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Now you are contemplating taking some classes at a local community school to move ahead in your chosen discipline, or perhaps even discover a brand new career path, however unsure if it is the correct time for it because you're so busy and all the cash's accounted for.
The Columbia Regional Learning Center offers a wide range of free online programs to just about anybody with a computer. Most of the courses are geared in direction of emergency managers and public health care practitioners. However, there are also many nice programs that teach you about management and management. In addition to these, there are also courses in regards to the setting and pure disasters. One of the issues that I really like in regards to the free coaching provided on the Columbia Regional Learning Center is that the shows are actually we nicely put collectively.
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affect horses, how do we know if a horse is stressed?
How can we use the 'five freedoms' to recognise and reduce stress in our companion and competition horses?
Firstly and fundamentally, let's look at the need to confine horses, which can impose stressors affecting several freedoms — there's restricted feeding and movement, increased aggression in group situations, isolation, aggression and chronic frustration in horses kept individually, and a reduction in the stimulation provided by foraging and social contact – all of which are linked to the development of abnormal behaviours such as stereotypies (repetitive behaviours with no obvious function).
Weaving (a behaviour displayed by some horses in which the horse repetitively sways side to side, shifting its weight and moving its head and neck back and forth) and box walking (repetitive, circular walking or pacing around the sides of a confined area) are associated with locomotor frustration, cribbing and windsucking (repeated swallowing of air) with feeding management frustration .
A socially isolated horse is in a chronic state of frustration and weaving can be significantly reduced with access to another horse in an adjacent stable, even if it is only through a small 1m2 portal. Mirrors can help as well by reducing aggressive, threatening behaviour over the stable door.
Stereotypies are quite common in domesticated, stabled horses: 8.3% for crib-biting, 9.5% for weaving and 7.3% for box-walking – however, they are not ever reported in free-roaming horses. It is likely that these behaviours are a highly motivated expression or consequence of distress. Gut motility is decreased below normal and cortisol levels increased beyond normal when horses are simultaneously deprived of both forage access and opportunity to crib-bite.
Providing non-toxic plants, branches and browse while a horse is confined can significantly reduce the stress associated with feeding management frustration.
To ensure feeding management is not a source of stress, provide constant access to roughage. However, the way it is fed may have welfare implications. While the use of a net reduces wastage and eases management, the time a horse spends in a head-raised posture is abnormal and can compromise the fine hairs and mucous in its windpipe that sweep up and out any dust and bacteria before they can reach the lungs. Because of the abnormal head position, hay nets that are not positioned very near to, or on the ground, may predispose a horse to a respiratory condition or infection.
Physical and thermal discomfort considerations bring us to the question of rugging. Clipped and aged horses benefit from rugging, as do those in cold, wet, windy weather. These situations affect the horse's ability to keep warm. When deciding whether to rug, keep in mind that the thermoneutral zone for adult horses (i.e. the range where shivering and sweating are not needed to regulate temperature) is between minus 15°C and 35°C. For healthy foals, the lower critical temperature is 5C and 28°C for sick foals; for weanlings it's 0°C.
Hot weather and exercise decrease appetite and place major demands on the horse's metabolic and cooling systems – increasing core body temperature, sweating, metabolic rate and rate of glucose and fat utilisation. It takes 2-3 weeks for horses to acclimate to changing weather. Increasing oil intake and fine-tuning amino acid balance is beneficial.
Injury and disease are easy enough to recognise! Assessment of pain in horses remains difficult and we often fall short. Recognising early or subtle signs of pain is a challenge. In 1872, Charles Darwin predicted that nonhuman animals could exhibit similar facial expressions in response to emotional states as humans do (Darwin, 1872), but only recently have we had the benefit of research into how this can help us recognise and reduce stress in our horses. The Horse Grimace Scale (HGS) is an effective and practical method of identifying painful conditions. A valuable source of information can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwoETBDQevc.
An important milestone in equitation is the development of the ethogram for ridden and un-ridden horses. An ethogram is a species-specific catalogue of all of the observed behaviours of an animal and the social, environmental and other external factors that influence them. For our domestic horses, these external factors include management, training, and riding. The ethogram enables the detection of pain and can easily be used by owners, trainers and vets. A good resource with excellent pictures can be found at https://owlequestrian.ca/2017/12/29/the-ethogram-of-the-ridden-horse-part-1-introduction/.
If we are slow to notice physical problems that affect performance, we may label a horse 'naughty'.
The possibility that the horse is stressed because of pain somewhere must always be considered.
Fear of perceived or actual danger includes behavioural and physiological modifications or fight (attack, menace), flight (hiding, escape) and freeze (passive avoidance). Horses have a tendency to escape from frightening events and situations by flight reactions, which can be dangerous for both horse and handler. Understanding this fear response can greatly reduce the risks associated with human-horse interactions and improve equine welfare at the same time. So again, how can we understand and reduce this form of stress?
Fear, distress and mental discomfort happen when there are two or more competing triggers for separate behaviours.
Although competition and sport horses often have better housing and working conditions, the intensive management of performance horses exposes them to a different range of fears, stresses and problems.
Exercise, training and competition may involve isolating horses from other horses and controlling their locomotion – over-riding their inherent needs for social/physical contact/friends, forage and unrestricted, free movement.
Signs of irritation and frustration can be caused by these competing motivations and result in 'escape' behaviours.
If we misunderstand the reason behind such behaviours we might attempt to correct them with suppression or punishment-based approaches. But these methods can cause short or long-term stress, worsen the problem or result in avoidance strategies such as abnormal behaviours. Our inappropriate reactions to fear can lead to a long-term negative emotional state of chronic stress and reduced welfare. Importantly, many serious human injuries occur as a result of unexpected horse fear reactions.
The absence of behavioural indicators of stress does not always mean the horse is not stressed – because like all species, horses can and do develop learned-helplessness, a state of chronic stress.
Various fear tests have been used to determine temperament characteristics in horses: novel object, novel arena, restraint and human fear tests. Stress causes an increase in eye temperature. Infrared thermography (measurement of heat using a hand-held, portable monitor) of eye temperature has recently been found to be helpful in assessing physiological reactions to different fearful events, such as being transported; competing in different environments with novel/unusual stimuli and sounds; being approached by unfamiliar people or undergoing a range of handling and management procedures.
The freedom to express 'normal' behaviours is multi-faceted –'normal' in a natural sense (found in wild populations); in a statistical sense (common among horses); in a functional sense (i.e. it is adaptive or optimal), and normal in a social sense.
It's important to appreciate the needs and motivation of behaviour so that our domestic management restricts as little as possible the natural range of behaviours. When it does, the horse can experience environmental deprivation and frustration. For example, paddock or yard size and shape, and bedding type, may affect the time spent lying down or asleep – which predisposes to physical and psychological stress.
Yearling exercise is restricted in paddocks of 1.5ha but not if the area is at least 2.1 ha; square paddocks are preferable to those proportioned 1:2 or 1:4. Bedding also provides horses with one of their main mechanisms for regulating gut acidity. If adequate forage isn't always available and horses are unable to, or prevented from, engaging in bedding-chewing, they develop compensatory activities such as cribbing and wood-chewing.
Feeding meals of concentrates reduces time spent foraging and chewing (free-range and wild horses chew around 57600 times a day, hand-fed domestic ones around 14,500). This also leads to physical and psychological stress as reduced production of saliva diminishes the natural saliva buffer against gastro-intestinal acidity. Gastric acidity is the number one cause of gastric ulcers and horses with ulcers - regardless of discipline – have elevated blood levels of the stress hormone ACTH – meaning their adrenal glands are over-active.
We need to pause and consider fine-tuning our management to improve well-being rather than assuming that because the horse still functions it can adapt without feeling stress.
Horses are primarily visual communicators and are extremely sensitive to subtle changes in the body language of other horses — and us! They react to tension in humans with the same alarm as when in their mates, and can discriminate between happy and angry photographs of people's faces. As in dogs, their gaze drifts to the left side and heart rate rises in response to angry faces. Tension related to hyperflexion of the head and neck position also produces a stress response and is associated with increased blood cortisol. Elevated heart rates (18 beats above normal) and abnormal body postures cause stress during transport. This is more important with long journeys and research has shown white blood cell counts, neutrophil to lymphocyte ratios and glucose and cortisol concentrations are higher when horses are cross-tied and lower when horses travel loose – which also benefits respiratory function and reduces the risk of shipping fever. Loading stress usually only occurs in young, unhabituated horses and declines after three successful loadings.
Yawning and playing are puzzling behaviours, and also indicate stress. A large study of domestic horses kept in sub-optimal conditions (meal feeding with limited roughage availability and social isolation) found yawning is triggered by stress and emotional discomfort. Horses showing stereotypic behaviours yawn more than the non-stereotypic horses.
Based on this research, yawning and adult play can both reflect altered welfare states in horses. Other behaviours, like licking, chewing, and head-lowering have long been equated with 'submission'. However, recently they have been categorised as displacement and self-comforting activities by horses experiencing conflicting motivations, anxiety and adrenalin release.
The combination of magnesium and thiamine has recently been shown in Australian and international studies to reduce 'speed-reaction tests' and fear responses as measured by heart rates and cortisol. Because of calming effects in man and mice, tryptophan has been studied in horses. The response is unpredictable. Rather than a sedative effect, oral tryptophan may, under both isolation and visual contact environments, stimulate 2–4 hours after dosing rather than having a sedative effect. And there are breed differences in response with Arabs and Standardbreds showing greater increases in heart rate and walking-sniffing activity after tryptophan administration.
The horse is a strange paradox of strength and acquiescence. It can overcome pain, injury and the instinct for self-preservation, to conform to the rider's will. This presents those with responsibility for their welfare with profound challenges.
Advances in recognising signs of conflict, distress, fear, and pain in the ridden horse can make equestrian activities safer for everyone involved, primarily the horse and rider.
Thanks to the work of many passionate researchers, in the last 20 years we've made huge strides in understanding our horses and finding answers to questions of emotional and psychological stress, health, welfare and well-being.
The works of Australians Paul McGreevy and Andrew MacLean and other researchers around the world have all been published in fantastic books that are worth reading, re-reading and dipping into again and again. Their careers have shone a light on equine behaviour, facial expressions and the development of an equine ethogram (an inventory of normal behaviours) — all of which can help provide understanding and answers.
Some equine responses to stress are characteristic and common to all horses – others are very individual – so knowing your horse well is important, and there are lots of good resources to help you read your horse's body language.


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The Mommy Box: Coping with the Child Who Isn't There
December 20, 2015 Tegan Wren 5 Comments
My youngest son is four years old. He recently discovered a book of children's poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, a collection I adored when I was a kid. One line in particular gets me every time we read the book's opening poem: "…it is but a child of air, that lingers in the garden there." I know all too well what it is to love "a child of air."
Infertility grief is difficult to handle on a regular day, so it's no surprise that special occasions and holidays really increase the emotional intensity. What's especially challenging for couples dealing with infertility is that they're grieving for a child who has never existed. Unlike grief after a loved one's death, there are no happy memories, photos of smiling faces, or videos of birthdays. There's never even been a birthday, a smile, or a single memory for the child who isn't there, the child who never has been.
One of the most effective tools I created to deal with this grief was a mommy box. On small sheets of paper, I wrote down brief descriptions of things I wanted to do to make a memory with my child after he or she was in my arms (whether through birth or adoption) and stored them in a box a very talented friend had painted and given to me years earlier. My mommy box was an especially therapeutic tool around the holiday season when so much of the public Christmas displays, both sacred and secular, are geared toward children.
I remember arriving home after a Christmas church service one year when we were trying to conceive and almost running to the closet where I kept my mommy box. I had two or three things I just had to write down. For me, writing about something I wanted to do with my future child was a way to feel productive while we waited and to give my longing a tangible outlet. Every time I added a note to the mommy box, I felt relief and peace. It was important to me to write down the date so that someday, my child would see that I imagined the things we'd do together throughout the year.
Sometimes instead of writing down the activities I wanted to do, I opened the box and read all the ones I'd already written. The slips of paper were little pieces of hope. I cried over them, held them, and prayed over them. They were, and still are, very important to me.
I'm happy to say that after we became parents through adoption, we did fulfill almost every hope and wish I'd jotted down in my memory box. And of course, those shared moments were just the beginning. My heart is now full of beautiful, happy memories of the things I've gotten to do with my children. I recently sat down with my oldest child and read through some of the pieces of paper in my mommy box. He was delighted to know all the hopes and dreams I had for him, for us.
Have you done anything similar to my mommy box to help you process your grief? I'd love for you to share about it in the comments because your technique may be just the thing that helps someone else cope.
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9 Gift Ideas for Couples Facing Infertility or Waiting to Adopt
December 15, 2015 Tegan Wren Leave a comment
December is a challenging month for couples struggling with infertility. There's tremendous pressure to put on a happy face, accept every party invitation, and spread holiday cheer. At the same time, the couple may be struggling with facing one more holiday season and the end of one more year without realizing their dream of having a child/becoming parents. The Decembers when we were hoping for a pregnancy and then, when we were waiting to be matched to our first child by our adoption agency, were quietly painful for us. So, if you know someone who is waiting to become parents through conception, surrogacy, or adoption, here are nine gift ideas for these couples.
Massage gift certificates. When you're waiting to become a parent (regardless of the route you're taking), the wait is stressful. I carried the stress in my shoulders and neck. Whenever I had the chance to get a massage, I did it because the massage helped me reset and refresh mentally and physically. This is a great gift for men and women experiencing infertility.
Passes to a grown-up venue or activity. When you're struggling to conceive, sometimes you just want to go someplace where you won't be bombarded by hoards of adorable children and harried parents. So, give them passes to an art or history museum, a comedy club, or a tasting at a local winery.
Cash. Whether the couple is financing fertility treatments, surrogacy, or an adoption, chances are good that cold hard cash would be a welcome gift to help them on their journey to parenthood.
Lessons. This is an especially great gift when you know the couple well. Art classes, guitar lessons, and time with a sky diving instructor give the couple the chance to develop a new hobby or embark on a new adventure. This is a great gift because it helps them focus on a new and exciting activity.
Restaurant gift certificates. If the couple's gearing up for expensive procedures or a foreign adoption, they may be avoiding expensive meals in restaurants. That's one reason this can be a really meaningful gift.
A book. For the person experiencing infertility, a good book can be a fantastic gift. Choose a non-fiction book on a topic they enjoy or consider a novel such as INCONCEIVABLE! that reflects the various facets of infertility: the craziness, heartbreak, and hope of re-imaging your dream of having children. As someone recently told me about my novel: it's one thing to hear people say, 'You're not alone.' It's another thing to read a story about a couple who's experiencing the same things you are.
A journal and pen set. There are so many emotions, thoughts, and hopes to process when you're struggling to conceive and writing is a great way to do it. Receiving a journal and pen set as a gift may be just the encouragement your friend or family member needs to start getting words on paper.
A romantic getaway. One of the most challenging aspects of infertility is dealing with its impact on the romantic aspects of your relationship. Giving a gift certificate for one or two nights at a nearby bed and breakfast can be a beautiful way to help your loved ones refresh their relationship.
Food-a-month club. Send fruit, Chicago delicacies, or other treats to your loved ones through the mail. Let's face it. There are days when you've had another negative pregnancy test or you've found out about another delay in your adoption. Frankly, you just don't want to leave the house. This is one of those gifts that can be a wonderful comfort to a couple going through infertility.
What gifts do you recommend for a couple going through infertility? What gifts should people avoid giving?
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Dear Infertility…
December 4, 2015 December 4, 2015 Tegan Wren 9 Comments
During the years we were trying to conceive, this is the letter I would've written to my infertility:
Dear Infertility,
I'm glad to have the chance to speak directly to you after all this time. We've lived together in this body for years, and I think it's time to call a house meeting and iron out a few things.
First, I wish you'd stop tweaking the thermostat. One minute I'm hot with anger and tears. Then, twenty minutes later, I'm wrapping my arms around my chest to fend off the bitter cold of loneliness. It's super annoying.
Second, please stop leaving boxes of junk in the middle of the floor. How many times has your box of jealousy tripped me up? Or how about that backpack full of self-loathing? I mean, you've got a lot o' baggage, and I really resent having it shoved in my path.
Let's also talk about your music. I wish you'd play something other than those same tired songs about shame and guilt. You've had them on repeat for years! Admittedly, they've got a hook that lodges itself in my brain–I know every line by heart and could probably mumble them in my sleep. But, c'mon. Play something a little less angst-y once in a while.
And have you ever heard of boundaries? I don't know why you think it's fine to sneak into my bedroom when I'm with my husband. Honestly! Who can enjoy fun times with their spouse when it's obvious you're in the room. You're the most intrusive third wheel in the history of third wheels.
I've also had it with your friends showing up uninvited. Well, really, it's just the one friend. I don't know why you call her Aunt Flow when everyone knows you guys aren't related. And she's so unreliable. Sometimes she's on time. Sometimes she's late. I wish she'd just take a hike for nine long months.
Can I just say how much I hate it when you tag along with me to parties, showers, and holiday gatherings? It's so embarrassing when you show up at a baby shower and start whispering awful things in my ear. Then, I have to act like you're not there when everyone totally knows you're there. AWKWARD. Plus, we all know how much you can't stand the adorable onesies and those faux cakes made out of rolled up diapers. Really, you shouldn't come. Like at all.
Look, I know people think you'll change (or just leave) if I stop stressing about all the madness you've brought with you. Like my lack of stress will make you vacate the premise (taking Aunt Flow along with you). But you and I both know that's not going to happen. You're not really the sort who'll just leave if we all ignore you.
Okay. Here's the truth. Even if you do leave and I get a new roommate, an adorable new roomie who has my nose and my husband's eyes, you've left your fingerprints all over the place. It's not like I can remove every trace of you. You've banged up the floorboards and chipped away the paint. So, we just need to make peace. You aren't going to change, but I can change the way I react to you and your inconsiderate ways. I'm going to focus on taking better care of myself rather than letting you frustrate me so often. It's what I've got to do until I can figure out a way to evict you for good and get that new roommate moved in.
With hope for better times ahead,
P.S. You really do make me nuts. Maybe someday I'll write a book about it. Believe me, I've got enough material.
Baby shower image via Flickr by Emily Stanchfield
Author Kate McIntyre Talks Fantasy, Grief in Fiction, and Sequels
I don't remember exactly where I first met Kate McIntyre, whether it was in our publisher's Facebook group or through Twitter, but I do remember being impressed with her and the synopsis for THE DEATHSNIFFER'S ASSISTANT from day one.
It's an imaginative fantasy set in Edwardian England with a frighteningly unnerving murder mystery at its ooey gooey center. There are also flourishes of magic. And did I mention the flying carriages? Oh, my. There's so much to love about this novel!
Many of you know that I go to the gym to read. Sure, my legs are churning away on the elliptical, but it's really my mind that's getting the workout as I devour wonderful works of fiction. Well, I was heading to the gym A LOT when I was reading Kate's book because I Just HAD to know what happened next. I give this highly addictive read five out of five wrens. (Want to buy it? Get it here on Amazon!)
I'm delighted to be hosting Kate on my blog today because reading her responses to my questions is like slipping into the back of a writers' master class. I learned so much from interviewing her, and I'm really excited to share the conversation with you. She talks about exploring grief in her novel, world building, and character development. I know you'll enjoy hearing from this writer whom I so admire. (Incidentally, Kate interviewed me on her blog, and asked some questions about INCONCEIVABLE! that I haven't previously discussed on any other blog. So, check it out here!)
Tegan: Describe the process of creating your own version of Edwardian England. How did it all come together?
Kate: I started building my world with exactly two things in mind. I wanted it to be full of magic and wonder and everything to constantly be oozing enchantment. I also wanted it to be humdrum and workaday, with the characters living in the midst of all this fantastic city not really seeing it as they hurried off to work.
That idea, the fantastic melding with the mundane, is the backbone of my work. I think it's relevant to us, because there's so much wonder and excitement in our world but how often do we notice it? It's too familiar to get worked up about and we're too busy to really care.
In my desire to capture that feeling, I knew that the world had to be a lot more modern than a lot of fantasy, so I aimed for the feel of the period between 1903 and 1922. I didn't actually know much at first so I did a lot of research to get a sense of the aesthetic and the feel of the era. The Edwardian period was when the modern really began melding with the historic, and it isn't uncommon to see a fine lady in full skirts walking a few steps from a dirty factory girl in trousers in photographs taken at the time.
Of course, my book isn't set in Edwardian England, but in Darrington City, Tarland. So it wasn't as simple as just carrying things over. I loved the fictional nation of Toulene in Inconceivable! and really enjoyed how it was such a neat melding of its bordering nations. It really felt like something that you'd built from the ground up, and that's how it was for Darrington, too. I had to think about what technology Tarlish folks had available thanks to their magic. At the same time, I thought about where they wouldn't have innovated. So there are no cars yet, but there are flashbulb cameras! A fully operational telephone-like network, but no steam engines. Some readers don't even notice things like that, but it all helps make the world feel real!
Tegan: I loved the interactions between Olivia Faraday (the deathsniffer) and her assistant, Chris Buckley. They each have their own quirks and hang-ups. How did you go about developing these characters and where did you look for inspiration?
Kate: Olivia was the first character I came up with. Immediately after deciding I wanted to write a fantasy murder mystery, I had my detective: a pint-sized hellion with no concern for anything but the chase, as elegant and brilliant as she was mocking and heartless. Chris grew into the spaces around Olivia. Despite being the narrator of the book, he's the one who was built to compliment her. I made him mannered to match her crudeness, empathetic for her insensitivity, and kind for her cruelty. He also ended up as kind of a cringing, snobby dope to contrast Olivia's fearlessly unapologetic intelligence.
It's always been a priority for me to write characters human first and likeable second. And humans are a mostly flawed bunch. Even my favourite humans have things about them I can't stand! So I really wanted readers to see Olivia and Chris as real people. That's why they can sometimes be small-minded, petty, or obtuse. It's also why they bicker constantly.
But I know your secret, everybody! Most everyone secretly loves to watch frustrating people bickering. Why else would reality tv have gotten so huge? So I let myself have a lot of fun with the way the two of them go back and forth. Sometimes he's in the right and sometimes she is. Their relationship can be deep and insightful one moment and then the next they're picking at each other over incredibly dumb stuff. Olivia and Chris's relationship is at the core of the whole series of books. It's my favourite element to write, and it always makes me happy when someone enjoys it!
Tegan: Chris Buckley lost both of his parents in an accident, and understandably, it was life altering for him and his sister. You do an incredible job of using that event as a filter that colors Chris' thoughts, actions, and reactions. Have you had any personal experiences that informed this aspect of the story? And I'm asking because I think it's handled in a very authentic way.
Kate: My parents are still alive and well, but I've definitely experienced loss. Sometimes in minor ways, and sometimes in major ones. And I've absolutely used that loss to construct the heart of Chris's character, which is the abscess loss leaves behind if not properly grieved.
The loss I drew on the most was losing my grandfather when I was barely eleven. He lived just one street away from me growing up, and I spent at least half my time with him. Like Chris, I was too young to know the right way to grieve, and like Chris, it just seemed easier to wrap it up and put it away. Anyone who's lost someone precious to them knows how grief feels – like something is being ripped out of your chest and leaving a sucking hole behind. It's the worst feeling in the whole world. And it's a lot easier to shove it as hard as you can and tell yourself that you're better and move on. You can go years without feeling a thing where that infected wound is, until something brushes against it and destroys you for days.
Grief is a major theme of The Faraday Files. It's something that's rarely written about in genre fiction because it's the worst thing ever, and genre fiction is supposed to be for escapism. But just like Hatty and John's struggles with infertility in Inconceivable! stands in defiance of traditional HEA romance tropes, I wanted to write something with more pathos than your average genre novel. So many fantasy protagonists are orphans, but how many really get down and unpack that? Chris isn't looking for justice for his parents and he isn't trying to do honour to their memory. He just misses them. Every day. Constantly.
Chris is a lot younger than I am, so he's still struggling where I learned how to grieve right. I've slowly cleansed and bandaged the wound the loss of my grandfather left. Chris isn't where I'm at yet, but I want to help him get there.
Tegan: Tell us about the sequel to The Deathsniffer's Assistant and when we might be able to get our hands on it.
Kate: The sequel is called The Timeseer's Gambit! It's hopefully going to be out at the same time the first was in mid-July, and we're hoping to keep an annual schedule for the four book series! Hopefully I can keep up the pace writing.
Where The Deathsniffer's Assistant takes place in spring, the second book is set in the summertime. I had a tough time writing it because Darrington is in the middle of a crazy heat wave during the book and I wrote most of it this past winter, when the snow here in Atlantic Canada was so high we had to dig out way out of our houses. Every time I sat down to write and saw Chris or Olivia complaining about the heat, I wanted to let them have it. You guys are lucky! I have a blanket over my legs at friggin Starbucks, here!
Olivia has been assigned her first true serial killer. She's excited and Chris is appalled, but it's been three months since they started working together and they've established a rapport. Chris has grown some spine and Olivia has softened her razor sharp tongue thanks to being around each other so much. Their back and forth is as bicker-heavy as ever, but they tease each other more now and are starting to really care about one another.
In book two readers are going to learn a lot about categorization, the method by which Tarlish citizens unlock their magic gifts. They'll also find out how Chris supposedly knows the mysterious timeseer, William Cartwright.
As one last tease, things are heating up a bit. Chris has two potential love interests and things take a definite turn away from just-friends with both of them. Of course, Chris is still awkward, easily flustered, and kind of a dope, so nothing goes especially well!
Tegan: Now that your novel has been published and has been in readers' hands for a few months, what have you learned and how have those lessons changed the way you write now?
Kate: The biggest lesson I've learned is that I'm not just some upstart pounding at a keyboard. I'm a writer! People have paid cash money for my book and effused over how much they liked it! I've signed books for grinning fans in other countries! I have tons of five star reviews and people making grabby hands for the next book!
And that all feels great. I've always believed that the most important parts of writing are confidence and momentum. I'm using my newfound confidence in my ability as a writer to build momentum. It only took five months to finish The Timeseer's Gambit, almost unbelievable after the three years I spent on The Deathsniffer's Assistant. The third book, The Heartreader's Secret, will hopefully glide right onto the page, too! And after that… who knows. I'm only in my early thirties and have tons of books left in me. I want to keep sharing my stories with the world.
Kate McIntyre was born and raised in the frigid white north, having spent her entire life in Moncton, New Brunswick. She learned to appreciate the quintessential Canadian things: endless winters, self-deprecating jokes, the untamed wilderness, and excessive politeness. Somehow it was the latter that she chose to write about. Kate loves crochet, video games, board games, reading, and listening to bad pop music very loudly.
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Georgia baseball: We picked an all-time starting lineup of Bulldogs' greats
By Sports Buzz Source on	 April 17, 2019 0 Comments
Let's take a look at Georgia baseball's all-time starting nine in this edition of the NCAA.com series of the best possible starting lineups for some of college baseball's most successful programs.
Here is how we picked the team: We dug deep in the record books, only considering the players' college career and accolades. Their achievements in professional baseball did not come into play. There was also consideration given to their positional fits and how well they fit into a batting order we made based on historical stats that could provide a combination of high batting averages, speed, and power.
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Georgia is a team back on the rise, finding itself in the top 10 for much of the 2019 season. The 1990 College World Series national champions obviously have plenty of history, so let's dig deep into the record books and see who stands out as the best of the bunch.
Billy Henderson, outfield (1947-50)
Henderson is a no-brainer in the leadoff spot, putting up the career stats that show he's the perfect catalyst for this lineup. The "Macon Meteor" is the Bulldogs' all-time leader in stolen bases with 91, his 29 in 1950 leading all of the SEC. He hit two inside-the-park home runs in the 1949 season, and put up a .410 batting average in 1948, finishing his career with a .375 average — fifth-best in Georgia history. He is the epitome of a leadoff man.
Jeff Treadway, second base (1982-83)
Treadway only played two seasons in Athens, but he made them both count. Treadway could flat out hit, leading Georgia with a .392 average in 1983 and his .381 career batting average is still fourth all-time in Bulldogs history. He averaged 69 hits, 44 runs, eight home runs, and 43 RBI in his two seasons.
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Doug Radziewicz, first base (1988-91)
This could easily have gone to Josh Morris, the all-time Bulldog home runs leader or Rich Poythress after his 2009 All-American season, but Radziewicz has a few things in his favor. For one, he was part of the Bulldogs lone national championship. Secondly, where he lacked in power (he still produced 21 home runs), he made up for in contact and run production, tied for the most hits in program history (282) and owner of the most runs scored (207) in Georgia history.
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Gordon Beckham, shortstop (2006-08)
While we'd love to have Jeff Keppinger in this lineup, primarily based on his NCAA tournament heroics (23-for-46 with nine home runs in 10 career games) there's no way Beckham is not the cleanup hitter on this team. Beckham won the 2008 SEC player of the year award after leading the nation with 29 home runs. His 53 round trips are most in program history, as are his 491 total bases, while he's fourth in RBI (182) and second in runs scored (201).
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Roger Miller, catcher (1986-89)
Not only was Miller strong with the stick, but he was also a feared presence behind the plate, throwing out more than 40% of attempted base stealers in his career. Miller had serious pop as well with 45 home runs, seven of which were grand slams. He's the all-time Bulldog leader in RBI (226) and is tied with Radziewicz for the most hits. You'll find his name all over Bulldog history books and he is perfect for the heart of the order.
Buck Belue, outfield (1979-82)
Maybe Belue's place in Georgia history isn't so much on the diamond as it is on the gridiron where he was the quarterback for the 1980 national champion Bulldog football team.
But he was no slouch with the bat. Belue's .356 average is still in the top 10 and his .447 1982 season is still third-best in the Bulldogs record books. He added 30 home runs, 114 runs scored and 27 stolen bases to his resume, earning him a spot in this all-time lineup
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Ryan Peisel, third base (2006-2008)
This was a two horse (or should we say Dawg?) race. David Lanning was certainly deserving, his .382 average still amongst the best in UGA history, but Peisel put up bigger numbers across the board. His 261 hits are seventh all-time, as are his 169 runs. He added 18 home runs and 130 RBI during his tenure, all while playing solid defense at the hot corner setting the school record with 51 putouts in the 2008 season.
Joey Side, outfield (2004-06)
Side was a big factor on two College World Series teams, earning Most Outstanding Player in the 2006 Athens Regional in the NCAA tournament. His 2006 season was one of UGA's all-time best, finishing second with 111 hits and 188 total bases (both were No. 1 before Beckham's monster 2008) and his nine triples are second to none. While normally a leadoff guy, his spot in the bottom would give fictional pitchers fits trying to get around him and Henderson.
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Derek Lilliquist, starting pitcher (1985-87)
With choosing just one pitcher such a difficult task, we like to present options for a rotation before presenting our Friday night ace. Dave Fleming, who won the second most games in program history with a Georgia-best 25 complete games, would be the Saturday starter. Jim Redfearn is as old-school as it gets, playing the 1907 and 1908 seasons with Georgia, but he went 18-0-1 in his career, with 13 shutouts and a 21-strikeout performance against Alabama. We'll keep Mike Rebhan on board as well, it's simply too hard to ignore his 1990 Most Outstanding Player award from the College World Series. It's even tough to choose between closers, but we're taking two-time All-American Cris Carpenter barely over Joshua Fields.
But Friday night belongs to Lilliquist. He was a beast on the mound and at the plate. Lilliquist finished his career with 31 wins and 387 strikeouts, both still best in Georgia history while posting a 3.30 ERA. He also hit .318 with 35 home runs and 135 RBI, with the home runs still a top 10 mark in Bulldogs history.
Steve Webber, head coach (1981-1996)
Not much thinking to do on this one. Webber. He's the program's all-time leader in wins with a nice round 500. The 1987 SEC coach of the year led the Bulldogs to two College World Series including their only national championship in 1990.
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Despite what the name of this post suggests, we're not actually in Durango. If you want to get all exact and stuff, we're in between the small town of Mancos, and the even smaller town of Hesperus, about 17 miles west of Durango. When we stayed here last year we started calling it our "Durango Boondocking" spot, and the name stuck.
We're not in the exact same spot as last year, but we are on the same road. Last year we had a meadow all to ourselves, this year we have a view of our very own.
There's probably a dozen nice boondocking spots on this road, some that are easier to access than others. Last year we stayed for two weeks and saw only a handful of other RVs. This year when we arrived on a Saturday evening we were greeted by dozens and dozens of RVs parked all up and down the road. They were everywhere. Packed in tight next to each other, squished up against trees, and wedged into the tiniest possible spots.
I would estimate that at least 30 RVs had managed to cram themselves into this wooded area. Exactly what we don't want to see while boondocking. Turns out this was a 3D Archery Shoot. Oddly enough, we came across another 3D shoot while searching for a boondocking spot near Red River, NM. I am not at all up on the goings on of archery clubs, but apparently this 3D shoot is an event that takes place on public lands involving large numbers of people and RVs. At the time we were kind of annoyed that they had taken over the entire area. We drove up the road and couldn't find anywhere to park, turned around in a very questionable spot, and were on our way to stay at the nearby national forest campground, when we spotted an open piece of land near the beginning of the road. It wasn't ideal because of its proximity to the dusty dirt road, but it would do for the night.
The next day was Sunday and we spent all day in Telluride. When we returned in the late evening the shooting group was gone and we moved over to our spot. In retrospect, it's hard to be annoyed because they have just as much right to use this public land as we do. They were also very respectful of the area, and despite the large number of RVs and people, we have not seen any trash or debris that they left behind. I guess from now on we just need to be aware of that this group exists and has a tendency to take over large areas of the national forest on the weekends.
After we got over that initial excitement, we had a very quiet week. We've only seen two other RVs on the road, and both are way far from us. (By the way, if you're interested in this area and want to know our exact location, head on over to the Where page to see our GPS coords.) By some strange coincidence we arrived here almost exactly a month later than our stay last year, and the difference in the amount of greenery is astounding. Last year the leaves were just coming out on the trees, and when we drove farther up the road they were completely bare. This year it's full blown summer with green leaves, tall grass, and even some wildflowers. We took the same drive up the road and it wasn't until I looked at the photos from last year that I realized the massive difference.
The road gets really rough only about a mile past our site, which is too bad because we spotted a few nice potential sites up there, including one with a view of Madden Peak. Another comparison photo shows that things green up quickly around here.
Farther up the road we found a really pretty field of wildflowers. I was excited to spot Wild Iris and Yellow Baptisia.
This past weekend we made a trip into town to hit up the farmer's market and do some other errands. It's still a little early for the majority of veggies around here, but the market was hopping with vendors selling all sorts of greens, plant starts, crafts, and about four different stalls selling local beef. I remember the abundance of beef from the farmer's markets in CO last summer. This is definitely cattle country. We ended up with a great big bag of spinach, a jar of local honey, and a loaf of fresh bread.
While we were in town we decided to take a hike on the Colorado Trail. This roughly 500 mile long trial travels from Durango to Denver (or the other way around.) You can hop on the trail near the entrance to the Junction Creek Campground just a few miles from the center of town. The trail was very busy on this gorgeous Saturday morning. Not only lots of hikers, but lots and lots of mountain bikers. Most of the trail is fairly narrow, and even though everyone was very mindful of each other, we felt like we were constantly stepping aside for bikers as they whizzed down the the hill.
About 3 miles into the trail we stopped to take in the view at Gudy's Rest, a nice bench and overlook named after Gudy Gaskill who helped make the Colorado Trial a reality.
We also spent a little time walking around downtown Durango and stumbled across a free museum near the old train depot. The Durango & Silverton train is a big deal around here. This historic train is a huge draw for tourists who come from all over to ride the narrow gage railroad from Durango to Silverton. We already looked into it last year and knew we didn't want to spend at a bare minimum $85/each for the ride. I am sure it's a wonderful experience, but we try very hard to strike the balance between doing all the fun (and costly) things that we come across, and remembering that we are not on vacation. That doesn't mean we skip over everything that costs money, but it does mean that we very carefully weigh the pros and cons of what we do spend money on. For us, the train just didn't make the cut.
We did enjoy the free museum though. We saw some old steam engines, a private train car, tons of tools and implements for railroad maintenance, lots of railroad memorabilia, and a really cool miniature train set-up.
Our day in town ended with a repeat visit to Steamworks Brewing Co. We enjoyed this place immensely last year and were eager for a return visit. This is a busy, family friendly restaurant, and as a result it is nearly impossible to just stroll into and get a seat on a weekend night. Last year we waited nearly an hour, so this year we smartened up and showed up early which resulted in only a 15 minute wait. Once inside and seated we tried two different beers, Lizard Head Red, and the Saison. In the last year my beer palate has really expanded and I've started to try a lot more beers than I ever would have before. Saison is one of my current favorites. It's a summer wheat ale that usually has a touch of citrus flavor, and this one had a bit of ginger that added a nice zing. Yum! Tim declared his pizza just okay, but my burger was so good that I felt bad for him and his so-so pizza. I kept offering to give him half, but he refused and in the end I had no choice but to eat it all. Must be the local beef that they use, because this was one seriously good burger.
We'll be here in our not quite Durango boondocking spot until the end of the week. Not too much planned except for maybe a nearby hike, and hopefully a visit from some fellow Airstreamers. So far our second Colorado summer is off to a good start!
Hee hee. Thanks for sharing your coordinates :-D. Mighty generous of ya.
Looks like a beautiful spot! We've stayed in both Mancos and Durango, but not in-between. (There's a really sweet natural foods store/coffee shop in Mancos called Zuma, if you need supplies.) We always search for local grass fed beef — your hamburger looks so yummy, and you even got asparagus with it!
The burger was amazing! We don't eat beef at home, so when we go out I'm often on the lookout for a tasty burger made with local beef- something that's pretty easy to find here in CO.
Durango! Our favorite place in the world! Enjoy your summer in Colorado.
Durango really is a cool little town. The prefect place to kick off our Colorado summer tour!
I bet the town has grown a bit since them. Definitely time for a return visit!
Great Blog. May I ask which road your camp site was on? 316 ?
I'm trying to determine which road north of Hwy 160 between Hesperus and Cortez will be easiest for my 2wd and 24′ lifted Toy-hauler.
Yup, the road number is 316. You should have no problem getting your rig there. Enjoy!


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Are you having trouble getting everything in focus? Use a depth of field calculator to maximize your DOF! Create the stunning photos of your dreams.
What is the depth of field anyway?
Extremely useful, a depth of field calculator comes in handy! Defined, depth of field (DOF) is the acceptable sharpness in a photograph that extends before and after the focus point of a subject. Much debated, this area of sharpness can be argumentative; however, I feel the best way to decide what is "acceptable" sharpness is to view the photograph either on a computer screen or printed at approximately the same size as an 8×10. Now, when viewed from the perspective of a person looking at the photograph hanging on a wall, if it looks sharp, it's probably good enough for most of us. Please try to keep in mind; anyone can blow up an image to 200 percent or use a microscope to find a flaw, with that said, it's really up to you. However, I think we have to be somewhat reasonable when it comes to defining "acceptable" sharpness.
Why not just put the camera in auto?
Having discussed acceptable sharpness, it's now the burden of the photographer to decide where and how much DOF to apply. For example, you may decide on using a very shallow DOF, creating a beautifully blurred background with only a small area of the image in focus, such as the width of a flower. Additionally, this effect, also known as bokeh, is not only stunningly beautiful but may also block out distracting or unwanted background objects as well. The decision is best made by the photographer, NOT the camera. Some may find auto mode useful, but for better control of the depth of field, I recommend priority modes or full manual.
Do I need a depth of field calculator?
Take a look at the photograph below, and observe the focus point near the ring in the bamboo. Captured with an aperture of f/2.8, you'll notice the shallow depth of field just above and below the ring. In particular, how does one know what settings to use or at what distance the camera should be positioned from the subject? Making use of DOF charts is one method of calculation, although simple, they may require a set of reading glasses or a jewelers loop to read.
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A DOF calculator is a handy tool, especially for hyperfocal distance.
The first bamboo ring was the focus point I had selected in this image. With just a basic understanding of DOF and a little trial and error, the shallow depth of field in this photo can be captured without the use of any calculations; although conversely, more complicated scenarios arise making it harder to judge the DOF. Moreover, If you have a specific goal in mind, such as attempting to maximize your DOF using the hyperfocal distance (not discussed today), your calculations may require better accuracy.
This is a beautiful image of bamboo captured in Oahu Hawaii. I wanted to lure the viewer into the photo using a shallow depth of field.
Most smartphone apps are reliable and simple to use.
Although many apps are available for free or purchase, the SetMyCamera app is fast, accurate, reliable, and does not require cellular service to function in the field, a handy feature, while deep in the countryside. Additionally, dial in the desired settings and distance, and you'll see the near and far focus limits, it's that simple! Additionally, note the hyperfocal distance displayed at the bottom; this is useful information if your goal is to get everything you can in focus. Although not infallible, this app does require some depth perception on behalf of the user. Nevertheless, it's still an impressive tool.
A screenshot of the depth of field calculator for the SetMyCamera app.
This app accounts for many different types of cameras and sensors available in the market, an extensive list of options allows the user to select a specific camera to receive the proper depth of field data.
A screenshot of the camera selection screen for the SetMyCamera app.
In summary, get yourself an app!
Although more than one option is capable of accomplishing the same task, if you're looking for a convenient and reliable choice, try a depth of field calculator. After using a couple of different apps, I would not hesitate to recommend SetMyCamera. With four available options ranging from free to the Pro version for $5.99, it's an easy day.


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Alcohol can cause problems for your baby at any time in pregnancy, even before you know you're pregnant.
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How does drinking alcohol during pregnancy affect your baby's health?
Drinking alcohol at any time during pregnancy can cause serious health problems for your baby. Alcohol includes wine, wine coolers, beer and liquor.
When you drink alcohol during pregnancy, the alcohol in your blood quickly passes through the placenta and the umbilical cord to your baby. The placenta grows in your uterus (womb) and supplies the baby with food and oxygen through the umbilical cord. Drinking any amount of alcohol at any time during pregnancy can harm your baby's developing brain and other organs. No amount of alcohol has been proven safe at any time during pregnancy.
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Can your partner's drinking affect your baby during pregnancy?
FASDs and other alcohol-related health conditions happen when you drink during pregnancy. Research is still being done to find out if alcohol harms a man's sperm before a woman gets pregnant.


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Q: Generate Dynamic Query for Multi Select Query in JasperServer I'm very new for JasperServer.
Now I want to create a complex report that verify the right of Admin User and Normal User.
Example:
I have many branches of company, and I want to create one report that retrieve data only belong to the branch which belong to user.
Scenario:
-Admin User can see data of all branches, so in the Multi-Select Box, should show all Branch Name.
-Normal User can see data of the branch belong to that user, so in the Multi-Select Box, should show only Branch Name that belong to that user.
Please advise me, or send me an example to do it.
Thank so much before hand.
LeeJava

A: You can pass the username as parameter. In the mutiselect query you can use the username to fetch the desired data.

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Q: How to optimize NTLM SSPI authentication - apache web server We have NTLM authentication for our application using SSPIAuth on apache for which we have done following configuration in our apache vhosts file:
<Location />

    SetHandler dispatcher-handler
    AuthName "A Protected Place"
    AuthType SSPI
    SSPIAuth On
    SSPIAuthoritative On
    SSPIDomain IT
    SSPIOmitDomain On
    SSPIOfferBasic Off
    SSPIBasicPreferred Off
    SSPIUsernameCase lower
    SSPIPerRequestAuth Off
    SSPIOfferSSPI On
    SSPIPackage NTLM
    Require valid-user

   </Location>

We also have keepalive settings as follow:
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 150
KeepAliveTimeout 15

My question is:
1) How can I optimize it if there are any options? I am not too aware of how this authentication works.
2) How can I enable logs for SSPI auth to check how much time is AD taking?
We have a windows based server with apache 2.2


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Q: Convert function to async function without redefining how do me change function to async function in java script no redefining function or editing code and attaching async to function state ment
f = () => 0;
console.log(f);  // [Function (anonymous)]
console.log(asyncify(f));  // [AsyncFunction (anonymous)]

console.log(f());  // 0
console.log(asyncify(f)());  // Promise { 0 }
asyncify(f)().then(console.log)  // 0

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A: Looking at the asyncify function, we see that it gets passed a function f and must also return an async function. So it has the form of:
accept function `f` ----> return Async Function

The above definition can be written using arrow functions:
const asyncify = f => (async () => {})

Above, we see (async () => {}) is the Async Function that is being returned, and that async function currently has an empty body {}. We can also remove the parenthesis around it as this is not needed, I've mainly included it for clarity.
Looking at the result you're after, you want to return a Promise from the above Async Function that resolves to the return value of f(). One could achieve this by explicitly returning a Promise that resolves to your value:
const asyncify = f => async () => new Promise(resolve => resolve(f()))

But the above code has a few redundancies. An async function will automatically return a Promise, that resolves to the value that gets returned from it. So it can instead be written as:
const asyncify = f => async () => f();

This will get the result that you're after. However, we're ignoring the fact that f() might need to get arguments passed to it. To solve this, we can pass some arguments into our async function, and forward them down to our f function to use. To specify a variable amount of arguments, we can use rest parameters:
const asyncify = f => async (...args) => f(...args);

With all that, you'll get the following output in Node:
const asyncify = f => async (...args) => f(...args);
const f = () => 0;
console.log(f);  // [Function: f]
console.log(asyncify(f));  // [AsyncFunction (anonymous)]

console.log(f());  // 0
console.log(asyncify(f)());  // Promise { 0 }
asyncify(f)().then(console.log)  // 0

const asyncify = f => async (...args) => f(...args);
const f = () => 0;
console.log(f);  // [Function (anonymous)]
console.log(asyncify(f));  // [AsyncFunction (anonymous)]

console.log(f());  // 0
console.log(asyncify(f)());  // Promise { 0 }
asyncify(f)().then(console.log)  // 0


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Barack Obama is now official sworn in as the (active) 44th President of the United States.
Many have noted this achievement from a perspective of race and equal rights stemming from the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, if not from earlier circumstances of bigotry, segregation, and slavery.
While this is a historic event of note, your humble Editor-In-Chief: News would just like to point out that like I tried to express in my earlier post (MLKJR, OBAMA, and HISTORY) that I judged the candidate by the content of his character and strongly felt he was the best person for the job, hence casting my vote the way I did last November.
But there is no denying that there are tough times ahead not just for this country, but the world as well.
Yet as President Obama himself said in his Inauguration speech earlier today:
"On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of
purpose over conflict and discord.
...What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a
recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves,
our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather
seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the
spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task. "
What lies ahead for all of us still remains shrouded in the mists of the unknown.
But I for one feel that the warmth and light of Hope are both stronger now than they were before.


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Cognac is great as a digestif, goes well with fresh coffee and a good cigar.
Courvoisier Napoleon - the original brandy, cognac house Courvoisier was invented and introduced the category of "Napoleon" in the classification of cognac in 1909. Courvoisier Napoleon - a benchmark for other brandies. In its structure - exclusively alcohols Grande Champagne and Petite Champagne, giving richness and tenderness bouquet. Also, according to legend, Cognac Courvoisier Napoleon took with him, going to the island of St. Helena, so Courvoisier is also known as the "Cognac of Napoleon."
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Huitième Art Fareb is one of those fragrances that I would lump in the same category as Dior Eau Noire and Serge Lutens Arabie. And this category would be "smells like grandma's house". These are foody, spicy scents that remind me of grandma's suppers.
Fareb opens as a spicy cumin laced curry over dried fruits. Yes, it's armpit fruits. And yes, I like this. I pick up on dry but honeyed woods and some ginseng funk – earthy dankness. The heart seems cedary/astringent woods. The base is creamy and reminds me of peaches, maple syrup and vanilla. It's the dessert that follows the meal. With my maple syrup/immortelle issues, this is where the perfume lost me but I'm sure gained a few fans.
*Fareb is a great fragrance but I'm overly sensitive to the immortelle. Even though this is a "comfort fragrance" for me, I can't wear it and won't wear it. My issues with immortelle get in the way.
Give it a try if you like perfumes like Serge Lutens Arabie, Dior Eau Noire, Piroutte Essentials Victory Honey, and/or Frapin Speakeasy. Fareb is unisex.
Fareb has average projection and longevity.
The 1.7 oz bottle retails for $125 at Luckyscent. Samples are also available for purchase.
Victoria's Final EauPINION – Ground cumin, dried fruit and maple syrup. One of my most detested aromas is maple syrup. This one is not for me but if you like stuff like SL Arabie or Dior Eau Noire, give this a try.
*Sample obtained by me. Product pic from Luckyscent. Asta Nielsen pic from www.fanpix.net. Notice that amazing print on her coat! I want that coat.


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Many of our yoga students are overwhelmed by emotional flow. If you listen to the news, people make decisions based on their mental and emotional mindset. These days, a hospital or tax bill could put a person's health at risk. How each person reacts to losing his or her house, job or spouse is different. After finishing your yoga certification course, you begin to realize how much pressure, stress, and angst your students are going through.
Yoga does amazing things for the mind and the body when you practice on a regular basis. The regular stretches will make you feel taller, leaner and more agile. People who suffer from chronic pain in the back, neck or another area find that it greatly diminishes or completely disappears. You'll also find that the daily stresses of life that tend to build up and cause anxiety; headaches or general ill feelings will also diminish.
When it comes to emotions, yoga training can be a helpful tool to help regulate and sustain positive emotions. Regular meditation sessions will teach you to let go of negativity and pain in your life. The more you practice letting go of the negative, the easier it becomes to allow more positive energy into your life on a regular basis. The poses help you learn to concentrate and feel what you are feeling in the moment. They allow you to accept each emotion as it comes, acknowledge it and release it.
If you have trouble regulating your emotional flow it means you probably often feel a smattering of emotions on a daily basis. Perhaps one minute you are happy beyond belief and the next you are feeling hopeless and defeated. When you let your emotions take over, it can be an exhausting kind of existence. Regular yoga and meditation practice will teach you to run on more of an even keel throughout the day, regardless of what life throws at you.
One way to learn to forget about your emotions for a while during yoga training is to focus solely on your body and the position it is in. Feel your muscles as they stretch and strain. Go inside your body and seek a sense of gratitude for the present moment while leaving the past and future alone.
Yogic breathing during each asana will also help you release emotions and focus on mindfulness. Deep breathing will help regulate your pulse and create good circulation throughout the body. This alone will help get rid of negativity, stress and anxiety. Over time, you can add visualization to the breathing. You might visualize all of your emotions leaving the body with each breath and being replaced with peace and calm.
Yoga helps foster a sense of acceptance, including acceptance of others, of your self and of your emotions both good and bad. When you decide to accept your feelings without judgment, you become aware that it is possible to acknowledge them without allowing them to dominate your mood. Once this is achieved, you will be able to fully regulate your emotional flow no matter what life throws at you.
Consider hosting a student or master's workshop that addresses controlling emotional flow. If you hold a specialist Yoga teacher training workshop, this will help us reduce violence around the world. Yoga instructors have a lot of reach in their communities and people need coping tools. From traffic jams to social injustice, people are being pushed from all directions and they need to know how to deal with it.
I really need this practice!! The perfect balance of strength and stretch. Great and challenging, yet slow enough to stay focus to the flow. Love it!!


i hopped on the Simple bandwagon a while back and while i really enjoy the new-fangled online bank, it does have some limitations. the main one is that my debit card cannot be used in certain countries. this wasn't an issue earlier this year since when i went to blacklisted Latvia, i was able to use my Bluebird. however, there are no American Express ATMs (as of this writing) in largely still cash-based Myanmar, so Bluebird is out as an option, and so is American Express's Express Cash program (both further discussed, along with my bank's policies, in an earlier post).
i looked into Green Dot's prepaid debit cards but they do not allow you to use international ATMs. i did, however, discover that Chase Liquid should work (according to their call center), and i would do it, but i don't want to deal with paying the monthly fee, though it might be a good last-ditch backup.
yes, yes, i know i should probably change banks, but let's just say for now it's not an option. suggestions as to a maintenance-fee-free prepaid debit card that works in overseas ATMs, or a Visa or MasterCard program that, like Express Cash, links your credit card to your checking account?
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I was in Myanmar last year. take very crisp $100 bills and go to the market where there are dozens of money-changers. You get a better FX rate on the $100s than on smaller bills, and they will reject any bills that aren't pristine. You will get a stack of bills worth maybe a quarter each, but it's much easier to spend the small ones so you should request those specifically.
cool, thanks! yeah there are apparently quite a number of visa/mc ATMs all over now, even up in bagan, but yeah, looks like i will (and should) be bringing cash with me.
It would not be a bad idea for you to open a second 'travel related' only bank account. Figure out which bank or credit union would allow you to keep a minimum amount of money in it with no monthly fees, i.e. maybe $1000 or less. Then, when you are ready to travel, top up that account with money you may need for expenses whilst traveling. It wouldn't have to necessarily be a checking account. It could be a savings account only….but that way you would have a debit card when you need it for travel….with no sweats.
yes, i was thinking about that as a possible solution as well!
Cash. All cash, all the time.
Crisp, clean, new $100s. Of course, that's also hard to do without a bank branch available to you but it is, by far, the best way to get by in Myanmar. I wouldn't do anything else.
yeah i will see if i can get a friend to exchange my ATM $20s for some new $100s at his branch?
Finding myself in a similar situation in Cambodia. No bluebird. Lost my fidelity card. How did Myanmar go? Are you still in the region?
yikes! hope you're managing ok there! myanmar is coming up on thursday — i'm currently in singapore. i'm crossing fingers for you!


These units, or NUCs for short, are meant to be lightweight computers for the living room or desktop, and they include mounting brackets for hiding behind a television. A motherboard, CPU, heat sink, fan and power brick are included, but users must supply their own storage, RAM, wireless adapter, and operating system.
The new Intel NUC is roughly a half-inch taller than its predecessors, but that extra headroom allows you to stuff a proper HDD inside the enclosure. The maximum hard drive thickness is 9.5 mm, which translates to 1 TB of storage at most.
Intel's previous kit had a SATA port but no room for an internal hard drive, so users were limited to solid state storage through the NUC's mSATA connection. That wasn't ideal for users who wanted to load their NUCs with a full library of music, movies, photos, or games. Even for solid state-only setups, a standard 2.5-inch drive will be a little cheaper than an mSATA SSD, as Ars Technica points out.
Aside from the added storage, the new units are nearly identical to their shorter counterparts. Model D34010WYKH includes an Intel Core i3 4010U processor soldered to the motherboard, while model D54250WYKH has an Intel Core i5 4250U processor. Both have two slots for DDR3L RAM (up to 8 GB), four USB 3.0 slots, mini-HDMI output, half- and full-height mini PCIe ports and Gigabit Ethernet input.
According to LegitReviews, the taller models will be roughly $10 more expensive, bringing the price to around $295 for the Core i3 model and $373 for the Core i5 model. After you outfit the NUC with an operating system, storage and RAM, you'll be in the neighborhood of $600 to $700. You're paying a premium for the compact design, but you can do better on tech specs if you don't mind an uglier, slightly larger rig. Meanwhile, the inability to upgrade the NUC's processor over time is still a concern.
The new Intel NUC kits aren't available just yet, but they should pop up on Amazon, Newegg, and other retailers in the coming weeks.


WHY SHOULD YOU DONATE TO ABO?
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Facilities are the places where arts and culture happen. Healthy facilities, artistic capability, organizations and finances are the four hallmarks of a thriving arts and culture sector.
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If you've been disappointed with the sunset and sunrise photos your digital camera has made, you're not alone. Many people feel their sunsets don't turn out as colorful as they remember from seeing them or even compared to their film images. You're not imagining it! Here's why.
All digital cameras have a color correction feature called White Balance. It's designed to correct the color casts you often see in indoor pictures, such as the orange cast of photos in your living room at night or the green cast in pictures of an office. Unfortunately, your camera can't tell the difference between the orange you don't want in your indoor photos and the orange you do want in your sunset pictures.
If you change the camera's White Balance setting from automatic (usually shown as AWB for "Automatic White Balance") to sunny or daylight (usually shown as an icon of the sun), the camera will record all the color of your sunrise or sunset as you saw it. (You may need to change your camera to Program mode to accomplish this.) No more dull skies for you!


In spite of claims of contemporary Catholic propagandists, the Roman Catholic Church worships Mary. She has been exalted as the sinless Mother of God who was bodily assumed into Heaven and crowned Queen of the Universe by Jesus Christ. According to Roman Catholic doctrine, Mary sits on Jesus' throne and acts as His co-mediatrix. In the Church of the Mother of God of Polish Martyrs in Warsaw, Poland, Mary is depicted as hanging on the cross holding the child Jesus. Outside of the main Mary basilica in Rome (Santa Maria Maggiore) there is a large crucifix with Jesus hanging on one side and a crowned Mary hanging on the other. This statue depicts Rome's dogma that Mary is the co-redemptress with Christ, that she intercedes for men from heaven and aids in their salvation. Note the following quotations from the Vatican II Council of the 1960s: "As St. Irenaeus says, she being obedient, became the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race. Hence not a few of the early Fathers gladly assert with him in their preaching … 'death through Eve, LIFE THROUGH MARY.' This UNION OF THE MOTHER WITH THE SON IN THE WORK OF SALVATION is made manifest from the time of Christ's virginal conception up to his death" (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, chap. 8 II, 56 pp. 380-381). "Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but BY HER MANIFOLD INTERCESSION CONTINUES TO BRING US THE GIFTS OF ETERNAL SALVATION. By her maternal charity, she cares for the brethren of her Son, who still journey on earth surrounded by dangers and difficulties, until they are led into their blessed home. Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of ADVOCATE, HELPER, BENEFACTRESS, and MEDIATRIX" (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, chap. 8, II, 62, pp. 382-383). In his general audience of May 7, 1997, Pope John Paul II said that "MARY IS THE PATH THAT LEADS TO CHRIST" and concluded by urging all Christians to acknowledge Mary's "providential role in the path of salvation" (Vatican Information Service, May 7, 1997). A plaque in the Chapel of the Virgin of the Grace at Saints Vincent and Anastasius Church in Rome says, "Cardinal Benedetto Odescalchi, who became the pope with the name of Innocent XI, initiated THE WORSHIP OF THE IMAGE, placed on the altar in 1677, and wanted his heart to be buried here, not in the main chapel." This is only one example of many that could be given of the term "worship" used in regard to Mary in Rome's churches.


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Q: How to use DOJO with Symfony? What would be the Best Way to use DOJO with Symfony
Do I need some PHP View Helper or can I use Plain DOJO-Style-Javascript in the Views
If there is any View Helper it normally doesnt wraps all of the Widgets so anyways have to use Plain DOJO in between
Whats best - a PHP-View-Helper or Plain DOJO ???

A: You can use the dpDojoPlugin for Symfony 1.1 - 1.4
The instructions on how to use it are in the readme tab.


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The Certificate in Media Production provides a sequence of courses designed to develop multi-channel and multi-media skill sets that can be used by students to record, edit, and produce media for artistic, personal, or commercial applications. Students will develop a portfolio of work that will reflect both independent and client-centered content. Students who complete the Certificate in Media Production will develop the knowledge and skills needed in a rapidly changing media environment.
The Certificate in Media Production is composed of 18 hours of coursework. Students must complete at least 12 hours at UMSL and earn at least a B in any course applied to the certificate.
MEDIA ST 2113 Media Production I 3
MEDIA ST 2210 Video Production I 3
MEDIA ST 3310 Video Production II 3
MEDIA ST 3313 Advanced Video Editing 3
MEDIA ST 3318 Advanced Independent Video Production 3
MEDIA ST 2225 3
or MEDIA ST 3113 Media Production II
Upon completion of the program, certificate earners will be able to:
Demonstrate an understanding of available media technology and its applications.
Develop a substantial foundation in all aspects of media production.
Establish and nurture a working application in evolving production techniques.
Learn to utilize external information design in order to extend experiences in production techniques and standards.
Become prepared to perform as a production specialist in all areas of media.
Develop a skill set in Media Production that will certify competence in all levels of pre-production, production, and post-production.


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Margaret Lauren
Raised in Winston Salem, North Carolina
Margaret Lauren first learned about SNCC while sorting through fan-mail for Drew Pearson during the early sixties. She was working as a secretary and assistant to the famed newspaper columnist in Washington, D.C. "We kept getting press releases from civil rights organizations about people trying to register voters in the Deep South," she remembered, "and about how they were being beaten and killed."
In the summer of 1964, Lauren accompanied Pearson to the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City. "If you think I should write about these people and the demonstration right in front of the convention," Pearson told her, "then you go and interview some people and I will put it in the column." She did just that, speaking with different members of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer was inspirational, and Lauren decided "that I wanted my life and my energy to be spent with her and people like her." Lauren called back home and asked her babysitter to remove all the LBJ and other Democratic Party candidate's bumper stickers from her car. Then she called her ex-husband and arranged for him to take care of their two sons because she was moving to Mississippi.
By December 1964, Lauren was helping SNCC and COFO with the MFDP congressional challenge. She worked with Lawrence Guyot to collect thousands of affidavits from local people who had been harassed, intimidated, beaten, and jailed for trying to register to vote. There was talk that Mississippi state officials might raid the Jackson office before the MFDP could launch their challenge when Congress reconvened in January. At the request of Guyot and Jack Minnis, Lauren drove a U-Haul trailer packed with all the MFDP's records–the affidavits, meeting minutes, address lists–straight to attorney Len Holt's home in D.C.
After the congressional challenge, Lauren worked with Betty Garman in the northern support office at SNCC headquarters in Atlanta. Utilizing her experiences and contacts from working for Pearson, she called press in the North and helped mobilize various Friends of SNCC groups to help garner financial support for the Movement.
Lauren, a white woman born in Kentucky and raised in North Carolina, "kinda had a Southern accent," which gave Minnis and Jim Forman reason to ask her to go undercover in 1965. Her task was to find out what the white power structure had planned in response to the upcoming march from Selma to Montgomery. Pretending to be a freelance writer for Parade Magazine, she scheduled meetings with Selma's mayor, chief of police, sheriff, and the judge before reporting back to SNCC leadership.
As the organization embraced Black Power in 1966, Lauren answered the call to organize among white communities and went to work for the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF). She moved to Pike County, Kentucky, where the coal industry was known for exploiting poor workers and polluting the environment by strip-mining. The white power structure did not welcome her presence, and in August of that same year, her home was raided by 17 armed men. Local officials were particularly enraged by SNCC literature and pictures on her wall of Black and white people together. Lauren and her husband were arrested and jailed for sedition against Pike County, the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the United States of America. After years of legal battles, Lauren used the money won from the federal court case in 1982 to pay for a college education at American University.
Margaret Herring, "A Simple Question," Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, edited by Faith S. Holsaert, et al. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010), 399-402.
Margaret Herring Narrative, November 2004, Civil Rights Movement Veterans Website, Tougaloo College.
Skip Maloney, "Meet Margaret Herring," Coastal Review, June 7, 2012.
Margaret (Lauren) Herring [13:15], Volume 4, "SNCC Builds an Organization," SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference, 2010, California Newsreel
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"Who Does What in Atlanta," undated, crmvet.org
Memo to Northern Offices sent by Margaret Lauren, undated, Michael Miller Civil Rights Collection, USM
Interview with Margaret Herring by Tim Tyson, April 16, 2010, Southern Oral History Program, UNC
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Q: Spring dependency injection doesn't work in ConstraintValidator I'm trying to use my service into custom ContextValidator annotation using @Autowired. I looking for some help in old questions on SOF but I was unfortunately so I've created is one new. My goal is valid bean's property with annotation @MyId above it.
Here is my code:
@Documented
@Constraint(validatedBy = { MyIdValidator.class })
@Target({ METHOD, FIELD, ANNOTATION_TYPE, CONSTRUCTOR, PARAMETER })
@Retention(RUNTIME)
public @interface MyIdSpring {

    String message() default "Invalid ID!";

    Class<?>[] groups() default { };

    Class<? extends Payload>[] payload() default { };
}

Valdiator class:
@Configurable(autowire = Autowire.BY_TYPE, dependencyCheck = true)
public class MyIdValidator implements ConstraintValidator<MyId, TestID> {

    @Autowired
    private ITestService testService;

    @Override
    public void initialize(MyId constraintAnnotation) {
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isValid(TestID value, ConstraintValidatorContext context) {

        System.out.println(testService);

        return false;
    }
}

configuration:
@Configuration
public class ValidatorConfig {

    @Bean
    public LocalValidatorFactoryBean validator() {
        LocalValidatorFactoryBean bean = new LocalValidatorFactoryBean();
        return bean;
    }
}

service:
@Service
public class TestService implements ITestService { .. }

ITestService is always null. Can you please help me to fix it? I am using spring boot 1.5.

A: Use @Qualifier annotation to tell Spring about your implementation class.
@Autowired
@Qualifier("testService")
private ITestService testService;