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1999-2003 Evaluation Handbook Appendices
There are four evaluation mandates for Extension issued by the federal government.
- Extension's first evaluation mandate was a part of the 1914 Smith-Lever Act. It called for a "full and detailed report of its operations".
- In 1977, Section 1459 of the 1977 Food and Agriculture Act ushered in a new era of evaluation activity when it directed the Secretary of Agriculture to transmit to Congress "an evaluation of the economic and social consequences of programs".
- In 1993, the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) required strategic plans and numerical assessment of outcomes as a part of its measurement of performance of government organizations.
- In 1998, the Agricultural Research, Extension and Education Reform Act requires all institutions eligible for federal research and extension formula funds to submit a Plan of Work to include an evaluation component.
Managing an evaluation is similar to managing a program - it requires planning the use of time, people and resources.
Pilot Testing Your Evaluation Tool
Pilot testing a questionnaire or other method of gathering data can save many later headaches. Unfortunately, many people consider pilot testing nothing more than a ritual it they consider it at all. However, the time you save by not pilot testing is usually more than made up by trying to salvage data from instruments that weren't pilot tested.
The pilot test helps you find out if the content and form of the questions are satisfactory. You can also get information about:
- How long it takes to complete the tools.
- Whether the order of the questions flows well
- Whether ample space is provided for responses.
- Whether the directions, as well as the questions are understood
- Whether your total is both reliable and valid
Another advantage to pilot testing is the opportunity to check the responses you get against the major evaluation question or issue you're exploring. Are patterns beginning to emerge? Are there identical responses showing up in the "Other (Please Specify)" blanks that you might want to include as a specific category?
When you pilot test, have your data analysis plans already in mind. By playing around with the data you get in the pilot testing, you can begin to see if those plans are on target.
Try your tool on people who resemble your program participants. Test under conditions similar to those you'll be using ingathering your data. For example, when plot testing a mail questionnaire, have people answer it without help from you. When they are finished, ask for opinions and suggestions. Check out an interview questionnaire by having an actual interview, either by phone or face-to-face, depending on how it will be used.
Before pilot testing, ask some of your colleagues to review the questionnaire, particularly those who have interest or experience in evaluation or who may be familiar with the program or audience you're examining.
Sometimes evaluators get so close to their work they can't see the forest for the trees. A reviewer can help out by taking a fresh look from a more distant perspective.
Are the questions you're proposing ones that are reliable? For example, if you issued a questionnaire, and reissued it four weeks later would you get the same responses?
Summarizing Your Data
- Use qualitative comments, but ludiciously. Sometimes people have been so conditioned to think of evaluation as "objective" that they're reluctant to venture even the most timid observations. It's perfectly permissible (in fact, even encouraged) for the evaluator to contribute his or her own interpretation. Subtle descriptive comments along the way can help your audience work its way through your analysis. Just be sure your claim can be supported by the data. Some examples of such phrasing are:
- A substantial majority
- Fairly substantial
- A major influence
- Considerable differences
- Perhaps more importantly
- Strong support for the idea that
- Very strong association with
- Related strongly to
Identify supposition and speculation. Remember that interpretation involves explaining as well as describing. You might note something interesting or unexpected in your data, yet unexplainable. Offer your explanation, but in terms that lets your audience know you are speculating or supposing. For example:
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Despite 50 years progress in family planning programming, unmet need for contraceptive services in some regions remains unacceptably high.1 The proportion of sexually active women with demand satisfied for modern contraceptive methods in sub-Saharan Africa ranges from 88% in Zimbabwe to 18% in Chad, and demand satisfied is lowest in the West and Central Africa regions.2 To address these gaps in coverage, there is a renewed global focus on improving quality services to meet the contraceptive needs of women in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs).3 Program implementers require accurate, inexpensive, and timely measures of both readiness (i.e., contraceptive stocks and supervision) and process quality of care (i.e. counseling completeness) to evaluate and inform program improvement.
Currently there is no standard set of tools or methods measuring process quality of contraceptive care for in LMICs.4 Historically, it has been measured through observation of client-provider interactions (“direct observation”), client exit interviews, simulated “mystery” clients, clinical vignettes, provider knowledge tests, and review of medical records but there is little published information on the validity of these methods or how these tools capture the construct of quality practice.5 Simulated clients (SCs) are hired staff trained to adopt a case scenario of a fictional client and then present to a provider for care, ideally without the provider knowing they are being evaluated at the time of the consultation. SCs can generate an accurate measure of routine provider quality behaviors but implementing SCs can be difficult in LMICs. Simulated clients require intensive training to effectively adopt the persona of a client and accurately report details of the consultation, and field visits to remote, rural facilities can be expensive due to logistics and transportation.
Clinical vignettes (CLV) have been used for decades to measure health provider care knowledge.6–8 During a CLV, providers are given a case scenario and asked a series of questions about care they would provide. CLVs are thought to better estimate provider skills than knowledge tests because they are more practice-based. They record the provider’s response to a fictitious client similar to one that they might encounter during their everyday practice.6 Studies in the United States indicate that CLVs are an adequate proxy measure of physician quality practices but there is less information on their validity from LMICs, particularly for family planning.9,10 Unlike other quality of care tools, CLVs can be administered by mobile phone, eliminating field costs making them more feasible in settings where cost and infrastructure make field visits difficult.
To address the gap of information on the accuracy of low-cost quality measurement tools for LMIC family planning programs, we tested the validity of mobile phone-based CLVs for measuring quality contraceptive practices using simulated clients as a gold standard. We choose the simulated client protocol as the gold standard because it is a more accurate assessment of the provider’s routine quality care compared to direct observation, due to elimination of reactivity bias. We had the opportunity to test this as part of a larger quality of care assessment in Malawi.11 Close to 99% of the population of Malawi has mobile network coverage, ranked sixth in network access in Africa, making it feasible to test a mobile-phone based tool.12 If reasonably accurate, mobile-phone CLVs would be a more feasible, inexpensive alternative to SCs or other field-based assessments of provider contraceptive prescription practice in LMICs.
This sub-study was nestled in a larger cross-sectional quality of care assessment in six purposefully selected districts in Malawi.11 The aim of the overall study was to estimate quality of care for the districts and test the validity/reliability of several measurement tools. This sub-study focuses on the comparison of the CLV and SC tools. Districts were selected to represent an equal number of high and low performing districts based on outcomes including modern contraceptive prevalence rate, fertility trends, adolescent pregnancy, and unmet need for contraceptives. The study was a census of public sector clinics offering contraceptive services (n=112) in the six districts.
The CLV tool was designed to mimic an actual consultation by presenting the provider with a description of a client they might encounter during their practice. It is meant to be more of a summative assessment – testing their knowledge and its application– rather than a formative assessment like a quiz. The interviewer began with a short description of the case scenario and the provider was invited to ask questions to gain more information. If the provider asked a relevant question, the interviewer replied with additional information from the case scenario. Providers were then asked about any physical exams or tests they would conduct, which contraceptive(s) they recommended, and what counseling they would provide. The tool was designed to be administered by mobile-phone.
Simulated clients were trained to adopt a standardized case scenario and attend the family planning clinics as an actual client, without revealing to the provider, staff, or other clients they were part of an assessment. We developed a checklist that documented the provider actions, and it was administered to the SC shortly after the visit by the team supervisor.
We developed two case scenarios based on Malawi specific contraceptive provider training materials.13–15 The SCs adopted the same case scenarios as was used in the CLVs. One case scenario was a married, adult client switching methods (referred to here as the “Adult” case scenario) and a second was an unmarried adolescent using contraceptives for the first time (referred to as the “Adolescent”) (Online Supplementary Document, Appendix S1). Each provider was evaluated using both scenarios per tool (i.e. 2 measurements per provider: 1 Adult and 1 Adolescent for both SC and CLV). The case scenarios, SC checklist and the mobile-phone based CLV tool were pre-tested with non-study contraceptive providers in Malawi to improve cultural and clinical relevancy. The genericized tools used in this study are available online.16
The CLV and SC tools captured the same quality information: the questions asked while taking client medical and contraceptive history, information given during counseling, exams or tests administered/recommended, and the contraceptives recommended (table 1). Both tools were used on the same provider to facilitate a direct comparison. Because the case scenarios for the SC and the CLV were the same, the CLV tool was administered at least three weeks after the SC visit allowing the provider to forget the details about the SCs.
Training and data collection
We trained local data collectors on the study protocols, how to administer the CLV tool and conduct the simulated client method. All data collectors were staff hired and trained for the quality of care assessment and had previous experience with household or facility surveys. SCs were chosen based on their willingness and ability to effectively employ the case scenarios. To simulate actual clients, SC data collectors were trained to provide the information from their assigned case scenario when asked by the provider. For their own protection and safety, they were trained to avoid all clinical procedures including receiving any injectable/inserted contraceptives, tests involving specimen collection, vaccinations, and vaginal exams. They could only accept pills or condoms and were trained on exit strategies in case the provider advocates for other contraceptives (Online Supplementary Document, Appendix S1). A different group of data collectors was trained to administer the CLV tool via mobile-phone, including approaches for contacting providers who worked in poor cellular network areas. As part of their training, data collectors practiced administering the CLV tools via mobile phone to non-study clinicians, and the SCs practiced presenting to non-study clinics, with contraceptive providers unaware they were SCs.
Field-based data collection was carried out from January through March 2018 followed by the mobile-phone based collection carried out from February through May 2018, a minimum of three weeks after the field visit. Both the adult and adolescent SCs arrived at a facility on the same morning, traveling separately, during the clinics normal operating hours. The provider who was providing care on the day of the SC visit was enrolled in the study. When each consultation was complete, the SC returned to a meeting point (out of visual range from the clinic) to be interviewed by the study supervisor, documenting what occurred using the SC checklist. Further details on the SC training and data collection are available elsewhere.11 The supervisor then returned to the clinic to interview providers on their background characteristics, education, professional status, and collected the best mobile phone number to reach them for further assessment. A minimum of three weeks later, as noted above, the data collectors called the same provider to administer the mobile phone-based CLV. If they could not initially reach the provider, they used several tactics to improve response rates such as varying the times/days of phone calls, sending a SMS to set an appointment for the call, or sending a verbal message through their colleagues that the research team was attempting to contact them.
We developed a listing of the names and mobile phone numbers of all facility-based contraceptive providers by contacting the in-charges at each facility. Using that listing, the data collectors called all providers on the list to obtain verbal informed consent. During the informed consent process, providers were told SCs would visit them at some point over the next three months, and they would receive a follow-up phone call. Approval for human subjects research was obtained from the National Health Science Research Committee in Malawi and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the United States.
We reported the background characteristics of the enrolled provider and summarized the CLV and SC for the provider behaviors (Table 1). We calculated the p value of the difference between the CLV and SC behaviors, accounting for clustering at the provider level (two measures per provider for both CLV and SC). For the validity analysis, we calculated the percent agreement, sensitivity, specificity, and the area under the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve (AUC) the adult and adolescent case scenarios individually and combined. We conducted a bootstrap analysis to generate 95% CIs for AUC, and used the Stata svy command for the sensitivity and specificity 95% CIs that take into account the clustered data (2 case scenarios per provider).21 The AUC represents the probability that a particular test correctly rates one “positive” subject and one “negative” subject that are randomly chosen and therefore summarizes the overall validity of the test.22,23 Following convention, we only reported the validation analysis for indicators with sufficient sample size, a sample of five or more in each cell of the 2x2 table.22 We used Stata 14 for the analysis, and a user-generated STATA program to calculate AUC.24,25 To account for missing data due to non-response from the mobile-phone CLV interviews, we performed an imputation analysis with two scenarios: assuming perfect agreement between the CLV and SC measurements, and assuming perfect disagreement.
A total of 224 SC consultations were completed with 112 providers (two SC consultations per provider) and interviewers attempted to call all 112 providers for the mobile phone CLV (Figure1). During the SC protocol, 12.5% of the consultation data were missing due to lost data collection forms (n=2) or the SCs were not seen by providers because the clinic was closed during normal operating hours (n=5), or they were refused care because they did not consent to clinic procedures (n=24) as described elsewhere.11 Interviewers were unable to reach 12.5% (n=13) of the providers by mobile phone due to poor network (n=11), lack of mobile phone (n=1) or refusal to participate further (n=1) (Figure 1). A total of 85 providers or 170 SC consultations (75.9%) were matched with CLV data and used in the validity analysis (Figure 1).
Providers were equally distributed by sex, 40.5% were under the age of 30, and most were married (62.9%), and predominantly Protestant Christian (76.4%) (Table 2). Most providers assessed were nurses or midwives (59.6%), 21% had been at their positions less than one year and 30.3% were community health workers known as Health Surveillance Assistants (HSAs), who also provide services in facilities. There were no statistically significant differences in provider socio-demographic characteristics between health providers who participated and those who did not (data not shown).
The given preference for the case scenarios in both SCs and CLVs was pills. Most providers recommended pills to the simulated clients (81%, 95% confidence interval, CI=71-87%) and only half recommended pills during the CLVs (49%, CI=41-56%) (Figure 2). Providers recommended condoms more often during the CLV (54%, CI=46-61%) than in the SC (22%, CI: 15-31%) (Figure 2). During the SC consultations, providers recommended fewer methods overall (2.2 methods on average per client) compared to the CLV (3.7 methods).
Client history, clinical assessments, and counseling
The questions the provider asked while taking client history differed by SC and CLV as well (Figure 3). The proportion of providers who asked the client about her age, number of children, last delivery date, whether she was breastfeeding, the regularity of her menstrual cycle, and number of sexual partners was statistically significantly higher during the SC compared to the CLV responses for the same scenarios (fig 3). A higher proportion of providers said they would ask about chronic illnesses (28% during CLV vs. 6% during SC; P<0.01), and the client’s preferred method on the CLV compared to the SC (62% during CLV vs, 45% during SC; P<0.01) (Figure 3).
Overall, the providers recommended more clinical assessments during the CLV compared to the SC (Figure 4). However, during the SC consultations, more providers recommended human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing during the SC compared to the CLV (15% vs. 4%, P=0.01). Counseling did not differ between SC and CLV, except for “what to do if pill was not taken on time or forgotten” (59% vs. 26%; P<0.01) (Figure 5).
For the indicators with sufficient sample size to conduct the quality analysis (n>5 in each cell of the 2x2 table), quality measured by CLVs was essentially a random guess as to what the provider did with the SCs (AUC not statistically significantly different from 0.5) (table 3).
Difference between adult and adolescent case scenarios
The pattern of differences between provider behaviors reported in the CLV and documented through the SC was similar for adult and adolescent case scenarios as in the combined analysis with these few exceptions (Online Supplementary Document, Appendix S2). In the adult case scenario, the proportion of providers who asked about age, last delivery, regularity of menstrual cycle, and currently breastfeeding was statistically significantly higher during the SC consultation compared to what they reported during the CLV. During the CLV, the providers reported more frequently that they would counsel the adult SCs on pill use and side effects compared to the SC consultation (Online Supplementary Document, Appendix S2) and this difference was not found for the adolescents. HIV testing was recommended by a higher proportion of providers during the SC consultation than during the CLV for the adolescent case scenario only.
This study shows that skills and knowledge reported during a mobile phone-based CLV interview are not an adequate proxy of practice measured during a SC consultation, even when comparing the same client case scenario. Generally, our findings are in line with previous research on the validity of CLVs in LMICs. In Tanzania, a study found that CLVs did not correlate to the provider’s practice as observed by an assessor for care of fever, cough, and diarrhea-related illnesses.26 Two studies in India compared CLV and SC for child health illness and tuberculosis consultation (respectively), and found higher quality knowledge reported during the CLV compared to practice.27,28 Another study in Ethiopia compared CLV and direct observation as measured through a facility survey and also showed higher quality knowledge compared to the observation for childhood illnesses.29 In the Ethiopia study, two of the quality indicators were higher for the direct observation compared to the CLV by 30+ percentage points. None of these studies replicated the same case scenario for knowledge versus practice assessments or measured quality of care for contraceptives.
In this study during the CLV, providers reported recommending more assessments, asking about chronic illnesses, and recommending more methods than was reported in the SC consultation. Anecdotally, data collectors reported that the providers had more time to think about their responses during a CLV as compared to the SC, which took place in a busy clinic setting. The providers also knew the mobile phone CLV was an assessment but (ideally) did not know they were being assessed when the SCs visited for care. The higher proportion of quality behaviors reported during the CLV could be an example of the “know-do” gap or the difference between what the provider knows and what they practice.30 We did not document why the providers did not carry out these quality behaviors in practice but high caseload, poor availability of supplies, and provider motivation are all factors thought to contribute to the know-do gap and this could certainly be the case in Malawi where the health system is overburdened and under-resourced.17,31
However, providers performed some quality behaviors more often during the SC consultation than they reported during the CLV. They asked certain client history questions more often such as age, number of children, regularity of menstrual cycle and others (Figure 3). They were statistically significantly more likely to recommend the client’s preferred method (pills) compared to the CLV (Figure 2). Something about the clinic environment, being presented with an actual client, or non-verbal cues stimulated the providers to remember more quality procedures compared to the CLV for some aspects of quality of care. We assessed whether the providers used job aids during the CLV and most did not: 30.6% preferred not to use them and 63.5% said they did not have any job aids. It could be that for some of these behaviors, the providers did not recognize it as a “quality” action and therefore did not report it during the CLV, although it was done in practice. There could also be some bias with the mobile phone administration that could be eliminated if the CLV were administered in person. For instance, network problems may make it difficult to understand some of the questions or providers may want to hurry the interview to save phone battery. Either way, this is evidence that the mobile phone CLV may not accurately measure all aspects of knowledge.
When stratified by adult and adolescence case scenarios, a similar pattern of differences was seen between SC and CLV responses for most indicators. More differences were observed in the adult case scenario although no clear pattern emerged: a few indicators were higher during the SC while other were higher for the CLV. In general, the adolescent simulated clients received more complete counseling (Online Supplementary Document, Appendix S2) which lowered the discrepancy between SC and CLV. Some client history questions were asked less frequently during the adolescent SCs– such as regularity of menstrual cycle and timing of last delivery, which also made them less likely to be discrepant as well. These differences show that providers alter their counseling strategy to match the client profile, as might be recommended. Future quality of care assessments should take this into account.
This study had several important limitations. The SCs may have presented their scenarios in an unstandardized manner or mis-remembered or mis-reported provider-client interactions. For instance, SCs were trained to request pills as a method if asked but in some situations, they may have offered their preference for pills without being asked. Audio-recording of SC consultations is an option for future studies that could help ensure that presentation and reporting are consistent. The providers may have detected the SC and altered their behaviors during the consultation, although we had no indication of any unmasking during data collection. SCs could only request pills or condoms, which may have triggered suspicion since less than 5% of married, Malawian women use these contraceptives.32 SC were trained on exit strategies to avoid all clinical procedures such as blood draws and cervical exams and documented if the exam was recommended, even if they refused, so we were able to compare to the CLV results. This could have resulted in providers recommending a non-hormonal contraceptive such as condoms, since the providers could not do a full assessment. Per the exit strategies, the SCs were trained to say they would come back later for the exam and ask for a short-term supply of pills in the meantime. Most of the providers provided pills (81%) even without doing a full assessment (Figure 2).
Providers may have also altered their behaviors based on facility stock-out of contraceptives or supplies. We did not collect data on stocks or other elements of structural quality during the assessment. Another limitation of the study, the level of missing data (20%) due to non-response for the phone-based interview and/or SC being refused care at the clinics may have impacted the validity findings if the bias were differential by provider characteristics. However, we found no statistically significant differences in provider characteristics between those with missing and non-missing data and consider risk of this bias being differential to be minimal. The imputation analysis for the indicators in table 3 showed a qualitative change for all the indicators using the maximum disagreement method and for one indicator using the maximum agreement method, expected since the proportion of missing data is high (data not shown). Since we measured no statistically significant agreement for any of the indicators, we believe that despite the missing data, our conclusion is still that CLVs do not measure quality of practice the same way SCs do.
In conclusion, we found that mobile phone CLVs are not an accurate proxy measurement of provision of quality contraceptive care relative to SCs for public sector facilities in Malawi. The proportion of providers saying they would perform specific actions through the CLV was higher than the proportion captured by the SCs. This is also known as the “know-do” gap and has been found in other resource-constrained health care settings. Conversely, a higher proportion of health providers conducted more complete client assessments and recommended the preferred contraceptive compared to what they reported during the CLV, evidence that CLVs conducted via mobile phone may not accurately capture all knowledge. We hypothesize that being presented with a client in their clinical setting may stimulate them to remember more quality actions compared to a theorical case scenario described in an assessment setting. Although other studies in LMICs report poor validity of CLVs, more research can be done on improving CLVs so that they may be a better proxy of practice.
Phone-based protocols or other digital health solutions can make quality of care easier to monitor in facilities that are remote or rural, difficult to access due to geography or conflict, or during a global pandemic when social distancing is required.33 This study provides important information on the validity of quality of contraceptive care measurements where there is currently little information, especially for mobile phone-based methods. Continued efforts are needed to identify and test innovative methods to accurately and inexpensively measure quality of care to inform improvement of provider performance.
We acknowledge the technical inputs of Director Fannie Kachale, Deputy Director Henry Phiri, Mary Phiri, John Chawawa, Alufeyo Chirwa, Samuel Kapondera, Ndindase Maganga, Nelson Mkandawire and Lily Mwiba of the Reproductive Health Directorate, Ministry of Health Malawi; Peter Mvula, Winfrey Chiumia, Martin Joshua, Prince Manyungwa, Paul Mwera, Christina Mzunzu, and Flora Salamba of Wadonda Consult Limited; Khumbo Zonda of Marie Stopes International; and Amy Tsui, Scott Radloff, and Stella Babalola of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. We acknowledge the contributions of Ephraim Chirwa (listed among authors) who sadly passed away in July 2019.
This study was funded by Global Affairs Canada through the Real Accountability: Data Analysis for Results project.
EH originated the idea for the study, lead the study development, implementation, analysis and wrote the first draft of the paper, with MM contributing to the writing. DM, EC, PM, JK, and MM significantly contributed to the study development, implementation, analysis, and conclusions. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
The authors completed the Unified Competing Interest form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf (available upon request from the corresponding author), and declare no conflicts of interest.
Elizabeth Hazel, PhD
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Curiosities and marginalia
Why I started this newsletter
Why I started “Purveyor of Curiosities”
I was inspired by Tom Macwright’s “Recently” posts, where he periodically shares a collection of things he read, listened, and watched. However, I want to keep these posts separate from my main blog, for I prefer the latter to be more intentional. I want my blog to be a synthesis of my curiosities.
Nevertheless, I find these random trinkets to be interesting in and of themselves, hence this newsletter. In addition, I’ll also put some meta-commentary on my recently published blog posts, just to give you an insight on my thought-process — think of it as an extended marginalia. As a sample, check out my finds this May!
So, grab yourself a cup of coffee and feel free to look around!
About the purveyor
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What will you write about? In general, two things: (1) meta-commentary on my recent blog posts, and (2) recent wonders and trinkets I’ve been reading, listening, and watching from the interwebs. The former looks back to what I’ve written, the latter serves as raw materials for what I may write in the future.
Why ‘Purveyor of Curiosities?’ I’ve been fascinated with nostalgia shops since college. Some highlights of my early years include UVLA & Studio Soup in Cubao Expo and the flea markets in Lille. I relish the idea of discovery and serendipitous encounters— and I’d like to share that experience with you!
Will you migrate your content to Substack? Nope! I love the homegrown feel of my blog so I will always keep my content free and open source. I tried Mailchimp but it’s complicated. I checked tinyletter but it’s not being updated. Substack is simple and clean. I’ll only use Substack as a newsletter, and I’ll still keep writing original content in my blog.
So I am just going to hear from you monthly, right? Yes! I’d like to keep the pace slow for a bit so that I can give you high-quality content. In the event that I decided to increase the frequency (i.e., monthly to biweekly), then I’ll let you know so you can decide to keep your subscription. | <urn:uuid:d9a1ee1d-343c-401d-bbcc-b5f50ea708f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ljvmiranda.substack.com/p/curiosities | 2022-08-18T11:14:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00130.warc.gz | en | 0.930958 | 693 |
Email opening rates have remained stubbornly low for several years now. Various studies over the past three or four years have shown that only around 21% of all email marketing messages get opened. That means that eight out of ten of your customers are ignoring you. That’s not good.
The top sector – religion – is being ignored by over half its email congregation even with a whopping open rate of 48%. It seems that religious emails cannot preach to the converted as much as they would like.
So why is it that so many email marketing messages are ignored – and what can you do about it? Here are three things which will increase your open rate.
1. Have something interesting, useful and relevant to say
Email marketing messages that are just that – marketing – are frankly a waste of your time and money. Your emails are interrupting the day of your customers and potential clients. Put yourself in their shoes. Imagine you are sitting in a restaurant, having a nice time with friends, when suddenly someone rushes up to your table brandishing some product and says “would you like to buy this?” You would no-doubt politely – perhaps not so politely – ignore them or tell them to go away. Yet, when you are sitting working or doing interesting stuff online some email marketing oik does exactly the same, interrupting you saying “hey, how about buying this?” However, go back to that imaginary restaurant. What if your conversation is interrupted by the person on the table next to you with some really interesting and useful information? The chances are you are more likely to listen. The same is true with emails – if they are interesting and give useful information we can use then we are more ready to accept that interruption. The reason so few marketing emails get opened is because they are marketing emails. Make them information emails and you increase your chances of being opened greatly. Think “how can I help my customers” and not “what can I sell to my customers”.
2. Use your recipient’s name and other details
If someone talks to you and never once mentions you by name you distance yourself from them psychologically. Your name is one of the most important aspects of your self-identity and when other people use it you attach to them more easily. Similarly, when they ask you “how are your children” or “is your decorating finished” they are demonstrating they are interested in you. Emails get few open rates because they largely show interest in the company sending out the message, rather than the recipient. Email marketing software, of course, allows you to use the person’s first name – but personalisation is more than that. You could collect other personal details such as location, job title, interests and so on which you use in your emails. The more you personalise the better – indeed research shows that if you use the person’s name in the subject line of the email you dramatically increase the open rate. Showing people you like them as an individual will gain higher open rates.
3. Make your subject lines like newspaper headlines
Newspaper headline writers have spent years discovering how to craft the perfect group of words to make people want to read something. Studies show that the headlines which get the most readers are those which are active, not passive. They also contain emotion and are not just flat statements. Furthermore they include human interest. If you use the recipient’s name in your subject line, there’s your human interest. So that only leaves you with two other considerations – active emotion. Instead of saying things like “Update on employment prospects” say “George, here’s how to get a pay rise” – it is on the same topic, but it has emotion and suggests action. Also, notice the word count has increased. Headlines in newspapers and email subject lines that contain around 6-11 words tend to get the most readers. Avoid short subject lines in emails – aim for 10 words, that will get you more opens too.
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Beautiful weather and one of the most impressive short game areas in the country greeted competitors in the South West Final at Cumberwell Park. The enormous undulating green proved to be the toughest challenge yet, as Regional Finalists looked to qualify for the Grand Final at The Belfry.
Expert Odyssey fitter, Nick Korynevsky, was on hand before the competition to offer advice on the putter that was best suited to their game. Players then had the chance to get used to the putting green before taking part in the 18 hole stroke play element of the competition. As expected, the sloping green proved difficult but Alex Jacobs, son of Top 25 Coach John Jacobs, and Cumberwell Park member, went round in an impressive 35 putts to take joint top seeding. He was joined on 35 putts by Centurion Club member, and Golf Monthly forum regular, Rick Garg. Three players took part in a nearest the hole playoff for the final two spots in the match play stages, with Andre Korynevsky and Simon Brouard making it through.
The match play stages were extremely tight, with an amazing number of games going to the 18th hole and beyond. Eventually it was Alex Jacobs who continued his form from the stroke play to make the final four and qualify for the Grand Final. He was joined by brothers Ali and Charlie James, who play off plus 2 and 1 handicap respectively, and Mike Rossiter of Enmore Park.
The semi finals were thrilling affairs, with Jacobs and Charlie James eventually making it through to the final. James was favourite up against the 8 handicapper Jacobs, but the youngster showed no fear to beat the lower player on the last hole. All four players will meet again in September at The Belfry where they will compete for the title of Britain’s Best Putter 2013 and a holiday to LUMINE Mediterránea Beach & Golf Club in Southern Spain. | <urn:uuid:d679c219-fa5c-4851-80e8-f83155c38005> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | https://www.golf-monthly.co.uk/microsites/bbp-news/south-west-regional-final-is-toughest-yet-2899 | 2019-09-18T13:29:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573289.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20190918131429-20190918153429-00165.warc.gz | en | 0.971418 | 395 |
Proof that Mastercraft tyres will give you more mileage is on the sidewall of the tyre. Treadwear is one of three UTQG (Uniform Tyre Quality Grading) ratings for drivers to compare the value of different tyre brands. The higher the treadwear rating, the more mileage you could expect from the tyre.
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A ‘standard' control tyre is assigned a grade of 100. The treadwear rate of all test tyres is compared to the ‘standard' tyre. For example, a tyre grade of 200 should wear twice as long as the control tyre. Treadwear grades are tested under controlled conditions using four vehicles fitted with test tyres that run in convoy. The vehicles repeatedly run a specified 640 kilometre road course for a total of 11,520 kilometres. Tread depths are measured every 1,280 kilometres and the measurements for each vehicle are averaged to give a projected wear-out life.
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Origin & WritingAs the language originated by Drake, the language is very limited in the scope of sounds. Their tongues are thing, and as such it is impossible for them to make many sounds. It is easier for them to create consonant sounds than vowels for this reason. As a result from the limited sounds available, many words in Haseh become quite long. This also lead to Haseh being highly context reliant, so as to not spend an exorbitant amount of time trying to say one simple idea.
Also, due to the drake's anatomy, they are only capable of creating specific vowels. These vowels are ones that don't require lip movement, meaning only open vowels. When the vowels combine, they create diphthongs of only open vowels, never any that require lip maneuvering. For two of the same vowel, it does not change the sound but lengthen the time the vowel is pronounced. They also add hisses, growls/grumbles, and humming to their vowels to have as many vowels as consonants.
Haseh was originally clawed into stone or tree bark. They based their written language around their mouths as that is the part of the drake that both hunts, talks, and creates flame (something important and holy to many drake).
The language is a Syllabary.
PhonologyH (consonant) is pronounced as a hiss
h (vowel) is pronounced as an empty breath or sigh or as a glottal stop
*g is pronounced as a gravely vowel (think frog croaking)
MorphologyFor compound nouns, they are separated by a (hyphen)
Sounds are created by one consonant followed by none, one, or two vowels (having no vowels after a consonant is very rare).
SyntaxFirst word will always be the nominative noun followed by the verb
Geographic DistributionDominant language of many countries in southern Hasehak and south-eastern Whidyr.
Spoken ByMostly Drake
Common InsultsKakagoh derogatory term for Humi Sood*g Gia-ti Flightless small things Ñea Water bag TiHea H*ga mixed breed Ti Ghm-d*g one without meaning Gia-ti lesser being Gia-m*g ku*g undesirable meat leftovers Kaañeeg two thirds (Suggesting that one's harem is unintelligent. The two thirds relates to the alpha female and the male are the only competent ones.)
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Happy New Years and welcome to 2020 everyone. Over this holiday period it’s been a good time to take some time with family, reconnect and do some deeper thinking. We’ve seen a fair bit of that last part happening from some of the political community, with a couple interesting developments coming from it. One on how leadership races should be run is one I will come back to in another piece at a later date, but another piece came out just before New Years Eve that has a lot of people talking, for good reason:
Conservative MP Scott Reid released the first of what he is promising is three essays on the direction of his party as they go into their leadership race. In this first essay, he went into the real story behind his stepping down as the Democratic Reform Critic for the Conservatives back in 2018. As it turns out, he didn’t step down as much as he was removed, for voting against his party line and supporting the government on the legalislation of marijuana. This is another example the issue of party discipline coming to the fore.
The issue of internal party discipline, how leaders use their powers to whip and how party caucuses govern themselves has been a long standing issue that some commentators love to go at. Reid refers to the structure of how his party governs itself as “Leninist”, which while a bit hyperbolic is not so far off the mark as to be dismissible. And the fact is that in our modern political party structures, no one has gotten this right so far. While the Liberals, Conservatives and NDP all use some form of whipping votes, under whatever circumstances they determine, there has become a lack of flexibility in that system that allows for something a bit more representative. On the other end of the spectrum, the Greens claim that they never whip votes, which may seem virtuous until you run into the cold reality that if you never whip any votes, how do you ensure that your MPs represent the policies and ideals that they ran on? The Green “solution” of never whipping any vote is simply impractical and leaves voters wondering what they are actually getting when they vote Green.
Some moderation in the whipping of votes or how a caucus is governed is needed, not only to ensure that MPs can be more responsive to their constituents, but also to help those MPs feel heard within their own caucuses. In Reid’s case, he actively took measures to gauge the view of his constituents on this important issues. He used different ways of doing this, including using his parliamentary mail outs to ask for his constituents’ opinions. The results of his outreach came back that he should vote in favour of the Liberals cannabis legalization legislation. Given that the bill was going to pass anyway, as the Liberals held a majority and they didn’t need anyone else’s votes for it to pass, so you think that it would have been reasonable for the Conservatives to give Reid a pass on this, and maybe even make a virtue of his vote.
Ironically at the time, the Conservatives were going after the Liberals for voting in a block and never voting against their own legislation, saying that only the Conservatives had the freedom to represent their constituents. But when you look at the basics of this, a very simple thing happened here that the Conservative leadership should have understood; Reid faced a strong opinion from his constituents, and he had pressure to respond to that in way that didn’t involve saying “No” out of hand. Someone who was managing their caucus well would have recognized that and worked with that MP to deal with that pressure in a constructive way. Instead of doing that, Reid’s party left him on an island with no help then punished him for responding to that pressure, all over a vote that was going to pass anyway. Would a bit more flexibility on the use of the whip there been a good idea? Probably.
When I read Reid’s story it reminded me so much of my own experiences when I first started to work on the Hill for the NDP when we went through the Conservatives attempts to repeal the long gun registry. I worked for John Rafferty, one of the NDP MPs who had run on a promise to vote to repeal it if given the chance. With Rafferty, we did everything that Reid did; we held extensive outreach with constituents, we used the mail out program to do surveys, we responded to every email and letter and took in every meeting on the topic that was requested. To his credit, John didn’t duck any of this when many would have; he made a promise and he was going to hear everyone out before he voted. In the end, at each chance he got, he kept his word and voted accordingly.
But the reaction from the caucus leadership was different each time. When Jack Layton was still leader, in a minority government no less, Jack refused to whip the vote. He knew what the consequences of that decision could be, but he understood the pressures that his caucus members faced on this issue. This was not an area of consensus within the caucus, and he knew that whipping the vote was not the ay to go. In the end, Jack ended up talking with every member of the caucus who had concerns, asked what he and the leadership could do to help and how could he make it easier for them to vote to save the registry. From that, we saw the NDP introduce legislation of it’s own to help address the concerns some MPs had, showing that they were listening to all sides. But for others, there was no compromise position that was going to work; they made a promise and had to keep it. So Jack let that happen, and in the end the Conservative bill didn’t pass, and all of those MPs were able to do what they needed to do to respond to the pressures they faced.
That wasn’t how it played out though after Jack’s passing. The Conservatives had their majority and were moving to kill the registry. It was going to happen, no matter how the NDP voted in this case. But this time, under interim leadership, the whip was imposed and there was no compromise, understanding or willingness to work with the caucus. In a vote where the party stood no chance of actually stopping anything, they tried to use the threat of punishment to stop those MPs from keeping their word, one that their voters had just re-elected and shown their trust in these people. In the end, Rafferty and Bruce Hyer held the line, keep their word and then took their punishment. Unlike in the case of Reid, who was allowed to have a public cover story so that he wasn’t embarrassed publicly, Rafferty and Hyer were punished in full view of everyone.
When you look at these example of how different leaders dealt with these tough situations, one thing is pretty clear; a lot of this comes back to the leader leadership style and their comfort in their own abilities to lead without using blunt force. While Layton took a greater risk onto himself, trying to work with his caucus to achieve a solution that worked for all, Scheer when the other way, leaving his MP completely to his own devices, offering no support or help, then punished him severely for it.
So while sometimes the whip is needed to be used by leaders, this story serves as a good reminder of how this balance been either absolute needs to be re-balanced. This is true of every party in the House of Commons and better is possible. Hopefully Reid’s disclosure will help to spark a bit of debate about how to best balance the needs of leaders to lead and of MPs to represent their constituents. That would be quite an interesting way to start this new year and decade. | <urn:uuid:6691e2d5-4ed5-4b69-bd77-3073a705188e> | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | https://magpiebrule.ca/2020/01/02/balancing-the-whip/ | 2020-01-20T14:54:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250598800.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20200120135447-20200120164447-00349.warc.gz | en | 0.987771 | 1,579 |
Snack Factory Pretzel Crisps Deli Style Garden Vegetable Description
- Garden Vegetable
- Real Vegetables Baked in
- Thin, Crunchy Pretzel Crackers
- Re-Think Your Pretzel!®
- Non-GMO Project Verified
Crunch'em. Crack'em. Dip'em. Stack'em.
Snack Factory® Pretzel Crisps are a modern twist on an old favorite. They're the best part of the pretzel - thin and flavorful with the crunch you love. Whether you like them plain, dipped, or paired with your favorite toppings, we're sure you'll enjoy this delicious snack as much as we do.
One bite and you'll Rethink Your Pretzel!®
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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|Total Fat||1.5 g||2%|
|Saturated Fat||0 g||0%|
|Trans Fat||0 g|
|Total Carbohydrate||22 g||8%|
|Dietary Fiber||1 g||4%|
|Total Sugars||2 g|
|Includes 1g Added Sugars||3%|
|Vitamin D||0 mcg||0%|
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Eric Dupuis Project Manager
An experienced consultant and project manager, Eric brings multiple skills and areas of expertise to help his clients achieve their objectives. He works with organizations and leaders both to implement cultures that drive success and to define and execute strategies and processes. Eric’s objective is to ensure that an organization thrives in constant change.
Eric’s multi-faceted career includes heading communication and fundraising for Literacy Foundation and owning and serving as creative director for Neotema. Having led nationwide outreach campaigns and extensive branding programs, he understands the cultural and business nuances of mission driven organizations and private sector companies.
Eric holds an MBA from the John Molson School of Business, a BA from Concordia University, and a Certificate in Philanthropic Management from the University of Montreal. A native of Montreal, Eric is fluent in English, French and Spanish. | <urn:uuid:da32c7e9-ced3-4af8-b187-350de5206c79> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://conscientstrategies.com/teams/eric-dupuis/ | 2024-02-29T15:10:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474843.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229134901-20240229164901-00369.warc.gz | en | 0.938879 | 177 |
The year was 1933. Prohibition had just been repealed, we were between two World Wars and Stroud’s Restaurant was built.
Stroud’s started as a BBQ restaurant by Guy and Helen Stroud on the county line at 85th and Troost. The road house remained a BBQ restaurant until World War II. During the war, because beef was being rationed, Helen Stroud started serving pan-fried chicken. The original chicken dinner was only $.35!
In 1977, two Kelly’s Westport Inn bartenders, Mike Donegan and Jim Hogan, purchased Stroud’s. After inheriting a couple of Helen’s cooks and recipes, they came up with the menu we still serve today.
In 1983, Mike Donegan, his twin brother, Dennis, and Jim Hogan purchased Oak Ridge Manor in the northland. A third location in Wichita, Kansas, joined the Stroud’s family in 1992. The original Stroud’s location closed its doors in 2006, and re-opened in Fairway, Kansas, in 2008. The Fairway location joined forces with KC Hopps in 2013, and together they opened locations in Overland Park, KS, Independence, MO and Omaha, NE.
Through the years, Stroud’s has received many national awards including the James Beard Award for Excellence and the Zagat Award for Best Restaurant. Stroud’s has been honored with appearances on the Travel Channel’s Man v. Food and No Reservations, Food Network’sThe Best Thing I Ever Ate and KCPT’s Check Please. Stroud’s has also been featured in several national and international publications. The Wall Street Journal, Gourmet Magazine, The New York Times, People Magazine, Esquire, Bon Apetite! and Playboy Magazine, to name a few.
Mike Donegan, along with his caring and professional staff, operate all of our Stroud’s locations with the same ultimate goal of serving delicious, home-cooked meals in a fun, friendly atmosphere.
Thank you for dining at Stroud’s!
Celebrity Sightings at Stroud’s
Eric Clapton and Band
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I’m a bit late on sharing my hair of the week as these hair styles are actually from last week! But nevertheless here they are and they are surrounding the ballerina bun! Millie is really vibing these hairstyles at the moment and rocks them as usual!
Corset braided bun!
Quite fiddly but easy enough to follow! 2 Dutch braids from the neck up to the middle of her head, continued freely high enough to go into a high pony tail and then unravel any plait left in pony. Now attach the doughnut and spread the pony tail round covering nicely, fasten with a hairband and wrap excess hair under the ballerina bun. Next grab your ribbon and start to thread on each inner section on the plait remembering to cross over to create the corset pattern, tie in a bow or fasten and then add a pretty big bow to hide the ends of the ribbon! So cute! 💕
Lace braided bun!
Cute and quick! Create your bun with your doughnut as mentioned in the corset bun but instead of fastening the hair over the doughnut with a hair band just plait along the bottom of the bun only adding in hair on the side the hair is available! This took my less than 5 minutes to do!!
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Movie trolls are like Thanos — Captain Marvel is here to take you down.
I started reading Marvel comics after the first Avengers film, and have been playing catch up ever since. The first series I followed from Issue 1 was Kelly Sue DeConnick’s run of Captain Marvel. I was in love with this “funny like your uncle” ace pilot from Day 1, which meant that I had a lot of hopes pinned on this movie.
It did not disappoint.
Despite targeted attacks that started well before the film’s release Marvel Studios’ first female-led film is on track to smash March opening records. And rightfully so. Captain Marvel blends genres, twists expectations, and balances humor and pathos in the first origin story since Doctor Strange.
(Black Panther and Spider-man both received on-screen introductions prior to their solo movies.)
Captain Marvel (2019)
Starting off with Guardians of the Galaxy level sci-fi gloss, the movie introduces us to Vers, a quippy Kree soldier who doesn’t seem to fit quite right with the rest of her kind. Vers has lost her memories of her childhood, having survived an attack from the Kree’s greatest enemies: The Skrulls.
Despite her commander’s concerns about controlling both her emotions and her powers, she joins him in the field for a stealth mission on a distant planet. After being ambushed by the Skrulls, Vers crashes on Planet C-53. We know it as Earth.
Vers partners up with Nick Fury to stop the Skrull infiltration of the planet, and in the process uncovers buried secrets about her past and the Kree. Her world is upended when she learns that she’s a human pilot whose name is Carol Danvers.
I admit that I was skeptical about Brie Larson’s casting at first, but Marvel hadn’t let me down yet. Her performance brought Carol with all of her dad-joke snark and none of her patience for bullshit right from the page to the screen. Her affable chemistry with Samuel L. Jackson lets the two of them shine — both as an unlikely set of partners, and in their own right.
Nick Fury is peak Cat Dad, folks.
I’ve seen Carol’s origin story played out multiple times — read the original story from 1968, watched the animated version in Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, and seen flashbacks to the tale in more recent comic arcs. The movie manages to make some modern tweaks to the story, while still being honest to the major players in Carol’s life.
One of my favorite adaptations was the movie’s inclusion of Monica Rambeau. Now known as Photon, she was the first female published character to be known as Captain Marvel. Despite my initial confusion about this child-version of Monica, she managed to fill the role of Lieutenant Trouble in Carol’s life — a young friend of Carol’s who makes it her role to teach her about her past following catastrophic memory loss.
The movie makes amazing use of the enemy aliens, the Skrulls. Those who follow comics were certain they were setting up for a “Secret Invasion”-type storyline; but the makers of the film took the road less traveled. No spoilers in this review, but these are the kind of antagonists that give you a lot to think about once you leave the theatre.
I still don’t think Captain Marvel has claimed the top spot on my MCU list — Captain America: The Winter Soldier, your status is safe for now. But this film solidly shares footing with Black Panther in terms of writing, message, and the type of love you know went into making it.
The main message of Captain Marvel is one I always want to pass on to my clients. No one gives you your power, you make it yourself.
9/10. Already have tickets to see it again.
Higher Further Faster Workout
In honor of our Captain’s favorite saying, I’ve put together a Tabata workout in honor of Carol Danvers. For those who don’t know, Tabata workouts are short duration high intensity workouts. For 20 seconds you push as hard as you can, rest for 10 seconds, and then go again.
8 rounds of Tabata is 4 minutes of maximal work. This primes the muscles to react faster, contract harder, and generate more power–letting you go higher, faster, further, baby.
20 Seconds Box Jump. 10 seconds rest.
20 Seconds Flying Step Up. 10 seconds rest
20 Seconds Burpee. 10 seconds rest.
20 Seconds Star Jump. 10 seconds rest.
Repeat the set.
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By next winter, getting into the state basketball tournament will be a little tougher. Only four schools per classification will qualify for state play following Virginia High School League realignment to six classes, compared to eight per class now.
Bay Rivers District schools appear anxious to get in on the fun and glory while they still can. District schools will go head-to-head in three Region I tournament semifinals on Thursday, with state tournament berths going to the winner of each.
Grafton's girls also will attempt to join the party by beating Spotsylvania of the Battlefield District in their semifinal. Should they do so, it will give the Bay Rivers a single-season record four schools in the Group AA state basketball tournament.
Party crashers such as Tabb's boys and the boys and girls teams at Lafayette are among the biggest reasons the Bay Rivers will send so many to state play. Few schools have benefited as much as Tabb since Group AA was divided into Division 4 (larger schools) and Division 3 for state tournament play.
The Tigers (15-11), who play at Grafton (24-2) at 7:30 p.m. in the Division 4 regional semifinals, have qualified for the state quarterfinals each of the four seasons of division play. But no one expected the Tigers — perhaps the least talented team in Doug Baggett's nearly 30 years as coach — to play for a fifth-consecutive state berth, including Baggett.
The Tigers earned that opportunity by beating Warhill 79-78 in overtime behind 29 points, 22 rebounds and seven blocks from Daniel Schiele in the region quarterfinals. Most impressive, the depth-shy Tigers did it with their star, Kaleb Mitchell (22.0 ppg) on the bench the final eight minutes with five fouls.
"This team has improved more from the first day of practice to this point in the season than any I've ever coached," Baggett said. "It's been a blessing."
Tabb and Grafton met in last year's regional final, with Grafton winning on Elijah Moore's 3-pointer at the final buzzer.
Grafton coach Jeremy Jordan said, "It's a shame, unlike last year when we both went to the state tournament, that someone has to lose and go home."
Lafayette's boys are an even more unlikely regional semifinalist than Tabb. They brought a 6-15 record to 23-2 Culpeper for the Division 3 regional quarterfinals, and were given no chance.
They won 80-78 in overtime behind John Fitchett's 36 points, Jaquan Hayes' 13 points (and three 3-pointers) and 18-for-18 free-throw shooting. While the win was unexpected, Lafayette had shown throughout the season that they could compete with the big boys.
"We lost to Bruton in overtime and at the final buzzer and we led Warhill in the fourth quarter before losing," Lafayette coach Patrick Brown said. "We've shown we can play with anybody."
The Rams will get a fourth crack at powerful Bruton (18-4) in the semifinals at 7 p.m. Bruton will seek to reach the state tournament after losing regional semifinal games on the road the past two seasons.
"The best part of this is that we'll be at home," Bruton coach Joe Dillard said. "We have more than enough motivation, but we know Lafayette will be a tough out because they are just 10 miles up the road.
"When kids grow up playing with and against each other, it tends to bring the best out in them."
Poquoson's girls hope the home court helps them turn back an upset bid by Lafayette (11-12), a team it swept during the regular season. The Islanders (17-7) were denied state tournament berths their previous three tries on the road at James Monroe, but blew out the Yellow Jackets 67-31 on their home floor in the Division 3 regional quarters.
Lafayette, the No. 6 seed, reached the semis with a 75-53 win over No. 3 Park View. The Rams got 18 points from Indyah Brown.
"Lafayette is quick and athletic, so we know it will be a tough game," said Poquoson coach Jeff Gross, who looks to lead the program to its first state tournament in 20 years. "But we think being at home will be a great help to us.
"The girls feel comfortable in their own gym."
Region I semifinals
Division 4 Boys
Tabb (15-11) at Grafton (24-2), 7:30 p.m.
Caroline (14-10) at Chancellor (18-5), 7 p.m.
Division 3 Boys
Lafayette (7-15) at Bruton (18-4), 7 p.m.
Park View (18-4) at Brunswick (23-2), 7:30 p.m.
Division 4 Girls
Spotsylvania (16-7) at Grafton (24-2), 6 p.m.
Eastern View (22-3) at Courtland (25-2), 7 p.m.
Division 3 Girls
Greensville (14-7) at Brunswick (23-2), 6 p.m.
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Once a week we try to get together for a playdate with our friends, the Ransoms. Depending on which house we go to, we always bring sack lunches along. This week we were to play at their house... so early before anyone woke up I went into the kitchen to put together their little bags. I used to be early everywhere. Then I had kids. Three kids, three and under = late more times than not. Eeeee, I try!!
I have made Aiden and Ainsleigh peanut butter sandwiches so many times I can't even count. I have zipped those little ziploc bags. I have cut the fruit slices. I have put the crackers and cookies in. And poured their juices.
But never like this before.
I felt my guts in knots as I did this on Monday. I thought of the moms and dads, the grandmas and grandpas, the aunts and uncles, the brothers and sisters- all those who lost in the tragedy last week. They all woke up that day like any other day. And their day ended in a nightmare.
I really and truly cannot shake it.
I know that I can do my best to raise and protect my kiddos. But the truth is I am not in control...He is. So the best thing that I can do is to soak it all in, hold them tight.
Slow to react. Quick to encourage.
Quick to pour out and overflowing Love.
Hold them constantly.
My all time favorite book, "A Beautiful Offering" has a chapter on peace...
"When you decide to live out what you believe. When you decide you want peace in your possession, then you will find out what that looks like & feels like. You begin to pray for God to give you peace. You incorporate peace in your relationships. You decide to respond differently. You speak in love. Act in tenderness. You imitate what you know about peace until it becomes a reality for your character & your life."
"He restores what has been broken & heals what has been wounded. I don't have peace because I figured it all out. I have peace because I believe in Christ."
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Living A Naturally Healthy Life With DelaneMD
Ep #32 Why Feeling Bad is Necessary for Success
Sometimes the process of achieving our goals doesn’t feel good. Even when we apply the thought model and recognize that tough decisions will serve our bodies, it does not feel wonderful. When sticking with your plan, you may want to feel resolved, confident or even determined, but ultimately this may not be a positive emotion. During this podcast, I discuss my experience buffering emotions and why accepting negative emotions are necessary to achieve goals.
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Store your hair weave
If you have a small amount of human hair weave, you can store it in its original packaging. If you want to store a large amount of human hair weave then I suggest you store it the same way as the human wig. In the original packaging with air holes, in a cloth bag or on hooks. Synthetic hair weave can be stored in its original packaging, in a cloth bag or on a hook.
Tips of shampoo hair weave
If the hair is weaved onto your scalp then you can shampoo the hair as you would your own. Try not to shampoo too hard. This will cause the hair weave to loosen. Pay close attention to not only cleaning the hair weave but also cleaning your scalp. If you want to wash and reuse hair weave, simply wash and condition it in a sink. Use a large comb or weave brush to remove any tangles before the hair dries. You can lay it on a large towel to air dry. I do not recommend reusing hair weave if you have excessive dandruff. If you do make sure you are using dandruff shampoo.
Tips of Style Your Hair Weave
You can style your human hair weave the same way you would your real hair. You can use hair sprays that are not too harsh or drying. You can hot curl your human hair weave just as long as you do not curl it too much too often. This will vary from person to person depending upon how long a person wants to keep the hair weave looking healthy and natural.
Unlike human hair weave, synthetic hair weave can not be hot curled because the synthetic fibers will melt. You can use styling sprays as long as the sprays are not used too often, you can also use sprays on synthetic hair a little bit more and often than you would on human hair.
Combing and Brushing
You can comb and brush your synthetic hair weave in the same manner you would your real hair. Try not to brush too much too often to prevent shedding. You should not brush too hard as this may cause your hair weave to loosen.
You can comb and brush synthetic hair pieces just as you would your real hair. Try not to brush too often to prevent shedding or stretching since synthetic hair has a plastic feel. If the hair you purchase is very curly do not comb or brush. To style use your fingers. If the hair is purchased with loose curls then comb the hair as you would your real hair.
How long should you wear a hair weave?
I feel the same way about hair weave as I do wearing wigs. Your real hair can stand a break. Wearing hair weave too long can cause breakage. When your hair weave gets loose you can take it out and wear your real hair for a little while or when it is time to get a retouch on a perm or hair color I can’t see anything wrong with allowing your hair a little time to rest. Rebecca Fitzgerald | <urn:uuid:05cd4970-a244-4f3a-a77f-ef5d36172d2f> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | https://healthcaress.com/protection-tips-of-hair-weave.html | 2021-04-13T07:26:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038072175.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20210413062409-20210413092409-00108.warc.gz | en | 0.959192 | 602 |
There is…a God? Mankind has been feasting on booze since the beginning of time but has never been able to overcome the dreaded hangover. Nothing has worked. Coffee. Cold showers. Those pills that might as well be advertised along with those Magic Tonic Potions being sold out of a wagon in the 1880’s. But now science is finally giving something back after taking so, so much (damn you for confirming the effectiveness of condoms!).
The magical drinks, as The Guardian reports, still need to be tested extensively and be accepted by the scientific community. Apparently all the bad effects like killing brain cells, damage to the liver and overall alcoholism still exist, but if you’re able to go out and have a bender without the worries of making physical love to your toilet and the bathroom floor, who cares?
We certainly don’t. In fact, if anyone over in the labs need test subjects, come on down to the COED offices. We’ll drink enough to make this drink FDA certified by sundown. | <urn:uuid:8c487cd6-6d8a-4956-ae68-9e2de34ae157> | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | http://coed.com/2013/11/12/liquor-without-hangover-news/ | 2015-09-04T03:49:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-35/segments/1440645335509.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20150827031535-00330-ip-10-171-96-226.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965919 | 216 |
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Your Sun sign represents the sign of the Zodiac that the Sun was in at the time of your birth. The Sun rules willpower and ego. It is the core of who you are and what you are about.
Your Sun sign represents the main direction and focus you want your life to take and your determination to accomplish what you set out to do. It represents your personal honesty and integrity, your ability to command respect and authority and your capacity to impress and influence others.
The beginning and end dates for each of the signs can vary from year to year. We suggest you take a look at our cusp page for greater information if you were born on a cusp. People born on the cusp of a sun sign can exhibit characteristics of both signs.
If the Sun was in the part of the Zodiac called Aries at the time of your birth, then you are an Aries! Your character though similar to one of the twelve zodiac elements, will always be unique as a result of who you are and the choices you make. In fact your character as far as Astrology is concerned requires that the position of all the Planets (the nine planets in our solar system plus the moon and sun) are calculated. Imagine that these planets are the ingredients that can make up a human being, they can all be added in many different permutations and quantities.
So a professional astrologer takes into account the position of all these planets in your Birth Chart, using only your time, date and place of birth. This greater accuracy focuses on your character, problems, and forecasts your future choices and best most timely solutions. | <urn:uuid:10271406-1a22-47df-87fe-e715698efb46> | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | https://theeaglemindset.com/sun-sign/ | 2019-12-07T09:50:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540497022.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20191207082632-20191207110632-00498.warc.gz | en | 0.96655 | 337 |
There are many benefits you can enjoy from a waist training routine. These vary in terms of instant results, permanent modifications, physical advantages, and emotional or mental value. If done properly and consistently, you stand to gain all of the above!
One of the many physical attributes that tend to stand out when wearing a waist trainer is the widening of your hips. But does this weight loss technique really modify the hips, and what other benefits do you gain from waist trainers?
What happens to your hips?
Waist training can technically accentuate your hips – but not permanently. By compressing your midsection, both your breasts and hips will stand out more, creating the popular hourglass figure that many, if not all, female waist trainers are aiming for. To aid this process, what fats you have in the area will be redistributed down to the hips and also up to your bust.
What other physical benefits does waist training have?
In addition to a lifted chest and rounded hips, a waist trainer has a few more physical advantages to look forward to:
An instantly slimmer and more toned torso. Simply putting a compression band on can help you lose between one to three inches off your waist! You will instantly look and feel slimmer in a matter of seconds. That means you can finally slip into those snug pair of jeans or that body hugging dress!
A smaller waist in the long run. With consistent waist training, your body will eventually adapt and take on its newer, much narrower form. In addition to that, what makes the waist trainer a great supplement to your weight loss routine is its heat retention abilities that help you perspire and flush out excess water weight.
The constriction will also force you to feel full much faster and eat in smaller quantities, allowing you to have better control of your food intake. By eating smaller meals more frequently, your metabolism will also be improved.
A healthy and improved posture. Because of the compression on your torso, it will be physically challenging for you to slouch down. By maintaining an upright position, your posture will soon develop and be at its healthiest state. Having good bearing alone has multiple benefits. Find out what they are in this article.
A safe and secured healing process postpartum. For at least the first six weeks after giving birth, it is best to let your body naturally heal. In this time, any extra fluids will be released, your uterus will shrink close to its original size, and your organs will realign to how they were before pregnancy. After this grace period, and with approval from your doctor, a compression band can aid in healing the abdominal wall and secure it in place.
A stronger back and healthier muscles. As mentioned, your waist trainer will keep you upright for the duration of your routine. This is greatly beneficial to your vertebra, as it keeps your spine from curving and will keep your muscles activated.
Are there emotional and mental benefits to the routine?
Definitely! Studies have shown that the combination of an upright posture and losing excess weight have resulted in happier and more confident users. Reports say they are able to foster healthier relationships and are even more productive both at work and their personal endeavors.
To improve your lifestyle further, mix in some great core strengthening exercises while wearing your waist trainer – this is a surefire way to activate those happy hormones!
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St Thomas Aquinas for Everyone by Dave Palmer
Book Review by Nancy Ward
“St. Thomas is the greatest doctor of the Church,” author Dave Palmer said, “and I assert that children can be taught his basic philosophy, as I do with my 11- and 7-year olds.”
Let’s Go Find God is the enticing teaser of Volume I. The full title of the series tells it all: St. Thomas Aquinas for Everyone, 30 Quick and Fun Lessons, Activities and Outdoor Adventures Based on the Summa Theologica.
The arrangement, approach and intended audience make St. Thomas Aquinas for Everyone a dynamic tool to teach children the spirituality of awareness. Dave organized each of the 30 interactive lessons into six sections, including a “Fun Activity” and an “Outdoor Adventure”. My favorite section is “Awe and Wonder”, which is a reflection on the “St. Thomas Says” section, and how it applies to my life.
Let’s Go Find God is the first of eight volumes that will eventually cover the entire Summa—the life’s work for the author whose day job has him directing a Catholic radio station.
He heard so much talk about St. Thomas in theology and liturgy discussions, Dave just knew he had to read the Summa Theologica. Eight years ago he started reading it, finished in 9 months, and immediately started over.
What struck him about the Summa was that it’s not complicated, as most people experience. “There was a simplicity that struck me very pointedly and unexpectedly,” he said.
“It changed the way I see the world!” Dave said. “Everything was different from before I read the Summa to after I read it. It gave me a blueprint for directing my life to God, to the way I live my life.”
To summarize the Summa, Dave evoked John 17:3, “Now this is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.” Dave explained, “It’s about knowing God! Ever since I read the Summa, I’ve had a burning desire to get to know God. Of course, God exceeds our ability to understand him. Is it impossible to know him? Well, no, because he’s left clues of himself everywhere we look.”
The Summa teaches that God is perfection. He is everywhere. In every moment, he is around us, in everything. Dave thought, “Okay, I can go find God. Every single day of my life can be an exciting adventure. I can explore and find God in everything.”
In the Summa, St. Thomas distinguishes different hierarchies of heaven. What determines our place in heaven? The one with the greatest charity, the one who has the greatest desire for God lives in the highest place. The Summa helps us come to know God as much as possible now so we can prepare to live with him forever in heaven. That’s why Dave contends that St. Thomas remains relevant, and why the Church continues to encourage us in the restoration of Christian philosophy.
“St. Thomas had the gold standard in philosophy. A host of atheist philosophers since then have been chipping away at the basic pure, optimistic philosophy of St. Thomas. These philosophies are seeping into universities, books, movies—throughout our culture,” Dave said. “We don’t have to wait until our children are 18, and we send them off to college to their first philosophy class. We can teach our children while their minds are absorbing everything.”
Dave knows the average person needs to know St. Thomas, this “Doctor of the Doctors of the Church” and patron saint of Catholic education. Yet no one is reading him. Dave designed the book to train teachers, parents, grandparents how to teach Thomistic philosophy.
Cause and effect in creation
Dave thinks 5-year-olds can be taught the basics of Thomistic philosophy, such as recognizing beauty and connecting it with God. For example, parents, grandparents, and educators can instill simple principles about cause and effect. Discovering a leaf means a tree is nearby. Seeing the sun come up means we have warmth and light. Using the “Outdoor Activity Guide”, children see cause and effect in nature, reminders of God, our Creator.
Soon they engage in a deeper conversation with God. They are finding God through their senses, transcending the world. Awareness brings awe and wonder – and gratitude!
What are we waiting for? Let’s go find God!
St. Thomas Aquinas for Everyone is available in bookstores and on Amazon.com.
[box type=”bio”] Dave Palmer lives in Texas with his wife, Paula, and their three children. He earned a Masters degree in Theology from the University of Dallas and has spent the past ten years studying and teaching the theology and philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas to young people through online courses and religious education classes at his parish. He serves as the Executive Director of the Guadalupe Radio Network’s Catholic radio station in North Texas. He has a passion for helping people of all ages to better know, love and desire God more passionately through a deeper understanding of St. Thomas Aquinas’ masterpiece, the Summa Theologica.[/box]
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Each and every spring, thousands of high college seniors prepare to graduate and make their mark in the globe. They select the President of the college primarily based on the qualifications necessary to be met for the post. Get facts on the Consider Education au/in Canada brand, such as a list of eligible and/or authorized educational institutions or education-associated organizations. You will need to have to meet the admission needs for any college you apply to. For applications with restricted spaces, you may well require to exceed the needs. But, no matter whether any specific American university would look at AS-level to be the equivalent of a US high-college diploma is up to that university.
I have been told that there are child pictures of my good friends from high school on the that my good friends did not personally upload to their servers. Preschool is the primary education in which a child of five to 6 years of age begins to go to college. In what follows we will appear at the needs and entitlements of youngsters getting into secondary school who have identified specific education requires and those who are getting into and later discovered to have a special education need to have.
As post secondary educators relinquish hands-on-chalk-board teaching styles and establish group teaching models, students will develop a greater understanding of the theme of the class atmosphere as nicely as the professor in developing an understanding of the class cultures’ stance in finding out.
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What is HTML5? Please let us know the latest features of HTML5. Also, Is Html5 is capable enough to create animated websites?
What is HTML5? -
HTML5 is a latest version of HTML(Markup Language), it's a web scripting language for creating web pages.
The all new HTML5 has more flexible and easier scripts for running audio and video on web page. Apart from it, you need not to learn Flash Script if you are using HTML5 for animated web page. The new HTML5 Canvas script supports such kind of coding, which is easy to learn and use. | <urn:uuid:95ac2ec0-f200-45d1-951c-ad8bc00a55c9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://roseindia.net/answers/viewqa/HTML/28754-What-is-HTML5-.html | 2016-06-30T10:20:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00096-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.891664 | 126 |
Tetrahydrocannabinol exposure during gestational period may affect response to fluoxetine
Experts at Indiana University showed how exposure to cannabis or its main psychoactive substance tetrahydrocannabinol may affect the response to fluoxetine during the gestational period among rodents.
According to the findings in Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, upon exposure to tetrahydrocannabinol, the brain’s endocannabinoid and serotonin activity reduce as an aging milestone is reached: adulthood.
“In this study, we used mice to investigate the adult impact of perinatal cannabinoid exposure (PCE) with THC, CBD, or a 1:1 ratio of THC and CBD on behaviorism,” researchers explained in their journal article.
“Furthermore, the lasting impact of PCE on fluoxetine sensitivity in the forced swim test (FST) was evaluated to probe neurochemical pathways interacting with the endocannabinoid system (ECS).”
“Our data suggest that PCE with either THC, CBD, or THC+CBD alters repetitive and hedonic behaviors in a phytocannabinoid and sex-dependent manner. In addition, PCE with THC or CBD prevents fluoxetine from enhancing coping behavior,” researchers concluded. | <urn:uuid:77360e57-d0c5-4f0e-889d-a0e1e2b2d096> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://www.mentaldaily.com/article/2021/07/tetrahydrocannabinol-exposure-during-gestational-period-may-affect-response-to-fluoxetine | 2021-10-26T08:42:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323587854.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20211026072759-20211026102759-00593.warc.gz | en | 0.899959 | 268 |
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State Awards TIF District To Barre
The state has given Barre authority to establish a special tax district that's
designed to help the city pay for public works that will attract economic
Pittsford Considers Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
By Kirk Carapezza
leaders at the Statehouse prepare to debate
whether to decriminalize marijuana for recreational use, city and town officials
across Vermont are grappling with how to handle the prospect of medical
dispensaries coming to their community.
Morrisville Holds Festival Of Lights
By Amy Kolb Noyes
Jingle bells were the theme at Saturday's Festival of Lights in
annual holiday event is designed to showcase what Morrisville and its downtown
businesses have to offer.
FEMA Delay Pits Brandon Couple Against Bank Of America
By Nina Keck
owners in the state who were especially hard hit by Irene remain in a sort of
financial limbo. They were the first accepted into FEMA's hazard mitigation
buyout program - but they are all still waiting for the money. It's a delay
that's pushed many to the breaking point, including Brandon residents Linda
Bunn and Mary McManus.
Vt. Towns, In Holding Pattern, Await Flood Mitigation Funds
By Kirk Carapezza
As many prepare for the holidays, dozens of homeowners affected
by Tropical Storm Irene are still waiting for the funds they need to get back
on their feet. In Vermont, the
Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved buyouts of 81 properties,
but none of the owners has gotten any money yet.
Growing Calls For Statewide Wind Moratorium
By John Dillon
State utility regulators
recently gave a boost to a wind energy developer eyeing a project in the Northeast Kingdom. The Public Service Board
refused to dismiss the developer's application for a wind testing tower. But the project still faces
fierce local opposition. And there are growing calls for a statewide moratorium
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|Honda's 6-Passenger Experimental Jet Plane MH02|
|Tokyo, September 19, 1997 --- As part of a research program toward the development of future technologies for general aviation, Honda has designed and developed its own 6-passenger experimental jet airplane, the MH02.
Research on this project started in 1986, and with the active participation of Mississippi State University (MSU) in the assembly stage, the first prototype (type N3079N) was completed in 1992.
Following its first test flight on March 5, 1993, a total of 170 hours were spent in the air testing overall performance, maneuverability, stability, and ease of recovery in flutter, stalling and other particular situations. Although the flight tests, which concluded in August 1996, were conducted according to the rules set by the FAA for experimental planes, there are no plans to homologate, produce or sell this plane.
The MH02 has a unique, forward bent, high wing design (12 degree forward angle - 1/4 wing chord) and a T-type empennage. The plane's superior low-speed performance allows for Pt135 operation on 3,000-feet runways. The MH02 is the first all-composite small business jet, using lightweight carbon fiber reinforced epoxy resins in all the structural elements ranging from main and tail wing cross beams and ribs, to fuselage frame and other outer panels.
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While there is the potential for a horse to be infected by more than 150 different species of internal parasites, there are four main types: bloodworms, small strongyles, roundworms and tapeworms.
Large Strongyles (Bloodworms)
Bloodworms, such as the large strongyles (Strongylus vulgaris), wreak damage as they migrate through the interior of the equine bowel and attach to the lining of the cecum or colon. They cause hemorrhage, irritation, ulcers of the intestinal lining, and/or anemia.
Invasion of the cranial mesenteric artery (the primary blood supply to the intestinal tract) by Strongylus vulgaris larvae is termed verminous arteritis. Blood flow can be reduced by 50% from inflammation at the root of the artery and thrombi can form, potentially dislodging to block smaller blood vessels supplying the intestines. Even mild interference with intestinal blood flow leads to abnormal motility problems and the potential for diarrhea, weight loss, and/or colic.
Two other forms of large strongyles exist: Strongylus edentatus migrates through the lining of the intestinal tract (peritoneum) while Strongylus equinus journeys through the liver and pancreas. Inflammation in these organs can lead to unthrifty condition or colic.
Small strongyle (cyathostomins) larvae encyst within the large intestinal lining for a period of arrested development, sometimes as long as two years. Once mature, the larvae emerge from their cystic sacs, creating physical damage to the bowel along with release of debris and byproducts that elicit focal inflammation of the bowel. Synchronous emergence of encysted larvae (thousands at a time) can seriously compromise a horse’s health from diarrhea, weight loss, poor growth, low blood protein, anemia, and/or colic.
Parasite-related problems from small strongyles are more prevalent in horses stressed by poor management, inadequate nutrition, illness, crowding, transport, training and competition or those with poor immune systems or Cushing’s disease. Subclinical issues can occur in more robust individuals, such as decreased feed efficiency and/or diminished performance quality.
Ascarids are roundworms that particularly affect young horses less than 18 months of age until the youngster can mount an effective, native immune response. A heavy infestation causes a distinctive unthrifty appearance—pot-bellied and a rough hair coat—along with weight loss, poor growth, lack of energy and colic. Ascarids can also trigger respiratory problems—fever, cough, nasal discharge, and possible pneumonia —as they migrate through the lungs on their journey to the intestinal tract.
The most concerning ascarid problem is small intestinal blockage by a tangled mass of 10-inch long adult worms, particularly following deworming treatment in a horse that has not been on a regular parasite control program.
Tapeworm infections require an intermediate host, the oribatid mite, to perpetuate their life cycle. A horse on pasture or eating contaminated hay might ingest mites infected with tapeworms. This initiates development into a mature tapeworm in 6-10 weeks. Its sucking mouthparts attach to the intestinal lining, creating localized Inflammation near the junction of the small intestine (ileum) and cecum. Potential ulceration, scar tissue and thickening of the intestinal wall can occur.
Tapeworm-infected horses are eight times more likely to develop spasmodic (gas) colic than uninfected horses. Other serious repercussions of tapeworm infection include ileal impaction, small intestinal rupture, or an intussusception (the bowel telescopes within itself). These conditions occur due to motility derangements created by inflammation and disruptions to nerve conduction in the bowel.
Botflies lay their eggs on the hairs of a horse’s legs, chest, jaw and face. Once bot eggs collect on a horse’s muzzle through scratching or direct fly deposits, they mature into larvae that crawl toward the mouth. Development occurs in stages within the horse’s tongue or between the teeth in the gums and interdental spaces. When swallowed, bot larvae colonize the lining of the stomach, residing there for nearly a year. Upon release, they quickly transit through the bowel, pass through the manure, and burrow into the ground to pupate and hatch into flies in late spring.
Damage caused by bot larvae is mostly restricted to erosions in the mouth and stomach. Most horses are relatively unaffected by their presence.
Other Worm Types
Other internal parasites that can create problems for the horse include:
- Pinworms elicit tail rubbing.
- Threadworms cause diarrhea in foals.
- Lungworms, obtained through contact with infected donkeys, cause respiratory problems.
- Migration of Oncocherca cervicalis filaria beneath the skin causes intense itching.
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From time to time I get a real craving for something sweet after dinner. I could go and raid the biscuit tin; I have bourbons in there presently and they would go down a treat. But actually, I want something a little healthier and that’s where these mint, orange and raspberry ice lollies come in. They take moments to make and I can grab one from the freezer to cool down in this lovely summery weather we’re having and at the same time satisfy my sweet tooth. I have been growing some mint in the garden beautifully named ‘chocolate mint’ so I used some of that, you can use whatever mint you can get your hands on.
Eating an orange as it comes is something I do not enjoy. Peeling it and eating it makes such a mess and there’s pith everywhere; slicing it into segments and chewing the orange flesh from the skin isn’t particularly pleasant either. However, slicing it and adding to desserts or using the juice is something that I think it worth the time. Nothing beats properly fresh orange juice. A nice glass of Saint Clements breakfast juice was on the cards with my latest delivery of oranges; a fantastically zingy way to start the day.
Slicing open a blood orange has an air of anticipation about it. Will it be intense purple almost throughout, have a few red stripes or actually be mostly orange? Whichever colour you end up with they all have the same fantastic flavour. I love cooking with blood oranges; adding a splash to a cocktail or baking them into something delicious. This recipe for blood orange posset was something I had never tried before and I couldn’t believe how easy it was to make. Just three ingredients are needed for a pudding that tastes so much more than the sum of its parts.
I love a mince pie, but they have to be just right. I want the pastry to mince filling ratio to be almost 50:50; too much filling and you can forget it. Preferably my mince pies will be warm and covered in (clotted, ideally) cream. However, I can’t possibly eat that every single day and I still need my mince pie fix. This is how my Mince Pie Fruit Loaf came about; designed to have all the fruity spiciness from a mince pie but without the pastry and cream. Don’t worry, there’s still plenty of butter for spreading!
After double, these cookies could only be improved by making them triple; perhaps a drizzle or dunk of white chocolate on each. As they stand however, my Double Chocolate and Orange Cookies are just splendid as they are. Especially straight from the oven. The smell as they bake is hard to beat. I like to use dark chocolate when making cookies as sweet as these because I think it adds some welcome bitterness. When it comes to rolling the cookies, for reasons I am not sure of, I always seem to manage to end up with thirteen; a perfect baker’s dozen.
I’ll stick a herb in pretty much anything and adding or infusing herbs in drinks or cocktails is always delicious. My Orange and Rosemary Martini is particularly excellent for two reasons: first, it uses those fantastic big oranges that you can get at this time of year and second, that faint hint of rosemary is so distinctive it makes for a really refreshing martini. It looks inviting, it’s easy to make and the flavours take the edge of a plain martini (which I can find a bit harsh). This would work really well with leftover rosemary in the back of the fridge, or those sprigs you popped in the freezer. However you make it, and you should, make sure you’ve got a nice comfy chair and a book ready and waiting.
The idea of smoothies and juices I really like; getting the nutrients (with or without the fibrous parts) in a convenient way really appeals. Not least because it gives me something to do with a fridge full of vegetables other than soup. The only thing that puts me off is the thought I needed another piece of kitchen equipment to be able to make my own. The publishers of Crussh, Nourish Books, got in touch to see if I’d like to try out the new book. I asked if a juicer was necessary and they said it wasn’t so I was looking forward to giving one of the recipes a try.
I absolutely love blood oranges for several reasons: firstly they are just so pretty it’s hard not to like them, secondly as they are in season in January they are a welcome citrusy start to the year and thirdly I love squeezing a big bowl full to make my own pink juice. I wanted to make something to show off blood oranges at their best and I’ve fancied my hand at a tart au citron for a while. So I thought a sort of blood orange tart (or tart au blood orange) topped with caramelised blood oranges would be pretty tasty.
I love cranberries and really try to make the most of them when they are around; they are almost fool proof when it comes to making jams and jellies as they are so full of pectin. This Cranberry and Clementine Crumble is a great way to use cranberries in a different way over the festive period and the addition of Cointreau adds a little something extra. I was asked to come up with a couple of wintry recipes as part of a project with Kenwood. I used one of the new Kenwood Chef Sense machines to test the recipe out at home and then I spent a day filming the recipes! I hope you enjoy it!
Hello and welcome to my new website; I hope you enjoy it! To kick things off on my new site it was only right that I baked something; I had to have something to keep me motivated during the changeover! These orange and poppy seed biscuits are a recipe from Cathryn Dresser (former Great British Bake Off contestant) author of Let’s Bake and she has teamed up with Pyrex to create a series of baking recipes for National Baking Week from 13th to 19th October. See below for details of the giveaway to win lots of Pyrex baking goodies in time for October 13th. | <urn:uuid:78ecf942-df05-47f2-bde6-18361ab1fdaa> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://allthatimeating.co.uk/blog/category/fruit/orange/ | 2022-05-19T10:59:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662527626.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20220519105247-20220519135247-00227.warc.gz | en | 0.965265 | 1,313 |
The business of marketing is and will continue to be a tripartite business: marketers, marketing agents and media. The lines may blur every now and again and some companies will try to bypass one of the players to save a buck, but the system will endure.
Microsoft purchased aQuantive and Razorfish to see if it could get into the marketing agent business and now has decided it can’t and is selling Razorfish. Smart move. Marketing agent Anomaly is trying to become a marketer and will enjoy some modest success, but they are more likely to make their bones giving independent counsel to makers of products and services than change the system.
At Cannes Eric Schmidt and Maurice Levy agreed to play better in the sandbox…but there needs to be a little friction between media (Google) and agent (Publicis) for everyone to make money. Friction and conflict keep everyone on their toes.
Media will change. Ad agent tools will change. Products and services will change. The tripartite system will march on. Peace! | <urn:uuid:d996c38a-4834-4262-89d7-b9f97315e7de> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://www.whatstheidea.com/marketing/marketing%E2%80%99s-tripartite-system | 2021-10-17T03:32:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585120.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20211017021554-20211017051554-00317.warc.gz | en | 0.957978 | 211 |
New $20 Million Housing Development Coming to Buffalo’s Westside
Over the last few years, Buffalo has had a lot of development and new construction, both commercial and residential. A local non-profit has announced a new series of environmentally friendly developments that are scheduled to start in early 2022.
PUSH Buffalo recently announced that their 49-unit housing project that is going to be environmentally advanced and will have a net-zero carbon footprint is ready to move forward.
The housing units will use geothermal and heat pumps to reduce utility costs and reduce the need to rely on fossil fuels. The development is estimated to cost $20-22 million and phase one of the project is expected to begin in early 2022, with phase two to begin in early 2023.
The development will have a total of 49-units built between 12 new buildings and 2 existing structures. At least 30% of the units will be specifically set aside for people with addiction and/or with a history of mental health issues or homelessness. PUSH Buffalo is going to partner with BestSelf Behavioral Health that will provide case management and supportive services.
Officials from PUSH Buffalo also plan to use the construction of these buildings to help train young adults in the tech and building trades. | <urn:uuid:edb593f2-1da8-457e-a171-c991705c0aaa> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://wblk.com/new-20-million-housing-development-coming-to-buffalos-westside/ | 2023-02-03T06:22:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500044.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230203055519-20230203085519-00023.warc.gz | en | 0.962605 | 253 |
Hardy Marksman 2
Looking for insight on this rod... Does anyone have the 9' 5 weight version? How does it cast, etc.
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"All I have is a picture that floats around the office of me dressed up as a slut -- I'm naked from the waist up," said Mr. Haise, president-publisher of Onion Inc., the newspaper's parent. "But I could send you a different photo."
The 31-year-old is more concerned with cultivating The Onion, an 11-year-old newspaper, than getting his mug in print. Launched in 1988 by Madison, Wis.-based writers with a yen for the absurd, The Onion is a free weekly distributed in Chicago, Denver, Madison and Milwaukee as well as in Barnes & Noble and Borders bookstores across the U.S., and circulated nationwide via subscriptions.
The newspaper spawned a best-selling book, "Our Dumb Century," released in March, and will launch a second book, "The Onion's Finest News Reporting, Vol. 1," next spring.
In August, Westwood One began syndicating an Onion feature on 45 radio stations nationwide. A magazine based on The Onion is slated to launch next year.
SMALL-TOWN HUMOR CATCHES FIRE
But it's the Web site that has catapulted the small-town humor rag into a thriving enterprise.
"The Web site is the driving force for all our business now," said Mr. Haise, who slam-dunks basketballs into a regulation-size hoop in his office to fight stress.
The Onion is an example of an online brand that started as an inspired idea not necessarily crafted to make money, but one certainly boosted by the Internet boom.
"That's what the Web was designed to do: effectively lower the barriers to entry so that thousands of individuals and companies could enter," said Dan Miller, VP-advisory services at consultancy Kelsey Group. "Out of them, some were bound to succeed -- [the Web] was the ultimate incubator."
WHEN THE ONION IS JUST ONION
The Onion launched its Web site (www.theonion.com) in 1996. It acquired rights to www.onion.com from Synergistic Networks, an Internet company, this month to pick up misdirected attempts to find it. The newspaper's circulation is about 200,000; the site that is updated every Wednesday -- Onion Day to readers -- gets 500,000 unique visits and more than 4 million page views a week, Mr. Haise said.
The Onion culled a limited but loyal following. But the Web site provided the national distribution and exposure it needed to attract a slew of new readers and advertisers.
"We always found the most success [by] creating the shortest distance between our product and our customers," Mr. Haise said. "Our goal was to get The Onion in front of as many faces as we possibly could. We'd had challenges getting The Onion on already crowded newsstands, and the Internet presented an exciting opportunity for bucking the traditional distribution system."
LAUNCH DONE VERY QUIETLY
"We eschewed interactivity to begin with," said Mr. Haise of the site's early days. "And we in no way promoted the launch. We didn't want to be in your face. We wanted readers to feel as though they were discovering the product, which always makes them feel closer to it and, potentially, more loyal."
The plan was to carry that customer loyalty to advertisers.
"[Our] success outside our thriving newspaper business has brought us closer to the advertising community," which, he said, has "directly related to the popularity of our Web site."
Mr. Haise said 20 marketers are advertising on The Onion's site during the fourth quarter. The cost per thousand impressions generally falls between $10 and $30.
Its model has been to keep CPMs low, Mr. Haise said.
"Since our traffic has increased so dramatically over the last two years, my philosophy was to sell out the inventory and then worry about raising the rates," he said. "I thought the more advertisers we had on the site, the more it would attract."
ALL MEDIA IN 1 POT
The Onion lets advertisers put badges and text links on its front page and buy run-of-site banners. It offers combination Web and newspaper buys and sponsorship of "Onion Radio News," its syndicated feature.
Those buys have attracted big advertisers, including American Express Co., Encyclopedia Britannica, Rolling Stone, Tickets.com and Warner Bros.
And Onion Inc. plans ad sales offices next year in New York and California.
"If a service that starts out to attract and build a certain group of people hits a harmonic, there wouldn't be a reason why it
wouldn't snowball and become a magnet for advertisers and start to look like a business," Mr. Miller said.
The Onion also has gone from selling only Onion-branded merchandise from its online store to selling nearly 90% of its subscriptions online. It's also expanding its affiliates program and offering links to advertisers' e-commerce areas to boost banner packages and sponsorships, Mr. Haise said.
Annual revenue is reported at $4.5 million and venture capitalists are knocking on the door. But is Mr. Haise worried about selling out, or worse -- giving up the fun of running a start-up when money wasn't the issue?
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KINDNESS IS CONTAGIOUS! Spread the positivity with this magnet!
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When we left our house on Christmas Eve morning, it was cold…and dry. But by the time we’d driven about thirty or forty minutes, the entire world was sparkling. It was stunning. Every twig, berry and blade of grass was coated in ice. Here are a few glimpses from the past three days, that, I might add, do not do Mother Nature justice.
^This is this morning’s sunrise from my parents’ deck.
Most of the following photos are from a Christmas Day walk through a nature area in my home town.
^ I’m assuming this house’s occupants are wintering elsewhere. Like Florida.
^ How freaky are these little things? The ice encapsulation makes these stems look like arteries or blood vessels or something.
And those bottom two photos were also from my parents’ house on Christmas Eve day. While there’s nothing better than a white Christmas, this icy Christmas has been the next best thing. | <urn:uuid:a0ec231b-0ef5-4dc2-b91d-2775ccc07060> | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | https://heytherefriends.com/2013/12/26/christmas-on-ice/ | 2021-05-06T18:41:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243988759.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20210506175146-20210506205146-00250.warc.gz | en | 0.950938 | 208 |
We get it. You lead a very busy life that leaves you little time to go through the hassle of getting your birth control prescription every month. You barely have time to wash your hair, never mind dealing with a doctor’s office to get your prescription and running to the pharmacy to pick up your birth control every month. You have #BetterThingsToDo. The good news is that you can get your birth control pills online and #SkipTheTrip to the doctor’s office, saving you time and even money. This is so much easier than doing it the old-fashioned way!
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Did you know: 95% of birth control pills are generic? Most people think they are on a “brand” birth control but they’re not. They’re on a generic! Generic birth control pills have the same dosage and the same active ingredients as the name-brand version and are just as effective. If you require a specific birth control brand, the costs will be higher. Delivery is always free and if you order more than 1 pack at one time, you can save even more money.
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In the US, Birth control pills, patches and rings are not available over the counter, but there are a few contraceptives to choose from at your local retail pharmacy. These types of birth control include barrier methods like male and female condoms and contraceptive sponges and many forms of spermicide (film, gel, cream, foam, suppositories) available.
Over-the-Counter Birth Control Methods
Most over-the-counter birth control options are not as effective as the prescription options and should be doubled up for extra safety. For example, you might want to use spermicide with a female condom or a sponge with a male condom to protect you. Check out our blog: birth control math on how much better birth control is when combined!
While these types of birth control don’t require a prescription, they can be expensive and inconvenient because they are single-use and have to be thrown away every time you have sex. If you’re having sex frequently, the expense and inconvenience get old pretty quickly.
Because over the counter contraceptives from the pharmacy are not as highly effective as birth control pills, patches or rings, another option for preventing pregnancy is to have emergency contraception (the morning after pill) as a backup in case your condom pops and you think you could be at risk for an unwanted pregnancy.
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Commitment to Sustainability
The California State University (CSU) and other state institutions are major consumers of energy and natural resources. Therefore, CSU has the responsibility to be a wise steward of scarce resources by reducing the use of non-renewable resources and increasing energy efficiency. CSU is also committed to promoting the continued economic and ecological viability of the State.
The Sustainability Advisory Committee, a subcommittee of the CSU Academic Senate, Academic Affairs, Capital Planning, Design, and Construction, and Advancement, develops partnerships and funding to support the educational, research, and public service missions of higher education as they relate to sustainability. Many new and emerging academic programs are responsive to students' interest in pursuing green jobs. Environmentally conscious student development, with the integration of sustainability into the curriculum, will improve California as over 95,000 CSU graduates join the state's skilled workforce each year.
The university's best institutional practices and hallmark strengths-teaching, applied research, and community service-all play a special role in sustaining the continued economic and ecological viability of the state. | <urn:uuid:da9091b5-436d-4ffb-85a5-7edb5df9adc9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.calstate.edu/cpdc/sustainability/index.asp | 2017-01-21T21:32:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00393-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943013 | 224 |
Contingent Convertible Debt Instruments (CoCos): regulatory use and market development | Enrico Perotti
This webinar addressed the new regulatory treatment of Contingent Convertible Debt instruments (CoCos) and the development of the underlying CoCo bond markets. The contractual feature of the existing stock of CoCo debt is analysed along various dimensions. First, in terms of their regulatory effectiveness in absorbing risk. Second, in terms of their impact on risk incentives and thus on their preventive effect. Third, we looked at the empirical evidence on the market response to their issuance. Finally, we discussed recent developments on the CoCo bond market in terms of issuances and prices.
Enrico Perotti (Ph.D. MIT) is Professor of International Finance at the University of Amsterdam, Member of the Scientific Committee of the Florence School of Banking and Finance and CEPR).
His advisory work has focused on policy advice on issues of banking, financial reforms and stability to the EC, ECB, IMF, DNB, Bank of England, the World Bank and the UK Treasury. | <urn:uuid:1d2fcf44-a644-4d21-b4ae-03c9cb873763> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://fbf.eui.eu/contingent-convertible-debt-instruments-cocos/ | 2017-10-21T21:30:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824899.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20171021205648-20171021225648-00410.warc.gz | en | 0.934471 | 218 |
A very happy new year to all.
On this very first day of new year, I’m thinking of doing something different. I have seen people making resolutions for the new year, further bending them their way and finally getting rid of it 🙂 Yes, it happens. Resolution are somewhat easy to make and but difficult to implement.
So I’m thinking, why don’t we, not just me, make a resolution for this year which is not at all difficult to follow.
“Keep the forum clean and engage properly”
I have worked a bit & tried to understand the intent of such OPs. I think I can conclude some of their kinds in following way,
- New member who has heard about SCN from colleagues that it is just another forum to ask queries and get the result. He doesn’t bother, basically doesn’t even think about going for Rules or missions. He put it straight in the forum and get suggestion. His only intent is to get solution. Once resolved, he’s gone!
- Lazy member who put a query and log in after a fortnight/month when he is reminded of the issue. He then comment on suggested solutions and start testing them. Gone into eternity !!
- Confused member, kinda breed of New & Lazy member but one step ahead. Get to know about SCN, put a query right away in the forum he lands upon, and forget until he is reminded of the issue. He then open his account again but can’t find his post. “No problem, I’ll put it again” and we can see a similar question from the same user at more than one forum. This kind can also be seen putting their functional query in Support and career forums.
- Analytic member, kinda serious ones ! They put a query, most of times even participates regularly ! They follow the suggestions, actively test them and get results. But again, do not follow the rules. Why ? During the suggestion and testing phase, they come across a new functionality or issue and even if they don’t, they get something in their minds. They put it in the same thread and thread becomes an endless loop 😐
- Smart member, though rare but surely there!! Nobody knows why he do log in, not even him. He would be online occasionally & start posting on every query he see, no matter it is open or closed. Going further, he would search the forum, get much older posts and comments on them. This is the reason sometimes we see several older posts flashing into the forum right on the top. I call it SMART member because he knows how to explore forum for various posts and how to comment. But he never cares about exploring SCN.
So basically in all such situations,
- threads would remain open,
- duplicate thread would keep on coming,
- no response from the OP,
- assumed answers we see,
- older posts flashing up
Lets’ make us all a resolution. Resolution to keep it professional, clean and precise. I sometimes even think of a new badge for it 😎 “Resolution badge” which can be earned only after following certain rules and prerequisites. But again, these members won’t care about it and another resolution will go in dark.
In a hope to see SCN members in much improved version, I wish you all success and happiness in this year and all the years to come.
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It’s with great pleasure that we announce the details for the inaugural AFL Europe Champions League – 2015 – Amsterdam. Following a number of years with the majority of our major events being held in the UK and Ireland we are pleased the Amsterdam Devils have taken on the challenge to co-host the Champions League with AFL Europe. It’s a great chance for them to further develop the sport in a market with huge potential.
Date: Saturday 21st March, 2015
Location: National Rugby Centre, Sportpark de Eendracht, Bok De Korverweg, 1067 HR Amsterdam
Accommodation: We have again partnered with the local Belushi’s to secure participants 10% accomodation. To book:
Transport: Make sure you book your flights/trains ASAP in order to keep costs low
Event Handbook: Extended details on the event are available in the Champions League Handbook
Format: Club not country. Winning Club of each major league in our member nations invited (defer to runner-up if premier decline’s invite). If member country only has one club they automatically qualify if not part of another major league e.g. Madrid Bulls. Euro Cup format and rules. 9-a-side. One day competition with group stage and finals (team numbers dependant). Winner to be crowned Club Champions of Europe.
Player Eligibility: As this is a club based competition and there are a variety of different rules regarding Australian playing numbers across Europe we have decided on the following. Maximum of 4 Australian’s on the field at any one time. Players must have played at your club in the premiership year or be signed up to play in 2015. Maximum squad of 16 players (cannot be added to/swapped once the days play has begun).
Registration: Player registration is now open and will close on the Saturday 28th February. Click on the registration button below. All players must be registered before the deadline to ensure you receive the correct size T-Shirt and confirm catering.
West London Wildcats
Llops Del Pla
Malmo Red Eyes
Moscow Space Pirates
Unfortunately there won’t be a women’s competition this year due to lack of clubs. We are confident 2016 will include women’s teams.
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State Treasurer Richard Mourdock announced that September has been declared “College Savings Month” by Governor Mitch Daniels as part of an effort to encourage Hoosier families to begin saving for their children’s future, educational expenses.
“It is imperative that we begin preparing for our children’s futures as early as possible. With our CollegeChoice 529 Savings Plans, Hoosier families can begin doing that now,” stated Treasurer Mourdock. “Every dollar saved today is one less a Hoosier family will have to borrow in the future.”
CollegeChoice 529 Savings Plans (CollegeChoice Plans) are college education savings programs that offer a wide range of investment options, have low fees, and qualify for a state income tax credit of up to $1,000 each year for Hoosier residents. Parents, grandparents, friends, and others, can contribute to a CollegeChoice 529 Savings (CollegeChoice) account on behalf of any beneficiary. Since 2008, the number of CollegeChoice accounts in Indiana has grown more than 63% with assets totaling over $1.2 billion.
College Savings Month is a time for families across the state to consider the value of higher education and the impact a college degree can have on their children’s future.
- Median family income in 2008 for those with a bachelor’s degree or more was $101,099 compared to $49,414 for those with only a high school diploma. (College Board, Trends in College Pricing, 2009)
§ Youth who have school savings are almost four times more likely to attend a four-year college than youth with no accounts. (Center for Social
Development study: The Role of Savings and Wealth in Reducing “Wilt” between Expectations and College Attendance. William Elliot III and
Sondra Beverly, 2010.)
Mourdock has asked companies around the state to consider offering CollegeChoice Plans as a voluntary benefit for their employees during the next open enrollment period and allow their employees to save for higher education through payroll direct deposit.
“Offering CollegeChoice 529 Plans is a great opportunity for Hoosier employees to save for their children’s, grandchildren’s, or even their own career training,” explained Treasurer Mourdock. “It’s good for employees and good for their employers.” | <urn:uuid:9c01540e-9316-4fa0-aabd-dd034c812d9b> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://am1050.com/2010/governor-daniels-declares-september-to-be-%E2%80%9Ccollege-savings-month%E2%80%9D/ | 2016-05-06T14:56:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461861831994.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428164351-00175-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958121 | 489 |
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Seaswirl Boats 2301 Walk Around - Walkaround Boat
New 2012 Seaswirl Boats - Walkaround
2007 Seaswirl Boats 2301 Walk Around Description
The 2301 Walk Around O/B is a clever compromise between a cruiser and a fishing boat. It really does offer something for everyone. Amenities include a large cockpit, plenty of extra storage space for your gear, and a galley with a sink and stove. It's the perfect fit for every family.
- Length Over All: 24 Feet and 2 inches.
- Draft: 2 Feet and 10 inches.
- Beam: 8 Feet and 6 inches.
- Fuel Tank Capacity: 135
- Water Tank Capacity: 6
- Max Load: 3100
2007 Seaswirl Boats 2301 Walk Around Standard Features
10 year transferable hull limited warranty
12 volt accessory plug
30 oz marine vinyl
Adjustable swivel foul weather bucket seats
Aerated live / bait well with high speed pickup
Anchor line locker
Bow pulpit with anchor roller
Cabin port lights
Carbon monoxide sensor
Deck washdown system
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SEMINAR: LGBTIQA+ Inclusion Seminar
UWA staff and students are invited to attend the LGBTIQA+ Inclusion Seminar on Tuesday 20 October 2020.
In this seminar, Assistant Professor and minority rights expert Mr Melville Thomas will discuss “The Heterosexuality of the Law” where they claim that the bridge between critical legal theory and LGBTIQ legal theory is indeed feminist legal theory.
The presentation will be followed by a panel of UWA staff and students who will discuss the difference between gender and sexuality through the lens of their lived experiences. There is also the opportunity for any Q&A’s you may have on the topic.
- Locations of venues on the Crawley and Nedlands campuses are
available via the Campus Maps website.
- Download this event as:
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Its been over 2 years since I acquired permission to detect a piece of property that dates back to 1817. At first, the property seemed to produce some really nice relics and coins from the 1800’s but over time, those rich grounds started to dry up and my headphones went quiet.
I spent 2 years detecting every inch of the property and included the use of flags to “grid off” highly productive patches, just to try and get the maximum potential out of my search. I was just about ready to close the book on the property when a friend introduced me to the XP Deus.
It happened last fall when four of us were detecting in the mountains of Northern Pennsylvania. Three of us were using the AT Pros but my friend was using the XP Deus .We were all hunting an old logging area dating back to the early 1900’s.
The ground was iron infested. I didn’t find much except a few axe heads and iron scrap but I was happy with those items.Then my friend dug a coin right next to where I was digging. I couldn’t hear it with my machine, but he could with the XP. He ended up finding 3 more coins that day while the rest of us found none. His ability to hear targets in the iron infested ground sparked my interest in the Deus. I spent the rest of the winter researching the XP and finally pulled the trigger and purchased the Dues in April of 2016.
Learning the XP Deus
I spent the better part of spring and summer really trying to figure out what I liked most about the XP Deus and what settings worked well in my conditions.
Out of the box, the Deus was easy to use but once I started figuring out how the “Reactivity” and “Silencer” settings worked is when things really started to make sense and the quantity and quality of my finds began to change.
After spending several weeks metal detecting in parks and playgrounds, I decided to take the XP Deus back to previous permissions, sites that I thought had been hunted out with the AT Pro. One of the first places I started to re trace my tracks was back at the 1817 property. It didn’t take long before I began finding some amazing coins. These were targets that I had clearly missed over the last 2 years. There was no doubt in my mind the Deus was finding targets that were laying in iron and next to trash in this badly infested ground. The target separation of the Deus gives the user a big advantage, now I own and use this machine I don’t believe there is such a thing as previously hunted out grounds, so now I have started to hunt them all over again.
Since I’ve returned to the 1817 permission I’ve made some incredible finds. Some of my best coins include an 1864 Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson presidential token.
An 1851 three cent piece
An 1828 Liberty Cent
And my oldest coin to date, a 1723 King George I half penny.
Having some patients is key. There can be a bit of a learning curve but I I’m a big believer in the machine simply because I have personally witnessed some amazing discoveries made with this machine.
My Program to detect in trashy and iron invested grounds.
I have a really great program that uses, 4, 8, 12, and 18 kHz. I usually start detecting the property in 12 kHz and once i think I’ve covered most of the grounds, I’ll hit it again using a different frequency and so on. I have had the best luck using 12 kHz. Included below are the settings I have been using at the 1817 permission:
My preferred settings
- Ground Balance: I manually ground balance using the pumping technique. I will do this when I see the ground conditions change or the machine becomes a little unstable. For this permission the front yard balances at 84 while the backyard balances at 72.
- Discrimination: I don’t use any. I like to hear everything.
- Reactivity (R) and Silencer (S) : R= (1) or (2) and S=(-1) but sometimes I do bump it up to (0)
- Audio Response: I like to use (5). I like to hear the faint deeps signals amplified.
- Transmitting Power: I usually stay at (2). I have messed with (3) but I think the machine is a little more stable at (2) for this program.
- Sensitivity: I always start at (99) but back down until the machine quiets down somewhere around (93-96). It will depend on the ground conditions. Sometimes I’ve had to tune it down to (87) .
- I use 5 Tones: This is how I have the tones broken out. These will give you the iron growl with good mid tones and great high tones for silver and copper coins (The number on the left is the tone frequency)
Tone 1 -100 0
Tone 2 – 100 0 > 28
Tone 3 – 496 28 > 60
Tone 4 – 603 60 > 77
Tone 5 – 800 77 > 99
- Notch Discrimination: I don’t use any.
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Every three weeks, my husband and I wake up early, leave the boys in the care of my mother in-law, and head to McMaster Hospital in Hamilton Ontario. I call it Infusion Day.
Common Variable Immune Deficiency :
"CVID is characterized by a low level of specific proteins (called immunoglobulins) in the fluid portion of the blood. This results in a loss of antibodies, and a decreased ability to fight invading microorganisms, toxins, or other foreign substances." (https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/common-variable-immune-deficiency/)
In short, my body does not have a proper immune system.
It took years to get this diagnosis and receive proper treatment called IVIG. This blood product from donors, contains the antibodies someone like me doesn't produce enough of. It has shown good results for my condition as well as many others, however it is not sustaining. The infusion of this product only temporarily replaces a person's immune system as it is metabolized quickly, making it a life-long treatment.
I've been going to the Medical Day-Care Unit at McMaster for this treatment for over four years now and it has become a sort of home away from home. Every three weeks on Fridays, I head over and the first thing I do is chat with the receptionist Nina, who is the superwoman of her field. Patients adore her, nurses praise her, and doctors respect her. Got a problem? Go see Nina!
After checking in, I'm assigned to my chair for the day which is usually the same every time. The unit has over 20 chairs (reclining hospital chairs) with a seat beside for a loved one to sit with you. Your nurse is responsible for you and four others, all who need IVs started, blood taken, pre-meds administered and vitals checked every 30 minutes. They are busy!
Arms are then wrapped in heated blankets to make the veins pop before attempting the IV insertion. Unfortunately since the majority of us need to be poked so often, our veins are damaged and tricky. It takes a combination of great skill on the nurse's part, tricks of the trade, and prayer to get an IV in me properly. Sometimes we can get it in on the first attempt, other times we are poking different holes for over an hour. Hydration helps too, so I try to drink as much as I can before hand.
Once patients are set up and given all their meds and IVIG product, they can relax. The unit has a kitchen with snacks, juice, and coffee for everyone and also a selection of movies with old school portable DVD players. Some people sleep or keep their hands busy with knitting or typing. Some nurses will even play a card game with you if they get the chance. I get cozy with a couple blankets, my fuzzy wool socks, and a movie, while Adrian has his own entertainment or work to do, and sometimes when feeling up to it, we get to visit with people who have become dear friends.
These people have become a regular part of our life and are a true blessing. I've gotten to walk with others on their health journey and see people through the ups and downs of illness. Our unit does other treatments for patients including transfusions of iron and blood, draining of blood and even chemo. Sometimes we only see people once or twice but there are others I've seen for years.
We are like a big "family".
First there are the doctors who are behind every diagnosis, all the orders, and treatment that we receive. They are usually off the unit but working tirelessly for their patients. They are the "fathers" of the group. Next we have our "mothers", the nurses who, just as smart and vital, keep everything functioning. They are an incredible team, talented and hardworking. They keep the "home" going. They do full care, keep us safe, perform their tasks tirelessly, and are always there to lend an ear or hold your hand. Together our doctors and nurses are irreplaceable and such a blessing to each one of us. We patients are the "brothers and sisters", sitting next to each other and in our own ways, giving comfort and support to one another. We commiserate, make each other laugh, and even pray together. I've been blessed to hold the hands of unfamiliar faces, patient or nurse and pray for the strength and courage to keep going, in whatever struggle they are facing. Not one of us are exactly alike in our state of health, but we're on this journey together and I hold each person I see up in prayer. It's a privilege and I'm grateful for every person there.
Like any family, we have our quirks and disagreements. Nurses have power struggles, patients can make ridiculous demands, doctors lose paperwork, and someone occasionally gets forgotten. Adrian and I sometimes just listen to the chatter around the room. Anyone who knows hospitals knows that nothing is private. You hear everything including; medical emergencies, complaints, family squabbles, someone losing a game of backgammon etc. and sometimes you can't help but smile when we hear some of the hospital gossip like pregnancies and promotions. There has also been the occasional nurse who gets a very loud/public scolding from across the room. It's never a dull moment.
As creatures of habit, we have our "usual" chairs, nurses we prefer, and specific times we like being scheduled, so when things get shuffled around a bit, we catch ourselves feeling possessive of what we're used to. When I start to feel that way, God reminds me that this treatment is a gift, not something I am entitled to. IVIG is very expensive, but I don't pay for it. Here in this clinic, my health and well-being is taken seriously and monitored closely, and I get what I need to live without fear of catching every illness.
About an hour or two into my infusion, the discomfort starts. Some people experience minimal side effects while others are very ill for up to 48 hours later, depending on what other conditions they may have or the speed at which they receive their treatment. I'm somewhere in the middle. My energy starts to drain and any colour I had in my cheeks disappears. I get nauseous and achy and sometimes spike a fever. I call it, the flu in a bag. After I'm finished my infusion we say goodbye and slowly walk back to the car. Once home, I get into my pjs and crawl into bed. I have medication that helps with the side effects but I still feel quite sick with joint pain, vomiting, and a pounding headache. Some weeks are better than others. Sometimes by the next morning, I'm feeling fairly well, and others I struggle for an extra day or two but it's a small price to pay for so much in return.
I am so incredibly thankful to be fairly stable in my health and have options if/when things go downhill. I have friends in this clinic however, who are not doing well or getting better. Some are too sick to walk or eat, relying on feeding tubes and constant care. Some are fading right in front of me, growing thinner and weaker each visit, and some are dying. It's heartbreaking and sometimes difficult to watch, but through it all there is the overwhelming feeling of community. Even without words, we can find comfort in each other and I pray each one will find the ultimate comfort and peace that can only be found in Jesus Christ.
Infusion days aren't easy. They are tiring and nerve wracking and painful, but they have become a regular part of life in my family. It's a treatment that helps my body function and be able to be a wife, mother, and friend. It's a place that allows me to walk alongside people I never would have met otherwise and get to pray for them and love them. Along with all the struggles we as patients have to face, we also get to share laughter, celebrate milestones, and see the sacred beauty of life here on earth through many different perspectives.
Infusion days are tough, but they truly are a gift.
Author - Erin
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The V.I. Department of Justice partners regularly with the FRC on many programs. The FRC is a non-profit agency that assists victims of violent crime, families in crisis, domestic violence, and sexual assault. They offer counseling programs, a shelter, and more to clients.Employees demonstrate the spirit of giving by donating to 2 families.
U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS– V.I. Attorney General Denise George is pleased to announce that the Department of Justice has once again adopted two families as a participant of the Adopt A Family program through the Family Resource Center. Employees purchased Christmas gifts and personal care items for the families and presented them to the Family Resource Center on Wednesday, December 23rd.
The V.I. Department of Justice partners regularly with the FRC on many programs. The FRC is a non-profit agency that assists victims of violent crime, families in crisis, domestic violence, and sexual assault. They offer counseling programs, a shelter, and more to clients.
Elma Braithwaite, DOJ Victim Services Coordinator said staff members are always willing to give. “We reached out to the staff and they were more than happy for the opportunity to participate. Last year we adopted one,
we are so excited that the Dept. of Justice has partnered with us once again and increased the donation to two families. We have several families we serve and around this time of year, we want to be able to give as much as possible. The need was bigger this year in light of the challenges many are facing”, said Vernon Araujo, Director of development for the Family Resource Center. Our clients, staff, and board members are very thankful, and the family is very happy to receive the gifts that will enable them to have a happy holiday.
Attorney General George said, “Christmas is all about giving. I am so proud that we have such a giving staff. This was again a great opportunity for our Department of Justice family to give to less fortunate families in our community for this Christmas season, and it was all made possible from their donations.”
The families consist of a single mother with a 9-year-old girl and 10-year-old boy and a single father with a 9-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy.
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The Home Ranch of the Cowells
by Josephine Clifford McCrackin
[This article, with photographs, was published in Overland Monthly, July, 1912. pages 17-23.]
The Gate through which we drove had been put up in 1854, and every pointed paling brought from San Francisco, together with the posts supporting the arch which even now proclaims the grandeur of the place to which it led. Not that it was at all picturesquely dilapidated, any more than was the house, which had been the home, those early years, of Harry Cowell, one of the very largest of the large landholders of California throughout the State, who still had a fondness for this, his country home, near Santa Cruz. The son now living, S. H. Cowell, spends about one-half his time here, year in, year out, living in the same house, modernized only as far as necessary, but in the same state of stupendous completeness as the entrance gate.
on the Cowell home ranch.
I had long wanted to see "the old Cowell place;" I had heard so much of the gardens and the grounds and the ancient Monterey Cypress there, but was always told that though I might walk to the place, I should never be able to walk over it, which I realized while driving over it in a very comfortable carriage.
Any one familiar with the growth of trees in California can imagine the size of the English walnuts forming the avenue from the gate to the wide circle of Monterey cypress, and the size of these latter trees. Those who have not seen these cypress can never picture to themselves the great, straight trunks of the trees, about which fluted columns are clustered that reach up into the branches, where these rise tall and dark from the shaft. Nearer to the house, the cypress avenue opens upon a view of the building, one-storied, dark red, with wide veranda and windows wide and deep. Roses, fifty years old; the Passion vine of Mission times; a jessamine that has learned to climb by force of circumstances, all these droop and sway from the branches of locust, elm and other New England trees that seem to hold house and garden in their shelter. And here is something else from New England, a water-lily in the fountain basin, the particular Nymphaea that has the light pink fragrant blossom; and it came from Wrentham, Massachusetts, from the old, old Cowell home, which still belongs to this conservative family. In the center of this fountain basin, where ferns and foliage plants are always kept moist and cool by the drip and the spray, is a most remarkable growth - a young Monterey cypress, which has seeded itself and is pushing its way up among a lot of other things that were never planted, but grew there at their own sweet will.
Though I was a complete stranger at the place, the dogs seemed to take me on trust. Wonder, the big water spaniel, and Hector, a lovely satin-haired Irish setter, quite deaf and almost blind with age; but Nigger, the watch dog at the stable, said: "How do I know but what you want some of our fine horses?" So I said: "Never mind, Nig.; here are lots of things to welcome me."
For though I was greeted at the front door, two fat little lambs came around from the kitchen door; they were orphans, and they never lost sight of each other; and a fat, black cat came, and a fat, short-tailed yellow cat, and pretty soon they all lay down together, the nearest approach to the lion and the lamb, for Buffy may have been the descendant of a wild cat.
Hector, the Irish setter, immediately took possession of the seat I had occupied in the buggy, and before it was fairly on the way again he was fast asleep. In this way he drove all over the ranch, and to the farthest outposts at Felton, well aware that he was carefully looked after and protected.
The day was fine; we were in no hurry to go in, and I was out to discover what I could. A peacock! The most magnificent, proudest, most graceful bird I ever saw. Yes, graceful; no lady could have managed her six-yard-long train better, and his train must have been fully that length, and of the most gorgeous, green-gold shimmering colors that ever were, with a neck and breast of the rarest blue under the heavens. How I did want to see his tail spread! It was said that the vain bird would go into a trance when he spread his tail and you held a looking glass before him. Yet you could not help but respect the bird for his domestic habits; he sleeps every night on the same locust tree, a main stem bending clear over like a branch, and the places of his wife and the four pea-chicks are beside him, rain or moonshine. Their daytime residence is in the orchard, where there is most always bloom of some kind among the trees, oranges, almonds, lemons, cherries, peaches, olives, quince and pears.
But they are not the only residents there, gold pheasants, silver pheasants, Japanese importations, beautiful black Minorca chickens, white turkeys, young and old, numberless wild birds, robins, larks, anything that will feed with the chickens; though the flock of tame quail generally feed with the pigeons in the other corral, where the trout basin is situated. And every step or two you see another horse, one of the fine carriage horses, either taken out of a buggy or harnessed into a buggy, or tethered for a bite of grass, or led for exercise; and all these fine-grained, fine-strained horses are pets, and Mr. Cowell calls them all by name.
I had seen so much of this part of the ranch that while we were taking lunch in front of the open fire-place, above which a niche is let into the wall higher up, I ventured to make a suggestion to Mr. Cowell. I said: "The interior of your house, or this part of it, is in Mission tints; that niche is certainly a reminder of Mission days; then why not take down the large vase and put a small statue in place of it, the statue of some saint, of course."
At the time I had Saint Francis in my mind, who called the birds his little brothers of the air; but when I had seen the rest of the ranch, or a greater portion of it, I came to the conclusion it should be Saint Anthony, for he takes care of beasts as well as birds; and though Mr. Cowell is not a saint, nor even a Catholic, he said, simply: "Every living creature wants a home;" and every living creature for miles around drifts to that ranch for food and shelter, whether wild or tame.
Before leaving the house for our drive, Mr. Cowell laid before me a book, day-book or entry-book, I believe it is called, in clean, clear handwriting, his father's, and he turned to the day and month we were writing, but it was in 1860.
Beautiful though the ranch is with its long stretches of green fields and meadows, its hill plateaux covered with great, spreading live-oaks, its mountain sides o'ertopped with redwoods, its glens and canyons filled with laurel and madrone, ever and again there rises a sheer, threatening wall of rock suddenly from out among waving trees and gurgling springs, or a deep fissure drops suddenly hundreds of feet beside the road you are passing over. This, strange to say, is where the lime rock was taken out in years gone by, and if you keep your eyes open, you will see some of the ancient lime kilns, more picturesque now than while the fires were hot in them, for redwood and madrones now grow from their top.
To be sure, there are still lime-kilns of that kind on this vast estate; but I knew there was quite a modern institution at their Rincon kiln, where oil is burned, and this Mr. Cowell had promised to show us at the end of our drive. But there are so many things new to me: the factories, mills, blacksmith shops, on the place; the vegetable gardens for the three hundred odd men to be fed from; the abattoir, the corrals, the pastures; the dams with their colts; the cows with their calves; the sheep in care of their herder; and one band without herder, the fat porkers ready for the oven.
Then come the heavy teams meeting us, enormous, heavy horses, six of them always, all bred on the ranch drawing enormous loads. I know these well; many a word of praise had their drivers had from me, an officer of the Humane Society, on the streets of Santa Cruz, though I did not know Cowell was the owner. Mule teams, too, and pack-mules, sleek and fat, and working hard.
Across, on a rising hillside, a glistening snow seems spread. "Fred Swanton's lawn-mowers," I am told; the flock of Angora goats that keep the grass down on the new Casa del Rey Golf Links, at the Country Club home.
But it is not this I am looking at; oh, no. The golf grounds lie away down at our feet, though it is said there is a superb view even from there. What, then, must it be from here, so many hundred feet higher that the golfers below look like ants, and the golf links like a child's play-ground. All this below is of the Cowell land, too; but the most sublime point is this, where the carriage stops. I thought I had seen all of Santa Cruz, separately and in one, on different occasions, but I see it now for the first time as a whole. Now, really, I don't want to boast of Santa Cruz because it is my home, but only because it is truly a grand sight. A large, widespread, picturesque city, white, with strips of green forest in its outskirts, and the broad, blue, sun-smiling ocean enfolding it, till the green hills and the dark blue mountains of the Santa Cruz Range, come down to the Bay of Monterey in the east, to hold the City of the Holy Cross in their embrace.
Then we drive on, for miles, it seems to me, to Rincon, quite a village of workmen's houses with the boarding house in the center, across the track from the formidable-looking plant of tank houses, oil reservoirs, and I don't know what-all on this side of the railroad track. I heard the noises long before we got here, but I said nothing: I only tried to think, "Who's afraid?" Then we enter this most modern-constructed of kilns, and all sorts of blazing, super-heated, red-hot wonders pass before my bewildered eyes.
"Now, we'll go above," says Mr. Cowell, holding out his hand to help me up a sort of iron staircase, no doubt quite safe to mount.
But I shrink back. "N-n-no, th-thank you, not to-day," I quaver; "I'm a little nervous."
"Oh, you're afraid," he says, quite dispassionately. "Very well, you can look at it from a distance."
And another ton of lime rock being dumped into one of the cylinders above, with the rush and the crash of an earthquake, just then, I get down and out as quickly as I know how.
Then moving away to a convenient distance from this modern imitation of a --we will say Biblical place of eternal punishment, I sum up my impression of this wonder of our century in the words: "A Hades in three stories; and since I have been through a part of it myself, I mean to be very careful after this how I consign my worst enemy to eternal torment in that hottest of all places."
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Key Nutrients has perhaps one of the coolest label designs on the 2018 nootropic market, wrapping their bottles with an almost Bioshock-y, steam punk art-style. Which is somewhat fitting for a brain bio-hacking supplement.
But you’re not here for shallow art criticism, are you?
You’re here to know whether or not the formula inside of Key Nutrients Cerebral Boost bottle is any good.
On that note, let’s get on with the Key Nutrients Cerebral Boost review to see if this nootropic supplement’s walk matches its talk.
About Key Nutrients Cerebral Boost
- Manufactured by veteran-owned Key Nutrients, Cerebral Boost is an all-natural brain support supplement for memory, focus, and clarity.
- Bacopa monnieri, the leading ingredient in this stack, is an awesome herbal nootropic for stress, memory, and learning.
- No caffeine or stimulants here. However, the formula’s use of L-theanine makes it a great nootropic complement to your morning cup of coffee.
Key Nutrients Cerebral Boost Ingredients
|Ingredients||Amount Per Serving|
|Vitamin B12 (as methylcobalamin)||150 mcg (6,250% DV)|
|Bacopa monnieri extract (whole plant) (20% bacosides)||300 mg|
|Phosphatidylserine (10%)||200 mg|
|Ginkgo biloba leaf extract (24% ginkgo flavone glycosides & 6% terpene lactones)||125 mg|
|DMAE (as DMAE bitartrate)||100 mg|
|Rhodiola rosea root extract (3% rosavins & 2% salidrosides)||50 mg|
Serving Size: 2 Veggie Capsules
Servings Per Container: 30
Other Ingredients: rice flour, magnesium stearate, hypromellose & silica.
Directions: 2 capsules taken 1 to 2 times daily, or as directed by a healthcare professional. For best results, take daily for 30 days minimum.
Compared to other supplements that share this ingredient profile (it seems like there are a lot these days), Key Nutrients Cerebral Boost does just a little bit better in the dosage department. But is this an ingredient profile that you’ll even want to take, good dosages or no? Let’s find out.
Key Nutrients Cerebral Boost Review: Ingredients
Vitamin B12 (as methylcobalamin) – Good B12 form (better than cyanocobalamin) and a hefty enough dosage. B12 is key to a healthy cognition and, really, a healthy everything, as its involved in many, many bio-pathways. Vegans and the elderly require this vitamin, in particular. More on Vitamin B12.
Bacopa Monnieri Extract – Smart choice by Cerebral Boost, investing a large portion of its capsule space to Bacopa monnieri, an Ayurvedic, adaptogenic nootropic with significant memory and learning boosting benefits. Great for students, academic and otherwise. More on Bacopa Monnieri.
Phosphatidylserine (10%) – Why not supply 100 mg of 20% PS rather than 200 mg of 10% PS? Either way, this nootropic phospholipid is great for cognitive clarity and longevity. More on Phosphatidylserine.
Ginkgo Biloba Extract – By enhancing circulation, Gingko seems to improve blood flow to the brain, fueling the brain with better oxygen and nutrients input. Additionally, this natural noot seems to improve working memory. More on Ginkgo Biloba.
DMAE Bitartrate – I’ve been seeing this ingredient more and more, yet I’m not sure why. Data on this beauty compound’s nootropic potential has been scarce, and as far as I know no game-changing developments on this ingredient have been recently discovered. At most, it may help with concentration for those with hyperattention or neurodegeneration issues. For the average, healthy user, though, it’s hard to say. More on DMAE.
L-Theanine – I’m pretty happy to see this green tea amino in Cerebral Boost. L-theanine uniquely enhances alpha brainwaves, which have been associated with calm, creative thinking. What’s cool about this ingredient, too, is that if you mix it with caffeine, you may reduce caffeine’s jittery side effects while sustaining the focus benefits — more so than if you were to supplement L-theanine or caffeine alone. Purdy neat, right?! More on L-Theanine.
Rhodiola Rosea Extract – One of my favorite natural nootropics, and perhaps my favorite natural adaptogen, Rhodiola rosea delivers fast-acting anti-stress, anti-fatigue benefits, resulting in quick boosts on mental and physical performance. There’s almost never a bad time to supplement this powerful nootropic herb. More on Rhodiola Rosea.
Key Nutrients Cerebral Boost Review: Clean, Clear Cognition
I’m noticing a pattern with this ingredient profile. After doing however many nootropic supplement reviews that I’ve done, you notice patterns between supplements, such as a certain ingredient profile being accompanied by a certain list of brain health benefits.
With Cerebral Boost, the pattern I’m recognizing is the use of Bacopa, PS, Ginkgo, DMAE, and Rhodiola with the cognitive benefit claims of Memory, Focus, and Clarity. It’s to the point that when I see these ingredients, my mind automatically thinks: “Ah! Memory, Focus, and Clarity” — which means that the marketing magic here has begun working on me.
Fortunately, I’m smart AF and can counter marketing magic with my highly advanced intellect, which right now is telling me that… well, Cerebral Boost might actually be the real deal here.
For one, Cerebral Boost makes a pretty significant addition to this common ingredient profile that is somewhat of a game-changer. I’m talking, of course, about L-theanine — an awesome nootropic that, while common to many brain health supplements, isn’t often seen with this particular list of ingredients.
And for two, Cerebral Boost doses its ingredients fairly well, sticking to a simple stack of seven ingredients, leaving out all of the unnecessary fluff that needlessly detracts from the ingredients that work.
Having said that, there is one unnecessary ingredient in this formula. I’m talking, of course, about DMAE — a not-so-awesome nootropic that doesn’t have enough clinical research under its belt to warrant its use in so many brain health stacks. This isn’t exactly a deal-breaker, but Cerebral Boost could do without it.
Aside from that, Cerebral Boost is all-in-all a decent nootropic stack. Not the biggest or the bestest, but it’s enough for a subtle brain fog lift, clearing the mind for the second half of your shift, class, etc.
- Key Nutrients Cerebral Boost takes a somewhat common formula and does it better than other similar nootropic supplements touting the same brain benefits.
- By adding L-theanine but keeping caffeine out of the mix, Cerebral Boost gives its users the option to stack this product with their coffee or not.
- Cerebral Boost’s price shouldn’t break any bank accounts, potentially allowing its users to double down on the daily servings, if need be.
- For the most part the customer reviews are positive.
- DMAE is the biggest con for me. Not too sure why so many brain health supplements waste capsule space on this seemingly ineffective compound.
- The dosages are decent, but doubling down on the daily servings might be a low-key requirement to get the most out of this supplement — effectively doubling the price of this product.
- $20.94 for 60 capsules, a 30-day supply
- $0.70 per serving
This is the pricing option listed at Key Nutrients. Other retailers may save you a couple bucks or so, but generally this product hovers around the $20 per bottle range.
Who Takes Key Nutrients Cerebral Boost?
With an emphasis on mental performance — namely “Enhanced Memory and Mental Acuity” — Key Nutrients Cerebral Boost seems to target both academics and professionals. Really, just about anyone may benefit by these ingredients, with exception to DMAE.
Where to Buy It
You can buy Key Nutrients Cerebral Boost through Key Nutrients website, as well as Amazon and Jet… and I think that’s about it? Haven’t seen too much on this supplement from other sellers and online retailers.
Conclusion: Does Key Nutrients Cerebral Boost Work?
Yes — of all the supplements that share this formula design, Key Nutrients Cerebral Boost is the most promising I’ve seen in awhile. Granted, it’s not the most complete nootropic design — nor is it anywhere near my favorite — but it’s a well-crafted, finely polished brain health supplement, nonetheless.
Could it be better? Yes.
Could it be worse? Yes, much worse.
For the price tag, Key Nutrients Cerebral Boost is a valuable stack that’s at least worth a try, if you’re considering this list of nootropic ingredients. It’s cheap enough that you could add it to your other brain health stacks, too, which, if you’re a nootropic geek like me, is purdy cool.
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If we were having coffee, I would tell you that things are changing quickly in my corner of the world–so quickly that blogging has fallen by the wayside. My job hunt continues to progress. Some days it moves forward in bounds and others it simply creeps along. I’ve been learning a lot over the past weeks, but won’t say more here…I have a post scheduled about it for tomorrow. So stay tuned!
If we were having coffee, I’d most likely vent about the racially charged events happening in America over the past week. Like many Americans, I’m deeply upset over the loss of so many lives–black and white. I wrote about some of my thoughts the other day, so check out my post Black, White, & the Perils of Indifference.
If we were having coffee, I would tell you all about Karl Oscar Days! I live in a community of small towns and each one has a weekend festival in the summer. The best is Lindstrom’s Karl Oscar Days, named for a fictional character in a series about Swedish immigrants. We’ve been attending the festival my entire life–I can’t count the amount of times I’ve been in the parade.
Yesterday morning, my family ran the 5k race while I slept in. (Although I like being active, I’m no athlete.) In the afternoon, Mom and I headed into Lindstrom to explore the craft fair. We looked at the booths, visited all the cute little shops, and chatted with friends. I saw several former classmates and tried not to make awkward eye contact–the bad thing about small towns is that you’re bound to run into people you’d rather not see! I did get a big hug from my high school Spanish teacher, who asked if I’d picked up any more languages during my travels. (I told her that “danke” saved my life in Germany and Austria).
I also learned how easily to start conversations with strangers in a small town. All you have to do is buy a massive bag of kettle corn and carry it around town for several hours while shopping. Suddenly, everyone starts talking to you! I had at least five people I didn’t know make comments throughout the afternoon. On the one hand, I didn’t really like all the attention. On the other, it was pretty funny.
Last night, my dad and I sat together for the Karl Oscar Days parade. When I was a kid, this parade was a big deal. It was the highlight of the summer. My brothers and I would line up on the curb, wave to the passing floats, and run around grabbing candy. When we got home, we’d go in the living room, spread our treasures out on the floor, and make trades. These days, I sit away from the curb and watch the firetrucks, community ambassadors, and sports teams roll by. It’s small-town spectacle and, although it isn’t nearly as thrilling as I remember from my childhood, is still a fun way to spend a summer evening.
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Wow someone two comments up is certainly bitter about these cars. Personally I have had four total "M" body cars and have loved them all. One 1986 Diplomat police package had 343,000 when I sold it, all it needed was a new carbuerator to function properly. I now own two. These are cheap cars to buy, affordable to maintain, and reliable to drive. How many other 16-28 year old cars can make that claim? I believe this is testimony to the quality of these fine automobiles.
Maybe he's referring the Oldsmobile 307, a very reliable V-8 (I prefer the Chrysler 318 myself)
I own one owned one and it is a great car with lots of class.
I am 20 years old.
The other day I went to look for a old school car such as a Caprice or Caddy and I came across a ‘96 Dodge Diplomat. I feel in love with it. The car is beautiful and it was in good shape and there is not one problem with it. I’m buying it today.
I started it up, man you can not even hear the engine. Never thought I would ever like a car like that.
And the car I am bout to buy will most defiantly turn some heads.
Right, except that there is no such thing as a '96 Diplomat.
You mean 86 Diplomat, I assume. Does your car have the 318 or the ol' slant 6?
It has to be the 318 because Dodge did not use the slant six in passenger cars after 1983, though it continued to be available in pickup trucks for a while after that.
Don't buy Diplomats they are crap. The front suspentions systems bend at the shock towers and the K members crack if the cars are driven hard. The only good thing about these cars is the 318 V8 and slant 6 thats it.
"Don't buy Diplomats, they are crap."
Seems like everybody else who has one disagrees with you. If you want to drive it through the cornfield, what do you expect to happen to the front suspension?
I have an 86 diplomat, no vinyl top. It had a blown 318, with a torque-flight 3 speed, which was why it was only $100. I dropped in 383 big block from a '68 polara (beefed up the front suspension, removed inner fenders) and put in a 4-speed w/hydraulic clutch. She'll now do high 10s on the track.
My 1987 Diplomat SE has held up great. It looks really great if it is treated well and if it is not pushed to hard, it will run great.
I bought (for $1) a 1987 Dodge Diplomat SE - from (you guessed it) a little old lady who drove it to church. It only has 80,000 miles on it and is CHERRY! White with red vinyl top and perfect red interior. I am hoping to sell it when I get the title back from DMV as it is way too big for me. My question - I noticed that, for the first 15 minutes of driving, it seems to hesitate before shifting into 2nd and again into 3rd. After it warms up, it stops that. Maybe I'm pressing too hard on the gas as I'm used to a little Honda with zip - or am I looking at transmission trouble and in the near future?
My 2nd question: my mechanic says it is worth $2000 (in California anyway). Is this way too much?
To 8:44, I would say that the shifting is a little sluggish because after so many years, it probably needs the transmission fluid and filter changed. If it hasn't been driven much, and has been sitting a lot, it might be a little slow to engage. It could also need some transmission fluid -- check the level on the transmission dipstick when the car is idling hot in neutral. Also, it's best to let an automatic transmission warm up in neutral for a few moments to get the fluid circulating and up to operating temperature.
Remember that the V-8 has different characteristics than your Honda. The V-8 probably runs at much lower rpm's (most driving in the 1,200-2,200 rpm range) and has more torque, but that in the 1980's, V-8's were strangled with emissions controls so they don't rev up and develop a lot of horsepower -- probably only about 150 hp in the case of this 318. Still a good engine, though, and if you were going to keep it, there is a lot you could do to wake it up. The gearing is also most likely set up for highway cruising to get better mileage, so with a high gear ratio, you won't feel as much snap in street driving unless you shift manually to get the engine revved up. Sounds like a nice car.
I am 16 years old. My dad has had the Dip for me since I was born, and now that I can drive it, I love it. It's a good car and I can fit a lot of friends in. Anyone else have a pic of their car? I would like to see it. Email me at firstname.lastname@example.org
I'm thinking that if it's surging at highway speed, it's leaning out in those occasions. Maybe it's a vacuum leak? I can't remember if the 318 was carb or FI in 86, but if it's a carb, then it's probably got a slightly modernized version of the Lean Burn emissions control system. They can be a temperamental beast to manage when they start to go wrong.
You should check out www.allpar.com and sign up for the forums there. There's lots of highly knowledgeable people there who will be better able to help you determine what's going on with your engine.
To address the surging, you should also try changing the fuel filter (or filters). It's simple and cheap, and if it's clogged it could be causing a flow restriction. Also check the fuel pump for proper pressure, and check the crankcase to see if fuel is leaking in, which could denote a bad pump.
No doubt about it, those old Diplomats look good. I use to own one an SE model; it was an 84, one of the first with the turn signals above the headlights. I saw one the other day and it brought back memories of (I am now feeling old) almost a quarter century ago, and it's only now that I appreciate the styling of them old mopars.
The comment before, you stated he had the SE model with the turn signals above the headlights, as did the m body New Yorker.
These cars are not worthless. Look at:
Marks 360 5th ave: http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2205449
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I have one, want to turn it into a track car, it's an 87 ex-undercover cop car.
Well plenty of the Chevy Caprices and Ford Crown Vics made through the early 1990s were still pretty unpretentious working-man V8 sedans.
All gone now and they will most certainly never be coming back. Not only are those companies being gradually eliminated, what's more important is that standard of living of American workers is being reduced. The future is all Mercedes limousines and public transport, my friends.
Hey, I'm 22 yrs old, and just bought myself a 86 Diplomat. I am very excited to have this car, been driving it for a few weeks now. It needs some work, but I bought it as a father son project for me and my dad, but I think it will more than replace anything that I was thinking of buying.
I have a 85 police model with the 318 with 360 heads. It has a lot of power and has been a good car. The only thing is it, when it's real hot out and you just sit and idle when you go to take off, it will bog down then die. Have to let it sit a while. I've had the car 7 or 8 years. And they like to rust under the doors here in the Mid West.
For the sport of it, change the fuel pick up strainer in the gas tank, and with a bit of luck, it might run perfect after that.
I agree!! They're great cars. I have a 86 SE. If anyone knows of some spares parts or a parts car, that would be a huge help to me.
It's funny, the muffler fell off on the railroad and the car doesn't sound any different. That just goes to show why you don't need 3 catalytic converters on the exhaust of a car with that small of a motor. But I've redone mine now with ported out headers and four barrel intake off of a 360. The thing is pushing about 250 HP from that and removing all of the environmental care junk off the engine and exhaust. The car is kind of fun to drive now, and gets about the same and sometimes a little bit better gas mileage.
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More and more hotels are rolling out the red carpet for canine guests, but one hotel in Asheville has taken pup hospitality to creative new heights, helping a local animal rescue group adopt out dogs to guests and the community.
Aloft Asheville Downtown recently marked its 100th dog adoption when the hotel found a forever home for Lolly, a Papillon-Chihuahua mix. Aloft works with Charlie’s Angels Animal Rescue in Fletcher, North Carolina, to foster one dog at a time within the lobby of the hotel, a program Aloft started in 2014.
“We have always been a dog friendly hotel, and in 2014, we were thinking about a community service project to do. Fostering a dog made perfect sense for us,” says David McCartney, general manager. “When we brought the first dog in and set up a doggy play pen in the lobby, we saw the overwhelmingly positive reaction from guests. When the first dog got adopted in about three days, the staff felt like we couldn’t live without a dog. So, we got another, and it’s continued since then.”
Other hotels caught onto the idea, frequently calling McCartney for advice. Foster dog programs have been implemented at at least ten other hotels including Aloft locations in Orlando, Charlotte, and Greenville, South Carolina, as well as the Fontainebleau Miami Beach. Aloft doesn’t handle the adoption process itself, but coordinates with Charlie’s Angels to schedule home visits and help the adopter complete the required paperwork.
“Guests see the dog first thing when they check in, on a leash at the front desk, sitting on an ottoman, in a play pen, or laying on a blanket in the lobby,” McCartney says. “Our guests get to sit with a dog at the bar, or play with them in the lobby in a home-like setting.”
McCartney says he regularly sees travelers take selfies with the dogs, text them back to their husbands or wives, and then, with spousal approval, start the adoption process. “On average, the dogs are adopted in two and a half weeks, but we had one Shih Tzu that went in an hour,” McCartney says.
The hotel staff takes care of the dogs throughout the day and during night shifts. “There’s an evening staff member who loves dogs, and if the dog we’re fostering is up late, he’ll take them walking through the halls during his nightly rounds.”
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Yet, at the same time these women are shown to be happier when they can make themselves adjuncts to men, or they are shown as succeeding only as they are able not to achieve through ability but to succeed through the use of their feminine wiles. The woman of today is presented as troubled and as anxious because she has been forced into the mode of trying to "have it all":
This discourse, like so many others before it, has declared the movement (predictably if illogically) dead, victorious, and ultimately failed. In so doing, this popular view of feminism has rewritten the history of the women's movement to shift it from the terrain of well-intentioned and earnest docudrama to that of smarmy tabloid-style television reenactments on A Current Affair (Walters 119).
This applies only indirectly to the female lead in The Bridges of Madison County, for this is not a woman seeking to make her way in a man's world. Indeed, her traditional role of housewife on a farm has always had a sense of equality that eludes women in the professions, for women on the farm work alongside the men and have a de facto equality much more powerful and permanent than what their sisters seek in the city. They also face a life of drudgery for the most part, but in this as well they are equal with the men. The postfeminist sheen on the characters in The Bridges of Madison County comes not from the characters themselves but | <urn:uuid:1f602f1c-22d1-420e-b4aa-f68705f8b27c> | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | http://www.collegetermpapers.com/viewpaper/1304041525.html | 2014-09-19T01:46:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657129431.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011209-00087-ip-10-196-40-205.us-west-1.compute.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976007 | 304 |
Literature of Mount Shasta
Game Regions of the Upper Sacramento
From Picturesque California
Were I asked to put a finger on the one most favored spot to be found on the map of the world for rod and gun and restful camp, I would indicate the tributary waters of the Sacramento, with Mount Shasta for a tent. And not because the first and best years of my life lay there, nor because I owe all I hope to be to this mighty, throbbing heart of roaring, white waters; but solely because there is gathered in and about this preeminent place more of the great things of earth than enter into the delights of a strong, healthful man in love with nature than can be found in any other one part of the world.
Back of all this lies the comfortable fact that this focus and center of the sportsman's Eden is now quite as accessible as a city park. The Englishman in his journey around the world may arrive in San Francisco this evening, go to bed and be awakened next morning by the roaring waters from the melting snows of Mount Shasta, with the mountain lion and the grizzly bear on the overhanging crags for a background to the view as he looks from the window of his palace car. Thirty-five years ago it cost half a year, a small fortune, much patience, peril, often life itself to reach this paradise of the "mighty hunter." But now at last, and within this year, time, cost, peril,--all have been swept away together, while the mountains in all their black-white majesty remain-and ever must remain, thank God-as unchanged as the ocean. And the huge wild beasts are there in their fastnesses as of old. The trout in the sparkling waters are still eddying about under the overhanging rocks and beneath the gnarled and mossy roots that reach from giant trees, "bald with antiquity."
Go with me to this heart of the world's heart for an hour,--for who should know the haunts and habits of all things here so entirely? In the first place few equipments are needed. You want your favorite gun, of course, good substantial boots, and that's about all. The best of hotel comforts, all the detail of fishing appurtenances, tents if you tire of the hotels and wish to penetrate farther than the farthest, all these things are on the ground and to be had at fair cost. But there is one sort of outfit you must surely have before starting, and that is a kind of mental equipment. You must catch the colors. Do this and you will come away content. Your catch of trout, your deathshot at the black, brown, or grizzly bear,--all this will to the end of life be mere detail in comparison of results. This intensity and emphasis of color is due to the sapphire and purple of the skies and the mighty mountain of snow. The vast and high-held world of whiteness above you, only a little below the sapphire of heaven, as it seems when you look up through the black immensity of trees overhead; this Mount-Shasta heaven and earth coming so close together-these two things make a new or at least a magnified and an intensified world of color. And this element enters into all things there, even down to the fiery red blossom that bursts through the snow at your feet. I implore you go prepared to see and comprehend, so far as possible, the indescribable calm of this colossal Shasta world. The soul grows there.
Make your first, if not your final, stopping place at Lower Soda Springs. This spring is of itself, to say nothing of its fabulously invigorating waters, a curious study. Besides that, it is the first spot ever occupied by the white man in all its region. And such men as Hastings, Lane, Frémont, made few mistakes in selecting camps. Here too some battles were fought in the old days. When "Mountain Joe" and myself owned the place the house was sacked and burned. The Indians retreated across the Sacramento river with their plunder and climbed to near the summit of the almost inaccessible crags that pierce the clouds over against Mount Shasta. And here on these gray and glorious heights we fought and vanquished them on the Fifteenth day of June, 1855. The deep cleft in the left side of my face is the work of an Indian arrow received in that deadly little engagement.
Do not pitch camp closer to Mount Shasta than Soda Springs. It is a mistake to ram your head right up against a mountain, as if you were afraid you could not see it at a respectful distance. There is an impertinence in that sort of doing, and it has its punishments, such as snow-blindness, rheumatism, and so on. Mountains are like pictures; made neither to smell nor to eat. And yet in the Vatican at Rome and in the Sierras of California you see herds of people who push themselves as far to the front as the bar of iron or the bank of snow will allow. The best in nature, like the best in art, is sacred. Look upon it respectfully, reverently, or not at all. Even the wild beasts know that much.
The haunt of the bear changes somewhat with the season, although he is perhaps less of a nomad than any other inhabitant of these altitudes. The grizzly has been known to remain within an area of a few miles of dense wood and trackless rocks for a generation. And that is the meaning of the little mounds of stones which you find on the old Indian trails that track from one tributary to another on the head waters of the Sacramento River. It was the custom for each Indian as he passed the place where one of his people had been killed or maimed by one of these monsters, to pitch a stone or pebble onto the spot. And thus from year to year the mound of stones was formed. No doubt some sentiment of pity or respect lay at the bottom of the custom; but back of that lay the solid and practical fact of a warning to all unwary passers-by, that the grizzly bear had been there and probably at that moment was not many miles away.
I beg here to digress enough to state that the Indians, until taught better by the white man, would not harm a grizzly bear, even in self-defense. For they held that the grizzly bear was the father of the Indian. The mother of the Indian they asserted to have been the daughter of the Creator, who dwelt in Mount Shasta. They held that the mountain was, of old, hollow like a tent; that they could see the smoke coming out from the top of the great wigwam. And their story is to the effect that once when the wind was blowing fearfully from the ocean-which may be seen from the summit of the mountain on any day of exceptional clearness-the Great Spirit sent his daughter up to beseech the wind to be still; that he warned her not to put her head out for fear the wind would get into her hair, which was long as the rainbow, and blow her away. Being a woman, however, she put her head away out, and so was blown out and down to the very bottom of the snow where the chief of the grizzly bears was camped with his family. The Indians further insist that the grizzly bear at that time talked, walked erect, and even went hunting with bow and arrows and spear, and the story goes on to say that, in violation of all the laws of hospitality, the daughter of the Great Spirit was made captive and compelled to be the wife of the chief's son, and so became the mother of all good Indians. Finally, when the Great Spirit found out what had happened to his daughter, he came out and down the mountain in a great fury; and calling all the bears together he broke their hands and feet with a club and made them get down on their all-fours like other beasts. He made them shut their mouths so that they could talk no more forever, and then, going back and down into the hollow of Mount Shasta, he put out the fire in his wigwam and was seen no more. They point to the three great black spots on the south side of the mountain and say these are his footprints and explain that he descended the whole vast cone in three long strides, showing how very angry he was. And as evidence of the truthfulness of what they say about their origin, they point to the fact that the grizzly bear is even yet permitted to use his fists and stand up and fight like a man when hard pressed.
All the Indians believe to this day that the grizzly bear can talk, if you will only sit still when he comes up and hear what he has to say. But this may not be advisable. However, I know one wrinkled and leather-looking old woman, a century old perhaps, who used almost daily go out to a heap of rocks on the edge of a thicket and talk, as she said, with a grizzly bear. She was greatly respected.
Late Autumn or the very early Spring is the best time hunting this king of the Sierra; the only safe time, indeed. For when the she-bear has young it is simply folly to be found in her vicinity. At other times this brute is not more to be dreaded than any other wild beast equally strong and reckless of danger.
All that wide and savage water-shed of the Sacramento tributaries to the south and west of Mount Shasta affords good bear hunting at almost any season of the year-if you care to take the risks. But he is a velvet-footed fellow, and often when and where you expect peace you find a grizzly. Quite often when and where you think you are alone, just when you begin to be certain that there is not a single grizzly bear in the mountains, when you begin to breathe the musky perfume of Mother Nature as she shakes out the twilight stars in her hair, and you start homeward, there stands your long-lost bear in your path! And your hair stands up! And your bear stands up! And you wish you had not lost him! And you wish you had not found him! And you start home! And you go the other way, glad, glad to the heart if he does not come tearing on after you.
More than thirty years ago in company with a cultured young man, Volney Abby by name, I went hunting for bear up Castle Creek, about a mile from the banks of the Sacramento. Pretty little dimples of prairie lay here and there, breaking the sombre monotony of pine and cedar, and, as we leisurely walked on, the waters sang among the mossy boulders in the bed of the creek with a singularly restful melody. My companion took out his Homer and as we sat on a mossy log he read aloud of the wanderings of Ulysses till twilight made him close the page. Our path, an old Indian trail, lay close by the singing waters that foamed down their steep way of rocks. To our right and up and away from the stream stretched a little crescent of wild clover. As my companion closed the book I caught sight of a pine tree dripping with rosin. The Indians peel off and eat the inner portion of pine bark at certain seasons of the year, and all through the Sierra you can to this day see evidences of this meagre means of subsistence. An Indian had been resting and feasting in this same sweet little clearing by the singing waters only a year or two before. I struck a match, touched it to the scarred and dripping white face of the pine-and such a light!
A grizzly! A grizzly! God help us! He came bounding down upon us like an avalanche, fat, huge, bow-legged, low to the ground, but terrible! He halted, just a second, to look at the fire perhaps, when my companion, bolder than I and more prompt to act, blazed away. The bear rolled over, being badly hit. But he kept rolling and tumbling straight in our direction, and not a tree or stump or stone at hand; only the old mossy log on which we had been sitting. I wanted to run. "We must fight!" yelled my friend. I jerked up my gun and he got at his knife, as the monster with his big red mouth wide open tumbled over the log full upon us, breaking my gun in two at the breech and taking the most of my companion's red shirt in his teeth as he passed. But he passed, thank heaven, passed right on. He did not pause one second. He did not even seem to see us. I think the fire may have blinded him and so saved our lives.
As to hunting this branch of the bear family in large parties, as proposed by some, and as I have seen hunting done in India, I cannot advise it. For one of these beasts could crush and mangle a dozen men as easily as one. All he desires when hurt is to get at you. The rest is merely detail with him. There is much said about the advisability of lying down and lying still when a bear is coming and you have no means of escape. This is a strain on the nerves, and it is not sure of adequate reward. I know one Indian, "Grizzly Dick,"-and who of the old mountaineers does not remember poor, simple Indian Dick with his triangular face and his one eye twisted upside down?-who had tried this method and barely got off with his life. It is safe to say that the majority of Indians, and white men as well, who thus far have tried this conciliatory method of lying down when they saw a grizzly coming, lay down the next time inside the monster's maw. I may, however, mention one white man, an Irishman, who escaped after close contact with a grizzly bear, but as by a miracle. And this is the only instance I can recall. This man was in the lead of a party of prospectors crossing a mountain, when he suddenly met the grizzly monster face to face. The man fell on his knees to pray. And then, as the beast shuffled forward, his big loose claws rattling and his big ungainly feet fairly shaking the ground, the poor man could no longer even support himself upon his knees, but fell forward on his hands; his companions in the rear meantime having clambered into trees. The bear paused at sight of this singular animal before him. It probably reminded him of his own fair image in childhood, which no doubt he had often seen mirrored in the glassy lake. Or this hairy and rugged miner may have reminded him of some of his shaggy and ungainly little boys in his rocky home close at hand. At any rate he came up and smelled of the puzzling stranger, much after the fashion of a dog on meeting a strange fellow-canine. And I have heard the men, those who had clambered into the trees, solemnly assert that the Irishman responded in like simple inquiry; but of course this is not so. Be these things as they may, I am glad to record that in this single instance the terrified man escaped unhurt, and ever after ascribed his escape to his prayer and the Holy Virgin.
It must be borne in mind that the grizzly bear of the Sierra is quite a different creature, so far as size, courage and ferocity are concerned, from his brother of the valley. Frémont once told me of finding a great number of grizzlies under the oaks near Santa Barbara feeding on acorns which the young bears threw down from the branches overhead, where they were forced by their seniors to climb and break off the boughs. I observe that in his reports to the Government he speaks of having attacked a large family of grizzlies on one occasion of this kind and killed thirteen of them on the spot. I have myself seen this animal feeding under the oaks in Napa valley in number together, and that as composedly and as careless of danger as if they had been hogs feeding on nuts under the hickory trees of the Wabash. But, as said before, this was another order of bear, so far as size and savagery are concerned, than that of the region of Mount Shasta, the highest point and the real heart of California.
Botanists have found in the vicinity of San Diego a clump of trees entirely new to science. The Monterey cypress is peculiar to Monterey only. It is said that the huge and blood-soaked blocks of stone that make the foundations of the Coloseum at Rome have generated many new flowers. And so we are permitted to hold that the savage guardian of this sublime heart of the Sierras has brought forth and nourished a new or at least a more terrible and monstrous order of beast then ever was encountered on the lower levels of California. As found on the savage and almost inaccessible spurs of Mount Shasta he is certainly the king of all the beasts of America, if not of all the world; and in this fact I find excuse for having dwelt at some length on his habits and his haunts on the headwaters of the Sacramento River.
The next animal in rank, both in size and importance to the sportsman of this region, is the mountain elk. And he also is much larger than his brother in the valleys-like the grizzly bear, which often attains to the weight of two thousand pounds. He is also full of battle when pushed to the wall, his nature thus taking to itself something of the unconquerable splendor of his lofty environments. The haunt of this noble and high-headed creature is (or was, until driven farther up the savage spurs of Mount Shasta by the invasion of our armies and the shock of battle,) not far from the Modoc lava beds, or rather between these rocky fastnesses and the snow belt on the eastern and south-eastern base of the great snow peak. This large elk, certainly the largest in the world, seems to have been born of the thermal springs that burst from the savage and sublime mountain along the lower edges of everlasting snow. To find him at home the hunter will have to change his base from Soda Springs, on the banks of the Sacramento, and move around the mountain about twenty-five miles to the eastward. His is a gregarious animal, more so than any other creature on the continent, save perhaps the buffalo, and so you may have to search long before finding him. True, if there have been invasions, as is not unlikely in the progress of civilization, you may find his large family broken up and scattered about through the dense wood and dimpled little valleys that prevail here. But in his undisturbed state, as I knew him, he is a great lover of his kind, and is to be found only in herds numbering from fifty to five hundred.
In the Winter of 1856-7 I set out from the sweet little Now-ow-wa Valley (since named "Squaw Valley" by the coarse and common hunters who kill game as a source of livelihood) with two fine young Indian hunters from the McCloud River, in quest of a band of elk. The winter had thus far been terribly severe and the large tribe of Indians encamped on banks of the McCloud, some ten miles distant, were starving. The snow had been falling soft and continuously for a long time. It lay from five to ten feet deep and was so wet and soft that the Indians even on their snow-shoes had been unable to move; hence their destitution. But now clear, cold winter was suddenly upon us, and this was their opportunity. The snow was hard as a floor. The sky was sapphire. The air keen and crisp and full of spice and energy. The perfume of the frosted fir and spruce and pine and tamarack filled us with such an intoxicating delight as I never shall know again. We struck straight up the mountain, right against the gleaming world of snow. We must have made forty miles that day and encamped under one of "God's tents"-this is the name given them by the Indians. They are formed entirely of the snow, with a huge and bushy fir-tree whose broad and low boughs reach out and over and down till pinned to the solid snow-bank. And thus is formed a perfect and most shapely tent of solid snow with dry quills for bed, and little dry, resinous and most fragrant cones for fire. And, oh! the perfume that fills this tent of snow, when the gentle flame starts and the indolent smoke lazily reaches up and loses itself in the lofty arches overhead!
The next day we came upon one of the warm springs, a bad, boggy hole in the side of the mountain containing perhaps two acres. The elk had been there only a few days before. Everything had been eaten to the earth, the vine maple, the birch, the alder, all things. There were stumps of willows here and there as large as my arm. The elk were evidently as hungry as the Indians and were eating solid wood. We found where they had broken this corral of snow. It looked as if some huge saw-log had been drawn up the mountain by lumbermen; only this one deep track, and that leading sharp and steep up the world of solid snow. The Indians tightened their belts, tied their moccasins, loosened their arms, and with blazing eyes bounded forward. I followed as fast as I could.
The banks of snow on either side of this trench stood higher than my head. Now and then I could see where the big bull leader of the herd had rolled aside in the snow to fall into the rear while another took his place. On the crest of a cañon I came upon my Indians crouching down under the snow-bank in a blaze of suppressed excitement. Peering over them I saw a herd of many hundred elk, all lying down and ruminating under the dense trees on little hillocks that rose among the steaming warm springs.
The Indians conceded me the first shot, and I made my mark the shaggy tuft of hair that lay between a pair of most majestic horns. Over the knoll of snow and down into the corrall the Indians leaped, bows and bunches of arrows in hand, leaving their guns behind them; and before the poor cattle were yet fully on their feet their eager captors were sinking arrows up to the feathers in their sides.
And what a slaughter! Some of the bulls sullenly shook their stately horns, and struck out with their sharp and deadly hoofs, trying to fight. The Indians, however, lost no time in hesitation. They drove the elk into the crusted deep snow on every side, broke all discipline of the kingly camp, and darting around on the snow where the poor beasts wallowed helplessly, soon had the band in their power. A tribe was starving. There was no time for pity or sentiment; and they were equal to their bloody work. And the wolves! the wild-cats! the California lions that night! If you want a wild and a terrible sight, if you want to see savagery, to hear the howl of fiends, go high up Mount Shasta and put the scent of blood in the air on a mid-winter night!
In the early days the formidable antlers of these elk figured conspicuously as a means of defense in Indian warfare. In this same winter of which I have spoken, even while I was out on the hunting expedition referred to, the Pitt River Indians rose up one night and massacred all the white settlers, nearly twenty in number, and re-claimed all that region lying below the Lava Beds down to near the Red Bluffs, and now known chiefly as the Fall River country. As I was about the only white person left who was familiar with the country, I went out with the first expedition of volunteers as guide, and subsequently
served with General Crook, who was then a lieutenant. But as we approached the scenes of the bloody massacre we found that the Indians had prepared great pits, or rather restored their old pits (which gives the name to that region), and had placed elk's antlers at the bottom of them. We lost several horses in these deadly pitfalls and had some men badly hurt. They were always placed in some narrow pass, entirely concealed by leaves and light sticks and branches, and were from ten to fifteen feet deep, with the sharp upturned antlers at the bottom.
The brown and black bear are found in numbers here, and in the early days they were as abundant as hogs on a farm, and quite as harmless. They always hibernate, and generally in the hollow base of some stout tree. The Indians have dogs trained to smell them out, when they have permitted themselves to be snowed under. The Indians begin to dig down so soon as they find where bruin is hidden, and, strangely enough, so soon as the bear hears them he begins to dig out. He comes crawling to the surface, blinking and blinded by the glittering snow, and falls an easy prey. It is no uncommon thing for Indians to tie a rope around the mouth of a bear found thus and lead him into camp to amuse the children. Contrary to the pretty and poetical notion, that the bear of the Sierras goes to sleep with the falling leaf and wakes with the Spring, I happen to know that the whole bear family, from the imperial grizzly down to the dwarf black bear with big ears, does not sleep for the season, but dines not infrequently, he dines without leaving his den. And yet the lazy, unclean fellow has laid by no store. The three kinds of deer found on the head-waters of the great river of California are nomadic, and move with the snow. Let the snow disappear and they disappear with it. The Mountain Sheep is found only on the farther and north-east side of Mount Shasta; sure-footed, gregarious, harmless and hard to capture.
The California lion abounds here, but he is a sneak and coward, and, were it not for his fine skin and claws, would hardly deserve mention. There is scarcely any fight in him, even when wounded. But at the Upper Soda Springs I saw only a short time since a sweet little girl with two great holes in the side of her neck. These had been made by this comely and supple coward. The beast had sprung upon her when only a few steps from the hotel door. He ran up the mountain dragging the poor little girl in his teeth by the throat, sucking her blood as he ran. Fortunately her grandfather happened to have his rifle near at hand. He pursued and killed the lion, and brought the child back to her mother.
For nearly half a century these cool and flashing head-waters of the great California river have been counted the best fishing grounds, even in a country celebrated as the very elysium of Izaak Walton's disciples. In them is to be found a new fish not known elsewhere in the world; as full of fight as it is possible for a fish to be with a hook in his mouth; proud too, disdaining small things, despising worms and warm pools and all shallow waters. This fish is of the trout family, and, as his great size and strength suggest, he is the king of all trout. He is to be found, so far as I can learn, only in the McCloud river, and that too only far up in the fresh snow-water, even laying his head and glittering sides against the icy banks of snow. His beautiful and varied colors have given him among the fishermen of this region the name of "Dolly Varden." But science knows him not and I think he has no other name save that of his Indian appelative, "Wi-la-da-it," or "Fighting Fish." I sent a skin of one of these fishes some years ago to Hon. R. B. Roosevelt, famous as an authority in such matters; but, as said before, this fish is, or was at that time, new to the learned. Only last season one of these bright beauties, after he had fought for half an hour and was apparently dead, pulled a man into the river and nearly cost him his life. He was saved from drowning by his companion, who plunged own the steep bank into the deep water where he had fallen and contrived to get him to the shore before he was carried over the falls only a short distance below-a rare instance of getting advantage from fishing in company with another, which, I must say, savors of profanity in a temple. Of course there are fishermen and fishermen; but the man who, to my mind, has any right to fish, fishes alone. The light, the peeps through the trees, the fragrance, above all the perfume of the cool and perfect temple of nature,--all these are lost with a crowd, are made less sacred with the sound of voices.
To take the ordinary trout,--and you will always have great respect for this spirited fish, till you have encountered the Wi-la-da-kit-you have only to visit these head-waters made from the melting snows of Mount Shasta, and then cast in your line. Under the shadows of the huge sugar pines, beneath the gnarled roots of ancient trees at the base of the steep red hills, you will find them eddying about by the basketful in almost any one of the thousand white streams that come tumbling headlong down from out the awful cañons-as if afraid of the grizzlies there. But go on up and up and up, find new grounds and take your trout skillfully and sparingly like a gentleman. There is a great difference in dollars. How much bigger and how much better is a dollar quietly made by the pen or the plow than a dollar obtained by selling beer and washing glasses for a garrulous mob! And so it is with your catch of trout. When the day's hard tramp is done let each crisp little trout taste of the perfumed woods, of the flashing white waters, the mossy brown rocks under foot, the emerald world of woods overhead, the gleaming snow beyond, and over all and still beyond, the fervid sapphire skies of California; and, although you may have disdained to take but the one trout, it will be enough-and the miraculous draught of Galilee was no more.
Bears evince great sagacity as mountaineers,
but they seldom cross the range.
Sometimes they follow after cattle and sheep
to feed on the stragglers
and those that had fallen over the precipicices.
A Herd of Elk-Pitt River Cañon
Photogravure from painting by Thomas Hill
In his undisturbed state the elk is a great
lover of his kind, and is to be found only in herds
numbering fifty to five hundred.
Spearing Salmon-McCloud River Falls
Photogravure from painting by Thomas Hill
Man first used the spear for taking fish;
next, the hook and line; and, lastly, the net.
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possible trigger warning to anyone who has seen combat!
I love this movie. Maybe because they are all on the same side and be long to something. It makes me fantasize about being there or joining the military.
Have some kind of connection going through the same thing together in tough circumstances. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fe59fcfde5
I don't really know why I like this. but I do!!!!
"Terrible thing to live in Fear"-Shawshank Redemption
WOR Alumnus Hope Springs 2009
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Every Sunday afternoon, I sit down and plan for the upcoming week. My schedule is very detailed and includes meals, chores, a budget, who is going where and who is taking them. It may sound over-the-top, but it is the only way I can keep this ship afloat. Sure, there are always a few tweaks and changes, but for the most part, everything flows nicely once the schedule is in place. Then sometimes, for some unknown reason, the cosmos decides to throw me a couple of curve balls just to keep me on my toes and just to keep life interesting. And, oh, what an interesting weekend it turned out to be . . . tee hee!
On Friday, those of you who regularly read my blog will know, that I was giddy about spending an entire Friday evening and Saturday alone at home with just my hubby. I envisioned a relaxing and rejuvenating weekend, one that I desperately needed since craziness in the form of homeschooling and the arrival of Thing 4 is just around the corner for us (eeeek! Just 7 days till school starts). We had plans to bring supper in and to curl up on the couch to watch Anna Karenina. We were going to wake up early on Saturday morning, eat breakfast together and then peruse a local baby yard sale with my sister. We would then go in town, have lunch together and do a few errands before we returned home to wait for the return of our beloved munchkins. It was going to be heavenly, but . . . it never happened. Instead, this is what our weekend had in store for us:
It started Friday morning when I received an email from a friend that our boys' soccer team had secured a position in the play-offs. This was completely unexpected since the only way that could happen was if one particular team, who besides one tie this season had lost all their other games, beat a pretty tough team in the league. Well, as fate would have it they did beat them, which meant our soccer season was not finished. Although I knew this meant my Saturday plans would be changing, I could not help but feel happy for the boys. They worked very hard this season and an opportunity to play in the play-offs was a huge deal for them. As it just so happened, my boys had two of their friends from soccer spend the night at our house the evening before, which made for four times the celebration!
At 3pm, when their friends had been picked up by their mom, the boys and I began to pack for their next adventure, a night at another friend's camp. They were a little disappointed that since they were in the play-offs we would have to pick them up in the morning to make what we expected to be an afternoon game, but they quickly shook it off. We then jumped in the van and headed to the Superstore to meet the two brave dads who were going to chaperon this much anticipated "boys night" with six hooligan friends. As soon as I pulled up into the parking lot, Mr. Level-Headed called to tell me that our game was scheduled for 10 am in St. Stephen (an hour and a half away from our house).
This really threw a wrench in our plans. After lots of negotiating between parents and kids, we decided to pick the boys up at 10 pm that night. The boys and I were very disappointed to see our "plans" change, but that is life. I kissed them goodbye, warned them they better behave or else, and then I headed home to meet up with Mr. Level-Headed. Well, it turns out that Mr. Level-Headed had lots of unexpected appointments pop up that day and it looked like he would not be home until later. So, refusing to get down over something as stupid as a date night gone south, I decided to pick up some poutine at Reid's Point Pub and dine not alone, but with my favourite pooch, Scout.
By the way, Scout thinks Reid's Point Pub makes the best poutine ever!
Since we had to pick the boys up at 10pm, Mr. Level-Headed and I decided to go out to the movies instead because if we stayed home we would probably end up falling asleep on the couch and miss the pick up. As soon as he got home from his appointments, we dashed to the the theatre and made it just in time to see Elysium. What was I thinking with this movie? It was far too intense for me. I spent most of the time plugging my ears, holding my belly (to protect Thing 4) and closing my eyes tightly. Ugh! When it finally finished, I felt like I was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Note to self: do not watch sci-fi thrillers when I am suffering from pregnancy anxiety. The two do not mix!
Then we rushed out to pick up our boys. For the first time ever, we had a quiet drive home. The boys were exhausted and I was still suffering from shell-shock. When we arrived home, we all went straight to bed. Okay, one of us could not wait until we got home to fall sleep . . . awwwww!
The next morning I woke up early to pack for the soccer game. As I was packing, it occurred to me that we had an entire afternoon off and since we were going to be in the same neck of the woods as New River Beach and since Saturday was their annual sand sculpture contest, I wheeled and dealed with Mr. Level-Headed, who is not a fan of the beach, and came out the victor.
After a 5-2 win over St. Stephen (4 of which were scored by Elliot . . . the league's second top goal scorer . . . woohoo!), we headed to the beach for a couple of hours. Mr. Level-Headed and Elliot spent most of the time resting on the blanket, while Avery and I made several trips around to see the sculptures and dove in the frigid Bay of Fundy waters to collect sand dollars. At one point, we had 17 sand dollars in our hands, but since they were all still alive, we put them back. I have said it a thousand times before, but New River Beach is my favourite spot in the entire world!
At this point, I was really enjoying our spur-of-the-moment weekend, and so when we were discussing with the other parents of the youth who attended the conference in Quebec about who would pick the girls up later that day, I jumped on the opportunity. We were already out and about, our evening was clear, and I really wanted to hear all about Baby Girl's trip while she was still hopped up on the conference buzz.
So after New River Beach, we headed to Fredericton. Sure, we were all tired, sure my weekend budget had been, at this point, obliterated, but we were enjoying a carefree, beautiful summer Saturday all together. What more could we ask for?
Well, as much as I did not expect it, the afternoon got even better! As soon as we saw the bus pull into the chapel parking lot, I got out of the car and began walking towards it. Mr. Level-Headed warned me that Baby Girl would not think it was cool if the first person everyone saw as they walked down the stairs was her mom, but I just laughed him off and kept making a beeline for the bus. I missed my Baby Girl and I needed to see her. Much to my complete and utter shock, Baby Girl was just as excited to see me as I was her and she threw herself into my arms and squealed: "Mom!" as I squealed: "Girlie!". It was the best reunion ever! She had an awesome time in Quebec, and she even introduced me to a young a man that she may or may not have a little crush on, who just so happens to be a supreme cutie . . . tee hee!
The whole way home, Zoe, Hannah, and Min Ju laughed and shared stories about their trip (You can learn lots from listening to three teenage girls chat). There is nothing better for a mama than to see one of her children so happy and so excited. It really warmed my heart, and as we were driving home, I thought to myself:
Man, this has been one amazing summer!
On Sunday morning, I awoke feeling refreshed and eager to start our day. Although our weekend had completely derailed from the schedule, it turned out awesome and I could not have asked for a better weekend. Mr. Level-Headed was up and out early that morning because he had a church meeting to attend in Moncton. The kids and I got dressed, ate breakfast and still had a half an hour to spare before we had to leave for church. With the sun shining and an entire afternoon home with nothing but rest and relaxation with all my kiddos planned, I thought to myself:
This is the perfect end to a perfect weekend.
Then . . . .
Elliot started scratching his head. Not a little scratch, but a deep, long scratch. I froze. The last time he scratched like that was last fall when he had lice for the first time.
Elliot, why are you scratching?
My head is super itchy!
Ugh! Come here. Let me check your head in the sunlight.
And sure enough, I found one. Then two, and then some eggs.
So, my relaxing Sunday turned into a day of vacuuming, laundry, changing bedding, checking heads, treating one head, and shaving two boys' heads.
Okay, so sometimes straying from the schedule can really suck . . . tee hee!
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Location: Sugarbeet and Potato ResearchTitle: Population genomics and haplotype analysis in spelt and bread wheat identifies a gene regulating glume color
|ABROUK, MICHAEL - King Abdullah University Of Science And Technology|
|ATHIYANNAN, NAVEENKUMAR - King Abdullah University Of Science And Technology|
|MULLER, THOMAS - University Of Zurich|
|PAILLES, YVELINE - King Abdullah University Of Science And Technology|
|CHRISTOPH, STRITT - University Of Zurich|
|ROULIN, ANNE - University Of Zurich|
|LIU, SHUYU - Texas A&M Agrilife|
|ADHIKARI, LAXMAN - Kansas State University|
|WU, SHUANGYE - Kansas State University|
|RAUPP, JOHN - Kansas State University|
|HANDA, HIROKAZU - Kyoto University|
|MORITA, TAKUMI - Kyoto University|
|POLAND, JESSE - Kansas State University|
|KELLER, BEAT - University Of Zurich|
|KRATTINGER, SIMON - King Abdullah University Of Science And Technology|
Submitted to: Communications Biology
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/25/2021
Publication Date: 3/19/2021
Citation: Abrouk, M., Athiyannan, N., Muller, T., Pailles, Y., Christoph, S., Roulin, A.C., Chu, C.N., Liu, S., Adhikari, L., Wu, S., Raupp, J., Handa, H., Morita, T., Poland, J., Keller, B., Krattinger, S.G. 2021. Population genomics and haplotype analysis in spelt and bread wheat identifies a gene regulating glume color. Communications Biology. 4. Article e375. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01908-6.
Interpretive Summary: Glumes are leaf-like structures of grass species including wheat. Glume color is an important trait to characterize wheat varieties. Red glumes were frequent in Central European in Europe before the 20th century. This study analyzed different wheat varieties with red glume in Europe and determined that a gene called Rg-B1 was associated with glume color. This study demonstrated that using multiple reference genomes can be used to rapidly identify genes controlling important wheat traits.
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This post is not to hurt anyone, and I hope the Dutch friends I have will not walk away after reading it. This list is made out of my own observations and conclusions, and I will free myself from any type of responsibility according to the text. Enjoy!
1 Like every language, also the Dutch have their own nice and original twists in it. In Dutch language, every word usually gets “je” after the actual word. I´m not quite sure is it to make everything cuter or? If someone has an answer for this do tell! Why do I care: Anyway, I cant help it, but every time I hear it, this happens in my mind. Things get smaller.
Have you ever heard a Dutch saying in English “Let’s go for a small beer/ Let’s do a small beer before” Yeaha, this explains it right?
2 They do “Stilte Saunas” – “Always the fuzz about Sauna. “We happen to know best, yes. OK so Silent Sauna. Sauna here is considered as a treat, which doesn’t happen often. Well, to the wellness centers I have gone to Sauna, they have Saunas that are called Finnish Sauna. But 90% of them, are silent. 60% of them, you cant pour water to the fireplace.
Why do I care: This is why I trust no-one.
3 Dutch keep asking questions. I read it somewhere before, the Dutch dont much enjoy being at the center of attention. They prefer to ask questions. Thousands of questions. Not only from foreigners but from everyone. It goes really funny when two Dutch meet for the first time and they both are avoiding being in spotlight. It doesn’t affect me in negative way, but it is still overwhelming to keep up with all the “????”.
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“I’ve embraced the glitter,” Neil Patrick Harris tells Good Morning America. “It’s everywhere.”
The actor has taken on the lead role in the Broadway revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which opens this month.
In the interview, composer Stephen Trask and creator and originator John Cameron Mitchell call Harris’s transformation “stunning” and say that he has been “reinvented.”
Becoming Hedwig takes Harris two hours, a process that takes place in his dressing room, which he had painted pink in honour of his character. He also reveals that he’s lost 20 pounds to look more feminine for the role.
“I’m becoming like Jared Leto manorexic,” he jokes.
“For me, it’s fun to play Hedwig and start the show with a lot of people kind of quizzically staring at me and thinking it’s for shock value and by the end feeling like they’re united with her,” Harris says. “That’s a really fun journey to get to take.” | <urn:uuid:e301f15f-9e6f-4b88-9601-88946a89bd92> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://www.dailyxtra.com/neil-patrick-harris-reinvents-hedwig-for-broadway-revival-59915 | 2018-06-24T12:32:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267866937.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20180624121927-20180624141927-00504.warc.gz | en | 0.952908 | 249 |
On Friday, the NBC, ABC, and CBS morning shows all happily touted a White-House-produced video
of President Obama and Vice President Biden jogging through the
executive mansion to promote the fourth anniversary of First Lady
Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign. This was the same week that the
networks refused to cover an
Obama administration report showing two-thirds of small business
employees would see a spike in health care premiums under ObamaCare. [Listen to the audio]
Introducing the video on NBC's Today, co-host Tamron Hall explained: "When the First Lady was on with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show, she actually made the pledge that if everyone uploaded videos and pictures of themselves moving around, that perhaps she could have some influence and get the President and the Vice President to show us how they get moving. Well, overnight, developing news, take a look."
a clip played of the presidential jog, Hall gushed: "...this is what
happens when you have a person in the White House that has influence
over the President. The First Lady's promise kept and there you have it.
In their dress shirts, in their dress shoes and their slacks moving."
Moments later, co-host Savannah Guthrie joked: "I love how they're running in suits. Maybe they're made of Lycra?" Fill-in co-host Carson Daly observed: "Biden looked a little winded quickly. Did you see that?" Weatherman Al Roker remarked: "Well, maybe he'll do a little more running in 2016."
ABC's Good Morning America made the White House video their
"Play of the Day" on Friday, with news reader Josh Elliott declaring:
"It's POTUS and VPOTUS working out, like, literally. Take a look. The
President's chance to show us how he moves..." After the clip, Elliott
imagined the First Lady directing the skit: "I want Michelle Obama to be
right off camera saying, 'No, take it again. We're doing it again.'"
Correspondent Sara Haines added: "A drill sergeant."
On CBS This Morning, fill-in co-host Anthony Mason proclaimed: "This morning, First Lady Michelle Obama is getting some high-profile help for her Let's Move health campaign." As the clip played, Mason narrated: "President Obama and Vice President Biden then jog through the halls of the White House, even heading outside. They do appear a bit winded when they re-enter the Oval Office."
Fellow co-host Norah O'Donnell applauded the contrived video: "And look at those two hams, you know? I mean, hamming it up for the cameras." And the media are eager to cheer them on.
The Let's Move promotion was officially released on social media Friday morning, but was previewed on Thursday's Tonight Show by host Jimmy Fallon, who encouraged viewers to "go to www.letsmove.gov" to watch the full video. | <urn:uuid:43427ed5-bd1e-45b9-abb2-f2914d027217> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/networks-promote-white-house-pr-video-obama-and-biden-jogging-lets-move | 2017-01-23T09:26:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00434-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963292 | 629 |
We've covered so many different stories here on the PermaRec Blog that it's easy to forget that Permanent Record is first and foremost about the amazing Manhattan Trade School report cards that I found in a file cabinet more than 16 years ago. With that in mind, here are two announcements:
1) I'll be doing a lecture/slideshow presentation about the report cards next Wednesday, Dec. 5, 7pm, at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in Manhattan. It'll be part of a program of several short presentations (I can't speak for the others, but I know the organizers, and they usually tend to book interesting people). Admission is free. Full details here.
2) In case you missed it earlier this week, the long-delayed 10th installment in the Slate series is now available for your enjoyment. | <urn:uuid:d47ccbee-0fb5-4c12-b51f-44f704c7b7b0> | CC-MAIN-2015-22 | http://permanentrecordproject.blogspot.com/2012_11_01_archive.html | 2015-05-25T05:09:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-22/segments/1432207928414.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20150521113208-00322-ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969743 | 169 |
Each week we scour the internet for the latest and greatest photos of
our favorite TV stars. From the latest photos for upcoming episodes to
the hottest red carpet events to just walking down the street. It's
clear that celebrities are working hard this summer.Check out last week's photos of Glee on the red carpet, True Blood's Alexander Skarsgard and more
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The American Idol
Top 11 contestants hit the stage at Good Morning America
during their American Idols
LIVE! 2011 Tour. Idol
winner Scott McCreery was joined by season favorites Pia Toscano, Lauren Alaina and the rest. This was just a little pit stop for the Season 10 contestants before they touch down in Washington DC to close out the week. Are you planning on attending the concert when they drop into your neck of the woods?
Two and a Half Men star Jon Cryer enjoyed a fun day in the sun with his wife, Lisa, and darling daughter. The sweet family enjoyed a little quality time at the Farmer's Market. You can catch Cryer on screen this fall when Two and a Half Men returns after an interesting year of countless headlines.
Kim Kardashian looks lovely departing from the Vera Wang Boutique after a scheduled dress fitting. Kim was finalizing dress details to make sure everything would be picture perfect for her big day which will happen this weekend. We wish the happy couple well on their upcoming day.
Hilary Duff is all smiles as she is seen leaving a maternity Pilates class. The former Mouse House star is getting ready for the role of a lifetime... mom. Duff recently announced via her official site that she and her husband of one year, Mike Comrie, are expanding their family on the couple's anniversary. We wish the happy couple lots of luck!
Coming up on Rookie Blue,
Division 15 is thrown into a panic when a seemingly drunk man that Gail and Traci brings in collapses from a mysterious illness and everyone is placed under a quarantine.
On the mid-season finale of Pretty Little Liars, all is not what it seems for the Liars as A sends them on a hunt to destroy lives in order to save another.
Coming up on the next episode of The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Amy hopes for a proposal from Ricky who has a surprise of his own; and Adrian is introduced to the brother of one of Daniel's friends, and sparks fly.
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Update June 20: All the videos, images, and other resources we used during the event are free online; you can now download the complete list in PDF form, share it on facebook, or scroll to the bottom of this post to peruse.
What does the Canada 150 campaign celebrate? Whose perspectives are represented? How does it affect the self-image of those of us who see ourselves as Canadians, and how does it affect relationships between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous people of this land? What are your questions about what this means and what we can do, individually or together?
Theatre Auditorium, KC Irving Centre, Acadia University (building 32 on the campus map — then head downstairs)
33 University Ave., Wolfville
(nearby meter and street parking is free after hours)
What Will Happen?
Short films, radio clips, readings, responses, discussion and reflection.
Light refreshments will be served.
Who Is Organizing?
This event is organized by settlers (non-Indigenous peoples) from Annapolis Valley Quaker Meeting and Horizons Community Development Associates, with support from Acadia University’s Community Development Program, in order to help each other unsettle our thinking about the birth of Canada.
Have Questions or Need More Info?
- facebook event Questioning Canada 150
Or Annapolis Valley Monthly Meeting’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee:
All are welcome. RSVPs to help us plan for the right amount of food, and donations to help cover costs, are welcome but not necessary. Any surplus will be used to support future Truth and Reconciliation-related events.
Canada, I Can Cite For You 150 (2:25, Christi Belcourt, 2017)
- Published by Onaman Collective, Feb 3, 2017
Lament for Confederation (6:15, Dan George, 1967)
- “Has Anything Changed? Revisiting Chief Dan George’s Iconic ‘Lament for Confederation’”
- By Janet Rogers, published on CBC.ca, May 5, 2017
What Does Canada 150 Mean for Indigenous Communities? (25:31, CBC, 2017)
- CBC Radio One, The Current, March 16, 2017 interview with Lilian Howard, Christi Belcourt, and Eric Ritskes
Wabanaki People of the Dawn (25:50)
- Part 1 of a 3-part documentary published on the website of NS Office of Aboriginal Affairs
Mi’kmaq History and Map
Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience (Exhibition by K. Monkman)
In Halifax in October, 2018
- Kent Monkman
- A Trickster With a Cause Crashes Canada’s 150th Birthday Party (The Globe and Mail)
- The Alternative Realism of Kent Monkman (The Walrus)
Peace and Friendship Treaties
Alternatives to Canada 150 Logo
Jay Soule’s logos are available on clothing, stickers, etc.
“Colonialism 150” logo products available from Eric Ritskes; proceeds to the Onaman Collective’s Indigenous Tattoo Gathering
- Eric Ritskes: Refusing Canada
- Onaman Gathering From GoFundMe.com, search for “Indigenous Tattoo Gathering”
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- “The first stage of the journey of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada is now complete… But the journey of Truth and Reconciliation is far from over…”
- The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation documents the Calls to Action, by category and with corresponding actions.
Questioning Canada 150: Event Organizing Collective
Questioning Canada 150 was an event held on June 14, 2017 in Wolfville to discuss and reflect on Canada 150 and the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. The event was organized by settlers (non-Indigenous peoples) to help us unsettle our thinking about the birth of Canada.
- Horizons Community Development Associates
- Annapolis Valley Quaker Meeting
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Anyone looked outside lately? Snow . . . snow . . . . and more snow.
It is with lots of SNOW and great regret that CBMBA has decided to CANCEL our May 18 Trail Work Day.
It’s just not feasible to shovel off the trails in order to work on them. But really, the planning and prep that goes into a work day takes weeks, and right now that’s just not possible. BUT WAIT! We have another GREAT option for you to celebrate Colorado Public Lands Day!
Please join CBMBA as we help out with the Town of Crested Butte Town Clean Up. May 18, 9 a.m., Town Hall. Part of stewarding our public spaces is cleaning and maintaining them (especially after a big winter). Check out the Event Info for details. | <urn:uuid:6c458d34-2fc8-4e57-b093-31ee394ee382> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://crestedbuttemountainbike.com/may-18-work-day-is-cancelled/ | 2019-05-21T06:27:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256281.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20190521062300-20190521084300-00464.warc.gz | en | 0.939638 | 171 |
The Minister for Health has announced the Government’s approval for the drafting of the Children’s Health Bill 2017.
This Bill will establish a single statutory entity to take over the services of the existing three Dublin children’s hospitals: Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin; Temple Street Children’s University Hospital; and the National Children’s Hospital at Tallaght Hospital.
It will also run the new children’s hospital which is being built on a campus shared with St James’s Hospital, and the paediatric outpatient and urgent care centres at Connolly and Tallaght Hospitals.
This follows on from the April 26 decision by the Government to approve the construction investment for the children’s hospital and associated outpatient and urgent care centres.
Simon Harris TD welcomed the decision.
"This legislation, which is to create a new legal entity into which the services of the three children’s hospitals will transition, will be another step on the way to providing Ireland with a world class children’s hospital," he said.
The Boards and Executives of the hospitals affected welcomed the Government’s approval for the drafting of the Children’s Health Bill 2017 to provide for the establishment of a new body into which the existing hospitals will transition.
"We are delighted that the legislation to create this new body is being progressed. While bringing three hospitals together is a complex challenge it is an extraordinary opportunity to enhance local paediatric services in Dublin as well as enhancing highly specialist paediatric services nationally. The voluntary merger of the three hospitals is primarily driven by our common objective to deliver a single service with all specialties under one roof in the new children’s hospital as this will deliver better clinical outcomes for the sickest children and young people. In advance of the move to the new facilities we also acknowledge the effort needed to guide and support our staff in the clinical, operational and cultural integration of the three hospitals," Dr Jim Browne, Mr Turlough O’Sullivan, Mr Sean Sheehan and Mr Liam Dowdall jointly said. | <urn:uuid:39f094a9-4c9e-409b-9531-9165f9e99c23> | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/single-body-overseeing-childrens-hospitals-approved-by-government-799726.html | 2018-10-22T04:44:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583514497.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20181022025852-20181022051352-00054.warc.gz | en | 0.948761 | 434 |
You're going to see a rush of technical analysts and market watchers pointing to key levels and sentiment indicators, etc. today. In the options space, the implied volatility of CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) options popped up on Friday, put/call indicators are at extremes, and so on. Really, all your favorites deserve a mention. But all those indicators are lagging - not predictive - primarily because equity market sentiment is just a day-late response to what's going on in bond markets.
Several Fed governors - the plumbers - are making speeches this week, and maybe one of them will be deputized to speak in a way that changes the market assessment of Fed policy. Until Treasury notes settle, though - until this liquidity clog is cleared - there's no reason to get worked up about all the second-order effects and chart patterns and so on.
Cash is usually the ugliest faucet: it doesn't do anything, and loses value over time due to inflation. Right now for traders, it's the best of a set of bad alternatives.
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TOM PLATE WRITES IN HIS SYNDICATED NEWSPAPER COLUMN: Try it, you might like it: a sense of proportion. Avoid the extreme cry of apocalypse now — or, at least, of apocalypse soon. Stretch your intellectual and historical horizons to appreciate Japan as an expanse of more than just a few…Full Article LOS ANGELES: Trying to Keep Japan in Perspective
JEREMIAH FAJARDO WRITES – Amid the battering winds of Typhoon Wipha, the Japanese government has publicized a refreshing piece of legislature, hoping to broaden the media’s freedom of speech. The bill, referred to as the “Secrets Protection Bill,” aims at “protecting national security secrets to ensure freedom of the media…Full Article JAPAN: New Komeito Party Hopes to Safeguard Media Freedom
JEREMIAH FAJARDO WRITES – While much of the nation celebrates its 2020 Summer Olympics bid win, one celebrity has done something surprising: speak out against the government. Norika Fujiwara, a popular model and actress, recently revealed her distaste for a proposed bill on her website. Referred to as the state…Full Article JAPAN: Media Icon Defies Status Quo Amid Olympics Euphoria
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JEREMIAH FAJARDO WRITES – After two decades and a plethora of Prime Ministers, has political stability finally come to Japan with its united Diet? With the July 21 Upper House elections, Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) seized the second, upper half of the Diet in an acclaimed landslide victory.…Full Article JAPAN: Abe But No Lincoln | <urn:uuid:6c556086-badc-468b-837b-435ebcd61fde> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://asiamedia.lmu.edu/tag/japanese-politics/ | 2022-05-28T20:29:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652663019783.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220528185151-20220528215151-00190.warc.gz | en | 0.888046 | 457 |
Gritty blues rock artist TRUETT provided opening support for blog favorite Rockicana artist Ron Pope and his band The Nighthawks at the Mercy Lounge recently; TRUETT began with a song called “Left In The Dark”, and wasted no time showing us what he could do.
His guitar-shredding prowess coupled with his band’s consistently funky low-end support and driving rhythm section was captivating. The crowd got involved when he surprisingly covered Elle King’s hit song, “Ex’s & Oh’s”; TRUETT cranked up the fuzz on my personal favorite, “Be Mine”, his debut single premiered right here at East of 8th (okay, I might be biased, but it’s a fantastic song nonetheless). By this point, it was hot as could be in the room, which made the swampy “Be Mine” a fitting way to end his set. If you have the chance to catch TRUETT live (and you might because he’s still on tour with Mr. Pope–click here for dates), do it, y’all. | <urn:uuid:f644bc2e-98ba-4921-b9ac-5c04f10f5171> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | https://eastof8th.com/2016/02/29/live-show-review-truett-at-mercy-lounge/ | 2018-03-19T04:50:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257646375.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20180319042634-20180319062634-00554.warc.gz | en | 0.963007 | 249 |
This release introduces yet another way to find your friends ! On the start server dialog you can optionally register your server (for the lifetime of the server) with rptools.net. Just pick a name and optional password, then have your friends select the rptools.net tab on the Connect to Server dialog.
There is a new button on the Start Server dialog TestConnection. Click this button and it will attempt to connect to your server on the specified port. If all your port and firewall settings are set up correctly you will get a success message. Otherwise you will get a failure message. This is a good way to test your configuration.
Jay has checked in some template code tweaks. The line tool should work correctly now as well as some other tweaks.
As always, this is an ALPHA build with brand new functionality. Give it a try, and let us know how you like it and if you have any problems :)
Oh yeah, and I fixed the duplicate player name login issue. No more duplicate player names :) (although the handling of it needs to be polished up some)
I noticed that the registry killed the seperate player and GM passwords, or else added a new one before you even got to type the original passwords. Could this be made better?
I'm not quite sure I'm following. The registry adds a password that lets you access the server information, you then still need to have the appropriate gm or player password when connecting to the server. Would more instructions, layout, or wordage improve the intuitiveness of the dialog ?
oh in that case it's fine. I just wonedered if it replaced the pass, then it would be bad b/c anyone could be a gm and see the adventure plans, this way is fine. | <urn:uuid:c2bc6703-d99c-431d-acbd-36b7dcea29bf> | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | http://sourceforge.net/p/rptools/discussion/448678/thread/ac121028/ | 2016-02-07T10:48:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701148834.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193908-00253-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.892227 | 365 |
A taste here, a bite there, a sip to smooth the way—the Thanksgiving journey from kitchen to table adds up. For fun, we did the math. By: Phillip Rhodes
Photo: Randy Mayor
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This site specific work subtly places the animal within an urban setting. Utilising an alteration in scale, the skin of the snake becomes an object of beauty. Through camouflage the snake becomes part of the human built environment.
The transformation of aesthetic patterns found in the natural world alludes to a bird, a fish, a set of wings – the animal. The symbol reflects on the ancient and contemporary relationship between man and animal. It is a space to contemplate the idea of ‘becoming’, where anthropocentrism yields to sentient beings.
My research into fruit bats was presented as a public exhibition within seven large vitrines built in to the new Dandenong Municple Building. The installations consisted of painting, sculpture and photography for the inaugural Light-box Commission.
A Tale of Romance
This playful work turns the mimicry of the bird’s mateship dance over to the human visitor. In a world of extreme body imaging it is good to reflect upon the male of the bird kingdom who hold the aesthetic responsibilities… and the extremes they take it to.
The evolution of sexual selection can produce qualities that reduce the ability to escape from predators where aesthetic features make a creature more conspicuous and slower. According to the theory of sexual selection, ornamental features can develop to the point at which the disadvantages of being caught by a predator outweigh the advantages of being selected by a partner. The peacock is a prime example of evolutionary choices of beauty over fear, the tail restricts the ability to fly but is a winner with the ladies. A clear case of form over function. An evolutionary example of love at all costs. A romantic tail/tale.
Animals are part of the fabric that makes up the world that we live in. Often it is only the smallest, useful or most adaptable animals that can remain within the urban environment. Spiders are able to inhabit the spaces that are inaccessible and often invisible to us, revealing themselves in the artistry of their webs. Giovanni Aloi asks us, if the uniqueness of art is a human prerogative? The spider may not be inspired by aesthetics or narrative ideas, but creativity is definitly present which is the universal originator of art. Is it only humans that can creatively interpret their environment or is that an anthropocentric view that needs challenging? Finding new perspectives from which to understand life may radically change who we are, where we are going and who we are going there with, for global warming, environmental decay and mass extinction are all clear indices of the wrongness of our approaches.
Searching for Evidence of the Evolution of Beauty
This work is an exploration of the momentous change of philosophical outlook that came with Darwin’s, Theory of Evolution.
A fascination for the evocative properties of natural and salvaged art materials was an integral part of the realisation of this work. Each piece of reclaimed wood is unique in its origin, colour and texture, they have all combined to create a surface that casts back a reflection of the history and potential in the detritus of urban life. Characterised by the passage of time, and the effects of natural elements, this material provided its own unique beauty and challenges. The organic form reflects a fascination for the patterning of plant design and animal skin. This work engages the viewer by inviting exploration into its intimate interior.
The Reading Pod
The Reading Pod is an intimate space to explore and celebrate reading, writing and expression. Visitors to the pod are invited to explore, respond and contribute to it with their own dreamings and reflections. A communication exchange happened within this environment, an exchange of thoughts and ideas between the visitors that grow the artwork. This interactive sculpture plays with the aesthetic appeal of words and images from recycled books. Reading and writing are essentially solo ventures that are shared through this quiet reflective communication vessel. | <urn:uuid:84057518-0309-4193-8f13-bb34c01003f1> | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | http://kathyholowko.com.au/installation/ | 2018-02-25T15:09:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891816647.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20180225150214-20180225170214-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.934198 | 780 |
Max Neuhaus / John Cage - Fontana Mix - Feed
Label: Alga Marghen
Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissue
Record is VG++
Cover is VG++
Released - 2002
Genre: Classical, Electronic
Style: Noise, Contemporary, Experimental
A1 Chicago April 13, 1965
A2 New York June 4, 1965
B1 Madrid Nov.27, 1965
B2 New York Dec.1, 1966
Re-release of Mass Art LP M-133.
The wonderful Italian label Alga Marghen continues their reissues of historic electro-acoustic music with this release of Max Neuhaus’ multiple realizations of John Cage’s Fontana Mix.
Max Neuhaus began his music career as a virtuoso percussionist and performer of ‘new music.' He later became one of the guiding lights of the art form he termed ‘sound installation,' or the embedding of sound in a fixed space. This recording finds Neuhaus in the transition period from percussionist to composer/installation designer. He’s still using drums, but with extremely unconventional technique, and incorporating the sound of the room into the piece, foreshadowing his future work.
Cage’s score for Fontana Mix essentially consists of instructions for making your own piece, using transparencies and graph paper to plot the path of your ‘collaborative’ work. Neuhaus’ composition, subtitled Feed, attaches contact microphones to the heads of percussion instruments, which pick up the sound of the room. This signal is then amplified and pushed through speakers that face the percussion instruments, causing both the instruments and microphones to vibrate and move. The resulting feedback loop (at that time a relatively new discovery) became the musical content of the work, and was different every time it was performed, dependent upon the instrument amplified, the number of people in the space, and the shape and size of the room itself – all despite the fact that Neuhaus’ score was the same every time.
So how does it sound? Well, people not accustomed to finding the beauty in feedback would say, “godawful noise”. Although on the surface the pieces seem like (relatively) unchanging drones, each has a very distinctive character. Close and extended listening reveals all kinds of micro-structures, interference patterns and rhythmic vitality that are created by the chance combination of the above elements. As a reviewer for the New York Times said after one of the performances enclosed, “This piece [is] not the kind of electronic music that emanates distantly from speakers. It [feels] as though one’s own head were part of the feedback circuit”. Play this as loud as you can without cracking your head open.
By Andrew Raffo Dewar
John Cage/Max Neuhaus - Fontana Mix: Feed (1958/1964), realization 2010
Good to know that this work is alive and well. Neuhaus was so far ahead of everyone back in the 1960s!
John Cage/Max Neuhaus - Fontana Mix: Feed (1958/1964), realization 2012
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