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New Skiffs Introduced in Lauderdale
By Mike Mazur
Walking the halls of the Broward County Convention Center at the 52nd Annual Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, three new flats skiffs caught my eye.
No surprise as to the first — Hell's Bay Boatworks (hellsbayboatworks.com) has been a market leader in skinny-water skiffs for years, but its latest entry may well be the company's most versatile boat, according to marketing director Todd Fuller.
The new Biscayne is a relatively small craft, stretching 16 feet, 4 inches in length, with a 70-inch beam. But despite its modest size, the skiff was built specifically to tackle rough waters. The hull features a sharp V entry into the water, which parts waves and chop with nary a shudder, Fuller told me.
Capt. Will Benson of the Florida Keys assisted with the Biscayne's design, and the hull checks in at about 595 pounds. Ideally matched with a 60- to 80-hp outboard, the skiff should draft about 7 inches with a full tank of fuel. Other Hell's Bays will go shallower — but this one, as Fuller suggested, ought to prove to be an extremely versatile boat.
Hell's Bay was not the only company sporting a beautiful new skiff at this year's show, however. Bohemian Boatworks (bohemianboatworks.com), a Sarasota, Florida-based outfit, was displaying its new Bohemian 17, and it looks to be a winner. The Bohemian is 17 feet, 9 inches in length with a 72-inch beam. The hull weighs 550 pounds, company president Robert Helmick told me, and it'll draft between 7 to 9 inches depending on outboard selection (40- to 70-hp options are available). Bohemian builds their boats custom-ordered, factory-direct, and it all starts with a stepped, V-pad hull that, from the looks of it, ought to produce an incredibly smooth, dry ride. Helmick says that this hull design increases draft slightly, but that the performance benefits far outweigh it.
The boat's finish is beautiful, and its clean lines and design are very pleasing to the eye. Ten under-gunwale rod tubes are standard, as is a baitwell with a clear lid built into the aft casting deck. I really liked this boat's wet storage compartment in the forward cockpit sole. It can be used for items like an anchor or castnet, while a giant dry stowage bin under the forward deck can house other items that need protecting. In short, it's a very impressive boat.
Finally, Scout Boats (scoutboats.com) has a new flats model that ought to serve many angling needs. The 177 Sport features a center console design with good-sized casting decks on the forward and rear decks. While not quite the technical flats skiff that either the Hell's Bay or Bohemian models are, the 177 Sport is more of a family flats boat, offering a nicely upholstered console cushion seat and sport seats with a backrest for the captain and passenger.
Still, the boat's dry weight with an engine (it can handle up to 115 hp) is about 1,000 pounds, and Scout claims the boat drafts only 8 inches. With 6 vertical rod holders on each side of the helm station, a standard console baitwell and two tackle trays, it's perfectly capable of some hardcore fishing.
These were just three of the new flats boats I stumbled across walking the halls of the 52nd Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. And they all look to be winners — check em out!
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The United States Export-Import Bank said today that it planned to form an alliance with Citigroup Inc., its first partnership with a private business in its 65 years of operation.
Under the planned partnership, Citigroup will make financing available to United States exporters and help share the Export-Import Bank's risks by providing its own capital and guarantees.
Terms of the partnership are expected to be mapped out by October, according to officials at the Export-Import Bank, an independent United States government agency.
The bank helps finance and facilitate United States exports. It does so by guaranteeing loans for United States exporters and for foreign purchasers of United States goods. The bank first advertised for the partnership in February, receiving eight proposals from international investment and commercial banks as well as insurance companies.
The size of the program and amount of money expected from Citigroup has yet to be determined, the Export-Import Bank said. ''The next few months will be dedicated to working out the details,'' Ms. Berry said.


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Southside Charmers Is Redfern's New 70s Miami-Inspired Cafe by the Bart Jr Team
It's serving up brunch cocktails and Mexican fare for breakfast lunch and (soon) dinner.
By Cordelia Williamson
While Redfern has retained a sense of inner-city grit, the area is undeniably becoming more upscale — especially when it comes to wining and dining. These days, it has a rooftop bar, a corner wine bar, a ramen joint with a line snaking out the door and now Southside Charmers: a cafe with a retro-Miami vibe by the team who brought us Scout's Honour and Morris (before selling them both) as well as local wine bar Bart Jr.
Taking over the much-loved Eathouse Diner's digs on Chalmers Street, Southside Charmers has kept with the Americana theme, but adding a fresh lick of paint and some kitschy nods to 70s Miami. The 50-seater space (with an additional 20 seats outside) is a lively, colourful and full-of-character diner.
"It's a little bit Golden Girls-y," says Southside co-owner Anne Cooper. "A very breezy, light and bright interior with a little bit of kitsch and a little bit of fun."
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Opening in early April, the venue is the brainchild of Cooper and Georgia Woodyard, with Georgie Easdale in the kitchen and Ryan Butler (Restaurant Hubert) leading the front of house. As locals, Cooper and Woodyard were driven by the desire of filling a culinary gap in their neighbourhood. It's the kind of place you'll find Redfern locals rubbing shoulders with a more transient crowd on weekends — a neighbourhood go-to.
"We just look at what's missing," says Cooper. "We always want to create something that we would want to go to and where our friends would want to hang out."
Following a produce-focused ethos, Woodyard — the "kitchen queen" of the pair — has developed a fresh, flavourful menu inspired by a trip they took around Mexico a few years back and the cuisine's influence on Miami and southern Cali.
Dishes like the Pablo Rice Bowl with mushroom, chorizo, greens and egg, Woodyard's take on a Cuban sandwich and breakfast tacos of scrambled egg, smoky black beans, charred corn and roasted pumpkin are obvious nods to the Latin American influence. Meanwhile, the Eggplant Pahi Scramble and the coconut, turmeric and buckwheat granola are more in line with the duo's former cafes, Scout's Honour and Morris.
"It's not a Mexican restaurant, it's just our flavour profile for here," insists Cooper. "It's also a point of differentiation to Bart, which has more of a European palate."
As well as nourishing food, expect fresh juices, well-executed smoothies, kombucha and Five Senses coffee alongside some brunch cocktails — including espresso martinis, bloody marys and, of course, southsides —a predominantly natural wine list and some boutique local brews hand-picked by Cooper.
Currently open for breakfast and lunch (with booze available from 10am), Southside will soon be extending its hours to dinner from Thursday to Saturday, offering a relaxed, fun and boozy spot for any time of day.
Southside Charmers is located at 306 Chalmers Street, Redfern and is currently open from 7.30am–3pm Tuesday through to Friday and from 9am–3pm on Saturday and Sunday. Dinner service is expected to be open soon Thursday to Saturday. We'll keep you updated with details.
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Published on April 26, 2019 by Cordelia Williamson
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The Long Journey of an Orphaned Kodiak Bear
In the instant that a female Kodiak bear was shot dead on Alaska's Kodiak Island last month, life changed irrevocably for her baby cubs. The mother had made the fatal error of wandering into a human settlement and, as normally happens when large wild carnivores come into contact with people, she paid with her life....
In the instant that a female Kodiak bear was shot dead on Alaska's Kodiak Island last month, life changed irrevocably for her baby cubs. The mother had made the fatal error of wandering into a human settlement and, as normally happens when large wild carnivores come into contact with people, she paid with her life.
Abandoned juvenile bears struggle to survive. They typically perish from starvation or as prey of other bears. But what followed in the case of one of the cubs orphaned on Kodiak was a remarkable chain of events that involved a large team of biologists and conservationists, transport by land and air, medical treatment, training to adapt to people — and ultimately a new life in captivity on the other side of the world.
The bitter-sweet story serves as a lesson to all of us of the consequences of how we manage our co-existence with our wild neighbors — and it illustrates some of the effort involved in rescuing orphaned bears and finding zoos to give them homes. In captivity, they live their lives, ambassadors for their species and the wilderness they left behind.
By Jordan Schaul
When bear cubs are left to fend for themselves, especially when less than a year old, they are not skilled or large enough to hunt with great success on their own, and unfortunately, they are also easy prey for larger bears.
Taquka, the Kodiak bear cub working with AWCC's Jordan Schaul. Kodiak bears are a particularly large subspecies of brown bear, endemic only to the Kodiak archipelago off the Alaska coast.
Photo by Doug Lindstrand
When someone takes the life of a bear, and particularly a bear with cubs, they draw outrage. And we at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center (AWCC) are just as disturbed about such a preventable situation.
Helpless cubs could be left to their fate or euthanized — but that's not fair. They could be rescued — but does such an intervention compensate for the human-induced casualty?
We much prefer to see cubs with their moms and grow up wild than serve as animal ambassadors in captivity. Yet we also can't turn our backs on a vulnerable cub or cubs. We wouldn't do that to captive born and reared offspring.
So it was with heavy hearts that we acceded to a request to hold an approximately ten-month-old male Kodiak bear cub, who along with two siblings lost its mother when she was killed in defense of property in a rural area 20 miles south of the city of Kodiak in early November. Kodiak is a 20,000-acre island in the archipelago.
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On November 7, Dr. Larry Van Daele, a veteran wildlife biologist, member of the IUCN Bear Specialist Group Coordinator's Committee, Project Leader for the Northern Forum Brown Bear Working Group, and area manager for the Alaska Department of Fish & Game on Kodiak Island, received a report from the Alaska State Troopers regarding some bear cubs that were hanging around a residence off the coast of Chiniak Bay. Kodiak's commercial airport and the largest Coast Guard base in the North Pacific are all located near Chiniak Bay, which sits to the northeast of Kodiak, the second largest island in the United States.
Larry had recently been in correspondence with zoologists at a captive carnivore facility in Sweden regarding their interest in Kodiak bear cubs. Knowing that the prospects of the Chiniak Bay cubs being adopted by another sow with cubs was highly unlikely, and that cubs would not survive on their own in the wild, Larry recruited two biologists from Alaska Fish & Game and a USFWS biologist with the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge to assist with the capture of the juvenile bears.
After a brief search of the area, the cubs were found near the shore of Chiniak Bay, in grass flats between the river and the sea in the vicinity of the residence where the sow, their mother, had been shot.
Once the team neared, the cubs took off across a field. The dominant and likely eldest cub climbed a spruce tree, where it was tranquilized with a dart. Following the quick sedation, one of the biologists climbed the tree and carefully retrieved the cub, handing the 83-pound baby bear down to the next biologist in a human "chain.'"
The cub was placed in a dog kennel for the ride back to Kodiak, where, with great innovation, the biologists placed him in an aluminum crate normally used as a bear deterrent for brooding king salmon. As Larry said, if it was good enough to keep bears out, it was good enough to keep one in.
'Aggressive as a Tasmanian Devil'
According to Larry, over the next few days the cub, which he named Taquka (the Yupik/Alutiiq word for brown bear), slept, rolled around and snuggled with a portion of his mother's hide Larry gave him to make him feel secure.
In an effort to induce hibernation, or at least start the process, the cub's crate was placed in a warehouse with the temperature lowered. Larry described Taquka's behavior over the next few days as identical to that of an adult brown bear: "Calm if in control, warning [you] if you get to close, and striking out if you are perceived as an immediate threat." He said the cub became as aggressive as a Tasmanian devil when his water was changed. But this, Larry surmised, was all appropriate behavior for a bear in good health.
Back in Portage, my colleague Matt was coordinating plans to pick up Taquka with me and Steve Mendive, our bear training and conditioning expert and AWCC Board Member. Steve had coordinated the entire transport and exchange with Larry, as he is currently tasked with heading up special projects as an interim staff member.
Taquka was scheduled to come out on the next available flight, but harsh weather precluded the bear from flying to Anchorage on schedule.
On November 12 (three days later), we got an indication from Larry that the flight carrying the cub would arrive about 4:40 p.m.
I drove from Anchorage to Portage just moments before Matt arrived with the cub. It was dark by the time we arrived at the Center and I could barely make out the large dog kennel-size crate in the bed of the truck.
Black Bears Moved Out
I was not sure how much of the sedative had worn off by the time the cub arrived. He had been sedated just before making the trip to minimize the stress of travel, new situations, and new people. Matt had moved the black bears out of their winter denning site to provide room for the new cub. The black bears would have to overwinter in the cabin in their enclosure.
Matt got on the back of the truck and lowered the crate to me. We slowly walked the crate back to the den and everyone helped coax the musk ox calf out of the way. I will say that it is the first time that I had to maneuver around a curious musk ox while transporting a bear, but I smiled to think they might become friendly as neighbors for the winter. Incidentally, it was a bear that took the life of the musk ox cow — the reason we had the orphan in one of our nursery pens.
It was cold out, as would be expected, and raining. We pulled the crate right up to the holding building's doorway. The crate was about a meter high and more than a meter long and wide. I had turned the light on so that I could see what I was doing, but suspected the little cub could see much better than I could in the dark, and if anything the bright light was a disturbance.
Matt unlocked the crate and opened its door. I wondered if the little bear might come bolting out if the mild sedative had indeed worn off. But nothing happened. I turned off the light and asked everyone to tilt the crate up. The cub remained snug against the back, not uttering a sound.
Coaxed with a Prod
Finally, we coaxed him with a prod or two and he ventured just outside the front of the crate, fully exposed and fur on end. He was facing the entrance of the crate and we wanted him to walk inside the chain-link holding area. I prodded him again and he walked right in. Matt and I simultaneously closed the door and I took a deep breath. Taquka had arrived safe and sound.
Aside from a heavy parasite burden, he was in good shape. As anticipated, he became more aggressive and defensive as the sedative wore off and he acclimated to his new digs. We limited contact, hoping not to disrupt this critical period for a motherless cub preparing for first hibernation.
Taquka never did go down, so we decided to continue to let him feed for a while. My training skills were quite rusty and I had not handled a bear without protective contact (a barrier) in at least five years. One of the reasons I joined the center was because of Mike Miller, our director, and Steve Mendive's phenomenal track record preparing rescued, wild brown bear cubs for captive life at zoos.
Steve was eager to see the training progress, given that my experience with polar bears and Kodiaks was based on protective-contact operant conditioning. I have worked with polar bears, sun bears, sloth bears, spectacled bears, and brown bears using this conventional zoo method, and had some experience with black bears and brown bears in what we call a free-contact training situation, where the trainer or keeper actually goes into the enclosure with the bear. At the AWCC we train both free-contact and protective-contact.
Jordan Schaul and Taquka
Photo by Jordan Schaul
To my surprise, my attempt to condition, train, and prepare the cub to be socialized with other captive bears in a free-contact situation using protective contact protocols led to great success. I don't credit my ability to train (I'm probably of average skill), patience or comfort with a wild-caught carnivore, but rather the approach I took to training. I think both types of conditioning work, but a reliance on positive reinforcement alone may expedite the process in many regards.
Within a week, this wild Kodiak cub was learning the game, as we sometimes say. I would shape a behavior by asking the cub to touch a target with his snout or paw and to station or sit. In some cases I would capture the behavior. These are very basic behaviors that build the foundation for husbandry and medical training. For example, zoos holding giant panda can train the bears to participate in procedures involving ultrasound or the collection of blood without requiring any sedation. In many ways this is safer for the animals and the staff caring for them.
I was amazed. In the photo you can see Taquka responding to my command for raising his right paw to acknowledge the onset of a training session. He would hold his paw up in the air when I uttered the word "OK." At first I used a whistle to bridge the behavior, and then the words "good boy, Taquka." This is a simple behavior to capture or shape, but for me it demonstrated that this wild and "naive" bear cub understood the concept.
Bears are very smart, and a lot of trainers working with bears, whether they are performing for a documentary or responding for a medical procedure, share that bears are both easy and challenging to train based on anecdotal evidence that they can both reason with you, but also be quite manipulative.
We are on our way with this little guy thanks to all the work of AWCC staff. It's a good feeling to be able to help acclimate a bear cub to what is realistically the only possible life for him, given his circumstances.
The human-animal bond is truly something to cherish, and I feel privileged to have the opportunity to work with this amazing animal, the monarch of the North American and Eurasian wilderness. It will be sad to see him leave. He will depart later this year for Sweden, and we are confident that our European colleagues will find him well adjusted.
Another recent success story concerns the fate of "Haines," "Kenai," and "Sadie." All three cubs were rescued by the AWCC and were conditioned and cared for by staff at the Center prior to being relocated to their permanent home at the Minnesota Zoo. Russia's Grizzly Coast exhibit opened in 2008 and features three rescued Alaskan brown bear cubs.
Some of the world's largest bears are found in Russia's Far East and Kamchatka, along with Coastal Alaska and the Kodiak Archipelago.
Virtual tour of bear exhibit at Minnesota Zoo.
According to Diana Weinhardt, a charter member and founding Chair of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Bear Taxon Advisory Group (TAG), and former Director of Conservation and Wildlife at AWCC: "In the early 1990s the AZA Bear TAG committee decided that all AZA facilities should cease breeding black and brown bears for zoological display. All zoos that wanted black or brown bears for exhibition were to contact the Bear TAG and ultimately a waiting list was created.
"Wildlife agencies such as the Alaska Department of Fish & Game, various other state agencies, and the USFWS were notified that if orphan or nuisance bears needed placement, the Bear TAG would work with them to place such animals."
Diana added that the "program is still in existence today and considered pretty successful."
Photos of bears at Minnesota Zoo courtesy of Minnesota Zoo
As a former staff member at AWCC, she knows first-hand how facilities such as the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center provide short- and long-term animal care for the bears, while exhibits are built for them at zoological parks in the lower 48, such as the Minneapolis Zoo, and closer to the AWCC, like the Alaska Zoo. The Alaska Zoo also holds nuisance and orphaned bears destined for other zoological parks. I got a chance to meet two youngsters now on exhibit at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. These bears were held at the Alaska Zoo while some of their own permanent residents were cared for by the AWCC when they were juveniles.
Diana now serves as Curator of Northern Trail at Minnesota Zoo, which includes Russia's Grizzly Coast. The bear exhibit won the AZA exhibit award in 2009.
Video: Minnesota Zoo Grizzly Bears Destroy 500-Pound Pumpkin.
The most important aspect of the bear placement program is that every bear that comes into captivity has "a story." In 90 percent of those stories "human interaction" is at the base of the situation. These stories are shared at zoological facilities that educate millions of zoo visitors every year, and I would add that they inspire people to be more cognizant of the human-bear interface and bear conservation in general.
At the Minnesota Zoo, Haines, Kenai and Sadie are some of the most popular animals, according to Diana. "In daily training sessions, naturalist staff narrate the training sessions and the stories are told. That is very important in Minnesota, as we have a resident population of black bears in the northern part of the state. We make every effort to educate our visitors about human behavior in bear country, to help prevent further incidents," Diana says.
Photo of bear with food truck at AWCC by Doug Lindstrand
The AWCC is building its own bear center, B.E.A.R.S., which will include an expansion of the 18-acre adult brown bear habitat and a new 14-acre habitat for our black bears. A building dedicated to bear conservation, education, and science will sit between the two natural enclosures full of water features and native vegetation.
The current natural 'habitats' draw wildlife photographers and documentarians from all over the world. We hope that the expansion will not only enhance the viewing experience for our guests, and advance our bear conservation programs, but we hope to continue to provide optimal care and the highest standards of welfare for our rescued bears, whether they are temporary residents or long-term ambassadors.
Jordan Schaul is a conservation biologist and a collection curator with the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. He received his PhD in conservation/veterinary preventive medicine from Ohio State University and a master's degree in zoology. He is a council member (ex officio) of the International Association for Bear Research and Management (IBA), a member and coordinator for education and outreach for the Bear Specialist Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, an advisor to the Bear Taxon Advisory Group of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, correspondent editor and captive bear news correspondent for International Bear News, and member of the advisory council of the National Wildlife Humane Society, which promotes high standards for wild carnivore care and welfare among private sanctuaries in North America. He is the creator of the Zoo Peeps brand which hosts a blog for the global zoo and aquarium community and two wildlife conservation oriented radio programs. He enrolled in clinical degree programs in veterinary medicine and has been on leave to pursue interests in animal management/husbandry science and conservation education.
The views expressed in this article are those of Jordan Schaul and not necessarily those of the National Geographic Society. Read more blog posts by Jordan Schaul.
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I was very touched by the story. I don't regularly read National Geographic but I really liked this piece. It was interesting to get an inside perspective on the many steps it takes to prepare and transport an animal like a bear from the wild to captivity. As the author noted at the beginning, it's is a bittersweet story but it sounds like captivity is often a growing reality as man continues to embark on territories that once belonged solely to wild animals. It speaks to why we need to continue to support conservation programs around the world so we can at least help save these animals and provide for them if need be.


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Meshawn Maddock is an American politician in the Republican Party serving as co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party along with Chair Ronald Weiser. Previously, she was Chair of the 11th Congressional District for the Michigan Republican Party. She is married to Republican Michigan State Representative Matt Maddock.

Maddock is a strong supporter of President Donald Trump and was a prior board member of Women for Trump, as well as being involved in several pro-Trump organizations such as the Michigan Conservative Coalition. The New York Times said that events around her election "signaled a profound shift in Republican politics." Prior to being elected, she was a businesswoman in Oakland County. Maddock supports Trump's false claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election. In January 2021, Maddock helped organize a delegation of 19 buses to travel to Washington to protest the election results. She spoke at the "Stop the Steal" rally on January 5. Maddock said she was absent from the storming of the Capitol that occurred the next day.

Maddock, along with 15 others, submitted certificates to the federal government claiming they were Michigan's presidential electors for the 2020 presidential election. They were not. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said they likely violated state laws regarding forgery of a public record and election forgery. The fake electors were referred to the U.S. Attorney for possible prosecution. The Michigan GOP chair later testified before the House committee on the January 6 attack that Maddock and the others planned to hide out in the state Capitol building so they could cast their fake elector ballots on the specified day. That plan did not come to fruition.

In June 2021, Maddock called for Michigan to secede from the United States, saying the secession is "to escape Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's tyrannical rule."

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Winter Street Fly Fishing – the first thought that comes to my mind! Mr. Willie Lindh presets for us incredible fly fishing in the city! Maybe we all should look around ourselves. Maybe just down below our windows there is beautiful river full of incredible seatrouts! We are used to drive hundreds of kilometres looking for some magic, for some freedom. But all the magic can be found quite close. Thanks Willie! You made me reconsider the world that surrounds me every day.
We decided to do a short film about our local river, because the river feels a little forgotten and we think it´s because it had a rough couple of years with a lot of things going on in the river. But these last 2-3 years have been really good, with good numbers of spawning seatrout and that means the fishing after 1st of january and forward has been great. In this film you will see our favorite places in the river and also a lot of trouts, nice trouts… make sure you watch until the end!


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2) Once you have attracted the 3 pears, the following thing to do is add legs. The back legs of an equine are very various from the front legs, and so even if you are creating an equine's legs with simply 2 strokes of your pencil, you'll need to make the back legs various.
For the back legs, consider a modified "K" form, without the back component of the "K", or just think of a sidewards "V", but with the "V" spread apart a lot. The point of the "V" is aiming away from the horse. Keep in mind that though this is a bent line making the back legs, it is a really broad bend, as well as the line will be extremely nearly straight down by the time it fulfills the ground, where your equine's foot ought to be.
The front legs of the equine can go right down, tapering right into the unguis. To suggest the steed's knee, make a circle just a bit larger than the part of the leg where the joint is.
3) The finishing touches for your steed include their unguis, mane, as well as ears, eyes as well as nostrils. The unguis can be made with modified squares or rectangles. Notification how the front component of the hoof is a lot longer than the back component, so you'll need to make your 'unguis box" longer in the front, shorter in the back, and also hence the top line will certainly turn back, nearly like package is becoming a triangular.
The hair and tail can be a collection of bent lines. You can likewise make the hair short and also sticking up, type of like a mohawk. The ears can be easy upside-down "V"s, or you can make them leaf-shaped. The eyes are generally produced by simply defining the steed's eyelid ... sort of a sloped line that lacks like a box, however without the bottom and the ideal side of the box. The nostrils can be leaf-shaped once more, or some individuals attract them as little curlicues.
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The Integral Yoga Institute of New Jersey is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the practice and teachings of Integral Yoga, as taught by Sri Swami Satchidananda. These teachings enable one to attain an easeful body, a peaceful mind, a useful life, and ultimately, the realization of one's true Self.
The first New Jersey Institute began in 1969 when a couple from Montclair asked the New York IYI for help in opening a yoga center. The classes were held in their home and their first teacher was Margabandhu Martarano. That same year, Eddie Brigati of The Rascals, opened his apartment for yoga classes and kirtan and the numbers of students grew!! In 1970 the location was moved to a loft in Garfield, which also included a thriving food co-op. By this time, there were now eight teachers and twelve classes held weekly.
In 1984 the teaching staff had grown to twelve, our weekly class schedule was growing and a search began for a new location. The home for the next fourteen years was on Broadway in Elmwood Park. A decision to purchase the present site in Fair Lawn was made in 1995, when more space was again needed for the increased classes and workshops, including Beginner and Intermediate Hatha Yoga classes, meditation courses, workshops in various aspects of health and nutrition, weekly pujas and guest speakers, Through the generous support of a long-time student of Margabandhu and other contributors, the purchase was made possible. A year later, after much renovation plus help and prayers of students and family members, we held a grand opening and dedication ceremony which our Beloved Guru, Sri Swami Satchidananda attended. Gurudev blessed our efforts and made us realize that through selfless service and hard work, the IYI would thrive through the coming years. He visited many more times and we know that all this could not have happened without his inspiration.
We currently have over thirty active volunteer teachers, offering two hatha classes per day, Monday through Saturday, and a new popular hatha class on Sunday. We offer beginner, multi-level and Intermediate Hatha classes plus weekly Meditation Classes. We send our teachers to many area adult schools and private classes. We have sponsored Intermediate Yoga Teacher Trainings, Meditation Teacher Trainings, Raja Yoga Teacher Training, Cardiac Yoga Teacher Trainings, as well as our annual Basic Hatha Yoga Teacher Training. We also host Samadhi Sun Yoga for Autism Teacher Training programs.
We offer numerous workshops throughout the year on health, nutrition, healing through yoga, as well as satsangs on various aspects of yoga. Our guest speakers have included Viktoras Kulvinskas, Reverend Jaganath Carrera, Swami Ramananda, Swami Karunananda, Swami Vidyananda, Swami Asokananda, and Garuda Buss as well as our own Margabandhu Martarano. Our yoga communtiy/sangha enjoys a warm hospitable atmosphere in which to grow.


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In March, the social media had a March Madness game on its text app, by sending a basketball emoji users would be enabled to play a dunking game for as long as they last. The game also let users plays with friends as a competition.
The March Madness game became viral among Facebook users, being played around 1 billion times and becoming a major competition between text partners.
These games have become very popular in Facebook's text application, especially because they are hidden and users need to discover which emojis are going to open up a surprise game.
The latest game discovered is "Keepy-up" a game enabled by users who send a soccer ball emoji as a message in the application. The game will open, and users will need to keep the soccer ball in the air for as long as they can.
Keepy Up, also lets users challenge their friends to the game and announcing the scores in the chat box, between two friends. In the case of losing, the user will just need to resend a soccer ball emoji to continue playing.
The game appeared on Wednesday in the latest update for the text application. The game is available for both iOS and Android users that have updated the app.
"This game is difficult. It took me a few dozen attempts to get over 10, after which all sorts of distractions appeared on the screen and I immediately dropped the ball. I'm currently sitting with a personal record of a lowly 11. Embarrassing," wrote Jason Cipriani in an article for CNET.
Facebook Messenger, just as the social media, is constantly updating itself with almost a daily change in its core. Recently the application announced the adding of 1,500 new emojis for the Messenger app "New emojis equals More Diversity" read the flyer.
This update aimed to understand and provide more diversity for all of the users in the application, under the name of "Girl Power" the emoji application in the Messenger app now offers female police officers, runners, surfers, swimmers, grandmothers and lesbian couples with kids.
The application also updated the emojis for both iOS and Android, so they all can have the same emojis despite having a different device.


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Read Part I: Augmented Reality Set to Revolutionize Global Medical Education Methodologies Most medical equipment today is highly sophisticated, feature-rich and has a combination of advanced electronics and software, making it increasingly complex. Thus, any operational or functional failure of such medical equipment can be difficult and expensive to detect, troubleshoot or repair. While in a normal industrial scenario such downtimes mean financial or productivity losses, in the healthcare sector it can even mean loss of precious human lives. It is in such situations that technologies like AR can enable easy and accurate tracking of equipment failures enabling quick repair, and curbing costs and increasing efficiency. In a non-AR scenario, repairing or troubleshooting such machines typically involves calling upon service technicians who rely upon large printed manuals, installation guides or maintenance manuals to repair the fault. Often if the problem is too complex, these field service technicians may need to consult experts or engineers who may be distantly located. This going back and forth may further lengthen the repairing or troubleshooting process, aggravating the inconvenience for the clinic or hospital team.
This post made me appreciate the potential for Augmented Reality to improve the reliability of the assistive devices used by people with disabilities to perform self-care tasks and ambulate. Equipment manufacturers could "see" how the devices are being operated, respond to commands and peform diagnosis to drive repair or product updates. I've posted on my social media, asking durable/home medical equipment manufacturers as well as safe patient handling companies that sell to hospitals/nursing homes to incorporate this type of thinking as they move towards next generation product lines . .
Great post about medical equipment. It's great to see how technology these days have improved. I love articles like these that show how much has improved on technology that saves lives.
Are there any well-known global healthcare companies/ institutions which already adopted AR for remote maintenance either as PoC or enterprise-wide adoption?


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Home Solar News Solar Leaders Look Ahead At COSEIA's Solar Power Colorado 2015
Solar Leaders Look Ahead At COSEIA's Solar Power Colorado 2015
The theme of the Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association's (COSEIA) Solar Power Colorado 2015 conference ostensibly was celebrating the last-quarter century and looking forward to the next one.
Most of the industry experts seemed to agree that the outlook extending to 2040 is positive. There was a lot of discussion, however, on how to make it through the next few years, first.Â
'We need to have a bigger vision of the future,' said Hank Price, chief technology officer of Abengoa Solar and a member of the opening session panel for solar CEOs and executives. 'We need to move the discussion to what is the long-term vision for energy for Colorado, for the country and for the world, what is the path to achieve that, is solar the right technology, and does it have a key role to play.'
Price added that the developer is already looking beyond 2016 and the end of the federal investment tax credit (ITC). 'It takes us longer than two years to build a plant,' he said. 'So, we are in the post-ITC world.'
Panel moderator K.K. DuVivier, a University of Denver law professor, started the session by asking what it will take for solar to become the primary energy source.
Glen Davis, CEO of RES Americas, said cost and system reliability give solar an advantage. Other factors that can help solar include battery companies developing better storage technologies and a shift from centralized to decentralized decision=making in energy generation.
'One of the things about PV is modularity,' Davis said. 'Whether you build on a roof or you have hundreds of modules in a field, you are not losing economies of scale by going smaller.'Â
There are still some challenges, said Paul Spencer, founder and CEO of the community solar developer Clean Energy Collective." Equipment is down in price and up in efficiency,'Â he said. 'That's a great trend but a smaller piece of the pie in terms of the overall cost of solar. The other costs, such as design, interconnection, permitting, legal fees and finance costs, still need to decrease.'
One factor that Spencer said is not a threat – although it has gained some attention – is falling oil prices. Most states do not burn oil for electricity, so the only effect oil prices will have will be in shipping costs.
Carbon pricing is important though, said Lou Villaire, co-owner of the installer Atlasta Solar Center. 'We need to stop fossil fuel companies from polluting for free,' he said.
Customers of the installer often say they want solar because they want to reduce carbon emissions.
'Whatever reason you want to do solar is fine with us,' Villaire said. 'People want a radically different energy portfolio than they have today.' Â
People also want solar installations on their homes to positively affect resale values. Villaire noted that it helps that real estate appraisers are gaining knowledge of how to value a residential solar installation.
Community effort
Of course, not everyone wants solar on their home, so community solar gardens were a major topic at the conference. During one community solar panel, J.W. Postal, senior vice president of the community solar company SunShare, said he expects the Colorado Community Solar Gardens program, which was created by legislation in 2010, to be expanded. 'Community solar has an opportunity to be a game-changer,' he said. 'All citizens can participate. Consumers will choose the better fuel. That's the future. It may be disruptive to some businesses, but that's where the world is headed.'
Community solar programs are an example of states taking an increasingly important role in solar development opportunities, either through regulation or legislation.
'I don't trust the federal Congress to get anything done, so it comes down to the states,' said Jared Schoch, principal at Turning Point Energy, a development, investment and advisory firm. 'We can look at rates, from commercial, residential and community solar, and how to make the rate structure work so customers want to do solar. If not, I think we will have a shakeup in 2017. I don't see us getting around it.'Â
The states' efforts can be a positive force, said Mark Safty, a partner with the law firm Holland and Hart. 'There is tremendous justification for hope in this area,' he said. 'We have a federal government that has certain powers, then 50 states that are generally free, which means at least 50 laboratories for rollout and deployment of this change.'
Colorado is doing its part with rolling out changes. At another session on solar financing models, speakers covered topics such as power purchase agreements for residential customers, property assessed clean energy (PACE) financing, green banks, credit unions and other methods to finance projects. Moderator Ryan Arney, a partner with the law firm Davis Graham & Stubbs, invited panelists to look at the future of finance.
One tool might be a new version of PACE financing, which helps building owners pay for energy improvements. PACE for residential solar installations ended in 2010 with the Federal Housing Finance Agency's rule against the program, although these have been coming back to life, led by efforts in California.
Paul Sharfenberger, director of finance and operations for the Colorado Energy Office, said Colorado is getting ready to roll out a commercial real estate version of PACE financing this spring. Connecticut has a commercial version called C-PACE, and New York has the Energize Commercial New York program.
'You have building owners who are paying utility bills, but the tenants are enjoying the benefits,' Sharfenberger said. 'Commercial PACE offers benefits that commercial property owners can pursue. It stays with the property; it's 20-year financing at six or seven percent interest, which is fairly commensurate with other commercial lending products.'
There are other alternatives, such as credit unions and green banks, said Blake Jones, president of Namaste Solar. But one finance issue must be settled first and foremost:
'The number one thing I want is defending net metering,' Jones said. 'Plain and simple.'


Today we announce the launch of The Ownership Effect Inquiry; a new national Inquiry into employee ownership in the UK. This Inquiry is launched in partnership with the eaga Trust and the John Lewis Partnership – with the support of Cass and Manchester Business Schools – and is chaired by Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted.
The Ownership Effect Inquiry will reveal new evidence on the performance of employee-owned businesses following a sustained period of growth in their number over the last 5 years. At a time when there is a significant focus on UK productivity, corporate behaviour and Brexit, the Inquiry will identify opportunities to grow the effect of employee ownership as an economic and social enabler.
Throughout the summer, an independent, business-led Panel of experts from business, finance, law, accounting and management will receive oral and written evidence from industry experts, advisers and employee owned business leaders. The Panel's findings, conclusions and recommendations will be published in the autumn in a comprehensive final report. This will outline in full the potential of employee ownership and its contribution to UK productivity growth and corporate behaviour.


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March 9, 2006 - Laboratori del Teatro alla Scala - Padiglione Visconti, Laboratori del Teatro alla Scala
Padiglione Visconti, Laboratori del Teatro alla Scala
hans schabus and the very pleasure
Thursady 16 March | 8 pm
Padiglione Visconti,
Laboratori del Teatro alla Scala
Via Tortona 58, Milan
Artist | Hans Schabus with The Very Pleasure
Curator | Daniele Perra
Sponsored by ROBERTO DEL CARLO www.robertodelcarlo.it
On Thursday, 16 March 2006, one of the city of Milans most symbolic sites will host, for a single evening, a performance by the Austrian artist Hans Schabus (last years national representative for the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale) and by the very pleasure, a musical duo formed in 2004.
The event, curated by Daniele Perra, will be held at the Padiglione Visconti, a large, almost one-thousand-square-meter space that is part of the Laboratori del Teatro alla Scala, in the former industrial area of the Ansaldo steel-mills in Milan. The event has been made possible thanks to the generous support of Roberto Del Carlo, a prestigious line of Made in Italy accessories, which this year again, to coincide with the MICAM SHOEVENT International Exhibition of Shoe Wear (16-19 March, 2006), has decided to promote contemporary art by commissioning and financing this ambitious project.
Hans Schabus first collaborated with the very pleasure for his solo show at the Kunsthaus Bregenz in 2004. For this new performance starting at 8 p.m., together with the musical team consisting of Oliver Welter, the lead singer of the rock bank Naked Lunch, and Fritz Ostermayer, musician and radio producer, the artist will be offering a special sound and musical programme made up of original songs and famous cover versions, which all revolve around the theme of the mountain.
Furthermore, the sound event will be accompanied by a huge projection of the video work Val Canale. From the perspective of a flying helicopter, this 2005 video captures the extraordinary Val Canale area, historically and geographically the natural frontier between Austria and Italy. The work represents the symbolic voyage from Vienna, Schabus home city, to Milan, and carries within it both the spirit of the mountains and the physical substance of the route, underscoring the artists interest in spatial research and in the role of the viewer, who is called upon to undertake a journey in both the physical and metaphorical sense. In the past, with the work Western (2002), Schabus has travelled through Viennas sewer system in a small boat that he built himself, while in 2000, for the video Der Passagier (The Passenger), he created a miniature railroad track along his studio walls with real tunnels connecting one room to the next, simulating the hypothetical train journey undertaken by the final wagon. In an interview with the curator, Daniele Perra, given in 2003, Schabus affirmed that, "I want to understand space. I try to penetrate space, to destroy it. I want to expand space."
Hans Schabus was born in Watschig (Austria) in 1970. He studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Vienna, the city where he lives and works. Among his solo shows: his representation of Austria at the 51st Venice Biennale with the project The Last Land, which endowed Josef Hoffmanns Austrian Pavilion with a new external architectural covering; Alles muss in Flammen stehen, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna, 2005; Das Rendezvousproblem, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, 2004; Der Schacht von Babel, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna; Astronaut (komme gleich), Secession, Vienna; Zero Exit Status, Galleria Zero, Milan, 2003. A selection of 2005 group shows include: Night Sites, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany; Entdecken und Besitzen. Einblicke in österreichische Privatsammlungen, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; The Pantagruel Syndrome, T1 Torino Triennale Tremusei, Turin; Touristclass, Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden; Unterspiel, Alvin Balkind Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Scultura leggera/Light Sculpture, 503 mulino, Vicenza; U_Move. Utopia e immagine in movimento, Galleria Comunale dArte Contemporanea, Monfalcone.
Daniele Perra is an art critic and independent curator. He is the Managing Editor of the contemporary art magazine tema celeste, a contributor to the newspaper Il Sole-24 Ore (Sunday) and a teacher at the Scuola Politecnica di Design in Milan. He curated the first Italian solo show of Shahryar Nashat in collaboration with the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art, Cantieri Culturali ex-Macelli, in Prato and the exhibition Project Room. A show without works / Una mostra senza opere at the Spazio Lima, in Milan in March 2005, subsequently hosted at La Box Bourges, Ecole Nationale Supérieure dArt de Bourges (December 2005-January 2006). He lives and works in Milan.
ROBERTO DEL CARLO: A passion for design, a profound knowledge of the techniques of shoe manufacture and a love for hand-crafted work sums up the philosophy of Roberto Del Carlo and is evident in the accessory collection that bears his name. The company, Roberto Del Carlo s.r.l., was created at the end of the 90s from the professional union of Roberto Del Carlo and Luigi Pierro with the objective of exclusively developing and consolidating the creative concept initiated by Roberto, an aim that was achieved through a very precise policy: extreme attention to the product and very selected commercial distribution. Roberto Del Carlo is one of the brands that best represents the Made in Italy label worldwide.
Title | hans schabus and the very pleasure When | Thursady 16 March, 8 pm Where | Padiglione Visconti, Laboratori del Teatro alla Scala, ex Ansaldo, Via Tortona 58, Milan. Entrance | Free
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Penn-Century was launched by founder Ted Century at a time of growing recognition that the lungs offer an extraordinary, but underutilized avenue for treating pulmonary as well as systemic diseases.
Penn-Century evolved to meet the growing demand for more precise, effective, relevant pre-clinical models of pulmonary and respiratory drug delivery. The company was the first to introduce a completely airfree technology for directing precise, measurable doses of liquid aerosol to the lungs and other inaccessible locations. At the time, this was considered "impossible" by leading experts in aerosol science. This discovery was soon followed by patented innovations for precise intratracheal dosing of dry powders.
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As research has advanced the scientists have begun to explore whether the lungs could be the preferred avenue to treat not only asthma and emphysema, but other diseases infectious diseases, lung cancer, pulmonary hypertension, tuberculosis, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, bone loss.
In the past 20 years, the growing understanding of the potential for targeting the lungs has fueled a giant leap in investment in respiratory research and development of drug delivery technologies. In 2011, the global pulmonary drug delivery technologies market was expected to reach $22.5 billion.
In recent years, greater investment has also gone into strategies for what has come to referred to as "interventional bronchoscopy." Because Penn-Century's liquid and dry powder devices can be custom-made to any length, and inserted in larger animal models via an endotracheal tube or bronchoscope, they have been uniquely suited for researchers wanting to target the carina, the lungs or an individual lesion or location within one lung.
We have made pulmonary drug research more precise and more accessible to those whose only alternative previously was to squeeze liquid droplets into the animal's lungs with a pipette or invest in costly animal nebulizer systems that our customers tell us are slow, imprecise and wasteful.
Liquid bolus or droplet instillation in which large drops are dripped into the lung via a pipette or catheter.
Large animal nebulizer systems typically dilute the drug with compressed air to render it small enough to pass through the nose of small research animals. Because the aerosol particles are moving at high moment momentum, much of the dose is forced against the nasal passages, creating waste of sample materials. The concentration of drug in the lungs is often inadequate and the method is slow. Most significantly, the method makes it far more difficult to determine the delivered dose, making it more challenging to derive the precise pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic data that is so critical to the success of preclinical respiratory research.
Company founder, Ted Century, solved several major challenges that had previously eluded medical device designers and clinicians: 1) how to safely deliver significant amounts of drugs directly to the lungs in an aerosol form, rather than as a stream of liquid droplets and 2) how to create an aerosol at the end of a long thin tube without reliance on propellants, compressed air, heat, electricity or cumbersome ultrasonic devices. The devices he developed have successfully moved pulmonary research beyond the anatomical and technological barriers that prevented administration of liquid aerosols and dry powders in the past.
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I watched Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse weeks ago and I'm probably late to the party now, but like many others, I was also inspired to draw my own #spidersona ! I haven't drawn for fun in so long, and somehow, this movie got me out of a rut and pushed me to start, stay patient, excited, and keep drawing till I finish. I have no crazy backstory or fleshed-out profile of my Spidersona except that it's inspired by my go-to clothing pieces: sweaters, skinny jeans, comfy wool socks, either my black chelsea boots or bulky red patent Doc Martens, and leather (faux, of course) everything!
I can't express how incredibly in-love I am with this movie—definitely the best movie I've seen since "Mad Max: Fury Road". It's a bit hard to swallow that to this day, cartoons are still seen as "for kids" and unworthy of merit and some people refuse to consider Spider-verse as a "real" movie, but STILL! What a time to be alive! I'm glad that it even got made in the first place at all…and for that, I'm thankful.
To the gods and goddesses who brought us this gorgeous creation, congratulations on winning the 2019 Critic's Choice "Best Animated Movie" award, and the 2019 Golden Globes' "Best Motion Picture- Animated"! Thank you so much for all the hard work and dedication! Your persistence and skill inspire us all.


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By focusing on these four areas, we look forward to communities that not only create long-term value for our customers, investors and various stakeholders, we also contribute environmental, social and economic benefits for the larger public.
As a way of contributing significantly and positively to society, we have made sustainability the blueprint by which every Ayala Land development is designed — to continuously enhance land and enrich the lives of more people.
We recognize the importance of minimizing developmental impact to the environment, and the particular vulnerability of the Philippine environment to natural calamities.
Our estates are designed to be pedestrian-friendly and accessible to public transport. We create an efficient "live-work-play" community that promotes an active and healthy lifestyle.
We respect that water, energy, and raw construction materials are finite resources to be used judiciously. We employ the creative use of passive design and technology to minimize energy, water, and waste footprint.
Our strategic presence through our various developments across the Philippines helps us to create new opportunities for employment and productivity.


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Angola was a Portuguese colony from the 16th century to 1975. The country is the second-largest petroleum and diamond producer in sub-Saharan Africa, yet its people are among the continent's poorest. According to the International Monetary Fund, more than $4 billion in oil receipts have disappeared from Angola's treasury in the 2000s. LGBT rights in Angola are very limited.
Homosexuality was legalized in 2019. Associação Íris Angola, an Angolan LGBTI advocacy group, applauded lawmakers.
Name: Angola
Population: 12878000
Capital: Luanda - Pop. 4800000
Area: 1246700 sq. km/ sq. miles
Language: Portuguese, Bantu
Religion: Christianity, Indigenous Religions
Gay Life is Legal in Angola But is Mostly Hidden by Heterosexual Masks
Introduction A commentary into gay life in Angola where the social environment is toxic for LGBT people. Because they are an invisible population, gays are ignored in government health planning; "there are not enough gays to worry about" said one official. To cover their truth, many Angolan gays use heterosexual marriage as a way of
Abolition of Angola's anti-gay laws may pave the way for regional reform, 2020/Feb/14
Angola decriminalizes homosexuality, bans anti-gay discrimination, 2019/Jan/27
Angola Has Decriminalized Gay Sex, Human Rights Watch Says, 2019/Jan/25
Angola Decriminalizes Same-Sex Conduct, 2019/Jan/23
Angolan TV producers apologise over gays kissing, 2015/Feb/04
Being gay not an issue in independent-minded Angola, 2012/Dec/03
Angola News & Reports, 2009/Apr/29


My 10-year-old is a little crafter. She loves to sit and draw and make things, so when she came to me and asked if she could make presents for her grandmas this year for Christmas, I was completely on board! We dug through my crafts supplies to see what we could find. I had a bunch of these terra cotta pots leftover from Halloween ornaments, so we decided to turn them into something for Christmas. I was helping her gather everything to turn them into Christmas bells when she had a better idea! How about a nativity?
She and I had so much fun pulling these together and they are so easy, she did almost everything completely by herself.
Remove all the stickers from your pots and paint them. Paint one of the larger pots brown and one blue. The little pot you can leave alone or give it a thin coat of brown paint to make it look more like wood.
After your terra cotta pots are dry, glue the beads on top of each pot. Then add a rectangle of felt on top. I found the best way to do this was to start glue at the top of the head, and then glue down the sides of the face, attaching the felt as you go. This will leave a piece of felt poking out in the back, fold it in on itself and glue it down to the back of the terra cotta pot. Add ribbon or other trim around the top of the heads.
For the baby Jesus, fold a square of white felt like you would swaddle a baby and glue it shut. Glue the bead to the top of the swaddle and then hot glue the top of the swaddle down on top of the baby's head to cover up the hole in the bead.
Add some raffia to the manager and assemble your holy family!
This whole process took us under an hour for three families. She is so excited to give them to her grandmas and I think they will love them too!


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Published: July 13, 2020 3:29 PM EDT
Updated: July 13, 2020 5:54 PM EDT
Demolition begins on remains of FIU pedestrian bridge that killed 6 in collapse
Lee County schools try to make up for contact tracing difficulties
New FIU study aims to improve contact tracing methods
Many health experts recommend social distancing, washing your hands and wearing a mask as a way to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. Another way to help slow the spread is through contact tracing.
"Essentially, what it allows you to do is reach out to somebody before they know that they've been exposed and tell them you've been exposed, you could be infected and you need to self-quarantine and get tested," said Florida International University psychology professor Jacqueline Evans.
Evans does admit there are difficulties with contact tracing. That is why she and a group of other FIU professors are working on a study that can improve contact tracing simply by using the science of how the brain works.
"Often if we ask somebody a question they answer. We think that's the end of the answer and we move on, but what we know about memory is if you ask somebody something once there's at least a chance they left something out. If you were to ask him again or at least in a different way they would be able to remember it now after that second attempt," she said.
"Basically we're comparing the sort of basic contact tracing interview to an enhanced technique that uses what we know from psychology," Evans said.
A document from the Florida Department of Health partly explains how contact tracers are able to do their jobs effectively. While sample questions include where patients have traveled and the types of contact they've had, Professor Evans thinks even more can be done.
Evans said, "Instead of just 'who do you live with? Anybody else you've had contact with?' Instead, we'll break it down more— 'Who have you seen at home? Who have you seen at work? Who have you seen that social minute? Who have you seen while using transportation?'"
Evans wants to stress the importance of asking the right questions for contact tracing interviews because of how quickly the virus can spread from person to person. Asking the right questions could be the difference between contracting and not contracting COVID-19.
"That could potentially keep that person from going out and spreading it to others who are spreading it to others," Evans said.
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In modern web design many sites use web fonts. Nearly since the beginning of the Internet there were always intentions to bring desktop fonts to the web. Nowadays the support for web typography in modern browser is in really big. Netscape introduced the <font> Tag in 1995 as a first attempt to bring different fonts to the web. Internet Explorer 4 was the first browser as far as I know that allows font embedding back in 1997.
From an end user perspective it looks like there is only one field type that creates only a single taxonomy field in sharepoint; but this is not the whole story behind managed metadata fields. If a managed metadata field will be created SharePoint creates two fields instead. For this post I create a field called "TaxTest" which creates the field itself and a field "TaxTest_0". I will use this field name for reference.
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Sycophila dubia är en stekelart som först beskrevs av Walsh 1870.  Sycophila dubia ingår i släktet Sycophila och familjen kragglanssteklar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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The August 14, 1863 edition of the Daily Missouri Republican contains a detailed account of the Battle of Round Pond and while Union authorities claim it was murder in cold blood, it was not without provocation.
Round Pond was filled in many years ago and no longer exists but I did find a picture of it in the February 16, 1982 issue of the Southeast Missourian Newspaper.
Black Confederates were real and they fought for their country just as their white counter-parts.
THEY ONLY PUBLISH THE HISTORY THEY WANT YOU TO KNOW!
Osceola, Missouri never recovered to its former glory after James Lane raided the town in September 1861. Prior to the raid it was the 3'rd largest city in the State of Missouri.
Located on the Osage River, the land that became the town of Osceola was inhabitied by the tribe of native Americans who gave the river its name. Two treaties, in 1808 and 1825, signed by the Osage and the U.S. government gave up all the tribes land in Missouri. With the way cleared for non-native settlers, more people began to arrive in the St. Clair County area in the mid-1830s. The first home was built in the future Osceola in the winter of 1835.
The town was the site of the September 1861 Sacking of Osceola by Jayhawkers in which the town was burned and its courthouse looted. The event inspired the 1976 Clint Eastwood film The Outlaw Josey Wales. Prior to the attack the town had a population of around 2,500. However less than 200 residents remained after the event and the population has never again approached those numbers. In September, 2011 lingering bad feelings over the raid and the sesquicentennial of the event prompted the Osceola Board of Aldermen to pass a resolution asking the University of Kansas to no longer use "Jayhawk" as their mascot and nickname. Further, the resolution asks Missouri residents to stop spelling Kansas or KU with a capital letter because "neither is a proper name or a proper place".


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A Close Look at Melvin Gordon's Value
A quick look at Melvin Gordon's value after news of his contract situation
by Sigmund Bloom, July 11
Photo: Troy Taormina, US Presswire
On Wednesday morning, ESPN's Adam Schefter tweeted that Gordon had informed the Chargers that "unless he receives a new contract, he will not report to training camp and will demand a trade." What does that mean for Gordon's fantasy value? What if you are drafting right now?
Let's take a look
Gordon and his agent might feel disrespected by the long term offer they got from the Chargers, but the team was under no obligation to make him an offer. Like Le'Veon Bell he might be dismayed that the team he gave much more over the value of the first four years of his rookie contract isn't willing to give him what he thinks is market value for his services now. Gordon can attempt to play the same game Bell did and offer no more of his blood to a team that he feels does not appreciate him and hope for a trade, but there are few if any teams with the positional need, cap room, and willingness to pay a running back top market value long term. Gordon could hold out into the season to test the Chargers mettle, but this is a notoriously cheap organization that has put winning the transaction over winning games as recently as the Joey Bosa holdout in 2016.
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Looking for Wake Forest Demon Deacons vs. NC State Wolfpack free picks? Week 11 betting sees the Demon Deacons taking on the Wolfpack Thursday November 8th at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh, North Carolina. Cappers Picks provides complimentary handicapping picks all NCAA football season long so stay tuned for more FREE college football predictions like this Wake Forest NC State free pick.
The Demon Deacons won this game last year 30-24. The home team has won this game 9 out of the last 10 years, giving the Wolfpack a slight edge.
The Demon Deacons season has pretty much fallen off the rails as the year starts to wind down. They sit at 4-5 overall and are dangerously close to being eliminated from bowl season. Not to mention their starting quarterback, Sam Hartman, went down this past Saturday with a broken foot and has been ruled out for the season.
For being a 4-5 team, the Demon Deacons have seen a ton of success in their rushing game. They are averaging 228.8 rushing yards per game, which ranks 22nd in the country. With backup quarterback having to play, the Demons Deacons will need to rely on leading rusher, Matt Colburn II, to produce the offense.
Defensively, Wake Forest ranks near the bottom in nearly every category. They allow an average of 492 total yards per game, and 37.2 points per game. They have not allowed less than 17 points in any game this year, so it is likely they will get torched by the Wolfpack in this game.
A few weeks ago the Wolfpack were looking good, and maybe were going to challenge Clemson for an ACC Coastal title. Since then they have been blown out by the Tigers and lost to Syracuse as well to officially take them out of contention for a chance at an ACC title.
The Wolfpack have been solid overall this season on the offensive side of the ball. They rank 10th in passing yards per game, with an average of 322.9 yards per game.
The Wolfpack have the 6th best run defense, an allow an average of 91.6 yards per game. This plays in their favor as the Demon Deacons love to run the ball. Look for the Wolfpack defense to shut down the running game and force them to pass with their back-up quarterback.
WAKE are 2-9 ATS in their last 11 games overall.
Under is 17-1-1 in NCST last 19 Thu. games.
Under is 14-4 in NCST last 18 conference games.
Under is 7-2 in NCST last 9 games in November.
Home team is 18-4 ATS in their last 22 meetings.
The Wolfpack will torch the Demon Deacon defense, and will pick up an easy win.
The home team has dominated this series over the past decade and the same should happen in this years' meeting.
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South Mandurah assured they would be a part of a history-making grand final when their women ran riot against minor premiers Pinjarra in a qualifying final at Sir Ross McLarty Oval on Sunday. Brianna Moyes dominated the contest across all quarters, putting in a stellar performance that spurred her side to keep the top-of-the-table Tigers goalless in a 0.3 (3) to 4.6 (30) win, cementing their place in the finale in a fortnight's time. The superstar booted two of her sides four goals, including the first on the day, as she played a crucial role in the outing. It was through her efforts that South Mandurah absorbed an initial shock from Pinjarra, as the Tigers dominated time in forward half across the first 10 minutes of the match. But the home side failed to score as Moyes bounced one through from a fair distance to give her side the only goal of the first term. From there the Falcons found their rhythm, with Cait Rintoul and April McPherson playing well around the ground while Kasey Edwards put through their second goal. McPherson almost pulled off the play of the day when she put in a magnificent chase down on a Pinjarra opponent late in the second, but gave away a free kick in the tackle. The decision did nothing to help the Tigers' scoreboard woes, however, with the Falcons going into half time with a 15-point buffer. Pinjarra needed to respond quickly in the second half but instead found themselves on the back foot, despite the best efforts of Courtney Fabry and Kate Beswick. South Mandurah dominated the air with contested marks all day and Moyes effectively ended the game when she converted in the third to extend their lead to 20 points at the final break. McPherson put the finishing touches on in the final term, hitting the jets and running her full distance before converting the goal. The win sees Souths into the inaugural PFNL Women's grand final, while Pinjarra will have to take on a Baldivis outfit coming off a 105-point win over Dwellingup.
South Mandurah assured they would be a part of a history-making grand final when their women ran riot against minor premiers Pinjarra in a qualifying final at Sir Ross McLarty Oval on Sunday.
Brianna Moyes dominated the contest across all quarters, putting in a stellar performance that spurred her side to keep the top-of-the-table Tigers goalless in a 0.3 (3) to 4.6 (30) win, cementing their place in the finale in a fortnight's time.
The superstar booted two of her sides four goals, including the first on the day, as she played a crucial role in the outing.
It was through her efforts that South Mandurah absorbed an initial shock from Pinjarra, as the Tigers dominated time in forward half across the first 10 minutes of the match.
Brianna Moyes dominated as the Falcons soared to a win. Photo: Justin Rake.
But the home side failed to score as Moyes bounced one through from a fair distance to give her side the only goal of the first term.
From there the Falcons found their rhythm, with Cait Rintoul and April McPherson playing well around the ground while Kasey Edwards put through their second goal.
McPherson almost pulled off the play of the day when she put in a magnificent chase down on a Pinjarra opponent late in the second, but gave away a free kick in the tackle.
The decision did nothing to help the Tigers' scoreboard woes, however, with the Falcons going into half time with a 15-point buffer.
The Tigers will be fighting for their season next week. Photo: Justin Rake.
Pinjarra needed to respond quickly in the second half but instead found themselves on the back foot, despite the best efforts of Courtney Fabry and Kate Beswick.
South Mandurah dominated the air with contested marks all day and Moyes effectively ended the game when she converted in the third to extend their lead to 20 points at the final break.
McPherson put the finishing touches on in the final term, hitting the jets and running her full distance before converting the goal.
The win sees Souths into the inaugural PFNL Women's grand final, while Pinjarra will have to take on a Baldivis outfit coming off a 105-point win over Dwellingup.