New for 2013 - online booking and contracts! No more fussing with the printer to get the contract printed or remembering to bring it to the session. For all future sessions, all of the legalities of your session will take place online.
With my new system, I'll have everything stored in one place, including your expectations and what you're looking for most out of the session. The contract is now broken down piece by piece so we're all on the same page - no miscommunications, no hidden anything, no surprises.
Contracts will now be taken at the booking in addition to the retainer fee that was instituted this year as well. Let steps, less fuss, and an overall better client experience. That's the idea anyway!
I'm one of those weird people that loves to fill out those long forms at the doctor's office, so this system is so exciting to me! I have a feeling clients will love it too.
Hope you don't mind a fellow photographer "stalking" your page. :) I've been trying to get some kind of online contract like this for my clients to read and sign before the appt. This looks so much easier (for you and for them!). How did you create this? Would you mind pointing me in the right direction? :) My email is portraitsbycynthi at yahoo dot com. Thank you!


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Austria Announces Emergency Blackout Measures That Include Food Rations
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In the event of a massive power outage, Austria will hand out emergency food rations to the public. The plan comes as food prices soar and the energy crisis spreads worldwide.
The plan, which was published on the country's Ministry of Agriculture, Regions, and Tourism website, decrees that all grocery stores are to remain closed on the first day of a potential blackout. On the second day of the same blackout, stores are to remain closed but act as centers from which bags of fresh produce will be given to residents, between 10:00 am and 3:00 pm.
From day three, only products from the dry range will be offered, for safety reasons, according to a report by RT. Additionally, the stores will offer prepared bags with water, long-life bread, canned goods, convenience products, and candles to be sold for cash. Baby items and hygiene products will be made available on request only.
Even though all major Austrian retailers have agreed to the food rationing plan, including Spar, Maximarkt, Billa, Penny, Lidl, Frisch, Unimarkt, M-Preis, and others, residents were advised to stock up on food with a long shelf-life and keep a 14-day supply at home. They were also told to keep small denominations of cash in the amount of around €100 per family member.
Unsurprisingly, this scheme was developed by ruling class agencies and the Austrian central bank. It was prepared in coordination with the Austrian Chamber of Commerce (WKÖ), the National Bank of Austria (OeNB), and the energy ministry, as well as representatives from the food retail industry and the association of Austrian municipalities (Österreichische Gemeindebund).
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The rulers of Austria did want to say that the food supply is secure and that the chances of a blackout are "very low and unlikely." They noted that "new potential challenges require timely preparation in order to be ready for a crisis."
"Our food trade industry is a responsible one and has already proved its ability to overcome the crisis. The solution presented today in the event of a possible mass blackout is a model for the whole of Europe and shows that our food industry is ready for the crisis as part of the system of critical infrastructure," the head of the association of food retailers Christophe Tamandl said, commenting on the plan.
But what happens if there is no food to handout?
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Dorie's Perfect Party Cake. It is what it says.
Last year I made it with blueberry preserves and added a layer of fresh bluberries and sweetened whipped cream in the middle.
I made it for Father's Day last weekend, but I can't download any of my pictures yet, since my computer is not set up. I will update this post with pictures in a couple weeks when I am able to get my pictures downloaded.
This week's Tuesday's with Dorie recipe, Perfect Party Cake, was chosen by Carol of mix, mix, stir, stir,.
It was also done by the Daring Bakers last year in March, so you have probably seen some version of it. You can find the recipe on Carol's blog, from the post I did last year, or on just about any other food blog out there. I promise.
I made it again because my sister-in-law wanted a white cake with raspberry filling for our Father's Day dessert.
The cake is flawless. I haven't had trouble with it and I always use buttermilk, which goes well with the lemon flavor.
This time I used a different frosting because the original frosting is too loaded with butter for me and last summer when I made it, none of us really cared for the frosting.
This time around, I used this basic Vanilla Buttercream from Southern Living. I also made up my own raspberry filling and everyone really loved the results. Go check out the TWD Blogroll to see the other party cakes!
I like health foods and health stores. They are just so much fun.
A couple of months ago, I tried soba noodles for the first time and this is the recipe I used.
I was seeing recipes pop up all the time in magazines and on the web, that used soba noodles, so I finally grabbed some.
This recipe also includes edamame, which is one of my favorite foods.
This was a great dish, that we all enjoyed, but I thought that the hoisin sauce flavor was a little too strong. If you love hoisin sauce, than that won't be a problem, but if I were going to make it again, I would cut back on that a little bit.
I also reduced the amount of oil that the veggies were stir-fried in, because I think a little oil goes a long way.
This was ready really quickly and had lots of green veggies, so it was good, quick dinner.
1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil, salt it, add the pasta and cook until al dente. Drain.
2. While the pasta is working, in a wok or large skillet, heat the oil over high heat until rippling. Add the cabbage and edamame and stir-fry for 2 minutes. Stir in the scallions, garlic and ginger and stir-fry for 1 minute. Stir in the hoisin sauce, soy sauce, lime peel, lime juice and black pepper. Add the pasta, mint and basil and toss.
This is a dinner that I made a couple of months ago.
I am nearing the end of the recipes I have left in my drafts and this is one meal that was simple and delicious, but somehow just kept getting pushed out of the way.
I mean, why post dinner when you can talk about dessert, right? I am kidding of course, but sometimes cakes and cookies are more fun to look at.
I don't remember exactly where I found this recipe, it was either Southern Living or Cooking Light. It was fast and easy.
I liked the fact that this used turkey, which is lean and healthy, instead of chicken. A little variety in the protein area of our meal. I like variety.
I served this meal over sauteed kale and we really liked it.
Prep: 20 min., Chill: 30 min., Cook: 15 min.
Be sure to grate the lemon rind before squeezing the juice needed for the recipe. Use the entire 2 tablespoons of lemon juice in the marinade if you like a tangier flavor.
Pierce turkey slices evenly with a fork.
Stir together Italian seasoning, 1/2 tablespoon oil, lemon juice, and next 3 ingredients. Coat turkey slices with oil mixture. Cover and chill 30 minutes.
Cook turkey slices, in batches, in remaining 1 tablespoon hot oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat 3 minutes on each side or until done. Remove turkey from skillet, cover, and keep warm. Add beans and peppers to skillet; cook over medium heat until thoroughly heated, stirring gently.
Cut turkey slices crosswise into 1/2-inch strips. Arrange on a serving platter. Top with bean mixture. Combine pine nuts, grated lemon rind, and parsley. Sprinkle over beans. Serve immediately.
This week's TWD recipe, Coconut Roasted Pineapple Dacquoise, was chosen by Andrea. You can find the recipe on her blog, Andrea's Kitchen.
The picture of this dessert is one of the first ones that caught my eye when I bought this cookbook. It was my 2nd choice when it was my turn to pick the recipe back in January, so I was pretty thrilled when I saw it was one of June's recipes.
Honestly, I was a tad bit intimidated by this recipe. That is the reason I haven't ever made it on my own. Usually, if there is something that I want to make, I just do it. This dessert needed a special occasion. It needed extra time and now it was finally time to make it.
and the Lots of Ways Banana Cake with Blackberry Sherbet.
I was surprised that this recipe was not as difficult as it seemed. It had many parts, that had to bake or rest for long amounts of time, but none of the steps were that hard. I halved this recipe since we were having so many other treats that night and that enabled me to bake my meringues all on the same baking sheet. They were 6x3 inch rectangles.
A dacquoise is "layers of nut meringue and whipped cream or buttercream. It is usually served chilled and accompanied with fruit."-Wikipedia.
In this case the meringue base was made with almonds and served with layers of white chocolate ganache. Those layers were topped with roasted pineapple.
I had a little trouble with the white chocolate ganache just because I was scared to overbeat it, so it was a little bit runny. That made the putting together of this dessert a little messy, but the toasted coconut covered it and no one seemed to mind.
Everyone was very impressed with this dessert. It was crunchy and cold and all the flavors were delicious together. I am so glad we got to make this.
To see what the other members of Tuesday's with Dorie thought, check out the TWD Blogroll!
I hope everyone had a great weekend. We had fun yesterday. I was in charge of the menu at my mother-in-laws and it turned out great. I also suggested some menu items to my family in Utah and I think they enjoyed them.
This recipe is for a muffin I made a couple of months ago.
As soon as I saw this muffin recipe, I knew it was something that my younger brother would love, love, love! He is only 17 and a bit of a health nut.
He loved everything I ever baked or cooked and that made trying new things lots of fun.
This is a really healthy muffin, loaded with shredded zucchini and shredded carrots. It has wheat germ and yogurt and whole wheat flour.
Unlike some healthy foods that don't taste healthy, this muffin does. But, I don't think that is a bad thing. I know some people might argue with me about that.
It also has a hint of molasses flavor.
My brother loved these. He even hid some in the pantry, so that no one would take them. That made me laugh when I found his little stash.
If you need healthy snack, here you go!
Egg whites beaten to stiff peaks ensure that the texture of these whole-grain muffins remains light. Fresh carrots and zucchini keep these muffins moist.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Coat a standard (12-cup) muffin tin with cooking spray. Whisk together flours, pecans, wheat germ, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
Stir together carrots, zucchini, yogurt, egg yolks, molasses, and orange zest in a large bowl. Fold flour mixture into carrot mixture until just combined. With a whisk or a mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat egg whites until shiny, stiff peaks form. Gently fold egg whites into the carrot mixture.
It is really hot today. Don't you think so? We have been swimming everyday in grandma's pool and today we decided that we would go to the library. It was about 10:30 in the morning and I was thinking about what else we could do to keep ourselves busy.
We stayed at the library for 4 1/2 hours.
We missed lunch. My youngest took a nap on my lap. And I was the one who finally spoke up and said that I was hungry so we had to go.
That really has nothing to do with this post, but I just found it humorous that my children were so entertained by the library.
I made this pasta salad about 6 weeks ago. I don't remember all the things I changed about it, but as soon as I made it, I wrote down the changes to the recipe and so, the recipe below is my version of the recipe.
I added a couple extra vegetables and used whole wheat pasta.
This would be a really great option for a really hot day (like today), because you only have to boil the pasta and if you have some leftover, cooked pasta in the fridge, then you can just whisk up the dressing, have a quick lunch or dinner, and keep your house nice and cool, by avoiding the use of the oven.
1. In a large pot of boiling, salted water, cook the pasta until al dente; drain and spread onto a baking sheet to cool.
2. Meanwhile, pour the vinegar into a large bowl and whisk in the olive oil in a slow, steady stream. Stir in the tomatoes, cucumber, yellow pepper, and carrots. Add the pasta and parsley and toss; season with salt and pepper. Stir in the tuna. Top with the feta.
Some things just have to be revisited. Last summer, I checked out The Food You Crave by Ellie Krieger from the library and chose 4 recipes that I wanted to make right away. One of them was Peach French Toast Bake.
When I made it last summer, I added some blueberries and blackberries to the peaches that go on top and it was a delightful breakfast.
A couple of weeks ago, I had a loaf of french bread that was a little stale, so I decided to make this breakfast dish again.
We had some frozen peaches left from last summer and I decided to turn the french toast bake into single servings by cutting the bread into cubes and baking them in a muffin tin.
I just put some bread cubes into each well of the muffin tin and poured the egg/milk mixture over top. I added the peaches and blueberries, covered them with plastic wrap, and set them in the fridge overnight. I also reduced the baking time by about half.
My family really likes this breakfast.
If you need a filling and nutritious breakfast that can be put together quickly the night before and then just popped in the oven in the morning, make this one!
This weeks recipe, Honey Peach Ice Cream, was chosen by Tommi over at brown interior. You can get the recipe by visiting her blog.
I didn't know if I would have time to make the recipes for June, since we were about to move across the country, but I made time for them.
My friend wanted me to make her ice cream before I moved, so this was the perfect opportunity. Except for the fact that peaches aren't ripe in Utah until about August.
My parents have a peach tree in their backyard and boy, did it produce gorgeous, delicious, beautiful, juicy, huge peaches by the bushel last summer. We had so many we didn't know what to do.
I made peach pie, Dorie's Dimply Cake with peaches, peach ice cream, smoothies, chiffon cake with peaches as the filling- I mean, you get the idea.
We had so, so many and so, we froze a bunch of them too.
I used those delicious frozen peaches for this ice cream.
I followed Dorie's instructions and pureed half the peach-honey mixture and left the other peach mixture in chunks. Having the peach chunks in there, didn't really bother any of us.
The only thing that most of my tasters noted was that this ice cream tasted much better after it had ripened in the freezer for 24 hours.
I made it in the morning and it had time to sit in the freezer for a couple of hours, but it tasted much better the next day.
Go see what the other TwDer's thought about this fabulous frozen treat by checking out the TWD Blogroll!
I found this recipe quite a few years ago, in Parents Magazine and I have been making variations of it ever since. It is easy and gets lots of veggies into a nice meal.
The original recipe uses ground sirloin and I have made it in the past with beef. I don't really eat beef anymore, so the past few times I have made it, I have used ground turkey breast.
Basically, any ground meat would work. If you use ground turkey breast, you just have to watch the patties close, because if you cook them too long, they will be dry.
Sometimes, I add a little chicken broth to the pan while they are cooking, just to keep them moist.
The cream of coconut and anchovy paste really makes the flavors great. My kids really enjoyed this meal because it is something that you can eat with your fingers and everything is close to bite size.
1. In a bowl, combine coconut cream, bread crumbs, soy sauce, ginger, garlic and anchovy paste. Add turkey and gently combine until well mixed. Shape meat into 12 small patties, cover and refrigerate until ready to cook.
2. In another bowl, combine cucumber, carrot and red pepper. In a medium saucepan, combine vinegar, sugar, salt and 1 cup water. Bring to a boil, remover from heat and pour over veggies. Let sit for 3 minutes, then drain, reserving liquid.
3. Heat grill or skillet over medium high heat. Grill patties until cooked through, about 3 minutes per side. Serve in lettuce leaves with vegetables and rice on the side. Dip in reserved liquid.
The weekend before we moved, a couple of my friends and I got together for a little party.
I was debating if I had enough time in-between packing and everything else, to bake a couple of things for our get-together. Well, of course- I had time.
The day of the party, I made this cake and sherbet, Honey-Peach Ice Cream (which will post next tuesday) and one of the most phenomenal desserts ever- Coconut Dacquoise with Roasted Pineapple (that will post a week from tuesday).
I like bananas. But, they have to be just the right texture for me to eat them out of the peel. If I see a brown spot on the peel, I set them aside and decide that they will be used for baking.
I had a couple of bananas that were begging to be made into something delicious and also had lots of fresh blackberries, because the price really great on them at the store. I spotted the frosting recipe and thought it looked beautiful and sounded really good. I have made this banana cake before and it is really versatile, so I knew they would be a great combination.
And since I was making all of this stuff anyway, I decided I might as well throw in a simple sherbet recipe just for fun.
You can use whatever you have on hand to make the cake- coconut milk, whole milk, buttermilk, plain yogurt- anything. I have made it with coconut milk before and it was delicious. I don't even remember what I used this time, but it was good. I also added chopped, toasted pecans to the batter.
The frosting was a lovely color and everyone raved about it, but I thought it could have used a little bit more of the actual blackberry flavor.
The sherbet was so, so easy. I have used this method before where you just blend the ingredients up and freeze it for a little while, then process it in the food processor and either serve it or freeze it for awhile longer. It is a really easy method.
The sherbet called for buttermilk and that gave it nice sourish tang- I would use a little bit less sugar next time- I thought it was a little too sweet. Nice color and also raved about from my friends.
It was a fun night. Good friends and dessert- what could be better?
Getting Ready: Center a rack in the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter two 9-x-2-inch round cake pans, dust the insides with flour and tap out the excess. (I used Crisco Baking Spray with Flour). Put the pans on a baking sheet.
Working with a stand mixer, preferably fit with a paddle attachment, or with a hand mixer in a large bowl, beat the butter until creamy. Add the sugars and beat at medium speed for a couple of minutes, then add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition, followed by the vanilla and rum. You'll have a beautiful satiny batter.
Now lower the speed and add the bananas-the batter will curdle, but that's fine; it will come back together as you add the remaining ingredients. Still on low speed, add the dry and liquid ingredients alternately, adding the flour mixture in 3 portions and the coconut milk in 2 (begin and end with the dry ingredients).
Mix just until everything is incorporated. Switch to a rubber spatula and gently stir in the coconut. Divide the batter evenly between the two pans.
Bake for about 45 minutes (mine were done in 42), or until the cakes are a deep golden brown. They should start to pull away from the sides on the pans and a thin knife inserted into their centers will come out clean. Transfer the cakes to a cooking rack and cool for 5 minutes, then unmold and invert onto another rack to cool to room temperature right side up.
1. In a food processor, combine blackberries and sugar; cover and process until smooth. Strain and discard seeds and pulp.
3. Transfer puree to a 13x9-inch dish. Freeze for 1 hour or until edges begin to firm. Stir and return to freezer. Freeze 2 hours longer or until firm.
4. Just before serving, transfer to a food processor; cover and process for 2-3 minutes or until smooth.
I love summer. I love the hot sun and now that we are back in Georgia, I have to admit it- I love humidity. I used to crave it when we lived in Utah and I remember the one day that I could actually feel humidity in the air when we lived there. It felt good in my lungs. I know I must sound crazy, but I actually like exercising in the humidity, too.
Another thing I love about summer is the wonderful variety of fresh fruits and vegetables that are in season. Doesn't everything just taste better in the summer?
I love going to farmers markets and enjoying the fresh produce from the garden.
This is a great salad for any season. The simple syrup could be flavored with any citrus flavors and the combination of lemon and orange is really good.
This salad is great with any fruit you might have on hand. I took it to a party, so I threw together the fruit I had and just happened to have red, orange and yellow fruits in the bowl. Yum!
Combine sugar and water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil; remove from heat immediately. Stir in lemon and orange juice and zest. chill.
Prepare fruit. Stir into chilled syrup, so all is coated.
This week's Tuesdays with Dorie recipe, Parisian Apple Tartlet, was chosen by Jessica, who blogs over at My Baking Heart.
You can find the recipe on Jessica's blog.
This recipe is easy if you use frozen puff pastry. I was just trying to get as many recipes for TWD as I could, out of the way before we moved to Georgia. I used the frozen puff pastry I found at my local grocery store (Pepperidge Farms), even though Dorie suggest using an all-butter puff pastry.
I was in a hurry, so I didn't even think about making the puff pastry from scratch. I did use as many fruits as I could find though. I made the tartlets about an inch smaller than Dorie suggested and made 12- 2 with each kind of fruit. The favorites in our house were those made with peaches and plums. The topping fell off the apple tartlet and it didn't turn out very pretty, so that is why the pic of that one is at the very bottom of this post.
This dessert would be a great ending to a party or a fun dessert to make with young kids. Check out what all the other TWD-ers came up with by going through the TWD Blogroll!


As Durban comes to life with the World Conference Against Racism, delegates, visitors and the general public will enjoy an exciting cultural programme presented by the Non-Governmental Organisation Forum of the conference.
Celebrating cultural diversity, the programme captures the beauty of the world's marginalised peoples and communities through music, theatre, dance, art and poetry through the mediums of performances, exhibitions, workshops and public mural-making projects.
Artists involved in the collaboration include 1001 Way - an indigenous music and dance fusion group from the Philippines, a musical protest act representing the Dalit caste of India, a Roma people's theatre group from Romania and numerous community-oriented musicians, actors dancers and artists from KZN and throughout South Africa.
Activities will be held at the BAT Centre, a dynamic cultural centre on Durban's harbour, the Vuma Arts Centre in the bustling Market area, KwaMuhle Museum and other venues and clubs throughout Durban.
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Dick's CEO really excited to have destroyed huge number of firearms
Jazz ShawPosted at 10:31 am on October 8, 2019
Ed Stack, the CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods, is on a campaign to make sure everyone knows that he and his company are sufficiently woke to be allowed out in polite society. Over the weekend he did an interview with CBS News in which he explained what they had done to curb gun violence in America and the great cost they absorbed to do so. And what was the magic cure? They turned five million dollars worth of AR-15 rifles into scrap metal. (The Hill)
The CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods says that after the company made the decision to no longer sell assault-style rifles, more than $5 million worth of the weapons were destroyed.
In an interview with CBS News that aired Sunday, Ed Stack said following the decision last year to stop offering assault-style rifles, the question of what to with the remaining inventory lingered.
"I said, 'You know what? If we really think these things should be off the street, we need to destroy them,'" Stack said, adding that the company turned $5 million worth of the weapons into scrap metal.
I'm not a stockholder in Dick's Sporting Goods and I haven't set foot in their store since all this nonsense started, so I suppose I really don't have a horse in this race. But if I were one of the shareholders, I think I'd be a bit put off right about now. The company intentionally converted millions of dollars worth of valuable merchandise into barely recyclable metal. How is that a good business model? Even if they didn't want to sell them to the public they could surely have sold them off in bulk to another retailer and recouped some of their losses.
Stack is right about one thing, however. They've definitely paid a price for all of this. Three years ago the company's stock was trading at sixty bucks per share. This week it's hovering around 38 dollars. And what effect did he think this was going to have on the availability of legal firearms? One adept observer of the story took to Twitter and pointed out the obvious.
The manufacturers already made the money off those guns. Now they'll simply make more to sell to other gun shops, and double their profits. Seriously, if I was a shareholder in Dick's, I'd be demanding that the CEO step down for incompetence, and for politicizing the company.
— Duane L. Martin (@Duaners) October 7, 2019
Precisely correct. The manufacturer of those firearms has long since been paid and turned a profit. Part of those profits will certainly be reinvested to manufacture even more firearms to sell to all of the shops that are picking up business in the form of Dick's lost customers. And speaking of picking up business, gun sales in August surged fifteen percent over the previous year and ranked the highest sales figure ever recorded for that month.
So Ed Stack can keep patting himself on the back all he likes. He hasn't changed the number of rifles being sold. He's only changing where people do their shopping. How long will the shareholders continue to put up with a CEO that's driving down their profits in the name of being woke?
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I am not a native speaker of Welsh. But it is a language in which I have for many years had a great interest.
When I was an undergraduate reading classics at Cambridge, one of the subjects I chose to study was comparative philology. This involved discussing numerous examples of sound correspondences between the various Indo-European languages. I remember then feeling envious of one of my fellow-students who spoke Welsh, since he could use his native-speaker knowledge to come up with Celtic examples that the rest of us had to learn by heart. I duly learnt ten or twelve Welsh words to quote in the examination -- but I didn't take it any further.
When I came to UCL to do a master's in phonetics, I remember hearing two of my fellow postgraduates speaking together in Welsh. I felt a mixture of emotions: annoyance that I couldn't understand what they were saying or take part in their conversation, but also a lively phonetic interest in the exotic sounds and rhythms I was hearing. I wished I could speak Welsh -- but I didn't take it any further.
When I started teaching, becoming a lecturer at the UCL Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, every now and again there would be a student who was a native speaker of Welsh. After all, Welsh is the second most widely spoken indigenous language of the United Kingdom in which I live. And I began to feel ashamed. Here was I, holding forth about the phonetics and grammar of a wide range of different languages -- yet I couldn't even speak this language that was on our doorstep, a few hours' drive from London.
So I decided to learn Welsh. I studied books, I went to evening classes. I took a Welsh O level, I took a Welsh A level. (There's a lot to be said for doing advanced-level language exams in one's thirties, rather than as a teenager: you can make your own mature judgments about the literature you study, rather than having to reproduce the teacher's views.) The peak of my achievement came when I managed to hold my own in a BBC radio interview, in Wales, in Welsh.
This means that I was delighted to hear of plans to publish Welsh Phonetics. This book will enable a wide audience to become familiar with the phonetic work that has been done on the language, work that has not until now been widely known.
Non-linguists looking at Welsh notice mainly the spelling, which makes it look unpronounceable, with its abundant w's and y's. Linguists know there's more to a language than its orthography.
Syntacticians can savour the VSO word order of Welsh and the interesting consequences it entrains.
Morphologists can marvel at the conjugating prepositions and the singulative suffix of nouns.
Phonologists are fascinated by the consonantal mutations. They ought to investigate, too, the strange behaviour of schwa, which happily occurs in stressed syllables while being barred from certain unstressed ones (namely, final syllables).
Classicists and etymologists can explore the legacy of Latin left in Welsh: the obvious loans such as pont 'bridge' and ffenestr 'window', and the less obvious ones such as gwenwyn 'poison', cadwyn 'chain', and saeth 'arrow' derived by regular sound changes from Latin venenum, catena, sagitta. Even the history of English can be seen in Welsh, with sad retaining its old meaning of 'firm, steady' and the place-name Betws taking us back to the obsolete English bedehouse 'house of prayer, almshouse'.
What can phoneticians find? Look inside.
Many will know that Welsh has a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative, as in llaw [ɬaʊ] 'hand'.
Some will have heard of the remarkable high central vowel of North Welsh, the [ɨ] of dyn [dɨːn] 'man'.
But most have still to make the acquaintance of the remarkable set of diphthongs all suggestive of English [aɪ]: the tei [təɪ] 'tie' and tai [taɪ] 'houses' distinguished in all types of Welsh, and the further diphthongs heard, in north Wales only, in cau [kaɨ] 'to shut' and cae [kaːɨ] 'field'.
Few will know, until they read it here, that -- unlike in most languages -- stress in Welsh seems to be associated with the presence of level pitch, and lack of stress with a change of pitch. In consequence, non-Welsh-speakers tend to fail to perceive Welsh stress correctly, which reminds us that auditory perception may be language-dependent.
Yn wir, trysordy o iaith yw'r Gymraeg.


Pure Casting was formed in early 2011 in response to a growing demand for greater choice in Australian casting companies. Pure Casting was born of a desire to establish a wholly Australian-owned, Australian-based company focused on quality, customer service and integrity. Pure Casting's founding partners are some of Australia's most experienced precious metal casters whose expertise combines with that of Craig Long of Facet Rapid Prototyping.
Our experinced casting team together with Craig Long's 30 years' experience in manufacturing and setting and his pioneering of CAD/CAM in Australia, means that Pure Casting can provide the most efficient CAD/CAM and casting service available in Australia. Pure Casting operates from the one convenient Marrickville location with free Customer Parking.
Pure Casting has developed an entirely new and exclusive range of more than 20 precious alloys in response to jeweller's demands for superior products. All components of Pure Casting products are sourced within Australia to ensure higher quality standards while supporting Australian suppliers.
We are jewellers manufacturing products for jewellers. Whenever customers call Pure Casting, they talk to specialist in specific fields, all of whom are qualified and experienced jewellers, not simply designers with very limited knowledge of the full jewellery-manufacturing process. The Marrickville facility provides customers with one-on-one consultations with a Facet RP CAD drawer and a Pure Casting metallurgist to follow pieces smoothly from concept to casting.
Australia's standards for manufactured jewellery are recognised as superior to those in many other countries, and customers can be reassured by Pure Casting's dedication to the highest possible production values. Competition for overseas manufacturers based on lower prices is always a challenge.Pure Casting continues to emphasise its dedication to quality. We will continue to work with Australian jewellers to grow our business. We keep all of the local jewellery industry Australian-based.
The continued push towards price-based overseas manufacturing has seen a decline in available expertise in Australian manufacturing. Over the last 10 years retailers have shied away from quality, and this trend has reflected badly in the quality of overseas-manufactured merchandise widely available in Australian retail outlets.
We believe jewellers are prepared to pay more for accuracy and quality in casting. We are not the cheapest casting facility, but our concerns are to provide a top-quality service to our customers.
Pure Casting aims to support the next generation of jewellers and to ensure they continue to bring top quality product to market. We will ensure a broad knowledge base remains in Australia.


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The Nintendo Labo Vehicle Kit Is Packed With Fun for Kids Young and Old
Here's everything you need to know about Nintendo's latest Labo kit.
Earlier this year, Nintendo announced that the Nintendo Labo Vehicle Kit would race onto store shelves on September 14. The kit lets kids of all ages construct video game controllers -- called Toy-Con -- out of cardboard, and then use them to play the games included on the kit's Switch software.
The Nintendo Labo Vehicle Kit will let kids and adults construct a car's steering wheel, a plane's flight stick, a submarine control unit, a pedal, two keys, and a spray can. From there, they can insert the Switch's Joy-Con controllers into the different Toy-Con to use them to play a variety of games.
Nintendo released a detailed overview video for the new kit, which explains how kids can have fun once they get behind the wheel.
First, an Adventure mode will let kids explore an open world full of pyramids, an archaeological dig site, a modern city, mountains, and more. Kids can interact with in-game characters and complete missions using all three of the in-game vehicles. A second player can get in on the action by using the kit's extra key in a different controller. Just keep in mind, multiplayer gameplay would require you to own more than two Joy-Con controllers, since the two that came with the Switch will be used by a single player in their pedal and key.
While playing in Adventure mode, kids can choose which vehicle to control by placing one of their keys into the appropriate Toy-Con. When they want to switch vehicles, it's as simple as moving the key from one Toy-Con to another -- the on-screen vehicle will automatically transform into a car, submarine, or plane, depending on which controller the player has activated.
Each vehicle also comes with special abilities for kids to play around with. For instance, the steering wheel Toy-Con comes with a cord kids can pull to pop a wheelie and make their car jump. The submarine Toy-Con has a button that lets players fire an anchor at in-game objects to interact with them. Finally, the plane's flight stick Toy-Con has a trigger that allows kids to fire missiles from their plane.
Source: Nintendo
Kids can also build a screen stand that attaches to the steering wheel Toy-Con, and can hold the Switch console when kids aren't playing on the TV. When the Switch is in the screen stand, kids have the option to drive using gyro camera control, which lets them turn left and right by physically tilting the steering wheel Toy-Con (and, in the process, the Switch console).
Finally, kids will be able to create their own controllers using objects they may have around the house (not just cardboard), and use them to control their vehicles.
Here's a quick breakdown of the game's other modes.
Rally - Kids can drive, fly, and dive through checkpoints while trying to beat the clock.
Circuit - Players can race against in-game vehicles on a variety of tracks. While racing, kids can launch a mechanical arm from their vehicle to punch other cars out of the way.
Slot Cars - This mode uses only the pedal Toy-Con. It challenges players to control the speed of a small car that automatically moves around a series of curvy tracks. Up to four players can race in the Slot Cars mode, but each one will need their own pedal. That means you'll need multiple Nintendo Labo Vehicle Kits, or friends who have their own that they can use.
Battle - Kids can compete in one-on-one car battles against either the computer or a friend.
Paint Studio - Players can use the Spray Can Toy-Con to spray paint their in-game vehicle and customize its appearance.
Discover - This area contains interactive tutorials that teach kids how the kit's Toy-Con work.
Toy-Con Garage - This interactive playground of sorts lets kids program their own tools and games that use the kit's cardboard controllers (or even other items).
Don't forget that the Nintendo Labo Vehicle Kit will also be compatible with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, letting kids control every in-game vehicle in the kart racing game using the steering wheel, pedal, and key Toy-Con.
Nintendo introduced the first two Nintendo Labo kits -- the Variety Kit and the Robot Kit -- in April 2018. Players have created some amazing things out of the first two Labo building kits, from original games to beautiful music and beyond. Even if your kids aren't interested in creating anything from scratch, they can customize the kit's cardboard pieces using stickers, markers, glitter, and more to make their pieces stand out.
The Nintendo Labo Vehicle Kit launches on September 14 for $69.99.


The locali of Castello dominate the nightlife scene on Giglio, but to start out your evening, don't miss a sun-downer on the beach at Campese; it's the only west-facing waterside spot on the island. Watch the horizon turn pink and orange with a cocktail at Bar Approdo, Via di Mezzo Franco 2 (tel. 0564/804109), directly on the sand at Campese. Up in Castello, elbow your way into La Cantina di Giovacchino, Piazza Lombi, Castello (tel. 0564/806001), an atmospheric, multilevel (with panoramic terrace) wine and food bar, serving the robust Gigliese wine, Ansonaco, as well as typical local salami and cheeses. Bar Perbacco, Piazza Gloriosa, Castello (tel. 335/377735), is the place to be for aperitivo, while the younger, party-hardy crowd congregates at the steps outside Bar Da Scipione. Castello also has two discoteche: Il Maneggio, Località Il Pianello (tel. 377/1141435), is a new open-air spot just outside the old town walls, and gay-friendly; in town, I Lombi, Via dei Lombi (tel. 347/5606601), is an old-school Italian disco with cheesy summertime contests exalting the taut physiques of the Roman teens and 20-somethings who frequent the club.
Not to be left out, Porto has nighttime action, too, though more of the low-key variety. Try Il Demino, at Demo's Hotel, Via Thaon de Revel 31 (tel. 0564/809235), on the beach facing the harbor.
Hotel Il Pellicano, Località Sbarcatello, 4km (2 1/2 miles) west of Porto Ercole, Monte Argentario. tel. 0564/858304. www.pellicanohotel.com. 50 units. Doubles 420€-865€. AE, DC, MC, V. Amenities: 2 restaurants; bar; fitness center; golf and horseback riding nearby; pool; room service; seaside swimming platform; spa; tennis; boat trips. In room: A/C, TV, DVD player, minibar, MP3 player, Wi-Fi (free).


Have you ever thought about where your food comes from? Even a simple meal has travelled the globe before it arrives on your plate, with potatoes from Egypt, apples from New Zealand and beans from Kenya. These are usually flown by plane, and air travel is the fastest growing source of carbon dioxide emissions _ the principal cause of climate change.
Most of Europe's orange juice comes from Brazil. Demand for orange juice has doubled in the last decade, yet in this country there is a richer source of Vitamin C that grows everywhere _ rosehips. During the Second World War when it was impossible to get oranges, children were given days off school to go and pick rosehips _ by 1943 450 tonnes were picked a year. (for ways on cooking and preparing them see Roger Phillips book `Wild Food' which tells you all the free nosh you can get in the UK).
And how about this for madness. Vegetables being sold in two superstores on the outskirts of Evesham in Worcestershire were grown just one mile from the town. But before they reached the shelves they had been trucked to Hereford, then to Dyfed, then to a distribution depot in Manchester, from where they were sent back to Evesham. Not surprisingly, a quarter of our road traffic is now transporting food.


A million people in southern Somalia risk starvation after the World Food Program on Tuesday suspended humanitarian aid because of attacks and threats by al Qaeda-linked Islamic rebels.
"Rising threats and attacks on humanitarian operations, as well as the imposition of a string of unacceptable demands from armed groups, have made it virtually impossible for WFP to continue reaching up to 1 million people in need in southern Somalia," the organization said in a statement Tuesday.
The WFP has evacuated staff, equipment and food aid from the south of the country to central Somalia.
The shutdown is one of the largest WFP retreats in years, meaning its food aid may reach 1.8 million people out of its target of 2.8 million people.
The al-Shabab militant Islamic group, which has taken control of much of the country's south, last year gave the WFP a deadline of Jan. 1 to leave. The agency says farmers can't provide the food required to feed the million hungry Somalians in the south of the country.
The organization said it was ready to provide food aid to refugees who moved north because of hunger.
Al-Shabab has threatened human rights activists, journalists and aid workers in recent months. Some have been kidnapped; others have been shot.
Al-Shabab aims to introduce Taliban-style Islamic law throughout the country.


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Q: Magento Add Tracking Number Template Error I'm working on a site that uses Magento right now.
I am having an error in the backend, when I go to Sales->Order->View(choose any order)->Ship.
When I click on the Add Tracking Number, there is no result.
When I checked on my firebug,there's this error show:
this.template is undefined
http://www.myDomain.com/index.php/admin/sales_order_shipment/new/order_id/154/key/f58bdecb79687dd839f91cdc23bb1b9d/
Line 628

We could not move one because of ths error.
Magento Version: 1.4.1.1

What could be going wrong?

A: You'll want to look at app/design/adminhtml/default/default/template/sales/order/shipment/create/tracking.phtml:
Here you'll see the error being referred to by Firebug on the Element.insert( ...
var trackingControl = {};
trackingControl = {
    index : 0,
    add : function () {
        this.index++;
        var data = {index:this.index};
        Element.insert($('track_row_container'), {bottom: this.template.evaluate(data)});
        $('trackingC' + this.index).disabled = false;
        $('trackingT' + this.index).disabled = false;
        $('trackingN' + this.index).disabled = false;
        this.bindCurrierOnchange();
    },

More details on the prototype insert method can be found here:
http://www.prototypejs.org/api/element/insert
You will want also want to ensure the following template object is being set at the bottom of this file as well:
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
trackingControl.template = new Template('<tr>' + $('track_row_template').innerHTML.replace(/__index__/g, '#{index}') + '<\/tr>');
//]]>
</script>

This is where this.template is being defined.
See http://www.prototypejs.org/api/template
A few things to try:
1) Try a different browser just to be sure its not a browser specific error.
2) Try disabling any 3rd party modules via /etc/modules/company_modulename/config.xml
3) Copy a new version of the tracking.phtml from same or newer versions of Magento.

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This master page started as a copy of seattle.master and then was stripped of anything not necessary for SharePoint to function.
All unnecessary layout HTML code has been removed.
**IMPORTANT: Some of the Suite Bar options are formatted as white text (by SharePoint) so when taken out of their seattle.master formatting and just stuck on the page, it turns out to be white text on a white background. The links are there. Just mouse over the top left corner of the browser to see them.
Minimal Download Strategy controls have been removed from the publishing version since MDS can't be used with publishing sites. The only exception is DeltaPlaceHolderMain which has to be left intact in order for the web part tool pane to load properly while in edit mode.
This is a copy of seattle.master that still has all original HTML layout code in place.
Code line indention has bee redone to make the file easier to read.
Open your parent (home) SharePoint site in a browser.
Choose the settings gear icon, and then select Site settings.
Under the 'Web Designer Galleries' column, select Master pages and page layouts.
The Master Page Gallery page loads.
Navigate to and locate the seattle.html file.
Hover over the file name and a small arrow will appear to the right of the file name. Select the arrow and then select Edit Properties.
The file properties page loads. Towards the bottom you will see Associated File. Uncheck the box.
Now you can successfully edit seattle.master.
This is a copy of seattle.html that still has all original HTML layout code in place.
This file is only for use with Design Manager.
WARNING: Due to the abundance of SharePoint comments, this file can be hard to read. Please use the quick find method implemented in the file described on line 18 to locate the custom comments.
To use this, either 1) upload it as a new HTML file to your site and use Design Manager to "convert it" to a master page; or 2) replace the contents of seattle.html with this file.
Since this is an HTML file, when you click the link above it will open an HTML page in your browser and look really weird. It is best to instead do a right click on the file name and choose to Save Link As (or similar function based on the browser you are using).
Which file is right for me?
If you just need to tweak the default SharePoint layout around or insert/remove some components, you can use the SharePointV15-Comments-Formatting.master file or the SharePointV15-Comments-Formatting.html file.
If you need to completely change the SharePoint look and feel (make SharePoint NOT look like SharePoint) and you are comfortable working with CSS based layouts, then use Just-the-Essentials-NonPub-withMDS-2013.master.
If the latter applies to you and you are working with publishing sites, use Just-the-Essentials-Publishing-noMDS-2013.master.
Any of these files will work with SharePoint Online. However before you dive into customization you need to make sure that a custom master page for your SPO site is the right choice for your organization. Check out To brand or not to brand, that is the SharePoint Online Question blog post for more info.
Bless you! Your 2010 and 2007 starter master pages were essential starting points in all projects I led on those platforms. Thank you so much for the 2013 ones.
Getting Error, when I try to download the files in the page.. Can you please share me the files or provide me an alternate links.
So sorry! I recently made some updates to a couple of the files and read permissions were removed. It has now been fixed. Thanks for letting me know!
Hi… Edit page is not working & Edit page layout button.. do you know the exact reason for this issue.


We love the way Nook architects have renovated this old apartment in the barrio Gótico, respecting the old tiles and the textures of the walls for the new layout. More about the project on Dezeen and DiarioDesign (in spanish). If you like this style, also check out this apartment.


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Listen To Arizona Before Declaring National Monument
Written by YNN YNN
Published: 22 October 2016 22 October 2016
Phoenix, Arizona - Governor Doug Ducey is calling on Washington, D.C. officials to listen to the growing number of Arizonans who oppose plans by the White House and in Congress to designate 1.7 million acres of Northern Arizona land as a new national monument.
The governor recently reiterated to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources the need for the federal government to listen to Arizonans on this issue. Those opposed to the plan include rural small businesses owners, community leaders, farmers and ranchers.
"Ranchers, farmers, hunters, the Arizona Chamber, local leaders and I have been raising concerns since early this year about proposals made by Congress and the White House to designate a new Grand Canyon Watershed Monument in Northern Arizona," said Governor Ducey. "We have continued to warn Washington officials about the unintended consequences of designating a national monument, which will unfairly restrict access to 1.7 million acres of lands in Arizona currently used for forest restoration, water management, recreation, tourism, cattle grazing and natural resource development.
"Despite our collective concerns, there has never been a responsible effort to publicly vet the monument proposal or discuss the outdated authority that Washington is exploiting. This flies in the face of accountability and undermines sound principles of governance. It is absolutely essential that the administration listen to our state's concerns before moving forward with this unilateral action."


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Learning To Trust RPE For Training Loads
May 25, 2013 Dan Peterson
Coaches invest hours devising training plans that will push their athletes just to the edge, but not over. Overtraining leads to burnout and injuries but going easy won't get the right results. The challenge of walking this fine line is truly understanding the intensity and workload being placed on athletes, whether its real or perceived. Objective, wearable technology has helped in the form of heart rate and GPS monitors, but can be expensive and doesn't capture a true sense of the player's experience. As an alternative, sport scientists have recently found that a self-reported rate of perceived exertion (RPE) can accurately capture the workload experience.
Two sports that are learning to rely on RPE, soccer and swimming, represent two very different training styles. Soccer coaches spend considerable time on team drills and scrimmages while interspersing physical fitness into the sessions. Swimmers, while part of a team, primarily focus on individual times and skills. Despite the differences, researchers have found plenty of evidence that the athlete's opinion of their workout difficulty is valid and reliable.
Back in the 1960s, Gunnar Borg, psychology professor at Stockholm University, created the RPE scale, now respectively called the Borg scale. The original version asked athletes to rate their level of exertion on a range of 6 to 20, with 6 being "very light" and 20 indicating "very difficult." While the 6-20 range may seem an odd choice, it actually has some logic. Borg found that if the rating is multiplied by 10, there is a high correlation to the athlete's heart rate at that moment (i.e. a rating of 12 typically corresponds with a HR of 120).
Borg also added a 10 point scale, known as the Category(C) Ratio(R) scale or CR-10. This produces ratings of 1-10 and is used not only in sports training but also in clinical settings to estimate levels of pain.
Last year, Spanish and Italian researchers compared the workout assessments of 28 semi-pro soccer players. For an objective measure, they captured heart rate history and tracked their distance travelled with GPS devices. Then, after each training session, they asked the players for their RPE using the Borg CR-10 scale. They found a very high correlation between the HR data, the distance travelled and the players' RPE ratings.
"Being easy to perform and inexpensive compared with HR-based methods, sRPE should be regarded as a viable way to track internal load in training setup in soccer," concluded David Casamichana, sport scientist at the University of the Basque Country and lead author of the study published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.
But what if young athletes report a "less than truthful" RPE in an attempt to either impress or fool their coach? In the same way, what if the coach's interpretation of a hard workout does not match with a player's reaction to it?
Renato Barosso, of the School of Physical Education and Sport at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, gathered together 160 swimmers of different age-groups and different competitive swimming experience, and nine of their coaches. Looking at their training plan for the day, the coaches were asked to rate the workout using the CR-10 RPE scale, prior to the session. Then, 30 minutes after the training, the swimmers were asked for their RPE to see how well it matched the coaches' estimates. Athletes were divided into three age groups, 11-12, 13-14 and 15-16, while the workouts were classified as easy (RPE less than 3), moderate (3-5) or difficult (greater than 5).
As might be expected, the agreement between coach and swimmer was higher for older swimmers and lower for younger swimmers. While the coach's estimate of intensity was assumed correct, the researchers found that the swimmers aged 11-14 ratings differed across all three categories, easy-moderate-difficult. The oldest swimmers only disagreed with their coaches at the difficult level.
The study will be published in the International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance.
So, while RPE can be trusted for an accurate estimate of training difficulty, it would benefit both athlete and coach to gather all available data in one online training system for comparison and analysis. Being able to chart RPE over time against more objective measures like HR, repetitions or activities would enable better training plans.
About Metrifit
Metrifit is an athlete monitoring system that gathers subjective and objective information from both coaches and athletes in a simple but effective manner with intelligent visualization helping coaches and athletes to act on that data. Why not have a look at our Ready to Perform product and gain insight on the physical and mental state of your athletes through our daily wellbeing questionnaire? To find out more visit our Metrifit Product Overview page or get in touch for a free demo.
"The success of young athletes using Metrifit was an interesting challenge in the Elite Soccer space… After six months of learning, creating habit with teenagers the project is a huge success…. 90% completion rate has allowed us deal with all the key KPI's that are needed in their development. In our space with developing athletes…Metrifit is a godsend and is the most important tool in this space."
Niall O'Driscoll
Academy Directory, SJ.B (St. Joseph's Bray ) Academy
Metrifit Athlete Monitoring System
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/niall-odriscoll-short/
"Metrifit has allowed us to gain better insight on our athletes and their individual stress response to training and outside factors. This has helped us to make daily adjustments when necessary, to further enhance their development which has led to higher performance levels, faster recovery, and a reduction in injuries. The new lifestyle profiling survey has been an invaluable insight into the lifestyle habits of my athletes and has helped focus on key areas that can be improved, benefiting athletes on their performance journey."
Dan Rickaby
Assistant S&C Coach, Tulane University
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/dan-rickaby/
"As a school that cannot spend large amounts of money on athlete monitoring, Metrifit has provided us with a great tool for monitoring stress and athlete readiness at a great rate. Being athlete driven, we're able to get buy-in from the athlete, and drive individual or team wide conversations regarding lifestyle and performance education in the direction needed. Seeing acute and chronic stress on a real-time basis has greatly improved the way we schedule workouts and arrange travel during the season."
Derek Bol
Strength & Conditioning Coach, Valparaiso University
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/derek-bol/
"Metrifit provides immediate insight and feedback on the physical and mental states of the student-athletes. It allows us to adjust practices and training sessions to accurately meet needs. We have been able to identify potential injury concerns, track current injury status and monitor return to play progress."
Kari Thompson
Head Volley Ball Coach, Southern Illinois University
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/kari-thompson/
"I have been using Metrifit for the past number of years and I have found it to be an excellent piece of software. It is extremely easy to use and has proved very beneficial in preparing myself for competition. The ability to view my health and wellbeing stats everyday and see how this influences my performance in both practice and competition has been very helpful. I have been able to put more effort into key areas such as fluid intake, sleep and balanced golf practice and training. Having the ability to view my detailed stats helps me to understand exactly where I am and how I need to adjust my training or health choices. I have found using Metrifit this past year has been a crucial help for me to play well. As I now have turned 50 I am playing on The Champions tour in the USA and have played well during my first year. Metrifit has been as important as my golf equipment in achieving that success."
Robert Karlsson, Professional Golfer
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/robert-karlsson/
"Our coaches through Metrifit basically have an 'X-ray' vision into the habits and lifestyles and stressors their athletes have on a day to day basis, especially when they are not together. Thus the professional authentic relationships created through the casual conversations, reflection process and application provided is priceless."
Brian Clarke
Head Strength and Conditioning Co-ordinator,Noblesville High School
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/brian-clarke/
"Metrifit has become a multifactorial platform that has helped up us provide deeper context to the decisions that we make on a daily basis in regards to the physical development of our student-athletes. We have intimately been utilizing both the subjective wellness questionnaire along with player training load data to drive professional conversation and actionable tasks to enhance the sporting results and quality of life for our student-athletes with unparalleled success."
Kevin Schultz
Associate Director of Strength & Conditioning
Director of Olympic Strength & Conditioning
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/kevin-schultz-full/
"The Metrifit RTP platform is an excellent tool to monitor, evaluate and make the right decisions for your athlete's well being and performance. It enables coaches and athletes to track and sift through all the variables that underpin well being and performance on a day to day basis and to address an issue or potential issue in real time. A simply wonderful product."
Dr. Dale Richardson
CEO Achieve Total Performance Pty Ltd
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/dale-richardson/
"When our players have been only training with the national team Metrifit allows me to liaise very closely with our conditioning coaches to manage load and intensity of training during training camps. I recommend it to anyone who wants an easy to use monitoring system."
Dave Passmore
Head Coach, Irish Hockey
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/dave-passmore-short/
"Metrifit is an amazingly easy-to-use yet comprehensive monitoring tool for training and recovery! The elite athletes we work with are able track and monitor their situations and states daily, in order to maximize their performance loads and recovery practices. This also helps our coaches customize the training programs more effectively. I'd recommend this for any serious team / athlete or coach in wanting to bring out the very best in their long-term performances! "
Edgar K. Tham
Founder and Chief Sport & Performance Psychologist, SportPsych Consulting (Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines)
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/edgar-k-tham-2/
"Metrifit has been a great asset in helping guide the numerous decisions we make on a daily basis, that have a direct impact on our athletes well-being and progress. The platform is extremely user friendly and the reports and analytics that reflect the data collected daily, can be catered to what you are most specifically curious to know about the athletes both individually and collectively"
Aaron Mansfield
Head Coach, LMU Lions, Loyola Marymount University
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/aaron-mansfield/
"Metrifit has been hugely beneficial in supporting our coaches and back room staff to track and monitor our players training loads, performance and readiness to train. Having a one-stop shop for collating all relevant information across a holistic picture of the player allows us to help prevent burnout, injury and provide timely feedback and communication to all."
Eamonn Fitzmaurice
Kerry Senior Football, Manager
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/eamonn-fitzmaurice/
"I've found Metrifit an invaluable resource. Not only to monitor daily wellness, readiness to train and training load within the squad, but also to monitor training load externally with additional external squads. Furthermore, Metrifit has acted as a key teaching tool, allowing young athletes associate good sleeping, eating and recovery habits to an improved sense of wellness and thus superior on-field performance."
Tommy Mooney
Strength and Conditioning Coach at DCU Sport and with Dublin Minor GAA
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/tommy-mooney-short/
"What's more impressive is the ability to utilize the basics but at the same time have the capability to explore detailed and intricate correlative data points that helps us as coaches gain the most from our athletes. Metrifit has also served as an easy communications hub to ensure essential information is passed to the appropriate team. We are excited to what the future from Metrifit will bring."
Michael Torres
CEO, Shift Performance, Miami
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/michael-torres-short/
"When COVID altered college athletics as we knew it, Metrifit came to the rescue. This intuitive athlete monitoring, health and well-being system provides the athlete, coach, and sports medicine staff a way to monitor and balance the physical, emotional, health and well-being of our athlete's. Metrifit provided that calm in the middle of the perfect storm for our entire athletic department for the future. Thank you to the entire Metrifit family for assisting our department with a seamless process."
Jennifer McIntosh
Head Athletic Trainer, Colorado School of Mines
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/jennifer-mcintosh/
"The ability to acutely monitor stress and recovery and make the correct adjustments was critical to our health and performance throughout the NCAA tournament. Metrifit has a very strong educational component. With the information we get, I am able to clearly understand the habits and behaviors of our athletes, and how they may be impacting performance."
Erik Helland
Director of Strength & Conditioning and Head Strength Coach Men's basketball, University of Wisconsin
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/erik-helland/
"We have been using Metrifit for the past season at Cornish Pirates. It has been greatly beneficial for us to have our wellness and load management data on one easy to access system. We have found this invaluable over the past season whereby Coaches, Physios and Strength and conditioning coaches can monitor both the psychological and physiological load of our athletes on a daily basis."
Paul Cremin
Head Physiotherapist, Cornish Pirates Rugby Club
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/paul-cremin-short/
"Metrifit is an outstanding platform to track your athletes' wellness. It's simple to use, easy to implement and gives outstanding information on your athlete's subjective wellness which can be used to assign training loads. I highly recommend Metrifit for any coach looking to begin implementing technology into their program"
Brijesh Patel
Quinnipiac University, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/brijesh-patel/
"While working with the Clare Senior Hurling team (2012-2014), Horse Sport Ireland (U25 European Eventing Champions) and currently with the Limerick Senior Hurling Team, Metrifit provides our team with critical information across a number of essential aspects of elite athletic performance. You don't really know how your players are responding to training stimuli unless you have daily data and Metrifit provides and easy to use and highly effective means of finding this critical information."
Joe O'Connor
NISUS Fitness, S&C Coach Clare Senior Hurling, Horse Sport Ireland and Limerick Senior Hurling
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/joe-oconnor/
"The cutting edge technology of Metrifit enables Managers, Coaches and Players to use this innovative technology to gain these crucial percentage points over their opponents in a technologically advanced yet easy to use web-based platform. The data collated on a daily basis greatly informs Management Teams while the educational aspect of the system really appeals to modern day athletes who are constantly looking for that extra edge."
Cian O'Neill
Kildare Senior Football Manager
https://metrifit.com/blog/testimonials/cian-oneill-short/
"Metrifit has enabled us to bring to life the complexiities associated with managing the academic, pastoral and sporting demands of pupils aged 13 - 18 in a UK day and boarding school environment It has provided another bridge between coaches and sports pupis, giving pupils a space to provide honest self reflection on wellbeing and providing coaches a head start on appropriate freshness and fatigue balance across the school week."
Graham Williams
Athletic Development Coach, MSc ASCC
Millfield School, UK
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"Metrifit has been used to gain a more in-depth insight into our student-athlete's progressive athletic development and balance relative to their particular sporting and training activities, academic studies and total load. Metrifit doesn't just help with optimising our Sports Scholarship students' athletic performance. It assists us in helping them get the balance right between their sporting activities and academic studies."
Richard Deuchrass
Lincoln University Athletic Performance Manager
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"Gaelic football is an intermittent high-intensity collision-based field sport requiring high levels of endurance, strength, power, agility, and speed as well as proficiency with gaelic-related skills. These components comprise the training modalities used at the elite level and the monitoring of such a vast range of modalities is central to peak performance. The athlete monitoring tool Metrifit allows us to do this and can keep us one step ahead of our competitors."
Jason McGahan
Sports Scientist, Kildare Football, PhD Sports Science Researcher
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"Metrifit has provided me with an opportunity to get to know and understand our players on a different level. I've found our conversations to be more intentional, which has been so important in developing deeper, more authentic relationships. Ultimately, understanding their needs has allowed me to push buttons that leads them to be better people and inspires them to be better athletes"
Ryan Osborn
Head Basketball Coach, Carmel High School
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"We started using Metrifit to see if it gave us better predictability and allowed easier monitoring than our DIY excel sheets prior to the Tokyo qualifiers. In a sport where measuring training load is very difficult, Metrifit filled a huge gap in our ability to monitor our athletes' performance state and recovery. After some months of collecting data I was able to clearly see when to back off and when to keep going with different aspects of the training programme, as well as when to provide extra care and support for our elite athlete – and without a doubt it is much more informative and sensitive than our DIY model, not to mention much easier! Looking forward to the next Olympic cycle with Metrifit as one of our essential tools."
Emma Hawke, PhD Exercise Physiology
Coach - Sweden Climbing, Olympic Offensive - Female Coach Swedish Olympic Committee, Senior Lecturer - Coach education programme (Sweden)
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Strength Coach
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Head of Fitness for International Football/Fitness Coach Men's Senior Team
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J.B. Belzer
Head Coach, Women's Soccer at Regis University
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"The holistic approach of medical, physical, emotional and even tech/tactical; bringing together what we need to monitor and evaluate our University players. "If you can't measure it – it doesn't exist." I know we were the first Canadian University to use the program and I know many more will be asking for it in the future! I highly recommend Metrifit."
Tino Fusco, B.Sc. ChPC
Head Coach, Women's Soccer, Mount Royal University (Canada)
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"Metrifit is an integral part of the set up within the senior and intermediate inter-county Camogie. The data collected daily on the individual players is critical to the decision making of the backroom team including, managers, trainers, selectors, physiotherapist and indeed myself. As a nutritionist it allows me to monitor the quality of the player's diet, energy levels, sleep pattern and overall wellbeing."
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Nutritionist, Wexford Camogie
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"We have found metrifit to be a great tool to ensure we can monitor and adapt our athletes training loads regularly. This programme has ensured our coaches and staff can maximize all training and recovery to each individual needs on a day to day basis. It is user friendly and provides excellent visual data that can be viewed by both practitioners and athletes. With the help of Metrifit support team, we have personalized it to suit our specific sport and training needs. It's a excellent athlete monitoring tool and is essential for assisting the team to perform at their best"
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Sunak edges closer to UK leadership prize as Johnson caves
Rishi Sunak took a huge step toward becoming the UK's next prime minister as former premier Boris Johnson pulled out of the contest after a weekend of vacillation and as he won the endorsement of Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt.
In a brief statement on Twitter late Sunday — shortly after Johnson said he wouldn't stand for fear of dividing the Conservative Party — Sunak vowed to lead with "integrity, professionalism and accountability" if he won the race for No. 10 Downing Street.
Johnson's decision, days after he cut short a Caribbean holiday to get his political campaign going, leaves Sunak facing House of Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt in what is now a two-person race. Sunak, a former chancellor whose resignation in July led to Johnson's ultimate downfall, gained the public support of several key ministers on Sunday including Grant Shapps and — on the Tory right — Suella Braverman.
Sunak has at least 123 lawmakers behind him, compared to Johnson's 51 named backers, according to Bloomberg's tally, which counts only 23 for Mordaunt. In his statement, Johnson said he had the support of at least 102 MPs, enough to have taken the contest to a ballot of party members who have sided with Johnson in the past.
The issue now is how many of Johnson's camp, including Brexit hardliners such as Jacob Rees-Mogg, will throw their lot in with Mordaunt and ensure the race continues beyond Monday. According to odds at political betting site Smarkets, Sunak is a near certainty to become Britain's fourth prime minister in three years.
But whoever wins faces the task of trying to bring unity to a party that has been through months of upheaval and bruising public infighting. Conservative support has fallen well behind the Labour opposition in polls as a brutal cost-of-living squeeze and soaring inflation darkens the economic outlook.
The pound extended gains after Johnson said he wouldn't stand, rallying as much as 1.0% to $1.1401 in Asia on expectations that a potential Sunak premiership would be better qualified at trying to fix the nation's finances.
Sunak will "turn the page on what went wrong, take decisions in the national interest and rebuild the extraordinary potential of our economy," Hunt said in a column for the Telegraph late Sunday.
It was Prime Minister Liz Truss's decision to step down that triggered the contest, following weeks of turmoil with investors jettisoning UK assets. Her economic plan, including a big boost in borrowing to pay for tax cuts, rattled markets and turned voter sentiment further against the Tories.
The possibility that Johnson could return to office after leaving less than two months ago was the latest twist in the upheaval of British politics that followed the 2016 vote to leave the European Union.
Johnson, whose ability to cut through to the broad electorate helped the Conservatives to a landslide win in the 2019 general election, had to step down after a series of scandals rocked his premiership. His political career appeared all but over until Truss's administration imploded.
After Mordaunt declared her candidacy on Friday, and Sunak did likewise on Sunday, the pressure was mounting on Johnson's camp.
But after trying to broker deals separately with Sunak and Mordaunt, Johnson realized that even if he did win the support of party members, he'd struggle to run operations from Downing Street with a fractured and rebellious parliamentary party questioning his decisions.
While he remains popular with Tory members, MPs are divided about his legacy and worried that returning him to office would revive all the scandals that bought him down.
"You can't govern effectively unless you have a united party in Parliament," Johnson wrote in his statement. "There is a very good chance that I would be successful in the election with Conservative party members. But in the course of the last days I have sadly come to the conclusion that this would simply not be the right thing to do."
The party set a deadline of 2 p.m. Monday for contenders to certify the support of at least 100 MPs each to go forward to a ballot. If there's more than one candidate running by the end of Monday, party members will have the final say in an online vote, with a result due on Friday.
Johnson didn't endorse anyone, saying he'd support whoever wins. While Sunak has a commanding lead, his coronation isn't necessarily clear cut and there are some scenarios where Mordaunt could emerge as the favorite of Tory members.
Earlier in the summer, he lost to Truss in the leadership battle to replace Johnson, with Tory members concerned about his role in Johnson's downfall and his decision to raise taxes to the highest level since World War II. There's also unease about his personal wealth and his aggressive attacks on Truss during that contest.
Mordaunt's star is rising and she has a more informal tone that jibes better with the electorate than Sunak's more polished image.
She served as trade secretary before being promoted to lead the House of Commons, while her confident performances in the lower house and optimistic outlook generated talk she could help Conservatives move beyond Johnson-Sunak controversies.
In the contest that installed Truss as premier, Mordaunt placed second to Sunak — and ahead of Truss — in every round of voting among her MP colleagues until the critical one. In July, a ConservativeHome website survey of party members ranked Mordaunt second behind Defense Secretary Ben Wallace on who should be leader.
Those factors may encourage Mordaunt's reluctance to step aside.
Growth and prosperity
In a column for the Telegraph newspaper, Mordaunt wrote she'd focus on cutting taxes and raising productivity to "deliver growth and prosperity" across the nation, a pitch similar to what Truss offered.
"I understand the challenges families are facing, and I know how difficult things are when household budgets are squeezed, the cost of living goes up and public services just don't seem to be there," Mordaunt wrote.
Penny Mordaunt
But Tory leaders are concerned at the growing economic crisis starting to engulf the country. A closely-watched survey due Monday morning is likely to show a recession is deepening as inflation lingers at its highest level in 40 years.
A burgeoning budget deficit has left Hunt warning about difficult decisions ahead. He's due to deliver a major statement on the Treasury's tax-and-spending plans on October 31, a date picked to better inform the Bank of England on how quickly it raises interest rates.
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Movies Watched in April 2017 Part II
April 21, 2017 / Andy Wolverton
If you missed Part I, look no further.
I'm continuing something of an abbreviated look at these films. Maybe less is more? I hope you'll find something of interest to check out. Here we go…
Berlin Express (1948)
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Produced by Bert Granet
Screenplay by Harold Medford based on a story by Curt Siodmak
Cinematography by Lucien Ballard
"Sometimes I think we shall never get together on this Earth. Until we find someone on… Mars to hate. Sometimes I wonder why we keep trying."
Aboard a U.S. Army train traveling from France to Berlin, we find a vast assortment of interesting characters including a French woman named Lucienne (Merle Oberon), a German activist Dr. Bernhardt (Paul Lukas), an American agricultural expert named Robert Lindley (Robert Ryan), and many others of varying nationalities. When Dr. Bernhardt – who only seeks to mend as much of war-torn Europe as possible – disappears from the train, a small group of passengers seek to discover what happened. Yet not all the passengers are genuinely concerned for Dr. Bernhardt's health…
Berlin Express is a good Post-War melodrama with generally good performances, suspense, and nice train sequences. Sure, there are a few stereotypes here and there, but the story and the mystery hold up fairly well.
The Blues Brothers (1980) (10x)
Directed by John Landis
Produced by Robert K. Weiss
Written by Dan Aykroyd, John Landis
Cinematography by Stephen M. Katz
Universal Blu-ray (extended cut, 2:28)
I can think of few films that give me more pure joy than The Blues Brothers. I have many, many stories I can tell about the film, but I'll only share a brief one. Years ago I had just become friends with a guy named David who loved this movie. We never got to watch it together, however. David had a rare medical condition and died at the age of 27. I did watch the movie later with David's brother Brian and we had a great time, with Brian pointing out David's favorite scenes and songs. The Blues Brothers was a special film in my life before meeting David, but much more so afterward.
The Invisible Ray (1936)
Directed by Lambert Hillyer
Produced by Edmund Grainger
Written by John Colton
Cinematography by George Robinson
The Bela Lugosi Collection DVD (1:19)
A film I first heard about on the Attaboy Clarence podcast, The Invisible Ray is a very strange affair… Astronomer Janos Rukh (a curly-haired Boris Karloff) invents a telescope that can look into space and photograph light rays that can reveal images from Earth's ancient past. Rukh invites skeptical scientists Benet (Bela Lugosi) and Stevens (Walter Kingsford) to accompany him on an expedition to Africa to find a meteor that landed there thousands of years ago. Why? Rukh believes the meteor contains Radium X, an element of remarkable healing powers. Things get pretty weird and, as frequently happens when they're paired, Karloff outshines Lugosi, but both are excellent. The film is rarely talked about today, but it should be. You can track it down on the Universal Bela Lugosi Collection DVD (which also includes several other films worth having) set as well as on a single disc from Universal's Vault series.
The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
Written and directed by John Sayles
Produced by Peggy Rajski, Maggie Renzi
Cinematography by Ernest R. Dickerson
Filmstruck (1:44)
An alien (Joe Morton) escapes the slavery of his planet by crash-landing in Harlem and is mistaken by everyone he meets as a mute, homeless African American man. The brother has some unusual powers which come in handy in several different types of situations. He's also being chased by two "Men in Black" (director Jon Sayles himself and David Strathairn) who want to recapture the brother. The film is a wonderful commentary on many topics, not the least of which is race, but it also works brilliantly as an outstanding science fiction comedy. I'm sorry it took me this long to see it, but I'm glad I did.
Kill List (2011)
Directed by Ben Wheatley
Produced by Claire Jones, Andy Starke
Written by Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump
Cinematography by Laurie Rose
DVD – interlibrary loan (1:35)
Previously discussed here
Used Cars (1980) (2x)
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Written by Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
Produced by Bob Gale
Cinematography by Donald M. Morgan
Everyone knows Robert Zemeckis as the director of the Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump and several other big films, but most people have never heard of his second film (1978's I Wanna Hold Your Hand was his first) Used Cars. In that film, you can see some of the genesis of Zemeckis's later work, not only in its frantic action scenes, but in the way that its crazed characters interact with each other. (You see this somewhat in the Back to the Future movies, but see it in spades in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.) Yet Used Cars is an outrageous film loaded with great comedic scenes and lines. (Just know that this is not a film for the whole family!)
Kurt Russell plays Rudy Russo, a crooked (Is there any other kind?) used car salesman working for dealer Luke Fuchs (Jack Warden), whose dealership is about to tank due to Luke's brother Roy Fuchs (also played by Jack Warden) and his fancier, more prosperous used car dealership across the street. The plot – which I won't get into – is absolutely outrageous, fierce, manic, ribald, slightly mean-spirited, non-PC, and often hilarious. Like many of the cars on Russo's lot, Used Cars feels like it's going to fall apart at any moment, but Zemeckis manages to hold things together until after you've driven off the lot.
The Killer is Loose (1956)
Directed by Budd Boetticher
Produced by Robert L. Jacks
Screenplay by Harold Medford from a story by John Hawkins, Ward Hawkins
Amazon streaming (1:13)
This excellent noir thriller is rarely discussed but should be. Wendell Corey (in perhaps his best role and performance) plays Leon Poole, a bank employee who appears to be the hero in a bank robbery, but was actually in on the crime. The police catch up to Poole as he's hiding and mistakenly shoot Poole's wife. Captured by Detective Sam Wagner (Joseph Cotten), Poole vows revenge. The film is filled with tension and fast-paced, so much so that you can easily overlook some of its weaknesses (mainly convenient coincidences). Definitely recommended.
Directed and produced by Kurt Neumann
Screenplay by Orville H. Hampton, Dalton Trumbo
Cinematography by Karl Struss
Music by Ferde Grofé
Yep, that's Lloyd Bridges checking out more than the instruments… Bridges is part of a four-man/one-woman expedition to the moon, a journey that ends up off course and headed to Mars instead. This is one of those films that you don't want to show to someone who isn't used to older films, particularly older science fiction films. There's just too much for them to laugh at: the crew entering the spacecraft at T-minus 10 minutes, the men wearing ties, ancient-looking instruments (even for 1950), and so much more. But if you've seen a few classic sf films from this era and understand the limitations, you might enjoy Rocketship X-M, a combination of a sf film that takes itself too seriously and adds a romantic element that you can't take seriously. It is interesting to note, however, that the film's music is by American composer Ferde Grofé, best known for his orchestral Grand Canyon Suite (1931). Grofé wrote other films scores, but Rocketship X-M marks the first science fiction movie to feature the theremin, an electronic instrument that would grace many sf films in the 50s including The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and The Thing (1951).
Directed by Byron Howard, Rich Moore
Produced by Clark Spencer
Screenplay by Jared Bush, Phil Johnston based on a story by Jared Bush, Byron Howard, etc.
Cinematography by Nathan Warner, Brian Leach, Thomas Baker
Netflix streaming (1:48)
One of the best things about having two young nieces who live close by is having them introduce me to movies I probably wouldn't see otherwise. Such is the case with Zootopia, a film I greatly enjoyed, even though I'm probably the last person in North America to see it.
Hunters Lodge (2016)
Written, produced, directed, photographed, and edited by Martyn Tott
Hunters Lodge was a true discovery, stumbled upon as I was searching Netflix for something interesting. Tim Ahern plays Harry, a Vietnam veteran who travels to a remote island hunters lodge to attend the funeral of an old army buddy named Peter. Once there, Harry discovers that others have arrived, not just for the funeral, but to fight it out over Peter's will, and some of them have some pretty nasty intentions. The film successfully combines noir and supernatural elements without overblown special effects. This is a very satisfying film that I hope you'll check out and support.
That's it for this time. If you latch onto any of these, please let me know what you think.
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