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It requires a significant capital investment to develop a photovoltaic solar system that should undergo a detailed financial analysis. In many cases, project developers will presentcustomers with a summary sheet that shows a simple payback calculation for the project. However, using a simple payback calculation to assess the economic feasibility of a PV solar project has major limitations. The simple payback calculation ignores critical investment factors such as the time value of money, variations in energy prices and alternative investment options.
Photovoltaic solar proposals are wide-ranging, complex, and challenging to evaluate in terms of performance and probability. A good practice is to review the proposal with an accountant or financial advisor who can assist in utilizing multiple financial analysis tools (e.g., net present value, Discounted Cash Flow, Internal Rate of Return) to help accurately forecast the future financial performance of a project. In addition, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy has developed financial analysis models to help calculate the levelized cost of energy, net present value, payback period, and other financial metrics related to a renewable energy project.


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When we look at the many blessings in our lives, it can be easy to forget that all good gifts come from God above. None of our earthly materials truly belong to us. We approach giving as a matter of the heart, and a matter of discipleship. We are called to honor God in many ways, and giving is one form of worshipping Him. When you give, your contribution plays no small part in growing the Kingdom of God. If you would like to honor God and help build His Kingdom, we have three areas you can contribute to.
When you give to Current Expense, you will be supporting your local church in all of its endeavors. Your donation will be used for repairing the building itself, purchasing elements for our services and activities, keeping the lights on, paying our staff, and ensuring that you have a church to call home.
When you choose to give to Apportionments, your donations will be supporting the churches we are connected with through United Methodism. Your offering will be used as a means to fund scholarships for lower-income families, provide Bibles across the globe, and support those who wish to pursue life in Ministry.
When you choose to give to Benevolences, your generosity will be used in worldwide servitude. Choosing this path impacts our opportunities for emergency response to human suffering, disaster relief work, and ongoing humanitarian efforts that will change people's lives for the better.

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Susan B Anthony is the name behind the history of the long struggle that women in the United States of America had to face before giving its women the right to vote. She is the one who organized their struggles, giving it a proper structure. An international women's rights activist, her sphere of work has had a detailed influence on the feminist battles that people from the developing world find themselves facing today- anti-slavery, to voting rights and equal pay for women.
In her work, she mostly refers to the female in singular, perhaps with the objective of bringing them together as one unit regardless of the things that separated them. On her birthday, here is a small tribute to her life and work.
She is on American currency
The 1979 mint of the American dollar coin bears her picture. Sad part is that the mint was halted in 1981 due to poor public reception. And we know why that was!
She is the reason why women in America vote
Women's situation in America is much worse than it appears. This has always been the case. The Suffragette, or the suffrage rights movement was spearheaded by Susan. There is a popular incident where she went on to cast her vote, got caught, refused to pay the fine, and wasn't persecuted further. This symbolized popular agreement with the thought which was a huge leap for women's equality. She also co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association (NSWA), an advocacy group for women's voting rights with partner (for everything in life), Elizabeth Staton.
The World's First Feminist Newspaper: THE REVOLUTION
CADY & ANTHONY (archives)
Elizabeth and Susan, together started what was perhaps the world's first feminist newspaper, run entirely by women. It gave them a fair space to express their views on various important political, legal and social issues. It went on to be a daily for two years before it closed down, in the absence of suitable audience with access. The tagline of the newspaper was:
"Men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less."
World's first Working Women's Association
Women were excluded from being a part of men's trade unions at the time. Being a delegate of the National Labor Congress, she made sure a separate union was formed for women, and also spoke in favour of equal pay for equal work. Serendipity was her style, when men when on strikes she would encourage industrialist to hire female workers, which got them an equal opportunity to prove their worth.
The feminist movement around the world today talks about the sisterhood and the importance of women's associations. This thought originally came from Susan, whose vision and work gave women that hope and belief that they could make good of their lives outside domestication as well. May souls like her's touch earth more often.


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Regarding Member Lands (MLs)
Q. What is the CAGRD?
Q. I have a Central Arizona Groundwater Replenishment District (CAGRD) assessment on my property tax bill. What is this?
|Q. Do I have to pay the CAGRD tax?
A. Yes. You must pay the cost of replacing the groundwater you use. This cost is included as a line item on your property tax bill and must be paid to the County along with your property tax payment. The County then transfers that money to CAGRD, who in turn purchases water that will be used to replenish the aquifer.
|Q. How does the CAGRD determine what I have to pay?
A. Each year, the CAGRD determines its total replenishment obligation for all of its members. This obligation results from groundwater delivered to CAGRD members. You pay the cost of replacing the water you used. The CAGRD then determines the total cost to meet the replenishment obligations in each AMA and divides that total by the number of acre-feet of replenishment obligation. This results in a replenishment rate that is charged against each member based on the volume of groundwater that the member used.
Q. Why is the CAGRD assessment on my home different from my neighbor's?
Q. How can I reduce the assessment I have to pay to the CAGRD?
|Q. I have a CAGRD replenishment assessment on my property tax bill, but my sister does not. Why?
A. There are several possible explanations. First, new water laws became effective in Arizona in 1995. Therefore, if your sister's house was built prior to 1995, there would be no replenishment obligation for water delivered to her home. Second, if her home was built after 1995, she may be located within the service area of a water provider that has enrolled as a Member Service Area of the CAGRD. If this is the case, then her replenishment assessments are collected by her water provider along with her monthly water bills. Third, her water provider may not be delivering groundwater to her home. If this is the case, then there is no replenishment obligation and, consequently, no assessment. Finally, her water provider may have the capability to perform replenishment services itself. If this is the case, then there would be no CAGRD replenishment assessment, but it is likely that the water provider's costs of doing its own replenishment are included in its monthly water rates.
Q. How can I get my home out of the CAGRD?
|Q. Is my water bill affected by membership in the CAGRD?
A. No. The costs of replenishing groundwater delivered to your home are paid through the assessments collected by the County along with your property taxes.
Q. How does the CAGRD know how much groundwater I used?


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Stopping my headaches
I get headaches a lot. I've suffered from them since I was about 10 years old, and they have grown progressively more painful and regular over the years.
I get bad ones, ones that consume my day and leave me morose, angry and depressed by evening.
The usual pattern is that by 11am or so the headache has begun in full, and doesn't end till I tumble into bed. I actually prefer the days I wake up with a headache, because then I admit to myself that I cannot function. In that case I'll normally shuffle about in the morning, take some medication and then go back to bed around 1 o'clock or so. Then I wake up in the early evening and the headache is mostly gone, or at least so sufficiently muted that I can feel good about life again.
I don't know what to do about this. It's a problem I've had for many years, and it gets worse and worse as I get older. The fact is that most days I am in considerable pain, and doing anything in the evenings is difficult for me. It wreaks havoc on my life, particularly my social life, and because I don't like to sound pathetic or like a hypochondriacal broken record, I often simply cancel engagements with no explanation. This makes people think I am unreliable and/or unfriendly.
I take way too much medication, which in itself contributes to the chronic nature of my problem. But those people who have never experienced severe and chronic pain are rather quick to recommend that I stop using painkillers, as though I have never tried any other methods of pain control. I've tried them all - meditation, yoga, chiropracty, cranio-sacral, massage, reflexology, aromatherapy, Chinese medicine, hypnosis, naturopathy, homeopathy, dietary changes.....and the only thing that really works, and really gives me any sort of relief, is good old-fashioned pharmaceuticals.
I subscribe to a set of spiritual beliefs that claims that pain and illness are not really real, merely accidents of thought and a reflection of negative belief patterns. I believe that, I really do - I am utterly convinced that my headaches are entirely psychosomatic in nature. But horribly, agonisingly real for all that.
You might have guessed that I am in the midst of a terrible headache right now, hence my rather depressive tone. This is the second day, and before this I had a four day long headache, with only a day's break in between. And of course, I need to go out tonight, though my head pounds and I feel nauseous.
So I will go to bed in a minute and pop on a little CD I have which promises to cure headaches.
It never does, but I live in hope.
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- Kathleen said...
Hope this headache is over now Walter...I empathise I really do ads a migraine sufferer since childhood.
Did you know the Migraine Clinic at Prince of Wales Hospital [which I attended in my twenties] is defunct now...apparently there is a line of thought now that all bad headaches are migraine or vascular in origin ....but I do not know why they closed the clinic in that case...unless it seemed pointless to try to treat them separately from a Neurological viewpoin.
I do have a few names of the specialists from the clinic...they are virtually professors now but do have private practises...let me know if you would like their names Walter...jut in case you have not seen them before...both suffer migraines themselves so would be very empathetic
love from kathleen
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Eventually he got up and walked around a little.September 2009
Are you my Daddy?
My camera didn't like the light under the trees and these elk weren't very interesting so I took pictures of the photographers instead.
I bet this kid got a good picture!
There were a few people without cameras.
This crazy kid was more interested in the sticks and rocks than the elk.
Eventually we moved on and found a second, more interesting group of elk.
This herd had managed to get split between two sides of one very vehicle crowded road.
The bull was very unhappy about this and kept bugling to the cows on the other side.
The herd kept going up to the road and thinking about crossing...


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By John Greening
This was a first for me—attending back-to-back Sunday services of three separate congregations, each representing a different ethnicity, with all three meeting in the same building. I experienced this wonder during a recent church planting tour of the Northwest and West that I took with my wife, Daria, and our colleagues Clare Jewell, national church planting coordinator for Regular Baptist Churches, and Darrell Goemaat, director of photography for Regular Baptist Ministries.
The Portland, Oregon, facility in which these churches meet was once the home of an Anglo congregation. Sadly, that church did not survive. Rather than simply selling the property to recoup its investment, the church turned over its building to Northwest Baptist Home Mission, which had the foresight to allow first one, then two, and eventually three ethnic congregations to share the facility. Each congregation has its own pastor, directs its own worship, and ministers to its own people under International Baptist Church.
Today these three thriving congregations are reaching unique people groups in the greater Portland metro area: Spanish, Vietnamese, and Karen (a tribe from Myanmar). Pastor Pete and Deb Steele, missionaries with the Baptist Network Northwest, are the coordinating overseers for International Baptist Church. Pete, a member of BNN's administrative team, mentors the congregations' capable pastors, facilitates operational details, and assists all three groups in their development of new ministries. Recently Pete oversaw a facility renovation of a wing, which will allow the groups to expand their connections.
Besides the sheer thrill of seeing firsthand these actively growing congregations, I learned five important lessons.
Creative vision casting can lead to remarkable results. Repurposing a facility that appeared doomed resulted in an exponential increase in ministry.
Rather than aiming for the immediate goal of developing one multiethnic congregation, this church's ministry structure allows three groups of believers—each who desires to be with its own people—to use a single facility. This stair-step approach allows believers to develop readiness for future multiethnic ministries.
Mentoring and building collaborative relationships among these congregational pastors can yield greater fruit when it is done in the sphere of ongoing development and coordination.
Maximizing the potential of a facility through shared relationships becomes a win-win for all involved—lowering costs, reaching unreached people groups, and expanding outreach potential through diverse ministries.
International Baptist Church's testimony of sharing spaces and coordinating schedules becomes a visual display of the gospel's power to break down walls that normally divide people in society.
On this tour, we also visited Chris and Colleen Pagniello of Highland Baptist Church, Hayward, California. The Pagniellos sensed God's calling to step out of secular employment to assume the pastorate of a pastorless church. Each week this Anglo couple lovingly leads a congregation representing 10 ethnic groups from the surrounding community. They said yes to the compelling invitation of Christ to follow Him and become fishers of men. As people of different ages and career tracks respond to Christ's call, He continues to build His church, allowing for more church planting to take place.
In the Silicon Valley's high-tech region of Milpitas, California, we visited another godly couple, Sidney and Anna Capillas, as they actively engaged with their primarily Filipino congregation. Sidney and Anna were sent out by nearby Sunrise Valley Baptist Church in San Jose and are faithfully establishing Northside Harvest Baptist Church in a highly atheistic area.
These two churches are intentionally multiplying churches by planting and replanting. It is God's strategy to reach every tribe, tongue, and nation.
We traveled on to a dynamic Spanish-speaking congregation in Hayward, Iglesia Biblica La Roca, led by Pastor Carlos Vasquez. This Baptist Church Planters ministry was alive with the vibrancy of genuine faith in Christ and displaying a hunger for God's Word. Meeting on a Sunday afternoon, these brothers and sisters received us with sincere love. Children and teens, moms and dads, as well as senior citizens demonstrated the happy union that believers experience when they assemble. Christ's life was incarnate through this church in that community.
Sunday evening, we enjoyed worshiping in a joint service in Tracy, California, with two other churches planted by BCP. Church planters Tim and Susan Heinrich started Crossroads Baptist Church near where Tim's dad, Bill, had pastored. The other congregation, Deaf Baptist Church, led by Kevin and Kenyata Maki, is focusing its attention within the deaf community of San Jose. Pastors of sister churches in the Central Valley area have formed good friendships of mutual support in their church-planting efforts.
I cannot help but ask, What might God choose to accomplish through us if within our association of churches every church participated in a church-planting partnership? What could you do with your facilities? What people groups are nearby? What contacts in your community do your people have that could become a church-planting seed? Clare Jewell would love to help you and your church think about the possibilities of church planting. Visit www.rbChurchPlanting.org to learn how you can take part in the essential work of starting new churches.
John Greening is national representative of the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches.
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4:00pm – 7:00pm
Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission
6100 Southport Rd
Portage, IN 46368
Contact: Cathy Martin
cathy @ savedunes.org
The recently-released Great Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin Study (GLMRIS) Report summarizes the results of an analysis of various options and technologies available to prevent aquatic nuisance species (ANS) movement between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins. The GLMRIS Report also includes an analysis of potential impacts to uses and to the wide variety of users of the Chicago Area Waterway System. Save the Dunes will be present to talk about the plan and local northwest Indiana concerns.


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Your guide to living in fabulous Cleveland.
Common Courtesy: ODOT installs signs around town reminding drivers that littered cigarettes can start fires in dry weather. Also asks that if you snort bath salts and get naked on the road, kindly stay on the berm so as to not hinder traffic.
What a Difference?: Baldwin Wallace College officially changes name to Baldwin Wallace University. Cleveland State opts against changing name to unofficial moniker of "Backup School."
Grand Theft Clevo: Auto theft numbers from 2011 show a noticeable spike in stolen cars in the 216. Except, of course, your piece of shit, with the keys in it, sitting there unlocked, waiting for someone to please just take it already.
This Week's Index: You're thinking America should have been smarter than to schedule July 4 on a Wednesday.


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Tharani's "heart sank" when Chatterjee was taken out
Karthik Tharani says his "heart sank" when he saw title rival Nayan Chatterjee being eliminated in a crash in the JK Tyre National Racing Championship finale at the Buddh International Circuit.
Chatterjee was running in third position when Manav Sharma clattered into the back of him at the start of lap 2, wiping him out of the race and ending all his hopes of winning the championship.
While Tharani was the main beneficiary from the incident as it essentially secured him the title, the Chennai-born racer admitted that he would have rather won the crown after a head-on-head battle with Chatterjee.
"When I saw that incident happen, I was setting up myself for a pass any which way because all the other three cars were compromised on their line," Tharani told Motorsport.com India.
"When that crash happened my heart just sank a little bit because I was like 'OK, that is just stupid from the car behind Nayan and absolutely not required'.
"And it felt almost really silly because I was like 'shit, there goes a fight'."
First placed Nayan Chatterjeee, second placed Karthik Tharani, third placed Arya Singh
Photo by: M Saad
After Chatterjee's retirement, Tharani merely needed to finish inside the top eight to bag the championship.
But he instead went on full-attack mode, passing Bryan Perera and Yash Aradhya in a single move at turn 5 to clinch the title with an emphatic win.
"I saw Nayan's car just being bumped off," he said. "So I couldn't really see the extent of damage. So I thought he has a chance of rejoining the race.
"So for me the only thing was 'he's still on the track, there is a safety car, absolutely he has the pace advantage to beat the other drivers so I better get to work now'.
"So I had this strange feeling that he's still in the pack. I even checked my mirrors a lot, I couldn't really see him.
"People were expecting me to back off but I just did exactly the opposite.
"I put the foot down because the best place is to be is in the lead. Because if the grid is a touch away then everyone's fighting.
"When you are fighting, stuff can happen. Yeah, I just had to put my head down and go for it. Thanks to the safety car, I saw bryan and yash dice, I was like let's do this in one move and made this stick."
Despite losing the title in unfortunate circumstances, Chatterjee was the first to congratulate Tharani once he stepped out of the car in parc ferme after scoring his sixth win of the season.
Rangasamy usurps Prasad to win JK Tyre Formula LGB title
Chatterjee: "I was crowned champion in people's eyes"
Latest news
MRF F1600: Shah triumphs in rain-delayed Race 1
Sohil Shah chalked up a lights-to-flag victory in a shortened and delayed MRF F1600 race in Chennai to extend his lead in the drivers' standings.
JK Tyre planning to bring F3 racing to India
JK Tyre has revealed plans to bring an FIA-accredited series based on previous-generation Formula 3 cars to India.
MRF F1600: Shah romps to double win on Sunday
Sohil Shah scored a fine double win as the second round of the MMSC MRF F1600 series concluded at the Madras Motor Race Track on Sunday.
Chennai MRF: Chatterjee, Prasad share Saturday wins
Nayan Chatterjee and Vishnu Prasad picked up one race win apiece as the second round of the MRF F1600 series got underway at the Madras Motor Race Track on Saturday.


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Baseball Scouting Report: Hank The Dog
This spring training sensation's got speed, but may lack some balls.
The Milwaukee Brewers' latest prospect has good legs, is PED-free, and boasts a solid OBP* percentage. Meet Hank The Dog. The bichon frisé/Lhasa apso stray, who first wandered onto the field of the organization's Phoenix facility last month, was immediately named after Hank Aaron, cared for by the players, and currently makes Bernie The Brewer look like Clark The Cub.
"I think this is one of the most marvelous human interest stories in the world of sports," said one Brew Crew fan of hour-long wait times for a Hank photo op, $32 T-shirts emblazoned with his furry face, and the promise of future bobble-heads and sausage race appearances.
And unlike Schottzie's controversial career in Cinncinati, Hank's owner isn't racist!
The 15-pound utility player/butt sniffer now lives with a team executive in Whitefish Bay, WI, and has a full schedule of regular season media appearances to look forward to.
As for the aforementioned scouting report?
Hank pants left, fetches right, and spays…actually still no word as to whether this Milwaukee mutt has his Laverne & Shirleys, but we'll keep Bob Barker posted.
*AKA "On Base Pooping" for all you baseball neophytes out there.
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Move in Early August 2022! Brand new construction single family home located in Fitchburg's newest, popular Terravessa neighborhood. This Alterra Design Home features open floor plan, big windows, great sunlight, large Quartz kitchen island, SS appliances, walk-in pantry, mudroom, 3 bedrooms upstairs, owner's suite with walk-in closet, tile shower. 2 car garage. Within walking distance to the newly built "net-zero energy" elementary school - Forest Edge and a new daycare facility. You will enjoy this new 21st century lifestyle with sustainability, accessibility, open space and culture. Call today for showings! All pictures, video & virtual tours are of a "Similar Model" home.
|Garage: 2 car, Attached, Opener inc.
|Year Built: 2022
|Finished SqFt: 1,798
|Finished Above Grade SqFt: 1,798
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|High School: Oregon
|School District: Oregon
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Thank you for your interest in providing food service at the 20th annual Chain of Parks Art Festival. The festival strives to have not only a wide variety of delicious food, with a preference for local food trucks, but also vendors who embrace our commitment to Green the Festival! We reach a recycle rate of 72.06% for 2019, the goal for 2021 is 75% or more.
Through our partnerships with Sustainable Tallahassee, City of Tallahassee, Green Party Events, Leon County, and Marpan Recycling, the Festival is now a Green event. The Festival saves recyclable and compostable materials from our landfills, recycles cooking oils, as well as educates and encourages participation from a community who values the effort. For our efforts in 2016, the Festival was awarded the ReThink Energy Florida 2016 Energy Innovator Award and 2016 Best Practice Award Finalist by Sustainable Florida. In 2017, Sustainable Tallahassee won the Florida Recycle Today award for "Outstanding Recycling Program or Event" for greening the Festival.
Green the Festival! requires NO Styrofoam food & beverage containers or plastic bags in the Festival. This requirement reduces waste generated from food and beverage containers by allowing for recycling. Reducing food waste is accomplished through donations.
The green initiative requires participating food vendors to follow specific guidelines:
LEMOYNE ART FOUNDATION, INC. does NOT provide liability insurance for the protection of persons, vendors, entertainers, merchants, organizations, spectators or others who participate in any LEMOYNE ART FOUNDATION, INC. event.
In consideration of participating in the Chain of Parks Art Festival, I do hereby release and forever discharge LEMOYNE ART FOUNDATION, INC., its members, officers, employees, agents, servants, volunteers and sponsors from any and all actions, negligence, causes of actions, claims and demands, for any damage, loss or injury, which hereafter may be sustained by me or my organization in connection with or relating to any LEMOYNE ART FOUNDATION, INC. event.
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....enabling returns from thin air.
Saferoller is a sophisticated continuous belay product from Switzerland. Saferoller trolleys and brackets are highly engineered and superbly finished. Rolling and transfers are extremely smooth and efficient. The Saferoller system is perfect for Aerial Rope Parks and most Zipline Tours. Saferoller has been adopted world wide - now in over 130 parks in 30 countries.


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I work for JuiceintheCity.com, and I love it. I'd love it if you and your friends worked with me earning money and being paid to experience the best local businesses! I promise this is not a MLM opportunity and I want you to join because it's a great opportunity, not because I'll earn money. Please check out our NBC, USA Today, and other press coverage on our website here (http://www.juiceinthecity.com/press). I'll describe the opportunity below, but to cut to the chase, if this sounds interesting to you and you are willing to share the opportunity please do!! Here's How...
1. Apply here (http://tinyurl.com/juiceroots) and tell Juice that I referred you when asked during the application. Be sure to put my name Chrissy Farnan as your referrer.
2. Post this job application/information to all of your groups (moms groups, college alumni, PTA, Facebook, Linkedin)
Juice is venture backed and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, but moms all across the country can work from home for Juice sourcing and experiencing local deals. We are growing fast, and hiring like crazy.
We're looking for more local expert moms!
The benefits are getting extra cash by doing what you already enjoy doing, shopping or window-shopping, meeting local business owners and actually making a difference in helping to grow your local economy. There are so many perks in being part of this great community at JuiceintheCity.com. You get discounts through your tenure, win prizes, and in community with other individuals who are supportive, motivated and driven. We are focused on Fun, Family and helping local business thrive!
Here is a job description of the current opening, as well as sample Facebook and Linkedin posts. Again, when you apply, please use me as a referral source.
Thank you again!
Here is the Job Description:
Local Moms –
Have a Fun Career from Home and Become the Local Go To Mom!
Have a Fun Career from Home and Become the Local Go To Mom!
JuiceRoots: Local Business Consultant Job Description
Juice in the City connects local businesses and local moms to create local discovery and fun for all moms in your area. With Juice in the City, you can:
· Become the local "go to" mom by discovering great local gems
· Earn hundreds to thousands per month while being paid to experience the best local businesses
· Have a fulfilling career from home that you can do during just a few hours a day
· Have a fulfilling career the kids can tag along on
· Instantly be a part of a hot Silicon Valley start up (See our press coverage from NBC, USA Today, The New York Times on our website)
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We rely on your local knowledge to find the best deals that moms in your area would love to buy. And, that's not all, you will become part of a community of moms in over 20 major markets throughout the US who share a common vision to save local and support their community and families.
How you fit in:
Most moms already have the skills we're looking for:
Most moms already have the skills we're looking for:
- Knowledge of local businesses and a desire to help them grow
- You enjoy challenges and have excellent communication skills.
- You have good insight on what deals other moms would enjoy
- You enjoy talking to local shop owners and building community
- Prior sales / customer experience is a plus but not required.
With flexible hours and the ability to take your kids to work with you, this is unlike any company you've worked for!
To get started on the application process, simply fill out an application, which takes no more than five minutes.
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Well, it certainly was a wonderful weather day for Easter & I hope that everyone enjoyed it! We had many guests at our Resurrection Sunday service at Tyson Church & two young lads, Owen Perrino & Christopher Scales situated themselves up behind our flower festooned cross (see picture). We had a rousing rendition of Jesus Loves Me with Owen playing his guitar, Christopher playing a pair of bells, Landon (recently turned 1) playing his drum. Many young-at-heart folks in the congregation played a variety of hand instruments as well!
The Tyson Ladies Aid bake sale on Good Friday outside Shaws was a success & in addition to the funds raised for various community needs, we had a great time, as we usually do when we get together! Although the date has not specifically been set, the Tyson Library, which is under the TLA's direction, will be re-opening for the season toward the end of May.
A reminder about the second vote on the School Budget which will be on Mon, 4/28 at 7:00 PM. It appears that the new amount has been reduced a bit due to a number of factors, so please consider coming to the meeting to learn more.
I just happened to notice that the deadline for obtaining dog licenses was 4/1. There is a late fee, but best to get it done now! And I don't even have a dog……


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Extra Research Papers ReadingFebruary 12, 2007 at 8:07 pm | Posted in Craft - People, Craft - Websites | 2 Comments
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Having been frustrated by almost one thousand slides for final exams, I cannot help adding some extra papers into my reading list (of coz, after all the exams). One of them is from Robert J. Lang I used to mentioned, one of the most famous origami artists. It's "A computational algorithm for origami design".
Origami is the first crafting technique I learned when I was young, however it is also the first thing I gave up trying as I realized it was too hard for me to do origami creatively no matter how perfectly I can fold something from a diagram. It is really cool to see academic papers from/for this old art. I may try Robert Lang's treemaker to make myself something one day.
Someone asked me about the twin cranes I made before. It's simply a combination of single crane. It's not from a square paper, but a piece with proportion of 1:2. Besides, you need to make a cut in the center. Check here to see various crane models.
p.s.: I am quite interested in the origami swan Michael made for Katya's birthday. Gotta ask him about how to make it after the exams. 🙂
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text: As a freshman at WVU I just recently joined a nonprofit club called A Moment of Magic. This club visits children in pediatric hospitals as well as other places as the children's' favorite characters. I am looking to raise money in order to dress up as one of these characters! We are required to raise enough money to acquire the costumes, wigs, makeup, and everything else that goes into becoming this character. Any help I receive is greatly appreciated as I will be able to make magic happen for children who truly deserve it. Thank you so much!


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For many of us, getting enough sleep at night has turned out to be a luxury.
Poor diet, lack of exercise, staring at back-lit screens for hours, stress and many other factors have thrown our circadian rhythm completely out of whack.
Thankfully, it doesn't really take much efforts to improve our sleep patterns and wake up feeling refreshed and revitalised the next day.
Try out these tips:
Cardio in the morning.
Don't think that what you do in the morning doesn't affect your evening rituals.
Exercising in the morning is an incredible way to improve your sleep patterns.
Not only does an early morning cardio boosts your physical and mental health, it also gives you a reason to get up from bed early, and make you feel sleepy in the evening.
Snack on some fruit.
Are you used to having a midnight snack? Try a handful of grapes, berries or an orange.
A small amount of carbohydrates before bedtime helps your body produce melatonin – the hormone that regulates sleep.
Cut back on sugary drinks.
Reducing your intake of sugar can do great wonders in your sleep, as it does to your overall health.
Opt for fresh fruit juices that are naturally sweet and avoid calorie-dense fizzy drinks. Instead of using table sugar, sweeten your food using honey.
And as much as possible, stop your sugar intake by 5pm, to allow your body to metabolise all the carbohydrates you took the whole day.
Make a journal.
Before going to bed, list down the things you have accomplished for the day.
Then come up with another list of the things you need to do the next day.
Writing it all down will keep you from worrying and remembering things, and allow your mind to completely focus on the present moment and drift off to the la-la land.
Lift weights in the evening.
Lifting weights in the evening can also help you sleep faster and deeper.
After dinner, do some weight training. If you do not have weights at home, try crossfit-style exercises.
Firing up your muscles helps a lot in metabolising sugar which affects sleep. As a result, you nod off easily.
You also get to burn more calories even whilst you sleep!
Turn off electronics in your bed or your room.
Browsing your Facebook newsfeed before going to sleep sounds like a cool idea. But no, it isn't.
Such electronics, including television and computers, emit blue light that could really mess up with your sleep patterns.
In a 2014 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found that participants using iPads displayed reduced levels of melatonin, a hormone that typically increases in the evening and helps induce sleepiness.
Quit the 'snooze' button.
Think snoozing your alarm clock for five times helps a lot? Think again!
While it seems like a great idea to wake up on time, many sleep experts agree that hitting the snooze button contributes to a tired morning and doesn't help us feel more rested.
Those five extra minutes in the morning are less restful than five minutes of REM sleep because they take place at the end of the cycle when sleep is lighter.
Of course, and I would suggest this, perhaps try a bit of hypnotic relaxation before bedtime.
It'll help quiet your conscious mind and allow your subconscious to start working its magic even before you sleep.
As always, I'd love to hear your feedback.
Richard Scott
Clinical hypnotherapist
Try out these tips and you will surely love the result!


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Order Of Worship (Liturgy)
2010 Book of Praise
Bible Translation: NKJV
Psalm 86:1,4
Psalm 51:4
Psalm 101:1,2,3,6
Psalm 141:1,2,3,4
Psalm 70:2
Read: Judges 16:1-22.
Text: Judges 16:20b
Beloved congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
These must be among the saddest words of the whole Bible:
"But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him."
As Samson slept, lying on Delilah's lap, a barber had come in, snipped off his hair . . . and the LORD had departed from him.
And Samson did not know it. Oh, he soon found out alright, but when Delilah woke him up by shouting that the Philistines were upon him, Samson had said,
"I will go out as before, at other times, and shake myself free!"
But he said that in ignorance, for he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.
Up until this time the LORD had been with Samson in a special way. Before Samson was even conceived the LORD had marked him as a Nazarite, one set apart or consecrated to the LORD. And from an early age the Spirit of the LORD was upon him so that he might be empowered to begin to deliver Israel from the Philistines. Empowered by the Spirit of the LORD, he had torn apart a lion, had killed thirty Philistines, then many more and then a thousand with the jawbone of a donkey. Empowered by the Spirit of the LORD, Samson had even pulled up the city gates of Gaza and carried them on his back all the way to a hill outside of Hebron. But now the LORD had left him. Now Samson the Bold, Samson the Strong, Samson the Terrible had woken up to discover that he had become weak, that he was like any other man. Now Samson knew what it was like to be defeated, to be blinded, to be shackled and subdued, to be imprisoned in Gaza and grinding grain for the enemy.
And that was sad. But Samson losing his eyesight and losing his freedom was not what made it so sad: what made it so sad was what it says in our text:
"But Samson did not know that the LORD had departed from him."
These words – that the LORD had left him – would be terrible words for any of us to hear. It would be horrible to be forsaken by the LORD. It would be terrible to experience not His kindness but His wrath. And it will be unimaginable horror to hear those words on the Great Day of the Lord,
"Depart from Me, for I never knew you."
But what makes it so sad in the case of Samson is that Samson had been chosen by God for a purpose! Samson had been consecrated to begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines. But now the LORD had departed from him. Now Israel had lost their judge. Now Israel had lost their deliverer.
And that is why these are such sad words. Sad words for Samson but even more, sad words for God's people Israel.
But perhaps not. Perhaps these are not the saddest words in the Bible in every respect. For what if the LORD had not departed from him? What if the LORD had continued to give Samson super-human strength even when Samson had denied his status as a Nazarite, yes, denied his position as a covenant child of God to the very end? What would that have meant for Samson eternally? What would that have meant for Samson's witness to the Philistines? What would that have meant for Israel? And what would that have meant for the justice and the truth of God? Samson was punished and he suffered the consequences of the LORD departing from him, but the LORD was not yet done with him, the LORD was not yet done with the Philistines and the LORD was not yet done with His people Israel. Even as He took His Holy Spirit from Israel's deliverer, the LORD would remember His people in His mercy.
This morning I wish to preach to you the following message from Judges 16:
The LORD takes His Spirit from Israel's deliverer.
- Samson's folly.
- Samson's fall.
1. Samson's folly.
Everyone, they say, has his Achilles heel. Everyone has his weak spot, a place where he was most vulnerable. Everyone. Even, the Philistines, hoped, Samson.
The term "Achilles heel" comes to us from Greek mythology, from a story about a powerful warrior whose name was Achilles. When Achilles was a baby, the story goes, his mother took him to the river Styx, a river that separates the land of the living from the land of the dead. There she took her son by the heel and dipped him into the river. And wherever the water of the River Styx touched Achilles, he became immortal, unable to die. Achilles would be the greatest warrior that ever lived, for he could never die!
But Achilles' mother made one mistake: when she plunged her son into the river, she held him by the left heel. And that left heel never touched the magical waters of the River Styx. And that would prove to be his undoing. In the final battle of the Trojan war, as Troy was being sacked and burned, Achilles was shot in his left heel with a poisoned arrow, and so he died.
But did Samson have an Achilles heel? Did Samson have a chink in his armor, a place of vulnerability? The Philistines certainly hoped so – and they were prepared to pay Delilah handsomely if she could find it out.
The Philistines could not understand it. Here was Samson: he looked the same as everyone else, but he was not like other men. Samson was strong – so strong that he was invincible. Whether he was attacked by ten men, a hundred or even a thousand, Samson would kill them all. This was not normal: it must be magic, they thought. There must be a secret to his great strength – and if they had control over that secret, then they would have control over him. And so the five rulers of the Philistines went to Delilah, Samson's lover, and said to her
"Entice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver." (Judges 16:5)
And so Delilah went to Samson and she said to him,
"Please tell me where your great strength lies, and with what you may be bound to afflict you." (Judges 16:6)
It is a crazy picture: here is Samson, an Israelite, a man of God, a Nazarite, set apart unto God to begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines, lying in the embrace of a woman of the Philistines, staring into her eyes as she asks him with all the deceptive charm that she can muster,
"Tell me, Samson: what is it that makes you so strong?"
Samson knew the answer – and it was not his hair. Samson knew – he had confessed it in Judges 15:18 – that of himself he was just like any other man. But Samson had been set apart by the LORD, had been made strong to harass the Philistines. What Samson should have said – or at least understood – was this:
"It is not I who makes me strong, but it is the One who dwells within me. It is not I who has the power to defeat a thousand men but the God who made me. It is not I who should be feared but the LORD God of Israel!"
And so Samson could have said,
"Separate me from my God and then I shall become weak, like any other man."
But Samson did not say that. He seemed to like this new game that his lover, Delilah, had made up. He seemed to like the risky, daring nature of it, giving himself over to be subdued by the woman he loved, pretending to be vulnerable, weak in her arms, but then turning the tables and showing himself to be as strong and mighty as ever. Samson was playing a game, but it was not with Delilah: it was with the devil himself.
For the devil knew the secret to Samson's strength. The devil knew that if he could separate Samson from his God, he could separate Samson from his strength. And even more, by getting rid of Samson, he could once more focus on separating Israel from their God. And the devil believed that Samson's Achilles heel was women. Foreign women. Philistine women.
The devil thought he would have success in the past, when Samson had gone to Timnah to marry a girl. That time he had failed, many Philistines were killed, their crops destroyed, and a wedge had been driven between the people of Israel and the heathen Philistines. However where the devil had not failed was to zero in on Samson's sinful weakness. Samson, who was strong enough to resist all the men of the Philistines, attacking and even killing them at will, had a weakness for their women. He lusted after various women of the Philistines, and what he saw he wanted to take.
The Bible warns against this sin of lust over and over again. It was not just that the LORD warned His people from marrying heathen women: he called His people, both men and women, to sexual purity. Warning his sons against the adulterous woman, Proverbs 5:7-9 urges them, saying,
"Therefore hear me now, my children, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. Remove your way far form her, and do not go near the door of her house."
Stay away! Beware! For, as Proverbs 5:5 says,
"Her feet go down to death, her steps lay hold of hell."
Despite the fact that the book of Proverbs had not yet been written, Samson should have known that. Samson should have realized the danger he was placing himself in when he went over to the Philistine cities for his wandering eye to take in the sights, to look over their women. For by turning to these women, Samson turned away from His own people and he turned away from his God. And by doing so he turned away from his calling to be a Nazarite, one set apart unto God to begin to deliver God's people from the Philistines.
But sin has a habit of blinding us, and sexual sin blinds many. How many lives have been destroyed, how many marriages torn apart, yes even how many ministries and churches have been severely damaged because of sexual sin? "Flee sexual immorality!" the Bible thunders in 1 Corinthians 6:18. Be afraid of what it will do to you and run away from it.
Samson did not run away. Samson thought he was the man. Samson thought he could play this game, and Samson thought that he could win.
And for a while it may have seemed that he could win. And indeed, he seemed to win in Gaza! In Judges 16:1 it says,
"Now Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot there, and went in to her."
Samson went to Gaza – perhaps for a good reason – and while he was there, he saw a woman, a harlot and he decided to spend the night at her house. Samson had forgotten or denied who he was. Samson had forgotten or chosen to deny that he was a child of God, in covenant with Him. Samson had forgotten or chosen to deny that he was a Nazarite, set apart, holy to the LORD, to serve Him.
But the men of Gaza did not forget who Samson was, and so they took action. Assuming that Samson would stay for the night, they closed the city gates, barred them, and quietly waited until morning when they would kill him. But Samson did not wait. In the middle of the night, he got up, went to the gates of the city, pulled them up, bar and all, put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron. He carried these gates, on his back, for sixty kilometers before depositing them on top of a hill for all Israel to see. And while this was a message to both Israel and the Philistines that all the power and the might of the Philistines was as nothing before the LORD and His servants, for Samson himself this should have been a wake-up call. Samson had not spent the night in Gaza in obedience to the LORD, nor was he there as judge and as Nazarite, but Samson was there for himself, to fulfill his own selfish and sinful desires.
And there we see Samson's folly. Samson thought that what he did in his private life had nothing to do with his public office, with his calling to be a Nazarite unto God. Samson thinks that he can hold on to the Holy Spirit's power in his office, his official calling as a Nazarite, but grieve that same Spirit by deliberate disobedience and unholiness in his personal life. Samson thinks that he can be Israel's deliverer and live in sexual sin at the same time.
But really, what Samson was doing was what Israel as a whole was doing. The people of Israel knew that they were God's children, the people of His covenant. They knew that they were to serve Him, to love Him with all their heart, with all their soul and with all their mind. But Israel did not do that: Israel turned away from their God to play the harlot with the gods of the nations around them. Israel thought that they could play with sin and win.
And sometimes we do too. Sometimes we also forget the warning of Scripture: "If anyone thinks he stands, let him take heed lest he fall." Sometimes it is as though God's people also think that we play with sin, walk along its edge, dabble in it here or there and get away with it. But when you walk along the edge, you will fall off. And when you fall, you will often fall hard.
Samson's folly was his pride. Samson thought that he was the man and Samson thought that nothing could touch him, that he could live and do as he pleased and never face the consequences. And in that sense we can be warned by what happened to Samson. For if you are on that road, treading down that dangerous path, then watch out, repent and turn around!
2. Samson's Fall.
But Samson did not repent, nor did he turn around just yet. From Gaza he went to the Valley of Sorek. And there he met and loved a woman, Delilah. Perhaps Samson still knew that what he was doing was sin. Perhaps the words of his parents when they warned him from seeing the girl in Timnah were still ringing in his ears. But if they were, Samson blocked them out. He thought he loved Delilah and although he was not married to her, he went back and saw her again and again. And every time he saw her, Samson fell a little more. Until Delilah – and Satan himself – had Samson just where she wanted him: asleep on her lap with a barber and his scissors close at hand.
"Samson," she had coaxed him, "Please tell me where your great strength lies." Samson did not tell her right away, but she got it out of him, bit by bit. First, by getting Samson to play her game. Verse 7 –
"If they bind me with seven fresh bow strings, not yet dried, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man."
Verse 11 –
"If they bind me securely with new ropes that have never been used, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man."
Verse 13 –
"If you weave the seven locks of my head into the web of the loom" –
Be careful, Samson! This game is getting dangerous!
And then verse 17. Vexed to death and worn down by Delilah's constant demands to have him tell her the secret of his strength, Samson told her all his heart, and said to her,
"No razor has ever come upon my head, for I have been a Nazarite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaven, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man."
And then Delilah knew that she had won. She had discovered, she believed, his Achilles heel. And lulling him to sleep on her knees, she called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. And then she began to torment him . . . and his strength left him. His strength left him – not because the secret to his strength lay in his hair – but because his long hair was the sign that he was a Nazarite, set apart unto the LORD! When Samson told Delilah who he was and why he had such strength, he had, by that act, given himself over not just to Delilah but to the Philistine enemy. Samson had forsaken his calling to harass Israel's enemy, he had abused his great strength to fulfill the sinful lusts of his own heart, he had scorned his Nazarite calling, and therefore the LORD left Him. The LORD removed His Holy Spirit from him, just as He would later do to King Saul, and so Samson lost his great strength.
Samson had to learn that you can not play with God, nor can you play with His calling on you. Samson's strength had not been given to him unconditionally for him to use and abuse for his own sinful pleasure. Samson had abandoned his Nazarite calling. Samson had departed from the LORD. And now the LORD had departed from him.
Samson fell, and Samson fell hard. And with his eyes gouged out and his feet bound in bronze fetters, he was taken to Gaza a prisoner to grind their grain. And with Samson's fall came not just the fall of a man, but the fall of Israel's deliverer! The very person whom God had set apart and equipped to begin to deliver Israel from the Philistines, gave himself over to those whom he was called to destroy. As a judge, Samson had failed. Samson would not be and could not be the one to fully deliver Israel from the enemy. And so Samson points away from himself, away from all the Old Testament judges, and calls for Another, for a true Deliverer to come to God's people. Samson's fall cries out for the Christ, for the One who was faithful in both His private life and in His official calling as the great Deliverer for God's people. Samson's fall cries out for the Christ who perfectly gave His whole life – even unto death – for the salvation of His people.
But God is not finished with Samson. Although Samson was blinded and in prison, verse 22 gives us a glimmer of hope.
"However, the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaven."
When all seemed lost and when Samson had come to the end of himself, the Bible provides us with this ray of hope: "However, the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaven." It was not the hair that was so important, for it was not his hair that had given Samson his strength. But with his hair coming back, Samson becomes conscious once more of who he was: An Israelite, a child of God, set apart from birth to be a Nazarite unto God.
And since his name is listed in Hebrews chapter 11 as a man of faith, we can be confident that now that Samson was blind, he was beginning to see! Samson could not see his hand in front of his face, but he could see that he had made a mess of his life, that he had fallen and he had failed in the calling to deliver Israel from their enemies. And so Samson would have humbled himself before the LORD, and convicted of his sin he would have begged for mercy. "Oh LORD, forgive me! God have mercy on me, a sinner!"
And the LORD did forgive Samson. And the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaven.
And there we see God's grace and His mercy for those who repent and turn back to Him. Samson had fallen, his hair was shaved and the LORD departed from him. But when Samson repented, the LORD would forgive, He would heal and He would restore.
And that is God's promise to you and to me too. For God who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, will take those who turn to Him in sorrow and repentance and He will forgive. He will do so because after Samson, He sent another Deliverer, the True Deliverer of His people, Jesus Christ. And Jesus Christ was faithful in all things. He was perfect in all things. He came to take our sin and our wrongdoing upon Himself so that He might take His perfect work and place it on us.
And so when we have given in to the folly of sin and when we have fallen, even fallen heavily, what are we to do? Let us repent! Let us humble ourselves before God. Turn to Him and cry out to Him who alone can save. And let us pray, "Lord have mercy on me, a sinner!" And as we earnestly and truly cry out to God in this way, let us look not just at ourselves and the mess that our lives are in, but look to Jesus, the One who came to saves us from our sin. For He will save. He will heal. He will forgive. And He will never leave you. He will never forsake you. Amen.
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Seven Tears Into the Sea
Phantom Stallion Series
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Real Phantom News!
Dear Readers,
Today I talked with Dianne Nelson at the Wild Horse Sanctuary!
The real Phantom is doing great and once more living the rugged life of a wild horse. He's back down to fighting weight -- literally -- and has a few bite marks. Dianne tells me none passed his hair and he doesn't seem to notice them. He's protecting his herd like the mustang he is!
Do you remember me saying that the Phantom tolerated Lily, the white mare, but didn't love her? Lily is the only one he's allowed to be stolen. Dianne says he might know more than we humans, since horses that appear white may carry a lethal gene which is responsible for their foals dying painfully within 12 hours of birth. So he let her go, without a fight. Is Nature amazing or what?
Phantom's Pride has turned silver! I will have to go see him soon and I promise to take photos, even if they're not professional quality.
Speaking of that -- two National Geographic magazine photographers have been to the Wild Horse Sanctuary recently and one caught the Phantom rearing, warning off a roan stallion. The wild horse story won't appear for about a year, but we can still cross our fingers that the photo will be chosen for publication!
Happy trails,
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ANGLOPHILES: the rest of your day is spoken for..
Dear Readers,
In honor of Celtic shapeshifters like my selkie pal Jesse (oh, and I suppose Harry Potter, too) you've got to polish up your British slang.
Go to WHOOHOO.CO.UK and play around a bit!
If you'd like to speak in a posh way ...
One loves playing with the whoohoo.co.uk british dialect translator. it's soh much geay!
Phantom stallion is cracking! Heavens above! How smashing!
If you'd rather have an Irish lilt to your email ...
IRISH: Oi jist finished writin' a new buk!
Or, RHYMING COCKNEY SLANG is code talking(for secrets or to keep outsiders um, outside!)
It uses words that rhyme with the real word. For instance, in the sentence below Captain Hook = Book
Me mother's pearly gate new Captain Hook is aahhht!
Have fun!!!
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Thursday, July 26, 2007
Dear Readers,
Now I have some brilliant news!
The bookmarks for SEVEN TEARS INTO THE SEA have arrived and they are not only gorgeous, they feature the favorite quotation (by a landslide) from you all!
If you'd like one or two, please send me an email ([email protected]) with SEVEN TEARS in the subject line and include your MAILING address...that's snail mail...and ask for you free bookmark. Oh, and be sure to tell me if you'd like it autographed.
My fingers are crossed that the first ones will go in the mail this weekend!
Later :)
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Bad News
Dear Readers,
I'm heartsick to tell you that 55 wild horses and an antelope have been found dead near a water hole in the middle of Nevada, near Nellis Air Force Base. An investigation is underway and clean water is being trucked in, now that the reporters are letting the public in on what's happened.
There are ugly rumors about this situation. When I have facts, I'll clue you in.
Hope you'll hold good thoughts for all the wildlife out there,
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Monday, July 23, 2007
Out for a Run
Dear Readers,
Want to start Monday with a smile? Check out this great French horse.
Did he join the Criterium International bike race (not the Tour de France) because he felt competitive, or was he following his herd instincts?
The swift chestnut didn't bump a single cyclist and left the race shortly before the finish line, allowing a human to win!
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
TWO OLEs!
Hola everyone,
Two quick snippets of news:
First, I talked with my HarperCollins editor today and THE SHINING STALLION, the new WHI book comes out on August 21.
Next, I've added some music to my MySpace account especially for the Kenworthys' "Fire and Ice" palominos! Ole!
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Sunday, July 15, 2007
I forgot to tell you that NIKKI TATE, a friend who's a Canadian horse author has invited me to join FACEBOOK. I didn't know it was open to non-students, but I'm there now. Come say HI ~ Terri
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Dear Readers,
This week I'll be doing my blogging here: http://www.girlshorseclub.com/wordpress/interactive-view-terri-farley/2007/07/14/
There have been so many questions coming in for the INTERACTIVE Interview, I can't keep up & I've always had this problem being in two places at the same time.
Please visit me there and feel free to post your questions!
Happy July,
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Friday, July 13, 2007
Something New
Dear Readers,
I hope you'll join me next week when I try something I've never done before! Girls Horse Club has invited me to hang out at their online barn, starting Saturday, to do a weeklong Q & A about books, writing and,of course, HORSES!
If you'd like to set up for our get together, check this out: http://www.girlshorseclub.com/wordpress/.
See you around the barn and happy Friday the 13th! :)
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Thursday, July 12, 2007
Dear Readers,
"Do You Love Horses as much as Darby Does?" -- That's the question on my publisher's website! If you'd like to answer that & other questions, trot on over to this link and let me know how you did!
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Talk to the Bot
I'm doing research for an upcoming book and came upon this really cool online robot. Try talking with her about tsunamis.
If you're still curious and would like to see some video interviews with Hawaiian tsunami survivors, you might go here:
have fun!
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Monday, July 09, 2007
Dear Reader/Writer/Rider,
I was paging through a copy of WESTERN HORSEMAN magazine and came upon what looks like a great contest.
The entry form indicates you have to be a horse owner, and be willing to write a short story or expression of why you love your horse, and then you are entered into a RANDOM drawing. So, even if you're not confident that you're the best writer in the world, you have a good chance to win a very cool horse trailer.
Here's the link:
Read all of the info carefully, and it might be worth having a friend or parent read over all the stuff, too.
I hope one of my readers is the winner!!!!!!!
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Saturday, July 07, 2007
WILD HORSE ISLAND faq
Have you had any thoughts about extending the Wild Horse Island series to more than eight books, like the Phantom Stallion series?
Yes...it's hard to decide, though, since I have some other books I want to writer, too! -
Is there a real 'Iolani Ranch?
No, but the ranch where I researched the style of the paniolo is a lot like 'Iolani Ranch! It's called Dahana Ranch and it's on the Big Island of Hawaii.
How did you find the Dahana Ranch?
I was searching for paniolo style horsemen and came across Harry Nakoa, the trainer and owner at Dahana Ranch and I got in touch with Kiyo and they welcomed me to their bunkhouse! You can explore the ranch, its people and horses at: DahanaRanch.com
How did the real Hoku catch your eye and become the model for the Hoku in WILD HORSE ISLAND?
I just saw her wandering around the ranch yard and fell in love. One person said, "Oh no, if you like sorrels, look at Pua." I did, and she's a beauty, but something about Hoku just hooked my heart. The second time I went back, I rode her and wow...wow...wow...
I had no idea there were cowboys & cowgirls in Hawaii. How did you find out about them?
Paniolo have been in my head since I was a little girl. There was a one sentence reference to them in my fourth grade California history book!
August 21! And I can hardly wait. It was so much fun to write and not only does it have an incredible cover, but it's full of island magic.
Take a peek here: http://www.phantomstallion.com/whi.html click on the ORANGE flower and see if you can find the rainbow
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Thursday, July 05, 2007
Wild Horse alert
Dear Readers,
I hope you'll read "Tuesday's Horse" blog http://www.tuesdayshorse.blogspot.com/ especially the first item about Nevada's wild horses. Keep in mind, Nevada is experiencing record temperatures this week: 105 in northern Nevada and 116 in southern Nevada.
All of the news in the column is fascinating and the last item shows the prettiest zhorse (zebra-horse cross :) not a typo) I've ever seen.
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007
GETTING INTERACTIVE: with foals & you
Dear Readers,
Do you have a young horse? Would you like help in figuring out what sort of future -- dressage, jumping, pleasure riding -- she's best suited for, right now?
A long-term French study has put together a series of tests (involving unusual stimulus, like umbrellas!Does that remind you of WILD HONEY?) which will help you see your horse's true temperament.
Here's a link to check it out: http://www.horsetalk.co.nz/news/2007/01/021.shtml
For those of you who've asked:
YES I DO plan to do the interactive chat here: http://www.girlshorseclub.com/wordpress/exciting-news-for-phantom-stallion-fans/2007/06/22/ but the Lead Mare and I have been missing each other's messages!
Happy summer,
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Sunday, July 01, 2007
Dream Echoes
Dear Readers,
All I can tell you is that I felt chills. In an earlier blog, I mentioned that I would be signing books and donating the proceeds to a fundraiser for the REAL Mrs. Allen(no, I didn't know her when I wrote that -- more about that in a later entry), but I had no idea how much fun I'd have and how many cool people I'd meet, or get to see again.
One woman was WONDERFUL enough to show me an old black and white photograph of a white stallion hiding in the sagebrush. She's been a friend of the horses all her life and this was a photo of -- hold your breath -- the real Phantom's great grandsire!
I wish you could have been there.
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The Big C Season 1 Episode 3
There's No C In Team
Cathy wanders into a cancer support meeting on this episode, but quickly regrets it and leaves.
She disdains the decision even more after a couple members form Team Cathy and send her food and positive encouragement. She finally flips out on them, making it clear she thinks "cancer sucks" and she can't just make the best of it - which proves she's just been pretending to be a happy, more free person since she discovered the diagnosis.
In the end, Marlene is able to figure out that Cathy has cancer because her dog keeps following her around and, apparently, dogs can small the diseases. This at least gives Cathy someone to talk to about her illness.
- Paul makes a cute attempt to win his wife back, resurrecting his proposal on the beach. But Cathy scoffs at it and pretty much says she's changed, he hasn't... so do they really have a future?
- Andrea and Adam bond during a meal that also includes Sean and his girlfriend, who works at Whole Foods.
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The NCAA allows university sports teams to travel out of the country to play against international teams every four years. California Baptist University women's volleyball has the opportunity to travel to Japan in May to do just that.
"We plan to take the team and play against some competitive teams and hopefully have a chance to meet and connect with teams over there," said Branden Higa, head coach of the women's volleyball team.
Travelling outside of the country would be a first for the women's volleyball team. Higa and the players said they are excited at the possibility of getting a chance to play overseas.
Elizabeth Gilley, junior cultural studies major and defensive specialist, said the team is also looking forward to learning experiences off the court while overseas.
"We are going to Japan because our team is looking forward to playing volleyball outside of the U.S., and to see the different styles of play other teams might have," Gilley said. "We also want to experience a different culture and to play against schools from another country."
Natalie Zimmerer, junior marketing major and redshirt, emphasized the role these trips play in uniting the team.
"It is also another way for us to bond," Zimmerer said. "It's a new experience that none of us have gotten to do before and the great thing is that we get to do it together."
To finance their trip to Japan, the team needs to raise approximately $25,000 by early next year. The team has already started fundraising.
"It's reaching out to friends of the programs, families and supporters of CBU Athletics and just trying to appeal to them to help make this trip happen," Higa said. "It's a big undertaking and we get a lot of support from the community, and we are hoping we can do enough to make it happen."
The team is working hard at fundraising by making phone calls and reaching out to the community, as well as hosting camps for players who are not at college—level yet.
"We have been fundraising over the years with our volleyball camps during the summer," Gilley said. "It's for the younger players who aren't playing at the college—level. We help them with fundamentals, and we help coach players up until their senior year in high school."
Hana Okuhara, freshman health science major and setter, said she is working on a video project to reach out to potential supporters.
"I translated a video in Japanese to help us get a few more sponsors for our fundraiser," Okuhara said.
Volleyball closed out its season in fourth place in the conference with a record of 9-7.


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Resources for Early Childhood Development
Below is a collection of resources available for you to download or add to Your Favorites. Search the collection using keywords and tags.
Make selections above to narrow results.
The Raising of America
EPISODE 1: THE SIGNATURE HOUR. The science is clear: when parents are stressed, babies pay the price. That is why improving conditions for families with young children is one of the best investments any nation can make.
Are We Crazy About Our Kids?
Economists are clear: investing in high-quality early care and education is good for our kids and communities, and even pays for itself many times over. So, why aren't we investing?
Once Upon a Time
Imagine how things would be different today if high-quality childcare and pre-K was affordable and available to every family who wanted it. It almost happened.
The Family Leave Shuffle
Paid leave is the rule, not the exception, in every other rich and middle income nation. How is it that in the wealthiest nation on earth we ask so many parents to make a trade-off: you can take time to recover from childbirth, bond with and nurture your new baby, but you'll have to forfeit your pay?
Who's Paid What?
Since helping our babies and young children thrive is one of the most vital jobs in any nation, the people who do this work in the U.S. must be paid well, right?
High/Scope Perry Preschool Study
The High/Scope Perry Preschool study examined the short- and long-term effects of a high-quality preschool education program for young children living in poverty, collecting data on the students through age 40. The program operated from 1962 to 1967 in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
Trailer - Once Upon a Time
Once Upon a Time allows us to imagine how things might be different if all of America's children had access to high-quality early care and education—in fact, we almost did.
Was Perry Preschool Worth It?
The students attending this high-quality early ed program were followed for 50 years. What did we learn?
Billions for Corporations...or Childcare?
Families are expected to do it alone. Yet other sectors of our society receive billions in state support.
Utah Invests in Preschool
A Salt Lake City school district is closing the achievement gap and radically cutting special ed costs by investing early in high-quality preschool.
DNA Is Not Destiny
How do our social environments (nurturing, toxic, and in-between) alter the epigenetic 'dimmer switches' that turn our genes on and off—with enduring consequences?
Do You Have Paid Maternity Leave?
Every major economy on the planet assures paid maternity or family leave – except the U.S.
High-Quality Childcare is a Top Military Priority
The nation's single largest employer provides government funded childcare. It's high-quality and it's affordable.
America Would Explode in Creativity
The capacity of the brain and the human spirit to continue and thrive and develop is beyond what any of us could predict.
Government Funded Childcare During WWII
When women were suddenly propelled into the workforce during WWII, the government responded.
The Child Olympics (PDF)
This PDF takes you through the screens of the Child Olympics activity. We see that the United States performed poorly in the latest Child Olympics - in infant mortality, child poverty, preschool enrollment and high school graduation.
The Amygdala-Prefrontal Cortex Connection is Crucial
Scientists detected changes in the brain architecture of 18 year-olds whose parents had reported being under chronic stress when those same adolescents were babies.
Trailer - Are We Crazy About Our Kids?
Economists rarely turn their attention to the world of early childhood and preschool. But with a wealth of scientific research pointing to the importance of a child's earliest years, several economists are worried about our investments in early childhood.
Trailer - The Raising of America (11 min)
The Raising of America reframes the way we look at early child health and development. This ambitious documentary series and multimedia initiative by the producers of UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? explores how a strong start for all our kids leads not only to better individual life course outcomes (learning, earning and physical and mental health) but also to a healthier, safer, better educated and more prosperous and equitable America.
Discussion Guide - Are We Crazy About Our Kids?
Discussion Guide for Are We Crazy About Our Kids? (Episode 3)
Do These Numbers Add Up? Early Childhood in America
How are we doing in caring for our children? Are we setting our children—and our nation—up for success?
Trailer - The Raising of America (30 sec)
This is the 30-second trailer that you can embed on your website for The Raising of America: Early Childhood and the Future of Our Nation, the 5-part documentary series that seeks to reframe the way Americans look at early childhood health and development.
When Congress Passed Childcare for All
Then Senator (and former VP) Walter Mondale describes how a bi-partisan Congress assured high-quality childcare and other services from birth to age five for every family that wanted it back in 1971.
China Invests Billions in Early Ed
Nations around the world are investing heavily in early care and ed - and don't understand why the U.S. isn't.