Any figure below zero implies that manufacturing in the region is contracting, and vice versa.
"...Texas factory activity expanded slightly in March, according to business executives responding to the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey. The production index, a key measure of state manufacturing conditions, rebounded to positive territory this month—coming in at 3.3—after two months of negative readings.
Other indexes of current manufacturing activity also rose this month, although some remained in contractionary territory. The new orders index jumped 13 points but was still negative at -4.8, suggesting demand continued to fall but at a slower pace than last month. The growth rate of orders index has been negative since October 2014, although it did rise in March, to -11.7. The capacity utilization index bounced back to positive territory after negative readings so far this year, coming in at 3.3. Shipment volumes were largely unchanged this month as the shipments index remained near zero.
Perceptions of broader business conditions remained negative but showed signs of slight stabilization in March. The general business activity index jumped 18 points but remained negative for a 15th month, posting a reading of -13.6. The company outlook index posted a fourth negative reading in a row but edged up to -11.0.
Labor market indicators reflected continued decline in March. The employment index was largely unchanged at -10.3, with 12 percent of firms noting net hiring and 22 percent noting net layoffs. The hours worked index remained negative for a third month in a row but edged up to -5.6.
Price pressures were mixed and wages continued to rise. Abatement in downward pressure on input costs was seen in March, as the raw materials prices index moved up to zero. The finished goods prices index has been negative for more than a year and edged up to -8.2 this month. Meanwhile, the wages and benefits index stayed positive and rose from 12.3 to 14.7, suggesting a slightly accelerated rise in compensation.
Expectations regarding future business conditions improved in March. The index of future general business activity came in at 6.1, its first positive reading in four months. The index for future company outlook posted a second positive reading, at 11.6. Indexes for future manufacturing activity remained in solid positive territory..."
"...The Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey (TMOS) is a monthly survey of area manufacturers. Firm executives report on how business conditions have changed for a number of indicators, such as production, new orders, employment, prices and company outlook. Respondents are also asked to report on how they perceive broader economic conditions to have changed (general business activity). For all questions, participants are asked whether the indicator has increased, decreased or remained unchanged. Answers cover changes over the previous month and expectations for activity six months into the future. Participants are given the opportunity to submit comments on current issues that may be affecting their business.
About 100 manufacturers regularly participate in TMOS, which began collecting data in mid-2004. Respondents are broadly representative of manufacturing subsectors in the state economy. TMOS questionnaires are electronically transmitted to respondents in the middle of each month, and answers are collected over seven business days.
...Texas is important to the nation's manufacturing output. The state produced $159 billion in manufactured goods in 2008, roughly 9.5% of the country's manufacturing output. Texas ranks second behind California in factory production and first as an exporter of manufactured goods.
Texas turns out a large share of the country's production of petroleum and coal products, reflecting the significance of the region's refining industry. Texas also produces over 10 percent of the nation's computer and electronics products and nonmetallic mineral products, such as brick, glass and cement..."
Click here to view the full Dallas Fed report.
For a national perspective on manufacturing in the United States, check out the Institute of Supply Management's Purchasing Manager's Index (PMI).


In Red class we are introducing a new strategy to encourage reading at home. If a child is heard read by an adult (parent, grandparent, childminder etc.) and it is recorded/signed in their reading record at least 4 times a week the child will receive a raffle ticket. This raffle will be drawn on a Friday at random and the winner of the draw will get to select a prize from a lucky dip bag.
It is also Book Week within this term so don't forget to dress up on Thursday 7th March as your favourite book character. The children will be doing some writing about the character they have dressed up as.
- completing lots of exciting experiments and investigations to consolidate the children's learning.
We will be making pirate themed moving pictures.
-Writing a fact file on famous pirates.
We will be identifying where pirates live in the world today as well as creating a map that a pirate might use.
The children will be developing their skills in Gymnastics with Miss Baratt and hockey with Miss Roots. Please ensure P.E. kits are in school every Tuesday and Wednesday. Please remember that children are no longer permitted to wear tape over their earrings. If your child cannot remove them independently, please make sure they have been removed at home.
This term in computing we will be coding. The children will be exploring a new programme (Purple Mash).
Miss Hyam will be teaching music every Wednesday – We will be working towards our Easter Music Festival.
Our topic for the term is Easter. We will be learning about the Christian beliefs and Holy Days.
Please remember that it is parents evening this term. We are looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible.
Tuesday 2nd April and Wednesday 3rd April.
If you have any queries then please don't hesitate to come and see us.


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Q: modify initComponents() in netbeans I modified some of the text fields in my GUI to use constructors which throw exceptions. While the properties window of netbeans' swing designer allows me to modify the code of controls and containers, I can't see a way to modify the initComponents() method itself to throw exceptions so i would have to add try/catch blocks to many of my controls, which would be rather tedious.

A: Well you could try to do in a plain text editor. But this would probably break your GUI editor. The other way around it is to have a standard constructor, i.e. public A(){} and public initialize(....) methods with proper arguments which can throw the exceptions and you would call them elsewhere, e.g. just after the initComponents() methods in your code.
But even better is to learn layout managers and hand-GUI-coding yourself so you will not need to rely on GUI builders. This way you have full control over what is going on, and if your project is fairly complicated that is what you want.

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Moorhead, MN – Police in the quirky town of Moorhead were very surprised to find 800 pounds of Qiameth in the trunk of a car that they found parked at a stop sign.
The Qiameth, which is known to be 1,000 times more powerful than regular meth, has an estimated street value of $2.4 Billion.
The driver and passenger, who both looked like zombies because they had not slept in months, admittedly said they thought it was OK to park at the stop sign but swore they did not have a clue as to how the $2.4 Billion worth of Qiameth got into their trunk, along with some used meth pipes and coloring books.
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DENIS LAW insists the future of Manchester United looks to be in good shape with several youngsters coming through the ranks.
Louis van Gaal has been forced to give younger players an opportunity to impress this season with the club suffering several major injuries.
Marcus Rashford, Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Will Keane, Guillermo Varela, Cameron Borthwick-Jackson and Regan Poole have all made their debuts this term and Law, who made 309 league appearances for the club, believes it's a good sign for the future.
"You just need some luck at times," said Law at the launch of United's global sponsorship deal with Gulf Oil International.
"Injuries to key players, that's always a big factor even in our day. George Best, Bobby Charlton, or the goalkeeper Alex Stepney it was a panic job if they were injured because they were important players in the team.
"Those who stay free of injury its good for them. But United have not had plenty of them this season so that doesn't help.
"But the young kids have come in and done good. That is what every team would like and United were the original ones with the Busby Babes and Sir Alex Ferguson had his group of young players.


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Tamanka siitensis is a species of fish in the goby family, Gobiidae, and the only member of the monotypic genus Tamanka. It is endemic to Jolo Island in the Sulu Archipelago of the Philippines. It is a freshwater fish that can be found in lakes near the coast. This species grows to a length of  SL.

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Gobionellinae
Monotypic fish genera
Endemic fauna of the Philippines
Fauna of Sulu
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Fish described in 1927

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THREE, NO, FOUR STRIKES AND NOT OUT FOR THE BANGKOK POST'S FINANCIAL ADVISER
August 27, 2014 August 16, 2018 Andrew 630 Views Andrew Wood, Bangok Post, Platinum Financial Services, Spectrum min read
GOOD NEWS FOR EXPAT INVESTORS WITH IFA'S IN THAILAND. THEIR RATINGS ARE STABLE – THEY ARE STILL AS BAD AS EVER!
There's nothing like living a dream and the top spot in my nominations for people who are doing so in Thailand must go to the Bangkok Post's financial advice columnist Andrew Wood who has survived three financial scandals and continues to be retained by the newspaper.
I don't think they pay him anything because he gets a free plug for the company he works for PFS – Platinum Financial Services – one of Bangkok's many financial advice companies not registered with the Thai Securities Exchange Commission.
My attention was brought to him today when I was caught by the headline in the Post's Spectrum (I usually read this Sunday section days later) the 'Underlying Costs of Having Children'. It was billed as an Investigative Report so I read on.
But having got to the eighth paragraph ( I am raising kids aged 2,4 and 6) and learned nothing I scrolled down to the end and saw this. I had missed Wood's name at the top.
"Andrew Wood has been an expat in Asia for 35 years and is executive director with PFS International. He has been writing Net Worth articles for seven years and has made a significant contribution to the PFS library of financial service articles dating back over 10 years. These articles, which cover the complete A-Z of financial planning, are available to readers on request. Questions to the author can be directed to PFS International etc. etc."
Oh dear. He we go again. Andrew Wood is on his fourth strike and not out.
The first strike was when, through Barclay Spencer , he sold unfortunate clients shares of London Nominees CTA in the 'Football Fund'.
This fund crashed disastrously and was exposed in a documentary aired on Britain's Channel 4.
Andrew Leppard who ran London Nominees and got his colleagues at Barcley Spencer to sell the fund to its clients ended up running a launderette in Pattaya – but he's now back in the Expat financial field running courses for people to protect themselves from people like him.
The second strike came when Wood sold his clients shares in Axiom Legal Financing.
Once again clients lost thousands and Axiom was exposed on Offshore Alert as nothing more than a Ponzi scheme in which the financial advisers were pulled in by the lure of very attractive commissions.
From Offshore Alert
The third strike came when he sold clients shares in Centaur Litigation another Ponzi which went into liquidation earlier this year along with over us $10 million of client assets. Liquidators are looking for the directors Australian Scott Williams and Briton Brendan Terrill.
The fourth and latest strike came of course when he sold clients share in LM Managed Performance Fund which of course readers of this site will know a lot about.
LM similarly offered financial advisers attractive rates – up to 9 per cent of their clients money if they could lock them in for three years – but as it turned out everyone was locked in anyway as they were not giving redemptions. Now they will be lucky to get 5 cents on the dollar.
South China Morning Post financial writer Benjamin Robertson singled out Andrew Wood after he quoted Bangkok expat Charles Baker as saying: 'I have not a clue [who to complain to] and I don't trust anyone here."
In July 2011 67-year-old Baker invested all the money £137,168 he had saved for living expenses and his daughter's education locking it up for 3 years. At that time LM had long since stopped paying redemptions and Wood knew it.
At his age there is no way Baker can make it up. He was sold the policy by Wood at Barclay Spencer (which also was never registered) the for-runner to PFS.
Wrote Benjamin Robertson: "Baker's adviser at Barclay Spencer, Andrew Wood, says he became aware of fund redemption delays in 2010 and started telling clients in 2011.
"Baker says Wood did tell him about the delay when they met in person, but he can't recall the exact date. He strongly believes it was after he made the three-year investment.
"I find it unlikely I would have put my money into something where I would not get it back," says Baker.
"Wood declined to comment on whether he remembered the date of the meeting and on whether he pitched the fund as low risk. He did say his company had visited LM's Australia offices and conducted a number of due diligence checks.
"These included a review of LM's accounts and registration details. In the future, Wood says "stricter standard due diligence tests" should be applied to investments by advisers and regulators.
"In 2009, Wood's firm was acquired by Hong Kong-based Platinum Financial Services. A spokeswoman for Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says it can find no record of a licence being granted to his firm, under either of its names, or to Wood himself.
"The spokeswoman says it is an offence to give investment advice without a licence in Thailand. Wood was asked by Post Magazine to provide proof that he and his firm are licensed. He did not do so."
From my memory the South China Morning Post has a 51 per cent stake in the Bangkok Post (Post Publishing) It also appears they have much smarter financial writers.
Wood is not going to queer his own patch – But I might take advice on how to financially take care of my kids by asking the cashier at Mothercare.
No point in remonstrating with the Bangkok Post. But what a great example of 'plus ca change' in Thailand.
With apologies to those straight ifa's out there!
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Shot, firebombed, then sold a pup by a Bangkok Independent Financial Adviser
When an investment fund goes bad
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This is what could be called a character piece. Character is the word used in modern graffiti for anything that's figurative. Cartoon characters like those done by Vaughn Bode were the original inspirations for the figure in the graffiti coming out of New York, but you can see in this character by Asylm that the rendering of the female form and the hummingbirds is much more sophisticated than the flat standard cartoon figure. He has a very specific and limited color palate, which makes it more effective than somebody who would paint with every color possible, but it is an interesting piece because it's all his own personal symbols, some of which I can explain.
I can tell you that the hummingbird is his own personal icon. He likes it because the bird is very colorful, but it's also very territorial. There is a crown because, as part of the graffiti traditions going back to New York, people who felt their skills were good enough proclaim themselves a king. This doesn't necessarily mean a singular, "I am the king of everybody," but rather, "I am a king. I am somebody at the top of the game." Then at the top right, you see the arrow pointing up and to the right. It points to the northeast because that's where his crew, SH, or Seeking Heaven, is from. You see a heart with a little sword in it that could be his own personal history, personal pain, and the creativity that comes out of personal pain.
There's a bunch of pieces to the left of it, and a bunch of pieces to the right, and the whole wall was an homage to the preeminent illustrator Frank Frazetta, who did the sword and sandals fantasy covers for so many novels and record covers. That wall actually has a name, Fire and Ice, but generally speaking people just call the art a mural or production.
In the history of graffiti, there is popular graffiti, "I was here" kinds of things, and there is political graffiti that goes all the way back to Pompeii. Then there is what scholars call Latrinalia, or bathroom graffiti, like, "There once was a man from Nantucket…," that again goes back to Pompeii. In Los Angeles in the thirties and forties, you started to have gang graffiti. Then you have the modern era, starting in New York in the seventies, that some people refer to as wild style or style writing.
The Plek piece is very individual. He is using the technical vocabulary of the graffiti that came out of the style writing movement in New York: the abstracted letters, color blends, the way he splinters and fractures the letters, the outline, the three-dimensional rendering at the edge of the letters. There's a whole host of technical visual devices he's using that started in New York, although he is doing it his own way. So there's a tag. That's the individual name, in a mono-linear style, just like a single-line style. Then you have throw up, or a "throwie." The simple bubble letters are called a throwie because it's thrown up onto the wall—somebody may want to do something very quickly because it's very illegal. This is a piece because it's full-on multi-colored, and he is taking his time to do a very technical execution. It is all done freehand with a spray can except for a few little bits where he masks something off to have a particularly sharp line. That piece is part of what's called a production, which is when a number of graffiti writers all coordinate on a wall. Everybody knows who's going up where and what the characters or the theme is going to be on the wall.
If someone came up to graffiti writers and said, "Oh, gee, I really like this street art," he might be puzzled by why the writers looked so pissed off and insulted. That's because most graffiti writers do not consider themselves street artists. They consider street artists to be riding on their coattails. If they're a veteran graffiti writer, they have taken a lot of risks in terms of health, getting up in gang-ridden neighborhoods, crawling on bridges, from falls and climbing. They've taken risks being shot at by gangs or being arrested. Then they see street artists... the stereotype being people who drive into the local arts district in their mom's Prius and do a nice legal mural, possibly using wheat pasting, meaning they didn't create it on the spot. Graffiti writers see themselves as something more, having taken more risks and doing something that requires much greater skill. However, the popularity of modern graffiti arguably led to the popularity of contemporary street art, which includes legal graffiti. It also led to opportunities for graffiti writers to do permission and even commissioned murals, as long as they know how to adopt their style to a more muralistic type of presentation. How and Nosm are really good examples of that.
How and Nosm are actually identical twin brothers of Turkish descent, originally from Germany, living in New York since they were relatively young. They are really at the top of the game. They would do things this technical on the fly, even illegally, and they have a style which is very visually dense and full of cultural symbols. They have managed to take what they want to do anyway, but modify it for an environment that's very welcoming in places that would be interested in street art or public murals.
The character was rendered by Each of the ICR crew, but it's clearly Elser who's the lead artist. I've seen his sketches, I know his letters. That green and gray writing across the middle? That is indeed his name, ELSE, but because he had more room, there's an R at the end, so it's ELSER. One of the things somebody will do is make their name a verb, like Bash is a graffiti veteran, but if he has room to do more letters, he might say BASHER. That's what those letters say, though I know it's not easy for people to make out. It's very abstract.
He's somebody with a gang background who got out of gang life by doing modern graffiti. Even if you come out of a difficult environment, you're still interested in referencing that difficult environment. It's kind of a street scene with a flaming Los Angeles sunset and an urban setting with a light pole. He's got this attractive girl with appropriate tough-girl tattoos, including the three dots on her cheek, which is a reference to La Vida Loca, which means gang life. Black Hearts is the place he's been involved with in terms of doing tattoos. She's got an L.A. on her neck, roses on her shoulders, so she's very much an L.A. girl coming out of street life, and yet her hands are in prayer. There's an aspect reflecting a tough background yet being peaceful at the same time. She's not looking angry. It's an interesting mix of symbols. You have roses, which are not a symbol of violence. You have some wheat paste, or posters, on the right and the left, which seems to me a product endorsement of some kind.
Andrew Schultz is the initial artist. He's the person that's very busy as a street artist, even though he has a background in graffiti. He's not doing graffiti-style street art at all. He has his own personal symbolism, but the mural is interesting because, to some degree, there's that antagonistic relationship between street artists and graffiti writers. Graffiti writers are resentful of street artists, or muralists, so sometimes they'll bomb, or illegally go up on a street artist's piece as a way of saying, "To hell with you, you're not street like we are." It's their way of disrespecting them, even though they have no idea about the street artist's background.
Andrew Schultz's mural kept getting tagged up and bombed on. Bombed means illegal graffiti, usually with the big bubble letters. What he did, very smartly, was get in touch with Steel and Zes of MSK crew to collaborate on the mural. He knows those guys are very highly respected in the graffiti community, and his thought was, if he brings them in to collaborate on his mural, it would tend to keep graffiti toys—that is the term for the knuckleheads who don't know the rules of the game—from tagging on the mural. So far, that has been the case.
Zes was on the left with the green, and Steel was on the lower right with the multicolored piece. Since they have been on that wall, I don't think there has been any other tagging or bombing on that mural. Also, if there is any tagging or bombing on the mural, those guys will probably come back and clean it up. They realize that, if you're on the street, you're vulnerable, and you have to maintain your territory on that wall. If a bomb goes up and it doesn't get covered over quickly, that's like waving the red flag, that anyone can go up on this wall. Zes and Steel are both veteran graffiti writers. If their stuff got bombed on, they would come back and clean it up right away.


When it comes to hunting, being prepared and having the right gear is essential to a fun, safe experience. As deer season opens up, we've compiled a list of must-haves for your next hunt, including how to safely bring your game back home with you.
Staying warm and dry is key to an enjoyable and safe hunting experience. When planning your trip, you need to consider the weather conditions of the area in which you'll be hunting, giving special consideration to the fact that you will likely be up in the stand for a long time. Be sure to check the forecast and be prepared for unexpected weather conditions. Pack a rain jacket and bring extra gloves and a hat. As the weather gets cooler, rain and sweat can quickly turn a great hunt into a dangerous situation. Plan and prepare accordingly.
Deer are very sensitive to human odor. Take time to scrub down with odor-free soap and spray yourself and your clothes with odor eliminator. By the time you make it to the tree stand, you will have probably worked up a bit of a sweat, so be sure to bring the odor eliminator with you to spray again once you're all set up. You may also want to pack bath wipes to help keep you fresh and odor-free throughout the day.
When you're spending the better part of a day up in the deer stand, it's important to be sure you and your phone are staying charged. Be sure to stay hydrated by drinking plenty of water and by eating snacks that energize you, such as power bars, and avoid salty or sugary snacks that will dehydrate you.
It's also important to bring a battery-powered phone charger. Cell phone batteries can die quickly, especially in colder weather, so be sure to bring a phone charger to keep your phone ready in case you need to make any emergency calls.
If you're planning on dressing a deer in the field, you'll need to have at least one knife and a sharpener. A knife is only as useful as it is sharp, so it's best to have a second knife on hand. This ensures that when one is dull, you don't have to stop what you're doing to sharpen it. This increases productivity and efficiency – two very important factors when you're in the field.
Whether you're going on a multi-day trip or will be out for just a few hours, you'll need to keep your game cool and fresh from field to table. Ideally, you should keep the meat cooled at 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Make sure you have plastic bags to keep it sealed. Traditional ice will melt, which can lead to the growth of bacteria on the meat. Dry ice, on the other hand, evaporates as gas and does not melt. It will keep the meat cooler longer, which keeps the meat from spoiling and prevents the risk of bacteria.
For premium packing and cooling performance, pick up a 10-lb. block of Penguin Brand Dry Ice® from your local grocery store and cut it in half. Wrap the dry ice in newspaper to ensure that it does not come in direct contact with the meat, and place the pieces on each side of the cooler. Keep the drain plug of the cooler open to allow for proper ventilation. Limit the amount of times you open the cooler, and the dry ice will keep your game fresh and cool up to a couple of days.
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Veterans Spotlight
Terry Lewis Brings Injured Veterans Together
By Chrissy Keuper	 On May 4, 2018 0
Terry's company office bears the hallmarks of a busy person who knows how to unwind: Working papers on the desk; photographs and awards carefully placed; a giant rack of elk antlers on the wall. He's the owner of Real-Time Construction in Knoxville and spends his weekdays working on various construction projects. Hotels, churches, homes… You name it: He's worked on it. "We're pretty flexible," he says. Terry Lewis and his wife, Jane, grew up together in Southern Illinois. They met in grammar school, remained friends throughout their young lives, and have been married for 46 years. They married right before Terry left for Japan, during the Vietnam War.
He joined the US Air Force in 1971, during the draft. "The civil service person lived directly across the street from me." He smiles. "My class had 100 males graduating. My draft number was 18, so I knew I'd be drafted, it might as well have been number one, so I went ahead and signed up, rather than waiting. I knew I could get a tool belt rather than a gun." Terry boot-camped at Lackland AFB in Texas and trained at Chanute AFB in Illinois. After he and Jane got married in April, 1972, he was sent to war base camp at Beale AFB in California for deployment to Kadena AFB on Okinawa, Japan.
The hostilities in Vietnam and most of Southeast Asia were in full swing when Terry arrived on Okinawa. "I had a tool bag. I was on the ground working seven days a week, 12 hours a day. They were flying bombing missions over Hanoi and the Ho Chi Minh Trail and we were working on the re-fuelers. The tankers were stationed at Kadena. I was doing heating, air conditioning, and pressurization, which is called Environmental Systems." Terry remained at Kadena until he was out of the Air Force in 1973 and he's glad he never saw combat. "I did my job. When you look at the big picture, you're protecting America and it's more than one person, it's more than a guy with a gun. Somebody has to keep the planes flying, keep the boats floating, feed the troops… Everybody's got a job to do. I don't regret not seeing combat at all."
Terry brought his newfound mechanical skills and an expertise in organization home to Illinois. He and Jane moved in with family for a couple of months while he worked in plumbing, heating, and air conditioning. "I got a lot of training and I got a molding of my personalities, I guess you could say. I was taught line-item authority; you answer to the next person in authority and you do what they tell you to do or there are serious repercussions. You know they cut off everyone's hair, so that everyone's alike. They take away who you are and then they give it back to you, in a different way." Though the training he'd received on base didn't directly apply to residential HVAC work, Terry's organizational skills, experience in a chain of command, and respect for authority lent themselves to the serious work ethic required to run a business. A small general contractor gave Terry an opportunity to play various roles on construction projects and to learn anything he could about construction. "I've done just about everything you can do in this industry."
Those are the weekdays. The Lewis weekends are another story entirely.
A Special Place in the Mountains
"I like to ride dirt bikes. We moved down here because of dirt bikes." Terry learned to ride in the Air Force. "In Illinois, it's farmland, it's flat. You can go fast for a long way, but there's no challenge to it." In 1978, he came to Tennessee to visit an Air Force buddy who lived here and they biked in Campbell County, at what is now Royal Blue ATV Resort. That trip changed the direction of Terry and Jane's lives. "The riding was so spectacular and so big and endless, it was extremely challenging. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'" He made four or five trips back to Campbell County until 1980, when he and Jane and their two children moved to East Tennessee, permanently.
They wanted to buy a piece of land where they could camp and ride, and Terry says he was just looking through the paper one morning in 1993 when he came upon an ad for what sounded like the perfect spot. "For sale by owner. I called him up. He told me to go look at it. I paid him some go-see money. I got some partners together and we bought it and we still own it, after all these years. There's three of us, now. There were five." He and Jane own 750 acres of mountainous land, adjacent to the North Cumberland WMA and OHV Riding Area and they spend their weekends in their farmhouse; Terry doesn't ride his dirt bike anymore, but he still spends lots of time out on the land. "When you go out our back gate, you have 150 thousand acres of public land. You can go out and camp, ride dirt bikes, go turkey hunting, go deer hunting… public land. It's really nice, mountainous, scenic, remote, all the things that we enjoy."
And they like to share this beautiful, private spot with others. Often. The events that they sponsor include hundreds of people who all come out to enjoy the outdoors and to take part or to support someone who's taking part in the event. An example is the JAKES (Juniors Acquiring Knowledge, Ethics, and Sportsmanship) program started by the
National Wild Turkey Federation. Jakes are juvenile turkeys and the NWTF sponsors outreach events all over the US for young people. Terry is Vice President of the Pine Mountain Longbeards Chapter of the NWTF and the President of the Campbell Outdoor Recreation Association; it's a natural fit for these events to take place on the property that he and Jane love to share. "Sometimes, we take kids turkey hunting. On JAKES Day, we take 225 kids fishing, sometimes more. Youths, from seven to sixteen [years of age]; we've been doing this eight, nine years? I don't even know how long. We target kids who are disadvantaged: they may have a mom and no dad; they may have families that are not financially in a position to take their kids to do things."
Terry hand-picks the guides who accompany the children around the property on the hunt. "They show up at four o'clock in the morning, we feed them, we pair them up with the guide that I've selected for them, we put them in a Polaris Ranger, we take them up on the mountain and put them in a blind with the adult who controls the firearm and the calls and the decoys. Last year, we had 12 kids and most of them had never been out in the woods before." This year was the first year that the young people taking part in the event were able to stay the night on the property, along with family and friends. Terry has had cabins built and there are other camping areas and a bunkhouse, as well.
Another event is the award-winning, annual Wounded Warrior Ultimate Turkey Hunt (in its 14th iteration, this year), held on Terry's property and a neighboring property belonging to Ron Cunningham. This experience is open to wounded veterans from Fort Campbell and all over East Tennessee and other disabled hunters of all ages. "We take 26 at a time, we split them up: Half are at Ron's place, half are at ours. Most of them are wounded veterans, but the gap between the number of veterans and the full 26 is made up of disabled hunters, mostly kids. A lot of these guys are in wheelchairs: some have no arms, no legs. We do a meet-and-greet on Friday night, a fish-fry, we have music and fellowship, and nobody pays anything for the weekend because we get sponsors to support the events." Sponsors include private donations and sponsorships, as well as help from the NWTF, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, and the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, to name but a few.
"By ten or eleven o'clock Friday night, most everybody's in bed, because guess what? In about four hours, 0-early-thirty's gonna happen to you." About a hundred people participate in the hunt over the weekend, which include hunters, guides, and an all-important support staff of volunteers. "We've had people who had to be catheterized, in the field. All different afflictions, we're ready for anything." The logistics of an event like this cannot be overanalyzed and Terry takes that duty on, himself. "There's a lot of thought that goes into teaming up the right guide with the right hunter. It takes the right kind of guide to spend the day with a guy who talks real loud instead of being calm in the blind and the guide might also have to help him go pee. There's serious strategy that goes into who goes with
who and where they go and how hard is it to get that guy in his 400-pound power chair 700 feet up the mountain? It's pretty complicated." The end results remain the same, year after year: they put the wheelchair in the bed of the ranger, they get everyone mobilized, and they head out on the turkey hunt.
Lots of guides and volunteers return every year. "There's a pretty large demand to be a guide, because it's a pretty emotional event. There's a lot of people who are adamant to be a guide; they want to give back." Over the years, a diverse group of people have served as guides (Jared Effler, Tennessee District Attorney General for Campbell, Claiborne, Fentress, Scott, and Union counties is among a number of repeat guides) and Terry says he gets "a feel for their level of calmness and maturity"; after an event, he pretty much knows who will be coming back the next year. Terry says it's a very nurturing environment and more people attend every year. "We're blessed. I'm gonna knock on wood, here. It's a joint effort among five major conservation organizations. It's special."
"Hunters are conservationists."
Terry and Jane have both won numerous awards for the fundraisers and events they hold on their land, for their work in bringing elk to Tennessee, and in habitat enhancement projects, like the Hatfield Knob Elk Viewing Area. Elk were reintroduced to that part of Tennessee in 2000; Terry volunteered on trips transporting elk from Kentucky. As part of that reintroduction, Terry and Jane oversaw a project with the TWRA to clear an area of the North Cumberland Wildlife Management Area for a meadow, to plant crops for the wildlife, and to build a viewing tower. The tower on Hatfield Knob, built in 2005, stands at the heart of a 670,000-acre elk restoration zone that includes the NCWMA and is legendary among wildlife observers as a premium spot for viewing elk in Tennessee.
Terry loves working in conservation and he enjoys being around those who feel the same about the projects involved in that effort, such as Turkey Hunters Care and Hunters for the Hungry. Those organizations provide food boxes at the end of the year for people in the area who are going without meals. He and Jane are focused on and committed to sharing their love of the outdoors and to giving others part of what they have built in their lives. "Why would you not?"
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My wife and I got married at 63. We are the same age. She was debt free. Her parents bought her everything, forever. She made $30,000 per year after quitting a job as a heart nurse. Her dad gave her $28,000 a year tax free.
She also had approximately $800,000 banked. I made $120,000 and was debt free except for a mortgage with $150,000 remaining. I have $330,000 in a 401(k), plus a pension when I retire.
I paid for everything before we married. Everything! We ate in nice restaurants to the tune of $11,000 during the first year. We married, we discussed our finances and agreed we could split everything.
Recommended: My sister wrote $10,000 checks from our late mother's bank account—what can I do?
We were together for 4 years and married for 2.5 years. She moved in and promptly announced that she would live with me for nothing. We eventually started putting an equal amount in a joint account, but this just lasted a year.
I asked her to leave. She did.
I retired with $375,000 in savings and 401(k), $2,600 per month in Social Security benefits, and $1,800 per month in a pension.
We live in North Carolina. How should the money be split?
This seems like a battle of wills rather than an argument over money.
Financial experts and divorce lawyers suggest having a candid conversation about money before you get married. "Split everything" could refer to daily expenses. It's open for fudging and/or interpretation. In retrospect, you required a more detailed plan. Given that she has $800,000 and you almost had your mortgage paid off, your problems weren't insurmountable. The problem arose when your wife's expectations were so clearly different from your own.
If you almost had your mortgage paid off and the house was in your name, I don't necessarily agree that you would have to charge her "rent"—especially if you were planning a life together. There may have been other ways to share costs. Either you didn't iron out the details, you misunderstood the terms of the details or someone got sandbagged. If it was the latter, I'm not clear whether it was you or your wife who changed his/her mind.
There is a lot of societal pressure for men to pick up the check. Some 84% of men and 58% of women say men pay for most expenses, even when they're in a committed relationship, according to this study of 17,000 people by David Frederick, assistant psychology professor at Chapman University. Both figures can't be correct: Men are either overstating their generosity, or women are understating how much men pay. You picking up the tab did not bode well for your married life.
There were other warning signs: Your wife was pampered by her parents: $800,000 is a lot of money to receive for just being who you are. Most people would have to work a lifetime to amass such a large amount. It either gave her a sense of entitlement or a belief that this is how it should be: Fathers and husbands should pay. I have three pieces of advice for folks who get married: (i) people don't change, (ii) people don't change and (iii) people don't change.
North Carolina is an equitable distribution state. If it was a community property state, your wife may have been entitled (yes, there's that word again) to half of your home had she used marital funds to contribute to the mortgage, so be thankful for that. As it stands, a judge will likely rule that you take from the marriage what you brought into it, given the relatively short length. She gets to keep her $800,000, and you get to keep your retirement and your house.
In retrospect, it sounds like your problems were far more than financial.


Visiting a tiny school on Little Cayman in the caribbean I asked the 5 children what special things they would share with the world if they were connected up to other schools. The white sand? palms? coral reef? azure sky? ignuanas? The eldest (8) said, simply "peace".


Some herbalists use a healing art called "simpling," referring to the use of one herb at a time rather than in formulas or in combinations. These single herbs are called "simples" and the people who use them, "simplers." We can all benefit from learning to understand the simplicity of herbs.
No matter how much I learn from the many amazing herbalists in our world today (as well as past herbalists alike), I don't want to forget what I believe existed at the beginning of herbalism: simplicity. A time when one herb was used to aid in the many various things going on with an individual.
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How Much Does Water Weigh?
If out of the blue, someone asked you how much water weighs, you may be confused. Water is a liquid, and liquids are typically measured in volume, not weight.
But on second thought, you remember that water is matter, and everything that is matter has weight.
So, how much does water weigh? The weight of water is not quite as fixed as the weight of solid substances. Water's weight fluctuates with temperature changes. It also changes depending on the presence or absence of dissolved substances.
However, it is estimated that at room temperature, 1 gallon of water would weigh 8.3 pounds.
As we already hinted, the weight of water is not fixed. This means that under different conditions, water may weigh less or weigh more. In this article, we will be exploring the variation of the weight of water.
Different Types of Water Measurements
Cubic Foot
Acre-Foot
Weight of Freshwater vs. Seawater
Table Showing the Weight of Salt Water vs. Sea Water at Room Temperature
Final Take
There is no constant weight for water.
As the temperature changes, the weight of water changes.
At higher temperatures, you can expect water to weigh less. But when the temperature drops, water will be heavier.
Also, without dissolved substances, water weighs less. But with dissolved substances like salt and sugar, water weighs more.
Notwithstanding the information above, there is a generally accepted value for the weight of water. At room temperature (70 °F), 1 gallon of water weighs an average of 8.33 pounds.
Normally, most liquids progressively get heavier as the temperature falls. But, there is a unique phenomenon with water.
As water becomes colder, it does indeed become heavier. But at 39.2 °F, water is at its heaviest—weighing 8.45 pounds per gallon. Then as water goes colder below this temperature, it becomes slightly lighter again.
You could try this out yourself at home. Weigh a cup of water at 180 °F and another cup of water at 50 °F. The difference between the weights of these two samples should be about 0.2-0.25 pounds.
You could also try weighing a cup of water containing 1 tablespoon of sugar against a plain cup of water. The sweetened water should weigh more than the plain water.
As you may already know, water can be measured in various units. It can be measured in gallons, cubic feet, acre-feet, amongst others. In this section, we will discuss some of the units of water measurements and their weight equivalents.
A gallon of water equals approximately 16 cups of water and weighs 8.33 pounds at room temperature. The same quantity weighs 8.45 pounds at 39.2 °F and 8 pounds at the boiling point (212 °F).
A cubic foot of water equals 7.5 gallons of water (approximately 118 cups of water). At room temperature, 1 cubic foot of water weighs about 62.48 pounds.
At 39.2 °F, this same volume of water weighs 63.38 pounds, and at the boiling point, it weighs 60 pounds.
An ounce of water equals 0.00781 gallons of water. This, in turn, is about 0.12 cup of water. At room temperature, 1 ounce of water would weigh 0.065 pounds. While at the boiling point, it would weigh 0.063 pounds.
The maximum weight of 1 ounce of water (weight at 39.2 °F) is around 0.066 pounds.
At room temperature, 1 pound of water equals 0.12 gallons (approximately 2 cups of water). At the boiling point, 1 pound of water equals 0.125 gallons. While at 39.2 °F, 1 pound of water equals 0.1198 gallons.
A liter of water equals 0.264 gallons of water (approximately 4.2 cups of water). A liter of water weighs 2.2 pounds at room temperature.
At the boiling point, 1 liter of water would weigh around 2.112 pounds. Then at 39.2 °F, 1 liter of water would weigh 2.203 pounds.
An acre-foot is the unit of measurement for water that is impounded or stored. An acre-foot of water equals 325,851 gallons of water. At room temperature, one acre-foot of water would weigh about 2,713,974.056 pounds.
When cooled to around 39.2 °F, an acre-foot of water would weigh 2,719,358.386 pounds. But when boiled to 212 °F, it would weigh 2,606,912.917 pounds.
Remember earlier we said the presence or absence of dissolved substances in water would affect its weight? Well, that applies here.
Seawater is heavier than freshwater or pure water, and this is due to the presence of dissolved salts in seawater. While 1 gallon of fresh water weighs around 8.3 pounds, the same volume of seawater weighs 8.6 pounds.
In the table below, we compare the weight of various measurements of pure water and seawater.
Measurement Pure Water (lbs.) Salt Water (lbs.)
Teaspoon 0.0108 0.0112
Tablespoon 0.032 0.034
Cup 0.53 0.55
Quart 2.08 2.15
Half-Gallon 4.15 4.3
Gallon 8.3 8.6
Liter 2.19 2.27
At room temperature (70°F), 1 cup of water weighs around 0.53 pounds. The weight of a given volume of water will always vary depending on temperature.
So it is better to always reference the temperature of the water when it was weighed. Besides temperature, salt, sugar, and similar water-soluble substances also affect the weight of water.
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Thankfully, most of us will never find ourselves tangled up in the types of messy legal disputes that make big headlines. That being said, it is fairly common for disputes to arise between businesses or individuals that, though not big enough to make the news, are certainly too big to shrug off and ignore. Every state has a Small Claims court section to handle such disputes.
Small Claims Court is less formal than traditional court and tends to be quicker, easier, and more affordable to navigate. While we would never suggest someone walk into a traditional lawsuit without good legal representation, there may be situations in which it is perfectly reasonable to go to Small Claims Court without a lawyer.
If you're dealing with a legal dispute and feel that Small Claims Court could be a good option for you then you'll want to be informed on all the implications. Consulting with a trusted attorney about the specifics of your situation is a good idea but it will be helpful to know a few of the basics.
Each state designates a limit for small claims. These amounts range from $2,000 to $25,000, depending on the state. Utah's limit is $11,000. If you are looking to sue for an amount that exceeds your state's established limit then any legal course of action would need to be settled outside of Small Claims Court, such as a State District Court.
Although Small Claims Court is less involved than traditional court it does still involve a number of steps. These steps will vary from state to state and city to city but the basics are the same. First, you'll need to figure out the appropriate place to file. In Utah, Small Claims must be filed in the city where the defendant resides and/or where the claim arose. Second, you will need to fill out the appropriate forms and file them at the courthouse of the city with jurisdiction. Third, you'll want to prepare adequately for your day in court.
Once you've properly filed your paperwork and have a court date set then you'll want to make sure you are ready to state your case. Gather and organize all relevant documents, practice telling your side of the story clearly and concisely but with sufficient detail and, if possible, bring a disinterested third party to speak to your claim (an expert on the type of service in dispute, for example, could benefit you greatly).
At J. Cutler Law, we offer free consultations for you and your business. We can draft and review demand letters for small claims, help you navigate the paperwork, and consult on any stage of the process. Call us today for a free consultation at (801) 618-4469 or contact us online.


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Gasunie will join Neptune Energy as a new partner on the PosHYdon pilot, the world's first offshore green hydrogen project.
Offshore wind, offshore gas, and offshore hydrogen will be integrated in the energy system in the Dutch North Sea.
A hydrogen-producing plant on the Neptune-operated Q13a platform will also be installed.
"We are very pleased to welcome Gasunie as a partner. Gasunie is already working hard to accelerate the energy transition, including several hydrogen pilots on land, and have the necessary knowledge and experience with electrolysis in-house."
Lex de Groot, managing director of Neptune Energy in the Netherlands.
"The Netherlands is in a strong position to lead the transition to a hydrogen economy. We have the North Sea for the production of wind and gas, the ports as logistics hubs, the industrial clusters that want to switch to green molecules and excellent infrastructure for transport and storage.
"This comes together nicely in the Netherlands. If we want to achieve our climate ambitions, we must have a large-scale hydrogen infrastructure in good time. This pilot project can be an important step in the right direction."
Han Fennema, CEO of N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie.
Electricity generated by offshore wind turbines will be used to power the hydrogen plant on the Q13a platform, converting seawater into demineralized water, then into hydrogen via electrolysis.
The PosHYdon pilot is an initiative of Nexstep, and TNO, in close collaboration with the industry.
The Q13a is the first fully electrified platform in the Dutch North Sea, located approximately 13 kilometers off the coast of Scheveningen.
NREL research suggests shift in long-haul trucking toward hydrogen
Fluxys acquires 24% stake in OGE
Turkey's first hydrogen village "HyVillage" is on the way


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Oroquieta City, through its Office of the City Mayor Management Information System Division (OCM-MIS), maintains www.oroquietacity.gov.ph, which aims to provide information about the City Government, its mandates, programs, and services.
As a local government of the Republic of the Philippines, the website adheres to the Government Website Template Design (GWTD) Guidelines prescribed by the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), which highlights, among others, compliance with the Data Privacy Act of 2012 (Section 2.3.5) and recognizing the importance of improving user experience (Section 3).
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The website itself does not collect personal data that would identify a specific individual. However, as a means to gather feedback and improve services, the website incorporates three online surveys housed with Google Forms:
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Oroquieta City Survey form
The type of data that are obtained include:
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The non-personal data being collected using Google Forms is governed by the external website's own privacy policy.
Google Analytics is being used to track website performance. It gathers non-personal information from the browser whenever the site is visited. This may include the computer's Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, pages visited, date and time of visit, and time spent on these pages, among others. These are reported through aggregated data that in no way will identify an individual.
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This website contains links to other websites – visitors are advised to take note of these sites' respective privacy policy.
This Privacy Policy is effective as of May 2022, and will remain effective unless there is a revision, which will be effective immediately after being posted on this site. Users of this website may also provide feedback to this policy through the contact information provided below.
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The City of Tea Tree Gully (CTTG) embarked on a mission to put the digital channel at the centre of its customer service offering, and leverage its website to transform how it delivers services to its customers. Together with Seamless, CTTG built an eServices portal that empowers residents to self-service, anytime day or night, from any modern device.
The eServices portal integrates a range of core internal CTTG business systems, including its document management system, resident addresses database, and customer request management system. However, residents aren't exposed to any of these systems, and instead see a simple, single dashboard for the lodgement and tracking of all their requests.
By delivering a useful and usable online experience, CTTG can improve customer satisfaction and internal efficiency, while decreasing the cost of service for its customers and freeing up customer service staff to focus on more complex requests.
When customers are completing online forms a predictive auto-complete mechanism fills in the address by pulling property information from CTTG's address register. This greatly increases the accuracy of the user's submission and certainty that every request is attached to a valid address.
If a customer is completing a request from a mobile device, they can simply click the 'Use My Location' button and the portal will identify their current position, and automatically correlate the mobile GPS coordinates at time of request to the nearest property address from council's properties database.
As council staff initiate, update or close customer requests, the eServices portal automatically send notifications to the customer, managing the entire communication loop from the raising of the request through to its close.
Aside from email notifications, customers also have the option to create an online account so they can log in and track the progress of their requests themselves. Providing customers with live, 24/7 access to requests, greatly reduces the time spent by the customer service officers providing updates to customers.
To compliment the online status checking, residents can still use the customer reference number provided online for each request and contact customer service for updates. Even if a customer elects not to track their request online by creating a username and password, they can still elect to receive an email update when the request has been completed by providing their contact details when submitting the request.
The SeamlessCMS and Authority CRM integration operates in both directions, allowing information submitted into request forms by residents to be captured into the CRM, and information stored in CRM to be pushed out into the portal, without any manual work or re-keying by customer service staff.
Beyond requests and reports, the eServices portal will be a critical business tool for CTTG that will extend to support a broad range of transactions and requests for everything from booking a library through to organising and holding a video-conferencing session with a town planner.


Tio Tilly's bar and kitchen is a cool a...... pizza, vermicelli crusted prawns an...Great change from curry and kingfisher.
A multi-cuisine restaurant, with a cozy, rustic ambiance. They offer a range of foods to tease your palate including some drool worthy pizzas and live music on Saturdays.
Good quite place, excellent qislity rhough speed needs to improve.
Great place for a cheap lunch - directly opposite Le Meridien on the main road in Calangute. Pizzas seem to be a specialty although we had Goan curries, washed down with a couple of Kingfishers. Total was around 1,100 rupees. Not bad at all.
We came here one night has the other half wanted pizza not my choice of food . To my surprise it was the best I had tasted better than in Italy . Staff very friendly and attentive and smart ,lovely and clean would go again.
Insane Pizzas & more in North Goa!
Does what it says on the tin. Great change from curry and kingfisher. Nice tasty pizza and decent craft ale. Try it.
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Neco Inc., of Denver, Colorado, provides 3D Computer Aided Design and support services primarily allied to the manufacturing and consumer goods industry.
The company has, for the last nine years, grown in reputation within the manufacturing industry as one of the country's most reliable engineering design consulting firms.
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The overnight closure of A&E at Weston General Hospital has not affected the care of patients, an audit requested by health chiefs has found.
The emergency room at the hospital has been shut between 22:00 and 08:00 each night for nearly two years.
Despite fierce public pressure to re-open it 24 hours a day, local NHS commissioners have proposed to make the overnight closure permanent.
The idea is part of a new healthcare model for the Weston-super-Mare area.
Since the closure began in July 2017, the most serious emergency cases have been taken to Bristol and Taunton, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.
The audit looked at overnight emergency patients taken from the Weston area to Bristol.
A paramedic from the South Western Ambulance Service and a consultant in emergency medicine reviewed the notes of 50 patients.
Rebecca Dunn from the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) said: "The conclusion of that audit was that the increased [ambulance] travel times did not have any adverse impact on the clinical outcome.
"Where required, appropriate interventions were initiated by the ambulance clinicians, stabilising patients prior to the treatment in hospital."
Ms Dunn told the CCG's governing body on Tuesday that the audit findings were "a really important step to ensure that we were not adversely impacting clinical care" because of the longer ambulance trips required by the overnight A&E closure.
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Now that I have finished my summer research project I thought that this blog would be taking a break from "my learning experiences" and focusing on how my children learn.
Not long back in the "full-time mum seat" and I am realising that my learning isn't just about what I learn at medical school. The first year was such a dramatic change from my previous life of being a stay-at-home mum that I threw myself into it 100% and whilst I haven't been ignoring my children, I had forgotten how much they can teach me.
Yesterday morning, I was woken by the sound of giggling coming from the children's bedroom. I sat up in bed and listened for half an hour to my eldest child making her younger brother laugh by reading a story and replacing some of the words with nonsense words. I couldn't resist taking a peak and as I opened the door I saw that she had got down from her top bunk and climbed in with him. He looked at her adoringly and she gave him all of her attention, they stayed there for another hour or so whilst I reflected on what a kind and caring daughter I have and made mental notes to tell her this more often.
It has reminded me how important it is to live in, and enjoy the present and that even half an hour of attention focused completely on a child can mean more to them than anything else.
If I am honest, after spending almost 8 years at home I think it got to the stage where I found almost anything more interesting than looking after my children. Now that I have a part of my life which is separate from being a mum I cannot think of anything more interesting than being with them and watching them experience the world.
Today we took the scooters and went off for an afternoon ride, after about 10 minutes my 3 year old son stopped and started hopping around like a nutter because he had found "the biggest leaf in the world". I forced myself not to hurry him along as I often would and instead found that I was getting excited too. My daughter found a spider and then spent 15 minutes theorising about how it was a brand new species.
I listened. I actually enjoyed it. The days are flying by. I am not spending money. I am not bored. I am learning. They are learning. We are all laughing – a lot.
And yes, I will be pleased to go back to med school and continue learning the ins and outs of medicine. But I will try not to forget how much I can learn from my children.
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Daydreaming is the stream of consciousness that detaches from current, external tasks when attention drifts to a more personal and internal direction. This phenomenon is common in people's daily life shown by a large-scale study in which participants spend 47% of their waking time on average on daydreaming. There are various names of this phenomenon including mind wandering, fantasy, spontaneous thoughts, etc. Daydreaming is the term used by Jerome L. Singer whose research laid the foundation for nearly all the subsequent research today. The terminologies assigned by researchers today puts challenges on identifying the common features of daydreaming, and on building collective work among researchers.

There are many types of daydreams, and there is no consistent definition among psychologists. However, the characteristic that is common to all forms of daydreaming meets the criteria for mild dissociation. Also, the impacts of different types of daydreams are not identical. While some are disruptive and deleterious, others may be beneficial in some way.

Functions of daydreaming
Mooneyham and Schooler summarized five potential functions daydreaming serves: future thinking, creative thinking, attentional cycling, dishabituation and relief from boredom.

Daydreaming can be a useful tool to help keep people mindful of their relevant goals, such as imagining future success of a goal to motivate accomplishing a difficult or uninteresting task.

Creative thinking is another function of daydreaming associated with increased creativity. The frequency of daydreaming is the highest during undemanding and easy tasks. It is hypothesized that daydreaming plays an important role in generating creative problem-solving processes. Studies have also found that intentional daydreaming is more effective when focused on creative thought processing, rather than spontaneous or disruptive daydreams.

Attentional cycling is an adaptive function of daydreaming that helps to keep people's behaviors relatively optimal when there are multiple target problems at the same time. When people have many goals, daydreaming provides an opportunity for people to switch among different streams of information and thoughts.

Dishabituation is beneficial when the internal response to the external stimulus decreases as the external stimulus repeats during learning process. One research identified this effect in learning and showed that learning is more effective with distributed practices rather than massed practices. Daydreaming can provide the opportunity to allow thoughts to drift away from intensive learning temporarily and to focus again with the refreshed capability to continue focusing on attention-demanding tasks.

Relief from boredom is another function of daydreaming. When people are doing boring tasks, daydreaming allows their thoughts to detach from current external tasks to relieve boredom. At the same time, this temporary detachment will not stop external activities completely when these activities are necessary. Also, daydreaming can cause the perception that time moves more quickly.

Daydreaming can also be used to imagine social situations. Humans are naturally oriented to be social in behavior and actively seek the approval and company of others. Social daydreaming is imagining past social occurrences and future events and conversations. According to research, daydreaming and social cognition have strong overlapping similarities when activated portions of the brain are observed. These findings indicate that daydreaming is an extension of the brain's experience of social cognition. This is likely because daydreams are often focused on the mental representations of social events, experiences, and people. It was also observed that a large portion of implicitly occurring daydreams, approximately 71%, were social. According to recent research, it was also found that positive rumination caused increases in the imagining of positive future events. Negative rumination caused an increase in thoughts of negative future events in depressed individuals but did not cause a significant increase in thoughts of negative future events in those who were not depressed.

Default mode network

According to several studies, daydreaming appears to be the brain's default setting when no other external task is occupying its attention. A group of regions in the brain called the default mode network is lit up only when the brain is left in a sort of 'idle' state. These areas of the brain light up in sequence only when daydreaming.

Functional theories
There has yet to be a consensus on how the process of mind wandering occurs. Three theories have been devised to explain the occurrences and reasons behind why people daydream. These theories are the distractibility account, executive-function account, and the decoupling account.

The distractibility account theorizes that distracting stimulus, whether internal or external, reflects a failure to disregard or control distractions in the mind. According to this theory, the brain activity increases in response to an increase in attention to mind-wandering and the mind tends to dwell on task unrelated thoughts (TUT's).

The executive-function account theorizes that the mind fails to correctly process task relevant events. This theory is based on the observation of TUT causes an increase in errors regarding task focused thinking, especially tasks requiring executive control.

The decoupling account suggests that attention becomes removed, or decoupled, from perceptual information involving an external task, and couples to an internal process. In this process, TUT is enhanced as internal thoughts are disengaged from surrounding distractions as the participant 'tunes out' the surrounding environment.

Psychological studies
 Freudian psychology interpreted daydreaming as expression of the repressed instincts similarly to those revealing themselves in nighttime dreams. He pointed out that, in contrast to nighttime dreams, there seems to be a process of "secondary revision" in fantasies that makes them more lucid, like daydreaming. The state of daydreaming is a kind of liminal state between waking (with the ability to think rationally and logically) and sleeping.

In the late 1960s, cognitive psychologists Jerome L. Singer of Yale University and John S. Antrobus of the City College of New York, created a daydream questionnaire, called the Imaginal Processes Inventory (IPI). It has been used to investigate daydreams. Psychologists Leonard Giambra and George Huba used the IPI and found that daydreamers' imaginary images vary in three ways: how vivid or enjoyable the daydreams are, how many guilt- or fear-filled daydreams they have, and how "deeply" into the daydream people go.

Humanistic psychology on other hand, found numerous examples of people in creative or artistic careers, such as composers, novelists and filmmakers, developing new ideas through daydreaming. Similarly, research scientists, mathematicians and artists have developed new ideas by daydreaming about their subject areas.

Self-reflection
Daydreaming can also be used to reveal personal aspects about an individual. In an experiment directed by Robert Desoille, Desoille had a subject rest on a couch and then invited them to daydream about a series of objects and events. The subjects were asked to imagine a sword or vase first, then to imagine climbing a mountain, and then ascending into space. The subject is then asked to visualize a wizard, a witch, and a dragon. Subjects who imagine more details and sleek objects often see themselves as more useful and hold a belief they are capable of growth. Through the daydream, which can involve many fantastical elements, characteristics such as a fear of men or a desire to subdue a selfish personality trait can be revealed.

Self-focused daydreaming can be beneficial/positive (i.e. a self-reflection) or detrimental/negative (i.e. a rumination). Rumination is over-thinking negative experiences from the past, and pessimistic views of the future; it generally increases negative mood-episodes, guilt, fear and poor attention controls Self-reflection generally increases happiness, anti-depressant thinking, rational planning, creativity, and positivism.

Research
Eric Klinger's research in the 1980s showed that most daydreams are about ordinary, everyday events and help to remind us of mundane tasks. Klinger's research also showed that over 75% of workers in "boring jobs", such as lifeguards and truck drivers, use vivid daydreams to "ease the boredom" of their routine tasks.

Israeli high school students who scored high on the Daydreaming Scale of the IPI had more empathy than students who scored low. Some psychologists use the mental imagery created during their clients' daydreaming to help gain insight into their mental state and make diagnoses.

Research with fMRI shows that brain areas associated with complex problem-solving become activated during daydreaming episodes.

Benefits and costs
Mooneyham and Schooler reviewed studies about daydreaming published from 1995. Some of the major costs of daydreaming summarized by the review are worse performances with reading, sustained attention, mood etc.

The negative consequences of daydreaming on reading performance have been studied the most thoroughly. Research shows that there is a negative correlation between daydreaming frequency and reading comprehension performance, specifically worsened item-specific comprehension and model-building ability.

Disruptive daydreams or spontaneous daydreaming is also characteristic of people with attention-deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD).

Negative mood is another association of daydreaming. Research finds people generally report lower happiness when they are daydreaming than when they are not. For the positive daydreaming, people report the same happiness rating between current tasks and pleasant things they are more likely to daydream about. This finding remains true across all activities. The relationship between mood and daydreaming from time-lag analysis is that the latter comes first.

In the late 19th century, Toni Nelson argued that some daydreams with grandiose fantasies are self-gratifying attempts at "wish fulfillment". In the 1950s, some educational psychologists warned parents not to let their children daydream, for fear that the children may be sucked into "neurosis and even psychosis".

While the cost of daydreaming is more thoroughly discussed, the associated benefit is understudied. One potential reason is the payoff of daydreaming is usually private and hidden compared to the measurable cost from external goal-directed tasks. It is hard to know and record people's private thoughts such as personal goals and dreams, so whether daydreaming supports these thoughts is difficult to discuss.

Immordino et al. identified a benefit of daydreaming. They argued that the mind is not idle during daydreaming, though it is at rest when not attentively engaging in external tasks. Rather, during this process, people indulge themselves in and reflect on fantasies, memories, future goals and psychological selves while still being able to control enough attention to keep easy tasks going and monitor the external environment. Thus, the potential benefits are the skills of internal reflection developed in daydreaming to connect emotional implication of daily life experience with personal meaning building process.

Despite the detrimental impact of daydreaming on aptitude tests which most educational institutions put heavy emphasis on, Immrdino et al. argued that it is important for children to get internal reflection skills from daydreaming. Research shows that children equipped with these skills have higher academic ability and are socially and emotionally better off.

See also
 Creative visualization
 Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming
 Fantasy prone personality
 Fantasy (psychology)
 Maladaptive daydreaming
 Mind-wandering
 Stream of consciousness (psychology)

References

External links
 Psychology Today blog on Power of Daydreaming by Amy Fries
 Daydreams at Work: Wake-Up Your Creative Powers by Amy Fries
 Positive effects of daydreaming
 Daydreaming improves thinking (Cosmos Magazine)
 Site summarising research on mind-wandering and daydreaming

Psychological adjustment
Imagination
Abstraction
Intrapersonal communication


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Manchester University / About Manchester / News / Pharmacy Success 2016
Manchester's first pharmacy graduates report success
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – The Manchester University Pharmacy Program inaugural class has a 98 percent success rate.
Forty-nine out of 50 graduates are working in community pharmacies and hospitals or are completing additional post-graduate training. Sixty-five percent of the graduates entered the community pharmacy workforce and 8 percent are employed in the hospital setting. Even though they came to MU from all over the nation, half of the graduates remained in Indiana and 75 percent of those are in northeast Indiana.
About a third of the graduates pursued residencies, and they achieved an 81 percent "match" rate with programs in 13 states. This is much higher than the national rate of 68 percent, according to data from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Residency Match Program. Residencies usually last a year and offer post-graduate training primarily at hospitals, community pharmacies and managed-care organizations.
"We commend the Class of 2016 for again creating a strong foundation for all future classes," said Tommy Smith, Pharm.D., J.D., who announced the results. He is assistant dean for assessment and accreditation of the Pharmacy Program. "Getting the first set of very competitive results in the record book is one of a number of important milestones our program has successfully achieved in 2016."
Milestones include:
Graduating its first pharmacy doctoral class in May.
Receiving full accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education in July.
Achieving full enrollment of 73 students in each of the program's four years.
Achieving a faculty-student ratio of less than 10 to 1, which offers each student individualized attention.
The Manchester pharmacy graduates are also well on their way to meeting full licensure requirements at a rate that is competitive with the national pass rate. To become a registered pharmacist, a graduate must pass two exams:
The North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination (NAPLEX) measures a candidate's knowledge of the practice of pharmacy. Nearly 86 percent of the Manchester class passed on the first attempt.
The Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination (MPJE) tests knowledge regarding pharmacy law. More than 86 percent passed on the first try.
All Manchester graduates are well-prepared academically and have practical experiences that make them highly successful in the job market.
Year after year, MU's newest graduates report success – at a five-year average above 95 percent. The undergraduate Class of 2015 hit 98 percent within six months of commencement and the class of 2014 reached 97.1 percent.
With campuses in North Manchester and Fort Wayne, Ind., Manchester offers more than 60 areas of academic study to 1,600 students in undergraduate programs, a Master of Athletic Training, a Master of Pharmacogenomics and a four-year professional Doctor of Pharmacy. Learn more about what's available at the private, northern Indiana school at http://admissions.manchester.edu/areas-of-study/.
Manchester University Mission Statement
Learn more about pharmacy
Manchester graduation 2016
MU prepares pharmacists who will serve their communities
Study the sciences at Manchester


Geosat satellite and by the European Space Agency's ERS-1 satellite.
Geosat measurements lost their strategic importance when ERS-1 began collecting unclassified data of equivalent quality.
The complete Geosat and ERS-1 data suggest that the South Pacific and other parts of the globe have many similar mountain ranges that were previously unknown.


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Q: Predicting Missing Word in Text I know about BERT and other solution when you masking some words and try to predict them.
But let say I have a text:

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  by storm, transforming the field by leaps and bounds. New,
  bigger, and better models to crop up almost every ,
  benchmarks in performance across a wide variety of tasks.

And I cannot in advance say to BERT where masking is. I am looking for algorithm which can understand where missing words are and after that predict them.

A: What you can do is check for each position in text (I'd recommend starting from position 2) compare if the next word present in text is among the most probable next words according to the model, like so:

"Transformer have taken the of Natural Processing by storm [...]"

*

*First iteration:

Input: "Transformer MASK"
Compare: MASK / "have"

*Second iteration:

Input: "Transformer have taken MASK"
Compare: MASK / "the"

*Third iteration:

Input: "Transformer have taken the MASK"
Compare: MASK / "of" - Here you probably would have a very low probability.
This could help you check whether this could be the place for a missing word.
This post can help you achieve it programatically: Predicting Missing Words in a sentence - Natural Language Processing Model


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The 13th edition of Asiamold concluded on 12 March with positive feedback from both exhibitors and buyers. Receiving solid support from renowned manufacturing brands, the fair remains one of the most important platforms for mould, additive manufacturing and forming technologies in the South China region. This is evidenced by the 37% increase in visitors this edition, combined with the concurrent SIAF fair, to 98,776.
Asiamold – Guangzhou International Mould & Die Exhibition closed its 13th edition on 12 March at the China Import and Export Fair Complex in Guangzhou, China. Held concurrently with SPS – Industrial Automation Fair Guangzhou (SIAF), the two fairs hosted over 988 exhibitors and welcomed 98,776 trade buyers during the three-day shows. Some of the leading brands in attendance this year included Guangdong Lanwan Intelligent Technology Co Ltd, PADT Inc, Saarschmiede GmbH, Shenzhen Yangfan Precision Mould Co Ltd, Xi'an Elite Robotics Co Ltd, Z Rapid Technologies Co Ltd and many others.
The thematic zones once again contributed to the 2019 show's success, helping traders to meet their needs in a more convenient way. Recognising China's rapid development of the additive manufacturing industry, 3D Printing Asia continued to be a key highlight of the show, displaying a series of cutting-edge 3D printing technologies and solutions by some of the most prominent brands in the region.
Returning for the third and fourth year respectively, the Agora and Seminar, and the China 3D Printing Industry Technology Application Summit continued to assist industry players to keep pace with the latest applications and development trends of moulding technologies and 3D printing, and were once again well received by the audience. This year, a total of 13 presentations were delivered during the first two days of the show, covering a wide range of topics including the application of portable spike spark spectrometers in the mould steel industry, the introduction of internet + cloud ERP, and case studies of classic mould, metal 3D printing and materialise software solutions. Feedback from both the speakers and seminar participants indicated the importance of having such events every year so as to stimulate the information exchange between suppliers and end-users within the industry.
Asiamold is organised by Guangzhou Guangya Messe Frankfurt Co Ltd and forms part of a series of international events including formnext and Intermold Japan. The next edition of formnext will be held from 19 – 22 November 2019 at the Frankfurt exhibition grounds in Germany. Intermold Japan will take place from 17 – 20 April 2019 in Tokyo and 19 – 22 June 2019 in Nagoya. The next edition of Rosmould will take place from 18‒20June 2019 in Moscow.Asiamold 2020 will be held from 26 ‒ 28 February 2020.


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Q: Do comets spin? Why do satellites/space station not spin? Do comets spin? Why don't satellites or space-station spin? If spin is fundamental thing, then it should be found in all (moving) objects.

A: By way of analogy, does your car spin? Your car might well go into a spin if you try to turn while driving over a patch of black ice, but that isn't a desirable outcome. Humans have developed lots of schemes to avoid undesired rotation.
This is particularly so with satellites. You will find lots and lots of articles about controlling the attitude and rotation of a satellite if you go to scholar.google.com and search for "spacecraft attitude control".
The space station is rotating, at one revolution per orbit. This rotation is by design and is carefully controlled. All satellites have a very carefully designed and controlled orientation and rotation. They would be non-functional if they didn't.

A: Yes comets spin. Satellites do too - typically they are set to spin in such a way as to point to earth at all times - which means they spin once per orbital revolution. Often small adjustments are made with the use of reaction wheels - move the wheel one way and the satellite turns the opposite way.
There is no reason why any object should have to have any specific angular momentum - but we know that within a closed system the angular momentum won't change.

A: The international space station does spin, with period of 1 earth orbit. This keeps the stations nator axis orientated equally through out an orbit relative to the surface of earth.

A: Like several others have said here, you seem to be conflating the spin in quantum mechanics to the spin of macroscopic bodies in classical mechanics, which doesn't make much sense because quantum mechanical spin and the rotation of macroscopic bodies aren't related in that way. Spin in quantum mechanics is an intrinsic angular momentum that particles have, while the "spin" you're thinking of in macroscopic bodies isn't the same. Not every macroscopic body necessarily has to rotate, while
particles have an intrinsic spin associated with them.
At least that's what i've heard anyway.