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Category:English adjectives ending in -en

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This category is a list of English adjectives that are formed by adding an -en suffix (or similar) to a noun.

This should not be used simply as a spelling grouping. The category is specifically concerned with the relationship between a noun and its adjective.

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Words should only be included when :

  • the stem word is a noun
  • the adjective is formed by extending the noun
  • the suffix is -n, -en, or -ern
  • the adjective is not exclusively a past participle

Examples of words that are not to be included:

  • eaten - past participle of "eat"
  • children - a noun, not an adjective

But the following words are correctly (if contestably) included:

  • the west - western
  • a drunk - drunken
  • some brass - brazen


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Monday, August 07, 2006

National Night Out

August 1 was National Night Out, a movement across the country for neighborhoods to throw small block parties. The idea behind it is that the more you know your neighbors, the better you can band together to keep the neighborhood safe.

This night was a mindblowing exercise in Let's see. I've seen this person getting out of their car a few times, and waved as I went by, but really haven't seen them very much. They must be new to the neighborhood. And then you ask them how long they've lived in the neighborhood and they say THIRTEEN YEARS.

And since you've lived there since 1995, you realize that you've been living, thinking, eating, sleeping, laughing next to this person for over a decade without even really recognizing them or learning their name.... and they live in the house that is kitty-corner to yours.
And this happened over and over again.

I grew up in a small town in Vermont where I not only knew everyone on my street and surrounding streets, but had basically been in every home many times and knew the floorplan. I guess it's different when you're a kid growing up on a block with many kids: when you're tired, you all troop into whoever's house and ask for kool-aid. There are kids on my block here in Oakland, and maybe (I hope) they too think of the neighborhood as their extended living room... but I kind of doubt it. I got the sense from Neighborhood Night Out that many of us were strangers to each other.

The police came by and gave us whistles and penlights... and best of all.... A's tickets! I didn't at first realize the import of the tickets. Since they were handed out to all of us, that means that when we all go to the game, we'll all sit together, yet another chance for neighbors to get to know each other. That game is tonight, and unfortunately I have a class to teach, but I passed the tickets to my friend Chris who USED to live in my duplex, so close enough!

The intent of the event was also to gather names and phone numbers to organize a neighborhood watch. I'm up for that. We are lucky in that our neighborhood is fairly safe. Crimes on surrounding streets have been car theft, but as far as I know, not on our street, and no break-ins or the like. My only experience of crime on this street has been that someone once stole swim goggles from my unlocked car. If you know of anyone in possession of black market swim goggles, email me.

And thanks to neighbors Sharon, Paula and Roger for organizing Neighborhood Night Out.

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Kirby’s Adventure (NES, 1993)

The evolution of the platformer, back in the halcyon days of the NES, was a curious process to behold for a youngster. Thanks to my year of birth (1986), it often felt as if the march of progress in innovation and technology of the video game world was tracking tightly with my own growth from child, to teenager, to young adult, and so forth. Early in that process came a particularly relevant title, and one that’s still a marvelously fun play, even today. I speak of the venerable Kirby’s Adventure.

I was but a lad of six when this game debuted, and coming up fast on seven. It wasn’t my first experience with the eponymous, marauding inhaler, having played the series’ progenitor, Kirby’s Dream Land, on my Game Boy a year prior. As I alluded to, the deepening of the Kirby experience from that game to the next felt like the comfortable, natural evolution that I, as a demanding child moving from five, to six, to seven, felt entitled to.

For the uninitiated, Kirby is a round, smooth, somewhat marshmellowy looking fellow who serves as the primary force for good and justice in his native Dream Land. His ostensible arch-nemesis in this task is King Dedede, an overweight, imperious penguin adorned with the utmost finery. Both Kirby and the King share a special power, the ability to inhale into their stomachs those who might oppose or deter their progress (within a certain distorted physical reason – Dedede can inhale the smaller Kirby, but not vice-versa).

In the hero’s first starring role, his ability to inhale enemies also functioned as his sole mode of attack. By spitting out the hapless foes (or inanimate blocks, which he could also consume), Kirby could launch a spinning star from his mouth, a devastating attack against his enemies. In Kirby’s Adventure, however, a new feature is added that would become the primary hook of Kirby’s legacy – he can, rather than spit out his enemies, swallow them whole and steal their signature abilities. Swallow a blade-brandishing knight, for example, and Kirby is endowed with that same sword, as well as the know-how to use it, whipping the edge through the air in most menacing fashion.

The variety of enemies, and therefore of abilities Kirby can exploit for his own means, is truly surprising and wonderful relative to the age of the game. My personal favorite will always be “Rock,” which is true to its name.

The color palette in Kirby’s Adventure facilitates a versatile, impressive range of environments, worthy of the “Dream Land” moniker. Not unlike Super Mario Bros. 2, which I’ve previously reviewed, the game does an exemplary job representing an at times off-kilter and charmingly diverse dreamscape, and the enemies and challenges that lurk therein.

Perhaps the most representative instance of this is the boss battle against Mr. Shine and Mr. Bright, the sun and moon themselves. Standing in a valley flanked by hills in the background, Kirby must battle the celestial bodies, taking on one while the other assumes its place in the sky, causing the look of the level to switch between day and night.

The game features  eight worlds, each one consisting of a hub world with several different doors to access the levels. There are also a few grandly enjoyable minigames, and additional bonus rooms – in one repeated interlude, you engage in quick draw combat against increasingly sharp opponents, and in another you must strategically open and close your mouth, so to guzzle a downpour of eggs without accidentally swallowing any bombs in the process.

The level design is artistically pleasing, inventive, and the full data package the game boasts is an ambitious one for its age. The cartridge for Kirby’s Adventure contains 6 megabits, which is quite a lot (Wikipedia claims it’s one of the largest games ever for the NES, though I can’t pretend to have any such technical knowledge).

At the climax of the game, it’s revealed that the noble-minded Kirby was, in fact, under a grave misapprehension in pegging King Dedede as the utmost threat to peace and security in Dream Land. In fact, it was Dedede himself who had sought to protect the realm, and thus Kirby’s Adventure must end with another struggle, above and beyond what he had believed. He must face off against Nightmare, a physical manifestation of dark and evil dreams.

In this regard, rudimentary as its mode of storytelling is, Kirby’s Adventure joins a pantheon of later, plot heavy games in which a hero’s zeal to protect his or her world would ultimately backfire (the initial installment of Metal Gear Solid for the Playstation is a prime example of this, taken considerably more seriously). While it might be an exaggeration to suggest that this twist would be instructive to any young person, it was certainly not lost on me. The lesson is that unintended consequences abound, and that the motivations of those you might consider your enemy may be more opaque to you than you believe.

There are a few popular criticisms of Kirby’s Adventure, to be sure – it’s not a phenomenally difficult game, though as a child the final face-off with Nightmare did vex me for a little over an hour before I completed it. It can, as some critics have suggested, be beaten over the course of an industrious evening, in maybe three or four hours if you’re a newcomer who yet knows what you’re doing. I say that it’ll be a grandly enjoyable few hours, and you’ll be happy to wallow in it, however long or short it takes.


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Horuscape: Mind Horror

London, Oct 2017

Rated 3.5 out of 5
Toby says:

The question here is, how to fairly review something which is a thoroughly different type of experience to everything else on this site? Mind Horror is a virtual reality escape game, so far a rare beast in the UK but gradually creeping into the escape games scene.
While purchasing game designs is not so unusual with physical escape rooms, very few companies have the resources to create their own VR games and so buying from an external supplier is standard. By an unfortunate coincidence, the first two companies to open a VR game in London both bought the same game, Mind Horror, which I believe is written by the Barcelona-based company Avatarico. Your task is to navigate the twisted mind of a serial killer before he dies, to find out the location of a kidnapped child and escape safely.
As with a physical escape room, the experience starts with a team briefing, though instead of the usual instructions to avoid force and use each item once, here the intro demonstrates which arm gestures to use to fly and to shoot. As that implies, puzzle solving is only one part of this game, mixed in with more standard computer game elements of exploration and combat.
All players are seated throughout, and play co-operatively. Each other player’s avatar is visible in the virtual environment, usually in a completely different relative location to their actual position in the room. Some sections of the game have the avatars fixed in place, allowing you to look around and reach out but not move about, and others allow free flight in zero gravity using arm movements to guide direction and speed.
The gameplay also shifts in style between different stages. Perhaps half of the stages are puzzle-based, but unless you struggle with these a great deal they occupy much less than half the play time. Don’t expect anything particularly mentally taxing; the challenge in each is solely to work out what the game expects you to do – as well as to overcome the sometimes clumsy way the avatar handles object manipulation.
The VR immersion is simultaneously both clunky and remarkably effective. I imagine that with practice it becomes much smoother, but for me moving objects around had all the grace and fine motor control of a drunkard convinced he’ll be able to juggle on his first attempt. We lost several minutes attempting to fling small objects at one another with hilarious incompetence. In the sections involving combat it was just as difficult to aim even approximately in the right direction.
Movement, on the other hand, became second nature almost immediately, and interacting with large simple objects such as levers was straightforward. The game mostly plays to its strengths, requiring neither very fine object control nor precise combat skills, instead carrying you through the story with pauses as you work out how to overcome the newest task.
At the same time the virtual environment is instantly convincing, as well as spectacular. We had to remember not to physically lean on virtual surfaces. If you haven’t tried a VR headset before, then it’s worth giving Mind Horror a go for that experience alone.
That immersion comes at a cost, however. Three of our four players experienced at least a little motion sickness, one severely. However spectacular the visuals, it’s difficult to enjoy them with a constant background nausea, and if that’s your body’s reaction there’s not much you can do to cure the feeling. Since the game also can’t continue without all players, it’d be tricky to bail out midway, too.
Less serious but still irksome was the audio delay. If you’ve ever tried to speak on a phone where you can hear your own voice echoing back half a second after you speak, you’ll understand how off-putting that can be. I wondered why they bothered having our voices come through the headset, since we could hear each other speak anyhow, but perhaps the point is to make your teammates’ voices come from where their avatars are in the game, not from where they’re physically located.
Was it fun? Absolutely. Was it an escape room? Only in the loosest sense. If this qualifies, so do a great many computer games. But that was more a stylistic choice of this particular game rather than a fundamental limitation of the format. It leaves me thinking that VR is a platform with great potential for escape rooms, which Mind Horror only starts to explore. The awkwardness of interacting with virtual objects is a limiting factor, though one that will improve as VR technology moves forward and as players become more familiar with VR games.
In the meantime, I can’t really assign a rating to Mind Horror in the way I would to a physical escape game. But given that it’s a similar price and a similar length of time, I can rate it based on how strongly I’d recommend it relative to a normal game. And despite the cool virtual environment, I’d encourage people to pick any strong physical escape game over it… but as an experience it’s competitive with an average to decent game. It’s also worth going to for sheer novelty value alone, if you haven’t tried a VR headset before. Just be braced for possible motion sickness.
3.5 / 5
Lewis adds:

We discussed some ways you might try and improve the nature of a game like this. For instance, as this is a VR experience and the complexity and volume of its content is controlled by software, it ought to be possible to guarantee a 60 minute experience. Ours lasted a little over 35 minutes. It was great and we didn’t feel like we’d particularly missed out by that, but equally it would have been enjoyable to spend the remaining time in VR, too. (Pressures for a venue we’d like to think are reduced as there’s no reset time required between games…)
With this in mind, how would you keep the element of challenge alive? We figured that a move to a points-based system might help to preserve that across a fixed-length game and keep things fun. There are physical games that have adopted this strategy too, such as the two games at Enigma Quests (Million Dollar Heist, which scores by your takings at the end of the game, and School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which awards you various achievements as you progress), and a similar approach could work even better for VR games. 3.5 / 5

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Keep the Faith

Those “Keep Calm and Carry On” posters from WWII have been around since, well, WWII. They were originally designed by the UK Ministry of Information to boost morale. No doubt you’ve seen them. Recently I came across a website called the KeepCalm-O-Matic where you can enter your own text and icons and generate a Carry On poster of your very own. Here’s what I came up with…

Below are some others I made. (Click on each thumbnail to see a larger version.) Feel free to share them.

If you make a poster of your own, feel free to post it on E2R’s Facebook wall.

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  1. sometimes it’s the seemingly “little reminders” to help me regain focus on Christ. that colossians 2:6 verse did that for me. (I never liked those “keep calm and carry on” posters haha). Thanks so much man! Hope all is well!

  2. Hi there, Paul, just wanted to ask if you have any topics dealing about our God-given “free will”, and how we might come to use it after we abide by His Grace?

  3. I loved your poster, do you mind if I print a copy to have as an actual poster? Thanks.

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TX is absolutely closed.

H.E. Scheiblich; C.Moore. Kayran

Semigroup forum (1974)

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The Parity of Permutations.

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Elemente der Mathematik (1972)

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25th Feb 2018

Are MEPs too 'free' to be accountable?

  • The commission proposed a new lobbying transparency register in September 2016, but does its proposal go far enough? (Photo: EUobserver)

The European Commission proposed to reform the EU Lobbying Transparency Register in September 2016, promising to make it mandatory across EU institutions.

But, when it comes to lobbying transparency, the ball is now in the European Parliament's court.

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On Wednesday (6 June), the parliament’s "contact group" – the two MEP negotiators Danuta Hübner and Sylvie Guillaume, plus members from each political group – will discuss their draft negotiating mandate for the register one more time.

If nothing changes from the current draft, it will be a meaningless paper, lacking any solid commitment from MEPs to introduce new incentives for lobbyists to join the transparency register.

Traditionally, the parliament had been a staunch supporter of a robust transparency register. It was the EU parliament, and not the commission, that first introduced some conditions on lobbyists: the obligation to register to obtain an access badge was agreed by the parliament back in 2010.

Moreover, MEPs have always emphasised the need for a binding register, backed by the force of law, in their negotiations with the commission. Such a register would be binding on lobbyists and allow the institutions to impose sanctions on them in cases of non-compliance.

But the commission was far less aspirant.

Instead, the EU executive body proposed an inter-institutional agreement – which would bind the institutions, but not lobbyists – based on a set of incentives to get lobbyists to register and comply with the rules.

As a first step, in 2014, EU commission president Jean-Claude Juncker introduced the rule that commissioners, their cabinet members, and directors-general should only meet with registered lobbyists, and must publish all their meetings online.

This sounded good, but it had a massive loophole: the remaining 30,000+ commission officials were left unaffected by these rules.

No meaningful commitment

There seems to be a consensus now between the three institutions about this low-key, unambitious, incentive-based approach.

We disagree with it and will keep up the pressure for a legally-binding register in the longer-term, as this is the only way to make the register – with its flawed data and massive enforcement problem – more effective.

If the institutions are serious, however, about increasing lobbying transparency via their soft approach, they will have to take stock of their own responsibilities and really put strong incentives in place.

But sadly, none of the three institutions seem willing to strengthen their requirements in their own contact with lobbyists.

The parliament's attitude is particularly disappointing, considering its prior record.

Back in December 2016, a majority of MEPs voted to adopt the systematic practice of meeting only with registered lobbyists. That was a step forward, but is widely interpreted as non-binding on MEPs. Lobbyists wishing to avoid scrutiny would easily be able to evade such a voluntary rule, which not all MEPs apply.

Many MEPs across the centre-right, centre-left and liberal groups now argue that they cannot aim for a clear and enforceable ban on MEPs meeting unregistered lobbyists, as it would be incompatible with the "free mandate" principle enshrined in EU primary law.

The free mandate principle guarantees that MEPs can vote and speak independently from any instructions – from their voters, or their parties, and so on. The argument goes that this also implies the freedom to meet whomever they feel they need to, to stay informed.

Unconvincing argument

This does not sound very convincing to us. We understand that independence from any external instruction is a fundamental principle of democracy. But there are other important values and principles too – transparency being one of them.

Does the "free mandate" really prevent MEPs from introducing accountability and transparency obligations?

Would asking lobbyists to register for a meeting and play by the rules really be such an attack on the freedom of MEPs?

And just to reject a red herring argument: meetings with citizens from MEPs’ constituencies, or random encounters, are not and have never been covered by the register. Meetings with whistle-blowers or others who, for reasons of personal security, would not want their name in the public domain, could also easily be exempt.

And if a clear ban is really asking too much: why not simply publish MEPs’ meetings with lobbyists online? Then the public could check who MEPs are meeting. This would be compatible with the "free mandate" of MEPs and, in our era of electronic calendars, would not really pose too big of an administrative burden, either.

Yet the idea of becoming more transparent and accountable to their electorate seems to be scary to many MEPs, and is being considered far more as a risk than as an opportunity.

This is a particularly baffling position for MEPs to take, especially when considering the distance between the work of the EU parliament and the home constituencies, which is often reflected in the poor turnouts in European elections.

We have witnessed a frustratingly reclusive attitude through the whole discussion phase of the mandate.

Civil society was only invited, reluctantly, to contribute to this important discussion after an open letter to the parliament was signed by 100 civil society organisations and the mandate had been kept secret from us.

Much-needed commitment

MEPs must stop hiding behind legalistic excuses and commit to something meaningful.

It's time for MEPs to leave their defensive mode and to stop hiding behind legalistic excuses.

Both of the MEP negotiators (Hübner and Guillaume) have signed two different pledges on lobbying transparency in the last European elections, as did many other MEPs.

It is time for those politicians to live up to their pledges and to persuade their colleagues to implement a clear ban on MEPs meeting with unregistered lobbyists and to ensure that MEPs publish their lobby meetings.

If the parliament does not act, MEPs will lose the moral high-ground vis-a-vis the other institutions in the debate on EU lobbying transparency.

And the result: the EU lobbying register will remain a very flawed transparency tool.

Nina Katzemich is an EU-campaigner for a German lobbying watchdog, LobbyControl, and a member of the ALTER-EU steering committee.

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EU commission presents 'realistic' lobbying rules

The EU executive called for more stringent regulation of interest representatives trying to influence EU decision making. Critics say the 'transparency revolution' is being blocked by the European Parliament and EU member states.

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The private concierge / Suzanne Forster.

Forster, Suzanne. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0778325458
  • Physical Description: 456 pages ; 17 cm.
  • Publisher: Don Mills, Ontario : Mira Books, 2008.

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Summary, etc.: L.A.'s rich and powerful rely on Lane Chandler's company, The Private Concierge, to anticipate their every whim...and to guarantee unparalleled discretion. But then one of Lane's celebrity patrons is found murdered in the most undignified manner imaginable. In rapid succession, three other prominent clients become embroiled in separate scandals, thanks to what looks like a security breach of TPC's communications systems. As word gets out, clients drop Lane like last week's gossip. She's bent on keeping TPC's name out of the papers, but when former police officer Rick Bayless starts nosing around, she has more to worry about than bad PR. Rick knows about Lane's shadowy past, and he's certain she's hiding new secrets. With no other options, Lane must face a dangerous conspirator who knows more about her every move than she does.
Subject: Personal concierges > California > Los Angeles > Fiction.
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Genre: Suspense fiction.

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Teach yourself mahjong/ David Pritchard.

Pritchard, David. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 9780071478823
  • Physical Description: 183 pages.
  • Publisher: Blacklick, OH: McGraw-Hill, 2007.

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General Note: Includes index.
Summary, etc.: Explains why Mahjong has entranced people for centuries. This guides helps you learn how to play Mahjong with reference to American and Japanese variations of the game as well as the basic fundamentals.
Subject: Mah jong.

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Tempted / P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast.

Cast, P. C., (author.). Cast, Kristin, (author.).

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Brownstown PL - Brownstown YA CAST HOUSE b.6 (Text) 79361000094554 Young Adult Fiction Checked out 03/16/2018

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  • ISBN: 9781250046987 (paperback)
  • ISBN: 125004698X (paperback)
  • Physical Description: 340 pages ; 17 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2013.

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Summary, etc.: After banishing an immortal being and a fallen High Priestess, saving Stark's life, biting Heath, getting a headache from Erik, and almost dying, Zoey Redbird would catch a break. Juggling three guys is anything but a stress reliever, especially when one of them is a sexy Warrior who is so into protecting Zoey that he can sense her emotions. The dark force lurking in the tunnels under the Tulsa Depot is spreading, and Zoey is beginning to believe Stevie Rae could be responsible for a lot more than a group of misfit red fledglings. Aphrodite's visions warn Zoey to stay away from Kalona and his dark allure, but they also show that it is Zoey who has the power to stop the evil immortal. Soon it becomes obvious that Zoey has no choice: if she doesn't go to Kalona he will exact a fiery vengeance on those closest to her.
Target Audience Note: 740 Lexile.
Study Program Information Note: Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.1 16.0 134105.
Subject: Redbird, Zoey (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Good and evil > Fiction.
Adolescence > Fiction.
Vampires > Fiction.
Teenage girls > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Genre: Paranormal fiction.
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The servant of the shard : Forgotten Realms: The Sellswords Series, Book I. / R.A Salvatore.

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  • Publisher: New York : Wizards of the Coast, 2009.

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Summary, etc.: With each kill, I grow wiser, and with added wisdom, I grow stronger.Powerful assassin Artemis Entreri tightens his grip on the streets of Calimport, driven by the power of his hidden drow supporters. But his sponsor Jarlaxle grows ever more ambitious, and Entreri struggles to remain cautious and in control. Soon, the power of the malevolent Crystal Shard grows greater than them both, threatening to draw them into a vast web of treachery from which there will be no escape.
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Dangerous destiny : Night Sky Series, Book 0.5. / Suzanne Brockmann.

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  • ISBN: 9781492612636 (electronic bk)
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  • Publisher: Naperville : Sourcebooks Fire, 2014.

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Summary, etc.: "Original and exciting, Night Sky propels readers into a dangerous future. Loved it." -Melissa Marr, New York Times bestselling author of Made For You and the Wicked Lovely series.See how it all begins...In this pulse-pounding prequel to the Night Sky series by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann and her daughter Melanie Brockmann, Skylar has her first brush with Destiny. She's about to meet a boy who will change her life-and a girl who wants to end it.I know her.Know her from inside the dreams. Inside those terrible, murderous, bloody dreams. I've heard her-screaming, her voice mixing in an awful chorus with all those other girls. Little girls.Please, God.That's what one of the little girls keeps saying, in the dream that is not just a dream. Please, God.But I know better. There's no escaping this fate. This is destiny.I must kill Skylar.Skylar Reid is the new...
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Look for me by moonlight / Mary Downing Hahn.

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Summary, etc.: When sixteen-year-old Cynda goes to stay with her father and his second wife, Susan, at their remote bed-and-breakfast inn in Maine, everything starts off well despite legends about ghosts and a murder at the inn. But Cynda feels like a visitor in Dad's new life, an outsider. Then intense, handsome stranger Vincent Morthanos arrives at the inn and seems to return Cynda's interest. At first she is blind to the subtle, insistent signs that Vincent is not what he seems-that he is, in fact, a vampire. Can Cynda free herself-and her family-from Vincent's power before it's too late? Full-bodied characterizations and page-turning suspense ensure that this eerie, riveting novel will appeal to middle school fans of mystery and horror.
Target Audience Note: UG/Upper grades (9th-12)
720 Lexile.
4.6 ATOS Level
Reproduction Note: Electronic reproduction. Boston : Clarion Books, 2008. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 596 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB).
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The poe estate : Grimm Legacy Series, Book 3. / Polly Shulman.

Shulman, Polly. (Author).

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Summary, etc.: This is a mind-bending, rousing adventure celebrating classic ghost and horror stories, by the author of The Grimm Legacy and The Wells Bequest. Sukie's been lonely since the death of her big sister, Kitty-but Kitty's ghost is still with her. At first that was comforting, but now Kitty's terrifying anyone who gets too close. Things get even weirder when Sukie moves into her family's ancestral home, and an older, less familiar ghost challenges her to find a treasure. Her classmate Cole is also experiencing apparitions. Fortunately, an antique broom's at hand to fly Sukie and Cole to the New-York Circulating Material Repository's spooky Poe Annex. As they search for clues and untangle ancient secrets, they discover their histories intertwine and are as full of stories of love, revenge, and pirate hijinks as some of the most famous fiction.
Target Audience Note: Text Difficulty 3
670 Lexile.
Reproduction Note: Electronic reproduction. New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, 2015. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1527 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB).
Subject: Young Adult Fiction.
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Love at Mistletoe Inn : A Year of Weddings Novella / Cindy Kirk.

Kirk, Cindy. (Author). Carr, Julie, (narrator.).

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  • ISBN: 9781491547717
  • Physical Description: 2 audio discs (2 hr. 21 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher: Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, 2014.

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General Note: Unabridged.
Compact disc.
Participant or Performer Note: Performed by Julie Carr
Summary, etc.: Ten years after "marrying" John Burke on the night of her senior prom, Hope Prentiss finds out that her wedding counted. Her jilted husband has returned to town and is staying at the inn where she and her Aunt Verna host weddings. After spending time with John and helping to plan a Christmas wedding, Hope begins to question whether or not she really wants a divorce or a real wedding.
Subject: Weddings > Fiction.
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  • Physical Description: 314 pages ; 18 cm.
  • Edition: 1st Forge ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Forge, 2000.

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Summary, etc.: Jane ran her cattle business and bossed the cowboys who rode the expanse of purple sage around her prosperous Utah ranch. Then she dared disobey the Mormons who ordered her to marry grim, brutal Elder Tull. Now her stock was being stampeded and her men disappearing. Then the mysterious gunslinger called Lassiter rode into town.
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Sunday, May 21, 2017

`Something to Outlive Him'

I see from my note at the front that I bought Anthony Kerrigan’s translation of Unamuno’s The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations (1912) on Jan. 16, 1975. I had recently started working as a clerk in Kay’s Books in Cleveland, and had already stockpiled stacks of books I wanted to buy, stowing them under the counter on the second floor. The occult connections among the books we read often remain obscure. Somehow, I associate my awareness of Unamuno’s books with Beckett and Kierkegaard, whose work I had read fairly thoroughly. I then knew little of Spain’s literature beyond Cervantes, and I came to him by way of Smollett and Sterne. Unamuno is utterly unlike the author of Don Quixote, and I would not have known enough to characterize either writer as “quintessentially Spanish.” Unamuno I recognized as a true man of letters, gifted in the writing of novels and philosophy. I had already read his Shandean novel Mist (1914).

Clive James has prompted me to read The Tragic Sense of Life again. I was looking for something else in Cultural Amnesia (2007) when I noticed the chapter he devotes to Unamuno. James’ method is interesting. Each chapter bears the name of some contributor to culture, whether Miles Davis or Josef Goebbels, but that serves merely as the spark. These are not potted biographies. Some chapters hardly mention their nominal subjects, and proceed to follow whatever hobbyhorse James chooses to ride. The Unamuno chapter begins with a brief outline of Unamuno’s life, emphasizing the spiritual crisis he suffered in 1897 and his troubles with Franco’s regime. The key sentence: “His mental independence, however, was incurable.” That alone makes Unamuno a rare and very attractive sort of writer.

James next digresses on the subject of reviewing books. His career advice recalls Cyril Connolly’s. About the man of letters he writes: “His main asset is to be well read, but if he spends too much time reading secondary books only for the sake of reviewing them, he will be adding to his initial stock of useful erudition. Worse, he will be adding much that is useless.” And this:

“Anyone faced with the deadly task of first reading, then writing about, a book he would not ordinarily have read in the first place, is brutally reminded of what he was really born to do: read books that can be felt, from page to page, to do nothing for his wallet but everything for the spirit.”

James endorse underlinings and annotations. “Unamuno’s pages cry out to be defaced.” True enough. “At his potent best he could put the aphorisms one after the other like the wagons of an American freight train stretching from one prairie railhead to the next.” Here’s an example from Chap. III, “The Hunger for Immortality,” in The Tragic Sense of Life:

“If a man tells you that he writes, paints, sculpts, or sings for his own amusement, and at the same time makes his work public, then he lies: he lies if he puts his signature to his writing, painting, sculpture or song. He is intent, at the very least, on leaving some shadow of his spirit behind, something to outlive him.”

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I’ve been silent for a while. Not much has been floating around my mind to get me to hop on here and talk. I would typically voice my opinions on certain stuff and rant about life but as of late I just haven’t been feeling it. I also have noticed that I start off all […]


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This is the home page and first day handout for MAT 182, section 002, meeting MWF from 11:30 -- 12:40 in BEH 112. My name is Dr. Arthur Baragar. My office is CBC-B 308 and I can be reached at 895-0378. Important information announced in class will also be posted on this web page (URL listed below.)

Text: James Stewart, Calculus, Early Transcendentals, fourth edition, Brooks Cole Publishing, 1999.

Grading Scheme: The grading in this course is as follows: There is no preset correlation between numerical grades and your final letter grade. A letter grade (without + or -) will be included with the return of each exam and will cover all exams up to then.  Late homework will be accepted, but there is a penalty (to be explained in class).

Office Hours: If you need to see me, please look for me during the office hours posted below, or please make an appointment. If there is no one in my office during the last half of the office hour, I will feel free to leave, so please arrive early. Office hours begin the second week of classes. Exam week office hours (if any) will be posted later.

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Vegetarian Weight Loss Ebook Review

I received Vegetarian Weight Loss by Jonathan Vine free to review.

This book contains 50 recipes (breakfast,lunch and dinner) to help you get on the right track losing weight the Vegetarian way.  It explains all the benefits of becoming a Vegetarian and is broken up into easy to follow chapters.

This isn't just a recipe book like some of Mr. Vine's other books but teaches you the differences on being Vegetarian vs Vegan as well as what things to look for in order to maintain a healthy and nutritious diet plan.

I found this book to be very useful. Some of my favorite recipes included Cherry Waffles and making home make Veggie Burgers from scratch.  While Veggie burgers from the store are okay in moderation,as explained in the book,it's better to make things from scratch as they are far more healthier than pre-made foods.

So far I've lost about 2 lbs since following the recipes in this book. I hope to lose more by following the plan.

If you would like to get your own copy of Jonathan Vine's Vegetarian Weight Loss, it is available for purchase on Kindle for 3.49 and paper back for 19.09. (Used copies maybe available through other vendors)

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Love the way you began and ended with Superman.

Be careful of capital letters; sepcifically, "Bible" should always be capitalized as the name of a book.

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What a gripping story. I was a little girl doing the second world war. Times were tough and the radio was extremely important. Thank you.
This reminded me of stories my mother tells me of life during WWII.

I'm not sure that present tense works perfectly well in a nostalgic piece--consider a re-write in past tense if you do anything else with this story, and see which you like better.

The ending is powerful--good job!
I got a real sense of farm life in your story. You did a great job of "painting" each scene. Biscuits and bacon, Mmm,Mmm, good!
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You’re under stress, aren't you? So am I. And that won't change.

If you're a young adult trying to complete your education, seeking direction in life, and struggling to handle adult responsibilities, you know what stress is.

If you’re a middle-aged adult working long hours, raising kids, negotiating relationship problems, cooking, cleaning, and trying to keep your home from falling into ruin, you know what stress is.

If you're an older adult dealing with doctor’s appointments, illness, loss, the upheaval of retirement, and uncertainty about the future, you know what stress is.

So everyone experiences stress. Reducing stress may be possible, but eliminating it isn't. So how to deal with its demands? Where can you learn how to respond well to the challenges you face every day? Well, you could learn how to handle stress from an older adult! Cope with life's hassles using the strategies that many older adults use.

Cope like an older adult.

I'm basing this recommendation on a 2014 study by psychologists Oliver K Schilling and Manfred Diehl. Every day for a month, Schilling and Diehl had both younger and older adults record the stresses they had and the emotions they experienced. Not surprisingly, study participants had more negative emotions on days that stressful events occurred. Younger and older adults didn't differ in the amount of negative emotion they experienced. However, the picture changed when the researchers looked at "stressor pile-up," that is, periods when stressful events occurred several days in a row. Stresses often do seem to come in bursts, their combined effects beating us down so far it's hard to recover. When study participants were faced with several days of stress in a row, older adults had fewer negative emotions than younger adults. The authors suggest that older adults have effective coping strategies that don't prevent initial negative reactions to the stressor but eventually provide relief.

What effective coping mechanisms have older adults developed? Earlier, study co-author Manfred Diehl had collaborated with two other researchers to examine the actual strategies used by younger and older adults. These scientists found two main ways that the two groups differ: older adults both handle impulses better and use more effective cognitive strategies.

Older adults tend to have better impulse control.

It makes sense that controlling impulses makes for more successful coping. While it may be momentarily satisfying to yell, slam cabinets, or berate someone who's annoyed you, such reactions are likely to worsen rather than relieve the stress you're under. In my work with older adults, I've noticed that they usually restrain immediate urges and instead resolve their negative emotions by waiting until irritation can safely be vented, talking about the situation with a trusted confidant, or praying.

Older adults use cognitive strategies.

Secondly, Diehl and his colleagues found that older adults often used cognitive strategies that helped them distance themselves from disturbing situations. In other words, they found ways to think differently about stresses. Clinical psychologists have identified numerous effective mental strategies, for example looking for the positives in a mostly negative situation and avoiding false generalizations such as "Things always turn out badly for me." Another useful cognitive strategy is to put things in context. Looking back at all they've been through in life, older adults have the perspective to realize that, like past stresses, current stresses are likely to eventually subside.

Part of putting things in context is to remember that no matter how severely storms buffet us and how little shelter we can provide for ourselves, God is our strength and shelter. Older adults who have been walking with Him for decades have had ample opportunity to observe the truth of passages such as the following:

“When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sweep over you.
When you walk through the fire,
you will not be burned;
the flames will not set you ablaze.(Is. 43:2 NIV)"

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"We're living in a material world," the entertainer Madonna sang in 1984, "and I am a material girl." We are all material, in that our bodies are mostly made of physical elements--mainly carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. We need material things--food, clothes, shelter--to survive. Madonna wasn't just singing about being made of matter, though; she was singing about materialism. Are you a materialist? In other words, do you put a high value on accumulating possessions and believe that having the right possessions will make you happy?

Many of us are a little uneasy when others praise materialism. If we look around at our possessions, though, we may recall that some of them were acquired when, for the moment at least, we were acting materialistically. The house we live in, the car we drive, the clothes we wear, the electronics we use, the furnishings that surround us--it's quite possible that we purchased at least some of these things not purely out of need but in order to enhance our self-esteem or to make ourselves happier. Materialism may satisfy for a moment but it is an unsatisfying way to live, and material parenting is a flawed way to raise children.

So think about something you bought because you thought it would increase your happiness. You may have had a surge of pride or excitement right after making the purchase. How long did that feeling last, though? Research studies have found that new possessions produce only a very brief increase in happiness. Most of the things that make most of us happiest don't entail money or possessions. Even when it comes to spending money, there are better ways to increase happiness than to acquire more stuff. Money spent in order to make more time for oneself, to improve health, or to increase knowledge produces more lasting increases in happiness that does money spent on possessions. Materialism has other negative effects. Adults who place a high value on acquiring material goods are more likely to be in debt and have more risk for marital difficulties or gambling problems. "Life does not consist in an abundance of possessions," said Jesus (Mark 12:15). Abundant possessions also fail to foster well-being.

Given the difficulties with materialism, it is not surprising that material parenting--parenting that teaches children to place a high value on possessions or that relies heavily on material rewards and punishments--also has negative effects. Research has found that giving material rewards decreases children's intrinsic motivation. A child is intrinsically motivated if he or she enjoys doing something for its own sake--reading, for example, or working hard to get a good grade on a school project. Children given tangible rewards for participating in what should be an inherently satisfying activity will often stop doing the activity unless the external rewards continue. They lose interest in the satisfactions they once found in the activity itself.

There are other problems with material parenting. Researchers recently looked at the long-term effects of using material goods to reward or punish children. More than 700 adults were surveyed concerning the rewards or punishments they remembered receiving during childhood. Some of the adults had received parenting that focused heavily on the material--their parents frequently used physical objects to reward, took away possessions to punish, and expressed affection by giving gifts. These adults were more likely than the other adults surveyed to believe that success in life is defined by the quality and number of one's possessions. They also are prone to believe that individuals who possess or use certain products are more attractive than those who don't have them. Thus, these materially rewarded children eventually became materialistic adults.

Masha Richens, one of the authors of this study, was asked by a reporter for the New York Times what alternatives are preferable to material rewards. She suggested "time, attention, and communication." In other words, we can reward children by spending extra time with them, by paying particular attention to their good behavior, and by expressing our approval for what they've done.

Such alternatives require more effort. Parents who are themselves materialistic may be so engrossed in making money that they don't want the additional burden that providing time, attention, and communication would require. But their hesitancy reveals where their hearts truly are--not with their children, but with their things. Isn't it worth putting forth extra effort in order to impart good values to our children? Materialism is an unsatisfying way to live, and material parenting is a flawed way to raise children.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

One of the best and sweetest gifts this past year. I was given a mug for my morning coffee from Agia Skepe Monastery. It has a delicate feeling in my hands. Just lovely. The verse on it also fills me with peace and a great reminder to start each day.

"Seek God daily,
But seek Him in your heart,
not outside it"
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Reaction–Separation–Recycle Processes for 2‑Ethylhexyl Acrylate Production: Design, Control, and Economic Evaluation

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2-Ethylhexyl acrylate is commercially produced from acrylic acid and 2-ethylhexanol using sulfuric acid as catalyst. Employing solid catalysts can eliminate corrosion, increase selectivity, and make easier the separation and product purification. Process development studies for a complete plant have not been reported in the literature. In this paper, the design, control, and economic evaluation of three reaction–separation–recycle processes are developed. The reaction takes place in a fixed-bed reactor using Amberlyst 70 as catalyst. The acrylate is recovered by distillation at the desired purity. One of the processes obtains high-purity wastewater by removing the water in a distillation–decanter system. The other two obtain low-purity water in a flash-decanter, and a decanter-only system, respectively. All three processes are controllable, the control system showing robustness when an increase or decrease in production capacity is required, or when the fresh reactants become contaminated. The economic analysis shows attractive economic potential and other key economic indicators.


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McDonald's and Chipotle earnings; Apple not hot with some fund managers; Consumer inflation

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Consumer prices rose in June due to rising gasoline prices. The Labor Department said the Consumer Price Index rose 0.3% last month, right in-line with analysts’ estimates. Gasoline prices, which often increase during the summer, rose 3.3% in June. Food prices rose the smallest amount since January, only 0.1%.

It was a tale of two fast-food chains as Chipotle (CMG) and McDonald’s (MCD) reported earnings.

Chipotle shares soared after the fast-food chain raised its full-year sales outlook after reporting profit and revenue that blew past Wall Street estimates in the second quarter. Same-Store sales rose a better-than-expected 17.3% in the quarter as customer traffic increased despite price increases, which helped offset higher food costs.

Meanwhile, McDonald’s opened the day slightly down after it reported misses on both earnings and revenue. It also reported that worldwide same-store sales were flat, and same-store sales in the U.S. fell 1.5% percent.

A Goldman Sachs report says some fund managers aren't so hot on Apple (AAPL) anymore. As of yesterday’s close, the stock is up almost 19% for the year, but the Goldman report said it's one of the most underweighted stock among large cap fund managers.

That trend hasn't soured Apple's confidence. The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple plans to manufacture a total of 70 million to 80 million units of their two versions of the iPhone 6. That's more than the initial shipment of 50 million to 60 million units of the iPhone 5S and 5C. The two new iPhones will reportedly have larger screens to compete with other large smartphone makers like Samsung.

Apple is due to report earnings after the close today.

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Fascinating! Love this one! Jason, thank you for your comments on my work.

By far the best explanation of Pi that I've ever read! To see it as a shape and use the equation myself nearly brought tears to my eyes. I will use this to teach many students. Keep up the amazing work!

Really interesting, I read the caption too. Thanks for posting this in the group, I am not a mathemetician, but I do understand the concept about the triangles. Mathematical shapes are universally repetative throughout nature and art...this is all very interesting material you are presenting.

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In this drawing Jason is showing how perfect circles do not exist...anywhere in the universe. Circles are made from triangles as are all shapes and are deeply interconnected with the number Pi. The more trianlges you squeeze within a certain perimeter the closer and closer you approach a circle but you never reach just get closer and closer. This is WHY Pi goes to infininty. Pi is the circumference of a circle (how far around the perimieter) divided by its diameter (the distance from one side of the circle through the center and to the other side). When you add more triangles, the circumference gets slightly larger each time you add more triangles (but by an ever decreasing amount), but the diameter stays the same. A circle with 180 right triangles when you divide it's circumference by it diameter you get 3.141433 (Pi accurate to three decimals). A circle with 360 right triangles, one right triangle every one degree, gives you 3.141552 (Pi accurate to four decimals). This pict...

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New Fitness Client Legalities 101

Regardless of how effective your advertising and marketing is, your client onboarding process for new in person fitness clients is essential for making a great impression on the client. Attracting new clients and retaining existing clients is always challenging. However, providing an outstanding and seamless customer service experience through an onboarding process which addresses important areas and provides key documents to the client and information for the fitness professional’s records, can be essential to the success of your fitness business and your ability to thrive, as well as be legally protected.

An excellent on-boarding experience for new in person fitness clients is an opportunity to collect information about the client that will help you provide high quality services, and establish a working relationship with the potential for mutual benefit.

Key documents for on-boarding new fitness clients include:

  • Client Information Form
  • A PAR-Q Form.
  • Contract or Agreement
  • Personal Training Participant Release (including Waivers and Disclaimers) and informed consent
  • Medical Release Form
  • Fitness Progress Measurement Form

Client Information Form

What you include in this form to ask of your clients is not just about collecting information for its own sake. Make sure that you are collecting information that you need to provide your services in a safe and professional manner, and that you have a way of storing that information. While HIPAA may not apply to fitness professionals strictly, you still have a duty to keep the information of your clients secure and private. For more information about potential liability risks related to privacy, read this post.

The Client Information form may also be referred to as a Client Screening Questionnaire.

Much of the information collected on this form is about gaining an accurate picture of your client, understanding their needs and the best advice to provide them. This information can also indicate the existence of major health factors that would indicate a need to require a Medical Release Form before the commencement of an exercise or fitness program.

For example, asking a client for their age can help determine health risks and computing maximum heart rate. Asking their occupation, on the other hand, will assist you in being able to advise on exercise scheduling, potential additional risk factors, and level of incidental activity.

In addition to asking about current exercise levels, you will need to know about the level of experience and knowledge of the client. You also will likely need to know if a client has been instructed by a physician not to exercise for any reason that they may not have indicated elsewhere.

The Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q) is used internationally as an industry standard, as a client waiver, prior to the performance of “pre-exercise” tests of all kinds. It is considered to be most useful for clients aged 15-69.

The PAR-Q was created by the British Columbia Ministry of Health. There are now a variety of PAR-Q questionnaires and other health self-directed screening assessments in use, the basic questions from the original questionnaire haven’t changed significantly. All the questions are designed to help uncover any potential health risks associated with exercise. The questions aim to uncover heart, circulatory, balance, medication, emotional and joint problems that could make exercise difficult, or even dangerous for some people. This can provide a fitness professional with essential information!

Contract or Agreement

A contract or agreement for the provision of fitness training services is an essential onboarding document. This may be the overarching document in which the personal training participant release is incorporated.

There are some specific clauses that you may want to consider including, such as a cancellation clause, or what happens if either you or the client are late to an appointment? It should also include information related to fees, and the length of training sessions, as well as the number. If you have more than one trainer in your business, be sure to ask your lawyer about a clause about which trainer (if any) will be involved – and allowing for substitution if this is needed.

Be sure to have any agreement reviewed by your attorney to make sure that it is suitable for your circumstances and addresses any state based issues.

Personal Training Participant Release

The Personal Training Participant Release is, alongside the agreement discussed above (these two can be included in one document), are arguably the most important forms on this list. This release provides the client with information that makes them aware of possible risks in participating in an exercise program.

It is common to have the client specifically initial key paragraphs so that they are more likely to read them and ask questions if they need clarification. It is also important to have your release specifically address the client providing their “informed consent,”

For more details about essential waivers and disclaimers, read this post.

A document that details liability waivers and disclaimers agreed to by a client have been upheld by the courts. However, many states have specific requirements in order for a liability waiver and disclaimer document to be considered legally valid. Some States limit the effect or prohibit the use of a liability waiver, such as New York. This document is one where the cost of having an attorney licensed in the state where you are located may be a wise investment.

Medical Release Form

Many fitness professionals (including personal trainers) do not require their in person training clients to fill out a medical history form. Some of this information is revealed by the PAR-Q form and by the Client information form.

However, fitness professionals should proactively protect themselves from liability in situations where clients who have pre-existing injuries or other risk factors claim that the exercise advice provided caused injury or harm. It can be argued that without knowledge of the relevant medical history of a client, such as past illnesses and injuries, surgeries, and medications, a fitness professional may be negligent if in failing to inquire then directs a client to undertake an exercise program, and that client is then becomes injured as a consequence of that program.

This medical release form is intended to be given to your client’s physician to fill out accordingly.

As an aside, fitness professionals should not provide medical advice to clients, unless you are qualified to do, and legally permitted.  Each state has slightly different laws and regulations governing the dispensing of medical or nutritional advice, the scope of fitness practice regulations, and diagnosing and treatment of health-related conditions.

Fitness Progress Measurement Form

Utilizing fitness progress forms to track a client’s fitness assessments and measurements over time can be a helpful way of tracking the effectiveness of the fitness program. While it is essential to have results disclaimers in your liability and waivers document, measuring progress can help a client objectively see the benefit of your advice. It can also be used to show your diligence in tracking how a client is progressing through the course of a program.

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There’s one other document that we consider essential that we haven’t included above. That document is a checklist for your whole client onboarding process. The reason for a checklist is to ensure that you have thought through your process and are hitting all of the key touchpoints with each and every client. Such procedural standardisation to onboarding new fitness clients can also have the added benefit of helping to highlight liability risks, and to help you grow your business in a way that can be taught to staff.

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GREENHOUSE April 29, 2009

A growing number of people at least have one greenhouse story to share.
The idea of growing food at controlled temperatures all year round and

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From construction plans to tools and accessories for greenhouses,
individuals are working on all fours to satisfy the increasing demands of
consumers who have made building their own greenhouses top priority.
This trend, which started humbly in the 70’s, is now a full-fledged
endeavor on the part of greenhouse entrepreneurs and “homesteaders.”
One greenhouse story told by a woman was particularly moving. Months
before the spring, her husband bought the materials required for building
a greenhouse. His plan was to attach it to the house.
The woman had protested because he was at the same time going through
radiation and chemotherapy treatments for his cancer. His wife said he
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What he said broke her heart. He wanted to build and finish the
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long time that she had always wanted one in their backyard. He said he
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Greenhouses are an extension of our personalities. Most especially, it
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And what we want is a steady supply of home-grown healthy food. During
these precarious times when terrorist attacks and life-threatening
calamities can cast us in the dark indefinitely, we have one thing we can be
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kitchen will tide us over should the country go on emergency mode.
The sweet potatoes and carrots will be around, and there will be more from
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Not that we believe that a shortage will ever happen, the country has
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If greenhouses can save our lives, we may, at some point in time, consider
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Feb 252018
POLL: Should the clothing industry be "Fur-Free"?

Another disheartening investigation has uncovered that consumers who would never buy real fur are being duped by products that have been mislabeled. Brands including Tesco, Boots, FatFace and Romwe were found selling real fur that was mislabeled as faux. The latest investigation, which was conducted by The Humane Society International (HSI UK) along with the […]

Nov 152017
POLL: Should legislation be enacted to make Britain "Fur Free"?

Animal advocates have continued to work towards a world where fur isn’t fashionable, but even with a growing list of victories that include designers ditching fur and bans on fur farming, faux products are still causing big problems for animals. The Humane Society International UK (HSI UK) and Lush Cosmetics have joined forces to launch […]

Sep 222017
POLL: Should trail (fox) hunting on National Trust land be stopped?

The fractious politics of hunting was far from the minds of Julian Smith and Becky Whitehead during a pleasant afternoon exploring Leicestershire’s only National Trust house – a 118-year-old cottage nestled in countryside just out of earshot of the M1. Nevertheless their views were clear, before a landmark vote next month that could prohibit trust […]

May 192017
POLL: Should the use of animal fur in fashion clothing be banned?

This week, a major apparel company announced that it’s going to be removing fur, angora and exotic leather from its supply chain. The name VF Corporation might not sound familiar, but it’s the parent company to more than two dozen major brands, including The North Face, Nautica, Timberland, Vans, JanSport, Reef and Wrangler. The announcement […]

May 152017
POLL: Should the Tories be allowed to bring back fox hunting?

Pro-fox hunting campaigners are plotting to use a predicted Conservative landslide at the general election to repeal a 2004 ban of the blood sport, according to a report. Tory Lord Mancroft, chairman of the Council of Hunting Associations, described the 8 June vote as “the chance we have been waiting for” to overturn the ban, […]

May 042017
Conservation ecologists know no boundaries

Sorry for the recent slow rate of new posts. I am very busy with fieldwork and have little time to blog. Anyway, in recent days we worked both in Alentejo and in an adjacent section of Extremadura, near Olivenza. It is interesting to witness conservation issues in different colours and flavours. I can’t wait to […]

Feb 032017
POLL: Should foxes be culled to protect domestic pets?

Animal lovers are calling for a cull to stop wild animals killing their pets including a cat whose head was eaten by a fox. But the RSPCA and local councils said the animals can only be controlled by humane methods, rather than culling. Demand for pest control services to kill urban foxes usually spikes after […]

Jun 112016
It's a Great Hobby

Pun fully intended! A drive down to Dunge this morning at stupid o’clock gave Jim and I the chance to dip the “red male” Rosefinch reported yesterday but as the handful of readers of this blog will know, Dunge always delivers! A splendid Hobby sat up on a shed at the road side and allowed […]

Dec 272015
POLL: Should the ban on fox hunting be relaxed in the UK?

More than 300 hunts gathering for Boxing Day met on Saturday amid growing parliamentary opposition from Conservative MPs to repealing the ban on hunting foxes with packs of hounds. The traditional outings, expected to attract around 250,000 riders and supporters, are usually portrayed by the Countryside Alliance as a symbol of mass protest against the […]

Mar 122015
Want to keep these adorable foxes around? Lock up your garbage.

Here’s something kind of twisted: you know a conservation effort has been successful when the animals you’ve worked so hard to conserve are numerous enough to be run over by cars. That’s what happening now for the island fox, Urocyon littoralis. The smallest fox in North America, this adorable critter is native to six of […]

Oct 182014
Use of mammals still prevalent in Brazil’s Conservation Units

For as long as humans and animals have co-existed, people have utilized them as resources. Animals, and their parts, have been used for a variety of purposes, ranging from basic food to more esoteric practices such as in magical ceremonies or religion. A new study published in mongabay.com‘s open-access journal Tropical Conservation Science has found […]

Jan 092014
POLL: Should the fox-hunting laws in the UK be relaxed?

A senior Liberal Democrat has called on the coalition to reconsider the fox-hunting law as it is being flouted with impunity and encourages young people in the countryside to think it is normal to break the law. Sir Nick Harvey, a former defence minister, described the fox-hunting law as “an ass” since it is routinely […]