![]() If no yard is available for a fun romp, they Settings including urban, suburban and rural. ![]() If something pops into their line of sight, scent or hearing range. Play, but should remain within a securely fenced in yard as they can take off Please their owners, but they are not lap dogs and don’t fall into the category These dogs are lively, independent and highly Tink at Crufts 2016, courtesy of Diana Curtis (Links below) Pequeno and the one which this article focuses on, measures 8-12 inches and weighs 9 to 13 pounds. ![]() Grande measures 22-27 inches, the Podengo Medio measures 20-22 inches, and the Podengo The Portuguese Podengo occurs in three sizes: The Podengo Though acknowledged as a distinct breed since the 10thĬentury, it wasn’t until 1954 that they were finally recognized as Portugal’s National Dog Breed. The sailors from contracting a vermin-borne disease. Job was to keep the ships free of rodents and thus protect the food stores and In the 15th century, small Podengos were taken aboard the ships such as those of Christopher Like other Mediterranean hounds, Podengos these Means “small” and, in this case, the dogs reach between 8 and 12 inches at theĪnd country squires for their tough, tireless hunting abilities. The name, Podengo is a word used in Portuguese history to refer to a dog that hunted in packs. It is thought that they were developed from canines that inhabited the North African deserts and share a common ancestry with Ibizan and Pharaoh Hounds, as well as with the breed's much larger cousin, the Portuguese Podengo. They can be seen on bas-reliefs on ancient churches. The breed was likely brought to Portugal by the Phoenician traders from Asia Minor and accompanied Romans during their conquests. This breed has ancient roots that date back more than 2000 years. Good with Other Pets: Yes Portuguese Podengo Pequeno History Coat Type: Single Coat (Either Smooth or WireĬhestnut, Fawn, Gold, Gray, Orange, Red, White and Black, White andĬhestnut, White and Fawn, White and Gold, White and Gray, White and
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![]() Who is responsible for such an oversight? Apparently no one is taking the blame at Allegion, but David D. It appears that the design engineers at Schlage failed to provide adequate clearance in each unit for the other unit to be installed, making it impossible for both devices to be fitted to the same door at the same time. This would all be fine if this solution actually worked, but buyers will soon discover that when they try to install the two products in the door, things are not so good after all. Both products come in two different attractive finishes that essentially have the same electronic guts inside them, the choices are the Camelot or Plymouth finishes. Consumers are forced to buy two separate products from the available Schlage door lock lines, one lever with a keypad and one deadbolt with a keypad. In an ideal setting, it would be an integrated keypad, controlling both devices, but with the latest lineup of Schlage products that solution is currently missing from their arsenal. One recent revelation is that it appears that Schlage had forgotten that some residential consumers may actually want to use keypad technology on both a door lever and on a deadbolt on the same door, at the same time. The one wrinkle in this otherwise promising technology is the fact that someone at Schlage forget to tell their engineers to actually test their products in a real world setting. With the door locks now having the ability to use multiple codes and the newer versions allowing remote programming and wireless connectivity to other smart home devices, door security is finally entering the Internet age. These products deliver simplified security, especially valuable to people who lose keys or cannot be at a location to let someone in. Schlage, a division of Allegion, is a leading manufacturer of the latest trend of door security hardware, specifically the keypad door lever and keypad deadbolt, that use programmable codes, instead of keys, to access the property. Most schools don’t teach typing or if they do, don’t have enough time available to get the pupils to automaticity / muscle memory – which is the biggest benefit. Touch typing is accessible to everyone with Typing Pal’s complete program.Englishtype contains all the information and exercises needed to learn to type at home. The activity interface is designed to capture your attention and keep your eyes on the screen. Characters are progressively introduced with exercises and animated illustrations that show the correct finger positions for each key. Learning touch typing requires regular practice, with a structured program like Typing Pal’s. ![]() ![]() You could easily double it! You will also have less muscle fatigue from head movement, neck tension and incorrect hand positions. If you find yourself using one of the less effective techniques, touch typing will make your typing speed skyrocket. And most of all, with time, typos get less and less frequent, which makes you type even faster! Since you always look at the screen, occasional errors are immediately detected and corrected, which increases your overall typing speed. This way, movements are short, quick and precise. For each keystroke, the closest finger hits the required key. The hands assume an ergonomic position where all ten fingers are used. Instead, it relies on muscle memory to help your fingers “remember” the key positions. Once this method is mastered, the gaze is fixed on the screen, never on the keys. It is the professional method taught in schools, ideally starting from a young age. Touch typing is undeniably the most effective typing technique. Without this precision, your typing speed cannot reach its full potential. These errors come from both the approximative finger positions and a lack of training to become more precise. Hybrid typing is often characterized by frequent typos. Many of these people have often developed their own finger positions, which is not always optimal in terms of ergonomics and efficiency. People who use this technique look mostly at the screen, but occasionally have to look down to check the key positions. Hybrid typing, the most common way to type, mixes different typing techniques together. To type faster, it is necessary to develop a technique where your gaze stays fixed on the screen. Since you have to pause every few words, the text appears on the screen in spurts, kind of like a video stops and starts when it’s buffering.Įven though it’s a little faster, buffering presents a major inconvenience: you can only see the text section by section, as it is being typed, which makes it harder to detect typos. ![]() Just like two-finger typing, buffering involves looking mostly down at the keyboard before double-checking the result on the screen after a few words. It is one of the least effective techniques because of the time wasted looking for keys and constantly moving the head and hands. This typing style is also called hunt-and-peck typing since people hunt for each key and then peck at it with their finger. Because of this, each keystroke is preceded by a visual scan, often while tilting the head to look at their hands. They also have to look for the keys on the keyboard. They generally only use their two index fingers to type. Two-finger typing is widespread among people who don’t frequently use a keyboard or who never learned a typing technique. Here, we give a ranking of the most common ways to type, from worst to best. For example, someone typing with two fingers will type around a maximum of 30 words per minute (WPM) or 150 characters per minute (CPM), while a good typing speed is somewhere between 60 and 70 WPM or between 300 and 350 CPM. If you pay attention to the way the people around you use their keyboards, you’ll notice different typing techniques-but they are not all equally effective. ![]() You will likely opt for a readymade or prefab window when you purchase a replacement window. Vinyl Window Costs Vinyl Window Installation Costs The high cost is $15,000 for 10 impact-resistant custom vinyl windows with krypton-filled glass and spectrally selective coating. 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The Poppy Wall of Honor is 133 feet long and stands 8-1/2 feet tall and contains a two-sided exhibit experience.The Poppy Wall of Honor will be on display from May 27 through May 29 on the National Mall between the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Constitution Gardens Pond, adjacent to Constitution Avenue NW ( exact location can be found in Google Maps). "USAA is honored to return to the National Mall with the Poppy Wall of Honor to help raise awareness of the true meaning of the holiday and provide an opportunity for visitors to remember the 645,000 service members who have died in service to our nation since World War I began." "Memorial Day is a time for all Americans to pause and pay respect to those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country," said Wayne Peacock, president and CEO at USAA. During its previous appearances on the National Mall, the last of which occurred in 2019 prior to the pandemic, more than 25,000 visitors viewed the highly emotional exhibit. ![]() The Poppy Wall of Honor exhibit provides a moment to pause and remember all who've given their lives in combat for our freedoms. The Poppy Wall of Honor holds 645,000 poppies representing the American servicemembers who gave their lives in service to our nation since World War I. this Memorial Day weekend for the first time since 2019. The USAA Poppy Wall of Honor returns to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. ![]() Choose love, and think about how and who to love. Use your mind and strength to avoid selfishness and cruelty. Loving thought and discernemnt and committment should be. To take a second can possibly be cruel to the first and selfish to him. Love involves committment so to leave the first love is not ideal. It perhaps shows generaous affection but does not really care. Then your second love has a division too. If you have a first love, you could leave with him a piece of your soul, to varying extents, a lot if it involves sex. If he is with a girl than to attract him is self centred in one angle and a misgiving generosity in another angle, to him. It inovlves presence of mind, knowing the past and future, it has intelligence. It involves kindness and patience in committment. Character, do you love it? Will, what is it about and their feelings and mind and heart too? To love it means manners, so good manners, unselfishness, not self centred objectives and self interest only or at all. To love someone is different than to love a feeling or even just an image, and voice. Without it, we would not dare to take those risks. It is our imagined safety net (whether it actually works like that or not is another matter) that allows us to take the greatest risks with a few people. In a sense, it is less important to us what it is, than that it provides the binding force that emotionally binds us to our closest points within our society, the people upon whom we choose to depend the greatest. In a sense, yes, it is a delusion, but it is also part of the illusion by which we create our place in our world, and by which we view how we relate the people closest to us. OK, I suppose the question of love is a very diverse one, since the word has been used to describe about half the human emotions one can be susceptible to. Ofcourse, self delusion can be a very powerful and potent force, and can even cure some illnesses. I then came to the conclusion that love is a form of self delusion, and I am not sure to this day if I have a better answer than that. 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![]() Cylindrical bacteria are called rods (singular rod). Bacteria formed like this are called cocci (singular coccus). The simplest shape is a round sphere or ball. Scientists believe they have been on this planet for nearly 4,000 million years.ĭuring this time they have acquired lots of fascinating and different ways of living. You can skip straight ahead to the part of this article that interests you here:īacteria are one of the most ancient of living things. So I have humbly attempted to make the information here as much fun and as interesting as possible! Studying something you cannot see (something which is not pretty, colorful or cute in any form) is perhaps a more cerebral activity than many people would like.īacteria are, however, amazing creatures. ![]() In fact, microbiology is a huge and growing industry.Įven if you never intend to study microbiology any further than these pages, it will be good for you to have some appreciation of the roles bacteria play in all our lives. The Shapes, Sizes, Fimbriae and Endospores Of Bacteriaīacteria are microscopic, single-celled creatures which live mostly on the surfaces of objects – where they grow as colonies.īoth to the world as a whole and to mankind in particular.īacteria are important in making soil, feeding cows, controlling insects, making medicines, making bioplastics, making plants grow, degrading pollutants such as oil and plastics… as well as in causing disease. 1.7.0.5 Beneficial Bacteria: Useful For Humans.1.7.0.3 How Bacteria Causes Disease: Diseases Caused By Bacteria.1.7.0.2 Binary Fission: How Cells Reproduce.1.7.0.1 Facts About Bacteria: Interesting World Records.1.3 Endospores (surviving the bad times).1.2 Fimbriae (some come with extra bits).1 The Shapes, Sizes, Fimbriae and Endospores Of Bacteria. ![]() The goose’s most distinguishable feature is its neck. They are pretty sizable, with dominant populations spread across North America, Europe, and Asia. Goose are believed to have originated from the subclade bird family some 20 million years ago. How can you tell a goose from a duck by its feet, color, or egg size? Will goose eat duck food? Can a duck and goose crossbreed? Also, can duck hatch goose eggs? These are some of the exciting questions we will answer in this guide. There is so much the goose and the duck share, and yet there is so much that differentiates them. Also, g oose are generally bigger than ducks, with higher set bills. Consequently, a goose’s neck is significantly longer than that of a duck. Ducks, on the other hand, have at most 16 neck bones. Specifically, g ooe have a neck bone count ranging between 17-24 bones. G oose are majorly distinguished from ducks based on the number of neck bones. But even in the face of so much shared between them, are geese the same as ducks? These birds tend to travel together in flocks, with clusters commonly found around lakes, streams, ponds, and rivers. Among many other similarities, both birds share the traditional webbed feet and flat bills waterfowls are known for. “It’s hard to get yourself to a point where ideas are out there and you can grab them.It is not uncommon to mistake goose for ducks. “Most of my ideas come to me when I’m not looking,” he says. Some days he doesn’t write at all, but tries to stay receptive to what he’s experiencing. Hills writes from his home in Brooklyn, New York. ![]() Together Duck, Goose, and Thistle give Hills’ observations a voice and provide several conversation starters for parents and children. In Duck, Duck, Goose (Schwartz and Wade, 2007), Hills creates a friendship triangle by introducing a new duck named Thistle. “I didn’t tolerate meanness or injustice as a kid,” he says. “When I apply the eyebrow,” he says, “I can express what Duck is feeling.”Īs Hills’ two children grow, he finds himself drawn to how kids treat each other. “They looked like cigar-smoking tough guys.” Over a matter of months, Hills finally pared down Duck and Goose to their essential elements-circular heads, long rectangular legs, triangular feet, and door-shaped beaks. “The first ones were older looking,” he says. Although Hills’ Duck and Goose characters look simple enough, he drew hundreds of ducks and geese before finding a style with which he was comfortable. Hills paints with water-soluble oil paint on paper, using colored pencils for the last details. They were telling me what they wanted to say! That is the best feeling. I wrote one sentence.But when I’m in the zone, I literally hear the dialogue between. “When Lee comes home and asks me about my day, I say it was okay. I stare at a blank page for hours,” he says. “For me, the writing is really difficult. Hills took the hint and changed his egg to a ball, and changed the title. A dinosaur? An ostrich? Additionally, Hills floated the title by his son’s kindergarten class and was rewarded with blank stares. Hills also had to consider what would hatch out of such a large egg. As Hills developed the story, he realized his egg would have to be rather large to support Duck and Goose so they could hatch it. The idea for Duck and Goose started with only a title-The Silly Goose, the Odd Duck and the Good Egg. His break out book, Duck and Goose (Schwartz and Wade, 2006) was one of them. “I started with four stories,” says Hills. When Lee moved to Random House to start her own imprint with long-time friend and associate, Ann Schwartz, she encouraged Hills to write his own picture books. “Lee used to ask me to try illustrating some books she couldn’t find an illustrator for,” Hills says. But Hills’ break into children’s publishing coincided with his wife Lee’s new position as the art director for Simon and Schuster’s children’s book division. He’s done some acting, made jewelry, makes fake teeth for stage productions, dabbled in interior renovation, and illustrated book jackets for adult trade books. “I liked making things,” he says.Īs a graduate of Skidmore College in New York with a degree in art, Hills describes himself as the ultimate freelancer. I spent a lot of time on my own making things, drawing, and painting.” Hills was not consciously trying to become an artist, rather his motives were innocent and pure. “Whenever I picture myself ,” says Tad Hills, “I am doing art. |
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