network so the value behind tracking the traffic is nonsense. However, what is unseen is that it forces network providers to upgrade their systems quicker. They can also build their cost /profit structure easier.
Perils to the model would be the evolution span of MPLS and anti-spam systems. MPLS, as an immature technology, is welcomed with high expectations. Addressing all needs in such a short period of time needs a lot of investment. The story is almost the same for anti-spam solutions too. No customer would like to pay extra for spam as this is adding to the traffic that a user is using. That would force network providers to unify on an MPLS/ anti-spam model where they and their customers can rely on.
Once this new role of incumbents is well assumed with solid technology, then converting the so-called threat of telecom commoditization into an opportunity is feasible.


"Yeah Gary!!!!!!!!!!! See ya next month :)"
"Just bought my tickets!!!!!! See you guys there :) ac"
Our first Chaser trip planned for July.
St. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Kansas City. Six stadiums in six days. All traveling done by car leaving Dallas July 19th. Has anyone taken this journey? Any words or wisdom? We are interested in doing all the stadium tours but don't want to waste money. Any suggestions for taking the tours or not?
First off, tickets will be really cheap this season at Marlins Park. Sign up for groupon-Miami as they are running great specials. Take the toddlers to the Bobblehead Museum- there are over 700 to see! They will also enjoy the fish tanks behind home plate. As for the teenagers, hopefully the game and food will do the trick!
Hi Angelia- welcome to Ballpark Chasers! Any trips planned yet for the 2013 season? Please let me know if you have any questions, comments or suggestions that I can help with in regards to our website. Thanks for signing up!


Frustrated by the daily bombardment of advertising on the streets of New York City, artist Caroline Caldwell and writer RJ Rushmore decided to produce a project that would dampen the sheer volume of visual marketing strewn throughout their environment. The pair didn't have the budget to prompt an entire overhaul, but they did have the incentive to construct an intervention that would offer an alternative glimpse to the city's high volume of print-based advertisements.
For their 2017 project, Art in Ad Places, the pair recruited 55 artists and collectives from across the country to produce 55 works to be temporarily displayed on pay phone booths across New York City. The installations were each presented for a week, and documented by their collaborator, street art photographer Luna Park.
The 52-week campaign ended in December of last year, however it has recently been compiled into a new book that documents the year-long installation. Art in Ad Places: 52 Week of Public Art Across New York City is available through Rushmore's street art blog Vandalog and features statements from each artist alongside essays written by the project's three collaborators. You can see the entire range of poster-sized artworks produced for Art in Ad Places on the project's website or Instagram.


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Home All issues Volume 504 / No 1 (September II 2009) A&A, 504 1 (2009) 213-223 Abstract
Volume 504, Number 1, September II 2009
Stellar atmospheres
6Li/7Li estimates for metal-poor stars
A. E. García Pérez1, W. Aoki2,3, S. Inoue4, S. G. Ryan1, T. K. Suzuki5 and M. Chiba6
1 Centre for Astrophysics Research, STRI and School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield AL10 9AB, UK e-mail: a.e.garcia-perez@herts.ac.uk
2 National Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan e-mail: aoki.wako@nao.ac.jp
3 Department of Astronomical Science, Graduate University of Advanced Studies, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
4 Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Oiwake-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan e-mail: inoue@tap.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp
5 Department of Earth Science and Astronomy, Graduate School of Arts and Science, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan e-mail: stakeru@ea.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp
6 Astronomical Institute, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan e-mail: chiba@astr.tohoku.ac.jp
Received: 6 April 2009
Context. The presence of the lithium-6 isotope in some metal-poor stars is a matter of surprise because of the high values observed. Non-standard models of Big Bang nucleosynthesis and pre-Galactic cosmic ray fusion and spallation have been proposed to explain these values. However, the observations of this light isotope are challenging which may make some detections disputable.
Aims. The goal was to determine for a sample of metal-poor stars; three of them have been previously studied and the remaining two are new for this type of study. The purpose was to increase, if possible, the number of lithium-6 detections and to confirm previously published results.
Methods. Spectra of the resonance doublet line of neutral lithium 670.78 nm were taken with the high dispersion spectrograph at the Subaru 8.2 m-telescope for a sample of five metal-poor stars ( ). The contribution of lithium-6 to the total observed line profile was estimated from the 1D-LTE analysis of the line asymmetry.
Results. Observed asymmetries could be reproduced assuming isotopic abundance ratios of the order of: 0.004 for BD +26° 3578, ~0.010 for BD +02° 3375 and G 64-37, 0.025 for BD +20° 3603 and 0.047 for BD -04° 3208. We found that these results were very sensitive to several of the assumptions made in the analysis, in particular, the treatment of the residual structure in the analysed spectra. Our final estimates for the errors are respectively Δ and 0.039.
Conclusions. The ratios for the sample are comparable to or even lower than these error values, so that detections of lithium-6 can not safely be claimed despite of the high resolving power ( ) and (400-600).
Key words: line: profiles / stars: abundances / stars: atmospheres / stars: population II / Galaxy: evolution
Chemical abundances of 10 metal-poor halo stars
Li and Be depletion in metal-poor subgiants
Lithium abundances of halo dwarfs based on excitation temperature — I. Local thermodynamic equilibrium
The barium isotopic fractions in five metal-poor stars
Lithium abundances in metal-poor stars


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Q: how to change sizes of button on other activity? I have two different activity(main and settings) and in settings activity i have 4 different button. There are for change sizes and pozition of button in main activity. I don't find any documentation about it. How to change pozition and sizes of button in other activity.

A: You can use Shared Preferences to store selected value and then to set size with value from Shared Preferences
//To save
SharedPreferences settings = getSharedPreferences(/*"your name for preferences"*/, 0);
SharedPreferences.Editor editor = settings.edit();
editor.putInt("BTN_SIZE", /*integer with selected value(e.g. selectedSize)*/);
editor.commit();// Or editor.apply();

//To retrieve
SharedPreferences settings = getSharedPreferences(/*"same name for Prefs to call it"*/, 0);
int size = settings.getInt("BTN_SIZE", 0); //0 is the default value

Hope it helps!