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Logic Branching in Google Forms – Get the info you really want in the most efficient way!
Google Forms are an exceptional tool for collecting information and having it automatically organised and stored in a Google Sheet. Many people I work with are unaware that they can use 'Logic Branching' to direct responders depending on how they answer a question. Logic Branching allows you, as the creator of the Form, to choose different pathways for your responders depending on their answer. This is a great tool for collecting information from parents, scaffolding student learning, providing student agency and creating digital outcomes like Pick-a-Path or Choose your own Adventure type stories.
Check out this video to see how you can use 'Logic Branching' in Google Forms.
Look out for my next blog which will show you how to use the 'Feedback' feature in Forms to scaffold and support learning for your students.
Google Forms gives you the option to randomise questions and answers. This is very useful if you are concerned that the order in which questions or answers are presented in might skew the results or create bias. It's also useful in classroom situations if you have students who may take a peek at other students' screens and choose the same answer! In this post, we'll show you how to use these features and share a couple of tips.
If you enable this setting, the questions in your form will be presented in a random order. Before you go ahead and turn it on, there are a couple of things you need to be aware of. First, if your form begins with questions like 'Name' or 'Class', these could end up being moved to anywhere in the form! Second, if you've ordered questions by theme or topic, this too will be disrupted.
However, before you get discouraged, there is an easy solution to both of these issues, which is to use sections in your form. If you arrange your form in sections, questions are only randomised within the same section. So, you could have one section that only contains 'Name' and 'Class', and then other sections for each topic or theme.
2. Click the Add section button to add all the required sections to the form.
3. Add your questions to the relevant sections in the form.
4. Click the Settings (cog) button at the top of the form.
5. Click the Presentation tab, then tick Shuffle question order.
The random answer option works with multiple choice, checkbox, multiple-choice grid and tick box grid style questions. It is a per-question setting, so you need to enable it for each question you want to randomise.
1. Create your form and add your questions.
2. Click the three dots in the bottom right corner of the question you want to randomise answers for.
3. Tick Shuffle option order.
Want to use these options with a self-grading quiz? Check out the video below to learn how to create quizzes in Google Forms. We've also got heaps more tips and support on our professional learning community.
There are numerous ways to work with images in Google Forms. In this blog post, we'll explore the four different ways you can use images in your form, so you can choose the best one for your situation.
The first place you can insert an image is into the header of the form. This is the very top section that is purple by default. The best type of image to insert in the form header is a logo or promotional image related to your school or organisation. Google Forms will then use this image to customise the colour scheme of your form. It's a great way to make your form look professional and on-brand.
1. Click the colour palette button at the top of the form, then choose the image button.
2. Choose the Upload photos option.
3. Browse for the image you want to use and click Select. Crop the image if required.
Note: The image must be at least 800 pixels wide and 200 pixels tall. If you want to use a smaller image (e.g. your company logo) you could create an image of this size in Google Drawings, copy in your logo to one section and then export the image it as a PNG or JPG file.
If your form includes a question that is about an image, you can insert that image as part of the question. For example, you may want people to provide feedback on a proposed design.
To insert an image into a question.
2. Hover over the question text until you see the image button appear. Click the button.
3. Browse for the image you want to insert. You can upload one from your computer, select it from Google Drive or search for it online. When you find your image, click it and then click Select.
Images can also be inserted as answer options for multiple choice or checkbox style questions. This is useful if you want respondents to choose the design they like best, or when using forms with children (e.g. ffor a self-grading quiz)) or people with low literacy.
1. Add a multiple choice or checkbox style question.
2. Hover over the answer option until you see the image button appear. Click the button.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for each of the answer options.
You can also add images to other places in your form, such as the top or bottom of different sections, or in between questions. To do this, click the Image button on the floating insert menu.
With these four methods, you can use images for a variety of purposes in your Google Forms.
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Visually impressive, multimedia assignments and projects are a part of everyday school life for us as teachers and our students. There are endless resources available for finding images that support and enhance the lessons we plan,as well as the learning our students share.
Part of the teacher's role is to ensure that students have an understanding of how to source and use images legally, just as we teach them how to reference and quote other people's words with citations and bibliographies.
This blog post offers five ways to help make sure that your students, (and yourself) are doing just this.
Docs, Slides, Forms and Sites all automatically restrict image searches to those images that are labelled for reuse with modification. Students do not even need to leave the comfort and safety of these apps and face the rabbit hole that is Google Image Search to find what they need. Fast, simple and legal!
Not only can you filter your image search results by size, colour, type and time, but you can also filter it by the license that it has.
To do this just type your keyword into the search bar, select 'Images', then 'Tools', 'Usage rights' then the type of reuse you need it for.
Not filtered by license – will show you all images related to your search criteria.
Labeled for reuse with modification – anyone can use and modify this image.
Labeled for reuse – anyone can use this image, but can't modify it.
Labeled for noncommercial reuse with modification – In very basic terms, this means that you can only use and modify the image if it's NOT related to business or making profit.
Labeled for noncommercial reuse – As above, but can't be modified.
If you're not sure – get in touch with the rights holder for clarification.
Not only is this great for finding images that can be used legally but also for other types of media including music, clipart and video. You can search through all with your keywords or select which places to search. CC Search can be added to your browser to make it even easier.
Check out this blog post 'Five sites to find free high quality images', by Samantha Vardanega here.
With cameras on nearly all devices these days, encourage your students to get out and make their own images. They can then use apps like Snapseed to enhance and tune up their images.
Why not draw the image? Or connect with other students who have skills in this area and get them help you out. Use great tools like Microsoft's 'Office Lens' app to turn drawings into quality digital images.
Use tools like Canva to create beautiful graphics. It even has built in tutorials that will teach you and your students basic colour and design theory.
It's always really important to pay tribute to the artists whose work you have valued enough to use. Some images may be licensed for you to use WITH ATTRIBUTION. This means you need to acknowledge the rights holder of the image. You can find out more information about that and deeper explanations of different types of licenses on the Creative Commons site.
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When we asked the teachers we work with what their biggest challenge was in implementing technologies into their classrooms, the overwhelming response was lack of time. This led us to develop the Get efficient with G Suite for Education 30 day challenge to help them learn how to save time with the tools they already have. In this blog post, we bring you five of the efficiency tips that feature in the challenge.
Email management is a major source of inefficiency and frustration for many. The auto-advance lab in Gmail helps you process the emails in your inbox quicker and with less decision making. After you delete, archive or file an email, the auto-advance lab automatically takes you straight to the next email in your inbox – rather than back to the inbox itself. This is more efficient because you are not wasting time going back and forth between the inbox and emails. Further, you are not spending time deciding which email you should read and process next. Because of this, we find people are more likely to delete, archive, file or action emails they typically avoid!
1. Select the Settings cog > Settings > Labs.
2. Find and enable Auto-advance, then click Save changes.
1. Select the Settings cog > Settings.
2. Scroll down until you find the Auto-advance section.
3. Choose if you want to automatically go to the new newest or oldest conversation and then click Save changes.
A word of warning, this feature does take a short time to get used to! I encourage you to stick with it for a few days while you adapt and then you'll notice the time-saving benefits.
Another source of inefficiency in the school day is interruptions from students or colleagues who need your help. This usually occurs just as you've gotten into a rhythm on a task! Google Calendar's appointment slots can help you manage these interruptions by giving your students and colleagues a way to pre-book time with you. You can specify the times they can choose from, ensuring that it ends up convenient all round. Learn more about this feature and how to set it up in our blog post on scheduling time with your students using Google Calendar appointment slots.
If you are struggling to organise or find files in Google Drive, you're not alone! This is a time-waster we hear about very often. One technique that helps combat this is using stars to 'bookmark' files and folders you use regularly. When you add a star to a file or folder, it is displayed in the 'Starred' view (see the screenshot below). By accessing this view you can quickly find the file or folder you need. This is a great time saver for accessing files or folders that are buried deep in a folder structure. Instead of spending time clicking through several layers of folders, all you need is one click into the Starred view.
1. Click the file once to select it.
2. Press the 's' key on your keyboard.
Note: There are other ways to add a star, but this is the quickest!
Google Forms are great time savers in their own right. But there is one feature that can help combine multiple forms into one. This means your data is all in the same place, making it easier to manage and compare. For example, imagine you are collecting sport team preferences for three year levels. Instead of distributing and managing three separate forms, you can use one form that differentiates the options based on what year level the student is in.
The feature that does this is the 'Go to section based on answer' option that you can enable for any multiple choice question in a Google Form. You simply put each set of differentiated questions in a separate section, then tell the form to move to that section if a student selects the answer that corresponds with it. Learn more about this feature and how to set it up in our blog post on tips for advanced Google Forms users.
If you're a G Suite user, the chances are that every time you open Google Chrome you end up navigating to Gmail, Google Drive and maybe Google Calendar. Wouldn't it be quicker if these and other sites you use every day just opened up automatically for you? You can achieve this using the 'pin tab' feature in Chrome. Tabs that you 'pin' load automatically when Chrome is opened. The other benefit is that they are displayed as 'mini' tabs without close buttons, meaning you cannot accidentally close them.
1. Open the website you want to pin.
2. Right-click the tab and choose Pin tab.
Google Forms make data collection quick and easy. If you want to do even more with your forms, the growing range of add-ons are a great way to add extra features and functionality. In this post I'll share the five add-ons I always tell our education and business clients about.
This add-on allows you to automatically email Google Form responses to specific people (including the submitter). You can create a custom email message that includes key information from the form response in the subject and the body. This is great for automating administrative processes, confirming bookings and notifying people of form submissions. Learn more here.
If you've ever wanted to automatically close off a Google Form, this add-on is for you! It lets you set criteria for when the form should be closed, including a date/time or number of responses. This is very useful for ensuring deadlines are met or booking limits are not exceeded. Learn more here or check out our blog post on automatically closing a Google Form at a specific date and time.
This add-on automatically removes question options when the designated number of people have selected them. It is perfect for allocating people into teams or time slots, as it prevents over-subscriptions and double bookings. Learn more here.
docAppender appends Google Forms responses to the end of selected Google Docs. The destination Google Doc is selected as part of the Google Form submission. For example, the respondent could choose the name of a person or department to have the submission added to their document. This add-on is great for logging and tracking information. Learn more here.
There are quite a few add-ons that can automatically turn Google Form submissions into Google Docs and PDFs. This add-on does that too, but can also turn submissions into Google Slides. This is very useful for creating certificates or any other highly-visual materials that are better done in Slides than Docs. Learn more here.
3pm Friday!) and then forgotten to close it at the deadline? Worse, have you had students or colleagues submit after the deadline and then had to have an awkward conversation (Sorry, my mistake!) or accept their late responses? If so, you'll love the formLimiter add-on for Google Forms!
The formLimiter add-on automatically closes Google Form submissions at a date and time you specify. It can also close the form after a certain number of responses have been reached.
Note: These instructions are for the new Google Forms. If you're using the old interface, just look for the Add-ons menu to complete steps 2-5.
1. Open or create the Google Form you want to automatically close.
2. Click the three dots menu botton (top right) and then Get add-ons.
3. Locate formLimiter in the add-ons library. Hover over it and click the +Free button to install.
4. Grant permissions to the add-on when prompted.
5. Click the Add-ons (puzzle piece) icon > formLimiter, and then choose Set limit.
6. Click the Limit drop-down box and select date and time.
7. Enter the date and time to close submissions in the appropriate fields.
Note: This will be in the same timezone as your Google account.
8. Customise the submissions closed message if required. For example, you may ask students respondents to get in touch with you directly if they need an extension to the submission date.
9. Tick Email form owner when submissions are closed if you want to be notified when the form closes (scroll down to find this option). I find this a useful reminder!
10. Click Save and enable.
That's it! Your form will now automatically close – one less thing to try and remember!
This short video demonstrates how to use Google Forms, Google Docs, Google Sheets and the autoCrat add-on to make managing the peer feedback process quick and easy.
Hello, Samantha here from Using Technology Better. Welcome to this video on using Google Forms, Sheets and Docs for peer feedback.
Peer feedback is a great classroom strategy for encouraging student involvement in, and responsibility for, learning. It can also help students deepen their understanding of the subject matter and it's a good way for them to practice giving constructive feedback to others, which is, of course, a key collaboration skill. Using a peer feedback process also means that each student gets an audience for their work that actually goes beyond the teacher.
Managing their peer feedback process can be a little bit difficult, particularly with a large number of students. However, if you use Google Forms to collect the feedback, you can then use Google Sheets and the autoCrat add on to automate the distribution of the feedback to each student. This is an easy way to speed up the process and it ensures each student gets their feedback in a clear and well structured format. So let's take a look at how to set it up.
So the first thing is that you need to have a Google Form. So here's one I've set up. There's no right and wrong way to do this. This is just one way I've done it and you possibly already have your own preferred peer feedback questions. In this case, there are a couple of things you want to make sure that you've got in there. The first thing is the name of the student giving the feedback. So we'll call this the reviewer and I've got that in the 'What is your name?' question. Then I need to select who they're actually giving feedback on. So you may have this as a free text field if you've got a lot of students. I only had a small amount so I actually did it as a drop down box style question just so I could make sure that they selected correctly. Particularly, if you've got younger students this might be a good strategy as well.
The next important one is the email address of the student that the work was from, so the student that's being reviewed. Now, again, if you've got young students who don't have emails then that's a little bit difficult and you can leave this bit out and the teacher can then provide the document to the student themselves. In this case we're going to imagine that they do have email addresses and the students are able to pop that in and the feedback's going to be emailed to them automatically.
So what I have done here is just made a note to the person filling in the form to copy and paste an email address from a list<|fim_middle|> pop in the merge field that had the email address, which was, 'What is your email address?' So, again, if has to exactly match the column heading up here. So if I wanted to I could CC to someone or something like that. You don't need to CC it to yourself because it will appear in your sent mail and I'll show you that shortly. So then we pop in the subject, so we might just say, 'Your peer feedback' and what we can even do here is say, from, and then we could pop the name of the student that did the review. So, again, we can pop it in that merge field here and then we can type in the message. So I prepared one earlier, which I'm just going to paste in for you. So you'll see here, it's 'hi' and the name of the person that was getting the feedback. Here is your peer feedback from whomever the person is that did the review, review it, etc. and then that document will be attached at the bottom.
So now that we've set that up we can click next. Now this is the one I really want to show you. So job triggers, okay so what we could do, if we wanted to, we could just get all the feedback and then we could look through, check this and then we could run the merge manually and it would produce all the documents and send the emails at the same time. Or, as I mentioned earlier, we can do it so that when the reviewer submits the form it creates the document automatically and emails the student straightaway. So you'll obviously know what situation is better for yourself. If you want to do it manually you would leave this as no. I'm going to show you how to run on the form trigger so we can just see how that works but then also I'll just point out where you would run it manually if you want to.
So I'm going to say yes to run on form trigger. It prompts you to enable it. We can just click yes. Okay, so once that's processed now we are done and we can click, save. So once it's saved we'll get another screen that's going to pop up. So you can see here it's listed as an existing job and there's the name of it. If I hover over it, okay a couple of things, I can delete it, I can come here and preview what it's going to look like, I can edit it if I want to make changes, and I can run it. Now in this case because I've set it up to run when the form is submitted I don't have to run it. It will run automatically. As I said before, if you want to let everyone submit the feedback and then run it manually that's when you would wait until you've got all the responses, come in here and click the run button or like the play button and it would run the process.
Okay so we're done here. I'm going to close it and I'm now going to just leave this as it is, jump back to my form, pop it into preview mode and I'm going to fill it out. So what is your name? So I'll write Sam and I'm going to give feedback on Brainy Smurf and I've got their email address here and I've also pre-prepared some responses to the question. So once they're in we'll submit the form and then we'll see what happens. Okay, so that's done, click, submit, see there, thanks for giving feedback. So if I jump back to the spreadsheet you'll see the response is in there. Now in just a very short period of time we're going to notice at the end here that it's going to pop up some extra columns, which is going to be autoCrat running the merge and telling us that it's done. So you can see straightaway here the extra column headings are half popped up and it's now running in the background because we had it to run automatically. So first of all you'll see here, document successfully merged, email sent to that address. If I actually want to I can click this link and it will take me straight to the document that was created, but seeing as I put it in a folder I'm going to show you where it is. So if I go now to the 'Peer feedback demonstration' folder and I've got my peer feedback merged docs and you'll see 'Peer feedback -Brainy Smurf. So if I open that up we'll see now 'Brainy Smurf, here's your feedback from Sam' and all the information that I wrote in that form.
Now I always like to do a test of this just to check the spacing and such and straightaway I've gone right. I've got too much spacing between these questions so I could go back and fix that on my template and once I've made a change on my template any future merges will use the new template.
So the last thing jus to show you before we wrap up is back in Gmail. In my sent mail I wanted to show you how that looks and you can see there, if I refresh, we've got 'Brainy your peer feedback from Sam'. So this is sent to the student, you can see up there sent to the address that I popped in, and there is the email that they will see with the attached document, so nice and easy.
So I hope you find that useful. Thanks so much for watching and hopefully you can use autoCrat, Google Docs, Google Forms and go ahead and implement some peer feedback in your classroom. So thanks again for watching, bye. | . For instance, I would pop in here a URL to a shared Google Doc or Sheet and the student could just find the person that they're reviewing and copy and paste the email address and that just avoids having any problems with mistakes and stuff. The other thing I do is in here I set this to short answer and I come down to the little three dot button in the bottom right corner and pop on data evaluation. That then lets me select my type of validation. Select text and you can then select email address. This at least makes sure that a valid email address is entered into this question. And then the last three ones, I've just gone with the best things, a couple of suggestions, and any corrections. So you could pop whatever questions you want in there.
So once the form is set up, we then need to have a template for where we want this feedback to go into and this is in the form of a Google Doc and this is what the student will see at the end. So the student that's being reviewed will get this. So at the top here I have a Google Doc and you can see here I've set it up, very simple, heading and the three questions. Now you're probably wondering what these odd looking words with the little symbols are here. So these are what we call merged tags and they're represented with a double ended arrow. So this is how autoCrat knows where to put information in this template. So what it's basically going to do is take the responses to this form, insert them in this template, and create that template for every single student. So you will see here names and that would be the name of the student that's being reviewed. That would correspond to this question here 'Whose work are you giving feedback on?'. Now in this particular template you actually don't have to match the merged fields here to the questions in here. You just have to make them similar enough so you can identify and match later on, but I usually keep them short and sharp just so that it's easy and you can see that I've got name, reviewer, best improvements, corrections, so that will then add the right question from the Google Form into each section of my document.
So once we've got that template and we've got the form the next step is to open up the spread sheet that's attached to the form and run auto correct. So we jump onto the responses tab and then we click on the little spreadsheet icon on the right here. It's going to prompt us to create a new spreadsheet and we'll click create. So now that the spreadsheet's open, you'll see that it's got no data in it at the moment. So we're going to set it up so that autoCrat runs whenever a form is submitted. So that will mean that as soon as a student gives peer feedback on another student, the student being reviewed will get that email straight away with their feedback. So no delays, there's no need for you to go and have to manually do something, so that's probably a really quick and easy way to do it.
So now we need to install the autoCrat add on. So we'll come up to add-ons. Now I've got it installed already but if you don't you can come down to get add-ons and you can search for the one called autoCrat and you can see what that looks like here. So if you haven't installed it, it will prompt you just to allow it to run and stuff like that. So follow the prompts, accept everything, and when it's ready and it's installed you can come back to this menu. So we'll select autoCrat and we'll click launch. So it does often take just a moment to load so just be patient there and it will load on up. Okay, so you can see there I've got no jobs set up. They call it a merge job because basically it's merging data from the Google Form with the information in the Google Doc template to produce something.
Now it wants you to give it a name, so I'm going to call mine 'Peer feedback merge', you can call it whatever you like just make sure it's something that you can remember for later on if you've got to identify it. It's easily identified. So we'll click next. The next thing is it wants us to choose the template. So you can see here I've recently used some other templates that are not the ones that I want to use so we'll actually come in and say, 'Choose a template from Drive' and this template is the one we created earlier, which is sitting at the top, which is where we want our questions to go. So you can see here 'Peer feedback template', so I'm going to click that and click select. Okay, so here again we'll just take a moment to load and it will op on in. There you go, 'Peer feedback template'. So click next.
Now at this point you need to map the data to the template. So you need to map these column headings to these merge fields that we put in the template and you can see here sometimes it takes a bit of a guess if they're really similar. Now mine are quite different, so first of all 'name'. So that is the name of the student that is actually being reviewed. So that's whose work you are giving feedback on. Okay, 'reviewer', that was the column that says, 'What is your name?'. So you just got to go through and match these up and you can see here, 'What are the best things about their work?', 'Improvements', 'Suggestions for improvements', and 'Corrections' with the spelling and grammar errors. So that's fine there all mapped up so we just click next.
At this point you want to actually pop in what you want each of the documents it produces to be called. So, for instance, we've currently got the document called 'Peer feedback template'. We obviously want that for the students, so we might just call it something like, 'Peer feedback' and we actually can use those little merge tags in here as well. So I could put 'peer feedback' dash (-) and then I can copy and paste, 'Whose work are you giving feedback on?', which will be the name of the student that the feedback is for. Now this is really important. These ones here have to exactly match these ones in the spreadsheet. So even down to the question mark and stuff like that, and you do need those little double ended arrows on either side. Okay, so just to make sure, you might want to copy and paste them. So what I did earlier is I copied and pasted them into a Google Doc so then I could just quickly copy and paste them over and know that I had no errors. You can set it as a Google Doc if you want to with the output or you can select it as a PDF. So whatever is most appropriate for your situation you can pick.
Now you also can create multiple documents. So this is one document and that's what we're going to do in this situation because we want each student only to get their own document. For instance, if you were doing this just for the purpose of you and you perhaps didn't want to distribute it to the students you could pop them in a single document and then you would just have them all in the one place. So whatever works for your situation you can choose from here.
So clicking next again, we have to choose a folder where all of these documents are going to be stored once they're created. So the choose folder button, I prepared one earlier, is going to be a folder in Google Drive. So I created one called 'Peer feedback merged docs' and click select. So just make sure you've created a document, a folder, before you actually go through this process.
So next again, dynamic folder reference, this allows you if you want to, to actually store each document in a different folder based on the criteria. Okay so maybe a different folder for each student or something like that. In this case I'm not going to do that so I'm going to skip it.
Now a merged condition. Again, this lets you do a specific action based on a condition. So it might be that you only want to create the documents or merge the fields for forms that were submitted after a certain date or if a particular student or a particular class, so you can do that if you want to. Again, I don't need to do it here so I'm going to click, next.
Okay, so then we get to what do we want to do with these documents once they've been created? So we want to share, yes. And we can choose because we've chosen a Google Doc, we can choose to share it as an editable doc, view only, comment, etc. and we can even change it to PDF again here. So I'm just going to go to a view only doc. Now allow collaborators to reshare. So this is if you were sharing as an editable doc this would be relevant because if someone has edit access to a Google Doc they are allowed to reshare it. In this case it's actually not relevant so I can put it on but I'm going to leave it as yes because it's not relevant.
So the next option is sending from a generic no reply address. So if for some reason you don't want to have your email address as the sender on the emails you can do this. So perhaps if you were using a personal email account because you didn't have a school-based account that would be okay. In this case I don't need to, so I'm going to leave it as no and it's just going to come from my email address.
So then we come down to what we actually want to pop in the email that's going to be sent to the student that's being reviewed. So first of all we need to pop in their email address. So obviously the email address is going to be different for each student, but that's why we asked the email address in the form. So I am going to | 2,075 |
Blue Point Restaurant
By Tim Weisberg
On a recent Wednesday, I had a rare day off and a chance to spend some quality time with my wife and son. After a trip to Buttonwood Park and a visit with all the animals, I was as hungry as a horse � or a bear � or an elephant.
So while riding around, looking for someplace new and unique, we took a pass through Acushnet and found the Blue Point Restaurant just off North Main Street, set back a bit and down a hill. It had a warm and inviting atmosphere<|fim_middle|> basically costs mere pennies to put together a full glass.
That aside, our visit to the Blue Point was a fine capper to a well-spent family day, and should be a destination for anyone with a taste for good food, good service, or good history. | about it, so we decided to give it a try.
The Blue Point is actually a 1939 diner, which appears to be in the style of those created by the Worcester Lunch Car Company, an outfit that raised diner-making to an art form. This one has been refurbished to be a dining room as opposed to a lunch counter, but it still features design trademarks such as the wooden interior and the blue stained-glass windows.
When we arrived, the dining room was just about full with older patrons supping during the "early-bird" hour. It was also the perfect time to bring young Adam, who one server referred to as "the best-behaved baby ever in the Blue Point," which as a proud father I don't mind repeating in print.
We sat in front of the small bar, which featured just a few stools and no patrons, and is set back in a corner away from the diners. It also gave us glimpses into the kitchen, which although busy, appeared near-spotless.
Our server, Lisa, brought a basket of warm rolls and cornbread -- more than enough for two while we looked over the menu. There were also plenty of butter pats, and my preferred Promise spread.
Next came my small crock of clam chowder, which was complimentary with my entr�e (the other options were salad or the soup du jour). It was nice to see it arrive in a crock instead of the standard teacup, for this was a chowder that was above average. This homemade concoction featured plenty of large, coarsely chopped clams, potatoes, onions, and bacon (which is not seen enough in chowders these days) in a hearty, flavorful broth. It was so good, I didn't want to sully it with the addition of oyster crackers, although four little bags were delivered with it.
Not too soon after I finished my chowder, our appetizers arrived. Jennifer began with an order of crab cakes ($4.95), two large deep-fried patties with a mild but interesting kick. While she enjoyed them, we both agreed that they would be better accompanied by a drizzle of a sauce such as Newburg rather than the souffl� cup of tartar sauce that rode sidesaddle. Still, they were far from disappointing.
I opted for a small order of Buffalo chicken fingers ($5.95), which still featured more than a half-dozen hand-breaded chunks of choice, tender chicken. They are available both spicy and, for a different take, sweet. I chose the latter, and was more than pleased. There still was a slight degree of spiciness as well, easily quenched by the small pile of carrot and celery sticks, and the dish of very potent blue cheese dressing.
The list of starters at the Blue Point is relatively small, but I think that just allows them to focus more on the quality rather than the quantity. Other options include homemade, hand-breaded onion rings ($3.95/$4.95), stuffed quahog ($2.95), chicken Wing Dings ($4.50), and mozzarella sticks ($4.50). It's important to note that these appetizers are good-sized for a beginning, and perfectly priced.
Some time passed before our entrees arrived, but not to the point where we started wondering if they'd ever come.
I had originally tried to order the New England clamboil ($14.95), which would have featured a quart of sandless Maine steamers, sausage, a hot dog, linguica, onion, and potato, but Lisa informed me that there were no steamers available. Apparently, there's something called "red tide" which, being a landlubber, I'm not familiar with. Hey, I'm a sportswriter�the closest connection I can make is the Crimson Tide of the University of Alabama.
Anyway, I changed my choice to the surf and turf, which features seven ounces of charbroiled sirloin tips along with your choice of either four stuffed shrimp ($14.95) or four ounces of lobster casserole ($16.95). You can also substitute a sirloin steak ($3) or prime rib ($5) for the tips. I went with the tips/lobster combo.
The seven one-ounce tips were tasty and cooked perfectly to the requested medium-rare, and they came next to a light and fluffy serving of my starch of choice, rice, along with a dish of the evening's vegetable, a steamed medley of broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots. The main attraction, however, was the lobster casserole, which featured plenty of large hunks of clawmeat baked with a light butter-and-crumb covering.
Jennifer chose the "half and half" seafood option ($12.95), allowing her to choose two from a list of fried scallops, clams, fish, and shrimp. Her fish-and-scallop combo was average in size, but as she pointed out, perfectly deep-fried to a golden brown without taking away the flavor and the juices of the sea gems. The fish is also available either breaded or English style, and Jennifer went with the way they eat it "across the pond." It also came with fries and a small cup of vinegary cole slaw.
Future trips to the Blue Point (of which I'm sure there will be many) will eventually lead to me sampling such delights as fettucine with lobster alfredo ($15.95), chicken parmigiana ($10.95), that elusive clamboil, and the southern fried steak ($9.50/$10.95).
Since the Blue Point is owned by David and Lisa Riccardi of the famed Riccardi family, they also offer a whole slew of pizza options as well, which are available for takeout.
We were thoroughly satisfied with pacing and portions of our meal, and saw no need to ask about dessert, which Lisa didn't offer. Our bill came to $49.40 without gratuity, but $6.25 of it was our five sodas, at $1.25 apiece.
This is becoming a disturbing trend in my dining adventures. I don't mean to pick on the Blue Point specifically, but how hard is it for restaurants to offer free soft-drink refills? I'm a thirsty guy, and I wouldn't mind paying a bit more for a larger glass or refill option, but area restaurateurs are retiring on my soda splurging. I have an uncle who works for Coke, so I know all about the shelf life and pricing of sodas, and it | 1,389 |
H<|fim_middle|> additional information on this deal, please contact one of our advisors. | ikes Point Paint & Wallpaper has been acquired by Dages Paint
ABOUT THE DEAL:
Hikes Point Paint & Wallpaper (also referred to as the "Company" and "Sellers") has been acquired by Dages Paint (the "Buyers").
Established in 1976 and headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, Hikes Point Paint & Wallpaper has become the preeminent, independent retailer of high-quality paint and decorating supplies in the region. With three locations, the Company is the largest Benjamin Moore account in the area, and has committed to achieving the highest degree of customer satisfaction among contractors and DIYs alike.
Dages Paint Company has been aptly utilizing the slogan, "Keeping Louisville Colorful," since 1930, making it the oldest, independent paint store in Louisville. For three generations now, it has been owned and operated by the original Dages family. As an independently-owned store, Dages offers its customers a level of service rarely found today. They are proud to deliver the kind of specialized attention and help that customers simply won't find in larger chain stores. Dages' store professionals are trained specialists whose experience and helpful advice ensures the success of every project.
Allston Advisory Group served as the exclusive financial advisors to the Sellers, Hikes Point Paint & Wallpaper. Allston established a valuation assessment of the Company, prepared a thorough confidential memorandum, assisted with the Buyer's due diligence, helped the Buyers obtain financing for the transaction with modest collateral available through an SBA Guaranteed Loan, and facilitated the confidential sale process on behalf of the Sellers. Consequently, the transaction satisfied the Seller's desires for liquidity as well as provide employees with an established, team and customer-focused new owner.
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The Commonwealth Constitution adopted in 1901 provides the framework through which the Commonwealth of Australia is governed and relations with the states and territories operate. The Constitution sets out the broad powers and rules under which the houses of parliament, the Head of State, executive government, judiciary, and government agencies operate.
The Commonwealth Constitution can an only be changed if the proposed change is approved by the parliament and then by a majority of voters in a majority of states, and by a majority of voters across the nation, in a referendum.
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Labels were starting to be put not only inside, but also outside garments, with the event of the high definition of the jacquard loom. In that way<|fim_middle|> products. | labels starts to be an important accessory of clothing art.
At ITMA 1991 in Hannover, MEI introduced the loom equipped with the Ultrasonic slit, which drew a decisive step for the production of new fashion eco-labels. More sharply and smooth edges, together with the use of natural fibers, not only polyesters, were now possible. Cotton, linen, wool, silk, all mixed with polyester or combined with special threads.
The "Fashion Labels"was born. A cotton label could be put on cotton garment, a cashmere label on a cashmere sweater, etc. The fashion label represents a step forward in the utilization and the integration of yarns, from different nature and of renowned materials.
Three things are needed to create fashion labels: creativity, innovative technologies, and a knowledge of the art of weaving, and daily we try to develop and expand these goals worldwide, even with our final | 186 |
Glide Hawk Farm This 265 acre farm offers some of the most compelling farmland in the Hudson Valley. 13 large undulating or flat agricultural fields interconnect via farm roads or hed<|fim_middle|> the south-a golf course. More land is available. The farm is handy to Hudson & train, TSP & Berkshires. | gerow bar ways. Many of these possess astonishing Catskill & more local farm views. There are numerous interior fields of extreme privacy that also afford Catskill or ridge views. For variety, there are some woods & grassed wetlands strips (for potential ponds). A Claverack Creek tributary bi-sects the longest woodland patch between two of the eastern fields. It is surmounted by a culverted wood road. Considerable farm infrastructure includes, but is not limited to, multiple wells, sizable barns, farm roads between fields, fencing & two 3 bedroom tenant houses. Glide Hawk Farm fronts on a country lane & is surrounded on all sides by 100 acre parcels, including-on the other side of a buffer of woods to | 152 |
Activities abound aboard Chateau, pick your pleasure: swim in the azure Caribbean waters, snorkel in and around the reefs and treasure caves, windsurf those perfect tropical breezes, relax on a<|fim_middle|> colorful little village of Soper's Hole on Tortola or spend an evening swaying with the beat of the Caribbean rhythms at Foxy's on Jost Van Dyke.
For evenings on board Chateau there are a variety of musical instruments for your playing or listening pleasure: a keyboard, guitar and percussion instruments. Delve into the extensive CD and tape collection or play one of the many board games. Read by candle light from our selection of bestsellers. There is something for everyone.
We have provided for your convenience a detailed recreation and entertainment list and sample menu.
Don't forget to check out our new dive special effective immediately. | floating sun mattress or kayak anywhere your heart desires.
Have a pleasurable day exploring the trails through the awe inspiring giant boulders at the Baths on Virgin Gorda, shop at the | 37 |
COVID-19: The Temporary Wage Subsidy scheme for NFP organisations
The Not for Profit sector has been badly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and unfortunately this has changed the everyday running of the business and in some cases requiring assistance from Government supports. The temporary wage subsidy scheme was introduced to support businesses to retain the link between employers and employees during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The scheme was introduced on 26th March 2020 for an initial 12 week period. However, the Minister for Finance has now extended the scheme until the end of August 2020.
The Subsidy Scheme is open to employers across all sectors, (<|fim_middle|>.
If you require our assistance, please do not hesitate to contact beatriz.artal@ie.gt.com | excluding the Public Service and Non-Commercial Semi-State Sector), whose business activities are being adversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
To qualify for the Scheme, employers must:
be experiencing significant negative economic disruption due to COVID-19;
be able to demonstrate, to the satisfaction of Revenue, a minimum of a 25% decline in turnover or customer orders in Q2 2020;
be unable to pay normal wages and normal outgoings fully; and (employers should be mindful of this as they move to Q3),
retain their employees on the payroll.
To register for the Scheme:
An Employer can register via Revenue's online system ("ROS");
Registration is on a self-assessment basis by making a self-declaration to Revenue confirming the business meets the qualifying conditions.
This declaration by the employer is not a declaration of insolvency.
Eligible employers can participate in the scheme in respect of any eligible employees.
Eligible employees are those on their payroll on 29th February 2020, and included in the payroll submission made to Revenue in March 2020. This includes staff on reduced hours, rehired staff who were temporarily laid off or staff temporarily laid off but retained on the payroll.
New "warehousing" of deferred tax debts and interest suspension arrangements
In March, Revenue announced the suspension of debt collection and the charging of interest on late payment for the January/February and March/April VAT periods and February, March and April PAYE (Employer) liabilities for SME businesses. These arrangements are further extended to include May/June VAT and May and June PAYE (Employer) liabilities.
For the purposes of clarity, PAYE (Employer) liabilities include income tax, universal social charge and employees' and employer's PRSI due to be remitted by employers to Revenue under the PAYE system in respect of the payment of wages, salary, etc., to their employees.
Notwithstanding the suspension of debt collection, affected businesses are required to file timely returns so that Revenue has visibility on the level of unpaid debt arising from the Covid-19 crisis. Where a business is unable to file complete returns due to, for example, the absence of key employees or an agent due to Covid-19 related illness or restrictions, the business should submit returns based on the best estimate of the liability.
In early May, the Government announced that it will legislate to provide that Revenue will warehouse such deferred tax debts. The proposed scheme will involve the effective parking of this debt, for a period of 12 months after a business resumes trading and the application of a lower interest rate of 3% per annum on the repayment of such 'warehoused tax debts' after that date.
The necessary legislative amendments will be brought forward in due course. Pending the enactment of the necessary legislation, Revenue will operate the arrangements on an administrative basis.
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We would like to inform you that due to COVID-19 the deadline to submit the VAT claim for 2019 has been extended this year from 30 June 2020 to 31 August 2020 | 648 |
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European travels in a motorhome
2019 Iberia
2018 Around the Baltic
2017 A break from Blighty
2016 From Prussia with love
2015 To the Balkans and back
2014 All the Alps
2013 From 10 below to 40 above
September 2, 2016 · by Currently Away · in From Prussia with love, Poland. ·
Our trip this year is largely about travelling to Gdańsk. A Baltic city steeped in centuries of history, tragic and triumphant, but always seeming so remote.
At home on our large map of Europe, criss-crossed in colourful pins showing our various meanderings in Bertha, the north of Poland and the area of Pomerania around Gdańsk is tantalisingly bare. Until now.
Gdańsk merchants' houses
Camping at Sopot, Poland's Riviera resort and neighbour to Gdańsk, the city was just a 25 minute rail ride away. We caught an early morning train but instead of walking to the glittering and beautiful Hanseatic historic centre, we headed north to the Gdańsk Shipyard on the edge of the enormous docklands which stretch for miles along the mouth of the River Vistula that flows into the Baltic Sea.
Motlawa River and Medieval Crane
The river is the key to the city's prosperity from the middle ages, when it was seized by the Teutonic Knights and later became part of the trading federation of the Hanseatic League. Its 'golden age' was during the 16th and 17th centuries when control of the city went back to the crown which granted its merchants exclusive trading rights for very little taxable payment.
The Germanic and Dutch burghers operated a booming economy based on trade and liberalism and employed Italian and Flemish architects to embellish their town houses with hanseatic motifs of step-gabled rooflines, colourfully painted and gold-gilt reliefs and ornate balconies. It was called by its German name, Danzig.
Main town hall and tower
Long Market
The tragedy of Gdańsk was its near-total destruction in World War II. Being one of the first places in Poland that Hitler invaded, it was one of<|fim_middle|> 90 feet.
The Zurow, a medieval crane
Having spent an absorbing morning alongside the modern cranes and lifting equipment of the Gdańsk Shipyard, where moving with the times they no longer build ships but modern windmills, it seemed a fitting image on which to end our day in a city of constant flux and renewal, always with an eye to the future whether fixed on the right to live, worship or trade freely. It is a truly European city.
Behind Neptune
Granary Island development
Milk bar lunching
Seeing Gdańsk
One of the few buildings (right) not to be destroyed
Two walls – Berlin Wall 1989 and Shipyard Wall 1980
SKM train to Gdańsk
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A slow process of rebuilding began after 1948 and then only after the controlling communist party had ordered the majority of the city's precious Dutch bricks to be sent to Warsaw to rebuild the country's capital first.
Royal Way 1945
Mariacka Street 1945
Mariacka Street's amber sellers today
And so to the shipyard. Gdańsk is known worldwide as the seat of the Polish struggle against communism. We both recall nightly news reports on television in 1980 about the strike by Polish ship builders demanding better working rights, and then throughout the 80s hearing about the fight of the Solidarity trade union to free Poland from communism and the oppressive martial law of its puppet government.
The heavily moustached Lech Walesa, unemployed electrician, Solidarity leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, was a highly recognisable face in the fight for freedom. Passing through the very gate that those news reports showed striking workers and stricken families gathered around each night, and still holding a picture of Pope John Paul II and the famous '21 demands' of the strikers, we spent a fascinating morning in the excellent European Solidarity Centre.
Original shipyard gates and new European Solidarity Centre
A purpose-built educational facility the museum records the fight by the shipyard workers, and later the whole country, to free itself from communism. It succeeded in 1989, causing the fall of the Berlin Wall some months later and ultimately the collapse of communism, with Russia itself becoming independent on Christmas Day in 1991.
The exhibition also documents Poland's other freedom fighter, Pope John Paul II. Archive footage of his three pilgrimages to Poland and his sustained call to his countrymen to stand up against the oppressive regime and to believe that they could bring about change, credit his involvement in directly bringing about the end of communism in East Europe.
Gathered outside the gates during the strike in August 1980
Lech Walesa carried on the shoulders of his Solidarity comrades
Pope John Paul II during his 1979 visit to Poland
Leaving the shipyard in sunlight at noon we paused at the gigantic monument to the fallen shipyard workers, shot dead by police in 1970 during a series of strikes and protests against price hikes and further infringement of freedoms. One of their leaders, a young electrician and a known dissident, escaped injury but paid for his involvement by losing his job.
Ten years later when the workers dared again to go on strike the unemployed but enormously charismatic Lech Walesa scaled the shipyard wall and jumped into the strikers' midst to lead them, unknowingly propelling himself into the pages of 20th century history.
Monument of the fallen shipworkers
Three crucified anchors
Headlines of history
Finding a cheap and cheerful lunch at a former communist-style 'milk bar' in the historic Royal Way in the heart of the Hanseatic city, we feasted on salads of pickled cabbage, pan fried pork cutlets and a stuffed chicken kiev served up on hearty dollops of mashed potato and dill.
Needing to walk it all off we scaled the steep steps of the Rathaus brick clock tower for stunning views of the historic city's skyline, the docklands and the areas of rapid development along the riverside. A London-Eye style ferris wheel spun visitors up and over the former Granary Island, once home to more than 400 granaries and now sporting new luxury waterfront apartments with plans for more.
Gdańsk spires and dock views
Views of the Royal Way from above
Gdańsk views out to the Baltic
Across the water loomed the bizarre and dark wooden structure of the Zurow, a medieval crane. Built in the 1400s this enormous construction carried out the loading and unloading of merchants' ships along the riverside (for which their agents had paid heavily for timed moorings, the middle ages equivalent of a modern day pay and display ticket system).
The mechanism was operated by workers who scrambled within giant hamster-style wheels to engage pulleys and gears. It was possible to lift four tonnes of goods up to 30 feet or two tonnes up to | 906 |
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England: Patrick Bamford handed a first call-up
Patrick Bamford has received his first England call-up after an outstanding season in the Premier League last season. Trent Alexander Arnold and Jesse Lingard have also been included in the squad for the World Cup qualifiers. All three missed out on the Euro 2020 squad with the former suffering an injury in a warm-up game. They will be available for the three qualifying games against Hungary, Andorra, and Poland.
"There was an<|fim_middle|> just breaking into the team at Manchester United with a lot of responsibility."
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Manchester United forward Mason Greenwood is a notable absentee from the squad along with Ben Chilwell. Southgate insists that Greenwood is firmly part of his plans and also revealed that he has already spoken to him.
"He is in our thoughts," added Southgate. "I've spoken with him and with his club. He is a player we really like. We think he has got every possibility to be a top England player. We are all very conscious that we make that progress at the right time. He is | 218 |
Professor Walter Gratzer obituary
Gifted yet self-effacing physical biochemist and writer who elegantly documented the foibles of science and scientists
Wednesday December 08 2021, 12.01am, The Times
Walter Gratzer was a magisterial wordsmith
When Francis Crick expounded, in 1958, the "central dogma" of molecular biology<|fim_middle|> contrast the two men, one among the most celebrated scientists of his age, the other largely unknown even within the scientific community, illuminates the varied and tortuous paths of scientific advance.
Although the history of science is often told through the lives of giants such as Crick, their success owes much to an army of brilliant people that grew up in the 20th century; Gratzer, a research scientist and pioneer in the genre of science writing, was one of them.
As a German refugee | , Walter Gratzer was in the midst of his PhD, studying variants of the protein haemoglobin while working in the National Institute of Medical Research Council in north London. To | 35 |
Over the holiday season it's easy to over buy on groceries and end up with a lot of extra food knocking around. We stock up on fresh food, cater for larger numbers of people and probably overestimate just how much we really need to feed family and friends.
Learning how to store your food correctly will not only keeps it from spoiling for longer but also save you from wasted expenditure. We have collated some useful infographics below with some top tips from how best to store dried and perishable goods to how best to manage your fridge and freezer. Applying some of the rules, you'll optimise the longevity of your food and minimise on throwing food in the trash, keeping more pennies in your pocket and a more festive spirit all round.
This great infographic lists nearly 60 everyday ingredients and offers guidance on where to store, how to store and just how long each ingredient will stay fresh. All the pantry essentials are covered from fruits and vegetables to bacon, eggs, cheese and bread. See if you've been using the right storage option, choosing between the fridge, freezer, a dark pantry, or just on the countertop.
When it comes to storing food in the fridge there are a number of factors to take into account to maximise the potential of your cold storage. A logic applies to where certain categories of food should be stored in the fridge, as well as ensuring the efficiency of your fridge isn't overlooked.
Freezing food can increase its shelf life considerably, from freezing a standard loaf of bread to individual portions of home cooked fare to enjoy another time. Learn some freezer management techniques in this handy infographic from what you can and can't freeze and for how long.
This clear infographic lists a range of fresh foods from asparagus to zucchini and a number of ways in which you should store them. While most of it might seem like common sense it's not always clear cut when it comes to fruit that needs ripening time. Take a look and see if you've got it right.
Opening a well ordered fridge is always satisfying and enough to inspire some home cooking. Get it wrong and open a full, smelly, disorganised, poorly managed fridge and it's enough to turn the keenest of home cooks off. Find out what you should be storing and where in this handy infographic.
Check out these 24 storage<|fim_middle|> it comes to cooking, if you cook to much, find out what to do with the leftovers in these handy guides. | tips from how to eradicate odours and mold from your fridge through to more unusual ideas like storing fresh onions in unwanted stockings.
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For the 12th consecutive year, Southern Company has been recognized as industry leader in military recruitment and retainment.
Dec 20, 2018, 15:00 ET
ATLANTA, Dec. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern Company is the highest-rated energy company and No. 7 overall in G.I. Jobs Magazine's annual ranking of the top military friendly employers. The 2019 list ranks the company as the nation's best energy company for veterans, guardsmen and reservists. The list gave Southern Company the coveted Top 10 Gold ranking among all employers with revenue over $1 billion and included the company on the list of top military friendly spouse employers for 2019.
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This is the 12th consecutive year Southern Company has been ranked among the top nationwide military employers.
"We are proud to lead the energy industry as the No. 1 military employer," said Southern Company president, chairman and CEO Tom Fanning. "We actively recruit veterans and partner with military transition centers to do our part to ensure success after service."
G.I. Jobs selection criteria include the strength of the company's military recruiting efforts, the percentage of new hires with prior military service, retention programs and company policies that encourage and support National Guard and Reserve servicemen and women.
Over the past three years, 14 percent of Southern Company's new hires have been veterans or active military, who now comprise 10 percent of the total workforce.
Southern Company is a founding partner of the Troops to Energy Jobs program, a recruiting source that links veterans to job openings in the energy industry. Southern Company has pledged to support the Joining Forces initiative, participates annually in more than 30 military recruitment events and partners with military transition centers across the country.
Additionally, Southern Company is proud to be the only energy company to partner with the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Coast Guard and reserve and guard personnel to develop innovative energy projects both on and off base. Through our partnership with Department of Defense we are engaging directly with emerging technologies and new business models impacting both our nation's security and the communities we serve.
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The company provides clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy through electric operating companies in four states, natural gas distribution companies in seven states, a competitive generation company serving wholesale customers in 11 states across America and a nationally recognized provider of customized energy solutions, as well as fiber optics and wireless communications. Visit our website at www.southerncompany.com to learn more.
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Q: Relationship between lasso coefficients and significance values on regression using same variables I ran a lasso. I<|fim_middle|> correlations between the variables used in the regression, leading to multicollinearity? If so, why doesn't multicollinearity matter for lasso?
The top answer under this question begins to answer my question but doesn't provide much of the mathematical intuition: Lasso regression coefficients values
| then used the variables that had non-zero coefficients in a linear regression. I would've expected the variables with the largest coefficients in the lasso to have the smallest P-values in the regression output, but this was not the case. In fact, the variable with the largest coefficient in lasso was not significant at all in my regression.
Can someone provide the intuition and/or mathematical reasoning for why this happens?
My leading guess is that it could be because of | 93 |
O'Brien Looking Forward to Cork Clash
Joey O'Brien is relishing the opportunity to return to his homeland when West Ham United go on pre-season tour to the Republic of Ireland.
The senior Ireland international was born and raised in Dublin before moving to England when he signed for Bolton Wanderers at the age of 16.
As he made his name in this country, O'Brien enjoyed returning home regularly to turn out for his home nation at age-group level – none more so than when<|fim_middle|> very, very patriotic bunch and it made for a great night.
"I'm sure that game when we play them in pre-season will also attract a good crowd to Turners Cross."
A 3,500-strong crowd turned out to watch O'Brien and his team-mates in action in September 2004 and the popular full-back is expecting a similarly busy evening at Turners Cross come kick-off at 6pm on Sunday 7 July.
"Without a doubt, I'm sure the fans there are looking forward to a Premier League team coming over and they'll come out and support them.
"It's a lovely pitch there normally and the ground is nice and tight and the crowd is right on top of you, so hopefully there should be a decent crowd and it should be a decent game."
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Turner's Cross | he represented Ireland U19s against England in a friendly at Cork City's Turners Cross ground in September 2004.
On Sunday 7 July, O'Brien will return to the same venue when West Ham United take on the League of Ireland Premier Division side in their first pre-season fixture.
The No17 cannot wait to return to his homeland for what promises to be an entertaining evening in south west Ireland.
"It should be good," enthused the full-back, who played 35 times for the Hammers last season. "I've never been on a pre-season tour to Ireland before since I came over to England when I was 16, so it should be something different from normal when we have been to places that are really, really hot. I don't think the west coast of Ireland will be really hot!
"We're going to play Cork City while we're over there, so it should be good to play a League of Ireland team."
It may be nearly nine years ago, but O'Brien can remember Ireland U19s' 2-0 defeat by England clearly. That night, the visitors triumphed through goals from Middlesbrough midfielder James Morrison and Norwich City's Ryan Jarvis, but the Hammers defender still recalls the evening fondly.
"I have played at Turners Cross before. I played there for the Republic of Ireland Under-19s against England, I think it was. The place was absolutely rocking with the crowd.
"I know people from that part of the world and they are a | 313 |
Micky Dolenz to embark on 'It Was 50 Years Ago Today' Tour
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Micky Dolenz of The Monkees will be embarking on the "It Was 50 Years Ago Today" tour, which commemorates the half-century anniversary of the Beatles' "White" album.
Dolenz will be joining Todd Rundgren and Christopher Cross for this tour, along with ex-Chicago singer Jason Scheff and Badfinger guitarist Joey Molland. This concert will be a blend of their own hits along with songs from the Beatles' seminal White Album.
Micky Dolenz of The Monkees surprised with a special sign for his furniture company, which he runs with his daughter
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Speaking of Micky Dolenz, this past March he celebrated his birthday at The Paramount in Huntington on Long Island, where he performed with<|fim_middle|> they will be performing at the St. George Theater in Staten Island, New York, while on October 12, they will be bringing the "It Was 50 Years Ago Today" tour to the NYCB Theatre at Westbury in Westbury, New York.
For more information on Micky Dolenz and his music, check out his official website.
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Mike Nesmith and Micky Dolenz of The Monkees performing at The Paramount
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I was invited out as a guest for a show I've never done before, Cincinnati Comic Expo (not to be confused with Cincinnati Comic Con, which is something totally different). The show was a ton of fun, an opportunity to hang out with friends I don't normally get to see and to meet some new friends, and also had some incredible attendance – and some really awesome attendees.
Having spent the night at my buddy's (Justin Castaneda – When I Was Little, Aw Yeah Comics) house, we got up super early and drove all the way from his place to Cincinnati with few stops in between. This worked out well for me, since 1) it saved on hotel costs for a night, and 2) we got to hang out and catch up in the car ride down.
Once there, we checked into our hotel (and met up with his friends, who would also crash with us in the hotel), and then went to the convention center to set up. The floor had a great open feel to it. Instead of artist alley being in rows, it was instead in pods. There were six exhibitors per pod, four on each corner and then two in the middle section. I was lucky enough to land a corner pod over by the<|fim_middle|> in the new Reading with Pictures book – as well as my pre-orders for Albert the Alien. I also had some awesome table neighbors, chatting them up and telling jokes all weekend.
Traffic was strong throughout the day, with a lot of young families in attendance, but I also noticed a lot of people buying art. More so than buying books. I started to promote my commissions more, but thankfully book sales were still solid throughout the day.
After the floor closed, I was invited to dinner with some good friends of mine: Paul Storrie (Robyn of Sherwood), Thom Zhaler (My Little Pony, Love and Capes), and Chris Jones (Young Justice). It was nice to get to catch up with these guys, since I rarely get to see them – and even when I do, it's usually in a larger group, so conversation can be a bit distracting.
The final day of the show brought more families, more sales, and even a few commissions. I had skipped breakfast after checking out of the hotel, so I grabbed something at the convention center. Something they had been promoting all weekend, but the line was always super long to get it. Well, thankfully there was no line while we were setting up our tables, so I finally went and got one: a grilled cheese doughnut!
Grilled cheese doughnuts. With bacon! No, seriously.
It was as delicious as it sounds, and probably just as prone to cause a heart-attack. But I ate it anyway.
During the sales of the day, a guy asked me to do some Adventure Time commissions for him. But he actually brought his own sketch cards, which had a semi-glossy finish on them. It was different to draw on someone else's cards (especially when it came time to color them), but sure enough I finished them up and knocked them out.
Adventure Time sketch card commissions!
A little before the close of the show we decided to break down and head home. Mostly to try to beat the traffic from a local sporting event that was going to be letting out around the same time. Thankfully, Justin and I beat the traffic out of the city and he was kind enough to drive me all the way home.
Cincinnati Comic Expo was a ton of fun, filled with a great layout for the show, some amazing guests, and incredible attendees. I absolutely recommend attending this show (costs are low, especially compared to a Chicago show), either as an attendee or an exhibitor. | Kids Corner. We had amazing placement, and therefore amazing sales and traffic.
Corner booth – an amazing placement!
The first day was a little slower, which wasn't surprising considering school was in session and people were working. After 5pm, however, it started to pick up a bit. Friday was an early day, however, so we broke down and went out to dinner. We traveled across the river to a little outdoor mall, which had a variety of dinning choices. We found a pub that we liked and ordered there, grabbing some drinks and food and enjoying some fun company from our hotel roommates.
After dinner, we went back to the hotel and went to bed, calling it an early night (since it had been an early morning) so we could hit Saturday recharged.
I woke before the rest of the group to grab a little breakfast downstairs, and then headed to the con to set up. The morning sun greeted us among the unique countryside of Cincinnati – it kind of reminded me of Seattle a bit.
Another day of strong sales followed, with lots of interest | 218 |
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You see it every day…the same people on the treadmill, day after day at the gym. Some stay on the treadmill for an hour, some two hours. You wonder how these people can stand this monotonous activity!
The truth is that these people are getting nothing accomplished, other than finishing the book or magazine they are reading.
Tip: Doing the same type and amount of cardio each day is doing nothing for<|fim_middle|>, women's weight loss. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment. | your weight loss!Worse yet, when you take time off from this type of obsessive cardio, you will gain weight.
Make the most out of your time with these Dynamic Cardiovascular exercises that utilize the treadmill and your imagination! Warning: You may feel silly, and the other gym goers may look at you funny, but these Cardio techniques get results! As always, make sure you consult a Physician before embarking upon a new weight loss program or see a trainer like myself for assistance.
Example:Stop/Start Cardio- Try this technique to keep your body guessing as your Heart Rate rises and falls. Begin warming-up for 5-8 minutes at a moderate pace on the treadmill, no incline. Run for 3 minutes. Walk for 2 minutes. Repeat. Do this for a total of 30 minutes. Make sure you cool down for 5 minutes, slowing down as the time runs out. You will see how time flies while you are doing this dynamic, fun workout. This is a great way to get more out of your cardio!
More Dynamic Cardiovascular exercises on the Treadmill include the shuffle, the skip, and my favorite, the Chasse. For questions about these types of exercises or to book a session please visit my wesbite.
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Magma reservoirs underneath volcanoes grow through episodic em<|fim_middle|>orthite content zones are associated with low H2O contents and vice versa. This relationship suggests that injections of hot and H2O-poor magma can increase the reservoir temperature, leading to the dilution of melt H2O contents. In addition to recording hot and H2O-poor conditions after these injections, plagioclase crystals also record relatively cold and H2O-rich conditions such as prior to the explosive 2014 eruption. In this case, the elevated H2O content and increased viscosity may have contributed to the high explosivity of the eruption. The point at which an eruption occurs within such repeating hot and cool cycles may therefore have important implications for explaining alternating eruptive styles. | placement of magma batches. These pulsed magma injections can substantially alter the physical state of the resident magma by changing its temperature, pressure, composition, and volatile content. Here we examine plagioclase phenocrysts in pumice from the 2014 Plinian eruption of Kelud (Indonesia) that record the progressive capture of small melt inclusions within concentric growth zones during crystallization inside a magma reservoir. High-spatial-resolution Raman spectroscopic measurements reveal the concentration of dissolved H2O within the melt inclusions, and provide insights into melt-volatile behavior at the single crystal scale. H2O contents within melt inclusions range from ?0.45 to 2.27 wt% and do not correlate with melt inclusion size or distance from the crystal rim, suggesting that minimal H2O was lost via diffusion. Instead, inclusion H2O contents vary systematically with anorthite content of the host plagioclase (R2 = 0.51), whereby high an | 208 |
MIAMI (AP) � Giovani Bernard ran for two touchdowns and North Carolina survived a slew of penalties to beat Miami 18-14 Saturday, handing the Hurricanes their first Atlantic Coast Conference loss.
Bernard scored on runs of 10 and 17 yards for the Tar Heels (5-2, 2-1). It was the fourth straight win for North Carolina, which was penalized 15 times.
Mike James and Stephen Morris each had touchdown runs for Miami (4-3, 3-1), which may have lost more than a game. Morris, Miami's quarterback, was helped off the field with 8:26 remaining after apparently hurting his left ankle. He had a large icepack strapped to the ankle shortly afterward and did not return.
Backup Ryan Williams was called in and threw an incompletion on fourth-and-6 from the North Carolina 26 with 5:45 left. North Carolina took nearly four minutes off the clock before punting to Miami with 1:47 left, then held on from there.
With Williams running the show � after Morris� ankle was wrapped in a boot and he left the game � the Hurricanes got to the North Carolina 29 with just under a minute left. But Miami gave up a sack to North Carolina's Tommy Heffernan with 38 seconds left, knocking the Hurricanes back to the 35.
Two plays later, Miami turned the ball over on downs � and now four teams have one loss in the ACC Coastal race.
For Bernard, who played his high school football at nearby St. Thomas Aquinas in Fort Lauderdale, it was a long-awaited homecoming � and he didn't disappoint.
His second touchdown came with 2:57 left in the first half, the second in a pair of brilliant plays by the Tar Heels.<|fim_middle|> nary any resistance from the Hurricanes.
It stayed 7-0 until the midpoint of the second quarter, though easily could have been much worse. Renner was picked off by Miami's Eddie Johnson near the goal line on one possession, and Casey Barth missed a 33-yard field goal into a swirling wind with 10:53 left in the half. A roughing-the-kicker penalty on a Miami punt gave the Hurricanes a break, and James plowed in from a yard out to tie the game at 7-all with 5:21 remaining.
Morris scored from 5 yards out with 5:06 left in the third to end a 12-play, 94-yard drive and get the Hurricanes within 15-14 � a sequence where Miami apparently wanted to try going for a two-point conversion as well. But officials flagged the Hurricanes for snapping the ball too quickly, and Miami settled for just an extra point. | Bernard got loose to catch a 17-yard pass from Bryn Renner on fourth-and-6 from the Miami 33, a play where the Hurricanes nearly had a stop � and one that left defensive coordinator Mark D'Onofrio punching the air in disappointment.
His mood soured even worse just seconds later when Bernard quickly went in from 17 yards out, sending the Tar Heels into the half with a 15-7 lead. North Carolina got a two-point conversion after that score, catching the Miami defense off-guard with a quick snap.
The first omen of trouble for Miami came on its first drive. The Hurricanes kept the offense on the field for a fourth-and-1 at the North Carolina 46, only to have left tackle Malcolm Bunche jump offsides. And on Miami's next possession, a pass by Morris bounced off James� hand, caromed into the air and was picked off at the North Carolina 20 by Shakeel Reshad.
North Carolina cashed in only one of those mistakes � Bernard went in from 10 yards out to cap the opening Tar Heels� drive: a seven-play, 61-yard waltz with | 245 |
The general circulation model (GCM) of the United Kingdom Meteorological Office (UKMO) has been used to investigate<|fim_middle|> of the same order of magnitude as the changes found in two earlier energy park experiments, and there are some similarities between changes in this experiment and EX01, especially over the area immediately downstream of the energy park.
The results of all three energy park experiments have been investigated using zonal harmonic analysis, and the influence of the energy parks on the positions and amplitudes of waves in the temperature and wind fields are discussed. | the impact of an input of waste heat (1.5 x 10e14 watts) into the atmosphere in a small area in the mid-latitude eastern Atlantic Ocean. The results of this experiment have been compared with those of two earlier experiments in which the waste heat was input from two energy parks, one in the Atlantic and one in the Pacific Ocean.
The energy park produced significant responses in the surface pressure field, the temperature in the lowest layer of the model, and in the total precipitation distribution. The changes are | 106 |
5 Questions With Corey Cott, Star of Fox's New Series Filthy Rich
Cott, of Broadway's Newsies and Bandstand, co-stars with Kim Cattrall on the hour-long drama.
Last year, Corey Cott spent a lot of time in New Orleans. Cott, star of Bandstand and Newsies on Broadway, landed the role of Eric Monreaux, scion of a wealthy Southern family, on the new Fox series Filthy Rich. With the soapy drama, which stars Kim Cattrall, having just premiered this week, Cott took some time to discuss the show and his role.
Corey Cott in the "John 3:3" episode of Fox's Filthy Rich.
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What is Filthy Rich about and how does your character, Eric Monreaux, factor into the plot?
My parents run a very successful Christian TV network. It's on the cusp of launching a digital retail arm when my dad goes down in a plane crash. This is all within the first 10 minutes. It comes out that he had three other children with three other women, and they are all heirs to the fortune. So me and my sister are now in a battle with these three other children, and all the secrets of the family start to come out.
What are the differences between creating a character for a 10-episode arc of a series and creating a character for a two-hour musical?
When you're creating a character in a theater piece, especially if it's over the course of a few years, you have so much time to consider all of the details. With Bandstand, it was almost three years. We did Paper Mill Playhouse, and then a few readings, and then we came to Broadway. You have so much time to marinate and research, and you can even have input into keys of songs. With this, it's a much faster pace. You have to bring your A-game to every single scene that you're in. From a technical perspective, I learned a lot and was humbled a lot. I like to be in control, but I couldn't be precious with the work. But getting to play Eric's arc all the way through was really thrilling from episode to episode.
How did the creators of the show adapt the role for your personality?
They actually adapted to everyone's skills. I didn't have to sing for my audition, but I ended up singing in four or five episodes. Abe Sylvia, the show runner, was a Broadway guy. He was in Cats. Jeff Calhoun, who directed me in Newsies, gave him his first job, so we bonded over that. He knew that I was a musical-theater guy, so they wrote that in. And it's not like my character is an aspiring singer. It's just an aspect of who he is. He grew up in the church, and in the South, singing is part of that culture.
Is it refreshing to be part of an ensemble now, as opposed to being the lead like in Newsies and Bandstand?
They both have their merits and their hard parts. The funny thing is, even in Bandstand and Newsies, the core of those shows are the ensemble, even though Donny and Jack Kelly are the biggest speaking<|fim_middle|> great place.
This Q&A has been adapted from a longer conversation, which you can watch in full here.
Corey Cott | parts. But I did enjoy being part of a TV ensemble. It takes the pressure off you. I loved how they just spread the wealth around amongst all of us. And that comes down to [creators] Tate Taylor and Abe Sylvia. They cast it so well, the best actors for these parts, and everyone brought it when they needed to.
What was it like to shoot in New Orleans?
New Orleans is such a wonderful place. It thrives on hospitality, so right now, I can't imagine how the city is dealing with all of this. It's a very inviting group of people. They love to be from there and they are very welcoming to outsiders. We assimilated as much as we could into the vibe down there. I feel like we really got to learn the city pretty well. It's actually a really family friendly city too. Their zoo is incredible; their children's museum is unbelievable. We weren't lacking in things to do. We lived two blocks from the World War II museum, and that is probably the best museum I've ever been to. I really miss New Orleans. It's a | 227 |
Ray Ray's Hog Pit Is Headed To Franklinton
Tuesday afternoon, Ray Ray's Hog Pit sent Columbus pork lovers into a tizzy after sharing a cryptic social media post promoting a big, mysterious announcement.
Smoking some big news. Get ready for when it hits the grill. #rayrayshogpit #asseenincolumbus #secret
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Well, the news is out. Ray Ray's is heading to Franklinton. Beginning Saturday, November 11, Ray Ray's will be the designated food truck at Land-Grant Brewing, each week from Thursday through Sunday. Ray Ray's will still maintain their Clintonville Food Truck and Westerville Walk-Up, which means more Ray Ray's for everyone.
The brewery will also expand their hours, opening at 11:30 a.m. on Thursdays and Fridays to accommodate lunch and dinner services.
"I'm really excited to cook and serve my food down in Franklinton, right beside the best craft beer," said Ray Ray's Owner, James Anderson in a press release. "I love being part of the growth in such a cool part of town, and I feel at home here."
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The menu will include Ray Ray's favorites including smoked ribs, jerk chicken, beef brisket, and pulled pork. There will also be some delicious new items exclusive to the Land-Grant location.
"I have been a fan of Ray Ray's since the food truck first pulled up in Clintonville," said Land-Grant President, Adam Benner. "So, adding a hog pit to our taproom is pretty surreal and we feel very, very honored. I've always said that Barbecue is my<|fim_middle|> Big Deal
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Land-Grant is hosting a Grand Opening celebration to welcome Ray Ray's on November 11th. One week later, on Friday, November 17th, fans can check out Ray Ray's when it is featured on the Food Network series Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.
Ray Ray's at Land-Grant will be open Thursday through Sunday from 11:30 a.m. until 8 p.m. beginning November 11, 2017.
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St. Mark's Square can be called the heart of Venice. The Venetian Republic's ancient governmental buildings are here as is the city's cathedral from which the square takes its name. It was also the place Venetians came to to see and be seen. Napoleon described it as: "The most beautiful drawing room in Europe, for which it is only fitting that the heavens should serve as the ceiling." To see what he meant, just about every visitor to Venice comes here.
The area most visitors think of as St. Mark's Square is actually two squares that come together at a right angle.
First, there is the Piazza San Marco itself, which stretches out in front of St. Mark's Basilica. On three sides are arcades built between the 16th and 18th centuries. Today, they are home to famously expensive cafes and restaurants.
Near<|fim_middle|>Because St. Mark's taken as a whole is one of the world's great works of art, it attracts numerous visitors. During the day, visitors are channeled up one aisle, across the transept and down the next aisle to the door. Because of the crowds, there is no real freedom to wander or to pause for any length of time.
A much more satisfying way to see the interior of the cathedral is during the evening when it is open to small tour groups. It is a more relaxed experience and you can take in much more. | the cathedral on the northern side of the square is the Clock Tower. On top of it are two bronze statues who strike the bell that stands between them to mark the hours.
The most visible feature of the square is the Campanile. This rectangular tower rises some 300 feet above the city. It can be seen far out to sea and helped guide ships home in the days before GPS. Originally built between the 10th through the 12th centuries, the Campanile collapsed in 1902. But it was re-built and re-opened in 1912.
The Campanile stands as the junction of St. Mark's Square and a second, smaller square, the Piazzeta. Open to the lagoon at one end, the Piazetta connects the heart of Venice to the sea upon which the city was so dependent for its livelihood in the days of the Republic. On one side is the Doge's Palace while on the other is the Libreria Vecchia (Old Library). The latter is an ornate building that was considered a turning point in Venetian architecture when it was built in 1563. Inside are works by artists such as Titian, Veronesse and Tintoretto.
At the seaward end of the square are two granite columns. Perched on top of one is the winged lion of St. Mark, the symbol of Venice. On the other is a statue of St. Theodore.
St. Mark's Square can be crowded on a summer day. However, in the evening or in the rain, it takes on a different character with much fewer people. In addition, while it is quite pretty in the sunshine, it takes on mellower and more romantic looks both in the rain and around sunset.
Above: The facade of the western front of the cathedral, which looks out onto the square.
Below: The four horses prance over the main doorway.
Above: A mosaic depicting The Last Judgment on the western facade.
Below: Mosaics appear over each of the large doors on the western facade.
In a city where several of the churches could be mistaken for cathedrals, the Basilica di San Marco is the foremost religious structure. However, while it has long been the spiritual center of the city, it has only been the city's cathedral since 1807. Originally, it was the palace chapel of the doge. St. Mark's derives its importance because the remains of St. Mark, the patron saint of Venice3, are interred there. How this cam to pass is not the most noble of stories. Venice's original patron saint was St. Theodore. But as the city grew more wealthy and powerful, it was felt that the city needed a more important saint. Therefore, to Venetian adventurers journeyed to Alexandria, Egypt, obtained the remains of St. Mark and smuggled them back to Venice.
The present cathedral dates to 1063. Over the centuries, it has grown and has been lavishly decorated. Indeed, a law enacted in 1075 required every ship returning to Venice to bring something precious to decorate "the house of St. Mark." Since Venice became one of the world's preeminent maritime trading powers, a flow of magnificent objects for the cathedral followed.
Some of the most famous of the cathedral's decoration are outside the building. For example, over the main entrance are four large bronze horses. The originals (now in a museum) are believed to be Greek from the 3rd century B.C. Napoleon was so impressed by the horses that he took them to Paris after the Venetian Republic surrendered to him. (Before condemning him for such a theft, it should be noted that the Venetians had obtained the horses as booty when they sacked Constantinople in 1204).
St Mark's does not look like a Western European cathedral. Rather, its style was inspired by the Eastern Church. Indeed, the original floor plan was based upon the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople. Over the centuries, the eastern style was largely maintained although there are elements of other styles.
Inside, the cathedral is dominated by over 4,000 square yards of mosaics. Most of these are set in gold. Consequently, St, Mark's is popularly called the "Basilica d'Oro" (Golden Basilica).
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The Forest Education Network (FEN) invites everyone with an interest in forest education to this special CPD event at FSC Bishops Wood Centre on Thursday 23rd March 2017.
Forestry is the growing and management of trees for wildlife, people and the economy; and can be applied to woodland spaces large and small.
Whatever your interest – a forest school practitioner, outdoor learning provider, woodland owner or a teacher – if you are using a woodland area to support teaching and learning this event will build your knowledge of trees, woods, forests, their ecology and management.
The day will feature workshop sessions led by national forestry experts to help you manage and utilise the woodland spaces you<|fim_middle|>stry Day, will also provide lots of opportunities to get outside and explore the inspiring spaces at FSC Bishops Wood Centre, for networking with other forest educators and browsing the forest education resources on display. | use for teaching and learning more effectively. Whatever your level of knowledge, the practical sessions will develop your skills and understanding and signpost the best places to go for further information.
The workshops will include: Tree health led by the Forestry Commission; Woodland management introduction led by the Sylva Foundation, the Royal Forestry Society and Bishops Wood; Woodland species identification and understanding the Eco system led by the Field Studies Council; Tree planting and woodland creation led by the Woodland Trust and the Forestry Commission.
The event, which takes place the same week as National Fore | 116 |
Vietnam Helicopter Pilot<|fim_middle|>5,000 helicopter pilots and aircrew from all U.S. military services who lost their lives during the Vietnam War.
There were 3,000 Vietnam-era helicopter pilots and aircrew and their family members attending the event at the cemetery's amphitheater. Many attendees sat under company and battalion pennants that were posted throughout the audience. Nearly 300 participants identified themselves as members of Vietnam-era Gold Star families.
Principal speakers included Mike Sheuerman, president of the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association (VHPA); Army MG Carl McNair, first commander of the U.S. Army Aviation Branch; Ms. Julie Kink, speaking on behalf of the Gold Star families; and Congressman Mark Amodei of Nevada who collaborated with VHPA over a four-year period to introduce the legislation that resulted in the monument being placed at Arlington National Cemetery. Ms. Kirk explained how the distinctive Huey sound has always reminded her and many Vietnam veterans that relief and brotherhood were close at hand.
Following formal remarks, attendees processed to the site of the newly-installed monument where several advocate groups placed memorial wreaths. Following a closing flyover by four Huey helicopters, attendees moved to a reception and Huey display at the Women in the Military for America Memorial near the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery.
The Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association and associated Vietnam Helicopter Aircrew Association, the organizations that spearheaded the effort to erect the monument, represent and advocate for all Vietnam-era helicopter warriors and represent all branches of the military. While U.S. Army Huey pilots constituted the largest group of attendees, several U.S. Navy and Marine Corps helicopter pilots and aircrewmen represented the HAL-3 Seawolves Association and other helicopter squadrons that deployed during the Vietnam War.
CAPT Bill Hughes, USN-(Ret.)
Caption 1: 3,000 Vietnam-era helicopter pilots and aircrew and their families attended the dedication ceremony at the Arlington National Cemetery amphitheater. Nearly 300 attendees are members of Gold Star families
Caption 2. HAL-3 Seawolves Ray Waits (l.) and Ian Refo joined the reception at the Women in the Military of America Memorial. Ian is president of the Seawolves Association. Ray's son is a U.S. Marine flying Ospreys at MCAS New River, NC.
Caption3. The monument, located near the Arlington National Cemetery amphitheater, honors the 5,000 helicopter pilots and aircrew from all military services who lost their lives during the Vietnam War.
CAPT Bill Hughes USN-(Ret.) and HAL-3 Seawolf CAPT "Wes" Weseleskey, USN-(Ret.)
Caption4: HAL-3 Seawolf "Wes" Weseleskey (r.) was awarded the Navy Cross in 1968. He went on to command HC-6 at NAS Norfolk and USS Guam.
Seawolf CAPT Bob Touhey, USN-(Ret.) and CAPT Bill HUghes, USN-(Ret.)
Caption5: Seawolf Bob Touhey (l.) and Bill Hughes of HS-2 were among early arrivals at the dedication ceremony. Bob was an OinC of HAL-3 Det 9. During several WESTPAC deployments, HS-2 conducted overland CSAR missions, flew U.S. and NVA negotiators into Haiphong in preparation for the U.S. POW release, and guided South Vietnamese aircraft to available landing platforms during the April 1975 evacuation of Saigon.
VHPA Monument Stone
VHPA Monument Presentation Ceremony
HAL-3 Seawolves Ray Waits (l.) and Ian Refo (R) President of Seawolves Association
caption4 CAPT Hughes and HAL-3 Seawolf CAPT Wes Weseleskey
caption 5 Seawolf Bob Touhey and CAPT Hughes
C-Span Video of the ceremony shared by Military Times on their web site below. | and Aircrew Monument Dedication April 18, 2018 by CAPT Bill Hughes, USN-(Ret.)
Scroll down to bottom for the C-Span Video of the ceremony.
On Wednesday, April 18, I attended the dedication of the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots and Aircrew Monument dedication ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. The Monument honors the | 76 |
Programming passionately since 1988, David opened his own development studio in Central Georgia a decade<|fim_middle|> programmers and giving presentations at various tech gatherings related to the technologies he enjoys, and writing about best practices on numerous development stacks. | later. From 1998-2001 he built his business around the country and, in January of 2001, incorporated in the State of Georgia. As the web development industry continued to grow out of its infancy, David began to apply his skills and experience to startups that were advancing the state of the industry, leading teams in Georgia, Hawaii, Virginia, New York, California, Florida, and Arizona. David's work continues to sharpen the cutting edge of what is possible on the web, and has been validated with awards, industry certifications, and media attention from the likes of Reader's Digest and PC Magazine. David lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife Ekaterina and their son Solomon. He enjoys hiking in the mountains, connecting with other developers at local meet-ups, and quiet evenings at home with his family. He is actively involved in the development industry, mentoring other | 183 |
Yorkman Tello (Lima, Provincia de Lima, Perú, 21 de julio de 1989) es un futbolista peruano. Juega como mediocentro y su equipo actual es el A. D. Tarma de la Liga 1 de Perú.
Trayectoria
Cochahuayco y Unicachi
Tello inició su trayectoria en el año 2008 cuando debutó en la Segunda División del Perú con el América Cochahuayco, equipo<|fim_middle|> clave en el mediocampo del conjunto del sur, se proclamó campeón nacional tras golear 4-1 a Alianza Lima en Juliaca y perder 2-0 en Lima. Para la temporada 2020, Tello fue asignado como capitán del equipo, llevando la cinta en una jornada memorable, el 5 de marzo de 2020, cuando Binacional enfrentó en la Copa Libertadores 2020 a São Paulo de Brasil, con victoria por 2-1 a favor del Poderoso.
Clubes y estadísticas
Actualizado el 23 de octubre de 2021.
Palmarés
Campeonatos nacionales
1 Primera División del Perú: 2019
1 Copa Perú: 2017
Torneos cortos
1 Torneo Apertura de la Primera División del Perú: 2019
Torneos regionales
1 Liga Departamental de Arequipa: 2017
1 Liga Provincial de Arequipa: 2016
1 Liga Distrital de Paucarpata: 2016
1 Liga Provincial de Chucuito: 2015
1 Liga Distrital de Desaguadero: 2015
1 Subcampeonato Liga Departamental de Arequipa: 2016
Distinciones individuales
Once ideal de la Liga 1: 2019
Referencias
Futbolistas de Lima
Futbolistas del Club Deportivo U América Fútbol Club
Futbolistas del Club Deportivo Alianza Unicachi
Futbolistas del Club Atlético Minero
Futbolistas del Club Deportivo Binacional FC
Futbolistas del Club Deportivo Alfonso Ugarte
Futbolistas del Cusco Fútbol Club
Futbolistas de la Asociación Deportiva Tarma | filial de Universitario de Deportes. En 2011 pasó a formar parte del Alianza Unicachi, que por primera vez integraba la segunda división tras su paso anterior por la Copa Perú. Tello llegó a Unicachi gracias a Jorge Ágapo Gonzales, entrenador durante su etapa en Cochahuayco que ahora asumía la conducción de este equipo. El 8 de mayo de 2011 debutó con Unicachi en la victoria por 2-0 sobre Hijos de Acosvinchos y 10 días después anotó su primer gol en el empate 1-1 ante Alfonso Ugarte por la fase preliminar del Torneo Intermedio 2011, partido que después ganaron por penales.
Atlético Minero y Alfonso Ugarte
En 2012 llegó a otro club de la segunda división peruana: el Atlético Minero, donde estuvo tres temporadas, debutando el 20 de mayo de 2012 en la derrota por 1-0 ante Atlético Torino. En la siguiente temporada anotó su primer gol con el club en la victoria por 2-0 sobre Deportivo Coopsol. En total acumuló dos goles en 60 cotejos con el club de Matucana.
En 2015 pasó a las filas del club Deportivo Binacional de Puno que disputaba la Copa Perú. Con este equipo salió campeón de la Liga Provincial de Chucuito, pero quedando eliminados en la primera fase de la Etapa Departamental de Puno 2015. A partir de agosto de 2015, Tello reforzó momentáneamente a otro club de Puno: Alfonso Ugarte, que se había retirado de la segunda división para disputar la Copa Perú 2015. Con este equipo disputó la primera fase de la etapa nacional, quedando sin opciones de avanzar a la segunda parte del campeonato.
Binacional
Al año siguiente, Tello, volvió a Deportivo Binacional, que en 2016 empezó a formar parte de la liga distrital de Paucarpata en Arequipa. Ese año Binacional arrasó en la liga distrital, saliendo campeón también de la etapa provincial y siendo subcampeón de la etapa departamental, clasificando a las fases finales de la Copa Perú 2016. El club llegó a disputar la finalísima, sin embargo no pudo ascender a la primera división peruana.
Gracias a la tercera posición de la finalísima 2016, Binacional empezó su participación en la Copa Perú 2017 a partir de la primera fase de la etapa departamental, sin pasar por la etapa distrital ni provincial. Binacional hizo una excelente campaña ese año, proclamándose campeón del torneo y ascendiendo a primera división para el siguiente año.
Tello se mantuvo en el equipo, debutando en primera división en la primera fecha del Torneo de Verano, la cual se disputó el 3 de febrero, en la cual cayeron por 2-0 ante Cantolao. El 7 de noviembre marcó su primer gol en el Campeonato Descentralizado en la victoria por 2-1 sobre Sport Boys. Binacional redondeó una buena campaña en su primera experiencia en primera división, clasificando incluso a la Copa Sudamericana 2019.
El 3 de abril de 2019 debutó en un torneo internacional frente a Independiente en Argentina por la Copa Sudamericana, sin embargo Binacional cayó derrotado 4-1. A menudo jugando como titular en el mediocampo junto a Edson Aubert, ayudó a su equipo a salir campeón del Torneo Apertura 2019, el primer torneo de primera división de Binacional en su historia. Asentado como pieza | 912 |
Ethnic Naxi people toast better life in Tibetan red wine(1/9)
2019-07-15 08:26:23 Xinhua Editor :Li Yan
Photo taken on Oct. 14, 2011 shows an old woman of Tibetan ethnic group making wine at home at Naxi Township, Mangkam County, Chamdo, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. Tibetans generally serve guests highland barley wine. In a township 1,000 km from Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region, where some people of the ethnic Naxi group live, locals welcome guests with indigenous red wine instead. The township gets its name from the ethnicity of the inhabitants -- the ethnic Naxi people, though most of whom live in Yunnan Province, Tibet's neighbor. Under the jurisdiction of Mangkam County, Chamdo, Naxi Township is the only area for the Naxi minority in Tibet. It has an average altitude of 2,600 meters and a total population of 4,557. According to the annals of Mangkam County, a French missionary traveled to the township in the 19th century, bringing grape seeds and teaching locals to make wine. Grape plantation and wine-making have taken roots in the ethnic Naxi people since then. Red wine has therefore become a local specialty product there. Almost every family in the township knows how to make red wine through traditional natural fermentation methods. Apart from drinking red wine, local residents also sell them. Without fancy and expensive packaging boxes, red wine produced by Tibet's Naxi people has gained popularity and has been playing an important role in helping locals shake off poverty in recent years. (Xinhua/Purbu Zhaxi)
Tibetan man Lurinde shows a 100-year-old grapevine at his home in Naxi Township, Mangkam County, Chamdo, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, June 3, 2019. Tibetans generally serve guests highland barley wine. In a township 1,000 km from Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region, where some people of the ethnic Naxi group live, locals welcome guests with indigenous red wine instead. The township gets its name from the ethnicity of the inhabitants -- the ethnic Naxi people, though most of whom live in Yunnan Province, Tibet's neighbor. Under the jurisdiction of Mangkam County, Chamdo, Naxi Township is the only area for the Naxi minority in Tibet. It has an average altitude of 2,600 meters and a total population of 4,557. According to the annals of Mangkam County, a French missionary traveled to the township in the 19th century, bringing grape seeds and teaching locals to make wine. Grape plantation and wine-making have taken roots in the ethnic Naxi people since then. Red wine has therefore become a local specialty product there. Almost every family in the township knows how to make red wine through traditional natural fermentation methods. Apart from drinking red wine, local residents also sell them. Without fancy and expensive packaging boxes, red wine produced by Tibet's Naxi people has gained popularity and has been playing an important role in helping locals shake off poverty in recent years. (Xinhua/Jigme Dorje)
A resident makes wine at home in Naxi Township, Mangkam County, Chamdo, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, June 3, 2019. Tibetans generally serve guests highland barley wine. In a township 1,000 km from Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region, where some people of the ethnic Naxi group live, locals welcome guests with indigenous red wine instead. The township gets its name from the ethnicity of the inhabitants -- the ethnic Naxi people, though most of whom live in Yunnan Province, Tibet's neighbor. Under the jurisdiction of Mangkam County, Chamdo, Naxi Township is the only area for the Naxi minority in Tibet. It has an average altitude of 2,600 meters and a total population of 4,557. According to the annals of Mangkam County, a French missionary traveled to the township in the 19th century, bringing grape seeds and teaching locals to make wine. Grape<|fim_middle|>i group live, locals welcome guests with indigenous red wine instead. The township gets its name from the ethnicity of the inhabitants -- the ethnic Naxi people, though most of whom live in Yunnan Province, Tibet's neighbor. Under the jurisdiction of Mangkam County, Chamdo, Naxi Township is the only area for the Naxi minority in Tibet. It has an average altitude of 2,600 meters and a total population of 4,557. According to the annals of Mangkam County, a French missionary traveled to the township in the 19th century, bringing grape seeds and teaching locals to make wine. Grape plantation and wine-making have taken roots in the ethnic Naxi people since then. Red wine has therefore become a local specialty product there. Almost every family in the township knows how to make red wine through traditional natural fermentation methods. Apart from drinking red wine, local residents also sell them. Without fancy and expensive packaging boxes, red wine produced by Tibet's Naxi people has gained popularity and has been playing an important role in helping locals shake off poverty in recent years. (Xinhua/Jigme Dorje)
Staff members trim grapevines at the East Tibet Treasure Winery Co., in Naxi Township, Mangkam County, Chamdo, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, June 3, 2019. Tibetans generally serve guests highland barley wine. In a township 1,000 km from Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region, where some people of the ethnic Naxi group live, locals welcome guests with indigenous red wine instead. The township gets its name from the ethnicity of the inhabitants -- the ethnic Naxi people, though most of whom live in Yunnan Province, Tibet's neighbor. Under the jurisdiction of Mangkam County, Chamdo, Naxi Township is the only area for the Naxi minority in Tibet. It has an average altitude of 2,600 meters and a total population of 4,557. According to the annals of Mangkam County, a French missionary traveled to the township in the 19th century, bringing grape seeds and teaching locals to make wine. Grape plantation and wine-making have taken roots in the ethnic Naxi people since then. Red wine has therefore become a local specialty product there. Almost every family in the township knows how to make red wine through traditional natural fermentation methods. Apart from drinking red wine, local residents also sell them. Without fancy and expensive packaging boxes, red wine produced by Tibet's Naxi people has gained popularity and has been playing an important role in helping locals shake off poverty in recent years. (Xinhua/Jigme Dorje)
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A staff member shows a bottle of wine, which won a gold medal at the Asian Wine Competition in 2017, at the East Tibet Treasure Winery Co., in Naxi Township, Mangkam County, Chamdo, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, June 3, 2019. Tibetans generally serve guests highland barley wine. In a township 1,000 km from Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region, where some people of the ethnic Naxi group live, locals welcome guests with indigenous red wine instead. The township gets its name from the ethnicity of the inhabitants -- the ethnic Naxi people, though most of whom live in Yunnan Province, Tibet's neighbor. Under the jurisdiction of Mangkam County, Chamdo, Naxi Township is the only area for the Naxi minority in Tibet. It has an average altitude of 2,600 meters and a total population of 4,557. According to the annals of Mangkam County, a French missionary traveled to the township in the 19th century, bringing grape seeds and teaching locals to make wine. Grape plantation and wine-making have taken roots in the ethnic Naxi people since then. Red wine has therefore become a local specialty product there. Almost every family in the township knows how to make red wine through traditional natural fermentation methods. Apart from drinking red wine, local residents also sell them. Without fancy and expensive packaging boxes, red wine produced by Tibet's Naxi people has gained popularity and has been playing an important role in helping locals shake off poverty in recent years. (Xinhua/Jigme Dorje)
A resident checks the grapevines at a plantation in Naxi Township, Mangkam County, Chamdo, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, June 3, 2019. Tibetans generally serve guests highland barley wine. In a township 1,000 km from Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region, where some people of the ethnic Naxi group live, locals welcome guests with indigenous red wine instead. The township gets its name from the ethnicity of the inhabitants -- the ethnic Naxi people, though most of whom live in Yunnan Province, Tibet's neighbor. Under the jurisdiction of Mangkam County, Chamdo, Naxi Township is the only area for the Naxi minority in Tibet. It has an average altitude of 2,600 meters and a total population of 4,557. According to the annals of Mangkam County, a French missionary traveled to the township in the 19th century, bringing grape seeds and teaching locals to make wine. Grape plantation and wine-making have taken roots in the ethnic Naxi people since then. Red wine has therefore become a local specialty product there. Almost every family in the township knows how to make red wine through traditional natural fermentation methods. Apart from drinking red wine, local residents also sell them. Without fancy and expensive packaging boxes, red wine produced by Tibet's Naxi people has gained popularity and has been playing an important role in helping locals shake off poverty in recent years. (Xinhua/Jigme Dorje)
Staff members work at the East Tibet Treasure Winery Co., in Naxi Township, Mangkam County, Chamdo, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, June 3, 2019. Tibetans generally serve guests highland barley wine. In a township 1,000 km from Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region, where some people of the ethnic Naxi group live, locals welcome guests with indigenous red wine instead. The township gets its name from the ethnicity of the inhabitants -- the ethnic Naxi people, though most of whom live in Yunnan Province, Tibet's neighbor. Under the jurisdiction of Mangkam County, Chamdo, Naxi Township is the only area for the Naxi minority in Tibet. It has an average altitude of 2,600 meters and a total population of 4,557. According to the annals of Mangkam County, a French missionary traveled to the township in the 19th century, bringing grape seeds and teaching locals to make wine. Grape plantation and wine-making have taken roots in the ethnic Naxi people since then. Red wine has therefore become a local specialty product there. Almost every family in the township knows how to make red wine through traditional natural fermentation methods. Apart from drinking red wine, local residents also sell them. Without fancy and expensive packaging boxes, red wine produced by Tibet's Naxi people has gained popularity and has been playing an important role in helping locals shake off poverty in recent years. (Xinhua/Jigme Dorje)
A resident greets guests with wine at home in Naxi Township, Mangkam County, Chamdo, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, June 3, 2019. Tibetans generally serve guests highland barley wine. In a township 1,000 km from Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region, where some people of the ethnic Nax | 1,180 |
West Coast Challengers held its 2nd Annual "Charcoal & Challengers" club BBQ and family day event. Club members were once again invited to bring their families and pets to a local park for a day of relaxation, fun and games, and of course plenty of food and refreshments.
Some members decided to meet up 7:00 a.m. for a short caravan into the park together, while others chose to arrive later in the morning. With dozens of Dodge Challengers parked together, the parking lot became a tourist attraction for many park visitors.
During the morning, while waiting for the BBQ's to heat up, some club members took the time to explore and enjoy the park, while many others chose to sit back and enjoy a relaxing day in the sun while visiting with fellow club members.
Some club members stayed all day and others just stopped by to say hello and catch a hamburger or hot dog. Even the park rangers came by to partake in our BBQ<|fim_middle|> with our first "Charcoal & Challengers" event, everyone enjoyed themselves and are already looking forward to next years' BBQ and picnic. | feast laid out for the club members. Like last year, three picnic tables were needed to hold the spread of food and drinks generously donated by the club members.
After lunch, the club members enjoyed playing games, flying kites, and renting bicycles. The club held several games which the winners each received a $25 gift card for gasoline or other prizes.
Once again, many of our newest club members came out to enjoy the day with us and it was a pleasure meeting and getting to know them all, and we all enjoyed their company.
In what seemed to be no time at all, the day was over, it was time to say good-bye, and the job of packing up and going home was upon us. As | 147 |
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Cognitive development has been an important area of research among many theorists in the past. The study of cognitive development includes the study of the development of cognitive functions, processes and abilities (Demetrious, Doise, & Van Lieshout, 1998). Wick-Nelson and Israel (2000) assert that cognitive development remains an important area of research in the field of contemporary psychology. Piaget formulated a stage theory of cognitive development, and although one can draw certain assumptions from this regarding moral development, it does not address it directly. Kohlberg's theory of moral development, on the other hand, addresses moral development directly, which, indirectly, builds on Piaget's theories of cognitive development. This implies a theoretical relationship between these two theories, even though Kohlberg's theory goes beyond Piaget's initial formulations (Flavell, 1982). In this study, this theoretical relationship is investigated. The goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between formal operational thought and post-conventional moral reasoning, specifically. In order to investigate this relationship, a correlational research design was used. The two main variables, i.e. formal operational thought and moral reasoning, were measured by means of Kohlberg's Moral Judgement Interview (MJI) and the Similarities sub-test of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – third edition (WAIS-III). A biographical questionnaire was also included in order to gain information that could be used as independent variables (e.g. age, race, gender, etc.). This was used to categorize the data for the purposes of the statistical analysis. The assessments were done on 150 undergraduate psychology students. The demographic characteristics of the sample were as follows: - Age group: 17-35 years of age - Gender: 36 male and 114 female - Race: 83 Black, 41 White, 16 Indian, 9 Coloured and 1 Asian. Although the sample size was adequate to perform parametric statistical analyses, the level of measurement, which was ordinal, only allowed for non-parametric analyses. Given the fact that the sample was not representative of the general population, only tentative conclusion could be drawn from the results. To this effect, the study was able to show that there are indications that a significant relationship exists between the level of cognitive development and the level of moral development. This finding warrants the further investigation between these two constructs. A significant relationship between maternal education levels and moral development was also found, which is contrary to the findings of other, similar studies. This finding seems to suggest that there might be certain unique factors in the South African population that may affect moral development in different ways than in other, western populations. It is strongly recommended that these differences be addressed in future research.
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What is a term or idiom for "blah blah blah" talk?
I am looking for a term or and idiomatic expression to convey the concept of "empty, irrelevant" talk. I am thinking about those situations in which people want to express their ideas on facts about politics, economics, religions etc, but they have no real information about what they are talking about so they often repeat phrases they heard on TV programmes or comment using set phrases like: "that's the way things are".
He is always commenting on the US election campaign but what he says is just....(the expression I am looking for)
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Is inconsistency an important part of the concept you are looking for? – András Salamon Mar 29 '16 at 15:35
Sigh... did you look in the archives? There are dozens of questions asking about this feature: 1 Is there a word similar to Verbatim that means "Too many meaningless words used"? 2 Opposite of "straight talk" 3 Word for a person who talks without content – Mari-Lou A Mar 29 '16 at 17:14
4 What is the name of the tactic that politicians use to bury people with torrent of words? 5 Speaking for the sake of saying something – Mari-Lou A Mar 29 '16 at 17:15
6 Word to describe "when someone describes something in too much detail" 7 What is the word that means conversation where no important information is conveyed? – Mari-Lou A Mar 29 '16 at 17:24
I cannot post an answer, but looking up the perfect German match, "Gelaber", sends me to "slislop", "spiel" and "drivel". I think "slipslop" is a good match, and hasn't been mentioned. – TheBlastOne Mar 30 '16 at 8:36
Similar to another answer, I'd suggest "blather".
Consider:
What are you blathering on about?
and your
He is always commenting on the US election campaign but what he says is just blather!
TecBratTecBrat
Or blabber(ing) (but that might be American English?) – poepje Mar 30 '16 at 7:20
I would more associate "blabber" with "blab" as in failing to keep a secret. – TecBrat Mar 30 '16 at 10:19
If you want a Scottish word, "havering" springs to mind. – Laconic Droid Mar 31 '16 at 14:20
I just re-considered what I said about "blabber" being equal to "blab". There's a set phrase of "Blabbering idiot" as well as "babbling idiot", so the telling of the secret isn't always the case. – TecBrat Apr 1 '16 at 13:55
The term prattle comes to mind (often) when announcers are trying to fill a 24 hour news cycle with 24 minutes of news. I think it would also apply to people repeating what they heard.
Definition from google: talk at length in a foolish or inconsequential way. "she began to prattle on about her visit to the dentist"
I have never heard the phrase "trying to fill a 24-hour news cycle with 24 minutes of news," but wow that's a great one. – KRyan Mar 29 '16 at 21:17
Well, there's the old favorite claptrap:
Absurd or nonsensical talk or ideas: such sentiments are just pious claptrap
Mid 18th century (denoting something designed to elicit applause): from clap + trap.
Given the rather direct etymology it's almost a perfect fit to political jaw-flapping.
He is always commenting on the US election campaign but what he says is just....noise.
From Merriam-Webster Online definition 2.e
irrelevant or meaningless data or output occurring along<|fim_middle|>) pre-speech vocalisations that babies/toddlers make ("goo goo ga ga aboo bah", etc), and can also be applied as an insulting term for an adult's speech, implying that what they are saying is meaningless.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/babble
eg "What in God's name are you babbling about, sir?"
Max WilliamsMax Williams
I suggest Rhetoric.
In the arena of politics, I feel this fits best because what is said is usually carefully crafted phrases with no real meaning. The language is often designed to influence or persuade without making actual commitment.
: language that is intended to influence people and that may not be honest or reasonable
: the art or skill of speaking or writing formally and effectively especially as a way to persuade or influence people
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"He is always commenting on the US election campaign but what he says is just rhetoric."
Or if the person often repeats phrases, you could extend to "... the same old rhetoric.".
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I don't see it in the definition, but I've always seen the connotation to imply that for some known reason, this type of content is to be expected from the speaker. – Jammin4CO Apr 5 '16 at 20:13
single word - vacuous:
lacking in ideas or intelligence: a vacuous mind.
expressing or characterized by a lack of ideas or intelligence; inane; stupid: a vacuous book. - Dictionary.com
expression - hot air:
Informal. 1. empty, exaggerated, or pretentious talk or writing: His report on the company's progress was just so much hot air. - Dictionary.com
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"Regurgitate/regurgitation might cover the "repeat phrases they heard on TV programmes" part of your description but you'd probably need to add something to capture the "set phrases" and/or "inconsistent" parts:
What he says is just "[a series of] regurgitated [phrases//factoids//non-sequitors/sequuntur]."
What he says is just "[a series of] {boring/nonsequitous/inconsistent} regurgitation."
Actually, perhaps my favorite word (from @jimm101 's good answer) to use with "regurgitated/regurgitation" in your context would result in:
"What he says is just [a series of] regurgitated platitudes."
(from 'Information Management for Development Organisations' by Mike Powell, via 'Google Books'}
"What he says is just [a] regurgitation of platitudes."
(from 'The Southern Partisan, also via 'Google Books')
Regurgitate
1 formal to repeat facts or ideas that you have heard or learned without understanding them or thinking about them for yourself
(from 'MacMillan Dictionary')
For two food words that have slang meanings similar to the "'empty, irrelevant, talk" part of your question that would go well with "regurgitated" to capture the (imo, important [see below]**) "often repeat phrases" part of it and which would create a perhaps fitting "double-entendre" image to help reinforce your message, you could consider "regurgitated tripe" or "regurgitated baloney":
*… but what he says is just regurgitated tripe/baloney."
(here's an example of the use of "regurgitated tripe" in a political context from 'Sex and Murder' by Douglas Allen Rhodes and there's one here for "regurgitated baloney" from the 'Daily Labor Report', both via 'Google Books')
tripe n.
1. the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, esp. oxen or sheep used as food.
2. Slang. something, esp. speech or writing, that is false or worthless.
[1250–1300; ME < OF]
baloney or boloney n.
1. Slang. foolishness; nonsense.
2. BOLOGNA .
--- interj.
3. Slang. nonsense.
[1915–20, Amer.]
(both definitions, with emphasis added, from 'RANDOM HOUSE KERNERMAN WEBSTER'S College Dictionary')
**(I see the "often repeat phrases" part of you question as important because it's what makes it different from the questions cited as possible duplicates)
Papa PoulePapa Poule
How has "drivel" not been submitted?
JohnAllenJohnAllen
Yammer.
The politico yammered on about his plan's free services and lower taxes.
Urban Dictionary - Yammer to speak incessantly about nothing.
Merriam-Webster - customers yammered on for what seemed like days about the billing mistake
Tony EnnisTony Ennis
Jargon could be used although it doesn't imply that he was attempting to make sense, just that you couldn't make sense of what was said/read.
Welcome to the forum! It's useful to give references and a definition to support your answer. You might get down-voted if you don't. – jimm101 Mar 29 '16 at 13:53
Well believe it or not you could actually use the word blah and make complete sense. Other words that can be used are: rant, claptrap, bombast
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I want to suggest the use of the word barbaric or barbarian. The source of barbaric applies more directly to this example. Greeks used to mime the unintelligible speaking of northern foreigners as 'bar bar bar bar'. This eventually lead to bárbaros, and later barbaria in Latin and eventually barbarian. The similarity to the 'blah blah blah' is obvious.
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And it led to some great lyrics. – Hot Licks Mar 30 '16 at 18:42
Barbaric neither implies nor connotes empty or meaningless. – frank May 12 '16 at 17:20
Referencing something as a Barbaric culture implies that it is a meaningless or useless culture from their perspective. To refer to a group as technological barbarians also implies there tech is useless or meaningless. – PCSgtL May 17 '16 at 17:05
I would suggest recycling of old tropes
trope: a common or overused theme or device (M-W)
in the sense that commentators tend to fall back on well-used clichés when they have nothing new to say, in order to try (usually unsuccessfully) to convey the impression that they are knowledgeable or up-to-date about a subject.
Charl ECharl E
If slight readjustment is acceptable:
He is always commenting on the US election campaign but he's just talking off the top of his head.
off the top of one's head (not comparable) Adverb[ial] ...
(idiomatic) In an extemporaneous manner; without careful thought, preparation, or investigation.
[Wiktionary]
Edwin AshworthEdwin Ashworth
A non prepared, off the top of one's head thought may well be accurate though and not irrelevant. – ypercubeᵀᴹ Mar 30 '16 at 6:53
I'll give you an example: Instead of saying "enough blah blah blah" or "I don't wanna hear your blah blah blah" you can say "Enough small talks" or "I don't wanna hear your Small talks".
You can say "bullshits" or "Rubbish" but it's pretty rude.
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Both "small talk" and "bullshit" are almost always mass nouns, not count nouns. – AakashM Mar 30 '16 at 9:23
Agreed; this doesn't sound right to me as a native speaker. It could be "enough small talk", or "I don't wanna hear your BS". Also, "small talk" isn't perjorative, in general; I can't imagine anyone coming out and saying "I don't want to hear your small talk". It would just be odd. – Jenn D. Mar 31 '16 at 18:35
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You may be looking for idle talk:
idle or foolish irrelevant talk.
...what they say is just idle talk.
Seems to me that idle talk is used more for talk about idle or frivolous subjects, rather than being a way to talk about a subject which may not itself be idle at all. – KRyan Mar 29 '16 at 21:13
Platitudes is apropos.
a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.
the quality or state of being flat, dull, or trite:
the platitude of most political oratory.
(Dictionary.com)
a remark or statement, especially one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful
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jimm101jimm101
I'm surprised nobody suggested 'BS'.
He is always commenting on the US election campaign but what he says is just BS
I'd also suggest slightly modifying the sentence and using the word 'canned' (drop the word 'just' in that case.)
He is always commenting on the US election campaign but what he says is canned
You could even go for the combo:
He is always commenting on the US election campaign but what he says is canned BS. He's just full of ... facts.
Responding to @josh61, maybe 'fluff' is more what you're after:
He is always commenting on the US election campaign but what he says is just fluff
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You can write the full form, the OP is not a native speaker and might not know it's short for bull shitting. – Mari-Lou A Mar 29 '16 at 17:43
I think that the problem with BS is that it might also refer to informed and precise talk about a subject whose view and content is just not shared by the listener. – user66974 Mar 29 '16 at 17:49
@Josh61 It might refer to that, but the word never means that—in the speaker's opinion, it very much isn't that (perhaps because the view and subject are not shared), and the word is being used to express the belief that the talk isn't that. – KRyan Mar 29 '16 at 21:12
On the other hand, bullshit doesn't quite seem right to me. For one thing, bullshit is not necessarily mindless repetition of stock phrases; it can alternatively be very cunningly crafted deceptive, or at least obfuscating, statements. – KRyan Mar 29 '16 at 21:15
I think you need to explain what BS stands for. It's ok on here. – Jasmine Mar 29 '16 at 23:33
I would say that to ramble is a good word.
HarshaHarsha
Seems right. Jabber too. or yadda yadda yadda – Dan Shaffer Mar 30 '16 at 14:35
To ramble means to move aimlessly from one topic to another. However it does not mean that the person is saying something that is meaningless or uninformed. – MetaEd♦ Mar 30 '16 at 19:33
This seems to be more of a UK/Australian term. It is used when someone talks or writes at length without much substance. It can be intentional (to fill time) or unintentional (when one believes one is saying something of value). It is usually used as a verb:
Get to the point, don't waffle!
My teacher waffled on for half an hour without answering my question.
But it can be used as a noun as well:
The essay was full of waffle.
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As a UK speaker, this seems perfect to me. – StuartQ Mar 30 '16 at 13:22
Google's results says in North America, waffle more means "to fail to make up one's mind": merriam-webster.com/dictionary/waffle 2nd definition – user1359 Mar 30 '16 at 13:49
It's not been suggested by anyone, and it has an onomatopoeic quality to it.
Drone echoes the sound blah, blah, which Oxford Dictionaries define as: Used to substitute for actual words in contexts where these are felt to be too tedious or lengthy to give in full It also reminds me of Charlie Brown's teacher who never actually spoke a single coherent word, but only in wah wahs.
speak tediously in a dull monotonous tone.
synonyms: speak boringly, go on and on, talk at length, intone, pontificate, spout, sound off, jaw, spiel, speechify, bloviate.
Example: "The voice of the teacher droned on monotonously about some mathematical formula, but the normally attentive teenager had other things on his mind."
This is actually what I thought the original poster was asking for, based on the title. I'm glad you mentioned it. But it sounds like s/he's not going for the literal "blah blah blah" as much as the concept of meaninglessness. If it HAD been the former, I would have suggested "walla", which I've heard used in theatrical contexts when you want to convey the concept of background crowd noise or speech. – Jenn D. Mar 31 '16 at 18:31
Consider, blatherskite
: (chiefly North American) foolish talk, nonsense
Mid 17th century: from blather + skite, a Scottish derogatory term adopted into American colloquial speech during the American Revolution, from the Scottish song Maggie Lauder, by F. Semphill, which was popular with American troops.
: nonsense, blather
He is always commenting on the US election campaign but what he says is just blatherskite.
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I was just going to say "blather", but it's so similar to this one... – TecBrat Mar 29 '16 at 15:05
@TecBrat I feel like blather is still commonly used while blatherskite is more quaint. Either way, I would upvote blather if you listed it separately. – Todd Wilcox Mar 29 '16 at 15:26
@ToddWilcox Done – TecBrat Mar 29 '16 at 15:35
Poppycock
empty talk or writing, nonsense
It's a non-rude, slightly humoristic word that fits well with the OP's original sentence.
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Poppycock is from the Dutch for soft shit so I'd say it's not exactly non-rude. But it's about the best suggestion here, in my opinion, precisely because of its original meaning. – frank May 12 '16 at 17:18
I didn't know the original meaning in Dutch, but I never heard it in a rude context in English. It's more of a somewhat humorous remark, I'd say. – legrojan May 13 '16 at 7:40
I think that when the English colonists first took it over, it retained a somewhat blunt and semi-humorous aspect, as several Dutch words with a similar origin did. Among them are 'poop deck' and 'hush puppies'. But now I am going off-topic.... – frank May 13 '16 at 8:24
I'm surprised that no-one's suggested babble - this is a word which can be applied (without insult) to the sort of meaningless (to anyone else | 1,655 |
Often referred to as a culinary vegetable<|fim_middle|> extracts, and oil capsules. | , celery seed is botanically known as Apium graveolens. Celery seeds come from the celery plant that features segmented leaves and white-petaled flowers. These flowers produce small celery seeds that are tan and dark brown in color. The seeds have a strong but not overpowering smell.
Purposely grown for its faintly fragrant and flavorful seeds, the celery plant appears to have originated in the Middle Eastern regions. During ancient times, celery seeds have been used in India's Ayurvedic medicine to cure colds, arthritis, water retention, and weak digestion.
Around 30 A.D., the seeds were used to alleviate bodily pain as chronicled by the Roman encyclopaedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus. Today, aside from performing as a uterine stimulant, celery seeds act as a flavor enhancer to add to soups, dressings, pickling mixes, and cocktails. They are often incorporated into many of the Cajun and French dishes.
Celery seeds are also full of volatile oils, anti-oxidants, linoleic acid (an omega-6 fatty acid), and flavonoids. When it comes to availability, celery seeds can be purchased in various forms such as fresh or dried seeds, | 257 |
The<|fim_middle|> woods cover the northern area of the reserve.
Historical monuments: the upper part of Bergamo, the St.Vigilio Medievalcastle and the abandoned Astino monastery.
Many routes follow the flights of steps, the roads (which are limitedupstream by dry walls and enriched with blind arches) and the paths,going over the hills (starting from "Colle Aperto" in the upper town). Inthe north you can go on typical mountain excursions, which offer widepanoramic views ranging from the plain to the Mounts Orobie, which areoften covered by snow. | "Colli di Bergamo" park was created in 1977 and covers more than 4000hectares. It includes about 10 municipalities situated to the north ofBergamo. These municipalities together with the Province, the ValleBrembana mountain community and the municipality of Bergamo (the site)make up the consortium managing the park.
This natural reserve stretches from the upper part of Bergamo to thecalcareous slopes of Mount Alto (1146 m above sea level). It includesmany particular hills, which are very interesting both from anaturalistic and from an architectural point of view.
The green areas stretching from the plain to the first mountains of theBergamask territory make up a whole with the country buildings, the smallchurches, the mule-tracks and the small flights of steps. Nowadays, as inthe past, the terraces of these hills are cultivated with difficulty byfarmers. Some | 197 |
In our approach to solution-focused practice we distinguish two kinds of finding places of solutions. The first kind of finding place is within the client (or client system). We call solutions which are found within the client's experience. They are things the client has already done before and which have helped. Because internal solutions are found within the client's own experience they have several advantages. One is that the client can apply them himself<|fim_middle|> own experience. | without the help or training of other and without being dependent on external resources. Also, clients often feel motivated to apply internal solutions because they support their sense of independence and autonomy. The second finding place of is outside the client (system). Solutions found here, we call external solutions. External solutions can come from places like books, from expert advice, from benchmarks, etc. External solutions often require some amount of training, guidance, support and resources in order to be implemented. They can be quite useful of course but can be less unobtrusive and motivating than internal solutions. The table below shows all places where solutions can be found.
Quadrant 0: No solutions have yet been found, neither within the experience of the client, nor are solutions from the outside abvailable.
Quadrant 1: Only external solutions have been identified.
Quadrant 2: Only internal solutions have been identified.
Quadrant 3: Both internal and external solutions have been identified and they may overlap.
When in quadrant 0 a search might start for solutions. It would be useful to have a clear idea about where to start looking first. Which quadrant to start looking in first is at least in part dependent on the situation you're in. When coaching a person in a solution-focused way, by default you may start to help the client trying to find internal solutions because of their agency supporting or autonomy supporting advantages. On top of that internal solutions often have the benefit of fitting exactly to the situation of the client. Quadrant 2 is not always necessarily the best place to start looking for solutions. In certain circumstances it may be wise to start focusing on external solutions. For instance in the case of training or instructing people to learn some kind narrowly-defined skill. In some case you will also find yourself in a situation in which there are solutions which are internal and external at the same time. For instance when an advice (external solution) turns out to fit very well with the clients | 399 |
Have you always wanted to explore the Yukon? Fascinated by the ol' Gold Rush days? Why not get the full experience without even leaving the comfort of your home! The Yukon Bonanza Box brings your an array of new curated items from the smallest and most northern territory of Canada. This vast land is far greater than mining for Gold these days. Let them introduce you to new businesses, artisan products, and fun and unique treasures made directly from the North! This seasonal subscription will bring you items for your home, decor, culinary delights and more! What's inside their very first box?
Uncle Berwyn's Yukon Birch Syrup – delicious on some pancakes or on my yogurt with a little granola.
Firebean Coffee Roasters coffee – a big bag of organic, fair trade wood-fire roasted coffee beans from Whitehorse, had a chance to try and it was delicious!
Yukon Truck<|fim_middle|> amazing tasting, loving this mix of spice, orzo, roma tomatoes and mushrooms in this ready to make orzo by the Twisted Gourmet in Whitehorse.
8×8 Canvas Print of a Raven – Love this, put it up in my room, it's a beautiful print of a raven by Priska Wettstein in Dawson City. Hardly get to see ravens, but they are always on Dog Mountain when I go for hikes on Mt. Seymour.
Yukon, North of Ordinary Magazine – Fun to get a glimpse into their everyday with a local magazine. | Mug – Love love love this fun mug by The Collective Good in Whitehorse.
Detli' Soap by The Yukon Soaps Company in Mayo – Loving the crisp smell of north with this juniper and fireweed 'gin & tonic' soap.
Lingonberry Jam from the Yukon Wild Things – Some delicious jam with yummy flavors, perfect on my morning toast!
Yukon Wild Morel Orzo – Ohhh yummy, morel's are | 92 |
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is an 8-week, research-based course that combines cognitive behavior therapy skills with mindfulness attitudes and practices to help participants relate differently to their inner experiences. It is an empirically supported approach to helping to prevent the relapse of chronic depression and it is also proving useful with anxiety.
MBCT is a skill building course meant to complement psychological treatment, and should not be considered a standalone therapy. If you are interested in taking an upcoming MBCT course, you must first register for a free initial consultation with the teacher to make sure the program is right for you. You can register online or securely email the teacher to schedule your consultation appointment.
Join Certified MBCT teacher, Tracy Ochester, PsyD, RYT-200, 8 Wednesdays 5/8 – 7/3/2019 from 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm (no class 6/19) + Half Day Retreat Sunday June 23 from 9 am – 1 pm at 11100 Ash Street, Suite 103 Leawood, KS 66211. Deadline to enroll is 5/3/2019.
Register for a free initial consultation with the teacher to make sure the program is right for you: register online or email the teacher securely to schedule.
Interested individuals are also invited to attend a free introductory session to learn more about the course. The next one is scheduled August 3rd, 2019.
Fees are based on a<|fim_middle|> LLC, which manages payment and maintains all documents and records for this course. | sliding scale according to after tax household income. MAM members receive a discounted rate. Those who are able to pay more make it possible for providers to serve those with less. Payment in full is due by the course deadline and there are no refunds after this date. In the unlikely event that the course is cancelled, you will receive a full refund of the registration fee, but refunds will not be provided for any pre-arranged transportation, accommodations or other miscellaneous expenses.
Taking this course as a participant fulfills one of the requirements for becoming a Certified MBCT Teacher. MO & KS licensed mental health professionals can earn up to 20 continuing education units by participating in this course. MBCT is offered in partnership with Ochester Psychological Services, | 149 |
The "Most Heard Voice in Public Radio"
The "most heard voice in public radio" is being heard a little more often lately. Seems like everyone wants to talk to Frank Tavares about his new book, The Man Who Built Boxes and<|fim_middle|> the muse. There very seldom is inspiration, and when you have it, it's lucky, but don't count on it. The only thing about writing that you really need to understand is you have to get off your duff and sit down in front of the pad or the laptop and do it.
And so I found that, OK, maybe I don't have the critical mass of time. Maybe I might have on some days only 15 or 20 minutes, or even less than that. And maybe I don't write every single day. But the important thing is that I need to sit down as often as I can. And maybe it's just a sentence, maybe I'm rewriting a paragraph, maybe I'll have a day where I'll have the freedom to do a couple of pages, and that is just OK. Because sooner or later, it's like taking the step as you go on the journey. Every day it's a little bit more than you had the day before and pretty soon you turn around and you look and, son of a gun, there's the first draft of a story, and the rest of it is writing it."
Here are just a few of the other recent interviews.
discounted through the month of October. | other stories, his long career with NPR, and his writing life. The list keeps growing.
"This sounds a little harsh to somebody who might be starting out as a writer, but I've come to discover and realize and believe – this is me – there is no muse. You can't sit around waiting for | 62 |
Mountains and Plains
The Ecology of Wyoming Landscapes
Dennis H. Knight, George P. Jones, William A. Reiners, and William H. Romme
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An up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the ecology of Wyoming and adjacent Rocky Mountain states
Many changes—some discouraging, others hopeful—have occurred in the Rocky Mountain region since this widely acclaimed book was first published twenty years ago. Wildlife habitat has been fragmented at an alarming rate, the once-abundant sage grouse is now a candidate for protection by the Endangered Species Act, invasive plants and insects have become more common, and forest fires occur more frequently. Yet improved approaches to management and conservation have been adopted. For this updated and expanded Second Edition, the authors provide an easy-to-read synthesis of research pertinent to natural resource management, focusing in particular on Wyoming and adjacent parts of neighboring states.
Exploring the region's wetlands, plains, intermountain basins, foothills, and mountains, along with landscapes of special interest—Greater Yellowstone, the Black Hills, Bear Lodge Mountains, and Devils Tower, the Laramie Basin—the authors discuss an array of land management and conservation issues, always taking into account the implications of climate change. They offer answers to the questions that motivated the writing of this volume: How can ecosystems be used in ways that enable future generations to benefit from them as we have? How can we anticipate and adapt to climate changes while conserving biological diversity?
Dennis H. Knight is professor emeritus, Department of Botany, George P. Jones is associate director and vegetation ecologist, Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, and William A. Reiners is J. E. Warren Professor of Energy and Environment, all at the University of Wyoming. William H. Romme is professor emeritus and research scientist, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University.
"Written with authority and passion, this second edition of Mountains and Plains is a treasure trove of information on Wyoming's grand ecosystems. It's a must-have for the serious ecologist, resource manager or weekend naturalist."—Cathy Whitlock, Institute on Ecosystems, Montana State University
"There is an extensive glossary, especially useful in a book so rich in detail, a book as likely to be consulted as a reference as to be read straight through. . . . The remarkable level of accuracy in the book's writing and editing makes the work virtually error-free."—David M. Armstrong, Great Plains Research
"The inter-relationships between vegetation, soils, topography, history and other factors are stressed throughout the book, which will surely be a valuable text both in Wyoming and in adjacent states, and which would be excellent reading for any ecologically minded visitor to the state. The book is well-produced and informatively illustrated throughout."—Kew Bulletin
"One of those rare books that will appeal to the whole spectrum of ecological reader from casual wildflower enthusiast to serious researcher."—Chris Madison, Editor, Wyoming Wildlife
"An excellent description of Wyoming landscapes that will become the definitive work for all those interested in this fascinating region of our country."—Paul G. Risser, president, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
"This is a very readable book that is equally attractive to the serious researcher and to travelers who appreciate the great diversity that<|fim_middle|> Wyoming Tribune Eagle
"David Knight and his coauthors have compiled an amazing wealth of information on the ecosystems and species of Wyoming landscapes. . . . As a rare synthesis, the book is fundamental for anyone aiming to understand these ecosystems of the American West."—Szabolcs Lengyel, Conservation Biology
The Covenant of the Wild
Why Animals Chose Domestication
Stephen Budiansky
Manual of Ornithology
Avian Structure and Function
Noble S. Proctor and Patrick J.
Exploration and Discovery
Treasures of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
David K. Skelly and Thomas J.
Michelangelo's Finger
An Exploration of Everyday Transcendence
A History of the Ecosystem Concept in Ecology
More than the Sum of the Parts
Frank B. Golley
Persephone's Quest
Entheogens and the Origins of Religion
R. Gordon Wasson, Stella Kramrisch, A. P.
Science > Life Science
Science > Environmental Studies
Science > Natural History | exists in Wyoming landscapes."—Jane Sullivan, First Lady of Wyoming
"A well-organized, well-written labor of love by a man eminently knowledgeable about his topic. The writing is crisp, clean, and readable by nearly everyone. Ecological theory is skillfully interwoven with descriptions of the numerous and varied biotic communities in Wyoming. . . . Mountains and Plains is a fine accomplishment, and worthwhile reading for both professional and layman alike."—H. J. Harju, Prairie Naturalist
"A stimulating primer on the ecology of the Intermountain West and the scientific inquiry that these landscapes engender."—Cathy Whitlock, Yellowstone Science
"We students of vegetation should read the book for ourselves and then share it with friends who want to know more about the U.S. West."—Dr. Jane H. Bock, Journal of Vegetation Science
"At once very engaging reading, an important reference work, and a superb entree into the scientific literature."—Michael B. Coughenour, New Biological Books
"Dennis Knight has distilled decades of learning about Wyoming landscapes into this wonderful book that combines the best of ecology and natural history. . . . I hope this book will stimulate scholars to prepare books that examine the landscapes of other territories in western North America, and that they will be done with the thoroughness, balance, and style makes this book so informative and fun."—Dan Binkley, Northwest Science
"A must for any naturalist visiting this state, and if only a book like this were available for other areas of the United States."—Bryan Sage, Country-SIDE
"This book is useful to a relatively broad audience, from undergraduate students to advanced researchers. There is enough detail and literature citations to provide an excellent introduction to most of the landscapes of the Rocky Mountain region. The book would be very appealing for field courses in ecology and conservation biology using this region as a classroom. . . . An important resource for students of Rocky Mountain ecology. It provides a synthetic approach to understanding the ecology and wise land use management of one of North America's greatest natural regions."—William D. Bowman, Ecology
"Mountains and Plains, 2nd Edition is truly a remarkable and comprehensive piece of scholarship. I know of no other book with similar focus, scope, and insight."—Donald R. Zak, University of Michigan
"Knight, Jones, Reiners, and Romme have tackled a large, complex topic and have woven some remarkably clear stories. Very well done."—Dan Binkley, Colorado State University
"Would that a book like this were available for every state!"— Donald A. Windsor, Science Books & Films
"An extraordinary and highly readable explanation of the Wyoming landscape for anyone involved with the use, study, or preservation of our resources from beneath our feet to the horizon."—John Schiffer, rancher and Wyoming state senator
"Technically accurate and gracefully written. The authors have spent much of their careers studying the plant and animal life that make Wyoming one of the most engaging landscapes in North America. From the flower-strewn tundra of the Beartooth Plateau to the alkali pans of the Red Desert, Mountains and Plains explains in straightforward terms why the region is the way it is. A great reference; a great read."—Chris Madson, editor emeritus, Wyoming Wildlife, and author of When Nature Heals
"Any curiosity about Wyoming's landscapes will make this book a real page turner."—Bard Gorges, | 718 |
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Grand Opening ~ Feb. 12th, 1975
Don Coquet (left), Frank Bourgault (right)
Frank Bourgault – Farmer, Innovator and Community Leader
Ever since he was a boy, Frank Bourgault had shown inventive abilities, combined with good mechanical instincts. As a young man, Frank built a gas engine powered snow toboggan long before snowmobiles were developed. He also patented a new type of root rake for the family farm. In 1969, Frank was a 44 year old farmer and partner in the Massey Ferguson farm implement dealership in St. Brieux, Saskatchewan. During his time at the dealership, Frank earned a reputation as an excellent farm equipment mechanic by solving problems that other mechanics were unable to solve. This often included making modifications to existing designs to make the equipment work in the area. Since the area around St. Brieux was extremely stony and hard on equipment, Frank gained experience on every make of cultivator in the countryside. He learned the strengths and weaknesses of each machine down to the individual components. Problems with existing designs included excessive shank bending, poor residue clearance, lack of soil penetration capability, and poor weed kill. Frank felt that he could produce a cultivator design that could overcome many of the shortcomings he saw in his shop and in the field. His goal was to do so while producing an implement that could do the job of both a chisel plow and a cultivator, eliminating the need for farmers to purchase both machines.
Bourgault B24-28 ~ 1973
1st Building ~ 1975
Between 1969 to 1973, Frank tested and developed his cultivator from the Massey Ferguson dealership with the help of his sons, partners and local farmers. The first prototype model, a 16 foot unit, was built in 1970 for $1,300. In the following years more and larger units were built and sold. The units were so well received that Frank, along with his business partner in the dealership, Don Coquet, began to consider mass production.
Frank Bourgault, Don Coquet, and Frank's eldest son Gerry, incorporated F.P. Bourgault Industries Ltd. on May 4, 1973 and began to establish a manufacturing facility. Frank recruited Paul Leray as a partner to assist him in building the facility and to act as the plant's Production Manager. Paul had obtained considerable experience in farm equipment manufacturing with Doepker Industries Ltd. of Annaheim, Saskatchewan. Paul also had extensive farm equipment knowledge having been a farmer and implement dealer for many years.
F.P. Bourgault Industries Ltd. Established – The Timing Was Right
In December of 1974, right in the middle of the largest equipment demand boom ever seen, a manufacturing facility was officially opened in the southeastern corner of the village of St. Brieux. The plant included a 4,000 square foot production area and an 800 square foot office. Recruiting local people, Bourgault Industries began with a work force of 10, mostly welders and metal fabricators. They were mainly younger and middle-aged farmers. One of Frank's goals with the establishment of his enterprise had been to provide local employment opportunities for the community for those being forced off the farm by low grain prices. Frank's enterprise provided seasonal and full time employment for many in St.Brieux and the surrounding community. By February 1975, a second shift of 12 production workers was put in place to meet the demand for the new cultivators and mounted harrows. In the spring of 1975, the first major run of 75 cultivators and mounted harrows went into service in various locations throughout Western Canada.
Family Members Fully Support Frank's Vision
Gerry joined the company full time in May of 1975. He had recently graduated from the College of Engineering with honors, receiving his degree with Great Distinction. Upon completing high school Frank's second son, Joseph Bourgault, began travelling throughout the province as a sales representative, recruiting implement dealers to retail Bourgault's new Dual-Purpose Cultivator. Claude Bourgault, Frank's third and youngest son, also joined the company after completing his high school education.
In the spring of 1976, Bourgault Industries recruited Richard Coquet, Frank's nephew, from B.C. Hydro. Rick was a Civil Engineering graduate from the University of Saskatchewan, earning his degree with honors. By the spring of 1977, the design team, comprised of Frank, Paul, Gerry and Rick, had developed the agricultural industry's most advanced and durable cultivator, the Bourgault Vibra-Master. From 1976 to 1979, nearly 1,000 cultivators were manufactured, keeping the staff, now numbering approximately 100, extremely busy. More cultivator designs evolved during this period to expand the tillage line from a width of 36 feet to include models with widths of 40 and 50 feet.
Air Seeder Carts Added to the Product Line Up
In 1978, Frank acquired the rights to manufacture a unique seed metering system from Jerome Bechard, a well known Saskatchewan inventor. The Bechard Seeding System became the heart of the new Bourgault air seeder. After a two year design and development effort, the Bourgault Model 138 Air Seeder was introduced. The first 7 air seeders were manufactured in the fall of 1980 followed by a production run of 40 more units in the winter and spring of 1981.
Model 138 Air Seeder
The Model 138 was the first air seeder to be towed behind the cultivator, giving the operator an unobstructed view of all of the shanks. The Model 138 Air Seeder could quickly be disconnected, freeing the cultivator for other fieldwork. This concept of a tow-behind unit has served as the model for virtually all of the air seeders currently being produced throughout the world.
In 1982, Bourgault introduced the first five-row, dual-purpose cultivator design which provided residue clearance on a narrow spaced cultivator that even exceeded that of a chisel plow. In the spring of 1984, a quick-change mounted packer system was introduced to the market. This innovative design allowed farmers to interchange harrows and packers on their seeding unit, depending on the farmer's seeding requirements. A four wheel model air seeder cart, the Model 180, was developed and went into production in the fall of 1984. This 180 bushel unit was designed for the largest farming operations of that time. When the unit was first introduced, many farmers commented that nobody would ever have a need for a unit this large! The Model 135, with the same frame as the Model 180 was later released, replacing the three-wheeled Model 138. A new and innovative air seeder option was introduced, which allowed farmers to load and unload their air seeder tanks without having to drag an auger to the field. A full floating hitch, five-row cultivator was also released for production in 1984. The unique design increased the cultivator's contour following capabilities and produced more uniform opener penetration. Bourgault's floating hitch design basically ushered in a new era in cultivator design where cultivators were no longer primarily designed to till the soil and kill weeds, but rather to accurately and uniformly deposit seed.
F.P. Bourgault Industries Ltd. Creates Two Divisions
In November 1985, F.P. Bourgault Industries Ltd. was reorganized into two divisions. F.P. Bourgault Industries Cultivator Division Ltd. remained at the original site in the village of St. Brieux and F.P. Bourgault Industries Air Seeder Division Ltd. was located just ½ a mile north of St. Brieux. Frank Bourgault retained the position of President for both Divisions. Each division was responsible for the development, manufacture and support of their respective lines. However, the two divisions operated as one marketing entity using a common sales force.
5 Row Dual Purpose
Product Line Expands Further
The Cultivator Division went on to develop a full line of floating hitch chisel plows from 28 feet to 60 feet. It also acquired a tillage tool manufacturing line from the defunct Co-op Implements Ltd. and began to manufacture tillage openers. The production equipment was moved from Portage La Prairie, Manitoba to St. Brieux. It was here that the design team developed a new concept of a long wearing sweep opener called the Parallel Wing sweep. Although a revolutionary concept at the time, this design is now commonly used by a wide range of manufacturers.
The Air Seeder Division was responsible for the production and expansion of the air seeder cart line. However, it also began the development of other agricultural products. These included the Convert-A-Bar, Centurion Field Sprayer and 4000 Wing Type Packer product lines. Patents were applied for and issued for many of the product designs developed during this period.
In the summer of 1991, the Cultivator Division sold the large equipment product line to the Air Seeder Division to focus exclusively on the tillage tools line under a new and more appropriate name. The new company was called F.P. Bourgault Tillage Tools Ltd. It became the main provider of tillage tools for Bourgault's cultivator line; however, also produced tillage tools for other<|fim_middle|>5700 Air Hoe Drill. The development of the 5710 Air Hoe Drill soon followed along with the development of the 4000 series of air seeder carts, several models of field sprayers, the 4700 Air Coulter Drill, the 1100 Grain Cart and the Series 20 Mid Row Banders.
Series 20 MRB®
One of most significant equipment developments in Bourgault's history has been its coulter Mid Row Bander® system. In the early 1990's, Bourgault Industries Ltd. pursued the development of a side-banding, double shoot opener for one pass seeding and fertilizing. However, during testing, Bourgault's designers found that side banding openers could not consistently provide good results over the full range of field conditions. The consensus was that a better one-pass seeding solution was required to provide farmers with a high level of seed safety and the highest levels of emergence over the full range of soils and moisture conditions expected to be encountered by the seeding units. The system, which utilized a coulter opener between every second seed-row to apply nitrogen fertilizer, was first pursued and developed with the cooperation of Garry and Glenn Meier of Meier Bros. Farm in Ridgedale, Saskatchewan and Peter Kondratowicz Sr. and his sons at the Kondratowicz's farm at Unity, Saskatchewan. Released for production in 1995, the Bourgault Mid Row Bander® system allowed farmers to apply any form of nitrogen fertilizer, in a one-pass seeding operation, while eliminating the possibility of seed burn and minimizing seedbed disruption.
4700 Air Coulter Drill
The period between 1995 and 2004 saw the release of new products including the 5000 series of air seeder carts, 750 Grain Cart and the Series 25 MRB II. Bourgault also entered the hay handling market with the development of the 1650 Round Bale Mover.
In the fall of 1992, Bourgault Industries Ltd. had identified an opportunity to set up a steel profile cutting facility. A stand alone, steel sheet and plate profile cutting division was created to not only provide profile cut parts for Bourgault Industries Ltd., but also to other surrounding manufacturers. It was called CNC Precision Profiles Plus. This division was soon operating at full capacity, producing parts with a computer-controlled oxygen and natural gas unit. A plasma cutting system for cutting lighter material was later added.
Model 4350 Air Seeder
Mark II Laser Cutter
CNC Precision Profiles Plus has grown steadily and today operates five state of the art laser cutting machines, three of which are linked to an automated material handling system which allows for cutting without having human operators present.
During 1995, Bourgault Industries Ltd. purchased a controlling interest in the local plastic product manufacturing company, Free Form Plastic Products Inc., which supplied the sprayer tanks, air curtains for sprayers, and various other plastic products. Free Form Plastic Products continues to provide plastic components to Bourgault Industries Ltd., and is also marketing several lines of products under it's own name and Fenderco™ Fenders.
On May 23rd, 2006, Bourgault announced the acquisition of Highline Mfg. Inc. of Vonda, Saskatchewan. The company was renamed Highline Manufacturing Ltd. with its head office remaining in Vonda, Saskatchewan. Highline had developed an excellent reputation for producing quality products and standing behind them. Its core product was its industry leading line of bale processors. It had a skillful and experienced staff that Bourgault saw as a solid base for moving the company forward. Since 2006, Highline created an industrial division to produce a highly innovative family of mower designs.
Bourgault Industries Ltd. began marketing its products in the U.S. in the late 1970's because it had the cultivator of choice for mating with Prasco's line of air seeders. Many cultivators were sold into the U.S. market in 1979 and 1980. Unfortunately, Prasco went into receivership soon after and other manufacturers picked up Prasco's market share. Bourgault continued to sell its products into the northern U.S. but only at a modest pace. To increase its penetration into the U.S. market, it was considered necessary to establish a physical presence. After researching several locations, Minot, North Dakota became the location of choice. In August 1994, fifty-eight acres of land was purchased on the northern end of Minot, along highway #83. A new 30,000 square foot facility was built to serve as the company's U.S. headquarters.
U.S. Office in Minot, ND
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Armadale, WA
In 1995, Bourgault Industries Ltd. entered the Australian market with an agreement with a local farm equipment manufacturer, Forward Engineers Pty., to manufacture all of the larger components and provide final assembly for distribution of Bourgault cultivators and air seeders across West Australia. After a few years, Bourgault Industries Ltd. took over the marketing and distribution of it's own products in Australia. Shortly after, Bourgault built a new assembly and distribution facility in Armadale, Western Australia, just adjacent to the city of Perth. From this location Bourgault Australia oversees warehousing, product assembly and product support for all Bourgault equipment in the country. A second distribution facility in Parkes, New South Wales, has been set up to service Australia's east coast. Bourgault has developed various Australian specific product lines, such as the AU Series air seeders carts, the 11-15 meter tri-plex floating hitch cultivator and the HVB hydraulic trip assembly that better suits the particular requirements of Australia farmers.
Distribution Facility
Parkes, NSW
Seeding Unit in Ukraine
Bourgault Industries Ltd. has also developed markets in Eastern Europe and Asia. In 2002, Bourgault began the distribution of equipment in this region, primarily in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. A strong network of dealerships has developed over the years. Recently, a sales and support services office has been opened in Kiev, Ukraine to provide a base of operations for Eastern European sales and service staff. Because of the solid performance of the equipment and dedicated support of its staff, Bourgault has become one of Eastern Europe's major suppliers for seeding equipment.
3310 PHD™
Bourgault's facility in Minot, North Dakota will enter a new level of service in the fall of 2008. In addition to providing sales and service support for Bourgault products sold in the U.S., this facility will include the production of PHD™ and MRB® assemblies plus provide final assembly of 3310 PHD™ units for sale in the U.S. and Western Canada.
Since acquiring Highline Manufacturing, Bourgault has gradually shifted selected Bourgault products to Vonda to help fully utilize this plant's capacity. A significant setback was experienced July of 2007 with a major fire at the plant. However, Highline has since repaired and rebuilt, making major improvements along the way. A 12,000 square foot expansion is being added to the existing plant and the creation of a second production line in the existing plant area will double the plant's capacity by the fall of 2008. This will allow Highline to take on manufacturing of additional Bourgault products, and accommodate the additional demand expected to be generated for Highline's new and innovative products, primarily its line of rotary mowers.
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Bourgault is Very Well Positioned for Future Success
The success of Bourgault Industries Ltd. would not have occurred without the dedication and skill of the talented team of men and women who are the backbone of the company. Their contributions have been crucial in building the company's reputation for producing high quality products and providing superior service to its customers. They have been key to making Bourgault Industries Ltd. the world leader in air seeder technology. With a continued focus on product development, the increased use of automated manufacturing, the proliferation of Lean methodology throughout the company, continued market expansion and aggressive efforts to find and recruit the most talented team members, Bourgault Industries Ltd. is looking forward to meeting the challenges that lie ahead. | lines. Since its formation in 1991, F.P Bourgault Tillage Tools Ltd. has greatly expanded its product line and market area, becoming a world leader in field opener technology.
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Between 1992 and 1995, Bourgault continued to expand its tillage equipment line up and developed the Model | 78 |
A Year of Borrowed Men
By Reviewed by Margaret Crompton on May 1, 2017
By Michelle Barker, illustrated by Renne Benoit. Pajama Press, 2015. 40 pages. $18.<|fim_middle|>, he was born in Germany. He has lived in England for many decades. Although our families were "enemies" when we were born, we have known nothing but friendship with each other. This book reminds me that such friendship is a precious fruit of peace that requires eternal vigilance and attention to the little things.
Margaret Crompton (Britain Yearly Meeting) is a writer and lecturer whose publications include Pendle Hill Pamphlet #419 Nurturing Children's Spiritual Well-being.
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As a child of World War II, born on the edge of London in 1941, I was intrigued by the voice of Gerda, growing up in Germany at the same time. When I was a child, Germans were "the enemy." I could not have imagined having her as a friend. Gerda Schlottke grew up to live in Canada and become the mother of writer Michelle Barker. Barker captures her mother's memories in this book, which includes photographs of Gerda, her home, parents, and siblings.
In 1944, when she was seven, three French prisoners of war were sent to the family farm to work in the place of German men taken to fight. Although they were officially feinde (enemies), the family regards them as freunde (friends), and endeavored to make them comfortable. This was dangerous and could lead to imprisonment. Eventually, the French men were free to return home. Although this story describes kind people peacefully risking severe penalties to remain faithful to their values, it is no idyll. Gerda's brother and father were killed, and when the war ended, Russian soldiers "liberated" the farm animals.
The text is clear and accessible to young readers. The narrative is interesting for reading aloud. The illustrations are beautiful full‐page, and sometimes double‐page, spreads, all in generous color. For me they combine clarity and immediacy with an evocative quality from the picture books of my own childhood.
I have no hesitation in recommending this book for families, meetings, and schools. The apparent simplicity of style and narrative offers opportunities for exploration of such matters as the definition of "enemies," how people change and behave under oppression and stress, how friendship can be demonstrated in the little, unassuming acts of everyday life.
Since the 1940s of my childhood, Germans are "enemies" only in novels and films. But there is in the twenty‐first century no shortage of so‐called "enemies." The challenge of this book is to ask: How can we escape from the bondage of defining as "enemies" people who don't conform to our narrow definitions of "friends"? How can we welcome, accept, and value people we think of as "them"?
My friend's granddaughter has been looking at books with me. My friend was born a few months before me, and like Gerda | 509 |
Chaplains Comforting Oregon Residents After Destructive Ice Storm
By Earl Davidson • February 27, 2021
Crisis-trained chaplains with the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team are offering emotional and spiritual care in Marion County, Oregon, after a disastrous ice and snow storm devastated the area on February 12.
The weight of the ice snapped branches and toppled trees, which brought<|fim_middle|> region that contains an estimated 3 million of Oregon's 4.2 million population. Chaplains also visited this area during Franklin Graham's 2016 Decision America Tour.
Please keep Marion County in your prayers as repairs are underway and residents simply do their best to stay warm and remain hopeful. | down power lines in the process. As many as 150,000 people were reportedly without power as temperatures hovered just north of freezing in the wake of the massive Pacific Northwest storm.
Though socially distanced, chaplains offer a woman comforting words and prayer during a difficult time.
"The amount of damage that an ice storm can do is catastrophic. Our hearts go out to those who lost loved ones and suffered property damage," said Josh Holland, assistant director for the Rapid Response Team. "We feel honored to be able to send crisis-trained chaplains to talk and pray with those who were impacted, and to share the love of Jesus Christ with that community."
Chaplains also take time to talk and visit with first responders when possible during these types of deployments. In many cases, these individuals prioritize serving their communities over their own needs.
The storm was so strong, it split large trees like this one like twigs.
Salem Evangelical Church is serving as the base of operations for the Rapid Response Team and Samaritan's Purse, a ministry that will help homeowners with the cleanup process.
Knocking on doors and checking on neighbors is one way the chaplains minister to residents in this area. Chaplains are happy to listen, talk and pray with anybody in need.
Salem, the capital of Oregon, sits an hour from the ocean and an hour from the mountains. It is nestled in the Willamette Valley, a | 294 |
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By Charlie Ridgely - March 8, 2019 05:45 pm EST
Fans of both history and Nic Cage can breathe easy today as it Disney CEO Bob Iger guaranteed that there was still some life left in the National Treasure franchise. We might not see the third film in the series any time soon, but it's far from dead.
Iger took questions from shareholders during Disney's annual meeting on Thursday in St. Louis, Missouri. While many of these shareholders asked about the situation with the parks or Disney's upcoming streaming service, one woman knew exactly what question the world needed answers to, and she asked Iger directly. "What's going on with National Treasure 3?"
Thankfully, Iger didn't shy away from the question, as he revealed that the third installment in the beloved mystery franchise is still a regular topic of conversation with producers and executives. Jerry Bruckheimer, who brought the franchise to life for Disney, still wants to make a third movie. The only problem at this time is that the studio hasn't found the right way to make it all work. So, while there is still interest in making National Treasure 3, Iger said that "nothing has been greenlit" just yet.
It's unfortunate to hear that the sequel isn't already in the works, but this should be seen as good news for fans. There is still life left in National Treasure, and getting a sequel at Disney should only get easier from here. With the acquisition of 21st Century Fox, Disney will have more movie-making resources than ever, not to mention a shiny new streaming service launching later this year. The company is already working on several original films for the Disney+ service, and National Treasure 3 would likely be a great project for that format. So if losing money in theaters is the issue, Disney will soon have a solution.
Do you want to see Disney bring back the National Treasure franchise? Let us know in the comments!
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Sutter County Clerk Recorder Donna Johnston, the County's Registrar of Voters, has achieved the highest professional honor one can acquire as an Elections Official. After completing 12 core courses taught by the Master's in Public Administration faculty of Auburn University, she was designated as a Certified Elections/Registration Administrator through the Election Center's Professional Education Program.
Courses included ethics, voter registration, election law, planning, communications, and voter registration.
Sutter County voters can have confidence in the elections conducted by Sutter County. Congratulations Donna, and good work.
Sutter County received word on Thursday that it will be receiving a Challenge Award from the California State Association of Counties for a one-of-a-kind collaboration between Sutter-Yuba Behavioral Health Services and Rideout Regional Medical Center's Emergency Department that imbeds Behavioral Health workers in the Emergency Department, saving valuable time and hospital bed space when individuals are being diagnosed for possible mental health issues.
Emergency Departments across the country are facing a crisis. Patients who present with mental health issues must be evaluated by mental health workers, in addition to any other medical condition they might have. It takes time to get a mental health worker to the hospital, and hospital beds for psychiatric care are increasingly hard to come by. Because Sutter-Yuba Behavioral Health workers have been stationed at Ride<|fim_middle|> reviews of original design and construction, taking into account comparison with the current state of the practice, are needed for all components of dam projects. These reviews should be thorough, taking advantage of all available information; critical and independent, rather than relying largely on the findings of past reviews; and completed by people with appropriate technical expertise, experience, and qualifications to cover all aspects of design, construction, maintenance, and failure modes. | out's emergency department since late 2015, however, the time it takes to evaluate patients with potential mental health issues has been decreased, and so has the need for psychiatric hospital placement. In short, patients are spending less time in the emergency room and fewer are being hospitalized altogether.
If patients need to speak to a psychiatrist for evaluation, Rideout's Emergency Department provides the service remotely through tele-medicine. It greatly speeds the diagnosis.
CSAC is an organization that provides lobbying and continuing education for California's counties. Its Challenge Award program recognizes excellence in local government programs. Because Sutter-Yuba Mental Health Services is a bi-county agency providing services to both Sutter and Yuba counties, Yuba County will be receiving a Challenge Award as well. The awards will be presented at a future joint event. Stay tuned!
Sutter County Fifth District Supervisor Mat Conant (left) and Sutter County Administrative Officer Scott Mitnick on Wednesday, September 6, toured some of the areas preserved under the Natomas Basin Conservancy Plan. The goal of the NBHCP is to preserve, restore, and enhance habitat values found in the Natomas Basin while allowing urban development to proceed according to local land use plans. The basin is comprised of parts of northern Sacramento County and parts of southern Sutter County.
Sutter County Fifth District Supervisor Mat Conant arranged a tour by kayak of some of the preserved areas in the Natomas Basin that fall under the Natomas Basin Conservancy Plan (NBHCP) on Wednesday.
The Natomas Basin Conservancy Plan (NBHCP) applies to the 53,341-acre interior of the Natomas Basin, located in the northern portion of Sacramento County and the southern portion of Sutter County. The Basin contains incorporated and unincorporated areas within the jurisdiction of the City of Sacramento, Sacramento County and Sutter County.
The purpose of the NBHCP is to promote biological conservation along with economic development and the continuation of agriculture within the Natomas Basin. The NBHCP establishes a multi-species conservation program to mitigate the expected loss of habitat values and incidental take of protected species that would result from urban development, operation of irrigation and drainage systems, and rice farming.
Physical inspections, while necessary, are not sufficient to identify risks and manage safety. At Oroville Dam, more frequent physical inspections would not likely have uncovered the issues which led to the spillway incident.
Comprehensive periodic | 501 |
Tomato season is here in Maryland! I am so in love with sweet summer tomatoes. I haven't had much time to cook during the week lately, so right now we are focusing on making huge batches of things that reheat well. Curry is one of those things, and a great way to use up the huge bags of tomatoes we are getting in the CSA. This chickpea vindaloo recipe is something that I started making in college, long before going the vegan route.
Over the past few months I have had the pleasure of cooking lots of recipes by Vegan Richa, and I learned from Richa that freshly toasted & ground spices are so worth taking the extra time for. I used to make this vindaloo with ground everything and the flavor just pops so much more with a fresh curry paste. Buying whole spices can be a bit of an up-front cost, but they last a lot longer on the shelf than their ground counterparts. If you don't have all of these whole spices in stock then feel free to mix and match whole vs. ground,<|fim_middle|>!! That's a really nice compliment. I hate the lighting in my new house so I am super happy and relieved to hear (read?) you say that. I really need to subscribe to Saveur 🙂 and I only saw this comment, so I guess you are in the clear, lol.
Lovely! I love Vegan Richa too 🙂 Such wonderful recipes. | as it will still taste really good.
I will make my standard disclosure here that I am making no claims of authenticity with this recipe. I have done my best to research what is classically included in this spice blend. I think this tastes pretty close to what they have at my favorite Indian restaurant, though. From what I understand, vindaloo was actually inspired by a Portuguese dish in the beginning, and the most important part is that it's very spicy and tangy. In particular, it seems to be up for debate whether potatoes should be used. That was an easy choice for me this time because we had potatoes that needed using.
An easy, flavorful gluten-free & vegan chickpea vindaloo - chickpeas in spicy and tangy tomato curry. Make your own vegan vindaloo at home using flavorful fresh curry paste. Note that you need to soak your chickpeas in advance.
Soak the chickpeas overnight, or for 1 hour using this quick soak method. Cover with plenty of water as they will nearly double in size.
In a large saucepan, warm the coconut oil. Add the onion and a pinch of salt, and stir. Cook for 3-5 minutes, until the onion is softened. Add the potato and stir.
Drain and rinse the chickpeas and add them to the pot along with the potatoes and 5 cups of water. Bring to a boil and then reduce to medium heat. Partially cover the pot. Continue to stir occasionally, and cook until the chickpeas are tender, about 40 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a skillet over medium heat, melt the coconut oil. When it begins to shimmer, add the cardamom pods, coriander seeds, peppercorns, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds, cloves, and bay leaves. Stir the spices continuously until they become fragrant and start to turn golden, 1-2 minutes. Remove from the heat and pan immediately.
Add the spice mixture to a blender along with the rest of the curry paste ingredients. Puree until a smooth paste is formed.
Once the chickpeas are cooked through, stir the curry paste and diced tomato into the pot. Continue cooking at medium heat, partially covered, and stirring occasionally. Add 1/2 cup more water if it starts to dry out. Cook until the tomatoes have broken down, 20-30 more minutes.
Add more salt to taste, and cayenne pepper if you want it spicier. Serve topped with fresh cilantro, over rice (pictured is brown basmati rice) or with other accompaniments of choice.
This chickpea vindaloo is a veganized adaptation combined from this chicken vindaloo recipe and this other vindaloo recipe.
Do you use green cardamom or black cardamom. I know they have totally different flavors and don't want to mess up.
So, just finished eating it and wow, really impressed. I've made quite a few curries and many are simply tomatoes mixed with chillies and coconut milk but this almost tastes like an authentic takeaway meal. You can really taste all the spices and it's hot and slightly sour that together works really well.
:/ ….. was I supposed to grind whole seeds before putting them in the pan?? Or are there supposed to be whole seeds in the paste? Have blended over and over… food processed over and over … seeds still whole:/ I have very good appliances… but it smells and tastes aaaamazing!!! I will try a ground version….
Hey Tara, Sorry that this caused you trouble. I used a Magic Bullet (a very small blender) for making this recipe so I may have overlooked that in larger appliances it would be difficult to grind the curry paste finely. For next time, add a little bit of a water at a time as needed to help blend. There may have just not been enough volume for your appliance to blend it. You can also toast and grind (with a spice grinder, or mortar and pestle) the whole spices before cooking them for just 30 seconds or so in the coconut oil. Hope this helps.
Thanks for posting great recipes! My sister and I are trying to slowly become vegans and your recipes are making it easier to transition. I love to cook so I'm excited to try a couple of your recipes. I was wondering if you have any videos of you making one of your dishes?
I am a new vegan and am just discovering Indian food. I went to my new favorite Indian restaurant this weekend and ordered something very similar to this and it was wonderful. I thought to myself – I must learn to make this! Already had this recipe pinned from before — can't wait to try it! Thank you!
I love making my own curry paste, they taste better than the packaged ones! Stunning chickpea curry and I love fresh cilantro on top of curries!
Congrats, Shannon, on winning the Best Main Dish category in last week's potluck! I luv luv luv vindaloo curry!
Thank you 🙂 people love their curries!
This is my kind of meal! My whole life has been taken over by tomatoes these last couple of weeks (I have a produce over-buying problem!) and I'm constantly looking for fresh ways to use them up. Chickpeas, tomatoes, and warming spices? I'm in!
I am having the same tomato problem! Well not really a problem, just an overload of deliciousness 🙂 I absolutely love them in curry so this one was a no brainer.
You're awesome for making your own curry paste. My idol! I need to get on that, this looks amazing! Freshly ground spices are truly much more flavorful than pre-ground!
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How do you encourage sports for your kids? Our daughter started her<|fim_middle|> stopping by, Julie. Have a terrific Tuesday! | first competitive team sport this year when the 5th/6th grade team needed to go down to 3rd grade to fill a team with subs. It was a lot of fun to watch her try, and even more fun when I got a chance to help out with coaching halfway through the season.
My husband and I have always promised not to be "that parent" when it comes to sports. Both of us came from families that encouraged positive sportsmanships and pushed us to do well, but didn't pressure us to perform. However, we've both seen overbearing parents, as well as the challenges that can exist for youth – not just their children, but others on their team.
How can you, as a parent, encourage your kids without too much pressure?
Here are a few things that our parents did, that has helped us as we're cheering our daughter on.
Focus on sportsmanship. Few kids are actually going to make a living in sports, but the skills improved by practicing good conduct on the playing field – grace under pressure, collaboration, encouragement, positive attitudes – will be with kids always.
Encourage effort and contribution. Our daughter is young for her grade and lagged behind the others simply because she was so young. However, we worked with her to figure out what she could contribute to the team. Two things our daughter excels at are energy and happiness. She ended up winning the team joy award for her positive attitude even when the team was down. She also made an impact in several victories by simply tiring out her defenders running in and out of the lane on the court, which meant the more talented players could come in and score later in the game by running past those defenders.
Be conscientious with praise. Don't praise too much, or it loses its meaning. When you do praise, focus on specifics. In the cases above, instead of telling her she played an awesome game – which, let's face it, she didn't – we specifically noted her energy, the fact that she got up after being knocked down, or something else that occurred in the game. This was also something the head coach did with all players after every game, and it was much more effective than generic praise that could be doled out whether or not we were paying attention.
Remember, it's just a game. If your goal is that your kids have a positive experience, then help make sure that it is!
Great tips. Bekah. Our oldest tried sports when she was younger, but she wasn't very good. My husband and I still tried to remain positive during her experience so that she wasn't discouraged.
These are great tips! Encouraging participation but still enjoying the game is how to get started.
Yes, it is so important to stay active. Thanks for stopping by, Natalie. Have a great night!
I agree, Julie. Thanks for stopping by. Have a great night!
Great advice! I especially like your point about being conscientious of praise – giving them out where deserved. I wonder if it's just as important to point out a few things for kids to improve on? Having something to strive for and work on is critical too.
We actually did do that too. After each game we'd pick out one thing she did well on, one thing she had improved on from previous games, and one goal for the next game. It was nice for her to have one goal for each game, instead of trying to master everything at once, and also nice for her to hear what we noticed had gotten better.
These are fantastic tips – so important for kids to learn good sportsmanship and that comes from the parents!
This is great. We are a huge sports family. My daughter has been playing soccer for 3 years now and loves it. It's starting to get competitive but we try and teach her that she's learning so much from it!
Love the advice about encouragement and praise. It's important to listen to kids as well, as to what they like to play. I have one daughter interested in cricket of all things, and from what I saw on the weekend the youngest may like soccer.
Cricket, wow, that is pretty cool. Glad to hear your kids like sports. Thanks for stopping by, Alicia. Have a terrific Tuesday!
My six-year-old used to play soccer. This fall he will start playing football and he's super excited. Glad to hear your daughter is enjoying soccer. Thanks for stoping by, Shannon. Have a terrific Tuesday!
Yes I agree. Thanks for stopping by, Kristi. Have a terrific Tuesday!
Glad to hear your kids are active. Thanks for stopping by, Natalie. Have a terrific Tuesday!
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Recently 8PawsUp.com had an opportunity to meet with Holly Lewis, Certified Professional Dog Trainer (CPDT-KA), owner and operator of Cold Nose Dog Training in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Holly is one of my "go to" trainers and has worked with many families on understanding what works and what doesn't work when training large breed pups.
Holly has been at this business for a while and for her it is truly a passion. Holly spent the better part of her life in Corporate America. The skills she honed there serve her well in the dog training world, such as presenting and teaching to diverse groups of people and identifying solutions to complex problems.
Many readers and their dogs haven't worked directly with a trainer while some may have used a trainer along with other obedience tools.
Holly met with me to answer some basic questions about puppy training, dog obedience and training large breed dogs such as Labrador Retrievers, as well. So let's share that doggy wisdom with you now!
8PawsUp: What don't most people understand about large breed dogs?
Holly: Big dogs can have different needs than small dogs. Due to their size, injury is a real risk. Keeping your dog in top physical shape, including a healthy weight, will help protect them from injury. Exercise Induced Collapse is more common in larger breeds as are knee injuries.
When a large breed dog is a puppy, it can be cute when they jump on or mouth a person. However, they soon will become a full size dog where cute puppy habits may not be as adorable. Teaching your large breed dog polite manners as a puppy will help set them up for success as they continue to mature. Manners will also endear your dog to strangers and others he may encounter.
I am an advocate of being aware of a dog's breed or breed mix and how that may factor into their behavior. People are often surprised their lab is mouthy. Looking back to its roots, a lab naturally works with its mouth. Instead of "training it out of them," look at how to work with the instinct, such as teaching the dog to carry a toy or bumper to occupy their mouth.
8PawsUp: What is the key tool or method in effectively training a dog?
Holly: It is important to reward the behavior you would like to be repeated and ignore the behavior you don't want to be repeated. If something is not reinforced (does not receive attention), it is less likely to be repeated. If a behavior is rewarded, it will be repeated! It shows the dog what the "right" behavior is instead of focusing on the less desirable.
8PawsUp: What is the biggest misconception about dog training?
Holly: The biggest misconception I hear from people is the need for dominance/alpha/pack leader in dog training. The study this theory is based on, involving wolves, dates back to the 1970's. Since that time, the study has been invalidated and shown to be inaccurate. Modern training methods are not only scientifically proven but are much more humane and safe. We help our dogs by setting and teaching rules and limits. We do not need dominance to achieve this. This is demonstrated with police dogs, drug sniffing dogs, bomb detecting dogs, hunting dogs and more who are all trained with non-force methods.
8PawsUp: What are your views on negative reinforcement methods? Do you agree with spray collars and even shock collars?
Holly: I disagree with negative reinforcement methods. I am not saying they will not work, however they work out of fear, which is more likely to bring forward aggression and other serious behavior concerns. I train based upon trust and building a relationship with my dog. Shock collars work using pain and fear. I have seen many dogs present with behavior issues as a result of shock collars. Spray collars are also an aversive, again creating fear, which can be problematic. I also do not recommend choke chains or prong collars. There are many effective & humane tools and methods to avoid using harsh items.
8PawsUp: Is it almost as difficult to train the owner as the dog?
Holly: Sometimes it can be harder to work with owners as they come with preconceived notions about how training should be and how to achieve the outcomes needed. In training, I am really teaching the owners the best way to get the response they would like from their dog. The owners actually train their dog.
8PawsUp: Is it possible for a dog not to learn? Is there any breed more difficult?
Holly: Any dog can learn. We simply need to determine their motivation and what will be rewarding from their perspective. We also need to be able to break the task down into small enough steps to achieve a successful outcome. Some breeds may be perceived as being more difficult to train. However, it goes back to determining the dog's motivator and tailoring the training to work with the dog. The training is also based upon the desired end result.
8PawsUp: Can you tell us the benefits that dog training classes have for Labrador Retrievers as opposed to training your dog yourself at home?
Holly: Classes provide a great opportunity to have a professional help owners refine their skills and provide a structured plan of learning. Classes help set aside time to work with our dog to achieve the skills we want and build our relationship. Many professional trainers, including myself, attend classes with our dogs for the added benefits.
8PawsUp: If you could give five tips when it comes to methods to stop a dog barking what are they?
Remove the stimuli or access to stimuli which causes the bark.
Redirect the dog away from the stimulus.
8PawsUp: What are your top tips when it comes to stopping your dog from peeing around the house?
Holly: If house-training is unreliable<|fim_middle|>.
Positive, non-forced based training with your dog will be a rewarding experience for both you and your dog. | , it is most important never to leave your dog unattended. Even if you have an adult dog, work on housetraining as if he's a puppy. I have even gone so far as setting a timer to remind me to let a dog outside. Be sure to offer loads of praise when your dog takes care of their business outside. If mishaps happen inside, do not make a big deal of it. Simply clean it up thoroughly and start from the beginning. If problems persist, be sure to get a full medical check from your veterinarian to rule out any medical issue.
8PawsUp: What are the most important things to remember when training Labrador Retrievers?
8PawsUp: Do you have any advice to give to someone who might want to buy a Labrador Retriever puppy?
Holly: When buying any puppy, it is critical to do your research. Are you ready to handle the energy and size of a lab? Ready to handle the potential challenges a lab may pose such as mouthiness, chewing and jumping? Our society has a strong stereotype of Labs, but not all characteristics hold true for each dog. For instance, many labs are easy going, fantastic family dogs, but some are not suited to families with small children due to their size and energy. The dog (insert breed) we remember growing up may not be the lab we adopt today.
Where are the dogs kept?
How are the puppies socialized? How do you assure the pup is exposed to new things in a positive manner and in what frequency?
What health tests do you conduct to assure health?
Are you able to meet both parents?
Consider if a puppy is right for you, or if you could open your home to an adult dog? There are many quality Lab rescues offering dogs which are healthy of all different ages. Rescue dogs do not all come with heavy baggage. Dogs are in rescue for many different reasons. Adopting a rescue dog is a rewarding experience! Most rescues or shelters can tell you a lot of information regarding the dog's temperament, likes/dislikes, energy level and more | 424 |
Off the Streets
A new initiative aims to get medically vulnerable homeless people into housing
By Mari Herreras
Guadalupe Cora looks around her studio apartment wide-eyed as she explains how she feels to have a bed to sleep on, a soft carpet to walk on and a refrigerator filled with food.
Cora, who has lived in her new home for just more than a week, is the first placement for 51 Homes, a Tucson initiative that's part of a national effort to house the most medically vulnerable homeless people.
Cora has lived on Tucson's streets and camps off and on for 12 years, all while living through a stroke, a debilitating accident she suffered at a temp job, and physical problems she's had since her thyroid was removed. She gets around with the help of a walker.
Cora made a fresh pot of coffee in her kitchen, and she eagerly offers coffee to everyone who walks into her new place.
"It sometimes feels strange not having to go walking everywhere, (and) not having to go to Guadalupe's," Cora says.
One of her stops always included picking up a sack lunch at the Casa Maria soup kitchen, which Cora refers to as Guadalupe's, the name Tucson homeless call the organization because of the Virgin de Guadalupe painted on the side. She'd share the sack lunches she picked up from Casa Maria and other organizations with her friends at a camp on the outskirts of Tucson.
Cora refers to those friends as "those guys," and they call her "nana," a Mexican nickname for grandmother.
"Those guys, we're like a family, more than family. We<|fim_middle|>. "51 Homes is very much a housing-first model."
Past models have been based on a homeless person's performance: Housing is a reward for working or being clean and sober for a period of time. Clark says he and other advocates learned that housing in and of itself is therapeutic.
"We know that people use less emergency services if they are housed rather than living on the streets. There are also fewer interactions with law enforcement. ... We know just by housing people and keeping them housed, their quality of life improves. We know they are going to cost the community less."
Now that Cora is in housing, she says she's interested in taking classes to get her GED, and she's interested in finding a job. Francis says she's looking into resources to help Cora achieve those goals.
Cora points to a picture of Jesus, as well as three rocks—representing the holy trinity—all sitting on top of her TV set, and explains how her faith helped during the worst times. While on the streets, she kept the rocks in a sock, which came in handy once when a man attacked her.
One of "those guys" ended up helping her chase the man off.
When asked what she wants to tell people about Tucson's homeless, Cora replies: "Mostly, don't be afraid of homeless. We are not criminals. That's how they judge us—drug addicts and thieves. ... Don't treat us like dirt." | take care of each other," Cora says. "I have to get out and see them. I have been missing them. It's a lot of shame."
Cora begins crying. "Someone else should have won this. A lot of people are in worse situations than I am."
Sharon Francis, clinical supervisor for La Frontera's RAPP (Readily Accessible People Program) drop-in center, is Cora's navigator—the person who helped identify Cora as eligible for 51 Homes and who is assigned to help her "navigate" various resources.
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Francis, one of about 100 volunteers who set out in 20 teams during 51 Homes' survey week, which began on April 11, tells Cora they can make plans to meet up with "those guys."
The 51 Homes volunteers canvassed targeted areas and used a vulnerability index created by New York-based Common Ground to assess which homeless are most at risk of premature death. The survey identified 186 people at risk, with 10 percent more than 60 years old; the oldest person identified is 88. Nineteen of those interviewed said they'd been homeless for more than 10 years, and one person claimed to have been homeless for more than 40 years.
W. Mark Clark, president and CEO of CODAC Behavioral Health Services and co-chair of the 51 Homes initiative, says the idea of housing the most vulnerable homeless people came from Common Ground, which started the national campaign called 100,000 Homes (100khomes.org).
Cities asked to participate usually have more than 1,000 people identified as homeless in the annual street count. Clark says Phoenix signed on last year with a goal of housing 50 homeless. Tucson made 51 its goal—to make sure it beat Phoenix.
Other Arizona communities involved include Sierra Vista and Flagstaff.
In Tucson, there are two goals: to find homes for 51 of the most medically vulnerable homeless people, and to collect information to improve homeless services.
Clark says one example of a change to improve services involved altering a city of Tucson policy for its Section 8 housing waiting list. Every six months, the city sent out a letter to those on the waiting list, and "if you didn't respond, they'd take you off the list. If you're experiencing chronic homelessness, you don't get regular mail," Clark says. "Well, now they've changed their policy."
Another change Clark is excited about is the fact that area agencies are adopting the vulnerability index to assess clients. Clark says the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation is now using the index for its intake process.
The index looks at specific indicators to assess medical risk: Does the client have tri-morbidity—in other words, have at least one health condition, plus a mental-health issue and a substance-abuse disorder? Hospitalized more than three times the past year? Older than 60? Have HIV/AIDS, a liver disease or cirrhosis, kidney disease or end-stage renal disease? Has the person suffered from a cold or wet-weather injury?
Clark says the city committed 27 of its housing Section 8 vouchers to 51 Homes, and the Veterans Administration committed 12 of its HUD vouchers. The Community Partnership of Southern Arizona committed 12 housing vouchers reserved for those in the public behavioral-health system.
"Our goal is to house the 51 within a year," Clark says | 736 |
Welcome to the Friday Roundup on… ummm… Friday!
It doesn't really matter why you are creating a video, where you are going to display it or even who the intended audience is.
The same concepts of pre-planning and preparation always hold true and are so often the difference between a project that achieves it's purpose and one that doesn't.
Here are few simple tips for your videos that apply to just about any situation regardless of what type of project you are engaging in.
Blogging as an online activity has been around for years now and I guess the old saying "many are called but few are chosen" definitely applies here!
Literally hundreds of thousands of people must have enthusiastically started blogging over the years only to find, after a few weeks, that it was all a bit hard!
Writing fresh blog posts week after week is not quite as easy as most people think!
A<|fim_middle|> is not a tutorial for sound effects. In fact, it really teaches us nothing about that at all but… it's a really cool video about sound effects and I don't know about you but I love that stuff!
Over the past few weeks I have been featuring some posts from the Magix magazine site introducing some of the features of their Pro video editing software Video ProX.
I was a little uncertain as to whether they would actually keep up with the posting schedule and last week figured they had gone the way of most bloggers by not realizing how hard it is to get something up on the site every week!
I waited for the post and nothing happened, however this week they have redeemed themselves by catching up and posting two articles to get back on track!
Calling All YouTube Attention Whores!
OK, let's face it, if you are putting you videos up on YouTube (or any other similar service) and you have not set the viewing options to "Private" then we can safely assume you want people to see it… right?
Given the astounding number (and growing) of videos available the competition for viewers is pretty cutthroat.
In light of that there is a series of articles here: Getting Your Video Online, that can help in doing that and in addition to that this week a great article from WebPresenters on some of the common denominators of successful channels.
The shared characteristics of the most popular YouTube channels?
The shared characteristics of the most popular YouTube videos?
Next up is a short but informative blog post from muvee offering links to a few sites that use video to either promote their brand or engage with their audiences.
A story that has been coming and going more greater frequency of late is that of frame rates used when capturing footage.
As audiences we are rather conditioned into looking at a movie on the big screen and expecting it to "look" a certain way.
A large part of that "look" is the fact that filmed movies are captured at a frame rate of 24 frames per second. The introduction of TV added a range of other frame rates and since then there have been ongoing discussions about which frame rate gives the greater experience.
Peter Jackson, in his recent production of the Hobbit used a frame rate of 48 frames per second because… well because we can do that these days!
I haven't seen it myself but I wonder about the gratuitous use of technology for the sake of it. After all, the technology is supposed to improve the process and not just be an end unto itself.
And finally some late additions from Lynda.com. A series of three tutorial videos designed for Final Cut Pro but containing some great insights into the use of coloring in your videos to create effects.
Don't sweat too much on the technicalities relating to the use of Final Cut Pro itself. Just use them to get an idea of what you can do and how to do it.
There are several key concepts to keep in mind when you want to change the time in day of your footage. Explore these and more in this tutorial.
This tutorial shows how to work with footage with cool colors in Magic Bullet Looks and Premiere Pro.
In this tutorial, find out how to adjust the contrast and exposure of your footage in order to achieve distinct moods. | viable solution to the problem of constant writing has been the emergence of Vlogging.
Instead of sitting down and writing regularly the blogger simply switches on a camera and starts talking.
Whilst it all sounds rather easy the reality is that the results can vary from very entertaining or informative through to downright awful.
The great advantage of using small portable devices like Smartphones to shoot video footage is that they are… well… portable! No matter where you are your video camera is right there with you.
One of the downsides is that the convenient size of these devices makes it very difficult to get smooth, steady shots.
There are a number systems available to help with this and many are very good although you should really think about your own shooting preferences and requirements before deciding.
OK this is not a resource for sound effects. It | 161 |
The RFS requires oil companies to blend increasing volumes of renewable fuels with gasoline and diesel, culminating with 36 billion gallons in 2022.
"A decade after the RFS2 was adopted, tremendous progress has been made toward achieving the objectives of this landmark policy," according to the analysis, which compares key data points from 2007 to 2017.
The greenhouse<|fim_middle|>9.6 million tons CO2e in 2017.
Meanwhile, the doomsday outcomes threatened by RFS opponents have simply not materialized.
U.S. cropland area fell 6% from 402 million acres in 2007 to 376 million acres in 2017, while U.S. grassland area has increased 5% from 1,296 thousand square miles to 1,359 thousand square miles.
World grain supply for coarse grains, wheat, and rice increased 31% to 3.23 billion metric tons in 2017, as compared to 2.46 billion metric tons in 2007.
*This article originally was produced by the Renewable Fuels Association and appeared on its website December 19, 2017. | gas emissions avoided from using ethanol has increased 291% from 12.7 million tons CO2e in 2007 to 4 | 33 |
Large-scale development presents affordability plans
The project's plan includes 73 affordable bed spaces.
By Caitlin Anderson
Jack Rodgers
The McDonald's located on the corner of Fourth Street Southeast and 15th Avenue Southeast is seen on Saturday, Aug. 31. The proposed development would replace Mcdonald's as well as other popular businesses such as Dinkytown Wine and Spirits.
A large-scale development proposed for Dinkytown has revealed its approach for affordable student housing.
The CA Ventures development, proposed at the current<|fim_middle|> a proposed inclusionary zoning ordinance, which requires developers to include affordable units in large developments, is also set to be voted on by the Minneapolis City Council. A definition for student housing could be part of this ordinance.
If passed, this definition means CA Ventures would need to comply with inclusionary zoning standards. But CA Ventures said they will be follow through on this plan regardless of what happens with the council.
Ward 3 City Council member Steve Fletcher and Minnesota Student Association members were among the proponents for reaching an improved definition and plan for student affordability.
"[This] would be the first new affordable housing built for students in decades, so I think that's really exciting," Fletcher said. His ward includes Dinkytown and the rest of Marcy-Holmes.
CA Ventures' affordability numbers take after proposed requirements for student housing under inclusionary zoning, with eight percent of the total 915 beds being affordable. CA Ventures was unable to be reached for additional comment at the time of publication.
Seventy-five percent of the affordable beds will be in double-occupancy units at $550 per month. Twenty-five percent of the affordable beds will be single-occupancy at $635 per month.
"Seeing developers that are willing ... to provide that resource is great," said Rebecca Cowin, MSA's local government and advocacy coordinator. "We're really happy with the fact that they are making explicit efforts to engage students."
This affordability plan will be included in the development's application next month.
The development team also announced it plans to allow qualified local businesses to have a discounted rate of 70 percent in the retail space below the apartments.
After being left out of the interim policy, the proposed definition for student housing only includes students who meet certain federal affordable housing eligibility requirements. Some federal guidelines would require applicants to be over the age of 24, married or a graduate or professional student.
Through an amendment to the proposal, Fletcher said he aims to expand the definition to allow for more traditional students and leases.
"We just have to define it a little bit differently," he said.
Under current city policy, CA Ventures would not need to include any affordable units.
But the inclusion of these units could help the proposal gain city approval. The project is proposing a height of 10 stories in an area that would typically only allow six. To justify the height, it needs to have significant community benefit -- a topic highly debated by community members.
James Farnsworth, MSA student representative to the Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association, said MSA is excited to be more proactive in the housing conversation near campus.
"It's an exciting time for affordability," he said.
Cowin said CA Ventures' approach can serve as a model for other student housing developments around campus.
"It's really important to set the precedent that they engage students specifically in their process, especially if it's going to be targeted towards us," Cowin said. "I would love to have way more affordable housing in Dinkytown … We will continue to try to push that and engage that, no matter what's getting built under what policies."
Neighbors seek greater University involvement amid Dinkytown development
Proposed Dinkytown development scraps 25-story proposal for shorter option
Under new proposal, some students could qualify for affordable housing | McDonald's lot, presented its affordable student housing numbers last week at a Minnesota Student Association event. The plan, which includes 73 affordable bed spaces, comes after months of conversation between the developers and community stakeholders.
Next month, | 46 |
A new production of Giuseppe Verdi's timeless tragedy, La Traviata, directed by Michael Mayer<|fim_middle|> disappears.
Alfredo believes she has merely thrown him over. When he later learns of her sacrifice and finds out that she is dying, he sets out to find her. | , will be screened at Godrej Dance Theatre, National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA) on Tuesday, 22nd January 2019. The new production features a dazzling 18th-century setting that changes with the seasons. The screening features the work of talented artists Diana Damrau (as Violetta Valéry), Juan Diego Flórez (as Alfredo Germont) & Quinn Kelsey (as Giorgio Germont). Tickets are priced at Rs 500. Scroll down for booking details.
Set in Paris in the mid-1800s, Violetta, a beautiful courtesan gives up the frills and fancies of high society for the love of a younger man, Alfredo. They begin a life together, but their happiness is ruined when Alfredo's father pressures Violetta to break the marriage for the reputation of his family. She loves Alfredo so much that she listens to his father and | 199 |
Expert Roundup: 7 Experts Reveal Their First SEO Mistake!
SEO is one of the most difficult subjects in the digital world. Search Engines evolve daily and Search Engine Optimization does too.
Every SEO has made some mistake or the other when they first started out. So, I thought that I'd ask them about their first big mistake and how they recovered from it. If you are just starting out, check our SEO for Beginners blog. Hopefully, it will help.
So, without further ado, let's jump right into what the experts have to say!
Member of the TKO Graphix marketing team, Under the Radar rock band. Author of The New Manager's Workbook.
What was the single biggest mistake as a rookie SEO that you made?
How did you recover from the mistake?
I continue to do what I call deep edits – going back and adding keywords to old posts. I only have 355 to go!
I'd recommend Yoast to anyone, so they don't make the same mistake.
SEO agency based in London. They eat data for brunch whilst watching graffiti on the TV.
One of my biggest rookie errors was not communicating to the client that position #1, for every term that we discussed, was not a realistic expectation.
We took them through the potential search volumes and it appeared that our client (at the time) expected to achieve position 1 across all of the terms. Indefinitely. As you can imagine, once we learned that this was their expectation we scrambled to do as good as we could.
However, the client's expectations were unfortunately set and they were clear that this was our overall target and we had to deliver. Needless to say, the team and I were scrambling for the next few months.
We tried to reset the client's expectations but unfortunately by this time they had been set. So we had nothing else that we could do than try to deliver. The client's retainer was small, very small by memory.
It was the agency's first SEO client. So we threw everything at it. Literally the kitchen sink. I had three guys working on this account, the site was large and the industry (automotive parts) quite competitive. We went to work optimizing all of the pages, fixing the technical issues (which again were plently) and link building.
Days and days of link building. It turned out that we achieved some really high positions for the client but not across all of the keywords that we had identified.
The moral of the story and a huge learning curve for us<|fim_middle|> the SEO industry, especially when you are new, you want to be seen as someone who knows what they are doing. You don't want to ask for help (I have been there), but that is how you continue to learn and be better – Learning from each other and learning from mistakes!
I didn't build links at all. The truth is- I was scared. Because everywhere online I read how Google's Penguin is on a quest to exterminate link building and how, if you build even one link or it looks like you built it; then you're irrevocably doomed no matter what else you do.
In two ways: I decided something needed to change I had a tonne of luck And the second factor was more important to me. You see, I knew that I needed to change my approach, but I wasn't convinced that links were that effective and I knew how hard they are to get.
But I still bit the bullet and just tried.
I submitted to HARO. It's very easy to do and requires very little time investment. I remember thinking at the time: "I'm probably going to fail, so I shouldn't waste too much time with this".
And the result? Lo and behold- I got a link. But not just any link. THE link from prdialy.com which is a mega authority site (DA- 65; DR-79) I was stumped and I wanted to jump to the sky with excitement. It was my first link and one from an insanely strong domain.
I made my subheads different colors. Mistake: Links are different colors. Readers would get confused. They'd click on my subheads expecting them to take them somewhere.
I didn't make my links "Open in new tab." Mistake: Taking them off your page will hurt your Bounce Rate.
I didn't include a meta description. Mistake: You've got to get your focus keyword in your meta description and include a hook so people will click.
I used "solutions" as my tag. People don't Google solutions. They Google How to fix… not just the word "Solutions".
I didn't do keyword research. I just assumed I was picking terms people would need help with.
What was my biggest mistake? These are all equally bad!
Over time, I've gone back into my posts and improved the tags and meta descriptions. I've changed the image tag so it had the focus keyword. I've made sure my site is optimized for speed so my SEO would be higher than lower.
Only 1 H1 Tag, My keyword in my subheads (at least one), use of LSI keywords to avoid keyword stuffing, Use of the Yoast SEO plugin.
I link internally so I boost the SEO of my older articles. I link out to authority sites so Google knows I have a credible blog.
I follow the backlink strategies in this article: https://www.mostlyblogging.com/best-backlink-builder-strategies/. I use it as a checklist of hacks.
I post often so Google's bots are always crawling my site.
If you think of SEO as 3 parts, only 3 parts, you'll find it much easier. Part 1: Find high-volume keywords words. Part 2: Find low competition keywords Part 3: Beat your competition for the keyword by making sure your Domain Authority Ranking is higher than theirs. If you can find a keyword with those 3 criteria, you'll have SEO success and boatloads of organic traffic.
Hmmm… My biggest mistake as an SEO rookie?
It was a link building tactic – using press releases to seek backlinks.
I wouldn't know if anyone still tries to get backlinks by doing press release today. But, it burnt my fingers when I did it.
The funny is, I spoke with one of the PR website agents. She told me the campaign might not get me as many links as I was hoping to get. I was unrealistically optimistic that my content was awesome. Why wouldn't websites use it and link to my client?
My client reached out a few months after our first 3 month SEO campaign ended. The previous campaign was a success, they ranked for more keywords and got more leads at a relatively low budget.
He came for me to develop a link building strategy to meet up with a particular competitor. I did a competitive analysis to know the depth of our target' backlinks profile. I was able to sell the press release idea to him considering the volume of backlinks we would need to meet up.
He bought the idea considering the cost versus volume of links we could get at a go (I chose a popular package that had a list of about 100, 000 sites and publishers).
I put the team to work. We created good content based on data from a research by a reknowned global organization. Of course, we created infographics too.
I deployed the press release. Sat back and was waiting till the end of the month at least to see backlinks swell…. grrrrrhhh…. But, it never happened.
Backlinks actually increased (as a result of few brand mentions and social shares from the release). But, it was far from the expectation I created.
I did paid infographic submissions from my pocket for him. I also help list his site on niche platforms where the particular competitor was well known.
We didn't achieve our original goal of gaining quality backlinks in thousands, if not hundreds of thousands from getting sites and publishers to use our release and then link to us.
But it ended on a win-win note for all and our relationship wasn't damaged.
I would really like to know if anyone has used a press release to gain a reasonable number of backlinks recently. Kindly share if you have a similar experience where link building strategy went bad. I would love to learn from you.
I was too concerned with how to rank – keywords, meta descriptions back in 2007.
I ignored the experts and focused on the basics – what would others want to read and building an online community.
Focus on creating valuable, authoritative, well-written content relevant to your audience and a technically correct website, not keywords or trends. Then get it in front of your audience through effective social media marketing.
Everyone makes mistakes now and then. Don't let the mistakes drag you down. Rise above them and keep being awesome.
I hope that this blog helped you. If you are just starting out, I guarantee that these insights will put you on the right track. On a personal note, my advice is that you connect with these experts now. Trust me. It helps a lot.
Do you have incidents of your own that you would like to share? Leave a comment below, I'd love to hear them.
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Thank you for your continued support. You are truly a great friend and your contributions (however small you may make them out to be) have a huge impact on my life. Looking forward to working together many many times more.
Keep being awesome, and Cheers!
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Goodd article. I certainly appreciate this site. Stick with it! | was to make sure that expectations were set correctly at the start of the campaign. Oh, and never to assume that a client understands exactly what you mean. We are now very thorough.
I often got CEO and SEO mixed up when I first started in this industry. The first day of the job, I took my first client call and introduced myself as the new CEO person here at [insert agency name].
Whilst that isn't my biggest mistake, I thought that would be funny to share. Hannah (my co-host) is always having to help me out with pronouncing the hard to say words). In my early days, I would read about the best practices for SEO/Google and sometimes end up on focusing on the wrong thing.
For example, one tip I read was that Google liked websites that weren't stagnant but had regular fresh content. Therefore I thought it was best to focus on getting as much fresh content as possible on websites, meaning that the quality of the content was sometimes neglected. BIG MISTAKE.
To help ease the pressure of writing all this content, I would outsource to other writers. As long as it seemed to make sense I would publish, once I had optimized it for keywords etc. I neglected to check whether what was being said was factual.
I would pass content where grammar/structure could have been improved. I didn't even think about checking for duplicate content issues, as I just wanted that content on the site.
I knew there was a problem when I saw a dip in website traffic. There was only one thing for it, I needed to look at the content, take data from Google Analytics and be brutal. I got rid of pages that really weren't doing anything for my site, especially content that wasn't really relevant.
Content that was driving traffic and ranking, I asked myself what could I do to improve? I looked for opportunities where pages could be combined, to make a super bit of content. Pages that had a high bounce rate/exit rate and low avg. time on page, I had to decide what to do, as these factors could mean that the content was not answering the user's intent.
I basically learned the hard way that I should have been focusing on was quality over quantity. It was far better me spending time, creating, researching and developing one bit of amazing content that blew the competition out of the water, rather than lots of mediocre and rubbish articles.
Don't be a fool like me and take one bit of advice as gospel. Whilst the advice wasn't wrong, Google does like fresh websites, I didn't think about other factors. Yes, aim to have a website that is regularly updated but also that content has to be of high quality, factually correct, etc. I went all guns a blazing on the wrong thing. I should have done a bit more research or cottoned on sooner.
Sometimes in | 578 |
Hyaluronic acid (HA) is the most abundant glycosaminoglycan (GAG) in mammalian tissue. It is present in high concentrations in connective tissue, such as skin, vitreous humour, cartilage, and umbilical cord, but the largest single reservoir is the synovial fluid (SF) of the diarthrodial joints, where concentrations<|fim_middle|> the substrate.
Plays a role in hyaluronan/hyaluronic acid (HA) synthesis. | of 0.5-4 mg/mL are achieved. Hyaluronic acid is the major hydrodynamic nonprotein component of joint SF. Its unique viscoelastic properties confer remarkable shock absorbing and lubricating abilities to SF, while its enormous macromolecular size and hydrophilicity serve to retain fluid in the joint cavity during articulation. HA restricts the entry of large plasma proteins and cells into SF but facilitates solute exchange between the synovial capillaries and cartilage and other joint tissues. In addition, HA can form a pericellular coat around cells, interact with proinflammatory mediators, and bind to cell receptors, such as cluster determinant (CD)44 and receptor for hyaluronate-mediated motility (RHAMM), where it modulates cell proliferation, migration, and gene expression. All these physicochemical and biologic properties of HA have been shown to be molecular weight (MW) dependent. The diverse physicochemical properties of HA arise from its unique macromolecular structure. The HA is an exceptionally long (3-30 μm) and unbranched nonsulfated GAG composed of repeating disaccharide units of N-acetylglucosamine and glucuronic acid glycosidically linked through their respective 1-4 ring positions. Hydroxyl group oxygens at the glucuronyl-1 and glucosamine 3-positions are used for further polymerization of the HA disaccharide units to form chains that, when released from the cell plasma membrane, are of variable length and thus polydispersity. Despite the simplicity of the HA primary structure, this linear polyelectrolyte adopts complex conformations in solution, which engender it with diverse biologic properties. Within the joint cavity, HA molecules are predominately synthesized by the type B synovial cells (PMID: 12219318 ).
Tan, Wensong; Hu, Yihong; Zhang, Xu; Cai, Haibo. Method for preparing hyaluronic acid from microbial fermentation broth. Faming Zhuanli Shenqing Gongkai Shuomingshu (2007), 10pp.
Only showing the first 10 proteins. There are 28 proteins in total.
Plays a role in hyaluronan/hyaluronic acid (HA) synthesis. Also able to catalyze the synthesis of chito-oligosaccharide depending on | 512 |
Vall Ferrera is situated in the North of Catalunya which limits on one side with France and on the other with Andorra.
The Vall Ferrera with its rivers and vegetation during the different seasons of the year, is a unique valley. In the high mountains of the Vall Ferrera we find beautiful surroundings because due to the fact that an important quantity of protected species of flora and fauna live in these mountains.
FromÀreu you can do various interesting walks such as the ascent to the Pica d'Estats (the highest peak in Catalunya with 3,143 metres), to the Monteixo and go to renown natural lakes like the Lago de Baborte or the<|fim_middle|> Ainet de Besan, Alins, Araos, with the church of Sant Esteve, the chapel of Sant Francesc and the woods of Viros. Besan, an uninhabited village, with its Romanesque church of Santa Maria. In Noris, the church of Sant Serni. In Tor, the highest village in the valley, we can visit the Romanesque church of Sant Pere, the castle of Tor and, though the forest trail, we can do excursions to the Puerto de Cabus and Andorra. | Lago de Aixeus.
Hidden in the depths of the mountains of Àreu and the valley (vídeo)we find cabins or huts, where the shepherds spent the nights in the high mountain. In the winter, mountain skiing, walking trips wearing snow shoes, etc. Also, there is fishing in spring and summer.
Besides Areu, we must also visit the villages of | 80 |
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Lucky Winners and a couple of cards!
Congrats ladies for winning a spot in the class!!! This is gonna be so much fun! Please send me an email through my Contact Form here with a title "Summer Card Class – I won a free spot" .
Now take a look at the card I did for Father's Day to give to my wonderful DH. He loves chips and electronics so I had to use them on the card. For more details and inspiration on this card read the post and watch the how-to video here or over to YouTube. Don't forget to subscribe to Lily Pad YouTube channel where I post a new video every Sunday.
<|fim_middle|> of the stamp set and who makes it that has the little birds in the tree. Thanks. | If you look closely I colored and cut out some of the leaves so I could add them on top of the others for more dimension.
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Love your father's day card. My dad is an IT geek his whole life and would have loved this! Perfect card for Dad's day. Love what you did with the tree of birds… So cute and clever to cut a few of the birds and leaves out. Beautiful card.
Gorgeous cards Vicky. Congrats to the winners.
Just stopping by to tell you how much I love your take on the sketch!! the bright pop of orange is fantastic!! LOVE your happy card, Vicky! Congrats to the winners for card camp!
Just found this site and love it!
Love the FRIEND card. Can anyone tell me the name | 163 |
To support a Silicon Power PCIe SSD, the system must have an M.2 connector with only an M key. The Silicon Power PCIe SSD does not have a B notch and therefore, the B key on the SSD connector will prevent it from being inserted.
Computer Alliance has the 256GB ADATA XPG SX8200 PRO for $86.33 Delivered use code PLACE (6 Left) Seems like a good price as well.
will this work on Inspiron 15 7000 laptop?
what is this only works with M key?
I think it will work, not 100% sure though.
Only works with M key basically means that you need a m.2 with M slot support or B+M slot support (basically, it must support PCIe). On some older motherboards, you might find 2 m.2 slots but one slot only supports SATA3 mode and that one happens to be a B slot.
Ideally, you want to use this on a m.2 which supports PCIe x4 (rather than PCIe x2).
you gotta pay shipping and gst there though. The intel drive also only has a 3 year warranty vs the 5 years here.
These SSDs use Phison PS5012-E12 controller. NAND chips are Toshiba 3D TLC NAND. It has SLC cache and DRAM. These are NVMe class SSDs so SATA<|fim_middle|> the vendor official software says 100% (so I cannot RMA this drive). Personally, I prefer quality flash cells over a large quantity of spare cells.
The reason the endurance ratings look impressive on these is because they use 64 layer based TLC cells. The question is how likely is only 1 layer in a 3D stacked block of 64 gone back (instead of multiple or everyone). I'd rather divide that figure by 64 and take the worst case that the entire 64 layers in one block could gone bad at the same time (being pessimistic). Or, a crude way to look at it is that high density multi 3D layer cells allow some interesting / smart marketing when quoting endurance figures.
@netsurfer: You seem all over it haha! I have an Evo NVME for my boot, and need a 1tb for my games etc.
Could you put these in a housing and use them as external memory?
Make sure you get the enclosure that supports M.2 M key if you buy one if these.
I can review cheap SATA 3 USB enclosures: they're garbage.
I've experienced the opposite. Did a whole suite of tests, but was never happy with the tidiness to post. Was 2 years ago, and first time I'd thought of doing a public one.
That said, I'm referring to the ~200MB/s range.
For storage, I only trust big brand.
No tbw quoted tho and that's a huge part of the lasting its either 5yrs or tbw whichever first.
Honestly, from my past experience, most SSD failures resulted in a complete death. So, I doubt the big brand's RMA department would be bothered to repair it and then check the total write.
While my experience with Samsung SSDs is mixed so far, I cannot fault their RMA department. True, I did have to pay for the postage to send it to them, but they did provide a brand new and better SSD as a replacement.
I do hope WD is better with their RMA for SSDs. For HDD, they were bad. They gave me a refurbished HDD which was noisy and did not last too long (pretty much failed soon after the remaining warranty period ended).
Trust no one when it comes to storage. Always back up your files.
Totally agreed. I have 4 SSDs failed so far. 3 of them are Samsung NAND flash chip based SSDs (1 of them is Samsung brand, the other two are other brands but using Samsung NAND chips). 4th one - an old OCZ. To be fair, I have more Samsung SSDs than other brands.
Wasn't good for early adaptors of SSD tech so far - Samsung 840 (Samsung's first TLC NAND based SSD) and 840 EVO are both disappointing to say the least. 950 Pro - first gen NVMe SSD - heat / thermal throttling and overall reliability. Samsung's warranty / RMA service for SSDs is great though. I know my 840 EVO is a time bomb waiting to fail, it's just a matter of when.
Have 2x 120GB 840 evo's both from 2014, have been used heavily and constantly for the last 4-5 years and still holding up great. Read and write performance is still there too so guess I consider myself lucky. *Not denying big brands don't fail, just my experience with 840 evo's has been great so far.
@Deathtrapz: 840 EVO still has that infamous slow read on old data issue (which Samsung ended up with just a workaround at the end). If you use it constantly, then the slow read would be less of an issue or non-issue.
840 (non-EVO) was bad though, in which Samsung did not even bother offering a firmware upgrade for the same issue. I also wondered why 840 was so quickly replaced by 840 EVO (less than 6 months from memory). I was somewhat glad my 840 died and Samsung RMA gave me a 850 EVO instead.
Even the likes of Umart, PLE Computers and Gamedude Computers sells Silicon Power so that brand is known in Australia to some big Computer store chains.
It's just that i bet MSY doesn't have the distributor which sources Silicon Power products.
Would this fit a latitude 3160?
Nope, you need standard a SATA3 SSD. It has a Pentium Dual Core CPU right? It's not worthwhile spending too much on a Pentium Dual Core system. Just get the cheapest SATA3 SSD you can get.
Kingston/Adata is usually the way to go.
And 12% shopback makes it even better. | 3 SSDs simply are no match. Reviews tend to look at 1TB version of the SSDs. At queue depth 1, it manages to beat 970 EVO Plus in random write (only just though). However, as soon as the queue depth increases, Samsung 970 EVO Plus regained the lead (by a bigger margin). As most tests look at higher queue depth, you would see Samsung NVMe come out ahead.
Silicon Power is discounting these at the moment. Given they are essentially NVMe SSDs priced at SATA3 m.2 price range, they are tempting. Value for money, these look attractive.
That actually sounds really good, would it be more durable too? About to take the plunge as it's much cheaper the the SN750 or Evo plus!
Reliability is where I am a bit cynical about this. This is the newer A80, the older A80 was PCIe x2. No warranty period information on the listing, but if we based it on the old A80, then it is 3 years.
I don't trust endurance figures. Based on my past experience, most SSDs tend to die prior to exceeding total writes for general public (we don't run cloud based servers or heavy servers with lots of VMs at home). Also, I see m.2 being a less reliable form factor (smaller area - harder heat dissipation; so thermal throttling does take place).
The warranty process is also a question mark. Do we need to send it overseas? On the other hand, the preference is always have the SSD lasts long enough, rather than using the warranty process.
@netsurfer: Can't we just use the Corsair Force Series MP510 as a reference point(https://www.anandtech.com/show/13438/the-corsair-force-mp510...) considering it's the same controller and NAND? Write endurance is rated at 1700TB for 960GB model and 800TB for the 480GB model.
Basically, the two SSDs have slightly different firmware version but same controller essentially. Probably essentially the same parts, but different brands.
Write endurance is basically how much spare NAND flash the manufacturer decided to include. It can vary. The Anandtech page did list that this A80 has a 5 years warranty.
However, my key point is the durance rating isn't a good measurement of reliability unless you really do a lot of heavy writes. Every single one of my SSDs died never even got 10% of total write endurance figure, with my Samsung 840 failed with less than 2% of total writes (and I never filled that SSD over 35% ever - so surely it wasn't writing to the same block repeatedly). To me, it gives people a false impression on how long an SSD will last.
Also, do most people look at retired block count on their SSDs? I have one SSD in used which just gone over 10% of the total write endurance rating and 7 blocks are now retired. The SSD software I used says the drive is at 96%, yet | 662 |
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Live performance at the Showroom, Lincoln on May 31st & June 1st 2019
LDSSG and the Boston Down's Syndrome Family Group would like to inform all members about the exciting new venture for the Boston Group.
The Boston Down's Syndrome Family Group has been providing fortnightly support sessions to families with a member with Down's Syndrome since it's inception over 2 years ago.
The group has been financially and operationally supported by LDSSG and it has developed into a successful and popular group and therefore the LDSSG proposed that the Boston Group become an independent charity group in<|fim_middle|>For more details contact Sueparkinson7464@yahoo.com or stephen.altoft@talktalk.net
Easter thanks to ASDA
LDSSG would like to say a big thank you to Boston ASDA who gave the group Easter eggs.
The children enjoyed finding the hidden eggs. | its own right. Following much discussion, a decision was made for the Boston Down's Syndrome Family Group to establish itself as independent from the LDSSG.
From today, the Boston Downs Syndrome Family Group is renaming to the 'East Lincolnshire Down's Syndrome Family Support Group' and will continue to provide fortnightly sessions for families in the Boston District, South Holland District and East Lindsey District with a loved one with Down's Syndrome. The group also plans to provide social activities for their members.
LDSSG will continue to welcome all individuals with Down's Syndrome and their families, regardless of where they live in the county and sincerely hope you all continue to attend events and access our services for support. LDSSG will actively encourage its members to belong to both groups where geographically appropriate and attend any events where you can access support and share your experiences. There is no such thing as too much support and too much fun!
LDSSG would like to congratulate the East Lincolnshire Down's Syndrome Family Support Group and wish the group every success in all its future endeavours.
Click here to check out the fun and exciting events we have planned for 2019
Our members were recently invited to a pottery session at the Little Pottery Studio in Lincoln
They were able to choose a piece of 'bisque' to paint from the shelves in the beautiful studio setting.
With a vast array of paints, brushes, stencils, stickers and tools to choose from we saw some very unique pieces created.
The team at the studio could not have been more helpful and made sure our members and parents understood the process.
Tally was kind enough to send in a note of thanks to us
Tally you are very welcome!
Some of our members were lucky enough to visit Foxdales Equine Assisted Learning (FEAL) in Oasby near Grantham again during the October half term.
The centre is set in a peaceful, natural environment with an abundance of wild life, a wooded area and an eco pond.
FEAL specialises in working with people living with dementia, young people using mental health services, people living with brain injuries and or serious illness.
The team at FEAL provide a fun filled and interactive day for our members to enjoy working with the animals in a hands on and calming manner.
Please see some of the feedback from the latest session below:
"Caden really enjoys his trips out with the LDSSG meeting with friends and family.
Caden's favourites are Billinghay swimming sessions, Rand farm BBQ, Foxdales horses and activities and many more.
We try to attend all for new experiences as well as ones we have previously attended and love."
"Elsie loves her visits to Foxdales, as it offers her the chance to spend time with her friends from LDSSG in a relaxed setting. Its also important for her to understand the need to care and look after horses, not just ride them. We cant thank Tracy and the team at FEAL enough for the great work they do"
Upcoming stay & play sessions
Please see the proposed dates for our upcoming stay & play sessions.
Keep checking the website and Facebook page for further details
Relaxed screening – Johnny English Strikes Again
There will be a relaxed screening of the latest installment of the Johnny English franchise on November 24th, at the Venue in Lincoln at 10:30am
This is a relaxed screening in collaboration with Grantham Autistic Information Network (GAIN).
During the screening the lights will be kept on at a low level, the sound will be at lower than usual levels, no trailers or advertisements will be screened and allowances are made for increased movement and noise levels.
Free parking is available for all cinema goers (subject to availability). Please note that parking is sometimes limited for midweek daytime screenings.
For further details please click the link
LDSSG resource list
Please see the attached list of LDSSG resources that many of our members have found useful.
If you would like to request a committee held resource, have any suggestions for resources, or simply want to share your experiences dont hesitate to get in touch with us via the contact us form.
New DS football team in Scunthorpe
Please see the attached leaflet for details of a new DS Active football team that has recently been set up in the Scunthorpe area.
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RICHMOND, VA (November 12,<|fim_middle|> has had on college women's soccer since its founding in 2009, and which increases every year. Across college soccer, the "ECNL player" is the epitome of the next generation collegiate soccer player and collegiate soccer star.
The ECNL College Impact is measured by the number of ECNL alumni that have moved on to collegiate soccer, and by their contribution to collegiate athletic conferences all over the United States. This week, the ECNL examines the CAA Conference.
124 ECNL Alums are currently playing in the CAA Conference.
The CAA Player of the Year, Ashley Herdon, CAA Co-Defensive Player of the Year, Clara Logsdon, and CAA Rookie of the Year, Haley Crawford are ECNL Alums.
73% of players from the CAA First Team are ECNL Alums- 19 players on the CAA First Team, Second Team and All-Rookie Team are ECNL Alums. | 2016) – Elite Clubs National League College Impact series catalogs the incredible impact the ECNL | 21 |
Fill and span<|fim_middle|> every time! | DVD archives with Discspan | Something Odd!
169GB of data is a lot of stuff to store. Originally I had them all duplicated on two external drives but then I bought a 500GB internal drive for my laptop for speedier access. Unfortunately that drive simply wasn't big enough. I need to convert some of my RAW files to Jpeg to save space. To preserve the original RAW files I want to archive them somewhere permanently. I have a DVD writer so that was an obvious choice.
Burning data to lots of DVDs is tiresome. You can use tar, zip or another archiver to split the data but then you have to run through all the DVDs to pick out a file to restore. I like having the files directly accessible but that means endless selecting files, making sure they're as close to the DVD size as possible, burning them, moving on to the next bunch. In the bad old DOS days I had a program to fill floppy disks if you pointed it at a directory but I've spent years searching for a similar Linux script. Last week I found one.
Enter Discspan. My 2007 archive was already burned to DVD, and I wish I had this script while doing it. I've burned my 2008 archive with Discspan and it was a doddle. Point it at the right directory, feed it some details about the DVD drive and let it go. 26 DVDs later and my 2008 archive is safe on DVD!
The script scans the directory, figures out how many DVDs are required and it fills each DVD with data, spanning my digital archive over multiple DVDs.
Be aware when using it that you should let Linux detect the next blank DVD before pressing return. The first time I ran it the script bombed out when growisofs didn't see media to write to. You also need to patch it because it doesn't detect the right size of DVD+R's but it's a simple one-liner.
Another Linux project, Brasero promises to span disks too but it didn't for me. It's the default CD/DVD burner in Ubuntu now and it's a shame this functionality is broken in it.
Hopefully Brasero will be fixed for the next release. I'd offer to help but my C/C++ is very rusty.
Hey Donncha, why DVDs? the price per GB of HDD is competitive, especially considering that most DVDs sold today are of cheap quality – no good for archival. My experience with DVD backups is that they deteriorate rapidly (had read error after two years on "good" brand DVD), they need to be kept in absolute darkness. I always kept double-copies and checked them (checksums) every six months, replicating on new media when one of the two copies had an error. I stopped. This kind of manual RAID is time consuming, environmentally unfriendly and expensive. I now use offline SATA HDD. On my desktop machine I have a panel with a SATA connector. Plug it in, back it up, and store away in a foam padded pelican case (the main risk is mechanical shock). My photos and videos are currently growing at 10 GB per week. They first go on a 2TB network attached RAID, and once in a while I take the archive HDD out of the case and rsync to it.
I'm not too happy about the idea of archiving to harddisk although for practical reasons it might be the way to go. Buy 2*1TB disks. Duplicate everything and store the drives safely somewhere. I may consider Bluray too. At 25GB per disc it'd take a fraction of the time to archive everything.
A more pressing need is "current" space. Because of duplication for safety I have about 150GB of space on my internal drive. Looks like I'll have to retire 2007 back to the external drives.
Thanks for the tip! That's exactly what I've been looking for. I also tried Brasero with no luck. Well, that's not entirely true. I tried to span discs with it and that didn't work so I compressed the files and then burned them. At some point during the process I had an archive that was too large (I did the math wrong I think) and Brasero offered to span discs for me. No time when I wanted it to span discs has it offered though. I'm not sure what's going on with that.
As for using HDDs for backup, I agree there. It is more reliable and comparably affordable. However, I do data recovery on a personal scale and a couple of a times a year I'll need to mail out sets of a dozen or so DVDs at a time. Purchasing and shipping hard drives for data transfers over long distance is considerably more expensive than DVD. Still, I agree when it comes to archiving.
Thanks for the tip. I'm also looking for a solution to do this. And like these comments everyone keeps asking 'why not use external hdds?'! It's driving me bonkers! Without going into detail, I want to point a piece of software at a folder and say – 'Keep burning until all the data is backed up' without having to use compression, for the reason you specified. Have you come across any other solutions to this? Preferably windows based??
Just found Nero DiscSpan – much easier for me to do it in Windows. Hurray!
I've given up on DVDs now. I use two external drives synced with rsync to duplicate everything. So much handier than DVDs but I really should get a third one to be sure nothing goes wrong..
Having all my data replicated on two disks brings up another question now. What data would I really miss if I lost it? Would I care if the DVD rips I made or my ripped MP3 collection was lost? How's about my 12 years of photos and videos? I'm running low on space now and these questions haunt me.
At a pinch, the answer is easy. I'll pick my photos and videos | 1,244 |
If you have been injured in an accident that was caused by another person, you may be entitled to compensation, pursuant to Pennsylvania law. Your ability to recover damages can be somewhat complicated, however, by the particular circumstances of your injury.
In Pennsylvania, and in other jurisdictions throughout the country, those who suffer from preexisting conditions that make them more "fragile" and likely to suffer severe injury are commonly referred to as eggshell plaintiffs. For example, if you suffer from very high blood pressure, you may be more likely to sustain a serious heart attack in the event of<|fim_middle|> predictable, and it is the defendant who must bear the cost of this uncertainty. This principle is exemplified by the eggshell plaintiff rule, which imposes full damages on the defendant, even when the plaintiff suffers from a condition that makes them more fragile and prone to injury.
Have you suffered an injury due to the fault of another? Call (888) 777-7098 today to schedule a free consultation with an experienced Bethlehem personal injury attorney here at Drake, Hileman & Davis, PC. | a stressful accident scenario. Depending on the circumstances, you would therefore be considered an eggshell plaintiff.
Despite suffering substantial losses as a consequence of their accident, many eggshell plaintiffs avoid litigating their claims, as they may not be familiar with the particularities of the law and their right to recover damages. These plaintiffs may incorrectly believe that — because their injuries are "disproportionate" — they may not be entitled to a remedy for such injuries. In reality, however, eggshell plaintiffs are entitled to compensation for their injuries, even if those injuries would not have occurred in a healthier person.
For an injured plaintiff to succeed in their lawsuit, they must show that the defendant not only acted negligently, recklessly, or intentionally, but that the conduct of the defendant was the substantial and proximate cause of their injuries. Causation can be a fuzzy matter, in some cases, and especially so in cases involving eggshell plaintiffs. In Pennsylvania, however, the prior susceptibility and fragility of a plaintiff will not break the chain of causation, and is therefore not applicable as a defense.
What is the Eggshell Plaintiff Rule?
It is a long-held principle of law that a defendant must "take the plaintiff as he finds him." In other words, the defendant must bear the costs in full, however uniquely the damages express themselves with a particular defendant. This burden-shifting is fundamental to all personal injury lawsuits, even those without eggshell plaintiffs. For example, a defendant may be liable for a higher amount of damages if you are employed at the time of the accident, as you may have additional wage loss damages to assert.
The consequences of a defendant's negligent, reckless, or intentionally wrongful behavior are not always | 347 |
To put it mildly, Atari is in an interesting position as a brand in 2018. Instead of Pong, hearing the name of the legendary game maker might bring cryptocurrencies to mind. Forget Adventure, there are speakerhats to sell. Then there's the Atari VCS, a successfully crowdfunded console shrouded in mystery. It is in this atmosphere that we see the return of Tempest, one of Atari's longest running arcade franchises. Helmed by Jeff Minter's Llamasoft, Tempest 4000 knows exactly what it wants to be. It's not concerned with business practices and it's not buckling to trends. This is Tempest. Whether that's good for you depends on your ability to stick and move on a joystick, among other things.
For anyone under the age of 24 (minus you brave souls who owned a Nuon), Tempest 4000 is a tube shooter. Each level has your two-pronged Claw sitting at the top of a playfield with enemies crawling up from inside it. You must rotate around and shoot down to keep them from climbing to your level and dragging you away. You also need to collect power-ups that grant you bonuses ranging from an AI companion to a screen-clearing laser and the ability to jump. Levels are relatively bite-sized but don't take that to mean they're easy. Completing Tempest 4000 means clearing 100 challenges, but you won't see a tenth of them if you're out of practice.
You see, Tempest is all about getting in the zone. If you don't know that already, the overwhelming presentation will certainly clue you in. Blinding neon effects accompany every shot and explosion. Audio cues overlap endlessly, backed by a throbbing techno beat. Levels reverse your controls and start to rotate in an attempt to throw off your game. It's not impossible to follow, but it definitely takes a huge amount of focus to progress. Getting good means eliminating all other distractions, and Tempest is excellent at doing just that.
What Tempest isn't good at is easing players into its neon-infused madness. There is an unsaid presumption that you've played arcade shooters before, and the minimal tutorial doesn't really help anyone. In a way, that's part of the fun, and there is an air of mystery even if you know what you're doing. Still, balancing the lightning fast reflexes necessary to avoid every enemy with drifting into a zen state is something that requires dedication. Unless you're all the way in for what Tempest is offering, there's not much for you here.
Gather enough Warp Triangles and you too can fly through hoops for points. Trust me, it makes sense.
If you are ready with quarters in hand, there are a few ways to master the webs. Pure mode starts you with just a few lives and gives you opportunities to earn more as you play. Survival hands over a huge stack of lives, but that's all you get. Either way, you don't need to stick it out in one sitting. Tempest remembers your best performance after each stage and lets you continue from that point at your leisure. In this way, the game sheds arcade tradition and lets you chip away at the mountain in the same way that a mobile puzzle game might. It's a smart pick up and play design that seems perfect for portability (and a future Switch port).
On Xbox One, you'll be controlling your Claw with the left joystick. Tempest's original controller was a dial<|fim_middle|> dive in and see where it takes you. If you're up for a challenge or an old-school nostalgia trip, there's no better game to choose. Give your head to the web and see what happens.
Our Tempest 4000 review was conducted on Xbox One with a code provided by the publisher. It is also available on PC and PlayStation 4.
Trippy, harsh, explosive and bizarre. This is everything you would want in a Tempest sequel, provided you want one at all. | that let you rotate your ship around the playfield with ease. A joystick is no replacement for this level of precision, even if Tempest 4000's design had these limitations in mind. A PC mouse with the proper sensitivity will probably be the best way to play, but you can get by on a controller with some practice. As is, the average player will be chomping at the bit for the jump power-up during each round, as it's really the only way to manage your screen effectively at that skill level.
Oh, so this is what Atari was talking about. I thought it'd be bigger.
If you're not interested in high scores, you might be interested in Tempest 4000's trippy visuals. Jeff Minter really takes advantage of every tool at his disposal, producing a game that looks authentically like a successor to the vector games of the past. At the same time, he's throwing every particle effect he can into the mix, enticing and confusing the would-be tube jockey. These screen-filling distractions are part of the gameplay, but they also make for an engrossing abstract aesthetic. Add in the hodgepodge of welcome messages and level names that all feel just a bit off, and it's amazing that this ended up as a commercial project. On visuals alone, you'll wonder if you paid money for this game or if you found it in a collection of freeware on a floppy disk.
Of course, if you're coming to Tempest 4000, this is what you expect. It's hard to critique a game that's so set in its goals, so unwavering in its vision. Jeff Minter knows what this game is more than anyone else. It may not be for everyone, and that's perfectly alright. He invites the player to | 375 |
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7 ideas for<|fim_middle|>aria. This mysterious-looking frost is, however, the result of the seasonal spectacle provided by the flowers on Canary white broom, on bushes that grow up to three metres in height. Their aromatic flowers take centre stage at this wintery scene, popping up at many different natural island settings, and are free to go and see.
Winter lights burst onto the stage
The Winter solstice brings with it a spectacle of light and a surge of emotion at the summit of Gran Canaria.
The shortest day of the year actually begins the evening before, with a blanket of stars covering the stage before the performance begins. Under the steep slope of Mesa de Acusa, an abyss of ancient eruptions etched into the landscape, lies the stalls and the audience, on this occasion the lens of a camera, which points towards the spot where the real protagonist of the winter solstice at the summit of Gran Canaria is waiting in the wings: the first winter light.
The different faces of a mountainous landscape
The celebration of International Mountain Day reminds us of the wealth of high altitude landscapes there are all around Gran Canaria.
Gran Canaria digs its feet deep into the Atlantic, while its head stretches upwards and finds the sky. On 11th December the International Mountain Day is held, a date that serves as a reminder of the hidden gems that are tucked away around the peaks and summits on the island, and are just waiting to be discovered, for all those looking to come away with a full photo album of the island.
Gran Canaria paints itself orange
Orange is the colour that defines and highlights some of the essential traits of the island of Gran Canaria.
Gran Canaria hides away sometimes. It is then we have to go out in search of it, perhaps at the bottom of little known rocky valleys, well away from the commonly walked footpaths. This game of hide and seek occasionally features an 18th century stone bridge, at a point along Barafonso ravine, where suddenly, these streaky stones take on an orange tint. This colourful and narrow canyon of volcanic ashes, eroded by water over thousands of years, is another feature of this mysterious, infinite island.
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5 Things you didn't know about almonds from Gran Canaria
"Home grown" or "adapted varieties" of almond trees in Gran Canaria are century old trees that offer different types of almonds, all of them highly regarded due to their organoleptic qualities.
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Christmas in Gran Canaria gives you the chance to enjoy experiences that would be unthinkable elsewhere.
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Centuries of sunshine, coffee and wines
Finca La Laja reflects the generous and diverse landscape of Agaete Valley, in Gran Canaria.
High up, in Tamadaba Crag, the pine forest juts out, and the water oozing from the Stone shines like a mirror or a silver sheet under the sun. About one thousand metres below, at the foot of the ridge, in Finca La Laja, deep in the heart of Agaete Valley (Gran Canaria), Víctor Lugo Jorge, fifth generation of a family whose history intertwines with the roots of centenary trees, offers in his hands the fruits just harvested from the coffee plants that grow under the shade of orange trees and vines, escorted by a tropical garden of mangoes, avocados and guayabos.
Artenara, from Here to Eternity
Artenara, located at Gran Canaria's summit, keeps alive a unique tradition linked to the heart of the volcanic rock, of a purity hard to find in today's day and age.
The artist Miró Mainou used to search the light looking for the truth. Maybe for this reason he settled in Artenara for over a decade, a village where life draws every day on a canvas of light and calm, the customary stage of a village nestled on the border of a colossal volcanic basin and the doors to Heaven. Here, Mainou's brushes found the light, and here he won the Canary Islands Fine Arts Award, when he portrayed in lights and shadows the essence of the landscape, in paintings such as 'Cumbre' ('Summit'). Nowadays, the mural painted by the students of Gran Canaria's School of Art & Design recreates the piece on the façade of the house where the artist lived between 1977 and 1989.
Lessons in life at Cruz de Tejeda
Cruz de Tejeda, in Gran Canaria, is the geographical and historical centre, where the island's inner voice is heard.
"You have to put a kind face to life". Manuel Ortega was born in a family who used to farm the land and look after a small herd of sheep, some goats and one or two cows, while working at the water galleries in Gran Canaria's high land. Maybe for this reason his conversation flows like a stream. "I enjoy talking to people" says Manuel while he strokes the back of his noble four-legged companion, Bartolo, an introvert and calm donkey whose job is to be ridden by anyone who wants to get to know Cruz de Tejeda's surroundings, a crossroad and geographical, touristic, historical and even emotional epicentre of the island, located above one thousand five hundred metres of altitude, looming over an amazing volcanic basin.
Time stops at Valleseco
Valleseco, in the green heart of Gran Canaria, wraps the visitor in a blanket of nature, tradition and flavours.
Valleseco wakes up at dawn and goes to sleep at night to the lulling sound of water. The washing pools, the remains of old mills, galleries and canals make a mirror where the town looks at itself every morning, reflecting a wide natural range of infinite shades of green.
Lunar, Age-Old Tejeda
The village of Tejeda, located at Gran Canaria's highest point, looms into an amazing volcanic basin, and keeps surprisingly alive ancient scents and roots.
Los Cernícalos: walk along with water
Barranco de los Cernícalos, in Gran Canaria, transports you to the most natural and mysterious side of the island.
Pay careful attention, because we are about to enter one of those spots that makes us feel like we are floating around a lost world, but which is actually much nearer than we think. Yes, listen and look very carefully, because each stone, each plant and each chirping of a bird have a story to tell. A walk around Barranco de los Cernícalos, on the southern slopes of Gran Canaria, takes us into the most unspoilt part of the island, and brings us face to face with its most ancestral and wild side.
White magic in Gran Canaria
The winter blossoming of the Canary white retama broom plant reveals one of the great 'tricks' of nature in Gran Canaria.
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If you hire a real estate photographer in the Baltimore area to take professional photos<|fim_middle|> and anything else that doesn't belong there. | of your home, it's important to make sure the home is presented perfectly for the day of the shoot.
Why does home presentation matter?
These days almost everyone who is searching for a home to buy begins their search online. The first thing they see are the photos, so first impressions are important. If the photos aren't good enough, chances are that potential buyers won't request a showing of the property. Instead, they'll move on to the next house that grabs their attention. Sometimes you may be left wondering if the price was set too high – the price may not be the problem, but rather the photos that are being used to justify the price.
Make sure all of your interior lights work, and open all of the blinds and curtains to let in as much natural light as possible for the photo shoot. A professional real estate photographer will be able to balance the interior and exterior light while keeping a natural feel in the photos. It's also much better to show some of the exterior view rather than make it look like you're hiding something.
I've photographed thousands of properties across the Baltimore area since 2006, and nothing is more frustrating than seeing a great home that looks smaller inside than it really is because of toys being scattered around the floor, cluttered kitchen counters, and too much furniture or accessories in the living room.
I don't think the owners or listing agent would attend an important event with unruly hair, dirty hands, or anything less than their best suit or dress, and it would be very helpful if those same standards were applied in the marketing of a property. Throw out or remove non-essential items, leave the things that need to be there, and make everything tidy and immaculate.
Pick everything up off the floor that shouldn't be there and clean all floors.
Remove all signs of pets living in the home as some buyers may be turned off by the sight of a dog bed or cat pole.
Show off counter space in the kitchen by putting any small appliances away.
Store away items in the bathroom, leaving out just a few decorative pieces.
Meticulously clean all windows and mirrors, making sure there aren't any streaks as they will show up in the photos (especially in the bathroom).
Pay attention to the exterior of the home as well so that the property looks appealing and welcoming to buyers. Make sure that the trees and bushes are trimmed, the grass is cut, and the edges are trimmed. Plant grass in any patchy areas by working on those areas about a month or two before the property goes on the market. A beautiful lawn makes a strong first impression, so make it look as amazing as possible!
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Ash & Anvil co-founders Eric Huang (left) and Steven Mazur are among the summer 2016 Desai Accelerator participants.
Ann Arbor-based Desai Accelerator, a joint venture between the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and the school's College of Engineering, announced Tuesday morning that six startups have been chosen for this spring and summer's program.
More than 80 companies applied for the program, which runs from now through Aug. 19.
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The startups will work out of The Forge by Pillar Technology, a software studio in downtown Ann Arbor. | to the accelerator includes a demo day on Aug. 4, where companies can pitch for capital to would-be investors. It also includes a $25,000 investment for each company, access to legal services, human resources and extensive mentorship from the UM alumni network.
In addition, this year's Desai program, the second annual, will include participation from seven UM students who will perform a variety of tasks for participating companies, including logo design, market research and various administrative duties.
Ash & Anvil, a Detroit-based maker of stylish clothing for shorter men.
Clash Audio, a music-streaming service based in Ann Arbor that uses neuroscience research to better tailor song lists for users.
Gaudium, a maker of anime-style mobile games founded by UM students.
MySwimPro is a social fitness platform for swimmers and triathletes.
MySwimPro, a social fitness platform for swimmers and triathletes, a company advised by Peter Vanderkaay, a UM graduate and four-time Olympic medalist.
Roomations, an online platform and subscription services based in Oak Park, Ill., that provides homeowners with easy access to interior design services, including 3-D room designs, shopping lists and personal design advice through crowdsourcing freelancer designers.
Sultant, a cloud-based platform founded by two Princeton University alumni that acts as a financial adviser for small businesses.
Ann Arbor-based Companion, one of last year's class, has grown its user base to more than 1 million for its app-based safety applications.
The accelerator is funded by the Desai Sethi Family Foundation, the Davidson Foundation, the Wadhams family and the Michigan Economic Development Corp. It is managed by the Ross School's Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies | 362 |
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Charles Murray, the W. H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, will give the BB&T Distinguished Lecture at 3:30 p.m., Friday, March 25, in the Latham Ballroom at the Inn at Virginia Tech.
The talk, hosted by the Pamplin College of Business and part of its BB&T Distinguished Lecture Series on Capitalism, is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
A political scientist and author, Murray has explored culture, crime, libertarianism, human intelligence and social structure, and marriage, family, and social mores in his research and writings.
According to his American Enterprise Institute bio, Murray first came to national attention in 1984 with the publication of "Losing Ground," which has been credited as the intellectual foundation for the Welfare Reform Act of 1996.
His most recent book, "By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission" (2015), urges Americans to stem governmental overreach and use America's unique civil society to put government back in its place.
The BB&T lecture series is part of a Pamplin teaching program to explore the foundations of capitalism and freedom. The program's undergraduate and graduate courses examine alternative economic<|fim_middle|>251 or email lbrownle@vt.edu during regular business hours at least 10 business days prior to the event.
Virginia Tech's nationally ranked Pamplin College of Business offers undergraduate and graduate programs in accounting and information systems, business information technology, economics, finance, hospitality and tourism management, management, and marketing. Pamplin emphasizes technology and analysis that improve business, entrepreneurship that leads to innovation and innovative companies, international opportunities for learning and research, and an inclusive, collaborative community. It is named in honor of two alumni: the late Robert B. Pamplin, retired chairman of Georgia-Pacific, and businessman, author, and philanthropist Robert B. Pamplin Jr.
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The program was established in 2007 in the college's finance department with a $1 million gift from BB&T Charitable Foundation.
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K.I.S.S. an acronym for "Keep it simple, stupid" created for a design principle noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960.
This K.I.S.S. principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated; therefore simplicity should be a key goal in design and unnecessary complexity should be avoided.
In fact I believe simplicity embodies elegance, wisdom, effectiveness and profitable.
I think I'm in good company here.
While de-cluttering is the first step to simplify our lives, stopping here cheats from the best benefits, simplicity has to offer. Furthermore rebuilding something new, from less and that new something be of superior quality, is liberating, empowering and inspirational.
So while the saying "live more, with less" may sound like a paradox; the truth is, our very own human genetic design i.e. DNA is coded to identify, adapt evolve to be more efficient for us to better survive.
Recently I bench marked my progress of applying this KISS principle to my "Be<|fim_middle|> and we fast track the time and achieve our goals sooner.
Keeping my focus simple gives me the peace to focus on my clients more and continually find more ways deliver even more value to them.
Stress is a known killer and depression is a black dog. We all know what we need to do to live a health life, so do it, don't delay it. Studies have also shown that the less sedentary we are the less fat, junk food we consume and more we hydrate with water.
Consider this domino effect of exercising more, eating better, hydrating more, having more energy, less stressed and living life more would have on your relationships and decision making. 99% of the time improved health starts with getting outside and going for a walk.
Be no place else, especially regarding your relationship with yourself, more than external relationships. How we feel on the inside we express on the outside. Under anger is hurt, under hurt is fear, under fear is vulnerability. Vulnerability is the fertile soil where love, peace and growth is best developed.
Being in a relationship where you can be vulnerable without fear is deeply peaceful. Removing the distractions, over reactions and peer pressures; make time to reflect, talk, learn and deepening your relationships is the foundation of trust.
Less distractions coupled with my choices in alignment with my core values buoys my confidence. This has not only sped up my decision making process it has also held me back from making poor decisions.
I have learnt to let go of what I can't control and focus on what I can control.
"Free at last, free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last!" leading on to greater emotional, intellectual and physical agility.
Today I am more motivated to do more of the things that only I can do and I receive a direct benefit from this simple choice. These include diving on the Great Barrier Reef, exercising, bush walking, quality time with friends & family, being more my authentic self and embracing new experiences.
Living with less gives greater appreciation for necessity and what is a luxury. Being grateful for real relationships, deep friendships, good health, honesty, considerate of others difficulties and helping where you can is both humbling and reassuring.
From this place I am less distracted by the flash, the ego and noise. I boast less and are deeply thankful for the opportunities and position I have been given to help others live a more fulfilling life.
Embracing a "Keep It Simple" edict isn't easy and the majority of us will move on to something new and shiny, however the results I have discovered from my "Keep It Simple" and "Be better, Not Bigger" edicts has been profound, rewarding and valuable. | Better, Not Bigger" edict, in my financial planning business. The review revealed both some expected and refreshing results.
Most importantly clients told me "they feel supported and more confident than previously and are on track to achieving their goals".
I have also seen an increase in new client enquiries and increased bottom line profitability. Reassuring feedback from the people who pay our bills that "being better, not bigger" is a good business model for both them and us.
These results speak for themselves and are proof, that truly living this KISS (Keep It Simple) & "Be Better, Not Bigger" attitude is an elegant, wise, effective and profitable however the invisible effects have been even more nothing short of life changing.
When you know what's important you and you are making choices aligned to your core values, decisions are easy. From this place we can better filter out choices between what will helps us, hinders us or may harm us.
This is very different from having a life full of complexity, reactionary and emotional decision making. Our reactions set of a chain of events that affect others around us. Responding appropriately way often leads to a problem being resolved rather than becoming bigger.
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A local team led by developer Greg Smith is hatching plans for Seattle's second-tallest skyscraper, built around an unconventional 616-foot-high atrium that would<|fim_middle|> mid-rise buildings on the block are old but not protected as historical landmarks.
When completed, Smith said the tower should put Seattle on the map in terms of architecture and design. He said Seattle has an "amazing" talent pool of architects, engineers and designers, and the tower will showcase that. | bathe the interior offices with natural light and give pedestrians walking beneath the tower a view of the sky.
The 880-foot-tall tower, known as 888 Second Ave., would be the fifth tallest on the West Coast, according to the Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
Smith said his firm, Urban Visions, controls the full city block bounded by Second and Third avenues and Columbia and Marion streets, and he expects to apply for a permit later this year. The project doesn't have any committed tenants or financing yet, Smith said.
The proposed 60-story skyscraper would have about 1 million square feet of office space and about 160 luxury residences on top, as well as some retail spaces at the base. The well-known Metropolitan Grill on the Second Avenue block front will anchor the new tower's retail. The current | 177 |
Its into December a bit now, so I can safely post this recipe without being judged by the Xmas haters. Here's a basic recipe for mince pies, feel free to fancy it up a bit by swapping a little bit of the dried fruit with dried cranberries. Use shop brought shortcrust pastry if you must, but don't think of using puff pastry, its madness….
Mix all the filling ingredients apart from the apple in a bowl, cover and leave to sit overnight on the<|fim_middle|> vegan christmas. Bookmark the permalink.
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As one of the oldest cultural expressions in Mesopotamia, dengbej should be added to the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage. This is according to opera singer Pervin Chakar, who has started a petition to gather support for and raise awareness about the importance of dengbej, an ancient Kurdish storytelling tradition. Chakar, who is originally Kurdish, lives in Germany and performs all over Europe, told Fanack, "Collecting signatures is only part of the campaign. I want to cooperate with music and cultural institutes to make this happen."
Dengbej's real age is hard to determine, but it is certainly pre-Islamic. In the old days, dengbej singers would travel to towns and villages and share stories of love and death, struggle and politics. It was a way to keep people informed about events and developments in society but also to pass on historical stories and myths to next generations. Dengbej is, one could say, a key<|fim_middle|>
Stay up to date with the weekly newsletter! | expression of the oral way in which Kurdish culture has always been kept alive. As Chakar put it, "Without the dengbej singers, maybe our culture would have vanished."
Chakar grew up in the small town of Derik in Mardin province, south-east Turkey. Dengbej was part of her life, she said. "In my childhood, my grandfather always listened to the great dengbej singers on the radio or on his stereo. It was the same for many Kurds."
It must have been risky for her grandfather because Chakar was a child in the 1980s. Kurdish culture has never been free in the history of the Turkish Republic, which was founded in 1923, but after the military coup of 1980, the suppression reached new levels. Just speaking Kurdish could land you in jail, let alone being involved in more active expressions of Kurdish culture, like dengbej. The situation did not improve until the turn of the century, when the Justice and Development Party (AKP), already led by now President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, first came to power.
The Kurdish movement took the opportunity to try to save dengbej – the art was dangerously close to extinction at the time, with mostly elderly men and a few elderly women still mastering the typical way of telling stories. The efforts were concentrated in Diyarbakir, the biggest Kurdish city in south-east Turkey, where in 2007 a dengbej house was opened, pictured here. It was located in the historical centre in a traditional building with a courtyard, built out of the black basalt stones that are so typical of the city. Weather allowing, at any time of the day, visitors can enter and will always find a few singers in the courtyard, or, on rainy days, in the traditionally furnished rooms inside.
Although the performers are referred to as 'singers', the style actually falls between reciting and singing. Typically, the dengbej singer keeps his – sometimes her – hand cupped behind his ear. When more dengbej singers are together, they usually take over each other's stories. The stories being told can be old or more recent, but the best performers are expected to introduce new storylines as well, adding recent political developments into existing songs, or occasionally a joke. A proper dengbej session can easily take half an hour, an hour or even longer – singing through the night reportedly was no exception in the old days.
Based on the description of 'intangible cultural heritage' on UNESCO's website, it seems unlikely that dengbej will not be recognized: such heritage encompasses traditions or living expressions inherited from ancestors and passed on to descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts. A more detailed description states that intangible heritage is, among others, 'traditional, contemporary and living at the same time' and 'community based'. In other words, the community itself must recognize the tradition as its heritage and this cannot be imposed by anybody outside the community.
There is a difficulty though: only states can officially request that a heritage be added to the UNESCO list. In its early days, the ruling AKP may have given Kurdish culture some leeway, but many of these 'freedoms' have since been rescinded. This is due to renewed violence in the region since 2015, when a three-year 'peace process' came to an end. This also affected the district of Sur, where the dengbej house is located. Although the house is still standing and functioning, the earlier spirit of reviving Kurdish culture waned.
It should be noted that the Diyarbakir Fortress and Hevsel Gardens were added to the UNESCO list of cultural heritage in 2015. However, the fortress and gardens are not particularly Kurdish but a reflection of the cultural and religious diversity that marks the region's history. Dengbej is not just intangible heritage but explicitly Kurdish heritage too, and it has always had a political side – many songs testify to the Kurdish struggle.
A check of the list of intangible cultural heritage shows that, so far, all entries from Turkey are connected to Turkish culture, except Newroz, a spring festival celebrated across Western Asia. It seems unlikely that Turkey will in the short term show any interest in promoting dengbej to UNESCO. Chakar is aware of this but says that her petition is strictly apolitical and that she intends to speak to state institutions about its goal.
She is now focusing on the first steps of the long process: besides the petitions, she is trying to establish links with cultural foundations and artists that would be interested in promoting dengbej as well, to build a coalition that is as big as possible, supported by as many citizens as she can reach. "I do this with my heart, and I hope others will join. We all love dengbej culture," she said.
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We have made this dish several times and it is one of our popular weekend dinners. We are not sure if we are supposed to use back bacon or streaky bacon that is the default bacon in North American. We use streaky bacon since it is easy to find and we often have some on hand. Just make sure you drain the fat after frying.
Heat the stock. Fry the bacon until slightly<|fim_middle|> the next. this will take around 15 minutes. Carry on adding stock until the rice is soft but with a slight bite. Stir in the bacon/radicchio/rosemary. Don't forget to check the seasoning carefully.
Remove from the heat and add the butter and Parmesan. Stir gently. Place a lid on the pan and allow to sit for 2-3 minutes. This is the most important part of making the risotto, as this is when it becomes outrageously creamy and oozy like it should be. Eat as soon as possible while the risotto retains its perfect texture. | golden. Add the radicchio and rosemary to the pan and cook gently with the lid on until wilted.
In a separate pan heat the olive oil, add the shallots or onions, garlic and celery, and fry slowly for about 4 minutes. When the vegetables have softened, add the rice and turn up the heat.
The rice will now begin to fry, so keep stirring it. After a minute it will look slightly translucent. Add the red wine and keep stirring.
Once the wine has cooked into the rice, add the first ladle of hot stock and a good pinch of salt. Turn down the heat to a highish simmer so the rice doesn't cook too quickly on the outside. Keep adding ladlefuls of stock, stirring and almost massaging the creamy starch from the rice, allowing each ladleful to be absorbed before adding | 174 |
Evolution of the Cell Phone- The World's gone Crazy!
Well, maybe not the world….maybe just me. I have to admit to being a "frequent upgrader" when it comes to cell phones. I'm captivated by the increased capabilities and growing power of mobile devices.
I used one of the early bricks (DynaTAC8000X), and a flip phone. As one of the first iphone owners in 2007,<|fim_middle|> developments in the near future! | I was later able to share with Steve Wozniak my love for the device, and he agreed when I suggested it was "the greatest invention since the cotton gin".
Apple or Droid? Which is Better? This discussion is now part of my proverbial "Argument Starters", alongside of Religion, Politics, & Child Raising. It seems that emotions–rather than reason, drive people to passionately defend whatever it is that they own. A credit to advertising and brand loyalty, for sure!
I'm not going to proselytize for a position on either because as a tool, it should perform the functions you require and to operate the way you want in your daily life.
The data surrounding research, advancements, and business uses for mobile devices clearly point to a future where mobile learning will be the dominant form factor. I'm excited about the potential for teaching and mobile learning (mlearning).
Looking at the following infographic shows how fast the industry has evolved and point to exciting | 198 |
Betin is a relevantly young company with just five years of experience. For that time, they've created the name in the industry. In difference from many other young companies, their website looks well and delivers good user experience. The company begins on 15th October 2010. It has the license by the Government of Curacao. The company has many certificates for its games from the best in the industry. Also, the company holds different certificates by gambling commissions like Alderney Gambling Control Commission, Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission, Malta Lotteries and Gaming Authority and the Uk Gambling Commission. The main license of the company is from 03/09/2014.
During the years of existence, the company has gained a lot of respect by bettors and competitors. It is well known and operational at the moment.
The products they offer are over 700 casino games, poker, bingo and soon they intend to offer games which can be played by more than one player. With that they intend to involve the bettors in the game even more and therefore improve the overall experience.
One of the innovations the company offers is the integrated wallet which allows clients to play all the games easier, faster and hassle-free.
Betin has closed down its activities and it is no longer active bookmaker.
Some of the sports which each bettor can pick to bet on are athletics, boxing, American Football, soccer or European football, tennis, golf, cycling and many other.
Alongside all of these the online bookie offers casino games, poker, live casino, virtual games tv games, etc. Some of the casino games include slot machines, table games, scratch cards, number games. There are also options to play need, blackjack, roulette, video poker, slots, 3d slots and progressive jackpot. The bookie offers great tournaments and chance for any client to win jackpots and other prizes. The live casino games include real croupier.
However, all of these betting options are available for live betting. The company has invested in special software that allows live betting to be as transparent and easy as possible. The system shows all possible bets and odds for the moment, the result and history of the match that explains how exactly this result took place. Another great option is the statistics that give a better overall idea of how the match is going and what the strengths and the weakness of each team are. Another piece of valuable information is related to the cards shown in the match and also the names of the players.
The betting options available for the bettors are 1×2, double chance, goal/ no goal, draw no bet, ht/ft, correct score, total goals, which teams will score, total team goals and many others.
Betin offers two types of odds – decimal and fractional<|fim_middle|> 100 to 10 000 GBP and EUR in 2-3 working days.
The bookie works with a few currencies which can be found in the table.
The company offers a welcome bonus that is 100% of the first deposit or up to 100 EUR/GBP.
Even though Betin is a big company and well established betting professional, they do not offer loyalty programs, reload bonuses, referral bonuses or any other type of loyalty program.
The deposit bonus is used to calculate the target points that once achieved; the client can withdraw. The formula is multiply the bonus + deposit x100. | . Also, the online bookie offers different bet slips – singles, multiples, and combinations. Of course in tennis we have the usual head to head.
Betting options allow the player not only to pick a certain tournament or championship but also to select a certain country and follow all the sports events in that particular country.
There are few ways personal information and data can be stolen. One is by getting hacking the link between the server and the client. Another way is by hacking the database or simply getting the information from employees. Is this online bookie a secure and trustworthy place to bet? The answers are Yes.
The company relies on SSL encryption technology that guarantees its clients secure information transfers and no risk for card numbers or passwords stealing during the transfer. The encrypted information includes personal details, passwords and credit card numbers.
Company's employees have not the right to talk or share personal information about the clients and their transactions. For even further safety, all phone calls may be recorded. All personal data collected by the online bettor may see use by third parties and marketing companies. Of course, all personal data collected by the company can be seen. For the purpose, the clients need to ask the customer service department. Such copy of the information takes 30 days to create.
Betin uses many different options for communication with the clients like internal message – only for registered people, email, Skype, fax, and phone.
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Credit or debit card. In this case, there is a minimum of 10 GBP or EUR for the deposit. No fee to pay, and the deposit is ready instantly. If the client decides to use Skrill he/she will have to mind the same conditions. That holds true for Paysafe, Ukash, and Ecocard. Bank transfers take 2-5 working days and usually are well charged. Neteller is free and allows deposits to be made in real time, but the minimum amount of money is twice as big – 20 EUR or GDP.
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As the most frequented urban park in the nation, Central Park has become a well-known area throughout the entire United States.
This 843-acre patch of rolling grass, lakes, streams, and natural beauty has solidified itself into the annals of Americana in a variety of ways. Featured in hundreds of movies and thousands of television programs, Central Park can provide a time of movie location sightseeing just as easily as it can provide a day of outdoor activity.
Aside from film settings you'll encounter, you'll also find dozens of beautifully artistic fountains and sculptures, like those found in Bethesda Terrace. Bethesda Terrace hosts the popular Bethesda Fountain, the central feature of the terrace. The pool of the fountain is centered by a sculpture from the mid-late 1800s that depicts an angel. Beneath her, four four-foot cherubs (Temperance, Purity, Health and Peace) stand as well. This statue is also called the "Angel of the Waters." Another fountain you can see in the park is Cherry Hill Fountain, which was once a watering trough for horses in the 19th century.
Whether you're looking for a place to play with the children, get a little exercise, or even lounge around, Central Park is the premier place to go in New York City. Even if you don't plan on staying around long,<|fim_middle|> I could have spent another whole day there. | Central Park should definitely be at the top pf your list of sights to experience while visiting the Big Apple.
This was the most beautiful park I have ever been to. You can spend a whole day just walking through the park and seeing the sights. While we were there, we saw a concert, ate two meals, took many memorable pictures and | 68 |
Kate Belbeck is an Elite+ Mompreneur member based out of Moffat, Ontario. She<|fim_middle|> is to come!
My advice to women thinking of starting a business is to just go ahead and do it! Take the leap! And it's completely okay if it's more like a hop than a leap. It's completely okay to start small and grow in a way that best serves you and those around you. From my own experience, where it took a long time and many attempts to find my passion and the business that let me live it, don't be afraid of failure. Each "failure" is actually a lesson and a step that brings you closer to your own definition of success. | is the owner of Belbeck's Family Farm featuring Rent the Chicken, helping families bring a simple food source (eggs!) closer to their table!
Kate aims to do this in the easiest possible way for our customers – with a short term rental of a complete set-up: portable coop, feed and hens all included! Education is really key; when clients are completely supported in their journey, it takes the overwhelm out of an experience that is very new for most. Kate teaches clients how to care for their hens, helps with any questions or concerns that could arise, and even helps beyond the end of the rental term. If customers decide to get their own hens sometime down the road, she will still be there, offering them the same great support! Kate also provides hatching rentals to allow schools, daycares, homeschoolers and private residences to experience the life-cycle of egg incubation, hatching and rearing chicks. The best part is that this program is only 5 weeks long and the chicks return to Belbeck's Family Farm at the end of the rental period.
We are so excited to share Kate's Success Story!
The why behind my business is really all about community. Feeling connected to something is important to me and I want others to feel that support. There are a lot of ways that this happens – firstly, I get to have my family connected to my business! My husband and 3 sons are all involved in helping with various parts of our Rent The Chicken journey. The families that we rent to- get to experience the supportive community that Rent The Chicken provides. Additionally, they often see it within their own actual living community- having backyard hens or hatching eggs is something that draws people in and they want to be involved.
I've been an entrepreneur in one way, shape or form since I was 17 years old. My parents were both entrepreneurs so I think it just runs in my blood. It took me a long time though to find that thing that really fit, and that I was passionate about. After a period of time as an employee, I chose to start my current entrepreneurial journey when I did because I wanted to be home with my children more and have them involved in my business. After the unexpected death of my daughter in 2012, I really came to value that important time together even more as I learned firsthand just how precious that time is.
By far the best part of owning my own business is that I am able to involve my family in it! That goes beyond just my husband and children. Even my parents and sisters have played a role in its success. I truly believe that many hands make light work and that even if you are solopreneur, you need to surround yourself with people that lift you up and support you.
There are so many people and events that have led me to where I am in this journey. First and foremost would be my family. My parents for showing me that entrepreneurship was a great road to take even though there can be bumps in the road. My husband and kids for being involved in the everyday functions of the business and for being flexible to see me a bit less during our peak times. I also am extremely thankful for the ingenuity of Jenn and Phil Tompkins who are the founders of the Rent The Chicken parent company. Their brilliant concept has given me so much joy, and purpose since I took a leap and joined in, in 2015. They are some of the most supportive and giving people and that has truly allowed me to grow and succeed. Finally, I have to include joining the Mompreneurs community. Mompreneurs came into my life when I needed to feel like I had a community of support around me. I have never met another group of women who are champions of one another so much. Additionally, the educational and motivations resources are incredible and I wouldn't be remotely close to where I am without everything Mompreneurs has provided.
In my life, I really value family and community. Learning the hard way that time isn't guaranteed, really changes a person and makes you really think about priorities. My family is my highest priority and I think this comes through in my business as we are all involved. My husband helps with all of my deliveries and my eldest son is on most deliveries as well and really enjoys helping people get started. Life as an entrepreneur can be hectic, and sometimes we sacrifice time with our families, but I try to involve them as much as possible to balance this. I also love bringing people together and teaching them new things. I love helping people and I love to make them feel less overwhelmed when they are trying something that might be completely foreign to them. My role as a business owner allows me to bring all of those pieces that are important to me into a central place in my business.
There are a lot of things that I am proud of but the one that tops the list is that my kids love to be involved and they want to do what I do one day. I've been honoured to win a few awards that I wasn't expecting, including the 2018 Mompreneurs Momentum award and the 2016 and 2017 Rent The Chicken Top Performer award. I am very proud of these accomplishments and they have been really important for me personally to build confidence in my life as an entrepreneur.
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Do not rush to switch off the life support
4 March, 2010 2 May, 2018 ~ Robert Skidelsky
Co-authored with Prof Marcus Miller
The fragility of the British economy in face of the Great Recession demands a rethinking not just of macroeconomic policy, but of the balance between consumption and investment, between finance and industry. In response to this challenge, George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, set out a "new economic model" in the annual Mais lecture last week. But there is little evidence of new thinking. There is no reference, for example, to what one might learn from the experience of Japan, which faced a similar "balance sheet recession" in the 1990s. Mr Osborne harks back to the old view that government is the problem not the solution – a philosophy that led to widespread financial deregulation and the current crisis.
Leaving aside the party-political stock-in-trade, the intellectual issue raised by the lecture concerns the relationship between government finance and the economy, and how this should respond to "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune". Mr Osborne quotes from a Bank of International Settlements report that "persistently high levels of public debt will drive down capital accumulation, productivity growth and long<|fim_middle|>-leveraging – reducing spending to reduce its debts – then public sector de-leveraging – cutting its deficit – will deepen, not lighten, recession. This is what Keynes dubbed the "paradox of thrift".
Mr Osborne recommends an independent Office for Budget Responsibility to oversee the public finances. This has its attractions: governments can too easily become addicted to deficit finance. But it is no use having Three Wise Men monitoring the Treasury's adherence to its fiscal rules until one knows what the fiscal rules will be. In the present circumstances, the risk is that these rules might be designed to reincarnate and reinforce the "Treasury view" of balanced budgets as it operated at the time of the Great Depression.
The shadow chancellor sets out the argument for the Bank of England to re-absorb the responsibilities of the Financial Services Authority. This proposal deserves to be considered on its merits. But the focus on "institutional design" of the regulatory framework risks masking the flaws in regulatory philosophy that stemmed from the belief that the banks could safely be left to regulate their own risks.
Now is not the time to be scoring party-political points on the conduct of economic policy. It is a time for a radical reappraisal of the regulation of finance, so that the creativity of the industry can be harnessed to serve the needs of society, and not to generate transfers to those who can gamble with the nation's resources. It is a time to design an "exit strategy" that allows the public sector – and the Bank – safely to remove the life support that was extended to the private capital markets in their hour of need.
We cannot return to the status quo ante. Get the reforms right and the private sector can get back on its feet without the crutch of public sector support and wholesale guarantees. Get them wrong and the present recession, for which Mr Osborne so castigates the government, could look like a success story.
Lord Skidelsky is emeritus professor of political economy and Marcus Miller professor of economics at the University of Warwick
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Next ›The Naked Euro | -term growth potential". This is true, provided the economy is running at or near full capacity. In such a situation, a high and persistent level of public debt would "crowd out" more profitable private investment. But this is not our situation.
Our public debt – unlike, perhaps, that of Greece – is not "persistently high". It has gone up from a low of 36 per cent to 62 per cent in 2009 to cope with an unprecedented emergency. Moreover, when national output is 6 per cent – possibly more – below potential, as measured by prior trend, an increase in the public debt does not come at the expense of capital accumulation. It replaces the investment that is not taking place because the economy has shrunk. The government is spending so much because the private sector is investing so little: figures show that private investment has declined by a quarter since 2008.
Mr Osborne asks: why is private demand so weak? His answer is that private demand depends on "expectations and confidence", and that immediate fiscal consolidation will be good for confidence. But an IMF paper last month warned that premature cuts in public spending could lead to a sterling crisis. The truth is that we do not know how the markets will assess the balance of risk between cutting off the life-support system and the government defaulting on its debt.
In any case, Mr Osborne is ignoring the pressure to rebuild private sector balance sheets, which has pushed the household savings ratio up from about 1 per cent at the start of 2008 to about 9 per cent in the third quarter of 2009. Experience of Japan's recession of the 1990s will confirm that if the private sector is de | 356 |
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<span class="v-num v-1">1 </span><span class="v IS38_1" data-id="IS38_1">In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.</span>
<span class="v-num v-2">2 </span><span class="v IS3<|fim_middle|>1" data-id="IS38_21">Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.</span>
<span class="v-num v-22">22 </span><span class="v IS38_22" data-id="IS38_22">Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of Jehovah?</span>
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</html> | 8_2" data-id="IS38_2">Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto Jehovah,</span>
<span class="v-num v-3">3 </span><span class="v IS38_3" data-id="IS38_3">and said, Remember now, O Jehovah, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.</span>
<span class="v-num v-4">4 </span><span class="v IS38_4" data-id="IS38_4">Then came the word of Jehovah to Isaiah, saying,</span>
<span class="v-num v-5">5 </span><span class="v IS38_5" data-id="IS38_5">Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. </span>
<span class="v-num v-6">6 </span><span class="v IS38_6" data-id="IS38_6">And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city.</span>
<span class="v-num v-7">7 </span><span class="v IS38_7" data-id="IS38_7">And this shall be the sign unto thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do this thing that he hath spoken:</span>
<span class="v-num v-8">8 </span><span class="v IS38_8" data-id="IS38_8">behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which is gone down on the dial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone down.</span>
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<span class="v-num v-9">9 </span><span class="v IS38_9" data-id="IS38_9">The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.</span>
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<span class="v-num v-10">10 </span><span class="v IS38_10" data-id="IS38_10">I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol:</span>
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<span class="v IS38_10" data-id="IS38_10">I am deprived of the residue of my years.</span>
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<span class="v-num v-11">11 </span><span class="v IS38_11" data-id="IS38_11">I said, I shall not see Jehovah, <span class="add">even</span> Jehovah in the land of the living:</span>
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<span class="v IS38_11" data-id="IS38_11">I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.</span>
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<span class="v-num v-12">12 </span><span class="v IS38_12" data-id="IS38_12">My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent:</span>
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<span class="v IS38_12" data-id="IS38_12">I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom:</span>
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<span class="v IS38_12" data-id="IS38_12">From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.</span>
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<span class="v-num v-13">13 </span><span class="v IS38_13" data-id="IS38_13">I quieted <span class="add">myself</span> until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones:</span>
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<span class="v IS38_13" data-id="IS38_13">From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.</span>
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<span class="v-num v-14">14 </span><span class="v IS38_14" data-id="IS38_14">Like a swallow <span class="add">or</span> a crane, so did I chatter;</span>
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<span class="v IS38_14" data-id="IS38_14">I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail <span class="add">with looking</span> upward:</span>
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<span class="v IS38_14" data-id="IS38_14">O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.</span>
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<span class="v-num v-15">15 </span><span class="v IS38_15" data-id="IS38_15">What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it:</span>
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<span class="v IS38_15" data-id="IS38_15">I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.</span>
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<span class="v-num v-16">16 </span><span class="v IS38_16" data-id="IS38_16">O Lord, by these things men live;</span>
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<span class="v IS38_16" data-id="IS38_16">And wholly therein is the life of my spirit:</span>
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<span class="v IS38_16" data-id="IS38_16">Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.</span>
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<span class="v-num v-17">17 </span><span class="v IS38_17" data-id="IS38_17">Behold, <span class="add">it was</span> for <span class="add">my</span> peace <span class="add">that</span> I had great bitterness:</span>
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<span class="v IS38_17" data-id="IS38_17">But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption;</span>
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<span class="v IS38_17" data-id="IS38_17">For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.</span>
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<span class="v-num v-18">18 </span><span class="v IS38_18" data-id="IS38_18">For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee:</span>
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<span class="v IS38_18" data-id="IS38_18">They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.</span>
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<span class="v-num v-19">19 </span><span class="v IS38_19" data-id="IS38_19">The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day:</span>
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<span class="v IS38_19" data-id="IS38_19">The father to the children shall make known thy truth.</span>
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<span class="v-num v-20">20 </span><span class="v IS38_20" data-id="IS38_20">Jehovah is <span class="add">ready</span> to save me:</span>
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<span class="v IS38_20" data-id="IS38_20">Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments</span>
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<span class="v IS38_20" data-id="IS38_20">All the days of our life in the house of Jehovah.</span>
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How the Ground Shakes During Earthquakes?
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Ground shaking is the consequence of movement of seismic waves through the ground, which ranges from quite gentle in small earthquakes to considerably violent in large earthquakes. Ground shaking move buildings from side to side and up and down. The shaking that any structure experiences depends on how far it is from the fault and the soil under and around it.
Seismic waves travel faster through hard rock than through softer rock for instance soil and sand. However, as the waves pass from harder to softer rocks, they slow and their strength increases, so shaking is more intense where the ground is softer. Nonetheless, even buildings on hard rock can also experience intense shaking and damage if they are close to the surface rapture.
Not all seismic waves are the same. There are several different types and each type has a unique way of moving. Commonly, seismic wave is composed of two major waves namely body waves and surface waves.
Understanding the behavior and influences of these waves would clarify ground shaking of the ground during an earthquake. This cannot be achieved without utilization of proper instruments, such as seismograph, to record various waves of earthquakes. These waves are different in speed (arrival at specific location), amplitude, and carry various level of energy.
Types of Seismic Waves
1. Surface waves
1.1 Rayleigh waves
1.2 Love waves
2. Body waves
2.1 P-waves
2.2. S-waves arrive
Instruments for Earthquake Detection and Measurements
Strong Ground Motions
Large strain energy released during an earthquake as seismic waves travels in all directions through layers of the Earth, reflecting and refracting at each interface. These waves are of two major types:
It travels over the surface of the earth, and it consist of Rayleigh wave and love waves.
Rayleigh waves or ground roll travel like ocean waves over the surface of the Earth. It moves the ground surface up and down. They cause most of the shaking at the ground surface during an earthquake.
Fig. 1: Rayleigh Waves
Love waves are fast and move the ground from side to side.
Fig. 2: Love Waves
Body waves travel through the Earth. It consists of Primary Waves (P-waves) and Secondary Waves (S-waves)
P-waves are the fastest type of seismic wave. As P-waves travel, the surrounding rock is repeatedly compressed and then stretched along direction of energy transmission.
Fig. 3: P waves
S-waves arrive after P-waves because they travel more slowly and it does not travel through liquids. The material particles shifted up and down or side to side as the wave travels through it.
S-waves in association with effects of Love waves cause maximum damage to structures by their racking motion on the surface in both vertical and horizontal directions.
When P- and S-waves reach the surface of the Earth, most of their energy is reflected back. Some of this energy is returned back to the surface by reflections at different layers of soil and rock.
Shaking is more severe (about twice as much) at the Earth's surface than at substantial depths. This is often the basis for designing structures buried underground for smaller levels of acceleration than those above the ground.
Fig. 4: S waves
A seismograph, which is also known as seismometer, is an instrument used to detect and record earthquakes. It consists of sensor, recorder, and timer. The principle on which it works is simple. A pen attached to a mass hung by a string from a support, Fig. 5, marks on a chart paper that is held on a drum rotating at a constant speed.
Fig 5: Seismograph
A magnet around the string provides required damping to control the amplitude of oscillations. The pendulum mass, string, magnet and support together constitute the sensor. The drum, pen and chart paper constitute the recorder.
The motor that rotates the drum at constant speed forms the timer. One such instrument is required in each<|fim_middle|>Fig. 7: Typical Accelerograms
Accelerograms carry distinct information regarding ground shaking; peak amplitude, duration of strong shaking, frequency content and energy content. Peak amplitude (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is physically intuitive.
For instance, a horizontal PGA value of 0.6g (= 0.6 times the acceleration due to gravity) suggests that the movement of the ground that can cause a maximum horizontal force on a rigid structure equal to 60% of its weight.
In a rigid structure, all points in it move with the ground by the same amount, and hence experience the same maximum acceleration of PGA. Usually, strong ground motions carry significant energy associated with shaking of frequencies in the range 0.03-30Hz (i.e., cycles per sec).
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For measuring vertical oscillations, the string pendulum as shown in the Fig. 6 is replaced with a spring pendulum oscillating about a fulcrum.
Fig. 6: Seismograph for Recording Vertical Motions
As earthquake occurs, the base of the seismograph moves, but the mass does not. The seismograph records a zig-zag trace that shows the varying amplitude of ground oscillations beneath the instrument. This record is proportional to the motion of the seismometer mass relative to the earth, but it can be mathematically converted to a record of the absolute motion of the ground.
The analog instruments have evolved over time, but today, digital instruments using modern computer technology are more commonly used. The digital instrument records the ground motion on the memory of the microprocessor that is in-built in the instrument.
Ground shaking is the result of movements caused by seismic waves. The seismic waves, which reach certain point at various instants of time, have different amplitudes and carry different levels energy.
Consequently, the motion at any site on ground is random in nature with its amplitude and direction varying randomly with time. Strong motions that can possibly damage structures can happen with earthquakes in the vicinity or even with large earthquakes at reasonable medium to large distances.
The motion of the ground can be described in terms of displacement, velocity or acceleration. The variation of ground acceleration with time recorded at a point on ground during an earthquake is called an accelerogram, Fig. 7.
The nature of accelerograms may vary depending on energy released at source, type of slip at fault rupture, geology along the travel path from fault rupture to the Earth's surface, and local soil.
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Q: Can a red-black tree have a black node with a single black child? When describing the deletion procedure for red-black trees, Arge and Lagoudakis focus on the case when the node to be deleted is black and has a single black child (illustrated in Figure 16 of the CP230 lecture notes here and reproduced below):
However, following the description given on Wikipedia here (which follows CLRS), it would seem that a node with a single black child would also have a black NIL (leaf) node as its other child. This would immediately create root-leaf paths in a red-black tree that contain different numbers of black nodes. Those that go from the root to the NIL node would have one less than those that go through the child. So it would seem to me that the case considered by Arge and Lagoudakis could never arise. So my question is: can a red-black tree have a black node<|fim_middle|> no children can be pushed higher up into the tree. (The idea is to either fix the violation locally or to push the violation up toward the root where it can easily be dealt with.) In the course of doing so, it's possible that the black node being pushed higher up might end up having exactly one black child. By defining this case as "the black node has zero children or one black child," the logic here can be applied recursively to move the node upward, even if the node couldn't initially begin with one black child.
A: No a red black tree cannot have a black node with a single black child.
A black node can have
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*0 children
*1 child which is red
*2 black children
*2 red children
*2 children made up of a black child and a red child which
itself has 2 black children
All of this is to ensure that for any given node, the count of real black nodes (i.e. not NIL nodes counted as black) is the same for every path, one of the 4 rules of red-black trees)
A: The root of the tree is always black. There are no two adjacent red nodes (A red node cannot have a red parent or red child). Every path from a node (including root) to any of its descendants NULL nodes has the same number of black nodes.
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A: You are absolutely right in your analysis: in a valid red-black tree, if a node has just one child node, that child node cannot be black. It doesn't even matter what the colour is of the first mentioned node. The reasoning you gave remains the same, and is correct.
The cited document obscures that a red-back tree is a binary tree where each node has exactly two pointers -- and that their order is significant (one is "left", the other is "right") -- by depicting some edges vertically, as if there is no second pointer.
Also the Wikipedia article on the subject confirms in the section Removal: simple cases that it is not valid for a node with just one child, to have a black child:
If N has exactly one non-NIL child, it must be a red child, because if it were a black one then requirement 4* would force a second black non-NIL child.
*4. Every path from a given node to any of its descendant NIL nodes goes through the same number of black nodes.
A: You're completely right that a black node in a red-black tree can't have exactly one black child. My understanding - which may be incorrect - is that the algorithm they are describing for deletion contains a case where a black node with | 267 |
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Berkshire Landscapes are passionate about creating and protecting habitats to maintain the biodiversity of our native flora and fauna.
Depending on the creatures in your locality, a professionally designed wildlife pond will attract all sorts of wildlife.
With careful planning a wildlife habitat should accomodate a sheltered, well-planted, informal pond surrounded by dense, vigorously growing, moisture-loving plants which will make it a magnet for wildlife from a wide surrounding area. In order to attract the maximum diversity of creatures, it is most important to locate the feature in an area providing ample cover nearby. This will allow birds and animals to approach the pond in safety, including birds, frogs, newts, bats, small mammals such as water voles and field mice.
Careful planting is fundamental. Plants should be chosen that will sustain the ponds ecosystem, providing cover and food. Native plants and flowers are more attractive to indigenous wildlife. In a successful wildlife pond and habitat, all plants and creatures play their part in the complex food chains. We never use non-native planting or recommend stocking the pond with decorative fish as their body waste creates a build up of toxins that will upset the balance of the pond.
Still-water is perfect with no use of artificial filtration. All the filtration requirements are naturally achieved through the planting scheme, so long as the correct type and quantities of plants are used. When we discuss your requirements on site, we'll go carefully through every aspect of the design and construction with you, to ensure that your pond fully meets your needs and expectations. And of course, we'll do our best to stretch your budget as far as possible so that you can have a natural pond to be proud of!
There are many factors that need to be taken into account when designing your wildlife habitat and pond. These include the geographical location of the property, the position in the garden, the amount of exposure to sunshine and shade, and so on. A member of our team will fully discuss your options with you.
Aeration will benefit a wildlife pond during hot dry spells of weather. It will also reduce the formation of algae during these conditions by keeping the water highly oxygenated throughout the day and night. Oxygen levels will be at the lowest during the night as the aquatic plants carry out reverse photosynthesis. Without filtration or moving water, aeration can help keep the balance of the pond during extreme weather conditions.
We normally install a high-quality heavy-duty rubber liner with a soft sand base and underlay, because that allows a more freeform shape to be achieved. The liner will then have a lifespan of over 30 years.
We can lay any preferred type of edging, or recommend a type that fits in with the design of your garden. But you may prefer to keep everything natural by using soft edging which is wildlife friendly.
We have extensive knowledge of the types of aquatic plants that attract wildlife and can recommend suitable plants and install them for you | 587 |
Rōti Modern Mediterranean is excited to open two new locations in the DC area. The first will open on Thursday, June 22nd across from Nationals Stadium at 1251 First Street SE. The Pentagon City location will follow in July. This past January, Roti updated their menu to include a "try a little of everything" approach to entrees, giving customers the option to add as many<|fim_middle|> Brewery.
To reinforce their mission of Food That Loves You Back, Roti's space includes enhanced food presentation, new interior design features, and a hand drawn food story mural scaling the length of the dining room. There is also additional communal seating to accommodate larger lunch and dinner groups. | sides and toppings as they'd like. This past Spring, Spicy Lamb Meatballs were added to the menu at all locations. Packed with flavor and spice, the meatballs are prepared using red quinoa, Sriracha sauce, mint, parsley, red chili, and other spices. This new offering is gluten-free and a great source of protein. Both Ballpark and Pentagon City will also offer a selection of wines and beers from local retailers, including DC Brau and Flying Dog | 98 |
While fan passion is as old as sport itself, leagues and franchises are now using cutting-edge technology not just to build winning teams but also to capitalize on the ardor of their customer base to grow another revenue source — corporate sponsorships. Here are a few of the business trends that emerged from the April conference.
More than a decade ago, the Oakland A's Major League Baseball team (and the book and movie Moneyball) popularized the notion of using statistics with predictive modeling to build a winning team. Teams in the NBA, such as the San Antonio Spurs, have similarly used big data sets to help owners and coaches recruit players and execute game plans. But the 2013-2014 NBA season is the first for all teams to have SportVU tracking, a system of six cameras in each arena that measures the movements of the ball and every player on the court, generating an entire database of performance information. "This is the first year we have more data than we can analyze," said Ranadivé, noting that more data had been generated this season than in the league's previous 67-year history.
The data are changing the way the game is played, shifting emphasis from how many total points a player scores to measures of player efficiency, productivity per touch, and defensive effectiveness. "It has been hard, historically, to quantify defense," said Brian Kopp, senior vice president of STATS, the company that developed SportVU player tracking. "Now we have four camera views helping you do that." In addition, the data have influenced the types of shots players take on the court.
Golden State Warriors forward Andre Iguodala said he uses the data to assess opponents via scouting reports, but most players don't pay much attention to it. "Some players aren't as productive if they're thinking too much," he said. Instead, the data's greatest impact is in helping management build a team of effective and compatible players.
Franchises are looking for ways to capitalize on mobile technology to enhance the fan experience in their homes and as spectators in stadiums and arenas. Mobile devices are popular as "second screens" in home viewing<|fim_middle|> company not because data showed chocolate lovers to be the most passionate soccer fans, but because they felt helping the local brand would also help theirs.
With so much fan access occurring via mobile technology and social media, leagues and teams are accelerating global programs, including expanding to new markets. As just one example, Kings owner Ranadivé, who is Indian American, discussed raising the Kings' profile in India by creating a team website in Hindi, hosting international Google+ Hangouts during games, and sending some team personnel on outreach trips to India. "It's not an overnight process, but progress is steady," he said, noting that basketball has become the fastest-growing sport in India, and fan interest in the Kings is seven times higher than that of any other NBA team. "I wouldn't be surprised if, in the next five years, we have a player of Indian origin in the NBA," he said. A home-country player would of course increase Indian fan interest even more, just as it has done for the NBA with players from France, China, and other countries over the past two decades.
Stanford graduates cited in this story are: John Abbamondi, MBA '04; Ward Bullard, BA '00; Mike Golub, MBA '88; Ben Gumpert, MBA '07; Sam Hinkie, MBA '05; and Steve Pamon, MBA '96.
The Stanford economist explains how troves of digital data will reshape competition.
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At Stanford GSB's Sports Innovation Conference, technology took the spotlight. | of televised sports, but 70% of fans bring a mobile device to the stadium or arena and expect to use it during a game there as well, said Mark Craig of Cisco Systems Sports & Entertainment Group, who has been involved with creating arena Wi-Fi systems that will function with a dense population of users. The new Sacramento Kings arena, set to open in 2016, will have mobile applications for check-in, ushering you to your seat, indicating shortest bathroom and concession lines, seat upgrade options (much like what has been done in the airline industry), cashless commerce, and in-seat wireless charging. The Kings are exploring the use of drone technology to survey available parking spaces and even provide unique in-arena camera angles, said team senior vice president of marketing and strategy Ben Gumpert.
"Sports is a people business, so we're looking for ways to use technology to further engage with people," said John Abbamondi, vice president of the NBA's Team Marketing & Business Operations division. This could mean one day scanning a ticket on your phone to enter the arena, which sends an alert to a service representative to let them know it's your birthday, so your favorite cocktail can be delivered to your seat. "Each arena is like a lab," he said, trying out new programs to find what's successful in deepening engagement and building new revenue.
One surprisingly underexplored avenue for engagement is enhanced fan access to athletes during events, said Ward Bullard, formerly head of sports for Google+ and now with SAP Technology. These may include special fan invitations to pre-game warm-ups or post-game press conferences, or standing next to a player during the national anthem.
Such enhancements are possible because the collection of personal data about fans would help teams "match the experience that matters most with the right fans," Gumpert said.
Fans want to be connected to sports teams and content anytime, anywhere in a continued migration to mobile, said ESPN executive vice president John Kosner, noting that 43% of ESPN.com's audience came to them exclusively through mobile devices the previous month.
One critical point of access is video, added Bullard, noting that savvy leagues such as MLB and the NBA created early partnerships with YouTube to host highlight compilations and recaps of recent games to let fans watch on demand.
Ranadivé of the Kings said he approaches the organization as, "much bigger than a sports team; it's a social network." This includes the team's development of ways to connect with fans watching at home and engaging on their second screens, such as Google+ Hangouts during games, and a "virtual T-shirt toss," in which registered fans are selected randomly to win a T-shirt through the team's app.
Clearly the social media connection is vital across all leagues: NASCAR is developing a "digital cockpit" that includes onboard telemetry and in-race social media interaction between fans and drivers.
Social media has enabled direct connections between fans and the athletes. Some players do weekly Google+ Hangouts, giving their own first person perspective, said Bullard, while others use video and social media to document their experience from the NFL pre-draft scouting tryouts through the draft, for example. On the lighter side, NBA players have done music parody videos that are a hit with younger fans on YouTube.
Sport sponsorship no longer means simply attaching a corporate name to a stadium. Rather, it has become a triangle of association between the team, the sponsor, and the passionate fan.
It involves "taking two equivalent products and creating some affinity between them through social currency, not hard currency," said Steve Pamon, head of sports and entertainment marketing for JP Morgan Chase. Fans tend to be quite active in liking or following a brand on social media because of its association with a team, and 30% of fans who use social media to connect with a sponsor later make a purchase because of the brand's association with the team. However, if the association doesn't feel authentic or comes on too strong, it can just as easily be a turnoff to fans.
Teams now have professionals on staff to assemble marketing data, but intuition still plays a part in selling sponsorships, said Mike Golub, president of business operations for the MLS Portland Timbers. His team recently signed a deal with a local chocolate | 872 |
John Ridley (seen here at the 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival) will serve as this year's festival's keynote speaker.
Published Aug. 25, 2016 at 7:18 a.m.
Milwaukee Film announced today<|fim_middle|>, you have another chance next week as "Milwaukee 53206" will premiere on WORLD Channel at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 3.
Oscar-winning filmmaker and Milwaukee native John Ridley ("12 Years a Slave," "American Crime") today announced the creation of No Studios, a hub for the creative arts in downtown Milwaukee.
Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service reports that Milwaukee native Tyshun Wardlaw has won a national video competition for rising filmmakers. She was named the winner of the McDonald`s "My Community" award at the 20th annual American Black Film Festival held in June.
For the second year in a row, applications are now open for Milwaukee Film`s Brico Forward Fund, an annual granting program offering local filmmakers the funds and tools necessary to create and complete worthy filmmaking projects.
Milwaukee Film announced that it will host the world premiere of "Milwaukee 53206," a documentary chronicling the lives of those who live in the 53206 zip code, which has the highest rate of incarceration for African American males in the country.
Milwaukee native Bay Dariz`s plan was to become a star musician, then turn into a movie mogul. The stage star part didn`t quite happen, but no bother; he`s already jumped to movie producer status with his feature film debut "Welcome to Happiness."
The Milwaukee Film Festival may still be months away, but that doesn`t mean awesome things aren`t happening at Milwaukee Film. Take, for instance, yesterday, when news broke that the organization was chosen to receive a $10,000 grant from AMPAS.
It seems only fitting that a movie called "The Homecoming" would serve as a real-life homecoming of sorts as well. That`s exactly the case for the project`s director Paulina Bugembe. The film serves a very personal project for Bugembe, one that not only brought her back to Wisconsin to film but also came from her own family`s complex and complicated emotional experience with an incarcerated loved one. | that Academy Award-winning screenwriter John Ridley has joined the organization's Board of Directors in order to give back to the region he once called home. Ridley's addition to the Board signifies a big step in the ascendance of the Milwaukee Film Festival, according to Jonathan Jackson, artistic and executive director of Milwaukee Film.
"Since attending our 2014 film festival and presenting 'Jimi: All Is By My Side' as its Centerpiece Film, Ridley has remained in touch with both Milwaukee Film Founder (and current Milwaukee County Executive) Chris Abele and me. His joining our Board of Directors gives us a direct link to the major motion picture and television industry at the highest level," said Jackson. "Ridley has become a personal donor to the 2016 Milwaukee Film Festival."
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for "12 Years a Slave" in 2014, Ridley created the Emmy Award-winning ABC series "American Crime," which is currently in production on season three, and the upcoming Showtime limited series, "Guerilla," starring Idris Elba, set for 2017. After having grown up in Mequon, WI (where his parents continue to reside), Ridley said, "In one way or another, so many people in and around the city of Milwaukee gave me a foundation upon which to grow. I really want to give back to this community that has given me so much."
Ridley will be present at the 2016 Milwaukee Film Festival for a number of events and, as this year's keynote speaker, will deliver the festival's annual State of Cinema address on Saturday, Sept. 24. More details about this event will be available in the Festival's Program Book and online beginning Saturday, Sept. 3.
As a preview of his keynote, Ridley discussed the future of Milwaukee's film industry: "The potential of film and visual arts in Milwaukee lies with those who choose to support it with their time, talents and, frankly, with their financial investments. What's needed already exists in Milwaukee. What's required is for those who want film to thrive to join together and to have a centralized experience."
Ridley's résumé includes radio commentary, novels, television and film. His innovative biopic about Jimi Hendrix, "All Is By My Side," which he wrote and directed, played at the Milwaukee Film Festival in fall 2014. Additional film and television credits include "Three Kings," "U Turn," "Undercover Brother," "Red Tails," "Martin" and "Platinum." His novels include "Stray Dogs," "Those Who Walk in Darkness" and "What Fire Cannot Burn."
Shangri-La is a mythical utopia, but for one night at the Oriental theatre, it and the enchanting dreams within will be very real as local filmmakers Drew Rosas and Nick Sommer will debut their long-awaited internet series "Shangri-L.A."
The Oriental Theatre will get hit with a disconnection notice Thursday night - but don`t worry, the building will still have plenty of power. If anything, the evening should be more electric than usual.
If you missed the doc`s world premiere run during the 2016 Milwaukee Film Festival | 670 |
Mega Man World Comics: Game Time at EncrypteData<|fim_middle|>odied head (by Shovels). | 's!
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Salamance, Shovels, Taitotu, MegaChibisX, EncrypteData, Randomchiz, W, and StarUsagi!
Everyone! Background art, layering everything together, and Data done by Shovels.
I really wanted to do something special for the Mega Man 11 launch... something that everyone could collaborate together on. I really wanted to see if we could combine everyone's art style seamlessly into one big comic project. and it turned out even better than I could have ever expected. I contacted each artist for them to draw a representation of themselves (or an OC of theirs) torso up to sit on the couch together and told them to make it look like they were interacting with something. Once each artist got their part done we got it to Shovels who layered it into the final pic. It took about 3 weeks but it's finally finished and just in time!
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