text:
Q: Why does this regular expression sometimes get stuck and freeze my program? what alternative could i use? import re

input_text_to_check = str(input()) #Input

regex_patron_m1 = r"\s*((?:\w+\s*)+) \s*\¿?(?:would not be what |would not be that |would not be that |would not be the |would not be this |would not be the |would not be some)\s*((?:\w+\s*)+)\s*\??"
m1 = re.search(regex_patron_m1, input_text_to_check, re.IGNORECASE) #Con esto valido la regex haber si entra o no en el bloque de code

#Validation
if m1:
    word, association = m1.groups()
    word = word.strip()
    association = association.strip()

    print(repr(word))
    print(repr(association))

I think that although the regex is somewhat long, for a modern PC it should not be too much work to validate that 10 or 20 options in the (?: | | | | )
That's why I thought that the problem could be in first \s*((?:\w+\s*)+) \s* and/or in the last \s*((?:\w+\s*)+)\s*
The following is an example of an input that causes the regular expression got stuck:
"the blue skate would not be that product that you want buy now"
And this is an example where it doesn't crash:
"the blue skate would not be that product"
And give me the words that I want extract:
'the blue skate'
'product'

Is there an alternative to be able to extract what is in front of and behind those options? and that it does not crash sometimes? what could be the reason of the problem with this regex that I made?

A: Based on this explenation of 'Catastrophic Backtracking' I think the issue with your regex is the following:
The thing you try to match with ((?:\w+\s*)+) can be matched in multiple ways. Let's say you use ((?:\w+\s*)+) on the input string abc.
This can be matched in many ways:

*

*(a and 0 whitespaces)(b and 0 whitespaces)(c and 0 whitespaces)

*(a and 0 whitespaces)(bc and 0 whitespaces)

*(ab and 0 whitespaces)(c and 0 whitespaces)

As long as you only need to match ((?:\w+\s*)+) this works fine. But when you add something else afterwards (like the 10 or so options in your case) regex needs to do some heavy recusion. Have a look at the provided link for a better explanation.
Removing the + after both the \w results in a working regex for the two cases provided:

"\s*((?:\w\s*)+) \s*\¿?(?:would not be what |would not be that |would not be that |would not be the |would not be this |would not be the |would not be some)\s*((?:\w\s*)+)\s*\??"gm

Does this work on your device and for all your test cases?

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
Мартин Джесси Клейн (; 25 июня 1924, Нью-Йорк — 28 марта 2009, Чапел-Хилл) — американский физик-теоретик и историк науки, член Национальной академии наук США (1977). Будучи физиком-исследователем по образованию и профессии, с начала 1960-х годов сконцентрировался на вопросах истории физики и получил известность благодаря работам по истории квантовой механики, термодинамики, статистической физики, а также исследованию жизни и творчества таких крупных учёных прошлого, как Альберт Эйнштейн, Пауль Эренфест, Макс Планк и т.д.

Биография
Мартин Дж. Клейн был единственным ребёнком в семье школьных учителей Адольфа и Мэри Клейн. В 14-летнем возрасте он окончил школу имени Джеймса Монро () в Южном Бронксе и стал студентом Колумбийского университета, где в 1942 году получил степень бакалавра по математике, а в 1944 году — диплом магистра по физике. В конце Второй мировой войны Клейн принимал участие в работе акустической лаборатории (Columbia Underwater Sound Reference Laboratory) и в течение года трудился в группе по исследованию операций, находившейся в ведении Военно-морских сил США. Он продолжил учёбу в Массачусетском технологическом институте, где в 1948 году под руководством Ласло Тиссы защитил докторскую диссертацию на тему «Статистическая механика явлений в критической точке» ().

В 1949 году Клейн устроился на физический факультет Университета Кейс Вестерн резерв, где прошёл путь от инструктора до профессора (с 1960 года), а в 1966—1967 годах руководил факультетом. В течение 1950-х годов его интересы постепенно смещались в сторону истории физики, чему способствовало в том числе знакомство в 1956 году с Татьяной Афанасьевой-Эренфест, вдовой крупного физика первой трети XX века Пауля Эренфеста. На работы последнего ему впервые указал Эрвин Шрёдингер во время пребывания молодого учёного в 1952—1953 годах в Дублинском институте перспективных исследований в качестве стипендиата Национального исследовательского совета. Клейн продолжил общение с Афанасьевой в 1958—1959 годах, которые благодаря стипендии Гуггенхайма провёл в Лейденском университете; вторую такую стипендию в 1967—1968 годах он использовал для работы над биографией Эренфеста. В 1967 году Клейн получил должность профессора истории физики в Йельском университете (Eugene  Higgins  Professor  of  History  of Physics) и активно участвовал в развитии недавно организованного факультета истории науки и медицины, а после роспуска последнего по финансовым причинам в 1977 году перешёл на физический факультет. В 1974 году он получил почётное назначение в качестве ван-дер-ваальсовского приглашённого профессора (Van der Waals Visiting Professor) в Амстердамском университете.

Клейн был членом Института перспективных исследований, приглашённым профессором в Рокфеллеровском и Гарвардском университетах и приглашённым профессором истории физики (Pieter Zeeman Visiting Chair of History of Physics) в 1993 году вновь в Амстердаме. Он работал заместителем главного редактора журнала American Journal of Physics и состоял в редакционных коллегиях таких изданий, как Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences и Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and the Physical Sciences. В 2000 году учёный получил в Йеле статус почётного профессора. В 2005 году он стал первым лауреатом престижной Премии Абрахама Пайса в области истории физики со следующей формулировкой:

за его новаторские исследования по истории физики XIX и XX веков, которые воплощают самые высокие стандарты научного и литературного выражения и глубоко повлияли на поколения историков физики.

Клейн был трижды женат. С Мириам Левин (Miriam Levin) у них было три дочери, с Линдой Буз (Linda Booz) — ещё одна. После двух разводов он женился на историке науки Джоан Блюэтт (Joan Blewett), которая скончалась в 2006 году.

Научная деятельность
Первая научная работа Клейна, написанная по результатам исследований военного времени, была посвящена дифракции звука на круглом диске и представляла интерес для разработки гидролокаторов. В конце 1940-х — начале 1960-х годов им было опубликовано более 20 статей по термодинамике, ферромагнетизму и квантовой механике. Особенно его интересовало понятие энтропии и процессы флуктуаций, что вывело его на результаты Пауля Эренфеста, в частности на его . В 1959 году под редакцией Клейна и при поддержке вдовы Эренфеста вышло собрание статей последнего. С этого момента исследования американского учёного практически полностью были посвящены истории физики. В 1970 году он опубликовал первый том биографии Эренфеста, который охватывал период примерно до 1920 года и который, по мнению Хендрика Казимира, является «экстраординарным и почти уникальным примером биографии учёного». Второй том, однако, так никогда и не появился, вероятно, по личным мотивам: Клейн так и не смог смириться с трагическим концом жизни Эренфеста.

Ряд работ Клейна посвящён истории квантовой механики, в которой он стал одним из пионеров. Так, уже в своей первой статье на эту тему, «Макс Планк и начало квантовой теории» (, 1962), Клейн показал, что закон Рэлея — Джинса и ультрафиолетовая катастрофа не оказали никакого влияния на вывод Планком своего закона излучения абсолютно чёрного тела (хотя это и утверждалось во многих учебниках физики); указал на различия в статистических методах Планка и Больцмана; исследовал причины, по которым результаты Планка были не сразу приняты научным сообществом. В 1960-е годы Клейн опубликовал ещё несколько значительных работ по ранней истории квантовой механики, в которых в частности анализировал вклад Альберта Эйнштейна в развитие этого направления физики. Всего работам Эйнштейна по квантовой теории, которые к началу 1960-х годов оставались в тени его трудов по теории относительности, посвящено 20 статей Клейна. С начала 1970-х годов он участвовал в подготовке проекта публикации полного собрания трудов Эйнштейна (The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein) и впоследствии редактировал четыре тома этого продолжающегося издания. Он также перевёл на английский язык переписку выдающихся учёных по вопросам волновой механики, которая вышла в свет в 1967 году с написанным им введением.

Другое направление исследований Клейна — история термодинамики и статистической физики. Так, в известной статье «Механическое объяснение в конце XIX века» (, 1972) он разобрал попытку Германа Гельмгольца дать второму началу термодинамики чисто механическую (а не статистическую) трактовку. Другие важные публикации 1970-х годов были посвящены истории цикла Карно и работам Дж. Уилларда Гиббса, которые до этого не привлекали пристального внимания историков науки, а также трудам других классиков науки — Людвига Больцмана, Рудольфа Клаузиуса, Джеймса Клерка Максвелла.

Клейн относился к тем историкам, которые получили специальную подготовку и были профессиональными физиками, что позволяло им в полной мере пользоваться своими техническими знаниями при анализе трудов классиков науки. По словам нобелевского лауреата Леона Ледермана, дружившего с Клейном со школьных времён, тот был редким примером человека «с глубоким знанием физики и умением поставить её в исторический контекст». Биографы Клейна Джед Бухвальд и Диана Кормос-Бухвальд так охарактеризовали его влияние на развитие истории физики:

Прежде история, хотя зачастую интересная и полезная, была по большей части ретроспективным рассказом, призванным проиллюстрировать, как положение, ныне считающееся правильным, возникло из ошибок прошлого. Такие историки, как Клейн, приняли совершенно иной подход. Вместо того, чтобы очищать прошлое от ошибок, они приняли его на его собственных условиях, пытаясь просто выяснить, как учёные думали и работали с методиками, инструментами и наблюдениями, которые были доступны в то время. Принятие науки прошлого на её собственных условиях привело к замечательно проницательным историям, которые позволяют читателю понять, насколько сложно было исследователям прокладывать путь к новым способам мышления.

Награды и членства
 Член Международной академии истории науки (1971)
 Член Национальной академии наук США (1977)
 Член Американской академии искусств и наук (1979)
 Премия Абрахама Пайса в области истории физики (2005)
 Член Американской ассоциации содействия развитию науки

Публикации
 Книги

 Избранные статьи

 Работы в русском переводе

Примечания

Литература

Историки США
Физики-теоретики США
Историки физики
Члены Национальной академии наук США
Члены Американской академии искусств и наук
Преподаватели Йельского университета
Преподаватели Университета Кейс Вестерн Резерв
Стипендиаты Гуггенхайма
Выпускники Средней школы Джеймса Монро (Нью-Йорк)
Выпускники Колумбийского университета
Выпускники Массачусетского технологического института
Выпускники физического факультета Массачусетского технологического института

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Easy Downloader is like an all-in-one Download Manager app with fast download capabilities and file management features. It includes audio player with playlists, video player: avi, flv, mp4, mkv..., decompress ZIP and RAR and 7zip, ad blocker and much more... if you want to Download and play audio, video, view PDF files, extract ZIP or RAR, Easy downloader is your App. Download like you were on your computer.
√ Navigation bar and toolbar are hidden while browsing (like safari).
√ The bookmark, History and cookies management.
√ Supports Web Search Engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing..) or add custom search engines.
√ Hide the tab bar to have a bigger browser.
√ Modify the type of browser detected by websites: Safari Mobile, Safari or Firefox.
√ Always try to get the correct filename.
√ Supports Multitasking: download continue at background.
√ Shows active downloads badge number indicator in the browser screen and on the home screen.
√ Audio player that includes playlists and equalizer features for your music needs.
√ Image editor with zoom and tools to crop, resize, and different rotations.
√ Includes an image viewer.
√ Pdf viewer with paging and zoom.
√ Save images to camera roll.
√ Access Dropbox, Mega, Box, GoogleDrive, OneDrive, WebDAV and Upload and Download files, Create folders, Rename files, view Photos.
√ Save and get pictures or videos to Photo Library with its original quality.
√ App can Save & Open file with other apps.
√ A pin code, pattern or Touch ID can be set to restrict the access to the application.
We are constantly working hard on making Easy Downloader better and more useful for your download and file management needs. Please feel free to email us for any queries/suggestions/problems or if you just want to say hi. We would love to hear from you. If you have enjoyed any feature of Easy Downloader, do rate us on app store. Start referring your friends to enjoy this amazing file manager and download manager with a lot of features.
This app was very handy before, and worked without a hitch. I upgraded to the Pro version after using the Lite version for a while...and now it's useless.
The other browsers available through eDL to download video aren't working for mobile devices either. I don't recommend this app at all in the current version. I will revise this review if and when eDL is restored to working order.
Perfect for what I need it for: music. The only problem I have is that the transfers button is now away from the browsers button. I don't know if that was a suggestion but, it doesn't make sense to me. When you download something on the browser it will appear in the transfers tab which is now away from browsers tab. I may be picky, but I like consistency. Great app though! Highly recommend!
The good: BT & Open In import/export, its own file system, EQ, CLEAR variable speed playback (many other apps falter at this whereby slow speed playback sounds broken up, but this app is smooth!). The bad: The menu system is kind of a mess, probably because there are so many features. If you use this app often you'll get used to it, but it could be improved. Overall I recommend this app!


It's been a while since I've seen a good rom-com — for the uninitiated, that's shorthand for romantic comedy. Some of my favorites are Bridget Jones, Notting Hill, The Proposal, and the grandmommy of them all, Roman Holiday. And in retrospect, that oldie is what Crazy Rich Asians reminds me of most, because at the core of it, this is a story of a commoner falling in love with royalty. Nick Young may not be the prince of Singapore, but he's the closest thing, and this is an extremely well-made fish-out-of-water story of Rachel Wu's plight. Much of the humor is supplied by her best friend Peik Lin, portrayed by the half Chinese, half Korean, entirely American and hilarious Awkwafina (with some choice assists from Ken Jeong playing her dad).
I don't want to spoil a single thing, so I would just urge you to go see this in the theater. It's funny, heart-lifting, heart-rending, heart-everything. I can't believe there was a time when Michelle Yeoh was considered only an action star. She's so, so good here, her acting largely reserved, her reactions mostly minute — and yet she's a gigantic presence. The poster may be featuring the leads, but it's Yeoh who's the center of this film, and deservedly so. Brava!


text:
Millers Groundsman nominated for award
Millers Groundsman Dave Fellowes gets the AESSEAL New York Stadium pitch shortlisted...
Rotherham United's Dave Fellowes has been nominated for the Sky Bet Championship Groundsman of the Year award.
The pitch at AESSEAL New York Stadium has been shortlisted as one of the top three in the division and Fellowes, who is the man behind the greenery at the Millers' home, was pleasantly surprised to receive the nomination:
"I never thought we'd get nominated this season, even though we have in the last two seasons," he admitted.
"It's very nice to get credit from all areas and we just do our best so when we get the praise it really makes your job worthwhile.
"To be recognised in the Championship where most of the clubs are ex-Premier League with a lot bigger resources is fantastic and we're really happy with it.
"If you look at some of the pitches that are out there then I thought they would have been up there and we would have been lucky to come 8th or 9th. You get great satisfaction looking at the calibre of the clubs we've been up against."
The shortlist is based on a combination of match reports from referees and marks awarded by away managers upon visiting the stadium which are averaged out over the season to produce the final results:
"I think it's really creditable to be nominated in the top three because you're getting recognition from the people who come and play on it. They must be good judges of a pitch because they play in different places week in week out."
The Millers are now in a three way competition involving two of their Sky Bet Championship rivals, but are unaware which duo are providing the opposition:
"We don't know who the other clubs that have been nominated are so we'll just be putting in all our efforts over the next three weeks to make sure we get the pitch the best we can for the inspection."

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Abstract Los Angeles is finding free time to walk the streets, look around, and see small pieces in a larger puzzle. Today's installment is about lines. Order in a concrete jungle.
Abstract LA is walking and looking, around, behind, through, at things that all people notice, and that everyone ignores.
Abstract Los Angeles is an on-going photography project of wandering about this metropolis, pointing my lens at random things I see, and clicking the shutter. Today's installment is about graffiti, be it found in the hills above Pasadena, or on the railings near the 101 freeway.
Abstract LA is the continuing project to get lost in Los Angeles, and take photographs of what is found. Today is about the face, delivered in many ways.
Abstract Los Angeles is the continuing wander through the streets of Los Angeles, pointing my lens at interesting things. Today's installment is about lines. Not read by actors, but straight edges leading somewhere and nowhere.
Wandering about this sprawling metropolis, with an eye always looking through the lens. Today's installment is all about when industry-society-us, interacts with nature.


text:
Thu, Mar 31, 2011
6.00 10.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 16.00
AM- 3 warmup, 10 tinman tempo (avg 6:06 pace for the tempo), 3 cooldown. First 16 mile BW in a while. Felt ok, not great, but much less sluggish than the rest of this week. Total of 16 miles in just over 1:46.
Pace 3 Miles: 16.00
From Rob Murphy on Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 21:30:11 from 24.10.248.6
Nice run, good pace. Been doing all my runs by myself lately and yet there are all these people scattered all over the country I'd love to train with.
From James on Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 21:38:16 from 174.23.133.246
Miss you guys! How are you?
From Jon on Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 12:31:12 from 74.177.82.238
Hey, James, we're good. Enjoying beautiful weather in a new part of the country.


Trendy and fun, the Turner bookcase is the perfect fit for any room in your home. The five shelves provide plenty of storge for books, photos, and decorative items. On the sides there is modern take on a quatrefoil design and the back is open. Beautiful espresso finish.


Yesterday (Nov. 20, 2008), a very large meteor burned up over Edmonton, Alberta. The fireball was seen from northern Saskatchewan to southern Alberta. The streaking meteor was reported to shake the ground in some locations, and is suspected to have made an impact 200 kilometers South of Calgary. So far, no injuries or loss of property has been reported.
More information is available from the CTV News Article.


Living Room: TV, DVD player, tile floor, pullout sleeper sofa.
Kitchen: dishwasher, garbage disposal, oven, microwave, full size refrigerator with built-in ice maker, tile floor.
Master Bedroom: queen size bed,flatscreen TV, alarm clock radio, carpet floor.
Guest Bedroom: queen size bed, flatscreen TV carpet floor.
Master Bath: tile floor, handrail in bathtub.
Shared Bath: 3-setting massage shower head, handrail in tub, tile floor.


Electrotherapy is the use of electrical energy as medical treatment. Electrotherapy involves supplying physical energy to the biological system. This energy causes one or more physiological changes that are therapeutically useful.


Dual-purpose tape seals cartons and boxes while labeling them at the same time! Big, bold letters and bright colors make important messages highly visible.
Seals boxes tightly in one pass.
2.2 mils thick to help resist tears.
Features a vivid green background with bold, uppercase black letters.


Mouser Electronics, Inc., the authorized global distributor with the newest semiconductors and electronic components, will again be a sponsor of Rebellion Racing as the team kicks off the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship Series April 16 in the United Kingdom at the 6 hours of Silverstone.
Expectations are very high after the team's spectacular winning season last year. The Rebellion No. 13 R-One car ran away with the crown in the LMP1 Privateer Class, racking up a massive 193 points, 84 more than the second-place challenger. Rebellion's No. 12 car finished third in the Privateer class with 104 points. The team took the lead early in the season and never looked back, dominating the competition with 11 consecutive wins across two seasons to secure the 2016 LMP1 Privateer trophy. The Mouser-backed team scored a 1-2 finish in 2015 for Private LMP1 Teams.
Mouser will again partner with valued supplier LEMO, a global leader in the design and production of precision custom connection solutions, to sponsor Rebellion Racing for the 2017 season. Mouser distributes LEMO's high quality full line of LEMO connector solutions including their original push-pull connectors.
Racing is all about speed and endurance, and for Mouser the racing sponsorships are an innovative way to communicate its performance-driven business model and promote the newest technologies from its manufacturer partners. After the season kickoff at the 6 Hours of Silverstone, the series heads to Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium, on May 6. From there, the series travels to the famed track at Le Mans, France, June 17 and 18; Nürburgring, Germany, on July 16; Mexico City on September 3; Fuji, Japan, on October 15; and Shanghai, China, on November 5. The 2017 season ends in Sakhir, Bahrain, on November 18.


toilet seats toddler portable toilet seat for toddlers children kids toilet seat cute cartoon kids toilet seat ring.
corner tv stand with hutch.
white double vanity 60 inch collection inch white double vanity.
laminate flooring and water floor innovative are laminate floors water resistant regarding with decor.
home depot stainless steel appliance package french door refrigerator in stainless steel dual ice maker.
cheap ladder racks for trucks truck rack 2.
onetime deck stain wood stain example 4.
finished wall bronze walls fabulously finished.
new brother sewing machine brother industrial sewing machine a 3 latest model genuine.
rustoleum furniture transformations reviews bathroom amazing cabinet transformations retro renovation at bathroom from cabinet transformations bathroom.


text:
Tag: Business card reader
Laptop Scanners Help Companies Go Digital More Easily
Laptop scanners benefit people in multiple ways, not the least important of which includes saving companies cash in printing out documents: the typical company that has 1,000 employees or more will waste between $6 million and $12 million each year searching for information that does not exist, failing to discover existing information, or making new information that was not able to be found. This is all according to International Data Corp., which researches how much information is used electronically and in paper form and how the difference could mean significant cost savings for commercial entities. Also according to IDC, 95 percent of information that is business related is on paper, with the typical worker printing out 45 sheets of paper each day. How laptop scanners could bring this number and cost down significantly is gaining an interest among companies tired of wasting their money on these efforts and on this paper.
An Errand Running Service Do People Use It?
Archives Select Month January 2023 December 2022 November 2022 October 2022 September 2022 August 2022 July 2022 June 2022 May 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 September 2021 August 2021 July 2021 June 2021 May 2021 April 2021 March 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 January 2020 November 2019 July 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2015 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 January 2012 March 2010


Time has run out. The 2014 Farm Bill officially expired on September 30, leaving farmers and ranchers high and dry, while critical programs are effectively eliminated or their implementation is severely inhibited.
Nearly a dozen "tiny but mighty" farm bill programs that provide $140 million supporting sustainable and organic agriculture, rural economic development, and beginning and underserved farmer support have effectively disappeared. And that's not all – just over a billion dollars in funding, largely for conservation and farmland preservation, is frozen too, preventing farmers from accessing help in stewarding their land.
We can't let this continue. Farmers and ranchers need a farm bill extension today – one that includes critical programs they rely on to keep their farms running.
Take Action with Farm Aid and tell Congress to pass a Farm Bill extension today!
Please ensure expiring farm bill programs that support local and regional food systems, healthy food access, beginning farmers, farmers of color, military veterans in agriculture, organic agriculture, rural economic development, conservation, and specialty crops aren't left behind!
This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018 at 7:16 pm and is filed under Farm Aid.	You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.


Just yesterday, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar declared that he had returned to his former party PDP. This came just days after the announcement of his exit from APC.
There have been insinuations since then that this move is all in a bid to further his presidential aspirations for the 2019 elections. Comedian I Go Dye is however of the opinion that the veteran politician should step down and let younger ones run the show.
Don't use sentimental empathy on the youths to express your political ambitions.
So Atiku should step aside. What about Buhari? Abeg, they both (and all old people) should give way.
This is the problem. Someone is addressing atiku, you're bringing up buhari. That he addressed atiku doesn't mean he supports buhari.
I've come to realize that the narrative pushed by some that Nigerian youths will do worse things in power is a lie. Every Nigerian youth is not a yahoo boy or looter in the making. In fact, it is our parents that have failed us and failed woefully. Shame on them. There are several genuine, intelligent, young leaders in Nigeria and abroad that can make a real difference in this country. I encourage everyone to get their voters card. Get involved with politics in the grassroots, that is your local governments etc. Let's actually walk the talk. We can do it . Everyone is tired of these agbayas. I applaud him for speaking up. He made excellent points.
@Diamond ..100% agree with you…Nigerians should be careful ..This looks like a classic divide and conquer strategy…that Is why I love this comment some on made on a some blog..And it goes like this.. "You can't pick rice when you only have béans and moi-moi on the menu… Isay yes to Atiku and get lost to Buhari. Atleast in light of the present comatose polítical system in the country where we really can't pick a credible person to power let's start by letting any leader know that two term is no longer guaranteed… Na small small, from clap we go enter dance"….And I agree with him….isn't it funny how many are quickly writing open letters to atiku on what to do and not to do but none to Buhari..we should start using our core brain in this country.
The youths are not ready, take it or leave it. To rule takes maturity, experience and attitude. Sad to say that our leaders have all of these but the right attitude. We have a long way to go but the youths are not the solution, well for now.
We agree leadership takes some experience. As for maturity, the stipulated age is clearly defined so I don't think that is an issue. How many youths are being mentored or absorbed in the system? Lets bring it down a notch, how many youths are opportune to vie for positions at the local level? talk more of State or Federal position? have you any idea how much it cost to purchase expression of interest forms from their affiliated party? why wont there be a waiver or make the interest form accessible to youths?It is sickening that the same ideas are being recycled. There's max exodus of credible youths who could match these so called experienced oldies( idea for idea). But this is Nigeria. The deepest pocked takes the cake at the end of the day.
maturtity is not when you spend donkey years in government but still have absolutely no freaking legacy, no credibility , no bleeding integrity, you say our leaders have maturity and experience , pray tell what exactly have we gained from all those years of experience and maturity that the f***ers have?
i think we have had enough experience and maturity from all our almost dead, good for nothing, corrupt, fruit fly brained, illiterate, pot bellied cardiac arrest waiting to get them good for nothing leaders.
Beauty how are our leaders mature? Or are you equating maturity with age? Is Dino Melaye mature? Do Senators laughing when a petition is being presented to them about a case of police recklessness show maturity? Does owing people months and months of salaries show a good attitude or maturity? Don't be deceived, these people currently in power are not ruling Nigeria better than we can. We can do so much better.
Lets not forget PDP and APC are not the only parties!!!
I maintain that if someone like Buhari (very clueless somebody) can become the president of this great country in this 21st century, then Atiku is over qualified!!!!
stop asking and actually lead. Start small or start big. just start and stop asking for permission. Share the struggles and the hard work, the good, bad and ugly.
How about neither of them?
Time to look at other political parties!
But first, we must address TRIBALISM !
Nigeria has men and women truly qualified to run for these posts.
Some of them are held back by the enormous money needed to run for political offices. Perhaps, we should start by finding ways of reducing the costs ,so as to encourage a lot more people to run!
Hope TRIBALISM will not stand in our way of choosing good leaders ( at all levels), this time!


text:
// Origin: New York City and Long Island, NY
// Genres: Pop
The Frankel Sisters is an original band, combining unique three-part arrangements of catchy original pop music that makes crowds sing along. Vocalist Jaymee Frankel, vocalist Lianne Frankel (sisters), and vocalist/acoustic guitarist Josh Frankel (dad) have played stages such as The Bitter End in NYC, Revolution in Amityville, and Webster Hall in NYC. Other credits include performances on HBO's Talent Showcase, East Hampton's Artists and Writers Charity and Sayville Summerfest. Jaymee and Lianne were also featured on FOX's The X-Factor, were NYC finalists on NBC's The Voice, and were featured on the cover of Billboard Magazine while working with industry professional Jerry Kasenetz to create viral pop music videos, shot around the world. This band continues to write inspiring lyrics, captivating harmonies, and relatable music all while sticking to their Frankel family roots.
songwriters * SINGERS * SISTERS


The main reason for China to do this was known before as part of the plan called "Survival Space" (Kho^ng gian sinh to^`n) because resources of the two areas, Manchuria and Tian Shan (Tan Cuong), would be depleted soon. To do this, China started with the easiest part - what Viet communists did promise before. It means China based on a secret deal in the past. In Reuter's news of 30/12/93, Viet commies denied this secret deal but didn't give any explanation why not. Le Duc Anh visited China and got delay of the conflict for 50 years. Did China stand Anh's ungratitudeand past promise ?
Vietnamese communists sell the Paracel and Spratly islands, but now want to say no.
- In June 1956, two years after Ho Chi Minh's government was re-established in Hanoi, North Vietnamese Vice Foreign Minister Ung Van Khien said to Li Zhimin, Charge d'Affaires of the Chinese Embassy in North Vietnam, that "according to Vietnamese data, the Xisha (Ta^y Sa= Hoa`ng Sa = Paracels) and Nansha (Nam Sa = Tru+o+`ng Sa = Spratleys) islands are historically part of Chinese territory."
- On September 4, 1958, the Chinese Government proclaimed the breadth of its territorial sea to be twelve nautical miles which applied to to all territories of the PRC, "including ... the Dongsha Islands, the Xisha Islands, the Zhongsha Islands, the Nansha Islands..." Ten days later, Pham Van Dong stated in his note to Zhou Enlai that "the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam recognizes and supports the declaration of the Government of the People's Republic of China on China's territorial sea made on September 4, 1958."
Manila, used this opportunity as a safe buoy and signed right away a paper requiring these countries to hepl Vietnam to solve this problem "fairly".
Premier Pham Van Dong supported a Chinese statement about sovereignty over the Spratly and Paracel islands, but since late 1975, Vietnam has been in control of part of the Spratly group - the Paracels being under Chinese control. In 1977, Dong reportedly said of his 1956 stance :"That was the war period and I had to say that".
Because of eagerness to create disastrous war for both areas North and South, and to contribute to international communism, Mr Ho Chi Minh did promise, without dignity, a "future" land for Chinese to grab, not knowing for sure that whether or not the South Vietnam would be swallowed.
As Dong said, "That was the war period and I had to say that". Who created the Vietnam War and ready to do all it could to get South Vietnam even to sell land ? Selling land during the war time and when it was over Pham Van Dong Dong denied it by just laying falsely the blame on the war.
4) In "The Sino-Vietnamese Territorial Dispute" by Pao-min Chang in The Washington Papers/118, foreword by Douglas Pike, published with The Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. Apart from the geographical distance, both island groups lay off the South Vietnamese coast still under jurisdiction of the hostile Saigon regime.
Also in Far East Economic Review March 16, 1979, p. 11).
The existence of such a statement anf its contents were acknowledged in VN in BBC/FE, no. 6189, 9/8/1979, p. 1).) Why ?
"Our leaders' previous declaration on the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes was made in the following context: At that time, under the 1954 Geneva agreement on Indochina, the territories from the 17th parallel southward including the two archipelagoes were under the control of the South Vietnam administration. Moreover, Vietnam then had to concentrate all its force on the highest goal of resisting the US aggressive war to defend national independence. It had to gain support of friends all over the world. Meanwhile, Sino-Vietnamese relations were very close and the two countries trusted each other. China was according to Vietnam a very great support and valuable assistance. In that context and stemming from the above-said urgent requirement, our leaders' declaration [supporting China's claims to sovereignty over the Paracel and Spratly islands] was necessary because it directly served the fight for the defence of national independence and the freedom of the motherland.
More specifically, it aimed at meeting the then immediate need to prevent the US imperialists from using these islands to attack us. It has nothing to do with the historical and legal foundations of Vietnam's sovereignty over the,Truong Sa and Hoang Sa archipelagoes (remarks to a press conference in Hanoi on 2 December 1992 carried by Vietnam News Agency, 3 December 1992)."
These statements show that all what Chinese have alledged above are true. What happen today related to these 2 islands are merely consequences of the wicked settlement of these 2 communist brothers in the past. No one in the world community want to step in to settle the dispute between Communist Vietnam and PRC. The reason is very clear : diplomatic note and recognition by Vietnamese Communists can't be erased by a small country like VN who has wanted to play a trick cheating China. Moreover, Vietnamese Communists can't stay away from China while they have to follow Chinese "doi moi" to go forward to socialism.
was within 200 kilometres of one of the main Philippine islands, Palawan. The Philippine government retaliated by ordering its air force to destroy the Chinese-built structures. In addition, sixty-two Chinese were arrested by the Philippine navy for fishing within Filipino waters.
These events are the latest in a chain of events stretching back to 1974 when Chinese forces occupied the Paracel Islands to the north of the Spratly Islands.
The Spratly Islands, until recent times, have not supported a permanent population. Currently they are occupied by five nations - Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and China (see the Spratly Islands map). Territory is also claimed by Brunei. The occupying countries back their claims with military facilities such as airstrips and armed forces on several islands.
One answer can be found on a map of the South China Sea (see pages 78-79 or 80-81 in the Heinemann Atlas). These maps show the Spratly Islands located at some distance from the larger land masses of South-East Asia. Generally, a nation's territory commonly extends twelve nautical miles from its land borders but up to 200 nautical miles (371 km) as an exclusive economic zone. Within this zone a nation can exercise its right to fish and mine while prohibiting other nations. A nation claiming islands, no matter how insignificant they appear on maps and navigation charts, can effectively extend its resources. It can also influence events in that region - a point not lost on the nations of South-East Asia when military strength is considered to be a valuable asset.
decade unless it finds substantial new resources.
Just how much oil and gas, if any, is in the Spratly Islands region has yet to be determined. Since 1974, Chinese maps include an exclusive economic zone of 371 kilometres around the Spratly Islands. This, in turn, cuts into part of Indonesia's rich gas field based around Natuna Island (see the location map of the Spratly Islands). A joint US$35 billion contract between Indonesia and the US oil company, Exxon, will develop the gas field.
Perhaps the Natuna gas field development holds the solution to the Spratly Islands dispute. It has been suggested by a number of involved parties that 'joint development' of the Spratly Islands is the way to proceed. A council of involved nations could administer navigation, weather reporting, fishing, and oil and gas exploration and production. Any financial benefits could be split according to an agreed formula. However, agreeing on any formula may be seen by some groups as 'giving way' on territorial claims and national sovereignty. Indonesia's annual South China Sea Workshops with the claimant nations may provide the basis for future joint development arrangements.
a. closest to the Spratly Islands?
b. furthest from the Spratly Islands?
2.Give at least three reasons why countries are interested in claiming the Spratly Islands.
3.Apart from the governments of countries in the region, name two other organisations that are interested in the Spratly Islands. For each organisation, give a reason why they are interested.
4.Which two countries were involved in armed conflict in the Spratly Islands in 1988? What were the results of this conflict?
5.From the table of military strength, decide which country appears to be strongest on land, sea and air. Suggest why smaller countries such as Malaysia and Brunei would like to avoid armed conflict in this region.
6.a. What is one possible advantage that joint development could bring to the nations involved in the Spratly Islands dispute?
b. What is one possible disadvantage that joint development could bring to the nations involved in the Spratly Islands dispute?
c. Do you think the arguments for or against joint development are stronger? Be sure to say why.
Information about China, Vietnam, Indonesia, The Philippines, and Taiwan from the Reed Interactive World Guide.
This timeline traces disputes in the Spratly Islands from 1939 to 1995.
Extract from The World Factbook 1994 which includes geographic, economic and political information.
This center maintains a comprehensive list of resources on Asia which are updated regularly.


Downtown Riverhead was filled with school spirit Saturday afternoon as the homecoming parade marched up Main Street before the Blue Waves varsity football game against Deer Park.
There was a Disney theme to the parade, as each of the classes built a float inspired by a Pixar film.
Joining the kings and queens in the parade, was the NJROTC, the school band, school board leaders, the Town Board, local fire departments and more.


Our mission is to meet the complete satisfaction of our direct customers (= importers) by supplying our quality motor vehicles at reasonable prices.
Our final achievement shall be to make the customers, who actually drive our vehicles in their countries, enjoy delightful car life.
At the same time, as one of members in Matsushima Holdings Group, we must execute our corporate social responsibility, especially in Malaysia, where has been given us the business opportunity for many years, especially to the children who will build up bright future in the world.
This project has been started by TRADE DEPT of Matsushima Holdings Co., Ltd. since year of 2009.
→WAKU WAKU means the feeling which the person expects the good thing will happen soon. We would like to extend this feeling to our business partners in oversea.
We are sending our message to express our deep gratitude to everyone with the word "ARIGATOU = THANK YOU" with our smile. It is because our business cannot exist without the patronages and cooperation of our customers and business partners.
We would like to introduce our corporate philosophy and activities of Matsushima Holdings Group to our customers and business partners.
We would like to express pleasure and passion of our activities and expand a circle of Waku Waku feeling to all people related to us.
We would like to establish stronger relationship with our customers and business partners heart to heart Finally we dedicate to delightful car life for our customers who really drive our cars in their country.
We would like to express our hearty gratitude to business partners for all their helps. We never forget our business is supported by many people. It brings us our duties and passion for doing our work.


If you are going to teach your dog to have a job, if you want to own a Working Dog, USE THE CORRECT AND WELL FITTING, SOUND, STURDY EQUIPMENT to train and to perform the work you would like the dog to do. Make Sure, Make Darned Sure, that YOU know how the equipment works, that is, how to use the equipment before you ever involve the dog.
As far as Working Dog Equipment, the job dose not matter, the training does not matter, what matters is, whether you will be using a Sled Dog Harness for pulling you on a Scooter or a Blind to Hide Behind for a Shutzhund Dog, Agility Pieces, even Swimming Polls or Ponds, ALL EQUIPMENT MUST BE IN GOOD REPAIR, SAFE AND STABLE! What does "good repair" mean? It means that even if the item is old and has been stored outdoors, make sure it is safe, make sure it has no sharp edges, no nails sticking out, nothing a dog or human could get hurt on. Never, ever use the terms "Oh it will be fine.", or "We are only going to use it for a minute." "Don't worry about it.", when it comes to equipment that you and your dog will be using for work or play.
Let's start from the very beginning. All puppies, and or dogs NEED Equipment. Any puppy and or dog needs a few good toys for chewing and chasing and playing with. An old sock is not a good idea. The puppy/dog will not know the difference between the old one you gave it and the new ones you just bought and paid high dollars on. So even from the beginning, right from the start, you need the right equipment.
Even Collars and Leashes, the types and quality, matter. You do not want a collar or leash that will break as you are training your dog....or when the dog might be wanting to "go after" something or someone. You also want the correct Collar for the training you are doing at the time. A Shocker Collar is not for Obedience Training. Know what simple tools you need, make sure they are in "good repair", and fit your dog correctly, and maybe of foremost importance, that YOU know how to use them.
This is a pile of Titus' "stuff" we bought for him before we even picked him up from his Breeder. When we bought Tekoa, to be picked up at the same time, the pile grew. It is a good idea to have a few thing (maybe not this many <grins>) bought ahead of time. Chew Toys are a must for puppies. It is how you train them NOT to chew on other items, and not to chew on you.
Even the correct leash matters when you are out and about with your dog. Make sure that when your out with your dog you have it on a leash that will hold it even if it lunges forward with force. GSDs are very strong dogs. The same goes for the snap on the end of the leash, make sure it is a well made snap and large enough to handle the size dog you have snapped it to.
When you are picking out a Backpack for your dog, there are many things you need to know. First of all, and perhaps most important, weigh and measure your dog. Some packs are sold by weight, others by the measurements of your dog. Buy the correct size for your dog.
Make sure the pack is well made and underside of the pack is padded. Make sure the pack has THREE straps. One for the chest, two underneath the dog. Smaller dogs will only need one strap around their girths, GSD need two.
It does not matter if you buy the type of pack you strap M.O.L.L.E. bags onto, or a bag you put items into, each of the two sides must weight the same.
Don't leave hanging straps as you hike with your dog wearing it's pack. It is better to tuck the extra strap than to cut it off. This way, later in life, you could use this Dog Backpack on another dog you might own. That dog might need longer straps.
When you are buying your harnesses for your dog(s) make sure that they are the correct size. Make sure the stitching is firm and even...on this. I have said in more detail below on this page "About Dog Harnesses" that it is not the "tinsel strength" of the webbing on Dog Harnesses, it is the stitching....you can have the best webbing in the world, but it is at the stitching where the Harness is likely to break. Make sure your stitching is firm and even.
Never leave a dog unattended in a harness. Some dogs will chew on harnesses. If you see the dog's mouth near the harness, correct the dog. If your dog does chew it's harness, replace or repair the harness.
Not only does your Dog's Harness need to be in "good repair", stitched very well, fit the dog correctly, it need's to be the correct Harness for the job your dog is preforming. Make sure you buy what you need for your dog to work in.
Scroll down for more Harness Details below.
You want your equipment in "good repair" so that it is safe not only for the dog, but for the humans around or working with the dog. Imagine a Flyball Box that was not working correct. If the balls did not fly out then the dog hit the lever, the dog would be confused and disappointed, thus discouraging the dog from the game and the training. If the Flyball Box would fall down when the lever was hit by the dog running into it, the dog might learn to be afraid of the box....game over. If the balls flew out and HIT the dog, the dog would also learn to dodge the balls and or be afraid of the box, again....game over. So not only do you need to make sure all equipment you use with a dog is safe, but that is operating correctly too. It needs to be checked each and every time you use it. And if something needs repair, fix it right away, don't wait and forget until the next time you are ready to use it.....you will be frustrated and disappointed.
All of the above photos are of our own dogs pulling wagons. Each of these dogs are a different size, so, of course, we have different sized wagons for each to pull. They also each have their own harnesses for the job.
With a vehicle with shafts, the shafts hooked correctly into the sides of your harness become your break. It is important that everything fits correctly.
A wagon or other vehicle pulled by an animal needs to be in "good repair". You can see that Frankie's, the Cocker Spaniel's, wagon is older by the time he was pulling it. But it was sound and stable and safe. But sometime after this photo, one of our horses stepped in the middle of it. <sighs> I had to send it to the trash. Old, need paint, those things are not near as important as stable and in working order.
Imagine a dog, especially a big dog, pulling a wagon that had a loose wheel or a rusty bed. If you set a child, or adult, or load into this wagon, it could, probably would, break. The noise of the breaking and or the feel of the broken wagon could, and probably would, spook the dog. The dog would probably run, or twist. The dog could be hurt, the person in the wagon could be hurt, and it nothing else, your load could be spilled. Not a great thing, not a good picture! And to top it all off, your dog could be ruined for pulling in shafts or out, for life.
We have information on how we make our metal shafts for dog/goat wagons on our "Cart & Wagon Dogs" page.
You would never want to train your dog for Agility or Schutzhund or Tracking on an unstable or shaky, or slick or skinny A Frame. It would be too unsafe. This is how you need to think of all Working Dog Equipment. You want good stable, well kept up, safe equipment, no matter what type of training or work your dog is doing.
There are specifications and plans for most dog equipment on the Internet or in Books. They created these specifications for a reason....the safety of all involved. Please Do NOT skimp when it comes to safety.
There is a reason that Working Dog Equipment is expensive. When it is made right, when it is made safe, it takes the right and correct supplies to put it together. But you want the right and correct and the safe and albeit expensive Working Dog Equipment. This Protection Dog Sleeve, commonly used in Schutzhund training for Bite Work, will give you something to think about. What would you rather have on your arm? This? Or just that long sleeved shirt and winter coat you already own? Yes. The Right Equipment in "good repair" matters!
Agility Equipment needs to be safe and stable to use for your dog. If you are building it yourself, a great idea, make sure it is up to the standards and specifications for the item.
This jump is made so that if the dog's foot or leg hits the bars they will fall rather than hurt the dog's body. There are many types of Agility Equipment Plans and Specifications on the Internet and in Books. If you are going to build your Agility Equipment, build it correct and stable and safe for your dogs safety.
There are many fun items you can use to teach an Agility Course to your dog at home. Many items can be used and used safely. Make sure what you are using measures up. Your dog trusts you for it's safety. Have Fun but Be Safe.
Any time you buy an item that your dog will be using, you really need to stop and think about how it is constructed. Even something like a Frisbee. And did you know that you are not suppose to leave a dog alone with a Frisbee? Not only for training reasons, but you do not want them to chew it up before the game has started.
Dog Booties, that are the correct type and size can be very important for Working Dogs and or dogs that have injuries to their feet. However, Dog Shoes for Fashion may well INJURE your dogs feet, joints, and or bones.
I was appalled in 10/2013 when I saw, on a show called "The Dr.s" a so called "Specialist", I believe they said he was a Veterinarian, that was showing <read selling> Dog Booties, or as they called them "Shoes" or "Sneakers" for dogs. He did not know about sizing, or that you should NEVER put only one bootie on a dog, or that snug fitting is important! Some "Expert". They went on to say how wonderful these are for dogs with Hip dysplacia and other bone problems. This is NOT true! Further, the set of "shoes" they had to demo DID NOT FIT THE DOG they had wear one.
I was more appalled when I looked on line and saw all the different ridiculous dog shoes for sale.
First of all, a dog is a dog is a dog! God made their feet really really tough for all terrain. God made their toenails sit on their feet as he did for a purpose! Shoes for dogs are not something a dog needs and can actually HURT their feet and joints and bones.
When a Working Dog needs to wear booties, like out on a rough sled dog trail, or working on gravel, or hunting in briars, they need a good bootie that fits correct and flexes with their foot in all the directions their feet flex. The toenails need to be (trimmed first) fitted into the booties and tucked in with a person fingers down into the front of the bootie. The bootie needs to have a enough velcro around the band so that it can be shut snug with no velcro showing, but also none hanging loose. You do not want the velcro to hang or not be covered, so that the dogs hair is not pulled by it, nor can the velcro be pulled off by the dog or other items it might walk past and brush up against.
The booties need to be simple with few stitches, that might aggravate the dog's foot. The bootie needs to fit just up to the ankle and no higher. Any lower, it would not close correctly, any higher can hurt the dog's ankle and or movement. Impeding the movement of the ankle can irritate the dog's leg and even stretch the muscles and or tendons at that joint.
If you boot one foot, front or back, boot the other foot opposite from the injured foot. This way the dog will continue to move, walk or run, evenly on it's body. If you only put on booty on a dog, it will walk differently, much like a limp. This twists the dog's body as well as puts more weight on the unbootied foot than the other. Use the same type, same age (not one worn down and the other new), on the dog at the same time. This way, again, the dog will not throw it's weight to one side or the other.
By using these new cutesy booties a dog's foot or feet can be inured from improper fitting and the way the shape of the booties are made. Other ways these cutesy dog shoes can hurt your dogs body.....zippers can pull the dog's hair, the ties can get the booties too tight and cut off circulation, plastics can add sweat/moisture to the dog's feet making them not only slippery inside the shoe, but also cause irritation between toes.
Dog Toenails were not meant to be placed inside a dog booty. First of all I can not stress enough how important it is to keep your dog's toenails trimmed. If you have the wrong type, the cutesy type, of dog booties on your dog's feet, their toenails can and will be stressed to the point of hurting them, pushing and pulling the nails around the shoe with each movement. This injury is not one that will stop once the booties are off the feet. This type of injury is going to hurt the dog for up to weeks.
Dew Claws, those little toes above a dog's foot, to the inside of the leg, that grow a nail, are usually removed in Working Dogs. Most people that have Sled Dogs remove the Dew Claws specifically for the problems that can arise with them when Booties are put on a dog. The booty should rise above the Dew Claw, this means the booty will be snug around it. With some movement the Dew Claw will move around under the booty and rub the leg, making both the leg and the Dew Claw sore. If the nail is long on the dew claw inside a booty, the nail might just cut the leg as the dew claw moves inside the bootie.
The worse, the very worse, the most likely to harm or injure your dog, the Dog Sandal! How stupid these are!
Everything about them says injury for a dog's foot/feet! Not only do these hold the foot all wrong for the dog's movements, these shoes will let and hold in rocks, mud or anything else from the surface that might harm your dog's foot.
These shoes will surely hurt the dog's toenails, there is no way these shoes can fit right and hold the toenails as they should be held in a good booty. To top that off, the dog could surely step into the shoe of another foot it is walking in and CATCH it's nail within that shoe.
These shoes SHOULD NEVER EVER BE WORN BY A DOG! They are very unsafe!
YOU MUST USE THE CORRECT HARNESS FOR THE JOB THE DOG IS PREFORMING AND THE HARNESS MUST FIT THE DOG CORRECTLY.
I get harness questions all the time. The main thing I am asked is why a dog can not use an X-Back harness for their dog to pull a wagon with the tongue of the wagon. The X-Back harness will come up on the dog, and might in fact come over the dogs head and off the dog, when the wagon is going down hill or the dog stops. Wagons need shafts for brakes, but even with shafts, the X-Back harness will slip up and probably over the dogs head when the dog stops or going down hill.
No, you can not use your X-Back on your dog for it to pull a wagon or a child's sled. No, that harness you had for your Siberian Husky is not going to work for your Pit Bull or Saint Bernard or Cocker Spaniel.
I get these questions all the time....mostly people want an "inexpensive harness that will work for anything the dog might pull". Guess what? Inexpensive is relative and there are no cheap ways to keep your dog safe while you have a bit of fun. AGAIN, YOU NEED THE CORRECT HARNESS FOR THE JOB YOU WOULD LIKE FOR THE DOG TO DO AND IT NEEDS TO FIT THE DOG CORRECTLY.
Harnesses for any animal cost real money. The reason is that they are usually made well with good grade materials and take time to make.
Using the wrong harness and or the wrong equipment can not only get your dog injured, but you might just get hurt too.
The Siwash Harness is probably the oldest style know to man. Eskimos have used these for mannnnnnnnnny years, probably 1000s of years, and they are still being used for a reason. They are WONDERFUL HARNESSES, they work well, last long, are easy to use on the dogs, easy to wash and store, and look good on the dogs.
These are used for sleds, rigs, scooters, a person in skates being pulled by a dog, and the like.
The X-Back Harness is really a Siwash Harness with an X on the dog's back that makes the harness fit a bit better. It takes the Siwash Harness that in sizing could be compared to a woman' pants, in sizes Large, Medium and Small, and makes it more, with the X-Back, of a size, like a size 10 or 12 or whatever.
The uses are the same as a Siwash Harness, the padding is the same, it is the same harness with an X on the back.
There is a difference between a Weight Pull Harness and a Freight Harness. Although they are made the same, Weight Pull Harnesses have double padding around the neck. If you are weight pulling and want to win, get a double padded Weight Pull Harness. Personally, I like the Weight Pull Harnesses for working around the farm too.
A Weight Pull or Freight Harness is used for pulling weight in competition, pulling a sled (only if well trained, untrained dogs can really get hung up in the back area of the harness), if it is converted (pieces added) you can also have your dog pull a vehicle with shafts, but the back bar also needs to be hooked into the vehicle being pulled.
I designed this multipurpose harness for my Labrador Retrievers years ago when I first got my sacco cart. I was so excited about getting a ride in my sacco cart. I put a "D" harnesses on each of the two dogs and told them to go... they both "stepped out" of their "D" harnesses and there I sat in the sacco cart with the harnesses dangling while the dogs ran off. They did come right back when I whistled, but I knew these D Harnesses were not going to work.
I had been a Sled Dog Harness Maker for several years, so it was time to design. They say that necessity is the mother of invention and so I went to the sewing machine with an idea. Not only can you use this type of harness for sled, rigs, carts, wagons, and travios, but also for dogs to pull you in a boat, on a scooter, or on skis or skates. Truly a Multipurpose Harness. It has one "ring" on top, and two sets of two for easy hook up to what ever your dog will be pulling.
The snap is on the top of this harness so when the dog is in water, if caught in a tangle, you can free the dog in an instant. This harness is usually completely padded with double padding under the snap.
Yes, the photo is of a goat. I could not find one of our dogs using one. I have not used this type of harness for dogs or goats in maaaaany years. It is a good harness for teaching your animals to wear a harness.
These harnesses are modeled after the old style walking harnesses.
This type of harness can be used for wagons, travois or any vehicle with shafts on both sides of the animal.
Most, if not all, sled dog harnesses today are made with either a poly pro or nylon webbing. There is a reason for that. Leather is nice, however, it will stretch, especially when wet, and your dogs might just eat it. Cotton, when wet, stays wet for a long time. Nylon and or poly webbing is not only strong, it is non absorbent so that it will dry quickly if it gets wet holding the size it was when made.
I remember when I first started making harnesses the padding was made with Fake Fur. Now the best stuff to use is a good grade Polar Fleece. Polar Fleece is not only non absorbent, but also is easy to wipe dirt and mud off with just a wet rag. It makes good padding and a good grade will last for many years.
Most harness makers use either nylon rope or parachute cord on the back of harnesses for the hooking area called the ring. Again, great stuff, last long and cleans up well. Of course, again, non absorbent.
I have added bells, and beads and conchos and the like to harnesses for years. I do not sew them on, I "weave" them into the harness under the padding. Items sewn on to harnesses will work their way off, won't last long.
Webbing harnesses are easy to wash and look like new when finished. I wash mine in THE WASHING MACHINE with settngs on cold, warm or hot water in with a load of towels....be warned, your padding might fade. I recommend washing the harnesses on cold or warm.
DO NOT MACHINE DRY! Hang your harnesses by the loops for 24 hours. I dry mine indoors, but drying them outdoors is fine too.
If your webbing is kept clean, your harnesses will last for many years to come. Your harnesses will be longer lived then your dog....so I never recommend putting names on your harnesses.
If you decide to make your own Dog Harness keep in mind that the stitches MUST be very strong. Your harness is only as strong as your sewing machines weakest sewn area. I get a kick out of "webbing strength" being used to describe harnesses, it should be "stitch strength", because the area that is most likely to break on an animal harness is where it has been sewn together. You also must use a good strength thread.
You can buy nylon webbing where you can buy fabrics and craft items. But before you buy the webbing you are looking at, double it over and decide if your home sewing machine can handle and/or pull the webbing though as it stitches. Now, keep in mind that you will have areas on the harness that not only has two or three layers of the webbing but also a doubled amount of padding too. NOW?? Can your machine handle that?
You must use a heavy duty needles. Your new needles will break the thread over and over while sewing the webbing until the needle head is "broke in". I have sanded the head of the needle to stop this, but you must remember that you DO need a needle head. If you file the needle do so a little at a time.
By the time you have bought you webbing, padding, needles (get at least a four pack because you WILL break needles), buckles, slides, metal rings, thread and whatever else needed for the type of harness you will be making, you may be spending as much as you would to just buy the harness. Price everything you need before you start buying parts. If you decide to make your own harness, prepare to be frustrated.
Making a Dog Harness will take some time, probably more of your time then you think. Not trying to scare you off, really I am not, but I have met far too many people over the years that have decided to make their own dog/goat/llama/pony harnesses that these folks have just thrown or given away the stuff they bought to make their own and bought a harness professionally crafted outright.
Now, what are you using for a pattern for your harness? It is very hard to make a correct harness by looking at a photo.
Making your own Dog and other animal equipment is fun and rewarding. If you have the time and can sew you might just save a bunch of money making your own equipment. You will be able to pick out your favorite colors right down to the snaps and or thread. You can make the item the way YOU want it to be made. You can make it a bit bigger if you have an unusually large or make it smaller for a little bitty dog. You can make matching harnesses in bright colors for each of your dogs. You can ad buttons, bows, bells, thicker padding or whatever to your item. You can also surprise a friend of yours with a nice Christmas or other Holiday gift.
The same <as above> is true for any type of equipment you choose to use with or on your dog when you are working it. It does not matter what Sport or Activity you and your dog participate in. Any of the Equipment you choose, and it is all up to you, the last word of the equipment used on or with your dog, is up to you. Your dog counts on you for it's safety and well being.


In December of 1999, within 24 hours after I first saw Salem, I decided to move here. Taking an apartment where the windows face the Willamette River, I had arrived "without baggage" as a friend says ~ knowing nothing of the city except it had a nostalgically appealing historic downtown and an adjoining public library. I thought a good start toward meeting people would be to become a volunteer at that library. By coincidence, that was exactly the time a website, Salem History, was being created by the staff. As a former American Studies teacher and historian, I was eager to learn about Salem by becoming a researcher and writer for this enterprise. After the city stopped producing the website, I began compiling "SHINE on Salem 150," a blog celebrating that anniversary of the city's charter. Fortunately, my son Tom moved to Salem to become my next-door neighbor and official photographer. This partnership led to the creation of the several additional Salem history web blogs and self-guided walking tours, incorporated in this website.
With us, from the first days of composition, has been Stephanie Matlock Allen. As a former journalist, she understood what the viewer needed to see and learn in our heritage profiles. But most of all, because she is computer-experienced, she was always ready, when I panicked, to solve technical problems. Thank you, Stephanie!
However, no matter how fascinating it is to research personalities and events of our past, it is the present local cultural and economic climate that should be our concern. Our aim is two-fold: to bring attention to Salem's important role in Oregon's past and to recognize the valuable assets of the Salem neighborhoods and parks we enjoy today.
Now retired from local research activities, Tom and I look forward to being observers of the city that has become our home. None of us can influence our community's history, but we are all responsible for its future.


Most people spend a significant amount of their time in the office. Enjoying eating is therefore an integral part of life both inside and outside of work, which is sometimes over in a flash and sometimes celebrated as a scheduled break. For Ming-Ju Hsieh, the office is a place where dreams are made and fulfilled thanks to ideas and visions but also our individual lifestyles in the workplace. Stemming from this idea is Daily Life, a practical all-rounder collection that has only five multifunctional pieces with an authentic appearance, which resembles the most frequently used material in the office – paper.


Created by keith_christensen on Feb 7, 2017 1:00 PM. Last modified by keith_christensen on Feb 7, 2017 1:00 PM.
Have you ever wondered how to add in a lot of rules in the Constraint Manager in a very short time? Add in a group of rules using Constraint Templates in seconds that take other software packages hours and sometimes days to accomplish. Complete complex circuits like DDR3 or DDR4 in minutes using Constraint Templates. During this webinar, Customer Application Engineer, Keith Christensen will also show you how to modify rules quickly after a group of them have been added into the Constraint Manager.
Learn how to use Constraint Templates that save valuable time and can help speed up your design process.


When the late Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone back in 2007 I doubt he thought that Apple would ever end up selling its 1 billionth iPhone, but it looks like the company will achieve that milestone this year.
At the end of 2015 Apple had sold a total of 896 million iPhones, Apple will report its first quarter of 2016 financial results on the 25th of April and it is expected to announce that it has sold 50 million iPhones in the quarter.
That means that Apple will be around 50 million iPhone sales away from selling one billion handsets and it should reach the milestone later this year.
According to a number of analysts Apple should sell their 1 billionth iPhone some time in July, this would be very impressive for the company considering that until 2007 they did not make any mobile phones.
The iPhone is Apple's most successful products to date, the company sells more of this device that it does the iPad, iPods, its Mac range of computers and other devices like the Apple Watch.
Whilst the iPhone has been available for nine years, Apple has actually sold half of its total smartphone sales in the last two years, if the company continues at the current pace it could end up selling two billion iPhones by 2020.


text:
First-Ever Case of Crypto Fraud Filed in Australian Court
The first-ever case of cryptocurrency fraud is filed against an Australian Crypto exchange. The case is the first of its kind in the country involving theft of $800K in assets.
As per ABC news report, a French national by the name of Alexandre Raffin has brought a lawsuit against Modern Assets Australia. The 28 years old accused the directors of the cryptocurrency exchange of breaching their duty. He alleges that Jonathan Allison and Carlo Sciubba failed to take care of him.
Modern Assets Australia is a cryptocurrency research and advisory firm based on Gold Coast. The case against its management is unparalleled in the history of Australia.
Details of Crypto Fraud:
The plaintiff in the case was bound to receive cryptocurrencies from the Gold Coast company in exchange for fiat money. But when the deal didn't happen, the firm put Mr Raffin in contact with the supplier of crypto assets.
The supplier allegedly broke off with the money and never fulfilled his part of the deal. He also deleted his account so that all doors for communication are closed off.
Since the happening of this event, the prices of cryptocurrencies have multiplied 30 times. If Mr Raffin owned currency, his assets would be worthed at $3.7 million. However, he never received the purchased assets.
Also Read: Bitcoin Crimes Fell In 2020
Mr Raffin accuses the Gold Coast Firm's management of failing him and maybe many other investors. He expressed his devastation over the crypto scam in the following words.
"I just went to cry on my balcony,.. At the time it was 80 per cent of my assets. That was very hard to do."
The shattered trust and loss of big money made Mr Raffin think that the crypto firm didn't do "research on their own contact".
According to ABC News, Modern Assets Australia is denying the allegations. The spokesman of the firm says that the company will vigorously defend the allegations.


text:
Closing the Yield Gap in Organic Farming w/ Stanley Janicki
Interview with Stanley Janicki, Vice President of Business Development at Sedron Technologies
What if a nitrogen product could help close the yield gap between organic and conventional farming? Stanley Janicki of Sedron Technologies discusses this possibility by way of a new waste processing system that produces an OMRI listed nitrogen source — one that can help organic farmers improve their operations while also protecting the environment.
Learn more about Sedron Technologies: www.sedron.com
#agriculture #farming #organicagriculture #organicfarming #yieldfarming
TOM: Welcome to the show, Stanley.
STANLEY: Thank you for having me. I appreciate it tremendously. It's always nice to talk about organic products and organic applications and the new technologies in this space with people who are interested and then have an audience of people who actually want to hear about it. On the subway, when I'm taking it here in New York, the person next to me doesn't always care about organic fertilizer. It's nice to be able to talk to someone who does.
TOM: They generally care about organic foods, but not necessarily what goes into it, right?
STANLEY: Exactly. And sorry, my dog here is exploring in the background. The perks of working from home.
Sedron Technologies & the Varcor System
TOM: That's right. For sure. So, Stanley, you have developed some really exciting technology in the last couple years. Tell us about that.
STANLEY: Yeah, totally. So, here at Sedron, we've developed something known as the Varcor system. The Varcor system, really, was initially designed for agricultural operations with dairy as the main focus. If we kind of take a 10,000-foot view of it, the primary objective being lagoon elimination, we said, 'Hey, if we can take a dairy farm and eliminate a lagoon and the methane produced out of that lagoon?' Tremendous greenhouse gas emitter. Nitrous oxide? Eliminate it from that lagoon and then eliminate this idea of liquid manure application on fields, where then it rains, and you get manure runoff. You get nutrient pollution from that. You get pathogens coming off of that. When you apply it onto various crops, you can get pathogens in the crops. So that was the goal at the highest level, and we said, 'What can we actually do?' Well, what we need is a crystal-clear, clean water that can be used for beneficial reuse around irrigation. It can be used for direct discharge. It could even be fed back to the cows. We said, 'Well, if we're going to do that, we need to see what we have to take out of that water.' And we realized we're going to end up with dry solids. These are going to be a really nice granular fertilizer that can be applied to the fields. Then we realized, well, in that water, there are also aqueous constituents, specifically ammonia. We said, 'Well, we're going to have to remove that separately.' So we recover from this dairy manure clean water, a dry solid fertilizer and an aqueous solution of ammoniacal nitrogen. And the way the Varcor works, it's a thermodynamic process utilizing mechanical vapor recompression at the highest level that allows us to do that with no additives or chemicals in an OMRI certified process. Both our outputs are OMRI certified. So, to be able to do that with no chemicals, we realized that, wow, we have some cool organic products at the back end, and so that's how we're here talking about Organics Unpacked.
Manure Lagoon Elimination
TOM: So, Stanley, how did this idea even come up? Somehow, a guy from New York has to be thinking about manure and dairies. How did the idea even come up?
STANLEY: Yeah, so I'm actually from a place that's even less focused on agriculture: Seattle. Really, it's a tech city, right? So people think of Seattle as tech. The background of our company is actually aerospace, so we own two companies. One is Sedron Technologies. The other one's Janicki Industries. Janicki Industries is a large-scale aerospace parts and tooling supplier: work for Boeing, Lockheed Martin, kind of the whole gamut of aerospace companies. And being located in Seattle, it was a natural proximity to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. So, early on, they came to us. Maybe this was like probably 10 years ago, and we do a lot of custom engineering. So people will come to us with just a problem statement, and we engineer a solution for it. So the foundation asked us to develop sanitation technologies for developing countries. So that got us an introduction into this world of water and wastewater. So there's this great video of Bill Gates drinking the poop water that came out. It's online. You should watch it. It's a great video.
But after that came out, a lot of people reached out to us, and one of the groups was actually a group called Nutrient. They're run by many of the milk co-ops where they do diligence on manure management technologies, and they asked us some questions around, 'Hey, how can this be applied to dairy?' And we realized that the system we'd worked with the foundation was not applicable to dairy at all. But we realized they introduced us to the scale and the impact of that problem and also the impact that a solution to that problem could have from a greenhouse gas standpoint, from a nutrient pollution standpoint, from a water quality standpoint. Solving the idea of manure lagoon elimination in the United States would be critical. The Washington Post actually had an article. It came out about six months ago. 10,000 people per year die from the ammonia that volatilizes out of manure lagoons in the U.S. alone. So, to think that we have such a huge problem here, that there aren't widespread technologies to eliminate the lagoon, is something we felt we had a great, great solution for. So we developed the Varcor technology over the last five years or so, and now we're ready here, cruising into prime time with it.
TOM: So the Varcor gives you clean water. It gives you a source of nitrogen that's OMRI certified, and it gives you a solid source too that's OMRI certified. It sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
STANLEY: It is. We're very excited about it. We have a number of systems under construction. We have a full-scale system running on a large dairy in Indiana that's an organic dairy actually. So that farm actually uses its own nutrients. And yeah, it's very, very exciting for them.
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
TOM: So let's talk about the environmental impact. Obviously, water quality will be a big thing if you can reduce the amount of nitrogen and phosphorus that are being emitted into the water. But how about greenhouse gas? Where do you stand? How much energy does it take to run this compared to what you get out?
STANLEY: So, from an energy standpoint, it's incredibly efficient. As I said before, it utilizes mechanical vapor recompression as the backbone of the technology. Mechanical vapor recompression is a well-known process that's used really specifically in condensed milk factories. It's used in recycling deicing fluid at airports (propylene glycol). It's used in salt crystallizers — really, desalination plants. It's a well-known technology that allows incredibly efficient distillation of products. So we combine that with a number of other patented processes to produce a very, very efficient process, but we see where the true efficiencies and greenhouse gas savings lie. It's in avoiding the manure application onto fields and avoiding that lagoon wet manure. 66% of a farm's field-to-farm gate greenhouse gas emissions come from their manure lagoon and the liquid application of manure on their fields.
TOM: Wow.
STANLEY: Which is tremendous. So being able to eliminate that gives us a tremendous tool in solving greenhouse gas emissions for large and any agricultural installation that utilizes a manure lagoon. So, if we look at it from that perspective, that is really where the savings are because we're removing things like methane going into the environment from that lagoon, the nitrous oxide when you're applying the manure to the field, this idea of the N2O profile of the manure on the field. All of these things we eliminate by allowing the farm to have a precision application. Then, even more so, we see that the nutrient pollution that comes off in algae blooms can also have greenhouse gas impacts there. So being able to solve all of that is tremendous.
Anaerobic Digestion Process
TOM: Yeah, so you say you can eliminate the lagoon. So does that mean you're taking the fresh manure that's coming out of dairies and utilizing it immediately? Putting it into your system? Or is there somewhat of a delay of weeks, months or whatever?
STANLEY: So we see, for us, that it's going to come out depending on the farm installation, but we'll use an example. The cow goes to the bathroom, and then there's a vacuum truck, maybe 10 minutes later, that will suck up the manure. Then, from there, it goes into a manure reception pit where the fiber is taken out — the really coarse fiber — and if there's any sand in it. So we'll see, on some farms, the cow sleeps on sand. So, obviously, there will be sand that's in the manure. Then, from there, it will go either through an anaerobic digester, if a farm utilizes one, or directly into our system. So the only delay you would have would be inside an anaerobic digester.
TOM: Okay, and the anaerobic digester does what? What part?
STANLEY: So this is not something we do. There are lots of people who do anaerobic digesters. You'll see that, currently, California has something known as a low-carbon fuel standard that will buy methane gas or natural gas produced via dairy anaerobic digestion for a high price. So, for a farmer, the goal is — a large portion of it — is making money, but you'll also see that it does take the organic carbon that's in there, a certain portion of it, and convert it into natural gas. That natural gas can then be used to displace fossil fuel natural gasses, which is tremendous.
TOM: So does that in any way impact your Varcor system?
STANLEY: Honestly, we're kind of ambivalent. We will see that a digester has the potential to convert biologically-organic nitrogen, so slow-release nitrogen into ammoniacal nitrogen. So you end up with more ammoniacal nitrogen with the anaerobically-digested stream.
TOM: Very good. Yeah, so it's all about making the most efficient use out of dairy manure.
STANLEY: Exactly. The other thing we see that an anaerobic digester does is it will increase your analysis of that final dry product because you're removing some portion of the carbon that's in there, but you're not removing the phosphorus. You're not removing the potassium. So your final analysis could be a little bit higher potentially.
Benefits for Organic Farmers
TOM: Okay, so we talked about dairy manure. Does your Varcor system have potential to work with other livestock? Swine? Beef? Anything else?
STANLEY: Absolutely. We've seen that there are a number of applications. We see the dairy industry as so large for us. We're really focused. We have a laser focus here right now, but we see swine and other industries being prime targets later on, as well.
TOM: Okay, so let's talk about your outputs, and let's talk about the benefit to organic farmers, right? Because this is a podcast about organic farming and inputs and outputs, let's talk about your Varcor system, what products it produces that an organic farmer would be interested in.
STANLEY: Yeah, absolutely. So we see that that ammoniacal nitrogen solution is something that a farmer would be very interested in, and same thing with the dry solid. Both products in our process, everything's heated to above 100 Celsius for an extended period of time. So we see that, from a pathogen kill standpoint, we eliminate all pathogens in the stream. So our OMRI labels for both of them don't have a time delay from when it's applied to when it's harvested. So it allows a farmer who's growing blueberries or spinach, or something like that, a really precise application of nutrients without the introduction of pathogens, which is something we see as exciting for them.
Closing the Yield Gap in Organic Farming
TOM: Yeah, that is a very exciting thing. If organic farmers — especially people that have high-value crops, those leafy greens — if they can get those to market without an introduction of pathogens, what a great thing.
STANLEY: Exactly. The other thing that we see is that the ammoniacal nitrogen is plant-available. If we just take a quick step back and we look at organic versus conventional, we see that, on average, there's a yield gap of about 30 percent, with the primary driver of that yield gap being the lack of ammoniacal nitrogen. This is according to a university study. If we look at it from that perspective and we look at it through the lens of resource conservation, what this means is that you're getting less crops per acre, which, from a resource standpoint, we want to be able to get the most per acre we can, utilizing these great organic farming principles. So, if we can use the organic farming principles of regeneration, of sustainability, all of those things, while also eliminating as much of that yield gap as possible, we see, from a resource conservation standpoint, it's just an absolute win.
TOM: Yeah, and from a person who's always been interested in precision conservation, getting the right amount of nutrients at the right time delivered at the right place — all those four Rs — and just really making this work, it seems like a real advantage because I can apply some of my organic nitrogen or my nitrogen to my organic farming at the very critical time that my crop needs it. So I still have my other products. I still have my cover crops, my legumes, my raw manure that is going to supply nitrogen throughout the season. But if I can feed it at some of these really critical times, then that really makes a lot of sense to me.
STANLEY: Absolutely. You totally nailed it there. The idea of precision application is really what both of these products are about, allowing a farmer the ability to apply it when and where they need it. And it's a storable product. A manure lagoon is causing problems as it sits there for six months. Whereas this, you can put it in a tank. You can put it in a building, and it will store for months so they can apply it exactly when and where they need it.
Scaling the Varcor System
TOM: Right. So talk about your scaling. You've got one or two units now. How can you scale?
STANLEY: So we are very passionate about scaling this, and we are working with a number of dairy farmers in the Midwest on taking their manure. We have a number of them signed up already. So you'll see that we're going to have systems under construction this year to really increase the output we're doing. And we're working with people in this space who want to buy the product, and they're very excited about it. So we see making sure that it's matching the supply with the demand as we continue to grow out. But from a scale standpoint, we're growing very rapidly.
TOM: All right. From an OMRI certification, where are you in the process? OMRI listing? Are both your dry and your liquid listed?
STANLEY: Yep. Both products are listed, and they've been listed since last year, mid last year.
TOM: So, Stanley, tell me where Varcor — you talked a little bit about the expansion — but where do you see it in five to 10 years? Can you give us a little, kind of paint a vision for us?
STANLEY: I see it as really being part of the solution to greenhouse gas and nutrient pollution in animal agriculture. There's no reason you shouldn't be able to drink a glass of milk and sequester carbon when you do that. There's no reason that you shouldn't be able to have some bacon for breakfast and sequester carbon by doing that. So, for us, we want to be part of that solution, part of transforming every animal agricultural operation to the forefront of sustainability. And, again, not just on greenhouse gas emissions, but on nutrient pollution, on nutrient recovery. Right now, in a manure lagoon, most of the ammonia that's in that lagoon evaporates into the environment. There's no reason it shouldn't be captured and precision-applied to crops when and where they need it.
Partner Dairy Farms
TOM: Yeah, that's great. So, if you were sitting down with a dairy farmer, right? Well, let me backup before I ask you that. If a dairy farmer now says, 'Hey, this is great technology, Stanley. I want it on my farm,' I know that you're growing, and you're looking for opportunities. But if somebody were to call you up and say, 'I want one on my farm,' what would your answer be?
STANLEY: I think it's just a matter of fitting them into our pipeline and the timing of it. We're looking for all of the partner dairies. This is a key part, as well, that we view the dairies as our partners on this process. We're going to work with them long-term. We support the technology long-term. We operate the technology long-term. So it's something where we're working with the farmer for a long period of time. So we're really about relationships, both with the people we sell the fertilizers to and the people we're actually getting the manure from. How do we create a tremendous partnership long-term to ensure the farm can stay in compliance and actually far exceed the compliance of any permits they have? Then, also, we can produce these great products.
TOM: So, Stanley, is there a size of an operation, so many heads of cows or something that you're looking at? Does it scale to 100 head, to 10,000 head? What's the best scale for you?
STANLEY: From a technical standpoint, there are no limitations on that. Every farm is different on the costs and all of this. So, usually, what we'll do is we'll just work with each individual farm and understand what the value proposition is for them. But we see, in many applications, the value proposition for a farmer is tremendous.
Value of the Varcor System
TOM: Okay, so let's say the last question is that if you're sitting down with a farmer, and he says, 'Stanley, in two minutes, tell me why I should implement your Varcor system,' what is your two-minute elevator pitch for him?
STANLEY: Well, I don't really need even two minutes. I can tell this dairy farmer, I can say, 'Mr. Dairy Farmer, I can eliminate your lagoon and eliminate your application of dairy manure on fields and give you clean water back that you can use for irrigation, you can use for direct discharge. You can use it for any kind of beneficial reuse you want while simultaneously solving many of your greenhouse gas emission problems.' That's my value proposition to a farmer. We have to work through the 'financials' of a specific farm, and we can go into the details, but that's really what we can allow for a farm.
TOM: All right. Well, Stanley, I appreciate you coming on and being a part of Organics Unpacked. It was great to have you, and we want to stay up to date with where you're at. So let us know when you have your next update and you're making some significant progress because we'd love to have you back on Organics Unpacked.
STANLEY: Of course, of course. Well, stay in touch.
TOM: Yeah, absolutely. Stanley Janicki, Vice President of Business Development at Sedron Technologies, thank you.


text:
Лев Іванович Туркевич (4 травня 1901, Броди, нині Львівська область — 4 листопада 1961, Торонто, Канада) — український композитор, диригент, шахіст. Брат Ірини Туркевич-Мартинець і Стефанії Туркевич-Лукіянович.

Біографічні відомості
Лев Туркевич народився у священничій сім'ї: його батько о. Іван Емануїл Туркевич (1872—1936) і його дід о. Лев Туркевич були греко-католицькими священниками. Мати — Софія Кормош. Сім'я здавна пишалася високою освіченістю та музикальністю. Хлопчик змалку активно займався музикою: семирічним виступав як соліст на львівській сцені та грав на фортепіано композиції Шопена, Бетховена, Моцарта.

З 1911 року сім'я проживає при соборі святого Юра разом з дідусем, а його батько стає катехитом у Другій українській гімназії, знаній ще як «філії»: туди пішов вчитися і його син.

У гімназії Лев Туркевич виявив ще й математичні здібності, став математиком-відмінником. Склавши з відзнакою матуру в 1919 році, розпочав навчання у підпільному Українському університеті: виклади відбувалися по церквах, приватних будинках, українських інституціях. У 1922 році юнака залічено в студенти Віденського університету: філософський факультет, спеціальність — музикологія. Навчався ще у Вищому музичному інституті ім. М. Лисенка, Львівській консерваторії та музичній академії у Відні (гри на фортепіано він навчався у професора Вюрера, а композиції — у професора Маркса).

Не забуваючи і про свою пристрасть — математику — Лев Туркевич у Відні відвідував лекції на математичному відділі, а повернувшись до Львова, записується на подальші студії до Львівського університету на математичний факультет. Математичний хист студента допомагав і в музичному мистецтві, і в шахових турнірах, у яких щораз частіш здобував перемоги. Знаходив час і на розваги: більярд, теніс, шахи.

Музична праця
Розпочинає музичну працю інструктором хорів: з 1927 — диригент хорів «Боян» і «Бандурист» у Львові, і опер у Львові (нині — Львівський національний академічний театр опери та балету імені Соломії Крушельницької), Бидгощі, Варшаві й Познані.

1941–1944 — диригент симфонічних концертів у Львові й музичний керівник Львівської опери, де брав участь у постановці балетів «Дон Кіхот», «Пер Гюнт», «Коппелія» (1942), «Серпанок П'єретти» (музична композиція, 1943).

З 1944 року — на еміграції. У 1945 році організував хор «Ватра» з яким гастролював у Німеччині, Швейцарії, Австрії. З 1948 року проживав у маленькому містечку Канади. Керував хорами, симфонічними оркестрами.

З 1950 року — в Едмонтоні та Торонто; диригував хорами, симфонічними концертами, операми, гармонізував та аранжував численні народні пісні та інші твори.

Джерела

 Туркевич В. Д. Хореографічне мистецтво України у персоналіях: Бібліографічний довідник: хореографи, артисти балету, композитори, диригенти, лібретисти, критики, художники. — Київ: Біографічний інститут НАН України, 1999. — С. 158. ISBN 966-7236-09-9
 Ми пам'ятаємо. Диригентові й шахісту Леву Туркевичу — 110
 Дунайський клуб: «Шахи з присмаком кави»
 Математик, шахіст, диригент… Лев Туркевич
 «Шахматные адреса» див. с.2, про Лева Туркевича

Посилання

Хормейстри
Мистецтвознавці
Українські диригенти
Українські хорові диригенти
Диригенти Львівського «Бояну»
Українські шахісти
Польські шахісти
Шахісти США
Українці Торонто
Уродженці Бродів
Українці Вінніпега
Померли в Торонто
Українці Едмонтона


mobili antichi milano. Many thanks for visiting here. Below is a amazing graphic for mobili antichi milano. We have been looking for this picture throughout internet and it originated from professional source. If youre searching for any new fresh ideas for your house then this mobili antichi milano image must be on top of guide or else you might use it for an alternative thought.
This image has been uploaded by admin tagged in category field. And we also trust it could be the most well-known vote in google vote or event in facebook share. Hopefully you love it as we do. Please promote this mobili antichi milano picture to your mates, family through google plus, facebook, twitter, instagram or another social bookmarking site.
You may also leave your suggestions,review or opinion why you like this image. So that we could bring more valuable information on next reports. We thank you for your visit to our website. Make sure you get the information you are looking for. Do not forget to share and love our reference to help further develop our website.