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In today's post, we're looking at the amazing benefits of 3D printing in education. Rather than providing our own thoughts, we decided to reach out to our community and gather feedback from a wide range of experts – ranging from teachers and influencers to value added resellers and 3D technology manufacturers.
A survey was conducted that asked the community what they thought was the biggest benefit of 3D printing in education was. Each participant answered a series of multiple choice questions, provided explanations for their answers and PrintLab then documented the responses in a series of infographics.
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- Enhances student engagement
- Provides students with skills required for the future
- Supports hands-on learning
- Ignites creativity
- Teaches problem solving skills
- Other
As you have seen, the answers are far and wide but there's a common thread highlighted within the survey – everyone has the passion and belief that 3D printing can bring positive change to the education system. In our opinion, there's no right or wrong answer to the survey we undertook – the biggest benefit of 3D printing in education can vary from person to person and may depend on 'how the educator approaches the opportunity' as mentioned by our friend Kaila Carty (Education Program Marketing Manager – Autodesk) in a recent conversation we had with her.
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Strobilomyces floccopus or strobilaceus and S. confusus
"Old Man Of The Woods"
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Strobilomyces strobilaceus, also called Strobilomyces floccopus and commonly known as old man of the woods, is a species of fungus in the family Boletaceae. It is native to Europe and North America. Fruit bodies are characterized by very soft dark grey to black pyramidal and overlapping scales on the cap surface.
The caps of the fruit bodies are between (1.6 to 3.9 in) wide, with a convex shape and a villous, involute margin. The cap surface is covered with dark grey to black erect scales. The stipe is up to (5.5 in) long and (0.8 in) thick. It is coloured like the cap and has a woolly surface and a thick, ascending annulus. The pores on the underside of the cap are hexagonal, coloured dirty white or grey.
The flesh is thick and initially white, but will stain pink and then slate grey and black after exposure to the air.
The dark brown to black spores are 9–15 by 8–12 μm, short elliptic and are covered with a mesh-like ornament.
Similar species
Strobilomyces confusus has a slightly smaller cap with smaller and stiff scales. Its spores have irregular ridges that resemble a partial mesh. The cap of Strobilomyces dryophilus is coloured a dull grey pink to pinkish tan and produces spores with a complete mesh.
Habitat and distribution
Strobilomyces strobilaceus is found solitary or in groups in deciduous as well as coniferous forests in low mountain ranges and alpine areas of Europe, North America and Asia (Iran and Taiwan). It is less common in lowlands. The fungus appears between August and October and young specimens are edible.
Best to dry these in slices, use in soups, gravies, sauces.
Old Man of the Woods Mushroom Recipe: Cajun Braised Venison with Mushrooms, and Dark Brown Gravy
Tinder braised deer meat, thick flavorful gravy, with delicious ripe Old Man of the Woods Mushrooms served over a bed of Louisiana grown white rice, and a side of sauteed green briar and bull thistle. This is a meal fit for a Cajun Caveman! All of the ingredients except for the rice, flour, seasoning and butter were collected by this chubby little chef from the wild green yonder. Once your understanding of certain wild foods begins to grow, you can leave the house with a few staples, and make a restaurant quality meal out of what you pick along the way….Or you can go through a drive thru, and only use your foraging ability in a survival situation. Whatever makes your dingo dance.
If you don't care for wild foods, then the ingredients listed in this recipe can easily be swapped out for a multitude of grocery store alternatives.
Ingredients for the Braised Venison & Rice and Gravy:
- 1 to 1.5 lb Venison Round Steak. You can substitute with beef, or pork.
- 2 good handfuls of Old Man of The Woods Mushrooms. You can substitute whatever your favorite store bought mushroom here (portabello mushrooms, porcini would be killer, etc.)
- 1/2 to 3/4 cup of flour
- 3/4 stick of butter
- 3/4 cup chopped wild onion bulbs. You can substitute about 1/2 of a large white store bought onion & 2 cloves of finely minced garlic.
- 1 cup of short grain white rice.
- Cajun style seasoning to taste. You can substitute for whatever goes for awesome seasoning where you come from.
- Water (or a broth of your choice).
Cooking Method for the Braised Venison & Rice and Gravy:
1. Season the Venison with your favorite seasoning (I would recommend getting a good Cajun seasoning mix). I used Larue Tactical's dry rub, Dillo Dust…that makes this dish a tactical recipe, right? It's what I had in my truck.
2. Brown the meat in a black iron pot/skillet with 1-2 tbsp of butter, bacon grease or oil.
3. After browning, remove the meat, and store covered (or it will dry out) in a warm location.
4. We are going to make a roux. Place about 3/4 of a stick of butter in the bottom of the skillet, and melt. Add roughly 1/2 cup of flour little bits at a time, and mixing with the butter until you get the right consistency. If too thick, you can add a small amount of butter, if too thin a small amount of flour. It will start out as a paste, then as it cooks together it will become more like a viscous liquid.
5. Cook the roux on medium to medium high heat, stirring constantly to avoid sticking to the bottom of the skillet and burning. If you get black specks in your roux, then you burned it…start over.
6. When you get your roux dark enough (look for a light chocolate color), then add your chopped onion, and cook until soft. Then add garlic and cook until the mixture is incorporated into the roux.
7. Add water or broth until you get the desired thickness, and amount of gravy. Then add your chopped Old Man of the Woods mushrooms (or whatever kind you've got).
8. Simmer the mushrooms in the gravy until they begin to soften, then add your meat back tot he pot.
9. Cover and cook for 1 1/2 – 2 hours, or until the meat is fork tender. Add water or broth to the gravy if necessary.
10. Serve over Louisiana short grain rice.
Ingredients for the sauteed vegetables:
- A few handfuls of freshly picked greenbriar shoots. You can substitute with asparagus spears.
- A few handfuls of chopped bull thistle leaves with the spines removed. You can substitute swiss chard.
- Wild Garlic. You can substitute about a clove of finely minced garlic.
- 1 tbsp of butter.
- Salt/Pepper or Cajun seasoning.
Cooking Method for the Braised Venison & Rice and Gravy:
1. Wash your greenbriar shoots, and bull thistle leaves. You can substitute with asparagus, and swiss chard if you wish.
2. Remove the spines from the bull thistle by cutting with a knife or using a pair of scissors.
3. Cross chop the bull thistle, and add them to a skillet with the butter, garlic, seasoning and sautee.
4. Enjoy the fruits of your labor, and nature's gifts.

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Manchester Science Festival kicked off this weekend, and our first event was yesterday's Manchester University Science Spectacular.
The Science Spectacular, in the University's Whitworth Hall, showcased research from across the University. This was the 2nd year the Science Spectacular has run, and it proved to be very popular once again, with at least 1700 people attending. Visitors were able to meet the scientists and engineers and take part in lots of different hands-on, fun activities. Activities ranged from making graphene to finding out what is the strongest chocolate (and then eating it our course!).
Visitors to our stall were able to hold the Moon in one hand and Mars in the other! They could also examine a number of 4.5 billion year meteorites, which hold the key to understanding the origin of our Solar System.
There are some more photos from this event on our Facebook page.
If you missed us at the Science Spectacular, we've got a Meteorite Day at the Manchester Museum on Monday 29th.
Many thanks to the Center for Lunar Science and Exploration, LPI/NLSI for providing posters and postcards, and to the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) for loaning us the lunar and meteorite samples.
After a quick turnaround it was off to Jodrell Bank's Girls Night Out (Under The Stars)…


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The other morning I was feeling like an eggy breakfast, but really didn't want the same old fried/scrambled etc number. Hey presto this guy below!
Spanish-y Eggs
Fry one french eschalot (the little purple onion) in some olive oil and a knob of butter. Once it is going soft add in two small potatoes that have been chopped into small cubes.
Gently fry on medium for about 10 mins,
Add in a tin of baby tomatoes (yes, they do exist) or alternatively a tin of shopped tomato. Squish the tomato down until flat. Add in a teaspoon of ground cumin and a teaspoon of really good smokey paprika. Simmer for a few minutes with a lid on the pan.
Crack in as many eggs as you need (I used 5) and pop the id back on for 3 minutes, simmering the pan. Sprinkle with freshly chopped coriander and crumbled fetta and cook for a few more minutes or until the eggs are cooked to your liking.
Serve directly from the pan onto the table with some toasted sourdough.
A big hit with all the family!
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Spanish-y eggs
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A new opened sushi shop with various sushi and delicious price.
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A charity hockey matchup in Goderich will reach an important milestone.
The 3rd annual "Raise A Little Health" event running Thursday is expected to pass the $100 thousand mark for dollars raised in support of local health initiatives.
Huron-Bruce Conservative MP Ben Lobb organizes the event, which supports the Alexandra Marine & General Hospital, Goderich YMCA Strong Kids Program, and the Gateway Centre of Excellence in Rural Health, in Seaforth.
The lineup for the event also boasts an all-star lineup of NHLers.
Lobb tells us Ryan and Cal O'Reilly of the Buffalo Sabres will lead one team, while Seaforth native and former Toronto Maple Leaf Boyd Devereaux will captain the opposing squad.
Former Leaf, Senator, and Sabre Dave McLlwain will also lace up for the charity event.
After the game, Lobb says the hockey stars will sign autographs.
Former President of the Gateway Centre of Excellence in Rural Health, Gwen Devereaux, says the fundraiser is critical to maintaining operations at the Seaforth organization.
Devereaux says the money raised allows Gateway to employ local students, who provide regional health research, and allow the region to thrive.
The "Raise A Little Health" charity hockey match runs Thursday at 6:45 p.m., with doors opening at 6:00 p.m. at the Goderich YMCA.
Tickets are $10 for adults, and $5 for children.


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Bombers Burritos NOW OPEN In Schenectady
This spring, the popular Bombers Burrito Bar has opened a second location in Schenectady, serving up their signature giant-sized burritos, wings, cocktails and other menu items in the Electric City.
Bombers' new facility opened May 5, 2009 (Cinco de Mayo) at 451 State Street in downtown Schenectady. This three-story building is located across the street from Proctors Theater and is nearly twice the size of the original Bombers Burrito Bar in Albany.
The first floor will be takeout and a seat-yourself dining room with a full-scale bar and seating area serviced by a waitstaff on the second floor, similar to the current layout of their Albany location on Lark Street. The major differences include more seating, a mechanical bull and a third-floor private party bar called La Playa.
Interested in eating late in Schenectady? Bombers in Schenectady will be open longer than their Albany location, from 11am - 2pm every day of the week, serving food and beverages.
For more information, pictures and updates on the Schenectady Bombers, visit the Bombers Burrito Blog.


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Farron: government must address housing crisis
South Lakeland MP Tim Farron has warned of a "housing crisis", as new research shows that home ownership in the North West has fallen dramatically.
Research by the Resolution Foundation shows that across the North West region excluding Greater Manchester and Merseyside, levels of home ownership have dropped to 71.4%. This figure is a significant reduction from the peak of 78.7% back in 1999. In Greater Manchester and Merseyside, the fall has been even greater.
The Resolution Foundation also reveals that the share of income that households in the North West spend on housing has increased by around a third since 2003.
Although the government has tried to tackle this problem, the latest government statistics reveal that its flagship 'Help to Buy' ISA scheme has not helped a single South Lakes resident.
Tim said: "The housing crisis is turning into a national emergency. Wages are being squeezed, and fewer and fewer people are able to get on to the housing ladder.
"The government's attempts to deal with this crisis are clearly failing - almost a million pounds has been pumped into its flagship Help to Buy scheme yet not a single penny has come to South Lakeland.
"If the government does not address this issue, a growing gap will emerge between those already on the property ladder and those who can only dream of getting there."


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BEALLSVILLE, Ohio — A Senate candidate, introducing Mitt Romney at a rally here on Tuesday, railed against "radical organizations" like the Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters, and he said he had a message for those, like President Obama, who stood in the way of the coal industry: "Over our dead bodies."
It was a significant departure in tone for a speaker at a Romney campaign event, which generally feature measured critiques of his political opponents.
The Senate candidate, Josh Mandel, arrived late to the rally at a coal mine, and he took the stage with Mr. Romney, who had just started his speech to a crowd of miners.
Mr. Mandel, 34, started by praising Mr. Romney for understanding that "coal equals jobs." Then he blasted "radical organizations throughout this country funded from places like Hollywood and New York City — people who've never stepped foot in Appalachian Ohio."
But he reserved his harshest words for the president and his rival for the Senate, the incumbent, Sherrod Brown, a Democrat.
"These people who are out of touch with Ohio – Barack Obama and Sherrod Brown — have waged a war on coal. They think coal is a four-letter word," Mr. Mandel said. "I'll tell you this afternoon, for any of these folks trying to stand between us and affordable, reliable, dependable energy, we have four words for them: over our dead bodies."
As he left the stage, Mr. Romney thanked Mr. Mandel for his introduction.
Afterward, a spokesman for Mr. Mandel, Travis Considine, said that the "radical" groups Mr. Mandel was referring to were Earth Justice, the League of Conservation Voters and the Sierra Club.
Pressed on the remark about dead bodies, Mr. Considine said Mr. Mandel had said the same thing in the past as he had fought to protect the coal industry, which is a major employer in eastern Ohio.
"It does not suggest violence," he said. "It suggests that no one will fight harder for Josh Mandel — for Ohio coal miners than Josh Mandel. It's an expression."


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Armenian President Armen Sarkissian has confirmed that he recently had no contacts with Serzh Sargsyan.
Asked to comment whether he communicates with Serzh Sargsyan, who has nominated his candidacy as the Armenian President, Armen Sarkissian told reporters: "Unfortunately, I have no contacts with him for a while. I have not met him."
As reported earlier, Armen Sarkissian was elected president on March 2 at a special meeting of the Armenian parliament.


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We got a tweet from Neville Radford recently asking us what this was?
Do you know what it is? No? OK – we'll let you in on it.
Over the years we have tried to protect the wildlife that dwells in our parks, green spaces and gardens. I'm sure you'd agree, we've all been witness to the quite dramatic changes in the nation's countryside.
Loss of habitat, fewer hedgerows, ponds and woodlands, increasing rural building encroaching ever further into the countryside and the ever-present climate change; have resulted in a vastly different countryside to the one that I know for myself, I grew up in.
Semi-rural and urban environments are no different with even the changes in domestic gardens (from grassed areas with flowers/vegetables etc to paving/decked areas) all making an impact on wildlife numbers in recent years.
Neville asked us what the picture was of at West Park, Wolverhampton. Of course, you knew all along that it was a bat box! One of the many that we put up throughout our parks and green spaces. At various times throughout the year, we hold 'Bat and Moth Nights'; where we invite our visitors to view our nocturnal friends and use bat detectors. Many of our visitors now bring their own equipment too.
The environment and countryside rangers have a whole heap of reference books and material that can be viewed and we talk about the types of bats that can be seen at each particular site. The children have as much fun as adults in identifying species.
At many of our events we give our visitors the opportunity to build and take away their own bat or bird box at no cost.
If you would be interested in attending an event of this type, get in touch.
Until next time – enjoy 'Wolverhampton's Great Outdoors' in this beautiful sunshine.
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In addition to my own posts, I also write for CloudTweaks, an authority on cloud computing. Cloudtweaks is currently working with Cisco, who have released and exciting new thought leadership platform called InnovateThink. I have been asked to contribute some material to this project, and it is an honor to do so.
My fifth article focuses on money, or at least virtual money, which is not only representative of the Internet of Everything, it also promises also to play a major role in the way things are bought and paid for.
Here is an excerpt:
In terms of the Internet of Everything, virtual currencies such as BitCoin allow for a wider range of actions that traditional banks find too costly to touch, and who make too expensive to use, such as micro-transactions. These small purchases may be the equivalent of a couple of cents, and would allow consumers, or their IoE-enabled possessions, to pay a small fee for to access a single news story on a news website, for example, removing the need for banner ads and other old-school monetization techniques, and allowing a greater sense of pay-as-you-go-only-for-what-you-need.
BitCoin is not the only virtual currency out there. In fact there are many dozens, if not hundreds of virtual currencies vying for market attention. BitCoin is only the most famous of the bunch – for now. But together they represent change, and a significant move toward decentralization and virtualization, just as cloud technologies are doing with big data.
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Rowing is a growing sport at Gordon's School and Gordon's Boat Club has been approved to be affiliated with British Rowing, the National Governing Body for the sport.
This year we are aiming to enter a team into a number of events after training throughout the Autumn and Spring terms
"Earn your medals in the winter, collect them in the summer."
Rowing is a growing sport at Gordon's School. This year we will enter our girls' squad into a number of local and national competitions. With the help of an Olympic Coach, our squad train hard to be technically proficient and physically fit, sessions take place: on the water; in the rowing tank; on the rowing machine; and in the gym.
"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat."
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Annually Gordon's competes in the Burway Head and Ball Cup.
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So today I was studying and my mobile rang. It was a friend of my mother's who is not the most up-to-date-technical person in the world. When I answered the phone she blurted out: "I bought a laptop!". "That's great," I said, "What are you planning on doing with it?"
"Well," she said, "I would like to use the internet and burn Cd's." A mighty good goal indeed.
I asked her how far along she was coming with those bold plans.
"There are so many discs that came with it, I don't know where to put them."
I paused for a second, and then asked her: "You mean Cd's?"
"Yeah, but where do I store them in the laptop?"
"I think I should come over to sort things out, so I can at least install a programme so you can burn Cd's."
"That's so nice of you, but how can I burn Cd's without internet?"
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New Restaurants Open in Chapin
Two years ago, Publix opened in Chapin. The grocery store was built on a lot large enough to build outbuildings, such as restaurants or stores. Koi Japanese restaurant and Anytime Fitness soon opened up next to Publix. More recently, students driving through Chapin could see a new set of buildings being built near China Wok 3 on Chapin Road in an area in front of the Publix grocery store.
Verizon, Jersey Mike's, Palmetto Rehabilitation, and Marco's Pizza have all recently opened up or are opening up in the coming months. Last week, in the cafeteria, coupons for Jersey Mike's that promised a discounted sub in exchange for a $2 donation were given out during lunch.
The location of the new stores make it the perfect place for CATE center students to stop by as they come back from the Center. If you look around the cafeteria or the arena lobby, it's easy to see a student with a Jersey Mike's bag.
"I like everything, especially the hot subs," said senior Joseph Mullen about Jersey Mike's. "They are made fresh and are really delicious."
"It's good," said senior Madelyn Crews about Jersey Mike's. "They have fast service and know what they are doing."
"If Marco's has good pizza, I'm excited," said junior Graycen Bozard. "I think it's going to be good for Chapin to have a few more restaurants."
These new stores and restaurants are evidence that Chapin is continuing to grow.
Naomi is in the 11th grade. Shen enjoys hanging out with friends, spending time outside, and watching Netflix. She mainly covers student life.


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"It has some significance as a 'main theme' drama premiering before the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of China," Yuchen Wan, an analyst at the China Market Research Group, told CNBC in an email.
The term "main theme" is often used to refer to productions, including films and television series, that feature similar overarching themes with government policies, Wan explained.
It is common in China to have television programs premiering in coordination with political events, Wan added, highlighting how another series called "Eastern Battlefield" was released in 2016 for the 95th anniversary of the Communist Party of China.
So far, reception to the show has been positive. The pilot episode of "In the Name of the People" was viewed 7.5 million times on streaming site iQiyi and 350 million times across all platforms, online media platform Quartz quoted reports as saying.
The show received a boost on social media site Weibo too. Lu Yi, the actor playing the show's main protagonist, has 24.9 million Weibo followers. He received at least 33,434 "likes" for a message he shared to promote the series on the day it premiered.
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The other day my 1st grader came home and told us that they had a guest speaker at her school. Little Miss Wheelchair of Texas 2013, Kirsten Passmore, came to visit and speak about her life with Cerebral Palsy and how she is just like every other kid. My daughter had such a fun time listening to her and I could tell because she told me everything that this little girl had to say. After my daughter told me about her visit, I was reminded of a Facebook friend of mine, Angela Irick. For those … [Read more...]
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The Human Rights Research and Education Centre presents:
"The Arts & Women's Rights"
Monday, March 9, 2015 – 5pm to 7pm
Where: Café Nostalgica
601 rue Cumberland (Ottawa)
Bilingual event.
All are welcome.
No registration required.
In celebration of International Women's Day, The Human Rights Research and Education Centre presents the show entitled: The Arts & Women's Rights. For the occasion, four artists will explore a contemporary issue related to women's rights through an exhibition, performance and/or discussion of their artistic work.
The artists:
- Carmel Whittle: visual art exhibition and musical performance. Additional information www.elizabethrileyband.com
- Jamie Koebel: Métis beadwork; "Walking with our Sisters" memorial presentation; Métis grieving dance for missing and murdered Indigenous women. Additional information www.JaimeKoebel.com and www.IndigenousWalks.com
- Kirsten Van Houten: presentation of photos taken in Northern Uganda of women working together to promote peace
- Susan McMaster: poetry performance of "My Mother Is Not My Child" drawn from her collection Crossing Arcs: Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me. Additional information http://web.ncf.ca/smcmaster/


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I just wanted to shoehorn this last bit of content onto the site before the calendar rolls over to 2019. Starting this project was a big part of last year's resolution and I'm proud to be able to say that I stuck with it. As I've said in other posts, if you've got some sort of creative endeavor in mind, get started right now! Life is too short to not pursue your goals, and who cares how long it takes? Creep along at your own pace and let the project shape you as you shape it.
So this is a first look at a couple of the main characters. Not very exciting I know, but the purpose of these sketches is to capture the general structure of the head, and facial features for the purposes of sculpting them in a 3D software package. So everything is going to look very clinical for a while as I try to nail down things like jaw width, cheek bone angles, eye tilt, hairline, etc. There are 3 more characters that show up in the next scene from the film so I'll be blocking them out next.
Eventually I'll be doing expression sheets which tend to be a bit more interesting because they depict the characters going through a range of expressions in order to show how their faces change when they emote. I'm looking forward to those. Anyway… That's it for 2018. I hope you keep stopping by to check on my progress. As always, thanks for looking.


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Originating from the Flat-Coated Retriever and the Cocker Spaniel, the Chatham Hill Retriever is a hybrid that started off being bred as a hunting dog but can now be seen as a family companion.
The Chatham Hill Retriever, also known as a Chattie or a Miniature Retriever, is a family animal inside and out. Both his ancestors are gundogs with history.
The Flat-Coated Retriever was bred in the 1800s, and the Cocker Spaniel has been around since the 17th century.
Chatham Hill Retriever Puppies – Before You Buy…
Before looking to find breeders to buy a Chatham Hill Retriever pup from, there's plenty of things to consider. Most importantly: Are you and your home prepared to receive such an energetic dog?
Let's look at that and some other important details that you need to know.
What Price are Chatham Hill Retriever Puppies?
Since both the Flat-Coated Retriever as well as the Cocker Spaniel are dog breeds with history, you can expect the Chatham Hill Retriever to be quite pricey, especially because it's a hybrid that's currently considered to be a designer dog.
You should, however, be able to find a puppy for around $900 to $1000.
How to Find Reputable Chatham Hill Retriever Breeders?
As with most modern hybrids, some dog breeders like to put unreasonable fees upon Chatham Hill Retriever puppies.
Make sure not to pay for anything you're not comfortable with as some breeders even make you pay simply to visit them and have a look at the parenting dogs.
Also, you should prepare yourself by learning about the hybrid you wish to buy before meeting a breeder.
That way, you'll know what you're talking about, and you'll be able to tell if the breeder is being honest or not.
When the Chatham Hill Retriever loses his reputation of being a modern designer dog, the demand for puppies should decrease, and you should find reasonable breeders more easily.
Before this occurs, however, you should pay attention to where and who to buy puppies from.
3 Little-known facts about Chatham Hill Retriever puppies
- Even though the Chatham Hill Retriever is a descendant of two gundogs, he is just as suitable for families.
- Due to his Flat-Coated Retriever ancestry, the Chatham Hill Retriever can be described as playful and lively.
- It's hard to predict how active your Chatham Hill Retriever pup will be as it depends on how much he inherits from his parents. Should the Flat-Coated Retriever dominate, you can expect to have to walk your dog up to 90 minutes daily.
Physical Traits of the Chatham Hill Retriever
Because both the Flat-Coated Retriever as well as the Cocker Spaniel are small to medium-sized dogs, the Chatham Hill Retriever is considered a medium-sized dog.
He can be rather small though if he inherits more physical traits from the Cocker Spaniel.
One of the first Chatham Hill Retrievers to be bred was a small version of a Cocker Spaniel with both physical as well as character traits of the Flat-Coated Retriever.
Usually, the Chatham Hill Retriever's coat can be maintained easily.
This hybrid only needs a bath every three months, and a weekly brush is enough unless the coat resembles the one of a Cocker Spaniel more.
In that case, you need to brush his long, thick fur daily. If the coat has a medium length and a normal density, you don't need to take him to the groomer often.
Although there's a variety of possibilities when it comes to the coat color, black, brown and yellow are the most common. Often, the coat color changes after being born.
How Big is a Full-Grown Chatham Hill Retriever?
The Chatham Hill Retriever is a small to medium-sized dog.
He can turn out small because of the Cocker Spaniel, and if he ends up being a little taller, it's because of the genes inherited from the Flat-Coated Retriever.
Both a full-grown male as well as a full-grown female are around 20 to 23 inches tall.
Male and female Chatham Hill Retrievers share the same weight too.
When fully grown, they weigh around 35 to 45 pounds.
Although Chatham Hill Retrievers are the perfect size for apartments, it's not a good idea to have them there because of their need for movement.
They might be a rather small kind of hybrid but they still need a fair amount of exercise and if that cannot be satisfied they end up growing agitated which will, in turn, make you unhappy as they may behave aggressively or not behave.
What is the Life Expectancy of the Chatham Hill Retriever?
If the Chatham Hill Retriever is being treated well and looked after continuously, he can grow to be around 13 to 16 years old which is a rather long lifespan compared to other dog breeds.
He may, however, develop health issues so make sure to take him to the vet regularly.
Chatham Hill Retrievers are a good match for families who'd like to welcome a loyal and entertaining family member.
Once he feels taken care of, he'll take care of you too and follow you wherever your mutual journey may take you.
Intelligence, Temperament and Personality Traits of the Chatham Hill Retriever
Chatham Hill Retrievers are easy-going hybrids. They don't mind being taught various things so you can train them and teach them how to behave properly.
It's in their nature to support both hunters as well as families as a loyal companion so you can easily build on these attributes. This dog isn't just good-looking, he's also very intelligent.
Being the energetic hybrids they are, Chatham Hill Retrievers need to be provided with firm training by someone like a hunter or a person that they can look up to and know how to respect.
Continuous training leads to the best and most sustainable results.
That being said, a training method that's too goal-oriented might lead in the opposite direction too.
As the Chatham Hill Retriever is a very friendly and affectionate dog, a violent confrontation won't be the right way to train him as he is very alert and knows how to defend himself.
This is also why they should primarily be kept away from babies and young children. Even though they don't want to do harm, they can do so unintentionally while playing.
It is in their nature to be active so it's normal for them to chase things around the house but it's important to teach them how to keep their temper under control.
In general, the Chatham Hill Retriever can be classified as a very friendly and gentle dog though.
It fits both the forest to hunt as well as a family home to keep the company perfectly and loves both being around nature as well as being around humans.
The Chatham Hill Retriever's Diet
Even though the Chatham Hill Retriever loves to move and likes to have active days, he doesn't need exceptional food amounts, mainly because he isn't that big.
If you feed him 2 cups per day, he'll be satisfied. You can always give him more or less once his daily activity varies. With $34 to $45 per month, his food expenses aren't too high either.
These hybrids are flexible concerning their feeding times, but they like to be fed after they woke up and before they go to sleep.
It is best to feed them when taking family meals too so that they feel like an actual family member.
How Much Exercise Does a Chatham Hill Retriever Need?
As the Chatham Hill Retriever is a descendant of two gundogs, he needs a fair amount of exercise every day.
He has a high level of energy and to get rid of that you need to walk him for about 10 miles per week.
Even though he doesn't need as much exercise as the Flat-Coated Retriever, he still needs more than the Cocker Spaniel so be prepared to take your Chatham Hill Retriever to parks daily.
Chatham Hill Retriever Health and Conditions
Normally, the Chatham Hill Retriever lives a long, happy life but sometimes, health issues may affect him. His eyes get affected most often.
Another major concern can be his hips as he moves a lot. Also, you have to make sure his ears stay clean when he runs around in forests as they can cause problems when dirty.
Most health issues occur when aging though and everything else can partly be prevented by regular visits to the vet.
Final Thoughts on the Chatham Hill Retriever
If you're either a hunter, a family or a family with a hunting profession, the Chatham Hill Retriever can be a real enrichment to you.
It's a loyal dog who keeps good company and likes being around people.
He'll bring life into your home and be a real family member, so if you have space and desire to take care of an animate being, the Chatham Hill Retriever is your dog!
- Chatham Hill Retriever Puppies – Before You Buy…
- What Price are Chatham Hill Retriever Puppies?
- How to Find Reputable Chatham Hill Retriever Breeders?
- 3 Little-known facts about Chatham Hill Retriever puppies
- Physical Traits of the Chatham Hill Retriever
- How Big is a Full-Grown Chatham Hill Retriever?
- What is the Life Expectancy of the Chatham Hill Retriever?
- Intelligence, Temperament and Personality Traits of the Chatham Hill Retriever
- The Chatham Hill Retriever's Diet
- How Much Exercise Does a Chatham Hill Retriever Need?
- Chatham Hill Retriever Health and Conditions
- Final Thoughts on the Chatham Hill Retriever


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Buy, sell, love, yell -- Revelstoke's online classifieds.
Selling two houses and shop in Southside area of Revelstoke. A very rare property. Live in one rent the other. Large shop with high ceilings. Almost an acre of property. Newer fencing in the last year. New siding on the main house this spring. Main house has a large addition with tall ceilings and large windows. Lots has been done to the property but there is always more to do. Tons of potential.


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It's very soft and nice - Bamboozle, like the last one, but in blues and pale green/yellow. I finished it yesterday, and today was perfect weather for it.
Jasmine thinks she looks pretty good.
Jasmine is adorable in her Katia! I wish I'd known about this pattern when Émilie was little!
Oh, that's darling! Another thing to add to the "future baby knitting queue". Love the photo of her looking in the mirror, too - what a clever shot.


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So, you know how it is, getting on a bit, you realize you're lagging behind the rest of the bunch on rides, hill climb times are longer, average speed isn't what it once was. That's just life isn't it? Or is it? What if there were some way to keep up with the others? Some way to ride the harder climbs as before… Or, maybe even faster than before. What if there were a way to do that, would it feel legitimate in one's mind? Or would it seem as if we were just engaging in a form of cheating? And I don't mean cheating the stats or mechanical doping. I mean cheating our self out of something? That's what I want to ask here!
Hello, Dear Reader, it's great to have you here, welcome along to some open thoughts and questions from an averagely fit 50+ cyclist considering how things might be switching to a road e-bike. Do you have your own thoughts on the matter? As a cyclist, I'm sure you do. Please consider sharing your view in the comments, or over on CyclingQuestions YouTube channel (click to subscribe for all the content. The vid to accompany this article is linked below.
A here-today-gone-tomorrow fad, or…?
So I've been looking into the merits of e-bikes or more specifically electric road bikes. At the time of writing, I think most of the decent ones are still a bit out of my price range, but as I've been monitoring things, that figure seems to be dropping with a gain popularity. Is it just a flash-in-the-pan fad? It's hard to say with so many bike trends coming and going quickly, some leaving an impression and some not so much. Certainly it seems the marketeers and retailers are bankrolling the trend so it seems electric bikes are being pushed as part of the cycling agenda.
Lifelong cyclist > e-biker (not driver > e-biker)
Purely for this article, I'm looking at how it might be switching from a standard leg-power only bicycle to an e-bike. I can certainly appreciate the health advantages both for folk themselves and clean-air advantages for the environment when drivers get out of their vehicles and onto electric bikes. I think that's a complete no-brainer. If that's you, I totally applaud you. One less car or vehicle is always a good thing for us all on the planet! So well done indeed for making the change! I think as a means of transport, any kind of bike outweighs motorized counterparts significantly.
However, that's not what I want to look at here. As a lifelong cyclist myself, for simple outdoor enjoyable recreation and for health benefits, I'm interested in exploring here what might differ were I – or any of you road cyclists out there in the same position – to switch over to electrically-assisted bikes.
I'm a big ol' marketing soft sell!
Having looked around at a bunch of the e-bike advertising, I think had I the spare cash, I'd probably be an easy sell for an electric road bike – a warm lead isn't that what the sales term might be? 😮 But the marketing surrounding electric bikes says it all…
Just as one example (and note I'm not affiliated to anybody or anything) but Ribble Cycles, who, in my opinion, happen to have one of the nicest road e-bikes out there at the minute, suggest of their SLe electric road bike that "Whatever your level of riding the SLe will give you a significant performance boost to get you over previously unimaginable mountain passes, keep up on hilly group rides and smash the ride that took you way outside your comfort zone." Now, I have to admit, I'm not at all averse to that picture they've painted there! I can see myself tackling local hills on a road e-bike that – while I might be conquering them, I'm doing so at the expense of ride duration. It'd be a nice idea to ride hills at a decent rate and also have some remaining energy levels in my legs to continue on a longer ride too.
Orbea are another brand I've noted with respect to road e-bikes. I reckon at the time of writing, the Orbea Gain wins the most-like-a-normal-road-bike e-bike award. They've pre-empted some of my own concerns here, and maybe so too yours, with their language. Get this, it's carefully worded to allay the kinds of issues someone like me, or yourself, an existing road cyclist, might have. They say of their Gain range… "Gain was designed to enhance your ride, not dominate it" Clever, eh? You can see they've thought about possible objections, right? They say: "Gain embraces your sweat and hard work and works in unison with your efforts to tick off the kilometers. System interfaces are modern, integrated and sleek. There are no bulky components to reduce the riding experience, distractions have been minimized so it's just you, Gain and the hours ahead." Okay maybe touching on the twee, but they've put in the effort to mitigate against potentially die hard, a bike ought to be a bike old farts like me haha.
For me, one issue is the high price. I'm not saying they're over-priced in general, no. Though some of the extreme high-end models (I'm thinking the £6K Nytro from Pinarello) possibly are. So not necessarily over-priced, just out of my own range. Then again, I'm probably not the target demographic as I'm happily counting off the miles on my bottom of the range Specialized Allez. I have no complaints with it either beyond the bottom of the range groupset as I mentioned in the accompanying vid for my minimum price for a beginner road bike article here a while ago. I can't envision exactly what way the manufacturers are setting out the market for road versions of electric bikes. I hope they're not planning some kind of wealthiest-only target demographic. I don't believe so – there'd be too much revenue missed in bypassing ol' cheapskates like me haha 🙂
My biggest personal issue with the idea of a road e-bike
The thing is, my opinion is somewhat speculative because I haven't had the chance to even try one. But I suspect I'd like it a lot. I think, quite frankly, it'd be a huge amount of fun. Like who doesn't want to go faster on the flat or uphill if they had the chance? Personally I believe I'd get to ride stuff I wouldn't normally ride at speeds I wouldn't normally be able to ride at.
But you see, therein lies my quandry. Who is it that's actually achieved that climb? Me or the bike? Yes, I'm always going to have to pedal – these bikes are pedal assist after all. And I know there's a weight penalty and I've read about motor drag when pedalling too. So it's not all the bike, I get that. But with up to an extra 250W on tap (and in some cases up to 750W with extra batteries) a substantial proportion of any assisted ride wouldn't be me. Am I wrong about that? I'm a novice when it comes to the tech so I don't know for sure. Any thoughts enlightening me welcome! 🙂
And here's the thing: for me it's not a major disadvantage that I struggle on climbs. Oddly maybe – though I don't believe I'm alone in this – but actually that's the whole thing of it. I like cycling because I struggle, but I persist. And I make it to the top. I have the assurance in cycling that translates over to life in general that I'll always get there in the end. I'll never be the fastest but for me that's not the point. I make it. And more importantly, I make it under my own steam.
When I'm at the top, I congratulate myself. Well done man, you made it, be proud 🙂 Would I feel the same on a road e-bike? Well done man, you made it… Though actually, at best it was what you might euphemistically call "a team effort". The big question for me is: would I be thanking the bike for getting me there? I think I might have the lingering question of which agency took the lion's share of the effort, me or the bike? I'm not a data-rider so I've no notion what my power output on a decent climb might be, but a free 250W sounds like a sizeable amount, no?
That's just the wrong way to look at e-bikes is it not?
Maybe. But if I had the option to just lighten that load, like the ol' sticky bottles we see in the major cycling tours 😉 #winks, I suspect I may take that option. An electric pedal-assisted road bike would almost be too much of a temptation not to take the helping hand.
Here's the rub. For me personally and within my work as a counsellor, I find we're all driven by a goal-setting > goal-achievement > reward cycle. We don't even have to explicitly set goals though as I've mentioned many times before here, reasonable goals, recognising success in achieving those goals, and rewarding our success, are key factors in maintaining motivation.
This works both ways too. One of the nine markers in diagnosing major depressive disorder (per the DSM-5) is a markedly diminished interest or pleasure in activities most of the day. You can appreciate how, from this, one of the most commonly observed traits in folk under the symptoms of depression as I mentioned in my previous series on a CBT-based cycling plan for depression is that with symptoms of depression often we experience a complete lack of achievement and success. And the less success we feel, the less of anything we're inclined to do. Because we've no motivation to. And that means the feeling of success gradually, via this negative cycle, slips away from us. And alas, that leaves us in a very low place indeed. Potentially the lowest place. The protocol for breaking free of this is to simply activate our selves. And we do this necessarily with very small easily-achievable goals (such as riding our bike!) This gives us a gentle sense of achievement that we can build upon to both brighten our mood (which exercise is proven to do) and further grow our motivation to do more and to gradually gain back our missing sense of success.
What's that got to do with the road e-bike?
Well for me, it goes back to riding my bike up a hefty climb. Or seeing improvements in my speed over a flat section. Maybe this applies to you too. But I know who's done that effort. It's me who deserves self-recognition for achieving that success, nobody else did that except me. I did it, I deserve the acknowledgement of that success (even though it'll only be me who acknowledges it – man you better believe I always do! haha) but it's me who earned the reward.
Conversely, on an electric road bike, at best I can convince myself that at least I had a hand in it. At best it was a team effort. The team (me + the bike) did well. And I guess maybe that's good enough for some, many or most of you out there, Dear Readers. And I have no beef with that, nor axe to grind. Especially if you're able to see that achievement as your achievement because a sense of success and achievement is one thing that helps stave off depressive symptoms in those of us predisposed to it. So all good! 🙂
I just reckon on balance it's not for me personally despite how much I love the idea of riding further and faster! 😮 #nobrainer
An age-old thought
Likewise, a counter argument to this is that an electric road bike helps us to keep up with the group. And isn't that in itself motivating? Sure, I'd not disagree with that. But behind that lies something else… I think presenting the road e-bike this way is to seemingly offer an instantly-gratifying fix to an age-old thought (pardon the pun). And that thought is am I too old, or am I becoming obsolete or incapable as I get older?
Well, in this case, I see road e-bikes not as offering a fix to this at all, but rather as being nothing more than a suppressor of that age-old thought. Look Ma, with this new e-bike, that thought's no longer there! Now I can keep up with them guys and gals more capable / younger / fitter than me, Ma!
Okay apologies, I'm being facetious, haha. But nevertheless, if you're having that thought "I'm too old" etc, then that thought isn't addressed by the e-bike. It's only temporarily hidden, neither addressed nor confronted. If you're having that thought, and yeah, me too! Consider having a quick look at some of the thinking in my article about feeling too old for cycling!
But in the end it ain't what you do…
Ultimately we all do what we do. If a road e-bike makes you happy then it's all good. As I say I have no issues with any electric bike riders. It's all cycling and it's so much to the better. Well no issue with anyone besides some of the monkeys riding, it seems, non-limited electric speedbikes riding at 70mph!! on public cyclepaths and whose clickbait videos use terms such as "insanely fast" and "dangerous" I got literally no time for that. Haha, can you tell? 😀 The world can be dangerous enough for cyclists without idiots who are actually on bikes making it worse!
As for folk using electric assistance to cheat on Strava and Zwift, well if they're gonna, they're gonna anyway e-bikes or not. It is what it is I say.
And as for hardcore cycling brethren who might lament those gaining an advantage on them with e-bikes, sure I get that. If it's done unfairly as a mechanical doping advantage then that's un-condonable.
As ever, here's the accompanying vid. Was a misty morning with all the usual huffing and puffing haha – as though to illustrate my point! 😀
But I guess we all have to make whatever peace we have to make with e-bikes. Like disc brakes – yeah, remember the outcry over that haha – like discs and now we're onto the push for single front ring gearing too. But I reckon of the electric bikes, they're here to stay. And I think that's a good thing. They're doing a lot of good particularly to facilitate cycling in those not active at all, in encouraging motor vehicle drivers out into the fresh air, helping folk with mobility issues, and in interesting people in the idea of cycling who wouldn't otherwise. They're a good thing.
For me, if I had the chance, I'd love to try one out! In particular, I'd love to evaluate what's gained in the fun factor against what's lost in that sense of achievement and success. Now that'd be a good experiment! Anyone wants to loan me one?? Haha 🙂
Love to know what you think of this, Dear Reader as these are just results of my own thoughts and research. But meantime whatever way you do your thing, and however you're riding, ride safe and have fun! And kindest warmest regards as ever to you, Dear Reader, David.


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Marine safety issues and actions
Sydney Harbour pilotage requirements
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|Who it affects:
|All persons charged with navigating a vessel at sea
|Issue owner:
|Sydney Ports Corporation
|Transport function:
|Marine: Shipboard operations
|Investigation Report 297-MO-2013-003
|Issue release date:
|12 May 2014
|Current issue status:
|Not addressed
|Issue status justification:
While no safety action has yet been taken, the Sydney Ports Corporation review of the application of the pilotage regulations has the potential to address this safety issue.
Safety issue description
Calliope was not required to carry a pilot during Sydney Harbour voyages because the yacht was considered to be a recreational vessel, even though the risks it posed to the port were the same as those posed by similarly sized commercially operated vessels.
Proactive Action
|Action organisation:
|Sydney Ports Corporation
|12 May 2014
|Action status:
The Sydney Ports Corporation has advised that;
The report and its recommendations are welcomed as a constructive input into the effort being made to continually improve safety in Sydney Harbour and elsewhere.
In considering the issue of pilotage for recreational/charter vessels the Harbour Master Sydney has recognised that overseeing and enforcing pilotage regulations based upon the variable functions of a vessel is extremely difficult, whilst the actual risk posed to & by the vessel does not change. In promoting the need for a review of the application of the pilotage regulations the Harbour Master has highlighted the particular details of this incident as part of the review of the NSW Marine Safety Act.
ATSB comment:
The ATSB acknowledges Sydney Ports Corporations intention to review the Sydney Harbour pilotage requirements, but considers that further action is required to adequately address this safety issue.
|Action number:
|Action organisation:
|Sydney Ports Corporation
|12 May 2014
|Action status:
The ATSB recommends that Sydney Ports Corporation takes safety action to address the pilotage requirements that apply to privately operated yachts like Calliope.


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The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) participated as a strategic partner in the fifth International Government Communication Forum (IGCF 2016) held in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, March 20-21, under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohamed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah.
Themed "Citizens for Prosperity", IGCF 2016 focused on the relationship between governments and their people, and explored how government communication impacts vital socio-economic sectors such as education, health care, unemployment, poverty eradication, and more.
H.E. Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, United Nations High Representative for UNAOC, participated in the high-level session, "Confronting Extremism: Government Communication and the Creation of a Humanist Culture". Mohannad Al Khatib media personality from Sky News Arabia, moderated the panel discussion, which also featured Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of France (2005-2007), and Husain Haqqani, Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States (2008-2011).
Al-Nasser said: "Violent extremism, in all its forms, has reached unprecedented levels and this requires us to create transformative strategies beyond the existing legal, military or security measures already in place. Together we need to address the causes of extremism."
Referring to the use of social media by extremist groups to radicalize and recruit young people, Al-Nasser added: "In the online world, real-time connections allow easy access to information. Extremist groups capitalize on this unregulated world to communicate violent ideologies to the most vulnerable people to undermine our shared values of peace, justice and humanity. This is why we need to continue empowering national communication strategies to align government and media communications for the purpose of addressing and targeting hate speech."
UNAOC also held two workshops. The first one focused on the impact of UNAOC Programmes involving youth in the promotion of tolerance and diversity across the world. The workshop was attended by a large group of local youth eager to learn how to get involved in UNAOC initiatives.
The second workshop, "Prevention of Violent Extremism and Hate Speech: Sharing Good Practices in the Use of Social Media", focused on preventing and countering the agenda of intolerance and hatred in the media. The workshop outlined UNAOC's initiative that looks to tackle xenophobia, stigmatization, polarization and discrimination, which occur as a result of hate speech.
Ms. Nihal Saad, Chief of Cabinet and Spokesperson for the UN High Representative for UNAOC, explained that the world is facing the same cultural divide experienced after 9/11, and that this divide is exacerbated by the prevalence of unconventional media channels that aid the dissemination of wrong information and a rhetoric of hatred.
The UNAOC Hate Speech initiative has been built around three main pillars of global symposia, a strategic media campaign to disseminate and share key media messages, and the drafting of a complete report on how to counter hate speech, which is to be published at the end of 2016 or in early 2017. The initiative's hashtag, #SpreadNoHate, has reached millions around the world and was able to reach over seven million people just at the UNAOC symposium held in New York in 2015.
The Forum was the opportunity for promising discussions about future collaboration between the Sharjah Media Center and UNAOC on a number of areas of common interests, including youth, media and intercultural exchanges. The Forum was attended by His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohamed Al Qasimi, as well as key political figures, thought leaders, academicians, media representatives, and professionals from government communication departments in the UAE and the wider region.


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Can you believe it's already November? I don't know where the time goes. But honestly, I've been waiting for this time of year, well... all year! As someone who writes about a town where it's Christmas 24/7, I love the holiday season. So much in fact, that this year, I've decided to have my own countdown. Hallmark starts their Christmas Countdown around this time, so I thought, why not me?
In addition, I will also be hosting a virtual Gingerbread Junction Contest this year! Though it won't be nearly as high stakes as the one that Cinnamon Peters takes part in in the Christmas River series, it will hopefully be incredibly fun. At stake is a six month Kindle Unlimited Subscription! Details and guidelines can be found HERE.
Check back in on Nov. 5 for the first giveaway!


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Where are these thoughts coming from?
I prayed:
Lord, this is not who I want to be. I need more of You and less of me. I need to hear your voice above my own. Come and fill me with more of You.
I honestly can't remember my specific struggles or what was going through my mind (that is the grace of God right there . . . my sin cast as far as the east is from the west) but I do remember the feeling. I felt distant from God. I felt alone. I was confused.
For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. Romans 7:15
"I don't get me," I cried.
He said, "You mean you don't love you."
Hmmm . . . Ya I guess so. This good girl was struggling once again with feeling bad. I wasn't measuring up very well with the status quo "good Christian girl." I lacked "control" over my mind making me feel like a failure. Satan was wreaking havoc on my thoughts toward myself in order to distract me from God's thoughts toward me.
"I did not call you to love yourself, that is My job," He whispered that Sunday morning to my heart in the midst of our worship service.
I know I sound crazy but when the Lord speaks to me and pulls me up out of a pit with that still small voice of His and gives me a desperately needed perspective change that I could not have come up with on my own, my as small as a mustard seed faith is enough to BELIEVE that what He says is true.
And I believe that this blog has a purpose, a purpose for me to ink these truths that He speaks to my heart so that your heart hears them too.
That morning there were two Truths spoken as a reminder:
1) We are commanded to "'. . . love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these." Matthew 12:30-31
2) The Lord's message to the remnant of Israel is the same for us today. "Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you." Jeremiah 31:3
That everlasting love pursues you despite your failures, despite your feelings of unworthiness, despite your past and we are to stop running from that love.
It took me 25 years of being a Christian to learn that I needed to stop trying to earn favor from God and open the door to His love that He had been knocking on for so long.
I don't believe, just based on my own personal experience, that we can fulfill the first or second commandment very well if we don't first allow ourselves to be drawn into the everlasting love of our God.
I am ending with that thought: He says you are loved. I pray that your heart awakes to this truth today and that regardless of your accomplishments and although you are a sinner, you open that door and embrace His truth for you today.
"I sleep, but my heart is awake; it is the voice of my beloved! He knocks, saying, 'Open for me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one. . . '"
Song of Solomon 5:2
Love, Rachael
P.S. This is a repost from a series I wrote last spring. I am reposting to link up with Holley Gerth's Coffee for your Heart. If you would like to read any of the other posts in this series titled "Who does He say you are?" please click here. The original post has all the links.
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Unions, Ad Industry Prep To Reassess Market
The Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists are hoping their joint ad industry/union will have picked an outside consultant by the end of June to study what, if any, changes need to be made to the contracts for commercial actors on TV and radio.
They have winnowed the candidates to nine, but once a choice is made, it still has to be voted on by the unions, so early July is more likely.
The contracts are up Oct. 29, but will likely be extended so that the study can be conducted, which is supported by both the ad industry and the unions through their joint policy committee.
The unions, which renegotiated the collective bargaining agreement to take cable into account, then later to include Internet play, want to make sure that the contracts reflect the advent of new technologies, including cell phones and much more aggressive Internet strategies than was the case when the Internet negotiations were held back in 2000.
The ad industry is OK with an independent study of the changing market. Both sides are playing with house money, however, since neither is obligated to accept the study's conclusions or recommendations.
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I'm on the road on the first leg of my trip and it's already a wild and wonderful ride. 1100 miles. 4 states. 2 time zones. I got off to a rough start with being sick the whole first week but soldiering on. Even though I've done a sabbatical like this twice before in 1986 (South Pacific) and 2000 (Western US) this still feels like nothing I've ever done before. The last two were pre-cell phone, email, GPS, bluetooth, iTunes, phone apps, airbnb etc. I had paper maps, an FM radio, and pay phone booths and I stayed in youth hostels and cheap hotels. Now I've got voice activated GPS (Samantha), Google Maps, screens full of iPhone apps, Siri DJing virtually unlimited music and streaming it to my car stereo, video Facetime calls, and constant connection with text and email. Generous friends and strangers are putting me up and taking me under their wings. Figuring out exactly how to "disconnect" is an interesting conundrum but my stress level is down markedly and my anti-Trump shield has been deployed.
Charleston, SC and my friends Mark Sloan and Michelle Van Parys welcomed me for the first 4 days of my journey and put me up in a wonderful apartment at the College of Charleston as a visiting "scholar."
I did a bit of walking around the city but mostly just needed to unwind and unpack my car and my mind to figure out what the next few months might look like. Mark directs the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and has been a mentor to me for some time. Everything he does at the Halsey is at a world class level and he has much to teach. I listened and took a lot of notes. I also got a detailed advance look at the artists and work in the amazing new Southbound photography exhibit that he and co-curator Mark Long have spent the last few years putting together and that will debut at the Halsey and travel widely afterwards. What a treat-SO MUCH incredible work and many artists that I was not previously familiar with.
Meetings had to be held over food. It's a pretty giant mix of topics running around in my brain for this trip. Everything from the nitty gritty details of best practices for running an arts organization and artist residency to bigger and longer range topics like governance, engaging your community, defining your audience, and thinking about legacy issues. I am figuring out the questions as I go.
One of the challenges I anticipated was finding a way to keep up my exercise routine on the road. My wonderful cousins Sean (an Olympic swimmer) and Renee connected me to an amazing website to locate public swimming pools worldwide and it has been amazing. I have already swum at 4 different pools!
On the 9th I headed to Augusta GA to see an exhibition called The Female Lens at the Morris Museum with work from the Do Good Fund collection of Southern Photography. There was a panel discussion and Q&A with the Director Alan Rothschild and two of the represented artists, Jill Frank and Tamara Reynolds.
Alan has been a friend since our Do Good show at Cassilhaus and I was thrilled to meet and share an evening with Jill and Tamara whose work I knew but had never met. I discovered at the last moment that I had a long lost cousin Jill Uhler in Aiken, SC, very close to Augusta, who hosted me for the evening and was able to join me for the talk and dinner afterwards.
Word on the street had it that the Possum Trot in Seale, AL was not to be missed on Friday night so I headed there next.
Seale is also the home of The Museum of Wonder and my artist friend Butch Anthony. I met Butch about 20 years ago at an artist retreat and purchased a table from him that we have on our deck. He is a lovable character and an amazing artist.
The land where the museum sits has been in his family for generations and he has been working on it since he was a child.
I couldn't resist taking this one home and adding it to our collection. We are definitely not in Kansas anymore.
Another of Butch's recent initiatives is the world's first drive-thru art gallery.
The drive-thru is just up the road from Butch's house and he drove 6! of us there in a huge white Cadillac that he recently bought from Leon Russell. Butch of course has added quite a bit of adornment.
Columbus GA, home of Alan Rothschild and the Do Good Fund, is right across the Chattahoochee River from Seale and was one of the first points of interest I put on my sabbatical map. I spent the weekend picking Alan's brain about a score of topics and he was amazingly generous. I love his model of getting his collection out to the people in often non traditional venues. His collection is always working and not gathering dust in storage! As an attorney he was also a wealth of information about governance and legacy issues. One of the highlights of my weekend that Alan arranged was a private tour of Pasaquan, a visionary art environment in Buena Vista GA by its director Mike McFall. My pictures will not do it justice. Check out a basic video here and a detailed video on the complete restoration of the site by the Kohler Foundation here.
Alan, Caretaker Charles, and Mike
It has been an extraordinary first week. My head is spinning with ideas and questions. This doesn't feel like a vacation and it doesn't feel like work but I am not exactly sure what it is. I do know that it is an extraordinary opportunity and that I am blessed to have a wife, a family, a business partner, an amazing circle of friends, and a community that supports my doing it. I have always been lucky with pretty special travel karma and this trip has already proven that it is not waning. Each door I open leads to several more and I have been met with nothing but generosity of spirit and sharing of experiences. Thank you. I need to check the batteries in the Trump shield. I will report on week two in Atlanta and points north in my next post.
T-shirt spotted in New Zealand on my first sabbatical trip that has become my travel mantra.


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