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Toro Co (NYSE:TTC) Shares Sold by Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC
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Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC cut its stake in shares of Toro Co (NYSE:TTC) by 1.2% in the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 2,059,498 shares of the company's stock after selling 24,055 shares during the quarter. Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC's holdings in Toro were worth $141,777,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
A number of other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in TTC. Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund lifted its position in Toro by 5,488.0% during the fourth quarter. Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund now owns 2,329,525 shares of the company's stock valued at $42,000 after purchasing an additional 2,287,837 shares during the last quarter. Norges Bank bought a new stake in shares of Toro in the 4th quarter worth approximately $52,686,000. Barclays PLC lifted its holdings in shares of Toro by 367.2% in the 4th quarter. Barclays PLC now owns 843,121 shares of the company's stock worth $47,112,000 after acquiring an additional 662,671 shares during the last quarter. FMR LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Toro by 105.2% in the 1st quarter. FMR LLC now owns 724,513 shares of the company's stock worth $49,875,000 after acquiring an additional 371,518 shares during the last quarter. Finally, King Luther Capital Management Corp lifted its holdings in shares of Toro by 37.8% in the 1st quarter. King Luther Capital Management Corp now owns 966,956 shares of the company's stock worth $66,565,000 after acquiring an additional 265,340 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 81.54% of the company's stock.
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Shares of TTC traded down $0.28 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $68.09. The company's stock had a trading volume of 232,120 shares, compared to its average volume of 472,930. The firm has a market cap of $7.25 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 25.50 and a beta of 0.84. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.90, a quick ratio of 0.78 and a current ratio of 1.51. Toro Co has a 52 week low of $52.97 and a 52 week high of $75.13.
Toro (NYSE:TTC) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May 23rd. The company reported $1.17 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.21 by ($0.04). The business had revenue of $962.00 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $987.80 million. Toro had a return on equity of 40.99% and a net margin of 10.62%. The company's revenue was up 9.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $1.20 earnings per share. As a group, equities research analysts predict that Toro Co will post 2.93 earnings per share for the current year.
The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, July 11th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, June 25th will be issued a $0.225 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, June 24th. This represents a $0.90 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.32%. Toro's payout ratio is 33.71%.
In related news, Director Robert C. Buhrmaster sold 2,000 shares of Toro stock in a transaction on Monday, March 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $67.95, for a total value of $135,900.00. Following the transaction, the director now directly owns 21,091 shares of the company's stock, valued at $1,433,133.45. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Also, VP Richard W. Rodier sold 6,000 shares of Toro stock in a transaction on Tuesday, March 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $68.45, for a total transaction of $410,700.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the vice president now directly owns 28,395 shares in the company, valued at $1,943,637.75. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last ninety days, insiders sold 9,941 shares of company stock worth $679,190. 2.36% of the stock is owned by insiders.
A number of equities research analysts have recently weighed in on the stock. Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of Toro from a "sell" rating to a "hold" rating in a report on Thursday, February 28th. Sidoti set a $72.00 price objective on shares of Toro and gave the stock a "hold" rating in a report on Tuesday, June 11th. Finally, ValuEngine upgraded shares of Toro from a "hold" rating to a "buy" rating in a report on Friday, February 22nd. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have given a hold rating and two have given a buy rating to the company. The company presently has an average rating of "Hold" and a consensus target price of $69.00.
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The Toro Company designs, manufactures, and markets professional and residential equipment worldwide. The company's Professional segment offers turf and landscape equipment products, including sports fields and grounds maintenance equipment, golf course mowing and maintenance equipment, landscape contractor mowing equipment, landscape creation and renovation equipment, rental and specialty construction equipment, and other maintenance equipment; and snow and ice management equipment, such as snowplows, salt and sand spreaders, and related parts and accessories for light and medium duty trucks, utility task vehicles, skid steers, and front-end loaders.
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Okay. These mood swings can stop now. I can't even knock over a box without bursting into tears.
Perhaps the fuzzy PJs and a purring cat will help.
My favorite photographic subject seems to be Koshvader's back.
I've been experiencing a great deal of stress and anxiety lately. It's the usual cocktail of money/job/relationship stuff with a heaping side of can't-seem-to-get-pregnant. Meh.
All of that is really annoying and makes it difficult to sleep/concentrate/wake up, you know? Plus, with my nervous system, it also means that any tiny little thing makes my cry. For like…two hours if I'm not careful. Things like a balloon popping (which makes me cry all of the time anyway. What is it with me and popping balloons? For some reason the noise just goes right through me. All sorts of fun in social situations, let me tell you.), missing a phone call, or making a mistake. This, in and of itself, is really annoying and stressful.
Oh. And petting cats is nice too.
What do you lot do to [tag]relax[/tag]?


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But, we are very excited about our next series we are going to begin while driving back from Texas. We will begin The Kingdom Series by Chuck Black. I have only seen good reviews, plus it promises adventure...one thing we all enjoy.
Here is a snippet from Chrstianbooks.
Sixteen-year-old Leinad thought he was a common farmer's son, nothing more. He wondered why his father had trained him for years to master the sword--not exactly a tool of the trade for farmers--but one tragic event initiates a world of revelation.
Only then does he understand his true calling--a calling no other man in the entire kingdom of Arrethtrae can fulfill--a calling given him by the King Himself.
Teamed with a young slave girl, Leinad is thrust into adversity and danger--for the Dank Knight and his vicious Shadow Warriors will stop a nothing to thwart the Kings plan to restore the kingdom.Leinad will need more than a sharp blade and a swift hand to fulfill his mission and survive the evil plots of the King's sworn enemies.
Journey to Arrethtrae, where the King and His Son implement a bold plan to save their kingdom; where courage, faith and loyalty stand tall in the face of opposition; where good will not bow to evil--and the future of a kingdom lies in the hands of a young man.
Unabridged. 3 CDs. Read by Andy Turvey & Dawn Marshall.
I know this will entertain us on our drive, which is about 13-15 hours one way.


The effect of the total solar eclipse seems to be a day late for Beijing, the whole day yesterday was foggy, while this afternoon, the sky started to darken, then rained and became windy. It was as if I had gone back to Chongqing many years ago — around the same time, the same season, a little more than a decade ago, the sky would begin to darken everyday at around two in the afternoon and it rained. I would need to turn on the light early at home. I listened to the raindrops hitting onto the plastic canopy and onto the leaves on the trees, I looked at the damp soil and weeds in the yard, and large rats running freely. And at the time, the music I played on my little stereo was always by Pink Floyd, I especially like the album The Wall, I could listen to it hundreds of times and never get tired of it. And today my stereo plays music by Cold Play in their most recent album Life in Technicolor. I first got to know of them because of their song Yellow. And the reason I am playing music from their newest album is because during my last flight back from Europe, I was sitting in a pitch black cabin, suddenly I heard their music from the music channel on the airplane, and especially Cemeteries of London, it totally captured me, if I say I was "moved", it would not be an exaggeration. Perhaps it was due to that particular moment and place, actually Cold Play couldn't be counted as one of my favorite, it is far from my all time favorites of Pink Floyd, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, and Dire Straits. It's a shame my English is very poor, I couldn't read their brilliant lyrics, I could only experience their inner "thoughts" in the atmosphere created by their music (Maybe it's again a whole lot of misreading). However, I have to thank them from the bottom of my heart! It's not only that their music has given me warmth and strength during my loneliest days, but it's the certain "atmosphere" that is passed on from their music, which had made me finally grasped and led to my "direction" in art. Perhaps it is true, music itself represents a type of living style — no matter if it transcends or escapes, or music itself is the mysterious experience we have about life in our inner heart?


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Heinrich August Meissner, né le  à Leipzig et mort le  à Istanbul  est un ingénieur allemand, constructeur de chemin de fer, nommé pacha de l'Empire ottoman en 1904.

Il dirigea la construction de la ligne Istanboul-Bagdad et son prolongement vers Médine le chemin de fer du Hedjaz. L'achèvement rapide des travaux de la branche vers la ville sainte lui vaut le titre de Pacha. Le tronçon vers Bagdad n'est en revanche pas achevé, en raison de l'éclatement de la Première Guerre mondiale.

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The Martinsell Centre, near Marlborough, is a truly brilliant venue (one of my favourites!) and I'm thrilled to say that we shall be returning this year for for our Annual Conference for Insights Discovery® Practitioners.
I set up my business on the 1st of July 2004, initially to coach with the Insights tool, and I cannot quite believe that this year marks 15 years of AS&Co.
I really hope to see as many of you as possible on the 5th of July, LPs and CPs attached to AS&Co, and other LPs who would like to join us!
It will be wonderful to be able to celebrate this landmark anniversary with you all, and delve deeper into the Discovery model. It's sure to be a brilliant day!
Tickets: £60+VAT, including refreshments and truly delicious lunch.


Q: What can I do to ensure that my painting is not used to satisfy a gallery's debts and how can I avoid losing my artwork altogether in the event the gallery declares bankruptcy?
With the UCC lien search in hand, you can then file a UCC financing statement that describes the consignment and makes the consignor the legal owner. The file is usually made with the secretary of state in the state where the gallery is located and must be made within 20 days after delivery of the consigned work The filing is effective for 5 years and may be renewed for successive 5-year periods by filing additional statements. It is important that that UCC-I contain the exact name of the dealer or gallery because a misspelling may result in an incorrect filing by the state. If the filing is made properly and in a timely fashion, the consignor's ownership interest will supersede any claims by the gallery's other creditors.
HLAA always advises clients to obtain written agreements with galleries. These form the contractual basis of the deal. Besides addressing such basic issues as the duration of the consignment, the price at which the gallery may sell the work and the amount of the commission, the agreement should clearly state that the consignor retains a security interest in the consigned work..


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The Romany Rye is a novel by George Borrow, written in 1857 as a sequel to Lavengro (1851).

The novel
Largely thought to be at least partly autobiographical, The Romany Rye follows from Lavengro (1851). The title can be translated from Romany as "Gypsy Gentleman". Mrs George Borrow wrote on 18 October 1853 to John Murray, his publisher, saying her husband had completed his work – "which he proposes to call The Romany Rye – A Sequel to Lavengro."

The story itself follows the journey of a learned young man living with Romanies. It is a philosophical adventure story of sorts. The book involves meetings with a number of eccentric characters. It also contains what could be called ethnographic material on the customs and views of the Romani women.  The author obtains a valuable horse from his Romani friend Jasper Petulengro and eventually sells it to a Hungarian at the Horncastle horse fair. As with Lavengro, the story ends rather abruptly with the author's realisation that the Romani language has close links to the Northern Indian languages: he resolves to travel to India but Borrow himself did not do so.

In popular culture
A pub located in Colman Road, Norwich, was named The Romany Rye, and later The Romany Beer House before it ceased trading in November 2008. The Wetherspoons public house chain used the name Romany Rye for their pub, opened in Dereham, Norfolk, in 2011. Borrow was born in the town.

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SC: Homeopathy practitioners can prescribe 'immunity boosters', can't claim Covid cure
The court was hearing an appeal by the Dr A K B Sadbhavana Mission School of Homeo Pharmacy, which said that the direction to take action against errant physicians under the Disaster Management Act was uncalled for and outside the scope of the original petition.
December 16, 2020 6:05:30 am
The bench said that in so far as advertisement by homeopathic practitioners is concerned, it is clearly prohibited by the Homeopathic Practitioners (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Code of Ethics) Regulations, 1982.
Institutionally qualified practitioners can prescribe homeopathic medicines as "preventive measure/immunity boosters" for Covid-19 patients, but cannot label them as a cure for the disease, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, affirming the AYUSH Ministry's guidelines in this regard.
A bench Justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy and M R Shah, which upheld a Kerala High Court order in this regard, however, did not approve of the high court direction sanctioning action under the Disaster Management Act, 2005 against doctors violating the guidelines and advertising it as a cure.
The court pointed out that a March 6 advisory by the AYUSH Ministry had permitted homeopathy practitioners to prescribe medicines as preventive and prophylactic, for symptom management of Covid-19 like illnesses, and as add-on interventions to the conventional care.
It also took note of an affidavit filed by the ministry stating that homeopathic medical practitioners have been permitted to prescribe the drugs, as mentioned in its guidelines, as an add-on drug to the conventional treatment for patients who have been tested Covid positive and are undergoing conventional treatment and that "the only embargo is that the said medicines should not be administered or advertised as a cure…."
"When statutory regulations itself prohibit advertisement, there is no occasion for homeopathic medical practitioners to advertise that they are competent to cure Covid-19 disease. When the scientists of the entire world are engaged in research to find out proper medicine/vaccine for Covid-19, there is no occasion for making any observation as contained in paragraph 14 with regard to Homeopathic medical practitioners. The homeopathy does not cure the disease, but it cures the patients," it said.
"We have already noticed that the writ petition, which was filed in the Kerala High Court, only with a limited relief for issuing direction to respondent to implement the advisory dated 06.03.2020 issued by Ministry of AYUSH, there was no occasion for High Court to make observations…"
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5 takeaways from the 2018 midterm election
Democrats underwhelmed in Arizona, take U.S. House
Arizona Democrats gather to watch midterm election results in Phoenix, Arizona, on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018.
By Isaac Windes | 11/08/18 2:08am
Arizona Democrats benefited from increased enthusiasm and voter turnout Tuesday night but ultimately the blue wave failed to deliver as many victories as they had hoped.
The partisan rancor that hallmarked the election highlighted just how entrenched the two parties have become, with vitriolic attack ads running into the last hours of the various races in Arizona.
With Democrats clinching control of the house, the partisan polarization is slated to continue into the next legislative session.
The State Press talked to Arizona Republican political analyst Jason Rose about the immediate takeaways of the 2018 Midterm Election:
1. The blue wave was no tsunami
Leading up to the election pundits and campaigns touted a massive turnout effort and energy to support the concept of a blue wave sweeping Arizona and the nation.
"I can understand Democrats being terribly disappointed," Rose said. "This is a state that Hillary Clinton came within three points of winning in 2016. I think they had tremendous opportunity for candidates to have results more in line with 2006 and 2008 when Democrats performed well.
"They underwhelmed last night."
2. The Senate Race is still anyone's game
One of the state's most closely watched races leading up too and through Tuesday night was the Senate race to replace incumbent Republican Sen. Jeff Flake, who ceded his seat when he announced he wouldn't run for re-election.
"The Republican turnout yesterday at the polls, which has already been factored in, was good, it was high," Rose said. "But the ballots that are in the late mailed ballots, as well as this dropped off at the poll in recent elections have tilted towards the Democrats."
Martha McSally is used to winning very close elections, that's how she was elected to Congress in the first place, he said.
"There is certainly no champagne popping going on, and anyone statewide within 30, 40 maybe even 50,000 votes maybe is still in the ballgame," Rose said.
3. It's 2012 all over again
Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader in 2012, said that his "number one priority (was) making sure president Obama's a one-term president."
That type of obstructionist governing was a hallmark of the Obama-era Republican Congress that took control in Obama's first midterm challenge. Now the tables have turned.
"I think it reverses the firewall that we saw during the Obama administration, when the House led by Republicans," Rose said. "It was difficult for him to say the least, but Obama always knew there was a firewall in the Senate.
"I think the dynamic is similar I think the mischief is going to come from the house, and you know to what end? It's not going to go anywhere in the Senate because of the success the Republicans had last night."
4. This isn't unprecedented
While turnout this year has been far higher than previous midterm years, the power dynamics are nothing new.
Every county in Arizona except maybe Greenlee has either broken their "ballots cast" record for a midterm, or they are on track to break it. The only one on the fence is Pinal since we don't have an estimate from them yet and they are still 8k off their record.
— The AZ Data Guru (@Garrett_Archer) November 7, 2018
"It's the ebb and flow of politics, in the future there will be times when Democrats do have gigantic wave years and the same will be of Republicans," Rose said. "And there will be elations like this that resemble more of a World War I trench warfare — so it ebbs and flows and last night was not different than the rhythm of American politics for the last two centuries."
5. Democrats fail to secure key local seats
Key races where Democrats put up a unified front fell short of the necessary votes, with Democrats failing in their bid to secure the State Mine Inspector, Secretary of State, Governor and Attorney General.
But beyond that, Democrats flopped in their bid to take control of the state House of Representatives. According to the Arizona Capitol Times, the Senate will likely be a 17-13 split in the favor of the GOP with a 32-28 after there was slight uptick in democratic house victories.
Comprehensive results are available at the Secretary of State's website.
Reach the reporter at isaac.windes@asu.edu or follow @isaacdwindes on Twitter.
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Fourth Nevada bear hunt starts Monday
Nevada's fourth season for black bear hunting starts today and if controversy over the hunt has died somewhat in intensity, opponents say they remain determined to keep up the fight.
Up to 20 bears can be legally killed during a hunt that lasts until Dec. 31, with hunting allowed across much of the east flank of the Carson Range and along other western Nevada mountain ranges including the Pine Nuts, Pine Groves, Desert Creek and the Sweetwater Range.
The hunt, approved by the Nevada Wildlife Commission in 2010 amid impassioned controversy, has resulting in the killing of 39 black bears over the course of three hunting seasons that started in 2011.
The 2014 hunt follows a review of the hunt's first three years by wildlife commissioners who determined the state's bear population can safely withstand continued hunting. Critics, however, blasted a review – ordered by the 2013 Legislature – that they characterize as inadequate.
"We're not happy," said Kathryn Bricker, founder of the nonprofit NoBearHuntNV. "We're going into the fourth year without that process being completed and we think that should have been done."
Bricker, who said she and others will bring their concerns to the 2015 Legislature, accused wildlife commissioners of ignoring widespread public opposition to the hunt.
Dr. Stephen Stringham, has challenged NDOW Quota
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 29, 2012
A nationally renowned bear biologist, Dr. Stephen Stringham, has challenged the Nevada Department of Wildlife's quota recommendation for the 2012 bear hunt, claiming "the State has not met its burden of proof that this population is robust enough to withstand repeated sport hunting without its viability being seriously jeopardized."
Dr. Stringham's findings corroborate those expressed earlier by Dr. Rick Hopkins, who will be speaking on behalf of NoBearHuntNV.org at the upcoming quota setting meeting of the Nevada Wildlife Commissioners on May 11-12 in Reno, NV. Dr. Hopkins will speak both at the Bear Committee meeting on May 10, as well as to the Commission on May 11.
Hired by NoBearHuntNV.org as an on-going independent peer review of the State's data and analysis, Dr. Stringham's just released report on the 2012 quota setting alleges:
1. Nevada's bear population is more likely growing at the rate of 3 percent per year vs. 16 percent, as claimed by state biologist Carl Lackey.
2. The Jolly Seber model used by NDOW to calculate Nevada's bear population growth rate rests upon assumptions that do not fit Nevada's bear population. The result is "garbage in, garbage out."
3. At even a 3 percent growth rate, hunting Nevada's wild land bears "markedly increases risk of over harvest."
4. NDOW's plans to guard against over hunting Nevada's bears, by reviewing various data in three year cycles, are seriously flawed. "So few bears could be harvested…that trends indicative of over harvest might not reach statistical significance for a decade or more, by which time the population could be seriously impacted."
5. NDOW has failed to provide data and modeling that are spatially and demographically explicit in order to insure sustainable populations in the various wild land habitats of Nevada.
"Until better methods are employed, the risks of sport harvest appear to outweigh any benefits-benefits confined to one special interest group, trophy hunters," Dr. Stringham concludes.
"These independent expert opinions all underpin NoBearHuntNV's position that NDOW and the Commission should not be conducting a hunt or setting any quotas until they can produce peer-reviewed and published data and data analysis," states Kathryn Bricker, Executive Director of NoBearHuntNV.org. " While we appreciate the Commission removing the Tahoe Basin from the hunt, there have been no new studies to examine and address any effects on the bear population or bear distribution of hunting only outside the Lake Tahoe Basin. The lack of credible science upon which this bear hunt is based should be of concern to all Nevadans."
Bear hunt back from hibernation
Nevada's controversial bear hunt began its third season Sunday, and will continue into its fourth if the Nevada Department of Wildlife has its way. The state's bear population, which consists of anywhere between 400 and 700 bears, is more than enough to allow a limited hunt, spokesman Chris Healy said. For this reason, he said the department will likely recommend continuing the program when the Nevada Wildlife Commission reviews it in a few months. "We've been told by the legislation and wildlife commission that after three years, we would look at the number and discuss what are we doing right, what are we doing wrong, where does the population stand," he said.
In 2010, the Nevada Department of Wildlife estimated there were about 350 to 450 bears in the state, Healy said. But the department anticipates that number has grown significantly over the last three years. The bear hunt is "tremendously beneficial" to the department because it helps track data, such as the animal's population, Healy said. But Kathryn Bricker, executive director of NoBearHuntNV, disagrees. "We've had various internationally recognized ecologists and biologists review the data and they all said that hunting is not a necessary management tool," Bricker said. "They hunt because they want to hunt, not because they want to manage the population." Healy, however, said hunting is a well-recognized tool of wildlife management. "If we are going to stack up experts," he said, "our experts will win that debate."
Starting in 2011, bears in Nevada could be hunted in limited number. Fourteen were killed in 2011 and 11 were killed in 2012. No bears have been killed in 2013 so far, but the limit is 20. Since its inception, the hunt has attracted criticism from several organizations defending the bears, which are primarily killed in an area southeast of Minden and Gardnerville. No hunting is allowed on the Nevada side of the Tahoe Basin, following a decision in 2011 to appease critics. But Bricker said it's not enough. "We're all very glad that they made that exclusion," she said. "However we feel the same about the bears in the Pine Nut (Mountains) and Sweet Water (Range)." Bricker is concerned that the state's bear population is much lower than the Department of Wildlife estimates, she said. However, Healy said hunters aren't the bears' biggest threat. "The most dangerous thing to a bear is not a hunter," he said, "it's a car." Cars have killed 158 bears in Nevada since 1997, according to data from the Nevada Department of Wildlife. About 80 were killed for public safety during the same period. "Harvesting 25 bears in two years is by no means going to put the population in any kind of danger," Healy said of the last two Nevada bear hunts.
The decision to either continue or discontinue a bear hunt in Nevada ultimately lies with the state's wildlife commission. The Nevada Dept. of Wildlife will make a recommendation to the commission later this year or early next year, Healy said, but calling off a bear hunt at this point would take a "biological disaster."
This year's hunt will end Dec. 31. In California, about 35,000 bears roam The Golden State, said Jason Holley, spokesman for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Of those, about 1,700 are killed from hunting each year. California also allows bear hunting in many areas of the Tahoe Basin.
New rule doesn't alter bear hunt purpose
The third year of Nevada's Black Bear Trophy Hunt started Sept. 15 ["Review to follow Nevada's third bear hunt," Sept. 14]. Yes, until 2011 Nevada was the only state not permitting bear hunting.
That is because Nevada's bear population is the smallest of all western states, numbering only in the hundreds. Good reason not to hunt them. Also, commissioners have allowed this hunt now, despite over 24,000 acres of the bears' habitat in the Pine Nut Mountains having been destroyed in the recent Bison Fire.
While a "thorough review" of the hunt is being promised, why is using the meat even being considered as a change in the requirements? Is this not a bit of doubletalk? The public will not be fooled into thinking that 20 bears are being killed for food. If this hunt is continued, people will still consider it a trophy hunt.
NDOW spokesman stated it has "learned much" from the 25 bears killed in the past two years. First, this number is too small for significant information. Secondly, what happened to biologists getting sound scientific information from live bears? Killing bears is no "benefit to the bears." It only benefits the 20 hunters who get a bear trophy.
Elaine Carrick, Reno
REVIEW TO FOLLOW NEVADA'S THIRD BEAR HUNT.
Nevada's bear hunt begins its third season Sept. 15 and when it's finished, state wildlife officials plan a thorough review of a practice that has generated substantial controversy.
Up to 20 black bears can be killed from when the season starts until it ends at sundown on Dec. 31.
It's a number state biologists say Nevada's bear population can easily handle. Vocal critics counter that one bear killed by hunters is too many and that when the Nevada Wildlife Commission conducts its three-year review of the hunt, it should be stopped for good.
"It is still evident that the vast majority of Nevadans are opposed to the hunt," said Kathryn Bricker, executive director of NoBearHuntNV, the organization that unsuccessfully lobbied against the hunt.
"I hope they start respecting how people feel about this hunt and discontinue it," Bricker said. "Nevada did fine without a bear hunt and I would like to see us return to that tradition."
The hunt was approved by wildlife commissioners in 2010, ending Nevada's status as the only western state that did not permit hunting of its black bears.
The vote followed a series of contentious hearings that had sportsmen supporting the plan and often impassioned critics opposing it. An attempt to kill the hunt in the 2013 Legislature failed.
During the inaugural hunt in 2011, 14 bears were taken by hunters. Another 11 were killed last year.
"We know it's still not popular but we did listen to some of the concerns," Nevada Department of Wildlife spokesman Chris Healy said, citing the commission's 2011 decision to remove the Lake Tahoe Basin from areas where bear hunting is permitted.
Healy said biologists have learned much about the state's bears as a result of the hunt, including that more bears live on mountain ranges east of the Sierra front than previously thought. Most of the bears killed by hunters were taken in places like the Pine Nut Mountains and the Sweetwater Range.
"We're gaining a lot of knowledge on our wildland bears," said Jack Robb, chairman of the wildlife commission. "It's been a painful process but if nothing else, I think the bear hunt in the end will be of benefit to the bears."
Robb promises a thorough review of the hunt after this season wraps up. One change he would like to see is that hunters be required to use the meat of bears killed, a rule that's not on the books right now.
"We'll be looking at the regulations top to bottom," he said.
Robb also credited the hunt and the controversy surrounding it with helping to generate discussions on long-needed changes in trash management to reduce human-bear conflicts in places like Lake Tahoe's Incline Village.
NEVADA WILDLIFE COMMISSION REJECTS PETITION TO BAN HOUND HUNTING BEARS
The Nevada Wildlife Commission rejected a petition to ban the use of dogs for hunting bears at its meeting in Las Vegas on Feb 1. The petition was filed by six conservation and animal rights organizations including NoBearHuntNV, Nevada Political Action for Animals, Humane Society of the Un…ited States, ASPCA, Nevada Humane Society and the Bear League.
A statewide survey conducted in January 2011 by Mason-Dixon Polling and Research, Inc. showed that only 29 percent of Nevadans supported the practice of "hounding" bears, while 57 percent disapproved. Over half of other states conducting bear hunts have outlawed the practice as being unsporting and unnecessarily cruel both for the bears and dogs.
"The Commission's decision not to hear legitimate arguments on an issue opposed by the majority of Nevadans demonstrates why legislative change to reconfigure the Wildlife Commission is needed in order to give fair representation to all Nevadans.," stated Kathryn Bricker, Executive Director of No Bear Hunt NV.
Voting against hearing the petition were sportsmen's representatives Commissioners Jeremy Drew, Michael McBeath, Scott Raine and Bill Young, ranching representative Peter Mori and farming representatives Grant Wallace. Supporting the petition was Governor Sandoval's newly appointed and sole public representative, Dr. Karen Layne and conservation representative David McNinch.
PART ONE PETITION TO BAN HOUNDS
NoBearHuntNV.org presented a petition at the Dec Wildlife Commission meeting to ban hound hunting bears. Below are 3 parts of the video of the meeting.
17* Petition — For Possible Action
Catherine M. Smith board member of No Bear Hunt NV has submitted a petition from a Corporation petitioning the Commission. The Commission may accept the petition and initiate regulatory action or deny the petition.
PART TWO PETITION TO BAN HOUNDS
Catherine M. Smith board member of No Bear Hunt NV has submitted a petition from a Corporation petitioning the Commission to change "NAC 503.147 Hunting with a dog. (NRS 501.105, 501.181, 503.150) It is unlawful to hunt, chase or pursue: Any black bear or mountain lion with a dog except during the open season, in an open management area and under the authority of a hunting license.
PART THREE PETITION TO BAN HOUNDS
Humane Society president on Nevada wildlife board
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — An animal advocate has been named to the Nevada Wildlife Commission — the first such appointment in recent memory to a board that has come under fire by critics who say it's unfairly stacked with hunters.
Karen Summers Layne is president of the Las Vegas Valley Humane Society. She was appointed to the nine-member policy board by Gov. Brian Sandoval on Oct. 3. Her appointment follows that of former Clark County Sheriff Bill Young in July.
"It's going to be an interesting position," Layne told The Associated Press.
Layne, 65, spoke against hunting black bears when the commission held hearings on instituting Nevada's inaugural bear season in 2010. The hunting season was ultimately approved and continues.
Nevada hunt foes: ban dogs from chasing bears
Opponents of Nevada's controversial bear hunt are seeking new regulations banning the use of dogs to chase down bears, a practice they describe as cruel and unnecessary.
A petition seeking the change, submitted by a coalition of organized foes of the bear hunt and animal welfare groups, is scheduled to be considered by the Nevada Wildlife Commission when it meets in Reno on Dec. 7.
"It does not honor the ethics of fair chase," Kathryn Bricker, executive director of NoBearHuntNV.org, said of the use of trained hounds during a bear hunt.
Bricker's group filed the petition along with Nevada Political Action for Animals, the Bear League, the Nevada Humane Society, Humane Society for the United States and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
ED GUROWITZ FREE SPEECH AND THE FBI
INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — In the past couple of weeks' columns we've been looking at the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of expression, particularly freedom of speech. The first ten amendments to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, has always seemed interesting to me
IS THE NEVADA BEAR POPULATION REALLY GROWING?
IF SO, HOW FAST?
Stephen F. Stringham, PhD Consulting Wildlife Biologist WildWatch 39200 Alma Ave, Soldotna, AK 99669. NDOW justification for claiming that the Nevada bear population can sustain anannual harvest of about 8% of the population.
ACLU wants FBI records about Nevada bear hunt foes
LAS VEGAS — The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada is demanding to know what information the FBI has collected about people who spoke against bear hunting in the Lake Tahoe area during contentious public meetings earlier this year in northern Nevada.
MARK SMITH BONANZA ARTICLE
Please read this great article written by Guest Column Mark Smith: Setting bear quota would be illegal for NDOW. By Mark E. Smith — Mark E. Smith is an Incline Village resident and creator of the Facebook group "Lake Tahoe Wall of Shame. Special to the Bonanza
INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — On May 12th the Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners will meet to set the quota for the 2012 Nevada Black Bear Hunt. Any quota setting at this time is both illegal and without any scientific basis and should be postponed until NDOW can properly prepare for the hunt. Here are just a few reasons why:
The Bear Management Plan was adopted with no public input, against public policy and NRS. In fact, the draft document was actively withheld from the public until it was adopted. A number of organizations and individuals had requested to review draft versions of the plan, myself included.
URBAN BEARS ARE NOT WHO THE HUNTERS KILL
A recent letter writer (Joanne King, Sept. 19 edition) closes her letter by asking "Why don't we let the licensed bear hunters in Nevada kill the nuisance trash bears instead of the innocent wild bears they now kill?"
The answer is simple: urban bears are not who the hunters kill. As demonstrated in the 2011 hunt, not a single bear taken had been tagged, which means they had never been a "nuisance" or urbanized. Every authoritive study on this subject predicted that — hunters hunt in the forest, not the streets of Stateline. Those same studies also found, with convincing evidence, that hunts actually do the reverse — they push woodland bears into urban areas and increase human-bear conflict. That's because bears are smart and they adapt quickly. Chase them with hounds in the forest and they'll move into the "safety" of neighborhoods.
A special thanks to one of our favorite photographers, Dotty Molt, who gave nobearhuntnv.org permission to use one of her landscape photos for the background of our site. http://www.carpepixels.com/ ~ Please check out Dotty's beautiful website!
Most of the bear photos on our site have been donated by Mark Smith, founder of the Mark E. Smith Foundation and co-founder of the Facebook Page, Lake Tahoe Wall of Shame. To learn of Tahoe- wide efforts to improve human behavior and discourage human/bear conflict. Please visit Mark's page at http://www.facebook.com/tbwalloshame
Star of Animal Planet mini series "Blonde vs Bear" and Executive Director of the Bear League, Ann Bryant defines bear advocacy. Some of the bear photos on this site have been donated by The Bear League http://www.savebears.org/ ~ check out Ann's very informative website!
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AS Roma team enter the match on the back of 4 consecutive wins in Serie A and now sit fourth in the Italian top flight. They beat 3-1 Carpi away last Friday and have lost just one of the 16 competitive fixtures they have played at home this term. Anyway, the Giallorossi were extremely fortunate to qualify to the knockout stage of the UCL. They won just one of their six Group E games and had a worse goal difference than Bayer Leverkusen, but the head-to-head fell in their favour thanks to a 3-2 win on home soil. Their poor defensive record saw them concede 16 times in 6 matches - a record for a team reaching the knockout stages.
Luciano Spalletti is set to have veterans Totti and De Rossi available for the match but only the midfield has chances to start the match. Egyptian winger Mohamed Salah is doubtful while Kevin Strootman has returned to training, but remains sidelined with his long-term injury. Should Salah be passed fit, he could either start on the right or up front at the expense of Edin Dzeko.
Real Madrid team have made a solid start under the guidance of Zinedine Zidane. The Frenchman has led his side to four victories and one draw in his first five La Liga games in charge. Under Rafa Benitez, Los Blancos collected 16 points from a possible 18 as only PSG managed to take something off them when the two clubs drew at the Parc des Princes. Anyway, they have conceded in seven of their last nine matches in all competitions and on the road they have only kept one clean sheet in their last eight fixtures. In La Liga, they have a four-point deficit to in-form league leaders Barcelona, who have a game in hand.
The Galacticos travel to Italy without Gareth Bale, Marcelo and Pepe, who are both out through injury. Danilo is expected to start as right back while Isco has been tipped to return to the midfield three, with Rodriguez likely to continue on the right of Benzema in a 4-3-3 formation. Cristiano Ronaldo, the Champions League leading scorer this season with 11 goals, will complete the attack for the visitors.
Roma were turned over 6-1 by Real's rivals Barcelona earlier in this competition. Real Madrid, meanwhile, have failed to win any of their last eight away games against Italian teams, drawing four and losing four of those.
Real Madrid: Navas – Danilo, Varane, Ramos, Carvajal – Kroos, Modric – Rodriguez, Isco, Ronaldo – Karim Benzema.
Roma: Szczesny – Rudiger, Manolas, Zukanovic – Florenzi, Pjanic, Nainggolan, Digne – Salah, Dzeko, Perotti.


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Health Coaches are shaping the future of nutrition and health care...and Integrative Nutrition graduates are leading the pack!
In our current healthcare system, almost no time is spent discussing daily diet and lifestyle choices. Yet our world is in the midst of a massive shift – people are beginning to understand the importance of living a healthful lifestyle.
These days, the media is paying more attention to Health Coaches than ever before and it's no wonder –people are dissatisfied with our current health care system and are in desperate need of nutrition education and high quality preventative care to find their way back to health.
Just recently, four of our graduates were featured in the March 2011 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine!
If you are curious about what a Health Coach is and how to become one, you've come to the right place.
So, what is a Health Coach?
A Health Coach is a wellness authority and supportive mentor. Health Coaches educate and support clients to define and achieve their health and wellness goals through lifestyle and behavior adjustments. Clients learn to develop a deeper understanding of the food and lifestyle choices that work best for them, and implement lasting changes that improve their energy, balance and health.
What are some attributes of a successful Health Coach?
A Health Coach has good listening skills, a compassionate and patient demeanor and has the genuine desire to work with and help others. Many people who are already giving advice on health and wellness often find health coaching a seamless career transition to getting paid for something they already do naturally. Often Health Coaches maintain a healthy lifestyle themselves with regular exercise, eating and cooking whole, nourishing foods and having a balanced life overall.
What is the demand like for Health Coaches?
The demand for well-trained Health Coaches increases every day. The health and wellness industry is rapidly expanding as the need for preventative health care grows. Not only is health coaching widely needed, it is now an expanding career opportunity. Over the past few years, numerous health insurance companies have begun to employ Health Coaches to work with the people they insure. This is a win-win situation, as the insured stay healthier and Health Coaches are seeing an incredible demand for their services. Supporting and educating people in ways to improve their health and happiness can be an incredibly fulfilling and lucrative career.
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Many Health Coaches have private practices, but others work in different settings such as hospitals, wellness centers and gyms, or have started their own health coaching business. The flexibility and independence of being a Health Coach is often one of the many exciting reasons to create a career as a Health Coach. Earning potential for Health Coaches can be significant, and if you work to become an effective Health Coach and develop a steady practice, it is possible to make up to $200 per hour with each client. Your personal income as a Health Coach totally depends on the kind of services you offer, your niche client market and how much time you plan to work with clients.
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The next step would be to see if you are a good fit for becoming a Health Coach and find a program that works for you. Integrative Nutrition offers a flexible online Health Coach Training Program that makes it affordable and realistic for people who have other things going on in their lives. Becoming a Health Coach can be a great career that fulfills you and helps others all at the same time!


This post categorized under Kitchen and posted on July 28th, 2018.
Choosing the proper lighting design for your kitchen should be top priority. After all the kitchen is the heart of the home and usually the busiest roomwhere you and your family prepare meals visit with friends complete homework read the paper and simply spend time relaxing.Kitchen Meta Description. THE CIRCA LIGHTING BLOG. Experience the latest in lighting and design inspiration from industry leaders.
Whether preparing or enjoying meals discover how layered lighting helps creates the perfect kitchen the hub of every home.From the fixtures to installation get inspired with these clever and functional kitchen lighting ideas.These kitchen lighting ideas and fixtures will add style to any home.
Lighting Visualizer. Lighting can have a dramatic effect on how your kitchen looks works and feels. Unlike most other design considerations lighting is a dynamic element that can be adjusted to create the right atmosphere for any occasionfrom dim and dramatic to bright and inviting.According to Randall Whitehead a lighting designer in San Francisco and author of Residential Lighting A Practical Guide. the most effective lighting for the kitchen involves four layers bgraphicded together task ambient accent and decorative lighting.


The strong data are "clearly not good for those looking for a sub-4-percent Fed funds [interest rate], but [the numbers] wonit prevent modest, further easing," said Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist with High Frequency Economics in Valhalla, N.Y. "The Fed is still scared about Q2-Q3."
"While the magnitudes of future federal unified budget surpluses are uncertain, they are highly likely to remain sizable for some time," the central bank chief told the annual convention of The Bond Market Association. "Current forecasts suggest that under a reasonably wide range of possible tax and spending policies, the resulting surpluses will allow the Treasury debt held by the public to be paid off," Greenspan said.
"I am confident that U.S. financial markets, which are the most innovative and efficient in the world, can readily adapt to a paydown of Treasury debt by creating private alternatives with many of the attributes that market participants value in Treasury securities," he said.
Not only does that suggest that our wise cracks will stand the test of time, it also added fuel to todayis rally.
After hammering on IBMis recent stupidity concerning their sidewalk vandalism graffiti spree in San Francisco and Chicago, we thought we would give them some good press. The company has announced an initiative to make computers that repair themselves. The company also has announced an even cooler technology that allows them to make semi-conductors out of tubes of rolled up carbons. We donit understand it either, but it will mean some extraordinary advances in computing as we know it, assuming the technology makes it to market in some fashion or another. It will reportedly take at least 10 years for that to happen. Perhaps they will advertise the new technology by putting bumper stickers on your cars while you are shopping.
Microsoft will be late to market with Windows XP according to a report with Giga Information Group (GIG). Rob Enderle, an analyst with GIG says that Microsoft is going to release Windows XP in October instead of August. The only problem with that is that Microsoft has never announced a final shipping date for their NeXT generation Mac rip off, instead targeting the 2nd half of the year. The company has replied to questions about this issue by saying the software will be released when it is ready, and that a specific target date has not been set. An analyst on CNBC (whose name we did not catch) said that while GIG has adjusted their own predictions, they are actually falling more in line with everyone else who expected the OS later in the year to begin with. The significance of this is that PC hardware sales for the 2nd half of 2001 could well hinge on the release of Windows XP. Microsoft traded lower on the reports, though PC hardware makers traded higher.
Matthew Rothenberg has weighed in with his thoughts on what Apple will be announcing on Tuesday, May 1st. The Cupertino, California company has announced a press event on that day. Mr. Rothenberg says that he expects Apple to announce their new retail stores on that day and that they will stock them with new iBook models. Itis a good read, and is recommended.
Apple gained more than 6% today in average volume. AAPL opened up the day some 30 cents in positive territory, and stayed there all day. The stock chugged long in the morning and early afternoon session, and then took off in the last hour of trading to close just off the dayis highs. The dayis range was 24.75 - 26.29.
Apple closed at 26.20, up 1.51 (+6.12%), on volume of 8,306,800 shares trading hands.
The Nasdaq closed at 2075.68, up 40.80 (+2.01%), on volume of 1,802,146,000 shares trading hands.
The Dow closed at 10810.05, a gain of 117.70 (+1.10%), on volume of 1,090,666,000 shares trading hands.
The S&P 500 closed at 1253.05, a gain of 18.53 (+1.50%).
Akamai regained more than 13% of the 24.24% loss the stock has suffered in the last two days. AKAM closed at 7.91, up 0.91 (+13.00%), on light volume of 2,132,400 shares trading hands. Apple is a large shareholder of Akamai.
Adobe announced a press conference for their March quarter financials on May 1st. The company will be Webcasting the event as well. ADBE closed at 45.62, up 0.95 (+2.13%), on very light volume of 2,736,500 shares trading hands.
IBM won a fat US$1.3 billion contract to rebuild the US Customs computer system. We have additional commentary at Mac OS News Around The Web today about IBMis sidewalk vandalism Linux ad campaign. IBM closed at 116.20, up 2.46 (+2.16%), on light volume of 7,400,400 shares trading hands.
Motorola closed at 15.49, a gain of 0.89 (+6.10%), on light volume of 8,551,500 shares trading hands.
Earthlink closed at 11.10, up a nickel (+0.45%), on light volume of 954,600 shares trading hands.
Gateway closed at 19.50, a gain of 0.75 (+4.00%), on light volume of 2,571,800 shares trading hands.
Dell closed at 26, up 0.68 (+2.69%), on strong volume of 39,145,000 shares trading hands.
Intel closed at 30.18, up 1.54 (+5.38%), on light volume of 42,843,300 shares trading hands.
Microsoft closed at 67.12, down 2.01 (-2.91%), on strong volume of 63,668,300 shares trading hands.


The Investec service Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) edged up to a five-month high of 59.5 in June from 59.3 in May, thanks to favorable economic conditions. The index sits well above the critical 50-point threshold that separates expansion from contraction in the services sector, where it has been sitting for over five years.
June's robust print was underpinned by a sharp acceleration in new orders from both domestic and overseas markets, which drove an upsurge in profits. There was a notable rise in new orders from the U.K. and the U.S., both of which are key export partners of Ireland. The strong growth in new orders led to a marked expansion in backlogs of work. To meet the upturn in client demand and business expansion plans, service companies increased their payroll numbers for the seventieth consecutive month, with the rate of job in-take rising to the fastest in the year-to-date. Higher prices for energy, fuel and insurance, along with a rise in employment costs were behind the overall rise in input costs. Service providers raised their output prices in response, with the rate of inflation climbing up to a three-month high.
FocusEconomics Consensus Forecast panelists expect fixed investment to grow 2.3% in 2018, which is down 0.5 percentage points from last month's forecast. For 2019, the panel sees fixed investment growing 6.6%.


Athlete is one of our new varieties this year. Although previously available in supermarkets during the 2012 Olympic Games, Athlete has only recently been released to gardeners. Enjoy high yields of pale yellow tubers which won't disintegrate on boiling and maintain their superb taste whether eaten hot or cold. Our other new varieties this year include Colleen, a good all-rounder first early, and Divaa, which is a second early with brilliant white skin.
Sarpo potatoes are grown by the Sarvari Research Trust in North Wales. These potatoes all have excellent resistance to blight, so they are ideal for organic growers. Our participants have had great success with them. This year we have Sarpo Kifli, Sarpo Mira and Sarpo Una on offer. Ideal if you want a reliable crop. The Sarpo Mira is organic – it's one of thirteen different organic varieties that we're offering this year.
Jazzy is popular with our local growers. This exciting second early variety has been awarded an RHS Award of Garden Merit for its superb garden performance. It's a waxy, set-skinnned potato which is both versatile and good looking – boil, steam, crush or roast. Described as a "small potato that packs a big punch" because it's full of flavour and has performed well in trials.
Pink Gypsy was new to us last year and proved very popular. It's quite distinctive looking, with deep pink and cream skins. The tasty white and creamy flesh has a lovely, fluffy texture when cooked. Great whether baked, roasted or mashed. If striking-coloured spuds are your thing, you might also like to try Apache (which has similar markings), Salad Blue, Shetland Black or Highland Burgundy Red.
1st Earlies: Casablanca (organic), Colleen (organic), Lady Christl, Pentland Javelin, Red Duke of York, Rocket, Sharpe's Express, Winston.
2nd Earlies: British Queen, Charlotte (organic), Divaa, Jazzy, Kestrel, Maris Peer (organic), Nicola (organic), Sarpo Una.
Mains: Ambo (organic), Apache, Cara (organic), Desiree (organic), Highland Burgundy Red (organic), International Kidney, Pink Gypsy (organic), Pink Fir Apple, Rooster, Salad Blue (organic), Sarpo Kifli, Sarpo Mira (organic), Shetland Black.
Our full 2018 guide will be available nearer the time.
Sorry, our advance orders are closed now – but you can still choose from 30 different varieties at our Potato Day on 3rd March 2018.
We're offering our popular gift boxes again this year. Each box contains two 8oz jars of homegrown preserves – you can choose the contents from our selection of jams, jellies and pickles. Look out for more Autumn preserves as we make them.
They are boxed with a pretty fabric ribbon and tag (designs may vary).
Jelly – Redcurrant*, Blackcurrant, Bramble.
Our gift boxes are fully recyclable. The box, tag, labels and stickers are made of paper and card. Our ribbons are fabric, which can be composted or reused.
Glass jars can be taken to bottle banks or recycling centres – or you're welcome to return the jars to us at any Growing Newsome event.
Our gift bags contain two 1lb jars of some of our most popular preserves. Choose any two of: Blackberry and Apple Jam, Plum Jam*, Blackcurrant Jelly, Rhubarb and Ginger Jam, Orange Marmalade. The sturdy paper bags have windows, a pretty fabric ribbon, a Christmas tag and a "Handmade with love" sticker.
We also have a good selection of individual jars of preserves. Please ask for our latest information on 6oz, 12oz and 1lb jars.
Our quince jelly (soft set) is £1.80 for a 6oz jar.


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Roger Federer announced his retirement from tennis earlier this year. The 20-time Grand Slam champion played his last match at the Laver Cup earlier this year.
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Arguably the greatest tennis player of all time, Roger Federer announced his retirement from the sport earlier this year. The 20-time Grand Slam champion played his last game, a doubles game alongside long-time friend and rival Rafael Nadal, at the Laver Cup earlier this year. Federer recently shared a hilarious anecdote during an appearance on a talk show. During the show, the host asked Federer if it was true that he was denied entry inside Wimbledon. Notably, Federer won eight titles at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (ALTEC), the most by any player.
The Swiss maestro revealed that he arrived in London to see a doctor after an event in Tokyo, Japan, adding that he decided to visit the ALTEC as he had two hours before his flight back home.
He then stated that despite several attempts, a security guard denied him entry without a membership card.
"When you win Wimbledon, you become a member automatically. So, I'm like, "No, I don't have my membership card but I am a member and I'm just wondering where I can get in," and she said, "Yeah, but you have to be a member." I was like, "I'm just asking you again where can I get in", and she said, "The other side, but you have to be a member," Federer revealed during an appearance on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
"So, I look at her one last time and I'm so sorry, I couldn't believe and still can't believe I said this and because I still feel bad about it. I'd look at her and say, "I have won this tournament eight times. Please believe me, I am a member!" he added.
Federer further added that he had to drive to another gate, where he was eventually recognised by a security guard, who clicked a picture with him and organized a meeting with the ALTEC chairman.
"When I said I won Wimbledon eight times, for a split second, I wasn't sure if it was eight anymore because I thought it 'was it seven, was it eight? I don't know'. But I said it because I never talk like this.
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One of the first techniques we learned during Canada Beyond 150 was scanning for 'weak signals': taking in diverse sources on a contemporary issue, and identifying information that suggests potential disruptive changes to a system in the next ten to fifteen years. It goes beyond the expected future to consider the range of plausible outcomes.
Each Canada Beyond 150 team did several weeks of scanning for weak signals in their respective focus area. I was a member of the team looking at the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. In looking for weak signals, the team covered a diverse range of topics including impact bonds, microgrids, additive manufacturing, alternative modes of transportation, food sharing, and the psychology of being in nature. Our report traces our journey from this diverse range of topics to our policy intervention focused on creating an automated sustainability grading systems using new technologies such as blockchains.
I really appreciated learning about scanning for weak signals, because it is both easy to learn and a powerful technique for building a broader awareness of the current realities surrounding an issue, and how it may be changing.
I decided to start a scanning club in my policy team at the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency. I asked everyone to think about the weak signal prompts as they read about Northern issues and events, and to bring their ideas to a short 'scanning club' meeting. We kept the tone fun and informal, and it became a team-building session. I was especially happy that it provided the students on the team with an opportunity to share their thinking and participate in policy discussions.
As other colleagues heard about it, they were also interested in participating. We opened up the scanning club to the other employees in the agency, including people in very different roles. Our shared discussions helped us create closer working relationships between the policy team and other parts of the agency. They also helped us develop a shared understanding of the challenges and opportunities associated with our mandate of strengthening Northern economies.
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Japanese startup gets six angel investors onboard to bring VR tech to fashion industry
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Psychic VR Lab's management and investors – L to R: Tadasu Nakamura (managing director), Masahiro Yamaguchi (CEO), Nobuhiko Watanabe (evangelist), Akira Takashima (advisor)
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Psychic VR Lab, based in Tokyo, announced on Monday that it has secured an undisclosed sum of funding in an angel round. The angel investors participating in this round include Tadasu Nakamura, Nobuhiko Watanabe (professor, Graduate School of Project Design), Akira Takashima (consultant, eBook Initiative Japan) and Tetsufumi Takimoto (angel investor / visiting associate professor, Kyoto University). In total six angel investors participated in this round, with two investors' names withheld from publication. In conjunction with this, it was revealed that Nakamura has been appointed to Psychic VR Lab's Board of Directors and Watanabe will join the company as the enlightener of all things VR (virtual reality).
Psychic VR Lab was founded in April of 2007 by Masahiro Yamaguchi who previously served Japanese data security product vendor ED Contrive (TSE:7853) as the president. Initially based in Tsukuba City, well known as a science and technology park area in Tokyo's suburb, as a VR research and development business under the name of Ozmiq. After participating in the 4th batch of Recruit Holdings' startup incubator Tech Lab Paak, the team recognized that VR is becoming the main business objective and to that end the company's name changed to Psychic VR Lab ushering in a new era.
Currently Psychic VR Lab, in an effort to describe the essence of various fashion brands to consumers online, as well as showcase the charm of their original products, is developing Styly as a VR-based shopping platform devoted to fashion. More than 30 fashion brands and outlets are expected to test out the platform soon, including Shinjuku branch of Isetan (a leading Japanese department store), which deployed an online shopping service using Styly from August 24 and is set to continue it through the middle of September.
Each of the angel investors who participated in this angel round come from particularly distinguished backgrounds.
Newly appointed Psychic VR Lab director Nakamura, after working for Nomura Securities, established a 30 billion yen (approx. 300 million US dollars) fund for internet business companies as the president of Hikari Tsushin Capital. Most recently, he served as an executive officer for the office of Investor Relations with leading Japanese textile producer Takihiyo (TSE:9982).
For Nakamura, the use of VR as a means to increase sales is a given; but, in regards to the dilemma of brands wishing to open a physical store and facing the setback of paying rent, Nakamura believes the resolution will come with time. Rather, he brings forth a dilemma that he has carried with him from his Takihiyo days: how to explain the fine details of fashion to people who know nothing. "I thought this is all there is," emphasized Nakamura on his reason for investing and entering into a management position with Psychic VR Lab.
Psychic VR Lab's new VR savior Nobuhiko Watanabe previously served as an Executive Officer and the chief of Open Innovation Institute at Information Services International-Dentsu (TSE:4812). Currently, Watanabe is the CEO of Japan Next Generation, which is the main force behind "one+nation" a regional music co-creation project. Around 7 or 8 years ago, when Second Life (which can be labeled the predecessor of current VR) was in its prime, Watanabe led Japan in using Second Life for events and in business settings.
Watanabe asserts that VR in its attempt to replicate the real world, could fall into the same trap as Second Life, eventually losing to the real world itself. At Psychic VR Lab Watanabe's aim is thus to design an entire atmosphere and show a sense of what cannot be seen in real life using media and UI capable of meeting such a demand. By changing the representation of the products and how the creators of fashion create, the way in which consumers consume fashion may also change. In this way, he believes VR is sure to make an impact on society.
CEO Yamaguchi introduced Styly at the 4th batch demo day of the Tech Lab Paak incubation program.
Psychic VR Lab's investor and advisor Akira Takashima is the co-founder of e-book platform giant eBook Initiative Japan and currently also serves as an advisor. The company was listed on the TSE Mothers Market in 2011, and in 2013 was reassigned to the first section of the exchange. While the e-Book market is currently booming, during the 2000's Takashima is credited with etching out a new market from the ground up.
According to Takashima, there is a limit to the two dimensional commerce of the internet now. He gives the example that if you go into a bookstore in the city and see the books stacked on lined neatly on the bookshelves, you are compelled to buy many. In the current world of e-commerce, this sort of phenomena is unlikely to occur. By using VR to recreate the feeling of being in a store, new business opportunities arise, and it is expected that web creators will take the opportunity to produce something altogether new.
Tetsufumi Takimoto
Tetsufumi Takimoto, who will also support Psychic VR Lab as an investor and advisor, was responsible for the management reorganization of McKinsey deemed taxi giant, Nihon Kotsu. Takimoto is currently serving as Visiting Associate Professor of Kyoto University in the department of Industry-Government-Academia Innovation Management Science Research Division. With expansive connections in across industries, he will be supporting Psychic VR Lab's business cooperation with large enterprises, as well as small and medium sized operations.
Psychic VR Lab has, from its Ozmiq days, arranged numerous businesses and events using VR, but intends to focus the current funding on management resources for the development of the Styly fashion commerce platform. The company has developed a 3D scanner that specializes in apparel in addition to a shopbuilder app that facilitates the construction of 3D shops; and they plan to hold an event where general users can try out the platform in the near future. They are currently searching for VR engineers, server-side engineers, and front-end engineers to join their team. Interested readers please feel free to contact them.
Translated by Amanda Imasaka
Edited by Masaru Ikeda
Psychic VR Lab
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Masaru started his career as a programmer/engineer, and previously co-founded several system integration companies and consulting firms. He's been traveling around Silicon Valley and Asia exploring the IT industry, and he also curates event updates for the Tokyo edition of Startup Digest.


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With all the media hype lately about the undead, what with vampires, werewolves, zombies, and resurrected ghouls getting their own TV series and movie franchises, it was just a matter of time until a dead musician played a concert.
That time is now. In a Valentine's night concert, the Dallas Wind Symphony pays tribute to George Gershwin by having him play his "Rhapsody in Blue." In a feat of technical wizardry that is equivalent to putting a man on the moon, the American composer, who died in 1937, will again perform before a live audience. The night's program will also feature other Gershwin classics; a still-very-alive Jeff Hellmer will play the "Concerto in F" and jazz vocalist Guy Forsyth will croon some Gershwin hallmarks.
The Gershwin guest appearance is the brainstorm of Zenph Sound Innovations out of Raleigh, NC and piano company, Yamaha. The behind-the-scene story of recreating a virtual Gershwin performance is painstakingly brilliant.
It starts with a recording that Gershwin himself made in 1924. Back then, the microphone and electronics were still in the future. The Paul Whiteman Band, for which the piece was written, and the composer at the piano, all squeezed around a gramophone horn which cut grooves on to a wax disk that carried the vibrations. The sound quality was, obviously, less than ideal. There was also no way to edit. The record was laid down in just the one take, errors and all. Further, the maximum time was nine minutes, and that still meant dividing the piece into two 4½ minute sides. That presented a problem, since they were recording a 15-minute version of "Rhapsody." Cuts had to be made.
The 1924 recording was the starting point for the engineers at music technology company, Zenph. With advanced computer software, they carefully analyzed every note. First, they had to drop out the Whiteman band and all of the considerable background noise. Then the real work started.
Each note has a number of parameters. There is how hard the key is hit, how the sustaining pedal was worked, and how fast the pianist goes to the next note. There are an unlimited number of ways a pianist can touch the keys to play the note, each sounding ever so slightly different. Zenph claims that they can recreate one thousand levels of dynamics and touch for each of the 88 keys. Then it was mapped for the approximately 10,000 notes in Rhapsody in Blue. The mind boggles.
So what about the missing six minutes of music? "We are only doing what was recorded — the 9 minutes of the piece that was recorded in 1924. We didn't try to guess how Gershwin might have played the missing music," said Norwood.
You can bet that Gershwin took the piece a little faster so as to fit as much music as possible on the record. "Even though this was faster than George might take it if he were alive, we are stuck with the tempo of the recording. There is an introduction that we can play like we want, but once George starts we are on for the ride," said Campbell.
The piano will play itself. Campbell says there are no plans for a Gershwin look-alike or a medium to summon a vision.
The other pianist on the program, Jeff Hellmer, who holds the post of Distinguished Teaching Professor, Butler School of Music, at the University of Texas at Austin, doesn't mind sharing the stage with George Gershwin. "I'm excited to be involved with this opportunity to present the world premiere of this "re-performance" of "Rhapsody in Blue." It's a chance for all of us to cross the years and play music with Gershwin himself — or at least the ghost of Gershwin," he said.
So, the North Texas audience can sit back on February 14 and enjoy some of today's most-advanced music technology married to a timeless performance of an American masterpiece, just days after the 88th anniversary of the original concert. Information at www.dws.org.
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The proportion of single-person households increased to 26.4 percent in 2003 from 17.1 percent in 1970, according to 2003 census figures. Add to that married couples without children, and that's about 55 percent of U.S. households.
Childless workers thought they worked more than people who were married with kids and that they had to work holidays more often and did not have access to as many benefits, "Beyond Family-Friendly: Singles-Friendly Work Cultures and Employee Attachment" reported. The lead author of the study is Wendy Casper, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Some companies are working to accommodate singles. Dickstein Shapiro LLP does not limit an alternative-schedule policy to people who want it for child-rearing reasons, said Michael Nannes, managing partner. "We can't discriminate based on lifestyle."


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Furius Dionysius Filocalus (ook: Philocalus) was een Romeinse kalligraaf uit de vierde eeuw. Hij werd bekend voor zijn Chronograaf van 354 die hij maakte in opdracht van een Romeins senator Valentinus en voor de grafschriften voor pausen en martelaren die hij in opdracht van paus Damasus I aanbracht op de graven in de catacomben en op monumenten in de stad. Sommigen denken dat hij behoorde tot de christelijke aristocratie van de heilige stad.

Filocalus zou voor deze in marmer gebeitelde epigrammen gedicht door Damasus, een nieuw schrift hebben ontwikkeld. Om het corpus van de epigrammen van Damasus te definiëren baseert men zich op dit Filocalisch schrift. Er zouden tussen de zestig en tachtig epitafen kunnen toegeschreven worden aan Damasus en Filocalus, maar ze zijn slechts fragmentarisch bewaard gebleven.

Kopiist
Romeinse cultuur
Kalligrafie


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Skewed Slightly to the Left: After landing
[Originally posted at Slacktivist.]
[In the canonical version Rayford postures out whether or not to get a lift back to the terminal or to walk, is a jerk to his copilot Christopher Smith, is dismissive of Hattie, claims he'd volunteer for emergency service, and then walks through the emergency scene ("All around were ambulances and other emergency vehicles trying to get to ugly wreckage scenes...") without volunteering once.]
"Is there anything I--" Rayford started.
"We," Hattie said.
"We can do to help?"
"Get yourselves and the rest of your passengers off the tarmac, indoors and out of the way," the woman directing things on the ground said. "Then stay there."
Rayford nodded.
"Can you do that without me holding your hand?"
"Yes," Rayford said.
"Good," the woman said, then she immediately turned and left.
"What an asshole," one of the passengers said.
"No," Hattie said, surveying the airport, "she just has a lot of work to do."
"Yes she does," Rayford said as he tried to work out what had happened. Maybe a midair collision? At least one plane had obviously been afflicted at just the wrong time. "Let's get out of the way and let the professionals do their jobs," he said to the remaining passengers. "Chris?"
"Yeah, Ray?" Smith said.
"You want to lead, or make sure no one falls behind?"
"I'll take the front," Smith said. "Everybody, listen up," he shouted --loudly so all would be likely to hear, but without any negative emotion-- as he walked through the group toward the terminal. "I'm Christopher Smith, I was your copilot, now I'll be your tour guide. If you look to your left or right you will see utter chaos. That's bad. Right now we're in the way, that's worse," Smith was now at the front of the group and had turned so he was walking backwards. "The sooner we're out of the way, the sooner we stop being a problem; so follow me."
Smith made a "come on" gesture as he turned away from the group and toward the terminal as they started their walk.
Rayford took position at the back of the group where he could watch everyone and hopefully notice if anyone was having problems or if anything Smith couldn't see might need them to change course.
Hattie walked closer to the middle of the group, keeping conversation going to prevent people from focusing on the disaster around them.
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Labels: Left Behind, Rapture, Rayford, Religion, Skewed Slightly to the Left, Transformative
Packbat March 7, 2015 at 10:32 PM
That would be the way to do it - professional in the best sense of the word. :)
Firedrake March 8, 2015 at 6:03 PM
But then there woudn't be a Vital Distinction made between the Real, True Christians and the others.
Mind you, I think it would be fair to argue that this isn't a great time to make it.
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