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275/45R20(110V)
Load Index 110 2337 lbs
Speed Rating V 149 MPH
Tread Wear 480
Traction A
Temperature A
Article Number 03540880000
Approved Rim Width 8.5 - 10.0
Tire Diameter 29.7 in
Tire Weight 30.8 lbs
Max Load 2337 lbs
Rim Protect Yes
Max Inflation Pressure 51 psi
Side Wall BSW
Overall Section Width 10.7 (9.0) in
Tread Depth 10/32 in
Tire Metric Metric
Load Range XL
Revs Per Mile 699
UTQG 480 A A
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Snow Traction 7
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TOM ROBBINS If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
TOM ROBBINS It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
TOM STOPPARD Honesty is the best image.
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TOM BLAIR Who's Johnnie Walker?"
"It's a drink. For grown-ups."
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TOM DOUGLAS I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce.
TOM SIZEMORE My brain cells are dying in their trillions.
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TOM ALTHOUSE We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
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What Is a Sector Fund?
Value vs. Growth
Mutual Funds Types of Funds
Definition and Basics of Sector Funds
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By Lee McGowan
A sector fund is a mutual fund or exchange-traded fund that concentrates its investments in a single sector of the market. A sector is a slice of the market that is focused on the same line of business. For example, Bank of America is in the financial services sector, while Wal-Mart is in the consumer services sector.
But how can investors use sector funds to their advantage? Are sector funds suitable investment types for all investors? Here's what you need to know before investing in sectors:
Common Characteristics and Examples of Sector Funds
There are three characteristics that are common among sector funds:
Focused on stocks within a certain business or industry
Concentrated number of holdings
More volatile than the overall stock market
In different words, sectors of the market are concentrated sections that are focused on similar industries. Some of the primary sectors include technology, healthcare, utilities, and financials.
How Many Sectors Are There for Sector Funds?
There are several organizations which have formally divided the market into various sectors and subsets of sectors. Wal-Mart is in the consumer services sector, but it can be further categorized as a discount store. Bank of America and Allstate are both in the financial services sector, but upon further categorizing, Bank of America is in the banking sector while Allstate is in the insurance sector. You can invest in most of these sectors through a mutual fund or exchange-traded fund.
Here are sectors, as categorized by Morningstar, Inc, a widely-recognized mutual fund research company:
Although Morningstar's eight sectors are helpful in categorizing sector funds, the trend has been to identify an increasing number of sectors and create products (mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, etc.) based on those sectors. Your head might spin when you're trying to pick a fund in the healthcare sector. In that case, you might run across a fund focused on identifying companies that develop products and services that detect and treat cancer. You can also buy a fund that focuses on investing in companies that manage nursing homes and hospitals.
Should You Invest in a Sector Fund?
Should you invest in a sector fund? It depends. Do you want to try picking the hottest sector of the next decade? In 1999, the technology sector was all the rage until it stumbled in March 2000. Tech stocks took several years to recover from those losses but they found themselves back in favor when the Internet, mobile technologies and social media became part of the fabric of society and industry with companies like Apple, Google and Facebook.
Therefore if you are comfortable with wide fluctuations in value and you have a long-term perspective, technology sector funds could be a smart choice for you. But there are also sectors that are quite as volatile, such as utilities and healthcare.
Perhaps the smartest purpose of sector funds is for diversification. In this case a portfolio of mutual funds that includes an S&P 500 Index fund, a bond fund, and a foreign stock fund, could be further diversified by adding small allocations of three or four sectors funds.
But investing in sector funds for speculative purposes is not advised.Speculative investing entails placing bets on stocks or funds that you think will soar in value. It's a risky proposition, as speculators generally try to make huge profits in a very short period. Although I am not a fan of speculative investing, if you want to speculate with a small portion of your portfolio based on a hunch you have about a particular stock, you might be better off buying the sector fund that holds the stock.
That way, if you're wrong about the stock, at least you are diversified among your other holdings.
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Supreme Court EPA Regulation Case Tests Limits, Balance of Power
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By David Hawkings
Posted February 23, 2014 at 8:00pm
Republicans angry at President Barack Obama's muscular use of executive authority are returning from recess more focused on litigation than on legislation.
The Supreme Court's docket for this term is unusual for including two cases with potential to reorder the balance of power between the legislative and executive branches. In oral arguments six weeks ago, the justices seemed open to a significant clipping of the president's appointment power when the Senate is in recess. On Monday, the court will consider how much an administration can do through regulation before it has seized the congressional prerogative to alter the law.
Both decisions, expected by June, could change the relationship between Congress and the White House in ways that constitutional lawyers and politicians will be arguing about for decades. In the shorter term, though, the outcomes may play a meaningful role in the midterm campaigns and then in Obama's final two years.
If Obama loses one or both cases, even on narrow grounds, Republicans can be counted on to crow that their complaints about an "imperial presidency" have been vindicated. They likely would further say that, to make sure his power stays diminished, they need to be rewarded with more seats in the 114th Congress. If Obama's positions prevail, the GOP will seek to raise more money, and court more base voters, with a slightly different argument: that electing an all-Republican Congress is the best way to prevent this president from even more executive overreach. The recess appointment fight began in January 2012 when Obama put three people on the National Labor Relations Board who would normally require confirmation, contending that the pro forma sessions at the time were a sham that couldn't mask the reality that senators were on a long holiday break. Senate Republicans, and the losers in a subsequent NLRB decision, cried foul, contending that at a minimum the Senate gets to say when it's in recess. The lower court ruling now before the Supreme Court went further, calling decades of practice into question by declaring that recess appointments were only valid between the annual sessions of Congress and could only involve positions that came open in that narrow window.
Until recently, the regulatory power case has been viewed mainly as an environmental story. The Supreme Court could slow government efforts to combat global warming, because the dispute is about how much authority the EPA has in limiting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other big industrial complexes.
The case has become part of the balance of power narrative during the past month, since Obama promised in his State of the Union address to do whatever he could to advance his agenda "with or without Congress."
His vow inflamed Republicans , already angry about Obama's robust exercising of power on a wide range of issues. They don't like that he slowed the health care law's implementation, eased up on deportations, relaxed welfare work requirements, declined to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court and acquiesced in the Colorado and Washington marijuana legalization laws.
More than 100 Republicans have joined an effort to compel the House to go to court in an effort to rein him in, but that strategy has a slim chance of success because judges generally shy away from entering disputes they view as overtly political. The reality that suing is a long shot has heightened Republican rooting interest in the EPA case. Two dozen members have signed legal briefs urging the justices to rule against the Obama administration.
One was filed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and the other six members of his party in the coal-centric Kentucky delegation. A second was submitted by five conservative senators from the Midwest. The Southeast Legal Foundation, a small-government think tank, filed a brief that was joined by 12 House members, including all three running for Georgia's open Senate seat and a trio of senior Energy and Commerce members.
The Supreme Court in 2007 ruled that the EPA had authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from new cars and trucks after formally establishing that carbon dioxide poses a danger to public health. With that ruling in hand, the agency in 2010 started creating a permitting system for stationary sources of carbon pollution. The EPA's power to do that is not at issue in the new case. Instead the question is whether the agency has leeway to tailor a provision of law written in 1970 to fit current circumstances.
The Clean Air Act generally requires the EPA to regulate sources of 250 tons annually of a known pollutant. Applied to greenhouse gases — which are far more ubiquitous than, say, lead — that would mean federal permitting for renovating or building schools, shopping complexes, hospitals and apartment towers.
To avoid what it terms those "absurd results," the EPA wants to regulate only industrial complexes that generate at least 75,000 tons of carbon pollution a year — the several hundred facilities that account for about a third of all American greenhouse gas emissions.
The Obama administration says the law is flexible enough to permit such a move. Republicans couldn't disagree more.
While agencies are generally allowed to set "rules that implement the will of Congress" and "may do so by filling in the details of general legislative commands and clarifying ambiguous statutory provisions," the McConnell brief argued, "neither the EPA nor any other entity in the executive branch may override the will of Congress by amending or disregarding specific, unambiguous statutory text."
The brief signed by the 12 House Republicans sounds an even shriller alarm — one that makes the stakes in the recess appointment case seem small by comparison. The EPA's regulations, they assert, are "an intolerable invasion of Congress's domain that threatens to obliterate the line dividing executive from legislative power."


We've heard variants of this question before (often times, customers use a term like "when the next Heartbleed comes out"), and that's why we built the new Vulnerability Risk Tree API that's in Twistlock 1.6. Recall that Twistlock is looking for vulnerabilities across all the places your images are, throughout their lifecycle. We're looking for them not just in your official repos, but also from the very start of their lifecycles in the CI process as well as in every image on every host we protect. Vulnerability findings are correlated to image digests and collected in the Console such that as soon as we've scanned the image once, the entire environment we protect knows about its vulnerability posture, and can enforce any rules you've defined without having to scan it again. Also, remember that our runtime protection is tracking every container across every host in your environment, so not only do we know what vulnerabilities are in your images, we also know what containers are running them.
The Vulnerability Risk Tree API brings all this data together in a simple REST endpoint so that you can easily respond to comments like the one the security director asked me recently. Specifically, given a vulnerability (or a set of vulnerabilities), tell me all the places I'm exposed. Twistlock takes the CVEs you provide and determines which images are impacted by them, which containers are running those images, and which hosts are running those containers, across your entire environment – regardless of what orchestrator or cloud platform you're running on. This makes it easy to quickly assess how exposed you are to a vulnerability and quickly identify what you need to do to mitigate it.
For example, even in a large scale environment, the number of active images is often relatively small, particularly in environments optimized for running specific apps, like analytics or SaaS companies. In these environments, the same image may be reused in many different operational tasks, either directly or by being the base layer used to create slightly customized variants. This means that you can often mitigate vulnerabilities simply by rebuilding these core images and redeploying. The Risk Tree API helps you identify exactly what images are vulnerable, where they're deployed, and the prevalence of deployment. Let's take a look at how it works in more detail.
For this blog, I have a small lab running in our GCP environment. It's a single host, but the only difference that makes is that the API will return fewer hosts exposed to the risk. I picked a CVE, CVE-2005-2541, that's unpatched in the default Debian image, even though the NVD rates its severity as high. Because many images are built on this base, it's a good illustration of how the risk tree works.
Next, I use that bearer token to authenticate to the risk API and pass is the CVE to query for and dump that out to a json file. Note that I can pass multiple CVEs together in the same call.
In this lab, I only have the single host, but if I had many hosts exposed to this risk, they'd all be listed here.
As you can see, the Vulnerability Risk Tree API makes it very simple to understand all the places you're exposed to a given set of CVEs so that you can more effectively and safely prioritize mitigating them.


Open only on weekends, this American-style bakery originated from a luncheonette in Bronxville in 1950 that sold pie slices. But 12 years later the luncheonette moved to Scarsdale and became Galloway's Bakery. The bakery is famous for their pies ranging from apple crumb to blueberry crumb to lemon meringue to chocolate cream to apricot and peach. Doughnuts and a line of coffee cakes are also sold. Most of the pies sell for $10.75, and the crowd favorite seems to be the chocolate cream pie.


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El área micropolitana de Bradford,  y oficialmente como Área Estadística Micropolitana de Bradford, PA µSA tal como lo define la Oficina de Administración y Presupuesto, es un Área Estadística Micropolitana centrada en la localidad de Bradford en el estado estadounidense de Pensilvania. El área micropolitana tenía una población en el Censo de 2010 de 43.450 habitantes, convirtiéndola en la 306.º área micropolitana más poblada de los Estados Unidos. El área micropolitana de Bradford comprende el condado de McKean, siendo Bradford la localidad más poblada.

Geografía
El área estadística micropolitana de Bradford se encuentra ubicada en las coordenadas .

Composición del área micropolitana

Ciudades

Boroughs

Municipios

Lugares designados por el censo
 Foster Brook

Véase también
 Anexo:Áreas metropolitanas de Estados Unidos
 Anexo:Áreas micropolitanas de Estados Unidos
 Anexo:Áreas Estadísticas Combinadas de Estados Unidos

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Áreas micropolitanas de Pensilvania
Condado de McKean

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a final rule recently revising the U.S. regulations governing implementation of CITES in the USA.
http://www.fws.gov/policy/library/07-3960.pdf
The new regulations will be in effect next week.
If we thought there was a lot of plant material coming in dying in holding areas or slated to be incinerated before because of people attempting to circumvent the system... wait until the new regulations are in place and being enforced.
It's 94 pages long and is a good read but pretty much spells it out. Sad that it has come to this. I would have preferred education and personal responsibility over more government regulation.
better make some calls.
Can someone please give a "book report" for what it says.
I have a personal friend, like me, who has all his ducks in a row in the permit department. He could import and export legally. Last year he ordered plants from an individual who claimed to have all of his ducks in a row. Evidently the sender told some untruths to be able to sell to my friend. The seller chose to label the box he was shipping to my friend as crafts. Willful and intentional mislabeling of boxes has become common practice as many slipped through in the past. Although my friend was innocent and had the appropriate paperwork on his end, it was a big mess costing him around $7,500. I can put you in contact with him for the details if you would like, it's really a crying shame because he was legitimate... his seller wasn't. There was another friend of mine who also got nailed. His order of seeds was shipped to him disguised as a wreath. The seller had laced the seeds throughout the twisted bramble of a decorative door wreath but had described the contents appropriately on the customs documents. I thought that was rather creative. Total cost to that friend was about $4,500 in legal fees but that friend was able to retain his import and export privileges.
The last time I placed an order for plants, I got a call from the USDA. They stated they were detaining my order for a bit. They detained it so they could call in a specialist to match up the plants in the box with the list of plants that had been declared as having been inspected by the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service's list that accompanied my order. I asked the guy to please water my plants or they'd die. I think he actually did and for this I am very grateful. I received my plants a week later and only lost a few.
I must admit I'm not going to be ordering anything from anyone unless I have dealt with them before. Last thing in the world I need is somebody slipping a gift plant or two that I wouldn't have known existed to declare on my original paperwork into my order.
Sorry gonewild, I didn't see your post because I was typing. Please go to the very last page of the document and read Section 23.92. That about sums it up. We're talking major gridlock here.
TheLorax said:
I almost gave up at the beginning when I see the part crocodile & its meat...
So I go all the way to the end, and behold, if it is true, I see the same thing at 23.92.
Darn, does that mean that now the US can finally import all orchid in flasks regardless hybrid Or species ?
or I am I missing/misread something here?
I interpret as you do Hien - one would think so but I'm not holding my breath on it!
§ 23.92 Are any wildlife or plants, and their
parts, products, or derivatives, exempt?
(a) All living or dead wildlife and
plants in Appendix I, II, and III and all
their readily recognizable parts,
products, and derivatives must meet the
requirements of CITES and this part,
except as indicated in paragraph (b) of
this section.
(b) The following are exempt from the
requirements of CITES and do not need
CITES documents. You may be required
to demonstrate that your specimen
qualifies as exempt under this section.
For specimens that are exempt from
CITES requirements, you must still
follow the clearance requirements for
wildlife in part 14 of this subchapter
and for plants in part 24 of this
subchapter and 7 CFR parts 319, 352,
and 355.
(1) Appendix-III wildlife and
Appendix-II or -III plants.
(i) Where an annotation designates
what is excluded from CITES
requirements, any part, product, or
derivative that is specifically excluded.
(ii) Where an annotation designates
what is covered by the Treaty, all parts,
products, or derivatives that are not
designated.
(2) Plant hybrids.
(i) Seeds and pollen (including
pollinia), cut flowers, and flasked
seedlings or tissue cultures of hybrids
that qualify as artificially propagated
(see § 23.64) and that were produced
from one or more Appendix-I species or
taxa that are not annotated to
specifically include hybrids in the
CITES list.
(ii) Specimens of an Appendix-II or
-III plant taxon with an annotation that
specifically excludes hybrids.
(3) Flasked seedlings of Appendix-I
orchids. Flasked seedlings of an
Appendix-I orchid species that qualify
as artificially propagated (see § 23.64).
(4) Marine specimens listed in
Appendix II that are protected under
another treaty, convention, or
international agreement which was in
force on July 1, 1975 as provided in §
23.39(d).
(5) Coral sand and coral fragments as
defined in § 23.5.
(6) Personal and household effects as
provided in § 23.15.
(7) Urine, feces, and synthetically
derived DNA as provided in § 23.16.
(8) Certain wildlife hybrids as
Dated: May 17, 2007.
Todd Willens,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Fish and
Wildlife and Parks.
[FR Doc. 07–3960; Filed 8–22–07; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4310–55–S
Best to note the existence of the word specimen throughout this document and best to call them yourself because you would still need all your ducks in a row... on both sides of any transaction.
More information as well as contact information here-
http://www.fws.gov/endangered/wildlife.html
Incredibly, you can talk with a real live human being should you feel the need to call. They also helped me fill out permits the first time I applied.
Plants in flasks are obvious artificially created according to this document, is it not?
Me thinks bwester just figured it out.
I thought I'd share two personal messages that are currently in my inbox. I've blocked out personally identifying information and won't be responding to either message for obvious reasons, the first individual obviously knows there are issues with CITES so I guess I'm just supposed to label the seed as vacuum dust and mail it to him/her??? Forget that I just planted these plants and that they were a gift and that I don't even know if they'll survive to bloom next spring or not...
XXXXXX Join Date: XXXXXX 2007
Cyp acaule
Dear sir - I am a XXXXXX living in XXXXXX part of XXXXX- I do have a stong interest in Orchids and are growing several Cyps at home in my garden. I am interested in trying C acaule and are searching for seeds (because of CITES difficulties) to try to establish a group in my garden. Our environment is ok - low PH - needle wood etc. Perhaps a bit wet but I will try to manage. Do you know if any have seed, preferable some pods. ??? Yours sincerely XXXXXX
And here's another one wanting seeds, didn't realize C. acaule was so popular-
I myself made some crossing this year - I kept some of the pollen cold 2-4 celcius fo 5-7 days - I also froze some for 3 weeks - and successfully made crossings which produced seeds. I used Cyp farrei as motherplant with "big red machranthum", yatabeanum and yellow calceouls. I also crossed with Regina as motherplants with farreri, "big red machranthum" and some differnt coloured flavum. (my white ones was used to cross with kentuckiense but failed - this was in XXXXXX) I have sent the seed for culture and hope that they will grow.
I share this because somebody evidently already shared seed of kentuciense with him/her and it really might not be a good idea to try to share or accept anything with these people right about now. Orchid seeds are like dust and are some of the smallest seeds I've ever seen and if these people think that our inspectors haven't been trained to spot questionable seed, they're fooling themselves. It's our rears on the line whether we are on the receiving end or the sending end of any transaction. Doesn't look as if the US is screwing around any more. Please be careful people. It's human nature to want to share but truly might not be a good idea to do so across borders these days regardless of what has gone on between friends in the past.
Admins, please feel free to go in my personal messages to see who these messages are from.
kentuckiense
We don't do that, and I'm pretty sure we aren't even capable of doing so. I don't think we have the software add-ons that "another" forum has.
Yeah... Lauren, we dont invade others private space.
I'm glad you're here, BTW. your the ****.
Incredibly, I received those two PMs today after I started this thread. What timing.
I don't want any one of us hurt. My one friend has little kids and a wife who has some serious on going health issues that they struggle to deal with as it is. That $7,500 probably meant a second mortgage on their home... with little kids in the household. He had to take a plea all because of how the sender labeled the shipment.
And kentuckiense, you are welcome to my password since you're an Admin. Sorry, I didn't know that. I've nothing in my personal messages that I would feel uncomfortable letting anyone read... well... except NYEric who accused me of being addicted... wouldn't want HIM seeing me trying to buy another plant from another member what with HIM calling me addicted and all in another thread. Anyway, Heather told me how to forward so I know how to do that and you're welcome to a forward of either pm complete with the personally identifiable information of the senders.
Forgot to mention that I had another private message before these two asking for whole flower heads of Cypripedium spp. claiming he/she was "collecting data on how long the polinator cells will reamin vital".
Maybe Matt Gore can put together a concise side by side comparison of the new and old rules???
He imports a fair amount and is probably pretty steeped in the matter.
Lauren, I get a few e-mails now and then(not through this forum but through my website) from people wanting divisions who are located in other countries. Sometimes I think it's ignorance of the CITES rules on their end, and sometimes I think they're just hoping I'm ignorant.
Just because someone sends you an e-mail with a request doesn't mean you're obligated to respond. The delete key works wonders and solves many problems. If someone is harrassing you, do let the Admins. know, but I'd just suggest ignoring these folks.
Yup, I got an email today from China requesting to trade for Cyp. parviflorum and Cyp. reginae seeds. I don't even grow Cyps and I'm a bit unsure as to how they got my personal email address, but I have no doubt they had good intentions. Over the past year I've gotten emails from all over the world requesting seed from the kentuckiense population I visited and photographed. They were all from people who were clearly accomplished propagators and had clear conservation interests in mind. I wish I could've helped, but the seed pods weren't mine to harvest. Just keep in mind that it is the poorly-thought-out and counter-productive "conservation" laws that are the real enemies.
That's what you get, Zach, for using such a name!
How come my old byline of s/h dominatrix hasn't gotten me any interesting e-mails?
USA request for input CITES
mormodes
Orchid Conservation
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Barack Obama is traveling in Europe this week during President Trump's first foreign trip abroad.
The former president met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday and took a potshot at President Trump.
Meanwhile, back in Washington DC, workers are completing work on Barack Obama's wall around his home.
Workers have been working on his wall for months.


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My brother's niece, Tamika Huston, was missing for more than a year. Her killer was in court today. Please look at this site for more information on Tamika and other missing women... www.tamikahuston.com
Man pleads guilty in Spartanburg woman's death
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(Spartanburg-AP) April 3, 2006 - A man has pleaded guilty in the death of a 24-year-old Spartanburg woman who was missing for more than a year. Christopher Hampton pleaded guilty Monday morning at the opening of his trial. Circuit Judge John Few imposed a sentence of life in prison. Tamika Huston was reported missing in June 2004. Police said Hampton led them to her body in August 2005.
Freddie and Maggie say, "What the heck? Why is the birdcam now the cat-chair-cam? "
It took some searching,but I found the pool haiku's my team mates and I wrote a year or so ago!
Check out my M8 pool teams' match results! Search for your favorite elleni.com player or team. Its still a work in progress, but let me know what you think.
Finally got the details of the San Diego Classic up. Check it out. Also check out the great photos taken by Viejas photographer, Paul Parks. Yup, that's me shooting with the pros!
Had a great time at the tournament! Won't get to update the site with the full details until later in the week, but for now, here's a photo of me and Jeanette Lee and Allison Fisher. Cool.
Look for photos from the San Diego Classic sometime after Sunday night. Wish me luck in the charity match!
Updated the M-8 Rule Book with the Masters and Advanced addendums.
How come no one tells me the Tetris Game was out of whack for 48+ hours?!?
A slightly new look for elleni.com! What do you think?
After a week of losing in league matches, I think I need a vacation-- no not from pool!
I'm in the process of planning a trip to CA for the 7th Annual WPBA San Diego Classic tournament. March 26th-30 at the Viejas Casino in Alpine. Audience tickets are pretty cheap and for another $50 (which goes to charity) you can play in the pre-tournament Pro Am with the pros. Cool, huh? I'd like to play with my favorite woman player, Vivian Villarreal. She talks a lot while she's playing.
Updated the Links page with some web sites of professional pool players!
I've invented a new pool game: Race to The Eight.
Longtime no update... I've been really busy with pool. Lost last Monday and dropped off the top of the MVP list, had a loooong weekend of Fall regional tournament matches. Read about the action on the Pool page!
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This is a great recipe for first time junior cooks – and is the first recipe my daughter followed all by herself. They are like little pikelets with fresh grated apple and delicious with double cream or ice cream.
Recipe from the Junior Cook cookbook by Mary Pat Fergus.
*For a variation, you can use 2 chopped bananas instead.
In a small bowl or cup, mix the egg and milk together with a fork.
Pour the egg mixture into the flour mix – stir well until there are no lumpbs.
Peel and grate the apples – they will brown quickly so do this just before mixing. Stir the grated apple into the batter mix.
Heat a frypan on medium heat.
Lightly grease with a some butter – you can put a large cold cube of butter on the end of a fork and rub it all over, or drop a dollop in and stir the frypan around til the butter covers the bottom.
Drop large spoonfuls of batter in the pan – 3 at a time or so.
When bubbles show on the top, flip them over and cook til golden.
Sprinkle with sugar, serve with double cream or ice cream.
Makes 8 – 10 fritters depending on their size.


Limited edition solid yellow vinyl repress of the long sold out '...so we ate them whole' LP by Jam Baxter, entirely produced by Chemo. One of the gems of the ever expanding Jam Baxter discography featuring bangers like 'Leash', 'Incoming'.
This limited edition transparent yellow vinyl comes shrink wrapped with full colour reverse board sleeve. Limited to 500 copies only.


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Tag Archives: Saint George
When I was living and working in Carlisle, I went through a Saint's Phase, which probably felt something similar to what Vincent van Gogh felt when he went through his sunflower phase. All I wanted to do was paint and draw saints, and when I wasn't doing that I was reading about them. In the end, I did various sketches of many saints, such as Cecilia and Alban, many of which went no further than the sketching stage. However, George, Mildred, Ursula, Cuthbert, Catherine of Siena and Catherine of Alexandria were completed and displayed in an exhibition. I requested various friends to pose as a particular saint, along with a few people sketched from magazine articles. However, St. Catherine of Alexandria in this illustration was based upon some photographs I took of my friend, Susan Cartwright, nee Smith.
I had intended to do twelve illustrations and use these to create a 'Calendar of Saints'; Saint Catherine's feast day is the 25th November, so this illustration was going to be used for that particular month. The bramble bush is symbolic of the thorns of Christ and also symbolic of the wheel on which Catherine was tortured. Her story is tragic and goes like this…
According to the traditional narrative or legend, Catherine was the daughter of the governor of Alexandria, in Egypt, during the reign of the emperor Maximian (305–313). From a young age she had devoted herself to study. A vision of the Madonna and Child persuaded her to become a Christian. When the persecutions began under Maxentius, she went to the emperor and rebuked him for his cruelty. The emperor summoned fifty of the best pagan philosophers and orators to dispute with her, hoping that they would refute her pro-Christian arguments, but Catherine won the debate. Several of her adversaries, conquered by her eloquence, declared themselves Christians and were at once put to death.
The story or legend goes on to say that Catherine was then scourged and imprisoned, during which time over 200 people came to see her, including Maxentius' wife, Valeria Maximilla; all converted to Christianity and were subsequently martyred. Upon the failure of Maxentius to make Catherine yield by way of torture, he tried to win the beautiful and wise princess over by proposing marriage. The saint refused, declaring that her spouse was Jesus Christ, to whom she had consecrated her virginity. The furious emperor condemned Catherine to death on a wheel covered in spikes, but, at her touch, it shattered. Maxentius finally had her beheaded.
An unhappy end, there's no doubt about it, but her legend lives on still, with the Catherine Wheel being just one example of how her story captured the minds and imagination of the people that heard it.
I am sure that you will agree that Susan's totally convincing portrayal of enlightened holiness gives the picture the very 'look' that St. Catherine would have possessed all those years ago…
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WAG Melissa Johnson says England WAGs should go to World Cup!
Melissa, the wife of Birmingham City star Roger Johnston quite enjoys being a WAG, although she has known her husband since they were ten years old, so is hardly a normal "airhead gold-digger" type of WAG.
But she was a model and an actress before marrying Roger, and actually had a part in the "Footballers Wives" TV show.
"It's funny because that was a coincidence and had nothing to do with Roger," said Melissa. "I had a small speaking part as a WAG in the programme, which came about through my agent. ......Read the full article here


Again: how do China and the ASEAN countries fit into that?
We'll see how long China can go on creating an economically powerful middle class without carrying out some liberal political reforms.
ASEAN is mostly progressing rapidly, all things considered, but Myanmar/Burma is an ugly blot, I'll give you that.
Having been on the transiberian railway and having gone from helsinki to Beijing via Tashkent, I find that train travel via central asia is a good idea, although one can go nuts spending three days on a train without stopping for more than a few minutes at a time.
What the Russian railways need to do is introduce hop-on-hop-off tickets if they don't have them already. Then you can spend 24 hours at each stop (how many trains are there a day?).


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SUKKUR, PAKISTAN-AUG 15 : Desperate flood victims scramble for some ice suffering in the severe heat with a lack of clean water August 15, 2010 in Sukkur , Pakistan. The country\'s agricultural heartland has been devastated as rice, corn and wheat crops have been destroyed by the floods, officials say as many as 20 million people have been effected. Pakistan is suffering from the worst flooding in 80 years as the army and aid organizations struggle to cope with the scope of the wide spread scale of the disaster which has killed over 1,600 people and displaced millions. The U.N has described the disaster as unprecedented with over a third of the country under water.


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Batteries Mimic Multilayer Geometry of Mammal Bones for Structural Stability
By copying the multilayer geometry of mammal bones, cathodes for sodium-ion batteries can be made more structurally stable, while maintaining high capacities and fast charge rates.
Sodium-ion batteries are poised to replace lithium-ion batteries for large-scale electrical energy storage. They offer several advantages over lithium-ion batteries, particularly due to the widespread abundance of sodium.
However, it is difficult to develop sodium cathodes, materials through which electrons can enter a battery. Many candidate materials are unstable or cannot withstand high voltages.
To find a solution, researchers from Sungkyunkwan University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Brookhaven National Laboratory turned to nature. They describe their mammal bone-inspired sodium cathode in the journal Applied Physics Reviews, from AIP Publishing.
"We believe that nature provides a very promising solution to resolve technical problems," said Ho Seok Park, one of the authors. "Accordingly, we tried to find the ideal architecture that can resolve these kinetic and stability limitations."
Mammal bone structures consist of an inner porous, spongy bone that allows the storage and transport of bone marrow, surrounded by a hard, compact bone, which offers mechanical and structural integrity under severe stress.
A schematic illustration demonstrating how the structure of a mammal bone is translated into the design of the bone-inspired NVP cathode. Credit: Kang Ho Shin, Sul Ki Park, Puritut Nakhanivej, Yixian Wang, Pengcheng Liu, Seong-Min Bak, Min Sung Choi, David Mitlin and Ho Seok Park
Following this design architecture, the group created a porous system of Na3V2(PO4)3 structures, also known as NVP, surrounded by a dense shell of reduced graphene oxide (rGO). NVP is a sodium cathode material that transports sodium ions rapidly but is structurally unstable.
The bonelike setup helps to improve the structural integrity of the system, reducing permanent damage caused by electrochemical and mechanical stress. Meanwhile, the combination of NVP and rGO creates a more favorable environment for sodium ions, enhancing the stability of the system. The battery can charge at ultrahigh rates and maintain over 90% of its capacity after 10,000 cycles of discharging and recharging, depending on the charge rate.
Despite these promising technical advances, the researchers note the work is currently just a proof of concept demonstrating the feasibility of a sodium cathode inspired by mammal bone. Additional work needs to be done to realize technological utilizations of the system.
"A large-scale synthesis of bone-inspired NVP with high quality, the optimization of bone-inspired NVP composition and structure, and the fabrication and test of electrodes with large area and high loading are thought to be required for more practical applications," Park said.
Reference: "Biomimetic composite architecture achieves ultrahigh rate capability and cycling life of sodium ion battery cathodes" by Kang Ho Shin, Sul Ki Park, Puritut Nakhanivej, Yixian Wang, Pengcheng Liu, Seong-Min Bak, Min Sung Choi, David Mitlin, and Ho Seok Park, 8 December 2020, Applied Physics Reviews.
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Brew for Breakfast: Experiments in Animation!
I started an animation class two weeks ago and I'm in love -- now I can not only doodle cute things, but I can doodle cute things in action! Here are my first two experiments (the assignment was to draw a ball bounding on some kind of background, first once and then three times, I took some liberties). I'll keep posting these as I do them - next week my elephant will have a tail!


M-Pact is the club for girls from K-7th grade that aims to change the world – one girl at a time! Our regular meetings are held each Tuesday from 7:00-8:30 PM in the Family Life Center and coincides with our Men's and Women's Ministries to give your entire family an opportunity for ministry.
Individuals looking to help in this ministry get to engage with a great group of girls each week and also encourage and disciple in a small group setting!
Daisies learn about sharing, creating, helping, obeying and lots of other ways to grow more Christ-like.
Pledge: As a Daisy, I will be happy, good, and helpful, letting my light shine for Jesus.
Prims discover Bible Treasures, and learn about friendship.
Girls make their way up the Stairway of the Stars achievement program as they complete units in the four worlds: The World of Truth (basic Christian doctrine), The World Around You (missions), The World About You (activities), and The World Within You (character development). Memorization, projects, and Bible reading are all a part of completing the achievement program as an Honor Star.
If you have ever known a girl in middle school, you know what a crazy time of identity shifting this can be. Many girls confide less in parents and more in friends. They crave someone to share their thoughts with. Cultural values add pressure to a girl to indulge in choices that have long-term consequences. The Friends Club meets the needs that girls are facing head on.


Fernando van Zeller owns and operates what is both the largest and the fastest growing independent Port company in Portugal and comes from 14 uninterrupted generations in the Port trade (this is the longest continual run of any family in the region!). The company in its current form was created after the family sold Quinta do Noval in the mid-nineties, with the main benefit of this sale being additional funds to facilitate the expansion of estate vineyard holdings and the ability to maintain and expand the deep library stocks the van Zeller's have long been associated with. It is important to note that the van Zeller family held onto most of their thousands of barrels of aged wine during this sale and today the company holds the deepest and most sought-after stocks of aged tawny in Portugal.
Originally named after family ancestor Arnaldo Menéres, Menéres is one of four Port brands this independent firm produces and one they purchased to bring back into the family about ten years ago. The house specializes in 20 Year Tawny, 40 Year Tawny, and heirloom Colheitas. Menéres is the highest quality line of port the family produces, these wines are classic in style, and we consider Menéres ports the best examples in the world in terms of complexity and character for the money.


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82 T R E N C H L E S S T EC H N O LO GY O C TO B E R 2018 B Y T E R R Y F LY N N T E C H F O R U M M U D S Y S T E M S : P R E P A R A T I O N , O P E R A T I O N A N D M A I N T E N A N C E P R O P E R P R E P A R A T I O N , operation, and maintenance of your mud recycling system can not only extend the performance and life of your recycler, but can also extend the perf ormance and lif e of other equipment such as the drill rig , drill pipe, mud motors, hoses, and mud pump expendables. Clean mud is critical to all aspects of yo u r p ro j ect s ucce s s a n d equipment life. Here are some maintenance tips to keep in mind for the health of your recycling system. When preparing your recycler to transport to a new job, ensure your shakers are locked down tightly to avoid damage to your isolation points due to shaker movement during transport . All mud tanks should be emptied of •luids and solids to avoid any excess weight issues. Leave the tank dump gates open during transport to avoid collection of rain water in the tanks. Secure all loose items , fold up walkways and lock them into place for transport . When you arrive at the jobsite, set up the system on level ground and l evel a d d i t i o n a l ly i f n eed ed . Complete a visual inspection of the system, including but not limited to: check all •luids in engines, ensure the sealing surfaces of screens are in good shape, and inspect the tank bottom for debris before •illing the tanks. On airbag equipped models, ensure the bags are in good shape and in•lated to the recommended PSI. Grease lubrication •ittings per t h e m a n u f a c t u r e r ' s recommendations. When setting up your spoils/pit pump, we recommend that you dig a deep enough returns pit so that you can suspend the pump off the bottom of the pit to keep it out of concentrated thick solids and large stones, but ensuring the pump is submerged for cooling purposes. You also want to keep your hose length wi thin reasonable length to avoid excess friction loss of •low. We recommend a maximum of 100' of hose run connecting the pit pump to the recycler. After •illing the tank with fresh water, test for PH levels and adjust as necessary. Add your bentonite and any additives slowly to properly shear the mud and to avoid clumping . You'll want to keep an adequate supply of normal expendables on hand to avoid any downtime. We suggest that you keep a supply of various mesh screens on hand to adjust as necessary throughout your bore. Proper operation includes changing screen mesh sizes as needed as you go through various soils as you bore. The correct screen mesh at surface may not be the correct mesh at any point downhole. You should run as •ine a screen mesh as the conditions will allow. When your •luid is being processed on the s c re e n s , l i q u i d s h o u l d b e approximately three quarters of the way down the shaker, and dry cuttings coming off the end and down the discharge chutes. Maintain your screens and look for damaged areas, and periodically rinse the screens. If a screen becomes damaged, you must replace it as soon as possible to ensure cleanliness of the mud. Damage to components such as valves, seats, pistons, and liners can happen ver y quickly if you're pumping dirty mud. Mesh s elect ion and periodic rinsing will help avoid blinding or plugging the screen mesh . If your screen become blinded, you can pressure wash the screens from the back side to unblind the mesh . Adjust your shaker deck angles as needed to keep a dr y cutting discharge. You will also want to watch to ensure your hydrocyclones are discharging solids. If not , they could be plugged requiring disassembly to clean. Be sure to have your workers kick their boots clean on the bottom stairs to avoid any rock or other tank contamination coming from the bottom of their boots. This is one of the most common reasons how a cone gets plugged. The condition of your centrifugal pumps can be found by checking your cone manif old pressures . Correct pressures should range between 28 PSI and 32 PSI. Pressures below that can be an indication of excessively worn pump impellers, and should prompt further diagnosis. In cold weather areas, you will want to ensure that you properly winterize the system when not in u s e , i n cl ud i n g d ra i n i n g t h e centrifugal pumps, to avoid the rupture of components due to freezing liquid. This damage can be very costly in repair parts and down time, so proper winterization is crucial in cold weather. Mud system operation is not a "set it and forget it " process. Mud weight and viscosity should be regularly checked using a sand content kit , viscosity cup and funnel , and mud scales. Care should be taken to observe these various points during the operation of your recycler, to ensure you are getting the cleanest •luid possible. Terry Flynn is vice president of sales and marketing at Tulsa Rig Iron.


David Hollands has spent 16 years traversing Australia to find, study and photograph the 17 species which make up this book. His passion and enthusiasm for his subjects shine through in the text; lively, accurate, informative and beautifully written, not only about the birds but about the expeditions to find them. The book is richly illustrated with over 200 of the author's photographs. Though primarily a photographic book, there is a short, 12-page field guide section at the back to all 17 species.
This text is a compact, easy-to-use bird identification guide suitable for any birdwatcher visiting Italy. The book features descriptions of more than 250 species, thumbnail silhouettes for ease of use, up-to-date tips and information on bird biology and behaviour.
With 85 million tourists in 2015, France is the largest tourist destination in the world. This new photographic guide for general wildlife-watchers by naturalist James Lowen and French photographer Aurélien Audevard covers the 300 birds most likely to be seen on any visit to the country, with detailed text and superb photography, selected to highlight key identification criteria.
Pocket-sized and portable, Birds of France is the perfect companion for any wildlife-watching tourist or traveler keen to recognize the birds that they see.
This beautiful book accompanies the photographic competition celebrating some of the best bird photography of the year.
The Bird Photographer of the Year competition celebrates the artistry of bird photography, and this large-format book is lavishly illustrated to reflect this. A celebration of avian beauty and diversity, it is a tribute to both the dedication and passion of the photographers as well as a reflection of the quality of today's modern digital imaging systems.
Bird Photographer of the Year, Collection 3 includes the winning and short-listed images from the competition, now in its third year, showcasing some of the finest bird photography, with a foreword by BTO President and head judge, Chris Packham. A proportion of the profits from the book goes directly to the BTO to support their conservation work.
The advent of digital technology has revolutionised photography in recent years, and Bird Photographer of the Year, Collection 3 brings to life some of the most stunning bird photography currently on offer. It features a vast variety of photographs by hardened pros, keen amateurs and hobbyists alike, reflecting the huge diversity of bird enthusiasts and nature lovers which is so important in ensuring their conservation and survival.
This lavishly illustrated guide describes 55 of the best sites for viewing both common and rare species in Australia. Alongside a map of the area, detailed descriptions of each site cover the type of terrain, climate and specific spots at which certain species are likely to be encountered. A fact file for each site lists road and rail access; entry fees and permits, facilities, nearby services, accommodation and GPS co-ordinates. Key species for each site are also listed.
This invaluable reference, with superb photographs, describes 97 bird species, including 10 of Tasmania's 12 endemics. It is a must for anyone interested in the bird life of Launceston and the region.
Emeritus Professor Nigel Forteath AM, a retired zoologist, is an Honorary Research Associate at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery. His extensive career in aquaculture led to many awards, including Member of the Order of Australia in 2006 for Services to Marine and Freshwater Biology. Nigel has always had a keen interest in birds and photography and brings his imagery and understanding of Cataract Gorge's Bird life together in this guide.
Elusive study organisms for ornithologists and highly prized additions to the birder's life-list, the antpittas (Grallariidae) and gnateaters (Conopophagidae) are among the most poorly known Neotropical bird groups. This authoritative handbook is the first book dedicated solely to these two families, combining an exhaustive review of more than two centuries of literature with original observations by the author and many knowledgeable contributors.
Antpittas and Gnateaters provides a thorough guide to the identification and ecology of these birds, with detailed maps accompanying the text. A series of superb plates illustrate mostof the 156 recognized taxa; supplemented by more than 250 colour photographs, the immature plumages and natural history of many species are depicted for the first time.
This book is the ultimate reference on these remarkable and beautiful birds, and an indispensible addition to the libraries of researchers and birders for many years to come.
The most comprehensive guide to African raptors ever published.
Due to its large land mass and impressive variety of habitats, Africa has the most diverse range of raptors of any continent – with almost a third of the world's species occurring in the region. These diurnal birds of prey are well known for their hooked bill and powerful talons, as well as their keen vision that enables them to accurately detect their prey during flight.
This authoritative guide, part of the Helm Identification series, features all 106 species found in Africa, with particular emphasis on their field identification. Encompassing falcons, eagles, ospreys, kites, vultures and more, African Raptors discusses the identification of both perched and flying birds, bringing together the very latest research with accurate distribution maps, more than 300 colour photographs and 52 superb plates that illustrate a broad range of ages and racial plumage differences.
This book is the ultimate reference on these remarkable birds, and will be indispensable for all birders and ornithologists with an interest in birds of prey.
Col Roberts is regarded as one of the world's leading landscape, fishing and bird photographers. He has limited the amount of text in this beautiful coffee table book, preferring to write his own field observations. This is the most comprehensive collection of Australian finch photos ever recorded. Col has captured interesting behavioural images which take many forms including birds in flight, courting, mating, nesting and feeding. With more than 400 photographs it covers every species and sub-species.
The task of travelling around Australia seeking out the various species has at times been arduous and often involved sitting in a hide in stifling and oppressive conditions to capture never-before-seen images of finches and their behaviour. It is estimated that this involved over 2500 hours of field study. The result is a testament to his skill and love of bird photography.
Now fully revised, this easy-to-use identification guide to the 280 bird species most commonly seen in Borneo (covering Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan) is perfect for resident and visitor alike.High quality photographs from one of Borneo's top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions which include nomenclature, size, distribution, habits and habitat. The user-friendly introduction covers geography and climate, vegetation, opportunities for naturalists and the main sites for viewing the listed species. Also included is an all-important checklist of all of the birds of Borneo encompassing, for each species, its common and scientific name, IUCN status as at 2015 and its status in each state of Borneo.
Urban Raptors is the first book to offer a complete overview of urban ecosystems in the context of bird-of-prey ecology and conservation. This comprehensive volume examines the urban environment, explains why some species adapt to urban areas but others do not, and introduces modern research tools to help in the study of urban raptors. It delves into climate change adaptation, human-wildlife conflict, and the unique risks birds of prey face in urban areas before concluding with real-world wildlife management case studies and suggestions for future research and conservation efforts.
Among researchers, urban green space planners, wildlife management agencies, birders, and informed citizens alike, Urban Raptors will foster a greater understanding of birds of prey and an increased willingness to accommodate them as important members, not intruders, of our cities.
This is the most up-to-date checklist of bird species and subspecies recorded in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, including Iran and the Arabian Peninsula – the 'greater' Western Palearctic. Species are presented in systematic order, and each species entry includes scientific and English names, taxonomic notes, distribution and range/vagrancy occurrences within the region. In addition to the main list of almost 1,150 species, appendices detail regionally endemic and extinct birds, those no longer considered to have occurred, and the national lists of all regional countries. The first major update for Europe, North Africa and the Middle East since the Birds of the Western Palearctic series came to an end two decades ago, this long-awaited checklist is essential reading for all those with an interest in the 'WP' and its avifauna.


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Der Lake Kamakshi ist ein See an der Prinzessin-Astrid-Küste des ostantarktischen Königin-Maud-Lands. Er liegt in der Schirmacher-Oase.

Indische Wissenschaftler benannten ihn nach der Göttin Kamakshi.

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 Lake Kamakshi im Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (englisch)

See in der Schirmacher-Oase


Are you facing some kinds of trouble with your WhatsApp application? Are the photos getting deleted or disappearing on its own? Maybe the statuses updated by your friends are turning grey? If your answer is yes, then let us tell you why these problems occurred and also how to fix them as soon as possible.
WhatsApp version 2.19.66 apparently has a bug that is erasing photographs from clients' chat box. The bug is currently affecting just the WhatsApp Beta clients and updating it to the most recent 2.19.66 form may cause your WhatsApp photographs to erase also.
In any case, since the photographs sent by means of WhatsApp gets saved in the phone's gallery, it would not be lost until the end of time.
Numerous application clients took to Twitter to post about the glitch in the WhatsApp application and furthermore cautioned others to not download the latest version of WhatsApp. Numerous others have whined about not having the capacity to see their friends and families' status as well. The bug supposedly turned their status dark – bringing in a lot of assumptions in so many people that their friends might have blocked them on WhatsApp. At present, the version which is available on the Google Play store is 2.19.71.
In any case, WhatsApp has seemed to be released a latest and an updated beta version of its application for the users to get rid of this bug. Aside from this, the informing application additionally revealed a refresh for iPhone clients that abled them to go past the face ID lock and go through their chats. Another vital component or feature that has been added to WhatsApp application is the introduction of locking the app feature with their face which will be their face ID, this way every user will be able to keep their chats private and not let anyone go through it. It is not out yet, but this feature will be released soon.