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Promoting Your Business in Jax – There's an App for That
When it comes to using apps to promote a business, the first thing that comes to mind for most business owners is Google Adwords or Facebook. That's because Google has 71 percent plus of the search traffic and Facebook has more than two billion users. They also have an advertiser interface that's is relatively easy to use. A manager sitting at a bar can literally control and Adwords Express campaign or tap Boost on Facebook to advertise and after entering their credit card number, their advertising starts running. Whereas with other apps, like Yelp, you must claim your business, then you have to contact an account representative and do more labor to spend money on ads. This goes for other apps as well.
Is What You See, What You Like?
While there are a number of ways to use the apps mentioned above to incentivize existing followers, the most common way used is to target new prospects with pay-per-click ads. However, this isn't always as successful. That's because while a follower who likes you might be interested in an offer or coupon, a complete stranger may not. Get this formula right, and it's off to the races. Get it wrong, and you can burn through a pile of money without seeing much in the way of results. In fact, it isn't uncommon with businesses that have a substantial social following to be unable to convert that audience into customers, even on their own social nets.
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Since I've finished Proust (clap-clap-clap) I can read other things without thinking, as I have been for the last three years all those times I entertained myself with something else, oh, I could be reading Proust.
So I read this, The Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin's abridged journal from his trip around the world during 1831-1836. Not the whole thing though, yikes, just the short section on the Galapagos and it really was worth getting through all the many many names of things to see how he was thinking before he ever thought of The Origin of Species.
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Auction: 19010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
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The Ted Proud Collection
1922-39 collection in three albums in a box, including 1922 (Apr.) - 1923 (Mar.) to UK (22), Egypt, France (2) and USA (4), flown by RAF to Cairo and each franked at 9a.; 1923 (Aug.) registered to Germany, flown by RAF to Cairo and franked at 12a.; 1923 (Oct.) from UK to Teheran, flown by RAF from Cairo to Baghdad and franked at 8½d.; 1924 (July) to Germany via Cairo franked at 6a.; 1926 (May) from Germany to Baghdad via Cairo franked at 35pf.; 1927 (Jan.-Apr.) from Karachi to Egypt and UK (3), flown from Basra to Cairo and franked at 5a.; 1927 (Apr.) registered and flown by I.A. to Khartoum and franked 13½a. (Official stamps); 1929 (Apr.) India to Basra and Alexandria by I.A. and franked at 5a. and 6a.; 1929 (Oct.) UK to Iraq by I.A. franked at 7½d.; 1929 (Nov.) to Germany, flown by I.A. to London and franked at 6a. (shows German cachet "delayed by weather"); 1929 (Dec.) to Athens franked at 15a. (registered); 1930 (Jan.) to British Guiana; 1930 (Mar.) to Malta (last flight Baghdad to Cairo); 1936 (Aug.) Scipio crash cover to Germany showing German label; 1937 (May) to Japan (rare) franked at 61f.; and 1938 (Nov.) Calpurnia crash covers (3) from UK to India (with violet cachet), Iraq and New Zealand (with violet cachet). All neatly mounted and written-up with flights identified. (194)
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Augustana took a small but determined crew to Grande Prairie for the third ACAC Grand Prix. After an early wake up call and a long six hour drive the team arrived at the sunny, snow free race course ready to tackle the variable grassy terrain.
Catherine Alcorn was the sole ladies Viking taking on the 6km race at 1:30 pm. With a season's personal record Alcorn managed to finish 2nd among ACAC runners with a time of 24:53.
The Viking men tackled the 8km course at 2:45. Noah Day led the Vikings with an extremely strong performance, finishing in 30:38. Nils Asfeldt followed, having a stellar first race of the season. Next Vikings coach Gerhard Lotz showed his athletes how to pace a racer perfectly and run a smart race. Rounding out the men's strong showing was Jackson Sweder, who smashed his season's best by over two minutes.
Next week the Vikings will be taking on the fourth Grand Prix in Vermilion, hosted by Lakeland College.
Don't forget to mark your calendars for October 13 when Augustana hosts the fifth Grand Prix and first annual (After) Turkey Trot!


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Nothing against slow in principle, but often when it is played slowly I get the feeling of wanting a more well-defined dance rhythm, at least. Some of the variations come across as a bit lumbering. I guess I'm talking less about speed and more about lightness.I'll give Asperen a go. I definitely enjoy his WTC. Egarr's still on the list for when I have the 85 minutes to spare <_<
This isn't dance. It's just perverse to demand dancable rhythms.
What I appreciate about Egarr's is:1 The sense of improvisation2 The variety, each variation has its own personality3 The general style which seems to almost hark back to the 15th century4 The harpsichord sound, and the tuning 5 The originality, the challenge of the new ideas
I think Gould 1 had a major influence on expectations of speed, an influence on harpsichordist as much as pianists. The way he bolts out the first variation for example has become a sort of established performance practice since.
By the way, people who come to this from a piano background often want speed because of the influence of Glen Gould, who really bolted out of the stables in the first variation in 1955. There's no reason to play it like that.
Egarr today-it doesn't sound like he is having any fun—not as heavy as I thought, but extremely serious, like the fate of the world depends on the Quodlibetfeels like there is very little contrast between the variationssense of improvisation maybe goes too far, in that i don't feel like he sets out a large-scale trajectory from aria to da capo
Found this in a record shop, and since it was cheap (4 dollars), and I generally like Rousset, I decided to see how this sounded.Not very impressed, I must say. Bland and without much features, and a bit superficial (some movements, like the Arias, 21, or the "black pearl" are just too fast for my taste. Hopefully it opens up with a few more listens, but this is my 5th spin, and it hasn't worked much magic yet.It seems like Rousset was aiming for "lyrical," but it, unlike e.g. Rannou, misses the mark.
I like it! A "young man's" Golbergs for sure - love to hear his 2nd take any time soon...I hope...Q
Tell me why you like it. I'm still trying to get myself to like it.
Anyway...I just spottted this...Presumably a reissue from the Bach Edition? Any good? Q
I wouldn't dare or want to try to talk you into it! If it doesn't click, it doesn't click...Rousset is a speeder, always has been. Though he seems to mellow/slow down now he is getter older...The most obvious case in point are his recordings of the French and English Suites on Ambroisie, which made fellow harpsichordist Peter Watchorn remark (approx.): "Thank you, Mr. Rousset. For demonstrating how fast these pieces can be played."I guess for Rousset' genius musical brain which has thoroughly absorbed the music, the speed feels completely natural.For us ordinary mortal souls, keeping up with the complexity of the music is a challenge at such speeds. Being familiar with the music certainly helps, though it always takes me a few minutes adapt. But being able to keep up doesn't account for taste and doesn't mean you like it. For me the rewards are the liveliness, the virtuosity and elegance, the way he builds tension, thh brillisnt ornamentations. And it is not all blazing virtuosity that catches the eye: Rousset is a great analyser and offers profundity as well. Though not often the "meditative" kind, some tend to associate with Bach.Rousset shows Bach the virtuosic musical genius, which in my mind he was - particularly behind the keyboard.A more moderated approach in the same mould would be Céline Frisch (Alpha), for instance (my knowledge of what is out there is getting outdated...)Pretty recording...Q
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Christ's Church of the Valley: Big Data, Engaged Congregation
The 6th largest church in the United States, CCV is a multi-campus, non-denominational Christian church. Attendance ranges from 25,000 weekly to 50,000 for Easter services. But their very size was a challenge: the leadership wanted to get to know parishioners on a deeper level.
CCV partnered with the Netvious Ministry Team to provide real time analytics of their community. We not only launched software to enable their network to capture valuable information about people across their church campus, we implemented a platform to send targeted messages for events and programs, such as sending youth event notices to congregants with children.
Netvious helped CCV use technology not just to learn about their community, but to boost parishioner engagement, enhance church productivity and increase collaboration within their congregation.


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Barry Rubin
It never ceases to amaze me how hysteria and mystification so clouds peoples' minds over the Arab-Israeli (or Israeli-Palestinian) conflict. Consider this simple point of logic which you may not see explained anywhere else. And see the point at the end about President Barack Obama.
Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas claims that he can't negotiate with Israel if Israel once again begins to construct buildings on existing settlements after a nine-month freeze on construction.
Let's evaluate this statement.
First, Abbas knew that the freeze would last nine months and might not be renewed when it ended in September. If he wanted to give Israel an incentive to continue it--by showing that this Israeli concession, brought progress toward peace and some advantage for Israel--Abbas could have acted. Instead, he stalled until the very last moment. For weeks, the United States begged and pressed him to return to talks.Second, if the Palestinians negotiate a two-state solution they will get--worst-case analysis--almost all of the West Bank. There will be no Jewish settlements in that territory. The settlements will be gone. All the roads and buildings Israel built (unless dismantled in the days before the agreement's implementation) will go to the Palestinians.
So if Abbas and the Palestinians are horrified by Israeli construction, wouldn't it have made sense for them to negotiate real fast? But, on the contrary, they stretch out the process year after year after year, continually finding excuses for doing so.
Remember that the PA refused to negotiate for well over a year after January 2009. All that time Israel was building on settlements. Then for the last nine months when Israel wasn't building in the West Bank, the PA still refused to negotiate.
Let's now provide a full timeline:
Phase One: From 1992 until late in 2000, the PLO, and later the PA negotiated with Israel at a time when there were no limits on construction within settlements. They were, however, in no hurry to make a deal and, in fact, killed the talks in 2000. Incidentally, Israel made a huge concession from its previous positions to begin the process in 1993: No new settlements or territorial expansion of existing ones. It keept that commitment. The PLO and PA also made some "concessions": They would fight against terrorism. They didn't. They never raised as a bargaining point the idea of a freeze on construction in existing settlements.
Phase Two: Then from 2000 to 2009--a decade--the PA refused direct any sustained peace negotiations at a time when there were no limits on construction within settlements. They never raised as a bargaining point the idea that they would end the violence (2000-2005) or that they would negotiate in exchange for a freeze on construction in existing settlements. That was President Obama's idea in mid-2009 and they rejected it.
Phase Three: After Israel did freeze construction, the PA wasted nine months--knowing the clock was ticking on the temporary freeze--without making any moves to accelerate, or even hold, negotiations.
Thus, the PA has wasted almost 20 years, during which thousands of buildings have been added to Israeli settlements.
Here is a fundamental flaw in the assumption that the Palestinians are desperately eager to get a state and end their suffering. They don't seem so eager at all. Why? Because the Palestinian leadership has long argued that it is more important to conquer all of Israel--or reach an agreement that didn't get in the way of pursuing that goal--than to make compromises and get a two-state solution.
What does the PA want? An independent Palestinian state given as a gift by the world rather than requiring mutual compromise with Israel. That doesn't require negotiations, it requires a lack of negotiations.
If Abbas walks away from talks he will not be crying that creation of a Palestinian state has been delayed. On the contrary, he will be smiling that he escaped from what most PA leaders--though not Prime Minister Salam Fayad--view as the peace trap.
Incidentally, note that when President Barack Obama made his upbeat interpretation of the "peace process" one of the main themes in his September 23 UN speech, he was totally aware that the negotiations were probably on the verge of collapse due to the termination of the freeze. It could be argued that by playing up the issue he was trying to encourage everyone to keep going, but how can you stake your diplomatic reputation on a card that is about to bring down a house of cards? That's somewhere between being irresponsible and suicidal.
But perhaps Obama has reason to think he can get away with such things. After all, people have forgotten what happened with his speech to the UN last year! He predicted high-level, intensive Israel-Palestinian talks within three months and it took him a year to get low-level, fragile, limited talks. His policy was a total failure yet try to find anyone in the mass media reporting that point.
Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal. His latest books are The Israel-Arab Reader (seventh edition), The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East (Wiley), and The Truth About Syria (Palgrave-Macmillan). The website of the GLORIA Center is at http://www.gloria-center.org and of his blog, Rubin Reports, http://www.rubinreports.blogspot.com.


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Gwen John and Augustus John at Tate Britain
Tate Britain, London
29th September 2004 - 9th January 2005
Daily 10am - 5.50pm
National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff, South Wales
12th February - 15th May 2005
Tuesday to Sunday 10am - 5pm
The exhibition at the Tate Britain of the works of the sister and brother Gwen John and Augustus John provides a rewarding experience for the visitor but it is curious that Gwen John is there at all, let alone be the first named artist in the title. She was a talented artist and perceived as such in her own time but I doubt that anyone could recommend going to see an exhibition that only contained her work. She is but an appendage to her better-known brother Augustus John, O.M., R.A. Indeed one suspects that if she had been his brother rather than his sister she would not be in the exhibition at all.
Feminists have long resented that obvious fact that most, indeed nearly all, of the world's talented painters have been male. Germaine Greer was once in the library of the British Museum, as it then was, working on a book on women painters of genius. Her fellow antipodean Clive James saw her at work and said to her, "Well, Germs, at least it won't take long to complete". Whether or not the sacred silence of that great round room was then disturbed by an exchange of Australian colloquialisms I do not know. More generally feminists of both sexes have sought to push the claims of lesser female artists (or indeed mathematicians, astronomers, scientists, composers of music, architects or logicians) by falsely asserting that their sex was the reason for their lack of recognition rather than an absence of originality, insight and rigour. Given that these feminist views are still being promulgated, the visitor to the exhibition must feel uneasy lest somewhere behind it lurks this absurd proposition.
The organisers try to make a virtue out of Gwen John's limitations but it does not work. Her laborious pictures, many of them half-length female portraits often of friends or of her own room are drawn from a quiet, private realm but she is no Vermeer. She is said to bring out the melancholy of her sitters but what we see is their disengaged emptiness. Only once does she come alive, in her wonderfully vivid Autoportrait á la lettre, where she holds in front of her one of the thousands of letters she wrote to her lover Auguste Rodin. There is an obvious conclusion to be drawn from this. After the man with whom she was passionately involved died, her tendency towards painting in subdued greyness intensified. There is an uninspired sameness about her work after her loss and when in its wake she converted to Catholicism.
Augustus John's work is more experimental and more varied. He deserves the continuing recognition given to him despite his at times theatrical and fantasy-ridden work. The worst of his fantasies was his obsession with gypsies whom he saw as an extension of his own irregular wandering life. Indeed he was president of the gypsy-lore society and at one time lived in a caravan on Dartmoor. He liked their sense of tight-knit community; he felt that this was missing from the modern world but was unable to see that his sense of isolation was a product of what he was and not of modernity. Field-Marshall Montgomery said of him in 1944 "Who is this chap? He drinks, he's dirty and I know there are women in the background". None of these things were true of Montgomery. Montgomery found community within institutions in a way that Augustus John could not.
Yet from Augustus John's travelling community nonsense emerged two telling artistic creations. One is Wandering Sinnte 1908-9, a charcoal study of a group of Piedmontese gypsies he had met in Normandy in 1906, shown huddled tightly round and illuminated by a fire. John himself (I think) sits to the side in a floppy sloppy Bohemian painter's hat rather like Ruskin in the shade watching labourers in the heat. The other is Dorelia, the mistress who with his wife's agreement had a half-share in his company, in gypsy clothes in Woman Smiling 1908-9. She has a cozening puzzling smile.
It is Augustus John's portraits of notables that may be of greatest interest to the visitor, from the early ones of W.B. Yeats, Wyndham Lewis and William Nicholson to the later paintings of the blue-eyed T.E. Lawrence and the sombre Montague Norman, Governor of the Bank of England. There is a peculiar darkness about the earlier faces in their hair, eyes and eighteen-hundred hours stubble. Even Dorelia it has to be said can look rather putty-faced. Yeats was angry and said that John had made him look like a "sheer tinker, drunken, unpleasant and disreputable". No doubt the tinker loving Augustus projected himself onto Yeats. His masterpiece of this time is the large painting of William Nicholson of 1909, looking posed and mannered as a toff with fiercely parted slick black hair and a dark huge-lapelled overcoat to match. You can not tell whether Nicholson has a moustache or not. He is vividly placed against a light background a memorable painting.
By contrast John could not paint children, not even the many off-spring of his in effect bigamous household. They all come out as sentimental blobs and this is equally true of the larger works he did for Hugh Lane's walls. The lone successful exception is his painting of Dorelia with his son by his wife after his wife had died in childbirth, David and Dorelia in Normandy 1908. Perhaps it is because the figures are part of a Normandy landscape, part of a merging assemblage of colours and lack any distinct personal appearance that it succeeds.
His later portraits when he had become an established artist who received official commissions have been criticised but are masterly even when, as with those of Villiers David or Lady Ottoline Morel, they are said not to have resembled the sitter. The large "introspective and preoccupied" portrait of Lord Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, 1920-44 thinking of the British economy he had helped to destroy is almost enough to make one a Keynesian.
It is well worth the walk from a distant underground station to the Tate Britain to see this exhibition. It will appeal even more to the Welsh when the exhibition moves to in Cardiff. We all know Dr Fagan's gibe that "The Welsh are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture". Everything in Wales that is beautiful was either created by the English or by God. However, with the return of Augustus John, Wales will regain the artistic pre-eminence it enjoyed when Stonehenge emerged from the Presceli Mountains.
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text: PROGRAMS Tyson's program centered on videos of actor Anthony Anderson cooking with his mother. It was supported by a variety of digital, social media and in-store TV network activity. Tyson hosted the videos on a promotional site and pushed out the content through multiple social media platforms via the brand accounts of Jimmy Dean, Sara Lee, Hillshire Farm and Wright, as well as Anderson's social media accounts. "A Season to Share" digital ads with retailers such as Ahold Delhaize supported the campaign and touted a recipe that consumers could click and link to. Content from the videos ran on in-store TV networks during the holiday months at select national retailers. Recipes were also shared inside stores through on-site demos, which retailers promoted with email blasts to drive store traffic. The campaign did not include any exclusive retailer partnerships. "'A Season to Share' is aimed at connecting retailers and their consumers through heartwarm18 y SHOPPER MARKETING MARCH 2017 ing and engaging content in multiple formats that would fill social feeds with new inspiration," says Bennett. "One of the insights that led to 'A Season to Share' was the idea that people love holiday gatherings because it's a fun time to get together, share, enjoy and impress new and old friends with their favorite dishes." Bennett adds that the insights showed cooking for the holidays can be a burden and


text: Douglas Allen Bookhamer, 56. Preceded in death by parents, Virgil Bookhamer and Rose Bookhamer; foster-father, Ben Velasquez; brothers, Ronald and Richard Bookhamer; and sister-in-law, Jolene Bookhamer. Survived by spouse, Frances Bookhamer; daughter, Barbara Padilla; foster mother, Emma Velasquez; brothers, David and Robert Bookhamer; sisters, Barbara (David) Garcia, Sharon (Paul) Kralik, Sally Jackson and Neva Christianson; aunt, Toni; grandchildren, Robert Smith-Hudson, Cambrea and Joshua Padilla, Carlo Gonzales; numerous nieces and nephews; and special companion cat, Isis. He was in the military for nine years and he loved his Colorado sports teams. Graveside service, 1 p.m. Friday, Fort Logan National Cemetery, Denver, Colo.


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Standing Desks Are A Relief From Sitting Down
Standing Desks Are A Relief From Sitting Down
As an essayist committed to concentrating only on programming application advancement and information administration, it's difficult to cover equipment and devices. What's harder is that I concentrate on big business programming, so I don't get the chance to cover amusements. That being stated, one bit of equipment has become visible that so characteristically changes the way I utilize (and expound on) programming applications and information that it legitimizes this piece. That bit of equipment is the standing work area.
I've been utilizing two units as of late, one from Varidesk and one from Ergotron. Indeed (before you ask) I work in two areas, so I have two work areas. Working an excessive number of hours the same number of us do, I have never experienced Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) or alleged carpal passage disorder and I don't wear glasses. In any case, all things being equal, I have felt an infringing firmness now and again and have ached for an approach to extend while working. I even took to purchasing rec center weights and abandoning them under my work area for intermittent "pumps" and lifts.
Tallness customizable sit-stand workstation
At that point, I got a standing work area. Or, on the other hand to be more precise, I got a 'tallness movable sit-stand workstation' - and this is a significant point i.e. shouldn't sit or stand up throughout the day, you're intended to have the capacity to "fluctuate" you're working position ergonomically for the duration of the day. Thus the names of items at that point, Varidesk, and Ergotron, clearly.
Both the Varidesk and Ergotron units are truly substantial so you may require a companion to enable you to unpack them and get them situated in your work area. Before we detail how the items function, enable me to give you a go through of my regular working hours.
My day by day plan
07:00 am – Wake up, tea, Oreo treat, NutriBlast.
08:00 am – (STANDING) Start work, answer email, design publication content.
10:00 am - (STANDING) Continue working, now into story creation.
11:00 am – (SITTING) Focus on some more drawn out shape composing sitting.
12:00 am - (SITTING) Work through to lunch.
01:00 pm – Gym and lunch.
02:00 pm - (STANDING) Work second 50% of the day with some arranging.
04:00 pm - (SITTING) Focus on some more drawn out shape composing once more
05:00 pm - (STANDING) Continue composing and arranging.
07:00 pm - (STANDING or SITTING) Mix stature of work area relying upon mindset.
08:00 pm – Leave work area, search for spouse, sustenance, TV, and Xbox.
11:00 pm – (LYING DOWN) Go to bed.
Shockingly maybe, this is not an intense routine to get into. It feels surprising for around one day, greatest. In the event that you have sent an email to an air terminal or in a bar or coffeehouse at that point, it's exceedingly likely that you'll have utilized your portable workstation or tablet while holding up. That inclination is very natural when you consider it. As indicated by the creators of these items, the underlying objective for a normal day is to gather two hours of standing for every day, with the more drawn out term objective in the long run of four hours. You may likewise see that "imaginative" slower work is better handled taking a seat... this is the thing that the producers of these units suggest, so I have composed this piece completely standing up, just to demonstrate that there are no firm standards.
How standing work areas function
Ergotron focuses to investigate from researchers proposing that we people are customized to be lethargic. We will dependably take the less demanding choice of taking a seat. So standing up conflicts with the grain for us since it requires exertion. In any case, we are additional animals of propensity… and when you get used to standing occasionally, it turns out to be second nature. The key is normal, low-level development for the duration of the day. Which is the reason working out hard in the rec center for 30-a hour and after that sitting at your work area for the whole day/evening is ledge not incredible?
As per Carrie Schmitz, senior director of human elements and ergonomics explore at Ergotron, "Standing doesn't simply hit the reset catch on your body, it does likewise for your psyche as well. By expanding oxygen and blood stream to the cerebrum, standing can upgrade mind work. Upgraded intellectual prowess, expanded vitality, expanded capacity to center and enhanced inclination states/perspective are for the most part advantages of joining all the more remaining into the day."
Web of well-being
This is obviously the time of wearables or the purported 'quantifiable self' where we now begin to utilize step trackers like the Fitbit (or the ones that ship as standard on cell phones) to record our development and investigate our wellness levels. Wellbeing innovation is changing constantly and innovation that encourages us to care more for our well-being is likewise evolving every day. So while standing work areas may look socially odd in a few working environments at in the first place, these items are (clearly, seemingly) set to significantly affect the way we now outfit our office and home workspace conditions.
The normal office specialist is evaluated to sit for around 10 hours every day and 73 for each penny of individuals just leaving their work area for washroom or tea/recesses. This is bad.
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Pacific Moonlight Splash
Chestnut Tobiano Homozygous Splashed White Pinto Colt, with Blue Eyes
Height - 23.00 inches (Birth Height) • Foaled June 9, 2018 • AMHA # A 231620 / AMHR # Pending
A stunning chestnut colt, with blue eyes like his sire and dam. This is a beautiful moving colt, that is truly a full-size horse in miniature. He has an amazing head, and an ultra-refined body. His grandsire, Pacific Mad Hatter, had this same outstanding head. Splash is a breathtakingly gorgeous colt. With a wonderful personality to match. Both his sire and dam were born at Pacific Pintos. If you are looking for a breathtaking, loud colored colt, you have found him!
Splash has been tested and is a Chestnut (ee); and is Positive for the Tobiano (Tt), and Homozygous for the Splashed White Pinto (SW1/SW1) pinto genes.
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The cashflow problems at Whitireia and Weltec
There were two different ways of describing yesterday's $15m payout to Whitireia polytechnic. Whitireia welcomed it as a "cash injection." But RNZ described it as a "bailout" after extreme financial difficulties, and Education Minister Chris Hipkins said Whitireia had cashflow problems which were "exacerbated by a major building project."
RNZ reports that a change of administration for Whitireia is being considered:
A financial advisor to Whitireia has been appointed. The government is considering dismissing the board Whitireia shares with the Wellington Institute of Technology (Weltec) and replacing it with a commissioner.
Annual report figures showed Whitireia lost $8.4m last year after full-time student enrolments fell by 540, with 200 fewer international students.
Quoting Chris Hipkins, it seems the issues are wider than student enrolments, and concern not only Whitireia:
"Whitireia and Weltec jointly have also invested a significant amount of money in the new Wellington campus that they have recently opened and the result of that is they have ended up seriously short of cashflow." Weltec's financial position was not as serious as Whitireia's, but the government was watching it closely, he said. "Weltec's financial viability in the medium-term is also a very serious question."
Whitireia chooses different words to describe its problems, and even to allocate blame:
Whitireia has experienced significant financial challenges in the last two years largely due to a reduction in international students, driven by a tightening of government immigration policy. Income from international students has provided financial support to Whitireia which has enabled investment into its Porirua campus and Wellington campus providing modern learning facilities for students in a very competitive tertiary education environment…Whitireia has not received government capital funding since soon after it opened more than thirty years ago.
It strongly defends its achievements:
Whitireia is one of the top performing ITPs in New Zealand for course and qualification completions and has the highest category rating for External Evaluation and Review from NZQA.
And on the subject of new buildings:
• Whitireia and WelTec have invested in high quality learning facilities in recent years from their own financial reserves. Whitireia, as a relatively new polytechnic, has not benefited from a strong asset base as per other ITPs.
• International students have always been an important part of the Whitireia operating model to support domestic provision. Revenue from international students has enabled the development of top-class facilities. A substantial decline in international student numbers since 2015 has seen a fall in revenue which has resulted in financial deficits in 2017 and 2018 and a depletion in cash reserves.
• The Council of Whitireia and WelTec has been working on a change programme to reverse the worsening financial trend.
Concern and support has been stated by the Porirua Chamber of Commerce, whose chair Nick Leggett said it's been known that Whitireia is struggling financially:
"…Whitireia plays a big part in the life of the city. The Chamber welcomes the fact that the Minister is assuring current students that they can complete their courses and that future students should have the confidence to enrol."
More decisions can be expected from the government, which is designing a new system for vocational education and training that would put the institutes on a much more stable footing. "That is likely to require some quite significant change," says Chris Hipkins. But he also said "we're absolutely committed to dealing with these problems and revitalizing vocational education."
August 31: Staff write to Minister with concerns about financial difficulties
2 comments:
City Lad, 25. August 2018, 18:58
Willis Bond's flash new building on Dixon Street and leased by Whitireia without having sufficient students is a recipe for failure. A lesson for landlord and tenant.
Alana, 26. August 2018, 5:25
Where is the evidence linking government policy around foreign students to this financial disaster that surely predates those policies which only came into effect less than a year ago?


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Corr Cronin Obtains 9th Circuit Victory for King County Recreational Trails
August 3, 2018
Corr Cronin attorneys Emily Harris, Mallory Satre and Ben Byers, in conjunction with the King County Prosecutor's Office, prevailed again in Rails-to-Trails litigation on behalf of King County. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued two opinions upholding King County's ownership and rights to build recreational trails on former BNSF rail corridors which now comprise the Eastside Rail Corridor Trail and the East Lake Sammamish Trail. Scores of adjacent landowners sued King County in two lawsuits seeking to quiet title and arguing that King County only had a limited surface easement. King County counterclaimed for declaratory judgment and quiet title. The Ninth Circuit opinions affirm the United States District Court's grants of summary judgment to King County in Kaseburg v. King County and Hornish v. King County.
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Today I have a post for bloggers or anyone working within the Social Media industry. These apps make blogging a doddle and are great for iPhones to blog on the go.
Any editing apps will suffice but this one is definitely my favourite. It often takes a while to play around with different filters on different apps to see what you like best and what fits the theme of your photos. I also really like Snapseed and VSCO. What I love about light room though is the ability to use different presets. I bought a pack of presets from an ad on Instagram for about £4 and I got 12 presets. I use these for everytime I edit my Instagram photos and I think it's definitely worth it!
My presets are from LittleRabbitPresets.
I use Canva for creating high quality graphics with gorgeous templates which allow you to create what you like. Some extras you need to pay for, but I manage just fine on the free aspects. I use this to create Pinterest graphics, story cover highlights for Instagram and to make pretty quotes for the charity I work for, Raindrops to Rainbows.
You can see some of the quotes I've created on canva by heading to @raindropstorainbows on Instagram.
Influenster is a great app for bloggers as it has amazing opportunities to receive voxboxes filled with products to review. You review products or your 'snaps' to gain points, the more active you are, the more likely you are to receive a box. I have had the pleasure or receiving boxes from OPI and Rommel London through Influenster so I'd definitely recommend downloading this one!
This is one of my favourite apps for bloggers! You can sign up via the app and apply to be an ambassador for brands. Then, you complete missions for cash, gift card coins or points. This is the app I use for my Ideal of Sweden sponsorships, I've been working with them for over a year now, they're amazing to work with and are so kind and helpful! There are so many more brands you can work with so it's worth having a look. The phone case featured in these photos was actually gifted to me from Ideal of Sweden via a campaign from Brandbassador. You can use my discount code for 20% off any Ideal of Sweden products.
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WordPress is what my blog is hosted on and it always has been, ever since it was Nude, Pink or Black. I'm always thinking of post ideas on the go and so I find the app really helpful for making drafts, writing posts when out and about and checking my stats daily and keeping up with comments.
Pinterest is something I've only recently started taking seriously. I used to just use it as a way to save pretty pictures but I've come to realise that it's an amazing way to gain traffic to your website. Here's a list on a few ways you can use Pinterest to bring traffic to your blog.
- Create a board just for blog posts so people can be easily directed to your content – don't over complicate things for your readers! Pin your recent posts with a summary and a great image to this board.
- Pin pin pin! The more you pin, the more monthly visitors you will get to your Pinterest and therefore more people are likely to see your blog.
- Create boards relevant to your blog content.
- Link your blog in your bio.
Buffer is great for bloggers with a lack of time on their hands for constant posting. Buffer allows you to queue instagram, Pinterest, linked in, twitter and Facebook posts to keep up with your accounts.
This saves my life for Twitter because I'm always forgetting to tweet, and therefore losing followers! Whenever I get a tweet pop into my head I just add it to buffer and into a queue for later on!
Google Adsense
Having this app is great to stay on top of your ad progress for your blog on the go. It gives you the ability to see the revenue your blog is making through your Google Adsense, how the progress has came on since the previous day, the previous month and how much you have made all together.1
I hope you've found this blog post useful. Let me know your holy grail apps for blogging in the comment section!
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March 2, 2018, marks one year from the date that Revision Brewing Company brewed our first batch of beer at our brewery in Sparks, Nevada. Three weeks later we opened our taproom doors with only three beers on tap and we've been going nonstop ever since.
Their 1 year anniversary party date has been decided. Make sure that you put May 19th on your calendar! More details to come.
2017 Milestone Dates:
- First brew in the tank: March 2, 2017
- First Keg to Retail: March 17, 2017
- Soft-Opening: March 23, 2017
- Grand-Opening Party: May 6 & 7, 2017
2017 Achievements
- Produced 5,615 barrels
- Distribution across 10 States plus Australia
2017 Medals:
- Gold – 20th Annual IPA Festival at the Bistro (Hayward, CA) Revision IPA
- Gold – 2017 U.S. Open Beer Championship International Style Pale Ale Category Hop Anatomy
- Gold – 2017 Brussels Beer Challenge Revision Double IPA
- Bronze – 2017 Brussels Beer Challenge American IPA (Higher than 6.5 ABV) Category Revision IPA
- Gold – The 21st Annual Great International Beer, Cider, Mead & Sake Competition – New England India Pale Ale – Disco Ninja
- Silver- The 21st Annual Great International Beer, Cider, Mead & Sake Competition Brown Porter Category Porter Posse
Additionally, Revision Brewing has started their barrel aging program. Thus far, a handful of Evan Williams Whiskey Barrels have been filled with Darkling – Imperial Stout & Finite Madness – Double Mashed Imperial Stout.
Revision Brewing Company will be releasing the first of their barrel aged beers at the end of 2018. Information on their barrel club will be announced soon!


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Sermon preached by Anne M. Watkins
In the name of God our Creator, Jesus, our Redeemer, and the Holy Spirit, our Sustainer. Amen.
A 7-year-old boy came to his father one day proudly exclaiming "I finally know what the Bible means!" Surprised the father replied: "What do you mean, you 'know' what the Bible means? What does it mean?" "That's easy, dad…….It stands for Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth."
Imagine the people who are the most important in your life; those you love the deepest, those with whom you spend the most time, those whose future welfare is intimately tied to your own sense of purpose. Now imagine that you are about to leave those people; no longer to be physically present to them – to see, hear, or touch them. What last word do you want them to have? What is the most important message you have for their hearing … their remembering … the lives they will live? What are the basic instructions you want them to have before leaving earth? That is the context of Jesus' Farewell Discourse that we continue with from last week, through John's gospel.
Now, imagine the people who are the most different from you; those with whom you have nothing in common; those you might disdain or even fear; those with whom you cannot imagine being aligned because of ethnic, cultural, economic, or other barriers that you and society have erected. Ant then something happens indicating that they might not be so different from you after all … now, once you have that in mind, see if you can step the scene up another notch, because that is the context in which Peter and those with him find themselves in the story from Acts.
Last week, we heard in the Acts of the Apostles the encounter Philip has with an Ethiopian eunuch – someone most different; perhaps disdained, certainly someone with whom Philip would not have expected an encounter. Today, we hear the tail end of an equally unexpected encounter between Peter and the roman centurion, Cornelius. If we had heard the whole story, we would hear Cornelius described as a God-fearing and devout man; even described as someone well-thought of by the Jews … for a Roman. But, make no mistake here; no matter how God-fearing and devout; not matter how well thought of by the Jews, Cornelius, like Philip's Ethiopian Eunuch is a gentile; not someone expected to be in close relationship.
Cornelius is in Caeserea when God directs him to seek out Simon Peter, in Joppa. Around the same time, Peter receives a strange vision as he awaits his midday meal –a large cloth being lowered from heaven on which lie all kinds of animals – four-footed creatures along with reptiles and birds. A voice from heaven directs Peter to kill and eat from among these. Mind you, this is not exactly what is meant by the phrase "keeping a kosher kitchen". When Peter balks – insisting in his righteousness as a Jew – "I've never eaten anything profane or unclean" he is directed a second and even a third time by the voice telling him that what God has made clean, Peter must not call profane. In come the gentile servants of Cornelius and Peter is directed to go with them. So, within the course of twenty-four, perhaps thirty-six hours, Peter finds himself, a Jew, in a Gentile household – astonishing …and transformative for it, along with this strange vision, opens Peter's eyes to all the barriers; all the walls; all the fences erected by him and his culture and his faith traditions.
This is where we pick us the story as Peter delivers his Easter sermon, expressing new-found understanding that God indeed shows no partiality. While Peter was preaching – more astonishment. For the other circumcised believers who had come with Peter are astounded to see the gift of the Holy Spirit being poured out even on the Gentiles. And Peter, in what I can only imagine as his own continued astonishment is moved to suggest "Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?' In response, the newly baptized others invited him to stay for several days.
Peter gives a bold, inclusive word to all within his hearing: because of Christ's resurrection the barriers, fences, the walls that keep people apart from each other are torn down.
Disparate people called in fellowship – into friendship – with the other. How can such astonishing – culturally taboo – things happen? Let's circle back to those Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth that Jesus is sharing with the disciples for it provides the answer to how such astonishing things can and do happen.
Remember when this Farewell Discourse is taking place – it is Maundy Thursday and John's Gospel reveals a Jesus who, before the Passover supper, strips off his tunic to act as servant by washing his disciples' feet and tells them that they should do likewise for one another – they should act as servants to one another. Yet not too many minutes later, paradoxically, Jesus calls his disciples servants no longer, rather, calls them friends.
The Gospel invites us to explore and consider the notion – and some paradoxes — of friendship and of love. How do we think about friendship and the role of friends these days?
In January I attended the ordination of a seminary classmate. It was made even more joyful because it brought me back in touch with another classmate of ours, someone whose company I had enjoyed during my long-commuter studies. She, in turn, had a friend with her – a stranger to me. We were introduced and had a pleasant conversation for maybe 15 or 20 minutes. The next day, over my Facebook account, I was surprised – pleasantly – to have a message from her, indicating that it had been nice meeting me. Then I noticed that there was also a "friend request". One introduction, one conversation … and poof – a "friend request."
My Facebook page tells me that I have 295 friends. Our society, it seems would have us apply that term to almost everyone we've ever met making little or no distinction between casual acquaintances and genuinely intimate relationships. How do we think about friendship and the place of friends these days?
Aristotle offers three descriptions of friendship we might consider. He says that first, some people are our friends because of their usefulness to us – perhaps in making business connections or gaining entrance to a particular social circle. A second kind of friendship comes out of pure pleasure – we enjoy someone's company on occasion – like my seminary classmates, and their friend. The third and, for Aristotle, the best kind of friendship, is the friendship that exists simply for the sake of friendship itself. This kind of friendship has at its core the well-being of the other.
"What is a friend?" says Aristotle, "A single soul in two bodies." As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; as the Father and I are friends with one another for the very sake of friendship itself, so I call you servants no longer but rather friends.
It is this kind of friendship that God, our mother-father creator, God Incarnate, our redeemer, and God in Spirit, our sustainer enjoy – an intimate Trinity of friendship for the very sake of it and of each other. We might paraphrase Aristotle in our understanding and suggest, "What is ultimate friendship? God, in three persons."
Friendship for the very sake of it is not something I can have with all of my 295 friends on Facebook. What the gospel suggests to me is that, in fact, I ought only to have it with a select few because what is necessary for this level of friendship is a measure of availability and presence that if offered too broadly could be stretched dangerously thin.
It is this kind of friendship that Jesus was speaking of with his disciples that night before his death. Yet, embedded within the basic instructions before leaving earth that he needed to share with them is again great paradox. In it is described a kind of friendship reserved for a limited, inner circle — not spreading ourselves dangerously thin. Within it, too, is the vehicle by which we continue to be formed more deeply and more closely to the kind of friendship and love that God offers and Jesus modeled. This Basic Instruction for deep, intimate friendship is the vehicle that grafts us more and more securely as branches on the vine of Jesus. The result, paradoxically, is that we then can extend ourselves out from that intimate friendship for friendship's sake to embrace all of God's creation, not simply the parts of creation that are most like us.
This is friendship at its most formative; as we are friends to one another loving as God loves, we receive over time the model and the experience that teaches us to love more and more as God loves. So, like Peter, we also boldly proclaim an inclusive word to all within our hearing: because of Christ's resurrection the barriers, fences, the walls that keep people apart from each other are torn down, for God does not show partiality.
Love like friend is another word that we tend to throw around incautiously. "I love that sweater; where did you get it" – I loved the anthem this morning" "Didn't you just love that movie". Love, like Aristotle's best version of friendship – is most interested in the welfare of the other; it does not attempt to posses or dominate. We might recall that familiar passage in 1 Corinthians that tells us love is patient and kind; it does not insist in its own way; it rejoice in wrongdoing; but rejoices in the truth. Love bears all things; it hopes all things; it endures all things; it doesn't end.
When we love another with the kind of agape friendship Jesus commands, we cannot walk away – even when hurt or disappointed. Retreat momentarily – perhaps … but the love we are called to would lay down our lives before it would have us walk away from the other. Gospel love and gospel friendship are intimately intertwined and both likely should be held more guardedly as a part of our vocabulary. Nuances and downright distinctions of language would serve us better if they were honored more.
An example — a church youth group had grown over the years and in its increasing numbers some cliques had begun to develop – at first, benignly, but then with increasing potential to fracture the cohesiveness and effectiveness of their life together. Various options were discussed, including dividing the group into two or even three smaller ones, perhaps along age lines. One wise leader saw, however, that this would only serve to affirm the clique-ness that was growing and sought instead to bring the group together to talk through the situation. As they sat in the large circle, the leader asked the group to talk about what caused them to withdraw from one another and form closed circles of friendship. No one spoke. After several minutes of silence, the leader took a marker and wrote a single word on a sheet of newsprint in their midst … Love… and sat down. More silence, followed by some nervous fidgeting. Finally one of the teenagers blurted out, "How can we love each other? We don't even like one another!" To this honest response, the wise leader responded, "Who said you had to like each other? All you have to do is love one another. To like someone is based upon feelings. To love someone like Jesus commanded means that we respect and honor each other as a fellow child of God, chosen and loved by God."
One gift of that wise leader was to point out important nuances and downright distinctions in our vocabulary. Love – as the Gospel gives it to us – is different than "like". The Good News that wise leader imparted in telling the group of young people that they weren't called to like everyone in sight is a certain freedom and release of burden on the one hand. On the other hand, there are certainly implications to mine. American author Mark Twain once said of the Bible "Most people are bothered by those passages which they cannot understand, but as for me, I've always noticed that the passages in Scripture which trouble me most are those that I do understand."
We might not have to like everyone, but we do have to love one another, respecting and honoring each other as a fellow child of God, chosen and loved by God.
These words are reminiscent of the promises we witness at every baptism and promises repeated in the form of the Creed – our Baptismal Covenant – at Confirmation yesterday. Twenty-six teens and adults from St. Matthew's, Wilton and St. Paul's gathered with Bishop Coleridge here, in this space, to take another intentional step in their journey to be grafted more strongly and securely onto the metaphorical vine – Taylor, Billy and Steve, among them. The words they – and those gathered with them – spoke in renewing their Baptismal Covenant are both potentially freeing and troubling, not because we do not understand what they mean or imply, but more to that point because, like Twain, we do.
Each time we renew our promise to seek and serve Christ in every human being, to work for peace and justice, and to respect the dignity of every human being we may be freed from liking everyone, but we are bound to love them. We are bound to live in such a way that we are grafted more securely onto Jesus' metaphorical vine, as a branch seeking to bear good fruit.
An implication of all this lies in the question of where and with whom do we cultivate a friendship for the very sake of it? And an answer is that we seek to cultivate our most intimate friendships in community. This, too, is evident in the other two promises reaffirmed yesterday. We promise at each baptism and each confirmation to continue in the apostles' fellowship and teaching, in prayer, at table, and to repent and seek forgiveness whenever necessary.
A great gift of community is that within it most readily may be found those whose example we want to emulate; who exhibit to us that they are on the path to embracing Jesus' basic instructions before leaving earth. It is also in community that we begin to recognize that there are friends seeking us out who see something within us they wish to emulate.
Often during announcements, we are reminded of our so-called "three minute rule" of hospitality exercised weekly during coffee time. That is, we area asked to spend the first three minutes seeking out and talking with someone we either do not know or don't know well. It is more than a quaint exercise to welcome newcomers. It is an exercise that has the potential to expose each of us to people with whom we might enter into the kind of abiding friendship that Jesus gave as his basic instructions. It can connect us to other sojourners whose characteristics emulating God's love might rub off on us over time – and ours on them.
This mutuality of relationships – reciprocal love and friendship – rests squarely in God having chosen us and offered it to us, first. We can risk choosing friendship with each other for the very sake of friendship because God Incarnate first chose us to be in intimate relationship, abiding in and with one another, just as he abides through the Holy Spirit with God. We can risk keeping the circles of friendship open and permeable so that we can move in and out of the growing circles of this community as the Holy Spirit directs so that we don't risk the experience of that fictional youth group.
For three years, Jesus emphasized the importance of deep, spiritual friendship, modeled in intimate and expansive community. No wonder then that his Basic Instruction Before Leaving Earth would be succinct … As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. …This is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you.
Imagine the people who are the most important in your life; those you love the deepest, those with whom you spend the most time, those whose future welfare is intimately tied to your own sense of purpose. What lasting example do you want to leave them? What are the basic instructions you want them to have before you leaving earth?


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In my years working in patient communications, two of the main areas I worked in included patient to doctor communications and patient recruitment for clinical research projects. Our patient to doctor communications business accepted 10 million live phone calls annually, mostly from patients, on behalf of the 17,000 physicians we worked for. The calls covered everything from people about to become first time parents, to parents calling on behalf of their aging parents. Often the calls were for medications that seniors were being prescribed.
The clinical trials business was exciting as we worked on bringing groundbreaking prescription and over the counter therapies to patients, while developing new concepts for the industry that enabled more rapid deployment and completion of these research studies.
While the health conditions covered in these studies varied greatly, one item always seemed out of step to me given my patient to doctor experience – seniors were rarely included in the research for the drugs they were being prescribed and will ultimately consume.
For years I've been saying that seniors should be included in the research. I think this is one of the major reasons for the high rates of dissatisfaction with prescription remedies as pointed out by my colleague Gregori Kanatzidis(1).
It looks like someone is listening. Recently the National Institutes of Health began a project called ROAR – Recruiting Older Adults into Research (ROAR) – a project to encourage older adults and their family caregivers to consider participating in research. An early focus is Alzheimer's and dementia research. This is an important subject for seniors.
In the cannabis research area we at CannaTrials have launched a cannabis research project to learn how people are using cannabis, for what health conditions, and how they are doing. It is called the PROMMISE study(2)and includes anyone over 21 years old without an upper age limit.
We know that seniors are the fastest growing group of cannabis users.(3) Seniors can be found in the dispensaries. Buses even take them in droves as the 'Rolled joints for aching joints article"(4) in the LA Times recounts. More seniors are using cannabis and they need information. By sharing their experiences through research like the PROMMISE study, more people will benefit by knowing how people like themselves are using cannabis successfully.
- https://cannatrials.com/seniors-pain-and-cannabis/
- https://prommise.study
- https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-na-seniors-marijuana-laguna-woods-village-20190325-story.html
- https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-na-seniors-marijuana-laguna-woods-village-20190325-story.html


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Alberta Irene Robertson
May 17, 2018
Alberta Irene
Robertson, 84, passed away on May 13, 2018 at the Wyoming Retirement Center in Basin.
Alberta was born on July 5, 1933 to Albert Gabriel and Alice Lillian (Veitch) Irene. She graduated from University High School in Laramie. She attended 2 years of college at UW.
On June 19, 1953, she married Rex Ramsey. To this union were born two sons, Dan and Jim. The couple later divorced. She married Bud Robertson on January 14, 1961 in Ft. Collins, CO. Two daughters, Carole and LaNora made the family complete. The family lived and worked on the Spade Ranch near Medicine Bow until they moved the family to Owl Creek in 1969. They worked on ranches for 30 years in the Hot Springs County area where Alberta also served as a school cook for the Hamilton Dome School for many years.
She grew up ranching and enjoyed everything about ranching life. She would cook for the hay crews and brandings. If there was a crowd gathered, Alberta would be cooking for them. When she wasn't cooking she loved riding horses and taking care of the animals. She loved watching rodeos, local and national, especially the PBR (Professional Bull Riders). A highlight in her life was getting to attend the NFR (National Finals Rodeo) in Las Vegas. She lovingly kept a daily diary, carrying on a tradition from her father. She enjoyed visiting with people, going to dances and dinners and was a self-proclaimed "newspaper junkie" having numerous subscriptions to multiple newspapers and magazines and working crossword puzzles and solitaire.
She was a longtime member of the Hot Springs County Cowbells and a life-long member of the Episcopal Church, St. Luke's in Medicine Bow and Holy Trinity in Thermopolis.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Bud and her brother, Jim.
Survivors include her children: Daniel (Deb) Robertson of Worland, Jim (Cathy) Ramsey of Fallon, NV, Carole (Paul) Kordonowy of Aliquippa, PA, and LaNora Ochs of Bullhead City, AZ; 8 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
Cremation has taken place and a memorial service will be held 11:00 a.m., Monday, June 18, at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Medicine Bow, WY. Online condolences may be made at http://www.bryantfuneralhomeonline.com.


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Jen Schlegel and Simone Bacon will each receive $50,000 for a living stipend and up to $50,000 in funding for their projects, according to the press release.
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Inspired by sofmarhof's comment, SJ,s please let the TypoC know ways that you fit or don't fit what are deemed traditional roles.
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Non Traditional SJs!
Well if no actual SJ's want to contribute, here's what I said about my SJ friend:
She's very pro-responsible-drug-use, and wants everything to be legalized, and thinks driving while high is a terrible thing to do, because it's detrimental to "the cause."
She's got a book shelf full of Voltaire, Camus, Nietzsche, and also contemporary guys like Chuck Palahniuk. So, obviously, not averse to theoretical things. The thing is, I never see her reading them. I'm sure she's read them many times so I don't hold it against her, but it must be sentimentality that makes her keep those books around, since she's not doing it for ease of reference. I never see her buy new books, either. Not a voracious seeker of new ideas. She has Voltaire as her computer desktop and a framed picture of him on the wall. She's also obsessed with the Joker from Batman, "because he's an existential absurdist."
She likes things that would offend your grandmother, like It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and the aforementioned Chuck Palahniuk, but Cannibal Holocaust was too much (she's been a vegetarian since age 7 or something).
She's in film school, but only really likes writing movies and hates being in charge of any group production project. When another friend had big project, this girl wanted to be in charge of keeping everyone fed and keeping the house they were all staying in clean; she didn't want any other responsibilities. She really doesn't like having to come up with an idea when there are any constraints, such as having to shoot outdoors or having to do a chase scene.
She is the most responsible person out of our friend group, but constantly protests that she's not a responsible person (except toward her cats). She is very vocal about never wanting children, but she acts like a mother to all of our immature guy friends. She does all the cleaning. She takes charge of the bills. Despite her professed love of alcohol she never gets drunk at parties because she's too busy making sure nobody dies or wrecks the apartment, even when the party's at somebody else's place.
So everybody else! Describe your favorite non-traditional SJs! Because guess what�they exist!
Yeah... actually I don't think I've known an SJ that thought of themselves as non-traditional, who didn't in fact just follow traditional routes of non-conformism, if you know what I mean?
That is, they might've rejected the 9 to 5, the white picket fences and all that, but they simply exchanged it for some other stereotype... for example one I know who decided to homeschool her kids and only THEN did she suddenly take up an abiding interest in knitting, veganism, protest marches, Eastern religions, eco-living, organic food growing, staying in communes, etc etc... "because round these parts, that's what most of the homeschoolers are into", and she "wanted to fit in" (her words). Before she had a terrible experience with the school system here, she had all her kids in school with spotless uniforms, took them in every day in her SUV, and totally bought into the whole deal, went to the parent governors' meetings in her pearls and twinset like all the other respectable, middle class mums.
Another guy I know, an SJ who likes to think of himself as non-traditional, decided in university that he'd define himself in opposition to "mainstream culture", and to this day sticks dogmatically to the idea that ANYONE who wears a suit and tie is a sell-out - he has nothing to say to them or to learn from them, that no good music has been made since Woodstock (except Led Zeppelin), that growing his hair long is "sticking it to the man", and he reads prolifically... on all the subjects that his social group at university decided were cool, back in like 1975. He doesn't just have a mental age of 19 or so, but he's actually stuck to the particular historic 19-year-old's mentality that he adopted to fit in with mainstream university culture. He often waxes nostalgic for "those days", and boasts how "that's how it was in the uni's back then, everyone was cool..." IOW his "rebellion" was simply mainstream for the environment he was in at the time, and he's stuck to it because it became routine to him and he doesn't like to change.
So... well I don't discount that there are SJ's who are genuinely adventurous, carving out their own path, rather than just sticking to established rules about whatever position in society they decide to adopt (be it mainstream or otherwise), I have to say I'm yet to meet one...I'm male and over 30, FYI.
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Ack. Authenticity, nonconformity, pretentiousness, none of those labels mean anything anymore. "Typical hippie, what a conformist!" It's like when somebody says, "X is pretentious," and then I say "People who accuse people of being pretentious are themselves pretentious," and then somebody points out that my statement is pretentious as well... like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel... The very ISTJ friend I have about complains about the pretentiousness of others, and is embarassed at her 14-yeal-old self for going to protests and trying to be a punk
The stereotype that SJs are all ultra-traditonal, white-picket-fence-having churchgoers is so pervasive on this forum that even if we just show a few SJs who are "typical hippies" it would still be a leap forward.
Do people seem to forget that the word traditional is subjective and that the act of adhering to a tradition does not necessarily require you to adhere to certain things that most people would see as a tradition?
I break traditions all the time. I dissect the crap out of religions and analyze why people do things over and over again. The goal of my life is EFFECTIVENESS AND SUSTAINABILITY. I work at a department store, but my work ethic is MUCH different from the feelers that I work with. Doesn't that break tradition? There are very concrete and laid out reasons for why a sales associate exists. My duties are outlined, and I see absolutely no reason to allow a personal confrontation with a customer affect how I perform.
I break tradition everyday in that respect. I'm happy, friendly, relaxed, comfortable yet not emotional with customers because it interferes with my work ethic.
I don't want to write a list of things that prove I'm not traditional....but I can't say that I am. I've thought about it. I think tradition is subjective, like raz.
I'm definitely not a person who does things because 'it's what's done'. I HATE that. I do things because there's a good reason to do it. It has to make some kind of sense to me and the end result that I'm trying to attain.
It's a combination of inaccurate printed SJ descriptions and people looking at their parents, teachers and Bosses that give SJs these loser-like descriptions.
I'm not traditional in a sense that I don't see the point in keeping up with what's considered traditional when you can be your own than having to follow certain roles and what you have to do. Certain gender roles are applied, it should be equal between males and females in an effort to strive to become better and do what needs to be done rather than fuss about which roles gets who and who does who. Anyway, my opinion's put in this and there's no reason for being traditional.
I'm pretty non-traditional I'd say, but at the same time pretty blatantly SJ a lot of the time (although not as much these days as I used to be). My S/N and J/P divide is pretty balanced.
Tradition for the sake of "tradition" usually seems silly to me.
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I'm pleased to introduce the new Three Mutts Customs Harley "fishtail" tank bib! The top of the bib mates with the speedo bezel flush like usual but the bottom cuts in to fit the lower tank cut out before flaring out again into a tail section that is formed to cover the top AND sides of the exposed backbone. Hand braided edges or edge piping is included in the base model, including the fat 1/4″ edge piping that matches the black & white diamond stitched seats available from Harley. Here are a few pictures of the new design.
Our gorgeous model, showing off her new leather top is Gary's 2012 Harley-Davidson Softail Deluxe. The attention to detail on this bike is awesome; along with the custom tank bib, it sports custom covers, flushed caps on the gas tank, true duals leading to hand twisted pipes and fishtail exhaust tips and more…doesn't get much nicer than this!